No calcs in a calculus class, I can see, but try no calcs in a high-school chemistry class. Slide rules or nada. And I transferred into this school from another one, in whose chem class I was using a calculator, with about six weeks to go in the school year. Now that was major suckage.
How about a combinatioon of visual and audio feedback? Make the holobutton change color and/or flash a little when "pressed," plus maybe play a.WAV file?
How about a combination of visual and audio feedback? Maybe if the pressed key changes color and/or flashes, and if there's some audio feedback of click.WAV playing at the same time. Granted, it'll be a looooooong time before anybody wants to rely on this tech for intensive data entry, but by then there'll probably better voice recognition anyway.
Zackly. I'd love to set up about five gig as Freenet territory.
However, I have this nagging worry that some wanker is going to put child porn there without my knowledge or consent. Next thing I know, two guys from the nearest FBI field office are going to come visiting, let me try on stainless steel wristwear, and confisticate my hard drive.
I tech-support friend of mine told me that you can't buy XP as a from-the-get-go install; either you get it pre-installed on OEM equipment with a non-installable CD, or you buy an upgrade version if you're using one of the earlier Windowses. Anybody knowledgeable about this?
Attempting to steer the thread slightly away from lies, damned lies, and statistics, I wonder what the rates of piracy say about other cultures' attitudes toward copying software as compared with the West and specifically the US. Depending on your level of cynicism, either we USians are either more scrupulous or more easily browbeaten.
I'm an early-40s guy who's retraining to be a programmer (been a tech writer), and I'd like to break into COBOL programming -- mainly because around here at least, it looks like the road less traveled.
Back in the day, the scuttlebutt was that ETS gave you 200 points each on the math and verbal to start with, so if you just put down your demographic information and didn't actually answer any questions, you automatically got a combined score of 400.
Seems to me that his results suggest this is still the case.
If it's a small, minimally functional personal computer you want, but you can't deal with typing on a keyboard that small, the AlphaSmart Dana might be a workable alternative. I'm thinking about getting one instead of a conventional laptop.
...because I'm running through our savings rapidly right now, acquiring new job skills in tech school while praying for a co-op offer. Hell, make that even an interview.
I keep pointing out to my wife that my continuing school to its completion is going to be the difference between at least $40k/yr to start vs. $5/hr flipping burgers. She's getting impatient and I'm getting nervous. Not a good combination.
Does anybody have a sense for how much slack there is in the market right now for related IT professions like network support and database support? I'm currently concentrating on program but a couple of faculty members at school are suggesting / warning / encouraging me to widen my horizons even if it means another semester or two. (And probably a Sallie Mae loan, and maybe a divorce too...)
Looking forward to the day that 42" plasma TVs are also small:)
And concave. I fantasize about sitting in front of a humonguous floor-to-ceiling wide screen that subtends about 30 degrees horizontally by 20 degrees vertically. I'd sit in front of it with a laptop keyboard and trackball and be ready to rock.
Tech writers love large-format displays too. There's a lot to be said for seeing a two-page spread (left and right pages) 100% size when you're working on a manual. That's why I think a minimum config ought to be a 21" plus a spare 17" to hold your palettes/toolbars and that all-important Outlook window.
A ground-based air-defense system swings its emitter toward where the enemy aircraft has been detected. Mighty capacitors discharge, and a focused pulse of microwave energy lashes out at the airborne intruder.
Its avionics fried, the aircraft's hapless pilot ejects and parachutes to safety as the plane, now a multimillion-dollar piece of junk, slants into its slow death spiral...
(Of course, I know perfectly well that modern aircraft have their electronic guts protected with Faraday cages and whatnot...but it'd be cool to see a "soft" kill like this.)
I've been sneered at right here at/. for having an AOL addy, but it's been a great service. It came in handy back around version 3.0 on a Mac LC III, but like lots of people, I've moved on since then.
Steve Case had a great idea which has been overtaken by technological and economic events -- the rise of broadband, as one poster put it, and the Darwinian forces of corpocracy. Now he's essentially being forced to sit on his hands instead of continuing to work at his dream of fostering online community. I suspect TW never really understood Case's vision; they just thought they knew a good cash cow when they saw one.
I wish AOL could get back out from under TW and go on its merry way (and quit mailing out those damned CDs), but they just had to go dancing with the devil, I guess. Sorry 'bout that, Steve.
Somewhere in a barn in western Pennsylvania my father-in-law has a player piano. Maybe that's a digital-playback device rather than a true computer, though.
...there's a sim for modern naval warfare, Harpoon, that's had several iterations. It's the computer offspring of a board game developed by Larry Bond. Tom Clancy, author of The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising, credits Larry Bond and Harpoon for helping him figure out the battle sequences.
The next and greatest one, Harpoon 4, has been in pushback mode for a little while now: First it was fall '02 (the web site still says this), then Christmas '02, and now the word is March. As complex a sim as this is, I won't be surprised if it's not until Christmas '03.
"We know that (an attack) could bring down the network of this country very quickly. Once you're on the network, it doesn't matter where you got in," were the words of the Homeland Security representative.
By that logic, I see the gov't compelling AOL to stop mailing out those damned trial-installation CDs.
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...hand the fifty extra-large over to a bunch of attorneys and cut out the middlemen?
No calcs in a calculus class, I can see, but try no calcs in a high-school chemistry class. Slide rules or nada. And I transferred into this school from another one, in whose chem class I was using a calculator, with about six weeks to go in the school year. Now that was major suckage.
I REALLY hate this stupid interface.
