The rest of them can have the surface of this planet we will send up fruit baskets every once in awhile and we will be sure to visit when we are hungry after a long day's work.
Was this an intentional reference to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine?
I could swear I remember being told once that a peanut is technically a bean, not a nut. So a peanut allergy is not a nut allergy, it's a bean allergy.
Correct. Six companies, in this case, are a cartel.
I'm not sure what kind of damages AOL expects to get, though. Loss of sales? The browser's been free for quite some time now. It also doesn't help AOL's case that they're still embedding IE in their own client software. It's like complaining about lost sales of an item you're unwilling to sell.
Heh. It would be quite funny if we had wasted all that CPU time looking at wimpy radio signals, when the aliens have been using cosmic rays to try to fax us the blueprints for warp drive.
if antimatter is time-reversed matter, then why would it be the opposite charge of its corresponding matter particle?
Think about how you would tell whether a charge is positive or negative - its movement through a magnetic field. Now imagine seeing a film of it run backward. You would make the opposite determination about its charge. Incidentally, you would also notice that it has an opposite spin.
You can even look at matter-antimatter annihilation this way: A matter particle is traveling forward in time, becomes somehow 'unstable', turns backward through time, and emits two photons to satisfy mass-energy conservation in the future. It's new backward path through time is seen by outside observers as a separate antiparticle which collided with the first particle to produce the photons.
One guess on whether any version of Windows, even 3.11, could be installed on the original system 100 MB hard disk. I was sad when it died.
I think DOS and Windows 3.11 can be installed in under 40MB if you forego some of the bells and whistles.
I recently (2 years ago or so) found a 386sx-25 in a thrift store with a 120MB hard disk that had Windows 95 installed. It also had all kinds of juicy personal data and Autocad drawings, so let that be a lesson to wipe your disk before donating your computer.
I also had to chuckle when I opened it up and saw it had a 387 coprocessor. That must have been an expensive system when it was first purchased in probably 1990 or so.
Am I the only one thinking antimatter costs more energy to produce than you get out of it?
Currently it does; maybe some day that won't be the case. Even if it is, it's still the only viable answer for long-distance space travel because of the energy density.
Just for fun, figure the energy released by ten pounds of antimatter; then, calculate how much conventional rocket fuel you'd need for the same amount of energy. Now, you'll have to recalculate your energy needs because your spaceship is weighed down by millions of tons of fuel.
We have Charter cable and internet here. Total cost is $103/mo, this includes huge numbers of movie channels (which we will drop when the special offer ends), options to watch regular PPV movies or movies on demand, and 1.5Mbps net access. I can't see adding phone service to this being worth $130 extra, that's for sure. Our phone bill is about $40.
Maybe if there were ten PPV movies a month and free unlimited long distance included the $230 would become attractive. And for that price, they'd damn well better carry my local channels' HDTV feeds when they come online.
I don't know about you, but one beer makes me better at Q3. Two beers and my aim gets bad. Of course, I suck in general anyway, but I'll probably play a couple hours of Capture the Flag tonight. Unless the wife goes into labor, which should happen any day now. Heh heh... *THAT* will be a marathon.
Ack... damn two minute waiting period. Now I have to say something pointless to occupy the next 45 seconds or so.
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Coconuts are best for watching The Holy Grail. For the Flying Circus series, I'd suggest Spam, Spam, Spam and eggs.
Have you ever seen the (unfortunately too short) hockey clip on DirecTV's HDTV demo loop in a store? It looks fantastic. I can't wait for real HD hockey games.
I currently have digital cable and the NHL Center Ice package. The games coming from CBC usually look good, and the Fox Sports games look awful. But if there's also a game on ESPN, which we get analog, even the worst of the pictures on the Center Ice package looks better than ESPN.
Heh! I've almost never seen a properly calibrated TV in a store. The brightness and contrast are usually cranked to ridiculous levels. The colors are out of whack. The convergence is poor. And they have a crappy cable signal split 150 times so each TV shows more snow than Buffalo, NY.
Yup, we've had VOD from Charter for several months now. I think the wife has watched one or two movies on it; I haven't yet because I've been spending all my TV-watching time on NHL Center Ice. Go LEAFS!
