Huh? It would be really annoying if authors typeset, composed and printed their own works. I speak of course, as a typesetter/compositor/graphic artist. I'd be losing my job...;)
Well, written in cooperation with his Uncle. Apparently they each wrote different chapters, then cleaned up the style to make it more consistent (otherwise it would stand out as a collaboration
Toss in Chick-Fil-A for chicken sandwiches. I'd kill to have one in MA. (Harvard doesn't count - they screw it up) Wendy's for shakes. Burger King for burgers (haven't had Jack in the Box...)
So... we're allowed to change the logo (provided that we let others change it, etc.) right? Honestly, I don't have a problem with some indicator that GNU software is included, but I don't really care for the GNU/Linux thing - ultimately GNU software is replacable. Linux doesn't _have_ to use it. It does, and that's the best choice, and I've got nothing against GNU... but the heart of the OS is Linux. If I use GNU stuff on my Mac (it does exist, despite RMS) is it suddenly GNU/Macintosh? No, not even if I need their software in order to get my work done. RMS needs to realize that he is known and respected and all even without having GNU stamped all over the place.
I haven't read Mort. However most of the books about the Watch I've enjoyed immensely (e.g. Feet of Clay, Men at Arms), as well as the witches (Lords and Ladies was excellent). I suggest you give Pratchett another try. Do avoid The Last Continent though, as it's _really_ bad.
If you want some recomendations on some more excellent (humorous) fiction mail me. My email address, backwards to avoid spam, is: ten.ecipsua.nohpyrg@tpc
Jittlov is indeed amazing. I saw him a couple years ago at Harvard - he was showing the LD version of WoSaT, commenting on it the whole way though (with the assistance of several laser pointers).
If you can find a copy of WoSaT, I _strongly_ suggest you watch it.
ObLucas: I am rather frightened by all of the merchandising going on. I work near a mall, and I can't swing a dead cat in there without hitting some kind of SW crap. I'm not impressed by the toys so much, and the KFC/PH/TB ad nearly gave me a heart attack. Still, if Lucas is okay with it, I'll let it slide. I don't care, I just want to see the damn movie. Hopefully as Eps 2 and 3 come along (AICN has a *small* bit of info on Ep2 today) the big L (the other big L) will lay off with the media blitz.
What's even worse are all of the leeches. Thumb Wars, every news outlet on the planet, etc. I forgive Austin Powers 2 for riding on Star Wars, because they did so in a pretty clever way.
If it makes me laugh, I'm okay with it. If it makes me blanch I'm not so okay with it.
This sounds like a realy poorly thought out plan. What prevents me from forging spam to myself and collecting the bounty on it? Netscape tried this once and it failed miserably (in regards to bugs - there are some great Dilberts on this subject, including the Rat Dance)
Obviously these people need to read more Terry Pratchet novels. Any Ankh-Morporkian worth his salt would be all over this like a cheap suit.
(Please forgive typos but/. is so slow today that preview is not really practical.)
Ooh! Ooh! How about a big underground mall^H^H^H^H I mean server room. Really, I don't think Eva has anything that would help out here, other than pointing a Jet Alone at Redmond.
That's exactly why we need more top-level domains..com,.net and.org just aren't enough for the general public. We need a.sucks domain for these sorts of sites. And just as how.edu sites are only given out to appropriate organizations, NS or whoever should check up to make sure that only poorly designed sites that rail against something can keep their domain.
Well voice control (like opening programs and such) has been around for a long time - since '92 IIRC. It predates the Power Macs, I'm certain of that. However it's not _that_ good, trust me. (Fortunately it rarely screws up as wildly as the Newton sometimes did. 'Course, the Newt had some degree of learning, and PlainTalk does not.) Eat up Martha.
Think about it - you've just eliminated the current ideal of compartmentalizing your proofs of identity (e.g. passwords, accounts, etc.) by having them all use a single key. Namely your eyeball, which will, sooner or later, not be all that useful once someone figures out how to spoof the scanner.
I'll stick with different passwords for everything important, thanks.
