That's one of Micros~1's monopoly tactics: make protocols that are close to normal ones, but just different enough that one can't use both, and make hardware that acts the same!:)
I sometimes think about this and come up with the conclusion of "No, that is probably not true..."
First off, look at how long we have been running about on the earth - a couple hundred thousand years maybe? Those large dinosaur things lived 65 million years ago, and it took that long for us to come about. I am sure in another 65 million years something more can happen to us. Just because the human perception of time is so slow doesn't mean change doesn't happen.
This can be compared to technological evolution too. Every once and a while I think "What more could we possibly come up with technology-wise? It seems like we have come up with everything." However, I doubt people in the 1500s could have thought "Oh, I bet some day people will be using transistors to build 'computers' that will be used to run data bases holding lots and lots of email addresses to be used for mass-mailing!" No, I am going to guess that at that time people could have looked around and thought "Yup, this is as far as we can get. Everything has been figured out."
So I am going to guess that there is plenty more evolving we can do. If nothing else, we can at least get rid of wisdom teeth and apendices. Of course, I won't be around in 500,000 years when that has happened, though, so it doesn't really concern me in the end...
There are three kinds of degrees: Computer Engineering (CE), Computer Science (CS), and Information Services (IS). All people start out studying CE, but the ones that the Electrical Engineering is too hard/boring for drop down to CS. The ones that find math/theory/command lines too hard then degrade even further into studying IS. Of course, some people jump right in where they belong, but I know I had to start out in CE and drop to CS before finding my niche. I just pitty the people who drop further to IS...
Although, I do know one guy who went from CE to CS to IS and back to CS. I guess he had to have a little of each before figuring out what the good one is.
Here's a very scary, very/. thought: all of the authors of/. are eaten by zombies save one: JonKatz. He then decides to keep/. running in his free time. The first story: Into the Zombie Mouth.
I think I'll be saving a copy of this interview to show to people who insist on using the most obscure plugins to do their web work. Maybe I am strange, but I really like it when I can look at web pages from any computer anywhere and have them look essentially the same. Thus, I tend to use simple HTML with well-supported graphics and non-browser specific tags. That doesn't seem like all that difficult of a thing to do. Trying to take over the computing world with a bad product just doesn't seem nice to me...
I just love the/. writeups that I have to read very slowly and several times over before beginning to understand what they are trying to say...
Or, in the same style as such a writeup:
I just love it. Writeups that I need very slowly to read and several times over before understanding them. Their good.
Wow... The beta was released just two days ago, and the final product is already out. How about we find out if what we post is even realistic before doing so?
They will have the attitudinal and navigational capabilities needed to maintain proper orbits, and they will be capable of complex, high-bandwidth communications functions."
...And they are a lot harder to dodge when in the space shuttle, ISS, or other such things. What a great idea!:)
Of course, I am sure somebody in charget has thought of that already...
The most easily upgradable laptop I have ever run across is a friend's CTX EzBook somethingerother that had a desktop - yes, desktop - pentium processor in it. Just pop that little thing out and stick a new one in and boom: an instantly upgraded laptop. Of course, it ran hot as could be and sucked batteries like nothing else, but I imagine it was cheap to produce!
Nothing like Sensationalist JonKatz to put things into perspective...
Sure, I plan to lose karma on this post. But it really bugs me when people use tradegies to write something that makes them sound compassionate to the rest of the world. It is like running out and bragging about yourself with a loudspeaker, and I think it shows a lack of good character...
And that little box that the student takes notes and such in that has a braille "screen" on it must not really do that. Yup, I don't think anybody uses it any more. I wonder what those books he carries around with the little bumps on the pages are? Punch cards?
If I could go out and get one of those little things running QNX and Photon instead of WinCE, I might have reason to move past my wonderful Palm device - Manos, the Handspring of Fate... That thing looks really slick and quite exciting
It is great to see that he used a fairly low end system to do his tests. There are so many Pentium 75 - 200 systems around that are still perfectly useful if people would just think a little harder while programming, and it is nice that somebody is realistically putting one to the test with more "modern" software...
Adding GNU to the front of Linux seems to me a lot like adding "FedEx" to the front of "Super Bowl" or something like that. It just seems like somebody wanting to get their name in lights for doing background work. Maybe I'm strange, but when I do background work, I usually enjoy being credited in the background someplace, not out in front of the people who pull things together in the end...
You know, lots of scripting languages are fun and all (TCL, Perl, Python, etc) except for one thing: They each need their own interpreter. So if I have 5 programs that people have written, each in a different scripting language, I need all 5 interperters installed. This is especially annoying on a system with limited resources. Unfortunately, I can't think of a good way to fix this problem. So I guess we will just have to get by with it...
My friends sometimes describe me as "the guy who carries more than the contents of many womens' purses in his pockets," and that tends to work rather well for me... Currently I have on me:
sunglasses
visor (handspring, not g-funk upside-down hat-thingy)
gerber (you know, like a leatherman, only stronger)
keys
wallet
pen
pencil
watch
lint
It all tends to fit someplace with enough effort...
Remember Apple's Newton? I really thought that was a great PDA, especially because of the PCMCIA slot that you could plug anything into. Unfortunately, it still needed drivers, so most things were useless. But having a PCMCIA-ready toy in my pocket would be great - no need to go get still more network cards/modems/etc...
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That's one of Micros~1's monopoly tactics: make protocols that are close to normal ones, but just different enough that one can't use both, and make hardware that acts the same! :)
Of course, when I submitted this story a week ago, it was rejected. Fools. :)
Just kidding. Great way to get the job done!
I sometimes think about this and come up with the conclusion of "No, that is probably not true..."
