Apple was using the term "Personal Computer" from the advent of the Apple ][ in 1977. IBM's trademark was the "IBM PC" -- remember the Charlie Chaplin adverts? So, no, sorry, IBM can't even claim that.
You don't have "firmwares" any more than you can have "softwares" or "hardwares" or "clothings" -- no; you have two firmware sets, two pieces of software, two pieces of hardware, and two items of clothing. These are all collective nouns.
Because the moon landing was faked, as are all those "manned" rocket missions, and satellites, and evolution; and the earth is flat and the sun goes around it, and Noah's Ark was real despite the fact that one pair each of seven types of elephants at the zoo standard of 150 pounds of food a day would have eaten 300 tons of food -- six railroad hopper cars full -- in the ten months and 13 days they stayed in the Ark (see Genesis 8:13), and that's just the elephants, but don't bother me with facts, because my mind's made up!
A few years ago, before the Firefox rename, I installed it on the computer of an elderly couple from Iowa. A few weeks later I saw them again and they thanked me profusely, "We love that Mazola."
Does that slogan mean anything besides, "Lie. Cheat. And Then Lie Some More." Or, "Go Ahead, Be Despicable." Oh yeah, that's a wonderful civic attitude. No wonder Las Vegas has the reputation for being Sin City. Horrid. Perfectly horrid.
The only problem I see with writing a script that would simply recursively "chown" (change the ownership of) all files in descending uid-order, would be that unmounted filesystems, or remote filesystems, might complicate matters later.
I love free software, but the Alfresco site is a typical failure. There is no explanation anywhere of: If you are a business owner, here's what Alfresco does for you... Instead I am bombarded with buzzwords. I just want to know what it does, people... how else are you going to win customers?
Indeed. Instead of writing, "The author begins by introducing ____ in layman's terms..." I might actually be interested in the book if you told ME what this is, instead of telling me that the book tells me what it is. Why should I be interested in this book? I haven't a clue what it is even about.
Indeed. This whole article confuses me. I have been doing web development since the 1990s and the whole point of Javascript was that it cannot cause a program to be run or installed on your computer... otherwise the web browser is insecure. If Javascript code can permit code to run on your computer, that would be a show-stopping browser bug! If that is true, then the only way to prevent this is to stop using that broken browser entirely. But that cannot be the case, can it?
I find it hard to understand why this whole article is a problem...
We used to laugh at the Soviet Union for requiring "internal passports" to travel. America, we said, was a free country and we do not have "identity papers." Now the terrorists have won, we have become Nazi Germany, and nobody seems to care. It makes my blood boil.
Kermit was my first foray into the advantages of Open Source, even if it was not Free Software.
The company where I worked in college (Digital Techniques Inc. who made a line of touchscreen computers in the early 80s) had an MS-DOS machine that ran on STD-Bus, non-PC compatible... and with the source-code from Columbia (on 9-track tape!) I was able to write a communication driver for the 2661 DUART (same as in the Zenith Z-100, and as compared to the IBM-PC's 8250 UART). Finally we could zap files up to the VAX at a blazing 19,200 baud! Never could iron out all the interrupt issues for even-higher speeds.
A few years later when this Linux thing came along I said, Aha!... thanks Kermit for being Open before Open was cool.
So if you want to drive your 1927 Mercedes Limousine to fetch Grandma for her 75th wedding anniversary, this is not allowed? Or are antique vehicles exempt?
Arizona has hundreds of square miles of suitable land (presuming the environmental wackos don't object to removing desert habitat) but where are you going to get the water to grow all that algae?
Never heard of 311, and why would it be "the" 311 -- the 311 _what_? Is that Losangeles-speak like "the" Orange County or "the" Interstate Highway 5? (Apparently that is short for "the Interstate Highway 5 limited access highway" -- well they say "freeway" which just means limited access highway -- talk about redundancy)... stamp out useless "the"s!... anyhow 311 sounds like it's more for finding out when trash pickups are than for reporting not-quite-emergency situations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-1-1
I pay nothing per month, 5 cents per incoming text message, 10 cents outgoing message, and 10 cents per minute of conversation. All that costs me well under $100 a year... and you can get a phone like that for $20 at Wal-Mart, cash, anonymously.
Why would you willingly show your driver's license to anyone who is not a cop, and furthermore when you are not driving? You are giving away your full legal name, home address, date of birth, and other information that could be used to steal your identity. The only person who should see your driver's license is the cop that pulls you over. When not driving, leave your license at home, or in the glove box.
And I would reply with "I cannot see around the truck and past the shrub, so I will not block the crosswalk out of consideration for the bicyclist you cannot see, that's why I am not turning right on red" and "I am going just under the speed limit, you do know that speed is illegal, do you not, please see under 'less than or equal to' -- Thanks"
$ date -d @2147483647 -u
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038
$ date -d @2147483648 -u
date: invalid date `@2147483648'
$ # That's 2^31... which will wrap to the negative:
$ date -d @-2147483648 -u Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 UTC 1901
... Thus leaving us in a time before motorcars and aeroplanes. Prophetic, perhaps.
