I also had an ELF as my first system: built from instructions in Popular Electronics, with 256 bytes of memory! It took a while to load 256 bytes with those toggle switches...
The resolution is still a bit low, and the CD-Rs, as cool as they are, are not an increase in available space. CF cards are available at higher capacities... Hopefully the CD-Rs will be substantially cheaper though! Add more storage space and a make the resolution 6 megapixels or more (and make it an SLR with interchangable lenses) and I'll be at the camera store with plastic in hand.
Heck, I started in the industry as a software engineer when I was 38. Now I'm 41 and I'm doing great. Companies that expect to survive can't do so if they base their hiring decision on age (or race or religion or any other irrelevent factor) instead of ability to do the job.
Printed manuals are essential (lack of printed manuals is why book sales are so high.) If I pay big bucks for a program, I expect a decent printed manual. Online help is fine as far as it goes, but even with a 21" monitor at 1600x1200, screen real estate is to precious to be used up by a book I should have on my desk. Also, some applications (3D rendering for example) are so resource-intensive that you can't effectively read the online help at all while actually using the program.
I use a 35mm camera, but I scan the negatives. This gives me a resolution consumer digital cameras can't touch (57MB file size). The Nikon LS-2000 scanner works very well for this.
On the pure digital side, I recently got to play with a Nikon D1 (based on the F5 body, and accepting all standard Nikon lenses) for a few hours. It pretty much spoiled me for lesser digitals. It's only around 3 megapixel though. When one of these comes out that lets me use all my Nikon lenses and is in the 6 megapixel or higher range, I'm first in line to pick one up!
Well this is scary. It's kind of an enforced symbolic link. You create a file, and if it's the same as another file, a link to the other file is saved instead of your actual file. What happens if you modify your file? Does your file get saved separately at that point, or does it change the file you're linked to? If the former, it's hardly a symbolic link (in the Unix sense), if the latter, it's just a Bad Idea (tm). That said, if implemented well, I think this could be a very effective way of saving disk space.
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I also had an ELF as my first system: built from instructions in Popular Electronics, with 256 bytes of memory! It took a while to load 256 bytes with those toggle switches...
of course
Not leaving the laptop lying around...?
There are plenty of things to pick on AOL for, but configuration errors on the part of the user are not one of them.
Picture object-oriented Forth with Unicode support.
Iron Chef is great! I never miss it... I DO like Anime too though...
Umm -- ICQ is ALSO used by millions of AOL users. In fact, anyone using ICQ is, by definition, an AOL user!
Well I can't see THAT compiling, even under windows!
The resolution is still a bit low, and the CD-Rs, as cool as they are, are not an increase in available space. CF cards are available at higher capacities... Hopefully the CD-Rs will be substantially cheaper though! Add more storage space and a make the resolution 6 megapixels or more (and make it an SLR with interchangable lenses) and I'll be at the camera store with plastic in hand.
Heck, I started in the industry as a software engineer when I was 38. Now I'm 41 and I'm doing great. Companies that expect to survive can't do so if they base their hiring decision on age (or race or religion or any other irrelevent factor) instead of ability to do the job.
On the pure digital side, I recently got to play with a Nikon D1 (based on the F5 body, and accepting all standard Nikon lenses) for a few hours. It pretty much spoiled me for lesser digitals. It's only around 3 megapixel though. When one of these comes out that lets me use all my Nikon lenses and is in the 6 megapixel or higher range, I'm first in line to pick one up!
Well this is scary. It's kind of an enforced symbolic link. You create a file, and if it's the same as another file, a link to the other file is saved instead of your actual file. What happens if you modify your file? Does your file get saved separately at that point, or does it change the file you're linked to? If the former, it's hardly a symbolic link (in the Unix sense), if the latter, it's just a Bad Idea (tm). That said, if implemented well, I think this could be a very effective way of saving disk space.
45-50 for me. 80 or more on bad weeks, sometimes as few as 40. More important than the number of hours: I really enjoy the job!