I worked for CDC (Control Data Corp) and they made disc drives with names like Hawk and Wren... But the big dog of the disc drives was the SMD, it came in 300 & 80 Mb versions. They used packs. Packs were mounted, physically then logically. They had a plastic case, the cover of which could only be removed when the pack was screwed securely into a drive. The drives were about the size of a dishwasher. I miss them, I had pictures of but, well...
Originally they called these things RESOBs, changing to the name to disc drive only when the pointy haired had learnt the meaning of the acronym.
Start looking for scratched up iPods at garage sales - maybe you can make yerself a RAiP to hold yer archives until you're my age.
I know! let's sell a $200 PC to people that live in a country where the average annual income is about $13.50 on credit, then we have a large supply of workers. It may not quite be slavery, but it surely smacks of indentured servitude.
We can probably get start up capital by calling ourselves a non-profit and asking for donations to help the third worlders that we are fixing to exploit.
The only question is, once we have all these new PC owners on the hook what are we gonna pay them to do, code.net apps? write scam emails? blog?
We seem to operate on a business model of delivering the crappiest solution possible in the shortest amount of time and then making the profit from the phone support, which is again the cheapest choice at every descision point.
I think this is a mutation of the PERL model of giving away the interpreter and selling the manual
being an over 40 programmer I certainly recognize the sound of the parent as it leaves the end of the shovel.
Having been involved in education of young and old alike I can atest, through both personal observation and secondary research, that the larger one's frame of reference the quicker that person will assimilate new concepts.
The only thing that seems to diminish with age is one's tolerance for BS.
Writing computer programs is kinda like sex in that there are a lot of college kids that just discovered it and think they've invented it.
Sex is kinda like driving... When you were 16 it didn't matter what kind of car it was, where you were going, whose car it was, who was buying the gas, who you were with, or even if you were by yourself - you were doing it and that was all that mattered. But once you've been around the block a few times, owned a couple of cars, grasped the weight of ownership, logged some business miles, had some wrecks, gotten paid for driving - it becomes something which you would prefer less quantity and more quality. So, on the days that I don't drive my recumbent bike I ride a Benz. Relish the slow cruise down roads like the Talimena hiway and avoid the morning gridlock, take your time 'cause life is the journey.
I guess I couldn't expect anbody under 30 to get any part of this until, well... until you're older. If you're lucky enough to live that long.
we are sawing at the wrong end of the brach with minimum wage.
You are correct that it's not that paying works at least this much is a burden to employers. But the minimum wage doesn't really drive the economy upward either.
A maximum wage would...
Yeah, when we have people that amass great wealth it does trickle down somewhat, but a single person and their dependents can only spend so much. If we could spread it around to more people it would circulate faster. And the rapidly spinning blades of consumption would lift the economy like one of those bell-textron whirly birds that LBJ used to sell to the military during his watch.
to be fair, were these people electrocuted due soley to the contact of the urine with the third rail or was there incidental contact? Say for example, did they drag their tally whacker across the hot metal or did they just stand too close.
And how much sodium is in these people's diet?
And what about peeing on an electric fence, does the higher voltage and lower current matter?
I thought that it was just me! I haven't played in a couple years, primarily behind the dreams begining to invade my waking self. The boss has display cases full of swords in a couple of the halls here, and I still can't walk by those c/o well, you know...
When I was a kid, I thought Sweden to be a horrid, fascist regime - mostly behind the forced sterilization of women with low IQ scores. Then I started noticing the "dumb Swede" jokes (having an Irish surname I had previously been too occupied with "Pat & Mike" jokes to pay these any mind)... The popularity of these jokes seemed to decline in sync with the timeline of this sterilization. Now, I see stupid people everywhere, to paraphrase. I find myself advocating the sterilization if not euthanization (is that a word) of same as I frequently encounter them when I least expect to.
Over the years my love of country has been diminished by the actions of many of my countrymen. I weathered the McCarthy era with my head held high, knowing that the evil storm would eventually blow itself out... Senator Eugene McCarthy brought me hope again. But in light of more recent events I have come to realize I that was wrong about there being a limit to the evil of the shortsighted. I was probably wrong about the forced sterilization, too. If we had been doing that over here, we probably wouldn't have the Patriot act or the new Kansas monkey trials.
I'm thinking that Sweden might be a pretty good place to live out the remains of my days. How hard is it to obtain a visa and/or where can I find some coyotes with umlauts in their names?
>>WTF could a guy say... Obviously you've never been to a Steelers game.
