It's not really surprising that the weather service is kinda geeky. Most of it probably rubbed off from pilots who are probably in the top 3 geeky professions.
I figured it might be some kind of Dick Tracy like device for warning engineers that something they'd designed was about to be ruined by someone elses patent.
Maybe Apple could design and market this device (the iPWatch), and Microsoft could sneak in and patent it...;-)
I help maintain a huge C++/SQL code base for oil and gas apps, and being able to intelligently traverse across apis, files, etc., makes my job a lot easier.
The big thing about Visual Assist is that it doesn't restrict itself to your current project, so you can see stuff included in other projects and jump to them.
VA is one of the first pieces of software that our coders get setup on their machines. Highly reccomended.
Yikes, I was looking forward to reading some great insights...
But in response to the main premise, surely most people actually connect to the web through routers, protected networks etc.
The only really large number of directly accessible unfirewalled computers are surely in universities ?
My machine, Windows 98, now Windows XP Home has never had any kind of virus on it, not been owned to the best of my knowledge, and is not dragged down by the burden of crappy 'anti-virus' software, that is almost as bad as the thing that it is meant to protect against.
Splitting the spacebar like that *completely sucks*. There's an unused Compaq keyboard just like in a drawer of my desk (or the trash, I don't care).
I did *try* using it, but it drove me nearly crazy after about 30 minutes.
This is being typed on a Microsoft Keyboard. It's pretty old, but it's held together despite being slammed pretty hard over the years. Damn it, Microsoft make some decent stuff. (I prefer FOSS for my software needs though;-) )
The style and typography of the Thought Thieves poster appears to have been completely copied from the typography used on the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (UK edition) books.
Yeah, I was doing a couple of PowerPoint slides the other day, and pasting a graphic from one slide to the other repeatedly resized all the graphics on the destination.
And try this. Paste some screen shots into word, then flow the document so one screen shot makes it over a page boundry. Resize the image so it flows back, and you'll be left with a bonus set of graphics on the page it just vacated.
MS Office is a damn good piece of software, but it does have its problems.
Like me, most people just save early and often and work round them.
OOo has its problems, but the new version is ready for primetime.
15 years ago was the era of wordstar, 20 years ago the age of typewriters. Do you think that lessons in typewriter maintainence that they took as teenagers help 30-year olds in the job market today?
wtf ?!?!?!? 20 years ago, when I was in school, the secretaries had IBM Selectrics, but the office skills class had WANG word processors/office systems, and the computer classroom had Apple IIe's, and a Cromenco Z80 S100 box.
I think the age of typewriter repair was *30* years ag o;-)).
Well, after playing with OOo 1.95, the beta of 2.0, I am very very impressed.
I used to work for a large, very PowerPoint-happy company. OOo took every PowerPoint and Word document and opened them flawlessly.
This is only a test of a few documents, but no way would OOo 1.1.4 have managed anything like this success.
Like Firefox, this will take a while to build up, but the new OOo looks nice, feels nice, and runs solid as far as I can tell, and I can see a real critical mass of people starting to use this great free Office suite.
I ran it on Windows, and I have yet to try the Linux version, but if it is anything like as good... it will be another step towards rendering the Windows 'franchise' irrelevant.
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1950's ...
It's a floor wax ... It's a dessert topping!
It's not really surprising that the weather service is kinda geeky. Most of it probably rubbed off from pilots who are probably in the top 3 geeky professions.
Did anyone else read this as 'at risk patents' ?
... ;-)
I figured it might be some kind of Dick Tracy like device for warning engineers that something they'd designed was about to be ruined by someone elses patent.
Maybe Apple could design and market this device (the iPWatch), and Microsoft could sneak in and patent it
This is what children used to be for.
Go fetch some milk.
Go fetch bread.
Get get the 'messages', as we say in Scotland.
Too dangerous now, and you'd probably have to give the kids the car keys, unless you wanted them to spend three hours hiking to the nearest Kroger.
Yeah I have to acknowledge Visual Assist too.
I help maintain a huge C++/SQL code base for oil and gas apps, and being able to intelligently traverse across apis, files, etc., makes my job a lot easier.
The big thing about Visual Assist is that it doesn't restrict itself to your current project, so you can see stuff included in other projects and jump to them.
VA is one of the first pieces of software that our coders get setup on their machines. Highly reccomended.
Yikes, I was looking forward to reading some great insights ...
But in response to the main premise, surely most people actually connect to the web through routers, protected networks etc.
The only really large number of directly accessible unfirewalled computers are surely in universities ?
