It doesn't take lots to be better than GCC - the Sun C Compiler, ICC, even the Plan 9 CC beat them both, the main advantage of the GCC is that it's relatively hassle free.
That, I know not everyone is an aspiring unix admin, but learning multiple platforms is infinitely useful if only because it might get you out of rote learning, too.
3 many people who live in inner cities do not have a car a) a laptop is for carrying and I happen to not want my own property mixed with work's b) anecdote
It can't run the latest IE, or IE7 for that matter, and IE6, well, it would be hard not to seeing as IE6 went 6 fucking years without a new release. iCab for OS9 still exists and it's a perfectly functional webkit browser. The firefox port for OS9 is called Classilla and still exists. Your point again?
Yes, but so does the fact that many theaters provide no accessibility support for the deaf, in theory - they still get around it pretty quickly and have tons of loopholes they can rely on.
MacOS 9 is still usable if you have computers on the same architecture and know where to find software. I've seen the earliest iMacs still kicking.
Windows 98 is not an OS I'd call usable in any way, shape, or form (neither would I MacOS 8-9). It's also not supported, not even on security patch schedules, and it only had a life cycle of 2 years. It was also mostly a point update of Windows 95.
Whether they are intentionally made to look like toys doesn't change the reality that they're often mistaken for such; the GPP was an AC; and it's pretty damn easy to get crap past the radar with Geneva, you just have to not make it a stated purpose, hence the "anti vehicle mines" that just happen to be sensitive for as little as 50kg of pressure on them. "We" in this case is you, who is acting self-important and pompous on/., which is more or less the equivalent of pretending you're king of a gutter.
I suspect it might not be just the code from the Alpha port per se, but also the fact that since it has to be ported to so many architectures, it has to be portable enough for that, so you probably end up with a lot more architecture independent code than if you're saying "my OS will only run on variants of x86... and we'll half ass the arm port when it starts to hurt us".
Despite what mods would like to believe, it still loads in Safari, and linux is still faster than windows 7 in my eee, and that was before BFS came out.
But even Glantz, an american, considers that lend-lease only sped up the inevitable, most of the real lend-lease help came too late, after Russia had already launched the great offensives.
Bull, there's whole swathes of France where church towers were destroyed in WW2 because the first lesson in counter artillery was that the enemy artillery was always likely to be commanded and probably positioned in or close to the local church. Mines that look like toys were made by the west, anti-personal land mines made by the west are still around.
Yet so much of the discussion implicitly assumes this is something "we" can do to "them."
I'm personally more worried, as with nukes and mass conscription before them, that it's more something "they" can do to "us" where "they" is jingoist politicians and generals and "us" is everyone unlucky enough to be in the crossfires (aka most of the world).
Their militaries still exist and 20 countries have the bomb, a dozen known so puublicly. They just don't strut their stuff in a new war for each head of state.
bombing a population into submission works, it broke the back of the Germans and Japanese. It is far cheaper in manpower expenditure on our side to demoralize an enemy than befriend them. Yet we choose the later and put more people into direct risk.
That's where your starting mistake is. It didn't. Bombing in Germany was mostly ineffective compared to the ground war, and that took millions of boots on the ground. Bombing in Japan was supplementing the navy blockade which did most of the work - suppressing Japan's oil ressources, taking its advanced positions in Micronesia, and it also took a lot of boots on the ground to get them and the Thais out of South East Asia.
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You might have missed that the sentence included Asia.
And yet the most powerful computers in the world are still running power. Go back in your cave with your l337 g@mrrz friends :p
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It doesn't take lots to be better than GCC - the Sun C Compiler, ICC, even the Plan 9 CC beat them both, the main advantage of the GCC is that it's relatively hassle free.
That, I know not everyone is an aspiring unix admin, but learning multiple platforms is infinitely useful if only because it might get you out of rote learning, too.
1 is dumb
2 is irrelevant
3 many people who live in inner cities do not have a car a) a laptop is for carrying and I happen to not want my own property mixed with work's b) anecdote
It can't run the latest IE, or IE7 for that matter, and IE6, well, it would be hard not to seeing as IE6 went 6 fucking years without a new release. iCab for OS9 still exists and it's a perfectly functional webkit browser. The firefox port for OS9 is called Classilla and still exists. Your point again?
I meant release cycle.
Yes, but so does the fact that many theaters provide no accessibility support for the deaf, in theory - they still get around it pretty quickly and have tons of loopholes they can rely on.
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MacOS 9 is still usable if you have computers on the same architecture and know where to find software. I've seen the earliest iMacs still kicking.
Windows 98 is not an OS I'd call usable in any way, shape, or form (neither would I MacOS 8-9). It's also not supported, not even on security patch schedules, and it only had a life cycle of 2 years. It was also mostly a point update of Windows 95.
Whether they are intentionally made to look like toys doesn't change the reality that they're often mistaken for such; the GPP was an AC; and it's pretty damn easy to get crap past the radar with Geneva, you just have to not make it a stated purpose, hence the "anti vehicle mines" that just happen to be sensitive for as little as 50kg of pressure on them. "We" in this case is you, who is acting self-important and pompous on /., which is more or less the equivalent of pretending you're king of a gutter.
XP wasn't long-lived because they wanted it, but because they bungled Longhorn - also, by your logic, it was a 2k service pack.
the code for the Alpha port helped a lot
I suspect it might not be just the code from the Alpha port per se, but also the fact that since it has to be ported to so many architectures, it has to be portable enough for that, so you probably end up with a lot more architecture independent code than if you're saying "my OS will only run on variants of x86... and we'll half ass the arm port when it starts to hurt us".
Is that when Michael Dell sends people to room 101?
Despite what mods would like to believe, it still loads in Safari, and linux is still faster than windows 7 in my eee, and that was before BFS came out.
"I'm sorry it inadvertently looked like a toy" cuts it about as much as "they aren't anti-personnel, they're just extra-sensitive anti-tank mines"
Ah, then that's probably good news, even if my travelling makes it unlikely I'd ever go with them.
Useful, yes.
Probably turned the tide faster, sure
But even Glantz, an american, considers that lend-lease only sped up the inevitable, most of the real lend-lease help came too late, after Russia had already launched the great offensives.
Further note: The minimal catholic age of consent only reached 14-ish in the 20th century.
Bull, there's whole swathes of France where church towers were destroyed in WW2 because the first lesson in counter artillery was that the enemy artillery was always likely to be commanded and probably positioned in or close to the local church. Mines that look like toys were made by the west, anti-personal land mines made by the west are still around.
The US never deployed the majority of its forces.
Yet so much of the discussion implicitly assumes this is something "we" can do to "them."
I'm personally more worried, as with nukes and mass conscription before them, that it's more something "they" can do to "us" where "they" is jingoist politicians and generals and "us" is everyone unlucky enough to be in the crossfires (aka most of the world).
Their militaries still exist and 20 countries have the bomb, a dozen known so puublicly. They just don't strut their stuff in a new war for each head of state.
The number of millions was cooked up in the 50s, after Operation August Storm, everyone knew the Japanese surrendered, too, when thoroughly defeated.
bombing a population into submission works, it broke the back of the Germans and Japanese. It is far cheaper in manpower expenditure on our side to demoralize an enemy than befriend them. Yet we choose the later and put more people into direct risk.
That's where your starting mistake is. It didn't. Bombing in Germany was mostly ineffective compared to the ground war, and that took millions of boots on the ground. Bombing in Japan was supplementing the navy blockade which did most of the work - suppressing Japan's oil ressources, taking its advanced positions in Micronesia, and it also took a lot of boots on the ground to get them and the Thais out of South East Asia.