Not feeling good with feeling bad, but rather accepting that sometimes you will feel bad, it's normal, and it will pass. So rather than feeling good about feeling bad, you're/equanimous/ about feeling bad. The Buddha figured this out 2500 years ago...
I'll step and say, yes, from his perspective something absolutely was taken. He had a job and it was taken from him. However I agree with the statement that it was not the that took his job from him, it was his own bosses, managers, and company. So yes it is very much "us" doing this to ourselves.
It doesn't matter though because, as I have frequently been told, if our jobs get taken all we need to do is simply to get different ones. Problem solved! Why didn't I think of that?
All this makes me long for the simple days when I used TiddlyWiki on a flash drive I'd carry around and plug into computer or laptop, back before smartphones and other mobile devices.
I use Tiddlywiki (stupid name, great program!) -- "a non-linear personal web notebook". It's a single-file wiki that lives on your local machine. There are ways to push to Dropbox or other services if you want anywhere-access, but whether you want that or not just depends on how you want to use it.
Well, I had a revision B motherboard (something I specifically requested, because of certain features I wanted to experiment with), and the extended 80 column adapter, which expanded my system memory to 128k (bank switched, since only 64k was addressable), but the CPU in my system was definitely not a 65c02.
My system also did not have the MouseText characters that came out with the//c, so by the link you are referring to above, I had an unenhanced Apple//e. Nonethless, both the logo on the case and the startup logo said//e, not ][e.
This website refers to a model that was discontinued in 1985, and is right beside an image that looks exactly like the model that I had. Note that it has the//e logo on the case cover. It's entirely possible that it was called the ][e for a very short time after launch, but I had never seen it... and I was practically living in a computer store near my place at the time, when I was preparing to get my own system.
It's all pedantry anyway. But sounds like you had what could be called a "partially enhanced" machine:
If you are able to turn the machine on, the easiest way to identify an enhanced IIe is to look at the machine name printed on the top line of the startup screen:
Apple ][ indicates an unenhanced IIe Apple//e indicates an enhanced IIe
The catch is that you might have a machine which has been partially enhanced: it is possible for the CPU, video ROM and firmware ROMs (CD and EF) to be updated independently (the firmware ROMs must be a matching pair). Looking at the chips would be safest bet.
I remember engaging in many online (BBS & Usenet) discussions where the common shorthand was to use ][e for unenhanced,//e for enhanced (for times when it mattered.)
The logo on it still said "Apple//e". This is what the one I owned looked like, and that was in 1984. The link you refer to says that the ][e was renamed to the//e when the//c came out, but the//c did not come out until 1985.
I also remember the splash startup logo on my//e saying "Apple//e" at the top of the screen, which differed distinctly from "APPLE ][+", which I had been used to seeing previously at school.
You're thinking of the ][+. The//e (note,//e, not ][e, and yes, I'm being pedantic) was not quite as open.
So the Enhanced//e was not as open, but how about the original (unenhanced) ][e? (I'm being even more pedantic.;-) All my 8-bit Apple lit is packed away and hard to get to, else I'd go look. Mine came as a ][e but I converted it to a//e....
What I'd really like to see is some good scientific research put in to this sort of thing, stripping away the associated mysticism and getting right to the core of it. Based on the rather limited article, it appears this might not be too difficult as he may already be keeping the mysticism to a minimum.
Check out Shinzen Young (Shingon lineage but now teaches in Therevada tradition). That's the exact sort of thing he's trying to do.
Only reason it's a big deal is because Apple used to advertise OS X "doesn't get PC viruses." So when a Mac gets one, now everyone jumps on it with a/. article to show apple was wrong.
Well, it's still true that OS X doesn't get Windows viruses. Perhaps a tautology, but true nonetheless....
Okay, you couldn't use it for online purchases, but at a brief glance, you can get magnetic card encoders for 150+ USD. Not sure about whatever tech they use for the contactless style ones, but here's what I'm thinking:
Step 1: Steal contactless CC data.
Step 2: Burn semi-realistic magnetic card with CC data. Emboss the number on the front. 99% of all retail employees will not look twice at the card.
Step 3: Profit.
You don't need the security code for purchases made in person, and if you're doing this in person, you can probably speculate what the zip code is for the few places that even ask for that. Granted, this requires making purchases in person, so you're subject to video surveilance for anyone who REALLY wants to come after you, but since you can repeat this process, it's essentially a use one, throwaway kind of thing.
