That would have been interesting from IBM. I feel like IBM could have promoted OS/2 better overall.. It felt like a more robust OS than
Part of that is I like PC games sometimes, and it seems to me it's
still easiest on Windows. I've heard gaming support has improved quite
Also, I'm still curious to see how Haiku OS develops. I had tried BeOS for a bit in 1998, and I thought it was a nice OS. But these days, I'm not holding out any hope that Haiku will gain much traction (at least,
not any time soon).
Also, I'm still curious to see how Haiku OS develops. I had tried BeOS
for a bit in 1998, and I thought it was a nice OS. But these days, I'm
not holding out any hope that Haiku will gain much traction (at least,
not any time soon).
Never really tried either of those, although I remember seeing the BeOS software
boxes in the stores and was tempted to try it out, I just never did. Was there something in BeOS that you really liked?
People are now advocating not working like gangbusters in your later
life, instead retire more reasonably and enjoy life while you can.
Travel in your late 50s instead of your late 60s/early 70s, you'll
enjoy it more and your quality of life will be better. Makes sense.
There are individual times/experiences I might be sentimental about but I must remind myself that there were also many experiences at those
ages that I really, really am glad are far behind now.
Yes, but those experiences make you who you are now. I did some what-if
thinking a while ago, and thought about what it would have been like to
avoid painful moments in my life, but they built character and set a
path for my life. Avoiding the pain wouldn't have caused a better path,
and I wouldn't have the wisdom I'd gained from the experience - nor
would I have the experiences I'd enjoyed afterwards.
...I remember seeing the BeOS software boxes in the stores and was tempted to try it out, I just never did.
It's still fun to visit places in small towns in the US, or see some wide-ope places that are less common in Europe, but I think a lot of that wouldn't eve strike most Americans as "travel".
Some companies already give employees the option to work 4 10-hour days or 5 8-hour days. If it's going to be 4 10-hour days, I'd rather
things just be left as it is and give people the option. But if it's 4 8-hour days, I wouldn't mind that for more work-life balance.
Would you mind the 20% pay cut? Also likely don't get
benefits/insurance with only 32 hours per week...
I started taking long vacations and traveling in my mid-40s. 10 years later, I am semi-retired. I think I do enjoy them more than I might whe I am older but, OTOH, I actually worry that I might have started too late at 40s. ;)
Man, would love to be able to do this right now... Just cannot finacially afford to travel.
First major trip was at age 43 to London. Visit London is my equivalent of Disney world.
I started taking long vacations and traveling in my mid-40s. 10 years later, I am semi-retired. I think I do enjoy them more than I might when I am older but, OTOH, I actually worry that I might have started too late at 40s. ;)
I was never much of a vacationer, am looking forward to travel when I
retire - and trying to make sure I can make the most of it.
I thought BeOS came out on dedicated hardware first -- they definitely
had some cool ideas, and in re-reading about it, sounds like the file
system was heads and shoulders above what MS and Apple did at the time.
That's another question I've had - If there's a move to 4-day work week
would that also mean benefits would change? Maybe they'd change it so
that 32 hours per week is considered enough to get benefits.
I thought the idea was 4 10-hour days, making it the same weekly hourly amoun
MIKE POWELL wrote to GAMGEE <=-
Some companies already give employees the option to work 4 10-hour days or 5 8-hour days. If it's going to be 4 10-hour days, I'd rather things just be left as it is and give people the option. But if it's 4 8-hour days, I wouldn't mind that for more work-life balance.
Would you mind the 20% pay cut? Also likely don't get
benefits/insurance with only 32 hours per week...
My guess would be that if a company went to a 32-hr work week, that'd
be considered full time for them... although I can also see some underhanded companies considering all employees part-time in that scenario.
I agree, though, that most are not going to keep paying their employees
a 40-hour wage/salary for only working 32 hours. TNSTAAFL.
Since then I did find a couple of other Disney Worlds, and they are also in Indiana -- The Auburn Museum and the Studebaker Museum. ;)
I thought it was also but after re-reading the OP, I think that they were implying a < 40 hr work week.
