- San Francisco (/ˌsæn frənˈsɪskoʊ/; Spanish for “Saint Francis”), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of 46.9 square miles (121 square kilometers), at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 331 U.S. cities proper with more than 100,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $133,856) and fifth by aggregate income as of 2019. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include SF, San Fran, The City, Frisco, and Baghdad by the Bay.
- The History of Windows 2000 (abortretry.fail)
When Microsoft and IBM had their divorce, Microsoft left OS/2 in the rear view mirror and began driving toward NT. This marked the third operating system that Microsoft had fully intended to replace MS-DOS and Windows on the IBM PC and compatibles. The first such system was Xenix, the second was OS/2, and finally NT. The question that remained for Microsoft was which version of NT will accomplish this goal? Version 3.1, the first NT version, was successful for Microsoft internally, and NT 4 was a commercial success. This commercial success made certain that Microsoft would create NT 5, which began its planning phase in the summer of 1996 after the launch of NT 4 with the planned timing for release being in late 1997. This had been revised by the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in May of 1997 to a ship date sometime in 1998. At this point, there was an intent to have a version for Intel’s Merced, for both 32 bit and 64 bit Alpha, for x86 workstations, and for consumer PCs. Here we see that Microsoft had pivoted from making a pure successor to NT 4, to having NT 5 be the version that unified the consumer and professional operating system lines, and the company had roughly forty two hundred people working on it…
- Hippie (Wikipedia)
A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during or around 1964 and spread to different countries around the world. The word hippie came from hipster and was used to describe beatniks who moved into New York City’s Greenwich Village, in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, and Chicago’s Old Town community. The term hippie was used in print by San Francisco writer Michael Fallon, helping popularize use of the term in the media, although the tag was seen elsewhere earlier.
