Yes, I made my start with BASIC. Please, look away from my shame...
Don't be ashamed of getting started with basic. After all, it wasn't alwyas regarded with the distain it is today.
Anyone else remember when Bill Gates challenged anyone to a programming contest? Quick Basic vs. Any language of choice? I can't find a reference on the web -- but its mentioned in "Fire in the Valley" (or at least in my second edition copy)
Yes, unfortunately America can not stop the balancing of wealth around the globe. The US better do something quick, or soon people in 3rd world countries will be eating 2 meals a day and have shelter and clothes.
Remind me why outsourcing is bad? Global employment looks pretty good to me. Give the job to who can do it the best, at the lowest cost. Even if this means a few less Americans can afford their Lexus payments.
It sounds to me like you have a preaty neive view of the American way of life. Heres a clue for you: WE'RE NOT ALL LAZY, RICH, AND FAT.
We have a class dichotomy that is (sadly) becoming more prevalent every day. In the area I live (north western PA) $15/h is a good wage (For any sort of work, when you can find it. Most people earn less than that.) Needless to say, there aren't too many lexus's around here.
Why is outsourcing bad? Well, as many other posters pointed out: Nobody works, Nobody buys. (Yeah, it affects a whole lot more people than just "a few" and it costs them a whole lot more than a "Lexus payment") But aren't people in other countries just working instead? Can't they buy? Not on the wages they earn. The outsourcing well is bound to run dry soon enough. It doesn't offer anything more than a short-term gain.
Which brings us to Globalization. Take a good hard look at how much its helped countries like El Salvadore. The people there work for slave wages, and still haven't seen an improvement in their standard of living. In fact, some of those working are even worse off than before! Combine that with long hours and beyond poor working conditions and you'll start to understand.
I know hating America is really popular right now, but hate us for actual reasons not some imagined "They want to keep poor countries poor" nonsence or whatever the current fashion is.
Which leads me to my question: Why do YOU hate America (or Americans) so much?
Now if I could just meet a woman who didn't believe that past behavior was an indication of the future...
Seriously, why buy HP products when you've been disappointed with them in the past? I've owned 3 HP devices, a scanner and two HP 320 LX Handhelds (with the rom update) -- the Handhelds had terrible contrast (damn near impossible to read, but the extrenal keyboard was incredible!) and the scanner broke within a few days.
What did I do? I stopped buying HP products.
Sure they look sexy, but they'll just break your heart in the end.
there was a third option - a higher form of life.... Do not presume that humans as they exist now represent the highest form of evolution. Anthro-centrism is another fallacy of scifi.
Interestingly enough, it was scifi that made me realize the folly that is anthrocentrism. Specificly Childhoods end (A. C. Clark). If you've read it, you understand.
(This isn't the only novel that Clark examined the possible continued evolution of human life. The 2001 series, for an example)
SciFi has done wonders for science, as far as I'm concerned.
"Who in their right mind would want to hack into the democratic convention? The only ones I can think of are Republicans, and we all know they never do anything illegal like that..."
It's True: "People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I've earned everything that I've got." --Richard M. Nixon
So are we going to have any.wav files come up missing?:)
Mod parent Flamebait! The last think we need is that stupid "How to pronounce GIF" war to start all over again! And we *just* went through all that when the last Unisys patent expired.
I say GIF with a G like Gorilla -- others say GIF like the peanut butter. We all know how it was origionally pronounced. If you pronounce GIF like the peanut butter, I think of JIFF not GIF. Other people don't. I pronounce it wrong for clarity. Other people pronounce it properly, for the sake of being proper.
I don't personally care how you pronounce it. After all, I'm reading this discussion, not hearing it.
Dean: What happen?
Trippi: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Trippi: We get support.
Dean: What!
Trippi: Main Dean turn ons?
Dean: It's you!!
Kerry: How are you gentlemen!!
Kerry: All your votes are belong to us.
Kerry: You are on the way to destruction.
Dean: What you say!!
Kerry: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Kerry: Ha ha ha ha...
Trippi: DEAN!!
Dean: Take off every 'blog'!!
Dean: You know what you doing. Move 'blog'.
Dean: For Open Source.
Slashdot Mirror
Can anyone please provide a link?!
Oh, nevermind...
Yes, I made my start with BASIC. Please, look away from my shame...
Don't be ashamed of getting started with basic. After all, it wasn't alwyas regarded with the distain it is today.
Anyone else remember when Bill Gates challenged anyone to a programming contest? Quick Basic vs. Any language of choice? I can't find a reference on the web -- but its mentioned in "Fire in the Valley" (or at least in my second edition copy)
I agree.
What I don't understand: IBM said something nice, and is being attacked for not being nice enough! (or nice enough for BP, anyhow)
A: THERE IS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER
Reminds me of this.
I hate the lameness filter, lameness filter, lameness filter. I hate the lameness filter. The lameness filter really sucks.
Anybody know what the "88-bit kernel" is in Hare?
0x48 0x45 0x4C 0x4C 0x20 0x57 0x4F 0x52 0x4C 0x44
And what are those revolutionary 11 bytes you may ask?
"HELLO WORLD"
"we look forward to hosting even more projects from Microsoft as they reach out to the Open Source community."