I've been fairly impressed at how well Charter has rolled out new tech to our area.
I'd be much more impressed if they were a bit better at keeping it all running. But they're getting better; over the Thanksgiving holiday we lost cable for two days and Pipeline (cable modem) for four days when a power company transformer blew. This holiday weekend (go figure) the same transformer blew again, but cable and Pipeline were back in a few hours.
Actually, you could have acquired all the arcade boards you wanted for a few bucks each in '87 or so.
Anyway, here's my take on the ROMs issue: If I had any illegal ROMs, and the copyright holders came after me, I'd ask them if I could purchase a license to become legal. If they say they can't because the code is too old, I'd ask them, in that case, what kind of monetary damages they are expecting to get in court, since their loss of sales is obviously $0. If they persisted in being buttheads, I'd delete the ROMs and beg for their mercy. I can hardly see the court case being worth the trouble.
On the other hand, if they offer a price to buy a license, I'd consider it. I see no problem in compensating them for the work they did, even if it was twenty years ago. If their price was unreasonable, I'd delete the ROMs.
Unless of course someone at your company wants to send a legitimate exe, vbs, etc. I don't know what your company does, but at my consulting company they tried this and it didn't fly.
Simple solution - WinZip it.
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gowen's solution uses 14 gallons total and discards 6, leaving the 3 gallon full for 9 wasted gallons.
special_ed209 uses 12 gallons, and discards 7.
Also, gowen's solution seems to be quicker, but requires you to carry the full 7 gallon container from the well (or faucet) twice. That's about 56 pounds. special_ed209's solution requires four trips with the 3 gallon container, at only 24 pounds (this reminds me of why Imperial measurements suck - liters and kilograms would be much simpler to deal with).
If I were to ever design a desktop environment, no user would ever, EVER, see a file system. They would log in and get desktop that had all their applications with nothing else. To access something, they would have to run the application that created the object (by clicking on it on the desktop, or selecting it from a menu like the "Start" button), and then use the application open and save dialoges to access their saved documents.
Sorry, but I wouldn't use that desktop. I prefer to organize my files by what they are for, rather than what program created them. For example, I have a StarOffice spreadsheet with an amortization of my mortage in a/shared/documents/finance folder, along with my GnuCash data file, downloaded credit card statements, and such. In your metaphor, I couldn't just open a window on this folder, click a file, and work on it, I'd have to open the app first. If I was a newbie, I'd first have to remember which app it is that opens which files.
I think abstracting programs and letting the user work with their files is an easier metaphor. I'd rather deal with the filesystem. I think, though, that it would make things much easier if the view of the filesystem presented to users doesn't include things like/bin or/etc or.foobarrc - these sorts of files should be abstracted.
And of course, power users should be able to turn off these abstractions.
Better yet, have a hidden file (or extended attribute, if your file system allows) in/etc that tells the gui to show it's name as "Configuration Files" or whatever.
In retrospect, XM should have really considered a smartcard system like that of DirecTV.
Yep, and that also could have solved the problem of the poster above (the "$30 a month" topic). With a smartcard, you could have one subscription per person, perhaps an additional fee for additional cards. Then, you could keep your card with you when you swapped cars with the wife. Or when you went to a rental car.
They also could have had a system for storing "favorite channels" on the card and such.
I'm sure by "you may purchase a separate subscription" they mean "you can also choose not to do so, but then your additional receivers will only have 100 channels of static for you to choose from".
Also, the advent of file-sharing services such as Napster heralded the beginning of the end for the stand-alone CD player. I now play all of my music on my computer, as it has better sound fidelity than any CD player I own.
Dude, if your CD player doesn't sound better than the MP3's you got from Napster, take it back to Wal-Mart!
Good question. But, this won't replace analog film until CCD's become a heck of a lot better. I figure you need about 30 megapixels to be able to do a 16x20 enlargement, which would put the digital camera in a league with 35mm film. Now imagine the resolution you need to compete with medium-format.
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Ye olde hoser.
The rest of them can have the surface of this planet we will send up fruit baskets every once in awhile and we will be sure to visit when we are hungry after a long day's work.
