Nono, no joke.
I wouldn't recommend 386 assembly (too complicated to start with), but she might take a look at DroidBattles.
it's a game dedicated to programming.
You use a simple assembly variant to program a droid's hardware in order to obliterate your opponents in an arena.
It's easy to learn, it comes with tons of documentation and the examples are very clear
If your mum is able to program a droid, i386 assembly shouldn't be too hard to learn for her.
It's fire season again.
ah... someone who thinks only the northern hemisphere is what counts.
I reckon the world is on fire every fscking day of the year !
but no 747 to be seen.
I always assumed that spam was a sort of lesson on its own.
I mean, if you fall for one of those scams once, you need to be very ignorant to fall for it a second time.
door salesmen are sort of spam too, and are people being taught to watch out for them too ?
I don't think it'll be worth the effort to teach the lot not to respond to nigerian scams and such.
I'm trying, without much success, to explain to my users that they shouldn't forward or answer on these messages, and it just doesn't help. I even threatened them with corporal punishment, and yet, they're just not impressed it seems.
in other words, I think it's wasted time and money.
whether these new technologies could change the way a modern computer works.
I mean, if the chips become so much smaller, it's easy to see the capacity of i.e. Ram chips will reach levels unimaginable now.
But how are these bits gonna be addressed ? you need *lots* of pins, and how to connect those pins to the logical layer ?
I guess motherboards, processors and such need to be radically redesigned to be able to use this new technology.
How long would it take before mainstream mobo's use other (like i.e. photons instead of electrons) than conventional techniques ?
a few months ago, I bought a mars candy bar. I ate it half and forgot about the other half.
this morning, I discovered actual life growing on mars; it looks greenish and smells dull
eons ago, I owned a 80286 w/ 640 kb Ram and an EMS expansion board w/ 1 Mb.
if I used norton's SI, the available RAM was about 64 Mb....
couldn't use it of course... A memory test tool would see the 64Mb too, but if it tried to allocate it, very interesting stuff happened ending in a *CRASH*
It seemed that if programmes used not more than the actual 1 Mb EMS, everything was fine, but the memory reported to applications was 64 Mb !
if you have a friend who is lives on the border of the richmond network area, couldn't you get him to point a wireless antenna (I believe there 15 miles and more success stories, search slashdot) to you, so you could use your friends box as a router to the richmond Fido network?
just the thought..
Wouldn't it be a good idea to rewrite the kernel in a different language, say, Ada95?
I believe that these exploits couldn't be in the kernel *if* it was written in Ada95.
This isn't really news. Every collection of interoperating software will suffer from these so-called 'updates','service packs' or whatever.
A lot of software depends on known bugs/'undocumented features' in underlying software. Fix the bugs (features) and the software will cease to run.
Of course we all like to laugh at M$, but it's not better in unixland.
I could be wrong here, but this is solely based on my experience with various platforms. When it's update-time, they all suck and suffer from the same problems.
r.
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To get your attention solely at the work to be done, a few things spring into mind.
first: get rid of distraction. you said the internet was just a click away; so GET RID OF YOUR CONNECTIVITY when you need to get things done. If you use the internet for your work because you need email, restrict your connectivity to port 25.
start your day with some healthy exercising. a sound brain comes with a sound body.
Don't listen to music when at work; it'll only distract you.
Maybe you're suffering a mental disorder (lots of people do, whether they know it or not). Visit your doctor to be sure
less likely solution: Maybe some self-medication could help you too ! a collegue of me had a similar problem and solved it with amphetamin preparates (which is BAD for your health; I wouldn't recommend it to you !). But less hazardous drugs exist too ! just consult your doctor.
The power of the computer is not in the desktop, but in the applications.
Wrong. The power is only seen *if* the one between the keyboard and the chair knows how to use the computer's potential. It has nothing to do w/ the desktop nor the applications, and certainly not the computer. a computer is a dull and dumb thing and the only power needed is AC.
it's like screwdrivers. whether you use a flathead, a philips or a posidrive, it won't matter if the person holding the screwdriver hasn't got a clue what the thing is used for anyway.
how many people have actually full exploited the possibilities of , say a Commodore64 ?
