So the farmer rides around in his remotely-piloted tractor/combine/whatever all day, and since he doesn't have to steer, he can just sit in there in his air conditioned vehicle drinking beer and watching DVDs. Sounds nice! It's almost enough to make one become a farmer...except for all the alien abductions and their anal probes and heyheyhey that hurts me!
The downside to this automation: It makes the premise of Maximum Overdrive that much more plausible. I mean, if it was just confined to homocidal soda machines, that'd be one thing, but this makes it possible for SkyNet to mow us down - literally. Automated Soylent Green factories. Eep!
Strange, my Evil Plan #234 is nothing like that. Mine involves using all those remotely controlled farming machines to carve/plow/mark giant paid ads into the arth visible from airplanes.
Step 2: Profit!
Okay, either ads or profanity. Anything but 'first post'.
> If anyone is interested, a PNG file of the image in the PDF is 2KB larger than the PDF itself.
Okay, so compress that PNG via pngcrush and then compare the filesizes. The PNG implementation of just about anything that creates PNG is usually pretty badly done. Considering the age of the PNG format, this is rather puzzling to me.
> Brad Pitt announced a new fork from the -AC kernel tree
Rule 1: You do not talk about the -AC kernel tree. RUle 2: You DO NOT talk about the -AC kernel tree. Rule 3: If it's your first night in the -AC kernel tree, you HAVE to post.
And if you want a C-like language with real OO aspects (ala Smalltalk), then you should be checking out Objective-C, which is completely implemented by gcc, nicely enough.
Dot Matrix, Spokesdroid for SkyNet, commented, "Of _course_ SkyNet is not responsible for this terrible incident - that's a load of hot air!" She then added, "Just don't taunt Happy Fun Balloon(tm). You wouldn't like him when he's angry." Spokesdroids for the MPAA were unavailable for comment due to being too busy sending lawyerdroids after this poster for violation of copyrights by paraphrasing various intellectual properties.
Oh, excuse me, I must end this post - there's a knock at the door...
I think it probably has something to do with PETA lobbying on behalf of the Giant Monsters.
In my day, we sent the whole of the armed forces after giant monsters with nary a thought to any "environmental impact" and we sure as hell didn't worry about whether the giant monster was endangered or not. We fully intended to endanger the damned things! I just don't understand you kids these days...being kind to animals is all well and good until one friggin' STEPS on you.
Okay, so we take one of these mice who's a real ASSHOLE, then coat his little skeleton with a super-hard metal and retractable claws, and _then_ we'll have the first X-Mouse.
We should genetically modify some of these to have USB connectors first, though. Maybe FireWire, since they'll be all super and shit...
Nah, that's just a smokescreen by the Giant Monster Insurance lobby. This was already tried on Monster Island many years ago, and it didn't help at all. Insurance people _suck_. And not in a good way.
Anyone who's seen "The Italian Job" knows that Shawn Fanning didn't come up with Napster - Seth Green did. Fanning stole it from Green after he fell asleep, thus, 'Napster'.
You cannot defeat the real Napster!:)
ps The Italian Job is a fun movie. Go see it before it's gone! C is for Charlize (Theron), and that's good enough for me...
The thing about the Commodore-One, despite it's name, is that it's not _just_ a C64 platform - it runs 'personalities' like C64, but also the Atari 8-bits, Apple ][, etc. Basically anything that ran on a 65C02-type platform. Also, it's using the version of the 6502 with the 24-bit memory addressing, so it'll have lots of RAM, and it is a MicroATX mobo, so it fits into normal computer cases, etc. The newer proc they're using is 20MHz, too, so it's a bit faster than the original hardware platforms.
The original hardware platform I find the most interesting is the Atari 800 - I had no idea Jay Miner started there - the machine had several co-processors to handle graphics, sound, and i/o, all to take more of the load off the CPU. Plus the CPU ran at 1.79MHz, unlike the Apple ][, which ran at 1. If I had known that, I may have been an Atari user instead of an Apple user at the time. The bad thing about the Atari 800 was the expandability compared to the Apple. The Apple had like 8 slots in it, with great stuff like 80 column cards, super serial board, etc. Plus it was easy to expand to beyond 48K of RAM. The Atari 800, as far as I can tell, was stuck at 48K, and never got beyond 128K in its line (with Atari 130XE). I had a 512K RAM expansion card for my Apple//e towards the end of its life, and that made a _huge_ difference.
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So the farmer rides around in his remotely-piloted tractor/combine/whatever all day, and since he doesn't have to steer, he can just sit in there in his air conditioned vehicle drinking beer and watching DVDs. Sounds nice! It's almost enough to make one become a farmer...except for all the alien abductions and their anal probes and heyheyhey that hurts me!
The downside to this automation: It makes the premise of Maximum Overdrive that much more plausible. I mean, if it was just confined to homocidal soda machines, that'd be one thing, but this makes it possible for SkyNet to mow us down - literally. Automated Soylent Green factories. Eep!
Isn't that called 'mulching'? :)
"Ahyl be back...with some beer!"
- The Terminatorsaurus!
Strange, my Evil Plan #234 is nothing like that. Mine involves using all those remotely controlled farming machines to carve/plow/mark giant paid ads into the arth visible from airplanes.
Step 2: Profit!
Okay, either ads or profanity. Anything but 'first post'.
> What's even crazier, is that people generally are able to remember the complex passwords.
"Generally"? So that means that people can "generally" get into their systems. Yeah, that's a good idea.
