I, like many people, started playing Zork at college instead of studying in my CS classes. Later, the Infocom games were lots of fun on my old Atari 800, and even today I still have all of the Infocom games on my PDA, there are a number of PD ZMachine interperters, I use ZipARM on my PocketPC.
One thing I didn't see mentioned was the horribly abortive attempt for Infocom to break out of the game business into the database arena with Cornerstone, which eventually brought the company down. Just think, if they had made a go of it Office and maybe even M$ might be afterthoughts.
I got one after this article showed dup the other day, it showed up today, about 2 days later, and I really like it! I got the Plus, which for my Alienware is a good fit, and it's definately better than the Targus foldable lapdesk I was using before. The Targus was solid plastic, no insulation, and frankly I think this is genius, putting a great insulator like Thinsulate in it. I didn't get the mouse pad, there is enough room for a small mouse on the remaining space even with my 16" laptop, but I hardly ever use one.
The review did seem to be based on his recieving a free one, so take it with a grain of salt, but I have no affiliation, just a happy paying customer.
Marc
I currently am wairing a Casio Atomic HT-G. It's solar and sets itself via WWV every nite around 3am, so I never have to set it. Not sure what's going to happen to it next year when the governement screws with daylights savings time, but it's a REALLY tough watch, waterproof, and doesn't look horrible but it is a bit big and heavy. Not geeky, but definately no stylish.
One of my favorite watches that's actually pretty much unusable is my old TI LCD analog watch. It's a LCD display with analog hands, but it uses batteries at a crazy rate and is bigger than the Casio, ugly as hell, but I bet you can't find one if you tried.
I also have several Seiko and Bulova watches, including an old shake-to-wind auto, which doesn't keep time well at all.
On weekends I wear an old Casio with pulse that is in an epoxy case and is virtually indestructable. It's about 20 years old and I've only replaced the batteries twice. Press the button and it gives you a moving heart rate, and it's actually pretty accurate if you are patient with it to let it stabilize. It's also ugly as hell, and the original band (plastic) broke, so it's got a twistoflex on it.
Reminds me a lot of the touch screens used on the bridge of Star Trek, especially Tne Next Generation. Multiple hand motions controlling a single function.
I was going to suggest ZFS also, but I think it's still in pretty much a beta state, only available through OpenSolaris. It's largely oriented for data reliability and performance and should be available on Linux soon, as it's open source.
Back in the Solaris 5 timeframe there was a PowerPC version available. The idea was that it was going to be available on the IBM/Apple/Motorolla 'Refrence Platform'. Solaris 2.5.1 came out and it was no longer available. This must have been around 1995-1996. Since they already have some base drivers available for PowerPC it should be pretty easy to reactivate that leg of the source tree, from what I know.
I'd definately agree about Star Wreck being awesome!
The first Finnish Star Trek fan movie. Full length, near studio quality. Pirk deserves a studio treatment. It worked for Desperado, which was a remake of Rodriguez's El Mariachi. Maybe he can be the next one.
This reminds me back in the 80's when Tetris came out, it was by Alexey Pazhitnov, a Russian. It spread like wild all over the US, and the rumor was that it affected the GNP of the US the year it came out.
I for one love Bejeweled 2.
Thanks PopCap.
This movie will likely make a lot of money, but they are not going to get my $8.50. If you want to object to $300 million being spent on crappy movies (I think that NO movie should cost over about $25-50 million, look at www.startwreck.com and tell me otherwise).
Actors making more on one movie than you and I can make in a lifetime, athletes that can't read worth more than CEOs of large companies, folks, there is a HUGE imbalance in the economy right now. The only way to stop this nonsense is to support small independent films and boycot the blockbusters!
Really, how many more War of the Worlds and King Kong remakes do we need?
Several of your myths involve large, dangerous explosions. Specificly Eposode 26 with the cement truck explosion seemed to be almost a lesson in terrorism. In fact, a cement truck was blown up in Bagdad on October 25, not too long after this episode aired. Don't you think there are some places that it's better not to go, especially in the unfortunate political climate? Showing how to create a weapon of mass destruction using a truck and dynamite isn't really good science now, is it? I'm sure it was a 'blast' to watch though.
