This makes me think of the capped people in the Tripods trilogy.
In the books, aliens had taken over earth and used these caps that melded a mesh into the head that would render people docile and subservient so they could be used as slaves.
This suggests a bad teacher/professor. If your students can get by simply by copying notes, then you are not teaching the subject properly. Students need to learn to apply the subject, not just repeat memorized notes.
In a properly taught class, all the notes and books in the world available to you during the exam won't save you unless you learned and understand the subject.
His blog is still just a regurgitation of the articles and at times outright ripped straight from it.
This guy is a blog spammer. He is still using/. to get more hits to his blog and to get himself a higher ranking in google. He also gets posted more often than is fair to other users. It's obvious at this point he is getting special treatment from/.
Between this and all the other controversies in the past (Michael, mass mod bitch slaps, etc), I am starting to reconsider continuing to contribute anything to/.
You might see if you can get a couple of the Dorsai Irregulars to help out with security. They are located here http://www.di.org/
They do security for sci-fi cons and even furry cons. I imagine they might be willing to work at a big lan party as well if you can find any members in the area who are willing to work at it.
Could this be the end of Eternal September? People serious about wanting usenet access can get a pay account to access it and all the spammers and riffraff that have plagued it since the mid 90's will be for the most part gone. Still there are a lot of downsides of this, but I don't think losing a piracy outlet is one of them. Have you seen the retention of most ISP's these days? They don't retain enough of anything to be worth much anymore. Their binary section usually has a size limit which means that unless you are collecting each piece as it comes in, if you log in, you only see about 1/4 of the last uploaded chunks of the file. And don't get me started on how much they throttle the usenet speed (I'm talking sub dialup speeds). Anyone who uses it for binary access is almost certainly using a pay site that has decent retention and good speed. That isn't going to go away from what I understand.
It was so easy to use and the program language was incredibly flexible and you could write almost english like statements with it.
I did some amazing stuff with Hypercard when I was in high school. I created several games, though I didn't have the net then and was unable to release them. One of the games was a full blown RPG game (icon like, think early Ultima games) where you moved using arrow keys. I even implemented fake windows using fields so you could select spells and the like. Monsters could cast back at you as well and there were flying fireballs/iceballs that were animated using hypercard script. Another neat innovation was making the card bigger than the screen size (I was a on a Mac Plus at the time). When you neared the edge of the screen it would scroll the viewport with you. There were other neat things like you could walk behind treasure chests and columns if your guy's middle point was above their middle point, or in front if he was below their middle point on the screen. It could also save games out to disk separate from the card and load them in to continue. I wasn't able to finish it, but it was working extraordinarily well. Unfortunatly, my old Conner 80MB drive got corrupted and I lost everything. Months of work blown away thanks to the fragility of System 7.
So that project ruined, I went into making a multiuser home stack since I found the home stack with it kinda of useless and boring. I implemented the ability to have hypercard users and each would have to log in and then would be set permissions to use stacks (scripting, authoring, etc). It also had email that would tell you when someone read your message and later I was able to exent that to network email and even instant messaging when I got a copy of an XCMD that let me send data over the Appletalk network. This was before things like email and instant messaging were available to anyone but college people and researches who had access to this thing called the "Internet". The main screen after logging in had your email, make important notes (Quick notes I called it) and also a "Quick Connect" section that let you launch favorite applications and stacks from the control panel. Lastly, there was an administration application that would let you manage users rights as well as reset passwords and lock or unlock accounts. You could even run reports on their log ins and activity. I still have an earlier copy of the system, before I had networked email and I think I still have the IM test stack I made as well.
The rest of my stuff, including an attempt to recreate the old RPG was lost when I entrusted them, including my copy of the Hypercard application to a Zip drive. Click of death brought back the pain of the original losses and now I have no more copy of Hypercard and I cannot find a replacement or my original disks. Then college came and I was pulled into C programming and what not. But I never forgot Hypercard and many times while working in C, I would lament about how easy the task was to do in Hypercard, and what a grind C made it into.
What I do have, I am tempted to email my stuff to Atkinson, if he still has a public email, to show him what a 14 year old kid was able to do with this thing. Mainly the early version of my multiuser stack, the admin too, and if I still have it, the IM app. I did make one more thing, but it's probably better I never give it to anyone... I made a hypercard virus stack. Not a C virus, it's written in hyperscript and basically it tries to find your other stacks and infect them with itself rendering them useless. I never released it and it was made just to see if it was possible. So yes, Hypercard was extremely powerful and really, I wish it had become the web because it is so freaking easy to use, even compared to web tech we have today.
