If they're abandoning it, it's a pity as AmiPro/WordPro/WhateverItIsThisMonthPro was a nice alternative wordprocessor a few years back. I had been told unofficially by an IBMer once that they had an internal port to Unix started, but vehement managment opposition to it ever seeing the light of day. I'd kind of hoped they'd treat it like DataExplorer, and let it fly free. (They would be encouraged to keep Notes down on the farm, preferably muzzled and in a cage.
It's a slow news day. It's not like they caught Joe using Windows Vista or anything.
And yes, there does periodically seem to be a rift in the time-space continuum which injects Freepers into Slashdot. Probably time to hire a quantum mechanic and get that fixed.
No sex, due to the miracle of sublimation. If any of them (heroes, villians, hangers-on), were getting any, they'd be sitting under palm trees on the beach, drinking mai-tais, rather than running around worrying about blowing each other up.
The new, peaceful, version: GI Joe in Hawaiian print shorts, lounging by the pool and flexing while making eyes at GI Jane.
A little better editing might have done it, actually. It doesn't seem to be much worse than ST-III, which I have a certain fondness for due to the theme of friends going all out for each other. I think it's the 'finding God' part that gets people. I may have to rent it and give it a second chance, as I had a roomie once who preferred it to IV, on the basis of trying for a deeper plot and no time travel.
They have issues, they just don't dwell on them. Once again, taking a scene from ST:V (everyone hates it, but you know you watched it too), Kirk's comment,
"Damn it, Bones, you're a doctor. You know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with a wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!"
In other words, people who roll up in a ball and spend years in therapy do not end up in charge of large, military, assets. They may be a little warped by normal societal standards, but they are capable of getting the job done, no matter what the situation. William Tecumseh Sherman had, by modern standards, "Issues". Based on his career, I wouldn't deny him a single one.
And the OCC just got a little more interesting to judge.
This program reads itself in from stdin(claytablet), compiles a compiler, then writes itself back out to stddout(claytablet). User is required to ensure resulting program is properly baked to prevent data loss.
Keynote. Keynote alone might force an upgrade from my iBook to a MacBook for lecturing/conferences.
Photoshop. Fortran. Run simulations while on the road without having to perform yoga contortions to get the machine to act like a proper UNIX box.
Just get work done quietly and unobtrusively, without the computer/OS having to announce its presence every minute, lest I forget the blessings that Redmond hath bestowed upon me.
My dream laptop would be an IBM X31 running OS-X, but since those were never made, MacTops it is.
Last time I checked into the hospital all the nurses had to check out my old iBook because of the clean, white, design that set it apart from all of the black and grey Dells and Thinkpads the other patients used. A little attention to design does go a long way.
They could be more true to the original movie, leave the lightsabre on the ground, and send Mark Hamill floating home instead... (nothing against Hamill, but that was a great lost moment in the original film. One fewer whiney heroes-to-be.)
}} Music? If you wanted to do artsy iLife stuff like that you should have bought an iFruit.
Now, now, get up to date. The iFruits are long gone, the iLamp/iMuffin are gone, and the iPopTart seem to be going. Now it's the hybrid iPhone/iGranolaBar if you want to play music. Only $500, and if you hit the wrong button, you can blast the latest Toad the Wet Sprocket to you grandma at 101 decibels.
How disappointing; you wrote that in modern Fortran. They were true gods in the day when they could smiteth without 'else' statements, and using computed gotos, arithmatic ifs, and the "EQUIVALENCE" statement.
Your existence has as much meaning as you care to impart to it. Even if there is a personal, divine, creator, that doesn't impart any more meaning to your life if you decide to spend it on the couch drinking cheap beer.
Or you could buy a Mac Mini. Mine sits on the desk, and is *silent* 99% of the time, plus it takes up virtually no space. (in a previous office, it spent time on the shelf as a bookend while running). Minimal expandability internally, but a well-engineered option.
