Visicalc Mail-from: : SU-NET host SU-LOTS-A rcvd at 3-Jan-83 0246-PST Date: : 3 Jan 1983 0246-PST From: : K.Kanef at SU-LOTS-A (Bob Kanefsky) Subject: : Visicalc To: : Songs at SU-LOTS-A Parody-of: : Physical (Olivia Newton John)
Visicalc
Parody written by Bob Kanefsky
Idea suggested by Judy Anderson
Been working out the figures day and night, Making good column'ation. I gotta add them up just right -- And know what they mean.
I pencil in the fields I \guess/ you want, Adding and subtracting duly, Movin' my eraser up and down and Horizontally.
Let's get Visicalc,
Visicalc.
I wanna get Visicalc.
Lemme get your budget done,
Your budget done.
Lemme get your budget done,
(chorus)
I been patient, I been good. Tryin' to make a hand-drawn table. My interest in your figures wanes -- You know what I mean.
I'm sure you'll understand my point of view; We know each other fiscally: You gotta know you're gettin' up My semi-annual fee.
(chorus)
(chorus)
Let's get annual,
Annual.
I wanna get annual.
Let's get into annual.
Lemme get your budget done,
Your budget done.
Lemme get your budget done,
(I know there was another version of this in an old Atari magazine that said something about "lemme see your diode's rock", but Google hasn't seen it.;)
So, you had a problem on the Inernet, no one else has reported this, on any or the mainstream news sites, and the whole Internet is coming to an end?
And this is *news*???
No, smart-aleck, EVERYONE had problems pulling down sites like Amazon / IMDB / others. I saw it too, heaviest problem at 1300GMT.
If it's one Windows user and you don't have the time/resources to set up a free-Unix bandwidth shaper, you can ask the offender to run NetLimiter... it costs money, but works great, and even improves transfer performance (If you cap your upload and download a few percent below the actual maximum capacity on the line, it doesn't back off and have to retransmit dropped packets from bandwidth overage). Google for it, I think it's at http://netlimiter.com
There was a fantastically fun game based on Paranoia called InFiNiTy CoMpLeX... I think it could best be described as sixteen player text-based Quake Deathmatch...
It was largely based on Paranoia, there were up to twenty-six "Commies" running around the complex who would occasionally take potshots at characters, or group together and start behaving silly (if three or four of them grouped together, they would start singing "Twist and shout", etc).
The game had one of the more innovative solutions to handle players quitting the game that I've seen -- if you quit, outside of the allowed "savepoint" type room, you became an NPC and the computer would make you behave like a commie...
You could build up your own 3-dimensional structures by blowing holes in walls, fling grenades into roomfuls of people and then slam the door and glue it shut, etc... All back in the 1200/2400 baud modem era...
A quick skim of Google / Google Groups shows that the game's been being saught after for quite some time...
Y'all kids owe it to yourselves to check it out.:)
You're in Briefing Room 34, which resembles nothing so much as an employment office. The walls are covered with recruiting posters which state with much authority that "MASTER CONTROL wants YOU!.
Exits: North, south, and west
Eternalloy walls: East, ceiling, and floor
A ladder joins the ceiling and floor.
North : Damaged wall. Hole.
South : Hole.
West : Hole.
On the floor are:
0: M2 laser 1: M1 laser 2: nothing
3: nothing 4: nothing 5: nothing
There are no other people in sight
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When encrypting to the transmitting data, the course of encryption and decryption is realized by the algorithm hardware supplied by the National Commercial Key Management Office, which fully guarantees the security of transmitting data.
Sounds like Clipper/Skipjack.
The security mechanism WAPI in GB 15629.11-2003 adopts the key certification mechanism based on ellipse
IANACryptogrypher, but isn't Elliptic Curve cryptography the most thoroughly patent-laden field out there? Working, strong security is an already-solved problem, implemented in both SSL and SSH, [3DES/AES, RSA/DSA, SHA]... Anything that strays from these, to the best of my understanding, is asking for trouble.
Another good move along these lines, I think, might be to mount all partitions as noexec, and mount all the partitions with executable content as read-only...
Funny thing is, there's still some marketing person at AOL with an ad budget that's got "Switch to Netscape 7.1!" banners playing on http://www.aim.com (and perhaps other sites?)
Yes, it's a pain to pay more money, for less bandwidth, just so you can have an Internet connection that allows you to host your own servers.
Pay for it. I am. And all of my friends have cablemodems that have twice the download speed than my DSL line.
