I used Lego's to build a model of 'Little Boy' (implosive a-bomb) for a high-school project once. We had been asked to write an essay about a historically significant bit of technology, and have at least one example of it for illustrative purposes. Kept the model in a metal box next to the desk whilst reading the essay for effect. (The effect was a trip down to the principal's office for a discussion on 'why nukes are BAD!')
The only challenges I see are getting Lego to produce the explosive bricks needed for the lenses,(TNT does not lend itself to modern hi-temp injection moulding!) and then getting them to produce a Lego timing module capable of signalling thousands of 1x1 Lego M1 detonator bricks. The enriched uranium bricks could probably be bought for a couple of tins of Spam on the Russian black market.. (We only need 20 kilos) Lego currently makes the 'urchin' device; it's in set 107; Jr. Atomic Scientist's Secret Lab.
I agree that there would have been a barrier to entry for Be, but that wall was enlarged greatly by Microsoft and their 'If you ship it, you must pay' licenses.. Be would have stood a pretty good chance at market share if Microsoft hadn't had those 'innovative' contracts with the OEMs..
Yep.. Strips fine (haven't compiled the code it produced, however) except for the lost comment blocks that used to be in front of the GPL statement and authors name... But it scans fine visually..
Duly snagged and added to my mirror. I'm also adding a bit of C++ code I wrote to strip single-quote delimited entries from a database and write them to a delimited text-file. Not sure who'd have a use for it, but perhaps someone has some 'quoted' data they need extracted;P..
Duly snagged and added to my mirror. I'm also adding a bit of C++ code I wrote to strip single-quote delimited entries from a database and write them to a cr delimited text-file. Not sure who'd have a use for it, but perhaps someone has some 'quoted' data they need extracted;P..
Stay out of it.. The library is closed for a reason, namely keeping the RIAA off their back. (So far it hasn't worked, though) If we knew how it validated CD's, we could just throw random CD checksums at the server until it gave everything up. Instant piracy potential, and instant RIAA lawsuit..
As for the DMCA and it's RE clause, thats for 'interoperability'. They've supplied a library to link against, so the interop argument is a short lived one.
Be came to the market late and hit the high-barriers to entry that the consumer OS market provides. This isn't MS's fault
Read Judge Jackson's Finding of Fact. He seems to think so, and it's his opinion that matters.
I don't think the lack of consumer Unix based systems had anything to do with MS monopoly in 90-94
There was no lack of consumer Unix. Minix cost less than a copy of Windows 3.0, and one could get Xenix, from Microsoft, for only slightly more. Hell, buying my first 386 Olivetti cost LESS with Xenix than with their 'standard' Windows developer package.
What cracks me up is that the judge seems to think the DCMA R/E clause doesn't apply.. He says later in the document (I'm paraphrasing) that even if DeCSS were to have the sole capability of permitting playback on Linux boxes, that it would still violate the DCMA because one would have to circumvent CSS with an unlicensed key to play it back. One, the moron thinks CSS is a copyright protection scheme, and two, that the clause pertaining to interoperability is null and void.
Is a lead-filled 4x4 severe enough for this guy? I'll have to do a gross amount of trauma to his skull to kill him, as it has become glaringly apparent he has no brain.
d3 modelling techs could get screwed..
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Imagine the potential for videogames. If this is capable of producing a textured 3d model, just think how realistic the caves in Tomb Raider MCMLI could look. Or how easy it would be to create a 3d model of a room, complete with textured furniture, walls, etc.. Take a few from a couple of different angles and you have a photorealistic model. I wonder.. Could I virtually paste myself into the video feed from my office and look present?
Okay then... Lets put your little pizza box up against this here IBM and see who can cut the mustard. Hell, I'll let you use a brand new Ultra and I'll still trash you with equipment from 1997.. I betcha I have a thousand times the IO bandwidth of that puny Sun! Oh, yeah.. Did I mention it's a ES/9000?
Why is it some pompous little cretins never get the 'pick the platform right for your application' credo? For crushing twits, a 30,000 pound 9x2 sounds about right. Imagine the squish!
