OS/2 has URL objects since at least 1997. They are sort files similar to Windows Internet shortcuts. The filename problem is not so big because the Workplace Shell actually shows the.LONGNAME Extended Atribute (metadata). So it includes:, / and other characters. You can even insert line breaks. The actual filename substitutes difficult characters by !. Even if you are on FAT, the.LONGNAME can be quite long. You can search by.LONGNAME. You can put them in.zip files. You can drag and drop URL objects to OS/2 browsers (not all).
But, on the other side, my "bookmarks" is actually the Mozilla URL box history and Google. I still drag links to the desktop as a temporary reminder or to pass them to a download manager.
Well, I have downloaded several two or three versions of Squeak and still never got into programming it.
The barrier I find are the strange interface. It works different from the rest of the operating system. If I press ESC, a frightening window appears to debug the unimplemented event.
I am also afraid of saving the image. I can easily make changes that I don't know how to revert.
Maybe it's me having habits from other computer experiences.
Both Microsoft and Netscape had to compete about clients and about pages using their extensions to HTML. Winning one side meant winning the other.
But with viruses, if everybody uses MS Antivirus, that doesn't mean that every virus writer will make viruses detectable by MSAV. On the contrary.
The antivirus market is less monopolizable.
The way out I see is if antivirus buyers don't care about actual detection. They could put up with some level of viruses (all in all, there are so many people using Outlook now!) and go with a free inferior MSAV instead of a competing brand.
I wonder why. What can make the Northern agents work as spies while living in the South? I'd say that the gap (in economic status, freedom) is higher that in W/E Germany or Cuba/Florida.
Hear ye! Hear ye! This chain letter was started by our saviour Jesus Christ the day he died for our sins. And you will be forever damned if you don't follow it's instructions, as it is the words of the Good Lord.
I moved from a downtown appartment to a countryhouse a couple of years ago, and I began to feel the urge to start doing things like this: beer homebrewing,[...]
This remind me of the frequent (in the past?) practice of putting 1 dollar bills in every cocaine packet (kilo packets?). I think they were a "trade mark".
Do current drug traffickers use RFID to control inventory?
And for an implementation of bill tracking using bored people, EuroBillTracker
there's a reason why cops still carry guns, and it's not because they refuse to use a more-effective alternative... it's because there's NO substitute.
There must be a reason whiy British cops usually don't carry guns. What's their substitute?
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I re-read recently Snow Crash and..
WARNING: SPOILER!
. . . . . . . . . I re-read actually the part where YT has a dentata. She forgets about it, and, when she is going to have sex with the Aleut, it works. Instead of the mythical version that chews penises , this one had a microsyringe injecting a narcotic into the (dilated) blood vessels of the penis. Now that's a 21st century chastity belt.
Actually a chastity belt blocks the man from having sex but also the woman. William Gibson's version in "Blue Max"(?) was a mind conditioning so that the teen girl would feel panic at the idea of having sex. The result was that, when she is raped, she fainted.
(...)These 15,000 users were enraged by what they considered the wanton destruction of their electronic community. They pooled their resources and took a terrible vengeance on the small town of North Zulch, which, by contrast, had only 2,000 residents, none of them wealthy or technologically sophisticated. Through a combination of harassing lawsuits and sharp real-estate deals, the vengeful board users bankrupted the town. Eventually the entire township was bulldozed flat and purchased for parkland by the Nature Conservancy.
"Thanks in part to the advances that you yourselves set in motion, violent conflicts between virtual and actual communities have become a permanent feature of the cultural landscape in 2015."
I couldn't find the details in Google, but somewhere in southern Spain, somebody was commissioned to restore a Medioeval tower. One of the tasks was putting stone coats-of-arms on the façades.
So, in one of the tall places, if you had some binoculars, you could now see the coat-of-arms of this person's favourite football team.
Slashdot Mirror
OS/2 has URL objects since at least 1997. They are sort files similar to Windows Internet shortcuts. The filename problem is not so big because the Workplace Shell actually shows the .LONGNAME Extended Atribute (metadata). So it includes :, / and other characters. You can even insert line breaks. The actual filename substitutes difficult characters by !. .LONGNAME can be quite long. .LONGNAME. You can put them in .zip files.
Even if you are on FAT, the
You can search by
You can drag and drop URL objects to OS/2 browsers (not all).
But, on the other side, my "bookmarks" is actually the Mozilla URL box history and Google. I still drag links to the desktop as a temporary reminder or to pass them to a download manager.
I, for one, would gladly pay for an Assembly-optimized, thoroughly bug-fixed version of Windows.
OS/2 is assembly-optimized in several parts (that's why the PPC version didn't take off). About the bugs,... they are different.
I have read that, actually, the word "jumper" comes from Quechua "chompa".
