But this was back in the Twentieth Century in the Peoples Republic of Californication and that was considered to be 'both excessive and public humiliation'. I was told I should have waited 'til the end of the exam and not have said anything that could have been overheard by other students.
These days the world seems to be a much saner place despite becoming crazier exponentialy.
This is an area where you would be well advised to be VERY careful, and I suspect that the LESS automatic [ergo: more personal] your methods of detecting and dealing with cheating, the greater the risk to you.
Two situations, both of which astonished me at the time:
In High School, I always thought of tests about the same way that a Jock thinks of a Track Meet--Fun and Games with the chance of winning a worthless trophy. When this one bad-attitude twit with a two-digit I.Q. started whispered requests for answers during a mid-term, I thought that giving her 100% WRONG answers was a perfect way of dealing with an insult. Want to guess who got more than TWO HOURS of major [as in YELLING and ARM-WAVING]from both the Dean of Students and the Vice-Principal? Not the cheating twit-bitch.
A few years later, Proctoring an Exam as part of my T-A duties, I spotted one of the test-takers repeatedly peering into a book-bag. A few minutes later, having seen the suspected Crib-sheet, I confiscated both it and blue book, then quietly ejected the cheater.
I highly rec DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON and slightly less strongly THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER both from the period just prior to his first publication.
Also ONCE THERE WAS A WAR which is transcripts of IIRC about half of his BBC World Service broadcasts from early in WW2.
BURMESE DAYS is autobio from working in Brit Colonial Civil Service [his earliest I think]
Whatdahell's this 'Ouch!' shit?? You ain't even come close ta be'in hurt yet, Woose!
Parent post is actualy about half right; very rare on/. when the subject touches on a human reality.
Yes, I hit 60 a couple of months back! Yes, I've been seriously visualy impaired since an encounter between my slow head and a fast landing gear strut resulted in assorted minor trauma and detached the retina in my right eye.
But I am NOT and never will be the doddering, half-senile object of the maggot-gagging stereotypes put forth in damn near every post in this thread.
And the ONE thing that pisses me off even more than the general run of fools, it's when some HALF WIT LOP screws up on their job AND SLOWS ME DOWN! Which is the exact case when I click on 'LARGER' and have a third of the page vanish sideways. While it's only rarely enough to provoke spambombing the PUKES so that no-one can spend money there, THAT IS A BUSINESS THAT WILL NEVER GET.01 from me!
If you look at the entire body of evidence it seems clear that this was without a doubt a man who would have stood out with honour in any time or culture.
The levels of Arsenic and Antimony in his tissues would indicate that this was a man who had worked extensively as a Metalsmith. The parallel ratios in his tissues and in the Copper alloy in his axe and other articles would also indicate that they may well have been his own work.
More than 20 [!] specific types of wood were used in his weapons, tools and other articles of his equipment, clearly showing the breadth and depth of this mans skills.
His age was also quite probably well beyond the norm even if you flatten and skew the curve by eliminating all pre adult deaths and comparing only to the body of the adult population. Forty Seven was unlikely to have been reached by many of his fellows.
No, I don't think there are likely to be more like him found in thawing ice--DAMN FEW LIKE HIM ARE BORN IN ANY AGE.
The preceeding is an almost perfect analysis with the single flaw of assuming that hardware and software skills will strongly tend to be at equal levels, I received my A.S. in 'Electronic Data Processing' in January 1970 and aprox 3 years later [while VERY frustrated with LISP 1.5 and AI as a concept] told the instructor [who was also my Advisor] that I was certain that no machine would ever be able to equal 'A SINGLE NAKED HUMAN MIND' When she chalenged me to try to prove it, I began a total non-use of computers which continued for 26+ years until the Fall of 1999, when the Sun ad campain 'THE NETWORK IS THE COMPUTER ' and the 2 month ahead year 2000 New year combined made a perfect date to end my proof-of-concept. Less than 18 months later lots of work and lots of ' Wow, so THATS how they did its' had me back ahead of the curve with hardware but very often 'DUMB AS BRICKS' and clueless when dealing with software [ the fact that anything as looped and nested as Windows works at all is astonishing]
These factors combined make tech support calls so far 100% useless to me. Quick, sharp and non-linear would be perfect. Whats out there now bites bad.
