There's a whole lot of computer stuff in the current SA, but it came out a week ago. Did no one post it 'cause everyone assumed that someone else had, or are submissions really that backed-up. SA had something about chips that could rewire themselves on the fly about a year ago as well.
Under the circumstances (unless Rob started this shortly after his birth) I'd say it's safe to assume that the author was deliberately speaking in the vernacular.
Disregarding for the moment that Jerry Mander sounds like a 'nom de plume', is that the same guy who said that just the scanning of the raster onto the screen was, in and of itself, hypnotic, and for that reason alone it should be outlawed? (wonder what he'd have to say about computer monitors) An interesting perspective on the effects of television is to be found in Arthur C. Clarke's short story "I Remember Babylon". It's well worth reading for anyone who watches television or lives on the same planet as those who do. In his usual badly in need of an editor and proofreader way Katz has a few good points but I'd be curious to know if he tried to publish in George and got rejected.
When CDC tossed BO2K CDs into the crowd... "ISS immediately passed along copies to watchdog groups such as the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) and ICSA as well as Microsoft." Shouldn't MS have had to pay several hundred dollars for a binary only copy that came with a "no looking at or reverse engineering and if it screws up your system we ain't responsible, and by breaking open the shrink wrap you agree to all this" license agreement?
In a previous post I said "in a post moderated down for other reasons bugg asked "Anyone know about the Intel Etherexpress 10mbit cards? I guess this is off topic, but i just got some and i wanna know if any of the latest kernels include it. -bugg" " As I said, the original post was moderated down for reasons unconnected to the question about NIC cards, but I felt that in a discussion of a new kernal a question about what hardware it supports was perfectly valid, so I reposted it under my name (minus the first post garbage that got it knocked down in the first place) in order to "promote" it so that someone who knew the answer might see it. As someone else observed, this thread seems to have attracted a record number of "off-topic" (to put it politely) posts, most of which had no content worth sifting out. Why someone felt it worthwhile to "burn-up" 20% of their moderation points to knock it back down when there were so many other more worthy targets I'm sure I don't know.
By any chance does anyone out there know where I could get one of those proprietary "Turbo Cache Modules" for the Zeos "Gosling" 486 motherboard or where I could get a pin-out or specs or schematic for said module? And as long as I'm asking for miracles, a bios update that accomodates hard drives larger than 504/528/540 (depending on how you do the math) MB would be like a gift from above.
Won't apologize for shouting, it's appropriate in this instance. If you plan to open up your TV set to add inputs and outputs that the manufacturer didn't include, be aware that many, many sets ARE NOT ISOLATED FROM THE POWER LINE! and even if you don't kill yourself you'll probably fry something expensive (in/on your computer), maybe start a fire, unfun stuff like that. Get an old VCR, input to its aux inputs, use it to output channel 2 or 3 or 4 to the RF input of the set.
Some people seem to have a problem doing business with Amway. They should probably know that that's who's behind countdown. It's not just going to be shopping site, it's going to be a portal (that won't let your kids get to any porno sites, etc.) It's probably going to be very successful.
That's Hall Effect. Guy named Hall discovered/invented it. The HAL effect is when your computer resolves programming conflicts by terminating the users.
The thing that's wrong with voting is that you can't vote "no". Sure you can vote Y/N on referenda but not on candidates for office. So you have no meaningful way to use your vote to say "I don't want any of these bozos in office". I propose that we be able to vote Y/N on each and all candidates, so that Candidate A only has as many Yes votes as are left after all the No votes against them are subtracted from the original total of Yes votes. With 175 people having voted, 75 No votes would reduce 100 Yes votes to 25 for one candidate, but the other candidate, having gotten only 75 Yes votes, winds up with a negative 25 Yes votes, and those voters who despised both candidates got to vote against both of them. What, you ask, if all of the candidates wound up with more people voting against them than for them and nobody won? Then you hold another election in which none of those candidates can run and see if better candidates who didn't run to begin with because they wouldn't sell their souls for campaign financing would finally step forward.
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There's a whole lot of computer stuff in the current SA, but it came out a week ago. Did no one post it 'cause everyone assumed that someone else had, or are submissions really that backed-up.
SA had something about chips that could rewire themselves on the fly about a year ago as well.
Under the circumstances (unless Rob started this shortly after his birth) I'd say it's safe to assume that the author was deliberately speaking in the vernacular.
Is someone who wants the law to blame the victim of the criminal instead of the criminal a hacker or a cracker?
