And the janitor can read the stuff that I throw in my office wastebasket.
No, the 'sysadmin' is little more than the file clerk of the future. Sure, the 'filing cabinets' are now cooler than the old steelcase behemoths, but it's essentially the same job.
Let's just focus on a small subset of Windows applications. How about just editors.
TextPad comes up in a blink on my Windows box. And you know how I first found out about TextPad? It was recommended by Sun's Java Development scheme, back in the early days of Java.
You're desperate to prove Java is up to the task. Really, you just seem like a Java troll. Shouldn't you be fighting the good fight on a Usenet advocacy newsgroup or something?
You can get an excellent legacy Powerbook for pennies. If you're involved mostly in creative writing, you can have a wonderful experience off in your retreat area with an SE/30. For those REAL retreats, pick up a spare Powerbook 165 or something of equal vintage. Eventually the classic Mac machines will have the feel to those who use them of writers who work on old portable non-electric typewriters.
You're thinking like someone whose focus is to move the data around, not like somebody who uses the data to relate to the outside world.
'The Company' has licenses for everybody for Excel. Likely in an Open Source world they would have OpenOffice Calc widely deployed. It makes no sense at all for them to train their analysts in Database Programming.
It does sound like a nightmare. Where are the keyboard shortcuts if there isn't a menu on top?
I run Excel mostly without using the mouse at all. People who mope around with a mouse pointer remind me of the kid who pushed the peas around on his dinner plate.
I've heard it said that at one top accounting firm, they 'test' new hires by requiring them to run Excel without a mouse for a short period when first hired.
This 'ribbon' thing sounds like negative evolution.
I didn't try to 'simplfy' by declaring only I know what 'porn' is. I simply tried to make the point that while there isn't a tightly defined definition, 'people know it when they see it.'
Oversexed adolescent boys will find stimulation on the underwear page of the Sears catalog, for goodness sake, so let's not get carried away about Victoria's Secret ads. A 'you can tell' definition works for communities that share collective values. That means that what is 'porn' in a neighborhood on Castro Street isn't the same as what is 'porn' in Lawrence, Kansas.
I repeat: making the claim 'there is no way of telling' is on it's face a ridiculous assertion, and there are people who frequent both art galleries and adult bookstores who will agree. You discredit yourself making that arguement to those people.
Ultimately, it is the 'taboo' nature itself of porn that defines what is pornography. In a world where female dominant rubber bondage was taught in fifth grade, femdom rubber mags wouldn't be porn. Likely, recorded episodes of the television show 'Father Knows Best' would be considered taboo porn in such a world.
"there are significant political challenges to this implementation."
Right. Just like there are 'significant political challanges to switching the whole mechanical world to the left hand thread.
I don't think they are 'political' challanges. Except in a command-based authoritarian political world. Agreed, someone with the character and political power of Stalin, could probably address it as a 'political' challange.
And that last paragraph in your comment is just bizzarre. You picked one HECK of a way to declarate that you don't communicate effectively.
I beg to differ! I bought the 'Tripping the Rift' DVD box set just last week!
(I suspect I may be part of the 1% or less of the people particpating in this discussion who can (faintly) remember seeing an original first broadcast of a Star Trek episode. No, none of the 'derivative' series, fine as they may be, count.)
There is an easily discernable difference between artistic nudity and porn. Granted, it isn't one that uptight 'porn opponents' can understand, but the rest of us don't have difficulty figuring it out.
There are some 'rough edges,' i.e. some of Robert Mapplethorpes works, and boys-will-be-boys and they'll jerk off to the native women in National Geographic if needs be, so there's no way to 'block' it. But what most people view as out-and-out pornography isn't difficult to identify. Fetish, kink, explicitly sexual acts, etc. meet the definition.
When someone like you tries to 'fog the issue' with arguements that no definition can exist, you undermine yourselves to anybody who has actually visited a porn site and can tell the difference.
