I remember the Corvus. When I was in elementary school, they had about 20 ][e's hooked up to one, and they had to boot one set of computers at a time so it wouldn't get thrashed. I have fond memories of Logo and Oregon Trail, though I didn't have the need to start fucking around on them, since I was only about 7 years old and didn't care much about computers until I was at least 12.
I wish I knew what OSX was like firsthand, because I sure as hell can't afford a mac with what I get paid. Maybe if they offered some sort of lite x86 version, they could get more converts, but so far, my setup of pirated Windows XP and Linux seems to work quite well.
I know it's a long shot to hope for an x86 version, but I like to see what the hype is all about in OSes most of the time.
Warning, parent is a repost
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Oryx and Crake
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my opinion of 'Oryx and Crake'
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Throughout the novel Atwood deliberately mutilates words or combines them in grotesquely commercial ways, symptoms of a deeper disease, a metaphor for the cutting and pasting of genetic material. Books are not literally burned in Oryx and Crake but digital convergence produces all the same effects described in Fahrenheit 451. So, when people exclaim that this is not science fiction, I must say, I'm inclined to agree with them. I find myself rereading parts because I have to let the words sink in a bit, and I'm definitely not a person who has dificulty reading complex things. All in all, a great read.
True, but a lot of people thought Einstein and Newton were crazy too, and they didn't exactly have many peers at first to verify and critique their information, as they were just cast off as silly just as you've done.
Everyone's gotta take chances, and just because they don't have a long dignified history of work doesn't mean their words are invalid from the get-go.
While this may seem like a minor thing to some people, every bit of interoperability and unification helps. Naysay as much as you want regarding Microsoft, but the reason why they have the market share is because of the unification present (at least in appearance;-). If OSS projects (and non-OSS friends of them) can't come together, they should at least work together.
Yeah, my boss sort of told me that he didn't think we could do it, so we did. I don't know why he keeps thinking we can't pull off innovative stuff...jerk.;)
I work in a plant growth research lab, and we built one of these to get real time images of protoplasts (plant cells in culture). It was cheap, and produces what I found to be suprisingly excellent-quality images. Of course, we also got a hundred thousand dollar Bausch & Lomb scope to do more "complicated" work...
Well, the reasons for porting KOffice to Mac OS X natively and the reasons why someone would want to use Konqueror on OS X may be different.
Konqueror is not just a browser. It is also a file manager (kind of like Windows Explorer on SuperMan steroids). It suppors io-slaves, which gives Konqueror network transparency that I do not think is paralleled by any other file browser right now. Also, some people dislike the OS X Finder and would prefer to use Konqueror instead.
Konqueror is pretty cool - it has all the latest features such as tabbed browsing, but it also allows to split any view into two (and then again) - you can make it look like Norton Commander if you like.
Konqueror also supports archiving web pages as.war files (I do not know if this is an exclusive Konqueror feature or not, and I don't care - it is extremely useful).
So, there are many reasons someone would want to use Konqueror, and not just on OS X or Linux.
The reason to port to OS X could be so that KOffice were less dependent on X11 hacks and used Qt API more thoroughly, I don't know. The thing is - the more portable the code is, the fewer bugs there are (unless of course they start #ifdef-ing everywhere, then it just turns into a mess of duplicated non-portable code).
Paul.
My take on 'Coalescent'
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Coalescent is unmistakeably a Stephen Baxter novel, but it's not the sort of novel you expect Stephen Baxter to write. The material is as big and bold as ever - this is a novel concerned with civilisation and society, order and chaos, as viewed through the lens of evolutionary biology - but the focus is more intense than usual. This is a novel about the role of the group and the role of the individual. This is a novel about family. Specifically, the Poole family.
I often find it more interesting when science fiction broadens its horizons into the dynamics of relationships and family, and not just blowing up spaceships.
Just because there is no central authority moderating the content on the network doesn't invalidate the 'p2p has legitimate uses' argument. In fact, I think it strengthens it. Instead of a central authority that can censor and control things that it disagrees with as well as what might be illegal, it simply can't control and lets the userbase decide was gets to be heard and seen.
Then again, we're talking about the Kazaa network, and I'm pretty sure it'd be easy enough for them to block certain filenames/CRCs/Filesizes.
What are the specs on the machine? I've always found the standard Mozilla to be clunky and slow, but since switching to Firebird from Opera from IE, I haven't looked back, mostly because Firebird is so much faster on my machine than IE and Opera, and I wanted tabbed browsing. Also, I've taken to using Firebird at work and college (download the zip and throw it in my home directory works for me), and it's faster there, too.
Slashdot Mirror
to get to a commandline at college using my student account, I just right click the desktop, make a shortcut to cmd.exe, and go from there.
I remember the Corvus. When I was in elementary school, they had about 20 ][e's hooked up to one, and they had to boot one set of computers at a time so it wouldn't get thrashed. I have fond memories of Logo and Oregon Trail, though I didn't have the need to start fucking around on them, since I was only about 7 years old and didn't care much about computers until I was at least 12.
I wish I knew what OSX was like firsthand, because I sure as hell can't afford a mac with what I get paid. Maybe if they offered some sort of lite x86 version, they could get more converts, but so far, my setup of pirated Windows XP and Linux seems to work quite well.
I know it's a long shot to hope for an x86 version, but I like to see what the hype is all about in OSes most of the time.
