I remember the Baby's 50th anniversary, and goign to school in Manchester, barely 5 miles from the spot it was created, we had a little competition in the school (part of a larger competition - http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/prog98/)
The SSEM - "baby" - http://www.computer50.org/ First run on June 21st 1948 - 3 years before univac. Less then a year later it was available to the university for general comutation, and had a magnetic "drum".
In our CS course theres about 110 people. The vast majority are there, not because of a love of computers, but because of the promise of a high wage at the end of it.
These people have major problems, even after a year, with Java - a very simple introductary language in my view (its still powerful though).
Our course isn't all java though (although 1/4 is). We also look at MIPS assembly (with spim), LISP, Prolog, SQL, HTML and are encouraged to do stuff seperatly on our own (PHP etc.) with uni societys. We study everything from what 32bit MIPS assembly instructions look like in binary, to how files are stored on disks, hole lists and memory paging, etc. etc.
Full info at www.dcs.ex.ac.uk, dunno if you can access it off-site though.
Thats all in the first year. Next year we do stuff in depth.
WE havent touched any GUI stuff in java yet, although we've already made route finders for trains (London Underground).
Not in an fps! You need a minimal bandwidth, but if you had a low ping time you could string 3 or 4 of these together to get up to 28k. I'd prefer to play on a 50ms 64k ISDN line then a 300ms T1!
Of course, ping time is minimal, infact less then the ping time from one side of america to the other via fibre with no stops on route (these satelites are only a few hundered miles up - maybe 1000 round trip)
Grr, As a loyal visitor to trektoday/bbs for over 2 years, I find it shocking I cant even get to the site beucause of all you stupid trolling fsckers that couldnt give a damn. There nothing new that hasnt been said about Enterprise here, and I cant talk to people on the ball because you have to click every link you can possibly find!
I dont know exactly, however thanks to the wonderness of the atmosphere, there is a maximum resolution you can get - light is refracted and reflected, merged and diverged, by different temperatures and water content at different layers in the atmosphere.
This is one of the main reasons hubble is a success - no atmosphere == unrivaled view. The only problem is with steller dust.
Carmack is a really cool guy. There are some really really really rich people that dont do anything interesting, and some that do. More power to those that do!
I remember playing Larry 1 on an amstrad luggable which I'm sure cost much more then $2000 dollars at the time. IT had a seperate monitor too! And a modem!
Yep, if the characters "tos" (The original series), Lennord, Forrest and Williams, and the similarities with vulcan science officer, renagade captain, etc. is not proof enough, section31.com posted:
I'm afraid to say that all the information you have received about the next 'Star Trek' project is incorrect. The official information about the new show was given out a few weeks ago and the steps have been taken to ensure that information is kept confidential.
I truly believe that this is someone's idea of a practical joke. Even though the party in question went to extreme lengths to make the character info as a real document, it's a fake.
nope. Insurrection was good, lighthearted etc. Could have been much better, but they destruction of the borg in FC, and later inVoyager, is unforgivable.
The non borg part of FC (the planetside part), was great though.
I tried to apt-get an upgrade to xfree 4. It didnt work. I installed a binary, and now apt, naturaly, is broken, probably beyond all repair.
All package systems suffer from the same thing though. It's an all or nothing system. Is there any system which lets source installation, and then recognises what you have installed in terms of packages, i.e. I can install glibc from source, so apt doesnt know it's there, but then run apt-refresh and then it will know.
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Change the warning sounds from beeps to phone ringing sounds, office gossip sounds, boss walking arround sounds, incoming text message sounds, loud farting etc. etc.
People wont bother you then as it seems everyone expects those sounds.
"The best they did was to land a rover on the moon"
First satelite, first man in space, first probes to inner planets, first probes to the moon (orbit, hit and land IIRC), first space station (was saylut before skylab), most durable space spation, first woman in space, pretty sure on first space walk.
well, netscape 6.0 split off from the mozilla branch way back before M18 (http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html), so comparing Netscape 6 with a product released 3 versions later is a little unfair.
I sitll agree, netscape 6 sucks though.
P.S. This release was 2 days late! It was forcast for the 12th feb! (Well, arround).
Good job guys, keeping to a schedule. Should look forward to 0.9 about the 3rd week of march then, and hopefully 1.0 at the end of April.
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Actually, being online in an airplane would allow you to communicate with people during a plane crash, something passengers normally can't do.
The ultimate last words would have to be:
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I remember the Baby's 50th anniversary, and goign to school in Manchester, barely 5 miles from the spot it was created, we had a little competition in the school (part of a larger competition - http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/prog98/)
The SSEM - "baby" - http://www.computer50.org/
First run on June 21st 1948 - 3 years before univac. Less then a year later it was available to the university for general comutation, and had a magnetic "drum".
More information at that url anyway, and at http://www.google.com/search?q=manchester+baby
And of course the American moderators wouldnt mod up yet another British first (along with telephone, web, steam engine, mass insudsty etc. etc.)