/. had me worried! This is just some exec who heard "Open Source" and thought "out source"
Okay! See,
Whew! Another crisis averted.
Yes, unfortunately America can not stop the balancing of wealth around the globe. The US better do something quick, or soon people in 3rd world countries will be eating 2 meals a day and have shelter and clothes.
Remind me why outsourcing is bad? Global employment looks pretty good to me. Give the job to who can do it the best, at the lowest cost. Even if this means a few less Americans can afford their Lexus payments.
It sounds to me like you have a preaty neive view of the American way of life. Heres a clue for you: WE'RE NOT ALL LAZY, RICH, AND FAT.
We have a class dichotomy that is (sadly) becoming more prevalent every day. In the area I live (north western PA) $15/h is a good wage (For any sort of work, when you can find it. Most people earn less than that.) Needless to say, there aren't too many lexus's around here.
Why is outsourcing bad? Well, as many other posters pointed out: Nobody works, Nobody buys. (Yeah, it affects a whole lot more people than just "a few" and it costs them a whole lot more than a "Lexus payment") But aren't people in other countries just working instead? Can't they buy? Not on the wages they earn. The outsourcing well is bound to run dry soon enough. It doesn't offer anything more than a short-term gain.
Which brings us to Globalization. Take a good hard look at how much its helped countries like El Salvadore. The people there work for slave wages, and still haven't seen an improvement in their standard of living. In fact, some of those working are even worse off than before! Combine that with long hours and beyond poor working conditions and you'll start to understand.
I know hating America is really popular right now, but hate us for actual reasons not some imagined "They want to keep poor countries poor" nonsence or whatever the current fashion is.
Which leads me to my question: Why do YOU hate America (or Americans) so much?
The picture is protected with the film of strength
Which they found in a secret area in castle 2...
It just seems like an analog stick is a must-have for 3D games. You need that precision in your control scheme.
I don't know about that. Wolfenstein 3D and Doom worked fine without an analog joystick. So did Dark Forces and Duke Nukem 3D.
Before anyone says anything about halo or whatever their favorite FPS is, remember that we're talking about a gameboy here.
Its a joke. Google explains it all.
Alice? what's Alice besides Eliza with more data at her disposal?
I honsety don't know how or why Alice got any press at all..
Now if I could just meet a woman who didn't believe that past behavior was an indication of the future...
Seriously, why buy HP products when you've been disappointed with them in the past? I've owned 3 HP devices, a scanner and two HP 320 LX Handhelds (with the rom update) -- the Handhelds had terrible contrast (damn near impossible to read, but the extrenal keyboard was incredible!) and the scanner broke within a few days.
What did I do? I stopped buying HP products.
Sure they look sexy, but they'll just break your heart in the end.
and run in 640K of memory :)
... oh, nevermind.
Yeah, 640k ought to be enough for
there was a third option - a higher form of life. ... Do not presume that humans as they exist now represent the highest form of evolution. Anthro-centrism is another fallacy of scifi.
Interestingly enough, it was scifi that made me realize the folly that is anthrocentrism. Specificly Childhoods end (A. C. Clark). If you've read it, you understand.
(This isn't the only novel that Clark examined the possible continued evolution of human life. The 2001 series, for an example)
SciFi has done wonders for science, as far as I'm concerned.
I used to joke with some former coworkers about the Microsoft Linux distribution.
Would the Microsoft Linux distro be called (in the HP tradition) MSUX?
"Who in their right mind would want to hack into the democratic convention? The only ones I can think of are Republicans, and we all know they never do anything illegal like that..."
.wav files come up missing? :)
It's True:
"People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I've earned everything that I've got." --Richard M. Nixon
So are we going to have any
I'm going to make a new file format with the extension .JIF
It already exists.
Mod parent Flamebait! The last think we need is that stupid "How to pronounce GIF" war to start all over again! And we *just* went through all that when the last Unisys patent expired.
I say GIF with a G like Gorilla -- others say GIF like the peanut butter. We all know how it was origionally pronounced. If you pronounce GIF like the peanut butter, I think of JIFF not GIF. Other people don't. I pronounce it wrong for clarity. Other people pronounce it properly, for the sake of being proper.
I don't personally care how you pronounce it. After all, I'm reading this discussion, not hearing it.
Being me.
In A.D. 2003 war was beginning.
Dean: What happen?
Trippi: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Trippi: We get support.
Dean: What!
Trippi: Main Dean turn ons?
Dean: It's you!!
Kerry: How are you gentlemen!!
Kerry: All your votes are belong to us.
Kerry: You are on the way to destruction.
Dean: What you say!!
Kerry: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Kerry: Ha ha ha ha...
Trippi: DEAN!!
Dean: Take off every 'blog'!!
Dean: You know what you doing. Move 'blog'.
Dean: For Open Source.
Share water. You grok?
they could sell it with some software as a way to practice relaxing
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Theres lots of biofeedback devices for that very purpose!
http://www.luxevivant.com/index.asp?PageAction=VI
Sadly, the technology isn't exactly new.0 0/mindlink.html
http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/26
We're not jaded. It's just that we've been hurt by so many poor (and many vaporous) incarnations of this kind of tech so often...
I find that incredulous. Do you have a link to more information on the matter?