I bet Casio will make a killing if they brought out this watch again. I'd buy two in case the first one would break. I had two CFX-40's in the past. One simply stopped working. The other had the display get cracked from being pushed around in a drawer for many years, back before I knew how rare they were.
I always thought that model was a remarkable invention. You can't find that kind of watch engineering these days. There is simply no unique functionality in watches on the market now. They're all just variations on a theme: alarm/chronographs.
Forget bungee jumping, now there's Airbag Jumping!!
How far can you fall before pulling the cord to surround yourself with 30 airbags for a cushioned landing.
The Story Of My First Computer
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This is excerpted text from a story about my geeky youth. It details my experience getting my first computer.
Not long after I started my 10th grade school year, and through no coaxing from me, my parents decided to get me a computer of my own. OH BOY!! I'll be in the big time now! One of the few kids on my street to own one. There is kind of an interesting story in getting this computer. First, we went to the obvious place, Radio Shack. They had the TRS-80 Model I & III and the Color Computer. The regular TRS-80's were a little too pricey so I contemplated the CoCo. It was nice although I wasn't totally impressed with the 16 row display and the psychedelic flashing cursor. Graphics seemed awkward due to the plot command and they were a bit chunky. Besides, I like to eat chicklets, not have a keyboard full of them. Then, my parents suggested the local computer store, ComputerLand. We walked in there and saw many Apple computers. I was familiar with these by name, but had no practical experience with them. After a full demonstration of their capabilities (I must say, I was impressed at the time), my parents stated that the $1000 price tag was too much. They asked the salesman if there was anything else that was cheaper.
Now, most everybody in this world has one time in their past where something attracted their attention in such a way that they swear that they could hear bells ringing. This was my time. As the sales person pointed his arm across the room, a virtual glow of light shimmered which induced a feeling that these days can only be compared to Clark Griswold's reaction to the glowing house lights on National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Up on the wall above the actual unit was the Commodore VIC-20 poster. Advertised on the poster was 5K memory (25% more than other computers started with), 23x22 display (seemed a more natural aspect than the CoCo's), Expandable to 32K memory, and the best thing, only $399. This was the one! I also learned how you could easily select character colors from the keyboard, type using many of the graphic symbols on the fronts of the keys, and how easy it was to edit your programs with the full screen editing capabilities (something that couldn't be done with the other computers I looked at). My parents and I agreed quickly that this is the one to get. So we picked it up, along with the $99 tape unit, a home financing program, VIC21 BlackJack, and Raceway. Also this computer just hit the market not long before we bought it. I remember looking at the manufacture date of Oct '81 on this unit. I stayed up very late that night trying to learn it's version of BASIC and typing in a game program. A magazine that we picked up at the store was just talking about the VIC-20 and had a type-in game (remember those?) called Catch-The-Bombs. It was a simple game that allowed you to catch balls falling down the screen. This program demonstrated the use of the built in graphic characters, therefore it was easy to create games without having to manage so many pixels. I still have this computer and I still have the Catch-The-Bombs game, along with many others I stored on cassette. I even created a Christmas and New Year's graphic/sound demo.
You could get busted for putting false credit card numbers in their forms pages
Does the law forbid using invalid credit card numbers, or using a credit card that's valid but doesn't belong to you? There's no value in a credit card who's number doesn't even exist.
I don't believe honey pots will be able to solve the problem. I believe in attacking the economics of spam. Make it not worth their while to send it in the first place. Here's one case in point:
I have been the victim of a spam which used my e-mail in the forged From line. I have been receiving all the 'undeliverable' bounces as a result. Of course I got fed up and decided to do some research.
I picked out the origination IP from the header of the attached bounced mails (always valid) and did a port scan on then. I found most of them infected with the Jeem trojan.
Well, this explains the open relay. I gave up complaining to ISP's about their subscribers who have trojaned systems. They don't seem to care. I suppose it's time for vigilante justice.
The Jeem trojan opens up an e-mail relay on a random port and a control connection plus an http proxy on their own random ports. Time to fight fire using the same fire.
After 'safe browsing' the web sites listed in the spam mails, a lot of them have form information (usually requesting credit card info). Why not use a program that uses a trojaned system's HTTP proxy to send invalid data as the form contents. I was able to send URL encoded form content based on the form's fields which easily bypassed the form's javascript validations. In return, I get an expected confirmation screen. Hey, maybe they just got one invalid response.
Now, if this can be done often enough, maybe the ISP will see the traffic and suspend the account of the trojaned system. In the meantime, the source of the SPAM gets a lot of invalid info to filter through. When I say invalid data. I don't mean 'asldfhhfsdf' and such. I mean real looking names, addresses, CC numbers, etc.
I know there are flaws with this idea, but I don't see where it wouldn't start becoming a thorn in their sides. The Jeem trojan can be controlled remotely. I wish I knew the remote commands to turn them off. But, if we use their known trojans against them, maybe they'll turn them off for us.
