Hey, we care! After all, the blurb did, in fact, say For those of you old-timers who spent days & nights trying to get your code fit into 64Kb. That must not apply to you.
And it's really no different than the advantage of the bow over the sword, it's just easier to gain basic competence with a firearm.
that's the essential point. Individual power is magnified by technology. Modern weapons enable individuals to be dangerous (powerful) like never before. The same goes for computers and software. Is it a good thing?
I don't think quality has gone down. My Volvo is of the hightest quality. This 12" powerbook is easily the most well-built, well-thought-out computer I've ever owned (my first was a Ti-99/4A). I don't think software quality has diminished either, frankly, considering the increase in complexity. Sure my Apple//e booted in half a second, but I couldn't edit video on it. Say all you want about sleazy marketing, but ink-jet printing is - from the perspective of the 1980's and earlier - absolutely amazing. Remember NLQ dot matrix and daisy-wheel printers? They sucked. Really. They sucked. Today you can get a laser printer for cheap. This is all power to the consumer. How about a gun analogy now, instead of a car analogy - anyone with a gun (say, a super-cheap AK) can take out the greatest master swordsman. Sad in a way, but then that's real power to the people.
Hopefully, the engineers won't have to consider every possible case, because if they do, they will never be done. The only way for it to work, IMHO, begins with truly massive data collection over many years. The cars will have to be trained.
I noticed a couple months ago that there are now mac-compatible Happy Hacking keyboards with extra USB plugs, so I got one immediately. No regrets.
I've been looking at those recently. I have no use for a numeric keypad - it just puts the mouse farther away. Does anyone really use the keypad? Do most keyboards have them because they seem more... computerish? (Is everyone else an accountant?)
It was figured out before. There were a lot of wacky interface ideas for the web in the early days. I had this specific idea in 1994 along with a few other people. There was a lot of interest in spiders then - if you think of the history as your small view of the structure of the web, why not have the browser walk forward also, adding those links to your overhead view? This turned out to be rather unmanageable as web pages in 1994 were often just huge lists of links. This page I'm looking at right now has - what? 75 links? Ugg.
The other strange one I remember from those days (less useful, I know) was the DOOM browser - a DOOM engine that would auto-generate an endless map from the hyperlink structure of the web. Special tags would fine tune it. (shades of VRML). Wouldn't you like to fight demons to get to the information you need? That's what it feels sometimes anyway...
He's right, but Bush doesn't need a legacy as much as he needs votes. Big Space detracts from domestic, earth-bound mistakes, and gives a misleading impression of endeavour.
First developers (Or many tech related jobs) and now writers.. This is starting to get really scary, especially for people my age; I'm still in high school and it's going to be a few years before I can get a _real_ job, and at this rate it's going to be hard to find any local ones. This really needs to stop, or at least be done in moderation, it's getting out of hand.
Things are cyclic. If you go to college, by the time you graduate things will be well on the upswing again. I didn't believe it when my dad told me, and you may not believe it when I tell you now, but 1) you can't solve tomorrow's problems with today's information, and 2) chances are good that the kind of job you'll hold does not exist now. Things were really dragging in 1993 when I was about to graduate with my computer science degree. I couldn't find a summer job worth jack all throughout college. Then ya know what? The web happened in 1994 just as I graduated. I rode the wave till late 2000 - what a ride. So chill my friend.
And if all else fails, you can always move to Bangalore for a few years, maybe go to grad school there, that'd be fun. You're young.
To support all these things of course, my BIOS would need to bring up a sophisticated operating system... lets call it 'Bindows'. This 'Bindows' would be rather large, so it will need the ability to 'hibernate' quickly and wake up from hibernation quickly.
The Mac Classic had System 6 in ROM (minimal set of control panels tho) which could be booted with a certain key combo.
My mathematician wife, by the way, pictures numbers as colors and can somehow do back-of-the-envelope calculations that way. I'm not entirely sure that's a sign of a healthy mind, but it seems to work for her.
I do. Not really numbers, but letters. It has deteriorated over the years for me.
Apparently, it is called synesthesia
Pause button? BLASPHEMY! Well, maybe for critical biological needs mid-viewing (stuff that ya take out of the fridge gotta go SOMEWHERE in the end), and even then only if you are watching all three extended editions in one go.
You may call it blasphemy, I call it having kids. It took me about 4 separate viewings to make it through TTT extended edition.
So there's no workaround and no symptoms of it having been used. Ouch. Essentially if you want to be certain that a multi-user system has not been hacked, you need to reinstall the operating system from scratch, formatting all the disks...
My Ultra 10 with Solaris 8 is absolutely secure. I have every confidence it has not and will not be hacked. This is Sun we're talking about. They are the dot in dot com. The network is the computer. As a vote of confidence, I have placed my Ultra 10 in my closet, off.
I think 2000 to XP is a pretty big one. It indicates they ran out of numbers (versioning in long integer) and had to move to letters... Or maybe that they just used a two number versioning system and realized that Windows [19]00 was less than [19]98. Damn 2K Bug.
Well, maybe for the few true geniuses out there. But for most hackers it's merely a skill, maybe a craft at most.
