So you never logged onto it with a Google Account? (actually a practical approach. You can run Android and even add apps without ever 'logging onto Google'.)
Both the Communists and the NAZIs thought, or at least pretended, that what they promoted was scientifically correct and the 'next evolution' of humankind. People with big ideas and the will to enforce them on other people tend to be that way.
How could they be the 'baddies' when a top Google executive made personal visits to the White House averaging more than once a week while Obama was president? Weren't they just spreading their pure-good ethos to the government?
People like GP commenter cop an attitude like they were even around during the introduction of the PC. At the time, you could buy both PC-DOS and CP/M-86 from IBM to run on their PC. CP/M was about twice as expensive, and wouldn't really run the old programs from 8-bit CP/M anyway.
There was some synergy in buying PC-DOS for the OS. Microsoft produced the built-in BASIC interpreter that booted up from the ROMs in the IBM-PC if you bought one without floppy drives or disk controller (a 180k SSDD floppy drive was north of $500) and ran your PC with cassette BASIC. (the cassette interface cable was standard equipment until the introduction of the PC/XT.) PC-DOS came with the extended Disk BASIC at no cost versus CP/M-86 which was twice the price and didn't have BASIC included. Microsoft BASIC was an additional package you has to purchase for CP/M.
BASIC was important in that era, and Microsoft was mostly a 'language' company in that era, producing thd BASIC interpreter for most computer brands.. A lot of early PC users wrote their own software in BASIC or typed it in from listings in magazines targeted to all the different personal computers like the Atari, Commodore and Apples, etc.
The above details are just some of the wrinkles in the history that are often overlooked. It's far more complex than 'Microsoft stole CP/M' and the history is even interesting (if you're a nerd and not some IT dude reading a 'tech' site who took CS in college to 'make money.')
'Clinton' is a dead political dynasty. 'Obama' is an ex-president (like dubya and jimmycarter). Why throw them up there like anything that will ever matter again?
What is it about rectums that causes you to use slang referring to them as a pejorative?
No, this isn't a pedantic query. There seem to a lot of rectal pejoratives being crapflooded on Slashdot threads lately. Where are all these pottymouths showing up from?
The money from selling PayPal is his seed. Every other project is based on that $$. There was no implication meant that continued funding comes from PayPal (which is now not the eggregious operation it was.)
The washing machine manufacturers heard the word 'environmental' and ran with it.
Plus, the infection of MBAs in many industries means that whole new disciplines like 'continuatiuon' or 'cost-cutting' engineers were hired on the staff.
The goal of a continuation engineer is to reduce the cost/quality of the material in a mechanism until it is as cheap as possible but will still last the warranty period. Products that last more than several years past the warranty period are viewed as design failures by these people.
It's been basically forever (just years, though) since I had to poke into the Linux source code. These days you don't have to compile a custom kernel to get your sound blaster and Ethernet card to work simultaneously. Plus your Trident 8900CL card with SVGA support. Things like that are just assumed these days (though the Trident card probably is deprecated and unsupported now)
Unicode support would exponentially increase the amount of trolling and crapflooding on Slashdot. It's unnecessary, and it was a design decision to not support Unicode.
I, and many other people have been guilty at times of finding stuff to keep their computer busy doing. It just seems so living and active and relevant when it's doing something.
At times in the past it involved defragging the hard drive and watching the graphical representation of the 'stuff' being moved around.
Or a screensaver. I remember when I first got AfterDark for my Windows (3) PC. Watching the animations became a pursuit all it's own for awhile. Those flying toasters are random, man.
Going even further back, I remember the first timesharing system I had access to, and writing programs in BASIC to calculate stuff like prime numbers, or what was my favorite for a while, a program that counted the number of digits long that the repeating pattern was for reciporicals.
SETI at home is another example.
Recently, bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies have become a popular form of this kind of computer wanking for nerds. It's not really anything new.
It's more relevant (slightly) today to study what the email leaks reveal about the DNC. That is the proper equivalent to the 'truth' about what C.A. did in the election. Little Debbie and her snack cakes are rather odious, to be honest.
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Get a grip, AC.
So you never logged onto it with a Google Account? (actually a practical approach. You can run Android and even add apps without ever 'logging onto Google'.)
Both the Communists and the NAZIs thought, or at least pretended, that what they promoted was scientifically correct and the 'next evolution' of humankind. People with big ideas and the will to enforce them on other people tend to be that way.
How could they be the 'baddies' when a top Google executive made personal visits to the White House averaging more than once a week while Obama was president? Weren't they just spreading their pure-good ethos to the government?
