For dealing with touch-tone services (aside from actual touch-tone dialing) when on a rotary dial connection, they used to (still?) sell external touch-tone generator boxes that you could hold up to the mouthpiece to generate the tones needed.
I mess around with PIC microcontrollers. The "PIC Basic Pro" compiler has touch-tone functions, to easily enable you to write code and have the PIC output touch-tone frequencies. Touch-tones are one of those universal useful things now. Like 2600Hz, which I suspect (haven't checked) probably isn't anywhere as useful a frequency as it once was.
I'm sorry, but if you have an old house you'll have to rewire or buy lots of adapters.
The code allows you to simply replace all the two-prong outlets with GFCIs, and leave the GFCI's with the ground disconnected. It's the best thing you can do if you don't have the ground wire in the wall, and it is a vast improvement over just using those three-wire adapters. I've replaced just about every two prong outlet in our 19th century house with GFCIs already. One at a time at my leisure.
A one-hand shock like that keeps the current path localized to one extremity. The really dangerous shocks are from one hand to the other, because the current path then travels through your heart region.
My late/mid 19th century house (depends on which part you're in) still has a lot of tube and post wiring, and there are no grounded outlets anywhere in the house. The only legal retrofit is to replace every two-prong outlet with a GFCI with the ground not attached, and that's what I've done. I'd love to pull new wiring all through the house, but we need a new roof first. And it's remarkable how well everything holds together. Our fuse boxes (there are three of them cascading down the wall from the 1920's one to the 1950's one) are mounted on the exterior of the house, out under the eaves of the back porch.
The water and electric service in this house are all retrofitted from earlier times. The electric pump and tank for the water source are down in the cellar.
And hell, even Microsoft's site doesn't render properly in IE6 any more.
That should be no surprise. Microsoft has ended sales of any software product that would come bundled with IE6. Speaking as a Windows 2000 user (not gonna upgrade to a 'phone home' Microsoft OS ever) I know that Microsoft would be delighted if it became impossible to use W2K to connect to the Internet. Thankfully, Seamonkey and Firefox and other options are available to me.
So to all the people pissing and ranting about IE6: Thanks for doing Microsoft's work for them
Before the Internet I had somehow convinced my boss that I needed a personal modem, and a second phone line into my office. So I could and did hang out on the local BBSes, once of which I ran. Looking back, it's shocking what I got away with back then.
Valve claims they've got a plan in-place to unlock everything if they go under...
If Valve were to 'go under' part of the process of 'going under' usually involves creditors sailing in and seizing assets. If you think they could just 'set loose' all the licensed content/products they've got tied to their scheme, you've got another thing coming. The 'keys to the treasury' would be passed along to a new owner. Don't kid yourself.
In evolutionary terms that makes you a failure. It's as if your genes never existed, since they stop here and go no further.
That isn't really how evolution works. It 'advances' in huge wide magnitudes. Whether you breed or not as an individual will have no impact at all on the 'evolution of the species.'
Now, if instead of spending all your time breeding and working long hours in order to pay what it costs to rear children, you are out and about in public forums like this one, expressing ideas and exposing OTHER people's kids to them.... That's the 'line of evolution' that maters, and that you can have an impact on as an individual.
Don't let it get out, though. We need all those dumb breeders to produce the raw stock.
Imagine how many CEOs would lose their jobs if thepiratebay had pulled off a multibillion dollar IPO, bought the Swedish courts themselves, and created their own promotional framework for media.
Didn't Napster try something like that? They 'went commercial' and it was then rather easy to take them down. Piratebay has it's 'cred' in a community of supporters because it is NOT commercial.
If the majority of anonet users decide that they want to trade copyrighted movies (or OMG child pornography), would the developers pull the plug on the whole project?
Since they are not slaves, I would assume it would be their choice or not to make.
Now, I am sure there are armchair commentators like you who could instantly pick up development where they left off. Right?
I think it was a general indictment of the Closed Source approach to software development and maintenance. When faced with an unknown binary, there's not a heck of lot you can do but poke away at it hopefully.
The process by which you get compiled code is determined by which toolset you use, which language, which library, runtime etc, etc. So whats you're beef here?
