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* Multi-step resample: The time it took to resample up a D100 photo, in seven 110% increments, for printing on a 13 x 19 inch inkjet printer at 300 ppi, was tested.
* Unsharp Mask: The time it took to apply Unsharp Mask (Amount: 300% Radius: 1.5 Threshold: 1) then Fade the filter (Mode: Luminosity, Opacity: 100%), was tested. The photo's resolution was 20 x 30 inches at 300 ppi.
* Batch process using web site Action: The time it took to batch process 25 D100 JPEGs, saving them out as quality level 70 JPEGs using Save for Web, was tested. The processing steps were derived from an Action used in preparing photos for this web site: assign a profile, rotate, filter noise with Quantum Mechanic Pro, apply Unsharp Mask, Fade Unsharp Mask, resize to 450 pixels wide in three steps, apply Unsharp Mask, Fade Unsharp Mask, convert to sRGB, Export using Save for Web.

I have no idea what "web action" is nor would I be able to figure out what you mean by "set up." I processed over 1 gig of picutres and movies for christmas but I have no way to compare what I did to the benchmarks I read. I used two Athlons, a 1.3GHz machine and a 650MHz machine with SCSI. Both had on the order of 500MB or RAM. There is no set up time because I use Debian and never have to turn the machines off. Most conversions were done through ImageMagick, with a little GIMP work here and there. HTML generation was done with a slightly modified igal and a simple shell script to feed it directory trees. All said, most of the work was automated and did not take much of my time. The most time consuming task was burning 20 CDs one at a time. I'd love to be able to compare some of the conversions head to head - like a simple image resample defined in pixels. Something tells me that my little machine would do very well against something encumbered by M$.

Another "PhD" comic.

I think part of the problem is that male geeks tend to have a bit of a superiority complex as a generalization, and that same is not true for female engineers, so they tend to feel like they are not as good as the guys simply because all the guys make them feel as such. It's not really inviting

I would say that the environment is not one to be condusive to a female. Let alone the hormone factor.

A very appropriate comic.

I think that much like females outperforming males in elementary school they also do so in engineering programs. I knew a few Engineers at school that could kick any guys but in what they did.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.


Sounds familiar?
The preamble states the intent of the whole U.S.-constitution.

>Oh, and this idea that the founding fathers wanted corporations to serve the prublic good is bullshit-- more liberal lies about the past

"General welfare" is one of the goals of the U.S. constitution. This of course, is totally contraire to the idea of companies serving the public good. Especially, if they serve "We, the people", and not "We, the shareholders".

Besides, what a wonderful reasoning: "Liberal lies", "first ammendment fanatics", "Anti human rights".

Do you have any idea for what liberalism stands?

I suggest using "socialist lies" or "commie lies", this would give your post a more consistent style.

...Mr. Lessig's day job at Stanford is creating the very IP parasites he rails on about.

Mr. Lessig's day job: Teaching "Constitutional Law" and "Law and Virtual Worlds" courses at Stanford University.

What we see here is a relationship between a law professor, the law, the Constitution, and virtual worlds. Since the law, the Constitution, and virtual worlds all came into existence, and are perpetuated, independently of Mr. Lessig, it seems clear that the purpose of Mr. Lessig as a law professor can only be understood in terms of its relationship to these things, and that he is not autotelic at all.

I could argue that perhaps Mr. Lessig has created the field of "Law and Virtual Worlds" specifically in order to perpetuate his own existence as a law professor, but I'd have to disregard the fact that virtual worlds, the law, and the intersection of the two, exists independently of his own existence as a law professor. Even if Lessig is one of the first to enter this field, we already have a word for that: pioneer. And when the pioneer has created the field which he then enters, we often use the term "genius". If Lessig is truly autotelic (which seems unlikely), then he is in good company, along with Jonas Salk, Neils Bohr, and Alan Turing, among others.

And why shouldn't he teach law? Study of the law does not make one an IP parasite. Teaching the law does not make one a greedy hypocrite. Teaching the law during the week, and applying one's knowledge of the law on weekends to promote justice and uphold fair play seems rather more laudable than the pursuits of the stereotypical lawyer.

Perhaps the Troll would care to offer some counter-examples that distinguish Mr. Lessig as a greedy hypocrite, rather than the admirable figure the documented evidence seems to present?

