One example of this was the Proxim RangeLAN wireless drivers - the author Dave Komacke works at Proxim, and was able to distribute a binary-only module for Linux. Worked fine for me. Web Page here.
If I were a cartoonist I'd love to draw a cartoon showing a wooden duck decoy in the water near a hunter in the weeds blowing on a duck call and holding a shotgun. Nearby a couple of real ducks are paddling around, one is suspicious of the decoy but the other says, "Come on Mally, it looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck..."
Yes, then Bill Gates can mysteriously disappear to a secret hideaway valley in Colorado with Dagny Taggart, John Galt and the rest of the gang, use his phenonemal software architecture skills (he did invent all that Msft stuff single handed, you know) for awesome physics experiments, while the rest of us out here in the Socialist workers world suffer in the deteriorating information infrastructure left to decline and wither away due to lack of any real systems and managerial talent.
Focal69 on PDP-8: Shall I retain LOG, EXP, TAN ?:
Micro-Soft 8K BASIC on Altair: WANT SIN-COS-TAN-ATN? [Y]
You're not alone - I got a FORTH like system going on an Altair 8800 once, working from a Byte book "Threaded Interpretive Languages", and used it to program a TMS9918 graphics chip (what TI99/4s used for graphics) wire wrapped on an S100 board and eventually worked up a little 'dungeon explorer' game with it, where a sprite moves around a 3x3 screen 'dungeon' w/ 3 levels (27 screens total). The video out went into an old color tv (direct! no rf modulator). Anyway, even on a 2Mhz 8080 FORTH was fast enough to flip screens into the 9918 with little noticible delay. One other project was rewriting the BASIC game 'Othello' in FORTH so it would play faster;))
But that was 1983 and it was time to shelve the Altair and get an Atari.
When it comes to $$$, Msft will be the first to change the licensing to meet whatever the big buyers want. Getting their lawyers to change the license language is not a problem. But it is a double bind for a company / industry that historically relies on release now / patch later, if customers don't do their part and check for, get, and apply updates (as with 'code red'). If anything, the license language can easily be narrowed to specify that Msft will collect information about, say, 'versions of Msft products only', altho some might not like the idea of a remote entity unilaterially accessing it's own property in a private institution. It always comes back to Msft saying, 'Trust us! Leave the deatils to us and we'll do the right thing'. Certainly, Msft knows that, with such a sensitive issue, getting caught with private information they shouldn't have would be disasterous public relations wise, however they've consistently shown the attitude that 'anything is legal as long as you don't get caught'. Usually, the point to start worrying is when Msft decides to enter a market, leverage their desktop os monopoly*, and compete with those who are now customers. At that point, the customers who made the mistake of trusting Msft are raped and assimilated or otherwise unethically delt with, rode over roughshod, all in the name of free market unfettererd business competition, which will always get them a bye in politics and the courts, profits and jobs trump rules and regulations every time.
* if you don't like the term 'monopoly', think 'customers so locked into Msft technology that conversion to anything else is prohibitively and runiously expensive'.
Far from 'insightful' - they are discussing the judge's reactions and comments DURING the trial (like during the vidtape of 'why you cannot remove IE w/o breaking Windows', which turned out to be a faked, contrived, presentation), not after appeal, plus, appeals overturned his remedy, but, as the article states:
"Ironically, the appeals court reaffirmed the core of Jackson's work, which found in United States of America v. Microsoft Corp. that the software giant had illegally abused its monopoly position to undermine competition in the software marketplace."
will be discovered by another generation of new marketeers and, as usual, fail.
Oh, they'll use new terms for the same idea, but it'll be the same basic videophone featured in Metropolis (1927), the 1964 Worlds Fair, the Jetsons and Netmeeting. Also, researchers will rediscover that a paperless office only works when the weight of the print documentation for the product exceeds the weight of the paper you're trying to eleminate.
PYROLYSIS is the technique of applying high heat to organic matter (ligno-cellulosic materials) in the absence of air or in reduced air.
The process can produce charcoal, condensable organic liquids (pyrolytic fuel oil), non-condensable gasses, acetic acid, acetone, and methanol. The process can be adjusted to favor charcoal, pyrolytic oil, gas, or methanol production with a 95.5% fuel-to-feed efficiency.
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Needless to say, DuPont and ShellOil are quick to point out that a hemp farm turns all widdle children within a 100 mi radius into raging, deliquent, homocidal maniacs.
