Plenty of content can and should be preserved and shared. There is a difference between content being preserved and it being recycled and re-broadcast. Nobody is coming for your original disks and CD-ROM collections. In fact, you have legal protections that allow you to keep said copies in perpetuity.
I wouldn't call a country where people are allowed to re-release large collections of old Shareware from the 80's and 90's a 'hotbed of innovation' though. It's cool stuff and I have countless old CD-ROMs filled with ancient shareware going all the way back, but it's an archivists job keeping it, not something that will explode into popularity.
It's sad how litigious the USA is, but it's also sad how China's legal climate 'flattens' things to where anything (that the government doesn't feel threatened by) can be published for free, so nothing will be pursued if it costs the individual creator much to create it.
The FSF is fairly good at differentiating between big open public projects and specific content created by artists.
They're not engineers, obviously. So they're technicians. Software Engineers are not 'IT.' IT is the data janitors. The modern equivalent of file clerks and the custodians who dust the file cabinets in a traditional office.
It infuriates some of us who have careers in Engineering when a recruiter or HR moron refers to us as 'IT.'
But wouldn't a robust compression scheme tokenize a lot of the spam posts, so the whole GNAA post, the 'BSD is dying' troll and everything else like it only appeared once in the archive?
You info about Netbooks is pretty obsolete. I bought an Acer Aspire One at Radio Shack(!!) last year. I think it qualifies as a NetBook because it's the same form factor and was only $300. It sports a 64 bit Dual-Core AMD Processor (slow at 1GHz, but fairly capable) and came with a 4GB SIMM installed. I found an unsupported post on a forum for upgrading it to 8GB so now it even runs XP with Virtual Box. It has native Windows 7. It also has NetBSD in the VM.
The old NetBooks had the 1GB RAM limit that Microsoft imposed, but that went away at some point.
You can always go here and generate an offline-update image. I'm keeping a set of ISOs current regularly, and will be making sure to make the last possible XP update ISO before Microsoft pulls the plug. If you can chase down an ISO of a 'corporate' copy of XP it doesn't need to be 'validated' at all. My machines all have OEM copies, but I still update them offline. It just makes sense to archive away an update set for that day when Microsoft pulls the plug on everything, or even goes out of business.
I also have CP/M-86 installation media, of course. I haven't used the PC-DOS 1.0 disk in over a decade but it probably still boots (original media, box and manual, thankyou) The Windows 1.03 I haven't installed in years either, not since I put it on that Compaq Portable last decade.
I remember seeing a Tektronix Oscilloscope that ran an embedded version of Windows 98. It would power up to a modified Win98 desktop. Perfectly acceptable in a system where it is entirely captive and no additional software will or should be added.
A Studebaker or DeSoto that is running well enough to warrant an 'update or upgrade' is worth enough money on the Collector's Market to net the owner enough money to buy a decent KIA or maybe even a Toyota.
The 8088 in the IBM PC-XT was 16 bit, but it was limited to an 8-bit external IO path. That made it easier for it to use the existing 8 bit expansion chips (8255, 8253, 8251, etc.)
It's the same as the 80386sx, which was a full 32 bit processor interally but had limited 16-bit external IO to reduce cost.
If IBM had used an 8086 processor, they would have either had to use an expensive 16-bit EPROM or twice as many 8-bit EPROMs for the BIOS, as one example of why the choice was made. Back at product introduction (the plain PC, not the PC-XT) the PC sold with as little as 16K of DRAM on the motherboard, with sockets to upgrade to the full 64K.
Not everybody started slathering and lined up in front of the Apple Store to buy their iDingy on release day. Two years old can mean they bought it two years ago near the end of it's 'availability period.'
It's not surprising that Apple fans offer up 'buy a new one' as the solution to any issue. Flashing plastic at the Apple Store is like the migratory flight of birds, eh?
You apparently bought an off-brand. My "Galaxy Tab 2 7.0" (admittedly it's weird way they branded that thing) is several years old now, and Samsung pushed out a new and free Android update to it last week.
No, it's not true. I can boot up my computer that runs Windows XP, or my other computer that runs NetBSD 4.0, and it doesn't automatically and forcibly upgrade the OS to a version that doesn't run well on the old hardware.
It's called a forced upgrade to drive hardware sales, you shill.
Yes, I know I'm posting this one on apple.slashdot.org so it's you apple freaks' turf and I'm being rude.
Single payer would have, in a single swoop, blown all the cards off the table. You're right that the 'compromise' that the Democrats singlehandedly rammed through is messier and more protracted.
If we'd just let you fucks do what you wanted we could all be standing in lines at the doctor's office now, instead of this turmoil and uncertainty.
You need to engage in further study of Chairman Mao's "On The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People", comrade. Your approach in argument is brash and will alienate members of the masses who might become class-aware and join the people's struggle if proper tactics are taken. Please prepare your Self Cricitism for our next meeting.
So, if grandpa has $20,000, or a little cabin up at the lake that he'd like his grandchildren to enjoy, it gets taken away by the state. Whereas Algore has $20,000,000 so his descendants can spend $200,000 of that on lawyers to keep the rest.
What a nice fucking deal. I didn't realize you were a grand defender of rich fucks, jedidiah.
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I was posting 'I don't even have a TV' back when posting 'I don't even have a TV' was still cool. So there.
You can even get them at K-Mart in colors other than blue and white.
Plenty of content can and should be preserved and shared. There is a difference between content being preserved and it being recycled and re-broadcast. Nobody is coming for your original disks and CD-ROM collections. In fact, you have legal protections that allow you to keep said copies in perpetuity.