But seriously, when the players are professionals the fans are much more detached (well the sober, reasonalbe, USofAlien ones are anyway). When the players are the fans' little darlings fights break out all the time, and have for at least 40 years.
you can't do no man-U-facturin' in an ivory tower!
As soon as these over-educated, operpriviledged twerps come up with an idea they write up a business plan and shop it to investment capitalists, incorporate, go public, and then outsource (maybe to the very underpriviledged kids that come up using one of these laptops).
Instead of sewing soccer balls the sweat shops will be building asp.net pages, we have to save the children from this dastardly plot!
but what do them third worlders want with laptops anyway... To paraphrase Barbara Bush, it's kinda scary that so many of them would want to become a part of our virutal community!
I want want, I'd swap a half a dozen live chickens and go the shipping in trade fer one. And since they got the laptop all we gotta do is hook up on ebay... does paypal accept live chickens?
I ran it under CP/M on a CDC 110 - a Plato terminal with 2 eight inch floppy drives. The Plato system was so cool, inteligent termials (8080A 8 bit processors) connected to a 'cluster' of Cyber 170 & 180 mainframes to deliver educational material and interactive multiplayer games. The terminals could boot CP/M, so you could run Visicalc and a cobol compiler, etc. Plato terminals had touch screens way back in the late 70's - no pointing device needed.
But the coolest thing was the interactive multiplayer games... Empire & Labyrinth ruled!
The time to test workers for a genetic disposition towards a debilitating condition isn't after they have already been diagnosed with that condition... like duh!
Actually, why would we want to have employees at all... they're nothing but liabilities all the way down the line. A smart shop would hire two or three good managers and then use contractors for all the heavy lifting. When their backs go out so do they c/o the need for expensive benefits.
Yes, a particular civ will, once it steps onto the slippery slope, begin to accept more and more until its eventual decline.
The author compares the older members' recation to gameing with the one time reaction to rock and roll music. I've watched my perspective on this type of issue change greatly over the past 40 years or so... I guess it's really hard for whippersnapers to grasp this mo matter how slowly you expalin it to them: Rock music has heralded the decline of our society. I couldn't tell you that it was causal or symptomatic, but it bees 4 shore connected.
40 years ago I couldn't see the harm in the mop tops singing "I wanna hold yer hand", it didn't seem to be fundamentaly different that say Billie Holiday (tame by comparission). But somewhere on the path to "wants to be a freak an sell it on the weekan" our culture has turned mouldy (okay, maybe the die was cast shortly civil war). Even now it's hard for me to see a fundemental difference between none o yer business and Ain't nobody's business but yer own but there does certainly seem to be a very different level of depravity in the two.
The journey from "you are standing outside a small cottage, beside a stream" to Diablo LOD was a small step for a gamer and yet a giant leap for our collective concious. Spending hours focusing intently on images of defilement and death has got to have an effect on the minds of the young. Okay it has and effect on the minds of the aged too, but I don't know many of my peers that are willing to whereas my kids' peers are on the 10 ring of the demographic target.
The bottom line, we ain't gonna have to wait for everybody > 40 to die for games to be accepted as a mainstream media. We probably will have to for it to be accpeted as a legitimate medium for artistic expression.
It makes at least as much sense as Oracle/People Soft or GM/EDS, probably a lot more.
But then, as wacky as Steve can be, he ain't Larry.
I already have an HP iPod... I can't wait to buy an HP OSX box with an intel chip from the sams club. I'm not even gonna miss HPUX. I will morn for Solaris tho.
But the real impetus behind this is that it would pose a graceful way out of the big cat naming convention. It's either sell the company or discover a larger species of feline.
C.O.s with hats like the GenerMills logo guy would walk by like shooting gallery ducks for the blood thirsty baptists the mow 'em down with cornacopia of weapons
I still remeber the system generated TSO password from 30-freaking years ago
It was three Kay seven six victor victor zulu romeo!
but, there was no toprow stuff in it.
A better technique is to remember a phrase that can be expressed in a brief series of charaters, something like "I am not a crook" for example might become iM!a(cr?)
But then the shifted key strokes can give you up to a shoulder surfers... if you're in a situation where that might be an issue.
In that case multiple double taps on the home row will help obfuscate the sequence.
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I worked for CDC (Control Data Corp) and they made disc drives with names like Hawk and Wren... But the big dog of the disc drives was the SMD, it came in 300 & 80 Mb versions. They used packs. Packs were mounted, physically then logically. They had a plastic case, the cover of which could only be removed when the pack was screwed securely into a drive. The drives were about the size of a dishwasher. I miss them, I had pictures of but, well...
