Or weeping for what we are doing to ourselves and Earth.
Re:The true first portable modern computer...
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I cut my teeth back in 1962 on the D17-C computer used by Autonetics in the Minuteman I missile system.
My task was to optically aim the missile by using the North star (Polaris) to transfer azimuths to a collimated light beam... and also to program the computer both to operate in flight and to indicate where the different targets were located in the world. The on board computer would then figure out the shortest path from the launch tube to the target.
1973, the U.S. Supreme Court stated in Miller v. California that materials are obscene if they satisfy a three part test:
(1) The average person, applying contemporary community standards, finds that the material taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; and
(2) The average person, applying contemporary community standards, finds that the material depicts sexual conduct in patently offensive manner; and
(3) A reasonable person, viewing the material as a whole, finds that the material lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
Extreme Associates and its owners conceded that the charged materials are obscene under the Miller test, and that the distribution of these materials is illegal.
We (USA) and the Russians have had a spaceport on the moon since the 60's. It is just kept secret from the civilians. The little rover stuff is just a way to divert attention from what is really occurring.
By the way and along the same lines, we have had a space port on Mars since the 70's. It too is secret.
There is a lot of stuff that is kept from civilians and these two examples are typical of what humanity is unaware of that various nations are actively doing in the present moments.
Among other equipment (CDC 3200 systems) I maintained a room full of 026's and I would love to have a nickel for every star-wheel I had to reinstall after the coding cylinder was ripped out without first releasing the star-wheels pressure.
We are seeing all of the "old energy" businesses from our father's and our grandfather's day beginning or being in the process of failure... Insurance, Movie Industry, Auto Industry, Banking, Organized Religion, etc. It is not because they are being mismanaged as much as the new energies of Humanity can not sustain the old any longer so these old businesses must fail and we are seeing each of those failures occuring presently.
The "Old" will cling to their ways tenaciously. It was a similar situation with the dinosaurs, but in the end the change will occur... just as it did with the dinosaurs.
A master does nothing, but leaves nothing undone. All of the work is done by not doing.
Allowing your subconscious to design the modules instead of your conscious mind tends to lead towards more consistent results. Most individuals never reach this stage and probably can not relate to what you are describing.
Anytime that Marketing gets involved in actually running a tech company then there is only one direction for it to go... a downward spiral.
I always get suspicious when they replace real technical ability with individuals that have catchy titles ("random freelance contractor" with a Sun sticker)... which to me indicates little or no ability.
Technical ability is hard won. A title or a sticker or a badge packs little credence among those who have already achieved the hard way. I can imagine the document that you could write from your experiences there.
I will never forget that it was in 1972 and I was troubleshooting a logic board for Wang Laboratories' 1200 Word Processor and I encountered a 4004 chip for the first time in a schematic. I realized at that instant that the whole computer paradigm would shift with the new types of chips and that the old computer methodologies would then become extinct.
I never dreamed how quickly or how convincingly this would occur. Up to that time a computer for me consisted of a whole room full of a CPU and memory and now it all was on a small board with high density chips.
That is when I realized that becoming a Cobol, Fortran and C programmer would be a way of extending my talents. Of course everyone who worked on a main frame knew the associated assembler code so the Intel assembler was just another assembler technique and it was taken pretty much in stride.
Back then we did not even have ROM chips and so we used a wire laced through 44 coils and by strobing the wire,a 44 bit readout was produced which included the next wire to strobe. Depending on whether the wire was laced through the coil or around it would determine if the value was a 1 or 0. Doctor Wang was a genius when it came to those early designs.
Here is what a lady friend of mine wrote to me when asked what she planned to do with her house and empty lots in this financial downturn. Here it is verbatim.
"This is little reason to ponder resolution. What IS shall be fulfilled without prior announcement of conditions.
Our joy is in the TRUSTING & developments from this.
Creative measures abound without the limitations of thought.
Live this day as a last. Each has its reason, if but to challenge our TRUST. To reason is folly, for truth has no reason, only purpose.
