I have an EPROM programmer thah works only under DOS, connected via the parallel port. My computer first partition is a 2GB fat16 one with DOS installed exactly fot this purpose.
when i have to burn a prom, I copy the.HEX file on the dos partition, reboot and do the work.
I don't know why the jars have to be thrown away in a landfill and not recycled.
You could transform it in soap, for instance, and glass or iron jars could be easily recycled.
Or if the transformation in soap isn't feasible you could also do the old fashioned way: mix it with manure, or throw in a sewer processing facilty. Actually is the same thing, because the organic sewer waste on some plant is dried and sold as fertilizer.
Running a bus one-way from a neighborhood to a single employer is not going to be a profitable public transit line. Even if Google paid SamTrans what they pay for their private bus, it wouldn't cover SamTrans' costs. Public transit is more expensive than private transit.
I don't understand.
Here in Italy, public bus companies (city owned) can also offer charter bus routes for special events and are making special bus routes for factories, that is, they are running only in entrance and exit hours, and sometimes, you must begin or end the travel at the factory terminus.
There are also privately-owned bus companies that make the same arrangments, and have also a public transportation license, so they also run normal public transportation coaches.
Another big advantage is that if the train engine fails it's a mild nuisance, especially if the train crew manages to coast to the nearest station, so you can wait in the nearby restaurant while a spare engine arrives.
Been there, done that.
Please, do a new UI with style, with real wood like this
The problem is the forced integration betwen car related systems and car "radio".
In the Lancia Fulvia, car radio, clock, heating and engine control are totally separate systems both physically and on the user interface. If you need to change the radio station or engage the fast idle on the carbureator, you'll use two completly different knobs.
Next the integration makes difficult to mount a car radio with a sensible user interface, they still make 'em.
I have a better idea, that could also give a reward for more efficient cars.
Raise the taxes on fuel. Simple and effective. For lorries and buses, european legislation requires from the eighties that they're equipped with a tachigraph that will record the mileage and the peak speed.
There were 'official' photographers? I remember that on similar events the presence of a professional photographer implied that unofficial photographers weren't allowed, and one had to buy the official image.
If I know in advance that there's a ban on phones, I'll buy a black and white 35 mm film and take my old '70s mechanical camera and its giant and noisy flash lamp.
Just for trolling.
I remember curved CRT monitors and TV set. When flat screen CRT appeared was a welcome innovation. Why on phones we have to go back in ergonomy only for the novelty factor?
What next? iPhones will be equipped with vertical and horizontal hold knobs and only for US and Japan a Tint Knob?
My first dial-up ISP was actually born as timesharing service on mainframes. I dialed up on an actual Unix shell then launched ppp from command line. They still had an option to submit batch jobs to the back end mainframes and pay the CPU use and disk space used. Yes, you had the option to upload and download files with xmodem on their computers.
My actual DSL, old big telco, with the DSL contract gives me POP3 server, SMTP server, NNTP, server and guess what? 200 megabytes ona FTP server.
So the idea to save things on the cloud is a bit older, isn't it?
Most episodes were also on 16 mm film. Unfortunately if they were not on modern safety film the temperamentality of old reel was like the one of a dynamite candle. When affordable VCR were available everybody started to telecine the fire liability with images on that they had on storage.
Some episodes of doctor who were destroyed because the master 16 mm reels were marked wrongly as telecined and sent to recycle factory.
Better yet, imagine where the "PC" would be today if Apple had tried something like this.
Imagine if you you were in the early 80s, bought an Apple][ PC, and the only devices you could add were from Apple
People bought Apple PCs and clones because there was so much choice and competition.
FTFY
The IBM PC design was a a choice made by IBM after seeing the huge success of the Apple ][ PC. At the time IBM was perfectly capable to build a custom microporcessor. They had the technology to build the IBM 5100 in 1975. A better and faster system in 1981 using an IBM CPU was feasible.
This is the Aran Benjo computer. I see a jerkass giant robot pilot surrounded by pretty girls using this PC.
The only proble is that it will boot only at the end of episode, just in time to control the final superweapon and destroy the cyborg of the week.
Could you run Ubuntu on the Sun? I think Solaris runs better on a Sun tha Ubuntu.
Besides I think running Solaris on a solar powered laptop is more cool than a fez and a bowtie.
