In other words, if it doesn't gobble resources like crazy, it's not fun for you, eh?
Hell, a few years back I used to still play 3-Demon (a wireframe 3-d version of Pacman). It was most fun to play on my old PC-Junior. The PC Junior is probably the only PC compatible to have a Norton SI less than 1. It didn't have a DMA controller, for one thing. If you turned down a long corridor playing 3-Demon on a Junior, the game actually slows down as the game tries to render all those wireframes.
'Hardcore' to me sounds like somebody trying to justify spending yet more money. Possibly it's a dicksize issue for some.
The penguin is a bird that forgot how to fly. That's a horrible mascot, besides the fact that Tux in particular looks like a penguin stoopid just after a big bong hit. It's really only the Linux mascot as a joke, because Linus was publicly bitten by a penguin at an early Linux-related social event.
Here's something exciting for you to try: There are actually people out there, in the world, who don't hate Microsoft as their hobby. People who don't dream up new and horrible scenarios for their arch-nemesis to endure. Go out and meet some of them. Maybe even do something not involving Bill hatred.
Actually, Word for Windows 2.0 leaped to Word for Windows 6.0 because that was the version number of Word for Macintosh. And they adopted an 'identical user interface' for Word for Windows/Mac 6.0. The user manual served for both the Windows and Mac at that version.
WordPerfect was the dismally losing 'competitor' at the time, not a serious competitor. They produced an absolute disaster of a word processor in their first Windows attempt. They were part of the anti-Windows coalition with Lotus 123 at the time. They were stuck with a userbase of DOS-heads (the WordPerfect jihaad was composed of one secretary in each office who was the 'computer wizard' because she had memorized all the left-flipper/control/alt/f11 to indent arcana necessary do do anything useful with no-visible-menu WordPerfect.
Actually, it's more a case of 'if a street punk sprays crap all over a wall in the city it's a cultural expression and the radical chic people oooh and ahhh.' and 'If a megacorporation sprays/puts something on the wall, they've got bucks and it's time for the city's bureaucrats to start the shakedown.'
No, what is going to happen is some swarthy zealot will DEMAND the source code, and it will cost taxpayers $300,000 for the court case, then $40,000 for the audit and search for the source code (which wasn't archived in a 'clean' fashion.) After the precedent is set, it will cost roughly 30% more for all future code development because a new buereaucrac will be set up to track and archive code.
Further, the Apple hardware is single sourced. If Apple gets into considerable trouble, a business with all Apple hardware is in big trouble. This is not the case with most PC hardware out there on the market.
Believe me, the companies in the past that have switched over from Apple hardware have had to eat a lot of losses when they scrapped all that odd incompatible hardware.
With laws like these twenty years from now could be sweet time to be around.
Except, 20 years from now you could be in a nursing home and no matter how much you press the button to get them to bring you fresh water, they're busy fucking around recompiling the kernal on the bedpan.
How often do you have to replace those 'refillable' cartridges with new ones? The smudgy mess that a refilled cartridge produces is hardly what anybody wants. The smudgy mess that ANY inkjet page becomes with a little exposure to moisture isn't what anybody wants.
Raymond's 'Cathedral and the Bazaar' essay was originally written as a criticism of the small-group centralized way that Stallman and his team develop GNU Emacs.
This fact seems to have largely been swept under the carpet, it is dismaying how many people think it's an anti-Microsoft essay. It was a polemic within the open source community.
It is sheer idiocy to print anything more than a page or two in length on an Injet printer. The ink for those things is obscenely expensive. Hell, the whole 'ink cartel' thing might be what got the wrong sorts of rats to climb on board at Hewlett-Packard and ruin the company. Laser printers cost a magnitude less per page to print. And a laser printed copy can be as good or better than a mass published book. My LaserJet 5P makes it fairly easy to do doublesided printing by doing odd/even print jobs and diverting the pages to the alternative trays to feed it through twice.
There used to be third party cooling fans available for the Mac Plus. Basically a muffin fan in a plastic shroud that would slide into the handle hole on top of the dinkyscreen case.
They sold for in excess of $300 if I remember right. Yes, for a molded plastic shroud and a muffin fan. There used to be a huge business in overcharging Macintosh users outrageously. It boosted their self esteem to pay more, for their 'better computing experience.'
An 'old style' power supply with huge transformer would probably need a BIGGER fan. I think you're talking about an old-school linear regulated power supply. Those are invariably less efficient than a modern switching power supply, and would need even more cooling.
Also, to get the kind of current capacity needed on a modern PC you'd need one HELL of a transformer.
Incidentally, if you go to 'Waffle and Steak' in Indiana, you can order the 'One Egg' off the menu, for $1.65. With it comes jam and toast and a bowl of grits. It's one hell of a good deal, considering that if you order a bowl of grits alone it costs $1.25.
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I'm wondering when they go to version eleven, what are they going to call it to be chic?
...you get TV snow.
"Warning: Do not stare into random bitmaps."
In other words, if it doesn't gobble resources like crazy, it's not fun for you, eh?
Hell, a few years back I used to still play 3-Demon (a wireframe 3-d version of Pacman). It was most fun to play on my old PC-Junior. The PC Junior is probably the only PC compatible to have a Norton SI less than 1. It didn't have a DMA controller, for one thing. If you turned down a long corridor playing 3-Demon on a Junior, the game actually slows down as the game tries to render all those wireframes.
'Hardcore' to me sounds like somebody trying to justify spending yet more money. Possibly it's a dicksize issue for some.
