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Slashback: Embed, Dougal, FireWire
Reality is just an illustrator's concept. In regards to the speculative piece about what animals will look like in the future, Ken Colangelo writes: "The author of After Man was Dougal Dixon, not Dougal Adams. He's got a pretty long track record as an amazing bio-illustrator.
He had, at one point, spoken of a book he was working on called "Man After Man" I believe. This would discuss what man would evolve into. In any case, I am probably his biggest (only?) fan and would appreciate it if you'd tell slashdot to correct his name ... This guy clearly needs to be working in speculative evolution again, now that computer graphics have caught up to his abilities. Animal Planet just doesn't seem to be that great at it."
A bit more on that secret FireWire, since it's no longer secret. cwill1004 writes "As was speculated yesterday, it turns out that Apple is indeed including a new higher-speed FireWire on its new laptops. Dubbed IEEE1394b, it appears to be primarily for external storage devices. One article on the Storage Supersite says that LaCie, Maxtor, SmartDisk, and Indigita have already hopped on board. The best part: IEEE1394b is backwards compatible, and available on both Mac and PC."
Perl undoes simplicity itself.
ljb writes " I've re-written Tom Murphy's
'embed' bit-flipping program
in Perl. At 76 characters (shorter than a standard
80-character width terminal line),
I believe this qualifies as a Perl "one-liner". Heck, you could even fit this on an old IBM punchcard
(ignoring character set limitations). Here's the Perl script --
$/=\4;map{?OS/2?|$f&&$f++==2?$c-=2+vec($_,0,32)/4: ++$c||s/../\0\0/s;print}<>"
So get distributed crackin' ... scubacuda writes "On. Off. Now it's on again? According to PC World (et al), The Neo Project again tackles the challenge of cracking Microsoft's encryption key."
ljb and his Perl code from hell...
2 )/4: ++$c||s/../\0\0/s;print}"
Here's the Perl script --
$/=\4;map{?OS/2?|$f&&$f++==2?$c-=2+vec($_,0,3
we can all sleep better knowing that bits can flip in 76 characters... I hope this was a school assignment!
I guess some people find pleasure in this.. Personally I prefer women.
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Perhaps ljb is running his bit-flipping script on The Neo Project....
On, Off, On, Off.....
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While I think most distributed computing projects are pretty cool, this xBox thing seems like a waste of time.
Microsoft will have gone open source by the time they break that key...
I'm not going to buy a new car until I can find one with a top speed that is an order of magnitude higher than my current car. I don't want to hear any whining about the difficulty of designing cars that are aerodynamically stable at Mach 1.2.
Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
My first guess actually was a new slashdot editor practicing to post duplicate stories
There are fewer illiterates than people who can't read.
I am a COMPUTER GOD!
It is an order of magnitude. Observe:
New Speed = Old Speed x 10
If you think a doubling of speed isn't impressive, then you've been jaded too long.
"Software is too expensive to build cheaply"
Just pipe your data through a NOT gate, it really is that simple.
Tom7's haiku still takes the cake with regards to brevity:
The OS/2 chunk
has a bit for embedding.
Set it to zero.
52, by my count, counting spaces--beat that!
Dude, your car goes 206 MPH? That's one hell of a speeding ticket...
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"If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States and our allies, he's sorely mistaken." Bush on bin Laden
My Gilette runs at Mach 3 and it sure as hell makes my ass aerodynamically stable.