Which does prove that I am old. Back then it was mostly Turbo Pascal 5.5 on PC/XTs. I sucked then at programming and I ended up somewhere lower than 50th place. There were around 100 participants. It was fun anyway.
The Philips Compact Cassette was introduced in 1965 http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/tape4.html and was first shown 1963 and mass produced starting 1966 http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-17/h1.html Also, more here http://www.fact-index.com/c/co/compact_audio_casse tte.html
In 1964, when he was 22, a theft in his village inspired him to invent a burglar alarm that would also take a picture of the intruder.
His system involved surrounding a house with concealed wires that were attached to a battery, an audio cassette player and a camera. When the intruder stepped on the wire, it triggered the cassette player, which played a tape shouting, "There's a thief!". It also activated the camera, which would take a picture of the burglar.
So I dont believe he had an audio cassette player in 1964.
Also, he has to be very rich, outfitting his 1980 VW with solar panels,
120w solar panel costs like $500 or more. To power a car he needs lets say at least 10hp engine, so this is 7456.999 watt. lets say his electric engine is close to 100% efficient, so he will need only 62 panels * $500 = $31k.
the panels will need 62*1.425*0.652 = 57.6042 m^2 area which is about 7.5*7.5 meters or 22*22 feet for americans. good luck fitting this on any Volkswagen.
Indeed. I prefer my browser full screen. I also prefer my OpenOffice full screen especially in 1024x768. I also like browsing my photos full screen as opposed to like 50% of screen estate that iPhoto gives you. And using an app in full screen mode helps you concentrate as well.
Thanks for your advice. - startup: my circa 1995 SGI Indy plays a sound like iBook and then displays boot screen with nice icons offering me to continue booting, perform self test or go to boot console. iBook takes like 10 seconds to initialize screen and it is really not possible to tell if this thing is on or off in meantime, even one stupid LED would be great! - advanced options - I agree that some people do not need these, but it does not hurt to have the advanced option in the list box for printers, people who do not need it will not use it - usb mouse, i know, i use logitech wireless mouseman optical with Mac, but then here is the pearl of Apple design and user interface (yes, pointing device is a part of UI) - the "get RSI in one day" Apple round mouse http://www.welovemacs.com/m4848.html) - samba, strange, dont they actually use samba which works, its just borked in Mac OS X? - updates are part of OS experience, i never had windows update break stuff so badly, even emegerge -U world never broke anything on my Gentoo boxes
In the end I am glad I dont have to use Mac, I got this iBook for my wife as an experiment to see if it is really easier to use. I dont think she would be able to configure printing and networking by herself so here goes the argument about Aunt Tillie using Mac OS X.
- No way (that I know of, except resizing) to maximize a window - 1024x768 on iBook is small, menu and launcher make it even smaller - To get advanced option in printer protocol list you have to press option and click on Add printer button - No visual feedback right after computer starts - Terribly broken samba network browsing - If you are connected to samba server and network/server goes down no way to close the Finder window or unmount the volume, even umount does not help. - Broken system updates that nuke your firewire drives, crash when switching networks and so on.
It begins at bootup: My PC tells me to press Del to enter BIOS setup. My iBook displays black screen when I turn it on so when I have audio cable plugged in I dont even know if it is starting or not.
Well, I dont have to learn all the flags, --help or man prints them out for me.
I agree that GUIs make some things easy, for instance using Total Commander or Midnight Commander I can manage my files infinitely faster than anybody else using Finder, Explorer, Nautilus or command line.
Not to mention that AcdSee 3.0 (and it is at 6.0 now) kills iPhoto'04
To add samba printer do not use network browsing which is terribly broken rolling rainbow ball hell. Press option and click on Add printer, Only then the Advanced option will show up in the list. Select it, type in printer's URL, and hope that the printer drivers have been ported from Linux.
I wanted to stand in line to buy OQO in the summer one year ago when it was supposed to be released. I am still searching for this line, anybody can help me?
If it wants iTMS to have wider acceptance. I am not ready to plunge at least $300 for iPod, at least not for start. And I would feel better with a device without moving parts. And with a device that is smaller. Also I cant imagine many parents spending $300 for a music player for kids.
Also compatibility with existing devices (like Nomads, Archos players) would help a lot. If somebody has a device like that he will not buy another one just to use iTunes.
I know it is possible to burn CD and rip it back into mp3 but its a hassle.
there are couple more optimization flags that would have helped. but thats not the only problem. they used different display drivers and it could be possible that framebuffer driver is better than sis driver (especially that this looks like shared framebuffer system).