His code means: He's a Geek of Computer Science Dresses casually A bit fat, but not too much In his late 20's Heavily into computers A wicked Unix guru Not so big on Perl Thinks Linux is okay but not amazing Uses emacs Uses the web a fair bit Reads some newsgroups Loathes the usenet oracle Is not enlightened about Kibo Uses Windows but doesn't like it Didn't care about OS/2 either Hates the Mac (Between this and his Linux score we can tell he's a no-goodnik;) Likes Unix better than VMS Apolitical Financially conservative (pro taxes, pro welfare, anti military spending) Interested in cypherpunk issues but no active Doesn't use PGP Likes Star Trek Indifferent to Babylon 5 (now we really know about the no-goodnik issue;) Likes X-Files a lot Plays some RPGs Watches TV daily Likes to read but doesn't frequently do so Likes Dilbert Likes DOOM a good bit No longer so interested in the Geek Code Has an MA Married Gender undisclosed, but gets a lot of it
No, I think that Kirshner said that he liked it, and wanted to keep it, rather than follow the script.
Ford is evidently a bit of a method actor - he ad libbed the bit in Star Wars where he talks over the intercom in the detention block, because it would then sound more like he really was making it up on the fly. Which he was....
I don't mean provider by provider. I mean service.
That is ALL cellphones, no matter who the provider is, get a particular area code. They can squabble over exchanges all they want, but they're all (123) xxx-xxxx or whatever. Datalines would be much the same (if you told them that it was a dataline, for they're unlikely to know otherwise). All data goes through area (256) for some given area, and exchanges or whatever get given out to everyone, including the primary telco. The 'default' code for the region (like 617 in Boston) is mixed-use, but with pressure to be voice landline only)
Dump non voice landline services all together, regardless of provider, into alternate codes.
Uh... I had thought that the interstate highway system was created during the Eisenhower presidency. It's a military road system, although used much more heavily by the civilian populace (built by state/local governments with federal funding)
The purpose for the system, of course, is to be able to move troops and war material across the country fast. The state of the nation's highways prior to the interstate system was awful (MA residents - remember how Rte. 9 was once the Mass. Pike? Like that)
This is a _lot_ like the Internet, which began as a military project but is pretty damn useful in the civilian world.
BTW - Although the Hoover Dam was built in the depression, I don't think that it actually was one of FDR's make-work projects. FDR was trying to revitalize the economy after the Great Depression, and died in '44 as World War II began to wrap up. Truman was president until '53, and he had to deal with switching over from a war economy to the post war economy. Busy work was not a part of that really; retooling for civilian goods was. He did have a lot of work anyhow - the unions kept giving him fits.
Although I like the idea of breaking down the allocation blocks to a more useful size, here's what I was thinking. Add area codes based on the use of the number. Sometimes this is fairly clear, like for celphones and pagers. Other times it's quite tricky, like for modems and faxes (offer a slight discount for registered data numbers). Then just overlay them; landline voice would probably remain on the old AC, secondary services would get relegated out. (In the beginning you'd probably dump all non-landline voice together, and split it up later if necessary). Will the telcos do this? No, they're stupid.
Can't you read? Those addresses are reserved! That means you can't use them no matter what, unless it's for the purpose they're reserved for. What purpose is that, you say? Well if we knew, we'd've told you. But since people might need those addresses in the future, we can't let people who need them now use them. That would be reckless and wasteful.
It better be next generation game boy. The standard gameboy (well the one I got many moons ago) was a Z80. The NES, which was still the standard at the time, was what, a 6502 and a Z80 coprocessor?
That having been said though, game boy Zelda kicked a supreme amount of booty. I never played N64 Zelda, but the game boy version was sweet.
On a tangent from this, here's the big list of metric prefixes:
10e-24 yocto- y 10e-21 zepto- z 10e-18 atto- a 10e-15 femto- f 10e-12 pico- p 10e-9 nano- n 10e-6 micro- u 10e-3 milli- m 10e-2 centi- c 10e-1 deci- d 10e1 deka- da 10e2 hecto- h 10e3 kilo- k 10e6 mega- M 10e9 giga- G 10e12 tera- T 10e15 peta- P 10e18 exa- E 10e21 zetta- Z 10e24 yotta- Y
The Jargon file mentions a few proposed additional SI units based on the SI-friendly names of the Marx Brothers, and the IEEE wants to create new, different SI multiples for powers of 2, so that we computer folk will quit screwing up the regular decimal system. Yeah, like that's going to happen. Next we'll all be on metric time.;)
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Huh? It would be really annoying if authors typeset, composed and printed their own works. I speak of course, as a typesetter/compositor/graphic artist. I'd be losing my job... ;)
nb: go ms (ie manuscript not microsoft)
Well, written in cooperation with his Uncle. Apparently they each wrote different chapters, then cleaned up the style to make it more consistent (otherwise it would stand out as a collaboration
Toss in Chick-Fil-A for chicken sandwiches. I'd kill to have one in MA. (Harvard doesn't count - they screw it up)
Wendy's for shakes. Burger King for burgers (haven't had Jack in the Box...)
So... we're allowed to change the logo (provided that we let others change it, etc.) right?
Honestly, I don't have a problem with some indicator that GNU software is included, but I don't really care for the GNU/Linux thing - ultimately GNU software is replacable. Linux doesn't _have_ to use it. It does, and that's the best choice, and I've got nothing against GNU... but the heart of the OS is Linux. If I use GNU stuff on my Mac (it does exist, despite RMS) is it suddenly GNU/Macintosh? No, not even if I need their software in order to get my work done.
RMS needs to realize that he is known and respected and all even without having GNU stamped all over the place.
I haven't read Mort. However most of the books about the Watch I've enjoyed immensely (e.g. Feet of Clay, Men at Arms), as well as the witches (Lords and Ladies was excellent). I suggest you give Pratchett another try. Do avoid The Last Continent though, as it's _really_ bad.
If you want some recomendations on some more excellent (humorous) fiction mail me. My email address, backwards to avoid spam, is: ten.ecipsua.nohpyrg@tpc
Jittlov is indeed amazing. I saw him a couple years ago at Harvard - he was showing the LD version of WoSaT, commenting on it the whole way though (with the assistance of several laser pointers).
If you can find a copy of WoSaT, I _strongly_ suggest you watch it.
ObLucas: I am rather frightened by all of the merchandising going on. I work near a mall, and I can't swing a dead cat in there without hitting some kind of SW crap. I'm not impressed by the toys so much, and the KFC/PH/TB ad nearly gave me a heart attack. Still, if Lucas is okay with it, I'll let it slide. I don't care, I just want to see the damn movie. Hopefully as Eps 2 and 3 come along (AICN has a *small* bit of info on Ep2 today) the big L (the other big L) will lay off with the media blitz.
What's even worse are all of the leeches. Thumb Wars, every news outlet on the planet, etc. I forgive Austin Powers 2 for riding on Star Wars, because they did so in a pretty clever way.
If it makes me laugh, I'm okay with it. If it makes me blanch I'm not so okay with it.
This sounds like a realy poorly thought out plan. What prevents me from forging spam to myself and collecting the bounty on it? Netscape tried this once and it failed miserably (in regards to bugs - there are some great Dilberts on this subject, including the Rat Dance)
/. is so slow today that preview is not really practical.)
Obviously these people need to read more Terry Pratchet novels. Any Ankh-Morporkian worth his salt would be all over this like a cheap suit.
(Please forgive typos but
Ooh! Ooh! How about a big underground mall^H^H^H^H I mean server room. Really, I don't think Eva has anything that would help out here, other than pointing a Jet Alone at Redmond.
Oh Bush is pretty savvy on technical matters. We've been having problems with our mail server for a while, but George came over and fixed it.
His brother Jeb, OTOH, kept trying to jam the ethernet cable into the phone jack.... Don't ask Jeb Bush to help with anything technical.
That's exactly why we need more top-level domains. .com, .net and .org just aren't enough for the general public. We need a .sucks domain for these sorts of sites. And just as how .edu sites are only given out to appropriate organizations, NS or whoever should check up to make sure that only poorly designed sites that rail against something can keep their domain.
Dibs on networksolutions.sucks
Naw, they were all in WV when that broke off. ;)
I must remember not to move back to Tally if I can at all avoid it. Yeesh. No DSL yet either, huh?
what's the matter, xclock not good enough for you?
heh. in my day we had to look at the angle of the sun, and we liked it! clocks... feh.
Well voice control (like opening programs and such) has been around for a long time - since '92 IIRC. It predates the Power Macs, I'm certain of that.
However it's not _that_ good, trust me.
(Fortunately it rarely screws up as wildly as the Newton sometimes did. 'Course, the Newt had some degree of learning, and PlainTalk does not.)
Eat up Martha.
Think about it - you've just eliminated the current ideal of compartmentalizing your proofs of identity (e.g. passwords, accounts, etc.) by having them all use a single key. Namely your eyeball, which will, sooner or later, not be all that useful once someone figures out how to spoof the scanner.
I'll stick with different passwords for everything important, thanks.
