I spent hours yesterday removing "AntiVirus Soft" from 2 computers at home yesterday. They are getting tougher now also by making it harder to run programs like AntiMalWareBytes and others even in "Safe Mode". This one also pops up porn sites once in a while. I have heard it lays dormant for a while.
I wholeheartedly agree that the stories need to be SHORT as well as fairly diverse.
Short - as a parent of a number of past, present, and future high school students, it amazes me how much homework kids have these days. I had less than 10 hours of homework in grades K-12 TOTAL. We got time in class to do assignments and I got a great education. Times are different now also in high school. My 2 oldest ones in HS have jobs, sports, church activities, etc. I would hate it if they were assigned something like the entire LOTR (50 hours in mp3 format). My sister-in-law was a poor reader and was forced to read Crime and Punishment in HS which turned her off to reading like nothing else could have.
Diverse - this should be almost like a taste test at the food court. If what is chosen holds their interest they will develop their tastes accordingly. If they are forced into long stories they do not like it will turn them off for good.
I had a similar experience last year. I had a broken leg where they put 2 screws to hold my tibia and fibula (the lower leg bones) together at the ankle for a while while the ligaments healed. They were in for 4 months and my doctor recommended taking them out before they break years down the road. They used to do this procedure in the office - all they have to do is numb the skin, make a small slit, and remove the 2 screws. Now they do it in an operating room with 8 medical personel in attendance. The reason? The doctor saves $72,000 per year in malpractice insurance by not performing that procedure in his office. The only reason! Told to me by another doctor at the same hospital.
I have been consulting with a company for a year and they have offered me a job with the company now. They like my work and I know what my job responsibilities would be, but it would be a cut in pay and I could no longer deduct my mileage. I wouldn't have to buy my own health insurance anymore. I would also get trained in different technologies. I prefer the consulting, personally, but may be cut off if I don't take the offer.
I did not have a stress disorder, but in 1995 I was home sick from work once when I felt lousy laying down and lousy sitting up. I chose to sit up and play Tetris (and maybe Chips Challenge which was also on the Microsoft Best of Entertainment pack) and after a while I felt better.
Last year I was in an airport waiting for a delayed flight during a kidney stone attack. I bought Internet access at through Boingo for the day and it helped me get through the attack.
Maybe just getting your mind off things would have been a better test.
I lived in Manitoba near Winnipeg (the coldest city in the world over 500,000 people) for 6 winters. I heated my house mainly with a pellet stove and I wanted a backup mainly to run the fan in case of a power failure (I did not want my pipes to freeze). I had lived in rural Wisconsin prior to that where power outages on the rural electric co-operative lines were a regularity. I bought a Coleman generator from Canadian Tire for about $600 that put out about 1800 Watts.
If I had to do it over again I would have just used an inverter plugged into the cigarette lighter of my car and left the car running. For one thing in my case, where we lived had hardly any trees to blow onto the lines so we never experienced an outage the entire time up there (yay Manitoba Hydro!!). My generator still sits in the box never used after 10 years. Another thing is the gas tank on my car is much larger than the small tank on the generator. Inverters for cars are also much cheaper.
Obviously this will not work on a large scale, or when you are not home, but it is probably the cheapest solution.
I use Google for most searches. I program in the newer versions of IBM's RPG (I hear the snickers - STOP IT!).
I use IBM manuals quite a bit that I have saved in.pdf format. But for quick questions about RPG or SQL I find Google has the best answer on the first page if I am even remotely specific.
The part that is questionable to me is the "good job prospects" part. There are good prospects it seems if you live in India, but what I see is a shrinking job pool in the U.S.
I just bought a Lenovo laptop with XP Pro for my wife that came yesterday. The first thing I did after all the initial registration, etc. was to run Windows update. To my surprise, SP3 was available so I installed it. After the install, TCP/IP would not work at all. I called Lenovo and they told me to reload from restore partition - SP3 wipes out TCP/IP for that laptop. After the reload, I updated individual fixes (64 of them) and turned off Automatic Updates so it won't try to slip in SP3 again.
