Wow, I guess I forgot to try googling with quotation marks.. archive.org has every episode, in case any other fans of the show are reading this. I have splooged myself.
This is a little off topic, but does anybody know whatever happened to Stuart (Chefiet?) and that PBS show "The Computer Chronicles"? I used to watch it on lazy sunday afternoons when I was little and the 486 was the leading edge of tech. It's responsible for stoking most of my interest in computers but I can never find anything about it online. The theme music reverberates in my skull to this very moment though... yeah... good times. good times.
)-: Since the article fails to mention the altitude, I'm afraid the world may never know. Or you could, y'know, stand around with a watch if you're in socal. Whatever.
Given his close ties to the oil industry I'd say that yes, he does. Surely someone has explained to Mr. Bush that the oil industry has an inherently limited lifespan, because the quantity of oil in the Earth is finite and nonreplacable. Eventually, it will run out. Let's examine some of the consequences of a dwindling and then nonexistent oil supply:
Rising Energy Costs: In the first stages the diminishing supply will manifest itself in the form of sharply rising prices. This will raise the cost of practically everything. Food production machinery requires oil. The transportation system requires oil. Construction requires oil.
Imports Dry Up: As the situation becomes more severe, countries which currently export oil will need it for their own use. As America imports most of it's oil the supply will now become extremely tight and government rationing is almost certain.
War: Large, powerful countries that need oil will invest what little they have left to take over the small, poorly defended countries that still have some, and probably then go for each other.
Mass Starvation: Trains that carry grain from the midwest to the coastal population centers won't have fuel to run. Everybody dies.
As you can see, we're talking about the end of industrialized civilization. Forget terrorism, social security, and boobies on television, this is by far the most important yet undiscussed issue of our time. We must take action NOW! Urge your representatives for more nuclear power facilities! Buy an electric scooter for each member of your family! Find some rednecks that went nuts over the Y2K bug and buy their shelter! Become Amish! Save Yourself!
It seems pretty simple to me: New.net are malware propagating scumbags and anything that lays the smackdown on them is ok by me. Sure, Verisign has pulled some crazy shit in the past but at least they don't alter your TCP/IP stack.
I first discovered it only days before copyright lawsuits shut down the distribution of the actual operating systems... so sad, I was on dial up and never had a chance to grab the 30 floppy-images of AT&T SysV Unix or the Windows 96 prototype. I know the admin posts here on/., maybe we'll be seeing him somewhere in this thread.
Well, if you haven't read Teeth of the Tiger yet... FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, AND ALL THAT IS HOLY, DON'T . It's worse than a lot of the dreck that's been pumped out by other authors under his name, seriously, I think he's on drugs or something. None of the established characters (except Jack Jr., but was he ever really 'established'?) actually appear, the only mention is that Robbie was assasinated AND IT DIDN'T EVEN HAPPEN IN THE FUCKING BOOK, but was revealed in exposition when two of the new characters start talking about it.
Oh yeah, and the plot is that Jack Jr. and his cousin travel around the world killing terrorists for a private company by stabbing them in the ass with a magic pen.
Hey, I'm one of those punk kids (18), and I've got one of the drives.
Also there's a refrigerator-sized A/S 400 machine laying under a tarp in my backyard. Really. I have no idea where it came from, my dad just brought it home on the back of his pickup one day but we didn't have anywhere to plug it in:-(
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...The dumb-ass evil educators conspired to prevent your knowledge of NATURE'S HARMONIC SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE
Sweet Merciful Crap!
well, since .com and .org are considered "top level domains", it's possible that even just yahoo.com or slashdot.org could be considered subdomains.
Wow, I guess I forgot to try googling with quotation marks.. archive.org has every episode, in case any other fans of the show are reading this. I have splooged myself.
This is a little off topic, but does anybody know whatever happened to Stuart (Chefiet?) and that PBS show "The Computer Chronicles"? I used to watch it on lazy sunday afternoons when I was little and the 486 was the leading edge of tech. It's responsible for stoking most of my interest in computers but I can never find anything about it online. The theme music reverberates in my skull to this very moment though... yeah... good times. good times.
)-: Since the article fails to mention the altitude, I'm afraid the world may never know. Or you could, y'know, stand around with a watch if you're in socal. Whatever.
Given his close ties to the oil industry I'd say that yes, he does. Surely someone has explained to Mr. Bush that the oil industry has an inherently limited lifespan, because the quantity of oil in the Earth is finite and nonreplacable. Eventually, it will run out. Let's examine some of the consequences of a dwindling and then nonexistent oil supply:
Rising Energy Costs: In the first stages the diminishing supply will manifest itself in the form of sharply rising prices. This will raise the cost of practically everything. Food production machinery requires oil. The transportation system requires oil. Construction requires oil.
Imports Dry Up: As the situation becomes more severe, countries which currently export oil will need it for their own use. As America imports most of it's oil the supply will now become extremely tight and government rationing is almost certain.
War: Large, powerful countries that need oil will invest what little they have left to take over the small, poorly defended countries that still have some, and probably then go for each other.
Mass Starvation: Trains that carry grain from the midwest to the coastal population centers won't have fuel to run. Everybody dies.
As you can see, we're talking about the end of industrialized civilization. Forget terrorism, social security, and boobies on television, this is by far the most important yet undiscussed issue of our time. We must take action NOW! Urge your representatives for more nuclear power facilities! Buy an electric scooter for each member of your family! Find some rednecks that went nuts over the Y2K bug and buy their shelter! Become Amish! Save Yourself!
Seems pretty likely from I've seen of this sample one, take a look. http://cachewww.lsac.org/pdfs/test.pdf
In Soviet Russia, beowulf cluster of insensitive clods welcomes YOU!
As far as I can understand they're running a parallel, alternate-universe DNS structure because they're fucktards.
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- If *BSD is to survive at all
Looks like you missed oneI first discovered it only days before copyright lawsuits shut down the distribution of the actual operating systems... so sad, I was on dial up and never had a chance to grab the 30 floppy-images of AT&T SysV Unix or the Windows 96 prototype. I know the admin posts here on /., maybe we'll be seeing him somewhere in this thread.
- ...more beer, bigger boobs and bigger guns...
Hmm, maybe they're going to 'embrace and extend' Duke Nukem Forever.Link! Pictures! Specs! Joy!
A stand-up named Yakov Smirnov back in the 80's. He had a cameo on King of the Hill once.
Unfortunately, the world's oil supply will run out and industrial civilization will collapse before we can reach that point. Wheee! Everybody dies!
dont' forget the article linked to by /.
mmm... speedy pool updates
this just blows my mind man... I was looking for someplace to report those just a few minutes ago
Oh yeah, and the plot is that Jack Jr. and his cousin travel around the world killing terrorists for a private company by stabbing them in the ass with a magic pen.
WORST
BOOK
EVER.
*lying* under a tarp...
Hey, I'm one of those punk kids (18), and I've got one of the drives. Also there's a refrigerator-sized A/S 400 machine laying under a tarp in my backyard. Really. I have no idea where it came from, my dad just brought it home on the back of his pickup one day but we didn't have anywhere to plug it in :-(
I thought we geeks were supposed to default to Kelvin if the units were unspecified?
And by 'that', I mean your username.
Cleveland Steamer?