As a penniless compsci uni student, we used to buy the single density 720KB disks, then drill a hole in one corner of the disks to make them double density 1.44MB disks. The 720s were just lower quality versions of the same disk.
I was in Chennai back at the start of the year. Plastered all over walls are posters advertising C#, Java, Oracle and so on training. It's like "Lose Weight Now" posters that are spammed all over Western City walls. They are everywhere.
They're for 3 month courses. There was one near where I was staying. In a little room in a disintegrating building, boys sat behind old PCs, learning Java. Very strange.
Made me wonder what kind of training they were getting.
I've always imagined sleep in computing terms. In our waking state we are absorbing huge amounts of data. Visual, Sound, Emotional, etc etc. Massive amounts.
As well as keep us functioning, our brains also have to process this stuff. Store it into some logical categories in it's database, but it's too much of a job to do realtime.
So, our bodies have to be taken offline to allow the processing to be done. Dreams being part of that sorting of info.
When I've been awake too long, I get that Full Buffer feeling. I don't want to absorb any new inputs.
For all the silliness, I still think I had a valid point.
The human body is the product of millions of years of Trial and Error. It wasn't designed to be modified and edited. It wasn't designed full stop. And so I can see strong parallels between Scientists trying to edit the building blocks, and a programmer trying to interpret some arcane piece of code.
You don't have the "Cell Growth" code neatly packaged into a namespace to be debugged and fixed in isolation to remove cancer.
I'm not knocking the wonders of organic nature. Just observing a pattern.
(Replying to myself. OMG!) Actually rather than a 7 day timeframe, it's more like some Cobol written in the 1960s, that's been hacked and tweaked over the decades and no one really knows how it works anymore. If anyone tries to do anything too radical with it, it crashes and brings down the whole Banking system.
The human body is an example of really crap evolutionary programming. Horrible spagetti code with no thought to make things modular. New stuff tacked in using old variables. Functions with multiple purposes.
So when you debug one thing, something else brakes.
God was a terrible programmer. But I guess that's what you get with a tight 7 day timeframe.
Ya know, though Tabs are nice and all, they aren't the most amazing innovative piece of programming Ever. I could imagine they were implemented in a day, and then cleaned up and debugged over a week.
Just for the heck of it. The USGS publishes automatic bulletins on the web of any quakes it picks up. It's all there for the viewing, if you wish. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
Japan, which has a long history of big destructive quakes has the most thorough monitoring system in the world. If there was anything to be detected, they will have detected it.
Users, and even myself sometimes, get Dialog Box fatigue. Too many things popping up asking questions that usually they don't care about, and they just stop reading them and hit the OK button automatically.
They become annoying stoppers. So a certain restraint is needed to only show them when they matter.
Of course this article has Google Advertising, that is keying off the topic and offering all sorts of toolbars and downloadable smilies, and Google Toolbar itself.
Good Embedded OSes are Expensive. With Linux you have the choice of doing it for free and figuring it all out for yourself, or getting the support of someone... good proper, talk direct with the developers support... and paying lots of money.
With WinCe, you sort of have a similar situation. You can pay a small sum for the OS and godspeed and good luck, or you can pay MS more money for more assistance.
The piddling sums of a couple of hundered dollars should be irrelevent to your business. Even the occasional 10 grad for the dev system and support isn't that important. More important is which dev system and OS gives you what you need, and the Licencing fees for each gadget you stick the OS into.
I would have been happier if they have shortened and thinned it a bit, but left the USB plug at the end. And released 2 & 4GB versions, so it could be used as a Serious USB key, as well as playing music.
I was more an addict of the old Quake & Unreal Tournament online battles. You'd hop online see regulars, and chat a bit in between blowing each other's head off.
Kind of an online equivalent of a social game of Tennis. Was it a community? Yeah, a bit.
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As a penniless compsci uni student, we used to buy the single density 720KB disks, then drill a hole in one corner of the disks to make them double density 1.44MB disks. The 720s were just lower quality versions of the same disk.
I shall miss thee dear floppies.
All number should be in Hex.
... meet a girl late at night at a bar...
Back at her house she asks, "Have you got some, umm, Protection?"
"Yeah, in my wallet".
The night then proceeds in a manner that is disappointing to all concerned.
Sorry, but this reminds of of Scientologists offering "A Free Personality Test".
Omitting to mention, oh by the way, we're a Weird Religious Cult.
I was in Chennai back at the start of the year.
Plastered all over walls are posters advertising C#, Java, Oracle and so on training. It's like "Lose Weight Now" posters that are spammed all over Western City walls. They are everywhere.