Before half of us go out and snag a copy, realize that this is oh so very pre-alpha! Serious developers only! You can't do anything more than primitive read operations from an existing JFS partition! Granted, they have a marginally functional mkfs, but what good is a filesystem you can't write to?
At lease it is good to see IBM is keeping their promises, and following the credo 'Release early and often'. (In this case, VERY EARLY).
I haven't seen anything quite as visually unsettling than the skewed webcam since I accidentally ate the entire plate of 'brownies' someone left in the fridge back in college.
You are allowed to bind multiple instances of a given protocol. At the moment, I have TCP/IP bound to an Ethernet device, Dialup networking, and an in-house parallel comm adapter.
As for the special 'AOL Adapter'; Its ben around seemingly forever. It is nothing more than a slip/ppp dialer customised to AOL's whim, and is perfectly happy coexisting with other network adapters.
Drat, now i can't post my javascript to uninstall windows and reinstall linux on an unsuspecting persons hard drive to slashdot. That would be a wonderful way to perform software updates! When the new version of Importantsoft comes out, you email every one of your (l)users a bit of 'sploit code and you never have to get off your butt. !
You should told him that [BS MODE ON] 'The [platform] C compiler limits the number of possible outstanding user-iterated conditionals to 32, unless you use a double-stage switch conditional, in which case you can stretch the number of allowed outstanding conditionals to 64. Remember, you're using a monolithic 32 bit compiler generating octal, okay? I think you can get around it by custom compiling GCC for [platform], but you have to hand-edit the sub-parser source. Just do a egrep in the appropriate source directory and change all of the 32s to 64s, and then go through again to change all of the 64s to 128'
I used that on a family member that thought one huge 200 line case statement was the way to handle a command line interface efficiently. After I actually caught him peeking at GCC, I just wrote him a 20 line interpreter using a tree.
Perhaps when you run for president again in 2004, you should consider Linus Torvalds as a running mate. I realize that attracting him to the Meadow Party may be a bit difficult, but I think the party's promise to make a talking pengiun Secretary of State will win him over.
Yeah, and how is the whole clone thing working out for you?
Having been a first-year programming student once, I know the crap that can get turned out. I think every CS instructor should submit at least one example of their students work, if only to show the professional obfuscators how well it can be done through plain amateurish ignorance. I seem to remember one classmate that wrote 800 lines of code, sans comments, to perform the simple action of reversing the order of a char array and inverting capitalization.. She didn't survive the class, and ended up in a Marketing degree..
Okay.. I'm a numpad freak. Tell me there is an easy to use joystick that will handle: 8-way movement Fire Run Reload Switch to view 1 Switch to view 2 Weapon Cycle Up Weapon Cycle Down Use Item 1 Use Item 2 Jump Crouch Taunt
And that I can still operate, ambidextrously, with one hand??
This may sound, erm, (-1: Offtopic), but it isn't. When the inevitable Linux/BSD port to PSX2 happens, imagine the cost drop in commodity supercomputers! Put a bootimage on a DVD-ROM and use them as simplistic nodes. At $400, you could match the performance of a SGI Onyx 10000 Reality Engine for under $2000, (including the NFS server, network, etc).
Culture! Yes.. We have inner-city children told that being intellectual is 'acting like whitey', middle-class whites being pushed into college because it's expected, and asians who's culture is typically non-tolerant to failure. But does that mean that the culture stereotypically unprepared for college should move to the head of the line, or be encouraged to engage in 'alternative' tests because they're not 'smart enough' to take the normal one? Bollocks. I should apply there, if only for a joke. I'm Native American, perhaps they'll judge my 1500 SAT as too low to take the regular test.
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There is a local 2600 group based out of Ann Arbor, Mi.. Anyone know if they are throwing 'festivities' for the MPAA tonight?
/. crowd out to one of the larger theatres!
If not, perhaps we can still get some of the local
I used Lego's to build a model of 'Little Boy' (implosive a-bomb) for a high-school project once. We had been asked to write an essay about a historically significant bit of technology, and have at least one example of it for illustrative purposes. Kept the model in a metal box next to the desk whilst reading the essay for effect. (The effect was a trip down to the principal's office for a discussion on 'why nukes are BAD!')
