That's correct. Even though the monitor wasn't color, you could still make color documents and print them in color using an Imagewriter II with the CMYK ribbon in it.
Not exactly photo quality, but pretty cool at the time.
LOL. I remember it too. I was an engineering student at the time and was having to use I don't know how many different CLIs on everything from Apple II's (6502 Assembly programming) to PDP's, to the big IBM iron (just missed having to use punch cards). It got to the point where I sat in front of a terminal and had to think about which of a half-a-dozen or so commands I knew for listing files was the right one for this system.
Then they got Macs in some of the Engineering Computer labs. One row of Macs at the end of a lab full of Apollo workstations. I sat down at the Mac and had to keep asking the person giving me the demo, "That's all I have to do?...Really!" It was such a vast shift not to have to remember all those commands, worry about typos, or even be able to "format" a document using tags (essentially like having to write html to format a document). And to be able to draw a simple line without having to input starting and ending coordinates... It was like magic to me.
How many years now have people been predicting the end of Moore's law? I thought it was supposed to have hit the end 3 years ago, but here we are, still predicting its end.
I guess I'm not so sure there's such a big distinction. What was blatently sexual when the original BSG aired is nothing now. So if you "normalize" across time, IMO the new BSG may be no more blatently sexual than the original (that includes the commercials). Of course I haven't seen the new BSG so I'll have to wait and see how much they actually rely on sexuality as a crutch.
From last night it seemed like pretty much every character is completely different now. Adama no longer has the entire respect of every single individual. Starbuck is no longer a lovable, joking womanizer, she's a woman with a huge chip on her shoulder. Apollo seems to be suffering from the death of his brother and blames dad. Baltar is not the evil person from the original, he's just a confused computer geek. Now there is a President that Adama has to answer to, etc. I'm not sure where you are getting this "minor changes" stuff from. Of course, you claim to have seen the first two episodes so maybe you're right.
Wow. Amazing, isn't it. For those of us who have been around long enough, reading that paragraph may remind you of the changes that have occurred in our society since the time the original BSG aired..
Seems to me, the remake may actually be a pretty good reflection of what the original BSG would have been had it been written today. Go ahead, reread the quoted paragraph with that in mind.
Of coursed the original Battlestar Galactica, like the original Star Trek (for those who objected to the addition of 7/9), had no blatent sexuality. Nope, those shows relied solely on a strong story line, and never resorted to sex and violence to sell the show.
Yep, that Cassiopea was all about adding to the story line;-)
Actually, I'm always amazed at how many of those programs, as well as the ones from the library my kids bring home, run quite well on a Mac using VPC. Granted, they are older titles that don't exactly stress the hardware, but considering how difficult it is to get some of them to run on an actual PC, I'm still amazed.
So how then is running Linux any different than simply going in and turning all those things off in Windows? I can set the monitor to never go off, and the hard drives to never spin down.
And based on the price, I'd say he's wrong about that too!
Let's be realistic. If anybnody thinks there's a better battery available that will fit that form factor, last even that long and be any cheaper, I'd like to hear about it. Unless something better actually exists (and I doubt it does) I'd say calling the choice Apple made any kind of a blunder, catastrophical or otherwise, is premature.
LOL. I remember my father (head of maintenance) coming home one day and telling of the ordeal he had. Apparently he needed "sexual harassment and sensitivity" trainging because someone in purchasing was offended by what they found on some of his purchase orders.
Apparently he had the audacity to specify cables with "male" and "female" connectors, which is clearly inappropriate (in their mind).
That was my question. The core of the conclusions seems to be,
"We find that Internet connectivity in the blacked-out region was far more seriously affected than has been publicly revealed."
Pointing out that areas without power didn't have internet connectivity seems rather redundant to me. The big question is how did it affect people outside that area? The fact that the rest of the world just plugged right along seems contrary to the conclusion they seem to want to draw.
Seriously though, anyone else old enough to remember the days of people walking around with their boomboxes blaring? Wouldn't this be the same kind of "sharing", only you don't have to listen if you don't want to?
In a way though, its all relative. Didn't Ted Turner give away a third of his wealth a few years back? Has Gates even given away 5% of his wealth? How about 1%?
When I hear about what a great philanthopist Gates is, it makes me think of the story in the bible about the poor woman who essentially gives her last cent to charity vs. the wealthy who give many times more. The question is, who really gives more? The person who gives out of their need, or the person who gives out of their excess?
That's my understanding. Basically means you don't have Terminal and a couple other things installed. It doesn't affect the BSD parts essential for operation.
Yes, you use boiling water, but then at a very slow rate, this boiling water is dripped through a filter containg coffee and then drips into the pot. By the time it gets to the pot, the temp is much below boiling.
