It's no more different from it than the "DVD Anywhere" is from the box they originally sold for remoting TV signals from those cute little consumer sattelite dishes.
We bought one here and the biggest disappointment is that the "remote repeater" function apparently only works if the box you want to remote-control has a hardwire input for remote signals; apparently most satellite TV rigs have this. My VCR sure doesn't.
Does anybody know whether if you hook up an IR transmitter to the wire it will then repeat the IR signal and thus work with ordinary VCR/LaserDisk devices?
It runs portably across more environments than anything else I can think of. And you "write a lot to do a little" only for very small values of "little". Like "Hello, world", ferinstance.:-)
Now I'm bowing out of this; it's turning into a language holy war.
I compare Greek to Java because both were/are widely understood, and thus are important media for moving ideas across linguistic boundaries. And while I don't speak Greek, I do speak Java, and don't see why Greek's being a good language has any bearing on why it shouldn't be compared to Java.
In it's heyday, if you wanted access to the largest corpus of human knowledge, you learned to read Greek. Today Java builds semantic bridges across wide gaps in computing semiotics. It is both portable and expressive...and thus impactful.
Information technology have always had this power; the power to deify. Greek--the Java bytecode of its day--deified Jesus of Nazareth. Gutenberg's press was the Xerox/fax machine of the Reformation, and pried loose control of "*The* Book" from the monopoly power of the Vatican's guild of scribes. When "*The* Book was ported out of it's proprietary Latin, it became open-source, in a way...and the leverage tool for generations of the power-hungry.
Yes, when I submitted this item at lunchtime today, I remarked that I couldn't understand how so much coverage had been written without mentioning Edison Carter's rig from "Max Headroom".
Now it's found it way into/., and it still takes a comment from _sprocket_ to point the similarity out.
Are we just the only ones old enough to remeber this show?
I took and passed the ICCP CCP programming certification test many years ago, back before Billy Gates had anything to sell besides a BASIC interpreter. I thought it did an excellent job of being vendor-independent then, and I would hope that the same is true today. I'm grandmothered into the cert today, so I'm entitled to hang CCP on my name without periodic recertification.
But I have to admit I neverer found an employer (or truthfully anybody else) who really gave a squat about the certificate, or, at my experience level (>30 years), a college degree.
Vendor-based certifications like the CNE and MCSE are just a way to bind someone to a vendor's products; after all the time and effort required to obtain and maintain such a credential, a certain unearned product loyalty emerges. Kind of like the folks who joined the WordPerfect cult back in the DOS days of PCs, or the Morse Code cult in ham radio; once you go though hell to get on the inside you develop a vested interest in it and a distorted notion of its usefulness and importance.
Especially given that the famous "Turing Test" was framed in his original paper in Mind as a gender test rather than an intelligence test, I suspect there's a fair possibility he was transsexual, as opposed to "just gay". Ironically he was sentenced to being treated with estrogen for his "crime" of being homosexual, and eventually comitted suicide.
It happened to me too...twice. After I concluded it might have been a conflict with the Jot app, I loaded it up into the Palm III Emulator on my NT machine. It looped around an alert box calling out a "bus error". Maggie's assessment: toxic to Palm IIIs. In Perlin's defense, he does say he's had reports of this. I do with I'd read that comment before installing. Mea culpa.
I simply haven't finished them yet. (Ever hear of the Halting Problem? *grin*)
I've always found that the best books force you to read them in small doses, then you have to put them down for a while to digest their implications. All the books I mentioned before are like that for me. Sometimes the implications are emotional rather than intellectual, suce as in the case of the Ethical Slut.
I actually did finish GEB, years ago. It's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies and Le Ton Beau De Marot that i can't finish. I haven't finished Minsky's Society of Mind or Pinker's How The Mind Works either.
The depth found in such writing cannot exceeed the depth of the mind it splashes down in. It's funny how short a distance one can travel in cognitive psycology before metaphysics rears it's ugly head.
Thanks for pointing this one out to us....and the flames found in response are worthy of study in themselves.
Someone has wandered in from telephony land perhaps, the only place I've heard it called that.
Reminds me of Brit/Yank confusion that set in once for a tech who worked for me years ago. She was trying to deal (over the telephone) with a problem with a printer attached to our corporate mainframe network (where the native code was EBCDIC) in the UK. The problem as described was that "the pound sign wasn't printing correctly". In the process of sorting out if it was the currency symbol (pounds, in the UK, of course) or the octothorpe that was the vicim, she unfortunatly asked if the glpyh in question looked like a "tic-tac-toe board". Took a few moments of confusion to elicit "Oh, you mean 'noughts and crosses'!"
