Speaking of wine, don't bring beer. Beer is boring...ask people to bring something small, tasty, and interesting. Most geeks don't drink, but if the do, they tend to want to experience something original.
Try widening your beer selection to include anything from Belgium. Lambics, Quads, Meads, Cyser, Pymets.
No freezer, no icecream. Few will pack a Dutch Oven or box oven, so no pizza. Eat everything you can so there is less in the trash. Compress the trash so it takes up less space. No washing -- maybe rinsing the clothes.
Differences from backpacking: No silver threads in the underware... we just stink. No bears in space, so you don't have to hang a bear bag. There is a toilet, so no cat holes.
I agree that the PCjr's chicklet keyboard was the worst, if you look only at the keyboard...
But the TI99/4's keyboard was built into the console and if you had any add on modules, like the printer or diskette drive and you moved the keyboard while typing the whole system crashed when the bus connectors wiggled. Lost more data to that in high school.
Since this is an ocean going ship it will be required to have Type 1 Personal Flotation devices aboard for all personnel.
USCG Type 1 PFDs have 22 pounds of buoyancy located on the chest so that you float face up even if you are unconscious. The resulting profile caused them to be nicknamed Mae West vests.
So this would be the perfect site for the western internet exchange point.
This is where profiling and "throw the first one away" come into play.
Use the OO and abstraction language and tools to design the application. Then look at the performance data and optimize those sections that are called frequently.
Abstraction is great for design, maintenance, and upgrade/redesign (your application's requirements never stay static, right?)
I've had an IBM 4029 laserprinter for the past 8 years... built like a tank, only need to buy a re-filled toner cartridge / drum assembly about every other box of paper. I see about 8-9 K page per cartridge.
My only real frustration with this printer is lack of automatic duplexing.
But I've pumped about 30,000 page faces through it, so I can't complain too much.
Another Minnesotan here... according to MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) we have been using the optical scan ballots for 20 years, so the technical bugs are pretty much worked out.
Another point in favor of our state's system is that the ballot box validates that there is no overvoting on the ballot (i.e. voting for two candidates for Governor). The voter inserts their ballot, and if there is a overvote, it is rejected and the voter can fix (actually spoil and re-vote) the ballot.
You also are not reliant on a limited number of special machines to vote... just a pen and something flat.
[uphill both ways mode] Back when I was in high school, writing a research paper involved reading physical publications and manually writing notes on little note cards.
Watching my son work on his high school papers it is too easy to use cut/paste from web articles into the draft of the doc --- where thoughts would get re-worded and internalized in the re-write, today they are just cut and pasted.
Unopposed candidates getting a default vote would be a huge benefit to those unopposed candidates -- at least here in MN, a couple of unopposed candidates were defeated by write-in candidates because few people were marking boxes of the unopposed candidate.
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Try widening your beer selection to include anything from Belgium. Lambics, Quads, Meads, Cyser, Pymets.
A backpacking trip to the back country...
No freezer, no icecream.
Few will pack a Dutch Oven or box oven, so no pizza.
Eat everything you can so there is less in the trash.
Compress the trash so it takes up less space.
No washing -- maybe rinsing the clothes.
Differences from backpacking:
No silver threads in the underware... we just stink.
No bears in space, so you don't have to hang a bear bag.
There is a toilet, so no cat holes.
must read preview before submit.
/400, /2 depending on the platform).
PROFS email system - which ran on S/370. Later it became OfficeVision (/370,
Youngsters... 1987, Iran-Contra hearings -- Oliver North was tripped up by copies of email recovered from backup tapes of the PROFS.
Email was certainly not a toy in 2003...
I agree that the PCjr's chicklet keyboard was the worst, if you look only at the keyboard...
But the TI99/4's keyboard was built into the console and if you had any add on modules, like the printer or diskette drive and you moved the keyboard while typing the whole system crashed when the bus connectors wiggled. Lost more data to that in high school.
Since this is an ocean going ship it will be required to have Type 1 Personal Flotation devices aboard for all personnel.
