I haven't been to the actual museum, so this is simply an observation about the website.
The grouping in the article is all wrong. It clumps pictures and articles together by manufacturer. This is great for something like a research document, but for a museum it is terrible. By the time the reader gets acquainted with the devices made by Altair, he gets thrown back in time to get acquainted with the Osborne, and so on.
A better system would be to simply line up the pictures and articles in a timeline where each device can be compared to each other device in a logical manner. The reader can get a feel for how computers evolved from large breadboards to the tiny microchips of today.
You stand in front of a door. You take a step through the door. Now you are on the other side of the door.
Did you kill the "you" who stood on the first side of the door only to recreate the present "you" on the second side?
If all the particles in your body tunneled simultaneously to Hawaii, would you say that the original you who sits glumly in your chair staring at the monitor now was killed in order to create the new happy Hawaiian you?
The first scenario above is discontinuity in time. You 'kill' the instantaneous representation of yourself to walk through the door. In fact, every instantaneous representation of you is destroyed or lost to the time dimension. The second scenario is discontinuity in space. In one instant you are at your desk, the next you are in Hawaii. Every bit of you is the same, just in a different place.
Would you say either of those was 'killing' the original?
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I downloaded the Debian 2.2 stable ISO a couple days ago and am looking forward to my second foray into Linux. The first was a short-lived adventure with SuSE which was not unpleasant, but KDE's state at the time left much to be desired.
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How would you know the difference? If there was some mishap and your first "you" didn't get destroyed, the first "you" would think nothing happened while the second "you" would realize that he was materialized in the destination chamber. Which one is the correct "you"?
What I'd be more worried about is being transported slowly. All those atoms being ripped from the body has got to be painful.
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If your trailer park was named "Camelot", would that mean King Arthur once stayed there?
Well, there was an Arthur and he walked around in a robe all the time.
What do you care how big the bloat in the BIOS is? It doesn't affect performance as much as software bloat.
While outdated technology is something that sucks, imagine having TCP/IP protocols burned into the ROM. That would be useful for everyone.
For a general purpose machine, there is certainly a limit to how much crap you want to hardwire into the machine itself, but wouldn't an array of common protocols and functionality that are necessary across the breadth of modern operating systems be nice to have?
What I am baffled about with Milli Vanilli is that they had huge numbers of fans and even won a Grammy for their music. When it turned out that it wasn't Rob and Fab (RIP) doing any of the singing, everyone turned against them. Wouldn't Milli Vanilli music still hold up though the performers (?) were disgraced?
You probably know this, but your post seems to give the impression that the Disklavier is an electronic keyboard. It's actually a fully stringed piano that is played automatically.:-)
The Disklavier system is pretty remarkable. Modern classic composer Sakamoto Ryuichi uses one in his live performances and it really enhances the show. It allows him to focus one one part of the music while the piano can play accompanying notes in the background.
Most Windows apps don't really need the CD in the drive. Usually it's a matter of the install disk location (which is usually the CD-ROM drive) that determines where the program looks. Simply copy the contents of the CD to a network directory and install from there.
Keep a CD in the drive just in case the program is looking for something. A music CD works fine in most cases.
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I haven't been to the actual museum, so this is simply an observation about the website.
The grouping in the article is all wrong. It clumps pictures and articles together by manufacturer. This is great for something like a research document, but for a museum it is terrible. By the time the reader gets acquainted with the devices made by Altair, he gets thrown back in time to get acquainted with the Osborne, and so on.
A better system would be to simply line up the pictures and articles in a timeline where each device can be compared to each other device in a logical manner. The reader can get a feel for how computers evolved from large breadboards to the tiny microchips of today.
Think about another process, though.
You stand in front of a door. You take a step through the door. Now you are on the other side of the door.
Did you kill the "you" who stood on the first side of the door only to recreate the present "you" on the second side?
If all the particles in your body tunneled simultaneously to Hawaii, would you say that the original you who sits glumly in your chair staring at the monitor now was killed in order to create the new happy Hawaiian you?
