zandorg

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1. 601.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   Just an amusing note - I used to call 3.5 inch disks 'hard disks' because unlike 5.25 inch disks, the shell around the disk is hard!
2. 602.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   Just the light touch of Marissa Mayer and her "Studies prove people prefer bigger fonts" ickery.
3. 603.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   Yes, but what happens when the latest 'remix your artist blah' (Macromedia Flash programmes written originally by Koan/Brian Eno and Coldcut), gets tired, and they have to think up something else? Shouldn't the music stand on its own merit?
4. 604.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   I don't get the comment feeling sorry for the technicians at this machine's shortcomings. It's good that Intel etc didn't help this power hungry superpower to take over the world as they wanted to.
5. 605.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   My guess is it's RunStop/Restore key combination resetting back to the BASIC prompt.
6. 606.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   Wow, this sounds great - the Pirates of Silicon Valley for the UK.
7. 607.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   I use online dictionaries when reading Jack Vance books. I don't think they are obsolete at all - printed ones are.
8. 608.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   Just a note - Mark (a Ted Nelson collaborator) now works for Google.
9. 609.▲
   by zandorg 17y ago

   My collaborator Ted Nelson (of Xanadu fame) has been carrying a camcorder to record (on hundreds of tapes) just about every conversation with people he's met, for about 30 years. Pretty ahead of his time, I guess. I'm on some of his tapes t
10. 610.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    The dollar value of a rental is, for Lovefilm UK, about 90 cents. Because of this low price, ripping a DVD is MUCH more effort than simply renting it again.
11. 611.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    If your application requires 3GHZ of CPU, and 256MB of RAM, it simply won't be economical to host it on the web. The argument that using 3GHZ is too much? Then why do Intel sell 3GHZ chips...
12. 612.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    This makes about as much sense as those 3d posters from the early 90's.
13. 613.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Item ID #804857 < #806501 so you were first!
14. 614.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Not sure what the point of this article is. For Intel history, read Inside Intel and the "Only the Paranoid Survive" - the Grove book hinted at but not mentioned outright. Can't see anything new here.
15. 615.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    I had to write Prolog code at University to traverse one of these. Pretty interesting!
16. 616.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Well when I was at Uni in 2005, Trevor (the inventor) came to give a talk. A professional swimmer, he made his money from water tricks in a circus (eg, like Houdini) and bought a house, and lived in it for plenty years, and invented his r
17. 617.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    I was just making a satirical joke. I know how he was treated by the government, and I'm sorry if I caused offense. What annoys me is what he could have accomplished in the field of robotics if he hadn't been wrongly treated.
18. 618.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Maybe Turing was killed by a time travelling robot he later invented?
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I've seen helicopters in films with shadows (due to the helicopter with the camera inside). But yes, that's not at 35k feet, but more like 200 feet.
20. 620.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Thomas Midgley, Jr. seems like the most unfortunate.
21. 621.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Bah, it's got that thing where I click a link and it picks a link further up the page. Also, it uses 40% more memory than before and I can't be bothered putting back v9.64. Darn!
22. 622.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    I've worked with Ted and it's a myth that he makes vapour ware. For instance, Gzz is a fully-working program. Also, I have a 1989 article from Language Technology (Louis Rossetto's first magazine before Wired), and it's a breezy interview w
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    For the best scoop on Pseudo, read Digital Hustlers (which I got from a discount book warehouse). Also Jason Calaconis features large.
24. 624.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Pretty amazing. I was doing something vaguely similiar in 2000 or so, to find C64/SID tunes, but nothing as advanced as this. Sadly, the demo doesn't go into the 'Sound' menu option.
25. 625.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    Yes, but what about: void main(void) { printf("Hello, world!\n"); } ;-)
26. 626.▲
    by zandorg 17y ago

    I wonder how much it went for? Also, a friend of mine once bought and sold bank.com possibly at the height of the boom - though he won't say how much for.
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    It's all to do with the res. Any video can be downsampled to 300x300, for instance, but computer images need to fit the projector's resolution. My projector (Epson EMP TW20) is about 800x600 and so in 1400x1050 (which it automatically downs
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    Cool shot of him working on Blackberry source code: http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner_pix.html
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    Typical of someone to glibly say 'where's regex matching?' when it's very advanced, and it's possible Google simply don't have the cpu for making (and searching) a search tree for many megabytes of mail. I don't know how Yahoo do it, but
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    by zandorg 17y ago

    I totally agree!