The Amiga 2000 keyboard was great in its day. Shame it's completely incompatible with anything else:-)
One thing the Amiga got right was the provision of a key marked "HELP" in big letters, and the positioning of the control key. I think the numeric keypad may have also had brackets and maybe an equals sign... which helped a lot...
I know, I miss the feel of my old keyboard.
Maybe someday I'll get my Amiga up as a Linux terminal and relive my youth on my olde keyboard.
Perhaps a hard-to-find buffer overflow in CTCP handling, or such...
/CTCP Bob VERSIONohwhoamIkiddingdoopiedoopiedoolalalalaabout no%#$$All your IRC are belong to us, you have no chance to survive, make your time, HAHAHAHAHA!!!
I got three of the drives from brick and mortar, the newest one is the one from there that isn't dead. Then I got two replacements from IBM, one was horrific, the other is still running but I really don't trust it.
Yeah, thats how it seemed when I bought my first pair of drives, now dubbed "deathstars" by a large number of people.
If IBM had a long time reputation of being junk I wouldn't have bought their drives in the first place.
My point is that I've had a 60% failure rate, and one of those 3 failed drives was actually shorting my powersupply. Which is inexcusable to me.
Note I did give IBM a second chance, which is why the failure rate is 60% and not 75%. But that was out of necessity after both drives in my system started puking on themselves.
there has been industry speculation that Millipede is the secret advantage that led I.B.M. to decide to sell its disk-drive business to Hitachi.
I speculate it might have been due to IBM's hideous failure to manufacturing stable drives that cause them to sell out. 60% failure rate here, and thats not the floor of it!
I suppose you could be slapped with a "failure to maintain a proper lookout", but seriously, there are a ton of instances in which I might have hit a jaywalker that would literally not be my fault. I imagine the same applies.
The thing is that mobilefetishists have been allowed to bring speed limits of traffic that exists ridiculously close to sidewalks to ridiculously high speeds.
As if everyone has a right to wield 1 ton kinetic weaponry in public anyways...
The skeptics start by questioning the very existence of cyberspace, which they say is no more real than a "phone space" involving all the people on the telephone at a given time. They go on to argue that something happening online shouldn't be treated any differently by the law than if it occurred on Main Street.
First part makes sense, second part implies that one's use of the telephone in their own home is equivalent to using their telephone on "Main Street".
they all have as a core principle a rejection of the notion of "Internet exceptionalism," or the idea that the Internet is a new, unique thing that requires its own special laws. "The steam engine... probably transformed American law, but the 'law of the steam engine' never existed,"
Comparing steam engines and telecommunications devices is about as stupid as it gets, anyone should understand that much.
And they certainly deride the ideas behind the "Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace," which is posted on many Web sites and poses a "hands off" challenge to government.
I've never heard of this thing before, I don't recognize it, and I think that they're just using it as a straw to hold up and try to cover up their engines to telephones comparison.:-)
And most of the activists continue to see the Internet as a utopian ideal -- despite the fact that many progressives are beginning to worry that the Web is really just a very efficient way for companies to move white-collar U.S. jobs overseas.
Hey, any environment where we can't run up and kill each other in any meaningful sense has some utopian elements to it.
Reducing the internet to the web and defining it as a mechanism whose main purpose is to destroy american jobs is pretty goofy though. Tech has created quite a few jobs locally, as it has about everywhere else. Though I won't argue it overall helped or hurt, I just don't have any figures.
But what about his students? Well, he concedes, they're another matter. Many of them, with the passion of youth, are still enthralled with the whole idea of a separate universe, one they can call their own.
And you wouldn't consider an immersive conference call something to liken to a seperate universe?
Could someone make a picture of a whole bunch of people on "Main Street" talking into steam engines? It would summarize this article nicely.:-)
Because hardware based solutions are always faster.
In the case of network where even older CPUs can do packet-fu with enough spare computrons to simulate a nuclear explosion (did I say in a timely manner or high detail or anything?) I think that a hardware based solution might not have the edge you're assuming.
Hardware kicks ass for repetitive fixed functions (screw flying cars, where is my hardware constructive solid geometry raytracer), but normal CPUs are there and programmed for the task already and aren't strained by it much.
I feel sorry for ya, I don't like Gateway because they sell prebuilt systems and due to some of their history. Oh, and expandibility/maintenance doesn't seem high on their list either.
