A few days back slashdot was blocked by smartfilter, and right now this comment page is blocked. Good thing I have a java telnet app:) stupid school proxy is really pissg me off of late.
When I was four. Yes FOUR. I had this theory that if I rolled my bike up the curb, then rolled off it I could gain speed. Then I do it all over agin. Sure it'd look stupid. However I never quite perfected it, the bike always got horribly slow and I'd loose my balance and fall on a mailbox.
Mars = Arrakis
Space worms landed on Arr*cough* Mars and drank up all the water. They roam underground eating up tiny bacterium that managed to find water that the worm left behind. Prediction: We will all find our new narcotic on Mars that will be way better than caffeine.
Wait a minute. We don't beleive in aliens. And books arn't necissarily true either. Hmm, nevermind.
Anyone know if it installs XFree 4 be default? My fBSD box has been acting up lately and I want to wipe my hard drive. I'd really like to use X4 w/o too much fuss.
It must hurt shooting yourself in the feet. I think MS is stupid for beleiving that people would be willing to pay a subscription to write documents. But in a way it's good. It will promote freeware (if not open source,) alternatives, and will change the way we look at business (just like with licensing software.) I'm sure MS will make lots of money off of this initially, but they're gonna have to stop it sooner or later. You can be sure someone's gonna crack the code and make key generators, unless MS requires you to verify it over the net. Which would make you buy MSN service. But I'm sure there'd be a workaround for that too. MS would then become a security expert, and dominate digital security and the such too. No, Microsoft didn't shoot their foot. They blew their head off. I'm sorry, but this isn't business, it's just plain greed.
when I saw 3dwm I thought about getting rid of the window system. The best example of how it might work is rewriting gimp. To start the program (load plugins etc) you pick up the paintbox and then it's finished it opens up. you can draw a canvas w/ a special tool. pick up a paintbrish, dip it in a pallet and rub it on the canvas. Ohh well. Just though it was cool that someone is doing this. Read my user-info for a way that you might submerge yourself in a virtual world. (too lazy to retype.)
Can we say emulation board? This kinda thing isn't old. Just about every game console has a computer board (internal or external) that emulates the real thing. It's sold to game developers so you don't have to burn neumerous cds a day to develop a game. Makes sense don't it?
but we're still terrestrial in the sense that we were conceved, born and raised on Earth. If only we still had the same economy like we did during the industrial revolution you can be sure that Carnegie Space will already have put us into space so we can live in our Rockefeller boarding houses to mine the vast ammounts of iron in the martian soil. But seriously, it only takes time and money to put us out there, we already have the technology.
OKAY? Where does this multiverse come from? Why oh why is this universe here, something had to put it here, or it just was. If it just was, then when did it just be? If someone/something put it here, who, why, when, and where did he come from? All this universe orgin pondering is making me dizzy (first time deep thought has made me dizzy,), but you really can't pinpoint where this sucker came from. The universe just is, so be grateful.
Humm, that brings up another point. The universe equals zero like all nice equations, so maybe this place doesn't really exist? Also, is matter as we know it really not anti-matter? When you think about it on the quantum level, matter acts pretty weird. Maybe what we call anti-matter is very predictable and good like, and maybe that's the real matter and we live in an evil anti-universe? Roy Miller :wq! DOH!
Let's see. Apple Cube w/ Mac OS X:) w/ theatrical display >:)
A CPU-less fileserver that's quiet and runs on a gigabit ethernet (throw in some gigabit equipment too while you're at it, I only got a 100Base). I could sure use some 100 Gigs for mp3s and another 50 for cd-images of games I like to play and of course another 20 for other file storage. >:)
A really spiff colour laser printer cause I'm tired of all the noise this inkjet makes (yeah, I know...at least it's not a dot matrix)
A digital camera that also takes a film snap at the same time (does this exist? It'd be really spiff. A digital preview for now and some film hardcopy for a quality production. All ya need is to jam a 1/2 silvered mirror in there.)
And last but certianly not least, one of those wearable computer monitors that overlay one eye so I can hook it up to an e-book reader. Hey, if I'm gonna read a book electronicly, I'm gonna get the benefit of not holding something to do it. Roy Miller :wq! DOH!
