And good riddance to it. It can go on the ash heap next to the network computer, Windows RT and.NET everywhere.
The tablet itself is not, and never was, a fad. The fad was the really bizarre belief that tablets could and would replace PCs nearly everywhere. So in that way it is very different than the other examples you listed--in my opinion they were all true fads. But then again, what is a ChromeBook if it's not the current version of the network computer???
Rich white frat boy "tech founders" like being around other rich white frat boys. Anyone that says otherwise, has never set foot in present day San Francisco.
What I keep reading here about "brogrammer" culture just blows my mind. I struggle to figure out if it is a generational thing, or subculture based on location. But I can assure you, it was nothing like that at startups in the Boston area in the late 80's... Particularly the attitude toward women--I assure you, anybody that had acted like some of the stories we've read lately, would have been instantly fired--and the rest of the guys would have been happy to see such a person booted out.
So, little idiot, make your self ready for bed. So when you get up early tomorrow, you can freshly call people assholes. Well, seems to be a modern sport over the internet to insult other people.
I called you an asshole exactly as many times as you called me a liar (incorrectly, on only the thinnest os suspicion). So, I stand by that assessment of you: asshole, fuckwit, dipshit, prick, and so on.
I didn't ever really encounter it until I passed 50. You have some time yet to figure things out. Unless you *LOOK* old, then you're screwed;-)
Also, age discrimination is common, but definitely not universal. There are plenty of employers who value experience--as long as you don't stagnate, and it sounds like you're the type who will never do that.
You certainly have not, otherwise you would not write that nonsense.
Hey, asshole, yes I have compared it.
I would be surprised if your 'cursive' writing is 30% faster than your 'print' writing and I would be not surprised if it is slower.
Yes, 30% is closer to reality--"several times faster" was certainly an exaggeration.
Just because you 'percieve' hurrying over the paper making curvy lines does not mean that it is fast... hint: there is damn literature about it, and another hint: you can in fact test it your self. Unlike claiming you had, you should simply do it!
For a short note, the difference in time should be negligible. For a long text, you'd grab a computer anyway.
But nobody is mentioning the major use case for cursive--taking notes in meetings where you're an active participant and need to actually be obviously paying attention to others without the distraction of typing on the computer. (Really, that's about it--in all other circumstances where I'm not jotting a short note or just making a throw-away list, I use a computer.)
Seriously. Write,then print a few paragraphs as fast as you can.
I have. Writing is faster for me. Substantially. Then again, my writing is faster than most other people's writing as well.
Since you actually timed it, I'll believe your printing was faster. (I still have doubts about whether you could be faster with cursive, but that's not really something that's easy to evaluate.)
No it is not. It is more or less the exact same speed. Which you simply can test by writing three pages of text, twice. The same text once in cursive and once in printed letters.
Bullshit. Pure and simple, bullshit. (I have compared the speed, BTW.)
Generalize much? Things are never the same for everybody.
If you actually practiced cursive as much as you did block-letter printing it would be faster. It's simple, in one you lift the pen, move it, and put it back down between each letter; in the other you do not. Guess which is always faster if not handicapped by lack of practice???
Cursive is just an old alternate script, from an age where anything professional was hand lettered calligraphy. It is not useful as a backup skill for recording information on paper. That can be done with a pen and normal print script.
Bullshit. Cursive is several times faster than printing.
1) There are plenty of books, and plenty of sources online. You can teach yourself. However, to become really good is probably more work than you can imagine, simply because you can have no idea the complexity of it all until you're well into it. But if you're willing to work hard and be patient, then go for it.
2) In this case, the first thing you need to learn is this: Fuck Slashdot. Go to www.lists.apple.com, sign up for the cocoa-dev mailing list, and ask your questions there. That is absolutely, positively THE first place for you to be looking for help. See you there;-)
Cars have a lifetime (10 to 15 years), it is not a huge time to wait to replace them.
I don't know about Europe, but in the US cars typically have a lifetime of 20 or more years. In fact, the average age of cars on the road is a bit over 11 years. Remember, cars do not typically go from 1st owner to scrap yard, but rather to a second owner, and not uncommonly a 3rd.
