for a bus ticket to send the CEO of SCO somewhere like public housing outside of East St. Louis with a sign on his back that says "Rich Yuppie Guy".
Seriously, the stock exchange should have suspended trading of SCO stock once it became blatantly clear that SCO's whole business plan is to manipulate the stock price, then fold.
I'm not saying she'll get disoriented, I'm saying the down time and the time spent learning the new little quirks could be a problem. I don't know if you've ever been tech support for a significant other, but it can be thorny. And the last thing I want to hear when I come in the door after being tech support at work all day is "the damn computer's broken, fix it right away, I have a project due to the printer in the morning".
Notice: the Emotional State Institute of America intends to file suit against the developers of Gramofone, and against Slashdot, and any owners and/or users of such software, for copyright infringement. It is piracy to copy Limbic Property without paying for it. Limbic Property is every bit as protected by law as Intellectual Property. LP is the core of the nation's dating, contraceptive, wedding, divorce, boxing, mediation, and law industries. Allowing unfettered copying of LP will result in chaos, loss of jobs, loneliness, depression, anger, and violence. LP thieves should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the.... what? Not _that_ LP? Long-Playing? um.... never mind.
I think they better first check out the so-called "Smarter Card" from Cypak a Swedish firm that has a card with embedded CPU and RF, and a keypad built onto the card which requires the user to enter a PIN to validate use of the card. Seems to me that Cypak already has most of the relevant technology.
If I could boot a PC from a flash card (whatever size necessary) with Windows 98, yet have the swap file and any writable files be on the HDD, it would ease my tech support issues at home. My wife is a writer, and currently on a combination of Win98 and wordprocessing tools that she's comfortable with. You don't mess with her environment, because that means time re-learning stuff which means loss of income. The primary reason for booting from flash would be startup speed, for her. So - that said, I will be looking for whatever information is necessary to accomplish that.
A few smart guys will realize that anywhere there's a shortage there's money to be made. I am a mainframe 'techie' (systems programmer) and when I retire from the public payroll I should be able to do consulting for ten years or so at somewhat lucrative rates. As for.NET and some of the other 'remote computing' objectives - that's reinventing the old tube-and-mainframe model, just with prettier UIs. And on the third hand (hey, if we can count from 0 to 15 we can have three hands), the current levels of z/OS are Unix-branded, with all POSIX APIs, run HTTP servers, and do pretty much everything any other server can do (including SMB support so we can pretend to be Windows file and print servers just like Linux). I can stand to get more acquainted with "your" technologies like HTTP and Java to put them to use on my z/OS box. And I'm willing to SHARE the knowledge necessary for those of you that want to upgrade the skills necessary to take advantage of the looming skills shortage
They tell the generals they can ask the new C3C system anything, anything at all.
A four-star general sends his aide up to type in the question: "will it be war or will it be piece"
The AI sifts through its many assertions and rules, and replies "yes".
The general, obviously miffed, roars "Yes, WHAT??"
The AI replies "Yes, SIR!"
The physical effort not being a "Geek strong point" may be true - but the physical effort will eventually make you a Geek who has overcome those limitations. Just as you work hard to become a good (insert favorite language here) coder, working hard phyically will improve your physical fitness without going to the gym. I speak from experience - a math nerd in high school, I became much stronger operating a cardboard compressor at a grocery store where I had to stack 250-300 pound bales of cardboard. And as an "older" geek, let me tell you you will appreciate some physical fitness later in life, too. Being somewhat fit can help you avoid some of the common problems of aging - strong leg muscles support the knee, which prevents knee problems and arthroscopic surgery, for example.
Clowns and Balloons. An Atari home computer game, a clown with a pin is bounced from a trampoline (trampolines?) to pop balloons. Simple and addictive. This would probably make a good phone game or even a GBA version would be fun.
There IS a "rap" in one of the "I, Robot" stories
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One of the robots in one of the short stories (yes, "I, Robot" is a collection of short stories for those incognoscenti) does a jazzy-Beat-type business. I don't have the book handy but I remember "areet, areet.." and I believe it is one where the robot had killed someone.
If you're not using your PDA as a PDA, have you recycled it into something cooler, or at least used it for something like a desktop "digital photo frame" (The Sony Clie has a "Photo Stand" application).
I second this... I wanted to find the "Variable Duty Cycle Algorithm" article, an integer-only, no division method of having something happen C out of D times...
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We were so poor we programmed light bulbs using only one switch. But we couldn't agree on a standard. OneBulbians wanted 0=off 1=on, ZeroBulbians wanted 0=on and 1=off. There ensued, of course, a bit-ter dispute.
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for a bus ticket to send the CEO of SCO somewhere like public housing outside of East St. Louis with a sign on his back that says "Rich Yuppie Guy". Seriously, the stock exchange should have suspended trading of SCO stock once it became blatantly clear that SCO's whole business plan is to manipulate the stock price, then fold.
