And it's a truly sad day when people can contemplate IBM killing off Sun Micrososystems as if it would be a good thing.
IBM is a mean motherfucker. They are the neighborhood bully who happens to have said "that's pretty cool new bike, Linux" because it's a tactful time to do so. When IBM is finished beating up Sun, perhaps IBM will want that shiney bike for their very own.
I think you know what he meant. An 'Open Source' java (capitalized), which means, the primary Java implementation. You know. Embrace, extend, and 0wn, the whole GNU philosophy in a nutshell.
The w3c cares less about cross-platform capability than they do in pristine standards for everybody else to ignore. Their high priority is that there be high qualtity imported bottled water on the table at each meeting of 'the committee,' and that everybody's credentials are kept in order.
It must be exciting to live in a world in which any and everything that happens in the legal sphere regarding computer software is yet another salvo fired by the Evile Microsoft Empire. It gives the 'Linux community' something to fight, a 'cause' for the 'just, good, and righteous' to band together to fight. Are there secret decoder rings? Colored capes we can wear and swoop around (don't leap off the roof, no matter what that bearded Unix hippy says).
Now, if you're talking about 'hot' in the usage often used to refer to stolen merchandise, perhaps you're correct. They flock to money like nothing flat.
If you're talking about 'hot' in a sense that anybody with an above average intelligence could relate to, perhaps you're a bit wrong.
The money-chase women are not 'hot' and in fact it's convenient that there's a supply of 'rich guys' filtering that sort of women out of the market the rest of us deal in. Even if they are pretty and nice to fuck in our fantasies, we know that the most powerful sex organ is the brain, and that pretty meat puppets are just unecessary props.
There used to be a company called Orange Computer. They were a Canadian company that made Apple II clones. A friend of mine was big on them at one point, and had all the parts of one bundled together to make an Apple II clone. They were an early victim of the Apple Lawyer Gestapo and so had already been run out of business by the time he was using one. His was just boards, without a case. It was pretty cool at the time, this was before any of us could afford a PC clone of our own.
Apple is and has been pretty ruthless with cloners.
Especially for the over 45 crowd, adoption of internet-based sales can be a little discomforting. While i haven't a problem with it, Gateway's target audience just might.
People in all classes of life and all age categories are getting pretty good with online purchases. If you don't believe me, scan through eBay sometimes. It's not just Pez dispensers anymore.
My father, an IBM employee at the time, took delivery on his IBM PC, purchased through the company with employee discounts, at ComputerLand, at the time a strong retail outlet. Bigger than Radio Shack, unless you start including all the other crap Radio Shack sells as part of the 'volume' that defines their 'size' as a Computer Store.
The fact that IBM used Computerland as their distrubtion outlet back in 1982 sorta debunks your whole thing about 'biggest computer store chain' and Radio Shack. There were growing retail operations and they weren't generic stores like Rat Shack.
People don't go into a retail store that sells computers thinking 'I will buy the computer most like a BMW.'
It isn't that important to most people. It's a computer, it sits in their home or office, and nobody sees it. Very different from a car that they will drive around in public.
The 'Apple Store' thing is in trouble. People aren't going to drive to the other end of a metro area (what they're forced to do in my locality- only one Apple Store) to get a Mac, unless they're already 'members of the elite.' Anyway, Best Buy and other retailers are selling what is the future of Apple anyway. That little walkman thing they sell, can never remember what it's called...
When Gateway moved their HQ out of 'cow country' they lost their unique character and became just another popular brandname to slap on clone boxes anyway. Doesn't really matter where such operations are located.
I prefer the Maoist 'Three Worlds Theory' designations. Mao considered the United States and the USSR to be the 'two superpowers' of the First World, the other modernized countries to be the second world, and the underdeveloped countries to be the third world.
The Maoist interpretation was flawed, though, in that it placed China in the third world, in fact as a 'vanguard' of the third world. And it was based on the 'theory of the Restoration of Capitalism' which identified the USSR as a 'State Capitalist' economy. A neo-Stalinist trick of the Maoists to claim that everything went to hell in the USSR after Stalin (a leader in the 'great helmsman series'- collect them all!) died.
Based on practical observation, I would say that not a lot of legitimate stories were rejected. This, however, is crowding the usual anti-Microsoft and trumped up 'Your Rights On Line' drivel off the main page.
