MS-DOS came out in 1981. (Windows 1.0 was 1985.) Yes, they stole DOS but it was the thing that made them as a company. So Microsoft has been a dinosaur from the very start?
When did CP/M on which MS-DOS was based on come out? The 1970s and it was effectively dead in 1982.
When did the 80386 come out? 1985. When did MS actually release a 32 bit operating system? NT was released 7 years later in 1992, and Windows 95 was released about 10 years later in 1995. The alleged 32 bit versions of DOS, like MS DOS 5 were a joke and still designed with the 640K limit.
Sure Microsoft had multitasking with Windows, cooperative multitasking. They didn't have preemptive multitaking until NT 1992. The Commodore Amiga had it in 1985.
WTF? MS has been a dinosaur since the 80s
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Microsoft was a dinosaur since the 1980s.
They only thing they were good at was getting in bed with the OEMs, and marketing.
For a technology company they've always been behind and their implementations have always been shit.
There are a few roles that government must play. It must provide its citizens protection and a working legal framework. But when the government decides to dabble in providing other services, especially ones in which there already exists private enterprise, there is nothing gained but bureaucracy and government bloat.
Thomas Jefferson must be rolling over in his grave.
You might want to study a little history, Thomas Jefferson's economic policy was a disaster which put the US deeply into debt.
LED bulbs are going to render CFL bulbs a flash in the pan
no toxic mercury, no 30 second wait to dim up completely after turn on, not nearly as fragile, lasts much longer, nicer white glow, similar very low energy usage...
but currently, they are a little pricey and their lighting wattage is low
Sorry, I replaced all my incandescents more then 4 years ago and was really happy with the results. Still not happy with the cost of the LEDs. So just go ahead a replace those incandescent lights and wait on the LEDs. I will still be cheaper in the long run.
And if you're thinking the LEDs don't contain toxic materials; you should do a little research on GaAs and other environmentally friendly semi-conductors.
I would start a new ISP that doesn't have arbitrary restrictions on content and take the customers from all the Commcasts out there until they are forced to meet the desires of their customers or go bankrupt, an make a killing in the process.
That is, if the regulations which held new companies out of the market didn't make costs so high for non-established companies that allowed monopolies to form.
Who would you connect this ISP to?
Because the regulations wouldn't keep your costs high, the peering fees would keep your rates high.
Your argument fails. Try studying history rather than economic mythology.
It is not in business's best interest to compete by giving the lowest price; it is in business's best interest to negotiate agreements and form trusts with each other to charge the highest price thereby maximizing profits.
So if Comcast charges you to access Google, its also in the AT&Ts best interest form a trust with them and to charge the same thing; perhaps even merging to form CA&TT thereby reducing costs while maintaining control. Its also in their best interest to charge smaller peers exorbitant rates to peer with them in order for you to send and receive emails from your friends who are with them.
If you really think your Libertarian ideas are good for the average consumer, you should do some research on Laissez-faire and the realities of that. Because your Libertarian economic utopia is a myth and a screwup that brought about the Progressive Era.
But seriously, can you make a sweeping statement like "People can't tell 48k audio from 160k" if you're also switching compression technologies? OGG vs. AAC is a whole article on it's own, you just muddy the waters by making this about the compression rate.
This is just a new version of the old megahertz myth of the CPU wars. Two different 2GHZ processors from different manufacturers are not equal, we all finally figured that out for the most part, right? Now we've moved onwards... to the Kbps myth?
Denon cables are a cheap joke. If you're serious you'll use dancable Anjou speakers cables from Pear Cables and wooden volume control knob from Reference Audio Mods.
These are the same people, or at least same mentality, of who live their lives in fear that the Russians are going to come over here and take their bibles away.
It wasn't until Windows 7 that I saw anything approaching the 11-12MB/s I saw on NFS. I got the same as you, Vista to vista smb transfers ran around 5-6 MB/s while NFS would get 11-12. Now that I have 7 on my PCs, I can get 10-12MB/s on 7 to 7 transfers, not sure what changed, but it's noticeably faster and no longer much slower than NFS.
So you're saying that an open protocol, NFS, doesn't work as fast on Microsoft Operating Systems as Microsoft's proprietary system?
Do you have any Linux or BSD benchmarks for comparison?
An important detail that's been left out was the cheerleader issue. In Texas, and many other states, the cheerleader is always right. So if either girl is a cheerleader, the other one is going to be in deep trouble.
