One of the first "TV's" was a device called a Televisor. The technology to present a visual matrix (CRT or LCD or whatever) was not there yet, so the Baird Televisor used a single light and a spinning disk with holes cut in it in a spiral pattern. This made the effect of a dot which moved down vertically to form a line, and those lines moved from left to right to form an image. It took advantage of the human eye's "persistance of vision" to trick the viewer into believing that he/she is viewing a moving image, instead of a dot running fast vertically and horizontally.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning--the first day.
And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water."
So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so.
God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning--the second day.
And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so.
God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so.
The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
And there was evening, and there was morning--the third day.
And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years,
and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so.
God made two great lights--the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth,
to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
And there was evening, and there was morning--the fourth day.
And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."
So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth."
And there was evening, and there was morning--the fifth day.
And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so.
God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground--everything that has the breath of life in it--I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning--the sixth day.
I got a hotmail account in late '96/early '97, before microsoft bought it. When M$ bought it i wanted to cancel it, but the only way to do so was to not use it for six months. Sure enough, six months later, i could not longer log on. I'm not sure if they still have my data or not, though. Luckliy, i moved to another state.:)
I'm afraid that would go too far in the opposite direction. Let the consumer punish the software manufacturer for bad security by not buying said product (i know, this doesn't really work when monopolies are involved), don't get the government involved. I think this is a little like cutting off your head to spite your nose, or however that saying goes. I fear what this proposed law would do to OSS. Instead of this, why not just modify the DMCA and such so that stupid software vendors can't prosecute/persecute people who try to show the security flaws in their crap sofware. It really gets me miffed when companies (*COUGH*microsoft*COUGH*) try to cover up for their poor code by making "security" a four letter word. What utter flipping nonsense.
If this is your dream house and you plan to live in it for the next 30+ years, then put in fibre and deal with the costs. But if this is a house you're going to live in for no more than 5 or so years, put in cat 5. This was a decision i recently faced not at home but at work. I know it's not the same thing, but it's a similar situation. The person before me put in Cat-3 cable (10 years prior) and used dummy terminals, and i had the joy of ripping out those Cat 3's and putting in something better (this is a 6-story building!) (Yes, i had some professional help, otherwise i'd still be running cables now). I had the option of using optical, as well.
There's a fine line between using the cheapest thing you can find and ripping it out in five years (not a problem if you aren't going live in the house that long) and breaking the bank to run fibre which will be viable for some time to come.
I used this combo for my C Programming class. It worked great, and other students were begging me for code snippets that i had typed. Some of my programming assignments were as simple as copying the code from jPilot (Linux Palm frontend) into gVim and compiling. The only thing is make sure you have enough desk space for the folding keyboard. Once, i moved the folding keyboard so that the front was off the desk. The folding stand for the palm collapsed, and the palm fell onto the floor. I had to send it in to Palm to be fixed.
I don't know what to say about the math notation. suff like "z=sin(x^y!/3)" and junk like that (i'm sure what you need to take notes of would be much more advanced) isn't very convenient.
If you want to go the slim laptop or tablet route, MathCAD might just be right up your alley. It's basically a mathematical word processor. It's no Mathematica, but it would probably work. The student price is $120. That's if you want to run Windows on a laptop or (maybe?) web pad. If you you're a Linux guy (like myself) then i'm not sure. You might try lyx like the other person suggested (i've never used it). I have used MathCAD, and it was really nice, although I was just using it for Calculus. I used it a long time ago, and i don't know how good or bad the program or the company is now. But it did a great job for me back when.
I guess we could all learn from this poor soul's experience... If you couldn't get insurance, then i'd at least hound UPS until the people responsible for this destruction are fired.
Sheesh... Talk about getting all bent out of shape...
On my debian 2.2 laptop, i do not run any non-free software. It is my choice... i personally feel that running non-free software on a free operating system is weird. People should be allowed to choose what kind of sw they want installed.
