Anybody remember the "JKL" keypress in NewDOS for the TRS-80? It gave you a screen print, if I remember correctly.
It must have been useful, as Tandy (or whoever wrote TRSDOS for them) "borrowed" it in TRSDOS version 3.:)
Due to the way the TRS-80's keyboard was memory mapped, it was fairly easy to check for pretty much any combination of keys -- you just checked a particular memory address for a particular value. I'm not sure how you would go about it on a modern PC.
Side note: When Lucas and Disney teamed up to create the "Star Tours" ride for Disneyland, they shot the film at 60 fps so your eye would essentially be unable to detect the frame lines. That and the way the vehicles are programmed to move in sync with the events on the film, makes for the uncannily realistic sensation of movement on the ride.
I hate roller coasters -- last time someone conned me into going on the Matterhorn with them my arms ached for two days because of how tightly I was gripping the sides of the car -- but Star Tours is my favorite ride there, primarily because you get all the benefits of movement, without the actual movement. (MPMWLV)*
Correction. I see where the 16.5K number came from. 16.5K is 5% of 330,000, which is apparently about the total number of sites that have deployed (not necessarily "migrated to") W2K since the study started. OMIR regrets the error, but stands by the "statistical noise" comment.
I'm still somewhat confused by their methodology. They claim 330K sites have gone to Windows 2K3, but according to the chart the number of servers involved is less than half that. So a handful of sites that host multiple sites on the same machine could be skewing this operation big time.
I would also like to see a similar reverse tracking over the same time, showing how many sites have moved from Windows to Linux in the same time period. Not that I would think it was any more relevant than this study.
I don't know where you get the 131,000 web sites that weren't upgrades from anything, but that's irrelevant to the current discussion (and if it weren't, I'd point to the number of Linux/Apache vs. Windows/IIS hosts on the Net having stayed stable in that term, which would lead me to believe that there were probably in the neighborhood of 250,000 Linux servers that also weren't upgrades from anything. But I digress.)
So of the 185K sites that are relevant to the current discussion, if 5% are converts from Linux the total number is somewhere around 9250 (not 16,000), up from 5K when people did the numbers when this story appeared on Linux Today two weeks ago. Still at the level of statistical noise (defined as 5%) and still within the realm of a PHB's whim.
I don't think we really need to go any farther than Chinese to deduce that people recognize words from their shape more than from individual components of the shape.
This was covered by Linux Today about two weeks ago.
Worst case scenario, about 4500 servers may have switched from Linux to Win2003. I can easily see that as a result of statistical noise, or of pointy-haired management thinking, "Ooooh! Shiny new toy! Microsoft says it's secure! I want one! I wonder what's in the cafeteria for lunch."
File this one as being from the "So what? Me, worry?" department.
I'm willing to believe SCO will never see this case in a courtroom, but I believe it will be more because they'll die before the trial date than because they didn't "let" it get to a courtroom.
This thing has more lives than Freddy Kruger, Michael Myers and a hundredweight of cats put together. Don't count on it being well and truly dead until someone gets voted into office who wants to see it dead and has the political clout to shoot it with a silver bullet, drive a stake through its heart, hack its body into little bitty pieces and bury it twelve feet down in the shadow of a church at midnight.
Don't be too sure. The laws sometimes get weird when it comes to politics. Remember, in 1980 Barry Commoner created a radio ad prominently festuring the word "bullshit" and got away with it because it was a political statement (part of his presidential campaign).
I'm not saying you're wrong about the noise ordinance, just that . . . well, just that you may be, and if you are, thank political campaign laws.
OK, I have a better idea for a game, and the difference between mine and everyone else's is, it's a viable concept (plus it's open source, which should get me modded up).
This game would be designed for the Web (it'd probably be pretty easy with something like PHP) but could be done in a classroom as a competitive event with the right tweaks. Basically, instead of the RIAA's "starving artist" BS, you give the kids a choice of how they want to pursue their musical career:
- sign with a Big Label
- be independent and tour
- sell directly to the Net
- be a studio musician (or member of an orchestra)
- perform just because you enjoy it
(the last choice would be better if you had a Careers-type goal where you could choose a mixture of happiness, money and fame.)
