The OS/2 nuts were passionate, too. To the point where eventually IBM had to disassociate with them, because they were coming off as cranks. (yes, step right up and relight the flames, we know you're out there, OS/2 Jihad).
Microsoft's marketing people are smart enough to encourage those sorts of people to get out into the street and rant for Linux. It really alienates regular folks who just view computers as tools.
Maybe thats been the case over your lifetime. How old are you, again?
LPs lasted about 30 years. Longer, if you consider that there wasn't really any radical change, and that the early turntables that played LPs also had a 78 RPM setting and a 'turnover' pickup with the coarser 78 needle on it.
Your point, put into fewer words, is that Mr. Katz claims to be an objective journalist, but he brings the same liberal agenda and mindset to his work as many of the other 'objective' journalists.
What a crock.
It proves, once more, that when you flunk out of Calculus, you transfer to J-School.
I've bought and read her books (mostly they became immediatley unavailable on bibliofind.com a few weeks after he was nominated, but I moved fast). She has a refreshing sense of humor. One of her novels is one about a Vice President who has a heart attack (during sex with a mistress) who the administration then spends months faking is still alive for political purposes.
She's a sharp witted conservative woman.
Yep. Scares the hell out of the feminists.
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In a revelation that perfectly demonstrates the nexus between moral posturing and conceit in America, Jon Katz releases yet another wordy ill-thought-out screed on Slashdot.
No, he's describing a problem (wayward DLL updates by applications) that has been largely solved in Windows 2000. Apps aren't allowed to arbitrarily update system libraries. A whole library management system has been put in to handle apps that try to do so.
Most binary applications for Windows 3.1 still work with Windows 2000 (and everything in between).
Microsoft doesn't have to claim that. It's intuitively obvious.
Meanwhile Open Source zealots view the absence of a Linux ABI as a virtue. (it forces people to release the source because otherwise everything breaks twice a year).
I've installed Kernel 2.4 onto a Slack box down in the basement at home weeks ago and haven't yet even touched the machine since.
I FTPd the source from the 'net onto my desktop machine upstairs, then FTP'd it down to the machine in the basement, unpacked it, configured it, built it, and rebooted the machine from within a telnet session. It came back up, the networking continued to work, and I'm using the box (my Window Manager of choice these days is eXceed on W2K). With a fast ethernet connection to the box, there's no reason for me to ever have to go down and touch the physical hardware.
Part of the reason I don't have problems is that I don't use loadable modules for anything. That's probably what breaks Mandrake and Redhat boxes the most when people rebuild the kernel.
Perhaps if they spent less money suing people and more money on R&D, people might be more willing to shell out $$ for their product
I don't know which planet you come from, but where I live people would be outraged if they had to buy a whole new system to play tunes on their stereos.
You're talking about a format conversion. Can you say 'buy new equipment to play our disks'? Most record company execs aren't that bold.
However, it's very likely that IBM rolled out their in-house Word Processor (DisplayWrite) at the same time as the PC, hence at least several weeks before Draper's word processor.
I'm finding my Visor Platinum to be pretty good for web browsing. I have the Handspring 33.6 landline modem and run Palmscape on it. It's nice to be able to read News websites from bed.
And I can log into the company network over our SecureID dialup and check on my jobs, too.
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The OS/2 nuts were passionate, too. To the point where eventually IBM had to disassociate with them, because they were coming off as cranks. (yes, step right up and relight the flames, we know you're out there, OS/2 Jihad).
Microsoft's marketing people are smart enough to encourage those sorts of people to get out into the street and rant for Linux. It really alienates regular folks who just view computers as tools.
Up until quite recently, the PC Card support on Linux was a 'bag on the side' effort. A kludge pasted onto the kernel.
That's why I generally ran NetBSD on my 486 laptop instead of Linux.
The situation has improved recently, though.
Maybe thats been the case over your lifetime. How old are you, again?
LPs lasted about 30 years. Longer, if you consider that there wasn't really any radical change, and that the early turntables that played LPs also had a 78 RPM setting and a 'turnover' pickup with the coarser 78 needle on it.
In other news, nobody cares what some high school kid who can't even get a login at slashdot thinks about anything.
Look again at what I typed, please.
