Plus it never seemed to occur to Smith that, in space, they didn't need the 'tubes'...
Is space a hard-enough vacuum for that kind of use? Especially in LEO, isn't there still considerably more gas bouncing around per unit volume than in any halfway-decent vacuum tube? Tubes tend to not work too well when they get gassy (whether through a leak or shoddy manufacture)...what are the odds this would be a problem if you just stuck a cathode/grid/plate combination outside the nearest airlock and fired it up?
You can kill people with a gun, but I haven't seen any lawsuit against S&W for creating a tool that can be used to commit a crime.
That's actually the latest tactic of the gun control freaks. IIRC, there's been some legislative activity aimed at putting an end to these frivolous lawsuits. (I'd look it up, but the info I have on the subject is at home right now.)
You can make a photocopy of a book, and while it's true that Xerox and other companies have been threatened I haven't heard yet of any paper company being sued for creating a medium that can be used to infringe copyrights.
Another analogy you could make would've involved VCRs instead of photocopiers. There, you have a Supreme Court decision against Big Media.
I've got a 486SX25 in the bottom of my closet w/ IIRC 4MB RAM, and I confess that I've never felt any urge to drag it out and install X on it.
I had X running on a 386SX-25 back in '93 or '94. It didn't even seem all that slow at the time, but I suspect that current versions of Linux and XFree86 would be dog-slow on such a system. (I had a fixed-frequency mono-VGA monitor at the time that was only specced for 640x480. I came up with a modeline that did 800x600 @ 50 Hz; with some vertical-hold tweaking, I got a stable picture. The flicker wasn't too bad, probably because the phosphors on monochrome monitors offer longer persistence than the phosphors on color monitors.)
Hey slashdot community, what's the oldest program you've seen running at the office or home, not counting classic games? Personally I've been using Bank Street Filer on Apple//c (c. 1983) to catalog my game collection, just for kicks.
I still log vehicle maintenance (oil changes, repairs, etc.) in some spreadsheets under AppleWorks 3.0 (released in 1989). As simple as the data are in the files, I could just move them to text files and edit them with Notepad, but it gives me an excuse to fire up the IIGS. (It also got some use when I wrote some software (and built some hardware) a few months ago to use an Apple II as a programmable temperature controller for my beer fridge.)
That's going to produce 0HELLO WORLD as repeating output, which I don't think is what you want. LN is an uninitialized variable. PRINTLN isn't a valid command, but it'll get interpreted as PRINT LN, which will display as 0.
(The scary part is that I fired up Applewin to verify those results...I was going to fire back ?SYNTAX ERROR IN 10 as a reply. I have no life.:-) )
if the W3C had included some "weights and measures" tags in the HTML standard then we could leave it up to the browser and/or client OS to apply localization rules and perform the proper conversions.
Just make sure NASA doesn't have a hand in the conversion algorithms if you're going to do that...
CSS works even better, as long as you use a browser with a decent CSS implementation. (A browser that doesn't grok CSS can still do an acceptable job with the site if the underlying HTML is clean enough...that's why separating content from layout is a Good Thing.)
It may work for some people. But not me. I've always been interesting in wireles cameras (for RC vehicals etc). But if I ever get into it. I will never get it from them.
Their cameras don't even work all that well. If you have the antennas aimed right, if there's enough light for the lowish-quality camera to pick up, the transmitter and receiver are close enough (expect no more than 20 feet or so, and that's pushing it), and the phase of the moon is correct, you might get an OK picture from it. Otherwise, forget it.
I used to have a Vic-20 printer back around my high school days. Whenever the ribbon started to fade, I got a stamp pad inker and ran it across the ribbon while winding it. Never had to buy a ribbon =)
I've had an Apple Imagewriter since 1985. Ribbons were always cheap enough for it that it was worth it to just replace them, though there was a local company that would reink them at a ridiculously low cost. The last time I bought ribbons for it (several years ago at this point), I think they were less than $2.00. Even now, they're still cheap...the first link that Google dug up has them for $2.95 each (less in quantity).
I haven't run it in a couple or three years, but it still ran like new the last time I used it.
