Re:I was making $33,000 a year when I was 19
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California produces movies. While the coasts are certainly the cultural centers, and produce a lot of cultural exports, they don't produce as much actual product.
Um, okay... California is the number one agricultural State in the Union. If you go to the County level, 9 of the 10 top agricultural Counties in the US are in California. Agriculure remains the top employer in the State, and generated about $29 billion dollars last year. California's mild climate and range of climate zones on arable land leads to it having probably the most diverse agricultural production as well.
That's not even counting Marijuana:P
What does New York produce?
New York City was the inspiration for the backlot street scenes you see in all those movies and TV shows filmed here in California. We also needed some where to send all the loons who like musical theatre;D
As we all know, a neccesary component of any future society (Star Trek aside) is really crappy display technologies which are "cooler" than they are functional. If it's vertical and transparent, who needs legibility? If they can make this shizit three-dimensional by sacrificing some more resolution and possibly some framerate, we'll have a definite winner.
It is rude to quote, or in this case, wholly transcribe someone else's work without proper credit. Granted, a large portion of the USA audience knows where to place the credit, but this post was directed to an Australian reader, yes? The text of the parent post is the script for a segment of Schoolhouse Rock, which appeared on the television network ABC in the United States in the 70's and early 80's.
Given the population density of the US, I think it is likely that a large chunk of the "most Americans" in this study have 3 broadband "options"; T1, DSL, or Satelite, which aren't really options at all for most households.
Its not censorship if you choose not to view something, whether by averting your eyes or by hiring an agent to cover them for you. No one is being forced to view the "sanitized" version instead of the original.
It's actually not that simple. You could build a station for what you could get by selling your car, but you do need to put together a fairly complicated system or your signal will be wavering off frequency and sound like crap.
After reading your write-up for this topic, I'm taking everything you say regarding the issue with a grain of salt. I have no doubt you are "friends" with "Haken". You're quite likely to be Haken, or to pbe picking up your paycheck at the same place...
As for the dietary benefits of tapeworms, large parasites like the beef tapeworm and Ascaris certainly do compete for us for nutrients. However, like any method of starvation, they tend to rob us of micronutrients (like vitamins) before they get to the stuff we don't really need. Signs of infection with large tapeworms (especially with the broad fish tapeworm, Diphyllobothrium latum) include conditions associated with vitamin B12 deficiency (eg. megaloblastic anaemia). Just to make matters worse, one of the symptoms of have a large lump of tapeworm protein in one's guts is to generate an immune response and the resultant ascites - a collection of fluid in the abdomen resulting in a pot belly - not exactly the look that the dieters are looking for.
Basic seems just as much a 'functional language' as Logo...
Maybe Basic... but not BASIC. BASIC interpreters on the AppleII, early Ataris and the C=64 didn't have a GOSUB statement. The first GOSUB I ever saw was in BASIC 7.0 on the C=128. By the time Basic had functions, we were in a whole different era of computing and of teaching "compyooters". Do they even teach "programming" in elementary school these days?
LOGO was the only functional language that came on Atari400/800/etc cartridges and AppleII/C=64 floppies back in the day. I consider the fact that thousands of children were introduced to the functional paradigm via LOGO to be highly "useful."
You are correct though, in that there weren't many real-world problems that could be easily "solved" using those LOGO interpreters. The main thing we learned to solve was figuring out how to determine the outside angles of arbitrary polygons:D
What would have ben great is if LOGO had had the power to do do the stuff we had to use BASIC for in the second half of middle school programming classes... hundreds of kids would have never been exposed to the complete nightmare of BASIC GOTO tangles...
Not the stats. I wouldn't by a prelevelled char (mine are levelled already anyway...) but if I did, it would be for the stats, whicha are harder to raise now, not for the skills.
Still, I think the real solution would be to let every char start at 85 skill in whatever they want, or better yet, scale the skills down so that 20 skill doesn't mean a rabbit can frickin kill you, it should mean you're a fairly average human, not a pathetic weakling who can't get out of bed without bruising.
At the time (early-to-mid '80s), there was simply no other way for a geeky kid to learn what a real OS was like.
So, according to your logic, a kid should be able to break into a recording studio at night to learn to use equipment they would otherwise not have access to? Or are you saying its okay as long as they remember to turn off the lights and leave a note explaining how they got in?
No for two reasons: 1) Apparently, it's magnetic ink, not read by bouncing light off it. 2) For about a year or two in the 80s they used to print these barcode things in computer magazines that you would scan in to your AppleII or C=64 with a severely overpriced peripheral instead of typing in the listings.
I kind of miss typing in BASIC listings... am I sick or what? Not those gawdawful Compute! hex listings though...
I've had cars cross four lanes of traffic, coming toward me, just to try to scare me. Or they'll speed up past me, dynamite the brakes, and cut me off in a right-hand turn.
Maybe you've outstayed oyur welcome if everyone wants you dead...
My favorite "startling revelation" in the program had to be the bit where the "discovered" that in order to feed the huge workforce, they simply took the way they did things around the house and did them on a much larger scale.
Apparently you missed the point of that segment. What they were remarking about was that rather than build several giant assembly-line bakeries, they built hundreds of home kitchen style bakeries.
OMG, you whippersnappers...
