...which means boxen in future will not have any IDE/ATA native interfaces. Spend the $15 bucks now for an enclosure or cable (see poster above you) or you might have a box of doorstops.
You cannot have too many backups. Old drives are perfect. Mount 'em, fill 'em with your configs, docs, etc. and put 'em away. Just make sure you always have the appropriate hardware and kernel support to read them if necessary.
Mine are ATA/IDE, and these interfaces will be deprecated very soon, I hear. So keep at least one IDE/ATA-to-USB housing around if you need their data.
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My current box includes an SSD for exactly the reason you give -- near-instant response. It's only 32Gb but / fits on it (/home is on another, mechanical disk) with no probs and the 3.33GHz Core-2 duo is overclocked moderately for the same reason.
It's hot!
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Not exactly what I meant. The scan lines are visible, so is ghosting in the photos. Both of these are erased from our view (over time and through training).
Even with a fine-pitch LED or plasma screen, if you sit close enough, you can see the jaggies of each pixel. I suggest a test of this theory will be if, in a generation or two, people ignore the digital artifacts as we learned to process the scanned analog TV image into something clearer.
McLuhan's insight is related to Freud's; Ziggy said our peronalities stand between the outside world and our perception of it. McLuhan amplified and said Personality is but one medium through which reality is filtered; there are others including radio, live performance, print or reading, TV, etc. Each of these will distort reality to a greater or lesser extent, and our culture will adapt to the prevalence or dominance of them.
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Computers have not won...yet. And their eventual triumph is doubtful. "Convergence" hasn't really happened yet, although it is unfolding; its future configuration will be shaped by how long and how widespread the economic downturn becomes. Much of the computer hardware we are used to is finding its way into TVs; HDTV needs processing power and graphics rendering of high orders. OTOH, computer CPU power is not increasing at is old-time rate.
But more important is that the article ignores the insights of Marshall McLuhan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message . TV was a 'cool' medium, meaning we had to put its picture together in our heads. To prove that point, look at any paper Newsweek or Time cover picture of an event on a TV screen. Why does their picture look so much poorer than our TV at home? The answer is from McLuhan through psychology: the electrons (of a CRT) go through the glass and into our bodies.
His theories predicted the popularity of the Simpsons, North Beach, adult swim and countless other animated shows and series. It predicted tribalism, and TV, being real-time, is tribal by its very scheduled nature: you can watch TV with your friends at precisely the same time even if you are not together.
Computers are a very different medium. They have the potential to be very, very hot: good audio, great video; but they are not. A truly hot medium is immediate. It does not have to boot for a minute or two. It does not wait fifteen seconds for a show to load. Hot is IN YOUR FACE rightnowmutherflicker! Computers have not yet achieved that level of hotness. But random-access helps. That we can watch whenever we like a youtube video we missed and everyone else saw is much hotter than having missed a network TV show that can't be seen again until the series goes into reruns.
No, I doubt TV has lost. It has gone HD and over cable. The cable providers will be using computer-like interfaces and our home computers will gain HDTV tuners. The media they create/disseminate will be the true convergence.
I have no opinion personally on this subject. I read Wells' (notice I corrected the spelling -- thankq!) some time ago and his speculation stayed with me. The idea behind the importance of gold and steel is not so much that they could not have developed independently -- they could -- it is they required ever-hotter fires, meaning the technology to refine gold and produce steel, immensely stronger than iron, from tiny amounts of added ash and sand required fires hotter than could be produced at the time by less-advanced cultures. I don't remember the source, but this line of thinking is common among natural science devotees. Although it is true that seas and rivers provided trading opportunities, the *technology* to produce armor-strength steel and gold would have been held closely secret, meaning though the use of the metals might be widespread, their production was more centralized.
