Hey, Thrall ain't perfect, but he's a warlord and he'll soon put an end to the war in Crossroads. He's exactly the sort of murderous bastard we need in troubled times like this. And have you seen the floating castle that just showed up outside Thunder Bluff? That's obviously the result of 8 years of failed Alliance rule. You want four more years of that?
Geez, I don't know. Maybe for the same reason I beat up mythical monsters made entirely of pixels? Because it's fun. There's no cost/benefit analysis to be placed on fun (unless your idea of fun is CBA of course. I find accountants funny, in an elbow nerve-pinch sort of way.)
Ok, now when am I going to get my documents translated that were written in Apple PIE (Programmable Interactive Editor)? It allowed you to use both lower and uppercase characters! Plus, the nicely padded three-ring binder the documentation came in worked great as a pillow when you fell asleep at the keyboard.
Dear gods that are, thank you for a forum that provides that rarest of all commodities, intelligent and balanced political dialog. I have read a very long series of Slashdot comments and I have seen nothing but reasoned, literate discussion from all sides of the political landscape.
I will personally mark this as possibly as historically significant as the outcome of the election.
Linear computing perhaps? Much more interesting than wearable computing. Reading TFA made me imagine multi-strand silicon core cable, one core being a sort of stacked CPU, another core being RAM, inductive bus (semi-conducting insulation perhaps?) another core power, one a colossal shift register, another a sort of EPROM for archival storage, etc. Why send bits along the wire when the wire could supply the bits directly? Wire archive?
And some poor hapless archaeologist stumbles over some odd content as he finally resurrects the ancient server that supported a very high hit-rate Czech ISP, discovers something rather disturbing and calls in the anthropology team.
"I didn't know you could do that! Why would anyone want to grow celery that way?
Serious semantics fail. Payloads are neither uploaded or downloaded -- mostly the wires are horizontal.
Ok, that's a farcical response, but -- when have un-anchored referential words like "up" or "down" ever meant anything in data communications without qualification? It's a bit like naming a file "newest_version.doc". Instant confusion.
Unless there is legal freight in the term, "uploading" has no meaning at all by itself. If it is used in a legally binding sense, it will need to be further qualified each time it is use in order to have meaning survive the essential enantiomorphism of the terms. More precise terms such as "source", "target" and a specific reference to the copy direction (or directions (plural), in P2P) are needed if unambiguous clarity of direction is to result.
That's a good sentiment, but I think you might actually be able to use a parachute made out of gold to arrest your fall sufficiently. It would require some form of alloy to strengthen it a bit, but gold is very malleable stuff and you can roll it pretty thin. I'd think a parachute made out of 1mm gold-silver alloy might conceivably work.
Be careful with this. In Australia we had a similar initiative called the "Goods and Services Tax" which was supposed to do exactly that -- drop an enormously complicated and layered tax structure for a simple flat percentage on goods & services.
Problem was they added the GST, but didn't remove all the other taxes, so it became essentially just one more tax. Implementation is everything, don't let it go ahead unless and until all those other taxes go away in the same bill.
1984 has many differences from a heavy surveillance society. Not only does the 1984 regime spy on you, it destroys any evidence to what actually is reality. It trains the public to deal with cognitive dissonance. It controls thoughts by redefining language.
Such as a certain VP candidate's pressure on local librarians to ban certain books, or the insistence on certain governments to preferentially apply religious cult interpretations into science teachings revolving around differential usage of the word "theory", certain news commentators who shout down interviewees, or basically anywhere rule by the loud attempts to trump rule by reason.
I disagree, pulling someone's files illegally is definitely personally invasive -- even if used sub-rosa, it can be very difficult to escape the confines of a dossier. It can be especially difficult for the person when there is no rule of law for determining what goes into it.
I wouldn't go so far as executing them, but you can do interesting things with a carpet knife. I'm a father of two, and certain responses are wired in.
But I believe censorship is one of those things that starts out as a good idea then ends in repression that multiplies injustice rather than reduces it. The message gets corrupted over time. You can't stop living simply because life is dangerous.
User interface is largely irrelevant. As long as the controls you need are there, you can work it out.