They have several indices (as per TFA), which aside from the BMI index, aren't all that expensive. If you're a diabetic smoker with bad cholesterol, you're paying an extra $180/yr. This is far less than my health plan charges me to add my wife, because their one-size-fits-all pricing model says if I'm married, I probably have half a dozen tubercular kids I expect them to support. Whether commercial entities should engage in this sort of social engineering is another question, but not addressed here.
(1) I need this to get work done and it has to run forever: Lenovo (formerly IBM) and high-end HP. Ugly is fine, as long as it's bullet-proof ugly
(2) I'm cheap and have no taste: Dell. Absolutely rock-bottom prices, and it has to match my velvet Elvis or corporate posters from Inspiration.com.
(3) It's a lifestyle choice, and I'm willing to pay for polish: Apple. They're not that much more expensive (especially the laptops), but getting people to overlook the price on the quad-core monsters is going to take better marketing. Tasteful, unobtrusive, and just let you get whatever it is you do done. Should be offered in Latte.
Besides, 94%, give or take a Linux box or two run Windows of some flavor. Why shouldn't the look of the machine remind you of the experience you're about to have?
The Neanderthals were probably complaining about our causing air pollution with all the spears and arrows we filled it with when they came around, as well as our running off with the cute chicks.
Every five years someone rediscovers, The Mythical Man Month and thinks they've had a great insight. People should be handed a copy of this when they start their tech jobs. Managers should have it inserted forcefully into appropriate orifices. Hardback copies for senior management.
Basically, some people are just better coders, and adding sub-standard assistance just ensures late, sub-standard software. Adding people to late projects makes them later.
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I'm still waiting for SMIT to be ported.
That's good, as otherwise they'll just tread upon you with their Big Blue Heels.
"And then you realize, you are so ready for IBM"
If they're abandoning it, it's a pity as AmiPro/WordPro/WhateverItIsThisMonthPro was a nice alternative wordprocessor a few years back. I had been told unofficially by an IBMer once that they had an internal port to Unix started, but vehement managment opposition to it ever seeing the light of day. I'd kind of hoped they'd treat it like DataExplorer, and let it fly free. (They would be encouraged to keep Notes down on the farm, preferably muzzled and in a cage.
It's a slow news day. It's not like they caught Joe using Windows Vista or anything.
And yes, there does periodically seem to be a rift in the time-space continuum which injects Freepers into Slashdot. Probably time to hire a quantum mechanic and get that fixed.
No sex, due to the miracle of sublimation. If any of them (heroes, villians, hangers-on), were getting any, they'd be sitting under palm trees on the beach, drinking mai-tais, rather than running around worrying about blowing each other up.
The new, peaceful, version: GI Joe in Hawaiian print shorts, lounging by the pool and flexing while making eyes at GI Jane.
A little better editing might have done it, actually. It doesn't seem to be much worse than ST-III, which I have a certain fondness for due to the theme of friends going all out for each other. I think it's the 'finding God' part that gets people. I may have to rent it and give it a second chance, as I had a roomie once who preferred it to IV, on the basis of trying for a deeper plot and no time travel.
They have issues, they just don't dwell on them. Once again, taking a scene from ST:V (everyone hates it, but you know you watched it too), Kirk's comment, "Damn it, Bones, you're a doctor. You know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with a wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!"
In other words, people who roll up in a ball and spend years in therapy do not end up in charge of large, military, assets. They may be a little warped by normal societal standards, but they are capable of getting the job done, no matter what the situation. William Tecumseh Sherman had, by modern standards, "Issues". Based on his career, I wouldn't deny him a single one.
And the OCC just got a little more interesting to judge.
This program reads itself in from stdin(claytablet), compiles a compiler, then writes itself back out to stddout(claytablet). User is required to ensure resulting program is properly baked to prevent data loss.
Keynote. Keynote alone might force an upgrade from my iBook to a MacBook for lecturing/conferences.