There are probably other ways for a musician to market him/herself that I haven't thought of because I'm a coder.
Set it up so that along the way, events can happen that change the amount of money you can make. Maybe you're Discovered By A Big Label if you don't take option 1 and you have to decide whether to Sell Out or keep doing things the way you're doing them. Maybe you form a band and now have to split your take four ways -- or maybe you drop out of a band and have to reinvent your career. Again, a working musician would know all the things to look for better than I would.
Think of this as an old-school "choose your path" type game in the mold of Hamurabi or Santa Paravia. I think something like this would give kids a LOT better idea of what options they have in music than just winding them up and giving them a push toward the record store.
Yeah, it's hot grits a good thing Natalie Portman no other all your base running jokes goatse.cx have ever ????? Profit!!!!! become this widespread in Soviet Russia, jokes run YOU! on Slashdot.
So the biggest one . . . the biggest, meanest nastiest father-raper . . . he comes over to me and says, "Kid, what'd you get?"
"I didn't get nothin'," I said, "I had to pay $100,000 and help secure a couple dozen open relays."
"What were you in for?"
"Spamming"
. . . and they all moved away from me on the Group W bench and gave me the hairy eyeball and all sorts of mean nasty stuff, until I said "and promoting Viagra and free pr0n" and they all shook my hand and we had a great time playing with the pencils and using the computers on the shelf by the window to strip a couple of mailing lists for addresses.
Yeah, I got one of those 202's too. I use it and a 2 amp power supply as a "base" rig.
Actually, if you get involved with the local ham community, you can often find someone who doesn't mind donating a hand-me-down to a new ham. I wouldn't count on it, but others have been kind enough to help me with equipment in the past.
And don't let the test scare you off. Any self respecting geek ought to be able to learn the test material in a couple afternoons.
Basically, when I decided to upgrade from Advanced to Extra, I found about four different sites that supplied online practice tests. Here's one of them; here's another; and here's a third. Basically, about three times a day I took a practice test and made notes on the stuff I missed. Then, I went back and studied up on those topics. Did I memorize the answers? Well, yeah . . . but I also decided that, after thirty years as a ham, it might be a good idea if I actually figured out what a time constant was useful for, or how to read a Smith chart, or how to figure complex impedance. So, I did.
After about three weeks I was scoring 100% constantly, and aced the in-person test.
The technician test should be a complete snap. You just need to know as much about the FCC rules related to ham radio as you need to know about state motor vehicle laws in order to pass your written driver's test.
I would like to point out that getting the gear needn't be expensive. These people have handheld 2-meter sets that cost less than most gamer-grade video cards. My 2-meter handheld, a Yaesu VX-5R, retails for $250 and Yaesu often has it on sale for around $200. It puts out 5 watts (sufficient for all the local repeaters), will do 6 meters and 440 as well, has a wide-ranging receiver, and isn't all that much bigger or heavier than my cell phone.
That will be sufficient for you to get into your local ARES net to prepare for emergencies in your area.
I just went to see Arlo Guthrie in concert today, and dropped $40 on CDs. Not necessarily because I was anxious to get the music (although I am certainly looking forward to enjoying it), but because they are produced by Arlo himself under his non-RIAA affiliated label, and the money goes to supporting a working musician (and a national treasure, if I'm not being too hyperbolic).
I'm planning on doing the same next week at shows by world-music-meets-dance-band group Brave Combo and a capella humorists Da Vinci's Notebook. Again, it supports working musicians whose work I like, and not a dime goes to the RIAA.
Not only that, I bought a CD through CD Baby from a group I'd never heard of, based solely on the previews CD Baby provided.
I urge the rest of you to do the same with bands you like. You can simultaneously support working musicians and deprive the entertainment industrial complex of money to churn out more dreck, sue you, or both.
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Somehow I don't think you're quite decaffeinated enough yet.
(OK, how long does this need to be to escape the "too short" filter?)
Anybody remember the "JKL" keypress in NewDOS for the TRS-80? It gave you a screen print, if I remember correctly.
:)
It must have been useful, as Tandy (or whoever wrote TRSDOS for them) "borrowed" it in TRSDOS version 3.