The penguin is a bird that forgot how to fly. That's a horrible mascot, besides the fact that Tux in particular looks like a penguin stoopid just after a big bong hit. It's really only the Linux mascot as a joke, because Linus was publicly bitten by a penguin at an early Linux-related social event.
You live a bitter unhappy life, it seems.
Here's something exciting for you to try: There are actually people out there, in the world, who don't hate Microsoft as their hobby. People who don't dream up new and horrible scenarios for their arch-nemesis to endure. Go out and meet some of them. Maybe even do something not involving Bill hatred.
Just a suggestion.
Actually, Word for Windows 2.0 leaped to Word for Windows 6.0 because that was the version number of Word for Macintosh. And they adopted an 'identical user interface' for Word for Windows/Mac 6.0. The user manual served for both the Windows and Mac at that version.
WordPerfect was the dismally losing 'competitor' at the time, not a serious competitor. They produced an absolute disaster of a word processor in their first Windows attempt. They were part of the anti-Windows coalition with Lotus 123 at the time. They were stuck with a userbase of DOS-heads (the WordPerfect jihaad was composed of one secretary in each office who was the 'computer wizard' because she had memorized all the left-flipper/control/alt/f11 to indent arcana necessary do do anything useful with no-visible-menu WordPerfect.
Actually, it's more a case of 'if a street punk sprays crap all over a wall in the city it's a cultural expression and the radical chic people oooh and ahhh.' and 'If a megacorporation sprays/puts something on the wall, they've got bucks and it's time for the city's bureaucrats to start the shakedown.'
No, when you pay for software you purchase a product.
Otherwise there would be no reason for anybody to give any money at all to Red Hat as they sell much software they had no hand at all in developing.
Don't be redundant. You said the same thing as he did.
No.
If the government pays a staff of developers to come up with a replacement for MS Office, it should be put in public domain.
No, what is going to happen is some swarthy zealot will DEMAND the source code, and it will cost taxpayers $300,000 for the court case, then $40,000 for the audit and search for the source code (which wasn't archived in a 'clean' fashion.) After the precedent is set, it will cost roughly 30% more for all future code development because a new buereaucrac will be set up to track and archive code.
Further, the Apple hardware is single sourced. If Apple gets into considerable trouble, a business with all Apple hardware is in big trouble. This is not the case with most PC hardware out there on the market.
Believe me, the companies in the past that have switched over from Apple hardware have had to eat a lot of losses when they scrapped all that odd incompatible hardware.
i'm looking at learning enough to code this myself,
They sell 'script kiddie' t-shirts at ThinkDork.com and that's the most popular slogan.
Aren't you proposing the distribution of binaries without the source?
Be careful. You'll rile up the GPL pedants.
Besides which, you would be AMAZED at how many kernals some DOS adventurer can request in a matter of a few seconds.
Free software is not just about zealotry anymore.
With laws like these twenty years from now could be sweet time to be around.
Except, 20 years from now you could be in a nursing home and no matter how much you press the button to get them to bring you fresh water, they're busy fucking around recompiling the kernal on the bedpan.
How often do you have to replace those 'refillable' cartridges with new ones? The smudgy mess that a refilled cartridge produces is hardly what anybody wants. The smudgy mess that ANY inkjet page becomes with a little exposure to moisture isn't what anybody wants.
Or do you shoplift cartridges?
The Universal ID proposals are not really even being considered at this time and won't be until Democrats are back at the helm.
Wow, now you've made me enthusiastic about voting Democrat, dude.
Raymond's 'Cathedral and the Bazaar' essay was originally written as a criticism of the small-group centralized way that Stallman and his team develop GNU Emacs.
This fact seems to have largely been swept under the carpet, it is dismaying how many people think it's an anti-Microsoft essay. It was a polemic within the open source community.
It is sheer idiocy to print anything more than a page or two in length on an Injet printer. The ink for those things is obscenely expensive. Hell, the whole 'ink cartel' thing might be what got the wrong sorts of rats to climb on board at Hewlett-Packard and ruin the company. Laser printers cost a magnitude less per page to print. And a laser printed copy can be as good or better than a mass published book. My LaserJet 5P makes it fairly easy to do doublesided printing by doing odd/even print jobs and diverting the pages to the alternative trays to feed it through twice.
He's not denying them that. He's pointing out that they're bound to fail. Ridicule is not the same thing as repression.
There used to be third party cooling fans available for the Mac Plus. Basically a muffin fan in a plastic shroud that would slide into the handle hole on top of the dinkyscreen case.
They sold for in excess of $300 if I remember right. Yes, for a molded plastic shroud and a muffin fan. There used to be a huge business in overcharging Macintosh users outrageously. It boosted their self esteem to pay more, for their 'better computing experience.'
An 'old style' power supply with huge transformer would probably need a BIGGER fan. I think you're talking about an old-school linear regulated power supply. Those are invariably less efficient than a modern switching power supply, and would need even more cooling.
Also, to get the kind of current capacity needed on a modern PC you'd need one HELL of a transformer.
I had a bowl of grits yesterday.
Incidentally, if you go to 'Waffle and Steak' in Indiana, you can order the 'One Egg' off the menu, for $1.65. With it comes jam and toast and a bowl of grits. It's one hell of a good deal, considering that if you order a bowl of grits alone it costs $1.25.
Yes, but now you're crowded over into a corner of the room, on a folding chair, with your keyboard on your lap.
Nice that you're able to get your monitor on that big hulking flakewood cube, tho.