An ancient system, low quality muzak, Subsiderary Communications Authorization - commercial free elevator music! It's supposed to be a pay service for offices etc, but with the right decoder from Ramsey Electronics and connection to an FM set (has to pickup before deemphasis as it's up around 67Khz in the audio). Little known and fairly easy to pick up. But there's only one left in my metro area, probably they're dying off. I love it, I really do! There's no commercials, no vocals or words, nothing offensive or nerve wracking, no politics, news or sports, just plain, bland wallpaper music, ALL the time, heheh.
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unless the honeypot has rooftop rf direction finding and megawatt laser blaster.
BOFH: Hey, tripwire shows we got a fly in the honeypot! PFY: (looking out window with binos) Really? It could be that guy at the sidewalk cafe with the notebook out. BOFH: Heheh, Mr. warwhiz left port 139 open and admin share on! Now where did you put smbclient? PFY: In daisy/pub. Go for it and I'll let you know of any change in facial expression.
Yeah, now that you mention it! And were'nt they charged by this thing shaped like a gas pump? Hehe. It had a couple of regular batteries and instead of a gas hose you plug it into a little jack for a bit? Hehehe.
Hang on there - the $856 card is only a temporary storage untill you burn the photos onto a 50 cent CD. Using that, those 131 rolls costs only $65, plus whatever depreciation or cost amortization is for the CompactFlash card; while the film was $850.
However, I'd love to be rich enough to put photos on a CompactFlash, store them there and buy new ones when they get full;))
My dad was an avid photographer and has a closet full of shoeboxes of 35mm color & b&w slides documenting the family going back to the 1940's and beyond. Most are in excellent condition (except for some ektachrome(sp?) organic dye slides with some mold slowly growing on them). To view them you just hold up to a light or use a fairly simple projector.
Q: If someone takes as many pictures in digital format will they be as easily viewable 50 years from now? Will those inkjet printouts have all faded away, the CD's become unreadable, or no readers available unless you transfer to the latest and greatest digital storage format every 5 years? Will your grandchildren have to hire a data recovery specialist to see their parents 1st birthday party or what Aunt Jane looked like?
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I just found a magazine at a hamfest, Electronics Illustrated, from 1972, and one of the articles was build you own TV Tag game! It's made of cmos logic (lots of nand, or was it 'nor' gates?) and all discreet components. Appearently two players just move dots around the screen untill one touches the other. At the time it was either that or "Bridget Loves Bernie".
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You know, I used to have a problem taking exams until I realized it was because I was using a black magic marker.
Assistant Attorney General Charles James, who is responsible for antitrust matters, will leave his position to pursue a job in the private sector, the Justice Department revealed on Thursday.
James is best-known for his role in brokering the pending Microsoft settlement with the Justice Department and nine of 18 states. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has yet to approve the deal. Her ruling on that matter, and on a request by nine other states to impose stiffer sanctions on Microsoft, could come at any time.
Stifling a big yawn, James said the delaying tactics of Microsoft appear to have won, even thought they were found guilty in appeals court. "There might have been a chance during the previous administration for some semblance of consumer rights, but now they've pretty much gotten the green light to 'crush, crumble and chomp' whatever and whoever they want'", James remarked, downing his 2nd 16oz coffee. "Good grief, at this pace we should get a decision by 2013, but I know the court is also delaying, hoping all the vocal critics on the monopoly gravy train as well as their victims won't notice when she comes out, administers a wrist slap and slinks back to normal life as a federal judge. My career can't wait for this sad drama to play out. Microsoft owns the desktop market and isn't about to let anyone on their cloud, Sherman antitrust be damned."
Do you think your work would have benefitted from consideration of "Software Patents" or would it have been an incumberance and distraction? Would you have liked to have patents on the Internet so that every node or packet would have to pay royalities? Even if it would have made you (or, more likely, your employer) 'Richer n' Bill'? Lastly, any thoughts on the One-Click-Purchase Patent?
you can always add "did volunteer work rating messages submitted to a public web site. Work involved reading posted comments, deciding quality and relevance of posting, and moderating accordingly. Also did oversight work rating moderators performance."
or
"managed a wide area information distribution network involving the exchange of compressed aural and adult entertainment products. Work involved maintenance of clandistine anti-detection systems and frequent network reconfigurations for various Internet service providers".