Anyhow the Geek Code can be found at http://www.geekcode.com/
His code means: ;) ;)
He's a Geek of Computer Science
Dresses casually
A bit fat, but not too much
In his late 20's
Heavily into computers
A wicked Unix guru
Not so big on Perl
Thinks Linux is okay but not amazing
Uses emacs
Uses the web a fair bit
Reads some newsgroups
Loathes the usenet oracle
Is not enlightened about Kibo
Uses Windows but doesn't like it
Didn't care about OS/2 either
Hates the Mac (Between this and his Linux score we can tell he's a no-goodnik
Likes Unix better than VMS
Apolitical
Financially conservative (pro taxes, pro welfare, anti military spending)
Interested in cypherpunk issues but no active
Doesn't use PGP
Likes Star Trek
Indifferent to Babylon 5 (now we really know about the no-goodnik issue
Likes X-Files a lot
Plays some RPGs
Watches TV daily
Likes to read but doesn't frequently do so
Likes Dilbert
Likes DOOM a good bit
No longer so interested in the Geek Code
Has an MA
Married
Gender undisclosed, but gets a lot of it
My code can be decoded here
No, I think that Kirshner said that he liked it, and wanted to keep it, rather than follow the script.
;)
Ford is evidently a bit of a method actor - he ad libbed the bit in Star Wars where he talks over the intercom in the detention block, because it would then sound more like he really was making it up on the fly. Which he was....
I think that's stuff that matters.
I don't mean provider by provider. I mean service.
That is ALL cellphones, no matter who the provider is, get a particular area code. They can squabble over exchanges all they want, but they're all (123) xxx-xxxx or whatever. Datalines would be much the same (if you told them that it was a dataline, for they're unlikely to know otherwise). All data goes through area (256) for some given area, and exchanges or whatever get given out to everyone, including the primary telco. The 'default' code for the region (like 617 in Boston) is mixed-use, but with pressure to be voice landline only)
Dump non voice landline services all together, regardless of provider, into alternate codes.
The purpose for the system, of course, is to be able to move troops and war material across the country fast. The state of the nation's highways prior to the interstate system was awful (MA residents - remember how Rte. 9 was once the Mass. Pike? Like that)
This is a _lot_ like the Internet, which began as a military project but is pretty damn useful in the civilian world.
BTW - Although the Hoover Dam was built in the depression, I don't think that it actually was one of FDR's make-work projects. FDR was trying to revitalize the economy after the Great Depression, and died in '44 as World War II began to wrap up. Truman was president until '53, and he had to deal with switching over from a war economy to the post war economy. Busy work was not a part of that really; retooling for civilian goods was. He did have a lot of work anyhow - the unions kept giving him fits.
Well Altus came up with this, but I don't see it here...
"A communications disruption can mean only one thing...."
My proposal for area codes...
Although I like the idea of breaking down the allocation blocks to a more useful size, here's what I was thinking. Add area codes based on the use of the number. Sometimes this is fairly clear, like for celphones and pagers. Other times it's quite tricky, like for modems and faxes (offer a slight discount for registered data numbers). Then just overlay them; landline voice would probably remain on the old AC, secondary services would get relegated out. (In the beginning you'd probably dump all non-landline voice together, and split it up later if necessary). Will the telcos do this? No, they're stupid.
Can't you read? Those addresses are reserved! That means you can't use them no matter what, unless it's for the purpose they're reserved for. What purpose is that, you say? Well if we knew, we'd've told you. But since people might need those addresses in the future, we can't let people who need them now use them. That would be reckless and wasteful.
It better be next generation game boy. The standard gameboy (well the one I got many moons ago) was a Z80. The NES, which was still the standard at the time, was what, a 6502 and a Z80 coprocessor?
That having been said though, game boy Zelda kicked a supreme amount of booty. I never played N64 Zelda, but the game boy version was sweet.
On a tangent from this, here's the big list of metric prefixes:
10e-24 yocto- y
10e-21 zepto- z
10e-18 atto- a
10e-15 femto- f
10e-12 pico- p
10e-9 nano- n
10e-6 micro- u
10e-3 milli- m
10e-2 centi- c
10e-1 deci- d
10e1 deka- da
10e2 hecto- h
10e3 kilo- k
10e6 mega- M
10e9 giga- G
10e12 tera- T
10e15 peta- P
10e18 exa- E
10e21 zetta- Z
10e24 yotta- Y
The Jargon file mentions a few proposed additional SI units based on the SI-friendly names of the Marx Brothers, and the IEEE wants to create new, different SI multiples for powers of 2, so that we computer folk will quit screwing up the regular decimal system. Yeah, like that's going to happen. Next we'll all be on metric time. ;)
That's pretty funny there. Mail me, I have some stuff that I want to discuss with you.