Macintosh was the one that brought it to the world. They are the ones that got it right. That gives them some pretty significant bragging rights.
Well, to be accurate, Apple brought it to the rich. Microsoft brought it to the world.
6-8 years later, and poorly... which is pretty much sums up Microsoft in a few words.
(I'm ignoring Windows 1.00 and 2.00, and competitors such as Desqview and Desqview/X, and Unix- and Coherent-based X systems - I don't remember the exact years they were released and don't have time/interest enough right now to research it).
Indeed I knew about much of what you wrote, but had never heard of 'laterally reactive face plates' for defeating penetrators. Also, to a high school kid in 1982, 'Chobham' was magic, since none of the game designers knew anything more than that it was some sort of composite armor (and its true effectiveness was completely unknown, and very classified I'm sure). ERA I'd heard of in the intervening years, on the Merkava (and some of the later model Soviet tanks, if I recall right). Oh, and I had never heard about the adhesive plastic to protect against spalling. So, I learned a bit!
I wouldn't normally bother, but that particular one reversed the meaning of the sentence:-).
Back in the 80's, I played a lot of wargames and was very interested in these things. It was very interesting to read a summary of what's been going on since then. Thanks.
Nice writeup.
The reason sloped tank armour replaced flat planes was because it prevents a thicker cross section to an incoming projectile, and not (as many seem to believe) because it has any deflection value against high speed projectiles. I know that you know this, but for anyone else: replace "prevents a thicker..." with "presents...".
Microsoft doesn't support end users. Ever. Have you ever tried to get support from Microsoft other than the Knowledge Base?
There are very few people who loathe Microsoft more than I do, but I do feel compelled to mention this anecdote (which I realize is not the singular of 'data', as the saying goes).
The one and only time I've had occasion to deal with MS's phone support was over a Labor Day weekend, when I was called to DC to deal with a 'security problem' at the HQ of the Department of (CENSORED). I would up spending a fair amount of time on the phone with MS tech support, and the experience didn't suck - the guy was knowledgeable, helpful, and he made himself available to me by phone at any hour of day or night. I was very pleasantly surprised. Of course, the situation was a massive MS-Blaster outbreak, so any positive points MS might have scored with me were quickly negated.
What's with the car analogies anyways? They usually suck. A good car analogy is like a car that lasts many years, without excessive maintenance bills, gets good mileage, is safe, roomy, and stylish.
I can't comment on what kids do these days. Speaking only for myself, Microsoft as a company has earned my complete contempt over the last 19 or so years of dealing with them and their products. I've gone from having no particular opinion of them when I sat down in front of a Compaq 8086 machine to work in MSDOS for the first time, to my current feelings, where I'd spit in the face of Bill Gates even if he were the last person in the world who could save me with an organ transplant. I exaggerate somewhat, but my point is, some of us MS-bashers have good reason to do so.
I consider myself to be pretty darned liberal, but I have no problem with repeat offenders, even of nonviolent crimes if there's a victim involved, (such as the one in TFA) being flogged, caned, stoned, imprisoned, etc. I believe you should get a chance to show that you learned from your bad choice, but I don't have a lot of compassion for those who repeatedly shows that they failed to learn anything.
I salute the heroine of the story for her persistence.
But when we have "white collar" criminals getting jail sentences - and, granted, it hasn't been handed down, yet - that are more severe than a rape or murder sentence, something is not right with the system. Good point, but which is it: A) "White collar" crimes are punished too harshly, or B) Violent crimes aren't punished harshly enough? I lean toward B) myself, but sadly, crime vs. punishment isn't something that's easily quantized.
2) I am the only one that thinks that they put this thing in Kentucky because they think that everyone there is an inbred hill billy who won't know any better? (Not saying that everyone from Kentucky *is* an inbred hill billy but that the people who put the museum there think this) I spent 2-3 months on a work project in a small KY town (Corbin, incidentally home of the first KFC, and by an odd coincidence, I happen to be wearing the T-shirt today). The people were nice, but it did seem like every street had either a A) 'tobacco outlet' or B) church. Those people really took their smoking/chewing and their God seriously. It doesn't surprise me that the Creation Museum would be built in KY.
It's probably why battleships didn't use their main guns against japanese zeroes flying against them. That's what AA is for. I vaguely recall reading somewhere that either the Germans or the Japanese during WWII had some sort of shotgun-type round for main guns (I don't remember if it was for cruisers' or battleships' main guns), but they were either never used or weren't very effective.