First off, look at how long we have been running about on the earth - a couple hundred thousand years maybe? Those large dinosaur things lived 65 million years ago, and it took that long for us to come about. I am sure in another 65 million years something more can happen to us. Just because the human perception of time is so slow doesn't mean change doesn't happen.
This can be compared to technological evolution too. Every once and a while I think "What more could we possibly come up with technology-wise? It seems like we have come up with everything." However, I doubt people in the 1500s could have thought "Oh, I bet some day people will be using transistors to build 'computers' that will be used to run data bases holding lots and lots of email addresses to be used for mass-mailing!" No, I am going to guess that at that time people could have looked around and thought "Yup, this is as far as we can get. Everything has been figured out."
So I am going to guess that there is plenty more evolving we can do. If nothing else, we can at least get rid of wisdom teeth and apendices. Of course, I won't be around in 500,000 years when that has happened, though, so it doesn't really concern me in the end...
There are three kinds of degrees: Computer Engineering (CE), Computer Science (CS), and Information Services (IS). All people start out studying CE, but the ones that the Electrical Engineering is too hard/boring for drop down to CS. The ones that find math/theory/command lines too hard then degrade even further into studying IS. Of course, some people jump right in where they belong, but I know I had to start out in CE and drop to CS before finding my niche. I just pitty the people who drop further to IS...
Although, I do know one guy who went from CE to CS to IS and back to CS. I guess he had to have a little of each before figuring out what the good one is.
This movie was so, uh, good that I named my Handspring Visor after it. Yup, its name is "Manos, the Handspring of Fate".
What, did you think I had named it Torgo?
Did anybody else notice the amazing similarity between the Gamecube graphic and the Inktomi logo?
Well, I can happily say that that is not the original title I put on the story when I submitted it...
Here's a very scary, very /. thought: all of the authors of /. are eaten by zombies save one: JonKatz. He then decides to keep /. running in his free time. The first story: Into the Zombie Mouth.
I think I'll be saving a copy of this interview to show to people who insist on using the most obscure plugins to do their web work. Maybe I am strange, but I really like it when I can look at web pages from any computer anywhere and have them look essentially the same. Thus, I tend to use simple HTML with well-supported graphics and non-browser specific tags. That doesn't seem like all that difficult of a thing to do. Trying to take over the computing world with a bad product just doesn't seem nice to me...
I just love the /. writeups that I have to read very slowly and several times over before beginning to understand what they are trying to say...
Or, in the same style as such a writeup:
I just love it. Writeups that I need very slowly to read and several times over before understanding them. Their good.
Aren't Digital Convergence the CueCat people?
Wow... The beta was released just two days ago, and the final product is already out. How about we find out if what we post is even realistic before doing so?
Actually, it is:
Wired
Someplace I have never heard of
And probably some others...
They will have the attitudinal and navigational capabilities needed to maintain proper orbits, and they will be capable of complex, high-bandwidth communications functions."
...And they are a lot harder to dodge when in the space shuttle, ISS, or other such things. What a great idea! :)
Of course, I am sure somebody in charget has thought of that already...
The most easily upgradable laptop I have ever run across is a friend's CTX EzBook somethingerother that had a desktop - yes, desktop - pentium processor in it. Just pop that little thing out and stick a new one in and boom: an instantly upgraded laptop. Of course, it ran hot as could be and sucked batteries like nothing else, but I imagine it was cheap to produce!
Nothing like Sensationalist JonKatz to put things into perspective...
Sure, I plan to lose karma on this post. But it really bugs me when people use tradegies to write something that makes them sound compassionate to the rest of the world. It is like running out and bragging about yourself with a loudspeaker, and I think it shows a lack of good character...
And that little box that the student takes notes and such in that has a braille "screen" on it must not really do that. Yup, I don't think anybody uses it any more. I wonder what those books he carries around with the little bumps on the pages are? Punch cards?
"If today you hear His voice, harden not your heart"
Or something like that...
If I could go out and get one of those little things running QNX and Photon instead of WinCE, I might have reason to move past my wonderful Palm device - Manos, the Handspring of Fate... That thing looks really slick and quite exciting
It is great to see that he used a fairly low end system to do his tests. There are so many Pentium 75 - 200 systems around that are still perfectly useful if people would just think a little harder while programming, and it is nice that somebody is realistically putting one to the test with more "modern" software...
Adding GNU to the front of Linux seems to me a lot like adding "FedEx" to the front of "Super Bowl" or something like that. It just seems like somebody wanting to get their name in lights for doing background work. Maybe I'm strange, but when I do background work, I usually enjoy being credited in the background someplace, not out in front of the people who pull things together in the end...
Well, darn. Why did you have to post anonymously? I was looking forward to moderating you down, but now there is no use...
You know, lots of scripting languages are fun and all (TCL, Perl, Python, etc) except for one thing: They each need their own interpreter. So if I have 5 programs that people have written, each in a different scripting language, I need all 5 interperters installed. This is especially annoying on a system with limited resources. Unfortunately, I can't think of a good way to fix this problem. So I guess we will just have to get by with it...
My friends sometimes describe me as "the guy who carries more than the contents of many womens' purses in his pockets," and that tends to work rather well for me... Currently I have on me:
sunglasses
visor (handspring, not g-funk upside-down hat-thingy)
gerber (you know, like a leatherman, only stronger)
keys
wallet
pen
pencil
watch
lint
It all tends to fit someplace with enough effort...
Remember Apple's Newton? I really thought that was a great PDA, especially because of the PCMCIA slot that you could plug anything into. Unfortunately, it still needed drivers, so most things were useless. But having a PCMCIA-ready toy in my pocket would be great - no need to go get still more network cards/modems/etc...