I personally quit dualbooting anything on any machine a long time ago, when hardware got so cheap that it didn't make sense. The network is your friend, and KVM switches can be your friend as well. Nothing about dual-booting is friendly. It's a kludge left over from the day when we all installed Linux on our 486 boxes.
Twenty years ago you went down to their 'center' and talked to them through the half-door (you're not allowed past that door) and specify your job. Later you go down and pick up your printout.
Sorry. Not happening. It may be allowed in corpulent big corporations, but it's not gonna be like that anywhere in a thriving small/medium company environment. That model, and it's attendant IT priesthood is dead or dying.
I've worked with NEC processors that were 4 bit and ran at 400 KHz. This isn't exactly a symmetric multiprocessor design. The 'satellite' processors probably gather data and feed it to the main, and respond to simple commands from the main to drive various peripheral controllers and motors.
Being someone who saw Star Wars in the theatre in 1977 and who has avoided all the derivative work for years because of the way it's obviously been corrupted by a one-hit hack director, I couldn't make the comparison well.
I saw the first Jackson adaptation of Tolkein. It was pretty good, though obviously weaker than the original. My brain renders graphics from 'source code' far better than some cluster of computers can.
Actually, it's pretty certain that if C. Tolkein hadn't swept it all together and 'adapted' it with his name attached, that J.R.R. Tolkein's papers would have been gathered, donated to an educational institution, and published and presented in a scholarly way that didn't represent a commercial effort at 'extending the franchise' for money.
My copy of the Tolkein paperbacks from the seventies has the 'Respect for Living Authors' notes on the back cover regarding the piracy and ripoff of the Tolkein work even while J.R.R. was alive. Clearly there's always been a commercial interest behind making money off this story. It's difficult to know what the father would think of how his son has treated the works. Probably he wouldn't want thousands of people hating his son over it, however.
Believe it or not, there are people who have held off reading Tolkein's trilogy for years now because they don't want to spoil the ending of a three part flick.
To my mind that's a little like holding off on reading the trilogy because the Readers Digest Condensed Book version isn't completed yet.
They'd want to leave out the spiders or some of the other really 'scary' material that would make the story a hard sell to mothers with small children.
Really, what I have the most problem with in all these 'movie adaptations' is the strip mining of our culture, to appear on plastic cups at fast food franchises. That's so often the root of the 'softening' process that ruins good stories.
Mr. Khadr's family members have said he was simply walking around in Kabul, or was in an apartment there, when he was arrested in the fall of 2001.
It wasn't until his younger brother Omar, then 15, was arrested in Afghanistan after taking part in a gun battle with U.S. soldiers the next summer that Abdul Rahman was transferred from Afghanistan to Cuba early this year.
In addition to Abdul Rahman and Omar, there are two other Khadr brothers. The Canadian government has described the eldest, Abdullah, as "a suspected commander of an al-Qaeda training camp." Reports have indicated the youngest brother, Abdul Karim may have been shot dead or wounded last month by Pakistani soldiers.
Their Egyptian-born father, Ahmed Said Khadr, remains at large, though he is being hunted as being linked to al-Qaeda.
You can walk down the corridor of any prison in the world and hear 'I didn't do it' called out in the dark.
It's really cheap and dirty, in a world where men like Nelson Mandela were political prisoners for years, to try to lump cop killers in the same class.
Though, really, we should 'take it outside' if we want to argue about this one.
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I personally quit dualbooting anything on any machine a long time ago, when hardware got so cheap that it didn't make sense. The network is your friend, and KVM switches can be your friend as well. Nothing about dual-booting is friendly. It's a kludge left over from the day when we all installed Linux on our 486 boxes.
Hooray for the dudes in white coats.
Twenty years ago you went down to their 'center' and talked to them through the half-door (you're not allowed past that door) and specify your job. Later you go down and pick up your printout.
Sorry. Not happening. It may be allowed in corpulent big corporations, but it's not gonna be like that anywhere in a thriving small/medium company environment. That model, and it's attendant IT priesthood is dead or dying.
What happened to schematic capture, FPGA design and simulation, mechanical design.
I'm sorry, but if your list of 'needs' is sufficient, we may as well switch back to using Wyse 50 dumb terminals.