I guess an analogy would be with nuclear weapons; the USA is not likely to show its neighbors (Canada and Mexico) how to make them. Those that do have them developed them separately. Similarly, Damascus-steel blades are very much like Japanese traditional sword blades, and they were made the same way. This does not indicate it was the result of trade between the two countries at the time of development.
Perhaps Wells was thinking that Atlantis had militarily conquered the surrounding areas and that allowed the technologies to spread.
Sounds kinda outlandish to me, but then so does the article in the Sun.
I'm sorry no one *got* the last line; I intended several double meanings there, but it should be understood as an American understanding London's "Sun" newspaper to be less believable than Fox News.
H.G.Welles agreed with you. In his Outline of History, he posited that the area now covered by the Mediterranean Sea was dry until about ten thousand years ago, the Atlantic being held back at Gibraltar until its level rose above the isthmus and indundated the whole area.
There a couple of recent mysteries that are better explained by Welles' theory than the current "scientific" ones:
1. The below-Mediterranean Sea-level cave paintings off the coasts of Spain and France.
B. The presence of ancient gold-and high-carbon-silicon steel making in almost all the coastal Mediterranean nations while their neighbors could only attain bronze. Many of these gold-and-steel-producing cultures were far-removed from each other, the only apparent link being their coastal Mediterranean location NB: metallurgical tech has always been connected with high culture. Think armor and armaments as well as jewelry.
With respect to TFA -- although I'm AnnaMerikin, I know about the Sun. Feh!
About ten years ago, as Web-1.0 was beginning, I decided to learn to write HTML for a personal website. At that time, MS released a beta program (I forget its name) to automate HTML authoring and I signed up, downloaded and installed it. Then I found its output while great for IE, did not render pages well in Netscape or even Opera. So I uninstalled it and wrote with WordPerfect-7, correcting the code by hand.
Some weeks later, MS emailed me (the beta program, of course, required registration with an email address) with a special offer: a free year-long subscription to an upcoming MS magazine if I would document my use of a feature on my home web page that worked under IE but not under Netscape -- that is, I would get a worthless pile of MS propaganda every month if I would break web standards to the benefit of IE.
It was always MS' plan to dominate ("embrace and extend" was what is was called then) the internet.
I believe if there was one event that caused them to change their minds and become web-standard compliant it was their losing fight with the EU monopoly courts and their punishment: to become standards-compliant with respect to APIs, networking and, apparently, at least in MS' mind, the internet as well.
Perhpas MS could take a feature from the Opera browser -- user agent spoofing, and let IE-8 users impersonate another brand so they can view standards-compliant sites as the designer intended them to be seen.
I bought the d*mn thing USED, and it had no model number on the faceplate. It was represented to me as a "IBM PC second series." Norton Utilities said it was a 8086 at 8 Mhz. I replaced the chip with a 286 module IIRC first, then as the memory bandwidth wasn't suitable for a that chip, I replaced the whole mobo to get a 386sx. That's when I became aware it was an AT-sized case, as it had the required eight card slots instead of the older model's five, which, I believe, made it a PC II. I might be wrong about the model numbers, or it might not have carried the original mobo when I bought it (it was almost seven years old at that time) but that was what my own research said, not some museum's certificate of provenance.
When I buy a whole new box (which will be never unless it is a laptop -- I build my own custom boxes) then you can hold me responsible for knowing model numbers.
I might have agreed with you a couple of years ago, but I bought on Craigslist an old Dell laptop from 2003 (C610) which has been 100% trouble free with respect to hardware (it has XP installed though I run Puppy Linux on it from the optical drive most of the time).
So has my latest desktop, from 2004, a box with an ABit mobo and Sempron processor. It, too, has been without glitches; it runs Mepis Linux and is on 24/7/365 serving files to the Dell.
Perhaps my experience with a well-used Dell (the letter markings are wearing off the keyboard) are not representative, but still.
I did not buy anything on my trip to Fry's; I was attracted though, by the new 18.4" "laptops" selling for around $1000 US....
