But apart from not being a C programmer, the poor monk had an additional disadvantage to cope with.
Like all his western contemporaries, Dionysius Exiguus did not have the notion of 0 (zero) as a number at all.
Dionysius didn't know anything about the arabic number system (originating from India) which already had a zero back then. Instead, he was using the roman number system that comes without this feature.
So, in the tradition of Dionysius, the first year of the "A.D." branch of history, is still called year 1 - as a mere convention.
Thus, the first decade (meaning "a period of ten years", not nine) ended Dec 31, 10 A.D. Thus, the first century [...] ended Dec 31, 100 A.D. Thus, the second millennium [...] ended Dec 31, 2000.
Conclusion: Today (Dec 31, 2010) is the last day of the first decade of the 21st century.;-)
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This app was founded on the belief that citizens can provide the most sophisticated and broad network of eyes and ears necessary to prevent terrorism, crime, environmental negligence, or other malicious behavior. Simply download, report (including optional pictures and GPS) and submit information to relevant government agencies, employers, or publish incident data to social network tools."
Regarding the worldwide reactions of mainstream media to a Swedish prosecutor's poor and possibly biased paperwork, see Naomi Wolf's brillant, and sarcastic, commentary on Assange's alleged (just that - alleged) wrongdoings, written in the form of an Open Letter:
"Dear Interpol:
As a longtime feminist activist, I have been overjoyed to discover your new commitment to engaging in global manhunts to arrest and prosecute men who behave like narcissistic jerks to women they are dating.
I see that Julian Assange is accused of having consensual sex with two women, in one case using a condom that broke. I understand, from the alleged victims' complaints to the media, that Assange is also accused of texting and tweeting in the taxi on the way to one of the women's apartments while on a date, and, disgustingly enough, 'reading stories about himself online'in the cab.
[...] Thank you again, Interpol. I know you will now prioritize the global manhunt for 1.3 million guys I have heard similar complaints about personally in the US alone
Of course, fully agreed here. Scientific evidence is currently dating modern man, i.e. homo sapiens sapiens, back to at least 40,000 years (or even more) before our days.
There's also established evidence for pre-human/human use of stone tools dating back to nearly a million years before our era.
My point was, even communities of relatively highly skilled humans (like the crop-planting, weaving, pottering, home-building people in Mesopotamia as well as, of course, in many other areas such as Egypt, India, China etc.) are being dated thousands of years earlier (based on solid scientific methods) than the dogmatic Adam character purportedly 6000 years ago.
I like the idea to imagine the creationists' hypothetic Adam in his bucolic garden of Eden, totally ignorant of a number of relatively developed (we might call it evolved, like in evolution) communities of real humans surrounding him.
It might be even correct that Adam lived 6000 years ago.
If so, he lived happily some 2000 years _after_ some other people (many of them) had already started cultivating wheat, weaving textiles and manufacturing ceramics, such as in Mesopotamia.
How should he have known, in his idyllic garden, with so many trees to pluck fruit from (except "that" infamous one, of course)?
Maybe "Adam" is just another word for "A not-so-talented guy of ancient times".
Sodium (Na) a necessity in the atmosphere of a planet in order to make life (in a form similar to the one we know) possible? If so, what about the minimal content of Tungsten (again, in a planet's atmosphere)? Barium, anyone's guess?
What's especially great with this software: Thorsten is still supporting Mac OS Classic (i.e. Mac OS 9 running natively) users by providing specific versions of GraphicConverter for their OS.
As far as I know, all versions of Mac System (i.e. the operating system, not yet called "Mac OS" in these days) before v7 have been written almost completely in Pascal. Of course, there may have been contained many portions of Assembler (a.k.a. "assembly") code as well.
Starting with System 7, the Mac operating system had been re-coded in C with most applications were following soon.
Walter.
P.S. Bill Atkinson, author of MacPaint, later created the HyperCard environment, which included a subset of MacPaint as a graphics module. As to graphics, HyperCard contained a fully scriptable MacPaint, with HyperTalk (written by Dan Winkler) as script language.
By the way, historic[ally], it was Steve Jobs who killed the original HyperCard. That happened in February 1998, if my memory doesn't mislead me, with a release-grade HC 3.0 just round the corner.
And sorry, I regard a browser as a piece of software that may serve many purposes, but certainly not all, not even close.
"I am wondering what's going to happen when he [Steve Jobs] retired, which surely isn't that far off..."
Might be pretty close, yes.
In one of Apple's most recent press releases, Steve Jobs was quoted as having said the following:
"We're excited for customers to get their hands on this magical and revolutionary product and connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before."
