But Ms. Watney blamed the oversight on "administrative staff" -
Some unnamed staff employee is always screwing things up for top officials. Fire someone from the secretarial pool, that usually satisfies the public.
It's like this King who kept several heads of cabbage on his privy counsel, so that whenever one of the King's projects conspiciously miscarriages, he could assuage his subjects by revealing that several members of the royal counsel have just been beheaded.
about the next SST mission: ferrying a 150 gal container of Lysol disinfectant to mir, with the mission specialist being a janitor. "I told 'em 18 years ago this was going to happen unless they get some professional custodial services in there", said Ivan DuVal, top ranking member of the former Soviet Union Air Force's 97th building custodial squadron. "'Dem space heads is too busy wit dem space 'speriments to properly clean the toilets, and I'm sure the floors need a real good scrubbin' and waxin'". But Paul's long held dream of a space mission to 'do it right' looks like it may never come about, as the lack of a proper sanitation regime has lasted so long the only option is the incinerate the entire station in the earth's atmosphere.
At least they don't have space-roaches in the galley.
This is actually for the reply's to the the parent message:
Using an X.0 release of just about anything for any mission critical, potentially embarassing and market image damaging application is just poor judgement, unless you're an absolute wiz at debugging code on the fly while the clock is ticking and customers are getting upset. There would have to be someing in 7.0 that's not in 6.2 to justify the risk of using unproven code on a production machine. How long did people use Win 3.0? Win95-nonOSR2? Win98-nonSE? NT-noSP's? With that number of bugs there must be lots of neat new stuff, but we never make pretentions of being so bloody good nobody should use anything else. As a professional I'd stick with 6.2 for serious work and test 7.0 in the lab untill enough eyeballs have enough time to scrutinize the code. This IS open source, release early, release often.
notwithstanding jokes about it being "half an operating system":)) But IBM has already had their wrist slapped for predatory market practices in the 60's (the old 'plug in-compatible' trick) and so couldn't get away with the back-stabbing, illegal tie-ins and vendor intimidation it takes to claw your way to the top. You want usability? How about click on document icon, drag document icon to printer icon and release. But nooooooo, the average intelligent computer consumers freely decided they wanted their GPF's and black screens of death; they wanted their playskool toys with big chunky parts you can't swallow and bright primary colors, and cry for a confused nanny to edit their win.ini file when it breaks. They also wanted a windowing system that issues big scary bogus error messages if you dare try to install it on DR-DOS.
that will never deter the auto hobbyist and do-it-myself-ers from trying to make a truely competitive, high performance race car, instead of an average, plain vanilla, ordinary family vehicle that everyone has.
as a car with the engine welded into an inpenetrable steel box is easy to repair. Of course it's put in there to keep inexperienced users from accidentally messing it up - like if there were a knob on your dashboard for injector timing, a lot of cars would be towed in for service because someone twisted the knob and didn't know how to adjust it properly. However that will never deter the auto hobbyist and do-it-myself-ers.
Seriously, a lot of vendors are handling the 'broken software' support problem (when a vendor sells a pc w/ oem windows on it, it's the VENDOR who has to tech support the damn software, not Msft) just by 'reimaging' the disk. Just wipe it out and start all over.
If your claim of market dominance due to ease of use and managability were actually true, the Mac would have outsold DOS & Windows LONG ago.
Santa - I'm trying real hard to be good this year so this list doesn't seem too unreasonable. What I'd like to have is 1) a Night Vision Monocular, a Pinball Machine and a house in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Oh, and maybe a Swiss bank account with maybe 5 million in it for upkeep of the house would be a good 'stocking stuffer'. Ok?
is that a LEGAL drug like alcohol is far more addictive and a health hazzard than Ganja, which can get you in deep do-do with the criminal justice system. After 20+ years of on/off heavy responsible toking (work before pleasue!) the worst I've gotten was a sore throat. You can't OD, it doesn't lead to 'harder' drugs (the usual anti-legalization argument), and is not at all physically addictive, more like 'habit forming' but easy to kick if necessary. Sometimes I think that alcohol is legal because so many physically addicted alcoholics would raise bloody hell and resort to underground criminal enterprises to support their habit if prohibition were reinstate. Ganja was criminalized under suspicious circumstances during the 30's anyway, such as the chemical artificial fibre industry (DuPont et al) wanting to do away with a great source of natural fibre. Just outlaw competition.
