Holy crap, I didn't realize that they took gopher support out of Mozilla Seamonkey at least two years ago. Now the Gopher servers have to support HTTP over port 70 to be usable by mere mortals. But I have a 2.0.14 from 2011 running on an old PPC 10.5 system and it still supports gopher:// URLs. So all is not lost.
So is gopher.quux.org now the only gopher server left in the entire universe?
I wouldn't call it a software error if it was "programmed for the wrong orbit". That sounds more like a human error to me. But to be fair, TFA doesn't state that in such specific words.
After that oil well break in the Gulf of Mexico, the EPA wouldn't even allow a ship which would suck in oily water and spit out less oily water, because the less oily water had oil in it. You think they're going to allow anybody to put seawater sludge from desalination back into the sea?
Actually, I'm pretty sure that when I looked at TFA while it was still in the submission queue, it did say dodecahedron. (And FWIW, I'm pretty sure submitter is the article author for this and quite a few other medium.com articles, which is how the error got propagated.) It was probably fixed after being pointed out. Which, of course, is more than you can say for the Slashdot (non) editors.
Because that's its accuracy for knowing your absolute position in a short period of time. If you use it to determine relative position over a long period of time, it's much more accurate. Apparently there's something called "Carrier phase tracking" which has an accuracy of 2mm for surveying. Or they could have augmented it with ground-based transmitters.
Still, 4mm is quite a small distance to measure with GPS, even with a 2mm accuracy mode.
Blocking access to the memory space of other processes has been a solved problem since timesharing in the '60s and '70s, right?
I assume they aren't running in a flat address space with no MMU, so maybe the problem is that the apps all operate under the same user ID, which bypasses the usual multi-user protections. Perhaps "run each app with a unique user ID" will be something we'll see a lot of in the next few years, like the no-execute bit and ASLR were in the 2Ks?
I don't know how "very early" in the '80s you're talking about, because I remember being intrigued by the appearance of a strange new channel that played music videos. MTV started in mid-1981. And we had a big city cable company, not "two guys with a spool of RG-6". (At the time it was UA Cablevision; later the franchise was sold to Rogers and then Time Warner.)
The early '80s were the glory days of C-band TVRO satellite. Maybe it was just that your cable company at first only had access to channels which just happened to mostly be commercial free. Or maybe you watched a lot of C-SPAN.
Premium (as in pay $5 or $10 or more per month) movie channels run movies all the way through. The rest of them are just networks without OTA broadcasters. And "early" cable-only channels were just that, experiments like on the internet in the early 2Ks.
I refuse to get pay TV, and now that I've upgraded my DSL to Uverse without TV, the phone company has switched from half a dozen mailings a month to get me to switch to Uverse to half a dozen mailings a month for me to add pay TV. The thing is, I was amused to see that qubo was only in the highest of their three tiers, because in the next market over, it's being broadcast on an OTA channel.
I don't know when and where it was that you had "ad free" cable TV, but cable TV was originally (in the '70s and earlier in the US) for people who didn't want to put up an antenna and mess with it to get a good picture for local channels (with the commercials intact). Then around 1980 or so, my family got hooked up to a cable TV system that wasn't just an antenna redistributor, and had cable-only channels. I was surprised to find that most of the channels had commercials. So at least in the US, ads on cable-only TV channels date as far back as 1980.
Ironically, you now usually get a better picture for OTA channels by NOT getting cable, because they can re-compress the signal to a lower bandwidth. So that cuts down the original reason to get cable.
When I read the summary, the first thing I thought of was that TBBT episode where Penny has to make a couple thousand thingamabobs. "Jewelry!", thought I. Then I saw the word "fashion". Yep.
Hmm, I forgot about CB, but my family only really ever used it on the road. And there were those cheap walkie-talkies which also used the CB band, the ones that used 9 volt batteries and were tuned by plugging a crystal of the right frequency into a socket.
No one wants to talk seriously online to total strangers.
It works pretty well in certain parts of 4chan, where full anonymous is the default, and those who insist upon dragging a name along with them are generally considered equivalent to trolls.
Though I do miss the kind of local meetups you could have before the internet made it so easy to talk to anyone in the world (limited only by when people are awake, etc.), most of whom you would have no chance of ever being able to meet in person.
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I still use non-beta Slashdot. (11 months so far since beta dropped like a stinky turd!)
Holy crap, I didn't realize that they took gopher support out of Mozilla Seamonkey at least two years ago. Now the Gopher servers have to support HTTP over port 70 to be usable by mere mortals. But I have a 2.0.14 from 2011 running on an old PPC 10.5 system and it still supports gopher:// URLs. So all is not lost.
So is gopher.quux.org now the only gopher server left in the entire universe?
And none of that newfangled ZZ to exit crap. It's :wq for me forever, bay-bay. vi has a command line and it should be respected.
