XCOR Aerospace is not a competitor for the Ansari X Prize.
This is correct. However, it should be noted that, "While XCOR is not competing in the ANSARI X PRIZE, they do plan to participate in the follow on ANSARI X PRIZE CUP." (Quoted from www.xprize.org front page.)
Windows was definitly not a generic term in 1985. Heck. DOS was closer to being a generic name than Windows. Back then, Windows wasn't even popular enough to be known to most end-users. Despite Lindows' claim that "strong evidence establishing the generic use of the terms "windows" and "windowing" during the time Microsoft first began using them in 1983 and 1984" I was quite heavily into all 3 major OS's at the time (DOS, Mac, Commodore/Amiga) and Windows absolutely was not used nearly enough to be a generic term. Societally, it was just some vague concept of an idiot-friendly OS, and those it would affect most were not real keen on the transition from DOS.
Sorry, gotta call bullshit on this one. "Windows" was quite definately a generic term to the average computer user in 1985. Those same idiots these operating systems were friendly to would refer to everything as a "window". Trying to get one to tell you whether what was on their screen was a "dialog" or not was next to impossible -- if it was on their screen and it was rectangular, it was a "window"...
When I first started using Windows (circa 1997), I found most Windows programs by looking for the program named exactly like what I'd look for on my old Mac but without "Mac" in front, i.e. Paint rather than MacPaint, etc. I figured the Microsoft naming scheme was intentionally designed to help Mac users make the switch...
More likely, SCO (the current corporation, not to be confused with the one what actually developed SCO unix and later went bankrupt and was bought up by Caldera) will resurrect Seattle Computer Products, buy it out completely, then claim Microsoft never really had rights to QDOS and sue for money owed for 25 years of unlicensed use...
Exactly. Intel wasn't upset about compatibility claims (or if they were, they couldn't do anything about it, just as Hayes couldn't do anything about every other modem in existence calling itself "Hayes compatible") -- they got upset whem AMD began selling the "AMD 486", "AMD 486-DX2", etc...
I don't believe they can. What this potentially allows (or at least eventually leads to) is for Lindows to stop using that insipid name and go back to using "Lindows"...
An interesting idea, but I don't think it could tell you when a quake will occur. If you did manage to acurately measure how much pressure has built up using this method, you could say "if it slips today, we'll have an X.Y magnitude quake" -- but how would you know whether it'll slip and release that pressure today, or just build up for for an X.Z magnitude quake tomorrow? You need to know a lot more than how much pressure is built up to be able to predict when it'll be released.
Still, I probably would be pretty useful to know how big the coming quake will be (assuming it comes soon)...
with their wifi links between the tills and the fuel pumps
Interesting. Last time I worked with the electronics in those fuel pumps, they used serial (RS-422) links. Of course, this was a couple of years ago...
Speaking of which -- isn't it kind of silly to be worrying about all the electronics you're using while pumping gas from that computerized pump you just swiped your card through? Or is that just me...
He'd get the same result, no doubt. The problem is, what in some cultures is called 2 billion is in others called 2 thousand million, and in the latter 2 billion means what in the former 2 trillion means.
Number of years running Windows: 8
Number of viruses caught: 0
It really ain't that hard, folks. The last thing I want is some co-resident software chewing up resources all the time for a problem that's easily avoided by simply practicing sensible precautions, as the previous poster suggested.
For my bloody clueless customers, I recommend antivirus software. But I never touch the stuff myself, save the run-only-when-I-tell-you stuff like Trend Micro's nifty online scanner...
There's no reason we should still be paying penance for the actions of our ancestors. If my father went out and killed someone, I wouldn't get in any trouble for it, so why do natives still deserve the support we give them, and why do we still feel obligated to give it to them?
If your grandfather killed my grandfather, I wouldn't expect you to be punished for it. On the other hand, if your grandfather stole my grandfather's property, and I'm my grandfather's rightful heir, were this fact uncovered, you should be expected to give me back the property that is now rightfully mine. That's not punishing you for a crime your grandfather committed, that's not penance, that's just doing what's right.
Now, if we want to give the natives of North America back what rightfully is theirs, we European decendants need to get on ships and sail back to the Old Country, set up shop in London or whereever. Personally, I don't want to do it. So, if I'm not going to give back what is rightfully theirs, I should at least pay rent on it, no?
Again, I'm not interest in punishment, which I don't deserve, or penance, when I don't need. What I'm interested in is doing what's right...
Yes, Europeans hate Americans because they think Americans think they're superior to Europens. Americans hate Europeans because they suspect Europeans know they're superior to Americans. And around it goes...
Oh come on -- why would it take that long to circumvent? If the BIOS doesn't let me see a hidden partition, what's stopping me from pulling the HD out and sticking the PC I'm typing on right now? Nothing in this PC's BIOS is going to prevent me from looking at any partition I want to...
For that matter, why not just bypass the BIOS entirely?
Forgive me if these are stupid questions -- I'm unfamiliar with how this new tech is supposed to work. How does it prevent me from doing either of the above?
You tell me what the apple users options are when apple decides to make a change. They can accept it or leave apple.
