Let's just hope they don't move the call centres to Birmingham or something... I can't understand that accent.
Well given a choice of Brum and somewhere in the middle of Wales, I think I'd opt for "'Allo, yawll roight mate" any day of the week. In fact, the bigger problem I've had with call centres is that they're not bloody loud enough. Speak up! Put the microphone closer or turn it up! And do something about all that ambient noise!
Free software on a closed operating system is a joke.
For big things, perhaps. But for the desktop end-user (Joe Sixpack or Otto Fivespeed or Eddy Current or whoever) who doesn't want to ditch Windows, it's a great way to get good-quality tools with none of the junk. Compare 7-zip to Winzip. Then there's The GIMP, OpenOffice, CDex, Gaim...
'It's a myth that open-source and Windows can't work together. Customers just aren't religious about these things,' said Ryan Gavin, a director of platform strategy for Microsoft."
Sometimes I wonder when Linus uses phrases like 'Kicks Ass' 'Couldn't care less' etc.
Come, now. Linus himself admits to being a "bastard". And what does that make De Raadt?! Let's not get bogged down with cults of personality here. On the whole, they do a good job. Long may they reign.
Then, the UNIX came, bit it got too big and fragmented, but it didn't die out, and turned into BSD.
Then Steve Jobs came, and he brought forth NeXTStep.
And then Apple bought up NeXTStep, added some more BSD, and gave it some pretty clothes and called it OS X. I couldn't believe it. They opened the closet, took out the best eye candy, and walked straight into town...
No offence ment to the slashdot ladies, but it's not exactly like you flaunt yourselvs around with semi naked pictures and intrests involving "Sex, music and movies!!!!!" like they do there is it?
You're not exactly doing yourself or your arguments any favours, now, are you?!
The all-encompassing namespace isn't a new thing, no, viz. UNIX and NT. I think Plan 9's revolutionary idea is taking the "everything is a file" idea and distributing it (devices, files, everything) across many physical machines. Does even VMS clustering have this ability?
As for the holy-grail object systems (with all the bellen and whistlen such as orthogonal persistence) there were projects like EROS, Coyotos, etc., and some early projects like DERA's Ten15.
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While I applaud your Campaign for Realistic Analysis in the Press, and wince at "more than", "over" and "almost" abuse, one must appreciate that the "extra punch" is all they really care about. Consider the target audience — they're hardly the type to be subscribing to PhysicsWorld, much less check the figures, are they?
So, really, this isn't the thing that should be getting you upset.
It's just that this is in the subset of upsetting things that are relevant to this particular forum and discussion. The UK government's apparent general crackdown on liberty does upset me, greatly. It upsets me that the British public are too stupid, too content to suck down intellectual junk-food like EastEnders and Big Brother and Jeremy Kyle, to care. They don't value what freedoms they have left. They take them for granted and think "this will never affect me". It's time to wake up.
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Click both buttons simultaneously. If you've got a Synaptics pad, you might be able to click and drag with two fingers for the same effect.
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Wouldn't that be a trademark violation... or something... anyway?
Yes, quite. Unfortunately, there are people like Hyacinth Bucket in the UK.
We call them "Daily Mail readers".
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I think it has something to do with the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu...
(damn Slash indentation destroyer) but I think they renormalised it.
Then, the UNIX came, bit it got too big and fragmented, but it didn't die out, and turned into BSD.
Then Steve Jobs came, and he brought forth NeXTStep.
And then Apple bought up NeXTStep, added some more BSD, and gave it some pretty clothes and called it OS X. I couldn't believe it. They opened the closet, took out the best eye candy, and walked straight into town...
You're not exactly doing yourself or your arguments any favours, now, are you?!
The problem is some bugger out there put the plug back in.
There you go!
The all-encompassing namespace isn't a new thing, no, viz. UNIX and NT. I think Plan 9's revolutionary idea is taking the "everything is a file" idea and distributing it (devices, files, everything) across many physical machines. Does even VMS clustering have this ability?
As for the holy-grail object systems (with all the bellen and whistlen such as orthogonal persistence) there were projects like EROS, Coyotos, etc., and some early projects like DERA's Ten15.
Before y'all go pulling down the ISO to try it out, the mirrors are listed at http://netlib.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Mirrors/ind ex.html .
While I applaud your Campaign for Realistic Analysis in the Press, and wince at "more than", "over" and "almost" abuse, one must appreciate that the "extra punch" is all they really care about. Consider the target audience — they're hardly the type to be subscribing to PhysicsWorld, much less check the figures, are they?
"Ah Well". "Ah Well"?! No, it's not "Ah Well"!
Why is this man so stoically up with putting this insidious crap?
(In fact, I don't use that silly operating system — so I don't know why I'm bitching...)
I believe she is the fourth, undocumented Simpson child. Observe:
Homer. Saxamaphone. Viomolin. Macamadamia.
Jessica. Platymapus.
Click both buttons simultaneously. If you've got a Synaptics pad, you might be able to click and drag with two fingers for the same effect.