Well, this isn't exactly the unfuckAAC program you're talking about, but it's close: On Windows I use a program called TotalRecorder. This program records the sound that other programs plays. I use it to record DRM protected WMA files I buy from online music stores.
TotalRecorder works, but dBpowerAMP is better. The main benefit is that it's faster. TotalRecorder takes three minutes to convert a three-minute file, but dBpowerAMP took less than five minutes to convert two hours' worth of WMA files to WAV.
(TotalRecorder's good for live captures and for the handful of formats (such as Real) that dBpowerAMP doesn't handle, though.)
I was thinking about giving Netflix a try but I'm thinking probably not now. Afterall that's what the digital cable is for and my wife already says we don't watch enough to make it worth it;-)
The movies on most cable channels (including digital cable) aren't widescreen. Most DVDs are (though there are exceptions...Caddyshack and The Jerk come to mind as counterexamples).
It's actually quite neat to have a full screen X session running on top of the Windows desktop.
It's useful for cross-platform development...ssh with X tunnelling into a Linux server lets you run emacs, DDD, etc. across the network with reasonable speed for debugging Linux apps from a Win32 desktop. It saves the hassle of rebooting to switch between them when both of your desktop machines are Win32 boxen.
Forgot to mention... just pump your DVD player into the TiVO and use it as a dumb recorder. Then TyStudio the stuff off as an MPEG.
Why would you do that when you can just rip the DVD straight into your computer? You're introducing a digital-to-analog-to-digital conversion that'll degrade the video and audio. Not only is it better, it's much faster...I can rip most movies with a Lite-On LTD163 and SmartRipper in 10 minutes or less.
I've been doing all that tivo stuff with my trusty VCR for the last 10 years. I don't have cable or subscription fees. I just look at the TV schedule and program my VCR. I actually have two VCRs; I can watch one while I record with the other. Why would anyone pay $350 for a Tivo, then pay $40/month for cable, and then pay $13/month for Tivo's subscription scheduling crap.
You could telnet to port 6667 and issue the appropriate commands to carry out a chat session, too, but most people find IRC clients easier to use.
I used to keep a couple of VCRs set up to record different shows. Tracking schedule changes and looking for interesting new stuff was a pain, but it worked. A TiVo is much better at it, though, especially when it comes to resolving conflicts.
BTW, TiVo doesn't require cable or satellite service. It'll work with rabbit ears...but given that most people get horrid reception with them, most of us are willing to fork over a modest amount of money to get a picture that isn't filled with static and ghosts.
Another advantage to VCR is that I can make a tape library and save the programs I watch as long as I like.
I could do the same with my TiVo, but videotape is deprecated technology. I'd rather archive to SVCD or DVD (now that I have a DVD burner) instead. SVCDs and DVDs take less space (especially if you use jewel boxes instead of the larger DVD boxes) and offer much better image and sound quality.
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What you see when you want to use a browser that's damn fast, uses the OS's default interface instead of sloooowly drawing its own
Maybe it's time to retire that 486 on which you're still running Win95 (original, not OSR2).
forgives the odd small coding error
If webmasters properly checked their sites, that would be a non-issue.
supports file formats in, frankly, a much more sensible way than relying on MIME types
Again, it sounds more like an ID-10-T error on the part of the webmaster if you click a link for some semi-obscure filetype and the correct behavior doesn't happen.
I don't notice the speed difference between IE and Mozilla, on anything from a dual Athlon MP down to an old Power Mac G3. That Mozilla has had fewer major security blunders that could lead to your getting 0wn3d is, IMHO, a Good Thing.
Wow, as if it wasn't bad enough that you paint all republicans (and all conservatives, I suppose)as Nazis, you went on to suppose what another (presumably better) man would have done?
How does shit like this get moderated up when all it is is a rant based on raw, emotional partisan hatred.
You're new here, aren't you? Anything that goes against the DNC talking points is regarded by the moderators as thoughtcrime. It's doubleplusungood and is to be modded into oblivion. Correct thought (defined as an echo of whatever Tom Daschle and Nancy Pelosi are saying) is rewarded.