IMHO, i'd rather have service that is stable where the provider doesn't play any tricks (ahem, Cox@home blocking port 80, ahem), etc.
I kinda view this the same way as i view the "3G" cell phones. I don't care if Joe the businessman can video conference, i just want to have decent voice quality. Same goes for the net... i don't care if Joe the net surfer can browse his pr0n ten times faster, i just want it to work well!
Not hardly. Sorry to point out the obvious, but the reason the slashdot icon for the Micro$oft topic is Bill Gates as a borg is because of it's ability to adapt.
It has adapted by doing anything it needs to to destory the competition.
It has adapted by pushing for laws like the DMCA and the SSSCA to stop Open Source/Free Software.
It is not adapting to it's bad reputation with this speech. Nothing more. If you are expecting change, i reckon that you will be sorely dissapointed.
Your A4 web slate sound nice, but i'd quite simply rather have a portable shell. Shell, as in bash, ksh, csh and the like.
Have a smallish device with the same form factor as the old HP Journada's that had keyboards you could actually type on, a low res mono reflective active-matrix LCD with side lighting (so you could read it in broad daylight) at 480x200 resolution (JUST enough pixels for 80x25 text). It would have either a microdrive or internal flash memory runing the linux distro of your choice or BSD. I'm thinking an ARM processor or even a 386 clone. 16 megs of memory would be plenty. Oh, and ethernet, serial, and a compact flash port.
No freaking USB, firewire, X Window System, stylus and touch-sensitive screen, color graphics, etc.
Of course, such a device will never exist. Nobody can market a text-only black and white device these days. But it would be perfect for me, and i think some of you lot here wouldn't mind something like it as well. Oh, and it wouldn't cost an arm and a leg.
Lol. Yeah, i hear you... but there's a big difference between home and work. At home, i have time to learn how to use the best. At work, it has to be up and running yesterday, and my boss isn't about to pay me to sit there and read the networking HOWTO trying to get a Linux box up and running as a router. Nothing against Linux... i use it 99.9% of the time at home and i have an older box set aside for tinkering and learning at work. But i'm not ready to use Linux in critical applications such as a router, yet. (I said I'm not ready... Linux is.:)
What would you recommend, perhaps a Linux box as a router/firewall? I'm serious... if our router here at work isn't going to suffice as a firewall, it's up to me to replace it with something better. I'm not very well versed in networking as such, there's no real network administrator here, just me.:/
We have a couple other people in our IT department, but i'm the most well versed in networking, which is perhaps a sad statement.;P
No. You can't just turn an entire nation into a glass parking lot... It would probably get Bin Ladin (very good), but it would also kill a lot of innocent people (bad).
Not everybody in/from the mid east are psychopathic America-hating killers. They're people like you and me. We cannot destroy an entire nation for the sins of one man, no matter how great those sins. The same goes for iraq.
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IE 5 vs. Netscape 4?
Do version numbers really mean ANYTHING?
If so, then you could say that Red Hat 4.1 is much more advanced than Debian 2.2... clearly not the case.
Mozilla has improved in leaps and bounds and promises (once they crest into version 1.0) to be an extremely viable browser.
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While that would be nearly impossible on such a large scale, even on a small scale, say an 8x8 monochrome bitmap it would be very difficult.
You've got 8*8 pixels = 64 total bits
2^64 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 possible images
at 30 frames per second (which is way to fast for each possible image to register in the human mind, but anyway...)
It would take you
19,484,734,869.6875465983894001233723
years to view every possible image of an 8x8 pixmap!
(20 billion years. Somehow, i don't think there'll be any life on earth for that long.)
Mind boggling, no?
Finding "Hello, World."
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Does anyone have a search program running that'll search throughout Pi?
If so, i wonder where in Pi the following numbers would occur:
Slashdot Mirror
One of the first "TV's" was a device called a Televisor. The technology to present a visual matrix (CRT or LCD or whatever) was not there yet, so the Baird Televisor used a single light and a spinning disk with holes cut in it in a spiral pattern. This made the effect of a dot which moved down vertically to form a line, and those lines moved from left to right to form an image. It took advantage of the human eye's "persistance of vision" to trick the viewer into believing that he/she is viewing a moving image, instead of a dot running fast vertically and horizontally.
