The size of current hard drives at the moment is big enough for me. I don't mind if IBM's technology remains as it is at the moment - literally "pixie dust".
They really should've thought of a better name - if they'd called it "geek dust" I'm sure they would've had lots more sales.;o)
yes it's low - but I was typing quickly to get that elusive first post. As it is my comments still stand and I did look at the pictures that the post linked to before I wrote the next few.
I remember going round the hologram display at Jodrell Bank when I was a kid. In fact probably that school visit was part of the reason behind me being really interested in science. Like you said it was very dark - so you could only see the holograms from one angle and that no other light source would interfere with them. In the gift shop I bought a jar type thing surrounded by hologrammatic wrapping paper - still have it - it looks very cool. Thought it was a bargain at only 99p (but that was years ago).
" It might be time for me to make my epic film starring CowboyNeal, Samzenpus and Hemos in a moving story about Love, Friendship, and Growing Up in the Face of Adversity. I probably should write a script or something before I start filming. Or not. " - I really hope that's a joke - I really do!
" In two years the station has grown to more then 200,000 pounds and has had 112 visitors."
The Visitor's Tour.
This is the big red button marked self-destruct - NO DON'T TOUCH IT - thankyou - and over here is where we plan to have the first McDonalds in space next year. Oh - and that's the waiting room in case any aliens decide to pop in and visit us.
1) Knows not to make smart alec comments like "Whoops" just when you're making that crucial shot to win the game.
2) Doesn't "eat" your money and give you no balls
3) Doesn't take your money and give you all the balls except one.
4) Actually has chalk you don't have to pay for - say on a piece of string.
5) Doesn't charge you ridiculous amounts for a game.
6) Is too smart to be in a pub.
7) Has recently submitted a phD thesis on game theory.
8) Reminds you when you've left out linebreaks posting to slashdot.
All this "laser" business reminds me of an old episode of Quantum Leap.
My definition about a smart pool table:
1) Knows not to make smart alec comments like "Whoops" just when you're making that crucial shot to win the game.
2) Doesn't "eat" your money and give you no balls
3) Doesn't take your money and give you all the balls except one
4) Actually has chalk you don't have to pay for - say on a piece of string
5) Doesn't charge you ridiculous amounts for a game
6) Is too smart to be in a pub
7) Has recently submitted a phD thesis on game theory
"Following the announcement earlier this month, LocustWorld are now selling pre-built hardware MeshAPs for use as instant turn-key nodes in community mesh networks. (pictures here) - Featuring auto-updating and auto-configuration via a centralized management site, these are designed with 'Joe PC' in mind."
I'm afraid Joe PC doesn't understand the words MeshAPs, turn-key, nodes, community mesh networks, auto-updating, auto-configuration and centralized management site.
Are you sure this isn't aimed at the more computer literate user than Joe PC?
Anyway mapping the genes of a baby wouldn't make them perfect. This is just about finding out what someone's genes are - and possibly their susceptibility to a few diseases - that's all so far until more uncoding of the human genome gets done.
The point is that armed with the knowledge of what diseases you are susceptible to you can change your lifestyle to make it unlikely you'll get them, take preventative medication in advance and you're far more likely to get an early diagnosis and effective treatment if you know what you're going to get (or likely to get) in advance.
If it was Microsoft and millions of computers were inherently at risk - would you feel the same way? Sometimes publicly stating a security flaw is the only way to get companies to fix things quickly! It effectively forces their hand into bringing out a fix unless they wish to endure bad PR or have some decent explanation as to why they can't fix it quickly.
A lot of security professionals are ex-hackers. Good security professionals need to learn the ways of the hacker in order to protect their systems and probe them for security reasons. Hacking your own systems to see if they're secure - is not a crime as you have access to them anyway.
Is this all because the gif format is copyrighted and not open source? Sorry for seeming absolutely dense to 98% of the people here but I'm having trouble remembering what the trouble is with gifs.
Or take any notice of a president that got less votes than his rival eh?
You can sling mud and criticise all day - you try actually being in the government and then I think you'll criticise it as an institution a whole lot less. It's better than having a dictator or a monarchy anyway.
Actually they could but under emulation. Anyway for using e-mail and browsers - why do you need to run VBScript or Win32 binaries? And yes - I was well aware that PC executables won't run on an Amiga unless you're emulating a PC. Actually out of all the e-mail clients I've ever used YAM has been the best one - pity there isn't a PC port.
Actually if you'd actually used e-mail clients and browsers on the Amiga (which I doubt you have) I think you'll find they're compatible with pretty much every website and mail server. You can be running an obscure browser ie Opera on the PC and run into more problems. Like Opera the browsers on the Amiga (IBrowse, Voyager, AWeb) allow you to spoof more popular browsers for webpages that can only be viewed by a particular type of browser.
The term security through obscurity is a pretty good maxim to use though. I used to connect to the internet using an Amiga - using yet another mailer as an e-mail client. As a result I was immune to all the PC and Mac viruses. In fact in a few years online - I never came across one Amiga virus. However you're right - this is just a token gesture and accomplishes nothing.
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I'm just waiting for the Romero, Romero, where for art thou Romeo jokes to start appearing.
Was I the only one who thought scelectric when I read selekta?
The size of current hard drives at the moment is big enough for me. I don't mind if IBM's technology remains as it is at the moment - literally "pixie dust".
;o)
They really should've thought of a better name - if they'd called it "geek dust" I'm sure they would've had lots more sales.