Photoshop. Fortran. Run simulations while on the road without having to perform yoga contortions to get the machine to act like a proper UNIX box.
Just get work done quietly and unobtrusively, without the computer/OS having to announce its presence every minute, lest I forget the blessings that Redmond hath bestowed upon me.
My dream laptop would be an IBM X31 running OS-X, but since those were never made, MacTops it is.
Last time I checked into the hospital all the nurses had to check out my old iBook because of the clean, white, design that set it apart from all of the black and grey Dells and Thinkpads the other patients used. A little attention to design does go a long way.
You had "L"s? We were told to break the little pointy things off the ones if we needed an "L".
Probably to reassure themselves as they looked at the heat-resistant tiles, that it could be worse.
They could be more true to the original movie, leave the lightsabre on the ground, and send Mark Hamill floating home instead... (nothing against Hamill, but that was a great lost moment in the original film. One fewer whiney heroes-to-be.)
That was the previous DoJ.
}} Music? If you wanted to do artsy iLife stuff like that you should have bought an iFruit.
Now, now, get up to date. The iFruits are long gone, the iLamp/iMuffin are gone, and the iPopTart seem to be going. Now it's the hybrid iPhone/iGranolaBar if you want to play music. Only $500, and if you hit the wrong button, you can blast the latest Toad the Wet Sprocket to you grandma at 101 decibels.
How disappointing; you wrote that in modern Fortran. They were true gods in the day when they could smiteth without 'else' statements, and using computed gotos, arithmatic ifs, and the "EQUIVALENCE" statement.
From Rudyard Kipling's Tomlinson
Or, if you're otherwise inclined,
In short, even the arbiters of the afterlife want to know, "What Have Ye Done!?"
that's second most importantly. I'm thinking of ordering one to see how well it runs Solaris. The SparcStation IPC rides again!
Or you could buy a Mac Mini. Mine sits on the desk, and is *silent* 99% of the time, plus it takes up virtually no space. (in a previous office, it spent time on the shelf as a bookend while running). Minimal expandability internally, but a well-engineered option.
They have several indices (as per TFA), which aside from the BMI index, aren't all that expensive. If you're a diabetic smoker with bad cholesterol, you're paying an extra $180/yr. This is far less than my health plan charges me to add my wife, because their one-size-fits-all pricing model says if I'm married, I probably have half a dozen tubercular kids I expect them to support. Whether commercial entities should engage in this sort of social engineering is another question, but not addressed here.
With a little makeup, they probably looked like a women's rugby team. 50,000 years ago, when talking about cute, you took what you could get.
Because the market basically has three segments:
(1) I need this to get work done and it has to run forever: Lenovo (formerly IBM) and high-end HP. Ugly is fine, as long as it's bullet-proof ugly
(2) I'm cheap and have no taste: Dell. Absolutely rock-bottom prices, and it has to match my velvet Elvis or corporate posters from Inspiration.com.
(3) It's a lifestyle choice, and I'm willing to pay for polish: Apple. They're not that much more expensive (especially the laptops), but getting people to overlook the price on the quad-core monsters is going to take better marketing. Tasteful, unobtrusive, and just let you get whatever it is you do done. Should be offered in Latte.
Besides, 94%, give or take a Linux box or two run Windows of some flavor. Why shouldn't the look of the machine remind you of the experience you're about to have?
The Neanderthals were probably complaining about our causing air pollution with all the spears and arrows we filled it with when they came around, as well as our running off with the cute chicks.
Every five years someone rediscovers, The Mythical Man Month and thinks they've had a great insight. People should be handed a copy of this when they start their tech jobs. Managers should have it inserted forcefully into appropriate orifices. Hardback copies for senior management.
Basically, some people are just better coders, and adding sub-standard assistance just ensures late, sub-standard software. Adding people to late projects makes them later.
Been to Orlando lately? Gibson is probably on the right track, but the prescriptions that let him deal with it through writing ran out.
Look on the bright side, his future is more positive than "Blade Runner".