Roy Walford died at age 79 of respiratory failure as a complication of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease). (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Walford)
If I recall correctly, even for Windows 95 there was already software that made virtual desktops possible on Windows.
FWIW, I never use virtual desktops, tried it with Indigo magic, but just don't see the point. Maybe my work makes it possible to work without them:-).
In the 70s I was the only child at my school that was interested in electronics, chemistry, etc. In the late 80s I went to a technical school (Dutch: HTS) and I was the only one in my class who already knew the resistor color codes, etc. So, no, in my experience there was certainly not a booming tech interest, were I lived (the Netherlands, close to the Hague).
As for now, my children grow up with a working-at-home dad who was interested in tech, etc. and still is. And nature. We have a very small library, but it has 20+ books on various animals, plants, rocks, minerals, fossils, dinosaurs, planes, photography, etc. My children, 5yo girl, 2yo boy, now and then browse through some of the books. They love the scholastic books on spiders, snakes, butterflies, beetles (highly recommended, by the way).
My 5 yo daughter and 2 yo son are crazy about robots. When my daughter was younger she loved the R2D2 we got at Burger King. Later I bought the small R2D2 with sound effects.
For Children's Day -- I live in Mexico -- I bought Fisher Price Trio, the set that has a robot (amongst other models) on the box. And guess which model both my children love the most.... correct, the robot.
I soon want to try to teach my daughter some basic soldering skills. They also love to play with tools, for example, see: Hammer Time with Alice and Adam. In my opinion, it's not about pushing tech on children, just making it available and let them discover the fun if they are interested.
And no, children are not getting adult tools in day care, or a soldering iron... So there is certainly a task for parents here. But I have it easy, I work at home, so my children see me do things like cleaning a computer, connecting things, programming, etc. Also I have a huge book collection, including a lot of books for (older) children that in my opinion libraries should have;-).
As for Heatkit: sorry to read this. On the other hand, when I was 13 yo I desoldered parts from old TVs, made holes in a piece of acrylic plastic, and used that to support the components. I made "traces" with pieces of stripped wire. Oh, and I used a soldering iron for plumbing jobs, so I had to be very careful. And yeah, one day I accidentally picked it up by the wrong end. So, if you want to experiment with electronics there are plenty of options, no need for kits. Moreover, nowadays one can find countless circuit diagrams online, with instructions. Back in those days, I had to rely on the Elektuur (Dutch edition of Elektor).
You say fuck, so you must be right, right?
Obviously, it's not always possible for prior art to use the same technology...
And what are "same methods"?
I have little doubt of prior art on this. I used to work at a company in New Zealand where one could vote a song up via a web interface.
One day one of the owners complained to, if I recall correctly the programmer, Adam, who had written the code for it and handled the tracks, if he could change the music since it most likely was highly disturbing to me, and since I was working on a Perl project from hell (no, not all Perl projects are like that), I needed peace. Then the guy told him that what was currently playing (System of a Down), was my contribution to the jukebox and had just been voted up by me, as well:-).
Aside: the owners of the same company agreed shortly after that I could have a "dual-head". One of the owners went after the meeting to a nearby shop that was selling video carts on the very cheap because of "smoke damage". The secretary handed the card over to me, and told me I now had "dual-head". My question: where's the monitor was met by a blank stare followed by: you needed an extra video card, right? To which Adam replied, "And to what is he going to connect it? To his eyes?". Aaah, those were the days. The company considered itself a player in the IT and ahead of its time, supporting Linux, OSS (but also doing illegal installs of Windows...).
from people who probably wouldn't know how to use it or its brethren for anything more than applying an effect to a photo.
Which most likely is how most people use this program. I used Irfanview a lot in the past and it took me quite some time to get used to Gimp's quirks and what I still see as too many extra steps to do exactly the same. Some of my complaints still are valid (IMO, of course), others were caused by switching to a different UI and not taking the time to RTFM. The problem is that the valid complains make it easier (to me) to bitch about things like: Oh, I expected it to do X, but it does Y. Or: I expect this key to do that but instead I have to use a different key.
Finally, a feature doesn't care about the UI. "Unsharp Mask" for example, doesn't care that the defaults for it are totally retarded; radius 0.5 and amount 0.50. But people using this filter, do. No idea who came up with those defaults but I guess he uses his foreskin as a filter for his digital camera.
