I have. A lot still read on my C128. I haven't managed to make a modem between my C128 and Mac work to transfer the files. Catweazle requires a PC and engineering, possible but not easy.
There seems no easy accessible way of reading them out-of-the-box, which is what you will want with a time capsule.
I'd rather expect Scaled Composites to put up a notice of mourning on their site in stead of the 'hiring' advertisement. The most recent news item is of February 2 2006...
I did:-) I moved from Amiga 1200 to iMac in 1999. Never had a PC in the house (except, perhaps, the bridgeboard on the A2000, which, back then, made me wonder what all the fuss of PCs was about).
Are we finally getting back to actually complete computers like the Amiga? It had custom designed processors for sound and video on the motherboard. And then it was sold together with a fitting OS, so you got computer and software as a complete functioning machine in stead of many loose ends in a PC.
I had the same feeling when I wrote it. It's what happened at my workplace. It's not bad, it's not good, it just leaves me feeling kind of awkward with our websites.
Microsoft CMS has been introduced, the job of filling it with content moves from tech to administration, adn the design is handled by the latest update from MS.
I dislike Microsoft because using their software is like grating your nails over a blackboard. When I use their products, I continuously experience a little anxiety for the next unexpected warning box, incomprehensible dialog or misaligned piece of GUI. The same action does not always get the same outcome. I get more nervous when I'm looking for a function or setting in any of their software, because they're hard to find or have disturbing side-effects.
Computers used to be determistic machines, but somehow Microsoft manages to make them behave randomly. Using computers has moved from being fun and creative to an annoying chore.
Another thing that makes me sad is that people's conception of what a computer is and can do, has become very skewed. People don't think about computers in terms of data to be manipulated, but in terms of squeezing data into Excel or information into a Powerpoint bullet-list. People tend to tailor their ideas to fit the fashion of Microsoft's software in stead of picking the right computer technology to express their actual ideas.
I won't go into the technological inefficiency of Microsoft's products.
And promoting physical fitness, well being, and cooperation with others? I appreciate your comment, but proof of that is rather unreliable. Sport often hurts people, making them not feel well at all. And that cooperation often degenerates into tribalistic ritual or actual fighting with the other team's supporters.
All somewhat off-topic. What it comes down to is that I get really excited about robots on the moon, but would have some definite life-lasting good memories seeing actual people walk on the moon.
Not sending robots but people would not only need more funding, it would actually attract more funding. People like people, not robots. Sports get lots of funding without having actual use, apart from the huge economy of people wanting to watch people.
Trust me, I caught it. Just had to vent my little frustration over people producing intellectual noise and saying they're exercising their right to free speech.
That was my feeling exactly, as I live in The Netherlands as well. About time we start considering weird ideas like raising our land by injecting acid into the lime bedrock: http://www.iht.com/articles/1993/01/12/dike.php (It's from 1993... Why don't we follow up on these kind of things? It would even solve a chemical waste problem.)
I agree with you and wish that those understanding teachers were readily available, since a ten-year-old is not easily going to figure the positive approach out on his own.
It's hard for a kid to empathize with another kid, they're simply to young to understand that other kids feel and view the world differently.
Where it went wrong in my case and some others I have heard of: teachers are often blind to the social mess that classes are. Or unable to inspire children not to hurt other children.
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I have. A lot still read on my C128. I haven't managed to make a modem between my C128 and Mac work to transfer the files. Catweazle requires a PC and engineering, possible but not easy.
There seems no easy accessible way of reading them out-of-the-box, which is what you will want with a time capsule.
Point in being: don't go all fancy with audio and video. A message from person to person gets across centuries by writing extremely well.
Write it down.
I can still read a book a hundred years old, I can't read a C64-floppy twenty years old.
"Cutting vibration could induce further damage to window."
Even just with a hand saw, gently sawing thorugh?
Slashdot is slow here at the moment. Have millions of disappointed searchers turned here for consolation?
I have.
Not much of course.
