You can get Flash 7 for Linux x86, which is two major versions behind Windows and OS X. It works for most Flash stuff out there, but I still come across the occasional site that instructs me to upgrade to Flash 8 or 9 if I want to view their content.
Now, in a pure capitalist system where the "free market" alone regulates things, what would be the incentive to support the weak or the poor? I can't think of one.
Love.
Even with the government throwing around tons of money in our name (that they take from us at the point of a gun), American citizens donated millions of dollars (515m, according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanitarian_response _to_the_2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake#Americas).
Many people find value in giving to those less fortunate, even if it's just because it makes them feel good. Be it out of a sense of religious obligation or something more personal, I think most people in a pure capitalist system would give willingly to help others. I know I would continue to do so.
Atari usually included background stories in the manuals for the 2600 versions of their games...
"You are Dig-Dug, the underground miner. With your jet-powered shovel, you create intricate, sub-terranean mazes. Ever on the watch for vegetable prizes, you must also look out for the fierce Fygar(tm) and mean Pooka(tm) that lurk underground. Their touch kills! Worse, these two meanies can transform into spooky ghosts that will appear out of nowhere and haunt you to death."
Did you know that Super Breakout was about a one-man space shuttle encountering a mysterious force field?
It runs just fine here for several hours a day with an ATI x1400 in my Dell laptop. That's not to discount that other people might have problems, but I've been quite impressed with the performance and stability.
I've been on a few interviews in the last few months, and no matter how well the interview seemed to be going, the conversation pretty much ended when it became clear that I didn't have experience with Websphere or Weblogic, or I hadn't used Struts in my current position.
Sure, I could write off these interviewers as being short-sighted, but that doesn't change the reality that employers are looking for people who know a particular set of skills, and have used them oh-so-recently.
One interview, I had to keep saying "no, being a startup, my current employer can't afford solutions like that, BUT MY PREVIOUS EMPLOYER..." to almost every question, because they kept asking if I was using these technologies right now.
Business schools and even C-level management may give lip service to the idea of having employees with both business and technical skills. But, the people in the trenches are the ones doing the hiring, and they are more concerned with the day to day technical realities of the operation. They need people with particular technical skills fresh in their minds who can jump in and start reacting to said C-level managers' demands.
I just re-read what I wrote, and it sounds like I'm standing on both sides of the fence. I'm whining a bit because I don't have the exact skills they're looking for and they don't seem to be considering my business skills or even my ability to apply prior knowledge (Oracle Application Server, Tomcat...) to new problems. But I also understand that they need people who can start solving problems for them right now. My solution? I guess there's going to be Websphere & Weblogic certification in my future.
Don't listen to this article. Business skills wont get you in the door.
I don't see how a govNET would be very much a different decision than the highway situation was
Oh, dear god, no...
I don't know where you live, but here in Chicago our roads are notoriously poor, constantly under construction, and never built to last. Am I going to have to check the TV news first thing in the morning to make sure there's enough bandwidth through the construction zone of the Dan Ryan backbone for my telecommute to work?
Please do more than just have the machines sitting there, or just let people play games on them. The importance of these machines is obvious to you, because you know them and the communities that sprouted around them. But to an outsider, they're just computers, and outdated ones at that. You can post their specs to show how quaint they are by today's standards, but that doesn't give a sense of what they meant to the people of the time, or what they mean today.
Check sites like The Commodore Billboard for ads showing how these computers were sold to people. You might also want to look for Computer Chronicles episodes or training videos on archive.org or Google Video.
And when you're done, be sure to let the Commodore community know about it. We'd love to see it if we're local, or even just look at pics over the net. Best of luck, it sounds like a fun project!
Not that it justifies his behavior in any way, but what if his previous experience was with embedded systems or other specialized devices that don't connect to networks? Didn't another comment mention that the "E-Systems" he worked with were part of the defense industry?
I've worked with salty old Pick programmers who have been doing it for as long as I've been alive. They could do amazing things deep in the bowels of these antiquated databases, but were clueless about how the Internet worked outside of clicking the blue 'e'. And why should they need to know if their jobs didn't require it?
It's quite possible that his 20 years experience didn't include dealing with a single web server. That doesn't mean it wasn't valuable experience, but it does make it largely irrelevant to the job he's doing.
Yes. I got attuned to it when I was a kid from old Apple II monitors that were left on after the computer was shut off.
