Diseased horse carcasses. Science and the arts may have been stone dead in the dark ages, but, boy oh boy, did they know how to conduct a siege back then!
I think the more disgusting realm of shot has been ignored far too long. It is so hard to evoke the reaction of pure revulsion obtained with a bucket of magots using any other means. I mean, urine and lawn darts they can shake off after a short hospital stay. Something like maggots stays with you for a long time. A Maggot is Forever(tm).
Give up, greed favours mediocrity. Doing great work simply isn't profitable. Mediocre workers, mediocre products. How long has it been since you saw a real, bullet-proof, quality product?
I disagree. There are a great deal of programmers in the open-source community who have been working in the field for years. Personally, I think most people have forgotten why a lot of us do this.
We love to code.
Some people fish, some whittle, others play guitar, etc. Ask a struggling musician why he keeps the effort up when he'd be much better off with a 9-5 day job. He loves what he's doing. It is the passion for programming which drives open-source. It is that same passion that drives open-source programmers to write the best code they can, and they always want to share their work with others who are just as passionate about coding.
The PIC series of microcontrollers made by Microchip Tech. take up one click-tick per instruction. JMP takes two. By the CPI measurement, these 12MHz chips would be considered extremely fast.
Actually, punch cards go back far before Hollerith's tabulator in the 1880s. The first use of punch cards I know of would be Jacquard's loom. Jacquard's loom used a series of punch cards to control the pattern being woven into the fabric. He built his loom in 1801.
Interestingly, as I recall, Ned Ludd lead weavers in Nottingham, England in a fight against Jacquard's loom. This is where the term "luddite" comes from. They where primarily concerned about their jobs being supplanted by automation.
The first computational use of punch cards of which I am aware was in the 1830's, with Babbage's Analytical Engine. It used two sets of cards, one set punched with commands and the other punched with the data. The design was capable of working on numbers of up to 50 digits and could print to paper, or steel plate for use in a printing plate. At the time, Babbage was a very controversial and aggravating individual. Through his own ill-handling of events, funding was cut before the machine was actually built. Prototype components, mostly made of brass, where melted down and sold for scrap to pay off his personal 20,000 pound debt that he had incurred from investing in the project(the British government had matched his investment with another 20,000 pounds, an extremely large sum at the time). The project was running long enough, however, for the differential engine to be built to a functional state(though not to the level Babbage had intended in it's design). It went on to provide an errata to naval tables in use at the time consisting of over 300 corrections. Within the past decade, the Smithsonian did some digging and actually managed to build a functioning Analytical Engine, which to my understanding, is presently under display. Worth mentioning is Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter. Ada Lovelace was quite close to Babbage, she was responsible for recording many of his thoughts. She is also widely regarded as the first programmer and was responsible for developing the language that controlled the analytical engine.
Are there even any binary copies left in existence? I know only the partial source is around any more, the whole thing was written in PL/I.
It's too bad they don't make machines like the GE-465 any more. Computing has been totally gutted by people like Microsoft. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who knows anything about logic gates any more. I'd be willing to bet there's hardly a person here who can even draw the schematic for a shift register. The soul has gone out of the machine, it lays now as a mere carcass of it's former splendor.
Do you remember the TV advert they used to have? There was a kid and his mom playing with that logic gate rig.
I was that kid.
I don't remember any of it, I was, like, nine years old at the time. Just about the only thing I remember, which may or may not be from that exhibit, was an old Apple II running Eliza. It absolutely, fundamentally blew my socks off. I was beyond astonished by it. It's too bad they've gutted the good old truly educational and interesting exhibits in favour of crufty Microsoft propoganda.
A scorpion needs to get across a river, but of course scorpions make bad swimmers. So he forms an alliance with a nearby turtle to carry him across the river. At first, the turtle balks, reasoning that the scorpion will sting him. The scorpion then assures the turtle that he would do no such thing, as stinging the turtle would cause him to drown as well. The turtle places confidence in this logic. They form an alliance. About half-way across the river, the scorpion stings the turtle. As they both drown, the turtle asks the scorpion why, and the scorpion replies: "I'm sorry, I'm a scorpion, it's what I do."
You really need to rent the original and see it. It was very different, and a MUCH better movie. This one was executed with a great deal of technical skill, HOWEVER, the ending stunk. It lacked any resonance, any sense of the tragedy.
