>XT with *dual* 5.25" floppy drives (that required a > soldering iron for overclocking when there was no > such word as "overclocking").
Hehe - you had the same decked-out poweer rig that I did. Dual 5.25", and 640k!!! Now you're playing with power...
And I also did an "extreme mod" for that day and age, by replacing my 8088 with an NEC V20... which was supposed to be faster but turned out to only make a few percent difference.
Hmm, evidence... lets see, how about ALASKA THAWING OUT! The poor eskimos are having to relocate their villages. Oh yeah, and the ice being depleted from Kilamanjaro. Oh yeah, and the glaciers and ice shelfs disintegrating.
>> oh the moral agony of making double-digit returns.
I'm sure the touchy-feely slave owners of yesteryear felt just like you do.
If you have a concience you should at least put pressure on EA by writing a stockholder letter expressing your displeasure, and/or cash out and invest in a company less toxic to society.
I've stopped thinking along a single axis with regards to political thought. Here's a paper http://www.umich.edu/~umisl/articles/parties.htm that mentions the two axis system I feel is more desriptive. I like to think about social policy on one axis and economic policy on the other. free social policy (legalizing drugs, abortion, guns etc) and free economic policy (low tax, less laws restricting trade) would describe libertarian. restrictive social policy + free economic policy would describe some conservatives. Free social policy and restrictive economic policy might describe democrats. Someone like old Ross Perot might be restrictive socially and economically.
Yes its veering from the topic. But what a dead horse.:)
I agree. I'm no expert, but I AM lazy so I spend a lot of timethinking about why programs have such trouble talking to each other.
How about this system: each program can save data nuggets for other programs in data "gifts" little chunks of data encoded in XML or other easy format. Then the other programs can look in their "gift inbox", and choose which stuff to integrate.
This has two advantages:
1. programs dont have to have access to other programs data files. The control is always in the hands of the destination app, because gifts can be rejected at any time.
2. programs dont have to understand other programs data stuctures, or adapt to changes in database format.
3. For security, there could be shared keys in each program, that the gifts get touched with. So a program can choose to accept or reject gifts based on source.
4. It can extend to multi system environments with shared inboxes.
I know thats 4 not 2 but I got carried away.
Any comments?
an example: a URL "gift" could be sent to Firefoxes Bookmarks menu. A contact "gift" could be sent to Thunderbird's Address book.
Philip K. Dick wrote, in his book Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, regarding police-states:
"Once they notice you, they never completely close the file."
I think they want to open up all of our files.
I've never been fingerprinted. To me this means I am less likely to be pulled in on some random charge because my fingerprints were on the wrong doorknob somewhere. That's the way I like it.
My overly trusting friend answers all the privacy issues I have with "well I dont do anything wrong so I dont need to worry..". Well what happens when being dark skinned or left-handed becomes a crime?
Picture of a woman or man standing in the Southwest desert on a clear day, carving a large Tux out of wood or some material. All this is imprinted on the screen of a SGI workstation, in the Gimp. The same artist is at the workstation editing this image.
This outlines the openness, flexibility and power of Linux in the graphics world.
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>XT with *dual* 5.25" floppy drives (that required a
:P
> soldering iron for overclocking when there was no
> such word as "overclocking").
Hehe - you had the same decked-out poweer rig that I did. Dual 5.25", and 640k!!! Now you're playing with power...
And I also did an "extreme mod" for that day and age, by replacing my 8088 with an NEC V20... which was supposed to be faster but turned out to only make a few percent difference.
yes, we are getting old.
or pathetically true.
Hmm, evidence... lets see, how about ALASKA THAWING OUT! The poor eskimos are having to relocate their villages. Oh yeah, and the ice being depleted from Kilamanjaro. Oh yeah, and the glaciers and ice shelfs disintegrating.
...
More study is needed, my pasty white
>> oh the moral agony of making double-digit returns.
I'm sure the touchy-feely slave owners of yesteryear felt just like you do.
If you have a concience you should at least put pressure on EA by writing a stockholder letter expressing your displeasure, and/or cash out and invest in a company less toxic to society.
I've stopped thinking along a single axis with regards to political thought. Here's a paper http://www.umich.edu/~umisl/articles/parties.htm that mentions the two axis system I feel is more desriptive. I like to think about social policy on one axis and economic policy on the other. free social policy (legalizing drugs, abortion, guns etc) and free economic policy (low tax, less laws restricting trade) would describe libertarian. restrictive social policy + free economic policy would describe some conservatives. Free social policy and restrictive economic policy might describe democrats. Someone like old Ross Perot might be restrictive socially and economically. Yes its veering from the topic. But what a dead horse. :)
I agree. I'm no expert, but I AM lazy so I spend a lot of timethinking about why programs have such trouble talking to each other.
How about this system: each program can save data nuggets for other programs in data "gifts" little chunks of data encoded in XML or other easy format. Then the other programs can look in their "gift inbox", and choose which stuff to integrate.
This has two advantages:
1. programs dont have to have access to other programs data files. The control is always in the hands of the destination app, because gifts can be rejected at any time.
2. programs dont have to understand other programs data stuctures, or adapt to changes in database format.
3. For security, there could be shared keys in each program, that the gifts get touched with. So a program can choose to accept or reject gifts based on source.
4. It can extend to multi system environments with shared inboxes.
I know thats 4 not 2 but I got carried away.
Any comments?
an example:
a URL "gift" could be sent to Firefoxes Bookmarks menu. A contact "gift" could be sent to Thunderbird's Address book.
oops the microsoft calculator did an evil thing to me.. Guess I dont know how to add any more.
:P
But actually its
11000100.b + 00100011.b
11100111.b
which is a binary palindrome. Like most binary addition probly ends up.
Well if your gonna check for palindromes in binary then you should be adding and flipping digits in binary also.
1 11.b
But scarily enough, if we invert that bastardized conversion and add in binary while checking in base 10...
196 d
11000100.b
11000100 + 00100011
101010010101111111001111.b
101010010101111111001
11100111 d
A Freakin decimal palindrome on the first addition. WiErD mathematics.
Philip K. Dick wrote, in his book Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, regarding police-states:
"Once they notice you, they never completely close the file."
I think they want to open up all of our files.
I've never been fingerprinted. To me this means I am less likely to be pulled in on some random charge because my fingerprints were on the wrong doorknob somewhere. That's the way I like it.
My overly trusting friend answers all the privacy issues I have with "well I dont do anything wrong so I dont need to worry..". Well what happens when being dark skinned or left-handed becomes a crime?
for a graphics magazine cover -
Picture of a woman or man standing in the Southwest desert on a clear day, carving a large Tux out of wood or some material. All this is imprinted on the screen of a SGI workstation, in the Gimp. The same artist is at the workstation editing this image.
This outlines the openness, flexibility and power of Linux in the graphics world.
Plus it'll look cool.