Nope. WordPerfect is not an application suite; it is a word processor. Its decline in the market was largely due to Microsoft's suite. Perfect Office came about seven years later than MS Office. 1-2-3 was not an application suite; it was a single application which tried to do several things. 1-2-3 was a poor word processor and only nominally a database at all; in practice, most shops used it exclusively as a spreadsheet. Its decline in the market was also largely due to Office.
Active Directory is LDAP, which was not at all new at the time. The only thing Microsoft did new was follow it through to its logical conclusion
Actually, LDAP support was added to AD at the last minute. AD was a descendant of LanMan's DS; it was purchased and redeveloped as a directory service for Exchange 4. LDAP was integrated when it was reworked for Win Server 2000 after Cairo was canceled. In hindsight, it's easy to see this was the Right Thing.
If it had been an obvious, logical conclusion, Novell or Banyan would have done it. Each tried to put forward a more scalable DS post-LDAP and pre-AD. Three companies, three solutions - one worked. Give credit where it's due.
So does this mean we're gonna have to re-educate the public and explain that they really can catch an infection from a computer virus? It wasn't that long ago that we were patiently explaining why that wasn't a concern.
Also, e. coli, really? I hope that, if this technology reaches the stage of commercial use, they've found something better. Or we're gonna hear a constant litany of people complaining that their computer is a piece of crap. It'll be worse than the "cat with a computer mouse" cartoons.* It will.
*Which is why I'm making the joke early and beating the rush.
I mean an original though that was good, of course.
Oh. Er, not in some while. The office application suite was a pretty nifty idea, for example. Um... hrm... Active directory? I think that was original, and it was damned nice. There's been some other stuff, I'm sure, especially if you allow for somewhat trivial things, like Bing's video preview.*
*Which may not've been original; I dunno. But stuff like it, if it wasn't.
Really? I'm charged for an SMS whether I want it or not.
Huh; I stand corrected. I don't, using T-Mobile in California, and I assumed that'd be true for others. I'm surprised that's legal, and will be doubly surprised if it's legal in states with opt-in laws. Outta curiosity, what carrier d'you use, and in which state?
Having said that though, there is a lot that needs fixing about the US cellular network, from what I gather. Are you really charged to receive calls and SMSes over there? If so, that's crazy shit.
Not exactly. We're charged to read text messages or answer calls. Which is still crazy, but not quite as crazy.
If you try to find a real copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook, see how fast the FBI shows up at your door. (yes this book is officially illegal in the US)
Now, do you want to search for the Anarachist's Cookbook on google and still have the FBI show up at your door?
You are mistaken. I found and bought a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook. No FBI came a'callin'. Later, I received a security clearance.
From common usage (rather than one pedant), it's a verb, a noun, and an adjective.
Common usage doesn't mean what I think you think it means. Merriam-Webster, the source that actually matters, says "backup" is a noun and "back up" is a verb. The usage you posted as adjectival is a noun form.
Protip: If you put it on facebook, it's not private. Fucking idiot.
I can't imagine why this AC got modded troll. TSA sez:
Apparently the police like to spend their time trawling our private information on Facebook looking for criminals.
And... well, if you put it on Facebook, it's not private. I dunno the laws regarding fighting for your right to party in Merrie England, but by no stretch can the announcement be considered private.
For "$DEITY" sake, don't use, buy or recommend to anyone the Kindle!
It was designed from day one to be enable Amazon to fuck you and this is exactly what happened.
I strongly considered one, but this pushed me back from the brink. The guy whose Kindle account got arbitrarily canceled a while back made me wary, but Amazon at least repented quickly and made it right. This demonstrates that they still truly consider our purchases to be their property. Unless they drastically revise their terms, or someone with reasonable terms starts selling a good reader, I'm'a stick with stupid dead trees.
It's sad that Amazon fucked this up: Ebooks have the potential to be a huge boon to the environment while simultaneously making books cheaper and more convenient to buy.
If the US company doesn't want to follow European law and can't bribe the officials to turn a blind eye, they can fuck off out the country and conduct their business elsewhere.
Good bye, you won't be missed.
They won't be missed, you're right: They were never there. Yahoo has no Belgian operations, which is what makes this story interesting.
