Magnetic domain -- bubble memory -- this is old, as in late 70's early 80's old. I think Intel had a 1MB chip before it was dropped. Clock speed may be different, but pushing magnetic domains along a wire isn't.
As in the auto industry, placement of standard controls in the user interface make everyone comfortable enough with the technology to promote universal usage. How they connect, their feel etc. leaves everyone a bit of leeway to play with the design, but there are those first moments when you immerse yourself into a technology where you neither want nor need to think about how to begin. The initial controls should be familiar to all.
"Junior" was the whopping big 3/4 MB MIS development machine and my whole team (about 70 programmers) had to share it. But hey, we had a machine that we didn't have to share with production at all. Cool, hey? DEC RSTS/E machines used for manufacturing and billing, admin sort of stuff. We had a few of them. EDT rocked. But do not put more than one key on an RMS indexed file, or you would both hurt and sting.
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My home, contents, and choice of music collection is the result of long-term planning and design. My book collection and software collection are skillfully chosen to create an artistic highlight of a life well spent. The total picture is a very important part of my life, and I've invested an enormous amount of intellectual capital in building and refining it.
I hereby claim copyright on my life and all its contents, and demand protection from the corporations who would copy any component of it, right down to my ISP's search history logs, which are a product of my own intellectual efforts.
He's never come across as clueless or insensitive to me, just very very focused. I remember in the early days of Apple he walked in to the Bandley 2 computer room (open fishbowl, secured by people knowing not to bother the ops) wearing T-shirt, jeans & sandals and started playing with the switches on one of the front panels of "Junior", the 11/70 we used for development.
Tim Fischer, the op at the time, threw him out. "Do you know who I am?" he said -- Tim responded "I don't care if you're f***ing Steve Jobs, get out of my computer room". Steve left and I believe TIm got a pay rise out of it, although he was a bit shook when he told me.
RSTS-E/Basic Plus -- everything you needed but address space...
Formula 1 engines have used solenoid-powered valves for years. They are totally decoupled from piston positions and are under the control of the engine management system. Maybe they were a bit secretive, but any one of those engine makers could point to an engine built before this "discovery" and say "Look, prior art!"
Work-Life balance meme strikes again, eh? Well, it's an important one, and as personal as a sneeze. Very worth exploring.
Herman Hesse was pretty much must-read for the 60's for people who were escaping the grey doom of the 50's (50's were very much like today, come to think of it). Hesse liked to explore the contrast between two parallel lives, Grasshopper vs. the Ant. He accomplished this in great depth, imo and making that balance between what you want to do and what you perceive you need to do was a bit easier for me because of exploring that relationship in a book, early in my life.
I recommend Der Magister Ludi (Glass Bead Game). It's a long read, but a good one, even in the English.
Erk... "$run/debug stripped off the "D" before compiling" should read "$fortran/debug stripped off the "D" before compiling.". It's late, signing off before the stupid gnome hits me with his little hammer again.
It was compiled as a normal line of code when the compiler directive $fortran/debug created the object module. The $link/debug could then add the symbol table for access by the run-time debugger, which could then be toggled on or off via $run/debug or $run/nodebug. So the debugger could see that line of code that had the "D" in column 1, but the run time debugger was independent of whether or not that line of code was compiled. Basically, $run/debug stripped off the "D" before compiling. This means that you can indeed access the label of that line of code via the debugger, thus accessing by it's name. I think that means yes, prior art.
Nope, up to you what you buy. I'd buy it for the convenience. Lives inside the firewall, and it honours your acl's. You can write your own search engine if you like, the concepts have been around for a while. Wrap the software in your own distro and go for it.
More likely, nano-scale light fibres might be used in switching very small optical devices. Imagine if two nano light fibres were aligned such that a signal could be injected, would the additional photons be enough to raise the threshold of the original signal such that it could then emit a signal through an end junction that it ordinarily wouldn't? Sounds like an optical transistor to me.
Perhaps I should clarify. You are all correct when you say that computers cannot teach communications skills where the desire or motivation isn't there. It's just a power tool -- giving a person a power drill does not give them the ability to build a house.
A computer is an amplifier, and a very powerful one. It gives me, for example, an opportunity to be totally slagged by lots of people when I'm being imprecise (LoL, thanks!).
When people are put into a situation where good communications are an advantage though -- such as in an academic environment where people actually want to learn, then having the power tool is very, very important. It gives you the chance to move more prose back and forth, to refine it faster, and thus to learn faster.
For the total poltroon, of course, it's just something warm to put in their lap.
Codswallop. Everybody knows the universe is powered by good old steam
Oooh Codswallop. Now there's a dirty word! (being a student of word origins, I belive it's pretty aweful). But I think he's right. For a given value of steam. Everyone knows steam is a gift from His Noodly Appendage for the use of inspiring poets, like Kipling (and I do kipple occasionaly, thank you, so should you).
"LORD, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream,
An', taught by time, I tak' it so--exceptin' always Steam." ("MacAndrew's Hymn")
Old Sanford & Son skit had (Redd Foxx) talking to his son, who couldn't read.
"Why should I learn to read? I'm going to inherit the junkyard ain't I?"
"You gonna go broke, son".
"Why? I'll just hire a manager".
"Your manager can read and you can't? You gonna go broke, son".
Laptops teach communications skills. Laptops give you the opportunity to use what you learn that way, too.
IT is absolutely the wrong career for a lot of people, but if you even get a job selling cars and your boss can communicate but you can't, well, you're gonna go broke, son.