To paraphrase one of the most important philosophers of all time, Chico Marx: "Whya Fjord? Whya no Chevy?"
I'm not saying she'll get disoriented, I'm saying the down time and the time spent learning the new little quirks could be a problem. I don't know if you've ever been tech support for a significant other, but it can be thorny. And the last thing I want to hear when I come in the door after being tech support at work all day is "the damn computer's broken, fix it right away, I have a project due to the printer in the morning".
Notice: the Emotional State Institute of America intends to file suit against the developers of Gramofone, and against Slashdot, and any owners and/or users of such software, for copyright infringement. It is piracy to copy Limbic Property without paying for it. Limbic Property is every bit as protected by law as Intellectual Property. LP is the core of the nation's dating, contraceptive, wedding, divorce, boxing, mediation, and law industries. Allowing unfettered copying of LP will result in chaos, loss of jobs, loneliness, depression, anger, and violence. LP thieves should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the.... what? Not _that_ LP? Long-Playing? um.... never mind.
I think they better first check out the so-called "Smarter Card" from Cypak a Swedish firm that has a card with embedded CPU and RF, and a keypad built onto the card which requires the user to enter a PIN to validate use of the card. Seems to me that Cypak already has most of the relevant technology.
If I could boot a PC from a flash card (whatever size necessary) with Windows 98, yet have the swap file and any writable files be on the HDD, it would ease my tech support issues at home. My wife is a writer, and currently on a combination of Win98 and wordprocessing tools that she's comfortable with. You don't mess with her environment, because that means time re-learning stuff which means loss of income. The primary reason for booting from flash would be startup speed, for her. So - that said, I will be looking for whatever information is necessary to accomplish that.
A few smart guys will realize that anywhere there's a shortage there's money to be made. I am a mainframe 'techie' (systems programmer) and when I retire from the public payroll I should be able to do consulting for ten years or so at somewhat lucrative rates. As for .NET and some of the other 'remote computing' objectives - that's reinventing the old tube-and-mainframe model, just with prettier UIs. And on the third hand (hey, if we can count from 0 to 15 we can have three hands), the current levels of z/OS are Unix-branded, with all POSIX APIs, run HTTP servers, and do pretty much everything any other server can do (including SMB support so we can pretend to be Windows file and print servers just like Linux). I can stand to get more acquainted with "your" technologies like HTTP and Java to put them to use on my z/OS box. And I'm willing to SHARE the knowledge necessary for those of you that want to upgrade the skills necessary to take advantage of the looming skills shortage
Joe Shareware, Joe User, Joe Hacker, Joe Cracker?? What about Joe Developer, Joe Microsoft Shill, Joe Cryptographer, Joe Mama?
We will no longer be able to say "this wire is a piece of shit!" and have it mean anything bad!
One atom says to the other "hey, I think I lost an electron!" The other says "are you positive?"
They tell the generals they can ask the new C3C system anything, anything at all. A four-star general sends his aide up to type in the question: "will it be war or will it be piece" The AI sifts through its many assertions and rules, and replies "yes". The general, obviously miffed, roars "Yes, WHAT??" The AI replies "Yes, SIR!"
The bartender asks "have another?" Rene replies "I think not" and he disappears!
I would buy several copies of said DVD as presents, too.
Unfortunately for them the reply (in the movie) is "but you soon will be!"
The physical effort not being a "Geek strong point" may be true - but the physical effort will eventually make you a Geek who has overcome those limitations. Just as you work hard to become a good (insert favorite language here) coder, working hard phyically will improve your physical fitness without going to the gym. I speak from experience - a math nerd in high school, I became much stronger operating a cardboard compressor at a grocery store where I had to stack 250-300 pound bales of cardboard. And as an "older" geek, let me tell you you will appreciate some physical fitness later in life, too. Being somewhat fit can help you avoid some of the common problems of aging - strong leg muscles support the knee, which prevents knee problems and arthroscopic surgery, for example.
Clowns and Balloons. An Atari home computer game, a clown with a pin is bounced from a trampoline (trampolines?) to pop balloons. Simple and addictive. This would probably make a good phone game or even a GBA version would be fun.
Shoot every tenth user that forgets their password. Keep this up until all the rest are remembering theirs.
I'm, Um, I'm uncertain
One of the robots in one of the short stories (yes, "I, Robot" is a collection of short stories for those incognoscenti) does a jazzy-Beat-type business. I don't have the book handy but I remember "areet, areet .." and I believe it is one where the robot had killed someone.
If you're not using your PDA as a PDA, have you recycled it into something cooler, or at least used it for something like a desktop "digital photo frame" (The Sony Clie has a "Photo Stand" application).
I second this... I wanted to find the "Variable Duty Cycle Algorithm" article, an integer-only, no division method of having something happen C out of D times...
We were so poor we programmed light bulbs using only one switch. But we couldn't agree on a standard. OneBulbians wanted 0=off 1=on, ZeroBulbians wanted 0=on and 1=off. There ensued, of course, a bit-ter dispute.