> Ok, a definition for you: >OS: Operating System >DOSDisk Operating System
MS-DOS was called QDOS before it was bought by MS, which stood for Quick and Dirty OS. Dirty is a more apt description, as OSes are primarily dealing with interfaces to the CPU, and MS-DOS had no virtual memory requiring page fault management etc, so using "Disk" to describe the "D" in the acronym is pretty stupid.
I've lived in Hong Kong and Philippines and am staggered by the scale of the malls in each place. In Hong Kong they'd raid a mall every 3 months and nab a couple of 12 or 13 year olds (un-prosecutable), and report it on the main TV news that they'd done a crack-down. It always made me laugh. In fact it's HARD to get unpirated software. The inflight magazine on Bangkok Airlines actually gives advice in buying pirated software and DVDs (DVDs are often of inferior quality).
Rubbish. I am an English speaker (no Chinese at all) living in Hong Kong, and most of the software is the English/American version. There usually isn't a Chinese version of most software anyway. The only problem I have is with the Playstation games - they often are in Japanese only. Most software and even Playstation and X-Box aren't even "officially" on sale here anyway, so they deserve to get their stuff pirated - what else can you do?
Re:A great example of open-source at work.
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Or, rather, to use the same 5 year timespan, in 5 years, Microsoft went from Windows 95 to WindowsXP. That is a huge leap in terms of stability and security (both up) and boot time (down).
In 5 years they went from Windows 95 to Windows ME (not XP - that's 6 years), stability of ME, at least on my machine is a lot worse (in fact it's so unstable it's what finally drove me to install Linux), and I shudder to think what boot time would be on the same hardware I had back then (486/66).
The Concorde's systems are entirely analogue, unlike today's modern digital systems. In fact it is difficult to source parts for Concorde because of this. However Concorde is not an 'evolving' plane such as the 747, they are not building any more, they are simply being nursed along as they are and there is no financial reason to invest in upgrading what few that exist.
From an American view of history it was the 'American' Bell who invented the telephone. From a British point of view it was the 'Scotsman' Bell who invented the telephone. From a German point of view it was Reis who invented the telephone. From a French point of view it was Bourseul who invented the telephone. It was Bourseul who wrote a paper on the subject describing how to do it in 1854, and Reis later built one BEFORE Bell in 1860, but neither Bourseul nor Reis patented their ideas. It is naive to think that the propoganda you are fed in your history classes is the undistorted truth.
One of Micosoft's key buzz-words is innovation, and what effect open source will have. Would someone please tell me what, if anything, Microsoft has ever innovated?
These islands are sinking - not the sea level rising. In the last 20 years sea levels have risen 0.8mm a year hardly enough to sink an island.
Also scientists are humans and are as prone to political influence and greed for funding as anybody else - whether consciously or not.
Re:What first - read the books or watch the movie?
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I read the books in anticipation of the movies, and found they fell a long way short of all the hype. I found myself skipping long sections of over-detailed descriptions and scene-setting. The end was predictable and overly drawn out as well. I'm a bit worried that three movies is overkill. I could have condensed the story into an hour. Don't bother with the book, settle for the movies. It's set in NZ so the scenery will be excellent.
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> Ok, a definition for you:
>OS: Operating System
>DOSDisk Operating System
MS-DOS was called QDOS before it was bought by MS, which stood for Quick and Dirty OS.
Dirty is a more apt description, as OSes are primarily dealing with interfaces to the CPU, and MS-DOS had no virtual memory requiring page fault management etc, so using "Disk" to describe the "D" in the acronym is pretty stupid.
I've lived in Hong Kong and Philippines and am staggered by the scale of the malls in each place. In Hong Kong they'd raid a mall every 3 months and nab a couple of 12 or 13 year olds (un-prosecutable), and report it on the main TV news that they'd done a crack-down. It always made me laugh. In fact it's HARD to get unpirated software. The inflight magazine on Bangkok Airlines actually gives advice in buying pirated software and DVDs (DVDs are often of inferior quality).
I used to use 90210 as well, but now I use 10044 (New York)as my ZIP Code. (used to be WTC)
Most of it originates in the USA! And you don't know how annoying it is getting spam for USA paraphenalia, gas masks etc when you are not USian!
Rubbish. I am an English speaker (no Chinese at all) living in Hong Kong, and most of the software is the English/American version. There usually isn't a Chinese version of most software anyway. The only problem I have is with the Playstation games - they often are in Japanese only. Most software and even Playstation and X-Box aren't even "officially" on sale here anyway, so they deserve to get their stuff pirated - what else can you do?
Or, rather, to use the same 5 year timespan, in 5 years, Microsoft went from Windows 95 to WindowsXP. That is a huge leap in terms of stability and security (both up) and boot time (down).
In 5 years they went from Windows 95 to Windows ME (not XP - that's 6 years), stability of ME, at least on my machine is a lot worse (in fact it's so unstable it's what finally drove me to install Linux), and I shudder to think what boot time would be on the same hardware I had back then (486/66).
The Concorde's systems are entirely analogue, unlike today's modern digital systems. In fact it is difficult to source parts for Concorde because of this. However Concorde is not an 'evolving' plane such as the 747, they are not building any more, they are simply being nursed along as they are and there is no financial reason to invest in upgrading what few that exist.
From an American view of history it was the 'American' Bell who invented the telephone. From a British point of view it was the 'Scotsman' Bell who invented the telephone. From a German point of view it was Reis who invented the telephone. From a French point of view it was Bourseul who invented the telephone. It was Bourseul who wrote a paper on the subject describing how to do it in 1854, and Reis later built one BEFORE Bell in 1860, but neither Bourseul nor Reis patented their ideas. It is naive to think that the propoganda you are fed in your history classes is the undistorted truth.
One of Micosoft's key buzz-words is innovation, and what effect open source will have. Would someone please tell me what, if anything, Microsoft has ever innovated?
These islands are sinking - not the sea level rising. In the last 20 years sea levels have risen 0.8mm a year hardly enough to sink an island. Also scientists are humans and are as prone to political influence and greed for funding as anybody else - whether consciously or not.
I read the books in anticipation of the movies, and found they fell a long way short of all the hype. I found myself skipping long sections of over-detailed descriptions and scene-setting. The end was predictable and overly drawn out as well. I'm a bit worried that three movies is overkill. I could have condensed the story into an hour. Don't bother with the book, settle for the movies. It's set in NZ so the scenery will be excellent.