As I'm reading this thread, CNN is airing a story about a woman who was a court reporter at Nuremberg. Though now in her 70's, she continues to tour schools with a lecture and slide show about Nazi atrocities, citing as her reason the schoolkid who, upon seeing a slide of Hitler, asked "who's that?".
Some of the first computers were built expressly to be used to calculate artillery ballistics tables to aid in aiming the really big guns. That's part of how the Navy (think Grace Hopper) got involved in computer development.
As noted by others Enigma was a machine, but it was "cracked" when the Allies captured one and also got their hands on a book from a German sub that listed which wheel settings to use on which day. One of the biggest secrets of WWII was keeping the Germans from finding out that they (the Allies)had the machine and the book, so that they wouldn't change anything. Churchill let Coventry suffer from a German air raid without beefing up their defenses to avoid revealing to the Germans that they could read Enigma encoded transmissions. In other words, to achieve the greater objective of winning the war and doing it sooner, he had to sacrifice a lot of civilians. IIRC, he had one or more relatives living there at the time.
In the late 60's/early 70's when ABC "appropriated" the "look and feel" of the ending of 2001 for their promos it would have been called something else (no humor involved, so not satire)but since so few of the general population had seen 2001 it went mostly unnoticed by anybody with access to a public forum.
He's well over 50. Saw him on C-SPAN several months ago, very surprised to find a Charles Kuralt-ish figure where I was expecting someone younger, skinnier, and a cross between Steve Thomas (of PBS series "This Old House") and one of those guys from Internet Cafe or the old MSNBC "The Site" (which died about the same time as Lady Diana). I like him a lot better on TV than on the 'net (kinda like the reverse of the way I feel about Cringely).
Do you suppose that the program would crash if you tried to run it in Kansas?
But seriously, does this thing, when evolving, write new human readable code or new binary code? The idea of software with no source code known to or readable by anybody is more than a little bit troubling.
I usually don't need any help making a fool of myself but apparently someone at CNBC has decided to help anyway. After carefully not mentioning the 4 penguins on the quilt they waited until after I posted to explain that, after not being able to find any footage of lemmings, they went with penguin footage a year or so ago and created an event called "a penguin" to denote 4 or more analysts stampeding in the same direction-- for example, now that Dell announced better than expected earnings, several are upgrading their recommendations of Dell. Sort of like waiting 'till this week to say "You should have gotten into the RH IPO".
By the time I got to the end of that post I forgot that I was going to mention that last year a few days before or after Xmas they (CNBC) had a penguin crossing sign on their set. I e-mailed them to ask if it had anything to do with you-know-what but never got a reply. Just a few minutes ago (7:08 am EDT, 08/18/99) they were showing off a quilt that some anonymous person had sent them. On the quilt were 16 (4x4) squares with various illustrations having to do with various CNBC features. As they pointed to and explained the signifigance of each they seemed to be very carefully avoiding any mention of the 4 corner squares, each of which was a penguin! Curiouser and curiouser. Wonder what would happen if they suddenly received a torrent of e-mail asking "Why are you guys avoiding talking about Red Hat?" Especially if some other media outlets were alerted to it?
I didn't say a thing about MS but they sent me this e-mail-- We have over ten million dollars to invest in the community and do not own any of the Red Hat IPO or Red Hat in the open market.
Obviously we did not personally design the site nor discover that our ISP was using an NT server. However, we are taking steps to re-do the web page with a Linux-based program and to have it run from a Linux server. Our apologies.
Wm. Jay Roseman for The Linux Fund
What I was questioning was whether a 'net and software savvy company would want the hassle of being considered clueless and newbie by many because of an AOL e-mail address. What I'm guessing now is that these guys didn't even know that there was a Linux bandwagon to jump on until after RedHat IPO'ed. Probably thought RH had something to do with millenary. Are we really supposed to believe that someone with 10 million to play with couldn't have gotten a piece of the IPO at $50 or less and flipped it somewhere between $80 and $90?
Yesterday (Tuesday, August 17) afternoon or evening sometime I got a quick glimpse of CNBC between various and sundry household emergencies. They were doing something I'd never seen them do before. They had 5 or 6 or so North Carolina based businesses on screen along with their closing stock prices. Guess which company was conspicuous by its absence?
from that page "Oddly, it is not mentioned that it is not necessarily the people who did the development work that gain financially." No, the ones who gain (or lose)financially are the ones who put their money at risk. If the people who did the development work wanted money for their efforts they should have tailored their actions accordingly right from the start.
LinuxFund@AOL.com--red flag or meaningless? Anyone know how long these guys have been in business and how much, if anything, they made off of RedHat's IPO?
I don't think it's recent, they've always considered things with lots of parts plural, for example on their news you might hear "Her Majesty's government have declined to comment", or "Rolls-Royce have just announced a new model of automobile" whereas in the U.S. it would be "The government has declined to comment", or "Ford has just announced a new model of automobile".
