Improv? Brings to mind the saying, "If a tree falls and nobody hears it, did it make a sound?"
You'd be surprised who still uses it. It's one of the apps that Microsoft absolutely can not break in an upgrade, because the CFOs of many large customers insist on it.
Spreadsheets may be one of the main reasons personal computing started off, but without Excel, we'd still be using spreadsheets just as much, albeit with a tool of different name.
It's also likely that without MS's questionable business practices, spreadsheet technology would be a lot further along by now, due to competition among vendors.
Yes invading countries and killing their leaders without asking the people of the country involved if that's what they wanted sure is doing sooo much "good" in the world thank for enlightening me as to your imperialist philosophy.
Why do you hate the German, Japanese, and Iraqi people so much that you'd rather they were still living under the dictatorships that led them to ruin?
If you still believe Karl Marx is not a philosopher, please provide a reputable source to agree with you
Ah, but you see, the trouble with jumping through hoops upon the demand of an anonynut like yourself, is that it is a slippery slope: where would it stop?
JCR has been asked the above question repeatedly, over nine days and still hasn't been able to (or is to stupid to?) come up with an answer.
Why is it so difficult for you to accept that I simply choose not to do as you demand? Were you the kid on the playground who threw a tantrum whenever anyone else refused to comply with the rules you made up on the spot?
Marx wasn't a philosopher, and your tantrums won't make him one. Go cope.
Excel 1.0 was a pretty well-polished product, but it was still merely derivative of VisiCalc. I'd have put Visicalc itself on the list, with Lotus Improv right behind it.
Oh, it's not that hard to see through your moral-equivalence bullshit. The long and short of it is, the USA has done more to promote freedom, peace and prosperity than any nation in history, exceeding even the great achievements of the United Kingdom. (Although the UK and the traditions of the English common law deserve a lot of the credit for the creation of the USA.)
Gandhi was successful because he was dealing with a group (the British imperial government) that didn't have any particular desire to hurt him or the members of his movement.
Exactly. Gandhi's tactics are very good for persuading anyone with a conscience (like the British public), but they would be disastrous in (say) the Congo, where King Leopold's troops would have happily shot someone like Gandhi as soon as he burned his first identity card.
To give credit where credit is due, it was the brits who mostly stamped out the global slave trade, who broke the back of the Thuggee cult, and who put an end (mostly) to the repugnant habit of burning widows to death in India.
It's interesting to compare Gandhi to the Dalai Lama; they both resolutely followed a policy of non-violence, but Gandhi was up against the Brits, and the Dalai Lama is up against a regime that killed 77 million of its own people.
Perhapsyou missed the news about Apple investing a couple hundred million dollars in a joint venture with Samsung to build an LCD factory and R&D facility? Apple's 30" displays come from that factory, and chances are that the first 200 DPI + displays for the Mac aren't too far off.
Well,648x480 in a 3" display is closer to 200 DPI than 300, but it's still pretty damn good. This proves that Samsung is able to make very small pixels on an LCD. Now, if they can do the same on a much larger panel, (like Apple's 30" Cinema Display), I for one would be quite happy with such a product for several years at least.
Of course, the smaller the feature size, the easier it is for a defect to take out a whole row or column of pixels. Still, it's just a matter of time.
The vast majority of educated people believe Marx was a philopher,
Nope. The Marxists attempt to legitimize him by adopting the kind of affectation of sophistication that you've done above, and others simply don't bother to argue the point, since the Marxists are impervious to logic. Marxism is misanthropy, which is an emotional position, not a philosophical one.
please provide a reputable source to agree with you
Why bother, when I can simply point you as a negative example?
picking on Apple because they delayed releasing the source to a port of their kernel until they'd finished a big product announcement seems a bit unfair.
As ithappens, it wasn't even a matter of a policy decision to delay until the announcements on Monday (as I had assumed), it was just that the people involved in Core OS were too damned busy working on the WWDC build to deal with reviewing the code to release it. They were heads-down until the middle of last week, when the image went to pressing. So, for all the wailing and gnashing of teeth, there's no story there.
