Oh, man good luck with Sam and Max. I played that thing, and know I have a severely warped vie of reality (hint: the way to get to the other side of the resturant is to climb inside the fish.) -----------------
I read about blogger last week, and also Manilla (http://manila.userland.com/).
Can some with some hands-on experience with these things explain the difference between them and the super-high priced content management systems like Broadvision and Vignette? -----------------
From the sound of things, it is an attempt at noir, but poorly written. For a good SF / Noir book, try Gun,With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem. 4.5 stars with 29 reviews on Amazon, if you place any value in the reviews on Amazon. -----------------
Have you ever seen inside an ATM? IBM has a major share of the ATM market, and they're basically PCs with special pheripherals. When I worked at a major bank we had a look inside a (then) new ATM. It was 90% air, with a PS/2 model 50 running OS/2 and a touch screen.
I'm suprised the things don't crash more often; I've heard that IBM still uses OS/2 in the things. -----------------
Everything has a defense/intelligence slant to it. Case in point, the space shuttle was designed to go into Low Earth Orbit, and has to 'kick' research sattelites into High Earth Orbit. Why? Because the Space Shuttle cargo bay is the exact shape and size for a KH-11 spy sattelite, which goes into Low Earth Orbit. The Space Shuttle was designed to deliver spy sats to orbit, everything else is secondary. -----------------
I went into shock when Gore annouced that the "smoke and mirrors" VentureStar had been selected over the DCX when the DCX already had a working prototype, and the VentureStar was nothing but talk and a bunch of CGI clips. I bet a lot of pork-barreling was going on.
And now it will continue... -----------------
This was Microsoft's last attempt at a home computer/gaming console designed in the mid-eighties(?). It was going to be built by a consortium of Japanese companies and run a propriety MS graphic OS. Lots of Press Releases and FUD, but it never saw the light of day. Everytime I hear about the XBox, I think of the GSX. BTW, a Google search turned up zilch, so I could have the initials wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's what it was called. -----------------
I believe it stands for Computer Generated Images or Imagery, but scripts these days tend to just use the term (CG), as you pointed out. -----------------
The SU 27 Flanker is rated at mach 2.35 with record ceiling and take-off speeds. I remember hearing somewhere that after the cold war ended some NATO pilots got a good look at the Flanker and were really happy that they never had to fight one! -----------------
The great thing about that movie was the characterizations of Jobs as an obsessed megalomanic and Gates as a greedy, socially inept creep. At least Jobs has a sense of humor. At a Mac conference a while back he had Noah Wiley (who played Jobs in the movie) come out and start the show. Then Jobs himself came out and basically interupted 'himself'.
I can't imagine Bill inviting Anthoy Michael Hall to a Microsoft presentation until Hailstorm freezes over. -----------------
Lucky bloody you. I started programming on an 8K Commadore PET with cassette tape storage. Type "load" press "play aon the cassette deck and wait fifteen minutes. Amiazing the amount of code you could cram into 8K (or 16 or 48) in those days. Now you've got crap like IBM WebSphere that wants 512Meg of RAM to run. Sigh. -----------------
From the Article: Financial analysts say Microsoft may be the only company in the world with the skill and clout to pull it off
Are they kidding? Clout, maybe, but skill? It'll never happen. -----------------
From the article: The company moved from Great Britain to Richardson last year to be
near other high-tech companies, officials said,
If their technology is so great, why did they physically move? Why couldn't they use their own technology to be 'near' other high tech companies? And why Richardson, TX, instead of Silicon Valley or Silicon Valley East?
Just curious. -----------------
I always take Gibson's writing with a grain of salt because he's not really up to speed on technology and he will admit it, sometimes. He wrote "Neuromancer" on a manual typewriter, and in "Count Zero" (set in the late 21st century) he had one of his characters get a 'special' service from the telephone company that blocked calls from certain numbers.
Neil Stephenson is a lot more tech-savvy; check out his short book "In the Beginning was the Command Line" about his experences with different OSes, and why he settled on Debian Linux.
BTW, the word 'otaku', used in Gibson's article, roughly translates into 'Single Male Living in his parent's basement'. Which describes Slashdot trolls pretty well, don't you think? -----------------
Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd. (AECL) built a medical radiation device called the THERAC that had a major software bug in it that killed at least three people. If the operator hit the keys on the keyboard in the wrong sequence, the machine would deliver 1,000,000 times the dose displayed on the screen. Massive radiation poisoning, and the victims died in a few days. They finally traced the problem to a coding error made by a contractor. This, of course, is a massive over-simplification of the problem.
The full story can be found here -----------------
How could they mention "Goldeneye" and leave out "Mission:Impossible"? Remember the obvious use of Netscape Navigator? (I think they used version 1.0, although 2.0 was out at the time). There was some nifty movie "hacking" in that film, but my favorite part was that the good guys all used Mac Powerbooks, while the bad guys all had IBM laptops. -----------------
He is absolultely right.
The porn industry is also leading the way with DVDs. All DVD players have the mutli-angle feature, but the only multi-angle DVDs seems to be porno DVDS. (Not that I've ever watched any.) -----------------
Arrgh! Semantics is the point! My point was that the terminology is f--ked. And I wasn't defending Linux, I said "all GUIs". Windows is just the most egregious example because it comes installed on 90% on all new computers. Read what I said, don't skim it. -----------------
Windows offers a friendly environment that makes it easy to use software Sorry, that doesn't wash.
Try teaching Windows to someone who has never used a GUI before. Explain why "Shutdown" is on the "Start" menu. Hell, explain a menu. A GUI "menu" is nothing like the thing you pick up in a resturant, and a GUI 'window" is nothing like the thing you look out of in your house. Then try to explain the funny little 'icons', task bars, tool bars, and system trays. Let me know if you have any hair left when you're done.
I know this covers all GUIs, not just Windows, but you can't claim Windows is a friendly environment. It's just as user-hostile in the beginning as any other environment, but it gets forced on 90% of the computer-buying public. -----------------
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Ugh! Sounds like Modula-2!
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Oh, man good luck with Sam and Max. I played that thing, and know I have a severely warped vie of reality (hint: the way to get to the other side of the resturant is to climb inside the fish.)
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I guess Carmack has enough Ferraris now.
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I read about blogger last week, and also Manilla (http://manila.userland.com/).
Can some with some hands-on experience with these things explain the difference between them and the super-high priced content management systems like Broadvision and Vignette?
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From the sound of things, it is an attempt at noir, but poorly written. For a good SF / Noir book, try Gun,With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem. 4.5 stars with 29 reviews on Amazon, if you place any value in the reviews on Amazon.
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Have you ever seen inside an ATM? IBM has a major share of the ATM market, and they're basically PCs with special pheripherals. When I worked at a major bank we had a look inside a (then) new ATM. It was 90% air, with a PS/2 model 50 running OS/2 and a touch screen.
I'm suprised the things don't crash more often; I've heard that IBM still uses OS/2 in the things.
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Thanks, I'm getting old and my memory is fading (DRAM, slow refresh rate).
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Everything has a defense/intelligence slant to it. Case in point, the space shuttle was designed to go into Low Earth Orbit, and has to 'kick' research sattelites into High Earth Orbit. Why? Because the Space Shuttle cargo bay is the exact shape and size for a KH-11 spy sattelite, which goes into Low Earth Orbit.
The Space Shuttle was designed to deliver spy sats to orbit, everything else is secondary.
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I went into shock when Gore annouced that the "smoke and mirrors" VentureStar had been selected over the DCX when the DCX already had a working prototype, and the VentureStar was nothing but talk and a bunch of CGI clips. I bet a lot of pork-barreling was going on.
And now it will continue...
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This was Microsoft's last attempt at a home computer/gaming console designed in the mid-eighties(?). It was going to be built by a consortium of Japanese companies and run a propriety MS graphic OS. Lots of Press Releases and FUD, but it never saw the light of day. Everytime I hear about the XBox, I think of the GSX.
BTW, a Google search turned up zilch, so I could have the initials wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's what it was called.
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I believe it stands for Computer Generated Images or Imagery, but scripts these days tend to just use the term (CG), as you pointed out.
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Mod this up to funny. I'm just sorry I'm not the first person who thought of it.
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The SU 27 Flanker is rated at mach 2.35 with record ceiling and take-off speeds. I remember hearing somewhere that after the cold war ended some NATO pilots got a good look at the Flanker and were really happy that they never had to fight one!
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Remember that that any HTML-formatted document can be converted into ebook format.
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The great thing about that movie was the characterizations of Jobs as an obsessed megalomanic and Gates as a greedy, socially inept creep. At least Jobs has a sense of humor. At a Mac conference a while back he had Noah Wiley (who played Jobs in the movie) come out and start the show. Then Jobs himself came out and basically interupted 'himself'.
I can't imagine Bill inviting Anthoy Michael Hall to a Microsoft presentation until Hailstorm freezes over.
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Lucky bloody you. I started programming on an 8K Commadore PET with cassette tape storage. Type "load" press "play aon the cassette deck and wait fifteen minutes. Amiazing the amount of code you could cram into 8K (or 16 or 48) in those days. Now you've got crap like IBM WebSphere that wants 512Meg of RAM to run. Sigh.
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From the Article:
Financial analysts say Microsoft may be the only company in the world with the skill and clout to pull it off
Are they kidding? Clout, maybe, but skill? It'll never happen.
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From the article:
The company moved from Great Britain to Richardson last year to be near other high-tech companies, officials said,
If their technology is so great, why did they physically move? Why couldn't they use their own technology to be 'near' other high tech companies? And why Richardson, TX, instead of Silicon Valley or Silicon Valley East?
Just curious.
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I always take Gibson's writing with a grain of salt because he's not really up to speed on technology and he will admit it, sometimes. He wrote "Neuromancer" on a manual typewriter, and in "Count Zero" (set in the late 21st century) he had one of his characters get a 'special' service from the telephone company that blocked calls from certain numbers.
Neil Stephenson is a lot more tech-savvy; check out his short book "In the Beginning was the Command Line" about his experences with different OSes, and why he settled on Debian Linux.
BTW, the word 'otaku', used in Gibson's article, roughly translates into 'Single Male Living in his parent's basement'. Which describes Slashdot trolls pretty well, don't you think?
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Could you please add C# to your list?
Thank you.
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Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd. (AECL) built a medical radiation device called the THERAC that had a major software bug in it that killed at least three people. If the operator hit the keys on the keyboard in the wrong sequence, the machine would deliver 1,000,000 times the dose displayed on the screen. Massive radiation poisoning, and the victims died in a few days. They finally traced the problem to a coding error made by a contractor.
This, of course, is a massive over-simplification of the problem. The full story can be found here
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How could they mention "Goldeneye" and leave out "Mission:Impossible"? Remember the obvious use of Netscape Navigator? (I think they used version 1.0, although 2.0 was out at the time). There was some nifty movie "hacking" in that film, but my favorite part was that the good guys all used Mac Powerbooks, while the bad guys all had IBM laptops.
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He is absolultely right.
The porn industry is also leading the way with DVDs. All DVD players have the mutli-angle feature, but the only multi-angle DVDs seems to be porno DVDS. (Not that I've ever watched any.)
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Arrgh! Semantics is the point! My point was that the terminology is f--ked. And I wasn't defending Linux, I said "all GUIs". Windows is just the most egregious example because it comes installed on 90% on all new computers.
Read what I said, don't skim it.
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Windows offers a friendly environment that makes it easy to use software
Sorry, that doesn't wash.
Try teaching Windows to someone who has never used a GUI before. Explain why "Shutdown" is on the "Start" menu. Hell, explain a menu. A GUI "menu" is nothing like the thing you pick up in a resturant, and a GUI 'window" is nothing like the thing you look out of in your house. Then try to explain the funny little 'icons', task bars, tool bars, and system trays. Let me know if you have any hair left when you're done.
I know this covers all GUIs, not just Windows, but you can't claim Windows is a friendly environment. It's just as user-hostile in the beginning as any other environment, but it gets forced on 90% of the computer-buying public.
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