settled for the emotionally-comforting fallback position that "I don't understand how it could be possible, so God must've done it."
Wrong! You're so incredibly wrong, and your mis-characterization is a BIG part of the controversey.
Read his position as: "We don't understand these processes very well at all, and it's entirely possible God might have done it."
You've given up your scepticism and really don't deserve to call yourself an advocate of science at all. Your intellectual position is steeped in ideology.
if your assertion were true, Apple would still have been able to sue the X Windows creators, GEOS, etc.
Yep. And if you read the opinions of the time, the Free Software advocates and and other third parties were alarmed that Apple's litigation tank brigade was headed there next.
Apple's legal department has historically been ruthless. Thank goodness they've gotten their wings clipped in court a few times.
Ummm, the Apple of the 80's was one of the most litigious computer companies in the business.
All those Apple II clone companies didn't just up and go out of business on their own. And Apple was the bad guy in the Look-n-feel lawsuits. If they had won, there wouldn't be a non-Apple GUI in existence, save by their good graces.
You aren't entitled to a boat, but if you had managed to get one with an old carbeurated two-stroke that worked just fine, and the DOT told you you couldn't take it on the lake any more unless you got a fuel-injected outboard (because it used too much gas), you'd probably be annoyed.
Not that far-fetched. An old motor like that leaves a film of oil on the water. The environmentalists say NO! You will NO LONGER be allowed to operate that boat!
In spite of all the folklore, hype, and hoopala about the reasons for Apple's early success, it all boils down to a single phenomenon.
Visicalc, the first spreadsheet, was only available on the Apple 2 for it's first year on the market. The spreadsheet revolutionized business, and early adopters all got Apple 2 systems to run it on.
Businessmen in this era went into computer stores and said 'I want a Visicalc' and by necessity were sold an Apple computer.
It was the only thing differentiating Apple from other machines on the market at the time, in spite of the hype and revisionist history about 'Steve Job's visionary design' and similar BS that some people are now actively trying to substitute for the truth.
Where I work, I have an IBM PC-XT logging data for a test right now. The hard drive on the machine failed recently. Rather than futz around with the cabinet full of old junk drives and cards to get it running, I just yanked the hard drive and it's now logging the data to the single DSDD 5-1/4" floppy drive remaining in the machine.
We also have some test equipment connected to a Commodore SX64 system. It does what it's supposed to and works.
Depends on what you want to do. Programming/CS is one of the easiest science things to do on your own because all you need is a computer and a compiler, and you can get a computer for less than $500.
Umm, you can get an adequate computer these days for almost free at a yard sale.
The three volumes of Knuth, and other assorted books are going to cost you some real money, though.
but am annoyed at responders who do not even bother to comprehend what they are responding to!
Give them a break. They were looking forward to a short spell this afternoon correcting Algebra worksheets before taking it easy. Then the fax came in from the Teacher's Union Bosses, and they've been astroturfing ever since. How would they have had TIME to comprehend it? The fax laid out clear guidelines about what to type.
By the same token, when you Unionize Public Schools, taxpayer money (mandatory Union Dues) is magically transformed into donations to powerful political interests.
You'd be amazed at the amount of anti-science drivel and neo-pagan mystic drivel that sneaks in the back door of the 'science fiction bookstore' these days.
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settled for the emotionally-comforting fallback position that "I don't understand how it could be possible, so God must've done it."
Wrong! You're so incredibly wrong, and your mis-characterization is a BIG part of the controversey.
Read his position as: "We don't understand these processes very well at all, and it's entirely possible God might have done it."
You've given up your scepticism and really don't deserve to call yourself an advocate of science at all. Your intellectual position is steeped in ideology.
I run NetBSD on an SE/30.
An SE/30 *IS* a cool looking Mac, dammit!
if your assertion were true, Apple would still have been able to sue the X Windows creators, GEOS, etc.
Yep. And if you read the opinions of the time, the Free Software advocates and and other third parties were alarmed that Apple's litigation tank brigade was headed there next.
Apple's legal department has historically been ruthless. Thank goodness they've gotten their wings clipped in court a few times.
Mice have 'computers' in them, too.
An embedded controller is not the same as a full general cpu.
Sorry folks, this ain't the apple of the 80's.
