The Vadem Clio, I really wanted one of those. One of the few things that went belly up before I managed to buy one.
After Amiga went under, I bought a Dauphin, and a week later they went bankrupt. A year later I bought a Zeos, and Zeos went bankrupt 2 days later. Then I installed OS/2 on the Zeos... And don't get me started on the deal where I got paid in Cisco stock, My accountant says I'll be able to take $3000 off of my taxes every year for the next 92 years
I have a Dauphin pen computer that I got in 1994 or so. It ran some microsoft thing called "windows for pens" and it was pretty good with my handwriting which is pretty amazing since my handwriting is so bad that I can't read it myself and haven't written in script since high school. It seems that bad handwriting can be easier for software to recognize than good handwriting
It ran on a 25mhz cyrix sl486 with 6 meg of memory and a 20 meg hard drive and it worked remarkably well. I wrote my first web site on that, ran Netscape 0.x...
Try using a laptop while walking. Pen computers are great for that.
Naw , he's talking about the Moist Parts. They were sort like the Slits and the Raincoats by way of the New York Dolls. I saw them open for the Dead Boys back in 79.
at the command line. Of course there is a command that will turn it back on remotely. SC in the resource kit can remotely run the net commands on a victim - I mean remote - computer
Gee, put a low torque high speed engine with lousy fuel economy and a propensity
for very bad things happening when dirt or foreign objects get sucked
into in on a slow moving tractor whose main function is to disturb the soil
in one way or another.
Something they don't mention is that the IHC Turbine Tractor would
flip over backwards because it didn't weigh enough and was too powerful.
Airplanes want to be light weight , and tractors want to be heavy. I remember
filling the tires of our tractors with powdered lead when I was a kid, (another pretty dumb thing considering you want to keep lead and food well
separated. ) and hanging 55 gallon barrels of concrete on the front.
Well it's like this, Kids ( of all ages as it were ) would travel up and down the rail bed because it was smooth, flat, and isolated from the local authorities. I.E. if you wanted to run a stolen snowmobile flat out while drunk, the railroad tracks would seem to be ideal ( if you were drunk ) the problem was that the "kids" would try to cross the tracks and wedge the runners under the rails. Then they would just wander off and leave them there. Than the Turbo train , would come along , hit the snowmobile, which was small and low enough to gu under the train, but was substantial enough to mess it up enough that it would need repairs on the spot.
And yeah, the snowmobiles ended up being "disabled" as well. And I'm from the central valley of california, 103 f in the summer, and I thought this was pretty bizarre as well.
Re:Remindes me of the JATO Impala story
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The "seven trains operating since 1977 in New York State using jet turbines incorporated into coaches." are awful trains.
I remember when they went into service and replaced the nice big heavy comfortable slowish trains, with a lot of room, real dining cars, and seats that were like chairs. Then Amtrak bought these turbo trains from the French. They are not at all nice, lighter weight, uncomfortable, slowish trains with not much room, snack cars, and seats that are like airliner seats. ( Some moron at Amtrak probably thought they were loosing business to the airlines because people like those airline seats.)
They were always getting disabled every time they hit a snowmobile because they were so fragile. They were supposed to be fast, but they aren't because the rail beds are so crummy.
Fast trains aren't fast if they are on slow tracks, and until Amtrak can get their own tracks the freight trains will keep messing up the rail beds for all these fast trains.
And they smell just as bad as diesel trains, because there is no difference between the jet fuel they use, and diesel fuel.
You know, it's pretty understandable that some people would get deprecate and depreciate confused. (or is the other way around, and deprecate and depreciate get some people confused?)
Remember deprecation is what happens to old code, and depreciation is what happens to old computers.
And depricated? That's the condition of a BMW after you remove all the lawyers.
deprecate
Pronunciation: 'de-pri-"kAt
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -cated; -cating
Etymology: Latin deprecatus, past participle of deprecari to avert by prayer, from de- + precari to pray
Date: 1628 1 aarchaic: to pray against (as an evil) b: to seek to avert <deprecate the wrath... of the Roman people -- Tobias Smollett> 2: to express disapproval of 3 a: PLAY DOWN: make little of <speaks five languages... but deprecates this facility -- Time> b: BELITTLE, DISPARAGE
<the most reluctantly admired and least easily deprecated of... novelists -- New Yorker>
depreciate
Pronunciation: di-'prE-shE-"At
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -ated; -ating
Etymology: Late Latin depretiatus, past participle of depretiare, from Latin de- + pretium price
Date: 15th century
transitive senses 1: to lower in estimation or esteem 2: to lower the price or estimated value of intransitive senses: to fall in value
When I was in art school, I once had a costume that was " the crisis in existential thought " ( there was some ongoing argument among the grad students that provided the context that made this hilarious to my peers )
If I were going to a Geek oriented halloween party I would go as an uninitialized pointer.
You could get away with just about anything you wanted to wear ot not wear. For extra points you could abruptly change costumes or try to wear other peoples costumes. Declaring the beverage area "address zero" and constantly going there or sending others there could be part of the costume.
