This isn't just taking control away from the US government, it's putting that control more firmly into the hands of a private organization. "International" doesn't automatically mean "better" (witness the WTO and IMF). All it means is that US citizens will be just as easily ignored as EU, AU, OAS, ASEAN, and ETC citizens are today.
"It's not foolish to pay for something you like and enjoy."
True. But to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on something you enjoy, and not really realize that you're doing that until later, takes a first-class moron.
It sounds to me like someone has outgrown his infatuation with something that was once new and shiny to him, but has since gotten old and dull. It happens. Depending on how far along you are in life, it's called "growing" up or "getting old". Maybe it's time to change careers or go back to school or something.
Lenovo has done some remarkably bad engineering in some of their laptops. The place I work has a small fleet of TabletPC ThinkPads that have chronic problems with styluses that can't be removed from their storage nook, latches that fall apart, and hinges that die of metal fatigue. The design of these bits are "clever", but the materials just don't hold up and when they fail they do so utterly. After four years in the possession of a teenager, you won't be able to sell these things on eBay.
Balance would probably be an issue though, since the cerebellum is thought to play a pretty significant role in that. Given, it's unassisted walking, but I'm not convinced many paraplegics would stand for wearing large gyroscopes.
I would think that many paraplegics would welcome the ability to move under the power of their own legs with the aid of something to substitute for balance (such as a harness to support their weight in a standing position). While it would undoubtedly be awkward and stare-inducing, the psychological difference between being "in a chair" (and literally looked down upon), and being able to stagger up to people and look them in the eye at their own level, could be worth it.
Um... if the entire line of presidential succession, plus Congress except Ron Paul is going to be killed in a freak Shuttle accident... I want to be the one to go in his place. I love him for his counterbalancing influence on the government we have; I would not want to live in a country where he was the government.
Those would-be astronauts who were not chosen are welcome to join the crews of Apollo 18, 19, and 20 in the lounge, where they will receive some lovely parting gifts.
The optimizations in OS X have been a refreshing counterexample, but Snow Leopard on a new iMac is still less "snappy" than OS 9 on a PowerMac G3, which was sluggish compared to System 6 on a Mac SE/30.
Separate presentations based on gender (and sexual orientation)?! This isn't 5th grade sex ed. Not only is it insulting for a bunch of adults to be treated that way, it's probably grounds for a gender discrimination and/or sexual harassment suit. In the workplace "separate but equal" is only permitted with toilets.
If you want to point out other security issues, work them into the main topic. "The messages you post on MyFace aren't private... just like your e-mail isn't really private." "Stupid crap that you see advertised on Spacebook can contain viruses... just like random web sites can." "A site that tricks you into thinking it's Twitster can steal your login info... just like a fake ATM can." Etc. That way it's reinforcing the underlying principles, and not looking like an afterthought.
You couldn't be more wrong. PC-DOS and DR-DOS were still being licensed for niche applications just a few years ago. Those haven't gone away yet; they're just no longer in development. FreeDOS may be primarily a for-its-own-sake hobby, but the fact that it's still under development means that Windowless DOS is far from dead.
And Mac OS 9 still lives on, I assure you. Macs are notoriously long-lived for one thing, so there are undoubtedly Quadras, Performas, and old iMacs out there purring away under OS 9 for somebody's kindergartner to play games on, or for Grandma to type her memoirs. OS 9/Classic was still supported under OS X as recently as Tiger (if you have a PPC machine), and as a matter of fact, although it won't run on my Intel Snow-Leopard machine, I still run Fontographer (a Classic-only app) on my G4 Mac Mini from time to time.
I'm posting from win3.1 because it uses so much less resources it is so much faster!
Even if you use contemporary hardware. I fired up an old Win95 box a few months ago, and was startled by how much more responsive it was compared to the modern WinXP system I use at work. We've all been given the frog-in-pot-of-water treatment, learning to expect gradually more sluggish UIs.
The strategy of clean-room cloning BeOS certainly made more sense when the project was begun, since the apps for it weren't dated yet, and the then-current user base was much larger. But even with it taking as long as it has so far, Haiku OS 1.0 will debut with more apps available for it than any all-new OS would, and with a larger interested user population as well, both of which make it more viable than any other "underground" OS. Will there be a niche for a new(ish) OS of the type exemplified by Haiku in the ecosysystem of 2010? I don't know. But if there is, Haiku has a better chance of surviving to fill it than a completely original OS would.
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I, for one, welcome our new Fabricated Four overlords!
This isn't just taking control away from the US government, it's putting that control more firmly into the hands of a private organization. "International" doesn't automatically mean "better" (witness the WTO and IMF). All it means is that US citizens will be just as easily ignored as EU, AU, OAS, ASEAN, and ETC citizens are today.
"It's not foolish to pay for something you like and enjoy."
