I would've voted for pico, but I use "nano" now..:^) It's an awesome GPLed clone of pico, but with search/replace and line-goto features. Check it out here..
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I think that they need to make a scientific calculator version of the Data-Bank series. Graphing optional. I love MP3s and all, but I think Casio skipped a few steps when they never released something that had the caliber of the TI-85.:^)
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It was also interesting that the interviewer made the implicit assumption that space travel was primarily a means to reduce terrestrial overpopulation!
Given the failure rate that NASA has had, this might be a correct assumption!:^)
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I did some math to check his claim of the earth being full by 2600, and it's quite funny -- the population density (following only the exponential condition that was given) would be one person per 0.78 m^2!
The formula I used is this: ((4*pi*(6371315)^2)*.3)/((6e9)*2^n), where n is the number of times the population doubles. The exponential condition given was that the population doubles each 40 years. I used 3:10 as the land to total area ratio.
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
Ah, I was about to comment about Afterstep 1.0, but it looks like someone else did!:^) I long for the days of Afterstep 1.0 when I could do all window manipulation with a keyboard. Window Maker seems to have lost the ability to do these things (i.e. resizing/easily moving windows with keyboard), or am I mistaken?
Anyway, have you tried "links" (not lynx), a textmode browser that is much better than lynx? I like links so much that I'm having a hard time convincing myself to use anything else. It supports tables (well!), frames, background downloading, and you can maneuver around the page before it completely finishes downloading. It should put an end to having to use that pesky mouse.
There is a book that delves pretty deep into this subject already -- it is called "Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World".. I read it at Barnes and Noble one day. Both the author and I are Orlando locals, so the book (and Katz's thoughts above) definitely hit home. The book can be purchased from Amazon here. For those of you who have read 1984 and Brave New World, this is (in some ways) a real-world complement.
BTW, I think that calling Disney's technological advances "tragic" is true in many senses.. You really have to have lived in Orlando (esp. in the south west areas) for a number of years to realize this. Everything is so overcapitalized that all sorts of buildings and roads get thrown up very rapidly, leading to a poor infrastructure and just a weird feeling of the place in general. Everybody's just realized that there is a lot of money to be had, so quantity (not quality) seems to be the focus.
In essence, it's not that the technology is tragic, but more that the effects of it are. For lots of examples of this, please get the book above -- it's a very interesting read.
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Re:Somebody please post the article here.
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The "cypherpunks" account no longer works.. No Sir Arthur Clarke for me (unless someone cares to email me the text in the article)!
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"I think there's a world market for about five computers." -- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943
I definitely agree with your post, except for the fact that most people don't need more powerful computers.. When a word processor opens in less than a second, that's usually as fast as things need to be (for *most* people!).. So when the demand isn't that high for faster machinery, there's not as much motivation to research for faster solution.. But, even that idea is negated when you realize that there is still a demand for faster technology in non-consumer sectors. Only time will tell what happens.
Personally, I think systems are going to shoot for minimalism over the next few years -- the biggest and baddest CPUs (even for the last few years) are complete overkill for most people. The current market division (lower-end (i.e. Celerons/K6-2 and 3s) with high-end (PIIIs/Athlons/etc.)) will probably just get further and further apart. In other words, Moore's Law will remain important for the high-end market, but become not-so-important for the lower-end CPU market. Because the high-end is becoming more and more secluded from most of society (how many people do you know that have P3 Xeons or Athlons on their desk?), Moore's Law won't even matter for most people.
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There has been quite a bit of discussion about it on the linux kernel development mailing list, with many people on different sides.. Look here to see what people on the list have been saying.
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
Yep, it will be in there. It might not work with everything out there, but it's a really good start. As of the latest development kernel (2.3.18), there's support for the following:
UHCI (intel PIIX4 and others) support
OHCI (compaq and some others) support
OHCI-HCD (other OHCI opt. Virt. Root Hub) support
USB hub support
USB mouse support
USB HP scanner support
USB keyboard support
USB audio parsing support
USB Communications Device Class (ACM) support
USB Printer support
USB CPiA Camera support
USB SCSI Support
EZUSB Firmware downloader
USS720 parport driver
Preliminary/proc/bus/usb support
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Re:I hope Microsoft releases WinCE for this!!
