That's not even the only one with NJ and NY. When ordering a car in PA, they were the rest of the "tri-state area" that the dealer could pull cars from
I was raised there, too. I remember seeing one through the back yard fence . . .
hawk, whose parents moved from San Francisco to sleepy little San Jose to raise him, unaware of what Shockley was up to at the other end of the valley . . .
>I've been 'into computing' since a '286/20 was described as 'lightning fast'.
Damn newbies.
>I've never, ever spent more than 100 dollars on a video card.
Aside from the mere assumption that you could have such a thing as a "video card," and leaving out the question as to whether it was assembled for that price or just a pc board and parts . . . $100 for a bare bones video card was one heck of a breakthrough . . . (was it the Hercules Monographics???)
>So now FDR was responsible for the stock market crash?
He must be! Don't you remember how the now vice-president explained that FDR went on national television to reassure the country after the crash?
(For those outside the US, or suffering from a public school education, the crash was before he even ran for office, and before television . . . but FDR was known for his *radio* "Fire side chats.")
Having Biden around is like Quayle and Reagan combined, but with even better teflon than Reagan's . . .:)
hawk, firmly convinced that politicians were put on this earth to entertain us
>So does this mean we now have to call them dye-atoms?
No, but PETA is already preparing to complain about people who string too many together, cooking them with their own over-voltage condition, while screaming, "Die, atom!":)
>He foolishly thought in-depth investigative reporting would be welcome at Fox.
He writes, err, wrote, a self-important spew of celebrity drivel. If serious investigative reporting had appeared under his name, it would be time for an in-depth investigation as to who had hacked which computer . . .
OK, this I've never seen before. A hard-core libertarian has proposed too much regulation:)
This guy was in the "government isn't necessary" group of hard-core libertarians, who really wanted to form a "libertarian free state" in Antarctica . . .
>If it was adequately capitalised then the company wouldn't have gone under.
No. That's just plain wrong, and has nothing to do with business or law.
Adequate capitalization has to do with adequate for the risk being undertaken, not the outcome. This is a very well developed body of law.
As a very vague first order test (this is not the actual test), would another business extend it credit given the risks it faces and its capitalization. If a bank will extend it unsecured credit, it's probably sufficiently capitalized.
So you're saying that Three Mile Island had a date with San Clemente, then insisted on telling all the other reactors about every little detail in the morning?
hawk
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You are aware, of course, that under american and british law, this results in unlimited shareholder liability, aren't you?
Or are you just parroting ignorant claims about how corporate law and liability works.
AFAIK, there has *never* been a time or an anglo-american jurisdiction in which a corporation inadequately capitalized for the business which is entering does not leave its shareholders liable.
But then, I'm just an attorney.
hawk, esq., not offering this as legal advice. If you need that, pay for it, rather than relying on the ignorance posted on slashdot
Re:I, for one, welcome our new regulator overlords
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to adapt a suggestion given by a libertarian acquaintance years ago . . .
Never mind government regulation. Require a half-trillion dollar liability policy. The insurance company will regulate far tighter and more effectively than the government.
hawk, who isn't advocating this, but finds it an interesting proposal
tmi2> sshutdown -r now sshutdown: Command not found. tmi2> halt -c halt: invalid option: -c Try `halt --help' for more information. tmi2> help halt help: Command not found. tmi2> shut it down, damnit! shut: demand not found. tmi2> assume nuclear defense position assume: Command not found. tmi2> stick your head between your legs stick: command not found. tmi2> *%&*^&$ [from system: system going down for meltdown NOW!] [from system: assume nuclear defense positon] [from system: stick your head between your legs and kiss your ]
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But that's not nearly as needed as "-1, just plain wrong" . . .
hawk
That's not even the only one with NJ and NY. When ordering a car in PA, they were the rest of the "tri-state area" that the dealer could pull cars from
hawk
If that were true, it would have been a pretty good job of time traveling . . .
>Unfortunately, that's the way it goes. AGP is obsolete.
But I still haven't moved up to it?
Does this mean I have to throw out my pci graphics cards? :(
hawk
>but I don't think anyone cared because no-one was
>waiting around for 2d text to be rendered.
*Someone* has never tried to read on a 1200 baud modem :)
hawk
I was raised there, too. I remember seeing one through the back yard fence . . .
hawk, whose parents moved from San Francisco to sleepy little San Jose to raise him, unaware of what Shockley was up to at the other end of the valley . . .