Most coffee makers then rely on a hot plate to keep the coffee hot. This is where most are set to the 120-130 degree range (what most hot water heaters are set at), but McDonalds had theirs set in the 180 degree range (which most hot water heaters won't even do anymore due to liability issues).
I'm in a similar situation. What I was advised to do is make sure I keep records of when I'm coding on "personal" time, including a quick description of what I was doing and where. That way, if ever brought to court, I could supply an account stating the work was indeed done on my own time, using my own equipment.
Just FYI, for these types of records a bound notepad with your handwritten notes is preferable. Its pretty hard to forge records like that.
I must be reading something other than what everyone else is.
It IS the responsibility of the school to provide an environment where learning can take place. Bullying, cyber or otherwise, is contradictory to this goal. This bullying is not just taking place off-campus. Its happening on the school grounds and is sometimes aided by school equipment! Schools DO need to have policies to address this No camera phones in the locker room, rules on what is appropriate on school sponsored web sites, what can be done with school equipment, do you allow instant messaging in classrooms if at all on campus...
How did we get from an article about cyber bullying to rants about parents not doing their job?
My experience is just the opposite to what you just wrote.
I'm a parent, I know lots of other parents. I don't want the government or any other group to dictate what is right for my children and I don't know any parents who do.
Like I said, parents wanting the government to dictate anything about their children has just not been my experience.
Along those same lines, most workplaces are required by law to provide a safe, harrasment-free workplace. Especially those that are overseen or run by a government agency. Should a public school be held any less responsible with regard to the students?
I know here, if someone was harrassing others about weight or sexual orientation, they'd be fired pretty quickly or the employer is the one with their wallet in the legal sling.
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That's correct. Even though the monitor wasn't color, you could still make color documents and print them in color using an Imagewriter II with the CMYK ribbon in it.
Not exactly photo quality, but pretty cool at the time.
LOL. I remember it too. I was an engineering student at the time and was having to use I don't know how many different CLIs on everything from Apple II's (6502 Assembly programming) to PDP's, to the big IBM iron (just missed having to use punch cards). It got to the point where I sat in front of a terminal and had to think about which of a half-a-dozen or so commands I knew for listing files was the right one for this system.
...Really!" It was such a vast shift not to have to remember all those commands, worry about typos, or even be able to "format" a document using tags (essentially like having to write html to format a document). And to be able to draw a simple line without having to input starting and ending coordinates... It was like magic to me.
Then they got Macs in some of the Engineering Computer labs. One row of Macs at the end of a lab full of Apollo workstations. I sat down at the Mac and had to keep asking the person giving me the demo, "That's all I have to do?
How many years now have people been predicting the end of Moore's law? I thought it was supposed to have hit the end 3 years ago, but here we are, still predicting its end.
I guess I'm not so sure there's such a big distinction. What was blatently sexual when the original BSG aired is nothing now. So if you "normalize" across time, IMO the new BSG may be no more blatently sexual than the original (that includes the commercials). Of course I haven't seen the new BSG so I'll have to wait and see how much they actually rely on sexuality as a crutch.
From last night it seemed like pretty much every character is completely different now. Adama no longer has the entire respect of every single individual. Starbuck is no longer a lovable, joking womanizer, she's a woman with a huge chip on her shoulder. Apollo seems to be suffering from the death of his brother and blames dad. Baltar is not the evil person from the original, he's just a confused computer geek. Now there is a President that Adama has to answer to, etc. I'm not sure where you are getting this "minor changes" stuff from. Of course, you claim to have seen the first two episodes so maybe you're right.
Wow. Amazing, isn't it. For those of us who have been around long enough, reading that paragraph may remind you of the changes that have occurred in our society since the time the original BSG aired..
Seems to me, the remake may actually be a pretty good reflection of what the original BSG would have been had it been written today. Go ahead, reread the quoted paragraph with that in mind.
just promote the blatant sexuality of the series
;-)
Of coursed the original Battlestar Galactica, like the original Star Trek (for those who objected to the addition of 7/9), had no blatent sexuality. Nope, those shows relied solely on a strong story line, and never resorted to sex and violence to sell the show.
Yep, that Cassiopea was all about adding to the story line
I do it all the time, but I use a Mac.
Actually, I'm always amazed at how many of those programs, as well as the ones from the library my kids bring home, run quite well on a Mac using VPC. Granted, they are older titles that don't exactly stress the hardware, but considering how difficult it is to get some of them to run on an actual PC, I'm still amazed.
So how then is running Linux any different than simply going in and turning all those things off in Windows? I can set the monitor to never go off, and the hard drives to never spin down.
OTOH, I had an uncle who was a lawyer and I couldn't get him to stop giving me legal advice.
