Simply because the infrastructure of the soon coming new century can, in principle, allow
people to become true individuals and fsck the pressures of the society, doesn't mean it
will necessarily happen. Even here in Finland some 'authorities' predict things will change
for real: people start to think for themselves, dress individually instead of mass trends,
do what they like instead of what the society expects, and so on.
They have been able to do that all the time, in principle. IMHO there have always been those
who follow the trends, and those who think, question and revolutionize. I doubt the overly
hyped technology will suddenly turn every person into the latter group. On the other hand,
societies have undergone evolution and revolution thanks to individuals
with Score: 1337, Insightful. Those with a strong self-consciousness and fresh ideas have
found their ways to change the world, regardless of the absolute level of technology.
I bet something like this book was written around the start of the industrial revolution
too..
You're right, but isn't one of the basic assumptions of economics that people are rational, which they obviously are not.
Here in Finland (home of Nokia:) many people like getting a new phone every year, though added features may only be looks and candy, such as the game nibbles.
However, with the advent of GPRS (and maybe UMTS some day:/ ) there will be a huge market for cell phones in the coming years as well. True mobile IP, that's my kind of candy. 8-)
Erm, flash != static RAM. SRAM consumes far less power than DRAM, so it is more practical to make a 'disk' using SRAM and a tiny battery, but not indefinitely. AFAIK SRAM is also faster than DRAM but more expensive, so it's not used extensively.
Also, flash memories have a limited number of write/erase cycles, which makes them even more impractical for a RAM.
Kewl, yes. But it's so fscking limited to that one project, though there must be a possibility to hack it for new programs. How about complete PCs on a PCI that you could use for a Beowulf or something in one case? Or simply run a s@h client on it just as well.
-- Q: How many/.ers does it take to hack a light bulb?
True. Text messages AFAIK were invented for brief informative announcements, e.g. for service and delivery companies, but nowadays teenagers use them for chatting. It costs a fortune in comparison to voice chatting, but it has a vague k3wl factor. In fact, the reason practically everyone in Finland has a cellphone is just that, not that they'd really need one.
The thing described by the article is nothing but a conventional hovercraft in a somewhat reduced form factor, and it has very little to do with the nifty things os Back To The Future.
However, real geeks' hoverboards are hinted at here. They are solid state devices, based on magnetic confinement of ionized air to form the air cushion. It might draw too much current to be practical, though. Anyway, I'm drooling on these to become practical, as they would be infinitely more k3w1 than the bulky hovercraft thingies.
Just use one kind of indentation. I can't imagine anyone wanting to type 8 spaces at each line..;-) besides, as oinkoink pointed out, there are good editors with autoindentation (I personally use jed).
IMHO indentation is more intuitive than {} or whatever. When I read a long text (not necessarily code) there are often paragraphs that are indented for clear distinction from main text. This is how human perception works - large variations are more obvious than single punctuation marks. Imagine Ayer's Rock being separated from the surrounding desert by 12-pt {} only, instead of 'indentation'! 8-)
At the risk of starting a flame war, here goes: Python.
The syntax is very intuitive: blocks are denoted by indentation, nothing has to be declared. It is very easy to just start hacking on an idea without knowing much Python, learning from the docs while proceeding.
Although not a 'real' compiled language, I'd recommend it as the introduction to ideas of programming. After that, learning other languages is more or less a matter of syntax only. Plus, it great for all kinds of scripting..:-)
Complete Idiot's Guide to Multiprocessing called..
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Who's Afraid Of C++?
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KDE: an easy, accessible GUI designed to attract users of some proprietary non-operating systems to the GNU world, while not being exactly GNU itself (Qt, IIRC). Even looks as ugly as those NOSs.
Gnome: a hack in itself, hugely configurable, designed to attract 31337 h4x0r5 from the console. Looks überk3wl. Made of k3wlar.
WASHINGTON (Routers) - The judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial on Wednesday questioned a government plan to split Mr. Gates in two, and praised an outside proposal to break off his 3.5" floppy.
Put two of those flywheels spinning in opposite directions. They have to be adjusted to spin at equal speeds. Then you will have eliminated any gyro effects, because the net angular momentum == 0.
IIRC the article mentioned that satellites would use this configuration, and they could adjust orientations by deliberately changing the balance between the speeds, thus introducing a net angular momentum.
If AMD and Intel entered a real men's competition to see who's who, instead of "my proc has a more kinky name than yours" peeing contest, it would be the sports called Pentathlon.