In the mid-late 90s, there was a company based in California called Walnut Creek that would burn Linux ISOs to optical disc
There's a great car museum in Blackhawk, CA. They have a collection of 1930s cars, I remember a Mercedes 540k, a Hispano with beech planking and brass rivets, a Duesenberg, then moving up in time, 1950s Porsche racing cars, a dozen Aston Martin racing cars, a 1960s JaG, a Porsche 917, and more... WHen
dozen Aston Martin racing cars, a 1960s JaG, a Porsche 917, and more... WHen realized that all of the Aston Martins were donated from a personal collectio
I liked the UI of the Windows phone, CE felt too much like they wanted the Windows desktop OS on everything, but WP felt optimized for phones. I was surprised Microsoft didn't make WP work better in Microsoft corporate environments (or more accurately, break performance with every other platform to make WP the choice for corporate clients.
I did that too. In the mid-late 90s, there was a company based in California called Walnut Creek that would burn Linux ISOs to optical disc (CD-R and DVD-R) and mail it to you for only the cost of the
media, so you wouldn't have to download it yourself.
Wow, I remember those guys. Never got media from them but I do remember
the Ads for them.
MIKE POWELL wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-
dozen Aston Martin racing cars, a 1960s JaG, a Porsche 917, and more... WHen realized that all of the Aston Martins were donated from a personalollectio
When you realized that, what? Looks like maybe you didn't complete a thought there? ;)
MIKE POWELL wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-
I had a coworker who had a Windows phone. He liked it. I was actually not aware of when they discontinued them but from this conversation I guess they have.
nblade wrote to Nightfox <=-
Wow, I remember those guys. Never got media from them but I do remember the Ads for them.
I suspect a lot of the layoffs we are seeing are due to corporations adjustin to the fact their budgets are very badly balanced and are using the AI excuse for PR purposes for the most part.
Travel in your late 50s instead of your late 60s/early 70s, you'll
enjoy it more and your quality of life will be better. Makes sense.
I started taking long vacations and traveling in my mid-40s. 10 years later, I am semi-retired. I think I do enjoy them more than I might when I am older but, OTOH, I actually worry that I might have started too
late at 40s. ;)
MIKE POWELL wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-
I started taking long vacations and traveling in my mid-40s. 10 years later, I am semi-retired. I think I do enjoy them more than I might
when I am older but, OTOH, I actually worry that I might have started
too late at 40s. ;)
Mortar M. wrote to nblade <=-
It's unfortunate that it came out the same year as Win95. If it had premired a year earlier, it might of had a chance, but like Linux, it
just couldn't stand up to the Microsoft juggernaut.
niter3 wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-
Man, would love to be able to do this right now... Just cannot
finacially afford to travel.
I thought BeOS came out on dedicated hardware first -- they definitely had some cool ideas, and in re-reading about it, sounds like the file system was heads and shoulders above what MS and Apple did at the time.
Nightfox wrote to nblade <=-
I never saw the Be boxes in stores; I remember happening upon an
article in my high school library that mentioned BeOS and the BeBox (I don't remember how I found that in the library now), and I later
learned they ported BeOS to Intel-compatible PCs, and I decided to buy
a copy to try on one of my PCs.
At least I seem to remember it that way, I could be mistaken. Of course that is around the same time, I would buy Red Hat Linux for the phyical media so I wouldn't have to DL it and burn it to CD (or was it DVD by then??)
Nightfox wrote to nblade <=-
I did that too. In the mid-late 90s, there was a company based in California called Walnut Creek that would burn Linux ISOs to optical
disc (CD-R and DVD-R) and mail it to you for only the cost of the
media, so you wouldn't have to download it yourself.
Mortar M. wrote to Nightfox <=-
I had one of those. It came with Slackware Linux. First distro I ever used. This around '93, I believe. There was no GUI, no real documentation so after fumbling about for...oh, a day, I scraped it. I guess I just wasn't ready for it yet. --- SBBSecho 3.34-Linux
I did that too. In the mid-late 90s, there was a company based in California called Walnut Creek that would burn Linux ISOs to optical
disc (CD-R and DVD-R) and mail it to you for only the cost of the
media, so you wouldn't have to download it yourself.
Nightfox
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I did that too. In the mid-late 90s, there was a company based in California called Walnut Creek that would burn Linux ISOs to optical disc (CD-R and DVD-R) and mail it to you for only the cost of the media, so you wouldn't have to download it yourself.
Walnut Creek? Arent't they the guys who hosted cdrom.com?
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