Originally they called these things RESOBs, changing to the name to disc drive only when the pointy haired had learnt the meaning of the acronym.
Start looking for scratched up iPods at garage sales - maybe you can make yerself a RAiP to hold yer archives until you're my age.
I know! let's sell a $200 PC to people that live in a country where the average annual income is about $13.50 on credit, then we have a large supply of workers. It may not quite be slavery, but it surely smacks of indentured servitude.
.net apps? write scam emails? blog?
We can probably get start up capital by calling ourselves a non-profit and asking for donations to help the third worlders that we are fixing to exploit.
The only question is, once we have all these new PC owners on the hook what are we gonna pay them to do, code
when I was a lad I was smitten by the girl next door. I tried to entice her into smiting my buttocks while wearing...
well, maybe that should be the end of that story
Dang! do you work here too?
We seem to operate on a business model of delivering the crappiest solution possible in the shortest amount of time and then making the profit from the phone support, which is again the cheapest choice at every descision point.
I think this is a mutation of the PERL model of giving away the interpreter and selling the manual
being an over 40 programmer I certainly recognize the sound of the parent as it leaves the end of the shovel.
Having been involved in education of young and old alike I can atest, through both personal observation and secondary research, that the larger one's frame of reference the quicker that person will assimilate new concepts.
The only thing that seems to diminish with age is one's tolerance for BS.
Writing computer programs is kinda like sex in that there are a lot of college kids that just discovered it and think they've invented it.
Sex is kinda like driving...
When you were 16 it didn't matter what kind of car it was, where you were going, whose car it was, who was buying the gas, who you were with, or even if you were by yourself - you were doing it and that was all that mattered. But once you've been around the block a few times, owned a couple of cars, grasped the weight of ownership, logged some business miles, had some wrecks, gotten paid for driving - it becomes something which you would prefer less quantity and more quality. So, on the days that I don't drive my recumbent bike I ride a Benz. Relish the slow cruise down roads like the Talimena hiway and avoid the morning gridlock, take your time 'cause life is the journey.
I guess I couldn't expect anbody under 30 to get any part of this until, well... until you're older. If you're lucky enough to live that long.
we are sawing at the wrong end of the brach with minimum wage.
You are correct that it's not that paying works at least this much is a burden to employers. But the minimum wage doesn't really drive the economy upward either.
A maximum wage would...
Yeah, when we have people that amass great wealth it does trickle down somewhat, but a single person and their dependents can only spend so much. If we could spread it around to more people it would circulate faster. And the rapidly spinning blades of consumption would lift the economy like one of those bell-textron whirly birds that LBJ used to sell to the military during his watch.
to be fair, were these people electrocuted due soley to the contact of the urine with the third rail or was there incidental contact? Say for example, did they drag their tally whacker across the hot metal or did they just stand too close.
And how much sodium is in these people's diet?
And what about peeing on an electric fence, does the higher voltage and lower current matter?
Is that episode on OnDemand yet?
yeah, it makes the shards a lot easier to handle. But ya gotta cover the whole window and don't get any on the frame.
I thought that it was just me! I haven't played in a couple years, primarily behind the dreams begining to invade my waking self. The boss has display cases full of swords in a couple of the halls here, and I still can't walk by those c/o well, you know...
I've spent time in both states and Missouri is most assuredly left of Kansas. There aren't many place further right than Kansas - Conneticut maybe.
When I was a kid, I thought Sweden to be a horrid, fascist regime - mostly behind the forced sterilization of women with low IQ scores. Then I started noticing the "dumb Swede" jokes (having an Irish surname I had previously been too occupied with "Pat & Mike" jokes to pay these any mind)... The popularity of these jokes seemed to decline in sync with the timeline of this sterilization. Now, I see stupid people everywhere, to paraphrase. I find myself advocating the sterilization if not euthanization (is that a word) of same as I frequently encounter them when I least expect to.
Over the years my love of country has been diminished by the actions of many of my countrymen. I weathered the McCarthy era with my head held high, knowing that the evil storm would eventually blow itself out... Senator Eugene McCarthy brought me hope again. But in light of more recent events I have come to realize I that was wrong about there being a limit to the evil of the shortsighted. I was probably wrong about the forced sterilization, too. If we had been doing that over here, we probably wouldn't have the Patriot act or the new Kansas monkey trials.
I'm thinking that Sweden might be a pretty good place to live out the remains of my days. How hard is it to obtain a visa and/or where can I find some coyotes with umlauts in their names?
>>WTF could a guy say... Obviously you've never been to a Steelers game.
