No, but Metacard is (it even runs on Linux/FreeBSD!). After the C=64 BASIC, Hypertalk was my first programming language, and to this day there are still things I like about it that I never find in other languages. I died a little inside when Apple stopped bundling the full version with the OS and started distributing "Hypercard Player" instead, I just knew that many aspiring programmers were not going to experiance the joy of learning such a fun language.
Besides, many big iron producers (including storage and networking equipment) include a Modem port that you're supposed to hook up so their home office can remotely diagnose provblems and install patches. Some of the stuff even calls home (literally) periodically to the home office to check for security updates and whatnot.
If you want to try to get your soundcard working, try "insmod snd_driver". To see if the system found anything run "cat/dev/sndstat". If there is anything in/dev/sndstat, then you should have working sound.
I have to admit, I stopped reading that page when a big pink box screaming "Doctors are the third leading cause of death!" popped up. Somehow I get the feeling this page may not be completely grounded in reality.
This looks like another concept car that will never see the light of day to me.
It's more like a motorcycle than a car actually, and has many of the same drawbacks:
The drivers legs are used as the front bumper
Virtually no cargo room
Can't bring the kids along, since they won't be allowed to even sit in your PM until they get a drivers license
I'm not about to let some other jerk drive for me. What if he cuts someone off and doesn't leave enough room for me?
It's top heavy (although it can recline, alleviating this problem somewhat)
This is just another concept car that will never see the light of day, at least not in it's current form.
If I may be permitted to be a bit crass: the people running the Underground Railroad were also breaking the law, but in reality they were just ahead of their time.
Once a system is entrenched (like RIAA in the copyright system) it is basically impossible to reform it from within. You have to leverage to reform the system because the people in power built it with their own interested in mind and have no incentive to consider other possibilities. The only hope the average man has is to eventually cause enough ruckus to bring the problem to a head and force the change. That is what is happening now with file swapping, but I fear there will be a lot of dead bodies littering the field (metaphorically speaking I hope) before this battle is over.
Floatplanes have numerous disadvantages that you must consider.
Water has a higher drag than rubber-on-concrete, so you need more power to get up to speed to lift off, which lowers your max gross takeoff weight.
Floats are generally bulky and cannot be retraced, so they cut into your fuel efficency in the air. The floats themselves are also heavier than the wheels they replace (and sometimes incorperate wheels), which lowers the amount of cargo you can carry
Water can turn choppy at a moments notice, and choppy water is treacherous to land in.
Land next to water is expensive, and your airport consists of more than runways. Your terminal, fuel shed, and hangers will be on expensive waterfront property
This only touched on a few points, but it should be obvious why most airports are not on the water. For small "puddle jumpers" seaplanes are the perfect solution, but for generalized travel they just aren't economical.
The fear is that people will make 30 second long ringtones out of popular songs, thus compounding the file-sharing problem while robbing the music industry of a new source of revenue. Many users find the technology quite cool. IANAL, but current copyright guidelines seem to permit fair use of "Up to 10% of a body of sound recording, but no more than 30 seconds". All of which should make for an interesting legal debate. I can hear the gnashing of teeth already."
Again we hear the record executives cry out "Damn you fair use!" I'm sure they'll try to pass some legislation that further erodes the concept of fair use so they can make a few extra bucks. Maybe this time they'll just repeal fair use entirely since it is apparently just a tool of piracy (people copy the music without paying for it, that's theft!).
Dunno, but I think I've got some porn spam marketing to that group. This is the internet, no matter how bizarre your fetish, there is at least one newsgroup and one website devoted to it somewhere.
Remember that a timer isn't necessarily something that looks like a clock. It can be as simple as a mine who's detonator requires electricity to operate, electricity supplied by a battery. Once the battery runs down the mine is nutralized and can be removed safely. AFAIK, this is the preferred method for the US army, as it is uncomplicated and unlikely to fail (it's hard to accidentally manufacture a battery that lasts forever).
If only the counterexamples weren't so easy to come up with. Many honest people get scammed on Ebay from people who just don't ship the goods after they are paid for.
You know how hard it is to find a good sturdy spork you can just toss in the dishwasher? Almost every spork I've ever seen is some chintzy plastic affair.
Plus, the spork is lousy for soup and pretty useless as a fork.
