I've never used Netflix but have used Amazon for several years. If they start offering DVD rental, I'll likely try it, 'cause I'm comfortable with them.
Or a subscription to Mother Earth News Chicks? Nothing like pale hairy legs to keep a boy grounded as to what's real in life./grew up snitching dad's Playboys. Those women don't really exist. Hippie Unix Goddesses do, though.
"Come on starshine, let's build us a new server for the school bus!"
Wife, daughter and I all have desktops and then we have one laptop for mobile stuff. For daughter, it's the car computer, letting her watch movies on long trips. Is cheaper than having sibling and being entertained by fighting in the back seat.
We only had one b/w tv when I was a kid, up until I was 12. And I didn't know anyone, child or adult, that had a tv in their bedroom. Now the trapeze, that was something else.
Mowing lawns made me enough to buy an $1800 car, back in the early '80s.
Besides, all kids will no doubt start setting up phony auctions on ebay or personal porn sites, all via their parents' computers. Parents have to sleep at some point.
You seem to be the exception to how students treat laptops. I started working tech support at a mid-range private college, back in '97 and was amazed at how badly most of the students treated their computer equipment. And not off these students came from well off parents. We worked with a lot of the parents, before their kids started, helping them get the most equipment for their money.
My daughter's 4 and has her own desktop. She's picking up on mousing and learning how to take data from one app to another (d/l pics from Astronomy site of the day, open in Photoshop, paint and edit pics, save to desktop pic folder). Soon, I'm going to teach her how to use a page layout app and how to incorporate her work into it.
For now, a desktop is fine. She's pretty tough on toys and such. Also, it'll be 10 years further on when she's ready to enter high school. Anyone think personal computing will have changed by then? We'll all likely have some kind of personal data storage will allow us to carry our computing lives with us, from display/input device to display/input device. A standard backpack or Mead Trapper/Keeper will also work as a laptop.
Check out Kensington's StudioMouse. It has three buttons and a scroll pad. Works a lot smoother than a wheel. I've used them for about 2 years now and they've been great.
They signed an deal with IBM so that, for $80,000, IBM would install DOS on their personal computer line and MicroSoft would be allowed to license out DOS to any other computer maker they want to.
MicroSoft also signed a deal with Apple, getting a copy of the source code to MacOS. Apple thought that the contract would only allow them to use their source code in Windows 1.0. MicroSoft argued successfully, in a court of law, that they were allowed to use various elements from MacOS in their stuff.
Originally, Gates pushed Jobs and Sculley to license out Mac OS. Gates saw Microsoft as the premier app writer for Mac OS and figured that they would ride the wave as this new interface swept the world. When Sculley went for maximum return on each sale as opposed to volume sales, Gate decided that MS would do it instead. Apple made the second stupidest business decision in history (the worst business decision was IBM, licensing DOS, instead of buying it, and also not getting any locking from MS, as far as selling DOS to others).
After doing a little more research last night, turns out his Mom was on the the national United Way board with IBM's CEO and Bill's dad was a law firm partner that had done work with IBM and other companies. Now that's not to take anything away from Microsoft and their wheeling-dealing but family connections do help you at least get your foot in the door.
A buddy of mine works for a small, local construction company and I'd always heard that the owner had started out with just a pickup truck and some tools. While that was true, I later found out that this guy's dad was in the state legislature and his son got a lot of business through his dad's connections. A lot of times, those early breaks are what gets a business going.
And if you look a little deeper into Apple's GUI development, you'll find out that's exactly what they did. 'Course, they didn't always get it 'right'. Even in this article, it's told how one engineer mis-remembered seeing windows layered on top of one another. Turns out that Xerox did not have such a feature but guys at Apple figured out how to do it. Cool!
Apple never paid Xerox or did some kind of stock deal or hired a bunch of their disgruntled engineers when Xerox was too dim-bulbed to take advantage of their work. Apple used stealth Morris-Dancer Monkey Ninjas, who snuck in and took pictures of screens. Apple then went and used high powered scanners to read the computer code behind the screen shots.
Now all I need is $1600.00 to outfit my box with enough hard drives to hold my DVD collection. At least all the drives will be internal instead of some kind of Firewire boxes.
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I've never used Netflix but have used Amazon for several years. If they start offering DVD rental, I'll likely try it, 'cause I'm comfortable with them.
Or a subscription to Mother Earth News Chicks? Nothing like pale hairy legs to keep a boy grounded as to what's real in life. /grew up snitching dad's Playboys. Those women don't really exist. Hippie Unix Goddesses do, though.
"Come on starshine, let's build us a new server for the school bus!"
Exactly! It's a good thing if all kids grow up as socially adept as all us slashers.