Of course that's only one law school for another example -

Columbia Law:

The median starting salary for all graduates is $94,000

Stanford

New graduates from Ivy League schools hired at firms with national practices can earn $70,000 - $85,000 in their first year, but the majority of new hires earn in the $40,000 - $60,000 range. Starting salaries are somewhat lower in the corporate and public sectors. Eighth-year associates can earn between $85,000-$113,500 per year.

less well known law schools,

Case Western Reserve

The average salary for Class of 2001 graduates was over $75,000.

Of course this is for recent grads 1-2 years as were the statistics you quoted. One of the benefits of a specialized degree is that the upper bounds on individual salary is much higher, and one of the reasons the recent grads are working thier asses off at 90k per year is that if/when they make partner they'll be rolling in the cash (maybe working just as hard, but at a substantial boost in earnings)

We can also check salary reports for an estimate of what you should be looking for as a more experienced attorney,

Career Journal

Associate General Counsel working in US - National now earns an average salary of 310,054. Half of those in this position would earn between 230,122 and 332,812.

Position Description:
Conduct criminal and civil lawsuits, draw up legal documents, advise clients as to legal rights, and practice other phases of law. May represent client in court or before quasi-judicial or administrative agencies of government. May specialize in a single area of law, such as patent law, corporate law, or criminal law.

(although general counsel probably work for the side that lost this case, but hey they still got paid, actually by CD sales ;>)

Department of Labor statistics for all lawyers

Area - All United States
Occupation - Lawyers
Level - Overall
DataSource - Published
Year/Period - 2000/Jul
Hourly Rate - $38.70

Of course this data includes public lawyers which are paid significantly less than corporate/private practice lawyers in general, and includes all levels of experience.

And this survey of law firm compensation:

Law Department Compensation Benchmarking survey - Total cash compensation

Attorney - 2001 - $120,252

"...Engelbart and a group of young computer scientists and electrical engineers he assembled in the Augmentation Research Center at SRI were able to stage a 90-minute public multimedia demonstration of a networked computer system. This was the world debut of the computer mouse, 2-dimensional display editing, hypermedia--including in-file object addressing and linking, multiple windows with flexible view control, and on-screen video teleconferencing."

Things like that are hapening in the US, at Stanford.

Since each pixel in such cameras, as the article actually points out, can see either red, green or blue, neighboring pixels in the finished picture cannot be entirely different, because the hue of each pixel is determined from the brightness of the neighboring red, green and blue monochrome CCD pixels. Therefore a magnified image is always a little "soft" and true distinguished color detail are only possible over spans of two or more pixels. In the sample, however, the neighboring pixels shown are clearly completely unrelated, and as such the magnified sample is FAKE.

Almost all comments ignore the main problem with debuggers: they let you verify that a program works correctly for a given input, but tell you nothing about what happens for other inputs you haven't tried. Did you miss something? Are there buffer overflows or security holes? Coverage tools can help, but then you've got to come up with directed tests to reach all of the code, or prove that it can't be reached.

Complete formal verification for large programs is a pipe dream, but there is a lot that can be discoverd through static analysis. Consider Dawson Engler's Meta-Level Compilation project, which automatically found hundreds of errors in the Linux kernel, for an example of what is possible.

Engler and gang have gotten quiet lately, I wonder if they are trying to start a company.

There are other approaches, used in hardware verification, that can mix directed testing with symbolic methods (from a state that is reached in a simulation, can I reach some "bad" state? If so, generate a test vector that takes me there).

While waiting for these tools to be developed, get a four-year old. Let him/her play with your GUI. If it's a Gnome or KDE app, it will probably crash in under ten minutes, because the kid will do things that would never occur to the developer or tester.

Almost all comments ignore the main problem with debuggers: they let you verify that a program works correctly for a given input, but tell you nothing about what happens for other inputs you haven't tried. Did you miss something? Are there buffer overflows or security holes? Coverage tools can help, but then you've got to come up with directed tests to reach all of the code, or prove that it can't be reached.

Complete formal verification for large programs is a pipe dream, but there is a lot that can be discoverd through static analysis. Consider Dawson Engler's Meta-Level Compilation project, which automatically found hundreds of errors in the Linux kernel, for an example of what is possible.

Engler and gang have gotten quiet lately, I wonder if they are trying to start a company.

There are other approaches, used in hardware verification, that can mix directed testing with symbolic methods (from a state that is reached in a simulation, can I reach some "bad" state? If so, generate a test vector that takes me there).

