In fact, they lost the grip when they first shipped MS-DOS that was a decade behind other operating systems with its single tasking
What are you comparing to? Can't be something realistic anyway...
and lack of memory protection
The hardware didn't support memory protection and the hardware wasn't fast enough to do that protection in software. That wasn't in anyway unique to MSDOS and several later unrelated operating systems also had no support for memory protection, in some cases even though the hardware supported it.
and small memory limits
Again MSDOS supported what the hardware provided. While 640KiB is the "accepted" limit in the IBM PC due to hardware design MSDOS and the IBM derivative IBM DOS supports up to the limit of real-mode hardware address space - which is 1MiB on the 8086 and 1MiB+64KiB-16B on 80386+.
Compare that with other personal computer systems available at the time.
and being a decade late to the internet
The Internet that nobody had access to you mean? The Internet that nobody wanted access to? The Internet that isn't at all like the one we have today - but a system for technical people to communicate? The Internet that wasn't even widely used for company communications, trading etc.? It's like you have no actual knowledge of anything say 20 years back...
and subsequent security clusterfuck when legions of insecure machines finally got online.
You can't seriously believe that "legions" of MSDOS machines were online?!?
Culminating now with spyware and adware built right into the OS itself. That does not even talk about their unacceptable business practices and abusing their monopoly to damage open standards and hold back personal computing. This is a company of foul colour.
There is a simple solution for all of these problems. Do not use their OS, if you find it unacceptable. It is unacceptable to me, so I don't use it. Problem solved.
You have shown us that you have no freaking clue of anything that can be verified, why should we accept your opinion?
No it was not "just a toy", it was used for a lot of serious work and was the primary contender to MS Windows - WHICH IS WHAT THIS SUB-THREAD WAS ABOUT!
Why does this make you glad? Or maybe you are glad for some other reason and just wanted to tell us?
bitcoin is dumb af
I am sorry but the phrase "dumb af" doesn't really make sense. However I must agree that Bitcoin is in fact dumb, dumb as a braindead worm given that it is a protocol with non-existing intelligence.
and anyone who uses it as a store of wealth is dumber than bitcoin
"you guys"? How about growing up and ignore posts you don't like? This story wasn't about bashing the white house madman (I can back up that characterization with facts so it isn't a biased opinion), there were only one post mentioning Trump at all (so no, "you guys" doesn't apply) etc.
I think the confusion is on your side. But the solution is easy: you don't have to try to understand it, just don't spend any of your (assumed precious) time thinking about it, ranting about it etc. It's none of your business anyway.
Retractable protective hood is a better description. Women have the equivalent (clitoral hood) and removal of that hood is generally seen as sexual mutilation (though better than many other types of sexual mutilation). In both sexes the protective hood is also a sensitive organ in itself with more nerve endings than normal skin and in both sexes natural lubrication is provided "for free".
So no, unless the owner of the non-mutilated penis have problem with the natural lubrication (and then normal spit works) not only will extra lubrication not add anything significant but the existence of an extra erogenous zoooone* will probably make the experience better.
That may be true (never seen any numbers - and have never searched for it) however powerlines do produce ozone which isn't too nice to be around, would be strange if people living close by wouldn't be affected.
Not in context. The use here, while technically correct, implies that the specific frequency somehow is special. The text continues with that faulty implication which indicates the writer actually meant that rather than making the implication by mistake.
Let's do a comparison. Males are rapists. Technically true (among the group called males there are some that rapes other people) but not really meaningful (the vast majority of males in most animal categories doesn't rape _and_ some females are also rapists).
Well that is stretching it more than a bit as some dialects are very local and even Norwegians can have problem understanding them. In practice there are many more dialects however the Internet will probably reduce them to a few in some decades...
The movie should be http://www.imdb.com/title/tt02... I guess? Not that I actually know that meme and not that I've watched the movie but the name latched on for some reason...
No, it would be like requiring people to have some basic idea what the person they vote for stands for. Why vote for a person if the goals of him/her is unknown? Likewise why post comments on an article one haven't even read?
Averted WWIII? Now that is a stupid and wholly incorrect way to put it, let me put the main points down and if you are interested to some reading:
. The US placed nuclear missiles close to the USSR border on the territory of an ally. . The soviets didn't like that. not. one. bit. . So they arranged to place their missiles on the territory of one of their allies, close to the USA border. . They built missile bases on Cuba. . They began transporting missiles to those bases.