Besides...isn't a "r-ow!-ter" one of the power tools Norm uses on "New Yankee Workshop"?
Hayes was around a *long* time...
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I still have a data sheet for the Hayes DC-103 internal smart modem. It was a S-100 format card intended to be installed in an 8-bit microcomputer, a la Altair and IMSAI. It ran the standard 110 baud (not Kbps) modulation of the time, and the spiffy new 300 baud modulation as well. And it used the AT command set. Anyone who's ever seen the insane lash ups used to get computer control over switched-line MODEMs at the time knows what a "scathingly brilliant" idea the AT command set was. I note their passing with sadness.
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We bought one here and the biggest disappointment is that the "remote repeater" function apparently only works if the box you want to remote-control has a hardwire input for remote signals; apparently most satellite TV rigs have this. My VCR sure doesn't.
Does anybody know whether if you hook up an IR transmitter to the wire it will then repeat the IR signal and thus work with ordinary VCR/LaserDisk devices?
Now I'm bowing out of this; it's turning into a language holy war.
In it's heyday, if you wanted access to the largest corpus of human knowledge, you learned to read Greek. Today Java builds semantic bridges across wide gaps in computing semiotics. It is both portable and expressive...and thus impactful.
Now it's found it way into /., and it still takes a comment from _sprocket_ to point the similarity out.
Are we just the only ones old enough to remeber this show?
But I have to admit I neverer found an employer (or truthfully anybody else) who really gave a squat about the certificate, or, at my experience level (>30 years), a college degree.
Vendor-based certifications like the CNE and MCSE are just a way to bind someone to a vendor's products; after all the time and effort required to obtain and maintain such a credential, a certain unearned product loyalty emerges. Kind of like the folks who joined the WordPerfect cult back in the DOS days of PCs, or the Morse Code cult in ham radio; once you go though hell to get on the inside you develop a vested interest in it and a distorted notion of its usefulness and importance.
Of course, Cap'n Grace has a guided missile crusier named after her.
Especially given that the famous "Turing Test" was framed in his original paper in Mind as a gender test rather than an intelligence test, I suspect there's a fair possibility he was transsexual, as opposed to "just gay". Ironically he was sentenced to being treated with estrogen for his "crime" of being homosexual, and eventually comitted suicide.
It happened to me too...twice. After I concluded it might have been a conflict with the Jot app, I loaded it up into the Palm III Emulator on my NT machine. It looped around an alert box calling out a "bus error". Maggie's assessment: toxic to Palm IIIs. In Perlin's defense, he does say he's had reports of this. I do with I'd read that comment before installing. Mea culpa.
I've always found that the best books force you to read them in small doses, then you have to put them down for a while to digest their implications. All the books I mentioned before are like that for me. Sometimes the implications are emotional rather than intellectual, suce as in the case of the Ethical Slut.
I actually did finish GEB, years ago. It's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies and Le Ton Beau De Marot that i can't finish. I haven't finished Minsky's Society of Mind or Pinker's How The Mind Works either.
Thanks for pointing this one out to us....and the flames found in response are worthy of study in themselves.
Reminds me of Brit/Yank confusion that set in once for a tech who worked for me years ago. She was trying to deal (over the telephone) with a problem with a printer attached to our corporate mainframe network (where the native code was EBCDIC) in the UK. The problem as described was that "the pound sign wasn't printing correctly". In the process of sorting out if it was the currency symbol (pounds, in the UK, of course) or the octothorpe that was the vicim, she unfortunatly asked if the glpyh in question looked like a "tic-tac-toe board". Took a few moments of confusion to elicit "Oh, you mean 'noughts and crosses'!"
Besides...isn't a "r-ow!-ter" one of the power tools Norm uses on "New Yankee Workshop"?
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I still have a data sheet for the Hayes DC-103 internal smart modem. It was a S-100 format card intended to be installed in an 8-bit microcomputer, a la Altair and IMSAI. It ran the standard 110 baud (not Kbps) modulation of the time, and the spiffy new 300 baud modulation as well. And it used the AT command set. Anyone who's ever seen the insane lash ups used to get computer control over switched-line MODEMs at the time knows what a "scathingly brilliant" idea the AT command set was. I note their passing with sadness.