I believe you're right about IBM's nomenclature, but as I was *building* machines or upgrading, the case size was "AT". The original box I bought was, indeed, an IBM PC II (8086) 8Mhz. IIRC. I upgraded it to a 386sx then a 486 from Cyrix/IBM before ditching the case as its form factor was enormous (you may remember them from museums...) and wouldn't mount a 3 1/2" drive without an adapter.
I decided to build a more up-to-date computer, for about the eighth time since 1989, when I got my first 8086 PC AT (used.) I priced the parts (mobo, case & psu, cpu, memory, hdd, optical drive) and added the cost of a new wide-screen LCD monitor -- and found I had about $500 worth of parts -- about the same price as a new notebook with similar specs (well, the hdd would be smaller, but I don't really need another terabyte of storage.)
The prices on desktops at Fry's the night before Christmas eve were higher than desktops when a monitor was added. Why would I buy (or build) a bigger, heavier, noisier machine with similar performance and price?
Ask a climatologist what the largest influence on earth's climate is, and his answer will be "the earth's magnetosphere." It deflects the solar wind greatly; without this effect, the earth would be as arid as the moon, which has no magnetosphere.
Climate models used to predict CO emissions' effects on climate assume a constant magnetosphere. Here's what Wikipedia says about it:
Climate models use quantitative methods to simulate the interactions of the atmosphere,[43] oceans, land surface and ice. They are used for a variety of purposes from study of the dynamics of the weather and climate system to projections of future climate. All climate models balance, or very nearly balance, incoming energy as short wave (including visible) electromagnetic radiation to the earth with outgoing energy as long wave (infrared) electromagnetic radiation from the earth. Any imbalance results in a change in the average temperature of the earth.
That the earth's magenetic field is decreasing might be one more reason the climate is warming dramatically.
Sociopathy is not a disease like flu with a cause and exact symptoms; it is a disease of the psyche, which itself is a virtual reality in that we do not interface with the world except through the psyche as medium. As Bruno Bettelheim said, "personality is perception".
If a person believes it is OK to do anything for money -- that money, itself, is the entire meaning of life, and if that person marries another who feels the same then they might delay having children until their futures could be secured. And if that security was taken away then that sick individual, always working rationally from a mistaken perception (that money is all) might feel it was his responsibility to relieve them of a future filled with poverty.
It is not fun getting into the mind of sociopaths/psychopaths, so I'm just saying....
It seems you are seeing tactics, while I see strategy.
Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect through 6.0 were written in assembly language, which cannot easily be ported to Windows' APIs. As a WordPerfect 5.1 user from 1990 on I remember quite clearly how its memory needs were incompatible with the memory Windows allocated to DOS.
But Gates *did* go with hat in hand to both companies and offered help of many kinds (still secret, I think) to make their apps run on Windows.
That they did not see the inevitibility of Windows' future hegemony was their short-sightedness; that Gates understood business customers was where the money would be was his 20-20 vision.
Gates is quite right; I remember history exactly as he recounts it in TFA. Except for one irony: Lotus, WordPerfect and others did not write for Windows early because they wanted to avoid being dependent on Microsoft after having been shafted in their plans to use Expanded Memory (LIM-4.0) for their DOS programs while Microsoft was preparing an incompatible extended memory management for Windows, locking out their previous development and meaning their codebase would have to be completely rewritten for Windows.
They hated MS and tried to bolt from its control.
They lost. Partly because MS' listened to business users' needs and was first to market with Windows business apps.
I wondered about the WordPerfect menu listing, and then noticed Cedega running in the tray, like you did.
Why not? Even though OO and Abiword read its files nearly as well as it WP itself and even skip paragraph indentations most times, just like the original, nothing is exactly like the original.
