There are already Islamic radicals attacking the People's Republic of China from within. China has a western 'autonomous region' called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region that is majority Islam and crawling with Fundamentalists. The hammer is swung very hard against terrorists there.
Replacing bad RAM on your motherboard absolutely IS fixing your computer.
True, but figuring out the pattern to move the individual chips around to determine which bit in which bank of the RAM is bad, and thus which chip to replace... it's a lost art. But I grew up buying 1x64K and those more expensive 1x256K DRAM chips used at surplus stores, where they were sometimes only $8 each instead of expensive.
It's always the right time to buy gold if the 'gold experts' aren't urging you to buy gold. It's always the wrong time when they are spending a lot of money on radio and television ads to tell you it's the 'right time.'
Nope. The scopes that I remember specifically had a Windows 98 bootup screen. There's no reason at all that a completely stable 'Oscilloscope' app can't be run on Windows 98, particularly if they make it fairly difficult to install a lot of the croft and crap that the typical 'desktop/home' user put on a Windows 98 machine back in the day. I suspect at that time, doing anything in snappy 'real time' on NT was much more difficult. Win 98 itself wasn't very good, but it gets the hell out of the way of whatever real time stuff you run on it better than NT of the time would.
As for vectorizing it? Well, why not chisel the video out on stone tablets? It's raster video by design. Vector graphics, i.e. VT-330 'dumb' terminals with ReGIS graphics, were really cool. But if something didn't start out as vectors, it's really awkward to turn it into vectors.
I like buying used books. I like buying used books a lot. I have many books that are decades old. I have some books that are hundreds of years old. If Amazon succeeds with ebooks, 20 years from now there will barely be any access to low cost books at all. There will be nothing available to read that was controversial and got pushed down the Orwellian 'memory hole.'
Remember, though, that GP was talking about 'military' sci-fi, and worse than that, the kind of sci-fi that comes in series. You know, the crap that has a logo on the cover of each book in the series. Yech. I like a LOT of science fiction books, but it's seldom the ones that are churned out in 'series.' The 'series' crap is like television spilled out as ink on a page.
Society as a whole decides what books are 'good' and 'bad.' Not one individual. And there is a LOT of shitty writing out there that society as a whole decides is bad. But it isn't hard for a well-read person to figure out what many other people will also consider poorly written work. Saying something is a 'bad read' is a descriptive act, not a definitive act.
With Apple, and their evangelists pushing App developers to always use the bleeding edge features of the iOS API, you are guaranteed that your 'updated' iDevice will get updates for several years and then quickly be abandoned in the App store. With Android, the smart app developers reach back as far as practical in OS compatability. So your older Android phone lasts longer. Plus you can always get a Nexus device with no SD card slot if you don't mind storing everything 'in the cloud' so Google can sift through it.
When I go out in the field behind our house, the Wifi signal is gone. Even halfway out into the dogyard the Wifi is barely there at all. Our wifi or the neighbor's wifi. It's gone.
I'd hate to live anywhere so busy that there was ubiquitous wifi signal. Here we have jackrabbits and sometimes at night howling coyotes. And possums, of course. Always stupid possums out rambling around in the dark.
First off, In the late 90's Tektronix made a series of digital oscilloscopes that ran an embedded version of Windows 98.
But really, the easiest way to get Quake running on an oscilloscope is to take the raster signals from an analog CRT controller (like, for instance, a VGA card) and use the vertical and horizontal signals to properly drive the X and Y axis, and feed the video into the Z axis. Like, duh. Why would you vectorize it?
Right. And it's very difficult to have the money directed instead to the poor. I suppose you could send in an army to overthrow the despots and give money to the poor. Now you're in charge and responsible for running the whole place. Or you head home and leave a void, so that a new despot takes over.
Some of the post WWI German Marks were decorative. But towards the end of the period, things like the 5,000,000 mark notes were kind of ugly and desperate looking.