The US Government just changed daylight slavings time again, so it's going to start a month earlier and end a month later, so every computer and watch I have that understands this is going to need a patch or to be replaced. I'm sick of those idiots being 'Masters of Space and Time' (Rucker pun), and agree that world wide we should use GMT and if they need to add a second every now and then fine, but forget about all this geopolitical time zone and Daylight Savings time nonsense.
I have a RJ45 connector that is wired up as a crossover to itself, so it lets you check carrier and you can ping yourself. Not sure what having a device to respond would add to this, but I do remember someone a few years back that had a single chip web server with a very small amount of storage. It was mentioned here on/.
The mighty desktop has been humbled by user demand for the one thing it can't deliver -- mobility.
Sun has been selling SunRay desktops for many years. It does exactly what this writer wants, and is a proven technology. The fact that M$ has nothing like this is obvious.
For those who are uniformed:
http://www.sun.com/desktop/index.jsp?tab=1
They had this 35 years ago (or will have it 55 years from now, depending on your perspective) on the Thunderbirds puppet show. I noticed that this disappeared in the recent (lousy) live action film. This of course begs the question, does art immitate life or vice versa.
I met Steve back in the 80's when he came through Austin, Tx on his first bike. It was amazing to see all the stuff he had on it. Keyboard on the handlebars, ham gear, solar power, multiple computers, etc. I was into BBSing at the time and Steve wrote me up in his book. I contacted him a while back to say hi and seemed to be doing ok. I know for a while he had an arangement with Sun for Nomadic Computing. He had the two bikes (huge and ridiculous), the kayak and I think he may have been working on a mothership, a RV.
The most amazing thing I remember about Steve was a knack he had for taking any phone number and coming up with a text string from the digits, almost instantaneously. It was uncanny.
Marc
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I, like many people, started playing Zork at college instead of studying in my CS classes. Later, the Infocom games were lots of fun on my old Atari 800, and even today I still have all of the Infocom games on my PDA, there are a number of PD ZMachine interperters, I use ZipARM on my PocketPC. One thing I didn't see mentioned was the horribly abortive attempt for Infocom to break out of the game business into the database arena with Cornerstone, which eventually brought the company down. Just think, if they had made a go of it Office and maybe even M$ might be afterthoughts.
Judge Green must be rolling in his grave.
I got one after this article showed dup the other day, it showed up today, about 2 days later, and I really like it! I got the Plus, which for my Alienware is a good fit, and it's definately better than the Targus foldable lapdesk I was using before. The Targus was solid plastic, no insulation, and frankly I think this is genius, putting a great insulator like Thinsulate in it. I didn't get the mouse pad, there is enough room for a small mouse on the remaining space even with my 16" laptop, but I hardly ever use one. The review did seem to be based on his recieving a free one, so take it with a grain of salt, but I have no affiliation, just a happy paying customer. Marc
I currently am wairing a Casio Atomic HT-G. It's solar and sets itself via WWV every nite around 3am, so I never have to set it. Not sure what's going to happen to it next year when the governement screws with daylights savings time, but it's a REALLY tough watch, waterproof, and doesn't look horrible but it is a bit big and heavy. Not geeky, but definately no stylish. One of my favorite watches that's actually pretty much unusable is my old TI LCD analog watch. It's a LCD display with analog hands, but it uses batteries at a crazy rate and is bigger than the Casio, ugly as hell, but I bet you can't find one if you tried. I also have several Seiko and Bulova watches, including an old shake-to-wind auto, which doesn't keep time well at all. On weekends I wear an old Casio with pulse that is in an epoxy case and is virtually indestructable. It's about 20 years old and I've only replaced the batteries twice. Press the button and it gives you a moving heart rate, and it's actually pretty accurate if you are patient with it to let it stabilize. It's also ugly as hell, and the original band (plastic) broke, so it's got a twistoflex on it.
Reminds me a lot of the touch screens used on the bridge of Star Trek, especially Tne Next Generation. Multiple hand motions controlling a single function.
I was going to suggest ZFS also, but I think it's still in pretty much a beta state, only available through OpenSolaris. It's largely oriented for data reliability and performance and should be available on Linux soon, as it's open source.
Jarod Jenson is real, I worked with him at Baylor. Quite a talented person, as his achivements show.
