Kildall and Digital Research also produced the GEM graphical user environment. Which at the time rivaled Windows and was in some ways significantly superior to Windows on the PC environment.
GEM was sued and pretty much shut down by Apple. They shut down ALL the competitors to Windows on the x86 hardware platform. In actuality Apple's litigiousness cleared the playing field so that Windows was the 'last man standing' and thus Apple set up the Microsoft/x86 dynasty.
I remember Stacker, and all the other horrible third-party shit you had to do because Microsoft hadn't incorporated it into the OS as a built-in service.
Imagine Linux where the gzip utility wasn't included, and you had to choose from an array of third-part compression tools, one of which was being loudly advocated by your cornball Uncle.
Stacker was definitely part of the 'plaid pants' era of the Personal Computer when anybody could rent some cheap shop-space and become a 'computer expert' to his locality.
I would never use the native browser on Android. That's like just giving up to Google entirely on privacy. I almost always use Firefox and I NEVER log into any Google services on Firefox/Android.
Just cuz my phone resides in the company town doesn't mean I have to be totally locked in.
There are probably all sorts of researchers trying to bracket the dude in a 'protected class' of one sort or another. I'm sure there's an alphabet character the guy qualifies under.
So then the easy way to solve the issue is to make the data publicly available.
But your far-left attempt to ram through big policy initiatives based on secret data is an attempt to put ALL of us on a short leash. I hope you get bitten, to be honest.
The idea that the Great Lakes would revert to sludge without the dear EPA to save them is a little ridiculous. More than 'the EPA coming into existence' has happened to change the environment. Don't give Big Government so much credit. It makes you look like a toady to the bureaucrats.
The Objective C build environment was fully supported and an install option in the Developer section of Slackware 95. That was back in, oh, the 1.2.18 kernel days.
In the 80's Microsoft wrote their applications to be able to import files in formats from other companies, but not export back to the same formats. Examples were lotus 1-2-3 and Wordperfect. This tactic was a trick to encourage and then lock in developers to work only on the Windows platform using Microsoft's software.
Huh? Application developers in the 80's were dependent on and 'trapped' by Microsoft's Office file formats? That's just a weird theory. Which applications do you mean? Don't say 'Wordperfect and Lotis 1-2-3' because those weren't applications whose developers were 'fooled'.
And Wordperfect was mainly just strong because it had free tech support, so that there was a bossy secretary at each business who knew that alt-flipper-f4 was the secret key combination. It was shit as far as a pick-it-up-and-go tool for everybody else.
I think iOS is roadkill. They're already huffing Android fumes instead of innovating. This could be it. I like Android so I hope it's the second place OS in about a year. Apple can make novelty watches and eMedicine gadgets.
Or, maybe when this tool gains traction, developer teams will have to decide: "hmm, should we shitcan the whole codebase and do a rewrite, or just keep going but on Windows?"
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Kildall and Digital Research also produced the GEM graphical user environment. Which at the time rivaled Windows and was in some ways significantly superior to Windows on the PC environment.
GEM was sued and pretty much shut down by Apple. They shut down ALL the competitors to Windows on the x86 hardware platform. In actuality Apple's litigiousness cleared the playing field so that Windows was the 'last man standing' and thus Apple set up the Microsoft/x86 dynasty.
He personally wrote the Word Processing app on the TRS-80 Model 1. In 8085 Assembly Language.
What were you doing at the time? Blowing into the connector end of your Nintendo cartridges?
I remember Stacker, and all the other horrible third-party shit you had to do because Microsoft hadn't incorporated it into the OS as a built-in service.
Imagine Linux where the gzip utility wasn't included, and you had to choose from an array of third-part compression tools, one of which was being loudly advocated by your cornball Uncle.
Stacker was definitely part of the 'plaid pants' era of the Personal Computer when anybody could rent some cheap shop-space and become a 'computer expert' to his locality.
Google's Web Services aren't designed to 'service' the user.
Remember that Science Fiction Story: "To Serve Man"?
I would never use the native browser on Android. That's like just giving up to Google entirely on privacy. I almost always use Firefox and I NEVER log into any Google services on Firefox/Android.
Just cuz my phone resides in the company town doesn't mean I have to be totally locked in.
Well, yes, it's like I.E. in that respect. Where I work it's now the mandatory browser.
Is that the mantle of praise now?
There are probably all sorts of researchers trying to bracket the dude in a 'protected class' of one sort or another. I'm sure there's an alphabet character the guy qualifies under.
You know so much it's fucking amazing you don't work for Apple!!
Oh, wait...
Naw. They'd not bother paying you.
'History Teacher'?? Is he also the wrestling coach?
I think of the Chrome at work and click on SeaMonkey.
Why would I use anything else when given the choice?
CO2 needs to be treated as a pollutant.
We'd better kill all the animals then, because animals breath in oxygen and emit CO2. Then, of course, plants turn the CO2 back into oxygen.
Umm, wait a minute...
If you're just 'purchasing data' to churn through your algorithms, you're not practicing science anyway. But that's kind of a trendy thing these days.
So then the easy way to solve the issue is to make the data publicly available.
But your far-left attempt to ram through big policy initiatives based on secret data is an attempt to put ALL of us on a short leash. I hope you get bitten, to be honest.
The idea that the Great Lakes would revert to sludge without the dear EPA to save them is a little ridiculous. More than 'the EPA coming into existence' has happened to change the environment. Don't give Big Government so much credit. It makes you look like a toady to the bureaucrats.
But it's none of Google's business what I use as a password on other sites. Not that I use Chrome except at work where it's required.
Aren't there a bunch of fruity color options.
Oops, no, that was the iMac. I get them confused.
The Objective C build environment was fully supported and an install option in the Developer section of Slackware 95. That was back in, oh, the 1.2.18 kernel days.
Huh? Application developers in the 80's were dependent on and 'trapped' by Microsoft's Office file formats? That's just a weird theory. Which applications do you mean? Don't say 'Wordperfect and Lotis 1-2-3' because those weren't applications whose developers were 'fooled'.
And Wordperfect was mainly just strong because it had free tech support, so that there was a bossy secretary at each business who knew that alt-flipper-f4 was the secret key combination. It was shit as far as a pick-it-up-and-go tool for everybody else.
I think iOS is roadkill. They're already huffing Android fumes instead of innovating. This could be it. I like Android so I hope it's the second place OS in about a year. Apple can make novelty watches and eMedicine gadgets.
Or, maybe when this tool gains traction, developer teams will have to decide: "hmm, should we shitcan the whole codebase and do a rewrite, or just keep going but on Windows?"
It will be interesting to see how it goes.
The serious question is which will be killed. iOS or Android.
I am cheering for the death of all of Apple. Oh, they can make watches. Everybody wants a watch with an animated Mickey Mouse display.
That would be excellent. Break the API for the entire library of Android apps with every new release.
Can we get them to stop selling ads, too?
Does that include Fart apps? I've not seen one of those in the Windows App store yet. Are we going to get the gaseous Apple apps soon?
Oh, you'll wake up when it works. But you might have to change your crappy handle on Slashdot.
Apple is sort of phasing out Macs anyways, aren't they? It sure seems that way.
You can't even slip a micro-SD card into an iPhone, let alone plug in an OTG cable and connect your regular USB storage devices.
Oh, you can connect to 'the cloud' though.