Yeah, but that's a separate limit -- what you'll usually see with a large archive on Usenet is several.rar segments, with each of those segments, in turn, split across several articles.
The 15MB size really is common for those.rar segments, and this really might explain it. I'd wondered about it myself.
Edison was not a scientist. Sometimes, he was an engineer; most often he was a businessman, taking credit for the work of others in his "invention factory".
Actually I read and posted AC for a few years before I registered -- I was just too lazy to do it. Anyway, I said "computers", not "Slashdot". And it was a joke (albeit lame). But you really should know about the Apple I. Along with other early micros... I lived much of it (the Apple I was before my time), but you can at least read about it. You might start here.
Yep. I saw some guy on the news the other day who'd totally bought into it, too -- he was talking about some free wireless access his organization had added to its facility, "so all you need is a Centrino system". It was sad. Of course he was some execudroid, not a techie.
But the Pentium M is a nice chip. It's low-clock, not slow.
IMHO the Google WiFi search is not that useful, at least in my zip (I get a Starbucks and a Quality Inn). I got much more interesting results from here. Not sure how up-to-date it is, though.
What's to understand? AMD processors deliver more value for the buck, and have for a long time. Yet people keep buying Intel, apparently because of their superior marketing. This is irritating.
I've been paralyzed by electricity. It was one of the most frightening experiences of my life.
I was just a little kid, maybe four or five. I remember this device, I think it was a humidifier, with a silver panel with a small (~1 cm) square hole, and a red panel behind the hole. I stuck my finger in the hole -- and I couldn't move. I couldn't even cry for help. Luckily my mother came by and pulled me away.
To this day, the tingling of electricity gives me the creeps. Maybe that's just normal; or maybe it has something to do with my experience. But I can't stand those touch lamps that are so popular now, because of that tingle.
Yes... WTF is "m-commerce"? Am I supposed to know what that means? Well, I'll turn to the font of all knowledge, Google... let's see... "mobile commerce"... something to do with cell phones? Hmm.
Apparently the term has been around for at least four years, since I found a Wired article about it from Feb. 2000; but this is the first time I've seen it. The Wired article talks about smartcards.
I still don't know what it is. File it under 'M' for "meaningless", I guess, along with "M-Life".
The Greatness of H.G. Wells OR The Magical 4 Years
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Something struck me a few months ago, when I was reading up on Wells for some reason or other (probably because I'd just seen "Time After Time" again). I'd been a fan since I was a kid, but I hadn't realized that:
The Time Machine (1895)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896)
The Invisible Man (1897)
The War of the Worlds (1898)
came out, in that order with nothing in between, in the short space of just four years. The whole foundation of modern science fiction! It blew my mind.
Of course, these aren't Wells' only great works; but has there ever been anything like those four years, for any author?
One more reason to check the "Light" box under Preferences / Homepage. I first turned it on for my PocketPC, and now I use it all the time. No more columns at all.
Yeah, that's exactly what Tivo does (though there are ways around the signature checking, in that instance).:-( It certainly goes against the spirit of the GPL, if not the letter.
Just distributing the firmware to customers, as part of the phone, is enough to invoke the GPL. But your question -- forgive me if I'm misinterpreting -- seems to be assuming something not in evidence: that this will somehow be a problem, or that Motorola isn't intending to comply with the GPL.
Of course, there may also be (and probably will be) non-GPL'd apps running on this Linux base. I don't expect to see a truly "open phone". But (at least until the event) I'm not expecting GPL violations, either.
I'm going to reply to your sig, because by coindicence it's more or less on topic for this story, and the entry in your journal can't be replied to anymore:
Alright, but have you ever seen "Heavenly Creatures"? Brilliant in every way... and it showed just the skills he'd need for a successful translation of LOTR to the screen. That was the only Peter Jackson film I'd seen at the time I heard (right here on Slashdot) that he'd be doing LOTR, and I thought he was an excellent choice.
As it turned out, I've been a little disappointed by the LOTR movies. But that's another story...
It's described here as a "conflict", and in another article as a "squabble"; but nowhere have I seen an explanation of what the fight was about. I'm sure it was something stupid, and I realize it's not material to the charges; but still, I'd like to know. Just what did motivate him to do this?
I wrote some self-modifying Z80 code back in my Sinclair days. I had two purposes:
1. To make it relocatable -- where relative jumps weren't enough, I used tables to rewrite the offsets of JP and CALL instructions. The programs I did this in were basically TSRs, before I ever heard that term.:-)
2. To fit everything in memory. The TS2068 (U.S. version of the ZX Spectrum) had only 48K of RAM, and 6.75K of that was display memory.
I'd never do it nowadays. But at the time, it was fun, blurring the data/code distinction. Really, I suppose that was the main reason I did it -- just the sheer hacking thrill of it.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but that's a separate limit -- what you'll usually see with a large archive on Usenet is several .rar segments, with each of those segments, in turn, split across several articles.
.rar segments, and this really might explain it. I'd wondered about it myself.
The 15MB size really is common for those
cd mail
fgrep "search terms" *
Note that 89 FM was described as being in Brazil, a little out of the FCC's jurisdiction. Dunno what the rules might be in Brazil.
