A similar concept to yours, pressing a silicone button on the drive breaks open a sealed capsule of silica sand into the HDA; this would most certainly scrub any magnetic film from the rotating disks. And during its self destruction, it would attempt to rezero and seek, sure to polish most every data surface and thoroughly destroying the heads .
As many others, I had a blast with the 400/800/XL Ataris. In one hacking project I ran the official 400/800 Translator disk which overlayed the internal XL OS ROMs with those mostly compatible with a 400/800 system. After loading I then dumped the memory locations, readdressed them, and used an EPROM burner of my own design (my coworkers laughed - you should have seen the EPROM eraser they made up to mock my attempts, complete with framing hammer) to burn it into an EPROM, which I used to replaced the on board ROMs. As well, I fixed a few things I didn't like the OS defaults (don't remember now what they were tho'). I had several (P)ROMs selectable via switch and a board I layed out and etched. Most anything would then run on an XL, some that the Translator disks would not as I recall.
I also organized a user-group hardware project to build the famous bank-switched memory add-on published, where, maybe Byte mag. I modified it to use the 256k chips IIRC. 5-10 people but only a few comprehended what they were doing, and only a few finished though everything was supplied including solder.
Americans could look to technology as long as the resources of the land supported individualism (that IMHO cannot last further than, say, another century based upon population growth). As our needs overlap, the need to cooperate and find political solutions will grow as fast, maybe faster, than even technology needs.
Something that is bound to be as ephemeral, trite, as (most) television is should not be payed for by me; I should be payed for watching it. Though of course, many people also are voluminous readers of romance novels as well.
They could not include every processor, of course, but this was a nice piece of hardware at the time. The Heathkit microprocessor trainers used it (programmed it to play Anchor's Away! as extra credit for retired Navy prof), had accum A, B, and an index register/addressing (the first uP to do so?), 16 bit regs, flat memory space and memory mapped I/O. Preceded the later 6502 which had a similar programming model. It was clean and fun to learn; the Intel architecture has always been foreign to me; was there separate I/O bus instructions? dunno...
I listened to his talk on TED and I was not convinced that it was the way forward, though I do acknowledge the adoption issues and that it may be one way to get there from here.
I hope many see this fundamental change as a potent opportunity to minimize complexity, control, and interference and that we not lose it.
Maybe nutty, maybe not... Hasselblad's explanation on their website and historical foundation clearly points to Shirra personally going to a photo shop and buying the consumer camera model that went into space with him, albeit some minor changes... him personally recommending them to NASA as an amateur photographer as NASA was not happy with onboard cameras, apparently already familiar with them... True or not!?
Agreed! Being an CDDA user and MP3 listener since their early appearances I have heard mediocre but also incredibly good MP3 implementations. But in my best, reasonably recent, A-B testing results I have been unable to discern the difference. The overarching issues have always been in the quality and equalization of the source material.
*Interestingly, on a recent critical listening A-B test, the only difference I did detect was an absolute noise floor on the supposedly already silent passages - I thought Wow, the mp3 algorithm is doing a great job, only discarding the least relevant information.
Microsoft has to have something to sell, and as they have in the past, selling you *another* OS is not out of the question.
And even if they are not new-product ready and profitable, I think it would be even more financially urgent to attempt adding complexity to the current technology mix to hold them over until they do. New browser, methods, new development envs., IDE's, New Serverxxx w/extensions, SPs, patches, everything that keeps their juggernaut running.
Just wondering... Since we have been looking at the planets with telescopes coupled with spectrometers for a very long time, why has it taken so long to detect and verify a simple molecule like methane?
OK, in the infrared we must get past the atmosphere, but aren't there IR space-based spectrometers? Even simple spectrometers could not have missed the unique signature; from balloons even. Is the S/N so low? It seems Mars would have been an obvious target.
apparently not obvious to some, look at the top companies of the world that have set up digs at or near leading educational institutions. Creating work under the historical guise of "internships", often low paid and low risk, but also a way to identify, harvest ideas and unique and valuable skills, likely before the school or even the student realizes the (dollar) potential.
Call your local authorities and ask them how much installing a simple on/off streetlight would cost per year, say, like if your local street corner needed one.
You will be shocked, figuratively. Probably good for the environment, but the cost of the lights, including the electricity, pales in comparison.
This is the old stereo store model; you remember, the one you could never afford to buy in? Or like Lisa Simpson moans she can never afford any of Apple's products?
This is all about control, increasing their margins, and creating a profitable, controllable secondary (and price fixing) layer.
Bringing up anything else (like service, whatever that is) is secondary, a smoke-screen. Spin any "service" to someone who makes his bread and butter, or lives and dies, by it. Not someone who lives mostly off the initial sale and who service is a secondary, necessary evil.
You say they make money on their accessories, but that is only because they now actually have to compete on price, but given the chance they will gouge us on price alone -as they have and as I have experienced- for many, many decades.
I say go ahead with the company store model; this simply marginalizes their brand even further, in a world with many up and coming brands; I will still buy wherever and wherever I can.
