I had a teacher in high school who was really, really allergic to beef. When I say "allergic" I'm talking about a trip to the hospital, all kinds of drugs, and he'd still be vomiting for hours. One day, this teacher had a hamburger at McDonald's.
Yeah, nearly the entire OS! Until Carbon was created, you still had to use Pascal strings in all system calls for backwards compatibility. (Pascal strings have their length in the first byte and aren't null-terminated.) This led to four million private implementations of p2c and vice-versa, as well as a new meta-character:
"\pHello World!"
'\p' is a Pascal string-length byte. Weird.
To make matters worse, C and Pascal have different function calling conventions. I may have this backwards (or just wrong) but Pascal put its parameters in registers while C used the stack. If you were writing a callback for a system routine, you had to declare it thusly:
pascal void my_callback();
Callbacks were made even more fun when Apple switched processor architectures. But I'll leave that for another day.
IBM printed this phrase on internal posters and whatnot.
A friend of mine's mother worked for IBM back then. One day, after ferreting around in the attic, this friend presented to me a small notepad with the word "THINK" on the cover. An old-school ThinkPad!
Can anyone confirm that this is where the name of their laptop lineup comes from?
MP3 was revolutionary. It allowed people to create music files that sounded decent at a then-dramatic compression ratio. The value of MP3 versus that of other sound formats at the time was huge. It started P2P and online music, and quickly became entrenched.
Vorbis, on the other hand, is evolutionary. Its value over MP3 is small. Not negligible, but certainly not enormous. People have already invested a significant amount of time and money in MP3-related technology, and to get them to move to another format, that format must provide tremendous value.
It is certainly not wrong to want to see more widespread Vorbis support. But you must understand that the differences between MP3 and Vorbis go far beyond the technical realm.
Microsoft (theoretically) makes more than $2000 from that advertisement. A well-run company will always try to do two things: lower expenses and raise revenue. When a company decides to spend money, it (again, theoretically) only does so if it expects to make more money back as a result. ROI isn't just a TLA.
That being said, it's impossible to tell how much money Microsoft made from your brother's site. But just because Microsoft is spending money doesn't mean they're losing money.
the US can't just block out who they want with GPS
They can, and have done so. In 1999 there was a planned outage along the east coast of the United States. Early last year there was another outage in the Maryland, I believe. I don't have a reference for that one but I remember seeing the NOTAMs.
The DOD has demonstrated a capability to deny GPS service to a specific area.
Hey, thanks for providing additional material to prove me right. That's not geostationary orbit. Maybe you should re-read the post I was responding to. (It's not the one that got modded Funny.)
You're right of course, it does seem a bit wrong. There are striking differences but also many similarities. In particular, both spacecraft and transoceanic atmospheric flights use inertial navigation systems. (This may not be true anymore with the advent of GPS.) Both flight regimes refer to changes in attitude as pitch, roll, and yaw, and they both use gyroscopic attitude indicators.
It's interesting that you mention birds, because the way a bird flies is very different from how a man-made vehicle flies. They both have wings and a tail but I challenge you to fly an airplane under all of the following constraints:
Remove the vertical stabilizer
Use the wings to produce thrust
Zero-length takeoff run and landing rollout
Space flight grew out of atmospheric flight, and they share a lot of ideas about navigation, engineering, risk management, and even medicine. I suppose it's an historical accident that the term "flight" encompasses space flight and atmospheric flight, but as disciplines, they have a lot in common.
As an aside, if you trace the lineage back far enough, I think you'll find that most air navigation concepts descend from sea navigation (hence the term "aeronautical").
I've had similar experiences with my phone at work. Somehow a telemarketer got my work number, and as soon as I told them they'd called a business number, they split. Too bad it doesn't work with Oracle salespeople though. (I'm in Indiana too, incidentally.)
SBC serves the midwest as well. All told, they have service in Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wisconsin.
We're down to one functional phone line at our animal shelter (out of sixteen, I believe). If this strike happens, we'll end up with a bunch of supervisors trying to fix us up. Who knows how long it's been since they've even left the office -- if ever.
This complaint comes up every time an update is noted on Slashdot, and every time it gets modded down. Seriously folks, if you don't want to read this stuff, then just don't read it. It should be obvious from your -1 Troll score, and the -1 scores of all complainants before you, that the majority of Slashdot users want to see these updates on here.
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Perhaps there should be no power on/off state whatsoever.
