The name was so close I'm surprised they didn't have a trademark conflict. I used to be pretty active in the BBC scene and I thought I had a good bead on all the different hardware add ons that were on the market at the time.
That was one hell of a machine, pretty much the ideal learning computer. I'm thinking (and have done some work) of building a bbc simulator under linux, but it would be pretty hard to revive the community that came with it.
nobody forced you to install that particular window, even *if* the other manufacturers went out of business, you could have left a blank wall or paid a premium by importing something that you feel secure with.
The window manufacturer is just following the capitalist rules of the game, make the most goods for the lowest price at the lowest quality level that people will still accept.
Not to say that I'm happy with that but to blame them for the burglary is just dumb. I live in an area where we don't lock our houses (wouldn't be possible anyway), have the car keys in the lock and so on. Your manufacturers windows would do just fine here. But in some mega city it would probably be wise to invest in something sturdier and that decision is made by whoever builds that house.
Personal responsibility is where it's at. The burglar is responsible for the burglary, the homeowner for taking a reasonable precaution against his house being burgled given the area that they live in.
The modern trend seems to be blame everybody but yourself, I strongly disagree with that, but to have victims of crimes blame themselves is a little bit over the top.
re. your sig, EV1 will sell you a $99 machine with 1,000 gigs of traffic per month, which works out a lot cheaper than the 120 G + 35cts/G there.
Still, your sig looked attractive enough to let me take a quick peek. Come back when you can do beat 10M flat rate for $200, that would be interesting.
I believe it was called a thin-film integrated circuit, and it definitely qualifies as the first step in integration, it just did not push it all the way through, to put multiple components on a single die. There had been some thermally coupled transistors on a single die before that time but there were no interconnects between them, so they did not qualify as a circuit.
Intergrated Circuits have many components in a single carrier and as such Kilby's work definitely qualifies.
You're absolutely right though in that Noyce's device was much closer to what we consider to be a 'chip' nowadays, especially since he used silicon, instead of noisy Germanium.
Probably our current crop of smd's would look remarkably familiar along side one of those old thin film circuits.
It's splitting hairs though:) But then again what else do ancient hackers do but code and split hairs on slash.
and patents were 'for real'. People like this is what the patent system was made for, not the bunch of subverters that are out there right now switching fields and patenting the obvious, including mathematical formula and strings of bits.
You could have simply blockaded it and shot any aircraft out of the sky after achieving supremacy (which was not that far away at the time).
It would have been so much more elegant, and admittedly a lot less macho and you would not have been able to drop your calling card for the Russians to see. This was the real reason to bomb Nagasaki & Hiroshima. Those poor peasants in those cities had absolutely nothing to do with it. And you tell yourself their sacrifice was 'worth it' then let's hope that one day you and your kids won't be on the receiving end of a sacrifice like that, because I sure as hell wouldn't like it one bit (even though you seem to think that it's ok depending on what that country did in their wars, such as torturing people and invading countries...)
it's a pity that's anonymous, you'd be on my friends list for that one.
If you think College is all about making money and getting a chick 20 years your senior then you may have a slight character flaw in there somewhere.
Fact is though, you correctly identified yourself as the 'loser with the porsche'.
I'm one of those lucky high school dropouts that did pretty well, I'm fully aware of how rare that is and how many people that did go through college still don't make it.
Chances are that you'll be a college grad without a porsche, and you can just about forget about that wife (at least holding on to her) if you don't change your attitude.
Trophy's indeed. Are you going to cut off her head and mount it on the wall to stop her from running off or what ?
I feel just as sorry for them as I feel for those that lost their shirt in 2000 or '87, they're gamblers.
That doesn't mean that some gamblers don't get lucky, it does mean that if you play the odds long enough you will probably lose more than you can afford at some point.
Play the market, cool. Play the market with borrowed money or options that can put you out of any future income you might generate and you're stupid.
