When I am on a desktop machine, SeaMonkey is my browser of choice, because I still believe in the old ideal of a symmetrical web.
Every machine on the web should be client/server, or at least connected to and capable of creating web content based on an open standard. A 'browser' should have an 'edit' button on the left most window, and 'edit' should open the wysiwyg html editor (Seamonkey is still like that! Though you're usually editing a new local copy of the content).
Instead we mostly get herded to leave any content we generate in forms on curated proprietary servers. The web has been dumbed down for most people to be little more than somewhat more interactive television.
The big question is which is going to die: Andriod or iOS. I am hoping Android will stick around. Windows is coming back in mobile and tablets. Count on it.
The last iOS release can be an unlock so people can install cyanogenmod on their iPads. (I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one)
I am starting to think Microsoft bought Mojang to stabilize it and keep it OS neutral. A lot of the other entities that could have bought it would already have started using Minecraft to do nasty things to other platforms.
It would have really sucked for Google to buy Mojang. Save files would have already been mandatorily been sucked to the cloud. Ads on the launcher. And knowing Google an eol would already be announced.
I held on with W2K almost to the end, too. In fact the only hardware I have ever owned with a 'legit' XP license is a netbook I bought on eBay, and that, I had to reinstall anyways, because it had Japanese XP, but the OEM key sticker on it worked to install US XP from generic OEM media.
Win2k on a machine not facing the net directly was viable a long long time till hardware stopped being supported, as long as my browser was (still is on desktops) SeaMonkey.
WinRT is pretty much dead now. The cheap Windows tablets are x86 with Atom processors.
I can play regular Minecraft on my 8.1 Transformer Book but only with the awkward keyboard/mouse interface. If you're gonna use Minecraft words in your platforms, at least have a native port to them, Microsoft!
Redstone is integral to Minecraft if you play it at a 'higher' level, but lots of players never do much with it, beyond a compass and a few other simple things.
Also, with reference to Minecraft, what gives, Microsoft? There still isn't a native Metro version for my tablet and phone.
The 6502 was cheap for a reason. It was the low end alternative. It's no coincidence that the thing eventually was bought out by a video game manufacturer. And that so many warts and 'undocumented' features existed in it.
Fun to hack on. But professionals were specifying 6802s and a little later Z-80s.
The whole 'merit' of the 6502 and Apple at the time was an exclusive 'killer app' (Visicalc) that moved units. Marketing hustle, not technical superiority or even equivalence. That scent of ripe apple, back then and today, much the same.
It's surprising any of it survived the launch of Visicalc on the IBM hardware. And then Lotus 123 just shut the toy 8 bitters right down. They became, well, toys, for kids to learn on because dad had a new better machine in his den.
Well, the 6502 was the shittiest processor of it's generation (which is why the Apple dudes could afford it) so it makes sense to emulate low end with low end.
Your first PC had a CRT controller (likely a 6845 or derivative.) That's a relatively simple LSI chip. People were doing 'cheap video' with software even back in the day (i.e. Lancaster's cookbook)
Unfortunately, it's politics all the way down with all parties in the issue. If you don't think the scientists on the 'environmental' side are just as motivated to 'harvest' the 'scientific results' they seek to uncover, you're kidding yourself.
The integrity of 'Mother Earth' (Gaia!) is at stake, you know. Of course the sky is gonna fall!
Also,though, JFK would be considered conservative today. At least on foreign policy. There used to be a lot of hawkish mainstream Democrats, i.e. Humphrey.
Microsoft already had prime real estate in the form of the Cassette-Basic ROM on the motherboard of the early IBM PCs. If you booted a PC from that era up with no boot floppy (or, no floppy disk controller installed at all) it booted to the Microsoft BASIC prompt. A bare machine booted to the same 'Ready' prompt as an Apple or Commodore or TRS-80 machine of the time. Microsoft was IN the machine even without DOS.
The Amiga design is based on the machine being a cluster of closed-source ASICS (each of which was given a girl's name). It was completely contrary to the idea of open hardware systems. Also, ASIC designs don't scale well in the era of Megahertz Wars. They tried, with the later generation Amigas, but they were too 'special' and closed to scale to the heights that the PC clone market eventually reached.
It was about defeating Netscape, which had a cocky little prick in charge claiming he was going to take over the desktop and have everybody running browsers with proprietary extensions connected to application servers produced by... Netscape.
So we can thank Microsoft for squashing little twerk Andreesen, which gave us Mozilla out of the Netscape codebase. If twerk-boy had succeeded we would all probably be connected through web terminals to operations like Oracle to run our apps now.
It sucks either way, no matter how things worked out. But Microsoft's base is build on open hardware. In the old days every time Microsoft produced a new bloated version of their OS, it meant more free/cheap hardware for Linux. Not a bad thing at all, compared to, for instance. Apple. (do you know what a hassle it is to boot NetBSD on an SE/30? Apple liked shit like that in the era of big-bad Microsoft)
The first IBM PCs came with BASIC in ROM and sported a cassette port on a DIN jack next to the keyboard connector. So they fully embraced the Microsoft BASIC model, while also selling MS-DOS (along with two other operating systems, including CP/M-86, that didn't sell as well) on the PC. A floppy disk drive was really expensive back then. The 160k floppy diskettes themselves cost multiple dollars each.
