My mom plays orchestral percussion, and used to be quite good at knitting and reading a book while counting 60 measures of rests. {snip} Those of you who don't play percussion probably have no idea what I'm talking about...
Wouldn't she just set an interrupt flag for the sound of the 58th measure?
Hey, what about D&D? That helped me get a head start on my math way back when.
I knew a young man who was homeschooled in the unstructured mode - pointed toward resources and encouraged to learn. He had no interest in multiplication until discovering D&D at age thirteen, at which time it took him two days to "catch up with his grade level.
Last I heard he was a geometer by trade; writing software for math visualization.
Re:The US was created BY amateurs FOR amateurs.
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Where would barbers, lawyers, and swimming-pool cleaners be without their guilds and licensing to keep down the competition?
A major battle right now in several communities is the attempt by traditional beauticians to require hair braiders have full licensing. The style, which can be done at home is of course a threat to their livelyhood.
Twenty years ago (and maybe more recently) Chicago regulations required beauty parlors to have the situnder style hairdryers; blowdryers did not meet the requirement. Most modern stylists had them stuck off in a corner unused. The stylist my MSO was going to ran unlicensed in resistance to that requirement.
Yes, and also the basic for the (far more hackable) Tandy Color Computer. Furthermore, '84 was hardly early days for either Microsoft or the personal computer. Microsoft, or more correctly Bill Gates and Paul Allen, wrote the first succesful basic interpreter for the Altair back in '77 or so. Doesn't justify releasing new versions of stuff that won't work with the old version's files.
I really liked OS/2 but the main reason I quit using it was the way the console would lock-up and you would have to push the hard reset button and reboot. There was reported to be some problem with what was called "single threaded" console queue or something.
I ran into this a couple times on the bank job; I believe support found it to be triggered by a certain sequence of toggling screens that led them to do further training. Anyway, if you hardboot out of it, you came back up clean, which is more than I can say for WIN98.
We have a situation on my current contract where we were locking up an app, and had to pull the laptop battery to reboot, and then of course scandisk would run...
Run the bank teller applications that are matched to the bank's mainframe apps, that are installed in every teller station and most of the desktop pcs in every branch bank in several states, and that every bank employee has been trained to run.
I was one of an army of contract techs who went out, just last summer, to upgrade (yes it was an upgrade, from terminal machines with a single text line of LEDS) the many branches of the bankcorp a Milwaukee-based bank bought out. Standard machines, bought en mass from a VAR. No driver problems, all the software the tast required, compatible with what the bank was doing, and yes, since its damned important in a bank, stable.
The DeLorean was mid-engined; this is clearly front-engined. From the proportions, it could easily be one of the common Lotus 7 derived kits with a new body or even a "Locost" easy homebuilt.
There are dozens of Locost websites; it's basicly an open source car hack.
Biogas has long been a popular fuel, but it's better suited to stationary applications. Methane is effectively 120 octane, you can replace the injectors in a big diesel with spark plugs and use a simple mixing valve for a carburator. Many sewage tratment plants are powered this way.
These days anybody with an old '386 box laying around can install a free Unix clone on it and hack away. There's no longer the old justification of 'curiosity' and 'just to learn more' to fall back on. If you want to learn more about networking, put a free Unix clone on four old '386 boxes and hack away.
Old '386 box? Most people on alt.dumpster are finding 486-66s; as a specialist in computer dumpster diving, I'm no longer bothering with less than Pentiums (other than the two Sparcstation 2s I just got). One upcoming project is putting 2 P5-133s into the IBM Server motherboard I found and seeing if I can (1) bring it to life and (2) make use of both processors.
My number 2 Heinlein quote after TANSTAAFL is "love doesn't subtract, it multiplies."
I have been blessed with a woman who understands this, and in the 28 years we have been married, I have had close relationships with other women. One loving relationship lasted, with ups and downs, nearly 10 years.
If I were to slip out to the cheating side of town (Milwaukee actually has a stretch with cheap motels and country bars) for a quickie, it would still be adultery.
Did any of these people ever lie to a grand jury about it in order to obstruct justice regarding an investigation into a complaint of criminal misconduct on their part?
And when people have the horrible events on tapes, they are just shown in telly, with no background information (history) of what-so-ever.
In the case of the most influential "horrible event" captured on video, only the second half (the beating) was ever shown; the first half (the beatee lunging at the beaters) never was. The background information of the high-speed, high-risk car chase was discounted and the history of the beatees violent criminal record got no coverage what-so-ever.