More important is whether the scope has the capacity to display waveforms in the frequency range matching the circuitry you're going to test. It's no good choosing a favorite brand of old 20MHz dual-trace when you want to measure a 2GHz computer circuit, although it may be perfect for most audio or RF engineering (that's where a scope really shines). And check the probes, too -- make sure the ones you're looking at work for the scope and the circuit. You'll need a bit of theory to choose the right ones, so study up.
Actually, I don't think you need a modern guide. COBOL hasn't changed much, older books may be ok.
MicroFocus is good. Another segment in that space with a lot of potential is in the Sun CICS emulators (http://tinyurl.com/6od7wr). These are large systems that can offer a way out of the IBM mainframe trap while still supporting legacy OLTP systems. I don't know that they've achieved huge commercial success, but the options are out there.
It's all in the dollars, I guess. For some firms -- say, with 20 or 30 million customers to keep track of, the cost of the computing equipment isn't all that significant compared to the value of the data assets, so they're less likely to want to move away from Big Blue for their big iron. But for those in the middle with a strong desire to move down the ladder a bit, there are still things you can do before you have to re-engineer the lot. Much of the logic in old COBOL has to do with business rules and database manipulation.
You could probably redefine most of it as simple database table IO (which you could knock together in Iron Speed in a very short time). The problem is in the custom rules that would need to be rewritten in something else, like SeeBeyond -- to get verification and test, you'd need to talk to the business people, and getting them to agree would open up a brand new can of vermiform invertibrates. It would be like re-convening the Continental Congress. So although there are strong technical cases for re-engineering, there are equally strong business/political reasons for a simple application port to a different underlying platform. For mostly political reasons, code is remarkably difficult stuff to change sometimes.
They didn't invent the personal computer. MITS/Altair kits, Apple ][, TRS-80 preceded Microsoft's merging of a third-party DOS with an IBM boat anchor.
The New Horizons probe launched in 2006 to explore Pluto and other bodies is on a solar escape velocity and is the fastest man-made object to date. Eventually it will over take the Voyagers, however they do have a 30 year head start.
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Hey, Thrall ain't perfect, but he's a warlord and he'll soon put an end to the war in Crossroads. He's exactly the sort of murderous bastard we need in troubled times like this. And have you seen the floating castle that just showed up outside Thunder Bluff? That's obviously the result of 8 years of failed Alliance rule. You want four more years of that?
Geez, I don't know. Maybe for the same reason I beat up mythical monsters made entirely of pixels? Because it's fun. There's no cost/benefit analysis to be placed on fun (unless your idea of fun is CBA of course. I find accountants funny, in an elbow nerve-pinch sort of way.)
Absolutely not. The laws of physics apply only to Americans.
Ok, now when am I going to get my documents translated that were written in Apple PIE (Programmable Interactive Editor)? It allowed you to use both lower and uppercase characters! Plus, the nicely padded three-ring binder the documentation came in worked great as a pillow when you fell asleep at the keyboard.
I will personally mark this as possibly as historically significant as the outcome of the election.
Who do you think grows the economy? Corporations do.
Who do you think grows the Corporations? The people do. Customers. People with more money to spend make Corporations grow.
Linear computing perhaps? Much more interesting than wearable computing. Reading TFA made me imagine multi-strand silicon core cable, one core being a sort of stacked CPU, another core being RAM, inductive bus (semi-conducting insulation perhaps?) another core power, one a colossal shift register, another a sort of EPROM for archival storage, etc. Why send bits along the wire when the wire could supply the bits directly? Wire archive?
So he's an aggregator. So is Google News, so is Slashdot. He makes money at it. Get over it.
You're probably right, but the outcome is contested. We need empirical data. Where can we find a CEO?
"I didn't know you could do that! Why would anyone want to grow celery that way?
Ok, that's a farcical response, but -- when have un-anchored referential words like "up" or "down" ever meant anything in data communications without qualification? It's a bit like naming a file "newest_version.doc". Instant confusion.
Unless there is legal freight in the term, "uploading" has no meaning at all by itself. If it is used in a legally binding sense, it will need to be further qualified each time it is use in order to have meaning survive the essential enantiomorphism of the terms. More precise terms such as "source", "target" and a specific reference to the copy direction (or directions (plural), in P2P) are needed if unambiguous clarity of direction is to result.
