Not just writing. File storage/transfer too. Put it in command line mode and write ls -l. (Feature: When you transfer a load of files to it, it speaks "Oh my god, I'm full of pr0n!")
I remembered various pens, but not the special paper. Yup, this sounds like they're using that technology. (It probably has a patent or two.) Since the Logitech one had USB, maybe Leapfrog has just hidden the connector? Add that 1 GB drive and a hackable OS...
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Who certifies that your authentication is authentic? ICANN, Verisign, Network Solutions,.. Microsoft?
The idea that the "anti-spam crowd" is a unified body is.. interesting. I'm sure that that being told that an idea was discussed years ago and rejected might be annoying, but have you really looked at the various trade-offs that were discussed then?
Blame the IBM PC for putting male connectors on the equipment rather than the cable. (So that there'd be a difference between the female DB-25 for the parallel printer port.)
My wall sockets have little security either. At most there's a fuse, breaker or penny for protection. No user authentication or load request handshaking and management. It's shocking.
I used to wonder how MS could possibly have an exploit in MIDI code. Then I found out how much junk has been retro-shoveled into that "standard" over the years. Yikes!
Microsoft, in their infinite wizzbang, uses a floating point representation for date/time in their OLE types, with the date (days from x) in the integer and time in the fraction. That's fine until you have to do math like timezone conversions. If you convert a local time to GMT then to someplace else and back, frequently your time is now off by 0.0000000001 seconds. That adds excitement to comparing two times, especially when only one has been converted to and from.
It's not a huge problem to avoid, but unless you're draconian about using standard safe time math routines, it'll bite you.. eventually.. when you least expect it.. at a customer site running Martian Standard Time at local midnight. (Which will still be a bad hour for you to get a call no matter where it is.)
And all because someone thought it would be pretty nifty to use floating point. Don't they teach the inherent dangers of round off or truncation errors in school these days? (And before someone automatically jumps on MS, with all the UNIX standards, what are you using? Is it safe?)
There's already a problem with torrents using stale dynamic IP addresses and never giving up banging on the next person to be assigned the address. I hope this doesn't increase it.
this time.. we probably wont have the ability to turn it off.
I just downloaded Slackware to update my auxcon box. I think I could turn it off with that.
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Doom was published, not abandoned, and Doom source was released as well as being used for other games. I doubt Pac-Man is going to be abandoned any time soon either.
I'm not saying to release it right away. There might be a change of mind, a new investor or partners, etc. Eventually when it's just rusting but not yet lost and buried. I worked a project for a prototype hot 68000 arcade system in 1984. I'd hoped that we would do some networked FPS (first person sword&spell) games with it. The coin-op market slumped then, and the project was abandoned with just the single prototype, and all the bits gradually faded away. I might have the bits of code and editors somewhere, my notes, and maybe some of the sample dungeon grpahics, but it's all dark history now and who cares?
At least two of our games (for crummy hardware, not the prototype) still exist on MAME because one of the team later released copies of the roms. (I know it was you Bruno!) If nothing else, release old dead code for a place in history and old fart bragging rights.:)
The main problem with Google's archive is (a) It's pretty spotty during certain periods when I've gone looking, and I didn't always get the same result, (b) Even a complete archive of Usenet would leave out many things that happened outside of the small incestuous world of Usenet or ARPANET. (Okay, it's grown a bit over the years.)
Google's archive is a purty map, but it's missing some details and the map isn't the territory.
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They set the evil bit. Doesn't your software handle that? Mine plays creepy pipe organ music, which has always been an icon of evil.
I was disappointed that I'm number 470957, but maybe that's not such a bad thing if they go in numerical order. ("No, in your face # 470956!")
I'm there. (Unless there's a bill from the Comet Aliens. [Or worse like in David Brin's story in the Jan/Feb Analog.] Then it was someone else.)
And what would be wrong with that?
Temperature sensor eh? I think the probe is getting cold feet. "You want me to what?!"
Rewind to Jan 2nd, and search. (You can pick up a few +5 posts for reuse while you're there.)
Someone has probably patented this pen and pen idea. :^) (Off to talk to a lawyer about "pen and paper on the Internet!")
Not just writing. File storage/transfer too. Put it in command line mode and write ls -l. (Feature: When you transfer a load of files to it, it speaks "Oh my god, I'm full of pr0n!")
You'll have to buy their smart Fly Pencil for that. It comes with an editor attachment on the other end.
I remembered various pens, but not the special paper. Yup, this sounds like they're using that technology. (It probably has a patent or two.) Since the Logitech one had USB, maybe Leapfrog has just hidden the connector? Add that 1 GB drive and a hackable OS...
Never ever offer to show a date your talking Fly.
How can you get it wrong with a coax cable? (Or do you mean that new fangled RJ-45 thing that some call Ethernet.)
What are they using at the heart of that to hold the date/time value? (See my rant elsewhere about MS's use of floating point and time math errors.)
The idea that the "anti-spam crowd" is a unified body is .. interesting. I'm sure that that being told that an idea was discussed years ago and rejected might be annoying, but have you really looked at the various trade-offs that were discussed then?
Blame the IBM PC for putting male connectors on the equipment rather than the cable. (So that there'd be a difference between the female DB-25 for the parallel printer port.)
My wall sockets have little security either. At most there's a fuse, breaker or penny for protection. No user authentication or load request handshaking and management. It's shocking.
How about beer that's free as in speech not as in beer? Umm.
*sigh*, another sad victim of Referer Madness.
It's not a huge problem to avoid, but unless you're draconian about using standard safe time math routines, it'll bite you .. eventually .. when you least expect it .. at a customer site running Martian Standard Time at local midnight. (Which will still be a bad hour for you to get a call no matter where it is.)
And all because someone thought it would be pretty nifty to use floating point. Don't they teach the inherent dangers of round off or truncation errors in school these days? (And before someone automatically jumps on MS, with all the UNIX standards, what are you using? Is it safe?)
There's already a problem with torrents using stale dynamic IP addresses and never giving up banging on the next person to be assigned the address. I hope this doesn't increase it.
I just downloaded Slackware to update my auxcon box. I think I could turn it off with that.
I'm not saying to release it right away. There might be a change of mind, a new investor or partners, etc. Eventually when it's just rusting but not yet lost and buried. I worked a project for a prototype hot 68000 arcade system in 1984. I'd hoped that we would do some networked FPS (first person sword&spell) games with it. The coin-op market slumped then, and the project was abandoned with just the single prototype, and all the bits gradually faded away. I might have the bits of code and editors somewhere, my notes, and maybe some of the sample dungeon grpahics, but it's all dark history now and who cares?
At least two of our games (for crummy hardware, not the prototype) still exist on MAME because one of the team later released copies of the roms. (I know it was you Bruno!) If nothing else, release old dead code for a place in history and old fart bragging rights. :)
The Moon and an earthquake .. well no wonder I was late this morning!
Remind me to never access a network called goatse.
Google's archive is a purty map, but it's missing some details and the map isn't the territory.