Consider all that you can present on a map. Roads, rivers, floodplains, counties, states, poltical affiliations, population density, any demographic aspect you can think of.
Then consider all that you can present without cluttering it up. Your map has to look clean.
Now represent this information accurately without distortion and bias. The map should like the world we know and remain objective, even to somebody who holds a different opinion from you or is from a different country.
Now present it in multiple forms--on paper, online, on the back of a matchbook. Try doing it without the use of color, or use large print to accomodate the disabled.
If you can accomplish all of the aforementioned, I think you'll find cartography as one of the most underrated and challenging of the sciences.
Exactly. You can replace "emergency" with just about anything else (financial, educational, etc.) and likely have a valid, completely new patent with little modification.
I'm vaguely reminded of the Simpson's episode where Homer asks Bart and Lisa to combine two words to make an invention. Although I don't really see an automatic butt being inventable, it seems that if you cover anything in enough patentese the USPTO gives it the green light.
Screw prior art bounties. I'll even whore myself out to raise enough money to reward the first person that gets something patented from the output of an automatic patent generator--see the BBspot Slashdot Story Generator for an example of how ridiculously easy this might be.
First off, let me say this--don't quit your day job. Don't go in this for the money. If you're truly passionate about what you do (and methinks your fans will be able to tell this), you won't be afraid of supporting your hobby rather than your hobby supporting you.
When it comes to your music, distribute, distribute, distribute--on P2P, on the Web, you name it. Radio isn't that inaccessible--one of the DJ's for a local station here plays MP3's he finds from bands just like yours and I'm sure would also accept free CD's. This is how you get your name and sound out.
But as for actually making money, you still have to sell old fashioned tangible goods.
For the album itself, put all your music into an album that's worth more than a jewel case and a burned disc--take some time with your album art and include as many extras as you can. Hardcore fans will buy your albums, and you won't have to sell many to make a profit. The average signed artist make might a buck or two of albums he sells, you could make four times that by selling for half the price without going through a label. But you have to do your own work.
T-shirts are also of fundamental importance and are a source of free advertising for your band--chances are the people who really pay attention to that T-shirt will have similar musical interests with the person wearing it.
I could be alone in this, but I'd be careful to not place your name on every trinket, knicknack, and piece of crap--you'll look like a sellout and the world does not need another keychain. But I think the cardinal rule is to not price your side business out of existence. A CD shouldn't go for more than $15 including shipping, a T-shirt shouldn't go for more than $20 including shipping. That's my pricepoint--sure, there might be others. A little bit of research in determining good prices would surely be worth it.
Congratulations on taking the step, and good luck!
So I guess by "ultra-portable" they mean software that installs files in one place, doesn't touch the registry, and is easily 100% removable without bits o' crap left over behind?
PuTTY, a self contained.exe can usually be run and verified from many public terminals. Very few public terminal lockdowns, for whatever reason, prevent IE from opening executables remotely.
This grand "system" is nothing more then web based applications from thin clients for people who don't want to deal with maintaining a computer. Nothing implies that it requires new infrastructure.
yeah right. who is going to fund having MULTIPLE computer terminals EVERYWHERE so that the system you describe will actually be feasible? I've seen these "MULTIPLE computer terminals" at EVERYWHERE-style places like the library, internet cafes, covenience stores, and public places such as airport terminals. and even if public places comprised of row after row of terminals, what about when you're in a private place like a car or someone's house? or moving from one place to another?
When you're in a private place like a car or moving from one place to another, I can imagine some PDA-based device on a wireless connection. If you're in somebody's house you can use your login on their existing device, whether that's a thin client or a normal computer.
looking at the same idea in a different system, which of the following statements is true?
Bad analogy. Phones shrink a whole lot better than computers do. Secondly, we don't have a high speed wireless data network with the same ubiquity as the wireless voice network. Wireless phones also let people to be reached anytime. whereas computer usage is more or less a one way activity and doesn't have the sense of urgency/immediacy that a phone can bring.
A weak US dollar makes exports inexpensive and imports expensive. This is generally good news for the US tourism and manufacturing industries, both of which have been in a flux since fall of 2001. Tourism has largely rebounded but manufacturing needs all the help it can get.
This is the reason the Bush administration really doesn't care about the sinking dollar--it's basically a bandaid over the festering wound that is US manufacturing. But, like any quick fix the real problem will only compound over time (eg, OPEC switching to the Euro and other reasons pointed out)--by then Bush won't be President anymore and it'll be Someone Else's issue.