But in Soviet Russia, glorious President would have launched satellite with his own bear hands!
I wouldn't call it a software error if it was "programmed for the wrong orbit". That sounds more like a human error to me. But to be fair, TFA doesn't state that in such specific words.
The start of burning man was delayed by rain.
After that oil well break in the Gulf of Mexico, the EPA wouldn't even allow a ship which would suck in oily water and spit out less oily water, because the less oily water had oil in it. You think they're going to allow anybody to put seawater sludge from desalination back into the sea?
If you don't like the redesign Mozilla has done with the new tab page and want to avoid the sponsored tiles,
...then switch to SeaMonkey
Actually, I'm pretty sure that when I looked at TFA while it was still in the submission queue, it did say dodecahedron. (And FWIW, I'm pretty sure submitter is the article author for this and quite a few other medium.com articles, which is how the error got propagated.) It was probably fixed after being pointed out. Which, of course, is more than you can say for the Slashdot (non) editors.
You were expecting medium.com to know the difference between a polygon and a polyhedron?
And for the plebs who still don't know what we're talking about:
Dodecagon Dodecahederon
I was quite amused when I found out that they now have a board game version of Words With Friends.
Because that's its accuracy for knowing your absolute position in a short period of time. If you use it to determine relative position over a long period of time, it's much more accurate. Apparently there's something called "Carrier phase tracking" which has an accuracy of 2mm for surveying. Or they could have augmented it with ground-based transmitters.
Still, 4mm is quite a small distance to measure with GPS, even with a 2mm accuracy mode.
That would be the superior show Inspector Spacetime.
Blocking access to the memory space of other processes has been a solved problem since timesharing in the '60s and '70s, right?
I assume they aren't running in a flat address space with no MMU, so maybe the problem is that the apps all operate under the same user ID, which bypasses the usual multi-user protections. Perhaps "run each app with a unique user ID" will be something we'll see a lot of in the next few years, like the no-execute bit and ASLR were in the 2Ks?
I don't know how "very early" in the '80s you're talking about, because I remember being intrigued by the appearance of a strange new channel that played music videos. MTV started in mid-1981. And we had a big city cable company, not "two guys with a spool of RG-6". (At the time it was UA Cablevision; later the franchise was sold to Rogers and then Time Warner.)
The early '80s were the glory days of C-band TVRO satellite. Maybe it was just that your cable company at first only had access to channels which just happened to mostly be commercial free. Or maybe you watched a lot of C-SPAN.
Premium (as in pay $5 or $10 or more per month) movie channels run movies all the way through. The rest of them are just networks without OTA broadcasters. And "early" cable-only channels were just that, experiments like on the internet in the early 2Ks.
I refuse to get pay TV, and now that I've upgraded my DSL to Uverse without TV, the phone company has switched from half a dozen mailings a month to get me to switch to Uverse to half a dozen mailings a month for me to add pay TV. The thing is, I was amused to see that qubo was only in the highest of their three tiers, because in the next market over, it's being broadcast on an OTA channel.
"Most people can't" because they don't have a good antenna (as in better than rabbit ears), or even the tiniest bit of clue how to set one up.
It would be nice if TFA actually went into ANY detail about this. Instead, it's only mentioned in passing.
I don't know when and where it was that you had "ad free" cable TV, but cable TV was originally (in the '70s and earlier in the US) for people who didn't want to put up an antenna and mess with it to get a good picture for local channels (with the commercials intact). Then around 1980 or so, my family got hooked up to a cable TV system that wasn't just an antenna redistributor, and had cable-only channels. I was surprised to find that most of the channels had commercials. So at least in the US, ads on cable-only TV channels date as far back as 1980.
Ironically, you now usually get a better picture for OTA channels by NOT getting cable, because they can re-compress the signal to a lower bandwidth. So that cuts down the original reason to get cable.
When I read the summary, the first thing I thought of was that TBBT episode where Penny has to make a couple thousand thingamabobs. "Jewelry!", thought I. Then I saw the word "fashion". Yep.
aka "extortion"
Sheesh. I didn't mean Class Methods[tm](R)DoNotSteal, I meant methods attached to the class.
Hmm, I forgot about CB, but my family only really ever used it on the road. And there were those cheap walkie-talkies which also used the CB band, the ones that used 9 volt batteries and were tuned by plugging a crystal of the right frequency into a socket.
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And nothing of value was lost. (I stopped caring years ago when they merged it with Google+ and the G+ real names policy.)
No one wants to talk seriously online to total strangers.
It works pretty well in certain parts of 4chan, where full anonymous is the default, and those who insist upon dragging a name along with them are generally considered equivalent to trolls.
Though I do miss the kind of local meetups you could have before the internet made it so easy to talk to anyone in the world (limited only by when people are awake, etc.), most of whom you would have no chance of ever being able to meet in person.