I wouldn't call a country where people are allowed to re-release large collections of old Shareware from the 80's and 90's a 'hotbed of innovation' though. It's cool stuff and I have countless old CD-ROMs filled with ancient shareware going all the way back, but it's an archivists job keeping it, not something that will explode into popularity.
It's sad how litigious the USA is, but it's also sad how China's legal climate 'flattens' things to where anything (that the government doesn't feel threatened by) can be published for free, so nothing will be pursued if it costs the individual creator much to create it.
The FSF is fairly good at differentiating between big open public projects and specific content created by artists.
They're not engineers, obviously. So they're technicians. Software Engineers are not 'IT.' IT is the data janitors. The modern equivalent of file clerks and the custodians who dust the file cabinets in a traditional office.
It infuriates some of us who have careers in Engineering when a recruiter or HR moron refers to us as 'IT.'
And here I thought it was the conversion from Metric to Imperial amperes.
It was a substandard website and we did you a favor by pulling it offline.
When you take the time to post 'Too bad there's no xxxx for Linux' you could be coding one.
But wouldn't a robust compression scheme tokenize a lot of the spam posts, so the whole GNAA post, the 'BSD is dying' troll and everything else like it only appeared once in the archive?
Nancy doesn't pass anything without lubricants-n-laxatives. It explains her attitude.
You info about Netbooks is pretty obsolete. I bought an Acer Aspire One at Radio Shack(!!) last year. I think it qualifies as a NetBook because it's the same form factor and was only $300. It sports a 64 bit Dual-Core AMD Processor (slow at 1GHz, but fairly capable) and came with a 4GB SIMM installed. I found an unsupported post on a forum for upgrading it to 8GB so now it even runs XP with Virtual Box. It has native Windows 7. It also has NetBSD in the VM.
The old NetBooks had the 1GB RAM limit that Microsoft imposed, but that went away at some point.
I created the anchor tag but then omitted to past the link into it. The Offline Update tool I use is located here .
You can always go here and generate an offline-update image. I'm keeping a set of ISOs current regularly, and will be making sure to make the last possible XP update ISO before Microsoft pulls the plug. If you can chase down an ISO of a 'corporate' copy of XP it doesn't need to be 'validated' at all. My machines all have OEM copies, but I still update them offline. It just makes sense to archive away an update set for that day when Microsoft pulls the plug on everything, or even goes out of business.
I also have CP/M-86 installation media, of course. I haven't used the PC-DOS 1.0 disk in over a decade but it probably still boots (original media, box and manual, thankyou) The Windows 1.03 I haven't installed in years either, not since I put it on that Compaq Portable last decade.
I remember seeing a Tektronix Oscilloscope that ran an embedded version of Windows 98. It would power up to a modified Win98 desktop. Perfectly acceptable in a system where it is entirely captive and no additional software will or should be added.
A Studebaker or DeSoto that is running well enough to warrant an 'update or upgrade' is worth enough money on the Collector's Market to net the owner enough money to buy a decent KIA or maybe even a Toyota.
The 8088 in the IBM PC-XT was 16 bit, but it was limited to an 8-bit external IO path. That made it easier for it to use the existing 8 bit expansion chips (8255, 8253, 8251, etc.)
It's the same as the 80386sx, which was a full 32 bit processor interally but had limited 16-bit external IO to reduce cost.
If IBM had used an 8086 processor, they would have either had to use an expensive 16-bit EPROM or twice as many 8-bit EPROMs for the BIOS, as one example of why the choice was made. Back at product introduction (the plain PC, not the PC-XT) the PC sold with as little as 16K of DRAM on the motherboard, with sockets to upgrade to the full 64K.
All food doesn't need to taste 'good.' All walls don't need to be frescoes painted by commissioned artists. Rinse. Repeat.
How did the FBI confiscate someone else's funds, then?
Apple's normal development cycle.
Whereas, I can still run many of my Win32 apps from the Windows 9x era on Windows 7.
No story here. Apple sells the whole solution. If Microsoft sold hardware boxes they would probably force the API forward more aggressively, too.
Not everybody started slathering and lined up in front of the Apple Store to buy their iDingy on release day. Two years old can mean they bought it two years ago near the end of it's 'availability period.'
It's not surprising that Apple fans offer up 'buy a new one' as the solution to any issue. Flashing plastic at the Apple Store is like the migratory flight of birds, eh?
You apparently bought an off-brand. My "Galaxy Tab 2 7.0" (admittedly it's weird way they branded that thing) is several years old now, and Samsung pushed out a new and free Android update to it last week.
Next time buy Samsung.
No, it's not true. I can boot up my computer that runs Windows XP, or my other computer that runs NetBSD 4.0, and it doesn't automatically and forcibly upgrade the OS to a version that doesn't run well on the old hardware.
It's called a forced upgrade to drive hardware sales, you shill.
Yes, I know I'm posting this one on apple.slashdot.org so it's you apple freaks' turf and I'm being rude.
Single payer would have, in a single swoop, blown all the cards off the table. You're right that the 'compromise' that the Democrats singlehandedly rammed through is messier and more protracted.
If we'd just let you fucks do what you wanted we could all be standing in lines at the doctor's office now, instead of this turmoil and uncertainty.
You need to engage in further study of Chairman Mao's "On The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People", comrade. Your approach in argument is brash and will alienate members of the masses who might become class-aware and join the people's struggle if proper tactics are taken. Please prepare your Self Cricitism for our next meeting.
So, if grandpa has $20,000, or a little cabin up at the lake that he'd like his grandchildren to enjoy, it gets taken away by the state. Whereas Algore has $20,000,000 so his descendants can spend $200,000 of that on lawyers to keep the rest.
What a nice fucking deal. I didn't realize you were a grand defender of rich fucks, jedidiah.