Another nomination I second. If your only exposure to Cringely has been on television (where he comes off as badly as Katz does in print) then by all means go to his page at pbs and read a few of his previous columns (he posts a new one every Thursday).
On second thought Cringely in print is probably too intelligent and mature to fit in around here.
About a year ago Katz was on C-SPAN but made no mention of Slashdot. Neither did Slashdot make any mention of his appearance on C-SPAN. I found those ommissions very puzzling. If it weren't for the promotion of his "mountain" book in both venues I might well have been left wondering if there were two people named Jon Katz pontificating in public. For those who missed him on C-SPAN, he's sort of a reverse Cringely. Cringely is an irritating jerk on television but quite personable, interesting, and insightful in print. With Katz it's the other way around.
I tried the site's search engine to see how they handle the DeForest vs. Armstrong thing. No hits for either one, not even for the other Armstrongs (All-American Boy Jack, and Neal or Neil, of first on moon fame), no hits for vacuum tube, no hits for vacuum, no hits for radio. Reckon it's busted?
I watch X-Files intermittently, but during the first or second year there was an episode with the LGs where one of them made a remark about laughing at the scientific inaccuracies on (the short-lived NBC series) Earth II. It seems to me that there were four of them on that episode. Anybody remember it better than I do?
Being a DOS wizard doesn't guarantee even being able to find the power button on a $50K UNIX box but I'd be hesitant to trust one to someone who couldn't make a DOS boot floppy and start an x86 machine with it.
If it has to be explicitly granted by government, it's not a right, it's a privilege. A right is something you have whether there's a government or not. Of course, having a right and being able to exercise that right without a government around to help you defend that right aren't necessarily the same. Copyright is government's way of helping you protect your ownership of what you create. Without it there would be very few movies around to copy, legally or otherwise.
The laughing Jesus twin is not from the Dead Sea scrolls but from the Gnostic Gospels discovered at Nag Hammadi in December of 1945. For more see "The Gnostic Gospels" by Elaine Pagels, 1979, Random House. Interesting book, seems that there was a whole 'nother flavor of Christianity in the first couple of centuries A.D. that the church which became the Roman Catholic church felt very threatened by and did their best to supress. BTW, did Schroedinger's Cat evolve or was it created? For an explanation of Schroedinger's Cat as well as material on quantum theory and evolution see the book "Other Worlds" by Paul Davies (orig. pub. circa 1980 by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. and in 1982 by Simon and Schuster as a paperback under the Touchstone imprint).
which could lead to all sorts of new and interesting moderation categories and a lot more bandwidth consumption due to the heavy increase of surfing at -1.
"...only the movie studios (or perhaps the DVD-CCA) can make DVD players."
Isn't that kind of like saying that not only can I not make a reverse pressing of a phonograph record and press more records (understandable, they want to recoup their investment in studio time, promotion costs, etc.) but that I can't even make my own phonograph on which to play phonograph records which I purchased legally?
"...throw away the Win 98 and MS Works software that came with it..." Sell it to someone who would otherwise have purchased it new, or donate to a charity that would be using it anyway and take a tax deduction. That way, you benefit, the other party benefits, and MS loses a sale to someone that was going to be a user either way. Think of it as recycling.
The 8008 was, IIRC, the 8 bit version of the 4 bit 4004, which was the one they developed for the Busicom calculator instead of using an expensive handfull of logic chips.
Before putting that old drive into service after it has lain dormant, set it on top of an always on monitor and let it cook for a day or so, then place it on a flat surface and play spin the bottle. This will cause the platters to spin inside the housing. This will unstick the heads if the thermally caused expansion of the various metals involved hasn't already done the job. Then hook it up to a PC and run it for several hours with something like the seek test in PC Technician. Then copy off anything you need to save, low level format, media test to make sure any bad sectors are detected and marked, and see if you can get it to partition, high level format, boot and run.
How do you know that she's white? Both she and Croft strike me as being "hyper-racial" or "non-=racial", sort of not quite white, but not really mixed race, either, or perhaps some of every race mixed with a lot of "raceless". I'm a little curious as to why they think it matters what her height is if she's only going to be a talking head. Perhaps they're planning a full-length version. When you click on the "who is she and what makes her tick" link, the page it takes you to reads a lot like a Playmate Profile.
"They are the analog of the airport Sky Cap." I'm not sure that analog is quite the appropriate word here but at any rate it's more the other way around as they were around long before the airport guys. I, too, immediately thought of luggage.
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Who is this Q*bert guy and why am I seconding his nomination for Mayor?
Q*bert (whoever he is)for Mayor!
On second thought Cringely in print is probably too intelligent and mature to fit in around here.
Q*bert (whoever that is) for Mayor!