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If you've never seen Magic Sand, you'll be amazed at this other amazing thing we used to have. It's like a flattened sphere divided in two around its equator. The two halves are connected by a metal spindle, to which a string is connected. You wind the string around the spindle and by flicking your wrist just so, you can inject momentum into the system, allowing the device to unwind and rewind on the string continuosly.
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Um, okay... California is the number one agricultural State in the Union. If you go to the County level, 9 of the 10 top agricultural Counties in the US are in California. Agriculure remains the top employer in the State, and generated about $29 billion dollars last year. California's mild climate and range of climate zones on arable land leads to it having probably the most diverse agricultural production as well.
That's not even counting Marijuana
New York City was the inspiration for the backlot street scenes you see in all those movies and TV shows filmed here in California. We also needed some where to send all the loons who like musical theatre
As we all know, a neccesary component of any future society (Star Trek aside) is really crappy display technologies which are "cooler" than they are functional. If it's vertical and transparent, who needs legibility? If they can make this shizit three-dimensional by sacrificing some more resolution and possibly some framerate, we'll have a definite winner.
The number of home burglaries commited by hot babes is on the rise.
I know there are several posts here proclaiming the virtues of old IBM Ms and their springy keys...
I would pay a series sum of money for a USB "natural"-type split keyboard with those old-school spring keys.
It is rude to quote, or in this case, wholly transcribe someone else's work without proper credit.
Granted, a large portion of the USA audience knows where to place the credit, but this post was directed to an Australian reader, yes?
The text of the parent post is the script for a segment of Schoolhouse Rock, which appeared on the television network ABC in the United States in the 70's and early 80's.
Create weapons and turn on the film crew, using their tents, electrical equipment and food to effect their escape to the mainland.
Brainfart... read DSL as ISDN
Given the population density of the US, I think it is likely that a large chunk of the "most Americans" in this study have 3 broadband "options"; T1, DSL, or Satelite, which aren't really options at all for most households.
I doubt that "...the DGA is defending the desecration..."
Perhaps you meant "The DGA is protesting the desecration..." or "The DGA is defending films against desecration..."?
Its not censorship if you choose not to view something, whether by averting your eyes or by hiring an agent to cover them for you. No one is being forced to view the "sanitized" version instead of the original.
It's actually not that simple. You could build a station for what you could get by selling your car, but you do need to put together a fairly complicated system or your signal will be wavering off frequency and sound like crap.
After reading your write-up for this topic, I'm taking everything you say regarding the issue with a grain of salt. I have no doubt you are "friends" with "Haken". You're quite likely to be Haken, or to pbe picking up your paycheck at the same place...
Lookm up at comment #4299689
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Maybe Basic... but not BASIC. BASIC interpreters on the AppleII, early Ataris and the C=64 didn't have a GOSUB statement. The first GOSUB I ever saw was in BASIC 7.0 on the C=128. By the time Basic had functions, we were in a whole different era of computing and of teaching "compyooters". Do they even teach "programming" in elementary school these days?
From personal experience, yes, LOGO is the only programming language that ever got me a date.
I smell a Slashdot poll, we must determine if LOGO is the solution to the lack of girlfriends for nerds!
Usefulness...
LOGO was the only functional language that came on Atari400/800/etc cartridges and AppleII/C=64 floppies back in the day. I consider the fact that thousands of children were introduced to the functional paradigm via LOGO to be highly "useful."
You are correct though, in that there weren't many real-world problems that could be easily "solved" using those LOGO interpreters. The main thing we learned to solve was figuring out how to determine the outside angles of arbitrary polygons
What would have ben great is if LOGO had had the power to do do the stuff we had to use BASIC for in the second half of middle school programming classes... hundreds of kids would have never been exposed to the complete nightmare of BASIC GOTO tangles...
Not the stats.
I wouldn't by a prelevelled char (mine are levelled already anyway...) but if I did, it would be for the stats, whicha are harder to raise now, not for the skills.
Still, I think the real solution would be to let every char start at 85 skill in whatever they want, or better yet, scale the skills down so that 20 skill doesn't mean a rabbit can frickin kill you, it should mean you're a fairly average human, not a pathetic weakling who can't get out of bed without bruising.
So, according to your logic, a kid should be able to break into a recording studio at night to learn to use equipment they would otherwise not have access to? Or are you saying its okay as long as they remember to turn off the lights and leave a note explaining how they got in?
No for two reasons:
1) Apparently, it's magnetic ink, not read by bouncing light off it.
2) For about a year or two in the 80s they used to print these barcode things in computer magazines that you would scan in to your AppleII or C=64 with a severely overpriced peripheral instead of typing in the listings.
I kind of miss typing in BASIC listings... am I sick or what? Not those gawdawful Compute! hex listings though...
Maybe you've outstayed oyur welcome if everyone wants you dead...
Apparently you missed the point of that segment. What they were remarking about was that rather than build several giant assembly-line bakeries, they built hundreds of home kitchen style bakeries.
If you've never seen Magic Sand, you'll be amazed at this other amazing thing we used to have. It's like a flattened sphere divided in two around its equator. The two halves are connected by a metal spindle, to which a string is connected. You wind the string around the spindle and by flicking your wrist just so, you can inject momentum into the system, allowing the device to unwind and rewind on the string continuosly.
You can even do tricks with them.
Don't get me started on the "Magic Rocks"...
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