Spacecoyote
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RE: Columbia shuttle data recovery
Also older chips are proven bug-free and come in version that can withstand radiation. What if NASA had decided to go with a AMDK6-2 back in the day...
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RE: How does your marketing department come up with great ads?
Thats why Vista was the example...the upside of marketing is they make you look good, the downside of marketing is they make you look too good.
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RE: I hate cmd.exe
@morbiuswilters said:
bash might not be as primitive as DOS, but it's still a pain in the fucking ass.
Exactly what, pray tell, makes bash a pain in the ass? -
RE: I hate cmd.exe
cmd.exe is the product of years of laziness and back-burner development at microsoft.
DOS started out a clone of CP/M. Microsoft didn't bother with multitasking or even anything above primitive batch processing, and instead just threw BASIC on there as DOS's "killer app". Oddly enough, both the IBM PC and BASIC took off, carrying DOS with it. By then MS had a more fully featured Unix clone called Xenix (based on Version 7 Unix), but DOS had become so big and Microsoft were looking at OS/2 so Xenix was abandoned by Microsoft (SCO picked it up and went on to become infamous).
The Macintosh was doing big things for Apple, and threatening to slowly but surely kill the IBM PC. It seemed almost too late when Microsoft stepped in and released Windows 3, their first offering to even come close to the user friendliness of the Mac, with DOS as sort of a glorified bootloader. But due to the sheer size of the IBM PC market Windows took off. So the big thing was GUI and Microsoft didn't make any noteworthy improvements since to the command prompt. Recently Microsoft has released Windows Powershell, a more more fully featured shell than cmd.exe, but non-standard (unless you call vbscript a standard) to say the least.I say screw both of them. BASH ftw!
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RE: Information Week's history of "pwn"
Its a stupid typo that originated from one of the maps of Warcraft 1.
I hate it when people say "pone", it makes me want to stuff them in the trunk of a volkswagen bug and pay someone to drive it far far away. Is it a different word than own? No. Should you then pronouce it differently? Hell no.
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RE: Soda company to put LOLcats on bottle labels
Christmas Tree and Christmas Ham are probably the worst novelty flavors they made. But I really like Green Apple. As for the lolcats, I imagine that Jones spamming them all over soda cans will be the one last thing that makes the lolcat fad go completely passe.
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RE: Lenovo trifecta in play?
Reminds me of a HP flatbed scanner I once purchased. The driver on the CD was required. It installed through a Flash applet. The TWAIN scanning dialog rendered its GUI through HTML, and all of the widgets were stored as BMPs. The driver took up over 100mb. I lost the CD and had to download the driver when I plugged into a different computer. It was uncompressed, so it was also over 100mb. It hadn't even been 6 months and the damn thing died.
I won't point out what's so bad about any of this, I think you can see. Also, that scanner's not the only HP product that has been very bad to me. The moral of the story: Never buy HP.