I think you're confusing Windows 95 with Windows 3.1.
Windows 3.1 was the one where you booted into DOS and typed the "win" command to start it. It wasn't a lot different from starting DOS Shell with the dosshell command. (Yes, DOS Hell. Great piece of marketing there.)
No, they're not confused, you are.
* Windows 1.0 through 3.11 = Manually start win.exe from DOS command line * Windows 95/98/ME = starts Windows automatically using hardwired autoexec-like system, but still running on top of DOS
Windows NT was the first version of Windows to drop DOS as a bootloader and switch to a pure 32-bit proprietary kernel. It was developed in parallel to the DOS versions of Windows and eventually merged into the consumer version of Windows in XP in 2001.
If you're going to try to correct someone, it helps if you're actually correct.
If I read the article correctly, the differences can be summed up thus:
Conservatives fear change - which leads to thinking that the current state of affairs is the best possible one and should never change Liberals fear conflict - which leads to pandering and decisions by committee or focus-group that try to please everyone
Both groups need to recognize that we are actually capable of acting in a way that is contrary to our biological biases in the same way as we are able to resist these urges in the same way as we are able to resist going to the toilet until we reach a commode.
Did you ankle heal instantly , after decades of treatment and painkillers? Idiocy indeed.
The idiocy is my trying to explain the unexplainable.
No, the idiocy is attributing the ability of living creatures to heal after years of medical treatment to some all-powerful being.
You would have trouble choosing a worse example of the power of prayer if you tried. A massive industry is predicated precisely upon the fact that you can't pray yourself better, you may have heard of it. It's called healthcare. There are hospitals filled with faithful Christians, and millions of Christians who take pills to cure problems that prayer can't.
Also, riddle me this. Why does your healing, listening God never listen to the prayers of amputees and heal their amputated limbs? Does he hate amputees?
Would you have the same opinion of prayer if I told you of the times I've prayed for specific things, and they came to pass? Praying that a friend's ankle would no longer cause her pain, for instance. Or others, who prayed that I would find work in a new city that paid twice what I had previously been paid, and i did - to the penny. The less specific prayers, those I cannot offer up. But claims that prayers have never been answered ignore many reports, too many, I think, to be blithely ignored.
However, I expect you will deny these without some acceptable proof, and I won't quibble with that. I can only tell you I have a reason for my faith. I understand that you can't accept that. It changes nothing.
Thank you for demonstrating my point regarding idiocy.
I bit my tongue, and my sprained ankle healed; therefore I deduce that biting my tongue has a positive effect on ankle-health.
IP and content ownership issues emanating from the US and other countries are not the same as the blatant censorship being pushed in other countries like China, Iran, or Pakistan.
No that's right, China and Iran don't get the right to raid and extradite citizens of other countries for enabling people to bypass their firewalls. The U.S. want to bankrupt and jail people all over the world for helping people to copy stuff.
The U.S. is turning into something far more terrifying than a firewall, I say giving control of the internet to Iran or China would probably be better for the average person in the rest of the world than allowing the current situation. At least no country would offer their citizens up for punishment to either of those two.
This seems simple, but naive. You require that my faith be based on proof, or discarded as idiocy. Fine. I find your requirement idiotic.
There, we're even.
If I suggested to you that waving your arms correctly would cause gumballs to fall from the giant gumball machine that is on top of all clouds, you would probably assume that I was psychotic. Yet suggesting almost the same thing (that prayer has any effect) is considered sane.
How can you argue with my proposition? It's very easy, because it's stupid. What's hard is to argue that my gumball proposition is stupid without suggesting that I'm either mentally ill or extremely silly.
Call me old-fashioned, but calling me an uneducated, ignorant, narrow minded fool because I believe in something he does not strikes me as insulting. Especially when he chastises me for my beliefs, and in the same breath claims his are correct and just, and he is more enlightened than I for having them.