I used to live and work in Manitoba and far and away, the most stolen vehicles up there were Caravans and Voyagers. What is done with them is that people would steal them and then drive around and use them to rob houses with. They would pull into people's garages during the day when the homeowner was at work and then use the van to load up the stolen goods.
We had 2 friends who had Caravan/Voyagers stolen for this very purpose. When one of them got their vehicle back after the police found it abandoned, they found a diamond ring leftover from the heist in it.
On another note, however, it seems that many vehicles stolen in Winnipeg are just young joyriders. The youth justice system there is such a joke that there is almost no penalty for under 18 year old offenders. Even multiple multiple offenders. When we moved from there 2.5 years ago, the biggest thing going on was the theives would put a brick on the gas pedal and crash it into a building when they abandoned the vehicle.
I too played on the teletype in Minnesota. Our entire school's computer capability in spring 1977, my senior year, was the teletype machine that was connected to the Mankato system. It consisted of a phone, a modem, and the teletype machine which was a combination printer, keyboard, and paper tape reader/writer. There was no display - everything was via the printer. You dialed into the system with the phone and when you heard the beeps on the other end you fit the entire phone handset into the "modem" which was a coupler. We used to whistle into the coupler to get it to start trying to communicate with us.
The only thing I remember having to type was "bang" so we would create a paper tape of it and feed it through the tape feed when it asked us. Our system also had a grand total of 2 other games. One was lunar lander where you tried to land on the moon by firing small rockets to either slow down or speed up your descent without using all your fuel. I don't think I know anyone who ever made it. You usually were to slow in which case you ended up in orbit or went to fast in which case it told you how big of a crater you made in the moon. The last game we had would tell you how fast you typed by making you type in the alphabet. Again we would feed in a paper tape and qualify at hundreds of words a minute.
My last trimester of high school was when I had my only computer programming course in high school. One student, Jay Goude, was actually better than the teacher, Mr. Ness. He taught the teacher things. I ended up blowing off my biggest project and skipped the last day of school when we had our final. I got either a C or D in the class and it was my worst grade K-12. Ironically, I ended up being a programmer for over 20 years.
You are mistaken about Hal Leonard being a person. If you to to their web site (www.halleonard.com) you will see that the name is made up of the first name of Harold Edstrom and middle name of Everett Leonard Edstrom. They actually have an interesting history that started up by arranging popular songs which other people wanted to use. They went the legal way and purchased the rights to "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" in 1947. I worked for them for 16+ years and they were the best company I ever worked for.
When I left there 9 years ago, downloadable music was just coming into the picture and they were wrestling with both the rights issues and the technology issues. I am obviously biased towards and I have not read TFA, but I do know that their people work hard to put out a quality product and do it through all the legal channels by paying royalties to all that are due them. They are bound to work within the legal framework of who owns the rights to the songs and they know this intimately.
Printed music is considered the scum of the music industry in that it has the lowest profits for both sellers and artists. They excel in a niche market.
Once we were in a conference call defining the brainchild of a user who had just come from another company. When we were a few hours into getting the definition of the needs, he blurts out, "Why does this take so long? At my last job we just pushed a button and it was done!"
For many years the IT department would always suggest getting one of the magic buttons to the delight of all.
I started a new job in June 1998. After I was there a bit I was told that the software that scheduled ALL production was going to hit a brick wall soon because it was written in "Business Basic" by a former employee and would stop working correctly 70 weeks before Y2K.
My first exposure to the rewrite of this code was in a large meeting where all the bigwigs were present for a presentation by a consultant who rewrote the PC based software into an AS/400 based system like the rest of our software. After the presentation, the scheduler, who was the main user of the software, cut down the consultant personally and told him his software was crap! Soon after this, I was brought in to be a mediator between the scheduler and the consultant. They hated each other so much that they didn't even meet together anymore. All communication went through me. They didn't even refer to the other person by name, rather using eupemisms like "your friend".
Here is the kick - the consultant told me when he started on this, he sat with the scheduler for 2 hours and then the scheduler got all huffy and said "I don't have time for this!!! Just write something and if we don't like it we can change it!"
This was SO different from the job I had prior to that where most users were extremely computer literate and helpful with writing specs. They considered the IT department to be a competetive advantage and not just a necessary evil.
