My high school had two TRS-80s with tape drives in 1981, running CP/M. Then a third came with this weird looking device called a floppy drive. I was highly sceptical. Still am:-) Had to get to school early to beat anyone else to get onto them. But only a small number of students even knew they existed! Good time.
Damn right. The web (Internet) was supposed to provide a platform that could be accessed by all devices, providing they adhere to the web standards. And that means HTML. Not Flash, or Silverlight, or even Java Applets.
So bugger off and make your own proprietary network standard. Just don't go bitch about a company that's brought out a devive that DOES support just the standards. Hell, should I moan if I bring out a proprietary plug-in that isn't supported by device X? Or should I put my money and time into making something that works within the standard (or at least help stabilise the upcoming standard)?
Next you'll be wanting to modify the TCP/IP protocol itself to suit your particular content - and then bitch at Apple for not supporting it in their products.
No, she must have felt "very honoured", not "very honored". She's an Aussie damn it! And apparently born in Wales, so let's please spell it the way the speaker spells it (if we're quoting), otherwise make it plain that the quote is a translation.
Simple as your instructions seem, they don't work for me....
CTRL-F doesn't do anything at all. Odd.
Oh wait - perhaps you are suggesting a search on that web site for the term "b/g/n"? In our connected world, CTRL-F doesn't necessarily mean search (I for one type this on my Mac running Safari, where Command-F is to search). Search might be done in any number of ways on any number of devices.
Here endeth the lesson:-)
Sorry - we in the Southern Hemisphere and using Macs tend to get a bit sensitive regarding when Winter is, and how to perform searches on our computers.
Do they realise how much of the world's systems run Perl? And given that it's pretty much built into every major OS (yes, Windows needs a download). Wow, this is mind-boggling. I still can't get over it. And the fact that simple Perl is just that - so simple. Hello World is a one liner. No classes to define, no libraries to import, no header files to include.
The seasons here in New Zealand run from the 1st of each quarter (Sep, Dec, Mar, Jun). Solstices aren't celebrated so much, which is a shame, but neither are the official starts to seasons.
Don't know about other countries, but some of course, do it differently altogether (hot season, rainy season, etc).
BeOS was indeed impressive to play with way back. But I think a read of Ars Technica review of Mac OS X Snow Leopard might give you reason to adjust this view. There is mention of BeOS and its limitations in the discussion on Grand Central Dispatch, that might have led to a M$-like bottleneck in terms of paradigm.
We're talking laptops here - typically no mouse, so what is your one fingered person doing trying to right-click? So plug in a mouse - and all new Apple mice have a left and right side for clicking. Don't want to use a mouse? How about clicking the trackpad while pressing a Control key down? Wow, right-click.
Or are you saying this person has only one arm, and that arm has only one finger?
What else. Oh yes, you can even plug your Apple (or any USB) mouse into the left or right hand side of an Apple keyboard - just in case your person of interest is left or right handed. I don't recall any other keyboard with two USB ports attached. Hell, you could even plug another keyboard into the first - and really go to town with collaborative typing.
Maybe it's not the fingers that are the problem - but your sight (and mind) are a little squinted and one-eyed.
First we had "All your base are belong to us", and now this beaut: "Please talk to the new tty maintainer whoever that ends up. I no longer care.". I love it. In so many levels this can be interpreted.
This ruling is a special case. It's not because IE has a large market share that the EU is forcing this requirement. It's because IE doesn't (historically) follow the standards properly or implemented its own features, and so began to fork the Web. Forking the Web and taking the majority of web users with it, would have given Microsoft too much control on the Internet (content). And that would have forced other browser vendors to allow Microsoft to dictate the standards (or cut them out altogether). It would have been another case of Word and Excel formats winning the document format wars.
So a good move, although I too dislike the implementation. It would by far be preferable for the average consumer to realise there is choice, and download their preferred (standards compliant) browser.
The whole point of the agency is to relaunch SkyLab as a rival to the ISS. SkyLab fell into western Australia back in 1979 and the Aussies have been working on how to get it off the ground ever since (Note: I'm a Kiwi, and would love there to be a Space Agency in the Antipodes).
The quoted paragraph in the SlashDot article. Does it appear in the InfoWorld article? I can't see it. The link goes to the article no problems, but where is this quote? Words like "blame" don't even appear!
Am I missing something? Is the link to InfoWorld incorrect?
The reason I wanted to read the original article was because the SlashDot teaser (quote) mentions Windows and Linux performance, but not Mac OS X, and I wanted to see if the original article mentioned that or not.
Yes, Hypertext was not new in 1993 or even 1991-1992. Hypercard had pretty much the same function set as a web browser (except of course, the network aspect). And before that, other software "knew" about
This date is actually on Saturday, the 14th of February 2009:
perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";'
Sat Feb 14 12:31:30 2009
So therefore, rather than being a scary day to avoid mishaps, it's actually the Day of Love for millions (Valentine's Day). Better yet, because it occurs over lunchtime, the fact can be idly mentioned to one's lunch date (for those of a nerdy disposition).
