Actually, you didn't come up it first. Perhaps a subconscious reminder?
http://www.smileydictionary.com/history.html
"Back in the early 70's Franklin Loufrani a journalist created a simple concept for France soir and other European newspapers, he displayed icons to communicate news and especially good ones. He gave this original icon the name of Smiley, it was published for the first time on Jan 1st 1972."
I would like to open an Open Sauce restaurant where you get the recipies for what you eat. Just to prove I would prepare and serve it better than the customers could themselves. And they would know what they eat.
I was surprised when I saw the choice of languages used. Why not Java? After all, they want to make it available for many platforms and in particular handheld devices.
The concept looks interesting and they even have a Japanese version. Anyone care to comment on how useful this is for "non-western" languages? How about dyslexics, would this be an advantage or disadvangate for them?
"Could someone please come up with a reasonable theory on what the hell the dolphin-with-pick-ax logo [coolchips.com] is supposed to be before my head explodes?"
If you can think of another logo that will make people any more likely to think of quantum tunneling cooling with 80% efficiency, go right ahead and draw me one!
I think these have been discussed here before smoe time ago, but here is a link to BCD software and hardware clocks. I think Gnome comes with one, too?
No more 16-bit DOS code... again?
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MS DOS: A Eulogy
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· Score: 5, Funny
[Bil Gates] stated, "It's the end of the MS-DOS era," referring to the exorcism of 16-bit code from the Windows code base.
we'd be happy to go live in a box!
We lived in 5 feet of tractor-feed printer paper wrapped up in a stairwell, we did - all 47 of us kids.
From the age of 2, we had to code in Cobol on mainframes, paying 3 shillings a day for the privilege of working.
We had to get up at 02:30 to work 27 hours a day and when we got home our daddy would hit us over the head with a dead chicken until we fell asleep.
And when you tell kids these days, they don't even believe you.
OK, most people obviously didn't get the part where the cheap clients actually only run an X server and probably use BOOTP too.
Now, here's what the author says about the main server where all the apps will run:
How do I define "commodity PC?" Minimal. Until they see it in action, most people don't believe how well a 200- to 300-MHz machine with 80 to 128 megabytes of RAM will perform. Such a PC easily provides KDE to several users and running applications like Netscape and yes, Star Office, to these users logged in at their PC X terminals.
So, how come KDE runs slow as molasses on my desktop Pentium MMX 200 / 128MB when I am the only user? And all other users of KDE seem to have the same problem.
I seriously doubt the performance of this setup due to this server. I would love to see it work, though. Hopefully the rest of the series will demonstrate this now that the Slashdot community had their braindead flamewars based on the first article.
...it boots in a split-second.
Why can't laptop manufacturers make a better memory-backup so you can just switch it on? Even suspend-to-disk takes perhaps 30 seconds to resume. Not a very long time, but it does make it useless for that sudden brilliant idea you need to jot down somewhere.
By the way - if you want to see what the Model 100 was like, check out the Club 100. They are quite active, sell hardware, modify the machines and you can download software. There are emulators too.
Maybe it is some form of American legal trick?
Their web page says:
Welcome to the Mail Abuse Prevention System LLC
(MAPSSM).
We are a not-for-profit California organization whose mission is to defend
the Internet's e-mail system from abuse by spammers.
Then the announcement says:
MAPS' purpose is to stop spam on the internet. That
purpose can only be achieved as long as MAPS can maintain itself as a corporation. Like any corporation, that takes income.
Now, are they non-profit or do they charge you money since they are a company??
OK, ctrl-esc will do the same thing for the start menu. But there are lots of other nice shortcuts that you can do with it in Windows. The Win+D will actually toggle between apliaction windows and a clean desktop. Win+M will minimize all windows. It is also very easy to get KDE to pop up its menu with this button (set in Kcontrol in KDE 2.1.x). Of course, on Linux you can basically map it to anything you want.
1) The linux kernel
2) GNU utilities and other free/open programs
3) Distribution/vendor-specific setup utilities, packaging and similar "glue"
4) Commercial software, either evaluation version or free for personal use
The kernel is the central part but you can't do much without part 2). The two remaining parts are the real frosting when you compare to "Linux From Scratch" or even Slackware.
