I was going to say my experience is much the same, except that, with HP printers on Windows, I have had them work "strait out the box" only to fail to work several days later, and never work again except when installed on a BSD box used as a print server!
My Tektronics printer works from Windows and Linux, but it took about 3 days to get it to work on each. Most of the time finding drivers, and how to _really_ install them and configure/hack them.
Dont talk to me about scanners - I have this terrible pain in all the diodes in my left leg...
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the IBM AT had _real_ multitasking capabilities. it was based on 80286, which was plenty capable of running preemptive multitasking in protected mode.
Not for any definition of _real_ that I would agree with. It could multitask It was well short of what Unix needs. I know - I tried!
The memory management model was wrong, and demand paging was possible in theory, but not in practice. Loads of people tried. None succeeded. The 68020 and NS32032 could do it, as could the 386. The 286 MMU was botched.
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Coherent and Xenix did.
Not till the 286 AFAICR, the MMU in the 8086 was worthless. Real Unix needed at least a 386.
As for home users - hell, no! You needed to be a real nerd to do anything with any Unix until
at least 2007.
I am planning to migrate my 85 year old Mum to Ubuntu, as she finds Windows is no longer useable.
(She was a programmer in the 1960's - when programming was women's work cos it was boring (Fortran 4)).
Disclaimer: I speak as one who has ran Unix (on PDP11) as a home system in the 1980's, and the *BSDs
on the desktop from about 1995.
What you can patent via design patent, though, is having a light in a particular spot. And handgrips in a particular shape. Analog sticks in a particular spot.
You sure as hell cant patent any such thing in the UK. However, it is possible your "design patent" is our "registered design" in which case, to infringe, the lights would have to be the same shape, colour and position, and a bunch of other sameness.
So this could lead to a culture clash. I suggest fill the controllers with tea and throw them into Boston Harbour.
"No controllers without desperation" shall be your battle cry!
Or perhaps you should be throwing congress-critters in the harbour?
Ever driven an 18 wheeler? Ever driven an 18 wheeler with an AUTOMATIC???? I did. Once. Never again.
Yep - they are the stuff of horror films - heavy traffic may be scary, but reversing into a loading bay with one wheel in a pothole makes Hitchcock look tame!
Both of these cost me hideous amounts of money. I do telecomms billing, and if you think you can do that with MSSQL (which cant handle timestamps properly), then think again. I certainly cant afford to have another clusterfuck involving MSSQL - if a client wants to use it, let him go elsewhere. i don't want him sueing me cos his billing data is worthless. Yes I know someone else will get the business - I have had bills from several telecomms companies who probably do use MS software! If my competition get sued it suits me fine.
I do not presume that Google is being dishonest here.
Which nicely illustrates why Bing is a no-hoper! Most people can tell the difference between good and evil when they see it on a web page. Hint: if the search results are rigged, then its not the product you want! Many of us remember when the answer was Barnes and Noble or Alamo Car Rental regardless of what the question was....
Find "expletive deleted" at Alamo Car Rentals Yea, that will work!
Wiimote is supported in Linux, even if not natively. So is the Wiifit balance board
When is someone going to implement multi-player, online "International Mapouka Challenge" on Linux using the Balance Board - now that would beat Tux Racer! Hell, It might even sell Linux!
I would definitely fire anyone who specifies Oracle in my organisation. Oracle have shafted me twice by dropping support for a product with inadequate notice. Its either Postgresql or DB2 for me, unless MySQL is the best choice.
I would also fire anyone who specifies MSSQL - with immediate effect, and no severance pay: On grounds of insubordination, incompetence and reckless endangerment. As for people who think SQL means MSSQL - they are either too ignorant or stupid to be employable.
Funny thing is, if they advertise a free mobile with a horrendously over-priced tariff, you cant go into Carphone Whorehouse and get the phone for free with no tariff. (Although in my experience, you can get the tariff and be promised a Blackberry which, when you get it, doesnt work and when you complain, they replace it with "another one" which is actually the same, not working, one! Then when you wont pay for the free phone you have not got, they threaten to use you!)
Disclaimer: I live in the UK and have a legal dispute with Carphone Whorehouse.