A CPA, for the record, isn't a degree but a title you get when you pass the exam. Going to school for accountancy will give you a degree in just that, but I imagine that it'd be quicker to study on your own time for the CPA exam rather than going to school for the degree. I guess it boils down to what you really want--the degree or the title The opportunities for a CPA are limitless. A CPA with CS in an audit position are tremendous.
CPA's are in high demand--but a CPA with a CS degree? How would that be specially useful--or better yet, more useful than a slightly more logical combination, eg CS and physics/math?
Because if you use things like Magic Quotes, you should be, at least theoretically, immune to CSS/SQL injection attacks. That's part of the reason PHP exists--so you don't have to worry about that sort of thing. The same can be extended to most other concepts like CGI and HTTP that PHP has built in functions for--things you'd have to worry about in lower level languages.
One aside to that is that Magic Quotes can be a pain in the ass to deal with. Poorly coded applications will have strings of text like Joe\'s Hot Dogs, or even worse Joe\\\\\\\\'s Hot Dogs. I find myself having to use stripslashes for certain functions. Oh well. The other aside is that 'real programmers' already know about SQL injection and that sort of thing.
Whether PHP provides convenience or a blindfold is the real question.
The side effect is, of course, that any annoyance blocking technologies in Mozilla software or its associated plugins gets better, and we all learn more. This isn't a bad thing--indeed, almost all affected parties improve through competition.
I didn't hear anything about Donald Trump aside from a random bankruptcy and his distant plans about building here until The Apprentice came out. But since that program came out, he appears to be everywhere.
The distinction, of course, is whether Dateline is promoting a product (he is in this case a product) or reacting to a product that's already been promoted. But Dateline is a "news magazine show"--determining what exactly this is will be an exercise left to the reader because I sure as hell can't--and I don't think it falls in the same class of journalistic integrity one might expect, from the New York Times, the BBC, or The Economist. But then again, we make excuses for the media a lot--I'm sure your city has that blatant left/right wing daily, the never-awe-inspiring local news program, the weekly independent rag, etc. I'd like to have a source of news I don't have to make excuses for and remove filters to have an idea of what's really happening.
Altho this is digressing rather off topic, there's a reason they call it the boob-tube. The way television broadcasts news is almost like bottle feeding a baby. And if your exposure to a journal article or government report is from it flying on screen with one or two sentences zoomed and highlighted, or your idea of public perception is what the "man on the street" says, or you gauge a corporation's conduct by what their paid spokesdrone says, you're on that bottle. And most people who are don't even realise it. That needs to change more than anything.
There's no hierarchical precedent when it comes to contract law. Specifically, contracts that break the law are unenforcable. Eg, if we have a signed contract detailing the methodology and compensation for you killing my partner, and you reneg, I can't come after you for violation of contract.
And yes, according to my business law teacher, that example did happen.
>Triangulation requires heavier gear than that. and in 5 years?
I can think of a lot of technologies that have been around for five years that are still as big as they were ten years before that. The iridium cell phones and satellite equipment we deal with at work haven't changed in size since the beginning. It takes a substantial level of consumer demand to shrink and improve technology...that's the other side of Moore's Law that the technocratic elite will admit.
but it would call home, to the ip of the correctional facility or such other agency. No need to see what's inside the message to know the kind of device making the call.
Assuming this is IP based, you'd have to be on the same IP network in promiscuous mode to see connections originating from the monitoring device to the facility. Most secure implementations of this would involve tunneling in some aspect, so good luck being on that network. You'd have to basically hack one of the devices or have detailed specifications of its operation. Even if you could do that, you'd only see IP addresses, which don't correlate in anyway to what you'd be able to see by triangulating a possible transmitter--the layer of encryption, the first in the case of GPRS, is too low.
Now, in the unlikely event of actually being able to do all this, the equipment and knowledge needed and the laws you'd be breaking would make the entire operation out of reach of the two kids at Starbucks. I can't imagine a possible scenario where, except by perhaps some extremely fanatical vigilante/victims rights group that would go to these lengths.
And if such groups existed, they'd probably use something like a local database of public mugshots rather than the above overblown situation.
They've had one since 2002, an associate of applied sciences in biotechnology according to http://www.azbioindustry.org/education/mcc.html. They were the first community college in Arizona to offer such a program, altho enrollment is highly limited...only 24 students a year.
First off, this isn't something two kids can do with a laptop at the local Starbucks. Triangulation requires heavier gear than that.
