The guy even had a mansion in Englewood, NJ. Could have done a Real Housewives of NJ crossover episode. I wonder who gets the mansion now that he's dead? It was owned by the Libyan government.
This track is nothing new, if one wants a whole CD's worth, check out Dreamfish by Pete Namlook and Mixmaster Morris. Ambient and to a lesser extent, Trance, are genres of music typically composed with relaxation in mind.
They are actually allowed to build residential buildings with those things? I can't honestly recall any recent construction around here being anything but wood beams.
The stickers are pretty cheap at $5 a piece (the E-ZPass transponders are $25-30). If people need to move the sticker from car to car they just don't peel off the adhesive backing and attach it to the windshield with a piece of tape.
I'm actually surprised to read that I-PASS had any tags with replaceable batteries. I-Pass uses the same tags as the rest of the E-ZPass system, namely Mark IV brand transponders. The Mark IV tags are normally sealed units with lithium batteries and no beeper/LED to indicate the tag was read. They did a similar tag recall a few years ago, as tags were reaching 10 years old and the batteries were starting to die. Newer electronic toll tags are simply RFID barcode stickers, no batteries, and cheap to buy. Sadly I don't think E-ZPass will be switching to that type of system anytime soon.
(anyone watching UHF television still these days?)
Actually yes, plenty of people are watching UHF TV nowadays. Most broadcasters switched to UHF because its better for transmitting ATSC broadcasts and led to a bit of a revival of that spectrum. The only place you will find VHF ATSC stations are crowded markets like NYC or LA where there is a spectrum crunch (mostly because a good chunk of the 700Mhz range, formerly UHF channels 52 thru 69, went to cell phone service). Even then those channels are on the high VHF (channel 7-13) band, almost nobody broadcasts on the low-VHF (channel 2-6) stations anymore.
It would be fun to stick one of these on a 486 board with PCI slots. Drivers would be an issue though as it likely doesn't come with Windows 9x drivers.
Its nothing really new, they likely do it to fill empty container space from China since computer parts alone might not be enough volume. I was in a local PC builder here in NNJ (since out of business) and they always had all kinds of non-computer related items in their warehouse. They had some sort of bulk shipping/wholesaling contract where they handled the logistics in Asia for other companies.
Drive past any major port in the US. Chances are you will see acres of empty shipping containers stacked up doing nothing. Those ships are going back empty anyway because its cheaper then moving the now empty containers back to their source. Even if the collapsible containers don't return to Asia, they will certainly take up less real estate here in the USA.
Reality is most thrift stores aren't taking in old tech, period. Many are turning away perfectly good TVs because they have dial tuners and are "too old", never mind the fact that practically all TVs prior to 2006 require a DTV converter. Its annoying to me because it cut off a source of equipment to keep my vintage machines (both computers and consumer electronics) running. Take a look on ebay at the prices of 486s. Used to be you couldn't give them away for free, now they actually fetch some cash because they have become hard to find. (mostly due to recycling and thrift stores not wanting to carry them)
IKEA is fine for a piece of furniture that you know is going to be beat to crap anyway. They also offer high end/commercial stuff too (with a long warranty to back it).
Those Compaq machines had a hidden service partition that actually booted DOS and ran the setup program along with diagnostics programs. If your HD died or you completely wiped the service partition off, you couldn't get into setup until you restored it. The only self contained BIOS I can think of that used a mouse was the AMI WinBIOS, which everyone seems to hate for some reason.
The real fun will begin when Microsoft decides to EOL your hardware by not releasing keys for newer versions of Windows, even if the machine has the specs to run it.
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Do the Republicans have any sane candidates? It makes being and independent really tough.
Now I know why they were all begging Chris Christie to run.
I wonder if Clifford Stoll had something to do with this...
Raytheon is fly-by-night?
The guy even had a mansion in Englewood, NJ. Could have done a Real Housewives of NJ crossover episode. I wonder who gets the mansion now that he's dead? It was owned by the Libyan government.
