OK, this is why the dissipation of waste computer electricity by bay mount gauss guns and laser defense systems that I suggested a few minutes ago is a bad idea . . .:)
One of the orwellian twists of the soviet "history" that they taught was that they claimed that they had made every breakthrough prior to the evil capitalist west. They invented prior dates and inventors.
Bizarrely, this included the claim that they invented the airplane first, even thought the ussr didn't come into being until more than a decade after Kittyhawk.
I read some of their propaganda pamphlets as a child--and even then, didn't buy the claims such as that their single candidate elections were more democratic than western multi-candidate elections (this was because France's runofff election system was designed solely to keep communists who had the most votes out of office [never mind that he only got 8% of the vote, as compared to over 90% of the vote going to anti-communist candidates . ..]).
Those without the benefit of a soviet russian education may not realize that the scientists of the soviet union invented *everything* prior to western scientists--bizarrely including the airplane, which the Wright brothers stole several years before the creation of the ussr ... .
>Marginally less clueless folks might think it was Xerox, or IBM or whoever.
The Lisa GUI predates the PARC visit, though its direction was certainly influenced by that.
PARC in turn was predated by Raskin's master's thesis, which in turn influenced PARC--while Raskin was at Apple working on a lower end Lisa-like machine . . .
It wasn't about the characters (I don't give a rat's *** about the character development of that stupid robot!). The characters were used to tell the stories. *all* of the knock-offs (err, spinooffs) missed this, which is why they just didn't hold up.
Yes, Kirk ran around the galaxy with no adult supervision.
Yes, we liked him.
And, yes, he had no "character growth." He was a prop.
Star Trek was about the stories, not the characters, who where there to make the stories work.
I pulled a 20gb from a machine this morning, leaving a 120 and a 160. As long as I want compression to be rebersible, it's not quite up to the task . . .
more seriously, by the time hard drives reach the age we're discussing, they tend to be at or near failure (as was the 20gb; it gave no warning until I let windows near it . ..)
I ran into a limit with 32 bits more than 10 years ago.
My Fortran compiler was Cray derived (Lahey, iirc), and I had dynamically allocated a huge array. They were in some way bit-addressed, leading to a crash.
I turns out that my adviser's machine had more memory (512Mb) than any of their own test machines.
The workaround at the time was static allocation, which made the code faster, anyway.
Can you imagine if Hamlet never came to an end (ok, if you've ever sat through a bad student production, it might have felt like that) but instead ran on for 17 plays, with 8-12 comprising the little-loved Finland arc, play 4 introducing a new love interest who got written out in play 9 and then the whole thing stopped abruptly after play 17 because the Globe burned down?
Yet another sign of the decline of today's educational system.
Clearly ou are not familiar with Shakespeare's little known swan song, "Tempest II: This Time We Mean It."
It is very rarely performed, possibly because the play doesn't work without the finale in which the theater burns, and the characters rescue most, but not all, of the audience.
For that matter, it is rarely covered (or even its existence admitted!) in most college courses on Shakespeare, due to administrator's prissy ideas about classrooms catch fire, and the danger to the rest of the building.
For that matter . . . uh, oh, I may have mentioned too much. *OW*
hawk, running from his burning keyboard with blistered fingers
Slashdot Mirror
All that seems to be on the other side is "Toshiba" in inch tall letters . . .
OK, this is why the dissipation of waste computer electricity by bay mount gauss guns and laser defense systems that I suggested a few minutes ago is a bad idea . . . :)
hawk
>There was actually a /. article about this about a year ago.
I don't believe you.
Now, three /. articles on it within a week, two of which were the same, I'd believe . . . :)
hawk
*sniff*
Obviously, *your* computer doesn't have bay-mounted gauss guns . . . or even a serious laser defense system!
amateurs . . .
hawk
In Nevada, ours print a hard copy that you can read, but stays with the machine.
hawk
Jaiku Open Source
The poets now unemployed
What? Oh, never mind.
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>This guy has the foresight to spend a little extra money
>to buy a computer hewon't have to replace for five,
>maybe even six years!
Oh, he bought a Mac.
Why didn't they just say so? :)
hawk
Something about those who forget history. . . .
One of the orwellian twists of the soviet "history" that they taught was that they claimed that they had made every breakthrough prior to the evil capitalist west. They invented prior dates and inventors.
Bizarrely, this included the claim that they invented the airplane first, even thought the ussr didn't come into being until more than a decade after Kittyhawk.
I read some of their propaganda pamphlets as a child--and even then, didn't buy the claims such as that their single candidate elections were more democratic than western multi-candidate elections (this was because France's runofff election system was designed solely to keep communists who had the most votes out of office [never mind that he only got 8% of the vote, as compared to over 90% of the vote going to anti-communist candidates . . .]).
hawk
Gosh, the Apple /// needed to be "jumped" at times to reseat its memory ("drop it from 2 inches above the table" *was* the official fix).
