James Blish put Jesuits in HIS future
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The Sparrow
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James Blish had a Jesuit as a primary character in his his 1958 (Hugo-award-winning) novel, A Case of Conscience. This is not only a real science fiction novel, but one of the best ones ever written.
Religious orders were primary agents in the exploration of the Western hemisphere, what makes you think they would have no role in exploring other new worlds (so long as these have sentient life forms)?
When one tried to install DOS 6.0 on a system which contained OS/2, the DOS installer basically told you that if you wanted to upgrade [MS's term]from OS/2 to DOS, you would have to allow DOS to remove OS/2. If you said you didn't want to do this, you were dumped out of the install.
The only ways I ever discovered for getting DOS 6.0 onto a system containing OS/2 (even on a separate hard drive) were (1) physically disconnect the 2nd hard drive with OS/2, or (2) install a second (minimal) copy of OS/2 in the partitition into which you wanted to install DOS (and Windows -- for kiddie games) and let DOS 6.0 blow this dummy copy away. It still complained about the fact that you weren't getting rid of all the space wasted by OS/2, but it did consent to install.
The README files that came with MS-DOS 6.0x (and 6.2x, for that matter) provided copious documentation as to how to make certain you eliminated every trace of OS/2 -- but provided no hints as to how you could get the two OSes to peacefully co-exist on the same system.
I hated WP for DOS. WP 6.0 was a buggy dog. Novell's WP 6.1 was only a little better. Corel's WP 6.1 looked the same as Novell's, but actually was useable. WP 7.0 was better. WP 8.0 for both Windows and Linux has proved to be an excellent program, much more pleasant to use than Word. Apparently WP 9 (2000) is beginning to suffer a bit from feature creep -- due to Corel's desire to not let MS get too far ahead in the bells-and-whistles competition.
If you had actually used WP over thew past 5 years, you would know the product has improved plenty -- without any need to make radical changes in it's file format every few months.
Unlike a certain other seller of word processing software, Corel has retained a stable file format since WorPerfect 6. WordPerfects 6, 7, 8 and (presumably) 9 all can read the same *.wpd files.
Michael Kerpan
Caldera OpenLinux (was Confession)
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Which BSD?
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If you're just starting out, I'd say that FreeBSD, Red Hat Linux and Caldera OpenLinux are approximately equal (within an order of magnitude) in terms of complexity. I'd recommend that you try at least two of them and see which one(s) you like best.
Everyone recommends Caldera OpenLinux for newbies, but I wonder how many recommenders have actually tried it. I have some older computers (a 486/66 aand a Pentium 90). RedHat 5.2 and 6.0 and SuSE 6.0 and 6.0 all installed easily and worked well. Caldera (2.2) proved to be either uninstallable or a royal pain (and was not set up well when all was said and done). Perhaps if one has a newish, middle-of-the-road computer it works. I wouldn't know. When I finally got a Pentium 2 to play with, I didn't even bother with Caldera.
I like RedHat but really like SuSE (except for it's imposition of an unnecessary choice between primitive sound card configuration procedures and commercial sound drivers)
The key issue here is that these were "unregistered" stocks. A corporation cannot sell "stock" that is not either registered or exempt from registration. One of the primary purposes for registration is ensuring that the corporation has made adequate disclosure as to its financial situation and future expectations. Disclosure documents may often be close to indecipherable, but experts should be able to interpret them at least. Stocks can be exempt from registration when the potential buyers are limited to persons expected to have the ability to assess the corporation's financial situation without need of full-scale disclosure and registration procedures.
Selling stock in new or unkinown corporations, with no approved disclosure documentation, in a forum of largely clueless buyers is not a good thing. By preventing it, the SEC is behaving responsibly. Not all government regulation is beneficial, perhaps, but knee-jerk opposition to legitimate consumer protection seems foolish.
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James Blish had a Jesuit as a primary character in his his 1958 (Hugo-award-winning) novel, A Case of Conscience. This is not only a real science fiction novel, but one of the best ones ever written.
Religious orders were primary agents in the exploration of the Western hemisphere, what makes you think they would have no role in exploring other new worlds (so long as these have sentient life forms)?
Michael Kerpan
When one tried to install DOS 6.0 on a system which contained OS/2, the DOS installer basically told you that if you wanted to upgrade [MS's term]from OS/2 to DOS, you would have to allow DOS to remove OS/2. If you said you didn't want to do this, you were dumped out of the install.
The only ways I ever discovered for getting DOS 6.0 onto a system containing OS/2 (even on a separate hard drive) were (1) physically disconnect the 2nd hard drive with OS/2, or (2) install a second (minimal) copy of OS/2 in the partitition into which you wanted to install DOS (and Windows -- for kiddie games) and let DOS 6.0 blow this dummy copy away. It still complained about the fact that you weren't getting rid of all the space wasted by OS/2, but it did consent to install.
The README files that came with MS-DOS 6.0x (and 6.2x, for that matter) provided copious documentation as to how to make certain you eliminated every trace of OS/2 -- but provided no hints as to how you could get the two OSes to peacefully co-exist on the same system.
I hated WP for DOS. WP 6.0 was a buggy dog. Novell's WP 6.1 was only a little better. Corel's WP 6.1 looked the same as Novell's, but actually was useable. WP 7.0 was better. WP 8.0 for both Windows and Linux has proved to be an excellent program, much more pleasant to use than Word. Apparently WP 9 (2000) is beginning to suffer a bit from feature creep -- due to Corel's desire to not let MS get too far ahead in the bells-and-whistles competition.
If you had actually used WP over thew past 5 years, you would know the product has improved plenty -- without any need to make radical changes in it's file format every few months.
Michael Kerpan
Unlike a certain other seller of word processing software, Corel has retained a stable file format since WorPerfect 6. WordPerfects 6, 7, 8 and (presumably) 9 all can read the same *.wpd files.
Michael Kerpan
Everyone recommends Caldera OpenLinux for newbies, but I wonder how many recommenders have actually tried it. I have some older computers (a 486/66 aand a Pentium 90). RedHat 5.2 and 6.0 and SuSE 6.0 and 6.0 all installed easily and worked well. Caldera (2.2) proved to be either uninstallable or a royal pain (and was not set up well when all was said and done). Perhaps if one has a newish, middle-of-the-road computer it works. I wouldn't know. When I finally got a Pentium 2 to play with, I didn't even bother with Caldera.
I like RedHat but really like SuSE (except for it's imposition of an unnecessary choice between primitive sound card configuration procedures and commercial sound drivers)
Michael Kerpan
The key issue here is that these were "unregistered" stocks. A corporation cannot sell "stock" that is not either registered or exempt from registration. One of the primary purposes for registration is ensuring that the corporation has made adequate disclosure as to its financial situation and future expectations. Disclosure documents may often be close to indecipherable, but experts should be able to interpret them at least. Stocks can be exempt from registration when the potential buyers are limited to persons expected to have the ability to assess the corporation's financial situation without need of full-scale disclosure and registration procedures.
Selling stock in new or unkinown corporations, with no approved disclosure documentation, in a forum of largely clueless buyers is not a good thing. By preventing it, the SEC is behaving responsibly. Not all government regulation is beneficial, perhaps, but knee-jerk opposition to legitimate consumer protection seems foolish.
Michael Kerpan