Previt, priyatna paznokomitza. Spasibo. Sovershenno Verno, eta takaya fignya:-)
Please excuse my poor command of the language as I have only been studying it for three years. Americans, as a general rule, have nothing against the Russian people at all, it is only our idiot media and a few crazy leftists communists who make so much noise they appear to have power.
1. Front panels. Real computers had front panels with blinking lights and switches.
2. Being the only person for miles around that had a computer in their house
3. Hacking wasn't hacking. We'd program modems to call every number in our LEX and log the ones that were computers. The computers we found we'd try to identify, and if they were PDP-11's or VAXes we'd login and leave them a friendly message. This wasn't considered bad activity at all - we were doing them a FAVOR by letting them know they were insecure.
4. Physically touching big iron. Mounting heavy disk packs, hanging tapes, loading diagnostics from paper tape. Data Centers were cool places and only the super cool people got to work in there. It destroyed my hearing but it was worth it.
5. Relying on a wall of notebooks that contained absolutely everything you ever needed to know about the hardware and software. If you needed answers they were there.
6. The relaxed work pace, It took 20 minutes to log in. We'd sign up for compiles, maybe get two a day. Loading the editor, 20 minutes. Saving your code, 20 minutes. Compiling took an hour. During those times the programmers would drink coffee, share tricks, learn from each other.
7. Leaving the office at 5:00, going home to work on your home computer, and never, ever getting called from work.
8. Upgrading from 1200 baud Kansas City Standard leaderless cassettes to Micropolis hard sector floppies. My first home hard drive, a Shugart SA-1000 that distorted the TV picture of every TV within 500 feet so I could only use it late at night. The beautiful wood case on my Northstar Horizon. My first TIL from scratch in z80 assembler. "Inventing" the idea of a DLL.
9. My second year as a programmer we got lower case chips in our Lier Siegler ADM-3's, but we could only print in upper case. We thought "Wow you could actually write someone a letter on this thing wouldn't that be cool"
10. Explaining to non computer people how many telephone books we could store on a disk drive. In those days a telephone book was big data.
11. Writing one's database from scratch, or fixing bugs in the Borland Database Toolbox.
What I don't miss:
1. Staying up all night hanging tapes because backup boy called in sick.
2. Soldering RS-232 connectors
3. Terminals that used paper, like the ASR 43 or the LA120 DecWriter
4. Programmers in "Data Processing" typically worked behind glass windows with the machine behind a glass window inside the room we worked in. Management would give tours and we always felt like moneys in a cage.
5. Pascal, Fortran, and COBOL
6. ALL programmers smoked and drank tons of coffee. I had a 12" wide ashtray on my desk.
In the PC world definitely. In the PDP-11 mini-computer world where I spent my days definitely not. If one found a bug in the operating system, or compiler, or vendor supplied tool it was a VERY BIG DEAL. Today we accept crappy software as normal.
Not true at all. The Iraqi government was not happy with the pitifully small number of troops Obama wanted to leave behind, and Obama wouldn't budge because politically he needed to say he had ended the war. Your version of events is the fake news talking point, oft repeated, but completely false.
This sounds good but in reality is a very bad idea. If you turn all compensation into wages, you turn labor into a commodity, and everyone loses their individuality. As a manager, I have people not making much who perform brilliantly - and they get raises - and surprise these people perform the same regardless of how much they are paid. That's because they really don't care about the money above a living wage. Then you have people who have been around for a very long time, and are getting over paid relative to their co-workers, but they serve as "a rock" because they know how the company wants things to get done and they have loyalty. Good managers - who are EXTREMELY RARE - command big salaries. Because they earn it! The contractor super star who leaves you in the final phases of the big project for $1 more an hour is the worst sort of employee. Etc. And yes, sometimes the cute girl gets paid more than the ugly one. And the guy everybody likes gets paid a little more too. This is because HUMANS are involved and no matter how hard the SJW crowd tries you can't legislate human nature.
A good manager knows what motivates each and every employee and makes sure they get it, good managers are loved by their employees, and let me say this again in all caps GOOD MANAGERS ARE EXTREMELY RARE.
"But like many liberal elites, the rules are for others, not for them."
Thank You for having the courage to say this.
Name one Liberal Elite who doesn't always force the other side to live up to it's rules - in the extreme - and likewise considers themselves above the very rules they set out for others.