Constructs of the mind de-rail any initiative with fancy. Loose the need to think. Being the mind hinders the ability to recognize the perfection."
So basically her position is one of Trusting and Allowing for what is meant to be, and not think things to death.
Where intuitiveness comes from would be a interesting experiment. Perhaps you are right in that at a deep level I knew where to look for a problem... this was especially true if I got to sleep on it.
On the other hand, my father (a farmer) knew things that he had no way orf knowing and goes beyond the possibilities. For instance, he told my mother to call the insurance man and get wind insurance on the barn (which has stood for 70 years without insurance) and the very next day a tornado blew down the barn.
The insurance man said if the barn burned down he would know what happened but could not understand how the wind could have taken down the barn the very next day.
Dad would know who was sick in the neighborhood or who was going to stop by for a visit. From where do these pieces of wisdom/knowledge come for I do not know.
I got a feeling that we are heading more towards the frozen wasteland than towards a desert like environment. No proof, of course, but sense the winters starting to get cooler and staying that way longer. Maybe Earth will end up in a mini-ice age for a few decades or centuries like in the 1400's. Time will tell and certainly we will learn from the experience.
I know what you mean by the intuition. I used it often years ago when flying from city to city fixing mainframes with problems no one else could fix. I was literally the last step before a lawsuit quite often.
I would intuitively go to a box, controller, or panel where the problem obviously was not, to check a signal that ultimately led to the repair. Why I decided where to start was not always clear in my mind but it led to the repairs and astounded many individuals who were responsible for the site.
When there are 10,000 logic boards then swapping them wholesale does not work like it might for a micro or PC type of equipment.
I believe that the majority of the individuals on Slashdot have above intuition capability but it has always been there for them so they assume everyone has the capability just as strong as theirs. This is not always the truth for what is often blatant for a Slashdotter goes un-noticed and unfazed by the majority.
It will be interesting to monitor the status of the Pope in your prediction.
No, this was a personal experience of mine. I am sure that the world is filled by many who see things in patterns and it is blazingly obvious to those individuals that the continents were once all connected. Mrs. Beard is now in her nineties and in a home for the elderly in Celina, Ohio. I am going to visit my great aunt who is also there and perhaps stop by and see Mrs. Beard before she passes over.
Just as there are those that can sing with perfect pitch, or those that can paint so very realistically, or nurture animals, or nurture plants, there are those that see patterns with only a few data points
I am sure that Al Gore's classmate was also a pattern seeing person as well.
Sometimes the actions of teachers are pretty predictable... at least back in the 50's.
Thank you for sharing the information about Al's classmate.
His theory on continental drift was pretty accurate, but like Weber he never got the credit.
Back in 1952 I was in the 3rd grade (Ohio) and remember Mrs. Beard the teacher showing us a pull down map on the world in geography class. I raised my hand and said "Look Mrs Beard... if you push all of the continents together they fit together like a puzzle... she said "Sanat, don't be ridiculous, that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard."
Seeing patterns is one of the best capabilities that I possessed in this lifetime.
When you think you are all alone out there in the big ocean then there is no need for sonar which would just gives your position away... just in case someone is out there.
When two play the game it can only lead to problems eventually... sort of like driving at night without headlights.
Slashdot Mirror
You focus on the purchase price.
I got you covered for the extra $100
Even if you can't purchase SCO the $100 is still yours for the punch.
"I at least hope they're getting a good laugh."
Or weeping for what we are doing to ourselves and Earth.
I cut my teeth back in 1962 on the D17-C computer used by Autonetics in the Minuteman I missile system.
My task was to optically aim the missile by using the North star (Polaris) to transfer azimuths to a collimated light beam... and also to program the computer both to operate in flight and to indicate where the different targets were located in the world. The on board computer would then figure out the shortest path from the launch tube to the target.
here is a further clarification
1973, the U.S. Supreme Court stated in Miller v. California that materials are obscene if they satisfy a three part test:
(1) The average person, applying contemporary community standards, finds that the material taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; and
(2) The average person, applying contemporary community standards, finds that the material depicts sexual conduct in patently offensive manner; and
(3) A reasonable person, viewing the material as a whole, finds that the material lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
Extreme Associates and its owners conceded that the charged materials are obscene under the Miller test, and that the distribution of these materials is illegal.