AMD entered the 'x86 processor market because they had a second source license from Intel to produce chips. This did NOT give them license to produce 80386 processors, and definitely NOT anything floating point like an 80387. So AMD limped along for years producing parts with dismal floating point (if any).
That was years ago, of course, and AMD bootstrapped up to become a 'real' contender by producing powerful processors (the early Athlons) that compromised good design for speed, and so with the early Athlon machines you could play 'flight simulator' games with the added sound effect feature that your CPU box sounded like a frickin' jet engine taking off because of the fleet of fans needed to keep the inefficient power-pig processor cool.
AMD has been a silicon company for as long, or longer, than Intel. AMD used to make a lot of TTL gates and PLDs. Their history does NOT start with them chasing Intel's tailpipe (their 'x86 processor line DEFINITELY does) The AM2900 bitslice processors were cool, and some of the great hardware of the past was based on it.
Let's see. Your first exposure to AMD was back in the '486 era, eh?
The 'libertarian leaning' part of me wants to sum up a lot of what you say metaphorically like 'the state power is like a nest of machine guns planted in the middle of the town square.'
The existence of the machine gun nest (a powerful state government) is the problem, no matter who controls it.
The 'conservative leaning' part of me has always been of the 'take away the motherfucker's ability to fuck with us' tendency. And one of the few appeals that 'conservatives' of the modern ilk have had for me is when it seems like they're shuttin' down bullshit and firing bureaucrats.
Needless to say that the Bush administration and the bullshit that has transpired over the last bunch of years with 'the Republicans being in power' has disgusted me. But it makes me want to shitcan ALL the politicians, not flip the channel back to the corpulent tax-n-spend Democrats.
It's one big stupid bird. Flap the right wing, flap the left wing, fly up over everybody and shit on them.
Uh.. you're saying that the Z-80 processor, with an 8-bit data bus, and an address bus capable of 64K 'smoked' the 8086, with a 16 bit bus and a 20 bit 1M address space?
What were you running? CP/M-80?
Admittedly, the typical 'hobbyist' computer user back then could seldom even afford to populate 32K of the address space with RAM.
AMD only got their leverage to even produce 'x86 processors because they took advantage of loopholes in their agreement with Intel to second source '286 processors. Essentially a weasel move on their part that enabled them to chase exhaust fumes for years.
AMD used to be a company that produced cool and powerful silicon that was in no way 'derivative' of Intel. The 2900 bit-slice processor chips come to mind.
That the company has evolved to be not much more than a banner for 'Anything but..' contrarians to wave is really sad.
A DX4-100 was a 25 MHz buss machine. Which made it a real mistake compared to a DX2-66 for a lot of purposes. Or, if you were serious about performance, a DX-50, as long as you knew what you were doing with it.
And AMD was a bad choice for years past that time. I have several K5 and K6 processors that will testify to that fact.
That's been true forever. But there is always a need for dumb wannabe-studs to pay the R&D costs for the rest of us, who consistently buy 'below the price curve' parts. I mean, the Pentium 75 was a hell of a deal, back when the dinks were crowing about their P-133s.
But this whole discussion thread and indeed this whole topic is these guys' playground to strut around in.
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Sure. And one means of 'aiding the poor' is to murder 'rich people' in the street for their money.
S/he probably doesn't have a spouse who hates the in-laws and needs money only available when there's a death warrant.
Just remember, they can read your email.
And the janitor can read the stuff that I throw in my office wastebasket.
No, the 'sysadmin' is little more than the file clerk of the future. Sure, the 'filing cabinets' are now cooler than the old steelcase behemoths, but it's essentially the same job.
Let's just focus on a small subset of Windows applications. How about just editors.
TextPad comes up in a blink on my Windows box. And you know how I first found out about TextPad? It was recommended by Sun's Java Development scheme, back in the early days of Java.
