>This endeavour will only benefit our ego's. "See, we've left our mark." 10000 years from now, humans will be studying AOL cd's (as another poster pointed out), and they will consider them to be much more important as artifacts of late 20th century life than any Bill Joy article or time capsule.
In the Futurama episode in which there's a giant 1000 years old garbage ball that threatens the earth, the main characters land on it, and they had to plant a bomb between some things and a mountain of AOL floppy disks.
In another episode, the main characters visit Past-O-Rama, which includes an 'authentic' 20th century 'automocar' factury, where the cars are 'produced' by primitive Neanderthal-like robots.
I found both scenes very good, not because of their humour, but also because they address exactly the question addressed here: how will people in the future (Futurama is set in the year 3000) view our present?
Why don't you get the newest version of micq (there are many other ICQ clients available for Linux, most of them graphical), and there is even a way to change ALL of your user details using the ICQ website. It's a bit tricky to find, but it's there.
It's not really all that bad as you make it sound. Regularly I do see "Microsoft isn't that bad" posts being moderated up, because they have a valid point.
If you would actually take the trouble to _read_ the GPL (it's in a file called COPYING included in almost every piece of software that (you can legally download AND isn't a demo AND runs on Linux)), you would know the GPL DOES allow people to sell GPL'ed software. I can copy the newest Redhat and sell it for $1852 if I want to. No-one will buy it, though.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w # I put the contents of the parent comment in the file called "binary". open FILE, "<binary" or die $!; while () { chomp; chop; print pack "B8", $_; } close FILE; # Try it, it's... funny? Nah, but I got some practise with the unpack/pack functions...
I heard someone say that managers associated the name Borland with losses, and in many companies it's the managers who decide what development tools to use, not the programmers.
I'm not certain this explanation is true, but it looks believable.
A physics teacher once told us, many people break bones when they fall to the ground from heights, because their muscles contract and break the bones. He told us, if we were to fall from an upper-story window or something, to relax your muscles, lie on your side, and put your arm between your skull and the ground.
He was a great story-teller and a less great teacher (didn't bother me, though), so I'd like to know what you think of this advice.
This encryption might make it more difficult for future historians to decipher the digital data, even though they'll have far more powerful computers.
Maybe some bits would get corrupted, ruining the whole encryption scheme, or maybe they wouldn't recognise the data as an encrypted Hollywood blockbuster, but just discard it as useless junk?
Why would floppies be unreadable? In the future, I don't think engineers will have such a hard time figuring out that the magnetic patterns on the disk are like the holes in the punchcards you mentioned.
The GPL doesn't differentiate embedded programs and 'normal' programs. Both need source to be available.
Including the sources on a source CD labelled "Warning: changing the source and using it on your device voids warranty." and "For Hackers Only" might be somewhat more expensive or cheaper. Depends on how much people request the source. If many people request it, the sending later might be more of a hassle than just including it as standard.
If you really want to make money on the insurance of the CD shipping, many customers will realise it and go to a competitor who doesn't. Part of the problem solves itself. Large companies will be less inclined to go to the cheaper competitor, of course, because there you don't pay as much for support...
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Well, that would be a big improvement for 99% of office pc's... ;-)
Yes, Earth's microbes would only take jobs that rightfully belong to Europa's microbes! ;-)
>This endeavour will only benefit our ego's. "See, we've left our mark." 10000 years from now, humans will be studying AOL cd's (as another poster pointed out), and they will consider them to be much more important as artifacts of late 20th century life than any Bill Joy article or time capsule.
In the Futurama episode in which there's a giant 1000 years old garbage ball that threatens the earth, the main characters land on it, and they had to plant a bomb between some things and a mountain of AOL floppy disks.
In another episode, the main characters visit Past-O-Rama, which includes an 'authentic' 20th century 'automocar' factury, where the cars are 'produced' by primitive Neanderthal-like robots.
I found both scenes very good, not because of their humour, but also because they address exactly the question addressed here: how will people in the future (Futurama is set in the year 3000) view our present?
Why don't you get the newest version of micq (there are many other ICQ clients available for Linux, most of them graphical), and there is even a way to change ALL of your user details using the ICQ website. It's a bit tricky to find, but it's there.
Hey, you're being sarcastic! Go to Segfault! :-)
It's not really all that bad as you make it sound. Regularly I do see "Microsoft isn't that bad" posts being moderated up, because they have a valid point.
If you would actually take the trouble to _read_ the GPL (it's in a file called COPYING included in almost every piece of software that (you can legally download AND isn't a demo AND runs on Linux)), you would know the GPL DOES allow people to sell GPL'ed software. I can copy the newest Redhat and sell it for $1852 if I want to. No-one will buy it, though.
It's a fully featured PC with a 8088 and 128K ram (I've got a 256K upgrade, making a total of 384K), which has to double as disk space as well.
How big is it? Does it support ramdisks?
Every time Jon Katz posts something with a year number in it, he starts it with an el. Good thing we live in the year 2OOO now, eh?
You should post this on http://segfault.org!
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# I put the contents of the parent comment in the file called "binary".
open FILE, "<binary" or die $!;
while () {
chomp; chop;
print pack "B8", $_;
}
close FILE;
# Try it, it's... funny? Nah, but I got some practise with the unpack/pack functions...
I believe the correct name is Buckminster fullereen or something.
:-)
Btw, you beat the Ph1rzt P0zt3rz, d00d!
Well then, say so!
I heard someone say that managers associated the name Borland with losses, and in many companies it's the managers who decide what development tools to use, not the programmers.
I'm not certain this explanation is true, but it looks believable.
Because the code gcc produces is supposed to be faster, with better optimizations. That's probably why the compiler itself is slower.
>56 K Modem - $35.95
>64 MB Memory - $139.95
Where do you shop? Please tell us, so we can all avoid this shop >:->
I think you should go to Jeff K.'s site. You'll find him cool, I'm sure.
Hey! I want that driver for my 5.25" missile battery as well, so they'd better release it as Open Source!
A physics teacher once told us, many people break bones when they fall to the ground from heights, because their muscles contract and break the bones. He told us, if we were to fall from an upper-story window or something, to relax your muscles, lie on your side, and put your arm between your skull and the ground.
He was a great story-teller and a less great teacher (didn't bother me, though), so I'd like to know what you think of this advice.
Anyway, it turned out I can't moderate if I respond to a discussion.
This encryption might make it more difficult for future historians to decipher the digital data, even though they'll have far more powerful computers.
Maybe some bits would get corrupted, ruining the whole encryption scheme, or maybe they wouldn't recognise the data as an encrypted Hollywood blockbuster, but just discard it as useless junk?
Why would floppies be unreadable? In the future, I don't think engineers will have such a hard time figuring out that the magnetic patterns on the disk are like the holes in the punchcards you mentioned.
:-)
But I'll moderate your post up anyway.
He didn't say "Ph1r5t P054", now did he? He just repeated the "use stable kernels" opinion.
No Test ;-)
The GPL doesn't differentiate embedded programs and 'normal' programs. Both need source to be available.
Including the sources on a source CD labelled "Warning: changing the source and using it on your device voids warranty." and "For Hackers Only" might be somewhat more expensive or cheaper. Depends on how much people request the source.
If many people request it, the sending later might be more of a hassle than just including it as standard.
Poll idea!
If you really want to make money on the insurance of the CD shipping, many customers will realise it and go to a competitor who doesn't. Part of the problem solves itself. Large companies will be less inclined to go to the cheaper competitor, of course, because there you don't pay as much for support...