Yes, he turned to the Dark Side. I have nothing but revulsion for the disgusting douche that Myhrvold has become.
There is a lot of misinformation below. Myhrvold was, in fact, a huge part of the development of the Win32 API, essentially the architect. Win32 is and was Windows. I understand he also pushed to have that little code snippet at the bottom of all the official API documentation that was shipped with many MS products and more. That documentation ended up in all kids of things including the Borland C++ compiler, competing products, et cetera. Anyone old enough to remember what developing professionally for Windows was like in the early nineties should remember how helpful Win32 and that documentation was.
Apparently working for and observing uber-douches like Gates and Ballmer convinced Myhrvold to become a true Piece of Shit(r)(c) bad human being and go the route of a revolting Patent Troll, one of the worst. I used to practically worship the guy, his work, and his story. That old saying of "never meet your heroes" is oh so true. I wish nothing but the worst for what he is now, a complete failure, in every sense of the word. He is such a fool now, he is doing low-life crap like this article recounts. Pathetic.
Trek used to be a show where Janeway and Paris turned into newts and made babies.
Janeway was a complete disaster. Only Scott Bakula and his fucking dog were worse. The only way to save Janeway and the idiot producers who chose her was to have a Dues Ex Machina of the Week to save her, and the writers, from their terrible decisions.
Spinning off the episodes in Enterprise where they went through the Tholian Web into an alternate universe were the Federation was evil and the Klingons good guys would have been an interesting series. Star Trek:Renegades had potential as well.
Yeah, I had a love-hate relationship with Enterprise. Mostly with that dumb-ass Captain Scott Bakula, and that fucking dog, gawd. (Thanks for killing the franchise Scott! Kidding, sort of.) So much lost potential with Enterprise. With a different and better actor in the role of captain, it could have been much better. They finally got T'Pol right in look and behavior and then turned her into a freaking Emo. Sigh. On and on....
The Delphic Expanse was a goldmine of potential stories and they squandered it. Did I mention Bakula and his fucking dog were dumb-assess? Anyway...
Like others, it was the first game that made me really jump out of my chair. And my girlfriend (future wife) just happened to be lying in bed sort of watching me.
The room I was playing in was dark and I had cleared one of those dark Romero levels with that evil music. I went back into the level for some reason, into a narrow corridor. I didn't hear any monsters, it was quiet. Suddenly, one of those pink shaved gorrillas came roaring out of nowhere, I literally jumped out of the chair with a bang-crash deal. My gf didn't let me live that down for a while. Ah, good times.
My lord... with respect, how in the world did you end up with 2MB of RAM on a 486?
My 386DX/25 purchased in April 1991 from Gateway 2000 had 4MB of RAM. My 486DX/2 66 purchased in 1993 had 16MB of RAM.In 1994, 2MB was... I wouldn't think that would be very useful. Would that even run Windows 3.1? Ok, 2 MB was the "min system requirements", but that is like saying Windows 10 runs fine in 1GB of RAM (which it doesn't).Ouch, the pain, ouch!
In response to your snark, who purchased it, yer' Dad? You clearly never knew fast RAM was incredibly expense at times. Anyone remember when RAM was $400 a MegaByte. That's right, I said $400 PER MegaByte. And that's 400 nineteen nineties dollars, sonny.
Companies had no end of trouble with people coming in to work and computers being dead; when they opened the cases, yep, all the RAM would be gone. Ah, good times.
One had to be a real programmer to get performance and entertainment out of systems with little RAM back then.
Oh, and I made Doom levels that went out to the internet back then... I wonder where they are today. [sigh]:-)
Well Doom and Quake were the (3D) killer apps that drove thousands (millions?) of gamers to upgrade their hardware. 386 to 486 in the case of Doom, and 486 to Pentium along with the 3Dfx graphcis card in the case of Quake.
While Wolf3d and Duke3D are an important part of gaming history, no other shooters even come close to the same impact as Doom + Quake which defines the FPS genre for decades. (Although Counter-Strike deserves a honorable mention.)
I think Unreal and Unreal Tournament(UT) fans would disagree with part of that statement. UT brought actual color to shooters that were different from the brown and green pea soup (color palette) that Quake only seemed capable of. Also the models (monsters, et cetera) of Quake were pretty bad compared to the fast moving dodging monsters of Unreal and UT. UT had a different 'style' that was great.
Before going nuts, I acknowledge fun was had by all, and having some really great choices, for all, was terrific. Choices that seem lacking today.
