Of course the reason we could learn (aside from BASIC available on the command line) was that these computers shipped with a nice slim programmers manual with examples.
There were also many games and apps also written in BASIC. It was easy to see how things worked, and modify them if you wanted to. (remember Carwash?)
Heck, I added Level of Detail to my animations in 1981, and hacked on a keyboard control interface to games.. We hadn't bought a joystick controller.
Johnny will learn to code if he can't play his game without it, believe me!
This experience has let me call BS on lots of professional coders who try to claim that computers wont do . "Well..." they concede you're right we could that, "But we'd have to write some code".. Fer chrissakes why be a programmer if you don't want to write code!
What is funny is that you said "people who pirate everything they own"
If pirating is implied to be bad like stealing, then they don't own it do they...
If as you say they now own what they have pirated, you acknowledge that ownership (and right to use and access) trancends copyright, etc. Which, really isnt such a bad idea, and a lot of people share your view.
PS
Most people who I know who choose PC over Mac, choose PC for the variety and availability of software of all types: Freeware, Shareware, Pirated, and of course purchased.
"The fundamental result of access space separation is that
you can't share data structures. That means that you can't
share locking, it means that you must copy any shared data,
and that in turn means that you have a much harder time
handling coherency. All your algorithms basically end up
being distributed algorithms.
And anybody who tells you that distributed algorithms
are "simpler" is just so full of sh*t that it's not even
funny.
Microkernels are much harder to write and maintain
exactly because of this issue. You can do simple
things easily - and in particular, you can do things where
the information only passes in one direction quite easily,
but anythign else is much much harder, because there is
no "shared state" (by design). And in the absense of shared
state, you have a hell of a lot of problems trying to make
any decision that spans more than one entity in the
system.
And I'm not just saying that. This is a fact. It's a fact
that has been shown in practice over and over again, not
just in kernels. But it's been shown in operating systems
too - and not just once. The whole "microkernels are
simpler" argument is just bull, and it is clearly shown to
be bull by the fact that whenever you compare the speed
of development of a microkernel and a traditional kernel,
the traditional kernel wins. By a huge amount, too.
The whole argument that microkernels are somehow "more
secure" or "more stable" is also total crap. The fact that
each individual piece is simple and secure does not make
the aggregate either simple or secure."
As data densities have increased, physically moving the storage devices has become faster than broad band transmission of data between storage devices.
ie shipping hard drives rather than using fiber. (or for that matter using carrier pigeons and FlashRam.)
How long will it be before we have a coast to coast pneumatic tube system to ship data?
Or even better, an evacuated ballistic subway for delivering harddrives..
Come to think of it, how about a continuous loop of "data tape" which encircles the globe at ground level, and orbits within an evacuated pipeline.
Sorry for bringing this up. Rats are on the decline as is our exposure to their feces, etc in our food supply. Dogs (known for licking their anus vigourously) seem to find cat feces an irresistable treat, whether from the litter box, or the garden. "Mans Best Friend" also takes any opportunity it has to lick adults and children on the hands and face. Dogs live in close proximity to us, and could be a vector here. My dog (a rottweiler) hunts rats. She is very intelligent and aware, tho sometimes seems to have no fear ie heights, traffic, etc.
By chance, a friend told me today about an electrical transformer which blew up violently outside his house. Cars in the street were disabled and his neighbours car wouldn't start again until some part was replaced. Also, static charges carried by meteorites threaten satellites more than the meteorites do. Perhaps an electro-magentic pulse is overkill, just need a static discharge weapon.. after all pumping electrons ain't so hard.. for that matter, CRT's keep a big charge for a long time. Just charge the tube up and huck your tv sets at the advancing robot hoards.
The Explosively pumped flux compression generator mentioned in a previous post does exist and looks great for rapidly charging field artillery grade capacitors as they hurl into those pesky automata.
Has sci-fi overly stimulated designers, or is it the other way around?
What we focus on creates our future.
Better outlaw thinking before some one comes up with dangerous ideas.
In the desert in southern Arizona, I saw something airborne which I identified as a dirigible type airship that was VERY large. The net is full of these "black triangle" reports ie:
http://www.lowobservable.com/Black.htm
Seeing this product leads me to think that military use may already be occuring, ie as mobile aircraft carrier / refueling. As a side note.. has material science progressed enough to consider a "vacuum" balloon.. that is a lifting body with nothing in it?
