I think it was around 1992, I was browsing ftp.txt files at multiple ftp sites and kept running into this "linux" thing. I was a CS student, so I looked into it more and found out it was a UNIX OS for PCs. I thought cool and thought I'd try it. 40 diskettes later downloaded from the student computer lab and I was installing it onto my computer at home. I hardly knew anything about partitions on a hard drive at the time and easily wiped out my Windows 3.1 partition. When I finally got it to boot up and got a 2400 baud SLIP connection going back to school, I couldn't believe it. I would start Netscape, go wash the dishes and come back in time to see the page loaded. (It wasn't even porn! That took a LOT longer!) Since then I've had Linux installed on all of my personal machines. Since 1999, I've had Linux installed on all of my work machines and around 2008 I got rid of my last Windows machine and have run Linux exclusively.
Linux has helped me build several products and has provided countless hours of learning. Praise be to Linus and GNU and all of the other people that helped make this possible.
I used the key combo to put up stats on my screen in the Chrome browser on my Chromebook and after a short ramping up time, it read 1920x1080 as the resolution on the bitrate line. Seems like it is working at 1080p.
As a long time/. reader, I can imagine what a hell of a ride this has been for you, Rob. Thanks for all the effort you put into/. and for the great influence you and/. have had on the whole internet community. Good luck in your future endeavors and enjoy some time off.
I must admit to inadvertently attributing the internet legend of Taco Hell to you, think that's where CmdrTaco came from. Oops.
Maybe since the water is the medium for the sound that is causing them pain, they are trying to leave that medium to stop the pain. I don't know, but makes sense to me.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Google sells ads. All of the products they release are just ways to sell more ads or give more ad exposure. If they put out a good product at the same time, then that's helpful. If it dies on the vine, it counts as a loss, but it's still just a drop in the bucket.
Look in the Help->About Internet Explorer and you'll find IE's humble beginnings as well:
"Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."
I thought I was the only one that thought that proper grammar and spelling were a thing of the past. Spelling is the easiest thing to fix; almost every editor has a spell checker. Grammar is another case. It seems some people don't feel like it is important enough for them to spend any time learning or retaining beyond their schooling years. Many of these people are tech people and they like to tell you how unimportant other things are too, like art, english, history, and basically anything that doesn't have to do with being a techie. What ever happened to being "well rounded"? There is so much that a person can learn outside of their techie life that can make life so much more enjoyable. Also, delving into areas that a person is not familiar with changes your perspective, maybe to the point where they can understand why something is more important than they thought it was. Sometimes this change in perspective can change the way they approach things in their area of interest, like in a techie's life, that gives them a new way of thing about something they thought they had understood thoroughly, but did not. Sometimes I think people just have to get older to understand this, too.
In his opening paragraph, Mr. Davidson says "Two open-source projects, Mono and dotGNU, are aimed at providing alternatives to Microsoft's.NET framework and developer tools. While providing freedom of choice might be reason enough to justify a project, practical programmers could be asking: What's the point?"
I believe that the point is not just providing an alternative, but providing a solution for non-Windows platforms. I remember when people asked, "What's the point?" with Linux... and Apache... and Mozilla. It's not just about "geeks having fun", which they are, it's about choosing to run a platform and wanting to be able to run a web server, wanting to browse the web, wanting to program web services in C#. Microsoft is not obligated to port their code to other platforms. They want to protect their interests. Whether that hurts or helps them, or hurts or helps the rest of the world is another discussion.
I'm glad that the people that helped create projects such as Linux, Apache, Mozilla, and GNU tools, didn't let simplistic opinions like Mr. Davidson's get in their way to making great software. And I hope the Mono and dotGNU projects don't either.
If you have the in house talent to provide your company with support and do your own upgrades, then what reason would you use red hat? Grab a free, unadulterated distribution, like Slackware, and do it from scratch.
I think red hat's strategy in having "consumer" and "commercial" versions is pretty much what you stated that they rh salesman stated. "consumer" versions can have the latest and greatest, while the "commercial" versions can be slightly older, but stable, production proven versions. In any evolving software, the more time you can let people bang on software, the more stable it will prove to be. Also, more companies will target those stable versions than they will the bleeding edge stuff, unless they are forced to through a new kernel feature.
All of the boards in there were reflowed when they were created and probably got much hotter than that to solder all of the parts in place. It had coolled off considerably before being turned back on.
What might have been interesting is to find it in the oven at 400 degrees _and_ it running!
Just because you don't know who uses a language does not mean it is not used in some very interesting places. I know that the Chicago Board of Trade, the largest trader of options and futures, uses it to run their trading floor application for open outcry. It's a huge system that takes bids from the floor, verifies their validity, calculates changes, posts them on the boards, sends them to vendors on the ticker, etc.
Why be so negative about something you probably don't even know anything about? Eiffel is a great language and design tool. The implementation of Eiffel has been it's biggest drawback and with things like this release of ISE Eiffel, the ideal the Eiffel represents is closer to reality.
I'll leave my opinion open until I try it. You should try the same.
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With all of the recent events around racial discrimination, how have you been dealt with discrimination as a Ferengi?
