in 1979, in year 5, we did in class for loops + print on punch cards.
in 1982, in year 8, we did in class I learned BASIC for Graphics & peek/poke.
1984, I wrote lots of text adventures and vector games (with my own vector algorithms) in lunch breaks, and took the school's only computer home many weekends:-)
in 1985, in year 11 in class , we used 6502 on Apple II to do sprites, vectors and sound, and read the source code to the Apple II in the appendix to the manual.
in 1986, in year 12, I saw a word processor for the first time, and embedded bold/italic printer commands into the text. We also got BBC Micro for better BASIC and graphics
You could ask exactly the same question about the lawn mower, camera, car and plane. All expensive gimmicks for the rich, but now everyone has access to those technologies.
And the corn was cheap because it was subsidized because the USA did not want to import cheap sugar from Fidel's Cuba and other Carribean islands. Maybe a real free market economy would have meant your cows ate grass, and your population wasn't so fat and diabetic from their fructose dependency.
Why does everybody go with the marketing hype of QR? Datamatrix is far superior, has better redundancy and holds much more data in the same space. You could even put the entire content into the Datamatrix as plain text, rather than just an URL to deadwebsite.com.
Or better yet, burn the image into a crystal surface optically covered by a very thick & transparent protective layer, that can be viewed optically by any macroscopic lens on any kids iPhone63 in the next decades.
they are called "sales executives" because they execute actions that their managers tell them with without thought or question, like the mindless monkeys that they are.
yep, for real, and no, I don't need a helmet. It just seems to me that a lot of these Slashdot fanboys have either a Luddite response to technology behind the 1970's where they think they are still the high priests of this new stuff. Microsoft is a ridiculously large company and has 90% of the market on office productivity because they deliver a corporate solution that simply works, and most people in this forum are vehemently in the 10% and don't see that the other 90% don't care - they just need to get their job done - and their job is not technology.
No, because I work in an organisation with 1000 people around the world, and my Microsoft email client tells me who is sitting at their desk right now, has one click-desktop sharing, conferencing, file sharing, tasks, goals, sales tasks, decisions, votes, and still works when i have little or no internet. It is a cockpit for daily work and efficiency. (and I can program a plugin to do anything else that I find that I need) . When my laptop gets toasted, I have zero data loss and I get it all back as it was with 1-click, and while windows is being reinstalled I still have access to almost everything over any browser/smartphone. Did I mention that all my Russian, Greek, Arabic and Chinese mails all render properly? My word processor and my email client use the same richtext/html editor.
Sure I can install 15 pieces of software to do that, but not throughout the entire organisation. MS-Office is installed & enterprise-licensed in 1 click, and with another click synchronized from the server.
elemental Fluorine (found as F2) is nasty, it is so reactive it can eat/etch/oxidate glass and most metals. Just think about how noxious chlorine is, and it is MUCH worse and more toxic
It is most fascinating, that the most oxidative (more powerful than anything else at stealing 1 electron, except perhaps PtF6-) substance we know is found in nature in this special environment. Nature was almost always there before us, including natural nuclear reactors in Gabon.
Just think about how special elemental oxygen is in the universe. It is generally believed it can only be found where life has produced it - so there will be a massive frenzy if they detect elemental oxygen in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. And now we have found something more oxidative than oxygen found in it's elemental state.
wake up. It is electron shooters doing basic science, who may unlock the tools we need to desalinate ground so that those starving children have food to eat. It is not a far stretch to go from flourine research in rock to chorine in rock, which can inform desalination. Let these millions of scientists do basic science and 10s of millions of you can feed the starving with the tools they give you. pick up a shovel and start digging. Now get of the internet and start growing seeds.
I am stunned that there are coders out there who write code like i==10. Didn't you get taught in your studies to always think about boundary conditions and write i>9 EVERY TIME?