Just use cash that you know you can miss and don't when if your bets don't pay off.
>However, I am thinking that another non invasive search engine might be in order. I wonder if such a engine would be profitable.
working on just that and I don't give a rats ass about whether or not it will be profitable but I'm sick and tired of link spam making it into the results of just about anything I'm researching (including search engines...)
I have a small test cluster and I'm running the crawler on the.nl domain right now as a test bed, not so large that I need a hundred machines right of the bat and not so small that it's not relevant.
The principle behind google measuring the web based on links was outdated the moment it went public because the web changed to match the most popular search engine and now instead of spammers polluting their own pages they're polluting everybody elses page. It's the problem with metrics like that, as with any careless observation it changed the experiment.
So, we need a search engine that is not based on any algorithm but that *will* return relevant results. tricky, but I believe it can be done.
we really urgently need a w3c sanctioned tag indicating content that is not to be taken too serious...
I propose <HUMOR> and </HUMOR> for mild stuff and <JOKE>... </JOKE> for anything with a punchline requiring some thought, to protect the sense-of-humor-impaired browsers could by default simply not display any text between these tags. AOL browsers could be coded in such a way that there would be no possibility at all to display the text, this to protect the writer from barrages of ALL CAPS THREATS OF LAWSUITS. Similar measures could be taken with image content using the <CARTOON> tag.
In fact a whole series of tags could be created labelling content that might confuse or offend certain groups.
Think of all the bandwidth saved by not having all those follow up posts!
- sound of door slamming - honey, I'm off to the patent office !
I only have a modem here and the closest I can get to a system that has some packages on it without sitting here waiting for three weeks to download is by running Knoppix, which is based on Debian.
It's true that that's what labour unions were created for, a 'balance of power'.
Unfortunately they have been subverted to turn a meritocracy (the workplace tends to cause the 'best' or 'most capable' to bubble to the top in a non-unionized company) into a situation of aristocracy based on seniority and lots of potential for graft. It's just another power structure preying on the 'newcomers' to the unionized company.
A *MUCH* more fair system would be non-unionized but with every employee an automatic shareholder based on the time worked with the company. That way you can't get exploited because the profits will flow back into your pockets and the longer you work the more stock you've got, or if you are more of a short term person, you can exchange that stock for instant cash.
err, no. One of the reasons to outsource to India is *BECAUSE* they don't have unions there.
Why do you think the wages there are so much lower, it's not all cost of living. These people are prepared to work under conditions and for compensations that are very much reminiscent of the situation here about 100 years ago, including child labour and modern forms of wage slavery.
One disadvantage of this motor compared with PM motors is that it runs pretty high revs to make it's maximum power which implies gearing of some sort.
If this thing works in reverse it would be a nice basis for a windmill with electronic braking though ! As soon as you hit your target RPM you start firing the motor in the opposite direction.
It wasn't meant as 'proof', but just as a way of illustrating that this particular step gives all kinds of tools to your precious government to misbehave in many ways. An ID card in and of itself is not a 'problem', but here we're looking at one that will be computer readable and that you have to have on you and are required to hand over. That changes things quite a bit, it's a totalitarian state's wet dream to have that kind of power over its subjects.
But feel free to bandy the 'it will help catch criminals' argument around some more, when you wake up from your dream it will probably be too late to do anything about it.
The Germans during the occupation had access to ID cards, but not to all powerful computers that were capable of tracking individuals movements, and if they would have I can tell you that the resistance movements in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Spain wouldn't have stood a chance of staying in one piece very long because the various collaborators would have been easily tracked through proximity analysis. ID card technology of 2005 would no longer be forgeable by someone in their kitchen either, and fakes would be instantly detectable the moment they're swiped.
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well, since the google cache already violates copyright on a massive scale I don't think they're too worried about that one.
cool, learn a new thing every day !
I believe you, no need to drag out google.