The first scenario above is discontinuity in time. You 'kill' the instantaneous representation of yourself to walk through the door. In fact, every instantaneous representation of you is destroyed or lost to the time dimension. The second scenario is discontinuity in space. In one instant you are at your desk, the next you are in Hawaii. Every bit of you is the same, just in a different place.
Would you say either of those was 'killing' the original?
I downloaded the Debian 2.2 stable ISO a couple days ago and am looking forward to my second foray into Linux. The first was a short-lived adventure with SuSE which was not unpleasant, but KDE's state at the time left much to be desired.
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I do not run servers as I have neither the need nor the extra money for them, so any Linux device I set up will strictly be a desktop machine. I'll keep everyone up to date with periodic postings here on
I'm sure you all can't wait.
How do you conceptualize the corners? Are there orthogonal borders in your perspective?
Interesting.
Can anyone give a layman's explanation of how the information is getting passed from point a to point b?
Magic.
It's also explored in the Star Trek TNG episode Second Chances.
How would you know the difference? If there was some mishap and your first "you" didn't get destroyed, the first "you" would think nothing happened while the second "you" would realize that he was materialized in the destination chamber. Which one is the correct "you"?
What I'd be more worried about is being transported slowly. All those atoms being ripped from the body has got to be painful.
If your trailer park was named "Camelot", would that mean King Arthur once stayed there?
Well, there was an Arthur and he walked around in a robe all the time.
Yeah, why Microsoft would have anything to do with those patent infringers, I don't know.
I am not Captain Obvious.
Nor am I CaptainObvious.
I am ObviousGuy.
GBA = Game Boy Advance
SMB3 = Super Mario Bros 3
They aren't against emulation. They are against people other than Nintendo providing the emulation.
What do you care how big the bloat in the BIOS is? It doesn't affect performance as much as software bloat.
While outdated technology is something that sucks, imagine having TCP/IP protocols burned into the ROM. That would be useful for everyone.
For a general purpose machine, there is certainly a limit to how much crap you want to hardwire into the machine itself, but wouldn't an array of common protocols and functionality that are necessary across the breadth of modern operating systems be nice to have?
First sale rights are in full effect here. Not even the nincompoops in Congress will fall for this.
Long time no see, Jedi.
What I am baffled about with Milli Vanilli is that they had huge numbers of fans and even won a Grammy for their music. When it turned out that it wasn't Rob and Fab (RIP) doing any of the singing, everyone turned against them. Wouldn't Milli Vanilli music still hold up though the performers (?) were disgraced?
You probably know this, but your post seems to give the impression that the Disklavier is an electronic keyboard. It's actually a fully stringed piano that is played automatically. :-)
Gary Debussy's dead? I knew he became a Christian zealot, but I didn't hear that he died.
You'd think it'd have been announced here by some troll.
What if Britney Spears came on stage and simply played a CD of her music? Or Milli Vanilli? Would that be live?
The Disklavier system is pretty remarkable. Modern classic composer Sakamoto Ryuichi uses one in his live performances and it really enhances the show. It allows him to focus one one part of the music while the piano can play accompanying notes in the background.
Very cool technology.
Well, that's particularly nasty.
:-(
Especially on children's educational software. You wouldn't think the low-volume piracy rates on those to be so high.
Hack the Registry.
HKLM\Software\MySoft\InstallDir
That's the "right" place for the install directory information to come from.
Most Windows apps don't really need the CD in the drive. Usually it's a matter of the install disk location (which is usually the CD-ROM drive) that determines where the program looks. Simply copy the contents of the CD to a network directory and install from there.
Keep a CD in the drive just in case the program is looking for something. A music CD works fine in most cases.
Those were the days my friend, those were the days.
I remember those days when they were saying that the Internet was so important that they'd give away free computers to Internet subscribers.
Where did my comment go?
WTF?
Right on target.
Segfault was around and doing the type of reader-submission humor that DNN guy is talking about, but it was mostly crap.
There were some gems, though.