And NOT everybody can be a dish washer.
The unmotivated cannot produce. The lazy do not produce. (I saw a new hire pot washer get fired for throwing away pots and pans rather than wash them. I had just been promoted out of that job and was there when someone at work saw pots and pans in the dumpster.)
x = y = 1
In a sane language, "x = y = 1" would yield a syntax error.
y = 1
x = y
or
x = y
y = 1
would be the way to write the top line, depending on what you wanted.
I chose Typing my Senior year in high school, 1971, as a half-year elective because it paired with a much more important half-year elective, Driver's Education.
As a software engineer, I have to agree that it was probably the most important elective I ever chose.
Compare Soyuz, in its various models, against Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.
Everyone who flew came back. Apollo 1 burned on the pad, and Apollo 13 aborted its mission, but everyone who flew came home alive.
My impression was The Phantom was abysmal, worse than The Shadow.
From the stills and the trailer The Spirit is -not- Will Eisner's character. Instead we be shown a new character created by Miller who looks like The Spirit and may have some superficial similarities with Eisner's character. They have used the name and the look of the character and nothing else.
I had a CS prof who was famous for her difficult tests. At least 1/3 of the class could not finish in one period. So those student would follow her to her next class and they would finish their exams standing up.
This was NOT a solution for me as her next class also had their exam the same day and I was taking both classes.
So I wrote like a man possessed.
The next week everybody got their graded exams back, except me.
She told me the could not read more than a few words from either of my exam blue books. She had two high school daughters. They found by blue books impossible to read. Her husband was a Sanskrit scholar. After an hour in his study, he emerged stating, "I am nearly certain they are written in English."
I had to sit down with her and read my answers.
"Oh my, once you tell me what you wrote, now I can see the words clearly!"
It IS about ego, your ego.
There was a situation, in my eyes, similar to this when I was taking a Computer Science class.
The class was Logic, very technical, and taught by a very good instructor who's teaching style admittedly had a droning quality, very monotone.
Because I added the class I was assigned a seat in the back row.
By the time we were several weeks into the class, I found the instructor's lecture difficult to hear, let alone understand because of the whispering, gossip, and general chatter.
I stood up and read the riot act to the class. I was a student taking that class to learn something and their chatter was more than a distraction, a hinderance. I told them to shut up or get out. (They shut up.)
Not having attended a college class in years, I have never been confronted with a room full of typing monkeys.
A business meeting with one laptop for note taking is like having a meeting with feeding locusts in the room. I wonder just WHAT I'd say to fellow strudents who were WOWers and FaceBookers during MY class time?
Back in the day indeed. I did the final development and QA testing for a game that was released on the Apple ][ and C=64.
I was a member of a User's Group and one of the kid pirates offered me a copy! I gave him the entire anti-piracy speil and then told him I worked on the game. Boy, did his face change!
>>
But I really think this guy should be shot. Not in the head or anything, but maybe in the leg or arm or hand: someplace he'll remember. Oh, poor baby can't give the books away? There are schools and libraries the world over, Goodwills and Salvation Armies, etc., that would love to have some if not all of these books.
>>
I worked for a book dealer. My first lesson was: "Every book dealer has to throw away books."
He is burning junk books, books that book buyers have no interest in.
>>There are schools and libraries the world over>
No, this guy just wants to generate more sales, and to do so in the most inhumane, barbaric, evil way possible. People who burn books are disgusting, and honestly, if I lived in this area, the thought of a book store owner, of all people, who was willing to burn a book, would ensure that I would never, ever, ever purchase anything at his establishment ever again. Burning any book, good or bad, whether you approve of it or not, is a crime against humanity; it is a violation against the essence of human genius, creativity, and generation, be it hate speech or a widely acclaimed work of art (hell, even a Tom Clancy novel). And for a book store owner, whom one would assume would be a bibliophile, to do this, is monstrous. Like I said: shoot him.
>>
So just how is he supposed to dispose of books that have no resale value? Many of the charity stores do not take books.
The guy I worked for just threw them away. We would stack up a hundred boxes of books by the back door and have them carted away.
The motorized car chute? Old school, way old school
My younger brother was born in '57, by the time he was 10-ish, he had Hot Wheels.
One Christmas he got a HOt Wheels racing set. You were spposed to set up two tracks and race cars.
At the start-stop there was this foot square orange building. There was a chute in spinning rubber wheels and a throttle to control the speed. It was very hard to set up a race, and onlu certain cars would make it through the building, but they went FAST!
Rick
It might "push our noation forward".
It would take decades to implement.
We have never switched over to metric measurement, so how would the US ever decide to recast spelling?
Why would I want to see the -tires- on a car? Hiding the real wheels improves the lines of the car.
The new fad is expensive rims and cachet tires, the bling look. Not my idea of beauty.
Look at an automobile, realy look at it. The tires and wheels seldom fit in.
Then again. reducing drag is a good idea as well.
Let me try...
program gigapascal(output);
procedure WriteResponseHeader;
begin
writeln( 'content-type: text/html' );
writeln;
end;
var
giga : LONGINT;
begin
WriteResponseHeader;
writeln('[HTML]');
writeln(' [HEAD]');
writeln(' [TITLE]GigaPascal[/TITLE]');
writeln(' [/HEAD]');
writeln(' [BODY]');
FOR giga:= 1 to 1000000000 DO
begin
writeln(' [BIG] This is a Gigapascal! How the hell are you? [/BIG]');
end;
writeln(' [/BODY]');
writeln('[/HTML]')
end.
