i remember learning basic things like attack/decay/sustain envelopes and modulators and all of that working on c64. like everything on the c64, it's synth was limited but real, not a toy. great for learning on and exploring.
and they seem to have their hands full keeping the quality level up just supporting their chosen subset of hardware. When they have a major change there are still things that were apple approved that don't make it into the new way of doing things (scsi cards that shipped with the machines from apple that worked under 9 but were more trouble than they were worth trying to get them to work under OS X,the first g3 powerbook not getting OS X support, the (temporary) problems with cd-burners in the early versions of OS X, etc etc) there are a lot of ducks that they have to keep in a row as it is and they handle it with less grace than we'd like sometimes. So i'm glad they didn't try to further over extend themselves. The close match between the OS and their chosen hardware is one of the things that makes it worth my while to bother with using a propretary platform like apple.
I'd rather read a copy of tolkien or dickens that some fan transcribed into a digital form and shared with me than some mass produced paperback edition i picked up at some chain store. If ebooks help kill the printing industry and it's mass produced ugly artless hordes then i think it would make things easier for people making lovingly hand crafted things, out of paper or bits of data or goat hides or what have you.
Obviously this is a staged media event like the cover ups of the stalin created famine of 1932-33. 'yes the ukrainians are happy destroying their computers! look at them smile! ignore the people's comissars lurking the background!' It is the information age equivalent of de-kulakization and it's happening right in front of your eyes!!oh the humanity!
..oh wait, sorry it's just some dumb radio promotion crap, my bad.
http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/vax/timeline/1982.html
most residential areas aren't wired for 220, and even some of the bigger machines that were able to run on standard power weren't ever certified for use as residential/consumer equipment by the fcc or whatever since it's easier to say 'look, it cost a million dollars, nobody is gonna put one in their garage and mess up the neighbor's tv reception, can we skip send you a dozen of them to destroy in testing and just have it classified as industrial equipment or whatever' even later things like the SGI onyx (refrigerator sized, like where darth vader would keep his beer) is in that sort of situation. not for private use, but not building sized either.
serialize in php works on objects (sessions will also handle serializing stuff for you too but you can use serialize to make your own persistant object stuff too)perl most likely does though i've never worked with objects in perl much at all so I can't say for certain.
stephenson/eco/RAW/etc always seem fairly similiar to me, they ride their litle hobby horse through terrain far more interesting and rich than the ideas they are trying to express about it. It's like taking a tour bus through a beautiful city and having to tune out the obnoxious tour guide making the same tired old bad jokes. Definitely worth the ride but it's what's outside the windows that is most interesting. imho. ymmv. etc etc
I remember some PHB type at a university i worked at had this list of 'hacking tools' that he had gotten from some 'security expert' that we were supposed to be on the watch for if we saw any of the students using these dangerous and evil things. These tools included things like text editors and resource fork editors for macintosh and such. I thought at first that it was some prank played upon the the PHB but whoever gave the this list to them was apparently completely serious about it.it was funny and scary at the same time. When text editors are illegal only outlaws will have text editors.
all those jews, catholics, trade unionists and p2p file sharers who were locked in cattle cars going by. I was going to object but hey, what do I care, I'm not not a jew/catholic/trade unionist/p2p file trader.
we got the dual processor g5 we ordered in at the university I work at and have had it for a while. I guess apple is really pushing to make the institutional customers happy. and if a university gets a g5 dozens of students can play with it and drool over it and become filled with g5 lust while if one regular customer gets one they'll just hide in their room mumbling about 'my preciousssss' and fondling it and that's not very good advertising and is sorta creepy.
the full sized cases will provide greater resistance to all the spoooge that will be sprayed over them by spontaneous orgasms of the hordes of apple fans comeing to worship before the mother of all apples.
"Loral Skynet, Bedminster, N.J., plans to add Ka-band transponders to its planned Telstar 9 communications satellite. The Telstar 9 satellite, being built by Space Systems/Loral, Palo Alto, Calif., will be placed at the 93W orbital slot, where it will replace Telstar 6. Plans previously called for Telstar 9 to operate from a slot at 69W. Telstar 9 will also carry C- and Ku-band transponders. The changes to Telstar 9 will delay delivery of the satellite until the first quarter of 2004."