. The US freaks out and want to sink ships legally sailing on international waters, bomb Cuba and a lot of other shit. . This is reported in media as if the USSR want to start a war (they didn't) and it is an incredible provocation (doing something that the US already had in place).
. After a while the US secretly agrees to withdraw their missiles from the USSR border and the USSR says "okay, that's what we wanted in the first place" and turns their ships around.
. This is painted as a win for the WESTERN WORLD against the eeeevil COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY and that the USSR weakened when shown the STRENGTH of the FREE WORLD. In reality the US fucked up and then tried to either start a war or do serious international crimes against other states.
The ones that could have caused WWIII was the USA leadership and military. Anybody sane would realize that trying to make decapitation strikes possible against the enemy in a MAD world is... well, mad. That the USSR wouldn't try to change that state by doing something similar is beyond stupid.
Maybe you should be more careful with your stuff? I'm not to careful and have never caused any electronic device to crash due to cable pulling/snagging.
Yeah that would work. Not. It isn't possible in many cases. There are many examples of niches where a company have a steady profit but there is no room for changing anything as it would be to expensive. There is specialized software that would require significant effort to support under Wine and nobody to pay for that effort.
You really think the people @ MS are so stupid that removing the big reason they're still #1 for mainstream OS solutions would seem reasonable? I think not however if that would happen anytime I'd switch to another platform in a second.
What about software that can't run in Wine? Or software that may (partially) run in Wine but isn't supported there? Are you so short-sighted and/or inexperienced that the fact there are many Windows-only solutions out there in use as a critical part of many businesses is news to you?
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Microsoft has lost its grip on what is acceptable
I agree.
In fact, they lost the grip when they first shipped MS-DOS that was a decade behind other operating systems with its single tasking
What are you comparing to? Can't be something realistic anyway...
and lack of memory protection
The hardware didn't support memory protection and the hardware wasn't fast enough to do that protection in software. That wasn't in anyway unique to MSDOS and several later unrelated operating systems also had no support for memory protection, in some cases even though the hardware supported it.
and small memory limits
Again MSDOS supported what the hardware provided. While 640KiB is the "accepted" limit in the IBM PC due to hardware design MSDOS and the IBM derivative IBM DOS supports up to the limit of real-mode hardware address space - which is 1MiB on the 8086 and 1MiB+64KiB-16B on 80386+.
Compare that with other personal computer systems available at the time.
and being a decade late to the internet
The Internet that nobody had access to you mean? The Internet that nobody wanted access to? The Internet that isn't at all like the one we have today - but a system for technical people to communicate? The Internet that wasn't even widely used for company communications, trading etc.? It's like you have no actual knowledge of anything say 20 years back...
and subsequent security clusterfuck when legions of insecure machines finally got online.
You can't seriously believe that "legions" of MSDOS machines were online?!?
Culminating now with spyware and adware built right into the OS itself. That does not even talk about their unacceptable business practices and abusing their monopoly to damage open standards and hold back personal computing. This is a company of foul colour.
There is a simple solution for all of these problems. Do not use their OS, if you find it unacceptable. It is unacceptable to me, so I don't use it. Problem solved.
You have shown us that you have no freaking clue of anything that can be verified, why should we accept your opinion?
No it was not "just a toy", it was used for a lot of serious work and was the primary contender to MS Windows - WHICH IS WHAT THIS SUB-THREAD WAS ABOUT!
I am glad,
Why does this make you glad? Or maybe you are glad for some other reason and just wanted to tell us?
bitcoin is dumb af
I am sorry but the phrase "dumb af" doesn't really make sense. However I must agree that Bitcoin is in fact dumb, dumb as a braindead worm given that it is a protocol with non-existing intelligence.
and anyone who uses it as a store of wealth is dumber than bitcoin
Nope. That would be impossible.
"you guys"? How about growing up and ignore posts you don't like? This story wasn't about bashing the white house madman (I can back up that characterization with facts so it isn't a biased opinion), there were only one post mentioning Trump at all (so no, "you guys" doesn't apply) etc.
