Andrew Tannenbaum's Minix operating system will run fine on an old 8088 IBM-XT machine. With few distractions or extra crap to interfere with what it's supposed to be there for.
It was really 'up for grabs' wether Windows or MacOS would 'win out' in the UI battles. Windows 95 was the first case where Windows actually had a chance to compete with a consistent usable 'desktop,' though The Hewlett-Packard NewWave 'desktop' installed on top of Windows 3 was good enough that they were co-plaintiffs with Microsoft in Apples futile 'look-n-feel' suit.
Apple lost the 'OS War' when they decided to kill the Mac clone market. They conceivably could have 'won' and we'd all be running nice PPC clone boxes. To 'win' they would have had to give up a dual monopoly on both the hardware and software in their market segment. They make nice stuff. It'd be cool if 'the rest of us' could afford it.
Groklaw has a prominent IANAL notice on top. I'm not sure it's even a law site. Actually, it looks like a vanity blog whose maintainer jumped on the SCO issue like a bandwagon.
Naw. The BSD code in Windows is good stuff. The Interix code, if you purchase Interix, is better, though. You even get GCC (from Microsoft!) if you purchase the Interix package. Not sure if MS still sells it, though. They've tried to absorb it and they deballed it considerably when they bought it from Softway Systems.
The 'Religious Right' is largely a scarecrow conjured up by the Left in this country to scare people into lockstep behind them.
Think about it: do you know anybody in the Moral Majority? No. The 'Moral Majority' faded away. Even Doctor Evil himself, John Ashcroft, doesn't shove his religion at people the way people trump it up.
The Conservative poltical movement is full of moderate regular people who just want less government. People like yourself.
I don't think so. I think he was strongly in favor of authenticity in his work. He didn't work in water colors or oil for a reason.
One of the things about photography that makes it an art, rather than just an excercize in recording things with instruments, is context, and the way context is used, such as depth of field, framing, etc. None of which is encouraced by a snap-snap-snapshot mindset with 128MB flash cards and ni-cd batteries as the only constraint from snap-snap-snap.
The Star Division. The people in Germany who wrote Star Office, a closed source product, before Sun Microsystems bought it and 'open sourced' it, as the new verb goes.
You're supposed to scurry off now and read 'On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among The People' by Mao Zedong, and when you're done, it's assumed you'll run around waving a Little Red Book in the air.
Surely someone has written all those contracts with you. Have most of them allowed you to release your work (which they paid for) to their competitors?
I would bet you've signed contracts which don't do that many times in your career.
Contractors are scavengers who thrive on the fringes of society. Nothing wrong with that, they contribute significantly in many instances. But it's ridiculous to claim we can all be scavengers living on the fringes. The fringes of WHAT?
I have seen 'share' used by the Slashdot community far too many times where it means 'rip the CD and pass the MP3 around widely' for me to take you very seriously here. You have to use the language of this community the way it's defined by this community, if you want to be taken seriously. (no, actually, you have to softpedal and be a hypocrite, which is why this comment is gonna be modded down)
So Apple contributes back to what is essentially a dead-end source tree (Darwin). Or are there people in the FreeBSD project regularly backporting Darwin code improvements back into the main FreeBSD source tree? I'd be happy to learn there are. Otherwise, let's not make Darwin into anything more than a Potemkin village, okay? It's mostly just another mkLinux (the 'Linux' from Apple that they used to 'chemically remove the itch' and keep 'scratch the itch' hackers from aggressively reverse engineering Apple technology in earlier Mac hardware/software)
Now you're spreading myths about the BSD license. They have to give credit where credit is due. Sure, Microsoft isn't going to make it a big announcement on their home page. It's up to the original authors to point out that Microsoft credits them, which Microsoft does in the documentation where it's supposed to appear.
I would say having something credited to one in the 'about' window of a Microsoft product counts for something (outside the sneering communties, of course)
Note that I am not interested in giving away my software under a license that allows it to be closed by someone else.
How would they close it? They'd come over to your house with a gun and say 'you now have to close the source for your project?'
Or are you fearful that someone would make part of it better than it is, and by not releasing the source for their changes people wouldn't want to use your open version anymore? That seems selfish to me.
The way people use this as an excuse just doesn't wash. The BSD licensed OSes haven't disappeared in a puff of greasy smoke due to some vampirous closed source vendor grabbing the code and running.
I've run Windows and I've run MacOS 9. Maybe I spent too much time running W2K before checking out MacOS, but there were just too damn many times when I felt all stiff and restricted when I wanted to do something with MacOS. I am sure there are some shortcuts that I haven't yet become aware of, but the interface has ended up feeling wooden and stiff.
