Microsoft Project is the bugaboo of programs for MBAs. You can tell a budding control-freak because s/he is in the process of installing Microsoft Project so s/he can inflict GANTT charts on the rest of us.
Actually, the people whose funding gets cut are the arrogant ranger types who sit in the log building at the entrance to the park and demand the $12.95 daily camping fee.
Don't mix those folks (the 'civil servants' with Master's degrees and a strong sense of entitlement) with volunteers who love nature and volunteer to work at community-run parks.
Agreed,. Eric Raymond seems to be set up pretty comfortably for life. And all without doing much more than talk puff and say the right things at the right times.
I haven't looked at Microsoft's SFU since it's been called by that name, but their product 'Interix' which preceeded it (a purchase from Softway Systems) even came bundled with the GNU C Compiler.
Yes, that's right. Microsoft shipped a product with GCC in it. I purchased a copy at a previous employer. It's superior to Cygwin in many regards, as it's an entire new POSIX subsystem, not a kludge that rides on top of Win32, which is what Cygwin amounts to.
You should put that in your tagline. It clearly qualifies your opinion on Microsoft products and would help others to characterize your criticism of Microsoft software. Similarly, there are anti-Linux trolls who put forth opinions on problems with Linux that went away with the 2.0 kernel.
Well, I ship my iCar to Apple and they ship me another 'reconditioned' one with a new battery. I have to hope the previous owner(s) changed the oil on a schedule and didn't get their thrills hotshifting and hitting speed bumps hard.
I didn't say 'stereo equipment in fancy, overpriced enclosure.' I have a nice beefy but rather generic Yamaha Integrated Amplifier, Sherwood tuner, etc.
Does participating in this Macintosh thread imply that I feel the need to purchase flaky and overpriced 'human-interface-designed' gear housed in 'styled' enclosures?
Not really. At a certain point a few years back, before Linux became as big as it now is, and after the failure of OS/2, Microsoft was essentially a monopoly. And they were ruled as such by a court.
But not really anymore. You can even buy computers at WalMart that run alternative OSes, for goodness sakes.
Hey, I've even gotten Sun 411 cases open. Which is no trivial matter.
In the 80's I once sweated open the gold lid on a DRAM chip and used a microscope to read the part number on the die so I could determine that yes, the chips were 256K DRAMs house-marked, that I could use.
I've never bought a single thing from Apple retail, but I've installed multiple flavors of UNIX on numerous old Apple computers. Ever run FVWM on an SE/30?
Stick to your 'fash little music diddlybops. It'll never make you a 'geek.' Yer a customer.
I'd rather have a well-designed MP3 player that has replacable batteries. Which I have.
I know, I know, it's the wrong brand..... I didn't have a Schwinn bike when I was a kid, either. We laughed at the rich kid as we rode by his house on our Huffys.
So it's designed to last from 3-5 years and then you're supposed to throw it away.
I don't own a piece of stereo equipment that's less than 3 years old, and none of it is outperformed by anything currently on the market (within reason).
If I had to send my car back to the factory to get the oil changed, because the car company had welded the hood shut, I wouldn't buy a car from that company again. Even if they offered free oil changes for the first four years.
But, then, I'm the kind of guy (isn't this a geek website?) who takes the screws out of everything and opens it within the first week of owning it.
My Rio Volt uses two AA batteries. When they wear out, I reach in my pocket for a spare set. If I wanted to use rechargables in it, I could get four or six of them to rotate through it. If I'm on a long trip and don't have time to recharge the batteries, I can buy disposable Alkaline cells almost anywhere on Earth.
My Windows 2000 machine has occasionally crashed (generally it's been a hardware problem), and it does get balky if I run it for a week or two and forget to reboot it, but it has never, ever, crashed in the fashion that's come to be known as the 'Blue Screen Of Death,' which is an NT 4.0 phenomenon.
You need to get outta the 90's with your criticisms, dude. Do you still refer to the Apple competition as 'IBM'?
Everything is invented at Apple first. Therefore you can remain confident that if something were to be invented, Apple would include it in your shiney new Apple system. Since you'd have to wait until later for some scurrilous copy-cat company to produce a version of it for the non-Apple market, you'd already have it on your Shiny New Mac.
Apple was replacing some power suppllies in the G5 machines when users of proaudio stuff complained of hums and whines in the audio path.