If I go out on a public place and shout: "Whoever comes here first takes 20 bucks!!!", does that make me obliged by law to give 20 bucks to the faster (and dumper) who runs to me? Which law is that? The "You Said It Now" Act ???
I think that one falls under The I Don't Want This Crowd of Angry People to Break My Legs Act of 1879, which was upheld in Sambrowski v. Oh, God, Here, Please Just Take the Money and Stop.
I doubt Kolodziej will get anything, it was clearly hyperbole.
I don't think it's so clear. In this discussion, we've seen a number of articulate, thoughtful arguments that Mason should pony up. The question is whether a "reasonable person" would perceive the offer as serious. The fact that people do take it seriously lends a lot of weight to the notion that the courts should take it seriously.
Couldn't do it if I tried, now that I've asked. I can't claim to fully agree with the poster, but I likes it when folks raise on-topic issues for debate. Notwithstanding my derailment, of course.
Good question, hard one to google, try a search for "Slashdot suing website"
Tell me about it. Although the AC under you might be on the right track...
I vaguely remember there being a site that posted the popular Slashdot articles of the day, like a "best of Slashdot,"
I'm not sure why, but that spurs a memory: Remember Diggdot? They got C&D'ed, but by Digg, not/. Might be what the OP was thinking of. Looks like their operating as Doggdot these days.
Even though Slashdot has sued websites in the past for copyright infringement
I was gonna mod you up, but I'm just too darned curious about this line. I must've missed it, assuming you're not making it up. Anyone remember such a thing?
Forget version numbers. How did you pick that user name?
At a guess, it has something to do with a common programming exercise in which you try to find the largest possible integer with a square that takes a certain form; in his case, that form must've been 1_2_3_4_5_6_7_7_8_9_.
The article doesn't give any examples, and when I Google Rosetta Stone, I see no fraudulent ads.
The most glaring one is "Rosetta.StoneLanguages.com", with the tag "Rosetta Language - 60% off". That ain't Rosetta Stone, and it seems to've been tricky enough to trick even you while you were looking for it.
Your sentence is not really ironic but I'll use the word ironic.:)
Heh, yeah, it's a rule that spelling and grammar flames always contain at least one error. Had I been writing what I writ in a professional shop for a published report, I'd be very embarrassed. Were I critiquing a forum post or other off-the-cuff essay, I'd be a bit hypocritical.* Since I was critiquing a quasi-professional report with a forum post, I don't feel too bad. (But a little, yeah.)
* Although I'm usually terribly contrite and apologetic when the extremely rare forum post compels me to mention the grammar. In this case, were the kid's report a forum post, I would assume the sloppiness was a combination of casual writing and tequila and ignore it.
just like to bitch, or trying to make yourself seem better by putting other people down.
Oh, one of those, probably. That sounds like me.
It's possible, if you don't mind a hypothetical, that I believe that standardization of language is one of the greatest boons to communication and education that the world has ever devised. The degeneration of language hurts a society's future generations, who will have difficulty comprehending what's written today. I (hypothetically) weep at the thought that our grandchildren will never appreciate the great writers of the past century, because corruption of language will make them as inaccessible as Chaucer or Shakespeare are today.
An argument could also be made that I believe that well-structured and grammatical writing improve the comprehension of readers, and that the ability to write correctly is an important skill to anyone who wishes to communicate with the written word, a belief based on faith in my heart, plus the umpteen-thousand empirical studies that have shown this to be true. That is, poor communication communicates poorly, which in modern America seems to be a shockingly radical position to (hypothetically) take.
Another man might even put forth the idea that heaping praise upon mediocrity is unwise.
But the truth is that I'm just a bit of a dick about it.
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WordPerfect did it first. As did Lotus, IIRC.
Nope. WordPerfect is not an application suite; it is a word processor. Its decline in the market was largely due to Microsoft's suite. Perfect Office came about seven years later than MS Office. 1-2-3 was not an application suite; it was a single application which tried to do several things. 1-2-3 was a poor word processor and only nominally a database at all; in practice, most shops used it exclusively as a spreadsheet. Its decline in the market was also largely due to Office.
