I think it's more likely that only a few people would have cared for it. Of those few, an even smaller few would have written something like a BASIC interpreter in Lisp and sold it separately.
Either that, or they would have sold poorly until somebody came out with what we got, which was PCs that shipped with BASIC.
I recall reading a review of one of the less popular systems at the time. The reviewer said something like, "it comes only with assembler, which is useful only for understanding how a computer works". Of course I and a lot of other people ended up programming the C-64 mostly with assembler; but we started with BASIC.
Oh, and I'm surprised I got this far down and nobody quoted Djikstra yet. I like to count myself as one of the many programmers who proves him wrong; although it's my understanding that the BASIC to which he referred was inferior even to the line-numbered versions of the 80s. I wonder if he ever qualified or backed up even a little bit from his infamous quote.
This is way out of date. We need to put our missiles in The Cloud, and re-do the launch control UI so it looks pretty. Get on it right away, I expect nothing less than $10 billion spent for a non-working system. Boy though, the guy wearing the fedora will think it's the best thing in the world. It is good for him too. It'll pay off most of his student debt.
Now there's an interesting challenge for advanced cubists. Doctor the cube, and ask them to explain how it was doctored. I don't recall if the cube I was handed ended up with stickers switched far apart (indicative of sticker switching) or a cubie where the twists wouldn't sum to zero (indicative of evil reassembly). I just recall that my friend down the block had one he couldn't solve, and that when I told him something was wrong with it, he recalled that he had given it to somebody who might have been tempted to cheat.
I was born in '68. Another poster called '69 the "magic age" to be when it came out. Close enough. I was fascinated by the thing, and was able to solve it before the books came out--with a little help from Scientific American. They published an article which included a way to annotate moves on the Cube. More importantly, the article gave me the key insight--think of the individual "cubies" and not "the sides". It seems obvious now; but when presented with a cube you were erroneously lead to regard "getting a side" as progress. Nonsense. You had to get cubies aligned, and then align other cubies without disturbing the previous alignment. Of course I'm glossing over a lot here, and I'm sure the techniques have advanced considerably. Anyway, I was able to get some positive attention for a change by solving it a few months before all the books on how to solve it came out. Yep, people actually bought books on how to solve it. I think I got the thing down to a little under 3 minutes. Then I started doing patterns with it. I could tell when a cube had been made un-solvable. This happened when people switched the stickers. My obsession lasted a little less than a year, then trailed off. I'd solve it "for old times sake" a few years after that. I don't recall exactly where it fit in time. It probably ran concurrently with arcade games and slightly before I got obsessed with flyable model planes...
The concrete theory is nonsense as others are pointing out. I figure the Empire fell apart because holding a vast territory is harder than acquiring it. In the expansionist phase, each new conquest brings spoils and fills the coffers. When the Empire got to be a certain size, when it entered maintenance mode, the Legions shifted from a profit center to a cost center.
The "debasement of currency caused their downfall" is just part of the modern libertarian myth making. The debasement of currency in a collapsing empire is an effect not a cause. It's an effect of supporting some feature of society that the leaders feel compelled to support.
Made it through deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, too.
Thank-you for your service. Did you ever dust it out? If so, what was it like opening the thing up? I'm concerned about "losing little screws" and/or "something fell out, now HTF does it go back together?".
XP on my ThinkPad that was made before IBM sold the division to Lenovo. The machine will be 10 in August. The battery died a few years ago, otherwise the only problem is with the left mouse button which is cracked from use and held with tape. The machine chugs along in some punishing environments--no AC here, and it flakes out sometimes on hot days. I probably need to open it up and blow the dust out. Yes, I'm concerned about such an old hard drive, and back up in various ways.
I'm just going by what I know about the military. If the military and/or police revised their standards to allow drugs other than alcohol, then of course civilians should be allowed too.