Then why does it hurt for this to sit on Wikileaks? Seriously, if there is nothing bad there, who cares. It isn't violating any persons privacy. The church isn't a person. It's an artificial construct just like a corporation. The law needs to stop treating both as people and treat them as constructs. Churches and corporations do not have rights to privacy even though the people inside them do.
Wow, apparently China isn't the only ones who like censorship. I'll think about it all I want. And I'll do it too if I have a purchased copy. I can do what I want with what I buy. Apple can go suck eggs.
Problem is, you are thinking in 20th century materials. New materials such as carbon fiber and other new up and coming composites are extremely strong and flexible yet still durable enough to replace steel. As I have stated above. This will happen, but it is a matter of the technologies maturing and someone managing to put them together in a user friendly way. Home computing was thought impossible and the public too stupid to ever make use of one until the 1970's when the technologies matured and two guys from California built a usable home computer in their garage that any Joe could program and use.
It is just a matter of technological development, time and some ingenuity. I know I will live long enough to see this. I am just hoping I live long enough to see the day you can get your own spacecraft and go make money trading and smuggling ala Outlaw Star and Sundog and other such sci-fi shows/games.
Possibly, but I see this argument being as hollow as anti-gun arguments. With the proper training and safety rules, I think the general public can handle flying cars, especially if there are automated systems on board to help them. This is stuff that is going into cars now such as back up and tailgating warning systems using radar and cameras. The main barriers aren't can the public learn this but can we do this in a way that won't pollute the air 100 times worse than we are now and how can we manage coordinating take off and landing and "skyways".
I think we have the technology to solve all of these problems, though some of it is still in it's infancy. It is just a matter or 1-2 decades before they mature and someone manages to put them together in a user friendly way.
Hate to break it to you, but if you get a BSA audit, the key or even the certificate of authenticity is not enough. You have to have receipts from a reputable vendor that are dated before the audit started.
If you are running a business, just buy the damn licenses. If you don't agree with that, use Linux.
I just had to add a hard disk for Mac OS X and some more ram (upped to 4GB or corsair 800 mhz) and off I went. I used a Gigabyte P35-DS3L and a Core 2 Duo e6750 processor, evga Nvidia 8800 GT graphics for the gaming rig and the Kalyway installer to put it on the new 500 GB western digital hard disk.
It is fast fast fast fast fast.
Only few things I have to put up with.
1. You have to turn on AHCI in the BIOS or you will kernel panic randomly. This makes the machine sit for about 20-30 seconds probing SATA ports and whatnot until it finally launches into the OS bootloader. This is a bios/board problem, not an OS X problem. Annoying at worst.
2. Machine will sleep (using kernel patch) but upon wake, I have to manually assign an IP then go back to DHCP to get the machine to go back online.
3. If I boot into windows and want to go back to Mac OS, I have to turn off the computer, unplug it and wait 15 seconds before plugging in and starting back up. If I don't, after the white screen with the apple, the graphics card will shut down and I can't see. Must be some flag in the card or board that windows sets that the drivers I'm using isn't resetting.
4. Switching resolution can cause a blue screen where you can't see anything. Rebooting will take care of it.
5. Some 3D apps won't work. Second Life is one example.
Ground rumbled a bit, a few things fell over. This is nothing major so I don't know what the big deal is other than it's a slow news day. I remember there was a rumble in Ohio in '87 that got about this much attention. There was also a fun man made earthquake I witnessed in the Middletown, Ohio area in the late 90's. It was caused by an underground blast furnace explosion at AK Steel and other than the booming roar of the explosion, it felt like a real earthquake and sent stuff falling off shelves at the Meijer store I worked at several miles away and blew windows out in homes near the plant. Thankfully no one was hurt or killed at the plant that night.
We have far more to worry about with industrial accidents, dangerous railroad crossings and crazy weather around here.
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Guess they decided to go for a Godwin award this time.
This makes me think of the capped people in the Tripods trilogy.
In the books, aliens had taken over earth and used these caps that melded a mesh into the head that would render people docile and subservient so they could be used as slaves.
This suggests a bad teacher/professor. If your students can get by simply by copying notes, then you are not teaching the subject properly. Students need to learn to apply the subject, not just repeat memorized notes.
In a properly taught class, all the notes and books in the world available to you during the exam won't save you unless you learned and understand the subject.
