In the mid 80's there was the Intel 8052-BASIC chip. It had a decent integer BASIC with serial interactive I/O and could, with the proper 21(ish) VDC, burn EPROMs. I designed and manufactured a COCOT payphone using it. Quite the fun thing to play with.
Using a Dallas Smartsocket JEDIC socket with a 6564 SRAM chip made a great development environment.
This was back in the mid-80s. This has better speed and Ethernet, but for the decades that have past, not anything astoundingly new.
That's why I have a D-Star repeater connected to a Native Sovereign Nation's broadband hub that has a direct fiber connection to Seattle Internet eXchange. I'm the lead for the Tribal Emergency Management Communications team.
If all that fails well just go fishing and smoke what we catch.
If people judged my "education, driving skill, and literacy" by what I drive then I'd wonder about their intellect. Beemers are easy to drive. Try an old '92 Saturn with bad struts in a rain storm on I-5, that takes skill.
I'd rather have someone be impressed by me than by my car.
Same type of testing that is done for CO2 cylinders for food service drink dispensers. If you have ever worked at a drive-in or a bar, you know those things get knocked to hell and back.
I can't think of one story about mining on the moon that didn't result in a lunar revolt. I'd say the last thing they have to worry about is who owns the resources. It's the staff/residents you have to watch out for.
Having seen and toured Wikipedia's cage in Tampa I was impressed with the actual quality of the equipment and Internet feeds. $20M worth, no. But I would say at least half that. Lawyers, staff and office get the rest.
(In Tampa look for the building with the big gecko on the side.)
And while Nixon's legislative and foreign relations accomplishments out did most modern administrations. Sometimes you have to be a dick to get things done.
As someone that learned programming in high school on Xerox BASIC via a DecWriter and a 300 baud acoustical modem I have to agree with you. When the Apples and Commodores came out I was ready and making money putting them to work for people. I even ran several radio stations on QBasic DOS machines that controlled the on-air programming. I put a payphone in production that used BASIC at its core.
I now use perl and C for most quick tasks, but still love the quick simplicity of BASIC.
...the radio communications holding out over that distance, on minimal power, is notable, however.
Not really. Line of sight is more important than power at VHF+ frequencies. I can set my little ham handheld radio to a half watt output and talk on a repeater about 34 miles away from me. I'm at sea level and the repeater is at about 4000 feet.
An amateur station transmitting signals to control a model craft may be
operated as follows:
(a) The station identification procedure is not required for
transmissions directed only to the model craft, provided that a label
indicating the station call sign and the station licensee's name and
address is affixed to the station transmitter.
(b) The control signals are not considered codes or ciphers intended to
obscure the meaning of the communication.
(c) The transmitter power must not exceed 1 W.
[ 54 FR 25857 , June 20, 1989, as amended at 56 FR 56171 , Nov. 1, 1991]
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In the mid 80's there was the Intel 8052-BASIC chip. It had a decent integer BASIC with serial interactive I/O and could, with the proper 21(ish) VDC, burn EPROMs. I designed and manufactured a COCOT payphone using it. Quite the fun thing to play with.
Using a Dallas Smartsocket JEDIC socket with a 6564 SRAM chip made a great development environment.
This was back in the mid-80s. This has better speed and Ethernet, but for the decades that have past, not anything astoundingly new.
That's why I have a D-Star repeater connected to a Native Sovereign Nation's broadband hub that has a direct fiber connection to Seattle Internet eXchange. I'm the lead for the Tribal Emergency Management Communications team.
If all that fails well just go fishing and smoke what we catch.
If people judged my "education, driving skill, and literacy" by what I drive then I'd wonder about their intellect. Beemers are easy to drive. Try an old '92 Saturn with bad struts in a rain storm on I-5, that takes skill.
I'd rather have someone be impressed by me than by my car.
Same type of testing that is done for CO2 cylinders for food service drink dispensers. If you have ever worked at a drive-in or a bar, you know those things get knocked to hell and back.
I can't think of one story about mining on the moon that didn't result in a lunar revolt. I'd say the last thing they have to worry about is who owns the resources. It's the staff/residents you have to watch out for.
Having seen and toured Wikipedia's cage in Tampa I was impressed with the actual quality of the equipment and Internet feeds. $20M worth, no. But I would say at least half that. Lawyers, staff and office get the rest.
(In Tampa look for the building with the big gecko on the side.)
They have achieved DNS technology. To the bunkers everyone!
I've always wanted steel band punch tape.
The worst I've ever used was an old Harris broadcast automation system that used audio carts with DC saturation (no bias tone) for storage.
You're all wet!
Now I have to go dig under the stairs for my copy of "Son of Cheap Video".
One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces.
Oh, and of course, the Executive alarm clock:
http://www.americaninnovative.com/products/neverlate-exec.php
And where the hell can you buy an alarm clock designed for business use?
But maybe not in the sense that you meant.
http://www.promotionalmagazine.com/promotional-products/387-advertise-your-business-with-customized-alarm-clocks.html
Just get a Google Voice number then.
Well darn. I guess I can hold off on putting up that tri-bander for another seven years.
Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get. -RAH
Contact light -Buzz
I was thinking more that the DropZone crowd forced the RNC to back a 'bagger. It was fun watching all the careful back peddling.
And while Nixon's legislative and foreign relations accomplishments out did most modern administrations. Sometimes you have to be a dick to get things done.
I think that Alaska just proved that voters can beat the two party system.
As someone that learned programming in high school on Xerox BASIC via a DecWriter and a 300 baud acoustical modem I have to agree with you. When the Apples and Commodores came out I was ready and making money putting them to work for people. I even ran several radio stations on QBasic DOS machines that controlled the on-air programming. I put a payphone in production that used BASIC at its core.
I now use perl and C for most quick tasks, but still love the quick simplicity of BASIC.
...the radio communications holding out over that distance, on minimal power, is notable, however.
Not really. Line of sight is more important than power at VHF+ frequencies. I can set my little ham handheld radio to a half watt output and talk on a repeater about 34 miles away from me. I'm at sea level and the repeater is at about 4000 feet.
97.215 Telecommand of model craft.
An amateur station transmitting signals to control a model craft may be
operated as follows:
(a) The station identification procedure is not required for
transmissions directed only to the model craft, provided that a label
indicating the station call sign and the station licensee's name and
address is affixed to the station transmitter.
(b) The control signals are not considered codes or ciphers intended to
obscure the meaning of the communication.
(c) The transmitter power must not exceed 1 W.
[ 54 FR 25857 , June 20, 1989, as amended at 56 FR 56171 , Nov. 1, 1991]
That must have been why I had OSPF questions on my Juniper "Enterprise Switching" cert test.
I want to see you try that rant on the NANOG list.
You're right, for a switch it wouldn't matter.
Management stack.
Also, most "switches" these days also do layer three. Hell, the Juniper EX-4200 does BGP and it's sold as an enterprise top-of-rack switch.