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This reminds of "Wheel of Time" by Robert Jordan, a seemingly endless series of 700+ page books with many characters who do sometimes have "two or three names or titles".
The earlier books in the series were full of events, but that is a thing of the past: an inordinant amount of pages in the recent books are devoted finding a magic cereal bowl that stops global warming.
"Lots of teenagers write notable software. Imagine that Turing was an 18 year old German teen who is trying to drum up bidness for his Mom."
I think you are referring to the "Young Turing" movie "biography" starring Yahoo Serious. This details Turing's life growing up in Australia where he rassles crocodiles and invents shoelaces and joins a rock and roll band. Later, when he grows up, he invents computing when he figures out how to crack RIAA encryption in order to download the latest "Wyld Stallyns" tunes.
"The Alan Turing Story, starring Will Smith as Turing, showing how this plucky young American invented computers and saved the girl!"
Starring Halle Barry as his love interest, Lady Ada Lovelace. Famous for its one-liners used during gun battles with Enigma Nazis: "Code This!" and *BLAM!* BLAM!* "You failed the Turing Test.". Directed by Jerry Bruckheimer, it features Enigma machines that blow up like the Hindenburg whenever the wrong code is entered.
Negotiations are underway with Barry Sonnenfeld's production company to bring back the giant robot spider from "Wild Wild West" to make an appearance as the very first computer bug.
"Without the graphical web browser would we have ebusiness? Would Ebay or Amazon exist?
Considering that you gain something when you lose graphics (confusing often poorly-defined icons, slower loads just to have a prettier company logo, etc) as well as lose something, I think it is fair to say that Amazon and eBay would have been roaring successes if we were still using the text-based Lynx browser. I don't know about you, but the look of the graphic of a book's cover is not the most important thing in considering an Amazon purchase, and a picture of a software package's box is even less important.
eBay? Sure, a lot would be lost (especially for those who buy photos and artwork), but there is still a lot that can be sold without images. Even for these, you would still be able to download images and view them through Lynx.
Looking beyond that, you mentioned Slashdot. Maybe it is just me, but having the Billy Borg icon as an icon is not the most important thing; Slashdot would still work without it. Computer manufacturers? If I were buying a Dell from www.dell.com, I don't think that I'd be less likely to buy one just because I could not see that tiny photo they have of it... yes, slashdot and computer manufacturer sale sites would work on a text-only web.
There are, however, certainly some parts of the web that would be wiped out by being text-only (adult entertainment and online gaming, for two)
The "CRT Monitor" is essentially descended from a TV set, altered for optimal color RBG/etc display and for a higher resolution and sharpness than a regular TV picture. It still uses Farnsworth's basic line-by-line scanning system which he defined for television. It is descended from that rather than directly from Braun's original CRT. Many computer CRT monitors were in fact just TV's with the RF parts removed (the high-end Commodore models, for example).
Philo T. Farnsworth
# Inventor of modern television -Statement is not true, this is an urban legend. I also do not see how this is related to computers?
Perhaps you have never used an Apple ][? an Atari 400, 800, or ST? an Amiga? A Commodore PET, Vic-20, or C-64? a Sinclair/Spectrum? If you remember these, you will remember the television as a very important and ubiqitous peripheral for the computer. The CRT computer monitor is a close-enough relative of the TV to count as "yes, that's Farnsworth too".
"Philo T. Farnsworth# Inventor of modern television Statement is not true, this is an urban legend. I also do not see how this is related to computers?
According to Wikipedia, Farnsworth did invent the TV. It is also in Time magazine. Philo's the TV man, indeed. Perhaps you have him confused with Thomas Crapper, "inventer of the toilet" who really did not invent it. Lookup Farnsworth on snopes: his role in history is so secure that there is not even an urban legend about him.
"last time i checked, imperial was based off crap like the length of a king arm. yeah, thats a useful scale"
At the end of the Middle Ages, an increase in the power and sophistication of the merchant class (and their desire for accurate measurements) produced an unprecedented desire for king-arms. As a result, the harvest of Europe's royalty grew beyond sustainable levels, until there were no kings left anymore.
