Messages that are about to expire in your voicemail.
"The following message will be deleted from your mailbox. From ###-###-###, left on Saturday, September 21 at 11am......"
Who cares which number or when the message was left. Until I can hear it I don't know whether I want to keep it or not.
You can't skip the stupid system message in order to hear the recording. When your voicemail piles up with old messages it is a major chore to clear them out.
The first 80-core chip will actually look live a conventional kitchen hotplate. You add a pot of cold water on top of the chip, then with a dial on the unit you determie how much heat you want to produce. The CPU will automatically run the correct number of instances of Seti@Home to generate the desired level of heat.
The 4 X 80 "stove top" model will come out later that year. It will include an "oven" that has its own chip and convectional cooling.
"Excuse me, but the world has more serious problems than this. I really can not explain how this made it on/., while more serious topics like a petition for adding garbage collection to C++ were rejected."
We already had that kind of system at Buger Thing in the early 80s. It used printing terminals at each workstation. The cash registers were these massive array of buttons. You chould key in special orders, such as, "whopper + extra onions", or "coke + no ice".
Of course the system was pretty brain dead, so you could also enter "whopper + extra ice" or "coke + extra mustard", which was always fun on a busy saturday afternoon.
One April Fool's day the manager swapped staff member's names for the products. Dave was the Whopper. Jenny was the Chicken Sandwich. It was kinda funny watching them come up on the terminals. Not as funny as tossing a handful of ice into the deep fryer when a new hire was stationed there, but pretty funny.
In all I have read about the space elevator, carbon nanotubes or not, no one has brought up the problem of crossing the ionosphere.
The space elevator will likely need electricity to climb its way up, which means there will be a need to run power cables. Power cables are conductors. The charge stored in the ionosphere would very much like to reach a ground state. The power cables will provide the path to ground. KA BOOM!
Perhaps skin effect on the carbon nanotubes themselves would be enough to provide a path to ground. In either case, once you get abour 60 miles up, there's trouble.
Why do individual governments think they can regulate the internet in this manner? When you make spamming illegal in the US the spammers just move to Belize or China. Want to post a flame, just log into a remote server in another country and do it from there.
What a waste of time creating an illusion of a solution in this manner. The only people these laws would stop are those who are too clueless to circumvent them.
If we are going to try to regulate the net the only practical way would to use international treaties. Of course there will always be non-treaty countries where the rules would not apply.
What about messages of protest? The power to annoy is one of the foundations of activism. What does this say for free speech and civil liberties? Would such a law stick? I doubt it anyway.
I write a LOT of e-commerce apps and make extensive use of javascript to talk between frames etc.
Perhaps Mozilla, NS and others should concentrate on making sure pages WORK PROPERLY rather than niceties like tabs in the interface and other "ancillary" features.
I'm tired of forking code, spending 80% of my time to satisfy 3% of users (non-IE). I tell my clients it will work with IE, and then it's per-hour after that if they want it to work with XYZ browser. Thank Gawd NS 4.7 is dead!
Secure, one of the most popular BBS programs for thr Commodore PET (Steve Punters), allows you to log on as "SYSOP " (the sys admin was called SYSOP back then) and open a new account. It allows all kinds of fun like:
TO: ALL FROM: SYSOP SUBJ: THE BBS IS GOING DOWN FOREVER!
A buddy and I wrote an ran a BBS program for the Commodore 64 (the Spence XP BBS).It ran, successfully, on a single 160K floopy drive. It even have a full-screen editor. I was selling it commercially while I was still in highschool.
We even had to renumber the BASIC line numbers, because they were stores as strings. Many calls to "GOSUB 55000" took up way too much so we did silly things like change that to "GOSUB 3", then line 3 said "goto 55000" Woo hoo! we recovered 200 bytes!
As the BASIC program grew we ran out of memory and started re-writing bits of it in 6502 assembler. We had bits of machine code stuck in unusual places like the cassette drive buffer, ram under the basic ROM, unused ram between the basic ROM and the OS rom, on the screen RAM, you name it.
You'd load up the program, then swap the floopy, putting in your "download section" disk. Hey, good programs where 32K back then:)
Later some company made a proprietary SCSI controller and a 10MB external hard drive. I had two of them for a while. Yup, a C64 with 20MB downwload section.
I also ran the BBS list for Toronto Computes!, and had a monthly column on BBSing that I wrote between 1985-1995. I was a big supporter of the BBS scene back them.
