Gates stole a BASIC interpreter out of a D.E.C. dumpster. [Strange how Gates doesn't think it's IP theft when he does it... of course, that's a psychopath for you.]
Paul Allen did most of the work translating it from PDP-11 assembly to 8080 and 6502 assembly.
The antitrust actions didn't end IBM's dominance in mainframes (they still are dominant outside of Japan)...but they DID establish that the behavior they used to strengthen that dominance is absolutely illegal.
Since Gates' father was a career corporate lawyer for IBM, and apparently they were close enought that his father referred the PC team to Bill, it's hard to argue that Bill was kept in-the-dark about the ramifications of the government suits against IBM for behavior which M$ is now brazenly and shamelessly REPEATING.
MS's behavior is no different than IBM's was at its peak. Look at the history of IBM's antitrust problems with the US government, and the lock-in that IBM achieved with its customers.
And, as you should also recall, IBM was penalized harshly for their behavior.
Since his father was a CORPORATE LAWYER AT IBG, you can't tell me that Gates doesn't know that what he's doing is not only wrong but also has PRECEDENCE in federal court RULING years ago already that these business tactics and behavior are wrong.
The only exception could be that Gates doesn't believe he's doing wrong because HE is the one doing it -- which is a teltale symptom of a psychopath (a psychopath believes that anything he does is right, by virtue that he did it, regardless of the laws.).
Since Gates is either a psychopath, or just plays one in real life, he should be treated like one -- sent off to rot in jail until dead.
While they like the money, it's about a small group of men at the top who want nothing more than to rule the world.
True... In that book Gates published in 1994, he wrote that his goal is to collect a fee for EVERY financial transaction that takes place anywhere on the planet.
Any man with goals like that is EXTREMELY dangerous.
That's strange... I was using 5 1/4" floppies on Apple ]['s and ][+'s in 1980. And I know that the drives were there the previous year, too.
8" floppy? Prove that such a beast even existed.
I've seen 12" floppy drives, both in the U.S. and overseas, but I have never (I say again, NEVER) seen, in over 20 years of computing, an 8" floppy drive.
Not even the wacky leftists at MoveOn.org claims that many....(and when ARE they going to get around to MOVING ON, exactly?).
Or are you referring to the mass-graves caused by Hussein's police-state apparatus?
As far as WW1... the rediculous casualty rates were NOT suffered by the American military...and not because we were late-entrants to the war (by then, all the other belligerants had meat-grinding down to a science).
No, the American forces suffered far lower causalty RATES (as in dead/company per day) precisely because the US military is very much UNLIKE the European military, which views life as cheap and disposable, whereas the US military views life as precious, and not to be thrown away lightly. And so, the tactic of "infiltration" was developed by American officers. Using the infiltration technique, fire-teams, squads, and larger formations would not move all at once... but instead, half of each element would move,
while the other half lays fire upon any enemy soldiers foolish enough to stick their head up to be a target.
Using this technique, new American formations achieved success in every sector where they were deployed -- where the lines had been stagnant for over 4 years. Many say it is because the American troops were fresher, not as "weary", etc.
Bullshit. Fresh troops are INEXPERIENCED troops, and by all rights, should have been LESS effective than the veteran units of the French and British. What made the American units MORE effective than their European Allies was simple....superior leadership, which was not willing to blindly do as they were told by their European superiors, but who, instead, thought for themselves, and came up with a solution for the madness.
Since you're an anti-militarist, I'm sure you're one of those who look at the French as being oh so superior to us in every way...but, as the above shows, the French and Germans have been the backwards society for close to, or even more than 100 years already (because during the Franco-Prussian wars of the late 1800's, they BOTH recieved the lesson of the rifled firearm that we got in the Civil War 1860's....the difference, however, is that the American military learned the lesson, whereas the French and Germans repeated the same mistakes, over and over and over again (in THREE Franco-Prussian wars AND World War One).
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As far as your remark about trench warfare vs MG's and artillery: pardon me, but your ignorance is showing.
Did it ever occur to you that when the opponent has MG's and artillery, that digging a trench is a RATIONAL way to PROTECT YOUR FORCES.
What was illogical was not the trenches. What was illogical was the Musket+Bayonette era style of human-wave charges. The Europeans had all dismissed the American Civil War as not worth studying, because they viewed as "a large brawl between undisciplined masses." Therefore, they failed to appreciate the improved accuracy afforded by rifled firearms (even muskets), let alone the vastly improved rate of fire that came from breech-loaded weapons and their metal cartridge ammunition (in contrast to muzzle-loaded instead of loose powder + shot in a paper cartrdige ripped open to load).
