At that price, maybe they could package a couple CDs worth of material pre-loaded onto the unit to sweeten the deal. No doubt protected with AAC/FairPlay, but still, one could pay a premium for it the way people pay for boxed CD sets of their favorite artists.
Those weren't made by Winchester, rather they were called Winchester disks because the IBM 3340 (an early model) featured two 30MB volumes -- thus, 30-30, like the rifle. See the Jargon File for the reference.
I was the original webmaster for Merck.com back in 1996 or so. I vaguely remember early on when we were putting up one of our first product sites, I got the thing up late one day and to test it, threw on a simple HTML page that said something like "It works, time for a coffee break" and a picture of a cuppa joe. My manager found it the next day and was livid. Had to take it down.
A little while later we were working with a long-dead state engine add-on for the Netscape web server (don't laugh, this was before either cookies or Apache were all that prevalent), and we had a couple fun things, including a scavenger hunt where people could pick up little tokens on web pages and a thing for changing the theme for the site. (We called them "flavors".) Not really secret Easter eggs, but they were fun. Likely won't find anything that non-corporate on the site anymore.
Serendipitously enough, I was looking for something to hold all my stuff just last week. I eventually ended up purchasing an Adidas Sequence 2001 sling bag from eBags. I'll see how well it works once it arrives. The thing that attracted me to it was the large back compartment (for my laptop) and the cell phone pocket on the strap -- I'm trying to reduce the items on my belt, and the phone and iPAQ were just too much at once.
It was called ABasiC and was developed by Metacomco, since Microsoft's AmigaBASIC was not finished in time for the Amiga's launch. Metacomco also developed the original version of AmigaDOS. ABasiC shipped with versions 1.0 and 1.1 of Kickstart/Workbench, but by 1.2 it had been replaced by AmigaBASIC.
The main home page of the book's site also links to a work called Cheap Complex Devices, edited by a person with the same first and last name (John Compton Sundman), and purports to be a pair of computer-generated novels, the first of which (The Bonehead Computer Museum) is described in the introduction with a plot and characters that are the same as Acts. Both this work and Acts share very similar cover art. I smell a hoax, or at least something very fishy.
Slashdot Mirror
Molon labe.
pr0n
Entangled diamond jewelry -- how else can you demonstrate the superposition of your commitment to your one true love? (For 10 picoseconds.)
Running GNOME, of course.
From the Changelog:
It looks like the Smalltalk GUI to me.
Remember, every time you hear that default Nokia ring tone, that's the sound of market share. ;-)
At that price, maybe they could package a couple CDs worth of material pre-loaded onto the unit to sweeten the deal. No doubt protected with AAC/FairPlay, but still, one could pay a premium for it the way people pay for boxed CD sets of their favorite artists.
...Linux drools.
(There, my first Slashdot flamebait. Now my life is complete.)
Those weren't made by Winchester, rather they were called Winchester disks because the IBM 3340 (an early model) featured two 30MB volumes -- thus, 30-30, like the rifle. See the Jargon File for the reference.
I was the original webmaster for Merck.com back in 1996 or so. I vaguely remember early on when we were putting up one of our first product sites, I got the thing up late one day and to test it, threw on a simple HTML page that said something like "It works, time for a coffee break" and a picture of a cuppa joe. My manager found it the next day and was livid. Had to take it down.
A little while later we were working with a long-dead state engine add-on for the Netscape web server (don't laugh, this was before either cookies or Apache were all that prevalent), and we had a couple fun things, including a scavenger hunt where people could pick up little tokens on web pages and a thing for changing the theme for the site. (We called them "flavors".) Not really secret Easter eggs, but they were fun. Likely won't find anything that non-corporate on the site anymore.
Serendipitously enough, I was looking for something to hold all my stuff just last week. I eventually ended up purchasing an Adidas Sequence 2001 sling bag from eBags. I'll see how well it works once it arrives. The thing that attracted me to it was the large back compartment (for my laptop) and the cell phone pocket on the strap -- I'm trying to reduce the items on my belt, and the phone and iPAQ were just too much at once.
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