Not to prolong a rather meaningless thread (blush) but I was surprised by the box continuing to run this way as I was led to believe that were the HS-fan to become disconnected from the header, the box would shut itself down. I did *not* notice any throttling of speed, but I didn't obtain any data, just my feeling about the puter not having lost any responsiveness nor general slowness. (Running MEPIS-GNU-Linux 6.01)
The sides are always left off the case, but there is no other fan installed.
N.B. I had a Duron 800 which would shut itself down if the fan in the heatsink even accumulated *dust.* Of course, it had spent a year or more overclocked to ~1500 MHz before I got the Sempron and downclocked it back to stock. It died a natural death prematurely a little while later.
Like the ole Timex watch that "took a licking and kept on ticking" my desktop box, an ancient AMD Sempron 2600+ with a VIA chipset, unknown to me, lost its power connector to the CPU fan, which I only discovered by accident when replacing a hard disk drive. The CPU was hot enough to scald my finger, but neither its performance nor its stability has suffered one bit.
Of course, the heatsink was still connected. But the Sempron was IIRC most definitely NOT a low-power cpu.
Yes, I reconnected the CPU fan. But at least I know my sh*t can take the heat.
No video is available;o{.
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Yeah, that one.
Toleration applies to everyone including greedheads.
After all, Craig partnered with a guy who preferred to sell his stake to eBay.
If you pass by Muddy Waters' cafe on Valencia Street -- the one near 16th street -- about 9:00 am on a weekday, you may see a white, take-out pastry box sitting on one of the tables. It's food for the poor given nearly every day. The box contains one perfect, fresh and warm quiche divided into a dozen slices from the best bakery in the Mission, Tartine on Guerrero, which always has a line of more than 30-minutes time.
I love this city because some thoughtful soul makes the lives of the poor somewhat easier than the lives of the noveau riche.
However, I find it ironic that it is illegal to feed pigeons in the city named for Saint Francis of Assissi.
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Craigslist is a pretty amateur operation. [Which is how they seem to want it.]
Exactly. I had a couple of brief discussions over posts with Craig himself, back when he was CEO, and he saw craigslist as a community and runs it as if it were. I understand and respect this, being a San Franciscan myself; I find Craig's attitude to be an expression of The City's values with respect to greed and capitalism. Craig rightly values friends and having duty and loving work combine.
N.B. Craig likes to code. I take that back. He LOVES to code. That's why someone else is CEO. Craig just wants to hang out with his friends (perhaps hundreds or thousands of them) and invent things to do with computer programs.
Sounds like a good life to me! That's the nature of San Fran City and that's what made me fall in love with it lo so many years ago.
I would like to reply (and hear your arguments more completely) but I don't think this is the correct place. My email is (transpose for the at sign)annamerikin-transpose-gmail. Don't forget the dotcom at the end. And I believe you can respond to my journal.
I am not a programmer, so I don't understand your analogy to code. Here, very briefly, is what I have learned about DNA, genes, and chromosomes since the topic was introduced here some time ago:
Very Little. Because little is known. There are lots of hypotheses, but none strike me as insightful. It is to me a little like the chemical periodic table, in that chromosomes can be, as you say, possibly in any order, as the electrons can be said to be "out of order" or disposed randomly in space or time within their orbits which are described by the periodic table.
Does an electron truly "move" to a new orbit when the next energy level in the shell of the molecule is reached?
So chromosomes seem to rearrange themselves. Identical genes may appear in several places on the DNA chain, and may be active or turned off. It appears that both models, your and mine, may be true at the same time, interacting in a way we do not know.
But my description of the way genes, chromosomes, and DNA arrange themselves is my best understanding of the newest developmensts I have heard of in evolutionary science.
Yesterday,/. (or was it >) carried an article that indicated evolutionary change was observed in as little as three decades in certain island reptiles. This is most definitely NOT geological time, so evolutionary theory must explain mysteries that seem to contradict SOME of its main theses. And I would like someone to address my question about the multiple doublings of the DNA of wheat, millet and maize at roughly the same time (~10,000BCE)while man was learning to farm.
