I was studying Astronomy at Harvard and dropped out and came out to Silicon Valley to visit a friend. At the start of 1980 I got a job as a Systems Assembler at Calma a company which made CAD systems. In my year as a Systems Assembler I got a board level understanding of the systems and learned to use the operating system and the CAD software. With those skills I got a job as a Technical Instructor teaching Calma Field Engineers an overview of the system and how to debug the system with diagnostics. I was a Technical Instructor for 2 years and learned a lot more about hardware and operating systems and some programming. The head of the diagnostic software team left Calma to go to a startup called Elxsi. He told them I had already worked for him as a programmer and got me a job there. In my 7 years at Elxsi I worked with the most amazing engineers I have ever worked with and learned about hardware and software from them and their code. From there I was able to continue a career as a Software Engineer to this day.
The full American Heritage Dictionary app has all of the seven deadly words (and more) stored on the ipod/iphone with audible pronunciation available with net access. Obviously there are different standards for different sources of apps.
Arthur C. Clark "Tales from the White Hart", "Rendezvous With Rama" Isaac Asimov "I Robot" Ursula K. Le Guin "Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions"
The problem is that consensus is the only thing that will convince politicians to act. Once on Real Time with Bill Maher a Republican Congressman pulled out a letter from 5 scientists saying that there was no global warning. 5 our of (however many) was enough for him to justify inaction.
Ultima Underworld was game that made me give up on the Amiga and get a PC. After seeing a friend play it I had to have it. Making long leaps in the darkness to barely visible platforms actually made my stomach flip over.
If a FrameMaker document contains the word "Interleaf" (a competing product) the spell checker will suggest the replacement "FrameMaker". I guest you could justify this if you were converting a document to FrameMaker from Interleaf and the document refers to the tool used to produce the document but it is still funny. Anyone else have interesting spell checker replacements?
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I was studying Astronomy at Harvard and dropped out and came out to Silicon Valley to visit a friend. At the start of 1980 I got a job as a Systems Assembler at Calma a company which made CAD systems. In my year as a Systems Assembler I got a board level understanding of the systems and learned to use the operating system and the CAD software. With those skills I got a job as a Technical Instructor teaching Calma Field Engineers an overview of the system and how to debug the system with diagnostics. I was a Technical Instructor for 2 years and learned a lot more about hardware and operating systems and some programming. The head of the diagnostic software team left Calma to go to a startup called Elxsi. He told them I had already worked for him as a programmer and got me a job there. In my 7 years at Elxsi I worked with the most amazing engineers I have ever worked with and learned about hardware and software from them and their code. From there I was able to continue a career as a Software Engineer to this day.
They already have their lawyers working on claiming all mining rights.
The full American Heritage Dictionary app has all of the seven deadly words (and more) stored on the ipod/iphone with audible pronunciation available with net access. Obviously there are different standards for different sources of apps.
Arthur C. Clark "Tales from the White Hart", "Rendezvous With Rama"
Isaac Asimov "I Robot"
Ursula K. Le Guin "Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions"
Remind anyone of the story "Harrison Bergeron" from Welcome to the Monkey House?
The problem is that consensus is the only thing that will convince politicians to act. Once on Real Time with Bill Maher a Republican Congressman pulled out a letter from 5 scientists saying that there was no global warning. 5 our of (however many) was enough for him to justify inaction.
Ultima Underworld was game that made me give up on the Amiga and get a PC. After seeing a friend play it I had to have it. Making long leaps in the darkness to barely visible platforms actually made my stomach flip over.
One of my characters on WoW has the name Reverendjim. Have not been forced to change it yet.
I changed my long distance carrier to CogniWorld. http://www.cogniworld.com/. Cheap long distance and international rates and no mimimums.
The Tom Bombadil sequece was also left out the the BBC radio play version. So it seems like that will always be the first scene cut fro LotR.
But unlike Lucas he is a good Directory.
If a FrameMaker document contains the word "Interleaf" (a competing product) the spell checker will suggest the replacement "FrameMaker". I guest you could justify this if you were converting a document to FrameMaker from Interleaf and the document refers to the tool used to produce the document but it is still funny. Anyone else have interesting spell checker replacements?