...we didn't need no music and video player. We were lucky to get 32K of memory in an organizer and were happy for it!!
Who needed a pixel based display anyway? Why I just about cried tears of joy when my electronic organizer displayed somewhat readable characters on a segmented LCD display.
I still remember when my pappy gave me that 'ol organizer which displayed a full telephone number in the display without scrolling - even with the dashes!!
It even had a BUILT-IN keyboard. Something you need to buy separately for these new fangled devices.
Oh, and the wonderful music it played. Type on the keyboard (TICK), save an entry (BEEP), alarm or appointment reminder (BEEP - BEEP).
It was great for games, too. I could use it to look up my friend Joe's number and call him over for a game of checkers.....
And while were on the subject of "date numerology" I seem to remember some time back in 1987 where the time and date matched up in some kind of whacky sequence -- something like: October 9th 1987, at 6:54 pm.
Don't forget 12:34:56 7/8/90
Depending on how you tell time, that occurred twice in the same day.
ALL ISP's need to block outgoing port 25 from cablemodems / DSL / dialups. Require users to use the ISP's mail servers.
That'll piss off anybody who runs a website through a virtual server located offsite from their ISP. Most ISP's wouldn't want to take the time to reconfigure their servers to every unique domain name being used for e-mail on multiple virtual web sites.
Been there, done that, switched ISP's because of it.
Does this mean that when Fandom becomes a term of pop culture and is to be entered into Webster's Dictionary, does the publisher have to pay royalties to add it?
Or does there have to be a banner ad printed with a URL on the top of that dictionary page?
If a radio station simulcasts on the Internet, why do they need to pay twice?
All it is is a different transmission medium. Only idiots with nothing more to do will listen to the radio and the webcast at the same time.
So the radio station can reach worldwide on the Internet. BIG DEAL! A station with a transmitter on a high mountain will broadcast farther than an 'in city' radio station. Doesn't change the charges they each have to pay to play the same songs.
I can understand charges for Internet only radio, but not for good ol' FCC licensed broadcasters who simulcast.
Move the radio stations off shore.... Really heat up the debate. It's legal to broadcast anything you want via the Internet while offshore, but who pays when the signal 'strays' into US LAN-space, ISPs?
You can take a look at the Pennsylvania web site http://www.state.pa.us for ideas. Pennsylvania has their web page printed on all vehicle license plates. For this kind of exposure, the web site would have to be appealing and useful for everyone.
Would I have to put a penny on the inside edge of the floppy CD so it will spin properly?
Just like those cardboard records you used to cut off the back of cereal boxes in the 70's that needed to be weighed down with a coin to turn properly on a turntable.
Note to those who graduated high school this year: Records are old CD's which used to be made out of vinyl
UV light, being a short wavelength, should bend a bit more through the atmosphere and around the earth's curvature. UV in some degree would be present in the post sunset hour(s). Ever look at a 'neon colored' object just after dusk? It still seems to 'glow' in the twilight sky with no visible sun. Also, light gets reflected off the moon at night. UV light may have a higher intensity than the visible light given off by the sun and reflected to earth via the moon
By the way, if I had mod points, I would mod you way down. The sexist comment about women driving is probably the main reason chicks don't frequent/.
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You picked the wrong place to find chicks on the net.
It's a shame that the other 'color' that trichromats can sense isn't an ultraviolet one instead of another shade of green as the story indicates.
Enhanced night vision with ultraviolet perception would be very beneficial when it's dark and would greatly counteract a woman's inability to drive during the day...
You now have a use for those old 'slimline' PCs you never thought you could upgrade. Just use the PCI bus in them to power cards like this and set up a 'slimline' firewall system.
What can you do with the extra slots on the same machine? Why, put in the WWW server card (whenever someone creates it). Before long, you get cards for all the basic Internet services. You might even find the cards in shrinkwrap packages at your local 7-Eleven or Toys R Us.