This plant
comfrey is a nitrogen fixing bush. It grows quickly and can deal with a fair bit of peeing on. It can be cut back heavily and spreads well by the roots. It makes a good corner or compost heap plant and has medicinal qualities.
It uses lots of nitrogen in leaf growth, so it uses nitrogen rich pee as fertilizer. It would be good in areas people pee.
PS: A community building here has some type of no flow urinal, it works great and is clean, in spite of the steady beer sales.
The idea that our body must be damaged by force in order for there to be malfunction would only be correct if we were a static mechanical entity.. that is not alive and constantly changing and responding.
It has been demonstrated that the delicate blood/brain barrier filter opens or is perforated by cell phone radiation, leading to proteins (primarily albumin) leaking into brain tissues. These proteins then cause great damage to neural tissue. (research references)
There are many real situations where cellphone radiation is concentrated.. metal subway cars with many cell carrying passengers for instance. So all the rational pencil pushing in the world can't claim to be accurate without empirical evidence of the devices operation in the field.
also another good link page
I also have envisioned these natural divisions of hardware. CCD/Lens system, Storage (HDD, Flash, and tape), Viewfinder Display, network comm.
By standardizing a bus and physical attachment method, you could stack the items together that you need. (like lego tm)
PC's proliferated by this design mode. So a PDA + HDD + ccd & lens = camera and so on. Add a DV tape drive when needed, etc. wirelessly connected glasses or PDA viewfinder are fine because viewfinder resolution is lower than recorded resolution.
Too bad for lack of vision in real usablity from gadget vendors! They should play with "Bey Blades" to see modularity in action.
Tethers and belt packs are fine. I use a JVC High-Def camcorder which tires my arm out, can't wait to offload tape and battery, etc. to a belt or bag.
The small cameras are hard to stabilize tho, no inertia.. I expect to see micro steady-cam systems as weights diminish.
I have a STACK of dv tape around since editting lags behind shooting. dv tape has great capacity per $. maybe next gen DVD's will be a good solution, but considering the compress time, i'd rather stripe to tape raw while the battery recharges.
With greatest respect to all the brilliant coders, there are just somethings which are "out of the box".. that can't be arm waved and approximated into submission. This is obviously a true experiment (and capital A Art), there is no room to fudge the numbers.. even if they are close.
You all know the scientific method.. Do not forget about the artistic process. Both require getting your hands dirty to produce empirical results. The original image has a certain ineffable realistic quality which even the best renderers generally lack. Hats off to this artist's endeavour!
I tried the gentoo live-cd's for a G4 and only got a command line install version, despite the claims from gentoo that a full GUI live CD existed... where is it?!? has anyone actually found this phantom and made it go?
But basically freedom of the press is only for those that own one. (and ink)
Raw stock and machine needs will lead to centralized limited run production depots, such as desktop publishing did.
I downloaded plans, bought some standard aluminum stock, and now have a precision milled device, and i never measured a thing!
just think: freeware bicycles and so on!
I have one of these units.. it performs much better with an antenna upgrade! Someone at Linksys seems to be doing some good engineering, because their gear is cheap, functional and has hackable connectors.
The downside is some firmware features which i would love to have for handling MAC filtering/redirecting dynamically.
The bios upgrades they offer seem hardware version specific.. the BEFW11s4 has 5 versions that i'm aware of. (1, 2, 3, 3.2, 4)
Good effort, but the ergonomics don't seem quite right. Also surprising it took this long to integrate these technologies.
I am reminded of that Russian MiG which was flown out to Japan. The reverse engineering team was stunned by what was achieved with "old" technology that was tightly tuned and integrated. I look forward to innovations coming from places where technology has only trickled in due to economic or supply factors, making development more deliberate and well considered.
More details: Something might have struck the shuttle about a day after launch.
Sources say data from Air Force tracking radar indicates the possibility that a piece of the shuttle may have come off. They see something that appears to be separating from the orbiter about five meters per second. That's about 11 miles per hour.
It could be a "water dump" but the profile doesn't seem right.
Seems everyone kept their secrets about debris coming off the shuttle from launch to orbit.