Just open a 'dos' box, type "format c:" but don't hit return yet, then compose a mail message to your 'target victim' and attach c:\windows\command\format.com to it, then - this is the tricky part - hit return in the dos box, answer 'Y' and hit return, then quickly hit 'send' in your mail program, but only real l337 h4x0rz can do it properly, wannabees and luz3rz end up formatting their own drives!
That reminds me of a text file going around in the mid 80's about how to upgrade your modem from 300 to 1200 baud - open the case, clip out some components, wrap some wire around a pencil and solder to some traces and you have - a dead modem.
Windows 95, 95 OSR1, 95 OSR2, 98, 98SE, NT 4 Workstation, NT 4 Server, NT 4 Enterprise, NT 4 Terminal Server, Win2k Professional, Win2k Server, Win2k Advanced Server, Win2k DataCenter, Whistler
Gaaaa!!! Way too many windoze to support, and it's getting worse every year. I had enough problems migrating people from Win3 to the Win95 std gui, even then some folks still prefer fileman over explorer! Though Office2k runs happily on Win95a, there are plenty of forced tie in upgrades via the network effect. I was royally pissed to find Win95a wouldn't support USB and that only an OEM upgrade version did. Same deal w/ an AMD 400Mhz cpu upgrade - win95a had a timing issue and Msft wasn't interested in fixing it, sorry AMD. Just yesterday I had to send out a memo to one dept with a 'newer' Office version reminding them to 'save as' an older version for a dept with older Office OR ELSE write up exactely what features your using in the new version that justifies spending $300/wrkstn for upgrades. Answer is that few people use any of the advanced features, the 'newer' version dept has what they have because it was purchased later or is a fashion/status symbol. With the market penetration Msft has, constant upgrades IS the Msft business model, even if it's the equivelent of trading in a perfectly good car for a new one with larger fins and rearranged taillights and that sleek, aerodynamic modern look (whoops, reboot).
Oh, yesterday I got royally pissed at NT4SP5 when a ras process got HUNG and would not terminate (something between WinGate and ras made ras think a port was in use, when you could bring up hyperterm and dial out with no prob!), forcing me to go around and log everyone off to reboot - Usually it is up for months and I leave it alone, serious, but do one thing unusual and it freaks, jeeez.
Actually I'm amazed they've been allowed to be an unregulated monopoly this long! What exactely, now, set's the price of, say Msft Office?? It's not competitive market forces of artificially limited (licensed) supply and demand! As it exists NOW, what's to stop Msft from charging whatever they feel like the market will bear, or extortionist prices? Nothing. Bill wants another yacht or another company - just jack up the price a few more bucks - what are customers going to do? Use the 'other' office suite? Grandma and Joe are locked in and can't get out! What if your local power company or the phone company were unregulated and could charge whatever they wanted? What if your electric bill was $350/month and you had NO CHOICE but to pay it or do without power? That is NOT capitalism. Now those slimy bastards in the PR dept are using the antitrust case as an/excuse/ to raise prices, when the real problem is there is no viable alternative to give the CUSTOMER some measure of control! Heck, if WalGreen charges too much for some item, I go over to Target, and visa-versa - that keeps everybody effecient and honest - but this deal with rising software costs is just obscenely perverted and needs correcting immediately. All it gives us is a smug self deluded corporation and generally lousy shiny products. Unfortunately, it looks like we're going to get 2 years of high powered media manipulation that'd make Goebbels gape in awe, and likely no satisfactory resolution. The only solution for computer professionals is to MAKE THEM PAY. Enforce the law. Msft has been getting a free ride from amateurs for way too long. Giving away your copies of Office and ME just entrenches the evil empire in the public mind that much more. CHARGE Grannie the $500 for Office Pro and point out that it's the law, that's what Msft wants, and she can use Word(tm) to write her congresscritter about corporate price gouging of senior citizens. Unfortunately, I can't see that happening either, so all I can do is look out for myself:))
A contradiction does exist in the argument that your average Joe wants to plug in and get big simple buttons to press, but at the same time claiming the consumer market has the intelligence to choose the best product and doesn't need regulation or protection against unfair uncompetitive technological monopoly leveraging tie in trickery (Ye olde "Opps, sorry the competitors products don't work on our latest platform - guess you just have to dump them and buy ours! Ours works great!" trick - which is what a break up will solve). So which is it? Are consumers intelligent enough to have committed everyone to the best of all possible product, or are they ignorant bumpkins that need protection from the equivilent of a software snakeoil & used car salesman?