Was this an intentional reference to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine?
I could swear I remember being told once that a peanut is technically a bean, not a nut. So a peanut allergy is not a nut allergy, it's a bean allergy.
Correct. Six companies, in this case, are a cartel.
I'm not sure what kind of damages AOL expects to get, though. Loss of sales? The browser's been free for quite some time now. It also doesn't help AOL's case that they're still embedding IE in their own client software. It's like complaining about lost sales of an item you're unwilling to sell.
Heh. It would be quite funny if we had wasted all that CPU time looking at wimpy radio signals, when the aliens have been using cosmic rays to try to fax us the blueprints for warp drive.
if antimatter is time-reversed matter, then why would it be the opposite charge of its corresponding matter particle?
Think about how you would tell whether a charge is positive or negative - its movement through a magnetic field. Now imagine seeing a film of it run backward. You would make the opposite determination about its charge. Incidentally, you would also notice that it has an opposite spin.
You can even look at matter-antimatter annihilation this way: A matter particle is traveling forward in time, becomes somehow 'unstable', turns backward through time, and emits two photons to satisfy mass-energy conservation in the future. It's new backward path through time is seen by outside observers as a separate antiparticle which collided with the first particle to produce the photons.
One guess on whether any version of Windows, even 3.11, could be installed on the original system 100 MB hard disk. I was sad when it died.
I think DOS and Windows 3.11 can be installed in under 40MB if you forego some of the bells and whistles.
I recently (2 years ago or so) found a 386sx-25 in a thrift store with a 120MB hard disk that had Windows 95 installed. It also had all kinds of juicy personal data and Autocad drawings, so let that be a lesson to wipe your disk before donating your computer.
I also had to chuckle when I opened it up and saw it had a 387 coprocessor. That must have been an expensive system when it was first purchased in probably 1990 or so.
Am I the only one thinking antimatter costs more energy to produce than you get out of it?
Currently it does; maybe some day that won't be the case. Even if it is, it's still the only viable answer for long-distance space travel because of the energy density.
Just for fun, figure the energy released by ten pounds of antimatter; then, calculate how much conventional rocket fuel you'd need for the same amount of energy. Now, you'll have to recalculate your energy needs because your spaceship is weighed down by millions of tons of fuel.
We have Charter cable and internet here. Total cost is $103/mo, this includes huge numbers of movie channels (which we will drop when the special offer ends), options to watch regular PPV movies or movies on demand, and 1.5Mbps net access. I can't see adding phone service to this being worth $130 extra, that's for sure. Our phone bill is about $40.
Maybe if there were ten PPV movies a month and free unlimited long distance included the $230 would become attractive. And for that price, they'd damn well better carry my local channels' HDTV feeds when they come online.
Oh boy, I'm glad we have multiple TV's, because my wife is due any day now, and after your post I know what she'll be watching.
I don't know about you, but one beer makes me better at Q3. Two beers and my aim gets bad. Of course, I suck in general anyway, but I'll probably play a couple hours of Capture the Flag tonight. Unless the wife goes into labor, which should happen any day now. Heh heh... *THAT* will be a marathon.
Ack... damn two minute waiting period. Now I have to say something pointless to occupy the next 45 seconds or so.
Coconuts are best for watching The Holy Grail. For the Flying Circus series, I'd suggest Spam, Spam, Spam and eggs.
Hey, where's the obligatory /. complaint about the theme song?
Seriously, I hope someday we can see Enterprise re-runs in true HD. That would be cool.
Even an anamorphic DVD release would be nice.
Have you ever seen the (unfortunately too short) hockey clip on DirecTV's HDTV demo loop in a store? It looks fantastic. I can't wait for real HD hockey games.
I currently have digital cable and the NHL Center Ice package. The games coming from CBC usually look good, and the Fox Sports games look awful. But if there's also a game on ESPN, which we get analog, even the worst of the pictures on the Center Ice package looks better than ESPN.
Oh... GO LEAFS!
Heh! I've almost never seen a properly calibrated TV in a store. The brightness and contrast are usually cranked to ridiculous levels. The colors are out of whack. The convergence is poor. And they have a crappy cable signal split 150 times so each TV shows more snow than Buffalo, NY.
