And in more related news, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer travel to Washington DC (2nd class Amtrak of course, Larry Ellison's private jet was in for repairs) to convince the White House to declare war on Japan.
Programmers aren't called in to design GUIs. Programmers are shitty at it, and driver writers are worse. It's not their bag, baby.
But that's where other 'professional' companies excel. They have the bucks to hire in these gurus. Like Keith Olhfs at NeXT, as one very well known example.
Open source has made strides, but, to quote James Tolkan (more or less) 'they need to be doing it bigger and better than the next guy'.
No, but when Gates wooed Cutler, Cutler _made_ Gates his entire hardware team. So in effect there were. And if it was just Cutler bargaining with AMD, then this is perfectly possible.
See the book by GP Zachary (Showstopper!) if you want to get more background on it. GP is a writer for the Wash Post; book is based on interviews for the most part, as I remember.
What a bummer - I'd switch fast as I could too, as others here have said; but I'd take at least a day and find out who is good in this business, who guarantees you 'own' your domain name, etc. It's not always the cheapest who are best and safest, and it's not always the most expensive either (VeriSlime).
Good luck, my friend. I hope someone in here has a good tip. But this biz about not even MS themselves knowing: I remember a few years back when a writer for the MSJ, aware of how hard it was to find anyone in MS who knew anything, spent a day on the campus chasing down people who might know why and how byte offset 12 in the VFAT Unicode directory entries were formatted (something like that). He gave up at 5 PM after a whole day at it - with no answer in sight.
My great great great great grandfather knew Charles Babbage. They met through Lord Byron; Ada left Babbage for my great great great grandfather later in life.
Anyway, my great great great grandfather and Babbage worked on a virtual desktop back then too.
They initially named it 'Vada' for 'Virtual Ada' but later changed the name, at Ada's behest, to 'Vader'.
Parent is spot on. HP's Dashboard was ca. 1992. There were some others out there for a while too. Seems they disappeared with Windows 95, 'the greatest event in the history of computing'.
Alan Kay did everything, and it's good he's recognised. He saw 'organisms'; he invented the term 'object orientation'; he worked with kids and LOGO, and saw this as becoming important for grownups as well. What did Alan Kay not invent or not help invent? Smalltalk everyone's heard of.
And if they need any help financing his prize, maybe they can start a class action against Bjarne Stroustrup.
I invented the term 'object-oriented' and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
-- Alan Kay
Parent is spot-on, and I think the companies mentioned have it coming to them, but I think it's a lot more serious than this, and I don't otherwise think either side is categorically wrong.
My estimate is that 80% or more of the software sold for the Windows platform is 'compensatory': it's stuff you wouldn't dream of having if Windows were as adequate as it should be.
Virus scanners, personal firewalls, trojan eliminators, anti-hacker tools - we're always back to square one: Microsoft let the demons in to start with. As Bill Joy so eloquently put it:
They took systems designed for isolated desktop systems and put them on the net without thinking about evildoers.
Apple Macs come with a built-in firewall, and I don't see anybody complaining over there. They also come with a built-in mail filter, and the same thing applies: no one is complaining. In fact, it all makes good sense.
Your Windows 'cottage industries' are never never never going to enlighten their clients anyway. They're never going to really care for them, and tell them the truth, that the easiest way out of this slaughter that continues every day is to ditch the Microsoft ship. No, they want you to keep using Windows; they want you to keep getting the shit kicked out of you; if you migrated to Unix, they'd be penniless.
The ultimate irony of course is that Microsoft themselves are now mucking with 'compensatory' software - instead of fixing the holes that make such gems necessary in the first place (something they're most likely incapable of doing anyway).
No solutions; just observations. The world goes round.
How long was the training period? Does that count too? Many filters can maintain complete 100% accuracy over finite periods of time (4,000 - 10,000 messages ) once they're trained - such as...