I keep clicking on this.pif file in Sylpheed-claws and nothing happens.
j/k
Frankly I dont know why everyone is getting these virii. I have never gotten virus on any of my personal email accounts. You just have to choose your friends carefully:)
it used older kerberos probably because newest wasnt marked stable.
some ebuilds are broken, you should have reported a bug about shh building without kerberos.
obviously your "text mode" browser used those libraries. you should have used USE flags here.
yes it takes a while to compile and install, and its not for faint at heart. but the whole idea of installing from source is right, source code is great vehicle to deliver programs. think of it as something like java. instead java bytecode you have source code. instead of java interpreter/jit you have gcc. write once run everywhere.
I just got Zaurus from HSN couple days ago. Played for one day with factory ROM, experienced lots of freezes with WIFI cards.
Then I flashed OpenZaurus 3.1rc3.1, and now 3.2. All the hangs are gone, most programs are much better, internal flash is writable. I added 256MB SD-MMC card and moved part of the system to/mnt/card and it works great. opie-mediaplayer2 is based on Xine and plays DIVX files nicely. OZ has SSH installed by default, nicer UI, separate power/backlight settings for AC and battery mode, hostap driver for WIFI. The only problem is it is stuck on 2.4.6 kernel because of binary only SD-MMC driver.
Halted is a really cool place. Once I got 3 borked Sparcbooks 3GX there for $25 each and made them into one. Weirdstuff is good too, a bit overpriced for some stuff (sgi) though.
Action Computer on Lawrence has some cool stuff too sometimes.
Was it computer that failed some operation or lousy programmer who made a mistake in the program? I am sick of people complaining abour "computer errors" when they are at fault.
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Somethis smells fishy about your story. ;-)
BTW I am writing this on dual opteron 250
And I believe Mac OS X on PC would make it twice slower as well.
Which does prove that I am old.
Back then it was mostly Turbo Pascal 5.5 on PC/XTs.
I sucked then at programming and I ended up somewhere lower than 50th place. There were around 100 participants. It was fun anyway.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6905w ww.theinquirer.net/?article=7015
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and so on
http://www.fusecon.com/pubs/txtfiles/naid95.txt
h ttp://www.scene.org/dir.php?dir=/parties/1995/nai d95
http://www.solar-electric.com/e lectric.com/kc-120.html
http://www.solar-
The Philips Compact Cassette was introduced in 1965 http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/tape4.html e tte.html
and was first shown 1963 and mass produced starting 1966 http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-17/h1.html
Also, more here http://www.fact-index.com/c/co/compact_audio_cass
In 1964, when he was 22, a theft in his village inspired him to invent a burglar alarm that would also take a picture of the intruder.
His system involved surrounding a house with concealed wires that were attached to a battery, an audio cassette player and a camera. When the intruder stepped on the wire, it triggered the cassette player, which played a tape shouting, "There's a thief!". It also activated the camera, which would take a picture of the burglar.
So I dont believe he had an audio cassette player in 1964.
Also, he has to be very rich, outfitting his 1980 VW with solar panels,
120w solar panel costs like $500 or more. To power a car he needs lets say at least 10hp engine, so this is 7456.999 watt. lets say his electric engine is close to 100% efficient, so he will need only 62 panels * $500 = $31k.
the panels will need 62*1.425*0.652 = 57.6042 m^2 area which is about 7.5*7.5 meters or 22*22 feet for americans. good luck fitting this on any Volkswagen.
I SMELL BULLSHIT!
Indeed. I prefer my browser full screen. I also prefer my OpenOffice full screen especially in 1024x768. I also like browsing my photos full screen as opposed to like 50% of screen estate that iPhoto gives you. And using an app in full screen mode helps you concentrate as well.
Well, it works pretty well in Wine too ;-)
Thanks for your advice.
- startup: my circa 1995 SGI Indy plays a sound like iBook and then displays boot screen with nice icons offering me to continue booting, perform self test or go to boot console. iBook takes like 10 seconds to initialize screen and it is really not possible to tell if this thing is on or off in meantime, even one stupid LED would be great!
- advanced options - I agree that some people do not need these, but it does not hurt to have the advanced option in the list box for printers, people who do not need it will not use it
- usb mouse, i know, i use logitech wireless mouseman optical with Mac, but then here is the pearl of Apple design and user interface (yes, pointing device is a part of UI) - the "get RSI in one day" Apple round mouse http://www.welovemacs.com/m4848.html)
- samba, strange, dont they actually use samba which works, its just borked in Mac OS X?
