In Hong Kong it's a standard dish. Along with Russian borscht, French toast, iced milk tea. None of these are exactly the same as the native versions though, as American pizzas aren't the same as Italian ones. However I've never seen chop suey or fortune cookies in Hong Kong.
"As I remember it" is about as good as you're likely to get.
This has been debated so often over the last 20 years that don't you think someone might have given an actual citation? You will never find such a reference (I tried).
Basically, your evidence sums up to remembering that someone (who you can't name) said it was true at some time and some context you're not sure of. There have been several biographies and uncounted articles about Gates, some by quite hostile writers, and if any of them could show he'd actually said this, despite his denials, that it would have come to light. It hasn't. (Like for instance Schwarzenegger's interview in Oui in the 70s in which he discusses drugs, group sex etc.; that came back to haunt him.)
This is one of those "quotes" that won't seem to go away.
I've explained that it's wrong when it's come up every few years, including in a newspaper column and in interviews.
There is a lot of irony to this one. Lou Eggebrecht (who really designed the IBM PC original hardware) and I wanted to convince IBM to have a 32-bit address space, but the 68000 just wasn't ready. Lew had an early prototype but it would have delayed things at least a year.
The 8086/8088 architecture has a 20-bit address bus, and the instruction set only generates 20-bit addresses.
I and many others have said the industry "uses" an extra address bit every two years, as hardware and software become more powerful, so going from 16-bit to 20-bit was clearly not going to last us very long. The extra silicon to do 32-bit addressing is trivial, but it wasn't there. The VAX was around and all the 68000 people did was look at the VAX! 2 to the 20th is 1 megabyte (1024K), so you might ask why the difference between 640K and 1024K--where did the last 384K go?
The answer is that in that 1M of address space we had to accommodate RAM, ROM, and I/O addresses, and IBM laid it out so those other things started at 640K and used all the memory space up to 1M. If they had been a bit more careful we could have had 800K instead of 640K available.
In fact, we had 800K on the Sirius machine, which I got to have a lot of input on (designed by Chuck Peddle, who did the Commodore Pet and the 6502, too). The key problem though is not getting to use only 640K of the 1M of address space that was available. It's the 1M limit, which comes from having only 20 bits of address space, which is all that chip can handle!
So, this limit has nothing to do with any Microsoft software.
Although people talk about previous computing as 8-bit, it was 16-bit addressing in the 8080/Z80/6800/6502. So we had only 64K of addressability.
Amazingly people like Bob Harp (Vector Graphics--remember them?) went around the industry saying we should stick with that and just use bank switching techniques. Bank switching comes up whenever an address space is at the end of its life. It's a hack where you have more physical memory than logical memory. Fortunately we got enough applications moved to the 8086/8 machines to get the industry off of 16-bit addressing, but it was clear from the start the extra 4 bits wouldn't be sufficient for long.
Now you MIGHT think that the next time around the chip guys would get it right.
But NO, instead of going from 20 bits to 32 bits, we got the 286 chip next. Intel had its A team working on the 432 (remember that? Fortune had a silly article about how it was so far ahead of everyone, but it was a dead end even though its address space was fine). The 286's address space wasn't fine. It only had 24 bits. It used segments instead of pages and the segments were limited to 24 bits.
When Intel produced the 32-bit 386 chip, IBM delayed doing a 386 machine because they had a special version of the 286 that only they could get, and they ordered w
He may deny it now, but, as I remember, he not only said it...
As to citations... you should probably check through either old InfoWorlds or old ComputerWorlds. Datamation is an outside chance, but I think I'd stopped reading it before then.
There aren't any citations, because he never said it. If it had been published, don't you think someone would have brought it to light? I spent a few hours digging around the web and google groups and as far as I can see it just appeared one day as an unsourced "quote" in people's sigs.
I hate the man as much as anyone here, but this is one thing he's innocent of. He's not stupid, he has specifically denied saying this which he wouldn't do if there was any chance of documentary proof showing him up as a liar.