I think the confusion is on your side. But the solution is easy: you don't have to try to understand it, just don't spend any of your (assumed precious) time thinking about it, ranting about it etc. It's none of your business anyway.
Obsolete? Perhaps you should look up a definition of the word. Junk it isn't, 8GBps* should be more than enough for any reasonable use case.
(* 0.5GBps per lane x 16 lanes)
Actually more of a extreme right thing. Source: people that talk about "cucks" often.
And you did nothing? I think you are lying.
Retractable protective hood is a better description. Women have the equivalent (clitoral hood) and removal of that hood is generally seen as sexual mutilation (though better than many other types of sexual mutilation). In both sexes the protective hood is also a sensitive organ in itself with more nerve endings than normal skin and in both sexes natural lubrication is provided "for free".
So no, unless the owner of the non-mutilated penis have problem with the natural lubrication (and then normal spit works) not only will extra lubrication not add anything significant but the existence of an extra erogenous zoooone* will probably make the experience better.
(* a good woody word)
Remote charging is possible with "smooth analog waves" and the rest of your post is equally crap.
I guess you are one of those "free energy" dudes*?
(* mostly dudes)
That may be true (never seen any numbers - and have never searched for it) however powerlines do produce ozone which isn't too nice to be around, would be strange if people living close by wouldn't be affected.
Not in context. The use here, while technically correct, implies that the specific frequency somehow is special. The text continues with that faulty implication which indicates the writer actually meant that rather than making the implication by mistake.
Let's do a comparison. Males are rapists. Technically true (among the group called males there are some that rapes other people) but not really meaningful (the vast majority of males in most animal categories doesn't rape _and_ some females are also rapists).
Grownups and then you, right?
Yeah I don't think you got the idea...
If you think anybody that makes mistakes is dumb then you are an absolute idiot. I am all for making "lifer" harder for idiots.
Well that is stretching it more than a bit as some dialects are very local and even Norwegians can have problem understanding them. In practice there are many more dialects however the Internet will probably reduce them to a few in some decades...
The movie should be http://www.imdb.com/title/tt02... I guess? Not that I actually know that meme and not that I've watched the movie but the name latched on for some reason...
No, it would be like requiring people to have some basic idea what the person they vote for stands for. Why vote for a person if the goals of him/her is unknown? Likewise why post comments on an article one haven't even read?
Averted WWIII? Now that is a stupid and wholly incorrect way to put it, let me put the main points down and if you are interested to some reading:
. The US placed nuclear missiles close to the USSR border on the territory of an ally.
. The soviets didn't like that. not. one. bit.
. So they arranged to place their missiles on the territory of one of their allies, close to the USA border.
. They built missile bases on Cuba.
. They began transporting missiles to those bases.
. The US freaks out and want to sink ships legally sailing on international waters, bomb Cuba and a lot of other shit.
. This is reported in media as if the USSR want to start a war (they didn't) and it is an incredible provocation (doing something that the US already had in place).
. After a while the US secretly agrees to withdraw their missiles from the USSR border and the USSR says "okay, that's what we wanted in the first place" and turns their ships around.
. This is painted as a win for the WESTERN WORLD against the eeeevil COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY and that the USSR weakened when shown the STRENGTH of the FREE WORLD. In reality the US fucked up and then tried to either start a war or do serious international crimes against other states.
The ones that could have caused WWIII was the USA leadership and military. Anybody sane would realize that trying to make decapitation strikes possible against the enemy in a MAD world is... well, mad. That the USSR wouldn't try to change that state by doing something similar is beyond stupid.
Really? Any references supporting that?
Maybe you should be more careful with your stuff? I'm not to careful and have never caused any electronic device to crash due to cable pulling/snagging.
Yeah that would work. Not. It isn't possible in many cases. There are many examples of niches where a company have a steady profit but there is no room for changing anything as it would be to expensive. There is specialized software that would require significant effort to support under Wine and nobody to pay for that effort.
You really think the people @ MS are so stupid that removing the big reason they're still #1 for mainstream OS solutions would seem reasonable? I think not however if that would happen anytime I'd switch to another platform in a second.
What about software that can't run in Wine? Or software that may (partially) run in Wine but isn't supported there? Are you so short-sighted and/or inexperienced that the fact there are many Windows-only solutions out there in use as a critical part of many businesses is news to you?