Actually the robot lawnmower has been around for about 20 years. The electronics have gotten better and cheaper, of course. This robot butler has spiked wheels for running on the carpet. I wonder how well it will work on grass.
Roll up in a ball the same size as the soccer ball and bump the real ball around. Do you suppose the opposing team might get a little confused? Might the opposing team acquire a few fouls for kicking opposing team members?
How, indeed. We can't make other programmers do anything.
As programmers we can improve competitors' products who are following standards. As customers we can avoid proprietary products, just as we did with MicroChannel. As reviewers we can mention if products use proprietary methods or standards.
The AOL and MS messaging customers and tech support are getting lessons in that right now.
Simple. Make the game writers follow, or create, a standard. They keep creating proprietary data formats which only their software understands. Then customers find that firewalls and competitors (ie, the current AOL and MS squabble) are not compatible.
Hayes modem command set allowed modem control without custom device driver.
VGA graphics. Finally the IBM PC could show reasonable images. Web browsing later became a significant side effect.
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VisiCalc. Killer App. Welcome to "electronic spreadsheets." A reason to buy a computer.
Early Computer Magazines
People's Computer Company, an organization promoting personal and community computing. A computer newspaper before there were computer publications. Community Memory was an early idea for sharing computer databases at computing storefronts.
dr. dobb's journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia, an early proponent of publishing source code. Evolved into Dr. Dobb's Journal.
Byte magazine, its huge 50,000 copy beginning and eventually the first computer magazine to appear on general magazine racks.
Kilobaud magazine, very popular hacker magazine, often with sources (remember programs on vinyl sheets for playback from phonograph player into cassette interfaces?).
Conceptual
Homebrew Computer Club. Build your own computer if you can't afford a small CDC or PDP to heat your house. I was designing a TTL personal computer until the 8080 appeared; sure was nice to have quad NAND DIPs.
Xerox PARC center with its influential network and user interface experiments.
I've used NetEye also. The camera server can not handle many users, but you simply don't have people connect to the camera. Have your web server grab the images from the cameras, and feed viewers from the web server.
Just build a Network Interface using an old 486. Maybe Linux in the Network Interface, but that's not important as it's just a network device. Do the real networking in that device. Connect the NT boxes to the nearest Network Interface.
ME: First human ever known to be swallowed by a black hole. Other: Then you should be in that line over there, with the other beings with cosmological endings.
Actually, when our Moon was torn out of the Earth a lot of the upper crust and primitive atmosphere were ripped away. The result is our thin atmosphere and relatively thin crust.
With our full share of atmosphere we'd have a much higher pressure and greater greenhouse effect. We also would have much more silicon and fewer metals available at the surface. Plate tectonics might also not be operating, so our present cycling of carbon and water back to the surface might not be happening. The Earth's core might also not be rotating and generating magnetism the way it is.
Our planet would be more like Venus. But it is not because the Moon is there but rather how the Moon appeared there.
There was a letter to the editor in a recent Scientific American about that possibility. The reply explained why it was unlikely and pointed out that more powerful cosmic ray reactions happen frequently in our own atmosphere. If it could happen, it would have happened billions of years ago.
I put my son in the cockpit of the Blackbird at the museum next to Minneapolis-St. Paul airport last Sunday. The museum volunteer next to the aircraft said several thousand SAMs have been fired at these aircraft. Only one SAM hit, and the aircraft landed at its base with part of the missile stuck through a wing (obviously not an entire SAM, as that's like a telephone pole and a Blackbird is not a large aircraft).
I wonder how powerful a SAM explosion is when compared to the forces of the airflow over one of these birds.
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I think PanAm offered future space flight reservations around the time "2001:A Space Odyssey" appeared. Did they offer your money back?
No 6502 in Lunar Module
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No, the lunar module was not based on the 6502. Maybe your acquaintance had source code to the 1970's Lunar Lander games.
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Actually the robot lawnmower has been around for about 20 years. The electronics have gotten better and cheaper, of course. This robot butler has spiked wheels for running on the carpet. I wonder how well it will work on grass.
As programmers we can improve competitors' products who are following standards. As customers we can avoid proprietary products, just as we did with MicroChannel. As reviewers we can mention if products use proprietary methods or standards.
The AOL and MS messaging customers and tech support are getting lessons in that right now.
Simple. Make the game writers follow, or create, a standard. They keep creating proprietary data formats which only their software understands. Then customers find that firewalls and competitors (ie, the current AOL and MS squabble) are not compatible.
The first IMP installation thirty years ago is described in today's L.A. Times. Nobody took a picture of the start of the ARPANET.
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I've used NetEye also. The camera server can not handle many users, but you simply don't have people connect to the camera. Have your web server grab the images from the cameras, and feed viewers from the web server.
Just build a Network Interface using an old 486. Maybe Linux in the Network Interface, but that's not important as it's just a network device. Do the real networking in that device. Connect the NT boxes to the nearest Network Interface.
That is how "Sledge Hammer" dealt with the previous season's finale where the hero dealt with a problem involving a nuclear bomb.
OK, so you graduated from MIT in Physics.
But do you have a Physicist Bob T-shirt?
James P. Hogan's "Thrice Upon a Time" also involves an accident in extreme physics.
You're going to power a stove by dropping humans into a black hole?
ME: First human ever known to be swallowed by a black hole.
Other: Then you should be in that line over there, with the other beings with cosmological endings.
With our full share of atmosphere we'd have a much higher pressure and greater greenhouse effect. We also would have much more silicon and fewer metals available at the surface. Plate tectonics might also not be operating, so our present cycling of carbon and water back to the surface might not be happening. The Earth's core might also not be rotating and generating magnetism the way it is.
Our planet would be more like Venus. But it is not because the Moon is there but rather how the Moon appeared there.
That document is packed full of info. The largest inhalable particle size and its consequences was particularly interesting.
Here is the July SA letter to the editor and reply: Black Holes at Brookhaven?
There was a letter to the editor in a recent Scientific American about that possibility. The reply explained why it was unlikely and pointed out that more powerful cosmic ray reactions happen frequently in our own atmosphere. If it could happen, it would have happened billions of years ago.
You think ICANN couldn't raise a little money if they sold some stock or bonds? Investment funding, that's just what stocks and bonds are used for.
Head on the tabletop.
Personally, I'm going to arrange some Kismet faces to make a "How Do You Feel Today?" montage...
I wonder how powerful a SAM explosion is when compared to the forces of the airflow over one of these birds.
I think PanAm offered future space flight reservations around the time "2001:A Space Odyssey" appeared. Did they offer your money back?
- The 6502 appeared in 1975.
- Apollo was designed in the 1960's and the last mission was in 1972.
You do the math.