There might be one... or two.... but they are not in positions of power. It has always been about two things power and control. I recall the Obama White House didn't pay women as much as men. And yet it's the evil Rethugnicans who hate women. And we have Trump with many women in very powerful positions making equal pay, but he's a horrible misogynist pig. I just don't understand how ANYONE can't see through the propaganda, it's why I left the Democratic Party, it's so obvious...
Should read "Last ditch attempt to get funding by making fantastical claims fails, only appears on slashdot"
One would think the people doing Climate Science would have figured out that making fantastic dire predictions is one of the reasons they have lost credibility, and that they are doing far more damage to the planet than all the factories put together. Your anger should be directed at them, but it never is. If you care about the planet call for a new approach to research that doesn't promote collective group think.
Of course absolutely nothing has actually happened - except for a media that's totally out of control throwing gasoline on every single comment made by anyone and immediately painting a horrible picture of the end of the world...
And if you actually believe what you read in our press, please check out the comment sections, they are more rational than the crap the press writes. Seriously if you can't see what's going on over here - we don't want you to visit anyway. The press is bat-shit crazy. Many of the people on the coasts are bat-shit crazy. The rest of us - THE MAJORITY - are happy and perfectly normal and not really all the worried about Trump.
I see. So personal experience is useless, and I should form all my opinions about the world by blindly following "superior intellects" or by repeating other people's talking points. Arrogant intellectual superiority is on the decline these days, you might want to consider rethinking your approach.... lest you become another snowflake.
My observations come from 40 years of having liberal and conservative friends. I am a fiscal conservative and a social progressive. One or two exceptions and I have described all my liberal friends perfectly. Liberalism is an echo chamber, and has been as long as I can remember. Conservatives are definitely taking cues from this and headed in that direction big time these days but that is a recent development.
Moderates can't get elected because 1) The media can't live without throwing gasoline on every fire 2) Moderates don't have groups of angry grass roots supporters that send in money 3) The Clintonistas during the Bush years taught the DNC a new way to play the game, and the Republicans are now using those same tactics, and they require bold, bodacious statements that quickly spread on the interwebs.
Just read the comments here, the majority of them are from people who are obviously very passionate and emotional but have no connection with the facts at all, which are that this piece of legislation means absolutely nothing.
You can't tell the truth like this on Slashdot! You need to sign up for feigned righteous indignation training immediately, along with a prescription for pills that keep you in a continuous state of angst and despair. Please stop consuming news from a variety of sources, and start getting all your information from reliable purveyors of truth such as the Huffington Post, or WND.
Liberals/Progressives have always been "Your ALL in or you're OUT". Either you accept the whole ideology or you're not true to the cause. They claim conservatives are equally rigid, but I have not found this to be the case at all.
For example, if you tell a liberal you are concerned about EPA over-reach of wetland management, the response is YOU'RE AGAINST CLEAN AIR AND WATER YOU WANT PEOPLE TO DIE. If you express concerns about the growth of entitlement budgets, the response is YOU HATE POOR PEOPLE AND WANT GRANDMA TO STARVE. Liberals in my experience tend to be emotional, passionate, deeply caring people which causes them to be overly dramatic.
My conservative friends, on the other hand, tolerate disagreements on specific details as long as the absolute principles are not questioned.
There are exceptions, of course, there are whack job conservatives and whack job liberals. I've never met a conservative "Drama Queen" but most of my liberal friends seem to live in a perpetual state of angst.
Today, the Democratic party is weaker than it has been since the 1920's. So the leaders of the party must squeeze contributions out of a shrinking pool of folks who have been told for years they represent the majority view. One can't barter contributions to PACS for legislative favors when you are in the minority. Like it or not this is how the world works. So naturally they are working overtime to keep the base whipped up to a frenzy. No frenzy no money no money no party. They are doing what they have to do. The same thing the Republicans did after the Obama victory and complete control of the House and Senate. The Democrats are FAR better at whipping people into a frenzy than the Republicans are although Trump is upping their game - one of the reasons he is vilified.
The "puritan outrage bullshit" is the battle between moral relativity (if it feels good, do it) and moral equivalency (do that and you'll go to hell). It's only bullshit if you live in a blue bubble and have never traveled to Trumpistan which geographically is actually most of the USA.
This has nothing to do with the original post, I know. IMHO they fired the guy because he was a dick and used his sexual behavior to justify it... And please, people, can we stop with the Nazi Germany equivalency? When one party or the other sets up gas chambers and ovens then you can be indignant...