If you, for one minute, think the main stream media are controlled by conservatives, you are living in a self-induced Dream-World. All the "Big Lie" reverse psychology will not change reality. Ditto on the total BS about voter fraud. Just make shit up and see what sticks eh?
Regardless of what some dickhead wrote on Wikipedia, that's not what happened. Existing tax exempt liberal groups were investigated for violations of law, and either cleared or charged at the end of the investigation. Newly-formed conservative groups were subjected to "investigation" which were designed to be onerous and unending, thus preventing them from getting tax exemption in the first place. The conservative groups were "suspected of" being prone to violate laws WHICH HAD ALREADY BEEN STRUCK DOWN AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL and thus were no longer in force.
Lumping the two together is a red herring used by the IRS and its liberal defenders to cover up the fact that the Obama Administration used the machinery of government to harass their political opponents.
+100 Man, I wish I had points left. Because... An Inconvenient Truth. Yep.
Hey... if it's good enough for the police it should be good enough for Facebook, right?
It's funny (but not haha funny), you should say that. I do think King Zuckerburg has become so full of himself, he does think he now has powers equal to or greater than a state or government. And as Hillary has proven, liberal politicians believe they are above the law. Zuckerberg is no different.
In Liberal Farmland; all pigs are equal. But some pigs are more equal than others.
You do realize every single muslim is on the right politically. The Right is where politics and religion mix. You can't have a liberal(left) religious government. Every religious based government is based on conservative viewpoints.
And that is the absolute mind-numbing paradox of self-loathing leftist liberals. When they get their wish for Muslims to take control and let Sharia Law become the law of the land they, the leftist, will be the first to be slaughtered and extinguished.
Most especially the self-loathing liberal Jews and LGBT types. They will be wiped out because they have no means to defend themselves. It is sick irony unto itself.
Incredulous? Refer to the short little (ex?)leader of Iran who said in front of the UN that there are no gays in Iran. That's because they hung (killed) them all.
So, we enter an age where behavior of tech-tards and stone-cold crazy people will be pretty much indistinguishable from each other. People haphazardly walking along talking to themselves and spastically tapping their arms and hands like they are trying to "get the bugs off man! get the goddam bugs off! gaah!" is here. Cool.
Wouldn't you just know this guy runs some shitty internet marketing company.http://www.invoca.com/ Had to be that, right.
So if anyone is using this guys shitty internet marketing firm, please stop, cancel his service and let him feel what it is like to be poor with very few options available to one who is poor. I grew up extremely poor. One simply does not know what it is like through empathy or sympathy. Racist Limousine Liberals disgust me.
Since this guy also advocates theft (destruction of peoples property) from poor people, I see little reason for any compassion whatsoever. If he wasn't the "lowest form of life on the internet," that is, a marketing skank, I'm sure he'd happily be selling poisoned baby formula in Africa.
He absolutely deserves everything that is going to be coming his way. I hope the right people make it happen.
First, you won't be giving your credit card info to gawd knows who. It can be literally anyone from a group of criminals in Russia to psycho teens in Brazil to douche companies described in the article. If a 'company' does not have the wherewithal and ability to get setup to take Paypal, do you really want to give them your credit card anyway? If they don't take Paypal, I consider the company incompetent or scam artists.
If you still somehow get on some recurring plan through Paypal, that is registered with Paypal as an actively recurring charge, you can go to Paypal and simply change the status of that account to inactive. Done. Paypal will no longer payout to them.
I've done this myself with so-called companies that refuse to stop billing me. I check the list at least once a month. it has saved my tones of time and money. Note, I am not affiliated with Paypal in any way and rarely recommend any business. But with online shopping, Paypal has truly worked for me.
He joined Dropbox quite late on, they had a fully developed syncing platform for years before he joined.
He might have advanced that platform on, but its difficult to claim that he "built quite a lot of Dropbox". From what I gather, his main work is around optimising their python runtimes, compilers and interpreters.
And Gmail which only runs on... Google. And only if you have an Internet connection.
Email requires an Internet connection? O tempora o mores!
Yeah, imagine that, a whole world outside of ones basement or bedroom. If it can't be seen out of that tiny little window you look out of, then it must not actually exist.
There's this thing called an intranet. Ooo, but since you don't use one it doesn't exist right? There are air-gapped networks all over the world, clearly not your world, so they don't exist either, right? Not everyone has Daddy paying for their always on 1GB connection in the real-world, but again it's not a world you are familiar with, so it must certainly not exist, right?
