When I first read this article on some other site, I somehow understood it as news that they were going to rerelease the original version, but with updated tech. That would have been awesome! Oh, well. A geek's gotta dream....
Now, if only someone would get started on Wolfenstein 2001, we'd have it made!
I'm sure this is an idea that has already been attempted, but I've not yet seen it done well. Does anyone know of a good site, intended for a non-tech audience, that gives an accurate and thorough account of the history of the Internet?
The few that I've seen make the mistake of considering the WWW and the Internet to be the same thing, and start things off with Berners-Lee. He's a celebrity, but he was standing on the shoulders of giants.
This Internet timeline mentions Davies as early as 1967. So does This one. There are few people who could have claimed to have been around the Internet scene for as long as 37 years. Most people don't even realize that it goes back that far.
It'd be cool if a whole clan of geeks settled on the island and set up some sort of geek compound serving madness to the rest of the world via moonbounce.
If they can get the sizes and speed up enough, perhaps it could one day be used for damage control on Windows systems.
All you'd need to do is have the RAM written to the OUM every few minutes (or even seconds). In the event of system lockup, the hardware can clear the memory and write the OUM backup back into RAM. Voila! You're back where you started (more or less).
Of course, this wouldn't be necessary for anything except Windows machines....
I can't wait for the day when I can get something like this installed in my skull, so that when I think to myself, "Mental note: remember to...", I'll actually do it!
These stories have been floating around the net for the past few weeks. It looks like this is going to happen. It looks like that is going to happen. Everytime someone vaguely involved with the case says something, everyone changes their minds about what they think is going to happen.
Let's just wait and see, and stop capitalizing on the fact that everyone is curious by posting supposedly blow-by-blow accounts of where the case is headed. At this point, nobody seems to know.
"When it first came out," he said, handing a free copy to a visitor, "my idea was to put on the back of each one: 'Duplication of this CD is enthusiastically encouraged.'"
Freedom of information is as important to the technological ecosystem as it is to the farms who need the genetic information described in the article. Each one is a great metaphor for the other.
With all the discoveries being made about genetics, it's a shame that the predominating sense of capitalism is preventing people from sharing ideas and furthering research. It's as if everyone has a piece of the puzzle, but nobody wants to be the first to give it up.
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When I first read this article on some other site, I somehow understood it as news that they were going to rerelease the original version, but with updated tech. That would have been awesome! Oh, well. A geek's gotta dream....
Now, if only someone would get started on Wolfenstein 2001, we'd have it made!
The few that I've seen make the mistake of considering the WWW and the Internet to be the same thing, and start things off with Berners-Lee. He's a celebrity, but he was standing on the shoulders of giants.
This Internet timeline mentions Davies as early as 1967. So does This one. There are few people who could have claimed to have been around the Internet scene for as long as 37 years. Most people don't even realize that it goes back that far.
Have a web server disguised as a telephone, CD player, etc., or perhaps *combined* with such an appliance, so that the cables would be more discreet.
...I get the impression that a barbed-wire fence isn't going to transmit data at optimal speeds.
Dammit! I want my OS X! Damn developers, always gettin' stuff first! :o)
It'd be cool if a whole clan of geeks settled on the island and set up some sort of geek compound serving madness to the rest of the world via moonbounce.
All you'd need to do is have the RAM written to the OUM every few minutes (or even seconds). In the event of system lockup, the hardware can clear the memory and write the OUM backup back into RAM. Voila! You're back where you started (more or less).
Of course, this wouldn't be necessary for anything except Windows machines....
I can't wait for the day when I can get something like this installed in my skull, so that when I think to myself, "Mental note: remember to...", I'll actually do it!
What's the URL of that webpage?? :o)
Has Microsoft bought them out too?
Or would they be able to simply repackage it, maybe with a few new apps....
Could work.
Then we'd have Lynx, Mosaic, and maybe Amaya left....
Oh happy day! :o)
It took a whole company to make Netscape the great browser it once was, and I think that the same thing would benefit Internet Explorer.
...as long as they can escape MegaCorp (tm), that is. I'd hate to see the Pepsi of browsers get dragged down like the Coke did.
1. Operating system 2. Internet Explorer 3. Misc. Applications 4. MSN and other assorted crap.
Let's just wait and see, and stop capitalizing on the fact that everyone is curious by posting supposedly blow-by-blow accounts of where the case is headed. At this point, nobody seems to know.
You're joking right? That's a pretty limited view of capitalism.
I'm gonna have to agree with AC on that one.
"When it first came out," he said, handing a free copy to a visitor, "my idea was to put on the back of each one: 'Duplication of this CD is enthusiastically encouraged.'"
With all the discoveries being made about genetics, it's a shame that the predominating sense of capitalism is preventing people from sharing ideas and furthering research. It's as if everyone has a piece of the puzzle, but nobody wants to be the first to give it up.
GPL = Genetic Public License? :o)
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Nice.
It's amazing how terrifically inaccurate it was! I love old science fiction :o)
(The astronauts' bellbottoms didn't help things either).
I wonder when I'll be able to run Apache on my TI-83 Linux shell.