That's BS. My parents sprang for an SR-11 when I was a junior in high school, and an SR-51 in college. I'm not sure if my SR-51 was an "A" or not. The SR-11 was passed on and I have no idea where it might be today. The SR-51 ran for years, although I used it less and less, and finally burned out a resistor in the power circuit; I never got it fixed.
Never had any issue with the keys functioning on either calculator. They were workhorses. A lot of my friends had TI's as well, never heard of a key problem.
Wow. You're either trolling or have an awfully limited acquaintance. I have no distractions at home (just me and my wife and she leaves me alone, no TV no radio in my home office). I get in at least 3-4 more good hours per day than I can at an office. I've worked from home for going on 20 years now and I guarantee nobody questions my productivity. I'm a lot more tempted to goof off when I'm visiting one of the offices.
I don't pretend to say that working from home is for everyone, or every job, but when it works it's a HUGE win. And in my company it works a lot.
Oddly enough, the purchase price on a dot-matrix like the classic Okidata 320 is likely to be higher than a cheapo monochrome laser printer. If you keep it long enough, the dot-matrix might be cheaper to run overall. For minimum hassle with connectivity, drivers, etc I'd go with the cheap laser.
For very infrequent usage, inkjets are a non-starter.
I rather suspect that Google would have been sued for inaction over a toxic work environment if they hadn't fired him. Seriously, another nonsensical "biologically unfit for..." theory? If it's lifting 300 pounds, you can validly produce a statistical likelihood that most people fit for the job will be male, but mental tasks? Horseshit. We've been down that road for millenia and the "biologically unfit" crowd is ALWAYS wrong. I'm sure he'll sue, and his lawyers might make money, but I expect he won't see a dime.
I don't know how normal it is, but that's certainly how I like to work. I'll work vaguely normal hours for a while, get stuck into something, and put in a 70 hour week or three. Then when it's over I might do little enough for a few days. Fortunately, in my position I can be useful even when not churning out code or bug fixes; I can grease the skids for support issues, help out other folks, dig around for weaknesses, etc.
What do I think about the update? I think it sucks dead moose dicks. It's vaguely classier looking, but considerably more content free and massively more annoying. If I want classy looking I'll go to a fashion website.
I've done 100% of my work from home for the last 14 years, and many of the devs on my team work from home as well. It's not for everyone, and you have to have good active communication skills. For me, going to the office means getting on an airplane. I love it, and I guarantee that the company gets at least 25% more work out of me this way.
It's not for everyone. The lack of social interaction is a killer for some people, and obviously some jobs can't be done remotely. When it does work it can be a big win for both employee and employer. Any company that rejects working from home as a matter of policy is being stupid, IMO.
And of course we all know that means he isn't dead at all.
I have to roll my eyes at this sort of nonsense. The traditional lecture will never go away, although one might hope that lecturers who are crap at it will be more motivated to find alternatives, leaving the good ones to do their thing. [just] "putting a different spin" on the material is often *exactly* what a student needs. I vividly recall an interaction I had with a bunch of extremely intelligent Chinese profs, and I mention the nationality only because the language barrier was relevant. I was trying to explain a certain process, and it took me over a day, drawing and re-drawing and re-wording and re-re-wording until I finally hit on the "spin" that made the connection with one guy, and he explained it to the rest (in Chinese) and we were able to move in. Much the same sort of thing often happens in a lecture setting.
"Traditional" boring droning lectures which re-read the book or the powerpoint slides may be dead, but then they were never alive.
Laptops will get shoved into suitcases, where they will ignite clothing. Just one isn't likely to crash an airplane, but just one in the passenger compartment -- whether fire or explosive -- isn't bringing down a plane either. It's a lot easier to properly contain a battery fire when you can handle it. Even a smoky cargo fire would be a massive loss to the airline, which will already be hurting due to reduced flights. This whole notion is crazy and I really don't know what sort of asshole would think it's even semi reasonable.
If this is true, I'm horrified that the airlines would put up with having all those lithium batteries in uncontrolled luggage in the cargo hold. If it were my airline I'd refuse the fly the routes. I certainly won't get on a plane full of cargo hold batteries. I'm equally horrified that any business would put up with the loss of time and potential loss of assets due to theft, never mind the potential loss of employees if a cargo fire brings down a plane.
This will be a huge boon to Canadian air travel. If this astounding idiocy is enacted, my Europe travel will all be going through Toronto, assuming that it occurs at all.
