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| Started by | Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> |
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| First post | 2017-04-22 11:24 -0700 |
| Last post | 2017-04-30 08:42 +0300 |
| Articles | 5 on this page of 45 — 14 participants |
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Dropbox rant Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-04-22 11:24 -0700
Re: Dropbox rant Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-04-22 13:50 -0500
Re: Dropbox rant Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-04-23 04:50 -0500
Re: Dropbox rant Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-04-23 06:58 -0700
Re: Dropbox rant foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 18:06 -0700
Re: Dropbox rant Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 20:30 -0700
Re: Dropbox rant foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 22:02 -0700
Re: Dropbox rant "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-24 21:52 -1000
Re: Dropbox rant Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 16:38 -0700
Re: Dropbox rant hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-25 16:55 -0700
Re: Dropbox rant Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-28 17:50 -0700
Re: Dropbox rant "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-24 21:26 -1000
Re: Dropbox rant john <anon@example.com> - 2017-04-25 10:22 +0100
Re: Dropbox rant lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 04:14 -0700
Re: Dropbox rant hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-25 11:25 -0700
Re: Dropbox rant Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-26 15:57 +0100
Re: Dropbox rant Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 18:41 +0300
Re: Dropbox rant Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-26 17:59 +0100
Re: Dropbox rant Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 21:38 +0300
Re: Dropbox rant rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 17:48 -0400
Re: Dropbox rant hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-26 12:42 -0700
Re: Dropbox rant Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-27 06:57 +0300
Re: Dropbox rant hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-26 21:20 -0700
OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-27 07:45 +0300
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-27 01:31 -0400
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-27 08:43 +0300
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-27 01:56 -0400
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-27 13:17 -0700
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-27 16:31 -0400
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-28 07:48 +0300
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-28 10:22 +0300
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-30 11:09 +1000
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-29 21:52 -0700
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 08:24 +0300
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 01:54 -0400
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 09:04 +0300
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 02:19 -0400
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 00:41 -0700
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 11:01 +0300
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 01:24 -0700
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 03:33 -0700
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com - 2017-04-30 16:19 +0100
Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-04-30 16:46 -0500
Re: Dropbox rant "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-02 11:33 +1000
Back on-topic: what attracted you to Forth?' (was: OT: Hugh's in need of help ...) Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 08:42 +0300
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| From | Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2017-04-30 03:33 -0700 |
| Subject | Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) |
| Message-ID | <a24614e2-e992-4b52-8c90-013dcd86c8cc@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #58383 |
Meanwhile Dropbox on my Wintel still requires one hundred thousand kilobytes of my RAM to sit there in the background and do nothing. Just let that sink in for a minute. How is this progress?
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| From | jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com |
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| Date | 2017-04-30 16:19 +0100 |
| Subject | Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) |
| Message-ID | <20170430161935.06dbd15c@t530.lan> |
| In reply to | #58390 |
On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 03:33:35 -0700 (PDT) Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> wrote: > Meanwhile Dropbox on my Wintel still requires one hundred > thousand kilobytes of my RAM to sit there in the background > and do nothing. Perhaps the gov is looking for aunty steamitic stuff in your files? My new (3yr old) turned-off laptop gets wakes up and gets busy in the middle of the night if I leave the ethernet plugged in. Jan, but preferably a different one.
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| From | Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> |
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| Date | 2017-04-30 16:46 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) |
| Message-ID | <oe5lpt$501$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #58390 |
On 4/30/2017 5:33 AM, Mark Wills wrote: > Meanwhile Dropbox on my Wintel still requires one hundred thousand kilobytes of my RAM to sit there in the background and do nothing. > > Just let that sink in for a minute. > > How is this progress? > Then remove the software, the world can continue existing without that product. -- Cecil - k5nwa
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| From | "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> |
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| Date | 2017-05-02 11:33 +1000 |
| Message-ID | <oe8nkn$128g$1@gioia.aioe.org> |
| In reply to | #58390 |
Mark Wills wrote: > Meanwhile Dropbox on my Wintel still requires one hundred thousand kilobytes of my RAM > to sit there in the background and do nothing. > > Just let that sink in for a minute. > > How is this progress? Who said it was progress? It's a consumption model similar to the one which postulates infinite growth on a finite planet.
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| From | Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2017-04-30 08:42 +0300 |
| Subject | Back on-topic: what attracted you to Forth?' (was: OT: Hugh's in need of help ...) |
| Message-ID | <oe3tau$kn0$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #58371 |
On 04/30/17 04:09, HAA wrote: > Ron Aaron wrote: >> Among the Jewish population, only 44% identify as "secular or >> non-religious", which surprises me -- it's always been more than 50% >> (and in the past, considerably more). > I'd say what's being reported is the willingness or otherwise of citizens to > publicly express a position, and that's going to be influenced by external > factors. A 'secular or non-religious' doesn't suddenly 'get religion'. Maybe, but it's the same polling body with the same polling methodology. Not that it matters too much: as you say, people may answer what they feel is safe to answer. >> Still off-topic for the group, though... > > Easily remedied e.g. 'What attracted you to Forth - circumstance or disposition?' :) :) I'm not sure that binary choice is really it. Something of a combination, I would say. I first got interested in Forth when I was looking for a small interpreter to insert into a project. I did a lot of research, and found that Forth was (at the time, anyway) about as small an interpreter as I could get away with and have the functionality I needed. This was for an employer's product, "back in the day". Having been intrigued by Forth and finding it useful, I messed around with Win32Forth and some others. Then I stumbled upon RetroForth. At that point, I decided I wanted a small and fast Forth, so I asked C. Childers (the RetroForth author) if I could fork his assembly version of RF. He said I could take it over altogether, and so the very first version of "Reva Forth" was born. Reva quickly diverged from RF, but they continued to borrow from each other for a while. That was an interesting project. I got to work in ASM and Forth, which satisfied my low-level disposition. But circumstances overtook me, and Reva lay fallow (from my perspective, anyway; others have apparently forked or derived from it). Some time later, I wanted a cross-platform language for a crypto-based project. I had some stringent security concerns, and wasn't happy with any of the alternatives. Remembering the fun I had with Reva, I took some of its ideas (and none of its code) to make 8th. To answer the question: for me, it's both :)
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