There's Zenith 3 ft away from me...and it works!
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I've got a zenith zwl 183-92 sitting on the desk on my shelf. My highschool drama teacher gave it to me (he wrote his master thesis on it sometime in the late 80's). It's a 4 MHz monster with 10 megs of disk space and a 720K floppy drive. I had intentions of trying to get it onto my university's network, but I've no idea how to go about doing that - anyone have an external NIC that can plug into a paralell port...I thought not.
The major kickass thing about it is that I learned how to use edlin!
The battery lasts 15 minutes on an 8 hour charge - now there's efficiency for you!
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The above is the relevant portion of Turnitin.com's usage policy. "Licensor is the owner of, or has the rights to distribute...the forms generated by the Licensed Programs or Services." I set up a 'free trial account.' Essays are entered into forms, therefore the licensor (turnitin) is the owner of any essay put into a form.
My university uses this, and I will bring this to the attention of my prof.
Quote regarding accuracy:
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Hmm, usually when I pay for something, I want it to satisfy my requirements...
Storyteller based role-playing (whether using a system of rules or not) is about working together as a group to reach a goal - the telling of an interesting story. If you do not work with the other players, it is difficult to get anywhere. Often, the characters may be working against each other, but the players are participating in a group improvisational story that grows and expands with the players.
My personal favourite is Mage: The Ascension at white-wolf.com, but all a system is is a framework within which to build the group's creativity.
well, linux is pretty cool man, but i grew up with DOS, gee, i wouldn't want to try something different...
The difference is I do use linux, and I do enjoy, no , it isn't the friendly DOS I grew up with, but I rather enjoy it. This Pliant think intrigues me, and I think I'll give it a try. Innovation and trying things that haven't been done before bring out new and interesting products. It is vital to all research and advancement that pure research be done for it's own sake - because it is cool.
I have been watching the election results come in on cnn.com rather studiously, and plan to do so for wuite some time. The catch? I'm not an Amercan, nor do I live there.
Why am I interested? Being a Canadian, american policies and decisions affect my life enormously. Under Bush, Canada would probably do slightly better economically. However, a win for Bush would bolster Canada's Stockwell Day, a religious-right political leader for the Canadian Alliance, in our upcoming federal election. I am left-wing, and would not want to see anything like that getting into canada's legislature.
From the reactions of others that posted here, it would seem that almost everyone either doesn't care, or is so single-minded all they can say is "my penis won texas". These are not the reactions I expected on slashdot, where, usually, the debate is of a high level.
Anyways, under Canadian law there is a tariff on blank cassettes and recordable CDs that is supposed to cover SOCAN fees (Society of Canadai artists and something or other - they collect royalties) for any music you may put on there. Understandably, some people don't find this to be quite right. What if I record my personal data onto a recordable CD? I'm paying for the music. What if I back up my VIC20 onto a cassette tape? I'm paying for the music.
I went to apple's site and was intrigued by the fan-less cooling system; I expected some elaboration in the "tech specs" area. None was forthcoming. Do they run water over the processor? a coolant? Are there massive heat sinks in the 8^3 cube?
When I first heard about the Crusoe I went to their site and read interesting pdfs full of details, nothing detailed enough to give away the companies secrets, but it went right down to the basics so I could see what they are really doing. Transmeta is a cool company. Apple thinks that people don't want to know how stuff actually works. Apple isn't quite as cool anymore.
1984 too much for a 7th grader? what kind of crack are you on. I read the Lord of the Rings in the third grade - took me three weeks. I, obviously, missed a hell of a lot, but when I went back and read it in the sixth grade and couple times after that the more adult themes and symbolism settled. No one is ever too young to read a good book if they understand the words or have the patience to ask someone.
my list
Canticle for Leibowitz,Walter M. Miller,jr.
Mars, Ben Bova
The Picture of Dorian Gray, G.B. Shaw
Slaughter-house Five, Vonnegut
Watership Down,Richard Adams
hitchhiker's guide
Dune, Herbert
The Postman, David Brin
Messiah, Gore Vidal
absolutely nothing Star Wars or Star Trek - even though I love Star Wars and Star Trek, they aren't particularly good reading
Article 100 There shall be liberty of the Press. No person may be punished for any writing, whatever its contents, which he has caused to be printed or published, unless he wilfully and manifestly has either himself shown or incited others to disobedience to the laws, contempt of religion, morality or the constitutional powers, or resistance to their orders, or has made false and defamatory accusations against anyone. Everyone shall be free to speak his mind frankly on the administration of the State and on any other subject whatsoever. Article 101 New and permanent privileges implying restrictions on the freedom of trade and industry must not in future be granted to anyone. Article 102 Search of private homes shall not be made except in criminal cases.
