IBM APL teletype -> Xerox Sigma 9 (CP-v?) -> Harris Vulcan, DOS => VMS, Mac system 7, Windows 2.11c -> Solaris, Windows (various), Linux

Using more than one at a time in parallel, at work and at home, at various times

Wait up, hold on a minute, I didn't even POST to this thread before now, there's no WAY I've screwed up already!

Do you know any geographical features that are 32 km in the vertical? So there is NO usable 3D information. So it would not be a 3D map. It is a really low resolution flat globe.

It is axiomatic that humans can dual-task well? Since when? Citation needed. In fact University of Utah researcehrs that is the rare 2.5% of the population that can truly "supertask" two activities without any loss in efficinecy. For example, drive and talk on a mobile. Citation needed?

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/only-a-few-can-multi-task/?ref=technology

Why stop here? Why not just download ( hidden ) child porn ( or god forbid, music ) onto the PC and threaten that if you don't pay up you will be reported. Forget the 'public shaming', lets go hardcore, and then perhaps we can get this stuff stopped.

No I'm not saying we shouldn't hire the people we assume are ignorant, I am saying we shouldn't hire the people we KNOW are ignorant. Save these jobs for people who aren't racist, sexist, etc.

And no I don't hate the ignorant, I just don't want to reward an ignorant person when I can reward an enlightened person instead.

For every successful FOSS project there are
hundreds of wannabes. Most are ignored, and
rightfully so. Yours might be different... you
do have more than just yourself involved.

But so often one hears the whine, "won't someone
please join my little project" and there's just
nothing there worth looking at. Could this be you?

"I think workers can (and should) have something where we're not enslaved by either devil. And I reject the moral relativism of cheating being okay when it's handed to you."

To actually achieve that, you need management to be equal to the worker- and the only real way to do that is to end limited liability and make each manager *fully and personally* liable for the contracts he signs with the workers.

No see, there's an app for that, but apple rejected it, so they are in fact not shooting themselves in the foot. They might be shooting their users in the feet, but we convinced ourselves it is the hip thing to do now. The bullets and the bandages are white, so it matches.

We grow orchids in our basement under high pressure sodium lights, and have never been bothered by the police. None of the other members of our orchid society have encountered problems, either.

Exercise your rights! If you live in constant fear of the police state, they've already won.

What the article fails to mention is that this marvelous speed is achieved by the means of a very consumer-friendly "Fair Use Policy" of the ISP which sets the download maximum at 100 kilobytes per month, "for our customers' convenience".

It is an orgasmic convergence of RIAA and MPIAA-friendly corporate stance (no music and movie pilfering possible), glorious marketing opportunity ("We are THE fastest Internet Service Provider in the USA!") and great PR ("All the national statistics clearly show us delivering most outstanding speed in the Nation!"). And it is all possible only because of the great foresight of the CEO of the ISP to replace all the useless "engineers" and "technicians" with Ivy-league educated MBAs.

Behold, for you are seeing the awesome future of US Internet Industry!

American schools have probably some of the best programs for gifted students. It's a rather large dichotomy between the average student and the gifted one. If a student is truly gifted, they have the opportunity to excel in the USA's schooling system. It's the average mediocre student who suffers.

For example, the public High School that I attend in NYC is considered one of the best in the world, having graduated seven Noble prize winners and 6 Pulitzer prize winners. Almost all of my peers from that school have finished college and are well to do intelligent adults.

You must not go through the plug/unplug ritual much. It's a pain, cords tend to get lost, you don't have enough cords for every location, and the connectors wear out. Sure they are working on standards for wireless power that don't require a specific location but why not take advantage of what works for now? I for one am eagerly awaiting support from all the handheld devices I use frequently. I'd love to have a desk where the entire surface can charge devices and a laptop that can charge that way. I've considered getting one of the cases for my iPod Touch that charges it this way but I'd rather see a standard before I spend my money.

During his last two decades, Ludwig van Beethoven lost his hearing. He was completely deaf when he composed
his ninth symphony (famous for e.g. "Ode to Joy"). That doesn't mean that a hearing impairment enhances songwriter skills.

Imagine the works of those artists if they weren't bound to cover the area they're working on.
They might've raised the bar of perceived perfection to even higher levels.

A driver doesn't need to be OSS to work correctly.

Many of you have gotten the means to an end confused... You act as if OSS is the end and hardware/software is the means to it.