I work with a guy that's African. Came to US for college straight from Ghana.
He has no problem being called black.
He also has no problem walking into bars declaring: "Where are da white wimmen at?". He thinks this (and the whole movie) is hilarious.
Only once did we run into trouble. Some 2nd generation+ born in America African descendants decided he wasn't "African enough". Some native tongue (No clue what it was) and some bouncers quickly ended that.
Maybe if we could talk the federal government into delegating power back to the states and creating smaller individual units of power, this might work.
1) The kids don't know Ubuntu/Gnome like they do Windows. Once they figure it out, they'll continue trashing them and installing games. Remind me how you trash and install stuff to a Live CD. Or a / that is mounted ro.
Heh, reminds me of an old hole in my Library's "Kiosk" that only let you run or Netscape or IE. You could configure your telnet application to be anything you wanted.
Change it to explorer.exe. Type in 'telnet://' hit enter and you were in.
Rosetta. Classic. 68k Emulation. Three different times Apple's jumped platform and each time they had less backwards compatibility problems than XP to Vista has.
Apple made it easy (If you were using their compiler) to release for 4 different platforms. It's just a check box to make a 32/64bit X86/PPC program where as, from what I've heard, everything for XP/Vista 64 bit is a 'different program'. You have to make sure you download the right one, etc. When Microsoft bought Virtual PC they had an easy out. They could have made Vista scratch up (like OS X sort of was) and left all the old XP bits behind. Instead they decided to kludge it together and screw that up.
OS X is pretty modular, I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a different ".config" when they compiled the iPhone. And why was OS X 'not suited to run on ARM'? Heck 3 years ago it wasn't suited to run on X86 and EVERYONE knew that apple going to Intel would kill them. Turns out they've had it the whole time. I wouldn't be surpised if in some vault somewhere Apple has OS X running on an Power6, Iridium, and SUN.
Say what you want. I used to always get the cheap $1 razors when I was in college because I was cheap. But the Mach 3 and furthermore the Fusion make a great improvement. Even when I shave every other day it still goes through it smooth and with no 'tearing' on my face.
In defense of the razors, I absolutely love my Fusion (4 blades). It's each time they add a blade they reduce the spacing between the blades by a similar amount. So each blade only has to take off 1/4th of what a 1 blade model would.
In a BadAnalogyGuy way I do hope that some computers (especially laptops) move in this direction. Why do I need a 2 gHz dual core processor for my EEE style laptop. Break it into a cheap, slower, power efficient general processor then have a few other small, cheap, power efficient dedicated chips. Much like the iPhone and its dedicated A/V chip.
Only if there are RFID detectors within close proximity to the 'package'. RFID would work great in a factory tracking a pallet of parts that goes along a routine path.
If someone steals that pallet then you're SOL. Even if it does pass near another RFID detector that person won't know immediately that it is yours and full of Widget A.
Which is 100% better than untargeted advertising. Some of it I don't even mind. If google gets to the point where it is offering suggestions as well as people I know, they'll strike gold.
I'm looking to buy a new computer, right now there are 4 forms of marketing that can 'get' to me. Radio: COME TO LOW BOBS CAR EMPORIUM. Not looking for cars. TV: Tampax, for those times you need to be dry. Not looking (or ever looking) for Tampax Internet: PUNCH THE MONKEY WIN A FREE CREDIT REPORT. I don't care about my credit. Friend: I just got this thing from Newegg, you should check them out.
What google is doing is positioning themselves as the 'friend' which wins for everyone. I get what I'm searching for and the sellers aren't having their ads go onto deaf ears (or blind eyes)
To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software courses, books and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be written for the hobby market?
Almost a year ago, Paul Allen and myself, expecting the hobby market to expand, hired Monte Davidoff and developed Altair BASIC. Though the initial work took only two months, the three of us have spent most of the last year documenting, improving and adding features to BASIC. Now we have 4K, 8K, EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC. The value of the computer time we have used exceeds $40,000.
The feedback we have gotten from the hundreds of people who say they are using BASIC has all been positive. Two surprising things are apparent, however, 1) Most of these "users" never bought BASIC (less than 10% of all Altair owners have bought BASIC), and 2) The amount of royalties we have received from sales to hobbyists makes the time spent on Altair BASIC worth less than $2 an hour.
Why is this? As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?
Is this fair? One thing you don't do by stealing software is get back at MITS for some problem you may have had. MITS doesn't make money selling software. The royalty paid to us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft.
What about the guys who re-sell Altair BASIC, aren't they making money on hobby software? Yes, but those who have been reported to us may lose in the end. They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
I would appreciate letters from any one who wants to pay up, or has a suggestion or comment. Just write me at 1180 Alvarado SE, #114, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87108. Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software.
And I've heard the argument that people that learn English as a second language almost never make these mistakes because in their head they think [dutch word for X] in their head and do the conversion. When I took foreign languages in HS/College I'd have to agree with that theory.