Precious metals have value at least in part based on their extraction cost. That is, it costs enough to extract gold that nobody is going to flood the market with a ton of gold. So it maintains an intrinsic stable value. Which happens, in many instances to hover at about the current extraction cost. I.e. nobody bothers to extract the plentiful gold in sea water because of the cost. (There is about a ton of gold in every cubic mile of sea water)
It's valuable because it's rare. So it's a convenient token to use to transfer value around.
IBM made a watch that ran Linux in 2000. Not exactly "new" technology. Ran X11 and everything.
Probably what interfered with market acceptance of that watch was that too many prospective customers found themselves trapped in vi while trying to edit their ~/.twm/.twmrc file. "Damn it! How do I get this thing to not just beep at every key I press!!!???!!"
Your smart watch can be used as an authenticating device. It can wirelessly communicate with any outside reader device that queries it, and since it is capable of biometrics, it can self-authenticate itself by learning your biological patterns and identify whether it is you wearing it. So passwords will not be needed.
A true miracle device. We will be able to move around spending money freely, gaining admittance to films and mass transit without having to pay or present anything to the turnstile, etc. True freedom from many current everyday hassles!
Also, it will be capable of raising an alarm if it has been removed in an unauthorized setting, say anywhere outside of your secured dwelling cubicle.
The killer app for a smartwatch will be it's function as a bluetooth dongle to authenticate people. Of course, for it to serve that function well, it will have to be non-removable; otherwise someone else could pretend to be you and the terrorists would win.
In some instances it will literally be a killer app, but let's let the marketing folks take care of cleaning that little detail up.
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Really? All of White Europe is White Anglo Saxon Protestant?
Go away, stupid American Liberal Anonymous Coward.
There are already Islamic radicals attacking the People's Republic of China from within. China has a western 'autonomous region' called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region that is majority Islam and crawling with Fundamentalists. The hammer is swung very hard against terrorists there.
All of your cut-n-past hate comments have 'read the rest of this comment' at the bottom.
Please stop spamming the discussion. It's tiresome.
Tell that to all the fucks who think they are 'Web Developers.'
It's a markup language. You don't have permission to push your 'code' onto my machine.
Replacing bad RAM on your motherboard absolutely IS fixing your computer.
True, but figuring out the pattern to move the individual chips around to determine which bit in which bank of the RAM is bad, and thus which chip to replace... it's a lost art. But I grew up buying 1x64K and those more expensive 1x256K DRAM chips used at surplus stores, where they were sometimes only $8 each instead of expensive.
It's always the right time to buy gold if the 'gold experts' aren't urging you to buy gold. It's always the wrong time when they are spending a lot of money on radio and television ads to tell you it's the 'right time.'
Why do people make so many errors when putting the name of the Magic The Gathering Online eXchange in a news story?
It's almost like it isn't still a hobby site.
Nope. The scopes that I remember specifically had a Windows 98 bootup screen. There's no reason at all that a completely stable 'Oscilloscope' app can't be run on Windows 98, particularly if they make it fairly difficult to install a lot of the croft and crap that the typical 'desktop/home' user put on a Windows 98 machine back in the day. I suspect at that time, doing anything in snappy 'real time' on NT was much more difficult. Win 98 itself wasn't very good, but it gets the hell out of the way of whatever real time stuff you run on it better than NT of the time would.
As for vectorizing it? Well, why not chisel the video out on stone tablets? It's raster video by design. Vector graphics, i.e. VT-330 'dumb' terminals with ReGIS graphics, were really cool. But if something didn't start out as vectors, it's really awkward to turn it into vectors.
Amazon sells pay-per-view reading.
I like buying used books. I like buying used books a lot. I have many books that are decades old. I have some books that are hundreds of years old. If Amazon succeeds with ebooks, 20 years from now there will barely be any access to low cost books at all. There will be nothing available to read that was controversial and got pushed down the Orwellian 'memory hole.'
For each ebook Amazon sells, they can fuck off.
I get most of my coffee for free at work. That is, I am being paid while I drink it for free.
That said, it's 33-1/3 revolutions per minute. Stand on one foot and spin.