Re:What's soo bad about games.slashdot.com?
on
ALA 3 Goes Online
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· Score: 1
Unfortunately, if you use the "Lite" setting, slashdot does not list all of the comments that are on the story.
In some cases, there can be 15 score-3-or-higher comments, but it will list "10", and only actually show 7.
I dutifully filed a bug [497457] against this in Sourceforge back in December of 2001, the bug was closed out by Rob himself as "Part of a larger problem we know about". I reopened it in June 2003 when it hadn't been fixed a year later, but it "...won't be fixed until...substantial parts of the comment system [are rewritten]".
So, now I need to log in so that I see all stories [and to see if I have mod points or to metamod], then need to erase my cookies and reload each story page. Tedious. If anyone else is experiencing this, it'd be nice to know.:-) Heck, I'll subscribe if it's fixed.
Therefore, although Bernstein has demonstrated a concrete plan, he has not been subject to a
specific threat of enforcement and cannot point to a history of enforcement that supports his claim of injury.
As in Thomas, the threat of prosecution is "theoretically possible" but "not reasonable or imminent." Id.
Even if Bernstein's injury were constitutionally sufficient for standing, prudential concerns of ripeness would
counsel against accepting jurisdiction. "[T]o prevent courts, through avoidance of premature adjudication,
from entangling themselves in abstract disagreements," courts must consider "the fitness of the issues for
judicial decision" and "the hardship to the parties of withholding court consideration." Abbott Laboratories
v. Gardner, 387 U.S. 136, 148, 149 (1967).
Without a determination from BIS that a specific activity is
prohibited by the EAR, there is no factual context for this court to resolve the constitutional challenges
against the regulations. Moreover, defendants' repeated assurances that Bernstein is not prohibited from
engaging in his activities weigh strongly against any hardship to Bernstein. If and when there is a concrete
threat of enforcement against Bernstein for a specific activity, Bernstein may return for judicial resolution of
that dispute.
Bernstein presented a concrete case or controversy when he first challenged the State
Department's classification of his Snuffle computer program as a munition, and then again when control
over the program was transferred to the Department of Commerce. Since then, the regulations governing
export of encryption items have changed substantially. Bernstein no longer contends that he is prohibited
from exporting Snuffle, but instead alleges a laundry list of activities that may or may not violate the EAR.
In the process, this action has devolved into the world of hypotheticals, and like Thomas, is a "case in
search of a controversy." Thomas, 220 F.3d at 1137.
CONCLUSION
For the foregoing reasons, Bernstein has failed to put forth specific facts demonstrating that he has
standing to bring this action. The court therefore GRANTS defendants' motion for summary judgment and
DENIES plaintiff's motion for summary judgment.
We're on opposite sides of a subjective point here, so I don't believe I can convince you, but hopefully you can understand my point:
Regardless of the majority behavior (>50%) of software projects where 1.0 or later is considered stable, lots of software has, and will continued to be, presented to the end users, and end up in a production position.
I have the greatest respect for Mr. Clarke's work. However he did not push his work out to the public under a big disclaimer explaining "Don't use this". He did the opposite. And now that he has a big userbase of people, allegedly including people who are putting their safety at risk, and he's cursing them out.
Having users is great, and he would continue to have "understanding" users of a not-for-primetime product if he labeled it as such. "I didn't label it 1.0" is not a valid explanation.
(And, again, I refer you to the fact that OpenSSL, one of the only two SSL/TLS toolkits in widespread use [besides NSS], still being 0.x , but when the users have a problem, their developers respond, and the developers don't suddenly introduce changes that impact performance, telling the users "It's not 1.0".)
Mad props for being one of the few to have played Philip Price's excellent game.
A few years back there was a big hubbub about making an Alternate Reality Online... 'ARO.COM' is still held by Monolith (lith.com) for it, but it never came together. There were some screenshots too.
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Visicalc
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Mail-from: : SU-NET host SU-LOTS-A rcvd at 3-Jan-83 0246-PST
Date: : 3 Jan 1983 0246-PST
From: : K.Kanef at SU-LOTS-A (Bob Kanefsky)
Subject: : Visicalc
To: : Songs at SU-LOTS-A
Parody-of: : Physical (Olivia Newton John)
Visicalc
Parody written by Bob Kanefsky
Idea suggested by Judy Anderson
Been working out the figures day and night,
Making good column'ation.
I gotta add them up just right --
And know what they mean.
I pencil in the fields I \guess/ you want,
Adding and subtracting duly,
Movin' my eraser up and down and
Horizontally.