Any two waves [audio, RF, allasame] produce a resultant equal to the differance in frequencys. A HETERODYNE or 'beat note'. Many times those generated by music are 'subsonic' but anyone who has ever felt a pipe-organ with the stops out knows that they are real.
There are a number of exotic tweeters that are quite capable of producing flat response well beyond 50,000 hz. Who the hell buys them I won't speculate, but they are available.
The best way to have an 'always clean' keyboard is to use one that never can get dirty. What about using the virtual keyboard that is now available for tablet pc's? I don't know if anyone is marketing a virtual mouse [think trackball] yet, but there is no reason why it would be nearly as difficult as the keyboard, which has gotten positive reviews.
is and is based on only the tiny [linear] fraction of the range of actual physical conditions which exist on just this one [3rd] rock from the [G3] sun. Simple concept such as 'blow ballast' have NO relation at all to the conditions that exist just 7 miles from home, when that 7 miles is DOWN and there's WATER ALL THE WAY. IIRC the closest thing to Fail-Safe under such conditions is [was] a flotation envelope filled with gasoline and ballasted to negative with iron 'scrap' held in place by electro-magnets. This [/.] collection of the brightest and best the species has produced overwhelmingly FAILS TO COMPREHEND the most basic natural laws when the subject is any farther from home than thumb+mouth=suck.
I've never been realy big on Jazz in general,but was turned onto a few gems that have have remained fresh for more than 40 years. When me and my brand-new 2nd Class 'Phone started engineering at KPFA in 1961 I shared one shift a week with an equaly young Phil Lesh who, altho playing piano and studying at the SF Conservatory, was #1 a Trumpet player. We swapped quite a few LP's back and forth during the next year or so and both of us expanded our musical worlds as a result. I wore out several copys of Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain and at least as many of the MJQ album on which Milt Jackson and Laurindo Almeida brought together their two worlds and performed a very much more controlled CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ. My comment that Milt Jackson was almost too controlled was responded to with SOUL BROTHERS and SOUL SESSION the unique pairing of a [slightly] wild Milt Jackson and a [somewhat] restrained Ray Charles. An earlier post sugested vinal/analog for Jazz, and I would strongly agree. Get a [not too] good turntable and the very best phono cartridge that you can find even if it does cost more than you can aford to spend. Do a little bit of serious homework on how to clean LP's without causing more harm than good, [no alcohol] and go hunting. The vast and growing sea of discarded records will give you 50 to 100 possibles for the money that you would spend on those 2 CD's and there is no telling where or how far they will lead.
1] In order to minimize the risk of a worst-case type accident [B-29's were notoriosly crash-prone in the event of an engine failure during takeoff] the U-235 gun-barrel bomb on board the 'Enola Gaye' was NOT ARMED until the 'plane was nearing Hiroshima-the specific crew member on board for this purpose was IIRC a PhD level Navy Officer with the job title of 'Weaponeer' Does that help put the concept of 'risky' in a little better perspective? NO, well how about 2]Care to guess just exactly how many ThermoNuclear Devices [that means Hydrogen Bomb] were accidentally dropped by USAF airplanes onto US soil[and US citizens] during the 'Cold War' ? or the larger number comprising the world-widetotal? [google on'BROKEN ARROW'] So now do you feel perhaps a little less panicky about the risk of having a space-craft launch failure rain radioactive nastys on your parade? Still worried? 3] then if you want real terror [all officially denied] try looking into the FIRST project Prometheus. It's quite likely that one early and very minor glitchin that little bit of utter madness was whaat was so franticly covered up near Roswell, NM in 1947[?] not the absurd myth that has been dreamed up by schizo-retards with delusions of adequacy in the half-centuary following. If you have the stomach to deal with real terror, try doing the math and figuring how close to melt-down the reactor [gas cooled] for a nuclear RAM JET would have to be in order to heat the air passing through it enough to generate reasonable propulsive thrust and [stay with me] then crunch the numbers to get an order-of-magnitude figure for how quickly said reactor will [ not 'melt', but rather 'vaporize'] if that flow of air is interupted.. Now if that don't put 'RISKY' into practical perspective for you, Bunky, then there is no doubt that your head is so far up your ass that you ARE seeing light ahead!!