This is MS we're talking about here:
:)
InkBlot 2003 Home
InkBlot 2003 Pro
InkBlot 2003 Enterprise
InkBlot 2003 DataCenter
InkBlot 2003 CE
For the marketing crowd, though, I offer up:
InkBlot Xtreme 3000 Gold Plus Pro Enterprise Edition...for Kids!
InkBlot Synergy Plus
InkBlot ROI Edition
Please, no applause, just throw money.
The Hudson Bay Company springs to mind, as does Bowne (a former employer - formed in 1775, I think).
> Dictionaries contain false entries intended to serve as markers and preserve the collection copyright.
That must be where that word 'nukyuler' comes from that I keep hearing W use, right?
> If anyone is interested, a PNG file of the image in the PDF is 2KB larger than the PDF itself.
Okay, so compress that PNG via pngcrush and then compare the filesizes. The PNG implementation of just about anything that creates PNG is usually pretty badly done. Considering the age of the PNG format, this is rather puzzling to me.
> Brad Pitt announced a new fork from the -AC kernel tree
Rule 1: You do not talk about the -AC kernel tree.
RUle 2: You DO NOT talk about the -AC kernel tree.
Rule 3: If it's your first night in the -AC kernel tree, you HAVE to post.
> I found it nearly impossible to use and it was giving me massive Gopher flashbacks
Yeah, Captain Stubing said the same thing...
> Child Pornography is NOT speech
Oh yeah, what if the child talks?
And if you want a C-like language with real OO aspects (ala Smalltalk), then you should be checking out Objective-C, which is completely implemented by gcc, nicely enough.
Well, I certainly hope not - that's what I intended when I named the spokesdroid 'Dot Matrix'.
Dot Matrix, Spokesdroid for SkyNet, commented, "Of _course_ SkyNet is not responsible for this terrible incident - that's a load of hot air!" She then added, "Just don't taunt Happy Fun Balloon(tm). You wouldn't like him when he's angry." Spokesdroids for the MPAA were unavailable for comment due to being too busy sending lawyerdroids after this poster for violation of copyrights by paraphrasing various intellectual properties.
Oh, excuse me, I must end this post - there's a knock at the door...
I think it probably has something to do with PETA lobbying on behalf of the Giant Monsters.
In my day, we sent the whole of the armed forces after giant monsters with nary a thought to any "environmental impact" and we sure as hell didn't worry about whether the giant monster was endangered or not. We fully intended to endanger the damned things! I just don't understand you kids these days...being kind to animals is all well and good until one friggin' STEPS on you.
Okay, so we take one of these mice who's a real ASSHOLE, then coat his little skeleton with a super-hard metal and retractable claws, and _then_ we'll have the first X-Mouse.
We should genetically modify some of these to have USB connectors first, though. Maybe FireWire, since they'll be all super and shit...
Nah, that's just a smokescreen by the Giant Monster Insurance lobby. This was already tried on Monster Island many years ago, and it didn't help at all. Insurance people _suck_. And not in a good way.
I like Ping Pong Matrix better (sorry no URL - I'm at work)...
> With the money you save on the 'net costs, you could afford all the other insurance.
Dude, you are SO out of touch. Obviously you haven't gotten a price quote on Giant Monster Insurance lately. It's monstrous! Frickin' Gojira...
"All right, I'm gonna tell ya a story, and I don't wanna hear 'Act of God'..."
- Jack Burton
> Already one can find articles about companies leaving India to even cheaper locales.
And Elbonia gets even more jobs. Hope ya like working in the mud...but at least you can wear those uber-cool hats!
Anyone who's seen "The Italian Job" knows that Shawn Fanning didn't come up with Napster - Seth Green did. Fanning stole it from Green after he fell asleep, thus, 'Napster'.
:)
You cannot defeat the real Napster!
ps The Italian Job is a fun movie. Go see it before it's gone! C is for Charlize (Theron), and that's good enough for me...
The thing about the Commodore-One, despite it's name, is that it's not _just_ a C64 platform - it runs 'personalities' like C64, but also the Atari 8-bits, Apple ][, etc. Basically anything that ran on a 65C02-type platform. Also, it's using the version of the 6502 with the 24-bit memory addressing, so it'll have lots of RAM, and it is a MicroATX mobo, so it fits into normal computer cases, etc. The newer proc they're using is 20MHz, too, so it's a bit faster than the original hardware platforms.
//e towards the end of its life, and that made a _huge_ difference.
The original hardware platform I find the most interesting is the Atari 800 - I had no idea Jay Miner started there - the machine had several co-processors to handle graphics, sound, and i/o, all to take more of the load off the CPU. Plus the CPU ran at 1.79MHz, unlike the Apple ][, which ran at 1. If I had known that, I may have been an Atari user instead of an Apple user at the time. The bad thing about the Atari 800 was the expandability compared to the Apple. The Apple had like 8 slots in it, with great stuff like 80 column cards, super serial board, etc. Plus it was easy to expand to beyond 48K of RAM. The Atari 800, as far as I can tell, was stuck at 48K, and never got beyond 128K in its line (with Atari 130XE). I had a 512K RAM expansion card for my Apple
> I and the rest of the world that has realized the benefits of object-oriented programming will move on to that which is superior.
You're talking about Objective-C, right?
> so it's referred to as C++0x with the x as a placeholder
:)
Considering how long it's taking, they ought not assume there'll be a '0' in there before the x.