It comes down to making the best of commercially available hardware and OS'es. And the available stuff is PIII or better, so you might as well run XP if you are an MS shop. DOS is more stable, but when it comes to Microsoft, the developer skill sets are weighted towards Windows. I myself haven't written an app for DOS in 10 years.
But you are on to something. Can we invent something that is the opposite of Moore's law? Something like: "Software will become nn% harder to write every two years due to steadily increasing complexity in hardware and operating systems."
It is the adult's responsibility to create the social rules in a situation. Whatever you deem to be OK, and do so with conviction, the kids will accept.
You want to get this kid out of his shell? Try accepting him for who he is. He is in his shell because he is scared, and not even the grownup (you) in the situation accepts him.
You have even gone on slashdot to ask us geeks how to make a person change. What if this kid finds out you have done this? I would dare say that of all of the people in this situation that are not accepting this kid for who he is, you are on the top of the list.
I think you should instead work on learning how to accept this person, and give him the space to grow up at his own pace. He will naturally find a sport/activity he likes sooner or later.
The best favor you can do this kid is to try to remember your own childhood. Did you get teased for not combing your hair? Do you have unresolved pain from a painful "not fitting in" situation way back when?
If you don't do this, then these situations will keep popping up. This is because something deep inside you will cause them to repeat themselves in the people around you. This will continue until you no longer need them for your personal development.
Once again, you are responsible for the social environment. If YOU cast this kid in a negative light in your own mind, then the other kids are going to do the actual dirty work of letting this kid know that he isn't accepted by you.
I had an upper end QMS departmental printer, about UDS 30000. One day a Ricoh salesman came through, and looked at my printer and started laughing. Turns out most of it the same hardware. Then, I accidentally found out that Digital was selling the same printer. So I compared consumables prices, and the same toner cartridges, OPC kits, etc. were at wildly different prices. I bought my stuff from Digital and cut my monthly costs in half.
I had a C64 and GEOS in 1987. I don't remember it ever crashing. I remember being amazed that GEOS had most of what a Mac offered, on an obviously more limited machine in terms of memory, etc.
If I remember correctly, later versions of the C64-C128 had GEOS built in.
Hard disk? What's a hard disk?
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I ended up using Kylix instead of PERL scripts to write some web access to database stuff. Works GREAT.
It took a lot less time to debug than the PERL stuff, because the D/K debugger in its inferior WINE state still is far better than most of what is out there.
Sooner or later there will be some sort of Pascal like compiler for Linux, Kylix is just proof that half measures avail you none. Borland will have to take it all the way for it to go at all.
The car was a plaything for the rich to start with. They were custom made, by hand, and practically came with a driver.
For that matter, the cost of a cross USA trip on a stagecoach in the 1800's would have been equivalent to $4000 in today's money.
This is how these things always start. The difference is that nobody lives under water today, so it is not just a matter of creating a vehicle, you have to give people a reason to go there.
Everything written so far about having some sort of *list* that everyone can look at and understand is crucial.
This works not just for support, but for any multiple-human endeavor. Why - because a written list is what keeps humans sane, who knows why?
The whole thing is to have some sort of reasonable way of doing things, otherwise you get to go back 50000 years into PANIC. And you don't get to take your club with you.
What I remember of the story was that they had this rolling road that spanned the USA from east to west, with lanes that went faster and faster. You got on the first slow speed lane, and just walked over to successively faster lanes. The fastest lane was some cool 1950's velocity like 150-300mph.
Some disgruntled workers clipped a lane or two, with expected results.
Nice to see Robert Heinlein's idea making it to reality, now if I could only speak Basic with someone on the moon, or have a farm on Ganymede!
Here is a full featured robust SQL database that has been around for many years, has a very lean footprint, runs on all kinds of OS'es, requires almost zero administration, and is free.
Support on the users groups is top notch.
As far as the FirebirdSQL people launching an attack - Give them a break. They have really put their hearts into getting this project rolling after Borlands *interesting* management of it.