"But asserting less than half of Europe due to "nations too small to appear on many maps"??? That's the sort of stupidity you have to work to achieve."
Perhaps you are not aware of the existence of Andorra, San Marino, Vatican City, Leichtenstein and Monaco. Such stupidity is remedied if you have a good enough atlas. Just because you don't know of these places does not mean that they do not exist. A good dose of maturity on your part to realize that some maps do leave off tiny countries would help too.
I said earlier, before counting, that about half of the European nations are not in the EU. After the enlargement of a few days ago, the EU now contains 25 nations. This is still 57% of the total countries in Europe. (Not less than half, but more than half)
"In what kind of metric system did you measure your half anyway?"
List the European countries in the EU, and the ones not in the EU (A hint: a lot of the non-EU nations are too small to appear on many maps: San Marino, Vatican, Leichtenstein, Andorra, etc. Others are forgotten: Moldova and Turkey). The Washington Post story does not change this. Then, look at the land mass. Russia is a huge percentage of the land mass of Europe. It is not in the EU. Nor is Belarus, Ukraine, Norway, Switzerland. The former Yugoslavian nations and Albania, which together have a land mass similar to that of the United Kingdom, are also not in the EU.
"On the TV ads for one of the newspapers, "US Today", they pronounce it "us today" not "yew ess today". My irritated retort was: "No, it's You Today, not me.""
This advert was certainly a mistake. The newspaper's name is "USA Today". The "us today" pronunciation example does not apply.
"The EU is becoming more and more unified every year, and the economy of Europe is quickly becoming simmilar to the economy of the US, where you can compare a European country to a US state."
The "European Union" is not yet "Europe": about half of the European countries, and more than half of European territory are not even part of the EU.
At last we are catching up with the Commodore 64, which was able to have its 1541 disk drive generate music ("Bicycle Built for Two", as I recall, was the main demo song)
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These people forget that if you tax an activity, it serves to discourage the activity. What this does is discourage software programming in Illinois.
Do they mail that to the United States? Sounds interesting.
You'd hope they would host this in the United States instead of a foreign country!
Lame joke after lame joke, modded higher than you think they should be. Welcome to Slashdot, newbie!
The earlier books in the series were full of events, but that is a thing of the past: an inordinant amount of pages in the recent books are devoted finding a magic cereal bowl that stops global warming.
Yeah, but since it was a version I downloaded from Nintendo.com, I have to periodically spray for pokemon.
I look forward to re-doing my back yard with a nice quadratic mesh algorithm with pseudo-fractal post-processing.
10 FOR I = 1 to 10
20 PRINT "BORK!"
30 NEXT I
I think you are referring to the "Young Turing" movie "biography" starring Yahoo Serious. This details Turing's life growing up in Australia where he rassles crocodiles and invents shoelaces and joins a rock and roll band. Later, when he grows up, he invents computing when he figures out how to crack RIAA encryption in order to download the latest "Wyld Stallyns" tunes.
Punchcard computer porn? This explains that early XXX effort, "The Adventures of Dangling Chad".
Starring Halle Barry as his love interest, Lady Ada Lovelace. Famous for its one-liners used during gun battles with Enigma Nazis: "Code This!" and *BLAM!* BLAM!* "You failed the Turing Test.". Directed by Jerry Bruckheimer, it features Enigma machines that blow up like the Hindenburg whenever the wrong code is entered.
Negotiations are underway with Barry Sonnenfeld's production company to bring back the giant robot spider from "Wild Wild West" to make an appearance as the very first computer bug.
You have a very good point, I concede. If we nominate Farnsworth, then we might as well nominate the guy who first made beige plastic!
