In a box somewhere, I have a B&W pic of myself around age 4 staring in amazement at the blinkenlights of a General Electric mainframe. Give to me those buttons and knobs! I don't know what they're for, but just let me at them and I'll figure it out!
A few years later, my father started selling turn-key minis. The CRTs were cool for lunar lander, but the machines only had 3 lights and 3 switches. This was a major step backward.
LOGO is neat, but for little kids, I'd think something mechanical would be better. Instead of a graphical turtle, have a mechanical one that can be programmed with a turing-style tape that you mark with crayons, or maybe a deck of pre-marked cards.
Manager: I'm here to fluff up the marketing for that program you've written.
Engineer: It's not really working properly - we told you we needed 6 months and you only gave us one month.
Manager: We'll take care of it with a bug fix release.
Engineer: Well, ok, but instead of backing up your hard disk, it erases the disk. Also, if you have a modem it calls up your friends computers and erases their disks. And if you have a sound card it swears at you.
Manager: We'll call it 'Quick Protect'.
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There should be a text input working in parallel with the gui. Sometimes, it's easier to just type the name, especially with the help of auto completion. It's also convenient to cut/paste the pathname in the file selector.
IMO, it would be great if you could rightclick on any file or dir and bring up an action menu (open with foo, copy to ->, etc.) Here's a typical scenario: The file chooser opens so that I can insert a picture into a document. The preview helps me find the picture, but i notice that it needs to be modified before i can use it. I rightclick and choose "open with the gimp".
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Miles Monroe: Perform sex? Uh, uh, I don't think I'm up to a performance, but I'll rehearse with you, if you like.
Luna Schlosser: Okay. I just thought you might want to; they have a machine here.
Miles Monroe: Machine? I'm not getting into that thing. I, I'm strictly a hand operator; you know, I, I... I don't like anything with moving parts that are not my own.
I'm talking about fanatacism, not extremism. My objection is that some people are willing to put their god above our country. Their beliefs are based on faith, not reality.
Partisan politics transcend the concept of a three branch system. Please, if you are going to comment on the American political system, at least do some cursory research into how it works in actuality. Schoolhouse Rock didn't tell the whole story.
"Your logic eludes me. The blocks do not need to be read, as we are in the process of writing. We already have the data, because we are writing, so why would we re-read the data?"
It depends on the nature of the updates. If you're writing long contiguous chunks (e.g. file copy), then you're right, the blocks are already resident. But if you just want to update a single block (database update), it might involve reading from the other drives.
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HERO Jr.? That's not a robot. THIS is a robot!
In a box somewhere, I have a B&W pic of myself around age 4 staring in amazement at the blinkenlights of a General Electric mainframe. Give to me those buttons and knobs! I don't know what they're for, but just let me at them and I'll figure it out!
A few years later, my father started selling turn-key minis. The CRTs were cool for lunar lander, but the machines only had 3 lights and 3 switches. This was a major step backward.
LOGO is neat, but for little kids, I'd think something mechanical would be better. Instead of a graphical turtle, have a mechanical one that can be programmed with a turing-style tape that you mark with crayons, or maybe a deck of pre-marked cards.
Your units are wrong and so are your conversion factors. 100 megawatts is only about 134,000 horsepower.
And, power is a function of force and speed. The strength of the cable only depends on how much force (tension) it's under.
"Unless their tethered"
I can just see the engineers standing slackjawed as they watch their kites go awol. Gee Herb, I thought it was your job to tie the string.
"When your pushing ships ranging in beam from 750 ft sea goer's to 1250 ft lakers you..."
No wonder it's so hard to navigate, they're going sideways.
Ah, so he did.
Right, the PC couldn't go any faster than 4Gb/s. We're talking about 40Gb/s, no?
"Is IE really an extendable platform?"
Sure, but instead of "extensions" we call them "exploits".
They said it about the Internet/WWW too.
"was it Ford?"
It was Chrysler, but the car looked quite a bit like a Ford Thunderbird. IIRC, Chrysler builds the M1 Abrams tanks which are also turbine powered.
You're claiming a speedup factor of about 200000?
That reminds me of an old Dilbert.
Manager: I'm here to fluff up the marketing for that program you've written.
Engineer: It's not really working properly - we told you we needed 6 months
and you only gave us one month.
Manager: We'll take care of it with a bug fix release.
Engineer: Well, ok, but instead of backing up your hard disk, it erases the
disk. Also, if you have a modem it calls up your friends computers and erases
their disks. And if you have a sound card it swears at you.
Manager: We'll call it 'Quick Protect'.
There should be a text input working in parallel with the gui. Sometimes, it's easier to just type the name, especially with the help of auto completion. It's also convenient to cut/paste the pathname in the file selector.
IMO, it would be great if you could rightclick on any file or dir and bring up an action menu (open with foo, copy to ->, etc.) Here's a typical scenario: The file chooser opens so that I can insert a picture into a document. The preview helps me find the picture, but i notice that it needs to be modified before i can use it. I rightclick and choose "open with the gimp".
Sorry baby but I had to crash that Hubble.
-Butch
Miles Monroe: Perform sex? Uh, uh, I don't think I'm up to a performance, but I'll rehearse with you, if you like.
Luna Schlosser: Okay. I just thought you might want to; they have a machine here.
Miles Monroe: Machine? I'm not getting into that thing. I, I'm strictly a hand operator; you know, I, I... I don't like anything with moving parts that are not my own.
It went plaid!
I'm talking about fanatacism, not extremism. My objection is that some people are willing to put their god above our country. Their beliefs are based on faith, not reality.
Partisan politics transcend the concept of a three branch system. Please, if you are going to comment on the American political system, at least do some cursory research into how it works in actuality. Schoolhouse Rock didn't tell the whole story.
"Why did you guys vote Bush in anyway?"
Christian fanaticism.
from pocket protectors to pocket projectors.
In other words, it exceeds the trigger threshold of your bovine fecal matter detection heuristics.
"Your logic eludes me. The blocks do not need to be read, as we are in the process of writing. We already have the data, because we are writing, so why would we re-read the data?"
It depends on the nature of the updates. If you're writing long contiguous chunks (e.g. file copy), then you're right, the blocks are already resident. But if you just want to update a single block (database update), it might involve reading from the other drives.
"the ice that was floating in the water was displacing a lot more water than it actually contained"
*gasp*
The Saturn V was the John Holmes of rockets.
"So, again, what is the point, exactly?"
To boldly go...