I don't know about you, but back in the day (back when the Microsoft TCP/IP stack was actually based on the BSD code) I downloaded the TCP/IP stuff from Microsoft (for Windows for Workgroups 3.11) for free from their FTP site.
Traditionally IBM has been a Business Machine vendor. Calling them a 'hardware' vendor slights IBM's long history of selling all sorts of business machines. Typewriters, Card Punches, Card Readers, Card Sorters, Copy Machines, Wall Clocks, Time Clocks.
Incidentally, the card reader/puncher/sorter equipment long preceedes the computer. Databases used to consist of big decks of punched cards. You want a list of all customers in Florida? Use jumper wires to configure the card sorter to sift out all the cards in the deck with a Florida code in the State field. Take the sorted cards to the line printer and it prints out a listing, one line per card in the deck.
To say IBM is a Hardware Vendor slights 3/4 of their entire corporate history. IBM is a Business Machine vendor. They didn't become well known as the computer company until the late 50's.
If there's no standard for what Linux is, then the 'more people writing apps for the "unofficial" version' are all writing apps for (somewhat) different OSes. Ever heard of the tower of Babel? Ever read the history of the fragmentation of UNIX in the 80's??
It is ironic how some people of some Western countries, especially those who had grossly violated other people's human rights and freedom, through acts of forced opium trade, slavery, genocide, and centuries of aggressions and wars, quickly turned around to lecture to the same people whom they thoroughly oppressed, about the need for human rights and freedoms. Why Chinese need to have their own supercomputers? To avoid another Nanjing Massacre, to avoid another Unit 731, to avoid another era of been forced to allow its people to take deadly drugs at the points of gunships from drug smuggling empire who proclaim to hold a higher moral ground.
It's all fine and well to pound the drum of Chinese Nationalism, but please, can't you cite instances of Western Imperialism newer than the 'gunboat diplomacy' of the 19th Century British?
Or is that the level of injustice that the Chinese government is barely superior to??
Much of the great hard Science Fiction is written by people involved in the field of Science. Some of the weaker SF is written by people who were english majors with no science background whatsoever.
Don't denigrate someone whose occupation is Lab Tech. Unless your work is 'your life' there are many ways to make a living, and many rewards to life that don't necessarily have anything to do with how you earn your living.
You sound like you're motivated by an urge toward 'greatness.' Good luck. But don't burn out and become discouraged if you just end up being 'one of the rest of us' who enjoy life, dabble in many pursuits, but definitely aren't 'great.'
I can't get away from the fact that a strong part of your arguement is 'IBM Likes It.'
If, ten years ago, people involved with Free Software knew that 'IBM Likes It' was going to be a mantra, many of them probably would have gotten involved with bookbinding, or cabinetmaking, or some other pursuit.
Umm, so you switched from Molecular Biology and Genetics, a field that is booming and where there's tons and tons of development happening, probably the 'get rich with tech' field of the future.... to being yet another English major.
Well, there's consolation. If you flunk out of English you can always be come a journalist...
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I don't know about you, but back in the day (back when the Microsoft TCP/IP stack was actually based on the BSD code) I downloaded the TCP/IP stuff from Microsoft (for Windows for Workgroups 3.11) for free from their FTP site.
Traditionally IBM has been a Business Machine vendor. Calling them a 'hardware' vendor slights IBM's long history of selling all sorts of business machines. Typewriters, Card Punches, Card Readers, Card Sorters, Copy Machines, Wall Clocks, Time Clocks.
Incidentally, the card reader/puncher/sorter equipment long preceedes the computer. Databases used to consist of big decks of punched cards. You want a list of all customers in Florida? Use jumper wires to configure the card sorter to sift out all the cards in the deck with a Florida code in the State field. Take the sorted cards to the line printer and it prints out a listing, one line per card in the deck.
To say IBM is a Hardware Vendor slights 3/4 of their entire corporate history. IBM is a Business Machine vendor. They didn't become well known as the computer company until the late 50's.
Every time that I've installed Debian on a machine I've been dragged by default into the Dselect pit as part of the install.
Has that changed in the approx. six months since I did a Debian install?
If there's no standard for what Linux is, then the 'more people writing apps for the "unofficial" version' are all writing apps for (somewhat) different OSes. Ever heard of the tower of Babel? Ever read the history of the fragmentation of UNIX in the 80's??
I'm trying to grasp how fast it will make my Teletype ASR-33 type out text.
Provided we can figure out the termcap setting, of course.
It's all fine and well to pound the drum of Chinese Nationalism, but please, can't you cite instances of Western Imperialism newer than the 'gunboat diplomacy' of the 19th Century British?
Or is that the level of injustice that the Chinese government is barely superior to??
Much of the great hard Science Fiction is written by people involved in the field of Science. Some of the weaker SF is written by people who were english majors with no science background whatsoever.
Don't denigrate someone whose occupation is Lab Tech. Unless your work is 'your life' there are many ways to make a living, and many rewards to life that don't necessarily have anything to do with how you earn your living.
You sound like you're motivated by an urge toward 'greatness.' Good luck. But don't burn out and become discouraged if you just end up being 'one of the rest of us' who enjoy life, dabble in many pursuits, but definitely aren't 'great.'
I can't get away from the fact that a strong part of your arguement is 'IBM Likes It.'
If, ten years ago, people involved with Free Software knew that 'IBM Likes It' was going to be a mantra, many of them probably would have gotten involved with bookbinding, or cabinetmaking, or some other pursuit.
Umm, so you switched from Molecular Biology and Genetics, a field that is booming and where there's tons and tons of development happening, probably the 'get rich with tech' field of the future.... to being yet another English major.
Well, there's consolation. If you flunk out of English you can always be come a journalist...