If any project deserves the name Phoenix and/or firebird, it would be this one, because they have really risen from the ashes, and done so many times.
I tried to get some Delphi development tools for a CE project, and the Borland rep said they didn't have any.
Why? Because Borland had heard from Microsoft that WindowsCE was on the way out. They had other things they were going to use to take its place.
This must be some sort of *what do we have to lose?* trial balloon on Microsoft's part.
So what did we do instead? We figured out that the device we were going to use had a web browser. Now, how many free languages exist to drive one of those puppies?
I have a 1965 Fender Jazz bass that I used on over 2000 bar gigs. It still sounds and plays as good as the day I bought it.
Pre CBS (1965 was when CBS bought Fender) Fender instruments were legendary for their durability. There are countless stories of musicians who beat their way out of a bar room brawl with a Fender, and used it the next night on a gig. However, I don't know if the people who took a Fender upside the head were at the bar the next night.
I bought a 1959 Fender Precision bass this year. Not only is it still playable, but the funk never left it. Great bass lines just pop out of this thing - suddenly I feel like I am in the Motown snakepit with Benny Benjamin and the rest of the Funk Brothers.
Were these expensive instruments to make and buy? No. The necks even bolted on so you could send it by itself for a quick repair trip to the Fender factory.
Which do you prefer: Art disguised as pop culture, or pop culture disguised as art?
Foreign words tend to be longer than their English equivalents. Double available space for captions.
A routine that walks a form and grabs all component names and captions. It then throws these up in a grid and lets the user translate them.
A TranslateForm procedure that uses info from above.
Don't forget reports. If you have something that can also crawl reports on the fly, that is a huge timesaver.
It also helps to wrap some common ShowMessage and InputBox functions in something like ShowMessageTranslate, etc.
I do a lot of RAD projects, and the last thing you want to do is burn up mental cpu's with translation issues when you are in the heat of getting something to work. Spend some time on these issues beforehand by writing or using good utilities.
If anybody wants it, I have written a complete package for Delphi. There are better and worse on the web, I know mine works. ghelmke@online.no
When I was a kid there was a store that still used pneumatic tubes to transport invoices from the cash register to the office and back. I always wanted to ride in one.
It won't be the same without giant quarters and nickels along side of me though.
Looking for a front end to everything from plucked or hammered strings, hammered bars, tuned air tubes, or digital synthesizers? Look at a piano keyboard. On the other hand, a violin gets its personality from the intimate contact with the strings.
These instruments didn't just appear, they evolved over time. Trumpets didn't have valves until midway through the 19th century.
We are in the starting phase of developing user interfaces that will be used for the next nnn years. If music history teaches anything, it is that no one interface does it all. You end up with a whole orchestra, or at least a small group. Even a rapper has a turntable AND a microphone.
Most of the European phone systems worked okay, they were just expensive. Simple explanation - the state owned companies had a monopoly.
How did GSM beat the monopoly? Simple, the rule was that any phone line crossing a public street violated the monopoly. Cell towers circumvented this problem.
Price wars between mobile carriers got prices to an acceptable level.
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It comes down to making the best of commercially available hardware and OS'es. And the available stuff is PIII or better, so you might as well run XP if you are an MS shop. DOS is more stable, but when it comes to Microsoft, the developer skill sets are weighted towards Windows. I myself haven't written an app for DOS in 10 years.
But you are on to something. Can we invent something that is the opposite of Moore's law? Something like: "Software will become nn% harder to write every two years due to steadily increasing complexity in hardware and operating systems."
It is the adult's responsibility to create the social rules in a situation. Whatever you deem to be OK, and do so with conviction, the kids will accept.
You want to get this kid out of his shell? Try accepting him for who he is. He is in his shell because he is scared, and not even the grownup (you) in the situation accepts him.
You have even gone on slashdot to ask us geeks how to make a person change. What if this kid finds out you have done this? I would dare say that of all of the people in this situation that are not accepting this kid for who he is, you are on the top of the list.
