He's older than that. You have some powerfully tinted rose-colored goggles if you want OS X to look like OS 9.

Back then, the Mac desktop was filled up with aliases, you didn't default copy things from disk (you just made 'links'), and the dock was more like a control panel with advertising for whatever you installed. Although his argument could apply to OS 10.7, a user can turn the extra features off.

With Windows, the 'classic' Windows 7 theme is a lot less usable than a 'tuned' Aero Windows 7 theme. Aero has better notification, better window management, and buttons that cram more usefullness out of limited screen real estate.

What is condescending in Windows, and most graphical interfaces, is the requirement of using a program like AutoHotkey to do custom keyboard shortcuts. When touch devices start to wear out (or when the mouse pointer goes mad), (i)OS X and Windows don't have an alternative, fast method for an experienced user to navigate the system, but Ubuntu Unity does.

And the rest of us that open ODF files in Google Docs or Wordpad are just fine. FWIW, businesses upgrade to the most recent version of Office when they upgrade the systems, because you can't get the depreciation tax deduction on fully depreciated hardware (assuming your company is profitable enough to want the deduction).

I fail to see how Mozilla and Google are competitors. For one, Google doesn't offer a stand-alone email client, they just use the browser. Another obvious note is Google Summer of Code regularly funds things that they have internal projects on, i.e. pidgin vs. gtalk. It's easy to assume that Google is a software company behaving like a software company since that's what we've seen before. But Google is a services company that deals in software that uses those services. A car analogy: Google built a highway that is so smooth that you don't have to care what tires you're using -- Google's radials or Mozilla's -- because Google just wants to collect the tolls.

The advantage of Google having Chrome is that people that haven't heard of Mozilla and are wary of software they don't have to pay for can see a big professional name that is occasionally on TV. In addition, it allows in-house projects to be tested on an in-house platform to prevent snafus on release.

Actually, it took Johannes Gutenberg and the Gutenberg Bible.

Roger Williams founded Providence Plantation which, with the Royal Charter of 1663, became Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Following the charter, many persecuted religions, notably Quakers and Jews, settled there.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
~Neils Bohr

Into Cerberon: http://www.chmodoplusr.com/IntoCerberon/

Although /. has many haters for the site (ads everywhere), phoronix.com is the only benchmark site I've found that not only tells you, but tests out suggestions & rumors. The link compares AMD's Open64 compiler and gcc4.7 on an FX8150.

I want to believe that the FX series isn't inferior to everything it gets put up against because it is the first CPU with SSE4.1 & SSE4.2 AMD made, and was hoping _some_ benchmark software actually uses it.

This is similar to driving with the emergency brake partially engaged. Although the brakes are slowing the vehicle, the brakes will eventually fail at no fault of the manufacturer.

The UA argument is a hypothetical event where the engine is full throttle because the brake petal is pressed. I've gotten this to occur somewhat when driving like crap (flooring the gas causing the automatic transmission to shift down and rpms to kick up, and then slam on the brakes before the clutch disengages) but the vehicle still slows properly.

Because of where it was happening, I assumed the drivers thought the world revolved around them: when vehicles around them slowed down faster then they were, they thought they were speeding up.

From Linux: The 0.01 Release

Linux 0.01 was released into the Internet before 386BSD 0.0 (although you could get the sources out of DDJ).

From the 386BSD 0.0 Release:

I'd rather work with software than a university bureaucracy.

it is still cheaper to burn a $0.10 - $0.17 CD, $0.20 - $0.32 DVD+R or a $0.75 DVD+RW than it is to trade a flash drive or flash card at $1/GB. Even at 5.8MB/s (4x DVD+RW) it's faster than the cheapest Class 2 SD card on newegg.

Which is why I don't understand why the extremely common UDF file format isn't used for everything at this point. 16EB is big enough for any simple disk system.

It is not the stove's fault that it is hot, rather it is the operator's fault. Fool me twice, nuke the stove from orbit; or to save money on expensive nuking materials, avoid the stove at all costs.

Easy [simple] isn't the same as hot. The challenge of conquering complex things is self-inflicted, the challenge of conquering hot things is mostly preparation.

But unlike William Randolph Hurst, his publications aren't yellow.

In addition, Crysis was the topic when showing that PhysX is not optimized for x87, even though x87 is part of the Crytek system requirements. Although one may think that "it works on one graphics card but not the other" is a hardware deficiency, the software/game may rely on a bug or error elsewhere in the OS to operate correctly. The only way to be certain is to compile it from source.