I got a friend on Cox, they sent him a shitogram when he downloaded a telesynch of Click off BitTorrent.
I've downloaded a cam, a telesynch, a workprint and 2 telecines off BitTorrent with impunity off Verizon. (Granted, I have a business line and he has a residential line.)
So if he feels that way and can't take the project back, what's stopping a fork? NetBSD's been forked before. I've thought of building my own project (hasn't gotten off the ground yet x.x) off NetBSD and I'm still planning to.
QBASIC...Yeah. It's a cross between C/Pascal and BASIC in some respects. You can program it like traditional BASIC too. Nice IDE besides. I wish there were an open-source version that ran on the same config (8086 with 512K RAM, DOS 2.1) as QBasic, but my own attempts to code even something as simple as MBasic failed miserably.:/
Usually the first thing I say over one of these numbers is "I WISH TO SPEAK WITH AN OPERATOR." Slow, loud and clear. And then the damn machine tries to dissuade me from speaking with an operator. >. I just would rather state my situation SIMPLY, than deal with some bot on the phone line that can't understand my unusual mode of speech.
I'd like to see if a regular, broadcast TV could be designed to use one of these and project on my wall, and how well it would rival current home theater setup.
It would be nice if we could have the rest, though. Even if half the OS needs to be rewritten, the other half won't, and maybe some project like osfree won't be such a lead balloon.
The problem is some of the OS/2 code is still owned by Microsoft. Stuff from back in the OS/2 1.x days when a lot of the code was still contributed by them.
I keep all my programs maximized and switch between them sometimes from the taskbar and sometimes with a good old-fashioned Alt-Tab.
My keyboard layout includes a Compose key for typing weird caacs on the keyboard, and in my main program it's able to remote-control my mp3 player app. Play, back, nest, pause, stop, in that order.
And my taskbar features a single-click run application button, current outdoor temperature, date and time.
btw, I don't find overlapping windows intuitive at all except for file management. Windows 1 might've actually had it right after all...
Cell phones aren't a substitute for being there. If you're going to raise a kid, don't just drop a brick in their hands and let them out on their own - they're too young to be by themselves until they're 13 or so and even then they don't need cell phones if there's phone booths around. Simply making sure they set aside $0.50 in case they need to call. Cheaper than a cell phone too.
I for one think that people who are "on call" might have use for them. In most cases a pager's enough. And of course ordinary people who just want to be kw3l aren't the types that should have either one.
If those videos were better quality, maybe they could stack up with the mpgs I download off gnutella now, considering I use a leecher on most youtube stuff anyway.:/
By my definition "personal computer" and "Personal Computer" have totally different meanings.
A "personal computer" is one intended for use by one person. A "Personal Computer" is one modelled on IBM's 5150 Personal Computer, and PC is an abbreviation of the latter usage. Generally for the first, I avoid the term altogether and use "home computer" instead, though some of those computers aren't really either. Perhaps "microcomputer" or just "micro" would be the better unambiguous term. Beside it's PC World, which I don't remember ever being devoted to anything but the Clones.
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I got a friend on Cox, they sent him a shitogram when he downloaded a telesynch of Click off BitTorrent.
I've downloaded a cam, a telesynch, a workprint and 2 telecines off BitTorrent with impunity off Verizon. (Granted, I have a business line and he has a residential line.)
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Can't say I disagree with keeping the old definition, when they had to change the definition of a planet to exclude Pluto.
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So if he feels that way and can't take the project back, what's stopping a fork? NetBSD's been forked before. I've thought of building my own project (hasn't gotten off the ground yet x.x) off NetBSD and I'm still planning to.
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Web apps are just the latest fad, and like every fad, they'll fade away when the novelty wares out.
Now I'll just get back to hacking my text in nano, tyvm...
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QBASIC...Yeah. It's a cross between C/Pascal and BASIC in some respects. You can program it like traditional BASIC too. Nice IDE besides. I wish there were an open-source version that ran on the same config (8086 with 512K RAM, DOS 2.1) as QBasic, but my own attempts to code even something as simple as MBasic failed miserably. :/
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Usually the first thing I say over one of these numbers is "I WISH TO SPEAK WITH AN OPERATOR." Slow, loud and clear. And then the damn machine tries to dissuade me from speaking with an operator. >. I just would rather state my situation SIMPLY, than deal with some bot on the phone line that can't understand my unusual mode of speech.
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Computers taught me to read. I could program before I could write, not sure that's a good thing.
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It hasn't stopped the BSA from confiscating computers for suspected license violations.
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I'd like to see if a regular, broadcast TV could be designed to use one of these and project on my wall, and how well it would rival current home theater setup.
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Taking a cell away from a teenager is child abuse?! What the hell planet are they living on?
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You mean like hydroelectric power?
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It would be nice if we could have the rest, though. Even if half the OS needs to be rewritten, the other half won't, and maybe some project like osfree won't be such a lead balloon.
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The problem is some of the OS/2 code is still owned by Microsoft. Stuff from back in the OS/2 1.x days when a lot of the code was still contributed by them.
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Slashcode wrecked my use of foreign characters there (it says "caacs")
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I keep all my programs maximized and switch between them sometimes from the taskbar and sometimes with a good old-fashioned Alt-Tab.
My keyboard layout includes a Compose key for typing weird caacs on the keyboard, and in my main program it's able to remote-control my mp3 player app. Play, back, nest, pause, stop, in that order.
And my taskbar features a single-click run application button, current outdoor temperature, date and time.
btw, I don't find overlapping windows intuitive at all except for file management. Windows 1 might've actually had it right after all...
-uso.
Um, WMV3 *is* WMV9...
WMV9 because it was done for WMP9, but WMV3 because it's the 3rd version of the WMV codec.
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Cell phones aren't a substitute for being there. If you're going to raise a kid, don't just drop a brick in their hands and let them out on their own - they're too young to be by themselves until they're 13 or so and even then they don't need cell phones if there's phone booths around. Simply making sure they set aside $0.50 in case they need to call. Cheaper than a cell phone too.
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Heh.
I for one think that people who are "on call" might have use for them. In most cases a pager's enough. And of course ordinary people who just want to be kw3l aren't the types that should have either one.
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18.
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Wot? Flash works perfectly fine for me in Firefox 1.5 on Ubuntu 5.10 o.O; Sound and everything. So "whatchu talkin' 'bout Willis?"
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Paula Abdul FTW!
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If those videos were better quality, maybe they could stack up with the mpgs I download off gnutella now, considering I use a leecher on most youtube stuff anyway. :/
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By my definition "personal computer" and "Personal Computer" have totally different meanings.
A "personal computer" is one intended for use by one person. A "Personal Computer" is one modelled on IBM's 5150 Personal Computer, and PC is an abbreviation of the latter usage. Generally for the first, I avoid the term altogether and use "home computer" instead, though some of those computers aren't really either. Perhaps "microcomputer" or just "micro" would be the better unambiguous term. Beside it's PC World, which I don't remember ever being devoted to anything but the Clones.
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Here you go (from IBM DOS 5.02)
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Apple ][? iMac? Kaypro? TRS-80? Half these things aren't even PCs, because a PC is by definition IBM-compatible.
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