I think you should instead work on learning how to accept this person, and give him the space to grow up at his own pace. He will naturally find a sport/activity he likes sooner or later.
The best favor you can do this kid is to try to remember your own childhood. Did you get teased for not combing your hair? Do you have unresolved pain from a painful "not fitting in" situation way back when?
If you don't do this, then these situations will keep popping up. This is because something deep inside you will cause them to repeat themselves in the people around you. This will continue until you no longer need them for your personal development.
Once again, you are responsible for the social environment. If YOU cast this kid in a negative light in your own mind, then the other kids are going to do the actual dirty work of letting this kid know that he isn't accepted by you.
I had an upper end QMS departmental printer, about UDS 30000. One day a Ricoh salesman came through, and looked at my printer and started laughing. Turns out most of it the same hardware. Then, I accidentally found out that Digital was selling the same printer.
So I compared consumables prices, and the same toner cartridges, OPC kits, etc. were at wildly different prices. I bought my stuff from Digital and cut my monthly costs in half.
I had a C64 and GEOS in 1987. I don't remember it ever crashing. I remember being amazed that GEOS had most of what a Mac offered, on an obviously more limited machine in terms of memory, etc.
If I remember correctly, later versions of the C64-C128 had GEOS built in.
Hard disk? What's a hard disk?
I ended up using Kylix instead of PERL scripts to write some web access to database stuff. Works GREAT.
It took a lot less time to debug than the PERL stuff, because the D/K debugger in its inferior WINE state still is far better than most of what is out there.
Sooner or later there will be some sort of Pascal like compiler for Linux, Kylix is just proof that half measures avail you none. Borland will have to take it all the way for it to go at all.
The car was a plaything for the rich to start with. They were custom made, by hand, and practically came with a driver.
For that matter, the cost of a cross USA trip on a stagecoach in the 1800's would have been equivalent to $4000 in today's money.
This is how these things always start. The difference is that nobody lives under water today, so it is not just a matter of creating a vehicle, you have to give people a reason to go there.
Everything written so far about having some sort of *list* that everyone can look at and understand is crucial.
This works not just for support, but for any multiple-human endeavor. Why - because a written list is what keeps humans sane, who knows why?
The whole thing is to have some sort of reasonable way of doing things, otherwise you get to go back 50000 years into PANIC. And you don't get to take your club with you.
I see it too. Who hacked this?
And no mean words for anyone. HAND.
Should I sell it on eBay?
There has got to be some reason that robots taking jobs and meditation in the workplace have ended up right next to each other in /.
We are here to discover what makes us human.
In 2050 maybe only robots will eat at the robot McDonalds.
Bob Fulton and the Amazing Soda Pop Factory, great geek stuff, and uber funny.
Secret Agents Four (The same author as Hardy Boys, but a different pen name - Donald Sobol) - More technoid than HB's.
Anybody have any info on the Bob Fulton book?
Thanks for reminding me of the title.
What I remember of the story was that they had this rolling road that spanned the USA from east to west, with lanes that went faster and faster. You got on the first slow speed lane, and just walked over to successively faster lanes. The fastest lane was some cool 1950's velocity like 150-300mph.
Some disgruntled workers clipped a lane or two, with expected results.
Nice to see Robert Heinlein's idea making it to reality, now if I could only speak Basic with someone on the moon, or have a farm on Ganymede!
Didn't matter to me though.
For about 6 years I was a full time musician, which was a great way to spend my twenties.
About halfway through that, I started programming part time.
When I hit 30, it was time to settle down to a full time job. It was programming PC's for small business, and I dug it.
Looking back on it, my job didn't even exist when I was in college. My freshman CPS 120 class was done on punch cards for Christ sake!
Everything changes. Figure out what you dig, and find out where there is a need.
Okay fellow programmers:
Here is a full featured robust SQL database that has been around for many years, has a very lean footprint, runs on all kinds of OS'es, requires almost zero administration, and is free.
Support on the users groups is top notch.
