What's with these degrees, minutes, and seconds longitude and lattitude? Come to think of it, what's with Degrees in trigonometry? Or radians for that matter? I suppose "Grads" that you find on calculators provide for a somewhat metric view of trigonometric functions. But no one has actually every used the "Grads" on a calculator, that's just there out of some sense of tradition, right?
Yeah, that's right, register.com may be "aware" of other slams, but they are at least as bad. In fact, they are the only registry that has attempted to trick me into a "renewal" slam. I got the official-looking notice referring to my 5 domains just last week.
And you neglected to mention the single most important creation of GCC, the Atari 7800?
Excellent point. I helped a bit around the company in early 1983, wiring new office space, but I wasn't really there for the 7800. I had a housemate in 1986 who had been a 7800 developer, so I did get to play with the system while it was in limbo.
I was working for General Computer in 1982, the company that created a hack of Missile Command called "Super Missile Attack". It plugged into Missile Command boxen, replacing the ROM to make the game cooler. Anyhow, Atari sued and we had to build a couple games for Atari as part of the settlement (Quantum and Food Fight [I built the prototype boards for these games]). At the time, I was a huge Devo fan (I mean, what self respecting geek of the time wasn't a Devo fan), and I used to brag to everyone that I was working within the same corporate monolith (Warner Brothers at the time) as Devo.
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I remember going to Disneyworld with my mom for the bicentennial (1976 -- the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence for those of you non-USAers). I kicked her butt at Pong in the motel lobby in Orlando. That Christmas Santa brought me the garrish yellow Magnavox Odyssey 300, which played three variations of Pong.
A "hockey" style where each controller controlled two paddles and you had to get the ball through a small "net" opening
A "tennis" mode where you had to get the ball past the oponents paddle
A "handball" mode where you took turns hitting the ball off a wall.
I whined and cried when we couldn't get the darn thing working Christmas night when it had been working earlier in the day. Turns out we had an AC adapter with multiple jacks available, and I had the polarity reversed.
I still hate hardware to this day.
Anyone want to buy my old Odyssey? I'll make sure it still works before shipping it.
The supreme sovereign power in Iran is still a religious figure with his very own police force.
I appreciate the further information. I tried to not say that this is a place I would want to live or a paradice by any stretch of the imagination. Yet Iran has made strides in the right direction.
Here are a few links to get you started so you can verify this for yourself:...
Again, thanks. Unfortunately, only the Journalists Without Borders link worked for me. Clearly Iran has serious "freedom of the press" problems. It was interesting that the only states in the middle east with good or satisfactory records, according to JWB, are Qatar, the UAE, and Lebanon. Interesting stuff indeed.
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Despite President George's inclusion of Iran in the Axis of Evil, Iran has actually become a relatively moderate state. Women have the right to vote and can own businesses. There are actual free and fair elections. It's got a lot of fundamentalists with power, but the same can be said of the U. S. of A.
Government is not a good entity to choose technologies the free market should adopt.
What about Energy Star? This was a government requirement that would never have been adopted in a standard manner by the industry if not for the purchasing power of Uncle Sam.
A new industry group ("Manufacturers Of All New Equipment & Retailers", or MOANER) announced today that they are urging newspapers across the nation to stop advertising yard sales, garage sales, and community group rummage sales. An unsigned letter from the organization, a coalition including Walmart, the RIAA, the Authors' Guild, and Panasonic, states "We believe that the practice of selling stuff more than once must be stopped. We build obsolenscence into our products, we market new styles each season, yet somehow these pirates keep selling clothes, books, appliances, and compact discs after they had already been sold at retail. We believe these practices hurt retailers and manufacturers, cost badly needed jobs, and leave perfectly good landfills empty."
There was a glowing example of this in Massachusetts a month or two ago. Robert Reich (many people will remember him as an outspoken Liberal Labor Secretary in the Clinton administration) decided to run for governor of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. He had no friends in the state party having said something a few years ago (not quite a direct quote) "The Democratic party is as dead as a doornail". This disconnect with the party insiders caused most people to claim his candidacy dead on arrival. A candidate needs 15% of the party convention delegates in order for his or her name to appear on the primary ballot.
Anyway, he entered the race after 5 other Democratic candidates, only a few weeks before the state caucuses. The entire focus of his campaign on day one was to urge activists (not party activists, any old activists) to spend a Saturday at their local caucus. Voila, people who had never been to these things suddenly found themselves selected as delegates to the state convention. It looks like Reich will have no problem getting enough delegates to be on the ballot.
When software dies, it often leaves behind engineers who knew the software well as well as customers who feel screwed by the software's lack of life support.
At the very least, opening the source of dead software allows these former employees to consult for the former customers without the intermediary corporate leaders and their marketing department.