I hardly ever boot up Windows at home anymore, what with KDE Netscape Quake DescentDemo Terminus Sound RealAudio StarOffice GnuCash CorelDraw etc etc etc etc, more utilities than I know what to do with, plus very distinguished and stylish wheels - the only time I bring up the closed partition is to use Forte' Agent and that's only because I haven't taken time to sort thru all the available oss alternatives. Gaaaa, open source is working GREAT from my point of view!
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And it only runs on Windows...
that now legitimate companies with solid, robust, quality products are going to have to tough out 2 long years with either 1) risk of assassination (Novell - just point the gun and pull the trigger) or 2) having their air supply cut off (Netscape). Of course this is going to have a stifling effect on any technology innovation (other than anti-piracy techniques) as anyone with any really new, innovative idea will have to face the wealth, power and lawyers of the big kahuna. Now people are naturaly innovative and creative so there should be a steady supply of startups for Msft to feed on, but Msft is definitely going to be 'in control' of the PC market and will allow some so called 'competition' for appearances sake - kinda like a prize fighter letting a rank amateur get a few punches in for fun, knowing full well he can pound his ass into the canvas if it ever gets 'seriously' competitive.
the Hyper Light Speed Antenna. Woo, we can communicate faster than the speed of light! This is about the equivilent of a perpetual motion machine, just not nearly as famous. It's empty techie-gizmo gee-whiz terminology that convinced some shoe horn to grab the wrong stamp. This has got to be someone playing a joke on the pto. Sure, they do employ a lot of trained engineers but there's definitely something amiss with the amount of applictions slipping thru the cracks and getting approved - they need geeks who know whats going on - not the current crop of Al Gore wannabe airheads who've no concept of objective, verifiable facts. I sure hope the NIST doesn't turn into this kind of political swamp.
for theft - your damn bloody straight we're going to fight for reasonable capitalist property laws. In all my years I've heard tons of excuses for ip theft - the "it's not worth what they're charging, therefore I can use it w/o paying", etc etc ad nauseum. These wealth redistribution socialists are no better than barbarians storming the neighboring tribe to rape, loot and plunder, all the while thinking it's their divine right, or blathering about all property being transient so gimme-gimme-gimme.
Essentially, creating something, whether writing code or building a house is an exertion of effort, work, taking pains to accomplish something such as farming, building shelter, digging water wells, hauling irrigation pipes, weeding, etc. in expectation of harvesting a useful crop to feed the family and sell for cash to buy a frying pan. If I take the blood, sweat and tears to cut down a stand of trees and hew them into lumber and make a shelter to keep a stock of corn out of the weather, then I OWN THAT BARN, I made it, and have the right to kick out any transients who are looking for free shelter at someone else's expense. Likewise with someone who perceives an unfulfilled market niche (and 'itch' experienced by people who DONT CODE who might be willing to pay a fee for a coder to scratch) or a better way to do a job and sets about making a 'program' comprised of a list of fundamental microprocessor instructions which when executed by a microprocessor performs a useful data processing task (can't BELEIVE I have to define "write code":) - such as the non-trivial floating point math (which was the big thing MITS BASIC brought to the Altair - which MUST have been useful to have been pirated so much!) This is a non-trivial task, it takes a lot of concentration and effort many hours a day, intense studying of these lists to find mistakes and not a few asperain bottles, to make a list of instructions to does something useful; what's unfair is when the coder does this expecting a certain set of ip laws to be in effect to AT LEAST pay the rent and buy groceries, and have exployment like the fellows working at the shipyard etc, and then along comes this band of barbarians who think that just because something CAN be copied for pennies that it should be absolutely free for cost of copying, damn the author who expects compensation! In the end it's often not the author but the honest customers who pay for theft, just like a store pays for shoftlifting by charging more that the honest customers pay. While we may balk at working for a company that wants to take ownership of any code we write, could you imagine living in a communist country where everything you produce, corn, beans, is considered state property?? (shudder) For some reason, I beleive(know) that standard human nature will always take over and those whose unfortunate job it is to redistribute the wealth 'fairly' usually end up with the most of it! What this leads to eventually is not a rich, robust society, but a bust society with very little incentive to work at all, since you end up producing X value of goods and receiving X-S value back from the central planning committee, it's just slaver all over again. Corrpution (theft, bribery, etc) in a capitalist society also reduces that incentive. It's AMAZING the crazy and creative things people will do to obtain financial freedom (just look at Hollywood!).