Pretty much this. Macs mostly just work, and they mostly don't piss me off (unlike Windows, which can usually find some way to raise my blood pressure within a few minutes of logging on). The hardware is mostly elegant and a pleasure to use. Since I usually get several years out of a Mac, I don't feel like I have to squeeze out every penny when I buy a new one.
Ah, yes, the CDC machines. I never actually programmed one but came close. A company I worked at was bought by an outfit with a bunch of CDC machines and we were going to port something, I forget what, to the CDC's using assembly. I read the manuals and decided that the best description of the architecture was a cluster of PDP-8's all talking to a very high speed, programmable floating point attachment.:-)
Pffft. *Young* people will say BASIC. Back in the day, if the computer booted while I was around, it was going to be a bad day for everyone since it was THE computer and it only rebooted when it was broken. (I exaggerate slightly, there was a Univac 1108 as well but you had to have real funny-money to get at it.)
Old people will say 7090 machine language or something like that. I'm not that old.
Specifically, WATFIV and ALGOLW at CMU. I was exposed to Basic early on but never had any opportunity to write anything in it. A couple semesters before I got there, they were starting students out on PLAGO (a reduced PL/I for student use that attempted to do fancy error detection and correction), but they left PL/I behind for Fortran. Very shortly afterwards, I got into PDP-8 assembly.
I've read the 3 initial volumes, and they remain a useful reference. I don't need to look there often, but when I do, TAOCP is the best reference I own.
I don't pretend to have read every word, of course. Some of the stuff on random numbers is only of mild interest, I don't really care about tape sorting, etc. I've skimmed nearly all of it, and read maybe 1/4 to 1/3 of the text in detail.
I've not yet ventured into Volume 4, although I think I'll want to do that sometime reasonably soon.
Music is all or nothing for me, I don't care to listen to it as background music. If I want to put everything else down and listen, these days it will be off an iPad/iPad or the laptop, lossless audio files.
I sold the turntable and associated playback equipment a couple years back; the speakers needed $$$ rework and I didn't want to put the money into it.
Cost may have been a driver, but another driver was the lighter and therefore potentially faster head positioner assembly. Lighter positioners allow you to either move them faster or use less power, or some of each.
On OS X, you can run iTerm, which I've used and liked for years now. Recommended, especially if you have to actually emulate some particular terminal setup.
Sure, you might be fine as long as the chosen measurement happens to also measure how you do your job. Unless your job is mechanical and unthinking, that's unlikely to be the case -- it's HARD to measure productivity. 99.9999999% of organizations will choose to measure something more concrete in hopes that it will be a reasonable proxy for productivity. It won't be.
Sounds like a regurgitation of Taylorism and time-and-motion studies, for the digital worker. Will people never learn? You get what you measure, and if you aren't extremely careful, you'll cause dysfunction because the measurement goal isn't aligned with the organizational goal. (It always looks like it should be, but it rarely is.)
In any case there's nothing new here, just another well-meaning nitwit looking for the magic bullet.
+1 to this. You can dual boot or not, as you please. Any of the recent macbook air's or pro's should work great, with the possible exception of the very latest Macbook (the one with nothing but a USB-C connector) -- and the only reason I except that one is that I don't know for certain that it won't have some weird issue. It would probably work.
Even if we assume that they have magically found a way to get and recycle the plastic garbage in a few bazillion cubic meters of ocean, they'll still have to do better with the end result than experiments so far. The Morrison Bridge in Portland OR has a skid resistant polymer deck that is already coming apart after just a couple years. I wouldn't write this idea off a priori but there major problems to overcome.
A throttle is of no use when the engines can't respond to it. The engines (3 out of 4) initially did not respond to the pull-back from takeoff power at around 1500 feet. The pilot then pulled back to flight idle, and the engines dropped to flight idle. Unfortunately they then did not respond to the throttle back up, and remained stuck at flight idle. You can't keep a plane in the air with 3 out of 4 engines at idle for very long at 1500 feet. (You also can't fly a plane very well with the engines stuck at TO power, they aren't going to last all that long and it's a bit hard to land that way.)
The engine controllers are called FADEC (Full Authority Digital Engine Control) for a reason. Controlling a modern turbofan or turboprop engine isn't like squirting gas into great-granddad's Hudson flathead, it's just a little more complicated and it takes a dedicated controller to keep the engine running optimally.
I don't know what "missing files" exactly means in this instance, but I bet the controller software gets updated to include a validation check on the calibration tables.
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That's BS. My parents sprang for an SR-11 when I was a junior in high school, and an SR-51 in college. I'm not sure if my SR-51 was an "A" or not. The SR-11 was passed on and I have no idea where it might be today. The SR-51 ran for years, although I used it less and less, and finally burned out a resistor in the power circuit; I never got it fixed.