Or, 2a: Burn numbers into some other magnetic card (even a customer loyalty card will work, so I'm told). Use cloned card at self-checkout, gas pump, or other unattended POS system. No need to emboss or even disguise the card. 3: Profit!
I know this works, because my CC info has been stolen twice in the last year and used to make cloned cards (the cloned cards were used at a brick-and-mortar store which is how I know the card was physically cloned). The first time was February, the second time was yesterday. Still don't know where the breach is occurring. I don't shop anywhere sketchy....
Granted the numbers were probably not stolen via the mechanism this story is about, but once you have the numbers the procedure is the same.
I do not wear headphone, and in my office and in my home I do not turn on the radio either
When I surf online, I do not stream any music
I carry out my work without having to listen to any "background noise", and I find that I can focus better without hearing anything that's annoying
I wear headphones because I find that I can focus better without hearing anything that's annoying. Congratulations on your quiet work environment. Wish I had one.
the bible commands us to consider the work of his (God's) hands, and from that to draw our own conclusions about God's reasons.
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"If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation, it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for beetles." -- J. B. S. Haldane
I remember being flabbergasted when I first learned that the way nuclear power plants work is that we take what arguably the greatest technical innovation humanity has ever achieved and use it to boil water....
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>in order to avoid significant further warming of the planet, big chunks of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may need to be removed.
If all they need to do is remove the big chunks, couldn't they just use nets or something?
Not feeling good with feeling bad, but rather accepting that sometimes you will feel bad, it's normal, and it will pass. So rather than feeling good about feeling bad, you're /equanimous/ about feeling bad. The Buddha figured this out 2500 years ago...
Amending my comment above I will admit Mitch's awfulness... errrrr.... trumps.... any awfulness we have in NC
I live in NC and would challenge your claim.....
I'll step and say, yes, from his perspective something absolutely was taken. He had a job and it was taken from him. However I agree with the statement that it was not the that took his job from him, it was his own bosses, managers, and company. So yes it is very much "us" doing this to ourselves.
It doesn't matter though because, as I have frequently been told, if our jobs get taken all we need to do is simply to get different ones. Problem solved! Why didn't I think of that?
All this makes me long for the simple days when I used TiddlyWiki on a flash drive I'd carry around and plug into computer or laptop, back before smartphones and other mobile devices.
Tiddlywiki-in-the-sky: https://github.com/Jermolene/T...
I use Tiddlywiki (stupid name, great program!) -- "a non-linear personal web notebook". It's a single-file wiki that lives on your local machine. There are ways to push to Dropbox or other services if you want anywhere-access, but whether you want that or not just depends on how you want to use it.
http://tiddlywiki.com/
Dunno. They lost me at "acticity"
Any app that provides programmability is not allowed....
Incorrect:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hewlett-packard-15c-scientific/id503720774?mt=8
Well, I had a revision B motherboard (something I specifically requested, because of certain features I wanted to experiment with), and the extended 80 column adapter, which expanded my system memory to 128k (bank switched, since only 64k was addressable), but the CPU in my system was definitely not a 65c02.
My system also did not have the MouseText characters that came out with the //c, so by the link you are referring to above, I had an unenhanced Apple //e. Nonethless, both the logo on the case and the startup logo said //e, not ][e.
This website refers to a model that was discontinued in 1985, and is right beside an image that looks exactly like the model that I had. Note that it has the //e logo on the case cover. It's entirely possible that it was called the ][e for a very short time after launch, but I had never seen it... and I was practically living in a computer store near my place at the time, when I was preparing to get my own system.
It's all pedantry anyway. But sounds like you had what could be called a "partially enhanced" machine:
http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/MiscInfo/Empson/iie.vers
If you are able to turn the machine on, the easiest way to identify an
enhanced IIe is to look at the machine name printed on the top line of
the startup screen:
Apple ][ indicates an unenhanced IIe //e indicates an enhanced IIe
Apple
The catch is that you might have a machine which has been partially
enhanced: it is possible for the CPU, video ROM and firmware ROMs (CD
and EF) to be updated independently (the firmware ROMs must be a
matching pair). Looking at the chips would be safest bet.
I remember engaging in many online (BBS & Usenet) discussions where the common shorthand was to use ][e for unenhanced, //e for enhanced (for times when it mattered.)
The logo on it still said "Apple //e". This is what the one I owned looked like, and that was in 1984. The link you refer to says that the ][e was renamed to the //e when the //c came out, but the //c did not come out until 1985.