Yeah but will a photoshop look as seemless as something cooked up in your head? Probably not.
By going into every Ultima game this weekend where you can kill Lord British and doing so. No I'm not jealous. not me :)
My favorites were Ultima III by blasting him with the ships cannons and Ultima VII, sucking out his soul with a demon sword.
I'm sure I could configure a Mac Pro that costs more than that, and it will run Windows too.
Because Roland posted it. Seriously.
His blog is still just a regurgitation of the articles and at times outright ripped straight from it.
This guy is a blog spammer. He is still using /. to get more hits to his blog and to get himself a higher ranking in google. He also gets posted more often than is fair to other users. It's obvious at this point he is getting special treatment from /.
Between this and all the other controversies in the past (Michael, mass mod bitch slaps, etc), I am starting to reconsider continuing to contribute anything to /.
You might see if you can get a couple of the Dorsai Irregulars to help out with security. They are located here http://www.di.org/
They do security for sci-fi cons and even furry cons. I imagine they might be willing to work at a big lan party as well if you can find any members in the area who are willing to work at it.
Could this be the end of Eternal September? People serious about wanting usenet access can get a pay account to access it and all the spammers and riffraff that have plagued it since the mid 90's will be for the most part gone. Still there are a lot of downsides of this, but I don't think losing a piracy outlet is one of them. Have you seen the retention of most ISP's these days? They don't retain enough of anything to be worth much anymore. Their binary section usually has a size limit which means that unless you are collecting each piece as it comes in, if you log in, you only see about 1/4 of the last uploaded chunks of the file. And don't get me started on how much they throttle the usenet speed (I'm talking sub dialup speeds). Anyone who uses it for binary access is almost certainly using a pay site that has decent retention and good speed. That isn't going to go away from what I understand.
It was so easy to use and the program language was incredibly flexible and you could write almost english like statements with it.
I did some amazing stuff with Hypercard when I was in high school. I created several games, though I didn't have the net then and was unable to release them. One of the games was a full blown RPG game (icon like, think early Ultima games) where you moved using arrow keys. I even implemented fake windows using fields so you could select spells and the like. Monsters could cast back at you as well and there were flying fireballs/iceballs that were animated using hypercard script. Another neat innovation was making the card bigger than the screen size (I was a on a Mac Plus at the time). When you neared the edge of the screen it would scroll the viewport with you. There were other neat things like you could walk behind treasure chests and columns if your guy's middle point was above their middle point, or in front if he was below their middle point on the screen. It could also save games out to disk separate from the card and load them in to continue. I wasn't able to finish it, but it was working extraordinarily well. Unfortunatly, my old Conner 80MB drive got corrupted and I lost everything. Months of work blown away thanks to the fragility of System 7.
So that project ruined, I went into making a multiuser home stack since I found the home stack with it kinda of useless and boring. I implemented the ability to have hypercard users and each would have to log in and then would be set permissions to use stacks (scripting, authoring, etc). It also had email that would tell you when someone read your message and later I was able to exent that to network email and even instant messaging when I got a copy of an XCMD that let me send data over the Appletalk network. This was before things like email and instant messaging were available to anyone but college people and researches who had access to this thing called the "Internet". The main screen after logging in had your email, make important notes (Quick notes I called it) and also a "Quick Connect" section that let you launch favorite applications and stacks from the control panel. Lastly, there was an administration application that would let you manage users rights as well as reset passwords and lock or unlock accounts. You could even run reports on their log ins and activity. I still have an earlier copy of the system, before I had networked email and I think I still have the IM test stack I made as well.
The rest of my stuff, including an attempt to recreate the old RPG was lost when I entrusted them, including my copy of the Hypercard application to a Zip drive. Click of death brought back the pain of the original losses and now I have no more copy of Hypercard and I cannot find a replacement or my original disks. Then college came and I was pulled into C programming and what not. But I never forgot Hypercard and many times while working in C, I would lament about how easy the task was to do in Hypercard, and what a grind C made it into.
What I do have, I am tempted to email my stuff to Atkinson, if he still has a public email, to show him what a 14 year old kid was able to do with this thing. Mainly the early version of my multiuser stack, the admin too, and if I still have it, the IM app. I did make one more thing, but it's probably better I never give it to anyone... I made a hypercard virus stack. Not a C virus, it's written in hyperscript and basically it tries to find your other stacks and infect them with itself rendering them useless. I never released it and it was made just to see if it was possible. So yes, Hypercard was extremely powerful and really, I wish it had become the web because it is so freaking easy to use, even compared to web tech we have today.
