DOn't laugh - IMSAI, which predates the TRS80, is soon to sell, for under $1000, a series two with 20Mhz Z8S180, 1 meg static memory, AND toggle switches and flashing lights! CP/M never ran so fast.
run your very own pdp8, pdp11 or even an Altair with disk basic or cp/m - here. I've recently completed some serious z80 assy projects using simh on my Linux notebook. Works great w/o having to mess w/ flaky hw.
I'm sheltering a strain of politically persecuted plant seeds in my fridg - keep 'em cool, dry and dark. Some have been in there over 10 years and will sprout in a week of warm, damp and dark.
Yes, you SHOULD be able to find the networking configuration of any GUI OS, for example.
Who are you to tell people what they should or should not do? It's a fact that successful people choose what they are going to focus on to maximize their profitability. Frankly I find Msft products, well at least the large installed base of home pc win9x products, embarassing. It's utterly rediculous to offer volunteer service in support of a multibillion $ enterprise. Gates never worked for free, nobody in their right mind should ever work for Msft customers uncompensated. If someone needs a sewer ditch dug, and you have better prospects, you don't even start on it. Otherwise you become known as the shit ditch guy and they just hand you a shovel whenever they need one dug. Noooo, the successful chose their jobs very carefully. Only the desperate do anything people ask, on other people's terms.
I carry around copies of the "Geeks on Call" ad out of the yellow pages to hand out to the tech support free loaders. They take visa and amex./One/ close friend I chat with at the office did pay me $20 to install a CD writer after work one day. That's about all I put up with.
Burned into memory is the Disney "Lion King" incident from many xmass ago, they released a CD not compatible with the large base of installed cdrom drives at the time. The saying that year was, "Sorry honey, daddy can't make the computer work". (Didn't involve me personally but the story reinforced a dedication to complete avoidance of cheap home pcs, crappy software and it's owners wanting free help).
Maybe that's the image they want to project - a computer so friendly even a stoner can use it.
We still need to educate the public and their legislators about cannibis use and stop the criminalization of casual users, esp. when a far greater health hazzard in the form of alcohol is legal and available.
You might as well start up a database to catalogue all the different shapes of sand on the seashore - largely useless exercise in futility.
What people are starting to do is block EVERYTHING that isn't on a 'whitelist'. That way granny and Junior don't get mail from anyone unless they're pre-approved. If they get mail from J.Random Stranger it's bounced with a request to put a short random token in the subject line. Thanks to marketing a good third of Internet mail traffic is useless crap. Thanks marketers!
To show just how evil and desperate unemployed, cash strapped, deep in debt spawns of satan those people are - yesterday I got a letter from my mortage holder, Chase Manhattan bank, marked "IMPORTANT ACCOUNT DOCUMENTS ENCLOSED". It turned out to be yet another credit card pitch. ("You qualify to give us even more money!!") Bastards. It's not my fault the Msft office automation vision they bought into turned out to be way more expensive than the sales flak led them to believe.
I wish unemployed marketers would turn to prostitution and drugs instead of spam - at least they'd be supplying things people actually WANT.
What people do is buy 'labor saving' devices, then turn around and pay more to go to a gym to work off the fat.
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Or you can steadfastly refuse to pay the fee and end up like this guy.
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Part of the reason that works is that in the old Roman Calendar, October was the 8th month and December the 10th month of the year (Sept the 7th and Novus the 9th) - So October and December actually are referances to octal and decimal.
I think it, currently, is tied back to US 1st amendment Free Speech protection - a book is free speech, it doesn't have to be correct. If you read a book, follow it's advice and lose your shirt or damage something, the book publisher probably has a legal protection against being held liable for it ("we just published the false information, you're the one who acted upon it"). However, yelling 'fire' in a crowded theatre or 'fighting words'* is not protected speech - we might need to tie at least some software with potentially damaging consequences to something like that in some situations.
*In 1942, the U.S. Supreme Court in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire defined fighting words as words which are likely by their very utterance to inflict injury, or which tend to incite the average person to immediate violence. The high court said that fighting words receive no First Amendment protection.
