That commercial would be in the movie for one and a half minutes before someone helpfully stripped it out and re-seeded the file. Four people total would see it.
Granted, I use it for my tween-aged nieces on their PC's. Tell Mom and Dad the thaw password so they can run updates and install software, set up some thawed space for My Documents, and forget about it.
They can install every piece of spyware known to man, one reboot and it's all fixed.
All a holodeck really has to do is simulate the input your senses would be sending your brain. All we need is a great interruptable wetware interface to the brain and the holodeck becomes simply software, a la the Matrix. Loads cheaper, easier to make transparent, and easier to manipulate.
That's correct except for the smaller charges. It is cheaper to use CC for amounts less than $35 because of the smaller per transaction fee. Over $40, the debit becomes cheaper.
But yes, cash is most definitely king.;)
While Debit cards do not have the same fees, they still do have fees. Typically it's a set-price plus percentage. For example, where I work, a Debit transaction charges us $0.40 +.5% of the total transaction. Visa is $0.10 + 2.25%. Amex is $0.20 + 3.75%.
So for small transactions, like less than $35 or so, it is cheaper for us to take Visa. For geater than $40 it is cheaper for us to accept Debit. We don't take Amex (those fees are just too high).
Now consider for a second that we only live on about a 10% margin to begin with. If a customer uses cash, we get the whole 10%. With visa, we only make 7%. So accepting Visa eats ~30% of our profits. Luckily for us, the vast majority of our customers are large, and pay via check. Oh, and fuck American Express. I honestly can't figure out why anyone would want one. High annual fees, high vendor fees, low acceptance rate (due to the fees), and it's not even an actual credit card since you have to pay it in full each month.
This is no different than what already happens for sub-cent transactions. 1Â is NOT the lowest denominator of money used for calculation in quite a few transactions. My favorite is gas, which for some reason is always listed as ~3.079/gal on the pump, truncated to 3.07 on the sign, but rounded to 3.08 on the bill. That is, unless you buy 10 of them, in which case the total price WOULD be 30.79.
Now, this is all with the realization that those pumps are NO WAY near accurate enough to reliably pump exactly 10 gallons and not 9.95 or 10.05.
At any rate, this is not removing the ability to use a penny in calculations or even to pay 19.99 exactly. You just can't do it with coins. Meh, who cares. Other than for vending machines, I can't remember actually having coins on my person to pay WITH, and many of those now take plastic.
203? Lucky. Our channel 3 went to 1258 or equally bizarre channel. Then again, I don't know what "channel" anything is any more than I KNOW my dentist's phone number. Ever since I got my first Tivo 10 years ago I have never watched a program by tuning to the channel. I tune to the show, and record it if it's on in the future. At this point I mostly review the new series coming out each tv season to add the shows I want the Tivo to grab and delete the cruft I don't have time for. So I really don't care if the channel numbers are sane.
As long as the physical hardware works, those should both be fine. I have 3 parallel port printers in use right now. On Win7 machines.
I agree with your sentiment though. Also, good luck finding a machine with an lpt port on it at all.
No, they don't. The terminal velocity of birdshot is non-lethal at any range. When the shot leaves the muzzle, it is travelling at several times terminal velocity. Air friction quickly slows it down past non-lethal velocity (about 70 meters away) and eventually gravity takes over. Shoot it straight up in the air and it will not kill you when you get peppered by the pellets. A deer slug, however, is another matter.
You kidding me? I remember having to write custom autoexec.bat files that would load very specific sets of drivers for different games. Wing Commander needed almost all the 640k of base RAM, but you had to run himem.sys with specific values. DOSkey was a luxury that was unloaded to save RAM when not using the command shell. Don't need the CD-Rom? Unload it to get back almost 30k! Yeah boy... Those were the days. Don't get me started on IRQ's and DMA's.
I do. There are far too many useful widgets out there in a usb form factor to ignore its usefulness. There are serial port emulators, portable storage, media card readers, tv tuners, an actual ethernet port, and on and on. Suddenly it can do far more than your iWhatever or android tablet in a widely used format. All for a pretty small piece of real estate.
Not sure about where you live, but around here the poles are owned by by any one of the major players, be they cable, phone, or power. They are each numbered and have a small tag on them stating their ownership status. They then all rent space on each other's poles. The public part of the deal is that the land is on a permanent lease that intersects every other property as needed. They are leasing access to the right of way in exchange for the franchise tax or agreement. A local municipality here passed up the tax income from a local cable provider for a guaranteed operational dark fiber ring with maintenance thrown in to boot. Not a bad deal for either side really.
It's usually all the crap you've downloaded, installed, fragmented, etc, that slows it down. If you installed one program on the machine and did nothing but that, the machine would be just as fast in 20 years as it is today. We have a windows 3.11 machine still running at work. It's a 486SX/25 installed in 1993 but it's still snappy as hell. You should see the heatsink I had to cobble together after the 5th fan died in an attempt to keep it alive. I smile every time I need to use it.
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I wasn't even aware they still SOLD hubs. I haven't seen one in years.
OK, more of an ID-10-T problem. ;)
They likely weren't even aware he tried to contact them until now. I doubt he ever actually spoke with anyone there. This smacks of melodrama.
No, it was reported:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10005932/Boston-Marathon-victim-Jeff-Bauman-helped-identify-bombers.html
Spelling. You fail at it. ;)
That commercial would be in the movie for one and a half minutes before someone helpfully stripped it out and re-seeded the file. Four people total would see it.
Yeah. When I was about 7 I had a hand-drawn copy of that table. *grin*
Monty Python's Flying Circus had my favorite one though, where you had to identify different types of cheese.
ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-extras/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus_CheeseGuide.gif
XBMC = XBox Media Center - http://xbmc.org/ SDL = Simple DirectMedia Layer - http://www.libsdl.org/ Wayland = http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
Deep freeze kicks ass. http://www.faronics.com/products/deep-freeze/standard/
Granted, I use it for my tween-aged nieces on their PC's. Tell Mom and Dad the thaw password so they can run updates and install software, set up some thawed space for My Documents, and forget about it.
They can install every piece of spyware known to man, one reboot and it's all fixed.
I remember when the driver was just an nfo file. Sigh...
All a holodeck really has to do is simulate the input your senses would be sending your brain. All we need is a great interruptable wetware interface to the brain and the holodeck becomes simply software, a la the Matrix. Loads cheaper, easier to make transparent, and easier to manipulate.
That's correct except for the smaller charges. It is cheaper to use CC for amounts less than $35 because of the smaller per transaction fee. Over $40, the debit becomes cheaper. But yes, cash is most definitely king. ;)
While Debit cards do not have the same fees, they still do have fees. Typically it's a set-price plus percentage. For example, where I work, a Debit transaction charges us $0.40 + .5% of the total transaction. Visa is $0.10 + 2.25%. Amex is $0.20 + 3.75%.
So for small transactions, like less than $35 or so, it is cheaper for us to take Visa. For geater than $40 it is cheaper for us to accept Debit. We don't take Amex (those fees are just too high).
Now consider for a second that we only live on about a 10% margin to begin with. If a customer uses cash, we get the whole 10%. With visa, we only make 7%. So accepting Visa eats ~30% of our profits. Luckily for us, the vast majority of our customers are large, and pay via check. Oh, and fuck American Express. I honestly can't figure out why anyone would want one. High annual fees, high vendor fees, low acceptance rate (due to the fees), and it's not even an actual credit card since you have to pay it in full each month.
This is no different than what already happens for sub-cent transactions. 1Â is NOT the lowest denominator of money used for calculation in quite a few transactions. My favorite is gas, which for some reason is always listed as ~3.079 /gal on the pump, truncated to 3.07 on the sign, but rounded to 3.08 on the bill. That is, unless you buy 10 of them, in which case the total price WOULD be 30.79.
Now, this is all with the realization that those pumps are NO WAY near accurate enough to reliably pump exactly 10 gallons and not 9.95 or 10.05.
At any rate, this is not removing the ability to use a penny in calculations or even to pay 19.99 exactly. You just can't do it with coins. Meh, who cares. Other than for vending machines, I can't remember actually having coins on my person to pay WITH, and many of those now take plastic.
203? Lucky. Our channel 3 went to 1258 or equally bizarre channel. Then again, I don't know what "channel" anything is any more than I KNOW my dentist's phone number. Ever since I got my first Tivo 10 years ago I have never watched a program by tuning to the channel. I tune to the show, and record it if it's on in the future. At this point I mostly review the new series coming out each tv season to add the shows I want the Tivo to grab and delete the cruft I don't have time for. So I really don't care if the channel numbers are sane.
Welcome stations (Rest Areas) DO ask you to fill in your name and address when asking for directions. Just sayin'.
As long as the physical hardware works, those should both be fine. I have 3 parallel port printers in use right now. On Win7 machines. I agree with your sentiment though. Also, good luck finding a machine with an lpt port on it at all.
I never realized Zombieland was foreshadowing. :)~
Not to mention giving the child a chance at happiness.
No, they don't. The terminal velocity of birdshot is non-lethal at any range. When the shot leaves the muzzle, it is travelling at several times terminal velocity. Air friction quickly slows it down past non-lethal velocity (about 70 meters away) and eventually gravity takes over. Shoot it straight up in the air and it will not kill you when you get peppered by the pellets. A deer slug, however, is another matter.
You kidding me? I remember having to write custom autoexec.bat files that would load very specific sets of drivers for different games. Wing Commander needed almost all the 640k of base RAM, but you had to run himem.sys with specific values. DOSkey was a luxury that was unloaded to save RAM when not using the command shell. Don't need the CD-Rom? Unload it to get back almost 30k! Yeah boy... Those were the days. Don't get me started on IRQ's and DMA's.
I do. There are far too many useful widgets out there in a usb form factor to ignore its usefulness. There are serial port emulators, portable storage, media card readers, tv tuners, an actual ethernet port, and on and on. Suddenly it can do far more than your iWhatever or android tablet in a widely used format. All for a pretty small piece of real estate.
Not sure about where you live, but around here the poles are owned by by any one of the major players, be they cable, phone, or power. They are each numbered and have a small tag on them stating their ownership status. They then all rent space on each other's poles. The public part of the deal is that the land is on a permanent lease that intersects every other property as needed. They are leasing access to the right of way in exchange for the franchise tax or agreement. A local municipality here passed up the tax income from a local cable provider for a guaranteed operational dark fiber ring with maintenance thrown in to boot. Not a bad deal for either side really.
It's usually all the crap you've downloaded, installed, fragmented, etc, that slows it down. If you installed one program on the machine and did nothing but that, the machine would be just as fast in 20 years as it is today. We have a windows 3.11 machine still running at work. It's a 486SX/25 installed in 1993 but it's still snappy as hell. You should see the heatsink I had to cobble together after the 5th fan died in an attempt to keep it alive. I smile every time I need to use it.
Ah, but I bet you could sell that radish, and millions more like it, if you stuck an organic sticker on it and priced it at 300% the normal price.