Note to Harley owners, you are not riding a real motorcycle but a mobile over-chromed junk yard.
Kid on a riceburner: "Wanna race?
Man on a Harley: "Sure. Here to the coast. Let's go."
Yes the Gold Wing and Valkyrie qualify as vehicles, and I know someone with a quarter million miles on a flat-twin BMW, but those pretend Grand Prix racers you praise are toys, not transportation.
It is a shame that because of the inadequacies of our family values system, us Americans are expected to only have one girlfriend. Deprived of many fun things.
I don't think my spice are being unreasonable in limiting my outside girlfriends. Truth is I'm not involved with any women outside the household since cancer got the one "other" woman I was seeing.
Note that the law specifies commercial gain. Exploiting images depicting an anvil falling toward the head of a coyote, or said yodel dog holding a stick of dynamite about to explode, would then be an obvious violation. I know for a fact that there is a commercial organization profiting from such images, and the FBI clearly ought to be pursuing them.
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Scientists have been worrying about global warming {snip} for at least 30 years.
Nope. 30 years ago the big worry was the coming ice age, which was to be caused by greenhouse gasses and all the other stuff your ilk don't like. In some cases the same individuals were using the same rants.
Fact of the matter is that warming would be better than a new ice age. Just check out how many people died last year worldwide due to unseasonably cold weather.
I've got a Pentium 75 set aside for a similar function as soon as I can get the DSL connection. Pulled it out of a dumpter last fall. I'm finding stuff up to 200 mHz MMX now. People don't seem to throw out Suns.
What he actually said is that vi is better suited to his style of computer use and therefore what he chooses to use.
Posting your conclusion as a quote is the same type of evil as saying "the Wall Street Journal said George W's Social Security plan does not add up" without including the information that they also said it delays the collapse of Social Security by only a few years compared to Al Gore's, and the alternative savings plan could not be counted on to take up all the slack.
Any big company that *could* hire a full time employee to handle a need but goes with the quick and dirty method of hiring a temp (which is really what most consultants are) deserves whatever it gets.
Note, of course, that not all needs warrant a permanent hire. I'm in the middle of a contract right now teching for a national wireless company bringing up a cellular network in a new market. If we do what we're supposed to, there will be no further reason for them to keep the crew on past the post-launch optimization. Do you really think it right for me to accept such a job and do less than my best?
"Whoever has the most money when the(y) die, wins."
So this guy probably admires the lady who died a few years ago and left $20 million to strangers because she had no friends. She'd lived for 45 years on little hamburgers while squirreling away money in blue chip stocks. Or Hetty Green, the famous miser a few decades back, who's son lost a leg because she was too cheap to pay a doctor bill.
No thanks. I'd rather live comfortably, which includes being ethical enough not to have regrets, and if I can time things right, die broke.
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Wouldn't she just set an interrupt flag for the sound of the 58th measure?
I think Merle Haggard wrote the longest sentence, in Mama Tried: "I turned 21 in prison doing life without parole..."
I knew a young man who was homeschooled in the unstructured mode - pointed toward resources and encouraged to learn. He had no interest in multiplication until discovering D&D at age thirteen, at which time it took him two days to "catch up with his grade level.
Last I heard he was a geometer by trade; writing software for math visualization.
A major battle right now in several communities is the attempt by traditional beauticians to require hair braiders have full licensing. The style, which can be done at home is of course a threat to their livelyhood.
Twenty years ago (and maybe more recently) Chicago regulations required beauty parlors to have the situnder style hairdryers; blowdryers did not meet the requirement. Most modern stylists had them stuck off in a corner unused. The stylist my MSO was going to ran unlicensed in resistance to that requirement.
Yes, and also the basic for the (far more hackable) Tandy Color Computer. Furthermore, '84 was hardly early days for either Microsoft or the personal computer. Microsoft, or more correctly Bill Gates and Paul Allen, wrote the first succesful basic interpreter for the Altair back in '77 or so. Doesn't justify releasing new versions of stuff that won't work with the old version's files.
It got passed my spell checker. It musth be correct sew what are you complaining about?
Nope. I am a working homeowner who used a beerfree cd to install Red Hat on a PC a neighbor gave me, and I am using it.
I ran into this a couple times on the bank job; I believe support found it to be triggered by a certain sequence of toggling screens that led them to do further training. Anyway, if you hardboot out of it, you came back up clean, which is more than I can say for WIN98.