Back then, I especially liked to translate code for things like Mandelbrot and Julia fractal diagrams from languages like C and Pascal to HyperTalk.
I'll always try to keep a Mac running Mac OS 8 or 9 in working order just to be able to write some HyperTalk code (graphics-related) "just for fun" from time to time.
"child abuse by Catholic priests and seminarians and the resignations of four bishops as a result."... And, as far as I know, no law enforcement at all in these hundreds, maybe thousands of cases, on the state's side.
Rape (the victims may be infants, minors or grown-ups) is a criminal offense in all civilized countries. Obviously and unfortunately, this does not apply to Ireland, at least not to all rapists alike.
"This is the death knell of Catholicism in Ireland" Instead of "this is", I'd rather read "this should be" here. But I won't hold my breath.
Fortunately, the integrated graphics in the Pine View architecture, called GMA3150 (targeted at netbooks) is a descendant of the Linux-friendly GMA950 line. The basic design of the 3150 isn't even new, it goes back to 2007.
On the other hand, the GMA500 is not closely connected to the 950 to 3x00 line. There are people who insist that not the hardware is to be blamed for the poor usability under Linux, but the (crappy) drivers provided by Intel for this GPU.
Whether this will be confirmed some day or not, until then here's a list of netbooks to be avoided by Linux users because of GMA500 (list probably incomplete):
"MSI's Wind U115 Hybrid, Sony's VAIO P series, Fujitsu's Lifebook U820, ASUStek's Eee PC 1101HA, Dell's Inspiron Mini 10 and Inspiron Mini 12, Acer's Aspire One 751, ASUStek's EeePC T91 tablet, Sony Vaio X series, Nokia Booklet 3G, and the OQO 02+ are some examples of netbooks using the GMA 500 US15W."
In fact, these - non-iPod - devices seem to have been out of production for nearly a decade now.
I seem to recall that some of the mentioned players were current (and indeed, supported by iTunes 1.2 or so) in the days of Mac OS 9, circa 1999 or 2000, like the Nomad series by Creative and the Rio series by sonicBlue.
The entry level Mini now has 128 MB of video RAM, but a shared one as before and with still 1 GB RAM total.
Then again, you get even more of these USB ports than before - great, isn't it? Especially considering the price jump of 100 euros over here in Europe.
But at least one good thing: Apple did not throw out Firewire from the Minis, so we should probably praise them for this, day and night...
Slashdot Mirror
So you're claiming that the first decade only had 9 years?
then I don't see why it's such a sin to say the first decade was 9 years long if it makes every following decade more sensibly numbered.
It's not a sin at all, it's just plain wrong.
"A decade is a period of ten years is a decade"
(Apologies to Gertrude Stein)
Agreed.
But apart from not being a C programmer, the poor monk had an additional disadvantage to cope with.
Like all his western contemporaries, Dionysius Exiguus did not have the notion of 0 (zero) as a number at all.
Dionysius didn't know anything about the arabic number system (originating from India) which already had a zero back then. Instead, he was using the roman number system that comes without this feature.
So, in the tradition of Dionysius, the first year of the "A.D." branch of history, is still called year 1 - as a mere convention.
Thus, the first decade (meaning "a period of ten years", not nine) ended Dec 31, 10 A.D.
Thus, the first century [...] ended Dec 31, 100 A.D.
Thus, the second millennium [...] ended Dec 31, 2000.
Conclusion: Today (Dec 31, 2010) is the last day of the first decade of the 21st century. ;-)
Or maybe on friends or colleagues instead?
"There's an app for it."
At least if you've got an Apple iPhone:
"PatriotApp
By Citizen Concepts
Description
PatriotAppTM deputizes your iPhone or iPad! It is the world’s first app that allows citizens to assist government agencies in creating safer, cleaner, and more efficient communities. The easy to use graphical interface allows you to report pertinent information to government agencies and share with others via social networking and blogs, all at your fingertips.
This app was founded on the belief that citizens can provide the most sophisticated and broad network of eyes and ears necessary to prevent terrorism, crime, environmental negligence, or other malicious behavior.
Simply download, report (including optional pictures and GPS) and submit information to relevant government agencies, employers, or publish incident data to social network tools."
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/patriotapp/id390563133?mt=8
(PatriotAppTM is recommended by Apple as a replacement for the "no longer available" wikileaks app)
Enjoy!
(sarcasm off) :-(
... for any one of these, regarding the other three, respectively.
Meet the "Ivy League" of patent grabbers.
