It's too bad that they had to upgrade past System 7. System 7 is a just-plain-snazzy name, IMHO.
Of course, it doesn't really say much about what the OS is. And OS X (as I've hard MacOS X called) sounds like a confused upgrade to OS 9. Which isn't at all related to Plan 9.
Wow. It's really difficult to name operating systems! I always thought that BeOS sounded like an existentialist OS crossed with a perfume from Calvin Klein.
Linux is okay, but it leads to nit-picking wars (GNU/Linux, "Leenooks", "Lie-nucks", etc.)
Unix is cool, but when I say, "I like Unix" to my non-techie friends, they always wonder. It sure does sound like "I like eunuchs." And that's just not good.
Windows is okay, but it's blatantly ripping off something that it didn't invent with a great deal of brashness. NT and CE are silly, but year numbers are sillier.
Hmm. I can't really think of an operating system name that I really like. I guess Plan 9 is a really cool name, but inside jokes aren't a great selling point. RISC OS is good, I suppose. It tells what it does. But I know nobody uses it.
OpenWrite, the Lighthouse NeXT word processor, is one of my favorite apps. I have been toying with the idea of converting all of my documents into OpenWrite format and using the NeXT (or NEXTSTEP in a VMWare machine). I'm still not sure, but it would be great.
It would also be great to see the programmers from Lighhouse come up with a new word processor for today's users.
Zephyr is shockingly powerful and flexible, but it is a nightmare just to install and get running. I think it would have to have a _huge_ number of changes to be an acceptable alternative to either ICQ or AIM.
(1) Sun hates Microsoft. (2) Scott McNealy is a ranting raving hothead.
Those are two things I hold to be constants in my life.
Beyond that, not much else is certain.
But, relying upon (1), I would conclude that the best way to get at microsoft is a damned good, free, office-compatible office suite. How delicious that would be!
Oh, my goodness. I think your post is about the funniest thing I have read all week. I can't stop laughing, and the people around me are starting to wonder what I'm doing over here.
The image of walking through some lame empty building before seeing a random sign that says 'Welcome to Alaska' is astonishingly funny.
Oh well.
I'm hankering to go back to Kennywood now, though.
I read the article a little too quickly. I guess Linux is being targeted at their servers. But, at the same time, didn't they say that they were de-emphasizing the server market?
I have read it. And the Articles of Confederation.
But Constitutional authority is not specifically about what I was talking. I was suggesting that there has been a constant erosion of rights in a hierarchical fashion with the federal government at the top.
And, if you want to get Constitutional, a National ID Card would fall under Congress's jurisdiction w/ regard to interstate trade. =)
They've tried it before (and won). The ID card and a federal DMV would fit in quite nicely with the Marshall Supreme Court decision on the case of Gibbons vs. Ogden. (This is from memory, so anyone with a better knowlege of early US history should [and probably will] correct me).
I'm not really as much of an anti-privacy nut as it seems. It's just that I really don't fear the government.
This is how I see it: They already know a whole lot about us. They know where we work, how much we make, where we live, who is in our family, where we travel (outside of the country, at least), and probably a whole lot of other things that I can't think of.
In any properly designed system, there would be safeguards against governmental (or private) abuse. Call me an idealist, but I trust elected officials to be somewhat paranoid for us when it comes to providing an avenue for self-protection.
Of course, it would be possible for the system to become horribly perverted. But that would require the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Executive branch, and the Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court all be aligned against us.
And when is the last time that that much government agreed on _anything_?
I suppose that would be the time for a little revolution (legal or extralegal).
Hmm. They usually ask me for my phone number and address. It always bothers me when private companies want to know more about me.
There was an interesting call on C-SPAN's Washington Journal this morning. The caller wanted to know whether the guest (a columnist for The Nation, I think) was more afraid of big business or the federal government. His response was interesting: He trusted the federal government more than he trusted big business as "there were already plenty of people afraid of big government for him". I don't know whether or not I agree with his rationale, but I agree with his response. The government already know all about us. If it doesn't it can find out pretty darned easily (Linda Tripp was afraid of the illegality of her recordings, so she called the indep. prosecutor and he legally wired her up to record Ms. Monica). Big government has at least some reason to care about us (we can vote its tenders out of office), but big business caters only to Wall Street and its investors (one of which is me). Big business has repeatedly shown that it will kill and otherwise screw over average people in the pursuit of wealth for the luckies few. That is what scares me. Not that the government knows a little bit about me a little bit more easily.
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Bay Systems == Competition.
-awc
"What's that sound, mommy?"
"That's Y2k coming, honey"
"Whelp, I guess we'd better get down in the bunker, Eunice."
"Mommy, I forgot Fluffy!!"
"Don't go out there, dear, it's not safe!"
Y2K--Coming to a computer near you.
-awc
It seems that the geeks have defeated the SEC.
Yay, cmu.
Doesn't it already apply to drug users? And then we would be infringing on their IP. And that would be bad.
-awc
meept!
Combined with mindstorms, a lego case could be really, really cool. You could control it in any number of ways.
The only problem would be controlling interference. Lego isn't exactly metal.
-awc
It looks like a mutant NEC-iMac. I think the thing is totally unexciting.
And the low-profile thing looks like a VCR-PlayStation-N64.
