I'm sure your particular OS was actually developed for non-DEC hardware, too. But the point is, the fact that such a beast exists at all is due to DEC's radical approach to computing. If it weren't for Bell Labs, we'd probably be using free versions of VMS or Multics (or possibly a cleaned-up, ported, and modernized version of ITS). But if it weren't for DEC we'd still be limited to batch-processing and IBM mainframes.
As if they don't ignore low-population areas as it is. The point is, you need to win the 11 largest states by a small margin of votes to win the presidency; a margin of victory of 3% in those states can balance out a 100% (i.e.: zero votes) margin of loss in the other 39. When was the last time anyone went campaigning in Rhode Island, Alaska, Delaware, or Wyoming? As it is, those states are politically worthless. At least if the president were directly elected, the vote of a person in Alaska would have an equal weight with the vote of someone in New York.
The real problem with this, though, is that if the president were directly elected, we'd need a Federal Presidential Election board whose sole purpose would be to oversee presidential elections in all states, rather than just letting the states sort it out on their own. The result would probably be that voters would have to vote twice, once for state and local elections and separately for president (if the bureaucrats have their way, both elections will take place on the same day, but use different balloting mechanisms and neither side will agree to share space with the other).
Actually, I would say that Omni caters largely to the technical elite, coming from the old days of NeXTSTEP and all that. Many loyalists latch onto their products, but that's because their products are useful, intelligent, and technically excellent (something that cannot be said for the evangelistas).
On the whole, I'd say a 40% conversion ratio isn't totally far-fetched, particularly since many of the people who use Omni's products are themselves developers, and hence need to test on the latest and greatest toys.
This commenter is clearly trolling--he's already submitted a comment, so he can't moderate this discussion at all! Plus, I bet he's just a shill from digg and never even bothered to RTFA at all. natrius needs to STFU imo.
Work less when you're young so you have time to have fun while you you still can? Then when you're older you can be responsible and save money. Some other posters have pointed out that due to the progressive income tax system in the US, the greater the amount of money you make at one time, the less it ends up being worth to you. This, however, also turns out to be true about the years of your life: the five years from 22 to 27 are worth way more than 52 to 57, since people have fewer obligations they can move around, change jobs, do volunteer work, and generally do all of the exciting things that only young people have the energy to do.
Besides, if you actually enjoy your job, working after age 60 isn't really so bad, especially if you have 15-20 years of doing pretty much nothing afterwards. The only reason I'd want to retire early is if I'd actually have enough money set aside to live it up for a few decades and travel, make new friends, learn languages, write angry letters to the editor, etc.
IBM's contributions to modern computing pale in comparison to those of the late, lamented Digital Equipment Corporation, which was bought by Compaq, which was in turn bought by who again? Only AT&T can really rival DEC for influence in the formative years of computing.
Get a spare hard drive, a C compiler, a kernel, and sources for all the essential utilities. Compile all the sources, then format the drive and create a working *x installation using only cp(1) (or cpy.exe if you insist on Windows). You may want to bootstrap it by installing only what you need to boot to single-user mode using another system, then booting the system and installing the rest of the userland from there. If you can do this, it will qualify you as an expert. If you can do it without consulting documentation, then you can consider yourself a true guru.
If you're in or around SE Pennsylvania, you can get your hands on Juengling beer--in particular their black & tan. It's as cheap as the bad beer and as good as the good beers.
I ran a variety of modern operating systems for years, but then I decided I hate them all, and now I added a few lines to system startup scripts so it would automatically start up in Unix v7 under simh's pdp-11 emulator. I have to go to the public library to access the web, but you should follow.
I'm no expert on these matters, but if I'm not mistaken Florida state laws work differently with respect to seizing property to retire debts (i.e., it's harder than in most places). This means that he may be able to hang on to some or all of his stuff, and if he gets a decent lawyer he can be out of jail in a year or two. Then he can sell off his assets and take it easy, at least for a little while. If you throw in opportunities working as a security/network engineer for VOIP companies (or anyone, really), potential book deals, etc., he may not have to do a day's worth of real work for the rest of his life.
But that's the great thing about MS. They don't cheat on you; in fact, they have sex with you more. Of course, it's always anal and you're always the on the receiving end, but beggars can't be choosers.