My machine, Windows 98, now Windows XP Home has never had any kind of virus on it, not been owned to the best of my knowledge, and is not dragged down by the burden of crappy 'anti-virus' software, that is almost as bad as the thing that it is meant to protect against.
My protection: a carefully configured $70 router.
Great post! If I remember correctly, Steve Wozniac hung out at HP and blagged components to help with building the first Apple.
Go HP!
Yep, and for a *really* large vodka, fly Avianca, the Venezuelan airline.
;-)
Oh, a voddy poured by one of the worlds most beautiful women
You forgot all the unicorn posters ... but she was an engineer, so it wasn't all bad.
Lets hope this doesn't get combined with the http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/03/033023 8sushi printing cartridge ...
With hilarious consequences.
How many Cisco routers are out there ? Or NetGear routers like the one behind me.
... Let's hope they always get the IP addess right, or people may soon be experiencing the ...
... Blue Screen of Reinstallation ;-)
Am I worried that you might pOwn my router ? Well, enough that I have a decent password on it. But not enough to keep me awake at night.
Installing an OS over the network is going to be something that's very popular with big company IT.
Mind you, there may be a downside
BSOR
TweakUI from MS will give you focus follows mouse.
Cygwin gives you a decent shell, and also OpenSSH.
That's two essential things I have on my PC at work.
Is this some kind of BitTorrent search engine ?
Splitting the spacebar like that *completely sucks*. There's an unused Compaq keyboard just like in a drawer of my desk (or the trash, I don't care).
;-) )
I did *try* using it, but it drove me nearly crazy after about 30 minutes.
This is being typed on a Microsoft Keyboard. It's pretty old, but it's held together despite being slammed pretty hard over the years. Damn it, Microsoft make some decent stuff. (I prefer FOSS for my software needs though
I'm still waiting for ...
t ream/red_dwarf.html#3Kryten)"
"a mechanoid with an over-active guilt chip and a head shaped like a novelty condom (http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themes
Hehehe, here you go: http://www.corecodec.com/TCMP Player
This player has codecs for AAC which hopefully will do the job. This is the player I use for playing Seinfeld episodes on my Clie TJ37.
Dear Microsoft,
The style and typography of the Thought Thieves poster appears to have been completely copied from the typography used on the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (UK edition) books.
Surely not much of an example to set.
Regards
Kabz
Noooo feckin' wayyy !!!
... The Exorcist
...
I literally just walked in to read some Slashdot after watching
All I need now is Maureen O'Gara running backwards up the stairs on all fours
Do Not Resuscitate. Sorry, I'm not a great fan of Perl, useful though it is on occasion.
Yeah, I was doing a couple of PowerPoint slides the other day, and pasting a graphic from one slide to the other repeatedly resized all the graphics on the destination.
And try this. Paste some screen shots into word, then flow the document so one screen shot makes it over a page boundry. Resize the image so it flows back, and you'll be left with a bonus set of graphics on the page it just vacated.
MS Office is a damn good piece of software, but it does have its problems.
Like me, most people just save early and often and work round them.
OOo has its problems, but the new version is ready for primetime.
15 years ago was the era of wordstar, 20 years ago the age of typewriters. Do you think that lessons in typewriter maintainence that they took as teenagers help 30-year olds in the job market today?
;-)).
wtf ?!?!?!? 20 years ago, when I was in school, the secretaries had IBM Selectrics, but the office skills class had WANG word processors/office systems, and the computer classroom had Apple IIe's, and a Cromenco Z80 S100 box.
I think the age of typewriter repair was *30* years ag o
Well, after playing with OOo 1.95, the beta of 2.0, I am very very impressed.
... it will be another step towards rendering the Windows 'franchise' irrelevant.
I used to work for a large, very PowerPoint-happy company. OOo took every PowerPoint and Word document and opened them flawlessly.
This is only a test of a few documents, but no way would OOo 1.1.4 have managed anything like this success.
Like Firefox, this will take a while to build up, but the new OOo looks nice, feels nice, and runs solid as far as I can tell, and I can see a real critical mass of people starting to use this great free Office suite.
I ran it on Windows, and I have yet to try the Linux version, but if it is anything like as good
It's pretty hilarious how much like the Open University this show is.
Someone needs to get these guys to the nearest GAP !
So these are Canadian electrons, eh ?
"Hello ... CompUSA, I'd like a copy of the new 64 bit Windows and a 64 Gig memory SIMM please.
"What ?!?!? I can't get that.
"Well, can I have a Western Digital 64 Terrabyte hard drive please.
"Oh ??!?! I can't have that either."
Wake me up in a few years when there is some point to all this.