Seconded. At one place I worked in 1981-82 we had a Corvus 33MB 12-inch "Winchester", which was likely a follow-on to the drive the GP refers to, hooked up to this weird "multi-user" CP/M box that consisted of a bunch of S-100 single-board Z-80 computers on a common backplane that could all access the "big" drive.
(Anyone remember the brand name? IIRC, the front panel had a power switch and big red square reset buttons for each CPU. It was featured in Byte or one of the other mags of the day in a cover story on multiprocessing vs. multitasking.)
This was a business literally running out of a garage. Our backup (and configuration management) policy consisted of printing out our code and putting the listings in special bins. Good times.
I remember thinking the same thing when I heard about the first 1GB drives. "Who would dare trust that much data to a single device?" (This was 1987, the same year that I paid US$775 for a 71MB drive, amazed that disk space was almost down to $10/MB.)
I turned down a great job once, solely because it would have required me to be away from home multiple nights per week. Aside from just being away, our chief reasoning was that I would not be able to get home quickly enough in an emergency.
It's called styptic powder (or gel). It stops the bleeding fast, and many formulations have benzocaine or some such for the pain.
My dog has some light toenails and some dark ones. With the light ones it's easy to see where the quick is, but with the dark ones it's just an educated guess, one I don't know I've gotten wrong until she yelps.:(
I'm definitely in the book-as-UI camp. Books have pages, which I prefer to turn versus using a scrollwheel, and they work wherever there's sufficient light.
Yep, we had one like that too, back in the early 1970's. Not only did it look like it was running pretty much at full power, the published specs listed standby power consumption as something like 95% of the operating power. Luckily, there was a switch on the back of the set that disabled "instant-on".
Somehow, my cellphone charger drawing 200mW doesn't seem so bad.
Day 1: Bill opens the source to Mac IE. People download and build and are happy. Day 2: Bill "embraces and extends" IIS with a mandatory patch that that is not backwards compatible with Mac IE. Day 3: All the IE-only sites no longer work on Mac IE. Day 4: Back to normal.
At work, it is absolutely not a choice. I take the Windows PC they give me, or get a) zero support, b) locked out of the Windows-dependent web apps required for my job, and c) blamed for every anomaly on the network. If you want to try to convince my employer to move its 40,000 employees off Wintel, go right ahead. Many before you have tried and failed.
About 25 years ago, I knew someone who for exactly that reason made all his names "diamonds" on the keyboard, like ESXD or BGYH. He knew, and never documented, what each variable's use and purpose were, based on which diamond it was, whether it started at the topb, bottom, left or right point, and whether it went clockwise or counterclockwise around the diamond.
Didn't help him much when the whole project got canned.
Speak up, Sonny! Back in my day, computers filled whole rooms, and you had to sit next to them to work on them, and they were hot and noisy and made you deaf and WE LIKED IT!
By clearly stating that you are not a lawyer, you're making it clear that you're not trying to practice law without a license. If you are a lawyer and put in a disclaimer that you're not giving legal advice, you're stating that no attorney/client relationship (which in the US implies a lot of legal rights and responsibilities) exists between you and your readers.
the copper verizon bought fair and square on the open market
What open market? Most of the telecom infrastructure in the US was put into place as part of Ma Bell's regulated monopoly. The government granted the monopoly and in turn AT&T produced universal access, something no company could have done in an open market.
Besides, do you want to go back to mutiple sets of utility poles everywhere, each one serving one of the competing utilities, like they had 100 years ago?
It's not for nothing that the word "nuclear" does not appear in "magnetic resonance imaging," since it would scare off the laypeople, whereas scientists aren't going to panic at the name "nuclear magnetic resonance", i.e., the same damn thing.
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Seconded. At one place I worked in 1981-82 we had a Corvus 33MB 12-inch "Winchester", which was likely a follow-on to the drive the GP refers to, hooked up to this weird "multi-user" CP/M box that consisted of a bunch of S-100 single-board Z-80 computers on a common backplane that could all access the "big" drive.
