I must be the real oldster here. I started on an IBM/360 mainframe with punchcard machine and reader. I was taking a university course and there was a separate room available to us which had the punchcard machine and the reader. We were quite fortunate that we did not have to wait for operators to run our decks since we had the reader right there. It made for great turnaround time.
Years later my first home computer was an Atari 400 which I retrofitted with a better keyboard. I learned C on that machine.
Your premises are correct, but your conclusions are faulty. The GUI interface is not the hard part of Linux. If it were, there wouldn't be so many idiots who manage to use Windows.
The hard part of Linux is setting up a multiuser system for just one person. It's still much easier to set up mail, printers etc. in Windows than in Linux. Various distributions are making progress in this area, so that's good. But trying to make the GUI simpler is just a distraction.
That's the real point, isn't it? You can script with a shell language, but that's not what they're best at. You can force a lot of the scripting languages to run as shells, but that's not what they're best at. In this case, I don't think they're doing either one very well. I think -gt is rather ugly as a comparison operator. It's one of the corners you get painted into with a shell language. And the article already spoke of how poor this thing was to use interactively.
I really can't see how this thing buys me anything over my current cygwin + rxvt + bash + ruby.
It wouldn't surprise me at all to find that msh is a reaction to cygwin. People have been developing for cygwin. And MS has a deathly fear of losing control of the environment.
Neither is this thing. Read the conclusion: My biggest frustration with MSH is the low quality of the actual shell interface.... MSH has very few line editing shortcuts, and extremely limited support for tab completion.
This is known as being a fast-follower and it is often a good position to be in. Follow up on a good idea and (more importantly) get the little details right. Often it is not the first company to market with an idea to make it big.
Alta-vista was big in the early search engines, but Google is the one still thriving. I don't even remember the name of the first company to come out with a MIDI card for PCs, but Creative is still going strong. There's lots of examples like that.
Apple is doing some things right these days and reaping the rewards. I don't have a problem with that.
Dell, however, has a different business focus. They're a commodity company and they're doing very well at what they do. There's room for both kinds of companies.
It just so happens that your hard drive was only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
My Mom is in her 70s. She has no technical background and loves her Mac with OSX.
She's been using a Mac for years to make her artwork packets. She upgraded to OSX last year.
Every Gamestop I've ever been in is dark, dirty, has unhelpful employees, and has a poor selection of games. Every EB I've been in is clean, has cheerful, helpful salespeople and has a good selection of games.
The first thing I thought of when I saw this topic was the Outland cartoon circa 1993 where Bill Gates is trying to convince a woman to go on a date with him.
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Yep. Just as soon as all the "It was good enough for my daddy and his daddy" folks die off.
So. Actually, never.
I must be the real oldster here. I started on an IBM/360 mainframe with punchcard machine and reader. I was taking a university course and there was a separate room available to us which had the punchcard machine and the reader. We were quite fortunate that we did not have to wait for operators to run our decks since we had the reader right there. It made for great turnaround time.
Years later my first home computer was an Atari 400 which I retrofitted with a better keyboard. I learned C on that machine.
There's an obsession lately with better graphics. What I'd rather see is an obsession with interesting gameplay.
The average actor can't but a few can. See "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"
Your premises are correct, but your conclusions are faulty. The GUI interface is not the hard part of Linux. If it were, there wouldn't be so many idiots who manage to use Windows.
The hard part of Linux is setting up a multiuser system for just one person. It's still much easier to set up mail, printers etc. in Windows than in Linux. Various distributions are making progress in this area, so that's good. But trying to make the GUI simpler is just a distraction.
That gave me a chuckle. I never have mod points when I need them.
to the EB buyout of Gamestop?
Your next sneeze may blow out half your discs.
The xbox is obviously an interuniverse portal. You need to cross the streams.
You're not going back far enough. Once upon a time, they made really good audio and tv products. Got too big or too greedy I guess.
Soylent green is people!!!!
A quick google for "community college" "introduction to programming" returns 26,500 hits. So I'd say that at least some community colleges do.
That's the real point, isn't it? You can script with a shell language, but that's not what they're best at. You can force a lot of the scripting languages to run as shells, but that's not what they're best at. In this case, I don't think they're doing either one very well. I think -gt is rather ugly as a comparison operator. It's one of the corners you get painted into with a shell language. And the article already spoke of how poor this thing was to use interactively.
I really can't see how this thing buys me anything over my current cygwin + rxvt + bash + ruby.
It wouldn't surprise me at all to find that msh is a reaction to cygwin. People have been developing for cygwin. And MS has a deathly fear of losing control of the environment.
Neither is this thing. Read the conclusion: My biggest frustration with MSH is the low quality of the actual shell interface. ... MSH has very few line editing shortcuts, and extremely limited support for tab completion.
This is known as being a fast-follower and it is often a good position to be in. Follow up on a good idea and (more importantly) get the little details right. Often it is not the first company to market with an idea to make it big.
Alta-vista was big in the early search engines, but Google is the one still thriving. I don't even remember the name of the first company to come out with a MIDI card for PCs, but Creative is still going strong. There's lots of examples like that.
Apple is doing some things right these days and reaping the rewards. I don't have a problem with that.
Dell, however, has a different business focus. They're a commodity company and they're doing very well at what they do. There's room for both kinds of companies.
That doesn't seem to have happened since he has another gig going now.
Oh yeah. No guy would ever want to see a movie that has relationships and moral decisions in it.
Your statement doesn't make any sense. Win32 is an API of which NT is one implementation.
It just so happens that your hard drive was only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
My Mom is in her 70s. She has no technical background and loves her Mac with OSX.
She's been using a Mac for years to make her artwork packets. She upgraded to OSX last year.
My kids learned from Disney's Adventures in Typing with Timon & Pumbaa. Taught the correct hand positions and all, but made it fun too.
Looks like it's out of print now, but available at Amazon from their used & new section.
Pikmin 2 is multiplayer, I believe.
Every Gamestop I've ever been in is dark, dirty, has unhelpful employees, and has a poor selection of games. Every EB I've been in is clean, has cheerful, helpful salespeople and has a good selection of games.
I'm disappointed.
Marriage is all about working things out. Which is why you should buy a second XBOX - or maybe a PS2 or GC.
The first thing I thought of when I saw this topic was the Outland cartoon circa 1993 where Bill Gates is trying to convince a woman to go on a date with him.
"I'll buy you Norway."
Her response?
"Ok. But no kissing."