Moreover, GPS is receive only. I'm not aware of any technologies that let you triangulate a radio receiver. And the signal that's sending back would likely use the PCS cell phone spectrum, where the transmissions are already encrypted. Thus the monitoring device would, from an RF perspective, be no different from a regular cell modem.
Thirdly, laws could be written so that privacy of the monitor holders would be ensured even in public environments, but that's a whole nother can of worms (access to public airwaves) that I really don't want to get into here.
suppose the felon is *not* violating any rules, but his ex is a secretary for the PD, and tracks his every move constantly to figure out who he's dating now (let's give her a call...), where he's working now (let's call them too and see if we can get him fired).
This is something that can already be done now, but with this particular situation there's just more data to be accessed. Government officials have access to a wide variety of data on the citizenry that's not available to the general public. Accessing and disseminating it in unauthorised manners will get them terminated or prosecuted.
They are not (for the most part) crowded into dense polluted cities.
I don't know where people get this density = pollution correlation when it comes to cities. It never holds up.
Generally speaking, the biggest single source of pollution comes from cars. Thus, the cities that are less car dependent, ergo, the cities that are dense enough to sustain walkability and functional, widely used public transit aren't as polluted as more sprawled out cities and metropolitan areas. Compare New York City to Los Angeles, for example.
Moreover, it isn't economically feasible to locate factories and other large single sources of pollution in dense areas where land values don't justify the economic output. You'll see those located in sprawling areas first.
Regional pollution also has plenty to do with weather and geology. Cities that are surrounded by mountains such as Phoenix, Las Vegas, and the San Fernando Valley are highly succeptible to "brown clouds" that hang around for a long time because it's too hard for them to dissipate.
Yes, this is MIT, and they have a potential to become the leading institution in the field, but respected universites have already established programs. When MIT comes out with something revolutionary from their new program, then I'll be interested.
Why is it so fucking hard for them to just issue a patch for their existing versions?
Why does the local phone company suck ass? Why do products break shortly after their warranty expires? Why do people dread returning stuff at Giant Box Retailer?
The answer to all these questions is that they have your money already, and there is little incentive for them to care about you after the fact. In perfect competition, post-sale satisfaction is as crucial part as any, but in monopolistic, nobody really cares if you take your business elsewhere, or tell your friends to not shop there. Providing good customer service isn't worth it these days.
This is why I can't wait for software by subscription like Microsoft is proposing. Every month when the software bill is due more people will be apt to consider other alternatives. Would you pay $X/month for something you're irritated by?
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11. Screwy connectors. For video output we have VGA, Mini VGA, 13w3, DB15, HDI45, all off the top of my head and I'm sure there's more I could kill them for HDI45 alone. That mini AUI--who the hell ever used that?
12. Poor transition from Apple II to Macintosh. They were two completely seperate machines manufactured by the same company with surprisingly little cross compatibility. Could you even share files between them? Us Apple II owners had virtually no upgrade path when Macintosh came out.
13. Serial printers.
14. The IIvx, the LC's, the Performas.
15. Little component standardization. Drive sleds, motherboards, power supplies, even batteries, you name it, you could rarely make one live Mac out of two dead ones.
16. Missing the whole IDE/ATAPI boat. All the old macs used to be SCSI which drove up component cost even further. SCSI should have been an option, not mandatory.
17. Black box POSTing...when you turn on a Mac, you shouldn't hear the sound of broken glass if it's gone south for the winter. Error beeps, some explanation of what just went wrong, anything would've been better than that hideous broken glass sound.
18. Random non-standard-bus expansion cards...modems, video import, 802.11, bluetooth...
If I'm wrong, don't moderate, but reply--Since I spent all summer of 2001 refurbishing about 50 random macintoshes for a nonprofit and running into little cross compatibility, I've been very jaded on Macintosh hardware.
Whereas, astrology and the like are basically just cold reading (normally, based on the person's reactions, mannerisms, and how they dress), and not really on the stars.
Bzzt. Astrology is based off the mathematical angles of planets in orbit. Stars have nothing to do with it. My birth chart explains it a lot better than I can. Scroll down to the bottom for a good visual explanation.
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Consider all that you can present on a map. Roads, rivers, floodplains, counties, states, poltical affiliations, population density, any demographic aspect you can think of.
Then consider all that you can present without cluttering it up. Your map has to look clean.