BTW, "as I remember it" is a classic sign of an urban legend.
More importantly, according to Bill Bryson's book, "A History of Nearly Everything," the bulk of the design notes and "plans" don't even exist any longer, thanks to NASA's thorough house-keeping. We're better off looking elswhere.
Bill Bryson is good for a laugh, but according to this Space FAQ:
Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, the Saturn V blueprints have not been lost. They are kept at Marshall Space Flight Center on microfilm. The Federal Archives in East Point, GA also has 2900 cubic feet of Saturn documents. Rocketdyne has in its archives dozens of volumes from its Knowledge Retention Program. This effort was initiated in the late '60s to document every facet of F-1 and J-2 engine production to assist in any future re-start.
A secondary issue is the case of someone claiming copyright ownership of public domain material because they scanned it in and serve it on web pages.
Impossible. Once something goes into the public domain, that's it. The only thing you can try to copyright is your layout (you sometimes see this in new editions of Dickens and the like). But if it's just a scan of a PD work, even that is no use.
separate (16 700 000 results)versus
seperate ( 811 000 results)
Could 811,000 people be wrong? -- (clue: it's not "no")
Go ahead and use viri/i. I won't complain, but don't try to claim it's correct English (or Latin). It's a geeky grammatical joke usage, like "boxen", & co. Don't take it seriously or use it in the real world.
As the submitter of the story...and someday, when they put 'virii' in a dictionary somewhere, I hope they'll put my name beside it...yeh!!!
Do you also hope that for "applyed"?
(In the original article: "when said researcher applyed for research funding", though it may be corrected by the time you read this.)
Since we all know that the "editors" don't check spelling, grammar, let alone facts, it behooves those who submit stories to take more care, after all your name is there. All you have to do is click on "spellcheck", for God's sake.
I know fully well how to spell 'erroneously' and 'elves'. Really I do. OR at least my computer does.
In later editions of LOTR there's an amusing introduction concerning the trials Tolkien had with proofreaders and editors who helpfully corrected things like "dwarves" to "dwarfs" and "elven" to "elfin" (not to mention the scrambled names and such due to transcription errors -- remember back in the dim distant 1950s manuscripts were (often) handwritten; and were copied and recopied several times before being set in type -- these days publishers take advantage of DTP to dispense with most of their editors and send the author's typos directly to the press). He quite deliberately made these and other non-standard spellings.
The first thought is that it would be better, but imagine a Nazi party that manages to get to power with a different, sane and competant, leader...
He was an inspired visionary, he had to be to create such a following. It's hard to be that on the outside and entirely rational on the inside. (Though Castro seems to have his head screwed on fairly well and realised and lived within his limitations.) For all that he could have gone far further if he hadn't been so paranoid and destroyed the best people in his country, and particularly army, out of mostly irrational fears; and then his obsession with "bolshevism" lead him to attack Russia with no hope of success. Stalin and Mao did much the same thing, just kept their ambitions mostly within their borders. Unfortunately they both stayed in power longer and did a lot more damage than Hitler did.
The first two of this trilogy were so good that non-fantasy lovers are now buying Dragon Lance books.
Eeew. If only they'd buy Tolkien; or Michael Moorcock, or Le Guin, Fritz Leiber, even Robert E Howard and ER Burroughs. It's sad the recycled pap that populates the fantasy book racks now.
If the submitter or editor had read beyond the first paragraph of the cited article, they'd know the answer is "NO":
Tech support for corporate customers with Optiplex desktop and Latitude notebook computers will instead be handled from call centers in Texas, Idaho and Tennessee...
Calls from some home PC owners will continue to be handled by the technical support center in Bangalore, India, and Weisblatt said Dell has no plans to scale back the operation there.
I.E., the vast majority of customers will still be handled by Bangalore; and bet that when they get more staff in India who can do American accents better, the rest will be switched back.