Let's get Visicalc,
Visicalc.
I wanna get Visicalc.
Lemme get your budget done,
Your budget done.
Lemme get your budget done,
(chorus)
I been patient, I been good.
Tryin' to make a hand-drawn table.
My interest in your figures wanes --
You know what I mean.
I'm sure you'll understand my point of view;
We know each other fiscally:
You gotta know you're gettin' up
My semi-annual fee.
(chorus)
(chorus)
Let's get annual,
Annual.
I wanna get annual.
Let's get into annual.
Lemme get your budget done,
Your budget done.
Lemme get your budget done,
(I know there was another version of this in an old Atari magazine that said something about "lemme see your diode's rock", but Google hasn't seen it.
I Googled for that MD5sum, and got this: which contained the following: But when I used GPG to get the fedora@redhat.com keys off of a public keyserver, I got:Uhhh. Should I be worried here? Can anyone validate this md5sum before I risk it?
That "Pro/Writer" printer was one I had for my Atari back in the 80s.
:)
It's made by C.Itoh in Japan. It's originally the C.Itoh 8510A , it's also known as the Apple Imagewriter.
Of course, Japan itself has moved a lot of its production to cheaper Asian countries by now.
If it's one Windows user and you don't have the time/resources to set up a free-Unix bandwidth shaper, you can ask the offender to run NetLimiter ... it costs money, but works great, and even improves transfer performance (If you cap your upload and download a few percent below the actual maximum capacity on the line, it doesn't back off and have to retransmit dropped packets from bandwidth overage). Google for it, I think it's at http://netlimiter.com
Hahaha, American anime fans? Give credit to anyone other than Miyazaki at Ghibli, or Anno at Gainax? Surely you jest.
Sounds like Clipper/Skipjack.
IANACryptogrypher, but isn't Elliptic Curve cryptography the most thoroughly patent-laden field out there? Working, strong security is an already-solved problem, implemented in both SSL and SSH, [3DES/AES, RSA/DSA, SHA]
Another good move along these lines, I think, might be to mount all partitions as noexec, and mount all the partitions with executable content as read-only...
Yes, it's a pain to pay more money, for less bandwidth, just so you can have an Internet connection that allows you to host your own servers.
Pay for it. I am. And all of my friends have cablemodems that have twice the download speed than my DSL line.
In some cases, there can be 15 score-3-or-higher comments, but it will list "10", and only actually show 7.
I dutifully filed a bug [497457] against this in Sourceforge back in December of 2001, the bug was closed out by Rob himself as "Part of a larger problem we know about". I reopened it in June 2003 when it hadn't been fixed a year later, but it "...won't be fixed until...substantial parts of the comment system [are rewritten]".
So, now I need to log in so that I see all stories [and to see if I have mod points or to metamod], then need to erase my cookies and reload each story page. Tedious. If anyone else is experiencing this, it'd be nice to know.
...this same judge has apparently been ruling on Napster stuff, interesting .pdf's on the Napster case also on the site....
kilobyte: 1000 bytes
binary kilobyte: 1024 bytes
We're on opposite sides of a subjective point here, so I don't believe I can convince you, but hopefully you can understand my point:
Regardless of the majority behavior (>50%) of software projects where 1.0 or later is considered stable, lots of software has, and will continued to be, presented to the end users, and end up in a production position.
I have the greatest respect for Mr. Clarke's work. However he did not push his work out to the public under a big disclaimer explaining "Don't use this". He did the opposite. And now that he has a big userbase of people, allegedly including people who are putting their safety at risk, and he's cursing them out.
Having users is great, and he would continue to have "understanding" users of a not-for-primetime product if he labeled it as such. "I didn't label it 1.0" is not a valid explanation.
(And, again, I refer you to the fact that OpenSSL, one of the only two SSL/TLS toolkits in widespread use [besides NSS], still being 0.x , but when the users have a problem, their developers respond, and the developers don't suddenly introduce changes that impact performance, telling the users "It's not 1.0".)
ICQ was released in late 1996. It's /STILL/ a 0.x "beta" product, and always will be.
... I dare say hundreds of thousands use it, if you count OpenSSH using it, then millions do.
OpenSSL is at 0.97
Mad props for being one of the few to have played Philip Price's excellent game.
... 'ARO.COM' is still held by Monolith (lith.com) for it, but it never came together. There were some screenshots too.
A few years back there was a big hubbub about making an Alternate Reality Online
Wow, and it's faster than Java's own AWT ;)