That's what judgement is for. There is no way to avoid judgement, and if the Justices can't tell when scope creep is being used to destroy the Constitution, then we're doomed. It's arguable that we're already there.
During the housing boom, a friends father was surprised when we reasoned that he was a millionaire. All it took was his house, which was almost paid off (and probably worth north of $600k at the time) and a decent 401k since he was at or near retirement. Easy millionaire. I'd go so far as to say that if you don't expect to become a millionaire, it simply means you've landed on the wrong side of our increasingly bifurcated economy.
Parents responded by waving their hands in a brisk right-to-left motion in front of their eyes. "Hey!" They exclaimed, "Why won't these annoying lecturers just go away".
The judge wants to gut the 2nd, not fix it. What would be a true and proper fix? IMHO, we need to clarify "well regulated militia" as "those people who are fit for military service". IMHO that means it's within the right of the states, even the Feds to determine that some people are unfit (mentally unstable, etc.) and thus deprive them of this right. If it were argued that the State was declaring people unfit for political purposes, that would wind its way through the court just like anything else. There's no escaping the need for actual judgement in a court.
Thus, I think it might be reasonable for the state to compel you to give up your gun if you buy pot for any reason (medical or otherwise). A pot-head is not fit for military service. Your guns or your drugs, not both. We want sanity at the trigger end.
SQL and amalgamations of languages (e.g., JavaScript generated by PHP) not on the list. XSS attacks involve such "mutt" software.
IMHO, the more code the more opportunities to exploit things. Terse languages to the rescue? Write it all in Haskell, Lisp or something. You'll attract talented developers and the attackers will be like... "Oh crap, we have to analyze that???".
No silver bullets of course. Something has to be able to read/write sensitive information at some point. Something has to determine under what conditions that occurs. It's human nature to make those conditions complicated to the point where vulnerabilities occur...
And the next thing he knew, he woke up in an alley. His wallet, keys, phone and shoes were missing. For the life of him, he could not figure out why they didn't take his cool new toy.
He didn't say there would be no women. He said there would be no "ladies". Think "Lady Diana"s. He also said there would be no gentleman--but that doesn't mean everybody would be rude. Remember, this is a 19th century reader. The language is a bit different.
I'm an Apocalypse speculator. You might think I'd be at the bottom of the list; but we have been in business since ancient times. We're probably in the top 5 oldest professions. The people who run Slashdot are whoring out to something here, so apparently they will do well also.
The setting, a lecture hall in the 23rd century. "Years ago they thought there were limitations on these things. There were even proofs that things could not be measured with certainty. It was thought that transmutation would not be economic, and that the light barrier was unsurmountable".
You're likely to get modded Troll; but this really does remind me a bit of Ford vs. Toyota. For years Ford was fixed in peoples minds as the exploding Pinto company, and Toyota was high quality. Now Toyota isn't what it used to be, and Ford is better... but neither is perfect.
If nothing else this is a good argument against monoculture. We have different systems with different bugs, so it's not a total loss. If the market shares were evenly distributed among 10 different vendors, the black-hat task would be even harder, their impact of success that much less.
I see this old semantic game blooms anew on Slashdot. "It isn't stealing". Fine. It's fraud. Don't worry that your reputation is shot and/or somebody else is trading on your good name. It isn't stealing. Oh... the victim feels much better now.
It's not like I've never heard of that. You could file a suit; but I don't recommend doing that until you're close to retirement, have the money, and don't care about ever working in The Valley again.
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I think it's more likely that only a few people would have cared for it. Of those few, an even smaller few would have written something like a BASIC interpreter in Lisp and sold it separately.
Either that, or they would have sold poorly until somebody came out with what we got, which was PCs that shipped with BASIC.
I recall reading a review of one of the less popular systems at the time. The reviewer said something like, "it comes only with assembler, which is useful only for understanding how a computer works". Of course I and a lot of other people ended up programming the C-64 mostly with assembler; but we started with BASIC.
