>On an 8080? 8086 or 8088, sure, but I don't think the 8080 was >really compatible with the x86 instruction set. Similar, sure, >but not compatible in either direction.
No, 8080->8086 worked. Intel shipped the cross-compiler that would turn 8080 source into 8086 code.
hawk, scratching his head, trying to remember the 8080 hangover that plagued the 8086
a) fiddling while your capitol burns, b) dousing gasoline upon your capitol, or c) ripping your capitol, church bells and all, from the space-time continuum, by Mary, by the paradox of using gasoline nearly two millennia before its invention
Something that I don't think is clear in what I just wrote.
The big deal is that this will make it the norm, and the *expectation of the university*, that faculty will publish in freely available journals. Right now this isn't an option to those seeking tenure or promotion. (OTOH, if Harvard suddenly expects faculty to get waivers for most of their articles, the whole thing becomes a bunch of dead letters).
Again, the big deal is that it makes it *possible* for faculty to publish in these journals.
Junior faculty, in particular, are currently *forced* to publish in the "best" journal they can, with the bulk of those being the "sign it over" variety. To publish in a lesser journal is to risk tenure.
Now, suddenly, the University is providing a new list of top journals, and tenure will come from posting to the rest of those.
The academic publishing industry is a dinosaur in desperate need of elimination. It charges tens of thousands of dollars per school for journals that would be more useful as web sites--, not and available several months earlier. As it exists, journals are for the benefit of the publishing companies, not the world at large, academia, or the authors. The economic model is that the faculty write, are paid nothing, and the libraries pay huge fees to the publishing houses.
Will the publishers react to open up? I doubt it; they can't.
The *real* result of this will be top articles going to online journals, which will first rival and then displace the printed journals. This is a good thing for everyone except the publishing houses.
hawk, formerly junior faculty but now back in practice and paid well enough that *his* kids can go to school, too
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That's not how a minor candidate becomes important in a brokered convention, though.
In a brokered convention, a little guy with a bunch of delegates is in a position to demand some of his own platform in return for them. It's a time-honored approach, though it's been a long time since noone has lined up enough delegates to win before the convention.
(There was Kennedy's attempt, after Carter had enough delegates, to attempt to change the rules after he'd lost . ..)
That would be, "make a product that can do anything, but make the documentation such that you can't find the answer in it until you know it" . . . oh, you said "Saas", not "Sas" . . .
hawk, who always found it quicker to right custom code in Fortran than to deal with Sas documentation
It was designed to be the way it is, not to be "unfair." It was a compromise between those who found fair to be representation proportional to population, and those who found fair to be representation by state.
hawk, who notes that the latter group were right:)
It would actually give you the British House of Lords.
After centuries of titles entitled to a seat there falling through various hands, it is probably the most diverse legislative body in the world. There are plenty of Lords with no property or income other than their stipend for attending Parliament.
He's also overlooking the guarantee of equal senatorial representation, of which no state can be deprived without its consent. That pair of electors for the senators is a part of a state's senatorial allotment. This is the only part of the Constitution that can no longer be changed by 3/4 of the states.
As a Nevadan, I can guarantee you that we won't be giving that up (In all seriousness, we'd likely let the other 49 states go their own way first).
To be fair Wyoming would either need a fractional vote or the size of the House would have to be increased until each person in the house represented about 500,000 people. You've overlooked forced relocation:)
The issue isn't about the states that get their single guaranteed rep; there's no way to take them below 1. The imbalance, such as it may be, is more of a "does this state get it's 3d, or does that state get it's 23d".
Frankly, given the compromise of equal representation in the Senate, I don't think it's a problem that what rounding happens in the house happens as fractional extra representatives for the larger states--and I'm a rabid small-states right guy.
Affordable printers that produced acceptable output didn't really appear until the very end of the 1980's. I was tickled pink to only spend $1000 or so ($949+tax?) on a DeskWriter, the first generation hp inkjet, back in 1990.
In the early and mid-80's, there were daisywheels for about $3k, and dot matrix printers whose dots frequently didn't connect. The Apple laser printer appeared in 85 (84?) for $7k, while the less capable HP was significantly less (about half, iirc).
