The screen on the original TRS-80 was memory-mapped, and had only 7 bits enabled to save money. A later upgrade (not available early on) was to add another 16K bit chip and a new character generator, making it into a halfway decent word processor if you got LeScript and a daisy-wheel printer.
Bear in mind that we're talking 1977 technology here, and a maximum memory capacity of 48K. I don't remember when the first disk drives were available, but they could store about 40K each (IIRC, the 1771 FDC was replaced in later versions by the 1791, allowing 80K floppies). There was a very limited selection of computer languages, even with the later models. I never saw any reference to ML at the time.
Like everything else, the TRS-80 vs. Commodore PET vs. Apple II had advantages and disadvantages for each. Many of the advantages of the Apple cost additional money, and this was about a factor of four inflation ago. The $1000 I paid for my first TRS-80 (Level 2 BASIC - the standard Microsoft variety, as opposed to the 4K integer-only Level 1 BASIC, and 16K of RAM rather than 4K) is far more, inflation-adjusted, than most computers nowadays, and that's before adding all the other things.
Wikipedia lists the price of an Apple II as $1300 on launch, and it couldn't do everything a somewhat cheaper TRS-80 could do. A sufficiently expensive Apple could do pretty much anything the TRS-80 could.
$300 for 16K memory, and the Expansion Interface (which had the floppy disk controller, a spot for the RS-232 board, sockets for the other 32K memory you could use, and a parallel printer port) another $300. I bought 32K of memory from a third party, at about $240 total, since it was so cheap.
Or you could simply be ignoring the bias I see for whatever reason. In that case, it's not me that can't be reasoned with but you.
Or you could be seeing an imaginary bias. The mass media has a certain overall slant to it, and there's no other way it could be. You see this as a leftist bias. I see it as a bias towards the US mainstream, which I'm to the left of.
You say the casting isn't within the movie? Obviously the full gender swap and the secretary were a cheap gimmick for laughs. That's perfectly in keeping with the humor in the series.
Yes, but the hypothesis that doesn't include any government hostility is quite sufficient to cover all the evidence. Therefore, assuming that the government does have it in for Glassdoor is a multiplication of hypotheses, which William of Ockham warned against.
The Standard Model is not a Theory of Everything. Neither is any other scientific theory. If any of science is useful, then it's possible to be useful without being a Theory of Everything, and hence your argument that the Standard Model is useless is either fallacious or dependent on highly non-standard definitions.
In some cases, it was paid by Amazon. The first book I ordered from Amazon was in my hands less than twenty-four hours from placing the order, which means that Amazon upgraded the shipping to impress a new customer. Right now, my wife pays money for Amazon Prime, which we use for shipping and video. There is no marginal cost to ship anything in two days. In neither case did people go to special effort out of the goodness of their hearts, but if we can't call that "free" the term loses its useful meaning.
Processes can include software, and they're patentable. I understand that software patents have some boilerplate language to make them legal, and I also believe that some innovations in software should be patentable (the spreadsheet is an example).
I agree that the laws should be changed, and probably won't be.
You're missing what the emoluments clauses actually say. Dealing with foreigners is fine. Dealing with foreign governments for profit is not fine for any officeholder, Dealing with domestic governments for profit is not fine for the President.
It's perfectly legal for Trump to rent rooms and suites to private foreign citizens. It was perfectly legal for George Washington and Barack Obama to deal with private foreign citizens. If Trump rented to an official Russian delegation, or charged the Secret Service for facilities at one of his businesses, he's violated the Constitution.
Actually, a guy my wife dated twice before she met me was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend, , but that's not relevant to the Internet. If someone really wants to track me down with a machete, they've got a lot of possible ways. (I'd rather they attacked when I can reach the living room and the high-quality replica thirteenth-century sword, myself.) I have chosen to accept the slight additional risk in exchange for not worrying about being traced. The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man but one (although sometimes sooner than the coward's thousandth).
The business of not easily assimilating social norms implicitly is a problem. I could consciously learn how to behave until I hit what should have been my time to start dating. After that, it got unpleasant.
This isn't a matter of society shunning us for being different (although that happened, I could cope with it). It's not knowing what to do. I needed special education which I didn't get in order to function properly.
Sometimes I get more ticked off at stupidity than at immoral behavior. I'm not sure why.
In Lois McMaster Bujold's "Penric's Mission", after a fight to the near-death Penric goes over to his fallen foe and lectures him on his theological mistakes. It seemed so real.
