according to things I've read, it's "enhanced" by the "Amazon Cloud". I'm willing to bet it's proxied, just to make sure you're not using the AT&T 3G for anything too personal.
Well, technically it's a a combination of GNU software with the Linux kernel. Realize that Linux is just a kernel, and the GNU packages create the distribution in whatever iteration that distribution manufacturer puts them together.
I realize you were trying to be a douche, but I had to toss that out there.
And DOS was just a bunch of software interrupts on top of the BIOS
Thus, a Disk Operating System. That's basically all computers were (and still are, mostly), just a bunch of switches flipped in the right sequence. Interrupts aren't as bad as they used to be thankfully, with technical updates to the hardware.
The last 8 bit processor in a computer was the 8086/8088. The first Windows version (1.0) was for 16-bit MS-DOS in 1985. 32-bit processors were becoming normal back in 1993.
I feel ya there. I started using Linux for the first time on my brand new 386dx/40 with 5MB ram. (Slackware, 1994 I think) I remember X/Window (without the s...) being such a memory hog and requiring 8MB of memory which I didn't have. I learned Linux the right way then, because of that memory problem. Remember, Linux had a target of being a server platform back then. X/Window was never meant to be a point-and-click interface, it was meant to be a GUI interface for graphical context. (or just multiple terminals open at once)
Nowadays, nearly everything is just 'pop the disk in, let it run, pop it out, reboot, do what you need to do'.
Linux is competitive in what it's for, being a server platform with an optional GUI attached. What I do is just pop 'wmaker' into the.xinitrc after I install WindowMaker and I'm done. Oh, and changing the/etc/inittab to make the default runlevel "3" so X/Window doesn't pop up.
Ironically, Phoenix normally gets above 60 degrees at 6:30am by March 1st... and didn't this year. It took an additional 2 weeks before it reached that temperature at 6:30am. (I check this because of motorcycle riding)
While France & Britain were very close to providing resources to the south during the American civil war (they didn't), I do think the poster meant the American revolutionary war.
It sounds like you're level of learning about an accent (or dialect) is by television. Might I suggest you expand your horizons, since even myself, as an American, feel the same way about television accents.
By the way, that southern accent you're referring to is one that we in America refer to as "redneck", or "hillbilly". It's not normal for a southern American to be that bad. (YMMV)
That being said, I'm so glad that the old American television accents on TV back in the 40's & 50's are gone... I'm STILL trying to figure out where it even came from. South Park constantly makes fun of it by using it, sometimes.
-- quote --... and most of us cringe when we hear them in real life (It's the loudness) -- end quote --
You've seriously been around the worst case of American english, then. The average person is not loud, it's the asshats that think if they speak louder people will understand them better.
From experience I can say otherwise. I've spoke to many people who are native to the area I'm in and they're accents are very different from each others. It's more about the people you're around and influenced by when you're young.
You're saying USian. That's like calling a Chinese person a PRian. It's okay though, we forgive you.
As far as 'very rural' in the US, that'd be large segments of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Alabama.. I'll stop there. Lots of the USA has not been populated.
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You'd seriously be surprised how much the porn industry has died down on the net, with the economy crunch.
Akamai is a cloud content provider, much the same as my squid proxy server is a cloud content provider.
according to things I've read, it's "enhanced" by the "Amazon Cloud". I'm willing to bet it's proxied, just to make sure you're not using the AT&T 3G for anything too personal.
Well, if we're pulling tiny projects out of our ass there's this: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/programmissions/missions/missiontypes/balloons/
Both ARES and the balloons floating are for the same thing, environmental observation.
I think what the big boys here are talking about is something larger.
Big word?
You realize that the Airport Utility is not Lion specific, right?
Lion is by far nowhere near Vista in decapitation.
Why do you care if other people hate Apple?
Apple fans caring about that is the main cause of the hate.
And conversely, why do you care if other people don't hate Apple?
Apple haters caring about that is the main cause of the hate.
*sits back with popcorn watching apple haters expecting some kind of fight* ahah
We can't discount Windows for Workgroups 3.11. It did have a 32bit layer in specific .DLL files so 32-bit WfW apps could go that route.
So what you're really saying is Linux IS cross-platform.
Well, technically it's a a combination of GNU software with the Linux kernel.
Realize that Linux is just a kernel, and the GNU packages create the distribution in whatever iteration that distribution manufacturer puts them together.
I realize you were trying to be a douche, but I had to toss that out there.
You're right, it's beyond a joke now. It's reached immortal status as a meme.
And DOS was just a bunch of software interrupts on top of the BIOS
Thus, a Disk Operating System. That's basically all computers were (and still are, mostly), just a bunch of switches flipped in the right sequence. Interrupts aren't as bad as they used to be thankfully, with technical updates to the hardware.
The last 8 bit processor in a computer was the 8086/8088. The first Windows version (1.0) was for 16-bit MS-DOS in 1985.
32-bit processors were becoming normal back in 1993.
Why not?
I feel ya there. I started using Linux for the first time on my brand new 386dx/40 with 5MB ram. (Slackware, 1994 I think)
I remember X/Window (without the s...) being such a memory hog and requiring 8MB of memory which I didn't have. I learned Linux the right way then, because of that memory problem. Remember, Linux had a target of being a server platform back then. X/Window was never meant to be a point-and-click interface, it was meant to be a GUI interface for graphical context. (or just multiple terminals open at once)
Nowadays, nearly everything is just 'pop the disk in, let it run, pop it out, reboot, do what you need to do'.
Linux is competitive in what it's for, being a server platform with an optional GUI attached. What I do is just pop 'wmaker' into the .xinitrc after I install WindowMaker and I'm done. Oh, and changing the /etc/inittab to make the default runlevel "3" so X/Window doesn't pop up.
Ironically, Phoenix normally gets above 60 degrees at 6:30am by March 1st... and didn't this year. It took an additional 2 weeks before it reached that temperature at 6:30am. (I check this because of motorcycle riding)
Like it would be silly to have British accents for a movie about a US president.
hoaaah boy, that'd raise quite a few hackles, I know that much...
I do not think accent means what you think it means.
Accent is used as a way to describe the way the language is spoken.
Here's a definition:
A distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, esp. one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class.
While France & Britain were very close to providing resources to the south during the American civil war (they didn't), I do think the poster meant the American revolutionary war.
It sounds like you're level of learning about an accent (or dialect) is by television.
Might I suggest you expand your horizons, since even myself, as an American, feel the same way about television accents.
By the way, that southern accent you're referring to is one that we in America refer to as "redneck", or "hillbilly". It's not normal for a southern American to be that bad. (YMMV)
That being said, I'm so glad that the old American television accents on TV back in the 40's & 50's are gone... I'm STILL trying to figure out where it even came from. South Park constantly makes fun of it by using it, sometimes.
-- quote -- ... and most of us cringe when we hear them in real life (It's the loudness)
-- end quote --
You've seriously been around the worst case of American english, then. The average person is not loud, it's the asshats that think if they speak louder people will understand them better.
From experience I can say otherwise. I've spoke to many people who are native to the area I'm in and they're accents are very different from each others. It's more about the people you're around and influenced by when you're young.
If you're serious, I'd recommend reading the wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
The union of the UK was in 1707, according to it.
You're saying USian.
That's like calling a Chinese person a PRian. It's okay though, we forgive you.
As far as 'very rural' in the US, that'd be large segments of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Alabama.. I'll stop there. Lots of the USA has not been populated.