24/7 broadcasts of geeks/antiM$people/Slashdotters ranting and raving about the new Great Satan. We could have weekly code compares with ANY *nix, hosted by Leonard Nimoy. Hourly updates about the zillion lawsuits spreading throughout the world claiming ownership of linux. The Iraq InfoMinister could interview SCO Veeps and they could all deny or assert whatever seems appropriate. Sundays would have Linus leading us all in prayer that SCO dries up and disappers. Oh, and NO M$ or MSN commercials! I hate rainbow-colored moths!!
Christ, how many times will governments ( state or federal) need to learn that you cant legislate morality? All this law will do is force people to buy games from other states. Anytime one state passes an inane law to prohibit something, the surrounding states become suppliers. If it wont work with curtailing gun proliferation, how do they think it will work with computer games?
I give up! Lets just pass a million laws outlawing anything that will hurt someone. We can try to isolate people so that they are never exposed to violence, pain, sickness, injury, bad thoughts, in-approriate thoughts, dirty thoughts; outlaw any activity that can possibly injure someone. Lets make our lives so bland, comfortable, and boring. If we pass the right laws, heck, we can get everyone to think the same way; to think the same thoughts. I'm sure the government would welcome that.
Where to start! Since my first job Ive had to learn 28 programming languages, 14 operating systems, Ive dealt with paper tape, metal-oxide tape, punched cards of all sizes, crappy 3270 terminals, modems starting at 300baud, avast array of printers, I helped install 4Meg of memory on a 370/148 CPU that was the size of 4 refrigerators, Ive worked on JES and HASP, read dumps for a living, spent a few years applying maintenance to MVS ( old SMP and new SMP), worked on FEPs that supported a dozen 64k lines ( fast!!), seen disk storage go from 300Meg to terabytes ( peta on the way!),worked 36 hour shifts, worked from 5am to 6pm for 4 months ( 6 days a week), wrote too any assembler programs ( still dream about 0C4s). 6 years ago I switch from old iron to network engineer. Now Im adding cisco junk to an ever-increasing list of 3digit acronyms. You know what? Im pooped! This computer field is a young mans game. You guys got it. Im outta here. Opps, cant retire yet. Im broke....rats!
Im one of the lucky ones who still works in the valley. On my commute to work ( 101 is a breeze now), I see rows of empty buildings. The place is becoming a ghost town. Housing is still $$$ but it is a renters market. I have a friend who owns a restaurant and his business is down 25%. I have heard that the new business to be in is repo-ing luxury cars. No new jobs, lotsa people looking for work, gas is over $2.30 for premium. The state of CA is billions in debt. I just had my first heart attack last week.
Land of the free - home of the brave.
Retirement is only 10 years away. It will be a tough 10 years.
For those too young to remember- after the Vietnam war ended, everyone thought that ALL those billions spent on the war effort would now be funneled into curing the ills on the world. Everyone thought we would attack poverty, disease, crime, etc. The money saved from ending the war went into other port barrel projects. I dont think this country flourished financially at wars end.
I agree. We have wasted 2 decades of space travel sending up shuttles with hokey experiments. The ISS should have started 10 years ago, using the shuttle as, hey, a "shuttle". But satellites and such are best launched using disposable hardware. We need people to stay in space, for months and even years, so we can learn about extended living in space. The ISS is that. Going to Mars? We couldnt go to the moon now if we tried. Forget Mars for 50 years. How about putting up space stations and living centers, get 10-100 people living in space. We can do hokey experiments from space stations. We can send scientists and such to REALLY do experiments and see some results.
Message to confirm the creation of the CPU firmware IOCDS file:
File is Writed
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My first computer game was "colossal cave" in mid 70s. Written in FORTRAN, it was first adventure game ( xyzzy to all!). Ran on an a IBM mainframe. We had source and modified it for tons of fun!
Along with pinball, it was Apple II. Sinclair computer. IBM PC. Atari 800 ( my favorite).
Tons of games since then. I'm 55 and all of this hasn't warp me too much. Except sometimes I hear "you are in a maze of twisty passages" in my sleep. Plover for ever!!!!
I totally agree. Its the companies computers, servers, internet connection. They can do and impose whatever they want. I ONLY use my work PC for work. If I want to cruise porn, consumptionjunction, whatever, I use my PC at home.
I feel your pain. My first job was wiring those
boards. adding columns, moving columns, printing
columns. I was always surrounded by tons of small
wires and toggle switches. I think it was a IBM 704. Kinda vague about things that long ago.
I remember moving up to paper tape and thinking
that this was cool. TI tape readers, Bell
teletypes.
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Wait a few weeks - new models coming out ( cant say more).
Linux model is built on Midori linux. I like it but in my office, windows-version is better.
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24/7 broadcasts of geeks/antiM$people/Slashdotters ranting and raving about the new Great Satan. We could have weekly code compares with ANY *nix, hosted by Leonard Nimoy.