Go ahead and mod me down. I really don't care.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning--the first day.
And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water."
So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so.
God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning--the second day.
And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so.
God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so.
The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
And there was evening, and there was morning--the third day.
And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years,
and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so.
God made two great lights--the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth,
to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
And there was evening, and there was morning--the fourth day.
And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."
So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth."
And there was evening, and there was morning--the fifth day.
And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so.
God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground--everything that has the breath of life in it--I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning--the sixth day.
IIRC, RPM was mandated as the package format in LSB for downloading packages. Distros can still use whatever format they want for internal packages.
I got a hotmail account in late '96/early '97, before microsoft bought it. When M$ bought it i wanted to cancel it, but the only way to do so was to not use it for six months. Sure enough, six months later, i could not longer log on. I'm not sure if they still have my data or not, though. Luckliy, i moved to another state. :)
I'm afraid that would go too far in the opposite direction. Let the consumer punish the software manufacturer for bad security by not buying said product (i know, this doesn't really work when monopolies are involved), don't get the government involved. I think this is a little like cutting off your head to spite your nose, or however that saying goes. I fear what this proposed law would do to OSS. Instead of this, why not just modify the DMCA and such so that stupid software vendors can't prosecute/persecute people who try to show the security flaws in their crap sofware. It really gets me miffed when companies (*COUGH*microsoft*COUGH*) try to cover up for their poor code by making "security" a four letter word. What utter flipping nonsense.
If this is your dream house and you plan to live in it for the next 30+ years, then put in fibre and deal with the costs. But if this is a house you're going to live in for no more than 5 or so years, put in cat 5. This was a decision i recently faced not at home but at work. I know it's not the same thing, but it's a similar situation. The person before me put in Cat-3 cable (10 years prior) and used dummy terminals, and i had the joy of ripping out those Cat 3's and putting in something better (this is a 6-story building!) (Yes, i had some professional help, otherwise i'd still be running cables now). I had the option of using optical, as well.
There's a fine line between using the cheapest thing you can find and ripping it out in five years (not a problem if you aren't going live in the house that long) and breaking the bank to run fibre which will be viable for some time to come.
I used this combo for my C Programming class. It worked great, and other students were begging me for code snippets that i had typed. Some of my programming assignments were as simple as copying the code from jPilot (Linux Palm frontend) into gVim and compiling. The only thing is make sure you have enough desk space for the folding keyboard. Once, i moved the folding keyboard so that the front was off the desk. The folding stand for the palm collapsed, and the palm fell onto the floor. I had to send it in to Palm to be fixed.
I don't know what to say about the math notation. suff like "z=sin(x^y!/3)" and junk like that (i'm sure what you need to take notes of would be much more advanced) isn't very convenient.
If you want to go the slim laptop or tablet route, MathCAD might just be right up your alley. It's basically a mathematical word processor. It's no Mathematica, but it would probably work. The student price is $120. That's if you want to run Windows on a laptop or (maybe?) web pad. If you you're a Linux guy (like myself) then i'm not sure. You might try lyx like the other person suggested (i've never used it). I have used MathCAD, and it was really nice, although I was just using it for Calculus. I used it a long time ago, and i don't know how good or bad the program or the company is now. But it did a great job for me back when.
The SNES is a 16 bit machine... no chance of running linux, unless they use the ELKS project, or MINIX.
I guess we could all learn from this poor soul's experience... If you couldn't get insurance, then i'd at least hound UPS until the people responsible for this destruction are fired.
Sheesh... Talk about getting all bent out of shape...
On my debian 2.2 laptop, i do not run any non-free software. It is my choice... i personally feel that running non-free software on a free operating system is weird. People should be allowed to choose what kind of sw they want installed.