The only challenges I see are getting Lego to produce the explosive bricks needed for the lenses,(TNT does not lend itself to modern hi-temp injection moulding!) and then getting them to produce a Lego timing module capable of signalling thousands of 1x1 Lego M1 detonator bricks. The enriched uranium bricks could probably be bought for a couple of tins of Spam on the Russian black market.. (We only need 20 kilos) Lego currently makes the 'urchin' device; it's in set 107; Jr. Atomic Scientist's Secret Lab.
I agree that there would have been a barrier to entry for Be, but that wall was enlarged greatly by Microsoft and their 'If you ship it, you must pay' licenses.. Be would have stood a pretty good chance at market share if Microsoft hadn't had those 'innovative' contracts with the OEMs..
Yep.. Strips fine (haven't compiled the code it produced, however) except for the lost comment blocks that used to be in front of the GPL statement and authors name... But it scans fine visually..
Duly snagged and added to my mirror. I'm also adding a bit of C++ code I wrote to strip single-quote delimited entries from a database and write them to a delimited text-file. Not sure who'd have a use for it, but perhaps someone has some 'quoted' data they need extracted ;P..
Duly snagged and added to my mirror. I'm also adding a bit of C++ code I wrote to strip single-quote delimited entries from a database and write them to a cr delimited text-file. Not sure who'd have a use for it, but perhaps someone has some 'quoted' data they need extracted ;P..
Stay out of it.. The library is closed for a reason, namely keeping the RIAA off their back. (So far it hasn't worked, though) If we knew how it validated CD's, we could just throw random CD checksums at the server until it gave everything up. Instant piracy potential, and instant RIAA lawsuit..
As for the DMCA and it's RE clause, thats for 'interoperability'. They've supplied a library to link against, so the interop argument is a short lived one.
Be came to the market late and hit the high-barriers to entry that the consumer OS market provides. This isn't MS's fault
Read Judge Jackson's Finding of Fact. He seems to think so, and it's his opinion that matters.
I don't think the lack of consumer Unix based systems had anything to do with MS monopoly in 90-94
There was no lack of consumer Unix. Minix cost less than a copy of Windows 3.0, and one could get Xenix, from Microsoft, for only slightly more. Hell, buying my first 386 Olivetti cost LESS with Xenix than with their 'standard' Windows developer package.
Excellent work.. I laughed my ass off, but I'm three Heineken short of a twelve-pack.....
Ah!! The tag isn't captured!
Pretty inventive, AC.. Now don't do it again, or Coyboy Neil is going to ride you out of town on the metal end of a 30.06.
What cracks me up is that the judge seems to think the DCMA R/E clause doesn't apply.. He says later in the document (I'm paraphrasing) that even if DeCSS were to have the sole capability of permitting playback on Linux boxes, that it would still violate the DCMA because one would have to circumvent CSS with an unlicensed key to play it back. One, the moron thinks CSS is a copyright protection scheme, and two, that the clause pertaining to interoperability is null and void.
Is a lead-filled 4x4 severe enough for this guy? I'll have to do a gross amount of trauma to his skull to kill him, as it has become glaringly apparent he has no brain.
Imagine the potential for videogames. If this is capable of producing a textured 3d model, just think how realistic the caves in Tomb Raider MCMLI could look. Or how easy it would be to create a 3d model of a room, complete with textured furniture, walls, etc.. Take a few from a couple of different angles and you have a photorealistic model. I wonder.. Could I virtually paste myself into the video feed from my office and look present?
Okay then... Lets put your little pizza box up against this here IBM and see who can cut the mustard. Hell, I'll let you use a brand new Ultra and I'll still trash you with equipment from 1997.. I betcha I have a thousand times the IO bandwidth of that puny Sun! Oh, yeah.. Did I mention it's a ES/9000?
Why is it some pompous little cretins never get the 'pick the platform right for your application' credo? For crushing twits, a 30,000 pound 9x2 sounds about right. Imagine the squish!