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I used to work for an npr station doing operations stuff, mostly catching shows off network and recording them for rebroadcast and I remember the time that their satellite had problems. actually i don't remember it, that whole time period was this haze of me not sleeping and freaking out about how we were going to get our programing and people calling in to scream at us so it was all sort of a blur. npr switched over to useing some sattelite that canadian broadcasting had space on, since we had helped them out in the past when things went wrong with their network they didn't charge us an arm and a leg. the tv networks that had to switch over had to cough up the real money though.
randomly pulled up book banning in canada "A number of democratic countries, including Austria, France, Germany, and Canada, have criminalized various forms of "hate speech", including books judged to disparage minority groups. In the 1980s, Ernst Zundel was convicted twice under Canada's "false news" laws for publishing Did Six Million Really Die?, a 1974 book denying the Holocaust. On appeal, the Canadian Supreme Court found the "false news" law unconstitutional in 1992, but Zundel is now being prosecuted under Canada's "Human Rights Act" for publishing this book and other material on his Zundelsite" http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ banned-books.html while the content of the books might be objectionable to many/most people, outright banning of it is even more objectionable and feeds into conspiracy theories when you could just let wackos ride their little hobby horses off a cliff and then fade out.
i'm sure others can pull up some more, there was a list of them i saw linked to on a librarians mailing list that i can't seem to find at the moment.
that's currently only in british columbia, not all of canada, http://canadaeast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2 0030916/TSEBRIEF/309160029/-1/FRONTPAGE random canadian marijuana bust story from today with full reefer madness bullshit from the 20's action in effect.
GIF is still patented there but it's not in the US. it's not like canada is some magical fairy land of freedom, it's just less cost effective for the RIAA to shake down little girls and grandmothers and such there at present.
http://mission.base.com/tamiko/cm/
the connection machine was another parallel computing system (64k little bitty processors hooked together into a grid) that had a flurry of excitement around it (almost 70 of them in operation at the peak of activity!) and then sorta died off. alot of the problems with systems like this weren't really flaws in the basic idea, just economic issues. If you can make a cheap non parallel system run some ugly hack of solution to the problem in something semi close to the time that the elegant but expensive as far as price per unit of processing custom made parallel system can, then people aren't going to want to invest the money in a specialized system unless there is just no other way possible to get their work done without it. but being able to apply the same techniques that let moore's law bumble along should help things out.
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i remember learning basic things like attack/decay/sustain envelopes and modulators and all of that working on c64. like everything on the c64, it's synth was limited but real, not a toy. great for learning on and exploring.
and they seem to have their hands full keeping the quality level up just supporting their chosen subset of hardware. When they have a major change there are still things that were apple approved that don't make it into the new way of doing things (scsi cards that shipped with the machines from apple that worked under 9 but were more trouble than they were worth trying to get them to work under OS X,the first g3 powerbook not getting OS X support, the (temporary) problems with cd-burners in the early versions of OS X, etc etc) there are a lot of ducks that they have to keep in a row as it is and they handle it with less grace than we'd like sometimes. So i'm glad they didn't try to further over extend themselves. The close match between the OS and their chosen hardware is one of the things that makes it worth my while to bother with using a propretary platform like apple.
I'd rather read a copy of tolkien or dickens that some fan transcribed into a digital form and shared with me than some mass produced paperback edition i picked up at some chain store. If ebooks help kill the printing industry and it's mass produced ugly artless hordes then i think it would make things easier for people making lovingly hand crafted things, out of paper or bits of data or goat hides or what have you.
put ebook reader inside of ziplock bag and read in the bathtub/in the pool/at the beach/etc is another thing that ebooks are handy for.
1. sed 's/happy cute bunnies/scary bioterrorism stuff/g' MyResearchProposal.txt
2. ???
3. Profit!
relax! dr. seuss has us covered!
4 800842/qid=1064768005/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-515480 3-1866302?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/039
Obviously this is a staged media event like the cover ups of the stalin created famine of 1932-33. 'yes the ukrainians are happy destroying their computers! look at them smile! ignore the people's comissars lurking the background!' It is the information age equivalent of de-kulakization and it's happening right in front of your eyes!!oh the humanity!
..oh wait, sorry it's just some dumb radio promotion crap, my bad.
http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/vax/timeline /1982.html
most residential areas aren't wired for 220, and even some of the bigger machines that were able to run on standard power weren't ever certified for use as residential/consumer equipment by the fcc or whatever since it's easier to say 'look, it cost a million dollars, nobody is gonna put one in their garage and mess up the neighbor's tv reception, can we skip send you a dozen of them to destroy in testing and just have it classified as industrial equipment or whatever' even later things like the SGI onyx (refrigerator sized, like where darth vader would keep his beer) is in that sort of situation. not for private use, but not building sized either.
serialize in php works on objects (sessions will also handle serializing stuff for you too but you can use serialize to make your own persistant object stuff too)perl most likely does though i've never worked with objects in perl much at all so I can't say for certain.
python has pickle to do serializing also to round out the P's.
stephenson/eco/RAW/etc always seem fairly similiar to me, they ride their litle hobby horse through terrain far more interesting and rich than the ideas they are trying to express about it. It's like taking a tour bus through a beautiful city and having to tune out the obnoxious tour guide making the same tired old bad jokes. Definitely worth the ride but it's what's outside the windows that is most interesting. imho. ymmv. etc etc
my bad, i'll mention stalin next time instead.