Since the review doesn't say much about what's actually in the book, you can download a sample chapter in PDF format and read the table of contents at Prentice-Hall, the publisher of the book.
I find this a bit naive. Actually more than a bit.
If insurances were handled by one official office, this may be what you get (such as pensions and the money you get from social welfare if you become disabled).
Instead, insurance companies are financial institutions. What do you think they use the money for? How can they make money? You know they want to make money, right? Actually, insurance companies are among the largest investors in the market. Their main activity is really buying and selling, making profit on your premium. If something happens, you will get a return pay. I think Terry Pratchet has a good description of this in the beginning or the Ringworld Saga when one of the main characters describes the concept of insurance to someone who has never heard of it. This other guy realizes that they are going to bet on whether his house will burn or not, he will place a small wager that it will burn and get a very large return if it indeed does. He pays the money and sets fire to his house, laughing as he does so. Unfortunately, the entire city goes up in flames, but that is a different story:-)
Anyway - insurance is not "public service". You can't insure a high-risk object. Try. These days even trying to insure a car will evoke a response of "we're not really interested" from your insurance sales rep. That's what you're going to get in the future if your genes are bad - you are too risky to insure; of course you are going to cash in.
You are really talking about tebibytes, aren't you?
In other words, 2^40 rather than 10^12. Not that the word will catch on with others than those we know as real PITAs, but there is a term to avoid the ambiguity.
Has anyone written a Quake-playing bot? Would be interesting to see how fast you could get it to play by learning the game, full speed or in some kind of "off-line" / "design"-mode.
Human talent... if talent is the right word for being good at playing Quake really fast... is of course the fascinating part here, but still - having a program find the shortest path, cutting corners, finding the exact right split-second to jump etc. - now that would be cool!
And of course, you wouldn't just be a wimp pretending to slay big monsters, You'd be a wimp making software pretending to slay big monsters!
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, you didn't come up it first. Perhaps a subconscious reminder?
http://www.smileydictionary.com/history.html
"Back in the early 70's Franklin Loufrani a journalist created a simple concept for France soir and other European newspapers, he displayed icons to communicate news and especially good ones. He gave this original icon the name of Smiley, it was published for the first time on Jan 1st 1972."
http://www.smileylicensing.com/about/about_03.html
:-)
"Smiley has over 300 partners worldwide who manufacture and distribute Smiley branded consumer products for babies, children, teens and adults."
Are any of you paying royalties to Smiley Licensing?
Here's my $0.02 worth:
I would like to open an Open Sauce restaurant where you get the recipies for what you eat. Just to prove I would prepare and serve it better than the customers could themselves. And they would know what they eat.
I was surprised when I saw the choice of languages used. Why not Java? After all, they want to make it available for many platforms and in particular handheld devices.
The concept looks interesting and they even have a Japanese version. Anyone care to comment on how useful this is for "non-western" languages? How about dyslexics, would this be an advantage or disadvangate for them?
"Could someone please come up with a reasonable theory on what the hell the dolphin-with-pick-ax logo [coolchips.com] is supposed to be before my head explodes?"
If you can think of another logo that will make people any more likely to think of quantum tunneling cooling with 80% efficiency, go right ahead and draw me one!
1)
"Pedro V. Sander" desperately needs to get a life according to the stats!
2)
You can be no good at darts as long as you play alone, it is easy to cheat since the PC never notices when you miss the board altogether.
BTW: Pedro, I am not suggesting that there is a link between 1) and 2).
...when I go outside wearing this piece of clothing, discussed recently.
I think these have been discussed here before smoe time ago, but here is a link to BCD software and hardware clocks. I think Gnome comes with one, too?
[Bil Gates] stated, "It's the end of the MS-DOS era," referring to the exorcism of 16-bit code from the Windows code base.
What, again??
When you start to feel like you are a continent you may have to go on a diet...
Go to "Preferences", then "Misc" to disable the OSDN bar.
I run KDE 2.2.1 on SuSE and I can just agree that it feels very stable. Faster than 2.1 too.
we'd be happy to go live in a box!
We lived in 5 feet of tractor-feed printer paper wrapped up in a stairwell, we did - all 47 of us kids.
From the age of 2, we had to code in Cobol on mainframes, paying 3 shillings a day for the privilege of working.
We had to get up at 02:30 to work 27 hours a day and when we got home our daddy would hit us over the head with a dead chicken until we fell asleep.