Everything a human can do is an art. High art is merely the pinnacle. We all strive toward it to some extent. An "artist" may simply be one who works for that specific reason.
Where my parents live (small village in northern england) there's a bridge on the main street which is only wide enough for one car. So they have lights to control the traffic. What's cool is that at night when there's no-one around, as you drive up to it on red, it detects you coming and switches to green just as you get to it, then you see it switch back the moment you get to the other side.
Cool. Here outside of Philadalphia we have one lane bridges with no traffic lights. I used to cross one in my daily 1-hour commute. This has to be the only place in America where you can have a sizeable commuting population limited to twisty winding roads with one-lane bridges and blind intersections.
Software is also a mental activity, open to all (smart people). The distance between a brilliant idea and its implementation is tiny in the world of software when compared to the physical world. It is not possible for an individual to build a skyscraper or go to the moon, but it is, in fact, possible to do the software equivalents, all alone. All you need is to be smart, have lots of free time, and work hard and you can do what vast engineering teams can (or cannot, if they work for a hierarchy of PHBs). This is why we'll always be able to hire untrained pimply fifteen year-olds to crank out code.
I completely agree. My impression was that here we had this prodigy guy, PhD at 15 and all. Success in business, as well, creating his company with its well-regarded math tool. Now then: what to do next? Where does a person like that go? Move to the country and take up a hobby? Unlikely. Seems to me that he
just wants his place in history badly.
Christopher Alexander's
The Nature of Order is better in every way.
Inspiring, humble before his subject, full of
actual insights and examples from the real
world, and absolutely beautiful.
Modern Mac has the old ROM stored on disk, Openfirmware, OS X, (S)ATA, CD/DVD-RW, USB, Firewire, PCI, AGP, RJ-45, Ethernet, DVI, PowerPC. (This is not flamebait, but note that the Mac has grown more in the direction of the PC than vice versa)
Don't forget arrow keys on the keyboard. (I happen to have a Mac Classic sitting here on the desk next to me. My 3.5 year old uses it- works great. coolest feature of the Classic- has a ROM boot disk - system 6.0.3, 375K.)
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we played NetTrek. Though I only played it on a mac plus back in the day. color? bah.
Frankly, who cares?
Hey, we care! After all, the blurb did, in fact, say For those of you old-timers who spent days & nights trying to get your code fit into 64Kb. That must not apply to you.
It'd be a really real reality show if their funding was cut halfway there. then what?
Bangalore, we have a problem...
And it's really no different than the advantage of the bow over the sword, it's just easier to gain basic competence with a firearm.
that's the essential point. Individual power is magnified by technology. Modern weapons enable individuals to be dangerous (powerful) like never before. The same goes for computers and software. Is it a good thing?
I don't think quality has gone down. My Volvo is of the hightest quality. This 12" powerbook is easily the most well-built, well-thought-out computer I've ever owned (my first was a Ti-99/4A). I don't think software quality has diminished either, frankly, considering the increase in complexity. Sure my Apple //e booted in half a second, but I couldn't edit video on it. Say all you want about sleazy marketing, but ink-jet printing is - from the perspective of the 1980's and earlier - absolutely amazing. Remember NLQ dot matrix and daisy-wheel printers? They sucked. Really. They sucked. Today you can get a laser printer for cheap. This is all power to the consumer. How about a gun analogy now, instead of a car analogy - anyone with a gun (say, a super-cheap AK) can take out the greatest master swordsman. Sad in a way, but then that's real power to the people.
Hopefully, the engineers won't have to consider every possible case, because if they do, they will never be done. The only way for it to work, IMHO, begins with truly massive data collection over many years. The cars will have to be trained.
I noticed a couple months ago that there are now mac-compatible Happy Hacking keyboards with extra USB plugs, so I got one immediately. No regrets.
I've been looking at those recently. I have no use for a numeric keypad - it just puts the mouse farther away. Does anyone really use the keypad? Do most keyboards have them because they seem more... computerish? (Is everyone else an accountant?)
It was figured out before. There were a lot of wacky interface ideas for the web in the early days. I had this specific idea in 1994 along with a few other people. There was a lot of interest in spiders then - if you think of the history as your small view of the structure of the web, why not have the browser walk forward also, adding those links to your overhead view? This turned out to be rather unmanageable as web pages in 1994 were often just huge lists of links. This page I'm looking at right now has - what? 75 links? Ugg.
The other strange one I remember from those days (less useful, I know) was the DOOM browser - a DOOM engine that would auto-generate an endless map from the hyperlink structure of the web. Special tags would fine tune it. (shades of VRML). Wouldn't you like to fight demons to get to the information you need? That's what it feels sometimes anyway...
He's right, but Bush doesn't need a legacy as much as he needs votes. Big Space detracts from domestic, earth-bound mistakes, and gives a misleading impression of endeavour.
he may know we're going to need to escape one day
Note that the article introduces Marc as an "Internet whizz"
Yeah
First developers (Or many tech related jobs) and now writers.. This is starting to get really scary, especially for people my age; I'm still in high school and it's going to be a few years before I can get a _real_ job, and at this rate it's going to be hard to find any local ones. This really needs to stop, or at least be done in moderation, it's getting out of hand.