Edison was not a scientist. Sometimes, he was an engineer; most often he was a businessman, taking credit for the work of others in his "invention factory".
Actually I read and posted AC for a few years before I registered -- I was just too lazy to do it. Anyway, I said "computers", not "Slashdot". And it was a joke (albeit lame). But you really should know about the Apple I. Along with other early micros... I lived much of it (the Apple I was before my time), but you can at least read about it. You might start here.
Lots of us, actually.
F'ing newbie... I bet you've only been into computers, what, ten, fifteen years?
Yep. I saw some guy on the news the other day who'd totally bought into it, too -- he was talking about some free wireless access his organization had added to its facility, "so all you need is a Centrino system". It was sad. Of course he was some execudroid, not a techie.
But the Pentium M is a nice chip. It's low-clock, not slow.
IMHO the Google WiFi search is not that useful, at least in my zip (I get a Starbucks and a Quality Inn). I got much more interesting results from here. Not sure how up-to-date it is, though.
What's to understand? AMD processors deliver more value for the buck, and have for a long time. Yet people keep buying Intel, apparently because of their superior marketing. This is irritating.
They shouldn't be putting on any sidewalk. It's visual pollution.
Guerilla marketing is easy to control: Just don't start doing it in the first place.
I've been paralyzed by electricity. It was one of the most frightening experiences of my life.
I was just a little kid, maybe four or five. I remember this device, I think it was a humidifier, with a silver panel with a small (~1 cm) square hole, and a red panel behind the hole. I stuck my finger in the hole -- and I couldn't move. I couldn't even cry for help. Luckily my mother came by and pulled me away.
To this day, the tingling of electricity gives me the creeps. Maybe that's just normal; or maybe it has something to do with my experience. But I can't stand those touch lamps that are so popular now, because of that tingle.
But they aren't defaced. I see the faces plainly. They're hardly even distorted.
I once had an Apple II floppy drive literally go up in smoke. Of course that was before the WWW.
Yes... WTF is "m-commerce"? Am I supposed to know what that means? Well, I'll turn to the font of all knowledge, Google... let's see... "mobile commerce"... something to do with cell phones? Hmm.
Apparently the term has been around for at least four years, since I found a Wired article about it from Feb. 2000; but this is the first time I've seen it. The Wired article talks about smartcards.
I still don't know what it is. File it under 'M' for "meaningless", I guess, along with "M-Life".
Something struck me a few months ago, when I was reading up on Wells for some reason or other (probably because I'd just seen "Time After Time" again). I'd been a fan since I was a kid, but I hadn't realized that:
The Time Machine (1895)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896)
The Invisible Man (1897)
The War of the Worlds (1898)
came out, in that order with nothing in between, in the short space of just four years. The whole foundation of modern science fiction! It blew my mind.
Of course, these aren't Wells' only great works; but has there ever been anything like those four years, for any author?
One more reason to check the "Light" box under Preferences / Homepage. I first turned it on for my PocketPC, and now I use it all the time. No more columns at all.
Yeah, that's exactly what Tivo does (though there are ways around the signature checking, in that instance). :-( It certainly goes against the spirit of the GPL, if not the letter.
Just distributing the firmware to customers, as part of the phone, is enough to invoke the GPL. But your question -- forgive me if I'm misinterpreting -- seems to be assuming something not in evidence: that this will somehow be a problem, or that Motorola isn't intending to comply with the GPL.
Of course, there may also be (and probably will be) non-GPL'd apps running on this Linux base. I don't expect to see a truly "open phone". But (at least until the event) I'm not expecting GPL violations, either.
I'm going to reply to your sig, because by coindicence it's more or less on topic for this story, and the entry in your journal can't be replied to anymore:
The sales clerk was on crack.
As I said some years ago, the great thing about the Hurd is that you can always look forward to it.
Spinoza's God is hardly more than a rhetorical device, or a way of avoiding saying that one is an atheist.
Alright, but have you ever seen "Heavenly Creatures"? Brilliant in every way... and it showed just the skills he'd need for a successful translation of LOTR to the screen. That was the only Peter Jackson film I'd seen at the time I heard (right here on Slashdot) that he'd be doing LOTR, and I thought he was an excellent choice.
As it turned out, I've been a little disappointed by the LOTR movies. But that's another story...
It's described here as a "conflict", and in another article as a "squabble"; but nowhere have I seen an explanation of what the fight was about. I'm sure it was something stupid, and I realize it's not material to the charges; but still, I'd like to know. Just what did motivate him to do this?
I wrote some self-modifying Z80 code back in my Sinclair days. I had two purposes:
:-)
1. To make it relocatable -- where relative jumps weren't enough, I used tables to rewrite the offsets of JP and CALL instructions. The programs I did this in were basically TSRs, before I ever heard that term.
2. To fit everything in memory. The TS2068 (U.S. version of the ZX Spectrum) had only 48K of RAM, and 6.75K of that was display memory.
I'd never do it nowadays. But at the time, it was fun, blurring the data/code distinction. Really, I suppose that was the main reason I did it -- just the sheer hacking thrill of it.
Because I have the frigging key. If I have the frigging key, I don't want the alarm to go off.
Mind you, I'm not sure I'd want a car alarm at all. My current car doesn't have one, but then it's going on 12 years old.