Yah, the helium mines are almost empty out im Amarillo...not much helium ore left down in the mines these days. It's just as well, working way down there in the mines is dirty and dangerous.
Is that why the dwarf characters in the Snow White story have high pitched voices and work as miners?
More wasteful is the extra power needed for all of the set top converters required for every analogue TV you own
You're right with this statement and it would be a great argument to show the side effect of an instant change. However, I'm sure reality dictates that a large majority of households got a box from their cable company on every TV already (how else are they going to access all the special channels). That box will be their format converter until they can afford to upgrade their TVs. Most of the standard cable converters in the US have the needed outputs for older TVs (A/V, S-Video, RF)
MIT responds by building a dance floor for a fad which hasn't been popular in 25 years.
At least they aren't wearing Jordache jeans (or Toughskins for that matter).
I wonder how that floor would hold up to roller skates. I suppose we'll never know considering the people involved. Geeks always had the chance to leave the rink before the rest of the crowd because of the final Couple's Skate.
Helps prevent the flow of electricity from one hand, across the heart, to the other hand.
I had one hand on a grounded metal component (the radiator) and the other hand near an electrical source (the distributor). Thus, I completed an electrical circuit when the ignition fired through the leaky distributor cap.
If I had my other hand away from things (behind my back), the electricity could of went from my arm down to my feet. But I was wearing sneakers and was insulated from the ground. I probably wouldn't have gotten a shock.
Year one, week one, of any electronics course teaches you of the safety and hazards of electricity.
The skin surface has a very high resistance. Blood has a very low resistance. Open and/or bleeding cuts in the skin are dangerous near electrical contacts. It takes a lot of current to cause any real damage through skin. That's why you can touch the terminals of a relatively low voltage battery without a problem. But touching the terminals to fresh cuts on both hands can produce a high current flow right through the heart and cause fibrillation.
Very high voltages can overcome the resistance of unbroken skin and do the same thing. Something I discovered by being careless. I've always practiced putting one hand behind my back while working near live high voltage/current sources. I made the mistake once of resting one hand on a metal radiator in a car while turning the distributor on a running engine to set the timing. A crack in the distributor cap allowed a charge to escape to my hand, through me, and to the radiator. I've had high voltage shocks before, but not like this. I felt funny in the chest, dizzy and weak momentarily, and almost fell over before my heart started pounding like I finished a marathon. I recovered from it rather quickly, but I'm sure I rattled my heart rhythm for a moment because of that.
My laptop screen is a reflective satin material and I wear a Proxima projector as a backpack with a mirror reflector extending over my head and projecting onto the laptop screen face.
The projector keeps me nice and warm in the wintertime.
I can also project movies too. They look real good projected onto the road surface of a bridge I recently bought in Manhattan.
Windows Update appears to run without a browser. IE would just be a constantly returning item to install from the list.
However, I have to wonder about the Windows Update feature. Once when I was working without a network or internet connection, an hour into my usage, I get a prompt from the Windows Update that there were new updates to be downloaded. Since I had no network connection, how was it able to check for updates?
I fixed one from a state of non-workingness. I picked it up from somebody's curb during the town's "Spring Cleanup" day when all the old electronics (among other things) gets a courtesy pickup by the sanitation department.
The big thing to keep in mind is that the components in the SX-64 are the same as a standard 'breadbox' style 64. Even the schematics are nearly the same. The SX-64 basically spans the whole design across more than one board. I was able to test/replace all the chips in the SX-64 for troubleshooting purposes with a regular 64 that had socketed chips. Turns out that in my case, someone had though a chip is a chip and put a SID chip in the Kernel ROM slot (even though the number of pins were different). I Kernel ROM from a regular 64 and it works like a champ.
However, I'm probably the only one with an SX-64 that powers up with a blue on blue screen, and with an available but useless SHIFT-RUN cassette load feature.
For those furrowing their eyebrows over the last sentance, the SX-64 has no cassette interface. I believe the SHIFT-RUN that launched a tape load on a regular 64 was replaced with the command to load the first program on disk. I'm not exactly sure because I have no SX-64 ROM to verify it.
A user comment in TFA mentions a potential legal difference.
PyMusique captures the paid for track before the DRM gets put on.
Hymn strips off the DRM after the track is downloaded.
Hymn appears to violate the DMCA to the letter of the law because the DRM is in place at the time Hymn performs it's functions.
PyMistique most likely only violates the TOS because the user isn't using the iTunes application, the client component that puts the DRM on the downloaded file. The file is simply downloaded as iTunes sends it (without DRM).
Either way, the user would have paid for the song. They are simply making a choice to maintain their "fair use" rights.
