Huh? I think I'm talking a few years earlier. FoxBase was originally a Mac only product. It was the only relational database that would allow storage and retrieval of graphic elements. It was pretty cool and very fast at the time. Microsoft bought it and lost the graphic storage capability on the Mac real fast. Then the Mac product disappeared. All of this happend around 1996 or so. Your memory has no bearing whatsoever on my original post.
The whole bunch of people who think about graphics on the web are always behind. The underlying framework for 2D (.svg etc.) is just now being developed and embraced. Back in the 90's when we really could have used such things due to such low bandwidth availability, we were bit mapping everything.
Apple understood this back in 1984 when they did all the primitive stuff in ROM. But as Apple faded and MS took over in the early 90's, intelligent graphics for the masses went missing. MS even killed a Mac graphics capable database (FoxBase) by buying it and taking out it's graphics capabilities. 3D? not likely anytime soon.
I wonder why on earth, when he finally ran out of gas, did he have to run into a ditch. I tend to agree with Gription. I'm gonna call BS on this story, too.
I don't miss any point. It would make about as much sense, maybe more, to draw molecules with postscript as it would be to use Chemfig. Similar learning curve. Learning to use Chemfig would require so much time that you wouldn't be able to learn enough chemistry to tell you that the structure was right or wrong. Chemfig might be appropriate for maybe 6 or 7 currently living people. No one I know. Maybe it would work for those guys at Chem Abstracts. But they already have a program like this. Maybe that's what chemfig is.
I bought an Office for Mac 3-pack for about $125. That's not exactly the same as $150 each. I'm not a Microsoft fan but I do try to stay credible when possible.
I was one of the first Road Runner customers in the RTP, NC area. I've been a good customer. TW recently upped my rates and their remote is terrible. Unfortunately for TW, some real competition recently showed up for what once was a monopoly. I switched and just got off the phone to tell them that I am canceling. Amazingly, some promotions, that I was previously unaware of, became available to me. No way.
A little competition can be a good thing.
I've been meaning to write a blog on the "Media Magnification of Unlikely Events" for some time now but never really got around to it. Looks like someone beat me to it. Oh well.
HyperCard, from Apple back in the day, was a pretty good environment for knocking out simple little programs that almost looked professional. And it was free. It really was what you're describing, though the language was pretty limited. VB stole a lot of ideas from Hypercard and made it a bit more complex and platform limited and you had to pay for it. JavaScript could step in if the DOM wasn't so confusing. It's probably not ever gonna happen. Programming environments that aren't hard to use always get pissed on by the/. crowd.
$5K for a G3 Mac? That doesn't sound right. I bought a G3 Mac soon after they showed up. I'm thinking that with the monitor it was around $2.1-2.5K. I think your memory is a little fuzzy.
So I did the math and I'm getting something a lot closer to 1000 miles per hour at the equator. I can't do the math for greater latitudes except to say it approaches 0 mph at the North Pole.
I looked on eBay just to get an idea. Although there are lots and lots listed for really high buy-it-now prices, the only real bids seem to be around $3-4 ea. If you consider handling, they're worthless to you. Donate them to somebody. Maybe try Craig's list. You get to meet some real weirdo's that way, just in time for Halloween.
You know what? I don't believe this crap. I didn't read the article but there is no way that you can 19,000 opinions, all in the same direction and not one dissenting from the majority. It's just not possible. Unless, maybe only one person responded because nobody knew about it and he responded 19,000 times. This is big time BS. If I was running anything and I asked for feedback and I got 19,000 con and 0 pro, or vice versa, I would ignore the input and look into how this happened.
The conspiracy isn't from the Joint Parliamentary Committee but from the email sources.
Welcome to LaLa Land! Almost every PhD I know over 50 is out of work or underemployed. You can never stop learning but you can stop getting paid for what you know. A caveat, they all have degrees in Organic Chemistry.
So do it for the love of learning. Don't even think about this as a financial investment.
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Huh? I think I'm talking a few years earlier. FoxBase was originally a Mac only product. It was the only relational database that would allow storage and retrieval of graphic elements. It was pretty cool and very fast at the time. Microsoft bought it and lost the graphic storage capability on the Mac real fast. Then the Mac product disappeared. All of this happend around 1996 or so. Your memory has no bearing whatsoever on my original post.
The whole bunch of people who think about graphics on the web are always behind. The underlying framework for 2D (.svg etc.) is just now being developed and embraced. Back in the 90's when we really could have used such things due to such low bandwidth availability, we were bit mapping everything.
