Except the summary and the comments are a load of bollocks.The floppy drive was being replaced by many people, with efforts on multiple fronts.
Bullshit. Apple was roundly villified for DARING to release a computer without Floppy drives in 1998.
And quite rightly so - 1998 was too early to pretend you could make do without floppies, and Apple suffered financially for that silly mistake. Of course sales of USB floppy drives were good around that time.
Let's ignore the people who developed and pushed for USB were Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Compaq, and DEC,... there's a name missing from the list.... oh no there isn't Apple didn't have any hand in developing the USB successor. But hey the iMac had the first USB port so it must all be Apple's good work.
Apple didn't have the first USB port; nobody EVER said that (Intel was the main "driver" of USB at first); but they did have the first WORKING USB Port with actual OS-Level support.
Apple were first to market with that. Good for them.
Check the history on how long it was before WIndows and Linux had decent USB support. Hint: It was AFTER Apple.
OSR2.1 of Windows 95, with USB support, was released in April 1997.
There were PLENTY of Wintel motherboards with USELESS USB connectors connectors on them for a couple of YEARS before the iMac came out. But there wasn't 1 person in a million that had anything that used them, and in fact, they really couldn't; because there was NO DRIVER SUPPORT.
So, although Apple didn't invent USB, NO ONE can deny that they elevated it from a unused curiosity into a game-changing peripheral interconnection standard.
Wishful thinking there. You're completely right about the lack of driver support for USB devices back then, but do you really think that's different for any other newly introduced connector standard? Hint: adoption takes time.
Appliances and cars may well be more reliable in the first year or two but after that the failure rate jumps up massively. These things are built to work with spec for a limited time, but not to last.
I've found old Windows XP laptops make great Linux+XFCE notebooks for my customers. Just throw a cheap SSD in them, maybe replace the battery if needed, and they're much faster than they ever were when new.
Why would you say that is what "Islamists" want for the world? Because the news told you?
No, because the leaders of those savage countries have said it. Go look it up for yourself.
Your myopic view is worthless.
Yes it is. Again, go find out about that prison for the mind for yourself.
People below a certain class are all considered "property with no rights" (according to the simplistic definition you imply) in all present societies (that I am aware of).
No, they aren't. They really aren't.
I doubt it. "Women are property with no rights, gays should be stoned to death, people who leave the faith are executed by family members". It is exceedingly easy to find parallels for these in western society. Just because the penalty is abstracted beyond obvious death doesn't mean its just as bad, so to speak.
What the hell are you smoking? Parallels in western society? That crap is in their law. In. Their. Law.
IF what you claim is true, all that can be said of it is that "Islamist" nations people are executed by the community, and in the west people are left by the community to execute themselves.
Nice stretch there. Wait until your daughter is forced into a burqha, the girl down the street is flogged for daring to ask to attend school and bacon is off the menu in your country and then tell me again how terrible western society was in 2016.
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And quite rightly so - 1998 was too early to pretend you could make do without floppies, and Apple suffered financially for that silly mistake. Of course sales of USB floppy drives were good around that time.
Apple were first to market with that. Good for them.
OSR2.1 of Windows 95, with USB support, was released in April 1997.
Wishful thinking there. You're completely right about the lack of driver support for USB devices back then, but do you really think that's different for any other newly introduced connector standard? Hint: adoption takes time.
Yes it is, just like selling a phone without a removable battery or card slot.
I'm not kidding. I don't use anything else to stream music.
The fix, in line with the UI genius behind gedit, was to simply remove the icon bar completely.
I kid, I kid.
I was with you all the way up to "MORE RELIABLE".
Appliances and cars may well be more reliable in the first year or two but after that the failure rate jumps up massively. These things are built to work with spec for a limited time, but not to last.
The FOSS community has had this problem solved for decades:
Fork it!
And you still thought connecting your TV to the Internet was a pretty neat idea.
I told you so.
What judge considered millions of dollars a reasonable fee for managing an inheritance over 12 years?
Not yet.
They have released a Windows 10 version though, which is incompatible with all other versions including funnily enough home Linux servers.
Troll gets served. What's the problem?
Perhaps I have missed some of the facts and please correct me if I am mistaken, but here is my understanding of it:
Is that the way of it and, if so, what is the problem?
That's funny.
But I don't think that disqualifies a food truck from being a restaurant. Just not a fancy restaurant.
Presumably your wife also would not appreciate being taken to the local McDonalds or Subway. Do you also consider them not restaurants?
There's a jurisdiction that recognizes software patents?
I see what they did there. Was it a Trio of hackers perchance?
I've found old Windows XP laptops make great Linux+XFCE notebooks for my customers. Just throw a cheap SSD in them, maybe replace the battery if needed, and they're much faster than they ever were when new.
Because sometimes those updates break things.
Provide option to upgrade = good
Force upgrade = bad
... and how many unicorns have you seen lately?
Is pre-2012 Star Wars not counted as independent any more?
What Firefox build supports it? Because none that I have seen do.
Since every single browser also supports Backspace to go back, they were hardly being different!
By "every single browser" I assume you mean "Opera stupidly".
Yes, what was the point of it anyway, given every single browser ever uses the universal ALT-Left to go back?
Were they just trying to be different?
Since when was Islam a race?
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
FTFY
And we stopped caring about Skype period.
We've long since moved to Zoom and never looked back.
Why would you say that is what "Islamists" want for the world? Because the news told you?
No, because the leaders of those savage countries have said it. Go look it up for yourself.
Your myopic view is worthless.
Yes it is. Again, go find out about that prison for the mind for yourself.
People below a certain class are all considered "property with no rights" (according to the simplistic definition you imply) in all present societies (that I am aware of).
No, they aren't. They really aren't.
I doubt it. "Women are property with no rights, gays should be stoned to death, people who leave the faith are executed by family members". It is exceedingly easy to find parallels for these in western society. Just because the penalty is abstracted beyond obvious death doesn't mean its just as bad, so to speak.
What the hell are you smoking? Parallels in western society? That crap is in their law. In. Their. Law.
IF what you claim is true, all that can be said of it is that "Islamist" nations people are executed by the community, and in the west people are left by the community to execute themselves.
Nice stretch there. Wait until your daughter is forced into a burqha, the girl down the street is flogged for daring to ask to attend school and bacon is off the menu in your country and then tell me again how terrible western society was in 2016.
How utterly ingenuous. Do you actually believe that or are you just regurgitating mindless rhetoric?