Thanks - looks pretty much like what I'm after. The trouble is though, I'm in the UK and Tivo has stopped distributing hardware here.
It's also worth noting that (AFAIK) you can't rip video from a Series 2. That makes it a non-starter, IMHO. I'll stick with my upgraded HDR212 until it conks out...the only thing that's likely to die is the hard drive, and that's easy enough to swap out.
Holy crap -- 500 hours of recording time? Wow. I suspect your long-term storage requirements are higher than mine.:-)
Indeed...that's nearly three weeks of nonstop TV. DVDs and SVCDs are cheaper, infinitely expandable, and less likely to fail. DVD-RW drives start at about $200 now, and blank DVD-Rs start at a little under $1.00. (For the budget-minded, CD-RW drives and blank CD-Rs are dirt-cheap, but everybody here knows that already.)
I think everybody did. Jobs named it after the record company
I thought he got the idea while he was eating an apple...he thought that it was the perfect food, or something along those lines, and that it'd be a decent name for a company.
I hope I'm there when the cops charge you with incitement to riot and throw your dumb ass in jail.
Do you consider security issues that affect things to be fires in a crowded theatre in a metahporical sense?
No. The point that I was making is that no right is absolute. Should security issues in software be discussed? Yes. Should you be free to yell "fire" in a crowded theater if there is no fire? No.
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Is space a hard-enough vacuum for that kind of use? Especially in LEO, isn't there still considerably more gas bouncing around per unit volume than in any halfway-decent vacuum tube? Tubes tend to not work too well when they get gassy (whether through a leak or shoddy manufacture)...what are the odds this would be a problem if you just stuck a cathode/grid/plate combination outside the nearest airlock and fired it up?
That's actually the latest tactic of the gun control freaks. IIRC, there's been some legislative activity aimed at putting an end to these frivolous lawsuits. (I'd look it up, but the info I have on the subject is at home right now.)
Another analogy you could make would've involved VCRs instead of photocopiers. There, you have a Supreme Court decision against Big Media.
I had X running on a 386SX-25 back in '93 or '94. It didn't even seem all that slow at the time, but I suspect that current versions of Linux and XFree86 would be dog-slow on such a system. (I had a fixed-frequency mono-VGA monitor at the time that was only specced for 640x480. I came up with a modeline that did 800x600 @ 50 Hz; with some vertical-hold tweaking, I got a stable picture. The flicker wasn't too bad, probably because the phosphors on monochrome monitors offer longer persistence than the phosphors on color monitors.)
I still log vehicle maintenance (oil changes, repairs, etc.) in some spreadsheets under AppleWorks 3.0 (released in 1989). As simple as the data are in the files, I could just move them to text files and edit them with Notepad, but it gives me an excuse to fire up the IIGS. (It also got some use when I wrote some software (and built some hardware) a few months ago to use an Apple II as a programmable temperature controller for my beer fridge.)
That's going to produce 0HELLO WORLD as repeating output, which I don't think is what you want. LN is an uninitialized variable. PRINTLN isn't a valid command, but it'll get interpreted as PRINT LN, which will display as 0.
(The scary part is that I fired up Applewin to verify those results...I was going to fire back ?SYNTAX ERROR IN 10 as a reply. I have no life. :-) )
Just make sure NASA doesn't have a hand in the conversion algorithms if you're going to do that...
Wow...with the way you manage to make everything you write an anti-Microsoft screed, I bet you're a ton of fun to be around.
Get a life.
Maybe the reason the "info" in your sig rarely hits the mainstream media because it's wrong. Your hate is so unbecoming...
CSS works even better, as long as you use a browser with a decent CSS implementation. (A browser that doesn't grok CSS can still do an acceptable job with the site if the underlying HTML is clean enough...that's why separating content from layout is a Good Thing.)
Their cameras don't even work all that well. If you have the antennas aimed right, if there's enough light for the lowish-quality camera to pick up, the transmitter and receiver are close enough (expect no more than 20 feet or so, and that's pushing it), and the phase of the moon is correct, you might get an OK picture from it. Otherwise, forget it.
