Unlike M$, who have a tool that seeds search engines with MSN content, to make sure it bubbles to the top. Or at least that was the idea. The problem was they wrote the tool in Visual Basic, and wanted it to run 24 x 7. And they wondered why they had memory leaks.
Maybe you should blame Canada. Check James Allchin's homepage http://allchin.net/james.html and note the number of canadian references. There's a conspiracy brewing here.
(Lousy page design, BTW. But what did you expect?)
If you're going to take Disch's opinions seriously, then you should also read "Trillion Year Spree" by Brian Aldiss. His theory is that science fiction started with "Frankenstien" and stems from that seminal work. He also spends a lot more time on British and European writers than Disch appears to.
Slashdot Mirror
No, there's no conspiracy theory. We all know the second prototype is in a barn in Saskactewan.
Unlike M$, who have a tool that seeds search engines with MSN content, to make sure it bubbles to the top. Or at least that was the idea. The problem was they wrote the tool in Visual Basic, and wanted it to run 24 x 7. And they wondered why they had memory leaks.
It doesn't have a built-in modem and/or ethernet port, or a PCMCIA slot to add one. What good is it?
Maybe we could get Apple to open-source the Newton Toolkit, the granddaddy of all handheld OSs.
Maybe you should blame Canada. Check James Allchin's homepage http://allchin.net/james.html and note the number of canadian references. There's a conspiracy brewing here.
(Lousy page design, BTW. But what did you expect?)
James Gosling is Canadian. If Java isn't a threat to Microsoft, I don't know what is.
2001-03-17 22:53:00 Hey, I've done dumber things for a t-shirt!
There used to be a C interpreter (Instant-C?) back in the 640K DOS days. Anyone know what happened to it?
If you're going to take Disch's opinions seriously, then you should also read "Trillion Year Spree" by Brian Aldiss. His theory is that science fiction started with "Frankenstien" and stems from that seminal work. He also spends a lot more time on British and European writers than Disch appears to.
MS never capitalizes on sex appeal to sell their products because they don't have any!