I was at work. All of a sudden, some guy came into my office and told me the shuttle blew up. I thought he was shitting me.
We were in a classified area, and weren't allowed to have radios. There were a hell of a lot of security violations that day, as we had radios on all over the place.
That night, I rented The Space Movie, and stared at it in a daze over and over until I fell asleep.
Of course, todays 31337 h4Xx0R5 don't even know what a.ARC file is!
Back in my day, we had to walk 15 miles through a raging snowstorm to extract our archives. Uphill! Both ways! And we were glad to do it, too! We didn't have no fancy ZIP programs neither! But we didn't complain, oh no!
IIRC, the spider biots looked like big basketballs with three eyes sitting on top of 3 legs, with three whiplike arms (I kind of visualized them like the way that the two extra squid tentacles are).
Ok, so it's not custom, but your post reminded me...
At work, we've got an Austin 486/33 EISA from 1992, before they got bought out by some Taiwanese outfit (it was top-of-the-line when it came out). It's been running continuously since 1992 (except for hardware upgrades -- more disk).
But the killer is the case. The fscker has a solid steel case and is built like a tank. It'll probably still be running when the sun goes red giant and swallows the earth!
Sorry, dude, I chose my 5160 because it had a 7-day battery life (ready mode). Everything else the AT&T store had was 2 days. The changeable faceplate was just an extra.
Stupid thing... I hit Enter to tab to this field by mistake. Sorry about the double post...
Anyways...
Now we can have computers that have
literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and neeping and flashing - they're *flashing* and they're *beeping*. I can't stand it anymore! They're *blinking* and *beeping* and *flashing*! Why doesn't somebody pull the plug!
Not to nitpick or anything:-P, but they called the quantum fluctuations the "zero-points". I always thought it was called zero point energy because the vacuum had a net E of 0, and you could extract the energy from the quantum fluctuations (thank you Heisenberg!).
Of course, there are some theories that say our entire universe is a quantum fluctuation that just got a wee bit out of hand...
I was wondering about that... At the risk of going off-topic, how many people opposed to RIAA/MPAA/DVD-CCA and CPRM wanted/bought/got/own Playstation2's for Xmas?
Congratulations. You just broke your boycott, and supported Sony, a member of RIAA, MPAA, and DVD-CCA.
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Hell, I'm getting chills just reading it.
I was at work. All of a sudden, some guy came into my office and told me the shuttle blew up. I thought he was shitting me.
We were in a classified area, and weren't allowed to have radios. There were a hell of a lot of security violations that day, as we had radios on all over the place.
That night, I rented The Space Movie, and stared at it in a daze over and over until I fell asleep.
Of course, todays 31337 h4Xx0R5 don't even know what a .ARC file is!
Back in my day, we had to walk 15 miles through a raging snowstorm to extract our archives. Uphill! Both ways! And we were glad to do it, too! We didn't have no fancy ZIP programs neither! But we didn't complain, oh no!
Yes, Kernighan was a brain, but his first name is Brian.
Yeah, but it ain't the same as finding SIMTEL20.ARPA, and having to know to set TENEX...
Remember, SIMTEL20 was a DECsystem-20, running TOPS-20.
Gods, what a weird OS that was...
It wasn't an ornithopter, it was a flycycle.
IIRC, the spider biots looked like big basketballs with three eyes sitting on top of 3 legs, with three whiplike arms (I kind of visualized them like the way that the two extra squid tentacles are).
Oh, and the difference between junk snail-mail and junk email is who pays for it.
The sender pays for junk snailmail. YOU pay (in increased ISP costs, and -- for europeans -- connect time) for junk email.
It's interesting that there are steps afoot to outlaw electronic spam already, after all the www is not that old.
Dude, get a fscking clue! WWW is not the Internet. E-Mail dates from the early '70s.
Ok, so it's not custom, but your post reminded me...
At work, we've got an Austin 486/33 EISA from 1992, before they got bought out by some Taiwanese outfit (it was top-of-the-line when it came out). It's been running continuously since 1992 (except for hardware upgrades -- more disk).
But the killer is the case. The fscker has a solid steel case and is built like a tank. It'll probably still be running when the sun goes red giant and swallows the earth!
Didn't PackardHell make one several years back that was trapezoidal and designed to fit into a corner?
I like to see what's going on in my computer,
Anyone remember the old Wyse or (pre-Dell) PC's Limited computers that had an LCD panel on the front?
Sorry, dude, I chose my 5160 because it had a 7-day battery life (ready mode). Everything else the AT&T store had was 2 days. The changeable faceplate was just an extra.
Stupid thing... I hit Enter to tab to this field by mistake. Sorry about the double post...
Anyways...
Now we can have computers that have
(Thank you William Shatner!)
And Ben Franklin was right up there too...
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See the
Genius (I forget the author)
James Gleick. Try here.
Don't most of us on Slashdot work in IT already?
You could put this on your CPRM enabled hard drive!
Not to nitpick or anything :-P, but they called the quantum fluctuations the "zero-points". I always thought it was called zero point energy because the vacuum had a net E of 0, and you could extract the energy from the quantum fluctuations (thank you Heisenberg!).
Of course, there are some theories that say our entire universe is a quantum fluctuation that just got a wee bit out of hand...
the gastrobots have been built without the ability to defecate
Does that mean they're full of sh*t?
Maybe we should send them to Uranus?
Bye bye, Karma!
January 13, 2002
Also check out Bruce Sterling's "The Difference Engine". Drags in Lady Ada Lovelace as well.
Sir Isaac Newton - the laws of physics
James Clerk Maxwell - the laws of electrodynamics
Stephen Hawking
Will our boycott really matter?
I was wondering about that... At the risk of going off-topic, how many people opposed to RIAA/MPAA/DVD-CCA and CPRM wanted/bought/got/own Playstation2's for Xmas?
Congratulations. You just broke your boycott, and supported Sony, a member of RIAA, MPAA, and DVD-CCA.
Now watch my karma drop through the floor.
I don't know. Maybe Digital Convergence will turn around and sue NetZero for that business model?