Late Saturday, NASA said the U.S. Strategic Command apparently tracked something flying near Columbia after it had reached orbit. Space agency spokeswoman Eileen Hawley said it was possible the object came from Columbia, but stressed "this is very raw data" that had just been turned over to investigators and that it was too early to speculate.
What if it was part of their spaceship! NASA should change its abbrev to SNAFU!
The top secret item could still be floating around out there.. Late Saturday, NASA said the U.S. Strategic Command apparently tracked something flying near Columbia after it had reached orbit. Space agency spokeswoman Eileen Hawley said it was possible the object came from Columbia, but stressed "this is very raw data" that had just been turned over to investigators and that it was too early to speculate.
Since they kept the launch damage secret no one in other agencies thought to comment.. or did they? If you were NASA admins, would you rather look like idiots, or have a spaceship full of walking dead? I feel fortunate to only have a theory to get shot down.
The damage on the leading edge seems to be along the elbow of the wing where it transitions from one angle to another. The sensors are dropping off around the wing over time, and what comes to mind is various aerodynamic forms of burning aluminum flame. As the leading edge is destroyed, the wave forms change, focusing the heat on different areas. As
the launch video shows, the airlow moves from the fuselage side of the wing towards the tip. If/when an aluminum flame started, I can imagine it burning outwards along the leading edge, peeling off more of the leading edge, exposing and igniting more aluminumenum.
The carbon-carbon leading edge is bolted on and I have an idea of how it came off, indirectly from the foam damage NASA said would not harm it directly.
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The Apple ][ and Apple ][+ had these manuals.. the //c was a little later, and aside from different manuals, etc, didn't sport the cool numeric ][ .
Of course the reason we could learn (aside from BASIC available on the command line) was that these computers shipped with a nice slim programmers manual with examples.
There were also many games and apps also written in BASIC. It was easy to see how things worked, and modify them if you wanted to. (remember Carwash?)
Heck, I added Level of Detail to my animations in 1981, and hacked on a keyboard control interface to games.. We hadn't bought a joystick controller.
Johnny will learn to code if he can't play his game without it, believe me!
This experience has let me call BS on lots of professional coders who try to claim that computers wont do . "Well..." they concede you're right we could that, "But we'd have to write some code".. Fer chrissakes why be a programmer if you don't want to write code!
What is funny is that you said "people who pirate everything they own"
If pirating is implied to be bad like stealing, then they don't own it do they...
If as you say they now own what they have pirated, you acknowledge that ownership (and right to use and access) trancends copyright, etc. Which, really isnt such a bad idea, and a lot of people share your view.
PS
Most people who I know who choose PC over Mac, choose PC for the variety and availability of software of all types: Freeware, Shareware, Pirated, and of course purchased.
Linus FTFA:
"The fundamental result of access space separation is that you can't share data structures. That means that you can't share locking, it means that you must copy any shared data, and that in turn means that you have a much harder time handling coherency. All your algorithms basically end up being distributed algorithms.
And anybody who tells you that distributed algorithms are "simpler" is just so full of sh*t that it's not even funny.
Microkernels are much harder to write and maintain exactly because of this issue. You can do simple things easily - and in particular, you can do things where the information only passes in one direction quite easily, but anythign else is much much harder, because there is no "shared state" (by design). And in the absense of shared state, you have a hell of a lot of problems trying to make any decision that spans more than one entity in the system.
And I'm not just saying that. This is a fact. It's a fact that has been shown in practice over and over again, not just in kernels. But it's been shown in operating systems too - and not just once. The whole "microkernels are simpler" argument is just bull, and it is clearly shown to be bull by the fact that whenever you compare the speed of development of a microkernel and a traditional kernel, the traditional kernel wins. By a huge amount, too.
The whole argument that microkernels are somehow "more secure" or "more stable" is also total crap. The fact that each individual piece is simple and secure does not make the aggregate either simple or secure."
There is a software which somewhat does what you are describing... Laying out the filesystem in a 3D rendered representation.
"The design of the interface is based on our remarkable ability to recall the placement of a virtually unlimited number of stationary objects. Quick! Where's your camera? What drawer are your blue socks in? Tactile 3D effectively identifies files, directories, and drives by using various 3D models. Organizing your data in a more visual way alleviates the current necessity to remember cryptic file and path names to get what you want."