Which party has the most powerful black man in the world? (Clarence Thomas)
Please remember that "black" does not exclusively mean "African American". There are quite a few "powerful black men" in places, like, say Africa. Or if you mean "the USA" don't say "the world".
As is web weaver for god's sake. A good change? Ha. A master does not imply evil doings.
Here I think the perceived problem was not master:slave, but master:mistress.
I see that most actresses seem to be "actors" now. But they still have a separate Oscar. If they were consistent, there'd just be one Oscar for "Best Actor". It's not like muscles and sexual organs have much to do with acting ability after all.
Philosophers going back to Plato and Descartes have explored doubt of their external realities. They are certainly NOT Dick's themes.
They cerainly were his themes. If you mean, "did he invent them", he didn't. But he used the ideas as the underpinnings of most of his fiction, and he was very influential not just on readers but on other writers as well as film makers in bringing these ideas into popular culture. As a 12-year old I didn't read much Descartes or Plato (and, I must admit, still haven't), but I did devour Dick's novels.
It's not a dupe of last week, it's a continuation of last week.. The main purpose of this article was about Micheal Roberts trying to save the mp3s.. last week was just a rumored destruction of mp3.com.
That's what it is now. When I posted, the line "MP3.com's founder and former CEO, Michael Robertson, is pleading with Vivendi to allow the Internet Archive to preserve the songs" was not there.
I've never complained about moderation before, but I've never (as far as I know) been modded down as a troll. A troll is a post designed solely to piss people off. This is just a factual note, that this story was posted last week: mp3.com Acquired by CNetPosted by CmdrTaco
on Friday November 14, @09:43PM from the things-are-getting-interesting dept.
bmarklein writes "Looks like mp3.com is no more, at least not in its current form. According to an announcement on an mp3.com message board, CNet has acquired assets of mp3.com. The statement is very vague, but it says that following the redirection of the mp3.com domain on December 2nd, "all content will be deleted from [mp3.com's] servers." However they do plan to eventually introduce "new and enhanced artist services"."
mp3.com Acquired by CNet Posted by CmdrTaco
on Friday November 14, @09:43PM from the things-are-getting-interesting dept.
bmarklein writes "Looks like mp3.com is no more, at least not in its current form. According to an announcement on an mp3.com message board, CNet has acquired assets of mp3.com. The statement is very vague, but it says that following the redirection of the mp3.com domain on December 2nd, "all content will be deleted from [mp3.com's] servers." However they do plan to eventually introduce "new and enhanced artist services"."
Noting happens when I click on the links. On investigation. "c.moreover.com" is in my hosts file defined as 127.0.0.0, from a standard list of banner and popup spewing domains. So I feel disinclined to unalais it.
Also is it tacky to have a headline: "Michael Jackson 'to be arrested'" and below that an ad "Find Michael Jackson Items on eBay.co.uk", and more stupidly, if less offensively: "Airline Network: Cheap Travel to Jackson".
I can't believe China is actually going to pay for their software
China has been under heavy pressure form the US to revalue its currency becasue of its massive trade surplus with the US. China doesn't want to revalue its currency yet, but to mollify the US has sent missions to blow a few billion buying US products lik Boeing aircraft, etc to mollify the US. That's probably why they're buying software from a US compnay rather than using their homegrown RedFlag Linux. And $50 million is peanuts to a government; additionally it tells MS to back down if they start complaining too much about piracy in China. The alternative to pirated MS is not licensed MS but Sun and Linux.
the Chinese character set (which of several dozens of written dialect of Chinese do they use?)
There's only one: Everyone in the Mainland uses Simplified characters. Traditional are used in Hong Kong, Taiwan and by most overseas Chinese. There are dozens of spoken dialects, but Mandarin/Putonghua is what the government speaks.
but the parent post is certainly not an accurate portrayal.
As the parent, I resemble that remark. I deliberately linked to a page with both the orignal WSJ and the follow-up from the Washingtonm Poste giving all these details, rather than just the first.
