IIRC, Hercules was something like 720x348. And I remember it being a little bit of a pain to program. If you wrote the wrong value to a register when setting the graphics mode, your monitor would start making a loud high-pitched squealing sound (and probably bathed you in X-Rays). Ah, the joys of running fractint on a 4.77MHz XT.
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Would it be legal for a person to submit the text to a print-on-demand publisher like CafePress and sell copies at cost ($0 profit)? Or would that not work, because CafePress is still making a buck on the deal? And how would that be any different than taking it down to Kinko's and telling them to print out a copy. The book is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 which states in section 4c that...
You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation. The exchange of the Work for other copyrighted works by means of digital file-sharing or otherwise shall not be considered to be intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation, provided there is no payment of any monetary compensation in connection with the exchange of copyrighted works.
As long as long as we're talking about linux under other architectures, I wonder what others think of these Linux Insider editorials speculating about running Linux on the 'Cell' processor for the next Sony Playstation. The bold prediction? "the Linux developer community will, virtually en masse, abandon the x86 in favor of the new machine."
The Tao that can be spoken of is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.
The name is the mother of the ten thousand things.
Send your desires away and you will see the mystery.
Be filled with desire
and you will see only the manifestation.
As these two come forth they differ in name.
Yet at their source they are the same.
This source is called a mystery.
Darkness within darkness,
the gateway to all mystery.
As a former Portland resident, let me add that income taxes suck also. 9% on everything over $10,000. Washington has a better way to do it. I'm now paying an 8.3% sales tax on the stuff I buy. But necessities like food and rent aren't taxed. So I find myself trying to buy less stuff just to pay less in taxes (I just bought a used car because there was no way I was going pay the tax on a new one). I find I like being punished for spending more than I like being punished for working.
Yup. Just installed 9.1 on my 32MB Toshiba Tecra laptop (the 120MHz Pentium only tooks ~3 hours to compile a 2.6.6 kernel). I absolutely love ratpoison for the window manager and links -g for the web browser.
Assassination Politics combines the free-market mercenary idea with added bonus of using cryptography, anonymous digital cash, and the distributed nature of the internet. All the things a geek would love;-)
Couldn't reply to your blog, so I'll reply to your sig here. You might find income tax distribution to be insteresting. Most interesting thing to note: taxpayers with the highest 1% of incomes paid 22.6% of all federal taxes (for 2001).
If you put the original starwars movies under the same microscope, it sucks just as much as eps 1 and 2 did.
You're almost right. The only redeeming factor for original movies is commanding performance of Harrison Ford. Image taking the original movies and cutting Mr. Ford from every scene. I think we could all agree the suck quotient for these new Episodes 4-6 would equal that of Ep. 1 & 2. Here's another way of looking at it. Figure out what percentage of movies that Lucas directed are crappy. Now compare that with the percentage of movies starring Harrison that are crappy. Who comes out on top? (Be sure to subtract out the intersection of movies directed by Mr. Lucas and movies with Mr. Ford before calculating the percentages)
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Plants are green because chlorophyll reflects green light. This means that green light isn't important to photosynthesis. Seetheselinks.
Get a wacom graphics tablet with a stylus (works with linux also). Then download dasher for doing long sessions of text entry. You spell out words by "driving" the cursor in the direction that the characters come flying toward you (see the animation). Also get xstroke to do graffiti like handwriting recognition. My next goal it to start looking into voice recognition.
You're allowed to short the stock, but the initial purchaser might not be allowed to lend the stock out . So you might have to wait a while (those shares need to trade hands at least once) before shares become available for shorting.
Maybe not Java, but someone should start an OS project with something like OCaml. You get most of the speed of something like C, with far fewer bugs. Oh, and there's no reason you can't compile your Java.
You've made such a persuasive point, that I've decided to fund the entire colonization of Mars myself. And I think I'd like to see us do it a lot sooner than 500 million years. I think we can do it in the next 10-100,000 years. I'm starting a trust endowed with my generously donated 2 cents. If I can manage a 1% rate of return, compounded for the next 10,000 years, it'll be worth about $327e39 in the year 12004 ($0.02*(1.01)^10e3)(that's 327 billion billion billion dollars per person, assuming 1 trillion people inhabit the earth in 12004). But that assumes a lofty 1% interest rate. If I can only get a more modest 0.1% rate of return, then humanity will have to wait ~100,000 years for the same amount of money. But this is still 5000 times sooner than expected!
