Early in 1998 I bought Red Hat 5.0 at Best Buy ($49.95)a couple of weeks after I bought my first computer. It had emacs, Tex/LaTex, C/C++ (I really wanted Tex/LaTeX, and I couldn't get a Windows version). I had used Unix earlier (twm circa 1995, anyone?). I had trouble with X (apparently Xresources was in the wrong directory), which I wanted for xdvi, so I bought Sam's Red Hat Unleashed. I bought a Hayes external modem (still have it) to get on the internet. The first sound I played was a Mission Impossible CD. And all the kernel tuning, who could forget?
It's difficult to hit a target from 20,000 feet even with fin-stabilized aerodynamic bombs. Do you expect to hit a target from that height with a computer?
To come back to your point, yes Apple would make as evil a monopolist as Microsoft, but I'd prefer if they all had to compete for my $$.
A monopolist of what? Hardware? So Dell, HP, Acer, etc. are going to be swept away? Or Software? Wait, what will we run that Apple software on?
If Microsoft goes belly up, and Apple doesn't license clones, the other computer manufacturers will throw so much money/talent/marketing at *BSD/Linux that it won;t be fun (unless, of course, you're the target of such spending).
Until Ubuntu and other Unix variants come up with better (or at least substantially different) UI design paradigms than past versions of Windows, it will be limited in how well they can compete with OS X in terms of usability.
Isn't OS X itself a Unix variant? Hell, Leopard is Single Unix Specification.
"Quickbooks for Linux on Walmart shelves" is a downgrade, not an upgrade.
I like Linux, and I don't need/want Quickbooks, but what similar software is better than Quickbooks and available for Linux? Maybe some people would use Linux if Quickbooks were available on it.
Did anyone hold a gun to Microsoft's head demanding that it pander to consumers? Indeed, some of Microsoft's defenders on this site praise its responsiveness to consumers.
I would say more like XML vs. LaTeX (LaTeX being the layman'sversion) The tagging in XML makes it easier for computers to parse, but (I suspect anyway) that LaTeX is easier for humans to follow.
Perhaps, but that's not what you said in your post. Also, the far side of the galaxy is 126,000 light years away, not 74,000 light years, which is the distance to the near edge.
Humans can sustain an acceleration of 10m/s^2 (a little more than 1g). One day (86,400s) would lead to a speed of 864,00m/s. To reach a speed of.9c (270,000,000m/s) would require about a year. It would require the same amount of time to decelerate. The problem is that even a speed of.9c does not give you much time dilation. We have gamma=1/sqrt(1-.9^2), which is 1/sqrt(1-.81) or 1/sqrt(.19), which is 1/.44, or about 2.3. Hence, one would age 44 years on a 100-light-year voyage.
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And is there such a repository for Windows that has roughly the same amount of software?
Is it so hard to use < to get <? I had flashbacks of doing FORTRAN on punch cards.
Could one just slap Debian ARM on this instead?
Early in 1998 I bought Red Hat 5.0 at Best Buy ($49.95)a couple of weeks after I bought my first computer. It had emacs, Tex/LaTex, C/C++ (I really wanted Tex/LaTeX, and I couldn't get a Windows version). I had used Unix earlier (twm circa 1995, anyone?). I had trouble with X (apparently Xresources was in the wrong directory), which I wanted for xdvi, so I bought Sam's Red Hat Unleashed. I bought a Hayes external modem (still have it) to get on the internet. The first sound I played was a Mission Impossible CD. And all the kernel tuning, who could forget?
It's difficult to hit a target from 20,000 feet even with fin-stabilized aerodynamic bombs. Do you expect to hit a target from that height with a computer?
To come back to your point, yes Apple would make as evil a monopolist as Microsoft, but I'd prefer if they all had to compete for my $$.
A monopolist of what? Hardware? So Dell, HP, Acer, etc. are going to be swept away? Or Software? Wait, what will we run that Apple software on?
If Microsoft goes belly up, and Apple doesn't license clones, the other computer manufacturers will throw so much money/talent/marketing at *BSD/Linux that it won;t be fun (unless, of course, you're the target of such spending).
Until Ubuntu and other Unix variants come up with better (or at least substantially different) UI design paradigms than past versions of Windows, it will be limited in how well they can compete with OS X in terms of usability.
Isn't OS X itself a Unix variant? Hell, Leopard is Single Unix Specification.
I like Linux, and I don't need/want Quickbooks, but what similar software is better than Quickbooks and available for Linux? Maybe some people would use Linux if Quickbooks were available on it.
With door-to-door salesmen, you can point out that your Smith & Wesson is also home. Is there something equivalent for spammers?
What, no <voice style="schneider"> making copies</voice>!
Although I wish he had said "making copies" when he entered the cloning vats near the end of Judge Dredd.
Did anyone hold a gun to Microsoft's head demanding that it pander to consumers? Indeed, some of Microsoft's defenders on this site praise its responsiveness to consumers.
As for bashing, why waste a good shell?
I guess I was excluding the layout markup, which I generally don't use. Also, I was thinking about MathML content such as
<mrow><mn>3</mn><mo>⁢</mo><mi>x</mi></mrow>
as opposed to $3x$ in TeX/LaTeX.
I would say more like XML vs. LaTeX (LaTeX being the layman'sversion) The tagging in XML makes it easier for computers to parse, but (I suspect anyway) that LaTeX is easier for humans to follow.
You didn't check their course offerings and requirements before you enrolled?
But it has a warranty? Wow!
Perhaps you meant a couple of hours earlier, as Pakistan is east of the Mediterranean Sea.
Perhaps, but that's not what you said in your post. Also, the far side of the galaxy is 126,000 light years away, not 74,000 light years, which is the distance to the near edge.
The thread's heading is "Ignores time dilation". That certainly applies to him! :-)
The original poster said .9g. Of course, if you go .999g, your time dilation is much better.
Humans can sustain an acceleration of 10m/s^2 (a little more than 1g). One day (86,400s) would lead to a speed of 864,00m/s. To reach a speed of .9c (270,000,000m/s) would require about a year. It would require the same amount of time to decelerate. The problem is that even a speed of .9c does not give you much time dilation. We have gamma=1/sqrt(1-.9^2), which is 1/sqrt(1-.81) or 1/sqrt(.19), which is 1/.44, or about 2.3. Hence, one would age 44 years on a 100-light-year voyage.
Yeah, because making a BSD-compatible client from a Mac OS X executable would be too much work.
So Mac OS X is compatible with Windows? I guess that means that BSD is also compatible.
I believe you mean "pictures of naked celebrities", unless Gisele Bundchen actually exists in cyberspace.
But vitriol is the perfect way to destroy Windows!
That is more involved than getting someone to click a link.