While there are many free operating systems out there, no other free DOS-compatible operating system exists.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "free," but MS-DOS 7.10 was released (by Microsoft, of all evil empires) under the GNU Public License.
It's about as good a DOS as you'll find--and installs much more readily (and with a bunch of neat-o options) than FreeDOS, at least in my experience.
I always stick a little 30MB partition at the beginning of the first HD on my Linux systems and install MS-DOS 7.10 there so I can update hardware BIOSes, etc.
And to think I complain about all the "coming attractions" crap I have to wade through to get to the Disney movies that my kids want to see.
What if you had to fast-forward through battalions of People's Army soldiers waving the Little Red Book over their heads and chanting "We Are Determined To Liberate The Subject People of Taiwan!" or scenes from Chinese opera before you could get the next Hong Kong Kung Fu flick going?
'Course that wasn't the only thing being surrendered in the novel "Man Plus."
The main character, in order to be able to land on Mars and live there without an artificial environment, was surgically and genetically modified. The procedure also required him to lose all of his reproductive equippage.
Wow. By that comment I presume you mean the "death penalty" in Alaska consists of them giving you a half-day or so head start, and then they track you down with sharpshooters, like the film "The Naked Runner."
In Frederick Pohl's 1970s SF novel "Man Plus," he speculates that by the 1990s (when the events in the story take place) you climb into your car, drive it out onto the main road then set the autopilot while the car zips you along at 80 mph using the "smart road" system, and you drink coffee and watch "The Today Show."
(Preposterous of course. If he'd REALLY been on target with his predictions, it would've been "Fox and Friends.")
What would be funny is if you were too busy watching your TiVo and commenting about the show to a friend on your cell-phone to notice certain important facts about your driving.
And the cops would have to beep in on call-waiting to inform you that you'd had an accident.
Luckily in the U.S. we have this little item called the First Amendment, which states that except for very narrowly-defined instances, you are free to say whatever you want without government intervention.
If you can show me the compelling interest of the state to make sure that its citizens are not "harmed" by aggressive advertising, I'd be interested to see it.
Otherwise, the only reason for the state to intercede in a case like this is the assumption that the People are too stupid. Interesting hypothesis, since the powers of government are derived from those same people.
Now see? That's what WE need in the U.S.! An "objective" government-run agency to decide the merits of advertisement claims!
What the hell were those Founding Fathers THINKING when they set up our Republic under the assumption that the People would be responsible for doing their OWN thinking?
Not "U.N." "U.S." They call it the "Pax Americana".
Has negotiated and enforced many peace treaties throughout that time.
"Enforced?" Is there anything funnier than watching a crowd of villagers chasing a bunch of blue helmets with pitchforks and WWII-era shotguns?
Economic and other sanctions have had positive effects on some countries.
Yeah, like Iraq, I guess. The only positive effect I saw was that the U.S. finally invaded, and now those babies actually get milk.
WHO has done some fantastic work in the 3rd world.
How? Handing out H1B applications?
Is the world's first supra-national organization and, more remarkably, has had its power seriously challenged only a few times.
"It's power is seriously challenged only a few times" because no one takes them seriously to begin with! I mean, didn't you see how "seriously" the U.N. was taken by those Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda a couple of years ago?
Has, respectively, saved the countries of Korea, Kuwait,and many others i'm forgetting by using multinational forces to defeat a common agressor enemy.
The U.N. had ZILCH to do with Kuwait, except as a rubber-stamp for the U.S. action.
And when we don't get the U.N. imprimatur, we go in anyway and kick evil heinie WITHOUT the U.N.
And South Korea exists solely because in the early 50s the U.N. was run by the WWII Allied Powers, notably the U.S. That was in the days before it became a laughing stock by seriously implying clowns like Boutros Boutros Ghali and Kofi Annan are "world statesmen."
Seriously, dude, you need to get off the New World Order Kool-Aid. It is doing serious harm to your grip on reality!
On this eve of Veteran's Day, I think it pertinent to remind you that millions paid the ultimate price for the right of millions more to be "mindless sheep" if they so choose.
This is actually not supposed to be a humorous comment. The essence of freedom is that you are free--free to be a stupid dope whose ultimate purpose is to serve as a marionette for the uber-marketers, or to be savvy and aloof from "all that" (a slash-dotter, I guess).
Frankly, we have far, far more to fear from social engineers who want to decree what someone should be paid for their work based on politically-determined criteria, than we do from the "invisible hand" of the free market.
I don't purchase NFL Properties, Inc., products. You don't have to if you don't want to.
What's gonna be interesting is when they're all done (a year or so from now) with the last of the trilogy's DVD 'extra cut' edits, have 'em all out on DVD, and then go back to the theaters with an "all-in-one" marathon.
I'd love just to stand on the curb at the theater people-watching those who are willing--nay, EAGER--to subject themselves to 10+ hours of this "epic." Will they provide in-theater snack deliveries? And a chamber-pot at every seat?
Corporations give to whomever is in "power." When Pubs have the upper hand they give to Pubs. When Dems, they give to Dems.
This whole pile of **** that "corporations give to Republicans and not to Democrats" is just that: Shit.
And corporate giving isn't even the problem. The problem is that the citizenry gave up its obligation to remain educated and informed. That is the basis upon which this Republic was founded.
If we allow shysters like Bill Clinton to pull the wool over our eyes, then we deserve what we get.
I appreciate George W. Bush--though he is FAR from a Conservative, which I am. He does his job vis a vis protecting this nation, but he is as bad as Clinton ever was about allowing further erosion of our Constitution.
But I reiterate: My comment was about the sterling legacy of vote stealing that belongs almost entirely to the Democrat party. They have done it for years, and the crocodile tears they shed in 2000 was almost too much for me to bear, particularly when you had stuff like what happened in St. Louis and Milwaukee--that DIDN'T get any media scrutiny.
