What? You never used continuation columns?
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Are 80 Columns Enough?
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"With 80 Columns just being what you can fit on Punch Cards" just shows than you never used a "+" or a "*" in the continuation column.
It was essential when writing in PL/I or when using long variable names in COBOL. (Got to make all those MOVE statements line up pretty.)
Never mind what we used to do to line up FORTRAN code.
After 1975, it was never about what the compiler could handle (I've written quite a few deblank() routines in my time,) it was about what we, the human writers, could handle.
which seemed to sell the crown jewels off to some obscure company, which then disappears from public view and eventually went into receivership.
(And it happened to ParkPlace/Digitalk, [They were the originators of SmallTalk] which WAS a company I cared very deeply about. Some shareholders were left holding $17M worth of used toilet paper instead of the valued stock they originally bought. and ObjectShare went onto something else.)
Fucked up my OOPL(Smalltalk) consulting career but royally.
The money that has been made, and that is being made, comes from the structures agreed upon in the nineteen-twenties and thirties and immediately warped by nascent recording companies to exploit the new broadcasters and the artists; by controlling the means of production.
But I fear Bronfman, the Younger" is screwing with his grandad's legacy ("Seagram's Distilleries" made "Old Man Bronfman" all that money during the prohibition era,) and it means the Bronfman dynasty is starting to ebb.
Its just brilliant of apple to realize that the way the technology is supposed to be used is not how is used, (like hos bright do you have to be, right [but people will deny the evidence of their own senses in the face of everything {like how long did people think the earth was flat?}])
I look forward to being able to USE my flat panel display for the other half of interactivity and have the system recognize it.
In their efforts to stop piracy, the MPAA and announced that they'll start re-making movies (like "My Mother the Car",) starring only people you've seen before (like Adam Sandler and J-Lo,) and whose quality is guaranteed to be worth less that the value of a pirate's CD copy.
Gives new meaning to cosmology: "dark matter" and "dark energy" are coming to a theater near you.
If you're talking about putting a show on the scant and expen^H^H^H^H^H scarce air waves, sure let it die.
But if you're talking about keeping the show going for their audience, "Nuts" to you.
They could run a podcast production, and distribute it that way too, until there's not enough people interested in doing it anymore; until there's not enough fans writing new episodes etcetera.
Just because it can't compete for the expen^H^H^H^H^H scarce air waves, doesn't mean it can't survive on another medium.
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"With 80 Columns just being what you can fit on Punch Cards" just shows than you never used a "+" or a "*" in the continuation column.
It was essential when writing in PL/I or when using long variable names in COBOL. (Got to make all those MOVE statements line up pretty.)
Never mind what we used to do to line up FORTRAN code.
After 1975, it was never about what the compiler could handle (I've written quite a few deblank() routines in my time,) it was about what we, the human writers, could handle.
what the fuck is wrong with their product?
Seriously, stop going to the source.
I say lets declare an embargo on the **AAs products for three months.
They'll be SCREAMING for us to go out and buy their shit...
which seemed to sell the crown jewels off to some obscure company, which then disappears from public view and eventually went into receivership.
(And it happened to ParkPlace/Digitalk, [They were the originators of SmallTalk] which WAS a company I cared very deeply about. Some shareholders were left holding $17M worth of used toilet paper instead of the valued stock they originally bought. and ObjectShare went onto something else.)
Fucked up my OOPL(Smalltalk) consulting career but royally.
Seriously though, I hate to watch those awful DVDs with people coughing and others standing up in front of the camera.
They manage to bring into my home everything I loathe about going to the theater: the presence of other people.
I believe he deserves a couple of months in the pokey to teach him better.
Plank time, baby.
That's how fast you have to be.
I call bullshit on the ignorant article
The money that has been made, and that is being made, comes from the structures agreed upon in the nineteen-twenties and thirties and immediately warped by nascent recording companies to exploit the new broadcasters and the artists; by controlling the means of production.
But I fear Bronfman, the Younger" is screwing with his grandad's legacy ("Seagram's Distilleries" made "Old Man Bronfman" all that money during the prohibition era,) and it means the Bronfman dynasty is starting to ebb.