I most certainly do not believe in a supernatural creator or designer.
But neither do I entirely and exclusively believe in evolution *as it is understood today*.
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...which means boxen in future will not have any IDE/ATA native interfaces. Spend the $15 bucks now for an enclosure or cable (see poster above you) or you might have a box of doorstops.
You cannot have too many backups. Old drives are perfect. Mount 'em, fill 'em with your configs, docs, etc. and put 'em away. Just make sure you always have the appropriate hardware and kernel support to read them if necessary.
Mine are ATA/IDE, and these interfaces will be deprecated very soon, I hear. So keep at least one IDE/ATA-to-USB housing around if you need their data.
My current box includes an SSD for exactly the reason you give -- near-instant response. It's only 32Gb but / fits on it (/home is on another, mechanical disk) with no probs and the 3.33GHz Core-2 duo is overclocked moderately for the same reason.
It's hot!
Not exactly what I meant. The scan lines are visible, so is ghosting in the photos. Both of these are erased from our view (over time and through training).
Even with a fine-pitch LED or plasma screen, if you sit close enough, you can see the jaggies of each pixel. I suggest a test of this theory will be if, in a generation or two, people ignore the digital artifacts as we learned to process the scanned analog TV image into something clearer.
McLuhan's insight is related to Freud's; Ziggy said our peronalities stand between the outside world and our perception of it. McLuhan amplified and said Personality is but one medium through which reality is filtered; there are others including radio, live performance, print or reading, TV, etc. Each of these will distort reality to a greater or lesser extent, and our culture will adapt to the prevalence or dominance of them.
Computers have not won...yet. And their eventual triumph is doubtful. "Convergence" hasn't really happened yet, although it is unfolding; its future configuration will be shaped by how long and how widespread the economic downturn becomes. Much of the computer hardware we are used to is finding its way into TVs; HDTV needs processing power and graphics rendering of high orders. OTOH, computer CPU power is not increasing at is old-time rate.
But more important is that the article ignores the insights of Marshall McLuhan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message . TV was a 'cool' medium, meaning we had to put its picture together in our heads. To prove that point, look at any paper Newsweek or Time cover picture of an event on a TV screen. Why does their picture look so much poorer than our TV at home? The answer is from McLuhan through psychology: the electrons (of a CRT) go through the glass and into our bodies.
His theories predicted the popularity of the Simpsons, North Beach, adult swim and countless other animated shows and series. It predicted tribalism, and TV, being real-time, is tribal by its very scheduled nature: you can watch TV with your friends at precisely the same time even if you are not together.
Computers are a very different medium. They have the potential to be very, very hot: good audio, great video; but they are not. A truly hot medium is immediate. It does not have to boot for a minute or two. It does not wait fifteen seconds for a show to load. Hot is IN YOUR FACE rightnowmutherflicker! Computers have not yet achieved that level of hotness. But random-access helps. That we can watch whenever we like a youtube video we missed and everyone else saw is much hotter than having missed a network TV show that can't be seen again until the series goes into reruns.
No, I doubt TV has lost. It has gone HD and over cable. The cable providers will be using computer-like interfaces and our home computers will gain HDTV tuners. The media they create/disseminate will be the true convergence.
I have no opinion personally on this subject. I read Wells' (notice I corrected the spelling -- thankq!) some time ago and his speculation stayed with me. The idea behind the importance of gold and steel is not so much that they could not have developed independently -- they could -- it is they required ever-hotter fires, meaning the technology to refine gold and produce steel, immensely stronger than iron, from tiny amounts of added ash and sand required fires hotter than could be produced at the time by less-advanced cultures. I don't remember the source, but this line of thinking is common among natural science devotees. Although it is true that seas and rivers provided trading opportunities, the *technology* to produce armor-strength steel and gold would have been held closely secret, meaning though the use of the metals might be widespread, their production was more centralized.
