I remember looking at the Macintosh GX. I salivated over and loved that computer. I finally got my parents to agree with buying me a new computer at 14. At the time I was writing music and wanted the extra "voices" of the GX. I watched the black-and-white monitor of the GX with hopeful glee. Then, I saw the Commodore Amiga 500 in a store front and lost all my shit. The Amiga was not only awesome as a potential productivity computer at the time (don't laugh, ok go ahead), but it had full color and speech synthesis!
Yes, I'm an old Amiga lover, but I don't at all feel embarassed to speak of the Amiga as a God. That little 68000 powerhouse never failed to entertain and give me awesome music building skills.
really messed my day up one time. They ran proprietary DOS software for a pizza business. One of the CR's died and I needed to figure out they ran DOS with a special version of NetWare which did not network the PCs through normal TCP/IP, but frames, and had to be configured just so to work
I re-built DOS from scratch on those PCs and the custom serial cash drawer shit worked like a champ. The owner of the pizza place was eternally grateful and paid me a nice hourly rate to re-build those old DOS boxes as well as free pizza and beer for a good long time.
I agree with you. It might not be the best solution, but healthcare should be a tax, not an opt-in. Can we opt-on to the wars we fight? No!
I have a much bigger problem with not having an option to support haliburton than I ever will have with paying for health care with my taxes. Medicare is already paid into almost the same as taxes are paid. Why not pay into something we can access before age 65 the same way? A-men, brudda!
Just a note on your #2 point: Although price lists of actual items or procedure costs can often be secret and proprietary, what Medicare pays for them is not, and should be a good comparison against what you receive on a bill.
Those are the same rates I use to build the fee schedules we use to pay doctors at the medical group I work for. The Medicare rates are free to the public to download in csv format or to look up on their website, and there is no registration required.
I don't want to say there is anything wrong with your statement that healthcare costs themselves can often be hidden, but finding out what the gov is willing to pay for them is useful.
Well... If I had something I wanted hidden in plain sight, but distributed globally to protect deletions, I'd probably hide it in a pirated copy of a popular game or insignificant bits of an audio file. Just my two cents.
I'm not a SCO Unix guru by any stretch of the imagination, but having used it casually for years I don't see anything in it of value which does not already exist in Linux or the BSDs.
I think Darl McBride had the same thought. In choosing litigation over innovation, to quote the guardian of the Grail in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: "He chose poorly."
Not only will Superman need to take the same test as everyone else, there is the added bonus where anyone who gets lead poisoning is obviously attempting to cheat.
The Heinlein story was not only cool and groundbreaking, he had segway-style carts carrying the maintenance workers inside the people-mover "roads". The beltways had slow-to-fast lane changes from 10MPH to over 100MPH incrementally stepping on faster beltways. Heinlein knew his shit and wasn't afraid to express it.
I think you had some good points there, but you lost me with all the spelling and grammatical mistakes; hence, I recommend you go back to school, my friend.
To me this is kind of a technology regression, unless one is only concerned with archiving. I used to work at a Title Company where scanned documents were stored on a WORM drive in the mid-90's. WORM as a technology in itself tends to err on the side of retention time vs. speed. Think about it, CD-R, DVD-R and every other -R is technically WORM media.
1. Put a bunch of ad space on your web site. 2. Create a program called "Flash Killer" which has nothing to do with Adobe's software, but is still pretty cool, and put it on your web site 3. Post a story about it on slashdot. 4. Profit!
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I just watched the movie Passengers recently, which (removing a lot of the suspense and other plot lines) basically sums up the premise of Lost pretty well. The place in the story was more of a waypoint to the hereafter where the passengers dealt with their life issues in order to realize they were dead.
Agreed. Aside from the form vs. function differences which are so famous when discussing Microsoft and Apple, there is also a huge backwards-compatibility contrast when you look at the two entities. Microsoft will support older technology until it is confirmed dead; Apple on the other hand, will declare a technology as no longer relevant and actively endeavor to kill it.
Apple's technology strategy is the opposite of "embrace and extend", it is more like "screw this, I'm sick of having to use and support it".
Correct. And it is available already in Visual Studio 2010. You just need to turn it on in the program options. Once I turned it on, all the public symbols get downloaded and cached for.NET when you run your code. I've already seen it in use when one of my apps threw an exception and the debugger helpfully went straight to the correct source line in Form.cs.
My mother bought a new sewing machine a few years back where the pattern-creation interface and storage was actually on a Game Boy. No kidding, the sewing machine even came with the game boy. For the materials available at the time, I thought it was brilliant.
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According to this article, you just might be on to something...
I remember looking at the Macintosh GX. I salivated over and loved that computer. I finally got my parents to agree with buying me a new computer at 14. At the time I was writing music and wanted the extra "voices" of the GX. I watched the black-and-white monitor of the GX with hopeful glee. Then, I saw the Commodore Amiga 500 in a store front and lost all my shit. The Amiga was not only awesome as a potential productivity computer at the time (don't laugh, ok go ahead), but it had full color and speech synthesis!
