I too had the honor of being trained by Stevens back in 1994. He gave my company (IDD) an accelerated two-day version of UNIX System and Network programming. The man was a walking encyclopedia of UNIX programming knowledge, most of which he obtained by simply writing lots and lots of example code. He had an excellent teaching style and we all had a great time.
My 4 year old enjoys playing arcade classics and SNES games (via MAME and SNES9x) more than most new console games. Sure, he loves the eye candy in games like "Super Mario Sunshine", but he finds games like "Wizard of Wor", "Donkey Kong" and "XMen vs Capcom" more fun.
Many (most?) times games with simple rules are much more enjoyable than games with complex rules that require joysticks with 20 buttons.
Jim Blinn gave a nice talk on this subject back at the 1989 SIGGRAPH conference here in Boston. Not only did they create a last second canyon for the fly-thru, but also put in a solar flare in the corner of the screen to distract you from the hack.:-)
I've had these capabilities for a few years with my (already antiquated) Kyocera 6035 SmartPhone.
Palm VNC client and TopGun SSH are a bit of a strain on the phone's CPU, but still usable -- even over a dialup connection. It comes in handy if I need to access my servers when I'm away from my desk.
C'mon, this is a silly argument..NET is in production use in thousands of companies worldwide *without* Windows Server 2003. The CLR and supporting apps run just fine under Windows 2000 Server.
Pioneer 10 was just in the news the other day. After 30 years, NASA finally lost contact.
"Originally designed for a 21-month mission, Pioneer 10 lasted more than 30 years. It was a workhorse that far exceeded its warranty, and I guess you could say we got our money's worth," said Pioneer 10 Project Manager, Dr. Larry Lasher.
In his book "Secrets and Lies - Digital Security in a Networked World", Bruce Schneier said:
"Anyone who creates his or her own cryptographic primitive is either a genius or a fool. Given the genius/fool ratio for our species, the odds aren't very good."
This is going to require years of peer review and analysis before it's proven "unbreakable".
XP does not come with VNC preinstalled. You are probably thinking of Remote Desktop, which comes with XP Professional.
While VNC xfers bitmaps of the screen, Remote Desktop xfers low-level Windows API calls. This makes it much more efficient and very fast, even on a low speed connection.
I think laptops have branched into two different types:
truly portable versions that are lightweight, with few features, smaller screens, etc. These are meant more for "road warrior" types that are constantly on the road and don't want to lug around a 10 lb piece of plastic and metal.
portable desktops that have large screens, and features like CD-RW, DVD-RW, Zip drives, etc.
I prefer this type (I have a loaded Dell Inspiron 8200) as I rarely travel, but want the luxury of being able to take my desktop home, to meetings, etc.
The guys at Intellivision Productions have started porting various Intellivision games to cell phones. A demo was shown on the Screen Savers back in December.
Astrosmash on my phone...very very cool.
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...as spammers, idiots, and conservatives will use the system to call certain sites "crap"...
I'm assuming that the "idiots" you're referring to are liberals. Otherwise you'd come across as biased against conservatives.:-)
I encourage everyone to send email to umg@umusic.com and protest their decision to not follow the Red Book standard.
Here's what I just wrote:
I am an avid music buyer, and spend upwards of $500-1000 on CDs per year. As soon as I purchase a CD, I immediately convert the music to MP3 format so that I can play the music on my MP3 jukebox. I do not actually play the CDs directly any longer because it is not effiicient to do so.
Because of your non-compatible "CD" format, I cannot do this and therefore can not and will not purchase copy protected CDs.
Your actions in not following the standard Red Book CD format will cause many problems for music lovers and cost you many millions of dollars in sales. Please reconsider your unwise decision.
Hang on a sec. There are two different types of "standards":
Standards composed by standards bodies (e.g. HTML).
Standards which become standards due to their wide acceptance (e.g. PDF).
MS's DOC format is the latter type of standard. Many many MANY people use this format daily, and it's not going away any time soon.
As much as I'd rather have the world distribute formatted docs in HTML (or better yet XML + XSL), it's not going to happen. Trying to get people to distribute formatted docs as PDF files (which can be read on almost all graphical interfaces) is also a non-starter, as Acrobat is an add-on, and you can't simply save to PDF format. It's too much work for "normal" computer users to save to PDF (or RTF or even ASCII).
As much as we all hate to admit it, the problem being addressed in this forum is only a problem to a small percentage of email users. Most email users are running MS Office on Windows 98 or 2000, and they're not having any problems with the attachments.
We'll just need to bite the bullet and either read the Word docs with Open Source applications like AbiWord, or do as I do, which is to either run Windows (and MS Office) on a second machine or in VMWare.
Trying to get the vast majority of email users to change their habits because of a few people is most likely a waste of time.
Then again, how many of us actually do receive Word docs as attachments on a regular basis? Outside of a work environment (where Windows is the standard platform), I'd bet very few.
Actually, an even better (IMHO) solution is to run VMWare under Linux.
Here in my office I do 80% of my work under Linux (development, LaTeX, email, etc.) and whenever I need to access Word, Excel, etc. I simply fire up VMWare, boot it into Win2K and voila. Works like a charm.
