10 kg of Plutonium will blow your petrol head away. -- If we'd listened to all the people who'd said it couldn't be done there's be no fusion power stations or cities on the moon.
What about the species that aren't alive today? How did they do?
They were delicious. At least some of them, to some of their consumers. -- If we'd listened to all the people who'd said it couldn't be done there'd be no fusion power stations or cities on the moon.
On all their various operating systems, it was a uniform means to copy, delete, rename, print, list, etc. files.
PIP used slash to mark its command modifiers -- switches. Let the details of DEC's file naming schemes rest in peace. Please do not disturb them less they rise to haunt you as they do me even now.
When Gary Kildall created CP/M, he made a faithfull reproduction of DEC's PIP, with slashes. Remember, CP/M started off using 5.25 inch floppies, and a file system with no sub-directories. My wonderful Kaypro10 had a vast 10 megabyte hard drive that was subdivided as two 5 Megabyte drives, because CP/M coulldn't cope with that much space. CP/M is also to blame for the A/B floppy drives, and the magical vast, fast C/D hard drives, and the colon. Maybe not the colon -- DEC could have done that.
When Seattle Computer Products wrote a 16 bit version of CP/M, which MS bought to make MS/DOS, they included PIP. And the original MS programmers spent a lot of time using DEC systems while developing MS-BASIC.
So that might explain why MS did not use slash in file names. Why they chose backslash instead, I leave as an exercise for the reader. -- Did you really read this far down the drunken misrememberings of an old programmer?
Tier 1 transit/backbone might want to consider charging 'peers' for dropped packets they tried to deliver. It is kind of a waste of effort to transit a packet and get it refused/wasted.
Does that make any sense at all?
As if anything in this money chasing, service denying, monopolising realm might. -- If that's wireless ethernet, then I need a wireless cable. And BNC connectors.
I have given up on sub and superscripting here. -- "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." George Bernard Shaw
...We can tell in the United States already if someone is native to America, Asia, Europe, or Africa...
And what does this tell you (and us) about POTUS? -- Intelligence is realizing that nobody knows what they're talking about. Wisdom is realizing that you don't, either.
Part of the problem of big data driving personalised advertising -- they do such a bad job of it.
Buy a car - they try to sell you a car, try to sell you insurance you already have because it's needed to register the car.
Buy a toilet cistern float valve, won't need another for 10-20 years, but the ads come.
I'd start worrying when the personalised ads are for shyster defense attorneys and bail bondsmen. And it's a surprise.
Or how to get a Russian visa, toot sweet. And, yes, I know it's French, but they spell it wrong.
Worst job in the world: Some poor telemarketer cold calling to sell funeral pre-payment plans -- "Big Data indicates you will die soon. Please waste your money on a funeral you will attend but not enjoy very much."
He called twice last week. -- It was a dark and drunken night. Four shots sang out -- drink us.
Once you become an incorporeal abstract concept, your needs are much simpler -- two coins for the ferry man. -- Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.
Statistics can be arranged to show that anything and everything and nothing all cause cancer.
Just as death happens when your heart stops beating, or your heart stops beating when you die. It's always coronary failure. -- No information has been transmitted in this message.
Venus is the nearest site for which data is available...
Our search yields this synthesis:
(1) use nukes to blow away 99% of the atmosphere (2) seed with anerobic bacteria to break down the acidic crud and get MORE CO2 (3) seed with photosynthetic bacteria to get some O2 (4) enjoy our orbital habitat for a few centuries (5) Profit!
If this had been an actual disaster, you would have had to pay the invoice before the reveal. And the check would have to clear. -- We forget that the people typing on these contraptions we are are simple tools.
Slashdot Mirror
Joe's own editor does most of what WordStar 3.0 did, with a few taints of emacs.
http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/
Binaries for Linux and Mac OS X, source for the rest.
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People don't ask me for computer help much any more.
10 kg of Plutonium will blow your petrol head away.
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If we'd listened to all the people who'd said it couldn't be done there's be no fusion power stations or cities on the moon.
Watchbird will protect you.
Watchbird knows no borders, no limits.
Watchbird learns to protect you better.
Read Sheckley and weep.
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This Time It's Different! Every time is different, right? Isn't that what they always tell us??
What about the species that aren't alive today? How did they do?
They were delicious. At least some of them, to some of their consumers.
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If we'd listened to all the people who'd said it couldn't be done there'd be no fusion power stations or cities on the moon.
Perhaps Microsoft has a patent on this new technology?
Amazon has a provisional patent for this in the pipeline I hear.
And Oracle has several of the copyrights.
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How many copyrights could a copywriter write if a copywriter could write rites?
In the 1960's Digital Equipment had a cross-platform command line file manager called PIP, Peripheral Interchange Program. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Interchange_Program
On all their various operating systems, it was a uniform means to copy, delete, rename, print, list, etc. files.
PIP used slash to mark its command modifiers -- switches. Let the details of DEC's file naming schemes rest in peace. Please do not disturb them less they rise to haunt you as they do me even now.
