My first "pee-cee" was an 8088 XT clone motherboard that I shoehorned into a Leading Edge Model D case that had no power supply. I instead had an original IBM-PC power supply (the 62.5 watt model) that I had to strip out of it's case and mount on standoffs directly in the Leading Edge Model D case. Since the Model D footprint didn't have the standard 8-slot back bracket, it had six slots with non-standard spacing, I had to dremel out most of the bracket slot openings, using just the 'slot 1' bracket to 'anchor' the board with the video card in slot 1.
All in all it was a workable solution, though there was always bare live line voltage exposed in the case. It worked well, since I was far too cheap to buy anything NEW pc-related. I was still somewhat bitter about CP/M machines fading into history, you see.
There wasn't a hell of a lot 'extra' as far as I/O on that 8088 motherboard. Just the keyboard connector. To add an (external) modem I had to buy an ISA serial interface card. What's a mouse??
No gamer I've ever come across would let themselves become that out of touch with the hardware industry.
Yes, 'gaming' has become that weird. It's as if someone who is into classic RPG started obsessing about the brand, make, etc. of the card table the game was played on.
I've been running a BSD for a long time. When did NFS on Linux cease to be the disaster it was?
(disclaimer- the first time I installed NetBSD was on a 486 laptop (with no CD drive) with a PCMCIA ethernet card, over an NFS share from a Slackware box)
Yep. I once had my NT 4.0 system crash because I dared boot it up without a disk in the (parallel port) Zip drive. The bluescreen indicated exactly (well, through a little bit of investigation) that.
As to why the system *crashed* because there wasn't a zip disk in the drive... well....
I was aprox. your age when Lucas renamed Star Wars 'episode 4.' It was a pretty good movie in 1977, but I haven't spoiled it by watching any of the sequels.
Every time a consultant installs some relatively unknown software system in a business, s/he digs his/her hooks deeper into that company.
Businesses know that, and it makes the option of installing a monoculture product (hire consultants from a dozen local firms to maintain it as needed) attractive.
Communism can only work if it's compulsory and worldwide. Otherwise, the smart and talented people move away and the Communists are left with the dregs and mediocre people to care for.
The actual peadophiles (and they aren't that big a part of the population) have been fairly successful at blurring the distinction between what they are 'into' and social norms. So much so that there are misled people all through most discussions of this sort who don't get it. Pedophiles are people who like to use small children as sex toys. They screw 6 year olds for kicks.
(I am not raising an arguement against anything you said, just trying to amplify your message)
I really hope you are not trying to equate the admittally horrible experiences of the Jews in Nazi Germany to the 400 years of atrocities that this country committed against blacks during Slavery.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Because YOU are the one trying to balance apples and oranges as if the two can somehow be plugged into an equation together. Your characterization of US history is wrong.
In the instance being discussed here, a sex offender is somebody who craves sexual conduct with people 11 years or younger. That's clear black-and-white, and there's not a heck of a lot of 'wiggle room.'
The case of your friend who pissed in the park is an abberation and definitely abuse of authority on the part of whomever excercized the 'power' in that instance. Which doesn't detract from the point in my first paragraph.
You're mixing-n-matching a whole lot of categories of people there. And it badly distorts the message of the original.
There is such a thing as a real criminal. It's ludicrous to pretend that penalizing a 'sex offender' is a slippery slope down towards putting grandma in jail.
There's a lot of better 'Airplane' than the little snips and bits that somehow got incorporated into the burnout-track called 'Classic Rock.' Check out 'After Bathing At Baxters' for good solid Airplane, or 'Volunteers' for their most shilling and dogmatic.
I even like the Jefferson Starship video that is embedded in the Star Wars Christmas Special quite a bit, even though Starship was 'revisionist' (or, post 'drug treatment' more likely)
Apple has always been about creating their own baroque 'structures of excellence.' Why do you think the 'Not Invented Here....' culture evolved at Apple the way it did?
So, the.ini-fanboys shouldn't complain to much about their beloved.ini fileformat, as the main/user and designer of that format replaced the format too.
Ah. So Microsoft, and now Apple, have abandoned something. We are to take from it that the that 'something' was bad.
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Well, I could give two shits about the SF economy.
Unless it gets bad enough that all that SF-ness leaks out and spoils other areas of the country, of course.
When government funds research, it gets published. Everyone gets to use the knowledge that comes from it. In private research, that's not the case.
In private research, if the results of the research are patented, the important information is published, and becomes 'free' in a matter of years.
Naw. Real men install an ISA slot PCMCIA card in their desktop machine and then plug a PCMCIA USB adapter into it.
Hell, I'll only charge you $75 to use a dykes to cut off all the ports and stuff that *annoy* you so much.
Are you sure you aren't a little obsessive?