And his assertions that many who believe in God do so because they were taught so by their parents, and have enver examined their faith critically nor independently.
That he even has to address this is proof that he is wrong. His arguments are largely insulting to me personally.
But he is entitled to them, and I don't seek his blood or life because of it. Nor do I want him silenced. Would that he grant me the same consideration, but he would have me shut up if he could.
Religious faith, by definition is believing something in the absence of proof, sometimes in direct contradiction to screeds of contrary evidence.
Believing in something without any evidence, or in the presence of contrary evidence is idiocy. Such idiocy is a central tenet of most religions, so how is a sensible person supposed to argue with that without mentioning that religion bares a strong resemblance to idiocy?
The question in my mind is what would you want out of a browser GUI that wasn't in Netscape/Mozilla? I haven't seen a single feature that's worth adding in any of the newer browsers, UI wise.
Tell me, what exactly is wrong with labels hosting parts of the file for a torrent and then watching who downloads it? No privacy lost, no shady ISP wiretapping business.... Is it just that, in the end, people really just want to be able to pirate and get away with it? Cause thats really what it seems like from over here.
It kind of seems like speed cameras-- you could get rid of every other objection, and people would STILL object because in the end they just dont want to get caught.
I'm not a lawyer or anything, but if the copyright holder is offering up their content as a bittorrent peer (even part of it, even through a third party), surely that is knowingly and willingly allowing you to have that content? I can't see how they could possibly then argue in court that they in fact didn't want you to have said content if they willingly helped you to download it, it sounds preposterous to me.
Asking another member of the bittorrent swarm to upload the offending content to you is a different story of course, but can be mitigated by being antisocial when torrenting.
Essentially, to be "ready for the desktop" an OS needs to be pre-installed before retail, since the vast majority of people will just use whatever software is on their computer when they get it, oblivious to the fact that alternatives are available. Those people buy a new computer to get an OS upgrade rather than buy the OS retail and pay someone to install it for them, and use whatever software is on the computer already if it gets the job done. They simply don't know (and often don't care to know) better.
To be ready for the desktop, Linux just has to be supplied on the desktop at purchase time. Not everyone has the inclination to worry about operating systems and web browsers.
Only because of the iPod, iPhone and iPad, none of which run on a *nix-like OS or share the *nix philosophy in any way whatsoever.
The clckwheel iPod ran an OS from someone called Pixo, I believe.
The iPod nano (since 2010) runs a separate, unnamed non-unix OS developed by Apple.
However, iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone all run iOS which is basically a de-bloated version of OS X, so they do run a Unix based OS. as to whether they "share the *nix philosophy"? I don't think any GUI system could be classed as sharing the philosophy of having small tools that you can chain together to perform complex tasks, which is what I thought the Unix philosophy was.
I'm really not full of rage when I tell you a company that is moving its overpriced barely upgradable closed computers to overpriced closed electronics. With software tied to hardware is a *NIX guys dream [I think I felt the marketing wave make me feel ill at that point].
Personally I'm a little tired of large posts containing nothing but adversing slogans;) The bottom line is though Apple is a vile company that needs to boycotted.:(
I'm fascinated that you care that other people are buying "overpriced" stuff and enjoying it, do you walk around at the supermarket telling everyone how disgusted you are that they didn't buy the cheapest product on the shelf, or is this a special animosity you reserve for consumer electronics purchasers only?
The bottom line is that all companies are vile. They are compelled to behave in the manner of a prototypical psychopath, legally obliged to put the interests of its shareholders above all else. If you think a company is 'trustworthy' or 'not evil', you're wrong. Companies, just like human psychopaths, pretend to have certain morals and values because it is better for them if you believe the hype.
Just because you like what they're doing today, doesn't mean companies are under any obligation to keep doing things you like tomorrow. They could find out that it's unprofitable or that it brings bad publicity to keep doing what they've been doing for you all these years, and could start behaving completely differently... tomorrow, or today at noon. You never know.
