I'm running 64-bit Fedora 9 and 64-bit Firefox 3.0.1, with 32-bit flash 9.0.124 wrapped in nspluginwrapper and kept under control with the firefox flashblock plugin. And i haven't had any problems with it at all!
I hate gratuitous flash on web sites, but i don't mind turning it on, when i choose to, for watching videos on youtube, etc.
Yeah, i guess it is. I must admit, i did enjoy working as an assembler programmer back in the days of the first home computers - for the reasons you mention.
I can't see the point of it really. 20 years ago it would have been fantastic. 10 years ago it would have been newsworthy. 5 years ago it might have been vaguely interesting. But now everyone's got laptops and smartphones, what's a fancy calculator going to do that they can't?
I befriended a cute computer programmer because I was one of the only people who knew the series of 1s and 0s she embroidered on her tote bag was a binary representation of "69".
01101001? 1000101? 01101001? or even 0011011000111001?
A hard disk? Wow! That really is modern. One of the first two computers i programmed for had a drum and the other one had no storage at all - just a punched card reader.
Nah, most people use the internet in Britain. But it's true that they're conservative. Britain is probably one of the most conservative countries in the world - second only to Afghanistan, out of places i've been.
I think the real reason people aren't jumping up and down about it is because hardly anyone understands what it's about. Even though they all use the internet, very few have any real conception of what "data" is, or how it moves around.
The other thing is that they don't give a damn about anyone else. If it affects them personally, they'll make a fuss. If it affects enough of them personally, they'll take to the streets and riot. There's never been a proper revolution in this country, but it's not impossible.
The only real skill British governments need is the ability to alienate less than a critical mass of people.
The watered down version's probably carte blanche for their mates at Phorm.
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Both forms have their advantages. The benefit of a hardcopy book is that you can sit down, away from the computer, and read it sequentially (if you're that way inclined!). That way, if you read the whole thing and the book's good, you get the whole picture.
I dunno about you, but i'm rarely capable of reading a big online document from start to finish. I tend to pick out bits i need to know about. That means i miss out on things i don't know i need to know.
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I'm running 64-bit Fedora 9 and 64-bit Firefox 3.0.1, with 32-bit flash 9.0.124 wrapped in nspluginwrapper and kept under control with the firefox flashblock plugin. And i haven't had any problems with it at all! I hate gratuitous flash on web sites, but i don't mind turning it on, when i choose to, for watching videos on youtube, etc.
coding close to the HW has always been my passion, ever since the 80's.
Damn! Now you're making me want to go out and buy one! ;-)
Maybe your view of the world is narrow.
Yeah, i guess it is. I must admit, i did enjoy working as an assembler programmer back in the days of the first home computers - for the reasons you mention.
I can't see the point of it really. 20 years ago it would have been fantastic. 10 years ago it would have been newsworthy. 5 years ago it might have been vaguely interesting. But now everyone's got laptops and smartphones, what's a fancy calculator going to do that they can't?
I befriended a cute computer programmer because I was one of the only people who knew the series of 1s and 0s she embroidered on her tote bag was a binary representation of "69".
01101001? 1000101? 01101001? or even 0011011000111001?
Oops! That's blown my cover...
but.. how do you classify the people who fit in BOTH groups
A bug.
A hard disk? Wow! That really is modern. One of the first two computers i programmed for had a drum and the other one had no storage at all - just a punched card reader.
No real brit would try to use it anyway.
Nah, most people use the internet in Britain. But it's true that they're conservative. Britain is probably one of the most conservative countries in the world - second only to Afghanistan, out of places i've been.
I think the real reason people aren't jumping up and down about it is because hardly anyone understands what it's about. Even though they all use the internet, very few have any real conception of what "data" is, or how it moves around.
The other thing is that they don't give a damn about anyone else. If it affects them personally, they'll make a fuss. If it affects enough of them personally, they'll take to the streets and riot. There's never been a proper revolution in this country, but it's not impossible.
The only real skill British governments need is the ability to alienate less than a critical mass of people.
What is the watered down version...
The watered down version's probably carte blanche for their mates at Phorm.
Both forms have their advantages. The benefit of a hardcopy book is that you can sit down, away from the computer, and read it sequentially (if you're that way inclined!). That way, if you read the whole thing and the book's good, you get the whole picture.
I dunno about you, but i'm rarely capable of reading a big online document from start to finish. I tend to pick out bits i need to know about. That means i miss out on things i don't know i need to know.
But you can't grep a hard copy!
Except for the fact that sh is generally symlinked to bash on Linux systems:
True. But if bash is invoked as 'sh', it works like sh.