I still have my original Nintendo.....and I never have had to blow & pray...even to this day it works perfectly. In fact, I remember back in the day hearing that blowing on your cartridges was actually a bad thing to do.
Yes, mine still works great, granted my mother was a clean-freak, so take it w/ a grain of salt
#6,253,203 - June 26, 2001 A database containing personal privacy prefferences. I distictly remember setting AOL privacy prefferences in 1996...dont even try to tell me they didn't use a database to track that
#6,169,997 - January 2, 2001 Category viewing of portal content such as News, Sports, Weather, etc instead of simple chronological organization. I signed up for my Yahoo! ID in fall 1997.....
#6,151,601 - November 21, 2000 This one uses the words "collecting" "transformation" "organization" and "transmitting" so many times I can't even understand it. However, it appears to be for using a database system to analyze network traffic at the ISP level. I don't know the inner workings of AOL or any other major ISP, but I'm betting they've been using these type of systems for a loooong time.
#6,085,223 - July 4, 2000 This is for connecting a client to a database through a seperate step, seperating the client and the database. One acronym to defeat this one: ODBC
#5,991,791 - November 23, 1999 A database system to catalog a bunch of stuff...whether digital or not, and to deliver it when requested.. My local public library had everything on an electronic catalog waaaaaay back in 1990. And vending machines delivered me content on request as well.
because the internet grew out of a US education and government developed network....duh....and.gov,.mil, and.edu are too entrenched to be given up for general use
oh, and.us isn't really used by the US government, in fact, if i remember correctly they were trying to sell it off recently
(racing cars are waxed for this reason, the aero drag of a waxed car is measurably lower than an unwaxed one)
Racing cars typically have more than just a wax job....a chunk of clay is used as well for a polish....amazing stuff, i've seen it used, the unwaxed/unpolished panel is typical to a car, the wax makes it smoother to the touch, and the polished is virtually frictionless to your hand....quite amazing...
that aside,
the ideal surface on a car's paint job for wind resistance is not completely smooth....rather something like the dimples on a golf ball, which cause minor vortexes over the entire body of the vehicle create a thin cushion layer of air around the car that has significantly less drag
some physicist in minnesota or somewhere (don't remember where) used some paint and lace to put a lace patterned paint job all over his Audi...which resulted in a decrease in gas mileage
Of course, the problem with such a paintjob/surface is tryting to keep it looking clean
One wonders if they might try going after one of the big boys soon
Nope, I'm willing to bet their business strategy is to harass little people as long as they can, fattening up their checkbooks, and then selling out for a nice huge pile 'o cash to the the 'big boys'
Think about it, they make a lot of money setting precedents....then sell out to the 'big boy' who will pay them the most for the patent and process.
Bought a computer case for $5....w/ $20 shipping and handling. The seller's location was within a couple blocks of my office....but when I contacted them by email they wouldn't let me pick it up, saying: "we don't have a store"
It arrived damaged; the area around the power switch was cracked and the switch didn't work. Contacted them about it and they were willing to refund me the purchase price if I sent it back to them, but not the shipping price.
For everyone crying about how this article is wrong, consider this:
I am Windows user (because of necessary apps that are far from having an equivalent on Linux) and I have been poking w/ Linux for a few years now in my geeky free time.
A few years ago I purchased the big red book for learning Linux, getting it installed, etc.
The first instruction of the book was to "Get a Linus Guru".
I'm sorry, but you don't need a Windows Guru around to really learn Windows (anything more than point 'n click)....its easy to learn how to configure, how to fiddle with, etc. My friends don't call me anymore for windows support, because when I've fixed things for them, I've shown them how easy it is, and now they've learned and can do more than I taught them, just by figuring it out themselves. I didn't have someone like that for Windows. Back when I first started messing w/ computers as a kid w/ my C64 I did, but I quickly outpaced everyone I knew and was soon helping the people that intially were helping me.
That doesn't happen w/ Linux. Even though I've been poking and trying to use Linux as my desktop OS for 3 years now, I have only finally understood how to get OpenGL support in X, how to fix that ethernet configuration, mounting drives, and getting WineX working. I'm still quite a ways from understanding compiling more than just following the 'type this, then this' instructions. And apt-get dependency hell frequently leaves me with forgoing the app. i wanted.