I dunno if this has been asked/answered before, but I don't have time to read all the comments. Does this mean that I have to pay this company when I cut the grass or smell fresh cut grass? Does this mean I have to pay extra when I sneeze from it?
C'MON PEOPLE NOW! Patents on smells...might as well patent how the sun looks or patent bird species (oops, I forgot they already pateneted humans, didn't they?). Why I aughhta...patents will pull our society into stagnation the way they want it..... Roy Miller :wq! DOH!
I started making simple BASIC programs on the C64, while my brother made complex ones and did a bit of C64 Oxford Pascal.
Time warp.
We got an IBM, possibly 286, but I was young so I didn't care for much other than Space/Kings Quest and how to spell sierra so I could 'cd sierra' 'cd kq1'. I don't rmemember why, possibly my bro asked, but some how I made basic programs to run my games for me and I looked at an old version of C and Pascal (borland) and decided not to touch it.
Time warp.
It's the age of the 486 DX4/100 and all of a sudden I asked my dad how to program and I learned Turbo Pascal 6.0. I was pimping out code for stupid things and made a game w/ ascii chars. None of it had procedures. Over time, I don't remember how, I learned procedure, then C++, and now I know Perl, Lisp, C++, z80 asm, and a whole slew of other crap.
I admit, I do remember seeing C for the first time and was really discouraged (aprox age 7), but somewhere at the age of 12 I just took up programming.:) now here I am, still in high school and able to make programs to do pretty much anything (anything non-graphical...never any good docs on widgets) Roy Miller :wq! DOH!
Normally I don't complain, but I would like to see the story finish first, eh? At the end of Children of the Mind, you still have some unresolved issues. What happens with the descoladores? Will the new Peter regain Ender's full memory and possibly become Ender? What happens to Starways Congress? What does the world do with Jane? I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW!!! Roy Miller :wq! DOH!
Yup, it's pretty nifty, but rather pricy for free electricity. I think that it's nice to have solar panels. To answer some of the repeted questions, yes people do use laptops in the sun, and yes there are anti-glare screens for laptops. Stop complaining about UV rays, you look sick with that pale, partially green from radiation, skin.
Here is a question, what do solar panels absorb? Sunlight, of course, but does it suck up IR and UV? Why arn't there devices that suck up the whole electromagnetic spectrum? If there were such a creature, why, we could run laptops on the radio, even from the (em) noise they emit!
But there is probably some silly science restriction. 'The particles go to fast to catch,' or 'you wouldn\'t get that much energy anyway.' Just a thought.
The Head can display data on the screen too, what did you think it was going to do speak the whole thing out? You've gotta be kidding... Roy Miller :wq! DOH!
Maybe it's the psycological factor, but in reality using Linux for a PDA is...*looking for a word that won't start a flame war*...not-smart. Using Windows CE or Windows anything is not smart either. The idea that a smaller scale computer can handle a Macrokernel and do more work than a desktop is appaling. Go invent a microkernel base for PDAs. Make it short and to the point, then have it run the apps you need.
Now on the topic of PDAs. I think the ultimate PDA would be a little thing that looks like the PalmPilot but w/o any buttons or screen inputs. On the screen is a talking head (AT&T In development) and it speaks to you (AT&T in devel, but really fantastic quality alread). It interprets what you say via speach recognition and *looking for the right word* a low level AI language interpreter. You would talk to it, like "Can you remind me to pick up some food?" or "John's e-mail address it blah at blah dot com and he is a moron." And then you can recall the info by saying "Who was john again?" Etc. Etc...like a portable secretary. Roy Miller :wq! DOH!
Let's see. MSx was a z80 processor computer by MicroSoft. Big flop here, suposetly pretty popular in south america. Now we have an X-box, could this mean (MS)X-box (as in computer)?
