Jay Miner actually bought a copy of my Directory Opus software from me once - stupidly I cashed the check. It would probably be worth more now than the $25 I got at the time:)
I'm ploughing through it in my spare time (up to 75% so far) and am enjoying it. Its style is quite casual - it's a bit of a rambling tale, all over the place. It also could have done with a bit of copy-editing (grammar, spelling, etc) but other than that, a fascinating insight on the birth of the home computer industry.
How does this make Microsoft any different from the writers of those blackmail viruses that encrypt your data and won't let you access it until you pay them?
I think you'll find most of the western world (and a good percentage of the rest) uses the same sort of toilet as you do. And given that the flush toilet was invented in London, calling it an "American" commode seems a trifle parochial.
... as a non-Mac user, is that Apple's after-sales service seems to suck. Sure there seem to be lots of hardware problems, but that's not really uncommon these days. However I would have expected reports of better service given Apple's reputation for "quality products" and the cult-worship it seems to get from it's fans. It's like it's giving a big "fuck you" to its users while at the same time expecting them to whoop and holler everytime Steve Jobs farts out something new.
1992? What a joke! The folks at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, with help from some local techies, produced "the world's first electronic newspaper" in 1982!
They can't have done. Al Gore hadn't invented the Internet by that stage.
It's not identical to the G81-3000, if you look at the pictures closely you can see the enter key is larger on the Cherry-branded keyboard - the backslash is presumably to the left of the enter key on the Cherry rather than above it on the D.K.
And all I want for Christmas is a decent wireless keyboard that a) works reliably and b) doesn't have the f-lock abomination that Microsoft and Logitech appear to have decided everyone needs.
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How are the recumbent cycles going? :)
Jay Miner actually bought a copy of my Directory Opus software from me once - stupidly I cashed the check. It would probably be worth more now than the $25 I got at the time :)
I'm ploughing through it in my spare time (up to 75% so far) and am enjoying it. Its style is quite casual - it's a bit of a rambling tale, all over the place. It also could have done with a bit of copy-editing (grammar, spelling, etc) but other than that, a fascinating insight on the birth of the home computer industry.
How does this make Microsoft any different from the writers of those blackmail viruses that encrypt your data and won't let you access it until you pay them?
You've gotta love Wikipedia. I had no idea what Kobayashi Maru was, but a quick search later and I can read a 5000 word treatise on the subject.
I think you'll find most of the western world (and a good percentage of the rest) uses the same sort of toilet as you do. And given that the flush toilet was invented in London, calling it an "American" commode seems a trifle parochial.
It is the INTERnet, you know...
... as a non-Mac user, is that Apple's after-sales service seems to suck. Sure there seem to be lots of hardware problems, but that's not really uncommon these days. However I would have expected reports of better service given Apple's reputation for "quality products" and the cult-worship it seems to get from it's fans. It's like it's giving a big "fuck you" to its users while at the same time expecting them to whoop and holler everytime Steve Jobs farts out something new.
1992? What a joke! The folks at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, with help from some local techies, produced "the world's first electronic newspaper" in 1982!
They can't have done. Al Gore hadn't invented the Internet by that stage.
I'm waiting for the 400 page Tom's Hardware review!
It's not identical to the G81-3000, if you look at the pictures closely you can see the enter key is larger on the Cherry-branded keyboard - the backslash is presumably to the left of the enter key on the Cherry rather than above it on the D.K.
If you're in the US then of course - EVERYONE there seems to be at risk of being sued by the RIAA.
According this ars story - http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2005/8/1 0/922 - it was filed about 5 months before Apple tried to file their own, back in 2002.
Is it really only a half-decade ago? Seems much more like a twentieth-of-a-century to me!
Gibson is an idiot with a talent for self-promotion.
The reason no one stumbled onto the WMF thing until now is because Windows is a f*cking big program and, basically, no one spotted it until now.
And all I want for Christmas is a decent wireless keyboard that a) works reliably and b) doesn't have the f-lock abomination that Microsoft and Logitech appear to have decided everyone needs.
Possibly but at least I'll have a chance of understanding what they're saying.
Now if only they had a way to get to a human that wasn't in a call centre in India...
For some reason I was expecting a poll involving Cowboyneal to be associated with this story.
I've been trying to download it for an hour now with no success.
I think we've finally Slashdotted Microsoft!
At 25 cents per text message that will add up pretty quickly!
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Now how about they make a keyboard with the original f-key groupings (3 x 4 instead of 4 x 3) and more importantly NO EFFIN F-LOCK???????
I guess that's why I'm getting 2.48kb/sec at the moment...
Hey buddy, when did you last kafkaesque anyway??