He developed a telephone-dialing card for the original Apple II computer. But Apple never marketed it for fear that it could be used as a powerful computer-controlled blue box.
Probably wasn't a modem, just reading what you put here, sounds more like a tone generator.
Hehe, the most popular (home) computer in the early 80s did have a modem, the Commodore 64. -
I don't think there's anyway you can really say that sending high frequency waves through our bodies is actually a healthy thing to be doing
Well, they travel through your body all the time, 24 hours a day. Are you going to shut down every radio transmitter in the world, or just live in a faraday cage? -
What's funny is when I got my 800MHz Athlon, I committed myself to keeping the case cover on all the time for fear of rads.:-) One of my friends and I discussed this, but neither of us know much about atomic physics.
Thats obvious.:) Anyway, you are confusing non-ionizing radiation (radio waves) with ionizing radiation (radioactivity). Yeah, your chip is putting off a bunch of microwave energy, but that isn't ionizing radiation, its the same kind of energy that your cell phone puts out. Its thought that the only health effects of non-ionizing radiation are heating effects. There is some controversy about this, and there could be other chronic effects to long term exposure, but nothing has been proven yet.
Anyway, keep your case on, it helps seal your electronics from stray electromagnetic fields, and helps keep your computer from causing interference in the same way. I am a ham radio operator, and I can tell you how much of a mess computers make on the radio waves even with the case on. (If your case isn't metal, it doesn't make a difference either way, for all you geeks with plexiglass cases) -
There is a huge gap between CPU speeds (300 Mhz - 1.5 Ghz) and software needs to cater for slightly lower CPU speed audiences.
This gap is no bigger than the gaps in the past, the 486 ranged from 25 Mhz to 133 Mhz, during the life of the chip, the pentium from 60 to 233 Mhz.
Since you are comparing the early Pentium IIs to the newest Pentium IIIs, an equivalent comparision would be from the 25Mhz 486 to the 233 Pentium. Anyway, my point is, there has always been a gap, and its always been pretty big (at least starting with the 286 and better.)
Your investment argument is weak, since it is an investment that will depreciate almost immediatly to nothing. You would have been better off buying a celeron or PII now and a faster chip later when they are cheaper, than shelling out nearly 1000 bucks for a top of the line chip. -
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Just one question. Why would anyone want to be a programmer? I view programming like the lowest rung, the physical laborer. I would much rather rely on the masochistic geeks that enjoy doing it, while I learn to use the tools they write to make money for my company, you know, that green stuff?
That is why I am in MSCI, Management Science and Info Tech. I was CS for 3 years. I will probably finish the CS minor, since I am only 6 hours from it, but I really can't believe all the stuff I was missing out on in CS, wasting my time with math and programming. I am not bad at math, and got A's in calculus, and went all the way to multivariable calc, then I realized that the things that were important to me were not the things I was learning.
Now I am learning things that will matter, like accounting, advanced statistics, etc. I also work as an IS manager, at a medium sized company. (If we eliminate many more people through technology, we won't be medium sized anymore.)
The point is, do you want to be a Knuth, or a Bill Gates? I want to retire young, so you know what my answer is. (Can anyone say Woz?:) -
If one in a 100 click on your link (and it'd have to be a great or deceptive ad to get that), that's $1.50 a surfer.
You all are missing the point. AdWords is not about getting massive exposures, its about targeting your ads with laser precision.
I have a few Adwords myself, and some of them get as high as 20-30% click through, because they are very targeted phrases, I won't type them here, because then you all will go search for them and kill my CTRs. Sure I am not pulling in millions of hits per day, but I get a LOT of bang for my buck.
On top of that, Google is very generous with ad credits, I have run my campaigns on mostly comp credits. (You "gambler"s know what a comp is.):)
Maybe their prices are a little high, but you have to look at the audience you reach through Google also. Its not just people that are too stupid to change their default home page, like MSN.
I had an account on MSN's keywords, while that still existed. I never spent much money on it until they cut their so called "auctions" minimum bids down by over 100% and gave me some free credits. They had this sort of fake auction system, where the starting bids for keywords were already too outrageously high to ever want to bid on. I wound up getting a refund for almost all of my money when Keywords was officially sacked a few months ago.
So there is at least one doctor who is ready to do this kind of surgery on a real patient. I think he would only accept candidates that are currently quadriplegics and whose bodies are severely degenerating to the
This is utter bullshit.