Even if a product as a whole was not viable, there may be components that could be packaged up as valuable contributions to the OSS community. And there are definitely engineers (like me) with enough time on their hands and the strong desire to see something of value come from the ashes of old dead projects.
So, did Mir hit the 40' X 40' floating "Free Taco" banner? Taco Bell set up this banner as a publicity stunt. If Mir, or a significant piece of Mir, I suppose, hit the banner, Taco Bell claimed they would give a free taco to every person in the USofA.
I would think CmdrTaco would have been following this important story!
The Big Bopper died in a plane crash with Richie Valens (sp?) and Elvis Costello. Umm, I mean, Buddy Holly. You know "the Day The Music Died".
Roy O. lived for many years later, and was a member of The Traveling Wilburys (awesomely silly band which included Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan.
Sadly, Roy passed away shortly after the massive success of the first Wilburys album.
If you're selling the data, I hope something nasty happens to you
We're not collecting much data, and not selling it.
However, is it REALLY such a bad thing to have to get the parents' permission
I did not mean to infer that it was a Bad Thing, only that it has been a semi-major undertaking to comply and to get the suits to agree that our solution is sufficient.
For some leagues, the parents are signing an agreement that the kids can use the service as part of the process of enrolling the kids on a team. In other cases, there needs to be a process where the kid gives the parent's email address or the kid prints out a form which the parent can mail in or the parent can call an toll-free number to unlock a child's account.
Thank god we don't have any client sports organizations outside of the US (yet, at least).
Okay, how about (not theoretically) a service which provides Youth Sports organizing tools. I happen to be on a team building just such a tool. There are plenty of leagues that have age requirements, and many of the leagues are for 10 year olds or even 6 year olds.
You need to ask the kids what their age is. You have to collect (minimal) information about them, such as their email addresses.
So, now you need to get their parent's permission before you collect anything about the kid beyond his or her first name. Plus, you must provide a means for the parent to see what info you have collected about his or her child(ren) and offer the ability for the parent to remove said permission.
Here's an article by Simson from a 1985 edition of The Tech. It's a fascinating read. He profiles the successes and failures of the first 2 years of Project Athena, trumpeting the development of X Windows as one of the primary successes.
If it is, he thought of it as a teenager, and convinced M.I.T. to use it on his official records... Simson was a classmate of mine, and a fine writer for The Tech as far back as the early 80's.
For example, Slashdot does not receive a Bobby approved rating, meaning that it could improve its accesibility.
The only reason I could see that http://slashdot.org fails the Bobby test is that there is no alternate text for the 1-pixel-big background white image. That should be easy enough to fix!
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What's with these degrees, minutes, and seconds longitude and lattitude? Come to think of it, what's with Degrees in trigonometry? Or radians for that matter? I suppose "Grads" that you find on calculators provide for a somewhat metric view of trigonometric functions. But no one has actually every used the "Grads" on a calculator, that's just there out of some sense of tradition, right?
Yeah, that's right, register.com may be "aware" of other slams, but they are at least as bad. In fact, they are the only registry that has attempted to trick me into a "renewal" slam. I got the official-looking notice referring to my 5 domains just last week.
Excellent point. I helped a bit around the company in early 1983, wiring new office space, but I wasn't really there for the 7800. I had a housemate in 1986 who had been a 7800 developer, so I did get to play with the system while it was in limbo.
Here's an excellent 7800 history.
I was working for General Computer in 1982, the company that created a hack of Missile Command called "Super Missile Attack". It plugged into Missile Command boxen, replacing the ROM to make the game cooler. Anyhow, Atari sued and we had to build a couple games for Atari as part of the settlement (Quantum and Food Fight [I built the prototype boards for these games]). At the time, I was a huge Devo fan (I mean, what self respecting geek of the time wasn't a Devo fan), and I used to brag to everyone that I was working within the same corporate monolith (Warner Brothers at the time) as Devo.
A "hockey" style where each controller controlled two paddles and you had to get the ball through a small "net" opening
A "tennis" mode where you had to get the ball past the oponents paddle
A "handball" mode where you took turns hitting the ball off a wall.
I whined and cried when we couldn't get the darn thing working Christmas night when it had been working earlier in the day. Turns out we had an AC adapter with multiple jacks available, and I had the polarity reversed.
I still hate hardware to this day.
Anyone want to buy my old Odyssey? I'll make sure it still works before shipping it.
I appreciate the further information. I tried to not say that this is a place I would want to live or a paradice by any stretch of the imagination. Yet Iran has made strides in the right direction.
Again, thanks. Unfortunately, only the Journalists Without Borders link worked for me. Clearly Iran has serious "freedom of the press" problems. It was interesting that the only states in the middle east with good or satisfactory records, according to JWB, are Qatar, the UAE, and Lebanon. Interesting stuff indeed.
Despite President George's inclusion of Iran in the Axis of Evil, Iran has actually become a relatively moderate state. Women have the right to vote and can own businesses. There are actual free and fair elections. It's got a lot of fundamentalists with power, but the same can be said of the U. S. of A.