Oh, and I'm surprised I got this far down and nobody quoted Djikstra yet. I like to count myself as one of the many programmers who proves him wrong; although it's my understanding that the BASIC to which he referred was inferior even to the line-numbered versions of the 80s. I wonder if he ever qualified or backed up even a little bit from his infamous quote.
This is way out of date. We need to put our missiles in The Cloud, and re-do the launch control UI so it looks pretty. Get on it right away, I expect nothing less than $10 billion spent for a non-working system. Boy though, the guy wearing the fedora will think it's the best thing in the world. It is good for him too. It'll pay off most of his student debt.
Now there's an interesting challenge for advanced cubists. Doctor the cube, and ask them to explain how it was doctored. I don't recall if the cube I was handed ended up with stickers switched far apart (indicative of sticker switching) or a cubie where the twists wouldn't sum to zero (indicative of evil reassembly). I just recall that my friend down the block had one he couldn't solve, and that when I told him something was wrong with it, he recalled that he had given it to somebody who might have been tempted to cheat.
I was born in '68. Another poster called '69 the "magic age" to be when it came out. Close enough. I was fascinated by the thing, and was able to solve it before the books came out--with a little help from Scientific American. They published an article which included a way to annotate moves on the Cube. More importantly, the article gave me the key insight--think of the individual "cubies" and not "the sides". It seems obvious now; but when presented with a cube you were erroneously lead to regard "getting a side" as progress. Nonsense. You had to get cubies aligned, and then align other cubies without disturbing the previous alignment. Of course I'm glossing over a lot here, and I'm sure the techniques have advanced considerably. Anyway, I was able to get some positive attention for a change by solving it a few months before all the books on how to solve it came out. Yep, people actually bought books on how to solve it. I think I got the thing down to a little under 3 minutes. Then I started doing patterns with it. I could tell when a cube had been made un-solvable. This happened when people switched the stickers. My obsession lasted a little less than a year, then trailed off. I'd solve it "for old times sake" a few years after that. I don't recall exactly where it fit in time. It probably ran concurrently with arcade games and slightly before I got obsessed with flyable model planes...
The concrete theory is nonsense as others are pointing out. I figure the Empire fell apart because holding a vast territory is harder than acquiring it. In the expansionist phase, each new conquest brings spoils and fills the coffers. When the Empire got to be a certain size, when it entered maintenance mode, the Legions shifted from a profit center to a cost center.
The "debasement of currency caused their downfall" is just part of the modern libertarian myth making. The debasement of currency in a collapsing empire is an effect not a cause. It's an effect of supporting some feature of society that the leaders feel compelled to support.
Made it through deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, too.
Thank-you for your service. Did you ever dust it out? If so, what was it like opening the thing up? I'm concerned about "losing little screws" and/or "something fell out, now HTF does it go back together?".
XP on my ThinkPad that was made before IBM sold the division to Lenovo. The machine will be 10 in August. The battery died a few years ago, otherwise the only problem is with the left mouse button which is cracked from use and held with tape. The machine chugs along in some punishing environments--no AC here, and it flakes out sometimes on hot days. I probably need to open it up and blow the dust out. Yes, I'm concerned about such an old hard drive, and back up in various ways.
About $1500, and worth every penny.
I'm just going by what I know about the military. If the military and/or police revised their standards to allow drugs other than alcohol, then of course civilians should be allowed too.
That's what judgement is for. There is no way to avoid judgement, and if the Justices can't tell when scope creep is being used to destroy the Constitution, then we're doomed. It's arguable that we're already there.
During the housing boom, a friends father was surprised when we reasoned that he was a millionaire. All it took was his house, which was almost paid off (and probably worth north of $600k at the time) and a decent 401k since he was at or near retirement. Easy millionaire. I'd go so far as to say that if you don't expect to become a millionaire, it simply means you've landed on the wrong side of our increasingly bifurcated economy.