It's pretty much industry practice these days to provide free viewers: Acrobat, WinFax, MSWord, etc so people can access and print data, altho they can't edit or create it. It's the authoring tools that kill ya.
If you started with mainframe / FORTRAN then frankly the old brain cells just ain't what they used to be (Hey, I'm 42 and it's happening here too) - it's hard to compete with youngsters who are quick on the uptake and plenty of cerebral elasticity. However, you have LOTS of experience. I'd leverage that into an exhaustive search for an upper level position with a big budget and ability to hire people to do the nuts and bolts. Of course it's dealing with people instead of bare metal which is a whole different world but I'm sure you can pick up public speaking, organization, etc. All you need is a vision, a plan of what you want to accomplish, something challengingly big enough, and farm out bits and pieces of that to others (consultants, contractors, temps, etc) while maintaining control of the system to fit your employeers IT needs. I.e., switching from a tactical to strategic career.
For example, a Professor I've been exchanging email with, quite a successful guy, gets a lot done by handing it off as projects to students. He/could/ do tasks himself but anymore gets much more done thru others.
There was an Atari 65XE. I think it was the 64K version of the 130XE, which has 128KB.
But yeah, A.N.A.L.O.G (anyone recall what that stands for??) is great! I'll never forget having a 600XL, only 16Kb with a plug in expander, looking around for software to feed it and then seeing it in the book store and wondering, "Who uses ANALOG computers anymore???" Then I read it and flipped out - typed in the binary game (Bacterion!) and loved it. Atari Newsletter And Lots of Games.
to have a hearty laugh at those people. Being 42 I can remember past recessions where all kinds of fantastic disasters were immenent - none of which came about. Earth going to hell must be a natural form of entertainment and/or psychological compensation / revenge for the unemployed. ("If only they'd listened to me, the earth could have been saved! Oh well, burn baby, burn!")
used to have a 'The Boss Is Coming' button - when pressed the screen instantly changes into something like a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet. Once the danger has passed you press it again to get back into your game where it was.
Another DOS stealth trick: create a directory named ALT-255, it doesn't show up in dir listing. We'd put the games in there. That doesn't quite work in Windows tho.
No no no - you don't get it. If someone harnesses tidal power on their own land or country and makes a bundle doing it, and selling the power, and is successful at it, all the 'have nots' who don't directly benefit from it raise every exception and throw every objection they can possible think of at it, that's the main issue, jealousy of the successful and dragging them back down to the same level of squalor and poverty as everyone else. They'll kill themselves using every excuse possible, trying to give the successful a black eye instead of trying to succeed themselves. You're sure to have lots of passionate speaches at the UN about the 'tidal power divide' and other rot.
If the irrational alarmist environmental extremists can get their collective panties in a wad over snail darters and all the species that are going extinct anyway over perfectly natural geological changes, you can bet sure money that tidal basin lifeforms will bring out the placard waving idiots and their celebrity leader, out trying to kickstart her flagging entertainment career and low ratings.
After reading a tribute to Jon Postel yesterday it occurs to me that most progress is a succession of 1) all inclusive religion followed by 2) proprietary balkanization. (I use the term 'religion' in it's strict sense re- and -ligion, or 'tying everything back together again'). That is, you have several vendors competing with the usual lock-in's and proprietary protocols and plug conspiracies, all designed toward profit and revenue, untill a well equipped lab has several islands of technology unable to communicate w/ each other. Along comes someone like Postel (TCP/IP) or Beneres-Lee (http) who create a meta level of interoperativeness so that 'all is one' again, then along comes another wave of Msft's etc who bust in and balkanise and vendor lock-in the next level (think Kerberos or 'Best viewed with IE), etc etc etc.
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DOn't laugh - IMSAI, which predates the TRS80, is soon to sell, for under $1000, a series two with 20Mhz Z8S180, 1 meg static memory, AND toggle switches and flashing lights! CP/M never ran so fast.
run your very own pdp8, pdp11 or even an Altair with disk basic or cp/m - here. I've recently completed some serious z80 assy projects using simh on my Linux notebook. Works great w/o having to mess w/ flaky hw.