The name was so close I'm surprised they didn't have a trademark conflict. I used to be pretty active in the BBC scene and I thought I had a good bead on all the different hardware add ons that were on the market at the time.
That was one hell of a machine, pretty much the ideal learning computer. I'm thinking (and have done some work) of building a bbc simulator under linux, but it would be pretty hard to revive the community that came with it.
it was called acorn eco-net
nobody forced you to install that particular window, even *if* the other manufacturers went out of business, you could have left a blank wall or paid a premium by importing something that you feel secure with.
The window manufacturer is just following the capitalist rules of the game, make the most goods for the lowest price at the lowest quality level that people will still accept.
Not to say that I'm happy with that but to blame them for the burglary is just dumb. I live in an area where we don't lock our houses (wouldn't be possible anyway), have the car keys in the lock and so on. Your manufacturers windows would do just fine here. But in some mega city it would probably be wise to invest in something sturdier and that decision is made by whoever builds that house.
Personal responsibility is where it's at. The burglar is responsible for the burglary, the homeowner for taking a reasonable precaution against his house being burgled given the area that they live in.
The modern trend seems to be blame everybody but yourself, I strongly disagree with that, but to have victims of crimes blame themselves is a little bit over the top.
re. your sig, EV1 will sell you a $99 machine with 1,000 gigs of traffic per month, which works out a lot cheaper than the 120 G + 35cts/G there.
Still, your sig looked attractive enough to let me take a quick peek. Come back when you can do beat 10M flat rate for $200, that would be interesting.
hey there from another ancient hacker!
:) But then again what else do ancient hackers do but code and split hairs on slash.
I believe it was called a thin-film integrated circuit, and it definitely qualifies as the first step in integration, it just did not push it all the way through, to put multiple components on a single die. There had been some thermally coupled transistors on a single die before that time but there were no interconnects between them, so they did not qualify as a circuit.
Intergrated Circuits have many components in a single carrier and as such Kilby's work definitely qualifies.
You're absolutely right though in that Noyce's device was much closer to what we consider to be a 'chip' nowadays, especially since he used silicon, instead of noisy Germanium.
Probably our current crop of smd's would look remarkably familiar along side one of those old thin film circuits.
It's splitting hairs though
and patents were 'for real'. People like this is what the patent system was made for, not the bunch of subverters that are out there right now switching fields and patenting the obvious, including mathematical formula and strings of bits.
thank you mr. Kilby, for a career and a future.
trust rings, metamoderation, audit trails, retroactive bans
:)
that should do it
a short php script about google:
$software_patents = "evil";
if ($google == "do no evil" && google_does($software_patents)) {
echo("contradiction...\n");
}
any search engine ranking system that does not use a human element is open to algorithmic abuse.
Japan, dear friend, is an *ISLAND*.
You could have simply blockaded it and shot any aircraft out of the sky after achieving supremacy (which was not that far away at the time).
It would have been so much more elegant, and admittedly a lot less macho and you would not have been able to drop your calling card for the Russians to see. This was the real reason to bomb Nagasaki & Hiroshima. Those poor peasants in those cities had absolutely nothing to do with it. And you tell yourself their sacrifice was 'worth it' then let's hope that one day you and your kids won't be on the receiving end of a sacrifice like that, because I sure as hell wouldn't like it one bit (even though you seem to think that it's ok depending on what that country did in their wars, such as torturing people and invading countries...)
it's a pity that's anonymous, you'd be on my friends list for that one.
If you think College is all about making money and getting a chick 20 years your senior then you may have a slight character flaw in there somewhere.
Fact is though, you correctly identified yourself as the 'loser with the porsche'.
I'm one of those lucky high school dropouts that did pretty well, I'm fully aware of how rare that is and how many people that did go through college still don't make it.
Chances are that you'll be a college grad without a porsche, and you can just about forget about that wife (at least holding on to her) if you don't change your attitude.
