Didn't some people also complain that JavaScript can bugger things up by being "on" by default? Such as sites opening an endless stream of advertisement windows etc.
Anyway, the first time I get hold of a new app, whether for Mac, Win, or Linux, I generally have a poke through the options and settings. The more configuration options, the better.
I thought that Java would compile on either Windows or something else, what does it matter if they developed it under Linux; surely it will still compile and run under Windows as well ^_^
Personally though, students ought to be able to experiment using their home system after class. Java is supposed to support concepts like this.
Did you have something in mind, how about some lovely Black Sausage? Or a pork pie, perhaps? We also have _real_ fish and chips, not those poxy French fries; and don't give me that sh!t about mayonnaise, that's the Belgians. BTW, why *are* they called "French fries"?
If my history serves me correctly, the United States of America is exactly that: a confederation of independant states; each with it's own laws and local governing body.
There is not actually one single country named "America".
"America" is the name of the continent consisting of North America, Central America, South America and Canada. With a few other odds and ends around it, such as Canada, Cuba and the West Indies.
Now, I don't have anything against the American people, I thought Crazy Horse was pretty cool. But, those white guys get right up my @55.
From what I've read, MacOS X doesn't use X; but it's own display system. I can't remember if this is Display PostScript or something else.
How hard would it be to write an X server that ran inside this display system? Much like Xnest allows one to run a window manager inside a "mini-display".
The problem with Perl is that it lets me do things too quickly, meaning I have to spend the rest of my time reading gentlemen's literature with my feet up on the desk.
Heh!
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It's probably more to do with NeXT (is that right?), Apple etc coming up with stuff too early sometimes. I mean Apple made a PC GUI that was too expensive, and still is a bit (at least I can't afford one yet). The Newton was too early, and I've never had much success with this Mac voice recognition stuff yet. NeXT was science fiction at the time.
They always seem to foul up by trying to sell stuff that people don't realise they need yet.
I don't know whether Jobs is a visionary, or whether he just sees things ^_^
Quite a bit of stuff that Apple comes up with generally gets, er, copied by other companies. the last modem I bought for my PC was transparent blue, for some reason.
What Jobs needs to do is get his timing right. He needs to launch stuff, not years ahead of their time, but a few days. Or weeks at the most.
I thought the original intention of the embryionic Internet was as a means to defend US military computer networks against the threat of nuclear annihilation.
Has any one company's QA department ever tested their Internet servers against a direct nuclear strike?
I mean, hardening against crackers/hackers/buttspelunkers is one thing, but providing firewall protection against 32 MEGADETH's of atomic destruction is something else.
Can you get telephone helpdesk support for this kind of attack?
Hm, you mentioned that most of these polar molecules are either gaseous, or solid. On Earth maybe. What if you raise or lower the temperature or atmospheric pressure.
I mean, on Star Trek all they ever do is land on Class M planets that are perfect for human, and other, life. What about planets where the atmospheric pressure, or temperature, is high or low enough to maintain these other possible molecules in an ideal life-giving state?
It wouldn't be much fun trying to colonise one of these places though;-)
Until someone invents "Mr Spock's Tricorder", boffins will continue to have a hard time scanning for "life signs" that are outside of humanity's current field of experience.
Until such time as mankind actually makes contact with a form of life that functions along different principles to our own Earthling bodies, what do you look for?
I remember seeing something about the Japanese building a car with collision detection sensors in the front, preventing it from driving into obstacles and other assorted shit. The car's computer would basically bring the vehicle to a halt. I think it was on the BBC's Tomorrow's World, or maybe the Discovery channel.
What I would like would be a gadget to tell me how far I am from the car in front, and whether I'm going to back into a wall in a car park;-)
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Didn't some people also complain that JavaScript can bugger things up by being "on" by default? Such as sites opening an endless stream of advertisement windows etc.
Anyway, the first time I get hold of a new app, whether for Mac, Win, or Linux, I generally have a poke through the options and settings. The more configuration options, the better.
I was seven when Star Wars came out. It was cool then, it's cooler now; mostly because I can comprehend the storyline better as an adult.
Kenny Baker's got balls of steel. Two of them.
I think the best bit of Ep1 was when R2D2's chums were getting creamed on the stainless steel Royal Starship.
The shoeshine guy tells me the word on the street is that Billy Boy uses an Apple Powerbook.
I thought that Java would compile on either Windows or something else, what does it matter if they developed it under Linux; surely it will still compile and run under Windows as well ^_^
Personally though, students ought to be able to experiment using their home system after class. Java is supposed to support concepts like this.
