There isn't anything about them that makes you want to find an alternative.
Actually, there is. I sometimes like playing the 'click three' type games. But Candy Crush Saga puts so much animation and filler crap that gets in the way of clicking three that I tried it for a bit, deleted it, and installed one of the free clones that is just a click three game.
Candy Crush Saga adds animations of NPCs, and other side 'features' that detract from the actual crushing of candy.
No matter where President Obama was born, to call him a 'Kenyan' is a serious misnomer. He was born somewhere, but as to his nationality, he is a metrosexual world citizen. A modern Liberal. He's definitely not a Kenyan.
No, modern NAZI allies are just dumb. Complete idiots with zero chance of ever mattering. It's like advocating that the earth is flat. A troll deal. They do have some success in their trolling, though.
Why should anybody dignify these people by responding to them. Random trash accusations on the internet don't need to be acknowledged. Or do you think President Obama should have to respond to every crank birther?
I don't want a control center, and I certainly don't want a "game manager". Tell your marketing critters to focus on the bitmaps on the cardboard carton the hardware ships in.
I just want a driver. Hint: that's not a 100 Mb downloaded installer.
Not hardly. Linux might possibly fork after Linus passes away. But open source code is convergent: it keeps getting better as the code base grows. So the root code base at the point of any fork will be broad based and well designed, so it won't die as an effect of being forked.
I'll just fire up my Tek 7603 'scope with the differential comparator plugin to find that harmonic. I don't have a matched set of probes so won't get 100 dB of common mode rejection, but it'll do the job.
I never really liked the old HP analog scopes. I thought Tek made a far batter line.
The good parts of HP have been gone for a long time.
The Corvalis Group was pretty much just dismantled.
The Instruments group became Agilent.
The part that is left is a bunch of ink grifters in the printing division and a bunch of shitty clone sellers in the computer division.
It's not at all the same company that it was. And it has nothing to do with Carly, she only became CEO years after the decline. The Cold War killed HP. They couldn't continue to sell instruments and equipment to the Military at sky-high prices, the business they were doing in the 60's became comodified. The back labs at HP filled up with boomers who though they could ride the gravy train to retirement but it wasn't going to happen.
So, you propose that the only 'way forward' for any of us is to scavenge around the edge of the economy and get what we can, how we can, before the whole thing collapses?
To get the shiny new car in Xbox all you need to do is steal it. And why would you care about your meatself? As long as you still have the dexterity to hold the controller.
The Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 CDs were true cross-platform installers. The same old clunky NT 4 CD that came bundled with every crummy Compaq workstation was a universal CD, with the PPC and Alpha installers on it as well. NT 3.5 also included the MIPS port, which I think was dropped on NT 4. So every installer CD out there anywhere could be used to install on even the esoteric hardware. My PPC box was an IBM PREP box, Power PC with the PCI bus, even some ISA slots, etc. A PC clone with the PPC chip. It could have taken off, and become a mainstream platform, but it never did.
I learned a lot about networking with Slackware on my maiv box, a 486-33 with 16M, and a few castoff 386sx systems with 2-4M in them. And old 3C509 ethernet cards and coaxial cabling. I remember bringing up a Samba server and setting up an 8 Mhz '286 machine on it with MS-DOS, that only had one boot floppy diskette and no hard drive. I installed Windows 3.11 on the "C:" drive that Samba fooled the DOS machine into thinking it had.
I ditched Linux and switched to NetBSD by about 1998 though. Linux had gotten all Red Hatty and was starting to suck. The PCMCIA networking was an ugly kludge that loaded alongside the kernel, whereas NetBSD 'just worked' with PC Card networking built in the kernel. Switching to BSD was just the sensible thing for anybody running Slackware at the time to do.
The really sad thing is that if ISPs are mandated to retain all this data all sorts of critters will show up with new ways to monetize it. This law will bootstrap all sorts of new nasty stuff, public and private.
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There isn't anything about them that makes you want to find an alternative.
Actually, there is. I sometimes like playing the 'click three' type games. But Candy Crush Saga puts so much animation and filler crap that gets in the way of clicking three that I tried it for a bit, deleted it, and installed one of the free clones that is just a click three game.
Candy Crush Saga adds animations of NPCs, and other side 'features' that detract from the actual crushing of candy.
No matter where President Obama was born, to call him a 'Kenyan' is a serious misnomer. He was born somewhere, but as to his nationality, he is a metrosexual world citizen. A modern Liberal. He's definitely not a Kenyan.