Just try and buy parts for an older German Car. Last year I brought my Father's 1969 Mercedes 280 SL "Pagoda" back to life. One brake shoe, $140. Rubber brake line, $80 each. Calipers $325 per wheel. Fuel Pump $450. Working on that car convinced me that Germans have really long arms and very small hands. A simple job - like replacing the fuel filter, or replacing the points - took hours. The fuel filter could not be done without two people, one under the car and one above.
Contrast that to my 1964 1/2 Mustang where a set of brake shoes is $34.99.... A fuel pump is $41.99... And this isn't just because people are crazy about old Mustangs, other old American cars have similar parts prices unless the are Packards, Auburns, etc.
If you bother to read the actual story it's about ink cartridges for printers. Lexmark says If you refill our cartridges with non approved ink we can't guarantee the printer will work. This sounds pretty reasonable to me. The way the printer business works is they sell you printer at a loss and make up the margin on the cartridges. So a smart consumer will price the cartridges and the ink before they buy the printer, end of story, your righteous indignation not required.
So you didn't complain at all about Obama's vacations.
Ben Shapiro says Obama spent 85 million. Can we believe him? Where did he get the numbers. Will Trump continue to go to Florida every weekend? Does it really cost as much as everyone says?
WAY too many people are partisan political hacks pretending to righteously indignant about issues that aren't even issue yet...
NBC news, what do you expect? The bill passed the house without amendment, and it passed the Senate. Lots of Democrats probably voted for it. But leave it to the breathless idiots in the media to report on this like Trump did it all by himself. The actual bill says this:
(Sec. 412) The key U.S. objectives for human expansion into space shall include achieving human exploration of Mars and beyond through the prioritization of those technologies and capabilities best suited for such a mission in accordance with the stepping stone approach to exploration specified in federal law.
This contradicts much of the story. And the comments being made here...
These cost estimates, of course, can be found on reliable sites like the Huffington Post, Think Progress, The Center for American Progress, and Media Matters for America. In actual government documents, nope.
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But what about the godless leftist communists in our own country? Why are they coddled?
Previt, priyatna paznokomitza. Spasibo. Sovershenno Verno, eta takaya fignya :-)
Please excuse my poor command of the language as I have only been studying it for three years. Americans, as a general rule, have nothing against the Russian people at all, it is only our idiot media and a few crazy leftists communists who make so much noise they appear to have power.
You left out the millions of knee-jerk reactionary responses to ANY story with the word Russia in it.
It's even worse than Bush Derangement Syndrome, where Dubya was controlling the weather and all kinds of other crazy nonsense.
You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.
:-)
Adventure was what dial up modems were invented for. We were banned from playing during the day
1. Front panels. Real computers had front panels with blinking lights and switches.
2. Being the only person for miles around that had a computer in their house
3. Hacking wasn't hacking. We'd program modems to call every number in our LEX and log the ones that were computers. The computers we found we'd try to identify, and if they were PDP-11's or VAXes we'd login and leave them a friendly message. This wasn't considered bad activity at all - we were doing them a FAVOR by letting them know they were insecure.
4. Physically touching big iron. Mounting heavy disk packs, hanging tapes, loading diagnostics from paper tape. Data Centers were cool places and only the super cool people got to work in there. It destroyed my hearing but it was worth it.
5. Relying on a wall of notebooks that contained absolutely everything you ever needed to know about the hardware and software. If you needed answers they were there.
6. The relaxed work pace, It took 20 minutes to log in. We'd sign up for compiles, maybe get two a day. Loading the editor, 20 minutes. Saving your code, 20 minutes. Compiling took an hour. During those times the programmers would drink coffee, share tricks, learn from each other.
7. Leaving the office at 5:00, going home to work on your home computer, and never, ever getting called from work.
8. Upgrading from 1200 baud Kansas City Standard leaderless cassettes to Micropolis hard sector floppies. My first home hard drive, a Shugart SA-1000 that distorted the TV picture of every TV within 500 feet so I could only use it late at night. The beautiful wood case on my Northstar Horizon. My first TIL from scratch in z80 assembler. "Inventing" the idea of a DLL.
9. My second year as a programmer we got lower case chips in our Lier Siegler ADM-3's, but we could only print in upper case. We thought "Wow you could actually write someone a letter on this thing wouldn't that be cool"
10. Explaining to non computer people how many telephone books we could store on a disk drive. In those days a telephone book was big data.
