The only company I worship anymore is the Bell System. They invented the transistor and wired a nation. They are dead and gone and can't break my heart. (Looking at you HP and Motorola.)
Agree. Call me if you need to talk, we can get it solved in 2 minutes on the phone rather than 15 minutes of me trying to type on a small touch screen. I'll talk when I'm driving with my blue tooth, but I'll ignore you're text and likely forget about it. Send me an email and I have it on all my "devices" and can get it almost anywhere at anytime, and just as fast as an SMS.
I guess I wasn't that clear. It's 4G up to 2GB, then it drops to 3G. But since I have just a 3G phone I never notice anyway. Sorry to hear that you don't have them available where you're at. They have the best customer service. They even let me drop a phone from my plan 8 months early without any fees because I had been with them for so long.
I've got a T-Mobile "Unlimited 2GB" plan. After 2GB they throttle it down to 3G speed. I have a 3G android phone so I actually do have unlimited for my phone. Also, T-Mobile doesn't mine tethering, comes installed on the phone, both wifi and USB.
Funny, you got the Cherokee and I'm the one living on the rez (Tulalip.) with a Lutheran American Princess. Yeah, she changed me. I was a long hair Deadhead sleeping on a futon in a rented room. Now we own a home and sleep in a king bed with too many pillows, I have short hair. We worked ISPs and telcos together until she decided it would be better for her to stay at home and cook, and I go out and earn what little money we need. Works fine, she's more of a stay-at-home person while I get stir-crazy on a three day weekend. I eat (too) well and she makes sure it costs only pennies. Nothing like coming home to a clean house with fresh baked bread smelling up the place.
Hey, if you have any tracks of your band, send them to me. My parrot is always looking for new music.
Ford and Rockefeller were just place holders after Nixon and Agnew bailed over Watergate. Considering what he wad incumbent to, he didn't really have a chance.
And a side note: Nixon today would seem like a hard leftest. He started the EPA and OSHA for fuck's sake, along with the Clean Water Act. He enacted wage and price controls and took the dollar off the gold standard.
Hey! I found my wife on-line. She did a who command and saw that I was on the server so she talked me.
Of course this was back in '95 and we were dialed up to a Unix box with a shell account, what passed for Internet access back then. I was using telex.exe and Norton Commander on my DOS box.
Baudot is a 5 bit code most familiar from the old news wire printers and early teletypes. It's also the code used for TTD calls for the deaf. Ham radio still uses it for RTTY on HF.
It got around having only 32 unique characters by having a shift and unshift code, also known as letters and figures, to access a total of 62 characters.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code The code was entered on a keyboard which had just five piano type keys, operated with two fingers of the left hand and three fingers of the right hand. Once the keys had been pressed they were locked down until mechanical contacts in a distributor unit passed over the sector connected to that particular keyboard, when the keyboard was unlocked ready for the next character to be entered, with an audible click (known as the "cadence signal") to warn the operator. Operators had to maintain a steady rhythm, and the usual speed of operation was 30 words per minute.
When you said 16550 driver I was reminded of the VIC-20 where MOS couldn't produce 6551s in time so they software emulated it on the 6522 (and 6526 on the C64.) It could burst up to 1200 baud but 600 baud was it's sustained max. I remember friends an I "turbo" speeding our 300 baud modems to 600 baud on clean lines.
The 68hc11 was a cool chip. I loved the "upper register" of extra op codes. I built myself a nice little FORTH platform way back in the day with it.
Seattle (actually the Puget Sound area) is a Boeing town, a Microsoft town, an Amazon town; i.e.; a geek town. When every single 747 or 787 that has ever been made, or will be made, has/will fly over your house, you pay attention to the geeks. Hell, the aero-geeks here even have a union (speea.org.)
I just got done upgrading a VoIP network at a Samsung office where a bunch of Korean kids develop smart phones. Why here? Because they are across the street from T-Mobile and down the road from Clearwire and AT&T mobile.
This town is (over)run by geeks. You know the names, Gates, Allen, Bezos, Myhrvold, McCaw...
Lighthaus does this too. Go by a major sports team/shoe store in your local mall and you'll see an IP camera above the main door pointed straight down. The computer watches which angle you enter the store at, what display you head toward and how long you linger at the entrance. The info isn't even seen by the store manager, it goes right to corporate.
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The only company I worship anymore is the Bell System. They invented the transistor and wired a nation. They are dead and gone and can't break my heart. (Looking at you HP and Motorola.)
Yeah, hand Anonymous the button. What could possibly go wrong?
Use ham radio to take them down. Not by using RF, but by hanging a lot of wire!
http://www.hamuniverse.com/multidipole.html
Nice old-school method.
Here's one of my favorite chips from back in the 80s that you still might find useful:
http://www.datasheetarchive.com/datasheet-pdf/Datasheet-06/DSA00100400.html
Let's you detect dialtones, busy & ring signals.
This one:
http://www.datasheetarchive.com/datasheet-pdf/Datasheet-06/DSA00100405.html
decodes the SIT (three tone) error signals (there are eight different ones, actually.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_information_tones
Keep hacking and tell me what you end up with.
