Back in '84, I was the first person at the University of Georgia to get a Mac (I was one of the two campus-wide "microcomputer resources" at the time). For the two weeks that I had it (before a big-wig commandeered it) I BEGGED Apple for a development kit, compiler or *anything*.
"3000 smackers please" was the only comment I got out of Cuppertino.
So I kept playing on the PC with my $49 copy of Turbo Pascal, and my ~$200 copy of Lattice C. When MS dropped their Windows SDK from $900 to $300 in '88, I bit and basically never looked back.
come on. It is EXTREMELY important for some businesses to have the save look and feel on as many browsers as possible. You can't be obstinate (or you can, but...) about it. If that requires serving different stylesheets, then so be it. Unfortunately it leads to the problem exhibited where stylesheets are tweaked to work around bugs, then the bug gets fixed. Happens in software all the time. For some reason, the same people who complain about bugs sometimes complain about those same bugs getting fixed, because they've worked hard to work around the bug in the first place and I guess don't want to go back and fix it.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
as far as I'm concerned, Opera has lost a ton of credibility over this issue.
A totally unexpected post in this thread, but a very interesting one. I've been very against News Corp buying DirecTV, and still am. If it has to happen, GE or SBC would be much preferable. Actually, what I think would be great is if Ted Turner made a bid for it. I think his ideas and energy would make DirecTV much less moribund, and maybe get them to go whole hog into HDTV.
Since the company I worked for at the time was heavily involved in incorporating various networking systems into what was a network-less Windows 2.0, we got to see the early builds of MS-OS/2 3.0 and the first builds of NT. They were quite different beasts. I would much rather have run MS's OS/2 3 than what eventually came out as OS/2 3.0 from IBM.
One thing that the previous poster got right was that MS Lan Manager was the basis of networking in both MS-OS2 3.0 and NT.
When I went out to Redmond in 1990, six months after Win 3.0 came out with it's limited networking support, most people in the networking group had MSOS2 machines for their everyday machines and only used DOS/Win3.0 for testing.
Microsoft hiring Dave Cutler (and eventually some members of his group at DEC) was a pretty high profile event. You can be sure there were lawyers on both sides watching how everything was going
VB was introduced in 1991. Delphi in early 1995. In very many ways, you could say that the visual design of Delphi was a rip off of VB. That's not to say that Delphi wasn't a huge improvement over VB.
AOL is the frigggin crapolla that alters how WinSock.dll interacts with the rest of the system. I can't tell you how many times I've had to restore someone's internet connection because they innocently installed that stupid AOL software. Sounds like AOL/Netscape FUD to me.
What about, when installing AOL/Netscape/Winamp, RealPlayer no longer.... etc.. etc....
The difference may be that typists keep their arms and wrists in the same position. Pianists and keyboard players move their arms across the keyboard enough to keep things from becoming too repetitive.
Though I prefer the MS ergo board, I do hold a soft spot in my heart for the old IBM Clicky. Definitely had a good feel.
I'm interested a bit in how many out there actually learned to touch type? and from that, how many touch typists like the ergos vs. those that hunt and peck?
Do they really help? I dunno. I never had that much of a problem with the regular style keyboard, but then I went out on a lark and bought the Microsoft Natural Elite keyboard just because it looked cool. The difference is really amazing and I hate having to use regular keyboards now, so much that I bought an extra keyboard to put on my work computer (if they don't already have an ergo).
uh, I'd moderate this as "off topic" but instead I just thought I'd remind the AC if he comes back and reads this that he ought to try putting this up on the Microsoft/DOJ topic. Then I'd probably moderate it as Interesting.
You got my hopes up reading the headline, but to me, audio versions of Doctor Who just don't cut it. Having the original actors reprise their roles is better, but the whole gestalt of the Doctor was watching it. Entirely different from, say, Hitch Hiker's Guide, which was a very verbal piece and in some ways worked better in audio than in video (and DA said so himself in the earlier days).
Reversing the Polarity of the Neutron Flow, yours truly, vistas.
