When I was in high school, just before being thrown out of math class, the teacher brought in a calculator. It was about the size of an electric typewriter and was programmable (!) by using punched cards. I don't remember the brand. My first contact with computers was the ZX Spectrum my sister in law sold. I became an Apple salesman in the late '80s and my home computer was an Atari 520Stf.
I am not brand loyal, I am function loyal - I always choose the best tool for the job at hand. Since about 1997 that has been a custom assembled Linux desktop running a Redhat variant (latest stable Fedora ATM). There was also a PowerMac G3 B&W in my life which was running MacOS as soon as it became available from the public beta on up to the latest version we could install.
Since the early 2000s my hardware has been a mini-itx board in a hush case (http://www.silentpcreview.com/article123-page1.html). IIRC I am at the third MB in that case. I have a 2013 nexus 7 tablet and another cheap android device that could be used as a phone, if I ever needed such a thing, but which also functions as a wi-fi tablet. I would love to have an iPad or iMac but can't justify the expense.
Wonderful computer with a good solid OS and GUI. I think I sold it for more than I paid for it and after I regretted selling it but times were hard...
A very amusing thing was that we all had bootleg Macintosh emulators and once the emulator was loaded it ran Macintosh applications faster than the Mac did! I started selling Macs soon after I bought the Atari and told my boss this so he had me bring it in and we ran side by side tests he couldn't believe his eyes.
And the bootleg Macintosh emulator! Painting with 32 colours (and not being able to print in anything but black and white). The noise of the keyboard and the floppy drive (I can still do a fair imitation of that).
It was still possible in 1994 to visit all the sites starting with www. !!!
My favorites were Sun's guide to building sites and the Yale medical school style guide.
My first site in 1995 got over a million visitors. We did a Cannes film festival site and the URL was on the big screen at the Tokyo central railway station, the one you see on TV all the time. Unfortunately it is lost forever, the Japanese ISP went broke in 2005 or about then.
Yeah... "Don't click this link!" and hundreds of windows opened or however many MacOS could handle (probably not many) before crashing and burning. I sometimes still wake screaming "Noooooo! Don't click that link!!!!"
... that I am not everybody and don't have a facebook account. My social media is out there in the street!
I use G+ because hangouts are a part of it and I can talk to my sister in Australia. I also use circles to exchange with various groups of people - friends, family...
I am not the kind of person to stand up on a soap box at Hyde Park Corner. So why would I post to the public? I do it to promote my boat building web site, period. Everything else I have to say is reserved for "family" or "friends" or other special interest groups/comunities.
I don't even care for Basque, it just happens that I was born here but it is useless for tech jobs (unless someone wants to slack off working in education).
I have missed out on several webmaster jobs because I don't speak Basque...
The global 1% are bilingual (at least) They have studied languages because their parents can afford to send them overseas to expensive schools.
The hip Chinese kids are just being snobs when they speak in English in their home country. Elite Western kids speak French when they are in Paris and Spanish when they are in Madrid. I bet if they are in a French restaurant in New York city they are even capable of speaking French there too...
First of all do not confuse language and dialects. People around here speak Basque, one of those tiny languages which are gong to disappear according to some. But young people here are becoming more and more interested by their cultural heritage and more and more are learning Basque. That is because there is a unification of the several Basque dialects into a single language understood and spoken by all. Dialects have disappeared or are disappearing but the language is reinforced
English is my mother tongue but where I live I had to learn another language, French, in which I am fully bilingual. Right now I am learning Spanish because I live 11 km from the border and it is quite handy. My girlfriend speaks French, Spanish and Basque and has decided to learn some English. Many Europeans speak several languages and it doesn't seem to be an issue for them.
Working nights in a hotel (read "lots of spare time") I decided to learn Spanish. I live 11km from Spain so it is kind of usefull... Last night a Spanish guy said I spoke real good Spanish for someone who learnt from an internet site on his own.
I guess that is an endorsement of the quality of Duolongo lessons.
You thinking that people over 35 are old means you are very soon going to be in hot water. Breaking news: you are going to be joining us the "uncool" RSN!
My young adult kids think I'm cool and that is all that really matters when you are "old". I always thought that facebook was a load of crap and have never bothered with it.
Born and raised a NZ farmers son I have been allergic (pollen) and suffered from asthma (allergic not chronic) all my life. I grew up surrounded by dirty dogs and more sheep and cattle than most people will ever see in a whole lifetime.
Did the fact that precautions were not taken with farm chemicals back then have something to do with the allergy. I have been exposed to DDT, pesticides, feretilizers, you name it.
So OK maybe this works in a city environnement with kids that live in a modern hyper clean envirronment and who eat agro-industry cr@p er sorry food. Didn't work for this farmers son.
I'm calling BS on this, sorry! I learnt my second language at over 21. I'm learning a third one right now. I have no problem with languages. Accents you work on if you have the time.
I learnt progamming at over 30. The PC came on the market when I was over 30... I'm still learning. It depends on the individual. Some people can, others can't.
If I had stuck with what Iearned before 14 I would be a sheep farmer. That was all there was in my neck of the woods.
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When I was in high school, just before being thrown out of math class, the teacher brought in a calculator. It was about the size of an electric typewriter and was programmable (!) by using punched cards. I don't remember the brand. My first contact with computers was the ZX Spectrum my sister in law sold. I became an Apple salesman in the late '80s and my home computer was an Atari 520Stf.
I am not brand loyal, I am function loyal - I always choose the best tool for the job at hand. Since about 1997 that has been a custom assembled Linux desktop running a Redhat variant (latest stable Fedora ATM). There was also a PowerMac G3 B&W in my life which was running MacOS as soon as it became available from the public beta on up to the latest version we could install.