People like GP commenter cop an attitude like they were even around during the introduction of the PC. At the time, you could buy both PC-DOS and CP/M-86 from IBM to run on their PC. CP/M was about twice as expensive, and wouldn't really run the old programs from 8-bit CP/M anyway.
There was some synergy in buying PC-DOS for the OS. Microsoft produced the built-in BASIC interpreter that booted up from the ROMs in the IBM-PC if you bought one without floppy drives or disk controller (a 180k SSDD floppy drive was north of $500) and ran your PC with cassette BASIC. (the cassette interface cable was standard equipment until the introduction of the PC/XT.) PC-DOS came with the extended Disk BASIC at no cost versus CP/M-86 which was twice the price and didn't have BASIC included. Microsoft BASIC was an additional package you has to purchase for CP/M.
BASIC was important in that era, and Microsoft was mostly a 'language' company in that era, producing thd BASIC interpreter for most computer brands.. A lot of early PC users wrote their own software in BASIC or typed it in from listings in magazines targeted to all the different personal computers like the Atari, Commodore and Apples, etc.
The above details are just some of the wrinkles in the history that are often overlooked. It's far more complex than 'Microsoft stole CP/M' and the history is even interesting (if you're a nerd and not some IT dude reading a 'tech' site who took CS in college to 'make money.')
Hillary would have had Harvey Weinstein standing next to her on the platform at the signing ceremony.
And huge volumes of licensed merchandise, i.e. shirts, balloons, watches, neckties, etc.
Does Pluto get to go on Rachel Maddoc's show, and all the Day Shows7, after collecting the 130k?
You're kidding, right? Go out, then, and find some HVAC guys to maintain your hotel at minimum wage. We'll watch.
'Clinton' is a dead political dynasty. 'Obama' is an ex-president (like dubya and jimmycarter). Why throw them up there like anything that will ever matter again?
Get a room, you two.
What is it about rectums that causes you to use slang referring to them as a pejorative?
No, this isn't a pedantic query. There seem to a lot of rectal pejoratives being crapflooded on Slashdot threads lately. Where are all these pottymouths showing up from?
The money from selling PayPal is his seed. Every other project is based on that $$. There was no implication meant that continued funding comes from PayPal (which is now not the eggregious operation it was.)
The washing machine manufacturers heard the word 'environmental' and ran with it.
Plus, the infection of MBAs in many industries means that whole new disciplines like 'continuatiuon' or 'cost-cutting' engineers were hired on the staff.
The goal of a continuation engineer is to reduce the cost/quality of the material in a mechanism until it is as cheap as possible but will still last the warranty period. Products that last more than several years past the warranty period are viewed as design failures by these people.
Thats easy. Example problem:
"Why?"
It'll take longer than you live to answer. Just defining the scope of the problem will take longer than a lifetime.
People used to rant about emacs because it would suck up 2 MB of memory.
It's been basically forever (just years, though) since I had to poke into the Linux source code. These days you don't have to compile a custom kernel to get your sound blaster and Ethernet card to work simultaneously. Plus your Trident 8900CL card with SVGA support. Things like that are just assumed these days (though the Trident card probably is deprecated and unsupported now)
Unicode support would exponentially increase the amount of trolling and crapflooding on Slashdot. It's unnecessary, and it was a design decision to not support Unicode.
Musk is the king of PayPal. That's his big success that is bankrolling all his other projects.
Get a SparcStation IPX. Install a second ethernet card in one of the Sbus slots.
Install OpenBSD/Sparc on it. Set it up as a router.
And with Google having their hooks inro so many webpages now, they feel nobody but them should be able to monitor.
I, and many other people have been guilty at times of finding stuff to keep their computer busy doing. It just seems so living and active and relevant when it's doing something.
At times in the past it involved defragging the hard drive and watching the graphical representation of the 'stuff' being moved around.
Or a screensaver. I remember when I first got AfterDark for my Windows (3) PC. Watching the animations became a pursuit all it's own for awhile. Those flying toasters are random, man.
Going even further back, I remember the first timesharing system I had access to, and writing programs in BASIC to calculate stuff like prime numbers, or what was my favorite for a while, a program that counted the number of digits long that the repeating pattern was for reciporicals.
SETI at home is another example.
Recently, bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies have become a popular form of this kind of computer wanking for nerds. It's not really anything new.
It's like anything involving the Internet. It's magic and new, and very liberating, until it's not, for some reason that wasn't considered.
Sexual Harassment in the workplace does not reduce to 'a blow job' you sexist pos.
It's more relevant (slightly) today to study what the email leaks reveal about the DNC. That is the proper equivalent to the 'truth' about what C.A. did in the election. Little Debbie and her snack cakes are rather odious, to be honest.