And let the consumers vote on who does good subtitles and offer corrections - all for free. and give acheivements to those who write good subtitles and get good scores - they can watch ad-free
Because Genesis 1:21 says that God created the sea-monsters tannin, and everyone translator since Luther has tried to translate that word as whale/fish/dragon/waterspout/crocodile/greatSeaCreature or anything else other than the plain meaning of sea monster. Obviously now they have decided to embrace the sea monster and equate it with plesiosaur, instead of reading the text as it plainly is - a polemic against all foreign gods whether they are the sun, moon, stars, monsters, darkness, chaos, weather, fertility.
When James Cook ran the Endeavour aground on a shoal in north Queensland on June 11, 1770, (18 years before the first convicts arrived in Sydney) his men went ashore for 7 weeks to make hull repairs. They met the Guugu Yimithirr people and collected a long list of words including "Kangooroo - the leaping quadrapod". (And because Slashdot doesn't support Unicode I can't show you the pronunciation - look at Unicode-capable Wikipedia).
The account of the encounter is quite fascinating and very interesting with the hindsight we have now in the 21st century. The Aborigines did not want their chickens or pigs and burnt fires around their tents. We now know that the peoples of the Pacific did not want pigs because they would dig up tubers - taking away food and causing environmental damage. They were also likely aware of diseases.
English is completely inadequate for a country like Australia because it cannot describe the flora, fauna and weather - and that is one reason why Australians have a disconnect with the land. English has the word "newt" but I bet 99.9% of Australians don't know what a newt is. When Swiss hunters do forest-lore tours, they have real difficulty talking in standard German because it doesn't have the words they need - so they have to do it all in their local dialect which is rich enough and deep enough to explain the natural phenomena they learnt from their predecessors.
what about all your mum's old songs, or your grandfathers knowledge and animals and plants and weeds and so on. You might be a techy nerd, and we are pretty much the same globally but there is a lot of valuable natural knowledge still locked up in Udmurt. Take some effort and dig it out of your old relatives before they die.
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Far more than 32 million foreigners enter the USA every year wiki, and they take digital photos and fingerprints.
How much Helium was used?
What happened to the ballon?
What happened to the capsule?
in 1979, in year 5, we did in class for loops + print on punch cards. in 1982, in year 8, we did in class I learned BASIC for Graphics & peek/poke. :-)
1984, I wrote lots of text adventures and vector games (with my own vector algorithms) in lunch breaks, and took the school's only computer home many weekends
in 1985, in year 11 in class , we used 6502 on Apple II to do sprites, vectors and sound, and read the source code to the Apple II in the appendix to the manual.
in 1986, in year 12, I saw a word processor for the first time, and embedded bold/italic printer commands into the text. We also got BBC Micro for better BASIC and graphics
You could ask exactly the same question about the lawn mower, camera, car and plane. All expensive gimmicks for the rich, but now everyone has access to those technologies.
And the corn was cheap because it was subsidized because the USA did not want to import cheap sugar from Fidel's Cuba and other Carribean islands. Maybe a real free market economy would have meant your cows ate grass, and your population wasn't so fat and diabetic from their fructose dependency.
Why does everybody go with the marketing hype of QR? Datamatrix is far superior, has better redundancy and holds much more data in the same space. You could even put the entire content into the Datamatrix as plain text, rather than just an URL to deadwebsite.com. Or better yet, burn the image into a crystal surface optically covered by a very thick & transparent protective layer, that can be viewed optically by any macroscopic lens on any kids iPhone63 in the next decades.
they are called "sales executives" because they execute actions that their managers tell them with without thought or question, like the mindless monkeys that they are.
all this stuff reminds me of 15 years ago when websites were simulating Win95 popups. That got cleaned up too.
Your text, Sir, on the other hand is full off anachronisms.
I throw all packaging away and am NOT a squirrel, but I kep my i-Box, because it was instantly and obviously a consumate piece of design.
yep, for real, and no, I don't need a helmet. It just seems to me that a lot of these Slashdot fanboys have either a Luddite response to technology behind the 1970's where they think they are still the high priests of this new stuff. Microsoft is a ridiculously large company and has 90% of the market on office productivity because they deliver a corporate solution that simply works, and most people in this forum are vehemently in the 10% and don't see that the other 90% don't care - they just need to get their job done - and their job is not technology.
