It's only this year that it's not been spelled out
16th IOCCC Winners Released On February 4th, 2003 with 97 comments An anonymous submitter wrote: "A while ago the 16th IOCCC winners were announced. Apparently "releas[ing] the winning source by mid April 2002" actually means... Section: Developers > Programming
16th IOCCC Winners Announced On March 8th, 2002 with 147 comments chongo writes: "The winners of the 16th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) have been selected. The judges are in the process of notifying the... Section: Developers > Programming
IOCCC Accepting New, 'Improved' Entries On October 2nd, 2001 with 144 comments Rudolf writes: "The 16th International Obfuscated C Code Contest is open from now until 01 Dec 2001 23:59:59 UTC. Details are at the IOCCC web site. From the... Section: Developers > Programming
15th IOCCC Results Posted On January 26th, 2001 with 69 comments leob writes: "FWIW, the 15th International Obfuscated C Code Contest finally came to a conclusion. Read the main page, or, get one big tarball." The contest... Section: Main > Programming
Contests: Mind-Twisting Winners And Tiny Entrants On December 27th, 2000 with 34 comments leob writes: "The names of the winners of the 15th International Obfuscated C Code Contest along with the one-line descriptions of the winning entries have... Section: Main > Slashback
Death Of The Obfuscated C Code Contest? On October 10th, 2000 with 19 comments slashdot-me asks: "The International Obfuscated C Code Contest that we all know and love seems to be stalled. The judging phase of the contest began six... Section: Ask Slashdot > Programming
Obfuscated C Code Contest Begins On February 2nd, 2000 with 227 comments slashdot-me writes "The International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) has begun. See the rules at the IOCCC homepage. The contest runs from Feb. 1 to March... Section: Main > Programming
I remember seeing his name on the credits of a WW2 newsreel and couldn't believe it but there it was in black and white. The news attributed to "Joe King"
The BBC were really keen to get computers to the people. They made a magazine TV programme aimed at non-geeky people presented in a non-patronising way. They'd show you computers being used in the field, have a bit of a discussion and show you some source code and explained how it worked.
They also used the Teletext system to distribute free BASIC source code, even before they released their computer they were supplying source for the Acorn Electron. You needed a teletext adapter to get it into your machine. When I was 10 or 11 I used to sit there with a pencil and graph paper copying down the source from the screen. I hadn't even used a computer by then, let alone owned one. I had no idea what I was writing down at first but gradually I got some sort of idea of what was going on. It was made more difficult by the fact that in order to maximize the bandwidth the newlines were tokenized so one line ran into another like this (I'm using ! as newline):
10 INPUT "Hello, what is your name?",name!20 IF name "DrSkwid" THEN 50!30 PRINT "Agghhh Doctor I've been expecting you"!40 GOTO 60!50 PRINT "Daleks, kill ",name!60 PRINT "bye"
American dollars are the last thing we try and collect. Even mentioning the money is vulgar, as we'd expect from our American cousins, so getting a kick in the teeth seems rather appropriate.
This Castle bunch are not the Acorn people. My guess is that they are some fly-by-nights.
Acorn were original and innovative, I expect they will be as annoyed about this as the Linux kernel people.
In the early 80's, there were a lot of home computers. A Japanese company called ASCII corporation (directed by Kay Nishi) decided to create an industry standard for home computers: MSX was born. MSX means Machines with Software eXchangeability. This is the true and only meaning, stop spreading the word about another explanation please.
The new standard was based on an existing computer: The Spectravideo SV 318 which can be considered as a beta version of MSX1 computers. Microsoft designed then MSX1 computers and the first version of the OS: MSX DOS 1 (which looks like early versions of MS-DOS).
Almost every Japanese and Korean computer companies made their own MSX computers (except maybe NEC). Bill Gates was then very confident about the future of the MSX standard.
I agreee with your post but feel compelled to point out that there is no free market when it comes to food esp. in Europe.
Food has it's price subsidised under the Common Agricultural Policy in order to stablise the European food economies. Food is grown and destroyed or land is made "set-aside" [farmers get paid to *not* grow food!]
The price is fixed at source and the cost passed on to the consumer. This all sounds well and good to protect the little farmers that work hard for little return in order to fill our bellies, and that's the way it is pitched via the region Farmers Unions.
Truth is, most of our farmland is owned by big companies and as such they are milking us. We live in a place where the laws have been accumlated through a set of parliaments created by the landowners and most people don't even know it's happened.
We've only got what they've let us have to keep us docile.
i remember reading a few years ago that the still state owned telecommunications company were installing fibre to every door. Anybody got the lowdown on how it worked out?
i doubt that many vivisectors lay awake at night pondering the tenet of that argument. if the pharmacological coplex was really concerned then they would be investing in finding technologies that stopped vivisection. Instead they try and patent the genetic makeup for the perfect vivisection mouse.
