Gack. I bought a continuous ink system at someone's enthusiastic recommendation, and it was a nightmare: a Rube Goldberg mechanism that leaked, had hoses that kept coming off, and was a major pain to prime and to move. Does anyone make a printer that is designed from the start to take bottles of ink?
If I understand "TV Everywhere" rightly, it's a setup where you can get streaming video over the Internet, but only if you can prove you subscribe to cable. What a joke.
The cable companies want everyone to pay twice: once for dinosaur media and once for internet. To hell with that.
I don't know whether there was ever glory in working in the computer field--but there used to be joy, and it's a lot harder to come by these days, at least in my experience.
It's kind of like those wasps that lay their eggs inside caterpillars, isn't it? Replace the HTML renderer with something faster (and standards-conforming), and the Javascript interpreter, and "IE" becomes a minimal wrapper around a Google core--oh yeah, with some huge pile of code that used to be run, but now spends its time swapped out.
Should you wish to see what hobbyist OS-9/6809 users are doing these days, The 19th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFest will take place on May 15th and 16th, 2010. (The first one took place after Tandy decided to just make PClones, and hence some wondered whether it would be the last. With defiant good humor, the Glenside Color Computer Club adopted "Last" into the name, where it remains.)
Most these days have swapped out the 6809B in the CoCo 3 for a Hitachi 6309 and moved to NitrOS9, a reverse-engineered and rewritten version done largely by Canadian enthusiasts.
For those who don't follow the link: M. Savain is quoting himself.
I look forward to the day when he actually implements his supposed Holy Grail of programming and announces its availability--though that would require, at least at first, that he learn one of those languages he hates.
In the case of the Eee 900A I bought from Best Buy, it looked as if it were designed to make sure no one really wanted Linux on it, as it was set up with a 4 GB SSD and Xandros Linux with UnionFS, so that as soon as it got an Internet connection it downloaded enough updates to fill the SSD and make it unusable.
I knew enough to wipe Xandros and install Ubuntu Eee (later Easy Peasy)--but Joe Average would stomp back to Best Buy in a snit and ask for his money back or trade up to a different {net, note}book, almost certainly running Windows. It's almost as if ASUS or Best Buy or both wanted Linux to fail so they could dump it while still being able to claim they'd given it a fair chance.
Added qualification for rush processing: the shipping address must match the billing address. (A bit of fine print I didn't read--nobody's fault but mine, of course.)
Perhaps for the same reason an airline pilot would fly an ultralight on weekends, or I and many others still have an 8-bit computer--or there are still calligraphers.
"Finally a leading GPU company decided to offer full support for their hardware, not watered down and on par with the feature set supported on Windows, and still people complain how the source code isn't open."
nVidia's offering Linux support is a very good thing--until you want to run on something other than an x86.
Um, wait. Mono is said to be a free as in speech implementation of C#, but aren't the codecs, which are what really matters for watching video, still proprietary? (Not a rhetorical question; I'd really like to know.)
The pre-MS and pre-IBM PC personal computing world was already well underway, and wasn't tied to thin client-server models. Heck, MS tried to ignore the Internet for a long time.
What brought desktop computing to the home user was IBM. Unfortunately.
Well... I take it you weren't around back in the days when IBM was every bit as vile a monopolist as Microsoft is now. Look up some of the writings of Rex Malik (in England) or Nancy Foy (in the US), and read about the history of IBM. I personally would have loved it had Burroughs prevailed.
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...or bribing the most influential?
What dye sublimation printers with good Linux support would you recommend?
Gack. I bought a continuous ink system at someone's enthusiastic recommendation, and it was a nightmare: a Rube Goldberg mechanism that leaked, had hoses that kept coming off, and was a major pain to prime and to move. Does anyone make a printer that is designed from the start to take bottles of ink?
If I understand "TV Everywhere" rightly, it's a setup where you can get streaming video over the Internet, but only if you can prove you subscribe to cable. What a joke.