No company is your friend, no company will show you any loyalty, and every company will screw you to the wall if there's a dollar in it. With all that in mind, I find it hard to single out any company or it's actions as reprehensible. Only people who are naïve about how companies are run and what the legal obligations of company principals are, could feel animosity toward Microsoft, Apple, Google, Oracle, IBM, etc. They are doing what they are made to do, you might as well get angry at sharks for eating fish.
Besides, it's not as though these companies care what we as individuals want as long as we are still handing our hard-earned cash to them.
I'm guessing by "direct control" he means the ability to actually read and adjust the sourcecode and the ability to guarentee that the OS isn't secretly tracking users despite promises by the OS vendor and disabling all such functionality. A closed source product like iOS requires security to be entrusted to it's vendor. This may not be desirable for all levels of security requirements. Governments and big companies may be able to audit closed source code, but if you're $billion company, chances are you won't.
What a load of bullshit. Corporates are running the software that came on their phone, not cooking up their own roms. They have no idea whether the software on their phones has rapemyassware 2.0 installed or not. An IT dept could audit the source code, but unless they want to compile their own roms and void the warranty on a whole fleet of phones, there's no way to guarantee that the source they're given to audit is the same that was used to build the rom on the phone.
Only an idiot would be swayed to go with a possibly untrustworthy vendor just because they give them access to something which they claim is the source to the rom on their device, and only an idiot would try to run a whole organization on roms they cooked up themselves, so while there are plenty of things that make Android good for enterprise, the availability of source code is not one of them.
No no, you misunderstand... I'm disappointed that Obama wasn't able to handle getting a hard-on in public. Doesn't speak well of his ability to handle awkward situations.
Maybe I just don't have the full story, perhaps he was feeling ill from all the drug taking, or maybe his hooker arrived. But as things stand it sounds like Obama ran away afraid someone would notice how small his peenie is.
Oh how I wish I could moderate and comment on the same topic....
You, my friend just made chocolate milk come out of my nostrils and tear-ducts. Congratulations on making me actually laugh out loud and not just "lol".
"Still, you'd have to admit that murder is more of a problem than theft. No? Then let's turn the entire police force into homicide detectives and catch nothing but murderers all day."
The last half of that quote isn't mine, and being a false dichotomy doesn't mean you can't compare the two problems in scope and magnitude which the OP was insinuating.
There's no need for a dichotomy in order for two things to be compared in magnitude. For example, "my feet are longer than my hands" is a valid comparative statement that needs no dichotomy.
You need to brush up on your comprehension skills and stop misquoting people.
I'd rather my tax dollars went to beer breweing anyway. It's either that or some military money pit facade.
A minor issue, but that's a very dangerous, false (and common) dichotomy.
Unless this is literally coming out of the military budget, any such expense comes out of the additional money that will be borrowed somewhere. Without a zero-sum budget, there are no balancing trade-offs forcing spending less on B because we spent more on A.
Still, you'd have to admit that blowing trillions of dollars on unnecessary wars against people who pose very little credible military threat, while ignoring the true aggressors for years because finding them was a bit difficult is more of a problem than spending taxpayer dollars videoing Obama's personal brew kit. No?
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So, all things being equal, he chose wisely by selecting the one that's easier to use then.
I think you're confusing Windows 95 with Windows 3.1.
Windows 3.1 was the one where you booted into DOS and typed the "win" command to start it. It wasn't a lot different from starting DOS Shell with the dosshell command. (Yes, DOS Hell. Great piece of marketing there.)
No, they're not confused, you are.
* Windows 1.0 through 3.11 = Manually start win.exe from DOS command line
* Windows 95/98/ME = starts Windows automatically using hardwired autoexec-like system, but still running on top of DOS
Windows NT was the first version of Windows to drop DOS as a bootloader and switch to a pure 32-bit proprietary kernel. It was developed in parallel to the DOS versions of Windows and eventually merged into the consumer version of Windows in XP in 2001.