Parents responded by waving their hands in a brisk right-to-left motion in front of their eyes. "Hey!" They exclaimed, "Why won't these annoying lecturers just go away".
The judge wants to gut the 2nd, not fix it. What would be a true and proper fix? IMHO, we need to clarify "well regulated militia" as "those people who are fit for military service". IMHO that means it's within the right of the states, even the Feds to determine that some people are unfit (mentally unstable, etc.) and thus deprive them of this right. If it were argued that the State was declaring people unfit for political purposes, that would wind its way through the court just like anything else. There's no escaping the need for actual judgement in a court.
Thus, I think it might be reasonable for the state to compel you to give up your gun if you buy pot for any reason (medical or otherwise). A pot-head is not fit for military service. Your guns or your drugs, not both. We want sanity at the trigger end.
I would assemble the system myself from discrete transistors, except that I can't be sure the NSA didn't drug me, drag me off and hypnotize me.
SQL and amalgamations of languages (e.g., JavaScript generated by PHP) not on the list. XSS attacks involve such "mutt" software.
IMHO, the more code the more opportunities to exploit things. Terse languages to the rescue? Write it all in Haskell, Lisp or something. You'll attract talented developers and the attackers will be like... "Oh crap, we have to analyze that???".
No silver bullets of course. Something has to be able to read/write sensitive information at some point. Something has to determine under what conditions that occurs. It's human nature to make those conditions complicated to the point where vulnerabilities occur...
"Hey, look what I bought. I used my tax refu--"
And the next thing he knew, he woke up in an alley. His wallet, keys, phone and shoes were missing. For the life of him, he could not figure out why they didn't take his cool new toy.
He didn't say there would be no women. He said there would be no "ladies". Think "Lady Diana"s. He also said there would be no gentleman--but that doesn't mean everybody would be rude. Remember, this is a 19th century reader. The language is a bit different.
our future begins with tomorrow!
According to signs on the wall at several bars I've been to, there will also be free beer.
I'm an Apocalypse speculator. You might think I'd be at the bottom of the list; but we have been in business since ancient times. We're probably in the top 5 oldest professions. The people who run Slashdot are whoring out to something here, so apparently they will do well also.
The setting, a lecture hall in the 23rd century. "Years ago they thought there were limitations on these things. There were even proofs that things could not be measured with certainty. It was thought that transmutation would not be economic, and that the light barrier was unsurmountable".
You're likely to get modded Troll; but this really does remind me a bit of Ford vs. Toyota. For years Ford was fixed in peoples minds as the exploding Pinto company, and Toyota was high quality. Now Toyota isn't what it used to be, and Ford is better... but neither is perfect.
If nothing else this is a good argument against monoculture. We have different systems with different bugs, so it's not a total loss. If the market shares were evenly distributed among 10 different vendors, the black-hat task would be even harder, their impact of success that much less.
All these higher level virtual machines and interpreters are ultimately written in C
And C runs on top of a processor. Intel FPU bug, anyone? IIRC, there were also some suspicions regarding hardware RNGs possibly being back-doored.
There are no silver-bullets, and a corollary to that is that there isn't just one monster you have to kill.
Does he have an Ivy League degree too? Let's make him Pres... oh... crap.
I see this old semantic game blooms anew on Slashdot. "It isn't stealing". Fine. It's fraud. Don't worry that your reputation is shot and/or somebody else is trading on your good name. It isn't stealing. Oh... the victim feels much better now.
Are we going to train them to write PHP
Improv. GO!
... yes, because there aren't enough qualified people here, get them H1B ASAP.
... Backward tribes already use PHP.
... Many of them can only count to 3, so... oh, no problem. Carry on.
... for FacePaintBook?
OK, that's all I've got. Thanks for the setup.
It's not like I've never heard of that. You could file a suit; but I don't recommend doing that until you're close to retirement, have the money, and don't care about ever working in The Valley again.