But I thought the 2000 election had a snowball's chance in Florida of going into the crapper either.
You just got lucky on that one. The Democrats nearly electioneered that one.
Minix 3 has been freely available now for almost a decade.
Wow, I didn't know they were porting NetBSD's pkgsrc. That's good stuff.
No, modern NAZI allies are just dumb. Complete idiots with zero chance of ever mattering. It's like advocating that the earth is flat. A troll deal. They do have some success in their trolling, though.
Just like with Bob Dole, in his day, it's Hillary's turn this time.
Why should anybody dignify these people by responding to them. Random trash accusations on the internet don't need to be acknowledged. Or do you think President Obama should have to respond to every crank birther?
I don't want a control center, and I certainly don't want a "game manager". Tell your marketing critters to focus on the bitmaps on the cardboard carton the hardware ships in.
I just want a driver. Hint: that's not a 100 Mb downloaded installer.
Not hardly. Linux might possibly fork after Linus passes away. But open source code is convergent: it keeps getting better as the code base grows. So the root code base at the point of any fork will be broad based and well designed, so it won't die as an effect of being forked.
Capn' Trade?
Is that the cereal that abrades off the skin on the roof of your mouth?
I'll just fire up my Tek 7603 'scope with the differential comparator plugin to find that harmonic. I don't have a matched set of probes so won't get 100 dB of common mode rejection, but it'll do the job.
I never really liked the old HP analog scopes. I thought Tek made a far batter line.
The good parts of HP have been gone for a long time.
The Corvalis Group was pretty much just dismantled.
The Instruments group became Agilent.
The part that is left is a bunch of ink grifters in the printing division and a bunch of shitty clone sellers in the computer division.
It's not at all the same company that it was. And it has nothing to do with Carly, she only became CEO years after the decline. The Cold War killed HP. They couldn't continue to sell instruments and equipment to the Military at sky-high prices, the business they were doing in the 60's became comodified. The back labs at HP filled up with boomers who though they could ride the gravy train to retirement but it wasn't going to happen.
So, you propose that the only 'way forward' for any of us is to scavenge around the edge of the economy and get what we can, how we can, before the whole thing collapses?
Great plan. For a sociopath.
To get the shiny new car in Xbox all you need to do is steal it. And why would you care about your meatself? As long as you still have the dexterity to hold the controller.
the conservative right crawling out of their holes and popularising conspiracy theory bullshit
Perhaps, though, 'the conservative right crawling out of their holes' is conspiracy theory bullshit.
It's fun to live in a fantasy world where nobody who disagrees with you has an rational basis.
And in the end, we have a fresh new play by Shakespeare?
"I can't allow you to do that, Dave."
The Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 CDs were true cross-platform installers. The same old clunky NT 4 CD that came bundled with every crummy Compaq workstation was a universal CD, with the PPC and Alpha installers on it as well. NT 3.5 also included the MIPS port, which I think was dropped on NT 4. So every installer CD out there anywhere could be used to install on even the esoteric hardware. My PPC box was an IBM PREP box, Power PC with the PCI bus, even some ISA slots, etc. A PC clone with the PPC chip. It could have taken off, and become a mainstream platform, but it never did.
I learned a lot about networking with Slackware on my maiv box, a 486-33 with 16M, and a few castoff 386sx systems with 2-4M in them. And old 3C509 ethernet cards and coaxial cabling. I remember bringing up a Samba server and setting up an 8 Mhz '286 machine on it with MS-DOS, that only had one boot floppy diskette and no hard drive. I installed Windows 3.11 on the "C:" drive that Samba fooled the DOS machine into thinking it had.
I ditched Linux and switched to NetBSD by about 1998 though. Linux had gotten all Red Hatty and was starting to suck. The PCMCIA networking was an ugly kludge that loaded alongside the kernel, whereas NetBSD 'just worked' with PC Card networking built in the kernel. Switching to BSD was just the sensible thing for anybody running Slackware at the time to do.
I remember the Borland Compilers as being relatively inexpensive. Far more so than the others for the PC at the time.
"Resorting to BSD?" What is this crap? You're spinning up a bunch of crap made up history now.
I can trump that. I ran Windows NT 4 on a PowerPC box once.
There were NO third party apps for it. That certainly tops Windows RT.
The really sad thing is that if ISPs are mandated to retain all this data all sorts of critters will show up with new ways to monetize it. This law will bootstrap all sorts of new nasty stuff, public and private.
It would suffice for Apple to die once. It doesn't need to be an annual thing.
The fasionistas all need to know how thin it is.