Third parties are not allowed to pass around the updates in that fashion. Just tonight after reading this article, I decided to manually fetch all the updates to archive for my one (licensed) copy of Windows 98, which I use on one machine (my ISA card EPROM programmer and EPROM emulator don't like non-DOS Windows environments). You click through an agreement for each update and can NOT just compile them all on a CD and sell said CD to the public.
When somebody spams you with that particular offer, forward it to Microsoft's piracy squad and they'll take a spammer out for you.
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It's really a shame that 'Open Source' which has to do with an open development model, has now morped into 'open up the source' which sounds like a bunch of pirates cracking open a chest.
Unfortunately, some of the 'flagship' software products of 'Open Source' fall into this category, i.e. Star Office. But mostly, Open Source is about a way that software is developed, not about dead code bases being salvaged.
If you leaped direct from Windows 98 to OS X it's not surprising that you feel great relief.
A switch from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 is a similar jump in quality and reliability. However, one doesn't have to throw away all one's apps and start over again.
Not that I could ever bear to live in a world with just Windows 2000. There are many good choices. I even use MacOS for some things.
There's a lot of money to still be made peddling crap and conspiracy theories. It will continue indefinitely. There's a natural desire built into being human to use imagination as wildly as possible. Because of this there are shows like 'the X-Files' which encourage paranoid 'the system is a fraud' menadering.
NewsMax has just the same kind of nutcases on it as sites like Democraticunderground and that rant center from the WELL hosted on Salon (is it still there?). They just paint their stripes the other way.
Dumping money and resources on 'starving populations' is worse than just a waste of money.
When cargo containers full of grain are dumped in a third world country, it destroys their economy. If anybody was growing wheat or corn, now they'll get NOTHING for their work, because it's now not worth harvesting.
'Foreign aid' programs create dependencies where they didn't exist before, and they destroy local economies. It's not surprising that big companies in the US, who might someday like to own all that land, don't mind it if the peasant farmers are driven off their land, to relief centers in the cities.
You think I'd want to work for a dork with Tandy in his username.
My TRS-80 Model 100, by the way, has an 8085 processor in it. It's cool too.
There's still LOADS of money in writing code for Motorola's 8-bit 6805 and 6808 parts, incidentally. And Toshiba still sells millions of 4-bit processors a year. Hint: they're not programmed in C++ or in Perl.
Agreed, but some of the baroque hardware on x86 architectures is really powerful, and as long as one or several people understand it well, they can develop a C compiler to do blazing fast things with it.
All the new instructions in the newer Intel processors come to mind. It's become a hellaciously complex architecture, but if you use Intel's compiler you get really, really fast code out.
The x86 architecture isn't really a 'design,' it's more an out-of-control evolution. It's a trivial point to maintain that a team of crack designers could come up with a better solution. That's a bit like 'optimizing' the fresh water supply system in New York City, though. It could be ripped out in it's entirety and redone to be far more efficient. Ain't gonna happen, though.
Likely they built their name, and their market, by selling the clones. If they didn't have the mindshare in their area from having done that in the past, they probably wouldn't now have people bringing in the machines they bought from Best Buy to get repaired.
Granted, undercutting the only part of the Best Buy operation that makes BB any money, the service plan, does have considerable appeal.
There are many architectural advantages to the SPARC cpu itself, ask anyone who's ever done assembly-language programming on an x86 (and ANY other cpu) if you want some seriously shocking details.
Is there really any kind of market for hardware that is programmed at the Assembly Language level anymore?
I know I enjoy it. I also know that all the pundits consider it backwards and obsolete. I can count on the toes of one hand the number of good reference books on Sparc assembly language programming I've encountered.
The Yuppies have grown up, and are in charge. The 'Me' generation, it's sometimes called. Short term profits are everything. Pink Floyd's song 'Money' wasn't sarcastic.
Yes, and some people characterize 'Just-In-Time' inventory methods as not having warehouses, but instead storing your inventory in semi-trucks that circle the plant until the parts are needed.
Which isn't far off. It's somewhat an accounting swindle.
A 'complete American suburb' wouldn't suffice either.
You are acting like people will want to live the rest of their lives in stainless steel containers. The flora and fauna that we coexist with are part of us. The symbiosis of life is much more complicated than packing along a sack of seeds to plant.
