Try installing and running Linux 1.x on a modern day dual core machine, then try installing the newest version of OS/2 (actually rebranded as eComStation)...
So what? I'm not talking about new installs, I'm talking about all the ancient Red Hat boxes that are still plugging away out there. It's going to be a long time before new eComStation installs close that gap.
MicroCenter is one of my two favorite local brick and mortar places. The service is very good and deals can be had. It's not the noisy, chaotic sleezefest that is Fry's.
My one grievance with MicroCenter is that their advertised "specials" are usually shameless bait-and-switches. Other than that, though, I agree.
I'd say that the Objective-J name is confusing given the existence of a J language, but I guess Microsoft has already muddied those waters with J++ and J#...
Savage's original claim ("Texas Instruments comes on along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else...") is preposterous on its face. You might get those guys to show up for the finalization of a merger, but not for a meeting between some TI engineers and a TV producer.
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Jerry Seinfeld has been recruited to make Vista seem cool. His show moved nearly every product the show mentioned in dialogue off the shelves, so it might just work.
The product references on Seinfeld were effective because they came across as a sincere part of Jerry Seinfeld's persona. (Maybe I'm just a sucker and Junior Mints and Jujubes simply bought their way onto the show, but given the lack of any other advertising on their part over the last few decades it seems unlikely.) The Vista ads are completely different.
Four or five years ago there was all this buzz about the Chinese Dragon CPU (based on the old Soviet Elbrus) that was going to combine with Red Flag Linux to destroy Wintel. Heard from them recently? The CPU fanboys don't understand that it's not about designing chips; it's about designing chips you can then make.
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You might want to rely less on science fiction books when explaining to the rest of us how uninformed and ignorant we are. It reminds me of the guy yesterday who was complaining about the quality of science education, as evidenced by his neighbors not knowing who the Borg are.
I get what you're saying, but in practice I very rarely have input I care about in multiple tabs from crash-prone sites. The "restore previous session" option is plenty for my needs and I rarely even use that. Multiple threading in exchange for a much larger footprint doesn't seem like a win to me.
When is comes to risk, American society tolerates tens of thousands of drunk-driving deaths, gives millions in federal tobacco subsidies, and is oblivious about near-epidemics such as heart disease, obesity, and diabetes.
This whole sentence is moronic, but it's easiest to point to the fact that federal tobacco subsidies ended several years ago. If one has to criticize American society, too little hysteria over risk seems like an odd choice.
From the pictures, it looks like that's a mistake too and it's a cube with two inch sides. I don't recall apples in the UK even being less than two inches in diameter, let alone less than root-two inches. (Is there some convention for making a square root sign in ASCII?)
Only if there is not a compensating benefit that rewards non-parents but is of no use to parents. It really depends a lot on how the benefit package is constructed.
I am quite confident that neither Google nor Ethanol-fueled's employer offered precisely offsetting benefits to non-parents at the time of their benefit changes. What would you imagine such a benefit to be, come to think of it?
1) I was responding to Ethanol-fueled's point, which has nothing to do with what you're saying.
2) "Lied" is a bit excessive, anyway. Benefits change over time, particularly as companies grow from startups to dinosaurs. As you say, I think there's a lot of managerial cluelessness over there, which the torrent of revenue from AdWords has covered for.
As with mass transit, that's a great idea that everyone would support someone else taking advantage of. Are you interested in living in a ziggurat in Bakersfield? (Although at least it's culturally and climatically preferable to Dubai.)
When I went to high school (early 80s), preppies were the kids who were taking college prep classes - hence "preppie"...Yeah, there were some rich kids who had the nice cars and coasted through life, but they were the rich kids and weren't part of the preppie crowd. They were the ones who got in Ivy League schools because they were legacies or what ever.
"Preppie" comes from "prep school", not "college prep classes" and the usage in your high school had nothing to do with the usual meaning of the term. Your community was probably so unfamiliar with real preppies that the word was repurposed for someone completely different.
For people wondering whether this book was going to be breathtaking like Snow Crash or excruciating like the Baroque books -- apparently it's going to be more like Quicksilver-meets-The Silmarillion. I'm thinking this is at best a "Wait to get it from the library" book.
Seriously, this guy been around a while. Your ignorance is not evidence that he's a mere opportunistic attention-grabber.
Feel free to convince me otherwise. The Wikipedia page linked here certainly makes him sound like an opportunistic attention-grabber. As I said, I have all the respect in the world for serious activists on this front, but this guy sounds like a self-promoting jackass who assumes (correctly, probably) that his white skin and US passport are Get Out Of Jail Free cards.
I've never heard of most of these "activists" before the Olympics and I've got a feeling we won't be hearing much from them afterwards. If people have been involved with pro-Tibet, pro-Darfur, pro-democracy, pro-whatever stuff all along, then good for them. But most of these loudmouths getting press recently seem to only be interested in complaining when their neighbors are taking pleasure in something China-related.
