No - check out "Weird Science" sometime - it involves breaking into a defense department mainframe, a soft porn collection and barbie dolls - be sure not to forget the barbie dolls! - but the results are amazing.
Here is an obscure movie with Nimoy as an alien zombie! I would really like to see Radar men some day. Leonard also appeared in several episodes of Bonanza
Ever tried hacking on a Sun machine at the OpenBoot prompt, before the OS is even loaded? You can write programs just in the firmware, do arithmetic, create functions - it's kinda like those old home pc's that came with basic in rom, except it's FORTH in rom. Just type 'words' to see pages and pages of (admittedly strange looking) predefined functions to work with the hardware at a direct cli level.
RedHat even got mention on the Nightly Business Report recently - the sco thing isn't taking the wind out of their sails. Techies who can grok the facts arent' scared of a paper tiger, however real it may appear to others who fall for that type of thing.
Something like that has happened - Apple had an internal project code named "Sagan" - when the Carl Sagan people started threatening legal action, they changed the project name to Butt Headed Astronomer.
If you're talking about Ted Nelson's "Computer Lib / Dream Machines" it's worth from $80 to $600 (asking prices on abe.com - just search for "computer lib") depending on edition and condition.
one mystery cleared up: I had always wondered how Byte Magazine, started by Wayne Green, ended up as his (ex) wife's property:
Because he was in the middle of an IRS audit and did not wish to have his new venture involved, Wayne registered the magazine in his wife's name. As it turned out, this was a serious error. No one except those involved will ever know just what happened, but when the smoke cleared Wayne still had 73 magazine and his ex-wife, now married to a German gentleman, had Byte, with Carl Helmers as the editor.
I think that's the ultimate question here - who takes the liability of risk for an obscure software failure that's potentially deadly? Msft? The Auto manufacturer, or the customer? Tradictionally with Msft products, it's the customer, as even if it trashes your entire disk you/should/ have backups of important data. What if a Firestone type defect turns up someday? Is the car mfg simply going to say too bad, nobody is liable, or/you/, the customer, should have kept up with the post sale service patches?
So remember students and politicians, next time you want to give a rousing 'go to war' speach or paint a placard and protest war, it's just the spots talking.
In an effort to respond to competitive market forces, from now on all carriers will be required to shout in a loud voice, "You Have Mail!" upon successful delivery.
We were in line at WalMart the other day when one cashier runs over and asks our cashier, "60 minus 6 is 54, isn't it?". Our cashier could neither confirm nor deny this speculation. At first I though the manager was giving the crew a spot check of ability to make change, then it dawned on us, they both really weren't sure.
I guess they are the right employees for the clientel, as WalMart makes a big bundle.
do we really have to worry about "contaminating" Mars?
Nature sure doesn't worry, and man is definitely a product of nature. Life spreads by 'contamination', that's what makes it life! Heck, how do we know that all life on earth didn't start by a passing visitor from Alphi Centauri landing, taking a whizz on some rock, declare the place uninhabitable and take off? Those who would stop exploration by complaining about 'human contamination' should get off their high moral horse, put aside their cosmic guilt complex and allow the spread of life to go on, whether by building moon bases or stowaway mold spores. I'll bet that every successful interstellar alien race has a policy of 'conquor first, ask questions later', while the 'kind peace loving don't interfere' races end up as their raw protein and amino acid supply.
Try the local hobby shop, or look for one of these. You can easily charged old ni-cads or NiMh batteries in less than an hour using a 'peak detecting' charger like that. Overnite chargers run at.1C or less (C = battery amp hour capacity) and can be left on w/o overheating. The fast chargers blast 'em with 1 or 2C which works, as long as you cut it off when they are charged or they overhead and get damaged. The 'peak detecting' chargers can tell when the battery is full and automatically shuts off. Works great.
Nope - check out the Univac ANIMAL story for an earlier version of a self replicating program, 1975. (notice I'm not claiming ANIMAL was the 'first' self replicator either - 99.9% of claimed 'firsts' are just ignorant of other acheivements).