Hourly updates about the zillion lawsuits spreading throughout the world claiming ownership of linux. The Iraq InfoMinister could interview SCO Veeps and they could all deny or assert whatever seems appropriate. Sundays would have Linus leading us all in prayer that SCO dries up and disappers. Oh, and NO M$ or MSN commercials! I hate rainbow-colored moths!!
Christ, how many times will governments ( state or federal) need to learn that you cant legislate morality? All this law will do is force people to buy games from other states. Anytime one state passes an inane law to prohibit something, the surrounding states become suppliers. If it wont work with curtailing gun proliferation, how do they think it will work with computer games?
I give up! Lets just pass a million laws outlawing anything that will hurt someone. We can try to isolate people so that they are never exposed to violence, pain, sickness, injury, bad thoughts, in-approriate thoughts, dirty thoughts;
outlaw any activity that can possibly injure someone. Lets make our lives so bland, comfortable, and boring. If we pass the right laws, heck, we can get everyone to think the same way; to think the same thoughts. I'm sure the government would welcome that.
Me? Give me chaos any day!
Where to start! Since my first job Ive had to learn 28 programming languages, 14 operating
systems, Ive dealt with paper tape, metal-oxide
tape, punched cards of all sizes, crappy 3270
terminals, modems starting at 300baud, avast array
of printers, I helped install 4Meg of memory on
a 370/148 CPU that was the size of 4 refrigerators, Ive worked on JES and HASP, read
dumps for a living, spent a few years applying
maintenance to MVS ( old SMP and new SMP), worked
on FEPs that supported a dozen 64k lines ( fast!!), seen disk storage go from 300Meg to terabytes ( peta on the way!),worked 36 hour shifts, worked from 5am to 6pm for 4 months ( 6 days a week), wrote too any assembler programs
( still dream about 0C4s). 6 years ago I switch from old iron to network engineer. Now Im adding
cisco junk to an ever-increasing list of 3digit
acronyms.
You know what? Im pooped! This computer field is
a young mans game. You guys got it. Im outta
here. Opps, cant retire yet. Im broke....rats!
Im one of the lucky ones who still works in the
valley. On my commute to work ( 101 is a breeze
now), I see rows of empty buildings. The place is
becoming a ghost town. Housing is still $$$ but
it is a renters market. I have a friend who owns
a restaurant and his business is down 25%. I have
heard that the new business to be in is repo-ing
luxury cars. No new jobs, lotsa people looking
for work, gas is over $2.30 for premium. The
state of CA is billions in debt. I just had my
first heart attack last week.
Land of the free - home of the brave.
Retirement is only 10 years away. It will be a
tough 10 years.
"A fool and his money are soon parted".
A wise man once said - "hold to that which is
difficult". Or, dont take the easy roads in life.
Take risks, fail, recover, take more risks.
When you get to 55, you will thank me.
Amen. Two thoughts:
1. from a recently deceased co-worker-
Life is too important to be taken seriously
2. From a great man-
The meaning of life is not a problem to
solve but a reality to experience.
For those too young to remember- after the
Vietnam war ended, everyone thought that ALL
those billions spent on the war effort would
now be funneled into curing the ills on the
world. Everyone thought we would attack poverty,
disease, crime, etc. The money saved from ending
the war went into other port barrel projects.
I dont think this country flourished financially
at wars end.
I agree. We have wasted 2 decades of space travel
sending up shuttles with hokey experiments. The
ISS should have started 10 years ago, using the
shuttle as, hey, a "shuttle". But satellites and
such are best launched using disposable hardware.
We need people to stay in space, for months and
even years, so we can learn about extended living
in space. The ISS is that. Going to Mars?
We couldnt go to the moon now if we tried. Forget
Mars for 50 years. How about putting up space
stations and living centers, get 10-100 people
living in space. We can do hokey experiments from
space stations. We can send scientists and such
to REALLY do experiments and see some results.
Message to confirm the creation of the CPU
firmware IOCDS file:
File is Writed
My first computer game was "colossal cave" in mid
70s. Written in FORTRAN, it was first adventure
game ( xyzzy to all!). Ran on an a IBM mainframe.
We had source and modified it for tons of fun!
Along with pinball, it was Apple II. Sinclair
computer. IBM PC. Atari 800 ( my favorite).
Tons of games since then. I'm 55 and all of this
hasn't warp me too much. Except sometimes I hear
"you are in a maze of twisty passages" in my
sleep. Plover for ever!!!!
I totally agree. Its the companies computers, servers, internet connection. They can do and impose whatever they want. I ONLY use my work PC for work. If I want to cruise porn, consumptionjunction, whatever, I use my PC at home.
I feel your pain. My first job was wiring those
boards. adding columns, moving columns, printing
columns. I was always surrounded by tons of small
wires and toggle switches. I think it was a IBM 704. Kinda vague about things that long ago.
I remember moving up to paper tape and thinking
that this was cool. TI tape readers, Bell
teletypes.
I need a nap.
I also use BB switches. From the $300 to $4000 models. Work great. No failures.