Indeed. Haven't watched more than five minutes without getting disgusted at the lowest-common-denominator approach, getting up, and turning it off in at least a year.
Well, that's what one of NASA's Mars plans calls for anyway now.:)
Of course, the 'buildings' are rather dinky...understandable when you consider that each has to be a) extremely strong to survive reentry and b) small enough to fit behind a sanely-sized heatshield.
Oh, I am.
Family decided to watch TV with dinner tonight...I watched for about two minutes and then picked up my plate and ate in the other room.
It just disgusted me how low the programming was aimed.
Reminds me of an old, crazy idea I had once...which would be to do a bus-topology network using sound cards.
As sound cards don't have some sort of GUID like an ethernet hwaddr, one channel of the stereo sound cable would be used for constantly broadcasting the node's address, and the other used for data.
Was never serious about it, but it was funny to think of...and now someone's actually DOING networking with audio cards!
This box is an Athlon TBird-800, with an Abit KT7-RAID mobo (VIA KT133 chipset), and the only problem I have is an occasional hardlock on startup (not more than once every 15 boots)
Other hardware: GF2 GTS, SBLive!. Busmastering PCI works fine, and IDE...no problems, except for the shoddy WD drive that I'm replacing as soon as possible.
(Yes, this box runs windows. Just a disclaimer)
I haven't watched TV in about a year, except for occasional glimpses while my couch-potato brother is glued to it and parents ask me to get him to do something. I don't miss it at all.
Ditto radio, except on the rare occasions that friend's CD/MP3 player is broken and we're in the car...silent drive bad. And even then, we go through considerable hassle (we've even extended the antenna on the car, for chrissakes) to try to pull SOMETHING decent out of the general crud out there
I also haven't eaten in a fast-food restaurant in months (not just the usual 'big-corps-bad' mentality, I'm opposed to their labor practices).
And I'm probably what you'd call a 'kid' (I'm 16).
It's really not that hard to do this...just don't watch/listen to anything that offends your intelligence.:)
Yes.
IPv6 TLDs are the same as IPv4 TLDs. There is no difference whatsoever for the end-user.
At the name-server end, the only difference is that IPv6 name to address mappings are an AAAA record, instead of the A record used for IPv4.
URLs are defined for all standardized Internet protocols.
pop3://mail.foo.org is a valid URL, as something like telnet://foo.org.
Yes, those as 'resource locators' make little sense, but it's legit.
X was beginning to become prevalent at the time, in fact...my (used) slab came with Xnext, an X11R...4, I think...server that ran in a WindowServer window. Also, NetInfo had parallels in the NIS/YP tools in existance at the time...
...Time-Warner reports a productivity drop of 25%
This is so spectacularly dumb that the words to describe how spectacularly dumb it is don't exist.
I mean...they're giving up flexible filtering, the platform-independance of POP3/IMAP, properly-formed headers on messages, and speed...
...for a.wav file, a stupidified excuse for a crappy mail client, the nastiness of another protocol layer, and all the horrible, horrible things that the AOL client software does to a Windows PC.
I usually make subsidary boxen out of 'em and their various supporting hardware.
(ie boxen for irc, icq, muds, and light browsing; low-end servers...)
But donating 'em is good too, and I wish my old school had done that more often - they had a literal huge closet full of slightly obsolete PowerMac G3s. Not that I like PMS much, but...that much processing power going to waste irritates me.
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I'm speaking with regards to my Win32 box; I'm already using mozilla on the Linux one
(Why do I have a win32 box? Games. That is why that box exists, why it will continue to exist until WINE becomes perfect or a lot of games get ported (and old ones backported) to Linux; don't try to persude me to switch on that machine).
Only thing stopping me from switching to Mozilla..
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...is the non-existance of a tabbed browsing feature/chrome. Look at http://www.netcaptor.com/ (browser I use on the winbox now, uses IE engine) for an example of that.
It's just so much easier to have every new window be a tab...popups never annoy me, taskbar buttons don't get unmanagably small, and so on, and so forth.
-Is- anyone working on something like this for Mozilla? I'd love to know.
...does the language proposed in this and the previous Apocalypse resemble Ruby very, very strongly?
Panobjectification with common accessor methods, cleaning up a lot of the syntactit warts, new class syntax...
I like it, personally. Ruby is a pretty neat language. And I have no complaints about Perl evolving towards being like it...
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Meh...My father used to work there, and I got to know the computer guy to a decent extent, and he generally tends to be on the clueful side.
My room contains boxen with the following keyboard layouts:
Sun Type 5c
Old IBM XT/AT (F-keys on side, good ctrl key, etc)
NeXT non-ADB
Standard 101-key with big backspace and little \
Standard 101-key with little backspace and big enter
Old Mac (pre-PPC) PowerBook
Oddball PC laptop
Apple Extended II
And you think -you- have problems?:P
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The Clarke novel about Titan you're thinking of is Imperial Earth.
There's also a rather good Baxter one, entitled Titan.
You mean -gripping- hand, right? :)
Indeed. Haven't watched more than five minutes without getting disgusted at the lowest-common-denominator approach, getting up, and turning it off in at least a year.