Did you have something in mind, how about some lovely Black Sausage? Or a pork pie, perhaps? We also have _real_ fish and chips, not those poxy French fries; and don't give me that sh!t about mayonnaise, that's the Belgians. BTW, why *are* they called "French fries"?
Be wary, elst you may awaken my wrath :-[
I'm not from Holland, or the Netherlands either. I'm British (God Save the Queen!), and come the revolution will be wearing a big floppy hat.
Anyway, clogs are cool. Check out Jackie Chan's "Mr Nice Guy", for a bit of Clog Fu (copyright Jason Holland).
If my history serves me correctly, the United States of America is exactly that: a confederation of independant states; each with it's own laws and local governing body.
There is not actually one single country named "America".
"America" is the name of the continent consisting of North America, Central America, South America and Canada. With a few other odds and ends around it, such as Canada, Cuba and the West Indies.
Now, I don't have anything against the American people, I thought Crazy Horse was pretty cool. But, those white guys get right up my @55.
From what I've read, MacOS X doesn't use X; but it's own display system. I can't remember if this is Display PostScript or something else.
How hard would it be to write an X server that ran inside this display system? Much like Xnest allows one to run a window manager inside a "mini-display".
I'd buy any Mac if I could afford it. Macs in the UK still cost sh!tloads.
Then again, I'd buy a new PC box to replace my antique 486 if I could afford it...
Oh well.
The problem with Perl is that it lets me do things too quickly, meaning I have to spend the rest of my time reading gentlemen's literature with my feet up on the desk.
Heh!
It's probably more to do with NeXT (is that right?), Apple etc coming up with stuff too early sometimes. I mean Apple made a PC GUI that was too expensive, and still is a bit (at least I can't afford one yet). The Newton was too early, and I've never had much success with this Mac voice recognition stuff yet. NeXT was science fiction at the time.
They always seem to foul up by trying to sell stuff that people don't realise they need yet.
I don't know whether Jobs is a visionary, or whether he just sees things ^_^
Quite a bit of stuff that Apple comes up with generally gets, er, copied by other companies. the last modem I bought for my PC was transparent blue, for some reason.
What Jobs needs to do is get his timing right. He needs to launch stuff, not years ahead of their time, but a few days. Or weeks at the most.
It's all a matter of timing.
Isn't Epsilon Eridani where Mr Spock, and his Vulcan friends, live?
What about hooking it up to that thing that tracks the user's attention? Whatever you're looking at would get the "focus".
I thought the original intention of the embryionic Internet was as a means to defend US military computer networks against the threat of nuclear annihilation.
Has any one company's QA department ever tested their Internet servers against a direct nuclear strike?
I mean, hardening against crackers/hackers/buttspelunkers is one thing, but providing firewall protection against 32 MEGADETH's of atomic destruction is something else.
Can you get telephone helpdesk support for this kind of attack?
Heh!
Michelangelo thought much the same...
How about electric shocks for innatentive office workers?
heh!
Hm, you mentioned that most of these polar molecules are either gaseous, or solid. On Earth maybe. What if you raise or lower the temperature or atmospheric pressure.
;-)
I mean, on Star Trek all they ever do is land on Class M planets that are perfect for human, and other, life. What about planets where the atmospheric pressure, or temperature, is high or low enough to maintain these other possible molecules in an ideal life-giving state?
It wouldn't be much fun trying to colonise one of these places though
Until someone invents "Mr Spock's Tricorder", boffins will continue to have a hard time scanning for "life signs" that are outside of humanity's current field of experience.
Until such time as mankind actually makes contact with a form of life that functions along different principles to our own Earthling bodies, what do you look for?
Lodoss, The Cursed Isle, is on DVD. A boxset actually.
I don't have a dot-matrix anymore, is there an emulator I can use with a regular soundcard?
Duh! Heh!
How come Apple hasn't released QuickTime(tm) for Linux yet?
I remember seeing something about the Japanese building a car with collision detection sensors in the front, preventing it from driving into obstacles and other assorted shit. The car's computer would basically bring the vehicle to a halt. I think it was on the BBC's Tomorrow's World, or maybe the Discovery channel.
;-)
What I would like would be a gadget to tell me how far I am from the car in front, and whether I'm going to back into a wall in a car park
Judge Dredd had a gun like this, only his could fire six kinds of bullets. And all of them would kill you.
High Explosive! Badaamm!!!
Heh!
Wait a minute, I've read this somewhere before. Who are they copying?