Both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are long term survivors in an industry where one rarely shines for more than a decade. Each seems to have nutured four or so billion dollar megahits amongst trail of several mediocre products. The PayPal guys are on their second hit with YouTube, but these people are rare.
I remember attending Nick Neogroponte's 1995 book tour talk on his book Being Digital, a collection of Wired Magazine columns he wrote. Nick was the founder of the MIT Media Lab and co-founder of Wired magazine which was about internet topics. But his book and magazine bareley mentions the world wide web, Mosaic and Netscape browsers, and the Netscape juggarnaut IPO which occured that same year. I think everyone knew computers would eventually be networked together around the world, this would be available to ordinary citizens, and people would make money off this. But most of them didnt anticipate this would happen in 2-3 short years as early as the 1990s. Even Gates was relatively late to scene, promoting his private AOL-like network. Then on one of his famous retreats (he hides a week or two each year just to catch up on his reading) he had a "St. Paul-like" conversion and embraced the public internet with a vengence. His Internet Explorer became number one browser, perhaps after some shady business practices which caused major governements to sue him.
The iPhone user interface employs lots of guesture control compared most previous commercial computer systems. Though like the MacIntosh, little of user interface is original, shipping it in a low-cost, pleasing package "the communications PDA for the masses" could be revolutionary. 13 weeks, 12 weeks.... and counting.
On one hand Google now runs about 60 data centers with 2 million CPUs and petabytes of disk- the largest coherent computer system in the world and the most power consuming. On the other hand Google has designed their computers and software to minimize power for both economic and ecological reasons, and to site their centers near renweable energy like hydropower when they can. I'd venture to guess they have "greenest" per petabyte of any super computer. I am not sure how much Linux is inside Google's customized OS.
In the prequel Toklein tells the tales of the creation, angelic protectors called the Valar, but like the greek and norse gods, the origins of Elves and Men, and some important romantic tales. Toklein kind of "christianized" the greek gods. He puts The One God way above them, and makes them not as naughty as the greeks. His fellow Oxford prof C.S. Lewis did a similar thing with Narnia and planet series- took interesting germanic myths and made them more christian-like.
The millennialist had it off, because the counting was from the death & resurection, not the birth. Passover was on Thursday in 30CE and 33CE. The former fits age better according to most commentators.
Until 2006 they used LISP/Scheme, but their is change for Fall 2007. Its unclear to me what the change is. My MIT first computer course was LISP in the 1970s, so its been a long haul.
Saint Peter, the guardian of Heaven's Gate decreed Backus will eventually be admitted to Heaven, but will have to execute a large FORTRAN program with lots of GOTOs in order to find the way into Heaven. That program will send him into infinate loops for millennia at a time, side track him to Hell, return him into the Void, not mention occasional ABEND-dumps(*) now and then.
(*) A "feature" in IBM systems when a program crashed it printed the contents of core memory in hexadecimal filling a hunderd pages or more. Not unlike JVM-hs-errs.
I recall it is in most assemblers. Other compiled languages of the era had GOTO. A real horror was the FORTRAN computed-GOTO, sort of like a two-case switch statement. After FORTRAN-77 had IF-THEN-ELSE blocks, one used it much less then.
LISP is about to enter its sixth decade too, is still used by advocates, and had its heyday in computer culture. I believe its inventor John McCarthy is still around. MIT used to use LISP as its required CS training language from the 1960s until 2006.
I call "centennial languages" languages that were invented near the beginning of the computer age as, still used a fair amount, and probably will be around until their 100th birthdays. Some languages like ALGOL, OL/I, and even PASCAL have faded.
Google often tracks by logins and IP addresses. So create a alternative login and use a library or cafe computer to do your nasty seraches instead of at home or work. Sometimes that doesnt even work because many libraries require a library card to log in and cafes in Italy record ID card or passport numbers. At least its another level of indirection to throw off detectives.
In the 1980s and early 1990s some economicits looked the economic return of buying large numbers of computers and networks and claimed they couldn't find it. This was called the "productivity paradox". The current study now says that computerization is the only factor generating economic return. Yet another interesting paradox?
Why do I anticipate if I look at the submitter's profile, I'll find it from Europe, particularly the UK? Americans just dont worry about it is that much. Either Americans have been brainwashed by the big biotech corporation, or more likely, not have been brainwashed by leftists with too much time on their hands.
Dark matter is a mysterious attractive force operating on a scale of of hundreds of thousands of light years with about 24% of the universe's energy budget. Dark energy is a reulsive force operating a scale of billions of light years with 70% of universe's energy budget. Whether these are conventional particles, unknown particles, geometric effects, etc. it is not yet known.
Many companies allow you take a receive bonus as a multi-year annuity to spread out taxes. Theres a large penalty (about half) to cash it in early. I suppose Cheney rather not take this hit rather than appear still attached to Halliburton.
When a field gets hot it attracts the mercenaries- basically people whi are solely in it for the money. These kind of people are not interesting to work with and give up when the economics slows down.
Some organizations would fire you immediately if you were arrested even if you are never convicted. NASA at least waited a few weeks for the details of the indictment to come out.
A movie does doesnt have to be a real physical point of view. We see fast cuts all the time where the camera changes its location ten times a minute which no real object can. Cameras pan and zoom and sometimes even go through walls. Speed change; time is not montonically sequential (flash back and flash forward).
Novels and paintings are the same. A writer can jump from mind to mind, place to place, time to time no physical person can do. A painter or comic book artist can use impossible persepctive at will.
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Both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are long term survivors in an industry where one rarely shines for more than a decade. Each seems to have nutured four or so billion dollar megahits amongst trail of several mediocre products. The PayPal guys are on their second hit with YouTube, but these people are rare.