If Sony doesn't want to handle complaints, then create a good product, not many mediocre ones that break, are obtuse, or of often poor technical quality. Or, get out of the, obviously, profitable market.
Haha; I as well have a vintage '78 Realistic SA2001 Amplifier that has a separate amp/preamp 60w/channel, an attractive champagne color and lighted analog power meters; way cool retro. For awhile that thing drove a pair of Kustom towers with a 15, a 12, and a horn so loud and low I suspect it would blow a lighter out in front of the tuned port. It now is happily driving a pair of Infinity monitors. I did find a 70s Fisher 800tx (maybe 100w/ch) literally on the side of the road; cleaned up almost new and sounds great, weighs a ton and can sink some serious power, but I still like my 2001.
In the morning, when the air is still and cold, all I think about is a place for my small of steaming cup-o-joe, nestled firmly into that highly-engineered entrapment device made of the finest imported plastics; the device which firmly, yet gently, holds the glassy container of my liquid desire.
Hell yess. I'd clip the mountaintops for more steel, risk my breathing air, and spend even more if I could only get an mp3 jack on the stereo.
I am not so sure it is the corporations, though I am sensitive to their influence.
In my mind, the real issue is that GDP is based upon dollar transactions. Sales of a product like DVDs are probably the easiest dollars they can tax, entertainment taxes, easier than cigarettes, easier than gasoline. The ephemeral nature of IP is that it can be simply duplicated - like cheaply printing money for taxes and adding to the GDP.
Every loss is an opportunity lost to their "business", government, and I am sure they don't like it just as much as the entertainment industry.
They tried in many ways to strangle the market when they had the chance(Postscript, page description, fonts, hinting, whatever), and I'm sure they again would do so in a heartbeat. They destroyed some opportunities for competitors in the PC system wars when they made it difficult, if not impossible, for anyone to implement the technologies even when it was clear they had no interest in doing so.
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A similar concept to yours, pressing a silicone button on the drive breaks open a sealed capsule of silica sand into the HDA; this would most certainly scrub any magnetic film from the rotating disks. And during its self destruction, it would attempt to rezero and seek, sure to polish most every data surface and thoroughly destroying the heads .
As many others, I had a blast with the 400/800/XL Ataris. In one hacking project I ran the official 400/800 Translator disk which overlayed the internal XL OS ROMs with those mostly compatible with a 400/800 system. After loading I then dumped the memory locations, readdressed them, and used an EPROM burner of my own design (my coworkers laughed - you should have seen the EPROM eraser they made up to mock my attempts, complete with framing hammer) to burn it into an EPROM, which I used to replaced the on board ROMs. As well, I fixed a few things I didn't like the OS defaults (don't remember now what they were tho'). I had several (P)ROMs selectable via switch and a board I layed out and etched. Most anything would then run on an XL, some that the Translator disks would not as I recall.
I also organized a user-group hardware project to build the famous bank-switched memory add-on published, where, maybe Byte mag. I modified it to use the 256k chips IIRC. 5-10 people but only a few comprehended what they were doing, and only a few finished though everything was supplied including solder.
Those were the days.
Interlibrary loans; maybe they will, maybe they won't.
How will they prove/disprove by disinterested parties an actual landing?
haha
I see it as a forced, painful, crowbar'ed lurch. But it is a good thing, regardless.
Americans could look to technology as long as the resources of the land supported individualism (that IMHO cannot last further than, say, another century based upon population growth). As our needs overlap, the need to cooperate and find political solutions will grow as fast, maybe faster, than even technology needs.
That is where we differ.
Something that is bound to be as ephemeral, trite, as (most) television is should not be payed for by me; I should be payed for watching it. Though of course, many people also are voluminous readers of romance novels as well.
They could not include every processor, of course, but this was a nice piece of hardware at the time. The Heathkit microprocessor trainers used it (programmed it to play Anchor's Away! as extra credit for retired Navy prof), had accum A, B, and an index register/addressing (the first uP to do so?), 16 bit regs, flat memory space and memory mapped I/O. Preceded the later 6502 which had a similar programming model. It was clean and fun to learn; the Intel architecture has always been foreign to me; was there separate I/O bus instructions? dunno...
I listened to his talk on TED and I was not convinced that it was the way forward, though I do acknowledge the adoption issues and that it may be one way to get there from here.
I hope many see this fundamental change as a potent opportunity to minimize complexity, control, and interference and that we not lose it.
Maybe nutty, maybe not... Hasselblad's explanation on their website and historical foundation clearly points to Shirra personally going to a photo shop and buying the consumer camera model that went into space with him, albeit some minor changes... him personally recommending them to NASA as an amateur photographer as NASA was not happy with onboard cameras, apparently already familiar with them...
True or not!?
Agreed! Being an CDDA user and MP3 listener since their early appearances I have heard mediocre but also incredibly good MP3 implementations. But in my best, reasonably recent, A-B testing results I have been unable to discern the difference. The overarching issues have always been in the quality and equalization of the source material.