It reminds me of all those goofs who are so indignantly outraged every Thanksgiving, but never lift a finger to help American Indians on the other 364 days a year. Or even on Thanksgiving, for that matter.
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So what? I'm not talking about new installs, I'm talking about all the ancient Red Hat boxes that are still plugging away out there. It's going to be a long time before new eComStation installs close that gap.
ATMs, cash registers and other non-computer computers aside, I bet there are far more Linux 1.x systems out there than OS/2...
My one grievance with MicroCenter is that their advertised "specials" are usually shameless bait-and-switches. Other than that, though, I agree.
I'd say that the Objective-J name is confusing given the existence of a J language, but I guess Microsoft has already muddied those waters with J++ and J#...
Counsel, absolutely. Chief counsel? Of all those companies? Unlikely.
Savage's original claim ("Texas Instruments comes on along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else...") is preposterous on its face. You might get those guys to show up for the finalization of a merger, but not for a meeting between some TI engineers and a TV producer.
I bet you're right...
The product references on Seinfeld were effective because they came across as a sincere part of Jerry Seinfeld's persona. (Maybe I'm just a sucker and Junior Mints and Jujubes simply bought their way onto the show, but given the lack of any other advertising on their part over the last few decades it seems unlikely.) The Vista ads are completely different.
Four or five years ago there was all this buzz about the Chinese Dragon CPU (based on the old Soviet Elbrus) that was going to combine with Red Flag Linux to destroy Wintel. Heard from them recently? The CPU fanboys don't understand that it's not about designing chips; it's about designing chips you can then make.
You might want to rely less on science fiction books when explaining to the rest of us how uninformed and ignorant we are. It reminds me of the guy yesterday who was complaining about the quality of science education, as evidenced by his neighbors not knowing who the Borg are.
No, Apache is open source so nothing can go wrong.
I get what you're saying, but in practice I very rarely have input I care about in multiple tabs from crash-prone sites. The "restore previous session" option is plenty for my needs and I rarely even use that. Multiple threading in exchange for a much larger footprint doesn't seem like a win to me.
Or: buy a Mac, and it works out of the box.
This whole sentence is moronic, but it's easiest to point to the fact that federal tobacco subsidies ended several years ago. If one has to criticize American society, too little hysteria over risk seems like an odd choice.
From the pictures, it looks like that's a mistake too and it's a cube with two inch sides. I don't recall apples in the UK even being less than two inches in diameter, let alone less than root-two inches. (Is there some convention for making a square root sign in ASCII?)
It's that mojo they lost yesterday... can't implement Bluetooth without it!
I am quite confident that neither Google nor Ethanol-fueled's employer offered precisely offsetting benefits to non-parents at the time of their benefit changes. What would you imagine such a benefit to be, come to think of it?
1) I was responding to Ethanol-fueled's point, which has nothing to do with what you're saying.
2) "Lied" is a bit excessive, anyway. Benefits change over time, particularly as companies grow from startups to dinosaurs. As you say, I think there's a lot of managerial cluelessness over there, which the torrent of revenue from AdWords has covered for.
Subsidized child care and similar benefits reward parents at the expense of other employees. It's hardly "age discrimination" to do less of it.
As with mass transit, that's a great idea that everyone would support someone else taking advantage of. Are you interested in living in a ziggurat in Bakersfield? (Although at least it's culturally and climatically preferable to Dubai.)
"Preppie" comes from "prep school", not "college prep classes" and the usage in your high school had nothing to do with the usual meaning of the term. Your community was probably so unfamiliar with real preppies that the word was repurposed for someone completely different.
This "review" seems like another outlet for the "Let's make fun of the mentally ill!" comedy of the "reader mail" posts...
For people wondering whether this book was going to be breathtaking like Snow Crash or excruciating like the Baroque books -- apparently it's going to be more like Quicksilver-meets-The Silmarillion. I'm thinking this is at best a "Wait to get it from the library" book.
Feel free to convince me otherwise. The Wikipedia page linked here certainly makes him sound like an opportunistic attention-grabber. As I said, I have all the respect in the world for serious activists on this front, but this guy sounds like a self-promoting jackass who assumes (correctly, probably) that his white skin and US passport are Get Out Of Jail Free cards.
I've never heard of most of these "activists" before the Olympics and I've got a feeling we won't be hearing much from them afterwards. If people have been involved with pro-Tibet, pro-Darfur, pro-democracy, pro-whatever stuff all along, then good for them. But most of these loudmouths getting press recently seem to only be interested in complaining when their neighbors are taking pleasure in something China-related.
It reminds me of all those goofs who are so indignantly outraged every Thanksgiving, but never lift a finger to help American Indians on the other 364 days a year. Or even on Thanksgiving, for that matter.