Invisible wrote:
>>>> Borland
>>> Are they still going?
>>
>> Sure
> 
> Oh, OK. I thought they went under after Delphi failed...
> 

I cringe any time I have to drag out the old Borland C++ IDE..

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Invisible wrote:
>>> Heh. How do you guys know all this stuff?
>>
>> We read the news sites.
> 
> Wouldn't that take an absurd amount of time?
> 

It's a symptom of not willfully living underneath a rock.

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Gail Shaw wrote:
> "Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
> news:47b1c391@news.povray.org...
>> Gail Shaw wrote:
>>
>>> Oracle
>>> Sun
>> I thought Sun only made hardware?
>>
>> [Oh, mind you, they did do that little Java fad...]
> 
> And MySQL. Don't forget SunOS. They may have done Solaris too, but I'm not
> sure.

yep, Solaris is genuinely a Sun Unix.  MySQL is not from them, they just 
acquired the company responsible.  So far, so good and no forks made...

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>>> It beats coming across as ignorant in conversation.
>> Mmm, OK. I guess if I was talking to people who actually care about such
>> matters I might do the same... ;-)
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> Does that mean we don't care, or that we're not people?

You're not going to fire me if you think I'm an idiot, are you? ;-)

Besides, I thought most of the people in here are more interested in 
software products than who-owns-who type details?

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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>>>> Heh. How do you guys know all this stuff?
>>>
>>> We read the news sites.
>>
>> Wouldn't that take an absurd amount of time?
>>
> 
> It's a symptom of not willfully living underneath a rock.

I just try not to spend time on things that don't interest me. [I 
thought everybody else did too...]

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stbenge <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> VC is no small 
> download, not for those of us still struggling with dialup (I get 24Kpbs 
> here :(...)

  Which is exactly why it sounds so stupid to immediately uninstall it
right after he had downloaded and tested it, and just because of such
a mundane reason.

  How about thinking of it like this: If the whatever-non-standard-library
he wanted to be included was included, the download would have been even
larger, and it's a library not everyone needs or wants. Now he can download
a smaller package, and then optionally download whatever additional libraries
he wants for it.

  Ditching the compiler because it doesn't come with some non-standard
library by default is like ditching a linux distro because it doesn't
come with all possible software by default. It doesn't make sense.
  What makes more sense in this example is that you download the small
distro, install it, and then you install whatever additional software
you need. This way you don't have to spend three days downloading a
package where half of the stuff is something you will never need.

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> > wouldn't it just be a matter of downloading OpenGL headers and libs?

> Presumedly, since the other compilers already work with OpenGL, he 
> doesn't even need to download them, yes?

  If the other compilers work ok, then why did he even download VS?

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Gail Shaw <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
> > I thought Sun only made hardware?
> >
> > [Oh, mind you, they did do that little Java fad...]

> And MySQL. Don't forget SunOS. They may have done Solaris too, but I'm not
> sure.

  Of course Solaris is made by Sun. And don't forget OpenOffice.

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> > Blizzard

> ...who?

  In my books you have stopped being a computer nerd from this moment
forward.

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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> Blizzard
> 
>> ...who?
> 
>   In my books you have stopped being a computer nerd from this moment
> forward.

:-(

Why? Because I don't play certain types of games?

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