One of Microsoft's first products was the BASIC interpreter(s) that just about every early producer of microcomputers included with their machine.
All the TRS-80 machines included Microsoft Basic in ROM, for instance. The IBM-PC had Microsoft Basic in ROM that you could run without even having a floppy disk controller in your PC.
Microsoft was an early entrant in the hobby/personal computer market with one of the first significant commercial products that people found useful.
However, it's more popular to believe the anti-Microsoft drivel and revisionist history written by pundits years later.
Anybody with a sense of ethics and value for historical accuracy would be ashamed to be involved with the early 'history' part of the film 'Revolution OS' or that Robert X. Cringely (not his real name, just a shared psuedonym he stole control of and commercialized) fraud-history work 'Pirates of Silicon Valley.'
Is that the inflatable pink flying pig included in the Pink Floyd 'Animals' album?
Because, if it is, you shouldn't launch it into space. It's a valuable collectable, maaan.
Trivial side note: the few photos of the dirigible flying pig included on the Pink Floyd 'Animals' album cover are the ones taken from a distance as it flew off. Because it got loose before the planned shots could be taken.
Someone who was supposed to keep it tethered and under control was probably doing bong hits... man...
Actually 18 hours apart. Didn't attend the class where they taught you how to tell time, etc??
The comment was reposted because the first posting was 'zeroed without a reason' which means one of the people who 'run the site' marked it down (censored it), not a regular moderator.
They really should lose their 'common carrier' status and become liable for any and every comment made on this website, if they're going to edit comments directly.
At Menards, they have a few people on the national staff who have the the title 'Mystery Shopper.'
The job of the 'Mystery Shoppers' is to try to shoplift merchandise out of Menards stores. They travel around the chain making attempts at stores all the time, on a regular basis.
The employees of each store are 'rated' on how well they catch these people. The manager of the store gets a stiff fine if the Mystery Shoppers get away with too much.
The yellow sticky note goes on the bottom of the keyboard. And you try to make sure nobody is looking each day when you flip the keyboard up before log on.
Agreed, but it is morally wrong to purchase a copy of Mitnick's book. Shoplift a copy, or steal it from the library. At the minimum, deface all copies of it you find in the bookstore, so that they end up on the remainder/damaged-book table at a steep discount.
Actually, it's more of a 'Ray Noorda is a bitter, bitter man, and he doesn't care what kind of a legal precedent his revenge sets, or what kind of machinery it sets in motion' story.
But anyhow, I guess we carry on. It isn't like half the Linux community cheered on a litigious legalistic battle against Microsoft or anything. . . is it?
The DR-DOS suit was a personal revenge operation by Noorda. He hates and reviles Microsoft, and through his whole weight and corporate influence against them.
If you buy the store-brand merchadise at Best Buy (all that 'Digital Research' shit, for instance) it's not 'conversely' that you'll have to exchange a lot of stuff.
They have always seemed to have the biggest, most hostile, and ignorant goons at the door at Best Buy. It's enough to avoid the place unless it's completely necessary to buy something there.
How does a guest ID him/herself if the ID is locked in the room that s/he has no key to open? Sounds like a good opportunity to tie up a hell of a lot of staff opening rooms and watching as people rifle thorugh said rooms looking for 'their' ID.
For months afterward, he would regularly pull me into the office and rifle through my rucksack.
You should have started putting increasingly embarassing items in your rucksack. Toward the end, a vibrating buttplug with the manager's name on it in a sharpie would have been suitable.
Yeah, it's all nasty shit, wether 'progressives' or 'conservatives' engage in it. They should bug the fuck out and leave people alone.
However, that's what is known as real conservatism. Pisses off a lot of meddlesome 'progressives' and their ilk in other parts of the political spectrum.
Back in the mid 80's when I was sysop of a BBS system, I once had a 'newbie' give me her username and password for the other system she was a member of, as part of her 'validation' info to get on my system. Mind you, it wasn't anything I asked for or required. She just volunteered it in that required 'please give me an account on your BBS' email.
She became a good friend who I could later remind of her early naivity.
AT&T was also, at the time, 'The Phone Company' and a huge monopoly. They were carefully stepping around in the technology world at the time, and didn't need to become the commercial vendor of an Operating System to raise even more issues.
The DR-DOS suit was a personal revenge operation by Noorda. He hates and reviles Microsoft, and through his whole weight and corporate influence against them.
Speaking as somebody not that deeply immersed in either community these days, I think the 'BSD Community' is better off without a lot of the people championing Linux.
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'disingenious' is one of those great words to watch fools try to work with.
Its somewhat similar to watching someone who is drunk try to manouvre around a pole with unbalanced swinging weights on each end.
One of Microsoft's first products was the BASIC interpreter(s) that just about every early producer of microcomputers included with their machine.
All the TRS-80 machines included Microsoft Basic in ROM, for instance. The IBM-PC had Microsoft Basic in ROM that you could run without even having a floppy disk controller in your PC.
Microsoft was an early entrant in the hobby/personal computer market with one of the first significant commercial products that people found useful.