Regarding the worldwide reactions of mainstream media to a Swedish prosecutor's poor and possibly biased paperwork, see Naomi Wolf's brillant, and sarcastic, commentary on Assange's alleged (just that - alleged) wrongdoings, written in the form of an Open Letter:
"Dear Interpol:
As a longtime feminist activist, I have been overjoyed to discover your new commitment to engaging in global manhunts to arrest and prosecute men who behave like narcissistic jerks to women they are dating.
I see that Julian Assange is accused of having consensual sex with two women, in one case using a condom that broke. I understand, from the alleged victims' complaints to the media, that Assange is also accused of texting and tweeting in the taxi on the way to one of the women's apartments while on a date, and, disgustingly enough, 'reading stories about himself online'in the cab.
[...]
Thank you again, Interpol. I know you will now prioritize the global manhunt for 1.3 million guys I have heard similar complaints about personally in the US alone
[...]"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/interpol-the-worlds-datin_b_793033.html
Of course, fully agreed here. Scientific evidence is currently dating modern man, i.e. homo sapiens sapiens, back to at least 40,000 years (or even more) before our days.
There's also established evidence for pre-human/human use of stone tools dating back to nearly a million years before our era.
My point was, even communities of relatively highly skilled humans (like the crop-planting, weaving, pottering, home-building people in Mesopotamia as well as, of course, in many other areas such as Egypt, India, China etc.) are being dated thousands of years earlier (based on solid scientific methods) than the dogmatic Adam character purportedly 6000 years ago.
I like the idea to imagine the creationists' hypothetic Adam in his bucolic garden of Eden, totally ignorant of a number of relatively developed (we might call it evolved, like in evolution) communities of real humans surrounding him.
It might be even correct that Adam lived 6000 years ago.
If so, he lived happily some 2000 years _after_ some other people (many of them) had already started cultivating wheat, weaving textiles and manufacturing ceramics, such as in Mesopotamia.
How should he have known, in his idyllic garden, with so many trees to pluck fruit from (except "that" infamous one, of course)?
Maybe "Adam" is just another word for "A not-so-talented guy of ancient times".
One space should be sufficient to separate even the longest sentences. ;-)
Hmmm.
Sodium (Na) a necessity in the atmosphere of a planet in order to make life (in a form similar to the one we know) possible?
If so, what about the minimal content of Tungsten (again, in a planet's atmosphere)? Barium, anyone's guess?
Just wondering...
... by Thorsten Lemke (Lemkesoft):
http://www.lemkesoft.com/content/188/graphicconverter.html
What's especially great with this software:
Thorsten is still supporting Mac OS Classic (i.e. Mac OS 9 running natively) users by providing specific versions of GraphicConverter for their OS.
Mac OS X being supported too, of course.
Walter.
As far as I know, all versions of Mac System (i.e. the operating system, not yet called "Mac OS" in these days) before v7 have been written almost completely in Pascal. Of course, there may have been contained many portions of Assembler (a.k.a. "assembly") code as well.
Starting with System 7, the Mac operating system had been re-coded in C with most applications were following soon.
Walter.
P.S. Bill Atkinson, author of MacPaint, later created the HyperCard environment, which included a subset of MacPaint as a graphics module. As to graphics, HyperCard contained a fully scriptable MacPaint, with HyperTalk (written by Dan Winkler) as script language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTalk
By the way, historic[ally], it was Steve Jobs who killed the original HyperCard.
That happened in February 1998, if my memory doesn't mislead me, with a release-grade HC 3.0 just round the corner.
And sorry, I regard a browser as a piece of software that may serve many purposes, but certainly not all, not even close.
"I am wondering what's going to happen when he [Steve Jobs] retired, which surely isn't that far off..."
Might be pretty close, yes.
In one of Apple's most recent press releases, Steve Jobs was quoted as having said the following:
"We're excited for customers to get their hands on this magical and revolutionary product and connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before."
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/24260/
(Please note, he was referring to just the iPad...)
Instead of PowerPC and Mac OS 9, there should be rather
Time Capsule
http://timecapsuledead.org/
and
iMac 27inch
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2212682&start=4080&tstart=0
(Replies : 4,486, Pages : 300, thread locked by Apple Moderators on Feb 9)
on the list...
At least since Mac OS X has been made available.
As to MacsBug, it's even a couple of years longer.
Anybody remembers HyperTalk, "programming for the rest of us" (as Dan Winkler put it, way back in 1987)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTalk
Back then, I especially liked to translate code for things like Mandelbrot and Julia fractal diagrams from languages like C and Pascal to HyperTalk.
