I wonder when they will send their FUD letters to every MS customer telling them that they may be using improperly licenced code, and may be required to destroy all copies of their MS software, or start cutting checks to Intertrust?
No matter which side you are on, it is hard not to appreciate the irony of it.
But damned if he isn't right most of the time. He just has a habit of rubbing people the wrong way and letting his ego show, so many people reject what he has to say. But despite that, he is worth listening to.
Maybe it will put to rest those who say open source projects just emulate the work of "innovative" closed source projects.
Then again, probably not...
I read these as a child
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And it did inspire me to try and build a hot air powered manned UFO.
The candle powered chinese lantern prank sounds kind of neat, except that if kids try to emulate it they run a real risk of starting serious fires, if their balloon comes down in dry grass or brush with the candle still lit.
As an aside: In WW2 the Japanese used high altitude baloons launched into the jetstream carrying an incendiary payload, which were expected to drift across the pacific and start forest fires across North America when they landed. A captured example sits on display in the Ottawa War museum.
Circa 1985: I remember something called "the switcher" that would allow you to rapidly switch between desktops on the 512K macintosh. (The original 128K thin mac) didn't have it. It was a neat effect, with the desktop sliding right off the screen and the new one sliding into its place. There were no multiple user logons, but this was the first example I remember of multiple desktop switching.
a presigious US astronomer, wrote a paper in 1902 in which he concluded: "Flight by machines heavier than air," Simon Newcomb declared one day in 1902, "is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."
His arguments were quite reasonable on the surface - Imagine a bird as a model. If you increase the size of the bird, the mass increases proportionally to the third power of its wingspan. But the surface area of the wings only increases proportionally to the square of its wingspan. Thus something much larger than a bird would never be able to fly, and all attempts to build heavier than air flying machines capable of carrying a human would prove futile.
Fortunately, the Wright brothers never read his paper, or at least never took him seriously.
About 40 years later it was argued by learned men that manned supersonic flight would never be achievable.
Marconi wasn't formally educated, and he was laughed at for spending vast sums of money to send a radio signal across the Atlantic ocean. Any fool knows that radio waves couldn't penetrate the earth, and was limited to line of sight communication! Yet despite all logic, the damned fool contraption eventually worked. It was only later that they discovered the ionosphere could reflect certain frequencies back to earth.
Even great men of science make mistakes sometimes.
I believe that it would have been possible for the crew to ration everything to the bare minimum, long enough push up the launch of Atlantis to fly a rescue mission. Such a mission would have been fraught with danger, (short cuts on pre-flight safety, and it too might have been struck with foam on launch) but there would have been no shortage of volunteers to fly the mission, despite the risks.
I suspect they would have abandoned the shuttle, it wouldn't be cost effective to fly a repair mission. I don't know how long they would have had before the orbit decayed and it came down. At least the crew (and most of the science) would have been saved.
I can beat that....
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I just need to detonate a 300 kilotonne hydrogen bomb in the back seat of my saturn. I guarantee that the noise generated in the subsequent 3 seconds will put them to shame. Ah well, I was going to junk the car soon anyway.
This works well for exploring the inner planets, or if you just want to do a flyby of the outer ones. The sun provides negligable energy out past the orbit of Mars. We still need someting like Prometheus in order get around and about in places where the sun doesn't shine brightly.
You used to be able to get an adaptor, because the original keyboard connectors were huge round thinggies - Not the dainty little things they use today. You almost think it was designed mil/spec for army field usage or something. I haven't seen one in many years. If it doesn't work anymore, I would suspect that the original keyboards simply suck too much power to drive all that discrete logic. Newer motherboards are designed anticipating a very light power draw from the keyboard and mouse.
They keybord itself used magnets on each key and reed switches - something that would prohibitively expensive today. That did much to help make the keyboard heavy and thick.
IANAL disclaimer - The judge will probably rule there is no confusion between the two. Spam has taken on an entirely different generic meaning w.r.t email, that is unlikely to be confused with the popular luncheon meat. Hormel should have enforced their trademark much earler to stop the alternative usage of the word "Spam". This is almost certainly too little, too late.
was the ones that came with the orignal XT. It weighed more than most PCs do today, but had wonderful scuplted keys and a great tactile feel, rather like the selectric ball typewriters they sold back then.