How are they going to bring a "recently dead" body back to life? Even supposing they were going to sacrifice a living person to do it, could they carefully remove the brain and then replace the new one before the heart reached the point where it will never start again?
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- to share files that may be of interest to others. So, human nature equals leech nature? I think not.
I don't think true altruism ever exists. Even when you are giving, you are receiving too.
You put up files on the net so that your name will be credited, so that your "reputation" will be built up. This is your payment. There are enough people with low self-esteem to carry the weight of running the servers. These people value the time and work setting up a server less than they value a little respect. -
The most glaring being that it is incredibly hard to switch from one doc to the other. (More visual people have problems going to a menu to switch documents.)
Opera has it's own task bar, and so does mIrc, and both of those are MDI by default. mIRC also has the option of going non-MDI.
Or you can just use Opera... its all MDI child windows. It makes MUCH more sense to have all your open webpages in one application, all your open documents in your Word Processing application, etc.
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In the US, in all the places where I have voted, they use mechanical booths, and once you get checked off the register, to make sure you can't vote twice, you go to any booth, and vote anonymously. The is no easy way to track any particular vote to any person.
I think the 1-3 megaton estimate is assuming an asteroid, but they aren't sure it isn't a rocket booster yet.
Either way, it's only a level 1 Torino.
I thought the Torino scale was supposed to keep media outlets from exaggerating. I guess it now gives them an excuse to run a story when something scores non-zero. -
Both these laws require the state to prove what the item was intended to be used for - I can't arrest you for walking down the street with a crowbar in your bag but if its 3AM and your standing in the shadows at the back door to the local pawn shop I'm pretty close to getting out my chrome bracelets (better have a good story to tell me on this one).
I don't know about other states, but in VA, possession of tools of burglary are considered prima facie evidence of intent. That pretty much shifts the burdon of proof onto the accused. -
You can also quote it, burn it, cut its words out and rearrange them, scribble in it, etc.
Not any more!:)
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But be prepared to spend at least 2 hrs per kit to build it...
And be prepared to have the FCC knocking on your door if you trasmit at 1-10watts or more on the FM broadcast band, clean signal or not. They don't monitor generally, but if you are in the 1st or 2nd adjecent channel to a real station that is within 50 miles or so, the broadcast engineer of the FM station will sic the FCC on you. Even if you find a clear channel, you might be blasting one of the new LPFM10 or 100 watt stations out of the water with your signal, and they will get pissed and call the FCC.
Don't even think about running illegal power on the FM broadcast band, unless you are ready to be constantly in a cat and mouse game with the FCC. Stay in the 900Mhz or 2.4Ghz public bands, you can run a few watts there legally. (but not from a kit, because the device must be type accepted as far as I know.)
Yeah, but that Zip disk password is laughable "security".
I do agree that the Zip disk is the closest thing to a floppy sucessor we have thus far, and is probably the best choice, but they are just a prone to failure. Just do a search for "Zip 'click of death'"
It would be great if the technology used in digital cameras would hit mainstream as a portable media, I don't know if you have seen a modern memory card but the thing is tiny! Its about as thick as a credit card, and the size of a quarter, and holds 16/32 megs. Might not seem too impressive to you yung'ins, but in my day.....;) -
Blah, My reply was trollish, don't sweat it. I run a poetry contest, I don't judge it, I get entries, bale them up by the hundred, and send them to the publisher to be read and judged, I used to write poetry, but I just run the contest for money.
Capitalism has it's flaws, but I still don't see how you can dislike a mutually agreeable trade. I don't see scalping as a flaw in capitalism. There is consent of both parties, that was my only real point, ignore the socalist comment. -
Next time that happens, talk to the manager, do not pass go, do not pay $900. Its possible that the clerk was just trying to gouge you, and he didn't even own the unit. Think about it, he takes your $900, puts $300 or whatever the unit costs in the register, and pockets the rest, rings it up after you leave. I am all for free trade in secondary markets, but a clerk in a store should not abuse that position as such. You could have easily had him fired. -
how many of the ps2 purchases were made just to be resold?
should there be limits?
No, instead of realeasing 500,000 units to stores, Sony should have had a huge dutch auction on eBay with 250,000 units. It would have placed the value of the system at the exact point where supply and demand meet, and would have likely made Sony a lot of money. -
To see a gaming machine purchased for such a reason makes a hobbyist like myself rather upset.
