Jesse was a breath of fresh air. No, he couldn't get a lot done given that the state legislature was split, but he had no problem letting us know where he stood on issues.
Yes, I voted for him when I lived in MN, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. I wish he'd run in Georgia...:-)
I ended up breaking my resume up into five base versions (Unisys mainframe, IBM mainframe/COBOL, UNIX programming, PC hardware/software support, and a generic application programmer resume), each concentrating on a particular set of technologies and/or basic types of experience that were somewhat related to each area.
That saved me quite a bit of effort when customizing things later on to fit a given position.
When one has been working in the technical arena for a while, especially if one has help multiple positions during that time, the chances are fairly good that you're going to be experienced in more than one area, so I disagree that you want to concentrate on just one thing.
You *do* need to find a way to focus your efforts, of course, but that isn't the same thing.
In fact, I can't remember the last time I saw a corner mailbox. They certainly weren't common in suburban Minneapolis, and they can't be very common in suburban Atlanta either.
When I want to mail something which might be sensitive, I either mail it at work, or drop it off at the box at the local Post Office. If it isn't sensitive, I simply put it in my own home's mailbox and raise the flag.
It's nice to be able to do this, but it gets old after you've done that for the 300th time without much in the way of results.
I have a somewhat lengthy list of skills on my somewhat dated resume (I really should update it), but I don't put anything on there that I don't know relatively well, and I've had the strangest items on that list result in promising job interviews.
#2 happens to me all the time. There also isn't an easy way to move apps between virtual desktops, but I've learned to live with it.
On OS/2, I use the virtual desktop utility that came bundled with Hummingbird eXceed, and it seems to be much more "conventional" with an X x Y pane panel (I use 2x2) and the ability to drag apps between desktops using the mini window images. Maybe I need to get a copy of eXceed for Windows?:-)
Sometimes one person with a different perspective on a problem can see something that a groups of "experts" had never thought of, or had discounted because they assumed it wouldn't work.
That's why a fresh perspective on a problem can be quite enlightening, and why I tend to go ask other programmers for their ideas/comments when I get stuck. I don't know everything, and I sometimes make stupid assumptions or forget to consider certain technquies. No group is immune from this.
How much disk space do you have? Do you run Linux too?
2GB+6.4GB+6.4GB on this box. Not a lot; I have an 18GB drive I'm gonna put in here soon. And yet, I run Linux on a few other boxes on the LAN. Not this one, though.
A lot of the information being provided is kept by airline reservation systems in the standard PNR (Passenger Name Record) for each passenger, anyway. Criminal conviction data is (probably) not.
That does a good job of sort of explaining things, but it's in a web context while the datafeeds being described in the article are almost certainly not related to the web (or http) at all.
Push datafeeds exist in several forms. Some require explict application-level acknowledgements for each message and employ multi-priority queueing mechanisms (allowing high-priority messages to be sent ahead of everyone else), while others simply push messages into the ether and efectively forget about them (a response might not be required, or a delayed response might result in the sender simply resending the original message again).
When I worked at NWA, the main system I worked on (WorldFlight) had a number of push datafeeds coming into the system from other systems both inside and outside the airline, and those datafeeds contained such important data elements as hourly station weather and various weather alerts from NWS and satellite feeds, passenger and bag info from the reservation system, crew info from the crew system, MEL/CDL (the "what's broken" list) information from performance engineering, OOOI (Out/Off/On/In) messages and position reports from aircraft via ACARS, etc.
The system also pushed out current flight status information to various systems, airport displays, databases, and so on, pushed ACARS messages to ARINC and SITA for transmission to flying aircraft, etc.
I've had a working GCE Vectrex unit since 1983. It's a wonderful machine, though a bit noisy, and I find that people are fascinated by the vector screen even though it's only white lines on a black background. It was the only game machine I had in college -- couldn't afford a PC back then.:-)
Some of the games are quite fun. Mine Storm is far more than "an asteroids clone", though -- with magnetic mines, magnetic shooting mines, and various interesting shapes above level 13 (when the game starts skipping levels and then presenting you with strange shapes on various levels), it does take a certain amount of skill to play. Cosmic Chasm is fun, RipOff is a blast as a competitive 2-player game, and I really like Scramble. Solar Quest is fun, as is Web Wars.