I also remember the splash startup logo on my //e saying "Apple //e" at the top of the screen, which differed distinctly from "APPLE ][+", which I had been used to seeing previously at school.
The early machines said ][ in the splash screen; the laters said //e. That was one way to know which ROM set you had.
http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/apple2/faq/01-010-What-is-an-Apple-II-The-Apple-e.html
You're thinking of the ][+. The //e (note, //e, not ][e, and yes, I'm being pedantic) was not quite as open.
So the Enhanced //e was not as open, but how about the original (unenhanced) ][e? (I'm being even more pedantic. ;-) All my 8-bit Apple lit is packed away and hard to get to, else I'd go look. Mine came as a ][e but I converted it to a //e....
http://www.apple-history.com/aiie
http://www.apple-history.com/aiiee
When are they expect to arrive here?
What I'd really like to see is some good scientific research put in to this sort of thing, stripping away the associated mysticism and getting right to the core of it. Based on the rather limited article, it appears this might not be too difficult as he may already be keeping the mysticism to a minimum.
Check out Shinzen Young (Shingon lineage but now teaches in Therevada tradition). That's the exact sort of thing he's trying to do.
Happiness is its own reward, it's its own before-and-after. There's no prerequisite for it other than consciousness.
Indeed. "Happiness independent of condition" as it's often called....
You could ask these guys how they go about it:
http://lostclassics.apple2.info/
they dont claim windows viruses, they claim PC viruses, last time I checked Apple makes Personal Computers
But to most people, "PC" is synonymous with "Windows machine", so the analogy holds.
Only reason it's a big deal is because Apple used to advertise OS X "doesn't get PC viruses." So when a Mac gets one, now everyone jumps on it with a /. article to show apple was wrong.
Well, it's still true that OS X doesn't get Windows viruses. Perhaps a tautology, but true nonetheless....
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-10-12/
Do you check all atms, gas pumps, etc that you use for card skimmers? http://krebsonsecurity.com/all-about-skimmers/ , http://www.thelocal.de/national/20110818-37041.html and http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/11/17/atm-skimming-device-found-at-eastern-bank-in-taunton/
They are getting pretty good at making realistic ones. And in some cases have gotten them inside gas pumps.
If that was addressed to me: yes, I do, always. Although as you say, some skimmers now are undetectable to customer.
Okay, you couldn't use it for online purchases, but at a brief glance, you can get magnetic card encoders for 150+ USD. Not sure about whatever tech they use for the contactless style ones, but here's what I'm thinking:
Step 1: Steal contactless CC data.
Step 2: Burn semi-realistic magnetic card with CC data. Emboss the number on the front. 99% of all retail employees will not look twice at the card.
Step 3: Profit.
You don't need the security code for purchases made in person, and if you're doing this in person, you can probably speculate what the zip code is for the few places that even ask for that. Granted, this requires making purchases in person, so you're subject to video surveilance for anyone who REALLY wants to come after you, but since you can repeat this process, it's essentially a use one, throwaway kind of thing.
Or,
2a: Burn numbers into some other magnetic card (even a customer loyalty card will work, so I'm told). Use cloned card at self-checkout, gas pump, or other unattended POS system. No need to emboss or even disguise the card.
3: Profit!
I know this works, because my CC info has been stolen twice in the last year and used to make cloned cards (the cloned cards were used at a brick-and-mortar store which is how I know the card was physically cloned). The first time was February, the second time was yesterday. Still don't know where the breach is occurring. I don't shop anywhere sketchy....
Granted the numbers were probably not stolen via the mechanism this story is about, but once you have the numbers the procedure is the same.
"No Headphone"
I do not wear headphone, and in my office and in my home I do not turn on the radio either
When I surf online, I do not stream any music
I carry out my work without having to listen to any "background noise", and I find that I can focus better without hearing anything that's annoying
I wear headphones because I find that I can focus better without hearing anything that's annoying. Congratulations on your quiet work environment. Wish I had one.
the bible commands us to consider the work of his (God's) hands, and from that to draw our own conclusions about God's reasons.
*
"If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation, it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for beetles." -- J. B. S. Haldane
I remember being flabbergasted when I first learned that the way nuclear power plants work is that we take what arguably the greatest technical innovation humanity has ever achieved and use it to boil water....
Gasoline is not priced by supply and demand, it is priced by what the market will bear.
Those are the same thing.