A cow in a box is one thing I might think when I see their commercials. Now if they could put a chocolate milk tap on the side of their systems they'd have something (which I bet would be mostly used for beer in this netborhood).
I recall chiming "It real ly sucks" to the Pentium dinks at the end of some of those commercials.
On the other hand, I keep thinking about this after seeing this movie that we might feel more secure if these systems can log when they saw you and in doing so, whatever happens to you, we could know where you were last time, like helping the cops to track you. Or imagine you lost your kids or your little brother in a big mall, this will proove very usefull.
Don't worry little brother, big Guinness is watching you.
We have been pounded and proded by product placement in every single medium we use, and there is a point where you start to loose customers who get pissed off with this invasion of sanity.
I've been boycotting heavy advertisers for a while now. No purple pills for me! Not even while driving around a mountain in an SUV or quilting toilet paper!
Slashdot Mirror
Just give a Googlebot a large bottle of grog
Problem is it keeps eating through my bottle before I can make it to Google.
I've emailed Guybrush Threepwood for suggestions, he hasn't gotten back to me, something about a wedding and root beer.
Besides, Swatch's internet time has been around forever, and few besides the geeky have paid attention to it.
But look at how efficient base-1000 time converts to binary!
The Amiga 2000 keyboard was great in its day. Shame it's completely incompatible with anything else :-)
One thing the Amiga got right was the provision of a key marked "HELP" in big letters, and the positioning of the control key. I think the numeric keypad may have also had brackets and maybe an equals sign... which helped a lot...
I know, I miss the feel of my old keyboard.
Maybe someday I'll get my Amiga up as a Linux terminal and relive my youth on my olde keyboard.
"i won't buy it, it doesn't play/support ogg vorbis"
Amen!
The reason that they have had such a monopoly is the backwards compatability.
Thats funny, I thought the main reason was that you didn't have to feed it six batterries every two hours...
Not that the compatibility hurts in any way.
My flat mate Matt has allready got the game boy to play Amiga MOD files using only 3% CPU time in this [man.ac.uk] demo.
:-)
Wicked, its a shame that most of the really good MODs are over a hundred times bigger than the playwr itsself.
It'd be really cool if he made a version of EdPlayer for the GBA though.
Because you can buy CD players that will store alot more music alot cheaper with little proprietary meddling for the same price today.
As a hack it would be impressivish, now its just a way to suck money from consumers.
GameBoy speakers may not be the best audio output device
;-)
Yeah, sucks they didn't include a headphone jack or anything.
Perhaps a hard-to-find buffer overflow in CTCP handling, or such...
t no%#$$All your IRC are belong to us, you have no chance to survive, make your time, HAHAHAHAHA!!!
/CTCP Bob VERSIONohwhoamIkiddingdoopiedoopiedoolalalalaabou
And most importantly don't build packages as root.
Nevermind ye olde "don't IRC as root".
I got three of the drives from brick and mortar, the newest one is the one from there that isn't dead. Then I got two replacements from IBM, one was horrific, the other is still running but I really don't trust it.
Yeah, thats how it seemed when I bought my first pair of drives, now dubbed "deathstars" by a large number of people.
If IBM had a long time reputation of being junk I wouldn't have bought their drives in the first place.
My point is that I've had a 60% failure rate, and one of those 3 failed drives was actually shorting my powersupply. Which is inexcusable to me.
Note I did give IBM a second chance, which is why the failure rate is 60% and not 75%. But that was out of necessity after both drives in my system started puking on themselves.
there has been industry speculation that Millipede is the secret advantage that led I.B.M. to decide to sell its disk-drive business to Hitachi.
I speculate it might have been due to IBM's hideous failure to manufacturing stable drives that cause them to sell out. 60% failure rate here, and thats not the floor of it!
I suppose you could be slapped with a "failure to maintain a proper lookout", but seriously, there are a ton of instances in which I might have hit a jaywalker that would literally not be my fault. I imagine the same applies.
The thing is that mobilefetishists have been allowed to bring speed limits of traffic that exists ridiculously close to sidewalks to ridiculously high speeds.
As if everyone has a right to wield 1 ton kinetic weaponry in public anyways...