Of course if you aren't careful people will just think you are just a jerk who forgot their costume, and is drinking all the beer.
"I recently discovered that Apple's DVD Player software, which came with my Powerbook G4 laptop, gives me flexibility in a way I hadn't expected. Sometimes I like to watch a movie while I'm on a plane, but the DVD drive in my machine drains my battery too quickly. So before I leave home, I copy a movie -- note to Hollywood: I do not do this with rental DVDs, only ones I own -- to my hard disk. The DVD Player software reads it from the disk, which uses less power than the DVD drive."
That is pretty interesting. I wish it would fast forward over the ads
What you probably want to do is combine lots of images one on top of another to increase the signal to noise ratio. I doubt that your problem is that the field of view is too narrow. The reason people use bigger telescopes is to get a wider aperture not a longer focal length.
Never mind the the Nokia 9290 , they ought to sell the Nokia 9290 .
Digital Music Player and Recorder, Software
for copying personal CD's, organizing and downloading music files from a
compatible PC to the Nokia 5510, FM stereo radio, full keyboard for fast
text input, 5 games, WAP, multiple chat, multiple SMS sending, and it looks
like , well I'm not quite sure, maybe a Game Boy Advance with an extra 30
buttons ?
Q. What Operating System does the hiptop device use? A. Danger has developed its own virtual machine operating environment. Applications written for the hiptop platform can be developed using industry standard development tools such as Metrowerks CodeWarrior-J(TM) and Microsoft Visual J++(TM), (???) and then automatically converted to execute in Danger's lightweight and optimized environment.
Geez, I hope there is something a bit more current and available than J++.
Yes as a matter of fact explorer.exe ( not IE, just the desktop ) just crashed for the third time today on my windows 2000 machine.
"might crash unexpectedly or behave otherwise strangely"
So what's so strange about an unexpected crash on windows? I just walked past Macy's and they had dozens of 36 inch plasma displays showing windows bluescreens in the windows.
Slashdot Mirror
The Vadem Clio, I really wanted one of those. One of the few things
that went belly up before I managed to buy one.
After Amiga went under, I bought a Dauphin, and a week later
they went bankrupt. A year later I bought a Zeos, and Zeos
went bankrupt 2 days later. Then I installed OS/2 on
the Zeos... And don't get me started on the deal where I got paid in Cisco
stock, My accountant says I'll be able to take $3000 off of my taxes
every year for the next 92 years
I hope my dangerphone escapes the curse of hugh.
I have a Dauphin pen computer that I got in 1994 or so. It ran some microsoft thing called "windows for pens" and it was pretty good with my handwriting which is pretty amazing since my handwriting is so bad that I can't read it myself and haven't written in script since high school.
...
It seems that bad handwriting can be easier for software to recognize than good handwriting
It ran on a 25mhz cyrix sl486 with 6 meg of memory and a 20 meg hard drive and it worked remarkably well. I wrote my first web site on that, ran Netscape 0.x
Try using a laptop while walking. Pen computers are great for that.
Naw , he's talking about the Moist Parts.
They were sort like the Slits and the Raincoats by way of the New York Dolls. I saw them open for the Dead Boys back in 79.
If you want to know who is making some piece of hardware you can check out their FCC filing .
Often if several companies sell the same thing with different branding they
will share the same fcc id number
Get yourself over to Danger Info "Your News Source for the Danger Hiptop Device."
There is a discussion going on there on this very topic.
AIM Shell Bot Source
I'd look into this as well
Danger IP addresses for your firewalls
Woops, cut and past error there.
And you need administrator privileges as well.
or just type
net stop messenger
at the command line.
Of course there is a command that will turn it back on remotely. SC in the resource kit can remotely run the net commands on a victim - I mean remote - computer
sc \\computer net start messenger
The all time dumbest application of turbine power is undoubtedly the turbine tractor.
"Several factors prevented the HT-340 from reaching commercial production. Gas turbine engines are able to produce great amounts of power from a very small package, but high fuel consumption is their downfall. When added to the difficulty of adequately filtering the massive amounts of air required by the turbine engine, and the noise produced, it was not a practical machine. "
Another photo here
Gee, put a low torque high speed engine with lousy fuel economy and a propensity for very bad things happening when dirt or foreign objects get sucked into in on a slow moving tractor whose main function is to disturb the soil in one way or another.
Something they don't mention is that the IHC Turbine Tractor would flip over backwards because it didn't weigh enough and was too powerful. Airplanes want to be light weight , and tractors want to be heavy. I remember filling the tires of our tractors with powdered lead when I was a kid, (another pretty dumb thing considering you want to keep lead and food well separated. ) and hanging 55 gallon barrels of concrete on the front.
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=l
Well it's like this,
Kids ( of all ages as it were ) would travel up and down the rail bed because it was smooth, flat, and isolated from the local authorities. I.E. if you wanted to run a stolen snowmobile flat out while drunk, the railroad tracks would seem to be ideal ( if you were drunk ) the problem was that the "kids" would try to cross the tracks and wedge the runners under the rails. Then they would just wander off and leave them there. Than the Turbo train , would come along , hit the snowmobile, which was small and low enough to gu under the train, but was substantial enough to mess it up enough that it would need repairs on the spot.