*Interestingly, on a recent critical listening A-B test, the only difference I did detect was an absolute noise floor on the supposedly already silent passages - I thought Wow, the mp3 algorithm is doing a great job, only discarding the least relevant information.
Microsoft has to have something to sell, and as they have in the past, selling you *another* OS is not out of the question.
And even if they are not new-product ready and profitable, I think it would be even more financially urgent to attempt adding complexity to the current technology mix to hold them over until they do. New browser, methods, new development envs., IDE's, New Serverxxx w/extensions, SPs, patches, everything that keeps their juggernaut running.
Just wondering...
Since we have been looking at the planets with telescopes coupled with spectrometers for a very long time, why has it taken so long to detect and verify a simple molecule like methane?
OK, in the infrared we must get past the atmosphere, but aren't there IR space-based spectrometers? Even simple spectrometers could not have missed the unique signature; from balloons even. Is the S/N so low? It seems Mars would have been an obvious target.
apparently not obvious to some, look at the top companies of the world that have set up digs at or near leading educational institutions. Creating work under the historical guise of "internships", often low paid and low risk, but also a way to identify, harvest ideas and unique and valuable skills, likely before the school or even the student realizes the (dollar) potential.
in the Selenite's ventilation shaft.
Had a first edition of the book years ago; lost it, wish I still had it.
Call your local authorities and ask them how much installing a simple on/off streetlight would cost per year, say, like if your local street corner needed one.
You will be shocked, figuratively. Probably good for the environment, but the cost of the lights, including the electricity, pales in comparison.
This is the old stereo store model; you remember, the one you could never afford to buy in? Or like Lisa Simpson moans she can never afford any of Apple's products?
This is all about control, increasing their margins, and creating a profitable, controllable secondary (and price fixing) layer.
Bringing up anything else (like service, whatever that is) is secondary, a smoke-screen. Spin any "service" to someone who makes his bread and butter, or lives and dies, by it. Not someone who lives mostly off the initial sale and who service is a secondary, necessary evil.
You say they make money on their accessories, but that is only because they now actually have to compete on price, but given the chance they will gouge us on price alone -as they have and as I have experienced- for many, many decades.
I say go ahead with the company store model; this simply marginalizes their brand even further, in a world with many up and coming brands; I will still buy wherever and wherever I can.
If Sony doesn't want to handle complaints, then create a good product, not many mediocre ones that break, are obtuse, or of often poor technical quality. Or, get out of the, obviously, profitable market.
Haha; I as well have a vintage '78 Realistic SA2001 Amplifier that has a separate amp/preamp 60w/channel, an attractive champagne color and lighted analog power meters; way cool retro. For awhile that thing drove a pair of Kustom towers with a 15, a 12, and a horn so loud and low I suspect it would blow a lighter out in front of the tuned port. It now is happily driving a pair of Infinity monitors. I did find a 70s Fisher 800tx (maybe 100w/ch) literally on the side of the road; cleaned up almost new and sounds great, weighs a ton and can sink some serious power, but I still like my 2001.
I'll bet it has -great- cupholders...
In the morning, when the air is still and cold, all I think about is a place for my small of steaming cup-o-joe, nestled firmly into that highly-engineered entrapment device made of the finest imported plastics; the device which firmly, yet gently, holds the glassy container of my liquid desire.
Hell yess. I'd clip the mountaintops for more steel, risk my breathing air, and spend even more if I could only get an mp3 jack on the stereo.
Funny! Very Funny!
But the parent is right, well documented so you can decide. See National City Lines, maybe Wikipedia if that is to your likings.
But many others will, at your expense.
And even if they truly can't, they'll see great rates on a new kind of mortgage...
Did everyone think globalization was simply about exchanging shiny, cheaper, manufactured items?
No; it was about ultimate alignment of all of these other harder, more difficult and intangible things like values, whatever.
Economics may bring the pressure to do so, but no one said it is enough or that it won't be painful along the way.
When are those who pushed for loose, blind globalization going to have to eat their own dog food?
It has yet to be seen, but coming, I think.
I am not so sure it is the corporations, though I am sensitive to their influence.
In my mind, the real issue is that GDP is based upon dollar transactions. Sales of a product like DVDs are probably the easiest dollars they can tax, entertainment taxes, easier than cigarettes, easier than gasoline. The ephemeral nature of IP is that it can be simply duplicated - like cheaply printing money for taxes and adding to the GDP.
Every loss is an opportunity lost to their "business", government, and I am sure they don't like it just as much as the entertainment industry.
A sincere Thank You for your efforts, identifying the issue and alerting the Devs, and correcting the problem.
This is the way things were meant to work, as so eloquently put elsewhere.
No, lets don't.
They tried in many ways to strangle the market when they had the chance(Postscript, page description, fonts, hinting, whatever), and I'm sure they again would do so in a heartbeat. They destroyed some opportunities for competitors in the PC system wars when they made it difficult, if not impossible, for anyone to implement the technologies even when it was clear they had no interest in doing so.