We have a situation on my current contract where we were locking up an app, and had to pull the laptop battery to reboot, and then of course scandisk would run...
Run the bank teller applications that are matched to the bank's mainframe apps, that are installed in every teller station and most of the desktop pcs in every branch bank in several states, and that every bank employee has been trained to run.
I was one of an army of contract techs who went out, just last summer, to upgrade (yes it was an upgrade, from terminal machines with a single text line of LEDS) the many branches of the bankcorp a Milwaukee-based bank bought out. Standard machines, bought en mass from a VAR. No driver problems, all the software the tast required, compatible with what the bank was doing, and yes, since its damned important in a bank, stable.
Biogas has long been a popular fuel, but it's better suited to stationary applications. Methane is effectively 120 octane, you can replace the injectors in a big diesel with spark plugs and use a simple mixing valve for a carburator. Many sewage tratment plants are powered this way.
Old '386 box? Most people on alt.dumpster are finding 486-66s; as a specialist in computer dumpster diving, I'm no longer bothering with less than Pentiums (other than the two Sparcstation 2s I just got). One upcoming project is putting 2 P5-133s into the IBM Server motherboard I found and seeing if I can (1) bring it to life and (2) make use of both processors.
My number 2 Heinlein quote after TANSTAAFL is "love doesn't subtract, it multiplies."
I have been blessed with a woman who understands this, and in the 28 years we have been married, I have had close relationships with other women. One loving relationship lasted, with ups and downs, nearly 10 years.
If I were to slip out to the cheating side of town (Milwaukee actually has a stretch with cheap motels and country bars) for a quickie, it would still be adultery.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
Two country song titles:
1: She Just Started Liking Cheating Songs
2: How Come My Dog Don't Bark When You Come Round?
There isn't that all much difference between the two.
Did any of these people ever lie to a grand jury about it in order to obstruct justice regarding an investigation into a complaint of criminal misconduct on their part?
In the case of the most influential "horrible event" captured on video, only the second half (the beating) was ever shown; the first half (the beatee lunging at the beaters) never was. The background information of the high-speed, high-risk car chase was discounted and the history of the beatees violent criminal record got no coverage what-so-ever.
Kid on a riceburner: "Wanna race?
Man on a Harley: "Sure. Here to the coast. Let's go."
Yes the Gold Wing and Valkyrie qualify as vehicles, and I know someone with a quarter million miles on a flat-twin BMW, but those pretend Grand Prix racers you praise are toys, not transportation.
I don't think my spice are being unreasonable in limiting my outside girlfriends. Truth is I'm not involved with any women outside the household since cancer got the one "other" woman I was seeing.
Note that the law specifies commercial gain. Exploiting images depicting an anvil falling toward the head of a coyote, or said yodel dog holding a stick of dynamite about to explode, would then be an obvious violation. I know for a fact that there is a commercial organization profiting from such images, and the FBI clearly ought to be pursuing them.
Nope. 30 years ago the big worry was the coming ice age, which was to be caused by greenhouse gasses and all the other stuff your ilk don't like. In some cases the same individuals were using the same rants.
Fact of the matter is that warming would be better than a new ice age. Just check out how many people died last year worldwide due to unseasonably cold weather.
I've got a Pentium 75 set aside for a similar function as soon as I can get the DSL connection. Pulled it out of a dumpter last fall. I'm finding stuff up to 200 mHz MMX now. People don't seem to throw out Suns.
Posting your conclusion as a quote is the same type of evil as saying "the Wall Street Journal said George W's Social Security plan does not add up" without including the information that they also said it delays the collapse of Social Security by only a few years compared to Al Gore's, and the alternative savings plan could not be counted on to take up all the slack.
Which is basically why Eichmann was put on trial. Sometimes you reach the point where ethics demand that you disobey bad orders.
Note, of course, that not all needs warrant a permanent hire. I'm in the middle of a contract right now teching for a national wireless company bringing up a cellular network in a new market. If we do what we're supposed to, there will be no further reason for them to keep the crew on past the post-launch optimization. Do you really think it right for me to accept such a job and do less than my best?
So this guy probably admires the lady who died a few years ago and left $20 million to strangers because she had no friends. She'd lived for 45 years on little hamburgers while squirreling away money in blue chip stocks. Or Hetty Green, the famous miser a few decades back, who's son lost a leg because she was too cheap to pay a doctor bill.
No thanks. I'd rather live comfortably, which includes being ethical enough not to have regrets, and if I can time things right, die broke.