There was a period when CP/M was the way to go. First general operating system so you didn't have to run everything in BASIC or write a different version of your software for every machine, ect. (Not to mention that DOS was for all practical purposes a 16-bit mimic of CP/M.) But I didn't find any mention of it at all in the article.
My first machines were Morrows, and although 40,000 machines is nothing now, it was a good quantity back then. And it was certainly more functional than the first Mac.
Looks like Analog Science Fiction and Fact beat New Scientist to publication with Gregory Benford's story "The Pain Gun" in the July/August 2005 issue (page 140 of the dead tree style link).
I'm reminded of Winston Churchill's comment that the US and England are two countries separated by the same language. (I'm not really sure they do speak the same language in Austrailia, pretty as it sounds...)
Do you really think that the general US population will react the same as Aussies?
That's a lot of TVs (containing mercury, amoung other baddies) heading for the landfill all at the same time. Or recycled? A big burst of recycling followed by a big pause (since the percentage of sets that are new would be then high) is not good for any industry. I think the need for TV recycling and provisions to handle it should be part of the requirements for the cut-off.
As a photographer for 21 years, from 1957 to 1978, where lots of my work came out of a B&W darkroom (and where I did the work with my own little hands), Illford was popular but crap compared to the control one had with Kodak Polycontrast papers (although the Illford filters worked better with Pollycontrast).
I taught photography and darkroom technique as well as working in advertizing, technical and photojournalism photography. Perhaps your pictures were muddy on Kodak paper because you didn't know how to make a good negative. The extra gamma (contrast) of Illford papers was often a crutch for bad photographers.
And the only way to let your photo speak for itself instead of being pseudo art was to use a glossy paper (matte and semi-matte was for the photo clubs) although ferrotyping was silly.
So, now my dream of an exibit of my old work (including the first Woodstock Festival as well as the Vietnam anti-war protests in DC and NYC and Berkeley) in 16x20 and larger is dead?
"Imagine, as a Linux adminstrator with over 7 years professional experience, you are put under the technical guidance of an office manager, an attorney, an engineer, a shop foreman, etc. with 0 years professional experience as a system admin."
Compared to my experience at a College, that would be heaven. Office managers, shop foremen and engineers (I don't know about attorneys...) are not likely to think that just because they have a PhD (if they do) they know everything there is to know, or that those without a PhD are just workers with no special knowledge at all.
After two years, which was one year much too long, I swore I would never work for a college again.
Back in the real grownup world my knowledge and skills were appreciated again. I was not told to do lousy work because my boss didn't like the client (which at the college was a faculity member or another department head). But those two years on the resume really hurt me in the grownup real world because the real world knew how bad the quality was in the college world.
I note that the web pages for both start-ups don't know the English language -- in particular their use (actually mis-use) of commas. And the style is distressingly similar. It looks like a fraud to me.
The MSNBC article is a total mishmash of this and that made into a stew palatable only to those who do not know the scientific base of evolutionary theory, logic, or science itself.
The confusions are between inherited and aquired characteristics (Barry Bonds on steriods is going to give his kids big muscles -- give me some rat's tails!), speciation and evolution, and any old other thing to confuse and amaze the ignorant.
All made exciting by the artist's drawings of the new human species of the future -- reminding me of similar (although not in color) drawings of the 19th century that we now find so amusing (and wonder how anyone could have believed them).
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I saw this question in a letter from Peter Brooks of LA, CA, USA on pg. 23 of New Scientist of 8 July 2006, and inquiring minds want to know.
There was a period when CP/M was the way to go. First general operating system so you didn't have to run everything in BASIC or write a different version of your software for every machine, ect. (Not to mention that DOS was for all practical purposes a 16-bit mimic of CP/M.) But I didn't find any mention of it at all in the article.
My first machines were Morrows, and although 40,000 machines is nothing now, it was a good quantity back then. And it was certainly more functional than the first Mac.
The real point, as missed in this message, is that grass existed at the time of the dinos--as was not believed before.
Looks like Analog Science Fiction and Fact beat New Scientist to publication with Gregory Benford's story "The Pain Gun" in the July/August 2005 issue (page 140 of the dead tree style link).
Do you really think that the general US population will react the same as Aussies?
That's a lot of TVs (containing mercury, amoung other baddies) heading for the landfill all at the same time. Or recycled? A big burst of recycling followed by a big pause (since the percentage of sets that are new would be then high) is not good for any industry. I think the need for TV recycling and provisions to handle it should be part of the requirements for the cut-off.
The healthmarketscience websites have been taken down. I expect they had no idea of what they were sturing up.
As a photographer for 21 years, from 1957 to 1978, where lots of my work came out of a B&W darkroom (and where I did the work with my own little hands), Illford was popular but crap compared to the control one had with Kodak Polycontrast papers (although the Illford filters worked better with Pollycontrast).
I taught photography and darkroom technique as well as working in advertizing, technical and photojournalism photography. Perhaps your pictures were muddy on Kodak paper because you didn't know how to make a good negative. The extra gamma (contrast) of Illford papers was often a crutch for bad photographers.
And the only way to let your photo speak for itself instead of being pseudo art was to use a glossy paper (matte and semi-matte was for the photo clubs) although ferrotyping was silly.
So, now my dream of an exibit of my old work (including the first Woodstock Festival as well as the Vietnam anti-war protests in DC and NYC and Berkeley) in 16x20 and larger is dead?
Compared to my experience at a College, that would be heaven. Office managers, shop foremen and engineers (I don't know about attorneys...) are not likely to think that just because they have a PhD (if they do) they know everything there is to know, or that those without a PhD are just workers with no special knowledge at all.
After two years, which was one year much too long, I swore I would never work for a college again. Back in the real grownup world my knowledge and skills were appreciated again. I was not told to do lousy work because my boss didn't like the client (which at the college was a faculity member or another department head). But those two years on the resume really hurt me in the grownup real world because the real world knew how bad the quality was in the college world.
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I note that the web pages for both start-ups don't know the English language -- in particular their use (actually mis-use) of commas. And the style is distressingly similar. It looks like a fraud to me.
All made exciting by the artist's drawings of the new human species of the future -- reminding me of similar (although not in color) drawings of the 19th century that we now find so amusing (and wonder how anyone could have believed them).