If that's not bad enough, they won't tell you which sites those are because - so the excuse goes - that could be construed as 'disseminating pornography.'
If they are concerned about disseminating pr0n, they should just disclose their list of unblocked sites instead.
There is only so much you can put on a 16x16 canvas.
With a single bit deep, you have 2^256 (10^80) images to choose from. (With 8-bit color, it's 256^256 (10^600+).) I have to agree, with 16x16, the possibilities are limited. I'm guessing that Susan Kare just printed them all on her ImageWriter and used the best ones.
To make a setlement, professors from University of California developed what they called 4BSD - an operating system without the files that were proprerty of USL
You're confusing 4BSD with 4.4BSD. 4BSD came out in 1980 and was the original paging UNIX for VAX. 4.4 was the post-lawsuit one, and came out in 1994.
This isn't simply funny, it's insightful. To think that the cutting edge technology of the year 2003 will be the dead end of progress in the storage of any kind of information, be it audio, video, print, game, software, or whatever, is ludicrous. The rights-managers might as well try to stop the rain from falling and the wind from blowing.
I've written a few unusual Tcl/Tk apps, but I'd say that the most unusual one was called Robospud, the automatic couch potato.
Robospud was a fixture for testing code in cable tv set-top box. It ran on an old Solaris box. A tv remote control was wired to a serial port, it acted as the "keyboard." The tv's screen was hooked to a video capture board on the Sun. Robospud would push the buttons on the remote, and "watch" the tv, making sure the right control screens came up on the set-top box.
It was written in expectk (tcl/tk/expect). It was a great alternative to testing
set-top code by sitting their pushing buttons on a remote control, I met people who were well-paid to perform this mundane task.
You don't like the USA military starting this war with Iraq.
That is not what I meant to imply. I presented a realistic conjecture encompassing a set of hackers with diverse opinions, implying that if we chose to throttle open source development based on differences in our ideologies, we would certainly fail in our goal to produce software.
I did not state my opinion on anyone starting a war with anyone else, I think that subject would be off-topic here.
Where are you going to draw the line? You don't like the USA military starting a war with Iraq. The next open source developer doesn't like baby-killing pro-choice people. The next one doesn't like privacy-invading anti-abortionists. The next one doesn't like Moslems, Jews, Hindus, capitalists, and so forth.
A related quote, on the selective enforcement of laws:
More: There is no law against that.
Roper: There is! God's law!
More: Then God can arrest him.
Roper: Sophistication upon sophistication.
More: No, sheer simplicity. The law, Roper, the law. I know what's legal not what's right. And I'll stick to what's legal.
Roper: Then you set man's law above God's!
More: No, far below; but let me draw your attention to a fact - I'm not God. The currents and eddies of right and wrong, which you find such plain sailing, I can't navigate. I'm no
voyager. But in the thickets of the law, oh, there I'm a forrester. I doubt if there's a man
alive who could follow me there, thank God....
Alice: While you talk, he's gone!
More: And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law!
Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
More" Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you - where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast - man's laws, not God's - and if you cut them down - and you're just the man to do it - d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
The statement above is pedantic. You may have an interpreter that executes C line by line, and you may have a compiler for Tcl. But C is designed to be compiled, so its syntax and semantics do not take advantage of the rich features of a scripting language like Tcl (or Perl), which was designed to be interpreted.
In Tcl, it is simple to use regexes to good effect. Few C programmers bother with regexes since they're not so readily available. And in Tcl, you can perform useful string operations on names (of variables or procedures) that would be much messier in C. For instance, a proc called proc_$thing or a var called var_$thing .
Scripting languages like Tcl have associative arrays (Perl hashes) well integrated, C/C++ certainly do not.
Calling C a scripting language may be true in a strict sense, but in practice, it's silly.
Dear Dave,
I'm running a Wintel PC and RTLinus to do real-time control of some nuclear fishing experiments I'm working on. I've been using a 1Gb Celereon CPU but I've been having jitter problems, so I've been considering another processor, perhaps an AMD Athalon or Duron. My problems might also be coming from my NVIdeo card or from some other bus interaction. Could you offer me some advice?
Scanned documents might be fine for readers, but what if you're looking for "oh, you know, that one line in the book, where the dude was talking about melons."
Credit where it's due. The original version of
God Rest ye CS Students
was written in the mid-1970s, for the PDP10 at Worcester Tech, along with a bunch of other hacker songs.
