It was cool, the only problem is that Apple never sells old systems and Mac addicts seem to be far less likely to sell their computers on ebay. Since I don't want to pay $800 for a computer I only want to play around with, that usually means the only macs I get are covered in grease...
Anyone know a good place to buy old (like 3-5 yr. old) Apple computers like imacs or ibooks?
Writing malicious code into an appliction is not only unprofessional, it is also unethical. If you haven't already, I would seriously consider firing this guy.
Apple's Mac
Disadvantages: you are tied to Apple's hardware, and the selection of business software is relatively small.
Isn't M$'s plan to tie you to M$'s hardware, and the selection of business software will be relatively small cause only M$ will be able to write it? Apple's computers are a closed system by policy, M$'s computers will be a closed system by design. Apple survived because Mac users are fanatical about Apple computers. Who is fanatical about windoze computers.
Maybe the university administrators have more important things to do (like, say, running a university) than hunting down students dling mp3's. Maybe congress doesn't understand that some of us have REAL jobs that require more than going around and kissing other people's asses.
Nasa's plan stinks and is as about as ambitious and has as much exploration value as me sticking my hand up my own ass. To create a super expensive bus line to go to/from the ISS? That is like setting up a railway built of solid gold that only goes to Cleveland... Drop the waste bucket we call we call the ISS and build a moon base or something. At least it will have some value to someone (other than the scientists who are basically doing ISS stuff as busy work, doing experiments on Ants in space? Give me a break!)
People will continue to patrent things until it reaches the point where it is impossible to do anything without violating someone elses patent. At that point it will become so difficult to avoid patent infringement that people will just start ignoring them. Patnets will become so pervasive that to prove that a person is not only violating a patent but also that taht patent they are violating is yours and not someone elses will become nearly impossible. As it is now, as long as the company you try to sue for it doesn't immediatley cave to your demands, you will be facing an uphill battle to prove they violated patents. In the end, there will be so many patents and such a mess that patents themselves will become meaningless.
I think the 640K thing was mostly because that was the limit to the amount of memory DOS could orginally address. When people began to use more, they had to update DOS to use larger amounts of memory for addresses. At the time, there seemed to be resistance from Microsoft to do this (more work on something that wouldn't make them anymore money on the side of the executives, more work on something that was no longer that interesting or revolutionary on the side of the programmers.) They eventually were forced to do it; they all knew it was inevitable. Did Gates really say no one needed 640K? No, when people are angry at something they often misqoute or simply invent quotes that supposedly orginated from the people they're angry at. It is an attempt to justify their anger...
Microsoft also wants to provide a consistent, predictable experience for people who use its software on various devices. I take it they mean it will crash once a day...
And as for the desktop? There's no need whatsoever, In the beginning, no one really needed a PC either. It is not need that drives the tech market, its want.
Desktops are going the way of the dinosaur
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As the tasks home users wish to do become more and more Internet related, the home PC will begin to look more and more like a server. As this trend continues, OS's that are better for servers will become more and more the better choice. Ten years down the road, the idea of a 'desktop' computer will be almost nonexistant. The norm will be a server that runs a desktop-like windowing system. Why do you think M$ is pushing its servers now more than its desktops? Not only because it basically owns the desktop market but also because that, even though its vision of the future is warped and twisted, it still knows where things are headed. And this time it will be IBM that grabs the market.
The simple ones are fine but the more complex ones run choppy, really choppy, like my system doesn't have the necessary resources but it does, in some case it has 4 times the necessary requirements.
What if I tell myself something that gets me killed? Since I no longer exist, did I ever really give the advice? Will space time completley collapse? Will I get a version of 'Life, The Universe, and Everything: The home game'? Will I ever stop asking stupid questions?
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Smallpox has a 30% fatality rate.
SARS at best has a 3% fatality rate.
Smallpox has a 90%+ communicability rate.
SARS has at best a 25-30% communicability rate.
SARS is likely to be as bad as a smallpox epidemic?
'Yeah... right!'
-Bill Cosby
Could this be some type of version number race against Linux Mandrake?
And the blind shall lead the blind...
The word Cliifhanger demands obligatory post referencing Farscape... maybe they'll cancel Enterprise too just to mess with our heads.
