And, yes, I do realize Apple stole the GUI from Xerox...
Actually, no. Apple traded their stocks for a day with Xerox engineers which had to show them what they've done. And they've done very little compared to things that were in the first Mac GUI. I.e. overlapping windows.
Things like these are documented on Apple's folklore site.
1) look at some weird hobby project you did
2) describe it's functionality in the form of a contest description
3) send the contest description to NASA
4) apply your weird hobby project for the contest
5) profit!
The problem with networking is they don't have any devices powerful enough to beam the return signal BACK to us.
Plant XO-1 OLPC laptops (or something simpler but with the same network specs) all over the place like mines. Their built-in mesh network capability will ensure that if one is found the whole data pathway would be automatically reconfigured on the fly.
Presto, persistent anonymous bandwidth.
And if you think it's bad where you live, you should try things out here where I live (Crawford County, Ohio). We've got 15% unemployment last I heard.
If you think it's bad where you live, you should try things out here where I live. We've got 1.3 working people on every retired person in a population on 4.5 million
Oh man... do you have any idea how outsourced/globalized the Linux market is? Linux as a commercial software product is almost entirely third world off-shored. Microsoft was sort of an outlier in doing so much development here in America.
I guess you've probably heard of this one:
WHY AMERICA 'S ECONOMY FELL OFF THE CLIFF
John Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock
(MADE IN JAPAN ) for 6 am. While his coffeepot (MADE IN CHINA)
was perking, he shaved with his electric razor (MADE IN HONG KONG)
He put on a dress shirt (MADE IN SRI LANKA), designer jeans
(MADE IN SINGAPORE) and tennis shoes (MADE IN KOREA).
After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet
(MADE IN INDIA) he sat down with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO)
to see how much he could spend today. After setting his watch
(MADE IN TAIWAN) to the radio (MADE IN INDIA) he got in his car
(MADE IN GERMANY) filled it with GAS (from Saudi Arabia)
and continued his search for a good paying AMERICAN JOB.
At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking
his computer (MADE IN MALAYSIA), John decided to relax for a while.
He put on his sandals (MADE IN BRAZIL), poured himself a glass of wine
(MADE IN FRANCE) and turned on his TV (MADE IN INDONESIA),
and then wondered why he can't find a good paying job in AMERICA.
AND NOW HE'S HOPING HE CAN GET HELP FROM THE PRESIDENT
(MADE IN KENYA)!!!
Anyways, I thought it was funny.
Heck, MS has more feet then that. They shot themselves in the foot with Windows ME too, luckily for them they had the reasonably stable Windows NT ready to go out the door.
They shot themselves in the foot with MS-DOS 4.0 an nobody even blinked. They released MS-DOS 5.0 and everybody just flocked around it.
what part of 10 year old equipment didn't you understand? What part of Win NT and win 2K makes you think the hardware can even run anything newer? At that time your looking at Red Hat 5. think about it. linux wasn't ready back then for mission critical stuff. At best they could have gone with OS/2 warp.
They could have gone with Solaris
Most devices that physically touch you and control something which can harm a person are coded in hardware, not windows, and have hardware in place to prevent such a thing from harming someone.
Oh, you must be new here. Have you ever heard of a silly little thing called Therac-25? Here's a summary from Wikipedia:
The Therac-25 was a radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) after the Therac-6 and Therac-20 units (the earlier units had been produced in partnership with CGR of France). It was involved with at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which patients were given massive overdoses of radiation, approximately 100 times the intended dose. Three of the six patients died as a direct consequence. These accidents highlighted the dangers of software control of safety-critical systems, and they have become a standard case study in health informatics.
Apparently, some bonehead decided that the hardware lock is too expensive since it can be implemented in software - and removed the physical hardware circuit. So, you never know what those machines can and can't do
...you must live in perpetual fear. Whenever you're starting to focus on the reality of life, new fear WILL be injected into it to distract you. This is how the natural order sustains itself.
Funny, though, hearing this from Anonymous Coward
i assume you are not up to date, showing me "news" of 1999. read this
Yes, I know all about it, but it has nothing to do with NATO intervention that stopped slaughter of Kosovars by Serbs - what your link is talking about is a different conflict, and it's between Albanians and Macedonians, not between Albanians and Serbs.
My link was posted in direct response to your writing that it was a bad idea for NATO to attack serbian forces. It was a right decision, altough it was a bit late. NATO should have intervened if not in 1990./1991., then in 1992. against Serbia, Bosnian Serbs, and, back then, against Monte Negro. A lot of lives would have been spared and a lot of damage would have been prevented. This way Serbia still has 40% of people voting for a party that talks about Great Serbia and almost 100% of people that are, to use a common phrase here on Slashdot, living in a reality distorsion field of incredible propaganda.
It seems to me that the threat of the US and Britain to the west helped the Russians on the eastern front considerably and vice versa. The Russians didn't even get Leningrad back until the US was fighting in North Africa, so I don't think you can say that it sat out until Russia had the war won, and I don't think several years of war count as "[going] in to steal the laurels". So, while you are absolutely in the wrong with respect to WWII, I will say that Russia did much more of the legwork than you'd think from American culture. There's no way to tell what would have happened if one or the other were to have stayed out of the war, but I'd say it's fairly safe to say that they both played their roles.
Let's not forget the battle of Kursk (lso known as the greatest tank battle of all times)which was probably the most definitive battle of the World War II. It was the battle that destroyed the Germans' offensive force. Russians lost a lot, but looking at the big picture it's what pretty much won the war.
Also, the battle was the first time a predecessor of one of these got used. The morale in war plays a big part of it, so imagine witnessing the result of hundred of them for the first time in history - from the other side.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