If you're going to try to correct someone, it helps if you're actually correct.
Another batch of liberals trying to justify their existence. Heard it before.
You're just reacting that way because you're afraid that Liberals might change something.
If I read the article correctly, the differences can be summed up thus:
Conservatives fear change - which leads to thinking that the current state of affairs is the best possible one and should never change
Liberals fear conflict - which leads to pandering and decisions by committee or focus-group that try to please everyone
Both groups need to recognize that we are actually capable of acting in a way that is contrary to our biological biases in the same way as we are able to resist these urges in the same way as we are able to resist going to the toilet until we reach a commode.
ahh sneakernet... god I love wifi.
Wifi is famously good when transferring terabyte sized files like exFAT is intended for.
I've heard rumors that something in the blood of alligators / crocodiles can kill even the toughest super-germs.
If the rumor of gator blood is true, how does it compare to panda blood?
I much prefer the taste of panda blood, but alligator blood has a thinner consistency that makes it easier to drink.
Did you ankle heal instantly , after decades of treatment and painkillers? Idiocy indeed.
The idiocy is my trying to explain the unexplainable.
No, the idiocy is attributing the ability of living creatures to heal after years of medical treatment to some all-powerful being.
You would have trouble choosing a worse example of the power of prayer if you tried. A massive industry is predicated precisely upon the fact that you can't pray yourself better, you may have heard of it. It's called healthcare. There are hospitals filled with faithful Christians, and millions of Christians who take pills to cure problems that prayer can't.
Also, riddle me this. Why does your healing, listening God never listen to the prayers of amputees and heal their amputated limbs? Does he hate amputees?
Would you have the same opinion of prayer if I told you of the times I've prayed for specific things, and they came to pass? Praying that a friend's ankle would no longer cause her pain, for instance. Or others, who prayed that I would find work in a new city that paid twice what I had previously been paid, and i did - to the penny. The less specific prayers, those I cannot offer up. But claims that prayers have never been answered ignore many reports, too many, I think, to be blithely ignored.
However, I expect you will deny these without some acceptable proof, and I won't quibble with that. I can only tell you I have a reason for my faith. I understand that you can't accept that. It changes nothing.
Thank you for demonstrating my point regarding idiocy.
I bit my tongue, and my sprained ankle healed; therefore I deduce that biting my tongue has a positive effect on ankle-health.
IP and content ownership issues emanating from the US and other countries are not the same as the blatant censorship being pushed in other countries like China, Iran, or Pakistan.
No that's right, China and Iran don't get the right to raid and extradite citizens of other countries for enabling people to bypass their firewalls. The U.S. want to bankrupt and jail people all over the world for helping people to copy stuff.
The U.S. is turning into something far more terrifying than a firewall, I say giving control of the internet to Iran or China would probably be better for the average person in the rest of the world than allowing the current situation. At least no country would offer their citizens up for punishment to either of those two.
Your logic depends on itself for its proof.
This seems simple, but naive. You require that my faith be based on proof, or discarded as idiocy. Fine. I find your requirement idiotic.
There, we're even.
If I suggested to you that waving your arms correctly would cause gumballs to fall from the giant gumball machine that is on top of all clouds, you would probably assume that I was psychotic. Yet suggesting almost the same thing (that prayer has any effect) is considered sane.
How can you argue with my proposition? It's very easy, because it's stupid. What's hard is to argue that my gumball proposition is stupid without suggesting that I'm either mentally ill or extremely silly.
See what I'm saying now?
Call me old-fashioned, but calling me an uneducated, ignorant, narrow minded fool because I believe in something he does not strikes me as insulting. Especially when he chastises me for my beliefs, and in the same breath claims his are correct and just, and he is more enlightened than I for having them.