That's a good sentiment, but I think you might actually be able to use a parachute made out of gold to arrest your fall sufficiently. It would require some form of alloy to strengthen it a bit, but gold is very malleable stuff and you can roll it pretty thin. I'd think a parachute made out of 1mm gold-silver alloy might conceivably work.
Problem was they added the GST, but didn't remove all the other taxes, so it became essentially just one more tax. Implementation is everything, don't let it go ahead unless and until all those other taxes go away in the same bill.
1984 has many differences from a heavy surveillance society. Not only does the 1984 regime spy on you, it destroys any evidence to what actually is reality. It trains the public to deal with cognitive dissonance. It controls thoughts by redefining language.
Such as a certain VP candidate's pressure on local librarians to ban certain books, or the insistence on certain governments to preferentially apply religious cult interpretations into science teachings revolving around differential usage of the word "theory", certain news commentators who shout down interviewees, or basically anywhere rule by the loud attempts to trump rule by reason.
I disagree, pulling someone's files illegally is definitely personally invasive -- even if used sub-rosa, it can be very difficult to escape the confines of a dossier. It can be especially difficult for the person when there is no rule of law for determining what goes into it.
But I believe censorship is one of those things that starts out as a good idea then ends in repression that multiplies injustice rather than reduces it. The message gets corrupted over time. You can't stop living simply because life is dangerous.
User interface is largely irrelevant. As long as the controls you need are there, you can work it out.
More important is whether the scope has the capacity to display waveforms in the frequency range matching the circuitry you're going to test. It's no good choosing a favorite brand of old 20MHz dual-trace when you want to measure a 2GHz computer circuit, although it may be perfect for most audio or RF engineering (that's where a scope really shines). And check the probes, too -- make sure the ones you're looking at work for the scope and the circuit. You'll need a bit of theory to choose the right ones, so study up.
Actually, I don't think you need a modern guide. COBOL hasn't changed much, older books may be ok.
MicroFocus is good. Another segment in that space with a lot of potential is in the Sun CICS emulators (http://tinyurl.com/6od7wr). These are large systems that can offer a way out of the IBM mainframe trap while still supporting legacy OLTP systems. I don't know that they've achieved huge commercial success, but the options are out there.
It's all in the dollars, I guess. For some firms -- say, with 20 or 30 million customers to keep track of, the cost of the computing equipment isn't all that significant compared to the value of the data assets, so they're less likely to want to move away from Big Blue for their big iron. But for those in the middle with a strong desire to move down the ladder a bit, there are still things you can do before you have to re-engineer the lot. Much of the logic in old COBOL has to do with business rules and database manipulation.
You could probably redefine most of it as simple database table IO (which you could knock together in Iron Speed in a very short time). The problem is in the custom rules that would need to be rewritten in something else, like SeeBeyond -- to get verification and test, you'd need to talk to the business people, and getting them to agree would open up a brand new can of vermiform invertibrates. It would be like re-convening the Continental Congress. So although there are strong technical cases for re-engineering, there are equally strong business/political reasons for a simple application port to a different underlying platform. For mostly political reasons, code is remarkably difficult stuff to change sometimes.
Have you heard of the object oriented COBOL compiler? It's called "ADD 1 TO COBOL."
Ok, I'm in pre-sales, but it's the same line of work.
...and toner is getting into every...
Don't forget folks, cold water only to wash out a toner spill. It's powdered thermosetting plastic.
Land of the free, home of the brave ring a bell? We imposed conditions like this on defeated
Dear gods, I find myself agreeing with Twitter. Historic moment.
Somebody hand me a fork...
They didn't invent the personal computer. MITS/Altair kits, Apple ][, TRS-80 preceded Microsoft's merging of a third-party DOS with an IBM boat anchor.
The New Horizons probe launched in 2006 to explore Pluto and other bodies is on a solar escape velocity and is the fastest man-made object to date. Eventually it will over take the Voyagers, however they do have a 30 year head start.
Although it can be said that urban myth travels faster and starts earlier, in the case of a certain manhole cover. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhole_cover
I have a co-worker who says you should always keep three copies of important data in different places. This lends weight to the three copies idea.
"I tell you three times!"
-- R.A.Heinlein, "Number of the Beast" 1980.
An integrated, detachable motorbike would probably be more useful.