Next through in a spare "Steve Jobs" that they had lying around . ..
The reason that Be wasn't bought was that they got a silly idea into their heads about price--something like twice what apple was offering. Apple found that for what Be wanted, they could have Next.
Programs that actually followed the guidelines still worked. Others (Early Macwrite, Word 3 and down, *all* viruses, most system utilities) were ended.
I was a developer at the time, and used both the alpha and beta releases. The alpha release was significantly more stable than the Windows 3.1 and 95 families.
Safe computing *requires* thata you draw a pentium around your computer before launching Windows (or any other form of trafficing with demons, for that matter).
If I'd been sure that I would actually buy it, I could have had it the first day.
There really wasn't a substitute for "eyry" for me, though there are other spellings. But that's the one that I've used for years (an eyry [eyrie, aerie] is the nesting place of hawks and other raptors).
And given the nature of the site (economic and legal commentary), there reaally wasn't a close second for "dochawk", either
If you assume a correllation between the choices of users that click on the link and those that click on the cached version, you can get a pretty good idea, unless there's also a correllation between sluggish sites and rankings . ..
While I was at Santa Clara, someone managed to break in and steal a test.
His transcript has an extra page: a letter explaining *exactly* why he failed the course . ..
Penn State is one of the schools that has an "XF" grade for failed for cheating. I tell my students that requesting that *and* expulsion is my only response to cheating on tests.
The football coach taught Western Civ, and used the same five question T/F test all day. You couldn't avoid the true-true-false-true-false as you came in.
He apparently finally caught on. One day the questions sounded odd for the answers stated.
I think I was the only one to get them all right that day . ..
And my father once issued two versions of his high school test, and had a student complaining about his score. "That's because all of your answers are wrong." "But I have same answers as Tran, and he have perfect score." "Tran had a different test." "Ohh....."
One of life's oddities is that both Gore and Quayle were effective senators, and the country probably would have been better off had they both stayed there.
Gore's contributions certainly were important, even though he overstated his significance. That spending probably accelerated the spread slightly, but not dramatically.
There were too many other pieces alreay in play. Gore's funding led to the arpanet structure becoming universal, rather than some of the other possibliities (fidnet, crosstraffic between compuserve and other timesharing services, expansion of IBM's network, . ..)
There were already several things out there that *could* have grown int the internet; that funding picked the winner.
I wanted eyry.com, but it had been snatched up as a four letter dictionary word by speculators. The same for eyry.net, so I ended up with eyry.org.
The same thing, but worse, happened with dochawk. Within days of my my first query for dochawk.com, it was parked. So I checked for dochawk.net, and it went. I took dochawk.org immedeiately on checking.
Given the timing, I can't believe that anything happened other than someone monitoring the lookups and snatching domains . ..
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> 58% is a *lot* of OS re-installs ...
I dunno. If you're talking about windows, it sounds kind of low.
hawk, who got almost a week before XP had to be reinstalled
ON a quantum compiler, it's both compiled (with avery combination of options) and not compiled already :)
hawk
>Ruby has one other massive advantage over Java on the medium-term horizon: Parrot.
You're just repeating what they told you, aren't you?
hawk
Every time they figure out how to grow cash, the government changes the bills . . . besides, the Secret Service gets cranky about it, too . . .
hawk
Nah.
It was disabled when the kids escaped the factory.
[Note to self: when taking over the world, do not have slave labor make shoes that let them run faster!]
hawk
hawk
Next through in a spare "Steve Jobs" that they had lying around . . .
The reason that Be wasn't bought was that they got a silly idea into their heads about price--something like twice what apple was offering. Apple found that for what Be wanted, they could have Next.
hawk
Well, *something* needs to make hauling H2 around look safe :)
hawk
It was beyond "major". Most of it was replaced.
Programs that actually followed the guidelines still worked. Others (Early Macwrite, Word 3 and down, *all* viruses, most system utilities) were ended.
I was a developer at the time, and used both the alpha and beta releases. The alpha release was significantly more stable than the Windows 3.1 and 95 families.
hawk
>Kinda like Intel had their 'Pentium'
Intel had no choice.
Safe computing *requires* thata you draw a pentium around your computer before launching Windows (or any other form of trafficing with demons, for that matter).
hawk
Yeah, there's no way Brendan Fraser could be *nearly* as smart as George or Dudley!
hawk
For those without small kids . . .
Last Christmas saw a pink Leappad issued. It was generally a couple of bucks more than the regular model.
hawk, wondering how long Paris will last when she finds that it's the *source* that she's supposed to open
If I'd been sure that I would actually buy it, I could have had it the first day.
There really wasn't a substitute for "eyry" for me, though there are other spellings. But that's the one that I've used for years (an eyry [eyrie, aerie] is the nesting place of hawks and other raptors).
And given the nature of the site (economic and legal commentary), there reaally wasn't a close second for "dochawk", either
hawk, aka dochawk
Under arkaansas law, after a divorce, are you still brother and sister?
Or farmer and swine, in this case?
hawk
Not even in Arkansas?
hawk
They're about the only one I've blocked from my adsense listing.
Cheeky buggers offered great deals on *ME*
hawk
Those weren't the old days.
.)
We used to have to specify a complete path from our machine to the recipient. SOmething like:
To: someschool|devax|ibmsite|john@destination
(or did john go at the beginning? It *has* been a while . .
If memory serves, tehre were two usenet groups dedicated to finding paths to people (If they could see your post, it gave them the return path).
hawk
If you assume a correllation between the choices of users that click on the link and those that click on the cached version, you can get a pretty good idea, unless there's also a correllation between sluggish sites and rankings . . .
hawk
Is that a cheap french wine, or some such?
hawk
While I was at Santa Clara, someone managed to break in and steal a test.
.
His transcript has an extra page: a letter explaining *exactly* why he failed the course . .
Penn State is one of the schools that has an "XF" grade for failed for cheating. I tell my students that requesting that *and* expulsion is my only response to cheating on tests.
hawk
The football coach taught Western Civ, and used the same five question T/F test all day. You couldn't avoid the true-true-false-true-false as you came in.
.
He apparently finally caught on. One day the questions sounded odd for the answers stated.
I think I was the only one to get them all right that day . .
And my father once issued two versions of his high school test, and had a student complaining about his score.
"That's because all of your answers are wrong."
"But I have same answers as Tran, and he have perfect score."
"Tran had a different test."
"Ohh....."
hawk
Now why does *everything* on slashdot have to come back to RMS???
hawk
One of life's oddities is that both Gore and Quayle were effective senators, and the country probably would have been better off had they both stayed there.
.)
Gore's contributions certainly were important, even though he overstated his significance. That spending probably accelerated the spread slightly, but not dramatically.
There were too many other pieces alreay in play. Gore's funding led to the arpanet structure becoming universal, rather than some of the other possibliities (fidnet, crosstraffic between compuserve and other timesharing services, expansion of IBM's network, . .
There were already several things out there that *could* have grown int the internet; that funding picked the winner.
hawk
Do you really have to ask what would be cut off?
hawk
I wanted eyry.com, but it had been snatched up as a four letter dictionary word by speculators. The same for eyry.net, so I ended up with eyry.org.
.
:)
The same thing, but worse, happened with dochawk. Within days of my my first query for dochawk.com, it was parked. So I checked for dochawk.net, and it went. I took dochawk.org immedeiately on checking.
Given the timing, I can't believe that anything happened other than someone monitoring the lookups and snatching domains . .
But at least we're posting this on slashdot.com
hawk