I wonder if Ken Brown actually stopped to consider what the original purpose of Minix was?
It was to *TEACH*SOMEONE*HOW*AN*OPERATING*SYSTEM*WORKS*!!! How can you accuse someone of using a teaching tool to understand the principles, and then using those principles in their own work, of 'stealing ideas'?
You might as well accuse everyone who ever went to school or university of stealing the ideas from their teachers or professors.
I think I will write a paper exposing Henry Ford for the low-down, thieving bastard he was for claiming to have invented the Ford Model T when he clearly got the idea of having a chassis, body, engine and 4 wheels from someone else.
I 3rd it - I have a son with 'mild' Asperger's. Nowhere near as bad as the protagonist of the book, but certainly I could recognize aspect of him in the character. It made my head hurt to view things from his perspective.
'We need a Desktop Czar in the same vein as Linus is to the Kernel. Someone to assemble the application side of OS. One shell. One scripting language (preferably the same interpreter AS the shell). One compile and build system. One package management system. One file layout. One printing system. Some one needs to stick their neck out and say "This is how it is will be done."'
Great! So when do you start? Got a release date yet?
'And if we don't do it, Bill, IBM, or Novell WILL.'
Like you, I cant recal the actual episode name, but I believe the plot line goes something like this:-
Enterprise thrown back in time (can't recall why) - ends up in earth's atmosphere in mid-late 1960's (surprise surprise). Cant go warp in atmosphere, so start heading off at impulse. Sets off alarms at NORAD who dispatch fighters to intercept. One of the fighter pilots gets a look at Enterpriseget, so Enterprise locks on with tractor beam (I think) but fighter starts to break up, so pilot is transported to Enterprise. They consider keeping him there, until they realise pilot's descendant will be significant in space exploration, so they have to send him back. Come up with plan to slingshot around the sun, go back in time just a little bit, transport pilot back into plane, and then slingshot back to the future.
Can you imagine viewing *any* web page if.gif files were not displayed in the browser? Take a count of the number of.gif in a standard page on/. and see if you want all those displaying in a separate app, rather than in the webpage.
I think you will find that governments will generally tax those things society cannot get along without - if they tax undesirable behaviours, to the extent the undesirable behaviour stops happening, then their income stream dries up. Hence they tax the things they know we will not, or cannot, give up ie fuel, alchohol, tobacco, financial transactions, income, sales transactions etc so they will have a continuing revenue source.
"All this was inspired by the principle -- which is quite true in itself -- that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper stata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily, and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes." A. Hitler - Mein Kampf
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Women are like trams. There is no point chasing them, because another one will be along in 10 minutes
'..Linux must have been stolen from Minix..'
I wonder if Ken Brown actually stopped to consider what the original purpose of Minix was?
It was to *TEACH*SOMEONE*HOW*AN*OPERATING*SYSTEM*WORKS*!!!
How can you accuse someone of using a teaching tool to understand the principles, and then using those principles in their own work, of 'stealing ideas'?
You might as well accuse everyone who ever went to school or university of stealing the ideas from their teachers or professors.
I think I will write a paper exposing Henry Ford for the low-down, thieving bastard he was for claiming to have invented the Ford Model T when he clearly got the idea of having a chassis, body, engine and 4 wheels from someone else.
SCO showed that to get a job with a tech company, you need be one......
It's like a pile up on the freeway. Even if you are on the other side, going the other way, you just gotta slow down and take a look.
" An X server is still nice for remote display situations, but honestly: Who does that anymore (and could they not be accomodated with VNC)?
Me, and no.
No for several reasons:
* VNC is slow, primarily because it copies bitmaps. X is much faster, because it copies graphics primitives."
Try starting a remote mozilla session over 56KB dialup vs the same thing in a VNC session
Xtend?
"Is the only reason why we persist with painted metal body panels because they're pretty? Structurally, they really don't add much to the car."
I suspect it is because they are cheap and easy to make - just stick a sheet of metal in a press and BAM! - new fender.
The process for making composite panels is somewhat more complex and time-consuming.
How do you make an elephant fly?
start with a zipper about 4 feet long....
I am a happy 2.0 user via freesco
BBC link explains nothing
This explains all.
There is a difference between KBE and CBE - the K confers knighthood
I 3rd it - I have a son with 'mild' Asperger's. Nowhere near as bad as the protagonist of the book, but certainly I could recognize aspect of him in the character. It made my head hurt to view things from his perspective.
Hey, you no fool me. Everyone knows there aint no sanity clause
Q. What's brown and sits behind a piano?
A. Beethoven's last movement
Q. What's brown and steaming and comes backwards out of cows?
A. The Isle of Wight ferry (Cowes)
'We need a Desktop Czar in the same vein as Linus is to the Kernel. Someone to assemble the application side of OS. One shell. One scripting language (preferably the same interpreter AS the shell). One compile and build system. One package management system. One file layout. One printing system. Some one needs to stick their neck out and say "This is how it is will be done."'
Great! So when do you start? Got a release date yet?
'And if we don't do it, Bill, IBM, or Novell WILL.'
What do you mean 'we', white-man?
Like you, I cant recal the actual episode name, but I believe the plot line goes something like this:-
Enterprise thrown back in time (can't recall why) - ends up in earth's atmosphere in mid-late 1960's (surprise surprise). Cant go warp in atmosphere, so start heading off at impulse. Sets off alarms at NORAD who dispatch fighters to intercept. One of the fighter pilots gets a look at Enterpriseget, so Enterprise locks on with tractor beam (I think) but fighter starts to break up, so pilot is transported to Enterprise. They consider keeping him there, until they realise pilot's descendant will be significant in space exploration, so they have to send him back. Come up with plan to slingshot around the sun, go back in time just a little bit, transport pilot back into plane, and then slingshot back to the future.
Can you imagine viewing *any* web page if .gif files were not displayed in the browser? Take a count of the number of .gif in a standard page on /. and see if you want all those displaying in a separate app, rather than in the webpage.
Latest Bentley Continental GT tested around the 200 miles per tank range
Of course, it only takes a few minutes to refill the tank, versus the time to recharge the batteries.
I think you will find it is 'Hey, Kettle. You're black!'
I think you will find that governments will generally tax those things society cannot get along without - if they tax undesirable behaviours, to the extent the undesirable behaviour stops happening, then their income stream dries up. Hence they tax the things they know we will not, or cannot, give up ie fuel, alchohol, tobacco, financial transactions, income, sales transactions etc so they will have a continuing revenue source.
From instructions for a pager (paraphased)
"Do not swallow batteries. In case of battery ingestion, call the National Battery Ingestion Hotline on 1-800-xxxxxxx"
Not only are people stupid enough to swallow batteries, there are enough occurences to warrant a permanent hotline.
Apparently bergamot has anti-depressant qualities.
Actually - its a scary experience just crossing the South Australian border.
Dont forget to wind your watch back 10 years
Which book? Read to the end.
"All this was inspired by the principle -- which is quite true in itself -- that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper stata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily, and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes." A. Hitler - Mein Kampf
" the operating system that 95% of the computing public chooses to use,"
and in the last presidential election in Iraq, almost 100% of the vote was for Saddam Hussein.
Henry Ford supplied the Model T in any colour the customer wanted, as long as it was black.
When you have a monopoly (and an illegally maintained monopoly in Microsoft's case), choice does not really enter into it.
Presumed consent is already used in several European countries, including France, Spain and Belgium.
In opt-out schemes already running, only 2% of people decide they do not want to donate their organs.
Courtesy of the BBC