I guess an analogy would be with nuclear weapons; the USA is not likely to show its neighbors (Canada and Mexico) how to make them. Those that do have them developed them separately. Similarly, Damascus-steel blades are very much like Japanese traditional sword blades, and they were made the same way. This does not indicate it was the result of trade between the two countries at the time of development.
Perhaps Wells was thinking that Atlantis had militarily conquered the surrounding areas and that allowed the technologies to spread.
Sounds kinda outlandish to me, but then so does the article in the Sun.
I'm sorry no one *got* the last line; I intended several double meanings there, but it should be understood as an American understanding London's "Sun" newspaper to be less believable than Fox News.
And what about those undersea-cave paintings?
H.G.Welles agreed with you. In his Outline of History, he posited that the area now covered by the Mediterranean Sea was dry until about ten thousand years ago, the Atlantic being held back at Gibraltar until its level rose above the isthmus and indundated the whole area.
There a couple of recent mysteries that are better explained by Welles' theory than the current "scientific" ones:
1. The below-Mediterranean Sea-level cave paintings off the coasts of Spain and France.
B. The presence of ancient gold-and high-carbon-silicon steel making in almost all the coastal Mediterranean nations while their neighbors could only attain bronze. Many of these gold-and-steel-producing cultures were far-removed from each other, the only apparent link being their coastal Mediterranean location NB: metallurgical tech has always been connected with high culture. Think armor and armaments as well as jewelry.
With respect to TFA -- although I'm AnnaMerikin, I know about the Sun. Feh!
About ten years ago, as Web-1.0 was beginning, I decided to learn to write HTML for a personal website. At that time, MS released a beta program (I forget its name) to automate HTML authoring and I signed up, downloaded and installed it. Then I found its output while great for IE, did not render pages well in Netscape or even Opera. So I uninstalled it and wrote with WordPerfect-7, correcting the code by hand.
Some weeks later, MS emailed me (the beta program, of course, required registration with an email address) with a special offer: a free year-long subscription to an upcoming MS magazine if I would document my use of a feature on my home web page that worked under IE but not under Netscape -- that is, I would get a worthless pile of MS propaganda every month if I would break web standards to the benefit of IE.
It was always MS' plan to dominate ("embrace and extend" was what is was called then) the internet.
I believe if there was one event that caused them to change their minds and become web-standard compliant it was their losing fight with the EU monopoly courts and their punishment: to become standards-compliant with respect to APIs, networking and, apparently, at least in MS' mind, the internet as well.
Perhpas MS could take a feature from the Opera browser -- user agent spoofing, and let IE-8 users impersonate another brand so they can view standards-compliant sites as the designer intended them to be seen.
You win!
I bought the d*mn thing USED, and it had no model number on the faceplate. It was represented to me as a "IBM PC second series." Norton Utilities said it was a 8086 at 8 Mhz. I replaced the chip with a 286 module IIRC first, then as the memory bandwidth wasn't suitable for a that chip, I replaced the whole mobo to get a 386sx. That's when I became aware it was an AT-sized case, as it had the required eight card slots instead of the older model's five, which, I believe, made it a PC II. I might be wrong about the model numbers, or it might not have carried the original mobo when I bought it (it was almost seven years old at that time) but that was what my own research said, not some museum's certificate of provenance.
When I buy a whole new box (which will be never unless it is a laptop -- I build my own custom boxes) then you can hold me responsible for knowing model numbers.
Thank you for not trolling.
I might have agreed with you a couple of years ago, but I bought on Craigslist an old Dell laptop from 2003 (C610) which has been 100% trouble free with respect to hardware (it has XP installed though I run Puppy Linux on it from the optical drive most of the time).
So has my latest desktop, from 2004, a box with an ABit mobo and Sempron processor. It, too, has been without glitches; it runs Mepis Linux and is on 24/7/365 serving files to the Dell.