Your point, put into fewer words, is that Mr. Katz claims to be an objective journalist, but he brings the same liberal agenda and mindset to his work as many of the other 'objective' journalists.
What a crock.
It proves, once more, that when you flunk out of Calculus, you transfer to J-School.
I've bought and read her books (mostly they became immediatley unavailable on bibliofind.com a few weeks after he was nominated, but I moved fast). She has a refreshing sense of humor. One of her novels is one about a Vice President who has a heart attack (during sex with a mistress) who the administration then spends months faking is still alive for political purposes.
She's a sharp witted conservative woman.
Yep. Scares the hell out of the feminists.
There is a solution, and it is socialism.
And there is a precipitate, and it is freedom.
In a revelation that perfectly demonstrates the nexus between moral posturing and conceit in America, Jon Katz releases yet another wordy ill-thought-out screed on Slashdot.
Real Men use Xenix on an Altos box.
No, he's describing a problem (wayward DLL updates by applications) that has been largely solved in Windows 2000. Apps aren't allowed to arbitrarily update system libraries. A whole library management system has been put in to handle apps that try to do so.
Most binary applications for Windows 3.1 still work with Windows 2000 (and everything in between).
Microsoft doesn't have to claim that. It's intuitively obvious.
Meanwhile Open Source zealots view the absence of a Linux ABI as a virtue. (it forces people to release the source because otherwise everything breaks twice a year).
I've installed Kernel 2.4 onto a Slack box down in the basement at home weeks ago and haven't yet even touched the machine since.
I FTPd the source from the 'net onto my desktop machine upstairs, then FTP'd it down to the machine in the basement, unpacked it, configured it, built it, and rebooted the machine from within a telnet session. It came back up, the networking continued to work, and I'm using the box (my Window Manager of choice these days is eXceed on W2K). With a fast ethernet connection to the box, there's no reason for me to ever have to go down and touch the physical hardware.
Part of the reason I don't have problems is that I don't use loadable modules for anything. That's probably what breaks Mandrake and Redhat boxes the most when people rebuild the kernel.
Whoah! Thats a pretty lame 'prank' page when viewed on my Visor using Palmscape. Better luck next time.
Actually, isn't our official policy that the Mainland is a bunch of rogue provinces?
And if we have to go to war, I'd rather we went as a heavily armed paranoid superpower. What is the the better alternative?
They recently stopped requiring the Officers to learn how to use a Sextant at Annapolis.
If the radio navigation system goes down, the Navy becomes just so many tugboats.
Perhaps if they spent less money suing people and more money on R&D, people might be more willing to shell out $$ for their product
I don't know which planet you come from, but where I live people would be outraged if they had to buy a whole new system to play tunes on their stereos.
You're talking about a format conversion. Can you say 'buy new equipment to play our disks'? Most record company execs aren't that bold.
However, it's very likely that IBM rolled out their in-house Word Processor (DisplayWrite) at the same time as the PC, hence at least several weeks before Draper's word processor.
Anybody have any evidence to the contrary?
Also, there's the famous 'Bell System Journal' article from about 1960. I have a PDF copy of the article that I scanned in about five years ago.
My photocopy of it was given to me by an old-tyme blueboxer who made money in the 70's with his little toy.
Just buy a used PC Jr. to play it on.
They're inexpensive on the used market and you can plug them into your TV set like any console.
I like what AMD did to the price of Pentium IIIs.
And all without me ever having to buy their chips!
(actually I did make the mistake of buying several K6's)
You're barely worth even arguing with.
Goverment size is measured as a precentage of Gross National Product. Not by simply looking at the raw size of the government.
The little socialist havens have far 'bigger' governments when measured in this fashion.
Just remove them and watch what happens. I guarantee you it won't be a pretty sight.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I'm finding my Visor Platinum to be pretty good for web browsing. I have the Handspring 33.6 landline modem and run Palmscape on it. It's nice to be able to read News websites from bed.
And I can log into the company network over our SecureID dialup and check on my jobs, too.
It's always worth keeping a few SE's around.
They use the same CRT as the SE/30. It's really easy to bust the neck of the CRT in an SE/30, and only about a fifteen minute job to then change it.
I have two SE/30s that run NetBSD.