Rand Paul would break the GOP; possibly the greatest gift the the democrats could ever receive.
In the short term. In the long term that breakage would be the greatest gift the republicans could ever receive. That party needs to be shattered and re-built from the ground up.
But go pull the post-close EOY General Journal from 1996 off of one, I dare you.
No problem. I have data from the 1980s on spinning magnetic media, and can access it any time I want, instantly.
You need it backed up on at least 4 pieces of media, of at least 3 different types, in at least 2 different cities, in at least 1 different state; bumping each of those numbers up by 1 is not unreasonable.
I'm working on a fairly small scale, on a low budget, so my numbers are 2 pieces of media, 1 in a different city & state than the production system. (So 3 copies counting production.) But all on spinning media--different brands, models, even different generations of disks, different enclosures, different RAID systems--but still all on disk.
Underground people run copper or similar due to the current carrying limitations.
Nope. Copper is rare underground as well.
You would need to go up to 120mm^2 with underground aluminium to get an equivalent current capacity of 35mm^2 overhead copper which is an astronomical cost *increase*.
Nope. First off, nobody runs copper overhead. So you need to either compare overhead to overhead with the 2 different materials, or overhead to underground with the same material, or maybe overhead aluminum to underground copper. But overhead copper to underground aluminum makes no sense. So, overhead aluminum to underground aluminum, still a big cost increase, just not quite as massive. Underground aluminum to underground copper, also a big cost increase, because copper is roughly 3x the price of aluminum--thus my first comment about copper being rare underground as well.
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And good riddance to it. It can go on the ash heap next to the network computer, Windows RT and .NET everywhere.
The tablet itself is not, and never was, a fad. The fad was the really bizarre belief that tablets could and would replace PCs nearly everywhere. So in that way it is very different than the other examples you listed--in my opinion they were all true fads. But then again, what is a ChromeBook if it's not the current version of the network computer???
Also, certain apes, and elephants, IIRC...
Rich white frat boy "tech founders" like being around other rich white frat boys. Anyone that says otherwise, has never set foot in present day San Francisco.
What I keep reading here about "brogrammer" culture just blows my mind. I struggle to figure out if it is a generational thing, or subculture based on location. But I can assure you, it was nothing like that at startups in the Boston area in the late 80's... Particularly the attitude toward women--I assure you, anybody that had acted like some of the stories we've read lately, would have been instantly fired--and the rest of the guys would have been happy to see such a person booted out.
So, little idiot, make your self ready for bed. So when you get up early tomorrow, you can freshly call people assholes. Well, seems to be a modern sport over the internet to insult other people.
I called you an asshole exactly as many times as you called me a liar (incorrectly, on only the thinnest os suspicion). So, I stand by that assessment of you: asshole, fuckwit, dipshit, prick, and so on.
So how you safely Ebola people?
Sexist much?
Just being practical. They didn't want a giant pulsating cock & balls in lights. Come on, you know that would happen if they let boys in.
I didn't ever really encounter it until I passed 50. You have some time yet to figure things out. Unless you *LOOK* old, then you're screwed ;-)
Also, age discrimination is common, but definitely not universal. There are plenty of employers who value experience--as long as you don't stagnate, and it sounds like you're the type who will never do that.
Not for someone who has to think about how it's supposed to look in cursive.
Agreed.
Plus it's not faster to read cursive.
It's not slower for me to read my own cursive. Granted, it is almost infinitely slower for other people to read it ;-)
Speed and ease of reading is another.
True. And my fast cursive is horribly illegible; however I only write for myself, and I can read it quite easily.
You certainly have not, otherwise you would not write that nonsense.
Hey, asshole, yes I have compared it.
I would be surprised if your 'cursive' writing is 30% faster than your 'print' writing and I would be not surprised if it is slower.
Yes, 30% is closer to reality--"several times faster" was certainly an exaggeration.
Just because you 'percieve' hurrying over the paper making curvy lines does not mean that it is fast ... hint: there is damn literature about it, and another hint: you can in fact test it your self. Unlike claiming you had, you should simply do it!
Hey, asshole, I have tested it myself.
Yes, cursive is faster, but only really legible if you do it neatly.
