Comment Re:What took so long? (Score 1) 211
How's that raw port access coming along? Making joysticks? Simple plotters? Comm cables? Connecting TTLs to the machines?
Comment Re:Story from my Math teacher 20 years ago (Score 1) 440
You're right, it can be downloaded. From Project Gutenberg even.
Comment Re:150 years is a long time (Score 1) 545
The problem with what you've listed is that you've pretty much listed almost all the advances combined. Now try to repeat the same for a time period of 1863. - now.
Comment No use, (Score 1) 454
You can't solve a social problem with technology. You can try but you'll fail. Any protection you build someone will go that extra mile to break it - and break it he/she will.
Comment Re:We won't know his progress (Score 1) 332
Actually, CPU is not that much of a problem. There are lots of examples how people built their own cpus from TTL, or transistors even. Granted, they're not fast but they're there. Also, there's SPARC designs (i.e. leon, T1, T2), Zilog gave Z80 to everyone free of charge etc.
Graphics cards which are more complicated than TTL 74165 are another matter.
Graphics cards which are more complicated than TTL 74165 are another matter.
Comment Re:Good to Know (Score 1) 365
Wine is safe... but here's a twist; how does this connect to stuff like microprocessors' ISA? One could argue that opcodes are APIs, too - therefore ARM, MIPS, x86, x86_64, Power, PowerPC, PA-Risc, M68K, 6502, etc. are up for grabs as long as nobody uses the original implementation which is practically impossible anyway.
If it holds up it could get to some interesting results.
If it holds up it could get to some interesting results.
Comment Re:I started on one of those (Score 1) 173
You poor soul... I had a machine that could do this but the machine was not too popular and people didn't use it until it was too late. They all thought it was a little better than spectrum and ported only lousy spectrum games. Heck, they even thought this machine couldn't do scrolling :D CPC6128, yeah! :)
Comment Re:nope (Score 1) 178
My understanding is that you still need to plug the USB end somewhere to power it. So you need either a USB extension cable, or an HDMI extension cable.
Or something like this
Comment Re:Halp (Score 1) 212
I accidentally other os. Is this dangerous?
Greetings, professor Falken... shall we play a game?
Comment Re:I played Beneath a Steel Sky for the first time (Score 1) 134
You can actually own it for free just by signing up at GOG
Actually, you can own it for free by apt-getting it in Ubuntu, too
Comment Re:Well, go ahead and tell them what then (Score 1) 303
So seriously, enough with this "OMG MS just needs to make a 100% perfectly secure OS!" shit. It shows massive ignorance of how complex and OS is, and what all you have to balance. No problem with that, you needn't learn about it if you don't want, but then don't argue from a position of ignorance and assume that they could make a perfect OS if only they wanted to bad enough.
Well, the problem is the complexity of their OS. Even Mark Russinovich said they didn't know how the system works:
What we do [instead] is take full Windows, and start pulling pieces off of it. The problem with that is, pieces that're left sometimes have dependencies out to pieces that we've removed. And we don't really understand those dependencies.
Comment Re:Their warmaking skills need some improvement fi (Score 1) 483
The Cold War was initially thought to be an American "win", but it was more due to problems within the USSR, rather than anything America did.
Not really. The problems within the USSR were largely caused by pressures due to their participation within the Cold War. In a sense, the U.S. won the Cold War by out-producing the Soviets.
So, what you are saying is that the Afghanis and Iraqis are winning because of financial pressures due to U.S. participation within the Iraq and Afghanistan war?
Comment Re:11. (Score 1) 256
If you ban CIFS and NFS, what's left? Sneakernet has great bandwidth, but the latency sucks and it's a bitch to search.
SSHFS
Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 1123
Nobody's opposing religion. What is being opposed are specific claims some religions sometimes make. I.e. world being 6k yrs. old, people were magically summoned into shape the way they are today....
Something like that is demonstratively falsifiable, and indeed had been proven false. Shit hits the fan when people try to use "blind faith" to go over proofs for things like that. Or using blind faith to heal someone exclusively by praying and not even trying to get doctor's help. Or for mutilating people (circumcision anyone?), exorcism, forced arranged marriages, denying human rights, freedom of speech, etc., etc., etc. If it weren't for those things nobody on earth could possibly care who worships whom, and in what way.
Something like that is demonstratively falsifiable, and indeed had been proven false. Shit hits the fan when people try to use "blind faith" to go over proofs for things like that. Or using blind faith to heal someone exclusively by praying and not even trying to get doctor's help. Or for mutilating people (circumcision anyone?), exorcism, forced arranged marriages, denying human rights, freedom of speech, etc., etc., etc. If it weren't for those things nobody on earth could possibly care who worships whom, and in what way.
Comment Don't sweat it, (Score 1) 152
we just slashdotted the youtube :D