11. Writing one's database from scratch, or fixing bugs in the Borland Database Toolbox.
What I don't miss:
1. Staying up all night hanging tapes because backup boy called in sick.
2. Soldering RS-232 connectors
3. Terminals that used paper, like the ASR 43 or the LA120 DecWriter
4. Programmers in "Data Processing" typically worked behind glass windows with the machine behind a glass window inside the room we worked in. Management would give tours and we always felt like moneys in a cage.
5. Pascal, Fortran, and COBOL
6. ALL programmers smoked and drank tons of coffee. I had a 12" wide ashtray on my desk.
In the PC world definitely. In the PDP-11 mini-computer world where I spent my days definitely not. If one found a bug in the operating system, or compiler, or vendor supplied tool it was a VERY BIG DEAL. Today we accept crappy software as normal.
Not true at all. The Iraqi government was not happy with the pitifully small number of troops Obama wanted to leave behind, and Obama wouldn't budge because politically he needed to say he had ended the war. Your version of events is the fake news talking point, oft repeated, but completely false.
This sounds good but in reality is a very bad idea. If you turn all compensation into wages, you turn labor into a commodity, and everyone loses their individuality. As a manager, I have people not making much who perform brilliantly - and they get raises - and surprise these people perform the same regardless of how much they are paid. That's because they really don't care about the money above a living wage. Then you have people who have been around for a very long time, and are getting over paid relative to their co-workers, but they serve as "a rock" because they know how the company wants things to get done and they have loyalty. Good managers - who are EXTREMELY RARE - command big salaries. Because they earn it! The contractor super star who leaves you in the final phases of the big project for $1 more an hour is the worst sort of employee. Etc. And yes, sometimes the cute girl gets paid more than the ugly one. And the guy everybody likes gets paid a little more too. This is because HUMANS are involved and no matter how hard the SJW crowd tries you can't legislate human nature.
A good manager knows what motivates each and every employee and makes sure they get it, good managers are loved by their employees, and let me say this again in all caps GOOD MANAGERS ARE EXTREMELY RARE.
"But like many liberal elites, the rules are for others, not for them."
Thank You for having the courage to say this.
Name one Liberal Elite who doesn't always force the other side to live up to it's rules - in the extreme - and likewise considers themselves above the very rules they set out for others.
There might be one... or two.... but they are not in positions of power. It has always been about two things power and control. I recall the Obama White House didn't pay women as much as men. And yet it's the evil Rethugnicans who hate women. And we have Trump with many women in very powerful positions making equal pay, but he's a horrible misogynist pig. I just don't understand how ANYONE can't see through the propaganda, it's why I left the Democratic Party, it's so obvious...
Should read "Last ditch attempt to get funding by making fantastical claims fails, only appears on slashdot"
One would think the people doing Climate Science would have figured out that making fantastic dire predictions is one of the reasons they have lost credibility, and that they are doing far more damage to the planet than all the factories put together. Your anger should be directed at them, but it never is. If you care about the planet call for a new approach to research that doesn't promote collective group think.
In a related story Apple wakes up and realizes it has now become Microsoft, and changes it's name to AppleSoft.
Of course absolutely nothing has actually happened - except for a media that's totally out of control throwing gasoline on every single comment made by anyone and immediately painting a horrible picture of the end of the world...
And if you actually believe what you read in our press, please check out the comment sections, they are more rational than the crap the press writes. Seriously if you can't see what's going on over here - we don't want you to visit anyway. The press is bat-shit crazy. Many of the people on the coasts are bat-shit crazy. The rest of us - THE MAJORITY - are happy and perfectly normal and not really all the worried about Trump.
I see. So personal experience is useless, and I should form all my opinions about the world by blindly following "superior intellects" or by repeating other people's talking points. Arrogant intellectual superiority is on the decline these days, you might want to consider rethinking your approach.... lest you become another snowflake.
My observations come from 40 years of having liberal and conservative friends. I am a fiscal conservative and a social progressive. One or two exceptions and I have described all my liberal friends perfectly. Liberalism is an echo chamber, and has been as long as I can remember. Conservatives are definitely taking cues from this and headed in that direction big time these days but that is a recent development.
Moderates can't get elected because 1) The media can't live without throwing gasoline on every fire 2) Moderates don't have groups of angry grass roots supporters that send in money 3) The Clintonistas during the Bush years taught the DNC a new way to play the game, and the Republicans are now using those same tactics, and they require bold, bodacious statements that quickly spread on the interwebs.
Just read the comments here, the majority of them are from people who are obviously very passionate and emotional but have no connection with the facts at all, which are that this piece of legislation means absolutely nothing.