But seriously, when the players are professionals the fans are much more detached (well the sober, reasonalbe, USofAlien ones are anyway). When the players are the fans' little darlings fights break out all the time, and have for at least 40 years.
so do most fo the apps written to run on them
you can't do no man-U-facturin' in an ivory tower!
As soon as these over-educated, operpriviledged twerps come up with an idea they write up a business plan and shop it to investment capitalists, incorporate, go public, and then outsource (maybe to the very underpriviledged kids that come up using one of these laptops).
Instead of sewing soccer balls the sweat shops will be building asp.net pages, we have to save the children from this dastardly plot!
but what do them third worlders want with laptops anyway... To paraphrase Barbara Bush, it's kinda scary that so many of them would want to become a part of our virutal community!
I want want, I'd swap a half a dozen live chickens and go the shipping in trade fer one. And since they got the laptop all we gotta do is hook up on ebay... does paypal accept live chickens?
remember those old TV commericals, from back when there were only 3 channels...
I'm confused - not about curses, tho - what's not to get about tty I/O? I didn't think anybody was using that manner of witchery anymore.
/^#.*$/
TFA seems to have more to do with regular expressions
I ran it under CP/M on a CDC 110 - a Plato terminal with 2 eight inch floppy drives. The Plato system was so cool, inteligent termials (8080A 8 bit processors) connected to a 'cluster' of Cyber 170 & 180 mainframes to deliver educational material and interactive multiplayer games. The terminals could boot CP/M, so you could run Visicalc and a cobol compiler, etc. Plato terminals had touch screens way back in the late 70's - no pointing device needed.
But the coolest thing was the interactive multiplayer games... Empire & Labyrinth ruled!
smart cars are available in US from ZAP: http://zapworld.com/
The time to test workers for a genetic disposition towards a debilitating condition isn't after they have already been diagnosed with that condition... like duh!
Actually, why would we want to have employees at all... they're nothing but liabilities all the way down the line. A smart shop would hire two or three good managers and then use contractors for all the heavy lifting. When their backs go out so do they c/o the need for expensive benefits.
Yes, a particular civ will, once it steps onto the slippery slope, begin to accept more and more until its eventual decline.
The author compares the older members' recation to gameing with the one time reaction to rock and roll music. I've watched my perspective on this type of issue change greatly over the past 40 years or so... I guess it's really hard for whippersnapers to grasp this mo matter how slowly you expalin it to them: Rock music has heralded the decline of our society. I couldn't tell you that it was causal or symptomatic, but it bees 4 shore connected.
40 years ago I couldn't see the harm in the mop tops singing "I wanna hold yer hand", it didn't seem to be fundamentaly different that say Billie Holiday (tame by comparission). But somewhere on the path to "wants to be a freak an sell it on the weekan" our culture has turned mouldy (okay, maybe the die was cast shortly civil war). Even now it's hard for me to see a fundemental difference between none o yer business and Ain't nobody's business but yer own but there does certainly seem to be a very different level of depravity in the two.
The journey from "you are standing outside a small cottage, beside a stream" to Diablo LOD was a small step for a gamer and yet a giant leap for our collective concious. Spending hours focusing intently on images of defilement and death has got to have an effect on the minds of the young. Okay it has and effect on the minds of the aged too, but I don't know many of my peers that are willing to whereas my kids' peers are on the 10 ring of the demographic target.
The bottom line, we ain't gonna have to wait for everybody > 40 to die for games to be accepted as a mainstream media. We probably will have to for it to be accpeted as a legitimate medium for artistic expression.
sometimes I feel like I would be doing my customers more good if I was selling them drugs, or solvent anyway
It makes at least as much sense as Oracle/People Soft or GM/EDS, probably a lot more.
But then, as wacky as Steve can be, he ain't Larry.
I already have an HP iPod... I can't wait to buy an HP OSX box with an intel chip from the sams club. I'm not even gonna miss HPUX. I will morn for Solaris tho.
But the real impetus behind this is that it would pose a graceful way out of the big cat naming convention. It's either sell the company or discover a larger species of feline.
C.O.s with hats like the GenerMills logo guy would walk by like shooting gallery ducks for the blood thirsty baptists the mow 'em down with cornacopia of weapons
I still remeber the system generated TSO password from 30-freaking years ago
It was three Kay seven six victor victor zulu romeo!
but, there was no toprow stuff in it.
A better technique is to remember a phrase that can be expressed in a brief series of charaters, something like "I am not a crook" for example might become iM!a(cr?)
But then the shifted key strokes can give you up to a shoulder surfers... if you're in a situation where that might be an issue.
In that case multiple double taps on the home row will help obfuscate the sequence.