Don't try taking it on a plane!
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See what happens if you have to go through some security checkpoint. You can make as much news as the LED advertisements around Boston and other cities! It looks more sinister than they did.
I was new at a job about 9 years ago and I had to find a new printer for printing certain bar codes. It had to accept a specific language. My boss was a former IBMer and liked IBM equipment and told me that. I spent literally a week coming up with my recommendation. My findings came up up with 3 that would work. Genicom, IBM, and Printronix. The IBM one was ruled out notwithstanding my bosses preference and I recommended the Genicom and gave my reasons. As soon as I did that, he told me he wanted the Printronix all along (we were replacing an older worn out Printronix) and made me order that. The Genicom sales rep had already dropped $4000 to match the $12000 Printronix price. I ordered the Printronix and felt like I had wasted a week.
In the end it was worth it, however, since the Printronix company never sent us the $12k bill and we got the printer for free. I still wish I had asked PHB right after I ruled out IBM.
The last game I really got into was Chips Challenge from the MicroSoft Entertainment Packs. I finished all 149 levels and the bonus level. I would like more levels and the ability to pause or save games at a certain point rather than having to go back to the beginning every time.
I bet there are lots more that really liked this game also. It was my kids favorite also back from the days of Win 3.1 and one of these days I will find my old copies and put it on my current PCs.
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Yes - I was just typing off the top of my head and got it wrong.
I spent hours yesterday removing "AntiVirus Soft" from 2 computers at home yesterday. They are getting tougher now also by making it harder to run programs like AntiMalWareBytes and others even in "Safe Mode". This one also pops up porn sites once in a while. I have heard it lays dormant for a while.
Can You Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of These?
Short - as a parent of a number of past, present, and future high school students, it amazes me how much homework kids have these days. I had less than 10 hours of homework in grades K-12 TOTAL. We got time in class to do assignments and I got a great education. Times are different now also in high school. My 2 oldest ones in HS have jobs, sports, church activities, etc. I would hate it if they were assigned something like the entire LOTR (50 hours in mp3 format). My sister-in-law was a poor reader and was forced to read Crime and Punishment in HS which turned her off to reading like nothing else could have.
Diverse - this should be almost like a taste test at the food court. If what is chosen holds their interest they will develop their tastes accordingly. If they are forced into long stories they do not like it will turn them off for good.
Between red wine for the health of it and no showers no wonder the worlds oldest person in recent history was that 121 year old French woman.
I had a similar experience last year. I had a broken leg where they put 2 screws to hold my tibia and fibula (the lower leg bones) together at the ankle for a while while the ligaments healed. They were in for 4 months and my doctor recommended taking them out before they break years down the road. They used to do this procedure in the office - all they have to do is numb the skin, make a small slit, and remove the 2 screws. Now they do it in an operating room with 8 medical personel in attendance. The reason? The doctor saves $72,000 per year in malpractice insurance by not performing that procedure in his office. The only reason! Told to me by another doctor at the same hospital.
I have been consulting with a company for a year and they have offered me a job with the company now. They like my work and I know what my job responsibilities would be, but it would be a cut in pay and I could no longer deduct my mileage. I wouldn't have to buy my own health insurance anymore. I would also get trained in different technologies. I prefer the consulting, personally, but may be cut off if I don't take the offer.
A: A good start
Last year I was in an airport waiting for a delayed flight during a kidney stone attack. I bought Internet access at through Boingo for the day and it helped me get through the attack.
Maybe just getting your mind off things would have been a better test.
If I had to do it over again I would have just used an inverter plugged into the cigarette lighter of my car and left the car running. For one thing in my case, where we lived had hardly any trees to blow onto the lines so we never experienced an outage the entire time up there (yay Manitoba Hydro!!). My generator still sits in the box never used after 10 years. Another thing is the gas tank on my car is much larger than the small tank on the generator. Inverters for cars are also much cheaper.
Obviously this will not work on a large scale, or when you are not home, but it is probably the cheapest solution.
I use IBM manuals quite a bit that I have saved in .pdf format. But for quick questions about RPG or SQL I find Google has the best answer on the first page if I am even remotely specific.