Since the early 2000s my hardware has been a mini-itx board in a hush case (http://www.silentpcreview.com/article123-page1.html). IIRC I am at the third MB in that case. I have a 2013 nexus 7 tablet and another cheap android device that could be used as a phone, if I ever needed such a thing, but which also functions as a wi-fi tablet. I would love to have an iPad or iMac but can't justify the expense.
Wonderful computer with a good solid OS and GUI. I think I sold it for more than I paid for it and after I regretted selling it but times were hard...
A very amusing thing was that we all had bootleg Macintosh emulators and once the emulator was loaded it ran Macintosh applications faster than the Mac did! I started selling Macs soon after I bought the Atari and told my boss this so he had me bring it in and we ran side by side tests he couldn't believe his eyes.
He doesn't have one. A life I mean...
Sure, the SE30 was even more magical! That was the most awesome black and white Mac I ever owned, probably one of the fastest computers I have owned.
And the bootleg Macintosh emulator! Painting with 32 colours (and not being able to print in anything but black and white). The noise of the keyboard and the floppy drive (I can still do a fair imitation of that).
http://www.sasso.fr/home.html
It was still possible in 1994 to visit all the sites starting with www. !!!
My favorites were Sun's guide to building sites and the Yale medical school style guide.
My first site in 1995 got over a million visitors. We did a Cannes film festival site and the URL was on the big screen at the Tokyo central railway station, the one you see on TV all the time. Unfortunately it is lost forever, the Japanese ISP went broke in 2005 or about then.
Yeah... "Don't click this link!" and hundreds of windows opened or however many MacOS could handle (probably not many) before crashing and burning. I sometimes still wake screaming "Noooooo! Don't click that link!!!!"
You stole my post title!
Who are these no lives? Are they the same guys who off with a beggars hat full of coins?
Apple has always sold devices with not enough memory since the very first Macintosh.
... that I am not everybody and don't have a facebook account. My social media is out there in the street!
I use G+ because hangouts are a part of it and I can talk to my sister in Australia. I also use circles to exchange with various groups of people - friends, family...
At Last!!!
I finally made the 1%! :)
You rock sir! If I may say so
Can I just add to the list:
3) If you are from the US learn English first before trying to replace it
I am not the kind of person to stand up on a soap box at Hyde Park Corner. So why would I post to the public? I do it to promote my boat building web site, period. Everything else I have to say is reserved for "family" or "friends" or other special interest groups/comunities.
Hey doesn't that sound a lot like "social media"?
Learn logic before posting next time.
My reply was: "The global 1% are bilingual (at least)". Did you read MFA?
"Just being snobs" is a personal opinion expressed after my answer to the original post, where is the lack of logic in that?
I don't even care for Basque, it just happens that I was born here but it is useless for tech jobs (unless someone wants to slack off working in education).
I have missed out on several webmaster jobs because I don't speak Basque...
The global 1% are bilingual (at least) They have studied languages because their parents can afford to send them overseas to expensive schools.
The hip Chinese kids are just being snobs when they speak in English in their home country. Elite Western kids speak French when they are in Paris and Spanish when they are in Madrid. I bet if they are in a French restaurant in New York city they are even capable of speaking French there too...
Your theory is BS
Good riddance - if you want to dominate the world learn to spell first!
Wars are not started by languages but by greed and stupidity.
First of all do not confuse language and dialects. People around here speak Basque, one of those tiny languages which are gong to disappear according to some. But young people here are becoming more and more interested by their cultural heritage and more and more are learning Basque. That is because there is a unification of the several Basque dialects into a single language understood and spoken by all. Dialects have disappeared or are disappearing but the language is reinforced
English is my mother tongue but where I live I had to learn another language, French, in which I am fully bilingual. Right now I am learning Spanish because I live 11 km from the border and it is quite handy. My girlfriend speaks French, Spanish and Basque and has decided to learn some English. Many Europeans speak several languages and it doesn't seem to be an issue for them.
Working nights in a hotel (read "lots of spare time") I decided to learn Spanish. I live 11km from Spain so it is kind of usefull... Last night a Spanish guy said I spoke real good Spanish for someone who learnt from an internet site on his own.
I guess that is an endorsement of the quality of Duolongo lessons.
You thinking that people over 35 are old means you are very soon going to be in hot water. Breaking news: you are going to be joining us the "uncool" RSN!
My young adult kids think I'm cool and that is all that really matters when you are "old". I always thought that facebook was a load of crap and have never bothered with it.
Born and raised a NZ farmers son I have been allergic (pollen) and suffered from asthma (allergic not chronic) all my life. I grew up surrounded by dirty dogs and more sheep and cattle than most people will ever see in a whole lifetime.
Did the fact that precautions were not taken with farm chemicals back then have something to do with the allergy. I have been exposed to DDT, pesticides, feretilizers, you name it.
So OK maybe this works in a city environnement with kids that live in a modern hyper clean envirronment and who eat agro-industry cr@p er sorry food. Didn't work for this farmers son.
I'm calling BS on this, sorry! I learnt my second language at over 21. I'm learning a third one right now. I have no problem with languages. Accents you work on if you have the time.
I learnt progamming at over 30. The PC came on the market when I was over 30... I'm still learning. It depends on the individual. Some people can, others can't.
If I had stuck with what Iearned before 14 I would be a sheep farmer. That was all there was in my neck of the woods.
Just a couple of questions: how did they get there? Have they been migrating north underground?