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And NOT everybody can be a dish washer. The unmotivated cannot produce. The lazy do not produce. (I saw a new hire pot washer get fired for throwing away pots and pans rather than wash them. I had just been promoted out of that job and was there when someone at work saw pots and pans in the dumpster.)
x = y = 1 In a sane language, "x = y = 1" would yield a syntax error. y = 1 x = y or x = y y = 1 would be the way to write the top line, depending on what you wanted.
I chose Typing my Senior year in high school, 1971, as a half-year elective because it paired with a much more important half-year elective, Driver's Education. As a software engineer, I have to agree that it was probably the most important elective I ever chose.
Compare Soyuz, in its various models, against Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Everyone who flew came back. Apollo 1 burned on the pad, and Apollo 13 aborted its mission, but everyone who flew came home alive.
simple, straight forward
My impression was The Phantom was abysmal, worse than The Shadow. From the stills and the trailer The Spirit is -not- Will Eisner's character. Instead we be shown a new character created by Miller who looks like The Spirit and may have some superficial similarities with Eisner's character. They have used the name and the look of the character and nothing else.
Resnick on Physics
The point is to teach -programming- not marking up a web page.
I had a CS prof who was famous for her difficult tests. At least 1/3 of the class could not finish in one period. So those student would follow her to her next class and they would finish their exams standing up. This was NOT a solution for me as her next class also had their exam the same day and I was taking both classes. So I wrote like a man possessed. The next week everybody got their graded exams back, except me. She told me the could not read more than a few words from either of my exam blue books. She had two high school daughters. They found by blue books impossible to read. Her husband was a Sanskrit scholar. After an hour in his study, he emerged stating, "I am nearly certain they are written in English." I had to sit down with her and read my answers. "Oh my, once you tell me what you wrote, now I can see the words clearly!"
On the C=64, some programs would set the volume to 0 on the sound chip, set the chip to Noise, and get a random number that way.
before Iron man had his own comic.
It IS about ego, your ego. There was a situation, in my eyes, similar to this when I was taking a Computer Science class. The class was Logic, very technical, and taught by a very good instructor who's teaching style admittedly had a droning quality, very monotone. Because I added the class I was assigned a seat in the back row. By the time we were several weeks into the class, I found the instructor's lecture difficult to hear, let alone understand because of the whispering, gossip, and general chatter. I stood up and read the riot act to the class. I was a student taking that class to learn something and their chatter was more than a distraction, a hinderance. I told them to shut up or get out. (They shut up.) Not having attended a college class in years, I have never been confronted with a room full of typing monkeys. A business meeting with one laptop for note taking is like having a meeting with feeding locusts in the room. I wonder just WHAT I'd say to fellow strudents who were WOWers and FaceBookers during MY class time?
Back in the day indeed. I did the final development and QA testing for a game that was released on the Apple ][ and C=64.
I was a member of a User's Group and one of the kid pirates offered me a copy! I gave him the entire anti-piracy speil and then told him I worked on the game. Boy, did his face change!
>> But I really think this guy should be shot. Not in the head or anything, but maybe in the leg or arm or hand: someplace he'll remember. Oh, poor baby can't give the books away? There are schools and libraries the world over, Goodwills and Salvation Armies, etc., that would love to have some if not all of these books. >> I worked for a book dealer. My first lesson was: "Every book dealer has to throw away books." He is burning junk books, books that book buyers have no interest in. >>There are schools and libraries the world over> No, this guy just wants to generate more sales, and to do so in the most inhumane, barbaric, evil way possible. People who burn books are disgusting, and honestly, if I lived in this area, the thought of a book store owner, of all people, who was willing to burn a book, would ensure that I would never, ever, ever purchase anything at his establishment ever again. Burning any book, good or bad, whether you approve of it or not, is a crime against humanity; it is a violation against the essence of human genius, creativity, and generation, be it hate speech or a widely acclaimed work of art (hell, even a Tom Clancy novel). And for a book store owner, whom one would assume would be a bibliophile, to do this, is monstrous. Like I said: shoot him. >> So just how is he supposed to dispose of books that have no resale value? Many of the charity stores do not take books. The guy I worked for just threw them away. We would stack up a hundred boxes of books by the back door and have them carted away.
The motorized car chute? Old school, way old school My younger brother was born in '57, by the time he was 10-ish, he had Hot Wheels. One Christmas he got a HOt Wheels racing set. You were spposed to set up two tracks and race cars. At the start-stop there was this foot square orange building. There was a chute in spinning rubber wheels and a throttle to control the speed. It was very hard to set up a race, and onlu certain cars would make it through the building, but they went FAST! Rick
It might "push our noation forward". It would take decades to implement. We have never switched over to metric measurement, so how would the US ever decide to recast spelling?
Why would I want to see the -tires- on a car? Hiding the real wheels improves the lines of the car. The new fad is expensive rims and cachet tires, the bling look. Not my idea of beauty. Look at an automobile, realy look at it. The tires and wheels seldom fit in. Then again. reducing drag is a good idea as well.
>> If you want to create a straightforward GUI for a database, use Delphi. Or PowerBuilder
Touch typing must be very high on the list, even 20 wpm. Rick
Let me try ...
program gigapascal(output);
procedure WriteResponseHeader;
begin
writeln( 'content-type: text/html' );
writeln;
end;
var
giga : LONGINT;
begin
WriteResponseHeader;
writeln('[HTML]');
writeln(' [HEAD]');
writeln(' [TITLE]GigaPascal[/TITLE]');
writeln(' [/HEAD]');
writeln(' [BODY]');
FOR giga := 1 to 1000000000 DO
begin
writeln(' [BIG] This is a Gigapascal! How the hell are you? [/BIG]');
end;
writeln(' [/BODY]');
writeln('[/HTML]')
end.
You have to use a FOR loop to get auto incrementing.