My first "pee-cee" was an 8088 XT clone motherboard that I shoehorned into a Leading Edge Model D case that had no power supply. I instead had an original IBM-PC power supply (the 62.5 watt model) that I had to strip out of it's case and mount on standoffs directly in the Leading Edge Model D case. Since the Model D footprint didn't have the standard 8-slot back bracket, it had six slots with non-standard spacing, I had to dremel out most of the bracket slot openings, using just the 'slot 1' bracket to 'anchor' the board with the video card in slot 1.
All in all it was a workable solution, though there was always bare live line voltage exposed in the case. It worked well, since I was far too cheap to buy anything NEW pc-related. I was still somewhat bitter about CP/M machines fading into history, you see.
There wasn't a hell of a lot 'extra' as far as I/O on that 8088 motherboard. Just the keyboard connector. To add an (external) modem I had to buy an ISA serial interface card. What's a mouse??
And he should download the Mac versions (?!?) of all his expensive commercial application software from a warez site??
I thought that was the canned voice message on their tech support line.
What, exactly, do you mean by the phrase Top Quality? You mean all the chips are housed in gold-plated burn-in sockets?
Sounds like more subjective marketing nonsense.
There are cheap, horrible 'all-in-one' motherboards, but there are good ones too.
No gamer I've ever come across would let themselves become that out of touch with the hardware industry.
Yes, 'gaming' has become that weird. It's as if someone who is into classic RPG started obsessing about the brand, make, etc. of the card table the game was played on.
I've been running a BSD for a long time. When did NFS on Linux cease to be the disaster it was?
(disclaimer- the first time I installed NetBSD was on a 486 laptop (with no CD drive) with a PCMCIA ethernet card, over an NFS share from a Slackware box)
Yep. I once had my NT 4.0 system crash because I dared boot it up without a disk in the (parallel port) Zip drive. The bluescreen indicated exactly (well, through a little bit of investigation) that.
As to why the system *crashed* because there wasn't a zip disk in the drive... well....
I was aprox. your age when Lucas renamed Star Wars 'episode 4.' It was a pretty good movie in 1977, but I haven't spoiled it by watching any of the sequels.
What he means is that the four kids are pooling the allowance money he gives them to take him to the film.
Maybe Google didn't want people to be able to see their source code?
Hmmm.
Every time a consultant installs some relatively unknown software system in a business, s/he digs his/her hooks deeper into that company.
Businesses know that, and it makes the option of installing a monoculture product (hire consultants from a dozen local firms to maintain it as needed) attractive.
That's the crux of the problem.
Communism can only work if it's compulsory and worldwide. Otherwise, the smart and talented people move away and the Communists are left with the dregs and mediocre people to care for.
So it's never optional, and it can't be optional.
The actual peadophiles (and they aren't that big a part of the population) have been fairly successful at blurring the distinction between what they are 'into' and social norms. So much so that there are misled people all through most discussions of this sort who don't get it. Pedophiles are people who like to use small children as sex toys. They screw 6 year olds for kicks.
(I am not raising an arguement against anything you said, just trying to amplify your message)
I really hope you are not trying to equate the admittally horrible experiences
of the Jews in Nazi Germany to the 400 years of atrocities that this country
committed against blacks during Slavery.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Because YOU are the one trying to balance apples and oranges as if the two can somehow be plugged into an equation together. Your characterization of US history is wrong.
In the instance being discussed here, a sex offender is somebody who craves sexual conduct with people 11 years or younger. That's clear black-and-white, and there's not a heck of a lot of 'wiggle room.'
The case of your friend who pissed in the park is an abberation and definitely abuse of authority on the part of whomever excercized the 'power' in that instance. Which doesn't detract from the point in my first paragraph.
You're mixing-n-matching a whole lot of categories of people there. And it badly distorts the message of the original.
There is such a thing as a real criminal. It's ludicrous to pretend that penalizing a 'sex offender' is a slippery slope down towards putting grandma in jail.
There's a lot of better 'Airplane' than the little snips and bits that somehow got incorporated into the burnout-track called 'Classic Rock.' Check out 'After Bathing At Baxters' for good solid Airplane, or 'Volunteers' for their most shilling and dogmatic.
I even like the Jefferson Starship video that is embedded in the Star Wars Christmas Special quite a bit, even though Starship was 'revisionist' (or, post 'drug treatment' more likely)
Gnome and KDE are considered 'part of the operating system' by probably 9 out of 10 Linux users. And, surprise, they're open source.
Why should MacOS 10 hucksters be allowed to play semantic games?
You just explained again (or you conceded the point) that launchd shouldn't have a 'd' at the end of it's name.
So why does it?
Apple has always been about creating their own baroque 'structures of excellence.' Why do you think the 'Not Invented Here....' culture evolved at Apple the way it did?
So, the .ini-fanboys shouldn't complain to much about their beloved .ini fileformat, as the main/user and designer of that format replaced the format too.
Ah. So Microsoft, and now Apple, have abandoned something. We are to take from it that the that 'something' was bad.
I see.