bandy

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121.
by bandy 15y ago
D'oh! Point taken - actual data: 167x133. Still very handy.
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by bandy 15y ago
Depending on my task, I may rotate the 1920x1200 screen in front of me 90° to 1200x1920. I find that much more useful for reading large amounts of text and/or code. The underlying OS supports it, the monitor arm this display is mounted on
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by bandy 15y ago
Find someone with a running TRS-80. Bring your favorite portable AM radio with you. Have your friend run a program, and while that's occurring, put your radio next to the machine and start tuning it around. It won't take long before you
124.
by bandy 15y ago
Yes and Absolutely. (With the latter causing a good deal of the former.)
125.
by bandy 15y ago
The N64 is inexpensive enough and readily available at secondhand shops. I got mine so I could play Road Rash 64 - in my experience, the best version ever, having played all of the RR titles.
126.
by bandy 15y ago
Not only graphite, but assuming a proper non-mechanical pencil, you'd end up with wood shavings in addition to the graphite bits flying about — which you could solve by adding a vacuum to the pencil sharpener, to capture the debris.
127.
by bandy 15y ago
⍝ I'm sure that GLS knows this, but ∆ (delta) is a valid APL symbol (APL\SV) that looks like one of the primitives but may be user-defined. As I recall (it's been a while since I sat in front of a Selectric with an appropriate typeball or
128.
by bandy 15y ago
E-mail headers, BBS stuff, and of course IRC. I can't remember if it was { for ö or another special.
129.
by bandy 15y ago
"(female) event staff get it for you" == "They're less likely to dose it with roofies than a man would be."
130.
by bandy 15y ago
There have been a number of studies that come to this basic conclusion. Please see Prof. Norm Matloff's pages (UC Davis) http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/pub/Immigration/ImmigAndComput... , http://www.tbp.org/pages/publications/Bent/Feature
131.
by bandy 15y ago
Any talented engineer under the age of 30, yes. (Corollary: any engineer over the age of 30 has no talent in the eyes of the Valley)
132.
by bandy 15y ago
The less-destructive version of this demonstration when I first encountered one in the early 80s was for someone to walk up to the machine, open a cabinet, and randomly pull out a (coffee table book sized) card. No magic smoke, no screams
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by bandy 15y ago
Prof. Norm Matloff at UC Davis has done the research on the H-1B situation and it boils down to this: wages, age discrimination, and (effectively) indentured labor. http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/wel.html http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1
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by bandy 15y ago
Prior art: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc821 (Section 3.4) Yes, there were systems that implemented this.