My professor in college referred to an old game called Core Wars in which people would write viruses to battle each other. It was from the 60's! He even had us play as an assignment.
There are a million pages out there on virus history. I little research goes a long way... The name "virus" is 20 years old, but the concept is two to three times as old as that.
Here's a google cache link to an article referring to Core Wars
Well, to me,.NET seems to be the fastest growing area of development out there. I see tons of companies standardizing on it now. I haven't seen Java at a job site in over 2 years. It just goes to show how many different arenas there are out there.
I agree with you. Microsoft is just updating their UI to have a more 3D-like interface. I, for one, think it's about time we had a UI paradigm change. With higher-functioning graphics cards, we can take advantage of all this power to make our UI more friendly and useable. I don't think this is designed to kill Macromedia. It may take away from some of their marketshare in distributed EXE games, but otherwise, they'll still be able to sell their software to people who make REALLY ANNOYING ads!
Back in the day, UPS started with the TIGER maps (created by the Census Bureau) and then used their truck drivers to change the maps when there were problems. This made a hell of a lot of sense, since they were driving there anyway!
Of course, if you wanted to license them, they were US$3,000 per quadrangle (7 1/2 minutes Longitued by 7 1/2 minutes Latitude) in 1991! It was a bit much. It was cheaper for us to take the TIGER maps and aerial photos and have people in the Dominican Republic redo the maps!
I have worked at multiple companies that use this kind of data. It is my impression that most places use BOTH NavTech and GDT data and that GDT data is more accurate in the country and that NavTech is more accurate in the cities. That is what I have been told by some others in the industry.
From dictionary.com:
some adj.
1) Being an unspecified number or quantity: Some people came into the room. Would you like some sugar?
2) Being a portion or an unspecified number or quantity of a whole or group: He likes some modern scupture but not all.
3) Being a considerable number or quantity: She has been directing films for some years now.
4) Unknown or unspecified by name: Some man called.
5) Logic. Being part and perhaps all of a class.
6) Informal. Remarkable: She is some skier.
Being a geek, I tend to subscribe to #5 as my definition. In this case, however, I was thinking of definition #2, which is a portion. It just was not "all", thus the call for world domination...:-)
"some" does not mean "all". "99%" does not mean "all". So, who is going to represent East-Timor and Taiwan and the others in getting all their books in the UN library?
I guess it will have to be the UN library. That way we only have to conquer a bunch of small countries. Maybe we can wait until a Democrat is President and he can feel good about his own military victories for once...
Yeah, I'm an American, but even I was going to say "Wait a minute!" to that one. The USA is not the whole world. Unfortunately, until we take over the planet, there isn't a single place that one can go with these things. NATO, the United Nations... They all only have some countries as members.
I guess we now have a good reason for world domination!
Of course, taken to the extreme, that silly idea would mean no program would ever get new features or bug fixes except by being completely re-written from scratch, which would no doubt defeat the purpose in most cases.
Yeah, but, as a consultant, I'd be pretty psyched about that situation! Cha-ching!
I would expect that most corporations will continue to block it... I'd assume that downloading music (legal, or otherwise) is not part of most corporations' core business and a ridiculous waste of their bandwidth.
Xon/Xoff is still in use today. It is still used as a software flow control for serial communications...
In any Windows environment (and I'm guessing GNU/Linux too - I'm at work. no boxes to check), go to the setting for your serial ports. Look under "Flow Control" and you'll see None, Hardware and Xon/Xoff.
- T
Now, if I could get over how old this article makes me feel... (How could someone not know what Scroll Lock is for!?!?)
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There are a million pages out there on virus history. I little research goes a long way... The name "virus" is 20 years old, but the concept is two to three times as old as that.
Here's a google cache link to an article referring to Core Wars
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Ugh! Mental image of Bill Gates putting his
OK... that's pretty funny!
Thanks for the laugh!
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Of course, if you wanted to license them, they were US$3,000 per quadrangle (7 1/2 minutes Longitued by 7 1/2 minutes Latitude) in 1991! It was a bit much. It was cheaper for us to take the TIGER maps and aerial photos and have people in the Dominican Republic redo the maps!
Well, they were owned by the French once, right?
1) Being an unspecified number or quantity: Some people came into the room. Would you like some sugar?
2) Being a portion or an unspecified number or quantity of a whole or group: He likes some modern scupture but not all.
3) Being a considerable number or quantity: She has been directing films for some years now.
4) Unknown or unspecified by name: Some man called.
5) Logic. Being part and perhaps all of a class.
6) Informal. Remarkable: She is some skier.
Being a geek, I tend to subscribe to #5 as my definition. In this case, however, I was thinking of definition #2, which is a portion. It just was not "all", thus the call for world domination... :-)
So, who is going to represent East-Timor and Taiwan and the others in getting all their books in the UN library?
I guess it will have to be the UN library. That way we only have to conquer a bunch of small countries. Maybe we can wait until a Democrat is President and he can feel good about his own military victories for once...
I guess we now have a good reason for world domination!
Of course, taken to the extreme, that silly idea would mean no program would ever get new features or bug fixes except by being completely re-written from scratch, which would no doubt defeat the purpose in most cases.
Yeah, but, as a consultant, I'd be pretty psyched about that situation! Cha-ching!
And spelling properly is the sincerest form of flattery to your 5th grade teacher!
;-)
Hear hear!
What did it do? Make obscene gestures towards your mother?
I've never had an "Alt gr" key on any PC I've ever owned. Must be non-US keyboards.
In DOS, if you hit print screen, it dumped the screen contents out to the printer port (LPT1:).
God, I feel old!
Xon/Xoff is still in use today. It is still used as a software flow control for serial communications...
In any Windows environment (and I'm guessing GNU/Linux too - I'm at work. no boxes to check), go to the setting for your serial ports. Look under "Flow Control" and you'll see None, Hardware and Xon/Xoff.
- T
Now, if I could get over how old this article makes me feel... (How could someone not know what Scroll Lock is for!?!?)