I used to hang around the unattended Batch Terminal (big thing where you could submit card decks) because one of the first cards in a job deck was the 'account' card. So when the card reader inevitable jammed, there would be crumpled up 'account' cards, complete with password.
If you knew how to read the holes on said 'account' card you could make a replacement card with someone else's account number on it, to run, say, your big compute-intensive job and use up their time.
CDC isn't a 'Cray Predecessor' any more than Palm is a 'Handspring Predecessor.' Control Data existed before and after Seymour Cray left to form his own company.
A little more accuracy is warranted on a site purported to be technically alert.
I picked up an IBM RS/6000 PREP box (a model 7248) at auction about a year and a half ago. It was a nice desktop box, with PCI and ISA slots, integrated S3 video and ethernet, and used PS/2 mouse and keyboard, standard VGA, etc. It was essentially a PC with a PowerPC processor. These boxes are fairly common and easily obtained at low cost on eBay (I paid $15 for mine at auction). PREP stands for PowerPC REference Platoform, and yes, it was capable of running NT, AIX, Linux, and NetBSD. I ran all four of them at various times while fooling with it, then installed AIX on it and sold it on eBay a few months ago.
It wasn't an ATX footprint motherboard, but about the same size and dimension, in a nice PS/2-ish IBM case.
If you want to experiment with hardware like this, search eBay for RS/6000. The 7248 boxes aren't rip-roaring speedy but they're nice enough for what you'll pay (under $50).
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And it's a truly sad day when people can contemplate IBM killing off Sun Micrososystems as if it would be a good thing.
IBM is a mean motherfucker. They are the neighborhood bully who happens to have said "that's pretty cool new bike, Linux" because it's a tactful time to do so. When IBM is finished beating up Sun, perhaps IBM will want that shiney bike for their very own.
But it's fun to cheer them on, for now.
It's the Sun customers who are forced to have two boxes per desk (one to run Solaris, one to communicate with the rest of the world).
I think you know what he meant. An 'Open Source' java (capitalized), which means, the primary Java implementation. You know. Embrace, extend, and 0wn, the whole GNU philosophy in a nutshell.
The w3c cares less about cross-platform capability than they do in pristine standards for everybody else to ignore. Their high priority is that there be high qualtity imported bottled water on the table at each meeting of 'the committee,' and that everybody's credentials are kept in order.
Cash rich companies with low stock prices are vulnerable targets for hostile takeovers. Or am I wrong on some of the particulars in this instance?
It must be exciting to live in a world in which any and everything that happens in the legal sphere regarding computer software is yet another salvo fired by the Evile Microsoft Empire. It gives the 'Linux community' something to fight, a 'cause' for the 'just, good, and righteous' to band together to fight. Are there secret decoder rings? Colored capes we can wear and swoop around (don't leap off the roof, no matter what that bearded Unix hippy says).
For the kind of people who need unnecessary props to get it on.
You know. Fetishists, in the classical sense. A sense deprecated by a lot of people these days, where it's considered a pathological thing.
Raymond dabbles around in the neo-pagan circles. There are plenty of weird chicks there, some of whom gravitate to his sort of schtick.
That depends on your defintion of 'hot women.'
Now, if you're talking about 'hot' in the usage often used to refer to stolen merchandise, perhaps you're correct. They flock to money like nothing flat.
If you're talking about 'hot' in a sense that anybody with an above average intelligence could relate to, perhaps you're a bit wrong.
The money-chase women are not 'hot' and in fact it's convenient that there's a supply of 'rich guys' filtering that sort of women out of the market the rest of us deal in. Even if they are pretty and nice to fuck in our fantasies, we know that the most powerful sex organ is the brain, and that pretty meat puppets are just unecessary props.
As the bumper stickers started reading, shortly after Garcia's death: "We're Grateful, He's Dead"
Ooooh, that's got such negative vibes, maaan.
It could be a very short movie. I have some 16mm shorts that I purchased at auction awhile ago. They're about 5 minutes long.
There used to be a company called Orange Computer. They were a Canadian company that made Apple II clones. A friend of mine was big on them at one point, and had all the parts of one bundled together to make an Apple II clone. They were an early victim of the Apple Lawyer Gestapo and so had already been run out of business by the time he was using one. His was just boards, without a case. It was pretty cool at the time, this was before any of us could afford a PC clone of our own.