Fit three clunkers with actuators on steering wheel, horn, pedals, stick and connect them to an RC car receiver
Put cameras inside it.
Put cars in Dunsfold Park circuit
Give Jeremy, Richard and Dave one RC car controller each.
Make funny Top Gear Episode while the clunkers are trashed.
Or you could teach them to read the numbers on the side of the bus, but that's just my zany, wacky idea. Or are the kids too stupid to get on the exact same numbered bus day after day?
In the 1800's because there were a lot of illiterates, horse drawn trams were using wooden panels with the line numbers with different colours, so for instance the line 5 was using a green panel and line 6 a blue panel.
Problem solved.
Anyway the actual school buses are using only the colour designation.
I've read "To Counter Widespread Surveillance, Steal Clothing". Makes sense: if you enter in a phone booth with eyeglasses, hat and a dress, and you exit with your red underpants over your trousers, nobody will recognize you. If you enter in the phone booth and exit with a cape and a drawing of a stylized bat on the shirt, you'll be sure to totally confuse everybody.
$7.5 million isn't huge. It's nothing. Compared to the value of the average multinational corporation
Simples. Crank up the penalties for large corporations, and if a corporation loses a civil case have to pay all the legal expenses for all the parties involved.
Join the liability of the corporation to the C-level management, up to twice their yearly income.
The bigger problem is that when I was young i had 20/20 sight and ic were like chocolates with easy to spot soldering leads. Now that I have 4/20 sight without glasses they're only make smd components smaller than poppy seeds, and to solder them you have to use costly soldering irons.
I remember also when I listened to BBC Radio 4 using a variable air capacitor tied between the radio an the phone line: now I'm listening to the same radio using the DSL line, that o course makes the capacitor trick unusable.
The technology marches on and unfortunately for ham radio, and more for CB may I say, this means that are more interesting things to do for the inclined nerd, and to make interesting things in amateur radio is a lot more difficult today than 20 years a go.
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I have an EPROM programmer thah works only under DOS, connected via the parallel port. My computer first partition is a 2GB fat16 one with DOS installed exactly fot this purpose. when i have to burn a prom, I copy the .HEX file on the dos partition, reboot and do the work.
I don't know why the jars have to be thrown away in a landfill and not recycled. You could transform it in soap, for instance, and glass or iron jars could be easily recycled. Or if the transformation in soap isn't feasible you could also do the old fashioned way: mix it with manure, or throw in a sewer processing facilty. Actually is the same thing, because the organic sewer waste on some plant is dried and sold as fertilizer.
Running a bus one-way from a neighborhood to a single employer is not going to be a profitable public transit line. Even if Google paid SamTrans what they pay for their private bus, it wouldn't cover SamTrans' costs. Public transit is more expensive than private transit.
I don't understand. Here in Italy, public bus companies (city owned) can also offer charter bus routes for special events and are making special bus routes for factories, that is, they are running only in entrance and exit hours, and sometimes, you must begin or end the travel at the factory terminus.
There are also privately-owned bus companies that make the same arrangments, and have also a public transportation license, so they also run normal public transportation coaches.
Another big advantage is that if the train engine fails it's a mild nuisance, especially if the train crew manages to coast to the nearest station, so you can wait in the nearby restaurant while a spare engine arrives. Been there, done that.
Please, do a new UI with style, with real wood like this The problem is the forced integration betwen car related systems and car "radio". In the Lancia Fulvia, car radio, clock, heating and engine control are totally separate systems both physically and on the user interface. If you need to change the radio station or engage the fast idle on the carbureator, you'll use two completly different knobs. Next the integration makes difficult to mount a car radio with a sensible user interface, they still make 'em.
We can broadcast the world's saddest song on the world's smallest violin with the smallest FM transmitter!
I have a better idea, that could also give a reward for more efficient cars.
Raise the taxes on fuel. Simple and effective. For lorries and buses, european legislation requires from the eighties that they're equipped with a tachigraph that will record the mileage and the peak speed.
There were 'official' photographers? I remember that on similar events the presence of a professional photographer implied that unofficial photographers weren't allowed, and one had to buy the official image. If I know in advance that there's a ban on phones, I'll buy a black and white 35 mm film and take my old '70s mechanical camera and its giant and noisy flash lamp. Just for trolling.