I seriously doubt that it is a good product. Not because I'm a MS-basher/linux-freak/fascist-computer-user, but for these reasons:
Microsoft cut & pasted code from windowsXX (not a good practice)
Most 'modern' programmers (mostly from the Windows world, but also from Unixers) are horrably ineficent, and never optimize. The fact that this is from MS means that there will be VC++ and, yes, VB SDKs and both of them encourage unoptimized and tripple-bulletproof error checking. These slow things down, especially games. (I played Wheel of Time demo and I found a nice message, something like this: "100+ iterations of class::func_blow_up(); quick shut down" Highly inefficent, period. )
Due to MS's ability to hire inept programmers and harry them to finish quickly and keep update patches to them self until a "service pack". This product will probably have a few bugs, but mostly the security hazard. (DVD to VCR w/o copyright interferance, internet-to-xbox hacking to screw up games....viruses, and possibly Linux on x-box)
Then again...this could be a wonderful product that provides an easy game-programming interface that allows joe smoe to program his own game and let people have a web-tv/game/movie player in one that is really great.
Well...there is my ill informed opinion. (I didn't really look at the webpage) Roy Miller :wq! DOH!
Are they ANSI? Are they beta? And does any one use them to make good software, or are the compilers made for the heck of it? Last time I checked lcc made p-o-c programs for z80 chips, but that was years ago.
The point I was trying to make was this: Open source only works when the OS comes with a free/standard compiler. Let's see, SCO, Solaris, SunOS, Linux, BSD, FreeBSD, AIX, (insert other posixies,) -open source galore. MacOS, Windows, DOS, OS2, WinCE, etc. -fr--free? Roy Miller :wq! DOH!
Here are arguments against it (although I'd love it): 1) No freeware/universal compiler, we all know that Borland C++ is different from Visual C++ and from Turbo C++ for Windows, (in your case, Turbo Pascal and Delphi). And they cost big bucks and big hard drive. 2) Not many people care about the source, they just want it so they can compile it. Compiling the source cuts any library inconsistancies, other than that I don't care what you do with it. 3) The windows community is different, they are more into downloading shareware and cracking it. Seriously, I can find plenty of VMWare cracks for NT, but not Linux.:)
If you do go open source, good for you. Roy Miller :wq! DOH!
It's not a matter of how to make a universal GUI/API, it's just a matter of enforcing it. Windows has a standard API built in, and it'll be pretty damn hard to get people to user your own. In Linux you have Motif, Forms, GTK, QT, etc. etc. And all of those are suposed to be a "universal GUI," but not every program uses just one of those. People will not spring for a standard GUI interface unless it can be {skinned, colorized, easy to program, and backward headerfiles (motif.h would be full of macros to stdgui.h, like certain ncurses headers)} If all this happened, then I could see a universal API coming into shape. Until then, put up w/ what you got. Roy Miller :wq! DOH!
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A few days back slashdot was blocked by smartfilter, and right now this comment page is blocked. Good thing I have a java telnet app :) stupid school proxy is really pissg me off of late.
:wq! DOH!
Roy Miller
When I was four. Yes FOUR. I had this theory that if I rolled my bike up the curb, then rolled off it I could gain speed. Then I do it all over agin. Sure it'd look stupid. However I never quite perfected it, the bike always got horribly slow and I'd loose my balance and fall on a mailbox.
:wq! DOH!
:)
Roy Miller
Mars = Arrakis
:wq! DOH!
Space worms landed on Arr*cough* Mars and drank up all the water. They roam underground eating up tiny bacterium that managed to find water that the worm left behind. Prediction: We will all find our new narcotic on Mars that will be way better than caffeine.
Wait a minute. We don't beleive in aliens. And books arn't necissarily true either. Hmm, nevermind.
Roy Miller
Anyone know if it installs XFree 4 be default? My fBSD box has been acting up lately and I want to wipe my hard drive. I'd really like to use X4 w/o too much fuss.
:wq! DOH!
Roy Miller
It must hurt shooting yourself in the feet. I think MS is stupid for beleiving that people would be willing to pay a subscription to write documents. But in a way it's good. It will promote freeware (if not open source,) alternatives, and will change the way we look at business (just like with licensing software.) I'm sure MS will make lots of money off of this initially, but they're gonna have to stop it sooner or later. You can be sure someone's gonna crack the code and make key generators, unless MS requires you to verify it over the net. Which would make you buy MSN service. But I'm sure there'd be a workaround for that too. MS would then become a security expert, and dominate digital security and the such too. No, Microsoft didn't shoot their foot. They blew their head off. I'm sorry, but this isn't business, it's just plain greed.
:wq! DOH!
