Yeah, I was about to say that! Amazing how people gloss over that.
I loved the Portfolio. I had Turbo Pascal on mine, wrote some fun stuff. I also wrote several short stories on the Skytrain going to and from work on that crazy little keyboard. Good times!
Since when did GEOS come out in 1985? Yes, the Commodore 64 version came out then, but I seriously doubt that any of the code created for that was used in any of the designs discussed in the article. Try 1990, for the IBM version...so how old was that code again?
Oh, and the editor for this piece should be flogged for drinking on the job. What a steamer for readability!
I work in a computer store, but the position of management (and it's been similar at a lot of stores I've visited or worked for) is that they don't want to push/give OpenOffice because they don't make money on it. In the retail market, it seems like value-added services don't matter anymore...if there isn't a profit to be made, it won't be touched.
Same goes with programs like AVG, Spybot, etc...we use the utilities in the service department as part of our spyware/virus cleaning services, but that's as far as it goes.
Trust me, I'd love to load our systems with Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, etc., but the retail culture here doesn't allow it!
It seems like most everyone on here thinks that it's the producer's fault that Richard Dean Anderson isn't on the show anymore. Get a grip, some people get tired of the same job day in and day out and want a change. After all, he's not only an actor on the show, but he's also the executive producer. I imagine that makes for a long work week.
SG1 and Farscape are both excellent shows. I bear no ill will toward Sci-Fi for canning Farscape, I imagine that the show was massively expensive to produce so although the decision was a tough one to make, it had to be done for the network to survive.
Richard is a fine actor. Ben is an awesome actor. It's kinda like comparing William Shatner to Patrick Stewart. Give Ben time, you may grow to love him.
Hierarchal task list. I really think that this is a superior way of keeping track of tasks with multiple steps.
Agenda-At-Once is the only calendar program that I've seen so far with this. Undoubtedly there are others, but I think at this stage they should ALL have that feature.
I see two problems here. The website is about as exciting as cold excrement, and from the listing of computers that they do have, they don't have much of a collection (how many computers are there? I personally have about 23 collectables myself)
Seriously, if I were visiting Australia I'd probably give the whole museum a pass simply because their website makes the collection look completely boring. And I'm their target demographic. Sad!
I liked the prototype better. Instead of looking like a freaky "egyptian" dog (no offense meant, egyptians!), it looked more like a futuristic monkey. Way better looking.
I'd argue about what the heck Sony was thinking, but since they sold out of the little buggers, it would be a moot point.
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What's stopping you from doing something like Simon's BASIC or Forth or something else?
Yeah, I was about to say that! Amazing how people gloss over that.
I loved the Portfolio. I had Turbo Pascal on mine, wrote some fun stuff. I also wrote several short stories on the Skytrain going to and from work on that crazy little keyboard. Good times!
Windows NT had an emulation layer that handled 16-bit apps. OS X had Rosetta and the Classic environments. And Microsoft now owns Virtual PC.
They have the technology to make Windows a clean OS with emulation errors for doing whatever legacy OS you want. They just seem too lazy to do it.
Since when did GEOS come out in 1985? Yes, the Commodore 64 version came out then, but I seriously doubt that any of the code created for that was used in any of the designs discussed in the article. Try 1990, for the IBM version...so how old was that code again?
Oh, and the editor for this piece should be flogged for drinking on the job. What a steamer for readability!
Maybe I have, you jagoff...I had a very successful store for several years, but I got married, shut it down, and moved to a bigger city.
Don't always assume that you know everything!
I work in a computer store, but the position of management (and it's been similar at a lot of stores I've visited or worked for) is that they don't want to push/give OpenOffice because they don't make money on it. In the retail market, it seems like value-added services don't matter anymore...if there isn't a profit to be made, it won't be touched.
Same goes with programs like AVG, Spybot, etc...we use the utilities in the service department as part of our spyware/virus cleaning services, but that's as far as it goes.
Trust me, I'd love to load our systems with Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, etc., but the retail culture here doesn't allow it!
It seems like most everyone on here thinks that it's the producer's fault that Richard Dean Anderson isn't on the show anymore. Get a grip, some people get tired of the same job day in and day out and want a change. After all, he's not only an actor on the show, but he's also the executive producer. I imagine that makes for a long work week.
SG1 and Farscape are both excellent shows. I bear no ill will toward Sci-Fi for canning Farscape, I imagine that the show was massively expensive to produce so although the decision was a tough one to make, it had to be done for the network to survive.
Richard is a fine actor. Ben is an awesome actor. It's kinda like comparing William Shatner to Patrick Stewart. Give Ben time, you may grow to love him.
Hierarchal task list. I really think that this is a superior way of keeping track of tasks with multiple steps.
Agenda-At-Once is the only calendar program that I've seen so far with this. Undoubtedly there are others, but I think at this stage they should ALL have that feature.
I see two problems here. The website is about as exciting as cold excrement, and from the listing of computers that they do have, they don't have much of a collection (how many computers are there? I personally have about 23 collectables myself)
Seriously, if I were visiting Australia I'd probably give the whole museum a pass simply because their website makes the collection look completely boring. And I'm their target demographic. Sad!
I liked the prototype better. Instead of looking like a freaky "egyptian" dog (no offense meant, egyptians!), it looked more like a futuristic monkey. Way better looking.
I'd argue about what the heck Sony was thinking, but since they sold out of the little buggers, it would be a moot point.
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