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I don't know why, but this guy's posts remind me of The Gnulix Guy mixed with MEEPT!!.. A pretty untasty mixture, I must say.
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Re:Damn that's small. Now how about this?
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Well, the TI-83+ only has 160k of RAM (see TIcalc's TI-83+ page), so it wouldn't be useful for much of anything.. I doubt you could get much more than the linux kernel stuffed onto it..
Now, the TI-92+ is a different story!:^)
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Anyone have the source for Lemonade Stand around somewhere?
Yeah, I actually do have it around still, on the original floppy it came on (The Apple ][c still works as well!). Lemonade Stand was written in AppleBASIC, so you could get the source just by LOADing it and typing LIST.
I also have a 1200 baud modem for the ][c, so it is possible for me to send the file over the modem to my current PC.. The transfer program uses Xmodem (yay), but hey, I could still pull it off that way.
It might be easier to just rewrite the thing..:^)
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For the uninformed (like I was until I looked it up), Xinerama is a wide screen server that combines two or more screens into a single virtual screen. I'm guessing this would be really good for video walls and other similar uses.
About the G400 specs, awesome. I wrote to Matrox about this, and I guess this was their reply.:^)
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Raster's article actually pissed me off enough to format my Red Hat partition and install Debian on it. I want a distribution that isn't swayed by a corporation -- Debian fits the bill perfectly.
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Slashdot Mirror
I would've voted for pico, but I use "nano" now.. :^) It's an awesome GPLed clone of pico, but with search/replace and line-goto features. Check it out here..
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
I believe you're referring to the Utwig..
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
I think that they need to make a scientific calculator version of the Data-Bank series. Graphing optional. I love MP3s and all, but I think Casio skipped a few steps when they never released something that had the caliber of the TI-85. :^)
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
Given the failure rate that NASA has had, this might be a correct assumption!
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
I did some math to check his claim of the earth being full by 2600, and it's quite funny -- the population density (following only the exponential condition that was given) would be one person per 0.78 m^2!
The formula I used is this:
((4*pi*(6371315)^2)*.3)/((6e9)*2^n), where n is the number of times the population doubles. The exponential condition given was that the population doubles each 40 years. I used 3:10 as the land to total area ratio.
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
Ah, I was about to comment about Afterstep 1.0, but it looks like someone else did! :^) I long for the days of Afterstep 1.0 when I could do all window manipulation with a keyboard. Window Maker seems to have lost the ability to do these things (i.e. resizing/easily moving windows with keyboard), or am I mistaken?
Anyway, have you tried "links" (not lynx), a textmode browser that is much better than lynx? I like links so much that I'm having a hard time convincing myself to use anything else. It supports tables (well!), frames, background downloading, and you can maneuver around the page before it completely finishes downloading. It should put an end to having to use that pesky mouse.
You can grab it here:
http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mi kulas/links/ (ignore the extra space.. it still works when clicked on.. also, I suggest grabbing links-current.tar.gz)
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
There is a book that delves pretty deep into this subject already -- it is called "Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World".. I read it at Barnes and Noble one day. Both the author and I are Orlando locals, so the book (and Katz's thoughts above) definitely hit home. The book can be purchased from Amazon here. For those of you who have read 1984 and Brave New World, this is (in some ways) a real-world complement.
BTW, I think that calling Disney's technological advances "tragic" is true in many senses.. You really have to have lived in Orlando (esp. in the south west areas) for a number of years to realize this. Everything is so overcapitalized that all sorts of buildings and roads get thrown up very rapidly, leading to a poor infrastructure and just a weird feeling of the place in general. Everybody's just realized that there is a lot of money to be had, so quantity (not quality) seems to be the focus.
In essence, it's not that the technology is tragic, but more that the effects of it are. For lots of examples of this, please get the book above -- it's a very interesting read.
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
The "cypherpunks" account no longer works.. No Sir Arthur Clarke for me (unless someone cares to email me the text in the article)!
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
The quote you mention is this:
"I think there's a world market for about five computers."
-- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943
I definitely agree with your post, except for the fact that most people don't need more powerful computers.. When a word processor opens in less than a second, that's usually as fast as things need to be (for *most* people!).. So when the demand isn't that high for faster machinery, there's not as much motivation to research for faster solution.. But, even that idea is negated when you realize that there is still a demand for faster technology in non-consumer sectors. Only time will tell what happens.
Personally, I think systems are going to shoot for minimalism over the next few years -- the biggest and baddest CPUs (even for the last few years) are complete overkill for most people. The current market division (lower-end (i.e. Celerons/K6-2 and 3s) with high-end (PIIIs/Athlons/etc.)) will probably just get further and further apart. In other words, Moore's Law will remain important for the high-end market, but become not-so-important for the lower-end CPU market. Because the high-end is becoming more and more secluded from most of society (how many people do you know that have P3 Xeons or Athlons on their desk?), Moore's Law won't even matter for most people.
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
Did anyone else notice that it said they'd be using the "proprietary OpenIPO system"? Doesn't that sound kind of contradictory?
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
There has been quite a bit of discussion about it on the linux kernel development mailing list, with many people on different sides.. Look here to see what people on the list have been saying.
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
UHCI (intel PIIX4 and others) support
OHCI (compaq and some others) support
OHCI-HCD (other OHCI opt. Virt. Root Hub) support
USB hub support
USB mouse support
USB HP scanner support
USB keyboard support
USB audio parsing support
USB Communications Device Class (ACM) support
USB Printer support
USB CPiA Camera support
USB SCSI Support
EZUSB Firmware downloader
USS720 parport driver
Preliminary /proc/bus/usb support
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
Boy, that would've made Apollo 13 (the movie) very short..
Houston: "Well guys, we're ceasing all communications. Houston out."
Apollo 13: "BUT HOUSTON! IT'S JUST AN EXPLOSION!!"
The End
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you can grab it here:
http://www.klomp.org/mod_roaming/
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
I don't know why, but this guy's posts remind me of The Gnulix Guy mixed with MEEPT!!.. A pretty untasty mixture, I must say.
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
Well, the TI-83+ only has 160k of RAM (see TIcalc's TI-83+ page), so it wouldn't be useful for much of anything.. I doubt you could get much more than the linux kernel stuffed onto it..
:^)
Now, the TI-92+ is a different story!
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That explains why the 487SXes were so damned expensive.. :^)
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uhhhhh, actually that was thomas jefferson.
I hope you're joking...
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Anyone have the source for Lemonade Stand around somewhere?
:^)
Yeah, I actually do have it around still, on the original floppy it came on (The Apple ][c still works as well!). Lemonade Stand was written in AppleBASIC, so you could get the source just by LOADing it and typing LIST.
I also have a 1200 baud modem for the ][c, so it is possible for me to send the file over the modem to my current PC.. The transfer program uses Xmodem (yay), but hey, I could still pull it off that way.
It might be easier to just rewrite the thing..
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
Is it just me, or does the new ABCnews "science" look appear to look like one of those apocalypse-ranting tabloids?
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
For the uninformed (like I was until I looked it up), Xinerama is a wide screen server that combines two or more screens into a single virtual screen. I'm guessing this would be really good for video walls and other similar uses.
:^)
About the G400 specs, awesome. I wrote to Matrox about this, and I guess this was their reply.
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So, if the world loses against Gary Kasparov, does that mean that we are collectively more stupid than Deep Blue? :^)
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
Raster's article actually pissed me off enough to format my Red Hat partition and install Debian on it. I want a distribution that isn't swayed by a corporation -- Debian fits the bill perfectly.
-- Does Rain Man use the Autistic License for his software?
They look like they're covers to Pink Floyd albums, similar to Meddle and Saucerful of Secrets.
To the moderators: Don't mark this as offtopic -- humor is a good thing.
It's line noise!! Muhahahaha!
3 /g';
$_="It's line noise!!\r"; $|=1;
$e='s/([\x41-\x5a])(\W*)([\x61-\x7a])/\l\1\2\u\
print while select('','','',.1),eval $e || $e=~tr [4567lu] [6745ul];