Trust me, the forums I hang out on are all native English speakers they just 'hear' the word in they're[sic] and they just write down the first spelling that comes to mind is my best guess. I honestly don't see how because when my brain parses it just doesn't make sense.
Lose vs Loose is even worse, they don't even sound alike.
Any teacher that uses length requirements isn't really looking for too much quality anyway. I agree, I absolutely hate to write. I didn't do so well in HS, but after cranking out some lab reports then switching to some liberal arts classes I did much better.
There are a hundred tricks up my sleeves on extending length: Change fonts 12.5 font or 13 font (not as big as 14 nor as noticeable). Margins to 1.1-> 1.4 depending on what you can get away with. Line spacing to 1.1 or 1.2 so that it isn't a blatant double spacing. Or if they allow double spacing 2.25. Letter spacing, some programs let you change the spacing between letters. Just enough that your brain doesn't complain but you can get an extra few lines out of it.
As an engineering student that reads the internet I can attest that I (typically) can write posts that actually follow most rules of English. Lose vs loose, break vs brake, etc. I couldn't imagine what grade I'd get on a lab report if I turned in stuff with those mistakes. Then I come to find out that a majority of those posters (Fark, Slashdot, other forums I'm on) ARE collage[sic] educated, it just baffles me that some of these people made it out of middle school not knowing the difference.
We learned to write well as a second nature, we then had to add actual content on top of that. Every elective class I took that required a paper I got a 'Excellent paper' and I didn't even "try". People in the class around me were nitpicking with "Can it be 2 pages double spaced, can I use 14 pt font, etc" to try and get theirs done. By time I had my thoughts on the paper I could easily have twice the 'length' requirements without any additional cheating. And my peers in these courses were people who might one day go on to TEACH this.
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I work with a guy that's African. Came to US for college straight from Ghana.
He has no problem being called black.
He also has no problem walking into bars declaring: "Where are da white wimmen at?". He thinks this (and the whole movie) is hilarious.
Only once did we run into trouble. Some 2nd generation+ born in America African descendants decided he wasn't "African enough". Some native tongue (No clue what it was) and some bouncers quickly ended that.
I get a matching (up to 6%) 401k. Even if the market sucks and I 'break even' that's a free 6% every month.
The population of Estonia is 1.3 million.
Maybe if we could talk the federal government into delegating power back to the states and creating smaller individual units of power, this might work.
Heh, reminds me of an old hole in my Library's "Kiosk" that only let you run or Netscape or IE. You could configure your telnet application to be anything you wanted.
Change it to explorer.exe. Type in 'telnet://' hit enter and you were in.
Those were the days.
Rosetta. Classic. 68k Emulation. Three different times Apple's jumped platform and each time they had less backwards compatibility problems than XP to Vista has.
Apple made it easy (If you were using their compiler) to release for 4 different platforms. It's just a check box to make a 32/64bit X86/PPC program where as, from what I've heard, everything for XP/Vista 64 bit is a 'different program'. You have to make sure you download the right one, etc. When Microsoft bought Virtual PC they had an easy out. They could have made Vista scratch up (like OS X sort of was) and left all the old XP bits behind. Instead they decided to kludge it together and screw that up.
OS X is pretty modular, I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a different ".config" when they compiled the iPhone. And why was OS X 'not suited to run on ARM'? Heck 3 years ago it wasn't suited to run on X86 and EVERYONE knew that apple going to Intel would kill them. Turns out they've had it the whole time. I wouldn't be surpised if in some vault somewhere Apple has OS X running on an Power6, Iridium, and SUN.
http://www.openbsd.org/
Ok, so 2 times in 10 years, but I'd say that's a bit better than say windows.
Say what you want. I used to always get the cheap $1 razors when I was in college because I was cheap. But the Mach 3 and furthermore the Fusion make a great improvement. Even when I shave every other day it still goes through it smooth and with no 'tearing' on my face.
In defense of the razors, I absolutely love my Fusion (4 blades). It's each time they add a blade they reduce the spacing between the blades by a similar amount. So each blade only has to take off 1/4th of what a 1 blade model would.
In a BadAnalogyGuy way I do hope that some computers (especially laptops) move in this direction. Why do I need a 2 gHz dual core processor for my EEE style laptop. Break it into a cheap, slower, power efficient general processor then have a few other small, cheap, power efficient dedicated chips. Much like the iPhone and its dedicated A/V chip.
Only if there are RFID detectors within close proximity to the 'package'. RFID would work great in a factory tracking a pallet of parts that goes along a routine path.
If someone steals that pallet then you're SOL. Even if it does pass near another RFID detector that person won't know immediately that it is yours and full of Widget A.
GPS is passive so probably not. You might be able to detect it sending but if it uses GSM or the old pager network you'd be flooded with noise.
You could (if you are that paranoid) block GPS traffic.
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.3623
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.8758
I'm in the black for $900 for 3 years now. They've sent a few harassing e-mails but pretty much dropped it.
Never showed up on any credit report either.
