Some tech execs say SCO is bluffing and running a shakedown. Investors believe otherwise; after all, SCO previously bought a little-known program related to Microsoft DOS and exacted a multimillion-dollar settlement from the formidable software giant.
I must be missing something. What is he talking about? Is it DR-DOS?
I think making kids use Commodore 64s or TRS-80s would be a great thing, since they would learn more about how computers work, rather than just what pretty icons to click. I know I learned far more using my TRS-80 than Windows ever taught me.
I really don't see why there is so much debate over Creationism. It can neither be proven nor disproven, since God, assuming He exists, is completely outside the realm of science. Furthermore, Creationism does NOT conflict with the theory of evolution. I believe the evolutionary process, created by God, combined with the laws of physics, also created by God, is what probably guided the development of life on Earth. See? No problem with either theory. I can believe what I want, and science marches on uninhibited by unprovable religious beliefs.
It's unfortunate that the average user thinks he needs an interface that's SO intuitive that no reading is necessary. I'm not saying that a good GUI is a bad thing, quite the opposite; but it's unreasonable to expect to be able to sit down at a machine as incredibly complex as a computer, running software you're unfamiliar with, and just use it without taking the time to read any instructions first. A COMPUTER IS NOT AN APPLIANCE. And besides, don't most people at least skim over the manual that comes with a new appliance? Then why the aversion to reading software documentation?
I still can't understand why you would want to do computer type stuff on a PDA the size of a calculator with a screen the size of a piece of toilet paper.
What if an AI got a law degree? With its superior processing power, it could defeat any human lawyer in court. So naturally, they would replace all the human lawyers, and since by then there would be no other professions left, we would all be out of jobs. Er, wait a minute...well, maybe the future won't be so different after all.
I, for one, welcome our new Microsoft Attorney 2053 overlords.
I got a BSOD on the first boot with Windows 2000 after installing the latest updates. I hit reset and it started up fine. I have no clue what caused it. The Event Manager says nothing helpful.
This might seem weird, but from a couple years of experience with Win2k, when it BSOD's on bootup and I restart, for some reason it seems to help if I start wiggling the mouse as soon as the desktop appears and keep it up all the way through the login process until all the startup programs have loaded. Or maybe I'm just crazy.
At a manufacturing company where I had an internship (processing invoices, of all things), we got around 200 invoices a day. I doubt it would be all that hard for SCO to sneak one through. They might catch it after it was paid and they're trying to file it, but I doubt anyone would bother to see if they had actually bought anything from SCO before writing a check.
I'm using a Compaq Contura 420C laptop which I bought for $12 a year ago. It's from about 1994 and has a 486 at 75 MHz. It has 8 MB of RAM built in, which I upgraded to 24 MB ($18 on Ebay, plus shipping). It came without a hard drive (had been a government computer), but one of my old high school teachers gave me one (250 MB) that fit. I bought a used 16-bit, 10/100 D-Link Ethernet card for $15. It's running the latest NetBSD (1.6.1) very comfortably. I don't use X, as there is no room to install it, and it's probably too slow anyway, but it makes a nice portable terminal to any of the several *NIX machines I use. Total cost: roughly $50.
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And if they really were geeky enough to be virus writers, wouldn't a woman stand out like a sore thumb?
From the article:
Some tech execs say SCO is bluffing and running a shakedown. Investors believe otherwise; after all, SCO previously bought a little-known program related to Microsoft DOS and exacted a multimillion-dollar settlement from the formidable software giant.
I must be missing something. What is he talking about? Is it DR-DOS?
Here is a (slightly) higher resolution, downloadable version:
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/index.php?e=matrixpon g.wmv"
I think making kids use Commodore 64s or TRS-80s would be a great thing, since they would learn more about how computers work, rather than just what pretty icons to click. I know I learned far more using my TRS-80 than Windows ever taught me.
This is the only reason I haven't seen LOTR, I don't have the patience to sit through it. Oh well, maybe when I'm older.
