look at replacetext.r. And as for candygrammar look at alien.r and the stuff on dialects in the nutshell. That all being said, I'm not throwing out GCC and scrapping Perl and Java. It does look like a great quicky and one-shot scripter especially for the network. The main advantage is a 119k cross-platform distribution with built-in help and documentation and no libraries to track down and install. Beat that with [insert viable language of your choice]! This is the kinda thing I can give my pointy-haired boss's secretary so she can write a clue filter on his email and pull down his football pool scores.
What scares me most are all of the SCADA folks who come dancing in with their puppet show and try to claim they can do Real-Time control with what amounts to a VB application with some silly little DDE server, and all for $50,000 dollars a site. One of them recently sold one of our management types on how they could not only do SCADA and Process Control on a Not There box, but the same system would happily do all of our Office System automation and DP stuff with OLAP as well! When I gave them a description of the systems they were proposing they replace and listed the 6 operating systems (including QNX and OS9) that they were claiming they could outperform and outlast on uptime, I asked them to send me a detailed proposal listing which component of their system would handle each task and just a guestimated MTBF. I never heard from them again, but they keep taking their Management Boy out to lunch. The other day, Management Boy told me the reason the engineers don't like Not There OS is because we, "Don't understand it." I explained that I spent 8 years in M$HELL and asked him if he knew that device drivers all share the same priority level in Not There OS. Or if he could give me a definition of Real Time? I probably shouldn't speak that way to a guy who's probably about number two in the company, but I was about ready to ring his neck! So I stopped work on the 100% java OLAP app I've been working on for a year and started an OSS implementation of the BASIC09 syntax for Linux to work with an A/B PLC for some of our softer control stuff. I figure while they run around in circles, I'll get something coded that does the job and tell them about it after we've installed a few.
is against the volunteers. They're the ones who should be screaming the loudest. The FTC is threatening the volunteer's right to donate his or her services according to an understanding, willingly entered, with another "entity" corporate or otherwise. This violates the volunteer's property rights, because an individual more than any other belonging, owns his or her own time. The message here is that we are not smart enough to determine proper compensation for our time and that we must have "Big Brother" save us from our silly hobbies. I didn't even volunteer to pay the salary of the FTC investigators, but I have to do that in two days or risk fines and imprisonment. Who's the slave?
I don't want to miss the weirdo night. One buddy of mine has been working on some awesome Clone Wars armor for about 6 months. It's as good or better than the Storm Trooper armor I've seen online.
Why would anyone waste time giving affection to a house or a country or a '68 'vette? We're all made out of the same stuff. It's just our turn to pay taxes, post emails and have names.
I noticed that you never did explain how McMoneagle's claims carried any any relevance as psychic abilities are not even remotely supported by the evidence unless in his case the medium was the message. You also didn't develop the Hunter/Gatherer theme, and it tended to distract from the SCUBA boy analogy, unless of course you were refering to perl divers who hunt the oysters and gather them. The C and land metaphor was particularly appropriate however. Your contention that symbols form the "faceplate" of our perception suggests the idea that some sort of codified symbolic system might be waranted for all sorts of purposes. Something that perhaps even beginners could appreciate. It would be like a set of instructions for perception.:)
-------------------------- with apologies to Douglas Hofstadter et al.
There's a digital ID engraved inside my eyelid! That feature wasn't supposed to be included in my series. Seriously though it seems to me there was a serial number in some of the 486 chips, or am I dreaming? Wasn't CPUID an individual chip ID? *scratches head to try to stimulate memory* I don't have a 486 handy at the moment.
There. See I missed the humor because I automatically assumed he was talking about a penguin under water, perhaps in a SeaQuarium. I don't know the top speed for a swimming penguin, but I can't imagine a more graceful swimmer.
My favorite penguin quality is that powerful image of the male emperor pengiun sitting on an egg in a near coma through the Antarctic winter 200 miles inland for weeks. No sun, hurricane force winds and 70 below. He just stands there and keeps the next generation alive. And when the female comes to relieve him in the spring and the egg hatches, he waddles with the rest single file for that 200 miles back to the ocean for breakfast. Beat that for a mascot. Especially considering that we have only just come onto Microsoft's radar, and we are lilkely to be in for a long, cold struggle from here.