The 1984 Imagewriter that shipped with the original mac, when printing in top quality, was the first that I recall having access to whose quality was really comparable to the "letter quality" of the daisywheels, though there were more expensive 24 pin dot matrix machines at the time, too (The imagewriter essentially emulated 24 pin printing by shifting half a dot and printing again).
The proper phrasing for this, for the control key in particular, is "The control key where God meant it to be."
For reasons perhaps known to God, but certainly not understood by man, some non-computer using exec at IBM decreed partway through the run of the AT that the key to the left of the A should do the same thing on a PC as on a Selectric. And the world has been a much worse place ever since . . .
hawk, who always finds way to properly map that key
the original Apple ][ had it, right up there on the right end of the top row of keys. Eventually, it required a ctrl-reset to function, and there were a couple of hardware mods for that (and for lower case).
The Compucolor had the CPU reset key on the keyboard, although at least there was an escape sequence that could return to BASIC without flushing the memory (the Apple ][ had this, too).
The IBM PC took this to the other extreme, completely lacking an actual reset key, instead relying on not hanging hard enough for the software break to fail. Oops . . .
By that point, Commodore was widely perceived as a maker of toy and game computers, not business computers. The flashy graphics of the Amiga didn't help it a that point.
That perception meant that serious business software generally wasn't available early on, leading to a lack of business sales, leading to a lack of business software, leading . . .
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>>Just because it hasn't broken in the past 30 years is no
>>indicator that you won't hit something in the next 30 that won't break it.
>In almost any other industry, that's true - but in software, it's patently false.
Yes, absolutely no reason to suspect that software that's been running fine for years will suddenly have a problem 30 years from now, in 2038 . . .
hawk
>On an 8080? 8086 or 8088, sure, but I don't think the 8080 was
>really compatible with the x86 instruction set. Similar, sure,
>but not compatible in either direction.
No, 8080->8086 worked. Intel shipped the cross-compiler that would turn 8080 source into 8086 code.
hawk, scratching his head, trying to remember the 8080 hangover that plagued the 8086
>Military technology, especially in times of conflict, has resulted in a great deal of progress.
Ahh. So the real question we need to ask Obama, McCain, and the crooked lawyer is, "With whom will our next war be?"
hawk
*Boggle*
Isn't that the command to print the screen? Or was that shift-command-4, with -3 saving to disk?
hawk, revealing his age
for crying out loud, who's orchestrating this nonsense?
hawk
>He was much more effective than, say, FEMA.
This standard could be made by,
a) fiddling while your capitol burns,
b) dousing gasoline upon your capitol, or
c) ripping your capitol, church bells and all, from the space-time continuum, by Mary, by the paradox of using gasoline nearly two millennia before its invention
hawk
Take that, Mozart.
It's about time we came up with a technological solution for all this sax and violins on the internet!
hawk
See, it's not a bug, it's a feature!
hawk, a veteran of testing early PC clones, which had to crash under the same circumstances as the PC did.
errr . . .
:)
nutbag murderers are notorious for having "extrajudicial" means of settling disputes when they feel wronged . . .
hawk
Something that I don't think is clear in what I just wrote.
The big deal is that this will make it the norm, and the *expectation of the university*, that faculty will publish in freely available journals. Right now this isn't an option to those seeking tenure or promotion. (OTOH, if Harvard suddenly expects faculty to get waivers for most of their articles, the whole thing becomes a bunch of dead letters).
Again, the big deal is that it makes it *possible* for faculty to publish in these journals.
hawk
The importance of this *cannot* be understated.
Junior faculty, in particular, are currently *forced* to publish in the "best" journal they can, with the bulk of those being the "sign it over" variety. To publish in a lesser journal is to risk tenure.
Now, suddenly, the University is providing a new list of top journals, and tenure will come from posting to the rest of those.
The academic publishing industry is a dinosaur in desperate need of elimination. It charges tens of thousands of dollars per school for journals that would be more useful as web sites--, not and available several months earlier. As it exists, journals are for the benefit of the publishing companies, not the world at large, academia, or the authors. The economic model is that the faculty write, are paid nothing, and the libraries pay huge fees to the publishing houses.
Will the publishers react to open up? I doubt it; they can't.
