In about 1995 I was looking for a multi-user, multi tasking operating system for a new "operating and communications system".. I bought a copy of Coherent, and installed it on an old PC-AT. I was able to log in "remotely" over a serial cable! This was big news! Then, in a warehouse club-type store, I found a thick book about something called "Linux". It had several CDs inside, things like "Slackware", SuSe", and "RedHat". I tried all of them, and settled on RedHat 5.2 My first anti-Wintel box was an AMD system running at 50 mhz, with 4 mb of memory, and Red Hat Linux. This was SPARCL1, where the SPOCS system was born. See http://sourceforge.net/project....
...many years ago, we were told, "in the future, you will pay for TV". And we said "WHAT!? We get it for free, off our antenna now!" And they said, "but since you will pay for TV, there won't be any need for advertising." Many years later, I am paying for TV, PLUS, getting ads that run across the screen all the time. It it any wonder I am feeling ripped off?
Oh yes... I think these were the same people who said, "we will put catalytic converters on cars. it will cost more, but they will convert the noxious fumes into harmless water and carbon dioxide." So years later, we are, indeed paying more, PLUS being clobbered by the "carbon crisis"
Check out Fred Saberhagen's "Berkerker's Star". Miracanda is a very strange place consisting of a neutron star, a black hole, and Miracanda - which is sort of, but not, a planet. ("This is not a planet. This is not a planet.") They all three exist in a very loopy sort of mutual orbit.
...that California might, just might, want to take advantage of all that water flowing down from the mountains to the ocean???
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015...
This is the same state that keeps trying to force neighboring states to sell them electricity because the enviroheads won't let California build enough power plants to support their own state!
No, I have not. Nor shall I.
Don't have it, don't want it.
Don't those California employers realize you can just as easily plant all kinds of BS on FB as you can spout out in person? Do they not realize that people putting stuff on a wall might also be posting BS? What is real?
Oops, forgot. We are talking about California...
Now, this was one area where Tesla was right. Edison was stuck on DC, but it just isn't good for long range power transmission.
Maybe it was pure stubborness, who knows.
I disagree about Edison being like Jobs. Edison made more connections to folks in business - he, too, worked in the lab, and made a great invention - the light bulb. But then he realized that to get lightbulbs in every house, he had to get electricity in every house, too. Enter Westinghouse, and may others who invented the electricity distribution industry.
Come on - who could be as big an a$$hole as Jobs...really???
If you look at the charts on nature's site, they only mention ONE sugar substitute - SACCHARINE!
Good grief, we've known for decades that stuff is not too great.
No mention of the more modern sugar substitutes. Basically a junk article, but it's being quoted all over the internet as if it were fact.
I completely agree with DoD. This is NOT a new trend....I left such a place almost two years ago. It was FDD plus liberal amounts of intimidation by a certain senior engineer, who thought his way was the only way to do things.
When you identify an FDD shop - in the words of Commander Keen, avoid, avoid, avoid!!
" The desktop environments (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, ect.) on Linux are ugly, slow, buggy, and generally shitty."
Shows what very little you know.
The main problem with KDE and Gnome is, they improved them both to death. If you are not running top of the line hardware, forget it.
As for XFCE and others, you clearly do not know what you are talking about. I switched to XFCE a few years back (from KDE). It does what I want, looks great, never gives any grief. And this is in a development environment, mind you.
You may want to try a Linux distro that is not 10 years old next time.
My mistake...Pluto has FIVE moons.
Charon: Discovered in 1978, this small moon is almost half the size of Pluto. It is so big Pluto and Charon are sometimes referred to as a double planet system.
Nix and Hydra: These small moons were found in 2005 by a Hubble Space Telescope team studying the Pluto system.
Kerberos: Discovered in 2011, this tiny moon is located between the orbits of Nix and Hydra.
Styx: Discovered in 2012, this little moon was found by a team of scientists search for potential hazards to the New Horizons spacecraft flyby in 2015.
may the 'little planet that could' keep right on thumbing it nose at everybody!
Slashdot Mirror
I love this guy!
Robots run by Humans!? - "The Humans Are Dead", Flight Of the Conchords
Duh. You think so? What with every government on earth trying to censor the internet?