There are many, Many, MANY things that exist outside of a basement window. Right.
Yeah, "palemoon" sounds great. I really want to trust people who name their browser "palemoon". Maybe they could take on thunderbird and rename it "palemail". That would be brilliant. It just sounds so good.
Either that or the geniuses that rebranded "ice weasel" could take it and rebrand it "weasel words". So many good options from brilliant FOSS product namers.
So you are judging an entire software program entirely on what its name is? Its name. Entirely? I suspect you live next to The Shallow River. "The internet... ain't it something."
Yes. I use Thunderbird at home and have used it for many years. It works, i.e., it allows me to send and receive e-mail, and doesn't seem to be terribly buggy. What more do you need?
There's very little maintenance or development that needs to be done. Which is probably why Mozilla is in a hurry to get rid of it. They can't figure out a way to fuck it up like they did Firefox.
What you say is true. I'm a professional software engineer. If one of those two organizations take control of Thunderbird (TB), I think I'll get involved somehow to help keep TB alive. One thing I'd help with is migrate JavaScript out of the app. Fun.
Yes, correcting people who are wrong is just disgusting. We should of course be encouraging insane beliefs instead of correcting special snowflakes who can't accept that they're just wrong.
The article is written by USUncut- a magazine founded by the original founders of Occupy Wall Street.
They have posted a whole series of negative articles with questionable and unproven evidence against clinton and is largely responsible for her negative outlook since the primaries began.
I think Hillary Clinton is responsible for Hillary Clinton having a negative outlook since the primaries began.
No amount of fantasy is going to cover up what she fundamentally is.
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Isn't that this patent troll?
Yes, he turned to the Dark Side. I have nothing but revulsion for the disgusting douche that Myhrvold has become.
There is a lot of misinformation below. Myhrvold was, in fact, a huge part of the development of the Win32 API, essentially the architect. Win32 is and was Windows. I understand he also pushed to have that little code snippet at the bottom of all the official API documentation that was shipped with many MS products and more. That documentation ended up in all kids of things including the Borland C++ compiler, competing products, et cetera. Anyone old enough to remember what developing professionally for Windows was like in the early nineties should remember how helpful Win32 and that documentation was.
Apparently working for and observing uber-douches like Gates and Ballmer convinced Myhrvold to become a true Piece of Shit(r)(c) bad human being and go the route of a revolting Patent Troll, one of the worst. I used to practically worship the guy, his work, and his story. That old saying of "never meet your heroes" is oh so true. I wish nothing but the worst for what he is now, a complete failure, in every sense of the word. He is such a fool now, he is doing low-life crap like this article recounts. Pathetic.
You want to step outside and say that to my face coward
Let's watch. The hatch to the void of outer space is that way. Push the button.
Trek used to be a show where Janeway and Paris turned into newts and made babies.
Janeway was a complete disaster. Only Scott Bakula and his fucking dog were worse. The only way to save Janeway and the idiot producers who chose her was to have a Dues Ex Machina of the Week to save her, and the writers, from their terrible decisions.
Spinning off the episodes in Enterprise where they went through the Tholian Web into an alternate universe were the Federation was evil and the Klingons good guys would have been an interesting series. Star Trek:Renegades had potential as well.
Yeah, I had a love-hate relationship with Enterprise. Mostly with that dumb-ass Captain Scott Bakula, and that fucking dog, gawd. (Thanks for killing the franchise Scott! Kidding, sort of.) So much lost potential with Enterprise. With a different and better actor in the role of captain, it could have been much better. They finally got T'Pol right in look and behavior and then turned her into a freaking Emo. Sigh. On and on....
The Delphic Expanse was a goldmine of potential stories and they squandered it. Did I mention Bakula and his fucking dog were dumb-assess? Anyway...
captcha: nipple. Those, my friend, are real.
Not for most of slashdot, my friend, no they are not. They are as foreign and fake as a cosplay girl who is actually pretty. (And an actual girl.)
Should download the dump and send them all a job posting email blast.
I suspect various law enforcement agencies are doing that right now.
"Big Money, apply now. Meet Mr. X in the Basement for an opportunity to have your Dream Job."
How does it feel now, motherfuckers? Irony and a weird justice rolled into one.
Like others, it was the first game that made me really jump out of my chair. And my girlfriend (future wife) just happened to be lying in bed sort of watching me.