FYI The greatest mind of our time was in fact a gentleman name Lamop'DuPchan of the North Umberland tribe of the Maori. He understood the tax regulations and was typically able to navigate the most difficult voice mail system on the first try. Mr. Lamop, unfortunately, died last year at the age of 56 after suddenly understanding a particularly distressing actuarial table dealing with blowgun fatalities.
There's a link to a short bit about the IBM wearables on the same page. Not much info but a few interesting tidbits. Computer the size of a pound coin, heads up with 17" @ 25" display.
companies are downsizing, governments are downsizing and the corporate work environment is getting desperate.
It's because they have to compete with me, and you. Hackers are the new source of wealth. New software and electronic products as well as the huge number of newly "software enhanced" products are generating a larger and larger percentage of the energy in the world economy.
And we can produce software in a living room for sale world-wide. I can set up a shop on Geocities with a credit card merchant account at Wells Fargo for a less than a $500.00. I can then translate my page into 5 languages at bablefish and sell world wide with no added transaction cost. If I weren't so lazy that is. The only thing that can stop us now is our own remotes. I could do all those things, but I sit here at work making somebody else's next million so I can be assured of a paycheck on the 15th and a convenient co-pay at the doctor's. All because making the money for myself would necessarily cut into my discworld time.
Speaking of which, I just mastered Pragi's Fiery Gaze and Endorphin's Floating Friend and became a 4th Level Wizard! Not to mention finding a way to use the soul commands to cast what appear to be free illusions!
Zircephate Sages of the Unbroken Circle Wizard's Guild Ankh-Morpork
The trolls just don't realize there asking for the a 1.0 release with a low-end machine config example.:) It always amazes me that when you give people a light switch they will complain that it is in the wrong position.
Excellent work! I can't wait to see what you come up with next.
I don't know what planet these guys are from, but Rasterman's doing this OpenSource for a reason. If they have a problem with performance or documentation. Get writing!
Slashdot Mirror
A handy resource for quotes and background would be Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet.
Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon
Touchstone Books
reprint 1998
It should be in your public library and it even has a colon in the title which should look great in your bibliography.
Hope it helps.
look at replacetext.r. And as for candygrammar look at alien.r and the stuff on dialects in the nutshell.
That all being said, I'm not throwing out GCC and scrapping Perl and Java. It does look like a great quicky
and one-shot scripter especially for the network.
The main advantage is a 119k cross-platform distribution with built-in
help and documentation and no libraries to track down and install. Beat that with [insert viable language of your choice]!
This is the kinda thing I can give my pointy-haired boss's secretary so she can write a clue filter on his email and pull down his football pool scores.
How many lines of code did I remove?
What scares me most are all of the SCADA folks who come dancing in with their puppet show and try to claim they can do Real-Time control with what amounts to a VB application with some silly little DDE server, and all for $50,000 dollars a site. One of them recently sold one of our management types on how they could not only do SCADA and Process Control on a Not There box, but the same system would happily do all of our Office System automation and DP stuff with OLAP as well!
When I gave them a description of the systems they were proposing they replace and listed the 6 operating systems (including QNX and OS9) that they were claiming they could outperform and outlast on uptime, I asked them to send me a detailed proposal listing which component of their system would handle each task and just a guestimated MTBF.
I never heard from them again, but they keep taking their Management Boy out to lunch.
The other day, Management Boy told me the reason the engineers don't like Not There OS is because we, "Don't understand it."
I explained that I spent 8 years in M$HELL and asked him if he knew that device drivers all share the same priority level in Not There OS. Or if he could give me a definition of Real Time?
I probably shouldn't speak that way to a guy who's probably about number two in the company, but I was about ready to ring his neck!
So I stopped work on the 100% java OLAP app I've been working on for a year and started an OSS implementation of the BASIC09 syntax for Linux to work with an A/B PLC for some of our softer control stuff. I figure while they run around in circles, I'll get something coded that does the job and tell them about it after we've installed a few.
RMS take me away!
-monk
is against the volunteers. They're the ones who should be screaming the loudest. The FTC is threatening the volunteer's right to donate his or her services according to an understanding, willingly entered, with another "entity" corporate or otherwise. This violates the volunteer's property rights, because an individual more than any other belonging, owns his or her own time.
The message here is that we are not smart enough to determine proper compensation for our time and that we must have "Big Brother" save us from our silly hobbies.