In the original movie, you get a real feeling for the true tragedy of the situation. How not only humanity has been destroyed, but how the life of Heston's character itself has been destroyed. The original had a much better ending. Frankly, I was very disappointed with the remake. I expected much more from it.
The user interface they're talking about is UNIX. This stuff is all POSIX standards. It's been under development for thirty years now. What we associate with the Windows interface has only been in development for 4 years(anyone who says Win95 came out in '95 is WRONG - it came out in Fall of '96)
Nope, wrong./bin and/sbin are binaries necessary for system bootup, before the/usr partition is mounted. Bare minimum commands go here, like cp, rm, vi, init, etc. All should be statically linked./sbin and/usr/sbin hold commands like reboot, shutdown and init and are intended for root use only.
It's worth mentioning that most of the time people's views actually differ greatly from the Bible. For instance, nowhere in the Bible is it stated that the earth is the centre of the universe. THAT was an idea people came up with on their own.
For one thing, CP/M didn't use FAT. It used a very different filesystem. FAT was something dreamed up by the guy who wrote QDOS - Quick and Dirty Operating System.
Secondly, My gripe with Word isn't how long it takes to load. It's usability. I have finally given up on it. It's impossible to get consistant formatting with Microsoft Word.
It seems to me that KDE is the one that's really been chasing Windows. KDE looks a lot like Windows, and Konqueror's similarity to IE is very disturbing.
If Microsoft's involved, it's gotta be bad. Remember, these are the people that brought you the FAT filesystem, notepad and Microsoft Word. Not to mention MS Bob.
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7) Plug in all our hair driers at once.
Immediately before that, we send off an astronaut named Alf to some other world.
Diseased horse carcasses. Science and the arts may have been stone dead in the dark ages, but, boy oh boy, did they know how to conduct a siege back then!
I think the more disgusting realm of shot has been ignored far too long. It is so hard to evoke the reaction of pure revulsion obtained with a bucket of magots using any other means. I mean, urine and lawn darts they can shake off after a short hospital stay. Something like maggots stays with you for a long time. A Maggot is Forever(tm).
Give up, greed favours mediocrity. Doing great work simply isn't profitable. Mediocre workers, mediocre products. How long has it been since you saw a real, bullet-proof, quality product?
Yes, but, robotic dogs are far easier to outfit with light artillery. It simply requires a proper interface system.
I disagree. There are a great deal of programmers in the open-source community who have been working in the field for years. Personally, I think most people have forgotten why a lot of us do this.
We love to code.
Some people fish, some whittle, others play guitar, etc. Ask a struggling musician why he keeps the effort up when he'd be much better off with a 9-5 day job. He loves what he's doing. It is the passion for programming which drives open-source. It is that same passion that drives open-source programmers to write the best code they can, and they always want to share their work with others who are just as passionate about coding.
You're confusing Voyager with the Enterprise. The notion of "gel-paks" as they're called wasn't introduced until Voyager.
Good grief! What kind of an amp do you use to drive that thing?
/me looks at the old S/36 hard-drive in the corner with a wry smile.....
The PIC series of microcontrollers made by Microchip Tech. take up one click-tick per instruction. JMP takes two. By the CPI measurement, these 12MHz chips would be considered extremely fast.
Actually, punch cards go back far before Hollerith's tabulator in the 1880s. The first use of punch cards I know of would be Jacquard's loom. Jacquard's loom used a series of punch cards to control the pattern being woven into the fabric. He built his loom in 1801.
Interestingly, as I recall, Ned Ludd lead weavers in Nottingham, England in a fight against Jacquard's loom. This is where the term "luddite" comes from. They where primarily concerned about their jobs being supplanted by automation.