In our CS course theres about 110 people. The vast majority are there, not because of a love of computers, but because of the promise of a high wage at the end of it.
These people have major problems, even after a year, with Java - a very simple introductary language in my view (its still powerful though).
Our course isn't all java though (although 1/4 is). We also look at MIPS assembly (with spim), LISP, Prolog, SQL, HTML and are encouraged to do stuff seperatly on our own (PHP etc.) with uni societys. We study everything from what 32bit MIPS assembly instructions look like in binary, to how files are stored on disks, hole lists and memory paging, etc. etc.
Full info at www.dcs.ex.ac.uk, dunno if you can access it off-site though.
Thats all in the first year. Next year we do stuff in depth.
WE havent touched any GUI stuff in java yet, although we've already made route finders for trains (London Underground).
And good luck and GodSpeed to him, the world needs more people to take a risk. Without peopel like him well be stuck on Earth for the next 50 years.
Well he would be cold so I guess magazines could have kept him war..
oooohhhh, righhht..
Not in an fps! You need a minimal bandwidth, but if you had a low ping time you could string 3 or 4 of these together to get up to 28k. I'd prefer to play on a 50ms 64k ISDN line then a 300ms T1!
Of course, ping time is minimal, infact less then the ping time from one side of america to the other via fibre with no stops on route (these satelites are only a few hundered miles up - maybe 1000 round trip)
You could monitor a lot of logs from something like this!
Grr, As a loyal visitor to trektoday/bbs for over 2 years, I find it shocking I cant even get to the site beucause of all you stupid trolling fsckers that couldnt give a damn. There nothing new that hasnt been said about Enterprise here, and I cant talk to people on the ball because you have to click every link you can possibly find!
Its only apropiate the 47th post is modded up...
I dont know exactly, however thanks to the wonderness of the atmosphere, there is a maximum resolution you can get - light is refracted and reflected, merged and diverged, by different temperatures and water content at different layers in the atmosphere.
This is one of the main reasons hubble is a success - no atmosphere == unrivaled view. The only problem is with steller dust.
good thing Columbus didnt think that...
Carmack is a really cool guy. There are some really really really rich people that dont do anything interesting, and some that do. More power to those that do!
I remember playing Larry 1 on an amstrad luggable which I'm sure cost much more then $2000 dollars at the time. IT had a seperate monitor too! And a modem!
Yep, if the characters "tos" (The original series), Lennord, Forrest and Williams, and the similarities with vulcan science officer, renagade captain, etc. is not proof enough, section31.com posted:
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http://section31.com/stories/mar-2001/030401_a.ht
My name is (Identity Preserved) and I'm a casting director in London. Having an office in New York allows me to obtain US casting information.
I'm afraid to say that all the information you have received about the next 'Star Trek' project is incorrect. The official information about the new show was given out a few weeks ago and the steps have been taken to ensure that information is kept confidential.
I truly believe that this is someone's idea of a practical joke. Even though the party in question went to extreme lengths to make the character info as a real document, it's a fake.
nope. Insurrection was good, lighthearted etc. Could have been much better, but they destruction of the borg in FC, and later inVoyager, is unforgivable.
The non borg part of FC (the planetside part), was great though.
I bought a windows version of Q3 as it was the only one in the store, I then downloaded the binaries to convert, from loki. Same with UT.
I tried to apt-get an upgrade to xfree 4. It didnt work. I installed a binary, and now apt, naturaly, is broken, probably beyond all repair.
All package systems suffer from the same thing though. It's an all or nothing system. Is there any system which lets source installation, and then recognises what you have installed in terms of packages, i.e. I can install glibc from source, so apt doesnt know it's there, but then run apt-refresh and then it will know.
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So an american view of out of date data then
and "look at the bone I've got"
Change the warning sounds from beeps to phone ringing sounds, office gossip sounds, boss walking arround sounds, incoming text message sounds, loud farting etc. etc.
People wont bother you then as it seems everyone expects those sounds.
"The best they did was to land a rover on the moon"
First satelite, first man in space, first probes to inner planets, first probes to the moon (orbit, hit and land IIRC), first space station (was saylut before skylab), most durable space spation, first woman in space, pretty sure on first space walk.
Sure, all they did was land a rover on the moon
Jealous Americans? I think so!
"The fees would be set by either Congress or the U.S. Copyright Office"
And the chance of this being less than $3 a song?
well, netscape 6.0 split off from the mozilla branch way back before M18 (http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html), so comparing Netscape 6 with a product released 3 versions later is a little unfair.
I sitll agree, netscape 6 sucks though.
P.S. This release was 2 days late! It was forcast for the 12th feb! (Well, arround).
Good job guys, keeping to a schedule. Should look forward to 0.9 about the 3rd week of march then, and hopefully 1.0 at the end of April.