<OLD-GEEZER> Back in the day at UCSC (this would be around '83 and '84), they pretty much taught theory only, and just enough language (Pascal and Modula-2) to learn said theory. </OLD-GEEZER>
Needless to say, the students weren't happy about it. We wanted classes in VAX assembler, and other practical applications. We even organized about it (anyone out there from UCSC in those days who remembers CISSA?).
So I graduate and get out into the Real World(tm), and what do I find? I find out that those professors were right! If you know the theory, then learning the applications are easy. The reverse, however....
Oh yeah, one last bit on the warp drive damaging space/time, the Voyager had "green" warp engines developed to specifically address the problem and not cause any damage to the space/time continuum.
Of course, since Voyager never went to warp anyways, that wasn't a problem:-)
<HUMOR> I'm not sure I'd make fun of North Dakota. I believe that if it was an independent country, they'd have something like the fifth largest nuclear arsenal in the world. </HUMOR>
Heinlein thought of it first. In "The Man Who Sold the Moon", he got support by raising the spectre of the Commies putting a huge Hammer-and-Sickle on the moon. He also got funds from "Moka-cola" by suggesting that "6+" had offered him money to put a 6+ logo on the moon.
I even stopped visiting Santa Cruz every year for that matter
Why? Santa Cruz is not home of SCOX. SCOX is based in Lindon, UT. What used to be the Santa Cruz Operation (aka oldSCO) is now Tarantella, which was recently bought by Sun.
OldSCO may not have been friendly towards Linux, but they weren't idiots. They simply had an outdated product, and they *did* adapt to the new world -- by selling their Unix business to Caldera (now SCOX), and by going with their thin client product (Tarantella).
It used to be an acronym for the "Santa Cruz Operation" (aka oldSCO). Then oldSCO sold their OS division to Caldera (though the paperwork is still missing). Later, Caldera renamed themselves "The SCO Group", allegedly to capitalize on the goodwill of the SCO name, but as we have seen, it was to sow confusion between oldSCO and SCOX.
However, in "The SCO Group", the letters "SCO" don't stand for anything.
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"Easily the best product they ever made, being the one with the fewest unnecessary features."
Please qualify that. Easily the best software product they ever made. I happen to love their mice, and their keyboards aren't too shabby either.
Quicken is evil. Intuit uses some VERY nasty DRM.
hey, inode, I'll catch you in IRC later. :-)
sorry... I just wanted to make sure you got credit
(I post as red floyd on GL).
Give credit where creidt is due.
This is lifted from groklaw, where gnuadam posts it.
If they're from Kansas, they become intelligently designed to transcend the keyboard.
are you thinking what i'm thinking?
<PINKY>
I think so, Brain, but where do we get forty cheerleaders and a vat of Cheez-Whiz(tm)?
NARF!
</PINKY>
(Yeah, I know it's "pondering", not "thinking". Deal with it.)
This is an old old debate.
<OLD-GEEZER>
Back in the day at UCSC (this would be around '83 and '84), they pretty much taught theory only, and just enough language (Pascal and Modula-2) to learn said theory.
</OLD-GEEZER>
Needless to say, the students weren't happy about it. We wanted classes in VAX assembler, and other practical applications. We even organized about it (anyone out there from UCSC in those days who remembers CISSA?).
So I graduate and get out into the Real World(tm), and what do I find? I find out that those professors were right! If you know the theory, then learning the applications are easy. The reverse, however....
Oh yeah, one last bit on the warp drive damaging space/time, the Voyager had "green" warp engines developed to specifically address the problem and not cause any damage to the space/time continuum.
:-)
Of course, since Voyager never went to warp anyways, that wasn't a problem
Glad you liked it! :-)
Yeah, but "upstanding members" was low-hanging fruit.
Pubic policy. Very nice indeed.
"In theory, theory is the same as practice. In practice, it's not."
Attributed to Yogi Berra (though I don't know if he actually said it).
<HUMOR>
I'm not sure I'd make fun of North Dakota. I believe that if it was an independent country, they'd have something like the fifth largest nuclear arsenal in the world.
</HUMOR>
Say what you will about Microsoft software (G-d knows that I have), but they make a damn fine mouse, and have for many years.
If only the OS division put out as nice a product as the mouse division did...
I refuse to play your chinese food mindgames!
Actually, I figured out what the customer (my wife) wanted, and provided it. :-)
I'm an engineer, and my wife is a nurse.
Two girls.
I'm an engineer, and my wife is a nurse!!!!
Single datum: our two children are both girls.
No, I'm not being sarcastic.
Heinlein thought of it first. In "The Man Who Sold the Moon", he got support by raising the spectre of the Commies putting a huge Hammer-and-Sickle on the moon. He also got funds from "Moka-cola" by suggesting that "6+" had offered him money to put a 6+ logo on the moon.
Clearly the previous OS's didn't make it easy to not run as admin, but it is possible in XP, 2000 and 2003, despite a few jumps and hoops.
Please have your admin install the following, and then you may try to run them as a non-admin user:
* The Sims
* Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 15
I even stopped visiting Santa Cruz every year for that matter
Why? Santa Cruz is not home of SCOX. SCOX is based in Lindon, UT. What used to be the Santa Cruz Operation (aka oldSCO) is now Tarantella, which was recently bought by Sun.
OldSCO may not have been friendly towards Linux, but they weren't idiots. They simply had an outdated product, and they *did* adapt to the new world -- by selling their Unix business to Caldera (now SCOX), and by going with their thin client product (Tarantella).
SCO is not an acronym anymore.
It used to be an acronym for the "Santa Cruz Operation" (aka oldSCO). Then oldSCO sold their OS division to Caldera (though the paperwork is still missing). Later, Caldera renamed themselves "The SCO Group", allegedly to capitalize on the goodwill of the SCO name, but as we have seen, it was to sow confusion between oldSCO and SCOX.
However, in "The SCO Group", the letters "SCO" don't stand for anything.