I remember this moment in time. Even though I forgot anything else that happened that day.
I was repairing a transceiver at a two-way radio shop and the DJ on the FM radio warned of the upcoming 12:34:56 7/8/90 in about ten minutes. So I took a break to witness it myself on my digital watch.
The strange thing was, I do remember not actually wanting to listen to the radio that day, but decided to turn it on anyway.
Now, please excuse me while I brew up another cup of "Dick Clark's Secret Formula Longevi-Tea" so I may enjoy the moment in time in the year 2090
I take responsibility for my kids and I think every other parent should do so. I wouldn't want anybody to sell games to my kids that have the M rating. Right now, the law makes sure kids can't go into an adult bookstore and buy stuff either. The M rated games can be very influential to minors and desensitize them to violence long before they can adequately comprehend that their personalities are changing for the worse.
Now, I grew up with "violent" games in the 80's. And I'm sure I've been influenced by the level of violence in them. But it took quite an imagination to correlate the violent actions in the games to real life actions. Today's graphics and gameplay provide near matching scenerios. Kids get the "Play the game, try it for real" ideas. However, I still keep a large golden arrow around in case I run across a dragonduck when duty calls me to find the chalice.
Some trolls deserve to be force fed. I'll even burn karma to do it....
Play the 80's aerobics music...Oooohh.. Feel the karma burn
1. You rejuvenate and dance when you hear a windows flaw exposed, but you conveniently ignore the thousands of security flaws exposed in linux.
Most of the script kiddies ignore Linux security flaws. It comes down to the amount of risk. It's riskier to put an unpatched windows machine on the net than an unpatched Linux box
2. You yell loudly TROLL! at any person's post or at any person you see posting facts that you do not want to hear about your oh so cool linux.
OK. A half point for you, but I'm also doing something about it.
3. You know it's a classic case of penis envy, you don't have all the support, software and hardware available for linux and you have to let that anger out somewhere, but you don't have the brains to admit it.
No, penis envy is more for case modding. Linux has all the windows hardware available for it. As for software, you can't count windows viruses and trojan screen savers as part of the software base. Those who choose to move to Linux understand what software base is available to them. The same software argument can applied to a Mac. Mac addicts will fight tooth and nail for their platform not caring a bit about the software base for windows.
4. You hate windows, hate Microsoft, but race to emulate windows, have programs to run office from within linux, and spend a $300 on a Windows emulator, only Windows fools.
I happily run OpenOffice. I haven't found a need to touch a windows emulator for anything. Plus, I don't hate windows. I'm actually a VB.NET programmer by trade. I'd just rather not use the stuff at home. If I were a 'sanitation engineer' for a living, I wouldn't bring home bags of garbage to play with.
5. You cannot admit that you don't have professional usage of Linux outside server markets.
Moot point. 21st century. It's all going client/server. Even microsoft stuff. Unix/Linux was just there first.
6. You cannot admit that most of the joe user out there when told that there is linux will respond, what is that?
Most of the 'Joe Users' out there that would respond that way also don't even know what a trojan or virus is and couldn't care less. Worry about your clueless windows users first.
7. You cannot admit that there is no professional printing capabilities in linux.
If I were running a professional print house, I'd probably be using a Mac.
8. You cannot admit that you are a masochist (otherwise why would someone spend hours playing with scripts, and recompiling programs that are available for Windows?)
Classic uninformed troll. What's was the last Linux distribution you even looked at? RedHat 3.0? Installations have grown up a lot since then.
9. You cannot admit that there is no professional desktop publishing done on Linux.
See my Mac reference
10. You cannot admit that no one in their right mind would do professional video editing in Linux.
Make sure you understand that you typed 'professional' video editing. I would use Linux. Have you seen Cinelerra? Even Pixar and ILM use Linux for their render farms. A clueless newbie wanting home video editing would probably do better with iMovie on a Mac. Pinnacle and ULead products crash and hang too often in windows.
12. You have problems in understanding Windows, and you will blame your own incompetence on Microsoft.
If windows is so easy, why are there people switching to an OS that's harder to use, as you imply. Linux users have courage and are self-confident.
13. You have problems in pointing a clicking, but have no problems in wading through cryptic scripts written by lunatics.
Even Einstein couldn't tie his shoes. So I'll take this statement as a compliment to my intelligence.
Big Deal.... Take those letters and shove them. Using those letters, regardless of where they came from, would cause and/or swing the bias. If an independent group is making the decision, let them do independent research to decide.
