Rattle wrote:
] ] For 50 years, computer programmers have been writing
] ] code. New technologies continue to emerge, develop, and
] ] mature at a rapid pace. Now there are more than 2,500
] ] documented programming languages! O'Reilly has produced a
] ] poster called History of Programming Languages (PDF:
] ] 701k), which plots over 50 programming languages on a
] ] multi-layered, color-coded timeline.

There was something like this in Wired awhile back...

RE: The History of Programming Languages

] Take it up a notch without losing your cool. The
] top-of-the-line Power Mac G5 with dual 2.5GHz processors
] squeezes outrageous performance into tight quarters. To
] cool down those steaming circuits, Apple designed a
] sophisticated liquid cooling system that takes off the
] heat without bumping up the noise. Mac OS X dynamically
] adjusts the flow of the fluid and the speed of the fans
] based on temperature.

Is this the first "off the shelf" PC to ship with liquid cooling?

Apple's New Dual G5 is Liquid Cooled

]
] "Competitive Bidding for new gTLDs" is the focus of part
] three of a three-part series based on a study prepared by
] Karl M. Manheim, Professor of Law at Loyola Law School
] and Lawrence B. Solum, Professor of Law at University of
] San Diego. Special thanks and credit to Hastings
] Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 25, p.
] 317, 2004.

The more I read of this, the more I think its a *bad idea*...
DNS is not a directory service or "internet keyword" service ...
its function is to say "the machine named 'foo' has network address
'bar'" We really need another layer of name/keyword/directory service to provide these features.

An Economic Analysis of Domain Name Policy - Part III

] Internet domain-name registrations reached an all-time
] high in the first quarter of 2004, with some 4.7 million
] new IDs recorded, according to a study conducted by
] VeriSign . The figure is the highest quarterly number
] ever recorded for new registrants.

Sigh ...

Also, parts 2 and 3 of the "economic analysis of domain name policy" are up on circleid, now.

Domain-Name Registration Soars

] DomainKeys is a technology proposal that can bring black
] and white back to this decision process by giving email
] providers a mechanism for verifying both the domain of
] each email sender and the integrity of the messages sent
] (i.e,. that they were not altered during transit). And,
] once the domain can be verified, it can be compared to
] the domain used by the sender in the From: field of the
] message to detect forgeries. If it's a forgery, then it's
] spam or fraud, and it can be dropped without impact to
] the user. If it's not a forgery, then the domain is
] known, and a persistent reputation profile can be
] established for that sending domain that can be tied into
] anti-spam policy systems, shared between service
] providers, and even exposed to the user.

Yahoo! Anti-Spam Resource Center - DomainKeys

] A team of rocketeers led by a Bloomington, Minn., man has
] claimed success in their goal of launching the first
] amateur rocket into space, sending a 21-foot rocket an
] estimated 70 miles above the Nevada desert

Team Claims Success With Rocket Launch

] The Washington think tank responsible for 'Linux aids
] terrorism' claims two years ago is at it again. The
] Alexis de Tocqueville Institution is now casting doubt on
] Linus Torvalds' authorship of Linux, and implying that
] it's a knock-off of Unix.

Can we say "libel?"

Alien puppet Linus swiped Linux from SCO, says balanced study

] Sony and IBM today said they will ship workstations based
] on the pair's upcoming Cell parallel processing chip in
] December.

Sony, IBM to offer Cell workstations for Xmas

IconoclasT wrote:
] BASIC Computer Language Turns 40
]
] 10 PRINT "In 1963 two Dartmouth College math professors had a
] radical"
]
] 20 PRINT "idea - create a computer language muscular enough to
] harness"
]
] 30 PRINT "the power of the period's computers, yet simple
] enough that even"
]
] 40 PRINT "the school's janitors could use it."
]
] 50 END

"The teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery."
-- Edsger Dijkstra

RE: Happy Birthday to BASIC

] Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it
] break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and
] paste it back together? Then you've come to the right
] place. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we
] will create a tiny URL that will not break in email
] postings and never expires.

Cute.

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