Bullshit. If your point is correct, then Compaq's reverse engineered BIOS was illegal and the whole era of the PC Clone was a violation of IBM's IP rights. We'd need to pry the BIOS out of every PC Compatible in existence. And since IBM doesn't even make PCs anymore, that means we all cease using desktop and laptop PCs. It probably even applies to Apple by this point.
That's a little like saying "there is no way we are not polluting the minds of all our four year olds when pushing hundreds of terabytes of porn out onto the Internet.
It's amazing that the classic response from a big government guy when something is determines by a big government operation that they don't agree with. Suddenly the big government operation is rift with corruption and 'golf outings.'
Look again. The same government shysters are behind things like the 'cap and trade' schemes and subsidies to 'big green' companies that are often not even very 'green.' General Electric has been a big backer of the Obama Administration. They make all the nukes and a lot of the 'fossil fuel' power plant infrastructure.
I live a few miles outside a small town, one with a reputably famous Liberal Arts college in it. So it's 'the sticks' and I don't have to deal with HOAs or city ordinances, but I can ride to downtown in ten minutes on a bike. Also there are a lot of older neighborhoods in most towns and cities that don't have a HOA.
You're only stuck with an HOA neighborhood if you want to live in a house made out of glueboard and formaldehyde.
Apple bought the Beats company for the brand name and the large subscriber database from the music service. Apple suffers from a problem of being 'your parents brand' and wanted to buy something hip.
It's a lot like if JC Penney bought Beats, but don't tell Apple.
You can buy an upgrade on Skype that only costs a few dollars a month that lets you call any phone number in the continental US. That's cheap unlimited local & long distance if you don't already pay for it some other way. So for your $3 a month, you can have an old unsubscribed phone and go to any free Wifi hotspot and use it to call anywhere for no additional cost at all.
I just requested a refund on Lego Worlds which I bought yesterday. It looks like it might one day be a fun game, but right now it's impossible to remap the WASD keys to something that a left-handed player would want. I searched the forums and tried to find a workaround, but decided that the seven minutes I played the game struggling to do anything much was below the 2 hour limit so I requested a refund.
When you request a refund you have the option of 'steam credit' or a chargeback to your credit card. It's nice that they're not trapping your money within their accounting system.
Until shortly before Bill Gates started writing software, the hardware the software ran on was so expensive that the software could remain completely open and free without it mattering. The software for an IBM 370 mainframe isn't any good without the millions of dollars the 370 cost. The UNIX code needed an expensive DEC machine to run on.
But big businesses did have software and a considerable amount of it was nondisclosed source.
When hardware to run software became very low cost it was inevitable that there would rise a much bigger market for said software. With machines costing mere hundreds to produce and not many many thousands, there were huge new markets for software.
The small first communities of pioneers in microcomputing weren't going to scale up to produce 'free' software in the sense we can today. The install base wasn't there.
In fact, what really spurred the growth of software like Linux was a post-boom install base. Windows and OS/2 left a lot of cheap/free hardware in it's wake that would no longer run the 'greatest stuff' but was quite capable of running in protected mode for people to 'mess around' with. It was similar in a way to the 'opportunity' instance that casued the original UNIX to be created. There was a little-used old PDP-7 system at Bell Labs so the dudes started hacking on it.
I have Toshiba laptops with '486 processors in them that work fine, and have clearly 'outlived' a lot of other hardware. I also have a Powerbook 165c that works fine, though. I'm pretty sure my Apple II would boot up if I put it all together and tried.
I certainly don't believe you're paying for 'long lasting quality' when you buy the current Apple product line. It's the same build quality of any other hardware in it's price range. Hardware is completely commodity at this point.
Losing nearly a billion dollars over an 8 year period, firing four-thousand permanent staff, and being dead last in search and browser rankings will do strange things to you.
A billion dollars over an 8 year period for a company Microsoft's size is churn in the budget.
Firing 4000 permanent staff is lean management and a cost reduction initiative.
Microsoft makes their money from shipping products that people pay for. They don't need to spying on what gets typed into their search engine to sell to third party advertisers. Bing is a loss leader, not their do-or-die revenue bringer.
they provide code to openssh not because they have any particular valuable insight to add to the project which has handled itself just fine for 15 years, but because they need to ensure their openssh implementation actually works with other well-established and quite serviceable implementations.
When Microsoft needed a TCP/IP stack for Windows NT, they adopted the industry standard stack that was out there, in the form of the BSD implementation. Most other OS vendors did the same thing. Linux rolled their own stack, and has ended up being the odd kludge with it's own quirks and bugs. Every other OS, including Microsoft, has communications that is much more compatible.
