You aren't the only one. I hardly ever visualise things; when I read books (which I do a lot, despite what the AC thinks) I don't "see" anything. I can keep a lot of connections in my head (I used to know how all of the Swing classes - including all the L&F and Event classes - fit together), but I don't make pictures of it.
I'm from Texas (very far from Texas now, with no intentions of ever returning). I told my computer-phobic Texan ex-boyfriend the t-shirt story thinking he'd find it amusing; not only did he not see any humor, he thought the rednecks were right, and also agreed with them that no sports team would ever have a demon logo (not being much of a sports fan, I couldn't rebut him immediately).
(this was at least 11 years ago, it being that long since he became "ex", and this is one of the reasons why)
I can't imagine development at either job place is low pressure.
Every place I've worked is high pressure, but given a choice between the pressure of "we only ran this test today, it failed, the code's supposed to ship tomorrow, fix it now" (which is why I was here till midnight last night) and "we've been running the tests for months but there are still a few left to fix (oh, and have some free wood-fired pizza)" - well, I want to go back to the place with the pizza.
(I wrote the original OS X Swing Mac L&F. And it took a lot of free pizza. And yes, Steve did think it was cool (at least in how it made WebObjects cool and keynote-worthy, anyway))
"The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse'. There is no evidence that people want to use these things."
Wow. Within 5 minutes of using the first Mac spreadsheet I was in love with the mouse - no more tedious navigation with the arrow keys. Did he actually try using any real software?
Likewise, but what I'd be more interested in is the shows which are no longer on the air - if my friends are still raving about a show that's only available on DVD, I'd buy an ep or two to see if I want to buy the DVD, but if they're raving about "Lost", and I'm not home when it's on, well, that's why I have Tivo.
Sets the screen width to 33 instead of 40, so that when you do a source code listing there's no extra space inserted for indents, so you can use the cursor keys to move up and edit the lines.
The trouble with Copland was that it wasn't designed to be a monolithic release, but it kept growing as they realised how much had to change and how hard it would be to make it an incremental change to OS 7. (I was one of the last people to interview for it before it got canned)
OS X worked because it was a monolithic change that was designed as one from the start.
Yeah, right. And there's this swamp land you might want to buy.
Funny you should mention that. Today's NYTimes has an article about people paying California prices for Florida swampland:
homes in a design proudly called "Cracker Modern" will sit on lots of up to four acres lots near marshes, creeks and conservation areas,... average $342,900 for the land alone.
Every time a dog kills someone, there are people who think we should ban whichever breed was at fault (despite the fact that it's often the owner at fault - train a dog to attack humans, and you shouldn't be surprised when it does)
At the rate school textbooks get replaced, even if this is confirmed schoolkids are going to be taught there are 9 planets for years to come.
I was a National Geographic space article junkie when I was in grade school (mid 70s) and knew my textbook was wrong when it claimed Jupiter had only 12 moons, but my teacher would not accept any answer other than what was in the book.
iChat's an IM client compatible with AIM. It does support video, and in 10.4 supports multi-person video sessions - haven't tried that as I only know one other person with a camera.
Heh. That was part of the problem with IBM's support for OS/2, actually - IBM never quite grasped the idea of shrinkwrapped software. At the ColoradOS/2 developer's conference around 93 or 94, someone from IBM came out to answer questions. Many of the answers included "well, just talk to your IBM rep" - now, Big Iron customers may well have their own personal reps, but all any of us had was a phone line to IBM support.
No you don't. That blurb's been debunked on the rumor sites already. For one thing, last time he saw the headmaster was in a fierce one-to-one duel with Lord Voldemort isn't even true - the last time he saw the headmaster was in the headmaster's office where he threw a tantrum. And Privet is misspelled.
Living in the Bay Area, I don't have space for full size woodworking, so I do it in 1/12 scale but with full-size techniques - working hinges, real dovetails, the works.
Website with pics here (yeah, I know, AOL sucks, but I've had this site since before ISPs were common)
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Every so often I marvel at the adaptivity of the human nervous system, the way that I can just think a word and it appears on the screen without my having to pay attention to where my individual fingers go. It's the next best thing to mental telepathy.
