Ask DigiNotar how well that worked out for them. Whats funny about the whole is that people are supposed to "trust" a private enterprise with a clear profit motive. Yet nobody seems to actually question that trust enough.
Microchannel made it into a few Pentium machines along side of PCI slots! EISA lasted slightly longer, into the Pentium Pro era. ISA remains in PCs by way of the low pin count (LPC) bus. Despite trying to kill them off, legacy ports remain on motherboards. Nothing beats a nice interrupt driven PS/2 port for a keyboard with n-key rollover! ASRock sells a Z77 motherboard with a floppy connector too.
Even if you have FTTH, the phone company's terminal usually gives you standard POTS connections. Verizon's telephone offering for FiOS is VoIP based, but there is no way to interface with it digitally via something like SIP. Your only option is those POTS connections. Don't know if it can handle text messages, the only noticeable upgrade over POTS is the online voice mail box and the ability to do call forwarding, multiline ring, and "follow me" ring.
I remember the Asterisk people resisted adding SLA as a feature to the software since "nobody used it" and it wasn't in demand. I had a store that wanted to go VoIP a few years back, but wanted a setup similar to their old "key" phone system (Nortel Norstar, plus they still had a 1A2 system as backup!). Asterisk got crossed off the list pretty quickly.
My Apple IIgs was made in Singapore and sold here in the USA along with the rest I have seen. Don't know if any of that model were actually built here. My beige G3 along with the early PCI PowerMacs were all assembled in the USA though. For a while Apple used to source the high end models domestically, with the cheap models coming from overseas.
Were the Plextor Premium drives still made by Plextor themselves? I purposely keep all my older Plextor SCSI CD-ROM and CD-RW drives laying around. The Ultraplex 32X and 40X can read just about everything written onto a CD. I always thought they were sellouts when they decided to release ATAPI CD recorders. The Plexwriter 8/20X was notorious for being able to master Playstation game CDs and other copy protected crap with ease. I also used it to create masters for a friend's album that he sent out to be pressed.
Kodak also had a brief foray into the field of dental office management software (I had to support an office using their software a while back). The whole medical branch of the company was spun off a while ago into Carestream Health.
Actually reading that chat log is refreshing. Dell support used to make it really hard to order replacement parts. Back in the late 90s they were great, called them up, got someone on the phone from Texas, told them the keyboard on a laptop (out of warranty) was busted and they allowed me to purchase a new one at cost. Fast forward a few years later, on another out of warranty laptop I call them up and get stuck in broken English script hell. They outright refused to sell me any replacement parts!
What is funny is that OS X no longer seems to be getting yearly updates. During the 10.0-10.4 era it made sense. The early versions of OS X were an unfinished joke, each update was a major improvement. The dark side of it was each update broke A LOT of low level system stuff.
My cousin owns a KIN 2. Verizon was blowing out the phone cheap, plus it was one of the few phones at the time with a QWERTY keyboard that wasn't classified as a smartphone, so no data plan was required. It wasn't a bad phone, a nice change from the typical LG "feature phone" VZW sells, but it wasn't anything special either.
The split screen view reminds me of the Amiga. Its far from being a new concept, but why didn't anyone think of implementing it on a smartphone until now?
I suppose you communicate with other folks on youtube too. I had someone actually influence the stats of one of my videos by telling everyone to skip to a certain point in the comments.
I've actually noticed that the tracking has gotten better. Delivery Confirmation used to be just that, you only got notice of when the package is delivered. Now they seem to scan packages at some of the processing centers along the way. Its not 100% consistent like the courier services or the more expensive priority/express mail options, but its an improvement. Heck USPS scanned the customs forms on the last international shipment I did, allowing me to track the package while it was still in the US.
The customs forms are all standardized by the Universal Postal Union. for example the CN-22 form commonly used to send small packages internationally. The only universal tracking numbers I have seen come with packages shipped via the Express Mail Service (EMS), another service that's administered by the UPU.
The workers also pay a portion of their salary into the pension system. Most public employee pension systems are fiscally solvent from contributions alone as long as politics don't get involved and start dipping into the funds to plug deficit holes elsewhere (sadly all too common).
NJ has its own fair share of quirkiness. Chain stores are only allowed to have 2 locations in the state that can sell alcohol (I think this only applies to things like supermarkets, not dedicated liquor store chains). So places like C-Stores and Supermarkets are usually dry. There are at least two 7-Elevens and Trader Joes in the state that do sell alcohol though. There aren't any restrictions otherwise, a liquor store can sell anything including 190 proof Everclear. Municipalities control the number of liquor licenses in towns and its a money maker for them. There are a few select towns that are dry.
One of the limitations of Windows RT is that developers can only use the IE rendering engine, similar to how they are limited to Safari's rendering engine on iOS.
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Ask DigiNotar how well that worked out for them. Whats funny about the whole is that people are supposed to "trust" a private enterprise with a clear profit motive. Yet nobody seems to actually question that trust enough.
Make sure you remember it BEFORE your fire extinguisher catches on fire.