Now represent this information accurately without distortion and bias. The map should like the world we know and remain objective, even to somebody who holds a different opinion from you or is from a different country.
Now present it in multiple forms--on paper, online, on the back of a matchbook. Try doing it without the use of color, or use large print to accomodate the disabled.
If you can accomplish all of the aforementioned, I think you'll find cartography as one of the most underrated and challenging of the sciences.
Exactly. You can replace "emergency" with just about anything else (financial, educational, etc.) and likely have a valid, completely new patent with little modification.
I'm vaguely reminded of the Simpson's episode where Homer asks Bart and Lisa to combine two words to make an invention. Although I don't really see an automatic butt being inventable, it seems that if you cover anything in enough patentese the USPTO gives it the green light.
Screw prior art bounties. I'll even whore myself out to raise enough money to reward the first person that gets something patented from the output of an automatic patent generator--see the BBspot Slashdot Story Generator for an example of how ridiculously easy this might be.
First off, let me say this--don't quit your day job. Don't go in this for the money. If you're truly passionate about what you do (and methinks your fans will be able to tell this), you won't be afraid of supporting your hobby rather than your hobby supporting you.
When it comes to your music, distribute, distribute, distribute--on P2P, on the Web, you name it. Radio isn't that inaccessible--one of the DJ's for a local station here plays MP3's he finds from bands just like yours and I'm sure would also accept free CD's. This is how you get your name and sound out.
But as for actually making money, you still have to sell old fashioned tangible goods.
For the album itself, put all your music into an album that's worth more than a jewel case and a burned disc--take some time with your album art and include as many extras as you can. Hardcore fans will buy your albums, and you won't have to sell many to make a profit. The average signed artist make might a buck or two of albums he sells, you could make four times that by selling for half the price without going through a label. But you have to do your own work.
T-shirts are also of fundamental importance and are a source of free advertising for your band--chances are the people who really pay attention to that T-shirt will have similar musical interests with the person wearing it.
I could be alone in this, but I'd be careful to not place your name on every trinket, knicknack, and piece of crap--you'll look like a sellout and the world does not need another keychain. But I think the cardinal rule is to not price your side business out of existence. A CD shouldn't go for more than $15 including shipping, a T-shirt shouldn't go for more than $20 including shipping. That's my pricepoint--sure, there might be others. A little bit of research in determining good prices would surely be worth it.
Congratulations on taking the step, and good luck!
So I guess by "ultra-portable" they mean software that installs files in one place, doesn't touch the registry, and is easily 100% removable without bits o' crap left over behind?
Isn't this how all software should be released?
Exactly. The oil companies strength lies within its distribution network, not the energy medium. Indeed, Shell built the first hydrogen pump in the nation.
PuTTY, a self contained .exe can usually be run and verified from many public terminals. Very few public terminal lockdowns, for whatever reason, prevent IE from opening executables remotely.
This grand "system" is nothing more then web based applications from thin clients for people who don't want to deal with maintaining a computer. Nothing implies that it requires new infrastructure.
yeah right. who is going to fund having MULTIPLE computer terminals EVERYWHERE so that the system you describe will actually be feasible?
I've seen these "MULTIPLE computer terminals" at EVERYWHERE-style places like the library, internet cafes, covenience stores, and public places such as airport terminals.
and even if public places comprised of row after row of terminals, what about when you're in a private place like a car or someone's house? or moving from one place to another?
When you're in a private place like a car or moving from one place to another, I can imagine some PDA-based device on a wireless connection. If you're in somebody's house you can use your login on their existing device, whether that's a thin client or a normal computer.
looking at the same idea in a different system, which of the following statements is true?
Bad analogy. Phones shrink a whole lot better than computers do. Secondly, we don't have a high speed wireless data network with the same ubiquity as the wireless voice network. Wireless phones also let people to be reached anytime. whereas computer usage is more or less a one way activity and doesn't have the sense of urgency/immediacy that a phone can bring.
A weak US dollar makes exports inexpensive and imports expensive. This is generally good news for the US tourism and manufacturing industries, both of which have been in a flux since fall of 2001. Tourism has largely rebounded but manufacturing needs all the help it can get.
This is the reason the Bush administration really doesn't care about the sinking dollar--it's basically a bandaid over the festering wound that is US manufacturing. But, like any quick fix the real problem will only compound over time (eg, OPEC switching to the Euro and other reasons pointed out)--by then Bush won't be President anymore and it'll be Someone Else's issue.
It is both interesting and unnerving that they speak better legalese than English.