And what happens when I decide to set up a studio and buy a used G5 machine four years from now? It won't have the 'bug-fixed' power supply unless I buy it from someone who used it in a similar fashion and demanded the fix from Apple.
Really, that kind of 'selective bug fix' approach got Intel into a hell of a lot of trouble when they tried to get Pentium customers to 'justify' why they needed a new chip without the floating point bug.
Air-conditioning on a car is an integral part of the car - and is near to impossible to add after-market. Thus the lack of air-conditioning is a negative. But a USB floppy drive can be had for as little as $25 for a name brand (iomega).
And said USB floppy drive is as awkward and hassle-prone as adding an external third-party air conditioner to your Porsche would be. A better comparison, really, would be the lack of a heater in the old VW Beetle. I will concede that Bill Gates is strongly in favor of the elimination of the floppy drive, so it's probably something all Apple fans want too.
It is very hard for a regular consumer to find a printer that needs a Parallel port anymore.
I can get tons and tons of printers, some of them even for free, that do a damn good job of printing. None, or very few of them, use a USB interface. Again I'll reiterate that Bill Gates of Microsoft has urged manufacturers to move away from Parallel Ports on their systems.
Why not have SCSI on every box?
It's amazing how deeply the 'latest from Apple' crowd have abandoned SCSI. SCSI used to be one of the loud crowing points of Mac zealots. The Mac old guard, and a significant portion of Apples traditional install base, haven't.
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You're kidding, right?
Microsoft Project is the bugaboo of programs for MBAs. You can tell a budding control-freak because s/he is in the process of installing Microsoft Project so s/he can inflict GANTT charts on the rest of us.
Actually, the people whose funding gets cut are the arrogant ranger types who sit in the log building at the entrance to the park and demand the $12.95 daily camping fee.
Don't mix those folks (the 'civil servants' with Master's degrees and a strong sense of entitlement) with volunteers who love nature and volunteer to work at community-run parks.
Agreed,. Eric Raymond seems to be set up pretty comfortably for life. And all without doing much more than talk puff and say the right things at the right times.
I haven't looked at Microsoft's SFU since it's been called by that name, but their product 'Interix' which preceeded it (a purchase from Softway Systems) even came bundled with the GNU C Compiler.
Yes, that's right. Microsoft shipped a product with GCC in it. I purchased a copy at a previous employer. It's superior to Cygwin in many regards, as it's an entire new POSIX subsystem, not a kludge that rides on top of Win32, which is what Cygwin amounts to.
You should put that in your tagline. It clearly qualifies your opinion on Microsoft products and would help others to characterize your criticism of Microsoft software. Similarly, there are anti-Linux trolls who put forth opinions on problems with Linux that went away with the 2.0 kernel.
As ESr points out himself on the site - let the lawyers subpoena the mail, then we will all know if it is true or not....
That's the position any blowhard takes to try to involve himself in an issue in the way guaranteed to give himself a lot of attention.
Surprise, surprise, Eric is considered a blowhard by a lot of people, even people within 'his' community.
Well, I ship my iCar to Apple and they ship me another 'reconditioned' one with a new battery. I have to hope the previous owner(s) changed the oil on a schedule and didn't get their thrills hotshifting and hitting speed bumps hard.
I didn't say 'stereo equipment in fancy, overpriced enclosure.' I have a nice beefy but rather generic Yamaha Integrated Amplifier, Sherwood tuner, etc.
Does participating in this Macintosh thread imply that I feel the need to purchase flaky and overpriced 'human-interface-designed' gear housed in 'styled' enclosures?
Nope. Completely wrong. Nobody was talking about 'shooting' anybody for diagreeing with 'the authorities' until you brought it up.
Besides, Godwin's law only applies on Usenet threads, that can go on and on for months. This is Slashdot, where threads by design end within a week.
And what makes you think I was 'invoking Hitler' in the first place. Germany has a history of militarism that long, long preceedes Hitler's reign.
The ringer mechanism is AC coupled. When you take the phone off the hook you establish a DC circuit.
Not really. At a certain point a few years back, before Linux became as big as it now is, and after the failure of OS/2, Microsoft was essentially a monopoly. And they were ruled as such by a court.
But not really anymore. You can even buy computers at WalMart that run alternative OSes, for goodness sakes.