It's called supply and demand bub. Obviously Sony is charging well below the price at which demand intersects supply, this difference is enough to motivate people to resell the systems on the secondary market. If the buyers are ignorant enough to not look into the future forecast of supply, then that is their problem. Nothing will ever sell for more than the buyer really wanted to pay for it, that is why capitalism is all about mutual consent in trade.
Your only possible ethics argument is against the people who are claiming that there won't be any supply until March. If they know better and are lying, then that is fraud, and they can be sued as such.
With your argument that these "scalpers" were taking systems you could have bought, you can still buy the system when the scalpers sell them, there is nothing stopping you. If the system is worth more to somebody else than it is worth to you, too bad, that's how a free market works.
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Probably wasn't a modem, just reading what you put here, sounds more like a tone generator.
Hehe, the most popular (home) computer in the early 80s did have a modem, the Commodore 64.
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Well, they travel through your body all the time, 24 hours a day. Are you going to shut down every radio transmitter in the world, or just live in a faraday cage?
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Thats obvious. :) Anyway, you are confusing non-ionizing radiation (radio waves) with ionizing radiation (radioactivity). Yeah, your chip is putting off a bunch of microwave energy, but that isn't ionizing radiation, its the same kind of energy that your cell phone puts out. Its thought that the only health effects of non-ionizing radiation are heating effects. There is some controversy about this, and there could be other chronic effects to long term exposure, but nothing has been proven yet.
Anyway, keep your case on, it helps seal your electronics from stray electromagnetic fields, and helps keep your computer from causing interference in the same way. I am a ham radio operator, and I can tell you how much of a mess computers make on the radio waves even with the case on. (If your case isn't metal, it doesn't make a difference either way, for all you geeks with plexiglass cases)
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This gap is no bigger than the gaps in the past, the 486 ranged from 25 Mhz to 133 Mhz, during the life of the chip, the pentium from 60 to 233 Mhz.
Since you are comparing the early Pentium IIs to the newest Pentium IIIs, an equivalent comparision would be from the 25Mhz 486 to the 233 Pentium. Anyway, my point is, there has always been a gap, and its always been pretty big (at least starting with the 286 and better.)
Your investment argument is weak, since it is an investment that will depreciate almost immediatly to nothing. You would have been better off buying a celeron or PII now and a faster chip later when they are cheaper, than shelling out nearly 1000 bucks for a top of the line chip.
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That is why I am in MSCI, Management Science and Info Tech. I was CS for 3 years. I will probably finish the CS minor, since I am only 6 hours from it, but I really can't believe all the stuff I was missing out on in CS, wasting my time with math and programming. I am not bad at math, and got A's in calculus, and went all the way to multivariable calc, then I realized that the things that were important to me were not the things I was learning.
Now I am learning things that will matter, like accounting, advanced statistics, etc. I also work as an IS manager, at a medium sized company. (If we eliminate many more people through technology, we won't be medium sized anymore.)
The point is, do you want to be a Knuth, or a Bill Gates? I want to retire young, so you know what my answer is. (Can anyone say Woz? :)
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You all are missing the point. AdWords is not about getting massive exposures, its about targeting your ads with laser precision.
I have a few Adwords myself, and some of them get as high as 20-30% click through, because they are very targeted phrases, I won't type them here, because then you all will go search for them and kill my CTRs. Sure I am not pulling in millions of hits per day, but I get a LOT of bang for my buck.
On top of that, Google is very generous with ad credits, I have run my campaigns on mostly comp credits. (You "gambler"s know what a comp is.) :)
Maybe their prices are a little high, but you have to look at the audience you reach through Google also. Its not just people that are too stupid to change their default home page, like MSN.
I had an account on MSN's keywords, while that still existed. I never spent much money on it until they cut their so called "auctions" minimum bids down by over 100% and gave me some free credits. They had this sort of fake auction system, where the starting bids for keywords were already too outrageously high to ever want to bid on. I wound up getting a refund for almost all of my money when Keywords was officially sacked a few months ago.
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This is utter bullshit.
How are they going to bring a "recently dead" body back to life? Even supposing they were going to sacrifice a living person to do it, could they carefully remove the brain and then replace the new one before the heart reached the point where it will never start again? Are you sure you didn't read this under the name of "Dr. Frankenstien's monster"?
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I don't think true altruism ever exists. Even when you are giving, you are receiving too.
