Just the other day, I saw that Alan Kay's parents were Mary Kay and Danny Kaye!
...and there's a list of the 43,322 people responsible for the John F. Kennedy assisination..and that Lost in Space is generally regarded as being "better" than Star Trek
The Wikipedia is a pile of crap, pretending to be something else. It has become a game where people with agendas (or senses of humor) try to see what they can slip under the radar.
I prefer the "Uncyclopedia" http://uncyclopedia.org/ At least it doesn't pretend to be something it's not.
...there's no debate! I'm now 100% on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. We used to be heavy users of FreeBSD (the only open source Un*x worth running!), and eventually switched over to 100% Windows over the past year.
If I didn't read/., I'd have NO CLUE that there even was a "Windows vs Linux" debate going on.
I'm not saying this to be a wise-ass. But if Linux is ever to become something that microsoft-Hating commie geeks run, it needs to become more of a mainstream option.
Apple loves stealing names. Look at what they did to "Apple Records" and "McIntosh Audio" (which they still print a disclaimer about in all their documentation).
If you want the only "by-definition" W3C compliant browser, then you need to run Amaya/ Since Amaya is the w3c "reference browser", it's compliant by definition!
Of course, only a crazy masochist would run Amaya! It's worse than Safari!
You should just say no to people who sell books! You can get all your information for free from online encyclopedias. How dare "Tony Bove" try to sell a book! That's just a hidden tax.
...it's that Alien computers are susceptible to MACINTOSH viruses! (See "Independence Day", for example.) For once, Windows uses are immune to an attack!
Doesn't anyone remember "Real Names"? A company that sold "keywords" during the dotcom boom to many sucker companies? Of course, without the "Real Names" plug-in, you wouldn't see them.
Why should I pay $30 for COMPRESSED music! It seems that the music industry took a giant step backward in audio quality! Generation "iPod" is happy with compressed music. Of course, with the crap that passes for music these days (including BNL!) I guess it doesn't matter.
I just read TFB (The F.* Bill) and while it defines what "sexually explicit" means, it convieniently avoids defining "ultra violent"
Obviously, "Space Invaders" is an ultra violent game! You're destrying thousands of space ships, presumably occupied by intelligent life forms. And what about Pac-Man, which deals with death and ghosts!
...California should be more worried about the DAVIS-STERLING act which allows "Homeowner's Associations" to foreclose on people houses WITHOUT A JUDICIAL HEARING for failing to pay some "assessment". There have been cases of people going away on vacation for a year, only to return to find their home gone because there was an "emergency assessment" while they were away that went unpaid.
Almost! Except for cheaper-than-iTunes, I buy USED CDs, and have an original, uncompressed copy that sounds better than any iTunes 128Mbps-compressed tune.
And the types of music I listen to (Classical, "Western Art Music", Jazz, Opera) aren't served well by iTMS anyway.
I'm saddened by what's happened to SCO's brand. SCO used to be a cool company. The name stood for the Santa Cruz Operation, and it was a smallish company of some very bright people who brought Unix to Intel Architecture: first 80286 and then 80386 architecure and beyond.
It was that got me involved in Un*x, back in 1988. I had decided it was time to move from the Long Island defense industry, and make a move to Silicon Valley. I started with Andy's "MINIX" and then paid the $1200 bucks or so for SCO Xenix, installed it on my 80386 PC (with an American Megatrends/Mylex motherboard!) and learned Unix (especially low-level matters like writing device drivers.) Shortly after, I was able to get a job with Olivetti Advanced Technology Lab in Cupertino.
My job involved close interaction with the engineering staff at SCO--folks like Mike Patnode (whose name sounds like a Unix command) and others who knew SysV inside and out.
The company is completely different now. The same in name only. They're not in Santa Cruz anymore (a hippy beach resort in Central California)--instead they're in Utah.
There's NO MFC in Office. While I am a big fan of Microsoft, and make about half my income managing software projects that run on Microsoft OSs, I'd be the first to tell you that MFC was a failure. Very few people used it, inside of Microsoft or outside. Microsoft has deprecated it years ago.