If the cheerleader test fails, there are other tests such whose daddy tithes the most. Or if any of their parents are registered Democrats, they automatically lose.
Stallman refers to EMACS virgins, specifically "women who had not been introduced to EMACS" along with the advice that "relieving them of their virginity" was some sort of sacred duty for members of "The Church of EMACS".
That's the result of a 5 minute google search.
I think the lack of female involvement in projects is actually the cause of the sexism, not the other way around.
So maybe if more women actually bothered to get involved, it wouldn't be considered an all boys club and comments like these wouldn't be made.
Georgia Tech has been offering a ridiculously popular Science Fiction literature class since the 70s. You might use it's curriculum as a guide.
http://lcc.gatech.edu/~brobertson3/texts/sf.pdf
Do you get bonus points for bringing the original GitS manga and showing how Oshii, turned the character into a 1 dimensions brooding machine?
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And that Bach and Mozart? Good God! Bury the stuff already! We need to live in the NOW!
While we're at it, burn the Mona Lisa and the like. We must have art thats new and different always!
You put the beatles up with Bach and Motzart?
Try Salieri and Jackson Pollock.
Dude, it's a town of 7,000 people, the old ladies sitting on the porches will be sufficient to enforce any ban.
.What makes you think there would be any old ladies to enforce the ban?
They should just kill off anybody over 21; 30 if you're optimistic. :-P
Lets help the beatles eliminate that unauthorized distribution, and copying of their music by just not listening to it.
Their stuff is 40 years old; lets get something new and different and just leaven them alone.
Wait, wait wait...
MS-DOS came out in 1981. (Windows 1.0 was 1985.) Yes, they stole DOS but it was the thing that made them as a company. So Microsoft has been a dinosaur from the very start?
When did CP/M on which MS-DOS was based on come out? The 1970s and it was effectively dead in 1982.
When did the 80386 come out? 1985. When did MS actually release a 32 bit operating system? NT was released 7 years later in 1992, and Windows 95 was released about 10 years later in 1995. The alleged 32 bit versions of DOS, like MS DOS 5 were a joke and still designed with the 640K limit.
Sure Microsoft had multitasking with Windows, cooperative multitasking. They didn't have preemptive multitaking until NT 1992. The Commodore Amiga had it in 1985.
Microsoft was a dinosaur since the 1980s.
They only thing they were good at was getting in bed with the OEMs, and marketing.
For a technology company they've always been behind and their implementations have always been shit.
I see no reason to upgrade from VAX/VMS...
How about upgrading VMS?
He should, it does really well on the Alpha.
Which happens to be a 64bit chip. That was introduced in 1992.
Of course VMS also convinced me to learn UNIX.
There are a few roles that government must play. It must provide its citizens protection and a working legal framework. But when the government decides to dabble in providing other services, especially ones in which there already exists private enterprise, there is nothing gained but bureaucracy and government bloat.
Thomas Jefferson must be rolling over in his grave.
You might want to study a little history, Thomas Jefferson's economic policy was a disaster which put the US deeply into debt.
LED bulbs are going to render CFL bulbs a flash in the pan
no toxic mercury, no 30 second wait to dim up completely after turn on, not nearly as fragile, lasts much longer, nicer white glow, similar very low energy usage...
but currently, they are a little pricey and their lighting wattage is low
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/coming-soon-a-40-watt-led-light-bulb/
Sorry, I replaced all my incandescents more then 4 years ago and was really happy with the results. Still not happy with the cost of the LEDs. So just go ahead a replace those incandescent lights and wait on the LEDs. I will still be cheaper in the long run.
And if you're thinking the LEDs don't contain toxic materials; you should do a little research on GaAs and other environmentally friendly semi-conductors.
I would start a new ISP that doesn't have arbitrary restrictions on content and take the customers from all the Commcasts out there until they are forced to meet the desires of their customers or go bankrupt, an make a killing in the process. That is, if the regulations which held new companies out of the market didn't make costs so high for non-established companies that allowed monopolies to form.
Who would you connect this ISP to?
Because the regulations wouldn't keep your costs high, the peering fees would keep your rates high.
cp /bin/bash /tmp
chmod -x /tmp/bash /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /tmp/bash
runs /tmp/bash anyway
Also work with shell scripts. Where your.sh is some bash shell script of your choice.
cp your.sh /tmp/your.sh
chmod -x /tmp/your.sh
/bin/bash /tmp/your.sh
The shell script executes, the horror!
