And if it hadn't been Intel, it would have been someone else. Sorry, I just don't see Intel as all that instrumental to the PC revolution. Intel lacked the vision, otherwise, what did they need IBM for?
There was no PC market. Apple, Microsoft and IBM's Boca Raton facility pretty much created it out of whole cloth. Call it what you will, but the 'netbook' will slowly displace the PC for an increasingly greater number of tasks just as the PC displaced mainframes for a large number of tasks.
Ubuntu alone is not going to "set the stage for Intel to lose the "software advantage"", or anyone else for that matter, by switching to ARM. Sure, a few thousand people will be able to switch to an ARM device without blinking, but the rest of the 99.9% of the worlds computer users won't give a flying piece of monkey poo.
Really? All it took was a a tiny company in Cupertino, CA, a rogue division in Boca Raton, FL, and a tiny company in Albuquerque, NM, to change IBM's world.
Well, considering I know what 'merde' means in French and that a cerveza is a beer (I live in Florida, lots of Mexican places sell cervezas down here), I think I know what you mean.
Python is a consumer product, as well as a product for seasoned developers. One of Python's design goals is to make coding easier for newbie coders. I have to say that I've seen more non-coders pick up Python easily and readily -- more than any other language.
Not exactly. Here's some examples where a non-technical user might help out, even if it's not in the form of cash:
I have a couple of open source projects that are sorely in need of translators. I don't speak any languages other than English, and a little bit of very broken French and Spanish. If someone wants to provide me good translations of UI strings, help bubbles, messages, dialogs, etc., in their native tongue I'll gladly add good i18n and l10n support to the projects.
Neither of these projects have good end-user documentation. I need someone with good technical writing skills to write the user docs for them. You don't need to any programming, just how to use the program.
Evangelism: one project has existed for two years now, and the other is just about to have its first release. I need people to help get the word out about the projects.
You see what I mean? You don't need to be a programmer to help an OSS project. You just need to care.
Exactly. If you want support from an open source project, you need to help that project out. Whether that's in the form of development work, testing, documentation writing, helping uses in the forums or lists out, or good old fashioned cash depends on what the project needs. Most projects are more than happy to list what they need, and if they don't, e-mail the project's lead(s) or e-mail their support list -- they'll be very happy to hear from you.
You get out of it what you put into it. Like anything else in life.
Slashdot Mirror
Obviously you would only include company websites for companies who are in the business.
I guess my humour was lost on everyone.
*sigh*
Errmmm....I think parent might've been joking...
Seriously. The easy way to do this:
1. Go to Google. ...
2. Search for 'search engine optimization'.
3. Go to MSN
4. Repeat step 2
The company highest on the list of all search engines checked is probably the company you want.
Well, I for, one, welcome our new stiff-upper-lipped, bland food eating, emotionless British overlords!
Hmmm...I'm no biologist, but I'll bet it's the right scale for human-implanted computing. Wow. Be afraid...very afraid...
Or somewhere in Lafayette, IN; it amounts to the same thing.
And if it hadn't been Intel, it would have been someone else. Sorry, I just don't see Intel as all that instrumental to the PC revolution. Intel lacked the vision, otherwise, what did they need IBM for?
It's too late. You're all doomed.
Thanks,
God
There was no PC market. Apple, Microsoft and IBM's Boca Raton facility pretty much created it out of whole cloth. Call it what you will, but the 'netbook' will slowly displace the PC for an increasingly greater number of tasks just as the PC displaced mainframes for a large number of tasks.
You're not bitter at all are you?
Tom? Is that you? We've been looking for you over on Classmates!
Well, okay, not really. But does it make you feel any better?
Ubuntu alone is not going to "set the stage for Intel to lose the "software advantage"", or anyone else for that matter, by switching to ARM.
Sure, a few thousand people will be able to switch to an ARM device without blinking, but the rest of the 99.9% of the worlds computer users won't give a flying piece of monkey poo.
Really? All it took was a a tiny company in Cupertino, CA, a rogue division in Boca Raton, FL, and a tiny company in Albuquerque, NM, to change IBM's world.
Well, considering I know what 'merde' means in French and that a cerveza is a beer (I live in Florida, lots of Mexican places sell cervezas down here), I think I know what you mean.
Python is a consumer product, as well as a product for seasoned developers. One of Python's design goals is to make coding easier for newbie coders. I have to say that I've seen more non-coders pick up Python easily and readily -- more than any other language.
Whatsa spell checker?
Not exactly. Here's some examples where a non-technical user might help out, even if it's not in the form of cash:
I have a couple of open source projects that are sorely in need of translators. I don't speak any languages other than English, and a little bit of very broken French and Spanish. If someone wants to provide me good translations of UI strings, help bubbles, messages, dialogs, etc., in their native tongue I'll gladly add good i18n and l10n support to the projects.
Neither of these projects have good end-user documentation. I need someone with good technical writing skills to write the user docs for them. You don't need to any programming, just how to use the program.
Evangelism: one project has existed for two years now, and the other is just about to have its first release. I need people to help get the word out about the projects.
You see what I mean? You don't need to be a programmer to help an OSS project. You just need to care.
Exactly. If you want support from an open source project, you need to help that project out. Whether that's in the form of development work, testing, documentation writing, helping uses in the forums or lists out, or good old fashioned cash depends on what the project needs. Most projects are more than happy to list what they need, and if they don't, e-mail the project's lead(s) or e-mail their support list -- they'll be very happy to hear from you.
You get out of it what you put into it. Like anything else in life.
Surely! The servers already glow green!
Let me be the first to say:
w000000000000tttt!!! w3 r0x0rz!!!!
Wha?
In the U.S., it means yellow power means 'powered by Mountain Dew'.
That, and they don't know what a null pointer is.
Does that help?
Nope. It was named for Jeri Ryan's character on Voyager. Someone at Microsoft has a fixation on her ... posterior region.
Perhaps you should read the linked-to-article rather than making snide comments anonymously.
I'd rather take issue with the fact it completely fails on IPv6 addresses.
Wake me up when that actually matters, k?