There is one route all information must go through in order to be processed by the brain, which is the nervous system and specifically the optical and auditory nerve. Taking this to its logical conclusion, the corporations will buy the human genome and engineer "security devices" into the required nerves. Attempting to circumvent this and experience something which the corporations do not wish you to sense is of course going to be highly illegal and dangerous, so reproductive sex will be completely outlawed for a start.
1> They weren't fighting for the glory of England. They were fighting for the British Empire, which was trying to create a buffer zone between Russia and India. This included Welsh, Scots and Irish troops, too. Whatever else Mel Gibson and IRA apologists would like you to believe.
2> The uniform was still the redcoat. Great for getting picked off at a distance. The Afghanis must have laughed their asses off.
3> One tenth of the worlds land mines are in Afghanistan. They particularly concentrated near the borders. A little farwell present from the Soviets. For this simple reason, I doubt if any massive land invasion is on the cards. On the other hand, it's imperative to get rid of the Taliban..tough call.
I'll wager that you are mistaken about this: the
loser has to nick a towel from the station and give it to the winner.
Re:Would Satelites and Electronic Surveillance do
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Well, at the time Radar was in it's infancy and the data wasn't always reliable and the techies had problems getting the military to believe radar reports were accurate. Over in the UK, which at the time had an even more pressing need for good radar detection systems radar still could not be relied upon to give accurate data. If you want to find out more about this, I reccomend you check out Arthur C. Clarke's ( yes, *that* A.C.C. -- he was involved ) Glide Path. It's one of the more interesting accounts of technical culture meeting military and management culture that will still strike a few resonances today.
The technology changes. The idiots don't.
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Nice idea, but doesn't it double the chance of faliure? I mean, think how stupid you'd look if the asteroid lander failed and your orbiter was still up.. I suppose you could always leave it
there and send another asteroid lander up instead.
Hmm. Why not make the orbiter permenant and manned. Ah, yes, I do believe there is a project
along these lines!
Canada, Northern / Western Europe, Singapore / Hong Kong / Japan ( and a few more ) all have decent standards of living. All have advantages and have all have drawbacks, depending on what field you work in, what languages you speak, and what elements of personal freedom you deem important. The USA isn't #1 for everything any more than any of the others though.
QWERTY keyboard: 90% of my bugs are typoes due to the existence of this horrible unergonmic, wrist -smashing, finger - biting monster.
Intel CPU architecture : Well, do you really think 8 registers is enough, and how long is
it before the 4GB address limit begins to suck
as bad as the 640Kb limit did? The Motorola 68k
chips were so much nicer..
Pascal, Basic, C# : Please somebody, put these out of our misery.
Pylons & overhead cables for power delivery : Blots on the landscape, and Telsa's wireless power transmission would have worked.
Space Shuttle : Still a disaster waiting to happen, an ablative shield around a bomb with 1,000s of tiles to stick on..only one tile has to fall off.
Gopher : Didn't we have this one disinterred recently ?
I'm sorry, but the muder rate in Washington D.C. is higher than that in Belfast. I know D.C.is anolamous but in Europe, that murder rate would be regarded as a low - level civil war.
Viva Europa! Europa Uber Alles..etc, etc..(reprise and fade)
GNU C++ has the dinky (IMHO) feature in that it lets you nest function declarations ala Pascal thus..
void grandaddy_function(void) { int eger; eger = 2; void daddy_function(void) { void sprog_function(void) { int eger; eger = 5; printf("eger == %d\n", eger); } } printf("eger == %d\n", eger); }
Will print out
eger == 5 eger == 2
I know the rationale for not including this feature in 'C' (overly complex to implement) but not for non-inclusion in 'C++' (apart from religous issues due to Pascal aversion, which I'm sure no one with any claim to intellectual respectablilty addles their mind with). It is a useful abstraticion sometimes, and avoids the overhead of having to create an entire object just to inherit one or two small methods..but that's my humble POV.
The way around this is to build a distro that gives you an absolute "minimal" install, kernel, modules, gnu tools, and from that system, install selected components - X, TeX, Emacs, rather than install the lot in one go. This has two advantages.
1> If you have a working system then install pagcakge X, the set of possible things that have been broken are much smaller.
2> Faster time to get a working system up and access to troubleshooting documentation.
This is a straightforward lie. The UK's DTI has been doing a survey of the prices of goods in countries outside the UK and EU and comparing them to domestic UK (and EU ad naueseam) prices. DVD's were one of the items that were significantly more pricey inside the UK (and EU, blardy blardy blah). I quote from the article
"A recent Department of Trade and Industry survey identified DVDs as being more expensive here than in the United States"
And here is a bit more about that survey..
International American Toilet Paper Conspiracy ==============================================
I wonder if this means that the forthcoming port of Delphi / C++ Builder will lean to GTK / Gnome? Or, worse yet, will be Corel Linux only? That'd be very annoying.
What on earth is "Promiscuous Browsing"? Given the magnitude of the problem, is this not a euphumism for "dont browse at all"? Eeek. No more Slashdot:-(
John Fred.