I'll always try to keep a Mac running Mac OS 8 or 9 in working order just to be able to write some HyperTalk code (graphics-related) "just for fun" from time to time.
Oh, well.
Walter.
"child abuse by Catholic priests and seminarians and the resignations of four bishops as a result." ...
And, as far as I know, no law enforcement at all in these hundreds, maybe thousands of cases, on the state's side.
Rape (the victims may be infants, minors or grown-ups) is a criminal offense in all civilized countries.
Obviously and unfortunately, this does not apply to Ireland, at least not to all rapists alike.
"This is the death knell of Catholicism in Ireland"
Instead of "this is", I'd rather read "this should be" here. But I won't hold my breath.
"Wake me up when someone can import real Pan-Galactic Gargle-Blasters to Earth."
Those pre-mixed, ready to pour Pan-Galactic Gargle-Blasters don't even come near the real thing.
Believe us.
Yours sincerely,
Zaphod B., Ford P. and Arthur D. ;-)
Fortunately, the integrated graphics in the Pine View architecture, called GMA3150 (targeted at netbooks) is a descendant of the Linux-friendly GMA950 line. The basic design of the 3150 isn't even new, it goes back to 2007.
On the other hand, the GMA500 is not closely connected to the 950 to 3x00 line. There are people who insist that not the hardware is to be blamed for the poor usability under Linux, but the (crappy) drivers provided by Intel for this GPU.
Whether this will be confirmed some day or not, until then here's a list of netbooks to be avoided by Linux users because of GMA500 (list probably incomplete):
"MSI's Wind U115 Hybrid, Sony's VAIO P series, Fujitsu's Lifebook U820, ASUStek's Eee PC 1101HA, Dell's Inspiron Mini 10 and Inspiron Mini 12, Acer's Aspire One 751, ASUStek's EeePC T91 tablet, Sony Vaio X series, Nokia Booklet 3G, and the OQO 02+ are some examples of netbooks using the GMA 500 US15W."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#GMA_500
Asus introduces Qualcomm Snapdragon-based Eee PC running Google Android
http://www.liliputing.com/2009/06/asus-introduces-qualcomm-snapdragon-based-eee-pc-running-google-android-video.html
This hardware will probably be suitable to run the Linux flavor of one's choice, I guess.
And Microsoft's out of the game here. ;-)
... aren't they? Not really.
In fact, these - non-iPod - devices seem to have been out of production for nearly a decade now.
I seem to recall that some of the mentioned players were current (and indeed, supported by iTunes 1.2 or so) in the days of Mac OS 9, circa 1999 or 2000, like the Nomad series by Creative and the Rio series by sonicBlue.
There are Release Candidates for alternative architectures (non-x86/non-AMD64) available as well, such as for
Mac (PowerPC) and IBM-PPC (POWER5)
Playstation 3
SPARC (including Niagara)
HP PA-RISC
Ubuntu 9.04 RC
(Desktop CD i.e. Live CD w/ install option, Server Install CD, Alternate Install CD)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/jaunty/rc/
Kubuntu 9.04 RC
(Desktop CD i.e. Live CD w/ install option, Alternate Install CD)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/ports/releases/jaunty/rc/
Xubuntu 9.04 RC (no SPARC, no PA-RISC version here)
(Desktop CD i.e. Live CD w/ install option, Alternate Install CD)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/ports/releases/jaunty/rc/
As to the Ubuntu and Kubuntu RCs, there's a version for the Low-Power Intel Architecture (which includes the Intel Atom platform), too.
Make sure to utilize the jigdo or torrent methodologies if possible, to save bandwidth.
Walter.
an increase in price, and not a minor one.
The entry level Mini now has 128 MB of video RAM, but a shared one as before and with still 1 GB RAM total.
Then again, you get even more of these USB ports than before - great, isn't it? Especially considering the price jump of 100 euros over here in Europe.
But at least one good thing: Apple did not throw out Firewire from the Minis, so we should probably praise them for this, day and night...
Imagine anybody who found it just didn't undergo the effort to tell a journalist about it.
Then again, maybe anybody who found it did undergo the effort to tell a journalist about it.
Imagine this journalist just didn't care to write a single line about it.
"What? Another Win Mobile phone? Labeled TOP SECRET all over? Found it where? Oh yes, I see. Listen, leave me alone, will you?" Click.
Thus, Disappointment and Despair (D&D) in Redmond growing, and growing, and chairs flying low these days...
In three words. Yes, he should.
... between $3.92 billion and $8.52 billion, MS shareholders will hopefully go after these braindead execs in Redmond's "Brass Etage" for damages.