Never had any issue with the keys functioning on either calculator. They were workhorses. A lot of my friends had TI's as well, never heard of a key problem.
Wow. You're either trolling or have an awfully limited acquaintance. I have no distractions at home (just me and my wife and she leaves me alone, no TV no radio in my home office). I get in at least 3-4 more good hours per day than I can at an office. I've worked from home for going on 20 years now and I guarantee nobody questions my productivity. I'm a lot more tempted to goof off when I'm visiting one of the offices.
I don't pretend to say that working from home is for everyone, or every job, but when it works it's a HUGE win. And in my company it works a lot.
Oddly enough, the purchase price on a dot-matrix like the classic Okidata 320 is likely to be higher than a cheapo monochrome laser printer. If you keep it long enough, the dot-matrix might be cheaper to run overall. For minimum hassle with connectivity, drivers, etc I'd go with the cheap laser.
For very infrequent usage, inkjets are a non-starter.
I rather suspect that Google would have been sued for inaction over a toxic work environment if they hadn't fired him. Seriously, another nonsensical "biologically unfit for ..." theory? If it's lifting 300 pounds, you can validly produce a statistical likelihood that most people fit for the job will be male, but mental tasks? Horseshit. We've been down that road for millenia and the "biologically unfit" crowd is ALWAYS wrong. I'm sure he'll sue, and his lawyers might make money, but I expect he won't see a dime.
I don't know how normal it is, but that's certainly how I like to work. I'll work vaguely normal hours for a while, get stuck into something, and put in a 70 hour week or three. Then when it's over I might do little enough for a few days. Fortunately, in my position I can be useful even when not churning out code or bug fixes; I can grease the skids for support issues, help out other folks, dig around for weaknesses, etc.
What do I think about the update? I think it sucks dead moose dicks. It's vaguely classier looking, but considerably more content free and massively more annoying. If I want classy looking I'll go to a fashion website.
New Coke.
I've done 100% of my work from home for the last 14 years, and many of the devs on my team work from home as well. It's not for everyone, and you have to have good active communication skills. For me, going to the office means getting on an airplane. I love it, and I guarantee that the company gets at least 25% more work out of me this way.
It's not for everyone. The lack of social interaction is a killer for some people, and obviously some jobs can't be done remotely. When it does work it can be a big win for both employee and employer. Any company that rejects working from home as a matter of policy is being stupid, IMO.
And of course we all know that means he isn't dead at all.
I have to roll my eyes at this sort of nonsense. The traditional lecture will never go away, although one might hope that lecturers who are crap at it will be more motivated to find alternatives, leaving the good ones to do their thing. [just] "putting a different spin" on the material is often *exactly* what a student needs. I vividly recall an interaction I had with a bunch of extremely intelligent Chinese profs, and I mention the nationality only because the language barrier was relevant. I was trying to explain a certain process, and it took me over a day, drawing and re-drawing and re-wording and re-re-wording until I finally hit on the "spin" that made the connection with one guy, and he explained it to the rest (in Chinese) and we were able to move in. Much the same sort of thing often happens in a lecture setting.
"Traditional" boring droning lectures which re-read the book or the powerpoint slides may be dead, but then they were never alive.
Laptops will get shoved into suitcases, where they will ignite clothing. Just one isn't likely to crash an airplane, but just one in the passenger compartment -- whether fire or explosive -- isn't bringing down a plane either. It's a lot easier to properly contain a battery fire when you can handle it. Even a smoky cargo fire would be a massive loss to the airline, which will already be hurting due to reduced flights. This whole notion is crazy and I really don't know what sort of asshole would think it's even semi reasonable.
If this is true, I'm horrified that the airlines would put up with having all those lithium batteries in uncontrolled luggage in the cargo hold. If it were my airline I'd refuse the fly the routes. I certainly won't get on a plane full of cargo hold batteries. I'm equally horrified that any business would put up with the loss of time and potential loss of assets due to theft, never mind the potential loss of employees if a cargo fire brings down a plane.
This will be a huge boon to Canadian air travel. If this astounding idiocy is enacted, my Europe travel will all be going through Toronto, assuming that it occurs at all.
Pretty much this. Macs mostly just work, and they mostly don't piss me off (unlike Windows, which can usually find some way to raise my blood pressure within a few minutes of logging on). The hardware is mostly elegant and a pleasure to use. Since I usually get several years out of a Mac, I don't feel like I have to squeeze out every penny when I buy a new one.