"On March 19, 1998, Part VIII of the (Canadian) Copyright Act dealing with private copying came into force. Until that time, copying any sound recording for almost any purpose infringed copyright, although, in practice, the prohibition was largely unenforceable. The amendment to the Act legalized copying of sound recordings of musical works onto audio recording media for the private use of the person who makes the copy (referred to as "private copying"). In addition, the amendment made provision for the imposition of a levy on blank audio recording media to compensate authors, performers and makers who own copyright in eligible sound recordings being copied for private use."
Where I used to work, execs were wooed by software vendors whowere selling $100,000 packages that would "solve all ourproblems". Once we did a technical internal review we learned that our data was captive inside these applications and that we'd be better of developing something similar internally that *really* met our needs.
A few points on this:
* These execs didn't have the technical abilities to make a sound purchasing decision. * The budget for capital expenditures was easier to justify than the expense of an internal development project. * The execs want to be the heroes by bringing in these packages rather than putting their necks on the line for leading a development project.
A buddy Ken and I wrote the Spence XP BBS for the C-64. He's bought a C64 and has actually managed to track down a copy of the program. 300 baud here we come!
Being a BBS enthusiast back then I wrote BBS columns for Toronto Computes, Canada Computes and The Computer Paper and kept the official Canadian lists used by these publications. They may be around somewhere in the archives: http://www.tcp.ca
Maintaining multiple sets of code really amplifies the chance of error when making application changes. For small blocks of text I use if-then or case statements. For larger blocks I make a phrase database and just query out the language I'm using.
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Food shouldn't be intellectual property. Period.
- or -
Patent everything and enslave us all.
Choose your own future.
Messages that are about to expire in your voicemail.
"The following message will be deleted from your mailbox. From ###-###-###, left on Saturday, September 21 at 11am......"
Who cares which number or when the message was left. Until I can hear it I don't know whether I want to keep it or not.
You can't skip the stupid system message in order to hear the recording. When your voicemail piles up with old messages it is a major chore to clear them out.
I hope to never to have to program in Java. If it's so great, why am I not already using it?
Why put another layer on top of javascript and the browser in order to do something javascript and the browser already do well?
Unless I start letting untrusted people feed javascript into my site, my javascript code is as secure as anything else could be.
How about some context here.
Yeah, now they can just sit around, fatten up and have heart attacks instead.
Some people are just born with a screw loose. So let's sue the parents, after all, they made this person.
The first 80-core chip will actually look live a conventional kitchen hotplate. You add a pot of cold water on top of the chip, then with a dial on the unit you determie how much heat you want to produce. The CPU will automatically run the correct number of instances of Seti@Home to generate the desired level of heat.
The 4 X 80 "stove top" model will come out later that year. It will include an "oven" that has its own chip and convectional cooling.
Can we also add "Revolutionary" to the list?
"Excuse me, but the world has more serious problems than this. I really can not explain how this made it on /., while more serious topics like a petition for adding garbage collection to C++ were rejected."
Why, because it's BORING.
Yeah, the last to accept the Metric system too. Nyah!
I bet they're doing this using HAARP. The ionosphere is now under our control. Bahahahaha....zap....oooops.
Hey, you forgot our mighty fleet of ice breakers.
We already had that kind of system at Buger Thing in the early 80s. It used printing terminals at each workstation. The cash registers were these massive array of buttons. You chould key in special orders, such as, "whopper + extra onions", or "coke + no ice".
Of course the system was pretty brain dead, so you could also enter "whopper + extra ice" or "coke + extra mustard", which was always fun on a busy saturday afternoon.
One April Fool's day the manager swapped staff member's names for the products. Dave was the Whopper. Jenny was the Chicken Sandwich. It was kinda funny watching them come up on the terminals. Not as funny as tossing a handful of ice into the deep fryer when a new hire was stationed there, but pretty funny.
In all I have read about the space elevator, carbon nanotubes or not, no one has brought up the problem of crossing the ionosphere.
The space elevator will likely need electricity to climb its way up, which means there will be a need to run power cables. Power cables are conductors. The charge stored in the ionosphere would very much like to reach a ground state. The power cables will provide the path to ground. KA BOOM!
Perhaps skin effect on the carbon nanotubes themselves would be enough to provide a path to ground. In either case, once you get abour 60 miles up, there's trouble.
Quarterly sales figures and bonuses based on projections that must be met.
Why do individual governments think they can regulate the internet in this manner? When you make spamming illegal in the US the spammers just move to Belize or China. Want to post a flame, just log into a remote server in another country and do it from there.
