More likely a PDP-11 or a Vax, but there are other possibilities.
Gopher, etc. predated WWW.
For that matter, I used to have a program that would connect to a unix server and multiplex 7 virtual VT100 windows, of which about three would be running Lynx, on my 68000 based Macintosh Portable.
> After the debacle in the 2000 election where Florida was called for Bush (before the polls closed)
You remember incorrectly.
Florida was called prematurely for Gore while the polls were still open in the panhandle.
This probably cost Bush a staggering number of votes in the panhandle by the effect of the losing party not going to the polls, while the winning party jumps in and still triumphantly votes (which in turn would have prevented the debacle). The panhandle is as rich in Republican votes as Palm Beach in Democratic.
The classic case is Carter's early concession in 1980, which is generally believed to have cost his party several house seats in the west. (there are now some folks contesting this conventional wisdom, but I'm skeptical of their arguments).
(FWIW, from my first election through that one, I never used anything *but* a butterfly ballot. When I put a slide of the ballot up on the overhead for my statistics class, the voice from the back of the room asked, "Are they morons?" for supposedly being confused).
They drifted in on IBM keyboards, because, well, IBM terminals had those keys/
Yes, the same folks who sent the control key into exile (CKIE), instead of next to the A, where God Meant it to be . . . Over the years, the cap lock key has been far more trouble than numlock hail
Tivo is in a mad rush to somehow become a distant second place with no direct competitor.
I got DirectTV over a decade ago to feed a DirecTivo. On not being able to replace them as they wore out, one tuner at at time, I bought a newer tiro (Romio[?]) and switched to cable. (When asked why I was cancelling, I told him point blank, "Your DVRs suck." They are at least an entire generation behind in what they offer).
I quickly became underwhelmed by the new Tivo.
Where once it was easy to set a wishlist for all Series Premiers, now you have to search by that for text, which until a few weeks ago, had a staggering failure rate (picked up a couple a season).
With the older Tivos, you could tap the record button to record anything upcoming in the listing, and tap twice to get a season pass. Now, to record a single program is a couple of clicks, and a season pass several.
I'll definitely be looking for other options when this one wears out.
That 3% was all over the lace when I went into their store to activate phones a couple of weeks ago.
I want today that I also initialed it but it may just be that I read things before signing.
And it's not even automatic throttling at that point, but rather lower priority on the available bandwidth: if there's enough bandwidth you still get LTE.
Im also looked at MetroPCs, which was quite clear that their data was lower priority on the network than Tmobile accounts.
>Still waiting for a viable successor of Hypercard... >(and please don't post links to that company that is >changing its name every 2 years and claims it >RealCoder or LifeCoder or however it is called now is >a Hypercard successor, it is not, it is rubbish)
I assume that you're misrefsrring to the program that came out as MetaCard on the NeXT, was then known as Runtime Revolution, and is now called Livecode.
It's IDE is sometimes misbehaved, but calling it "rubbish" is simply ignorant.
It is indeed far more complicated (and capable) than HyperCard, but is backwards compatible.
It supports a few SuperCard-isms, as well.
There are both open source (well, GPL 3) and commercial versions.
It is not, however, the "just dive in" that HyperCard was, although there is periodic talk about a stripped-down version for that.
I'm using it because It can compile for Mac/Windows/Linux with *very* minimal blocks (I have one on startup to deal with the different basic folders, a couple of lines for the different count in the top line of useable space, and a block to allow ~ on windows).
No, it won't be my choice for the long term, but being able to write once, and then to use that same code base for iOS and Android helper apps, is what seals it. Also, the ability to simply add fields hypercard-style is critical to my generation of new forms.
After a few long days editing on a full sized CKIE (control key in exile) keyboard, I found myself at the campus quack. Muscle strain in my pinkie, it turned out, from rotating much of my (large) hand and reaching that control key in the far corner . . .
By some strange coincidence, the janitors must have drooped my keyboard that day, as a little piece magically appeared next to it that sure looked like a physical toggle for the capslock key (surely *I* would never tamper with university equipment), and I was finally able to remap it to put the control key back where God Meant it to be . . .
Let's face it, there weren't all that many heroines in WWI, or even WWII for that matter. Yes, there were the WACS, but women were kept away form combat.
None the less, many were heroic on the home front, and married the returning doughboys, some of whom were addicted to morphine. Many returning soldiers were indeed addicted to their heroines, and pampered them the rest of their joint lives.
Some of these doughboys were addicted to various forms of opium pain killers taken from their injury, including heroin . . .:)
Also, while I'm at it, to the extent that some invited, while others tolerated, aside from introducing different licenses with the problem that that creates, leads to the issue of "estoppel"--a situation in which one cannot assert a position, even if legally entitled to do so, do to his prior actions and/or the reliance of another upon those actions. (and for those who care, estoppel is an equitable principle, not a legal principle, having come from the Chancery Courts of England).
