I've been trying to call them for the past five minutes, but it keeps ringing busy. I want to see if they will make an offer on two dead AA batteries I just swapped out of my optical mouse. They are handy as weights and roll quite well.
And if you're amusing and polite, most of the operators will likely enjoy the call. The woman who I dealt with when I called the number for Anne Murray's greatest hits to complain that Anne Murray has never had any hits, let alone anything great, said that I was her favorite call in several years of working there.
Of course, I also got legal threats when I had my computer autodial a collection firm after my ex-roommate. They called me for weeks, every hour or two. Their claim was "it's the computer, and I can't do anything about it". So I set my computer to dial them every 10 minutes (I worked at home at the time), and I'd kick open a speakerphone connection. The manager just refused to see that there was a parallel between our call tactics and said I was "harassing" them, since I didn't have business with them. The point that my ex-roommate had since moved, and the number they were calling was in my name was okay however. Heh. Every ten minutes most of the day for three days: "Hi, have you taken my number off your call list?"
That's what I use. Each letter starts on a even page and as a result the end of the letter has empty slots to the beginning of the next sheet. At most seven empties, since there could be an end to a letter that has only one CD in the last sheet.
Plus I have about ten sheets or so empty in the last binder.
I'm going to be doing the same thing, and I'll be facing the same problem. I'm digitizing all my VHS, many of which are totally out of print. The best I can come up with is to do them all and then store them all on DAT. Luckily for me, VHS is a pretty lousy quality original, so I can use a nice advanced (lossier) codec rather than MPEG2. My favorite CDs are 256k MP3s on my harddrive, but most are in two Sony 200 disc changers or in one of four 208 disc wallets. That's over 1000 CDs or thereabouts (the wallets are alphabetical, and have some empty spaces between letters).
Heh, plus I have a handful of out of print vinyl, some of which is virgin, and I've been planning for years to see if I can get a pristine digital transfer from them better than the "collector's" CDs (read: bootlegs from the vinyl). Nell Campbell's and Tim Curry's albums plus a couple local bands.
So, yeah - there are serious digital storage needs for legitimate collectors and their physically owned media.
Whoever is giving me 80+ KB/s on a Slashdotted link is really impressing me. I'm using the direct http download from the second mirror site after trying bittorrent for half an hour and getting nothing but a segfault after several minutes of inactivity.
The trailer was excellent - in about two minutes, I'm dimming the lights and watching the whole flick. Thanks, guys!
Bingo. Most vans get far worse gas mileage (which for both of us is the other option), and I got tired of being stuck in Florida's white sugar sand patches in the woods. Heck, my SUV gets over 25 mpg and beats 28 on the highway - both my roommate's cars get worse mileage, and they drive sedans (one has a 1994 Toyota Celica).
SUVs are basically a pickup truck with a permanant top. Loading props and costumes or camping gear or musical instruments into it several times a week means I need a van (worse gas mileage) or pickup with a top... which can't carry four people.
Sure, there are "penismobile" SUVs that are way oversized and not used by their owners. There are also plenty of pristine Ford pickups decked out with loads of chrome and the size of small mountains on the road. For that matter, there are loads of crappy VW vans pumping out more emissions and getting worse mileage. There are also a bunch of SUVs appropriate to their task on the road.
Personally, I'd love a fuel cell SUV so I can park it out in the woods and enjoy silent power all weekend long.
The Washington Post has really gone to the dogs. They actually used The Onion as a source for this article:
I'm guessing you're not aware that the Onion is a real, serious publication, and only the first several pages are humor news. After you get past the first three pages or so, it's all real news (plus some good comics). Their interviews are among the best I've ever read, and their reviews of music are usually better than the typical "it's good, kinda like so-and-so". It's well worth the subscription price - I used to keep it on the back of the toilet, a mark of high regard for a newspaper indeed.
Up in the Stockton chronicle, we're planning on going as a group to see the movie. I've been saying we should go IC to discuss if it's a breach of the first. Looks like the technocracy (Sony) won out over the Ventrue control of Hollywood.
My SO and I have been referring to it as "UnderWorld of Darkness" ever since the first trailer came out. That said, for those who love the black, white and blood, gothic, PVC and leather style of the Crow and the Matrix, it looks good.