American officers LEARNED from the devestating experience of the ACW (the same musket & bayonnette-based tactics had proved reliable for hundreds of years, right up until the Mexican American war of 1848-50, so blaming the generals of the Civil War for doing what had already proven to be successful is overly harsh). The North was actually better served by the dearth of experienced officers -- having no lessons of the Mexican American war to rely upon, they had to evaluate tactical decisions based upon what they found when they first experienced a fully engaged battle....and guess what the commanders of the victorious Union army did, time and again....that's right...they adopted trench warfare techniques. Unli
No....it's exactly WHY the military (at least the Army and the Marine Corps) is LESS fucked-up than every civilian employer I've ever worked at (including 4 of the fortune 500, and 2 Fortune 5 companies).
I've yet to have a civilian manager treat me with as much respect as the NCOs and officers above me in the army (both in reserve and active duty).
If I had to live my life over again, I would go career Army -- much more respect from my superiors than in the civilian world.
Yes, Indian IT workers are so much more sophisticated than the Chinese....and yet, for all their time and effort, most everything they produce is absolute shit.
I'm absolutely freaking SICK of dealing with the screwed up code and other projects coming out of these superficially educated people, from a culture which has, in 7,000 years, invented NOTHING....N-O-T-H-I-N-G, who suddenly expect to be on top of the world in cutting edge technology.
Anyone who expects a nation which doesn't even have the motivation to install basic plumbing (especially sewage systems) to provide even passable-quality high-tech work is smoking crack.
Unfortunately, the asshole managers control who/what gets outsources, and... surprise surprise, no matter how many times THEY screw up, it's always EVERYONE ELSE who is getting outsourced.
Sorry, EddWo, but the fossilized dinosaur fat theory of petroleum is considered a huge joke by EVERYONE in the petroleum industry...even by the Russians.
Oil does not take millions of years to create. There is no evidence to support such a theory (extrapolating from coal = fossilized wood is rediculous. Oil fields tend to be VERY deep...and if the source was decaying animal matter, it would be at MUCH higher geological strata than where it is actually found.
By the way, the Saudis discovered (and announced a couple weeks ago) a new oil field... more than twice as large as any previously discovered oil field. We now have KNOWN OIL RESERVES good for the next 70 YEARS... Since the oil industry only considers it urgent to even look for oil when known reserves fall below a 30-year supply, this indicates that there is still a LOT of un-looked at portions of the earth that also hold a hell of a lot of petroleum.
You're obviously absolutely-freaking unfamiliar with the (utter lack of) quality of work coming out of India.
My uncle is a mechanical designer. It takes him longer to fix up the drawings sent from India than to do them from scratch. TRW management thinks this is "saving money" (even though they are spending $$$MORE/part design) than when India was uninvolved.
I'm seeing the same thing in the computer world.
Projects sent to India are incomplete, won't compile, etc. and then finally abandoned, before finally being turned over to (and usually implemented from scratch by) the same Americans who management told to go screw themselves when management got the fucked up idea that incompetant people on the other side of the world are more effective than experienced American professionals whom they can see face-to-face, and actually monitor their work, in real time.
My SCSI disks on my Linux box are 3 years old and working flawlessly (no changes in the internal bad-sector list).
If I switch to IDE, they'll HAVE to be mirrored (RAID)
How the english language has evolved in relation to tech terms is that "gig" and "meg" refer to storage mediums
Well, maybe to small-minded people such as yourself, but the educated segment of society understands that those are just stems of the Greek numerical prefixes, and that in themselves imply NO particular type of unit at all (the unit type is defined by context).
Of course, saying 2 gig *of* processer sounds rediculous, because you wouldn't say "2 gigahertz of ____" for anything (unless you're a clueless RS or BB salesdroid).
Hertz is not *grammatically* equivalent to "cycles/second" Therefore, your anal-retentive mewling fails your own standards of pickiness.
Since the phrase "X Hertz" does NOT end in "per second" (it ends in "Hertz!" you ninny), your entire so-called analysis is rediculous.
Sadly most americans never realize that almost everyone in this country (except the Native Americans)is an immigrant.
Uh..hate to burst your bubble, but the "Native" Americans are migrants, too....they were the forefront of a migration out of China, up the coast (and during the ice-age, across a land-bridge which connected northeast Russia to Alaska.
