Unfortunately, I live a state away from Frys now, and a street away from Radio Shack. Haven't really intensely needed good parts, recently, put if I do, I'll probably have to hit the net. Wish a Frys would open in Las Vegas...
Agreed. I had a hotmail account both for spam and newsgroup communication, but I abandoned it soon after their security problems in favor of hushmail (same username...).
I posted messages on 2 or 3 newsgroups about switching my email with the old one mentioned flat out in the post, and the new one spamguarded. Checked my abandoned hotmail account a couple days later and there were 100 or more spams...
Contrast Lycos's behavior with Altivista, which, when confronted with a search for "Yahoo", comes up with a bunch of search results, and even has the statement "Could you please direct me to the Internet search engine", and a pop-up menu that has every search engine I can think of, and a number I've never heard of...
Their new look will take some getting used to, but think I'm sticking with them... (Though I'll definately flip though some of these ones I haven't seen...)
The first Macintosh came out in 1984. Before that was the Lisa, which had mostly the same GUI, but was two expensive, and weird disk drives, and never really caught on.
As far as the origin of the GUI, Apple saw some of the stuff that was going on at Xerox (the mouse, and Smalltalk come to mind), got excited, hired away a bunch of Xerox people, and started writing a GUI extending those ideas, and adding their own ideas to it. (Look at Smalltalk, and try to tell me that it had *everything* a modern GUI does. Apple stole some ideas from Xerox, but some of the ideas later stolen by Microsoft were their own...)
Now, Apple knew that if the Macintosh was to catch on, there had to be software for it, so they got Microsoft to write an office suite for it. In order to do this, Microsoft had to have access to information about the OS, and Microsoft naturally took notes, and eventually turned out Windows based on them...
Apple sued, but Microsoft hadn't actually stolen code, just the look and feel, and Apple had been a bit sloppy in the agreements Microsoft wrote up, so Microsoft got away with it...
Well, I generally agree with doing genetic engineering to weed out future medical problems, I think that that ought to be the limit. A world where everyone (who wasn't older then say, 20) looked like a supermodel would be boring.[1]
Perhaps I'm just picturing myself as an old man with telling a circle of genetically perfect grandchildren[2]: "You think I'm stupid-looking? In my day, *everyone* was ugly, and we liked it just fine!"
[1] Note: If this happens, we will undoubtedly see weirder and weirder fashion statements, as people try to make themselves look more individual in a world where everyone's genes were picked from a 20 page catalog...
[2] And, yes, I know it probably won't happen in my lifetime or yours, but it wasn't that long ago that I thought cloning was 100 or two years away...
When I read that quote, I assumed that he simply hadn't looked carefully, and thought it came with Windows 98. Oh well, clueless, or skimped on research (or both).
Those computers look pretty good, though. Not the most up to date, but for the price... I also have to like the case. They followed the iMac's lead, without blatently ripping it off. Emachine should take note...
My guess would be the whole of DOS(it is part of Windows, after all...), since Microsoft recently showed their awareness of the FreeDos project... from FreeDos's home page,Oct 5th: Brent Metzler wrote: Cool, what a coincidince. FreeDOS has its own forum on MSN Jim Hall adds: Now that's recognition from the big boys! In Microsoft's own words: "DOS is still a viable choice for millions of computers worldwide and FreeDOS offers an alternative to commercial DOS operating systems."
There was one other since then, Traitor's Sun, and that one actually wraps things up quite nicely, since Darkover would be considered to be going into a new phase in its history at the end of it.
Hard to grasp that she's dead, though. Last Sat? I actually checked one of her books out Sat, and had just finished reading it right before logging on Slashdot... She will be missed... --Arcum
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Unfortunately, I live a state away from Frys now, and a street away from Radio Shack. Haven't really intensely needed good parts, recently, put if I do, I'll probably have to hit the net. Wish a Frys would open in Las Vegas...
Agreed. I had a hotmail account both for spam and newsgroup communication, but I abandoned it soon after their security problems in favor of hushmail (same username...).
I posted messages on 2 or 3 newsgroups about switching my email with the old one mentioned flat out in the post, and the new one spamguarded. Checked my abandoned hotmail account a couple days later and there were 100 or more spams...
Contrast Lycos's behavior with Altivista, which, when confronted with a search for "Yahoo", comes up with a bunch of search results, and even has the statement "Could you please direct me to the Internet search engine", and a pop-up menu that has every search engine I can think of, and a number I've never heard of...
Their new look will take some getting used to, but think I'm sticking with them... (Though I'll definately flip though some of these ones I haven't seen...)
If they are running the Mac OS, yes, they can run
Photoshop, and most other software a Mac can run.
If, OTOH, it is running Linux, like this one is, you are far more likely to be running GIMP on it...
The first Macintosh came out in 1984. Before that was the Lisa, which had mostly the same GUI, but was two expensive, and weird disk drives, and never really caught on.
As far as the origin of the GUI, Apple saw some of the stuff that was going on at Xerox (the mouse, and Smalltalk come to mind), got excited, hired away a bunch of Xerox people, and started writing a GUI extending those ideas, and adding their own ideas to it. (Look at Smalltalk, and try to tell me that it had *everything* a modern GUI does. Apple stole some ideas from Xerox, but some of the ideas later stolen by Microsoft were their own...)
Now, Apple knew that if the Macintosh was to catch on, there had to be software for it, so they got Microsoft to write an office suite for it. In order to do this, Microsoft had to have access to information about the OS, and Microsoft naturally took notes, and eventually turned out Windows based on them...
Apple sued, but Microsoft hadn't actually stolen code, just the look and feel, and Apple had been a bit sloppy in the agreements Microsoft wrote up, so Microsoft got away with it...
Well, I generally agree with doing genetic engineering to weed out future medical problems, I think that that ought to be the limit. A world where everyone (who wasn't older then say, 20) looked like a supermodel would be boring.[1]
Perhaps I'm just picturing myself as an old man with telling a circle of genetically perfect grandchildren[2]: "You think I'm stupid-looking? In my day, *everyone* was ugly, and we liked it just fine!"
[1] Note: If this happens, we will undoubtedly see weirder and weirder fashion statements, as people try to make themselves look more individual in a world where everyone's genes were picked from a 20 page catalog...
[2] And, yes, I know it probably won't happen in my lifetime or yours, but it wasn't that long ago that I thought cloning was 100 or two years away...
When I read that quote, I assumed that he simply hadn't looked carefully, and thought it came with Windows 98. Oh well, clueless, or skimped on research (or both).
Those computers look pretty good, though. Not the most up to date, but for the price...
I also have to like the case. They followed the iMac's lead, without blatently ripping it off. Emachine should take note...
My guess would be the whole of DOS(it is part of Windows, after all...), since Microsoft recently showed their awareness of the FreeDos project... from FreeDos's home page,Oct 5th: Brent Metzler wrote: Cool, what a coincidince. FreeDOS has its own forum on MSN Jim Hall adds: Now that's recognition from the big boys! In Microsoft's own words: "DOS is still a viable choice for millions of computers worldwide and FreeDOS offers an alternative to commercial DOS operating systems."
There was one other since then, Traitor's Sun, and that one actually wraps things up quite nicely, since Darkover would be considered to be going into a new phase in its history at the end of it.
Hard to grasp that she's dead, though. Last Sat? I actually checked one of her books out Sat, and had just finished reading it right before logging on Slashdot... She will be missed...
--Arcum