No, DOS was pretty much made by Tim Paterson in his basement. Microsoft bought it off him for $50,000 because they needed an OS fast to snag the IBM PC contract.
Depends on which pay solution you go for. I wouldn't touch Symantec with a ten-foot pole and AVG isn't much better these days. NOD32, on the other, is worth your money if you really need a top-rate solution.
Problem is, and to use a car analogy, we are watching two teams fight and jostle for access to the steering wheel of a bus that already ate a guard rail, has careened off the road, across the median, and is now into oncoming traffic with nobody really watching where it is going.
But enough about whether Pelosi will get to be minority leader...
Go back and re-read the sentence you quoted. "There has to be a bad guy if there's going to be a good guy." I agree with that, and you haven't disproven it. You disproved "There has to be a good guy if there's going to be a bad guy," which is NOT what he said.
Technically speaking, Holland is a part of the Netherlands. The other parts actually don't care much for Holland being identified with the whole Netherlands.
It seems pretty reasonable to be fairly optimistic about every other term in Drake's equation.
Actually, there's one other you can be pessimistic about, and it has pretty depressing implications for us: the fraction of technological societies that get off-planet. Two big humps here:
Agression: Any species that fights its way to intelligence and technological dominance of its planet will be about as aggressive as we are. A species that is not good at stepping over what's in its way to get the resources necessary for survival is a species that doesn't survive. This raises the question: can a dominant technological species avoid destroying itself with the advanced weaponry it develops (or even inadvertently by triggering an ecological collapse) before it gets off-planet? The jury is still out on whether we'll manage that...
The Lotus-Eater Problem: About the time a dominant technological species starts to develop the necessary skills to get off-planet, it likely also start to develop the skills necessary to create *really good* simulations of reality that are "just like the real thing." Can a culture avoid the lure of just abandoning themselves in fantasies which can be made more exciting and fulfilling than anything in the real world?
if you resubmit your own work, it's not plagiarism.
It is, however, fraud in most cases, since most scientific journals require that papers submitted to them be research that is unpublished and not currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
Chess can also be considered to have an infinite number of games where both players simply move a single piece back and forth forever. But it would seem pointless to track those.
Wrong, because chess has a rule that if you have the same position three times, the game is a draw.
That's backwards. Paper, even cheap newsprint, has a much better contrast ratio than any computer display. That may eventually change, but for now, it remains one of paper's big advantages.
If you *have* to make your vote behind a private curtain, the man can't see it. If you can make your vote from any internet connection, then the man can use his power to insist that you vote while he watches.
Yes, this applies to absentee balloting as well. That's why absentee balloting *used* to be controlled with the voter needing to demonstrate a need for it before being allowed an absentee ballot, and why it disturbs me that it is now generally allowed without any controls at all.
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More than 40 experts were involved in making DOS.
I for one would definitely not want to try to control the Internet with Symantec. I don't even want it on my PC.
Depends on which pay solution you go for. I wouldn't touch Symantec with a ten-foot pole and AVG isn't much better these days. NOD32, on the other, is worth your money if you really need a top-rate solution.
Actually, I choose to believe that you don't understand either the laws of thermodynamics *or* the Big Bang, which frankly doesn't surprise me.
I guess there just wasn't anything interesting to see at the Boring place.
But enough about whether Pelosi will get to be minority leader...
Go back and re-read the sentence you quoted. "There has to be a bad guy if there's going to be a good guy." I agree with that, and you haven't disproven it. You disproved "There has to be a good guy if there's going to be a bad guy," which is NOT what he said.
Comfy!
Non sequitur. Your facts are uncoordinated.
Technically speaking, Holland is a part of the Netherlands. The other parts actually don't care much for Holland being identified with the whole Netherlands.
I'm sorry I opted out of moderation, because I want to rate you up SO MUCH.
Actually, there's one other you can be pessimistic about, and it has pretty depressing implications for us: the fraction of technological societies that get off-planet. Two big humps here:
Agression: Any species that fights its way to intelligence and technological dominance of its planet will be about as aggressive as we are. A species that is not good at stepping over what's in its way to get the resources necessary for survival is a species that doesn't survive. This raises the question: can a dominant technological species avoid destroying itself with the advanced weaponry it develops (or even inadvertently by triggering an ecological collapse) before it gets off-planet? The jury is still out on whether we'll manage that...
The Lotus-Eater Problem: About the time a dominant technological species starts to develop the necessary skills to get off-planet, it likely also start to develop the skills necessary to create *really good* simulations of reality that are "just like the real thing." Can a culture avoid the lure of just abandoning themselves in fantasies which can be made more exciting and fulfilling than anything in the real world?
I particularly like how they have "lockers" that don't, um, *lock* (or even have doors at all). Where I come from, we mostly called those "shelves".
It is, however, fraud in most cases, since most scientific journals require that papers submitted to them be research that is unpublished and not currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
We've got that covered.
Not much to work with there--even the old Easy Bake Ovens used a 100 W bulb, although it probably wasn't that efficient.
That's what Neo told me!
It's *supposed* to be ridiculous. It's *Warhammer*. Warhammer is supposed to be ludicrously grimdark, with extra grim and some more dark piled on top.
Wrong, because chess has a rule that if you have the same position three times, the game is a draw.
In fact, truth is not an absolute defense in UK libel suits. That's why it's so great to sue for it there.
That's backwards. Paper, even cheap newsprint, has a much better contrast ratio than any computer display. That may eventually change, but for now, it remains one of paper's big advantages.
Literate people?
Catching the politician who sponsored this going into a hotel with a prostitute: Priceless
If you *have* to make your vote behind a private curtain, the man can't see it. If you can make your vote from any internet connection, then the man can use his power to insist that you vote while he watches.
Yes, this applies to absentee balloting as well. That's why absentee balloting *used* to be controlled with the voter needing to demonstrate a need for it before being allowed an absentee ballot, and why it disturbs me that it is now generally allowed without any controls at all.
You obviously haven't seen some of WoW's headgear. And I didn't even look that hard for these; I'm sure there's sillier.