I think it was around 1992, I was browsing ftp.txt files at multiple ftp sites and kept running into this "linux" thing. I was a CS student, so I looked into it more and found out it was a UNIX OS for PCs. I thought cool and thought I'd try it. 40 diskettes later downloaded from the student computer lab and I was installing it onto my computer at home. I hardly knew anything about partitions on a hard drive at the time and easily wiped out my Windows 3.1 partition. When I finally got it to boot up and got a 2400 baud SLIP connection going back to school, I couldn't believe it. I would start Netscape, go wash the dishes and come back in time to see the page loaded. (It wasn't even porn! That took a LOT longer!) Since then I've had Linux installed on all of my personal machines. Since 1999, I've had Linux installed on all of my work machines and around 2008 I got rid of my last Windows machine and have run Linux exclusively.
Linux has helped me build several products and has provided countless hours of learning. Praise be to Linus and GNU and all of the other people that helped make this possible.
I used the key combo to put up stats on my screen in the Chrome browser on my Chromebook and after a short ramping up time, it read 1920x1080 as the resolution on the bitrate line. Seems like it is working at 1080p.
Well, this timely leak should help sales of the book.
As a long time /. reader, I can imagine what a hell of a ride this has been for you, Rob. Thanks for all the effort you put into /. and for the great influence you and /. have had on the whole internet community. Good luck in your future endeavors and enjoy some time off.
I must admit to inadvertently attributing the internet legend of Taco Hell to you, think that's where CmdrTaco came from. Oops.
Maybe since the water is the medium for the sound that is causing them pain, they are trying to leave that medium to stop the pain. I don't know, but makes sense to me.
WAAS is the next step in this technology. Let the dinosaur die and let's move on.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Google sells ads. All of the products they release are just ways to sell more ads or give more ad exposure. If they put out a good product at the same time, then that's helpful. If it dies on the vine, it counts as a loss, but it's still just a drop in the bucket.
There's a big difference.
Look in the Help->About Internet Explorer and you'll find IE's humble beginnings as well:
"Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."
I thought I was the only one that thought that proper grammar and spelling were a thing of the past. Spelling is the easiest thing to fix; almost every editor has a spell checker. Grammar is another case. It seems some people don't feel like it is important enough for them to spend any time learning or retaining beyond their schooling years. Many of these people are tech people and they like to tell you how unimportant other things are too, like art, english, history, and basically anything that doesn't have to do with being a techie. What ever happened to being "well rounded"? There is so much that a person can learn outside of their techie life that can make life so much more enjoyable. Also, delving into areas that a person is not familiar with changes your perspective, maybe to the point where they can understand why something is more important than they thought it was. Sometimes this change in perspective can change the way they approach things in their area of interest, like in a techie's life, that gives them a new way of thing about something they thought they had understood thoroughly, but did not. Sometimes I think people just have to get older to understand this, too.
I think I have rambled too much already.
In his opening paragraph, Mr. Davidson says "Two open-source projects, Mono and dotGNU, are aimed at providing alternatives to Microsoft's .NET framework and developer tools. While providing freedom of choice might be reason enough to justify a project, practical programmers could be asking: What's the point?"
... and Apache ... and Mozilla. It's not just about "geeks having fun", which they are, it's about choosing to run a platform and wanting to be able to run a web server, wanting to browse the web, wanting to program web services in C#. Microsoft is not obligated to port their code to other platforms. They want to protect their interests. Whether that hurts or helps them, or hurts or helps the rest of the world is another discussion.
I believe that the point is not just providing an alternative, but providing a solution for non-Windows platforms. I remember when people asked, "What's the point?" with Linux
I'm glad that the people that helped create projects such as Linux, Apache, Mozilla, and GNU tools, didn't let simplistic opinions like Mr. Davidson's get in their way to making great software. And I hope the Mono and dotGNU projects don't either.
If you have the in house talent to provide your company with support and do your own upgrades, then what reason would you use red hat? Grab a free, unadulterated distribution, like Slackware, and do it from scratch.
I think red hat's strategy in having "consumer" and "commercial" versions is pretty much what you stated that they rh salesman stated. "consumer" versions can have the latest and greatest, while the "commercial" versions can be slightly older, but stable, production proven versions. In any evolving software, the more time you can let people bang on software, the more stable it will prove to be. Also, more companies will target those stable versions than they will the bleeding edge stuff, unless they are forced to through a new kernel feature.
All of the boards in there were reflowed when they were created and probably got much hotter than that to solder all of the parts in place. It had coolled off considerably before being turned back on.
What might have been interesting is to find it in the oven at 400 degrees _and_ it running!
Just because you don't know who uses a language does not mean it is not used in some very interesting places. I know that the Chicago Board of Trade, the largest trader of options and futures, uses it to run their trading floor application for open outcry. It's a huge system that takes bids from the floor, verifies their validity, calculates changes, posts them on the boards, sends them to vendors on the ticker, etc.
Why be so negative about something you probably don't even know anything about? Eiffel is a great language and design tool. The implementation of Eiffel has been it's biggest drawback and with things like this release of ISE Eiffel, the ideal the Eiffel represents is closer to reality.
I'll leave my opinion open until I try it. You should try the same.
"The Art of Programming Vol. 1-3" by Donald Knuth. The definitive guide to theoretical and practical Computer Science. Check it out.