Yeah, we need to learn to contain anti-matter. Then make anti-matter engines to power spacecraft. Chemical rockets are way too slow.
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I have a TI-85 (and a TI-92, but that's besides the point.). Much better than the '82. I still remember spending half my time in 8th grade science class coding in TI-Basic.:) I wrote a slot machine game, and super-enhanced Arkanoid. Remember that arkanoid-type game that everyone had (it was from TI, I think)? By the time I was done with it, it had like 5-10 new levels and 3 different styles of blocks!:) I think I may have also optimized it for speed (not playing speed, program speed).
After 8th grade, I got a TI-Graph Link and discovered games on the Internet that were written in assembler.:)
Hey, I've met MANY idiots who can't even figure out Windows! You could say "double click here, and start typing," but they're clueless when they want to do anything else.
Any, has ANYONE ever seen any computer idiot ("non-technical person") who actually understood what the directory tree was, or that files are actually organized in directories? I've yet to find one! Many can't even figure out how to save/load with floppy disks!
Windows based setups do have most of the cost in support, aside from buying Windows itself. In any company that relies on Windows, they practically need a whole MIS department to keep the systems running. In the UNIX world, companies just use one guy or an outside consulting firm, and rarely ever have problems.
Another advantage of UNIX that isn't exploited enough is terminal support. With terminals (text or X), you just setup one big computer. Then, you only have to support/maintain one machine! This is where MS never seems to work.
By all the historical international laws of civilization, land was claimed by a representative planting his respective country's flag in the ground. Therefore, when the US flag was planted on the moon, that land became US territory as far as old international law is concerned. It may not be recognized as such today, however.
I think the Harrier jet at the end of the commerical was really cool, however it shouldn't have said 7 million points on the screen. Pepsi should have written an amount of points that exceeded the retail price of the jet, like all the other Pepsi stuff. So, say they make it 240 million points. That way, either no one tries to call their bluff, or they can actually deliver on it with no complaints.
However, the number would seem a bit extreme for a commercial:)
Hey, we've been having a ton on traffic jams lately, and most of them don't make sense. Often, they are not during rush hour. It's caused by the domino effect, I believe. One old guy who can't see is driving along, taps his break lights for a second, and the red lights travel back a mile. Multiply this by a few old people cars, over a short period of time, and you have a traffic jam given enough normal throughput on the road.
Most interesting of all, is that I live in Florida. I know we get lots of tourists here for the beach, but it's summer! I didn't know anyone came to Florida in the summer. However, for some strange reason, it's actually cooler down here (90-95 F) than up north (95-100 F).
Read the article. They aren't talking about cutting all NASA funding and making them cover their own costs. When John Doe Telecommunications wants to use cargo space in the shuttle, NASA wants to be able to keep the money that it gets for putting FooStar 4 in orbit. Right now, if I read the article correctly, NASA itself doesn't benefit from launching commercial payloads. However, it takes a large chunk of their budget.
Yeah, in the good 'ole days (DOS/Win31, OS/2 2.x-3.x, etc.), there was always a method or process to fixing all computer problems. Everything made sense and had a clear-cut solution.
With the release of Windows'95, MS has turned fixing those problems into a form of voodoo magic! Today, fixing the average Win'9X problem involves yanking or masaging the system drivers, 20 reboots, and 10 dances in full witch doctor apparel! And don't forget the ceremonial chants! This is the only way to fix Win9X problems, and sometimes yields an 80% success rate. Hehe:)
The problem isn't that little kids can't get into R-rated movies by themselves. Frankly, I agree with that point of view. The problem is that R is way to broad a rating.
"R" can mean anything from too interesting and mature for little children, to gorry violence with sex scenes. I used to see R rated movies with my father all the time when I was younger. And none of then had any content that anyone would feel funny about letting anyone see. They really need to divide the R rating so that most such movies can be viewed by anyone over 15. (without parents.) At 15, anyone is mature enough to see most R rated movies.
I was really ticked off by the theater when I saw Southpark with one of my friends. We both had to show ID (he's 17 and I'm 18) when entering the theater. Then, once seated, some guy came in to check our stubs! And we look our ages.
I totally agree. Those big expensive applications packages will only be purchased by big companies that regularly use them. Students, who probably do most of the copying, only really pirate the software because they cannot afford it and it's not worth the store price to them. So if they can't copy it, they won't buy it. But they also will not benefit from it.
Games are a different story. The mediocre ones are often pirated for the heck of it. But really good and anticipated games are usually purchased because people want to support/reward the developers and like the stuff that's ripped out of pirated versions.
Interesting point. However, replicators would not lead to piracy as easily as you think.
You have to take into account that replicators would use a lot of energy and have operating costs. So, when ever you "make" something, you pay royalties to the "replicator service".