Heck, I play WoW (WOTLK rocks! It sucks SOO much what has happened to Azeroth) on my own private server, without any other players, and manage to have fun.
I tried mintest awhile ago, but couldn't get it to spawn any mobs at all. Of any kind. Probably I should try it again, and spend more time learning the interface to configure, etc.
It is particularly an issue with The GIMP because it is an open-source gateway program. GIMP is the first open-source software that some people directly experience. I know artists who use it and it's their first contact with the open source community. Sure, they use a lot of OS software without knowing, but this is a highly visible individual program.
Lots of geeks suggest The GIMP to their friends who are otherwise pirating Photoshop or languishing in MS Paint. It's just not a good thing for them to end up downloading malware laden crap because they went to a page Google found for them and not the real download site.
The beginning of Apple would be the blueboxes that the Steves sold to raise money to build a computer for sale. Said blueboxes would be contraband and evidence except for the statue of limitations, of course.
Apple 1 really didn't. There were other contemporary boards that were just as historically significant that don't have the collectors value as an Apple board. The Bigboard, the KIM 1. The Sym 1. The single board that the 6100 processor was built on.
The Apple board came from a company where there is a slight amount of continuity to today, but other than that it is part of the pack, just one of a number of boards people ran back then.
No, there was a display ad in Kilobaud Computing and some other magazines. You could mail order an Apple Board for $666. I used to have a complete run of Kilobaud and that ad was in issue #1.
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Bullshit. If your point is correct, then Compaq's reverse engineered BIOS was illegal and the whole era of the PC Clone was a violation of IBM's IP rights. We'd need to pry the BIOS out of every PC Compatible in existence. And since IBM doesn't even make PCs anymore, that means we all cease using desktop and laptop PCs. It probably even applies to Apple by this point.
I am hoping the Pentagon is developing technology to automatically launch cruise missiles at ANYBODY who posts a selfie.
Maybe poison darts from drones would be more practical, on second thought.
But I hope they're on it and have the technology ready to deploy soon.
What a crock. You're trolling, right? There can't be anybody so worshipful of dude who is spending off his PayPal fortune.
The Tesla isn't the greatest car ever by any measure that most people would acknowledge.
Rockets for fun?? Save humanity? Save the earth from CO2? Oh, and he spends every penny on his adventures to save mother earth.
Get your head out of the dark dude.
I am all for 33-1/3 revolutions per minute.
Spin in place, revolution brother. Spin in place.
In the 'good old days' we were a bunch of nerds who didn't take ourselves very seriously. And nobody outside our ranks took us serious at all.
But fashions change and 'Geek' is part of a lot of registered trademarks now.
isis and al qaeda? you're watching way too much television, son.
You're spending too much time hanging out at the lit table on the mall.
We know; she's cute. That doesn't mean you should believe everything printed on the leaflets she gives out.
Probably. It might be time for everybody to code up scripts that send out lots of /dev/random here and there ever way.
That's a little like saying "there is no way we are not polluting the minds of all our four year olds when pushing hundreds of terabytes of porn out onto the Internet.
It's amazing that the classic response from a big government guy when something is determines by a big government operation that they don't agree with. Suddenly the big government operation is rift with corruption and 'golf outings.'
Look again. The same government shysters are behind things like the 'cap and trade' schemes and subsidies to 'big green' companies that are often not even very 'green.' General Electric has been a big backer of the Obama Administration. They make all the nukes and a lot of the 'fossil fuel' power plant infrastructure.
Anecdotes are meaningless. That you get a 'good feel' for what the EPA has accomplished is just that. Your story about your good feelings.
Make sure you install cable runs of Appletalk cable. In case Apple ever becomes 'cool' again so you can have all your Macs share the laser printer.
I live a few miles outside a small town, one with a reputably famous Liberal Arts college in it. So it's 'the sticks' and I don't have to deal with HOAs or city ordinances, but I can ride to downtown in ten minutes on a bike. Also there are a lot of older neighborhoods in most towns and cities that don't have a HOA.
You're only stuck with an HOA neighborhood if you want to live in a house made out of glueboard and formaldehyde.
Apple bought the Beats company for the brand name and the large subscriber database from the music service. Apple suffers from a problem of being 'your parents brand' and wanted to buy something hip.
It's a lot like if JC Penney bought Beats, but don't tell Apple.