Like someone pointed out, if a child shoplifts a CD from the record store and gets caught, the parents are agast and (if they care) teach them otherwise. But let the same child download a CD from Kaazaa the parents are clueless. I'm sure it'll all come to a head and then there'll be school education programs, like DARE or something, to instill some sense of copyright morality in the little tykes and their guardians, Office Jones will show up in 3rd grade classrooms and PTA meetings to talk about breaking the law with your Internet computer and CD writer. There'll be 'good' little children who always pay for their entertainment and the 'bad' ones who try to get away with it. Just like the war on drugs and the fact that illegal flowers are less harmful to one's health than the legal distillates of fermentation, the DMCA will probably sit there, many will ignore it, some will get impaled on it and rot in jail, no justice, just random chance, but that's crime and punishment in the brave new world. The EFF will soldier on like NORML, a small office of lawyers, largely impotent, but getting their monthly donations and standing up for a lost cause.
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All I can say is if the defense mechanism of the beetle was created by an intelligent designer, with blueprints and all, like Slartibartfast or something, S/he/it must be having a ball. "Ok, we/I create these things that eat beetles, but on the other hand lets make the beetle so it squirts hot crap in the predators face so it really has to work for it's dinner!! Won't that be a rip!!! Hehehe. Then let's make these humans have to toil away for their food also, and blame all their troubles on, hmmm, SIN! Yeah, that's the ticket, they used to live a life of eternal luxery in a fantastic garden but because of this 'sin' thing the now have to slave away to get food, shelter and clothing. Then we'll make those who beleive that stuff work against those who are trying to alleviate suffering, yeah, this'll keep those 'humans' hopelessly confused, just the way I designed it!!"
is before wwi wars were just starting to be mechanized, with still a lot of rifles and calvary - now we (and 'them') have the bomb! About the worst thing that could happen then (very bad no doubt) was trenchfoot and mustard gas, and produced some hero's like Baron Von Richthofen and Eddie Rickenbacker. Now we put up for risk vast civilian areas of Bhagdad and Chicago, live in fear of genetically engineered killer virusus, and, gasp, script kiddiez!
Sounds like the 'psychic' strategy - predict enough weird stuff and odds are that one will eventually come true, make you famous, while the bogus ones are quickly forgotten by the beleivers / suckers. That's called the Jean Dixon effect.
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One example of this was the Proxim RangeLAN wireless drivers - the author Dave Komacke works at Proxim, and was able to distribute a binary-only module for Linux. Worked fine for me. Web Page here.
if quacks like a duck, looks like a duck
If I were a cartoonist I'd love to draw a cartoon showing a wooden duck decoy in the water near a hunter in the weeds blowing on a duck call and holding a shotgun. Nearby a couple of real ducks are paddling around, one is suspicious of the decoy but the other says, "Come on Mally, it looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck..."
Yes, then Bill Gates can mysteriously disappear to a secret hideaway valley in Colorado with Dagny Taggart, John Galt and the rest of the gang, use his phenonemal software architecture skills (he did invent all that Msft stuff single handed, you know) for awesome physics experiments, while the rest of us out here in the Socialist workers world suffer in the deteriorating information infrastructure left to decline and wither away due to lack of any real systems and managerial talent.
Focal69 on PDP-8:
Shall I retain LOG, EXP, TAN ?:
Micro-Soft 8K BASIC on Altair:
WANT SIN-COS-TAN-ATN? [Y]
You're not alone - I got a FORTH like system going on an Altair 8800 once, working from a Byte book "Threaded Interpretive Languages", and used it to program a TMS9918 graphics chip (what TI99/4s used for graphics) wire wrapped on an S100 board and eventually worked up a little 'dungeon explorer' game with it, where a sprite moves around a 3x3 screen 'dungeon' w/ 3 levels (27 screens total). The video out went into an old color tv (direct! no rf modulator). Anyway, even on a 2Mhz 8080 FORTH was fast enough to flip screens into the 9918 with little noticible delay. One other project was rewriting the BASIC game 'Othello' in FORTH so it would play faster ;))
But that was 1983 and it was time to shelve the Altair and get an Atari.
When it comes to $$$, Msft will be the first to change the licensing to meet whatever the big buyers want. Getting their lawyers to change the license language is not a problem. But it is a double bind for a company / industry that historically relies on release now / patch later, if customers don't do their part and check for, get, and apply updates (as with 'code red'). If anything, the license language can easily be narrowed to specify that Msft will collect information about, say, 'versions of Msft products only', altho some might not like the idea of a remote entity unilaterially accessing it's own property in a private institution. It always comes back to Msft saying, 'Trust us! Leave the deatils to us and we'll do the right thing'. Certainly, Msft knows that, with such a sensitive issue, getting caught with private information they shouldn't have would be disasterous public relations wise, however they've consistently shown the attitude that 'anything is legal as long as you don't get caught'. Usually, the point to start worrying is when Msft decides to enter a market, leverage their desktop os monopoly*, and compete with those who are now customers. At that point, the customers who made the mistake of trusting Msft are raped and assimilated or otherwise unethically delt with, rode over roughshod, all in the name of free market unfettererd business competition, which will always get them a bye in politics and the courts, profits and jobs trump rules and regulations every time.