ASCAP backed down only AFTER receiving bad publcity; they certainly DID send demands to the Girl Guides, and collected money from them no matter how they tried to spin it after.
From the Washington Post article, complete with backpedalling:
Candilora conceded that ASCAP had cast a wide and nondiscriminating net in notifying the nation's 8,000-odd summer camps that federal copyright law requires them to fork over fees to ASCAP for any songs they use.
But he said Lo Frumento had been quoted out of context when he promised to "sue them if necessary" if they didn't pay for their campfire songs. And he was particularly insistent that ASCAP wasn't picking on the Girl Scouts, even though it has already collected fees from 16 Girl Scout camps this year.
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In Hong Kong it's a standard dish. Along with Russian borscht, French toast, iced milk tea. None of these are exactly the same as the native versions though, as American pizzas aren't the same as Italian ones. However I've never seen chop suey or fortune cookies in Hong Kong.
This has been debated so often over the last 20 years that don't you think someone might have given an actual citation? You will never find such a reference (I tried).
Basically, your evidence sums up to remembering that someone (who you can't name) said it was true at some time and some context you're not sure of. There have been several biographies and uncounted articles about Gates, some by quite hostile writers, and if any of them could show he'd actually said this, despite his denials, that it would have come to light. It hasn't. (Like for instance Schwarzenegger's interview in Oui in the 70s in which he discusses drugs, group sex etc.; that came back to haunt him.)
In an article in the The New York Review of Books , the author quoted the same myth. Gates responded:
There aren't any citations, because he never said it. If it had been published, don't you think someone would have brought it to light? I spent a few hours digging around the web and google groups and as far as I can see it just appeared one day as an unsourced "quote" in people's sigs.
I hate the man as much as anyone here, but this is one thing he's innocent of. He's not stupid, he has specifically denied saying this which he wouldn't do if there was any chance of documentary proof showing him up as a liar.
BTW, "as I remember it" is a classic sign of an urban legend.
Only if "you" are American. "We" say "one hundred and one".
Bill Bryson is good for a laugh, but according to this Space FAQ:
Impossible. Once something goes into the public domain, that's it. The only thing you can try to copyright is your layout (you sometimes see this in new editions of Dickens and the like). But if it's just a scan of a PD work, even that is no use.
Result for the fight between separate and seperate
Could 811,000 people be wrong? -- (clue: it's not "no")Go ahead and use viri/i. I won't complain, but don't try to claim it's correct English (or Latin). It's a geeky grammatical joke usage, like "boxen", & co. Don't take it seriously or use it in the real world.
Result for the fight between viruses and virii
and for completenessDo you also hope that for "applyed"?
(In the original article: "when said researcher applyed for research funding", though it may be corrected by the time you read this.)
Since we all know that the "editors" don't check spelling, grammar, let alone facts, it behooves those who submit stories to take more care, after all your name is there. All you have to do is click on "spellcheck", for God's sake.
In later editions of LOTR there's an amusing introduction concerning the trials Tolkien had with proofreaders and editors who helpfully corrected things like "dwarves" to "dwarfs" and "elven" to "elfin" (not to mention the scrambled names and such due to transcription errors -- remember back in the dim distant 1950s manuscripts were (often) handwritten; and were copied and recopied several times before being set in type -- these days publishers take advantage of DTP to dispense with most of their editors and send the author's typos directly to the press). He quite deliberately made these and other non-standard spellings.
He was an inspired visionary, he had to be to create such a following. It's hard to be that on the outside and entirely rational on the inside. (Though Castro seems to have his head screwed on fairly well and realised and lived within his limitations.) For all that he could have gone far further if he hadn't been so paranoid and destroyed the best people in his country, and particularly army, out of mostly irrational fears; and then his obsession with "bolshevism" lead him to attack Russia with no hope of success. Stalin and Mao did much the same thing, just kept their ambitions mostly within their borders. Unfortunately they both stayed in power longer and did a lot more damage than Hitler did.
