Posts by Uncle Slacky455 posts • joined Thursday 11th September 2008 19:18 GMT
...at least, the SSD-based ones don't seem to, and fulfil their original, intended purposes admirably, so there's hardly any replacement market for them.
Sent from my Asus EEE 701 4G (4.5 years old)
I've sometimes found it possible to run "foreign" EXEs via the simple expedient of renaming them as something acceptable like "notepad.exe".
Midori comes with a built-in adblocking function - you just have to tick a box to activate it.
http://twotoasts.de/index.php/midori/
"Features: Extensions such as Adblock, form history, mouse gestures or cookie management."
And A is sometimes F. (ref:"I Was a Teenage Objectivist")
...though weirdly it does on the Windows version.
"I'm shocked - shocked that there is illegal downloading going on in here!"
Shirley it ought to be a Low-Orbit Ion Cannon?
That should sort out the PCWorld crapware.
Helen Lovejoy (re:Marge's approval of Michaelangelo's "David"): "I TOLD you she was soft on full-frontal nudity!"
I suspect "facials" are already on the List, IYKWIM....
...alt.great.ass.wheaton ?
Just saw the RasPi review - at the end of the video he said "That was pretty hard!" - FFS! He's supposed to be a technology "expert"????
IIRC it was a listing in "Your Computer", originally for the Spectrum. It's an implementation of Mozart's "Dice Game" for composing a minuet - see http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/Mozart/dice/ for a description.
I can't find the original code, but after a quick Google it appears to be a fairly common programming assignment, e.g. http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~naumann/cs115s09/MozartProj/
There's a Scratch implementation here: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/scmb1/1516316
and an iPhone app here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mozarts-dice-game/id311413994?mt=8
Is that in the Disney sense or the "FAQ about Time Travel" sense?
I know it wasn't in the ZX80 or 81 versions, but I'm pretty sure the Speccy had it.
"And please explain to me why a rich person should be fined more for the same offence than a less wealthy person."
It's a question of proportionality - the *effect* of the fine should be the same, so it should be in proportion to the offender's wealth/income, cf. the "widow's mite" of the Christian parable. Nothing to do with punishing success.
I remember seeing stacks of these for sale at a computer fair in London in 1991, and thinking at the time what a waste of effort it seemed in the (then) 16-bit era. There were stacks of Z88s as well, I was sorely tempted...
Speaking of computer fairs, when did the PCW fairs end? I even rang the offices back in about 1989 to find out when & where the next one would be, and they had no idea what I was talking about.
I managed to find a CPC-specific Centronics printer cable for my 6128 (colour!) back in the day. Still got the machine in the attic - my daughters have been asking me to show it to them, so I might dig it out before its 30th birthday (along with the Amiga 600, Mac IIsi and IBM PS/2 N33SX laptop also in said attic).
I'd like to see if any of the disc contents are still readable, though I suspect I'll need to replace the rubber band in the disc drive mechanism. SuperCalc under CP/M FTW!
"I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. "I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs." "I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking." "Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!"
They should really have clarified this as "British" micros, or at least those which sold in volume in the UK. I'd have loved an Atari 800, but they cost a fortune (especially in the UK).
So you were the one! But seriously, the Elan/Flan Enterprises were vaporware for so long that most people gave up and bought something else instead. By the time it came out, there wasn't much to separate it from the competition, and in any case the home computer market was starting to dry up by then.
I recall lusting after the Lynx and the Memotech MTX512 (as featured in "Weird Science", trivia fans).
Acorn Atoms were still being used to drive experiments in the first-year physics labs at the University of Kent into the early 90s - I wonder if they're still there?
Don't forget their incredibly fast "Invasion of the Body Snatchas" (Defender clone) and "Dark Star".
Shirley slaves and narcotics were where the real money was at?
Hello Andrew!
(btw, obvious troll is obvious)
"I mean, the idea that in even the conceivable future we could build feck of great big space craft on earth and have them take off is laughable, it would never happen, gravity alone would make construction impossible as it collapses under its own weight let alone taking off"
I dunno, the original Project Orion spacecraft design was pretty feck-off big, practical (if a little damaging to the local environment) and could even be launched from Earth. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)#Sizes_of_Orion_vehicles
Not forgetting the risks of "Electrogonorrhea - The Noisy Killer" too...
We used to be able to access it from text terminals (aka TA Alphatronics) at the campus network at uni - even if you had no login access on campus computers, you could request pages via the PAD prompt (did anyone other than UKC ever use a Cambridge Ring network in anger?).
IIRC this was how we discovered the joyous news that Maggie had resigned.