Well, that's what one of NASA's Mars plans calls for anyway now. :)
Of course, the 'buildings' are rather dinky...understandable when you consider that each has to be a) extremely strong to survive reentry and b) small enough to fit behind a sanely-sized heatshield.
I think that applies for most of the world's cities -and- suburbs.
Oh, I am.
Family decided to watch TV with dinner tonight...I watched for about two minutes and then picked up my plate and ate in the other room.
It just disgusted me how low the programming was aimed.
Reminds me of an old, crazy idea I had once...which would be to do a bus-topology network using sound cards.
As sound cards don't have some sort of GUID like an ethernet hwaddr, one channel of the stereo sound cable would be used for constantly broadcasting the node's address, and the other used for data.
Was never serious about it, but it was funny to think of...and now someone's actually DOING networking with audio cards!
This box is an Athlon TBird-800, with an Abit KT7-RAID mobo (VIA KT133 chipset), and the only problem I have is an occasional hardlock on startup (not more than once every 15 boots)
Other hardware: GF2 GTS, SBLive!. Busmastering PCI works fine, and IDE...no problems, except for the shoddy WD drive that I'm replacing as soon as possible.
(Yes, this box runs windows. Just a disclaimer)
I haven't watched TV in about a year, except for occasional glimpses while my couch-potato brother is glued to it and parents ask me to get him to do something. I don't miss it at all. :)
Ditto radio, except on the rare occasions that friend's CD/MP3 player is broken and we're in the car...silent drive bad. And even then, we go through considerable hassle (we've even extended the antenna on the car, for chrissakes) to try to pull SOMETHING decent out of the general crud out there
I also haven't eaten in a fast-food restaurant in months (not just the usual 'big-corps-bad' mentality, I'm opposed to their labor practices).
And I'm probably what you'd call a 'kid' (I'm 16).
It's really not that hard to do this...just don't watch/listen to anything that offends your intelligence.
Man, wish I had mod points. Great explanation.
Yes.
IPv6 TLDs are the same as IPv4 TLDs. There is no difference whatsoever for the end-user.
At the name-server end, the only difference is that IPv6 name to address mappings are an AAAA record, instead of the A record used for IPv4.
URLs are defined for all standardized Internet protocols.
pop3://mail.foo.org is a valid URL, as something like telnet://foo.org.
Yes, those as 'resource locators' make little sense, but it's legit.
Well, seeing as Ashcroft, the AG, is firmly in MS's pocket (http://www.opensecrets.org/)...
X was beginning to become prevalent at the time, in fact...my (used) slab came with Xnext, an X11R...4, I think...server that ran in a WindowServer window. Also, NetInfo had parallels in the NIS/YP tools in existance at the time...
NetInfo?
A herbicide loaded with dioxin, you mean.
Nasty shit.
...Time-Warner reports a productivity drop of 25% .wav file, a stupidified excuse for a crappy mail client, the nastiness of another protocol layer, and all the horrible, horrible things that the AOL client software does to a Windows PC.
This is so spectacularly dumb that the words to describe how spectacularly dumb it is don't exist.
I mean...they're giving up flexible filtering, the platform-independance of POP3/IMAP, properly-formed headers on messages, and speed...
...for a
I usually make subsidary boxen out of 'em and their various supporting hardware.
(ie boxen for irc, icq, muds, and light browsing; low-end servers...)
But donating 'em is good too, and I wish my old school had done that more often - they had a literal huge closet full of slightly obsolete PowerMac G3s. Not that I like PMS much, but...that much processing power going to waste irritates me.
I'm speaking with regards to my Win32 box; I'm already using mozilla on the Linux one
(Why do I have a win32 box? Games. That is why that box exists, why it will continue to exist until WINE becomes perfect or a lot of games get ported (and old ones backported) to Linux; don't try to persude me to switch on that machine).
...is the non-existance of a tabbed browsing feature/chrome. Look at http://www.netcaptor.com/ (browser I use on the winbox now, uses IE engine) for an example of that.
It's just so much easier to have every new window be a tab...popups never annoy me, taskbar buttons don't get unmanagably small, and so on, and so forth.
-Is- anyone working on something like this for Mozilla? I'd love to know.
...does the language proposed in this and the previous Apocalypse resemble Ruby very, very strongly?
Panobjectification with common accessor methods, cleaning up a lot of the syntactit warts, new class syntax...
I like it, personally. Ruby is a pretty neat language. And I have no complaints about Perl evolving towards being like it...
Meh...My father used to work there, and I got to know the computer guy to a decent extent, and he generally tends to be on the clueful side.
I take it that you're referring to the moribund OS/2 and not the still-living AIX...
My room contains boxen with the following keyboard layouts: :P
Sun Type 5c
Old IBM XT/AT (F-keys on side, good ctrl key, etc)
NeXT non-ADB
Standard 101-key with big backspace and little \
Standard 101-key with little backspace and big enter
Old Mac (pre-PPC) PowerBook
Oddball PC laptop
Apple Extended II
And you think -you- have problems?
X-Teq X-Setup lets you change the colors of BSODs.
:)