Lets see.. Arnt we confusing something here? Maybe you ment Developers instead of members. A member of USB would be one of the founding companies (ie. M$ and Intel). A developer would be you and me. I dont see any locks on the developer site.
I'm all against the current breed of internet filters. But (open mindedly speaking), imagine that we come across a product (such as Deep Thought?) that could in fact filter 99.9999% perfectly and give a good browsing experince to little kids and innocent adults. Then what?
If I was a kid, and I was showing off the internet to my mom, and if somehow I got stuck in a porn site with windows poppping up as fast as I could close, I too would be embrassed... I too would loath the computer and at the end be driven to push the turn off button.
But say for example the second greatest computer in the entire universe and other diamensions exist.. say that deep thought was invented, it did filtering based on images, sound and did it a sane way (did you see how altavista/images get filter on the amount of skin shown?) wouldnt you want that to be run on your child's computer? Or your work box.. or anything..
If you read Joe Haldeman's latest book "Forever Peace" (Hugo and Neublar) you'd find out and in what ways nanotechology could be expoloited for the beifit of one country in a war against an inferior nation.
I also recommend "Forever War" also by Joe Haldeman, another Hugo and Neublar winner.. Though both books are not related, they are excellent reads. I would usually cring at war books, but Haldmean's sci-fi war fiction would grip you and transport you to the horrors of a real war (narrated from a real veteran).
As a matter of fact, "Forever War" impacted me more than "StarShip Troopers".
Mr. Slade, the people who are asking for it and asking for it just for the sake of seeing if you would give it out, is the actual GPL enforcers IMHO. They are testing you, making sure (this is the double checking we have in our system) that you and anyone else who violate the GPL are at all times checked.
This checking is important.. not only for popular GPLed code, but also for those tiny little applets that are under GPL. By having ppl bicker about source releases and demand them, we are fostering a way of making sure even those tiny pieces of sotware are protected as well.
Good luck (wouldnt want to be in front of carmack when he fires that BFG10k).
Any idea why "Sexy French Men(tm)" are always banned from major channels? I have a feeling (from various female ops) that "Sexy French Men(tm)" arnt that very welcome on IRC. --
The book I got (probably from gutenberg project and not tolstoy.org) was partitioned into 9 books which were easy to read. Tolstoy.org has the book in one huge lump of txt file:) You could always cut into books (9 books in war and peace) and read them a book at a time..
I'd be more than happy to share some of my reading habits with you.
Newspapers have never quite tickled my fancy, I've always had a hard time to tackle an overly large and totally untame sheet of paper. The times I do read something news worthy would be over a person's shoulder or when it appears in a more tame form (ie. cut into pieces).
On the average, being a geek, I'm a real busy person and would give almost nothing to the major newspapers out there (but I'v seen the new Onion), politics and gossip just does not delight me. The only time you do see me get over my boredom and read something in default format would be to turn the newspaper on it's back, and explor the last few pages in the hope of finding something comical to entertain.
The same goes for traditional books. I am an avid reader, but over the last few years, I've been slacking very badly (since it's just not economically possible to read a book anymore nowdays). All sorts of constraints apply when reading a book.
My solutions arrived in the form a small electornic device (which I immediatly dubbed 'garo' -- a long lost feline friend). This device was a PalmOS based Handspring Visor Delux, with 8mb ram and the ability to upgrade using an unique hardware modular slot (even though it's flash is not upgradeable).
After having exhausted my batters in less than a week (of continuous play with the Visor), I decided to explore the waste expances of software available for PalmOS. I installed utility after utility, getting delighted with the slightest twist of a coding wizard (and yes the little mirror program that turned your palm screen black did send giggles up my spine and entertain a whole load of female friends).
One of the delightfully free software that was buzzed down my USB connection into my Visor was AvantGo. Which was a mixture of channel based online newsfeeds and other resources (even/. could be tamed to exist inside my avantgo). I quickly started to apperciate the depth and breath of this free services and the number of channels available on my Visor. This is the time I started to read newsspapers seriously. I have the following channels on my Visor, CNet's News.com channel (updated puter type microsoftish news), ExploreZone (Scientific not so in depth news), HollyWood.com (Movie times for my city! very important -- daily as everyting else), New York Time ( traditional media now readable), PalmCentral/PDABuzz, Slashdot.org (Oh baby.. this could be created by making a custom channel in avant go and putting this URL in), The weather channel (Ok, not so necessary in the desert:))), USAToday (fine with me), Wired News (Some low tech is fine while doing the daily garbage disposal).