The Vectrex StarCastle clone is too easy (it gives you four concurrent shots instead of three) compared to the arcade game, and Armor Attack has a bug that can be exploited for an almost infinite score.
All in all, it's a fun console. The fact that folks are still writing games for it fascinates me -- see rec.games.vectrex on USENET for more information.:-) I'm way behind in the newer games -- I have two multicarts (one Mark Woodward variant and one Sean Kelly variant), and I think one cartridge from John Dondzilla, but that's about it. Someday I'll buy more.
The DVE Vectrex emulator for DOS is rather decent, by the way. It runs just fine on my PPro/200, so on any modern DOS-capable box it should work without a hitch.
Who says they're using the internet? There are many other technologies (Tux, MQ, X.25, MATIP, P1024, etc.) to choose from when exchanging data between remote hosts, and one can use IP technology and still not use the public internet. Some companies have their own internal IP networks, and dedicated point-to-point data lines are still very common in some industries.
Commercial airlines and governments use "push" technology heavily, as they have been since the mid-1960's (and maybe even before). That's what an unsolicited data feed is by definition. Airline weather is sent that way, all airline ACARS messages are sent that way, FLIFO data is sent that way internally between internal airline systems and between airlines, passenger data is sent that way between reservations systems and the recipients of said data, bag information is sent that way, etc.
Yes, it was. That's the year I built my current home PC (a Micron Millenia Pro2 Plus tower with a fancy new 200MHz Pentium Pro processor [686 babee!], an Adaptec 2940U, a Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16 with add-on wavetable card [effectively an AWE32], an Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B NIC, and some stupid video card since forgotten (replaced immediately with a 4MB Matrox MGA Millenium)).
Over the years I've added some additional SCSI drives, a CD burner, a 12MB Voodoo2 card, and various other things, but the core system is still the same system I've had since November 1996. It's been on 24x7 since that time, and I still use it every single day.
1996 is also the year that two of my main home operating systems came out.
Windows 95 OSR2 (otherwise known as Windows 95B, the first version of Windows with FAT32 and the last without the crappy MSIE integration on the desktop) came out in the summer of 1996, and I've used it on the above box for playing various games ever since. Folks here might laugh, but I still get a kick out of games like NFS3 and NFS4, the original Unreal Tournament, Tribes 1, Madden 2001, and Total Annihilation, and those all work just fine.
OS/2 Warp 4 came out in the fall of 1996, just in time for me to install on the box and use as my main desktop OS for the next ten years. Literally.:-) I've applied one FixPak since then (FixPak 15, required for Mozilla), but otherwise the installation is the same one I've had since day one.
Some people say I still live in 1996. Nonsense! I'm a modern PC hobbyist -- my two remaining Deskpro 6200's were built in *1998*!:-)
Because of that, it's probably considered proprietary information, so you aren't going to see it released to the public. I suspect a lot of it is fairly company-specific, anyway, and may be of little use outside its original context.
For example, the Atlanta metropolian area is over 4 million people, and the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro is over 3 million people, and each metro area is a fairly continuous urban area with surrounding suburban layers, yet no single "city" in those areas counts as over a million in population (Atlanta is 450,000 and Minneapolis plus St. Paul is only around 600,000 combined).
Many of the grocery stores in the Atlanta area don't offer paper bags as an option -- it's plastic or nothing, and my wife and I often use cloth grocery bags for that reason. Besides, the cloth ones are easier to carry.:-)
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Jesse was a breath of fresh air. No, he couldn't get a lot done given that the state legislature was split, but he had no problem letting us know where he stood on issues.
:-)
Yes, I voted for him when I lived in MN, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. I wish he'd run in Georgia...
I ended up breaking my resume up into five base versions (Unisys mainframe, IBM mainframe/COBOL, UNIX programming, PC hardware/software support, and a generic application programmer resume), each concentrating on a particular set of technologies and/or basic types of experience that were somewhat related to each area.