Monster High?:-)
Our children love the Baby Einstein series. My 5yo daughter is, like some of her friends, into "Monster High", but she plays the most with her "little mommy" sets and her (almost 2yo) brother's Fisher Price Trio (recommended).
As for books: Charlie & Lola, Numberof/Bond books (fantastic illustrations), and Scholastic books on animals (sadly, some are out of print).
Yup, I read "Charlie and Lola", Numeroff/Bond books (If you take a mouse to school), and Scholastic "Hello Reader" (Mighty Spiders!, Great Snakes!, Fantastic Frogs!, etc.) to my 5yo daughter and (almost) 2yo son. They grow up so fast; avoid turning them into mini-you, since you will be disappointed.
It's not like stuff like that can be automated, right?
I really despise childish comments, especially if the anger is unnecessary and gives the impression the author is incompetent.
Like I wrote up, we use it the most to watch YouTube videos and couch surfing. For reading e-books, we use Kindle Touch. So it's more like an expensive phone that can't make calls;-).
Yup, the size is great, and I think that the Kindle Fire in general is great, if you're living in the USA, that is.
Add a built-in mic, camera, and SD card reader and it's would be fantastic device.
Kindle Fire is mostly here a device to watch YouTube (and some downloaded movies). I think in families with (young) children a Kindle Fire is used more for watching YouTube than reading eBooks (also, we have two Kindle Touch for just that). I like it for that, my wife and I both love cooking, and somehow sitting on a couch together and watching a cooking video on YouTube is way nicer than watching the same movie on a laptop or desktop computer. Also, when cooking, one can keep the Kindle Fire close at hand, and follow the instructions.
I have a Kindle Fire, got it as a Christmas present. I think it's a fantastic device. The only downside is that I am not in the USA. When after a month a small defect showed up in the LCD Amazon cared a lot but was not able to help me out other than suggesting that I would pay ~ 140 USD to have my Christmas present fixed, see Kindle Fire outside the USA: fun while it lasts.
So, be warned if you're outside the USA and decide to import one yourself. You might end up paying for what adds up to an iPad. While I hope that Amazon will start selling the Kindle Fire outside of the USA, and hopefully within my 1 year of warranty, I somehow doubt this is going to happen. At least not with the current Kindle Fire. And with rumours of a smaller iPad I wonder if a Kindle Fire 2 is going to be an option for Amazon.
The 16K ROM of the ZX Spectrum had only a handful of filler bytes if my memory serves me correctly. There was no space for "a few dozen bytes". If I recall correctly in some places the ROM already used quite some smart ways to reuse code.
I am not. Let me explain it in a clearer way: The 16K ROM of the ZX Spectrum is as far as I know completely used (I think there were a bunch of filler bytes, but can't recall how many). So no tokenizer means that the ROM had space for other routines. I am not talking about a user being able to "poke data in ROM" (you silly, you), I am talking about useful code in ROM. And since ROM was not cheap in those days, bytes saved was money saved.
I got a ZX Spectrum back in 1983 and I was for quite some time the only person I knew who had one. No idea where you got the "most... never programmed" from, but I doubt it's even close to the truth. Oh, sure, a lot of them just typed programs in they saw in magazines, but just LOAD""? Forget it. It took a few years before I found other people who did have plenty of access to tapes.
FWIW, same when I bought the Acorn Archimedes. I had to write my own editor in order to code PASCAL (had money to by the latter, not the former)
No, in a nutshell, still correct. There is a limit on address space (64K), so memory saved is memory saved, no matter how many bytes. I don't recall that there was much (if at all) "free" space in the 16K ROM of the ZX Spectrum.
I have no experience, yet, with PhotoShop et al. But I am going to get myself a Mac in the near future and PhotoShop. Maybe PS will frustrate me as much as Gimp does now, who knows.
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Roy Walford died at age 79 of respiratory failure as a complication of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease). (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Walford)
Love your rage dripping between the lines, though
If I recall correctly, even for Windows 95 there was already software that made virtual desktops possible on Windows. FWIW, I never use virtual desktops, tried it with Indigo magic, but just don't see the point. Maybe my work makes it possible to work without them :-).
letmethinkaboutthatfora.sec....