I don't need to go to propellerhead 'websites' to be 'educated' on what a bunch of Buck Rodgers fans dream up. I've been reading and enjoying SF for as long as I've lived. The 'F' stands for fiction.
Actually, I think running NetBSD on my puny 16 MHz 68030 machine (an SE/30) is cool. So is running Minix on a little 386sx-16 laptop. And my HP Palmtop is just an IBM-XT clone, but it's cool and runs forever on a pair of AA batteries.
You almost imply you're proud of being uncool and just buying 'the best' for whatever it is you're doing with it. How much of the time is that hot rod just idling in a parking spot?
During that period of time, the government was in the wholesale business of giving free land to about anybody who could make use of it. (except the Native Americans, of course)
They could have waited for federal bureaucracys to get around to laying track, etc. It wouldn't have been a wise move, though.
That depends a lot on how Mac-centric the team is. There isn't a Mac user in the world (except for the kind of guy who waddles into the Apple Store waving a credit card every time something 'bad' happens to his Mac) who doesn't keep a paperclip on hand to deal with the 'issues' of no eject button for removable media. In some circles it's known as the macintool.
And until we're able to transport a reasonably complete mirror of that 'biosphere' your Winnebago-inspired notion that you can hop into a tin can and leave the biosphere you're part of behind is a fallacy.
'Nuclear plant' does not have to mean a big honking boiling water reactor plant. I'm not an expert at the nuclear power sources they've used in space thus far, but I doubt if it's the fragile kind of thing we do on a scale of megawatts here on terra. 'Atomic batteries' have been implanted in pacemakers, you know...
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I recently installed Lynx on my Minix box, for one example of an 'other.'
And I'm entering this from Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030414. It's nice and snappy on this old PPro 200 box.
That will be an easy spam to get rid of.
Third parties are not allowed to pass around the updates in that fashion. Just tonight after reading this article, I decided to manually fetch all the updates to archive for my one (licensed) copy of Windows 98, which I use on one machine (my ISA card EPROM programmer and EPROM emulator don't like non-DOS Windows environments). You click through an agreement for each update and can NOT just compile them all on a CD and sell said CD to the public.
When somebody spams you with that particular offer, forward it to Microsoft's piracy squad and they'll take a spammer out for you.
It's really a shame that 'Open Source' which has to do with an open development model, has now morped into 'open up the source' which sounds like a bunch of pirates cracking open a chest.
Unfortunately, some of the 'flagship' software products of 'Open Source' fall into this category, i.e. Star Office. But mostly, Open Source is about a way that software is developed, not about dead code bases being salvaged.
If you leaped direct from Windows 98 to OS X it's not surprising that you feel great relief.
A switch from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 is a similar jump in quality and reliability. However, one doesn't have to throw away all one's apps and start over again.
Not that I could ever bear to live in a world with just Windows 2000. There are many good choices. I even use MacOS for some things.
Agreed. And if NASA's mission was to provide the best entertainment value for the dollar what you say would make a lot of sense.
I just thought I'd add here that if you go to Mark Adler's web page, it mentions near the bottom that he's the coauthor of Info-Zip, Gzip, and zlib.
Thank you.
There's a lot of money to still be made peddling crap and conspiracy theories. It will continue indefinitely. There's a natural desire built into being human to use imagination as wildly as possible. Because of this there are shows like 'the X-Files' which encourage paranoid 'the system is a fraud' menadering.
NewsMax has just the same kind of nutcases on it as sites like Democraticunderground and that rant center from the WELL hosted on Salon (is it still there?). They just paint their stripes the other way.
Dumping money and resources on 'starving populations' is worse than just a waste of money.
When cargo containers full of grain are dumped in a third world country, it destroys their economy. If anybody was growing wheat or corn, now they'll get NOTHING for their work, because it's now not worth harvesting.
'Foreign aid' programs create dependencies where they didn't exist before, and they destroy local economies. It's not surprising that big companies in the US, who might someday like to own all that land, don't mind it if the peasant farmers are driven off their land, to relief centers in the cities.
Yep. It's a good thing.
People respond to challange. Without challange we become complacent and settle for things the way they are.
You think I'd want to work for a dork with Tandy in his username.
My TRS-80 Model 100, by the way, has an 8085 processor in it. It's cool too.