Before half of us go out and snag a copy, realize that this is oh so very pre-alpha! Serious developers only! You can't do anything more than primitive read operations from an existing JFS partition! Granted, they have a marginally functional mkfs, but what good is a filesystem you can't write to?
At lease it is good to see IBM is keeping their promises, and following the credo 'Release early and often'. (In this case, VERY EARLY).
I haven't seen anything quite as visually unsettling than the skewed webcam since I accidentally ate the entire plate of 'brownies' someone left in the fridge back in college.
AOL is installing a special 'AOL only' TCP/IP stack? You're kidding, right? Please say you're kidding!
Perhaps you meant it installs an instance of TCP/IP bound to the AOL Adapter. Thats normal.
You are allowed to bind multiple instances of a given protocol. At the moment, I have TCP/IP bound to an Ethernet device, Dialup networking, and an in-house parallel comm adapter.
As for the special 'AOL Adapter'; Its ben around seemingly forever. It is nothing more than a slip/ppp dialer customised to AOL's whim, and is perfectly happy coexisting with other network adapters.
Hold on one second! We all know the bottle of Stoli in my desk is for sterilizing wounds after the inevitable end of society!
(It'll happen any second now.. I've wired my Doomsday Device up to a Unix box. It's set to trigger the device on the first ping timeout to Ebay.)
Drat, now i can't post my javascript to uninstall windows and reinstall linux on an unsuspecting persons hard drive to slashdot. That would be a wonderful way to perform software updates! When the new version of Importantsoft comes out, you email every one of your (l)users a bit of 'sploit code and you never have to get off your butt. !
You should told him that
[BS MODE ON]
'The [platform] C compiler limits the number of possible outstanding user-iterated conditionals to 32, unless you use a double-stage switch conditional, in which case you can stretch the number of allowed outstanding conditionals to 64. Remember, you're using a monolithic 32 bit compiler generating octal, okay? I think you can get around it by custom compiling GCC for [platform], but you have to hand-edit the sub-parser source. Just do a egrep in the appropriate source directory and change all of the 32s to 64s, and then go through again to change all of the 64s to 128'
I used that on a family member that thought one huge 200 line case statement was the way to handle a command line interface efficiently. After I actually caught him peeking at GCC, I just wrote him a 20 line interpreter using a tree.
Bill!
Perhaps when you run for president again in 2004, you should consider Linus Torvalds as a running mate. I realize that attracting him to the Meadow Party may be a bit difficult, but I think the party's promise to make a talking pengiun Secretary of State will win him over.
Yeah, and how is the whole clone thing working out for you?
Having been a first-year programming student once, I know the crap that can get turned out. I think every CS instructor should submit at least one example of their students work, if only to show the professional obfuscators how well it can be done through plain amateurish ignorance. I seem to remember one classmate that wrote 800 lines of code, sans comments, to perform the simple action of reversing the order of a char array and inverting capitalization.. She didn't survive the class, and ended up in a Marketing degree..
Okay.. I'm a numpad freak. Tell me there is an easy to use joystick that will handle:
8-way movement
Fire
Run
Reload
Switch to view 1
Switch to view 2
Weapon Cycle Up
Weapon Cycle Down
Use Item 1
Use Item 2
Jump
Crouch
Taunt
And that I can still operate, ambidextrously, with one hand??
This may sound, erm, (-1: Offtopic), but it isn't. When the inevitable Linux/BSD port to PSX2 happens, imagine the cost drop in commodity supercomputers! Put a bootimage on a DVD-ROM and use them as simplistic nodes. At $400, you could match the performance of a SGI Onyx 10000 Reality Engine for under $2000, (including the NFS server, network, etc).
PSX2 Beowulf Cluster!
Culture! Yes.. We have inner-city children told that being intellectual is 'acting like whitey', middle-class whites being pushed into college because it's expected, and asians who's culture is typically non-tolerant to failure. But does that mean that the culture stereotypically unprepared for college should move to the head of the line, or be encouraged to engage in 'alternative' tests because they're not 'smart enough' to take the normal one? Bollocks. I should apply there, if only for a joke. I'm Native American, perhaps they'll judge my 1500 SAT as too low to take the regular test.