* if you don't like the term 'monopoly', think 'customers so locked into Msft technology that conversion to anything else is prohibitively and runiously expensive'.
Far from 'insightful' - they are discussing the judge's reactions and comments DURING the trial (like during the vidtape of 'why you cannot remove IE w/o breaking Windows', which turned out to be a faked, contrived, presentation), not after appeal, plus, appeals overturned his remedy, but, as the article states:
"Ironically, the appeals court reaffirmed the core of Jackson's work, which found in United States of America v. Microsoft Corp. that the software giant had illegally abused its monopoly position to undermine competition in the software marketplace."
We're just waiting for another 'remedy'.
will be discovered by another generation of new marketeers and, as usual, fail.
Oh, they'll use new terms for the same idea, but it'll be the same basic videophone featured in Metropolis (1927), the 1964 Worlds Fair, the Jetsons and Netmeeting. Also, researchers will rediscover that a paperless office only works when the weight of the print documentation for the product exceeds the weight of the paper you're trying to eleminate.
googled this:
PYROLYSIS is the technique of applying high heat to organic matter (ligno-cellulosic materials) in the absence of air or in reduced air.
The process can produce charcoal, condensable organic liquids (pyrolytic fuel oil), non-condensable gasses, acetic acid, acetone, and methanol. The process can be adjusted to favor charcoal, pyrolytic oil, gas, or methanol production with a 95.5% fuel-to-feed efficiency.
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Needless to say, DuPont and ShellOil are quick to point out that a hemp farm turns all widdle children within a 100 mi radius into raging, deliquent, homocidal maniacs.
Yes, it's now a common aspect of the Msft 'ecosystem'. Pale, sickly things, of thin blooded inbred immune diffecienty stock...
An ancient system, low quality muzak, Subsiderary Communications Authorization - commercial free elevator music! It's supposed to be a pay service for offices etc, but with the right decoder from Ramsey Electronics and connection to an FM set (has to pickup before deemphasis as it's up around 67Khz in the audio). Little known and fairly easy to pick up. But there's only one left in my metro area, probably they're dying off. I love it, I really do! There's no commercials, no vocals or words, nothing offensive or nerve wracking, no politics, news or sports, just plain, bland wallpaper music, ALL the time, heheh.
unless the honeypot has rooftop rf direction finding and megawatt laser blaster.
BOFH: Hey, tripwire shows we got a fly in the honeypot!
PFY: (looking out window with binos) Really? It could be that guy at the sidewalk cafe with the notebook out.
BOFH: Heheh, Mr. warwhiz left port 139 open and admin share on! Now where did you put smbclient?
PFY: In daisy/pub. Go for it and I'll let you know of any change in facial expression.
prepare to be ./'d
Yeah, now that you mention it! And were'nt they charged by this thing shaped like a gas pump? Hehe. It had a couple of regular batteries and instead of a gas hose you plug it into a little jack for a bit? Hehehe.
Hang on there - the $856 card is only a temporary storage untill you burn the photos onto a 50 cent CD. Using that, those 131 rolls costs only $65, plus whatever depreciation or cost amortization is for the CompactFlash card; while the film was $850.
;))
However, I'd love to be rich enough to put photos on a CompactFlash, store them there and buy new ones when they get full
My dad was an avid photographer and has a closet full of shoeboxes of 35mm color & b&w slides documenting the family going back to the 1940's and beyond. Most are in excellent condition (except for some ektachrome(sp?) organic dye slides with some mold slowly growing on them). To view them you just hold up to a light or use a fairly simple projector.
Q: If someone takes as many pictures in digital format will they be as easily viewable 50 years from now? Will those inkjet printouts have all faded away, the CD's become unreadable, or no readers available unless you transfer to the latest and greatest digital storage format every 5 years? Will your grandchildren have to hire a data recovery specialist to see their parents 1st birthday party or what Aunt Jane looked like?
Play it in Java there.
