http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
In Javelin, you defined a variable (like Electric Usage or Product X Sales) as having a period (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly...), you had a screen for entering values into a variable at any time period, and you could use those variables in functions that automatically split or combined values appropriately. Then you'd lay out a worksheet (not a spreadsheet!) for whatever combination of variables and time periods you liked. Charts and graphs existed independently, and would automatically adjust to data and dates.
Javelin won over the (then) new Excel as Infoworld's best Software Product of the Year 1985.
It is a great mystery why no-one in the last 30 years has replicated this functionality. Instead all we get are Lotus 1-2-3 clones like Multiplan, err, Excel.
Who took the "personal" out of "personal computer" --? The whole point of personal computers was putting the users in control. How is anyone supposed to get anything done without being able to control their tools? Ludicrous.
No, vBulletin is a software package, or a program, or even "vBulletin is software" -- but never "a software." You don't have "a hardware" or "an information" or "a clothing" -- you have a piece of hardware, a piece of information, a piece of clothing, and a piece of software. Grammar check, please.
I like to wander the stacks, looking for unusual shape books, interesting covers... pull a book out, read a few random paragraphs in the middle, maybe peek at the beginning or end, leaf through looking for photos and illustrations... How would you browse that way with a database of e-books?
If I wanted to read the Internet, I could stay home. Print on paper is an utterly different experience. You know -- Tactile, spatial (how far into the book you are, what side of the page) -- not to mention, you can slip bookmarks into pages, photocopy them, and pass them around between several people.
When I check half a dozen books out of the library, I read one, I pass it along to Mom while she's reading another, and to Dad, and my brother... How do you propose doing that with a bunch of e-books?
Enacting "zero tolerance playground rules" will not make school bullies vanish from the Universe. Why would diplomacy make tyrants obsolete? If your opponent is going to use force, are you going to wimp out?
Back in 1993 there was Microsoft at Work, "a short-lived effort promoted by Microsoft to tie together common business machinery, like fax machines and photocopiers, with a common communications protocol allowing control and status information to be shared with computers running Microsoft Windows..."
Ugh, this again. You have one piece of software, you have one piece of hardware, and one piece of firmware. You do not "change firmwares" but rather you "change (the) firmware." You wouldn't say you "update the informations" or "upgrade your hardwares" or "go change your clothings" -- would you? Grammar, please.
WANTED: Programmer with 15 years experience Ruby on Rails and 23 years MongoDB experience, to help write $5 million package. Pay: $11/hour, 30 hours/week part time (although we expect you to camp out as we supply pizza and beer). Supply your own equipment. Job to last three months.
-- That's why I'm running my own shop instead of trying to go thru a recruiter.
"TrueCrypt is a popular software enabling data protection...
No, TrueCrypt is a popular piece of software. You don't have "a hardware" or "a clothing" or "an information" — and likewise you cannot have "a software."
Doesn't the trend of "cutting the cable" partly stem from having too many channels to choose from? When my dad recently considered buying a television (they haven't bought one in 15 years) the choices are bewildering and even the terminology befuddles him -- and he was one of RCA's first television installers and service-men back in 1948. I have never had cable T.V. and when I tried to find the local PBS channel on a friend's set, channel 7 isn't on channel 7 and there's a bazillion buttons on six remotes, and somehow every channel change seems to result in either Twiggy people or sumo wrestlers (what the heck is broken with aspect ratios? Aaargh) -- after ten minutes of frustration I just gave up. Maybe that's why television viewership is dropping like a stone?
Now you'll have to keep a selection of masks (Guy Fawkes, George Bush, Muhammad Ali...) in the cart and switch them as you wander the aisles. Or maybe wearing a burka will be enough.
> BOOT
Your way is blocked by a tall, bald pirate.
> KILL PIRATE
With what, your bare hands?
> INVENTORY
You have:
One hard disk drive,/dev/hda
One CDROM drive,/dev/cd0
One USB drive,/dev/sda
A rather large magnet
A DVD containing LinuxMint
> EXAMINE HARD DRIVE
The disk appears to contain a bootable copy of Windows 8.
> ATTACK PIRATE WITH MAGNET
The pirate parries, and your magnet hits the hard disk drive. READ ERROR, SECTOR 0
>
We have been waiting ages for another ZORK. Please, somebody? A game that's all brainteasers and wordplay and fake magic and really really bad puns? And no shoot-em-ups, and no swear words, just family fun? Please?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J... In Javelin, you defined a variable (like Electric Usage or Product X Sales) as having a period (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly...), you had a screen for entering values into a variable at any time period, and you could use those variables in functions that automatically split or combined values appropriately. Then you'd lay out a worksheet (not a spreadsheet!) for whatever combination of variables and time periods you liked. Charts and graphs existed independently, and would automatically adjust to data and dates. Javelin won over the (then) new Excel as Infoworld's best Software Product of the Year 1985. It is a great mystery why no-one in the last 30 years has replicated this functionality. Instead all we get are Lotus 1-2-3 clones like Multiplan, err, Excel.
Who took the "personal" out of "personal computer" --? The whole point of personal computers was putting the users in control. How is anyone supposed to get anything done without being able to control their tools? Ludicrous.
No, vBulletin is a software package, or a program, or even "vBulletin is software" -- but never "a software." You don't have "a hardware" or "an information" or "a clothing" -- you have a piece of hardware, a piece of information, a piece of clothing, and a piece of software. Grammar check, please.
Yea, verily.
I like to wander the stacks, looking for unusual shape books, interesting covers... pull a book out, read a few random paragraphs in the middle, maybe peek at the beginning or end, leaf through looking for photos and illustrations... How would you browse that way with a database of e-books?
If I wanted to read the Internet, I could stay home. Print on paper is an utterly different experience. You know -- Tactile, spatial (how far into the book you are, what side of the page) -- not to mention, you can slip bookmarks into pages, photocopy them, and pass them around between several people.
When I check half a dozen books out of the library, I read one, I pass it along to Mom while she's reading another, and to Dad, and my brother... How do you propose doing that with a bunch of e-books?
A library without books is... pointless. Why not just build a Starbucks or a McDonalds. Or, actually, an empty room. What a waste.
Dido, the British singer-songwriter ("White Flag," "Life for Rent")? -- or did you mean, "ditto"
So... this is para-dice? Not quite what I thought it would be.
Enacting "zero tolerance playground rules" will not make school bullies vanish from the Universe. Why would diplomacy make tyrants obsolete? If your opponent is going to use force, are you going to wimp out?
Sounds like he was channeling Joseph Smith.
"Write (Hopefully) Once, Run Everywhere" just did not make a good acronym.
Bad idea then, ... bad idea now?
How do you send text messages that are not associated with a telephone number? (confused)
Ugh, this again. You have one piece of software, you have one piece of hardware, and one piece of firmware. You do not "change firmwares" but rather you "change (the) firmware." You wouldn't say you "update the informations" or "upgrade your hardwares" or "go change your clothings" -- would you? Grammar, please.
You seem to have a problem with profanity in a public forum, perhaps you are overly stressed? Please let's keep it clean here.
WANTED: Programmer with 15 years experience Ruby on Rails and 23 years MongoDB experience, to help write $5 million package. Pay: $11/hour, 30 hours/week part time (although we expect you to camp out as we supply pizza and beer). Supply your own equipment. Job to last three months.
-- That's why I'm running my own shop instead of trying to go thru a recruiter.
Lesson: When the data do not match your presumed hypothesis -- feign, fudge, and fib, until it fits.
No, TrueCrypt is a popular piece of software. You don't have "a hardware" or "a clothing" or "an information" — and likewise you cannot have "a software."
Doesn't the trend of "cutting the cable" partly stem from having too many channels to choose from? When my dad recently considered buying a television (they haven't bought one in 15 years) the choices are bewildering and even the terminology befuddles him -- and he was one of RCA's first television installers and service-men back in 1948. I have never had cable T.V. and when I tried to find the local PBS channel on a friend's set, channel 7 isn't on channel 7 and there's a bazillion buttons on six remotes, and somehow every channel change seems to result in either Twiggy people or sumo wrestlers (what the heck is broken with aspect ratios? Aaargh) -- after ten minutes of frustration I just gave up. Maybe that's why television viewership is dropping like a stone?
Now you'll have to keep a selection of masks (Guy Fawkes, George Bush, Muhammad Ali...) in the cart and switch them as you wander the aisles. Or maybe wearing a burka will be enough.
It's only a flesh wound!
> BOOT /dev/hda /dev/cd0 /dev/sda
Your way is blocked by a tall, bald pirate.
> KILL PIRATE
With what, your bare hands?
> INVENTORY
You have:
One hard disk drive,
One CDROM drive,
One USB drive,
A rather large magnet
A DVD containing LinuxMint
> EXAMINE HARD DRIVE
The disk appears to contain a bootable copy of Windows 8.
> ATTACK PIRATE WITH MAGNET
The pirate parries, and your magnet hits the hard disk drive.
READ ERROR, SECTOR 0
>
Microsoft is neck-and-neck with Apple, selling nine Windows phones on the same weekend.
Didn't I just read that circumnavigation was no longer considered a moral or medical necessity?
We have been waiting ages for another ZORK. Please, somebody? A game that's all brainteasers and wordplay and fake magic and really really bad puns? And no shoot-em-ups, and no swear words, just family fun? Please?