No, more like randomly typing stuff in until you get a program that displays a single character on the screen, then randomly making modifications to the program, throwing away the stuff that doesn't work, for a few billion years and eventually ending up with the Linux kernel.
OSX being *BSD based does give it some measure of security, but it still suffers due to the fact that it's a homogenous environment. Really, think of why there's so many viruses out there for Windows. It's partly because the OS itself is badly designed, yes, and partly because it presents such a large target, with its gigantic userbase, but it also has a lot to do with the fact that every Windows installation is the same. They all use IE for web browsing, OE for e-mail, WMP for movies/music, etc. Mac is the same way, although I don't believe that it's quite as bad. With Linux, on the other hand, you have a million and one possible configurations, which makes it very difficult for a virus to propogate or a {cr|h}ack to be successful.
I don't know of anyone who, given the choice between running a native OS/2 app and a Win3.1 app, would pick the 3.1 version. The Windows compatability was simply a means of sidestepping the whole chicken/egg problem. It probably helped, but it just wasn't enough to compensate for the multitude of massive blunders IBM made with the OS.
As a long-time OS/2 user I'd have to disagree. For one thing, IBM didn't re-implement Windows for OS/2. They simply implemented a DOS emulator that was complete enough to run Win3.x on top of it, and added some hooks into their GUI so that the Win3.1 windows could share a screen with the rest of the OS/2 desktop. Windows programs in OS/2 were just as slow and unstable as they were in regular windows (although they wouldn't bring down the entire system when they crashed. Instead they'd just bring down the Windows subsystem) although native OS/2 apps worked much better than anything in any version of Windows available at the time (or, arguably, available now).
OS/2 died because IBM mis-marketed it badly, then pulled the plug when it was deemed to by unprofitable. And since OS/2 was a propietary, closed-source OS, it meant that once IBM abandoned it, no one else could continue it (well, Serenity Systems was able to get one more version out, but it was just basically Warp 4 with the last patches applied and a few extra apps tacked on.)
That's why I stick with open-source, community-developed stuff whenever possible now. If Linux suddently decides that this whole "Linux" thing just isn't worth the effort, there's a million and one other developers out there that can step in to take his place. Likewise, if Sun decides to stop developing OpenOffice, it would still be possibly for the open source community to keep it relatively current. However, when the product you depend on is tied to the whims of a profit-seeking corporation, once they decide not to continue it, you're kinda screwed.
Fox News is not banned in Canada, it was simply denied a broadcast license by Canada's equivalent of the FCC. Sorta like how Al-Jezzera(sp?) is banned in the US.
They have baseball bat controllers now? Do they use some kind of gyroscope sensor inside to tell how it's swung, or something? Is it wireless? Will it work in Linux?
There are no privilaged inertial frames, but the Earth is not in an inertial frame. If it was, it would be shooting off in a straight line at a constant velocity.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but they'd already made Black Thorn, which was a much better game.
That's not a Free Trade Agreement, that's a spoon!
3. Profit!!
No, more like randomly typing stuff in until you get a program that displays a single character on the screen, then randomly making modifications to the program, throwing away the stuff that doesn't work, for a few billion years and eventually ending up with the Linux kernel.
Man, it was a joke.
Thank the Gnome folks, not SuSE. They put that in the latest version of their DE.
Now, if you're not using Gnome, then it might be SuSE that added it in. I'm not sure.
I always thought that it should be moved to the same place that the Caps Lock light is now.
If you did that, John Cage would sue you for copyright infringement.
Profit!!
Regarding #4
OSX being *BSD based does give it some measure of security, but it still suffers due to the fact that it's a homogenous environment. Really, think of why there's so many viruses out there for Windows. It's partly because the OS itself is badly designed, yes, and partly because it presents such a large target, with its gigantic userbase, but it also has a lot to do with the fact that every Windows installation is the same. They all use IE for web browsing, OE for e-mail, WMP for movies/music, etc. Mac is the same way, although I don't believe that it's quite as bad. With Linux, on the other hand, you have a million and one possible configurations, which makes it very difficult for a virus to propogate or a {cr|h}ack to be successful.
Just make sure you take the laptop out before you start throwing the bag on the pavement.
In the beginning,
There was darkness,
Then there was light,
Then some more darkness,
Then it was light again,
Then the humans arrived,
And it rained.
That only happens about half the time.
I don't know of anyone who, given the choice between running a native OS/2 app and a Win3.1 app, would pick the 3.1 version. The Windows compatability was simply a means of sidestepping the whole chicken/egg problem. It probably helped, but it just wasn't enough to compensate for the multitude of massive blunders IBM made with the OS.
Win-OS/2 didn't kill OS/2. IBM killed OS/2.
As a long-time OS/2 user I'd have to disagree. For one thing, IBM didn't re-implement Windows for OS/2. They simply implemented a DOS emulator that was complete enough to run Win3.x on top of it, and added some hooks into their GUI so that the Win3.1 windows could share a screen with the rest of the OS/2 desktop. Windows programs in OS/2 were just as slow and unstable as they were in regular windows (although they wouldn't bring down the entire system when they crashed. Instead they'd just bring down the Windows subsystem) although native OS/2 apps worked much better than anything in any version of Windows available at the time (or, arguably, available now).
OS/2 died because IBM mis-marketed it badly, then pulled the plug when it was deemed to by unprofitable. And since OS/2 was a propietary, closed-source OS, it meant that once IBM abandoned it, no one else could continue it (well, Serenity Systems was able to get one more version out, but it was just basically Warp 4 with the last patches applied and a few extra apps tacked on.)
That's why I stick with open-source, community-developed stuff whenever possible now. If Linux suddently decides that this whole "Linux" thing just isn't worth the effort, there's a million and one other developers out there that can step in to take his place. Likewise, if Sun decides to stop developing OpenOffice, it would still be possibly for the open source community to keep it relatively current. However, when the product you depend on is tied to the whims of a profit-seeking corporation, once they decide not to continue it, you're kinda screwed.
Fox News is not banned in Canada, it was simply denied a broadcast license by Canada's equivalent of the FCC. Sorta like how Al-Jezzera(sp?) is banned in the US.
They have baseball bat controllers now? Do they use some kind of gyroscope sensor inside to tell how it's swung, or something? Is it wireless? Will it work in Linux?
Have you seen Ghostbusters? Remember when the environmentalist guy shut down their containment unit?
Same thing.
There are no privilaged inertial frames, but the Earth is not in an inertial frame. If it was, it would be shooting off in a straight line at a constant velocity.
I think John Cage would sue you for copyright infringement over that one.
Q worked well on TNG because he contrasted well with the stick-up-ass crew of the Ent-D. His character just wouldn't work on the new show.
Neither. Everyone knows that G1 refers to the original line of Transformers.
So you want it to help you calculate when you're drunk? Don't you know that there's laws against drinking and deriving?
Playing too much Metal Gear lately?
Good. For a second there I thought you'd kept yourself awake long enough that you thought you were a hummingbird of some kind.