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Of course, you can install Linux on that slimline system and get the same thing done. What? Don't have an old slimline system, well just buy one at a nearby flea market or yard sale, download your favorite Linux distro, throw in some cheap NICs, and continue with that. It's probably cheaper than the FireCard.
Does this mean you can't vote online without a valid credit card?
Imagine the ad campaign:
Use our card and get a 10% return on your vote. Vote in 10 different individual elections and get an extra vote for your favorite candidate, ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
When this happens, Corporate America will OWN politics....
About time someone put it all in words instead of loosely spoken statements.
And to add my 0.02, those who say "A vote for the other party is a wasted vote" are friggin jerks.
Those who come to me and have the audacity to TELL ME or any other person those same words are the ones corrupting the system.
Stop flying the flag of Democracy and tell me my vote is wasted. You blew it. It's a Democracy!!!! I have a right to vote. Don't go telling me I'm wrong for picking the candidate of choice.
There's a fine line between standing on a soapbox telling your side of the story (like the person who posted the parent to this reply did) and telling me to my face that my vote is WRONG!!
Those who do the latter should be stripped of their voting priviledges for life for trying to upset such a free system. That should kill about 80% of the republican vote right there and about 60% of the democratic vote.
Wow. I could sue everyone who ever bought a laser, and be rich....
Actually, you could try to get the manufacturers of the laser pointers to surcharge a license fee under the assumption that people would use it for a copyrighted purpose.
Isn't that what the music industry did when home CD recorders first came out? The special 'Music CD' blanks were like $10 a piece mainly because they were 'pre licensed' for recording copyrighted material. The industry knew people were going to 'pirate' music, so they thought they'd do something to get their royalty money anyway.
I don't remember specifically, but it's the keyword (GOTO or THEN) which is listed 'first' in the BASIC ROM (or a lookup table therein). It saved clock cycles parsing tokens until the proper one was found and the code for that token is executed.
Did anybody here even begin to think that MAYBE Pioneer got picked up by an actual extraterrestrial life form? That surely would keep it from transmitting to Earth.
Are we as humanity so self centered that we think we are the center of the universe. When, possibly, there are other beings flying around in our intergalactic backyard which just happened to pick up one of our stray toys.
Isn't that what we were hoping for when launching Pioneer?
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Who needed a pixel based display anyway? Why I just about cried tears of joy when my electronic organizer displayed somewhat readable characters on a segmented LCD display.
I still remember when my pappy gave me that 'ol organizer which displayed a full telephone number in the display without scrolling - even with the dashes!!
It even had a BUILT-IN keyboard. Something you need to buy separately for these new fangled devices.
Oh, and the wonderful music it played. Type on the keyboard (TICK), save an entry (BEEP), alarm or appointment reminder (BEEP - BEEP).
It was great for games, too. I could use it to look up my friend Joe's number and call him over for a game of checkers.....
Don't forget 12:34:56 7/8/90
Depending on how you tell time, that occurred twice in the same day.
It also says that the Touch Pad uses AOL. Does that mean there's an AOL program available for the Linux OS? Maybe AOL now stands for AOL On Linux
Maybe even warm up a cold cup of coffee.....
Or, Elektron can broker your C64 for sale of the SID chip to be sold in a Sidstation to someone else.
I kind of like the latter idea myself. I might consider unloading all the C64's and C128's in my basement I'm keeping around for spare parts.
That'll piss off anybody who runs a website through a virtual server located offsite from their ISP. Most ISP's wouldn't want to take the time to reconfigure their servers to every unique domain name being used for e-mail on multiple virtual web sites.
Been there, done that, switched ISP's because of it.
Could this mean the development of a 'digital' microwave that doesn't use a noisy magnetron?
Or does there have to be a banner ad printed with a URL on the top of that dictionary page?
You'll see how well it holds up to real abuse.
All it is is a different transmission medium. Only idiots with nothing more to do will listen to the radio and the webcast at the same time.