This is a repost from the amazon review of the book.
Throughout the novel Atwood deliberately mutilates words or combines them in grotesquely commercial ways, symptoms of a deeper disease, a metaphor for the cutting and pasting of genetic material. Books are not literally burned in Oryx and Crake but digital convergence produces all the same effects described in Fahrenheit 451. So, when people exclaim that this is not science fiction, I must say, I'm inclined to agree with them. I find myself rereading parts because I have to let the words sink in a bit, and I'm definitely not a person who has dificulty reading complex things. All in all, a great read.
True, but a lot of people thought Einstein and Newton were crazy too, and they didn't exactly have many peers at first to verify and critique their information, as they were just cast off as silly just as you've done.
Everyone's gotta take chances, and just because they don't have a long dignified history of work doesn't mean their words are invalid from the get-go.
Perhaps you misread my comment:
;-)
(at least in appearance
Or I have been trolled. Thanks.
While this may seem like a minor thing to some people, every bit of interoperability and unification helps. Naysay as much as you want regarding Microsoft, but the reason why they have the market share is because of the unification present (at least in appearance ;-). If OSS projects (and non-OSS friends of them) can't come together, they should at least work together.
Yeah, my boss sort of told me that he didn't think we could do it, so we did. I don't know why he keeps thinking we can't pull off innovative stuff...jerk. ;)
I work in a plant growth research lab, and we built one of these to get real time images of protoplasts (plant cells in culture). It was cheap, and produces what I found to be suprisingly excellent-quality images. Of course, we also got a hundred thousand dollar Bausch & Lomb scope to do more "complicated" work...
Well, the reasons for porting KOffice to Mac OS X natively and the reasons why someone would want to use Konqueror on OS X may be different.
.war files (I do not know if this is an exclusive Konqueror feature or not, and I don't care - it is extremely useful).
Konqueror is not just a browser. It is also a file manager (kind of like Windows Explorer on SuperMan steroids). It suppors io-slaves, which gives Konqueror network transparency that I do not think is paralleled by any other file browser right now. Also, some people dislike the OS X Finder and would prefer to use Konqueror instead.
Konqueror is pretty cool - it has all the latest features such as tabbed browsing, but it also allows to split any view into two (and then again) - you can make it look like Norton Commander if you like.
Konqueror also supports archiving web pages as
So, there are many reasons someone would want to use Konqueror, and not just on OS X or Linux.
The reason to port to OS X could be so that KOffice were less dependent on X11 hacks and used Qt API more thoroughly, I don't know. The thing is - the more portable the code is, the fewer bugs there are (unless of course they start #ifdef-ing everywhere, then it just turns into a mess of duplicated non-portable code).
Paul.
Coalescent is unmistakeably a Stephen Baxter novel, but it's not the sort of novel you expect Stephen Baxter to write. The material is as big and bold as ever - this is a novel concerned with civilisation and society, order and chaos, as viewed through the lens of evolutionary biology - but the focus is more intense than usual. This is a novel about the role of the group and the role of the individual. This is a novel about family. Specifically, the Poole family.
I often find it more interesting when science fiction broadens its horizons into the dynamics of relationships and family, and not just blowing up spaceships.
A) It was for me.
B) The hell it does.
Hmm. I got the page, but now it looks like the Palestinians have bombed the webserver or something.
I managed to get a mirror up here.
Expedition to Tanzania seeks clues about ancient climate
http://www.smu.edu/newsinfo/releases/99355a.html
Hunt is on for ancient 'global warming' documents
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_787743.html
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6582
the 'diet' link on that site leads to an almost decent, easily readable version of the site, compared to the iframe hell that is the front one.
But personally, I think slashdot just suffers from too much clutter on the top, sides, bottom...you get the idea.
Just because there is no central authority moderating the content on the network doesn't invalidate the 'p2p has legitimate uses' argument. In fact, I think it strengthens it. Instead of a central authority that can censor and control things that it disagrees with as well as what might be illegal, it simply can't control and lets the userbase decide was gets to be heard and seen.
Then again, we're talking about the Kazaa network, and I'm pretty sure it'd be easy enough for them to block certain filenames/CRCs/Filesizes.
I think if you look at the US's history of the space program, it isn't far off from our own.
Landing on the moon was an extremely bold step in the space program, one that many people thought was completely absurd.
Considering you can never have perfect code unless your application is about five lines long, you think he'd know better.
An starts with A.
Um, MP3s are definitely not a perfect digital copy.
What are the specs on the machine? I've always found the standard Mozilla to be clunky and slow, but since switching to Firebird from Opera from IE, I haven't looked back, mostly because Firebird is so much faster on my machine than IE and Opera, and I wanted tabbed browsing. Also, I've taken to using Firebird at work and college (download the zip and throw it in my home directory works for me), and it's faster there, too.
Then all it takes is one asshole who works at AT&T that wants to make a buck.
From: Beufort@mobile.att.net
To: Fatassspammer@worldmarketingspamlove.com
H0 H0 H0 HERE IS THE EMAIL SO THAT OUR BEAUTIFUL EMAIL SERVER IS ADDED TO THE WHITE LIST
THEY WILL RUE THE DAY THEY MADE THAT WHITELIST, THE BASTARDS
Star Wars has never been a benchmark for Science Fiction. That's like saying McDonalds is the benchmark for all restaraunts.