And when you tell kids these days, they don't even believe you.
OK, most people obviously didn't get the part where the cheap clients actually only run an X server and probably use BOOTP too.
Now, here's what the author says about the main server where all the apps will run:
How do I define "commodity PC?" Minimal. Until they see it in action, most people don't believe how well a 200- to 300-MHz machine with 80 to 128 megabytes of RAM will perform. Such a PC easily provides KDE to several users and running applications like Netscape and yes, Star Office, to these users logged in at their PC X terminals.
So, how come KDE runs slow as molasses on my desktop Pentium MMX 200 / 128MB when I am the only user? And all other users of KDE seem to have the same problem.
I seriously doubt the performance of this setup due to this server. I would love to see it work, though. Hopefully the rest of the series will demonstrate this now that the Slashdot community had their braindead flamewars based on the first article.
...it boots in a split-second.
Why can't laptop manufacturers make a better memory-backup so you can just switch it on? Even suspend-to-disk takes perhaps 30 seconds to resume. Not a very long time, but it does make it useless for that sudden brilliant idea you need to jot down somewhere.
By the way - if you want to see what the Model 100 was like, check out the Club 100. They are quite active, sell hardware, modify the machines and you can download software. There are emulators too.
Maybe it is some form of American legal trick? Their web page says:
Welcome to the Mail Abuse Prevention System LLC (MAPSSM). We are a not-for-profit California organization whose mission is to defend the Internet's e-mail system from abuse by spammers.
Then the announcement says:
MAPS' purpose is to stop spam on the internet. That purpose can only be achieved as long as MAPS can maintain itself as a corporation. Like any corporation, that takes income.
Now, are they non-profit or do they charge you money since they are a company??
OK, ctrl-esc will do the same thing for the start menu. But there are lots of other nice shortcuts that you can do with it in Windows. The Win+D will actually toggle between apliaction windows and a clean desktop. Win+M will minimize all windows. It is also very easy to get KDE to pop up its menu with this button (set in Kcontrol in KDE 2.1.x). Of course, on Linux you can basically map it to anything you want.
2) GNU utilities and other free/open programs
3) Distribution/vendor-specific setup utilities, packaging and similar "glue"
4) Commercial software, either evaluation version or free for personal use
The kernel is the central part but you can't do much without part 2). The two remaining parts are the real frosting when you compare to "Linux From Scratch" or even Slackware.
...and they tell you that your luggage got sent to Venus.
Since the review doesn't say much about what's actually in the book, you can download a sample chapter in PDF format and read the table of contents at Prentice-Hall, the publisher of the book.
If insurances were handled by one official office, this may be what you get (such as pensions and the money you get from social welfare if you become disabled).
Instead, insurance companies are financial institutions. What do you think they use the money for? How can they make money? You know they want to make money, right? Actually, insurance companies are among the largest investors in the market. Their main activity is really buying and selling, making profit on your premium. If something happens, you will get a return pay. I think Terry Pratchet has a good description of this in the beginning or the Ringworld Saga when one of the main characters describes the concept of insurance to someone who has never heard of it. This other guy realizes that they are going to bet on whether his house will burn or not, he will place a small wager that it will burn and get a very large return if it indeed does. He pays the money and sets fire to his house, laughing as he does so. Unfortunately, the entire city goes up in flames, but that is a different story :-)
Anyway - insurance is not "public service". You can't insure a high-risk object. Try. These days even trying to insure a car will evoke a response of "we're not really interested" from your insurance sales rep. That's what you're going to get in the future if your genes are bad - you are too risky to insure; of course you are going to cash in.
...his luggage is on Venus.
You are really talking about tebibytes, aren't you?
In other words, 2^40 rather than 10^12. Not that the word will catch on with others than those we know as real PITAs, but there is a term to avoid the ambiguity.
I followed that link, and what can I say...
I suspect users of "Textmode Quake" have some problems finding hidden secrets?
Human talent... if talent is the right word for being good at playing Quake really fast... is of course the fascinating part here, but still - having a program find the shortest path, cutting corners, finding the exact right split-second to jump etc. - now that would be cool!
And of course, you wouldn't just be a wimp pretending to slay big monsters, You'd be a wimp making software pretending to slay big monsters!