Was Mosaic actually the first "easy-to-use" browser (as the article claims), or was it just the first popular one? Anyone here ever use WorldWideWeb on a NeXT or any other pre-Mosaic browser and care to comment?
BSD is mentioned 3 times in the post, while the utilities that actually do the work are only mentioned once? This is like titling a post "Processing Images with Filters on Mac OS X" and only mentioning once that you use Photoshop.
I would have liked to have seen genetic algorithms that optimize the generated object code, not the compiler flags. I never really thought those needed optimizing.
"Sun Microsystems? A company who created a virtual machine designed to best work on Sparc systems, who suddenly started to get cold feet when Microsoft managed to come up with a virtual machine that worked faster than anything they expected could be created? A company who also completely failed to sue Netscape for creating their own non-compliant Java libraries?"
Point 1 - Java started life as Oak, a language for small devices, and the JVM was designed to be portable to CPUs with limited numbers of registers. That is why it is a stack-based VM. Oddly enough, this also favors Intel architecture more than Sparc. The only person to claim that the JVM was designed expressly for Sparc was a single professor funded by Microsoft.
Point 2 - The Microsoft VM, while performing better in some cases than the Sun VM for Windows, was buggy as hell.
Point 3 - There is no law requiring Sun to sue Netscape like they did Microsoft just to satisfy your sense of "justice". Netscape was a strategic partner, what was Sun supposed to do?
But thanks for posting your revisionist bullshit. Have a nice day.
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welcome our new Google overlords.
What is this, some kind of geek Web site?
Spacecraft confirms it. The Kermit protocol is dying ...
Because, you know, when I think of 64-bit computing, I think of eMachines!
Was Mosaic actually the first "easy-to-use" browser (as the article claims), or was it just the first popular one? Anyone here ever use WorldWideWeb on a NeXT or any other pre-Mosaic browser and care to comment?
BSD is mentioned 3 times in the post, while the utilities that actually do the work are only mentioned once? This is like titling a post "Processing Images with Filters on Mac OS X" and only mentioning once that you use Photoshop.
I get it - just like SUV owners never take their vehicles off-road, owners of these will never actually fly them.
Huh, what (wakes up) ... is Microsoft taking out contracts on open-source developers now?
to devolve from "Soul" to "Guts".
This must be inspired by the huge success of the war on drugs!
Rewarding, I doubt it.
I would have liked to have seen genetic algorithms that optimize the generated object code, not the compiler flags. I never really thought those needed optimizing.
Point 1 - Java started life as Oak, a language for small devices, and the JVM was designed to be portable to CPUs with limited numbers of registers. That is why it is a stack-based VM. Oddly enough, this also favors Intel architecture more than Sparc. The only person to claim that the JVM was designed expressly for Sparc was a single professor funded by Microsoft.
Point 2 - The Microsoft VM, while performing better in some cases than the Sun VM for Windows, was buggy as hell.
Point 3 - There is no law requiring Sun to sue Netscape like they did Microsoft just to satisfy your sense of "justice". Netscape was a strategic partner, what was Sun supposed to do?
But thanks for posting your revisionist bullshit. Have a nice day.
legal music downloads beat sales of 45s and 78s. Woo hoo.
Bush - "The more solar flares are shot at us, the more it shows the desperation of the Sun."
Soylent McGreen is ... PEOPLE!!!
As you say, it lacks some of the built-ins of a typical shell that make the easy things easy. Check out IPython.
to get an entire gallery of horror!
that it's time we stopped worshipping Allah, Jesus, and Buddha, and go back to worshipping Sun gods? Clearly she's pissed ...
Hell, I can drive my car on a paved road above 14,000 feet.
Or, alternatively, Laura Bush's car.
A nice thought, but in reality the passengers would just piss the time away reading Slashdot over a cell phone connection.
5. ???
6. Profit
Glenn Reynolds is a partisan right-wing hack who believes that if you opposed the war with Iraq, you are "objectively pro-Saddam".
shooting rocks at us again.