I take my visor everwhere, it fits snuggly in my pocket and feels very conforatble in my hand. All channels are updated at least once a day. I usually update early morning and in the evenining. News is read where I happen to be:)
Now that takes care of news.. What about books?! It took me over a month to get into books on my Visor and man.. Now I'm reading almost 2 books a week after that. My fav doc reader would undoubtably be Bill Clagett's CSpotRun, A GPLed reader that is undoubtably the king of all Doc Readers out there. It has the ability to make the fonts closer, to turn the text into every single position known on the pilot (read from the sides or upside down?), autoscroll, drag scroll, scroll using the pageup-pagedown (fun!), and anything you could contribute! Ebooks are fun! Most books from the gutenberg project have been converted into ebooks over at MemoWare also you could OCR any book you own and convert it into doc format using the linux doctoolkit. Others check here. I have read War and Peace (over 1/2 million words) by Tolstoy (free on tolstoy.org), re-read Most books from William Gibson, Douglas Adams, Arthur C. Clarke and various other entities. I've also had the pleasure of reading classics such as ShakesSpeare, SunTzu, Tolkein, Plato, Confucious and many others right on my PDA.
Overall, the handheld computer with it's extreemly large memory (yes books in electornic format are tiny!) has been the only reason why I've gone back and read so many books (not to mention carry around so many techical notes and moste of the relevant HOWTO pages). I would recommend a handheld PDA to anyone who reads it and encorage them to read electornic Newspapers and e-books on a regualar basis.
The screenshot that you showed was actually a doctored screenshot (aka fake). You would notice this if you look closely at the doc and other areas around the edges where the IE imagne has been stamped over the aqua interface.
I can see a conspiracy theory starting right here:) Did Yahoo just put out a story to start a gossip? Maybe managed to lay Real in the mud, just as Ford Perfect did.
Mr. Katz is an entity that keeps on writing relativly low tech stories to a bunch of people who arnt mainly interested in these stories, over time they got real frustrated and kept bringing their vengence upon him.
But, he didnt change his style, he just kept on writing in the same tone in the same form. He didnt even try to adjust to the form needed neither did he just give up... Which leads to the assertion that.. Katz might be an AI entity (maybe piped off from Everything ) with a little bit of hacked Mega Hal code.
When would you write your epic mega cyperpunkish/slashdotish novel about a special breed of Anonymous Coward who brough their vengence upon a slightly misguided individual who thought he knew what popular nerd culter was about ?:)
Anyway, could someone post a big enough sentence, something that stretched pages and still intelligent and non complex.
#define begin { #define end } #define say if #define yell printf #define otherwise else #define play_q3 exit #define katz 1 #define @ ; /* slash_posted returns a 1 if a new slashdot article has been posted */
ac_poster_screams() begin say(slash_posted) begin yell("FIRST POST!")@ play_q3@ end otherwise begin yell("Bill Gates Naked and Petrified!")@ slash_posted = katz; ac_poster_screams()@ end end
#define begin { #define end } #define if say #define yell printf #define else otherwise #define @ ; /* slash_posted returns a 1 if a new slashdot article has been posted */
ac_poster_screams() say(slash_posted) begin yell("FIRST POST!")@ end otherwise begin yell("Bill Gates Naked and Petrified!")@ end end
Slashdot Mirror
Where was I confused? :)
There are no locks on the developer site, they appear only on the IF-member site. The link that you clicked took you to the IF-member site.
Cheers.
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Lets see.. Arnt we confusing something here? Maybe you ment Developers instead of members. A member of USB would be one of the founding companies (ie. M$ and Intel). A developer would be you and me. I dont see any locks on the developer site.
:)
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Goodness..
:)
:)
This was posted the day I got my visor to sync under 2.3.48!
Well now I have to save enough money to buy a Linux PDA instead of the still to be anounced color visor
Enjoy
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I'm all against the current breed of internet filters. But (open mindedly speaking), imagine that we come across a product (such as Deep Thought?) that could in fact filter 99.9999% perfectly and give a good browsing experince to little kids and innocent adults. Then what?
:)
If I was a kid, and I was showing off the internet to my mom, and if somehow I got stuck in a porn site with windows poppping up as fast as I could close, I too would be embrassed... I too would loath the computer and at the end be driven to push the turn off button.