Medicine for profit doesn't even take any notice of such issues. Reducing the levels of animal testing is simply not on the roadmap.
when billions of creatures are factory farmed and slaughtered to feed the meat addiction then why would anyone even care about the horrific treatment of a few mice?
if you think you're not addicted then think about what it would take you to stop? BSE? Heart disease? Antibiotic contamination? Water pollution transferred to fish? Crohn's disease from milk? (I've got that one, it's not much fun) Rainforest de-forestation? Water conservation? Global warming from cattle flatulence?
I'll get off my high horse now but like all the challenges we face a wider view is called for. Self preservation takes many forms.
user level file systems: Instead of having one protocol for interrogating the disks, one for the network etc. plan9 uses the 9p protocol. In this way the physical devices are abstracted and one can use a single set of tools to inspect them. It taes the concept of Everything is a file to it's logical conclusion. Want to know where the mouse is : cat/dev/mouse
Get slashdot homepage using the shell:
conn = `{cat/net/tcp/clone} # ( `{} is like bash's `` )
<[4] $conn { # keeps it open
echo 'connect slashdot.org!80' >/net/tcp/$conn/ctl
echo 'GET http://slashdot.org/ HTTP/1.0' >/net/tcp/$conn/data
cat/net/tcp/$conn/data }
I wrote an irc bot as an exercise in rc. It dangerously executes given commands and returns the results
There are also other great technologies. Incremental backups are built in. Acme is an interactive editor that does all sorts of interesting things.
The plumber - forget file associations. The plumber uses regular expressions and executes whatever commands you would like it to for a set of given strings. So if you see http://slashdot.org in ANY piece of on-screen text, right click and select plumb and it will open it. [hehe not it plan9's web browser - that is one area seriously lacking.
The really sad part is that Lucent's financial troubles means that people have been shed from Bell-Labs. No-one is being paid to maintain plan9 any more. The heroes remaining and some outside [Rob Pike, Russ Cox, Dave Pressotto, C H Forsyth, et. al.] are doing it in their own time. And doing a great job.
I could go on but I need to leave the house. [that always seems to be the case when plan9 gets mentioned here!]
when I met my currect GF I didn't kill her child like a male lion would have done when it finds a new mate.
If I was to kill her child and eat it I'm pretty sure most people would regard that as barbaric if not pure evil.
We, as humans, have devised a set of social contracts with regard to how we treat each other, these contracts are backed up by the threat of state violence culmination in execution.
Yet this is a relatively recent state of affairs. 200 years ago if you had any money you had to watch your back and inspect your food lest your relatives decided it was time to inherit.
Living at the expense of others is seen nowadays to be one of the biggest sins of all and yet we exploit our fellow creatures as though their lives mean nothing and their suffering less.
It's bad enough that we factory farm them for food. To me using them as organ factories is an unspeakable horror. One that will shame us the same way slavery shames casts shame upon our forefathers.
Non-white people were considered less than human. That we continue to use 'less than human' to define the right to live unmolested and without suffering pains me.
OMAHA, Nebraska - Nebraska scientists say they successfully grafted a pig's heart to a sheep by manipulating the immune systems of both animals, a step that may soon allow scientists to grow organs for human transplantation.
Personally I'd like to graft a baseball bat to the scientists' faces at high speed. I guess it would be rejected but I'm willing to take that chance
like people coughing in a theatre, once one person starts the others follow.
My hypothesis:
Falling asleep and/or coughing is a dangerous activity with predators around. So when one person coughs and gives the game away it would be prudent to get your coughing over and done with now rather than when it goes quiet again.
With yawning maybe it's a trigger to take an oxygen blast before it's necessary.
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It's only this year that it's not been spelled out
16th IOCCC Winners Released
On February 4th, 2003 with 97 comments
An anonymous submitter wrote: "A while ago the 16th IOCCC winners were announced. Apparently "releas[ing] the winning source by mid April 2002" actually means...
Section: Developers > Programming
16th IOCCC Winners Announced
On March 8th, 2002 with 147 comments
chongo writes: "The winners of the 16th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) have been selected. The judges are in the process of notifying the...
Section: Developers > Programming
IOCCC Accepting New, 'Improved' Entries
On October 2nd, 2001 with 144 comments
Rudolf writes: "The 16th International Obfuscated C Code Contest is open from now until 01 Dec 2001 23:59:59 UTC. Details are at the IOCCC web site. From the...
Section: Developers > Programming
15th IOCCC Results Posted
On January 26th, 2001 with 69 comments
leob writes: "FWIW, the 15th International Obfuscated C Code Contest finally came to a conclusion. Read the main page, or, get one big tarball." The contest...
