This seems to me to be one of the next modern wonders of the word. I think it'll rank up there with the artifical island in Japan that houses the new airport and the twin towers in Malaysia..
Besides that, I wonder how many cars a day it'll hold, and how bad it'll be if some of the crazy Italian drivers get into a good sized accident. If you every been to Rome, you know what I'm talking about.
This has been a long time coming. There have been signs of this kind of behavior all throughout this industry and others.
With the privatization/deregulation of the Internet, Energy etc, companies are so busy snatching each other up (think Banking, Telcom, AOL/Time Warner, Compaq/HP etc), that they aren't really improving or changing anything except how you trade stocks.
I think in 20 years, there will be ~10 stock symbols on the entire stock market - you'll have TEC (The Entertainment Company), TTC (The Technology Company), TGC (The Energy Company) etc... It's getting really stupid.
The point of this? After the Internet has been handed over to these X companies, there will ensue a mad scramble for each other's assets until there is only TIC (The Internet Company), probably run by Steve Jobs or AOL....
Jefferson City, MO. You'll only see it if the mainframe goes down. Mind you, the last time I've been in a tower was in '90, so things might have changed, and I know not all systems were like this.
Yeah, I realized that after the post... see my reply to my reply... Thanks though. Stupid of me, really, considering I have my VFR ticket, but not my IFR ticket...
Yes, my reference is myself, as I have witnessed this particular phenomenon in Jefferson City, MO. Also, it's mentioned in Varney's novel Millenium, I believe...
I agree, for the most part (see latest article about Gopher vulnerability in IE), but in this case, losing the ID's of planes in the air is a very SERIOUS problem, and as I understand this particular problem, it's not a bug, it's a hardware failure that brings the WHOLE system down.
While a GPF is pretty bad, the new system is client-server instead of mainframe based, so if a server goes down, another server picks up. Certainly quicker than cooling and rebooting a 30 year old mainframe.....
Even a buggy air-traffic control system is better than the one they have now. Every 3 days or so, the radar screens drop horizontal so that air traffic controllers can keep track of their dots while the computer goes down and then comes back up.
This is not a pretty sight. Each ATC can have 30+ planes on their screen, and when the computer goes down, they screen drops horizontal, the ATC whips out little flags with numbers on them and keeps them on top of the now anonymous dots.
So I think ANY improvement is a good thing.
On the blacker side: The bugs themselves could be a good thing. Maybe one of these "bugs" will misreport the location of things like the Sears Tower, or the Capitol Building and a hijacked plane will slam into "Al's Meats and More" instead of the intended target.... (yes, I'm still REALLY angry about the Pentagon/WTC/Penn. terrorist attacks)
How many school boards would LET them play UT or Quake N? Even if they had the horsepower? Can you imagine? Right after the student assembly, a Ghost Recon match. Or better yet, Soldier of Fortune.
Back in the late 80's, my first High School used to open up the labs for whatever. Although they didn't have PC's, they did have a VMS Mainframe upon which many thousands of hours of Moria were played. It got a LOT of kids interested in programming (myself included).
When I moved to a Voc-Tech high-school, and I became the student sysadmin, I got the school to open up the lab after hours, and to allow students to make their own curriculum during the last 2 years of computer science.. Some great games came out of those minds, and a lot of great games were played.
So the short answer is: Yes, if they are progressive enough.
Seriously, some of the best games ever created were invented at the beginning of the computer revolution. Think Nethack, Rogue, Adventure, Pong etc... I mean, what ever happened to games like Pac-Man (of which the first perfect game was played only a couple of years ago...)? Those games took actual thought, and no twitching (think Unreal Tournament, Quake N and Half-Life).
Speaking of HL, if it weren't for the Mods, which require thought, skill and strategy, I wouldn't play at all....
This would totally rule.. I'd love to see Nethack for the GB. I'm currently working on a Palm version, and of course, it'll work on Windows CE, but honestly, wouldn't Nethack be an awesome alternative to bejeweled on the bus?