All in all, what part of a civilized economy do you not understand, or should we all just run around in a giant anarchiac free for all grabbing all the 'transient property' we can get by overpowering the owners?
The above has links to an Altair emulator complete w/ disk images of BASIC, DISK BASIC, etc plus some popular BASIC games - compiles in Unix, run great.
the "killer app" of the day:)) Unless you got the Scelbi "Galaxy" game and typed in an assembler listing. I paid $150 for 4K BASIC in '76 (lets see, that's what, 3.66 cents/byte?) And it still wasn't up to 'Trek - no $trings! And no mass storage either.
The debate over "whether software should be free" is a product of faulty logic that the news media in particular seem to fall for; what amounts to a "koan" - an unanswerable question you can always make banner headlines out of; "Monks Fiercly Divided Over What One Hand Clapping Sounds Like" just like the the whether-guns-or-people-kill debate. Fact is, software is 'owned' by the person that writes it. If you write code, you may choose to GPL it or choose to sell it, one copy per cpu, thank you. Whether BillG "stole" his code from a university dumpster is idle speculation and baselsss accusation untill you come up with some real solid evidence. People arguing over whether "software should be free" is like debating over what we should do with Robins Limo, or the local collective debating what crops are going to be planted on YOUR farm and family property. Don't you folks dare try to socialize MY code or take MY property or someone's going to get hurt.
is no malice intended, just that people who like Windows and read MSNBC all spend their Saturday evenings online reading MSNBC and for a real blast, take the online polls! Get a life, Windows users.
Your right about it was Lot's daughters that committed incest with their father, Gen. 19:30-32. The other incident I'm refering to is II Sam. 16:22 - "So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel."
Maybe some of these so called "Christians" should read their Bible's - there's lots of intercourse in there - like Noah and his daughters, um, King David's sons did it on top of a building!
Unlawful carnal knowledge.
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But Ms. Watney blamed the oversight on "administrative staff" -
Some unnamed staff employee is always screwing things up for top officials. Fire someone from the secretarial pool, that usually satisfies the public.
It's like this King who kept several heads of cabbage on his privy counsel, so that whenever one of the King's projects conspiciously miscarriages, he could assuage his subjects by revealing that several members of the royal counsel have just been beheaded.
about the next SST mission: ferrying a 150 gal container of Lysol disinfectant to mir, with the mission specialist being a janitor. "I told 'em 18 years ago this was going to happen unless they get some professional custodial services in there", said Ivan DuVal, top ranking member of the former Soviet Union Air Force's 97th building custodial squadron. "'Dem space heads is too busy wit dem space 'speriments to properly clean the toilets, and I'm sure the floors need a real good scrubbin' and waxin'". But Paul's long held dream of a space mission to 'do it right' looks like it may never come about, as the lack of a proper sanitation regime has lasted so long the only option is the incinerate the entire station in the earth's atmosphere.
At least they don't have space-roaches in the galley.
This is actually for the reply's to the the parent message:
Using an X.0 release of just about anything for any mission critical, potentially embarassing and market image damaging application is just poor judgement, unless you're an absolute wiz at debugging code on the fly while the clock is ticking and customers are getting upset. There would have to be someing in 7.0 that's not in 6.2 to justify the risk of using unproven code on a production machine. How long did people use Win 3.0? Win95-nonOSR2? Win98-nonSE? NT-noSP's? With that number of bugs there must be lots of neat new stuff, but we never make pretentions of being so bloody good nobody should use anything else. As a professional I'd stick with 6.2 for serious work and test 7.0 in the lab untill enough eyeballs have enough time to scrutinize the code. This IS open source, release early, release often.
1) Cheap
2) Good
3) Fast - choose any two.
notwithstanding jokes about it being "half an operating system" :)) But IBM has already had their wrist slapped for predatory market practices in the 60's (the old 'plug in-compatible' trick) and so couldn't get away with the back-stabbing, illegal tie-ins and vendor intimidation it takes to claw your way to the top. You want usability? How about click on document icon, drag document icon to printer icon and release. But nooooooo, the average intelligent computer consumers freely decided they wanted their GPF's and black screens of death; they wanted their playskool toys with big chunky parts you can't swallow and bright primary colors, and cry for a confused nanny to edit their win.ini file when it breaks. They also wanted a windowing system that issues big scary bogus error messages if you dare try to install it on DR-DOS.
that will never deter the auto hobbyist and do-it-myself-ers from trying to make a truely competitive, high performance race car, instead of an average, plain vanilla, ordinary family vehicle that everyone has.
as a car with the engine welded into an inpenetrable steel box is easy to repair. Of course it's put in there to keep inexperienced users from accidentally messing it up - like if there were a knob on your dashboard for injector timing, a lot of cars would be towed in for service because someone twisted the knob and didn't know how to adjust it properly. However that will never deter the auto hobbyist and do-it-myself-ers.