Apple made a blunder by not releasing source in the beginning.
Guess again. Apple maintained their policy of not talking about products before they're ready, and the payoff is tens of millions of dollars worth of free publicity. Compare that to being yelled at by a couple of bloggers trolling for page hits, and it's pretty clear to anyone with an ounce of business sense (which admittedly includes very few of the open-source zealots) that they did precisely the right thing.
Apple doesn't talk about unreleased products, and they won't release any code that tips their hand. The Intel kernel sources would have made it very clear what was going on with the replacements for the G5s, so they waited until today to release that code.
The lesson here is: don't jump to conclusions just because some people with an inflated sense of entitlement throw a tantrum about someone taking their time to do something.
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Marx is a philosopher, because philosophical truths are eternal.
Sorry, it does not follow that "because philosophical truths are eternal" that any particular person was a philospher.
Take a few days to brush up on logic.
-jcr
Now, with you've admission that you're unable, unwilling or simply too stupid to answer, I'll be happy.
More like, I'm just enjoying pushing your buttons by not doing as you say. You pinkos are so predictable.
-jcr
1. Wow the U.S. govt. did something good FORTY years ago, that's sooooo relevant to how our government behaves today.
The US government also toppled a regime of medieval theocrats in Afghanistan. That's a very good thing to do, in my book.
2. Meanwhile on the today front the Iraqi people HATE us and want us to leave IMMEDIATELY"
Some do, some don't. Try asking the Kurds, for example.
-jcr
Improv?
Brings to mind the saying, "If a tree falls and nobody hears it, did it make a sound?"
You'd be surprised who still uses it. It's one of the apps that Microsoft absolutely can not break in an upgrade, because the CFOs of many large customers insist on it.
-jcr
Spreadsheets may be one of the main reasons personal computing started off, but without Excel, we'd still be using spreadsheets just as much, albeit with a tool of different name.
It's also likely that without MS's questionable business practices, spreadsheet technology would be a lot further along by now, due to competition among vendors.
-jcr
Yes invading countries and killing their leaders without asking the people of the country involved if that's what they wanted sure is doing sooo much "good" in the world thank for enlightening me as to your imperialist philosophy.
Why do you hate the German, Japanese, and Iraqi people so much that you'd rather they were still living under the dictatorships that led them to ruin?
-jcr
If you still believe Karl Marx is not a philosopher, please provide a reputable source to agree with you
Ah, but you see, the trouble with jumping through hoops upon the demand of an anonynut like yourself, is that it is a slippery slope: where would it stop?
JCR has been asked the above question repeatedly, over nine days and still hasn't been able to (or is to stupid to?) come up with an answer.
Why is it so difficult for you to accept that I simply choose not to do as you demand? Were you the kid on the playground who threw a tantrum whenever anyone else refused to comply with the rules you made up on the spot?
Marx wasn't a philosopher, and your tantrums won't make him one. Go cope.
-jcr
Excel 1.0 was a pretty well-polished product, but it was still merely derivative of VisiCalc. I'd have put Visicalc itself on the list, with Lotus Improv right behind it.
-jcr
Dude, you've got way too much of your ego wrapped up inyour fantasy of legitimizing Marx.
-jcr
I bet you think you're really clever, don't you?
Oh, it's not that hard to see through your moral-equivalence bullshit. The long and short of it is, the USA has done more to promote freedom, peace and prosperity than any nation in history, exceeding even the great achievements of the United Kingdom. (Although the UK and the traditions of the English common law deserve a lot of the credit for the creation of the USA.)
-jcr
Start to get the picture?
Yep, the United States has done a hell of a lot of good in the world. Thanks for pointing it out in such detail.
-jcr
Gandhi was successful because he was dealing with a group (the British imperial government) that didn't have any particular desire to hurt him or the members of his movement.