True. But to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on something you enjoy, and not really realize that you're doing that until later, takes a first-class moron.
I was born shortly before the vernal equinox.
It sounds to me like someone has outgrown his infatuation with something that was once new and shiny to him, but has since gotten old and dull. It happens. Depending on how far along you are in life, it's called "growing" up or "getting old". Maybe it's time to change careers or go back to school or something.
Lenovo has done some remarkably bad engineering in some of their laptops. The place I work has a small fleet of TabletPC ThinkPads that have chronic problems with styluses that can't be removed from their storage nook, latches that fall apart, and hinges that die of metal fatigue. The design of these bits are "clever", but the materials just don't hold up and when they fail they do so utterly. After four years in the possession of a teenager, you won't be able to sell these things on eBay.
It's analogous to the Streisand Effect. And when the machines get hacked, the id10t who declared them "unsinkable" will experience Titanic Syndrome.
I would think that many paraplegics would welcome the ability to move under the power of their own legs with the aid of something to substitute for balance (such as a harness to support their weight in a standing position). While it would undoubtedly be awkward and stare-inducing, the psychological difference between being "in a chair" (and literally looked down upon), and being able to stagger up to people and look them in the eye at their own level, could be worth it.
Um... if the entire line of presidential succession, plus Congress except Ron Paul is going to be killed in a freak Shuttle accident... I want to be the one to go in his place. I love him for his counterbalancing influence on the government we have; I would not want to live in a country where he was the government.
Those would-be astronauts who were not chosen are welcome to join the crews of Apollo 18, 19, and 20 in the lounge, where they will receive some lovely parting gifts.
The colors currently in use are ambiguous and arbitrary. To make it clearer, they should replace them with flavors.
The machine is modern (Core 2 Duo, SATA, blah blah) even if the OS isn't. Which makes the comparison even more damning.
OK.
NT4 was snappier than XP.
Just not as much snappier as Win98 was.
Write me an OS (with apps) that actually fits in available RAM, and we won't need to worry about storage responsiveness.
The optimizations in OS X have been a refreshing counterexample, but Snow Leopard on a new iMac is still less "snappy" than OS 9 on a PowerMac G3, which was sluggish compared to System 6 on a Mac SE/30.
Separate presentations based on gender (and sexual orientation)?! This isn't 5th grade sex ed. Not only is it insulting for a bunch of adults to be treated that way, it's probably grounds for a gender discrimination and/or sexual harassment suit. In the workplace "separate but equal" is only permitted with toilets.
If you want to point out other security issues, work them into the main topic. "The messages you post on MyFace aren't private... just like your e-mail isn't really private." "Stupid crap that you see advertised on Spacebook can contain viruses... just like random web sites can." "A site that tricks you into thinking it's Twitster can steal your login info... just like a fake ATM can." Etc. That way it's reinforcing the underlying principles, and not looking like an afterthought.
You couldn't be more wrong. PC-DOS and DR-DOS were still being licensed for niche applications just a few years ago. Those haven't gone away yet; they're just no longer in development. FreeDOS may be primarily a for-its-own-sake hobby, but the fact that it's still under development means that Windowless DOS is far from dead.
And Mac OS 9 still lives on, I assure you. Macs are notoriously long-lived for one thing, so there are undoubtedly Quadras, Performas, and old iMacs out there purring away under OS 9 for somebody's kindergartner to play games on, or for Grandma to type her memoirs. OS 9/Classic was still supported under OS X as recently as Tiger (if you have a PPC machine), and as a matter of fact, although it won't run on my Intel Snow-Leopard machine, I still run Fontographer (a Classic-only app) on my G4 Mac Mini from time to time.
Even if you use contemporary hardware. I fired up an old Win95 box a few months ago, and was startled by how much more responsive it was compared to the modern WinXP system I use at work. We've all been given the frog-in-pot-of-water treatment, learning to expect gradually more sluggish UIs.
It's Peter Noone, of Herman's Hermits. Like his performing career, it's still chugging along.
This is slashdot. If he means SSH, he can write "ssh". He doesn't have to couch it in terms that a non-technical person would understand.
The strategy of clean-room cloning BeOS certainly made more sense when the project was begun, since the apps for it weren't dated yet, and the then-current user base was much larger. But even with it taking as long as it has so far, Haiku OS 1.0 will debut with more apps available for it than any all-new OS would, and with a larger interested user population as well, both of which make it more viable than any other "underground" OS. Will there be a niche for a new(ish) OS of the type exemplified by Haiku in the ecosysystem of 2010? I don't know. But if there is, Haiku has a better chance of surviving to fill it than a completely original OS would.
Be happy!
It doesn't help Turing.
But it helps me, just a bit.
I genuinely appreciate it.
chemically non-toxic != non-radioactive