It's indicative of some part in the video circuitry actually vibrating ever so slightly in response to the frequency of the current running through it:
In the corporate world, Excel is more of a platform than a simple spreadsheet these days. I have seen a multi-million dollar company essentially run off of three Excel spreadsheets with a ton of macros. The input data would come from some reports we generated off the database for them, and the finance people would enter them into the spreadsheets and let the macros morph the data into the views the senior management wanted to see.
I rather liked this arrangement because it empowered the users in finance by giving them a tool they could modify on their own, and it let us focus on building reports that made sense to finance without distilling it down to bullet points for senior management. It also meant we weren't in the direct line of fire when management didn't like the numbers they saw.
I could almost guarantee there is a Tron machine within 50 miles of wherever you're reading this from.
Yes, there is. Strangely enough, it's at the Museum of Science & Industry here in Chicago, as part of their Game On! exhibit. I still can't get over the fact that the games & systems I grew up with are museum pieces now.
That's right on the money. There are still user groups out there for the old 80's micros, but there isn't really that much "new" stuff out there for people to "learn". They really exist more for comraderie...a chance to hang out with people who understand just how cool you think certain hardware or a piece of software is. LUGs will probably go this way, as places to go and hang out with other people whose families wonder why their houses are full of stuffed penguins and gnomes.
so to them you recomend, instead of a infinately mod-able x86/x64 pc, a uniform mac workstation that is the same as every other mac of the same "model". sorry. mac has always been about people who dont care enough about computers to want to swap around parts
Don't forget people who have spent years swapping around parts and just want a simple system to do their "free time" coding on. We're not Apple's target market, but we're out there.
I wonder if it could be referring to the "clear screen" bug:
In the original version of the Kernal, the routine that cleared a
screen line set the corresponding Color RAM to a value of 1, which
gives text characters a white foreground color. This was changed in
version zero because the white color was found to sometimes cause
light flashes during screen scrolling. It was that white foreground
color, however, that enabled the user to POKE the screen code for a
character into screen RAM, and make that character appear on the
screen that contrasted the blue background. This change to the
Operating system caused colors POKEd to screen RAM to be the same
color as the background, and thus made them invisible. By
initializing Color RAM to the foreground color, version 3 of the
Kernal solved this problem.
Well, I tried to view the trailer, but Yahoo! wont let me. They saw I have to upgrade my Firefox browser to MSIE or Netscape and install Windows Media.
Anyone have an alternate link?
That is the MLA (Modern Language Association) standard for noting that you changed the case of a letter a the start of a quote. In the first case you give, the sentance in the article probably begins with a capital "O". But, since it appears in the middle of the sentance in the summary, "[o]" is used to show that the summary's author changed the letter to lower-case.
There are two main Commodore Expos during the year. One is the Fall Expo, which the SWRAP user group hosts in the Chicago area. The other is the Spring Expo held just outside Louisville every Memorial Day.
This December, there's also going to be a revival of the old World of Commodore show in Toronto. Hopefully this will become an annual event as well.
Links to both of these shows can be found on the SWRAP Expo home page.
There are also various classic gaming/computing shows all over the country. You might want to check atariage.com to see if there is a more general show happening closer to home.
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My guess? Finding a new ape ancestor doesn't get the same kind of headlines as finding a human ancestor.
That's not to say we haven't found any ape ancestors, just that they didn't make the front page of the New York Times or anything like that.
You can get Flash 7 for Linux x86, which is two major versions behind Windows and OS X. It works for most Flash stuff out there, but I still come across the occasional site that instructs me to upgrade to Flash 8 or 9 if I want to view their content.
Atari usually included background stories in the manuals for the 2600 versions of their games...
Did you know that Super Breakout was about a one-man space shuttle encountering a mysterious force field?
This manual and more at AtariAge
It runs just fine here for several hours a day with an ATI x1400 in my Dell laptop. That's not to discount that other people might have problems, but I've been quite impressed with the performance and stability.
I've been on a few interviews in the last few months, and no matter how well the interview seemed to be going, the conversation pretty much ended when it became clear that I didn't have experience with Websphere or Weblogic, or I hadn't used Struts in my current position.
Sure, I could write off these interviewers as being short-sighted, but that doesn't change the reality that employers are looking for people who know a particular set of skills, and have used them oh-so-recently.
One interview, I had to keep saying "no, being a startup, my current employer can't afford solutions like that, BUT MY PREVIOUS EMPLOYER..." to almost every question, because they kept asking if I was using these technologies right now.