Perhaps my many years using Windows have taught me too many of the keyboard shortcuts (i.e. F2 to rename a file works almost anywhere, you can delete files with a right click from within a File/Open dialogue box, etc. etc.)
I would definitely say MacOS is no better from a usability standpoint than Windows, and my personal experience is that it's less usable (for me).
I haven't come away with the experience seeing Mac advocates any less of an anything-but-Microsoft brigade, sadly.
The open source CAD community will just have to sit and wait for a worthwhile CAD vendor to die and 'open source' their code base. That proved to be necessary in the case of OpenOffice and it proved to be the case with Mozilla (even though the original carcass was ditched eventually). Those are two of the 'open source' flagship projects, incidentally.
Many, many extra points to those who knew the tech before they entered engineering school, but it's common knowledge that the run-of-the-mill engineer should never, ever, ever be trusted with a hand tool or a soldering iron.
Nerds, on the other hand, don't have to be particularly good at anything
That's right. Because being a generalist is key.
If you can't design the schematic, the circuit board, etch and drill it yourself, solder in the parts, write the firmware for the micro, and make a case for it with a hand drill and nibbling tool, you're not a nerd.
If you're the 'resident expert' at any one of those specific things but incapable of the whole, you're not a nerd, you're just a ponce.
I quit using my teeth as a wire stripper when I entered 'tech school' because while they were convenient for that use, they sure as heck werent' for 'professional use.'
Braces would be cool, would have prevented the groove in one of my front teeth.
Boxing: that's why you chain through exchanges all around the world to make the payphone next to the one you're using ring.
When I think of 'nerd' I don't ever think of anybody who would say 'kiss my ass.'
Actually, the most serious case of a nerd that I know of is a guy who has a single transistor that he paid over $1000 for. It's a big honking power transistor and I can't figure out why he paid full price for it. Mumbles something about an 'electric car' project. He's also the first guy I ever knew to have a 7000-series scope at home, and whose landlady used to fret that he had too much gear on her floor/frame of her house.
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Andrew Tannenbaum's Minix operating system will run fine on an old 8088 IBM-XT machine. With few distractions or extra crap to interfere with what it's supposed to be there for.
Agreed. Bush has failed as a conservative in many regards.
It was really 'up for grabs' wether Windows or MacOS would 'win out' in the UI battles. Windows 95 was the first case where Windows actually had a chance to compete with a consistent usable 'desktop,' though The Hewlett-Packard NewWave 'desktop' installed on top of Windows 3 was good enough that they were co-plaintiffs with Microsoft in Apples futile 'look-n-feel' suit.
Apple lost the 'OS War' when they decided to kill the Mac clone market. They conceivably could have 'won' and we'd all be running nice PPC clone boxes. To 'win' they would have had to give up a dual monopoly on both the hardware and software in their market segment. They make nice stuff. It'd be cool if 'the rest of us' could afford it.
No. Not like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are. They actively participate in Democratic Party Politics. Sharpton is even running for President.
Completely unlike a band of skinheads.
Groklaw has a prominent IANAL notice on top. I'm not sure it's even a law site. Actually, it looks like a vanity blog whose maintainer jumped on the SCO issue like a bandwagon.
I got modded over this yesterday, too.
Naw. The BSD code in Windows is good stuff. The Interix code, if you purchase Interix, is better, though. You even get GCC (from Microsoft!) if you purchase the Interix package. Not sure if MS still sells it, though. They've tried to absorb it and they deballed it considerably when they bought it from Softway Systems.
What he, and most people like him, don't like is that The State is not in control of the curriculum at those private schools.
Everybody must be re-educated.
The Racist Skinheads are hooligans. Much as it might be some people's fantasy, they don't attend Republican Caucuses.
The 'Religious Right' is largely a scarecrow conjured up by the Left in this country to scare people into lockstep behind them.
Think about it: do you know anybody in the Moral Majority? No. The 'Moral Majority' faded away. Even Doctor Evil himself, John Ashcroft, doesn't shove his religion at people the way people trump it up.
The Conservative poltical movement is full of moderate regular people who just want less government. People like yourself.
I don't think so. I think he was strongly in favor of authenticity in his work. He didn't work in water colors or oil for a reason.
One of the things about photography that makes it an art, rather than just an excercize in recording things with instruments, is context, and the way context is used, such as depth of field, framing, etc. None of which is encouraced by a snap-snap-snapshot mindset with 128MB flash cards and ni-cd batteries as the only constraint from snap-snap-snap.
The Star Division. The people in Germany who wrote Star Office, a closed source product, before Sun Microsystems bought it and 'open sourced' it, as the new verb goes.
You're supposed to scurry off now and read 'On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among The People' by Mao Zedong, and when you're done, it's assumed you'll run around waving a Little Red Book in the air.