While waiting for these tools to be developed, get a four-year old. Let him/her play with your GUI. If it's a Gnome or KDE app, it will probably crash in under ten minutes, because the kid will do things that would never occur to the developer or tester.

Actually, such an effect is predicted by general relativity. It's called gravitomagnetism. If NASA ever launches Gravity Probe B, it should be able to measure it.

Incidentally, the Doppler effect for gravity is more complicated than just compression, because the gravitational field is a tensor, not a scalar. Not only does it "compress", it also "twists", which makes it act differently on fast particles than it does for slow ones. A very similar effect holds for the electric force - when an electron moves very fast (i.e. generates a current), the electric force begins to twist in such a way that it affects moving charges (especially charges moving parallel to the original charge) in a different way from static charges. This is of course just the familiar phenomenon of magnetism, and what I just described is a simple consequence of Ampere's law.

And yes, magnetism travels at the speed of light too. Have you heard of "electromagnetic radiation"? What do you think light is, anyway?

Terry

You forgot Folding@home

It actually wasn't the Italians, but a team from my alma mater, Stanford University, lead by professor Marc Levoy. While I wasn't directly involved in the project myself, I knew many of the folks behind it.

The project site is http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/mich/

It actually wasn't the Italians, but a team from my alma mater, Stanford University, lead by professor Marc Levoy. While I wasn't directly involved in the project myself, I knew many of the folks behind it.

The project site is http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/mich/

It actually wasn't the Italians, but a team from my alma mater, Stanford University, lead by professor Marc Levoy. While I wasn't directly involved in the project myself, I knew many of the folks behind it.

The project site is http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/mich/

1. Provided Microsoft uses a proper public key infrastructure, brute-forcing this thing could potentially take forever

2. This so that you can feel good subverting an X-Box by making it run Linux

3. By that time the hardware would be definitely obsolete, or X-Box 2 would be out with programs signed with a different key

4. And in any case, buying the X-Box already helps Microsoft. The more units sold, the more games developed.

5. There are tons of other worthwhile distributed computing projects to do out there - Folding@Home, SETI@Home, Mersenne Prime Search etc.

Grow up folks! Running Linux on a hacked X-Box is cool, yes, but this might be going too far...

Yes, i agree there are MUCH worthier distributed computing projects. folding@home and genome@home try to further medical science!

Folding@Home
Genome@Home

Yes, i agree there are MUCH worthier distributed computing projects. folding@home and genome@home try to further medical science!

Folding@Home
Genome@Home

Please don't mod this +1 funny, as it's not meant to be that way. I really do find strinkingly large simularities between the way the Nazi's do things and the way certain members of congress try to force the people that elected them to give up their rights. Just because "Rights" is one of the DRM words, doesn't make it right.

I believe in Law that is for the people.

please follow the links...

all this means is that lessig is right in eldred v. ashcroft.

copyrights should foster innovation. that is the only reason they should exist. they should exist to line corporate pockets. so they should expire with the death of the author. if corporations via sonny bono extend them unnaturally beyond the lifetime of the author, then copyrights instead suppress innovation. 50 years? 95 years? whatever. copyrights should rightly expire when the author is rip.

this expired here but not there bs is just another example of why extending copyrights unnaturally by greedy corporations is a bad idea.

Agreeing with you and adding my very simplified opinion, science and religion not only can co-exist but were in the past one and the same thing. The only problem was that the ones who didn't understand science came to take charge of the religions around the world and refuted that which they didn't comprehend. (I'm talking between thousands and tens of thousands of years ago here in Neolithic cultures). My arrival at this opinion is based on having been brought up as a Christian (although I always had issues that the priests couldn't answer) and excelling at science at school. I am not a Christian, the closest I think is Pantheism. Having investigated shamenism in ancient cultures, and add to that various other points such as entymology of language etcetera, I have a framework which is personal, and ever evolving.

Thus science developed, and religion stagnated (at various times depending on the religion). I cannot claim to be religious myself, but that doesn't mean that they cannot co-exist.

I have one question for you though from your comment: does this mean that for proof of God's existance, you require life?

To check out some of that history go here...

Doug Engelbarts 1968 demo

Engelbarts Unfinished Revolution

To check out some of that history go here...