Kernighan is the foundation of some of the best CS books ever, not just one book. Find the pattern:
Kernighan and Plaugher (Software Tools and Elements of Programming Style)
Kernighan and Ritchie
Kernighan and Pike (UNIX Programming Environment and Practice of Programming)
Bell Labs researchers did all kinds of ground-breaking practical CS stuff, and lots of them worked with Kernighan - Aho, Weinberger, Lesk, Bentley, Mashey, Johnson... You think maybe all these guys worked with Kernighan because he has something to contribute?
He's a researcher and a teacher. Most researchers do obscure work that no-one ever knows. How many researchers and teachers are so productive? Practically none. If you want to know what he's up to, try a search engine.
Slashdot Mirror
If they are concerned about disseminating pr0n, they should just disclose their list of unblocked sites instead.
third post!
With a single bit deep, you have 2^256 (10^80) images to choose from. (With 8-bit color, it's 256^256 (10^600+).) I have to agree, with 16x16, the possibilities are limited. I'm guessing that Susan Kare just printed them all on her ImageWriter and used the best ones.
I have a design for a perpetual motion machine that almost works.
You're confusing 4BSD with 4.4BSD. 4BSD came out in 1980 and was the original paging UNIX for VAX. 4.4 was the post-lawsuit one, and came out in 1994.
This isn't simply funny, it's insightful. To think that the cutting edge technology of the year 2003 will be the dead end of progress in the storage of any kind of information, be it audio, video, print, game, software, or whatever, is ludicrous. The rights-managers might as well try to stop the rain from falling and the wind from blowing.
Robospud was a fixture for testing code in cable tv set-top box. It ran on an old Solaris box. A tv remote control was wired to a serial port, it acted as the "keyboard." The tv's screen was hooked to a video capture board on the Sun. Robospud would push the buttons on the remote, and "watch" the tv, making sure the right control screens came up on the set-top box.
It was written in expectk (tcl/tk/expect). It was a great alternative to testing set-top code by sitting their pushing buttons on a remote control, I met people who were well-paid to perform this mundane task.
I tried embedding my PC web server in a fly. My fly died too.
That is not what I meant to imply. I presented a realistic conjecture encompassing a set of hackers with diverse opinions, implying that if we chose to throttle open source development based on differences in our ideologies, we would certainly fail in our goal to produce software.
I did not state my opinion on anyone starting a war with anyone else, I think that subject would be off-topic here.
A related quote, on the selective enforcement of laws:
In Tcl, it is simple to use regexes to good effect. Few C programmers bother with regexes since they're not so readily available. And in Tcl, you can perform useful string operations on names (of variables or procedures) that would be much messier in C. For instance, a proc called proc_$thing or a var called var_$thing .
Scripting languages like Tcl have associative arrays (Perl hashes) well integrated, C/C++ certainly do not.
Calling C a scripting language may be true in a strict sense, but in practice, it's silly.
A company with an overpriced useless product and no business plan is having trouble surviving. Film at 11.
Dear Dave,
I'm running a Wintel PC and RTLinus to do real-time control of some nuclear fishing experiments I'm working on. I've been using a 1Gb Celereon CPU but I've been having jitter problems, so I've been considering another processor, perhaps an AMD Athalon or Duron. My problems might also be coming from my NVIdeo card or from some other bus interaction. Could you offer me some advice?
hmmm. diploma.mil? gin.min?
Toxen is recognized for developing the BSD lock(1) program.
Wilma!
Credit where it's due. The original version of God Rest ye CS Students was written in the mid-1970s, for the PDP10 at Worcester Tech, along with a bunch of other hacker songs.
I wonder how fundamentalist monotheists are going to feel about Microsoft putting a pagan temple (Stonehenge) on the wallpaper of their desktop, see: http://61.175.211.198/vdown/newsinfo/winbeta/2.jpg
What have you done lately?
Kernighan is the foundation of some of the best CS books ever, not just one book. Find the pattern:
- Kernighan and Plaugher (Software Tools and Elements of Programming Style)
- Kernighan and Ritchie
- Kernighan and Pike (UNIX Programming Environment and Practice of Programming)
Bell Labs researchers did all kinds of ground-breaking practical CS stuff, and lots of them worked with Kernighan - Aho, Weinberger, Lesk, Bentley, Mashey, Johnson... You think maybe all these guys worked with Kernighan because he has something to contribute?He's a researcher and a teacher. Most researchers do obscure work that no-one ever knows. How many researchers and teachers are so productive? Practically none. If you want to know what he's up to, try a search engine.
Me too!