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Yeah, but suppose your hydroponics fail and you have food for only three months? Lots of things can go wrong in space and explosive decompression is only one. Apollo 13 wouldn't have made it back from a Mars mission.
The logical progression is still Earth Orbit Station -> Moon Base -> Mars Base -> ?
The code in question that tested if the Dialog box was to be popped up or not was a test to see if the address of a certain codepage was what it was expected to be in Ms-Dos. The test had no relevance to anything at all to do with Windows or Dos interaction. It was heavily encrypted and the error message opaque and threatening. It did not mention the OS. The code itself was highly encrypted and protected by anti debugger techinques. They were pulling a fast one by making DR-DOS seem potentially unstable and trying to hide it.
The dissasembly of this code - the "ARRD Detection Code" was published in Dr. Dobbs shortly after it's discovery. It's probably still in their archives. I remember this with some clarity as reading this article was the thing event that turned me from pro to anti Microsoft.
It's interesting that there are similar writers of the period who produced a medium sized body of work, but are remembered for that "one great book", eg Daniel Keyes with "Flowers for Algernon" and George R Stewart with "Earth Abides". I wonder if it was to do with the paucity of publishing opportunities for full length SF novels at the time - some potentially good writers never got the chance to really extend themselves in the novelistic form.
I can only agree with you that a review of Olaf Stapledon is overdue. He horizons are wider than anybody else's before or since. I'm reading his "Star Maker" right now, which spans most of the history of the universe. If you read SF for the 'sensawunder', then Stapledon's your man!
There was a sequel, but I understand that it was incomplete and patched up for publication after his death. The impact of the work is probably lesser (after all, how can you write a sequel to the end of the world?)
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There is one route all information must go through in order to be processed by the brain, which is the nervous system and specifically the optical and auditory nerve. Taking this to its logical conclusion, the corporations will buy the human genome and engineer "security devices" into the required nerves. Attempting to circumvent this and experience something which the corporations do not wish you to sense is of course going to be highly illegal and dangerous, so reproductive sex will be completely outlawed for a start.
You thought 1984 was bad?
Just a couple of points.
1> They weren't fighting for the glory of England. They were fighting for the British Empire, which was trying to create a buffer zone between Russia and India. This included Welsh, Scots and Irish troops, too. Whatever else Mel Gibson and IRA apologists would like you to believe.
2> The uniform was still the redcoat. Great for getting picked off at a distance. The Afghanis must have laughed their asses off.
3> One tenth of the worlds land mines are in Afghanistan. They particularly concentrated near the borders. A little farwell present from the Soviets. For this simple reason, I doubt if any massive land invasion is on the cards. On the other hand, it's imperative to get rid of the Taliban..tough call.
I'll wager that you are mistaken about this: the
loser has to nick a towel from the station and give it to the winner.
Well, at the time Radar was in it's infancy and the data wasn't always reliable and the techies had problems getting the military to believe radar reports were accurate. Over in the UK, which at the time had an even more pressing need for good radar detection systems radar still could not be relied upon to give accurate data. If you want to find out more about this, I reccomend you check out Arthur C. Clarke's ( yes, *that* A.C.C. -- he was involved ) Glide Path. It's one of the more interesting accounts of technical culture meeting military and management culture that will still strike a few resonances today. The technology changes. The idiots don't.
Nice idea, but doesn't it double the chance of faliure? I mean, think how stupid you'd look if the asteroid lander failed and your orbiter was still up.. I suppose you could always leave it
there and send another asteroid lander up instead.
Hmm. Why not make the orbiter permenant and manned. Ah, yes, I do believe there is a project
along these lines!
The only correct answer is: It all depends.
Canada, Northern / Western Europe, Singapore / Hong Kong / Japan ( and a few more ) all have decent standards of living. All have advantages and have all have drawbacks, depending on what field you work in, what languages you speak, and what elements of personal freedom you deem important. The USA isn't #1 for everything any more than any of the others though.
Get a round the world ticket and do a tour
It's the only way to decide for sure.
What about the flip side?
QWERTY keyboard: 90% of my bugs are typoes due to the existence of this horrible unergonmic, wrist -smashing, finger - biting monster.
Intel CPU architecture : Well, do you really think 8 registers is enough, and how long is
it before the 4GB address limit begins to suck
as bad as the 640Kb limit did? The Motorola 68k
chips were so much nicer..
Pascal, Basic, C# : Please somebody, put these out of our misery.
Pylons & overhead cables for power delivery : Blots on the landscape, and Telsa's wireless power transmission would have worked.
Space Shuttle : Still a disaster waiting to happen, an ablative shield around a bomb with 1,000s of tiles to stick on..only one tile has to fall off.
Gopher : Didn't we have this one disinterred recently ?
I'm sorry, but the muder rate in Washington D.C. is higher than that in Belfast. I know D.C.is anolamous but in Europe, that murder rate would be regarded as a low - level civil war.