Now IS the time, because later on may be too late. Let's put all our cards on the table. If the government wants to interfere in privately-funded research to potentially cure/prevent diseases like Parkinson's, let's make them actually do it, so that for once people actually know where all the players stand. Did Darwin clear his findings with the fundamentalists? Did Galileo wait for the Church to accept the Copernican model of the Universe? Did Socrates change his mind at the behest of the Athenians? How many will have to die this time before resistance to narrow-mindedness becomes acceptable?
I wonder if these things aren't related. Google may have originally figured that it's okay to operate in China, since 1) if they didn't someone else would; 2) Google still provides the best internet searching tools available, so something is better for the people of China than nothing; and 3) they're allowed to let people know that results may have been censored, which may start people demanding change. The Yahoo debacle has sort of thrown out the possibility of a "limited evil" policy--the Chinese government extracted voluntary compliance this time (keeping in mind that "voluntary" doesn't necessarily mean the same thing it means elsewhere), but the autocrats may still be feeling out how far they can go without prompting a serious response. Next time they may find a way to take what they want, either by force or in secret, and with Google positioning itself as the repository of all on-line information, they'd be the prime target.
Continued operation in China may even comprise some kind of endorsement of these practices. After all, if Google justifies censoring results as mere compliance with local law, who's to say that next time "compliance with local law" won't mean handing over all of their data to secret police forces? Whoever is in charge of local operations in China is taking on an awful lot of personal risk in making decisions about what directives to comply with.
Google may now be figuring that there's a fine line indeed between passive compliance with wickedness and active agency therewithal.
I disagree. For any games where head to head mode is a major part of the game's appeal, unlockable content is annoying as crap. This means racing games, fighting games, strategy games, sports sims, and FPSes, having to unlock the best content just pisses people off who want to mess around with their friends, and games that require you to unlock multi-player modes (Halo 2, I'm looking at you) are especially vexing.
IPv6 needs a killer app, and thanks to the local network address ranges, it probably won't be running out of addresses for several more years. Somebody needs to write the most useful program ever, and make it only communicate over IPv6.
For laptops, there are actually plenty of Linux compatible laptops, but there is no single recognizable brand that is consistently Linux compatible
If I'm not mistaken, every Apple PPC laptop since at least 2k1 can install Linux, and it's not a far-off day when there will be a Linux distro that supports intel macs with a bootable CD (people have already hacked up solutions, but their not yet ready for prime time).
I would create a virtual machine for each individual application, and have that virtual machine have only one instruction--one the contains whole application. Then complain that any bugs are in the reference hardware, not in the software per se (which works exactly as designed).
Things like this don't tend to work out so well, particularly when something is already established as being cool. Think of all the attempts people have made to make things like smoking, drinking and drug use seem uncool--and apart from a few straight-edge kids here and there, how well has that actually worked? Comparing your potential customers to chimps isn't going to make them feel particularly good about your product. Rather, you need to out-cool your competitor, usually by getting people who are already established as cool (celebrities) to hawk your wares in public (red-carpet events, award ceremonies, interviews). Otherwise Paris Hilton and Jay-Z will just say, "Boy, those iChimp ads are totally gay." Which, in point of fact, they are.
The real question is, why does Apple get all the grief for this? Remember pretty much every release of Windows ever? Remember the PS2 read errors? All the heat problems people had with Inspirons in '03? The Pentium floating-point bug? It's just that Apple happens to release new products more often than most other companies, so they crop up now and again. I have a first-gen iPod that still works okay (though the battery is pretty much shot after all this time), and one of the first white iBooks that still works grandly.
I would say from my personal experience, Apple's biggest problem is breaking stuff with software updates. In the past, I've had sleep, cd burning, and fink unexpectedly broken with minor revisions; currently (10.4.6) airport is flaky. But that's not what people are talking about when they complain about first-gen products.
The Constitution defines treason specifically as making open war against the United States, or else giving aid and comfort to its enemies. This was done specifically so that you couldn't charge any random dissenter with treason. However, I think we should pass a few laws to a) disbar all lawyers complicit in the filing of frivolous claims in court, b) eject automatically the sponsors of bills passed and found constitutional, and c) make taking campaign contributions equivalent to bribery. We have very stiff laws that punish people who threaten the health of our young people by selling them alcohol, tobacco, or pornography; why shouldn't we try as hard to protect their civic health as well?