Apparently, I have to try harder to achieve the pink page of death. I didn't even know about it.
"Funny" mods are not supposed to increase karma, but some people throw "insightful" mods in on funny things. Partly to supply some well-earned karma, and partly because funny things are often funny because they're insightful.
It's Autism Spectrum Disorder now. (Names change. I've had three different diagnosis names for the same problem.) Adults who are eventually diagnosed with ASD do have certain problems, even when undiagnosed as children. I'm hesitant to call it a disorder and nothing else, but it does come with problems.
We've still got the Internet equivalent of the phone book. I've claimed before to be posting from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the one David Thornley living there has not suffered in the slightest by being traceable, so I agree that being outspoken on Slashdot and easily traceable is not a problem.
China also has three or four times the population of the US. They won't be growing nearly that fast when their GDP per capita gets anywhere close to ours.
The transition from hunter-gatherer to farmer degraded living standards. Hunter-gatherers are healthier and have more leisure time. The reason it took over is that farming supports a much higher population density, so hunter-gatherers wee pushed into areas that could not support primitive agriculture.
Specifically, they didn't use chemical weapons where they feared retaliation. The West had large stockpiles of chemical weapons, which would have made strategic bombing much more deadly. Also, the Western armies didn't rely on horses, and while there are gas masks and protective clothing for horses you can't get any work out of a horse wearing them. You'll notice that most of the chemical attacks listed in Wikipedia were in places where the Germans were pretty sure they could kill or capture every enemy involved.
Exactly what constitutes an impeachment offense is left vague by the Constitution, and is largely a political matter. I think Trump's probably violated enough laws in his time so Congress could find something. It looks to me like Trump's business holdings are not careful to avoid accepting money from domestic or foreign governments, so it'll probably be possible to get him on one of the emoluments clauses.
Buying a home for 1/2 the price that the Realtor suggested
Buying low is good if you can find such a deal. Paying off the mortgage early isn't.
Right now, I owe a good deal of money on my mortgage, but the interest rate is significantly lower than my return on investments. (Tax considerations mean my actual return on investments is lower, but then so is the actual mortgage rate I pay, so it balances.) I'd be sacrificing money to pay it off early.
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The screen on the original TRS-80 was memory-mapped, and had only 7 bits enabled to save money. A later upgrade (not available early on) was to add another 16K bit chip and a new character generator, making it into a halfway decent word processor if you got LeScript and a daisy-wheel printer.
Bear in mind that we're talking 1977 technology here, and a maximum memory capacity of 48K. I don't remember when the first disk drives were available, but they could store about 40K each (IIRC, the 1771 FDC was replaced in later versions by the 1791, allowing 80K floppies). There was a very limited selection of computer languages, even with the later models. I never saw any reference to ML at the time.
Like everything else, the TRS-80 vs. Commodore PET vs. Apple II had advantages and disadvantages for each. Many of the advantages of the Apple cost additional money, and this was about a factor of four inflation ago. The $1000 I paid for my first TRS-80 (Level 2 BASIC - the standard Microsoft variety, as opposed to the 4K integer-only Level 1 BASIC, and 16K of RAM rather than 4K) is far more, inflation-adjusted, than most computers nowadays, and that's before adding all the other things.
Wikipedia lists the price of an Apple II as $1300 on launch, and it couldn't do everything a somewhat cheaper TRS-80 could do. A sufficiently expensive Apple could do pretty much anything the TRS-80 could.
$300 for 16K memory, and the Expansion Interface (which had the floppy disk controller, a spot for the RS-232 board, sockets for the other 32K memory you could use, and a parallel printer port) another $300. I bought 32K of memory from a third party, at about $240 total, since it was so cheap.
Or you could be seeing an imaginary bias. The mass media has a certain overall slant to it, and there's no other way it could be. You see this as a leftist bias. I see it as a bias towards the US mainstream, which I'm to the left of.
You say the casting isn't within the movie? Obviously the full gender swap and the secretary were a cheap gimmick for laughs. That's perfectly in keeping with the humor in the series.
You never have had privacy against a legitimate criminal investigation. I don't know of any country that would guarantee that.
Yes, but the hypothesis that doesn't include any government hostility is quite sufficient to cover all the evidence. Therefore, assuming that the government does have it in for Glassdoor is a multiplication of hypotheses, which William of Ockham warned against.
Sure, but massless particles travel at C, and anything else that has momentum has mass.