I'm sheltering a strain of politically persecuted plant seeds in my fridg - keep 'em cool, dry and dark. Some have been in there over 10 years and will sprout in a week of warm, damp and dark.
Yes, you SHOULD be able to find the networking configuration of any GUI OS, for example.
Who are you to tell people what they should or should not do? It's a fact that successful people choose what they are going to focus on to maximize their profitability. Frankly I find Msft products, well at least the large installed base of home pc win9x products, embarassing. It's utterly rediculous to offer volunteer service in support of a multibillion $ enterprise. Gates never worked for free, nobody in their right mind should ever work for Msft customers uncompensated. If someone needs a sewer ditch dug, and you have better prospects, you don't even start on it. Otherwise you become known as the shit ditch guy and they just hand you a shovel whenever they need one dug. Noooo, the successful chose their jobs very carefully. Only the desperate do anything people ask, on other people's terms.
I carry around copies of the "Geeks on Call" ad out of the yellow pages to hand out to the tech support free loaders. They take visa and amex. /One/ close friend I chat with at the office did pay me $20 to install a CD writer after work one day. That's about all I put up with.
Burned into memory is the Disney "Lion King" incident from many xmass ago, they released a CD not compatible with the large base of installed cdrom drives at the time. The saying that year was, "Sorry honey, daddy can't make the computer work". (Didn't involve me personally but the story reinforced a dedication to complete avoidance of cheap home pcs, crappy software and it's owners wanting free help).
Maybe that's the image they want to project - a computer so friendly even a stoner can use it.
We still need to educate the public and their legislators about cannibis use and stop the criminalization of casual users, esp. when a far greater health hazzard in the form of alcohol is legal and available.
So far it's been excellent protection against acts of God.
You might as well start up a database to catalogue all the different shapes of sand on the seashore - largely useless exercise in futility.
What people are starting to do is block EVERYTHING that isn't on a 'whitelist'. That way granny and Junior don't get mail from anyone unless they're pre-approved. If they get mail from J.Random Stranger it's bounced with a request to put a short random token in the subject line. Thanks to marketing a good third of Internet mail traffic is useless crap. Thanks marketers!
To show just how evil and desperate unemployed, cash strapped, deep in debt spawns of satan those people are - yesterday I got a letter from my mortage holder, Chase Manhattan bank, marked "IMPORTANT ACCOUNT DOCUMENTS ENCLOSED". It turned out to be yet another credit card pitch. ("You qualify to give us even more money!!") Bastards. It's not my fault the Msft office automation vision they bought into turned out to be way more expensive than the sales flak led them to believe.
I wish unemployed marketers would turn to prostitution and drugs instead of spam - at least they'd be supplying things people actually WANT.
What people do is buy 'labor saving' devices, then turn around and pay more to go to a gym to work off the fat.
Or you can steadfastly refuse to pay the fee and end up like this guy.
Part of the reason that works is that in the old Roman Calendar, October was the 8th month and December the 10th month of the year (Sept the 7th and Novus the 9th) - So October and December actually are referances to octal and decimal.
I think it, currently, is tied back to US 1st amendment Free Speech protection - a book is free speech, it doesn't have to be correct. If you read a book, follow it's advice and lose your shirt or damage something, the book publisher probably has a legal protection against being held liable for it ("we just published the false information, you're the one who acted upon it"). However, yelling 'fire' in a crowded theatre or 'fighting words'* is not protected speech - we might need to tie at least some software with potentially damaging consequences to something like that in some situations.
*In 1942, the U.S. Supreme Court in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire defined fighting words as words which are likely by their very utterance to inflict injury, or which tend to incite the average person to immediate violence. The high court said that fighting words receive no First Amendment protection.
boobs ARE for kids, the very small ones at least. But like model trains, it's mostly the fathers the end up playing with them.
The Government attacks free publishers.