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Magnetic domain -- bubble memory -- this is old, as in late 70's early 80's old. I think Intel had a 1MB chip before it was dropped. Clock speed may be different, but pushing magnetic domains along a wire isn't.
As in the auto industry, placement of standard controls in the user interface make everyone comfortable enough with the technology to promote universal usage. How they connect, their feel etc. leaves everyone a bit of leeway to play with the design, but there are those first moments when you immerse yourself into a technology where you neither want nor need to think about how to begin. The initial controls should be familiar to all.
"Junior" was the whopping big 3/4 MB MIS development machine and my whole team (about 70 programmers) had to share it. But hey, we had a machine that we didn't have to share with production at all. Cool, hey? DEC RSTS/E machines used for manufacturing and billing, admin sort of stuff. We had a few of them. EDT rocked. But do not put more than one key on an RMS indexed file, or you would both hurt and sting.
Land lines are a huge revenue earner for the telcos, but it's not seen as a growth area. Cell phones and Enterprise VoIP are where they're going.
And thank you for the complement, Dory.
I hereby claim copyright on my life and all its contents, and demand protection from the corporations who would copy any component of it, right down to my ISP's search history logs, which are a product of my own intellectual efforts.
That's ok, they can get it to land at night.
Tim Fischer, the op at the time, threw him out. "Do you know who I am?" he said -- Tim responded "I don't care if you're f***ing Steve Jobs, get out of my computer room". Steve left and I believe TIm got a pay rise out of it, although he was a bit shook when he told me.
RSTS-E/Basic Plus -- everything you needed but address space...
Oooh I like Quantum Substance. Sort of like Vegemite but without the salt.
Formula 1 engines have used solenoid-powered valves for years. They are totally decoupled from piston positions and are under the control of the engine management system. Maybe they were a bit secretive, but any one of those engine makers could point to an engine built before this "discovery" and say "Look, prior art!"
No way! You can do that? Personally I'd think you're better off selling bascinets, hundskulls and maybe bulk rattan.
Herman Hesse was pretty much must-read for the 60's for people who were escaping the grey doom of the 50's (50's were very much like today, come to think of it). Hesse liked to explore the contrast between two parallel lives, Grasshopper vs. the Ant. He accomplished this in great depth, imo and making that balance between what you want to do and what you perceive you need to do was a bit easier for me because of exploring that relationship in a book, early in my life.
I recommend Der Magister Ludi (Glass Bead Game). It's a long read, but a good one, even in the English.
Clicks like the wind flew
Unavailable it is
You are Slashdotted
Erk... "$run/debug stripped off the "D" before compiling" should read "$fortran/debug stripped off the "D" before compiling.". It's late, signing off before the stupid gnome hits me with his little hammer again.
It was compiled as a normal line of code when the compiler directive $fortran/debug created the object module. The $link/debug could then add the symbol table for access by the run-time debugger, which could then be toggled on or off via $run/debug or $run/nodebug. So the debugger could see that line of code that had the "D" in column 1, but the run time debugger was independent of whether or not that line of code was compiled. Basically, $run/debug stripped off the "D" before compiling. This means that you can indeed access the label of that line of code via the debugger, thus accessing by it's name. I think that means yes, prior art.
Nope, up to you what you buy. I'd buy it for the convenience. Lives inside the firewall, and it honours your acl's. You can write your own search engine if you like, the concepts have been around for a while. Wrap the software in your own distro and go for it.
Just don't spill you're drink down your shirt, unless you avoid alcohol altogether.
Yep, that was amusing. Now I'm interested in how poorly-monitored power supplies can produce measureable quantities of tritium.
Apologies, my felony -- sorry about need for link twink http://www.google.com.au/enterprise/gsa/onebox.htm l
They don't. You can buy a very nice search engine hosted on Google hardware. Check out http://www.google.com.au/enterprise/gsa/onebox.htm l/
More likely, nano-scale light fibres might be used in switching very small optical devices. Imagine if two nano light fibres were aligned such that a signal could be injected, would the additional photons be enough to raise the threshold of the original signal such that it could then emit a signal through an end junction that it ordinarily wouldn't? Sounds like an optical transistor to me.
I'm standing here, watching the tape drive, spinning around and talking.
I'm standing here, watching the tape drive spinning around and talking.
...answer to a question someone asked me long ago, after a long, long Easter weekend spent upgrading a power utility to VMS V4.
Trauma effects affect language.
A computer is an amplifier, and a very powerful one. It gives me, for example, an opportunity to be totally slagged by lots of people when I'm being imprecise (LoL, thanks!).
When people are put into a situation where good communications are an advantage though -- such as in an academic environment where people actually want to learn, then having the power tool is very, very important. It gives you the chance to move more prose back and forth, to refine it faster, and thus to learn faster.
For the total poltroon, of course, it's just something warm to put in their lap.
Oooh Codswallop. Now there's a dirty word! (being a student of word origins, I belive it's pretty aweful). But I think he's right. For a given value of steam. Everyone knows steam is a gift from His Noodly Appendage for the use of inspiring poets, like Kipling (and I do kipple occasionaly, thank you, so should you).
"LORD, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream,
An', taught by time, I tak' it so--exceptin' always Steam." ("MacAndrew's Hymn")
"Why should I learn to read? I'm going to inherit the junkyard ain't I?"
"You gonna go broke, son".
"Why? I'll just hire a manager".
"Your manager can read and you can't? You gonna go broke, son".
Laptops teach communications skills. Laptops give you the opportunity to use what you learn that way, too.
IT is absolutely the wrong career for a lot of people, but if you even get a job selling cars and your boss can communicate but you can't, well, you're gonna go broke, son.