Ain't it the truth!
Worked there for 10 years, must have endured at least 5 rounds of redundancies in that time before finally taking the money and running. It's very difficult to live with that amount of uncertainty for any length of time - many didn't wait for the next round of redundancies before jumping ship.
I bet it involved changing the light bulb...
How about "The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel", or indeed any other of Troy McClure's other titles: http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Troy_McClure_Films
I'm sure this concept has already been seen in one of the Austin Powers movies (Goldmember?)
Became a thatcher, IIRC. He was certainly never cut out to be a comedian.
I spent quite a while thinking Kevin Turvey was his real name...
I thought "ST" was supposed to stand for "Sam Tramiel" (i.e., his son's initials) - or is that just an old industry rumour?
Funnily enough I'm thinking of doing something similar with an old PC this weekend, only with Win98SE & KernelEx, which extends the 9x kernel to run some 2k/XP applications: http://kernelex.sourceforge.net/
98SE+browser+BitTorrent client+VLC should make for a decent media centre in 64Mb RAM - though I'm going to try Debian Stable on it as well for comparison...
Plasmas have certainly been tried as a means of radar stealth for aircraft (i.e. absorbing/shielding from EM emissions) - see for example
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_stealth#Absorption_of_EM_radiation
http://defensetech.org/2006/03/30/stealths-radioactive-secret/
It's also been proposed as a means of "inflating" a magnetic field to act as a (very) lightweight solar sail:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_sail#Mini-magnetospheric_plasma_propulsion
http://www.ess.washington.edu/Space/M2P2/STAIF2000.PDF
This has been explained twice on the Beeb in recent days - a combination of changes in the Earth's orbit (i.e. variation in distance from the Sun over a period of 100Kyears), axis tilt (40Kyear cycle) and precession of the axis (20Kyear cycle) in the right combination are the primary causes of the start and end of ice ages.
Next one's due in about 60Kyears, BTW.
Not if Disney has anything to say about it. It'll depend on when the rat's copyright is next *supposed* to expire...
But it was the UK govt who pushed for the directive in the first place. It's standard UK govt policy: get the EU to approve an unpopular directive, then blame the EU when the UK citizenry don't like it.
Your angry *what*? You're either missing a noun or an apostrophe and an "e"...
Shirley the PATRIOT Act, NDAA and many others (back at least as far as the 1947 National Security Act) have made the Constitution irrelevant; you've merely swallowed the patriotic kool-aid^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpropaganda that says that it and the BoR have any real relevance any more. Even Dubya said it was "just a goddamned piece of paper".
The US is nowadays essentially a corporatist plutocracy - look up what Mussolini (allegedly) said about corporatism and fascism...
Isn't the TSA doing checks on people flying to Canada and Cuba from the UK now, and not allowing you to go even if you go nowhere near the US?
I read it as "three years of happiness...but we were married for ten!"
http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/extremist-engineers/0
"The paper cites evidence that engineering graduates are much more religious and politically conservative than those pursuing other courses of study. ”People gravitating toward engineering already have those views,” says Hertog. ”Engineering seems to attract a larger share of people drawn to rule-bound systems, compared with other scientists who primarily work on open-ended questions and might be more skeptical.”
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/why-are-so-many-would-be-terrorists-engineers-1.263214
"...engineering as a field of study and a profession tends to attract people who seek certainty, and their approach to the world is largely mechanistic. So they are characterized by a greater intolerance of uncertainty - a quality that is evident among extremists, both religious and secular."
If you're waiting for scientific proof, you'll wait forever. Science is about "disproof" (falsifiability) - if AGW is theorized (on the basis of available evidence, modelling etc.), then attempts must be made to disprove it - if it continues to resist all such challenges, it is a valid theory, but it can *never* be proved formally.
We do many other things in life on the basis of such theories (gravity, relativity, evolution etc.), in fact we often RELY on them, so why the lack of confidence in this one specific area of science? I suspect, like creationists, it would require a change to your worldview that you're not willing to make, because it goes against your (unscientifically acquired) belief system.
As J. K. Galbraith put it, "In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof."
"temperature maps with near perfect correlation to the energy output of the sun."
Er, no it doesn't. Solar energy output has been pretty constant (over its 11- and 22-year cycles) for quite a while now - see for example
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/effect-of-sun-on-climate-faq.html#Figure_2 (reference to the source paper is on the same page)
And I wouldn't really expect auto-updaters for Linux anyway - it should be handled through your distro's repositories, like (most) everything else, in order to minimize the risk of untested incompatibilities with the rest of that distro's software.
