In an item about this on BBC radio this evening, the producer explained that the audio they had was of Adams' audition tape (just because he was teh author didn't mean we just got a part). They played a bit and it sounded pretty good. As did William Franklin as the new Voice of The Book.
I would humbly suggest that you have a look for a good, full implementation of Logo, it really can be an immensely rich language and is not limited to graphics.
It's string handling is powerful and LISP-esque and really interesting - I wrote a decent Eliza when I was a kid using it.
The turtle commands give a really simple and direct understanding or what it means to issue a command. This can lead nicely on to the simple concept of programming multiple commands, but from there the possibilities explode... not literally, that would be too scary.
Berkeley Logo looks like a very nice implementation (thanks Google). You can grab it gratis for Windows, Linux. Mac, DOS from this guy's home page.
Thanks for asking - you've inspired me to download it.
I predict (well, I don't, but it is a fun idea) that once we have ubiquitous, low-cost high-speed networks the problem will be solved by re-architecting consumer devices into two parts.
The intelligence and the guts of the device will stay at home, plugged into a docking station. You will carry the equivalent of a thin client - uniquely keyed to the the back-end which provides UI functionality only.
Someone steals your iiPod ? no use to them, the music is streaming from home and the bit you are carrying only costs $50 and is useless without the other part.
Going somewhere without the magic network? The two parts snap together, but the likelihood is that the places *with* the network will be the places (urban, high density) where you are most likely to be mugged.
We've already seen similar innovation in car radio market where the little coded front panel pops off.
OK, so it probably won't happen, but hey its a solution in the true Slashdot spirit n'est pas?
All it would have taken for US written English to have changed would have been for
1. Someone else other than Caxton to have popularized mass printed literature (of for Caxton to make different choices about the spellings he chose
2. Chambers to have made different choices about his reform of US spelling, or someone else to have done the job.
I suspect we are already in the alternative timeline. No-one here would ever vote for someone called President Keith.
Yes, that makes complete sense. Transmit a radio play where the aliens are destroying cities and slaughtering the masses and then conclude from the adverse reaction that earthinglings aren't ready for contact.
I like my conspiracy theories a bit better baked than that.
Actually, I would be more worried if I was Akamai. If Google went after the corporate market and offered some kind of grid-esque caching-and-execution environment, that would be something to look at.
However it would need some rather nifty scheduling an admin tools, and would add a lot complexity, so I don't think that's too likely.
Precisely. What we have here is a report that a man has found an underwater bump in the Med.
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Oh come on, read the article. This whole thing is being done as a bit of *fun* combining some interesting science and a big art component.
It's meant to appeal to people's sense of wonder and interest them, not to be the most technically adept way of providing a multi-channel audio feed from 60M up.
If you had bothered to read the piece you would have seen that, apart from anything else the act of contacting one of the suspended phones is meant to change the RF field in the balloon cloud enough to change the colour of the surrounding balloons change the colour of the light they emit.
I live near Greenwich, and I suspect I'll be there, together with a lot of families with picnics having a laugh.
And for those people asking about the funding - these people are coughing up:
"The Daniel Langlois Foundation'spurpose is to further artistic and scientific knowledge by fostering the meeting of art and science in the field of technologies. "
The foundation unfortunately has a terrible liking for bad Flash.
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If you think the OS X version is obnoxious, you presumably haven't tried the Windows version.
The Mac version is positively polite IMHO and lacks all the message centre horror.
Absolutely. Just love the condescension implied by that sentence. I, of course an an OS X user. But presumable the author believes that once I'm sufficiently clueful I will start prefering VI to these crappy old GUI editors I've been forced to use.
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In an item about this on BBC radio this evening, the producer explained that the audio they had was of Adams' audition tape (just because he was teh author didn't mean we just got a part). They played a bit and it sounded pretty good. As did William Franklin as the new Voice of The Book.
Apache being installed in golden orb spider.
How's Apple going to fix the problem of users not understanding the dialogue boxes which say 'Do you want to save changes you made to this document?'.
And what if the application is such that it makes no sense for it to be invoked by the user? (such as a daemon or somesuch)
>stack-based interpreted lang
Please don't try to teach your mother Forth.
It's string handling is powerful and LISP-esque and really interesting - I wrote a decent Eliza when I was a kid using it.
