1. Output previous poster's text to punched paper tape.
2. Enter new text, with paper tape punch turned on.
3. Get out scissors and glue, connect the two strips of paper tape.
4. Open New Comment dialogue in Lynx.
5. Turn on paper tape reader to read in combined strip of paper tape.
I'm afraid you're addicted to the new bells and whistles, dude. Next you'll be telling us you're not using a PDP-11 anymore....
You know, you're right. When I got to a website where they've made a mistake, I want an error message. There's just no way I'd want to view the information I went there to read.
I switched almost entirely to Opera about a month ago. Opera 5 is really good. Now that they've got SSL and decent Javascript support, there are only a few sites that I have problems connecting to. Opera isn't free, though (they do have the new 'advertising supported' version for those who won't pony up a bit of cash). It's definitely superior to Netscape on Win32.
I pitched Outlook for Eudora and Forte' Agent at about the same time (it was definitely my big month for sending money to shareware developers.) I use Windows 2000 to connect to the 'net but nary a Microsoft client app once I'm connected.
I for one am glad that Microsoft bundles in the add-in software that one used to have to buy separately (i.e. Norton Utilities). The price of their basic Operating System hasn't gone up, but the functionality has increased over time.
The only people bemoaning this are the people who developed the original add-ins, and the 'hot dogs' whose seat of honor as the local 'PC Guru' is threatened when Microsoft gives their cherished 'bag of tricks' to every user by default.
And I'd like to remind you that, thanks to the concentration of economic power and obfuscation or outright destruction of responsibility and liability brought about by the existence of large corporations
Shouldn't that be one word? i.e. 'concentrationofeconomicpowerandobfuscationoroutri ghtdestructionofresponsibilityandliabilitybroughta boutbytheexistenceoflargecorporations'
Peole like you always rattle it out like it should be one word.
The sysadmin is really just an IT janitor. Computer hard drives may contain information that the sysadmin should not poke around in, but so do the wastebaskets and file cabinets that the 'meatspace' janitors maintain, and they don't sign NDAs. So it makes sense that sysadmins shouldn't necessarily be under an NDA, like software developers generally are.
I like TWM. It's very simple, doesn't have any of the croft or complication of the newer WMs. It's well documented in the O'Reilly 8 (9?) volume X Window System book set.
And it's available on every version of X anywhere, in my experience. It's the only really usable WM for my Mac SE/30 running NetBSD. (far too few pixels to support any of the croft-infested windows managers, even FVWM).
Umm...Yahoo!'s message boards are public, and
the guy no longer works for them (and had no contractual obligations to stay silent when he left), so what precedent gives his
ex-company the right to audit his opinions?
What precedent prevents his ex-company from auditing his opinions?
By 'audit' I mean: why shouldn't they be able to watch what he says??
A document with two spaces in it is probably 19,460 bytes in size. One with twelve words is 19,600 bytes. There's a constant 'header' minimum for any Word document. That seems reasonable. There's a miniumum size for a LaTeX file with one space in it, too. What's your problem, then?
PC-DOS 1.0 has some quirks in it not present in any later version. At boot up, for one example, you MUST enter a date and time. It won't let you simply hit return.
I have a whole development environment for DOS 1.0, consisting of the IBM Basic Compiler 1.0, the IBM Pascal Compiler 1.0, and the programmer's editor IBM sold. Scary stuff.
I remember the good old days of BBS-based 'chat rooms' when you could send out an ANSI 'blink' escape sequence in a public chat room and freak everybody out. And the famed esc-Z, which we called the 'ANSI Scud'
Look closely at the 'X' logo for the X Window System. It's not two diagonals crossed. It's a Less-than and a greater-than butted up against each other, slightly skewed.
Does 'XBox Technologies' make or plan to make anything remotely like Microsoft's planned game console?
Trademarks generally only hold when two interests are both trying to use them in a common market. McDonald's hair dressing doesn't infringe on McDonald's air brakes, because they're in different markets.
I thought the eToy case clarified some of this. I guess because Microsoft is involved we all have to slag them, eh?
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President Bush doesn't hide his cocaine usage.
He frankly admits he did things in his past that he regrets. He's moved on and doesn't do such things anymore.
Yes, but chickens aren't really higher animals. They aren't even warm blooded.
spelled wrong.
it's inciteful.
Look at all the karma envy it's incited.
Isn't Arena a reference implementation?
I think there was another before it, too. (Amaya?)
Arena is part of the NetBSD packages collection, and should be buildable on any decent freenix.