Microchannel made it into a few Pentium machines along side of PCI slots! EISA lasted slightly longer, into the Pentium Pro era. ISA remains in PCs by way of the low pin count (LPC) bus. Despite trying to kill them off, legacy ports remain on motherboards. Nothing beats a nice interrupt driven PS/2 port for a keyboard with n-key rollover! ASRock sells a Z77 motherboard with a floppy connector too.
HURD will be finished any day now....
The DosBox devs don't appear militant
Just don't tell them you plan on using DOSBox to run applications that aren't games...
Even if you have FTTH, the phone company's terminal usually gives you standard POTS connections. Verizon's telephone offering for FiOS is VoIP based, but there is no way to interface with it digitally via something like SIP. Your only option is those POTS connections. Don't know if it can handle text messages, the only noticeable upgrade over POTS is the online voice mail box and the ability to do call forwarding, multiline ring, and "follow me" ring.
I remember the Asterisk people resisted adding SLA as a feature to the software since "nobody used it" and it wasn't in demand. I had a store that wanted to go VoIP a few years back, but wanted a setup similar to their old "key" phone system (Nortel Norstar, plus they still had a 1A2 system as backup!). Asterisk got crossed off the list pretty quickly.
My Apple IIgs was made in Singapore and sold here in the USA along with the rest I have seen. Don't know if any of that model were actually built here. My beige G3 along with the early PCI PowerMacs were all assembled in the USA though. For a while Apple used to source the high end models domestically, with the cheap models coming from overseas.
Were the Plextor Premium drives still made by Plextor themselves? I purposely keep all my older Plextor SCSI CD-ROM and CD-RW drives laying around. The Ultraplex 32X and 40X can read just about everything written onto a CD. I always thought they were sellouts when they decided to release ATAPI CD recorders. The Plexwriter 8/20X was notorious for being able to master Playstation game CDs and other copy protected crap with ease. I also used it to create masters for a friend's album that he sent out to be pressed.
Kodak also had a brief foray into the field of dental office management software (I had to support an office using their software a while back). The whole medical branch of the company was spun off a while ago into Carestream Health.
Actually reading that chat log is refreshing. Dell support used to make it really hard to order replacement parts. Back in the late 90s they were great, called them up, got someone on the phone from Texas, told them the keyboard on a laptop (out of warranty) was busted and they allowed me to purchase a new one at cost. Fast forward a few years later, on another out of warranty laptop I call them up and get stuck in broken English script hell. They outright refused to sell me any replacement parts!
Wait a minute, that's the password to my luggage!
What is funny is that OS X no longer seems to be getting yearly updates. During the 10.0-10.4 era it made sense. The early versions of OS X were an unfinished joke, each update was a major improvement. The dark side of it was each update broke A LOT of low level system stuff.
They usually close and then reopen a few months later. Always in the same store front too.
My cousin owns a KIN 2. Verizon was blowing out the phone cheap, plus it was one of the few phones at the time with a QWERTY keyboard that wasn't classified as a smartphone, so no data plan was required. It wasn't a bad phone, a nice change from the typical LG "feature phone" VZW sells, but it wasn't anything special either.
T-Fal is a legit brand... http://www.t-falusa.com/
The split screen view reminds me of the Amiga. Its far from being a new concept, but why didn't anyone think of implementing it on a smartphone until now?
It is a bus mouse, but predates Microsoft's DIN "InPort" connector by a few years. What the OP has there is the original circa 1983 Microsoft Mouse.
I suppose you communicate with other folks on youtube too. I had someone actually influence the stats of one of my videos by telling everyone to skip to a certain point in the comments.
Its going to be pretty hard to hire Johnnie Cochran.
I've actually noticed that the tracking has gotten better. Delivery Confirmation used to be just that, you only got notice of when the package is delivered. Now they seem to scan packages at some of the processing centers along the way. Its not 100% consistent like the courier services or the more expensive priority/express mail options, but its an improvement. Heck USPS scanned the customs forms on the last international shipment I did, allowing me to track the package while it was still in the US.
The customs forms are all standardized by the Universal Postal Union. for example the CN-22 form commonly used to send small packages internationally. The only universal tracking numbers I have seen come with packages shipped via the Express Mail Service (EMS), another service that's administered by the UPU.
The workers also pay a portion of their salary into the pension system. Most public employee pension systems are fiscally solvent from contributions alone as long as politics don't get involved and start dipping into the funds to plug deficit holes elsewhere (sadly all too common).
NJ has its own fair share of quirkiness. Chain stores are only allowed to have 2 locations in the state that can sell alcohol (I think this only applies to things like supermarkets, not dedicated liquor store chains). So places like C-Stores and Supermarkets are usually dry. There are at least two 7-Elevens and Trader Joes in the state that do sell alcohol though. There aren't any restrictions otherwise, a liquor store can sell anything including 190 proof Everclear. Municipalities control the number of liquor licenses in towns and its a money maker for them. There are a few select towns that are dry.
One of the limitations of Windows RT is that developers can only use the IE rendering engine, similar to how they are limited to Safari's rendering engine on iOS.