Ah well, in a few years, bandwidth, space, and proccesing power will be such that lossless compression will be the norm.
Yeah, and all images will be (multi-megabyte) PNGs because JPEG throws away too much information to be acceptable. I know audiophiles like to cry about the loss you get from encoding music in these formats, but the vast majority of the people care more about the 25MB it saves than the slight differences in the song they can't even hear. 25MB may seem small when you have a 10TB HDD, but it's not unusual to have thousands of songs on a computer, and that much overhead is going to add up.
That's because you hang out with the frothing-at-the-mouth anti-landmine lobby instead of watching what the military actually does.
Unless you're scaling fences with skull and crossbones signs on them in the Korean DMZ, you're not going to find a US landmine without a timer (unless you start digging around for very old landmines).
It used to be that winning a Webby ment your website wouldn't be around for the next year (they had this great knack at picking websites that were on the verge of shutting down).
This year: Google wins two categories. I'm frightened.
3 days idle is considered "great" battery life these days? Whatever happened to the phone only needing to be recharged once a week with a few hours of talk time? Did the extreme miniaturization trend start eating into battery life? That would be unfortunate, as the battery life is one of the primary features of the phone, and the dog translater is definatly a secondary feature.
Man, I wish my comcast was that nice. Last time I checked, my local Comcast office was still charging $10 per additional IP. Naturally all of my boxes are behind a NAT box since there is no way I want to pay Comcast an additional $10 a month for a fileserver that is only available on the LAN anyway.
Slashdotters often complain about (anti-Linux) FUD in one breath, while spreading anti-MS FUD with the next.
I don't know if this is true. Most people on here have a fair bit of certanty with Windows. You know for sure that if you don't keep up with your patches and leave your Windows machine connected to the internet that you will become a spam relay in short order. They know that if you try to get source code or documentation about their proprietary protocols from Microsoft you will get turned down. They know you'll have crummy remote access out of the box. They also know that you'll be able to play most every major game released and have a driver available for whatever idiot piece of hardware they buy.
Linux and other Free Unixes offer far fewer certainties. You are certain to get the source code to almost everything you need, but hardware can be a crap-shoot (especially if it's new) and a lot of stuff "may" work once you fiddle with it a bit. There are a lot of services that will be far easier to get working in Linux than Windows...unless they're Windows services. And so on.
It should be obvious that both Windows and Linux have tradeoffs, and much of the time the Windows tradeoffs are far more painful to the average Slashdotter than the Linux tradeoffs.
Another view is that big companies patent lots of things, and then by the implicit threat of suing the "small guy", prevent innovation from moving forward. In practice this is harder than it sounds, since the damage to the image of the company can be considerable if it tried to sue a small target - that's why you rarely see it happen. I think this works both ways of course as I described in the last paragraph. Basically whoever has the patent has the power.
The thing is, you don't have to actually sue the little guy. Just have your law firm with 10 names send a threatening C&D letter to the little guy. Most of the time they will fold instead of trying to fight your suit, especially if you have some vague patent that you can taunt them with. Lawsuits are expensive and the little guy can't be sure that he will win since the Jury may not understand how vague or unrelated the patent is.
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No, but Metacard is (it even runs on Linux/FreeBSD!). After the C=64 BASIC, Hypertalk was my first programming language, and to this day there are still things I like about it that I never find in other languages. I died a little inside when Apple stopped bundling the full version with the OS and started distributing "Hypercard Player" instead, I just knew that many aspiring programmers were not going to experiance the joy of learning such a fun language.
Besides, many big iron producers (including storage and networking equipment) include a Modem port that you're supposed to hook up so their home office can remotely diagnose provblems and install patches. Some of the stuff even calls home (literally) periodically to the home office to check for security updates and whatnot.
If you want to try to get your soundcard working, try "insmod snd_driver". To see if the system found anything run "cat /dev/sndstat". If there is anything in /dev/sndstat, then you should have working sound.
I have to admit, I stopped reading that page when a big pink box screaming "Doctors are the third leading cause of death!" popped up. Somehow I get the feeling this page may not be completely grounded in reality.
- The drivers legs are used as the front bumper
- Virtually no cargo room
- Can't bring the kids along, since they won't be allowed to even sit in your PM until they get a drivers license
- I'm not about to let some other jerk drive for me. What if he cuts someone off and doesn't leave enough room for me?
