"And the Dark Lord made Orcs in mockery of Elves, and Trolls in mockery of
Ents; and he made DOS in mockery of CP/M, and Windows in mockery of Macs,
and NT in mockery of Netware; and he made Excel in mockery of VisiCalc,
and Explorer in mockery of Navigator, and Word in mockery of WordPerfect;
and he made MSNetwork in mockery of America Online; and on every side his
foes fell reeling, defeated one by one as he crushed them by sheer weight
of numbers, his hosts darkening the plain; and in the twilight years of
the Second Millenium the Free Peoples of the West said, Lo, let us face
this pestilence and destroy it, lest he turn all of Middle-Earth into a
nest of foulness. And they forged the One OS, and they called it Copland;
and they gathered their allies, the IBM Host and the Riders of Motorola,
and they prepared for the final battle."
Unfortunately, we lost the final battle, and the Darkness of Microsoft has swallowed up the land.
Descant? You recommend storing it with some medieval music? "A descant is a form of medieval music in which one singer sang a fixed melody, and others accompanied with improvisations.". Perhaps you meant dessicant?
Based on the "choices" we've had over the lasts several decades, I've concluded that the whole thing is rigged just like professional wrestling, and it deserves no more of my attention that that does. Nothing else can explain the farce that's been going on when it comes to the people who are chosen to lead this country.
Sounds like a lot of these climate change folks don't like any solution that doesn't include more central control of everything...with them at the controls...
After the Russkis launched Sputnik, there was a massive push in the US for science and engineering in education. I'm old enough to remember if personally - science, math and engineering were all the rage. And Progress - we weren't scared of what science would do - it was going to build The Future!
If not for this big push, I wouldn't have wasted all my time on technical studies and be a millionaire lawyer now...
HA! I always found this annoying. Rather than argue with the salesperson about whether they get my info (both at Radio Shack and everywhere else) I just tell them I'm Larry Talbot, and I live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane.
80% of kids have smartphones? I'm glad I'm not a kid today. My father was too much of a Luddite to get a color TV - no way would we have been allowed to have cell phones. much less smartphones, and he probably wouldn't have tolerated a PC or the internet in the house either. We would have grown up in a strange informationless cut off parallel universe from all the other kids.
HA! This reminds me of my days at Rice University, in the early 70s. The Post grad students there each year would award one of their number the "Young Marsden" award. It was presented to the student whose work had been most egregiously ripped off by a faculty member that year. It was called the Young Marsden award, in memory of Marsden, since Rutherford and Geiger got credit for his work on alpha particle scattering
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Stop printing so much.
And RSX
There's this thing called VMS....
Never talk to the cops...and seven times never talk to the FBI...
"And the Dark Lord made Orcs in mockery of Elves, and Trolls in mockery of Ents; and he made DOS in mockery of CP/M, and Windows in mockery of Macs, and NT in mockery of Netware; and he made Excel in mockery of VisiCalc, and Explorer in mockery of Navigator, and Word in mockery of WordPerfect; and he made MSNetwork in mockery of America Online; and on every side his foes fell reeling, defeated one by one as he crushed them by sheer weight of numbers, his hosts darkening the plain; and in the twilight years of the Second Millenium the Free Peoples of the West said, Lo, let us face this pestilence and destroy it, lest he turn all of Middle-Earth into a nest of foulness. And they forged the One OS, and they called it Copland; and they gathered their allies, the IBM Host and the Riders of Motorola, and they prepared for the final battle." Unfortunately, we lost the final battle, and the Darkness of Microsoft has swallowed up the land.
I have a Rolex. I've seen an Apple Watch. They're not competing...
Yep. The only data they've got on me is that my name is Larry Talbot, and that I live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane....
Of course robot driven cars will need windows, windows that will open. How else can you roll down the window and throw things at pedestrians?
There is water at the bottom of the ocean!
Meh...dont' care. Microsoft Office, that's something that a user uses.
What is this, the 20th century?
On the other hand, due to my work environment, I need a law passed that would make it a crime for people to annoy me in person.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
You forgot the in-state tuition prices for college.
Descant? You recommend storing it with some medieval music? "A descant is a form of medieval music in which one singer sang a fixed melody, and others accompanied with improvisations.". Perhaps you meant dessicant?
Based on the "choices" we've had over the lasts several decades, I've concluded that the whole thing is rigged just like professional wrestling, and it deserves no more of my attention that that does. Nothing else can explain the farce that's been going on when it comes to the people who are chosen to lead this country.
Sounds like a lot of these climate change folks don't like any solution that doesn't include more central control of everything...with them at the controls...
Domesday? Is the King doing a census? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
Yah, but I would have become a lawyer in the early 70s....long before the law glut...
After the Russkis launched Sputnik, there was a massive push in the US for science and engineering in education. I'm old enough to remember if personally - science, math and engineering were all the rage. And Progress - we weren't scared of what science would do - it was going to build The Future! If not for this big push, I wouldn't have wasted all my time on technical studies and be a millionaire lawyer now...
Heck, state law in a lot of states allows common civilians to use deadly force in an encounter like this, much less the military.
HA! I always found this annoying. Rather than argue with the salesperson about whether they get my info (both at Radio Shack and everywhere else) I just tell them I'm Larry Talbot, and I live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane.
80% of kids have smartphones? I'm glad I'm not a kid today. My father was too much of a Luddite to get a color TV - no way would we have been allowed to have cell phones. much less smartphones, and he probably wouldn't have tolerated a PC or the internet in the house either. We would have grown up in a strange informationless cut off parallel universe from all the other kids.
HA! This reminds me of my days at Rice University, in the early 70s. The Post grad students there each year would award one of their number the "Young Marsden" award. It was presented to the student whose work had been most egregiously ripped off by a faculty member that year. It was called the Young Marsden award, in memory of Marsden, since Rutherford and Geiger got credit for his work on alpha particle scattering
Links? Perhaps you meant Lynx?