from What's New Pussycat.
Woody Allen character: Hey! I've got a new job!
Peter O'Toole character: Oh yeah? What?
WA: Helping the girls get dressed and undressed at the Crazy Horse Saloon.
PO'T: Mmm. How much?
WA: [$200] a week.
PO'T: Not bad.
WA: It's all I can afford.
A Sinclair ZX-80 was my first computer for the same reason: first for under US$100.
They had what, in retrospect, was a useful learning tool: the BASIC keywords were all assigned to keys and entered intact. This eliminated keyword typos as a source of frustration for the budding programmer.
Hey, give him a break.
Maybe there's only dialup in his neighborhood and he happens to use AOL. He clocks out, and like the rest of us: some email, check the scores, a little pr0n, a little Slashdot...
And Berkeley Software, creators of GEOS, also had a PC version which competed with Quarterdeck and Microsoft Windows to be *THE* desktop-metaphor GUI on PCs. They were actually in the lead, possibly, at one point when upstart mega-BBS AOL chose GEOS as their interface. Their downfall was having a proprietary, heavily licensed, system while trying to sell their own Works-like productivity suite. Windows was more open and provided more system-level functionality and GEOS and everyone else fell by the wayside, current battles notwithstanding.
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Planning to commit a crime is considered a crime in some cases.
And in some jurisdictions, conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor is a felony. Go figure.
Traffic is Us.
Actually, bows and arrows were a pretty big technological leap. And as for oxen: aren't they, um, genetically "engineered" bulls?
Maybe that's why it's not "Find" anymore. "Find" was evidently too positive a term. Now you only have the ability to "Search".
Nope. If anyone is going to register my dog they're going to have to pry him out of my cold, dead hands.
from What's New Pussycat. Woody Allen character: Hey! I've got a new job! Peter O'Toole character: Oh yeah? What? WA: Helping the girls get dressed and undressed at the Crazy Horse Saloon. PO'T: Mmm. How much? WA: [$200] a week. PO'T: Not bad. WA: It's all I can afford.
RTFHeadline. One is Unix/Win the other Win/Unix. Presumably there is a differnce in prespective.
A Sinclair ZX-80 was my first computer for the same reason: first for under US$100. They had what, in retrospect, was a useful learning tool: the BASIC keywords were all assigned to keys and entered intact. This eliminated keyword typos as a source of frustration for the budding programmer.
I just finished my fifth Kazaa Lite system purge and I must say your rat poison idea it very tempting.
Hey, give him a break. Maybe there's only dialup in his neighborhood and he happens to use AOL. He clocks out, and like the rest of us: some email, check the scores, a little pr0n, a little Slashdot...
Why? Because it's there.
And Berkeley Software, creators of GEOS, also had a PC version which competed with Quarterdeck and Microsoft Windows to be *THE* desktop-metaphor GUI on PCs. They were actually in the lead, possibly, at one point when upstart mega-BBS AOL chose GEOS as their interface. Their downfall was having a proprietary, heavily licensed, system while trying to sell their own Works-like productivity suite. Windows was more open and provided more system-level functionality and GEOS and everyone else fell by the wayside, current battles notwithstanding.