Uh, sure they do. Popups - that's like those porn storms, isn't it? Some people say it only happens with IE and Windows, but I talked to my service provider and they told me 'just pull the power plug out of the wall when that happens'.
Where does this perverse notion come from that GUI users are inhernetly incapable of using a command-line?
Uh, from teaching them for years and years and years. Those who have a real aptitude and a real appreciation will see the elegance behind the console facade; those who don't will grunt, groan, and drool until you tell them they can load a GUI, whereupon they will yell 'NOW YER TALKIN'!' and proceed to be just as dumb as before - but now with a mouse.
PS. I sure wish you would learn to spell. Your posts would be so much more inspiring then.
Actually this is fantastic news. Already, it doesn't matter that Microsofties are dividing by zero all over the place - it becomes an exception taken care of by the built-in structured exception handling and life goes on and the user is never the wiser.
Now we can excerpt even more crappy code. All that's left is a realtime automaton connected to the CPU that spots Microsoft code on the way and automatically gives it a liposuction before feeding it in.
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And in more related news, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer travel to Washington DC (2nd class Amtrak of course, Larry Ellison's private jet was in for repairs) to convince the White House to declare war on Japan.
Programmers aren't called in to design GUIs. Programmers are shitty at it, and driver writers are worse. It's not their bag, baby.
But that's where other 'professional' companies excel. They have the bucks to hire in these gurus. Like Keith Olhfs at NeXT, as one very well known example.
Open source has made strides, but, to quote James Tolkan (more or less) 'they need to be doing it bigger and better than the next guy'.
And that can cost $$$.
to existing tired old Pentium line of processors
You think that's tired? How about the 4004?
There aren't any processor architects at MS
No, but when Gates wooed Cutler, Cutler _made_ Gates his entire hardware team. So in effect there were. And if it was just Cutler bargaining with AMD, then this is perfectly possible.
See the book by GP Zachary (Showstopper!) if you want to get more background on it. GP is a writer for the Wash Post; book is based on interviews for the most part, as I remember.
It's going for as little as $1.25 right now...
Not just about AMD but also IBM's PPC.
Say the magic word and win $100.
G. Marx
when they beat Intel to wide market penetration with 64 bit chips?
Take two very large grains of salt and call me in the morning.
Under the circumstances, that's good advice.
scalability of x86 systems
Sorry, but how exactly do you scale a system that:
1. is basically still octal-based; and
2. has four general purpose registers?
Don't things like this happen all the time in the car industry with various technologies?
Dunno, but they happen in Microsoft's markets.
Yep, and then Linus and Andrew will be in Washington DC, complaining they need the 'freedom to innovate'.
And they'll be in Washington because Microsoft sued them under Sherman A-T.
But the judge will say: 'It wasn't them kept you out of their markets - it was your inferior software!'
And then we'll all have a party. Again.
What a bummer - I'd switch fast as I could too, as others here have said; but I'd take at least a day and find out who is good in this business, who guarantees you 'own' your domain name, etc. It's not always the cheapest who are best and safest, and it's not always the most expensive either (VeriSlime).
Good luck, my friend. I hope someone in here has a good tip. But this biz about not even MS themselves knowing: I remember a few years back when a writer for the MSJ, aware of how hard it was to find anyone in MS who knew anything, spent a day on the campus chasing down people who might know why and how byte offset 12 in the VFAT Unicode directory entries were formatted (something like that). He gave up at 5 PM after a whole day at it - with no answer in sight.
Yup - that's the way it went for Al Capone too. They finally get Bill Gates for tax evasion and he'll have to move to Florida.
My great great great great grandfather knew Charles Babbage. They met through Lord Byron; Ada left Babbage for my great great great grandfather later in life.
Anyway, my great great great grandfather and Babbage worked on a virtual desktop back then too.
They initially named it 'Vada' for 'Virtual Ada' but later changed the name, at Ada's behest, to 'Vader'.