So the radio station can reach worldwide on the Internet. BIG DEAL! A station with a transmitter on a high mountain will broadcast farther than an 'in city' radio station. Doesn't change the charges they each have to pay to play the same songs.
I can understand charges for Internet only radio, but not for good ol' FCC licensed broadcasters who simulcast.
Move the radio stations off shore.... Really heat up the debate. It's legal to broadcast anything you want via the Internet while offshore, but who pays when the signal 'strays' into US LAN-space, ISPs?
Sounds like a Microsoft 'pay twice' policy to me.
You can take a look at the Pennsylvania web site http://www.state.pa.us for ideas. Pennsylvania has their web page printed on all vehicle license plates. For this kind of exposure, the web site would have to be appealing and useful for everyone.
I'm pretty sure Underage Linking is still a crime......
Just like those cardboard records you used to cut off the back of cereal boxes in the 70's that needed to be weighed down with a coin to turn properly on a turntable.
Note to those who graduated high school this year: Records are old CD's which used to be made out of vinyl
By the way, if I had mod points, I would mod you way down. The sexist comment about women driving is probably the main reason chicks don't frequent /.
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You picked the wrong place to find chicks on the net.
Tetrachromats, not trichromats
Enhanced night vision with ultraviolet perception would be very beneficial when it's dark and would greatly counteract a woman's inability to drive during the day...
The least of which means you have to pay royalties for unprotected sex if she gets pregnant.
What can you do with the extra slots on the same machine? Why, put in the WWW server card (whenever someone creates it). Before long, you get cards for all the basic Internet services. You might even find the cards in shrinkwrap packages at your local 7-Eleven or Toys R Us.
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Of course, you can install Linux on that slimline system and get the same thing done. What? Don't have an old slimline system, well just buy one at a nearby flea market or yard sale, download your favorite Linux distro, throw in some cheap NICs, and continue with that. It's probably cheaper than the FireCard.
Imagine the ad campaign:
Use our card and get a 10% return on your vote. Vote in 10 different individual elections and get an extra vote for your favorite candidate, ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
When this happens, Corporate America will OWN politics....
Unless of course we can PayPal our vote :)
About time someone put it all in words instead of loosely spoken statements.
And to add my 0.02, those who say "A vote for the other party is a wasted vote" are friggin jerks.
Those who come to me and have the audacity to TELL ME or any other person those same words are the ones corrupting the system.
Stop flying the flag of Democracy and tell me my vote is wasted. You blew it. It's a Democracy!!!! I have a right to vote. Don't go telling me I'm wrong for picking the candidate of choice.
There's a fine line between standing on a soapbox telling your side of the story (like the person who posted the parent to this reply did) and telling me to my face that my vote is WRONG!!
Those who do the latter should be stripped of their voting priviledges for life for trying to upset such a free system. That should kill about 80% of the republican vote right there and about 60% of the democratic vote.
Actually, you could try to get the manufacturers of the laser pointers to surcharge a license fee under the assumption that people would use it for a copyrighted purpose.
Isn't that what the music industry did when home CD recorders first came out? The special 'Music CD' blanks were like $10 a piece mainly because they were 'pre licensed' for recording copyrighted material. The industry knew people were going to 'pirate' music, so they thought they'd do something to get their royalty money anyway.
I can have a Cue:Dog, but only if it weighs less than 20 pounds, doesn't byte the mailman, and if I pick up the bits it leaves in the grass.
I want it to be RF and offered for free so I can get a transceiver set to tinker around with.
I can't post as Anonymous Coward because it's so blatently obvious that I am a coward.
I don't remember specifically, but it's the keyword (GOTO or THEN) which is listed 'first' in the BASIC ROM (or a lookup table therein). It saved clock cycles parsing tokens until the proper one was found and the code for that token is executed.
Are we as humanity so self centered that we think we are the center of the universe. When, possibly, there are other beings flying around in our intergalactic backyard which just happened to pick up one of our stray toys.
Isn't that what we were hoping for when launching Pioneer?