The process is key. That's what every modern business expert will tell you. And do you know what the documentation of the process for a piece of software is? Do you? It's the Source Code. Yes, that includes the Makefile and documentation of the toolchain used for the build.
When businesses figure this out, slop slingers like the boys in Redmond are in deep trouble.
Apparently you want BeOS. Why not just dig up a CD copy of it and run with it?
None of that nasty 'legacy' to get in the way of your fresh new look. And even a handful of applets to run, since there are almost no third party apps.
I pity you, then, that you've never operated in an X11 environment running in cinerama mode. I had a multi-headed Sparcstation 10 running Solaris like that a number of years back, and it was nice.
solve issues that are, at least for me, unresolved in X11.
You surely don't want X11 to devolve into something like VNC, do you? Really?
Well maybe you do. Clue us in, does Steve Ballmer really have bad breath?
Why are you referencing the average PC of 20 years ago, which ran Windows 3.1, not X11, to the average workstation from back then, which the GP referred to as 'woefully inadequate' today? Did you know that there were actual framebuffer cards back then in typical use that cost more than your '386-DX 25 with 16MB of RAM' that all the secretaries were impressed by?
That's fucking brilliant. And you can walk around with your lawyer, all day every day, to advise you whether to sign all those contracts that you're presented with, virtually every day. Awesome. When I graduate, can I be your lawyer? Do you have deep pockets?
Nobody in this thread is arguing that Apple can't conduct their business that way. The fact that, as you imply, it would put a ludicrous burden on their ability to 'make the sale' with anybody does not nullify the fact that it's entirely within their right to establish as part of the sale/license process for obtaining their product.
Simply put, if Apple wants to do business that way, they're entitled to give it a try. They aren't at present playing it that way, though. So they'd better suck up and deal with things as they are.
Rights are things we make up as a society to make living together easier. God sure didn't give you any rights, or anyone else.
I assume you don't live in the USA. Because in the USA, our rights are considered to be 'God given' (or more accurately are 'natural rights' since we're not a theocracy.) Rights are NOT granted by the government. There are firm restrictons on what rights the government is even allowed to take away. Everything is allowed by default. This is very different from the situation in many other democracies, so I apologize if you're not an American, and you're probably right in your assertion locally.
The basis for which people are prosecuted for making copies of DVDs is NOT that they signed or agreed to an implicit 'license agreement' when they purchased the original which forbids them from making copies.
Just to piss a little in the wheaties of your friends who think 'Owning Apple makes them feel special,' let me mention here that I'm typing this on an iMac that I paid $5 for at a school auction a few weeks ago. It runs 10.4 quite nicely and is a fairly decent platform. I have several more iMacs I bought at the same auction and soon I hope to give them away to other people even poorer than me to use so *they* can be part of the Apple elite, too. So much for 'protecting an elite brand.'
Your notion only makes sense in a world where Apple can convey the image of being 'the Cadillac (or Lexus, I refuse to cite that 'hyphenated German brand' here any longer) computer.' But that boat has sailed. They're not gonna get and hold that demographic; people aren't that stupid. Nobody shows off the computer on their desk the way they do their car, in the first place. You're talking nerd-to-nerd snob appeal, and let's get real here: that's a pretty ridiculous strata to be marketing for. Maybe I'm wrong when it comes to a certain kind of kid in college, but, then, nobody likes those kids, in actuality, and Apple would be nuts to tie themselves to them.
No...We have to remember that Apple is evil at all times for not supporting hardware they do not officially support. Sorry my bad. Thank you for opening my eyes.
Wrong. What Apple is guilty of doing here is actively sabotaging other people's effort to support hardware they do not officially support. Completely different thing. You're welcome (in advance) for thanking me for opening your eyes.
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An Exchange server does a lot more than a Sendmail script.
Not that I am a big advocate, but it just does.
For dealing with touch-tone services (aside from actual touch-tone dialing) when on a rotary dial connection, they used to (still?) sell external touch-tone generator boxes that you could hold up to the mouthpiece to generate the tones needed.