But say for example the second greatest computer in the entire universe and other diamensions exist.. say that deep thought was invented, it did filtering based on images, sound and did it a sane way (did you see how altavista/images get filter on the amount of skin shown?) wouldnt you want that to be run on your child's computer? Or your work box.. or anything..
Keep your minds open
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If you read Joe Haldeman's latest book "Forever Peace" (Hugo and Neublar) you'd find out and in what ways nanotechology could be expoloited for the beifit of one country in a war against an inferior nation.
I also recommend "Forever War" also by Joe Haldeman, another Hugo and Neublar winner.. Though both books are not related, they are excellent reads. I would usually cring at war books, but Haldmean's sci-fi war fiction would grip you and transport you to the horrors of a real war (narrated from a real veteran).
As a matter of fact, "Forever War" impacted me more than "StarShip Troopers".
Enjoy.
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True,
Here are the computer shopper Prices for IBM WorkPad Z3
And prices from auctionwatcers are Here
Enjoy
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Here is the link. :)
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I'm sorry I wouldnt apologize from now on. Oh.. oops :)
And now back to topic,
Anyone know if and when Q2 would be GPLed? If? Well... Half-Life, Sin and others might not feel too keen on this right?
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Actually Mr. AC
/. ed.. Look below for a complete posting of what Slade had to say.
The site has been
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Oops forgot my tag :)
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Now we have someone who can enforce his GPLed code with a BFG :)
....
Slade's point is that everyone who is asking for source is just asking for it just for the sake of it and that no one really intends to make the code better.
Mr. Slade, the people who are asking for it and asking for it just for the sake of seeing if you would give it out, is the actual GPL enforcers IMHO. They are testing you, making sure (this is the double checking we have in our system) that you and anyone else who violate the GPL are at all times checked.
This checking is important.. not only for popular GPLed code, but also for those tiny little applets that are under GPL. By having ppl bicker about source releases and demand them, we are fostering a way of making sure even those tiny pieces of sotware are protected as well.
Good luck (wouldnt want to be in front of carmack when he fires that BFG10k).
...blessed by Ford Perfect
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Any idea why "Sexy French Men(tm)" are always banned from major channels? I have a feeling (from various female ops) that "Sexy French Men(tm)" arnt that very welcome on IRC.
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Another interesting thought is just how many women on IRC happen to be men :)
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Yes,
:) You could always cut into books (9 books in war and peace) and read them a book at a time..
The book I got (probably from gutenberg project and not tolstoy.org) was partitioned into 9 books which were easy to read. Tolstoy.org has the book in one huge lump of txt file
Enjoy.
--
Hello Katz,
/. could be tamed to exist inside my avantgo). I quickly started to apperciate the depth and breath of this free services and the number of channels available on my Visor. This is the time I started to read newsspapers seriously. I have the following channels on my Visor, CNet's News.com channel (updated puter type microsoftish news), ExploreZone (Scientific not so in depth news), HollyWood.com (Movie times for my city! very important -- daily as everyting else), New York Time ( traditional media now readable), PalmCentral/PDABuzz, Slashdot.org (Oh baby .. this could be created by making a custom channel in avant go and putting this URL in), The weather channel (Ok, not so necessary in the desert :))), USAToday (fine with me), Wired News (Some low tech is fine while doing the daily garbage disposal).
:)
I'd be more than happy to share some of my reading habits with you.
Newspapers have never quite tickled my fancy, I've always had a hard time to tackle an overly large and totally untame sheet of paper. The times I do read something news worthy would be over a person's shoulder or when it appears in a more tame form (ie. cut into pieces).
On the average, being a geek, I'm a real busy person and would give almost nothing to the major newspapers out there (but I'v seen the new Onion), politics and gossip just does not delight me. The only time you do see me get over my boredom and read something in default format would be to turn the newspaper on it's back, and explor the last few pages in the hope of finding something comical to entertain.
The same goes for traditional books. I am an avid reader, but over the last few years, I've been slacking very badly (since it's just not economically possible to read a book anymore nowdays). All sorts of constraints apply when reading a book.
My solutions arrived in the form a small electornic device (which I immediatly dubbed 'garo' -- a long lost feline friend). This device was a PalmOS based Handspring Visor Delux, with 8mb ram and the ability to upgrade using an unique hardware modular slot (even though it's flash is not upgradeable).