There's a very interesting paper on the Crusoe and the Very Long Instruction Set processor it uses hereIt's in.pdf. The coolest bit is it's IR pictures of both a PIII and a Crusoe playing a DVD with software. The PIII is operating at a max of 105.5 Celsius, the Crusoe at 48.2.
US Robotics was named after USR and MM, cool, I always thought it was just a coincidence. During the opening credits when "based on 'The Positronic Man' by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverburg" appeared on the screen I applauded. The movie is touching and goes right to the heart of the themes behind the book, the essence of humanity. Although there are obviously differences, and the three laws aren't given the same importance so as to appeal more widely to the general public, it is, nevertheless, a solid interpretation of a masterwork. The movie does intorduce new characters and plot elements and omits many old ones: these are done because of the difference between a visual medium and a verbal one. I congratulate the screenwriter for a job well done.
Here's a little scenario: A student is doing a project on Gulliver's travels. This student wants to find out info on the differencet cultures that Gulliver encountered. He searches for Lilliput and gets something on nanotech but eventually he finds some info. He searches for Yahoo and gets this nice happy message from Lycos. Hmm, this poor soul thinks, what the hell's going on? Lycos should realize the different meanings word can have; not everything with the word yahoo in it is a competitor.
I am bilingual speaking english and french. When speaking french I think in french. This continues untill I come upon an idea/concept I don't know in french. I then switch to english thinking and try to translate another way of saying the idea/word into french. If I used a kind of non-linguistic referencing system it would be harder for just two languages. Any multi(4+)-linguists out there. Do you use a non-linguistic referencing sytem or do you reference everything back to your mother tongue?
A wearable with both a text recognition system for simple navigational commands and a one handed dvorak or some other one handed configuration place handily on your thigh somewhere would suit me. I could surf the net vocally and if I needed to take some notes or something I could just put my hand on my thigh or whereever it is and touch type while walking or whatever. For this to be small enough for me to actually wear it'd have to weigh 1kg. I don't care what it looks like. - traser
Playing Zeliard and Prince of Persia on the crisp green display of a herc. I think I was 6 or 7 years old at the time and I loved it. It really is too bad a company that used to have so much market share is going under. If only a certain richmon- based company with lots of marklet share would go under...
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I've got a zenith zwl 183-92 sitting on the desk on my shelf. My highschool drama teacher gave it to me (he wrote his master thesis on it sometime in the late 80's). It's a 4 MHz monster with 10 megs of disk space and a 720K floppy drive. I had intentions of trying to get it onto my university's network, but I've no idea how to go about doing that - anyone have an external NIC that can plug into a paralell port...I thought not.
The major kickass thing about it is that I learned how to use edlin!
The battery lasts 15 minutes on an 8 hour charge - now there's efficiency for you!
My university uses this, and I will bring this to the attention of my prof.
Quote regarding accuracy:
Hmm, usually when I pay for something, I want it to satisfy my requirements...
My personal favourite is Mage: The Ascension at white-wolf.com, but all a system is is a framework within which to build the group's creativity.
The difference is I do use linux, and I do enjoy, no , it isn't the friendly DOS I grew up with, but I rather enjoy it. This Pliant think intrigues me, and I think I'll give it a try. Innovation and trying things that haven't been done before bring out new and interesting products. It is vital to all research and advancement that pure research be done for it's own sake - because it is cool.
I have been watching the election results come in on cnn.com rather studiously, and plan to do so for wuite some time. The catch? I'm not an Amercan, nor do I live there.
Why am I interested? Being a Canadian, american policies and decisions affect my life enormously. Under Bush, Canada would probably do slightly better economically. However, a win for Bush would bolster Canada's Stockwell Day, a religious-right political leader for the Canadian Alliance, in our upcoming federal election. I am left-wing, and would not want to see anything like that getting into canada's legislature.
From the reactions of others that posted here, it would seem that almost everyone either doesn't care, or is so single-minded all they can say is "my penis won texas". These are not the reactions I expected on slashdot, where, usually, the debate is of a high level.
Traser
Man I love this game. I remember playing this years ago on my friend's zenith x86 laptop.