You can't tell the truth like this on Slashdot! You need to sign up for feigned righteous indignation training immediately, along with a prescription for pills that keep you in a continuous state of angst and despair. Please stop consuming news from a variety of sources, and start getting all your information from reliable purveyors of truth such as the Huffington Post, or WND.
Liberals/Progressives have always been "Your ALL in or you're OUT". Either you accept the whole ideology or you're not true to the cause. They claim conservatives are equally rigid, but I have not found this to be the case at all.
For example, if you tell a liberal you are concerned about EPA over-reach of wetland management, the response is YOU'RE AGAINST CLEAN AIR AND WATER YOU WANT PEOPLE TO DIE. If you express concerns about the growth of entitlement budgets, the response is YOU HATE POOR PEOPLE AND WANT GRANDMA TO STARVE. Liberals in my experience tend to be emotional, passionate, deeply caring people which causes them to be overly dramatic.
My conservative friends, on the other hand, tolerate disagreements on specific details as long as the absolute principles are not questioned.
There are exceptions, of course, there are whack job conservatives and whack job liberals. I've never met a conservative "Drama Queen" but most of my liberal friends seem to live in a perpetual state of angst.
Today, the Democratic party is weaker than it has been since the 1920's. So the leaders of the party must squeeze contributions out of a shrinking pool of folks who have been told for years they represent the majority view. One can't barter contributions to PACS for legislative favors when you are in the minority. Like it or not this is how the world works. So naturally they are working overtime to keep the base whipped up to a frenzy. No frenzy no money no money no party. They are doing what they have to do. The same thing the Republicans did after the Obama victory and complete control of the House and Senate. The Democrats are FAR better at whipping people into a frenzy than the Republicans are although Trump is upping their game - one of the reasons he is vilified.
The "puritan outrage bullshit" is the battle between moral relativity (if it feels good, do it) and moral equivalency (do that and you'll go to hell). It's only bullshit if you live in a blue bubble and have never traveled to Trumpistan which geographically is actually most of the USA.
This has nothing to do with the original post, I know. IMHO they fired the guy because he was a dick and used his sexual behavior to justify it... And please, people, can we stop with the Nazi Germany equivalency? When one party or the other sets up gas chambers and ovens then you can be indignant...
I call it "programming by Google". To see what this looks like in the real world examine just about any WordPress website you find.
If this is true you left out "A Republican Controlled Congress passed a bill that was signed into law by a Democratic President"
Wow you managed to politicize even this! Congratulations.
Just try and buy parts for an older German Car. Last year I brought my Father's 1969 Mercedes 280 SL "Pagoda" back to life. One brake shoe, $140. Rubber brake line, $80 each. Calipers $325 per wheel. Fuel Pump $450. Working on that car convinced me that Germans have really long arms and very small hands. A simple job - like replacing the fuel filter, or replacing the points - took hours. The fuel filter could not be done without two people, one under the car and one above.
Contrast that to my 1964 1/2 Mustang where a set of brake shoes is $34.99.... A fuel pump is $41.99... And this isn't just because people are crazy about old Mustangs, other old American cars have similar parts prices unless the are Packards, Auburns, etc.
If you bother to read the actual story it's about ink cartridges for printers. Lexmark says If you refill our cartridges with non approved ink we can't guarantee the printer will work. This sounds pretty reasonable to me. The way the printer business works is they sell you printer at a loss and make up the margin on the cartridges. So a smart consumer will price the cartridges and the ink before they buy the printer, end of story, your righteous indignation not required.
So you didn't complain at all about Obama's vacations.
Ben Shapiro says Obama spent 85 million. Can we believe him? Where did he get the numbers. Will Trump continue to go to Florida every weekend? Does it really cost as much as everyone says?
WAY too many people are partisan political hacks pretending to righteously indignant about issues that aren't even issue yet...
NBC news, what do you expect? The bill passed the house without amendment, and it passed the Senate. Lots of Democrats probably voted for it. But leave it to the breathless idiots in the media to report on this like Trump did it all by himself. The actual bill says this:
(Sec. 412) The key U.S. objectives for human expansion into space shall include achieving human exploration of Mars and beyond through the prioritization of those technologies and capabilities best suited for such a mission in accordance with the stepping stone approach to exploration specified in federal law.
This contradicts much of the story. And the comments being made here...
These cost estimates, of course, can be found on reliable sites like the Huffington Post, Think Progress, The Center for American Progress, and Media Matters for America. In actual government documents, nope.