- updates are part of OS experience, i never had windows update break stuff so badly, even emegerge -U world never broke anything on my Gentoo boxes
In the end I am glad I dont have to use Mac, I got this iBook for my wife as an experiment to see if it is really easier to use. I dont think she would be able to configure printing and networking by herself so here goes the argument about Aunt Tillie using Mac OS X.
- No way (that I know of, except resizing) to maximize a window - 1024x768 on iBook is small, menu and launcher make it even smaller
- To get advanced option in printer protocol list you have to press option and click on Add printer button
- No visual feedback right after computer starts
- Terribly broken samba network browsing
- If you are connected to samba server and network/server goes down no way to close the Finder window or unmount the volume, even umount does not help.
- Broken system updates that nuke your firewire drives, crash when switching networks and so on.
It begins at bootup:
My PC tells me to press Del to enter BIOS setup.
My iBook displays black screen when I turn it on so when I have audio cable plugged in I dont even know if it is starting or not.
Well, I dont have to learn all the flags, --help or man prints them out for me.
I agree that GUIs make some things easy, for instance using Total Commander or Midnight Commander I can manage my files infinitely faster than anybody else using Finder, Explorer, Nautilus or command line.
Not to mention that AcdSee 3.0 (and it is at 6.0 now) kills iPhoto'04
iTunes is nice though.
To add samba printer do not use network browsing which is terribly broken rolling rainbow ball hell.
Press option and click on Add printer,
Only then the Advanced option will show up in the list.
Select it, type in printer's URL, and hope that the printer drivers have been ported from Linux.
I know that I will be modded down but I have to say it.
Max OS X is like Enlightenment on steroids.
It is totally unusable, just has lots of fast eye candy.
To do anything remotely useful you need to know a milion secret key combos. Mac users are one damn secret handshake society.
Now mod me down and keep bathing in the warm glow of Steve's reality distortion field.
(I do have a Mac)
I wanted to stand in line to buy OQO in the summer one year ago when it was supposed to be released. I am still searching for this line, anybody can help me?
If it wants iTMS to have wider acceptance. I am not ready to plunge at least $300 for iPod, at least not for start. And I would feel better with a device without moving parts. And with a device that is smaller. Also I cant imagine many parents spending $300 for a music player for kids.
Also compatibility with existing devices (like Nomads, Archos players) would help a lot. If somebody has a device like that he will not buy another one just to use iTunes.
I know it is possible to burn CD and rip it back into mp3 but its a hassle.
there are couple more optimization flags that would have helped.
but thats not the only problem. they used different display drivers and it could be possible that framebuffer driver is better than sis driver (especially that this looks like shared framebuffer system).
I keep clicking on this .pif file in Sylpheed-claws and nothing happens.
:)
j/k
Frankly I dont know why everyone is getting these virii. I have never gotten virus on any of my personal email accounts. You just have to choose your friends carefully
there is nice use flags editor - ufed
it used older kerberos probably because newest wasnt marked stable.
some ebuilds are broken, you should have reported a bug about shh building without kerberos.
obviously your "text mode" browser used those libraries. you should have used USE flags here.
yes it takes a while to compile and install, and its not for faint at heart. but the whole idea of installing from source is right, source code is great vehicle to deliver programs. think of it as something like java. instead java bytecode you have source code. instead of java interpreter/jit you have gcc. write once run everywhere.
I just got Zaurus from HSN couple days ago.
/mnt/card and it works great. opie-mediaplayer2 is based on Xine and plays DIVX files nicely. OZ has SSH installed by default, nicer UI, separate power/backlight settings for AC and battery mode, hostap driver for WIFI. The only problem is it is stuck on 2.4.6 kernel because of binary only SD-MMC driver.
Played for one day with factory ROM, experienced lots of freezes with WIFI cards.
Then I flashed OpenZaurus 3.1rc3.1, and now 3.2.
All the hangs are gone, most programs are much better, internal flash is writable. I added 256MB SD-MMC card and moved part of the system to
Just create new address, give it to HSN. And then delete the address when you receive first spam.
go to www.sneakemail.com
And its a little pricey on Dynamism.
Halted is a really cool place. Once I got 3 borked Sparcbooks 3GX there for $25 each and made them into one.
Weirdstuff is good too, a bit overpriced for some stuff (sgi) though.
Action Computer on Lawrence has some cool stuff too sometimes.
Was it computer that failed some operation or lousy programmer who made a mistake in the program?
I am sick of people complaining abour "computer errors" when they are at fault.