The clerks at Target check mine every time. They're the only ones, though.
I had a teacher in high school who was really, really allergic to beef. When I say "allergic" I'm talking about a trip to the hospital, all kinds of drugs, and he'd still be vomiting for hours. One day, this teacher had a hamburger at McDonald's.
Nothing happened to him.
Yes, definitely make an image. Pop open a terminal and type "man asr". It's mostly limited to HFS+ but it does the trick rather nicely.
Yeah, nearly the entire OS! Until Carbon was created, you still had to use Pascal strings in all system calls for backwards compatibility. (Pascal strings have their length in the first byte and aren't null-terminated.) This led to four million private implementations of p2c and vice-versa, as well as a new meta-character:
'\p' is a Pascal string-length byte. Weird.
To make matters worse, C and Pascal have different function calling conventions. I may have this backwards (or just wrong) but Pascal put its parameters in registers while C used the stack. If you were writing a callback for a system routine, you had to declare it thusly:
Callbacks were made even more fun when Apple switched processor architectures. But I'll leave that for another day.
A friend of mine's mother worked for IBM back then. One day, after ferreting around in the attic, this friend presented to me a small notepad with the word "THINK" on the cover. An old-school ThinkPad!
Can anyone confirm that this is where the name of their laptop lineup comes from?
And they were wrong then.
MP3 was revolutionary. It allowed people to create music files that sounded decent at a then-dramatic compression ratio. The value of MP3 versus that of other sound formats at the time was huge. It started P2P and online music, and quickly became entrenched.
Vorbis, on the other hand, is evolutionary. Its value over MP3 is small. Not negligible, but certainly not enormous. People have already invested a significant amount of time and money in MP3-related technology, and to get them to move to another format, that format must provide tremendous value.
It is certainly not wrong to want to see more widespread Vorbis support. But you must understand that the differences between MP3 and Vorbis go far beyond the technical realm.
Think about what your bill says. It says it's legal tender. But nowhere on that bill are the words must, shall, or require.
A good analogy, but here's another one (admittedly based on a cliche): Is it more effective to preach to the choir or to the damned?
That being said, it's impossible to tell how much money Microsoft made from your brother's site. But just because Microsoft is spending money doesn't mean they're losing money.
How are things going at NASA?
<key>AppleSpam</key>
<string>NO</string>
At least they're honest.
They can, and have done so. In 1999 there was a planned outage along the east coast of the United States. Early last year there was another outage in the Maryland, I believe. I don't have a reference for that one but I remember seeing the NOTAMs.
The DOD has demonstrated a capability to deny GPS service to a specific area.
Hey, thanks for providing additional material to prove me right. That's not geostationary orbit. Maybe you should re-read the post I was responding to. (It's not the one that got modded Funny.)
Uh, no.
Does anyone know what this refers to?
Aston Martin? No way man, for that kind of money, whatever I'm buying better have a pair of wings!
Touche ;)
It's interesting that you mention birds, because the way a bird flies is very different from how a man-made vehicle flies. They both have wings and a tail but I challenge you to fly an airplane under all of the following constraints:
Space flight grew out of atmospheric flight, and they share a lot of ideas about navigation, engineering, risk management, and even medicine. I suppose it's an historical accident that the term "flight" encompasses space flight and atmospheric flight, but as disciplines, they have a lot in common.
As an aside, if you trace the lineage back far enough, I think you'll find that most air navigation concepts descend from sea navigation (hence the term "aeronautical").
Yes, it is space flight, as opposed to atmospheric flight. The two are very different of course but they're both still "flight."
I've had similar experiences with my phone at work. Somehow a telemarketer got my work number, and as soon as I told them they'd called a business number, they split. Too bad it doesn't work with Oracle salespeople though. (I'm in Indiana too, incidentally.)
What? Slashdot? Where am I!? Mommy, what's happening!? My God, it's full of trolls!
We're down to one functional phone line at our animal shelter (out of sixteen, I believe). If this strike happens, we'll end up with a bunch of supervisors trying to fix us up. Who knows how long it's been since they've even left the office -- if ever.
This complaint comes up every time an update is noted on Slashdot, and every time it gets modded down. Seriously folks, if you don't want to read this stuff, then just don't read it. It should be obvious from your -1 Troll score, and the -1 scores of all complainants before you, that the majority of Slashdot users want to see these updates on here.
Don't forget the bleach, garbage bags, and fire ax.