Considering that you gain something when you lose graphics (confusing often poorly-defined icons, slower loads just to have a prettier company logo, etc) as well as lose something, I think it is fair to say that Amazon and eBay would have been roaring successes if we were still using the text-based Lynx browser. I don't know about you, but the look of the graphic of a book's cover is not the most important thing in considering an Amazon purchase, and a picture of a software package's box is even less important.
eBay? Sure, a lot would be lost (especially for those who buy photos and artwork), but there is still a lot that can be sold without images. Even for these, you would still be able to download images and view them through Lynx.
Looking beyond that, you mentioned Slashdot. Maybe it is just me, but having the Billy Borg icon as an icon is not the most important thing; Slashdot would still work without it. Computer manufacturers? If I were buying a Dell from www.dell.com, I don't think that I'd be less likely to buy one just because I could not see that tiny photo they have of it... yes, slashdot and computer manufacturer sale sites would work on a text-only web.
There are, however, certainly some parts of the web that would be wiped out by being text-only (adult entertainment and online gaming, for two)
The "CRT Monitor" is essentially descended from a TV set, altered for optimal color RBG/etc display and for a higher resolution and sharpness than a regular TV picture. It still uses Farnsworth's basic line-by-line scanning system which he defined for television. It is descended from that rather than directly from Braun's original CRT. Many computer CRT monitors were in fact just TV's with the RF parts removed (the high-end Commodore models, for example).
Perhaps you have never used an Apple ][? an Atari 400, 800, or ST? an Amiga? A Commodore PET, Vic-20, or C-64? a Sinclair/Spectrum? If you remember these, you will remember the television as a very important and ubiqitous peripheral for the computer. The CRT computer monitor is a close-enough relative of the TV to count as "yes, that's Farnsworth too".
According to Wikipedia, Farnsworth did invent the TV. It is also in Time magazine. Philo's the TV man, indeed. Perhaps you have him confused with Thomas Crapper, "inventer of the toilet" who really did not invent it. Lookup Farnsworth on snopes: his role in history is so secure that there is not even an urban legend about him.
At the end of the Middle Ages, an increase in the power and sophistication of the merchant class (and their desire for accurate measurements) produced an unprecedented desire for king-arms. As a result, the harvest of Europe's royalty grew beyond sustainable levels, until there were no kings left anymore.
That is a third measure, the one I forgot.
"But asserting less than half of Europe due to "nations too small to appear on many maps"??? That's the sort of stupidity you have to work to achieve."
Perhaps you are not aware of the existence of Andorra, San Marino, Vatican City, Leichtenstein and Monaco. Such stupidity is remedied if you have a good enough atlas. Just because you don't know of these places does not mean that they do not exist. A good dose of maturity on your part to realize that some maps do leave off tiny countries would help too.
I said earlier, before counting, that about half of the European nations are not in the EU. After the enlargement of a few days ago, the EU now contains 25 nations. This is still 57% of the total countries in Europe. (Not less than half, but more than half)
List the European countries in the EU, and the ones not in the EU (A hint: a lot of the non-EU nations are too small to appear on many maps: San Marino, Vatican, Leichtenstein, Andorra, etc. Others are forgotten: Moldova and Turkey). The Washington Post story does not change this. Then, look at the land mass. Russia is a huge percentage of the land mass of Europe. It is not in the EU. Nor is Belarus, Ukraine, Norway, Switzerland. The former Yugoslavian nations and Albania, which together have a land mass similar to that of the United Kingdom, are also not in the EU.
This advert was certainly a mistake. The newspaper's name is "USA Today". The "us today" pronunciation example does not apply.
The "European Union" is not yet "Europe": about half of the European countries, and more than half of European territory are not even part of the EU.
Either this, or it will be like "soccer" and metric: two world standards that the U.S. will continue to buck no matter what.
At last we are catching up with the Commodore 64, which was able to have its 1541 disk drive generate music ("Bicycle Built for Two", as I recall, was the main demo song)
This young man has the right idea for jet engine safety.
Once you'd built one of these, build another. Then tie a lawn chair in between, and start 'em up! Should be a real blast.