IMHO, i'd rather have service that is stable where the provider doesn't play any tricks (ahem, Cox@home blocking port 80, ahem), etc.
I kinda view this the same way as i view the "3G" cell phones. I don't care if Joe the businessman can video conference, i just want to have decent voice quality. Same goes for the net... i don't care if Joe the net surfer can browse his pr0n ten times faster, i just want it to work well!
I stand corrected on that point.
But you get the gist of what i'm saying.
Not hardly. Sorry to point out the obvious, but the reason the slashdot icon for the Micro$oft topic is Bill Gates as a borg is because of it's ability to adapt.
It has adapted by doing anything it needs to to destory the competition.
It has adapted by pushing for laws like the DMCA and the SSSCA to stop Open Source/Free Software.
It is not adapting to it's bad reputation with this speech. Nothing more. If you are expecting change, i reckon that you will be sorely dissapointed.
Your A4 web slate sound nice, but i'd quite simply rather have a portable shell. Shell, as in bash, ksh, csh and the like.
Have a smallish device with the same form factor as the old HP Journada's that had keyboards you could actually type on, a low res mono reflective active-matrix LCD with side lighting (so you could read it in broad daylight) at 480x200 resolution (JUST enough pixels for 80x25 text). It would have either a microdrive or internal flash memory runing the linux distro of your choice or BSD. I'm thinking an ARM processor or even a 386 clone. 16 megs of memory would be plenty. Oh, and ethernet, serial, and a compact flash port.
No freaking USB, firewire, X Window System, stylus and touch-sensitive screen, color graphics, etc.
Of course, such a device will never exist. Nobody can market a text-only black and white device these days. But it would be perfect for me, and i think some of you lot here wouldn't mind something like it as well. Oh, and it wouldn't cost an arm and a leg.
Just my two cents.
Lol. Yeah, i hear you... but there's a big difference between home and work. At home, i have time to learn how to use the best. At work, it has to be up and running yesterday, and my boss isn't about to pay me to sit there and read the networking HOWTO trying to get a Linux box up and running as a router. Nothing against Linux... i use it 99.9% of the time at home and i have an older box set aside for tinkering and learning at work. But i'm not ready to use Linux in critical applications such as a router, yet. (I said I'm not ready... Linux is. :)
What would you recommend, perhaps a Linux box as a router/firewall? I'm serious... if our router here at work isn't going to suffice as a firewall, it's up to me to replace it with something better. I'm not very well versed in networking as such, there's no real network administrator here, just me. :/
;P
We have a couple other people in our IT department, but i'm the most well versed in networking, which is perhaps a sad statement.
Why do you say that? We've had a lot of good experiences with netgear hardware, both nics and hubs and switches and internet routers.
No. You can't just turn an entire nation into a glass parking lot... It would probably get Bin Ladin (very good), but it would also kill a lot of innocent people (bad).
Not everybody in/from the mid east are psychopathic America-hating killers. They're people like you and me. We cannot destroy an entire nation for the sins of one man, no matter how great those sins. The same goes for iraq.
IE 5 vs. Netscape 4?
Do version numbers really mean ANYTHING?
If so, then you could say that Red Hat 4.1 is much more advanced than Debian 2.2... clearly not the case.
Mozilla has improved in leaps and bounds and promises (once they crest into version 1.0) to be an extremely viable browser.
While that would be nearly impossible on such a large scale, even on a small scale, say an 8x8 monochrome bitmap it would be very difficult.
You've got 8*8 pixels = 64 total bits
2^64 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 possible images
at 30 frames per second (which is way to fast for each possible image to register in the human mind, but anyway...)
It would take you
19,484,734,869.6875465983894001233723
years to view every possible image of an 8x8 pixmap!
(20 billion years. Somehow, i don't think there'll be any life on earth for that long.)
Mind boggling, no?
Does anyone have a search program running that'll search throughout Pi?
If so, i wonder where in Pi the following numbers would occur:
072101108108111044032087111114114108100046
=
Hello, World.
Segmentation fault(core dumped)