Here are some more:
#include <stdlib.h>
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
int i;
i++;
else
return;
I really don't see why there is so much debate over Creationism. It can neither be proven nor disproven, since God, assuming He exists, is completely outside the realm of science. Furthermore, Creationism does NOT conflict with the theory of evolution. I believe the evolutionary process, created by God, combined with the laws of physics, also created by God, is what probably guided the development of life on Earth. See? No problem with either theory. I can believe what I want, and science marches on uninhibited by unprovable religious beliefs.
Can I just forward the scams and spams I get to this guy and have all these people caught?
Good idea. Let me know how that works.
So now the mods have teamed up with the trolls? The end of the world is upon us.
It's unfortunate that the average user thinks he needs an interface that's SO intuitive that no reading is necessary. I'm not saying that a good GUI is a bad thing, quite the opposite; but it's unreasonable to expect to be able to sit down at a machine as incredibly complex as a computer, running software you're unfamiliar with, and just use it without taking the time to read any instructions first. A COMPUTER IS NOT AN APPLIANCE. And besides, don't most people at least skim over the manual that comes with a new appliance? Then why the aversion to reading software documentation?
You've never heard of the Game of Life? You're right then, a Hacker Emblem doesn't apply to you.
X10 popups have made the Web what it is today. Losing them would be like losing a part of one's body. I'm glad to hear they will still be with us.
Long live X10!
I still can't understand why you would want to do computer type stuff on a PDA the size of a calculator with a screen the size of a piece of toilet paper.
What if an AI got a law degree? With its superior processing power, it could defeat any human lawyer in court. So naturally, they would replace all the human lawyers, and since by then there would be no other professions left, we would all be out of jobs. Er, wait a minute...well, maybe the future won't be so different after all.
I, for one, welcome our new Microsoft Attorney 2053 overlords.
Exactly. Open source doesn't have to mean free as in beer. Microsoft could write and sell open source software if they wanted to.
Heh, took me a moment to get that. Nice one.
But Bob McGrath, a spokesman for BayStar, disputed that claim...
You mean Bob, of all people, is involved in this? Shameful! What kind of message does this send to children?
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=134
They also found:
"frist ps0t!:
"BSD is dying"
"BSD is dead"
"Wind0ze sucks"
"Linux sucks"
"Java sucks"
"Perl sucks"
"Hot grits!"
I got a BSOD on the first boot with Windows 2000 after installing the latest updates. I hit reset and it started up fine. I have no clue what caused it. The Event Manager says nothing helpful.
This might seem weird, but from a couple years of experience with Win2k, when it BSOD's on bootup and I restart, for some reason it seems to help if I start wiggling the mouse as soon as the desktop appears and keep it up all the way through the login process until all the startup programs have loaded. Or maybe I'm just crazy.
I love Linux - it makes so much more sense.
At a manufacturing company where I had an internship (processing invoices, of all things), we got around 200 invoices a day. I doubt it would be all that hard for SCO to sneak one through. They might catch it after it was paid and they're trying to file it, but I doubt anyone would bother to see if they had actually bought anything from SCO before writing a check.
I'm using a Compaq Contura 420C laptop which I bought for $12 a year ago. It's from about 1994 and has a 486 at 75 MHz. It has 8 MB of RAM built in, which I upgraded to 24 MB ($18 on Ebay, plus shipping). It came without a hard drive (had been a government computer), but one of my old high school teachers gave me one (250 MB) that fit. I bought a used 16-bit, 10/100 D-Link Ethernet card for $15. It's running the latest NetBSD (1.6.1) very comfortably. I don't use X, as there is no room to install it, and it's probably too slow anyway, but it makes a nice portable terminal to any of the several *NIX machines I use. Total cost: roughly $50.
Pencil and paper.
'Storage Tank has the potential to become to an organization's data what the Dewey Decimal system is to a library,'
I'd be careful about making that comparison, unless you want a lawsuit from the Online Computer Library Center.
...and that might finally be the thing that gets some people to use Open Source software. Well, honest people, anyway.