What a waste of time creating an illusion of a solution in this manner. The only people these laws would stop are those who are too clueless to circumvent them.
If we are going to try to regulate the net the only practical way would to use international treaties. Of course there will always be non-treaty countries where the rules would not apply.
What about messages of protest? The power to annoy is one of the foundations of activism. What does this say for free speech and civil liberties? Would such a law stick? I doubt it anyway.
I write a LOT of e-commerce apps and make extensive use of javascript to talk between frames etc.
Perhaps Mozilla, NS and others should concentrate on making sure pages WORK PROPERLY rather than niceties like tabs in the interface and other "ancillary" features.
I'm tired of forking code, spending 80% of my time to satisfy 3% of users (non-IE). I tell my clients it will work with IE, and then it's per-hour after that if they want it to work with XYZ browser. Thank Gawd NS 4.7 is dead!
YOU SEE A RED DOOR TO THE NORTH
(I called my character A RED DOOR TO THE NORTH)
> Open red door
I DO NOT SEE A RED DOOR HERE.
A RED DOOR TO THE NORTH STRIKES YOU, INFLICTING 30 DAMAGE.
(I also liked to call my character "1l1l1lll11")
Secure, one of the most popular BBS programs for thr Commodore PET (Steve Punters), allows you to log on as "SYSOP " (the sys admin was called SYSOP back then) and open a new account. It allows all kinds of fun like:
TO: ALL
FROM: SYSOP
SUBJ: THE BBS IS GOING DOWN FOREVER!
hehehe, giggle.
A buddy and I wrote an ran a BBS program for the Commodore 64 (the Spence XP BBS).It ran, successfully, on a single 160K floopy drive. It even have a full-screen editor. I was selling it commercially while I was still in highschool.
:)
We even had to renumber the BASIC line numbers, because they were stores as strings. Many calls to "GOSUB 55000" took up way too much so we did silly things like change that to "GOSUB 3", then line 3 said "goto 55000" Woo hoo! we recovered 200 bytes!
As the BASIC program grew we ran out of memory and started re-writing bits of it in 6502 assembler. We had bits of machine code stuck in unusual places like the cassette drive buffer, ram under the basic ROM, unused ram between the basic ROM and the OS rom, on the screen RAM, you name it.
You'd load up the program, then swap the floopy, putting in your "download section" disk. Hey, good programs where 32K back then
Later some company made a proprietary SCSI controller and a 10MB external hard drive. I had two of them for a while. Yup, a C64 with 20MB downwload section.
I also ran the BBS list for Toronto Computes!, and had a monthly column on BBSing that I wrote between 1985-1995. I was a big supporter of the BBS scene back them.
- James.
Accoriding to an article I read:
"On March 19, 1998, Part VIII of the (Canadian) Copyright Act dealing with private copying came into force. Until that time, copying any sound recording for almost any purpose infringed copyright, although, in practice, the prohibition was largely unenforceable. The amendment to the Act legalized copying of sound recordings of musical works onto audio recording media for the private use of the person who makes the copy (referred to as "private copying"). In addition, the amendment made provision for the imposition of a levy on blank audio recording media to compensate authors, performers and makers who own copyright in eligible sound recordings being copied for private use."
-- Copyright Board of Canada: Fact Sheet: Private Copying 1999-2000 Decision
See: http://techcentralstation.com/081803C.html
This relefects a WIRED article(http://www.wired.com/wired/scenarios/globa l.html) entitled Global Neighbourhood Watch about 5 years ago.
Where I used to work, execs were wooed by software vendors whowere selling $100,000 packages that would "solve all ourproblems". Once we did a technical internal review we learned that our data was captive inside these applications and that we'd be better of developing something similar internally that *really* met our needs.
A few points on this:
* These execs didn't have the technical abilities to make a sound purchasing decision.
* The budget for capital expenditures was easier to justify than the expense of an internal development project.
* The execs want to be the heroes by bringing in these packages rather than putting their necks on the line for leading a development project.
A buddy Ken and I wrote the Spence XP BBS for the C-64. He's bought a C64 and has actually managed to track down a copy of the program. 300 baud here we come! Being a BBS enthusiast back then I wrote BBS columns for Toronto Computes, Canada Computes and The Computer Paper and kept the official Canadian lists used by these publications. They may be around somewhere in the archives: http://www.tcp.ca
Maintaining multiple sets of code really amplifies the chance of error when making application changes. For small blocks of text I use if-then or case statements. For larger blocks I make a phrase database and just query out the language I'm using.