I guess they don't advertise on TV, but regardless, you can walk into various electronics stores and see Archos's stuff on display. You don't have to buy it online. Here's a large, local chain: http://www.futureshop.ca/ Search for "archos" and see what comes up.
Let's face it though, they are a niche player. The people who want to install alternate operating systems or whatever will know how to look for this stuff.
I guess Xerox wasn't a corporation, but some sort of charity? Anyway, Xerox PARC was founded in 1970, making it pretty improbable that everyone "ripped off" Xerox in the 1960s. And the first mouse was invented at SRI and first shown at The Mother of All Demos in 1968, along with various other stuff we take for granted today. I guess Xerox "ripped off" SRI then, in your simple-minded universe.
In exchange for allowing Apple to make use of their work, Xerox was allowed to buy pre-IPO Apple stock. Welcome to the world of business.
You're sick of Apple fanboys? I'm sick of clearly non-technical people spouting rage at an industry they have absolutely no idea about.
The multiprocessing module is your friend. When it comes to Python, forget threads.
"multiprocessing is a package that supports spawning processes using an API similar to the threading module. The multiprocessing package offers both local and remote concurrency, effectively side-stepping the Global Interpreter Lock by using subprocesses instead of threads. Due to this, the multiprocessing module allows the programmer to fully leverage multiple processors on a given machine."
People can build memorials to whomever they want. Towns can choose to commemorate notable citizens in whatever way they see fit. No offense, but honestly who cares what you feel "comfortable" with?
Canadians mopped it up. The Americans "took an interest". Also note that it was back in 1952 - since then, Canadian reactors have probably the strongest safety record in the world.
Oh please, Jobs was fired by the board once. They can do it again. They won't because he is really good at what he does.
Anyway, why people have such personal feelings and feel free to make character judgements about a guy they will never meet who runs a computer hardware and software company is beyond me.
The Amiga lacked memory protection, so one rogue program could still bring the whole thing down. Multitasking without memory protection is a risky endeavour indeed.
So you object to dynamic typing? Again, maybe you should look into a language called Lisp, "buddy". These highly useful concepts have a long lineage, and ascribing what's happening in C# to Javascript is silly.
Actually, anonymous blocks and first-class functions are very powerful and far predate Javascript (by decades). You might want to look into a language called "Lisp" sometime.
Slashdot's comments section fell off the map of the technologically savvy a long time ago. As you said, it's mostly just a sounding board for people who "use the internet" and think they understand how things work, and base their opinions on childish principles. Granted that it's always had a bit of that element, but the days when people discussed actual code, complete with pasted samples, are long gone.
I'm a programmer, I work with a lot of programmers and engineers, and none that I know of read Slashdot. Ten years ago, this would not have been the case.
So your country needs better privacy laws. This sort of thing is illegal in Canada, for example. The horse has left the barn: cell phones aren't going anywhere.
The first three posters in this thread have brand new, nearly consecutive uids and are sitting around agreeing with one another about proprietary software and MS. Just saying.
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I guess they don't advertise on TV, but regardless, you can walk into various electronics stores and see Archos's stuff on display. You don't have to buy it online. Here's a large, local chain: http://www.futureshop.ca/ Search for "archos" and see what comes up.
Let's face it though, they are a niche player. The people who want to install alternate operating systems or whatever will know how to look for this stuff.
I guess Xerox wasn't a corporation, but some sort of charity? Anyway, Xerox PARC was founded in 1970, making it pretty improbable that everyone "ripped off" Xerox in the 1960s. And the first mouse was invented at SRI and first shown at The Mother of All Demos in 1968, along with various other stuff we take for granted today. I guess Xerox "ripped off" SRI then, in your simple-minded universe.
In exchange for allowing Apple to make use of their work, Xerox was allowed to buy pre-IPO Apple stock. Welcome to the world of business.
You're sick of Apple fanboys? I'm sick of clearly non-technical people spouting rage at an industry they have absolutely no idea about.
The multiprocessing module is your friend. When it comes to Python, forget threads.
"multiprocessing is a package that supports spawning processes using an API similar to the threading module. The multiprocessing package offers both local and remote concurrency, effectively side-stepping the Global Interpreter Lock by using subprocesses instead of threads. Due to this, the multiprocessing module allows the programmer to fully leverage multiple processors on a given machine."
Yes, D is good stuff indeed. You mentioned AA, but let's not forget Walter Bright, D's creator and all-around genius.
No they didn't. What an idiotic, misinformed comment.
People can build memorials to whomever they want. Towns can choose to commemorate notable citizens in whatever way they see fit. No offense, but honestly who cares what you feel "comfortable" with?
Sure you were, cool guy. Now please go away.
Er, you didn't look very hard. You can install your own code anytime you want on the iPhone, no license required. I do it all the time.
The United States has far and away the finest universities in the world. And I'm not American.
eBay runs on Windows.
Canadians mopped it up. The Americans "took an interest". Also note that it was back in 1952 - since then, Canadian reactors have probably the strongest safety record in the world.
Bang on.
You cannot be serious.
Oh please, Jobs was fired by the board once. They can do it again. They won't because he is really good at what he does.
Anyway, why people have such personal feelings and feel free to make character judgements about a guy they will never meet who runs a computer hardware and software company is beyond me.
Slashdot is largely composed of poorly-socialised children who think technology companies are involved in pitched battles of good vs. evil.
The Amiga lacked memory protection, so one rogue program could still bring the whole thing down. Multitasking without memory protection is a risky endeavour indeed.
So you object to dynamic typing? Again, maybe you should look into a language called Lisp, "buddy". These highly useful concepts have a long lineage, and ascribing what's happening in C# to Javascript is silly.
Man, I miss twitter. That guy was awesome.
Actually, anonymous blocks and first-class functions are very powerful and far predate Javascript (by decades). You might want to look into a language called "Lisp" sometime.
Slashdot's comments section fell off the map of the technologically savvy a long time ago. As you said, it's mostly just a sounding board for people who "use the internet" and think they understand how things work, and base their opinions on childish principles. Granted that it's always had a bit of that element, but the days when people discussed actual code, complete with pasted samples, are long gone.
I'm a programmer, I work with a lot of programmers and engineers, and none that I know of read Slashdot. Ten years ago, this would not have been the case.
It would be cool to hear more about those days, what it was like, how certain decisions were made (Mach kernel, for example), etc.
Hemos has lost a LOT of weight. Good for him.
Oh, how I wish! That guy was comedy gold.
So your country needs better privacy laws. This sort of thing is illegal in Canada, for example. The horse has left the barn: cell phones aren't going anywhere.
The first three posters in this thread have brand new, nearly consecutive uids and are sitting around agreeing with one another about proprietary software and MS. Just saying.