My 7 year old has her own laptop. I run a firewall at my router. Her laptop is explicitly forbidden to go anywhere on the Internet. When she comes to me that a web page doesn't work, I get info about it, research it, and if I accept the site, I add it to an ALLOW rule on the firewall. I never had a probem with bad things sneaking through. There's no such thing as 'not enough good'. If I'm allowing a Nickelodeon site to pass through, and a 'bad' page comes in from that site, Nickelodeon is going to hear about it quickly.
It's a bit overwhelming at first, until all her favorite sites are added to the firewall. Some might say I'm being too strict. But for a 7 year old, she should be glad she even has a computer of her own.
Of course, once she figures out how to change her IP address behind the firewall, she'll be able to circumvent the restrictions. With most kids these days, I figure I'm good till at least her 8th birthday:)
Comcast always seems to replace commercial content with their own "Don't buy a dish" commercials and other info for their services. The funny thing is, only Comcast subscribers see the damn commercials.
If it weren't for Comcast, I'd have never known there was an alternative such as a Dish.:)
So how does the doctor get kidnapped and placed in one building while others are still in the street (as seen in the episode with Moriarty). The holodeck appears to be only 30 feet in the longest direction. Simulating distance between two real objects must heat up the ol' processors on the holodeck computer while trying to generate a forced perspective to create the illusion of distance. And create such perspective from multiple viewpoints for each of the other real people in the holodeck.
I'm a big fan of Star Trek, but the holodeck is still simply science fiction to me. I still leave out a little hope though. After all, when I got my first LCD digital watch in 1977 (they were only B&W at the time) you couldn't convince me one bit that someday, someone would make a color LCD display.
Take that 9th grade English teacher....
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I bet Casio will make a killing if they brought out this watch again. I'd buy two in case the first one would break. I had two CFX-40's in the past. One simply stopped working. The other had the display get cracked from being pushed around in a drawer for many years, back before I knew how rare they were.
I always thought that model was a remarkable invention. You can't find that kind of watch engineering these days. There is simply no unique functionality in watches on the market now. They're all just variations on a theme: alarm/chronographs.
I don't consider the DRM threat of WMA a feature.
Yes, I buy my music....
Yes, I want to be able to play it freely, also.
You're 5... 4... 3... 2... Late...
FP was ages ago.
Time to stop buying HP stuff as a personal protest.
I also have no immediate plans to buy an iPod. I'll put that money toward an OGG player.
What about the second hand smoke around you when you finished up your stash? You can still get your residuals.....
Do they all sit around the campfire popping pimples and telling network management horror stories while holding LED flashlights under their chins.
Forget bungee jumping, now there's Airbag Jumping!!
How far can you fall before pulling the cord to surround yourself with 30 airbags for a cushioned landing.
This is excerpted text from a story about my geeky youth. It details my experience getting my first computer.
Not long after I started my 10th grade school year, and through no coaxing from me, my parents decided to get me a computer of my own. OH BOY!! I'll be in the big time now! One of the few kids on my street to own one. There is kind of an interesting story in getting this computer. First, we went to the obvious place, Radio Shack. They had the TRS-80 Model I & III and the Color Computer. The regular TRS-80's were a little too pricey so I contemplated the CoCo. It was nice although I wasn't totally impressed with the 16 row display and the psychedelic flashing cursor. Graphics seemed awkward due to the plot command and they were a bit chunky. Besides, I like to eat chicklets, not have a keyboard full of them. Then, my parents suggested the local computer store, ComputerLand. We walked in there and saw many Apple computers. I was familiar with these by name, but had no practical experience with them. After a full demonstration of their capabilities (I must say, I was impressed at the time), my parents stated that the $1000 price tag was too much. They asked the salesman if there was anything else that was cheaper.
Now, most everybody in this world has one time in their past where something attracted their attention in such a way that they swear that they could hear bells ringing. This was my time. As the sales person pointed his arm across the room, a virtual glow of light shimmered which induced a feeling that these days can only be compared to Clark Griswold's reaction to the glowing house lights on National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Up on the wall above the actual unit was the Commodore VIC-20 poster. Advertised on the poster was 5K memory (25% more than other computers started with), 23x22 display (seemed a more natural aspect than the CoCo's), Expandable to 32K memory, and the best thing, only $399. This was the one! I also learned how you could easily select character colors from the keyboard, type using many of the graphic symbols on the fronts of the keys, and how easy it was to edit your programs with the full screen editing capabilities (something that couldn't be done with the other computers I looked at). My parents and I agreed quickly that this is the one to get. So we picked it up, along with the $99 tape unit, a home financing program, VIC21 BlackJack, and Raceway. Also this computer just hit the market not long before we bought it. I remember looking at the manufacture date of Oct '81 on this unit. I stayed up very late that night trying to learn it's version of BASIC and typing in a game program. A magazine that we picked up at the store was just talking about the VIC-20 and had a type-in game (remember those?) called Catch-The-Bombs. It was a simple game that allowed you to catch balls falling down the screen. This program demonstrated the use of the built in graphic characters, therefore it was easy to create games without having to manage so many pixels. I still have this computer and I still have the Catch-The-Bombs game, along with many others I stored on cassette. I even created a Christmas and New Year's graphic/sound demo.
