I saw that as the movie first (Picard version, not tv one) and it was magnificent.
You've got to be kidding. Even my girlfriend laughed when she saw that one, and she doesn't know anything about the novels. Lynch WAS NOT right for that story, not at all. The Sci Fi version was "magnificent".
I do. Its been a fairly accurate prediction, yet a prediction none the less. The "law" part is just an anecdotal, off-the-cuff addendum. You want to support your theory that its in fact an actual law, here's room for your proof right here:
Mac fans used to scream loudly (and rightly) how the IBM chips beat Intel...
Umm, don't you mean Motorola chips? I mean, I'm no Appel expert but I could have sworn appel was big on Motorola procs for the longest time. I always liked the flat model addressing in those...
This must be a real kick in the balls for all the folks back in the first days of the iPhone who got arrested because they were using it in "Airplane mode"...
You're not even making any sense. People were arrested for using phones in the least intrusive manner possible? Anyway, "airplane mode" is still useful. Probably should be called "non-emission mode" or something though. Like if your at a boring lecture and want to play "wild, wild weasels" during.
You sound like one of my wiccan girl friends (I was some how gifted with three without really trying). Boring. If there were a higher power it should be noted that it left the building millenia ago. Halloween, great if your a kid. A waste of time if your an adult with an ounce of brains.
I'm in a real quandry here with the whole windows 8 thing; as a programmer I have no use for a touch screen so windows 8 is absolutely useless to me. On the other hand Microsoft used to get castigated for not innovating. So is the touch screen not the interface of the future, or did Microsoft simply blow it? I'm no fan, but the deal kind of smells like "damned if you do, damned if you don't."
I don't think so. The gcc & it's toolchain, and the arm cross-compiler, are indispensable where I'm at. The current licensing is little more than an annoyance right now.
The ceo doesn't have to say anything, any probe of him by any agency will be met by a phalanx of lawyers court with orders to leave him alone and instructions to question underlings and minions. The only time ceos and other top dogs have to face the music is in front of senate subcommittees, and that's rare enough.
Villifying a dead man, nice. Look, I respect you, and I agree with what you say, most of the time, but now that man is dead, and all the grousing about him now is wankerism to an extreme degree, sigifying nothing. And I'm no Apple fan boy, trust me. But it took Jobs to get pc's in consumers hands, and there's no complaints against the man you can make to change that. Give the man that legacy.
Yeah, but he was a competitor. It was a bald-faced competitor thing to say at the time, and a little dumb, but I don't fault him for it. Now he has a huge opportunity to buy back his old company, give it a little "Dell Magic", and sell the whole useless lot off for a huge profit. If that's what he does, he's simply being smart and I would do the exact same thing in his shoes.
Do I want to support 50k people that can barely find their way around winxp...
Let them keep using xp. Doesn't stop you from doing what YOU want, after your "people" are taken care of. Give the people what they want, if they want to keep using crap, that's up to them. I never advocate upsetting the status quo, unless I can benefit some how. In this particular case, I, and You, would gain no discernable benefit. Are we agreed?
Well... Linux works for me, I run 7 in a vm for those rare times I need it, but as a posix/Foss developer Linux is indispensable. It may not work for you, perhaps, but it is a viable alternative, a better one in my opinion, d00D.
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I saw that as the movie first (Picard version, not tv one) and it was magnificent.
You've got to be kidding. Even my girlfriend laughed when she saw that one, and she doesn't know anything about the novels. Lynch WAS NOT right for that story, not at all. The Sci Fi version was "magnificent".
What a Hitlerian thing to say.
DAMN! I've been waiting years to use that!
I don't know about that.
I do. Its been a fairly accurate prediction, yet a prediction none the less. The "law" part is just an anecdotal, off-the-cuff addendum. You want to support your theory that its in fact an actual law, here's room for your proof right here:
Sure. Where people still measure weight in "stone" the ENGLISH system must seem very archaic.
Mac fans used to scream loudly (and rightly) how the IBM chips beat Intel...
Umm, don't you mean Motorola chips? I mean, I'm no Appel expert but I could have sworn appel was big on Motorola procs for the longest time. I always liked the flat model addressing in those...
Oh please. Back here in the real world NO ONE CARES for your pedantry.
The only non-emission mode for a cellphone is "battery removed"...
OMG. I know. Don't care. Not really relevant. Go play kick ball or whatever you do...
This must be a real kick in the balls for all the folks back in the first days of the iPhone who got arrested because they were using it in "Airplane mode"...
You're not even making any sense. People were arrested for using phones in the least intrusive manner possible? Anyway, "airplane mode" is still useful. Probably should be called "non-emission mode" or something though. Like if your at a boring lecture and want to play "wild, wild weasels" during.
Funny, I have no reason to trust the Gov. with it either, now.
Ok, well, that's a tale of a different sort...
Hallowe'en is my favorite holiday...
You sound like one of my wiccan girl friends (I was some how gifted with three without really trying). Boring. If there were a higher power it should be noted that it left the building millenia ago. Halloween, great if your a kid. A waste of time if your an adult with an ounce of brains.
I employed a double entendre as well; the lowest form of humor.
Try to use .progmem on an AVR chip...
Sure, cherry pick an obscure use case with old Atmel hardware. I think I'm ok with the arm stuff for now.
I'm in a real quandry here with the whole windows 8 thing; as a programmer I have no use for a touch screen so windows 8 is absolutely useless to me. On the other hand Microsoft used to get castigated for not innovating. So is the touch screen not the interface of the future, or did Microsoft simply blow it? I'm no fan, but the deal kind of smells like "damned if you do, damned if you don't."
...dead in the water...
I don't think so. The gcc & it's toolchain, and the arm cross-compiler, are indispensable where I'm at. The current licensing is little more than an annoyance right now.
When you sell off two successful companies you can take all that money and burn it if you like. Rothberg chose his route.
But that is the root of the problem.
Oh really? And how many Macs did Dell make for Apple? Oh, that's right, they made PCs.
The ceo doesn't have to say anything, any probe of him by any agency will be met by a phalanx of lawyers court with orders to leave him alone and instructions to question underlings and minions. The only time ceos and other top dogs have to face the music is in front of senate subcommittees, and that's rare enough.
Villifying a dead man, nice. Look, I respect you, and I agree with what you say, most of the time, but now that man is dead, and all the grousing about him now is wankerism to an extreme degree, sigifying nothing. And I'm no Apple fan boy, trust me. But it took Jobs to get pc's in consumers hands, and there's no complaints against the man you can make to change that. Give the man that legacy.
Yeah, but he was a competitor. It was a bald-faced competitor thing to say at the time, and a little dumb, but I don't fault him for it. Now he has a huge opportunity to buy back his old company, give it a little "Dell Magic", and sell the whole useless lot off for a huge profit. If that's what he does, he's simply being smart and I would do the exact same thing in his shoes.
Do I want to support 50k people that can barely find their way around winxp...
Let them keep using xp. Doesn't stop you from doing what YOU want, after your "people" are taken care of. Give the people what they want, if they want to keep using crap, that's up to them. I never advocate upsetting the status quo, unless I can benefit some how. In this particular case, I, and You, would gain no discernable benefit. Are we agreed?
Not a viable business strategy for Microsoft.
Well... Linux works for me, I run 7 in a vm for those rare times I need it, but as a posix/Foss developer Linux is indispensable. It may not work for you, perhaps, but it is a viable alternative, a better one in my opinion, d00D.