We (USA) and the Russians have had a spaceport on the moon since the 60's. It is just kept secret from the civilians. The little rover stuff is just a way to divert attention from what is really occurring.
By the way and along the same lines, we have had a space port on Mars since the 70's. It too is secret.
There is a lot of stuff that is kept from civilians and these two examples are typical of what humanity is unaware of that various nations are actively doing in the present moments.
To be there in the case of confusion of identity. They were placed there by our Pleidian Overlords.
This is a fairly true statement however very limiting.
Among other equipment (CDC 3200 systems) I maintained a room full of 026's and I would love to have a nickel for every star-wheel I had to reinstall after the coding cylinder was ripped out without first releasing the star-wheels pressure.
My oldest electronic device is my 1937 Hallicrafter S11 Super Skyrider shortwave receiver.
I bought it used from a college professor's wife (he died) at Ohio Northern University (Ada, Ohio) in 1954 or 1955.
Nice in the winter for keeping a room toasty as the tubes do get warm and they give off a lovely glow.
Times... they are a changing.
We are seeing all of the "old energy" businesses from our father's and our grandfather's day beginning or being in the process of failure... Insurance, Movie Industry, Auto Industry, Banking, Organized Religion, etc. It is not because they are being mismanaged as much as the new energies of Humanity can not sustain the old any longer so these old businesses must fail and we are seeing each of those failures occuring presently.
The "Old" will cling to their ways tenaciously. It was a similar situation with the dinosaurs, but in the end the change will occur... just as it did with the dinosaurs.
A master does nothing, but leaves nothing undone. All of the work is done by not doing.
Allowing your subconscious to design the modules instead of your conscious mind tends to lead towards more consistent results. Most individuals never reach this stage and probably can not relate to what you are describing.
Others here know exactly what you are describing.
Please mod parent up
Anytime that Marketing gets involved in actually running a tech company then there is only one direction for it to go... a downward spiral.
I always get suspicious when they replace real technical ability with individuals that have catchy titles ("random freelance contractor" with a Sun sticker)... which to me indicates little or no ability.
Technical ability is hard won. A title or a sticker or a badge packs little credence among those who have already achieved the hard way. I can imagine the document that you could write from your experiences there.
I will never forget that it was in 1972 and I was troubleshooting a logic board for Wang Laboratories' 1200 Word Processor and I encountered a 4004 chip for the first time in a schematic. I realized at that instant that the whole computer paradigm would shift with the new types of chips and that the old computer methodologies would then become extinct.
I never dreamed how quickly or how convincingly this would occur. Up to that time a computer for me consisted of a whole room full of a CPU and memory and now it all was on a small board with high density chips.
That is when I realized that becoming a Cobol, Fortran and C programmer would be a way of extending my talents. Of course everyone who worked on a main frame knew the associated assembler code so the Intel assembler was just another assembler technique and it was taken pretty much in stride.
Back then we did not even have ROM chips and so we used a wire laced through 44 coils and by strobing the wire,a 44 bit readout was produced which included the next wire to strobe. Depending on whether the wire was laced through the coil or around it would determine if the value was a 1 or 0. Doctor Wang was a genius when it came to those early designs.
Here is what a lady friend of mine wrote to me when asked what she planned to do with her house and empty lots in this financial downturn. Here it is verbatim.
"This is little reason to ponder resolution. What IS shall be fulfilled without prior announcement of conditions.
Our joy is in the TRUSTING & developments from this.
Creative measures abound without the limitations of thought.
Live this day as a last. Each has its reason, if but to challenge our TRUST. To reason is folly, for truth has no reason, only purpose.