I purchased a pda and a boxed Outlook at a major USA comp chain store, paid $102 for Outlook. Turned out the pda already came with Outlook 2002 bundled in, so I took it back, and they credited the card $253. Hehehe.
Applying standard computer industry ethics as exemplified by the prime example, I'm keeping the dough.
Don't worry, set him up, turn on wep, make some keys, and also use MAC filtering so only known stations can get in. To get around both those someone has to be fairly determined, just like someone determined to get in your house can probably do so, no matter what locks and alarms you install. That'll keep out the accidental neighbors and casual drive by scanners. Anything important like credit card numbers should be encrypted from browser to server with SSL anyway.
Now, if a bank or hospital was going to install a wireless wep on a campus with account passwords etc in the air in the parking lot, then you'd have good reason to worry.
What planet have you been on for the last 15 years? Msft has a consistant proven track record of leveraging their existing base into other market areas, starting from the DOS cash cow on PC's in 1981 and forward. Remember the Msft slogan "DOS isn't done untill Lotus won't run", or the Win3 beta code that was proven to test for and exclude DR-DOS? The real solution was and still is the os / application breakup - that's what Gary Kildal envisioned for the pc world, a competitive environment where many players can compete, whereas the Gates vision was "I'll own everything" and that's what we have now. In effect they own the 'common carrier' for intel pc's and can control anything that runs on it, except for viruses and security holes.
Sorry - if a consumer wants to own a movie s/he should hire a film crew, construct the sets, pay big names outrageous fortunes, write the scripts, pay for post production, etc. After you spend at least a million (and that's LOW budget) THEN you own a movie, can make copies and give it away, rip it, edit it, whatever you want.
I'm really starting to thing there is a close connection between solar activity and economic patterns - all the recessions I can remember, 80-81, 91-92, 2000-2002 have all occured after the peak of a sunspot cycle. What happened after this storm of 1859: The US Civil War.
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should have landed a few minutes ago - cant find any news.
No - check out "Weird Science" sometime - it involves breaking into a defense department mainframe, a soft porn collection and barbie dolls - be sure not to forget the barbie dolls! - but the results are amazing.
Here is an obscure movie with Nimoy as an alien zombie! I would really like to see Radar men some day. Leonard also appeared in several episodes of Bonanza
Ever tried hacking on a Sun machine at the OpenBoot prompt, before the OS is even loaded? You can write programs just in the firmware, do arithmetic, create functions - it's kinda like those old home pc's that came with basic in rom, except it's FORTH in rom. Just type 'words' to see pages and pages of (admittedly strange looking) predefined functions to work with the hardware at a direct cli level.
Try doing that w/ a common PC bios!
RedHat even got mention on the Nightly Business Report recently - the sco thing isn't taking the wind out of their sails. Techies who can grok the facts arent' scared of a paper tiger, however real it may appear to others who fall for that type of thing.
Something like that has happened - Apple had an internal project code named "Sagan" - when the Carl Sagan people started threatening legal action, they changed the project name to Butt Headed Astronomer.
A 300ppi print of this image would measure about 11 feet wide
I just wouldn't want to pay his inkjet cart bill.
If you're talking about Ted Nelson's "Computer Lib / Dream Machines" it's worth from $80 to $600 (asking prices on abe.com - just search for "computer lib") depending on edition and condition.
one mystery cleared up: I had always wondered how Byte Magazine, started by Wayne Green, ended up as his (ex) wife's property:
Because he was in the middle of an IRS audit and did not wish to have his new venture involved, Wayne registered the magazine in his wife's name. As it turned out, this was a serious error. No one except those involved will ever know just what happened, but when the smoke cleared Wayne still had 73 magazine and his ex-wife, now married to a German gentleman, had Byte, with Carl Helmers as the editor.
doh!
I think that's the ultimate question here - who takes the liability of risk for an obscure software failure that's potentially deadly? Msft? The Auto manufacturer, or the customer? Tradictionally with Msft products, it's the customer, as even if it trashes your entire disk you /should/ have backups of important data. What if a Firestone type defect turns up someday? Is the car mfg simply going to say too bad, nobody is liable, or /you/, the customer, should have kept up with the post sale service patches?
