This computer has a lot of fond memories for me. Having grown up very poor, we couldn't afford something like this. My uncle gave us his old one so my mother could do word processing from home. I used it to play games all the time until the floppy drive died. After that, the only thing I could do on it was load up the BASIC cartridge. If I wanted to do anything on the computer, I'd have to program it first, and the moment the computer turned off lose it forever. I would get the computer magazines that had BASIC code all ready to enter in, just so I could play a game. Of course, the code always contained errors, so I learned how to code by fixing them. I was 10 at the time.
Now, I'm in my mid thirties, and shockingly a programmer. I didn't go to college, and barely graduated high school. To this day, I thank that computer for all the success I achieved in life. I'm wholly unemployable otherwise. People say that computer was a dud, but I'll always remember it fondly.
Besides, how cool is it that a computer in the 80s had a wireless (albeit IR) keyboard?
Hypothetical: You are an activist, and the government wants to silence you. They create an investigation into anything, and the investigators demand the password to an account you haven't used in years. You tell them you don't remember the password, and that becomes enough to convict you.
Taken to the extreme, anyone can be put into prison for any reason, we all have something we don't remember and refusal to disclose would be a criminal offence. Do you remember every password to every account you had? Even if there are other avenues to get the information (your example, they could brute force hack, albeit at great expense), simply not providing the evidence is enough to convict someone.
Clearly, you are not nor ever have been a civil libertarian, or you think civil libertarianism is about legalizing pot. It is about the rights of an individual being absolute up until the point that it affects the rights of others.
In order to handle the multi-racial children, they will weigh out the percentage of each race to determine your personalized passing grade. Better get a pure asian to do the math.
Our cellular service deserves a damning indictment. I keep a SIM card for when I travel to Sweden, and all I have to do is drop $15 and I get plenty of credit for making phone calls, texts, and even get unlimited internet. They have a maximum charge of something like $1 a day for internet and after that it is free. All of this with no contract, so the SIM stays dormant in my wallet until my next trip. Competition doesn't always provide the best service.
Agreed. After a perusal of their site, I wouldn't be an early adopter of this. They specifically tell you in their demonstration video not to try it at home, so it sounds like a modern version of the Emperor's new clothes.
At least a decade ago you didn't have it, and I doubt it has changed. All you need is to change your caller id to that of the phone (easy to do), then the voicemail system doesn't ask for your password. It is why you can always check your voicemail from your own phone without entering the password.
...Until you get pulled over on your way back from buying a new HDTV, and you can't pull out your license.
"Sorry officer, my wallet won't let me comply with your orders" will not be a valid excuse.
I agree, I'd be one of those volunteers. I have minimal emotional connection to Earth, and would relish the adventurous opportunities that would await. I would never be accepted though, since I would also demand a painless suicide pill to be used at my own discretion if things turned out poorly. And no, stepping outside to the horrible death that would await from the martian atmosphere is not acceptable.
I would have been happy if it used ethernet over power. The GuruPlug has WiFi built is, but it is only given an aside mention in the last page of the article. A shame too, because at the same price it has much better hardware.
They really are full fledged computers, with big possibilities. I have spent the last couple of days in the planning stage of a home automation / personal assistant project, and plan to use several guruplug computers to pull it off. Connect a mic and webcam to it, and I should be able to pull off voice and facial recognition in a system that can always be on. I'm glad the guruplug was eventually mentioned, it is the same price as the sheevaplug, but has 2 USB ports instead of 1, an eSATA port, and wifi builtin. The SheevaPlug is grossly underpowered in comparison, but it was the first.
I would like to take a moment, and point out the moderation category of funny... It was a joke.
And believe me, I have seen plenty of bad code written in c#, I know. I once found an 80 line function which took a decimal, converted it to a string, chopped off part of the string, then converted it back to an decimal. I replaced the entire function with math.Floor()
A big kudos to our system administrator, a good friend, who set me up with a special firewall rule to bypass our corporate filter, and thus I have access to non-work related sites such as/.
Not to give an alarmist answer, but a doctor visit can be prudent. I had a similar problem years ago, where I for the life of me could not write code. It was bad enough that I got out of programming for a period of time. After a couple of years, I was diagnosed with a medical condition that was more than likely the cause. Obviously, your case can be different, but coding requires a lot of mental fortitude, and it doesn't take much to turn a good programmer useless.
I had an old ASP developer position for a tiny company, and I was in the server room with temperatures in the low 60s programming all day.
It actually ended up working out well for me though, because I like the cold
If you want to save bandwidth charges, there are much better ways to do it which will drop bandwidth by a lot more than the length of a URL. Move to AJAX calls, replacing only the parts of the DOM which need to be updated, instead of refreshing the entire page.
I more than suspect Verizon isn't involved. They have fought the RIAA every step of the way, and are even helping develop the next gen P2P (P4P) technology. I have been with them for years, and when I moved actually made it a requirement that the place I moved had to get FiOS
I would say this is pretty reasonable. If they'll do the data loss for free, that seems a fair cop. Problems happen, Seagate isn't quite down to maxtor quality just yet
I can't seem to find any actual info on uTP, so I pose my question to my fellow peers. Technically, how would they overcome to limitations of UDP to end up with a valid file. packet order and verification would be lost right?
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This computer has a lot of fond memories for me. Having grown up very poor, we couldn't afford something like this. My uncle gave us his old one so my mother could do word processing from home. I used it to play games all the time until the floppy drive died. After that, the only thing I could do on it was load up the BASIC cartridge. If I wanted to do anything on the computer, I'd have to program it first, and the moment the computer turned off lose it forever. I would get the computer magazines that had BASIC code all ready to enter in, just so I could play a game. Of course, the code always contained errors, so I learned how to code by fixing them. I was 10 at the time.