To be honest, I would recommend to the Board of Palm that they sell the whole company to Apple. Apple would make the most of whatever is valuable in Palm (employees, technology etc), and the Palm people can become involved in the most exciting developments in mobile devices (again). I'm sure that's what the people at Palm would love.
Microsoft should go back to making shitty Operating Systems. Or concentrate on adding support to ODF documents to their reasonably okay office suite (tip to Microsoft - add the support to Office 2003 and ditch 2007). Or even to.... no, don't bother. Microsoft should really really concentrate on being a good and morally improved IT industry citizen, and less of a bully and purveyor of inferior products. Why do they need to have this constant fear of another company having more market share and expertise than them in every aspect of IT?
Well, after several years, most Operating Systems settled on UNIX or UNIX-like for the backend (Novell NetWare, Apple Mac OS, Solaris etc). They even settled on the Desktop Metaphor GUI with mouse & pointer for the front-end. However, only two have made it into the common public perception - Windows and Mac OS.
Given Windows is a dog's breakfast of a GUI (come on - you know it's true), I would suggest someone like RedHat license the Apple GUI engine (Quartz/Aqua etc) and put it on top of the Linux kernel. Apple makes a cut, RedHat makes a cut, and the user gets a really cool GUI environment.
Then we'd just need to convince Microsoft to abandon their kernel and adopt Linux as the base. Following that, transition from the Windows GUI to the Apple one....and there was Peace in the Land:-)
But the difference is this.... Apple make really cool stuff! Really!
When it is working, it's absolutely a joy and fantastic. Didn't you read that the iPhone (and the iPod Touch) already have the largest market in terms of share for web browsers in mobile devices? This is because they made a device with a web browser that people want to use. It isn't some crippled crap-browser from a stupid company.
Cut them some slack. They're doing their best to *improve* your mobile and Internet experience.
Fortune favours the Brave. The Pioneers are the ones with arrows in their Backs. and such more...
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My high school had two TRS-80s with tape drives in 1981, running CP/M. Then a third came with this weird looking device called a floppy drive. I was highly sceptical. Still am :-) Had to get to school early to beat anyone else to get onto them. But only a small number of students even knew they existed! Good time.
Damn right. The web (Internet) was supposed to provide a platform that could be accessed by all devices, providing they adhere to the web standards. And that means HTML. Not Flash, or Silverlight, or even Java Applets.
So bugger off and make your own proprietary network standard. Just don't go bitch about a company that's brought out a devive that DOES support just the standards. Hell, should I moan if I bring out a proprietary plug-in that isn't supported by device X? Or should I put my money and time into making something that works within the standard (or at least help stabilise the upcoming standard)?
Next you'll be wanting to modify the TCP/IP protocol itself to suit your particular content - and then bitch at Apple for not supporting it in their products.
No, she must have felt "very honoured", not "very honored". She's an Aussie damn it! And apparently born in Wales, so let's please spell it the way the speaker spells it (if we're quoting), otherwise make it plain that the quote is a translation.
They could always write iPhone and iPad apps...
Simple as your instructions seem, they don't work for me....
CTRL-F doesn't do anything at all. Odd.
Oh wait - perhaps you are suggesting a search on that web site for the term "b/g/n"?
In our connected world, CTRL-F doesn't necessarily mean search (I for one type this on my Mac running Safari, where Command-F is to search). Search might be done in any number of ways on any number of devices.
Here endeth the lesson :-)
Sorry - we in the Southern Hemisphere and using Macs tend to get a bit sensitive regarding when Winter is, and how to perform searches on our computers.
Do they realise how much of the world's systems run Perl? And given that it's pretty much built into every major OS (yes, Windows needs a download). Wow, this is mind-boggling. I still can't get over it. And the fact that simple Perl is just that - so simple. Hello World is a one liner. No classes to define, no libraries to import, no header files to include.
And you can write poetry with it! (bonus points?)
I know - or rather you have reminded me.
The seasons here in New Zealand run from the 1st of each quarter (Sep, Dec, Mar, Jun). Solstices aren't celebrated so much, which is a shame, but neither are the official starts to seasons.
Don't know about other countries, but some of course, do it differently altogether (hot season, rainy season, etc).
Been a pleasure.
It's Spring you Northern Fool!
Spring follows Winter on the 1st September
So smell the yellow Daffodils
BeOS was indeed impressive to play with way back. But I think a read of Ars Technica review of Mac OS X Snow Leopard might give you reason to adjust this view. There is mention of BeOS and its limitations in the discussion on Grand Central Dispatch, that might have led to a M$-like bottleneck in terms of paradigm.
A haiku is more
Than five, seven, and five words.
Fuck you, it's Spring!