People need to get off this "because Microsoft, IBM, AOL, etc. said it, so now I'll believe it" mentality and start thinking for themselves. For example, I like Linux. Not because Linus said so, but because I did my own research and found it to be what I feel I need.
Lets make sure we compare apples to apples here. Or should I say oranges to oranges. I admit, Mac OS X is an easy, formidable operating system. But you need to BUY EXPENSIVE HARDWARE to make the switch from Windows. However, Linux is a great way to shed the problems with Windows if you still want to use your existing hardware. I'd recommend spending $50 on a Dummies book on switching to Linux than $500 on a new Mac, just to avoid windows. And believe me, the Mom-type person will also spend an additional $50 on a book to learn how to use their new Mac.
Then again, if you're the type of person that would, say, buy a new car just because the tires on your existing car give you problems, then go ahead and throw away perfectly good x86 hardware to buy a Mac.
It doesn't mean I'm not capable of empathy when it comes to other people understanding computers. I have family and friends which gave me plenty of opportunity to understand the perception of computers from a non-technical point of view. And in that capacity, Mandrake 10 has a damn nice install going for it.
Well, you could have pushed Linux until you said non-technical
Have you installed Mandrake 10.1 lateley? I've been upgrading Linux in increments over the years and it wasn't till recently that I tried a full fresh install. Mandrake 10.1 did a wonderful job of installing everything needed for Internet access, printers, useable office software, multimedia, games, etc. during the installation process. Install recommended items, reboot, get online. Easy as pie. I was VERY IMPRESSED at the final result. So was my neighbor. After playing with a dual boot Mandrake 10.1 with XP for about a week, she's ready to pull the XP drive and give it to her husband for his PC. Mandrake gives her everything she needs to do for home and online. She even downloaded the latest Wine and started getting her Windows only software installed seamlessly.
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Sure maybe a few years to a decade to find the right combinations to get a net energy output, but now it is going to happen because now it's real.
I'm already expecting to see the infomercials for Mr. Fusion (as in Back to the Future) so I can power my Cold Heat soldering iron forever.
Yah, the helium mines are almost empty out im Amarillo...not much helium ore left down in the mines these days. It's just as well, working way down there in the mines is dirty and dangerous.
Is that why the dwarf characters in the Snow White story have high pitched voices and work as miners?
More wasteful is the extra power needed for all of the set top converters required for every analogue TV you own
You're right with this statement and it would be a great argument to show the side effect of an instant change. However, I'm sure reality dictates that a large majority of households got a box from their cable company on every TV already (how else are they going to access all the special channels). That box will be their format converter until they can afford to upgrade their TVs. Most of the standard cable converters in the US have the needed outputs for older TVs (A/V, S-Video, RF)
DNA test that measure customers' racial ancestry and their ancestral proportions if they are of mixed race.
Good... Maybe we'll nearly erase bigotry if most people discover they each have up to 10% blood from other races.
MIT responds by building a dance floor for a fad which hasn't been popular in 25 years.
At least they aren't wearing Jordache jeans (or Toughskins for that matter).
I wonder how that floor would hold up to roller skates. I suppose we'll never know considering the people involved. Geeks always had the chance to leave the rink before the rest of the crowd because of the final Couple's Skate.
Especially for GPS use.
Helps prevent the flow of electricity from one hand, across the heart, to the other hand.
I had one hand on a grounded metal component (the radiator) and the other hand near an electrical source (the distributor). Thus, I completed an electrical circuit when the ignition fired through the leaky distributor cap.
If I had my other hand away from things (behind my back), the electricity could of went from my arm down to my feet. But I was wearing sneakers and was insulated from the ground. I probably wouldn't have gotten a shock.
Yes....
Year one, week one, of any electronics course teaches you of the safety and hazards of electricity.
The skin surface has a very high resistance. Blood has a very low resistance. Open and/or bleeding cuts in the skin are dangerous near electrical contacts. It takes a lot of current to cause any real damage through skin. That's why you can touch the terminals of a relatively low voltage battery without a problem. But touching the terminals to fresh cuts on both hands can produce a high current flow right through the heart and cause fibrillation.
Very high voltages can overcome the resistance of unbroken skin and do the same thing. Something I discovered by being careless. I've always practiced putting one hand behind my back while working near live high voltage/current sources. I made the mistake once of resting one hand on a metal radiator in a car while turning the distributor on a running engine to set the timing. A crack in the distributor cap allowed a charge to escape to my hand, through me, and to the radiator. I've had high voltage shocks before, but not like this. I felt funny in the chest, dizzy and weak momentarily, and almost fell over before my heart started pounding like I finished a marathon. I recovered from it rather quickly, but I'm sure I rattled my heart rhythm for a moment because of that.