I didn't even volunteer to pay the salary of the FTC investigators, but I have to do that in two days or risk fines and imprisonment. Who's the slave?
no links, Hesse would cry, how sad !
a formless haiku
I don't want to miss the weirdo night. One buddy of mine has been working on some awesome Clone Wars armor for about 6 months. It's as good or better than the Storm Trooper armor I've seen online.
Why would anyone waste time giving affection to a
house or a country or a '68 'vette? We're
all made out of the same stuff. It's just our
turn to pay taxes, post emails and have names.
monk
I noticed that you never did explain how McMoneagle's claims carried any any relevance as psychic abilities are not even remotely supported by the evidence unless in his case the medium was the message. You also didn't develop the Hunter/Gatherer theme, and it tended to distract from the SCUBA boy analogy, unless of course you were refering to perl divers who hunt the oysters and gather them. The C and land metaphor was particularly appropriate however. Your contention that symbols form the "faceplate" of our perception suggests the idea that some sort of codified symbolic system might be waranted for all sorts of purposes. Something that perhaps even beginners could appreciate. It would be like a set of instructions for perception. :)
--------------------------
with apologies to Douglas Hofstadter et al.
There's a digital ID engraved inside my eyelid! That feature wasn't supposed to be included in my series. Seriously though it seems to me there was a serial number in some of the 486 chips, or am I dreaming? Wasn't CPUID an individual chip ID? *scratches head to try to stimulate memory* I don't have a 486 handy at the moment.
There. See I missed the humor because I automatically assumed he was talking about a penguin under water, perhaps in a SeaQuarium. I don't know the top speed for a swimming penguin, but I can't imagine a more graceful swimmer.
My favorite penguin quality is that powerful image of the male emperor pengiun sitting on an egg in a near coma through the Antarctic winter 200 miles inland for weeks. No sun, hurricane force winds and 70 below. He just stands there and keeps the next generation alive. And when the female comes to relieve him in the spring and the egg hatches, he waddles with the rest single file for that 200 miles back to the ocean for breakfast. Beat that for a mascot. Especially considering that we have only just come onto Microsoft's radar, and we are lilkely to be in for a long, cold struggle from here.
Linux-keep the dream alive.
of meat technology--the lack of proper L2 cache for throughput.
the barcode reader ordering the groceries bit? Seems like somebody was telling me about that 2 or 3 years ago as the "Next Big Thing"(tm)
Einstein would not play dice with Hawking. -- God
FYI The greatest mind of our time was in fact a gentleman name Lamop'DuPchan of the North Umberland tribe of the Maori. He understood the tax regulations and was typically able to navigate the most difficult voice mail system on the first try. Mr. Lamop, unfortunately, died last year at the age of 56 after suddenly understanding a particularly distressing actuarial table dealing with blowgun fatalities.
There's a link to a short bit about the IBM wearables on the same page. Not much info but a few interesting tidbits. Computer the size of a pound coin, heads up with 17" @ 25" display.
companies are downsizing, governments are downsizing and the corporate work environment is getting desperate.
It's because they have to compete with me, and you. Hackers are the new source of wealth. New software and electronic products as well as the huge number of newly "software enhanced" products are generating a larger and larger percentage of the energy in the world economy.
And we can produce software in a living room for sale world-wide. I can set up a shop on Geocities with a credit card merchant account at Wells Fargo for a less than a $500.00. I can then translate my page into 5 languages at bablefish and sell world wide with no added transaction cost. If I weren't so lazy that is. The only thing that can stop us now is our own remotes. I could do all those things, but I sit here at work making somebody else's next million so I can be assured of a paycheck on the 15th and a convenient co-pay at the doctor's. All because making the money for myself would necessarily cut into my discworld time.
Speaking of which, I just mastered Pragi's Fiery Gaze and Endorphin's Floating Friend and became a 4th Level Wizard! Not to mention finding a way to use the soul commands to cast what appear to be free illusions!
Zircephate
Sages of the Unbroken Circle
Wizard's Guild
Ankh-Morpork
The trolls just don't realize there asking for the a 1.0 release with a low-end machine config example. :) It always amazes me that when you give people a light switch they will complain that it is in the wrong position.
Excellent work! I can't wait to see what you come up with next.
I don't know what planet these guys are from, but Rasterman's doing this OpenSource for a reason. If they have a problem with performance or documentation. Get writing!
This is a Development release!
***mutters about flameing posers with no names***