Despite what the 13 yr old computer science experts on Slashdot might tell you, Fortran (esp. Fortran 77) rocks. Stick with it. Remember the KISS principle.
You are so right; if only they cared...
IMHO IBM really missed the boat; they should originally had an affordable, standalone desktop 370 that ran CMS (the DOS like OS from VM). It would have been incredible; all the software and years of 370 expertise appearing on the desktop would have blown everything else away. And a windowing system certainly could have been added later, just like Microsoft added to DOS.
The AT/370 and XT/370 were too late, too expensive and you had to have a mainframe to get one.
Another reason is that it was very easy to convert 8080 programs to the 8088/8086 platform, so a lot of old 8080 favorites (eg. WordStar) appeared fairly quickly on the IBM PC platform.
rooted in the ideas that stealing from a big corporation isn't stealing, because they obviously screwed little people over to get where they are today, so it's alright for us to screw over "them"
Big corporations are always screwing over the little guy, with their fine print, bait & switch tactics, political donations, advocacy advertising, EULAs, whatever. Why is it OK for them and not for me?
Little guy gets caught stealing: big fines and/or jail.
Big guy gets caught stealing: 500 company lawyers issue a statement about how the companies actions are healthy competition and maximize shareholder value. Stock rises 10%. Company avoids punishment by generous donations of soft money to the Republicrat party.
The law is so badly broken its a joke.
A lot of these shareholders are just as bad as the CEOs; they think its just great the company lays off thousands, or screws employees on severance, or holidays or benefits, as long as the shareholders benefit. Fuck 'em.
But its worse than you say; except for Yuri Gagarin and the 100 MT bomb, nothing interesting, original or useful has come out of Russia since the end of WW II. Anything they now have that is any good has been copied or stolen from the U.S. or Western Europe. Their computer industry is a good example; their hardware and software were always cheap copies of U.S. designs and now they can't even do that.
Finally, how can you take seriously a country whose capital city is constructed like a huge bull's eye, just waiting for the U.S. to wipe it out?
Whats a hoot though is that although people who build their own cars or airplanes do not (in general) make a product a whole lot better or cheaper than say Honda or Boeing, the open-source movement has ended up creating an OS far superior and cheaper to that of the biggest software peddler in history.
Canada has an incompetent, corrupt and useless government (mainly the fault of its clueless voters) but I would not say its "communist", big business can pretty well do what they want.
I don't understand; you measure one of the entangled photons and thus know what is happening to the other, even though it may be quite some distance away. This is like being able to tell that twin A is wearing a red shirt in Bombay because you see twin B wearing a yellow shirt in New York. How is this information or state transferred between the two particles?
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Despite what the 13 yr old computer science experts on Slashdot might tell you, Fortran (esp. Fortran 77) rocks. Stick with it. Remember the KISS principle.
The AT/370 and XT/370 were too late, too expensive and you had to have a mainframe to get one.
Ah, what could have been ...
Another reason is that it was very easy to convert 8080 programs to the 8088/8086 platform, so a lot of old 8080 favorites (eg. WordStar) appeared fairly quickly on the IBM PC platform.
Big corporations are always screwing over the little guy, with their fine print, bait & switch tactics, political donations, advocacy advertising, EULAs, whatever. Why is it OK for them and not for me?
Little guy gets caught stealing: big fines and/or jail. Big guy gets caught stealing: 500 company lawyers issue a statement about how the companies actions are healthy competition and maximize shareholder value. Stock rises 10%. Company avoids punishment by generous donations of soft money to the Republicrat party. The law is so badly broken its a joke.
A lot of these shareholders are just as bad as the CEOs; they think its just great the company lays off thousands, or screws employees on severance, or holidays or benefits, as long as the shareholders benefit. Fuck 'em.
But its worse than you say; except for Yuri Gagarin and the 100 MT bomb, nothing interesting, original or useful has come out of Russia since the end of WW II. Anything they now have that is any good has been copied or stolen from the U.S. or Western Europe. Their computer industry is a good example; their hardware and software were always cheap copies of U.S. designs and now they can't even do that. Finally, how can you take seriously a country whose capital city is constructed like a huge bull's eye, just waiting for the U.S. to wipe it out?
Yet more proof that most Canadians are complete idiots. God, I can hardly wait until the US invades.
Whats a hoot though is that although people who build their own cars or airplanes do not (in general) make a product a whole lot better or cheaper than say Honda or Boeing, the open-source movement has ended up creating an OS far superior and cheaper to that of the biggest software peddler in history.
Canada has an incompetent, corrupt and useless government (mainly the fault of its clueless voters) but I would not say its "communist", big business can pretty well do what they want.
The article blurb sounded like some of Katz's crap, except shorter.
I don't understand; you measure one of the entangled photons and thus know what is happening to the other, even though it may be quite some distance away. This is like being able to tell that twin A is wearing a red shirt in Bombay because you see twin B wearing a yellow shirt in New York. How is this information or state transferred between the two particles?
Some troll you are. You're a KARMA whore troll. Yuck.
fp!
"Its not a bug its a feature." What do you expect from open sore software? Try this instead, their stuff actually works.
... "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." I don't see how this fits with this Iron Chef thing. Is it because of that Shatner bozo?