Go figure.
he said they chose a cheap one.
And based on the price, I'd say he's wrong about that too!
Let's be realistic. If anybnody thinks there's a better battery available that will fit that form factor, last even that long and be any cheaper, I'd like to hear about it. Unless something better actually exists (and I doubt it does) I'd say calling the choice Apple made any kind of a blunder, catastrophical or otherwise, is premature.
Many organisms do not have central nervous systems but do respond to stimuli that are harmful to them.
Even one-celled organisms can do that.
LOL. I remember my father (head of maintenance) coming home one day and telling of the ordeal he had. Apparently he needed "sexual harassment and sensitivity" trainging because someone in purchasing was offended by what they found on some of his purchase orders.
Apparently he had the audacity to specify cables with "male" and "female" connectors, which is clearly inappropriate (in their mind).
That was my question. The core of the conclusions seems to be,
"We find that Internet connectivity in the blacked-out region was far more seriously affected than has been publicly revealed."
Pointing out that areas without power didn't have internet connectivity seems rather redundant to me. The big question is how did it affect people outside that area? The fact that the rest of the world just plugged right along seems contrary to the conclusion they seem to want to draw.
Why should the RIAA care? (OK stupid question).
Seriously though, anyone else old enough to remember the days of people walking around with their boomboxes blaring? Wouldn't this be the same kind of "sharing", only you don't have to listen if you don't want to?
It wouldn't be the customers I'd be worried about. Its the lawsuits from the developers who code was stolen and sold by SCO that I'd be worried about.
In a way though, its all relative. Didn't Ted Turner give away a third of his wealth a few years back? Has Gates even given away 5% of his wealth? How about 1%?
When I hear about what a great philanthopist Gates is, it makes me think of the story in the bible about the poor woman who essentially gives her last cent to charity vs. the wealthy who give many times more. The question is, who really gives more? The person who gives out of their need, or the person who gives out of their excess?
And, BTW, from where did that excess come?
That's my understanding. Basically means you don't have Terminal and a couple other things installed. It doesn't affect the BSD parts essential for operation.
Yes, you use boiling water, but then at a very slow rate, this boiling water is dripped through a filter containg coffee and then drips into the pot. By the time it gets to the pot, the temp is much below boiling.
Most coffee makers then rely on a hot plate to keep the coffee hot. This is where most are set to the 120-130 degree range (what most hot water heaters are set at), but McDonalds had theirs set in the 180 degree range (which most hot water heaters won't even do anymore due to liability issues).
some people actually like it hot
But consider that no matter how hot you think you like it, nobody can drink it at that temperature without suffering burns.
Now maybe if you think some of your customers want to be burned, there'd be an argument for having it that hot. Otherwise...
Wait a minute! Aren't we supposed to be discussing how evil SCO is? OK, mod me -1 OT
So good parents:
Check all food prior to consumption to make sure its not too hot.
Check the hamburger prior to consumption to make sure its properly cooked (you did bring a meat thermometer with you, right?)
Make sure the chicken nuggets are chicken, and a mouse didn't accidently end up in the friar.
What else am I supposed to do before allowing my children to eat a meal that was supposedly prepared for their consumption?
After all, I don't want to be accused of being a bad parent. After all, we have to be consistent to the point of the ridiculous, don't we?
Yes, but we do that because we don't want the horse to suffer.
I'm in a similar situation. What I was advised to do is make sure I keep records of when I'm coding on "personal" time, including a quick description of what I was doing and where. That way, if ever brought to court, I could supply an account stating the work was indeed done on my own time, using my own equipment.
Just FYI, for these types of records a bound notepad with your handwritten notes is preferable. Its pretty hard to forge records like that.
I must be reading something other than what everyone else is.
It IS the responsibility of the school to provide an environment where learning can take place. Bullying, cyber or otherwise, is contradictory to this goal. This bullying is not just taking place off-campus. Its happening on the school grounds and is sometimes aided by school equipment! Schools DO need to have policies to address this No camera phones in the locker room, rules on what is appropriate on school sponsored web sites, what can be done with school equipment, do you allow instant messaging in classrooms if at all on campus...
How did we get from an article about cyber bullying to rants about parents not doing their job?
My experience is just the opposite to what you just wrote.
I'm a parent, I know lots of other parents. I don't want the government or any other group to dictate what is right for my children and I don't know any parents who do.
Like I said, parents wanting the government to dictate anything about their children has just not been my experience.
Along those same lines, most workplaces are required by law to provide a safe, harrasment-free workplace. Especially those that are overseen or run by a government agency. Should a public school be held any less responsible with regard to the students?
I know here, if someone was harrassing others about weight or sexual orientation, they'd be fired pretty quickly or the employer is the one with their wallet in the legal sling.