Can you bring/use laptops? Is there a wireless access point or is that considered to much of a security threat?
You can buy laptops from the PX shop on at least some US bases. My last laptop came from a PX in Kabul. If you can buy them on the base, i'd assume they'll let you use them there too.
Sadly not. American English spelling moved in the right direction, but it never quite got there. It's a definite improvement on British spelling, but it's still a mess.
But that's just spelling. US English itself is at least as buggy as any other dialect.
Yeah, i'm glad i had the opportunity to work with punched cards and paper tape back at the beginning of the 80s. There was something kinda cool about booting up a computer the size of a large wardrobe and then winding the paper tape into a figure-8 around your finger and thumb so it would run through the reader properly next boot.
You wouldn't want to drop a stack of punched cards though - it would take you ages to get the operating system in the right order again!
You will exert all of this effort to teach an individual who is really past their learning stage a skill that requires a huge amount of infrastructure. Furthermore, it opens them up to all kinds of online scams.
Nah, that's nonsense. It depends entirely on the individual involved. I guess you must be in your teens or something, and think that everyone over 40 is practically dead!
Helping old people get to grips with computers and the internet is a very good idea. It can make the difference between a lonely old age, without much interaction with other people, and a life that continues to be interesting and rewarding, maybe even after their eyesight has deteriorated so badly they need to use a screen reader.
The most important thing to remember when teaching old people how to use this stuff is to write everything down, in simple steps - on paper - and encourage them to stick it on the wall near their computer or something. They'll be referring to it constantly.
Oh my goodness, did they really write it in assembler? I always imagined they already used high-level languages at that time.
Of course they already used high level languages in those days - on mainframes. But there just wasn't the program storage space on 6502-based machines in those days. You could create a much smaller and more efficient program in assembler than you could in COBOL or Fortran or something.
We didn't even use a high level language on the PDP11. But Macro11 was a million times better than the crappy 6502 assembler i had to work with back in 81!
The reason i like to buy a hardcopy book when i'm learning something new is because it usually pays to read the whole thing from start to finish - and i can never manage that with a PDF or web version.
If i read it from start to finish, i don't miss out on things that i don't know i need to know and therefore don't look at them while i'm skipping through the digital version. Read through the whole thing and you get the whole story.
Also, i like to get away from the bloody computer as much as i can - and being able sit and relax with a book is a nice change.
Couldn't you get your head around PHP? Not similar enough to BASIC for you, ey?
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Huh???
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I've just moved one of my blogs from Wordpress to Drupal - for the sole purpose of learning about Drupal - and i'm not sure which one has the worst documentation!
Wordpress's documentation is very good - if you can find what you're looking for, which is usually next to impossible. Drupal's seems to be a bit better organised, but i don't think it's as well written.
My general impression of the two is that, at first glance, Drupal looks a lot slicker than Wordpress, but below the surface Wordpress is a better product in some ways.
But i can see that there will be some sites where one is better for the job and some where the other is.
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Isn't that a reason to hate the English?
Who needs a reason to hate the English?
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That's why I hate foreign words in English -- you never know what syllable should be stressed.
It's the same with all words in English if you've never heard them spoken before! English spelling is a joke.
Anyway, almost all of the English language is made up of "foreign" words!
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As a Dutchman I pronounce Drupal 'DROOpal'.
A short OO, rather than a long one, i assume?
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"Pronouncing 'Drupal'"
The pronunciation of "drupal" is unusually easy across many different languages. I guess you could pronounce the "up" like the south eastern English pronunciation of the word "up", but can can't see why you would...
You're jumping to conclusions sonny. I think Britain is a sewer and it sickens me that the rats that infest it think they're better than everyone else in the world. But that doesn't make me Australian. Sadly, i was born on this godforsaken, cold, grey little island, populated by cold, grey little people. My ancestors were born in Britain too - going back as many generations as there are records.
You haven't got Shakespeare, Wilde, Darwin, and the rest - you've got Victoria Beckham, "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here", and non-stop documentaries about the second world war. You may have seen a programme or two about some aspects of Australian history - but that clearly hasn't educated you much.
By the way, it wasn't Australians who colonized Australia - it was the British.
If Australia has a culture minister, that would be a very little thing indeed.
Har har.
Don't tell me, you're British? From the land of intelligence and sophistication. The Sun, the Star, the News of the World, Eastenders, mass drunkenness, pissed punch-ups in every town every Friday and Saturday night, racism, narrow-minded bigotry, intolerance, ignorance, greed, stupidity, piss-poor education, corruption and appallingly bad management at every level of business and government... The list goes on and on and on.
Truly a culture to be proud of - and a sound basis from which to sneer at other cultures. And you clearly don't know as much about Australia as you think you do.
In general the fact that it is unconstitutional doesn't prevent a law from getting enacted - but it may prevent a court from enforcing it, or enable a court to make an order that contradicts it.
In some cases, this is useful for an individual, but in the case of censorship, it seems unlikely that there would be a court hearing when it can be argued.
Check out docbook - an XML DTD. A text editor that can do programmable macros would be handy, so you can make keyboard shortcuts for the most common tags ("<para>", etc) - or one that already has support for docbook built in. Just mark it up as you write. It's easy when you get into the swing of it.
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Can you bring/use laptops? Is there a wireless access point or is that considered to much of a security threat?