The turtle commands give a really simple and direct understanding or what it means to issue a command. This can lead nicely on to the simple concept of programming multiple commands, but from there the possibilities explode... not literally, that would be too scary.
Berkeley Logo looks like a very nice implementation (thanks Google). You can grab it gratis for Windows, Linux. Mac, DOS from this guy's home page.
Thanks for asking - you've inspired me to download it.
I predict (well, I don't, but it is a fun idea) that once we have ubiquitous, low-cost high-speed networks the problem will be solved by re-architecting consumer devices into two parts.
The intelligence and the guts of the device will stay at home, plugged into a docking station. You will carry the equivalent of a thin client - uniquely keyed to the the back-end which provides UI functionality only.
Someone steals your iiPod ? no use to them, the music is streaming from home and the bit you are carrying only costs $50 and is useless without the other part.
Going somewhere without the magic network? The two parts snap together, but the likelihood is that the places *with* the network will be the places (urban, high density) where you are most likely to be mugged.
We've already seen similar innovation in car radio market where the little coded front panel pops off.
OK, so it probably won't happen, but hey its a solution in the true Slashdot spirit n'est pas?
There is a decent demo here.
http://dogfeathers.com/java/pulfrich.html
All it would have taken for US written English to have changed would have been for 1. Someone else other than Caxton to have popularized mass printed literature (of for Caxton to make different choices about the spellings he chose 2. Chambers to have made different choices about his reform of US spelling, or someone else to have done the job. I suspect we are already in the alternative timeline. No-one here would ever vote for someone called President Keith.
No idea really, but I looked at the design and the slogan, and it made me think of Starship Troopers, and I shuddered.
Hmmm
The huge slow motion impact, that fells trees as the saucer-section finally impacts.
Well, fells moss, in this case I guess.
Nope, you're wrong. 10.2.8 was out well before the release of Panther
Next week, why the neologism 'Web' should be replaced with 'Internet-based hypertext-linked document system'.
I'm sure that Mr Incredible's waist size changes too. There are certain shots - "Show Time!" that are common to both. I'm sure he is fatter there.
Exactly.
Having read the replies. Yup, you're right, I'm wrong. Should have thought of that stuff.
Given that each seat already has a myriad of cabling going to it, I simply can't see why they've opted for WiFi connectivity - other than as a gimmic.
After all I guess 90% of laptops have Ethernet ports, and what - 40% have Wifi?
So they have a smaller potential audience, plus the issues of RF engineering, interference, security, contention etc.
So gimmic it is, unless anyone has some better ideas.
Yes, that makes complete sense. Transmit a radio play where the aliens are destroying cities and slaughtering the masses and then conclude from the adverse reaction that earthinglings aren't ready for contact. I like my conspiracy theories a bit better baked than that.
Easier to get the joke when the site is actually accessible.
Actually, I would be more worried if I was Akamai. If Google went after the corporate market and offered some kind of grid-esque caching-and-execution environment, that would be something to look at. However it would need some rather nifty scheduling an admin tools, and would add a lot complexity, so I don't think that's too likely.
Precisely. What we have here is a report that a man has found an underwater bump in the Med.
Oh come on, read the article. This whole thing is being done as a bit of *fun* combining some interesting science and a big art component. It's meant to appeal to people's sense of wonder and interest them, not to be the most technically adept way of providing a multi-channel audio feed from 60M up. If you had bothered to read the piece you would have seen that, apart from anything else the act of contacting one of the suspended phones is meant to change the RF field in the balloon cloud enough to change the colour of the surrounding balloons change the colour of the light they emit. I live near Greenwich, and I suspect I'll be there, together with a lot of families with picnics having a laugh. And for those people asking about the funding - these people are coughing up: "The Daniel Langlois Foundation'spurpose is to further artistic and scientific knowledge by fostering the meeting of art and science in the field of technologies. " The foundation unfortunately has a terrible liking for bad Flash.
If you think the OS X version is obnoxious, you presumably haven't tried the Windows version.
The Mac version is positively polite IMHO and lacks all the message centre horror.
Well, Apple's Mail.app displays mail in threaded format, if you want. Netscape mail does too.
Absolutely. Just love the condescension implied by that sentence. I, of course an an OS X user. But presumable the author believes that once I'm sufficiently clueful I will start prefering VI to these crappy old GUI editors I've been forced to use.