The room I was playing in was dark and I had cleared one of those dark Romero levels with that evil music. I went back into the level for some reason, into a narrow corridor. I didn't hear any monsters, it was quiet. Suddenly, one of those pink shaved gorrillas came roaring out of nowhere, I literally jumped out of the chair with a bang-crash deal. My gf didn't let me live that down for a while. Ah, good times.
We initially had 2MB of RAM in that 486 DX/33MHz.
My lord... with respect, how in the world did you end up with 2MB of RAM on a 486?
My 386DX/25 purchased in April 1991 from Gateway 2000 had 4MB of RAM. My 486DX/2 66 purchased in 1993 had 16MB of RAM.In 1994, 2MB was... I wouldn't think that would be very useful. Would that even run Windows 3.1? Ok, 2 MB was the "min system requirements", but that is like saying Windows 10 runs fine in 1GB of RAM (which it doesn't).Ouch, the pain, ouch!
In response to your snark, who purchased it, yer' Dad? You clearly never knew fast RAM was incredibly expense at times. Anyone remember when RAM was $400 a MegaByte. That's right, I said $400 PER MegaByte. And that's 400 nineteen nineties dollars, sonny.
Companies had no end of trouble with people coming in to work and computers being dead; when they opened the cases, yep, all the RAM would be gone. Ah, good times.
One had to be a real programmer to get performance and entertainment out of systems with little RAM back then.
Oh, and I made Doom levels that went out to the internet back then... I wonder where they are today. [sigh] :-)
Well Doom and Quake were the (3D) killer apps that drove thousands (millions?) of gamers to upgrade their hardware. 386 to 486 in the case of Doom, and 486 to Pentium along with the 3Dfx graphcis card in the case of Quake.
While Wolf3d and Duke3D are an important part of gaming history, no other shooters even come close to the same impact as Doom + Quake which defines the FPS genre for decades. (Although Counter-Strike deserves a honorable mention.)
I think Unreal and Unreal Tournament(UT) fans would disagree with part of that statement. UT brought actual color to shooters that were different from the brown and green pea soup (color palette) that Quake only seemed capable of. Also the models (monsters, et cetera) of Quake were pretty bad compared to the fast moving dodging monsters of Unreal and UT. UT had a different 'style' that was great.
Before going nuts, I acknowledge fun was had by all, and having some really great choices, for all, was terrific. Choices that seem lacking today.
If you, for one minute, think the main stream media are controlled by conservatives, you are living in a self-induced Dream-World. All the "Big Lie" reverse psychology will not change reality. Ditto on the total BS about voter fraud. Just make shit up and see what sticks eh?
Regardless of what some dickhead wrote on Wikipedia, that's not what happened. Existing tax exempt liberal groups were investigated for violations of law, and either cleared or charged at the end of the investigation. Newly-formed conservative groups were subjected to "investigation" which were designed to be onerous and unending, thus preventing them from getting tax exemption in the first place. The conservative groups were "suspected of" being prone to violate laws WHICH HAD ALREADY BEEN STRUCK DOWN AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL and thus were no longer in force.
Lumping the two together is a red herring used by the IRS and its liberal defenders to cover up the fact that the Obama Administration used the machinery of government to harass their political opponents.
+100 Man, I wish I had points left. Because... An Inconvenient Truth. Yep.
Hey... if it's good enough for the police it should be good enough for Facebook, right?
It's funny (but not haha funny), you should say that. I do think King Zuckerburg has become so full of himself, he does think he now has powers equal to or greater than a state or government. And as Hillary has proven, liberal politicians believe they are above the law. Zuckerberg is no different.
In Liberal Farmland; all pigs are equal. But some pigs are more equal than others.
You do realize every single muslim is on the right politically. The Right is where politics and religion mix. You can't have a liberal(left) religious government. Every religious based government is based on conservative viewpoints.
And that is the absolute mind-numbing paradox of self-loathing leftist liberals. When they get their wish for Muslims to take control and let Sharia Law become the law of the land they, the leftist, will be the first to be slaughtered and extinguished.
Most especially the self-loathing liberal Jews and LGBT types. They will be wiped out because they have no means to defend themselves. It is sick irony unto itself.
Incredulous? Refer to the short little (ex?)leader of Iran who said in front of the UN that there are no gays in Iran. That's because they hung (killed) them all.
If a Muslim kills a Christian in the middle-east the liberal press certainly does not care either. They refuse to cover it or even acknowledge it.