After having exhausted my batters in less than a week (of continuous play with the Visor), I decided to explore the waste expances of software available for PalmOS. I installed utility after utility, getting delighted with the slightest twist of a coding wizard (and yes the little mirror program that turned your palm screen black did send giggles up my spine and entertain a whole load of female friends).
One of the delightfully free software that was buzzed down my USB connection into my Visor was AvantGo. Which was a mixture of channel based online newsfeeds and other resources (even
I take my visor everwhere, it fits snuggly in my pocket and feels very conforatble in my hand. All channels are updated at least once a day. I usually update early morning and in the evenining. News is read where I happen to be
Now that takes care of news.. What about books?! It took me over a month to get into books on my Visor and man.. Now I'm reading almost 2 books a week after that. My fav doc reader would undoubtably be Bill Clagett's CSpotRun, A GPLed reader that is undoubtably the king of all Doc Readers out there. It has the ability to make the fonts closer, to turn the text into every single position known on the pilot (read from the sides or upside down?), autoscroll, drag scroll, scroll using the pageup-pagedown (fun!), and anything you could contribute! Ebooks are fun! Most books from the gutenberg project have been converted into ebooks over at MemoWare also you could OCR any book you own and convert it into doc format using the linux doctoolkit. Others check here. I have read War and Peace (over 1/2 million words) by Tolstoy (free on tolstoy.org), re-read Most books from William Gibson, Douglas Adams, Arthur C. Clarke and various other entities. I've also had the pleasure of reading classics such as ShakesSpeare, SunTzu, Tolkein, Plato, Confucious and many others right on my PDA.
Overall, the handheld computer with it's extreemly large memory (yes books in electornic format are tiny!) has been the only reason why I've gone back and read so many books (not to mention carry around so many techical notes and moste of the relevant HOWTO pages). I would recommend a handheld PDA to anyone who reads it and encorage them to read electornic Newspapers and e-books on a regualar basis.
Enjoy!
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My humble apologizes for not closing a bold tag :)
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Dear Foaf,
The screenshot that you showed was actually a doctored screenshot (aka fake). You would notice this if you look closely at the doc and other areas around the edges where the IE imagne has been stamped over the aqua interface.
Enjoy.
--
I can see a conspiracy theory starting right here
Enjoy
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Hello,
:)
This is my theory and my question.
Mr. Katz is an entity that keeps on writing relativly low tech stories to a bunch of people who arnt mainly interested in these stories, over time they got real frustrated and kept bringing their vengence upon him.
But, he didnt change his style, he just kept on writing in the same tone in the same form. He didnt even try to adjust to the form needed neither did he just give up... Which leads to the assertion that.. Katz might be an AI entity (maybe piped off from Everything ) with a little bit of hacked Mega Hal code.
Thus my question is. Katz, are you human?
Thank you.
Note: wrote that with a straight face
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When would you write your epic mega cyperpunkish/slashdotish novel about a special breed of Anonymous Coward who brough their vengence upon a slightly misguided individual who thought he knew what popular nerd culter was about ? :)
Anyway, could someone post a big enough sentence, something that stretched pages and still intelligent and non complex.
Thank You.
--
Hello folks,
You can find screenshots of BeIA under here. Note that these files are huge. Look at the dates and download.
Enjoy
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No one is perfect :)
;)
Actually slash_posted should have been set to tacocmdr which is a define equal to 0
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#define begin {
/* slash_posted returns a 1 if a new slashdot
#define end }
#define say if
#define yell printf
#define otherwise else
#define play_q3 exit
#define katz 1
#define @ ;
article has been posted */
ac_poster_screams()
begin
say(slash_posted)
begin
yell("FIRST POST!")@
play_q3@
end
otherwise
begin
yell("Bill Gates Naked and Petrified!")@
slash_posted = katz;
ac_poster_screams()@
end
end
That's the final version.. now the patch..
3c3
#define say if
5c5,7
#define otherwise else
> #define play_q3 exit
> #define katz 1
14a17
> play_q3@
18a22,23
> slash_posted = katz;
> ac_poster_screams()@
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Sorry, one begin was missing :) Here is the patch.
10a11
>begin
--
#define begin {
#define end }
#define if say
#define yell printf
#define else otherwise
#define @ ;
/* slash_posted returns a 1 if a new slashdot
article has been posted */
ac_poster_screams()
say(slash_posted)
begin
yell("FIRST POST!")@
end
otherwise
begin
yell("Bill Gates Naked and Petrified!")@
end
end
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