I used to be a Mac and Next developer. Not any more. Visual Studio.NET 2005 (I'm running the Release Candidate), and the C# language are by far the best programming environment I've ever used. And I've used them all, from Pick, to Squeak/Smalltalk, to PL/I on IBM Mainframes, to Cocoa/Objective-C, to Java.
I don't program in anything else anymore, unless I have to!
The Mac tools are especially horrible. All XCODE is, is a poorly integrated GUI slapped on top of GNU tools. And heaven help you if one of your binary "NIB" files gets corrupted. You're SOL.
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I live in Sunnyvale, too. MetroFree works for me. Maybe your macintosh is having problems.
BZZZZZZZT Thanks for playing!
Sunnyvale, CA (a city of 115,000 people) has free city-wide WiFi, too.
The Wikipedia is a pile of crap, pretending to be something else. It has become a game where people with agendas (or senses of humor) try to see what they can slip under the radar.
I prefer the "Uncyclopedia" http://uncyclopedia.org/ At least it doesn't pretend to be something it's not.
I can drive away door-to-door missionaries with a garden hose!
I can't wait for goatsec.x!
What planet are you from? That disclaimer is there because McIntosh Labs reached a legal settlement with Apple Computer, Inc.
If I didn't read /., I'd have NO CLUE that there even was a "Windows vs Linux" debate going on.
I'm not saying this to be a wise-ass. But if Linux is ever to become something that microsoft-Hating commie geeks run, it needs to become more of a mainstream option.
Apple loves stealing names. Look at what they did to "Apple Records" and "McIntosh Audio" (which they still print a disclaimer about in all their documentation).
Of course, only a crazy masochist would run Amaya! It's worse than Safari!
You should just say no to people who sell books! You can get all your information for free from online encyclopedias. How dare "Tony Bove" try to sell a book! That's just a hidden tax.
P.S.: It *is* slow! And every Java app looks like a "SunOS" Application from 1985.
...it's that Alien computers are susceptible to MACINTOSH viruses! (See "Independence Day", for example.) For once, Windows uses are immune to an attack!
Doesn't anyone remember "Real Names"? A company that sold "keywords" during the dotcom boom to many sucker companies? Of course, without the "Real Names" plug-in, you wouldn't see them.
Why should I pay $30 for COMPRESSED music! It seems that the music industry took a giant step backward in audio quality! Generation "iPod" is happy with compressed music. Of course, with the crap that passes for music these days (including BNL!) I guess it doesn't matter.
How about I-hate-Microsoft-dot or Apple-Dot?
They could be like the lucky Chinese workers who get to put together iPods!
Obviously, "Space Invaders" is an ultra violent game! You're destrying thousands of space ships, presumably occupied by intelligent life forms. And what about Pac-Man, which deals with death and ghosts!
Read this for example.
And the types of music I listen to (Classical, "Western Art Music", Jazz, Opera) aren't served well by iTMS anyway.
Why is this an "Apple" story? Last I checked "Apple" didn't make any cell phones capable of receiving video broadcasts.
Steve Jobs wouldn't lie, would he?
However, if you're using Linux and have never tried a production quality Un*x operating system (like Solaris or FreeBSD), you're missing out!
For most of our high-end server/network applications, we simply can't run Linux.
It was that got me involved in Un*x, back in 1988. I had decided it was time to move from the Long Island defense industry, and make a move to Silicon Valley. I started with Andy's "MINIX" and then paid the $1200 bucks or so for SCO Xenix, installed it on my 80386 PC (with an American Megatrends/Mylex motherboard!) and learned Unix (especially low-level matters like writing device drivers.) Shortly after, I was able to get a job with Olivetti Advanced Technology Lab in Cupertino.
My job involved close interaction with the engineering staff at SCO--folks like Mike Patnode (whose name sounds like a Unix command) and others who knew SysV inside and out.
The company is completely different now. The same in name only. They're not in Santa Cruz anymore (a hippy beach resort in Central California)--instead they're in Utah.
I don't program in anything else anymore, unless I have to!
The Mac tools are especially horrible. All XCODE is, is a poorly integrated GUI slapped on top of GNU tools. And heaven help you if one of your binary "NIB" files gets corrupted. You're SOL.