Comment Re:News for nerds, stuff that matters... (Score 2) 784
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I'm not sure about that. It seems to me that the curiosity that led me to "explore" my neighborhood as a child also led me to explore tech later on.
... this is not
I'm not sure about that. It seems to me that the curiosity that led me to "explore" my neighborhood as a child also led me to explore tech later on.
I bought my first computer at Radio Shack. It was a Tandy 1000, XT compatible, with an 8088 processor, 2 floppy drives, and 384K RAM (which got upgraded to 640K). I haven't been in a Shack for many years (and apparently neither has anyone else), and I'm not surprised, but it is kind of sad.
Consider yourself lucky he didn't hit you with his mom's boots. Combat boots really hurt!
My mother WAS a prophet. She predicted that I'd get into trouble within a week, and sure enough I did. Given my track record, that wasn't exactly a difficult prediction, but still, it did come true.
2K probably had as many or more security holes than XP, but it hit that sweet spot of being stable when that was most important, light (XP was bloatware when it first came out--still is in many ways), and secure enough for the time.
Also, look at what people were used to. If they upgraded from Win 9X, they'd be happy to have an OS with uptime that's not measured in hours (or minutes in the case of Win95). NT4 was better than that, but I still had plenty of problems with it crashing. The problem with security is, you can't tell it's bad until you get pwned. Instability is as plain as the BlueScreen on your monitor, and prior to Win 2K, instability was Windows middle name.
IME, Win 8.1 isn't really that bad. The reason is, unlike 8.0, it boots to the desktop, and I seldom even see Metro.
Vista also hit the "sour spot" in RAM. If you didn't have 2G RAM, Vista was very slow. If you did have 2G or more, 32-bit Vista only saw the 2G, and was still slow.
Even if a language is more readable, the programs might not be. COBOL is supposed to be readable, but I've seen plenty of COBOL programs that could rival anything in C or Perl for unreadability.
I don't even blindly trust the professionals. I have stuff on Dropbox, Google, and Microsoft, but I also have it on my desktop and 2 laptops. No way would I trust everything to one random person's "cloud".
My intelligence helped me in the areas that I had a natural aptitude. My grit got my through the areas that I didn't. I needed both to get me where I am today.
But, from everything I've read, upgrading to Lollypop is a sucker bet.
Yeah, I never thought of JCL as a programming language. It was just something I fiddled with to run batch COBOL programs.
To the best of my knowledge, there's nothing of value on the moon. Instead, it's full of razor sharp rocks and razor sharp dust. Why would anyone want to live there? Just to wave that flag you planted around every day?
I once heard that we quit going to the moon after we found out it wasn't really made of cheese. I think it was on a Kraft commercial, but the point is still valid.
In urban areas, the police can be there in minutes, but the bad guy can shoot/stab/pulverize you in seconds. You can't necessarily depend on the police to protect you.
I've heard that, even on a PC, it's hard to find a POS that's not a POS.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
