Man, it'd be awesome if people got off the worship of money and loved their neighbor. Somehow it doesn't seem likely thats going to happen in a flash.
I agree it'd be awesome.
The important thing is to make sure you do it. If you're nice to one person, that may change their outlook and be nice to another, who may end up being nice to another...until eventually everyone is nice to everyone else.
Now, if one person practices Jesus' message with everyone, there's a higher chance that those others will become interested in His message and want to learn more, or at the very least soaks up the intent.
Call me optimistic, if you'd like, but it's what we're directed to do...
I once wrote a program in high school (Turbo Pascal, whoo!) that used variable names of 'this', 'thing', 'that', 'thingy', 'thatthing', etc. For some strange reason, the teacher had me rewrite it.:)
In reality, we were testing to see if he actually read any of our source, as they'd always come back with the same markings on the first page only. Apparently, he at least read the variable declarations...
Interesting...so by 2009, all used cars will have to have this device installed.
I guess that'll kill the resale value of many classics. I wouldn't expect many shops in New Mexico that specialize in restoration to be very happy about this. I mean, do they seriously think that they're going to get somebody to put this device on their Model T? Gullwing Mercedes?
Tell you one thing, if this law comes to my state, I'll either move, or circumvent it. No way are my MGs having these things on them...
The price on this thing is flying (pun intended) upwards at an astronomical (atmospherical?) rate. When I checked it 15 minutes ago, it was just over 4 mil. It's up to 8.1 mil right now...
In a class full of programmers who were tasked with writing the flight control software for airplanes, they were told to break off into groups.
After getting to know their groupmates, the professor called them to attention.
"Okay, you've met your groups. How many of you, if you were on an airplane waiting to take off, would get off the plane if you learned that your group had written the flight software?"
All but one person raised their hand. The professor was intrigued, so he asked the lone person why, exactly, he'd remain on board when even his groupmates said they'd get off.
"Because," replied the student, "if my group wrote the software, the plane wouldn't move, let alone take off."
Heck, could've been me. I sold it about a year ago. I should really dig up the emails...
At any rate, that should be a pretty interesting project. Theoretically it should work. Then again, as someone (forget who) once said: In theory, reality and theory would be identical. In reality, they're not.
Well, hey, glad to hear that someone is still using those bitchin' PDAs.
I had an AST Gripad 2390, until I sold it to someone here on Slashdot. Good little PDA, did everything I needed it to. I even had, at one point in time, a terminal emulator for it, so I could hook the serial cable into my 486 Linux box and use it to display console messages.
The Gridpad/Zoomer was configured out of the box in non-windowed mode, just like today's WinCE devices, but it was possible to hack the configuration files and force it into 'Advanced mode', which would give you real windows and a desktop with icons, etc. Very cool.
How big would a multistory with 140 acres of parking room be?
Wait! I know this one. At about 43,560 square feet per acre, you're looking at a building that covers 6,098,400 sqaure feet. Now, if you did that in four stories, it'd be 1,524,600 sqaure feet per level. In reality, you could do two buildings of two stories, and still have lots of room around them. They'd be really really big buildings, but I bet it's not impossible.
I think the reason that analog watches, as well as some other technologies, stick around is due to nostalgia. There's something that clicks inside some people when they see an analog watch. It says class and elegance, which lots of people associate with a bygone era.
I know that every time I look at my analog watch, I remember my grandfathers old wind up pocket watch. I remember wanting to play with that watch instead of having my own super 1337 digital watch.
That's the one! It's not handy (dang job), so I couldn't confirm.
It's interesting that they switched chipsets. Is that a result of Cisco purchasing them? I have a version 3 card (uh-oh...here I go with the specifics of the card without it nearby) that is the same chipset as the older one I have.
Hey, as long as we're selling old hardware, I have 5 Netframe 9800s. 1 has all four PPro 200s (1MB cache -- those chips will also work in the Micron W6-Li board), 2 have two CPUs, the other 2 are parts.
C'mon, who doesn't want a big chassis with hot-swappable fans, hot-swappable PCI slots, hot-swappable 8 drive RAID arrays... ??
I disagree on asthetics, anyways. My main reason for building a HTPC is simple: I already have all the components through other means and aquisitions, with the exception of an LCD projector. $500 on eBay, and I have a full theater.
I don't care about asthetics for two reasons: 1) the system will be behind the main seating area in a cupboard that's closed (but vented to avoid overheating issues), and 2) when I'm watching a movie, I'm actually watching the movie, not the equipment. Sure, when I get bored with a show, I may gaze at the equipment from time to time, but not necessarily when I'm at my own place. It's more to see what other people are using.
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Man, it'd be awesome if people got off the worship of money and loved their neighbor. Somehow it doesn't seem likely thats going to happen in a flash.
I agree it'd be awesome.
The important thing is to make sure you do it. If you're nice to one person, that may change their outlook and be nice to another, who may end up being nice to another...until eventually everyone is nice to everyone else.
Now, if one person practices Jesus' message with everyone, there's a higher chance that those others will become interested in His message and want to learn more, or at the very least soaks up the intent.
Call me optimistic, if you'd like, but it's what we're directed to do...
Indeed. To see what it used to look like, we have to look back further, to 2002.
Here's the 'correct' page
Did you catch the name on that press release?
James Roberts. Must be another brother. Or perhaps the guys father? Nephew?
Not vaporware. Right.
I once wrote a program in high school (Turbo Pascal, whoo!) that used variable names of 'this', 'thing', 'that', 'thingy', 'thatthing', etc. For some strange reason, the teacher had me rewrite it. :)
In reality, we were testing to see if he actually read any of our source, as they'd always come back with the same markings on the first page only. Apparently, he at least read the variable declarations...