Ummm, the Apple of the 80's was one of the most litigious computer companies in the business.
All those Apple II clone companies didn't just up and go out of business on their own. And Apple was the bad guy in the Look-n-feel lawsuits. If they had won, there wouldn't be a non-Apple GUI in existence, save by their good graces.
You aren't entitled to a boat, but if you had managed to get one with an old carbeurated two-stroke that worked just fine, and the DOT told you you couldn't take it on the lake any more unless you got a fuel-injected outboard (because it used too much gas), you'd probably be annoyed.
Not that far-fetched. An old motor like that leaves a film of oil on the water. The environmentalists say NO! You will NO LONGER be allowed to operate that boat!
We're talking about NextStep, the cool OS that ran on Sparc, Intel, PA-RISC, etc. How you morphed my comment into MacOS I don't know...
In spite of all the folklore, hype, and hoopala about the reasons for Apple's early success, it all boils down to a single phenomenon.
Visicalc, the first spreadsheet, was only available on the Apple 2 for it's first year on the market. The spreadsheet revolutionized business, and early adopters all got Apple 2 systems to run it on.
Businessmen in this era went into computer stores and said 'I want a Visicalc' and by necessity were sold an Apple computer.
It was the only thing differentiating Apple from other machines on the market at the time, in spite of the hype and revisionist history about 'Steve Job's visionary design' and similar BS that some people are now actively trying to substitute for the truth.
Where I work, I have an IBM PC-XT logging data for a test right now. The hard drive on the machine failed recently. Rather than futz around with the cabinet full of old junk drives and cards to get it running, I just yanked the hard drive and it's now logging the data to the single DSDD 5-1/4" floppy drive remaining in the machine.
We also have some test equipment connected to a Commodore SX64 system. It does what it's supposed to and works.
Or you can move out of San Francisco to some other place where it isn't outrageously expensive to live.
There are lots of other nice places. Many that people consider nicer.
There are sustainable 'living' jobs lots of places.
Steve Jobs can't code it. He doesn't program, and never has.
Depends on what you want to do. Programming/CS is one of the easiest science things to do on your own because all you need is a computer and a compiler, and you can get a computer for less than $500.
Umm, you can get an adequate computer these days for almost free at a yard sale.
The three volumes of Knuth, and other assorted books are going to cost you some real money, though.
But Steve provided the vision, style, and intuitive grasp of the need for the personal computer.
WTF?
Can you explain the above chained-together drivel a little more for us?
Yeah, but they ported to Sparc, too. It wasn't all mundane hardware.
I just got a dual 2.5 G5 which I prefer to use to my Athalon box.
I have a quad Pentium Pro box....
Welcome to the club!
but am annoyed at responders who do not even bother to comprehend what they are responding to!
Give them a break. They were looking forward to a short spell this afternoon correcting Algebra worksheets before taking it easy. Then the fax came in from the Teacher's Union Bosses, and they've been astroturfing ever since. How would they have had TIME to comprehend it? The fax laid out clear guidelines about what to type.
By the same token, when you Unionize Public Schools, taxpayer money (mandatory Union Dues) is magically transformed into donations to powerful political interests.
Same thing, either way.
They will, however, fuck over the teacher's unions.
Hay! Is that the real point in all this anti-Charter-School stuff? Could it all be over money on BOTH sides??
"Government" schools are run by teachers who have powerful collective bargaining organizations to PREVENT this sort of thing from happening to them.
Your entire topic spun off into sputtery hate-speech at the mention of Jeb Bush.
Shouldn't you be hovering at the democraticunderground.com forums, and leaving us alone here??
You'd be amazed at the amount of anti-science drivel and neo-pagan mystic drivel that sneaks in the back door of the 'science fiction bookstore' these days.
Or maybe you wouldn't.
10,000 sheep commence braying the 'security through obscurity...' mantra.
So is a machine with MS-DOS 3.2 on it.
Eudora rocks, eh?
organizations hate it when you donate money for a specific purpose,
Also because then it can't be used for office equipment and/or free drinks in the break room refrigerator.
Many, many organizations form around 'worthy causes' but quickly become self-serving.
I don't think Debian fits into this category at all, but certainly a LOT of 'charitable' operations do.