I have a really irregular laptop.
My laptop screen is a reflective satin material and I wear a Proxima projector as a backpack with a mirror reflector extending over my head and projecting onto the laptop screen face.
The projector keeps me nice and warm in the wintertime.
I can also project movies too. They look real good projected onto the road surface of a bridge I recently bought in Manhattan.
Windows Update appears to run without a browser. IE would just be a constantly returning item to install from the list.
However, I have to wonder about the Windows Update feature. Once when I was working without a network or internet connection, an hour into my usage, I get a prompt from the Windows Update that there were new updates to be downloaded. Since I had no network connection, how was it able to check for updates?
yeah.. yeah.. .....and those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.
Let's move along.....
I fixed one from a state of non-workingness. I picked it up from somebody's curb during the town's "Spring Cleanup" day when all the old electronics (among other things) gets a courtesy pickup by the sanitation department.
The big thing to keep in mind is that the components in the SX-64 are the same as a standard 'breadbox' style 64. Even the schematics are nearly the same. The SX-64 basically spans the whole design across more than one board. I was able to test/replace all the chips in the SX-64 for troubleshooting purposes with a regular 64 that had socketed chips. Turns out that in my case, someone had though a chip is a chip and put a SID chip in the Kernel ROM slot (even though the number of pins were different). I Kernel ROM from a regular 64 and it works like a champ.
However, I'm probably the only one with an SX-64 that powers up with a blue on blue screen, and with an available but useless SHIFT-RUN cassette load feature.
For those furrowing their eyebrows over the last sentance, the SX-64 has no cassette interface. I believe the SHIFT-RUN that launched a tape load on a regular 64 was replaced with the command to load the first program on disk. I'm not exactly sure because I have no SX-64 ROM to verify it.
However, you can do this:
Probably useful for "fair use" needs. It would take a long time to get the whole book using this method.
That's the point. Nobody is actually copying it!!
The song was paid for. It's just going to now get downloaded in it's raw form, before the client software finishes prepping it "for my convenience"
A user comment in TFA mentions a potential legal difference.
PyMusique captures the paid for track before the DRM gets put on.
Hymn strips off the DRM after the track is downloaded.
Hymn appears to violate the DMCA to the letter of the law because the DRM is in place at the time Hymn performs it's functions.
PyMistique most likely only violates the TOS because the user isn't using the iTunes application, the client component that puts the DRM on the downloaded file. The file is simply downloaded as iTunes sends it (without DRM).
Either way, the user would have paid for the song. They are simply making a choice to maintain their "fair use" rights.
I remember this moment in time. Even though I forgot anything else that happened that day.
I was repairing a transceiver at a two-way radio shop and the DJ on the FM radio warned of the upcoming 12:34:56 7/8/90 in about ten minutes. So I took a break to witness it myself on my digital watch.
The strange thing was, I do remember not actually wanting to listen to the radio that day, but decided to turn it on anyway.
Now, please excuse me while I brew up another cup of "Dick Clark's Secret Formula Longevi-Tea" so I may enjoy the moment in time in the year 2090
Although the summary cleared things up.
At first glance, I thought I'd eventually take an "upgrade" path to a VIC-20 via "Reversible Computing"
I take responsibility for my kids and I think every other parent should do so. I wouldn't want anybody to sell games to my kids that have the M rating. Right now, the law makes sure kids can't go into an adult bookstore and buy stuff either. The M rated games can be very influential to minors and desensitize them to violence long before they can adequately comprehend that their personalities are changing for the worse.
Now, I grew up with "violent" games in the 80's. And I'm sure I've been influenced by the level of violence in them. But it took quite an imagination to correlate the violent actions in the games to real life actions. Today's graphics and gameplay provide near matching scenerios. Kids get the "Play the game, try it for real" ideas. However, I still keep a large golden arrow around in case I run across a dragonduck when duty calls me to find the chalice.
Some trolls deserve to be force fed. I'll even burn karma to do it....
Play the 80's aerobics music... Oooohh.. Feel the karma burn
1. You rejuvenate and dance when you hear a windows flaw exposed, but you conveniently ignore the thousands of security flaws exposed in linux.
Most of the script kiddies ignore Linux security flaws. It comes down to the amount of risk. It's riskier to put an unpatched windows machine on the net than an unpatched Linux box
2. You yell loudly TROLL! at any person's post or at any person you see posting facts that you do not want to hear about your oh so cool linux.
OK. A half point for you, but I'm also doing something about it.
3. You know it's a classic case of penis envy, you don't have all the support, software and hardware available for linux and you have to let that anger out somewhere, but you don't have the brains to admit it.
