But such things can be found running then-current hardware, too.
MacBSD, the Mac 68030 & similar strain of NetBSD, was thought to only work with an FPU (there were 68020 and 68LC040 Mac models with no FPU), and not with FPU emulation (hmm, I guess it was X, and not MacBSD itself).
And then one week, someone booted, got interrupted, and came back a couple of days later to his system in X . . .
And it made a world of difference in those days to run a font-server, as X was single-threaded, even on a 16-40 MHz '030 . . .
In the early days of amazon selection, someone found himself (herself? It's been a while) being targettrd as a pregnant gay man. . . . (okay, near the top of things I wish I'd kept)
And speaking statistically, the lower. Nance of paying child support, even without considering the lower number of children to support on average, means that the statistical gay male easily has more than 50% more disposable income, and thus woth the premium, even without the object being advertised having a higher appeal to gay males.
I suspect gay males in long term relationships would be an even more desirable marketing demographic.
they put out CDs In their first printings with year's of books on them, drm free (And librarian/author Eric Flint is downright hostile to drm, for commercial reasons).
They found that paperback sales went *up* as people found new authors they liked.
the bet that people would buy paid off--then again, this is before the ipad3 display . ..(I now prefer it to a book, as opposed to the 2)
Lois Bujold Masters switched over time from "no" to hpjust about everything but her last book or two . . .
the ][+ was different in that it changed the startup ROM to the "auto start ROM," and the change from Integr BASIC to AppleSoft in the remaining ROMs.
The startup ROM is where the assembly/disassembly routines differed; either could be used with either BASIC.
I don't remember whether the floating point routines were in the startup ROMs or the BASIC ROms (and similarly for the hires routines.
I believe that the rewinding of the reset switch occurred on the ][ at the same time; both were sold for years (until the//e ?). The ROMs could be bought separately, either by themselves or on a card for slot 0 that let you toggle between the two versions. Later (Pascal time), a 16k ram card for the same slot could load the "other" ROMS from floppy.
The casino employees were marched down the highway, and every mile, they stopped, drew a name by lot, and crucified that employee, until a 10% "layoff" had been achieved.
when you can instill *that* level of fear in your workforce, you need no longer worry about morale . . .
hawk, las Vegas local, who doesn't have to pay taxes over these "systems"
Seriously, we understand the system math here. It's not that hard to make one where you're almost certain to win. The catch, though, is that you're risking $3k to win $5.
Casinos don't even kick people out for counting cards: first, they analyze the counting. Most such systems still favo4r the casino, and the person may get comped instead of kicked.
This town does have a standard response to people with systems, though: "Welcome!"
Noone is going to be downloading *anything* directly into my phone like that.
Various folks have been pushing electronic business cards for years. They really fall into two categories: 1) spam me senseless operations, which are gathering data and presuming that this opts me into whatever they want to send, or gathering data for the "mothership," again for marketing purposes, and 2) multi-level marketing nonsense, designed to get people to "pay" for this service.
The two are not exclusive.
No, I will *not* text to a number or download an ap for your "electronic business card.". It's not going to happen.
And these operations aren't that different from the MLM nonsense like the "hello world" video mail of five years ago, which was about ten years behind simply sending an attached file, or the various videophones running around right now (just $200 plus $30 month for each person) that work marginally better than Skype (on a good day) and are no match for FaceTime . . .
A qr code on the back I'd likely use, but straight access to my data, or trusting your application/server/whatever just isn't gang to happen.
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But such things can be found running then-current hardware, too.
MacBSD, the Mac 68030 & similar strain of NetBSD, was thought to only work with an FPU (there were 68020 and 68LC040 Mac models with no FPU), and not with FPU emulation (hmm, I guess it was X, and not MacBSD itself).
And then one week, someone booted, got interrupted, and came back a couple of days later to his system in X . . .
And it made a world of difference in those days to run a font-server, as X was single-threaded, even on a 16-40 MHz '030 . . .
hawk
Which is an impressive feat for a machine with .125 meg of ram and .25 meg of rom . . .
hawk
In the early days of amazon selection, someone found himself (herself? It's been a while) being targettrd as a pregnant gay man. . . . (okay, near the top of things I wish I'd kept)
And speaking statistically, the lower. Nance of paying child support, even without considering the lower number of children to support on average, means that the statistical gay male easily has more than 50% more disposable income, and thus woth the premium, even without the object being advertised having a higher appeal to gay males.
I suspect gay males in long term relationships would be an even more desirable marketing demographic.
hawk
13 billion years late?
Ok, even for slashdot, this is a bit dated . .
hawk
Does this get around the "wipe device after 10 failed attempts" option?
hawk
The Baen Free Library figured this out years ago.
they put out CDs In their first printings with year's of books on them, drm free (And librarian/author Eric Flint is downright hostile to drm, for commercial reasons).