Well, now that we started drifting from the original subject, we might just as well finnish with it. The first cellphone that was nothing more than a handset (not one of those luggable monsters) was Finnish. That was in 1987 and it was called Mobira Cityman. In fact, this one was a luggable monster since it weighed over a pound, but it was a handset-only anyway.
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They have been able to do that all the time, in principle. IMHO there have always been those who follow the trends, and those who think, question and revolutionize. I doubt the overly hyped technology will suddenly turn every person into the latter group. On the other hand, societies have undergone evolution and revolution thanks to individuals with Score: 1337, Insightful. Those with a strong self-consciousness and fresh ideas have found their ways to change the world, regardless of the absolute level of technology.
I bet something like this book was written around the start of the industrial revolution too..
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Here in Finland (home of Nokia :) many people like getting a new phone every year, though added features may only be looks and candy, such as the game nibbles.
However, with the advent of GPRS (and maybe UMTS some day :/ ) there will be a huge market for cell phones in the coming years as well. True mobile IP, that's my kind of candy. 8-)
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Also, flash memories have a limited number of write/erase cycles, which makes them even more impractical for a RAM.
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echo "your text" | tr AETSO 43750
which changes A's into 4's and so on.
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The ones we remember after ten or so years are bound to be good.. or is it the crappiest pieces ever that get the most attention? :-/
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ROTFLMAO. Honestly.
Seriously, though, I'm planning to do some building and I'm waiting to get some of that 2"x4". Hoping Colonel Torvalds gets to it soon.
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True h4x0rs don't use distros. They write their entire system with binary editors.
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Kewl, yes. But it's so fscking limited to that one project, though there must be a possibility to hack it for new programs. How about complete PCs on a PCI that you could use for a Beowulf or something in one case? Or simply run a s@h client on it just as well.
/.ers does it take to hack a light bulb?
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Q: How many
..or there is, a pun you didn't get. 'sch' is the German equivalent for 'sh' and the day ('Tag' in German) took place in Germany. ;-}.
Maybe, but you may have noticed 'S' is right next to 'A' and true Klingon warriors never cehck their tyipng.
True. Text messages AFAIK were invented for brief informative announcements, e.g. for service and delivery companies, but nowadays teenagers use them for chatting. It costs a fortune in comparison to voice chatting, but it has a vague k3wl factor. In fact, the reason practically everyone in Finland has a cellphone is just that, not that they'd really need one.
However, real geeks' hoverboards are hinted at here. They are solid state devices, based on magnetic confinement of ionized air to form the air cushion. It might draw too much current to be practical, though. Anyway, I'm drooling on these to become practical, as they would be infinitely more k3w1 than the bulky hovercraft thingies.
IMHO indentation is more intuitive than {} or whatever. When I read a long text (not necessarily code) there are often paragraphs that are indented for clear distinction from main text. This is how human perception works - large variations are more obvious than single punctuation marks. Imagine Ayer's Rock being separated from the surrounding desert by 12-pt {} only, instead of 'indentation'! 8-)
The syntax is very intuitive: blocks are denoted by indentation, nothing has to be declared. It is very easy to just start hacking on an idea without knowing much Python, learning from the docs while proceeding.
Although not a 'real' compiled language, I'd recommend it as the introduction to ideas of programming. After that, learning other languages is more or less a matter of syntax only. Plus, it great for all kinds of scripting.. :-)
;-)
I'm more than happy with my K6-3D, especially with everything I've compiled with PGCC's K6 optimizations (even the kernel).
KDE: an easy, accessible GUI designed to attract users of some proprietary non-operating systems to the GNU world, while not being exactly GNU itself (Qt, IIRC). Even looks as ugly as those NOSs.
Gnome: a hack in itself, hugely configurable, designed to attract 31337 h4x0r5 from the console. Looks überk3wl. Made of k3wlar.
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WASHINGTON (Routers) - The judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial on Wednesday questioned a government plan to split Mr. Gates in two, and praised an outside proposal to break off his 3.5" floppy.
IIRC the article mentioned that satellites would use this configuration, and they could adjust orientations by deliberately changing the balance between the speeds, thus introducing a net angular momentum.
If AMD and Intel entered a real men's competition to see who's who, instead of "my proc has a more kinky name than yours" peeing contest, it would be the sports called Pentathlon.
Well, now that we started drifting from the original subject, we might just as well finnish with it. The first cellphone that was nothing more than a handset (not one of those luggable monsters) was Finnish. That was in 1987 and it was called Mobira Cityman. In fact, this one was a luggable monster since it weighed over a pound, but it was a handset-only anyway.
Don't forget Linux and the mobile phone, from the same country as IRC.
*ROTFL* Oh yeah, you mean HEAVY water: one pound of it weighs two pounds.