I remember curved CRT monitors and TV set. When flat screen CRT appeared was a welcome innovation. Why on phones we have to go back in ergonomy only for the novelty factor? What next? iPhones will be equipped with vertical and horizontal hold knobs and only for US and Japan a Tint Knob?
My first dial-up ISP was actually born as timesharing service on mainframes. I dialed up on an actual Unix shell then launched ppp from command line. They still had an option to submit batch jobs to the back end mainframes and pay the CPU use and disk space used. Yes, you had the option to upload and download files with xmodem on their computers.
My actual DSL, old big telco, with the DSL contract gives me POP3 server, SMTP server, NNTP, server and guess what? 200 megabytes ona FTP server.
So the idea to save things on the cloud is a bit older, isn't it?
Most episodes were also on 16 mm film. Unfortunately if they were not on modern safety film the temperamentality of old reel was like the one of a dynamite candle. When affordable VCR were available everybody started to telecine the fire liability with images on that they had on storage. Some episodes of doctor who were destroyed because the master 16 mm reels were marked wrongly as telecined and sent to recycle factory.
Better yet, imagine where the "PC" would be today if Apple had tried something like this.
Imagine if you you were in the early 80s, bought an Apple][ PC, and the only devices you could add were from Apple
People bought Apple PCs and clones because there was so much choice and competition.
FTFY The IBM PC design was a a choice made by IBM after seeing the huge success of the Apple ][ PC. At the time IBM was perfectly capable to build a custom microporcessor. They had the technology to build the IBM 5100 in 1975. A better and faster system in 1981 using an IBM CPU was feasible.
They are still making winter tyres. They're quite good.
This is the Aran Benjo computer. I see a jerkass giant robot pilot surrounded by pretty girls using this PC. The only proble is that it will boot only at the end of episode, just in time to control the final superweapon and destroy the cyborg of the week.
Could you run Ubuntu on the Sun? I think Solaris runs better on a Sun tha Ubuntu. Besides I think running Solaris on a solar powered laptop is more cool than a fez and a bowtie.
Fit three clunkers with actuators on steering wheel, horn, pedals, stick and connect them to an RC car receiver
Put cameras inside it.
Put cars in Dunsfold Park circuit
Give Jeremy, Richard and Dave one RC car controller each.
Make funny Top Gear Episode while the clunkers are trashed.
I agree about Casino Royale. Burt Bacharach's soundtrack was awesome. David Niven and Woody Allen were really funny.
Have ever watched "Demolition Man"?
Or you could teach them to read the numbers on the side of the bus, but that's just my zany, wacky idea. Or are the kids too stupid to get on the exact same numbered bus day after day?
In the 1800's because there were a lot of illiterates, horse drawn trams were using wooden panels with the line numbers with different colours, so for instance the line 5 was using a green panel and line 6 a blue panel. Problem solved. Anyway the actual school buses are using only the colour designation.
Dude, get that checked out by a Doctor, seriously, that sounds problematic.
Possibly not the one into a blue box, but the holographic one.
I've read "To Counter Widespread Surveillance, Steal Clothing". Makes sense: if you enter in a phone booth with eyeglasses, hat and a dress, and you exit with your red underpants over your trousers, nobody will recognize you. If you enter in the phone booth and exit with a cape and a drawing of a stylized bat on the shirt, you'll be sure to totally confuse everybody.
$7.5 million isn't huge. It's nothing. Compared to the value of the average multinational corporation
Simples. Crank up the penalties for large corporations, and if a corporation loses a civil case have to pay all the legal expenses for all the parties involved. Join the liability of the corporation to the C-level management, up to twice their yearly income.
I've thinked about Gackeen the magnetic robot. Only really really tiny.
The bigger problem is that when I was young i had 20/20 sight and ic were like chocolates with easy to spot soldering leads. Now that I have 4/20 sight without glasses they're only make smd components smaller than poppy seeds, and to solder them you have to use costly soldering irons. I remember also when I listened to BBC Radio 4 using a variable air capacitor tied between the radio an the phone line: now I'm listening to the same radio using the DSL line, that o course makes the capacitor trick unusable. The technology marches on and unfortunately for ham radio, and more for CB may I say, this means that are more interesting things to do for the inclined nerd, and to make interesting things in amateur radio is a lot more difficult today than 20 years a go.
I think having a moustache is important: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Tesla_circa_1890.jpeg But sometimes you could be also shaved: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Guglielmo_Marconi.jpg