Yup - Right now my 1.6Mhz PM Inspiron is running at (cat/proc/cpuinfo) 598.161 Mhz. It will automagically step up to meet demand, but you can force high speed manually with (kill -s SIGUSR1 `pgrep cpuspeed`) and resume normal speedstep with (kill -s SIGHUP `pgrep cpuspeed`) (Running RHFC3).
Funny how someone who talks a lot about the software 'ecosystem' wants customers to invest in this one dinosaur - instead of being amazed at the natural process of species differentiation and survival of the fittest.
When Mr. Joe Sixpack opens the house door, he doesn't have to remember, "tumbler one is 13, tumbler 2 is 25, tumbler three is 10, etc.". He just puts a key in an moves on. Same with car, bank safe deposit box, etc. That's the way it will have to be with IT, a key card, something physical they carry around for access. Sure there are people who lose keys, lock them in their car, etc, but it's a 'metaphor' any adult can relate to. You go to work, they hand you a key-card to access your account, you don't have it you can't get in and it'll cost extra for someone to help you if you lose it, just like for the real thing. Fingerprints are for criminals and can spread illness, voice prints and retina scans are weird sci-fi stuff. Just give 'em a key.
According to this history Moore added a push down stack around 1965 - While Polish and RPN had been around for some time since then I don't think there were too many calculators, probably some desktops, but the earliest HP calc I could find is this one - "In 1968, the Hewlett-Packard company was primarily a test equipment manufacturer." etc.
It's not too hard to make your own SW crawl in blender, just make some 3D text with a stary background and run a camera pointed at an angle down it, render. S'fun.
Well, at least some fraction of the unused Windows license that automatically came with my new Dell Insiron (The first thing I did was install RHFC3) goes to a good cause. Unfortunately a larger percentage goes to stockholders and board members who threaten, abuse and manipulate hardware vendors to their own advantage still (boot loader? You'll install what we want or no Microsoft licenses for you! Bwahahahaha!!!!)
A shame Powell wasn't as even handed with the incumbent phone companies treatment of competitive DSL companies a few years back. The difference between a REAL capitalist politician's economic policies and typical republican crony-ism is the first enforces competition which benefits the consumer, while the latter allows his buddies with abusive monopolies run roughshod over consumers, all they while shouting blubber about "letting the market decide" and "keep government off business' back!".
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I didn't last long there, because I basically made my opinions known and they didn't want to hear that they made some really bad decisions.
How to Succeed in Business as an advisor: Find out what your boss wants to do, and then advise him to do it.
The cheapest one on abe.com is $125, with prices going up - but one sold on ebay recently for about $60. I've seen 'em sell on ebay for around $200 but that was a few years ago. Demand may have dropped some.
The software proect may have been too ambitious to be practical (on hardward of the time) but just try to touch his 1974 book for less than $100 (not the Msft reprint).
Let's see, here it is: Claim #2 "A test program comprised of a toplevel delineated procedure containing a console output means, said output means containing a universal greeting message and an exit means, which, when compiled and executed, indicates that a basic, fundamental operational level of the program development system exists."
They couldn't find any prior art, so patent that sucker!!
I think a lot of stress comes from the pressure to do things in a different way we are not familiar with - something you've done dozens of times using procedure X gets pretty easy and routine. But when you're forced to now use procedure Z to accomplish the same task, suddenly it's unfamiliar, dangerous, uncertain, possibly will fail and what'll we do if it doesn't work, etc.
The trick is to get the right balance of old comfortable with the new & improved, and different people can tolerate different levels of each. Forcing someone who has trouble internalizing new procedures quickly will be stressed in a fast changing environment, while someone who can learn fast will quickly become bored in a repetitive, slowly changing environment.
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Yup - Right now my 1.6Mhz PM Inspiron is running at (cat /proc/cpuinfo) 598.161 Mhz. It will automagically step up to meet demand, but you can force high speed manually with (kill -s SIGUSR1 `pgrep cpuspeed`) and resume normal speedstep with (kill -s SIGHUP `pgrep cpuspeed`) (Running RHFC3).
It takes a network of laptops to raise a child.
and send someone with dowsing rods - that'll find water every time.
Funny how someone who talks a lot about the software 'ecosystem' wants customers to invest in this one dinosaur - instead of being amazed at the natural process of species differentiation and survival of the fittest.
