"Prior to that revelation, however, she, the scientist, finds herself in a situation not unlike..."
I'll have to watch it again, but I was sure that the government did *not* tell her about the 20 hours of static. So she remained completely reliant on her memories of the events, with no other evidence.
The Web worked perfectly well, with lots of free content available, for the several years before advertising appeared. What would be wrong with going back to that?
However, since most consumers don't know very much about computers, they're not going to understand that their software doesn't work between OS's
You've just described the 1980s. There *were* multiple OSes, or at least computing platforms, available - Commodore 64, TRS-80, Atari, Apple, PCs with DOS, etc. Of course, no software for one would work on another.
I remember once I (as the local computer geek) was asked to help a friend of my mother's get a program to work on her computer. She had spent hours typing the program in, from a printout given to her by the school principal. The program was for the Commodore 64, and she had a TRS-80.
That said, commercial software always had a sticker on the front swaying what platform it was for. If it didn't exist for your platform, tough luck - or if you really needed the package you bought the other computer system, too.
Come on, let's be honest here. How many times has Windows saved the day for a Linux application, or even install?
i.e. For myself, back when trying to install Red Hat 8.0 on my machine at home, I had to constantly reboot back into Win2K to download patches/rpms, or read up about bugs and errata, get network drivers, configuration minutae, etc.
It's stable now, but having a working (out of the box) Win2K install to fall back on was crucial to "save" my Linux installation.
Let's not be too smug here, would this have been news if they'd been bailed out by a different Windows version?
I could name several examples of memorable gaming moments back on my Commodore 64, usually involving the Ultima series. But the most memorable was hacking games with hex editors, and seeing my name "inside" the game;-)
More recently, getting totally freaked out by the top-notch ambience in Thief: The Dark Project and its sequels.
Nope, a robotics engineer. We were working on another teleoperated mining machine like the one in this Slashdot story and part of the project was a high-speed data link underground. We had Internet access in order to send test results back our office, and it meant we could surf duing lunch breaks.:-)
The lack of a journalling file system is particularly worrisome, since QNX is often operating in an environment where the power could be pulled at any time.
What makes you think the QNX native file system is not journaled? Even if it isn't, QNX systems are often running in embedded ROM with no writeable "file system" present at all.
Slashdot Mirror
Hopefully, we'll get to find out:
http://www.livescience.com/blogs/2008/09/18/phoenix-mars-microphone-turning-on-the-robots-ear/
Actually, the majority (at least recently) use CCSDS
You mean like PC104?
In fact, you can view the current "scorecard" here: ;-)
r ecard.html
http://www.bio.aps.anl.gov/~dgore/fun/PSL/marssco
"Prior to that revelation, however, she, the scientist, finds herself in a situation not unlike..."
I'll have to watch it again, but I was sure that the government did *not* tell her about the 20 hours of static. So she remained completely reliant on her memories of the events, with no other evidence.
The Web worked perfectly well, with lots of free content available, for the several years before advertising appeared. What would be wrong with going back to that?
However, since most consumers don't know very much about computers, they're not going to
understand that their software doesn't work between OS's
You've just described the 1980s. There *were* multiple OSes, or at least computing platforms, available - Commodore 64, TRS-80, Atari, Apple, PCs with DOS, etc. Of course, no software for one would work on another.
I remember once I (as the local computer geek) was asked to help a friend of my mother's get a program to work on her computer. She had spent hours typing the program in, from a printout given to her by the school principal. The program was for the Commodore 64, and she had a TRS-80.
That said, commercial software always had a sticker on the front swaying what platform it was for. If it didn't exist for your platform, tough luck - or if you really needed the package you bought the other computer system, too.
So is the Project Grizzly guy...suit and all!
http://www.projectgrizzly.net/
Come on, let's be honest here. How many times has Windows saved the day for a Linux application, or even install?
i.e. For myself, back when trying to install Red Hat 8.0 on my machine at home, I had to constantly reboot back into Win2K to download patches/rpms, or read up about bugs and errata, get network drivers, configuration minutae, etc.
It's stable now, but having a working (out of the box) Win2K install to fall back on was crucial to "save" my Linux installation.
Let's not be too smug here, would this have been news if they'd been bailed out by a different Windows version?
I could name several examples of memorable gaming moments back on my Commodore 64, usually involving the Ultima series. But the most memorable was hacking games with hex editors, and seeing my name "inside" the game ;-)
More recently, getting totally freaked out by the top-notch ambience in Thief: The Dark Project and its sequels.
Jeri Ellsworth will be demonstrating the 64DTV and talking about its development at the World of Commodore in Toronto on December 3rd.
Nope, a robotics engineer. We were working on another teleoperated mining machine like the one in this Slashdot story and part of the project was a high-speed data link underground. We had Internet access in order to send test results back our office, and it meant we could surf duing lunch breaks. :-)
I've actually read it from 700m below the earth, in a salt/potash mine in Germany.
My C64 is permanently hooked up to the Internet, running a Telnetable BBS, for those who care... :)
Odd that the article didn't link to this.
http://www.marsrocks.ca
This is another quite detailed look, bringing events at several locations into one timeline. Here
And another: Paradroid, the Movie. Not real though, but an excellent script. Wish it was made into a real movie.
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Reviews
http://www.film-mogul.com/matrix/titles/paradroid
Script, posters, concept, casting
http://www.bmeg2000.com/design/Paradroid/
Everyone's reminiscing about 80's BBSes, so I'll throw in a word about my resurrected dial-up Commodore 64 BBS. (except over Telnet).
:-)
You can call it with a real 64, and there are programs now that support "ATDT 209.151.141.59" and so on. Call it Hayes 2.0 maybe?
--
Call Negative Format BBS - Hosted on a real C64!
Telnet to c64bbs.no-ip.com or 209.151.141.59 Port 23
http://home.ica.net/~leifb/bbs/
You can successfully mix the two, this worked for MacGyver.
"Another visitor! Stay awhile...stay forever!"
I need this too, as the previous owners of my house put carpet on the ceiling in the basement!
Pic
(Must have been a 70's thing)
My Commodore 64 is wired to the Internet.
Connect to it here
About the setup
Next we'll see a Difference Engine on the 'net...who wants to try it?
The lack of a journalling file system is particularly worrisome, since QNX is often operating in an environment where the power could be pulled at any time.
What makes you think the QNX native file system is not journaled? Even if it isn't, QNX systems are often running in embedded ROM with no writeable "file system" present at all.
I have a similar association as well, but mine is actually the Commodore 64 list of color codes which I had memorized when 13 years old!
Lots of bots crawling around the mines all right, but they are all under my command!