They're for 3 month courses. There was one near where I was staying. In a little room in a disintegrating building, boys sat behind old PCs, learning Java. Very strange.
Made me wonder what kind of training they were getting.
I've always imagined sleep in computing terms.
In our waking state we are absorbing huge amounts of data. Visual, Sound, Emotional, etc etc. Massive amounts.
As well as keep us functioning, our brains also have to process this stuff. Store it into some logical categories in it's database, but it's too much of a job to do realtime.
So, our bodies have to be taken offline to allow the processing to be done. Dreams being part of that sorting of info.
When I've been awake too long, I get that Full Buffer feeling. I don't want to absorb any new inputs.
Just raving...
Scrolling.
I know it's silly, but Word 97 was designed for old 100Mhz machines and the scrolling is stuffed. Text zooms by too fast.
And 2000 fixes some bugs and cleans up the UI a bit.
So I'll say Office 2000 is the go.
The table tennis at the start of Borat is a big giveaway.
An obvious sign of a copied idea.
If SCO had evidence like that, Linux would be in big trouble.
Sticking up your nose?
For all the silliness, I still think I had a valid point.
The human body is the product of millions of years of Trial and Error. It wasn't designed to be modified and edited. It wasn't designed full stop. And so I can see strong parallels between Scientists trying to edit the building blocks, and a programmer trying to interpret some arcane piece of code.
You don't have the "Cell Growth" code neatly packaged into a namespace to be debugged and fixed in isolation to remove cancer.
I'm not knocking the wonders of organic nature. Just observing a pattern.
(Replying to myself. OMG!)
Actually rather than a 7 day timeframe, it's more like some Cobol written in the 1960s, that's been hacked and tweaked over the decades and no one really knows how it works anymore. If anyone tries to do anything too radical with it, it crashes and brings down the whole Banking system.
The human body is an example of really crap evolutionary programming. Horrible spagetti code with no thought to make things modular. New stuff tacked in using old variables. Functions with multiple purposes.
So when you debug one thing, something else brakes.
God was a terrible programmer. But I guess that's what you get with a tight 7 day timeframe.
Ya know, though Tabs are nice and all, they aren't the most amazing innovative piece of programming Ever. I could imagine they were implemented in a day, and then cleaned up and debugged over a week.
Tabs have become this big Firefox Cliche.
No, that's what you imagine would be cool to do.
What it will probably do is still inside the mind of some techie inside Apple.
.... it's Microsoft's fault.
I thought this was obvious.
Or in 2002.
Ummm... look at the Filed Date of the Patent.
The insane thing is that NK's neighbours would pump money and industry into the place, if only Kim would let them.
If he took the reverse tactic, and STOPPED scaring the bejezus out of everyone, then it would be far more to North Korea's benefit.
Just for the heck of it.
The USGS publishes automatic bulletins on the web of any quakes it picks up. It's all there for the viewing, if you wish. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
Japan, which has a long history of big destructive quakes has the most thorough monitoring system in the world. If there was anything to be detected, they will have detected it.
Users, and even myself sometimes, get Dialog Box fatigue.
Too many things popping up asking questions that usually they don't care about, and they just stop reading them and hit the OK button automatically.
They become annoying stoppers.
So a certain restraint is needed to only show them when they matter.
Of course this article has Google Advertising, that is keying off the topic and offering all sorts of toolbars and downloadable smilies, and Google Toolbar itself.
So... you pay for your Browser then.
But paying for your Operating System is a problem?
Embedded RT Linux.
Good Embedded OSes are Expensive. With Linux you have the choice of doing it for free and figuring it all out for yourself, or getting the support of someone... good proper, talk direct with the developers support... and paying lots of money.
With WinCe, you sort of have a similar situation. You can pay a small sum for the OS and godspeed and good luck, or you can pay MS more money for more assistance.
The piddling sums of a couple of hundered dollars should be irrelevent to your business. Even the occasional 10 grad for the dev system and support isn't that important. More important is which dev system and OS gives you what you need, and the Licencing fees for each gadget you stick the OS into.
Yeah, I was hoping for more Porn.
Yep.
The old Shuffle is often used as a USB key.
I would have been happier if they have shortened and thinned it a bit, but left the USB plug at the end.
And released 2 & 4GB versions, so it could be used as a Serious USB key, as well as playing music.
I was more an addict of the old Quake & Unreal Tournament online battles. You'd hop online see regulars, and chat a bit in between blowing each other's head off.
Kind of an online equivalent of a social game of Tennis.
Was it a community? Yeah, a bit.