Apple is and has been pretty ruthless with cloners.
Especially for the over 45 crowd, adoption of internet-based sales can be a little discomforting. While i haven't a problem with it, Gateway's target audience just might.
People in all classes of life and all age categories are getting pretty good with online purchases. If you don't believe me, scan through eBay sometimes. It's not just Pez dispensers anymore.
My father, an IBM employee at the time, took delivery on his IBM PC, purchased through the company with employee discounts, at ComputerLand, at the time a strong retail outlet. Bigger than Radio Shack, unless you start including all the other crap Radio Shack sells as part of the 'volume' that defines their 'size' as a Computer Store.
The fact that IBM used Computerland as their distrubtion outlet back in 1982 sorta debunks your whole thing about 'biggest computer store chain' and Radio Shack. There were growing retail operations and they weren't generic stores like Rat Shack.
People don't go into a retail store that sells computers thinking 'I will buy the computer most like a BMW.'
It isn't that important to most people. It's a computer, it sits in their home or office, and nobody sees it. Very different from a car that they will drive around in public.
The 'Apple Store' thing is in trouble. People aren't going to drive to the other end of a metro area (what they're forced to do in my locality- only one Apple Store) to get a Mac, unless they're already 'members of the elite.' Anyway, Best Buy and other retailers are selling what is the future of Apple anyway. That little walkman thing they sell, can never remember what it's called...
When Gateway moved their HQ out of 'cow country' they lost their unique character and became just another popular brandname to slap on clone boxes anyway. Doesn't really matter where such operations are located.
I prefer the Maoist 'Three Worlds Theory' designations. Mao considered the United States and the USSR to be the 'two superpowers' of the First World, the other modernized countries to be the second world, and the underdeveloped countries to be the third world.
The Maoist interpretation was flawed, though, in that it placed China in the third world, in fact as a 'vanguard' of the third world. And it was based on the 'theory of the Restoration of Capitalism' which identified the USSR as a 'State Capitalist' economy. A neo-Stalinist trick of the Maoists to claim that everything went to hell in the USSR after Stalin (a leader in the 'great helmsman series'- collect them all!) died.
Ain't cold war political history fascinating?
Shouldn't you be trolling Lucianne.com at this time in the afternoon?
Does it really matter if it's Lucas or not?
Based on practical observation, I would say that not a lot of legitimate stories were rejected. This, however, is crowding the usual anti-Microsoft and trumped up 'Your Rights On Line' drivel off the main page.
Next they pull a Micro$0ft, they say
That would be 'Pull an AMD' not 'a Microsoft.'
I used to hang around the unattended Batch Terminal (big thing where you could submit card decks) because one of the first cards in a job deck was the 'account' card. So when the card reader inevitable jammed, there would be crumpled up 'account' cards, complete with password.
If you knew how to read the holes on said 'account' card you could make a replacement card with someone else's account number on it, to run, say, your big compute-intensive job and use up their time.
CDC isn't a 'Cray Predecessor' any more than Palm is a 'Handspring Predecessor.' Control Data existed before and after Seymour Cray left to form his own company.
A little more accuracy is warranted on a site purported to be technically alert.
Naw. It would just have to be emulated on a nicer chip, say an UltraSparc, and not on an Intel.
I picked up an IBM RS/6000 PREP box (a model 7248) at auction about a year and a half ago. It was a nice desktop box, with PCI and ISA slots, integrated S3 video and ethernet, and used PS/2 mouse and keyboard, standard VGA, etc. It was essentially a PC with a PowerPC processor. These boxes are fairly common and easily obtained at low cost on eBay (I paid $15 for mine at auction). PREP stands for PowerPC REference Platoform, and yes, it was capable of running NT, AIX, Linux, and NetBSD. I ran all four of them at various times while fooling with it, then installed AIX on it and sold it on eBay a few months ago.
It wasn't an ATX footprint motherboard, but about the same size and dimension, in a nice PS/2-ish IBM case.
If you want to experiment with hardware like this, search eBay for RS/6000. The 7248 boxes aren't rip-roaring speedy but they're nice enough for what you'll pay (under $50).