Seems like a promising product to me.
Thanks to the cute link we know where all the kittens are teh PIGs rule!
I like the concept a lot! But.. when I do this in OO Calc v2.0 there is no auto-magic update of the field data if I edit and resave the CSV file.
.csv file ie
I have checked the link box, and browsed for my
1,2,3
4,5,6
linking, and adding
7,8,9 and saving
Causes no table refresh in OO Calc Suggestions?
Either you're a troll or you are ignorant of a great human suffering. Why did thyroid cancers increased dramatically if there was no fallout? http://www.belarusembassy.org/humanitarian/rtc.htm
http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Features/Chernobyl- 15/cherno-faq.shtml
As data densities have increased, physically moving the storage devices has become faster than broad band transmission of data between storage devices.
ie shipping hard drives rather than using fiber. (or for that matter using carrier pigeons and FlashRam.)
How long will it be before we have a coast to coast pneumatic tube system to ship data?
Or even better, an evacuated ballistic subway for delivering harddrives..
Come to think of it, how about a continuous loop of "data tape" which encircles the globe at ground level, and orbits within an evacuated pipeline.
heh heh. Its not really that far fetched.
Sorry for bringing this up.
Rats are on the decline as is our exposure to their feces, etc in our food supply.
Dogs (known for licking their anus vigourously) seem to find cat feces an irresistable treat, whether from the litter box, or the garden.
"Mans Best Friend" also takes any opportunity it has to lick adults and children on the hands and face.
Dogs live in close proximity to us, and could be a vector here.
My dog (a rottweiler) hunts rats. She is very intelligent and aware, tho sometimes seems to have no fear ie heights, traffic, etc.
By chance, a friend told me today about an electrical transformer which blew up violently outside his house. Cars in the street were disabled and his neighbours car wouldn't start again until some part was replaced.
Also, static charges carried by meteorites threaten satellites more than the meteorites do.
Perhaps an electro-magentic pulse is overkill, just need a static discharge weapon.. after all pumping electrons ain't so hard.. for that matter, CRT's keep a big charge for a long time. Just charge the tube up and huck your tv sets at the advancing robot hoards.
The Explosively pumped flux compression generator mentioned in a previous post does exist and looks great for rapidly charging field artillery grade capacitors as they hurl into those pesky automata.
Has sci-fi overly stimulated designers, or is it the other way around?
What we focus on creates our future.
Better outlaw thinking before some one comes up with dangerous ideas.
In the desert in southern Arizona, I saw something airborne which I identified as a dirigible type airship that was VERY large. The net is full of these "black triangle" reports ie: http://www.lowobservable.com/Black.htm Seeing this product leads me to think that military use may already be occuring, ie as mobile aircraft carrier / refueling. As a side note.. has material science progressed enough to consider a "vacuum" balloon.. that is a lifting body with nothing in it?
This plant comfrey is a nitrogen fixing bush. It grows quickly and can deal with a fair bit of peeing on. It can be cut back heavily and spreads well by the roots. It makes a good corner or compost heap plant and has medicinal qualities.
It uses lots of nitrogen in leaf growth, so it uses nitrogen rich pee as fertilizer. It would be good in areas people pee.
PS: A community building here has some type of no flow urinal, it works great and is clean, in spite of the steady beer sales.
The idea that our body must be damaged by force in order for there to be malfunction would only be correct if we were a static mechanical entity.. that is not alive and constantly changing and responding.
It has been demonstrated that the delicate blood/brain barrier filter opens or is perforated by cell phone radiation, leading to proteins (primarily albumin) leaking into brain tissues. These proteins then cause great damage to neural tissue. (research references)
There are many real situations where cellphone radiation is concentrated.. metal subway cars with many cell carrying passengers for instance. So all the rational pencil pushing in the world can't claim to be accurate without empirical evidence of the devices operation in the field.
also another good link page
I also have envisioned these natural divisions of hardware. CCD/Lens system, Storage (HDD, Flash, and tape), Viewfinder Display, network comm.
By standardizing a bus and physical attachment method, you could stack the items together that you need. (like lego tm)
PC's proliferated by this design mode. So a PDA + HDD + ccd & lens = camera and so on. Add a DV tape drive when needed, etc. wirelessly connected glasses or PDA viewfinder are fine because viewfinder resolution is lower than recorded resolution.