I see they finally fixed the humorous bug a friend showed me when you searched for "Black People"
Is he going to have 3 sluts and a bottle of scotch DURING his research (as these people are?)
Caterpillar has Cat Yellow
John Deere has John Deere Green
I set up my server with a TFTP server. All of my friends are going to get custom ringtones.
Achy Breaky Heart for the single guy.
Material Girl for the guy that always has to have the coolest stuff.
etc
And when they go to change the ring tone back, all it will have is everyone else's ring tone (so they can hear what other people got).
Then I'll give them the corporate TFTP server so they can 'reboot' their phones.
It's very illegal to call cell phones because you're 'paying' for the call. Incoming calls on landlines are free.
Same reason it's illegal to *67 a 1-800 number, because they're paying for the call.
Before the slashdotting I made it through the 'training' and then through about 20 jokes, it wasn't too bad.
And don't worry, the jokes get longer it's only the initial ones that are the one or two liners.
Fastest way to get a telemarketer off of the phone: "This is a cell phone."
Never been called by the same company twice and most just hang up on me without even a good bye.
Which is 100% better than untargeted advertising. Some of it I don't even mind. If google gets to the point where it is offering suggestions as well as people I know, they'll strike gold.
I'm looking to buy a new computer, right now there are 4 forms of marketing that can 'get' to me.
Radio: COME TO LOW BOBS CAR EMPORIUM. Not looking for cars.
TV: Tampax, for those times you need to be dry. Not looking (or ever looking) for Tampax
Internet: PUNCH THE MONKEY WIN A FREE CREDIT REPORT. I don't care about my credit.
Friend: I just got this thing from Newegg, you should check them out.
What google is doing is positioning themselves as the 'friend' which wins for everyone. I get what I'm searching for and the sellers aren't having their ads go onto deaf ears (or blind eyes)
By William Henry Gates III
To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software courses, books and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be written for the hobby market?
Almost a year ago, Paul Allen and myself, expecting the hobby market to expand, hired Monte Davidoff and developed Altair BASIC. Though the initial work took only two months, the three of us have spent most of the last year documenting, improving and adding features to BASIC. Now we have 4K, 8K, EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC. The value of the computer time we have used exceeds $40,000.
The feedback we have gotten from the hundreds of people who say they are using BASIC has all been positive. Two surprising things are apparent, however, 1) Most of these "users" never bought BASIC (less than 10% of all Altair owners have bought BASIC), and 2) The amount of royalties we have received from sales to hobbyists makes the time spent on Altair BASIC worth less than $2 an hour.
Why is this? As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?
Is this fair? One thing you don't do by stealing software is get back at MITS for some problem you may have had. MITS doesn't make money selling software. The royalty paid to us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft.
What about the guys who re-sell Altair BASIC, aren't they making money on hobby software? Yes, but those who have been reported to us may lose in the end. They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
I would appreciate letters from any one who wants to pay up, or has a suggestion or comment. Just write me at 1180 Alvarado SE, #114, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87108. Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software.
Bill Gates
General Partner, Micro-Soft
And I've heard the argument that people that learn English as a second language almost never make these mistakes because in their head they think [dutch word for X] in their head and do the conversion. When I took foreign languages in HS/College I'd have to agree with that theory.
Trust me, the forums I hang out on are all native English speakers they just 'hear' the word in they're[sic] and they just write down the first spelling that comes to mind is my best guess. I honestly don't see how because when my brain parses it just doesn't make sense.
Lose vs Loose is even worse, they don't even sound alike.
Wohooo Peoria.
Not from Bradley, but at Cat.
That is all.
Any teacher that uses length requirements isn't really looking for too much quality anyway. I agree, I absolutely hate to write. I didn't do so well in HS, but after cranking out some lab reports then switching to some liberal arts classes I did much better.
There are a hundred tricks up my sleeves on extending length:
Change fonts
12.5 font or 13 font (not as big as 14 nor as noticeable).
Margins to 1.1-> 1.4 depending on what you can get away with.
Line spacing to 1.1 or 1.2 so that it isn't a blatant double spacing. Or if they allow double spacing 2.25.
Letter spacing, some programs let you change the spacing between letters. Just enough that your brain doesn't complain but you can get an extra few lines out of it.
As an engineering student that reads the internet I can attest that I (typically) can write posts that actually follow most rules of English. Lose vs loose, break vs brake, etc. I couldn't imagine what grade I'd get on a lab report if I turned in stuff with those mistakes. Then I come to find out that a majority of those posters (Fark, Slashdot, other forums I'm on) ARE collage[sic] educated, it just baffles me that some of these people made it out of middle school not knowing the difference.
We learned to write well as a second nature, we then had to add actual content on top of that. Every elective class I took that required a paper I got a 'Excellent paper' and I didn't even "try". People in the class around me were nitpicking with "Can it be 2 pages double spaced, can I use 14 pt font, etc" to try and get theirs done. By time I had my thoughts on the paper I could easily have twice the 'length' requirements without any additional cheating. And my peers in these courses were people who might one day go on to TEACH this.