I like ptelnet (formerly known as PalmTelnet). I have used it to connect to headless Linux boxes that are running agetty on their serial ports. It can also connect via the TCP/IP stack which is handy too.
Wow, you get 4x4! I dream of being able to stretch out in that kind of cavernous space. I had to go to contortionist school to learn how to enter my workspace.
And before COM, there was OLE. Before OLE, there was DDE. Lots of Windows is still held together by DDE - in particular, that's how Explorer manages file type associations. I think Windows 3.1 had something before DDE called the Object Packager, too, but I never really looked at it hard enough to figure out what it was all about.
Now, I'm not very mechanically inclined, so I don't think I'd ever build one of these, but I'd like to play too. Who wants to write a program that listens on the serial port and draws a simulated robot in a simulated "room"? The program would send the Palm "feedback" as the "robot" moved about the "room." It would be fun to be able to move obstacles around this virtual environment as well.
Aside from being fun for the mechanicaly inept, it might be a nifty testing ground for the robot software.
It would definitely be a good way to drain your Palm batteries.
Seems to me that switching to Solaris will save Sun money in support costs, since it means they won't have to train their support staff in Linux administration, but can stick with their Solaris knowledge. Sure, it's new hardware, but they would have that expense if they'd developed the box themselves anyway.
I'm not the guy who runs around dressed up like a thug and gets all defensive when someone assumes he might be a thug.
There are many situations where you could be (wrongly) on the wrong side of the law, whether or not you "smile and wave" at police officers. The first example to come to mind is if your car fits the description of a getaway vehicle, or more generally, fits some profile of suspicious drivers, and you happen to get pulled over. Smile and wave all you want, but the cops may very well search you and your car. No matter if you haven't done anything and have nothing to hide, this won't be a pleasant experience.
Robots... are there to free up the intelligent people from the tedious and repetitive tasks normally done by labor
it would be great if the [people replaced by robots] could just kick back... but instead, they're going to be fired.
Well, you're both right - it's just that those people whose jobs are replaced by robots don't necessarily get new jobs right away. Perhaps some of them can get jobs at the robot factories, building robots. Or they can be robot repairmen. I doubt they build and fix themselves yet.
It's similar with computers - since their introduction, they have created entirely new industries. I venture to guess that most of us reading slashdot have jobs that didn't really exist in these numbers 15 or 20 years ago.
I don't really know how serious your suggestions are, but I believe that more vigorous enforcement of laws will not only affect guilty people, but innocent ones as well, as authorities try to stamp out more crime. Thus, your freedoms are more eroded. However, my original post was about first amendment freedoms - freedom of speech. We're now talking about abuse of the 4th amendment, in particular unreasonable search and seizure.
I'm sure I'm not the first to think of this, but it seems to me that the RIAA is playing with fire in supporting the DMCA. The precedents this law sets in infringing individual freedoms can surely be extended to limiting artists freedoms as well. US politicians are currently hammering Hollywood for marketing to children violent material. Not long ago the politicians were chastising the record industry for the same thing and now we have warning labels on albums and many stores that won't stock these albums. (As an aside, I wonder how many of Metallica and Dr. Dre's albums have warning labels...) To my mind that's a form of censorship.
Listeners and artists alike lose by things such as the DMCA and warning labels because both put limits on getting music from musicians to listeners. But then again, I guess the RIAA represents labels, not artists, so this doesn't bother them.
They're definitely a good idea if you feel you must use your phone while driving.
I didn't see any mention of it in the article, nor have I read any studies about it, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that automobile accident rates are higher for mobile phone users. I'm pretty sure some states/towns here in the US ban driving while talking on mobile phones. I can only imagine that's due to the danger of talking on the phone while driving.
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I like ptelnet (formerly known as PalmTelnet). I have used it to connect to headless Linux boxes that are running agetty on their serial ports. It can also connect via the TCP/IP stack which is handy too.
Wow, you get 4x4! I dream of being able to stretch out in that kind of cavernous space. I had to go to contortionist school to learn how to enter my workspace.
That's redundant.
I don't like CIPO. How about CHIP OFF? (CHief Intellectual Property OFFicer)
And before COM, there was OLE. Before OLE, there was DDE. Lots of Windows is still held together by DDE - in particular, that's how Explorer manages file type associations. I think Windows 3.1 had something before DDE called the Object Packager, too, but I never really looked at it hard enough to figure out what it was all about.
Astronauts visiting Mir de-swallowed their space-lunch when they smelled the Mir fungus.
Aside from being fun for the mechanicaly inept, it might be a nifty testing ground for the robot software.
It would definitely be a good way to drain your Palm batteries.
Seems to me that switching to Solaris will save Sun money in support costs, since it means they won't have to train their support staff in Linux administration, but can stick with their Solaris knowledge. Sure, it's new hardware, but they would have that expense if they'd developed the box themselves anyway.
GL: These aren't the fan sites we're looking for.
FS: We can go about our business.
GL: You can go about your business.
FS: Move along.
GL: Move along.
Latex and silicon!
What about the (legendary) petrified hot grits (tm)? You could make your own Natalie Portman doll and carry it in your pants...
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
All I need is another 255.8725 GB, another 29 processors, another 7 LAN cards, and I'm right there!
Sorry Mr. Torvalds/Mr. Johansen/etc. Your brain has been classified by our government as a munition and you are hereby denied entry into our country.
Of course they got five years ahead in only four years - they're overclocked!
Sorry to hear about your mate. At least he probably died instantly.
How 'bout we call them robits?
There are many situations where you could be (wrongly) on the wrong side of the law, whether or not you "smile and wave" at police officers. The first example to come to mind is if your car fits the description of a getaway vehicle, or more generally, fits some profile of suspicious drivers, and you happen to get pulled over. Smile and wave all you want, but the cops may very well search you and your car. No matter if you haven't done anything and have nothing to hide, this won't be a pleasant experience.
it would be great if the [people replaced by robots] could just kick back... but instead, they're going to be fired.
Well, you're both right - it's just that those people whose jobs are replaced by robots don't necessarily get new jobs right away. Perhaps some of them can get jobs at the robot factories, building robots. Or they can be robot repairmen. I doubt they build and fix themselves yet.
It's similar with computers - since their introduction, they have created entirely new industries. I venture to guess that most of us reading slashdot have jobs that didn't really exist in these numbers 15 or 20 years ago.
I don't really know how serious your suggestions are, but I believe that more vigorous enforcement of laws will not only affect guilty people, but innocent ones as well, as authorities try to stamp out more crime. Thus, your freedoms are more eroded. However, my original post was about first amendment freedoms - freedom of speech. We're now talking about abuse of the 4th amendment, in particular unreasonable search and seizure.
Listeners and artists alike lose by things such as the DMCA and warning labels because both put limits on getting music from musicians to listeners. But then again, I guess the RIAA represents labels, not artists, so this doesn't bother them.
Will the next Batman movie be called "Batman 3.14159..."?
Nice Matrix reference...
But seriously, speaking of gathering information, by now they have a web log chock-full of IP addresses of potential enemies.
Talk about downing a server...
You don't have to tell me that; I'm reading this on Slashdot...
I didn't see any mention of it in the article, nor have I read any studies about it, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that automobile accident rates are higher for mobile phone users. I'm pretty sure some states/towns here in the US ban driving while talking on mobile phones. I can only imagine that's due to the danger of talking on the phone while driving.
So that's what GNU-Latin looks like.