I read Slashdot with mobile Firefox. You have to use Safari (or a skin wrapped around it to pretend not)? Maybe the apple.slashdot.org subdomain should be "tuned" for mobile safari and the rest of Slashdot preserved for "the rest of us." Can't read Slashdot on your gadget? Talk to the guards at the gate of your app store.
I love using Firefox on Android. Its a way of browsing the web without being "logged in" to the googleplex
Most people who use Windows haven't experienced a blue screen in years. Many years. I first started using Windows with Windows 2.1. I haven't experienced more than one or two 'blue screen' type crashes since Windows 2000 came out. Have you used any Windows OS at all in the last decade?
Naw. It ended when they split off what became Agilent. That's when HP became a shit company. And the way the Corvallis Division was basically allowed to just wither and die was a big disappointment, too.
A lot of software 'deliverable as a download' is only available as long as the proprietary vendor deems to make it available.
I'm sorry, but I like having a durable backup installer of anything I am going to rely on. And that means on permanent media that I can put away in a drawer.
Autodesk has never made the Macintosh one of their main platforms. Perhaps they are having some fun putting out little applets for iOS, but the CAD scene has never been strong on the Mac platform.
Historically Autocad was a DOS and then Windows platform. Real CAD historically was a UNIX workstation thing.
It already irks me that the local public library has such short hours. Like, they close at 5 on Fridays. There should be a law that if there is a sporting event going on anywhere on public land in the county, the library has to be open.
But the librarians like their 9-5 hours, I suppose. It's convenient that those are the hours that 80% of their patrons are at work and can't interfere with their important librarian tasks by visiting the library.
If there were a half dozen cars around the clock, you could just put in a snack vending machine. Heck, you're not reselling your connection, you're just selling chips and pretzels!
STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR hardware is all encompassed in a UART chip. You can't find the chip for sale at your Apple Store, but they probably still sell a 16550 chip at Frys. On modern processors that use said console as interface, the UART can be embedded right in the processor.
Granted, they throw a whole wad of code in the middle these days with the USB interface, because bare hardware is scary to people like you for some reason, but the serial console is still out there for the rest of us.
I've never seen a sequence of machine code that didn't involve an incrementing address counter. The human analog is 'lines' as people observe when watching on a debugger console.
There comes a point of leveling off, though, where we become satisfied. That has happened in the Desktop computer market. People haven't really stopped using computers, it's just that there's barely any reason for the average computer user to upgrade regularly anymore.
We won't continually be needing ever more and more gadgets, much as the average tech twink headed to the shiney-things store at the mall might wish.
No matter how much you pretend otherwise, there is only so much gold in Fort Knox.
I remember years ago learning that there is about a ton of gold in every cubic mile of sea water. That's gold that isn't economically feasible to extract. But that just demonstrates that there's a hell of a lot of gold that isn't in Fort Knox.
I wanted Adobe Flash Player on my Galaxy Tab. But the Play Store didn't have it. I went to Adobe's website, downloaded the.APK file, went into the Settings on the Galaxy Tab and temporarily enabled 'install from third parties' and installed the APK.
You're fucked if they don't have it at the Apple store and you're stuck with some iDevice.
CS at the level of Knuth is Computer Science. If everybody started with Volume 1 and were slowly introduced to coding via MIX, then it would be Computer Science.
Ain''t gonna happen. Microsoft wants more Keyboarding classes, and sharp young minds who can run through a list of bullet points and agree amiably.
I've owned the Altos 580, which was an 8080 based box running CP/M or MP/M. But my Altos box now is an Altos 586, which is an 8086 based box. Like the other multiuser Altos boxes it has serial ports to attach multiple dumb terminals. One is the Console Port and there are four User ports. I have images of the OS Install diskettes, but not original diskettes. Sometime I need to make diskettes out of those images and bring that box up proper. Right now it has multiuser Xenix but some sort of business package and no Unix toolchain, compiler, etc.
You mean the the UNIX Microsoft licensed from AT&T Corporation.
Yes, the UNIX that Microsoft ported to the 8086 processor. My Altos box supports 5 users on serial consoles on an 8086 processor with 512M of RAM. Not anything anywhere near as impressive than UNIX on a PDP-11 but not to bad, either.
Visicalc made the Apple II, actually. It was the first and only platform Visicalc would run on for quite some time. Businessmen would go into the computer store and ask to "buy a Viscalc." The fact that they had to buy an Apple II at the same time was incidental in their minds.
My father bought Visicalc for his first generation IBM PC, which ran PC-DOS 1.0. By that point (1982) that was what people wanted.
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Go to the Play Store and get Firefox. You won't look back.
I read Slashdot with mobile Firefox. You have to use Safari (or a skin wrapped around it to pretend not)? Maybe the apple.slashdot.org subdomain should be "tuned" for mobile safari and the rest of Slashdot preserved for "the rest of us." Can't read Slashdot on your gadget? Talk to the guards at the gate of your app store.
I love using Firefox on Android. Its a way of browsing the web without being "logged in" to the googleplex
Most people who use Windows haven't experienced a blue screen in years. Many years. I first started using Windows with Windows 2.1. I haven't experienced more than one or two 'blue screen' type crashes since Windows 2000 came out. Have you used any Windows OS at all in the last decade?