...is Sheldon Cooper! 8-D
In about 1995 I was looking for a multi-user, multi tasking operating system for a new "operating and communications system".. I bought a copy of Coherent, and installed it on an old PC-AT. I was able to log in "remotely" over a serial cable! This was big news! Then, in a warehouse club-type store, I found a thick book about something called "Linux". It had several CDs inside, things like "Slackware", SuSe", and "RedHat". I tried all of them, and settled on RedHat 5.2 My first anti-Wintel box was an AMD system running at 50 mhz, with 4 mb of memory, and Red Hat Linux. This was SPARCL1, where the SPOCS system was born. See http://sourceforge.net/project....
...many years ago, we were told, "in the future, you will pay for TV". And we said "WHAT!? We get it for free, off our antenna now!" And they said, "but since you will pay for TV, there won't be any need for advertising." Many years later, I am paying for TV, PLUS, getting ads that run across the screen all the time. It it any wonder I am feeling ripped off? Oh yes... I think these were the same people who said, "we will put catalytic converters on cars. it will cost more, but they will convert the noxious fumes into harmless water and carbon dioxide." So years later, we are, indeed paying more, PLUS being clobbered by the "carbon crisis"
" The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain. " - Montgomery Scott, Star Trek III
Ah, the anonymous jerk. hello there.
Check out Fred Saberhagen's "Berkerker's Star". Miracanda is a very strange place consisting of a neutron star, a black hole, and Miracanda - which is sort of, but not, a planet. ("This is not a planet. This is not a planet.") They all three exist in a very loopy sort of mutual orbit.
I like this guy! Go Pluto!
I keep telling everybody the stock market operates in la-la land. Here's the proof!
...that California might, just might, want to take advantage of all that water flowing down from the mountains to the ocean??? http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015... This is the same state that keeps trying to force neighboring states to sell them electricity because the enviroheads won't let California build enough power plants to support their own state!
No, I have not. Nor shall I. Don't have it, don't want it. Don't those California employers realize you can just as easily plant all kinds of BS on FB as you can spout out in person? Do they not realize that people putting stuff on a wall might also be posting BS? What is real? Oops, forgot. We are talking about California...
...there is a lot of (hot) gas floating around here!
I agree! Stamp out "gamergate"! No more coverage! Play on!
kind of a jerk, aren't you? BUSH WAS RIGHT!!!
Now, this was one area where Tesla was right. Edison was stuck on DC, but it just isn't good for long range power transmission. Maybe it was pure stubborness, who knows.
I disagree about Edison being like Jobs. Edison made more connections to folks in business - he, too, worked in the lab, and made a great invention - the light bulb. But then he realized that to get lightbulbs in every house, he had to get electricity in every house, too. Enter Westinghouse, and may others who invented the electricity distribution industry. Come on - who could be as big an a$$hole as Jobs...really???
Evil Empire?
If you look at the charts on nature's site, they only mention ONE sugar substitute - SACCHARINE! Good grief, we've known for decades that stuff is not too great. No mention of the more modern sugar substitutes. Basically a junk article, but it's being quoted all over the internet as if it were fact.
I completely agree with DoD. This is NOT a new trend....I left such a place almost two years ago. It was FDD plus liberal amounts of intimidation by a certain senior engineer, who thought his way was the only way to do things. When you identify an FDD shop - in the words of Commander Keen, avoid, avoid, avoid!!
Since most distros already use systemd, it's pretty well moot, don't you think? I smell a MS troll here...is it one of the "Pawn Stars"?
" The desktop environments (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, ect.) on Linux are ugly, slow, buggy, and generally shitty." Shows what very little you know. The main problem with KDE and Gnome is, they improved them both to death. If you are not running top of the line hardware, forget it. As for XFCE and others, you clearly do not know what you are talking about. I switched to XFCE a few years back (from KDE). It does what I want, looks great, never gives any grief. And this is in a development environment, mind you. You may want to try a Linux distro that is not 10 years old next time.
Ah, but it ain't over yet! Let's just see what else they get...
My mistake...Pluto has FIVE moons. Charon: Discovered in 1978, this small moon is almost half the size of Pluto. It is so big Pluto and Charon are sometimes referred to as a double planet system. Nix and Hydra: These small moons were found in 2005 by a Hubble Space Telescope team studying the Pluto system. Kerberos: Discovered in 2011, this tiny moon is located between the orbits of Nix and Hydra. Styx: Discovered in 2012, this little moon was found by a team of scientists search for potential hazards to the New Horizons spacecraft flyby in 2015. may the 'little planet that could' keep right on thumbing it nose at everybody!