Apple understood this back in 1984 when they did all the primitive stuff in ROM. But as Apple faded and MS took over in the early 90's, intelligent graphics for the masses went missing. MS even killed a Mac graphics capable database (FoxBase) by buying it and taking out it's graphics capabilities. 3D? not likely anytime soon.
I wonder why on earth, when he finally ran out of gas, did he have to run into a ditch. I tend to agree with Gription. I'm gonna call BS on this story, too.
I don't miss any point. It would make about as much sense, maybe more, to draw molecules with postscript as it would be to use Chemfig. Similar learning curve. Learning to use Chemfig would require so much time that you wouldn't be able to learn enough chemistry to tell you that the structure was right or wrong. Chemfig might be appropriate for maybe 6 or 7 currently living people. No one I know. Maybe it would work for those guys at Chem Abstracts. But they already have a program like this. Maybe that's what chemfig is.
I just looked at the package called Chemfig, for drawing organic molecules in LateX. Wow, let's toss out 25 years of progress.
It came with word, excel, powerpoint and some other stuff that I don't remember.
Do you talk the same way you write? Just curious.
I bought an Office for Mac 3-pack for about $125. That's not exactly the same as $150 each. I'm not a Microsoft fan but I do try to stay credible when possible.
I don't know what this has to do with anything but I had to learn FORTRAN in a chemistry class about 36 years ago. This was before whiteboards.
I was one of the first Road Runner customers in the RTP, NC area. I've been a good customer. TW recently upped my rates and their remote is terrible. Unfortunately for TW, some real competition recently showed up for what once was a monopoly. I switched and just got off the phone to tell them that I am canceling. Amazingly, some promotions, that I was previously unaware of, became available to me. No way. A little competition can be a good thing.
I've been meaning to write a blog on the "Media Magnification of Unlikely Events" for some time now but never really got around to it. Looks like someone beat me to it. Oh well.
HyperCard, from Apple back in the day, was a pretty good environment for knocking out simple little programs that almost looked professional. And it was free. It really was what you're describing, though the language was pretty limited. VB stole a lot of ideas from Hypercard and made it a bit more complex and platform limited and you had to pay for it. JavaScript could step in if the DOM wasn't so confusing. It's probably not ever gonna happen. Programming environments that aren't hard to use always get pissed on by the /. crowd.
$5K for a G3 Mac? That doesn't sound right. I bought a G3 Mac soon after they showed up. I'm thinking that with the monitor it was around $2.1-2.5K. I think your memory is a little fuzzy.
Their jet is so stealthy, even the word jet only appears as je in the story's synopsis above.
So I did the math and I'm getting something a lot closer to 1000 miles per hour at the equator. I can't do the math for greater latitudes except to say it approaches 0 mph at the North Pole.
I looked on eBay just to get an idea. Although there are lots and lots listed for really high buy-it-now prices, the only real bids seem to be around $3-4 ea. If you consider handling, they're worthless to you. Donate them to somebody. Maybe try Craig's list. You get to meet some real weirdo's that way, just in time for Halloween.
You know what? I don't believe this crap. I didn't read the article but there is no way that you can 19,000 opinions, all in the same direction and not one dissenting from the majority. It's just not possible. Unless, maybe only one person responded because nobody knew about it and he responded 19,000 times. This is big time BS. If I was running anything and I asked for feedback and I got 19,000 con and 0 pro, or vice versa, I would ignore the input and look into how this happened.
The conspiracy isn't from the Joint Parliamentary Committee but from the email sources.
That's a great idea. Life is confusing and frustrating and you never have enough of what you need to do what you want. Might as well learn that early.
A little rough on the poor guy, but basically well said.
I thought everything showed up on the front page of Slashdot. Is there a back page?
I don't think either of these guys know much about science. It would only be sad.
After only 65 years, we seem to have forgotten everything.
Welcome to LaLa Land! Almost every PhD I know over 50 is out of work or underemployed. You can never stop learning but you can stop getting paid for what you know. A caveat, they all have degrees in Organic Chemistry.
So do it for the love of learning. Don't even think about this as a financial investment.
So, Robert Metcalf invented the internet!
You should have modded yourself offtopic.
You can't mod and post on the same article, which is a pretty good policy.
I came here with 1 moderator point to get rid of and there were no posts to mod one way or the other. So I'm posting instead.