Enjoy.
http://www.isn.net/~dsimeone/JMAN.EXE
Traser
I resent the suburb remark.
Anyways, under Canadian law there is a tariff on blank cassettes and recordable CDs that is supposed to cover SOCAN fees (Society of Canadai artists and something or other - they collect royalties) for any music you may put on there.
Understandably, some people don't find this to be quite right. What if I record my personal data onto a recordable CD? I'm paying for the music. What if I back up my VIC20 onto a cassette tape? I'm paying for the music.
Traser - about 15% of my MP3s are legal
Thank you. It is incredible how little power well built effecient processors can run on. I guess that rules out Intel...
Traser
I went to apple's site and was intrigued by the fan-less cooling system; I expected some elaboration in the "tech specs" area. None was forthcoming. Do they run water over the processor? a coolant? Are there massive heat sinks in the 8^3 cube?
When I first heard about the Crusoe I went to their site and read interesting pdfs full of details, nothing detailed enough to give away the companies secrets, but it went right down to the basics so I could see what they are really doing. Transmeta is a cool company. Apple thinks that people don't want to know how stuff actually works. Apple isn't quite as cool anymore.
Traser - my isp shutdown my deCSS mirror
That's patently false. I don't know about Islam, but there isn't any such concept as 'hell' or 'Satan' in Judaism.
Traser, an Agnostic Atheist
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http://odin.dep.no/ud/nornytt/uda-121.ht ml - Norweigan Constitution.
Article 100 There shall be liberty of the Press. No person may be punished for any writing, whatever its contents, which he has caused to be printed or published, unless he wilfully and manifestly has either himself shown or incited others to disobedience to the laws, contempt of religion, morality or the constitutional powers, or resistance to their orders, or has made false and defamatory accusations against anyone. Everyone shall be free to speak his mind frankly on the administration of the State and on any other subject whatsoever. Article 101 New and permanent privileges implying restrictions on the freedom of trade and industry must not in future be granted to anyone. Article 102 Search of private homes shall not be made except in criminal cases.
There's a very interesting paper on the Crusoe and the Very Long Instruction Set processor it uses hereIt's in .pdf. The coolest bit is it's IR pictures of both a PIII and a Crusoe playing a DVD with software. The PIII is operating at a max of 105.5 Celsius, the Crusoe at 48.2.
US Robotics was named after USR and MM, cool, I always thought it was just a coincidence. During the opening credits when "based on 'The Positronic Man' by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverburg" appeared on the screen I applauded.
The movie is touching and goes right to the heart of the themes behind the book, the essence of humanity. Although there are obviously differences, and the three laws aren't given the same importance so as to appeal more widely to the general public, it is, nevertheless, a solid interpretation of a masterwork.
The movie does intorduce new characters and plot elements and omits many old ones: these are done because of the difference between a visual medium and a verbal one. I congratulate the screenwriter for a job well done.
Here's a little scenario:
A student is doing a project on Gulliver's travels. This student wants to find out info on the differencet cultures that Gulliver encountered. He searches for Lilliput and gets something on nanotech but eventually he finds some info. He searches for Yahoo and gets this nice happy message from Lycos. Hmm, this poor soul thinks, what the hell's going on?
Lycos should realize the different meanings word can have; not everything with the word yahoo in it is a competitor.
Ya dirty yahoos. Traser
I am bilingual speaking english and french. When speaking french I think in french. This continues untill I come upon an idea/concept I don't know in french. I then switch to english thinking and try to translate another way of saying the idea/word into french. If I used a kind of non-linguistic referencing system it would be harder for just two languages. Any multi(4+)-linguists out there. Do you use a non-linguistic referencing sytem or do you reference everything back to your mother tongue?
A wearable with both a text recognition system for simple navigational commands and a one handed dvorak or some other one handed configuration place handily on your thigh somewhere would suit me. I could surf the net vocally and if I needed to take some notes or something I could just put my hand on my thigh or whereever it is and touch type while walking or whatever. For this to be small enough for me to actually wear it'd have to weigh 1kg. I don't care what it looks like.
- traser
Playing Zeliard and Prince of Persia on the crisp green display of a herc. I think I was 6 or 7 years old at the time and I loved it. It really is too bad a company that used to have so much market share is going under.
If only a certain richmon- based company with lots of marklet share would go under...
Traser
"Insanity is contagious." -Yossarian