Just how tolerant depends on what type of engine. The High-Bypass Turbo-Fan engines which are nearly 100% of the powerplants propelling both civilian passenger/cargo and the majority of military cargo airframes [excepting such specialized types as the C-130 variants] are FAR more resistant to puking their compressor blades as a result of a 95th percentile bird ingestion than are the older designs. I would assume that the current generation of v-high output military engines would fall somewhere in between, but that is just a guess. Input from someone currently working in the area?
The distortion inherent to transistor amps was 'crossover notch distortion' and was a result of the non-linearity as the amp circuit shifted from the '+' to the'-' of an audio wave.
THAT'S where I got the phrase! I've been using 'five nines' for thiry-five years to describe the level of certainty that not-even-God-gets, and had entirely forgotten where it came from!
I think that even more of an obstacle to comprehending mainframes than the total lack of scale relative to I/O mass/volume; is the [in current terms] incredably small instruction set. AFAIK the ENTIRE INSTRUCTION SET of a 360/30 was less than the ADDED instructions which made the diferance between a Pentium 200 and a Pentium 200 MMX. It takes a whole 'nother mindset.
It would seem obvious that the young Gentleman fails to realize that he should be looking under the heading: COMPUTER OP-GRAVEYARD benefits after 6 mo must know SPS 1401/40, 360 Asmbly, COBOL,FORTRAN min wage apply rear of loading dock after 2AM
Your point is well made, but I think that yourconcept of bootstrapping and mine are very slightly divergent. I can still recall [with only minor pain] the procedure required to get *my* first computer, an IBM 1620, to start. First all the toggle switches on the console had to be set to in order to enable either the teletype [RTTY] or the card reader. Next one punch card, then another thirty or so, then the two or three hundred which contained the IOCS Supervisor. I could go on, but the dull throbbing between the temples, warns me not to. That WAS bootstrapping, and the exact same process is paralelled starting in what I always think of as the *BIOS inside the BIOS* and continuing. Scott Mueller describes the entire process in detail [and wonderful clairty] in the troubleshooting chapter in UPGRADING AND REPAIRING PC'S....and takes eight pages of small print to do it! That IS bootstrapping now. Re-setting the operating system to a referance state, which is what, as you point out, is still required from time to time COULD be a far simpler matter [given cheap NON-VOLATILE memory.
Agree with above, but I think that you are ALL missing the point that non-vol memory of this nature should mean an END to the entire concept of BOOTSTRAPPING except when a new machine is first activated [presumably at the fab].
I hope that a few items that have made things work for me will help-I've got one foot in each camp, so to speak, as a result of a detached retina in my right[dominant] eye which was notable to be surgically repaired well enough to give me any better than [corrected] about 20/85 in that eye, which is just shy of the 'legaly-blind' mark.
My other eye has full function, with fully correctable presbyopia [that's the $2 word for post 30 far-sighted]
Money has been in very short supply for the three years I've been dealing with this situation, so these are all either free or damn cheap.
1} Just 'good' lighting ain't enough. My desk lights are a Luxo ring-light/magnifier [go for quality here-it matters] witha cool-white tube; and an overhead halogen about 2 feet above the keyboard controled by a variac. A dimmer would do, but being able to kick the voltage to the little spot [one of the 2-pin bulbs about 1 inch long-100 W] UP to140 volts is the edge I sometimes need!
2] Ive got two monitors going-both CRT. A Princeton Graphics 17 inch and a Sony 19 inch 500PS Trinotron which I use for text. Good contrast is the critical factor here-not excessive. If it's not right here, exhausting on top of useless is a really lousy combination!
I'm still experimenting with fonts: right now I'm using Andale Mono and News Gothic Condensed, both of which I think came with Windows 98SE. [$$]
3] The best keyboard I've found in the cheap/free catagory is the KeyTronics 101/301. Good feel, positive both in feel and sound and with keyws that seem 'better spaced' than most.
I haven't had the chance to try any of the big-key types and [Dei Gra] get by without.
4] The Kensington Expert Mouse Pro trackball is the thing that makes it all come together and work for me--4 BIG buttons and a big comfortable ball and the MouseWorks [a little frustrating at first, but NOT buggy] beats all hell out of that Microsoft abortion that I've mercifly forgotten the name of.
The magnifier that comes with the ATI HYDRAVISION is MUCH better than the windows Accessability [HA!] version, but I have no idea if it will work with any other video cards.
I hope my half[not assed] experiances are of help to you and your father and to...?
Having logged aprox 2.85 million Class A, over-the-road miles before retiring I feel more than qualified to say that you are putting out absolute and total bullshit! Liar! Fool! Sociopathic Troll!
In the future, unless you enjoy broadcasting what a smug arogant fool you are, it might be advisable to know at least a little bit about whatever technical subject you are about to expound upon-- of the three mechanisms through which a nuclear device causes damage, thermal [as in PHOTONS] is by far the most important against unhardened targets. Photons being LIGHT do not penetrate clouds very well. ergo: any degree of cloud cover will degrade the effect of the weapon.
Don't make a big deal of knowing how to make a fission bomb-the only dud A-bomb EVER was deliberate! After Ted Taylor[a true genius] designed and built 'the Puny Plute'[ the smallest possible fission device] the next step was to build one that was only the least increment smaller and test it. When it was indeed a dud, another [standard] device was lowered into the bore previously prepared a few meters away and detonated in order to destroy both. !!no one in their right mind wants anything to do with any supercritical mass of Pu-239 dud or not!!
it's a hellof a lot worse than just pathetic bullshit though- it's the acceptence of total powerlessness! the vilest of all the lies the schools andmass media have used in the concerted and extremely efective campaign to create a generation of sheep is the twofold myth that GOOD [passive] sheep won't ever have to die and that death is something to be feared. [no, i'm not talking about anything counter to self preservation and good sense] the true way of the warrior [bushi-do] is that true freedom and ultimate power come from being prepared to die at any instant if it is necesary.
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Thanks, I thought the same.
But this was back in the Twentieth Century in the Peoples Republic of Californication
and that was considered to be 'both excessive and public humiliation'.
I was told I should have waited 'til the end of the exam
and not have said anything that could have been overheard by other students.
These days the world seems to be a much saner place
despite becoming crazier exponentialy.
And you can't get out of the game.
This is an area where you would be well advised to be VERY careful, and
I suspect that the LESS automatic [ergo: more personal] your methods of
detecting and dealing with cheating, the greater the risk to you.
Two situations, both of which astonished me at the time:
In High School, I always thought of tests about the same way that a Jock
thinks of a Track Meet--Fun and Games with the chance of winning a worthless trophy.
When this one bad-attitude twit with a two-digit I.Q. started whispered requests for answers
during a mid-term, I thought that giving her 100% WRONG answers was a perfect
way of dealing with an insult. Want to guess who got more than TWO HOURS of
major [as in YELLING and ARM-WAVING]from both the Dean of Students and the Vice-Principal?
Not the cheating twit-bitch.
A few years later, Proctoring an Exam as part of my T-A duties, I spotted one of the test-takers
repeatedly peering into a book-bag. A few minutes later, having seen the suspected Crib-sheet,
I confiscated both it and blue book, then quietly ejected the cheater.
Want to guess who very nearly got fired?
re: Orwell books
I highly rec DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON and slightly less strongly
THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER both from the period just prior to his first publication.
Also ONCE THERE WAS A WAR which is transcripts of IIRC about half of his BBC World Service broadcasts from early in WW2.
BURMESE DAYS is autobio from working in Brit Colonial Civil Service [his earliest I think]
Whatdahell's this 'Ouch!' shit?? You ain't even come close ta be'in hurt yet, Woose! Parent post is actualy about half right; very rare on /. when the subject touches on a human reality.
Yes, I hit 60 a couple of months back! Yes, I've been seriously visualy impaired since an encounter between my slow head and a fast landing gear strut resulted in assorted minor trauma and detached the retina in my right eye.
But I am NOT and never will be the doddering, half-senile object of the maggot-gagging stereotypes put forth in damn near every post in this thread.