I've had an Apple Imagewriter since 1985. Ribbons were always cheap enough for it that it was worth it to just replace them, though there was a local company that would reink them at a ridiculously low cost. The last time I bought ribbons for it (several years ago at this point), I think they were less than $2.00. Even now, they're still cheap...the first link that Google dug up has them for $2.95 each (less in quantity).
I haven't run it in a couple or three years, but it still ran like new the last time I used it.
TotalRecorder works, but dBpowerAMP is better. The main benefit is that it's faster. TotalRecorder takes three minutes to convert a three-minute file, but dBpowerAMP took less than five minutes to convert two hours' worth of WMA files to WAV.
(TotalRecorder's good for live captures and for the handful of formats (such as Real) that dBpowerAMP doesn't handle, though.)
The movies on most cable channels (including digital cable) aren't widescreen. Most DVDs are (though there are exceptions...Caddyshack and The Jerk come to mind as counterexamples).
Get a Tungsten T if you want Bluetooth.
It's useful for cross-platform development...ssh with X tunnelling into a Linux server lets you run emacs, DDD, etc. across the network with reasonable speed for debugging Linux apps from a Win32 desktop. It saves the hassle of rebooting to switch between them when both of your desktop machines are Win32 boxen.
Why would you do that when you can just rip the DVD straight into your computer? You're introducing a digital-to-analog-to-digital conversion that'll degrade the video and audio. Not only is it better, it's much faster...I can rip most movies with a Lite-On LTD163 and SmartRipper in 10 minutes or less.
You could telnet to port 6667 and issue the appropriate commands to carry out a chat session, too, but most people find IRC clients easier to use.
I used to keep a couple of VCRs set up to record different shows. Tracking schedule changes and looking for interesting new stuff was a pain, but it worked. A TiVo is much better at it, though, especially when it comes to resolving conflicts.
BTW, TiVo doesn't require cable or satellite service. It'll work with rabbit ears...but given that most people get horrid reception with them, most of us are willing to fork over a modest amount of money to get a picture that isn't filled with static and ghosts.
I could do the same with my TiVo, but videotape is deprecated technology. I'd rather archive to SVCD or DVD (now that I have a DVD burner) instead. SVCDs and DVDs take less space (especially if you use jewel boxes instead of the larger DVD boxes) and offer much better image and sound quality.
That rabbit's got nothing on this one...
Maybe it's time to retire that 486 on which you're still running Win95 (original, not OSR2).
If webmasters properly checked their sites, that would be a non-issue.
Again, it sounds more like an ID-10-T error on the part of the webmaster if you click a link for some semi-obscure filetype and the correct behavior doesn't happen.
I don't notice the speed difference between IE and Mozilla, on anything from a dual Athlon MP down to an old Power Mac G3. That Mozilla has had fewer major security blunders that could lead to your getting 0wn3d is, IMHO, a Good Thing.
You're new here, aren't you? Anything that goes against the DNC talking points is regarded by the moderators as thoughtcrime. It's doubleplusungood and is to be modded into oblivion. Correct thought (defined as an echo of whatever Tom Daschle and Nancy Pelosi are saying) is rewarded.
And they say we are the mind-numbed robots...
It's also worth noting that (AFAIK) you can't rip video from a Series 2. That makes it a non-starter, IMHO. I'll stick with my upgraded HDR212 until it conks out...the only thing that's likely to die is the hard drive, and that's easy enough to swap out.
Indeed...that's nearly three weeks of nonstop TV. DVDs and SVCDs are cheaper, infinitely expandable, and less likely to fail. DVD-RW drives start at about $200 now, and blank DVD-Rs start at a little under $1.00. (For the budget-minded, CD-RW drives and blank CD-Rs are dirt-cheap, but everybody here knows that already.)
I thought he got the idea while he was eating an apple...he thought that it was the perfect food, or something along those lines, and that it'd be a decent name for a company.
I hope I'm there when the cops charge you with incitement to riot and throw your dumb ass in jail.
No. The point that I was making is that no right is absolute. Should security issues in software be discussed? Yes. Should you be free to yell "fire" in a crowded theater if there is no fire? No.
Have you yelled "fire" in a crowded theater lately?