You put up files on the net so that your name will be credited, so that your "reputation" will be built up. This is your payment. There are enough people with low self-esteem to carry the weight of running the servers. These people value the time and work setting up a server less than they value a little respect.
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Opera has it's own task bar, and so does mIrc, and both of those are MDI by default. mIRC also has the option of going non-MDI.
Also, you can always hit Ctrl-Tab.
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I don't know why these browsers weren't made MDI to start ith. Almost every other application out there doesn't spit out a million new tasks for each document, why should your browser?
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Online voting will change all that...
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Either way, it's only a level 1 Torino.
I thought the Torino scale was supposed to keep media outlets from exaggerating. I guess it now gives them an excuse to run a story when something scores non-zero.
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Um, Thats part of the DMCA. In case you didn't know, the DMCA is LAW now, not some possibility. And yes, it sucks.
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I don't know about other states, but in VA, possession of tools of burglary are considered prima facie evidence of intent. That pretty much shifts the burdon of proof onto the accused.
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Not any more! :)
(The copyright owner) shall have the right -
(A) to prevent any intentional distortion, mutilation, or other modification of that work which would be prejudicial to his or her honor or reputation, and any intentional distortion, mutilation, or modification of that work is a violation of that right, and
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And be prepared to have the FCC knocking on your door if you trasmit at 1-10watts or more on the FM broadcast band, clean signal or not. They don't monitor generally, but if you are in the 1st or 2nd adjecent channel to a real station that is within 50 miles or so, the broadcast engineer of the FM station will sic the FCC on you. Even if you find a clear channel, you might be blasting one of the new LPFM10 or 100 watt stations out of the water with your signal, and they will get pissed and call the FCC.
Don't even think about running illegal power on the FM broadcast band, unless you are ready to be constantly in a cat and mouse game with the FCC. Stay in the 900Mhz or 2.4Ghz public bands, you can run a few watts there legally. (but not from a kit, because the device must be type accepted as far as I know.)
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Nolo's guide to Patent, Copyright, and Trademark.
It's great.
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Oh, Brave New World, that has such people in it.
Simple evolution should not be patentable, period. Evolution of a concept in obvious ways is not novel.
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I do agree that the Zip disk is the closest thing to a floppy sucessor we have thus far, and is probably the best choice, but they are just a prone to failure. Just do a search for "Zip 'click of death'"
It would be great if the technology used in digital cameras would hit mainstream as a portable media, I don't know if you have seen a modern memory card but the thing is tiny! Its about as thick as a credit card, and the size of a quarter, and holds 16/32 megs. Might not seem too impressive to you yung'ins, but in my day..... ;)
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Capitalism has it's flaws, but I still don't see how you can dislike a mutually agreeable trade. I don't see scalping as a flaw in capitalism. There is consent of both parties, that was my only real point, ignore the socalist comment.
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LOL, I'm such an idiot! :)
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Maybe I am just slow, but it took me 5 minutes to figure out how this article applied to a military standard regarding unwanted RF eminations.
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Next time that happens, talk to the manager, do not pass go, do not pay $900. Its possible that the clerk was just trying to gouge you, and he didn't even own the unit. Think about it, he takes your $900, puts $300 or whatever the unit costs in the register, and pockets the rest, rings it up after you leave. I am all for free trade in secondary markets, but a clerk in a store should not abuse that position as such. You could have easily had him fired.
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should there be limits?
No, instead of realeasing 500,000 units to stores, Sony should have had a huge dutch auction on eBay with 250,000 units. It would have placed the value of the system at the exact point where supply and demand meet, and would have likely made Sony a lot of money.
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It's called supply and demand bub. Obviously Sony is charging well below the price at which demand intersects supply, this difference is enough to motivate people to resell the systems on the secondary market. If the buyers are ignorant enough to not look into the future forecast of supply, then that is their problem. Nothing will ever sell for more than the buyer really wanted to pay for it, that is why capitalism is all about mutual consent in trade.
Your only possible ethics argument is against the people who are claiming that there won't be any supply until March. If they know better and are lying, then that is fraud, and they can be sued as such.
With your argument that these "scalpers" were taking systems you could have bought, you can still buy the system when the scalpers sell them, there is nothing stopping you. If the system is worth more to somebody else than it is worth to you, too bad, that's how a free market works.
eBay and the final realization of nearly perfect capitalistic markets really drives you socalists crazy, doesn't it?
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