Yup, we've had VOD from Charter for several months now. I think the wife has watched one or two movies on it; I haven't yet because I've been spending all my TV-watching time on NHL Center Ice. Go LEAFS!
I've been fairly impressed at how well Charter has rolled out new tech to our area.
I'd be much more impressed if they were a bit better at keeping it all running. But they're getting better; over the Thanksgiving holiday we lost cable for two days and Pipeline (cable modem) for four days when a power company transformer blew. This holiday weekend (go figure) the same transformer blew again, but cable and Pipeline were back in a few hours.
Actually, you could have acquired all the arcade boards you wanted for a few bucks each in '87 or so.
Anyway, here's my take on the ROMs issue: If I had any illegal ROMs, and the copyright holders came after me, I'd ask them if I could purchase a license to become legal. If they say they can't because the code is too old, I'd ask them, in that case, what kind of monetary damages they are expecting to get in court, since their loss of sales is obviously $0. If they persisted in being buttheads, I'd delete the ROMs and beg for their mercy. I can hardly see the court case being worth the trouble.
On the other hand, if they offer a price to buy a license, I'd consider it. I see no problem in compensating them for the work they did, even if it was twenty years ago. If their price was unreasonable, I'd delete the ROMs.
Unless of course someone at your company wants to send a legitimate exe, vbs, etc. I don't know what your company does, but at my consulting company they tried this and it didn't fly.
Simple solution - WinZip it.
gowen's solution uses 14 gallons total and discards 6, leaving the 3 gallon full for 9 wasted gallons.
special_ed209 uses 12 gallons, and discards 7.
Also, gowen's solution seems to be quicker, but requires you to carry the full 7 gallon container from the well (or faucet) twice. That's about 56 pounds. special_ed209's solution requires four trips with the 3 gallon container, at only 24 pounds (this reminds me of why Imperial measurements suck - liters and kilograms would be much simpler to deal with).
If I were to ever design a desktop environment, no user would ever, EVER, see a file system. They would log in and get desktop that had all their applications with nothing else. To access something, they would have to run the application that created the object (by clicking on it on the desktop, or selecting it from a menu like the "Start" button), and then use the application open and save dialoges to access their saved documents.
/shared/documents/finance folder, along with my GnuCash data file, downloaded credit card statements, and such. In your metaphor, I couldn't just open a window on this folder, click a file, and work on it, I'd have to open the app first. If I was a newbie, I'd first have to remember which app it is that opens which files.
/bin or /etc or .foobarrc - these sorts of files should be abstracted.
Sorry, but I wouldn't use that desktop. I prefer to organize my files by what they are for, rather than what program created them. For example, I have a StarOffice spreadsheet with an amortization of my mortage in a
I think abstracting programs and letting the user work with their files is an easier metaphor. I'd rather deal with the filesystem. I think, though, that it would make things much easier if the view of the filesystem presented to users doesn't include things like
And of course, power users should be able to turn off these abstractions.
Better yet, have a hidden file (or extended attribute, if your file system allows) in /etc that tells the gui to show it's name as "Configuration Files" or whatever.
In retrospect, XM should have really considered a smartcard system like that of DirecTV.
Yep, and that also could have solved the problem of the poster above (the "$30 a month" topic). With a smartcard, you could have one subscription per person, perhaps an additional fee for additional cards. Then, you could keep your card with you when you swapped cars with the wife. Or when you went to a rental car.
They also could have had a system for storing "favorite channels" on the card and such.
I'm sure by "you may purchase a separate subscription" they mean "you can also choose not to do so, but then your additional receivers will only have 100 channels of static for you to choose from".
Also, the advent of file-sharing services such as Napster heralded the beginning of the end for the stand-alone CD player. I now play all of my music on my computer, as it has better sound fidelity than any CD player I own.
Dude, if your CD player doesn't sound better than the MP3's you got from Napster, take it back to Wal-Mart!
Good question. But, this won't replace analog film until CCD's become a heck of a lot better. I figure you need about 30 megapixels to be able to do a 16x20 enlargement, which would put the digital camera in a league with 35mm film. Now imagine the resolution you need to compete with medium-format.