I remember attending Nick Neogroponte's 1995 book tour talk on his book Being Digital, a collection of Wired Magazine columns he wrote. Nick was the founder of the MIT Media Lab and co-founder of Wired magazine which was about internet topics. But his book and magazine bareley mentions the world wide web, Mosaic and Netscape browsers, and the Netscape juggarnaut IPO which occured that same year. I think everyone knew computers would eventually be networked together around the world, this would be available to ordinary citizens, and people would make money off this. But most of them didnt anticipate this would happen in 2-3 short years as early as the 1990s. Even Gates was relatively late to scene, promoting his private AOL-like network. Then on one of his famous retreats (he hides a week or two each year just to catch up on his reading) he had a "St. Paul-like" conversion and embraced the public internet with a vengence. His Internet Explorer became number one browser, perhaps after some shady business practices which caused major governements to sue him.
The iPhone user interface employs lots of guesture control compared most previous commercial computer systems. Though like the MacIntosh, little of user interface is original, shipping it in a low-cost, pleasing package "the communications PDA for the masses" could be revolutionary. 13 weeks, 12 weeks .... and counting.
On one hand Google now runs about 60 data centers with 2 million CPUs and petabytes of disk- the largest coherent computer system in the world and the most power consuming. On the other hand Google has designed their computers and software to minimize power for both economic and ecological reasons, and to site their centers near renweable energy like hydropower when they can. I'd venture to guess they have "greenest" per petabyte of any super computer. I am not sure how much Linux is inside Google's customized OS.
In the prequel Toklein tells the tales of the creation, angelic protectors called the Valar, but like the greek and norse gods, the origins of Elves and Men, and some important romantic tales. Toklein kind of "christianized" the greek gods. He puts The One God way above them, and makes them not as naughty as the greeks. His fellow Oxford prof C.S. Lewis did a similar thing with Narnia and planet series- took interesting germanic myths and made them more christian-like.
IT jobs going begging at Oil & Oil service companies. Perhaps people havent forgotten the two decades of downsizing.
Sometimes there is distance between the few early IPO employees who you know dont really have to work for a living anymore and those who follow later.
A characteristic of autism/aspeger is extreme sensitivity of the senses. We shy away from loud music.
The millennialist had it off, because the counting was from the death & resurection, not the birth. Passover was on Thursday in 30CE and 33CE. The former fits age better according to most commentators.
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Until 2006 they used LISP/Scheme, but their is change for Fall 2007. Its unclear to me what the change is. My MIT first computer course was LISP in the 1970s, so its been a long haul.
Saint Peter, the guardian of Heaven's Gate decreed Backus will eventually be admitted to Heaven, but will have to execute a large FORTRAN program with lots of GOTOs in order to find the way into Heaven. That program will send him into infinate loops for millennia at a time, side track him to Hell, return him into the Void, not mention occasional ABEND-dumps(*) now and then.
(*) A "feature" in IBM systems when a program crashed it printed the contents of core memory in hexadecimal filling a hunderd pages or more. Not unlike JVM-hs-errs.
I recall it is in most assemblers. Other compiled languages of the era had GOTO. A real horror was the FORTRAN computed-GOTO, sort of like a two-case switch statement. After FORTRAN-77 had IF-THEN-ELSE blocks, one used it much less then.
LISP is about to enter its sixth decade too, is still used by advocates, and had its heyday in computer culture. I believe its inventor John McCarthy is still around. MIT used to use LISP as its required CS training language from the 1960s until 2006.
I call "centennial languages" languages that were invented near the beginning of the computer age as, still used a fair amount, and probably will be around until their 100th birthdays. Some languages like ALGOL, OL/I, and even PASCAL have faded.
Its the best biomarker out there, despite OJ.
Google often tracks by logins and IP addresses. So create a alternative login and use a library or cafe computer to do your nasty seraches instead of at home or work. Sometimes that doesnt even work because many libraries require a library card to log in and cafes in Italy record ID card or passport numbers. At least its another level of indirection to throw off detectives.
In the 1980s and early 1990s some economicits looked the economic return of buying large numbers of computers and networks and claimed they couldn't find it. This was called the "productivity paradox". The current study now says that computerization is the only factor generating economic return. Yet another interesting paradox?
Why do I anticipate if I look at the submitter's profile, I'll find it from Europe, particularly the UK? Americans just dont worry about it is that much. Either Americans have been brainwashed by the big biotech corporation, or more likely, not have been brainwashed by leftists with too much time on their hands.
User interfaces gonna need a little work.
But its not clear that mankind is mucking that up yet. Maybe airplane contrails.
Dark matter is a mysterious attractive force operating on a scale of of hundreds of thousands of light years with about 24% of the universe's energy budget. Dark energy is a reulsive force operating a scale of billions of light years with 70% of universe's energy budget. Whether these are conventional particles, unknown particles, geometric effects, etc. it is not yet known.
Many companies allow you take a receive bonus as a multi-year annuity to spread out taxes. Theres a large penalty (about half) to cash it in early. I suppose Cheney rather not take this hit rather than appear still attached to Halliburton.
When a field gets hot it attracts the mercenaries- basically people whi are solely in it for the money. These kind of people are not interesting to work with and give up when the economics slows down.
Some organizations would fire you immediately if you were arrested even if you are never convicted. NASA at least waited a few weeks for the details of the indictment to come out.
A movie does doesnt have to be a real physical point of view. We see fast cuts all the time where the camera changes its location ten times a minute which no real object can. Cameras pan and zoom and sometimes even go through walls. Speed change; time is not montonically sequential (flash back and flash forward).
Novels and paintings are the same. A writer can jump from mind to mind, place to place, time to time no physical person can do. A painter or comic book artist can use impossible persepctive at will.