I wouldn't think that the oil companies had much of a sense of humor either.
... )
They're just dying to get at that oil, and so are about 100 Americans per week.
The sooner they get behind a renewable (non food,) resource, the sooner we can get our body bags, uh, I mean our boys, home.
Converting corn is a stupid way to make oil.
We EAT corn.
We DON'T eat a lot of biomass that can be converted into oil equivalent substance.
But right now, we're stuck with idiots who are looking at corn anyway. (Why? So they can fail?
Think about it.
:-)
With two, you could track the "upper-left corner" with the first and the "lower-right corner" with the second.
Of course you're then limited to only those points.
A true multi-touch interface is not (but then again, the "two corner" is better than nothing.
Steve Jobs' attachment to one button mice was not a question of $ but it was one of philosophical functionality.
Now that he's doing multi-touch, look for it to be done right.
And as long as there are more mothers than mother-fu ... uh, enterprises, Apple's solution is going to stand.
... uh, figs about you or your enterprise requirements.
Apple could give two fu
Start screaming at Dell to make their systems more usable and leave Apple alone.
It's got fingerprint smudges all over it already!
Its just brilliant of apple to realize that the way the technology is supposed to be used is not how is used, (like hos bright do you have to be, right [but people will deny the evidence of their own senses in the face of everything {like how long did people think the earth was flat?}])
I look forward to being able to USE my flat panel display for the other half of interactivity and have the system recognize it.
Since when did ANY technical details make into a contract?
As a matter of fact, they do... In a patent application! (And those are all supposed to be in a searchable public database.)
The rest of contract law is entirely concerned with the behavior of people.
Are you ashamed of your child?
I feel real pity for your child.
As for YOU; you can fuck the hell right off the planet. Cock-biter...
I feel dirty even knowing you exist...
Its perfect.
Every belch from a power plant or a factory will actually be doing some good.
No pollution controls required.
product company. We could give two shits about what you think."
And Apple really DOESN'T. So this entire post is a non-starter.
Uh, never mind...
to have paid before any staff begins working on your breakfast.
Man, that sucked...
Its easier to add a function trigger to an event table than to take a function out of a piece of software.
Why on earth wouldn't it work?
You can just capture it and decode it at your leisure.
Who gives a flying fuck if Spiderman I is locked-up behind impenetrable flame proof walls of encryption.
It frankly stopped having any value to an audience as soon as Spiderman II came out.
Most media is filled with 'paid for hire' excrement anyway.
In their efforts to stop piracy, the MPAA and announced that they'll start re-making movies (like "My Mother the Car",) starring only people you've seen before (like Adam Sandler and J-Lo,) and whose quality is guaranteed to be worth less that the value of a pirate's CD copy.
Gives new meaning to cosmology: "dark matter" and "dark energy" are coming to a theater near you.
otherwise, calling a function get into all kinds of resource locking problems.
If you're talking about putting a show on the scant and expen^H^H^H^H^H scarce air waves, sure let it die.
But if you're talking about keeping the show going for their audience, "Nuts" to you.
They could run a podcast production, and distribute it that way too, until there's not enough people interested in doing it anymore; until there's not enough fans writing new episodes etcetera.
Just because it can't compete for the expen^H^H^H^H^H scarce air waves, doesn't mean it can't survive on another medium.
instead of femurs.
It's still extortion. I hope it works. (I'm a podcaster. Podsafe music forever! Fuck the RIAA and ASCAP/BMI. Who needs them?)
to the radio and the clear channeling of the air waves.
:-)
Podcasting is uncensored media (Imagine listening to Prince's "Dirty Mother Fucker" on ANY radio. Well you CAN listening on a podcast.
There are thousands of podcasts from thousands of producers and they're FREE (well, mostly. You have to pay for some or for versions of some.)
I haven't heard a radio in years and I PRODUCE a podcast.
So that there are some questions that employers can't ask a genetic lab to answer. (The employer can ask and be told to fuck off with impunity.)
Of course if there is collusion between the two, you're doubly screwed.
Not only do you not get the job, but you die prematurely of some horrible genetic disorder.