Hell, I'm even almost considering finding a nearby LUG - which scares the hell out of me.
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because standard widgets are boooooooring...which joe user doesn't want
i like having skins for my media player....and i think most other people do too
hell, even windows media player and quicktime have both dropped 'standard widgets'.
stop whining about fragile metadata for MP3s and take a look at ID3 tags....the metadata (thats fun to say, metadata) is intentionally built into the file format
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If you have ever seen WinAmp, then you would understand the "incredibly bizzarde interface of XMMS". XMMS is designed to act like WinAmp, and use the thousands and thousands of WinAmp skins available.
you think a kernel compile is boring.....try having your dream be minesweeper....just a plain ordinary game of minesweeper....
i had been playing so much, that i was able to keep a game of minesweeper running in my head overlaid on my vision while in Calculus 2....i stopped playing shortly after
I used to have that happen to me in my mid teens....and just like you said, I was running in my dreams (sometimes chased, sometimes chasing) and I would slow untill motionless, wake up, and not be able to move.....freaky as hell
It doesn't appear that Macromedia is donating software, but rather a collection of Flash/Dreamweaver/Shockwave/Whatever projects that were 'Created with Macromedia'
No, once this blows over it's time to apply the fucking patch. It's been available for six months mind you.
The patch does not affect routers stupid. Just because his routers are all lit up with massive amounts of traffic, does not mean that his servers are unpatched!
My link was down for 4 hours from the flooding with everything all lit up, and I'm not even running an SQL server.
Smaller CRTs? I've got a couple 19" Sony monitors here, and I've always considered them to be a good size.
I worked for a company that was onsite tech support/repair for a major hospital in San Diego.....they had 23" Sony Trinitrons just laying arround in the shop....this was in 1999....
The MRI and CAT scan machines, as well as a whole slew of other hospital equipment used these massive monitors....so I can understand how in comparison Sony would consider 17" and 19" small.
This is an album I am on. Including equipment and production, it cost us about $25000 to produce. That is probably as cheap as it gets...its an extremely well edited and recorded album, we happened to have the know-how to do the majority of it ourselves, with as little rented studio time as possible.
That price however, doesn't factor in the cost of our time.
Over the years, I have purchased and used 7 CD burners. I have burned at least 2000 CDs. Of those, about 10 were an original music project I was working on (nothing the music industry had any rights to), about 5 were audio compilation cds made from mp3s I legitatmately bought the original CD (content the music industry does have the right to) and the rest of the batch (at least 1985 CDs) were various data backups, file transfers, etc.
If, the record industry got 3 cents for each CD (that is their minimum here, they'd rather have the 10c) I would (and actually have, thanks to stupid US law) payed the music industry $60. I have not copied any music I have not paid for, bet yet I am taxed the cost of 150-200 more blank media. If it was a 10cent tax, then I would have spent $200.....that is about how much I have spent on my entire music collection (the vast majority of my collection is gifts). $200 is a pretty hefty chuck of money to have paid for the priveledge of transfering my own content to my own media for my own purposes, especially when that $200 is being given to a massive corporation that had absolutely nothing to do with how that media was used, and had lost absolutely nothing in sales to my actions.
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my dad tells me of when he was working in sales, and called out a customer's name: "Mr. Marron?"
When the guy came to the counter he thanked my dad for pronouncing his name correctly, as most people probably snicker and say "moron"
In the past 11 years, my name has been in the top 20....and i'm sure its been longer than that
However, I have met a total of maybee 10 people in my lifetime that share the same first name as me....as common of a name as it is
In fact my hand still involuntarily twitches in the direction of white flashing lights
Probably not a good thing when driving....
I still have my original Nintendo.....and I never have had to blow & pray...even to this day it works perfectly. In fact, I remember back in the day hearing that blowing on your cartridges was actually a bad thing to do.
Yes, mine still works great, granted my mother was a clean-freak, so take it w/ a grain of salt
#6,253,203 - June 26, 2001
A database containing personal privacy prefferences.