What about Energy Star? This was a government requirement that would never have been adopted in a standard manner by the industry if not for the purchasing power of Uncle Sam.
Is the garlic crop okay? I wanna go to the garlic festival this year!
A new industry group ("Manufacturers Of All New Equipment & Retailers", or MOANER) announced today that they are urging newspapers across the nation to stop advertising yard sales, garage sales, and community group rummage sales. An unsigned letter from the organization, a coalition including Walmart, the RIAA, the Authors' Guild, and Panasonic, states "We believe that the practice of selling stuff more than once must be stopped. We build obsolenscence into our products, we market new styles each season, yet somehow these pirates keep selling clothes, books, appliances, and compact discs after they had already been sold at retail. We believe these practices hurt retailers and manufacturers, cost badly needed jobs, and leave perfectly good landfills empty."
There was a glowing example of this in Massachusetts a month or two ago. Robert Reich (many people will remember him as an outspoken Liberal Labor Secretary in the Clinton administration) decided to run for governor of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. He had no friends in the state party having said something a few years ago (not quite a direct quote) "The Democratic party is as dead as a doornail". This disconnect with the party insiders caused most people to claim his candidacy dead on arrival. A candidate needs 15% of the party convention delegates in order for his or her name to appear on the primary ballot.
Anyway, he entered the race after 5 other Democratic candidates, only a few weeks before the state caucuses. The entire focus of his campaign on day one was to urge activists (not party activists, any old activists) to spend a Saturday at their local caucus. Voila, people who had never been to these things suddenly found themselves selected as delegates to the state convention. It looks like Reich will have no problem getting enough delegates to be on the ballot.
I was a geek
I was working for a video game company
The whole company took the afternoon off to see the premier of the film.
I didn't yet hate Disney
But even then, back in the summer of '82, I thought it was a lame movie. Why would I want to spend thirty bucks on it now?
I guess it's like every Star Trek cover picture on TV Guide -- if it's got geek appeal, it sells. Sad.
At the very least, opening the source of dead software allows these former employees to consult for the former customers without the intermediary corporate leaders and their marketing department.
Even if a product as a whole was not viable, there may be components that could be packaged up as valuable contributions to the OSS community. And there are definitely engineers (like me) with enough time on their hands and the strong desire to see something of value come from the ashes of old dead projects.
Bravery, Kindness, Clarity, Honesty, Compassion, Generosity
Bravery, Kindness, Clarity, Honesty, Compassion, Generosity
Bravery, Kindness, Clarity, Honesty, Compassion, Generosity
Roy O. lived for many years later, and was a member of The Traveling Wilburys (awesomely silly band which included Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan.
Sadly, Roy passed away shortly after the massive success of the first Wilburys album.
Bravery, Kindness, Clarity, Honesty, Compassion, Generosity
Bravery, Kindness, Clarity, Honesty, Compassion, Generosity
Bravery, Kindness, Clarity, Honesty, Compassion, Generosity
We're not collecting much data, and not selling it.
However, is it REALLY such a bad thing to have to get the parents' permission
I did not mean to infer that it was a Bad Thing, only that it has been a semi-major undertaking to comply and to get the suits to agree that our solution is sufficient.
For some leagues, the parents are signing an agreement that the kids can use the service as part of the process of enrolling the kids on a team. In other cases, there needs to be a process where the kid gives the parent's email address or the kid prints out a form which the parent can mail in or the parent can call an toll-free number to unlock a child's account.
Thank god we don't have any client sports organizations outside of the US (yet, at least).
Bravery, Kindness, Clarity, Honesty, Compassion, Generosity
You need to ask the kids what their age is. You have to collect (minimal) information about them, such as their email addresses.
So, now you need to get their parent's permission before you collect anything about the kid beyond his or her first name. Plus, you must provide a means for the parent to see what info you have collected about his or her child(ren) and offer the ability for the parent to remove said permission.
Bravery, Kindness, Clarity, Honesty, Compassion, Generosity
You mean, CmdrTaco visited Transmeta? Cool! But why in the world did he write about it in German???
Oh, never mind...
Bravery, Kindness, Clarity, Honesty, Compassion, Generosity
And no, I never saw him sing Scarborough Fair.
Bravery, Kindness, Clarity, Honesty, Compassion, Generosity
If it is, he thought of it as a teenager, and convinced M.I.T. to use it on his official records... Simson was a classmate of mine, and a fine writer for The Tech as far back as the early 80's.
Bravery, Kindness, Clarity, Honesty, Compassion, Generosity
The only reason I could see that http://slashdot.org fails the Bobby test is that there is no alternate text for the 1-pixel-big background white image. That should be easy enough to fix!
Bravery, Kindness, Clarity, Honesty, Compassion, Generosity