The part that is questionable to me is the "good job prospects" part. There are good prospects it seems if you live in India, but what I see is a shrinking job pool in the U.S.
I just bought a Lenovo laptop with XP Pro for my wife that came yesterday. The first thing I did after all the initial registration, etc. was to run Windows update. To my surprise, SP3 was available so I installed it. After the install, TCP/IP would not work at all. I called Lenovo and they told me to reload from restore partition - SP3 wipes out TCP/IP for that laptop. After the reload, I updated individual fixes (64 of them) and turned off Automatic Updates so it won't try to slip in SP3 again.
We had 2 friends who had Caravan/Voyagers stolen for this very purpose. When one of them got their vehicle back after the police found it abandoned, they found a diamond ring leftover from the heist in it.
On another note, however, it seems that many vehicles stolen in Winnipeg are just young joyriders. The youth justice system there is such a joke that there is almost no penalty for under 18 year old offenders. Even multiple multiple offenders. When we moved from there 2.5 years ago, the biggest thing going on was the theives would put a brick on the gas pedal and crash it into a building when they abandoned the vehicle.
The only thing I remember having to type was "bang" so we would create a paper tape of it and feed it through the tape feed when it asked us. Our system also had a grand total of 2 other games. One was lunar lander where you tried to land on the moon by firing small rockets to either slow down or speed up your descent without using all your fuel. I don't think I know anyone who ever made it. You usually were to slow in which case you ended up in orbit or went to fast in which case it told you how big of a crater you made in the moon. The last game we had would tell you how fast you typed by making you type in the alphabet. Again we would feed in a paper tape and qualify at hundreds of words a minute.
My last trimester of high school was when I had my only computer programming course in high school. One student, Jay Goude, was actually better than the teacher, Mr. Ness. He taught the teacher things. I ended up blowing off my biggest project and skipped the last day of school when we had our final. I got either a C or D in the class and it was my worst grade K-12. Ironically, I ended up being a programmer for over 20 years.
When I left there 9 years ago, downloadable music was just coming into the picture and they were wrestling with both the rights issues and the technology issues. I am obviously biased towards and I have not read TFA, but I do know that their people work hard to put out a quality product and do it through all the legal channels by paying royalties to all that are due them. They are bound to work within the legal framework of who owns the rights to the songs and they know this intimately.
Printed music is considered the scum of the music industry in that it has the lowest profits for both sellers and artists. They excel in a niche market.
Blair Hamren
For many years the IT department would always suggest getting one of the magic buttons to the delight of all.
My first exposure to the rewrite of this code was in a large meeting where all the bigwigs were present for a presentation by a consultant who rewrote the PC based software into an AS/400 based system like the rest of our software. After the presentation, the scheduler, who was the main user of the software, cut down the consultant personally and told him his software was crap! Soon after this, I was brought in to be a mediator between the scheduler and the consultant. They hated each other so much that they didn't even meet together anymore. All communication went through me. They didn't even refer to the other person by name, rather using eupemisms like "your friend".
Here is the kick - the consultant told me when he started on this, he sat with the scheduler for 2 hours and then the scheduler got all huffy and said "I don't have time for this!!! Just write something and if we don't like it we can change it!"
This was SO different from the job I had prior to that where most users were extremely computer literate and helpful with writing specs. They considered the IT department to be a competetive advantage and not just a necessary evil.
See what happens if you have to go through some security checkpoint. You can make as much news as the LED advertisements around Boston and other cities! It looks more sinister than they did.
Funny, I thought algorithm was just a lispy way of saying "Al-Gore-ism". i.e. a global warming quote he came up with after inventing the Internets.
But don't forget to get your stapler first!
In the end it was worth it, however, since the Printronix company never sent us the $12k bill and we got the printer for free. I still wish I had asked PHB right after I ruled out IBM.
I am not AT ALL interested in playing the game but I like his write up on it.
Soon to replace the BFG in Doom.
I bet there are lots more that really liked this game also. It was my kids favorite also back from the days of Win 3.1 and one of these days I will find my old copies and put it on my current PCs.