We're talking laptops here - typically no mouse, so what is your one fingered person doing trying to right-click? So plug in a mouse - and all new Apple mice have a left and right side for clicking. Don't want to use a mouse? How about clicking the trackpad while pressing a Control key down? Wow, right-click.
Or are you saying this person has only one arm, and that arm has only one finger?
What else. Oh yes, you can even plug your Apple (or any USB) mouse into the left or right hand side of an Apple keyboard - just in case your person of interest is left or right handed. I don't recall any other keyboard with two USB ports attached. Hell, you could even plug another keyboard into the first - and really go to town with collaborative typing.
Maybe it's not the fingers that are the problem - but your sight (and mind) are a little squinted and one-eyed.
First we had "All your base are belong to us", and now this beaut: "Please talk to the new tty maintainer whoever that ends up. I no longer
care.". I love it. In so many levels this can be interpreted.
Who's first to make this your new sig?
This ruling is a special case. It's not because IE has a large market share that the EU is forcing this requirement. It's because IE doesn't (historically) follow the standards properly or implemented its own features, and so began to fork the Web. Forking the Web and taking the majority of web users with it, would have given Microsoft too much control on the Internet (content). And that would have forced other browser vendors to allow Microsoft to dictate the standards (or cut them out altogether). It would have been another case of Word and Excel formats winning the document format wars.
So a good move, although I too dislike the implementation. It would by far be preferable for the average consumer to realise there is choice, and download their preferred (standards compliant) browser.
The whole point of the agency is to relaunch SkyLab as a rival to the ISS. SkyLab fell into western Australia back in 1979 and the Aussies have been working on how to get it off the ground ever since (Note: I'm a Kiwi, and would love there to be a Space Agency in the Antipodes).
And our rockets will fly on the Left Hand Side!
The quoted paragraph in the SlashDot article. Does it appear in the InfoWorld article? I can't see it. The link goes to the article no problems, but where is this quote? Words like "blame" don't even appear!
Am I missing something? Is the link to InfoWorld incorrect?
The reason I wanted to read the original article was because the SlashDot teaser (quote) mentions Windows and Linux performance, but not Mac OS X, and I wanted to see if the original article mentioned that or not.
Help?
Yes, Hypertext was not new in 1993 or even 1991-1992. Hypercard had pretty much the same function set as a web browser (except of course, the network aspect). And before that, other software "knew" about
This date is actually on Saturday, the 14th of February 2009:
perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";'
Sat Feb 14 12:31:30 2009
So therefore, rather than being a scary day to avoid mishaps, it's actually the Day of Love for millions (Valentine's Day). Better yet, because it occurs over lunchtime, the fact can be idly mentioned to one's lunch date (for those of a nerdy disposition).
If I passed you on the right, you are in the RIGHT lane. Hint - some countries drive on the Left Hand Side. :-)
We'll soon have enough firepower to destroy an entire planet!
We grow tired of asking. Where is the Rebel Base?
Cool, it'll be up and running by the end of February then. Roll on LHC!
To be honest, I would recommend to the Board of Palm that they sell the whole company to Apple. Apple would make the most of whatever is valuable in Palm (employees, technology etc), and the Palm people can become involved in the most exciting developments in mobile devices (again). I'm sure that's what the people at Palm would love.
Microsoft should go back to making shitty Operating Systems. Or concentrate on adding support to ODF documents to their reasonably okay office suite (tip to Microsoft - add the support to Office 2003 and ditch 2007). Or even to .... no, don't bother. Microsoft should really really concentrate on being a good and morally improved IT industry citizen, and less of a bully and purveyor of inferior products. Why do they need to have this constant fear of another company having more market share and expertise than them in every aspect of IT?
Well, after several years, most Operating Systems settled on UNIX or UNIX-like for the backend (Novell NetWare, Apple Mac OS, Solaris etc). They even settled on the Desktop Metaphor GUI with mouse & pointer for the front-end. However, only two have made it into the common public perception - Windows and Mac OS.
...and there was Peace in the Land :-)
Given Windows is a dog's breakfast of a GUI (come on - you know it's true), I would suggest someone like RedHat license the Apple GUI engine (Quartz/Aqua etc) and put it on top of the Linux kernel. Apple makes a cut, RedHat makes a cut, and the user gets a really cool GUI environment.
Then we'd just need to convince Microsoft to abandon their kernel and adopt Linux as the base. Following that, transition from the Windows GUI to the Apple one.
But the difference is this.... Apple make really cool stuff! Really!
When it is working, it's absolutely a joy and fantastic. Didn't you read that the iPhone (and the iPod Touch) already have the largest market in terms of share for web browsers in mobile devices? This is because they made a device with a web browser that people want to use. It isn't some crippled crap-browser from a stupid company.
Cut them some slack. They're doing their best to *improve* your mobile and Internet experience.
Fortune favours the Brave. The Pioneers are the ones with arrows in their Backs. and such more...