You were obviously not there at the time. Bill Gates got rich because IBM signed the daftest contract in computer history from their point of view.
Yes: IBM - the company known for hiring the very best in legal expertise signed away their arms and legs
Why? - I would like to know that!
What I do know is that Bill Gates was a completely unknown school kid until he was brought to IBM's attention by his mother, who was a high-up at IBM. Digital Research was well known. When Garry Kidall did not believe IBM had sent people to see him, somehow Mrs Gates must have been on hand to say to the right person "Check out my son - he is a genius and has written and OS" probably having no idea of the difference between and OS and an interpreter. (Would your mum know the difference? Would she have in 1980?) (mine would, and I have some idea how rare that was). QDOS was known to Bill Gates, who had, indeed, written some software (and a few others) and he spotted an opportunity when it hit him right between the eyes!
Whether Bill Gates or his Dad (who was a very well known lawyer) wrote the contact with IBM, I don't know. Why IBM signed the contract without their lawyers reading it properly, I don't know. In my view the whole thing stinks. (Though I recognise that IBM's decision making was coloured by buffoons who thought they would be lucky to sell 10,000 PCs.
Here in the UK, most people involved in software at the time (like me) did almost nothing for the year that elapsed between rumours that IBM might make a PC, and the first one being delivered, because their employers wanted them to be instantly available to port the company's existing products to the PC - the entire industry knew it would be a game changer. Read the magazines from the time: It was like "Apple is going to make a phone that will run 3rd party apps" x 1,000!
Incidentally, Intel had a perfectly good OS at the time called ISIS but refused to sell it to anyone!
I also don't know why you need a GE225 to write BASIC, surely the most machine independent interpreter ever.
Disclaimer: I wrote an ISIS/CPM clone, but my employers refused to sell it because they said "No one would buy software written in the UK!" - and they were a UK software company"
The correct answer is: During pre-flight ground checks, detect all counters at imminent risk of overflowing*, and flag requirement for corrective action at next maintenance. Probably should be checked at all routine services as well.
* "imminent risk of overflowing" probably means less than four routine maintenance intervals remaining, but consult the requirements document for more detail.
The ability to snap off encryption to analyze things at the wire is a lifesaver.
I think you will find that actually debugging code is sooo twentieth century. Get with it - these days, the game is to add a couple of new bugs every week, and claim its an upgrade.
It is either failure to prosecute obvious bribery (lobyists bribe politicians to do illegal things) or corruption (politicans fail to make corruption illegal out of self interest).
What ever the law, there is clear and obvious lack of morality here.
NBC probably don't know that "Correlation does not imply causation", and if they do, they don't care.
More fat people drink the diet version... well, seeing as it tastes awful, I would not expect thin people to drink it, would you?
Sales of diet Pepsi are falling because half of them are buying Pepsi Max instead. Not sure how it differs from the diet option. They both taste equally bad to me.
Why are there so many in Slashdot creating comments such as "Do you really think that systemd will kill your wife and eat your dog"?
Is it not obvious? Some people (mostly systemd supporters) are jealous of other (more normal, except perhaps here) users who are married with dogs. (I cannot comment on users who are married to dogs, but for them there is goatse.d).
maybe perhaps, they don't. I sure would not bet on it. What does Google do? Searches, you say. Well, I never. They search, they find. Finders keepers.
You are damn right the government has access to everything. The real lesson from Snowdon is, anything the government knows, will leak out sooner or later. (Probably sooner than you think).
Snowdon told us what he found. The other few thousand leakers kept their traps shut so we dont know who they sold the data to.
it's just that pot smoking is very very often an introduction to other, more harmful drugs
Research done in the 60's showed that almost 100% of heroin addicts ate cornflakes for breakfast as children. You could probably repeat the research today with Kinder Eggs in place of cornflakes.
If you are unhappy and turn to pot, it probably won't solve the problem. So you try something harder. obviously, it aint gonna work, so you take more and harder stuff, and it ends badly. If you start young, your judgement was probably worse too.
No. You are doing it wrong. You need to upgrade your tin foil hat. If there is no scientific evidence, then it means "Big Pharma" has hidden the evidence under the carpet, and bribed even more congressmen than normal. There is always scientific evidence. Some of it is complete rubbish, that is all.
If you can't find evidence to support a theory, then it is like in CSI when they cant find fingerprints - someone must have wiped them off!
It's my damned screen, and my damned internet connection.
Right on - If I watch their ads, can I bill them for the bandwidth and my time at <Going rate for legal advice>?. I am quite willing to forward them said legal advice for an additional fee. (But for those of you unwilling to pay, here is the secret legal advice on our hidden laser screen, spoken by a mystery voice: sod off.
Being older than you, when an advert appears instead of the content I requested, I assume it is the wrong URL, and try again. When that does not work, I try another URL.
I do not go there to watch ads, and I do not want to watch ads. If I wanted to buy stuff, I would search for stuff. If they do not want their content to be viewed for free, let them put it behind a paywall where I don't have to see it at all.
There is a precedent: If I don't pay to go to the cinema, I dont get to see the movie. I am happy with that. If they put it on the Internet where it can be seen, then it is supposed to be free - like it is on your front garden/window.
He also did not mention the major riots in the UK a few years ago, which happened because a lot of people thought known gangsters were more trustworthy than the police.