Seriously, a lot of vendors are handling the 'broken software' support problem (when a vendor sells a pc w/ oem windows on it, it's the VENDOR who has to tech support the damn software, not Msft) just by 'reimaging' the disk. Just wipe it out and start all over.
If your claim of market dominance due to ease of use and managability were actually true, the Mac would have outsold DOS & Windows LONG ago.
they do have appeal.
Santa - I'm trying real hard to be good this year so this list doesn't seem too unreasonable. What I'd like to have is 1) a Night Vision Monocular, a Pinball Machine and a house in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Oh, and maybe a Swiss bank account with maybe 5 million in it for upkeep of the house would be a good 'stocking stuffer'. Ok?
is that a LEGAL drug like alcohol is far more addictive and a health hazzard than Ganja, which can get you in deep do-do with the criminal justice system. After 20+ years of on/off heavy responsible toking (work before pleasue!) the worst I've gotten was a sore throat. You can't OD, it doesn't lead to 'harder' drugs (the usual anti-legalization argument), and is not at all physically addictive, more like 'habit forming' but easy to kick if necessary. Sometimes I think that alcohol is legal because so many physically addicted alcoholics would raise bloody hell and resort to underground criminal enterprises to support their habit if prohibition were reinstate. Ganja was criminalized under suspicious circumstances during the 30's anyway, such as the chemical artificial fibre industry (DuPont et al) wanting to do away with a great source of natural fibre. Just outlaw competition.
Just open a 'dos' box, type "format c:" but don't hit return yet, then compose a mail message to your 'target victim' and attach c:\windows\command\format.com to it, then - this is the tricky part - hit return in the dos box, answer 'Y' and hit return, then quickly hit 'send' in your mail program, but only real l337 h4x0rz can do it properly, wannabees and luz3rz end up formatting their own drives!
That reminds me of a text file going around in the mid 80's about how to upgrade your modem from 300 to 1200 baud - open the case, clip out some components, wrap some wire around a pencil and solder to some traces and you have - a dead modem.
good thing Jobs doesn't run 3COM, or he'd have your ass.
Windows 95, 95 OSR1, 95 OSR2, 98, 98SE, NT 4 Workstation, NT 4 Server, NT 4 Enterprise, NT 4 Terminal Server, Win2k Professional, Win2k Server, Win2k Advanced Server, Win2k DataCenter, Whistler
Gaaaa!!! Way too many windoze to support, and it's getting worse every year. I had enough problems migrating people from Win3 to the Win95 std gui, even then some folks still prefer fileman over explorer! Though Office2k runs happily on Win95a, there are plenty of forced tie in upgrades via the network effect. I was royally pissed to find Win95a wouldn't support USB and that only an OEM upgrade version did. Same deal w/ an AMD 400Mhz cpu upgrade - win95a had a timing issue and Msft wasn't interested in fixing it, sorry AMD. Just yesterday I had to send out a memo to one dept with a 'newer' Office version reminding them to 'save as' an older version for a dept with older Office OR ELSE write up exactely what features your using in the new version that justifies spending $300/wrkstn for upgrades. Answer is that few people use any of the advanced features, the 'newer' version dept has what they have because it was purchased later or is a fashion/status symbol. With the market penetration Msft has, constant upgrades IS the Msft business model, even if it's the equivelent of trading in a perfectly good car for a new one with larger fins and rearranged taillights and that sleek, aerodynamic modern look (whoops, reboot).
Oh, yesterday I got royally pissed at NT4SP5 when a ras process got HUNG and would not terminate (something between WinGate and ras made ras think a port was in use, when you could bring up hyperterm and dial out with no prob!), forcing me to go around and log everyone off to reboot - Usually it is up for months and I leave it alone, serious, but do one thing unusual and it freaks, jeeez.