Active Directory is LDAP, which was not at all new at the time. The only thing Microsoft did new was follow it through to its logical conclusion
Actually, LDAP support was added to AD at the last minute. AD was a descendant of LanMan's DS; it was purchased and redeveloped as a directory service for Exchange 4. LDAP was integrated when it was reworked for Win Server 2000 after Cairo was canceled. In hindsight, it's easy to see this was the Right Thing.
If it had been an obvious, logical conclusion, Novell or Banyan would have done it. Each tried to put forward a more scalable DS post-LDAP and pre-AD. Three companies, three solutions - one worked. Give credit where it's due.
Also, e. coli, really? I hope that, if this technology reaches the stage of commercial use, they've found something better. Or we're gonna hear a constant litany of people complaining that their computer is a piece of crap. It'll be worse than the "cat with a computer mouse" cartoons.* It will.
*Which is why I'm making the joke early and beating the rush.
Dear God in heaven, have these guys *ever* had an original thought?
Yes.
I mean an original though that was good, of course.
Oh. Er, not in some while. The office application suite was a pretty nifty idea, for example. Um... hrm... Active directory? I think that was original, and it was damned nice. There's been some other stuff, I'm sure, especially if you allow for somewhat trivial things, like Bing's video preview.*
*Which may not've been original; I dunno. But stuff like it, if it wasn't.
Really? I'm charged for an SMS whether I want it or not.
Huh; I stand corrected. I don't, using T-Mobile in California, and I assumed that'd be true for others. I'm surprised that's legal, and will be doubly surprised if it's legal in states with opt-in laws. Outta curiosity, what carrier d'you use, and in which state?
Having said that though, there is a lot that needs fixing about the US cellular network, from what I gather. Are you really charged to receive calls and SMSes over there? If so, that's crazy shit.
Not exactly. We're charged to read text messages or answer calls. Which is still crazy, but not quite as crazy.
Okay ... so what about a taser that works by firing the "head" of the taser but without the trailing wires.
Not what you meant, but you can fire the whole thing. From a shotgun.
If you try to find a real copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook, see how fast the FBI shows up at your door. (yes this book is officially illegal in the US)
Now, do you want to search for the Anarachist's Cookbook on google and still have the FBI show up at your door?
You are mistaken. I found and bought a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook. No FBI came a'callin'. Later, I received a security clearance.
From common usage (rather than one pedant), it's a verb, a noun, and an adjective.
Common usage doesn't mean what I think you think it means. Merriam-Webster, the source that actually matters, says "backup" is a noun and "back up" is a verb. The usage you posted as adjectival is a noun form.
And it does not prove me wrong, the definition I pointed to is just as valid as the one you're claiming.
Since "just" means "perhaps or possibly", I assume that post is an acknowledgment that you could be mistaken.
Protip: If you put it on facebook, it's not private. Fucking idiot.
I can't imagine why this AC got modded troll. TSA sez:
Apparently the police like to spend their time trawling our private information on Facebook looking for criminals.
And... well, if you put it on Facebook, it's not private. I dunno the laws regarding fighting for your right to party in Merrie England, but by no stretch can the announcement be considered private.
It wasn't arbitrary. We might not agree with the reasons for the cancellation, but it certainly wasn't random as you're implying.
I was referring to this story. And for what it's worth, "arbitrary" does not mean "random".
For "$DEITY" sake, don't use, buy or recommend to anyone the Kindle!
It was designed from day one to be enable Amazon to fuck you and this is exactly what happened.
I strongly considered one, but this pushed me back from the brink. The guy whose Kindle account got arbitrarily canceled a while back made me wary, but Amazon at least repented quickly and made it right. This demonstrates that they still truly consider our purchases to be their property. Unless they drastically revise their terms, or someone with reasonable terms starts selling a good reader, I'm'a stick with stupid dead trees.
It's sad that Amazon fucked this up: Ebooks have the potential to be a huge boon to the environment while simultaneously making books cheaper and more convenient to buy.
Darn it, I thought the mountain lion had the chainsaw. Now that would be badass.
If the US company doesn't want to follow European law and can't bribe the officials to turn a blind eye, they can fuck off out the country and conduct their business elsewhere.
Good bye, you won't be missed.
They won't be missed, you're right: They were never there. Yahoo has no Belgian operations, which is what makes this story interesting.