Perhaps my experience with a well-used Dell (the letter markings are wearing off the keyboard) are not representative, but still.
I did not buy anything on my trip to Fry's; I was attracted though, by the new 18.4" "laptops" selling for around $1000 US....
I believe you're right about IBM's nomenclature, but as I was *building* machines or upgrading, the case size was "AT". The original box I bought was, indeed, an IBM PC II (8086) 8Mhz. IIRC. I upgraded it to a 386sx then a 486 from Cyrix/IBM before ditching the case as its form factor was enormous (you may remember them from museums...) and wouldn't mount a 3 1/2" drive without an adapter.
I decided to build a more up-to-date computer, for about the eighth time since 1989, when I got my first 8086 PC AT (used.) I priced the parts (mobo, case & psu, cpu, memory, hdd, optical drive) and added the cost of a new wide-screen LCD monitor -- and found I had about $500 worth of parts -- about the same price as a new notebook with similar specs (well, the hdd would be smaller, but I don't really need another terabyte of storage.)
The prices on desktops at Fry's the night before Christmas eve were higher than desktops when a monitor was added. Why would I buy (or build) a bigger, heavier, noisier machine with similar performance and price?
Ask a climatologist what the largest influence on earth's climate is, and his answer will be "the earth's magnetosphere." It deflects the solar wind greatly; without this effect, the earth would be as arid as the moon, which has no magnetosphere.
Climate models used to predict CO emissions' effects on climate assume a constant magnetosphere. Here's what Wikipedia says about it:
That the earth's magenetic field is decreasing might be one more reason the climate is warming dramatically.
Sociopathy is not a disease like flu with a cause and exact symptoms; it is a disease of the psyche, which itself is a virtual reality in that we do not interface with the world except through the psyche as medium. As Bruno Bettelheim said, "personality is perception".
If a person believes it is OK to do anything for money -- that money, itself, is the entire meaning of life, and if that person marries another who feels the same then they might delay having children until their futures could be secured. And if that security was taken away then that sick individual, always working rationally from a mistaken perception (that money is all) might feel it was his responsibility to relieve them of a future filled with poverty.
It is not fun getting into the mind of sociopaths/psychopaths, so I'm just saying....
I see your point, but I see mine, too.
It seems you are seeing tactics, while I see strategy.
Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect through 6.0 were written in assembly language, which cannot easily be ported to Windows' APIs. As a WordPerfect 5.1 user from 1990 on I remember quite clearly how its memory needs were incompatible with the memory Windows allocated to DOS.
But Gates *did* go with hat in hand to both companies and offered help of many kinds (still secret, I think) to make their apps run on Windows.
That they did not see the inevitibility of Windows' future hegemony was their short-sightedness; that Gates understood business customers was where the money would be was his 20-20 vision.
We can both be correct at the same time.
Gates is quite right; I remember history exactly as he recounts it in TFA. Except for one irony: Lotus, WordPerfect and others did not write for Windows early because they wanted to avoid being dependent on Microsoft after having been shafted in their plans to use Expanded Memory (LIM-4.0) for their DOS programs while Microsoft was preparing an incompatible extended memory management for Windows, locking out their previous development and meaning their codebase would have to be completely rewritten for Windows.
They hated MS and tried to bolt from its control.
They lost. Partly because MS' listened to business users' needs and was first to market with Windows business apps.
The list is not correctly sorted.
Check it yourself.
Do I win?
I wondered about the WordPerfect menu listing, and then noticed Cedega running in the tray, like you did.
Why not? Even though OO and Abiword read its files nearly as well as it WP itself and even skip paragraph indentations most times, just like the original, nothing is exactly like the original.
Not to prolong a rather meaningless thread (blush) but I was surprised by the box continuing to run this way as I was led to believe that were the HS-fan to become disconnected from the header, the box would shut itself down. I did *not* notice any throttling of speed, but I didn't obtain any data, just my feeling about the puter not having lost any responsiveness nor general slowness. (Running MEPIS-GNU-Linux 6.01)
The sides are always left off the case, but there is no other fan installed.