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You're forgetting _Grumbles from the Grave_, a Expanded Universe-esque compilation (padded quite nicely by good essays by Spider Robinson and a few others). The new stuff in there are mostly speeches and essays, but some were never officially published until then. Also, I'm pretty sure his _Tramp Royale_ was never published until after his death.
I'm pretty sure I have a complete Heinlein collection, and I also have several variants of each novel. Almost all are from used books stores, and I've never sunk much money into them. Something about reading about martian flatcats and figuring orbital vectors on a sliderule is vastly improved when you're reading yellowing, musty/pulpy smelling paper. He led me to all the Doc Savage and Barsoom novels, and for that I thank him. He also inspired a wide variety of SF authors, many of whom have obvious Heinlein influences (and several of whom have subtle influences).
Heh, for this Evan, it was a friend in a lab full of IBM Unix workstations compiling Mosaic 0.8. I looked, and said "Yeah, but gopher is too entrenched. There's just too much information to port over to this new format".
Oops.
The references to Canter & Siegal stunned me, as I did not expect it from USAToday. Followed up by a reference to Kibo blew me away. Kibo is the reason for the intentional misspelling of an semi-obscure word to create my handle. (The intercap helps with greps of newsfeeds, but Google is caseinsensitive, so I'm glad I also have the double K).
Yeah, it may be the closest it's going to be for awhile, but I'd imagine that atmospheric conditions will affect the image Hubble gets of Mars' surface more than the distance to Mars.
IIRC, Lensman (a really bad anime version of EE "Doc" Smith's yarns) was the first anime with computer graphics. Starfields, mostly, plus some (now) really bad looking ships. It may also be the first CG in a full length animation.
I really liked the ballroom scene in Beauty and the Beast, and An American Tale had some impressive rotating gears (I think it was AAT). Not impressive now, but for the dawn of good CG, it was amazing.
I am a manager at an ISP in northern California. We get *loads* of calls for ThizLinux (mostly from asian families). The majority bought a computer from Frys. We're talking a call every two days for setup assistance, which means that there's a small percentage of the people who are buying it and buying service from us.
My SO only has 45 chromosomes (Turner's Syndrome, X0), and she's one hell of a gamer. More of a video gamer than I am, and she's right alongside of me in any RPG. She's also going for her doctorate in chemistry, focusing on quantum chem.
Do a simple google search, or go to a library. You have a awfully twisted view of early IBM PC history. It wasn't nearly that easy (as anybody on a Cordata or other "semi-compatable" can tell you).
I was under the impression (from a subscriber who was showing off about his T-Mobile account) that it's 20 cents for a *voice* call over their data network. I.e., it's free data, and if you want to make a voice call (without a seperate voice plan), then it's 20 cents a minutes. I may well be wrong, YMMV, IANATMC.
I wasn't contradicting him (until I got to the "As for IBM PC Compatables" part). I was just pointing out how long it took for 32 bits to hit the desktop.
The first 32 bit computer: 1948
The first 32 bit program: 1948
The first 32 bit OS: ???
At least, as far as a quick Google finds. There may be other systems that predate those. As for IBM PC compatables, Coherent 4.0 (1992), BSDi and 386BSD (1990?) and Linux (1991, usenet announcement) all ran on 80386s in 32 bit mode. I remember seeing other OSes in Dr. Dobbs that claimed to be 32 bit as well. SCO Xenix was not 32 bit in the earlier versions (despite what the other reply claims)... SCO Xenix (and Coherent and other *nixish OSes for the PC lineage) predate the 80386.
Old professors tend to. Especially physics or other fields where SI prefixes are used outside of computer terms. I knew one who said it was pretty common usage in the 50s in America. Even some old IBM engineers use the soft G... the kind that still owned multiple sliderules when they retired.
And of course, Doc Brown was from the 50s. Meaning Spielberg either got lucky or he researched one hell of a lot better than most give him credit for.
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Didn't IBM do a heavy blues/industrial version of the Free Software Song? I seem to recall that it was also the background to a flash video of Tux on a Harley busting a bunch of penguins out of jail.
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Very simple. When your fellow occupants of the small enclosed space smack you, they sail backwards.
Heh. Damn... and I didn't bother signing up again for awhile after the great userbase crash. It never occured to me that the number would ever have any meaning.