This "service" would supply the "object patterns", and pay royalties on them to the companies that designed the items.
In the future if you wanted to buy a Hershey bar, you would select the item, transfer payment to the "John Doe Replication Service", and then the machine would recieve the pattern, produce the item, then delete it's memory. JDRS would also pay the energy costs of operating the device.
Illegally copying items would be possible, but only if someone re-engineered their replicator and had lots of money for the "scanning equipment".
I went to a private school for grades 1-8. When I first started there, they got a whole new room full of Laser 128's. Several years later, Publix had a huge promotion for collecting receipts that were traded for brand-new Apple IIe's. The whole community got involved and we filled the whole lab . I remember playing Oregon Trail, Chivalry (on the disk labeled "Sargon II"), and Ghostbusters when I could find the disk. We had these machines until the year after I graduated to high school.
Now, here's the part that should freak you out... I finished that school in 1995!
In high school, we've been getting too many brand-new Dells. They're all over the place. But I never see them since when I took my last programming class here (10th grade) we had Tandy 386s. Oh well... I graduate very soon and will go off to RPI next year.:)
I know what you mean! It actually seems like most of the characters in the film were either French or British. The torpedos didn't bother me that much. They had enough destructive power. The Star Wars "Proton Torpedos" you mentioned were nothing but missiles. What really bugged me also was that they pretended the spaceship was a sub. Everyone knows sound doesn't travel in space, so stop being quiet and looking at the ceiling! And what was with those wierd looking things they claimed were Kilrathi? The Kilrathi aren't a bad CG version of who knows what! They supposed to be big lion/tiger-like cats with humanoid bodies! I remember the Kilrathi looked 10x better in the WC2 cutscenes!
Having a central computer control appliances, especially when running an Microsoft OS, is prone to frequent crashing and annoyances.
Putting small cheap embedded controllers in all appliances and linking them with easy serial links to a hub is the way to go. You could go modular and have control pannels, or hook up a computer. However, since the computer or control panel doesn't actually control the devices (just sends commands), NOTHING CAN CRASH!
And best of all, this costs a heck of a lot less than the MS solution to implement, since most appliances already have about 75% of the electronics backbone to do this.
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Yeah, we need to learn to contain anti-matter. Then make anti-matter engines to power spacecraft. Chemical rockets are way too slow.
I have a TI-85 (and a TI-92, but that's besides the point.). Much better than the '82. I still remember spending half my time in 8th grade science class coding in TI-Basic. :) I wrote a slot machine game, and super-enhanced Arkanoid. Remember that arkanoid-type game that everyone had (it was from TI, I think)? By the time I was done with it, it had like 5-10 new levels and 3 different styles of blocks! :) I think I may have also optimized it for speed (not playing speed, program speed).
:)
After 8th grade, I got a TI-Graph Link and discovered games on the Internet that were written in assembler.
Hey, I've met MANY idiots who can't even figure out Windows! You could say "double click here, and start typing," but they're clueless when they want to do anything else.
Any, has ANYONE ever seen any computer idiot ("non-technical person") who actually understood what the directory tree was, or that files are actually organized in directories? I've yet to find one! Many can't even figure out how to save/load with floppy disks!
Windows based setups do have most of the cost in support, aside from buying Windows itself. In any company that relies on Windows, they practically need a whole MIS department to keep the systems running. In the UNIX world, companies just use one guy or an outside consulting firm, and rarely ever have problems.
Another advantage of UNIX that isn't exploited enough is terminal support. With terminals (text or X), you just setup one big computer. Then, you only have to support/maintain one machine! This is where MS never seems to work.
By all the historical international laws of civilization, land was claimed by a representative planting his respective country's flag in the ground. Therefore, when the US flag was planted on the moon, that land became US territory as far as old international law is concerned. It may not be recognized as such today, however.
I think the Harrier jet at the end of the commerical was really cool, however it shouldn't have said 7 million points on the screen. Pepsi should have written an amount of points that exceeded the retail price of the jet, like all the other Pepsi stuff. So, say they make it 240 million points. That way, either no one tries to call their bluff, or they can actually deliver on it with no complaints.
:)
However, the number would seem a bit extreme for a commercial
Hey, we've been having a ton on traffic jams lately, and most of them don't make sense. Often, they are not during rush hour. It's caused by the domino effect, I believe. One old guy who can't see is driving along, taps his break lights for a second, and the red lights travel back a mile. Multiply this by a few old people cars, over a short period of time, and you have a traffic jam given enough normal throughput on the road.
Most interesting of all, is that I live in Florida. I know we get lots of tourists here for the beach, but it's summer! I didn't know anyone came to Florida in the summer. However, for some strange reason, it's actually cooler down here (90-95 F) than up north (95-100 F).