You're desperate to prove Java is up to the task. Really, you just seem like a Java troll. Shouldn't you be fighting the good fight on a Usenet advocacy newsgroup or something?
I wouldn't say by 'any' standards.
It's terribly non-portable to some systems.
In the context of this thread, which is apparently machines capable of running Office 2007, you are correct.
I'm well aware that a decent Java VM with a JIT compiler can outperform C++ in some cases
Yes, all the Object Oriented bloat of C++ does make it as terrible as Java sometimes.
Nice for the programmers to maintain. And great for promoting DRAM and CPU upgrades.
Why would you switch?
You can get an excellent legacy Powerbook for pennies. If you're involved mostly in creative writing, you can have a wonderful experience off in your retreat area with an SE/30. For those REAL retreats, pick up a spare Powerbook 165 or something of equal vintage. Eventually the classic Mac machines will have the feel to those who use them of writers who work on old portable non-electric typewriters.
You're thinking like someone whose focus is to move the data around, not like somebody who uses the data to relate to the outside world.
'The Company' has licenses for everybody for Excel. Likely in an Open Source world they would have OpenOffice Calc widely deployed. It makes no sense at all for them to train their analysts in Database Programming.
IT is not a profession.
Data janitors, really.
It does sound like a nightmare. Where are the keyboard shortcuts if there isn't a menu on top?
I run Excel mostly without using the mouse at all. People who mope around with a mouse pointer remind me of the kid who pushed the peas around on his dinner plate.
I've heard it said that at one top accounting firm, they 'test' new hires by requiring them to run Excel without a mouse for a short period when first hired.
This 'ribbon' thing sounds like negative evolution.
I didn't try to 'simplfy' by declaring only I know what 'porn' is. I simply tried to make the point that while there isn't a tightly defined definition, 'people know it when they see it.'
Oversexed adolescent boys will find stimulation on the underwear page of the Sears catalog, for goodness sake, so let's not get carried away about Victoria's Secret ads. A 'you can tell' definition works for communities that share collective values. That means that what is 'porn' in a neighborhood on Castro Street isn't the same as what is 'porn' in Lawrence, Kansas.
I repeat: making the claim 'there is no way of telling' is on it's face a ridiculous assertion, and there are people who frequent both art galleries and adult bookstores who will agree. You discredit yourself making that arguement to those people.
Ultimately, it is the 'taboo' nature itself of porn that defines what is pornography. In a world where female dominant rubber bondage was taught in fifth grade, femdom rubber mags wouldn't be porn. Likely, recorded episodes of the television show 'Father Knows Best' would be considered taboo porn in such a world.
"there are significant political challenges to this implementation."
Right. Just like there are 'significant political challanges to switching the whole mechanical world to the left hand thread.
I don't think they are 'political' challanges. Except in a command-based authoritarian political world. Agreed, someone with the character and political power of Stalin, could probably address it as a 'political' challange.
And that last paragraph in your comment is just bizzarre. You picked one HECK of a way to declarate that you don't communicate effectively.
But this isn't about you, or me.
We can hope.
Enjoy your 'collectable' PEZ dispensers, then, dood.
I beg to differ! I bought the 'Tripping the Rift' DVD box set just last week!
(I suspect I may be part of the 1% or less of the people particpating in this discussion who can (faintly) remember seeing an original first broadcast of a Star Trek episode. No, none of the 'derivative' series, fine as they may be, count.)
But don't you, essentially, feel better off now being rid of said 'collectable' cards?
If you find his info ten years from now, you'll probably send him a thankyou note.
Right.
1. An RFC is published.
2. Magically, it is implmenented with little effort.
3. Profit.
'Off the top of your head' is right.
'It's not difficult...' Uh.....
There is an easily discernable difference between artistic nudity and porn. Granted, it isn't one that uptight 'porn opponents' can understand, but the rest of us don't have difficulty figuring it out.