Too bad for lack of vision in real usablity from gadget vendors! They should play with "Bey Blades" to see modularity in action.
Tethers and belt packs are fine. I use a JVC High-Def camcorder which tires my arm out, can't wait to offload tape and battery, etc. to a belt or bag.
The small cameras are hard to stabilize tho, no inertia.. I expect to see micro steady-cam systems as weights diminish.
I have a STACK of dv tape around since editting lags behind shooting. dv tape has great capacity per $. maybe next gen DVD's will be a good solution, but considering the compress time, i'd rather stripe to tape raw while the battery recharges.
With greatest respect to all the brilliant coders, there are just somethings which are "out of the box".. that can't be arm waved and approximated into submission. This is obviously a true experiment (and capital A Art), there is no room to fudge the numbers.. even if they are close.
You all know the scientific method.. Do not forget about the artistic process. Both require getting your hands dirty to produce empirical results. The original image has a certain ineffable realistic quality which even the best renderers generally lack. Hats off to this artist's endeavour!
I tried the gentoo live-cd's for a G4 and only got a command line install version, despite the claims from gentoo that a full GUI live CD existed... where is it?!? has anyone actually found this phantom and made it go?
But basically freedom of the press is only for those that own one. (and ink) Raw stock and machine needs will lead to centralized limited run production depots, such as desktop publishing did. I downloaded plans, bought some standard aluminum stock, and now have a precision milled device, and i never measured a thing! just think: freeware bicycles and so on!
I have one of these units.. it performs much better with an antenna upgrade! Someone at Linksys seems to be doing some good engineering, because their gear is cheap, functional and has hackable connectors. The downside is some firmware features which i would love to have for handling MAC filtering/redirecting dynamically. The bios upgrades they offer seem hardware version specific.. the BEFW11s4 has 5 versions that i'm aware of. (1, 2, 3, 3.2, 4)
Good effort, but the ergonomics don't seem quite right. Also surprising it took this long to integrate these technologies.
I am reminded of that Russian MiG which was flown out to Japan. The reverse engineering team was stunned by what was achieved with "old" technology that was tightly tuned and integrated. I look forward to innovations coming from places where technology has only trickled in due to economic or supply factors, making development more deliberate and well considered.
More details: Something might have struck the shuttle about a day after launch.
Sources say data from Air Force tracking radar indicates the possibility that a piece of the shuttle may have come off. They see something that appears to be separating from the orbiter about five meters per second. That's about 11 miles per hour.
It could be a "water dump" but the profile doesn't seem right.
Seems everyone kept their secrets about debris coming off the shuttle from launch to orbit. Late Saturday, NASA said the U.S. Strategic Command apparently tracked something flying near Columbia after it had reached orbit. Space agency spokeswoman Eileen Hawley said it was possible the object came from Columbia, but stressed "this is very raw data" that had just been turned over to investigators and that it was too early to speculate.
me? i've published everything i could find.
What if it was part of their spaceship! NASA should change its abbrev to SNAFU! The top secret item could still be floating around out there..
Late Saturday, NASA said the U.S. Strategic Command apparently tracked something flying near Columbia after it had reached orbit. Space agency spokeswoman Eileen Hawley said it was possible the object came from Columbia, but stressed "this is very raw data" that had just been turned over to investigators and that it was too early to speculate.
Since they kept the launch damage secret no one in other agencies thought to comment.. or did they? If you were NASA admins, would you rather look like idiots, or have a spaceship full of walking dead? I feel fortunate to only have a theory to get shot down.
The damage on the leading edge seems to be along the elbow of the wing where it transitions from one angle to another. The sensors are dropping off around the wing over time, and what comes to mind is various aerodynamic forms of burning aluminum flame. As the leading edge is destroyed, the wave forms change, focusing the heat on different areas. As the launch video shows, the airlow moves from the fuselage side of the wing towards the tip. If/when an aluminum flame started, I can imagine it burning outwards along the leading edge, peeling off more of the leading edge, exposing and igniting more aluminumenum.
The carbon-carbon leading edge is bolted on and I have an idea of how it came off, indirectly from the foam damage NASA said would not harm it directly.