Up until last month (when I noticed) -- my mom was running Firefox 1.0-pre. I couldn't believe that gmail seemed to work just fine (although it was slow as hell... might have had something to do with the 500MHz CPU, though.. Or the 256MB RAM?)... So there is hope for Classilla!
Don't worry, all you 'net nannies, she's on Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu 9.04 on a dual-core Atom machine now and lovin' it.
I was rather disappointed when I got to university and they taught us the same stuff again! I'd figured that pbty clouds were yet another lie.:)
In all seriousness, E=even in the earlier grades when we were taught orbitals, valence shell electron respulsion theory, etc were told that it was a simplified model which worked well most of the time. Same deal for the Ideal Gas Law, Newtonia Physics, etc.
It is not uncommon for C64 programs to use bits and pieces of the BASIC interpreter as though they were normal kernel services. The more you zero out, the more likely you are to introduce incompatibilities into your platform.
BTW, licensing issues would also apply to the kernel ROMs and a bunch of other things, I'd think.
Every vintage Apple (II+, IIe, IIc, IIgs) I've ever used has that idiotic finger-bump setup. I once ground them off a IIe keyboard and replaced them with drops of crazy glue.
I live about 45 miles from the nearest Walmart. I can buy 50 CDs locally here for 25 bucks. Gas costs $4 a gallon, my car gets 30mpg, so I'd use $12 in gas to get there and back.
Are CDs really less than $13 for 50 at US Walmart stores?
95th percentile has been a standard way of billing business-class hosting for at least the last decade, AFAICT.
The big change around here is that overage charges and base bandwidth charges are going down and getting replaced with electricity costs. I'm paying a bloody buck a VA, making my bandwidth bill almost irrelevant.
Of course, I'm not dealing with your mickey-mouse $30 virtual server hosting plans; I have a 100% power and 'net SLA, ~40 peers, 24x7 competent staff, physical security, dual/redundant power infrastructure all the way from generators to the cabinets, etc.
Okay, here's the skinny. If you're writing software, you're violating somebody's patents. Sorry, no way around it. So, what do you do?
1. Incorporate so that you are not personally bankruptable 2. Never, EVER visit patent web sites (damages automatically triple with wilfull infringement) 3. Don't explain how you do anything, just what you do 4. Cross your fingers 5. Profit! (draw money from the corporation before it gets sued)
> It's disappointing to see it confirmed that Open source will never, ever > have the confidence to put forth its own designs, paradigms or new innovations > directly in front of users unless a glitz and glamour company has broken the mould first.
Yes, I was sorely dissappointed to see it take this long for Mozilla to implement a tracing JIT in their JavaScript engine.
After all, Microsoft's version of JavaScript has had a tracing JIT since, what, 1974?
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What the fuck does metric have to do with English grammar?
Please, Oh Wise One, tell us the difference between a script and a program.
> It was developed by GW Bush, and therefore is just fundamentally wrong
Correlation does not imply causation.
Or, maybe in this case it does. Hmm.
Up until last month (when I noticed) -- my mom was running Firefox 1.0-pre. I couldn't believe that gmail seemed to work just fine (although it was slow as hell... might have had something to do with the 500MHz CPU, though.. Or the 256MB RAM?)... So there is hope for Classilla!
Don't worry, all you 'net nannies, she's on Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu 9.04 on a dual-core Atom machine now and lovin' it.
> So /. must be saddest place on earth.
And MySpace the happiest?
> As a bonus the Navy has an inexhaustible supply of boat anchors!
I think if you look carefully, you will find that there is a finite number of Admirals.
Same in Canada.
I was rather disappointed when I got to university and they taught us the same stuff again! I'd figured that pbty clouds were yet another lie. :)
In all seriousness, E=even in the earlier grades when we were taught orbitals, valence shell electron respulsion theory, etc were told that it was a simplified model which worked well most of the time. Same deal for the Ideal Gas Law, Newtonia Physics, etc.
...we lost the source code, we kept it in Microsoft Source Safe and it ate it.
I have to agree.
I frequently remove the SIM chip from my iPhone and stick it into an Air Card (PCMCIA gizmo with an antenna).
It would be nice if I didn't have to do that.
I don't know. I run a fairly successful colony of cloned African Violets. I just cut a leaf off, stick it in water, and voila! New plant.
What's so hard about cloning this one?
Taco pasted the wrong link into the story. What a moron.
At least we know what he surfs, now.
I'm suprised it wasn't naked Natalie Portman porn.
More to the point: I'd like to see that pigeon deliver a single byte of information 17,000km away!
It is not uncommon for C64 programs to use bits and pieces of the BASIC interpreter as though they were normal kernel services. The more you zero out, the more likely you are to introduce incompatibilities into your platform.
BTW, licensing issues would also apply to the kernel ROMs and a bunch of other things, I'd think.
PENIS!
Every vintage Apple (II+, IIe, IIc, IIgs) I've ever used has that idiotic finger-bump setup. I once ground them off a IIe keyboard and replaced them with drops of crazy glue.
How you wanna bet Steve likes 'em that way?
Funny, I type 35 wpm faster than you and I *DO* use the home keys.
And carpal tunnel syndrome isn't caused by typing, it's caused by -- golly -- a small carpal tunnel.
I think maybe you meant "drunk Scotting golfer": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_OmnP527Dw
Funny as hell, BTW
I live about 45 miles from the nearest Walmart. I can buy 50 CDs locally here for 25 bucks. Gas costs $4 a gallon, my car gets 30mpg, so I'd use $12 in gas to get there and back.
Are CDs really less than $13 for 50 at US Walmart stores?
ISTR there was a scandal a few years ago when it was revealed that the answer, to that date, had been "zero".
Don't know if it's changed yet or not.
Well, sir, there's nothing on earth
Like a genuine,
Bona fide,
Crystalized,
Nano-sized,
Monopole!!
95th percentile has been a standard way of billing business-class hosting for at least the last decade, AFAICT.
The big change around here is that overage charges and base bandwidth charges are going down and getting replaced with electricity costs. I'm paying a bloody buck a VA, making my bandwidth bill almost irrelevant.
Of course, I'm not dealing with your mickey-mouse $30 virtual server hosting plans; I have a 100% power and 'net SLA, ~40 peers, 24x7 competent staff, physical security, dual/redundant power infrastructure all the way from generators to the cabinets, etc.
Okay, here's the skinny. If you're writing software, you're violating somebody's patents. Sorry, no way around it. So, what do you do?
1. Incorporate so that you are not personally bankruptable
2. Never, EVER visit patent web sites (damages automatically triple with wilfull infringement)
3. Don't explain how you do anything, just what you do
4. Cross your fingers
5. Profit! (draw money from the corporation before it gets sued)
Interesting.
So, what you're saying, is that the Internet was, what, germinated in September and born in October?
So the gestation period of an internet is about a month?
I'll buy that. They didn't have as many MBAs back then.
> a lot of the youngsters nowadays have no real idea how primitive things were a few years ago.
I told my kid the Internet turned 40.
"The internet is only 40 years old??!?!?!"
"Well, yes, there weren't even personal computers 40 years ago"
"There were no computers 40 years ago?!?!?!?!?!!"
yeesh
> It's disappointing to see it confirmed that Open source will never, ever
> have the confidence to put forth its own designs, paradigms or new innovations
> directly in front of users unless a glitz and glamour company has broken the mould first.
Yes, I was sorely dissappointed to see it take this long for Mozilla to implement a tracing JIT in their JavaScript engine.
After all, Microsoft's version of JavaScript has had a tracing JIT since, what, 1974?