Agree. Call me if you need to talk, we can get it solved in 2 minutes on the phone rather than 15 minutes of me trying to type on a small touch screen. I'll talk when I'm driving with my blue tooth, but I'll ignore you're text and likely forget about it. Send me an email and I have it on all my "devices" and can get it almost anywhere at anytime, and just as fast as an SMS.
I'm turning 52 next week and I feel like I'm just starting to "get it."
Then there's the Heinlein remark about mature wisdom resembling being too tired.
I guess I wasn't that clear. It's 4G up to 2GB, then it drops to 3G. But since I have just a 3G phone I never notice anyway. Sorry to hear that you don't have them available where you're at. They have the best customer service. They even let me drop a phone from my plan 8 months early without any fees because I had been with them for so long.
I heat with a wood stove. This sounds just like my normal day of carrying firewood. (Maple ain't light.)
American Telephone & Telegraph.
Now you're seeing the telegraph part of the network.
I've got a T-Mobile "Unlimited 2GB" plan. After 2GB they throttle it down to 3G speed. I have a 3G android phone so I actually do have unlimited for my phone. Also, T-Mobile doesn't mine tethering, comes installed on the phone, both wifi and USB.
Funny, you got the Cherokee and I'm the one living on the rez (Tulalip.) with a Lutheran American Princess. Yeah, she changed me. I was a long hair Deadhead sleeping on a futon in a rented room. Now we own a home and sleep in a king bed with too many pillows, I have short hair. We worked ISPs and telcos together until she decided it would be better for her to stay at home and cook, and I go out and earn what little money we need. Works fine, she's more of a stay-at-home person while I get stir-crazy on a three day weekend. I eat (too) well and she makes sure it costs only pennies. Nothing like coming home to a clean house with fresh baked bread smelling up the place.
Hey, if you have any tracks of your band, send them to me. My parrot is always looking for new music.
It's nice to see someone that claims to "see the light" actually see the light.
If you take the anal sex out of politics....
Then all we have left is water sports.
(Think trickle down.)
...some smartass linked the candidate's name with $upleasantact,
Ya know, there are a lot of people that think anal sex, with proper lubrication, is actually enjoyable.
Savage didn't define the act, he defined the byproduct.
And Mitt Romney could even beat Mitt Romney for President!
Ford and Rockefeller were just place holders after Nixon and Agnew bailed over Watergate. Considering what he wad incumbent to, he didn't really have a chance.
And a side note: Nixon today would seem like a hard leftest. He started the EPA and OSHA for fuck's sake, along with the Clean Water Act. He enacted wage and price controls and took the dollar off the gold standard.
Hey! I found my wife on-line. She did a who command and saw that I was on the server so she talked me.
Of course this was back in '95 and we were dialed up to a Unix box with a shell account, what passed for Internet access back then. I was using telex.exe and Norton Commander on my DOS box.
Damn, coming up on 17 years soon.
Baudot is a 5 bit code most familiar from the old news wire printers and early teletypes. It's also the code used for TTD calls for the deaf. Ham radio still uses it for RTTY on HF.
It got around having only 32 unique characters by having a shift and unshift code, also known as letters and figures, to access a total of 62 characters.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code
The code was entered on a keyboard which had just five piano type keys, operated with two fingers of the left hand and three fingers of the right hand. Once the keys had been pressed they were locked down until mechanical contacts in a distributor unit passed over the sector connected to that particular keyboard, when the keyboard was unlocked ready for the next character to be entered, with an audible click (known as the "cadence signal") to warn the operator. Operators had to maintain a steady rhythm, and the usual speed of operation was 30 words per minute.
You can't compare Apple's built-in networking to Windows 3, because Windows 3 didn't have any.
Wasn't this about the same time as Lantastic? Had that running on DOS 4.01. But true, not a MS product.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantastic Kinda light page though.
When you said 16550 driver I was reminded of the VIC-20 where MOS couldn't produce 6551s in time so they software emulated it on the 6522 (and 6526 on the C64.) It could burst up to 1200 baud but 600 baud was it's sustained max. I remember friends an I "turbo" speeding our 300 baud modems to 600 baud on clean lines.
The 68hc11 was a cool chip. I loved the "upper register" of extra op codes. I built myself a nice little FORTH platform way back in the day with it.
Seattle (actually the Puget Sound area) is a Boeing town, a Microsoft town, an Amazon town; i.e.; a geek town. When every single 747 or 787 that has ever been made, or will be made, has/will fly over your house, you pay attention to the geeks. Hell, the aero-geeks here even have a union (speea.org.)
I just got done upgrading a VoIP network at a Samsung office where a bunch of Korean kids develop smart phones. Why here? Because they are across the street from T-Mobile and down the road from Clearwire and AT&T mobile.
This town is (over)run by geeks. You know the names, Gates, Allen, Bezos, Myhrvold, McCaw...
If you live near Puget Sound you know about this union:
Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA)
http://www.speea.org/
http://www.timecube.com/
Your argument is invalid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWT5ZJG7CRg
http://www.lighthausvci.com/
Lighthaus does this too. Go by a major sports team/shoe store in your local mall and you'll see an IP camera above the main door pointed straight down. The computer watches which angle you enter the store at, what display you head toward and how long you linger at the entrance. The info isn't even seen by the store manager, it goes right to corporate.
Boeing is only now starting to use composite construction in the 787.
Just starting? I see 787s in the air almost everyday.
Of course, I live near Paine Field.