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I remember writing such a shell in a moment of boredom around 10 years ago with some equally sad, mud-obsessed mates.
We had is set up so you could 'unlock' the door to your 'house' and let others inside. Each directory had a both a long and a short description which you could view. Files were objects (or objects were files!) and you could move them around...... you also had an object that moved with you so that you could see someone if their current working directory was the same as yours. 'Talking' to them sent them a screen message etc etc.
Was great fun - I guess I should pull out the source from somewhere:)
I kinda think that's a bit pricey for what it is (but maybe I'm out of touch with these things) I've not done much in the music line for a while but I'm sure you can get a decent (rack mounted ever) sequencer for that kind of cash (second hand at least)
Which means scraping a few thousand pounds (or dollars) together for a flight in a Mig over Russia if you want the supersonic thing (costs a lot but you dio actually get to fly it yourself).
I Remember once around the Uni. there someone had ripped a pay'n display meter out of the ground and used it to hammer about 10 more into small bent piles of metal. How we laughed:)
I've often been tempted by a new calculator, one of the Casio or TI graphical ones would be nice, so would a monster from HP. All that processing power.........
Problem is I've found that in the real world outside of things like Physics degrees and whatnot these extra functions seem unnecessary. I've a laptop and access to a huge SGI mainframe if I need to do serious and/or graphical calculations and for the rest I find my Casio fx-991 (circa 1987 I guess) still works perfectly. Solar Powered too.
Maybe I'm a luddite or maybe I don't see the point (equally, there might be people out there who need a pocket-sized calculator that can play MP3s, runs linux etc etc). I guess if it was my only machine but I don;t want to carry around a PDA and a heavy calculator. Might as well carry my laptop and get better functionality, more mp3 storage, decent games and a useful screen for graphical work.
Convergence like this is odd because what's happening is that everything is tending to become the same. Computers, taht can do everything are slowly shrinking and becoming more easily portable (longer battery life, lighter, better screens etc) whilst PDAs and palmtops are gaining faster processors and the ability to do decent maths, play mp3s etc. Now calculators are heading in the same direction but from a different tack. So eventually we end up with the same thing.
I also find it annoying to carry around a multiplicity of items, It's bad enough with a mobile phone and a laptop (which I need to carry for my job). I can't be hassled carrying a pda and a calculator, especially when the start duplicating functions. I'd end up spending every night synch-ing everything to make sure the one mp3 I was desperate to listen to was on everything, just in case I lost or forgot the one gadget it was on. Nightmare!
I want one device that has everything I need on it and is easy and simple to back up in the evenings. Yes, I'd probably use lots of the cool functions on a new HP calculator and I like RPN but I've Mathematica, fortran amd others, not to mention all sorts of modelling and fem packages available on my laptop.
I believe NASA have only just space-rated the 386 and uprated the Shuttle's instruments to use it, so just because we don't use them at home doesn't mean they are useless.
Wow, you are so intelligent, erudite and clever I'm amazed you lower yourself to our level. I find myself enhanced by the very presence of your posts here on Slashdot and am naturally swayed to believe everything you say purely due to you incredible qualifications, no doube gained at a particularly young age.
I'm guessing from the quality of your post that you are also fantastically good looking, witty, urbane and generally perfect.
Keep up the good work, we all know that there are very few highly educated Slashdot users around and we need reminding every now and then as to that which we should aspire to.
Maybe the boards really do exist, maybe the chips do exist.....
Maybe, just maybe the Russian missiles could run seti@home whilst flying to the target:)
Hey.. that's cool, I can see it now.
The US detects hostile aliens in space and can't find a powerbook with which to defeat them so it sends up an "anti-alien" nuke. This nuke works through some units as it flys to the meet the ALIENS OF DOOM (tm), who are soo rendered dead and splatted about and generally harmless.
Luckily the missile sent its data back before it exploded...... only to have discovered a new alien civilisation.
Talks with the new civilisation break down, the aliens attack! we send another missile.
ad infinitum
troc;)
PS Well it could happen, at least it might happen. Well, National Enquirer would print it.
If you hold one end of a fl light tube in one hand and a Van De Graaf generator in the other, with the free end of the tube in free air and switch the generator on, the light will glow.
Some of us who reas Slashdot, and have been for many years are, indeed, fully qualified scientists and engineers.
And we don't feel the need to prat around with silly AC prattle that adds nothing to a discussion except general anoyance and the feeling that one really should give in and start browsing at +1.
We Brits (and anyone else who ever discovered aything) have to stop trying to correct the Americans all the time and finally realise that they were, in fact, the first to do everything in the history of the world. Ever.
Not only did they invent the computer, they also invented the rocket, discovered Australia, invented government, the gun, Lara Croft and Television.
If you mean the little wheels that are silver on one side and black on the other and are supposed to show that photons have mass, well they don't actually work.