Constructs of the mind de-rail any initiative with fancy. Loose the need to think. Being the mind hinders the ability to recognize the perfection."
So basically her position is one of Trusting and Allowing for what is meant to be, and not think things to death.
Where intuitiveness comes from would be a interesting experiment. Perhaps you are right in that at a deep level I knew where to look for a problem... this was especially true if I got to sleep on it.
On the other hand, my father (a farmer) knew things that he had no way orf knowing and goes beyond the possibilities. For instance, he told my mother to call the insurance man and get wind insurance on the barn (which has stood for 70 years without insurance) and the very next day a tornado blew down the barn.
The insurance man said if the barn burned down he would know what happened but could not understand how the wind could have taken down the barn the very next day.
Dad would know who was sick in the neighborhood or who was going to stop by for a visit. From where do these pieces of wisdom/knowledge come for I do not know.
I got a feeling that we are heading more towards the frozen wasteland than towards a desert like environment. No proof, of course, but sense the winters starting to get cooler and staying that way longer. Maybe Earth will end up in a mini-ice age for a few decades or centuries like in the 1400's. Time will tell and certainly we will learn from the experience.
I know what you mean by the intuition. I used it often years ago when flying from city to city fixing mainframes with problems no one else could fix. I was literally the last step before a lawsuit quite often.
I would intuitively go to a box, controller, or panel where the problem obviously was not, to check a signal that ultimately led to the repair. Why I decided where to start was not always clear in my mind but it led to the repairs and astounded many individuals who were responsible for the site.
When there are 10,000 logic boards then swapping them wholesale does not work like it might for a micro or PC type of equipment.
I believe that the majority of the individuals on Slashdot have above intuition capability but it has always been there for them so they assume everyone has the capability just as strong as theirs. This is not always the truth for what is often blatant for a Slashdotter goes un-noticed and unfazed by the majority.
It will be interesting to monitor the status of the Pope in your prediction.
No, this was a personal experience of mine. I am sure that the world is filled by many who see things in patterns and it is blazingly obvious to those individuals that the continents were once all connected. Mrs. Beard is now in her nineties and in a home for the elderly in Celina, Ohio. I am going to visit my great aunt who is also there and perhaps stop by and see Mrs. Beard before she passes over.
Just as there are those that can sing with perfect pitch, or those that can paint so very realistically, or nurture animals, or nurture plants, there are those that see patterns with only a few data points
I am sure that Al Gore's classmate was also a pattern seeing person as well.
Sometimes the actions of teachers are pretty predictable... at least back in the 50's.
Thank you for sharing the information about Al's classmate.
What a brave man this Mr. Wegener was.
His theory on continental drift was pretty accurate, but like Weber he never got the credit.
Back in 1952 I was in the 3rd grade (Ohio) and remember Mrs. Beard the teacher showing us a pull down map on the world in geography class. I raised my hand and said "Look Mrs Beard... if you push all of the continents together they fit together like a puzzle... she said "Sanat, don't be ridiculous, that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard."
Seeing patterns is one of the best capabilities that I possessed in this lifetime.
Exactly which word is misspelled? Perhaps the punctuation could be a little different but no typo's that I see.
Check the source code in HTML
second url is listed as "http://www.cdsmodel.com./"
remove the period/dot after "com"
Maybe what Microsoft will do is to build an Operating System into their browser... creating havoc for all the other vendors of browsers.
Oh Wait... http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/22/1724244
Mod up this important position please.
Run silent - Run deep.
When you think you are all alone out there in the big ocean then there is no need for sonar which would just gives your position away... just in case someone is out there.
When two play the game it can only lead to problems eventually... sort of like driving at night without headlights.
Saw Pruit-Igoe and immediately the housing projects jumped into my head.
I worked in St Louis at McDonnell Douglas for years until they went out of business.
My first experience with naming conventions were our two work horses Molly and Dolly when I was a young kid.
Speaking of Dwarfs http://www.edwards.eclipse.co.uk/JBM-rbd.htm and funny naming schemes which cleared the courthouse.