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It might take a while to get there, even with FTL travel -- it's inthe Cassini system. Incur some time-debt and take a long nap, I say:

Floria

Here are a few to please corporate marketing, sales and management types (yes, they're work safe):

http://prague.tv/galleries/funny-pics7/freebsd.jpg -- Remember, sometimes less is more.

http://www.nrg4u.com/freebsd/baby-doll-1-small.jpg (yeah yeah, I know, but they could learn a thing or two from them)

http://intdata.homeip.net/img/freeBSD-girl.jpg (mmh, amazing how many critical pieces of infrastructure are held together by duct tape)

Redundant components: http://tinyurl.com/a2uhp

One for the marketing department: http://www.servepath.com/images/better_devil_250x2 80.jpg

One to compensate for corporate randomness: http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/483990930X.09 .LZZZZZZZ.jpg (what is it about Japanese graphics that just screams "weird!"?)

And finally of course, http://homepage.tinet.ie/~cullenm/2dart/regi.jpg (just to piss off the zealots)

Ok, of course I'm single-minded, but seriously, folks, stick to working on the (fantastic) OS, let the sysadmins smuggle it into the enterprise like they've been doing for years :)

GUI screenshots.
http://www.aci.com.pl/mwichary/guidebook/interface s

Englebart's famous 1968 demo.
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html

Acorn Archimedes GUI
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~lrtc/computers/acorn_ro/ acorn/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A225785

Knowledge Navigator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_navigator

Apple II GS
http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/computers/IIg s.html

BeBox
http://www.bebox.nu/history.php

8-1/2: The Plan 9 Window system
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/8%BD/8%BD.pdf

Genera
http://www.geocities.com/mparker762/toys.html

Video Interviews of Early Pioneers
http://www.invisiblerevolution.net/

GUI News
http://interfacelift.com/news/

ZUI's
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/piccolo/applications/in dex.shtml

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Here's a <a href="http://homepage.tinet.ie/~nightingale/graphi cs/mg42pix1.jpg">pic</a>.

Too many people get hit with these worms, have their systems fall completely, just to recover, update Windows and carry on as normal. Then, in another year or so, the next major worm comes out and they have to do it all over again.

There's too many people who use 'doze simply because it's "easy" and, probably mostly, "because everyone else is doing it..." I mean, if seeing these virus warnings on the news isn't enough to make people think "hmmm, when's the last *nix/Mac virus I heard about" and maybe actually look into it, I don't know what will work.

Maybe when Bill Gates finally grows the horns and starts talking in toungues, people will get the hint.

> Is my computer possessed?

yes.

This graph shows that in absolute terms, the US is fourth, behind Japan, France and Germany.

Of course, overseas aid is a complex thing, and absolute numbers don't begin to to tell the whole story (for example, private charitable giving in the US waaaay exceeds the official government amount; for another, the "tied" aid I mentioned in my original post).

But whatever figures you use, I think it's hard to make the case that the US is doing well in its overseas aid.

• System photos & screenshots
  
• Acorn Computers - A history
  
• Google Directory on Acorn
  
• The BBC Lives
  
• BBC info at the Cybervillage
  
• BBC Documentation project
  
• Beeb History @ Stairway To Hell
  

We came to the agreement that a market would exist for bands to emulate the stones, led zepp and others and be quite successful at it since current 'original' bands just don't cut it and fail to properly carry the legacy. Already existing examples we could thing of included The Back Doors and Bjorn Again both of whom are able to draw a crowd of 2,000 at almost any given moment.

So, how long will it be until officially sanctioned cover bands step in to replace the Stones once they get too old to tour, but are still a profitable commodity?

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This argument is not new in publishing circles. In fact, everyone from publishing industry executives to Spider Robinson (in a televised interview on the Space Channel) takes a crack at it every so often, and it goes like this:

Since Sturgeon's Law applies to all forms of content creation, publishers serve the valuable function of separating the wheat from the chaff and presenting us, the buying/reading public, with only the best of what's available.

Unfortunately, there are a few flaws with this argument. First of all, who decides what's the "best"? The guy who gave the go-ahead to publish The Bridges of Madison County? Literary critics? The New York Times Review of Books? Secondly, using sales numbers as the only arbiter of "good" or "bad" in an artistic venture is a really strange way of looking at art, one which sort of presupposes that that which is marketable is (de facto and de jure) automatically "good." (See argument one.) Thirdly, it's entirely possible for famous, well-respected, and talented content creators to have their entire careers axed by one failed venture. Don't believe me? Ask Norman Spinrad, author of Bug Jack Barron, and The Iron Dream among others. It happened to him, and it's happened (according to my own research) to many other authors (I'm afraid I can't really name names here, though).

See, the way the publishing biz operates, it works similarly to many areas in our society (like electoral politics, and the private sector, for two): If you've already got the "name" and you've got lots of money (or a couple of bestsellers in the hole), you're practically guaranteed to stay a success. If, on the other hand, you have to compete against the "brand names" and everybody else submitting their work 'over-the-transom', your chances of achieving even that first foot-in-the-door publication are very small. Your talent, or lack thereof, isn't usually much of a deciding factor.

So given all that, these guys making this Social Darwinism In Publishing argument really piss me off, because they're completely disconnected from publishing biz reality as we know it...either that, or they've got their lucrative contract, so they really genuinely believe that the stacked deck affords equality of opportunity. Therefore, obviously, the rather McLuhanesque (the retro-60's naivete Kling refers to?) levelling Creative Commons is a bad thing. Right.

Lets see...

That is angle of 1 degree

The rough distance between Norway and Remond is about 4590 miles.

In Trigonometry Tan A = Opposite/Adjacent or Tan A * Adjacent = Opposite

Tan 1deg * 4590 Miles = 80 Miles

So, Microsft is way off!

...but there's people out there who design languages for fun, you know. Take a look at the languages on the esoteric programming languages ring or maybe even subscribe to the mailing list, but only if it all interests you.

Is can it be made to interface with the guidance system on your Beer Scooter?

you're right of course. it's only confusing when you're talking about bytes, not any other SI measurement.

a few years ago, in an effort to bring "bytes" back to the SI norm, the units kibibyte, megibyte, and gigibyte where introduced. nobody seems terribly interested in following this standard, but for what it's worth:

1 Kilobyte (KB) = 1000 bytes
1 Megabyte (MB) = 1000 KB
1 Gigabyte (GB) = 1000 MB

1 kibibyte (KiB) = 1024 bytes
1 Megibyte (MiB) = 1024 KiB (1,048,576 bytes)
1 Gigibyte (GiB) = 1024 MiB (1,048,576 KiB)

there used to be a site on the 'net about all this, but the only references i could find in a quick google search was this page (at the bottom) and this message.

so needless to say, it's not commonly used :)

- j