Which also meant you had to code to the lowest possible denominator.
Solaris has a kick-ass new feature in it's shell? Too bad; can't touch it. IRIX has a neat library to do something? Too bad, can't touch it. You can code to C-89, maybe POSIX, and that's that.
Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages.
The other day, I booted up a new-in-the-box Acer laptop (or Asus, maybe) and was pleasantly surprised that it was already set to boot to desktop.
There's a fuckton of good stuff under the hood of Win8; the start menu just went fullscreen.
They are having layout issues right now. I've seen this before. They fix it eventually. As long as the archives remain untainted, intact, and accessible, it's all good.
You forgot the scare quotes around the word "fix".
...and Linux has software to play blu-ray discs?
Yes. Technically, MakeMKV is a ripper, not a player, but once you have a disc ripped, you can play the ripped file with the player of your choice: VLC, mplayer, etc. You can also stream it over your network, transcode it to take less space, etc.
So, basically you're saying that you Love the Power Glove?
It's so bad.
No, no, this is delicate equipment. Unplug it, wait 30 seconds, and plug it back in.
Laika had to go somewhere.
With all those Venutian women that Bud and Lou left behind, I won't be needing underwear for long anyway!
In kindergarten, I walked over a mile to/from the school every day unaccompanied. So did all the other kids in the neighborhood.
I walked to and from school in kindergarten. Google Maps says it was a little bit over a half-mile. The only issue that came up was on the first day of school, when not knowing what the buses were all about, I ended up on one. It didn't take long to get that straightened out, and it only happened once.
I suspect the events described in TFA are a consequence (not necessarily unintended) of our hyperlitigious society...consider, for instance, the sledding bans that have been popping up like metastatic tumors all over the place lately, or that you can't get someone to build you a pool with a diving board.
Maybe it's just chrome, but I've never seen this site as broken as it currently is. I had to reply to a comment, because the fail of css has all kinds of crap covering up the button to let me make a top level comment.
Aha! So I just need to start a new FUSE project which presents the binary logs as text.
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android