Eeew. If only they'd buy Tolkien; or Michael Moorcock, or Le Guin, Fritz Leiber, even Robert E Howard and ER Burroughs. It's sad the recycled pap that populates the fantasy book racks now.
Can he declare war?
There aren't too many nations out there with influence even in the same legue as the U.S.,
The comparison wasn't between nations as a whole, but "powerful black men". If you had a black president, that would be another thing.
Please remember that "black" does not exclusively mean "African American". There are quite a few "powerful black men" in places, like, say Africa. Or if you mean "the USA" don't say "the world".
Here I think the perceived problem was not master:slave, but master:mistress.
I see that most actresses seem to be "actors" now. But they still have a separate Oscar. If they were consistent, there'd just be one Oscar for "Best Actor". It's not like muscles and sexual organs have much to do with acting ability after all.
They cerainly were his themes. If you mean, "did he invent them", he didn't. But he used the ideas as the underpinnings of most of his fiction, and he was very influential not just on readers but on other writers as well as film makers in bringing these ideas into popular culture. As a 12-year old I didn't read much Descartes or Plato (and, I must admit, still haven't), but I did devour Dick's novels.
That's what it is now. When I posted, the line "MP3.com's founder and former CEO, Michael Robertson, is pleading with Vivendi to allow the Internet Archive to preserve the songs" was not there.
I've never complained about moderation before, but I've never (as far as I know) been modded down as a troll. A troll is a post designed solely to piss people off. This is just a factual note, that this story was posted last week:
mp3.com Acquired by CNet Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday November 14, @09:43PM
from the things-are-getting-interesting dept.
bmarklein writes "Looks like mp3.com is no more, at least not in its current form. According to an announcement on an mp3.com message board, CNet has acquired assets of mp3.com. The statement is very vague, but it says that following the redirection of the mp3.com domain on December 2nd, "all content will be deleted from [mp3.com's] servers." However they do plan to eventually introduce "new and enhanced artist services"."
mp3.com Acquired by CNet
Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday November 14, @09:43PM
from the things-are-getting-interesting dept.
bmarklein writes "Looks like mp3.com is no more, at least not in its current form. According to an announcement on an mp3.com message board, CNet has acquired assets of mp3.com. The statement is very vague, but it says that following the redirection of the mp3.com domain on December 2nd, "all content will be deleted from [mp3.com's] servers." However they do plan to eventually introduce "new and enhanced artist services"."
Also is it tacky to have a headline: "Michael Jackson 'to be arrested'" and below that an ad "Find Michael Jackson Items on eBay.co.uk", and more stupidly, if less offensively: "Airline Network: Cheap Travel to Jackson".
Yes, his grammar and spelling would obviously embarrass the editors, as it is rather higher than they normally achieve.
China has been under heavy pressure form the US to revalue its currency becasue of its massive trade surplus with the US. China doesn't want to revalue its currency yet, but to mollify the US has sent missions to blow a few billion buying US products lik Boeing aircraft, etc to mollify the US. That's probably why they're buying software from a US compnay rather than using their homegrown RedFlag Linux. And $50 million is peanuts to a government; additionally it tells MS to back down if they start complaining too much about piracy in China. The alternative to pirated MS is not licensed MS but Sun and Linux.
There's only one: Everyone in the Mainland uses Simplified characters. Traditional are used in Hong Kong, Taiwan and by most overseas Chinese. There are dozens of spoken dialects, but Mandarin/Putonghua is what the government speaks.
As the parent, I resemble that remark. I deliberately linked to a page with both the orignal WSJ and the follow-up from the Washingtonm Poste giving all these details, rather than just the first.
ASCAP backed down only AFTER receiving bad publcity; they certainly DID send demands to the Girl Guides, and collected money from them no matter how they tried to spin it after.
From the Washington Post article, complete with backpedalling: