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I graduated with the first five-year class of NUCCS in 1988. Five years because Co-Op experience was mandatory and built into the curriculum. Freshmen and Sophomores used Pascal; by Middler (3d year) you had to take the 1-credit "lab" course in C to move into the Operating Systems track. We also had VAX Assembler and FORTRAN... Until 1985, the whole University's enrollment system still ran on punch-cards.
The long-ago meaning of ^Z (end-of-file on CP/M and Heathkit's HDOS) is nearly lost in the mists of time, but ^H and ^J are still wired into Real Geeks as Backspace and Linefeed... it would be difficult to overwrite those meanings with any other shortcuts.
to present (someone) with a gift: just the thing to gift the newlyweds.
The dictionary documents usage, even incorrect usage. A dictionary is not a style guide. The correct way to say that is: "just the thing to give the newlyweds." Although I heard of a couple newlyweds being blendered, toastered, and vacuumed recently.
Chrome and recent editions of Firefox badly break the CUA standard (no visible File/Edit menus, F10 does not bring up menu bar, and so on. Unity and Gnome 3 trash its goals of consistent, discoverable interfaces even further. Compared to these, Emacs with its decades-long consistency is a gold standard.
If I say that a majority of scientists believes global warming is true, then IT MUST BE -- and you are a shameful oil-company shill if you think otherwise. Science clearly is about unerring Belief In What We Say and has nothing to do with facts and proof.
Wesley Mouch, having earlier shuttered the Keystone Pipeline in favor of the Windmills Project, leans forward in his slightly misaligned overstuffed leather executive chair and puffs his cigar, and buzzes his secretary -- "Tell Mr. Slagenhop, good job on the robot factory."
Right, but the "Continents on the Move" section of "Earth Over Time" was specifically about a system for children that contained touch-screen dragging-and-moving, and knowing when to remove or "dock" an item.
I was a programmer for the "Earth Over Time" interactive videodisc in 1990. Produced by Digital Techniques Inc., of Burlington Massachusetts for the Interactive Video Science Consortium, the system was designed primarily for school-age children, and installed in dozens of museums worldwide including the National Geographic in Washington DC. Earth Over Time featured a touchscreen display of Continents which the user could "click and drag" to re-assemble Pangaea, the prehistoric proto-continent. This multimedia application (called an "interactive videodisc" in the days before "multimedia" was a common word) won several awards including an ITVA Golden Reel and the Best Overall Achievement Nebraska Interactive Videodisc award in 1990. I also have implementation notes from the project in my files.
What happens when an errant deer runs onto the road, a tire blows out, or an imperfectly maintained car malfunctions in any way whatsoever? Bam! Bam-bam-bam-bam--WOOMPH. Fifty dead, film at 11.
OK so a friend of mine has an Instagram account and wants me to "follow" him, but I cannot see how to sign up with just an ordinary web browser on a normal computer. Instagram's website is no help. Anyone?
Exactly -- how can he protest DARPA's involvement without boycotting the entire Internet? Clearly the RFC process is poisoned, as is TCP/IP, and... and... well, everything. Aircraft, submarines, jet engines, and even TANG breakfast drink would not exist without the military. Send this gentleman a bucket of sand in which to hide his head, please.
I want to be able to flag certain people or concepts as being un-interesting, so they will never appear in the scrolling stories. Jerry and Elaine may be my friends, but George isn't, and I just don't care to read anything George says on Jerry's or Elaine's "wall." I would like George to just vanish from my viewpoint. George shouldn't know that I find him un-interesting, and neither should Jerry or Elaine or anyone else. That feature alone would eliminate 90% of the "spam" on social media services.
On the Interstate Highway 5 what? On the I-5 bridge? on the I-5...what? (You used it like an adjective, you wouldn't say "on the Route 66", would you? Or "on the Main Street" ? Did you mean "on I-5" perhaps.)
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I graduated with the first five-year class of NUCCS in 1988. Five years because Co-Op experience was mandatory and built into the curriculum. Freshmen and Sophomores used Pascal; by Middler (3d year) you had to take the 1-credit "lab" course in C to move into the Operating Systems track. We also had VAX Assembler and FORTRAN... Until 1985, the whole University's enrollment system still ran on punch-cards.
The long-ago meaning of ^Z (end-of-file on CP/M and Heathkit's HDOS) is nearly lost in the mists of time, but ^H and ^J are still wired into Real Geeks as Backspace and Linefeed... it would be difficult to overwrite those meanings with any other shortcuts.
That's a piece of software. There is no such thing as "a software," "a hardware," or "a clothing."
Your right, thank's. I gift you that this helps alot of softwares and firmwares.
(If elected, I will support spelling reform and verb control!)
Do you sense a growing suspicion that Facebook has been counting virtual revenues...?
The dictionary documents usage, even incorrect usage. A dictionary is not a style guide. The correct way to say that is: "just the thing to give the newlyweds." Although I heard of a couple newlyweds being blendered, toastered, and vacuumed recently.
Windows is just following the CUA standard.
Chrome and recent editions of Firefox badly break the CUA standard (no visible File/Edit menus, F10 does not bring up menu bar, and so on. Unity and Gnome 3 trash its goals of consistent, discoverable interfaces even further. Compared to these, Emacs with its decades-long consistency is a gold standard.
If I say that a majority of scientists believes global warming is true, then IT MUST BE -- and you are a shameful oil-company shill if you think otherwise. Science clearly is about unerring Belief In What We Say and has nothing to do with facts and proof.
Why don't they just lease downtown Detroit?
Wesley Mouch, having earlier shuttered the Keystone Pipeline in favor of the Windmills Project, leans forward in his slightly misaligned overstuffed leather executive chair and puffs his cigar, and buzzes his secretary -- "Tell Mr. Slagenhop, good job on the robot factory."
Lizzie Borden to her Pa: "Papa, can I play outside?" Pa: "Go axe your mother."
No, we lost Ed in 2009, four years after Johnny in 2005. C'est la vi.
I agree with your point, however: Where were you educated? Profanity is rude.
Right, but the "Continents on the Move" section of "Earth Over Time" was specifically about a system for children that contained touch-screen dragging-and-moving, and knowing when to remove or "dock" an item.
I was a programmer for the "Earth Over Time" interactive videodisc in 1990. Produced by Digital Techniques Inc., of Burlington Massachusetts for the Interactive Video Science Consortium, the system was designed primarily for school-age children, and installed in dozens of museums worldwide including the National Geographic in Washington DC. Earth Over Time featured a touchscreen display of Continents which the user could "click and drag" to re-assemble Pangaea, the prehistoric proto-continent. This multimedia application (called an "interactive videodisc" in the days before "multimedia" was a common word) won several awards including an ITVA Golden Reel and the Best Overall Achievement Nebraska Interactive Videodisc award in 1990. I also have implementation notes from the project in my files.
What happens when an errant deer runs onto the road, a tire blows out, or an imperfectly maintained car malfunctions in any way whatsoever? Bam! Bam-bam-bam-bam--WOOMPH. Fifty dead, film at 11.
Carl didn't do too well with TWA, what will he do with Internet Brands?
OK so a friend of mine has an Instagram account and wants me to "follow" him, but I cannot see how to sign up with just an ordinary web browser on a normal computer. Instagram's website is no help. Anyone?
Exactly -- how can he protest DARPA's involvement without boycotting the entire Internet? Clearly the RFC process is poisoned, as is TCP/IP, and... and... well, everything. Aircraft, submarines, jet engines, and even TANG breakfast drink would not exist without the military. Send this gentleman a bucket of sand in which to hide his head, please.
He needs your money now. Next time on Slashdot: The Technical Reasons Why Martha Stewart Chooses X Brand Flour.
I want to be able to flag certain people or concepts as being un-interesting, so they will never appear in the scrolling stories. Jerry and Elaine may be my friends, but George isn't, and I just don't care to read anything George says on Jerry's or Elaine's "wall." I would like George to just vanish from my viewpoint. George shouldn't know that I find him un-interesting, and neither should Jerry or Elaine or anyone else. That feature alone would eliminate 90% of the "spam" on social media services.
Trees releasing dangerous radioactive gases into the atmosphere? Egads, we better cut all those polluters down!
Is that some faded-out version of Pascal, perhaps?
On the Interstate Highway 5 what? On the I-5 bridge? on the I-5 ...what? (You used it like an adjective, you wouldn't say "on the Route 66", would you? Or "on the Main Street" ? Did you mean "on I-5" perhaps.)
Free pubs? Let the beer and knowledge flow! Where are they???