The original ruling was ridiculous on the face of it in the first place.
I already had a device that would allow me to record a live television program, skip all of the commercials and for a small fee send the ENTIRE program to my friends.. It's called a VCR.. It use to come in two flavors, Beta-Max (the Macintosh of VCR's) and VHS (the DOS of VHS, does 70% of Beta-Max, with better marketing).
I really think that the people who should have pressed the suit in the first place were the Nielson folks. They're the ones who really need to know that I've watched the entire Band Of Brothers series about 80 times so far....
The only reason that the first judge didn't make RCA/SONY/et al write software for VCR's that reported who was recording what was the simple fact that NOBODY knows how to program a VCR...;)
Only IBM would SELL something you can get for FREE, and I think only Germany would BUY what you can download for FREE..
Of course, I DID just buy RedHat 7.3, but that's only because the download ISO's are stacked up with other similarly minded people..
Speaking of which - they say that Great minds think alike. Doesn't that mean that INFERIOR minds also think alike? Now I'm concerned about which I am...
Anyone know where I can score a Hellfire missile?? I searched on Ebay under
Stuff>> Parts>> Govt.>> Weapons>> Missiles>> Classified>> Anti-Radar>> Anti-Tank for "Hellfire" and I got NADA... But I did find a nice AIM-4D Falcon that the Koreans are offloading...
I'm looking at a slightly used V-22 Osprey (no reserve!) on www.ebayplanesthatcrashoften.com, but even though it has no reserve, it's starting bid is $945M....
Frankly, this is too cool, however, I'm beginning to wonder where this'll end. Yes, I remember thinking that the 5 Meg hard disk I bought for the DecMate II that my family had was "all I would ever need, ever", but for personal use, I wonder what good 100 Gig is good for except having a HUGE music collection.
With data compression getting better and better, and disks getting bigger and bigger, and everything getting cheaper, I think the next big thing is large volume back up media.
Until writable DVD's come along, there isn't even a usable, cheap way to do a backup of my 80 Gig hard disk as it is. Right now, it'd take a stack of 100 CD-RW's to do it, and about a year or so. It seems the only practical solution is to buy two (or more) identical hard disks and then set up a RAID-1 arrangement.
What I'm interested in is a fast, cheap way to back up my shiny new 100 Gig optical drive. Until then, forget it.
"Um i think i have a right to say 'No, you cannot snail mail me' and 'no you cannot call me.'"
Actually, you DON'T have that right. You DO have the right to say "I won't read what you snail mail me" and "No, I won't listen to what you have to say when you do call me." You DO (in the U.S.) have the right to say "You cannot call me again." (see the TCPA, section 11)
Next time you see your friendly postal carrier, ask him (or her) why you have to get all that junk mail. Ask him/her to just chuck it. Guess what, he/she can't. It's illegal for anyone except the sender or the reciever to trash ANY mail intentionally, and even the sender can't trash it after it's been sent. Once it's in the hands of the USPS, it's actually no longer the sender's property...
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You're kidding, right? Pong - angle of incedence=angle of refraction - nuff said.
PacMan - Required strategy - ways to lure ghosts away from where you'll be in a minute.
If the ghosts shot at PacMan, and he shot back, maybe that would be twitchy...
Of course, you're right.. I was straining to get it right, and failed... My memory apparently isn't what it used to be.. :)
This seems to me to be one of the next modern wonders of the word. I think it'll rank up there with the artifical island in Japan that houses the new airport and the twin towers in Malaysia..
Besides that, I wonder how many cars a day it'll hold, and how bad it'll be if some of the crazy Italian drivers get into a good sized accident. If you every been to Rome, you know what I'm talking about.
This has been a long time coming. There have been signs of this kind of behavior all throughout this industry and others.
With the privatization/deregulation of the Internet, Energy etc, companies are so busy snatching each other up (think Banking, Telcom, AOL/Time Warner, Compaq/HP etc), that they aren't really improving or changing anything except how you trade stocks.