If you dont own one, I'd just go kill myself if I were you. These things are the best things since sliced bread. If you gotta ask WHY, dont even bother waiting for an answer, just pull the trigger and quit breathing my air.
somebody moderate this higher! funny! and so true!
The show was slated to be a mid-season replacement, but was then bumped to next fall. There is still no assurance from Fox that it will be in the Fall line-up, either... so you might not actually get to see it until January of next year.
They indeed announced that it will be in their thursday lineup, at 8:30 between Family Guy, and Temptation Island II.
I think that for these circumstances, Slashdot should replace whatever icon is there with a picture of Emily Litella. (if you don't know who she is --gilda radner-- go watch some vintage '75-'79 Saturday Night Live)
The thing I always hear against cable is that, once everyone on your block (or in your apt. building) gets connected and starts using the thing, then your connection speeds are going to plummet. Has anyone with cable gotten to this point yet?
For about five months now I've been enjoying a relatively stable 1.2mbps DSL line (down for a few minutes every few days). I dropped cable for DirecTV months ago cause I hated MediaOne about as much as you guys hate Microsoft. I had intended to go with DirecPC Dual or Starband or similar technology, but the DSL deal was too good to pass up, and besides, my apts have a 18"-only limit on satellite dishes.
Well do Panasonic et al charge you a monthly recurring fee for the use of their devices which you've purchased off a store's shelf? No. Why should TIVO etc be any different in that regard? Pure greed... worse than any of the networks, being that they've never charged me a single dime to watch a show...
No, I pay TiVo ten bucks to send me a program schedule, properly formatted, so that I can have the convenience of selecting programs by name, and so that the TiVo device can point out programs that might be of interest to me.
It's well worth it.
If I wanted to, I could get rid of the subscription and use the TiVo as a glorified VCR, but where would the fun be in that? Might as well just use the real VCR.
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Back in '84, I was the first person at the University of Georgia to get a Mac (I was one of the two campus-wide "microcomputer resources" at the time). For the two weeks that I had it (before a big-wig commandeered it) I BEGGED Apple for a development kit, compiler or *anything*.
"3000 smackers please" was the only comment I got out of Cuppertino.
So I kept playing on the PC with my $49 copy of Turbo Pascal, and my ~$200 copy of Lattice C. When MS dropped their Windows SDK from $900 to $300 in '88, I bit and basically never looked back.
come on. It is EXTREMELY important for some businesses to have the save look and feel on as many browsers as possible. You can't be obstinate (or you can, but...) about it. If that requires serving different stylesheets, then so be it.
Unfortunately it leads to the problem exhibited where stylesheets are tweaked to work around bugs, then the bug gets fixed. Happens in software all the time.
For some reason, the same people who complain about bugs sometimes complain about those same bugs getting fixed, because they've worked hard to work around the bug in the first place and I guess don't want to go back and fix it.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
as far as I'm concerned, Opera has lost a ton of credibility over this issue.
A totally unexpected post in this thread, but a very interesting one. I've been very against News Corp buying DirecTV, and still am. If it has to happen, GE or SBC would be much preferable. Actually, what I think would be great is if Ted Turner made a bid for it. I think his ideas and energy would make DirecTV much less moribund, and maybe get them to go whole hog into HDTV.
Correct.
Since the company I worked for at the time was heavily involved in incorporating various networking systems into what was a network-less Windows 2.0, we got to see the early builds of MS-OS/2 3.0 and the first builds of NT. They were quite different beasts. I would much rather have run MS's OS/2 3 than what eventually came out as OS/2 3.0 from IBM.
One thing that the previous poster got right was that MS Lan Manager was the basis of networking in both MS-OS2 3.0 and NT.
When I went out to Redmond in 1990, six months after Win 3.0 came out with it's limited networking support, most people in the networking group had MSOS2 machines for their everyday machines and only used DOS/Win3.0 for testing.