USCG Type 1 PFDs have 22 pounds of buoyancy located on the chest so that you float face up even if you are unconscious. The resulting profile caused them to be nicknamed Mae West vests.
So this would be the perfect site for the western internet exchange point.
And a Real Programmer can write code using OO principles in any language, just like a sloppy programmer can write spaghetti code in any language.
When I was at Ga Tech (83-88) they were researching beer processing too... Trying to come up with a continuous beer brewing process.
This is where profiling and "throw the first one away" come into play.
Use the OO and abstraction language and tools to design the application. Then look at the performance data and optimize those sections that are called frequently.
Abstraction is great for design, maintenance, and upgrade/redesign (your application's requirements never stay static, right?)
And the monkey costumes in the first part of 2001: A Space Odyssey was passed over for the monkey suits from Planet of the Apes
The Academy would not know innovation if it bit them.
Eat Mor Chikn.
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I've had an IBM 4029 laserprinter for the past 8 years... built like a tank, only need to buy a re-filled toner cartridge / drum assembly about every other box of paper. I see about 8-9 K page per cartridge.
My only real frustration with this printer is lack of automatic duplexing.
But I've pumped about 30,000 page faces through it, so I can't complain too much.
Visions of the Crimson Permanent Assurance dance through my head...
Nostalgia only extending back to the 5.25" floppy... Youngsters!
Why I remember using 8" floppies. Now where did that 9 track tape drive get off to?
There is little reaction... most pools and hot tubs are plumbed with schedule 40 PVC pipe.
That or the advanced data structures are built and managed for you by the system...
I love being able to use a record structure in my program with a simple F external spec.
Remember, Dr. Jones did drink from the Grail....
Another Minnesotan here... according to MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) we have been using the optical scan ballots for 20 years, so the technical bugs are pretty much worked out.
Another point in favor of our state's system is that the ballot box validates that there is no overvoting on the ballot (i.e. voting for two candidates for Governor). The voter inserts their ballot, and if there is a overvote, it is rejected and the voter can fix (actually spoil and re-vote) the ballot.
You also are not reliant on a limited number of special machines to vote... just a pen and something flat.
I think that it is training in High School...
[uphill both ways mode]
Back when I was in high school, writing a research paper involved reading physical publications and manually writing notes on little note cards.
Watching my son work on his high school papers it is too easy to use cut/paste from web articles into the draft of the doc --- where thoughts would get re-worded and internalized in the re-write, today they are just cut and pasted.
Unopposed candidates getting a default vote would be a huge benefit to those unopposed candidates -- at least here in MN, a couple of unopposed candidates were defeated by write-in candidates because few people were marking boxes of the unopposed candidate.
100ft to the Bus?!?
100ft to the street - 1/2 mile - 100ft to the bus stop.
City dwellers....
Camping gear, Amtrak (US rail system)... very compatible.
Summers of 2001, 2003, and 2005 I took my family camping via the Southwest Chief from Iowa to Raton, MN.
Only things we did not carry on the train were a tent and cooking gear, and we could have packed those along without too much trouble.
The ~100 backpackers going to the same destination as we were had it even easier on the train.
My son, wife, and I were going to the Philmont training center, the 100+ backpackers were off to hike the back country.
Look up the opening sequence to 'Babylon 5' ---
Which Corps?
I thought MN Brass was marching B-flat horns. Govies are still marching G, not sure about Chops.
My wife is currently marching with Govies, and used to march with MN Brass and Spirit of Atlanta...
Bugle vs Trumpet...
There are minor differences in the shape of the horn -- the progression from the mouth piece to the bell.
Bugles are (usually) in the key of G, Trumpets are B-flat.
Bugles can have from zero to three valves.
Like Trumpets, Bugles can have interchangeable mouth pieces. The player can select the size (diameter, bowl size, and bowl depth) that best fits.
Bugles come in different sizes too - from the Soprano (looks like a typical trumpet) to Contras (looks sorta like a Tuba..)
- Peter, who's wife and son both play 3rd Sop (bugle) for the oldest competing Drum and Bugle Corps in the US.