Hey, I have one of those. Plugged in via DVI to my PowerBook 15 when I'm at work. It's a nice screen... I use it mostly for my editor when I code, so I won't comment on the suitability for gamers.
But you need 10.3.3 on your powerbook to exploit the USB 2 hub in the screen, there was some problems with the computer not recognizing the hub after sleep in previous releases...
Diggin through more of my email, I found some more definitions which came in far later:
Visual Basic Hmm... looks like that Rambler is all you'll ever be able to afford.
Ada 95 An army-green Mercedes-Benz staff car forcibly retrofitted into the form of an amphibious dune buggy. ABS and power locks are standard. The transmission's gear ratios can be adjusted with two extra pedals on the passenger side.
Perl A souped-up Subaru Impreza outfitted with an on-the-fly adjustable turbocharger, roof rack, trailer hitch, power take-off, GPS, and two-tone suspension. This 4WD machine is still surprisingly fast in spite of it and suited for road racing. It is also surprisingly forgiving (once you learn how you're supposed to make mistakes with it.)
Java A minivan. Every yuppie with a spouse and two and a half kids drives one. Good for picking up the kids from soccer and grocery shopping. Some manufacturers insist on delivering a design which is a foot wider than normal, causing more than a few traffic problems. Warning:those vehicules have a high center of gravity and a tendency to roll in sharp corners: not recommended for racing!
A really old joke (definitely before the 90's) was doing the analogies between programming languages and cars.
[Digging through 14 years of archived emails...]
Here ya go. Somebody should find good descriptions for the C#, Java, Perl, VB and [insert your favorite language here] of the day.
Assembler A Formula I race car. Very fast, but difficult to drive and expensive to maintain.
FORTRAN II A Model T Ford. Once it was king of the road.
FORTRAN IV A Model A Ford.
FORTRAN 77 A six-cylinder Ford Fairlane with standard transmission and no seat belts.
COBOL A delivery van. It's bulky and ugly, but it does the work.
BASIC A second-hand Rambler with a rebuilt engine and patched upholstry. Your dad bought it for you to learn to drive. You'll ditch the car as soon as you can afford a new one.
PL/I A Cadillac convertible with automatic transmission, a two-tone paint job, white-wall tires, chrome exhaust pipes, and fuzzy dice hanging in the windshield
C A black Firebird, the all-macho car. Comes with optional seat belts (lint) and optional fuzz buster (escape to assembler).
ALGOL 60 An Austin Mini. Boy, that's a small car.
Pascal A Volkswagen Beetle. It's small but sturdy. Was once popular with intellectuals.
Modula II A Volkswagon Rabbit with a trailer hitch.
ALGOL 68 An Aston Martin. An impressive car, but not just anyone can drive it.
LISP An electric car. It's simple but slow. Seat belts are not available.
PROLOG/LUCID Prototype concept-cars.
Maple/MACSYMA All-terrain vehicles.
FORTH A go-cart.
LOGO A kiddie's replica of a Rolls Royce. Comes with a real engine and a working horn.
APL A double-decker bus. Its takes rows and columns of passengers to the same place all at the same time. But, it drives only in reverse gear, and is instrumented in Greek.
Ada An army-green Mercedes-Benz staff car. Power steering, power brakes and automatic transmission are all standard. No other colors or options are available. If it's good enough for the generals, it's good enough for you. Manufacturing delays due to difficulties reading the design specification are starting to clear up.
I've always figured massive solar power farms on the moon would solve all of this.
There is no unsolvable problems putting the solar panels up there, the issue is how to route the power cable back to earth.
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Just as an example, as an ex-US employee and now a French one (Dubya made me flee;^), I'd like to outline the difference in the vacation package for the approximate same work in the same company.
In the US, after 6 years in the company I was entitled to 18 days off. Each day you are sick is decounted on your vacation days. I only got a handfull of 'US Holidays' free vacation days (New year, Memorial day, Independance day, Thanksgiving and Christmas). That's it. And that's considered fairly generous.
In France it doesn't matter how long you've been in the company, we all get the same package:25 days of vacations plus another 12 days of RTT (you cannot cumulate those RTT with regular vacations days, and you can't take more than 5 consecutive RTTs). In addition there is a mountain of free 'French Holiday': New Year, Easter Monday, Labor Day, WWII veterans' day, Ascension, Whit Monday, Bastille day, Assumption, All Saints' Day, WWI Veteran day, Christmas. 11!
Total? Us: A grand total of 23 days off. France: 48 days off.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Jules Verne yet. As far as science fiction is going, he was a precursor. Go back to your library and read 20000 lieux sous les mers (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in english). Of course I'd recomend reading it in VO if you can, but if french is not your cup of tea the english translations are fine.
I own 700 Sci-fi books, and the ones from Jules are definitely my favorite, he brings you in world deliciously imaginative, and yet completely believable.
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Hey, I have one of those. Plugged in via DVI to my PowerBook 15 when I'm at work. It's a nice screen... I use it mostly for my editor when I code, so I won't comment on the suitability for gamers.
But you need 10.3.3 on your powerbook to exploit the USB 2 hub in the screen, there was some problems with the computer not recognizing the hub after sleep in previous releases...
[Digging through 14 years of archived emails...]
Here ya go. Somebody should find good descriptions for the C#, Java, Perl, VB and [insert your favorite language here] of the day.
There is no unsolvable problems putting the solar panels up there, the issue is how to route the power cable back to earth.
Just as an example, as an ex-US employee and now a French one (Dubya made me flee ;^), I'd like to outline the difference in the vacation package for the approximate same work in the same company.
In the US, after 6 years in the company I was entitled to 18 days off. Each day you are sick is decounted on your vacation days. I only got a handfull of 'US Holidays' free vacation days (New year, Memorial day, Independance day, Thanksgiving and Christmas). That's it. And that's considered fairly generous.
In France it doesn't matter how long you've been in the company, we all get the same package:25 days of vacations plus another 12 days of RTT (you cannot cumulate those RTT with regular vacations days, and you can't take more than 5 consecutive RTTs). In addition there is a mountain of free 'French Holiday': New Year, Easter Monday, Labor Day, WWII veterans' day, Ascension, Whit Monday, Bastille day, Assumption, All Saints' Day, WWI Veteran day, Christmas. 11!
Total?
Us: A grand total of 23 days off.
France: 48 days off.
Guess where I choose to live?
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Jules Verne yet. As far as science fiction is going, he was a precursor. Go back to your library and read 20000 lieux sous les mers (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in english). Of course I'd recomend reading it in VO if you can, but if french is not your cup of tea the english translations are fine.
I own 700 Sci-fi books, and the ones from Jules are definitely my favorite, he brings you in world deliciously imaginative, and yet completely believable.
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