Which is why Nantucket Corporation could/should have owned the world with Clipper, had they just kept moving it forward. But they squandered their 5 year lead...
Now, of course, you'd be insane to use xBase for anything. But at the time, it was pretty cool stuff.
NewDOS 80 v2!
We pedants use it as a shortcut method for figuring out whether or not a person is a blithering idiot. Grammar errors don't trigger an irrevocable condemnation, but they sure provide a good first indicator.
I always like it when at the scene of an accident, the officer is asking "What happened here?" and the driver is saying "I don't know
Huh? You're piloting a ton or more of steel at 60km/h, and you don't know? Did it ever occur that you might want to know what's going on around you?
Based upon my own personal experience (as an ex-child myself), there is very little a parent can do to stop a determined, curious kid.
Statistically, you lose a few. Most of the dangerous things kids get into are treatable after the fact, or will only leave some scarring.
I thought the pill did ban children!
yeah, GEM was fun. More fun than DOS, anyway.
You had assembly language? You lucky, lucky bastard! We had to hand-place electrons on the bus of our S100 system to even boot CP/M.
LD HL, 3C00
LD DE, FA00
LD BC, 0F00
LDIR
yeah, DESQview was awesome. Even DESQview/X was great, except our sluggish little 386s just couldn't keep up with the demands. Or maybe we needed memory. I dunno. It should have beaten out Windows.
What about NEWDOS/80 v2?
Or LDOS?
OK, I'm going to go drown my nostalgia is some Scotch that's half as old as my TRS-80.
Shot them, meaning the Leftists or the drives?
This particular leftist is heavily armed and likes shooting things. I dunno where your leftists would find moral objection to shooting old disk drives, unless you're doing it in a wildlife preserve or something.
Didn't Palm outsource all of its coding to India?
In which case, there may or may not be the capability of wasting work time to read Slashdot like I'm doing. From what I hear, most of the programming facilities there are pretty restrictive of web access. I suppose the coders might access Slashdot from home, but
Also, I don't know of any GPS-enabled smartphones that have enhancements like WAAS, which can be very helpful where available.
I looked at reports for three sites for which I have analytics access.
Here're the results. IE: 53%, 58%, 71%, Firefox: 29%, 27%, 19%, Safari: 13%, 9%, 4%
One of the sites is for commercial vehicles. One is for motorcycle gear. The other is an alternative wedding site.
I see a lot of likely demographic differences. All of this is supposition, with no studies to back it up, so take it with a small mountain of rock salt.
There's likely an age difference among those sites. I'd guess that two of the sites skew older than the other. There is also a likely difference in income: one being primarily people with disposable income, one for people with less disposable income, and one being primarily small to medium business owners. There's likely a gender gap among visitors to these sites: one of the sites is probably 75% women, the other two sites probably have 85+% men.
Given those assumptions, I'd argue that young, affluent women are more likely to upgrade their browsers than older small-business owners.
In other news, I'm beginning to think water tends to be wet at room temperature, and ice is not very warm relative to fresh waffles.
First off, it's not even rumor-mongering -- it's some hack making shit up to increase his pageviews.
Secondly, it's a stupid idea.
Thirdly, it ain't gonna happen.
Fourthly, everyone expects Apple to buy everything (Sony, Nintendo, Be, Sun, Palm,
Fifthly, who cares? Twitter's already over. The "cool" people have moved on to hype other new stuff (remember Blogs? remember Podcasts?)
The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.
