An operating system is just an interface between the programs and the hardware. You can make a computer without an operating system if your programs just access the hardware directly. That is ok if you only write a few programs, when you need to write more it helps to produce a library of common routines to simplify programs access to the hardware. Something like a C: prompt is not the OS rather it is a program running on the OS that enables the user to load different programs into the computer.
In older computers you could write a program that accessed the hardware directly. On modern computers the OS can allow more than one computer to execute at the same time (even if in timed slices) because of this the OS restricts access to the hardware and you can no longer write programs that directly access it unless you remove the operating system first.
A device like a 4 function calculator is designed to only run one program ever so it makes no sense to use an OS. Just make the program access the hardware directly.
My VIC20 still works well. It has had a few minor upgrades. Why is there this incessant need to upgrade all the time? That is what we should really be asking.
Colourful mining billionaire Clive Palmer may have a costly penchant for resurrecting remnants of the past, but he has no intentions of extending that to long-extinct reptiles, sources say.
The Sunshine Coast Daily reported on rumours that the mining magnate plans to clone a dinosaur from DNA, so it could roam free through a Jurassic Park-style area at his Coolum golf resort.
It was reported Mr Palmer had been in deep discussion with the people who successfully cloned Dolly the sheep.
But a source close to Mr Palmer rubbished the suggestion today.
"It's absolutely ridiculous," the source said.
However, Mr Palmer is expected to reveal highly-anticipated redevelopment plans for his luxury Coolum resort on Friday.
There are plenty of iBooks already that mention Amazon.
We have one person making a blind accusation here.
Maybe you can give us some examples?...
Selling on Amazon's FBA program by Nathan Holmquist Make a killing on Kindle by Michael Alvear
If you ask me what is going on here, it is creative marketing. By blaming Apple for her book not being published, she gets free marketing for her book on Amazon. All this marketing fed by the frenzy of the Apple haters.
Most adventure games had illogical puzzles. This killed them, not another genre. Not everyone wants to have to work out that if you ram the car into the tree the bird flies off and the cat chases it which knocks a pot off a window ledge landing on a dog making it unconscious so you can take the snot out of its nose to use as glue on your temporary security card etc etc. That is not fun that is just stupid.
Disturbingly enough, my Amiga 3000 from 1990 is faster than any modern hardware for "booting the os"... And it doesn't have any remotely modern hardware anywhere near it.
yeah MS was the first software company with a popular product to have a proprietary file format. what were they THINKING? Open source was not even on the radar, hell maybe not in the vocabulary of 95% of the software buying world back then. How long did it take OpenOffice or other products to get even close to the functionality of Word? Hey look! You can use this OPEN SOURCE (say it in an impressive voice) word processor that has 1/2 the features of the leading brand AND is incompatible. File format was only the icing on the cake that turned people away.
If you send me a document saved in MS Word format. How can I read it without purchasing MS Word? This was the case once, almost everyone used MS Word for documents, no open or semi open formats. To read these you had to have MS Word, there was no other program to read them. MS Word became the de facto standard by sabotaging its competitors that ran on Windows and DOS like Word Perfect.
Bill Gates sure pulled the wool over your eyes. He is as evil or more evil than Steve Jobs. At least with Steve Jobs you don't have to use Apple. Bill Gate forced everyone to use his crap closed technology.
For example Why didn't Open Source Word Processors in the early days support Microsoft Word Documents? Was is A) They wrote bad code. or B) Microsoft kept the format secret so no-one could compete.
And it says in your sig "Support the EFF and Creative Commons. The war is coming, and they're supporting you..." do you have amnesia or something?
The public's perception is that violence is increasing, but trends in violent crime reported to police since the early 1990s reveal a mixed story. Homicide has decreased by nine percent since 1990 and armed robbery by one-third since 2001, but recorded assaults and sexual assaults have both increased steadily in the past 10 years by over 40 percent and 20 percent respectively. The rate of aggravated assault appears to have contributed to the marked rise in recorded assault, and for both assault and sexual assault the rate of increase was greater for children aged under 15 years, with increases almost double that of the older age group. Neither population changes among young adult males nor rates of offending seem to explain the trends in recorded violent crime, and indicators of change in reporting to police provide only a partial explanation. Based on self-reported victimisation and reporting to police, it would seem increased reporting of assault is somewhat responsible for the rise in recorded assault rates against adult victims. However, victimisation survey data suggest there has been little change in rates of sexual assault, although reporting to police by women seems to have increased. Victimisation survey data also do not illuminate the most significant recorded increase in violent victimisation, against children, as they are collected less frequently and only apply to those aged at least over 15 years. The paper speculates that the rise could be due to better public understanding of child protection issues and increased reporting due to public awareness of what constitutes physical and sexual assault - especially within the family - but this requires further investigation to examine how many recorded violent crimes against children relate to current and/or past events and of the relationship to the offender.