There are some 'rough edges,' i.e. some of Robert Mapplethorpes works, and boys-will-be-boys and they'll jerk off to the native women in National Geographic if needs be, so there's no way to 'block' it. But what most people view as out-and-out pornography isn't difficult to identify. Fetish, kink, explicitly sexual acts, etc. meet the definition.
When someone like you tries to 'fog the issue' with arguements that no definition can exist, you undermine yourselves to anybody who has actually visited a porn site and can tell the difference.
So better arguements are needed.
AMD entered the 'x86 processor market because they had a second source license from Intel to produce chips. This did NOT give them license to produce 80386 processors, and definitely NOT anything floating point like an 80387. So AMD limped along for years producing parts with dismal floating point (if any).
That was years ago, of course, and AMD bootstrapped up to become a 'real' contender by producing powerful processors (the early Athlons) that compromised good design for speed, and so with the early Athlon machines you could play 'flight simulator' games with the added sound effect feature that your CPU box sounded like a frickin' jet engine taking off because of the fleet of fans needed to keep the inefficient power-pig processor cool.
AMD has been a silicon company for as long, or longer, than Intel. AMD used to make a lot of TTL gates and PLDs. Their history does NOT start with them chasing Intel's tailpipe (their 'x86 processor line DEFINITELY does) The AM2900 bitslice processors were cool, and some of the great hardware of the past was based on it.
Let's see. Your first exposure to AMD was back in the '486 era, eh?
The 'libertarian leaning' part of me wants to sum up a lot of what you say metaphorically like 'the state power is like a nest of machine guns planted in the middle of the town square.'
The existence of the machine gun nest (a powerful state government) is the problem, no matter who controls it.
The 'conservative leaning' part of me has always been of the 'take away the motherfucker's ability to fuck with us' tendency. And one of the few appeals that 'conservatives' of the modern ilk have had for me is when it seems like they're shuttin' down bullshit and firing bureaucrats.
Needless to say that the Bush administration and the bullshit that has transpired over the last bunch of years with 'the Republicans being in power' has disgusted me. But it makes me want to shitcan ALL the politicians, not flip the channel back to the corpulent tax-n-spend Democrats.
It's one big stupid bird. Flap the right wing, flap the left wing, fly up over everybody and shit on them.
Uh.. you're saying that the Z-80 processor, with an 8-bit data bus, and an address bus capable of 64K 'smoked' the 8086, with a 16 bit bus and a 20 bit 1M address space?
What were you running? CP/M-80?
Admittedly, the typical 'hobbyist' computer user back then could seldom even afford to populate 32K of the address space with RAM.
plus it's a nice boost to be with the rest of us :-)
Uh, that reeks a little of elitism.
'Select an AMD part and be part of the 'in crowd.'
You were being sarcastic, right?
AMD only got their leverage to even produce 'x86 processors because they took advantage of loopholes in their agreement with Intel to second source '286 processors. Essentially a weasel move on their part that enabled them to chase exhaust fumes for years.
AMD used to be a company that produced cool and powerful silicon that was in no way 'derivative' of Intel. The 2900 bit-slice processor chips come to mind.
That the company has evolved to be not much more than a banner for 'Anything but..' contrarians to wave is really sad.
A DX4-100 was a 25 MHz buss machine. Which made it a real mistake compared to a DX2-66 for a lot of purposes. Or, if you were serious about performance, a DX-50, as long as you knew what you were doing with it.
And AMD was a bad choice for years past that time. I have several K5 and K6 processors that will testify to that fact.
you are throwing away money on either chip.
That's been true forever. But there is always a need for dumb wannabe-studs to pay the R&D costs for the rest of us, who consistently buy 'below the price curve' parts. I mean, the Pentium 75 was a hell of a deal, back when the dinks were crowing about their P-133s.
But this whole discussion thread and indeed this whole topic is these guys' playground to strut around in.
We should probably be more polite and quiet.