Things are cyclic. If you go to college, by the time you graduate things will be well on the upswing again. I didn't believe it when my dad told me, and you may not believe it when I tell you now, but 1) you can't solve tomorrow's problems with today's information, and 2) chances are good that the kind of job you'll hold does not exist now. Things were really dragging in 1993 when I was about to graduate with my computer science degree. I couldn't find a summer job worth jack all throughout college. Then ya know what? The web happened in 1994 just as I graduated. I rode the wave till late 2000 - what a ride. So chill my friend.
And if all else fails, you can always move to Bangalore for a few years, maybe go to grad school there, that'd be fun. You're young.
To support all these things of course, my BIOS would need to bring up a sophisticated operating system... lets call it 'Bindows'. This 'Bindows' would be rather large, so it will need the ability to 'hibernate' quickly and wake up from hibernation quickly.
The Mac Classic had System 6 in ROM (minimal set of control panels tho) which could be booted with a certain key combo.
Hey, until we use cars to create intellectual property, I say we kill the car analogy.
My mathematician wife, by the way, pictures numbers as colors and can somehow do back-of-the-envelope calculations that way. I'm not entirely sure that's a sign of a healthy mind, but it seems to work for her.
I do. Not really numbers, but letters. It has deteriorated over the years for me. Apparently, it is called synesthesia
You're right. It is almost certain that the outside world should be able to see your "shadow puppet" at night.
Well it wouldn't be used for a house here on the US east coast. Not a lot of people live in bare concrete houses - if only because it's too cold.
Pause button? BLASPHEMY! Well, maybe for critical biological needs mid-viewing (stuff that ya take out of the fridge gotta go SOMEWHERE in the end), and even then only if you are watching all three extended editions in one go.
You may call it blasphemy, I call it having kids. It took me about 4 separate viewings to make it through TTT extended edition.
If it can really be that small, it could eventually be integrated with the laptop.
So there's no workaround and no symptoms of it having been used. Ouch. Essentially if you want to be certain that a multi-user system has not been hacked, you need to reinstall the operating system from scratch, formatting all the disks...
My Ultra 10 with Solaris 8 is absolutely secure. I have every confidence it has not and will not be hacked. This is Sun we're talking about. They are the dot in dot com. The network is the computer. As a vote of confidence, I have placed my Ultra 10 in my closet, off.
I think 2000 to XP is a pretty big one. It indicates they ran out of numbers (versioning in long integer) and had to move to letters... Or maybe that they just used a two number versioning system and realized that Windows [19]00 was less than [19]98. Damn 2K Bug.
Huh. I always read XP as a "death" emoticon...
Well, maybe for the few true geniuses out there. But for most hackers it's merely a skill, maybe a craft at most.
Everything a human can do is an art. High art is merely the pinnacle. We all strive toward it to some extent. An "artist" may simply be one who works for that specific reason.
Where my parents live (small village in northern england) there's a bridge on the main street which is only wide enough for one car. So they have lights to control the traffic. What's cool is that at night when there's no-one around, as you drive up to it on red, it detects you coming and switches to green just as you get to it, then you see it switch back the moment you get to the other side.
Cool. Here outside of Philadalphia we have one lane bridges with no traffic lights. I used to cross one in my daily 1-hour commute. This has to be the only place in America where you can have a sizeable commuting population limited to twisty winding roads with one-lane bridges and blind intersections.
Software is also a mental activity, open to all (smart people). The distance between a brilliant idea and its implementation is tiny in the world of software when compared to the physical world. It is not possible for an individual to build a skyscraper or go to the moon, but it is, in fact, possible to do the software equivalents, all alone. All you need is to be smart, have lots of free time, and work hard and you can do what vast engineering teams can (or cannot, if they work for a hierarchy of PHBs). This is why we'll always be able to hire untrained pimply fifteen year-olds to crank out code.
I've never seen a Star Wars movie.
Wow. And I saw the original in the theater in 1977. It's hard to imagine today how amazed people were back then by it.
I completely agree. My impression was that here we had this prodigy guy, PhD at 15 and all. Success in business, as well, creating his company with its well-regarded math tool. Now then: what to do next? Where does a person like that go? Move to the country and take up a hobby? Unlikely. Seems to me that he just wants his place in history badly.
Christopher Alexander's The Nature of Order is better in every way. Inspiring, humble before his subject, full of actual insights and examples from the real world, and absolutely beautiful.
Modern Mac has the old ROM stored on disk, Openfirmware, OS X, (S)ATA, CD/DVD-RW, USB, Firewire, PCI, AGP, RJ-45, Ethernet, DVI, PowerPC. (This is not flamebait, but note that the Mac has grown more in the direction of the PC than vice versa)
Don't forget arrow keys on the keyboard. (I happen to have a Mac Classic sitting here on the desk next to me. My 3.5 year old uses it- works great. coolest feature of the Classic- has a ROM boot disk - system 6.0.3, 375K.)