In the 70s I was the only child at my school that was interested in electronics, chemistry, etc. In the late 80s I went to a technical school (Dutch: HTS) and I was the only one in my class who already knew the resistor color codes, etc. So, no, in my experience there was certainly not a booming tech interest, were I lived (the Netherlands, close to the Hague).
As for now, my children grow up with a working-at-home dad who was interested in tech, etc. and still is. And nature. We have a very small library, but it has 20+ books on various animals, plants, rocks, minerals, fossils, dinosaurs, planes, photography, etc. My children, 5yo girl, 2yo boy, now and then browse through some of the books. They love the scholastic books on spiders, snakes, butterflies, beetles (highly recommended, by the way).
Right now, their favourite toy is Fisher Price Trio (recommended), the set I bought has various cogs. You can see my son having a lot of fun with a wind mill made with Trio and a fan. They both love to play with Trio and Duplo.
In short, I think it's still happening, at least in my house.
My 5 yo daughter and 2 yo son are crazy about robots. When my daughter was younger she loved the R2D2 we got at Burger King. Later I bought the small R2D2 with sound effects.
For Children's Day -- I live in Mexico -- I bought Fisher Price Trio, the set that has a robot (amongst other models) on the box. And guess which model both my children love the most.... correct, the robot.
I soon want to try to teach my daughter some basic soldering skills. They also love to play with tools, for example, see: Hammer Time with Alice and Adam. In my opinion, it's not about pushing tech on children, just making it available and let them discover the fun if they are interested.
And no, children are not getting adult tools in day care, or a soldering iron... So there is certainly a task for parents here. But I have it easy, I work at home, so my children see me do things like cleaning a computer, connecting things, programming, etc. Also I have a huge book collection, including a lot of books for (older) children that in my opinion libraries should have ;-).
As for Heatkit: sorry to read this. On the other hand, when I was 13 yo I desoldered parts from old TVs, made holes in a piece of acrylic plastic, and used that to support the components. I made "traces" with pieces of stripped wire. Oh, and I used a soldering iron for plumbing jobs, so I had to be very careful. And yeah, one day I accidentally picked it up by the wrong end. So, if you want to experiment with electronics there are plenty of options, no need for kits. Moreover, nowadays one can find countless circuit diagrams online, with instructions. Back in those days, I had to rely on the Elektuur (Dutch edition of Elektor).
You say fuck, so you must be right, right? Obviously, it's not always possible for prior art to use the same technology... And what are "same methods"?
I have little doubt of prior art on this. I used to work at a company in New Zealand where one could vote a song up via a web interface.
One day one of the owners complained to, if I recall correctly the programmer, Adam, who had written the code for it and handled the tracks, if he could change the music since it most likely was highly disturbing to me, and since I was working on a Perl project from hell (no, not all Perl projects are like that), I needed peace. Then the guy told him that what was currently playing (System of a Down), was my contribution to the jukebox and had just been voted up by me, as well :-).
Aside: the owners of the same company agreed shortly after that I could have a "dual-head". One of the owners went after the meeting to a nearby shop that was selling video carts on the very cheap because of "smoke damage". The secretary handed the card over to me, and told me I now had "dual-head". My question: where's the monitor was met by a blank stare followed by: you needed an extra video card, right? To which Adam replied, "And to what is he going to connect it? To his eyes?". Aaah, those were the days. The company considered itself a player in the IT and ahead of its time, supporting Linux, OSS (but also doing illegal installs of Windows...).
Or a Kindle Fire. That's what my wife uses in the kitchen to follow recipes on YouTube and other sites.
Which most likely is how most people use this program. I used Irfanview a lot in the past and it took me quite some time to get used to Gimp's quirks and what I still see as too many extra steps to do exactly the same. Some of my complaints still are valid (IMO, of course), others were caused by switching to a different UI and not taking the time to RTFM. The problem is that the valid complains make it easier (to me) to bitch about things like: Oh, I expected it to do X, but it does Y. Or: I expect this key to do that but instead I have to use a different key.
Finally, a feature doesn't care about the UI. "Unsharp Mask" for example, doesn't care that the defaults for it are totally retarded; radius 0.5 and amount 0.50. But people using this filter, do. No idea who came up with those defaults but I guess he uses his foreskin as a filter for his digital camera.