I think in 20 years, there will be ~10 stock symbols on the entire stock market - you'll have TEC (The Entertainment Company), TTC (The Technology Company), TGC (The Energy Company) etc... It's getting really stupid.
The point of this? After the Internet has been handed over to these X companies, there will ensue a mad scramble for each other's assets until there is only TIC (The Internet Company), probably run by Steve Jobs or AOL....
If someone was pulling my leg, it was myself... Seeing as I was there, and one of the controllers demonstrated.
Jefferson City, MO. You'll only see it if the mainframe goes down. Mind you, the last time I've been in a tower was in '90, so things might have changed, and I know not all systems were like this.
Yeah, I realized that after the post... see my reply to my reply... Thanks though. Stupid of me, really, considering I have my VFR ticket, but not my IFR ticket...
;)
Exit, stage left..
Yes, my reference is myself, as I have witnessed this particular phenomenon in Jefferson City, MO. Also, it's mentioned in Varney's novel Millenium, I believe...
I agree, for the most part (see latest article about Gopher vulnerability in IE), but in this case, losing the ID's of planes in the air is a very SERIOUS problem, and as I understand this particular problem, it's not a bug, it's a hardware failure that brings the WHOLE system down.
While a GPF is pretty bad, the new system is client-server instead of mainframe based, so if a server goes down, another server picks up. Certainly quicker than cooling and rebooting a 30 year old mainframe.....
You're right of course. The planes have independant navigational systems. There really is nothing that would have been affected, more's the pity. :(
Unless of course, the flights never got off the ground in the first place....
Even a buggy air-traffic control system is better than the one they have now. Every 3 days or so, the radar screens drop horizontal so that air traffic controllers can keep track of their dots while the computer goes down and then comes back up.
This is not a pretty sight. Each ATC can have 30+ planes on their screen, and when the computer goes down, they screen drops horizontal, the ATC whips out little flags with numbers on them and keeps them on top of the now anonymous dots.
So I think ANY improvement is a good thing.
On the blacker side: The bugs themselves could be a good thing. Maybe one of these "bugs" will misreport the location of things like the Sears Tower, or the Capitol Building and a hijacked plane will slam into "Al's Meats and More" instead of the intended target.... (yes, I'm still REALLY angry about the Pentagon/WTC/Penn. terrorist attacks)
How many school boards would LET them play UT or Quake N? Even if they had the horsepower? Can you imagine? Right after the student assembly, a Ghost Recon match. Or better yet, Soldier of Fortune.
I don't think so
Back in the late 80's, my first High School used to open up the labs for whatever. Although they didn't have PC's, they did have a VMS Mainframe upon which many thousands of hours of Moria were played. It got a LOT of kids interested in programming (myself included).
When I moved to a Voc-Tech high-school, and I became the student sysadmin, I got the school to open up the lab after hours, and to allow students to make their own curriculum during the last 2 years of computer science.. Some great games came out of those minds, and a lot of great games were played.
So the short answer is: Yes, if they are progressive enough.
Exactly!!!
Seriously, some of the best games ever created were invented at the beginning of the computer revolution. Think Nethack, Rogue, Adventure, Pong etc... I mean, what ever happened to games like Pac-Man (of which the first perfect game was played only a couple of years ago...)? Those games took actual thought, and no twitching (think Unreal Tournament, Quake N and Half-Life).
Speaking of HL, if it weren't for the Mods, which require thought, skill and strategy, I wouldn't play at all....
Hack for PalmOS is out, so is Rouge-like for Palm. You can go to Nethack-palm on SourceForge for the latest on the nethack for palm project.
Just FYI
This would totally rule.. I'd love to see Nethack for the GB. I'm currently working on a Palm version, and of course, it'll work on Windows CE, but honestly, wouldn't Nethack be an awesome alternative to bejeweled on the bus?
Yes, I am quite intelligent, frankly. The average /. reader isn't...
