"Let's give these folks a little taste of the slashdot effect and do a little 'grassroots' contacting of congresscritters ourselves."
The problem with trying to slashdot congressmen is that writing your congressman takes a lot more effort than clicking a hyperlink. A lot fewer of us have that kind of motivation, unfortunately.
Apathy, it's whats for dinner in America.
I know I learned a lot of logic *before* I tackled any "hard" programming languages by writing game mods. Even if there is a graphical tool involved it's usually easy to see a fun result, and there are always games like Neverwinter Nights that combine a graphical editor with underlying code.
And hell, you get to play games!
Apple had a much more compelling reason to adopt Mach for OSX: They desperately needed to get a modern OS out to replace the very outdated OS 9.x kernel. After their Copeland vaporware debacle, they had little choice if they wanted to remain at all competitive but to look for some other premade kernel to build from.
Cringely states that Microsoft should, for no apparent reason but PR, scrap the NT kernel and move everything onto linux - which, in technical terms is not as modern as the NT kernel. Why would any company want to invent a huge amount in change for change's sake? Microsoft may be a bunch of lamers, but they aren't stupid.
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Nobody expects the homeland security! Our primary weapons are expired copyrights, and rubik's cubes...
oh damn, let me come in again.
"Let's give these folks a little taste of the slashdot effect and do a little 'grassroots' contacting of congresscritters ourselves." The problem with trying to slashdot congressmen is that writing your congressman takes a lot more effort than clicking a hyperlink. A lot fewer of us have that kind of motivation, unfortunately. Apathy, it's whats for dinner in America.
he's the office champion at UT2003
It's all part of a microsoft conspiracy!
42 is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. All other definitions are of course only attempts to explain this phenomenon.
That a new kernel comes out on Friday the 13th.
I know I learned a lot of logic *before* I tackled any "hard" programming languages by writing game mods. Even if there is a graphical tool involved it's usually easy to see a fun result, and there are always games like Neverwinter Nights that combine a graphical editor with underlying code. And hell, you get to play games!
Cringely states that Microsoft should, for no apparent reason but PR, scrap the NT kernel and move everything onto linux - which, in technical terms is not as modern as the NT kernel. Why would any company want to invent a huge amount in change for change's sake? Microsoft may be a bunch of lamers, but they aren't stupid.