using the time honored, "was it created before I was born" rule of thumb. ..
That is the rule of thumb for tradition, not technology.
They'll be technology to me when you mount lasers on 'em.
Invented in 1958. By your rule of thumb not technology, unless you are older than myself, and I'm turning grey.
Same year the integrated circuit was first actually produced, although the invention goes back some years, to the same year the first nuclear power plant went critical.
Ahhhh, but what about that modern icon of technology, rocket science and space exploration?
The multistage rocket dates from 1650 and the first animal launched into space and successfully recovered by parachute. ..1806. Liquid fuel wont save you. That's still pre WWI.
On the other hand bicycle chainwheels are now so sophisticated that they can only be designed and cut by computer analysis and CAM, each individual tooth having a slightly different profile depending on where it lies in relation to the power stroke, other teeth and the size of the gear.
Be careful about your rules of thumb, or all your lights might go out. First city to city transmission of three phase AC current; 1891.
. ..$126 a month, with a $100 deductible. You'd have to be an idiot not to get some kind of insurance
Or you could just set aside $135 a month for the inevitable repairs and replacement. Comes to about the same thing if your kid is old enough to have a laptop in the first place.
Or just take it to a casino and put it all on red.
And the How-To book to go with them. Back when I was a 7 year old, more than 40 years ago, I just went to the town dump and scavanged old radios and TVs for bits to play with. Didn't even need pocket money.
Of course nowadays a 555 chip costs less than a comic book. I think the terrorists can handle that.
Said as a joke, but one that speaks the truth. The primary target of most of the lawsuits has been people who have used SCO UNIX and decided to use some other operating system instead/as well.
What Darl does not seem to understand is that people do not simply buy (exuse me, license) software, they buy the company as well.
The behavior of SCO toward their own clients is not exactly one that encourages people to buy in. Irrespective of everything else, and positing that SCO had the best operating system in the world (stop laughing and just humor me for the sake of the argument)I wouldn't go near them with somebody else's ten foot pole.
It isn't worth the aggrivation of vendor lock in by legal intimidation.
For anyone who thinks they might be interested in such things, or is simply curious as to why anyone might be interested in such things, I can highly recommend:
Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World; David S. Landes; Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press
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using the time honored, "was it created before I was born" rule of thumb. . .
.1806. Liquid fuel wont save you. That's still pre WWI.
That is the rule of thumb for tradition, not technology.
They'll be technology to me when you mount lasers on 'em.
Invented in 1958. By your rule of thumb not technology, unless you are older than myself, and I'm turning grey.
Same year the integrated circuit was first actually produced, although the invention goes back some years, to the same year the first nuclear power plant went critical.
Ahhhh, but what about that modern icon of technology, rocket science and space exploration?
The multistage rocket dates from 1650 and the first animal launched into space and successfully recovered by parachute. .
On the other hand bicycle chainwheels are now so sophisticated that they can only be designed and cut by computer analysis and CAM, each individual tooth having a slightly different profile depending on where it lies in relation to the power stroke, other teeth and the size of the gear.
Be careful about your rules of thumb, or all your lights might go out. First city to city transmission of three phase AC current; 1891.
KFG
A bicycle is technology.
KFG
Can anyone tell me why the GPL could be unconstitutional?
Only Darl.
KFG
Could we, like, put radioactive isotopes in the ink so Judge Dredd can track them from spaaaaaace, spaaaaace, spaaaaaaaaaace!?
KFG
. . too self-important to just stick up a web page. . .
Could Tim just stick up a web page?
Nooooooooo! He was too self-important for that and had to go and stick up an entire World Wide Web.
The arrogant twit.
KFG
Can I buy some pot from you?
.dude.
I'm afraid my mom is the ceramicist in the family. I've only thrown enough to be able to say I've done it, but I can act as a middleman if you'd like.
I can, however, rephrase my point in a manner that even a pothead might be able to comprehend:
I can supply a definitive answer to the question, but it is deep and complicated and I must necessarily give the matter due deliberation.
Set to peak in 10 years. .
KFG
when it becomes the past.
We create it in the present.
KFG
Damn straight, dude. Kids need to learn how to be sneaky as early as possible if they're going to make it in this world.
KFG
. . .$126 a month, with a $100 deductible. You'd have to be an idiot not to get some kind of insurance
Or you could just set aside $135 a month for the inevitable repairs and replacement. Comes to about the same thing if your kid is old enough to have a laptop in the first place.
Or just take it to a casino and put it all on red.
KFG
. . . parts bought at Radio Shack. . .
And the How-To book to go with them. Back when I was a 7 year old, more than 40 years ago, I just went to the town dump and scavanged old radios and TVs for bits to play with. Didn't even need pocket money.
Of course nowadays a 555 chip costs less than a comic book. I think the terrorists can handle that.
KFG
. . .the man of tao unlearns something every day, until he gets back to non-doing.
1)Don't RTFA
2)???
3)Enlightenment!
KFG
Said as a joke, but one that speaks the truth. The primary target of most of the lawsuits has been people who have used SCO UNIX and decided to use some other operating system instead/as well.
What Darl does not seem to understand is that people do not simply buy (exuse me, license) software, they buy the company as well.
The behavior of SCO toward their own clients is not exactly one that encourages people to buy in. Irrespective of everything else, and positing that SCO had the best operating system in the world (stop laughing and just humor me for the sake of the argument)I wouldn't go near them with somebody else's ten foot pole.
It isn't worth the aggrivation of vendor lock in by legal intimidation.
KFG
Power plants can concentrate on just be efficient and clean.
Power plants concentrate on being profitable.
KFG
Whose batteries were recharged by a really, really big coal engine.
KFG
So eat your popcorn and drink your soda guilt free.
.naked.
If you plan on spending hundreds of thousands of years in the Antarctic. .
KFG
I've been driving the prototype for weeks. I haven't seen a stoplight yet.
KFG
The Internet is in your house.
The terrorists are on the internet.
Ergo:
The terrorists are in your house!
It only makes sense to pull the plug, for the. . .
Awwww, you know the rest.
KFG
You might as well take a solar powered light and shine it on itself.
Oh, hey, cool! I'm going to use that for the headlights on my car powered by the windmill on its front bumper.
KFG
Missing option:
Moobs.
KFG
We like to be called Morlocks, you insensitive clod.
Come on over for dinner and we'll talk about it.
KFG
. . .and leap in front of FedEx trucks. . .
on their way to Baskerville Hall.
KFG
That would be "Horologist."
For anyone who thinks they might be interested in such things, or is simply curious as to why anyone might be interested in such things, I can highly recommend:
Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World; David S. Landes; Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press
KFG
And there's still some question about whether the frozen lake contains frozen fish.
KFG
I had a trip down there (I'm in Canada) planned for November but forget it.
That just means that sooner or later we'll have to come up there and dart you to install your ear tag and tracking collar.
KFG
You do realize that you have now come full circle and are arguing that all you really need is a 386 and BSD, don't you?
Nevermind having missed that the original post was a blatent joke of the Emily Litella variety. Can you say, "Oh. That's different. Nevermind."?
KFG