That, and Coherent didn't have anything like the hardware support Linux did even in the early stages. All text. No mouse support, even. No LAN support. Basic System 7 functionality, C compiler K&R, not ANSI. Linux did a lot more and it was free.
I'll believe Linux will disappear like Sun and DEC did when somebody answers the question, "How do you make it cheaper than free?"
Maybe somebody will. Maybe we'll all fall for letting the corp record all our transactions to pay for it all. But until someone definitively answers that question, Linux isn't going anywhere.
Backwards. Linux wasn't successful because Red Hat and Novell got behind it. Red Hat and Novell got behind Linux because it was successful. Red Hat was founded *after* the Linux kernel was first written and didn't become a big corporation until 8-10 years after Linux's first release. Linux grew Red Hat, not the other way around. Novell got seriously involved in pushing Linux even later.
In order for it to be truly bimodal, people have to start in either camp A or camp B and end in the same camp they started in. Because if you transition from one to another over time, any point in time will capture a group of people in between the modes.
Bimodal doesn't mean there is *nobody* between camp A and camp B. It means there are *very few* between camp A and camp B.
For example, conventional wisdom from authorities was that the Spitfire was completely impractical because... you had to turn the plane to aim it at the target, as there were no gun turrets.
Buh? At the time of the Spitfire's development, fixed forward firing guns were the *standard* on all fighter aircraft, that design feature having become universal fairly early on in World War One.
The electric company wants to expand geothermal. There's considerable local opposition. Part of it is because the volcanism on Hawaii is very volatile--there's been incidents of accidentally releasing poisonous gas from the test facilities. Also there's religious issues--the volcanoes on Hawaii are sacred to a lot of the native population.
You'd be surprised. One letter with no contribution from an unknown doesn't do much, no. But you better believe a Congresscritter keeps track of what he gets large amounts of such mail from his constituents on. Because, while you can't get elected without money, having money doesn't guarantee you election (as the number of people who have tried throwing massive amounts of money at an election only to fail miserably shows). He may or may not do what they want, but he *will* pay attention.
Also, CA's agriculture depends upon cheap water, not expensive desalinated water.
Sooner or later, CA's agriculture is going to have to learn that cheap water cannot be sustainably provided in the southwestern desert. Sooner would be better. Later is likely to be...painful.
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That, and Coherent didn't have anything like the hardware support Linux did even in the early stages. All text. No mouse support, even. No LAN support. Basic System 7 functionality, C compiler K&R, not ANSI. Linux did a lot more and it was free.
I'll believe Linux will disappear like Sun and DEC did when somebody answers the question, "How do you make it cheaper than free?"
Maybe somebody will. Maybe we'll all fall for letting the corp record all our transactions to pay for it all. But until someone definitively answers that question, Linux isn't going anywhere.
Backwards. Linux wasn't successful because Red Hat and Novell got behind it. Red Hat and Novell got behind Linux because it was successful. Red Hat was founded *after* the Linux kernel was first written and didn't become a big corporation until 8-10 years after Linux's first release. Linux grew Red Hat, not the other way around. Novell got seriously involved in pushing Linux even later.
Or as somebody once said, "The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's how the smart money bets."
Shows what you know! Those are the fresh Confederate cetacean recruits!
https://xkcd.com/1504/
He was a lot nicer to Spirit, which had a similarly impressive run:
https://xkcd.com/695/
In order for it to be truly bimodal, people have to start in either camp A or camp B and end in the same camp they started in. Because if you transition from one to another over time, any point in time will capture a group of people in between the modes.
Bimodal doesn't mean there is *nobody* between camp A and camp B. It means there are *very few* between camp A and camp B.
Buh? At the time of the Spitfire's development, fixed forward firing guns were the *standard* on all fighter aircraft, that design feature having become universal fairly early on in World War One.
Crumple zones, collapsing steering wheels, airbags...they make a really huge difference.
Racist? Why? Sexist, maybe...
Man, we've got a rapper who could make *five* of those!
Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!
On the main hand, there is nothing to be said for doing other people's legwork for them. It's not up to me to lift a finger to prove *your* point.
No, he got that from her.
The electric company wants to expand geothermal. There's considerable local opposition. Part of it is because the volcanism on Hawaii is very volatile--there's been incidents of accidentally releasing poisonous gas from the test facilities. Also there's religious issues--the volcanoes on Hawaii are sacred to a lot of the native population.
It's up to the person making the claim to provide the references. If he does not, we are perfectly justified in assuming they are completely bogus.
Because you're not willing to pay $20 for a box of strawberries.
What you're overlooking is, although they'd like more, they still regard "keeping the plebs from making easy copies" as a worthwhile goal.
If we're lucky, we might be able to get her vote count into three digits!
Because male CEOs never use stupid euphemisms for layoffs.
You'd be surprised. One letter with no contribution from an unknown doesn't do much, no. But you better believe a Congresscritter keeps track of what he gets large amounts of such mail from his constituents on. Because, while you can't get elected without money, having money doesn't guarantee you election (as the number of people who have tried throwing massive amounts of money at an election only to fail miserably shows). He may or may not do what they want, but he *will* pay attention.
I think he means someone running a DHCP server. Having someone handing out rogue IP addresses is going to be no fun at all...
The fact that he owns the land doesn't change the fact that giving it away is a cost. It's not cash out of his pocket, but it's still a cost.
"We [by which he presumably means Californians] probably don't need to be making this." doesn't mean "We probably don't need to be drinking this."
Sooner or later, CA's agriculture is going to have to learn that cheap water cannot be sustainably provided in the southwestern desert. Sooner would be better. Later is likely to be...painful.