I distictly remember setting AOL privacy prefferences in 1996...dont even try to tell me they didn't use a database to track that
#6,169,997 - January 2, 2001
Category viewing of portal content such as News, Sports, Weather, etc instead of simple chronological organization.
I signed up for my Yahoo! ID in fall 1997.....
#6,151,601 - November 21, 2000
This one uses the words "collecting" "transformation" "organization" and "transmitting" so many times I can't even understand it. However, it appears to be for using a database system to analyze network traffic at the ISP level.
I don't know the inner workings of AOL or any other major ISP, but I'm betting they've been using these type of systems for a loooong time.
#6,085,223 - July 4, 2000
This is for connecting a client to a database through a seperate step, seperating the client and the database.
One acronym to defeat this one: ODBC
#5,991,791 - November 23, 1999
A database system to catalog a bunch of stuff...whether digital or not, and to deliver it when requested..
My local public library had everything on an electronic catalog waaaaaay back in 1990. And vending machines delivered me content on request as well.
There's your prior art - run with it
because the internet grew out of a US education and government developed network....duh....and .gov, .mil, and .edu are too entrenched to be given up for general use
.us isn't really used by the US government, in fact, if i remember correctly they were trying to sell it off recently
oh, and
"nana nana NA na NAAaa Na Spector Garriot. NananaNA NA NAAAAAAA!"
That has got to be the worst spelling of the Inspector Gadget theme song I've ever seen.
And as every child of '80s knows, the Inspector Gadget theme song is either sung with "doo do doo do" or "bom bom bom", NOT "na na na"
(racing cars are waxed for this reason, the aero drag of a waxed car is measurably lower than an unwaxed one)
Racing cars typically have more than just a wax job....a chunk of clay is used as well for a polish....amazing stuff, i've seen it used, the unwaxed/unpolished panel is typical to a car, the wax makes it smoother to the touch, and the polished is virtually frictionless to your hand....quite amazing...
that aside,
the ideal surface on a car's paint job for wind resistance is not completely smooth....rather something like the dimples on a golf ball, which cause minor vortexes over the entire body of the vehicle create a thin cushion layer of air around the car that has significantly less drag
some physicist in minnesota or somewhere (don't remember where) used some paint and lace to put a lace patterned paint job all over his Audi...which resulted in a decrease in gas mileage
Of course, the problem with such a paintjob/surface is tryting to keep it looking clean
One wonders if they might try going after one of the big boys soon
Nope, I'm willing to bet their business strategy is to harass little people as long as they can, fattening up their checkbooks, and then selling out for a nice huge pile 'o cash to the the 'big boys'
Think about it, they make a lot of money setting precedents....then sell out to the 'big boy' who will pay them the most for the patent and process.
Yeah....know exactly what you mean.
Bought a computer case for $5....w/ $20 shipping and handling. The seller's location was within a couple blocks of my office....but when I contacted them by email they wouldn't let me pick it up, saying: "we don't have a store"
It arrived damaged; the area around the power switch was cracked and the switch didn't work. Contacted them about it and they were willing to refund me the purchase price if I sent it back to them, but not the shipping price.
Lousy bastards.
I haven't put a floppy in any of the 10 or so machines i've built over the last 2 years
none of them...not even my own high-end tweaked workstation
this came back to bite me in the ass 2 weeks ago when i needed to flash the bios - doh! had to go digging through boxes to find one
For everyone crying about how this article is wrong, consider this:
I am Windows user (because of necessary apps that are far from having an equivalent on Linux) and I have been poking w/ Linux for a few years now in my geeky free time.
A few years ago I purchased the big red book for learning Linux, getting it installed, etc.
The first instruction of the book was to
"Get a Linus Guru".
I'm sorry, but you don't need a Windows Guru around to really learn Windows (anything more than point 'n click)....its easy to learn how to configure, how to fiddle with, etc. My friends don't call me anymore for windows support, because when I've fixed things for them, I've shown them how easy it is, and now they've learned and can do more than I taught them, just by figuring it out themselves. I didn't have someone like that for Windows. Back when I first started messing w/ computers as a kid w/ my C64 I did, but I quickly outpaced everyone I knew and was soon helping the people that intially were helping me.
