"Yes, that's right."

Sounds like I was on the right track; sadly, I never managed to get it to produce any output at all, even booting from the floppies made from the CD...

I remember making the FD images from the CD, but even booting from those it never got far. It seemed to get stuck sometime before doing any output at all.

How did you get it running under Virtualbox? I've tried but couldn't get the CDs to boot. (I have original Warp CDs.)

From the very PDF you link to, Question 1, right at the beginning:

(Emphasis mine.)

Do you have any links for this? I checked my local traffic regulations (Cambridge, MA) a couple of weeks ago and didn't see any language at all that hinted that traffic lights might be optional for cyclists.

The paper you want to read is Max Tegmark, "Parallel Universes," 2003. Available here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0302131v1

"Abstract: I survey physics theories involving parallel universes, which form a natural four-level hierarchy of multiverses allowing progressively greater diversity. Level I: A generic prediction of inflation is an infinite ergodic universe, which contains Hubble volumes realizing all initial conditions — including an identical copy of you about 101029 m away. Level II: In chaotic inflation, other thermalized regions may have different physical constants, dimensionality and particle content. Level III: In unitary quantum mechanics, other branches of the wavefunction add nothing qualitatively new, which is ironic given that this level has historically been the most controversial. Level IV: Other mathematical structures give different fundamental equations of physics. The key question is not whether parallel universes exist (Level I is the uncontroversial cosmological concordance model), but how many levels there are. I discuss how multiverse models can be falsified and argue that there is a severe “measure problem” that must be solved to make testable predictions at levels II-IV."

This would only be the case if all the rich people happened to carry their vast wealth around as cash in order to avoid the tax collector. They don't. They keep it in banks and investments.

Does this help?

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Do you have a reference for that?

A Fire Upon the Deep is definitely better, as is A Deepness in the Sky. Both are very well worthwhile; in fact both number among my favourite science fiction novels.

You tell a convincing tale; but why would anyone do the required rewriting by hand? The rules you mention sound very much within reach of the kinds of things obfuscating rewriters -- or compilers in general, for that matter -- do. I mean, if expensive, pointless adherence to some bureaucratic mandate is the aim, of course. Solving the problem wrong, indeed.

You're welcome! Enjoy.

Slavery is a different kettle of fish, don't you think?

Again, enjoy. I hope you recover some motivation soon.

If you weren't aware that your browser already has very rich network interaction capabilities, I suggest reading up on AJAX. Reversehttp, when running in a browser, is built from sandboxed javascript code, running in a page, using XMLHttpRequest, just like everything else.

It's also not actually browser specific, and applies equally well to thick clients (think Skype, or practically anything that wants to receive messages rather than just send them; you might make a broad comparison with UPNP or STUN). It's just a happy coincidence that it can be used to lift the browser up to equal status with other programming environments.