My mom had a stroke two years ago. Her typing skills came back before her verbal skills, and since I mostly communicated with her via IM (she's in TX and I'm in CA), I didn't realize how bad off she'd been.
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You aren't the only one. I hardly ever visualise things; when I read books (which I do a lot, despite what the AC thinks) I don't "see" anything. I can keep a lot of connections in my head (I used to know how all of the Swing classes - including all the L&F and Event classes - fit together), but I don't make pictures of it.
So that's their ulterior motive - get users kicked off their ISPs, so the only one left is AOL...
(this was at least 11 years ago, it being that long since he became "ex", and this is one of the reasons why)
Every place I've worked is high pressure, but given a choice between the pressure of "we only ran this test today, it failed, the code's supposed to ship tomorrow, fix it now" (which is why I was here till midnight last night) and "we've been running the tests for months but there are still a few left to fix (oh, and have some free wood-fired pizza)" - well, I want to go back to the place with the pizza.
(I wrote the original OS X Swing Mac L&F. And it took a lot of free pizza. And yes, Steve did think it was cool (at least in how it made WebObjects cool and keynote-worthy, anyway))
Wow. Within 5 minutes of using the first Mac spreadsheet I was in love with the mouse - no more tedious navigation with the arrow keys. Did he actually try using any real software?
What am I saying? It's Dvorak, of course not.
Well, the editors don't, so why should he?
Likewise, but what I'd be more interested in is the shows which are no longer on the air - if my friends are still raving about a show that's only available on DVD, I'd buy an ep or two to see if I want to buy the DVD, but if they're raving about "Lost", and I'm not home when it's on, well, that's why I have Tivo.
Not only did I never think of them as "role models", as far as I can remember this is the first time anyone has ever suggested it.
Sets the screen width to 33 instead of 40, so that when you do a source code listing there's no extra space inserted for indents, so you can use the cursor keys to move up and edit the lines.
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The odds that the purse industry will adopt this invention are about as good as the odds that they'll produce a decent selection of functional purses.
OS X worked because it was a monolithic change that was designed as one from the start.
You could point out to your mom that the parts of NO least affected were the French Quarter and the predominantly gay areas.
I'm guessing "cluster fsck" from context and the initials.
90% of everything is crap. And the corollary: the "golden age" looks so good because we only remember the 10%
Funny you should mention that. Today's NYTimes has an article about people paying California prices for Florida swampland:
homes in a design proudly called "Cracker Modern" will sit on lots of up to four acres lots near marshes, creeks and conservation areas, ... average $342,900 for the land alone.
Every time a dog kills someone, there are people who think we should ban whichever breed was at fault (despite the fact that it's often the owner at fault - train a dog to attack humans, and you shouldn't be surprised when it does)
I was a National Geographic space article junkie when I was in grade school (mid 70s) and knew my textbook was wrong when it claimed Jupiter had only 12 moons, but my teacher would not accept any answer other than what was in the book.
iChat's an IM client compatible with AIM. It does support video, and in 10.4 supports multi-person video sessions - haven't tried that as I only know one other person with a camera.
Apple's Mail.app does this; if someone's online, there's a dot next to their name in Mail and you can easily start an iChat session with them.
Smalltalk did!
I should know, I wrote the ParcPlace OS/2 VM.
Heh. That was part of the problem with IBM's support for OS/2, actually - IBM never quite grasped the idea of shrinkwrapped software. At the ColoradOS/2 developer's conference around 93 or 94, someone from IBM came out to answer questions. Many of the answers included "well, just talk to your IBM rep" - now, Big Iron customers may well have their own personal reps, but all any of us had was a phone line to IBM support.
No you don't. That blurb's been debunked on the rumor sites already. For one thing, last time he saw the headmaster was in a fierce one-to-one duel with Lord Voldemort isn't even true - the last time he saw the headmaster was in the headmaster's office where he threw a tantrum. And Privet is misspelled.
Website with pics here (yeah, I know, AOL sucks, but I've had this site since before ISPs were common)
My mom had a stroke two years ago. Her typing skills came back before her verbal skills, and since I mostly communicated with her via IM (she's in TX and I'm in CA), I didn't realize how bad off she'd been.