They rotate the wrong way as the heating effect caused by the solar radiation is vastly greater than the push from the photons:)
To transmit the solar energy to Earth in this way would require huge microwave downlinks that'd be rather powerful in nature...... (hence the SC2000 mentioned previously where the beams sometimes go awry and burn stuff)
Top 5 reasons to transmit energy to the Earth via microwave beams.
5. Set them up around your country as a really cool defense shield against migratory birds, they'd arrive pre-cooked:)
4. When your corn crop is ready to harvest, get the beam moved over and viola - instant popcorn.
3. No more bloody mobile phones in cinemas and free heating.
2. Melt the polar ice caps - and the bloody skips-eating kids from the uk tv ad. when they come to stop you.
1. And the top reason would be for free reheating of your leftover chinese takeaways from the night before:)
As long as nobody puts the nuclear waste dumps on the far side of the moon and start issuing astronauts with bell-bottom trousers and 1970s haircuts, we should be ok.
The v.90 etc limits have a lot to do with the fact that current modems (not cable modems etc) are analogue in nature and the set-up of an analogue phone lins is such that that's about all the data it can reliably handle - and then only in a perfect world.
Most people with v.90 modems will never get anywhere near the limit of the technology due to crosstalk and other noise on the line.
This has nothing really to do with the fact that it's a copper wire to your house, if you sent digital data through the copper, all nicely packet switched and stuff, you'd get Mbit rates with ease.
I remember using the tape drive switch on a BBC B microcomputer to make music and you could even make it make speech-like noises of you clicker it on and off at the right frequency.
It was a fairly heavy duty switch but one had to replace them every now and then doing that...
:)
The BBC would also sing to you as it operated, you could tell what it was doing by the electronic noises it made:)
DOn't forget/. is not a public company, we don't pay to use it. CmdrTaco et al. have all the rights in the world to post whatever bias they want about anything. You don't have to read it.
You can go away:)
Or you could just read the stuff that interests you and ignore the rest.
Yes it's annoying sometimes when (gasp!) someone has a differet opinion to you but hey, that's democracy:)
When we have to start paying for services like/. is when we have to demand objectivity.
Slashdot Mirror
I remember writing such a shell in a moment of boredom around 10 years ago with some equally sad, mud-obsessed mates.
:)
We had is set up so you could 'unlock' the door to your 'house' and let others inside. Each directory had a both a long and a short description which you could view. Files were objects (or objects were files!) and you could move them around...... you also had an object that moved with you so that you could see someone if their current working directory was the same as yours. 'Talking' to them sent them a screen message etc etc.
Was great fun - I guess I should pull out the source from somewhere
Troc
I kinda think that's a bit pricey for what it is (but maybe I'm out of touch with these things) I've not done much in the music line for a while but I'm sure you can get a decent (rack mounted ever) sequencer for that kind of cash (second hand at least)
Well it's simply because the Nuclear Waste Dumps on the far side failed to explode :)
Troc
And Concorde is now grounded......
Which means scraping a few thousand pounds (or dollars) together for a flight in a Mig over Russia if you want the supersonic thing (costs a lot but you dio actually get to fly it yourself).
Troc
Troc, the pedant.
I think you'll find he's just got a high karma :)
Troc
When complete it will be around the size of a football pitch.
troc
Heh
:)
I Remember once around the Uni. there someone had ripped a pay'n display meter out of the ground and used it to hammer about 10 more into small bent piles of metal. How we laughed
troc
I've often been tempted by a new calculator, one of the Casio or TI graphical ones would be nice, so would a monster from HP. All that processing power.........
:)
Problem is I've found that in the real world outside of things like Physics degrees and whatnot these extra functions seem unnecessary. I've a laptop and access to a huge SGI mainframe if I need to do serious and/or graphical calculations and for the rest I find my Casio fx-991 (circa 1987 I guess) still works perfectly. Solar Powered too.
Maybe I'm a luddite or maybe I don't see the point (equally, there might be people out there who need a pocket-sized calculator that can play MP3s, runs linux etc etc). I guess if it was my only machine but I don;t want to carry around a PDA and a heavy calculator. Might as well carry my laptop and get better functionality, more mp3 storage, decent games and a useful screen for graphical work.
Convergence like this is odd because what's happening is that everything is tending to become the same. Computers, taht can do everything are slowly shrinking and becoming more easily portable (longer battery life, lighter, better screens etc) whilst PDAs and palmtops are gaining faster processors and the ability to do decent maths, play mp3s etc. Now calculators are heading in the same direction but from a different tack. So eventually we end up with the same thing.
I also find it annoying to carry around a multiplicity of items, It's bad enough with a mobile phone and a laptop (which I need to carry for my job). I can't be hassled carrying a pda and a calculator, especially when the start duplicating functions. I'd end up spending every night synch-ing everything to make sure the one mp3 I was desperate to listen to was on everything, just in case I lost or forgot the one gadget it was on. Nightmare!
I want one device that has everything I need on it and is easy and simple to back up in the evenings. Yes, I'd probably use lots of the cool functions on a new HP calculator and I like RPN but I've Mathematica, fortran amd others, not to mention all sorts of modelling and fem packages available on my laptop.