And the ONE thing that pisses me off even more than the general run of fools, it's when some HALF WIT LOP screws up on their job AND SLOWS ME DOWN! Which is the exact case when I click on 'LARGER' and have a third of the page vanish sideways. While it's only rarely enough to provoke spambombing the PUKES so that no-one can spend money there, THAT IS A BUSINESS THAT WILL NEVER GET .01 from me!
If you look at the entire body of evidence it seems clear that this was without a doubt a man who would have stood out with honour in any time or culture.
The levels of Arsenic and Antimony in his tissues would indicate that this was a man who had worked extensively as a Metalsmith. The parallel ratios in his tissues and in the Copper alloy in his axe and other articles would also indicate that they may well have been his own work.
More than 20 [!] specific types of wood were used in his weapons, tools and other articles of his equipment, clearly showing the breadth and depth of this mans skills.
His age was also quite probably well beyond the norm even if you flatten and skew the curve by eliminating all pre adult deaths and comparing only to the body of the adult population. Forty Seven was unlikely to have been reached by many of his fellows.
No, I don't think there are likely to be more like him found in thawing ice--DAMN FEW LIKE HIM ARE BORN IN ANY AGE.
The preceeding is an almost perfect analysis with the single flaw of assuming that hardware and software skills will strongly tend to be at equal levels,
I received my A.S. in 'Electronic Data Processing' in January 1970 and aprox 3 years later [while VERY frustrated with LISP 1.5 and AI as a concept] told the instructor [who was also my Advisor] that I was certain that no machine would ever be able to equal 'A SINGLE NAKED HUMAN MIND' When she chalenged me to try to prove it, I began a total non-use of computers which continued for 26+ years until the Fall of 1999, when the Sun ad campain 'THE NETWORK IS THE COMPUTER ' and the 2 month ahead year 2000 New year combined made a perfect date to end my proof-of-concept.
Less than 18 months later lots of work and lots of ' Wow, so THATS how they did its' had me back ahead of the curve with hardware but very often 'DUMB AS BRICKS' and clueless when dealing with software [ the fact that anything as looped and nested as Windows works at all is astonishing]
These factors combined make tech support calls so far 100% useless to me. Quick, sharp and non-linear would be perfect. Whats out there now bites bad.
Two of your statements are in error:
Any two waves [audio, RF, allasame] produce a resultant equal to the differance in frequencys. A HETERODYNE or 'beat note'. Many times those generated by music are 'subsonic' but anyone who has ever felt a pipe-organ with the stops out knows that they are real.
There are a number of exotic tweeters that are quite capable of producing flat response well beyond 50,000 hz. Who the hell buys them I won't speculate, but they are available.
The best way to have an 'always clean' keyboard is to use one that never can get dirty. What about using the virtual keyboard that is now available for tablet pc's? I don't know if anyone is marketing a virtual mouse [think trackball] yet, but there is no reason why it would be nearly as difficult as the keyboard, which has gotten positive reviews.
is and is based on only the tiny [linear] fraction of the range of actual physical conditions which exist on just this one [3rd] rock from the [G3] sun.
Simple concept such as 'blow ballast' have NO relation at all to the conditions that exist just 7 miles from home, when that 7 miles is DOWN and there's WATER ALL THE WAY. IIRC the closest thing to Fail-Safe under such conditions is [was] a flotation envelope filled with gasoline and ballasted to negative with iron 'scrap' held in place by electro-magnets.
This [/.] collection of the brightest and best the species has produced overwhelmingly FAILS TO COMPREHEND the most basic natural laws when the subject is any farther from home than thumb+mouth=suck.
I've never been realy big on Jazz in general,but was turned onto a few gems that have have remained fresh for more than 40 years. When me and my brand-new 2nd Class 'Phone started engineering at KPFA in 1961 I shared one shift a week with an equaly young Phil Lesh who, altho playing piano and studying at the SF Conservatory, was #1 a Trumpet player. We swapped quite a few LP's back and forth during the next year or so and both of us expanded our musical worlds as a result.
I wore out several copys of Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain and at least as many of the MJQ album on which Milt Jackson and Laurindo Almeida brought together their two worlds and performed a very much more controlled CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ. My comment that Milt Jackson was almost too controlled was responded to with SOUL BROTHERS and SOUL SESSION the unique pairing of a [slightly] wild Milt Jackson and a [somewhat] restrained Ray Charles.