It was cool, the only problem is that Apple never sells old systems and Mac addicts seem to be far less likely to sell their computers on ebay. Since I don't want to pay $800 for a computer I only want to play around with, that usually means the only macs I get are covered in grease...
Anyone know a good place to buy old (like 3-5 yr. old) Apple computers like imacs or ibooks?
Now I have to worrry about my laptop exploding when I drop it...
Can anybody list some well known products SCO sells so I can boycott them?
Writing malicious code into an appliction is not only unprofessional, it is also unethical. If you haven't already, I would seriously consider firing this guy.
Didn't this happen at the beginning of Star Trek 6... the klingons mine a moon and it explodes
Apple's Mac
Disadvantages: you are tied to Apple's hardware, and the selection of business software is relatively small.
Isn't M$'s plan to tie you to M$'s hardware, and the selection of business software will be relatively small cause only M$ will be able to write it? Apple's computers are a closed system by policy, M$'s computers will be a closed system by design. Apple survived because Mac users are fanatical about Apple computers. Who is fanatical about windoze computers.
only 100 billion
Once you've seen one comet, you've seen em all.
Hey man, don't ya know? It's coming out in July of 99!
1. The fact that I don't have a girlfriend
2. The fact I use M$ Windoze
3. The fact that I like vi and COBOL.
Maybe the university administrators have more important things to do (like, say, running a university) than hunting down students dling mp3's. Maybe congress doesn't understand that some of us have REAL jobs that require more than going around and kissing other people's asses.
Nasa's plan stinks and is as about as ambitious and has as much exploration value as me sticking my hand up my own ass. To create a super expensive bus line to go to/from the ISS? That is like setting up a railway built of solid gold that only goes to Cleveland... Drop the waste bucket we call we call the ISS and build a moon base or something. At least it will have some value to someone (other than the scientists who are basically doing ISS stuff as busy work, doing experiments on Ants in space? Give me a break!)
People will continue to patrent things until it reaches the point where it is impossible to do anything without violating someone elses patent. At that point it will become so difficult to avoid patent infringement that people will just start ignoring them. Patnets will become so pervasive that to prove that a person is not only violating a patent but also that taht patent they are violating is yours and not someone elses will become nearly impossible. As it is now, as long as the company you try to sue for it doesn't immediatley cave to your demands, you will be facing an uphill battle to prove they violated patents. In the end, there will be so many patents and such a mess that patents themselves will become meaningless.
I think the 640K thing was mostly because that was the limit to the amount of memory DOS could orginally address. When people began to use more, they had to update DOS to use larger amounts of memory for addresses. At the time, there seemed to be resistance from Microsoft to do this (more work on something that wouldn't make them anymore money on the side of the executives, more work on something that was no longer that interesting or revolutionary on the side of the programmers.) They eventually were forced to do it; they all knew it was inevitable. Did Gates really say no one needed 640K? No, when people are angry at something they often misqoute or simply invent quotes that supposedly orginated from the people they're angry at. It is an attempt to justify their anger...
Microsoft also wants to provide a consistent, predictable experience for people who use its software on various devices.
I take it they mean it will crash once a day...
And as for the desktop? There's no need whatsoever,
In the beginning, no one really needed a PC either. It is not need that drives the tech market, its want.
How you turn out is due to: 90% genetic factors 5% upbringing and life experience factors 5% luck
To switch to Linux
Just another reason to use OpenOffice.
As the tasks home users wish to do become more and more Internet related, the home PC will begin to look more and more like a server. As this trend continues, OS's that are better for servers will become more and more the better choice. Ten years down the road, the idea of a 'desktop' computer will be almost nonexistant. The norm will be a server that runs a desktop-like windowing system. Why do you think M$ is pushing its servers now more than its desktops? Not only because it basically owns the desktop market but also because that, even though its vision of the future is warped and twisted, it still knows where things are headed. And this time it will be IBM that grabs the market.
The simple ones are fine but the more complex ones run choppy, really choppy, like my system doesn't have the necessary resources but it does, in some case it has 4 times the necessary requirements.
What if I tell myself something that gets me killed? Since I no longer exist, did I ever really give the advice? Will space time completley collapse? Will I get a version of 'Life, The Universe, and Everything: The home game'? Will I ever stop asking stupid questions?