The problem was the hardware. Individuals couldn't afford a PDP 1. My first personal computer was an Apple II in 1981 and it cost $6,000, real money then. Universities had computers and the ones in science labs got used for all sorts of cool things.
The cards I remember were 80 columns. Generally you got one character per column. (6-bit characters to begin with and EBCDIC later on.) You could use them in a variety of 'binary' modes, which gives you a theoretical maximum of 80 x 12 = 960 bifs or 120 bytes. That was generally only used for run-time decks, not for programs or raw information.
There's a Web site for that! http://www.seeclickfix.com/citizens. Boston aleady uses it: http://m.seeclickfix.com/boston/recent
What I'd worry about is the effectiveness of the ads. I know they are there but I just don't see them. That's not the same for Google's search ads, which are often relevant to what I'm looking for, so I pay attention to them.
Thank you, thank you. I have spent many hours in two minute increments waiting for those drives to spin up and I never knew why it took so long
Julian Assange is the first true dissident, prisoners of conscience of the English civilization.
Really? Thomas Moore? Bishop Cranmer? Alan Turing? Thomas Becket?
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I'm more of a pedestrian than a driver, but I see people every day yaking on their cell phones while driving cars. I've learned to stay clear of them because they simply don't see me. There is no doubt in my mind that cell phone use should be banned from cars.
It didn't take that long. The NYT reported on November 10th that it was most likely an airplane; I heard an expert on NPR say it was a contrail on Tuesday, not long after the event.
Yes you can rewind and fast forward. There's a progress bat to show you where you are but the image doesn't change. That makes it harder to find a particular spot. There's also a delay after a ffwd/rewind operation while it buffers the appropriate part of the file. That said, I love the Roku.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -- Isaac Asimov