If I go out on a public place and shout: "Whoever comes here first takes 20 bucks!!!", does that make me obliged by law to give 20 bucks to the faster (and dumper) who runs to me? Which law is that? The "You Said It Now" Act ???
I think that one falls under The I Don't Want This Crowd of Angry People to Break My Legs Act of 1879, which was upheld in Sambrowski v. Oh, God, Here, Please Just Take the Money and Stop.
I doubt Kolodziej will get anything, it was clearly hyperbole.
I don't think it's so clear. In this discussion, we've seen a number of articulate, thoughtful arguments that Mason should pony up. The question is whether a "reasonable person" would perceive the offer as serious. The fact that people do take it seriously lends a lot of weight to the notion that the courts should take it seriously.
Is there a reason why 'orange' doesn't sound like anything else?
Door hinge? Whore binge? For mange?
Don't mod him up just yet.
Couldn't do it if I tried, now that I've asked. I can't claim to fully agree with the poster, but I likes it when folks raise on-topic issues for debate. Notwithstanding my derailment, of course.
Good question, hard one to google, try a search for "Slashdot suing website"
Tell me about it. Although the AC under you might be on the right track...
I vaguely remember there being a site that posted the popular Slashdot articles of the day, like a "best of Slashdot,"
I'm not sure why, but that spurs a memory: Remember Diggdot? They got C&D'ed, but by Digg, not /. Might be what the OP was thinking of. Looks like their operating as Doggdot these days.
Even though Slashdot has sued websites in the past for copyright infringement
I was gonna mod you up, but I'm just too darned curious about this line. I must've missed it, assuming you're not making it up. Anyone remember such a thing?
Actually, according to the link you posted, 'Aught' (or 'owt' in Northern English dialects) should really mean 'Anything' or 'All'.
Huh. When I read it (the noun form, natch), it says "1: zero, cipher" underneath the etymology, at which you appear to have stopped.
Quit it, it's ought. Ought means zero as well as naught, but to abbreviate a year, you would say ought, not naught. Gawd look what you made me write.
"Aught" and "naught" both mean zero, and either are acceptable in any context. "Ought" implies an obligation. Using "ought" as a variant of "aught" is archaic.
Forget version numbers. How did you pick that user name?
At a guess, it has something to do with a common programming exercise in which you try to find the largest possible integer with a square that takes a certain form; in his case, that form must've been 1_2_3_4_5_6_7_7_8_9_.
The article doesn't give any examples, and when I Google Rosetta Stone, I see no fraudulent ads.
The most glaring one is "Rosetta.StoneLanguages.com", with the tag "Rosetta Language - 60% off". That ain't Rosetta Stone, and it seems to've been tricky enough to trick even you while you were looking for it.
Your sentence is not really ironic but I'll use the word ironic. :)
Heh, yeah, it's a rule that spelling and grammar flames always contain at least one error. Had I been writing what I writ in a professional shop for a published report, I'd be very embarrassed. Were I critiquing a forum post or other off-the-cuff essay, I'd be a bit hypocritical.* Since I was critiquing a quasi-professional report with a forum post, I don't feel too bad. (But a little, yeah.)
* Although I'm usually terribly contrite and apologetic when the extremely rare forum post compels me to mention the grammar. In this case, were the kid's report a forum post, I would assume the sloppiness was a combination of casual writing and tequila and ignore it.
just like to bitch, or trying to make yourself seem better by putting other people down.
Oh, one of those, probably. That sounds like me.
It's possible, if you don't mind a hypothetical, that I believe that standardization of language is one of the greatest boons to communication and education that the world has ever devised. The degeneration of language hurts a society's future generations, who will have difficulty comprehending what's written today. I (hypothetically) weep at the thought that our grandchildren will never appreciate the great writers of the past century, because corruption of language will make them as inaccessible as Chaucer or Shakespeare are today.
An argument could also be made that I believe that well-structured and grammatical writing improve the comprehension of readers, and that the ability to write correctly is an important skill to anyone who wishes to communicate with the written word, a belief based on faith in my heart, plus the umpteen-thousand empirical studies that have shown this to be true. That is, poor communication communicates poorly, which in modern America seems to be a shockingly radical position to (hypothetically) take.
Another man might even put forth the idea that heaping praise upon mediocrity is unwise.
But the truth is that I'm just a bit of a dick about it.