When Mr. Joe Sixpack opens the house door, he doesn't have to remember, "tumbler one is 13, tumbler 2 is 25, tumbler three is 10, etc.". He just puts a key in an moves on. Same with car, bank safe deposit box, etc. That's the way it will have to be with IT, a key card, something physical they carry around for access. Sure there are people who lose keys, lock them in their car, etc, but it's a 'metaphor' any adult can relate to. You go to work, they hand you a key-card to access your account, you don't have it you can't get in and it'll cost extra for someone to help you if you lose it, just like for the real thing. Fingerprints are for criminals and can spread illness, voice prints and retina scans are weird sci-fi stuff. Just give 'em a key.
According to this history Moore added a push down stack around 1965 - While Polish and RPN had been around for some time since then I don't think there were too many calculators, probably some desktops, but the earliest HP calc I could find is this one - "In 1968, the Hewlett-Packard company was primarily a test equipment manufacturer." etc.
FORTH is at the top - It came from nowhere, and is unrelated to anything else, yeagh!
dup 10 / dup s1 ! 10 * - s2 !
I.e., affordable certificates, give verisign more competition - call 'em gcerts or something.
It's not too hard to make your own SW crawl in blender, just make some 3D text with a stary background and run a camera pointed at an angle down it, render. S'fun.
Well, at least some fraction of the unused Windows license that automatically came with my new Dell Insiron (The first thing I did was install RHFC3) goes to a good cause. Unfortunately a larger percentage goes to stockholders and board members who threaten, abuse and manipulate hardware vendors to their own advantage still (boot loader? You'll install what we want or no Microsoft licenses for you! Bwahahahaha!!!!)
is this one
If Wx data were publically available, we run the risk of weathermen like this instead of the highly trained media professionals we have now.
you'll go ape over the electromechanical central office switches they connected to!
A shame Powell wasn't as even handed with the incumbent phone companies treatment of competitive DSL companies a few years back. The difference between a REAL capitalist politician's economic policies and typical republican crony-ism is the first enforces competition which benefits the consumer, while the latter allows his buddies with abusive monopolies run roughshod over consumers, all they while shouting blubber about "letting the market decide" and "keep government off business' back!".
I didn't last long there, because I basically made my opinions known and they didn't want to hear that they made some really bad decisions.
How to Succeed in Business as an advisor: Find out what your boss wants to do, and then advise him to do it.
The cheapest one on abe.com is $125, with prices going up - but one sold on ebay recently for about $60. I've seen 'em sell on ebay for around $200 but that was a few years ago. Demand may have dropped some.
The software proect may have been too ambitious to be practical (on hardward of the time) but just try to touch his 1974 book for less than $100 (not the Msft reprint).
What happened in 1927?
January 27 Transatlantic telephone service connects New York and London.
May 21 Charles A. Lindbergh lands in Paris, France, completes first solo flight across the Atlantic.
September 30 Babe Ruth hits 60th homerun of the season. His record will stand for thirty-four years.
October 6 Al Jolson wows audiences with "The Jazz Singer," the first "talky."
October 28 Pan American Airways launches world's first scheduled international passenger flight: Key West to Havana, in an unbelievable 70 minutes.
Those were great times, kind of like the 1990's.
Let's see, here it is: Claim #2 "A test program comprised of a toplevel delineated procedure containing a console output means, said output means containing a universal greeting message and an exit means, which, when compiled and executed, indicates that a basic, fundamental operational level of the program development system exists."
They couldn't find any prior art, so patent that sucker!!
they do have smart engineers at Microsoft
Only because they need the money.
I think a lot of stress comes from the pressure to do things in a different way we are not familiar with - something you've done dozens of times using procedure X gets pretty easy and routine. But when you're forced to now use procedure Z to accomplish the same task, suddenly it's unfamiliar, dangerous, uncertain, possibly will fail and what'll we do if it doesn't work, etc.
The trick is to get the right balance of old comfortable with the new & improved, and different people can tolerate different levels of each. Forcing someone who has trouble internalizing new procedures quickly will be stressed in a fast changing environment, while someone who can learn fast will quickly become bored in a repetitive, slowly changing environment.
Don't you have to have a subscription to "./configure" magazine first?
according to my alien decoder ring, it say, "We warned you not to land here - prepare to meet your doom, earthlings."
One of my favorites was, I think, Dick Armey, claiming that since republicans took charge that teenage girls are getting pregnant at a lower level.
A good show might be "Windows Eye for the Linux Guy".