Due to the way the TRS-80's keyboard was memory mapped, it was fairly easy to check for pretty much any combination of keys -- you just checked a particular memory address for a particular value. I'm not sure how you would go about it on a modern PC.
Side note: When Lucas and Disney teamed up to create the "Star Tours" ride for Disneyland, they shot the film at 60 fps so your eye would essentially be unable to detect the frame lines. That and the way the vehicles are programmed to move in sync with the events on the film, makes for the uncannily realistic sensation of movement on the ride.
I hate roller coasters -- last time someone conned me into going on the Matterhorn with them my arms ached for two days because of how tightly I was gripping the sides of the car -- but Star Tours is my favorite ride there, primarily because you get all the benefits of movement, without the actual movement. (MPMWLV)*
* Most People's Mileage Will Likely Vary
Correction. I see where the 16.5K number came from. 16.5K is 5% of 330,000, which is apparently about the total number of sites that have deployed (not necessarily "migrated to") W2K since the study started. OMIR regrets the error, but stands by the "statistical noise" comment.
I'm still somewhat confused by their methodology. They claim 330K sites have gone to Windows 2K3, but according to the chart the number of servers involved is less than half that. So a handful of sites that host multiple sites on the same machine could be skewing this operation big time.
I would also like to see a similar reverse tracking over the same time, showing how many sites have moved from Windows to Linux in the same time period. Not that I would think it was any more relevant than this study.
I don't know where you get the 131,000 web sites that weren't upgrades from anything, but that's irrelevant to the current discussion (and if it weren't, I'd point to the number of Linux/Apache vs. Windows/IIS hosts on the Net having stayed stable in that term, which would lead me to believe that there were probably in the neighborhood of 250,000 Linux servers that also weren't upgrades from anything. But I digress.)
So of the 185K sites that are relevant to the current discussion, if 5% are converts from Linux the total number is somewhere around 9250 (not 16,000), up from 5K when people did the numbers when this story appeared on Linux Today two weeks ago. Still at the level of statistical noise (defined as 5%) and still within the realm of a PHB's whim.
I don't think we really need to go any farther than Chinese to deduce that people recognize words from their shape more than from individual components of the shape.
Not that I've read the article or anything . . .
This was covered by Linux Today about two weeks ago.
Worst case scenario, about 4500 servers may have switched from Linux to Win2003. I can easily see that as a result of statistical noise, or of pointy-haired management thinking, "Ooooh! Shiny new toy! Microsoft says it's secure! I want one! I wonder what's in the cafeteria for lunch."
File this one as being from the "So what? Me, worry?" department.
Are they really claiming that just beacuse a program runs in Linux that it is automatically their property?
No. They're claiming that just because a program looks and acts like Unix, it's their property.
I'm willing to believe SCO will never see this case in a courtroom, but I believe it will be more because they'll die before the trial date than because they didn't "let" it get to a courtroom.
This thing has more lives than Freddy Kruger, Michael Myers and a hundredweight of cats put together. Don't count on it being well and truly dead until someone gets voted into office who wants to see it dead and has the political clout to shoot it with a silver bullet, drive a stake through its heart, hack its body into little bitty pieces and bury it twelve feet down in the shadow of a church at midnight.
Don't be too sure. The laws sometimes get weird when it comes to politics. Remember, in 1980 Barry Commoner created a radio ad prominently festuring the word "bullshit" and got away with it because it was a political statement (part of his presidential campaign).
I'm not saying you're wrong about the noise ordinance, just that . . . well, just that you may be, and if you are, thank political campaign laws.
"He who sells what isn't his'n must buy it back or go to prison."
OK, I have a better idea for a game, and the difference between mine and everyone else's is, it's a viable concept (plus it's open source, which should get me modded up).
This game would be designed for the Web (it'd probably be pretty easy with something like PHP) but could be done in a classroom as a competitive event with the right tweaks. Basically, instead of the RIAA's "starving artist" BS, you give the kids a choice of how they want to pursue their musical career:
- sign with a Big Label
- be independent and tour
- sell directly to the Net
- be a studio musician (or member of an orchestra)
- perform just because you enjoy it
(the last choice would be better if you had a Careers-type goal where you could choose a mixture of happiness, money and fame.)
There are probably other ways for a musician to market him/herself that I haven't thought of because I'm a coder.
