I would say that the single biggest reason that Windows is as prevalent as it is today is that to a very large extent, MS has maintained backwards compatibility at almost any cost.
Curious. At home, I've got a large collection of children's educational and gaming software written for DOS through Windows 98 that utterly fail to run properly in Windows XP or Vista. I haven't experienced this compatibility of which you speak.
IIRC, that's not an RFC-specified feature, that's an implementation feature of Sendmail that may have been carried over into other *nix SMTP servers because of its usefulness.
What does your boss think goes into the walls when someone lays cable? If that's so poor quality, why would he need to worry about what cable goes from the jack to the computer?
If above the equator, that's in sunlight 95% of the time. Put it any farther out, or anywhere more in line with the poles, and that would rise quickly.
Putting it somewhere other than geostationary orbit or at a Lagrange point isn't feasible due to the problem you'll now have trying to target the ground station.
Okay you take 5 damage, you only have 4 hp so you die.
IIRC, don't D&D rules say you're unconscious and will continue to take damage over time until you reach -10hp, whereupon you actually die? Granted, it's been some time since I played, but that's what I remember.
The majority in the House wouldn't have had anything to do with a filibuster in the Senate.
Good catch, except that, as I pointed out, there wasn't even a majority in the Senate and there was still that RECORD number of filibusters, including:
Fair Minimum Wage Act
Bipartisan Resolution on Iraq motion to proceed
Sense of Congress on Iraq motion to proceed (twice)
Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission
Intelligence Authorization Act
Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation
Water Resources Development Act of 2007 (twice)
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 (thrice)
Senate Expression of "no confidence" in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
CLEAN Energy Act of 2007
Employee Free Choice Act of 2007
National Defense Authorization FY08 (thrice)
District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2007
Farm, Nutrition, and Bioenergy Act of 2007
Orderly and Responsible Iraq Redeployment Appropriations Act, 2008
Temporary Tax Relief Act of 2007
Renewable Fuels, Consumer Protection, and Energy Efficiency Act of 2007 (twice)
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008
Many of these were, in fact, trying to reverse course.
Amazing how you get nothing done when you're playing an evenly-matched game of tug-of-war.
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I would say that the single biggest reason that Windows is as prevalent as it is today is that to a very large extent, MS has maintained backwards compatibility at almost any cost.
Curious. At home, I've got a large collection of children's educational and gaming software written for DOS through Windows 98 that utterly fail to run properly in Windows XP or Vista. I haven't experienced this compatibility of which you speak.
IIRC, that's not an RFC-specified feature, that's an implementation feature of Sendmail that may have been carried over into other *nix SMTP servers because of its usefulness.
Please go back and re-read the post to which you replied. I think you missed something, like some small amount of sarcasm.
Trouble is, you can't bet on it. Sorta like predicting a black-hole swallowing the Earth.
I heard on the Daily Show that there's a 50/50 probability of that.
It's funny how often the unknown looked like an hour's drive from Burbank, California.
The unknown is all well and good, as long as we can be home for dinner.
The original Trek only rarely dealt with the Klingons. It was more about the crew exploring the unknown.
It's funny how often the unknown looked like the hills of southern California.
The typist still has to bang out the letter on a keyboard, same as always.
Except the WhiteOut(tm) fumes are gone.
Sometimes, I tire of intellectual midgets.
You know, people similarly disparaged doubters of the "new economy" during the dotcom bubble, too.
It's amazing how fast companies will fix something when you threaten to point out the problem to the local fire marshal.
lick the frozen lightpole
This sounds like an excellent band name.
What does your boss think goes into the walls when someone lays cable? If that's so poor quality, why would he need to worry about what cable goes from the jack to the computer?
But we know exactly where his grave is...
...just not its velocity.
To more accurately reflect the scope of this release, they should rename it the Apple and Linux Booster Version.
And actually, a Lagrange point isn't really feasible either, since that's stationary with respect to the planet, not a point on the planet.
If above the equator, that's in sunlight 95% of the time. Put it any farther out, or anywhere more in line with the poles, and that would rise quickly.
Putting it somewhere other than geostationary orbit or at a Lagrange point isn't feasible due to the problem you'll now have trying to target the ground station.
In fact, I find it highly unethical. You're taking advantage of people who don't know what things really should cost.
Welcome to the real world, enjoy your stay.
No surprise but the upshot: Many programmers quit, boss was fired, company soon folded.
Where's the "boss was arrested and charged with unlawful restraint"?
It's trying to read other people's Perl that's often problematic.
With sufficient time between writing and reading, your own Perl code can be indistinguishable from someone else's Perl code in that regard.
I must have played with house rules under AD&D, but it looks like it was folded into the 3rd Edition and the d20 system.
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/injuryandDeath.htm
Okay you take 5 damage, you only have 4 hp so you die.
IIRC, don't D&D rules say you're unconscious and will continue to take damage over time until you reach -10hp, whereupon you actually die? Granted, it's been some time since I played, but that's what I remember.
Compare:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cthulhu_and_R'lyeh.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Touched_by_His_Noodly_Appendage.jpg
Yeah, geeks interested in primality aren't going to be interested in SMALL primes.
The people who will most want to _________ will be the ones who can't afford to.
There, I've fixed that for you. Fill in the blank with something and it will probably be true.
Glad I'm not the only one.
The majority in the House wouldn't have had anything to do with a filibuster in the Senate.
Good catch, except that, as I pointed out, there wasn't even a majority in the Senate and there was still that RECORD number of filibusters, including:
Many of these were, in fact, trying to reverse course.
Amazing how you get nothing done when you're playing an evenly-matched game of tug-of-war.