I didn't realize that later Apple products could self-jump . . . now that's "think different" :)
hawk
If you insist on using mosaic, firefox, etc. instead of lynx, these things will continue to happen.
I've *never8 had such a problem with lynx or www . . .
hawk, unsure of what new-fangled stuff like links would do under the circumstancess
"A sufficiently capable programmer can write bad FORTRAN in any language" . . .
hawk
I've independently come up with several things that had already been found.
When I first forayed into economics, I responded to something a professor said with what seemed a perfectly obvious question.
The response was that my idea was excellent--but that a Nobel prize had already been awarded for that.
I can't believe that this was a rare and isolated incident.
hawk
At risk of invoking a slashdot stereotype . . .
Those without the benefit of a soviet russian education may not realize that the scientists of the soviet union invented *everything* prior to western scientists--bizarrely including the airplane, which the Wright brothers stole several years before the creation of the ussr . .. .
hawk
>Marginally less clueless folks might think it was Xerox, or IBM or whoever.
The Lisa GUI predates the PARC visit, though its direction was certainly influenced by that.
PARC in turn was predated by Raskin's master's thesis, which in turn influenced PARC--while Raskin was at Apple working on a lower end Lisa-like machine . . .
hawk
No. Never!
Star Trek *needed* the bad acting.
It wasn't about the characters (I don't give a rat's *** about the character development of that stupid robot!). The characters were used to tell the stories. *all* of the knock-offs (err, spinooffs) missed this, which is why they just didn't hold up.
Yes, Kirk ran around the galaxy with no adult supervision.
Yes, we liked him.
And, yes, he had no "character growth." He was a prop.
Star Trek was about the stories, not the characters, who where there to make the stories work.
hawk
damn commie metric paper!
hawk
gosh, we had to settle for disassembling speakers when I was growing up . . .
anyway, several years ago a friend shipped her old system to my daughters; I paid the shipping.
She had been a chain smoker. I made a daughter help me clean it.
She will *never* smoke after seeing that . . .
(nah, we never got much use out of the system, but it was money well spent!)
hawk
I pulled a 20gb from a machine this morning, leaving a 120 and a 160. As long as I want compression to be rebersible, it's not quite up to the task . . .
more seriously, by the time hard drives reach the age we're discussing, they tend to be at or near failure (as was the 20gb; it gave no warning until I let windows near it . . .)
hawk
That could be a hard choice . . .
hmm . . . pay $8 for newcastle, or $4 to not have to drink budweiser . . .
heck, I'd pay at least $5 to avoid drinking bud . . . :)
hawk
>Most hickups when running exchange is because of crappy software, not faulty hardware.
Well, yeah. Exchange is a piece of microsoft software. So what's your point? :)
hawk
>Guaranteed to take up 90% of cycles and 75% of RAM, regardless of mainframe resources.
And they said that EMACS was dead . . . :)
>Finally, such an approach means that the base layers can be the
>same whether the top layer is x86, ARM, PPC, Sparc or a walrus.
So much for running linux on it!
BIOS ERROR.
NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND.
THE WALRUS HAS EATEN THE PENGUIN.
hawk
I ran into a limit with 32 bits more than 10 years ago.
My Fortran compiler was Cray derived (Lahey, iirc), and I had dynamically allocated a huge array. They were in some way bit-addressed, leading to a crash.
I turns out that my adviser's machine had more memory (512Mb) than any of their own test machines.
The workaround at the time was static allocation, which made the code faster, anyway.
hawk
*shrug*
What's the problem?
You've already got a taser-armed killer rodent on the premises . . .
hawk
Can you imagine if Hamlet never came to an end (ok, if you've ever sat through a bad student production, it might have felt like that) but instead ran on for 17 plays, with 8-12 comprising the little-loved Finland arc, play 4 introducing a new love interest who got written out in play 9 and then the whole thing stopped abruptly after play 17 because the Globe burned down?
Yet another sign of the decline of today's educational system.
Clearly ou are not familiar with Shakespeare's little known swan song, "Tempest II: This Time We Mean It."
It is very rarely performed, possibly because the play doesn't work without the finale in which the theater burns, and the characters rescue most, but not all, of the audience.
For that matter, it is rarely covered (or even its existence admitted!) in most college courses on Shakespeare, due to administrator's prissy ideas about classrooms catch fire, and the danger to the rest of the building.
For that matter . . . uh, oh, I may have mentioned too much. *OW*
hawk, running from his burning keyboard with blistered fingers