An earlier post sugested vinal/analog for Jazz, and I would strongly agree. Get a [not too] good turntable and the very best phono cartridge that you can find even if it does cost more than you can aford to spend. Do a little bit of serious homework on how to clean LP's without causing more harm than good, [no alcohol] and go hunting. The vast and growing sea of discarded records will give you 50 to 100 possibles for the money that you would spend on those 2 CD's and there is no telling where or how far they will lead.
Don't bother to ask for results and such
Unless you're inclined to get in dutch
But take it from one who knows the score
The 509th is winning the war
anon 1944
1] In order to minimize the risk of a worst-case type accident [B-29's were notoriosly crash-prone in the event of an engine failure during takeoff]
the U-235 gun-barrel bomb on board the 'Enola Gaye' was NOT ARMED until the 'plane was nearing Hiroshima-the specific crew member on board for this purpose was IIRC a PhD level Navy Officer with the job title of 'Weaponeer' Does that help put the concept of 'risky' in a little better perspective? NO, well how about
2]Care to guess just exactly how many ThermoNuclear Devices [that means Hydrogen Bomb] were accidentally dropped by USAF airplanes onto US soil[and US citizens] during the 'Cold War' ? or the larger number comprising the world-widetotal? [google on'BROKEN ARROW'] So now do you feel perhaps a little less panicky about the risk of having a space-craft launch failure rain radioactive nastys on your parade? Still worried?
3] then if you want real terror [all officially denied] try looking into the FIRST project Prometheus. It's quite likely that one early and very minor glitchin that little bit of utter madness was whaat was so franticly covered up near Roswell, NM in 1947[?] not the absurd myth that has been dreamed up by schizo-retards with delusions of adequacy in the half-centuary following. If you have the stomach to deal with real terror, try doing the math and figuring how close to melt-down the reactor [gas cooled] for a nuclear RAM JET would have to be in order to heat the air passing through it enough to generate reasonable propulsive thrust and [stay with me] then crunch the numbers to get an order-of-magnitude figure for how quickly said reactor will [ not 'melt', but rather 'vaporize'] if that flow of air is interupted.. Now if that don't put 'RISKY' into practical perspective for you, Bunky, then there is no doubt that your head is so far up your ass that you ARE seeing light ahead!!
Just how tolerant depends on what type of engine. The High-Bypass Turbo-Fan engines which are nearly 100% of the powerplants propelling both civilian passenger/cargo and the majority of military cargo airframes [excepting such specialized types as the C-130 variants] are FAR more resistant to puking their compressor blades as a result of a 95th percentile bird ingestion than are the older designs. I would assume that the current generation of v-high output military engines would fall somewhere in between, but that is just a guess. Input from someone currently working in the area?
The distortion inherent to transistor amps was 'crossover notch distortion' and was a result of the non-linearity as the amp circuit shifted from the '+' to the'-' of an audio wave.
THAT'S where I got the phrase! I've been using 'five nines' for thiry-five years to describe the level of certainty that not-even-God-gets, and had entirely forgotten where it came from!
I think that even more of an obstacle to comprehending mainframes than the total lack of scale relative to I/O mass/volume; is the [in current terms] incredably small instruction set.
AFAIK the ENTIRE INSTRUCTION SET of a 360/30 was less than the ADDED instructions which made the diferance between a Pentium 200 and a Pentium 200 MMX.
It takes a whole 'nother mindset.
It would seem obvious that the young Gentleman fails to realize that he should be looking under the heading:
COMPUTER OP-GRAVEYARD
benefits after 6 mo
must know SPS 1401/40,
360 Asmbly, COBOL,FORTRAN
min wage apply rear of loading
dock after 2AM
and while were at it lets not forget IOCS [pronounced eye'-ox]
Your point is well made, but I think that yourconcept of bootstrapping and mine are very slightly divergent.