The original MAC keyboards made a rather strange sound when you typed quickly, you could hear the springs creaking.
True, and - once one person has managed to crack it, Palladium becomes a double edged sword that now swings in favour of the pirates, who can use it to create an untraceable distribution network.
I remember that until diald came along, you had to log in as root in order to bring up or terminate the dial-up ppp connection. That WAS a pain in the derrierre.
It ran well without a hiccup, but then she said she wanted windows so she could run MS-Office apps. (They didn't have crossover office at the time, and Wine was pre-alpha quality) So I installed windows 9x, and the support calls became unceasing. Screen coming up black, (they had inadvertedly switched to a setting the monitor couldn't handle) BSODs, email connection problems, you name it. Now they are running Win2K which is at least stable, but the thing I found about Linux, is once you have it set up right, it is great for technophobes. It doesn't pick up viruses and is much less prone to break for mysterious reasons.
It seems to be the developing countries that "get it" and make legislative and legal decisions which are in the interests of the public at large, as opposed to multinational cartels. What we really need is for many such countries to pull together and speak with one voice when it comes to international trade. Our system will only be fixed when you get a lot of people really pissed off. If the RIAA runs around suing college kids for astronomical sums of money, and enough people get stuck with CDs that won't play, then it will raise the visibility level enough to get this on the front burner.
I am strongly in favour of globalization, but it must be done with the interests of the public, instead of large vested interests. That means doing away with crap such as region coded DVDs and damaging tariffs. I should be able to travel whatever products I choose from anywhere I want, excepting only really offensive stuff like narcotics and weaponry.
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I wonder when they will send their FUD letters to every MS customer telling them that they may be using improperly licenced code, and may be required to destroy all copies of their MS software, or start cutting checks to Intertrust?
No matter which side you are on, it is hard not to appreciate the irony of it.
Printed onto a toilet paper roll. Just the thing any self respecting geek would want in their bathroom!
But damned if he isn't right most of the time. He just has a habit of rubbing people the wrong way and letting his ego show, so many people reject what he has to say. But despite that, he is worth listening to.
I would like to see him build one fighter for every traditional chinese character in existance.
So what are YOU doing for the rest of your life?
Maybe it will put to rest those who say open source projects just emulate the work of "innovative" closed source projects.
Then again, probably not...
And it did inspire me to try and build a hot air powered manned UFO.
The candle powered chinese lantern prank sounds kind of neat, except that if kids try to emulate it they run a real risk of starting serious fires, if their balloon comes down in dry grass or brush with the candle still lit.
As an aside: In WW2 the Japanese used high altitude baloons launched into the jetstream carrying an incendiary payload, which were expected to drift across the pacific and start forest fires across North America when they landed. A captured example sits on display in the Ottawa War museum.
Circa 1985: I remember something called "the switcher" that would allow you to rapidly switch between desktops on the 512K macintosh. (The original 128K thin mac) didn't have it. It was a neat effect, with the desktop sliding right off the screen and the new one sliding into its place. There were no multiple user logons, but this was the first example I remember of multiple desktop switching.
You can use any software you want, as long as it's windows.
a presigious US astronomer, wrote a paper in 1902 in which he concluded:
p 16 7y1977-78.pdf
"Flight by machines heavier than air," Simon Newcomb declared one day in 1902, "is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."
His arguments were quite reasonable on the surface - Imagine a bird as a model. If you increase the size of the bird, the mass increases proportionally to the third power of its wingspan. But the surface area of the wings only increases proportionally to the square of its wingspan. Thus something much larger than a bird would never be able to fly, and all attempts to build heavier than air flying machines capable of carrying a human would prove futile.
Fortunately, the Wright brothers never read his paper, or at least never took him seriously.
About 40 years later it was argued by learned men that manned supersonic flight would never be achievable.
http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v3
Marconi wasn't formally educated, and he was laughed at for spending vast sums of money to send a radio signal across the Atlantic ocean. Any fool knows that radio waves couldn't penetrate the earth, and was limited to line of sight communication! Yet despite all logic, the damned fool contraption eventually worked. It was only later that they discovered the ionosphere could reflect certain frequencies back to earth.