Right.
When a manufacturer does something I don't like- I just go to another manufacturer.
Exactly. So, as you've just pointed out, what the apple users' options are and what other manufacturers' users' options are are the same: you don't like what they do, you leave that manufacturer and go with someone else...
Did I miss your point somewhere? I thought you were suggesting the case is somehow worse for Apple users?
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Actually, assuming the price isn't excessive, this is mostly true.
This is correct. However, it should be noted that, "While XCOR is not competing in the ANSARI X PRIZE, they do plan to participate in the follow on ANSARI X PRIZE CUP." (Quoted from www.xprize.org front page.)
I believe the proper term is "wave motion gun", but that would have gotten Blizzard sued...
Sorry, gotta call bullshit on this one. "Windows" was quite definately a generic term to the average computer user in 1985. Those same idiots these operating systems were friendly to would refer to everything as a "window". Trying to get one to tell you whether what was on their screen was a "dialog" or not was next to impossible -- if it was on their screen and it was rectangular, it was a "window"...
When I first started using Windows (circa 1997), I found most Windows programs by looking for the program named exactly like what I'd look for on my old Mac but without "Mac" in front, i.e. Paint rather than MacPaint, etc. I figured the Microsoft naming scheme was intentionally designed to help Mac users make the switch...
More likely, SCO (the current corporation, not to be confused with the one what actually developed SCO unix and later went bankrupt and was bought up by Caldera) will resurrect Seattle Computer Products, buy it out completely, then claim Microsoft never really had rights to QDOS and sue for money owed for 25 years of unlicensed use...
Don't forget Apple's Lisa (sort of a pre-Mac) in 1983...
Exactly. Intel wasn't upset about compatibility claims (or if they were, they couldn't do anything about it, just as Hayes couldn't do anything about every other modem in existence calling itself "Hayes compatible") -- they got upset whem AMD began selling the "AMD 486", "AMD 486-DX2", etc...
I don't believe they can. What this potentially allows (or at least eventually leads to) is for Lindows to stop using that insipid name and go back to using "Lindows"...
Still, I probably would be pretty useful to know how big the coming quake will be (assuming it comes soon)...
Works fine in Galeon 1.3.12...
Interesting. Last time I worked with the electronics in those fuel pumps, they used serial (RS-422) links. Of course, this was a couple of years ago...
Speaking of which -- isn't it kind of silly to be worrying about all the electronics you're using while pumping gas from that computerized pump you just swiped your card through? Or is that just me...
We do. Unless you set up the experiment incorrectly...
Yes. Normally, I think virus writers are just scum, but I have mixed feelings about this one. This is just so damned cute...
Wouldn't that be Scottish? If they were Irish, it'd be O'Nealy and O'Bride...
He'd get the same result, no doubt. The problem is, what in some cultures is called 2 billion is in others called 2 thousand million, and in the latter 2 billion means what in the former 2 trillion means.
Number of years running Windows: 8
Number of viruses caught: 0
It really ain't that hard, folks. The last thing I want is some co-resident software chewing up resources all the time for a problem that's easily avoided by simply practicing sensible precautions, as the previous poster suggested.
For my bloody clueless customers, I recommend antivirus software. But I never touch the stuff myself, save the run-only-when-I-tell-you stuff like Trend Micro's nifty online scanner...
U R ! 133t.
I, for one, welcome our new beowulf cluster of insensitive clods to Soviet Russia!
Sorry, I take that back. ;)
Yes, a great distance has been covered, but was the incline mostly up or down?
Screw that. Go insane. Apparently I'm insane. But I'm one of the happy kinds. ;)
If your grandfather killed my grandfather, I wouldn't expect you to be punished for it. On the other hand, if your grandfather stole my grandfather's property, and I'm my grandfather's rightful heir, were this fact uncovered, you should be expected to give me back the property that is now rightfully mine. That's not punishing you for a crime your grandfather committed, that's not penance, that's just doing what's right.
Now, if we want to give the natives of North America back what rightfully is theirs, we European decendants need to get on ships and sail back to the Old Country, set up shop in London or whereever. Personally, I don't want to do it. So, if I'm not going to give back what is rightfully theirs, I should at least pay rent on it, no?
Again, I'm not interest in punishment, which I don't deserve, or penance, when I don't need. What I'm interested in is doing what's right...
Yes, Europeans hate Americans because they think Americans think they're superior to Europens. Americans hate Europeans because they suspect Europeans know they're superior to Americans. And around it goes...
For that matter, why not just bypass the BIOS entirely?
Forgive me if these are stupid questions -- I'm unfamiliar with how this new tech is supposed to work. How does it prevent me from doing either of the above?
Right.
When a manufacturer does something I don't like- I just go to another manufacturer.
Exactly. So, as you've just pointed out, what the apple users' options are and what other manufacturers' users' options are are the same: you don't like what they do, you leave that manufacturer and go with someone else...
Did I miss your point somewhere? I thought you were suggesting the case is somehow worse for Apple users?
80s hell, a SPARCstation was my primary desktop machine until '97...