Besides, I don't really like the use of radicies. It obfuscates the matter. The average joe doesn't understand order of operations....
"My car gets 30 rods to the hog's head and I like it that way!" - Grandpa Simpson...
The original ruling was ridiculous on the face of it in the first place.
;)
I already had a device that would allow me to record a live television program, skip all of the commercials and for a small fee send the ENTIRE program to my friends.. It's called a VCR.. It use to come in two flavors, Beta-Max (the Macintosh of VCR's) and VHS (the DOS of VHS, does 70% of Beta-Max, with better marketing).
I really think that the people who should have pressed the suit in the first place were the Nielson folks. They're the ones who really need to know that I've watched the entire Band Of Brothers series about 80 times so far....
The only reason that the first judge didn't make RCA/SONY/et al write software for VCR's that reported who was recording what was the simple fact that NOBODY knows how to program a VCR...
Troll? How? Email me with how, exactly this post qualifies as a TROLL?
Maybe "Overrated" but not a TROLL... Aparently stating the obvious is TROLLish...
Let's moderate the moderators...
What you don't seem to understand is that "free as in speach" isn't NEARLY as important as "Free as in StarOffice with spellcheck"
Only IBM would SELL something you can get for FREE, and I think only Germany would BUY what you can download for FREE..
Of course, I DID just buy RedHat 7.3, but that's only because the download ISO's are stacked up with other similarly minded people..
Speaking of which - they say that Great minds think alike. Doesn't that mean that INFERIOR minds also think alike? Now I'm concerned about which I am...
Any ideas?
Anyone know where I can score a Hellfire missile?? I searched on Ebay under
Stuff>> Parts>> Govt.>> Weapons>> Missiles>> Classified>> Anti-Radar>> Anti-Tank for "Hellfire" and I got NADA... But I did find a nice AIM-4D Falcon that the Koreans are offloading...
This is ridiculous! I had no problems picking up a sightly used Sun, 81" of snow, a Russian test space shuttle and the Ark of the Covenant (presumably being sold by one Dr. Jones)...
I'm looking at a slightly used V-22 Osprey (no reserve!) on www.ebayplanesthatcrashoften.com, but even though it has no reserve, it's starting bid is $945M....
I guess I'm just a dick.
Okay dokey.. I'm upset because they are shutting down my 3rd favorite piracy outlet...
My first is my Casette recorder....
Seriously. I much prefer LimeWire and WinMX to Kazaa anyday, and twice on Wednesdays....
Frankly, this is too cool, however, I'm beginning to wonder where this'll end. Yes, I remember thinking that the 5 Meg hard disk I bought for the DecMate II that my family had was "all I would ever need, ever", but for personal use, I wonder what good 100 Gig is good for except having a HUGE music collection.
With data compression getting better and better, and disks getting bigger and bigger, and everything getting cheaper, I think the next big thing is large volume back up media.
Until writable DVD's come along, there isn't even a usable, cheap way to do a backup of my 80 Gig hard disk as it is. Right now, it'd take a stack of 100 CD-RW's to do it, and about a year or so. It seems the only practical solution is to buy two (or more) identical hard disks and then set up a RAID-1 arrangement.
What I'm interested in is a fast, cheap way to back up my shiny new 100 Gig optical drive. Until then, forget it.
"Um i think i have a right to say 'No, you cannot snail mail me' and 'no you cannot call me.'"
Actually, you DON'T have that right. You DO have the right to say "I won't read what you snail mail me" and "No, I won't listen to what you have to say when you do call me." You DO (in the U.S.) have the right to say "You cannot call me again." (see the TCPA, section 11)
Next time you see your friendly postal carrier, ask him (or her) why you have to get all that junk mail. Ask him/her to just chuck it. Guess what, he/she can't. It's illegal for anyone except the sender or the reciever to trash ANY mail intentionally, and even the sender can't trash it after it's been sent. Once it's in the hands of the USPS, it's actually no longer the sender's property...