If we are some day able to create this elevator, the distance involved means it will take several days to complete a journey from ground to earth orbit.
I have a hard enough time avoiding contact with "other people" in elevator cars -- but the real tragedy will be the music. Girl from Impenema for 72 hours straight?
Aaaraargh.
The only way I could see this working is if they piped in aerosol (-)-delta9-trans-Tetrahydrocannabinol and phillip glass...
What a great idea! Wars always solve problems! Like the war on poverty, or the war on drugs, or the war on terror! Well, I guess the one problem they always solve is how to get rid of extra cash...
Finding out what hardware you have is a difficult process under Windows. With most Linux distributions,it is often as simple as typing lspci
Of course. lspci. Duh. Any idiot would know that.
Actually, the great thing about this movie was that they *didn't* save the world. The virus was totally out of control and spreading fast. By chance, it mutated to an inert form - so the world was saved by dumb luck and not through science... So its a cautionary tale, really - mess with stuff you don't understand, kill everyone in the world.
Oh, spoiler alert. Sorry.
Great movie, though. At least, for geeks and James Olson fans.
NeXT's mach-o & java even share the same magic number:
/usr/share/file/magic:
# mach file description
#
# Since Java bytecode and Mach-O fat-files have the same magic number the test
must be preformed in the same "magic" sequence to get both right. The long
at offset 4 in a fat file tells the number of architectures. The short at
offset 4 in a Java bytecode file is the compiler minor version and the
short at offset 6 is the compiler major version. Since there are only
only 18 labeled Mach-O architectures at current, and the first released
Java class format was version 43.0, we can safely choose any number
between 18 and 39 to test the number of architectures against
(and use as a hack).
Coming from a Mac / { 68k, ppc } background, I can't understand why you people put up with BIOS.
A while back, someone set up a PXE booter on our network for our PCs - but some machines weren't able to boot from it - they would hang at the PXE menu of images to boot from.
Turns out that some of the machines had a few extra bytes taken from the precious 640k limit that PCs have been saddled with, and the PXE menu was just large enough to run out of memory.
On a 512MB computer.
BIOS a bloody joke, and you should all be ashamed.
What alternatives are there to BIOS on the x86 architecture? Are there any OpenFirmware based PCs?
here's a torrent for the x86 dev kit:
http://torrentspy.com/search.asp?mode=torrentdetai ls&id=369442&query=OS+ [torrentspy.com]
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During development of the After Dark screensavers, we had two suicides...
RIP: Robert "Mouse" Herrall, John Hartshorne.
Did the product schedule do it? No, they were just depressed individuals.
Wayne Gramlich, of the Homebrew Robotics club of Silicon Valley (http://www.hbrobotics.org/), has had a similar project for years; he's released the source, schematics, and gerber plots for his RoboBricks work under some sort of public license.
http://robobricks.net/
It looks like he's also got a commercial interest in building these:
http://robobricks.com/
But I'm not sure what the status of that is.
I'm kind of surprised eblocks didn't include a courtesy link...
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Actually, any halfway decent C compiler would eliminate those empty loops. Could you write a visual basic interpreter and runtime in visual basic?
If we are some day able to create this elevator, the distance involved means it will take several days to complete a journey from ground to earth orbit.
I have a hard enough time avoiding contact with "other people" in elevator cars -- but the real tragedy will be the music. Girl from Impenema for 72 hours straight?
Aaaraargh.
The only way I could see this working is if they piped in aerosol (-)-delta9-trans-Tetrahydrocannabinol and phillip glass...
I am just so un-hip - whos this supposed to be?
double-plus-plus funny, brother! Well played! Enjoy your $100 Texaco gift card!
What a great idea! Wars always solve problems! Like the war on poverty, or the war on drugs, or the war on terror! Well, I guess the one problem they always solve is how to get rid of extra cash...
Oh sure, make your restriction set small enough to exclude Matthew Shepard, et al...
Finding out what hardware you have is a difficult process under Windows. With most Linux distributions,it is often as simple as typing lspci
Of course. lspci. Duh. Any idiot would know that.
"Sanctuary exists!"
Don't be so sure about everything you read. Question authority. Question yourself.
And you have proof of this other than some book written (and rewritten and reinterpreted) by humans, right?
Or should we just accept your version of reality and ignore others?
Is it possible, just possible, that you could be wrong? Seriously, please consider that for a few moments, and respond.
Oh, spoiler alert. Sorry.
Great movie, though. At least, for geeks and James Olson fans.
Thats "iRony". Hope this helps.
argh, troll.
Apple had $4bn in the bank at that time. The $150mn was a PR stunt.
Wrong.
Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C
NeXT's mach-o & java even share the same magic number:
# mach file description
#
# Since Java bytecode and Mach-O fat-files have the same magic number the test
must be preformed in the same "magic" sequence to get both right. The long
at offset 4 in a fat file tells the number of architectures. The short at
offset 4 in a Java bytecode file is the compiler minor version and the
short at offset 6 is the compiler major version. Since there are only
only 18 labeled Mach-O architectures at current, and the first released
Java class format was version 43.0, we can safely choose any number
between 18 and 39 to test the number of architectures against
(and use as a hack).
--ob
Murder? Is this more intelligent design bullshit?
Coming from a Mac / { 68k, ppc } background, I can't understand why you people put up with BIOS.
A while back, someone set up a PXE booter on our network for our PCs - but some machines weren't able to boot from it - they would hang at the PXE menu of images to boot from.
Turns out that some of the machines had a few extra bytes taken from the precious 640k limit that PCs have been saddled with, and the PXE menu was just large enough to run out of memory.
On a 512MB computer.
BIOS a bloody joke, and you should all be ashamed.
What alternatives are there to BIOS on the x86 architecture? Are there any OpenFirmware based PCs?
You *can* get a Prius for about $21,000, plus you get the $2000 tax credit in the US (this year, next year less?)
Jerry? Jerry Pournelle? How the hell are you man!
I once dreamt I was a bus error handler with a nil pointer. Aargh, recursion.
/b 1 def
b dup dup mul or
Personally, I know that I'm in love with a wonderful, beautiful geek woman, who makes me feel secure and happier than I ever have been in my life.
We're both geeks, and can truly enjoy each others geekyness without embarrassment, in public or private.
She's truly wonderful.
"Woof Woof, Hello, I'm Rags!"
During development of the After Dark screensavers, we had two suicides...
RIP: Robert "Mouse" Herrall, John Hartshorne.
Did the product schedule do it? No, they were just depressed individuals.
Wayne Gramlich, of the Homebrew Robotics club of Silicon Valley (http://www.hbrobotics.org/), has had a similar project for years; he's released the source, schematics, and gerber plots for his RoboBricks work under some sort of public license.
http://robobricks.net/
It looks like he's also got a commercial interest in building these:
http://robobricks.com/
But I'm not sure what the status of that is.
I'm kind of surprised eblocks didn't include a courtesy link...