...like anyone else but of course with so much FREE content on the net i wonder if any fee-based site will flourish. a few times i have been confronted with a useful net service that wants my money... but as numerous free alternatives have always existed i have just moved on. britannia is very good though...
but my parents bought me the full set of books when i was a kid anyway so i don't need to pay;)
technology is to be used but we seem to be getting away from that these days to where technology is a fashion statement.
so these guys can still do great work on their "ancient" laptops... thats great news. i have quite a bit of old tech myself but i try and make everything useful (if it is working of course!) - next project might be to turn my Mac SE into a kitchen recipe terminal.
just because something is old doesn't mean its no use anymore, in fact i think advertising blinds people into thinking that the latest greatest PC with all the add-ons will make them more productive. yeah right.
When will the western world figure out that China is not a friendly country.
thats rather cruel, have you ever been there? i have and found people very friendly indeed. oh did you mean their govt.? well thats not the country, just the controllers.
it seems to be a sad fact of life, an example is football. a few dozen thugs orchestrate and cause violence and thus thousands of innocent fans get blamed.
i think there are a lot of people out there who lacked attention when they were growing up.
well you don't need a massive nuclear strike to destroy a country like.. for example north korea. a few nukes on key points would reduce the country to ruins, the environment would be ruined locally and in the neighbourhood but the rest of the world would be fine.
of course a strke big enough to destroy russia or china could well create this global disaster but i doubt NMD will be able to stop them anyway.
they just don't care so much. i would have thought that everyone who downloads madonna's new MP3 or burns a copy of a new album knows its copywrited, and illegal. but they still do it. why? because they want to! people often break minor laws, go over the speed limit, nick some envelopes from the office stationary cabinet : its no big deal. CDs are too overpriced here in england anyway!
so this seems to me like a total waste of time. what next? tell kids to breath because otherwise they will die?
Mutually Assured Destruction has kept the human race from blowing itself up for 50 years now, it seems that missile defense could upset this balance. this is worrying though i guess that any defense system will take decades to be good enough to protect against a large attack. defeating a primative ICBM from N.Korea is one thing, stopping a hundred russian ones with penaids, multi-warheads and other fun things is another.
a problem with missile defense is that it has to work 100%. when did a military weapon ever work perfectly?!
i used to have one of those tangerine older iBooks (before the company went dot-com-dead and i had to give it back), linux on that was a treat. i do have a page about it, i had to plug it but there are some snippets of info useful to anyone who wishes to try linux on one...
there the AC goes again, Macs are so hard to use arn't they?!
Apple didn't copy a GUI, Xerox PARC had an influence on the Lisa UI and later MacOS but nothing is developed in a vacuum. the GUI Apple developed is quite different from what i have seen of Xerox's
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probably less but it looks good on the bookcase!
but my parents bought me the full set of books when i was a kid anyway so i don't need to pay ;)
portable and a good way to get muscles lugging them around!
well never mind, i guess most BSD users check out the BSD section link every day so will see it anyway
technology is to be used but we seem to be getting away from that these days to where technology is a fashion statement. so these guys can still do great work on their "ancient" laptops... thats great news. i have quite a bit of old tech myself but i try and make everything useful (if it is working of course!) - next project might be to turn my Mac SE into a kitchen recipe terminal. just because something is old doesn't mean its no use anymore, in fact i think advertising blinds people into thinking that the latest greatest PC with all the add-ons will make them more productive. yeah right.
thats rather cruel, have you ever been there? i have and found people very friendly indeed. oh did you mean their govt.? well thats not the country, just the controllers.
aha i see, many thanks for that info!
vinyl is a lovely medium though i admit, but u need good hardware to give it justice
which CD was it?
er why would your car's CD player be unable to play these CDs?
yeah football violence puts me off going down villa park these days, though the rather poor team we got these days doesn't exactly help ;)
i think there are a lot of people out there who lacked attention when they were growing up.
of course a strke big enough to destroy russia or china could well create this global disaster but i doubt NMD will be able to stop them anyway.
so this seems to me like a total waste of time. what next? tell kids to breath because otherwise they will die?
a problem with missile defense is that it has to work 100%. when did a military weapon ever work perfectly?!
OmniWeb is nice, but slow. and doesn't render the webpage i use most. which is a shame.
it was quite a nice program, though apple already have something similar for OSX. having Works for other unices would be nice.
remember the old days when there were loads of different business applications in every category? why did we let it slip away...
oh yeah the page is a bit out of date, i think linux-PPC boots without a hacked kernel now
mac unices page
its a good adventure getting it working well but once it is...
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sometimes i put the path in there too. it reminds me of the OS/2 prompt... ah i loved that
i think its a good thing! ;)
you do know that the people of HK were pretty much happy to return to china don't you? the feeling among the hongies was that it was time to reunite
Apple didn't copy a GUI, Xerox PARC had an influence on the Lisa UI and later MacOS but nothing is developed in a vacuum. the GUI Apple developed is quite different from what i have seen of Xerox's
er... hello earth calling