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I guess it depends on what you mean by "free," but MS-DOS 7.10 was released (by Microsoft, of all evil empires) under the GNU Public License.
It's about as good a DOS as you'll find--and installs much more readily (and with a bunch of neat-o options) than FreeDOS, at least in my experience.
I always stick a little 30MB partition at the beginning of the first HD on my Linux systems and install MS-DOS 7.10 there so I can update hardware BIOSes, etc.
So it took you two "5+ years" to introduce sperm to ovum.
I've professionally been a programmer for a while now...
Which explains WHY it took so long.
If an intelligent adult like you asks the question, you probably already know the answer.
Time to become self-employed, Dad.
Gives new meaning to the concept of "geek with a beanie."
FWIW, in case anyone missed it the reason Aerosmith's in town here (Houston) is the Super Bowl.
What's "Canada"?
...to the Schadenfreude Worm.
Um, why not just spend the money on rendering all these volumes into "eBooks"?
...was the ONLY THING he had in hand?
What if you had to fast-forward through battalions of People's Army soldiers waving the Little Red Book over their heads and chanting "We Are Determined To Liberate The Subject People of Taiwan!" or scenes from Chinese opera before you could get the next Hong Kong Kung Fu flick going?
The main character, in order to be able to land on Mars and live there without an artificial environment, was surgically and genetically modified. The procedure also required him to lose all of his reproductive equippage.
Talk about "giving your all" for science...
I still can't figure out the hoopla over the Segway. And aside from the continual attempts at press manipulation, have they really ever "taken off"?
Wow. By that comment I presume you mean the "death penalty" in Alaska consists of them giving you a half-day or so head start, and then they track you down with sharpshooters, like the film "The Naked Runner."
Yikes!
(Preposterous of course. If he'd REALLY been on target with his predictions, it would've been "Fox and Friends.")
And the cops would have to beep in on call-waiting to inform you that you'd had an accident.
I like it like that.
Otherwise, the only reason for the state to intercede in a case like this is the assumption that the People are too stupid. Interesting hypothesis, since the powers of government are derived from those same people.
Oh, but wait: This is Great Britain. Never mind.
What the hell were those Founding Fathers THINKING when they set up our Republic under the assumption that the People would be responsible for doing their OWN thinking?
LOL! Yeah, like they kept the peace in Hungary in '56, and in Czechoslovakia in '68, in Chechnya and other "autonomous republics" all along the way!
Funny quip, that!
Not "U.N." "U.S." They call it the "Pax Americana".
Has negotiated and enforced many peace treaties throughout that time.
"Enforced?" Is there anything funnier than watching a crowd of villagers chasing a bunch of blue helmets with pitchforks and WWII-era shotguns?
Economic and other sanctions have had positive effects on some countries.
Yeah, like Iraq, I guess. The only positive effect I saw was that the U.S. finally invaded, and now those babies actually get milk.
WHO has done some fantastic work in the 3rd world.
How? Handing out H1B applications?
Is the world's first supra-national organization and, more remarkably, has had its power seriously challenged only a few times.
"It's power is seriously challenged only a few times" because no one takes them seriously to begin with! I mean, didn't you see how "seriously" the U.N. was taken by those Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda a couple of years ago?
Has, respectively, saved the countries of Korea, Kuwait,and many others i'm forgetting by using multinational forces to defeat a common agressor enemy.
The U.N. had ZILCH to do with Kuwait, except as a rubber-stamp for the U.S. action.
And when we don't get the U.N. imprimatur, we go in anyway and kick evil heinie WITHOUT the U.N.
And South Korea exists solely because in the early 50s the U.N. was run by the WWII Allied Powers, notably the U.S. That was in the days before it became a laughing stock by seriously implying clowns like Boutros Boutros Ghali and Kofi Annan are "world statesmen."
Seriously, dude, you need to get off the New World Order Kool-Aid. It is doing serious harm to your grip on reality!
This is actually not supposed to be a humorous comment. The essence of freedom is that you are free--free to be a stupid dope whose ultimate purpose is to serve as a marionette for the uber-marketers, or to be savvy and aloof from "all that" (a slash-dotter, I guess).
Frankly, we have far, far more to fear from social engineers who want to decree what someone should be paid for their work based on politically-determined criteria, than we do from the "invisible hand" of the free market.
I don't purchase NFL Properties, Inc., products. You don't have to if you don't want to.
Oh, and FWIW: I first saw an SF story about "broadcast power" as a junior high school kid in the 60s. So SimCity was hardly the creator of this idea.
How short are they?
A "kiosk" is an example of a desktop OS implementation? Sheesh, who knew?
I'd love just to stand on the curb at the theater people-watching those who are willing--nay, EAGER--to subject themselves to 10+ hours of this "epic." Will they provide in-theater snack deliveries? And a chamber-pot at every seat?
This whole pile of **** that "corporations give to Republicans and not to Democrats" is just that: Shit.
And corporate giving isn't even the problem. The problem is that the citizenry gave up its obligation to remain educated and informed. That is the basis upon which this Republic was founded.
If we allow shysters like Bill Clinton to pull the wool over our eyes, then we deserve what we get.
I appreciate George W. Bush--though he is FAR from a Conservative, which I am. He does his job vis a vis protecting this nation, but he is as bad as Clinton ever was about allowing further erosion of our Constitution.
But I reiterate: My comment was about the sterling legacy of vote stealing that belongs almost entirely to the Democrat party. They have done it for years, and the crocodile tears they shed in 2000 was almost too much for me to bear, particularly when you had stuff like what happened in St. Louis and Milwaukee--that DIDN'T get any media scrutiny.