Doug Engelbarts 1968 demo

Engelbarts Unfinished Revolution

An interesting parallel to this is medical "anti-intrusion" systems. Penicillin used to be a miracle antibiotic, and then farmers started including it in cattle and chicken feed. Eventually every bacterium became resistant and penicillin lost most of its usefulness to the super bacteria that became widespread. See this

Practically speaking, if tripwire and daily security emails became part of every linux distribution, then packages like rootkit would quickly adapt to them and render them useless.

For those looking at security from a very high level, we must keep the "more effort implies more security" status. At least this way you have the option to having an extremely secure machine if it is really important to you.

Strong security for everyone will remain a dream until people start proving their code.

Care to share some links?

Here is where I started. I'd never known the full story, and did some Googling that landed me there first.

I then modified my search to "Chernobyl Disaster" (with quotes) and found lots of information.

One site that explains quite a bit can be found here. If (like me) you don't know much about nuclear power, see his Nuclear FAQ linked at the top of that page.

I don't recall all of the other links I read; I followed a few from the Google results, and followed link after link from there. But the Stanford page is pretty informative IMO.

I remember, when I was about three, discovering an instance of Epimenides' lying-paradox.

Epimenides, being a Cretan himself, said: "Cretans always lie". But is he speaking the truth? In that case, Cretans don't always lie, and the statement is false, and he is lying. It is similar to Russell's paradox with sets, or to Cantor's diagonal argument.

So I was only three, a little brat, but a morally conscious brat. And then and there, I made a decision never to lie ever in my life (haven't been able to keep that decision completely, though). And I say to my Dad, who is standing nearby, "I will never lie in my life." And then I add hastily - "I didn't lie just now".

I remember then feeling like I had to corroborate that statement denying any falsehood, which statement would then also have to be corroborated, and I felt - as only a three year-old's little brain can feel it - the weight of an infinite regression. It had to be curtailed somehow.

Apart from Epimenides' paradox, it was basically discovering one of the most fundamental things necessary for social interaction, namely trust. I couldn't prove that I didn't just lie, but I hoped my Dad would trust me.

Ulrik Petersen

When CS is a mature discipline you'll see older guys dominating it.

Professor Knuth is working on a new volume of the Art of Programming. Have a look at "previews of volume 4" on his news page.

I think what you are discussing must be a US feature. Many of the people I have worked with the last few years are 40+ years old.

This one lists 1994-1996.

And for good measure, here is a cached NY Times article listing major MS products their main competition and how they got the product. It's a little dated (from Oct. 1998) for example, it lists Visio as a PowerPoint competitor.

I'd love to spend some time doing a more thorough review of all their past acquisitions and what happened to the technology they bought but I suspect I won't have the time so if this is a starting point for some one else to do so, great. Anecdotally I'm afraid a fair number of their acquisitions were to eliminate the competition and kill the technology rather than actually acquire the technology to improve their products and I would love to see a factual assessment of their acquisitions.

Knuth is a guy who likes to plan ahead. On his web site he states that Volume 4 (of The Art Of Computer Programming) will be ready in 2007, and Vol. 5 will be published in 2009. He then goes on to describe how he plans to rewrite Vols. 1-3 after he finishes 5. Finally after that, "God willing" he says, he plans to write Vol. 6 (context-free languages) and Vol. 7 (Compiler Techniques.) We're talking probably 10-20 years into the future here, certainly what I'd call long-term planning.

A couple of trivialities:

I learned about "paddy wagon" in Chicago, which is well-known for St. Patrick's Day drunkenness. With that and spades, I figure if I'm going to insult someone, I want to do it intentionally.

On gems -- the aluminum oxide base is called corundum and can be either ruby or sapphire. The tidbit I know about domestic corundum is that it was used to make the finishing touch on the National Monument, a cap made of aluminum, at the time the hot new metal and expensive as heck.

On Al and corrosion. (I'll read most anything.)

I decided to forego the keen opportunity of spamming "FIRST POST!" Instead, I grabbed a mirror, so others can read it after the /. effect kicks in:

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'Tis the season to be giving, and I can't afford the cash to keep Mandrake afloat... this is all I've got to give!

Depending on the amount of data you need to transmit.. GENRIP, GENeric Radio IP, based on STRIP , may work for you. As discussed here before, it basically extends IP over any serialized radio. So, you can choose your own frequency and power.

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They're working on it. It's not quite as far along as Orson Scott Card envisions it.

Right. Because my want to play COMPLETELY LEGAL DVDs under Linux is the reason for your bad ping times. We should not support piracy in any of its forms, but it will NEVER be eliminated entirely and most technologies thrown at it just hurt consumers. Copy protected CDs for instance. Lot's of normal consumers have trouble with them, but I guarantee you every one of the (worth pirating) can and will be ripped and put on the net. Because the people you support piracy are determined to do it.

The RIAA and MPAA are just doing what all corporations are entitled to do: Use their money to ensure that they remain profitable. Media going completely digital w/o copyright protections dosen't scare them because of piracy, it scares them because when the next big thing hits the shelves (ie portable video non-DVD style) they can require companies licensing fees to use their crappy copyright protection. And so consumers pay higher prices for new devices JUST to have the priviledge of playing a movie s/he already owns.

I agree that any responsible citizen should not support/use P2P to essentially steal media. But the truth is that media is overpriced because **AAs have a stronghold on the industry. They used to provide a valuable service to artists: LOANED the artist money in exchange for well basically advertising and hype around the nation and worl. But artists don't need that anymore, ANY band with a $10/month webserver and a $1000 digital studio do their own hype worldwide. The **AA know this is coming and they are using all the money/power they have accumulated to try and prevent it. They are a business, they must make money to survive.

Please go visit:

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/

and you'll find out how much these corporations have influenced American Copyright law for many decades now. This is not a new issue, it has just reached an apex because of the internet and free digital information.

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Anyway, this comic seems appropriate.

Fox-int-the-henhouse atory here!

I'm sure that the parent post may look insightful, but the moderators have been led astray. The poster doesn't know what he's talking about, or is a troll. Probably both.
Thank you for your comments Anonymous Coward. I have had professors and mathematicians at the University of Chicago and Notre Dame look at my mathematics before, and although I cannot claim to be a mathematician, they have certainly agreed that I know something about which I talk about.

If the value is N^N, then each additional user multiplies the value by (N+1) * ((N+1)/N)^N, which is about (N+1)*e for large N. If adding the millionth user makes a network a few million times more valuable than it was before, then you have a poor definition of value.

I'm not exactly sure when or where N^N was introducted to this line of discussion. I was refering to N! which, although related to N^{nth power}, actually increases faster than N^{nth). Perhaps I am wrong. The fact of the matter is that it increases quickly, and it accelerates as it increases.

Group theory and quantum theory are not relevant here. If the poster had enough of a mathematics background to understand either of those topics, though, then he would not have misunderstood N^N.

Well, Anonymous Coward, I would suggest reading some texts including Cisco's Internetworking Technologies Handbook and Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. While you are at it, you may want to check out some stuff on Quantum Graph Theory.

"Graph theory combinatorics" is not a term anyone working in graph theory or combinatorics would use, and if they did, they would not elevate this trivial problem by claiming that they are relevant anyway.

Except for the 56,000 people who are recorded by google as having used those three words together in a webpage. Oh, wait, here is a conference on it, and here is a plug-in for mathematica. Oh, wait, they teach classes and hold conferences and seminars on group theory and combinatorics. (Have you ever hear of adjectives?) And more over, these are the basic mathematics used to discuss world problems, such as poverty, hunger, disease, and war.

Linear dynamics is not relevant, and probably nobody thought it was.

Except for the person who said that the problem was exponential or logarithmic.

Eigenfunctions and eigenvalues are not relevant here.

It appears to me that you don't know how to use eigenfunctions and eigenvalues to calculate quantum graphs, or to solve real world problems in quantum computing, fiber optics, network routing, group addressing, domain name spacing, etc. etc. etc. I suppose that it never occured to you that quantum graph, or a network graph, such as is described by Reed's Law could be described by a matrix or an eigenvalue, did you?

Whatever you think "modular mathematics" is, it's not relevant either.

You know what. I'm just not going to be drawn into this argument.

Much of the rest of what the parent's poster said doesn't make any sense. I think it's clear that he's full of shit.

Excellent strategy! When confronted with something you don't understand, resort to the use of vulgarities! Full of shit I am! It's a biological phenomena which results from eating food. I'm also full of water, proteins, amino acids, calcium deposits, muscle masses, and nucleic acids. But I try to be polite, and I try not to curse.

Reed's law is indeed rubbish. Where would anyone get N^N anyway? Someone could be forgiven for thinking that every possible subset of users adds some minimum value to the network, and they'd get 2^N. That would be a dubious proposition of itself. But N^N is ridiculous

Agreed! N^N is rubbish! I don't know where you got that expression. If you observe my posting, nowhere did I use the expression 'N^N'. Perhaps you were attempting to raise 'N' by 'N+1' or something. I'm not sure. I was attempting to express a concept which is typically refered to with the notation 'N!' although in my haste, I did not compose that message with that particular expression. Anyhow, I agree that N^N is rediculous. Why did you bring it up?

Laf. Divergent paradigms of reality at work, eh?

Well, all I can say is that I was hired by our university's department of networking services & information technologies to design and install computing clusters. Designing, building, and producing console boxes is merely a problem of building a computing cluster, which you then 'uncluster' and distribute the nodes to buyers.

I didn't say you had to use Sense8's WorldToolKit or any of the other proprietary software products. I was merely pointing in directions of additional information of equipment and materials which may be pertinent to the project at hand.

As far as designing a filesystem... well, if you have to ask that question, I am going to have to suggest a book for you, written by Donald Knuth, entitled The Art of Programming. The file system is going to be central to the entire machines memory usage, both RAM, ROM, CD, and NFS. Optimization and funtionality are going to be based upon it.

And then 'magically configuring' the system to play XBox games ?! Laf. Well, I suppose so. The 'magical configuration' was done during the installation of the device drivers and the file system layout. Disk imaging can be more tricky than one may imagine. When we were at work in the laboratories, a majority of our time was spent imaging builds rather than coding. But then, we were working at a tier-1 research university, and we didn't like to loose the work we had done to a disk error.

Left.

Eldred v. Ashcroft
... 10 had a favourable piece on Lessig and the lawsuit. ... October 13, 2002 - Amy
Harmon of New York Times: uphill battle over copyright. more news ...
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The Limits of Copyright
... it an offense to write code to interfere with this use-controlling code, regardless
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Copyright law and roasted pig.
Communications Copyright law and roasted pig Lawrence Lessig on Eldred v. Ascroft
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O'Reilly Network: Free Culture: Lawrence Lessig Keynote from ...
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works) instead of exercising all of the restrictions of copyright law. ...
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While browsing for info in regards to the legality of a proposed buyout of Borland, I ran across this site from Microsoft Monopoly, at Stanford, Its has a fairly well laid out description of all of Microsoft's past woe's and tangles with the law.

Actually, It was an amicable deal between both of them, here is the link to the DOJ,s Anti-Trust issue on the Deal

Justice Department Files Antitrust Suit Challenge


And the following analysis of the deal
The Attempted Microsoft - Intuit Merger

1. Fifty-Year-Old Computer Being Restored

On Monday November 22, @10:50PM with 116 comments

James Green directs us to "a Sunday Age (Melborne) article which describes the discovery of a 52 year old computer found in a dusty warehouse weighing in at...

I guess Geek.Com is behind ;-)

2. The first Transistor computer, TX-0, was restored to demonstratable condition in the 1980's by The Computer Museum. Yes it worked again, No question; as an original member and early volunteer of TCM (before the first tmove), I was there, and saw it run.

TCM was once of Boston, then of Marlboro, now of SilliValley. See the TCM Project Description and the Alumni page. It was built in 1957, so would be only 45 years old. I'm not sure what happened to it when DEC sold the building, or John McKenzie, who got it to work again. Shag Graetz's classic Creative Computing article on PDP-1 SpaceWar includes it's TX-0 predecessor. (and French translation) The TMRC pages include TX-0 history as well. See also Levy/Hackers

-- bill / n1vux

Did you look at that US map of how long it took to spread?

Week 1: it's in only places that have international contact (NYC mainly).
Week 2: all major cities and surrounding regions have it.
Week 3: all minor cities have it (since people have travelled to/from major centres).
Week 4: everywhere has it!

Exponential growth reminiscent of the super flu from Stephen King's The Stand! I'm sure Washington State wouldn't be a week 3 infection this time around, either. Heck, with travel being more popular here, I doubt it'd take 2 weeks for the polination of pretty much everyone with a killer virus that is airborne to take its toll.

Of course, you have to wonder how long it would last. Would it be safe for people to destroy all the bodies in an incinerator? What about all the technology that we have now that'd fail in catastrophic ways with no one to monitor it? This is some seriously scary stuff.

This states that there's already a sample out there that is currently being sequenced... Though the evidence off the page above is 404...

This is the fearful graph you're looking for.