I remember some PHB type at a university i worked at had this list of 'hacking tools' that he had gotten from some 'security expert' that we were supposed to be on the watch for if we saw any of the students using these dangerous and evil things. These tools included things like text editors and resource fork editors for macintosh and such. I thought at first that it was some prank played upon the the PHB but whoever gave the this list to them was apparently completely serious about it.it was funny and scary at the same time. When text editors are illegal only outlaws will have text editors.
all those jews, catholics, trade unionists and p2p file sharers who were locked in cattle cars going by. I was going to object but hey, what do I care, I'm not not a jew/catholic/trade unionist/p2p file trader.
talk to VA tech, i'm pretty certain they'll have 1099 of them to spare right about now.
we got the dual processor g5 we ordered in at the university I work at and have had it for a while. I guess apple is really pushing to make the institutional customers happy. and if a university gets a g5 dozens of students can play with it and drool over it and become filled with g5 lust while if one regular customer gets one they'll just hide in their room mumbling about 'my preciousssss' and fondling it and that's not very good advertising and is sorta creepy.
the full sized cases will provide greater resistance to all the spoooge that will be sprayed over them by spontaneous orgasms of the hordes of apple fans comeing to worship before the mother of all apples.
http://www.spaceandtech.com/digest/sd2001-13/sd200 1-13-006.shtml
hasn't been launched yet
"Loral Skynet, Bedminster, N.J., plans to add Ka-band transponders to its planned Telstar 9 communications satellite. The Telstar 9 satellite, being built by Space Systems/Loral, Palo Alto, Calif., will be placed at the 93W orbital slot, where it will replace Telstar 6. Plans previously called for Telstar 9 to operate from a slot at 69W. Telstar 9 will also carry C- and Ku-band transponders. The changes to Telstar 9 will delay delivery of the satellite until the first quarter of 2004."
I used to work for an npr station doing operations stuff, mostly catching shows off network and recording them for rebroadcast and I remember the time that their satellite had problems. actually i don't remember it, that whole time period was this haze of me not sleeping and freaking out about how we were going to get our programing and people calling in to scream at us so it was all sort of a blur. npr switched over to useing some sattelite that canadian broadcasting had space on, since we had helped them out in the past when things went wrong with their network they didn't charge us an arm and a leg. the tv networks that had to switch over had to cough up the real money though.
randomly pulled up book banning in canada "A number of democratic countries, including Austria, France, Germany, and Canada, have criminalized various forms of "hate speech", including books judged to disparage minority groups. In the 1980s, Ernst Zundel was convicted twice under Canada's "false news" laws for publishing Did Six Million Really Die?, a 1974 book denying the Holocaust. On appeal, the Canadian Supreme Court found the "false news" law unconstitutional in 1992, but Zundel is now being prosecuted under Canada's "Human Rights Act" for publishing this book and other material on his Zundelsite"/ banned-books.html
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu
while the content of the books might be objectionable to many/most people, outright banning of it is even more objectionable and feeds into conspiracy theories when you could just let wackos ride their little hobby horses off a cliff and then fade out.
i'm sure others can pull up some more, there was a list of them i saw linked to on a librarians mailing list that i can't seem to find at the moment.
that's currently only in british columbia, not all of canada,2 0030916/TSEBRIEF/309160029/-1/FRONTPAGE
http://canadaeast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
random canadian marijuana bust story from today with full reefer madness bullshit from the 20's action in effect.
GIF is still patented there but it's not in the US. it's not like canada is some magical fairy land of freedom, it's just less cost effective for the RIAA to shake down little girls and grandmothers and such there at present.
http://mission.base.com/tamiko/cm/
the connection machine was another parallel computing system (64k little bitty processors hooked together into a grid) that had a flurry of excitement around it (almost 70 of them in operation at the peak of activity!) and then sorta died off. alot of the problems with systems like this weren't really flaws in the basic idea, just economic issues. If you can make a cheap non parallel system run some ugly hack of solution to the problem in something semi close to the time that the elegant but expensive as far as price per unit of processing custom made parallel system can, then people aren't going to want to invest the money in a specialized system unless there is just no other way possible to get their work done without it. but being able to apply the same techniques that let moore's law bumble along should help things out.
two doorbells, one labled 'I agree', the other labled 'cancel'. of course the cancel one is disconnected.
http://hiro-tan.org/~ekoontz/IsDying/