Just think of what would happen if the thing overheated. You'd have sheets of charcoal coming out of the printer faster than you can stuff them in the trash.
I quake at the possibilities for buffer overruns....
This sounds like fun. I saw an article about something similar in Scientific American a few years ago, but this is the first time I've heard of flight code being changed so close to the wire.
>As anyone who works with modern electronics knows, hardware is only half the equation
Penrose stated that he likes to hand-draw because he can make clearer, less cluttered diagrams by hand. I agree. Computer-generated diagrams have their place, but sometimes it takes a person to decide exactly what to omit in the interests of clarity. I haven't yet seen a program that is as powerful as a human being in that regard. The drawings were actually photocopied out of a bound copy of the book, oddly enough.
I'm only 17, so I don't have much experience in that area. My friend's father, as a forensic scientist, gives presentations for a living, so he was almost in tears from suppressing laughter.
I saw him when he came to Seattle recently. It was hard to believe that he wrote such a book, especially after he gave the most disorganized presentation that I've ever seen. Nevertheless, I got an autographed copy.
I always wondered about why we have a sticky bit and don't use it. Especially good for interactive apps, X, etc. Could you use it on, say, files, to prefer keeping them in the disk cache, as well? That would be good in some cases.
They could have an emulator in the ROM, as the PPC Macs do for 68k code. Or the game manufacturers could include something akin to "fat binaries", where there is code for both and the OS chooses which to use depending on the processor it's running on.
I accidentally did the _exact_ same thing last year at my school. (Well, it was "hello" instead of "Hey!.") I still have it detailed on my website. The netadmin talked to me and said that there was nothing that he could do about it. He disabled "Run" and "cmd.exe", but I... well, read the webpage. It's so funny how easy it is to accidentally DDOS someone who gives you physical access to their machines.
Really, I thought it was like the "wall" command. I must not have been thinking.
Well, hey, AOL is useful for something. My dad signed up for AOL years ago (~1994) and hated it. But now he gives me all the cool plastic CD cases that he gets in the mail (they never stop). They're free, and they don't fracture in my backpack like the (more expensive) "jewel cases" do. Also, I get to microwave the CDs or slide them around on the wood floor (label side up, for anyone willing to try). It works like air hockey, only without the table.
> Now it seems that dialup is going to be aruond for a long time.
It would help if they teamed up with archive.org to provide the Internet circa 1995. That might make them happy for having the pages load even faster than their friends' DSL lines.
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But does it fit on a desk? What sort of sound does it make?
Just think of what would happen if the thing overheated. You'd have sheets of charcoal coming out of the printer faster than you can stuff them in the trash.
I quake at the possibilities for buffer overruns....
Like you're a speed demon....
RTFA. There's nothing about his mass in the article.
It also wants me to metamoderate, but I get a 503 for /metamod.pl as well. :(
I am going to switch in a few weekends. I just want that Rio Karma!
/login.pl not work for me (503 Service Unavailable), but this post-comment-and-login thingy work?
Why does
Damn. I already spent my mod points this morning.
This sounds like fun. I saw an article about something similar in Scientific American a few years ago, but this is the first time I've heard of flight code being changed so close to the wire.
>As anyone who works with modern electronics knows, hardware is only half the equation
3) FUD
I love that article/essay. Link: In the Beginning was the Command Line. It's a plain CRLF text file in a ZIP archive.
I betcha you got the wrong story.
Penrose stated that he likes to hand-draw because he can make clearer, less cluttered diagrams by hand. I agree. Computer-generated diagrams have their place, but sometimes it takes a person to decide exactly what to omit in the interests of clarity. I haven't yet seen a program that is as powerful as a human being in that regard. The drawings were actually photocopied out of a bound copy of the book, oddly enough.
No, they were photocopied out of the book. All the book drawings are hand-drawn, however. He's very good at drawing clear diagrams.
He stood in front of the overhead and blocked it with his chest.
Perhaps I'm being overly critical?
I'm only 17, so I don't have much experience in that area. My friend's father, as a forensic scientist, gives presentations for a living, so he was almost in tears from suppressing laughter.
Yes, he is the same Sir Roger Penrose. Knights are generally rare enough to not have the same names as each other.
I saw him when he came to Seattle recently. It was hard to believe that he wrote such a book, especially after he gave the most disorganized presentation that I've ever seen. Nevertheless, I got an autographed copy.
I always wondered about why we have a sticky bit and don't use it. Especially good for interactive apps, X, etc. Could you use it on, say, files, to prefer keeping them in the disk cache, as well? That would be good in some cases.
Sed would probably be a better choice, as it's intended for running unsupervised.
Yep, 48V below ground is enough to give even the most thick-skinned tongue a jolt.
I heard that they stopped making A and B batteries about the time vacuum tubes went out of vogue.
They could have an emulator in the ROM, as the PPC Macs do for 68k code. Or the game manufacturers could include something akin to "fat binaries", where there is code for both and the OS chooses which to use depending on the processor it's running on.
I accidentally did the _exact_ same thing last year at my school. (Well, it was "hello" instead of "Hey!.") I still have it detailed on my website. The netadmin talked to me and said that there was nothing that he could do about it. He disabled "Run" and "cmd.exe", but I... well, read the webpage. It's so funny how easy it is to accidentally DDOS someone who gives you physical access to their machines.
Really, I thought it was like the "wall" command. I must not have been thinking.
Well, hey, AOL is useful for something. My dad signed up for AOL years ago (~1994) and hated it. But now he gives me all the cool plastic CD cases that he gets in the mail (they never stop). They're free, and they don't fracture in my backpack like the (more expensive) "jewel cases" do. Also, I get to microwave the CDs or slide them around on the wood floor (label side up, for anyone willing to try). It works like air hockey, only without the table.
> Now it seems that dialup is going to be aruond for a long time.
It would help if they teamed up with archive.org to provide the Internet circa 1995. That might make them happy for having the pages load even faster than their friends' DSL lines.
I enlarged the image with GIMP, and compared that digit to 9s and 7s in the same paragraph. It's 21.9 percent.