So you disagree with the information given on that page. Anything to support that other than smart-assing?
Monster High? :-)
Our children love the Baby Einstein series. My 5yo daughter is, like some of her friends, into "Monster High", but she plays the most with her "little mommy" sets and her (almost 2yo) brother's Fisher Price Trio (recommended).
As for books: Charlie & Lola, Numberof/Bond books (fantastic illustrations), and Scholastic books on animals (sadly, some are out of print).
Yup, I read "Charlie and Lola", Numeroff/Bond books (If you take a mouse to school), and Scholastic "Hello Reader" (Mighty Spiders!, Great Snakes!, Fantastic Frogs!, etc.) to my 5yo daughter and (almost) 2yo son. They grow up so fast; avoid turning them into mini-you, since you will be disappointed.
It's not like stuff like that can be automated, right? I really despise childish comments, especially if the anger is unnecessary and gives the impression the author is incompetent.
Maybe read this first before spreading disinformation? http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/vision/Galileo.html
Like I wrote up, we use it the most to watch YouTube videos and couch surfing. For reading e-books, we use Kindle Touch. So it's more like an expensive phone that can't make calls ;-).
Yup, the size is great, and I think that the Kindle Fire in general is great, if you're living in the USA, that is. Add a built-in mic, camera, and SD card reader and it's would be fantastic device.
Kindle Fire is mostly here a device to watch YouTube (and some downloaded movies). I think in families with (young) children a Kindle Fire is used more for watching YouTube than reading eBooks (also, we have two Kindle Touch for just that). I like it for that, my wife and I both love cooking, and somehow sitting on a couch together and watching a cooking video on YouTube is way nicer than watching the same movie on a laptop or desktop computer. Also, when cooking, one can keep the Kindle Fire close at hand, and follow the instructions.
I have a Kindle Fire, got it as a Christmas present. I think it's a fantastic device. The only downside is that I am not in the USA. When after a month a small defect showed up in the LCD Amazon cared a lot but was not able to help me out other than suggesting that I would pay ~ 140 USD to have my Christmas present fixed, see Kindle Fire outside the USA: fun while it lasts.
So, be warned if you're outside the USA and decide to import one yourself. You might end up paying for what adds up to an iPad. While I hope that Amazon will start selling the Kindle Fire outside of the USA, and hopefully within my 1 year of warranty, I somehow doubt this is going to happen. At least not with the current Kindle Fire. And with rumours of a smaller iPad I wonder if a Kindle Fire 2 is going to be an option for Amazon.
http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Frss.slashdot.org%2FSlashdot%2Fslashdot
The 16K ROM of the ZX Spectrum had only a handful of filler bytes if my memory serves me correctly. There was no space for "a few dozen bytes". If I recall correctly in some places the ROM already used quite some smart ways to reuse code.
I am quite sure the filler bytes were less than 30, maybe even less than 20. I hope you now understand it.
I am not. Let me explain it in a clearer way: The 16K ROM of the ZX Spectrum is as far as I know completely used (I think there were a bunch of filler bytes, but can't recall how many). So no tokenizer means that the ROM had space for other routines. I am not talking about a user being able to "poke data in ROM" (you silly, you), I am talking about useful code in ROM. And since ROM was not cheap in those days, bytes saved was money saved.
I got a ZX Spectrum back in 1983 and I was for quite some time the only person I knew who had one. No idea where you got the "most ... never programmed" from, but I doubt it's even close to the truth. Oh, sure, a lot of them just typed programs in they saw in magazines, but just LOAD""? Forget it. It took a few years before I found other people who did have plenty of access to tapes.
FWIW, same when I bought the Acorn Archimedes. I had to write my own editor in order to code PASCAL (had money to by the latter, not the former)
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No, in a nutshell, still correct. There is a limit on address space (64K), so memory saved is memory saved, no matter how many bytes. I don't recall that there was much (if at all) "free" space in the 16K ROM of the ZX Spectrum.
I have no experience, yet, with PhotoShop et al. But I am going to get myself a Mac in the near future and PhotoShop. Maybe PS will frustrate me as much as Gimp does now, who knows.
Thanks for the tip! Will look into this. (But I still think it's more logic to have this per dialog, with a "reset" option as well).