Uninspiring to the highest degree.
-awc
Both of the users.
-awc
It's too bad that they had to upgrade past System 7. System 7 is a just-plain-snazzy name, IMHO.
Of course, it doesn't really say much about what the OS is. And OS X (as I've hard MacOS X called) sounds like a confused upgrade to OS 9. Which isn't at all related to Plan 9.
Wow. It's really difficult to name operating systems! I always thought that BeOS sounded like an existentialist OS crossed with a perfume from Calvin Klein.
Linux is okay, but it leads to nit-picking wars (GNU/Linux, "Leenooks", "Lie-nucks", etc.)
Unix is cool, but when I say, "I like Unix" to my non-techie friends, they always wonder. It sure does sound like "I like eunuchs." And that's just not good.
Windows is okay, but it's blatantly ripping off something that it didn't invent with a great deal of brashness. NT and CE are silly, but year numbers are sillier.
Hmm. I can't really think of an operating system name that I really like. I guess Plan 9 is a really cool name, but inside jokes aren't a great selling point. RISC OS is good, I suppose. It tells what it does. But I know nobody uses it.
Oh well. Enough rambling.
-awc
OpenWrite, the Lighthouse NeXT word processor, is one of my favorite apps. I have been toying with the idea of converting all of my documents into OpenWrite format and using the NeXT (or NEXTSTEP in a VMWare machine). I'm still not sure, but it would be great.
It would also be great to see the programmers from Lighhouse come up with a new word processor for today's users.
Yay, NeXT.
-awc
Zephyr is shockingly powerful and flexible, but it is a nightmare just to install and get running. I think it would have to have a _huge_ number of changes to be an acceptable alternative to either ICQ or AIM.
-awc
(1) Sun hates Microsoft. (2) Scott McNealy is a ranting raving hothead.
Those are two things I hold to be constants in my life.
Beyond that, not much else is certain.
But, relying upon (1), I would conclude that the best way to get at microsoft is a damned good, free, office-compatible office suite. How delicious that would be!
-awc
Transfer to CMU =)
-awc
Isn't that live free _or_ die?
New Hampshire, right?
How about "live free and die". That's about how it works.
-awc
Pardon? I was bored at work. I don't have nearly enough free time.
-awc
Oh, my goodness. I think your post is about the funniest thing I have read all week. I can't stop laughing, and the people around me are starting to wonder what I'm doing over here.
The image of walking through some lame empty building before seeing a random sign that says 'Welcome to Alaska' is astonishingly funny.
Oh well.
I'm hankering to go back to Kennywood now, though.
-awc
I read the article a little too quickly. I guess Linux is being targeted at their servers. But, at the same time, didn't they say that they were de-emphasizing the server market?
-awc
I have read it. And the Articles of Confederation.
But Constitutional authority is not specifically about what I was talking. I was suggesting that there has been a constant erosion of rights in a hierarchical fashion with the federal government at the top.
And, if you want to get Constitutional, a National ID Card would fall under Congress's jurisdiction w/ regard to interstate trade. =)
They've tried it before (and won). The ID card and a federal DMV would fit in quite nicely with the Marshall Supreme Court decision on the case of Gibbons vs. Ogden. (This is from memory, so anyone with a better knowlege of early US history should [and probably will] correct me).
-awc
-awc
Should your employer have more power than the government?
-awc
I'm not really as much of an anti-privacy nut as it seems. It's just that I really don't fear the government.
This is how I see it: They already know a whole lot about us. They know where we work, how much we make, where we live, who is in our family, where we travel (outside of the country, at least), and probably a whole lot of other things that I can't think of.
In any properly designed system, there would be safeguards against governmental (or private) abuse. Call me an idealist, but I trust elected officials to be somewhat paranoid for us when it comes to providing an avenue for self-protection.
Of course, it would be possible for the system to become horribly perverted. But that would require the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Executive branch, and the Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court all be aligned against us.
And when is the last time that that much government agreed on _anything_?
I suppose that would be the time for a little revolution (legal or extralegal).
-awc
If Linux is going to be default on Visual Workstations, those things are going to be _fantastic_. Wow.
That already happened. It was when the Articles of Confederation were tossed out in favor of the Constitution. And people howled...
-awc
If it's legitimate and private, who gives a darn if the guv'ment wants to monitor it, then?
-awc
Hmm. They usually ask me for my phone number and address. It always bothers me when private companies want to know more about me.
There was an interesting call on C-SPAN's Washington Journal this morning. The caller wanted to know whether the guest (a columnist for The Nation, I think) was more afraid of big business or the federal government. His response was interesting: He trusted the federal government more than he trusted big business as "there were already plenty of people afraid of big government for him". I don't know whether or not I agree with his rationale, but I agree with his response. The government already know all about us. If it doesn't it can find out pretty darned easily (Linda Tripp was afraid of the illegality of her recordings, so she called the indep. prosecutor and he legally wired her up to record Ms. Monica). Big government has at least some reason to care about us (we can vote its tenders out of office), but big business caters only to Wall Street and its investors (one of which is me). Big business has repeatedly shown that it will kill and otherwise screw over average people in the pursuit of wealth for the luckies few. That is what scares me. Not that the government knows a little bit about me a little bit more easily.
-awc