The *real* result of this will be top articles going to online journals, which will first rival and then displace the printed journals. This is a good thing for everyone except the publishing houses.
hawk, formerly junior faculty but now back in practice and paid well enough that *his* kids can go to school, too
That's not how a minor candidate becomes important in a brokered convention, though.
.)
In a brokered convention, a little guy with a bunch of delegates is in a position to demand some of his own platform in return for them. It's a time-honored approach, though it's been a long time since noone has lined up enough delegates to win before the convention.
(There was Kennedy's attempt, after Carter had enough delegates, to attempt to change the rules after he'd lost . .
hawk
>Maybe they'll use people instead of corn.
Gosh, just this morning, I was *wondering* what that station I drove by meant by "Soylent 85" . . .
hawk
That would be, "make a product that can do anything, but make the documentation such that you can't find the answer in it until you know it" . . . oh, you said "Saas", not "Sas" . . .
hawk, who always found it quicker to right custom code in Fortran than to deal with Sas documentation
It was designed to be the way it is, not to be "unfair." It was a compromise between those who found fair to be representation proportional to population, and those who found fair to be representation by state.
:)
hawk, who notes that the latter group were right
It would actually give you the British House of Lords.
After centuries of titles entitled to a seat there falling through various hands, it is probably the most diverse legislative body in the world. There are plenty of Lords with no property or income other than their stipend for attending Parliament.
hawk
He's also overlooking the guarantee of equal senatorial representation, of which no state can be deprived without its consent. That pair of electors for the senators is a part of a state's senatorial allotment. This is the only part of the Constitution that can no longer be changed by 3/4 of the states.
As a Nevadan, I can guarantee you that we won't be giving that up (In all seriousness, we'd likely let the other 49 states go their own way first).
hawk
hawk
The issue isn't about the states that get their single guaranteed rep; there's no way to take them below 1. The imbalance, such as it may be, is more of a "does this state get it's 3d, or does that state get it's 23d".
Frankly, given the compromise of equal representation in the Senate, I don't think it's a problem that what rounding happens in the house happens as fractional extra representatives for the larger states--and I'm a rabid small-states right guy.
hawk
I'll just show my ID showing that I don't need to show my realid . ..
hawk
Affordable printers that produced acceptable output didn't really appear until the very end of the 1980's. I was tickled pink to only spend $1000 or so ($949+tax?) on a DeskWriter, the first generation hp inkjet, back in 1990.
In the early and mid-80's, there were daisywheels for about $3k, and dot matrix printers whose dots frequently didn't connect. The Apple laser printer appeared in 85 (84?) for $7k, while the less capable HP was significantly less (about half, iirc).
The 1984 Imagewriter that shipped with the original mac, when printing in top quality, was the first that I recall having access to whose quality was really comparable to the "letter quality" of the daisywheels, though there were more expensive 24 pin dot matrix machines at the time, too (The imagewriter essentially emulated 24 pin printing by shifting half a dot and printing again).
hawk
The proper phrasing for this, for the control key in particular, is "The control key where God meant it to be."
For reasons perhaps known to God, but certainly not understood by man, some non-computer using exec at IBM decreed partway through the run of the AT that the key to the left of the A should do the same thing on a PC as on a Selectric. And the world has been a much worse place ever since . . .
hawk, who always finds way to properly map that key
*Real* games use y, u, b, and n for diagonal movement :)
hawk
Those dumb reset keys were fairly common.
the original Apple ][ had it, right up there on the right end of the top row of keys. Eventually, it required a ctrl-reset to function, and there were a couple of hardware mods for that (and for lower case).
The Compucolor had the CPU reset key on the keyboard, although at least there was an escape sequence that could return to BASIC without flushing the memory (the Apple ][ had this, too).
The IBM PC took this to the other extreme, completely lacking an actual reset key, instead relying on not hanging hard enough for the software break to fail. Oops . . .
hawk
By that point, Commodore was widely perceived as a maker of toy and game computers, not business computers. The flashy graphics of the Amiga didn't help it a that point.
That perception meant that serious business software generally wasn't available early on, leading to a lack of business sales, leading to a lack of business software, leading . . .
hawk