The guy/girl using the computer and its applications can unlock the systems power. not the other way around. a nice desktop doesn't change a (l)user into a poweruser.
'pinfo' does the same, without the KDE bloat, in a terminal
it formats both info and man pages, and makes it browsable in a 'lynx' way.
so 'pinfo gcc' instead of typing 'info:gcc' in Konqueror.
It stands to reason that Intel isn't very fond on shipping their 64 bit crap (Itanium)to PC-users.
DEC Alpha's blueprints are also owned by intel.
this platform exists for more than 12 years now. Why do they pull the plug on this monster, while they promote their own crippled ia64 crap.
it can't be RAM issues, because 64 bit computing is almost venerable.
what's the truth behind this discission ?
I'd say, don't even bother to paint M$ black.
It only makes the anti-M$ lobby look childish, and hey, if M$ makes crappy software, people are bound to find out for themselves, aren't they ?
IMHO that way, M$ will lose market share, and not because of childish 'M$ sucks' kinda articles.
You can't force people to switch between platforms without using Microsoftish strategies.
I recall a/. article from a few (3?) years ago, about a IBM research lab having constructed a BASE-4 circuit.
that way you have 0, 1/3, 2/3 and 1 as states for your gates.
I think the article said IBM wanted to have a first commercial product around 2004.
anyone who knows more about this ?
rkoot
heh, I just tend to forget about them....
Did I have a DVD just now ? can't remember...
I guess within a few thousand years some future archeologist will be very puzzled when diggin' up a DVD graveyard.
BTW weren't there bacteria discovered which ate PVC's ? I think DVD's (and cda/cdrom's too) are made of the same material as common (uhhh old-fashioned) records, which is vinyl.
wouldn't that make DVD's bio degradeble ?
if that's the case, I guess those archeologists won't find anything at all (save the probably very sturdy paint which is used to print a title on the disc...)
just a thought
would it be a big problem to, say, seal the edges of the cd with maybe a glue on silicon base or something ?
if the air can't reach the dye in between, I guess the cd stays readable, no ?
I believe there's a small amount of Radium (also radio active) in a fire alarm.
would be senseless to put a nuclear detector in a device which itself contains radioactive element
wheew-wheew-wheew ! all day long....
If I were a computer with an webcam, I'd keep my cdromdrive locked firmly if someone approached me w/ a Celine Dion in his/her hands.
and if it were Celine Dion who approached me, I would probably shut down
have a nice day
r.
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nuf said
just shoot twice...
r.
for mozilla users, click on the second image.
you'll end up with a rather big and unreadable textfile.
now hit the control-GrePlus a couple (like 5) times...
r.
r.
I wouldn't recommend 386 assembly (too complicated to start with), but she might take a look at DroidBattles.
it's a game dedicated to programming.
You use a simple assembly variant to program a droid's hardware in order to obliterate your opponents in an arena.
It's easy to learn, it comes with tons of documentation and the examples are very clear
If your mum is able to program a droid, i386 assembly shouldn't be too hard to learn for her.
r.
I reckon the world is on fire every fscking day of the year !
but no 747 to be seen.
r.
I mean, if you fall for one of those scams once, you need to be very ignorant to fall for it a second time.
door salesmen are sort of spam too, and are people being taught to watch out for them too ?
I don't think it'll be worth the effort to teach the lot not to respond to nigerian scams and such.
I'm trying, without much success, to explain to my users that they shouldn't forward or answer on these messages, and it just doesn't help. I even threatened them with corporal punishment, and yet, they're just not impressed it seems.
in other words, I think it's wasted time and money.
r.
I mean, if the chips become so much smaller, it's easy to see the capacity of i.e. Ram chips will reach levels unimaginable now.
But how are these bits gonna be addressed ? you need *lots* of pins, and how to connect those pins to the logical layer ?
I guess motherboards, processors and such need to be radically redesigned to be able to use this new technology.
How long would it take before mainstream mobo's use other (like i.e. photons instead of electrons) than conventional techniques ?
just curious
r.
this morning, I discovered actual life growing on mars; it looks greenish and smells dull
r.
My favorite Vaporware vanished in thin air !!
r.
if I used norton's SI, the available RAM was about 64 Mb....
couldn't use it of course...
