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It sounds like you're talking about California; they're always nuts. Some PBS show. It was examining...
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No worse than MA. It's just closer. PBS talking about PC? There is some black pot. How do you get rid of corruption when it's become so insbreastutionalized...
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Which state is more nuts is a toss up. Most people in Mbutt. still understand that poo...
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The only drawback is that the representatives (where "represent" is political-speak for "rule over") add a layer of insulation from the people. Every system has its...
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Of course. There is no such thing as a perfect program. The same is much...
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People in CA do too, but keep voting to repeal gravity. I'd take PBS with a grain of salt here. They're clearly in the D, or more precisely far leftist...
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Exporting the workers who send US cash back is even more desirable. What!? Vermont is liberal and looney and leftist? When did that happen? Or is that something you all imported? May I be nosy...
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Now you know how Mexico figures its odds and why, in part, we have the problem...
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On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:19:37 -0400 in alt.folklore.computers, krw warning: my impressions, maybe biased viewpoint One of the PM's first moves was to get over to Afghanistan, spend a few days on the ground...
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snip Maybe it depends on what you mean by "how to deal with computers". I agree that it's unlikely that any student today would get to college without having...
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Right. Which as far as I can tell has nothing to do with how many males and females take a course that's...
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You may be giving me more credit than I deserve for sneaky mind-game tactics. My mind doesn't...
women in computing again: sorting
Who is the woman who programmed a video chat system? Usenet was mostly done by guys. I know a...
women in computing again: sorting 3964
On the contrary. She's a f***ing idiot. She never missed dis'ing math and anybody who does it. Since I lived those decades, I didn't encounter...
women in computing again: sorting 3965
snip I think you've said elsewhere that you started college but didn't finish. I wonder whether that...
women in computing again: sorting 3966
So write her a letter. She disses bad mathematicians. We all make mistakes on various levels. Math is over time a social process. Her column...
women in computing again: sorting 3967
No, she disses math. Exactly. And that's when this atbreastude started becoming "common knowledge" as...
women in computing
She disses bad mathematicians. The insecure ones knock her. I took some time to examine what she answered in...
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snip I meant the conditioning about "men's work" and "women's work" that starts, as far...
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Not on the farm. The determinant of who did what had to do with time, the season, and strength. Some days...
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snip Sounds nice. Except for the unremitting hard labor, of course. :-)? Yeah. Must be another YMMV thing, I guess...
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yes, it was all hard work. Why do you think we liked factory work? And never get taught to recognize...
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snip Less work? Better pay? snip So you agree with Andrew Swallow that women get to make the choices about...
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Is there a typo in that sentence? "able .... and capable"? do you maybe mean "able, and willing"? well, whatever.) Yes, part of...
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No typo. I am not able to clarify the sentence. I said what I meant. Did they do the job? Did they do it well...
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snip Right. What they all have in common is that they require someone to map what I...
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You are not doing those adults a favor. The zero should be an incomplete, unfullfilled...
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snip That wasn't my intent when I wrote the paragraph beginning "Excellent" above -- my intent was to say that while *you* might be basing your buttessments only on competence, I wasn't sure that was true...
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One night on his way to work, some woman ran a red light and crashed into his door. It almost stopped production of a piece of gear, but I cannot remember...
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snip Yes, I'm generalizing from one of my own experiences, and you're right that I did get better, as time went on, at figuring out how to modify-extend-debug other people's code...
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On Tue, 08 Aug 06 10:58:59 GMT Certainly not, but it does take a while before I completely stop activating the...
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Exactly. Whether this is a result of government intervention or car manufacturers settling on a...
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Omigod. Are you saying that we Canucks invented the concept of using high beams as running lights? I hang my head in shame...
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The author of the submission to the DoT is Daniel Stern. His web information on the technicalities of lighting. The importance of glare is substantial to the...
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In theory only, at least around here. Back before the provincial government abolished testing stations (ostensibly for cost-saving reasons), every car in B.C. had to be tested yearly for things like brakes, tires, suspension...
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There isn't much of a risk - by then he's close enough that his momentum will carry him past before he has a chance to make any significant course change. He might wind up running into...
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snip I see this all the time. I used to work with folks who figured it was their moral duty to pace someone and...
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stremler) writes: Most sensors around here fail in the opposite way - which causes tie-ups when a left-turn lane is selected for the maximum interval even when empty. But I take your point - indeed...
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As an aside, such behaviour, if observed by Police in Germany, could earn you a significant fine for obstructing traffic, especially on an Autobahn. Nah... they just reduce the speed limit so...
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Nope. It was designed that way. I buttociated this with the f***ing "safety feature" of having to have the pedal all the way in to start the car. I also...
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snip It is not just common. It is a peasant language! Some related sig quotes from my collection: English was a language invented by Norman invaders to pick up Anglo-Saxon barmaids...
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Sans smiley: The Ctrl and Alt keys on your keyboard are similar in character to the Shift key on a regular typewriter. They change what happens when another key on...
The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3993
mea culpa ... i just remember being told as undergraduate that the 360-65 as an (750ns memory) "upgrade" of an earlier announced...
The Univac 3400 Computer
never existed. Some photographs of a Univac 9400 happened to be mislabeled, because when the computer's number appeared in them, it was fuzzy. Another web site I turned up on...
TCPIP and connecting z to alternate platforms
Roy Hewitt escon technology had been laying around pok since the 70s ... but never actually released (for quite some period). one of the austin engineers took the spec, increased the bit rate...
Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron 3996
Dave Jones well here is a recent posts about some early security issues: As Bad As All That and one of the references from the above: another early mention about the origins of the web...
Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron 3997
misc. recent dumprx references so the obvious thing with dumprx in advanced analysis of postmortem kernel dumps was searching for various...
Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron 3998
huge amount of OS-360 TESTRAN was outputing all the (12-2-9) "SYM" cards as part of buttemble-compile...
Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron 3999
On Mon, 10 Jul 06 10:01:25 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, Between PER and regular halt-examine-deposit facilities, you effectively had DDT built into the kernel. Used it seriously a couple of times: to check...
Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron 4000
Anne & Lynn Wheeler for a little ios3270 drift, an ios3270 version of the green card was done; here is...
Star Trek Script Game
Hi all! Everyone who ever used a computer prior to 1990 is familiar with the old "Super Star Trek" game and its various variants: However, there was a variant...
An Improvement in the Art of Chain Printing
On my page at where I discuss the a small fragment of the history of the punched card, I also digress into noting IBM's 48-character, 60-character, and 120-character character sets for...
An Improvement in the Art of Chain Printing 4003
Charlie Gibbs That sounds like how one model of the Dataproducts drum printer did it. A spinning drum with the entire character set for...
The Bright Industries BI 1215 was: An Improvement
wrote, in part: I am now wondering if someone *already did that*. But not on a drum or chain printer. Some adding machines and tab equipment used a line printer mechanism that was slower than...
An Improvement in the Art of Chain Printing 4005
wrote, in part: No, I must admit. That may be, but while the tolerances will be tighter, that will be mainly because a higher print quality is desired. To...
An Improvement in the Art of Chain Printing 4006
John Savard PITA is correct. -First you hook up the oscilloscope to the appropriate test points. -Then start the designated test pattern -Then adjust the tiny hex screw way in the back or...
RCA Spectra 7025: Another Mystery Computer
I was surprised when I found out that the Univac 9200 and 9300, in suppressing the use of a base...