A national library's yearly collection of electronic publications is measured in terabytes.
Now that you mention it, I'll go and inform my librarian colleagues at the Netherlands National Library next work day.
Submit all of Groklaw's electronic publications to the Library of Congress.
They're a reliable long-term (centuries) repository of publications.
Not a day goes by that I play, read, or do something that is somehow connected to his game.
Great Old Ones, obviously.
I'd rather expect Scaled Composites to put up a notice of mourning on their site in stead of the 'hiring' advertisement.
The most recent news item is of February 2 2006...
I did :-)
I moved from Amiga 1200 to iMac in 1999. Never had a PC in the house (except, perhaps, the bridgeboard on the A2000, which, back then, made me wonder what all the fuss of PCs was about).
I did, at home, I'm just a bit frustrated with the PCs at work.
Are we finally getting back to actually complete computers like the Amiga?
It had custom designed processors for sound and video on the motherboard.
And then it was sold together with a fitting OS, so you got computer and software as a complete functioning machine in stead of many loose ends in a PC.
I had the same feeling when I wrote it. It's what happened at my workplace. It's not bad, it's not good, it just leaves me feeling kind of awkward with our websites.
Microsoft CMS has been introduced, the job of filling it with content moves from tech to administration, adn the design is handled by the latest update from MS.
I dislike Microsoft because using their software is like grating your nails over a blackboard.
When I use their products, I continuously experience a little anxiety for the next unexpected warning box, incomprehensible dialog or misaligned piece of GUI. The same action does not always get the same outcome. I get more nervous when I'm looking for a function or setting in any of their software, because they're hard to find or have disturbing side-effects.
Computers used to be determistic machines, but somehow Microsoft manages to make them behave randomly. Using computers has moved from being fun and creative to an annoying chore.
Another thing that makes me sad is that people's conception of what a computer is and can do, has become very skewed. People don't think about computers in terms of data to be manipulated, but in terms of squeezing data into Excel or information into a Powerpoint bullet-list.
People tend to tailor their ideas to fit the fashion of Microsoft's software in stead of picking the right computer technology to express their actual ideas.
I won't go into the technological inefficiency of Microsoft's products.
And promoting physical fitness, well being, and cooperation with others?
I appreciate your comment, but proof of that is rather unreliable. Sport often hurts people, making them not feel well at all. And that cooperation often degenerates into tribalistic ritual or actual fighting with the other team's supporters.
Maybe I have become cynical by reading Midas Dekker's new book, http://www.boekwijs.nl/boektitel/dekkers.htm (sorry, not translated into English yet).
All somewhat off-topic. What it comes down to is that I get really excited about robots on the moon, but would have some definite life-lasting good memories seeing actual people walk on the moon.
Not sending robots but people would not only need more funding, it would actually attract more funding.
People like people, not robots. Sports get lots of funding without having actual use, apart from the huge economy of people wanting to watch people.
Trust me, I caught it.
Just had to vent my little frustration over people producing intellectual noise and saying they're exercising their right to free speech.
No, it supports the freedom to choose what to listen to.
One does not have an obligation to listen to everybody's use of free speech.
That was my feeling exactly, as I live in The Netherlands as well.
About time we start considering weird ideas like raising our land by injecting acid into the lime bedrock:
http://www.iht.com/articles/1993/01/12/dike.php
(It's from 1993... Why don't we follow up on these kind of things? It would even solve a chemical waste problem.)
It doesn't even matter whether it is our fault or not.
Climate is changing and we need to adapt.
Hmm, I tried it, it seems that Browzar doesn't execute 'input type="submit"'-buttons.
Anyone else noticed this?
I agree with you and wish that those understanding teachers were readily available, since a ten-year-old is not easily going to figure the positive approach out on his own.
It's hard for a kid to empathize with another kid, they're simply to young to understand that other kids feel and view the world differently.
Where it went wrong in my case and some others I have heard of: teachers are often blind to the social mess that classes are.
Or unable to inspire children not to hurt other children.