All in all, anyone who thinks that they would like the results of the litigation is deluding himself . . .
It's definitely a mess, but so is just about anything where the GPL has been around.
As for authority and jurisdiction: the Common Law of England goes back to the twelfth century, and has been passed on to substantially all English speaking countries (I forget the exceptions). The principles of construction predate this country, and are pretty much the same through the english speaking world.
Frankly, if someone wanted to litigate this, it would be an utter mess. The unwritten changes that *did* become part of the license would be binding upon all later contributions, and attach to them. It is quite possible that different parts have different licenses--and that the whole body of the kernel couldn't be distributed together. *noone* wants to open *that* can of worms . ..(except maybe redmond:)
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you want legal advice, pay my retainer.
There is a *really* big hole in the analysis.
Linux is *not* quite GPL; it, like many others, is better understood as "quasi-GPL", or QGPL.
Since pretty much the beginning, the Linux developers approved, condoned, and encouraged binary, non-GPL modules. Standard legal analysis means that this trumps the boilerplate of the license/contract.
The second serious error is arguing about the FSF position on linking. Under the rules of legal analysis, the author of a document's opinion is weighted at pretty much nothing: the author had his chance, and later comments are irrelevant. That is, there are about 7 billion people whose opinions on interpreting it come first.
Now whether distributing Linux with that module violates Sun's CDL could be an entirely different issue; I've never looked at it.
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But without MUFFIN, how are we supposed to load 13 sector disks on our Apple ][?
Uhm, I think I just dated myself.
Badly.
Err, get off my lawn!
hawk
More likely a PDP-11 or a Vax, but there are other possibilities.
Gopher, etc. predated WWW.
For that matter, I used to have a program that would connect to a unix server and multiplex 7 virtual VT100 windows, of which about three would be running Lynx, on my 68000 based Macintosh Portable.
hawk
The linux version won't have *true* parity until it can host a remote privilege escalation to root . . .
hawk
Or maybe he doesn't know to stay away from men whose bare legs stick out below their trenchcoats . . . :)
hawk
Bah.
Aliens surely developed the Apple ][, which powered such scenes until recently, and can even power a time-traveling killer robot! :)
hawk
> After the debacle in the 2000 election where Florida was called for Bush (before the polls closed)
You remember incorrectly.
Florida was called prematurely for Gore while the polls were still open in the panhandle.
This probably cost Bush a staggering number of votes in the panhandle by the effect of the losing party not going to the polls, while the winning party jumps in and still triumphantly votes (which in turn would have prevented the debacle). The panhandle is as rich in Republican votes as Palm Beach in Democratic.
The classic case is Carter's early concession in 1980, which is generally believed to have cost his party several house seats in the west. (there are now some folks contesting this conventional wisdom, but I'm skeptical of their arguments).
(FWIW, from my first election through that one, I never used anything *but* a butterfly ballot. When I put a slide of the ballot up on the overhead for my statistics class, the voice from the back of the room asked, "Are they morons?" for supposedly being confused).
I refused to register at first once it was required to post--over those pesky, untrustworthy, cookies.
It took a while before I wanted to post something enough to both overcome my distrust and to allow anything to set a cookie . . .
You can't tell *yet*.
Every layer of the paint suffered at least some damage at every dent, and will be partly detached from the metal underneath.
These will rust *far* sooner than undamaged cars.
Then again, $7k is more than enough for a really good paint job . . .
hawk
They drifted in on IBM keyboards, because, well, IBM terminals had those keys/
Yes, the same folks who sent the control key into exile (CKIE), instead of next to the A, where God Meant it to be . . . Over the years, the cap lock key has been far more trouble than numlock
hail
Tivo is in a mad rush to somehow become a distant second place with no direct competitor.
I got DirectTV over a decade ago to feed a DirecTivo. On not being able to replace them as they wore out, one tuner at at time, I bought a newer tiro (Romio[?]) and switched to cable. (When asked why I was cancelling, I told him point blank, "Your DVRs suck." They are at least an entire generation behind in what they offer).
I quickly became underwhelmed by the new Tivo.
Where once it was easy to set a wishlist for all Series Premiers, now you have to search by that for text, which until a few weeks ago, had a staggering failure rate (picked up a couple a season).
With the older Tivos, you could tap the record button to record anything upcoming in the listing, and tap twice to get a season pass. Now, to record a single program is a couple of clicks, and a season pass several.
I'll definitely be looking for other options when this one wears out.
hawk
That 3% was all over the lace when I went into their store to activate phones a couple of weeks ago.
I want today that I also initialed it but it may just be that I read things before signing.
And it's not even automatic throttling at that point, but rather lower priority on the available bandwidth: if there's enough bandwidth you still get LTE.
Im also looked at MetroPCs, which was quite clear that their data was lower priority on the network than Tmobile accounts.
hawk
As in, "I am taking my cat to the vet who will elimanate his testes. :)
hawk
>Still waiting for a viable successor of Hypercard ...