No, because I work in an organisation with 1000 people around the world, and my Microsoft email client tells me who is sitting at their desk right now, has one click-desktop sharing, conferencing, file sharing, tasks, goals, sales tasks, decisions, votes, and still works when i have little or no internet. It is a cockpit for daily work and efficiency. (and I can program a plugin to do anything else that I find that I need) . When my laptop gets toasted, I have zero data loss and I get it all back as it was with 1-click, and while windows is being reinstalled I still have access to almost everything over any browser/smartphone. Did I mention that all my Russian, Greek, Arabic and Chinese mails all render properly? My word processor and my email client use the same richtext/html editor. Sure I can install 15 pieces of software to do that, but not throughout the entire organisation. MS-Office is installed & enterprise-licensed in 1 click, and with another click synchronized from the server.
because you want results in seconds, not aeons.
our bacteria is there anywhere. Nowhere is a closed system.
elemental Fluorine (found as F2) is nasty, it is so reactive it can eat/etch/oxidate glass and most metals. Just think about how noxious chlorine is, and it is MUCH worse and more toxic
It is most fascinating, that the most oxidative (more powerful than anything else at stealing 1 electron, except perhaps PtF6-) substance we know is found in nature in this special environment. Nature was almost always there before us, including natural nuclear reactors in Gabon. Just think about how special elemental oxygen is in the universe. It is generally believed it can only be found where life has produced it - so there will be a massive frenzy if they detect elemental oxygen in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. And now we have found something more oxidative than oxygen found in it's elemental state.
wake up. It is electron shooters doing basic science, who may unlock the tools we need to desalinate ground so that those starving children have food to eat. It is not a far stretch to go from flourine research in rock to chorine in rock, which can inform desalination. Let these millions of scientists do basic science and 10s of millions of you can feed the starving with the tools they give you. pick up a shovel and start digging. Now get of the internet and start growing seeds.
Lobbies! Small groups with too much political representation.
I am stunned that there are coders out there who write code like i==10. Didn't you get taught in your studies to always think about boundary conditions and write i>9 EVERY TIME?
only for commercial content
And let the consumers vote on who does good subtitles and offer corrections - all for free. and give acheivements to those who write good subtitles and get good scores - they can watch ad-free
Because Genesis 1:21 says that God created the sea-monsters tannin, and everyone translator since Luther has tried to translate that word as whale/fish/dragon/waterspout/crocodile/greatSeaCreature or anything else other than the plain meaning of sea monster. Obviously now they have decided to embrace the sea monster and equate it with plesiosaur, instead of reading the text as it plainly is - a polemic against all foreign gods whether they are the sun, moon, stars, monsters, darkness, chaos, weather, fertility.
it's because it's precisely 100 years from his birth that Turing has a lot of attention this week
When James Cook ran the Endeavour aground on a shoal in north Queensland on June 11, 1770, (18 years before the first convicts arrived in Sydney) his men went ashore for 7 weeks to make hull repairs. They met the Guugu Yimithirr people and collected a long list of words including "Kangooroo - the leaping quadrapod". (And because Slashdot doesn't support Unicode I can't show you the pronunciation - look at Unicode-capable Wikipedia).
The account of the encounter is quite fascinating and very interesting with the hindsight we have now in the 21st century. The Aborigines did not want their chickens or pigs and burnt fires around their tents. We now know that the peoples of the Pacific did not want pigs because they would dig up tubers - taking away food and causing environmental damage. They were also likely aware of diseases.
English is completely inadequate for a country like Australia because it cannot describe the flora, fauna and weather - and that is one reason why Australians have a disconnect with the land. English has the word "newt" but I bet 99.9% of Australians don't know what a newt is. When Swiss hunters do forest-lore tours, they have real difficulty talking in standard German because it doesn't have the words they need - so they have to do it all in their local dialect which is rich enough and deep enough to explain the natural phenomena they learnt from their predecessors.
what about all your mum's old songs, or your grandfathers knowledge and animals and plants and weeds and so on. You might be a techy nerd, and we are pretty much the same globally but there is a lot of valuable natural knowledge still locked up in Udmurt. Take some effort and dig it out of your old relatives before they die.