This track is nothing new, if one wants a whole CD's worth, check out Dreamfish by Pete Namlook and Mixmaster Morris. Ambient and to a lesser extent, Trance, are genres of music typically composed with relaxation in mind.
I can't even find an obituary. I live local to Bell Labs, I think I went to high school with his son.
They are actually allowed to build residential buildings with those things? I can't honestly recall any recent construction around here being anything but wood beams.
The Apple II was also revolutionary in being one of the first computers in an attractive beige case too. (really)
The stickers are pretty cheap at $5 a piece (the E-ZPass transponders are $25-30). If people need to move the sticker from car to car they just don't peel off the adhesive backing and attach it to the windshield with a piece of tape.
I'm actually surprised to read that I-PASS had any tags with replaceable batteries. I-Pass uses the same tags as the rest of the E-ZPass system, namely Mark IV brand transponders. The Mark IV tags are normally sealed units with lithium batteries and no beeper/LED to indicate the tag was read. They did a similar tag recall a few years ago, as tags were reaching 10 years old and the batteries were starting to die. Newer electronic toll tags are simply RFID barcode stickers, no batteries, and cheap to buy. Sadly I don't think E-ZPass will be switching to that type of system anytime soon.
(anyone watching UHF television still these days?)
Actually yes, plenty of people are watching UHF TV nowadays. Most broadcasters switched to UHF because its better for transmitting ATSC broadcasts and led to a bit of a revival of that spectrum. The only place you will find VHF ATSC stations are crowded markets like NYC or LA where there is a spectrum crunch (mostly because a good chunk of the 700Mhz range, formerly UHF channels 52 thru 69, went to cell phone service). Even then those channels are on the high VHF (channel 7-13) band, almost nobody broadcasts on the low-VHF (channel 2-6) stations anymore.
Some of the modern distros come with kernels per-compiled for a Pentium or above out of the box, but a quick rebuild fixes that.
It would be fun to stick one of these on a 486 board with PCI slots. Drivers would be an issue though as it likely doesn't come with Windows 9x drivers.
AGP came out in 1997 and lasted until about 2005 or so.
When? I have upgraded plenty of Mac portables in the past 10+ years with standard RAM modules.
Its nothing really new, they likely do it to fill empty container space from China since computer parts alone might not be enough volume. I was in a local PC builder here in NNJ (since out of business) and they always had all kinds of non-computer related items in their warehouse. They had some sort of bulk shipping/wholesaling contract where they handled the logistics in Asia for other companies.
Drive past any major port in the US. Chances are you will see acres of empty shipping containers stacked up doing nothing. Those ships are going back empty anyway because its cheaper then moving the now empty containers back to their source. Even if the collapsible containers don't return to Asia, they will certainly take up less real estate here in the USA.
or Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)...better known these days as ActiveX?
Reality is most thrift stores aren't taking in old tech, period. Many are turning away perfectly good TVs because they have dial tuners and are "too old", never mind the fact that practically all TVs prior to 2006 require a DTV converter. Its annoying to me because it cut off a source of equipment to keep my vintage machines (both computers and consumer electronics) running. Take a look on ebay at the prices of 486s. Used to be you couldn't give them away for free, now they actually fetch some cash because they have become hard to find. (mostly due to recycling and thrift stores not wanting to carry them)
gah, make that sofa... early morning + no coffee (or soda for that matter).
IKEA is fine for a piece of furniture that you know is going to be beat to crap anyway. They also offer high end/commercial stuff too (with a long warranty to back it).
and if you are really unlucky, the soda gets stuck on a curved flight of stairs in a seemingly impossible way with no apparent way of getting it out.
Those Compaq machines had a hidden service partition that actually booted DOS and ran the setup program along with diagnostics programs. If your HD died or you completely wiped the service partition off, you couldn't get into setup until you restored it. The only self contained BIOS I can think of that used a mouse was the AMI WinBIOS, which everyone seems to hate for some reason.
The real fun will begin when Microsoft decides to EOL your hardware by not releasing keys for newer versions of Windows, even if the machine has the specs to run it.
Your unlimited data plan is grandfathered as long as you don't remove the option from your account (ie: switch away from a smartphone).