Yeah. I'm pissed off because my 4-or-so-year-old dual 2.7Ghz G5 tower is becoming less and less viable - even though it's still a fast, powerful machine, even by today's standards.
It is an acquired distaste. The fact is, nearly everyone here who hates Microsoft for various reasons once loved and admired Microsoft.
I got my first exposure to MS products in 1988. I had no opinion of them either way at the time. Over the last two decades, 'indifference' has turned into a deep contempt and loathing for the company and its products.
I'm guessing that given who Linus is and what he does for a living, he hasn't worked with MS's crap in quite some time, or else he wouldn't have made the statement he did...
What do we know? Noctilucent clouds migrating south, strange blotches on Jupiter, huge algae blooms off of Alaska-- and, most damning of all, a malfunctioning toilet on the ISS.
Something is happening out there. Something BIG.:-)
He probably is. Back in the Olden Dayes, we weren't forced to read every single article, whether or not we were interested int the topic, like we are today.
Hah, wow. Relevant to both fractoid's and Taldren's posts, I met a librarian while taking fencing lessons. We began dating, and she eventually broke my heart for reasons I still don't know, 20 years later. So, be careful - it could happen to YOU:-).
I spent a few months working in Laguna Niguel (about halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, if I remember right) about 10 years ago. One of the guys I was working with, who was a resident of the area, had a fun time joking with us about how we should be jealous of people who live in the area. He listed off things like the weather, the women, etc. I listed off things like the race riots, the mudslides, the earthquakes, the wildfires, the celebrity zoos, the traffic, the pollution...
That said I wouldn't have had any real problem with living there. I do like the desert scenery in the south, and the area around Mt Shasta in the north was very nice. But the attitude of people who seem to think it's the only state that matters is more than a little bit galling.
Very well said. I've been ranting about 'consumers' vs. 'customers' for years now, and have always felt insulted with being treated like a suspected criminal at airports and border crossings.
Don't say that, don't even type it! Do you want to summon Him back from the unholy depths of interstellar space to which He was banished by the Elder Gods, eons before life arose upon Earth?
I think I still have all my old Coherent disks. I definitely have the phonebook-like manuals, several sets of them. Those were the days when software shipped with real manuals...
I believe you're right, that X11 was only for the 386-only version.
I know that with at least the II+, the reference manual contained circuit diagrams. And the machine had slots, so you could make/buy cards for it. The ROM was small enough that someone could disassemble it and see all there is to see. The DOS was the same way - the book "Beneath Apple DOS" came from that. That's pretty 'open', the way I think of the term.
My progression was similar. Atari 800 to Amiga 500 to a custom-built AMD 386-40, with 16M of RAM, an Adaptec 1542 with huge-for-the-time 212M SCSI disk, a combo 3.5/5.25 floppy drive, SoundBlaster, and (I think) a Diamond Stealth video card (that might have come later or on a different machine). And yet the Amiga, with about 25% of the memory, CPU speed and disk space, was the far better machine.
I wound up getting rid of DOS and running Coherent on the 386 - it was a good way to learn Unix, as I had only used it a little in college.
was when Tulip pulled a technical superior CP/M-86 machine from the market to release a less advanced IBM-compatible instead
Reminds me of Commodore pushing IBMPC-contemptible machines right before they died. I knew the end was near when I walked into my Amiga store (Omnitek in Tewksbury, MA (RIP)) and saw Commodore-branded 386sx boxes...
I played MechWarrior and Mechwarrior II a bit. I don't remember how well they handled custom/modified mechs.
I and some of my friends lost many, many hours of our lives to MechForce/BattleForce on my Amiga. That was an adaptation of the board wargame, with top-down 2D graphics. We loved designing new mechs and trying them out on each other. I hope that this new game makes it just as easy...
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I usually peel them (and the "Intel Inside" warning labels) off and put them on toilets and trash cans.
That's a definition of "PS" that I was unfamiliar with. I always thought it meant "Postscript".
Yeah. I'm pissed off because my 4-or-so-year-old dual 2.7Ghz G5 tower is becoming less and less viable - even though it's still a fast, powerful machine, even by today's standards.
S/he was making a binary joke.