And his assertions that many who believe in God do so because they were taught so by their parents, and have enver examined their faith critically nor independently.
That he even has to address this is proof that he is wrong. His arguments are largely insulting to me personally.
But he is entitled to them, and I don't seek his blood or life because of it. Nor do I want him silenced. Would that he grant me the same consideration, but he would have me shut up if he could.
Religious faith, by definition is believing something in the absence of proof, sometimes in direct contradiction to screeds of contrary evidence.
Believing in something without any evidence, or in the presence of contrary evidence is idiocy. Such idiocy is a central tenet of most religions, so how is a sensible person supposed to argue with that without mentioning that religion bares a strong resemblance to idiocy?
The question in my mind is what would you want out of a browser GUI that wasn't in Netscape/Mozilla? I haven't seen a single feature that's worth adding in any of the newer browsers, UI wise.
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Tell me, what exactly is wrong with labels hosting parts of the file for a torrent and then watching who downloads it? No privacy lost, no shady ISP wiretapping business.... Is it just that, in the end, people really just want to be able to pirate and get away with it? Cause thats really what it seems like from over here.
It kind of seems like speed cameras-- you could get rid of every other objection, and people would STILL object because in the end they just dont want to get caught.
I'm not a lawyer or anything, but if the copyright holder is offering up their content as a bittorrent peer (even part of it, even through a third party), surely that is knowingly and willingly allowing you to have that content? I can't see how they could possibly then argue in court that they in fact didn't want you to have said content if they willingly helped you to download it, it sounds preposterous to me.
Asking another member of the bittorrent swarm to upload the offending content to you is a different story of course, but can be mitigated by being antisocial when torrenting.
Essentially, to be "ready for the desktop" an OS needs to be pre-installed before retail, since the vast majority of people will just use whatever software is on their computer when they get it, oblivious to the fact that alternatives are available. Those people buy a new computer to get an OS upgrade rather than buy the OS retail and pay someone to install it for them, and use whatever software is on the computer already if it gets the job done. They simply don't know (and often don't care to know) better.
To be ready for the desktop, Linux just has to be supplied on the desktop at purchase time. Not everyone has the inclination to worry about operating systems and web browsers.
Only because of the iPod, iPhone and iPad, none of which run on a *nix-like OS or share the *nix philosophy in any way whatsoever.
The clckwheel iPod ran an OS from someone called Pixo, I believe.
The iPod nano (since 2010) runs a separate, unnamed non-unix OS developed by Apple.
However, iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone all run iOS which is basically a de-bloated version of OS X, so they do run a Unix based OS. as to whether they "share the *nix philosophy"? I don't think any GUI system could be classed as sharing the philosophy of having small tools that you can chain together to perform complex tasks, which is what I thought the Unix philosophy was.
What "*nix philosophy" were you talking about?
I'm really not full of rage when I tell you a company that is moving its overpriced barely upgradable closed computers to overpriced closed electronics. With software tied to hardware is a *NIX guys dream [I think I felt the marketing wave make me feel ill at that point].
Personally I'm a little tired of large posts containing nothing but adversing slogans ;) The bottom line is though Apple is a vile company that needs to boycotted. :(
I'm fascinated that you care that other people are buying "overpriced" stuff and enjoying it, do you walk around at the supermarket telling everyone how disgusted you are that they didn't buy the cheapest product on the shelf, or is this a special animosity you reserve for consumer electronics purchasers only?
The bottom line is that all companies are vile. They are compelled to behave in the manner of a prototypical psychopath, legally obliged to put the interests of its shareholders above all else. If you think a company is 'trustworthy' or 'not evil', you're wrong. Companies, just like human psychopaths, pretend to have certain morals and values because it is better for them if you believe the hype.
Just because you like what they're doing today, doesn't mean companies are under any obligation to keep doing things you like tomorrow. They could find out that it's unprofitable or that it brings bad publicity to keep doing what they've been doing for you all these years, and could start behaving completely differently... tomorrow, or today at noon. You never know.