Section: Main > Programming
Contests: Mind-Twisting Winners And Tiny Entrants
On December 27th, 2000 with 34 comments
leob writes: "The names of the winners of the 15th International Obfuscated C Code Contest along with the one-line descriptions of the winning entries have...
Section: Main > Slashback
Death Of The Obfuscated C Code Contest?
On October 10th, 2000 with 19 comments
slashdot-me asks: "The International Obfuscated C Code Contest that we all know and love seems to be stalled. The judging phase of the contest began six...
Section: Ask Slashdot > Programming
Obfuscated C Code Contest Begins
On February 2nd, 2000 with 227 comments
slashdot-me writes "The International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) has begun. See the rules at the IOCCC homepage. The contest runs from Feb. 1 to March...
Section: Main > Programming
GNU/Linux reads any filesystem anyway
That simply isn't true.
I remember seeing his name on the credits of a WW2 newsreel and couldn't believe it but there it was in black and white. The news attributed to "Joe King"
The BBC were really keen to get computers to the people. They made a magazine TV programme aimed at non-geeky people presented in a non-patronising way. They'd show you computers being used in the field, have a bit of a discussion and show you some source code and explained how it worked.
They also used the Teletext system to distribute free BASIC source code, even before they released their computer they were supplying source for the Acorn Electron. You needed a teletext adapter to get it into your machine. When I was 10 or 11 I used to sit there with a pencil and graph paper copying down the source from the screen. I hadn't even used a computer by then, let alone owned one. I had no idea what I was writing down at first but gradually I got some sort of idea of what was going on. It was made more difficult by the fact that in order to maximize the bandwidth the newlines were tokenized so one line ran into another like this (I'm using ! as newline):
10 INPUT "Hello, what is your name?",name!20 IF name "DrSkwid" THEN 50!30 PRINT "Agghhh Doctor I've been expecting you"!40 GOTO 60!50 PRINT "Daleks, kill ",name!60 PRINT "bye"
happy days
glad you made it to Berkeley
because we travel in miles
American dollars are the last thing we try and collect. Even mentioning the money is vulgar, as we'd expect from our American cousins, so getting a kick in the teeth seems rather appropriate.
This Castle bunch are not the Acorn people. My guess is that they are some fly-by-nights.
Acorn were original and innovative, I expect they will be as annoyed about this as the Linux kernel people.
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the rest of your post is just as naive
nice try though
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c =90
In the early 80's, there were a lot of home computers. A Japanese company called ASCII corporation (directed by Kay Nishi) decided to create an industry standard for home computers: MSX was born. MSX means Machines with Software eXchangeability. This is the true and only meaning, stop spreading the word about another explanation please.
The new standard was based on an existing computer: The Spectravideo SV 318 which can be considered as a beta version of MSX1 computers. Microsoft designed then MSX1 computers and the first version of the OS: MSX DOS 1 (which looks like early versions of MS-DOS).
Almost every Japanese and Korean computer companies made their own MSX computers (except maybe NEC). Bill Gates was then very confident about the future of the MSX standard.
unicode support is popular
all of plan9 text is unicode, even the c source
it is used in at least one Japanese university
Acorn Computers is the daddy of all UK computing. While the rest of the geeky kids were using Ti's the UK kids were hacking away on BBC Micros.
:
:
I still have mine here.
The ARM processor is one of the best CPUs in existence.
how ironic that on on this page
http://www.castle.uk.co/castle/rpcalt.htm
the fish in the picture is clearly too big for the inadequate bowl.
They might find that their GPL rip-off is equally dead in the water.
It's a sad day all round. Time to flush them down the toilet.
whoring
if anyone lives nearby maybe they could pop in on Monday and get the sourcecode
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I agreee with your post but feel compelled to point out that there is no free market when it comes to food esp. in Europe.
Food has it's price subsidised under the Common Agricultural Policy in order to stablise the European food economies. Food is grown and destroyed or land is made "set-aside" [farmers get paid to *not* grow food!]
The price is fixed at source and the cost passed on to the consumer. This all sounds well and good to protect the little farmers that work hard for little return in order to fill our bellies, and that's the way it is pitched via the region Farmers Unions.
Truth is, most of our farmland is owned by big companies and as such they are milking us. We live in a place where the laws have been accumlated through a set of parliaments created by the landowners and most people don't even know it's happened.
We've only got what they've let us have to keep us docile.
och aye
plan9 - plan IX
don't blame me, I didn't choose it.