Statistics show taking guns away causes an increase in violent crime... See Australia and England
Hey I live in Australia and I don't know what you are talking about. Violent crime did not increase when we had strengthened gun laws. Perhaps you are quoting gun loons?
The Mythos of Christianity absolutely depends on a a literal understanding of Genesis. In Judaism, Genesis can be metaphor, it changes nothing. But the Sacrifice of Jesus is contingent on an event called the fall of man, where Eve and Adam ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge, angering Yahweh (God) and damning all Humans to Hell save for a few Jewish Prophets and anyone who accepts Jesus as the Savior.
What is the difference between "literal" and "Literal" different books in the bible contain literal things that happened and poetry. I doubt the poetry is literal. The second creation account (7 days one) does not specify the length of the day. You could infer that it was the same as our day but then you need to explain why days can exist before the sun existed. You might reply and say that days acted retroactively in that case. More importantly is the fact that the 7 day period translates into the Hebrew week with the last day being the day of rest (Sabbath). So it may not be the length of time of each day but rather the sequence of days, things end in a rest period. Note however that the Jews celebrated only the Sabbath day and not the other days. If the second creation account is one of our weeks and the end represents the Sabbath day then why do we have week after week but the creation account only occurs once?
I would say there is a difference between saying these events literally happened and these events literally happened in 7 of our days.
Thanks for modding me down jackass. You could have INFORMED me of that fact without punishing me with a -1 whip. (And if it wasn't you, then I direct my comment to the other fucker that did it.)
You can't post and moderate in the same article. Posting removes all your moderations in that article.
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What interview? There are quotes from an interview in the link but I can't see an actual interview transcript.
An operating system is just an interface between the programs and the hardware. You can make a computer without an operating system if your programs just access the hardware directly. That is ok if you only write a few programs, when you need to write more it helps to produce a library of common routines to simplify programs access to the hardware. Something like a C: prompt is not the OS rather it is a program running on the OS that enables the user to load different programs into the computer.
In older computers you could write a program that accessed the hardware directly. On modern computers the OS can allow more than one computer to execute at the same time (even if in timed slices) because of this the OS restricts access to the hardware and you can no longer write programs that directly access it unless you remove the operating system first.
A device like a 4 function calculator is designed to only run one program ever so it makes no sense to use an OS. Just make the program access the hardware directly.
I do, that way I can edit it to be correct instead of having all the errors other people put in it.
Recognition of Prior Learning
Saved me from being bored to tears.
Not that Venezuela the one floating off the coast of Zambia.
For the "I hate Apple week", has it already started?
That didn't work with Microsoft in the 90's what makes you think it will work with Apple now?
If you can't open it up and unsolder the chips and replace them then it is not upgradeable. Stupid SMD BGA chips.
My VIC20 still works well. It has had a few minor upgrades. Why is there this incessant need to upgrade all the time? That is what we should really be asking.
It looks fine for an 80's desktop. Pity it was released in the 90's.
Colourful mining billionaire Clive Palmer may have a costly penchant for resurrecting remnants of the past, but he has no intentions of extending that to long-extinct reptiles, sources say.
The Sunshine Coast Daily reported on rumours that the mining magnate plans to clone a dinosaur from DNA, so it could roam free through a Jurassic Park-style area at his Coolum golf resort.
It was reported Mr Palmer had been in deep discussion with the people who successfully cloned Dolly the sheep.
But a source close to Mr Palmer rubbished the suggestion today.
"It's absolutely ridiculous," the source said.
However, Mr Palmer is expected to reveal highly-anticipated redevelopment plans for his luxury Coolum resort on Friday.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/palmers-jurassic-park-plan-extinct-20120731-23bvr.html
What about books like "Make a Killing on Kindle"?
http://itunes.apple.com/book/id545283330?mt=11
Require extraordinary proof.
There are plenty of iBooks already that mention Amazon.
We have one person making a blind accusation here.
Maybe you can give us some examples? ...
Selling on Amazon's FBA program by Nathan Holmquist
Make a killing on Kindle by Michael Alvear
If you ask me what is going on here, it is creative marketing. By blaming Apple for her book not being published, she gets free marketing for her book on Amazon. All this marketing fed by the frenzy of the Apple haters.
Most adventure games had illogical puzzles. This killed them, not another genre. Not everyone wants to have to work out that if you ram the car into the tree the bird flies off and the cat chases it which knocks a pot off a window ledge landing on a dog making it unconscious so you can take the snot out of its nose to use as glue on your temporary security card etc etc. That is not fun that is just stupid.
yes but Deckard shot first.