VMWare isn't cheap (at US$299.00 it's at the high end of personal affordability), but well worth it.
Until there's a better solution for office suites under Linux, many of us will need to live with MS Office as a must have.
OK, so it's not for an 80's computer, but it's still an interesting old ad for UNIX/32V. I love the line, "Developed for our own use, UNIX Systems are available under license from Western Electric and come "as is" With no maintenance agreements, no technical support.".
Too bad they didn't include source (or did they?).
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I agree. I remember seeing the first Finding Nemo trailer and thinking "Phew - that movie's going to suck". Thankfully that was far from the truth.
Simple. I'm sure that they are simply applying the "i before e except after c" rule.
Duke Nukem Forever... :-p
Tragically, he died back in 1999. Info at http://www.kohala.com.
Many (most?) times games with simple rules are much more enjoyable than games with complex rules that require joysticks with 20 buttons.
Jim Blinn gave a nice talk on this subject back at the 1989 SIGGRAPH conference here in Boston. Not only did they create a last second canyon for the fly-thru, but also put in a solar flare in the corner of the screen to distract you from the hack. :-)
Palm VNC client and TopGun SSH are a bit of a strain on the phone's CPU, but still usable -- even over a dialup connection. It comes in handy if I need to access my servers when I'm away from my desk.
C'mon, this is a silly argument. .NET is in production use in thousands of companies worldwide *without* Windows Server 2003. The CLR and supporting apps run just fine under Windows 2000 Server.
"Originally designed for a 21-month mission, Pioneer 10 lasted more than 30 years. It was a workhorse that far exceeded its warranty, and I guess you could say we got our money's worth," said Pioneer 10 Project Manager, Dr. Larry Lasher.
Now if I could only get Ogg support for my iPod...
"Anyone who creates his or her own cryptographic primitive is either a genius or a fool. Given the genius/fool ratio for our species, the odds aren't very good."
This is going to require years of peer review and analysis before it's proven "unbreakable".
Why not call it Windows XP Server? Makes more sense than calling in Windows 2003 Server.
XP does not come with VNC preinstalled. You are probably thinking of Remote Desktop, which comes with XP Professional. While VNC xfers bitmaps of the screen, Remote Desktop xfers low-level Windows API calls. This makes it much more efficient and very fast, even on a low speed connection.
It's called competition. This is a *very* good thing, and will help Java to improve even more.
I prefer this type (I have a loaded Dell Inspiron 8200) as I rarely travel, but want the luxury of being able to take my desktop home, to meetings, etc.
I'd say that the fact that no one seems to know conclusively where you can run GnuPG is a sign that it's not ready for prime time!
Astrosmash on my phone...very very cool.
I'm assuming that the "idiots" you're referring to are liberals. Otherwise you'd come across as biased against conservatives. :-)
Here's what I just wrote:
I am an avid music buyer, and spend upwards of $500-1000 on CDs per year. As soon as I purchase a CD, I immediately convert the music to MP3 format so that I can play the music on my MP3 jukebox. I do not actually play the CDs directly any longer because it is not effiicient to do so.
Because of your non-compatible "CD" format, I cannot do this and therefore can not and will not purchase copy protected CDs.
Your actions in not following the standard Red Book CD format will cause many problems for music lovers and cost you many millions of dollars in sales. Please reconsider your unwise decision.
- Standards composed by standards bodies (e.g. HTML).
- Standards which become standards due to their wide acceptance (e.g. PDF).
MS's DOC format is the latter type of standard. Many many MANY people use this format daily, and it's not going away any time soon.As much as I'd rather have the world distribute formatted docs in HTML (or better yet XML + XSL), it's not going to happen. Trying to get people to distribute formatted docs as PDF files (which can be read on almost all graphical interfaces) is also a non-starter, as Acrobat is an add-on, and you can't simply save to PDF format. It's too much work for "normal" computer users to save to PDF (or RTF or even ASCII).
As much as we all hate to admit it, the problem being addressed in this forum is only a problem to a small percentage of email users. Most email users are running MS Office on Windows 98 or 2000, and they're not having any problems with the attachments.
We'll just need to bite the bullet and either read the Word docs with Open Source applications like AbiWord, or do as I do, which is to either run Windows (and MS Office) on a second machine or in VMWare.
Trying to get the vast majority of email users to change their habits because of a few people is most likely a waste of time.
Then again, how many of us actually do receive Word docs as attachments on a regular basis? Outside of a work environment (where Windows is the standard platform), I'd bet very few.
If an artist uses the GNUArt license, does he have to distribute sheet music along with the binaries? :-)
Here in my office I do 80% of my work under Linux (development, LaTeX, email, etc.) and whenever I need to access Word, Excel, etc. I simply fire up VMWare, boot it into Win2K and voila. Works like a charm.
VMWare isn't cheap (at US$299.00 it's at the high end of personal affordability), but well worth it.
Until there's a better solution for office suites under Linux, many of us will need to live with MS Office as a must have.
Kevin
Too bad they didn't include source (or did they?).
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