"Microsoft succeeded not on technical grounds, but because of good lawyers"
I'll have to disagree in part. I've believed that the reason Microsoft succeeded was simply because IBM was the 400 pound gorilla thirty years ago and with the general population's knowledge of computers being "IBM makes computers", the IBM PC won. Microsoft just happened to be there.
Now, if by "good lawyers" you mean the lawyers that got IBM to agree to a non-exclusive license, then I'd be on board for that as a contributing cause.
There is actually evidence that violent crime drops when a big violent movie opens in a city. Want less violence? Make more violent movies.
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UNIX was the first portable operating system. Previous operating systems were done in assembly (as was the original PDP-7 version of UNIX {or UNICS, to be precise}). In order to do that, a new language was needed. So UNIX begat C.
Pipes, pumping output from one program into another program, comes from UNIX.
Not pretending to know better than the user what the user wants. That's why a ls -a in the home directory gives newbies heart attacks:)
The open nature of UNIX development let the guys at UCB make BSD and make all kinds of new stuff, demonstrating that open source could be a big win for innovation.
UNIX is older than me by a few years, but this is just stuff that I've learned over the years.
"There are various studies showing that women make less than men for the same jobs, and this is blatant discrimination."
Are those the same studies that also show that women at the same jobs work fewer hours per week, take more time off, drop down to part time more often and retire earlier?
Women do, indeed, make up the bulk of new vets, but the gender switch may have the odd effect of sharply reducing the number of active vets in the future. There are already shortages of vets for farm animals.
"I'm on my way to becoming a bona fide CLI zealot at this point."
I'm with you on this one. Odd reason, though.
OpenSolaris got too slow on my Ultrasparc laptop, Linux wouldn't run on it at all, but OpenBSD explicitly supports it, so that's what I used. So I was running XFCE on it, but that was still sluggish (650MHz). Looking around some more, I found Awesome. Lots of xterms (I'd prefer urxvt, but arrow keys don't work) and I'm loving the hell out of it.
The primary problem with being as much like Windows as possible is that those who are demanding it will eventually realize that if they want something Windows-like, they could, ya know, run Windows.
Frequently, being significantly different is better than being mostly the same. Extensive similarity causes irritation because it isn't exactly the same. If it is apparent that it definitely is not the same, then people, those who are willing to venture forward, will tend to approach it on its terms.
Ah, but this is okay for some of us as the awesomeness of Chrome and the awesomeness of Linux can be be brought into harmonic awesomeness with the Awesome Window Manager.
I thought that Google used a customized Ubuntu on a hell of a lot of their desktop systems. If that is still the case, it would be odd that they would exclude a lot of their own employees using Google's own browser while at work at Google.
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"Microsoft succeeded not on technical grounds, but because of good lawyers"
I'll have to disagree in part. I've believed that the reason Microsoft succeeded was simply because IBM was the 400 pound gorilla thirty years ago and with the general population's knowledge of computers being "IBM makes computers", the IBM PC won. Microsoft just happened to be there.
Now, if by "good lawyers" you mean the lawyers that got IBM to agree to a non-exclusive license, then I'd be on board for that as a contributing cause.
With regards to playing Quake with it, I suppose that it will mostly consist of muttering about wanting a keyboard and mouse.
I've periodically checked the Dell site for the Ubuntu laptops and each time there were fewer options than there were the last time.
I thought Windows was POS software
There is actually evidence that violent crime drops when a big violent movie opens in a city. Want less violence? Make more violent movies.
UNIX was the first portable operating system. Previous operating systems were done in assembly (as was the original PDP-7 version of UNIX {or UNICS, to be precise}). In order to do that, a new language was needed. So UNIX begat C.
Pipes, pumping output from one program into another program, comes from UNIX.
Not pretending to know better than the user what the user wants. That's why a ls -a in the home directory gives newbies heart attacks :)
The open nature of UNIX development let the guys at UCB make BSD and make all kinds of new stuff, demonstrating that open source could be a big win for innovation.
UNIX is older than me by a few years, but this is just stuff that I've learned over the years.
"There are various studies showing that women make less than men for the same jobs, and this is blatant discrimination."
Are those the same studies that also show that women at the same jobs work fewer hours per week, take more time off, drop down to part time more often and retire earlier?
Women do, indeed, make up the bulk of new vets, but the gender switch may have the odd effect of sharply reducing the number of active vets in the future. There are already shortages of vets for farm animals.
He said Egyptian empire, which is somewhat different from just Egypt, just as the Roman empire is different from just Rome.
You have convinced me!!! Please send me a link for OpenBSD on UltraSparc as I can't seem to find it on Google...
Dude, don't get your hopes up.
These people who seem to need to classify every single possible emotional state as an illness have some serious mental issues.
"Unix IS an IDE."
I remember reading this same comment here on slashdot a few years ago. It was like finally seeing the forest.
I believe that portability is a quality. A particularly important one.
I'm sold! So, could you point me to the web page where I can get it for OpenBSD on UltraSparc? I'll be waiting with bells on!
I didn't because there is non-existent advertising. Apple spends money out the wazoo on ads and even that only has gotten them up to about 10%.
"I'm on my way to becoming a bona fide CLI zealot at this point."
I'm with you on this one. Odd reason, though.
OpenSolaris got too slow on my Ultrasparc laptop, Linux wouldn't run on it at all, but OpenBSD explicitly supports it, so that's what I used. So I was running XFCE on it, but that was still sluggish (650MHz). Looking around some more, I found Awesome. Lots of xterms (I'd prefer urxvt, but arrow keys don't work) and I'm loving the hell out of it.
The primary problem with being as much like Windows as possible is that those who are demanding it will eventually realize that if they want something Windows-like, they could, ya know, run Windows.
Frequently, being significantly different is better than being mostly the same. Extensive similarity causes irritation because it isn't exactly the same. If it is apparent that it definitely is not the same, then people, those who are willing to venture forward, will tend to approach it on its terms.
I'm convinced! So, would you be a pal and send me the link for 64-bit flash for OpenBSD on Ultrasparc? :)
heh good one :)
Ah, but this is okay for some of us as the awesomeness of Chrome and the awesomeness of Linux can be be brought into harmonic awesomeness with the Awesome Window Manager.
I thought that Google used a customized Ubuntu on a hell of a lot of their desktop systems. If that is still the case, it would be odd that they would exclude a lot of their own employees using Google's own browser while at work at Google.
This is not your lawn. The property line clearly indicates...
wait a minute...
you are on MY LAWN!
It is because that happened to be the system that they found the vulnerability on.
Nothing more than that, really.
No.
She got frustrated trying to delete the kernel...