>(and please don't post links to that company that is
>changing its name every 2 years and claims it
>RealCoder or LifeCoder or however it is called now is
>a Hypercard successor, it is not, it is rubbish)
I assume that you're misrefsrring to the program that came out as MetaCard on the NeXT, was then known as Runtime Revolution, and is now called Livecode.
It's IDE is sometimes misbehaved, but calling it "rubbish" is simply ignorant.
It is indeed far more complicated (and capable) than HyperCard, but is backwards compatible.
It supports a few SuperCard-isms, as well.
There are both open source (well, GPL 3) and commercial versions.
It is not, however, the "just dive in" that HyperCard was, although there is periodic talk about a stripped-down version for that.
I'm using it because It can compile for Mac/Windows/Linux with *very* minimal blocks (I have one on startup to deal with the different basic folders, a couple of lines for the different count in the top line of useable space, and a block to allow ~ on windows).
No, it won't be my choice for the long term, but being able to write once, and then to use that same code base for iOS and Android helper apps, is what seals it. Also, the ability to simply add fields hypercard-style is critical to my generation of new forms.
hawk, who writes a commercial product in it
They can also send you off to medical care . . .
After a few long days editing on a full sized CKIE (control key in exile) keyboard, I found myself at the campus quack. Muscle strain in my pinkie, it turned out, from rotating much of my (large) hand and reaching that control key in the far corner . . .
By some strange coincidence, the janitors must have drooped my keyboard that day, as a little piece magically appeared next to it that sure looked like a physical toggle for the capslock key (surely *I* would never tamper with university equipment), and I was finally able to remap it to put the control key back where God Meant it to be . . .
hawk
Nah, too much prior art . . .
hawk
nevemind that; does it finally have an editor?
hawk
Strawberry? I don't even want to know . . .
Years ago. even pre-google iirc, I was putting graphs into an article with LaTeX.
It wasn't wrapping the text around the way I was used to in Word 5.1, so I went looking (probably with ALtaVista) for an extension.
I searched for "LaTeX wrap figure"
Oh, dear . . .
hawk
Hawkins' Second Law: There is no lower bound to human inteligence.
Let's face it, there weren't all that many heroines in WWI, or even WWII for that matter. Yes, there were the WACS, but women were kept away form combat.
None the less, many were heroic on the home front, and married the returning doughboys, some of whom were addicted to morphine. Many returning soldiers were indeed addicted to their heroines, and pampered them the rest of their joint lives.
Some of these doughboys were addicted to various forms of opium pain killers taken from their injury, including heroin . . . :)
hawk
I've never blocked anything just for being an ad.
I do block anything that blinks or moves, including those carousals on news sites, and those bouncy-floating sidebars.
The consequence is that I see so few ads that I' surprised when one happens.
On the rare occasion I need a website on my phone, I use ghostly. I'm just plain not a product, and do not want to be tracked.
hawk
Also, while I'm at it, to the extent that some invited, while others tolerated, aside from introducing different licenses with the problem that that creates, leads to the issue of "estoppel"--a situation in which one cannot assert a position, even if legally entitled to do so, do to his prior actions and/or the reliance of another upon those actions. (and for those who care, estoppel is an equitable principle, not a legal principle, having come from the Chancery Courts of England).
All in all, anyone who thinks that they would like the results of the litigation is deluding himself . . .
hawk
It's definitely a mess, but so is just about anything where the GPL has been around.
As for authority and jurisdiction: the Common Law of England goes back to the twelfth century, and has been passed on to substantially all English speaking countries (I forget the exceptions). The principles of construction predate this country, and are pretty much the same through the english speaking world.
Frankly, if someone wanted to litigate this, it would be an utter mess. The unwritten changes that *did* become part of the license would be binding upon all later contributions, and attach to them. It is quite possible that different parts have different licenses--and that the whole body of the kernel couldn't be distributed together. *noone* wants to open *that* can of worms . . .(except maybe redmond :)
hawk
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you want legal advice, pay my retainer.
There is a *really* big hole in the analysis.
Linux is *not* quite GPL; it, like many others, is better understood as "quasi-GPL", or QGPL.
Since pretty much the beginning, the Linux developers approved, condoned, and encouraged binary, non-GPL modules. Standard legal analysis means that this trumps the boilerplate of the license/contract.
The second serious error is arguing about the FSF position on linking. Under the rules of legal analysis, the author of a document's opinion is weighted at pretty much nothing: the author had his chance, and later comments are irrelevant. That is, there are about 7 billion people whose opinions on interpreting it come first.
Now whether distributing Linux with that module violates Sun's CDL could be an entirely different issue; I've never looked at it.
hawk, esq.
Ehh.
For most settings, a hemisphere is fine . . . basements are rare around here . . .
hawk
Not "kW/hr", but "kW*hr" . . . . more than a little different
hawk