I just found a magazine at a hamfest, Electronics Illustrated, from 1972, and one of the articles was build you own TV Tag game! It's made of cmos logic (lots of nand, or was it 'nor' gates?) and all discreet components. Appearently two players just move dots around the screen untill one touches the other. At the time it was either that or "Bridget Loves Bernie".
You know, I used to have a problem taking exams until I realized it was because I was using a black magic marker.
Assistant Attorney General Charles James, who is responsible for antitrust matters, will leave his position to pursue a job in the private sector, the Justice Department revealed on Thursday.
James is best-known for his role in brokering the pending Microsoft settlement with the Justice Department and nine of 18 states. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has yet to approve the deal. Her ruling on that matter, and on a request by nine other states to impose stiffer sanctions on Microsoft, could come at any time.
Stifling a big yawn, James said the delaying tactics of Microsoft appear to have won, even thought they were found guilty in appeals court. "There might have been a chance during the previous administration for some semblance of consumer rights, but now they've pretty much gotten the green light to 'crush, crumble and chomp' whatever and whoever they want'", James remarked, downing his 2nd 16oz coffee. "Good grief, at this pace we should get a decision by 2013, but I know the court is also delaying, hoping all the vocal critics on the monopoly gravy train as well as their victims won't notice when she comes out, administers a wrist slap and slinks back to normal life as a federal judge. My career can't wait for this sad drama to play out. Microsoft owns the desktop market and isn't about to let anyone on their cloud, Sherman antitrust be damned."
Do you think your work would have benefitted from consideration of "Software Patents" or would it have been an incumberance and distraction? Would you have liked to have patents on the Internet so that every node or packet would have to pay royalities? Even if it would have made you (or, more likely, your employer) 'Richer n' Bill'? Lastly, any thoughts on the One-Click-Purchase Patent?
you can always add "did volunteer work rating messages submitted to a public web site. Work involved reading posted comments, deciding quality and relevance of posting, and moderating accordingly. Also did oversight work rating moderators performance."
or
"managed a wide area information distribution network involving the exchange of compressed aural and adult entertainment products. Work involved maintenance of clandistine anti-detection systems and frequent network reconfigurations for various Internet service providers".
Like someone pointed out, if a child shoplifts a CD from the record store and gets caught, the parents are agast and (if they care) teach them otherwise. But let the same child download a CD from Kaazaa the parents are clueless. I'm sure it'll all come to a head and then there'll be school education programs, like DARE or something, to instill some sense of copyright morality in the little tykes and their guardians, Office Jones will show up in 3rd grade classrooms and PTA meetings to talk about breaking the law with your Internet computer and CD writer. There'll be 'good' little children who always pay for their entertainment and the 'bad' ones who try to get away with it. Just like the war on drugs and the fact that illegal flowers are less harmful to one's health than the legal distillates of fermentation, the DMCA will probably sit there, many will ignore it, some will get impaled on it and rot in jail, no justice, just random chance, but that's crime and punishment in the brave new world. The EFF will soldier on like NORML, a small office of lawyers, largely impotent, but getting their monthly donations and standing up for a lost cause.
All I can say is if the defense mechanism of the beetle was created by an intelligent designer, with blueprints and all, like Slartibartfast or something, S/he/it must be having a ball. "Ok, we/I create these things that eat beetles, but on the other hand lets make the beetle so it squirts hot crap in the predators face so it really has to work for it's dinner!! Won't that be a rip!!! Hehehe. Then let's make these humans have to toil away for their food also, and blame all their troubles on, hmmm, SIN! Yeah, that's the ticket, they used to live a life of eternal luxery in a fantastic garden but because of this 'sin' thing the now have to slave away to get food, shelter and clothing. Then we'll make those who beleive that stuff work against those who are trying to alleviate suffering, yeah, this'll keep those 'humans' hopelessly confused, just the way I designed it!!"
is before wwi wars were just starting to be mechanized, with still a lot of rifles and calvary - now we (and 'them') have the bomb! About the worst thing that could happen then (very bad no doubt) was trenchfoot and mustard gas, and produced some hero's like Baron Von Richthofen and Eddie Rickenbacker. Now we put up for risk vast civilian areas of Bhagdad and Chicago, live in fear of genetically engineered killer virusus, and, gasp, script kiddiez!
Sounds like the 'psychic' strategy - predict enough weird stuff and odds are that one will eventually come true, make you famous, while the bogus ones are quickly forgotten by the beleivers / suckers. That's called the Jean Dixon effect.