No, he's right. I worked with INS at a Port Of Entry for 6 months, and, out of boredom, became quite familiar with the various types of visas as he listed. There are all kinds of weird things governments do... like... you're exempted from paying US income taxes as long as you're paying income taxes at the foreign country where you're working (for U.S. expats). These are usually reciprocal agreements between national governments. It's all about $$$$.
Actually, it is that easy. If you own a business in the U.S., or own a significant share (percentage wise) of a U.S. business, then you don't need to bother yourself with an H-series visa, because you qualify for a B1 visa.
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Paul Allen did most of the work translating it from PDP-11 assembly to 8080 and 6502 assembly.
Since Gates' father was a career corporate lawyer for IBM, and apparently they were close enought that his father referred the PC team to Bill, it's hard to argue that Bill was kept in-the-dark about the ramifications of the government suits against IBM for behavior which M$ is now brazenly and shamelessly REPEATING.
And, as you should also recall, IBM was penalized harshly for their behavior.
Since his father was a CORPORATE LAWYER AT IBG, you can't tell me that Gates doesn't know that what he's doing is not only wrong but also has PRECEDENCE in federal court RULING years ago already that these business tactics and behavior are wrong.
The only exception could be that Gates doesn't believe he's doing wrong because HE is the one doing it -- which is a teltale symptom of a psychopath (a psychopath believes that anything he does is right, by virtue that he did it, regardless of the laws.).
Since Gates is either a psychopath, or just plays one in real life, he should be treated like one -- sent off to rot in jail until dead.
True... In that book Gates published in 1994, he wrote that his goal is to collect a fee for EVERY financial transaction that takes place anywhere on the planet.
Any man with goals like that is EXTREMELY dangerous.
8" floppy? Prove that such a beast even existed. I've seen 12" floppy drives, both in the U.S. and overseas, but I have never (I say again, NEVER) seen, in over 20 years of computing, an 8" floppy drive.
Nor an 8" hard drive for that matter.
Oh well, out of the frying pan, into the other frying pan. -- Neil
Nice hate-filled lie you made up there.
Not even the wacky leftists at MoveOn.org claims that many....(and when ARE they going to get around to MOVING ON, exactly?).
Or are you referring to the mass-graves caused by Hussein's police-state apparatus?
As far as WW1... the rediculous casualty rates were NOT suffered by the American military...and not because we were late-entrants to the war (by then, all the other belligerants had meat-grinding down to a science).
No, the American forces suffered far lower causalty RATES (as in dead/company per day) precisely because the US military is very much UNLIKE the European military, which views life as cheap and disposable, whereas the US military views life as precious, and not to be thrown away lightly. And so, the tactic of "infiltration" was developed by American officers. Using the infiltration technique, fire-teams, squads, and larger formations would not move all at once... but instead, half of each element would move, while the other half lays fire upon any enemy soldiers foolish enough to stick their head up to be a target.
Using this technique, new American formations achieved success in every sector where they were deployed -- where the lines had been stagnant for over 4 years. Many say it is because the American troops were fresher, not as "weary", etc.
Bullshit. Fresh troops are INEXPERIENCED troops, and by all rights, should have been LESS effective than the veteran units of the French and British. What made the American units MORE effective than their European Allies was simple....superior leadership, which was not willing to blindly do as they were told by their European superiors, but who, instead, thought for themselves, and came up with a solution for the madness.
Since you're an anti-militarist, I'm sure you're one of those who look at the French as being oh so superior to us in every way...but, as the above shows, the French and Germans have been the backwards society for close to, or even more than 100 years already (because during the Franco-Prussian wars of the late 1800's, they BOTH recieved the lesson of the rifled firearm that we got in the Civil War 1860's....the difference, however, is that the American military learned the lesson, whereas the French and Germans repeated the same mistakes, over and over and over again (in THREE Franco-Prussian wars AND World War One).
=================
As far as your remark about trench warfare vs MG's and artillery: pardon me, but your ignorance is showing.
Did it ever occur to you that when the opponent has MG's and artillery, that digging a trench is a RATIONAL way to PROTECT YOUR FORCES.
What was illogical was not the trenches. What was illogical was the Musket+Bayonette era style of human-wave charges. The Europeans had all dismissed the American Civil War as not worth studying, because they viewed as "a large brawl between undisciplined masses." Therefore, they failed to appreciate the improved accuracy afforded by rifled firearms (even muskets), let alone the vastly improved rate of fire that came from breech-loaded weapons and their metal cartridge ammunition (in contrast to muzzle-loaded instead of loose powder + shot in a paper cartrdige ripped open to load).