Ah, yes, the CDC machines. I never actually programmed one but came close. A company I worked at was bought by an outfit with a bunch of CDC machines and we were going to port something, I forget what, to the CDC's using assembly. I read the manuals and decided that the best description of the architecture was a cluster of PDP-8's all talking to a very high speed, programmable floating point attachment. :-)
Pffft. *Young* people will say BASIC. Back in the day, if the computer booted while I was around, it was going to be a bad day for everyone since it was THE computer and it only rebooted when it was broken. (I exaggerate slightly, there was a Univac 1108 as well but you had to have real funny-money to get at it.)
Old people will say 7090 machine language or something like that. I'm not that old.
Specifically, WATFIV and ALGOLW at CMU. I was exposed to Basic early on but never had any opportunity to write anything in it. A couple semesters before I got there, they were starting students out on PLAGO (a reduced PL/I for student use that attempted to do fancy error detection and correction), but they left PL/I behind for Fortran. Very shortly afterwards, I got into PDP-8 assembly.
I've read the 3 initial volumes, and they remain a useful reference. I don't need to look there often, but when I do, TAOCP is the best reference I own.
I don't pretend to have read every word, of course. Some of the stuff on random numbers is only of mild interest, I don't really care about tape sorting, etc. I've skimmed nearly all of it, and read maybe 1/4 to 1/3 of the text in detail.
I've not yet ventured into Volume 4, although I think I'll want to do that sometime reasonably soon.
Music is all or nothing for me, I don't care to listen to it as background music. If I want to put everything else down and listen, these days it will be off an iPad/iPad or the laptop, lossless audio files.
I sold the turntable and associated playback equipment a couple years back; the speakers needed $$$ rework and I didn't want to put the money into it.
I sure hope none of that is news to anyone, because it's what "classified" has meant for at least the last 70 years and probably a lot longer.
Anyone who thinks that "classified" means something like super duper secret is either uninformed or an idiot.
Cost may have been a driver, but another driver was the lighter and therefore potentially faster head positioner assembly. Lighter positioners allow you to either move them faster or use less power, or some of each.
Taller, more heads, smaller platter, less seek distance -- the logical end point is the drum! I'm sure we can do better than the FH-1782 today.
Everything old is new again...
On OS X, you can run iTerm, which I've used and liked for years now. Recommended, especially if you have to actually emulate some particular terminal setup.
HAHAHA! Boy do you have a lot to learn.
Sure, you might be fine as long as the chosen measurement happens to also measure how you do your job. Unless your job is mechanical and unthinking, that's unlikely to be the case -- it's HARD to measure productivity. 99.9999999% of organizations will choose to measure something more concrete in hopes that it will be a reasonable proxy for productivity. It won't be.
Sounds like a regurgitation of Taylorism and time-and-motion studies, for the digital worker. Will people never learn? You get what you measure, and if you aren't extremely careful, you'll cause dysfunction because the measurement goal isn't aligned with the organizational goal. (It always looks like it should be, but it rarely is.)
In any case there's nothing new here, just another well-meaning nitwit looking for the magic bullet.
+1 to this. You can dual boot or not, as you please. Any of the recent macbook air's or pro's should work great, with the possible exception of the very latest Macbook (the one with nothing but a USB-C connector) -- and the only reason I except that one is that I don't know for certain that it won't have some weird issue. It would probably work.
Even if we assume that they have magically found a way to get and recycle the plastic garbage in a few bazillion cubic meters of ocean, they'll still have to do better with the end result than experiments so far. The Morrison Bridge in Portland OR has a skid resistant polymer deck that is already coming apart after just a couple years. I wouldn't write this idea off a priori but there major problems to overcome.
A throttle is of no use when the engines can't respond to it. The engines (3 out of 4) initially did not respond to the pull-back from takeoff power at around 1500 feet. The pilot then pulled back to flight idle, and the engines dropped to flight idle. Unfortunately they then did not respond to the throttle back up, and remained stuck at flight idle. You can't keep a plane in the air with 3 out of 4 engines at idle for very long at 1500 feet. (You also can't fly a plane very well with the engines stuck at TO power, they aren't going to last all that long and it's a bit hard to land that way.)
The engine controllers are called FADEC (Full Authority Digital Engine Control) for a reason. Controlling a modern turbofan or turboprop engine isn't like squirting gas into great-granddad's Hudson flathead, it's just a little more complicated and it takes a dedicated controller to keep the engine running optimally.
I don't know what "missing files" exactly means in this instance, but I bet the controller software gets updated to include a validation check on the calibration tables.