The skeptics start by questioning the very existence of cyberspace, which they say is no more real than a "phone space" involving all the people on the telephone at a given time. They go on to argue that something happening online shouldn't be treated any differently by the law than if it occurred on Main Street.
... probably transformed American law, but the 'law of the steam engine' never existed,"
:-)
:-)
First part makes sense, second part implies that one's use of the telephone in their own home is equivalent to using their telephone on "Main Street".
they all have as a core principle a rejection of the notion of "Internet exceptionalism," or the idea that the Internet is a new, unique thing that requires its own special laws. "The steam engine
Comparing steam engines and telecommunications devices is about as stupid as it gets, anyone should understand that much.
And they certainly deride the ideas behind the "Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace," which is posted on many Web sites and poses a "hands off" challenge to government.
I've never heard of this thing before, I don't recognize it, and I think that they're just using it as a straw to hold up and try to cover up their engines to telephones comparison.
And most of the activists continue to see the Internet as a utopian ideal -- despite the fact that many progressives are beginning to worry that the Web is really just a very efficient way for companies to move white-collar U.S. jobs overseas.
Hey, any environment where we can't run up and kill each other in any meaningful sense has some utopian elements to it.
Reducing the internet to the web and defining it as a mechanism whose main purpose is to destroy american jobs is pretty goofy though. Tech has created quite a few jobs locally, as it has about everywhere else. Though I won't argue it overall helped or hurt, I just don't have any figures.
But what about his students? Well, he concedes, they're another matter. Many of them, with the passion of youth, are still enthralled with the whole idea of a separate universe, one they can call their own.
And you wouldn't consider an immersive conference call something to liken to a seperate universe?
Could someone make a picture of a whole bunch of people on "Main Street" talking into steam engines? It would summarize this article nicely.
Nope, its about Sarah Michelle Gellar in a murderous campaign against photosensitive people.
Slashdot effect burns down sourcefire.com. :-)
#include <stdio.h>
void main()
{
short silence[60*44100];
memset(silence, 0, sizeof(silence));
FILE * out = fopen("silence.pcm", "w");
fwrite(silence, sizeof(short), 60*44100, out);
fclose(out);
}
Music piracy at its worst, I tell ya.
So who is gunna print up the T-shirts?
Any prizes for first tattoo?
I wouldn't mind four serial ports. I happen to have lots of junk to hang off them. X-10, Amiga networking, N64 gamesave backup thingy, etc.
Actually sounds like a survivable beast ignoring the short life of an intel CPU socket.
Because hardware based solutions are always faster.
In the case of network where even older CPUs can do packet-fu with enough spare computrons to simulate a nuclear explosion (did I say in a timely manner or high detail or anything?) I think that a hardware based solution might not have the edge you're assuming.
Hardware kicks ass for repetitive fixed functions (screw flying cars, where is my hardware constructive solid geometry raytracer), but normal CPUs are there and programmed for the task already and aren't strained by it much.
"Moo"
I suddenly want a Gateway computer!
I feel sorry for ya, I don't like Gateway because they sell prebuilt systems and due to some of their history. Oh, and expandibility/maintenance doesn't seem high on their list either.
A cow in a box is one thing I might think when I see their commercials. Now if they could put a chocolate milk tap on the side of their systems they'd have something (which I bet would be mostly used for beer in this netborhood).
I recall chiming "It real ly sucks" to the Pentium dinks at the end of some of those commercials.
On the other hand, I keep thinking about this after seeing this movie that we might feel more secure if these systems can log when they saw you and in doing so, whatever happens to you, we could know where you were last time, like helping the cops to track you. Or imagine you lost your kids or your little brother in a big mall, this will proove very usefull.
Don't worry little brother, big Guinness is watching you.
When was the last time you bought a product you had never heard advertised?
Moo.
I mean, yesterday when I bought 50 mini CD cases. I don't recall ever seeing CD cases advertised, let alone mini CD cases.
We have been pounded and proded by product placement in every single medium we use, and there is a point where you start to loose customers who get pissed off with this invasion of sanity.
I've been boycotting heavy advertisers for a while now. No purple pills for me! Not even while driving around a mountain in an SUV or quilting toilet paper!
I was under the impression that YAHOO uses Google? Or is my information incorrect?
I dunno about your correctness -sarcasm- but theres no way Yahoo could alter Google results before displaying them to you on Yahoo's site -/sarcasm-.