Well, there's a longer story. Anybody interested should look into the blind luck and frustration that led to MS building Windows as "PM lite" and chancing into Dave Cutler's expulsion from DEC. The book "Big Blues" is a decent start.
When IBM pivoted hard toward PS/2 and 16-bit computing, Gates took one of the 3 or 4 intuitive gambles that defined both his success and that of Microsoft.
There's ONE simple use case, that illustrates the technical failing of OS/2, vs Windows NT - particularly in face of the claim IBM made for a "Better Windows than Windows". > > >. OS/2 didn't perform a special trap for that key sequence. Nor could it - without the 32-bit native, 'Virtual 8086" mode of the 386 processor. This simple illustration exposes the huge architectural gulf that OS/2 was unprepared to cross as 16-bit. Bill's certainty that 32-bit architecture was demanded by multi-task/multi-user computing in 1989 paid off. Inheriting the VMS brain-trust allowed him to execute, while leveraging the design and code contributions his team had made to the OS/2 project.
Besides that? CONFIG.SYS. Really! A whole/etc directory reduced to the parsability of one file! In this context, the follies of the Windows registry appear to be, comparatively enlightened.
We don't NEED April fools. With the real stories posted today, it's clear that fiction cannot compete in absurdity, shock, disbelief and ultimate dismay.
You store a KEY locally - which has cryptographic validation - but is not cryptographically derived from any actual card data itself. This token is stored, and can be used in place of the card info - which is stored per PCI-DSS specs, in the commerce infrastructure.
Schneier sent the Kipster off, wearing his arse like a hat.
Too bad that the "reality-based community" is attached to persuasive argument, reason and evidence. Those are now the desperate hopes of the powerless.
You see, they'll be doing whatever they want to you, anyways.
All of this reminds me of the bogus, misplaced effort of the Toms Shoes variety. You know - the guy who's margin on cheaply made shoes is so high, he donates a pair for African charity, for every pair your daughter buys in the Westfield Centre.
Put your factory there! Employ Africans, and use the charity-profits to train local entreperneurship to become your next competitor! Teach a man to fish, fer godsake!
'Cos there ain't no meter on the Sun, No, there ain't no meter on the Sun. How ya gonna charge Enough to keep ya livin' large When there ain't no meter on the Sun?
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Don't disturb the American with the truth. They love their prison, and drawing attention to the bars will only provoke them.
Because of BURDEN on the poor police?
What's their opinion on happy endings?
The choice would have made to much sense for this project. They chose Ubuntu, because no one actually uses Minix. :-)
Olson killed Prism - the project to replace VMS. Cutler and his team were at least being "reeled in" by DEC, from the camp he'd made in Oregon.
Slashdot ate my angle-brackets. The >>>> is CTL-ALT-DEL.
CONFIG.SYS
Well, there's a longer story. Anybody interested should look into the blind luck and frustration that led to MS building Windows as "PM lite" and chancing into Dave Cutler's expulsion from DEC. The book "Big Blues" is a decent start.
When IBM pivoted hard toward PS/2 and 16-bit computing, Gates took one of the 3 or 4 intuitive gambles that defined both his success and that of Microsoft.
There's ONE simple use case, that illustrates the technical failing of OS/2, vs Windows NT - particularly in face of the claim IBM made for a "Better Windows than Windows". > > >. OS/2 didn't perform a special trap for that key sequence. Nor could it - without the 32-bit native, 'Virtual 8086" mode of the 386 processor. This simple illustration exposes the huge architectural gulf that OS/2 was unprepared to cross as 16-bit. Bill's certainty that 32-bit architecture was demanded by multi-task/multi-user computing in 1989 paid off. Inheriting the VMS brain-trust allowed him to execute, while leveraging the design and code contributions his team had made to the OS/2 project.
Besides that? CONFIG.SYS. Really! A whole /etc directory reduced to the parsability of one file! In this context, the follies of the Windows registry appear to be, comparatively enlightened.
BURN!
Plant Jihadi rumors about your conference - then have the NSA scoop up everything - lecture proceedings to passing hallway conversations.
A: A scribe, held in thrall.
We don't NEED April fools. With the real stories posted today, it's clear that fiction cannot compete in absurdity, shock, disbelief and ultimate dismay.
Key word: "Tokenization"
You store a KEY locally - which has cryptographic validation - but is not cryptographically derived from any actual card data itself. This token is stored, and can be used in place of the card info - which is stored per PCI-DSS specs, in the commerce infrastructure.
Is your XBox in scope? :-)
Schneier sent the Kipster off, wearing his arse like a hat.
Too bad that the "reality-based community" is attached to persuasive argument, reason and evidence. Those are now the desperate hopes of the powerless.
You see, they'll be doing whatever they want to you, anyways.
Yeah, you're "Normal for Norfolk."
Boy, if that's not one of the most appropriate metaphors for our time...
Soon, they'll just jack us into our pods, and grow us for the power we generate. :-)
Ah. The white man's burden.
Someone has to be the villian, I guess.
Detroit.
All of this reminds me of the bogus, misplaced effort of the Toms Shoes variety. You know - the guy who's margin on cheaply made shoes is so high, he donates a pair for African charity, for every pair your daughter buys in the Westfield Centre.
Put your factory there! Employ Africans, and use the charity-profits to train local entreperneurship to become your next competitor! Teach a man to fish, fer godsake!
Thank so much, "Super Hans".
Brillo! But, it's LSD that you cut down with strych, mate! Coke is don ewith laxitive powder.
BURMA SHAVE!
'Cos there ain't no meter on the Sun,
No, there ain't no meter on the Sun.
How ya gonna charge
Enough to keep ya livin' large
When there ain't no meter on the Sun?
Thank you. They don't seem to be worried about the threat to expectation of privacy from Facebook and Google... Let alone that from the FBI or NSA.
You were born in sector X. Sector X has the dominion over you!
It's just like Lion, only different.
(Actually, with the right extensions, and Docky? I quite like Gnome 3.)
Yeah, it was kinda neat.
Too bad it's gone.
Three:
One to crack the iPod, and one to confuse the issue.