I mess around with PIC microcontrollers. The "PIC Basic Pro" compiler has touch-tone functions, to easily enable you to write code and have the PIC output touch-tone frequencies. Touch-tones are one of those universal useful things now. Like 2600Hz, which I suspect (haven't checked) probably isn't anywhere as useful a frequency as it once was.
I'm not sure why you feel so old.
My phone says 'Bell System Property, Not For Sale' on the bottom. And it'll outlast almost every phone newer than it.
It is a touch-tone. That means, it has several transistors. In the touch-tone module, which is separate from the induction coil module.
It turns out, though, that both presidential candidates in the last election are in favor of keeping the torture camps open.
I'm sorry, but if you have an old house you'll have to rewire or buy lots of adapters.
The code allows you to simply replace all the two-prong outlets with GFCIs, and leave the GFCI's with the ground disconnected. It's the best thing you can do if you don't have the ground wire in the wall, and it is a vast improvement over just using those three-wire adapters. I've replaced just about every two prong outlet in our 19th century house with GFCIs already. One at a time at my leisure.
Actually, a marketing opportunity in search of a government mandate.
There's money to be made in many ways, and if you can argue 'increased safety' as the motivator, all the better.
A one-hand shock like that keeps the current path localized to one extremity. The really dangerous shocks are from one hand to the other, because the current path then travels through your heart region.
My late/mid 19th century house (depends on which part you're in) still has a lot of tube and post wiring, and there are no grounded outlets anywhere in the house. The only legal retrofit is to replace every two-prong outlet with a GFCI with the ground not attached, and that's what I've done. I'd love to pull new wiring all through the house, but we need a new roof first. And it's remarkable how well everything holds together. Our fuse boxes (there are three of them cascading down the wall from the 1920's one to the 1950's one) are mounted on the exterior of the house, out under the eaves of the back porch.
The water and electric service in this house are all retrofitted from earlier times. The electric pump and tank for the water source are down in the cellar.
or one leg and neutral.
You mean, like the short circuit created when I turn on a lamp plugged into the receptacle?
And hell, even Microsoft's site doesn't render properly in IE6 any more.
That should be no surprise. Microsoft has ended sales of any software product that would come bundled with IE6. Speaking as a Windows 2000 user (not gonna upgrade to a 'phone home' Microsoft OS ever) I know that Microsoft would be delighted if it became impossible to use W2K to connect to the Internet. Thankfully, Seamonkey and Firefox and other options are available to me.
So to all the people pissing and ranting about IE6: Thanks for doing Microsoft's work for them
Before the Internet I had somehow convinced my boss that I needed a personal modem, and a second phone line into my office. So I could and did hang out on the local BBSes, once of which I ran. Looking back, it's shocking what I got away with back then.
Valve claims they've got a plan in-place to unlock everything if they go under...
If Valve were to 'go under' part of the process of 'going under' usually involves creditors sailing in and seizing assets. If you think they could just 'set loose' all the licensed content/products they've got tied to their scheme, you've got another thing coming. The 'keys to the treasury' would be passed along to a new owner. Don't kid yourself.
That isn't really how evolution works. It 'advances' in huge wide magnitudes. Whether you breed or not as an individual will have no impact at all on the 'evolution of the species.'
Now, if instead of spending all your time breeding and working long hours in order to pay what it costs to rear children, you are out and about in public forums like this one, expressing ideas and exposing OTHER people's kids to them.... That's the 'line of evolution' that maters, and that you can have an impact on as an individual.
Don't let it get out, though. We need all those dumb breeders to produce the raw stock.
Imagine how many CEOs would lose their jobs if thepiratebay had pulled off a multibillion dollar IPO, bought the Swedish courts themselves, and created their own promotional framework for media.
Didn't Napster try something like that? They 'went commercial' and it was then rather easy to take them down. Piratebay has it's 'cred' in a community of supporters because it is NOT commercial.
If the majority of anonet users decide that they want to trade copyrighted movies (or OMG child pornography), would the developers pull the plug on the whole project?
Since they are not slaves, I would assume it would be their choice or not to make.
Now, I am sure there are armchair commentators like you who could instantly pick up development where they left off. Right?