That saved me quite a bit of effort when customizing things later on to fit a given position.
When one has been working in the technical arena for a while, especially if one has help multiple positions during that time, the chances are fairly good that you're going to be experienced in more than one area, so I disagree that you want to concentrate on just one thing.
You *do* need to find a way to focus your efforts, of course, but that isn't the same thing.
I wish. :-(
Unfortunately, there are so many NIMBYs that building new ones is going to be extremely difficult.
In fact, I can't remember the last time I saw a corner mailbox. They certainly weren't common in suburban Minneapolis, and they can't be very common in suburban Atlanta either.
When I want to mail something which might be sensitive, I either mail it at work, or drop it off at the box at the local Post Office. If it isn't sensitive, I simply put it in my own home's mailbox and raise the flag.
It's nice to be able to do this, but it gets old after you've done that for the 300th time without much in the way of results.
I have a somewhat lengthy list of skills on my somewhat dated resume (I really should update it), but I don't put anything on there that I don't know relatively well, and I've had the strangest items on that list result in promising job interviews.
#2 happens to me all the time. There also isn't an easy way to move apps between virtual desktops, but I've learned to live with it.
:-)
On OS/2, I use the virtual desktop utility that came bundled with Hummingbird eXceed, and it seems to be much more "conventional" with an X x Y pane panel (I use 2x2) and the ability to drag apps between desktops using the mini window images. Maybe I need to get a copy of eXceed for Windows?
Some of us only found out about Pele because he played for the New York Cosmos in the old NASL. :-)
Then again, TA has a lot more going for it than SC, including a somewhat more flexible video engine. :-)
Sometimes one person with a different perspective on a problem can see something that a groups of "experts" had never thought of, or had discounted because they assumed it wouldn't work.
That's why a fresh perspective on a problem can be quite enlightening, and why I tend to go ask other programmers for their ideas/comments when I get stuck. I don't know everything, and I sometimes make stupid assumptions or forget to consider certain technquies. No group is immune from this.
You mean "sordid"...? :-)
Sure, here ya go...
2GB+6.4GB+6.4GB on this box. Not a lot; I have an 18GB drive I'm gonna put in here soon. And yet, I run Linux on a few other boxes on the LAN. Not this one, though.Push technology predates UUCP, and even TCP/IP. Airlines were using it in the mid-1960's.
A lot of the information being provided is kept by airline reservation systems in the standard PNR (Passenger Name Record) for each passenger, anyway. Criminal conviction data is (probably) not.
That does a good job of sort of explaining things, but it's in a web context while the datafeeds being described in the article are almost certainly not related to the web (or http) at all.
Push datafeeds exist in several forms. Some require explict application-level acknowledgements for each message and employ multi-priority queueing mechanisms (allowing high-priority messages to be sent ahead of everyone else), while others simply push messages into the ether and efectively forget about them (a response might not be required, or a delayed response might result in the sender simply resending the original message again).
When I worked at NWA, the main system I worked on (WorldFlight) had a number of push datafeeds coming into the system from other systems both inside and outside the airline, and those datafeeds contained such important data elements as hourly station weather and various weather alerts from NWS and satellite feeds, passenger and bag info from the reservation system, crew info from the crew system, MEL/CDL (the "what's broken" list) information from performance engineering, OOOI (Out/Off/On/In) messages and position reports from aircraft via ACARS, etc.
The system also pushed out current flight status information to various systems, airport displays, databases, and so on, pushed ACARS messages to ARINC and SITA for transmission to flying aircraft, etc.
*None* of that stuff is "pulled".
I've had a working GCE Vectrex unit since 1983. It's a wonderful machine, though a bit noisy, and I find that people are fascinated by the vector screen even though it's only white lines on a black background. It was the only game machine I had in college -- couldn't afford a PC back then. :-)
:-) I'm way behind in the newer games -- I have two multicarts (one Mark Woodward variant and one Sean Kelly variant), and I think one cartridge from John Dondzilla, but that's about it. Someday I'll buy more.
