> Subject: Miscellaneous (Was: DOS GUI)
Hello Bernie,
}- But what about a typical typewrite? People seem to be afraid
}- of the keyboard, but many have used a typewrite I own two of
}- them, used to torture my Lego people with them ;)
Ah yes, I had forgotten. I learned to type in 7th grade when I
was 12 years old. Was natural for me as my mom did typing at
home for 25 cents a page...
}- By hand? Perhaps it's not such an exact science as astronomy
}- is, one guy I know made a program that simulated the movement
}- of all the plantes and there moons in our solarsystem. And it
}- was *very* complex. But I guess you used a more easily to use
}- model for calculating (ex. ignoring the fact that they pull at
}- each other through space.)
Well yes. In astrology all you have to be able to figure out is
where the planets are at a particular time and place - the time
and place of the person's birth you are figuring the chart for.
The Zodiac is simply a circle (360 degrees divided up into
30 degree (approx) segments. The planets move in their orbits
through this circle. Hence when the sun is in the segment of
the circle designated "Taurus" (so named for the constellation
of Taurus) that person is said to have "sun in Taurus." And
of course the same can be done for all the other planets.
Such a chart is always done from the place of the persons birth
(longitude and latitude) and the time of their birth. Understand
I am not a programmer and know very little about it, but -
I would think to write a program to do this would be quite
simple, it's all mathmatical. The requirements would be:
1)A table of longitude and latitude, 2)A table of the rate of
motion for each planet, 3)A table of time conversion to convert
whatever time the person was born to Greenwich, 4)A table of
the Zodiac with degrees, and the segments or signs. Then all
the program has to do is the math. As I said, I'm no programmer
but even way back then in 1987 someone else had already written
a program to do astrology charts. I registered it and am still
using it happily.
Up until recently (when I began studying assembly language and it
is going v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y) the closest I have come to
programming in batch files and writing HTML. I can write a mean
batch file if I do say so myself, and I'm not bad at HTML either
if you don't count java and cgi.
}- }- understand it was to compare the file on the hard drive to
}- }- a record (the kind you play on a stereo). The music seems
}- }- non-existent when you aren't playing the record, but you
}- }- know the information that is the music is recorded in the
}- }- grooves of the record, you know it's always there and
}- }- available, even when you aren't actually playing it. I was
}- }- able to understand this and it helped me immensely.
}- A very good analogy (sp?), I never managed to find a good one
}- when I taught people, but telling them that files where like
}- papers that you put in a cabinet was atleast understandable to
}- most of them.
Yes, it is a good analogy. It seems "cyberspace" and "virtual
reality" have been with us much longer than a lot of people
think.
}- I was my own teacher, and I guess that several on this list
}- also was there own teachers.
I to am largely self taught, but it was my son who taught me
those basics we've talked about: copy, dir, delete, how to start
a program, etc. My husband added to my knowledge with format,
fdisk, multitasking, etc - he paid for an extra phone line so I
could have my own BBS and learn about that aspect of computing.
And of course I learn a lot here in the list too :)
}- Perhaps not, but you never know ;)
Actually I'm probably even more weird than you thought I was...
<grin>
}- }- *This message written with 100% recycled electrons.
}- There was a program for Win 3.x that did that! (Ok, it just
}- showed the user a few images and some stats on how many
}- electrons that where damaged or bad in the computer.)
You're kidding!? Why? Does this have a practical purpose?
Boanne
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