And yeah, the snowmobiles ended up being "disabled" as well.
And I'm from the central valley of california, 103 f in the summer, and I thought this was pretty bizarre as well.
The "seven trains operating since 1977 in New York State using jet turbines
incorporated into coaches." are awful trains.
I remember when they went into service and replaced the nice big heavy comfortable
slowish trains, with a lot of room, real dining cars, and seats that were
like chairs. Then Amtrak bought these turbo trains from the French. They are
not at all nice, lighter weight, uncomfortable, slowish trains with not much
room, snack cars, and seats that are like airliner seats. ( Some moron
at Amtrak probably thought they were loosing business to the airlines
because people like those airline seats.)
They were always getting disabled every time they hit a snowmobile because
they were so fragile. They were supposed to be fast, but they aren't because
the rail beds are so crummy.
Fast trains aren't fast if they are on slow tracks, and until Amtrak
can get their own tracks the freight trains will keep messing up the rail
beds for all these fast trains.
And they smell just as bad as diesel trains, because there is no
difference between the jet fuel they use, and diesel fuel.
You know, it's pretty understandable that some people would get deprecate and depreciate confused. (or is the other way around, and deprecate and depreciate get some people confused?)
: to pray against (as an evil) b : to seek to avert <deprecate the wrath ... of the Roman : to express disapproval of : make little of <speaks five languages ... but deprecate s this facility -- Time> ... novelists -- New Yorker>
: to lower in estimation or esteem : to lower the price or estimated value of : to fall in value
/-sh&-b&l/ /-"prE-shE-'A-sh&n/ /-'prE-sh&-tiv,
/-shE-"A-t&r/ /-sh&-"tOr-E,
Remember deprecation is what happens to old code, and depreciation is what happens to old computers.
And depricated? That's the condition of a BMW after you remove all the lawyers.
deprecate
Pronunciation: 'de-pri-"kAt
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -cated; -cating
Etymology: Latin deprecatus, past participle of deprecari to avert by prayer, from de- + precari to pray
Date: 1628
1 a archaic
people -- Tobias Smollett>
2
3 a : PLAY DOWN
b: BELITTLE, DISPARAGE
<the most reluctantly admired and least easily deprecated of
depreciate
Pronunciation: di-'prE-shE-"At
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -ated; -ating
Etymology: Late Latin depretiatus, past participle of depretiare, from Latin de- + pretium price
Date: 15th century
transitive senses
1
2
intransitive senses
synonym see DECRY
- depreciable
adjective
- depreciatingly/-shE-"A-ti[ng]-lE/
adverb
- depreciation
noun
- depreciative
-shE-"A-tiv/ adjective
- depreciator
noun
- depreciatory
-"tor-/ adjective
Here is a picture of Larry Walters in his lawn chair, looks like it is from the New York Times
When I was in art school, I once had a costume that was " the crisis in existential thought " ( there was some ongoing argument among the grad students that provided the context that made this hilarious to my peers )
If I were going to a Geek oriented halloween party I would go as an uninitialized pointer.
You could get away with just about anything you wanted to wear ot not wear. For extra points you could abruptly change costumes or try to wear other peoples costumes. Declaring the beverage area "address zero" and constantly going there or sending others there could be part of the costume.
Of course if you aren't careful people will just think you are just a jerk who forgot their costume, and is drinking all the beer.
The guy I talked to couldn't get a job at radio shack "you have questions? we have bad hair" , but the price listed was $299 , with a $100 rebate.
I was there last night, the rebate is a mail-in one, and the phone price is $100 higher, so the price is a wash.
> not gonna happen. ever.
probably not gonna happen. again.
is more like it
Do they really plan on collecting $22,000,000,000 ?
You don't watch many Disney DVDs do you?
What you probably want to do is combine lots of images one on top of another to increase the signal to noise ratio.
I doubt that your problem is that the field of view is too narrow. The reason people use bigger telescopes is to get a wider aperture not a longer focal length.
A recent Slashdot story has a lot of links to information you are looking for.
darn..
shoulda been Nokia 5510 .
Never mind the the Nokia 9290 , they ought to sell the Nokia 9290 .
Digital Music Player and Recorder, Software for copying personal CD's, organizing and downloading music files from a compatible PC to the Nokia 5510, FM stereo radio, full keyboard for fast text input, 5 games, WAP, multiple chat, multiple SMS sending, and it looks like , well I'm not quite sure, maybe a Game Boy Advance with an extra 30 buttons ?
Q. What Operating System does the hiptop device use? A. Danger has developed its own virtual machine operating environment. Applications written for the hiptop platform can be developed using industry standard development tools such as Metrowerks CodeWarrior-J(TM) and Microsoft Visual J++(TM), (???) and then automatically converted to execute in Danger's lightweight and optimized environment.
Geez, I hope there is something a bit more current and available than J++.
So what's so strange about an unexpected crash on windows?
I just walked past Macy's and they had dozens of 36 inch plasma displays showing windows bluescreens in the windows.