Business schools and even C-level management may give lip service to the idea of having employees with both business and technical skills. But, the people in the trenches are the ones doing the hiring, and they are more concerned with the day to day technical realities of the operation. They need people with particular technical skills fresh in their minds who can jump in and start reacting to said C-level managers' demands.
I just re-read what I wrote, and it sounds like I'm standing on both sides of the fence. I'm whining a bit because I don't have the exact skills they're looking for and they don't seem to be considering my business skills or even my ability to apply prior knowledge (Oracle Application Server, Tomcat...) to new problems. But I also understand that they need people who can start solving problems for them right now. My solution? I guess there's going to be Websphere & Weblogic certification in my future.
Don't listen to this article. Business skills wont get you in the door.
Oh, dear god, no...
I don't know where you live, but here in Chicago our roads are notoriously poor, constantly under construction, and never built to last. Am I going to have to check the TV news first thing in the morning to make sure there's enough bandwidth through the construction zone of the Dan Ryan backbone for my telecommute to work?
Please do more than just have the machines sitting there, or just let people play games on them. The importance of these machines is obvious to you, because you know them and the communities that sprouted around them. But to an outsider, they're just computers, and outdated ones at that. You can post their specs to show how quaint they are by today's standards, but that doesn't give a sense of what they meant to the people of the time, or what they mean today.
Check sites like The Commodore Billboard for ads showing how these computers were sold to people. You might also want to look for Computer Chronicles episodes or training videos on archive.org or Google Video.
And when you're done, be sure to let the Commodore community know about it. We'd love to see it if we're local, or even just look at pics over the net. Best of luck, it sounds like a fun project!
The 6502 has a clock. It might be marked PHI2 on your pinout.
Not that it justifies his behavior in any way, but what if his previous experience was with embedded systems or other specialized devices that don't connect to networks? Didn't another comment mention that the "E-Systems" he worked with were part of the defense industry?
I've worked with salty old Pick programmers who have been doing it for as long as I've been alive. They could do amazing things deep in the bowels of these antiquated databases, but were clueless about how the Internet worked outside of clicking the blue 'e'. And why should they need to know if their jobs didn't require it?
It's quite possible that his 20 years experience didn't include dealing with a single web server. That doesn't mean it wasn't valuable experience, but it does make it largely irrelevant to the job he's doing.
Yes. I got attuned to it when I was a kid from old Apple II monitors that were left on after the computer was shut off.
It's indicative of some part in the video circuitry actually vibrating ever so slightly in response to the frequency of the current running through it:
http://www.repairfaq.org/samnew/tvfaq/tvwhine.htm
In the corporate world, Excel is more of a platform than a simple spreadsheet these days. I have seen a multi-million dollar company essentially run off of three Excel spreadsheets with a ton of macros. The input data would come from some reports we generated off the database for them, and the finance people would enter them into the spreadsheets and let the macros morph the data into the views the senior management wanted to see.
I rather liked this arrangement because it empowered the users in finance by giving them a tool they could modify on their own, and it let us focus on building reports that made sense to finance without distilling it down to bullet points for senior management. It also meant we weren't in the direct line of fire when management didn't like the numbers they saw.
That's right on the money. There are still user groups out there for the old 80's micros, but there isn't really that much "new" stuff out there for people to "learn". They really exist more for comraderie...a chance to hang out with people who understand just how cool you think certain hardware or a piece of software is. LUGs will probably go this way, as places to go and hang out with other people whose families wonder why their houses are full of stuffed penguins and gnomes.
Well, I tried to view the trailer, but Yahoo! wont let me. They saw I have to upgrade my Firefox browser to MSIE or Netscape and install Windows Media. Anyone have an alternate link?
...I recommend Ray Carlsen's Home Page
That is the MLA (Modern Language Association) standard for noting that you changed the case of a letter a the start of a quote. In the first case you give, the sentance in the article probably begins with a capital "O". But, since it appears in the middle of the sentance in the summary, "[o]" is used to show that the summary's author changed the letter to lower-case.
Awesome link. There are some really creative people out there!
There are two main Commodore Expos during the year. One is the Fall Expo, which the SWRAP user group hosts in the Chicago area. The other is the Spring Expo held just outside Louisville every Memorial Day. This December, there's also going to be a revival of the old World of Commodore show in Toronto. Hopefully this will become an annual event as well. Links to both of these shows can be found on the SWRAP Expo home page. There are also various classic gaming/computing shows all over the country. You might want to check atariage.com to see if there is a more general show happening closer to home.