There were shenanigans then as well, remember Ecco the dolphin? Well it was made extra difficult so you couldn't beat it in a weekend (as it was usual for rentals).
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....
One of the things that irated me most from Reddit was the fact that if someone's response came quickly enough, upvotes will ensure everyone believe it and downvoting it was like peeing on a wildfire.
I like that kbin shows both upvotes and downvotes which tells me when something is controversial enough to give it some thought rather than believe it blindly.
Long, long ago the DOS acronym meant Disk Operating system, however iirc MS-DOS came from Tim Paterson's QDOS (also known as Quick and Dirty Operative System).
At the time, Bill Gates' mom got him in contact with IBM's CEO John Opel, and ask him for something compatible with the dominating OS at the time, CP/M.
Gates solved this with an easy trick of buying QDOS (sold as 86-DOS) for 50 Grand, then licensing it to everyone and their dog as MS-DOS, which allegedly meant MicroSoft Disk Operating System.
However, I want to think MS-DOS still stands for Microsoft Dirty Operating System, if we're to follow the initial developer's wishes ;)
Funny enough, neither excel, nor powerpoint where made by MS and it will be stretching the truth, saying that OS/2 development didn't influence Windows 1.0, which was mostly a frontend manager sitting on top of MS-DOS.
Neither Xenix, Microsoft's original OS, was that original, as it is said by their creators it was "very close to the original Unix version 7 source".
I think at that age, only MS Word came from Microsoft when they hired the primary developer of their competition's GUI Word Processor.
Not only that, but the risks of snowballing because of major ecological breakdowns like the Amazon, in massive forest fires like in Canada and the chance that the methane stored in permafrost could escape once it melts, means that we might be talking of going from 3C to 4C.
Last week, NASA announced it is working with a technology development company on a new propulsion system that could transport humans to Mars in only two months – down from the current nine month journey required to reach the Red Planet. Gizmodo reports:...
As a little background, I didn’t actively use Reddit for months following the blackout. I still barely stop in over there and if I do I’m never logged in our contributing to the communities there (where I was previously a daily poster/commenter)....
EA SPORTS WRC is adding EA anticheat, breaking another game on Steam Deck / Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)
New Teslas might lose Steam (www.theverge.com)
Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field?
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....
MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced! (www.youtube.com)
Bleak (aussie.zone)
Stormy Daniels wore a bulletproof vest to Trump’s hush money trial, attorney says (www.independent.co.uk)
Earlier this year, porn star said she accepted hush money so Donald Trump could not have her killed...
new copy pasta dropped (lemmy.ml)
Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds (thedriven.io)
Yacht sinks after latest incident involving orcas in strait of Gibraltar (www.theguardian.com)
Can confirm. I saw one of the plots and the plot looked at me. (lemmy.world)
Don't make me turn this car around! (files.catbox.moe)
Duke students walk out of Jerry Seinfeld graduation speech in Gaza protest (www.theguardian.com)
Dozens leave university commencement ceremony to protest comedian, who has vocally supported Israel since 7 October
This aggression will not stand, man. (www.bbc.co.uk)
Steve Buscemi punched while walking street in New York....
Shogun could return for a second season, but it shouldn't (www.destructoid.com)
"Classified" Ad (lemmy.ca)
Inspired by: lemmy.world/post/15297575...
NASA's Proposed Plasma Rocket Would Get Us to Mars in 2 Months (gizmodo.com)
Last week, NASA announced it is working with a technology development company on a new propulsion system that could transport humans to Mars in only two months – down from the current nine month journey required to reach the Red Planet. Gizmodo reports:...
Bungie's first big hit, Marathon, is now free on Steam thanks to a fan revival that has Bungie's blessing (www.pcgamer.com)
If Reddit had a soul/conscience, I think it was us, and we're all on Lemmy now...
As a little background, I didn’t actively use Reddit for months following the blackout. I still barely stop in over there and if I do I’m never logged in our contributing to the communities there (where I was previously a daily poster/commenter)....
What are your best intrusive ads ideas?
If your job was to come up with greater enshittification for society, what would you do?...
This Doctor Won’t Take Health Insurance - and Charges Just $35 a Visit | AJ+ (5:46) (www.youtube.com)
Telegram apparently censor queer groups (mastodon.social)