The acronym for BASIC came from the era when it was mainly a pedagogical tool. Similarly, there was an operating system that originated as a pedagogical tool, called MINIX. People took BASIC and MINIX ran with them to make something more than both ideas started out as. So today there are powerful BASIC compilers with extensive libraries that you can use to easily build tight little binaries to burn into Flash on chips like PIC microcontrollers. And there is Linux, which Torvalds created because MINIX wasn't doing enough of what he wanted it to do.
The beauty of BASIC is that you can throw together spaghetti code and get a controller chip pushing bits up and down the wires fast, while saying 'fuck you' to the people with pee running down their leg because you used goto statements. They'd still be writing up their data structures whereas your circuit is already moving bits around and making things happen in the real world. (assembly is good too, but you need a good library then. With BASIC on a PIC controller, you can drop in a line or two of code to turn any spare I/O pin on the chip into a serial I/O port for quick debugging)
In 1990 the X Window System was an intellectual curiosity. Then over time it became an expensive widget for the Military-industrial complex to sell for big bucks to the government and scientists. Because it was 'open' the free software nose poked it's way in the tent and it became the GUI for Linux and the other freenixes.
It's still today essentially a niche technology and the freenixes are trying to push it outta the way so they can innovate.
To be fair, Commodore, etc. brought the computer to the masses in the form of plastic cased consumer products that parents could buy their children in department stores. That was a breakthrough that behemoths like IBM couldn't accomplish. The IBM PC came from the 'entry systems' division of IBM. They thought they were coming out with a low cost 'smart terminal' that could connect to their mainframes. Or at least a part of IBM's management thought that was what they were up to. I'm certain renegade elements within the corporation knew better.
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When I am on a desktop machine, SeaMonkey is my browser of choice, because I still believe in the old ideal of a symmetrical web.
Every machine on the web should be client/server, or at least connected to and capable of creating web content based on an open standard. A 'browser' should have an 'edit' button on the left most window, and 'edit' should open the wysiwyg html editor (Seamonkey is still like that! Though you're usually editing a new local copy of the content).
Instead we mostly get herded to leave any content we generate in forms on curated proprietary servers. The web has been dumbed down for most people to be little more than somewhat more interactive television.
The big question is which is going to die: Andriod or iOS. I am hoping Android will stick around. Windows is coming back in mobile and tablets. Count on it.
The last iOS release can be an unlock so people can install cyanogenmod on their iPads. (I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one)
I am starting to think Microsoft bought Mojang to stabilize it and keep it OS neutral. A lot of the other entities that could have bought it would already have started using Minecraft to do nasty things to other platforms.
It would have really sucked for Google to buy Mojang. Save files would have already been mandatorily been sucked to the cloud. Ads on the launcher. And knowing Google an eol would already be announced.
I held on with W2K almost to the end, too. In fact the only hardware I have ever owned with a 'legit' XP license is a netbook I bought on eBay, and that, I had to reinstall anyways, because it had Japanese XP, but the OEM key sticker on it worked to install US XP from generic OEM media.
Win2k on a machine not facing the net directly was viable a long long time till hardware stopped being supported, as long as my browser was (still is on desktops) SeaMonkey.
I liked the old BillGates borg icon.
And I am typing this on a tablet running Windows 8.1 so I am not a MS hater. Just somebody who likes irreverent humor more than crisp corporate logos.
Jobs already looks too creepy to borgify for an Apple logo, though the Apple crowd has ALWAYS seemed more assimilated to me.
Standards aren't dictated by one company's product roadmap. You should probably research what a Standard is.
WinRT is pretty much dead now. The cheap Windows tablets are x86 with Atom processors.
I can play regular Minecraft on my 8.1 Transformer Book but only with the awkward keyboard/mouse interface. If you're gonna use Minecraft words in your platforms, at least have a native port to them, Microsoft!
Redstone is integral to Minecraft if you play it at a 'higher' level, but lots of players never do much with it, beyond a compass and a few other simple things.
Also, with reference to Minecraft, what gives, Microsoft? There still isn't a native Metro version for my tablet and phone.
Email isn't the web, though. As somebody who connects to pop.gmail.com regularly, that point is very clear to me.
Is it C/C++ 'support' or is it standards compliance. That difference matters.
The 6502 was cheap for a reason. It was the low end alternative. It's no coincidence that the thing eventually was bought out by a video game manufacturer. And that so many warts and 'undocumented' features existed in it.
Fun to hack on. But professionals were specifying 6802s and a little later Z-80s.
The whole 'merit' of the 6502 and Apple at the time was an exclusive 'killer app' (Visicalc) that moved units. Marketing hustle, not technical superiority or even equivalence. That scent of ripe apple, back then and today, much the same.