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And if you're amusing and polite, most of the operators will likely enjoy the call. The woman who I dealt with when I called the number for Anne Murray's greatest hits to complain that Anne Murray has never had any hits, let alone anything great, said that I was her favorite call in several years of working there.
Of course, I also got legal threats when I had my computer autodial a collection firm after my ex-roommate. They called me for weeks, every hour or two. Their claim was "it's the computer, and I can't do anything about it". So I set my computer to dial them every 10 minutes (I worked at home at the time), and I'd kick open a speakerphone connection. The manager just refused to see that there was a parallel between our call tactics and said I was "harassing" them, since I didn't have business with them. The point that my ex-roommate had since moved, and the number they were calling was in my name was okay however. Heh. Every ten minutes most of the day for three days: "Hi, have you taken my number off your call list?"
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Plus I have about ten sheets or so empty in the last binder.
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Heh, plus I have a handful of out of print vinyl, some of which is virgin, and I've been planning for years to see if I can get a pristine digital transfer from them better than the "collector's" CDs (read: bootlegs from the vinyl). Nell Campbell's and Tim Curry's albums plus a couple local bands.
So, yeah - there are serious digital storage needs for legitimate collectors and their physically owned media.
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The trailer was excellent - in about two minutes, I'm dimming the lights and watching the whole flick. Thanks, guys!
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SUVs are basically a pickup truck with a permanant top. Loading props and costumes or camping gear or musical instruments into it several times a week means I need a van (worse gas mileage) or pickup with a top... which can't carry four people.
Sure, there are "penismobile" SUVs that are way oversized and not used by their owners. There are also plenty of pristine Ford pickups decked out with loads of chrome and the size of small mountains on the road. For that matter, there are loads of crappy VW vans pumping out more emissions and getting worse mileage. There are also a bunch of SUVs appropriate to their task on the road.
Personally, I'd love a fuel cell SUV so I can park it out in the woods and enjoy silent power all weekend long.
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I'm guessing you're not aware that the Onion is a real, serious publication, and only the first several pages are humor news. After you get past the first three pages or so, it's all real news (plus some good comics). Their interviews are among the best I've ever read, and their reviews of music are usually better than the typical "it's good, kinda like so-and-so". It's well worth the subscription price - I used to keep it on the back of the toilet, a mark of high regard for a newspaper indeed.
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My SO and I have been referring to it as "UnderWorld of Darkness" ever since the first trailer came out. That said, for those who love the black, white and blood, gothic, PVC and leather style of the Crow and the Matrix, it looks good.
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I'm pretty sure I have a complete Heinlein collection, and I also have several variants of each novel. Almost all are from used books stores, and I've never sunk much money into them. Something about reading about martian flatcats and figuring orbital vectors on a sliderule is vastly improved when you're reading yellowing, musty/pulpy smelling paper. He led me to all the Doc Savage and Barsoom novels, and for that I thank him. He also inspired a wide variety of SF authors, many of whom have obvious Heinlein influences (and several of whom have subtle influences).
A Good Author, up there with the best of SF.
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Oops.
The references to Canter & Siegal stunned me, as I did not expect it from USAToday. Followed up by a reference to Kibo blew me away. Kibo is the reason for the intentional misspelling of an semi-obscure word to create my handle. (The intercap helps with greps of newsfeeds, but Google is caseinsensitive, so I'm glad I also have the double K).
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I really liked the ballroom scene in Beauty and the Beast, and An American Tale had some impressive rotating gears (I think it was AAT). Not impressive now, but for the dawn of good CG, it was amazing.
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Do a simple google search, or go to a library. You have a awfully twisted view of early IBM PC history. It wasn't nearly that easy (as anybody on a Cordata or other "semi-compatable" can tell you).
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The first 32 bit program: 1948
The first 32 bit OS: ???
At least, as far as a quick Google finds. There may be other systems that predate those. As for IBM PC compatables, Coherent 4.0 (1992), BSDi and 386BSD (1990?) and Linux (1991, usenet announcement) all ran on 80386s in 32 bit mode. I remember seeing other OSes in Dr. Dobbs that claimed to be 32 bit as well. SCO Xenix was not 32 bit in the earlier versions (despite what the other reply claims)... SCO Xenix (and Coherent and other *nixish OSes for the PC lineage) predate the 80386.
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And of course, Doc Brown was from the 50s. Meaning Spielberg either got lucky or he researched one hell of a lot better than most give him credit for.
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