All it would take is one really bad Windows Update to turn off 70% of the Internet.
And there would be great rejoicing from the Linux geeks.
Your argument fails. Try studying history rather than economic mythology.
It is not in business's best interest to compete by giving the lowest price; it is in business's best interest to negotiate agreements and form trusts with each other to charge the highest price thereby maximizing profits.
So if Comcast charges you to access Google, its also in the AT&Ts best interest form a trust with them and to charge the same thing; perhaps even merging to form CA&TT thereby reducing costs while maintaining control. Its also in their best interest to charge smaller peers exorbitant rates to peer with them in order for you to send and receive emails from your friends who are with them.
If you really think your Libertarian ideas are good for the average consumer, you should do some research on Laissez-faire and the realities of that. Because your Libertarian economic utopia is a myth and a screwup that brought about the Progressive Era.
Suck it, nerds.
So they actually bothered to ship it with a compiler, source, and a text editor that's better than note/wordpad?
I didn't think so.
Guess who is the number one political gift donor in America is.
And look at where the to individual contributors are from.
If the higher compression audio had simply used this $500 Denon ethernet cable, the results would have been different:
http://www.usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3429.asp
But seriously, can you make a sweeping statement like "People can't tell 48k audio from 160k" if you're also switching compression technologies? OGG vs. AAC is a whole article on it's own, you just muddy the waters by making this about the compression rate.
This is just a new version of the old megahertz myth of the CPU wars. Two different 2GHZ processors from different manufacturers are not equal, we all finally figured that out for the most part, right? Now we've moved onwards... to the Kbps myth?
Denon cables are a cheap joke. If you're serious you'll use dancable Anjou speakers cables from Pear Cables and wooden volume control knob from Reference Audio Mods.
These are the same people, or at least same mentality, of who live their lives in fear that the Russians are going to come over here and take their bibles away.
Call me when the SEC goes after them. I won't hold my breath.
I want to see the shareholders bankrupt them before the SEC gets to them. Then won't be able to afford a lawyer and prison will be a step up.
It wasn't until Windows 7 that I saw anything approaching the 11-12MB/s I saw on NFS. I got the same as you, Vista to vista smb transfers ran around 5-6 MB/s while NFS would get 11-12. Now that I have 7 on my PCs, I can get 10-12MB/s on 7 to 7 transfers, not sure what changed, but it's noticeably faster and no longer much slower than NFS.
So you're saying that an open protocol, NFS, doesn't work as fast on Microsoft Operating Systems as Microsoft's proprietary system?
Do you have any Linux or BSD benchmarks for comparison?
An important detail that's been left out was the cheerleader issue. In Texas, and many other states, the cheerleader is always right. So if either girl is a cheerleader, the other one is going to be in deep trouble.
If the cheerleader test fails, there are other tests such whose daddy tithes the most. Or if any of their parents are registered Democrats, they automatically lose.
So, if Michael Dell's profits doubled this year, he WOULDN'T work to sell you on the idea of buying Windows 7 and a new PC?
Nope he would make one of his peons try to sell you a new Dell.
Are you seriously going to sit there and argue that open source is a sheer meritocracy with a straight face? Okay. Here are 4 examples:
That's the result of a 5 minute google search.
I think the lack of female involvement in projects is actually the cause of the sexism, not the other way around.
So maybe if more women actually bothered to get involved, it wouldn't be considered an all boys club and comments like these wouldn't be made.
Toyota has been making the Prius since 1997.
And was only for sale in Japan. The first US Prius didn't come about until 2001. Thus it is not prior art.
Just because it wasn't available in the US doesn't make it prior art. Prior art has no such restrictions.
You must not have RTFA;
What's the going rate for copyright piracy now?
Based on the RIAA's rates its probably worth his effort.
I'm no scientist, but this doesn't seem to bode well for the theory of evolution.
Perhaps you haven't noticed, but there's a big energy source pumping low entropy energy into the earth. Its called the sun.
Georgia Tech has been offering a ridiculously popular Science Fiction literature class since the 70s. You might use it's curriculum as a guide. http://lcc.gatech.edu/~brobertson3/texts/sf.pdf
Do you get bonus points for bringing the original GitS manga and showing how Oshii, turned the character into a 1 dimensions brooding machine?