As far as the FirebirdSQL people launching an attack - Give them a break. They have really put their hearts into getting this project rolling after Borlands *interesting* management of it.
If any project deserves the name Phoenix and/or firebird, it would be this one, because they have really risen from the ashes, and done so many times.
I tried to get some Delphi development tools for a CE project, and the Borland rep said they didn't have any.
Why? Because Borland had heard from Microsoft that WindowsCE was on the way out. They had other things they were going to use to take its place.
This must be some sort of *what do we have to lose?* trial balloon on Microsoft's part.
So what did we do instead? We figured out that the device we were going to use had a web browser. Now, how many free languages exist to drive one of those puppies?
I tried to get some devt. tools for CE for my IDE of choice - Borland Delphi.
Here's the answer I got:
Borland isn't prioritizing CE, because Microsoft sees it as a product on the way out. They are developing other things that will take its place.
So why not try Kylix and use Linux on the embedded device?
Something does NOT make sense here.
Because that is what really gets me in the mood to work.
It is called a PC. I drive to work everyday with it.
If you and your boss trust you enough to let you stay home x/5 days a week, then you cut your commuting polluting by x * 20%.
I also get to sleep with the woman in my home office - my wife.
I have a 1965 Fender Jazz bass that I used on over 2000 bar gigs. It still sounds and plays as good as the day I bought it.
Pre CBS (1965 was when CBS bought Fender) Fender instruments were legendary for their durability. There are countless stories of musicians who beat their way out of a bar room brawl with a Fender, and used it the next night on a gig. However, I don't know if the people who took a Fender upside the head were at the bar the next night.
I bought a 1959 Fender Precision bass this year. Not only is it still playable, but the funk never left it. Great bass lines just pop out of this thing - suddenly I feel like I am in the Motown snakepit with Benny Benjamin and the rest of the Funk Brothers.
Were these expensive instruments to make and buy? No. The necks even bolted on so you could send it by itself for a quick repair trip to the Fender factory.
Which do you prefer: Art disguised as pop culture, or pop culture disguised as art?
A separate file is a good beginning.
Here are a few other things that really help:
Foreign words tend to be longer than their English equivalents. Double available space for captions.
A routine that walks a form and grabs all component names and captions. It then throws these up in a grid and lets the user translate them.
A TranslateForm procedure that uses info from above.
Don't forget reports. If you have something that can also crawl reports on the fly, that is a huge timesaver.
It also helps to wrap some common ShowMessage and InputBox functions in something like ShowMessageTranslate, etc.
I do a lot of RAD projects, and the last thing you want to do is burn up mental cpu's with translation issues when you are in the heat of getting something to work. Spend some time on these issues beforehand by writing or using good utilities.
If anybody wants it, I have written a complete package for Delphi. There are better and worse on the web, I know mine works. ghelmke@online.no
When I was a kid there was a store that still used pneumatic tubes to transport invoices from the cash register to the office and back. I always wanted to ride in one.
It won't be the same without giant quarters and nickels along side of me though.
Looking for a front end to everything from plucked or hammered strings, hammered bars, tuned air tubes, or digital synthesizers? Look at a piano keyboard. On the other hand, a violin gets its personality from the intimate contact with the strings.
These instruments didn't just appear, they evolved over time. Trumpets didn't have valves until midway through the 19th century.
We are in the starting phase of developing user interfaces that will be used for the next nnn years. If music history teaches anything, it is that no one interface does it all. You end up with a whole orchestra, or at least a small group. Even a rapper has a turntable AND a microphone.
Most of the European phone systems worked okay, they were just expensive. Simple explanation - the state owned companies had a monopoly.
How did GSM beat the monopoly? Simple, the rule was that any phone line crossing a public street violated the monopoly. Cell towers circumvented this problem.
Price wars between mobile carriers got prices to an acceptable level.
Don't know who is moderating, but this pass dialog deserves a collective 5.
Thanks for a nice brotherly laugh folks,
George the Norge - American Expat living in Norway.