>I've been 'into computing' since a '286/20 was described as 'lightning fast'.
Damn newbies.
>I've never, ever spent more than 100 dollars on a video card.
Aside from the mere assumption that you could have such a thing as a "video card," and leaving out the question as to whether it was assembled for that price or just a pc board and parts . . . $100 for a bare bones video card was one heck of a breakthrough . . . (was it the Hercules Monographics???)
hawk
How much did a CGA card for the PC cost? $340? (It's been a while; I forget). And a similar amount for the 320x192 color monitor . . .
hawk
Gee, steal something by downloading it for "free" from another thief, and it doesn't do what you want . . .
What a surprise :)
hawk
Oh, and to be clear, it has to have acceptable performance at 8mhz with 4mb of memory.
hawk
In other words, the only thing wrong with those vehicles is the nut holding the wheel . . . :)
hawk
Good. I'm looking for something that runs on Macintosh System 6, or at least 7.1 (Yeah, I can live without 7.0). :)
hawk
That's because he doesn't know enough COBOL to fill out that field :)
hawk
>So now FDR was responsible for the stock market crash?
He must be! Don't you remember how the now vice-president explained that FDR went on national television to reassure the country after the crash?
(For those outside the US, or suffering from a public school education, the crash was before he even ran for office, and before television . . . but FDR was known for his *radio* "Fire side chats.")
Having Biden around is like Quayle and Reagan combined, but with even better teflon than Reagan's . . . :)
hawk, firmly convinced that politicians were put on this earth to entertain us
>So does this mean we now have to call them dye-atoms?
No, but PETA is already preparing to complain about people who string too many together, cooking them with their own over-voltage condition, while screaming, "Die, atom!" :)
hawk
>He foolishly thought in-depth investigative reporting would be welcome at Fox.
He writes, err, wrote, a self-important spew of celebrity drivel. If serious investigative reporting had appeared under his name, it would be time for an in-depth investigation as to who had hacked which computer . . .
hawk
OK, this I've never seen before. A hard-core libertarian has proposed too much regulation :)
This guy was in the "government isn't necessary" group of hard-core libertarians, who really wanted to form a "libertarian free state" in Antarctica . . .
hawk
>If it was adequately capitalised then the company wouldn't have gone under.
No. That's just plain wrong, and has nothing to do with business or law.
Adequate capitalization has to do with adequate for the risk being undertaken, not the outcome. This is a very well developed body of law.
As a very vague first order test (this is not the actual test), would another business extend it credit given the risks it faces and its capitalization. If a bank will extend it unsecured credit, it's probably sufficiently capitalized.
hawk, esq
Uh, no. The 400k and 800k drives were variable speed, the 1.4M drives were not.
I'd be perfectly happy to lose as spectacularly as apple . . . :)
hawk
because old news is GNU/news, of course!
hawk
So you're saying that Three Mile Island had a date with San Clemente, then insisted on telling all the other reactors about every little detail in the morning?
hawk
You are aware, of course, that under american and british law, this results in unlimited shareholder liability, aren't you?
Or are you just parroting ignorant claims about how corporate law and liability works.
AFAIK, there has *never* been a time or an anglo-american jurisdiction in which a corporation inadequately capitalized for the business which is entering does not leave its shareholders liable.
But then, I'm just an attorney.
hawk, esq., not offering this as legal advice. If you need that, pay for it, rather than relying on the ignorance posted on slashdot
to adapt a suggestion given by a libertarian acquaintance years ago . . .
Never mind government regulation. Require a half-trillion dollar liability policy. The insurance company will regulate far tighter and more effectively than the government.
hawk, who isn't advocating this, but finds it an interesting proposal
tmi2> sshutdown -r now
sshutdown: Command not found.
tmi2> halt -c
halt: invalid option: -c
Try `halt --help' for more information.
tmi2> help halt
help: Command not found.
tmi2> shut it down, damnit!
shut: demand not found.
tmi2> assume nuclear defense position
assume: Command not found.
tmi2> stick your head between your legs
stick: command not found.
tmi2> *%&*^&$
[from system: system going down for meltdown NOW!]
[from system: assume nuclear defense positon]
[from system: stick your head between your legs and kiss your ]
***line down***
Hey!
This is slashdot. Stop using facts to confront ignorant hysteria!
hawk