Apple and Microsoft already got Unix on the desktop the only way it'll ever get there. First, write a desktop OS, then hide the Unixish OS in a VM deep in the bowels of it where the 95% of users who aren't interested won't have to look at it.
Linus took the king's schilling and now he works for a committee. Theo told the Great and the Good to go pound sand, so he still gets to run his own project. That right there is all the reason I need to prefer BSD to Linux.
It works like this: most people aren't voting for a candidate so much as they're voting against one. If you risk your vote on a third party, that increases the chances of the guy you don't want winning. Given that dynamic, third parties usually can't get more than a rounding error in votes.
Everybody says they'd like another alternative. But when they get it, they won't vote for it.
Having been rather poor myself as a young man, I'd like to point out that having a bad option is better than having no option at all. You get rid of payday loans, then what? Then the poor are back to writing checks and trying to beat them back to the bank.
I've never used it outside of my bank. But then, I never knew they had an app. That might be part of the problem. Anyway, I'm not likely to miss an app I never used.
It's hard to predict. I'd say they're in good shape as long as the launches show steady improvement. There are lots of ways to blow up a rocket, and lots of them can only be found the hard way.
The constitution should apply to everyone, not just the government.
Does this mean I get to have my own navy?
How about when Bob Dylan won one for literature? I like Dylan just fine, but since when do Nobel Prizes pinch hit for a Grammy?
I'm learning to avoid high-end appliances just for that reason. Buy something in the midrange that does just what you need, and no more. I've learned the hard way that gratuitous features are just more opportunities for something to go wrong.
I suppose it beats talking to an Ouija board. Although they probably aren't as different as we'd like to think.
If there ever was any smoking gun evidence, you can bet it went down the memory hole decades ago. Anything left in the files has been well sanitized by this time.
Another layer of abstraction to assist in jerking the customer around.
I want to know how many marriage proposals he's gotten!
Kill Ugly Processor Architectures - Karl Lehenbauer