I hereby second the nomination of Q*bert for Mayor of /. (trumpets optional).
About a year ago Katz was on C-SPAN but made no mention of Slashdot. Neither did Slashdot make any mention of his appearance on C-SPAN. I found those ommissions very puzzling. If it weren't for the promotion of his "mountain" book in both venues I might well have been left wondering if there were two people named Jon Katz pontificating in public. For those who missed him on C-SPAN, he's sort of a reverse Cringely. Cringely is an irritating jerk on television but quite personable, interesting, and insightful in print. With Katz it's the other way around.
I tried the site's search engine to see how they handle the DeForest vs. Armstrong thing. No hits for either one, not even for the other Armstrongs (All-American Boy Jack, and Neal or Neil, of first on moon fame), no hits for vacuum tube, no hits for vacuum, no hits for radio. Reckon it's busted?
Backhoe Operator from Hell?
Cables cut by careless digging probably do account for more utility outages than anything else.
I watch X-Files intermittently, but during the first or second year there was an episode with the LGs where one of them made a remark about laughing at the scientific inaccuracies on (the short-lived NBC series) Earth II. It seems to me that there were four of them on that episode. Anybody remember it better than I do?
Being a DOS wizard doesn't guarantee even being able to find the power button on a $50K UNIX box but I'd be hesitant to trust one to someone who couldn't make a DOS boot floppy and start an x86 machine with it.
If it has to be explicitly granted by government, it's not a right, it's a privilege. A right is something you have whether there's a government or not. Of course, having a right and being able to exercise that right without a government around to help you defend that right aren't necessarily the same.
Copyright is government's way of helping you protect your ownership of what you create. Without it there would be very few movies around to copy, legally or otherwise.
The laughing Jesus twin is not from the Dead Sea scrolls but from the Gnostic Gospels discovered at Nag Hammadi in December of 1945. For more see "The Gnostic Gospels" by Elaine Pagels, 1979, Random House. Interesting book, seems that there was a whole 'nother flavor of Christianity in the first couple of centuries A.D. that the church which became the Roman Catholic church felt very threatened by and did their best to supress.
BTW, did Schroedinger's Cat evolve or was it created?
For an explanation of Schroedinger's Cat as well as material on quantum theory and evolution see the book "Other Worlds" by Paul Davies (orig. pub. circa 1980 by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. and in 1982 by Simon and Schuster as a paperback under the Touchstone imprint).
which could lead to all sorts of new and interesting moderation categories and a lot more bandwidth consumption due to the heavy increase of surfing at -1.
"...only the movie studios (or perhaps the DVD-CCA) can make DVD players."
Isn't that kind of like saying that not only can I not make a reverse pressing of a phonograph record and press more records (understandable, they want to recoup their investment in studio time, promotion costs, etc.) but that I can't even make my own phonograph on which to play phonograph records which I purchased legally?
"...throw away the Win 98 and MS Works software that came with it..."
Sell it to someone who would otherwise have purchased it new, or donate to a charity that would be using it anyway and take a tax deduction. That way, you benefit, the other party benefits, and MS loses a sale to someone that was going to be a user either way. Think of it as recycling.
The 8008 was, IIRC, the 8 bit version of the 4 bit 4004, which was the one they developed for the Busicom calculator instead of using an expensive handfull of logic chips.
Those are "cue" tones, not "queue" tones.
"In my school, being smart is exactly like being radioactive."
Radioactivity has a tendancy to be contagious, being smart unfortunately doesn't.
Before putting that old drive into service after it has lain dormant, set it on top of an always on monitor and let it cook for a day or so, then place it on a flat surface and play spin the bottle. This will cause the platters to spin inside the housing. This will unstick the heads if the thermally caused expansion of the various metals involved hasn't already done the job. Then hook it up to a PC and run it for several hours with something like the seek test in PC Technician. Then copy off anything you need to save, low level format, media test to make sure any bad sectors are detected and marked, and see if you can get it to partition, high level format, boot and run.
So how soon 'til TV shows start avoiding lawsuits by having characters say they logged on to 555.555.555.555 ?
I'm a little curious as to why they think it matters what her height is if she's only going to be a talking head. Perhaps they're planning a full-length version. When you click on the "who is she and what makes her tick" link, the page it takes you to reads a lot like a Playmate Profile.
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Ta For Now?
The Financial News?
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Time for a new moderation category "trolling for dollars -3 points"?
"bad spelling and grammar gets on my nerves."
Then why didn't you get on him for saying "different than" instead of "different from"?
Only if you're unconscious or get to drive (or both :-) )
"They are the analog of the airport Sky Cap."
I'm not sure that analog is quite the appropriate word here but at any rate it's more the other way around as they were around long before the airport guys.
I, too, immediately thought of luggage.