Viva Europa! Europa Uber Alles..etc, etc..(reprise and fade)
Since when were hydrogen and oxygen fossil fuels, eh?
I'm not knocking VB, only the perception that similar tools don't exist on other platforms.
Go have a look at
http://www.maxreason.com/software/xbasic/xbasic
It's quite nice!
GNU C++ has the dinky (IMHO) feature in that it lets you nest function declarations ala Pascal thus ..
void grandaddy_function(void) {
int eger;
eger = 2;
void daddy_function(void) {
void sprog_function(void) {
int eger;
eger = 5;
printf("eger == %d\n", eger);
}
}
printf("eger == %d\n", eger);
}
Will print out
eger == 5
eger == 2
I know the rationale for not including this feature in 'C' (overly complex to implement) but not for non-inclusion in 'C++' (apart from religous issues due to Pascal aversion, which I'm sure no one with any claim to intellectual respectablilty addles their mind with). It is a useful abstraticion sometimes, and avoids the overhead of having to create an entire object just to inherit one or two small methods..but
that's my humble POV.
What is yours?
The way around this is to build a distro that gives you an absolute "minimal" install, kernel, modules, gnu tools, and from that system, install selected components - X, TeX, Emacs, rather than install the lot in one go. This has two advantages.
1> If you have a working system then install pagcakge X, the set of possible things that have been broken are much smaller.
2> Faster time to get a working system up and access to troubleshooting documentation.
", does anybody know if there are any pieces of DOS code which purpose is unknown or unclear? "
Only the ARRD detection code
This is a straightforward lie. The UK's DTI has been doing a survey of the prices of goods in countries outside the UK and EU and comparing them to domestic UK (and EU ad naueseam) prices.
DVD's were one of the items that were significantly more pricey inside the UK (and EU, blardy blardy blah). I quote from the article
"A recent Department of Trade and Industry survey identified DVDs as being more expensive here than in the United States"
And here is a bit more about that survey..
International American Toilet Paper Conspiracy
==============================================
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/000219/27/a0dxr.html
I wonder if this means that the forthcoming port of Delphi / C++ Builder will lean to GTK / Gnome?
Or, worse yet, will be Corel Linux only? That'd be very annoying.
Gotta keep an eye on these guys.
What on earth is "Promiscuous Browsing"? Given the magnitude of the problem, is this not a euphumism for "dont browse at all"? Eeek. No more Slashdot
John Fred.
Yeah, but suppose your hydroponics fail and you have food for only three months? Lots of things can go wrong in space and explosive decompression is only one. Apollo 13 wouldn't have made it back from a Mars mission.
The logical progression is still Earth Orbit Station -> Moon Base -> Mars Base -> ?
John Fred.
"I think you are refering to the fact that the translation units can be upgraded via software. Software which comes over the internet
Couldn't that result in the security hole to end all security holes, the breaching of which ends up completely changing your CPU instruction set?
The code in question that tested if the Dialog box was to be popped up or not was a test to see if the address of a certain codepage was what it
was expected to be in Ms-Dos. The test had no relevance to anything at all to do with Windows or Dos interaction. It was heavily encrypted and the error message opaque and threatening. It did not mention the OS. The code itself was highly encrypted and protected by anti debugger techinques. They were pulling a fast one by making DR-DOS seem potentially unstable and trying to hide it.
The dissasembly of this code - the "ARRD Detection Code" was published in Dr. Dobbs shortly after it's discovery. It's probably still in their archives. I remember this with some clarity as reading this article was the thing event that turned me from pro to anti Microsoft.
It's interesting that there are similar writers
of the period who produced a medium sized
body of work, but are remembered for that
"one great book", eg Daniel Keyes with "Flowers
for Algernon" and George R Stewart with "Earth Abides". I wonder if it was to do with the
paucity of publishing opportunities for full
length SF novels at the time - some potentially
good writers never got the chance to really extend
themselves in the novelistic form.
Hmm.
I can only agree with you that a review of Olaf Stapledon is overdue. He horizons are wider than
anybody else's before or since. I'm reading his
"Star Maker" right now, which spans most of the
history of the universe. If you read SF for the
'sensawunder', then Stapledon's your man!
There was a sequel, but I understand that it
was incomplete and patched up for publication
after his death. The impact of the work is
probably lesser (after all, how can you
write a sequel to the end of the world?)
This is drilled into every neophyte who goes near
a computer. Why shouldn't it apply to the human race, too?
Hard to tell : there's a whole bunch of candidates.
1> The Bible. Started as a Hebraic oral tradition so hard to date accurately.
2> The Epic of Gilgamesh. The Babylonian favourite. Still as relevant today as then. You could make a film out of it.
3> The I Ching. Dates back a long way: came
to us in it's present form from the Duke of Chou.
4> The Maharabrata must be pretty old. Again, began as an oral tradition.
The fact that many ancient books begin as an
oral tradition lost in the mists of
makes accurate dating difficult, I guess.
I'm sure there's more.
Er, I just got 503 from freshmeat.
Great start to the partnership