Shouldn't you instead:
1. Output previous poster's text to punched paper tape.
2. Enter new text, with paper tape punch turned on.
3. Get out scissors and glue, connect the two strips of paper tape.
4. Open New Comment dialogue in Lynx.
5. Turn on paper tape reader to read in combined strip of paper tape.
I'm afraid you're addicted to the new bells and whistles, dude. Next you'll be telling us you're not using a PDP-11 anymore....
You forgot the step where the clueful (at least those on Win32 systems) download Opera.
You know, you're right. When I got to a website where they've made a mistake, I want an error message. There's just no way I'd want to view the information I went there to read.
Also, the CD-ROM in the cover of the second edition of the book actually runs on Windows NT. (the CD in the first edition wouldn't, *snicker*).
I switched almost entirely to Opera about a month ago. Opera 5 is really good. Now that they've got SSL and decent Javascript support, there are only a few sites that I have problems connecting to. Opera isn't free, though (they do have the new 'advertising supported' version for those who won't pony up a bit of cash). It's definitely superior to Netscape on Win32.
I pitched Outlook for Eudora and Forte' Agent at about the same time (it was definitely my big month for sending money to shareware developers.) I use Windows 2000 to connect to the 'net but nary a Microsoft client app once I'm connected.
Don't look now, but I think something tragic is happening to 'the commons.'
'You make baby RMS cry!'
heh
I for one am glad that Microsoft bundles in the add-in software that one used to have to buy separately (i.e. Norton Utilities). The price of their basic Operating System hasn't gone up, but the functionality has increased over time.
The only people bemoaning this are the people who developed the original add-ins, and the 'hot dogs' whose seat of honor as the local 'PC Guru' is threatened when Microsoft gives their cherished 'bag of tricks' to every user by default.
If you're that worried about efficiency you should use Morse Code.
And I'd like to remind you that, thanks to the concentration of economic power and obfuscation or outright destruction of responsibility and liability brought about by the existence of large corporations
i ghtdestructionofresponsibilityandliabilitybroughta boutbytheexistenceoflargecorporations'
Shouldn't that be one word? i.e. 'concentrationofeconomicpowerandobfuscationoroutr
Peole like you always rattle it out like it should be one word.
The sysadmin is really just an IT janitor. Computer hard drives may contain information that the sysadmin should not poke around in, but so do the wastebaskets and file cabinets that the 'meatspace' janitors maintain, and they don't sign NDAs. So it makes sense that sysadmins shouldn't necessarily be under an NDA, like software developers generally are.
There are shrink-wrapped versions of Debian (bundled with a book). I know I've seen them for sale at Borders.
I like TWM. It's very simple, doesn't have any of the croft or complication of the newer WMs. It's well documented in the O'Reilly 8 (9?) volume X Window System book set.
And it's available on every version of X anywhere, in my experience. It's the only really usable WM for my Mac SE/30 running NetBSD. (far too few pixels to support any of the croft-infested windows managers, even FVWM).
As was mentioned in the summary at the top:
Umm...Yahoo!'s message boards are public, and
the guy no longer works for them (and had no contractual obligations to stay silent when he left), so what precedent gives his
ex-company the right to audit his opinions?
What precedent prevents his ex-company from auditing his opinions?
By 'audit' I mean: why shouldn't they be able to watch what he says??
A document with two spaces in it is probably 19,460 bytes in size. One with twelve words is 19,600 bytes. There's a constant 'header' minimum for any Word document. That seems reasonable. There's a miniumum size for a LaTeX file with one space in it, too. What's your problem, then?
PC-DOS 1.0 has some quirks in it not present in any later version. At boot up, for one example, you MUST enter a date and time. It won't let you simply hit return.
I have a whole development environment for DOS 1.0, consisting of the IBM Basic Compiler 1.0, the IBM Pascal Compiler 1.0, and the programmer's editor IBM sold. Scary stuff.
I remember the good old days of BBS-based 'chat rooms' when you could send out an ANSI 'blink' escape sequence in a public chat room and freak everybody out. And the famed esc-Z, which we called the 'ANSI Scud'
[Butt-headed-Astronomer]-box.
I'm pretty sure IBM was the first to call the Disk Operating System on the IBM-PC 'DOS'. Microsoft was only an OEM at the time.
Look closely at the 'X' logo for the X Window System. It's not two diagonals crossed. It's a Less-than and a greater-than butted up against each other, slightly skewed.
No, that would mean it would have to contain a Transmeta processor.
Does 'XBox Technologies' make or plan to make anything remotely like Microsoft's planned game console?
Trademarks generally only hold when two interests are both trying to use them in a common market. McDonald's hair dressing doesn't infringe on McDonald's air brakes, because they're in different markets.
I thought the eToy case clarified some of this. I guess because Microsoft is involved we all have to slag them, eh?