Actually I'm amazed they've been allowed to be an unregulated monopoly this long! What exactely, now, set's the price of, say Msft Office?? It's not competitive market forces of artificially limited (licensed) supply and demand! As it exists NOW, what's to stop Msft from charging whatever they feel like the market will bear, or extortionist prices? Nothing. Bill wants another yacht or another company - just jack up the price a few more bucks - what are customers going to do? Use the 'other' office suite? Grandma and Joe are locked in and can't get out! What if your local power company or the phone company were unregulated and could charge whatever they wanted? What if your electric bill was $350/month and you had NO CHOICE but to pay it or do without power? That is NOT capitalism. Now those slimy bastards in the PR dept are using the antitrust case as an /excuse/ to raise prices, when the real problem is there is no viable alternative to give the CUSTOMER some measure of control! Heck, if WalGreen charges too much for some item, I go over to Target, and visa-versa - that keeps everybody effecient and honest - but this deal with rising software costs is just obscenely perverted and needs correcting immediately. All it gives us is a smug self deluded corporation and generally lousy shiny products. Unfortunately, it looks like we're going to get 2 years of high powered media manipulation that'd make Goebbels gape in awe, and likely no satisfactory resolution. The only solution for computer professionals is to MAKE THEM PAY. Enforce the law. Msft has been getting a free ride from amateurs for way too long. Giving away your copies of Office and ME just entrenches the evil empire in the public mind that much more. CHARGE Grannie the $500 for Office Pro and point out that it's the law, that's what Msft wants, and she can use Word(tm) to write her congresscritter about corporate price gouging of senior citizens. Unfortunately, I can't see that happening either, so all I can do is look out for myself :))
A contradiction does exist in the argument that your average Joe wants to plug in and get big simple buttons to press, but at the same time claiming the consumer market has the intelligence to choose the best product and doesn't need regulation or protection against unfair uncompetitive technological monopoly leveraging tie in trickery (Ye olde "Opps, sorry the competitors products don't work on our latest platform - guess you just have to dump them and buy ours! Ours works great!" trick - which is what a break up will solve). So which is it? Are consumers intelligent enough to have committed everyone to the best of all possible product, or are they ignorant bumpkins that need protection from the equivilent of a software snakeoil & used car salesman?
I hardly ever boot up Windows at home anymore, what with KDE Netscape Quake DescentDemo Terminus Sound RealAudio StarOffice GnuCash CorelDraw etc etc etc etc, more utilities than I know what to do with, plus very distinguished and stylish wheels - the only time I bring up the closed partition is to use Forte' Agent and that's only because I haven't taken time to sort thru all the available oss alternatives. Gaaaa, open source is working GREAT from my point of view!
only to find that replacement material cartridges cost $3995.00. :))
And it only runs on Windows...
that now legitimate companies with solid, robust, quality products are going to have to tough out 2 long years with either 1) risk of assassination (Novell - just point the gun and pull the trigger) or 2) having their air supply cut off (Netscape). Of course this is going to have a stifling effect on any technology innovation (other than anti-piracy techniques) as anyone with any really new, innovative idea will have to face the wealth, power and lawyers of the big kahuna. Now people are naturaly innovative and creative so there should be a steady supply of startups for Msft to feed on, but Msft is definitely going to be 'in control' of the PC market and will allow some so called 'competition' for appearances sake - kinda like a prize fighter letting a rank amateur get a few punches in for fun, knowing full well he can pound his ass into the canvas if it ever gets 'seriously' competitive.
Crime pays, if your in the legal profession.
the Hyper Light Speed Antenna. Woo, we can communicate faster than the speed of light! This is about the equivilent of a perpetual motion machine, just not nearly as famous. It's empty techie-gizmo gee-whiz terminology that convinced some shoe horn to grab the wrong stamp. This has got to be someone playing a joke on the pto. Sure, they do employ a lot of trained engineers but there's definitely something amiss with the amount of applictions slipping thru the cracks and getting approved - they need geeks who know whats going on - not the current crop of Al Gore wannabe airheads who've no concept of objective, verifiable facts. I sure hope the NIST doesn't turn into this kind of political swamp.
for theft - your damn bloody straight we're going to fight for reasonable capitalist property laws. In all my years I've heard tons of excuses for ip theft - the "it's not worth what they're charging, therefore I can use it w/o paying", etc etc ad nauseum. These wealth redistribution socialists are no better than barbarians storming the neighboring tribe to rape, loot and plunder, all the while thinking it's their divine right, or blathering about all property being transient so gimme-gimme-gimme.