Microsoft hiring Dave Cutler (and eventually some members of his group at DEC) was a pretty high profile event. You can be sure there were lawyers on both sides watching how everything was going
VB was introduced in 1991. Delphi in early 1995. In very many ways, you could say that the visual design of Delphi was a rip off of VB. That's not to say that Delphi wasn't a huge improvement over VB.
I'm beginning to think that some slashdotter has something harvesting links from this page which then does a mini-DDOS.
I don't understand why people keep attributing motives and emotions to an organization like the FSF.
You do it to Microsoft all the time, so why not FSF? Let's be fair!
w-w-w-w-wwwwwait a minit!!!!
.... etc.. etc....
AOL is the frigggin crapolla that alters how WinSock.dll interacts with the rest of the system. I can't tell you how many times I've had to restore someone's internet connection because they innocently installed that stupid AOL software. Sounds like AOL/Netscape FUD to me.
What about, when installing AOL/Netscape/Winamp, RealPlayer no longer
The difference may be that typists keep their arms and wrists in the same position. Pianists and keyboard players move their arms across the keyboard enough to keep things from becoming too repetitive.
Though I prefer the MS ergo board, I do hold a soft spot in my heart for the old IBM Clicky. Definitely had a good feel.
I'm interested a bit in how many out there actually learned to touch type? and from that, how many touch typists like the ergos vs. those that hunt and peck?
Do they really help? I dunno. I never had that much of a problem with the regular style keyboard, but then I went out on a lark and bought the Microsoft Natural Elite keyboard just because it looked cool. The difference is really amazing and I hate having to use regular keyboards now, so much that I bought an extra keyboard to put on my work computer (if they don't already have an ergo).
uh, I'd moderate this as "off topic" but instead I just thought I'd remind the AC if he comes back and reads this that he ought to try putting this up on the Microsoft/DOJ topic. Then I'd probably moderate it as Interesting.
That is all.
I would love to see replys to this.. I'm sure you won't see many because it hits too close to home.
Reversing the Polarity of the Neutron Flow, yours truly, vistas.
If you dont own one, I'd just go kill myself if I were you. These things are the best things since sliced bread. If you gotta ask WHY, dont even bother waiting for an answer, just pull the trigger and quit breathing my air.
somebody moderate this higher! funny! and so true!
The show was slated to be a mid-season replacement, but was then bumped to next fall. There is still no assurance from Fox that it will be in the Fall line-up, either... so you might not actually get to see it until January of next year.
They indeed announced that it will be in their thursday lineup, at 8:30 between Family Guy, and Temptation Island II.
the replacement is BatManuel, a eurotrash version, who otherwise is apparently faithful to die fledermaus.
I'm guessing you weren't known as a ladies' man. Please, someone moderate that up!!!
I think that for these circumstances, Slashdot should replace whatever icon is there with a picture of Emily Litella. (if you don't know who she is --gilda radner-- go watch some vintage '75-'79 Saturday Night Live)
The thing I always hear against cable is that, once everyone on your block (or in your apt. building) gets connected and starts using the thing, then your connection speeds are going to plummet. Has anyone with cable gotten to this point yet? For about five months now I've been enjoying a relatively stable 1.2mbps DSL line (down for a few minutes every few days). I dropped cable for DirecTV months ago cause I hated MediaOne about as much as you guys hate Microsoft. I had intended to go with DirecPC Dual or Starband or similar technology, but the DSL deal was too good to pass up, and besides, my apts have a 18"-only limit on satellite dishes.
got a link to this?
Not only that, but note the sponsorships for the larger plane.
Well do Panasonic et al charge you a monthly recurring fee for the use of their devices which you've purchased off a store's shelf? No. Why should TIVO etc be any different in that regard? Pure greed... worse than any of the networks, being that they've never charged me a single dime to watch a show... No, I pay TiVo ten bucks to send me a program schedule, properly formatted, so that I can have the convenience of selecting programs by name, and so that the TiVo device can point out programs that might be of interest to me. It's well worth it. If I wanted to, I could get rid of the subscription and use the TiVo as a glorified VCR, but where would the fun be in that? Might as well just use the real VCR.
And I intend to get a lot older... ;-)