I wonder if you could make a living by offering yourself as a passenger for hire.
Probably not, since traffic usually is concentrated in one direction and the rush hour. You couldn't make the trip back in time.
When one starts out on the piano, one sees individual black blobs on the page. Those blobs eventually start to form notes, and you learn the notes.
All I see now is canon, lied, nocturne.
Well, I have downloaded several two or three versions of Squeak and still never got into programming it.
The barrier I find are the strange interface. It works different from the rest of the operating system. If I press ESC, a frightening window appears to debug the unimplemented event.
I am also afraid of saving the image. I can easily make changes that I don't know how to revert.
Maybe it's me having habits from other computer experiences.
While people care about the future of ZIP, today I downloaded some file from Japan and it was in LZH.
Seeing the Japanese cling to this older format, I guess that it's more a thing of network effect than actual performance of the program.
The difference in this case is the counterpart.
Both Microsoft and Netscape had to compete about clients and about pages using their extensions to HTML. Winning one side meant winning the other.
But with viruses, if everybody uses MS Antivirus, that doesn't mean that every virus writer will make viruses detectable by MSAV. On the contrary.
The antivirus market is less monopolizable.
The way out I see is if antivirus buyers don't care about actual detection. They could put up with some level of viruses (all in all, there are so many people using Outlook now!) and go with a free inferior MSAV instead of a competing brand.
How do you see it?
Links 2 has a graphic mode, but I am not sure how portable it is.
The RoK is heavily infiltrated by the DPRK
I wonder why. What can make the Northern agents work as spies while living in the South? I'd say that the gap (in economic status, freedom) is higher that in W/E Germany or Cuba/Florida.
C'mon, there is no other browser that's available for as many systems as Mozilla is.
ELinks, Links or Lynx maybe.
He actually explained to us what Slashdot editors are like on Slashdot. Priceless. =)
Talking about German hydrogen vehicles, is there any future for Cargolifter or modern airships in general?
I'd say that he should get a life, but he programmed himself one.
The key difference is that, in Britain, crims cannot walk into a supermarket and tool-up, although the hardcore do use guns.
Not only the US. I think almost everywhere in Europe, police patrols carry guns. And certainly, Britain has more crime that some European places.
On the other hand, the British cops I saw were so tall and strong that they didn't seem to need guns. Short sleeves in a cold night? Brr.
I think it's a kind of arms race. If European and US cops carry guns, European and US criminals will carry guns, and vice versa.
Though funnily, for ethnic food, London tends to be *cheaper* than north England.
Do you see less rats, dogs or cats in London than elsewhere?
Hear ye! Hear ye!
This chain letter was started by our saviour Jesus Christ the day he died for our sins. And you will be forever damned if you don't follow it's instructions, as it is the words of the Good Lord.
That's the idea. The Himmelsbriefen (Letters from Heaven) have been circulating since 6th century.
I moved from a downtown appartment to a countryhouse a couple of years ago, and I began to feel the urge to start doing things like this: beer homebrewing,[...]
Was your house built on a Indian cemetery?
This remind me of the frequent (in the past?) practice of putting 1 dollar bills in every cocaine packet (kilo packets?). I think they were a "trade mark".
Do current drug traffickers use RFID to control inventory?
And for an implementation of bill tracking using bored people, EuroBillTracker
there's a reason why cops still carry guns, and it's not because they refuse to use a more-effective alternative... it's because there's NO substitute.
There must be a reason whiy British cops usually don't carry guns. What's their substitute?
I re-read recently Snow Crash and..
WARNING: SPOILER!
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I re-read actually the part where YT has a dentata. She forgets about it, and, when she is going to have sex with the Aleut, it works. Instead of the mythical version that chews penises , this one had a microsyringe injecting a narcotic into the (dilated) blood vessels of the penis. Now that's a 21st century chastity belt.
Actually a chastity belt blocks the man from having sex but also the woman. William Gibson's version in "Blue Max"(?) was a mind conditioning so that the teen girl would feel panic at the idea of having sex. The result was that, when she is raped, she fainted.
Yes, cyberpunk was today's news.
I couldn't find the details in Google, but somewhere in southern Spain, somebody was commissioned to restore a Medioeval tower. One of the tasks was putting stone coats-of-arms on the façades.
So, in one of the tall places, if you had some binoculars, you could now see the coat-of-arms of this person's favourite football team.
The photo (is it a real photo?) "New Windows" by Sergey Pronin could be a very clever example of steganography. Who would read there a barcode.
But I suspect that after you send the first 2400 pictures of steamy windows to your partner, the authorities will start investigating.
Mars? Venus? Man, that's dangerous.
Rekall Inc offers a safe substitute. You will remember your trip and you will have your souvenirs but you will never leave Mother Earth.