When Gary Kildall created CP/M, he made a faithfull reproduction of DEC's PIP, with slashes. Remember, CP/M started off using 5.25 inch floppies, and a file system with no sub-directories. My wonderful Kaypro10 had a vast 10 megabyte hard drive that was subdivided as two 5 Megabyte drives, because CP/M coulldn't cope with that much space. CP/M is also to blame for the A/B floppy drives, and the magical vast, fast C/D hard drives, and the colon. Maybe not the colon -- DEC could have done that.
When Seattle Computer Products wrote a 16 bit version of CP/M, which MS bought to make MS/DOS, they included PIP. And the original MS programmers spent a lot of time using DEC systems while developing MS-BASIC.
So that might explain why MS did not use slash in file names. Why they chose backslash instead, I leave as an exercise for the reader.
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Did you really read this far down the drunken misrememberings of an old programmer?
Our discovery and understanding of modulated neutrino radiation is advanced greatly when researchers realise the neutrino flux can be demodulated.
It is audio.
It says over and over "TURN DOWN THE SOUND".
In a Desi Arnaz voice.
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We're monsters. We all are. We're history's most average monsters. -- Ryan North
Tier 1 transit/backbone might want to consider charging 'peers' for dropped packets they tried to deliver. It is kind of a waste of effort to transit a packet and get it refused/wasted.
Does that make any sense at all?
As if anything in this money chasing, service denying, monopolising realm might.
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If that's wireless ethernet, then I need a wireless cable. And BNC connectors.
Also, he believe PI has an end
Pi = 10.0 base pi
Pi = 100.0 base sqrt(pi)
I have given up on sub and superscripting here.
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"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." George Bernard Shaw
...We can tell in the United States already if someone is native to America, Asia, Europe, or Africa...
And what does this tell you (and us) about POTUS?
--
Intelligence is realizing that nobody knows what they're talking about. Wisdom is realizing that you don't, either.
Part of the problem of big data driving personalised advertising -- they do such a bad job of it.
Buy a car - they try to sell you a car, try to sell you insurance you already have because it's needed to register the car.
Buy a toilet cistern float valve, won't need another for 10-20 years, but the ads come.
I'd start worrying when the personalised ads are for shyster defense attorneys and bail bondsmen. And it's a surprise.
Or how to get a Russian visa, toot sweet. And, yes, I know it's French, but they spell it wrong.
Worst job in the world: Some poor telemarketer cold calling to sell funeral pre-payment plans --
"Big Data indicates you will die soon. Please waste your money on a funeral you will attend but not enjoy very much."
He called twice last week.
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It was a dark and drunken night. Four shots sang out -- drink us.
So, if I search for commercial ad blockers, I should expect targeted ads for better commercial ad blockers?
Yes, please. How do I adjust Ghostery and Ad-Block to allow this?
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I'd like to set up a wireless ethernet, but I can't find any wireless cable.
Sounds almost like overdrive to me.
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"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." George Bernard Shaw
And the world supply of parentheses would quickly have been exhausted.
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I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
and 5 1/2" disks
5.25 inch, please
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If its worth doing - its worth having a beer when you've finished. Please email beer, fax broken.
below the line, you posted
The United States of America are a country
We lost that war in 1865.
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I appear to be a voice of reason. I'll let you know what the other voices in my head say.
Once you become an incorporeal abstract concept, your needs are much simpler -- two coins for the ferry man.
--
Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.
Statistics can be arranged to show that anything and everything and nothing all cause cancer.
Just as death happens when your heart stops beating, or your heart stops beating when you die. It's always coronary failure.
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No information has been transmitted in this message.
...Mos Eisley Spaceport...
ISTR that was a long time ago in a galaxy far away.
These are not the IMEAs you are looking for.
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Shoes for the dead, ipads for the blind, ipods for the deaf.
Crede quod habes, et habes.
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I do not speak for the truth of foreigners.
Verbosity is not a virtue
I consult my extensive science fiction library, a paper-based resource precariously sheltered from giant lighting bolts and acid rain.
searching...
searching...
searching...
merging...
reporting:
Venus is the nearest site for which data is available...
Our search yields this synthesis:
(1) use nukes to blow away 99% of the atmosphere
(2) seed with anerobic bacteria to break down the acidic crud and get MORE CO2
(3) seed with photosynthetic bacteria to get some O2
(4) enjoy our orbital habitat for a few centuries
(5) Profit!
If this had been an actual disaster, you would have had to pay the invoice before the reveal. And the check would have to clear.
--
We forget that the people typing on these contraptions we are are simple tools.
22/7 is much closer - off by 0.04%
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Simplicity isn't as simple as it used to be.
OK, FOSS, step up to the plate.
Get me a VM host image that can boot underneath XP and secure it. Make a world where XP is safe. I am pretty sure you have the tools.
Where is the torrent?
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There's a big difference between the right answer and the correct answer - Scott Myer, Basic Instructions
the LHC people have reported compelling evidence for 4-quark bosons, one more than everybody has grown comfortable with.
Naw, nothing new going on.
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Intelligence is realizing that nobody knows what they're talking about. Wisdom is realizing that you don't, either.