Hey, I've even gotten Sun 411 cases open. Which is no trivial matter.
In the 80's I once sweated open the gold lid on a DRAM chip and used a microscope to read the part number on the die so I could determine that yes, the chips were 256K DRAMs house-marked, that I could use.
I've never bought a single thing from Apple retail, but I've installed multiple flavors of UNIX on numerous old Apple computers. Ever run FVWM on an SE/30?
Stick to your 'fash little music diddlybops. It'll never make you a 'geek.' Yer a customer.
You were burning MP3 files to CDR in the 1980's? Wow.
I'd rather have a well-designed MP3 player that has replacable batteries. Which I have.
I know, I know, it's the wrong brand..... I didn't have a Schwinn bike when I was a kid, either. We laughed at the rich kid as we rode by his house on our Huffys.
So it's designed to last from 3-5 years and then you're supposed to throw it away.
I don't own a piece of stereo equipment that's less than 3 years old, and none of it is outperformed by anything currently on the market (within reason).
If I had to send my car back to the factory to get the oil changed, because the car company had welded the hood shut, I wouldn't buy a car from that company again. Even if they offered free oil changes for the first four years.
But, then, I'm the kind of guy (isn't this a geek website?) who takes the screws out of everything and opens it within the first week of owning it.
Judging by your email address, and your comment, you're German, aren't you?
My Rio Volt uses two AA batteries. When they wear out, I reach in my pocket for a spare set. If I wanted to use rechargables in it, I could get four or six of them to rotate through it. If I'm on a long trip and don't have time to recharge the batteries, I can buy disposable Alkaline cells almost anywhere on Earth.
- Ebay: 44 .
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- Sun: 17
- Apple: 8.9
Wow. So Sun and Apple should merge, and maybe I would't mostly buy my Sun and Apple hardware at real-life auctions and on Ebay, huh?
My Windows 2000 machine has occasionally crashed (generally it's been a hardware problem), and it does get balky if I run it for a week or two and forget to reboot it, but it has never, ever, crashed in the fashion that's come to be known as the 'Blue Screen Of Death,' which is an NT 4.0 phenomenon.
You need to get outta the 90's with your criticisms, dude. Do you still refer to the Apple competition as 'IBM'?
And in the culture that I was raised in, something that's designed to have a non-replacable battery is known as 'disposable.'
What's this about the screen only lasting two years, again?
Everything is invented at Apple first. Therefore you can remain confident that if something were to be invented, Apple would include it in your shiney new Apple system. Since you'd have to wait until later for some scurrilous copy-cat company to produce a version of it for the non-Apple market, you'd already have it on your Shiny New Mac.
Or something to that effect.
Apple was replacing some power suppllies in the G5 machines when users of proaudio stuff complained of hums and whines in the audio path.
And what happens when I decide to set up a studio and buy a used G5 machine four years from now? It won't have the 'bug-fixed' power supply unless I buy it from someone who used it in a similar fashion and demanded the fix from Apple.
Really, that kind of 'selective bug fix' approach got Intel into a hell of a lot of trouble when they tried to get Pentium customers to 'justify' why they needed a new chip without the floating point bug.
So we can go scream at Apple's business partners, or we can download music off Usenet and P-P networks.
I guess Apple chose sides and we can't expect them to leap over boundaries.
Air-conditioning on a car is an integral part of the car - and is near to impossible to add after-market. Thus the lack of air-conditioning is a negative. But a USB floppy drive can be had for as little as $25 for a name brand (iomega).
And said USB floppy drive is as awkward and hassle-prone as adding an external third-party air conditioner to your Porsche would be. A better comparison, really, would be the lack of a heater in the old VW Beetle. I will concede that Bill Gates is strongly in favor of the elimination of the floppy drive, so it's probably something all Apple fans want too.
It is very hard for a regular consumer to find a printer that needs a Parallel port anymore.
I can get tons and tons of printers, some of them even for free, that do a damn good job of printing. None, or very few of them, use a USB interface. Again I'll reiterate that Bill Gates of Microsoft has urged manufacturers to move away from Parallel Ports on their systems.
Why not have SCSI on every box?
It's amazing how deeply the 'latest from Apple' crowd have abandoned SCSI. SCSI used to be one of the loud crowing points of Mac zealots. The Mac old guard, and a significant portion of Apples traditional install base, haven't.