Good old Acorn RISC OS already supported the use of directories as files back in the eighties. E.g.: Click on a file to open it, shift click to show a directory of sub-files (recurse at will).
You're thinking of application directories. It could not be done with ordinary files - They had to be a directory.
The only difference was that if a directory had an exclamation mark as its first character, RISC OS's default action would be to execute a file called !Run inside that directory.
Fantastic idea - It meant that you could keep all the libraries and files required for an application in one folder. It also meant that you could move the program and its associated files wherever you liked on the hard disk - There was only ever one icon to move.
If you ever decided to move stuff around like that in Windows, prepare for your programs to stop working.
Adrian's first goal was to get the BBC Master computer working reliably again. This was no simple task. It involved getting hold of and reading through systems documentation, trying to understand both the operating system commands and the internal workings of this mid-1980s computer.
Jesus, it was only 17 years ago. This reads like he was trying to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs from scratch.
I'm sure that many of the people who originally designed and used the system back in 1986 are still alive. Why not just ask one of them how it works?
Indeed, nearly any British hacker that went to school in the eighties and early nineties would have been able to help him out with those pesky BBC operating system commands.
Can someone sue a spammer for offering to sell 'adult only' items/services to children?
This assumes that you can find out how old a person is simply by looking at their email address. The very nature of spam is that it doesn't care where it goes.
Pantone may own the standard numbers by which digital designers refer to colors, but only the FCC can give you an exclusive license to a color itself.
So I could patent the wavelength of a colour of my choosing, and claim royalties every time someone uses a colour that matches my wavelength? Now there's a way to get rich quick...
Except people wearing clothes using your colour could run away from you really quickly and cause red shift:
"See? It's not the same as your colour. It's very slightly more red. You can't sue me!"
In this day of ever increasing memory and hardware demands for new software, it's nice to see that there are people out there still trying to do new stuff on old hardware.
Old computers never die - They just get TCP/IP stacks written for them!
Havent we learned that people who get certs are just people who think they are computer geeks?
Or, perhaps, people trying to get jobs. I had real problems getting job interviews because I'm not an MCSE or MCSA.
So many places specify it as a desirable qualification, that I'm looking into taking the exams before looking for my next job. OK, it's M$, but it's a foot in the door that a CS degree just doesn't seem to provide anymore...
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Good old Acorn RISC OS already supported the use of directories as files back in the eighties. E.g.: Click on a file to open it, shift click to show a directory of sub-files (recurse at will).
You're thinking of application directories. It could not be done with ordinary files - They had to be a directory.
The only difference was that if a directory had an exclamation mark as its first character, RISC OS's default action would be to execute a file called !Run inside that directory.
Fantastic idea - It meant that you could keep all the libraries and files required for an application in one folder. It also meant that you could move the program and its associated files wherever you liked on the hard disk - There was only ever one icon to move.
If you ever decided to move stuff around like that in Windows, prepare for your programs to stop working.
Adrian's first goal was to get the BBC Master computer working reliably again. This was no simple task. It involved getting hold of and reading through systems documentation, trying to understand both the operating system commands and the internal workings of this mid-1980s computer.
Jesus, it was only 17 years ago. This reads like he was trying to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs from scratch.
I'm sure that many of the people who originally designed and used the system back in 1986 are still alive. Why not just ask one of them how it works?
Indeed, nearly any British hacker that went to school in the eighties and early nineties would have been able to help him out with those pesky BBC operating system commands.
It passes if he hasn't managed to delete some critical files after using it for 2 hours.
Mastering Regular Expressions:
Repeat after me:
"I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."
"It's been raining cats and dogs."
"I'll sleep with you when Hell freezes over."
And my personal favourite:
"Oh look, Hell just froze over!"
Can someone sue a spammer for offering to sell 'adult only' items/services to children?
This assumes that you can find out how old a person is simply by looking at their email address. The very nature of spam is that it doesn't care where it goes.
Now, if it will just bring me a beer, I could get rid of my girlfriend!
If a vacuum cleaner can replace your girlfriend, then I'm not going to ask what you're going to use the hose attachment for...
...happy birthday Root Mean Square!
Does this mean that RMS is in fact +/- 50 years old?
From the article:
Pantone may own the standard numbers by which digital designers refer to colors, but only the FCC can give you an exclusive license to a color itself.
So I could patent the wavelength of a colour of my choosing, and claim royalties every time someone uses a colour that matches my wavelength? Now there's a way to get rich quick...
Except people wearing clothes using your colour could run away from you really quickly and cause red shift:
"See? It's not the same as your colour. It's very slightly more red. You can't sue me!"
Incredible, absolutely incredible.
In this day of ever increasing memory and hardware demands for new software, it's nice to see that there are people out there still trying to do new stuff on old hardware.
Old computers never die - They just get TCP/IP stacks written for them!
BBC Article on the same story here.
From the article:
Number 1 issue is heat. The thing burns. After 2-3 hours of continuing usage, the laptop just burns like a hot cake on the lower left side
Kind of reminds me of this.
Maybe Apple will ship it with a pair of insulated iPants for true laptop comfort?
When will speaker manufacturers stop quoting meaningless figures?
When those meaningless figures stop selling speakers.
Remember that a lot of people don't understand or even care what those figures actually mean. All they see are the numbers, and bigger is better.
...capacitors made with a stolen formula...
It's OK, Tony the Tiger always gets the secret formula back anyway.
Red Certified Hat Engineers (RCHE) ??
i think the poster ment RHCE...
Oh, you'd be surprised how few Certified Hat Engineers there are.
The Red ones are even rarer.
Havent we learned that people who get certs are just people who think they are computer geeks?
Or, perhaps, people trying to get jobs. I had real problems getting job interviews because I'm not an MCSE or MCSA.
So many places specify it as a desirable qualification, that I'm looking into taking the exams before looking for my next job. OK, it's M$, but it's a foot in the door that a CS degree just doesn't seem to provide anymore...