Even great men of science make mistakes sometimes.
would be c+=2, with source files using the .cp2 extension. Can't be any worse than C++0x.
I think "D" is already taken.
You could get up some decent bandwidth if the pigeons were carrying microfilm or holostores. See
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257064.html
I believe that it would have been possible for the crew to ration everything to the bare minimum, long enough push up the launch of Atlantis to fly a rescue mission. Such a mission would have been fraught with danger, (short cuts on pre-flight safety, and it too might have been struck with foam on launch) but there would have been no shortage of volunteers to fly the mission, despite the risks.
I suspect they would have abandoned the shuttle, it wouldn't be cost effective to fly a repair mission. I don't know how long they would have had before the orbit decayed and it came down. At least the crew (and most of the science) would have been saved.
Can it recompile its own kernel?
I still haven't exactly figured out what .net really is.
for a spammer would be cybera**hole.com
I just need to detonate a 300 kilotonne hydrogen bomb in the back seat of my saturn. I guarantee that the noise generated in the subsequent 3 seconds will put them to shame. Ah well, I was going to junk the car soon anyway.
This works well for exploring the inner planets, or if you just want to do a flyby of the outer ones. The sun provides negligable energy out past the orbit of Mars. We still need someting like Prometheus in order get around and about in places where the sun doesn't shine brightly.
The space elevator could do double duty as the worlds longest (and thinnest) supercomputer?
You used to be able to get an adaptor, because the original keyboard connectors were huge round thinggies - Not the dainty little things they use today. You almost think it was designed mil/spec for army field usage or something. I haven't seen one in many years. If it doesn't work anymore, I would suspect that the original keyboards simply suck too much power to drive all that discrete logic. Newer motherboards are designed anticipating a very light power draw from the keyboard and mouse.
They keybord itself used magnets on each key and reed switches - something that would prohibitively expensive today. That did much to help make the keyboard heavy and thick.
IANAL disclaimer - The judge will probably rule there is no confusion between the two. Spam has taken on an entirely different generic meaning w.r.t email, that is unlikely to be confused with the popular luncheon meat. Hormel should have enforced their trademark much earler to stop the alternative usage of the word "Spam". This is almost certainly too little, too late.
was the ones that came with the orignal XT. It weighed more than most PCs do today, but had wonderful scuplted keys and a great tactile feel, rather like the selectric ball typewriters they sold back then.
The original MAC keyboards made a rather strange sound when you typed quickly, you could hear the springs creaking.
True, and - once one person has managed to crack it, Palladium becomes a double edged sword that now swings in favour of the pirates, who can use it to create an untraceable distribution network.
I remember that until diald came along, you had to log in as root in order to bring up or terminate the dial-up ppp connection. That WAS a pain in the derrierre.
It ran well without a hiccup, but then she said she wanted windows so she could run MS-Office apps. (They didn't have crossover office at the time, and Wine was pre-alpha quality) So I installed windows 9x, and the support calls became unceasing. Screen coming up black, (they had inadvertedly switched to a setting the monitor couldn't handle) BSODs, email connection problems, you name it. Now they are running Win2K which is at least stable, but the thing I found about Linux, is once you have it set up right, it is great for technophobes. It doesn't pick up viruses and is much less prone to break for mysterious reasons.
It seems to be the developing countries that "get it" and make legislative and legal decisions which are in the interests of the public at large, as opposed to multinational cartels. What we really need is for many such countries to pull together and speak with one voice when it comes to international trade. Our system will only be fixed when you get a lot of people really pissed off. If the RIAA runs around suing college kids for astronomical sums of money, and enough people get stuck with CDs that won't play, then it will raise the visibility level enough to get this on the front burner.
I am strongly in favour of globalization, but it must be done with the interests of the public, instead of large vested interests. That means doing away with crap such as region coded DVDs and damaging tariffs. I should be able to travel whatever products I choose from anywhere I want, excepting only really offensive stuff like narcotics and weaponry.