A little dirt in your body doesn't hurt. Infact i am a big subscriber to the idea that you can improve your immune response by slowly introducing your body to infections etc,...
My wife is in the medical establishment; she will use anti-bacterials on anything that doesn't move out of her way first.
OTOH, I tend to side with the above poster. I tell her that her immune system will be a lot stronger if she eats a handful of dirt out of the back yard every week. (Excluding, of course, where the dog unloads. No sense in going too far in the other direction.)
... some of the LADSPA filters are a little out of date...
I started using Audacity under Fedora 14 recently; it's a nice piece of work. However, when I tried using the 60 Hz filter on some digitized LPs, I was pretty disappointed in the result. Don't know if it was user error (e.g., me) or lack of documentation.
Where the heck do I start to create a better 60 Hz filter???
Time to fire up the Space-Industrial-Complex! NASA, let's get our astronauts up there and clean that mess up! They can stick the debris in the ISS so that when it deorbits, it will carry down tons of space junk!
Never mind that they had digital voice encryption in WWII (SIGSALY)...
In "Hitler's Spies," David Kahn (of "The Codebreakers" fame) says the Germans regularly broke encrypted transatlantic radio voice traffic during WWII. Not sure if this was SIGSALY, as he doesn't mention that moniker.
Perhaps the folks at alpha centari would have something to say about having to add/subtract a couple thousand years to calculate the correct time for them to listen in to this announcement...
I loved Borders, even though they kept reducing their selection of technical books and moved them farther and farther from the front door. There's a lesson herein.
I won't miss their computer books; the selection had devolved into pure crap.
One of the coolest computers of all times was the Xerox (formerly SDS) Sigma 9, an EBCDIC-based 32 bit machine running UTS or CP-V.
It maxed out at 2MB (yes, megabytes) of memory, but that would support at least 70 concurrent time-sharing users. When you took delivery of a Sigma, you were entitled to all the source code (operating system, compilers, assemblers, linkers, tons of utilities).
Unlike machines of the current era, the Sigma's machine language instruction set was very elegant. The thing I miss the most is MetaSymbol, a meta assembler of immense power and coolness.
Another thing I miss was the "S-in-column-one" embedded assembler instructions in Fortran! If you knew what you were doing, you could create recursive Fortran subroutines and do lots of other cool stuff.
When you shut down the operating system, the machine went into a loop playing the Star Spangled Banner on the speaker.
Who remembers System Reset, I/O Reset, Load???
I miss the elegance of that old machine. Other than Linux, you won't find much elegance in computing these days.
The OP said Hemingway "had flown missions over Germany". google was no help in finding any details on these missions, presumably flights on B-17s or B-24s. Do any/.ers have mission details?
It just doesn't matter why Johnny can't code: by the time Johnny grows up, our corporate masters will have off-shored every programming job in the U.S.
(gp) Don't CS grads have to write a compiler to get their degree like they did in the good old days? That's really all anyone needs.
(parent) Most. Useless. Class. Ever. Learned *nothing*. It was just "implement X. Here is the design of X. You must implement it this way."
Sorry to hear your compiler writing class was a bummer. My compiler writing class was the most interesting class I took while earning my Master's degree in CS. The prof was spectacular, I learned a ton of stuff, and I later applied the knowledge when I wrote a cross-assembler and worked on several compiler projects.
Get back to me when you have published 22 books plus the equivalent of the incredible TAOCP series, when you have about 50 years of CS experience, when you have the admiration of most of the educated, civilized world.
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Man, I miss Robert A. Pease. RIP, sir. You have earned it.
Moon Rockets, SR-71, (lots of other cool 1960s stuff...)
You forgot the Scientific Data Systems (later, XDS) series of mainframes. Possibly the most elegant machines ever to draw power.
A little dirt in your body doesn't hurt. Infact i am a big subscriber to the idea that you can improve your immune response by slowly introducing your body to infections etc, ...
My wife is in the medical establishment; she will use anti-bacterials on anything that doesn't move out of her way first.
OTOH, I tend to side with the above poster. I tell her that her immune system will be a lot stronger if she eats a handful of dirt out of the back yard every week. (Excluding, of course, where the dog unloads. No sense in going too far in the other direction.)
I started using Audacity under Fedora 14 recently; it's a nice piece of work. However, when I tried using the 60 Hz filter on some digitized LPs, I was pretty disappointed in the result. Don't know if it was user error (e.g., me) or lack of documentation.
Where the heck do I start to create a better 60 Hz filter???