Read the article.
They aren't talking about cutting all NASA funding and making them cover their own costs. When John Doe Telecommunications wants to use cargo space in the shuttle, NASA wants to be able to keep the money that it gets for putting FooStar 4 in orbit. Right now, if I read the article correctly, NASA itself doesn't benefit from launching commercial payloads. However, it takes a large chunk of their budget.
Yeah, in the good 'ole days (DOS/Win31, OS/2 2.x-3.x, etc.), there was always a method or process to fixing all computer problems. Everything made sense and had a clear-cut solution.
:)
With the release of Windows'95, MS has turned fixing those problems into a form of voodoo magic! Today, fixing the average Win'9X problem involves yanking or masaging the system drivers, 20 reboots, and 10 dances in full witch doctor apparel! And don't forget the ceremonial chants! This is the only way to fix Win9X problems, and sometimes yields an 80% success rate. Hehe
The problem isn't that little kids can't get into R-rated movies by themselves. Frankly, I agree with that point of view. The problem is that R is way to broad a rating.
"R" can mean anything from too interesting and mature for little children, to gorry violence with sex scenes. I used to see R rated movies with my father all the time when I was younger. And none of then had any content that anyone would feel funny about letting anyone see. They really need to divide the R rating so that most such movies can be viewed by anyone over 15. (without parents.) At 15, anyone is mature enough to see most R rated movies.
I was really ticked off by the theater when I saw Southpark with one of my friends. We both had to show ID (he's 17 and I'm 18) when entering the theater. Then, once seated, some guy came in to check our stubs! And we look our ages.
I totally agree. Those big expensive applications packages will only be purchased by big companies that regularly use them. Students, who probably do most of the copying, only really pirate the software because they cannot afford it and it's not worth the store price to them. So if they can't copy it, they won't buy it. But they also will not benefit from it.
Games are a different story. The mediocre ones are often pirated for the heck of it. But really good and anticipated games are usually purchased because people want to support/reward the developers and like the stuff that's ripped out of pirated versions.
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Interesting point. However, replicators would not lead to piracy as easily as you think.
You have to take into account that replicators would use a lot of energy and have operating costs. So, when ever you "make" something, you pay royalties to the "replicator service".
This "service" would supply the "object patterns", and pay royalties on them to the companies that designed the items.
In the future if you wanted to buy a Hershey bar, you would select the item, transfer payment to the "John Doe Replication Service", and then the machine would recieve the pattern, produce the item, then delete it's memory. JDRS would also pay the energy costs of operating the device.
Illegally copying items would be possible, but only if someone re-engineered their replicator and had lots of money for the "scanning equipment".
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Hehe... :)
5 miles per liter is better than many of those popular SUVs can hope for
I went to a private school for grades 1-8. When I first started there, they got a whole new room full of Laser 128's. Several years later, Publix had a huge promotion for collecting receipts that were traded for brand-new Apple IIe's. The whole community got involved and we filled the whole lab . I remember playing Oregon Trail, Chivalry (on the disk labeled "Sargon II"), and Ghostbusters when I could find the disk. We had these machines until the year after I graduated to high school.
:)
Now, here's the part that should freak you out... I finished that school in 1995!
In high school, we've been getting too many brand-new Dells. They're all over the place. But I never see them since when I took my last programming class here (10th grade) we had Tandy 386s. Oh well... I graduate very soon and will go off to RPI next year.
I know what you mean!
It actually seems like most of the characters in the film were either French or British.
The torpedos didn't bother me that much. They had enough destructive power. The Star Wars "Proton Torpedos" you mentioned were nothing but missiles.
What really bugged me also was that they pretended the spaceship was a sub. Everyone knows sound doesn't travel in space, so stop being quiet and looking at the ceiling!
And what was with those wierd looking things they claimed were Kilrathi? The Kilrathi aren't a bad CG version of who knows what! They supposed to be big lion/tiger-like cats with humanoid bodies! I remember the Kilrathi looked 10x better in the WC2 cutscenes!
It would still be nice if they could do SCI, though.
Space Quest 3, in my opinion, has a better text
parser engine than any other SQ game.
FYI, the Apple IIe has emulators so good that
they seem to work perfectly 100% of the time.
Having a central computer control appliances, especially when running an Microsoft OS, is prone to frequent crashing and annoyances.
Putting small cheap embedded controllers in all appliances and linking them with easy serial links to a hub is the way to go. You could go modular and have control pannels, or hook up a computer. However, since the computer or control panel doesn't actually control the devices (just sends commands), NOTHING CAN CRASH!
And best of all, this costs a heck of a lot less than the MS solution to implement, since most appliances already have about 75% of the electronics backbone to do this.