They found that paperback sales went *up* as people found new authors they liked.
the bet that people would buy paid off--then again, this is before the ipad3 display . . .(I now prefer it to a book, as opposed to the 2)
Lois Bujold Masters switched over time from "no" to hpjust about everything but her last book or two . . .
hawk
the Chrome/Safari version, though, is a pale imitation of the Firefox parent.
It is somewhere between annoyingly difficult and impossible to ad your own rules.
with a full Adblock, profiles, and by-domain popup control, I'd switch to Safari from firefox in a heartbeat.
hawk
But if you use the RMS version instead of the ESR, you show yourself as Truly Committed to the cause . . .
hawk
That is *not* what you do with a TR3.
You drive it a couple of days, even a week if you're lucky, and then take it back to the mechanic--just like any other Triumph . . .
hawk
It do sn't; it ju t has many an oying g ps in it.
ha k
apple ][, 280x192 screen.
56 more lines would be 7 more lines of text on top of the 24 you had . . .
hawk
Not quite--the 14MHz was 4 times the 3.58 MHz color subcarrier, but could be divided into other useful things.
Pixels hit the scene at twice that rate, potential creating a roughly 3.58 MHz square wave if they alternated.
color came partly from "tickling" this, thus the half-pixel shift in hires--and the vague purple tint to the text until the rev 7 motherboard.
hawk
the ][+ was different in that it changed the startup ROM to the "auto start ROM," and the change from Integr BASIC to AppleSoft in the remaining ROMs.
The startup ROM is where the assembly/disassembly routines differed; either could be used with either BASIC.
I don't remember whether the floating point routines were in the startup ROMs or the BASIC ROms (and similarly for the hires routines.
I believe that the rewinding of the reset switch occurred on the ][ at the same time; both were sold for years (until the //e ?). The ROMs could be bought separately, either by themselves or on a card for slot 0 that let you toggle between the two versions. Later (Pascal time), a 16k ram card for the same slot could load the "other" ROMS from floppy.
hawk
He meant it literally.
The casino employees were marched down the highway, and every mile, they stopped, drew a name by lot, and crucified that employee, until a 10% "layoff" had been achieved.
when you can instill *that* level of fear in your workforce, you need no longer worry about morale . . .
hawk
Yes.
so do we.
hawk, las Vegas local, who doesn't have to pay taxes over these "systems"
Seriously, we understand the system math here. It's not that hard to make one where you're almost certain to win. The catch, though, is that you're risking $3k to win $5.
Casinos don't even kick people out for counting cards: first, they analyze the counting. Most such systems still favo4r the casino, and the person may get comped instead of kicked.
This town does have a standard response to people with systems, though: "Welcome!"
Noone is going to be downloading *anything* directly into my phone like that.
Various folks have been pushing electronic business cards for years. They really fall into two categories:
1) spam me senseless operations, which are gathering data and presuming that this opts me into whatever they want to send, or gathering data for the "mothership," again for marketing purposes, and
2) multi-level marketing nonsense, designed to get people to "pay" for this service.
The two are not exclusive.
No, I will *not* text to a number or download an ap for your "electronic business card.". It's not going to happen.
And these operations aren't that different from the MLM nonsense like the "hello world" video mail of five years ago, which was about ten years behind simply sending an attached file, or the various videophones running around right now (just $200 plus $30 month for each person) that work marginally better than Skype (on a good day) and are no match for FaceTime . . .
A qr code on the back I'd likely use, but straight access to my data, or trusting your application/server/whatever just isn't gang to happen.
hawk
Yeah, but the error-correction was truly impressive . . .
and you gurus complaint about how *Apple* tries to discourage competition? :)
hawk
Yeah, but did you ever see the specs on the 2600?
Could you imagine a cellphone today with a 1mhz processor, 128 bytes of ram, and a 4k or 8k cartridge???
hawk
> . . . female women . . .
>Compared to whom?
Umm, male women, perhaps? Or female men? :)
hawk
Years ago, when my firstborn was a couple or few months old, *she* got the time I'd come home into her schedule.
Shed wke from her nappi to be picked up , my wife would place her on my chest as I reclined in my chair, she'd nestle in, and we'd both nod off.
I don't know if we have ,pictures of her zonked ut like that, but we have them of her first two children dozing on me in the same location . . .
Unless its from an overfill bladder, yes.
Conspicuously missing from the lists of activties, though, is taking a nap between the two sleeps . . .
hawk
So what he *really* invented was the dorky use of capslock .
. .
this entitles him to share a cell in hell with the inventor of the blink tag . . .
hawk
It wouldn't be called "email" until the algore invented toe Internet! :)
hawk
This was an iDrone; notice how it didn't crash.
No need to worry: Windows DRN will be out soon . . . :)
hawk
Yes, but this could mesh dangerously with the various ethanol fuel initiatives . . .
Officer: [sniff] Have you been drinking?
Car: [hic] just a couple of gallons.
Passenger: and it worn't shell, err, share any width me!
hawk