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I'm sure your particular OS was actually developed for non-DEC hardware, too. But the point is, the fact that such a beast exists at all is due to DEC's radical approach to computing. If it weren't for Bell Labs, we'd probably be using free versions of VMS or Multics (or possibly a cleaned-up, ported, and modernized version of ITS). But if it weren't for DEC we'd still be limited to batch-processing and IBM mainframes.
As if they don't ignore low-population areas as it is. The point is, you need to win the 11 largest states by a small margin of votes to win the presidency; a margin of victory of 3% in those states can balance out a 100% (i.e.: zero votes) margin of loss in the other 39. When was the last time anyone went campaigning in Rhode Island, Alaska, Delaware, or Wyoming? As it is, those states are politically worthless. At least if the president were directly elected, the vote of a person in Alaska would have an equal weight with the vote of someone in New York.
The real problem with this, though, is that if the president were directly elected, we'd need a Federal Presidential Election board whose sole purpose would be to oversee presidential elections in all states, rather than just letting the states sort it out on their own. The result would probably be that voters would have to vote twice, once for state and local elections and separately for president (if the bureaucrats have their way, both elections will take place on the same day, but use different balloting mechanisms and neither side will agree to share space with the other).
Actually, I would say that Omni caters largely to the technical elite, coming from the old days of NeXTSTEP and all that. Many loyalists latch onto their products, but that's because their products are useful, intelligent, and technically excellent (something that cannot be said for the evangelistas).
On the whole, I'd say a 40% conversion ratio isn't totally far-fetched, particularly since many of the people who use Omni's products are themselves developers, and hence need to test on the latest and greatest toys.
... plus a button that randomly takes you to whatever floor Google thinks is best.
That's a nice real-time multi-user operating system you've got there.
This commenter is clearly trolling--he's already submitted a comment, so he can't moderate this discussion at all! Plus, I bet he's just a shill from digg and never even bothered to RTFA at all. natrius needs to STFU imo.
Wikipedia has lots of interesting information on the subject, including a nice timeline.
Work less when you're young so you have time to have fun while you you still can? Then when you're older you can be responsible and save money. Some other posters have pointed out that due to the progressive income tax system in the US, the greater the amount of money you make at one time, the less it ends up being worth to you. This, however, also turns out to be true about the years of your life: the five years from 22 to 27 are worth way more than 52 to 57, since people have fewer obligations they can move around, change jobs, do volunteer work, and generally do all of the exciting things that only young people have the energy to do.
Besides, if you actually enjoy your job, working after age 60 isn't really so bad, especially if you have 15-20 years of doing pretty much nothing afterwards. The only reason I'd want to retire early is if I'd actually have enough money set aside to live it up for a few decades and travel, make new friends, learn languages, write angry letters to the editor, etc.
IBM's contributions to modern computing pale in comparison to those of the late, lamented Digital Equipment Corporation, which was bought by Compaq, which was in turn bought by who again? Only AT&T can really rival DEC for influence in the formative years of computing.
Get a spare hard drive, a C compiler, a kernel, and sources for all the essential utilities. Compile all the sources, then format the drive and create a working *x installation using only cp(1) (or cpy.exe if you insist on Windows). You may want to bootstrap it by installing only what you need to boot to single-user mode using another system, then booting the system and installing the rest of the userland from there. If you can do this, it will qualify you as an expert. If you can do it without consulting documentation, then you can consider yourself a true guru.
If you're in or around SE Pennsylvania, you can get your hands on Juengling beer--in particular their black & tan. It's as cheap as the bad beer and as good as the good beers.
I ran a variety of modern operating systems for years, but then I decided I hate them all, and now I added a few lines to system startup scripts so it would automatically start up in Unix v7 under simh's pdp-11 emulator. I have to go to the public library to access the web, but you should follow.
I'm no expert on these matters, but if I'm not mistaken Florida state laws work differently with respect to seizing property to retire debts (i.e., it's harder than in most places). This means that he may be able to hang on to some or all of his stuff, and if he gets a decent lawyer he can be out of jail in a year or two. Then he can sell off his assets and take it easy, at least for a little while. If you throw in opportunities working as a security/network engineer for VOIP companies (or anyone, really), potential book deals, etc., he may not have to do a day's worth of real work for the rest of his life.
But that's the great thing about MS. They don't cheat on you; in fact, they have sex with you more. Of course, it's always anal and you're always the on the receiving end, but beggars can't be choosers.