American officers LEARNED from the devestating experience of the ACW (the same musket & bayonnette-based tactics had proved reliable for hundreds of years, right up until the Mexican American war of 1848-50, so blaming the generals of the Civil War for doing what had already proven to be successful is overly harsh). The North was actually better served by the dearth of experienced officers -- having no lessons of the Mexican American war to rely upon, they had to evaluate tactical decisions based upon what they found when they first experienced a fully engaged battle....and guess what the commanders of the victorious Union army did, time and again....that's right...they adopted trench warfare techniques. Unli
No....it's exactly WHY the military (at least the Army and the Marine Corps) is LESS fucked-up than every civilian employer I've ever worked at (including 4 of the fortune 500, and 2 Fortune 5 companies). I've yet to have a civilian manager treat me with as much respect as the NCOs and officers above me in the army (both in reserve and active duty). If I had to live my life over again, I would go career Army -- much more respect from my superiors than in the civilian world.
$ 50 case
$100 motherboard with Gigabit ethernet
$100 1 GB of memory
$500 (4x250 MB HD @ $125 each)
$0 to $100 Linux with Samba package
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$750 to $850.
I'm absolutely freaking SICK of dealing with the screwed up code and other projects coming out of these superficially educated people, from a culture which has, in 7,000 years, invented NOTHING....N-O-T-H-I-N-G, who suddenly expect to be on top of the world in cutting edge technology.
Anyone who expects a nation which doesn't even have the motivation to install basic plumbing (especially sewage systems) to provide even passable-quality high-tech work is smoking crack.
If there are "much better" IT companies in India, then why is all of the work performed in India such absolute crap?
No, no, no. Ted Kennedy is the one who has trouble driving (especially across bridges).
"We'll drive off that bridge when we come to it." -- Ted Kennedy
Unfortunately, the asshole managers control who/what gets outsources, and ... surprise surprise, no matter how many times THEY screw up, it's always EVERYONE ELSE who is getting outsourced.
Oil does not take millions of years to create. There is no evidence to support such a theory (extrapolating from coal = fossilized wood is rediculous. Oil fields tend to be VERY deep...and if the source was decaying animal matter, it would be at MUCH higher geological strata than where it is actually found.
By the way, the Saudis discovered (and announced a couple weeks ago) a new oil field... more than twice as large as any previously discovered oil field. We now have KNOWN OIL RESERVES good for the next 70 YEARS... Since the oil industry only considers it urgent to even look for oil when known reserves fall below a 30-year supply, this indicates that there is still a LOT of un-looked at portions of the earth that also hold a hell of a lot of petroleum.
My uncle is a mechanical designer. It takes him longer to fix up the drawings sent from India than to do them from scratch. TRW management thinks this is "saving money" (even though they are spending $$$MORE/part design) than when India was uninvolved.
I'm seeing the same thing in the computer world.
Projects sent to India are incomplete, won't compile, etc. and then finally abandoned, before finally being turned over to (and usually implemented from scratch by) the same Americans who management told to go screw themselves when management got the fucked up idea that incompetant people on the other side of the world are more effective than experienced American professionals whom they can see face-to-face, and actually monitor their work, in real time.
It's time to overthrow management.
My SCSI disks on my Linux box are 3 years old and working flawlessly (no changes in the internal bad-sector list). If I switch to IDE, they'll HAVE to be mirrored (RAID)
Anime !?!?! That's even MORE depraved!
Hertz is not *grammatically* equivalent to "cycles/second" Therefore, your anal-retentive mewling fails your own standards of pickiness. Since the phrase "X Hertz" does NOT end in "per second" (it ends in "Hertz!" you ninny), your entire so-called analysis is rediculous.
Translation: I, drinkypoo, think that the free market should be replaced by an expansion of the military's procurement system.
Are you, cerberusss, prepared to give him complete instructions on how to set up Samba???? If not, then shut up.
No, he's right. I worked with INS at a Port Of Entry for 6 months, and, out of boredom, became quite familiar with the various types of visas as he listed. There are all kinds of weird things governments do... like... you're exempted from paying US income taxes as long as you're paying income taxes at the foreign country where you're working (for U.S. expats). These are usually reciprocal agreements between national governments. It's all about $$$$.
Actually, it is that easy.
If you own a business in the U.S., or own a significant share (percentage wise) of a U.S. business, then you don't need to bother yourself with an H-series visa, because you qualify for a B1 visa.