So remember students and politicians, next time you want to give a rousing 'go to war' speach or paint a placard and protest war, it's just the spots talking.
From the Desk of the Postmaster General:
In an effort to respond to competitive market forces, from now on all carriers will be required to shout in a loud voice, "You Have Mail!" upon successful delivery.
Thank you.
We were in line at WalMart the other day when one cashier runs over and asks our cashier, "60 minus 6 is 54, isn't it?". Our cashier could neither confirm nor deny this speculation. At first I though the manager was giving the crew a spot check of ability to make change, then it dawned on us, they both really weren't sure.
I guess they are the right employees for the clientel, as WalMart makes a big bundle.
do we really have to worry about "contaminating" Mars?
Nature sure doesn't worry, and man is definitely a product of nature. Life spreads by 'contamination', that's what makes it life! Heck, how do we know that all life on earth didn't start by a passing visitor from Alphi Centauri landing, taking a whizz on some rock, declare the place uninhabitable and take off? Those who would stop exploration by complaining about 'human contamination' should get off their high moral horse, put aside their cosmic guilt complex and allow the spread of life to go on, whether by building moon bases or stowaway mold spores. I'll bet that every successful interstellar alien race has a policy of 'conquor first, ask questions later', while the 'kind peace loving don't interfere' races end up as their raw protein and amino acid supply.
And it may not be Motorola for long, MOT is looking to spin off the Semi Products Sector.
Lately, my favorite political formulae is:
1) something needs to be done
2) this is something
3) lets do it!
Try the local hobby shop, or look for one of these. You can easily charged old ni-cads or NiMh batteries in less than an hour using a 'peak detecting' charger like that. Overnite chargers run at .1C or less (C = battery amp hour capacity) and can be left on w/o overheating. The fast chargers blast 'em with 1 or 2C which works, as long as you cut it off when they are charged or they overhead and get damaged. The 'peak detecting' chargers can tell when the battery is full and automatically shuts off. Works great.
Nope - check out the Univac ANIMAL story for an earlier version of a self replicating program, 1975. (notice I'm not claiming ANIMAL was the 'first' self replicator either - 99.9% of claimed 'firsts' are just ignorant of other acheivements).
I purchased a pda and a boxed Outlook at a major USA comp chain store, paid $102 for Outlook. Turned out the pda already came with Outlook 2002 bundled in, so I took it back, and they credited the card $253. Hehehe.
Applying standard computer industry ethics as exemplified by the prime example, I'm keeping the dough.
Don't worry, set him up, turn on wep, make some keys, and also use MAC filtering so only known stations can get in. To get around both those someone has to be fairly determined, just like someone determined to get in your house can probably do so, no matter what locks and alarms you install. That'll keep out the accidental neighbors and casual drive by scanners. Anything important like credit card numbers should be encrypted from browser to server with SSL anyway.
Now, if a bank or hospital was going to install a wireless wep on a campus with account passwords etc in the air in the parking lot, then you'd have good reason to worry.
What planet have you been on for the last 15 years? Msft has a consistant proven track record of leveraging their existing base into other market areas, starting from the DOS cash cow on PC's in 1981 and forward. Remember the Msft slogan "DOS isn't done untill Lotus won't run", or the Win3 beta code that was proven to test for and exclude DR-DOS? The real solution was and still is the os / application breakup - that's what Gary Kildal envisioned for the pc world, a competitive environment where many players can compete, whereas the Gates vision was "I'll own everything" and that's what we have now. In effect they own the 'common carrier' for intel pc's and can control anything that runs on it, except for viruses and security holes.
A decision in your favor - Ambrose Bierce
Sorry - if a consumer wants to own a movie s/he should hire a film crew, construct the sets, pay big names outrageous fortunes, write the scripts, pay for post production, etc. After you spend at least a million (and that's LOW budget) THEN you own a movie, can make copies and give it away, rip it, edit it, whatever you want.
I'm really starting to thing there is a close connection between solar activity and economic patterns - all the recessions I can remember, 80-81, 91-92, 2000-2002 have all occured after the peak of a sunspot cycle. What happened after this storm of 1859: The US Civil War.