At last we have irrefutable proof that the Apollo landings weren't faked! Now my idiot brother-in-law will finally have to shut up.
Oh, wait, who released the photos? Never mind...
Time to fire up the Space-Industrial-Complex! NASA, let's get our astronauts up there and clean that mess up! They can stick the debris in the ISS so that when it deorbits, it will carry down tons of space junk!
I think Jim Fixx said this, right before he dropped dead at age 52, while he was running.
If memory serves, Jim Fixx had a familial heart problem; it was said his running gave him about ten extra years of life.
Never mind that they had digital voice encryption in WWII (SIGSALY)...
In "Hitler's Spies," David Kahn (of "The Codebreakers" fame) says the Germans regularly broke encrypted transatlantic radio voice traffic during WWII. Not sure if this was SIGSALY, as he doesn't mention that moniker.
Albert Einstein famously said, "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Bonus geek points for spotting the error on this page.
"... while the other contains 65,636 learning synapses."
Perhaps the folks at alpha centari would have something to say about having to add/subtract a couple thousand years to calculate the correct time for them to listen in to this announcement...
Actually, it's closer to 4 years...
Only a fool thinks this is a good idea. Why can't our elected representatives do their jobs properly?
1. Amplifying others' posts: arxiv.org.
2. Find used book stores that have a section on science.
3. Avoid Scientific American like the plague! It started falling apart in the mid-90s and, sadly, devolved into drivel and journalists' fluff.
I loved Borders, even though they kept reducing their selection of technical books and moved them farther and farther from the front door. There's a lesson herein. I won't miss their computer books; the selection had devolved into pure crap.
The wife has been after me to sign up for Netflix. Thank you, Netflix, for giving me an excellent reason to avoid your services!
We have to stop invasive TSA procedures, whether x-rays or pat-downs. This is unconstitutional.
To Slate's Farhad Manjoo (and anyone else who is interested): Please feel free to contribute 100% of your income to the government of your choice.
One of the coolest computers of all times was the Xerox (formerly SDS) Sigma 9, an EBCDIC-based 32 bit machine running UTS or CP-V.
It maxed out at 2MB (yes, megabytes) of memory, but that would support at least 70 concurrent time-sharing users. When you took delivery of a Sigma, you were entitled to all the source code (operating system, compilers, assemblers, linkers, tons of utilities).
Unlike machines of the current era, the Sigma's machine language instruction set was very elegant. The thing I miss the most is MetaSymbol, a meta assembler of immense power and coolness.
Another thing I miss was the "S-in-column-one" embedded assembler instructions in Fortran! If you knew what you were doing, you could create recursive Fortran subroutines and do lots of other cool stuff.
When you shut down the operating system, the machine went into a loop playing the Star Spangled Banner on the speaker.
Who remembers System Reset, I/O Reset, Load???
I miss the elegance of that old machine. Other than Linux, you won't find much elegance in computing these days.
The OP said Hemingway "had flown missions over Germany". google was no help in finding any details on these missions, presumably flights on B-17s or B-24s. Do any /.ers have mission details?
It just doesn't matter why Johnny can't code: by the time Johnny grows up, our corporate masters will have off-shored every programming job in the U.S.
From the summary: "We may be slow, but we're not stupid.'" Yes, we are. It's all downhill from here, boys and girls...
For single frequency light, conventional solar cells can be quite efficient (~80%???)...
If memory serves, quantum mechanical considerations limit solar cell efficiency to a much smaller number, possibly 18% to 23%.
(gp) Don't CS grads have to write a compiler to get their degree like they did in the good old days? That's really all anyone needs.
(parent) Most. Useless. Class. Ever. Learned *nothing*. It was just "implement X. Here is the design of X. You must implement it this way."
Sorry to hear your compiler writing class was a bummer. My compiler writing class was the most interesting class I took while earning my Master's degree in CS. The prof was spectacular, I learned a ton of stuff, and I later applied the knowledge when I wrote a cross-assembler and worked on several compiler projects.
And yes, I do consider Knuth to be overrated :p
Get back to me when you have published 22 books plus the equivalent of the incredible TAOCP series, when you have about 50 years of CS experience, when you have the admiration of most of the educated, civilized world.
And, yes, I am a Knuth fan.
(watson error)
I hate to reply to my own reply, but I didn't consider watson's biggest error:
Final Jeopardy category: U.S. cities.
watson: Toronto
Our metal masters haven't yet arrived. They are twenty years in the future (and always will be).