The guys at the labs have a history of choosing names to annoy the marketing people.
i remember reading a few years ago that the still state owned telecommunications company were installing fibre to every door. Anybody got the lowdown on how it worked out?
i doubt that many vivisectors lay awake at night pondering the tenet of that argument. if the pharmacological coplex was really concerned then they would be investing in finding technologies that stopped vivisection. Instead they try and patent the genetic makeup for the perfect vivisection mouse.
Medicine for profit doesn't even take any notice of such issues. Reducing the levels of animal testing is simply not on the roadmap.
when billions of creatures are factory farmed and slaughtered to feed the meat addiction then why would anyone even care about the horrific treatment of a few mice?
if you think you're not addicted then think about what it would take you to stop? BSE? Heart disease? Antibiotic contamination? Water pollution transferred to fish? Crohn's disease from milk? (I've got that one, it's not much fun) Rainforest de-forestation? Water conservation? Global warming from cattle flatulence?
I'll get off my high horse now but like all the challenges we face a wider view is called for. Self preservation takes many forms.
now if RMS was using NT that would be news but not the guy that wrote C
not easy to summarise
: /dev/mouse
:
/net/tcp/clone} # ( `{} is like bash's `` )
/net/tcp/$conn/ctl /net/tcp/$conn/data /net/tcp/$conn/data
try reading the papers
user level file systems
Instead of having one protocol for interrogating the disks, one for the network etc. plan9 uses the 9p protocol. In this way the physical devices are abstracted and one can use a single set of tools to inspect them. It taes the concept of Everything is a file to it's logical conclusion.
Want to know where the mouse is : cat
Get slashdot homepage using the shell
conn = `{cat
<[4] $conn { # keeps it open
echo 'connect slashdot.org!80' >
echo 'GET http://slashdot.org/ HTTP/1.0' >
cat
}
I wrote an irc bot as an exercise in rc. It dangerously executes given commands and returns the results
There are also other great technologies.
Incremental backups are built in.
Acme is an interactive editor that does all sorts of interesting things.
The plumber - forget file associations. The plumber uses regular expressions and executes whatever commands you would like it to for a set of given strings. So if you see http://slashdot.org in ANY piece of on-screen text, right click and select plumb and it will open it. [hehe not it plan9's web browser - that is one area seriously lacking.
The really sad part is that Lucent's financial troubles means that people have been shed from Bell-Labs. No-one is being paid to maintain plan9 any more. The heroes remaining and some outside [Rob Pike, Russ Cox, Dave Pressotto, C H Forsyth, et. al.] are doing it in their own time. And doing a great job.
I could go on but I need to leave the house. [that always seems to be the case when plan9 gets mentioned here!]
esp. after noticing myself last night & this morning
when I met my currect GF I didn't kill her child like a male lion would have done when it finds a new mate.
If I was to kill her child and eat it I'm pretty sure most people would regard that as barbaric if not pure evil.
We, as humans, have devised a set of social contracts with regard to how we treat each other, these contracts are backed up by the threat of state violence culmination in execution.
Yet this is a relatively recent state of affairs. 200 years ago if you had any money you had to watch your back and inspect your food lest your relatives decided it was time to inherit.
Living at the expense of others is seen nowadays to be one of the biggest sins of all and yet we exploit our fellow creatures as though their lives mean nothing and their suffering less.
It's bad enough that we factory farm them for food. To me using them as organ factories is an unspeakable horror. One that will shame us the same way slavery shames casts shame upon our forefathers.
Non-white people were considered less than human. That we continue to use 'less than human' to define the right to live unmolested and without suffering pains me.
i've tested it in as many browsers as I can find and it's usable in all of them
;) ]
[not tried NS4 - it really doesn't count as a browser
http://TheBigChoice.com
crappy editing + hyperbole = news
OMAHA, Nebraska - Nebraska scientists say they successfully grafted a pig's heart to a sheep by manipulating the immune systems of both animals, a step that may soon allow scientists to grow organs for human transplantation.
Personally I'd like to graft a baseball bat to the scientists' faces at high speed. I guess it would be rejected but I'm willing to take that chance
you may have a constitution but I don't.
I have the legacy of a state that was created in order to protect landowners from the people.
when Proposition passes with a record 95% vote in favor.
... Democracy doesn't work!
When are people going to learn?
-- Homer J. Simpson, free-thinking anarchist, "Much Apu About Nothing"
Which is lazy writing on the one hand, but on the other I think that episode is particularly amusing.
The Prisoner was undoubtedly drug-induced as is the majority of any culture worth having.
like people coughing in a theatre, once one person starts the others follow.
:
My hypothesis
Falling asleep and/or coughing is a dangerous activity with predators around. So when one person coughs and gives the game away it would be prudent to get your coughing over and done with now rather than when it goes quiet again.
With yawning maybe it's a trigger to take an oxygen blast before it's necessary.
Will that do?