You can buy an upgrade on Skype that only costs a few dollars a month that lets you call any phone number in the continental US. That's cheap unlimited local & long distance if you don't already pay for it some other way. So for your $3 a month, you can have an old unsubscribed phone and go to any free Wifi hotspot and use it to call anywhere for no additional cost at all.
You had your arbitrary 'Instant Message Crash Bug' last week.
As always, Apple gets their own special version of the bug and they get it first.
I didn't see any mention of it on Slashdot, though, and I looked around for it. Maybe I missed it?
I just requested a refund on Lego Worlds which I bought yesterday. It looks like it might one day be a fun game, but right now it's impossible to remap the WASD keys to something that a left-handed player would want. I searched the forums and tried to find a workaround, but decided that the seven minutes I played the game struggling to do anything much was below the 2 hour limit so I requested a refund.
When you request a refund you have the option of 'steam credit' or a chargeback to your credit card. It's nice that they're not trapping your money within their accounting system.
Android is fragmenting and will probably die in the next several years.
It's interesting to ponder what will replace it. But it's not a sport where you have to back one 'side' or the other.
Until shortly before Bill Gates started writing software, the hardware the software ran on was so expensive that the software could remain completely open and free without it mattering. The software for an IBM 370 mainframe isn't any good without the millions of dollars the 370 cost. The UNIX code needed an expensive DEC machine to run on.
But big businesses did have software and a considerable amount of it was nondisclosed source.
When hardware to run software became very low cost it was inevitable that there would rise a much bigger market for said software. With machines costing mere hundreds to produce and not many many thousands, there were huge new markets for software.
The small first communities of pioneers in microcomputing weren't going to scale up to produce 'free' software in the sense we can today. The install base wasn't there.
In fact, what really spurred the growth of software like Linux was a post-boom install base. Windows and OS/2 left a lot of cheap/free hardware in it's wake that would no longer run the 'greatest stuff' but was quite capable of running in protected mode for people to 'mess around' with. It was similar in a way to the 'opportunity' instance that casued the original UNIX to be created. There was a little-used old PDP-7 system at Bell Labs so the dudes started hacking on it.
I have Toshiba laptops with '486 processors in them that work fine, and have clearly 'outlived' a lot of other hardware. I also have a Powerbook 165c that works fine, though. I'm pretty sure my Apple II would boot up if I put it all together and tried.
I certainly don't believe you're paying for 'long lasting quality' when you buy the current Apple product line. It's the same build quality of any other hardware in it's price range. Hardware is completely commodity at this point.
A billion dollars over an 8 year period for a company Microsoft's size is churn in the budget.
Firing 4000 permanent staff is lean management and a cost reduction initiative.
Microsoft makes their money from shipping products that people pay for. They don't need to spying on what gets typed into their search engine to sell to third party advertisers. Bing is a loss leader, not their do-or-die revenue bringer.
When Microsoft needed a TCP/IP stack for Windows NT, they adopted the industry standard stack that was out there, in the form of the BSD implementation. Most other OS vendors did the same thing. Linux rolled their own stack, and has ended up being the odd kludge with it's own quirks and bugs. Every other OS, including Microsoft, has communications that is much more compatible.
Some of us don't need multiplayer to have fun.
Heck, I play WoW (WOTLK rocks! It sucks SOO much what has happened to Azeroth) on my own private server, without any other players, and manage to have fun.
I'm probably weird that way.
I tried mintest awhile ago, but couldn't get it to spawn any mobs at all. Of any kind. Probably I should try it again, and spend more time learning the interface to configure, etc.
It is particularly an issue with The GIMP because it is an open-source gateway program. GIMP is the first open-source software that some people directly experience. I know artists who use it and it's their first contact with the open source community. Sure, they use a lot of OS software without knowing, but this is a highly visible individual program.
Lots of geeks suggest The GIMP to their friends who are otherwise pirating Photoshop or languishing in MS Paint. It's just not a good thing for them to end up downloading malware laden crap because they went to a page Google found for them and not the real download site.
The beginning of Apple would be the blueboxes that the Steves sold to raise money to build a computer for sale. Said blueboxes would be contraband and evidence except for the statue of limitations, of course.
Apple 1 really didn't. There were other contemporary boards that were just as historically significant that don't have the collectors value as an Apple board. The Bigboard, the KIM 1. The Sym 1. The single board that the 6100 processor was built on.
The Apple board came from a company where there is a slight amount of continuity to today, but other than that it is part of the pack, just one of a number of boards people ran back then.
No, there was a display ad in Kilobaud Computing and some other magazines. You could mail order an Apple Board for $666. I used to have a complete run of Kilobaud and that ad was in issue #1.