Interesting...so by 2009, all used cars will have to have this device installed.
I guess that'll kill the resale value of many classics. I wouldn't expect many shops in New Mexico that specialize in restoration to be very happy about this. I mean, do they seriously think that they're going to get somebody to put this device on their Model T? Gullwing Mercedes?
Tell you one thing, if this law comes to my state, I'll either move, or circumvent it. No way are my MGs having these things on them...
My friend from India says our beer is like water compared to some of the beers they have.
Obligatory Simpson's joke:
"Me flunk English? That's unpossible!"
The price on this thing is flying (pun intended) upwards at an astronomical (atmospherical?) rate. When I checked it 15 minutes ago, it was just over 4 mil. It's up to 8.1 mil right now...
Crazy.
Ooh, that's like this joke I heard:
In a class full of programmers who were tasked with writing the flight control software for airplanes, they were told to break off into groups.
After getting to know their groupmates, the professor called them to attention.
"Okay, you've met your groups. How many of you, if you were on an airplane waiting to take off, would get off the plane if you learned that your group had written the flight software?"
All but one person raised their hand. The professor was intrigued, so he asked the lone person why, exactly, he'd remain on board when even his groupmates said they'd get off.
"Because," replied the student, "if my group wrote the software, the plane wouldn't move, let alone take off."
Heck, could've been me. I sold it about a year ago. I should really dig up the emails...
At any rate, that should be a pretty interesting project. Theoretically it should work. Then again, as someone (forget who) once said: In theory, reality and theory would be identical. In reality, they're not.
Well, hey, glad to hear that someone is still using those bitchin' PDAs.
I had an AST Gripad 2390, until I sold it to someone here on Slashdot. Good little PDA, did everything I needed it to. I even had, at one point in time, a terminal emulator for it, so I could hook the serial cable into my 486 Linux box and use it to display console messages.
The Gridpad/Zoomer was configured out of the box in non-windowed mode, just like today's WinCE devices, but it was possible to hack the configuration files and force it into 'Advanced mode', which would give you real windows and a desktop with icons, etc. Very cool.
You have commented all that Microsoft code already. Holy Crap that is fast.
/* This is crap. Just taking up memory */ /* Again, more crap. */ /* Oh here's something new -- crap */
Well, it's not that hard when you think about it. His comments are largely thus:
(some code here)
(more code)
(yet more code)
(Actually, I got two as I had a SMP box at the time!)
I didn't realize Happy Meal's came in multi-proc. Hm. Learn something new every day.
Linux: Strong enough for a server, GUI balanced for a desktop.
I nominate this as the official tagline of Linux.
How big would a multistory with 140 acres of parking room be?
Wait! I know this one. At about 43,560 square feet per acre, you're looking at a building that covers 6,098,400 sqaure feet. Now, if you did that in four stories, it'd be 1,524,600 sqaure feet per level. In reality, you could do two buildings of two stories, and still have lots of room around them. They'd be really really big buildings, but I bet it's not impossible.
But what do I do with the battery afterwards? Do I dispose of it in fire? :)
Which would indicate that these 'analog displays' that the story is about aren't really analog at all.
The other option is that the speakers are analog in the same way that the Ambient meters are analog.
Are we getting into semantics here?
Oooh, a couple of Sparcstation IPX's. I'll take 'em! Not that I need any more Sun hardware...
...he bought his first car by trading Magic cards for it. As I recall, it was a rather nice Honda Accord.
Wonder what happened to him...
I think the reason that analog watches, as well as some other technologies, stick around is due to nostalgia. There's something that clicks inside some people when they see an analog watch. It says class and elegance, which lots of people associate with a bygone era.
I know that every time I look at my analog watch, I remember my grandfathers old wind up pocket watch. I remember wanting to play with that watch instead of having my own super 1337 digital watch.
That's the one! It's not handy (dang job), so I couldn't confirm.
It's interesting that they switched chipsets. Is that a result of Cisco purchasing them? I have a version 3 card (uh-oh...here I go with the specifics of the card without it nearby) that is the same chipset as the older one I have.
Thanks for the correction.
Hey, as long as we're selling old hardware, I have 5 Netframe 9800s. 1 has all four PPro 200s (1MB cache -- those chips will also work in the Micron W6-Li board), 2 have two CPUs, the other 2 are parts.
C'mon, who doesn't want a big chassis with hot-swappable fans, hot-swappable PCI slots, hot-swappable 8 drive RAID arrays... ??
Priced to sell!
At the moment they are all useless to Linux users.
Really? I regulary connect up to my network using a Linksys WFC11 PC Card in my IBM Thinkpad 600E running Red Hat 8.0.
Just because Linksys doesn't release the driver, doesn't mean there isn't one out there. It's just a Prism2 card underneath, afterall.
It looks fantastic. I can't wait to try it on my iPaw 3630 (it will run on the 3630, right??)
I disagree on asthetics, anyways. My main reason for building a HTPC is simple: I already have all the components through other means and aquisitions, with the exception of an LCD projector. $500 on eBay, and I have a full theater.
I don't care about asthetics for two reasons: 1) the system will be behind the main seating area in a cupboard that's closed (but vented to avoid overheating issues), and 2) when I'm watching a movie, I'm actually watching the movie, not the equipment. Sure, when I get bored with a show, I may gaze at the equipment from time to time, but not necessarily when I'm at my own place. It's more to see what other people are using.