A CPA, for the record, isn't a degree but a title you get when you pass the exam. Going to school for accountancy will give you a degree in just that, but I imagine that it'd be quicker to study on your own time for the CPA exam rather than going to school for the degree. I guess it boils down to what you really want--the degree or the title
The opportunities for a CPA are limitless. A CPA with CS in an audit position are tremendous.
CPA's are in high demand--but a CPA with a CS degree? How would that be specially useful--or better yet, more useful than a slightly more logical combination, eg CS and physics/math?
Because if you use things like Magic Quotes, you should be, at least theoretically, immune to CSS/SQL injection attacks. That's part of the reason PHP exists--so you don't have to worry about that sort of thing. The same can be extended to most other concepts like CGI and HTTP that PHP has built in functions for--things you'd have to worry about in lower level languages.
One aside to that is that Magic Quotes can be a pain in the ass to deal with. Poorly coded applications will have strings of text like Joe\'s Hot Dogs, or even worse Joe\\\\\\\\'s Hot Dogs. I find myself having to use stripslashes for certain functions. Oh well. The other aside is that 'real programmers' already know about SQL injection and that sort of thing.
Whether PHP provides convenience or a blindfold is the real question.
The side effect is, of course, that any annoyance blocking technologies in Mozilla software or its associated plugins gets better, and we all learn more. This isn't a bad thing--indeed, almost all affected parties improve through competition.
A producer told me, "Donald Trump is news. ..."
I didn't hear anything about Donald Trump aside from a random bankruptcy and his distant plans about building here until The Apprentice came out. But since that program came out, he appears to be everywhere.
The distinction, of course, is whether Dateline is promoting a product (he is in this case a product) or reacting to a product that's already been promoted. But Dateline is a "news magazine show"--determining what exactly this is will be an exercise left to the reader because I sure as hell can't--and I don't think it falls in the same class of journalistic integrity one might expect, from the New York Times, the BBC, or The Economist. But then again, we make excuses for the media a lot--I'm sure your city has that blatant left/right wing daily, the never-awe-inspiring local news program, the weekly independent rag, etc. I'd like to have a source of news I don't have to make excuses for and remove filters to have an idea of what's really happening.
Altho this is digressing rather off topic, there's a reason they call it the boob-tube. The way television broadcasts news is almost like bottle feeding a baby. And if your exposure to a journal article or government report is from it flying on screen with one or two sentences zoomed and highlighted, or your idea of public perception is what the "man on the street" says, or you gauge a corporation's conduct by what their paid spokesdrone says, you're on that bottle. And most people who are don't even realise it. That needs to change more than anything.
There's no hierarchical precedent when it comes to contract law. Specifically, contracts that break the law are unenforcable. Eg, if we have a signed contract detailing the methodology and compensation for you killing my partner, and you reneg, I can't come after you for violation of contract.
And yes, according to my business law teacher, that example did happen.
>Triangulation requires heavier gear than that.
and in 5 years?
I can think of a lot of technologies that have been around for five years that are still as big as they were ten years before that. The iridium cell phones and satellite equipment we deal with at work haven't changed in size since the beginning. It takes a substantial level of consumer demand to shrink and improve technology...that's the other side of Moore's Law that the technocratic elite will admit.
but it would call home, to the ip of the correctional facility or such other agency. No need to see what's inside the message to know the kind of device making the call.
Assuming this is IP based, you'd have to be on the same IP network in promiscuous mode to see connections originating from the monitoring device to the facility. Most secure implementations of this would involve tunneling in some aspect, so good luck being on that network. You'd have to basically hack one of the devices or have detailed specifications of its operation. Even if you could do that, you'd only see IP addresses, which don't correlate in anyway to what you'd be able to see by triangulating a possible transmitter--the layer of encryption, the first in the case of GPRS, is too low.
Now, in the unlikely event of actually being able to do all this, the equipment and knowledge needed and the laws you'd be breaking would make the entire operation out of reach of the two kids at Starbucks. I can't imagine a possible scenario where, except by perhaps some extremely fanatical vigilante/victims rights group that would go to these lengths.
And if such groups existed, they'd probably use something like a local database of public mugshots rather than the above overblown situation.
They've had one since 2002, an associate of applied sciences in biotechnology according to http://www.azbioindustry.org/education/mcc.html. They were the first community college in Arizona to offer such a program, altho enrollment is highly limited...only 24 students a year.