You might want to look into it further, but if your not a NY resident you might not be subject to NY sales tax. At least that's how it works here in Washington state.
Seems like bandwidth effeciency concerns could be greatly reduced if we could combine bittorrent with multicasting.
I'm patiently awaiting the day I can welcome our IPv6 overlords.
One step closer to Nirvana. Bittorrent + RSS + gentoo emerge --update world. Or how about something that uses software-suspend to automagically hot-swap in the latest bleeding edge kernel? Maybe the Hurd allows on-the-fly kernel upgrades.
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IIRC, Hercules was something like 720x348. And I remember it being a little bit of a pain to program. If you wrote the wrong value to a register when setting the graphics mode, your monitor would start making a loud high-pitched squealing sound (and probably bathed you in X-Rays). Ah, the joys of running fractint on a 4.77MHz XT.
As long as long as we're talking about linux under other architectures, I wonder what others think of these Linux Insider editorials speculating about running Linux on the 'Cell' processor for the next Sony Playstation. The bold prediction? "the Linux developer community will, virtually en masse, abandon the x86 in favor of the new machine."
They already do.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.
The name is the mother of the ten thousand things.
Send your desires away and you will see the mystery.
Be filled with desire and you will see only the manifestation.
As these two come forth they differ in name.
Yet at their source they are the same.
This source is called a mystery.
Darkness within darkness,
the gateway to all mystery.
As a former Portland resident, let me add that income taxes suck also. 9% on everything over $10,000. Washington has a better way to do it. I'm now paying an 8.3% sales tax on the stuff I buy. But necessities like food and rent aren't taxed. So I find myself trying to buy less stuff just to pay less in taxes (I just bought a used car because there was no way I was going pay the tax on a new one). I find I like being punished for spending more than I like being punished for working.
Yup. Just installed 9.1 on my 32MB Toshiba Tecra laptop (the 120MHz Pentium only tooks ~3 hours to compile a 2.6.6 kernel). I absolutely love ratpoison for the window manager and links -g for the web browser.
...not for my PDA, but for the tivo in my wristwatch TV.
Assassination Politics combines the free-market mercenary idea with added bonus of using cryptography, anonymous digital cash, and the distributed nature of the internet. All the things a geek would love;-)
Couldn't reply to your blog, so I'll reply to your sig here. You might find income tax distribution to be insteresting. Most interesting thing to note: taxpayers with the highest 1% of incomes paid 22.6% of all federal taxes (for 2001).
Plants are green because chlorophyll reflects green light. This means that green light isn't important to photosynthesis. See these links.
I hope using NT works out better for them than it did for the U.S. Navy
Get a wacom graphics tablet with a stylus (works with linux also). Then download dasher for doing long sessions of text entry. You spell out words by "driving" the cursor in the direction that the characters come flying toward you (see the animation). Also get xstroke to do graffiti like handwriting recognition. My next goal it to start looking into voice recognition.
You're allowed to short the stock, but the initial purchaser might not be allowed to lend the stock out . So you might have to wait a while (those shares need to trade hands at least once) before shares become available for shorting.
Maybe not Java, but someone should start an OS project with something like OCaml. You get most of the speed of something like C, with far fewer bugs. Oh, and there's no reason you can't compile your Java.
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You've made such a persuasive point, that I've decided to fund the entire colonization of Mars myself. And I think I'd like to see us do it a lot sooner than 500 million years. I think we can do it in the next 10-100,000 years. I'm starting a trust endowed with my generously donated 2 cents. If I can manage a 1% rate of return, compounded for the next 10,000 years, it'll be worth about $327e39 in the year 12004 ($0.02*(1.01)^10e3)(that's 327 billion billion billion dollars per person, assuming 1 trillion people inhabit the earth in 12004). But that assumes a lofty 1% interest rate. If I can only get a more modest 0.1% rate of return, then humanity will have to wait ~100,000 years for the same amount of money. But this is still 5000 times sooner than expected!
You might want to look into it further, but if your not a NY resident you might not be subject to NY sales tax. At least that's how it works here in Washington state.
Discuss.
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopic s/Mental_arithmetic.html
Seems like bandwidth effeciency concerns could be greatly reduced if we could combine bittorrent with multicasting. I'm patiently awaiting the day I can welcome our IPv6 overlords.
One step closer to Nirvana. Bittorrent + RSS + gentoo emerge --update world. Or how about something that uses software-suspend to automagically hot-swap in the latest bleeding edge kernel? Maybe the Hurd allows on-the-fly kernel upgrades.