(Anyone remember the brand name? IIRC, the front panel had a power switch and big red square reset buttons for each CPU. It was featured in Byte or one of the other mags of the day in a cover story on multiprocessing vs. multitasking.)
This was a business literally running out of a garage. Our backup (and configuration management) policy consisted of printing out our code and putting the listings in special bins. Good times.
Back in those days, spending $775 on anything was memorable. That disk drive cost more than my car.
I remember thinking the same thing when I heard about the first 1GB drives. "Who would dare trust that much data to a single device?" (This was 1987, the same year that I paid US$775 for a 71MB drive, amazed that disk space was almost down to $10/MB.)
I turned down a great job once, solely because it would have required me to be away from home multiple nights per week. Aside from just being away, our chief reasoning was that I would not be able to get home quickly enough in an emergency.
It's called styptic powder (or gel). It stops the bleeding fast, and many formulations have benzocaine or some such for the pain.
:(
My dog has some light toenails and some dark ones. With the light ones it's easy to see where the quick is, but with the dark ones it's just an educated guess, one I don't know I've gotten wrong until she yelps.
You guys unzip, I'll get the ruler.
That's why I made sure that all the boss sees is me being late to work every day, AND the 2:30am email reporting on what I got done that night.
Oh, and I'd never dream of sending that email via an at job, oh no, never ever.
There's that "Ease of Entry" parameter...
...you or Brian?
Better ask that one last...
...DAMN there goes the battery.
I'm definitely in the book-as-UI camp. Books have pages, which I prefer to turn versus using a scrollwheel, and they work wherever there's sufficient light.
That's why I pronounce it "uh-SPER-ger", or just use the initials AS.
So what are your kids like? Any of them on the spectrum?
Yep, we had one like that too, back in the early 1970's. Not only did it look like it was running pretty much at full power, the published specs listed standby power consumption as something like 95% of the operating power. Luckily, there was a switch on the back of the set that disabled "instant-on".
Somehow, my cellphone charger drawing 200mW doesn't seem so bad.
Day 1: Bill opens the source to Mac IE. People download and build and are happy.
Day 2: Bill "embraces and extends" IIS with a mandatory patch that that is not backwards compatible with Mac IE.
Day 3: All the IE-only sites no longer work on Mac IE.
Day 4: Back to normal.
Code should tell you what
And the code should tell you how
Comment tells you why
In my house it is, and I chose Apple.
At work, it is absolutely not a choice. I take the Windows PC they give me, or get a) zero support, b) locked out of the Windows-dependent web apps required for my job, and c) blamed for every anomaly on the network. If you want to try to convince my employer to move its 40,000 employees off Wintel, go right ahead. Many before you have tried and failed.
About 25 years ago, I knew someone who for exactly that reason made all his names "diamonds" on the keyboard, like ESXD or BGYH. He knew, and never documented, what each variable's use and purpose were, based on which diamond it was, whether it started at the topb, bottom, left or right point, and whether it went clockwise or counterclockwise around the diamond.
Didn't help him much when the whole project got canned.
Speak up, Sonny! Back in my day, computers filled whole rooms, and you had to sit next to them to work on them, and they were hot and noisy and made you deaf and WE LIKED IT!
It was, but it was called troff. And we liked it.
By clearly stating that you are not a lawyer, you're making it clear that you're not trying to practice law without a license. If you are a lawyer and put in a disclaimer that you're not giving legal advice, you're stating that no attorney/client relationship (which in the US implies a lot of legal rights and responsibilities) exists between you and your readers.
They only made one.
What open market? Most of the telecom infrastructure in the US was put into place as part of Ma Bell's regulated monopoly. The government granted the monopoly and in turn AT&T produced universal access, something no company could have done in an open market.
Besides, do you want to go back to mutiple sets of utility poles everywhere, each one serving one of the competing utilities, like they had 100 years ago?
I can see the finger quotes, but can't tell if you're wearing a monocle...
It's not for nothing that the word "nuclear" does not appear in "magnetic resonance imaging," since it would scare off the laypeople, whereas scientists aren't going to panic at the name "nuclear magnetic resonance", i.e., the same damn thing.