Exactly. Gandhi's tactics are very good for persuading anyone with a conscience (like the British public), but they would be disastrous in (say) the Congo, where King Leopold's troops would have happily shot someone like Gandhi as soon as he burned his first identity card.
To give credit where credit is due, it was the brits who mostly stamped out the global slave trade, who broke the back of the Thuggee cult, and who put an end (mostly) to the repugnant habit of burning widows to death in India.
It's interesting to compare Gandhi to the Dalai Lama; they both resolutely followed a policy of non-violence, but Gandhi was up against the Brits, and the Dalai Lama is up against a regime that killed 77 million of its own people.
-jcr
Aside from price and minor cosmetics, how is the MacMini not the PowerMac G4 Cube?
They're similar in many ways, but the Mini is a great deal more powerful, which is to be expected for a machine that was designed several years later.
-jcr
You can no more defend apple
You're makingrather less sense than usual. What's to defend?
than you can your half-baked belief that marx is not a philosopher.
Sorry, he wasn't, and you won't change that no mater how snotty you get.
-jcr
What are yojuu talking about apple for?
Perhapsyou missed the news about Apple investing a couple hundred million dollars in a joint venture with Samsung to build an LCD factory and R&D facility? Apple's 30" displays come from that factory, and chances are that the first 200 DPI + displays for the Mac aren't too far off.
-jcr
Well,648x480 in a 3" display is closer to 200 DPI than 300, but it's still pretty damn good. This proves that Samsung is able to make very small pixels on an LCD. Now, if they can do the same on a much larger panel, (like Apple's 30" Cinema Display), I for one would be quite happy with such a product for several years at least.
Of course, the smaller the feature size, the easier it is for a defect to take out a whole row or column of pixels. Still, it's just a matter of time.
-jcr
The vast majority of educated people believe Marx was a philopher,
Nope. The Marxists attempt to legitimize him by adopting the kind of affectation of sophistication that you've done above, and others simply don't bother to argue the point, since the Marxists are impervious to logic. Marxism is misanthropy, which is an emotional position, not a philosophical one.
please provide a reputable source to agree with you
Why bother, when I can simply point you as a negative example?
-jcr
Don't quit your day job.
-jcr
picking on Apple because they delayed releasing the source to a port of their kernel until they'd finished a big product announcement seems a bit unfair.
As ithappens, it wasn't even a matter of a policy decision to delay until the announcements on Monday (as I had assumed), it was just that the people involved in Core OS were too damned busy working on the WWDC build to deal with reviewing the code to release it. They were heads-down until the middle of last week, when the image went to pressing. So, for all the wailing and gnashing of teeth, there's no story there.
-jcr
May - the confirmation
That was not confirmation, that was a reiteration of the same jump to conclusions.
-jcr
Apple made a blunder by not releasing source in the beginning.
Guess again. Apple maintained their policy of not talking about products before they're ready, and the payoff is tens of millions of dollars worth of free publicity. Compare that to being yelled at by a couple of bloggers trolling for page hits, and it's pretty clear to anyone with an ounce of business sense (which admittedly includes very few of the open-source zealots) that they did precisely the right thing.
-jcr
were people just being bitchy?
Bingo.
Apple doesn't talk about unreleased products, and they won't release any code that tips their hand. The Intel kernel sources would have made it very clear what was going on with the replacements for the G5s, so they waited until today to release that code.
The lesson here is: don't jump to conclusions just because some people with an inflated sense of entitlement throw a tantrum about someone taking their time to do something.
-jcr
Oops, hit the submit button before I was done.
The demand for portable computers isn't the same as the demand for tablet computers, which has proven to be a rather small niche.
-jcr
There's a proven demand for portable computers
A demand which has proven to be a rather small niche.
-jcr
If you ask me, that's a big win against this law in cases like this.
Please don't conflate the authorities and the law. The law was and is on the citizen's side, not the side of the detective, and the DA realized that.
-jcr