There was. 1776 to 1783.
Then why does it hurt for this to sit on Wikileaks? Seriously, if there is nothing bad there, who cares. It isn't violating any persons privacy. The church isn't a person. It's an artificial construct just like a corporation. The law needs to stop treating both as people and treat them as constructs. Churches and corporations do not have rights to privacy even though the people inside them do.
Wow, apparently China isn't the only ones who like censorship. I'll think about it all I want. And I'll do it too if I have a purchased copy. I can do what I want with what I buy. Apple can go suck eggs.
Problem is, you are thinking in 20th century materials. New materials such as carbon fiber and other new up and coming composites are extremely strong and flexible yet still durable enough to replace steel. As I have stated above. This will happen, but it is a matter of the technologies maturing and someone managing to put them together in a user friendly way. Home computing was thought impossible and the public too stupid to ever make use of one until the 1970's when the technologies matured and two guys from California built a usable home computer in their garage that any Joe could program and use.
It is just a matter of technological development, time and some ingenuity. I know I will live long enough to see this. I am just hoping I live long enough to see the day you can get your own spacecraft and go make money trading and smuggling ala Outlaw Star and Sundog and other such sci-fi shows/games.
Possibly, but I see this argument being as hollow as anti-gun arguments. With the proper training and safety rules, I think the general public can handle flying cars, especially if there are automated systems on board to help them. This is stuff that is going into cars now such as back up and tailgating warning systems using radar and cameras. The main barriers aren't can the public learn this but can we do this in a way that won't pollute the air 100 times worse than we are now and how can we manage coordinating take off and landing and "skyways".
I think we have the technology to solve all of these problems, though some of it is still in it's infancy. It is just a matter or 1-2 decades before they mature and someone manages to put them together in a user friendly way.
Hate to break it to you, but if you get a BSA audit, the key or even the certificate of authenticity is not enough. You have to have receipts from a reputable vendor that are dated before the audit started.
If you are running a business, just buy the damn licenses. If you don't agree with that, use Linux.
I just had to add a hard disk for Mac OS X and some more ram (upped to 4GB or corsair 800 mhz) and off I went. I used a Gigabyte P35-DS3L and a Core 2 Duo e6750 processor, evga Nvidia 8800 GT graphics for the gaming rig and the Kalyway installer to put it on the new 500 GB western digital hard disk.
It is fast fast fast fast fast.
Only few things I have to put up with.
1. You have to turn on AHCI in the BIOS or you will kernel panic randomly. This makes the machine sit for about 20-30 seconds probing SATA ports and whatnot until it finally launches into the OS bootloader. This is a bios/board problem, not an OS X problem. Annoying at worst.
2. Machine will sleep (using kernel patch) but upon wake, I have to manually assign an IP then go back to DHCP to get the machine to go back online.
3. If I boot into windows and want to go back to Mac OS, I have to turn off the computer, unplug it and wait 15 seconds before plugging in and starting back up. If I don't, after the white screen with the apple, the graphics card will shut down and I can't see. Must be some flag in the card or board that windows sets that the drivers I'm using isn't resetting.
4. Switching resolution can cause a blue screen where you can't see anything. Rebooting will take care of it.
5. Some 3D apps won't work. Second Life is one example.
Ground rumbled a bit, a few things fell over. This is nothing major so I don't know what the big deal is other than it's a slow news day. I remember there was a rumble in Ohio in '87 that got about this much attention. There was also a fun man made earthquake I witnessed in the Middletown, Ohio area in the late 90's. It was caused by an underground blast furnace explosion at AK Steel and other than the booming roar of the explosion, it felt like a real earthquake and sent stuff falling off shelves at the Meijer store I worked at several miles away and blew windows out in homes near the plant. Thankfully no one was hurt or killed at the plant that night.
We have far more to worry about with industrial accidents, dangerous railroad crossings and crazy weather around here.
The answer to that would be "Do not look at laser with remaining head."
No kidding, I saw that too.
Slashdot editors! Wake up and quit posting this WALKING SACK OF PLAGERISM!
Someday, this will lead to the important invention of the Photon Torpedo. You'll see!
That was tried once, but the inventor was sucked into cartoon and died a horrible and ironic, yet still amusing death.
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
Someone should try building an OS that's entirely community supported. Imagine how productive they would be without apple working against them.
You mean like Linux?