It's surprising any of it survived the launch of Visicalc on the IBM hardware. And then Lotus 123 just shut the toy 8 bitters right down. They became, well, toys, for kids to learn on because dad had a new better machine in his den.
Well, the 6502 was the shittiest processor of it's generation (which is why the Apple dudes could afford it) so it makes sense to emulate low end with low end.
Your first PC had a CRT controller (likely a 6845 or derivative.) That's a relatively simple LSI chip. People were doing 'cheap video' with software even back in the day (i.e. Lancaster's cookbook)
The acts of a benevolent god should never be looked on without a grateful attitude.
Maybe we should give California back to Mexico ahead of time, though. Cleanup costs could be high.
Unfortunately, it's politics all the way down with all parties in the issue. If you don't think the scientists on the 'environmental' side are just as motivated to 'harvest' the 'scientific results' they seek to uncover, you're kidding yourself.
The integrity of 'Mother Earth' (Gaia!) is at stake, you know. Of course the sky is gonna fall!
Unfortunately, I don't think there's a percentage in arguing with someone who
Percentage?
There you go again, misapplying references to quantitative values in rhetorical arguments. It sounds good to cloak your argument in technical jargon.
To some folks it does, anyway.
Apple is a Buick class company that tries to brand themselves as a BMW class company.
Also,though, JFK would be considered conservative today. At least on foreign policy. There used to be a lot of hawkish mainstream Democrats, i.e. Humphrey.
The chasm between an adjective product and an adjective product is the brand management hype.
Make sure you think different, always carry an Altivec unit, and wear a one button scsi drive on your wrist.
Industrial Design!!!
Microsoft already had prime real estate in the form of the Cassette-Basic ROM on the motherboard of the early IBM PCs. If you booted a PC from that era up with no boot floppy (or, no floppy disk controller installed at all) it booted to the Microsoft BASIC prompt. A bare machine booted to the same 'Ready' prompt as an Apple or Commodore or TRS-80 machine of the time. Microsoft was IN the machine even without DOS.
More than just special sound chips.
The Amiga design is based on the machine being a cluster of closed-source ASICS (each of which was given a girl's name). It was completely contrary to the idea of open hardware systems. Also, ASIC designs don't scale well in the era of Megahertz Wars. They tried, with the later generation Amigas, but they were too 'special' and closed to scale to the heights that the PC clone market eventually reached.
It was about defeating Netscape, which had a cocky little prick in charge claiming he was going to take over the desktop and have everybody running browsers with proprietary extensions connected to application servers produced by... Netscape.
So we can thank Microsoft for squashing little twerk Andreesen, which gave us Mozilla out of the Netscape codebase. If twerk-boy had succeeded we would all probably be connected through web terminals to operations like Oracle to run our apps now.
It sucks either way, no matter how things worked out. But Microsoft's base is build on open hardware. In the old days every time Microsoft produced a new bloated version of their OS, it meant more free/cheap hardware for Linux. Not a bad thing at all, compared to, for instance. Apple. (do you know what a hassle it is to boot NetBSD on an SE/30? Apple liked shit like that in the era of big-bad Microsoft)
The first IBM PCs came with BASIC in ROM and sported a cassette port on a DIN jack next to the keyboard connector. So they fully embraced the Microsoft BASIC model, while also selling MS-DOS (along with two other operating systems, including CP/M-86, that didn't sell as well) on the PC. A floppy disk drive was really expensive back then. The 160k floppy diskettes themselves cost multiple dollars each.
The acronym for BASIC came from the era when it was mainly a pedagogical tool. Similarly, there was an operating system that originated as a pedagogical tool, called MINIX. People took BASIC and MINIX ran with them to make something more than both ideas started out as. So today there are powerful BASIC compilers with extensive libraries that you can use to easily build tight little binaries to burn into Flash on chips like PIC microcontrollers. And there is Linux, which Torvalds created because MINIX wasn't doing enough of what he wanted it to do.
The beauty of BASIC is that you can throw together spaghetti code and get a controller chip pushing bits up and down the wires fast, while saying 'fuck you' to the people with pee running down their leg because you used goto statements. They'd still be writing up their data structures whereas your circuit is already moving bits around and making things happen in the real world. (assembly is good too, but you need a good library then. With BASIC on a PIC controller, you can drop in a line or two of code to turn any spare I/O pin on the chip into a serial I/O port for quick debugging)
In 1990 the X Window System was an intellectual curiosity. Then over time it became an expensive widget for the Military-industrial complex to sell for big bucks to the government and scientists. Because it was 'open' the free software nose poked it's way in the tent and it became the GUI for Linux and the other freenixes.
It's still today essentially a niche technology and the freenixes are trying to push it outta the way so they can innovate.
To be fair, Commodore, etc. brought the computer to the masses in the form of plastic cased consumer products that parents could buy their children in department stores. That was a breakthrough that behemoths like IBM couldn't accomplish. The IBM PC came from the 'entry systems' division of IBM. They thought they were coming out with a low cost 'smart terminal' that could connect to their mainframes. Or at least a part of IBM's management thought that was what they were up to. I'm certain renegade elements within the corporation knew better.