Disturbingly enough, my Amiga 3000 from 1990 is faster than any modern hardware for "booting the os"... And it doesn't have any remotely modern hardware anywhere near it.
56K or ADSL?
Excuse me good sir but I found this "y" at the bottom of the page. I believe it is yours?
yeah MS was the first software company with a popular product to have a proprietary file format. what were they THINKING? Open source was not even on the radar, hell maybe not in the vocabulary of 95% of the software buying world back then. How long did it take OpenOffice or other products to get even close to the functionality of Word? Hey look! You can use this OPEN SOURCE (say it in an impressive voice) word processor that has 1/2 the features of the leading brand AND is incompatible. File format was only the icing on the cake that turned people away.
If you send me a document saved in MS Word format. How can I read it without purchasing MS Word? This was the case once, almost everyone used MS Word for documents, no open or semi open formats. To read these you had to have MS Word, there was no other program to read them. MS Word became the de facto standard by sabotaging its competitors that ran on Windows and DOS like Word Perfect.
Microsoft supplied the leading word processor "Word Perfect" with faulty Windows APIs.
HA HA HA
Bill Gates sure pulled the wool over your eyes. He is as evil or more evil than Steve Jobs. At least with Steve Jobs you don't have to use Apple. Bill Gate forced everyone to use his crap closed technology.
For example
Why didn't Open Source Word Processors in the early days support Microsoft Word Documents? Was is
A) They wrote bad code.
or
B) Microsoft kept the format secret so no-one could compete.
And it says in your sig "Support the EFF and Creative Commons. The war is coming, and they're supporting you..." do you have amnesia or something?
Australia has not had any major increase in crime committed with firearms.
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/tandi/341-360/tandi359/view%20paper.aspx
The public's perception is that violence is increasing, but trends in violent crime reported to police since the early 1990s reveal a mixed story. Homicide has decreased by nine percent since 1990 and armed robbery by one-third since 2001, but recorded assaults and sexual assaults have both increased steadily in the past 10 years by over 40 percent and 20 percent respectively. The rate of aggravated assault appears to have contributed to the marked rise in recorded assault, and for both assault and sexual assault the rate of increase was greater for children aged under 15 years, with increases almost double that of the older age group. Neither population changes among young adult males nor rates of offending seem to explain the trends in recorded violent crime, and indicators of change in reporting to police provide only a partial explanation. Based on self-reported victimisation and reporting to police, it would seem increased reporting of assault is somewhat responsible for the rise in recorded assault rates against adult victims. However, victimisation survey data suggest there has been little change in rates of sexual assault, although reporting to police by women seems to have increased. Victimisation survey data also do not illuminate the most significant recorded increase in violent victimisation, against children, as they are collected less frequently and only apply to those aged at least over 15 years. The paper speculates that the rise could be due to better public understanding of child protection issues and increased reporting due to public awareness of what constitutes physical and sexual assault - especially within the family - but this requires further investigation to examine how many recorded violent crimes against children relate to current and/or past events and of the relationship to the offender.
Statistics show taking guns away causes an increase in violent crime... See Australia and England
Hey I live in Australia and I don't know what you are talking about. Violent crime did not increase when we had strengthened gun laws. Perhaps you are quoting gun loons?
The Mythos of Christianity absolutely depends on a a literal understanding of Genesis. In Judaism, Genesis can be metaphor, it changes nothing. But the Sacrifice of Jesus is contingent on an event called the fall of man, where Eve and Adam ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge, angering Yahweh (God) and damning all Humans to Hell save for a few Jewish Prophets and anyone who accepts Jesus as the Savior.
What is the difference between "literal" and "Literal" different books in the bible contain literal things that happened and poetry. I doubt the poetry is literal. The second creation account (7 days one) does not specify the length of the day. You could infer that it was the same as our day but then you need to explain why days can exist before the sun existed. You might reply and say that days acted retroactively in that case. More importantly is the fact that the 7 day period translates into the Hebrew week with the last day being the day of rest (Sabbath). So it may not be the length of time of each day but rather the sequence of days, things end in a rest period. Note however that the Jews celebrated only the Sabbath day and not the other days. If the second creation account is one of our weeks and the end represents the Sabbath day then why do we have week after week but the creation account only occurs once?
I would say there is a difference between saying these events literally happened and these events literally happened in 7 of our days.
Thanks for modding me down jackass. You could have INFORMED me of that fact without punishing me with a -1 whip. (And if it wasn't you, then I direct my comment to the other fucker that did it.)
You can't post and moderate in the same article. Posting removes all your moderations in that article.
No they didn't claim it only has purely chemical causes. They also mentioned prolonged grief which is an external cause.