The Standard Model is not a Theory of Everything. Neither is any other scientific theory. If any of science is useful, then it's possible to be useful without being a Theory of Everything, and hence your argument that the Standard Model is useless is either fallacious or dependent on highly non-standard definitions.
In some cases, it was paid by Amazon. The first book I ordered from Amazon was in my hands less than twenty-four hours from placing the order, which means that Amazon upgraded the shipping to impress a new customer. Right now, my wife pays money for Amazon Prime, which we use for shipping and video. There is no marginal cost to ship anything in two days. In neither case did people go to special effort out of the goodness of their hearts, but if we can't call that "free" the term loses its useful meaning.
Processes can include software, and they're patentable. I understand that software patents have some boilerplate language to make them legal, and I also believe that some innovations in software should be patentable (the spreadsheet is an example).
I agree that the laws should be changed, and probably won't be.
You're missing what the emoluments clauses actually say. Dealing with foreigners is fine. Dealing with foreign governments for profit is not fine for any officeholder, Dealing with domestic governments for profit is not fine for the President.
It's perfectly legal for Trump to rent rooms and suites to private foreign citizens. It was perfectly legal for George Washington and Barack Obama to deal with private foreign citizens. If Trump rented to an official Russian delegation, or charged the Secret Service for facilities at one of his businesses, he's violated the Constitution.
Actually, a guy my wife dated twice before she met me was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend, , but that's not relevant to the Internet. If someone really wants to track me down with a machete, they've got a lot of possible ways. (I'd rather they attacked when I can reach the living room and the high-quality replica thirteenth-century sword, myself.) I have chosen to accept the slight additional risk in exchange for not worrying about being traced. The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man but one (although sometimes sooner than the coward's thousandth).
The business of not easily assimilating social norms implicitly is a problem. I could consciously learn how to behave until I hit what should have been my time to start dating. After that, it got unpleasant.
This isn't a matter of society shunning us for being different (although that happened, I could cope with it). It's not knowing what to do. I needed special education which I didn't get in order to function properly.
Sometimes I get more ticked off at stupidity than at immoral behavior. I'm not sure why.
In Lois McMaster Bujold's "Penric's Mission", after a fight to the near-death Penric goes over to his fallen foe and lectures him on his theological mistakes. It seemed so real.
Apparently, I have to try harder to achieve the pink page of death. I didn't even know about it.
"Funny" mods are not supposed to increase karma, but some people throw "insightful" mods in on funny things. Partly to supply some well-earned karma, and partly because funny things are often funny because they're insightful.
It's Autism Spectrum Disorder now. (Names change. I've had three different diagnosis names for the same problem.) Adults who are eventually diagnosed with ASD do have certain problems, even when undiagnosed as children. I'm hesitant to call it a disorder and nothing else, but it does come with problems.
It's still easy to miss one little thing, and the FBI is sufficiently detail-oriented to find that one little thing.
We've still got the Internet equivalent of the phone book. I've claimed before to be posting from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the one David Thornley living there has not suffered in the slightest by being traceable, so I agree that being outspoken on Slashdot and easily traceable is not a problem.
China also has three or four times the population of the US. They won't be growing nearly that fast when their GDP per capita gets anywhere close to ours.
The transition from hunter-gatherer to farmer degraded living standards. Hunter-gatherers are healthier and have more leisure time. The reason it took over is that farming supports a much higher population density, so hunter-gatherers wee pushed into areas that could not support primitive agriculture.
Specifically, they didn't use chemical weapons where they feared retaliation. The West had large stockpiles of chemical weapons, which would have made strategic bombing much more deadly. Also, the Western armies didn't rely on horses, and while there are gas masks and protective clothing for horses you can't get any work out of a horse wearing them. You'll notice that most of the chemical attacks listed in Wikipedia were in places where the Germans were pretty sure they could kill or capture every enemy involved.
Exactly what constitutes an impeachment offense is left vague by the Constitution, and is largely a political matter. I think Trump's probably violated enough laws in his time so Congress could find something. It looks to me like Trump's business holdings are not careful to avoid accepting money from domestic or foreign governments, so it'll probably be possible to get him on one of the emoluments clauses.
Buying low is good if you can find such a deal. Paying off the mortgage early isn't.
Right now, I owe a good deal of money on my mortgage, but the interest rate is significantly lower than my return on investments. (Tax considerations mean my actual return on investments is lower, but then so is the actual mortgage rate I pay, so it balances.) I'd be sacrificing money to pay it off early.