True. But I only do it for myself, so I don't give a crap about clarity because I'm the only one who needs to read it.
For a short note, the difference in time should be negligible. For a long text, you'd grab a computer anyway.
But nobody is mentioning the major use case for cursive--taking notes in meetings where you're an active participant and need to actually be obviously paying attention to others without the distraction of typing on the computer. (Really, that's about it--in all other circumstances where I'm not jotting a short note or just making a throw-away list, I use a computer.)
Seriously. Write,then print a few paragraphs as fast as you can.
I have. Writing is faster for me. Substantially. Then again, my writing is faster than most other people's writing as well.
Since you actually timed it, I'll believe your printing was faster. (I still have doubts about whether you could be faster with cursive, but that's not really something that's easy to evaluate.)
No it is not.
It is more or less the exact same speed.
Which you simply can test by writing three pages of text, twice. The same text once in cursive and once in printed letters.
Bullshit. Pure and simple, bullshit. (I have compared the speed, BTW.)
Generalize much? Things are never the same for everybody.
If you actually practiced cursive as much as you did block-letter printing it would be faster. It's simple, in one you lift the pen, move it, and put it back down between each letter; in the other you do not. Guess which is always faster if not handicapped by lack of practice???
For example, I am a better writer when I write by hand.
I believe you, but I think that's a side-effect of how you learned to write, not an innate universal connection.
Printing is faster for note taking anyway, cursive is just a way of trying to make your writing prettier.
Bullshit. Cursive is several times faster than printing.
Cursive is just an old alternate script, from an age where anything professional was hand lettered calligraphy. It is not useful as a backup skill for recording information on paper. That can be done with a pen and normal print script.
Bullshit. Cursive is several times faster than printing.
1) There are plenty of books, and plenty of sources online. You can teach yourself. However, to become really good is probably more work than you can imagine, simply because you can have no idea the complexity of it all until you're well into it. But if you're willing to work hard and be patient, then go for it.
2) In this case, the first thing you need to learn is this: Fuck Slashdot. Go to www.lists.apple.com, sign up for the cocoa-dev mailing list, and ask your questions there. That is absolutely, positively THE first place for you to be looking for help. See you there ;-)
Cars have a lifetime (10 to 15 years), it is not a huge time to wait to replace them.
I don't know about Europe, but in the US cars typically have a lifetime of 20 or more years. In fact, the average age of cars on the road is a bit over 11 years. Remember, cars do not typically go from 1st owner to scrap yard, but rather to a second owner, and not uncommonly a 3rd.
Rand Paul would break the GOP; possibly the greatest gift the the democrats could ever receive.
In the short term. In the long term that breakage would be the greatest gift the republicans could ever receive. That party needs to be shattered and re-built from the ground up.
Maybe suppliers will now reconsider getting involved with Apple.
Especially the ones who don't have a fucking clue how to actually do what they're promising ;-)
Already announced.
So?
But go pull the post-close EOY General Journal from 1996 off of one, I dare you.
No problem. I have data from the 1980s on spinning magnetic media, and can access it any time I want, instantly.
You need it backed up on at least 4 pieces of media, of at least 3 different types, in at least 2 different cities, in at least 1 different state; bumping each of those numbers up by 1 is not unreasonable.
I'm working on a fairly small scale, on a low budget, so my numbers are 2 pieces of media, 1 in a different city & state than the production system. (So 3 copies counting production.) But all on spinning media--different brands, models, even different generations of disks, different enclosures, different RAID systems--but still all on disk.
Underground people run copper or similar due to the current carrying limitations.
Nope. Copper is rare underground as well.
You would need to go up to 120mm^2 with underground aluminium to get an equivalent current capacity of 35mm^2 overhead copper which is an astronomical cost *increase*.
Nope. First off, nobody runs copper overhead. So you need to either compare overhead to overhead with the 2 different materials, or overhead to underground with the same material, or maybe overhead aluminum to underground copper. But overhead copper to underground aluminum makes no sense. So, overhead aluminum to underground aluminum, still a big cost increase, just not quite as massive. Underground aluminum to underground copper, also a big cost increase, because copper is roughly 3x the price of aluminum--thus my first comment about copper being rare underground as well.