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Apple was using the term "Personal Computer" from the advent of the Apple ][ in 1977. IBM's trademark was the "IBM PC" -- remember the Charlie Chaplin adverts? So, no, sorry, IBM can't even claim that.
You don't have "firmwares" any more than you can have "softwares" or "hardwares" or "clothings" -- no; you have two firmware sets, two pieces of software, two pieces of hardware, and two items of clothing. These are all collective nouns.
I use, and have written a few plugins for, WordPress... Drupal sounds like a horrible disease.
Because the moon landing was faked, as are all those "manned" rocket missions, and satellites, and evolution; and the earth is flat and the sun goes around it, and Noah's Ark was real despite the fact that one pair each of seven types of elephants at the zoo standard of 150 pounds of food a day would have eaten 300 tons of food -- six railroad hopper cars full -- in the ten months and 13 days they stayed in the Ark (see Genesis 8:13), and that's just the elephants, but don't bother me with facts, because my mind's made up!
A few years ago, before the Firefox rename, I installed it on the computer of an elderly couple from Iowa. A few weeks later I saw them again and they thanked me profusely, "We love that Mazola."
Everyone knows minors don't overflow into majors. (And if you thought Naturally was the first baseman, then you don't know Who.)
Does that slogan mean anything besides, "Lie. Cheat. And Then Lie Some More." Or, "Go Ahead, Be Despicable." Oh yeah, that's a wonderful civic attitude. No wonder Las Vegas has the reputation for being Sin City. Horrid. Perfectly horrid.
The only problem I see with writing a script that would simply recursively "chown" (change the ownership of) all files in descending uid-order, would be that unmounted filesystems, or remote filesystems, might complicate matters later.
I love free software, but the Alfresco site is a typical failure. There is no explanation anywhere of: If you are a business owner, here's what Alfresco does for you... Instead I am bombarded with buzzwords. I just want to know what it does, people... how else are you going to win customers?
Indeed. Instead of writing, "The author begins by introducing ____ in layman's terms..." I might actually be interested in the book if you told ME what this is, instead of telling me that the book tells me what it is. Why should I be interested in this book? I haven't a clue what it is even about.
I find it hard to understand why this whole article is a problem...
I am certain, the critics of Ayn Rand, and perhaps Mr. Obama, will say that you have enough money and it is your responsibility to share it.
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We used to laugh at the Soviet Union for requiring "internal passports" to travel. America, we said, was a free country and we do not have "identity papers." Now the terrorists have won, we have become Nazi Germany, and nobody seems to care. It makes my blood boil.
The company where I worked in college (Digital Techniques Inc. who made a line of touchscreen computers in the early 80s) had an MS-DOS machine that ran on STD-Bus, non-PC compatible... and with the source-code from Columbia (on 9-track tape!) I was able to write a communication driver for the 2661 DUART (same as in the Zenith Z-100, and as compared to the IBM-PC's 8250 UART). Finally we could zap files up to the VAX at a blazing 19,200 baud! Never could iron out all the interrupt issues for even-higher speeds.
A few years later when this Linux thing came along I said, Aha! ... thanks Kermit for being Open before Open was cool.
There's an article about MS bashing being kicking puppies, and here you are kicking cats... what has the (hello,) world (\n) come to?
So if you want to drive your 1927 Mercedes Limousine to fetch Grandma for her 75th wedding anniversary, this is not allowed? Or are antique vehicles exempt?
Arizona has hundreds of square miles of suitable land (presuming the environmental wackos don't object to removing desert habitat) but where are you going to get the water to grow all that algae?
Never heard of 311, and why would it be "the" 311 -- the 311 _what_? Is that Losangeles-speak like "the" Orange County or "the" Interstate Highway 5? (Apparently that is short for "the Interstate Highway 5 limited access highway" -- well they say "freeway" which just means limited access highway -- talk about redundancy)... stamp out useless "the"s! ... anyhow 311 sounds like it's more for finding out when trash pickups are than for reporting not-quite-emergency situations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-1-1
White House, 202-456-1414
I pay nothing per month, 5 cents per incoming text message, 10 cents outgoing message, and 10 cents per minute of conversation. All that costs me well under $100 a year... and you can get a phone like that for $20 at Wal-Mart, cash, anonymously.
Why would you willingly show your driver's license to anyone who is not a cop, and furthermore when you are not driving? You are giving away your full legal name, home address, date of birth, and other information that could be used to steal your identity. The only person who should see your driver's license is the cop that pulls you over. When not driving, leave your license at home, or in the glove box.
And I would reply with "I cannot see around the truck and past the shrub, so I will not block the crosswalk out of consideration for the bicyclist you cannot see, that's why I am not turning right on red" and "I am going just under the speed limit, you do know that speed is illegal, do you not, please see under 'less than or equal to' -- Thanks"
... it will be Back to the Future ...