Remember when the Mac cube had a "crack" in the plastic which Apple said was no big deal? But it was a big deal to the people who paid extra and demanded perfection. People don't buy Mac cubes and iPods because they want something that is just good enough or gets the job done. These items are priced much higher than roughly equivalent but less polished competitors, and people expect that extra Apple polish.
Don't forget the long file names. Probably the most significant improvement in my mind, albeit it was somewhat kludged to run on top of DOS. (e.g. Micros~1)
Actually, I have a Creative DVD-Rom drive that came with the DXR-2 decoder card... what was that 1997? At first I watched DVD movies on it. Now I have a standalone DVD player which I use in the living room. Now it's sitting in my seconary computer. My primary computer has a CD-R and a regular CD-ROM drive.
In other words I have never needed/used the DVD-ROM ability of the drive. I would qualify that as a fad. Apparently you can buy some linux distributions on DVD-ROM as an option. That might be cool but it's not really any better than using the CD-ROM editions.
I love the spam filter... I even used 1.3a and 1.3b get the bayesian filter feature. Now that 1.3 is out I'll be installing that ASAP and hope that it fixes a few minor bugs I've noticed.
Landmines... decades after they were planted in the ground they can still blow off some poor kid's legs. They don't make them like they used to. Oh wait, the US still does. Speaking of B-52's, every once in a while they'll be doing some construction work in Germany and find an old undetonated bomb they have to carefully move and detonate.
F1-F10 Function keys on the left side... yes, those rule. Especially for playing Flight Sim (3-5 anyway) for adjusting the flaps, and in Linux, using olwm (OpenLook Window Manager) because the function keys were used for quickly moving windows to front/back. But it also has F1-F12 function keys across the top, which I just realized I always use instead of the side ones now. Besides that, it has nearly useless "diagonal" keys which issue a horizontal and verticle keypress in succession. But the coolest thing is that you can reassign any key or even program a macro assigned to any key. It's still my primary keyboard at home, connected using an AT to PS/2 adater cable.
FTP has an automated global search facility. It's called archie. At least it used to. Interesting... it looks like there is no archie anymore:
After nine continuous years of service, the Archie Gateway is not functional any more, because working Archie servers do not exist any more. I leave the page as it is, since it was one of the first working forms on the Net, programmed in the night the Mosaic Team created the Forms extension to HTML in October 1993. It was one of the first applications to actually return dynamically created Hypertext.
Am I going to have to buy two copies if I want to play multiplayer on a LAN?
(At the risk of being offtopic: if anyone knows that answer to Civ 3 as well... If I have one copy of Civ 3 do I have to buy TWO copies of the Multiplayer expansion AND another copy of Civ 3 to play two players on a LAN?)
Not only that but the last I heard you were required to go to a training course in New Hampshire to get one as well. You can only buy them from Amazon and you have to wait before you can get it. Never underestimate the power of instant gratification.
Sounds like you should read "Your Money or Your Life" by Dominguez. Live cheap, save your money, then you have a choice to quit your job early or just go to a less stressful lower paying job.
Considering Vivendi (being the owner of Blizzard) is suing the bnetd.org folks releasing their own open source reversed engineered replacement for battle.net (Blizzard's) servers, I think Vivendi and Microsoft ought to see eye to eye on most issues! I've been boycotting Blizzard for over a year now.
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Remember when the Mac cube had a "crack" in the plastic which Apple said was no big deal? But it was a big deal to the people who paid extra and demanded perfection. People don't buy Mac cubes and iPods because they want something that is just good enough or gets the job done. These items are priced much higher than roughly equivalent but less polished competitors, and people expect that extra Apple polish.
haha. The last time my old home town of Alamogordo was in the national news it was because Christ Community Church was burning Harry Potter books.
cp /mnt/fuji/* /wherever
/mnt/fuji /wherever ; tar -xvf -)
No you fool! That'll never work properly. You should do this instead:
# cd
# tar -cf - * | (cd
nuf said
Even though my title is Unix System Administrator I'm still not allowed to park in the "Administration" parking lot.
Don't forget the long file names. Probably the most significant improvement in my mind, albeit it was somewhat kludged to run on top of DOS. (e.g. Micros~1)
In other words I have never needed/used the DVD-ROM ability of the drive. I would qualify that as a fad. Apparently you can buy some linux distributions on DVD-ROM as an option. That might be cool but it's not really any better than using the CD-ROM editions.
I love the spam filter... I even used 1.3a and 1.3b get the bayesian filter feature. Now that 1.3 is out I'll be installing that ASAP and hope that it fixes a few minor bugs I've noticed.
Just write a perl script to modify all your current perl scripts to use /usr/bin/perl5
Landmines... decades after they were planted in the ground they can still blow off some poor kid's legs. They don't make them like they used to. Oh wait, the US still does. Speaking of B-52's, every once in a while they'll be doing some construction work in Germany and find an old undetonated bomb they have to carefully move and detonate.
SR-71 is my favorite airplane. I'm glad I got to see one fly (including landing with a drag chute) as a kid at the EAA Fly-in in Osh Kosh.
F1-F10 Function keys on the left side... yes, those rule. Especially for playing Flight Sim (3-5 anyway) for adjusting the flaps, and in Linux, using olwm (OpenLook Window Manager) because the function keys were used for quickly moving windows to front/back. But it also has F1-F12 function keys across the top, which I just realized I always use instead of the side ones now. Besides that, it has nearly useless "diagonal" keys which issue a horizontal and verticle keypress in succession. But the coolest thing is that you can reassign any key or even program a macro assigned to any key. It's still my primary keyboard at home, connected using an AT to PS/2 adater cable.
Big Brother is pretty good... extensible too.
A laser is often a laser diode... which I would think qualified it as a "light emitting diode." Of course I haven't read the article.
if I had 2600 employees.
(just kidding... I'd actually trust them more than most)
Am I going to have to buy two copies if I want to play multiplayer on a LAN?
(At the risk of being offtopic: if anyone knows that answer to Civ 3 as well... If I have one copy of Civ 3 do I have to buy TWO copies of the Multiplayer expansion AND another copy of Civ 3 to play two players on a LAN?)
Even at 14.4k it's only 20 seconds
And if you only send a delta file then it will only download what has been added since you last checked. (A patch to the patch list if you will.)
The world is going to end in 2060.000013. He forgot to account for general relativity.
Somewhere in the world is the most intelligent human. If that person has access to a good computer, the singularity condition exists.
So, what you're saying is: John Carmack is the singularity!
Not only that but the last I heard you were required to go to a training course in New Hampshire to get one as well. You can only buy them from Amazon and you have to wait before you can get it. Never underestimate the power of instant gratification.
A word to the wise. A felony assault is not a good idea.
Not unless you're over 18. At least that was the word when I was in HS. Probably before the "zero thinking [tolerance]" world we have now though.
Sounds like you should read "Your Money or Your Life" by Dominguez. Live cheap, save your money, then you have a choice to quit your job early or just go to a less stressful lower paying job.
Considering Vivendi (being the owner of Blizzard) is suing the bnetd.org folks releasing their own open source reversed engineered replacement for battle.net (Blizzard's) servers, I think Vivendi and Microsoft ought to see eye to eye on most issues! I've been boycotting Blizzard for over a year now.
You mean like kuro5hin? Man I miss being able to read k5.