Who needs mirrors?
Which DC characters didn't survive into the sixties?
"Billy will find a way to pay people to take Windows, and still make money. "
The scary part is that this is probably true.
Disregarding for the moment that Jerry Mander sounds like a 'nom de plume', is that the same guy who said that just the scanning of the raster onto the screen was, in and of itself, hypnotic, and for that reason alone it should be outlawed? (wonder what he'd have to say about computer monitors)
An interesting perspective on the effects of television is to be found in Arthur C. Clarke's short story "I Remember Babylon". It's well worth reading for anyone who watches television or lives on the same planet as those who do.
In his usual badly in need of an editor and proofreader way Katz has a few good points but I'd be curious to know if he tried to publish in George and got rejected.
How does a post get moderated "up" as flamebait?
Somebody give this the moderation up that it deserves.
When CDC tossed BO2K CDs into the crowd...
"ISS immediately passed along copies to watchdog groups such as the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) and ICSA as well as Microsoft."
Shouldn't MS have had to pay several hundred dollars for a binary only copy that came with a "no looking at or reverse engineering and if it screws up your system we ain't responsible, and by breaking open the shrink wrap you agree to all this" license agreement?
Yes, it does.
Yes, the rest of us also wish you had had something to say.
I believe you have just illustrated admirably the meaning of "questioned".
(sig is probably satiric swipe at someone else's "Unquestioned Lord and Master..." sig.
In a previous post I said
"in a post moderated down for other reasons bugg asked "Anyone know about the Intel Etherexpress 10mbit cards? I guess this is off topic, but i just got some and i wanna know if any of the latest kernels include it.
-bugg" "
As I said, the original post was moderated down for reasons unconnected to the question about NIC cards, but I felt that in a discussion of a new kernal a question about what hardware it supports was perfectly valid, so I reposted it under my name (minus the first post garbage that got it knocked down in the first place) in order to "promote" it so that someone who knew the answer might see it. As someone else observed, this thread seems to have attracted a record number of "off-topic" (to put it politely) posts, most of which had no content worth sifting out. Why someone felt it worthwhile to "burn-up" 20% of their moderation points to knock it back down when there were so many other more worthy targets I'm sure I don't know.
By any chance does anyone out there know where I could get one of those proprietary "Turbo Cache Modules" for the Zeos "Gosling" 486 motherboard or where I could get a pin-out or specs or schematic for said module? And as long as I'm asking for miracles, a bios update that accomodates hard drives larger than 504/528/540 (depending on how you do the math) MB would be like a gift from above.
Shouldn't that have been "News for Turds. Stuff that splatters." ?
And can someone supply a link to the site of which Slashdot is a parody?
Yeah, he promised not to sleep with them (or their daughters).
Kid was probably headed back home to work on his pod racer.
So with 2 of 'em, MS can "bleep" you over coming and going.
Won't apologize for shouting, it's appropriate in this instance.
If you plan to open up your TV set to add inputs and outputs that the manufacturer didn't include, be aware that many, many sets ARE NOT ISOLATED FROM THE POWER LINE! and even if you don't kill yourself you'll probably fry something expensive (in/on your computer), maybe start a fire, unfun stuff like that. Get an old VCR, input to its aux inputs, use it to output channel 2 or 3 or 4 to the RF input of the set.
Some people seem to have a problem doing business with Amway. They should probably know that that's who's behind countdown. It's not just going to be shopping site, it's going to be a portal (that won't let your kids get to any porno sites, etc.) It's probably going to be very successful.
That's Hall Effect. Guy named Hall discovered/invented it. The HAL effect is when your computer resolves programming conflicts by terminating the users.
But does anybody remember "Total War"?
The thing that's wrong with voting is that you can't vote "no".
Sure you can vote Y/N on referenda but not on candidates for office. So you have no meaningful way to use your vote to say "I don't want any of these bozos in office".
I propose that we be able to vote Y/N on each and all candidates, so that Candidate A only has as many Yes votes as are left after all the No votes against them are subtracted from the original total of Yes votes. With 175 people having voted, 75 No votes would reduce 100 Yes votes to 25 for one candidate, but the other candidate, having gotten only 75 Yes votes, winds up with a negative 25 Yes votes, and those voters who despised both candidates got to vote against both of them.
What, you ask, if all of the candidates wound up with more people voting against them than for them and nobody won? Then you hold another election in which none of those candidates can run and see if better candidates who didn't run to begin with because they wouldn't sell their souls for campaign financing would finally step forward.