I'll shut up now
troc
I believe NASA have only just space-rated the 386 and uprated the Shuttle's instruments to use it, so just because we don't use them at home doesn't mean they are useless.
troc
troc
Wow, you are so intelligent, erudite and clever I'm amazed you lower yourself to our level. I find myself enhanced by the very presence of your posts here on Slashdot and am naturally swayed to believe everything you say purely due to you incredible qualifications, no doube gained at a particularly young age.
;)
I'm guessing from the quality of your post that you are also fantastically good looking, witty, urbane and generally perfect.
Keep up the good work, we all know that there are very few highly educated Slashdot users around and we need reminding every now and then as to that which we should aspire to.
troc
Nyaaaa!
:)
...... only to have discovered a new alien civilisation.
;)
Conspiracy.
Maybe the boards really do exist, maybe the chips do exist.....
Maybe, just maybe the Russian missiles could run seti@home whilst flying to the target
Hey.. that's cool, I can see it now.
The US detects hostile aliens in space and can't find a powerbook with which to defeat them so it sends up an "anti-alien" nuke. This nuke works through some units as it flys to the meet the ALIENS OF DOOM (tm), who are soo rendered dead and splatted about and generally harmless.
Luckily the missile sent its data back before it exploded
Talks with the new civilisation break down, the aliens attack! we send another missile.
ad infinitum
troc
PS Well it could happen, at least it might happen. Well, National Enquirer would print it.
If you hold one end of a fl light tube in one hand and a Van De Graaf generator in the other, with the free end of the tube in free air and switch the generator on, the light will glow.
not sure that's entirely relevant.
troc
Some of us who reas Slashdot, and have been for many years are, indeed, fully qualified scientists and engineers.
And we don't feel the need to prat around with silly AC prattle that adds nothing to a discussion except general anoyance and the feeling that one really should give in and start browsing at +1.
Yes, ok this was also a useless post.
heh
troc
Stop it.
We Brits (and anyone else who ever discovered aything) have to stop trying to correct the Americans all the time and finally realise that they were, in fact, the first to do everything in the history of the world. Ever.
Not only did they invent the computer, they also invented the rocket, discovered Australia, invented government, the gun, Lara Croft and Television.
:)
troc
Who cares :)
Erm
All Sony dvd players (well in the UK anyway) require a mod-chip to become multi-region. No cunning menu hacks unfortunately.
Troc
If you mean the little wheels that are silver on one side and black on the other and are supposed to show that photons have mass, well they don't actually work.
:)
They rotate the wrong way as the heating effect caused by the solar radiation is vastly greater than the push from the photons
But it looks cool anyway
troc
This gives me an idea.....
:)
:)
To transmit the solar energy to Earth in this way would require huge microwave downlinks that'd be rather powerful in nature...... (hence the SC2000 mentioned previously where the beams sometimes go awry and burn stuff)
Top 5 reasons to transmit energy to the Earth via microwave beams.
5. Set them up around your country as a really cool defense shield against migratory birds, they'd arrive pre-cooked
4. When your corn crop is ready to harvest, get the beam moved over and viola - instant popcorn.
3. No more bloody mobile phones in cinemas and free heating.
2. Melt the polar ice caps - and the bloody skips-eating kids from the uk tv ad. when they come to stop you.
1. And the top reason would be for free reheating of your leftover chinese takeaways from the night before
yeah ok, they were pants. Sorry
troc
As long as nobody puts the nuclear waste dumps on the far side of the moon and start issuing astronauts with bell-bottom trousers and 1970s haircuts, we should be ok.
:)
troc
The v.90 etc limits have a lot to do with the fact that current modems (not cable modems etc) are analogue in nature and the set-up of an analogue phone lins is such that that's about all the data it can reliably handle - and then only in a perfect world.
:)
Most people with v.90 modems will never get anywhere near the limit of the technology due to crosstalk and other noise on the line.
This has nothing really to do with the fact that it's a copper wire to your house, if you sent digital data through the copper, all nicely packet switched and stuff, you'd get Mbit rates with ease.
Analogue bad, digital good
Troc
I remember using the tape drive switch on a BBC B microcomputer to make music and you could even make it make speech-like noises of you clicker it on and off at the right frequency.
:)
It was a fairly heavy duty switch but one had to replace them every now and then doing that...
:)
The BBC would also sing to you as it operated, you could tell what it was doing by the electronic noises it made
Troc
never going to happen in the UK though, we love queuing too much :)
DOn't forget /. is not a public company, we don't pay to use it. CmdrTaco et al. have all the rights in the world to post whatever bias they want about anything. You don't have to read it.
:)
:)
/. is when we have to demand objectivity.
You can go away
Or you could just read the stuff that interests you and ignore the rest.
Yes it's annoying sometimes when (gasp!) someone has a differet opinion to you but hey, that's democracy
When we have to start paying for services like
Just my opinions anyway
troc