First off, this isn't something two kids can do with a laptop at the local Starbucks. Triangulation requires heavier gear than that.
Moreover, GPS is receive only. I'm not aware of any technologies that let you triangulate a radio receiver. And the signal that's sending back would likely use the PCS cell phone spectrum, where the transmissions are already encrypted. Thus the monitoring device would, from an RF perspective, be no different from a regular cell modem.
Thirdly, laws could be written so that privacy of the monitor holders would be ensured even in public environments, but that's a whole nother can of worms (access to public airwaves) that I really don't want to get into here.
suppose the felon is *not* violating any rules, but his ex is a secretary for the PD, and tracks his every move constantly to figure out who he's dating now (let's give her a call...), where he's working now (let's call them too and see if we can get him fired).
This is something that can already be done now, but with this particular situation there's just more data to be accessed. Government officials have access to a wide variety of data on the citizenry that's not available to the general public. Accessing and disseminating it in unauthorised manners will get them terminated or prosecuted.
They are not (for the most part) crowded into dense polluted cities.
I don't know where people get this density = pollution correlation when it comes to cities. It never holds up.
Generally speaking, the biggest single source of pollution comes from cars. Thus, the cities that are less car dependent, ergo, the cities that are dense enough to sustain walkability and functional, widely used public transit aren't as polluted as more sprawled out cities and metropolitan areas. Compare New York City to Los Angeles, for example.
Moreover, it isn't economically feasible to locate factories and other large single sources of pollution in dense areas where land values don't justify the economic output. You'll see those located in sprawling areas first.
Regional pollution also has plenty to do with weather and geology. Cities that are surrounded by mountains such as Phoenix, Las Vegas, and the San Fernando Valley are highly succeptible to "brown clouds" that hang around for a long time because it's too hard for them to dissipate.
But why let our children have the economic advantage in the future when we can rape and pillage the environment now?
So, MIT is essentially doing what Rice, SUNY Stony Brook, Lehigh, Rice, Syracuse, and even Mesa Community College have been doing for a very long time now?
Yes, this is MIT, and they have a potential to become the leading institution in the field, but respected universites have already established programs. When MIT comes out with something revolutionary from their new program, then I'll be interested.
Why is it so fucking hard for them to just issue a patch for their existing versions?
Why does the local phone company suck ass? Why do products break shortly after their warranty expires? Why do people dread returning stuff at Giant Box Retailer?
The answer to all these questions is that they have your money already, and there is little incentive for them to care about you after the fact. In perfect competition, post-sale satisfaction is as crucial part as any, but in monopolistic, nobody really cares if you take your business elsewhere, or tell your friends to not shop there. Providing good customer service isn't worth it these days.
This is why I can't wait for software by subscription like Microsoft is proposing. Every month when the software bill is due more people will be apt to consider other alternatives. Would you pay $X/month for something you're irritated by?
11. Screwy connectors. For video output we have VGA, Mini VGA, 13w3, DB15, HDI45, all off the top of my head and I'm sure there's more I could kill them for HDI45 alone. That mini AUI--who the hell ever used that?
12. Poor transition from Apple II to Macintosh. They were two completely seperate machines manufactured by the same company with surprisingly little cross compatibility. Could you even share files between them? Us Apple II owners had virtually no upgrade path when Macintosh came out.
13. Serial printers.
14. The IIvx, the LC's, the Performas.
15. Little component standardization. Drive sleds, motherboards, power supplies, even batteries, you name it, you could rarely make one live Mac out of two dead ones.
16. Missing the whole IDE/ATAPI boat. All the old macs used to be SCSI which drove up component cost even further. SCSI should have been an option, not mandatory.
17. Black box POSTing...when you turn on a Mac, you shouldn't hear the sound of broken glass if it's gone south for the winter. Error beeps, some explanation of what just went wrong, anything would've been better than that hideous broken glass sound.
18. Random non-standard-bus expansion cards...modems, video import, 802.11, bluetooth...
If I'm wrong, don't moderate, but reply--Since I spent all summer of 2001 refurbishing about 50 random macintoshes for a nonprofit and running into little cross compatibility, I've been very jaded on Macintosh hardware.
Whereas, astrology and the like are basically just cold reading (normally, based on the person's reactions, mannerisms, and how they dress), and not really on the stars.
Bzzt. Astrology is based off the mathematical angles of planets in orbit. Stars have nothing to do with it. My birth chart explains it a lot better than I can. Scroll down to the bottom for a good visual explanation.