You can buy laptops from the PX shop on at least some US bases. My last laptop came from a PX in Kabul. If you can buy them on the base, i'd assume they'll let you use them there too.
That's not necessarily true. I've yet to come across a non-techie who could tell the difference.
True. But even if they are numbered you've still got to sort them out. If they weren't numbered, it would be easier to punch the whole deck again!
That may depend on who's doing the hating!
Sadly not. American English spelling moved in the right direction, but it never quite got there. It's a definite improvement on British spelling, but it's still a mess.
But that's just spelling. US English itself is at least as buggy as any other dialect.
They could replace the coffee cup holder with a retractable beer chiller shelf.
Will it keep your beer cool while you're online?
Yeah, i'm glad i had the opportunity to work with punched cards and paper tape back at the beginning of the 80s. There was something kinda cool about booting up a computer the size of a large wardrobe and then winding the paper tape into a figure-8 around your finger and thumb so it would run through the reader properly next boot.
You wouldn't want to drop a stack of punched cards though - it would take you ages to get the operating system in the right order again!
Nah, that's nonsense. It depends entirely on the individual involved. I guess you must be in your teens or something, and think that everyone over 40 is practically dead!
Helping old people get to grips with computers and the internet is a very good idea. It can make the difference between a lonely old age, without much interaction with other people, and a life that continues to be interesting and rewarding, maybe even after their eyesight has deteriorated so badly they need to use a screen reader.
The most important thing to remember when teaching old people how to use this stuff is to write everything down, in simple steps - on paper - and encourage them to stick it on the wall near their computer or something. They'll be referring to it constantly.
I generally don't comment on moderation, but what sort of maniac would moderate that comment as a troll? In what possible way is that trolling?
There's some weird people with moderation points around here!
Bizarre... [Shakes head despairingly]
Of course they already used high level languages in those days - on mainframes. But there just wasn't the program storage space on 6502-based machines in those days. You could create a much smaller and more efficient program in assembler than you could in COBOL or Fortran or something.
We didn't even use a high level language on the PDP11. But Macro11 was a million times better than the crappy 6502 assembler i had to work with back in 81!
The reason i like to buy a hardcopy book when i'm learning something new is because it usually pays to read the whole thing from start to finish - and i can never manage that with a PDF or web version.
If i read it from start to finish, i don't miss out on things that i don't know i need to know and therefore don't look at them while i'm skipping through the digital version. Read through the whole thing and you get the whole story.
Also, i like to get away from the bloody computer as much as i can - and being able sit and relax with a book is a nice change.
Couldn't you get your head around PHP? Not similar enough to BASIC for you, ey?
Huh???
I've just moved one of my blogs from Wordpress to Drupal - for the sole purpose of learning about Drupal - and i'm not sure which one has the worst documentation!
Wordpress's documentation is very good - if you can find what you're looking for, which is usually next to impossible. Drupal's seems to be a bit better organised, but i don't think it's as well written.
My general impression of the two is that, at first glance, Drupal looks a lot slicker than Wordpress, but below the surface Wordpress is a better product in some ways.
But i can see that there will be some sites where one is better for the job and some where the other is.
Who needs a reason to hate the English?
It's the same with all words in English if you've never heard them spoken before! English spelling is a joke.
Anyway, almost all of the English language is made up of "foreign" words!
A short OO, rather than a long one, i assume?
The pronunciation of "drupal" is unusually easy across many different languages. I guess you could pronounce the "up" like the south eastern English pronunciation of the word "up", but can can't see why you would...
...and it's flash, so you can't rely on it like a hard drive!
You're jumping to conclusions sonny. I think Britain is a sewer and it sickens me that the rats that infest it think they're better than everyone else in the world. But that doesn't make me Australian. Sadly, i was born on this godforsaken, cold, grey little island, populated by cold, grey little people. My ancestors were born in Britain too - going back as many generations as there are records.
You haven't got Shakespeare, Wilde, Darwin, and the rest - you've got Victoria Beckham, "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here", and non-stop documentaries about the second world war. You may have seen a programme or two about some aspects of Australian history - but that clearly hasn't educated you much.
By the way, it wasn't Australians who colonized Australia - it was the British.
What do you mean *a* minister? There's nine governments for 20 million people - there's more ministers than you can point a stick at!
Har har.
Don't tell me, you're British? From the land of intelligence and sophistication. The Sun, the Star, the News of the World, Eastenders, mass drunkenness, pissed punch-ups in every town every Friday and Saturday night, racism, narrow-minded bigotry, intolerance, ignorance, greed, stupidity, piss-poor education, corruption and appallingly bad management at every level of business and government... The list goes on and on and on.
Truly a culture to be proud of - and a sound basis from which to sneer at other cultures. And you clearly don't know as much about Australia as you think you do.
In general the fact that it is unconstitutional doesn't prevent a law from getting enacted - but it may prevent a court from enforcing it, or enable a court to make an order that contradicts it.
In some cases, this is useful for an individual, but in the case of censorship, it seems unlikely that there would be a court hearing when it can be argued.
Check out docbook - an XML DTD. A text editor that can do programmable macros would be handy, so you can make keyboard shortcuts for the most common tags ("<para>", etc) - or one that already has support for docbook built in. Just mark it up as you write. It's easy when you get into the swing of it.