Now, I'm in my mid thirties, and shockingly a programmer. I didn't go to college, and barely graduated high school. To this day, I thank that computer for all the success I achieved in life. I'm wholly unemployable otherwise. People say that computer was a dud, but I'll always remember it fondly.
Besides, how cool is it that a computer in the 80s had a wireless (albeit IR) keyboard?
Hypothetical: You are an activist, and the government wants to silence you. They create an investigation into anything, and the investigators demand the password to an account you haven't used in years. You tell them you don't remember the password, and that becomes enough to convict you.
Taken to the extreme, anyone can be put into prison for any reason, we all have something we don't remember and refusal to disclose would be a criminal offence. Do you remember every password to every account you had? Even if there are other avenues to get the information (your example, they could brute force hack, albeit at great expense), simply not providing the evidence is enough to convict someone.
Clearly, you are not nor ever have been a civil libertarian, or you think civil libertarianism is about legalizing pot. It is about the rights of an individual being absolute up until the point that it affects the rights of others.
If you have trouble figuring out what is ironic and what isn't: This is ironic.
In order to handle the multi-racial children, they will weigh out the percentage of each race to determine your personalized passing grade. Better get a pure asian to do the math.
I could not support a candidate who believes that DPS stands for "deaths per second". Obviously she does live in her own little word.
Our cellular service deserves a damning indictment. I keep a SIM card for when I travel to Sweden, and all I have to do is drop $15 and I get plenty of credit for making phone calls, texts, and even get unlimited internet. They have a maximum charge of something like $1 a day for internet and after that it is free. All of this with no contract, so the SIM stays dormant in my wallet until my next trip. Competition doesn't always provide the best service.
Agreed. After a perusal of their site, I wouldn't be an early adopter of this. They specifically tell you in their demonstration video not to try it at home, so it sounds like a modern version of the Emperor's new clothes.
Afterwards, you will forever be marked in the suicidal demographic, and you'll start seeing ads for anti-depressants and Dido mp3s
At least a decade ago you didn't have it, and I doubt it has changed. All you need is to change your caller id to that of the phone (easy to do), then the voicemail system doesn't ask for your password. It is why you can always check your voicemail from your own phone without entering the password.
...Until you get pulled over on your way back from buying a new HDTV, and you can't pull out your license. "Sorry officer, my wallet won't let me comply with your orders" will not be a valid excuse.
Scientists have captured antimatter before. I recall an interview with a physicist (I believe Colbert Report) who mentioned they had antimatter captured before. Doing a quick Google search, I found references to captured antimatter going back to 2002: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1957-antimatter-atoms-captured-for-the-first-time.html
I agree, I'd be one of those volunteers. I have minimal emotional connection to Earth, and would relish the adventurous opportunities that would await. I would never be accepted though, since I would also demand a painless suicide pill to be used at my own discretion if things turned out poorly. And no, stepping outside to the horrible death that would await from the martian atmosphere is not acceptable.
I would have been happy if it used ethernet over power. The GuruPlug has WiFi built is, but it is only given an aside mention in the last page of the article. A shame too, because at the same price it has much better hardware.
They really are full fledged computers, with big possibilities. I have spent the last couple of days in the planning stage of a home automation / personal assistant project, and plan to use several guruplug computers to pull it off. Connect a mic and webcam to it, and I should be able to pull off voice and facial recognition in a system that can always be on. I'm glad the guruplug was eventually mentioned, it is the same price as the sheevaplug, but has 2 USB ports instead of 1, an eSATA port, and wifi builtin. The SheevaPlug is grossly underpowered in comparison, but it was the first.
I would like to take a moment, and point out the moderation category of funny... It was a joke. And believe me, I have seen plenty of bad code written in c#, I know. I once found an 80 line function which took a decimal, converted it to a string, chopped off part of the string, then converted it back to an decimal. I replaced the entire function with math.Floor()
I hardly think we should include all the high school students using VB.NET in the count.
God, I hope rule 34 can be broken
Increase the length of the school year, but completely eliminate homework. Let kids have their evenings, and they'll be more rested for the next day.
A big kudos to our system administrator, a good friend, who set me up with a special firewall rule to bypass our corporate filter, and thus I have access to non-work related sites such as /.
Not to give an alarmist answer, but a doctor visit can be prudent. I had a similar problem years ago, where I for the life of me could not write code. It was bad enough that I got out of programming for a period of time. After a couple of years, I was diagnosed with a medical condition that was more than likely the cause. Obviously, your case can be different, but coding requires a lot of mental fortitude, and it doesn't take much to turn a good programmer useless.
I had an old ASP developer position for a tiny company, and I was in the server room with temperatures in the low 60s programming all day. It actually ended up working out well for me though, because I like the cold
If you want to save bandwidth charges, there are much better ways to do it which will drop bandwidth by a lot more than the length of a URL. Move to AJAX calls, replacing only the parts of the DOM which need to be updated, instead of refreshing the entire page.
I more than suspect Verizon isn't involved. They have fought the RIAA every step of the way, and are even helping develop the next gen P2P (P4P) technology. I have been with them for years, and when I moved actually made it a requirement that the place I moved had to get FiOS
I would say this is pretty reasonable. If they'll do the data loss for free, that seems a fair cop. Problems happen, Seagate isn't quite down to maxtor quality just yet
I can't seem to find any actual info on uTP, so I pose my question to my fellow peers. Technically, how would they overcome to limitations of UDP to end up with a valid file. packet order and verification would be lost right?