I'll leave this here. Short and explains a lot. http://www.mrctv.org/embed/127...
So, we enter an age where behavior of tech-tards and stone-cold crazy people will be pretty much indistinguishable from each other. People haphazardly walking along talking to themselves and spastically tapping their arms and hands like they are trying to "get the bugs off man! get the goddam bugs off! gaah!" is here. Cool.
San Francisco is going to be a hoot.
Wouldn't you just know this guy runs some shitty internet marketing company. http://www.invoca.com/ Had to be that, right.
So if anyone is using this guys shitty internet marketing firm, please stop, cancel his service and let him feel what it is like to be poor with very few options available to one who is poor. I grew up extremely poor. One simply does not know what it is like through empathy or sympathy. Racist Limousine Liberals disgust me.
Since this guy also advocates theft (destruction of peoples property) from poor people, I see little reason for any compassion whatsoever. If he wasn't the "lowest form of life on the internet," that is, a marketing skank, I'm sure he'd happily be selling poisoned baby formula in Africa.
He absolutely deserves everything that is going to be coming his way. I hope the right people make it happen.
Here is THE ANSWER. Use Paypal.
First, you won't be giving your credit card info to gawd knows who. It can be literally anyone from a group of criminals in Russia to psycho teens in Brazil to douche companies described in the article. If a 'company' does not have the wherewithal and ability to get setup to take Paypal, do you really want to give them your credit card anyway? If they don't take Paypal, I consider the company incompetent or scam artists.
If you still somehow get on some recurring plan through Paypal, that is registered with Paypal as an actively recurring charge, you can go to Paypal and simply change the status of that account to inactive. Done. Paypal will no longer payout to them.
I've done this myself with so-called companies that refuse to stop billing me. I check the list at least once a month. it has saved my tones of time and money. Note, I am not affiliated with Paypal in any way and rarely recommend any business. But with online shopping, Paypal has truly worked for me.
He joined Dropbox quite late on, they had a fully developed syncing platform for years before he joined.
He might have advanced that platform on, but its difficult to claim that he "built quite a lot of Dropbox". From what I gather, his main work is around optimising their python runtimes, compilers and interpreters.
So he's re-writing those in c++ then?
And Gmail which only runs on... Google. And only if you have an Internet connection.
Email requires an Internet connection? O tempora o mores!
Yeah, imagine that, a whole world outside of ones basement or bedroom. If it can't be seen out of that tiny little window you look out of, then it must not actually exist.
There's this thing called an intranet. Ooo, but since you don't use one it doesn't exist right? There are air-gapped networks all over the world, clearly not your world, so they don't exist either, right? Not everyone has Daddy paying for their always on 1GB connection in the real-world, but again it's not a world you are familiar with, so it must certainly not exist, right?
There are many, Many, MANY things that exist outside of a basement window. Right.
Yeah, "palemoon" sounds great. I really want to trust people who name their browser "palemoon". Maybe they could take on thunderbird and rename it "palemail". That would be brilliant. It just sounds so good.
Either that or the geniuses that rebranded "ice weasel" could take it and rebrand it "weasel words". So many good options from brilliant FOSS product namers.
So you are judging an entire software program entirely on what its name is? Its name. Entirely? I suspect you live next to The Shallow River. "The internet... ain't it something."
Yes. I use Thunderbird at home and have used it for many years. It works, i.e., it allows me to send and receive e-mail, and doesn't seem to be terribly buggy. What more do you need?
There's very little maintenance or development that needs to be done. Which is probably why Mozilla is in a hurry to get rid of it. They can't figure out a way to fuck it up like they did Firefox.
What you say is true. I'm a professional software engineer. If one of those two organizations take control of Thunderbird (TB), I think I'll get involved somehow to help keep TB alive. One thing I'd help with is migrate JavaScript out of the app. Fun.
Yes, correcting people who are wrong is just disgusting. We should of course be encouraging insane beliefs instead of correcting special snowflakes who can't accept that they're just wrong.
Said the paid troll.
Or are you this guy? Duty Calls
The article is written by USUncut- a magazine founded by the original founders of Occupy Wall Street.
They have posted a whole series of negative articles with questionable and unproven evidence against clinton and is largely responsible for her negative outlook since the primaries began.
I think Hillary Clinton is responsible for Hillary Clinton having a negative outlook since the primaries began.
No amount of fantasy is going to cover up what she fundamentally is.