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by zandorg 15y ago
I like the way it looks like his hands are a blur, for moving so fast.
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by zandorg 15y ago
I just rewrite the stack function to use heap (eg, a queue) instead of stack.
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by zandorg 15y ago
Ah, a blast from the past. I was reading Once Upon a Time in Computerland by Steven Levy. Not a bad book, but I wondered what happened to Millard. Now I know!
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by zandorg 15y ago
I was expecting a video: 'nooooo!'
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by zandorg 15y ago
Stick a computer on the moon, put a mirror of the Web on it, and let it serve queries over shortwave radio. Then all a fallen civilisation has to do is re-discover radio, to get access to the world's knowledge.
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by zandorg 15y ago
Don't forget the cost of making music is much less than 10 years ago. Virtual samplers, synths, mixers, etc. This means far more people making music.
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by zandorg 15y ago
In Common Lisp, 'Fourth' is the fourth item in a list, rather than 'Forth'.
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by zandorg 15y ago
In 1998, I wrote MIDI support into Frodo (the C64 emulator). Later, my suggestion got the developers of UAE (the Amiga emulator) to implement MIDI support in UAE. So it is possible to recreate the environment by passing the MIDI data back a
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by zandorg 15y ago
They could buy Disney.
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by zandorg 15y ago
I once attended a job fair/event at my University, and the guy from HP said (to a crowd) they have PROFITS of $80 billion a year. I didn't inform him that was REVENUE, I just walked out on him.
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by zandorg 15y ago
I read it as 'MS DOS' and thought it was backward-compatibility gone rogue.
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by zandorg 15y ago
Ted Nelson (you can look him up on Wikipedia) tells a story where he's explaining hypertext to Robert Heinlein in the 70s, and Heinlein says "So it's like The Source?" (which is an early AOL).
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by zandorg 15y ago
I wrote a novel (titled Alcatraz: The College Years) in 2004 where in an imaginary version of 1985, a group of kids in a troubled school get sent to Alcatraz (which in the story has been refurbished like a comfortable prison). I was told th
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by zandorg 15y ago
My guess is the patent on the FAT file system.
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by zandorg 15y ago
I have a April 9th, 1990 Carolco bond certificate which paid for Rambo. It hangs on the wall. The basic idea was inspiration to write a screenplay. The bond was paid off, however, though Carolco eventually went under.
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by zandorg 15y ago
The problem I had with QR codes is it doesn't say "QR Code" anywhere on it! I looked at the QR codes on my bathroom detergent bottles, and didn't know it was that until I read about QR codes in a newspaper.
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by zandorg 15y ago
As has been pointed out before this article, Paul Allen ploughed 10s of millions of $$ into the Interval Research Institute and employed people like Lee Felsenstein. Interval shut down in 2000. He just wants some money back from his huge in
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by zandorg 15y ago
Also (George) Gilder's law.
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by zandorg 15y ago
I use 2.5" laptop hard drives not older than 2 years. They last about 6 years. And if a hard drive starts to go, sometimes you hear it failing. I actually backed up a 30gb hard drive where I had to wobble it up and down while being backed u
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by zandorg 15y ago
It's hard to explain, so please allow a bit of room for error in my post. Before I start, you can get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gzigzag/files/gzigzag/0.6.3/... You have to use it (in Gzz) to understand it. It's like Excel i
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by zandorg 15y ago
I've worked with Ted on Zigzag and think it's a brilliant piece of software. More people should check out the Java version of Zigzag, Gzz. Basically, where the WWW was Word for the Internet, Zigzag is Excel to the Internet.
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by zandorg 15y ago
All your Bose are belong to MIT.
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by zandorg 15y ago
In about 1988, I tried to write a language named after me, in Microsoft BASIC on a Sharp MZ-700 (creaky 8-bit computer). I didn't get very far.
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by zandorg 15y ago
I used Shazam to find a tune I had a loop from for years, and didn't know what song it was from. Very useful! [Edit]Shazam was mentioned in this article in relation to IntoNow.
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by zandorg 15y ago
They recently did a re-design and screwed up the photo links on the pages of the people in the database (like Steven Spielberg). Kind of annoying.
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by zandorg 15y ago
Because if they all had a copy of the book, that would be 6 in circulation. But only 1 is in circulation.
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by zandorg 15y ago
Computer search technology makes it so the amount of information available doesn't matter, as you can trim down the results from millions to tens. So that's not an issue anymore.
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by zandorg 15y ago
I saw a big billboard ad for the Chrome browser on a UK motorway a couple of months ago. I was very surprised, at least until I saw an IE9 billboard in a petrol ('gas') station the other day.
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by zandorg 15y ago
I used plugins and Cubase for years, then I bought the greatest analogue synth ever (Oberheim Xpander) for a fortune - noting that it's gone up in value - and then in 2009 I bought some mixing desks, 2 samplers, and a 24-bit, 96k Emu soundc
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by zandorg 16y ago
Vaguely related, is that I once hooked up a monochrome VGA monitor to my Amiga 1200 by soldering the monitor's cable to a suitable Amiga video connector, and setting it up to be 640x480 VGA in the OS settings. Worked a treat!

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