No, penis envy is more for case modding. Linux has all the windows hardware available for it. As for software, you can't count windows viruses and trojan screen savers as part of the software base. Those who choose to move to Linux understand what software base is available to them. The same software argument can applied to a Mac. Mac addicts will fight tooth and nail for their platform not caring a bit about the software base for windows.
4. You hate windows, hate Microsoft, but race to emulate windows, have programs to run office from within linux, and spend a $300 on a Windows emulator, only Windows fools.
I happily run OpenOffice. I haven't found a need to touch a windows emulator for anything. Plus, I don't hate windows. I'm actually a VB.NET programmer by trade. I'd just rather not use the stuff at home. If I were a 'sanitation engineer' for a living, I wouldn't bring home bags of garbage to play with.
5. You cannot admit that you don't have professional usage of Linux outside server markets.
Moot point. 21st century. It's all going client/server. Even microsoft stuff. Unix/Linux was just there first.
6. You cannot admit that most of the joe user out there when told that there is linux will respond, what is that?
Most of the 'Joe Users' out there that would respond that way also don't even know what a trojan or virus is and couldn't care less. Worry about your clueless windows users first.
7. You cannot admit that there is no professional printing capabilities in linux.
If I were running a professional print house, I'd probably be using a Mac.
8. You cannot admit that you are a masochist (otherwise why would someone spend hours playing with scripts,
and recompiling programs that are available for Windows?)
Classic uninformed troll. What's was the last Linux distribution you even looked at? RedHat 3.0? Installations have grown up a lot since then.
9. You cannot admit that there is no professional desktop publishing done on Linux.
See my Mac reference
10. You cannot admit that no one in their right mind would do professional video editing in Linux.
Make sure you understand that you typed 'professional' video editing. I would use Linux. Have you seen Cinelerra? Even Pixar and ILM use Linux for their render farms. A clueless newbie wanting home video editing would probably do better with iMovie on a Mac. Pinnacle and ULead products crash and hang too often in windows.
12. You have problems in understanding Windows, and you will blame your own incompetence on Microsoft.
If windows is so easy, why are there people switching to an OS that's harder to use, as you imply. Linux users have courage and are self-confident.
13. You have problems in pointing a clicking, but have no problems in wading through cryptic scripts written by lunatics.
Even Einstein couldn't tie his shoes. So I'll take this statement as a compliment to my intelligence.
This link talks about Microsoft being a 3rd party developer for Apple in 1983.
Big Deal.... Take those letters and shove them. Using those letters, regardless of where they came from, would cause and/or swing the bias. If an independent group is making the decision, let them do independent research to decide.
People need to get off this "because Microsoft, IBM, AOL, etc. said it, so now I'll believe it" mentality and start thinking for themselves. For example, I like Linux. Not because Linus said so, but because I did my own research and found it to be what I feel I need.
Lets make sure we compare apples to apples here. Or should I say oranges to oranges. I admit, Mac OS X is an easy, formidable operating system. But you need to BUY EXPENSIVE HARDWARE to make the switch from Windows. However, Linux is a great way to shed the problems with Windows if you still want to use your existing hardware. I'd recommend spending $50 on a Dummies book on switching to Linux than $500 on a new Mac, just to avoid windows. And believe me, the Mom-type person will also spend an additional $50 on a book to learn how to use their new Mac.
Then again, if you're the type of person that would, say, buy a new car just because the tires on your existing car give you problems, then go ahead and throw away perfectly good x86 hardware to buy a Mac.
hrblock.com
You got a web browser, right?
I've never had problems doing my taxes online. I don't even need to install yearly updates.
So I've been using Linux for a while. Big deal.
It doesn't mean I'm not capable of empathy when it comes to other people understanding computers. I have family and friends which gave me plenty of opportunity to understand the perception of computers from a non-technical point of view. And in that capacity, Mandrake 10 has a damn nice install going for it.
Well, you could have pushed Linux until you said non-technical
Have you installed Mandrake 10.1 lateley? I've been upgrading Linux in increments over the years and it wasn't till recently that I tried a full fresh install. Mandrake 10.1 did a wonderful job of installing everything needed for Internet access, printers, useable office software, multimedia, games, etc. during the installation process. Install recommended items, reboot, get online. Easy as pie. I was VERY IMPRESSED at the final result. So was my neighbor. After playing with a dual boot Mandrake 10.1 with XP for about a week, she's ready to pull the XP drive and give it to her husband for his PC. Mandrake gives her everything she needs to do for home and online. She even downloaded the latest Wine and started getting her Windows only software installed seamlessly.