That doesn't happen w/ Linux. Even though I've been poking and trying to use Linux as my desktop OS for 3 years now, I have only finally understood how to get OpenGL support in X, how to fix that ethernet configuration, mounting drives, and getting WineX working. I'm still quite a ways from understanding compiling more than just following the 'type this, then this' instructions. And apt-get dependency hell frequently leaves me with forgoing the app. i wanted.
Hell, I'm even almost considering finding a nearby LUG - which scares the hell out of me.
because standard widgets are boooooooring...which joe user doesn't want
i like having skins for my media player....and i think most other people do too
hell, even windows media player and quicktime have both dropped 'standard widgets'.
stop whining about fragile metadata for MP3s and take a look at ID3 tags....the metadata (thats fun to say, metadata) is intentionally built into the file format
If you have ever seen WinAmp, then you would understand the "incredibly bizzarde interface of XMMS". XMMS is designed to act like WinAmp, and use the thousands and thousands of WinAmp skins available.
Well, considering the zip code for Hell, Michigan is 48169, I'd say pretty damn cold.
you think a kernel compile is boring.....try having your dream be minesweeper....just a plain ordinary game of minesweeper....
i had been playing so much, that i was able to keep a game of minesweeper running in my head overlaid on my vision while in Calculus 2....i stopped playing shortly after
I used to have that happen to me in my mid teens....and just like you said, I was running in my dreams (sometimes chased, sometimes chasing) and I would slow untill motionless, wake up, and not be able to move.....freaky as hell
It doesn't appear that Macromedia is donating software, but rather a collection of Flash/Dreamweaver/Shockwave/Whatever projects that were 'Created with Macromedia'
Here's the google cache:
He could pretend to be Verisign, for example. Consider that $10M is really not a lot of money for many Moslim countries.
$10M is really not a lot of money for many Christain countries.
$10M is really not a lot of money for many Buhdist contries.
$10M is really not a lot of money for many Shintoist countries.
etc.....You're point?
But you were right on the Verisign thing.
No, once this blows over it's time to apply the fucking patch. It's been available for six months mind you.
The patch does not affect routers stupid. Just because his routers are all lit up with massive amounts of traffic, does not mean that his servers are unpatched!
My link was down for 4 hours from the flooding with everything all lit up, and I'm not even running an SQL server.
The FX will start shipping in February.
Don't hold out for it...initially it will only ship on the Quadro line....the target price range for which are going to be $1200-$2000.
As such, the price on the Ti4200 probably won't drop all that much.
Smaller CRTs? I've got a couple 19" Sony monitors here, and I've always considered them to be a good size.
I worked for a company that was onsite tech support/repair for a major hospital in San Diego.....they had 23" Sony Trinitrons just laying arround in the shop....this was in 1999....
The MRI and CAT scan machines, as well as a whole slew of other hospital equipment used these massive monitors....so I can understand how in comparison Sony would consider 17" and 19" small.
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This is an album I am on. Including equipment and production, it cost us about $25000 to produce. That is probably as cheap as it gets...its an extremely well edited and recorded album, we happened to have the know-how to do the majority of it ourselves, with as little rented studio time as possible.
That price however, doesn't factor in the cost of our time.
Over the years, I have purchased and used 7 CD burners. I have burned at least 2000 CDs. Of those, about 10 were an original music project I was working on (nothing the music industry had any rights to), about 5 were audio compilation cds made from mp3s I legitatmately bought the original CD (content the music industry does have the right to) and the rest of the batch (at least 1985 CDs) were various data backups, file transfers, etc.
If, the record industry got 3 cents for each CD (that is their minimum here, they'd rather have the 10c) I would (and actually have, thanks to stupid US law) payed the music industry $60. I have not copied any music I have not paid for, bet yet I am taxed the cost of 150-200 more blank media. If it was a 10cent tax, then I would have spent $200.....that is about how much I have spent on my entire music collection (the vast majority of my collection is gifts). $200 is a pretty hefty chuck of money to have paid for the priveledge of transfering my own content to my own media for my own purposes, especially when that $200 is being given to a massive corporation that had absolutely nothing to do with how that media was used, and had lost absolutely nothing in sales to my actions.