There's a couple of options:
1) Delete it and hire someone who sends resume' in ASCII, or
2) Get the Free Viewer and Converter
It's pretty much industry practice these days to provide free viewers: Acrobat, WinFax, MSWord, etc so people can access and print data, altho they can't edit or create it. It's the authoring tools that kill ya.
If you started with mainframe / FORTRAN then frankly the old brain cells just ain't what they used to be (Hey, I'm 42 and it's happening here too) - it's hard to compete with youngsters who are quick on the uptake and plenty of cerebral elasticity. However, you have LOTS of experience. I'd leverage that into an exhaustive search for an upper level position with a big budget and ability to hire people to do the nuts and bolts. Of course it's dealing with people instead of bare metal which is a whole different world but I'm sure you can pick up public speaking, organization, etc. All you need is a vision, a plan of what you want to accomplish, something challengingly big enough, and farm out bits and pieces of that to others (consultants, contractors, temps, etc) while maintaining control of the system to fit your employeers IT needs. I.e., switching from a tactical to strategic career.
/could/ do tasks himself but anymore gets much more done thru others.
For example, a Professor I've been exchanging email with, quite a successful guy, gets a lot done by handing it off as projects to students. He
There was an Atari 65XE. I think it was the 64K version of the 130XE, which has 128KB.
But yeah, A.N.A.L.O.G (anyone recall what that stands for??) is great! I'll never forget having a 600XL, only 16Kb with a plug in expander, looking around for software to feed it and then seeing it in the book store and wondering, "Who uses ANALOG computers anymore???" Then I read it and flipped out - typed in the binary game (Bacterion!) and loved it. Atari Newsletter And Lots of Games.
to have a hearty laugh at those people. Being 42 I can remember past recessions where all kinds of fantastic disasters were immenent - none of which came about. Earth going to hell must be a natural form of entertainment and/or psychological compensation / revenge for the unemployed. ("If only they'd listened to me, the earth could have been saved! Oh well, burn baby, burn!")
used to have a 'The Boss Is Coming' button - when pressed the screen instantly changes into something like a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet. Once the danger has passed you press it again to get back into your game where it was.
Another DOS stealth trick: create a directory named ALT-255, it doesn't show up in dir listing. We'd put the games in there. That doesn't quite work in Windows tho.
The Laser pointer cat exerciser is patented - the owners have been notified and will contact you to arrange easy payment options.
only when your monitor is cranked up to 1,024,768,112 pixels per inch.
No no no - you don't get it. If someone harnesses tidal power on their own land or country and makes a bundle doing it, and selling the power, and is successful at it, all the 'have nots' who don't directly benefit from it raise every exception and throw every objection they can possible think of at it, that's the main issue, jealousy of the successful and dragging them back down to the same level of squalor and poverty as everyone else. They'll kill themselves using every excuse possible, trying to give the successful a black eye instead of trying to succeed themselves. You're sure to have lots of passionate speaches at the UN about the 'tidal power divide' and other rot.
If the irrational alarmist environmental extremists can get their collective panties in a wad over snail darters and all the species that are going extinct anyway over perfectly natural geological changes, you can bet sure money that tidal basin lifeforms will bring out the placard waving idiots and their celebrity leader, out trying to kickstart her flagging entertainment career and low ratings.
After reading a tribute to Jon Postel yesterday it occurs to me that most progress is a succession of 1) all inclusive religion followed by 2) proprietary balkanization. (I use the term 'religion' in it's strict sense re- and -ligion, or 'tying everything back together again'). That is, you have several vendors competing with the usual lock-in's and proprietary protocols and plug conspiracies, all designed toward profit and revenue, untill a well equipped lab has several islands of technology unable to communicate w/ each other. Along comes someone like Postel (TCP/IP) or Beneres-Lee (http) who create a meta level of interoperativeness so that 'all is one' again, then along comes another wave of Msft's etc who bust in and balkanise and vendor lock-in the next level (think Kerberos or 'Best viewed with IE), etc etc etc.
schizz it.
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(patience, it's slow even before
Now go read this.