I once had an old (circa 1963) Tektronix Scope. In the very detailed service manual among the schematics was a section with the CRT symbolized as it really looked - tapered cone with a schematic of the tube connections. One day I was looking at the print and notice that there was a little stick man with a hat on, a climbing pick and a rope making his way up the side of the CRT.
I sent my old Uncle Dave (102 years old) a cheap, simple typewriter so he could write letters. He didn't like it because he says, "It has too many keys!". Maybe this would work for him.
I think the whole approach to 'killing' Office by coming up with a Linux/Unix/Bewhatever office suite is wrong. These guys have the right approach. First take a big slice of the Office-on-Windows pie. Once you have this action you'll also have the cash to finance less popular versions for discriminating OS users. If this works as advertised it will take a big slice of the pie. I can't wait to see how long it takes for Billy to show up with lawyers guns and money.
Model 100 goes to work in the gaming industry
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When the Model 100 first came out it had very little memory (16k?). An acquaintance of mine asked if I could help with a programming project on the Model 100. He was a 'numbers' runner (illegal lottery conducted in the poorer sections of the city) and he wanted to keep track of the numbers that were bet. To avoid heavy losses he had to 'lay off' the numbers that were bet too heavily by betting those numbers with someone else. Bets were typically $.25 to $2.00 always in $.25 increments. When he tried to do the job with an M100 there wasn't enough space for the single precision values. I rewrote the program to handle the bets as integer values of quarters (Number 6666 has 450 quarters bet on it so lay off everything above 200 quarters) The amounts were displayed in real floating point values and his helpers knew immediately when a number got bet too heavily. The amounts don't sound like much but the payoff odds were very high. That Model 100 saved a lot of money.
that the others don't...
Hard to find stuff.
I could always find music by old/obscure/never top-of-the-charts artists. All of these subscription music services want to concentrate on the latest, hottest bands. The stuff I want is in someone's collection somewhere - a publisher won't want to even bother establishing the rights and making it available. When the service is based on making a profit only the profitable stuff will be available.
ZDNet could have been a bit more clear about it but it seems that the target of the poll was the independent developer community - not the vendors of the tools. Of course anyone who works for MS will be using.NET (or be shot in the parking lot). I would really like to know the true poll results for this question if it was asked of developers by an independent poll taker.
As for bashing old hats, what will happen if they don't get bashed? We'll all be wearing the same hat.
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I once had an old (circa 1963) Tektronix Scope. In the very detailed service manual among the schematics was a section with the CRT symbolized as it really looked - tapered cone with a schematic of the tube connections. One day I was looking at the print and notice that there was a little stick man with a hat on, a climbing pick and a rope making his way up the side of the CRT.
SEE! R. Kelly was right. They really did fake those flicks of me and the shorties.
another great BB idea.
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I sent my old Uncle Dave (102 years old) a cheap, simple typewriter so he could write letters. He didn't like it because he says, "It has too many keys!". Maybe this would work for him.
I think the whole approach to 'killing' Office by coming up with a Linux/Unix/Bewhatever office suite is wrong. These guys have the right approach. First take a big slice of the Office-on-Windows pie. Once you have this action you'll also have the cash to finance less popular versions for discriminating OS users. If this works as advertised it will take a big slice of the pie. I can't wait to see how long it takes for Billy to show up with lawyers guns and money.
When the Model 100 first came out it had very little memory (16k?). An acquaintance of mine asked if I could help with a programming project on the Model 100. He was a 'numbers' runner (illegal lottery conducted in the poorer sections of the city) and he wanted to keep track of the numbers that were bet. To avoid heavy losses he had to 'lay off' the numbers that were bet too heavily by betting those numbers with someone else. Bets were typically $.25 to $2.00 always in $.25 increments. When he tried to do the job with an M100 there wasn't enough space for the single precision values. I rewrote the program to handle the bets as integer values of quarters (Number 6666 has 450 quarters bet on it so lay off everything above 200 quarters) The amounts were displayed in real floating point values and his helpers knew immediately when a number got bet too heavily. The amounts don't sound like much but the payoff odds were very high. That Model 100 saved a lot of money.
that the others don't...
Hard to find stuff.
I could always find music by old/obscure/never top-of-the-charts artists. All of these subscription music services want to concentrate on the latest, hottest bands. The stuff I want is in someone's collection somewhere - a publisher won't want to even bother establishing the rights and making it available. When the service is based on making a profit only the profitable stuff will be available.
ZDNet could have been a bit more clear about it but it seems that the target of the poll was the independent developer community - not the vendors of the tools. Of course anyone who works for MS will be using .NET (or be shot in the parking lot). I would really like to know the true poll results for this question if it was asked of developers by an independent poll taker.
As for bashing old hats, what will happen if they don't get bashed? We'll all be wearing the same hat.