"...teachers and administrators -- they're the ones profiting from your hellish misery. " (I have my own theory about into whose pocket my eighth grade ice cream money went, but by and large,) I don't think being a teacher is the first step on the road to being a billionaire.
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I'd be afraid to talk to you without one:)
Seems to me that it's usually answers that are informative, not questions. (I said usually, not always).
Lots of MS users feel penetrated.
Yeah, like they'd actually admit it.
Did getting moderator status start including a free supply of drugs about a month ago?
Teach the children well.
But seriously, if he had lived and continued his work he'd probably be using whatever the NSA gets when they buy one and take their change in Crays.
So how long 'till we get to see BWP on MST3K?
In the late 60's/early 70's when ABC "appropriated" the "look and feel" of the ending of 2001 for their promos it would have been called something else (no humor involved, so not satire)but since so few of the general population had seen 2001 it went mostly unnoticed by anybody with access to a public forum.
He's well over 50. Saw him on C-SPAN several months ago, very surprised to find a Charles Kuralt-ish figure where I was expecting someone younger, skinnier, and a cross between Steve Thomas (of PBS series "This Old House") and one of those guys from Internet Cafe or the old MSNBC "The Site" (which died about the same time as Lady Diana). I like him a lot better on TV than on the 'net (kinda like the reverse of the way I feel about Cringely).
Boy, did those guys get screwed!
Which causes greater motion sickness--hand-held cameras or Katz?
But seriously, does this thing, when evolving, write new human readable code or new binary code? The idea of software with no source code known to or readable by anybody is more than a little bit troubling.
I usually don't need any help making a fool of myself but apparently someone at CNBC has decided to help anyway. After carefully not mentioning the 4 penguins on the quilt they waited until after I posted to explain that, after not being able to find any footage of lemmings, they went with penguin footage a year or so ago and created an event called "a penguin" to denote 4 or more analysts stampeding in the same direction-- for example, now that Dell announced better than expected earnings, several are upgrading their recommendations of Dell. Sort of like waiting 'till this week to say "You should have gotten into the RH IPO".
Last April 1 Cringely had some interesting remarks about this thing's future.
By the time I got to the end of that post I forgot that I was going to mention that last year a few days before or after Xmas they (CNBC) had a penguin crossing sign on their set. I e-mailed them to ask if it had anything to do with you-know-what but never got a reply.
Just a few minutes ago (7:08 am EDT, 08/18/99) they were showing off a quilt that some anonymous person had sent them. On the quilt were 16 (4x4) squares with various illustrations having to do with various CNBC features. As they pointed to and explained the signifigance of each they seemed to be very carefully avoiding any mention of the 4 corner squares, each of which was a penguin! Curiouser and curiouser.
Wonder what would happen if they suddenly received a torrent of e-mail asking "Why are you guys avoiding talking about Red Hat?" Especially if some other media outlets were alerted to it?
I didn't say a thing about MS but they sent me this e-mail--
We have over ten million dollars to invest in the community and do not own
any of the Red Hat IPO or Red Hat in the open market.
Obviously we did not personally design the site nor discover that our ISP was
using an NT server. However, we are taking steps to re-do the web page with a
Linux-based program and to have it run from a Linux server. Our apologies.
Wm. Jay Roseman for
The Linux Fund
What I was questioning was whether a 'net and software savvy company would want the hassle of being considered clueless and newbie by many because of an AOL e-mail address.
What I'm guessing now is that these guys didn't even know that there was a Linux bandwagon to jump on until after RedHat IPO'ed. Probably thought RH had something to do with millenary. Are we really supposed to believe that someone with 10 million to play with couldn't have gotten a piece of the IPO at $50 or less and flipped it somewhere between $80 and $90?
Yesterday (Tuesday, August 17) afternoon or evening sometime I got a quick glimpse of CNBC between various and sundry household emergencies. They were doing something I'd never seen them do before. They had 5 or 6 or so North Carolina based businesses on screen along with their closing stock prices. Guess which company was conspicuous by its absence?
from that page
"Oddly, it is not mentioned that it is not necessarily the people who did the development work that gain financially."
No, the ones who gain (or lose)financially are the ones who put their money at risk. If the people who did the development work wanted money for their efforts they should have tailored their actions accordingly right from the start.
LinuxFund@AOL.com--red flag or meaningless?
Anyone know how long these guys have been in business and how much, if anything, they made off of RedHat's IPO?
I don't think it's recent, they've always considered things with lots of parts plural, for example on their news you might hear "Her Majesty's government have declined to comment", or "Rolls-Royce have just announced a new model of automobile" whereas in the U.S. it would be "The government has declined to comment", or "Ford has just announced a new model of automobile".
"...teachers and administrators -- they're the ones profiting from your hellish misery. "
(I have my own theory about into whose pocket my eighth grade ice cream money went, but by and large,) I don't think being a teacher is the first step on the road to being a billionaire.
I forget, where did BellCore fit into all of that?