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Comment Re:Everyone is happy (Score 1) 151

History says that there is a next phase when the downtrodden finally have incentive to act. What is that act? See world history. We all know what the next phase is. US is mostly past the peasant stage. The power is really with the educated workers. And the elite? The people may need some initial help from the more idealized elite, but that too hast a "permanent" solution.

Comment Old in NOT new (Score 1) 58

This is a 40 year old story. Nothing has been done to curtail or lessen Microsoft's racketeering, buying politicians, putting competitors out of business, since they bought the Washington stare legislature to push their scorched earth tactics until now. So UK want's cheaper licenses for word, I guess. Same old, same old.

Comment Closed (Score 1) 114

And for everyone who says they have an "open mind" on the issue, just give it up. There is no evidence of any alien craft/people/technology. EVERYTHING (that lends any credence) has been investigated with a fine comb. There is nothing that most physicists would want more than to find evidence of aliens. There is no way to keep it secret if it did exist. The US army would BROADCAST any alien technology to the world as a power play. I really don't have to argue this point; it should be obvious. JUST STAHP.

Comment Is it really? (Score 2) 125

So it's slow as fuck, with memory leaks, impossible to maintain, lacking comments, nasty race conditions, 10 times bigger than the original, uses 10 times the memory, freeze trying to open files.... you know, the coding stuff.

Let me know when we can see some head to head QA. Hey, maybe we are there. But I've not seen anything more than vague "proofs of concept." I still want to see AI produce microcode for a new undocumented chop/board. Do you read it the API like a nursery rhyme?

Or to put it another way, if it relies on samples of code to exploit, how is it going to produce NEW code?

Comment Prompt? (Score 1) 66

The prompt is that little $_, or #, or blinking square, etc. showing you where to type. See VT100 terminals. A shell is the commands and features available by default when using that shell on your terminal. Make sure that you let the shell know what type of terminal it is running on. The command line is that space next to prompt, where you can input shell commands, pass through to system commands, or actually act interactively on a more feature-full terminal like a VT320, for example, a menu that allows you to navigate using the arrow keys. The MacOS terminal app is just a simple window (holdover from Next based on Freebsd unix) running one of the local shells, imitating the old DEC IBM, or whatever physical terminal.

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