It started with Carly who gutted their R&D.
Naw. It ended when they split off what became Agilent. That's when HP became a shit company. And the way the Corvallis Division was basically allowed to just wither and die was a big disappointment, too.
A lot of software 'deliverable as a download' is only available as long as the proprietary vendor deems to make it available.
I'm sorry, but I like having a durable backup installer of anything I am going to rely on. And that means on permanent media that I can put away in a drawer.
Autodesk has never made the Macintosh one of their main platforms. Perhaps they are having some fun putting out little applets for iOS, but the CAD scene has never been strong on the Mac platform.
Historically Autocad was a DOS and then Windows platform. Real CAD historically was a UNIX workstation thing.
It already irks me that the local public library has such short hours. Like, they close at 5 on Fridays. There should be a law that if there is a sporting event going on anywhere on public land in the county, the library has to be open.
But the librarians like their 9-5 hours, I suppose. It's convenient that those are the hours that 80% of their patrons are at work and can't interfere with their important librarian tasks by visiting the library.
If there were a half dozen cars around the clock, you could just put in a snack vending machine. Heck, you're not reselling your connection, you're just selling chips and pretzels!
I could see the Jobsians implementing this in their iPhone. "Hold the phone right, or the metal antenna band will administer a corrective jolt."
Fight You Are Own Muscles?
Wow. You're as bad as the OP.
You've pointed out nothing that doesn't reinforce the example.
STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR hardware is all encompassed in a UART chip. You can't find the chip for sale at your Apple Store, but they probably still sell a 16550 chip at Frys. On modern processors that use said console as interface, the UART can be embedded right in the processor.
Granted, they throw a whole wad of code in the middle these days with the USB interface, because bare hardware is scary to people like you for some reason, but the serial console is still out there for the rest of us.
I've never seen a sequence of machine code that didn't involve an incrementing address counter. The human analog is 'lines' as people observe when watching on a debugger console.
The command line stopwatch app could be coded as a CP/M app.
Or, in Assembly Language.
The only way the GUI stopwatch to then compete would be to also be written in Assembly Language. Have at it, champ!
Why would you downgrade a computer that presumably has a functioning OS on it by plugging this stick into it and rebooting?
There comes a point of leveling off, though, where we become satisfied. That has happened in the Desktop computer market. People haven't really stopped using computers, it's just that there's barely any reason for the average computer user to upgrade regularly anymore.
We won't continually be needing ever more and more gadgets, much as the average tech twink headed to the shiney-things store at the mall might wish.
I was wrong. Apparently there's about 25 tons of gold in every cubic mile of sea water.
No matter how much you pretend otherwise, there is only so much gold in Fort Knox.
I remember years ago learning that there is about a ton of gold in every cubic mile of sea water. That's gold that isn't economically feasible to extract. But that just demonstrates that there's a hell of a lot of gold that isn't in Fort Knox.
Create me an unwalled garden that accomplishes the same thing and I'll embrace it.
It isn't 2009 anymore, dude.
https://play.google.com/store
I wanted Adobe Flash Player on my Galaxy Tab. But the Play Store didn't have it. I went to Adobe's website, downloaded the .APK file, went into the Settings on the Galaxy Tab and temporarily enabled 'install from third parties' and installed the APK.
You're fucked if they don't have it at the Apple store and you're stuck with some iDevice.
CS at the level of Knuth is Computer Science. If everybody started with Volume 1 and were slowly introduced to coding via MIX, then it would be Computer Science.
Ain''t gonna happen. Microsoft wants more Keyboarding classes, and sharp young minds who can run through a list of bullet points and agree amiably.
Tears formed in your eyes and you had to stop?
I've owned the Altos 580, which was an 8080 based box running CP/M or MP/M. But my Altos box now is an Altos 586, which is an 8086 based box. Like the other multiuser Altos boxes it has serial ports to attach multiple dumb terminals. One is the Console Port and there are four User ports. I have images of the OS Install diskettes, but not original diskettes. Sometime I need to make diskettes out of those images and bring that box up proper. Right now it has multiuser Xenix but some sort of business package and no Unix toolchain, compiler, etc.
You mean the the UNIX Microsoft licensed from AT&T Corporation.
Yes, the UNIX that Microsoft ported to the 8086 processor. My Altos box supports 5 users on serial consoles on an 8086 processor with 512M of RAM. Not anything anywhere near as impressive than UNIX on a PDP-11 but not to bad, either.
Visicalc made the Apple II, actually. It was the first and only platform Visicalc would run on for quite some time. Businessmen would go into the computer store and ask to "buy a Viscalc." The fact that they had to buy an Apple II at the same time was incidental in their minds.
My father bought Visicalc for his first generation IBM PC, which ran PC-DOS 1.0. By that point (1982) that was what people wanted.
Look out, you're blowing their cover!
I'm glad somebody mentioned it.
I just shelled out of Firefox and into the Play Store. Yes! There's a free FORTH interpreter for Android.