I didn't realize Tron was on Youtube, but I have the DVD, so I think I'll watch that tonight.
It is an acquired distaste. The fact is, nearly everyone here who hates Microsoft for various reasons once loved and admired Microsoft.
I got my first exposure to MS products in 1988. I had no opinion of them either way at the time. Over the last two decades, 'indifference' has turned into a deep contempt and loathing for the company and its products.
I'm guessing that given who Linus is and what he does for a living, he hasn't worked with MS's crap in quite some time, or else he wouldn't have made the statement he did...
a paleontologist, a geologist, an astrophysicist, an archaeologist
walk into a bar...
What do we know? Noctilucent clouds migrating south, strange blotches on Jupiter, huge algae blooms off of Alaska-- and, most damning of all, a malfunctioning toilet on the ISS.
Something is happening out there. Something BIG. :-)
You're perfectly fnord right.
I read an interview not too long ago, of one of the KISS members. I forget which one. He was pretty clear that they were in it for the money.
Looks interesting. This says the first batch is supposed to start shipping this month.
That's odd. I thought there was
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You must have a very interesting resume...
The cake, lie or not, would be a '%' in most of the roguelike games. :-)
He probably is. Back in the Olden Dayes, we weren't forced to read every single article, whether or not we were interested int the topic, like we are today.
She shills C-sharp shells by the sea shore.
Or something like that.
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Hah, wow. Relevant to both fractoid's and Taldren's posts, I met a librarian while taking fencing lessons. We began dating, and she eventually broke my heart for reasons I still don't know, 20 years later. So, be careful - it could happen to YOU :-).
I spent a few months working in Laguna Niguel (about halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, if I remember right) about 10 years ago. One of the guys I was working with, who was a resident of the area, had a fun time joking with us about how we should be jealous of people who live in the area. He listed off things like the weather, the women, etc. I listed off things like the race riots, the mudslides, the earthquakes, the wildfires, the celebrity zoos, the traffic, the pollution...
That said I wouldn't have had any real problem with living there. I do like the desert scenery in the south, and the area around Mt Shasta in the north was very nice. But the attitude of people who seem to think it's the only state that matters is more than a little bit galling.
Very well said. I've been ranting about 'consumers' vs. 'customers' for years now, and have always felt insulted with being treated like a suspected criminal at airports and border crossings.
Don't say that, don't even type it! Do you want to summon Him back from the unholy depths of interstellar space to which He was banished by the Elder Gods, eons before life arose upon Earth?
I think I still have all my old Coherent disks. I definitely have the phonebook-like manuals, several sets of them. Those were the days when software shipped with real manuals...
I believe you're right, that X11 was only for the 386-only version.
I know that with at least the II+, the reference manual contained circuit diagrams. And the machine had slots, so you could make/buy cards for it. The ROM was small enough that someone could disassemble it and see all there is to see. The DOS was the same way - the book "Beneath Apple DOS" came from that. That's pretty 'open', the way I think of the term.
My progression was similar. Atari 800 to Amiga 500 to a custom-built AMD 386-40, with 16M of RAM, an Adaptec 1542 with huge-for-the-time 212M SCSI disk, a combo 3.5/5.25 floppy drive, SoundBlaster, and (I think) a Diamond Stealth video card (that might have come later or on a different machine). And yet the Amiga, with about 25% of the memory, CPU speed and disk space, was the far better machine.
I wound up getting rid of DOS and running Coherent on the 386 - it was a good way to learn Unix, as I had only used it a little in college.
was when Tulip pulled a technical superior CP/M-86 machine from the market to release a less advanced IBM-compatible instead
Reminds me of Commodore pushing IBMPC-contemptible machines right before they died. I knew the end was near when I walked into my Amiga store (Omnitek in Tewksbury, MA (RIP)) and saw Commodore-branded 386sx boxes...
I played MechWarrior and Mechwarrior II a bit. I don't remember how well they handled custom/modified mechs.
I and some of my friends lost many, many hours of our lives to MechForce/BattleForce on my Amiga. That was an adaptation of the board wargame, with top-down 2D graphics. We loved designing new mechs and trying them out on each other. I hope that this new game makes it just as easy...