Now IS the time, because later on may be too late. Let's put all our cards on the table. If the government wants to interfere in privately-funded research to potentially cure/prevent diseases like Parkinson's, let's make them actually do it, so that for once people actually know where all the players stand. Did Darwin clear his findings with the fundamentalists? Did Galileo wait for the Church to accept the Copernican model of the Universe? Did Socrates change his mind at the behest of the Athenians? How many will have to die this time before resistance to narrow-mindedness becomes acceptable?
I wonder if these things aren't related. Google may have originally figured that it's okay to operate in China, since 1) if they didn't someone else would; 2) Google still provides the best internet searching tools available, so something is better for the people of China than nothing; and 3) they're allowed to let people know that results may have been censored, which may start people demanding change. The Yahoo debacle has sort of thrown out the possibility of a "limited evil" policy--the Chinese government extracted voluntary compliance this time (keeping in mind that "voluntary" doesn't necessarily mean the same thing it means elsewhere), but the autocrats may still be feeling out how far they can go without prompting a serious response. Next time they may find a way to take what they want, either by force or in secret, and with Google positioning itself as the repository of all on-line information, they'd be the prime target.
Continued operation in China may even comprise some kind of endorsement of these practices. After all, if Google justifies censoring results as mere compliance with local law, who's to say that next time "compliance with local law" won't mean handing over all of their data to secret police forces? Whoever is in charge of local operations in China is taking on an awful lot of personal risk in making decisions about what directives to comply with.
Google may now be figuring that there's a fine line indeed between passive compliance with wickedness and active agency therewithal.
I disagree. For any games where head to head mode is a major part of the game's appeal, unlockable content is annoying as crap. This means racing games, fighting games, strategy games, sports sims, and FPSes, having to unlock the best content just pisses people off who want to mess around with their friends, and games that require you to unlock multi-player modes (Halo 2, I'm looking at you) are especially vexing.
IPv6 needs a killer app, and thanks to the local network address ranges, it probably won't be running out of addresses for several more years. Somebody needs to write the most useful program ever, and make it only communicate over IPv6.
If I'm not mistaken, every Apple PPC laptop since at least 2k1 can install Linux, and it's not a far-off day when there will be a Linux distro that supports intel macs with a bootable CD (people have already hacked up solutions, but their not yet ready for prime time).
I would create a virtual machine for each individual application, and have that virtual machine have only one instruction--one the contains whole application. Then complain that any bugs are in the reference hardware, not in the software per se (which works exactly as designed).
Things like this don't tend to work out so well, particularly when something is already established as being cool. Think of all the attempts people have made to make things like smoking, drinking and drug use seem uncool--and apart from a few straight-edge kids here and there, how well has that actually worked? Comparing your potential customers to chimps isn't going to make them feel particularly good about your product. Rather, you need to out-cool your competitor, usually by getting people who are already established as cool (celebrities) to hawk your wares in public (red-carpet events, award ceremonies, interviews). Otherwise Paris Hilton and Jay-Z will just say, "Boy, those iChimp ads are totally gay." Which, in point of fact, they are.
The real question is, why does Apple get all the grief for this? Remember pretty much every release of Windows ever? Remember the PS2 read errors?
All the heat problems people had with Inspirons in '03? The Pentium floating-point bug? It's just that Apple happens to release new products more often than most other companies, so they crop up now and again. I have a first-gen iPod that still works okay (though the battery is pretty much shot after all this time), and one of the first white iBooks that still works grandly.
I would say from my personal experience, Apple's biggest problem is breaking stuff with software updates. In the past, I've had sleep, cd burning, and fink unexpectedly broken with minor revisions; currently (10.4.6) airport is flaky. But that's not what people are talking about when they complain about first-gen products.
The Constitution defines treason specifically as making open war against the United States, or else giving aid and comfort to its enemies. This was done specifically so that you couldn't charge any random dissenter with treason. However, I think we should pass a few laws to a) disbar all lawyers complicit in the filing of frivolous claims in court, b) eject automatically the sponsors of bills passed and found constitutional, and c) make taking campaign contributions equivalent to bribery. We have very stiff laws that punish people who threaten the health of our young people by selling them alcohol, tobacco, or pornography; why shouldn't we try as hard to protect their civic health as well?
You just have to refer to all of those as "fixing display bugs" as the program code displays improperly when you try to view it.
Why did I find myself hoping that link went to God?