The first computational use of punch cards of which I am aware was in the 1830's, with Babbage's Analytical Engine. It used two sets of cards, one set punched with commands and the other punched with the data. The design was capable of working on numbers of up to 50 digits and could print to paper, or steel plate for use in a printing plate. At the time, Babbage was a very controversial and aggravating individual. Through his own ill-handling of events, funding was cut before the machine was actually built. Prototype components, mostly made of brass, where melted down and sold for scrap to pay off his personal 20,000 pound debt that he had incurred from investing in the project(the British government had matched his investment with another 20,000 pounds, an extremely large sum at the time). The project was running long enough, however, for the differential engine to be built to a functional state(though not to the level Babbage had intended in it's design). It went on to provide an errata to naval tables in use at the time consisting of over 300 corrections. Within the past decade, the Smithsonian did some digging and actually managed to build a functioning Analytical Engine, which to my understanding, is presently under display. Worth mentioning is Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter. Ada Lovelace was quite close to Babbage, she was responsible for recording many of his thoughts. She is also widely regarded as the first programmer and was responsible for developing the language that controlled the analytical engine.
If you had full-blown MS QuickBasic, it would compile. You could even link shared libraries into it.
Are there even any binary copies left in existence? I know only the partial source is around any more, the whole thing was written in PL/I.
It's too bad they don't make machines like the GE-465 any more. Computing has been totally gutted by people like Microsoft. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who knows anything about logic gates any more. I'd be willing to bet there's hardly a person here who can even draw the schematic for a shift register. The soul has gone out of the machine, it lays now as a mere carcass of it's former splendor.
Do you remember the TV advert they used to have? There was a kid and his mom playing with that logic gate rig.
I was that kid.
I don't remember any of it, I was, like, nine years old at the time. Just about the only thing I remember, which may or may not be from that exhibit, was an old Apple II running Eliza. It absolutely, fundamentally blew my socks off. I was beyond astonished by it. It's too bad they've gutted the good old truly educational and interesting exhibits in favour of crufty Microsoft propoganda.
This must be coming close to an end. That's what Ellen Degeneres did before the whole thing caved in.
The 'Q' is silent, you see.
Reminds me of a story I heard once...
A scorpion needs to get across a river, but of course scorpions make bad swimmers. So he forms an alliance with a nearby turtle to carry him across the river. At first, the turtle balks, reasoning that the scorpion will sting him. The scorpion then assures the turtle that he would do no such thing, as stinging the turtle would cause him to drown as well. The turtle places confidence in this logic. They form an alliance. About half-way across the river, the scorpion stings the turtle. As they both drown, the turtle asks the scorpion why, and the scorpion replies: "I'm sorry, I'm a scorpion, it's what I do."
And so ended their alliance.
You really need to rent the original and see it. It was very different, and a MUCH better movie. This one was executed with a great deal of technical skill, HOWEVER, the ending stunk. It lacked any resonance, any sense of the tragedy.
In the original movie, you get a real feeling for the true tragedy of the situation. How not only humanity has been destroyed, but how the life of Heston's character itself has been destroyed. The original had a much better ending. Frankly, I was very disappointed with the remake. I expected much more from it.
The user interface they're talking about is UNIX. This stuff is all POSIX standards. It's been under development for thirty years now. What we associate with the Windows interface has only been in development for 4 years(anyone who says Win95 came out in '95 is WRONG - it came out in Fall of '96)
Nope, wrong. /bin and /sbin are binaries necessary for system bootup, before the /usr partition is mounted. Bare minimum commands go here, like cp, rm, vi, init, etc. All should be statically linked. /sbin and /usr/sbin hold commands like reboot, shutdown and init and are intended for root use only.
Ph33r the undead cat!
It's worth mentioning that most of the time people's views actually differ greatly from the Bible. For instance, nowhere in the Bible is it stated that the earth is the centre of the universe. THAT was an idea people came up with on their own.
For one thing, CP/M didn't use FAT. It used a very different filesystem. FAT was something dreamed up by the guy who wrote QDOS - Quick and Dirty Operating System.
Secondly, My gripe with Word isn't how long it takes to load. It's usability. I have finally given up on it. It's impossible to get consistant formatting with Microsoft Word.
It seems to me that KDE is the one that's really been chasing Windows. KDE looks a lot like Windows, and Konqueror's similarity to IE is very disturbing.
If Microsoft's involved, it's gotta be bad. Remember, these are the people that brought you the FAT filesystem, notepad and Microsoft Word. Not to mention MS Bob.
Armored breeding colonies. That's the only way. Children will then be apportioned to the willing populous by lottery.
A disclaimer I should have mentioned in my previous post:
I'm 20, and I'm opposed to porn and pre-marital sex.