Wife, daughter and I all have desktops and then we have one laptop for mobile stuff. For daughter, it's the car computer, letting her watch movies on long trips. Is cheaper than having sibling and being entertained by fighting in the back seat.
Ah. I just d/l'd the demo but haven't tried to fire it up. I just did a google for game development.
We only had one b/w tv when I was a kid, up until I was 12. And I didn't know anyone, child or adult, that had a tv in their bedroom. Now the trapeze, that was something else.
Plant some ether cans in the fire as well, so that the cops will think the place was a meth lab.
Mowing lawns made me enough to buy an $1800 car, back in the early '80s.
Besides, all kids will no doubt start setting up phony auctions on ebay or personal porn sites, all via their parents' computers. Parents have to sleep at some point.
Lugging a heavy case around will at least build up one arm and give kids that attractive hunchback look that's oh so hawt now-a-days.
D'oh! Turns out that the APE only runs on Mac creates executables for Windows. Sorry.
Check out The Coldstone Game Engine. It's an APE for game design. Works on both Mac and Windows.
You seem to be the exception to how students treat laptops. I started working tech support at a mid-range private college, back in '97 and was amazed at how badly most of the students treated their computer equipment. And not off these students came from well off parents. We worked with a lot of the parents, before their kids started, helping them get the most equipment for their money.
My daughter's 4 and has her own desktop. She's picking up on mousing and learning how to take data from one app to another (d/l pics from Astronomy site of the day, open in Photoshop, paint and edit pics, save to desktop pic folder). Soon, I'm going to teach her how to use a page layout app and how to incorporate her work into it.
For now, a desktop is fine. She's pretty tough on toys and such. Also, it'll be 10 years further on when she's ready to enter high school. Anyone think personal computing will have changed by then? We'll all likely have some kind of personal data storage will allow us to carry our computing lives with us, from display/input device to display/input device. A standard backpack or Mead Trapper/Keeper will also work as a laptop.
Check out Kensington's StudioMouse. It has three buttons and a scroll pad. Works a lot smoother than a wheel. I've used them for about 2 years now and they've been great.
They signed an deal with IBM so that, for $80,000, IBM would install DOS on their personal computer line and MicroSoft would be allowed to license out DOS to any other computer maker they want to.
MicroSoft also signed a deal with Apple, getting a copy of the source code to MacOS. Apple thought that the contract would only allow them to use their source code in Windows 1.0. MicroSoft argued successfully, in a court of law, that they were allowed to use various elements from MacOS in their stuff.
Loving my computer is wrong? Even in the dark of the basement night?
Originally, Gates pushed Jobs and Sculley to license out Mac OS. Gates saw Microsoft as the premier app writer for Mac OS and figured that they would ride the wave as this new interface swept the world. When Sculley went for maximum return on each sale as opposed to volume sales, Gate decided that MS would do it instead. Apple made the second stupidest business decision in history (the worst business decision was IBM, licensing DOS, instead of buying it, and also not getting any locking from MS, as far as selling DOS to others).
After doing a little more research last night, turns out his Mom was on the the national United Way board with IBM's CEO and Bill's dad was a law firm partner that had done work with IBM and other companies. Now that's not to take anything away from Microsoft and their wheeling-dealing but family connections do help you at least get your foot in the door.
A buddy of mine works for a small, local construction company and I'd always heard that the owner had started out with just a pickup truck and some tools. While that was true, I later found out that this guy's dad was in the state legislature and his son got a lot of business through his dad's connections. A lot of times, those early breaks are what gets a business going.
And if you look a little deeper into Apple's GUI development, you'll find out that's exactly what they did. 'Course, they didn't always get it 'right'. Even in this article, it's told how one engineer mis-remembered seeing windows layered on top of one another. Turns out that Xerox did not have such a feature but guys at Apple figured out how to do it. Cool!
Still, Morris dancing ninja monkeys sounds cooler.
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Don't forget that Bill Gate's Mom served on the same boards and charities (Red Cross?) that an IBM VP served on. It's all about who you know.
Apple never paid Xerox or did some kind of stock deal or hired a bunch of their disgruntled engineers when Xerox was too dim-bulbed to take advantage of their work. Apple used stealth Morris-Dancer Monkey Ninjas, who snuck in and took pictures of screens. Apple then went and used high powered scanners to read the computer code behind the screen shots.
der? How old is that?
27 at least. Maybe even 30. Next thing you know, they're looking for a farmer's market.
Now all I need is $1600.00 to outfit my box with enough hard drives to hold my DVD collection. At least all the drives will be internal instead of some kind of Firewire boxes.
The cost of a new nuke plant is unreal. Damn the insurance companies!