This site is waaaay too programmer-centered. For a 'nerd' site anyway. It gets tiresome sometimes.
You mean they, too, wear clothes with lepoard-print trim?
The outfit in the photo is what I imagine scary chat-room regulars as wearing.
I've worked with NEC processors that were 4 bit and ran at 400 KHz. This isn't exactly a symmetric multiprocessor design. The 'satellite' processors probably gather data and feed it to the main, and respond to simple commands from the main to drive various peripheral controllers and motors.
Actually, it's well established that Japanese engineers largely use foreign designs as their prototypes.
If you have to dig it up, you already composted it.
hugely popular trilogies
Being someone who saw Star Wars in the theatre in 1977 and who has avoided all the derivative work for years because of the way it's obviously been corrupted by a one-hit hack director, I couldn't make the comparison well.
I saw the first Jackson adaptation of Tolkein. It was pretty good, though obviously weaker than the original. My brain renders graphics from 'source code' far better than some cluster of computers can.
Actually, it's pretty certain that if C. Tolkein hadn't swept it all together and 'adapted' it with his name attached, that J.R.R. Tolkein's papers would have been gathered, donated to an educational institution, and published and presented in a scholarly way that didn't represent a commercial effort at 'extending the franchise' for money.
My copy of the Tolkein paperbacks from the seventies has the 'Respect for Living Authors' notes on the back cover regarding the piracy and ripoff of the Tolkein work even while J.R.R. was alive. Clearly there's always been a commercial interest behind making money off this story. It's difficult to know what the father would think of how his son has treated the works. Probably he wouldn't want thousands of people hating his son over it, however.
Believe it or not, there are people who have held off reading Tolkein's trilogy for years now because they don't want to spoil the ending of a three part flick.
To my mind that's a little like holding off on reading the trilogy because the Readers Digest Condensed Book version isn't completed yet.
They'd want to leave out the spiders or some of the other really 'scary' material that would make the story a hard sell to mothers with small children.
Really, what I have the most problem with in all these 'movie adaptations' is the strip mining of our culture, to appear on plastic cups at fast food franchises. That's so often the root of the 'softening' process that ruins good stories.
This sounds remarkably like what could happen if Slashdot ever decided to break away from their overlords.
Well, and some of the feuds get good play here.
This isn't a hAndover.net story or it'd be softpedaled a little more.
Is it to be a museum, or is it some sort of theme park thing??
I just have the four paperback copies that I read in the early 70's.
I wonder what they talk about at Family Reunions?
whose only crime is having a lot of anti-Castro supporters in Florida who would vote against Bush for lifting any sanctions on the island nation.
And Clinton, Bush 1, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy before GW Bush, too.
Yep. Those Cuban exiles in Florida know how to turn the screws and they're bi-partisan about it, to boot!
You can walk down the corridor of any prison in the world and hear 'I didn't do it' called out in the dark.
It's really cheap and dirty, in a world where men like Nelson Mandela were political prisoners for years, to try to lump cop killers in the same class.
Though, really, we should 'take it outside' if we want to argue about this one.
I love my pod.
I can't recall the exact Science Fiction reference, but I know there's one about a borg-like existence where people are transformed into 'pod people.'
For goodness sake, find something more substancial to love, dude.
Apple doesn't want people like you and me for customers.
Hair salons don't like us, either.
but you have to account for the dullards who dominate the population.
How can you say that about Apple's target market? It seemed a few comments up the thread like you had high esteem for the typical Apple customer.
Hey. You're clearly not Apple's market demographic.
How much do you pay for a haircut? Under $40??
I shipped an old 1940's tube-type automobile radio (for a Mercury) by UPS ground to Brazil (from Indiana) this fall, and it didn't take 6-8 weeks.
The thing that it's fairly easy to see is that these guys got pretty angry at Apple, and did their video in retaliation.
Following that, the Apple Brigade (astroturfers?) have done a pretty good slime job on them.
It reminds some of us why we've never bought anything new from Apple Computer. (I confess I recently registered a copy of Quicktime for Macintosh)
"It's like watching Michael Dell try to deal coke." (the P.R. minder shuddered).