I think it was a general indictment of the Closed Source approach to software development and maintenance. When faced with an unknown binary, there's not a heck of lot you can do but poke away at it hopefully.
The process by which you get compiled code is determined by which toolset you use, which language, which library, runtime etc, etc. So whats you're beef here?
The process is key. That's what every modern business expert will tell you. And do you know what the documentation of the process for a piece of software is? Do you? It's the Source Code. Yes, that includes the Makefile and documentation of the toolchain used for the build.
When businesses figure this out, slop slingers like the boys in Redmond are in deep trouble.
Lots of McDonalds and big franchise Truck Stops have 'WiFi' as well.
It's nice to see you sticking up for the little guy.
Apparently you want BeOS. Why not just dig up a CD copy of it and run with it?
None of that nasty 'legacy' to get in the way of your fresh new look. And even a handful of applets to run, since there are almost no third party apps.
I pity you, then, that you've never operated in an X11 environment running in cinerama mode. I had a multi-headed Sparcstation 10 running Solaris like that a number of years back, and it was nice.
solve issues that are, at least for me, unresolved in X11.
You surely don't want X11 to devolve into something like VNC, do you? Really?
Well maybe you do. Clue us in, does Steve Ballmer really have bad breath?
Why are you referencing the average PC of 20 years ago, which ran Windows 3.1, not X11, to the average workstation from back then, which the GP referred to as 'woefully inadequate' today? Did you know that there were actual framebuffer cards back then in typical use that cost more than your '386-DX 25 with 16MB of RAM' that all the secretaries were impressed by?
That's fucking brilliant. And you can walk around with your lawyer, all day every day, to advise you whether to sign all those contracts that you're presented with, virtually every day. Awesome. When I graduate, can I be your lawyer? Do you have deep pockets?
Nobody in this thread is arguing that Apple can't conduct their business that way. The fact that, as you imply, it would put a ludicrous burden on their ability to 'make the sale' with anybody does not nullify the fact that it's entirely within their right to establish as part of the sale/license process for obtaining their product.
Simply put, if Apple wants to do business that way, they're entitled to give it a try. They aren't at present playing it that way, though. So they'd better suck up and deal with things as they are.
Rights are things we make up as a society to make living together easier. God sure didn't give you any rights, or anyone else.
I assume you don't live in the USA. Because in the USA, our rights are considered to be 'God given' (or more accurately are 'natural rights' since we're not a theocracy.) Rights are NOT granted by the government. There are firm restrictons on what rights the government is even allowed to take away. Everything is allowed by default. This is very different from the situation in many other democracies, so I apologize if you're not an American, and you're probably right in your assertion locally.
The basis for which people are prosecuted for making copies of DVDs is NOT that they signed or agreed to an implicit 'license agreement' when they purchased the original which forbids them from making copies.
Your analogy is completely off-base.
Just to piss a little in the wheaties of your friends who think 'Owning Apple makes them feel special,' let me mention here that I'm typing this on an iMac that I paid $5 for at a school auction a few weeks ago. It runs 10.4 quite nicely and is a fairly decent platform. I have several more iMacs I bought at the same auction and soon I hope to give them away to other people even poorer than me to use so *they* can be part of the Apple elite, too. So much for 'protecting an elite brand.'
Your notion only makes sense in a world where Apple can convey the image of being 'the Cadillac (or Lexus, I refuse to cite that 'hyphenated German brand' here any longer) computer.' But that boat has sailed. They're not gonna get and hold that demographic; people aren't that stupid. Nobody shows off the computer on their desk the way they do their car, in the first place. You're talking nerd-to-nerd snob appeal, and let's get real here: that's a pretty ridiculous strata to be marketing for. Maybe I'm wrong when it comes to a certain kind of kid in college, but, then, nobody likes those kids, in actuality, and Apple would be nuts to tie themselves to them.
No...We have to remember that Apple is evil at all times for not supporting hardware they do not officially support. Sorry my bad. Thank you for opening my eyes.
Wrong. What Apple is guilty of doing here is actively sabotaging other people's effort to support hardware they do not officially support. Completely different thing. You're welcome (in advance) for thanking me for opening your eyes.