No company is your friend, no company will show you any loyalty, and every company will screw you to the wall if there's a dollar in it. With all that in mind, I find it hard to single out any company or it's actions as reprehensible. Only people who are naïve about how companies are run and what the legal obligations of company principals are, could feel animosity toward Microsoft, Apple, Google, Oracle, IBM, etc. They are doing what they are made to do, you might as well get angry at sharks for eating fish.
Besides, it's not as though these companies care what we as individuals want as long as we are still handing our hard-earned cash to them.
I'm guessing by "direct control" he means the ability to actually read and adjust the sourcecode and the ability to guarentee that the OS isn't secretly tracking users despite promises by the OS vendor and disabling all such functionality.
A closed source product like iOS requires security to be entrusted to it's vendor. This may not be desirable for all levels of security requirements. Governments and big companies may be able to audit closed source code, but if you're $billion company, chances are you won't.
What a load of bullshit. Corporates are running the software that came on their phone, not cooking up their own roms. They have no idea whether the software on their phones has rapemyassware 2.0 installed or not. An IT dept could audit the source code, but unless they want to compile their own roms and void the warranty on a whole fleet of phones, there's no way to guarantee that the source they're given to audit is the same that was used to build the rom on the phone.
Only an idiot would be swayed to go with a possibly untrustworthy vendor just because they give them access to something which they claim is the source to the rom on their device, and only an idiot would try to run a whole organization on roms they cooked up themselves, so while there are plenty of things that make Android good for enterprise, the availability of source code is not one of them.
Standalone Google Maps app is currently in review and should be released shortly. So no need to panic just yet :)
In the immortal words of Wikipedia; "Citation needed"...
No no, you misunderstand... I'm disappointed that Obama wasn't able to handle getting a hard-on in public
Its also entirely possible that he has a 17 inch dick, and didn't want to rip his pants and poke the poor girls eye out.
Very true
No no, you misunderstand... I'm disappointed that Obama wasn't able to handle getting a hard-on in public. Doesn't speak well of his ability to handle awkward situations.
Maybe I just don't have the full story, perhaps he was feeling ill from all the drug taking, or maybe his hooker arrived. But as things stand it sounds like Obama ran away afraid someone would notice how small his peenie is.
That's incredibly disappointing, my esteem for Obama has been decimated
Oh how I wish I could moderate and comment on the same topic....
You, my friend just made chocolate milk come out of my nostrils and tear-ducts. Congratulations on making me actually laugh out loud and not just "lol".
Do you not know what false dichotomy means?
"Still, you'd have to admit that murder is more of a problem than theft. No? Then let's turn the entire police force into homicide detectives and catch nothing but murderers all day."
The last half of that quote isn't mine, and being a false dichotomy doesn't mean you can't compare the two problems in scope and magnitude which the OP was insinuating.
There's no need for a dichotomy in order for two things to be compared in magnitude. For example, "my feet are longer than my hands" is a valid comparative statement that needs no dichotomy.
You need to brush up on your comprehension skills and stop misquoting people.
I'd rather my tax dollars went to beer breweing anyway. It's either that or some military money pit facade.
A minor issue, but that's a very dangerous, false (and common) dichotomy.
Unless this is literally coming out of the military budget, any such expense comes out of the additional money that will be borrowed somewhere. Without a zero-sum budget, there are no balancing trade-offs forcing spending less on B because we spent more on A.
Still, you'd have to admit that blowing trillions of dollars on unnecessary wars against people who pose very little credible military threat, while ignoring the true aggressors for years because finding them was a bit difficult is more of a problem than spending taxpayer dollars videoing Obama's personal brew kit. No?
Just don't ask about Gitmo
Are they brewing beer at Gitmo as well? (is waterboarding just "soaking the malts"?)
Mmmm beerboarding.