As a kid who grew up reading encyclopedias and dictionaries for pleasure by the hour, I think it's like a playground. I can be reading about quantum chromodynamics or something, and three links later I can be reading about the Livery Companies of London, or French Impressionism, or linguistics, or the Luminiferous Aether. This is exactly what the World Wide Web is supposed to be about. I'm 50 now, I can't imagine what my life would be like if I'd had this when I was 12. I used to read a newspaper column where a regular filler bit was something about "things I found out today while looking up other things". That's exactly how I feel about Wikipedia.
Do I take everything I read there seriously? No, no more (or less) so than I take what The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times has to say. After all their authors are anonymous to me, and I frequently diagree with their facts or intrepretations.
I couldn't agree more. The big news is the FAT patent rejection, even though some SD card makers are already paying Microsoft royalties.
One minor niggle: for "file format", you mean "file system".
> I have, however, always wondered why they bothered to create the MS Office suite for Mac?
It predates the appearance of Windows itself, back when Microsoft was a small company, and not a small nation. Excel was a direct competitor to Lotus 1-2-3, and Word competed with Word Perfect. At the time, Microsoft was actually smaller and less influential than either of those two companies. I remember when Excel use to come with a "Windows Run-Time", which ran from a DOS command line, and gave you (more or less) the Excel we've come to know. When you exited, you were looking at that "C:>" prompt again.
The summary covers two completely unrelated topics. One is the USPTOs rejection of Microsoft's attempt to extort the digital camera/USB stick makers (which is really what patenting FAT was about). The other story is about how Microsoft Office will never appear on Linux - so what, we don't want it.
Actually, the phrase is "suck it up", meaning "chin up", "walk it off" and that sort of thing.
But you're correct.
Ths "I" in ICANN is for "International"
No, just scarred. I love the Power architecture, and I'm making fun of the x86. It's like shooting fish in a barrel, and I could have gone on. I do hope your prediction turns out to be true.
> Then entire world will move to POWER in the next 10 years.
I respectfully and completely disagree. The world enjoys using a 64-bit extension to the 4004 architecture. We like using a single-accumulator processor with 3 "general purpose" registers. We adore the massively irregular instruction set, we like saying "push bp/mov bp,sp" every four instructions. We like the whole notion of putting values in certain (and only those) registers, so we can say "repne scasb", or "mul" or "div". The segmented memory architecture and the segment registers, are, in a word, brilliant. The notion of "near" and "far" calls and jumps, and the fact that the segment and offset are pushed in the wrong order is an endless source of delight for us. The floating point unit, and its instruction set, are nothing short of poetry in silicon. The pipelining and branch prediction are the the epitome of efficiency.
In other words, you are just another sadly mistaken fanboy of an inferior processor architecture.
The point is, it was a Suse website, running Suse that got hacked.
If a Microsoft windows 2003 site, running Windows 2003 was the victim, then yeah, I think it would make the front page.
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Do I take everything I read there seriously? No, no more (or less) so than I take what The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times has to say. After all their authors are anonymous to me, and I frequently diagree with their facts or intrepretations.
How does an uber-geek get a "Lifetime Achievement Award", which implies having a life??
I couldn't agree more. The big news is the FAT patent rejection, even though some SD card makers are already paying Microsoft royalties.
One minor niggle: for "file format", you mean "file system".
It predates the appearance of Windows itself, back when Microsoft was a small company, and not a small nation. Excel was a direct competitor to Lotus 1-2-3, and Word competed with Word Perfect. At the time, Microsoft was actually smaller and less influential than either of those two companies. I remember when Excel use to come with a "Windows Run-Time", which ran from a DOS command line, and gave you (more or less) the Excel we've come to know. When you exited, you were looking at that "C:>" prompt again.
The summary covers two completely unrelated topics. One is the USPTOs rejection of Microsoft's attempt to extort the digital camera/USB stick makers (which is really what patenting FAT was about). The other story is about how Microsoft Office will never appear on Linux - so what, we don't want it.
Damn, you're right. Too many acronyms in my life.
Actually, the phrase is "suck it up", meaning "chin up", "walk it off" and that sort of thing.
But you're correct.
Ths "I" in ICANN is for "International"
That the entertainment cartel is getting their money's worth from the Finnish legislature.
Wind Breaks. It didn't catch on.
More likely, they'll be removing things to make it smaller.
enum malware { IE, PERL, EMACS, OUTLOOK, VB };
We could call this a starting point.
Can I get one with an Opteron?
That would be a good fit, since Niven's ego is larger than Sauron's (who Jackson already directed).
You can add them to the theory of quantum bogodynamics.
It's a famous mistake from the first Star Wars movie.
More here.
No, a Lisp is a speech language as well as a programming impediment.
I always thought it was pot. Live & learn.
When they can do the Kessel run in 12 parsecs.
But I use Gentoo, how does this affect me?
No, just scarred. I love the Power architecture, and I'm making fun of the x86. It's like shooting fish in a barrel, and I could have gone on. I do hope your prediction turns out to be true.
No, you want the vertical stripes, they're "slimming".
I respectfully and completely disagree. The world enjoys using a 64-bit extension to the 4004 architecture. We like using a single-accumulator processor with 3 "general purpose" registers. We adore the massively irregular instruction set, we like saying "push bp/mov bp,sp" every four instructions. We like the whole notion of putting values in certain (and only those) registers, so we can say "repne scasb", or "mul" or "div". The segmented memory architecture and the segment registers, are, in a word, brilliant. The notion of "near" and "far" calls and jumps, and the fact that the segment and offset are pushed in the wrong order is an endless source of delight for us. The floating point unit, and its instruction set, are nothing short of poetry in silicon. The pipelining and branch prediction are the the epitome of efficiency.
In other words, you are just another sadly mistaken fanboy of an inferior processor architecture.
Bill Gates says "Beta testing is for sissies".
Um, did he just use the word fanboy in a perjorative context?
The point is, it was a Suse website, running Suse that got hacked.
If a Microsoft windows 2003 site, running Windows 2003 was the victim, then yeah, I think it would make the front page.