N.B. I had a Duron 800 which would shut itself down if the fan in the heatsink even accumulated *dust.* Of course, it had spent a year or more overclocked to ~1500 MHz before I got the Sempron and downclocked it back to stock. It died a natural death prematurely a little while later.
Like the ole Timex watch that "took a licking and kept on ticking" my desktop box, an ancient AMD Sempron 2600+ with a VIA chipset, unknown to me, lost its power connector to the CPU fan, which I only discovered by accident when replacing a hard disk drive. The CPU was hot enough to scald my finger, but neither its performance nor its stability has suffered one bit.
Of course, the heatsink was still connected. But the Sempron was IIRC most definitely NOT a low-power cpu.
Yes, I reconnected the CPU fan. But at least I know my sh*t can take the heat.
No video is available ;o{ .
Yeah, that one.
Toleration applies to everyone including greedheads.
After all, Craig partnered with a guy who preferred to sell his stake to eBay.
If you pass by Muddy Waters' cafe on Valencia Street -- the one near 16th street -- about 9:00 am on a weekday, you may see a white, take-out pastry box sitting on one of the tables. It's food for the poor given nearly every day. The box contains one perfect, fresh and warm quiche divided into a dozen slices from the best bakery in the Mission, Tartine on Guerrero, which always has a line of more than 30-minutes time.
I love this city because some thoughtful soul makes the lives of the poor somewhat easier than the lives of the noveau riche.
However, I find it ironic that it is illegal to feed pigeons in the city named for Saint Francis of Assissi.
Exactly. I had a couple of brief discussions over posts with Craig himself, back when he was CEO, and he saw craigslist as a community and runs it as if it were. I understand and respect this, being a San Franciscan myself; I find Craig's attitude to be an expression of The City's values with respect to greed and capitalism. Craig rightly values friends and having duty and loving work combine.
N.B. Craig likes to code. I take that back. He LOVES to code. That's why someone else is CEO. Craig just wants to hang out with his friends (perhaps hundreds or thousands of them) and invent things to do with computer programs.
Sounds like a good life to me! That's the nature of San Fran City and that's what made me fall in love with it lo so many years ago.
I would like to reply (and hear your arguments more completely) but I don't think this is the correct place. My email is (transpose for the at sign)annamerikin-transpose-gmail. Don't forget the dotcom at the end. And I believe you can respond to my journal.
I am not a programmer, so I don't understand your analogy to code. Here, very briefly, is what I have learned about DNA, genes, and chromosomes since the topic was introduced here some time ago: Very Little. Because little is known. There are lots of hypotheses, but none strike me as insightful. It is to me a little like the chemical periodic table, in that chromosomes can be, as you say, possibly in any order, as the electrons can be said to be "out of order" or disposed randomly in space or time within their orbits which are described by the periodic table.
Does an electron truly "move" to a new orbit when the next energy level in the shell of the molecule is reached?
So chromosomes seem to rearrange themselves. Identical genes may appear in several places on the DNA chain, and may be active or turned off. It appears that both models, your and mine, may be true at the same time, interacting in a way we do not know.
But my description of the way genes, chromosomes, and DNA arrange themselves is my best understanding of the newest developmensts I have heard of in evolutionary science.
Yesterday, /. (or was it >) carried an article that indicated evolutionary change was observed in as little as three decades in certain island reptiles. This is most definitely NOT geological time, so evolutionary theory must explain mysteries that seem to contradict SOME of its main theses. And I would like someone to address my question about the multiple doublings of the DNA of wheat, millet and maize at roughly the same time (~10,000BCE)while man was learning to farm.
I most certainly do not believe in a supernatural creator or designer.
But neither do I entirely and exclusively believe in evolution *as it is understood today*.