Roy Miller
when I saw 3dwm I thought about getting rid of the window system. The best example of how it might work is rewriting gimp. To start the program (load plugins etc) you pick up the paintbox and then it's finished it opens up. you can draw a canvas w/ a special tool. pick up a paintbrish, dip it in a pallet and rub it on the canvas. Ohh well. Just though it was cool that someone is doing this. Read my user-info for a way that you might submerge yourself in a virtual world. (too lazy to retype.)
:wq! DOH!
Roy Miller
Can we say emulation board? This kinda thing isn't old. Just about every game console has a computer board (internal or external) that emulates the real thing. It's sold to game developers so you don't have to burn neumerous cds a day to develop a game. Makes sense don't it?
:wq! DOH!
Roy Miller
but we're still terrestrial in the sense that we were conceved, born and raised on Earth. If only we still had the same economy like we did during the industrial revolution you can be sure that Carnegie Space will already have put us into space so we can live in our Rockefeller boarding houses to mine the vast ammounts of iron in the martian soil. But seriously, it only takes time and money to put us out there, we already have the technology.
:wq! DOH!
Roy Miller
OKAY? Where does this multiverse come from? Why oh why is this universe here, something had to put it here, or it just was. If it just was, then when did it just be? If someone/something put it here, who, why, when, and where did he come from? All this universe orgin pondering is making me dizzy (first time deep thought has made me dizzy,), but you really can't pinpoint where this sucker came from. The universe just is, so be grateful.
:wq! DOH!
Humm, that brings up another point. The universe equals zero like all nice equations, so maybe this place doesn't really exist? Also, is matter as we know it really not anti-matter? When you think about it on the quantum level, matter acts pretty weird. Maybe what we call anti-matter is very predictable and good like, and maybe that's the real matter and we live in an evil anti-universe?
Roy Miller
Let's see. Apple Cube w/ Mac OS X :) w/ theatrical display >:)
:wq! DOH!
A CPU-less fileserver that's quiet and runs on a gigabit ethernet (throw in some gigabit equipment too while you're at it, I only got a 100Base). I could sure use some 100 Gigs for mp3s and another 50 for cd-images of games I like to play and of course another 20 for other file storage. >:)
A really spiff colour laser printer cause I'm tired of all the noise this inkjet makes (yeah, I know...at least it's not a dot matrix)
A digital camera that also takes a film snap at the same time (does this exist? It'd be really spiff. A digital preview for now and some film hardcopy for a quality production. All ya need is to jam a 1/2 silvered mirror in there.)
And last but certianly not least, one of those wearable computer monitors that overlay one eye so I can hook it up to an e-book reader. Hey, if I'm gonna read a book electronicly, I'm gonna get the benefit of not holding something to do it.
Roy Miller
I dunno if this has been asked/answered before, but I don't have time to read all the comments. Does this mean that I have to pay this company when I cut the grass or smell fresh cut grass? Does this mean I have to pay extra when I sneeze from it?
:wq! DOH!
C'MON PEOPLE NOW! Patents on smells...might as well patent how the sun looks or patent bird species (oops, I forgot they already pateneted humans, didn't they?). Why I aughhta...patents will pull our society into stagnation the way they want it.....
Roy Miller
I vaguely remember...but here it goes
:) now here I am, still in high school and able to make programs to do pretty much anything (anything non-graphical...never any good docs on widgets)
:wq! DOH!
I started making simple BASIC programs on the C64, while my brother made complex ones and did a bit of C64 Oxford Pascal.
Time warp.
We got an IBM, possibly 286, but I was young so I didn't care for much other than Space/Kings Quest and how to spell sierra so I could 'cd sierra' 'cd kq1'. I don't rmemember why, possibly my bro asked, but some how I made basic programs to run my games for me and I looked at an old version of C and Pascal (borland) and decided not to touch it.
Time warp.
It's the age of the 486 DX4/100 and all of a sudden I asked my dad how to program and I learned Turbo Pascal 6.0. I was pimping out code for stupid things and made a game w/ ascii chars. None of it had procedures. Over time, I don't remember how, I learned procedure, then C++, and now I know Perl, Lisp, C++, z80 asm, and a whole slew of other crap.
I admit, I do remember seeing C for the first time and was really discouraged (aprox age 7), but somewhere at the age of 12 I just took up programming.
