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by zandorg 17y ago
A tweety byte? (as opposed to a soundbyte)
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by zandorg 17y ago
Correction: Apollo 15-17 (just checked my email for the correct DVD title).
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by zandorg 17y ago
I saw a DVD of the Apollo 11,12,13 landings and it was a joke - just a bunch of guys jumping around and cracking jokes. The automated Mars robots looked dignified in comparison.
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by zandorg 17y ago
The great thing is they brand it "Content from Wikipedia" so you know to avoid it. Some books (eg, Googled by Ken Auletta) require interviews with over 50 people - something away and beyond ripping off web content.
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by zandorg 17y ago
My take on this when a friend mentioned it was: I don't need a new hard drive to run XP, and I mainly use external USB drives anyway.
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by zandorg 17y ago
When they set up a webserver on the moon, accessible via radio, you'll be able to browse the Library of Congress after civilisation collapses, and charge your Kindle from a bicycle.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Kindle version 2.3 (eg, Kindle 2 and DX) support reading PDFs. But it's only really practical on the DX, because a PDF is generally A4 - and the Kindle 2 is like a small paperback - A6 or so.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Ditto, I'm in the UK and bought a Kindle Monday. You can only browse to Wikipedia, but as this XKCD cartoon says, that's almost as good as a hitchhiker's guide because (I assume) the Web access from the Kindle is international - and because
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by zandorg 17y ago
Microsoft is definitely the reformed company after antitrust trouble, as with AT&T in the 80s.
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by zandorg 17y ago
What's wrong with the free-for-all of the PC where anyone can write and offer for download their software? Just because Apple wants to advance DRM into the 21st century, it doesn't mean people want to be restricted in what software they cho
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by zandorg 17y ago
The book Googled discusses all this in depth. My personal opinion is that news will become a utility, like electricity or water, payed for with taxes.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Also useful is 'line of sight' algorithm so the character can 'see'. Basically, you cast out rays of light (in 8 directions or 360 if you want to be really accurate), and when the light beam hits a solid object (a wall, for instance), you s
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by zandorg 17y ago
I guess those years spent watching 'unlimited bobs' in C64/Amiga demos finally paid off... [Note: a 'bob' is a bitmap object or a dot]
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by zandorg 17y ago
Google appears to be thrashing around like a conglomerate trying to have another hit record.
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by zandorg 17y ago
That happens a lot. Someone invents something at the same time as another guy. One of these guys has some VC or Angel cash. Guess who succeeds most?
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by zandorg 17y ago
I read a brochure for the 3620. What's interesting it came with a laser printer. But did it come with word processing/DTP software?
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by zandorg 17y ago
I dropped out of school and later earned a BSc. I found out later that rather than taking the performance of the highest scholarship award you have, some people and companies take the entire history of your education when deciding on jobs o
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by zandorg 17y ago
Funny the sidebar ad is for iRobot! Making ad dollars off PG?
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by zandorg 17y ago
Finding Forrester?
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by zandorg 17y ago
At my High School, I used to rent out loads of Raymond Chandler novels, and some science fiction. So yes, if people enjoy reading, schools should provide books.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Bubbly Sun stock in 1999 would make a guy rich. Good timing.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Halfway through his new book which is incredible - the best book I've read on digital culture yet, and I've read about 40 of those.
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by zandorg 17y ago
But whereas AOL had paid subscriptions (and some adverts), Facebook appears to only be able to serve adverts. Would Facebook survive if they charged $30 a month? Also, AOL made money from dial-up - now, everyone's on 'the Internet' which va
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by zandorg 17y ago
No, because AOL made a s * load of money, leeching 30 dollars a month from millions of people, where Facebook is trying to monetize. There's a reason it merged with Time Warner: AOL was making tons of raw cash.
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by zandorg 17y ago
I recently had to decompile old software that can't be registered any more. It was in VB3, so I decompiled it with a tool I found, and then I figured out where the code is that deals with registration (searching [with a hex editor] for embe
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by zandorg 17y ago
I got a financial advisor after winning and selling a car, and the funds he recommend I invest in (Fidelity) ended up, over 7 years, to just about double in value. So a financial advisor can be good - you just state the level of risk you're
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by zandorg 17y ago
Very cool! Works fine in Opera.
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by zandorg 17y ago
I remember a few years ago, an auction aggregator tried to spider eBay (just incrementing the auction ID) and eBay basically sued them, or blocked it off - either way, the aggregator went out of business. But that was 2001. So I guess thing
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by zandorg 17y ago
I figure Google has released a browser simply (as with their Google toolbar) so they can spider all the 'dark web' pages everyone visits. Evidence? Look at all those eBay search results when eBay prevents spidering.
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by zandorg 17y ago
Don't forget a 'linefeed' character that indicates where lines join into paragraphs. Something Project Gutenberg forgot with their ASCII texts.

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