- It's top heavy (although it can recline, alleviating this problem somewhat)
This is just another concept car that will never see the light of day, at least not in it's current form.If I may be permitted to be a bit crass: the people running the Underground Railroad were also breaking the law, but in reality they were just ahead of their time.
Once a system is entrenched (like RIAA in the copyright system) it is basically impossible to reform it from within. You have to leverage to reform the system because the people in power built it with their own interested in mind and have no incentive to consider other possibilities. The only hope the average man has is to eventually cause enough ruckus to bring the problem to a head and force the change. That is what is happening now with file swapping, but I fear there will be a lot of dead bodies littering the field (metaphorically speaking I hope) before this battle is over.
- Water has a higher drag than rubber-on-concrete, so you need more power to get up to speed to lift off, which lowers your max gross takeoff weight.
- Floats are generally bulky and cannot be retraced, so they cut into your fuel efficency in the air. The floats themselves are also heavier than the wheels they replace (and sometimes incorperate wheels), which lowers the amount of cargo you can carry
- Water can turn choppy at a moments notice, and choppy water is treacherous to land in.
- Land next to water is expensive, and your airport consists of more than runways. Your terminal, fuel shed, and hangers will be on expensive waterfront property
This only touched on a few points, but it should be obvious why most airports are not on the water. For small "puddle jumpers" seaplanes are the perfect solution, but for generalized travel they just aren't economical.Dunno, but I think I've got some porn spam marketing to that group. This is the internet, no matter how bizarre your fetish, there is at least one newsgroup and one website devoted to it somewhere.
Remember that a timer isn't necessarily something that looks like a clock. It can be as simple as a mine who's detonator requires electricity to operate, electricity supplied by a battery. Once the battery runs down the mine is nutralized and can be removed safely. AFAIK, this is the preferred method for the US army, as it is uncomplicated and unlikely to fail (it's hard to accidentally manufacture a battery that lasts forever).
If only the counterexamples weren't so easy to come up with. Many honest people get scammed on Ebay from people who just don't ship the goods after they are paid for.
You know how hard it is to find a good sturdy spork you can just toss in the dishwasher? Almost every spork I've ever seen is some chintzy plastic affair.
Plus, the spork is lousy for soup and pretty useless as a fork.
That's because you hang out with the frothing-at-the-mouth anti-landmine lobby instead of watching what the military actually does.
Unless you're scaling fences with skull and crossbones signs on them in the Korean DMZ, you're not going to find a US landmine without a timer (unless you start digging around for very old landmines).
Holy crap, where do you work? Sardine Packers Unlimited?
It used to be that winning a Webby ment your website wouldn't be around for the next year (they had this great knack at picking websites that were on the verge of shutting down).
This year: Google wins two categories. I'm frightened.
Yeah, but they're not so great. I went to visit New Vagina once, but it was full of really butchy lesbians.
3 days idle is considered "great" battery life these days? Whatever happened to the phone only needing to be recharged once a week with a few hours of talk time? Did the extreme miniaturization trend start eating into battery life? That would be unfortunate, as the battery life is one of the primary features of the phone, and the dog translater is definatly a secondary feature.
Man, I wish my comcast was that nice. Last time I checked, my local Comcast office was still charging $10 per additional IP. Naturally all of my boxes are behind a NAT box since there is no way I want to pay Comcast an additional $10 a month for a fileserver that is only available on the LAN anyway.
What? Without Gopher where am I supposed to find copies of wuftp for Windows 3.1 and news on the 1995 Nobel Prize winners?
Actually, Gopher is great for looking back at what the internet looked like 8 years ago, when the last update was made to a Gopher site.
Woah! Does "cureing" homosexuals involve naughty Catholic Schoolgirls?
Linux and other Free Unixes offer far fewer certainties. You are certain to get the source code to almost everything you need, but hardware can be a crap-shoot (especially if it's new) and a lot of stuff "may" work once you fiddle with it a bit. There are a lot of services that will be far easier to get working in Linux than Windows...unless they're Windows services. And so on.
It should be obvious that both Windows and Linux have tradeoffs, and much of the time the Windows tradeoffs are far more painful to the average Slashdotter than the Linux tradeoffs.
It's been said that Austria's two greatest achievements were to make Mozart an Austrian and Hitler a German.