:) - such as the non-trivial floating point math (which was the big thing MITS BASIC brought to the Altair - which MUST have been useful to have been pirated so much!) This is a non-trivial task, it takes a lot of concentration and effort many hours a day, intense studying of these lists to find mistakes and not a few asperain bottles, to make a list of instructions to does something useful; what's unfair is when the coder does this expecting a certain set of ip laws to be in effect to AT LEAST pay the rent and buy groceries, and have exployment like the fellows working at the shipyard etc, and then along comes this band of barbarians who think that just because something CAN be copied for pennies that it should be absolutely free for cost of copying, damn the author who expects compensation! In the end it's often not the author but the honest customers who pay for theft, just like a store pays for shoftlifting by charging more that the honest customers pay. While we may balk at working for a company that wants to take ownership of any code we write, could you imagine living in a communist country where everything you produce, corn, beans, is considered state property?? (shudder) For some reason, I beleive(know) that standard human nature will always take over and those whose unfortunate job it is to redistribute the wealth 'fairly' usually end up with the most of it! What this leads to eventually is not a rich, robust society, but a bust society with very little incentive to work at all, since you end up producing X value of goods and receiving X-S value back from the central planning committee, it's just slaver all over again. Corrpution (theft, bribery, etc) in a capitalist society also reduces that incentive. It's AMAZING the crazy and creative things people will do to obtain financial freedom (just look at Hollywood!).
Essentially, creating something, whether writing code or building a house is an exertion of effort, work, taking pains to accomplish something such as farming, building shelter, digging water wells, hauling irrigation pipes, weeding, etc. in expectation of harvesting a useful crop to feed the family and sell for cash to buy a frying pan. If I take the blood, sweat and tears to cut down a stand of trees and hew them into lumber and make a shelter to keep a stock of corn out of the weather, then I OWN THAT BARN, I made it, and have the right to kick out any transients who are looking for free shelter at someone else's expense. Likewise with someone who perceives an unfulfilled market niche (and 'itch' experienced by people who DONT CODE who might be willing to pay a fee for a coder to scratch) or a better way to do a job and sets about making a 'program' comprised of a list of fundamental microprocessor instructions which when executed by a microprocessor performs a useful data processing task (can't BELEIVE I have to define "write code"
All in all, what part of a civilized economy do you not understand, or should we all just run around in a giant anarchiac free for all grabbing all the 'transient property' we can get by overpowering the owners?
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it just runs on in emulation.
The above has links to an Altair emulator complete w/ disk images of BASIC, DISK BASIC, etc plus some popular BASIC games - compiles in Unix, run great.
the "killer app" of the day :)) Unless you got the Scelbi "Galaxy" game and typed in an assembler listing. I paid $150 for 4K BASIC in '76 (lets see, that's what, 3.66 cents/byte?) And it still wasn't up to 'Trek - no $trings! And no mass storage either.
The debate over "whether software should be free" is a product of faulty logic that the news media in particular seem to fall for; what amounts to a "koan" - an unanswerable question you can always make banner headlines out of; "Monks Fiercly Divided Over What One Hand Clapping Sounds Like" just like the the whether-guns-or-people-kill debate. Fact is, software is 'owned' by the person that writes it. If you write code, you may choose to GPL it or choose to sell it, one copy per cpu, thank you. Whether BillG "stole" his code from a university dumpster is idle speculation and baselsss accusation untill you come up with some real solid evidence. People arguing over whether "software should be free" is like debating over what we should do with Robins Limo, or the local collective debating what crops are going to be planted on YOUR farm and family property. Don't you folks dare try to socialize MY code or take MY property or someone's going to get hurt.
and look what happened to them!! There is also evidence that earth has been hit by cosmic debris (hehe ;) many times.
is no malice intended, just that people who like Windows and read MSNBC all spend their Saturday evenings online reading MSNBC and for a real blast, take the online polls! Get a life, Windows users.
Your right about it was Lot's daughters that committed incest with their father, Gen. 19:30-32. The other incident I'm refering to is II Sam. 16:22 - "So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel."
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Read it online
{yes, we're quoting Bible verses on
Maybe some of these so called "Christians" should read their Bible's - there's lots of intercourse in there - like Noah and his daughters, um, King David's sons did it on top of a building!
Unlawful carnal knowledge.