The VIC-20 was nowhere near a Plus/4. The Plus/4 was closer to a C64. Unless the Plus/4 moniker was the European equivalent.
Is it me, or does the SCO logo look like a blue Mickey Mouse silouette wrapped over a red ball?
Might be a metaphor about their business operations.
You could get busted for putting false credit card numbers in their forms pages
Does the law forbid using invalid credit card numbers, or using a credit card that's valid but doesn't belong to you? There's no value in a credit card who's number doesn't even exist.
I don't believe honey pots will be able to solve the problem. I believe in attacking the economics of spam. Make it not worth their while to send it in the first place. Here's one case in point:
I have been the victim of a spam which used my e-mail in the forged From line. I have been receiving all the 'undeliverable' bounces as a result. Of course I got fed up and decided to do some research.
I picked out the origination IP from the header of the attached bounced mails (always valid) and did a port scan on then. I found most of them infected with the Jeem trojan.
Well, this explains the open relay. I gave up complaining to ISP's about their subscribers who have trojaned systems. They don't seem to care. I suppose it's time for vigilante justice.
The Jeem trojan opens up an e-mail relay on a random port and a control connection plus an http proxy on their own random ports. Time to fight fire using the same fire.
After 'safe browsing' the web sites listed in the spam mails, a lot of them have form information (usually requesting credit card info). Why not use a program that uses a trojaned system's HTTP proxy to send invalid data as the form contents. I was able to send URL encoded form content based on the form's fields which easily bypassed the form's javascript validations. In return, I get an expected confirmation screen. Hey, maybe they just got one invalid response.
Now, if this can be done often enough, maybe the ISP will see the traffic and suspend the account of the trojaned system. In the meantime, the source of the SPAM gets a lot of invalid info to filter through. When I say invalid data. I don't mean 'asldfhhfsdf' and such. I mean real looking names, addresses, CC numbers, etc.
I know there are flaws with this idea, but I don't see where it wouldn't start becoming a thorn in their sides. The Jeem trojan can be controlled remotely. I wish I knew the remote commands to turn them off. But, if we use their known trojans against them, maybe they'll turn them off for us.
Only if the geek tupperware has cool lighting mods on it. Maybe a set of bins with EL around the rim.
http://www.iuma.com
The TI-85 is a super-calc.
My desk drawer has a TI-58C, TI-59, and an SR-56. I turn them on occasionaly to bask in their soft red glow for a while.
My 7 year old has her own laptop. I run a firewall at my router. Her laptop is explicitly forbidden to go anywhere on the Internet. When she comes to me that a web page doesn't work, I get info about it, research it, and if I accept the site, I add it to an ALLOW rule on the firewall. I never had a probem with bad things sneaking through. There's no such thing as 'not enough good'. If I'm allowing a Nickelodeon site to pass through, and a 'bad' page comes in from that site, Nickelodeon is going to hear about it quickly.
:)
It's a bit overwhelming at first, until all her favorite sites are added to the firewall. Some might say I'm being too strict. But for a 7 year old, she should be glad she even has a computer of her own.
Of course, once she figures out how to change her IP address behind the firewall, she'll be able to circumvent the restrictions. With most kids these days, I figure I'm good till at least her 8th birthday
I wish I can get "Tales" to fit on my 32MB MP3 player.....
They were all just trying out the new wireless service using a quick message. They simply forgot to post it as
WiFiFP or FP.11b
Answers to your questions....
1. We will remove it for you sir, but that will cost you 50c
Forget about it, I'll shop somewhere else.
2. Why do you want to remove it sir, what have you got to hide?
See answer to question 1
Then Comcast destroys that business model.
:)
Comcast always seems to replace commercial content with their own "Don't buy a dish" commercials and other info for their services. The funny thing is, only Comcast subscribers see the damn commercials.
If it weren't for Comcast, I'd have never known there was an alternative such as a Dish.
If Rowan does get the part, would we expect to see that funny blue car show up in every episode?
The English spelling rule is:
I before E, except after C
This is generally for words which have an I and E beside each other. If the pair of letters is preceded by a "c", use "ei", otherwise use "ie".
The following words follow the rule
Piece
Niece
Ceiling
Believe
However, rules are made to be broken. Here are some words that break the spelling rules
Being
Science
When in doubt, use the spelling rule
So how does the doctor get kidnapped and placed in one building while others are still in the street (as seen in the episode with Moriarty). The holodeck appears to be only 30 feet in the longest direction. Simulating distance between two real objects must heat up the ol' processors on the holodeck computer while trying to generate a forced perspective to create the illusion of distance. And create such perspective from multiple viewpoints for each of the other real people in the holodeck.
I'm a big fan of Star Trek, but the holodeck is still simply science fiction to me. I still leave out a little hope though. After all, when I got my first LCD digital watch in 1977 (they were only B&W at the time) you couldn't convince me one bit that someday, someone would make a color LCD display.
Throw out the I before E rule once and for all.