Years ago I read a book about an engineer that was sent back in time. He took it upon himself to bootstrap 12th century Poland's technology in order to fight off the Mongols. Many things he does in his book are glazed over and lack a lot of detail I'd like to have seen, but it made me appreciate "low tech tech" for lack of a better term. Too many modern books on subjects assume an industrial base and that certain items can be purchased so they skip over the original processes used to make things. The foxfire books are a good source, but I would have like something a lot more focused on the how to part and less on the wise tails.
i understand your arguement and at one time i used to agree.
but in hindsight, as projects like Wine or Reactos have evolved and improved, MS has been forced to constantly tweak and change their so called standard win32 api. it has been a moving target. now by companies and projects officially supporting Wine, the open source community have taken control of the standard.
write once and run anywhere.
they've taken the Embrace and Extend system MS has used against everyone else and turned it on it's ear.
call it, Embrace and Define.
it may not be a perfect solution, but this is what happened with Unix. now Unix is an accepted open standard.
" The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 was being upheld as it prevents cross-contamination between planets and receives some interesting responses from experts on this mission."
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yes, thanks, i still have a copy.
what i'm looking for would be technical books on starting from nothing.
Years ago I read a book about an engineer that was sent back in time.
He took it upon himself to bootstrap 12th century Poland's technology in order to fight off the Mongols. Many things he does in his book are glazed over and lack a lot of detail I'd like to have seen, but it made me appreciate "low tech tech" for lack of a better term. Too many modern books on subjects assume an industrial base and that certain items can be purchased so they skip over the original processes used to make things. The foxfire books are a good source, but I would have like something a lot more focused on the how to part and less on the wise tails.
Any suggestions?
or they could contract it out to google.
someone who knows how to manage large data centers correctly.
you could really creep out your enemys after you're gone, but you wouldn't be able to enjoy it.
still just knowing ahead of time. :-D
i have no love of M$, but come on. if you have physcal access to a computer and at boot time no less you can do what ever the #@!! you want.
if this is the biggest flaw redmond has in W7, that's not so bad.
is this a geostationary orbit?
communications satellites aren't much good otherwise.
So if we close our eyes when we flip the switch it all still works?
AWESOME!!
is this where the improbability drive comes in?
yeah, someone had to say it.
if i had a funny mod point to give, you'd have it.
thanks
wasn't it IBM, who had the patent for, Method of separating cars using lines on pavement?
i loved that one, but i can't remember who did it.
capturing audio is blocked on some of the new Vista computers already.
if only they would fix the USB on Reactos
i could see that going over on the west coast, but it just wouldn't fit in in NYC.
have you tried Galeon?
http://galeon.sourceforge.net/
i've been using it under Debian and now Ubuntu for a few years.
i understand your arguement and at one time i used to agree.
but in hindsight, as projects like Wine or Reactos have evolved and improved,
MS has been forced to constantly tweak and change their so called standard win32 api.
it has been a moving target.
now by companies and projects officially supporting Wine,
the open source community have taken control of the standard.
write once and run anywhere.
they've taken the Embrace and Extend system MS has used against everyone else and turned it on it's ear.
call it, Embrace and Define.
it may not be a perfect solution, but this is what happened with Unix. now Unix is an accepted open standard.
when they say seconds and minutes is that in normal earth time or according to the time inside the micro event horizon?
and a 50% chance they will ask for a federal bail out package
doesn't that apply to the Times online also?
seems they don't have room to talk
do they have this in multi-cd iso's?
might make for easier down loads.
also i was wondering if this download/beta has a time limit.
if i installed it over an exiting windows install, will it be a brick in 6 months?
" The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 was being upheld as it prevents cross-contamination between planets and receives some interesting responses from experts on this mission."
doesn't this make terraforming outlawed as well?
although i like the beauty of it's simplicity, wasn't vibration in the tether already a problem?
it's like a 300 mile long guitar string with a slide going up and down.
one of these days we'll have a /. story about the music of the space elevator.
doesn't this infringe on the patent troll patent?
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that struck me as odd too.
but although the Austin area is more computer literate and open minded than most places, there are still those that are An' retentive.
ok, a little more information would be nice.
is this firefox only or does it affect all mozilla browsers?
Seamonkey?
Galeon?
does it affect all platforms since it's Java?
anyone know?
cool thanks
always nice to know the why