There's still LOADS of money in writing code for Motorola's 8-bit 6805 and 6808 parts, incidentally. And Toshiba still sells millions of 4-bit processors a year. Hint: they're not programmed in C++ or in Perl.
Agreed, but some of the baroque hardware on x86 architectures is really powerful, and as long as one or several people understand it well, they can develop a C compiler to do blazing fast things with it.
All the new instructions in the newer Intel processors come to mind. It's become a hellaciously complex architecture, but if you use Intel's compiler you get really, really fast code out.
The x86 architecture isn't really a 'design,' it's more an out-of-control evolution. It's a trivial point to maintain that a team of crack designers could come up with a better solution. That's a bit like 'optimizing' the fresh water supply system in New York City, though. It could be ripped out in it's entirety and redone to be far more efficient. Ain't gonna happen, though.
Likely they built their name, and their market, by selling the clones. If they didn't have the mindshare in their area from having done that in the past, they probably wouldn't now have people bringing in the machines they bought from Best Buy to get repaired.
Granted, undercutting the only part of the Best Buy operation that makes BB any money, the service plan, does have considerable appeal.
There are many architectural advantages to the SPARC cpu itself, ask anyone who's ever done assembly-language programming on an x86 (and ANY other cpu) if you want some seriously shocking details.
Is there really any kind of market for hardware that is programmed at the Assembly Language level anymore?
I know I enjoy it. I also know that all the pundits consider it backwards and obsolete. I can count on the toes of one hand the number of good reference books on Sparc assembly language programming I've encountered.
Yep. It's a corrosive business environment.
Similar to how WalMart does things.
The Yuppies have grown up, and are in charge. The 'Me' generation, it's sometimes called. Short term profits are everything. Pink Floyd's song 'Money' wasn't sarcastic.
Yes, and some people characterize 'Just-In-Time' inventory methods as not having warehouses, but instead storing your inventory in semi-trucks that circle the plant until the parts are needed.
Which isn't far off. It's somewhat an accounting swindle.
This GPS data along with heart rate measurements is transforming racehorse training into a science.
Yes, because as everybody knows, anything that involves measuring something instantly becomes 'science.'
Goodness, that comment is going to get all the statistics freaks upset.
A 'complete American suburb' wouldn't suffice either.
You are acting like people will want to live the rest of their lives in stainless steel containers. The flora and fauna that we coexist with are part of us. The symbiosis of life is much more complicated than packing along a sack of seeds to plant.
I don't need to go to propellerhead 'websites' to be 'educated' on what a bunch of Buck Rodgers fans dream up. I've been reading and enjoying SF for as long as I've lived. The 'F' stands for fiction.
Actually, I think running NetBSD on my puny 16 MHz 68030 machine (an SE/30) is cool. So is running Minix on a little 386sx-16 laptop. And my HP Palmtop is just an IBM-XT clone, but it's cool and runs forever on a pair of AA batteries.
You almost imply you're proud of being uncool and just buying 'the best' for whatever it is you're doing with it. How much of the time is that hot rod just idling in a parking spot?
Sounds like they already got 22MB in this first Sol.
'Open Source is good' - Steve Jobs
'Pass the ketchup' - IBM
During that period of time, the government was in the wholesale business of giving free land to about anybody who could make use of it. (except the Native Americans, of course)
They could have waited for federal bureaucracys to get around to laying track, etc. It wouldn't have been a wise move, though.
That depends a lot on how Mac-centric the team is. There isn't a Mac user in the world (except for the kind of guy who waddles into the Apple Store waving a credit card every time something 'bad' happens to his Mac) who doesn't keep a paperclip on hand to deal with the 'issues' of no eject button for removable media. In some circles it's known as the macintool.
About your tagline-
This isn't really a 'rock.'
We live in a biosphere.
And until we're able to transport a reasonably complete mirror of that 'biosphere' your Winnebago-inspired notion that you can hop into a tin can and leave the biosphere you're part of behind is a fallacy.
'Nuclear plant' does not have to mean a big honking boiling water reactor plant. I'm not an expert at the nuclear power sources they've used in space thus far, but I doubt if it's the fragile kind of thing we do on a scale of megawatts here on terra. 'Atomic batteries' have been implanted in pacemakers, you know...