Roy Miller
Normally I don't complain, but I would like to see the story finish first, eh? At the end of Children of the Mind, you still have some unresolved issues. What happens with the descoladores? Will the new Peter regain Ender's full memory and possibly become Ender? What happens to Starways Congress? What does the world do with Jane? I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW!!!
:wq! DOH!
Roy Miller
Yup, it's pretty nifty, but rather pricy for free electricity. I think that it's nice to have solar panels. To answer some of the repeted questions, yes people do use laptops in the sun, and yes there are anti-glare screens for laptops. Stop complaining about UV rays, you look sick with that pale, partially green from radiation, skin.
:wq! DOH!
Here is a question, what do solar panels absorb? Sunlight, of course, but does it suck up IR and UV? Why arn't there devices that suck up the whole electromagnetic spectrum? If there were such a creature, why, we could run laptops on the radio, even from the (em) noise they emit!
But there is probably some silly science restriction. 'The particles go to fast to catch,' or 'you wouldn\'t get that much energy anyway.' Just a thought.
Roy Miller
Talking head == easy to use interface
:wq! DOH!
The Head can display data on the screen too, what did you think it was going to do speak the whole thing out? You've gotta be kidding...
Roy Miller
Maybe it's the psycological factor, but in reality using Linux for a PDA is...*looking for a word that won't start a flame war*...not-smart. Using Windows CE or Windows anything is not smart either. The idea that a smaller scale computer can handle a Macrokernel and do more work than a desktop is appaling. Go invent a microkernel base for PDAs. Make it short and to the point, then have it run the apps you need.
:wq! DOH!
Now on the topic of PDAs. I think the ultimate PDA would be a little thing that looks like the PalmPilot but w/o any buttons or screen inputs. On the screen is a talking head (AT&T In development) and it speaks to you (AT&T in devel, but really fantastic quality alread). It interprets what you say via speach recognition and *looking for the right word* a low level AI language interpreter. You would talk to it, like "Can you remind me to pick up some food?" or "John's e-mail address it blah at blah dot com and he is a moron." And then you can recall the info by saying "Who was john again?" Etc. Etc...like a portable secretary.
Roy Miller
I seriously doubt that it is a good product. Not because I'm a MS-basher/linux-freak/fascist-computer-user, but for these reasons:
Then again...this could be a wonderful product that provides an easy game-programming interface that allows joe smoe to program his own game and let people have a web-tv/game/movie player in one that is really great.
Well...there is my ill informed opinion. (I didn't really look at the webpage)
Roy Miller
Are they ANSI? Are they beta? And does any one use them to make good software, or are the compilers made for the heck of it? Last time I checked lcc made p-o-c programs for z80 chips, but that was years ago.
:wq! DOH!
The point I was trying to make was this: Open source only works when the OS comes with a free/standard compiler.
Let's see, SCO, Solaris, SunOS, Linux, BSD, FreeBSD, AIX, (insert other posixies,)
-open source galore.
MacOS, Windows, DOS, OS2, WinCE, etc.
-fr--free?
Roy Miller
Here are arguments against it (although I'd love it): :)
:wq! DOH!
1) No freeware/universal compiler, we all know that Borland C++ is different from Visual C++ and from Turbo C++ for Windows, (in your case, Turbo Pascal and Delphi). And they cost big bucks and big hard drive.
2) Not many people care about the source, they just want it so they can compile it. Compiling the source cuts any library inconsistancies, other than that I don't care what you do with it.
3) The windows community is different, they are more into downloading shareware and cracking it. Seriously, I can find plenty of VMWare cracks for NT, but not Linux.
If you do go open source, good for you.
Roy Miller
It's not a matter of how to make a universal GUI/API, it's just a matter of enforcing it. Windows has a standard API built in, and it'll be pretty damn hard to get people to user your own. In Linux you have Motif, Forms, GTK, QT, etc. etc. And all of those are suposed to be a "universal GUI," but not every program uses just one of those. People will not spring for a standard GUI interface unless it can be {skinned, colorized, easy to program, and backward headerfiles (motif.h would be full of macros to stdgui.h, like certain ncurses headers)} If all this happened, then I could see a universal API coming into shape. Until then, put up w/ what you got.
:wq! DOH!
Roy Miller