Trophy's indeed. Are you going to cut off her head and mount it on the wall to stop her from running off or what ?
cheers.
amen. Someone mod this up please...
since said support has been outsourced to Indonesia anyway that's a non-advantage.
and I'm being begged to reactivate my account :)
I meant the search engine, not the ad channel.
well, that's what you get when you build a service of selling advertisements on other peoples content...
Can't really blame other people when they then turn around and do the same to you.
I feel just as sorry for them as I feel for those that lost their shirt in 2000 or '87, they're gamblers.
That doesn't mean that some gamblers don't get lucky, it does mean that if you play the odds long enough you will probably lose more than you can afford at some point.
Play the market, cool. Play the market with borrowed money or options that can put you out of any future income you might generate and you're stupid.
Just use cash that you know you can miss and don't when if your bets don't pay off.
you know you want to get out of the market when everybody and their brother want to get in :)
And search engine optimization jerks are doing a pretty good job of making google less useful than it was two years ago.
>However, I am thinking that another non invasive search engine might be in order. I wonder if such a engine would be profitable.
.nl domain right now as a test bed, not so large that I need a hundred machines right of the bat and not so small that it's not relevant.
working on just that and I don't give a rats ass about whether or not it will be profitable but I'm sick and tired of link spam making it into the results of just about anything I'm researching (including search engines...)
I have a small test cluster and I'm running the crawler on the
The principle behind google measuring the web based on links was outdated the moment it went public because the web changed to match the most popular search engine and now instead of spammers polluting their own pages they're polluting everybody elses page. It's the problem with metrics like that, as with any careless observation it changed the experiment.
So, we need a search engine that is not based on any algorithm but that *will* return relevant results. tricky, but I believe it can be done.
18,000 lines of code and counting... stay tuned.
I propose <HUMOR> and </HUMOR> for mild stuff and <JOKE>
In fact a whole series of tags could be created labelling content that might confuse or offend certain groups.
Think of all the bandwidth saved by not having all those follow up posts!
- sound of door slamming - honey, I'm off to the patent office !
I only have a modem here and the closest I can get to a system that has some packages on it without sitting here waiting for three weeks to download is by running Knoppix, which is based on Debian.
My servers (all 19 of them) run RHE...
On another note, I get the Debian bit and I know what linux is, but what's this GNU prefix ?
Unfortunately they have been subverted to turn a meritocracy (the workplace tends to cause the 'best' or 'most capable' to bubble to the top in a non-unionized company) into a situation of aristocracy based on seniority and lots of potential for graft. It's just another power structure preying on the 'newcomers' to the unionized company.
A *MUCH* more fair system would be non-unionized but with every employee an automatic shareholder based on the time worked with the company. That way you can't get exploited because the profits will flow back into your pockets and the longer you work the more stock you've got, or if you are more of a short term person, you can exchange that stock for instant cash.
Why do you think the wages there are so much lower, it's not all cost of living. These people are prepared to work under conditions and for compensations that are very much reminiscent of the situation here about 100 years ago, including child labour and modern forms of wage slavery.
One disadvantage of this motor compared with PM motors is that it runs pretty high revs to make it's maximum power which implies gearing of some sort.
If this thing works in reverse it would be a nice basis for a windmill with electronic braking though ! As soon as you hit your target RPM you start firing the motor in the opposite direction.
But feel free to bandy the 'it will help catch criminals' argument around some more, when you wake up from your dream it will probably be too late to do anything about it.
The Germans during the occupation had access to ID cards, but not to all powerful computers that were capable of tracking individuals movements, and if they would have I can tell you that the resistance movements in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Spain wouldn't have stood a chance of staying in one piece very long because the various collaborators would have been easily tracked through proximity analysis. ID card technology of 2005 would no longer be forgeable by someone in their kitchen either, and fakes would be instantly detectable the moment they're swiped.
Citizen JM6553542 wishes you a great day.