Yes, I'm an old Amiga lover, but I don't at all feel embarassed to speak of the Amiga as a God. That little 68000 powerhouse never failed to entertain and give me awesome music building skills.
Finally, COBOL was laid to rest after the scare of 1999. :)
really messed my day up one time. They ran proprietary DOS software for a pizza business. One of the CR's died and I needed to figure out they ran DOS with a special version of NetWare which did not network the PCs through normal TCP/IP, but frames, and had to be configured just so to work
I re-built DOS from scratch on those PCs and the custom serial cash drawer shit worked like a champ. The owner of the pizza place was eternally grateful and paid me a nice hourly rate to re-build those old DOS boxes as well as free pizza and beer for a good long time.
I agree with you. It might not be the best solution, but healthcare should be a tax, not an opt-in. Can we opt-on to the wars we fight? No!
I have a much bigger problem with not having an option to support haliburton than I ever will have with paying for health care with my taxes. Medicare is already paid into almost the same as taxes are paid. Why not pay into something we can access before age 65 the same way? A-men, brudda!
Just a note on your #2 point: Although price lists of actual items or procedure costs can often be secret and proprietary, what Medicare pays for them is not, and should be a good comparison against what you receive on a bill.
You can find the medicare payment rates here.
Those are the same rates I use to build the fee schedules we use to pay doctors at the medical group I work for. The Medicare rates are free to the public to download in csv format or to look up on their website, and there is no registration required.
I don't want to say there is anything wrong with your statement that healthcare costs themselves can often be hidden, but finding out what the gov is willing to pay for them is useful.
Well... If I had something I wanted hidden in plain sight, but distributed globally to protect deletions, I'd probably hide it in a pirated copy of a popular game or insignificant bits of an audio file. Just my two cents.
Moore's Law.
It just means we'll start looking at sub-atomic particles as new storage methods...
I'll even-trade you for NetWare.
I'm not a SCO Unix guru by any stretch of the imagination, but having used it casually for years I don't see anything in it of value which does not already exist in Linux or the BSDs.
I think Darl McBride had the same thought. In choosing litigation over innovation, to quote the guardian of the Grail in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: "He chose poorly."
Not only will Superman need to take the same test as everyone else, there is the added bonus where anyone who gets lead poisoning is obviously attempting to cheat.
Yup yup, and more often than nought, that predecessor failed upwards into a less technical but more managerial position.
Ultimate example: Melinda Gates (then Melinda French) and Bob.
The Roads Must Roll
The Heinlein story was not only cool and groundbreaking, he had segway-style carts carrying the maintenance workers inside the people-mover "roads". The beltways had slow-to-fast lane changes from 10MPH to over 100MPH incrementally stepping on faster beltways. Heinlein knew his shit and wasn't afraid to express it.
It was thoughtful of Apple to fix that bug for me. Too bad I already got the Cydia virus. :)
I think you had some good points there, but you lost me with all the spelling and grammatical mistakes; hence, I recommend you go back to school, my friend.
The Roads Must Roll!
I use TrueCrypt to transport patient data to/from doctor's offices.
To me this is kind of a technology regression, unless one is only concerned with archiving. I used to work at a Title Company where scanned documents were stored on a WORM drive in the mid-90's. WORM as a technology in itself tends to err on the side of retention time vs. speed. Think about it, CD-R, DVD-R and every other -R is technically WORM media.
Adobe exceeds expectations again with upping the frequency of the updater we all know and love.
1. Put a bunch of ad space on your web site.
2. Create a program called "Flash Killer" which has nothing to do with Adobe's software, but is still pretty cool, and put it on your web site
3. Post a story about it on slashdot.
4. Profit!
I just watched the movie Passengers recently, which (removing a lot of the suspense and other plot lines) basically sums up the premise of Lost pretty well. The place in the story was more of a waypoint to the hereafter where the passengers dealt with their life issues in order to realize they were dead.
Agreed. Aside from the form vs. function differences which are so famous when discussing Microsoft and Apple, there is also a huge backwards-compatibility contrast when you look at the two entities. Microsoft will support older technology until it is confirmed dead; Apple on the other hand, will declare a technology as no longer relevant and actively endeavor to kill it.
Apple's technology strategy is the opposite of "embrace and extend", it is more like "screw this, I'm sick of having to use and support it".
Wait, what? So Microsoft created .NET and is trying now to squash it? Doubtful.
Correct. And it is available already in Visual Studio 2010. You just need to turn it on in the program options. Once I turned it on, all the public symbols get downloaded and cached for .NET when you run your code. I've already seen it in use when one of my apps threw an exception and the debugger helpfully went straight to the correct source line in Form.cs.
My mother bought a new sewing machine a few years back where the pattern-creation interface and storage was actually on a Game Boy. No kidding, the sewing machine even came with the game boy. For the materials available at the time, I thought it was brilliant.