How about a combinatioon of visual and audio feedback? Make the holobutton change color and/or flash a little when "pressed," plus maybe play a .WAV file?
How about a combination of visual and audio feedback? Maybe if the pressed key changes color and/or flashes, and if there's some audio feedback of click .WAV playing at the same time. Granted, it'll be a looooooong time before anybody wants to rely on this tech for intensive data entry, but by then there'll probably better voice recognition anyway.
Zackly. I'd love to set up about five gig as Freenet territory.
However, I have this nagging worry that some wanker is going to put child porn there without my knowledge or consent. Next thing I know, two guys from the nearest FBI field office are going to come visiting, let me try on stainless steel wristwear, and confisticate my hard drive.
Hooray for technical writers!
I tech-support friend of mine told me that you can't buy XP as a from-the-get-go install; either you get it pre-installed on OEM equipment with a non-installable CD, or you buy an upgrade version if you're using one of the earlier Windowses. Anybody knowledgeable about this?
Attempting to steer the thread slightly away from lies, damned lies, and statistics, I wonder what the rates of piracy say about other cultures' attitudes toward copying software as compared with the West and specifically the US. Depending on your level of cynicism, either we USians are either more scrupulous or more easily browbeaten.
/.ers from outside the US care to comment?
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I'm an early-40s guy who's retraining to be a programmer (been a tech writer), and I'd like to break into COBOL programming -- mainly because around here at least, it looks like the road less traveled.
Back in the day, the scuttlebutt was that ETS gave you 200 points each on the math and verbal to start with, so if you just put down your demographic information and didn't actually answer any questions, you automatically got a combined score of 400.
Seems to me that his results suggest this is still the case.
If it's a small, minimally functional personal computer you want, but you can't deal with typing on a keyboard that small, the AlphaSmart Dana might be a workable alternative. I'm thinking about getting one instead of a conventional laptop.
...because I'm running through our savings rapidly right now, acquiring new job skills in tech school while praying for a co-op offer. Hell, make that even an interview.
I keep pointing out to my wife that my continuing school to its completion is going to be the difference between at least $40k/yr to start vs. $5/hr flipping burgers. She's getting impatient and I'm getting nervous. Not a good combination.
Does anybody have a sense for how much slack there is in the market right now for related IT professions like network support and database support? I'm currently concentrating on program but a couple of faculty members at school are suggesting / warning / encouraging me to widen my horizons even if it means another semester or two. (And probably a Sallie Mae loan, and maybe a divorce too...)
Oh, jeez...I had almost exactly this argument in high school back about '78 or so.
Looking forward to the day that 42" plasma TVs are also small :)
And concave. I fantasize about sitting in front of a humonguous floor-to-ceiling wide screen that subtends about 30 degrees horizontally by 20 degrees vertically. I'd sit in front of it with a laptop keyboard and trackball and be ready to rock.
Tech writers love large-format displays too. There's a lot to be said for seeing a two-page spread (left and right pages) 100% size when you're working on a manual. That's why I think a minimum config ought to be a 21" plus a spare 17" to hold your palettes/toolbars and that all-important Outlook window.
On this face of it, this conspiracy theory answers my puzzlement over their not selecting OpenOffice instead.
Scenes We'd Like To See dep't.:
A ground-based air-defense system swings its emitter toward where the enemy aircraft has been detected. Mighty capacitors discharge, and a focused pulse of microwave energy lashes out at the airborne intruder.
Its avionics fried, the aircraft's hapless pilot ejects and parachutes to safety as the plane, now a multimillion-dollar piece of junk, slants into its slow death spiral...
(Of course, I know perfectly well that modern aircraft have their electronic guts protected with Faraday cages and whatnot...but it'd be cool to see a "soft" kill like this.)
I've been sneered at right here at /. for having an AOL addy, but it's been a great service. It came in handy back around version 3.0 on a Mac LC III, but like lots of people, I've moved on since then.
Steve Case had a great idea which has been overtaken by technological and economic events -- the rise of broadband, as one poster put it, and the Darwinian forces of corpocracy. Now he's essentially being forced to sit on his hands instead of continuing to work at his dream of fostering online community. I suspect TW never really understood Case's vision; they just thought they knew a good cash cow when they saw one.
I wish AOL could get back out from under TW and go on its merry way (and quit mailing out those damned CDs), but they just had to go dancing with the devil, I guess. Sorry 'bout that, Steve.
Somewhere in a barn in western Pennsylvania my father-in-law has a player piano. Maybe that's a digital-playback device rather than a true computer, though.
Now they have come up with picture messaging - 1/10th the expressive power...
Whatever happened to the aphorism "A picture is worth a thousand words"?
...there's a sim for modern naval warfare, Harpoon, that's had several iterations. It's the computer offspring of a board game developed by Larry Bond. Tom Clancy, author of The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising, credits Larry Bond and Harpoon for helping him figure out the battle sequences.
The next and greatest one, Harpoon 4, has been in pushback mode for a little while now: First it was fall '02 (the web site still says this), then Christmas '02, and now the word is March. As complex a sim as this is, I won't be surprised if it's not until Christmas '03.
Dual-page display on a laptop with a comfortably-sized keyboard? This thing is a technical writer's wet dream.
"We know that (an attack) could bring down the network of this country very quickly. Once you're on the network, it doesn't matter where you got in," were the words of the Homeland Security representative.
By that logic, I see the gov't compelling AOL to stop mailing out those damned trial-installation CDs.
...but it's still quite a ways to go from Neal Stephenson's phenomenoscopic spectacles on Miss Whatshername, the court secretary, in The Diamond Age.