I'm still laughing at the fact that a reply to a post called "For the incredibly lazy" was written by americanFatCat.
yes it's low - but I was typing quickly to get that elusive first post. As it is my comments still stand and I did look at the pictures that the post linked to before I wrote the next few.
I remember going round the hologram display at Jodrell Bank when I was a kid. In fact probably that school visit was part of the reason behind me being really interested in science. Like you said it was very dark - so you could only see the holograms from one angle and that no other light source would interfere with them. In the gift shop I bought a jar type thing surrounded by hologrammatic wrapping paper - still have it - it looks very cool. Thought it was a bargain at only 99p (but that was years ago).
and still have money left? Well why not spend it all on the accessories? :o)
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a ROBOTIC skateboard! No actual physical effort involved - just sit on your backside and watch it!
" It might be time for me to make my epic film starring CowboyNeal, Samzenpus and Hemos in a moving story about Love, Friendship, and Growing Up in the Face of Adversity. I probably should write a script or something before I start filming. Or not. " - I really hope that's a joke - I really do!
" In two years the station has grown to more then 200,000 pounds and has had 112 visitors." The Visitor's Tour. This is the big red button marked self-destruct - NO DON'T TOUCH IT - thankyou - and over here is where we plan to have the first McDonalds in space next year. Oh - and that's the waiting room in case any aliens decide to pop in and visit us.
My definition about a smart pool table:
1) Knows not to make smart alec comments like "Whoops" just when you're making that crucial shot to win the game.
2) Doesn't "eat" your money and give you no balls
3) Doesn't take your money and give you all the balls except one.
4) Actually has chalk you don't have to pay for - say on a piece of string.
5) Doesn't charge you ridiculous amounts for a game.
6) Is too smart to be in a pub.
7) Has recently submitted a phD thesis on game theory.
8) Reminds you when you've left out linebreaks posting to slashdot.
All this "laser" business reminds me of an old episode of Quantum Leap.
My definition about a smart pool table: 1) Knows not to make smart alec comments like "Whoops" just when you're making that crucial shot to win the game. 2) Doesn't "eat" your money and give you no balls 3) Doesn't take your money and give you all the balls except one 4) Actually has chalk you don't have to pay for - say on a piece of string 5) Doesn't charge you ridiculous amounts for a game 6) Is too smart to be in a pub 7) Has recently submitted a phD thesis on game theory
"Following the announcement earlier this month, LocustWorld are now selling pre-built hardware MeshAPs for use as instant turn-key nodes in community mesh networks. (pictures here) - Featuring auto-updating and auto-configuration via a centralized management site, these are designed with 'Joe PC' in mind." I'm afraid Joe PC doesn't understand the words MeshAPs, turn-key, nodes, community mesh networks, auto-updating, auto-configuration and centralized management site. Are you sure this isn't aimed at the more computer literate user than Joe PC?
Hiding behind anonymous coward will not protect you. I will find out who you are.
Have you changed your mind already then? Or is it someone else using their newly acquired mod points to mod down my last five posts?
Anyway mapping the genes of a baby wouldn't make them perfect. This is just about finding out what someone's genes are - and possibly their susceptibility to a few diseases - that's all so far until more uncoding of the human genome gets done.
The point is that armed with the knowledge of what diseases you are susceptible to you can change your lifestyle to make it unlikely you'll get them, take preventative medication in advance and you're far more likely to get an early diagnosis and effective treatment if you know what you're going to get (or likely to get) in advance.
If it was Microsoft and millions of computers were inherently at risk - would you feel the same way? Sometimes publicly stating a security flaw is the only way to get companies to fix things quickly! It effectively forces their hand into bringing out a fix unless they wish to endure bad PR or have some decent explanation as to why they can't fix it quickly.
A lot of security professionals are ex-hackers. Good security professionals need to learn the ways of the hacker in order to protect their systems and probe them for security reasons. Hacking your own systems to see if they're secure - is not a crime as you have access to them anyway.
Is this all because the gif format is copyrighted and not open source? Sorry for seeming absolutely dense to 98% of the people here but I'm having trouble remembering what the trouble is with gifs.
Well at least you didn't make as a joke to a friend of yours who works in a cinema after the last Bond film had just finished:
The name's Brace, John Brace. (which if anyone wants to know is my real name)
Or take any notice of a president that got less votes than his rival eh?
You can sling mud and criticise all day - you try actually being in the government and then I think you'll criticise it as an institution a whole lot less. It's better than having a dictator or a monarchy anyway.
Actually they could but under emulation. Anyway for using e-mail and browsers - why do you need to run VBScript or Win32 binaries? And yes - I was well aware that PC executables won't run on an Amiga unless you're emulating a PC. Actually out of all the e-mail clients I've ever used YAM has been the best one - pity there isn't a PC port.
Actually if you'd actually used e-mail clients and browsers on the Amiga (which I doubt you have) I think you'll find they're compatible with pretty much every website and mail server. You can be running an obscure browser ie Opera on the PC and run into more problems. Like Opera the browsers on the Amiga (IBrowse, Voyager, AWeb) allow you to spoof more popular browsers for webpages that can only be viewed by a particular type of browser.
And do you have any *constructive* suggestions for making .gov websites more secure?
The term security through obscurity is a pretty good maxim to use though. I used to connect to the internet using an Amiga - using yet another mailer as an e-mail client. As a result I was immune to all the PC and Mac viruses. In fact in a few years online - I never came across one Amiga virus. However you're right - this is just a token gesture and accomplishes nothing.