A memory test tool would see the 64Mb too, but if it tried to allocate it, very interesting stuff happened ending in a *CRASH*
It seemed that if programmes used not more than the actual 1 Mb EMS, everything was fine, but the memory reported to applications was 64 Mb !
r.
r.
just the thought..
r.
I believe that these exploits couldn't be in the kernel *if* it was written in Ada95.
r.
Every collection of interoperating software will suffer from these so-called 'updates','service packs' or whatever.
A lot of software depends on known bugs/'undocumented features' in underlying software. Fix the bugs (features) and the software will cease to run.
Of course we all like to laugh at M$, but it's not better in unixland.
I could be wrong here, but this is solely based on my experience with various platforms. When it's update-time, they all suck and suffer from the same problems.
r.
-- mod me down ! mod me down ! infinite karma !
first: get rid of distraction. you said the internet was just a click away; so GET RID OF YOUR CONNECTIVITY when you need to get things done. If you use the internet for your work because you need email, restrict your connectivity to port 25.
start your day with some healthy exercising. a sound brain comes with a sound body.
Don't listen to music when at work; it'll only distract you.
Maybe you're suffering a mental disorder (lots of people do, whether they know it or not). Visit your doctor to be sure
less likely solution: Maybe some self-medication could help you too ! a collegue of me had a similar problem and solved it with amphetamin preparates (which is BAD for your health; I wouldn't recommend it to you !). But less hazardous drugs exist too ! just consult your doctor.
Troll ? Troll ? Where ? This isn't Tolkien !?!
r.
Wrong. The power is only seen *if* the one between the keyboard and the chair knows how to use the computer's potential. It has nothing to do w/ the desktop nor the applications, and certainly not the computer. a computer is a dull and dumb thing and the only power needed is AC.
it's like screwdrivers. whether you use a flathead, a philips or a posidrive, it won't matter if the person holding the screwdriver hasn't got a clue what the thing is used for anyway.
how many people have actually full exploited the possibilities of , say a Commodore64 ?
The guy/girl using the computer and its applications can unlock the systems power. not the other way around. a nice desktop doesn't change a (l)user into a poweruser.
r.
it formats both info and man pages, and makes it browsable in a 'lynx' way.
so 'pinfo gcc' instead of typing 'info:gcc' in Konqueror.
roger
DEC Alpha's blueprints are also owned by intel. this platform exists for more than 12 years now.
Why do they pull the plug on this monster, while they promote their own crippled ia64 crap.
it can't be RAM issues, because 64 bit computing is almost venerable.
what's the truth behind this discission ?
just a thought
roger
It only makes the anti-M$ lobby look childish, and hey, if M$ makes crappy software, people are bound to find out for themselves, aren't they ?
IMHO that way, M$ will lose market share, and not because of childish 'M$ sucks' kinda articles.
You can't force people to switch between platforms without using Microsoftish strategies.
rkoot
I recall a /. article from a few (3?) years ago, about a IBM research lab having constructed a BASE-4 circuit.
that way you have 0, 1/3, 2/3 and 1 as states for your gates.
I think the article said IBM wanted to have a first commercial product around 2004.
anyone who knows more about this ?
rkoot
Did I have a DVD just now ? can't remember...
I guess within a few thousand years some future archeologist will be very puzzled when diggin' up a DVD graveyard.
BTW weren't there bacteria discovered which ate PVC's ? I think DVD's (and cda/cdrom's too) are made of the same material as common (uhhh old-fashioned) records, which is vinyl.
wouldn't that make DVD's bio degradeble ?
if that's the case, I guess those archeologists won't find anything at all (save the probably very sturdy paint which is used to print a title on the disc...)
just a thought
rkoot
I'm not as think as you drunk I am
if the air can't reach the dye in between, I guess the cd stays readable, no ?
a just a thought.
rkoot
I'm not as think as you drunk I am
would be senseless to put a nuclear detector in a device which itself contains radioactive element
wheew-wheew-wheew ! all day long....
rkoot
I'm not as think as you drunk I am
If I were a computer with an webcam, I'd keep my cdromdrive locked firmly if someone approached me w/ a Celine Dion in his/her hands.
and if it were Celine Dion who approached me, I would probably shut down
have a nice day
r.