However, it's more popular to believe the anti-Microsoft drivel and revisionist history written by pundits years later.
Anybody with a sense of ethics and value for historical accuracy would be ashamed to be involved with the early 'history' part of the film 'Revolution OS' or that Robert X. Cringely (not his real name, just a shared psuedonym he stole control of and commercialized) fraud-history work 'Pirates of Silicon Valley.'
Do they really forge news items at that site?
Have they applied for work at the New York Times?
*rimshot*
Is that the inflatable pink flying pig included in the Pink Floyd 'Animals' album?
Because, if it is, you shouldn't launch it into space. It's a valuable collectable, maaan.
Trivial side note: the few photos of the dirigible flying pig included on the Pink Floyd 'Animals' album cover are the ones taken from a distance as it flew off. Because it got loose before the planned shots could be taken.
Someone who was supposed to keep it tethered and under control was probably doing bong hits... man...
That raises a question I have wondered about for awhile.
Vacuum tubes work inside a glass envelope. Could electronic devices in space use vacuum tubes without the envelope?
Could big outer space computers be composed of diodes, triodes, and pentodes, without the glass envelopes?
More likely it's a 15 year old boy with a snoopy mom.
Double whammy!
if everyone's breaking the law, then it's a sure sign that the law is flawed.
When a riot mob breaks the store windows and the whole neighborhood empties the corner mart of merchandise, it does not cease to be stealing.
Install Slackware 3.2.
It doesn't even prompt during the installation to warn you that root doesn't have a password.
You can blissfully install it and let 'er rip.
Actually 18 hours apart. Didn't attend the class where they taught you how to tell time, etc??
The comment was reposted because the first posting was 'zeroed without a reason' which means one of the people who 'run the site' marked it down (censored it), not a regular moderator.
They really should lose their 'common carrier' status and become liable for any and every comment made on this website, if they're going to edit comments directly.
Timothy, was it you?
At Menards, they have a few people on the national staff who have the the title 'Mystery Shopper.'
The job of the 'Mystery Shoppers' is to try to shoplift merchandise out of Menards stores. They travel around the chain making attempts at stores all the time, on a regular basis.
The employees of each store are 'rated' on how well they catch these people. The manager of the store gets a stiff fine if the Mystery Shoppers get away with too much.
The yellow sticky note goes on the bottom of the keyboard. And you try to make sure nobody is looking each day when you flip the keyboard up before log on.
I don't need an SE either. I have two SE/30's, which are far superior machines.
Agreed, but it is morally wrong to purchase a copy of Mitnick's book. Shoplift a copy, or steal it from the library. At the minimum, deface all copies of it you find in the bookstore, so that they end up on the remainder/damaged-book table at a steep discount.
Actually, it's more of a 'Ray Noorda is a bitter, bitter man, and he doesn't care what kind of a legal precedent his revenge sets, or what kind of machinery it sets in motion' story.
But anyhow, I guess we carry on. It isn't like half the Linux community cheered on a litigious legalistic battle against Microsoft or anything. . . is it?
The DR-DOS suit was a personal revenge operation by Noorda. He hates and reviles Microsoft, and through his whole weight and corporate influence against them.
If you buy the store-brand merchadise at Best Buy (all that 'Digital Research' shit, for instance) it's not 'conversely' that you'll have to exchange a lot of stuff.
They have always seemed to have the biggest, most hostile, and ignorant goons at the door at Best Buy. It's enough to avoid the place unless it's completely necessary to buy something there.
How does a guest ID him/herself if the ID is locked in the room that s/he has no key to open? Sounds like a good opportunity to tie up a hell of a lot of staff opening rooms and watching as people rifle thorugh said rooms looking for 'their' ID.
Well, plug in 'UNIX Sysadmin' and wait ten years. All those bearded dudes on the B Ark.... hmmmm....
For months afterward, he would regularly pull me into the office and rifle through my rucksack.
You should have started putting increasingly embarassing items in your rucksack. Toward the end, a vibrating buttplug with the manager's name on it in a sharpie would have been suitable.
Yeah, it's all nasty shit, wether 'progressives' or 'conservatives' engage in it. They should bug the fuck out and leave people alone.
However, that's what is known as real conservatism. Pisses off a lot of meddlesome 'progressives' and their ilk in other parts of the political spectrum.
Back in the mid 80's when I was sysop of a BBS system, I once had a 'newbie' give me her username and password for the other system she was a member of, as part of her 'validation' info to get on my system. Mind you, it wasn't anything I asked for or required. She just volunteered it in that required 'please give me an account on your BBS' email.
She became a good friend who I could later remind of her early naivity.
Check again carefully. Many 'therapists' have evil, not good social skills.
AT&T was also, at the time, 'The Phone Company' and a huge monopoly. They were carefully stepping around in the technology world at the time, and didn't need to become the commercial vendor of an Operating System to raise even more issues.
The DR-DOS suit was a personal revenge operation by Noorda. He hates and reviles Microsoft, and through his whole weight and corporate influence against them.
Speaking as somebody not that deeply immersed in either community these days, I think the 'BSD Community' is better off without a lot of the people championing Linux.