That puts you in the 'monitor'. From there you could modify or inspect memory. You could also list chunks of memory, which would be disassembled into 6502 assembly, which is easier to read than a stream of hex numbers. For example, typing:
FDEDL
would list out the part of the ROM responsible for printing a character to the screen (a routine located at memory address $FDED).
Typing:
300: 01 02 03 04
would insert the values 1, 2, 3 and 4 int memory locations $0300 through $0303.
As far as I know, all Apples had this at least through the//e. I assume some of the later models had it, but I never used any of those.
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Macintosh was the one that brought it to the world. They are the ones that got it right. That gives them some pretty significant bragging rights.
Well, to be accurate, Apple brought it to the rich. Microsoft brought it to the world.
6-8 years later, and poorly... which is pretty much sums up Microsoft in a few words.(I'm ignoring Windows 1.00 and 2.00, and competitors such as Desqview and Desqview/X, and Unix- and Coherent-based X systems - I don't remember the exact years they were released and don't have time/interest enough right now to research it).
Indeed I knew about much of what you wrote, but had never heard of 'laterally reactive face plates' for defeating penetrators. Also, to a high school kid in 1982, 'Chobham' was magic, since none of the game designers knew anything more than that it was some sort of composite armor (and its true effectiveness was completely unknown, and very classified I'm sure). ERA I'd heard of in the intervening years, on the Merkava (and some of the later model Soviet tanks, if I recall right). Oh, and I had never heard about the adhesive plastic to protect against spalling. So, I learned a bit!
I wouldn't normally bother, but that particular one reversed the meaning of the sentence :-).
Back in the 80's, I played a lot of wargames and was very interested in these things. It was very interesting to read a summary of what's been going on since then. Thanks.
ObSG1: If the RIAA comes to your campus... leave.
There are very few people who loathe Microsoft more than I do, but I do feel compelled to mention this anecdote (which I realize is not the singular of 'data', as the saying goes).
The one and only time I've had occasion to deal with MS's phone support was over a Labor Day weekend, when I was called to DC to deal with a 'security problem' at the HQ of the Department of (CENSORED). I would up spending a fair amount of time on the phone with MS tech support, and the experience didn't suck - the guy was knowledgeable, helpful, and he made himself available to me by phone at any hour of day or night. I was very pleasantly surprised. Of course, the situation was a massive MS-Blaster outbreak, so any positive points MS might have scored with me were quickly negated.
I'm with you.
They usually suck. A good car analogy is like a car that lasts many years, without excessive maintenance bills, gets good mileage, is safe, roomy, and stylish.
A bad car analogy is like a lemon.
I can't comment on what kids do these days. Speaking only for myself, Microsoft as a company has earned my complete contempt over the last 19 or so years of dealing with them and their products. I've gone from having no particular opinion of them when I sat down in front of a Compaq 8086 machine to work in MSDOS for the first time, to my current feelings, where I'd spit in the face of Bill Gates even if he were the last person in the world who could save me with an organ transplant. I exaggerate somewhat, but my point is, some of us MS-bashers have good reason to do so.
Are you at least aware that there is no class in WoW called "wizard"?
No shazbot, man.
I consider myself to be pretty darned liberal, but I have no problem with repeat offenders, even of nonviolent crimes if there's a victim involved, (such as the one in TFA) being flogged, caned, stoned, imprisoned, etc. I believe you should get a chance to show that you learned from your bad choice, but I don't have a lot of compassion for those who repeatedly shows that they failed to learn anything.
I salute the heroine of the story for her persistence.
Hey, back in high school, I *did* walk to school every day uphill both ways in the snow with a box of 5.25" floppies.
(of course it was also downhill in both directions, too)
145% of Slashdot posters exaggerate with regard to the state of moderation.
This whole idea reminded me of Lord Draffut and his Valkyrie robots from Fred Saberhagen's "Empire of the East", for some reason...
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//e. I assume some of the later models had it, but I never used any of those.
That puts you in the 'monitor'. From there you could modify or inspect memory. You could also list chunks of memory, which would be disassembled into 6502 assembly, which is easier to read than a stream of hex numbers. For example, typing:
FDEDL
would list out the part of the ROM responsible for printing a character to the screen (a routine located at memory address $FDED).
Typing:
300: 01 02 03 04
would insert the values 1, 2, 3 and 4 int memory locations $0300 through $0303.
As far as I know, all Apples had this at least through the
In high school, Beneath Apple DOS was the Bible for myself and my hacker friends.
GP post was more appropriate if your cat happens to be on fire.
I hear that taking v1111111agra will do that.
A little while back I looked through the rec.arts.sf.written archives and found the posts I made 22 years ago... about Tolkien's works, mostly :-).