Some of the games are quite fun. Mine Storm is far more than "an asteroids clone", though -- with magnetic mines, magnetic shooting mines, and various interesting shapes above level 13 (when the game starts skipping levels and then presenting you with strange shapes on various levels), it does take a certain amount of skill to play. Cosmic Chasm is fun, RipOff is a blast as a competitive 2-player game, and I really like Scramble. Solar Quest is fun, as is Web Wars.
The Vectrex StarCastle clone is too easy (it gives you four concurrent shots instead of three) compared to the arcade game, and Armor Attack has a bug that can be exploited for an almost infinite score.
All in all, it's a fun console. The fact that folks are still writing games for it fascinates me -- see rec.games.vectrex on USENET for more information.
The DVE Vectrex emulator for DOS is rather decent, by the way. It runs just fine on my PPro/200, so on any modern DOS-capable box it should work without a hitch.
Who says they're using the internet? There are many other technologies (Tux, MQ, X.25, MATIP, P1024, etc.) to choose from when exchanging data between remote hosts, and one can use IP technology and still not use the public internet. Some companies have their own internal IP networks, and dedicated point-to-point data lines are still very common in some industries.
Commercial airlines and governments use "push" technology heavily, as they have been since the mid-1960's (and maybe even before). That's what an unsolicited data feed is by definition. Airline weather is sent that way, all airline ACARS messages are sent that way, FLIFO data is sent that way internally between internal airline systems and between airlines, passenger data is sent that way between reservations systems and the recipients of said data, bag information is sent that way, etc.
Well, the US can't go rummaging around for unrelated information in the second case -- they only get what they're given.
Yes, it was. That's the year I built my current home PC (a Micron Millenia Pro2 Plus tower with a fancy new 200MHz Pentium Pro processor [686 babee!], an Adaptec 2940U, a Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16 with add-on wavetable card [effectively an AWE32], an Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B NIC, and some stupid video card since forgotten (replaced immediately with a 4MB Matrox MGA Millenium)).
:-) I've applied one FixPak since then (FixPak 15, required for Mozilla), but otherwise the installation is the same one I've had since day one.
:-)
Over the years I've added some additional SCSI drives, a CD burner, a 12MB Voodoo2 card, and various other things, but the core system is still the same system I've had since November 1996. It's been on 24x7 since that time, and I still use it every single day.
1996 is also the year that two of my main home operating systems came out.
Windows 95 OSR2 (otherwise known as Windows 95B, the first version of Windows with FAT32 and the last without the crappy MSIE integration on the desktop) came out in the summer of 1996, and I've used it on the above box for playing various games ever since. Folks here might laugh, but I still get a kick out of games like NFS3 and NFS4, the original Unreal Tournament, Tribes 1, Madden 2001, and Total Annihilation, and those all work just fine.
OS/2 Warp 4 came out in the fall of 1996, just in time for me to install on the box and use as my main desktop OS for the next ten years. Literally.
Some people say I still live in 1996. Nonsense! I'm a modern PC hobbyist -- my two remaining Deskpro 6200's were built in *1998*!
Hey, mainframe software is how *I* make a living. Part of it, anyway. :-)
Of course, a lot of it is slowly moving functionality OFF the mainframe, but still...
All a low ID means is that some of us didn't have a life before you folks didn't have a life. :-)
I, for one, welcome our "tired joke"-retiring overlords!
Need know star RM pic!
Because of that, it's probably considered proprietary information, so you aren't going to see it released to the public. I suspect a lot of it is fairly company-specific, anyway, and may be of little use outside its original context.
A lot depends on how you define a "city".
For example, the Atlanta metropolian area is over 4 million people, and the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro is over 3 million people, and each metro area is a fairly continuous urban area with surrounding suburban layers, yet no single "city" in those areas counts as over a million in population (Atlanta is 450,000 and Minneapolis plus St. Paul is only around 600,000 combined).
Many of the grocery stores in the Atlanta area don't offer paper bags as an option -- it's plastic or nothing, and my wife and I often use cloth grocery bags for that reason. Besides, the cloth ones are easier to carry. :-)
Seems to me like that would be bad(tm).