I've seen sketches of it; it was really cool.
Parent is spot on. HP's Dashboard was ca. 1992. There were some others out there for a while too. Seems they disappeared with Windows 95, 'the greatest event in the history of computing'.
Alan Kay did everything, and it's good he's recognised. He saw 'organisms'; he invented the term 'object orientation'; he worked with kids and LOGO, and saw this as becoming important for grownups as well. What did Alan Kay not invent or not help invent? Smalltalk everyone's heard of.
And if they need any help financing his prize, maybe they can start a class action against Bjarne Stroustrup.
I invented the term 'object-oriented' and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
-- Alan Kay
Parent is spot-on, and I think the companies mentioned have it coming to them, but I think it's a lot more serious than this, and I don't otherwise think either side is categorically wrong.
My estimate is that 80% or more of the software sold for the Windows platform is 'compensatory': it's stuff you wouldn't dream of having if Windows were as adequate as it should be.
Virus scanners, personal firewalls, trojan eliminators, anti-hacker tools - we're always back to square one: Microsoft let the demons in to start with. As Bill Joy so eloquently put it:
They took systems designed for isolated desktop systems and put them on the net without thinking about evildoers.
Apple Macs come with a built-in firewall, and I don't see anybody complaining over there. They also come with a built-in mail filter, and the same thing applies: no one is complaining. In fact, it all makes good sense.
Your Windows 'cottage industries' are never never never going to enlighten their clients anyway. They're never going to really care for them, and tell them the truth, that the easiest way out of this slaughter that continues every day is to ditch the Microsoft ship. No, they want you to keep using Windows; they want you to keep getting the shit kicked out of you; if you migrated to Unix, they'd be penniless.
The ultimate irony of course is that Microsoft themselves are now mucking with 'compensatory' software - instead of fixing the holes that make such gems necessary in the first place (something they're most likely incapable of doing anyway).
No solutions; just observations. The world goes round.
How long was the training period? Does that count too? Many filters can maintain complete 100% accuracy over finite periods of time (4,000 - 10,000 messages ) once they're trained - such as...
Lots of people read some spam not knowing what it is. To these people, a computer is merely an interesting string of sensations.
Can you release this quote under the GPL, do you think?
Lots of people don't know what popups are.
Uh, sure they do. Popups - that's like those porn storms, isn't it? Some people say it only happens with IE and Windows, but I talked to my service provider and they told me 'just pull the power plug out of the wall when that happens'.
Easily fixed.
GUI users raised and born and bred on a GUI shouldn't be mucking about in a terminal
Who's the troll? For this is a troll. NOBODY is that goddamned stupid or provocative.
PS. 'Bred' and 'raised' are equivalent, and 'raised and born and bred' gets the chronology AFU.
Where does this perverse notion come from that GUI users are inhernetly incapable of using a command-line?
Uh, from teaching them for years and years and years. Those who have a real aptitude and a real appreciation will see the elegance behind the console facade; those who don't will grunt, groan, and drool until you tell them they can load a GUI, whereupon they will yell 'NOW YER TALKIN'!' and proceed to be just as dumb as before - but now with a mouse.
PS. I sure wish you would learn to spell. Your posts would be so much more inspiring then.
How does that help you if you don't know what command you need to use.
If you don't know what command you need to use, you don't need to use it. Take the afternoon off instead.
Chapters 3 and 4 handle understanding of the UNIX filesystem
That's good, cos Macs run HFS+.
Actually this is fantastic news. Already, it doesn't matter that Microsofties are dividing by zero all over the place - it becomes an exception taken care of by the built-in structured exception handling and life goes on and the user is never the wiser.
Now we can excerpt even more crappy code. All that's left is a realtime automaton connected to the CPU that spots Microsoft code on the way and automatically gives it a liposuction before feeding it in.
Technology!
I've always been a big fan of the Foxbird Database system, and this release looks better than ever!