Remember, though, that GP was talking about 'military' sci-fi, and worse than that, the kind of sci-fi that comes in series. You know, the crap that has a logo on the cover of each book in the series. Yech. I like a LOT of science fiction books, but it's seldom the ones that are churned out in 'series.' The 'series' crap is like television spilled out as ink on a page.
Society as a whole decides what books are 'good' and 'bad.' Not one individual. And there is a LOT of shitty writing out there that society as a whole decides is bad. But it isn't hard for a well-read person to figure out what many other people will also consider poorly written work. Saying something is a 'bad read' is a descriptive act, not a definitive act.
With Apple, and their evangelists pushing App developers to always use the bleeding edge features of the iOS API, you are guaranteed that your 'updated' iDevice will get updates for several years and then quickly be abandoned in the App store. With Android, the smart app developers reach back as far as practical in OS compatability. So your older Android phone lasts longer. Plus you can always get a Nexus device with no SD card slot if you don't mind storing everything 'in the cloud' so Google can sift through it.
Do your arms get cold because of you not being able to wear long sleeve shirts or a suit coat?
When I go out in the field behind our house, the Wifi signal is gone. Even halfway out into the dogyard the Wifi is barely there at all. Our wifi or the neighbor's wifi. It's gone.
I'd hate to live anywhere so busy that there was ubiquitous wifi signal. Here we have jackrabbits and sometimes at night howling coyotes. And possums, of course. Always stupid possums out rambling around in the dark.
First off, In the late 90's Tektronix made a series of digital oscilloscopes that ran an embedded version of Windows 98.
But really, the easiest way to get Quake running on an oscilloscope is to take the raster signals from an analog CRT controller (like, for instance, a VGA card) and use the vertical and horizontal signals to properly drive the X and Y axis, and feed the video into the Z axis. Like, duh. Why would you vectorize it?
And said jokes will have been spread by someone named fahrbot. Who will deny any involvement vigorously.
Right. And it's very difficult to have the money directed instead to the poor. I suppose you could send in an army to overthrow the despots and give money to the poor. Now you're in charge and responsible for running the whole place. Or you head home and leave a void, so that a new despot takes over.
So in your world, I take it, good is measurable numerically.
Hmmm.
Some of the post WWI German Marks were decorative. But towards the end of the period, things like the 5,000,000 mark notes were kind of ugly and desperate looking.
Precious metals have value at least in part based on their extraction cost. That is, it costs enough to extract gold that nobody is going to flood the market with a ton of gold. So it maintains an intrinsic stable value. Which happens, in many instances to hover at about the current extraction cost. I.e. nobody bothers to extract the plentiful gold in sea water because of the cost. (There is about a ton of gold in every cubic mile of sea water)
It's valuable because it's rare. So it's a convenient token to use to transfer value around.
The US was definitely off the Gold Standard by 1941. The feds had made it illegal for US citizens to own bullion gold in 1932.
Probably what interfered with market acceptance of that watch was that too many prospective customers found themselves trapped in vi while trying to edit their ~/.twm/.twmrc file. "Damn it! How do I get this thing to not just beep at every key I press!!!???!!"
Your smart watch can be used as an authenticating device. It can wirelessly communicate with any outside reader device that queries it, and since it is capable of biometrics, it can self-authenticate itself by learning your biological patterns and identify whether it is you wearing it. So passwords will not be needed.
A true miracle device. We will be able to move around spending money freely, gaining admittance to films and mass transit without having to pay or present anything to the turnstile, etc. True freedom from many current everyday hassles!
Also, it will be capable of raising an alarm if it has been removed in an unauthorized setting, say anywhere outside of your secured dwelling cubicle.
The killer app for a smartwatch will be it's function as a bluetooth dongle to authenticate people. Of course, for it to serve that function well, it will have to be non-removable; otherwise someone else could pretend to be you and the terrorists would win.
In some instances it will literally be a killer app, but let's let the marketing folks take care of cleaning that little detail up.