Hop to it now. heh.
You say you've worked in Contract R&D?
Surely someone has written all those contracts with you. Have most of them allowed you to release your work (which they paid for) to their competitors?
I would bet you've signed contracts which don't do that many times in your career.
Contractors are scavengers who thrive on the fringes of society. Nothing wrong with that, they contribute significantly in many instances. But it's ridiculous to claim we can all be scavengers living on the fringes. The fringes of WHAT?
I have seen 'share' used by the Slashdot community far too many times where it means 'rip the CD and pass the MP3 around widely' for me to take you very seriously here. You have to use the language of this community the way it's defined by this community, if you want to be taken seriously. (no, actually, you have to softpedal and be a hypocrite, which is why this comment is gonna be modded down)
So Apple contributes back to what is essentially a dead-end source tree (Darwin). Or are there people in the FreeBSD project regularly backporting Darwin code improvements back into the main FreeBSD source tree? I'd be happy to learn there are. Otherwise, let's not make Darwin into anything more than a Potemkin village, okay? It's mostly just another mkLinux (the 'Linux' from Apple that they used to 'chemically remove the itch' and keep 'scratch the itch' hackers from aggressively reverse engineering Apple technology in earlier Mac hardware/software)
and also don't have to tell anybody?
Now you're spreading myths about the BSD license. They have to give credit where credit is due. Sure, Microsoft isn't going to make it a big announcement on their home page. It's up to the original authors to point out that Microsoft credits them, which Microsoft does in the documentation where it's supposed to appear.
I would say having something credited to one in the 'about' window of a Microsoft product counts for something (outside the sneering communties, of course)
Note that I am not interested in giving away my software under a license that allows it to be closed by someone else.
How would they close it? They'd come over to your house with a gun and say 'you now have to close the source for your project?'
Or are you fearful that someone would make part of it better than it is, and by not releasing the source for their changes people wouldn't want to use your open version anymore? That seems selfish to me.
The way people use this as an excuse just doesn't wash. The BSD licensed OSes haven't disappeared in a puff of greasy smoke due to some vampirous closed source vendor grabbing the code and running.
I've run Windows and I've run MacOS 9. Maybe I spent too much time running W2K before checking out MacOS, but there were just too damn many times when I felt all stiff and restricted when I wanted to do something with MacOS. I am sure there are some shortcuts that I haven't yet become aware of, but the interface has ended up feeling wooden and stiff.
Perhaps my many years using Windows have taught me too many of the keyboard shortcuts (i.e. F2 to rename a file works almost anywhere, you can delete files with a right click from within a File/Open dialogue box, etc. etc.)
I would definitely say MacOS is no better from a usability standpoint than Windows, and my personal experience is that it's less usable (for me).
I haven't come away with the experience seeing Mac advocates any less of an anything-but-Microsoft brigade, sadly.
The open source CAD community will just have to sit and wait for a worthwhile CAD vendor to die and 'open source' their code base. That proved to be necessary in the case of OpenOffice and it proved to be the case with Mozilla (even though the original carcass was ditched eventually). Those are two of the 'open source' flagship projects, incidentally.
Many, many extra points to those who knew the tech before they entered engineering school, but it's common knowledge that the run-of-the-mill engineer should never, ever, ever be trusted with a hand tool or a soldering iron.
....the only way us nerds met women was by being sysop of a BBS. For some reason there was a 'sysop mystique' we could take advantage of.
If you worry about being 'cool'.... uh....
Really, you're better off not seeing the movie at all. Unless you like that sort of thing for some other, periperal reason (like SFX for SFX sake)
Nerds, on the other hand, don't have to be particularly good at anything
That's right. Because being a generalist is key.
If you can't design the schematic, the circuit board, etch and drill it yourself, solder in the parts, write the firmware for the micro, and make a case for it with a hand drill and nibbling tool, you're not a nerd.
If you're the 'resident expert' at any one of those specific things but incapable of the whole, you're not a nerd, you're just a ponce.
I quit using my teeth as a wire stripper when I entered 'tech school' because while they were convenient for that use, they sure as heck werent' for 'professional use.'
Braces would be cool, would have prevented the groove in one of my front teeth.
Boxing: that's why you chain through exchanges all around the world to make the payphone next to the one you're using ring.
When I think of 'nerd' I don't ever think of anybody who would say 'kiss my ass.'
Actually, the most serious case of a nerd that I know of is a guy who has a single transistor that he paid over $1000 for. It's a big honking power transistor and I can't figure out why he paid full price for it. Mumbles something about an 'electric car' project. He's also the first guy I ever knew to have a 7000-series scope at home, and whose landlady used to fret that he had too much gear on her floor/frame of her house.