Comment Another.... (Score 3, Funny) 111
Another boring story on slashdot.
Another boring story on slashdot.
Someone got the license plate "4 NIK 8".
It took the state a couple of weeks or months, but they figured out what it meant.
The state recalled the plate.
This year, I went to a church get-together. I was basically ordered out at the end, over nothing (I wasn't mean or drunk, and I got out physically okay). Aspies like me don't do well here, and things often get worse in a hurry.
So next year I promise to stay home. It seems like a pattern with me. Every few years, I think I have a place that fits me, and I plan to have a good time. And something always goes wrong.
Maybe I should just resign myself to staying home every new year's eve, and watch movies or read a good book (I have no family that can stay up that late and enjoy activities with me).
Perhaps in the future I'll volunteer at a soup kitchen (maybe on the holiday or on a different day, it depends what the charity's needs are).
Check out this fellow:
He built on the efforts of two others to scan old player piano rolls and use software to re-constitute the information as MIDI files. If punch cards can be considered files, player piano rolls can too. He has scanned and converted almost 7000 such rolls.
The MIDI files can be printed out as sheet music on paper or backed up to the latest computer format going forward.
I am not sure when the vintage piano rolls were cut (that people have sent him), but player pianos have been around for decades, and a lot of the files on his site are U.S. public domain (before 1922) music. Check it out!
The article (I read it) said "around 30 MPH", but the car had "35 KMH" printed on it (which is approximately 22 MPH).
Are the reporters bad with numbers or did they forget the metric system?
Number 5 is "a beowulf cluster of these" if I remember correctly. Or number 7.
Norbert Wiener. No question about it.
He survived life despite being the typical "absent minded professor". Official accounts don't give any anecdotes -- consult old editions of Russ Walter's "The Secret Guide to Computers" (current editions might not talk about him much).
I cannot relate to his work in mathematics and cybernetics, since I really don't understand it. But surviving life as a thoroughly absent-minded person? That is what I can relate to and respect. It is a monumental achievement to me.
"Rhetorical trick?" No. Microsoft has earned (and deserves) a poor reputation for security, and I am exposed to it often here on
I don't have time to (and I don't care to) quote examples and specifics. The themes I quoted tell my state of mind about their software -- it will probably continue to be insecure.
Security is a reason to upgrade. If I think it is not likely to get better, my statement stands.
"I don't see a reason or a need."
Nice try. Thanks for playing, though.
"It's the best thing since professional golfers on 'ludes." -- Rick Obidiah