The UK police have an image problem which is seriously impacting their ability to fight crime - and he is one of the reasons.
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Yes: IBM - the company known for hiring the very best in legal expertise signed away their arms and legs
Why? - I would like to know that!
What I do know is that Bill Gates was a completely unknown school kid until he was brought to IBM's attention by his mother, who was a high-up at IBM. Digital Research was well known. When Garry Kidall did not believe IBM had sent people to see him, somehow Mrs Gates must have been on hand to say to the right person "Check out my son - he is a genius and has written and OS" probably having no idea of the difference between and OS and an interpreter. (Would your mum know the difference? Would she have in 1980?) (mine would, and I have some idea how rare that was). QDOS was known to Bill Gates, who had, indeed, written some software (and a few others) and he spotted an opportunity when it hit him right between the eyes!
Whether Bill Gates or his Dad (who was a very well known lawyer) wrote the contact with IBM, I don't know. Why IBM signed the contract without their lawyers reading it properly, I don't know. In my view the whole thing stinks. (Though I recognise that IBM's decision making was coloured by buffoons who thought they would be lucky to sell 10,000 PCs.
Here in the UK, most people involved in software at the time (like me) did almost nothing for the year that elapsed between rumours that IBM might make a PC, and the first one being delivered, because their employers wanted them to be instantly available to port the company's existing products to the PC - the entire industry knew it would be a game changer. Read the magazines from the time: It was like "Apple is going to make a phone that will run 3rd party apps" x 1,000!
Incidentally, Intel had a perfectly good OS at the time called ISIS but refused to sell it to anyone!
I also don't know why you need a GE225 to write BASIC, surely the most machine independent interpreter ever.
Disclaimer: I wrote an ISIS/CPM clone, but my employers refused to sell it because they said "No one would buy software written in the UK!" - and they were a UK software company"
* "imminent risk of overflowing" probably means less than four routine maintenance intervals remaining, but consult the requirements document for more detail.
This is aerospace, not gaming.
Possible Poettering Posture?
Unlike Open Source (Unity)?
I think you will find that actually debugging code is sooo twentieth century. Get with it - these days, the game is to add a couple of new bugs every week, and claim its an upgrade.
And no! I can't even see your lawn from here.
Why would I care if its LED and not OLED, I only use my phonr for Slasdot.
What ever the law, there is clear and obvious lack of morality here.
Depends on the level of mnitoring a day. One ping a day, and inbound alerts on "quake detected"? A PIII on ADSL would probably handle that!
Or, of course, you could give the contract to EDS, and pay $38B.
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon we are talking big money!
Yes ... the manufacturer's CEO's salary.
Well at least it is a better way to spend their money than Google+.
More fat people drink the diet version ... well, seeing as it tastes awful, I would not expect thin people to drink it, would you?
Sales of diet Pepsi are falling because half of them are buying Pepsi Max instead. Not sure how it differs from the diet option. They both taste equally bad to me.
You can put in 1MWh of energy in Diesel in about the same time it takes you to put 1kWh of energy into a battery.
(And hoses to carry significant power levels of electricity are huge compared to those for carrying diesel, and a good deal less safe).
Is it not obvious? Some people (mostly systemd supporters) are jealous of other (more normal, except perhaps here) users who are married with dogs. (I cannot comment on users who are married to dogs, but for them there is goatse.d).
Yes. and with its bare hands, to boot!
Allow it to leak to random, unidentified, parties with dubious intentions.
Get off my lawn. Or, you might care to investigate how Ethernet cables used to be fat and yellow and coaxial.
Is it the new Google phone system?
maybe perhaps, they don't. I sure would not bet on it. What does Google do? Searches, you say. Well, I never. They search, they find. Finders keepers.
You are damn right the government has access to everything. The real lesson from Snowdon is, anything the government knows, will leak out sooner or later. (Probably sooner than you think).
Snowdon told us what he found. The other few thousand leakers kept their traps shut so we dont know who they sold the data to.
Research done in the 60's showed that almost 100% of heroin addicts ate cornflakes for breakfast as children. You could probably repeat the research today with Kinder Eggs in place of cornflakes.
If you are unhappy and turn to pot, it probably won't solve the problem. So you try something harder. obviously, it aint gonna work, so you take more and harder stuff, and it ends badly. If you start young, your judgement was probably worse too.
Correlation does not imply causation.
If you can't find evidence to support a theory, then it is like in CSI when they cant find fingerprints - someone must have wiped them off!
Right on - If I watch their ads, can I bill them for the bandwidth and my time at <Going rate for legal advice>?. I am quite willing to forward them said legal advice for an additional fee. (But for those of you unwilling to pay, here is the secret legal advice on our hidden laser screen, spoken by a mystery voice: sod off.
I think it is safe to presume the signing process will be hacked in a matter of hours.
I do not go there to watch ads, and I do not want to watch ads. If I wanted to buy stuff, I would search for stuff. If they do not want their content to be viewed for free, let them put it behind a paywall where I don't have to see it at all.
There is a precedent: If I don't pay to go to the cinema, I dont get to see the movie. I am happy with that. If they put it on the Internet where it can be seen, then it is supposed to be free - like it is on your front garden/window.
The UK police have an image problem which is seriously impacting their ability to fight crime - and he is one of the reasons.