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The computer built to last 50 years

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in the cold. Of course, computers are not typewriters. They do a lot more than typewriters. But could we imagine a computer built like a typewriter? A computer that could stay wit
The computer built to last 50 years par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Lena @ Things Of Interest

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

one can refer to how computers boot, and how applications start, opting to perform a large amount of completely useless calculations instead of just loading a ready to run memory
A note from the author You can now buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories. This collection also includes a sequel story, titled &q

Loper OS » Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284

with such things on our computers is a broken one: see the Seventh Law. Obfuscated code destroys my ability to usefully interrogate the machine about its activity at all times, an

The Gopher Manifesto

http://27.org/gopher-manifesto/

news:alt.folklore.computers (knowledgebase) news:soc.culture.internet (history) news:soc.culture.usenet (talk) news:alt.internet.provider (demand support at isp level) news:soc.cu

John Regehr's Home Page

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/

Teaching Papers Contact Computers are amazingly fun and useful, but why do they crash and hang? Why are they so terrifyingly insecure? The problem is many-faceted, but an importan

Women in Computing

http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/acm-women-in-computing

are not interested in computers? That it's too abstract for us? Because we are more interested in fashion? That was the most stupid thing I've ever heard. On behalf of mys

flipCode - Game Development News & Resources

https://www.flipcode.com/misc/siggraph2002.shtml

a hockey arena with computers... both have traveled far from their humbler beginnings. Spotlight on America’s Army Michael Zyda, Director of the Naval MOVES Institute , whic

U.S. Army Armor and Aviation branches without battlefield functions

http://www.combatreform.org/heavytankshelicopters.htm

the field of war. For computers and GPS units, Humvees and helicopters, the modern Soldier is in constant need of energy: battery power, electric power, and petroleum. The U.S. mi

Free as in Freedom: Appendix B

https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/appb.html

commercially marketed computers. By the end of the 1950s, the entire S&P clique had migrated en masse over to the TX-0 control room, bringing the spirit of creative play with

Mysteries of the Pyramids

http://theshadowlands.net/pyramid.htm

Did they have computers?  Did they also have a much more technically advanced energy source?  Think about it, what if they were able to use nuclear energy?  Seems t

THE INTERNET IS "UPON US" (LITERALLY)!

https://www.oodegr.com/english/epistimi/internet_upon_us.htm

"wearable computers" - that is, accessories that are made to be worn on the human body - which for the time being are in the form of bracelets or eyeglasses.  Now,

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google of dictionaries. Computers People Cypherella Romana Machado's interests are transhumanism, extropianism and cryptography. She's a Playboy model. Extropians - Cypherella, Ge
Tanya is an infoholic, linguist, computerjunky, semiotician, feminist, teacher, writer, facebookian, tgifan, dog trainer, typesetter, webmaster, activist and reader.


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