50% of Americans are of below average intelligence, and 50% below average level of awareness of internet security. Almost all the people who are in one of these categories, and 100% of people in both categories, who actually use computers, are Windows users. Some are first time users on someone else's Administrator account
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Rum and Coca Cola will hide a lot of sins :-)
My Tektronics printer works from Windows and Linux, but it took about 3 days to get it to work on each. Most of the time finding drivers, and how to _really_ install them and configure/hack them.
Dont talk to me about scanners - I have this terrible pain in all the diodes in my left leg ...
Not for any definition of _real_ that I would agree with. It could multitask It was well short of what Unix needs. I know - I tried!
The memory management model was wrong, and demand paging was possible in theory, but not in practice. Loads of people tried. None succeeded. The 68020 and NS32032 could do it, as could the 386. The 286 MMU was botched.
Not till the 286 AFAICR, the MMU in the 8086 was worthless. Real Unix needed at least a 386.
As for home users - hell, no! You needed to be a real nerd to do anything with any Unix until at least 2007.
I am planning to migrate my 85 year old Mum to Ubuntu, as she finds Windows is no longer useable. (She was a programmer in the 1960's - when programming was women's work cos it was boring (Fortran 4)).
Disclaimer: I speak as one who has ran Unix (on PDP11) as a home system in the 1980's, and the *BSDs on the desktop from about 1995.
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Or you could use a spread-sheet yourself!
You sure as hell cant patent any such thing in the UK. However, it is possible your "design patent" is our "registered design" in which case, to infringe, the lights would have to be the same shape, colour and position, and a bunch of other sameness. So this could lead to a culture clash. I suggest fill the controllers with tea and throw them into Boston Harbour.
"No controllers without desperation" shall be your battle cry!
Or perhaps you should be throwing congress-critters in the harbour?
Have you ever tried a tube of bzip?
Yep - they are the stuff of horror films - heavy traffic may be scary, but reversing into a loading bay with one wheel in a pothole makes Hitchcock look tame!
My fridge runs NetBSD, you insensitive clod!
Correct, if 2 to 3 means 7!
To save others RTFA, he misrepresented the headline - its SCO to buy Microsoft!
I misread this as "life-cockroach" but after reading TFA it seems I was right anyway!
(Since the PDP11 was designed to be a hardware Fortran machine, and C was its assembler, and the i86 a poor clone of the PDP11!)
Or maybe I iGress!
1) Oracle Power Objects
2) OS/2 support
Both of these cost me hideous amounts of money. I do telecomms billing, and if you think you can do that with MSSQL (which cant handle timestamps properly), then think again. I certainly cant afford to have another clusterfuck involving MSSQL - if a client wants to use it, let him go elsewhere. i don't want him sueing me cos his billing data is worthless. Yes I know someone else will get the business - I have had bills from several telecomms companies who probably do use MS software! If my competition get sued it suits me fine.
Which nicely illustrates why Bing is a no-hoper! Most people can tell the difference between good and evil when they see it on a web page. Hint: if the search results are rigged, then its not the product you want! Many of us remember when the answer was Barnes and Noble or Alamo Car Rental regardless of what the question was ....
Find "expletive deleted" at Alamo Car Rentals Yea, that will work!
You have obviously never used a Pentium 1!
When is someone going to implement multi-player, online "International Mapouka Challenge" on Linux using the Balance Board - now that would beat Tux Racer! Hell, It might even sell Linux!
Does anyone know how to unlock the secret girlfriends in Tiger Woods PGA tour 10 on Wii?
I would definitely fire anyone who specifies Oracle in my organisation. Oracle have shafted me twice by dropping support for a product with inadequate notice. Its either Postgresql or DB2 for me, unless MySQL is the best choice.
I would also fire anyone who specifies MSSQL - with immediate effect, and no severance pay: On grounds of insubordination, incompetence and reckless endangerment. As for people who think SQL means MSSQL - they are either too ignorant or stupid to be employable.
Disclaimer: I live in the UK and have a legal dispute with Carphone Whorehouse.
50% of Americans are of below average intelligence, and 50% below average level of awareness of internet security. Almost all the people who are in one of these categories, and 100% of people in both categories, who actually use computers, are Windows users. Some are first time users on someone else's Administrator account
We are doomed, all doomed!
You obviously have never turned up at a Ryanair checkin without a paper copy of your paperless ticket!
Maybe you forgot to turn it on?
Nope: there is still plenty of freedom in Democratic Republic of Congo and no shortage of guns and violence (and the music is great too).