Set it up so that along the way, events can happen that change the amount of money you can make. Maybe you're Discovered By A Big Label if you don't take option 1 and you have to decide whether to Sell Out or keep doing things the way you're doing them. Maybe you form a band and now have to split your take four ways -- or maybe you drop out of a band and have to reinvent your career. Again, a working musician would know all the things to look for better than I would.
Think of this as an old-school "choose your path" type game in the mold of Hamurabi or Santa Paravia. I think something like this would give kids a LOT better idea of what options they have in music than just winding them up and giving them a push toward the record store.
For purposes of spam, on January 1st my address will change to Redmond, California.
Yeah, it's hot grits a good thing Natalie Portman no other all your base running jokes goatse.cx have ever ????? Profit!!!!! become this widespread in Soviet Russia, jokes run YOU! on Slashdot.
is also known as Silverman's Paradox:
"If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will."
This is the only possible explanation of why things sometimes go right.
Come on... give some credit where it's due:
Sorry, I thought everyone knew that.
So the biggest one . . . the biggest, meanest nastiest father-raper . . . he comes over to me and says, "Kid, what'd you get?"
"I didn't get nothin'," I said, "I had to pay $100,000 and help secure a couple dozen open relays."
"What were you in for?"
"Spamming"
. . . and they all moved away from me on the Group W bench and gave me the hairy eyeball and all sorts of mean nasty stuff, until I said "and promoting Viagra and free pr0n" and they all shook my hand and we had a great time playing with the pencils and using the computers on the shelf by the window to strip a couple of mailing lists for addresses.
Yeah, I got one of those 202's too. I use it and a 2 amp power supply as a "base" rig.
Actually, if you get involved with the local ham community, you can often find someone who doesn't mind donating a hand-me-down to a new ham. I wouldn't count on it, but others have been kind enough to help me with equipment in the past.
And don't let the test scare you off. Any self respecting geek ought to be able to learn the test material in a couple afternoons.
Basically, when I decided to upgrade from Advanced to Extra, I found about four different sites that supplied online practice tests. Here's one of them; here's another; and here's a third. Basically, about three times a day I took a practice test and made notes on the stuff I missed. Then, I went back and studied up on those topics. Did I memorize the answers? Well, yeah . . . but I also decided that, after thirty years as a ham, it might be a good idea if I actually figured out what a time constant was useful for, or how to read a Smith chart, or how to figure complex impedance. So, I did.
After about three weeks I was scoring 100% constantly, and aced the in-person test.
The technician test should be a complete snap. You just need to know as much about the FCC rules related to ham radio as you need to know about state motor vehicle laws in order to pass your written driver's test.
I would like to point out that getting the gear needn't be expensive. These people have handheld 2-meter sets that cost less than most gamer-grade video cards. My 2-meter handheld, a Yaesu VX-5R, retails for $250 and Yaesu often has it on sale for around $200. It puts out 5 watts (sufficient for all the local repeaters), will do 6 meters and 440 as well, has a wide-ranging receiver, and isn't all that much bigger or heavier than my cell phone.
That will be sufficient for you to get into your local ARES net to prepare for emergencies in your area.
Yeah, something like $1.2 million in dog dollars.
McBride has given speeches and issued written statements. IANAL, but that sounds like both slander and libel to me.
I just went to see Arlo Guthrie in concert today, and dropped $40 on CDs. Not necessarily because I was anxious to get the music (although I am certainly looking forward to enjoying it), but because they are produced by Arlo himself under his non-RIAA affiliated label, and the money goes to supporting a working musician (and a national treasure, if I'm not being too hyperbolic).
I'm planning on doing the same next week at shows by world-music-meets-dance-band group Brave Combo and a capella humorists Da Vinci's Notebook. Again, it supports working musicians whose work I like, and not a dime goes to the RIAA.
Not only that, I bought a CD through CD Baby from a group I'd never heard of, based solely on the previews CD Baby provided.
I urge the rest of you to do the same with bands you like. You can simultaneously support working musicians and deprive the entertainment industrial complex of money to churn out more dreck, sue you, or both.
was apparently stolen from presidential candidate Al Smith, and oddly enough, is very apropos to Slashdot:
"No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney."