By the way, honestly, what kind of sentence is this!?
"Christensen wrote the BIOS and all the drivers (as well as the small matter of the bulletin board code itself), while Suess took care of five million solder joints and the odd unforeseen problem."
What the heck is the odd unforeseen problem! The author might be refering to later in the article where they design a mechanism to detect an incomming call, start the floppy drive, etc, but they dont mention a problem beforehand.
Seriously I expected 'more better' proofreading out of ZDNet:P
5 million solders? I dont think so.
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"The answer was two weeks later, when the Computerized Bulletin Board System first spun its disk, picked up the line and took a message."
"Christensen wrote the BIOS and all the drivers (as well as the small matter of the bulletin board code itself), while Suess took care of five million solder joints and the odd unforeseen problem."
Okay time for quick math.
60 secs a min * 60 mins a hour * 24 hours a day * 14 days (a fortnight) = 1209600 seconds.
5 million solders / 1209600 seconds = ~4.13 solders per second.
Look, I've trusted MS before -- WMA Was supposedly their next 'killer app' for online distribution, so what did i do with a friend way back when it was about to debut? Start a company that would harness WMA technology to deliver unique content, in a unique manner, to Indy bands across the USA using the internet and WMA as out content distribution system. WMA promised to allow you to listen to music for a set period of time and then its license would expire and give the user the option to purchase the piece.
Months later: distribution system already in alpha testing, VC funding on the way, patent pending technologies, WMA Cracked, technology moot. That was the day I went from Linux dabbler to Linux convert.
See the problem was that we trusted MS and built a business around their proprietary technology, a technology that was supposedly 'uncrackable' based on the way it generated a unique id from a user's specific computer, hardware, and setup. There is no uncrackable unexploitable technology.
While the world once again puts its faith in Microsoft's proprietary 'uncrackable' DRM, I'll be over here on my Gentoo box coding tools that will enable users to DO more rather than RESTRICT more.
Oh and when a clever hacker cracks their DRM I'll be outside laughing and dancing in the street.
What will be really funny is the new type of black hat hacker who, from the comfort of a transatlantic flight, not only figure out how to get the connection for free, but exploit international waters... We'll have a new breed of webpage defacements that will come from groups with names like j4l, s4s, 44 and b031ng.
...that he was just 'let go' from Microsoft so that he can now take place as the new Cybersecurity Czar. Why does this info make me shudder in 101 different ways?
Actually thats what I've been looking into after I get out of the University of Connecticut's School of Engineering with a degree in Comp Sci & Engr doubled w/ Business and a minor in Math. I know of Digipen (which unfortunatly sounds like a geek playpen rather than a geek guildhouse -- more appealing imagry you see) as a potential place to study programming with specifics to game development, as well as The Laboratory for Recreational Computing which is def. more m1cr0s0ft centric.
Guess I have 1 more west coast place to check out.
Anyone else planning on doing something like this post graduation? Would it be better for me to just try and get a job in the industry asap? Comments and tips are welcome!
Who'da thunk i'd be able to run my fav. browser and have it also be a tribute to my name... And now they have to change it. Drat... Well... Here are some suggestions based on names people have given me that are 'close' to mine:
Peenix
Phonox
Fenix
P
Fee ...
Or forget all those names and be REAL cool... Choose my name instead! ComeON! If Lindows can get away with it DaPhoenix can get away with it...
"Hey dude? Whats that awesome web browser your running? "
"DaPhoenix"
(and then i'd have a browser that was REALLY named after me):P
First Family Guy now this... Enterprise sucks -- so where am I to get my gunslingin' space cowboy stuff now!? RIP Firefly -- I knew thee.
What is it with fox these days? They introduce some awesome new crazy shows, get me all hyped up about seeing something DIFFERENT on TV and then they cancel it before I have enough time to really enjoy it...
What ever happened to those problems the OpenGL board was having with Microsoft and their patents on Pixel Shading? Have these issues been resolved in OpenGL 2.0?
They just want to find dates. They figure if it worked for 'everybody's favourite guy'(TM) John Romero it might work for them too! All they need now are chicks who are kinda sorta a little ugly and with all the money they make from the Tomb Rader franchise they can build themselves a new and improved girlfriend too!
Is it possible that the climate of japan allows for more moisture buildup on the surface of the skin? maybe the saltiness of their sweat allows for the transfer.
Maybe it pricks into your skin Johnny Nmeumonic style...
True but if there was x86 hardware in an apple run box w/ some varient of OS X, wouldnt you then be able to harness the power of VMWare? VMWare harnesses the x86 archetecture rather then emulates, therefore you get speed.
Spielberg would have at least tried to bring some dignaty back to the series! GODDAMN LUCAS! I dont want Jar Jar or Amidala in my DVD release of Ep. 4,5,6!!! DONT RUIN THIS ANYMORE!
Windows would win cause their version of Minesweeper has that little bug w/ the pixel in the upper left hand corner of the screen showing you when the mouse is over a bomb!
Dont believe me? fire it up, type xyzzy on your favourite windoze buddy's computer, then press the left shift button..
You might have to refresh the background to get it to work..
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honestly what the heck are you replying to? That has nothing to do with the claim that "Suess took care of five million solder joints"
To quote Captain Murphy, "Your an ass."
By the way, honestly, what kind of sentence is this!?
:P
"Christensen wrote the BIOS and all the drivers (as well as the small matter of the bulletin board code itself), while Suess took care of five million solder joints and the odd unforeseen problem."
What the heck is the odd unforeseen problem! The author might be refering to later in the article where they design a mechanism to detect an incomming call, start the floppy drive, etc, but they dont mention a problem beforehand.
Seriously I expected 'more better' proofreading out of ZDNet
"The answer was two weeks later, when the Computerized Bulletin Board System first spun its disk, picked up the line and took a message."
"Christensen wrote the BIOS and all the drivers (as well as the small matter of the bulletin board code itself), while Suess took care of five million solder joints and the odd unforeseen problem."
Okay time for quick math.
60 secs a min * 60 mins a hour * 24 hours a day * 14 days (a fortnight) = 1209600 seconds.
5 million solders / 1209600 seconds = ~4.13 solders per second.
Aint no way in hell he did that by hand.
Look, I've trusted MS before -- WMA Was supposedly their next 'killer app' for online distribution, so what did i do with a friend way back when it was about to debut? Start a company that would harness WMA technology to deliver unique content, in a unique manner, to Indy bands across the USA using the internet and WMA as out content distribution system. WMA promised to allow you to listen to music for a set period of time and then its license would expire and give the user the option to purchase the piece.
Months later: distribution system already in alpha testing, VC funding on the way, patent pending technologies, WMA Cracked, technology moot. That was the day I went from Linux dabbler to Linux convert.
See the problem was that we trusted MS and built a business around their proprietary technology, a technology that was supposedly 'uncrackable' based on the way it generated a unique id from a user's specific computer, hardware, and setup. There is no uncrackable unexploitable technology.
While the world once again puts its faith in Microsoft's proprietary 'uncrackable' DRM, I'll be over here on my Gentoo box coding tools that will enable users to DO more rather than RESTRICT more.
Oh and when a clever hacker cracks their DRM I'll be outside laughing and dancing in the street.
What will be really funny is the new type of black hat hacker who, from the comfort of a transatlantic flight, not only figure out how to get the connection for free, but exploit international waters...
We'll have a new breed of webpage defacements that will come from groups with names like j4l, s4s, 44 and b031ng.
great
...that he was just 'let go' from Microsoft so that he can now take place as the new Cybersecurity Czar. Why does this info make me shudder in 101 different ways?
Timothy is tired
He forgot to read his post
Poor slashdot admin
and one for the students:
Students lost their homes
Forest fires rage Mt. Stromb
Students lost their homes
Actually thats what I've been looking into after I get out of the University of Connecticut's School of Engineering with a degree in Comp Sci & Engr doubled w/ Business and a minor in Math. I know of Digipen (which unfortunatly sounds like a geek playpen rather than a geek guildhouse -- more appealing imagry you see) as a potential place to study programming with specifics to game development, as well as The Laboratory for Recreational Computing which is def. more m1cr0s0ft centric.
Guess I have 1 more west coast place to check out.
Anyone else planning on doing something like this post graduation? Would it be better for me to just try and get a job in the industry asap? Comments and tips are welcome!
You too? Audiogalaxy was what first turned me onto the Sneaker Pimps and Hooverphonic as well!
*sigh* When that service ended an era albiet small passed.
Who'da thunk i'd be able to run my fav. browser and have it also be a tribute to my name... And now they have to change it. Drat... Well... Here are some suggestions based on names people have given me that are 'close' to mine:
...
:P
Peenix
Phonox
Fenix
P
Fee
Or forget all those names and be REAL cool... Choose my name instead! ComeON! If Lindows can get away with it DaPhoenix can get away with it...
"Hey dude? Whats that awesome web browser your running? "
"DaPhoenix"
(and then i'd have a browser that was REALLY named after me)
First Family Guy now this... Enterprise sucks -- so where am I to get my gunslingin' space cowboy stuff now!? RIP Firefly -- I knew thee.
What is it with fox these days? They introduce some awesome new crazy shows, get me all hyped up about seeing something DIFFERENT on TV and then they cancel it before I have enough time to really enjoy it...
damn fox.
What ever happened to those problems the OpenGL board was having with Microsoft and their patents on Pixel Shading? Have these issues been resolved in OpenGL 2.0?
Check it out here
;)
Trust me.
They just want to find dates. They figure if it worked for 'everybody's favourite guy'(TM) John Romero it might work for them too! All they need now are chicks who are kinda sorta a little ugly and with all the money they make from the Tomb Rader franchise they can build themselves a new and improved girlfriend too!
Is it possible that the climate of japan allows for more moisture buildup on the surface of the skin? maybe the saltiness of their sweat allows for the transfer.
Maybe it pricks into your skin Johnny Nmeumonic style...
lol.
Shatter Exploit?? Come on. This exploit is worse than any of the ones listed.
Those other flaws are weak in comparison to one where someone can own your university network.
True but if there was x86 hardware in an apple run box w/ some varient of OS X, wouldnt you then be able to harness the power of VMWare? VMWare harnesses the x86 archetecture rather then emulates, therefore you get speed.
Just a thought.
"...to where penguin suites..."?!?!?!
;)
or..
"...to wear pengiun suits..."
sometimes it pays to click preview and reread after a spellcheck.
Okay while the pic of the OS might be real that palm pic is def. faked or def. edited.
come ON!
look at http://www.davesipaq.com/palm.htm
look at the top screen portion of the handheld...
now look in the lower left corner...
see the white? why are teh ends so exactly cut...
They could have at least given us a pic of it sitting in a persons hand - screw editing.
Bastards.
Spielberg would have at least tried to bring some dignaty back to the series! GODDAMN LUCAS! I dont want Jar Jar or Amidala in my DVD release of Ep. 4,5,6!!! DONT RUIN THIS ANYMORE!
Wow... imagine a beowulf clus.... naaah.
I consider it lucky - at least he played on http://www.mule.net (Gov't Mule) End of the Deep End Vol. 1. *sigh* sorry to see such a good man die.
Windows would win cause their version of Minesweeper has that little bug w/ the pixel in the upper left hand corner of the screen showing you when the mouse is over a bomb!
Dont believe me? fire it up, type xyzzy on your favourite windoze buddy's computer, then press the left shift button..
You might have to refresh the background to get it to work..
By god I love that man... He just happened to have the seed list in a storage locker he hadnt visited in 7 years... lol. That rocks.
What the heck is five 9's?
// Please?
answer = translation(five9s);