Hypercard was basically an interface-first database app which let you build interfaces easily to do things with the records. You had a "stack" of "cards" and each card had properties. If you wanted to make your own custom address book (no one wanted to do this, in reference to your second sentence) or track the migratory habits of swallows, you could throw a bunch of fields on a page layout and boom you had a whatever tracking "application." It's been a while, but I remember mostly being able to add fields and images. You could add extensions that would make the software do more interesting things, but most of those cost money. You could script more interesting behavior than just filling in some fields, but that was beyond the abilities of most users without training — and more importantly, interest.

As it shipped, Hypercard was less useful than a decent address book and notepad application would have been to the average user. Apple really missed the boat there. If they had just had a drag and drop "scripting" system based on flowcharts, and given away just a little more functionality, Hypercard might have appealed to more users instead of eventually getting overwritten with homework. But hey, free floppy!

It probably will. Note that it's a ROG Xbox Ally and not a Microsoft Xbox [HandheldBranding]. This is just a Microsoft-guided ASUS product. Their existing device runs full Windows. They will not want to offer less functionality.

What I want to know is how well it will run Linux, or SteamOS. 24GB is actually respectable. That's a reasonable desktop replacement for most people. I don't care if it's Xbox branded. I won't buy it because it's from ASUS and their support has gone to crap. But I'm still curious about whether it's good for anything but Windows. If they are, then someday I will very likely buy one used. And that used interest will help them keep resale value, and therefore help justify their purchase price...

I wrote bankruptcy filing software for my own use in the late 80s on hypercard. Some things it generated itself, and some it sent a mail merge file to word 5.1 (the last version that could simply use a text file as input rather than those bizarre inserts). In fairly short order, it ended up transferred to supercars, which could have multiple stacks open (but I never transitioned back when hypercard 2.0 came out. I suppose I could have scripted that, but . . .).

I thought about making a commercial project of it, but then in '92 (?) new forms were coming out, and the court clerk told me that anything submitted would have to be pixel perfect when they got their new scanners in the coming months. Add that to Macs only having 1% market penetration in law offices at the time, and I ended up simply buy-in another program (to my secretaries' dismay!)

The next year, supercard shipped a PC version. Oh, well.

And more than 30 years later, no such scanners (nor will they ever be; we electronically submit pdfs these days).

Had I known *either* of those*, I could have been the biggest player in the field.

After being away for more than a decade and a half, I trie what was then the biggest player--and it *still* didn't do stuff that I easily did with hypercard in the 80s!

I ended up implementing it, largely from scratch, using LiveCode.

Initially metacard on the NeXT, then runner on several platforms, and now LiveCode, it's basically HyperCard on steroids able to use databases and so much more. Now they're pushing AI, and I'm retired, so not my problem any more.

No, QuickDraw is like DirectX, it's totally pixel/bitmap based and nothing at all like PDF or its actual precursor, PostScript. And a universal top-edge menu bar makes sense only for small screens, where it will always be nearby. When you have lots of windows with different functions on a high resolution display, it makes sense for each of them to have its own menu bar. And MacOS needed to make that easier to configure. There were some hacks which did it, but I found them to be flaky.

There's a lot of people in and more importantly (and numerically significant) around health care whose job is to figure out who gets health care, what bucket the money is coming from... If you get rid of their jobs at the same time as we get rid of all these other jobs you're really going to wish you had UBI running.

In states which chose to fully implement all of the allowable provisions of the ACA, including Medicaid expansion, it is fairly well-broken. In my area most of the health care providers accept Medicaid, we have a servicer who handles billing so they don't have to do it themselves. If you don't qualify for Medicaid you can still get APTC, and most people who are just a bit over the income limit for Medicaid get their premiums covered 100%. (Of course I would like to do away with the insurance companies in this equation, but that's another discussion.) It's also much easier for people to get coverage for their children than for themselves, and adults get linkage to share of cost programs when they are caring for dependents for catastrophic coverage.

Only ten states didn't expand Medicaid to cover adults 18-65. They are pretty much the states you would expect. Kansas state gov. Laura Kelley has full expansion in her proposed 2026 budget. Most of the others are planning some kind of partial expansion (usually up to 100% of the Federal Poverty Level instead of 138%, and often with additional caveats and/or work requirements) which does not qualify for matching funds. It's still weird to me every time that states would leave money on the table, especially since these states already generally depend on other states' money to function.

Shitty terms for welfare are a bipartisan effort. Maybe it would have been futile to veto it and try to get it changed up, maybe it was intentional, it doesn't matter; the welfare reform act of 1996 signed by Clinton created the 60 month limit for welfare as well as the work requirement (ABAWD) for SNAP that the GOP now wants to bring to Medicaid. ABAWD is stupid when SNAP is barely adequate in most markets (as the food at the supermarkets gets more expensive much faster than the SNAP benefit amount is increased) and there is already a "work registration" requirement which prohibits quitting a steady, 30 hour/week job without a good reason.

We can hold Democrat politicians accountable without false equivocation, I think we should give it a try.

Yes, but there's lots and lots of counterexamples, especially there are a lot of conservative brown people. Mexicans (and many other Latin Americans) have historically tended to vote conservative because so many of them are Catholic. There's also no guarantee that they are not racist against other brown people. Just this morning I was looking at a post on feceboot about cleaning up a BLM street mural in Santa Cruz which someone did a burnout on. Around a third of the haha reaccs were from people with hispanic surnames and, upon inspection of their profiles, light beige to I'd say medium brown skin.

I thought we had all seen the "I thought they were only going to deport the lawbreaking immigrants" posts? Truth is, though, most of even the alleged leftists are still refusing to call it fascism. The supposedly left-wing news is talking about the rise of "authoritarianism"! I cannot express enough what fucking clowns these people are if they don't think this nation full of jackbooted SWAT teams that can be summoned to attack real or supposed enemies by any asshole with a phone is already authoritarian. Nobody seems to want to call anything what it is, so anyone who wants to can pretend it's not happening.

Microsoft had one called Access ;)

hm

Its largest shareholder is South African media company Naspers, which owns roughly a quarter of the company through its affiliate Prosus. Other significant shareholders include China Asset Management, Fidelity Management, and Ramirez Asset Management. Ma Huateng (also known as Pony Ma), the co-founder and CEO, holds a significant stake, according to business news sources.

So it does name Ma and not Bekker, but it does say a South African company is the largest shareholder. Rating partially true

Whether you learn to type in one of the approved ways, or any other way that allows you to type without looking at the keyboard, being able to do so is a critical skill for any kind of typing. The less time you spend thinking about how to type, and the less time you spend correcting edits, the more you can allow your thoughts to turn into text. I can do a certain amount of punctuation without looking (All the usuals... and of course including parentheses and brackets) and that's handy even while just scripting — or trying to quit vi.

>The QWERTY and PC-based layout (especially for some non-EN
>layouts) are simply not suited for the prolonged use of the SHIFT-
>pinky and stretching the hand to the control characters on the
>numeric row,

Nor is EMACS, at least on a CKIE (control key in exile) keyboard.

I actually had to get medical treatment in grad school after days of heavy editing, requiring me to twist my wrist and fully extend my pinky to reach the key. He said that they could send me to physical therapy, but I could do just as well myself with rubber bands on my last two fingers, stretching against them for some amount of time a couple of times a day.

Now, I surely wouldn't be one to tamper with university equipment, but a couple of days later, there was a little piece of plastic on my desk next to the keyboard. It apparently somehow escaped from the toggle mechanism on the capslock key, allowing me to remap control to it!
 

>I was the only male in my high school typing class.

gosh, that alone would have been enough reason to take it! :_)

mine was all male, for the simple reason that it was an all boys school.

It was also a mandatory class for freshmen.

>Nothing of this comes natural.

some does, actually, under the right circumstances.

wordstar (and I mean the original eight bit stuff, not the later extensions) was laid out rather logically and consistently with its diamonds and prefixes.

To the point that a couple of times, I instinctively used combinations that I hadn't consciously realized existed--and then sat back amazed as I realized what I'd done!

hawk, who used to type over 100wpm on a manual

Climate change, of course.

Ha ha, only serious: Ukraine has a number of resources which are important to Russia, including cropland. Russia invaded Ukraine historically for the same reason. Ukraine also used to be an important manufacturing center for Russia. Notably, they produced cast tank turrets. You may have noticed that Putin is experiencing an armor shortage.