Not content with Google or Amazon knowing my entire search history and listening to conversations in my living room, I'm now going to let them balance my cheque book. What the hell, they already have my credit card details several times over.
Quite a few years later Ia was working on a Control Data Cyber series which still used 6-bit characters, in a 60-bit word. Text processing on that was so painful I wrote my own, in Pascal, which handled everything internally as ASCII.
ASCII is only 7-bit. You were probably using an 8-bit extended character set like ISO-8859-1 or similar, which maps ASCII in the lower half.
Control Data 6 bit ASCII was upper-case only. It used 6/12 bit ASCII for upper and lower. The later models had 8 bit ASCII.
...and that is the problem with Aspbergers, Autism, ADHD and a myriad of similar disorders.
Just because the symptoms look familar or ring true doesn't mean you have the disorder.
There are particular hallmarks for each of these that go beyond a simple list of symptoms that take a trained professional to spot.
My 15 year old son was disgnosed as ADHD at age 7 (the trend disorder of the early 90s) and took dexamphatamine and ritalin for 7 years before we read an article on Aspbergers Syndrome (the trend disorder of the early 00's) and realised he isn't ADHD and that treatment and strategies to manage his behavior should have been completely different.
Literally dozens of medical professionals and highly qualified and respected psychologists examined at him, everyone of them went with the flow and said "Yup, ADHD".
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Not content with Google or Amazon knowing my entire search history and listening to conversations in my living room, I'm now going to let them balance my cheque book. What the hell, they already have my credit card details several times over.
Quite a few years later Ia was working on a Control Data Cyber series which still used 6-bit characters, in a 60-bit word. Text processing on that was so painful I wrote my own, in Pascal, which handled everything internally as ASCII.
ASCII is only 7-bit. You were probably using an 8-bit extended character set like ISO-8859-1 or similar, which maps ASCII in the lower half.
Control Data 6 bit ASCII was upper-case only. It used 6/12 bit ASCII for upper and lower. The later models had 8 bit ASCII.
Imagine the crumple zone...
Harry.
...and that is the problem with Aspbergers, Autism, ADHD and a myriad of similar disorders.
Just because the symptoms look familar or ring true doesn't mean you have the disorder.
There are particular hallmarks for each of these that go beyond a simple list of symptoms that take a trained professional to spot.
My 15 year old son was disgnosed as ADHD at age 7 (the trend disorder of the early 90s) and took dexamphatamine and ritalin for 7 years before we read an article on Aspbergers Syndrome (the trend disorder of the early 00's) and realised he isn't ADHD and that treatment and strategies to manage his behavior should have been completely different.
Literally dozens of medical professionals and highly qualified and respected psychologists examined at him, everyone of them went with the flow and said "Yup, ADHD".
It's a lot more complex than you think
Harry.
What's the definition of scary?
"We found a 40 year old nuclear bomb off the coast of Florida but we're not sure if we're going to do anything about it."
Harry.
From the article: ... out of a few hundred spare CDs
Craig build a neutron modulator
Build your own fusion reactor out of old AOL CDs!
Harry.