Back in the Solaris 5 timeframe there was a PowerPC version available. The idea was that it was going to be available on the IBM/Apple/Motorolla 'Refrence Platform'. Solaris 2.5.1 came out and it was no longer available. This must have been around 1995-1996. Since they already have some base drivers available for PowerPC it should be pretty easy to reactivate that leg of the source tree, from what I know.
I'd definately agree about Star Wreck being awesome! The first Finnish Star Trek fan movie. Full length, near studio quality. Pirk deserves a studio treatment. It worked for Desperado, which was a remake of Rodriguez's El Mariachi. Maybe he can be the next one.
This reminds me back in the 80's when Tetris came out, it was by Alexey Pazhitnov, a Russian. It spread like wild all over the US, and the rumor was that it affected the GNP of the US the year it came out. I for one love Bejeweled 2. Thanks PopCap.
Hmm, interesting, both of my cameras can do sound capture.
What we need is a camera detector like the Thunderbirds (1960's puppet show) had. Again a case of Sci-Fi leading the way to a future reality.
Sorry I can't make it across the pond to see that. Looks really good. $300 million it's not though. Marc
This movie will likely make a lot of money, but they are not going to get my $8.50. If you want to object to $300 million being spent on crappy movies (I think that NO movie should cost over about $25-50 million, look at www.startwreck.com and tell me otherwise). Actors making more on one movie than you and I can make in a lifetime, athletes that can't read worth more than CEOs of large companies, folks, there is a HUGE imbalance in the economy right now. The only way to stop this nonsense is to support small independent films and boycot the blockbusters! Really, how many more War of the Worlds and King Kong remakes do we need?
The Civil War Rocket episode had extensive censoring for the formula for gun cotton, which was pretty obviously very dangerous stuff.
Several of your myths involve large, dangerous explosions. Specificly Eposode 26 with the cement truck explosion seemed to be almost a lesson in terrorism. In fact, a cement truck was blown up in Bagdad on October 25, not too long after this episode aired. Don't you think there are some places that it's better not to go, especially in the unfortunate political climate? Showing how to create a weapon of mass destruction using a truck and dynamite isn't really good science now, is it? I'm sure it was a 'blast' to watch though.
The US Government just changed daylight slavings time again, so it's going to start a month earlier and end a month later, so every computer and watch I have that understands this is going to need a patch or to be replaced. I'm sick of those idiots being 'Masters of Space and Time' (Rucker pun), and agree that world wide we should use GMT and if they need to add a second every now and then fine, but forget about all this geopolitical time zone and Daylight Savings time nonsense.
Here is the /. article: http://slashdot.org/hardware/99/07/31/1654210.shtm l
and a page about it: http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
I have a RJ45 connector that is wired up as a crossover to itself, so it lets you check carrier and you can ping yourself. Not sure what having a device to respond would add to this, but I do remember someone a few years back that had a single chip web server with a very small amount of storage. It was mentioned here on /.
Terminal Services and Remote Client require a fully fledged Windoze machine to run. SunRays require NO disk, zero admin.
The mighty desktop has been humbled by user demand for the one thing it can't deliver -- mobility. Sun has been selling SunRay desktops for many years. It does exactly what this writer wants, and is a proven technology. The fact that M$ has nothing like this is obvious. For those who are uniformed: http://www.sun.com/desktop/index.jsp?tab=1
They had this 35 years ago (or will have it 55 years from now, depending on your perspective) on the Thunderbirds puppet show. I noticed that this disappeared in the recent (lousy) live action film. This of course begs the question, does art immitate life or vice versa.
I'd go with a PocketPC Mobile phone and PUTTY, a PD SSH implmenenation.
Hoards of unemployed Hollywood dealmakers, actors and actresses wandering the streets aimlessly in their Gucci outfits. Oh, the masses.
I met Steve back in the 80's when he came through Austin, Tx on his first bike. It was amazing to see all the stuff he had on it. Keyboard on the handlebars, ham gear, solar power, multiple computers, etc. I was into BBSing at the time and Steve wrote me up in his book. I contacted him a while back to say hi and seemed to be doing ok. I know for a while he had an arangement with Sun for Nomadic Computing. He had the two bikes (huge and ridiculous), the kayak and I think he may have been working on a mothership, a RV. The most amazing thing I remember about Steve was a knack he had for taking any phone number and coming up with a text string from the digits, almost instantaneously. It was uncanny. Marc