I can still recall [with only minor pain] the procedure required to get *my* first computer, an IBM 1620, to start. First all the toggle switches on the console had to be set to in order to enable either the teletype [RTTY] or the card reader. Next one punch card, then another thirty or so, then the two or three hundred which contained the IOCS Supervisor. I could go on, but the dull throbbing between the temples, warns me not to. That WAS bootstrapping, and the exact same process is paralelled starting in what I always think of as the *BIOS inside the BIOS* and
continuing. Scott Mueller describes the entire process in detail [and wonderful clairty] in the troubleshooting chapter in UPGRADING AND REPAIRING PC'S....and takes eight pages of small print to do it! That IS bootstrapping now.
Re-setting the operating system to a referance state, which is what, as you point out, is still required from time to time COULD be a far simpler matter [given cheap NON-VOLATILE memory.
Agree with above, but I think that you are ALL missing the point that non-vol memory of this nature should mean an END to the entire concept of BOOTSTRAPPING except when a new machine is first activated [presumably at the fab].
I hope that a few items that have made things work for me will help-I've got one foot in each camp, so to speak, as a result of a detached retina in my right[dominant] eye which was notable to be surgically repaired well enough to give me any better than [corrected] about 20/85 in that eye, which is just shy of the 'legaly-blind' mark. My other eye has full function, with fully correctable presbyopia [that's the $2 word for post 30 far-sighted] Money has been in very short supply for the three years I've been dealing with this situation, so these are all either free or damn cheap. 1} Just 'good' lighting ain't enough. My desk lights are a Luxo ring-light/magnifier [go for quality here-it matters] witha cool-white tube; and an overhead halogen about 2 feet above the keyboard controled by a variac. A dimmer would do, but being able to kick the voltage to the little spot [one of the 2-pin bulbs about 1 inch long-100 W] UP to140 volts is the edge I sometimes need! 2] Ive got two monitors going-both CRT. A Princeton Graphics 17 inch and a Sony 19 inch 500PS Trinotron which I use for text. Good contrast is the critical factor here-not excessive. If it's not right here, exhausting on top of useless is a really lousy combination! I'm still experimenting with fonts: right now I'm using Andale Mono and News Gothic Condensed, both of which I think came with Windows 98SE. [$$] 3] The best keyboard I've found in the cheap/free catagory is the KeyTronics 101/301. Good feel, positive both in feel and sound and with keyws that seem 'better spaced' than most. I haven't had the chance to try any of the big-key types and [Dei Gra] get by without. 4] The Kensington Expert Mouse Pro trackball is the thing that makes it all come together and work for me--4 BIG buttons and a big comfortable ball and the MouseWorks [a little frustrating at first, but NOT buggy] beats all hell out of that Microsoft abortion that I've mercifly forgotten the name of. The magnifier that comes with the ATI HYDRAVISION is MUCH better than the windows Accessability [HA!] version, but I have no idea if it will work with any other video cards. I hope my half[not assed] experiances are of help to you and your father and to...?
Having logged aprox 2.85 million Class A, over-the-road miles before retiring I feel more than qualified to say that you are putting out absolute and total bullshit! Liar! Fool! Sociopathic Troll!
In the future, unless you enjoy broadcasting what a smug arogant fool you are, it might be advisable to know at least a little bit about whatever technical subject you are about to expound upon-- of the three mechanisms through which a nuclear device causes damage, thermal [as in PHOTONS] is by far the most important against unhardened targets. Photons being LIGHT do not penetrate clouds very well. ergo: any degree of cloud cover will degrade the effect of the weapon.
Don't make a big deal of knowing how to make a fission bomb-the only dud A-bomb EVER was deliberate! After Ted Taylor[a true genius] designed and built 'the Puny Plute'[ the smallest possible fission device] the next step was to build one that was only the least increment smaller and test it. When it was indeed a dud, another [standard] device was lowered into the bore previously prepared a few meters away and detonated in order to destroy both. !!no one in their right mind wants anything to do with any supercritical mass of Pu-239 dud or not!!
it's a hellof a lot worse than just pathetic bullshit though- it's the acceptence of total powerlessness! the vilest of all the lies the schools andmass media have used in the concerted and extremely efective campaign to create a generation of sheep is the twofold myth that GOOD [passive] sheep won't ever have to die and that death is something to be feared. [no, i'm not talking about anything counter to self preservation and good sense] the true way of the warrior [bushi-do] is that true freedom and ultimate power come from being prepared to die at any instant if it is necesary.