The cable companies want everyone to pay twice: once for dinosaur media and once for internet. To hell with that.
Perhaps, but it doesn't compare with "A Unified Approach to Program Optimization", which is cited by 161 papers and books, including, BTW, the Dragon Book.
"He developed an early version of BASIC."
which Kemeny and Kurtz, creators of BASIC, tended to refer to as "gutter BASIC."
Unions are a product of free association?
I don't know whether there was ever glory in working in the computer field--but there used to be joy, and it's a lot harder to come by these days, at least in my experience.
I hope that this version becomes widely used so that we can eventually read of the triumphs of Thusnelda.
(Oy vey, oy vey...)
"This is Google's shots across the bowel."
Eeewww.....
It's kind of like those wasps that lay their eggs inside caterpillars, isn't it? Replace the HTML renderer with something faster (and standards-conforming), and the Javascript interpreter, and "IE" becomes a minimal wrapper around a Google core--oh yeah, with some huge pile of code that used to be run, but now spends its time swapped out.
Should you wish to see what hobbyist OS-9/6809 users are doing these days, The 19th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFest will take place on May 15th and 16th, 2010. (The first one took place after Tandy decided to just make PClones, and hence some wondered whether it would be the last. With defiant good humor, the Glenside Color Computer Club adopted "Last" into the name, where it remains.)
Most these days have swapped out the 6809B in the CoCo 3 for a Hitachi 6309 and moved to NitrOS9, a reverse-engineered and rewritten version done largely by Canadian enthusiasts.
For those who don't follow the link: M. Savain is quoting himself.
I look forward to the day when he actually implements his supposed Holy Grail of programming and announces its availability--though that would require, at least at first, that he learn one of those languages he hates.
In the case of the Eee 900A I bought from Best Buy, it looked as if it were designed to make sure no one really wanted Linux on it, as it was set up with a 4 GB SSD and Xandros Linux with UnionFS, so that as soon as it got an Internet connection it downloaded enough updates to fill the SSD and make it unusable.
I knew enough to wipe Xandros and install Ubuntu Eee (later Easy Peasy)--but Joe Average would stomp back to Best Buy in a snit and ask for his money back or trade up to a different {net, note}book, almost certainly running Windows. It's almost as if ASUS or Best Buy or both wanted Linux to fail so they could dump it while still being able to claim they'd given it a fair chance.
Added qualification for rush processing: the shipping address must match the billing address. (A bit of fine print I didn't read--nobody's fault but mine, of course.)
Seems obvious, right? You might wish to check out Skeptoid episode 162 before you conclude that.
Perhaps for the same reason an airline pilot would fly an ultralight on weekends, or I and many others still have an 8-bit computer--or there are still calligraphers.
TFA has it right; what we Yanks call "cursive" writing is a stripped-down version of Spencerian script.
As a calligrapher, I'd just as soon children be taught chancery cursive (or italic, call it what you will).
"Finally a leading GPU company decided to offer full support for their hardware, not watered down and on par with the feature set supported on Windows, and still people complain how the source code isn't open."
nVidia's offering Linux support is a very good thing--until you want to run on something other than an x86.
Um, wait. Mono is said to be a free as in speech implementation of C#, but aren't the codecs, which are what really matters for watching video, still proprietary? (Not a rhetorical question; I'd really like to know.)
The pre-MS and pre-IBM PC personal computing world was already well underway, and wasn't tied to thin client-server models. Heck, MS tried to ignore the Internet for a long time.
What brought desktop computing to the home user was IBM. Unfortunately.
Come on... didn't you watch Blood Work?
So this professor spent a long time being a jerk, and was surprised to find out that people didn't like it?
Well... I take it you weren't around back in the days when IBM was every bit as vile a monopolist as Microsoft is now. Look up some of the writings of Rex Malik (in England) or Nancy Foy (in the US), and read about the history of IBM. I personally would have loved it had Burroughs prevailed.
If foreign programmers are as bad as some here say they are, then using them is its own punishment, and companies who do will get screwed.