Does anyone remember the Fairchild gaming system from the dark ages? It had a nifty controller...It was about the size of a hot dog and bun. You held the 'bun' in your sub-dominant hand. Out of the top on a short stalk was this triangular bit that you grasped with the other hand. It moved in the normal manner of a joystick, plus, you had the extra dimensions of push down, pull up, twist left, and twist right.
I can't remember any game I ever played on it, or even what the console looked like. But I do remember that controller for some reason.
Is it not time we flush the patent system and Microsoft with it?
What benefit does either provide us?
I've had Linux systems running *in production*, with tens of thousands of users, with over *two years* of uptime. Now, you could rightly say that there is perhaps a significant lack of proper system administration going on there, and I would not argue with that. But, you have to acknowledge the impressive uptime without a single breach of security.
In my experience, Microsoft could not hold a dust bunny to that, never mind a candle.
So, While Linux *may* be be violating somebody's viral* patent, show us the source Microsoft, to convince us you are not violating any, and let us then improve your source to achieve the levels of stability and interoperability that one can find with on other operating systems.
*: what i mean by that is a patent without any justification, one issued without any proper research for prior art, as so many have been. Perhaps there's a better name, I just can't think of one right now.
Yes, you are wrong. Open up an old one sometime an see what's inside. There's usually a channel off to the side where the air that's whirling around get's to go through a filter to weed out nasty things that might have been left behind during manufacture.
All this chocolate you speak of is crap. Real, Good, Chocolate is readily available to anybody reading this. You can get El Ray, Scharffen Berger, Chocovic, and many other fine chocolates online. chocosphere.com, for example, has a great selection of *real* chocolate.
Also, my local health food store has begun to cary a decent selection of interesting chocolate from small regional manufacturers.
I have two such phones, both Western Electric, any-color-you-want-so-long-as-it's-black, and nearly indestructible. One desktop, one wall mount. Sound quality of the highest order (for telephony, anyway). No blisters, 'cause I almost never dial with them...
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Seriously, I *have* only one functional eye. The brain uses, IIRC, about 6 different methods to sense 3-D, and only about half of them require two eyes. Having lost vision in my left eye at the age of ten,I believe my brain did some significant compensation to rely on the available methods. This system will not work for me, as it uses only one of the methods, one that requires two eyes.
Could a display be developed that exploited only non-two-eye-3d-perception methods?
I've written 4 or 5 of my top ten favorite tools, but for the office, which means it falls under some legal stuff that says I can't talk much about them...
Sorry, you've got it wrong. The gas grill ignitor uses a spring and energy input from the user the smack a peizoelectric crystal, generating enough electricity to create a spark. A peizoelectric speaker is essentially the same thing, only in reverse. Put electricity in, and the crystal vibrates, creating sound. So, I don't beleive that the cell phone buzzer will ignite gasoline vapors. Well, maybe if you removed it from your phone, adjusted it's lead to create a suitable spark gap, and then hit the peizo with a hammer...
The truly old fashioned way is to use a pulse dial phone, or, lacking that, don't press *any* buttons. The system will figure you can't send tones and give up, handing you off to a human. It's worked every time for me.
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Does anyone remember the Fairchild gaming system from the dark ages? It had a nifty controller...It was about the size of a hot dog and bun. You held the 'bun' in your sub-dominant hand. Out of the top on a short stalk was this triangular bit that you grasped with the other hand. It moved in the normal manner of a joystick, plus, you had the extra dimensions of push down, pull up, twist left, and twist right.
I can't remember any game I ever played on it, or even what the console looked like. But I do remember that controller for some reason.
Is it not time we flush the patent system and Microsoft with it?
What benefit does either provide us?
I've had Linux systems running *in production*, with tens of thousands of users, with over *two years* of uptime. Now, you could rightly say that there is perhaps a significant lack of proper system administration going on there, and I would not argue with that. But, you have to acknowledge the impressive uptime without a single breach of security.
In my experience, Microsoft could not hold a dust bunny to that, never mind a candle.
So, While Linux *may* be be violating somebody's viral* patent, show us the source Microsoft, to convince us you are not violating any, and let us then improve your source to achieve the levels of stability and interoperability that one can find with on other operating systems.
*: what i mean by that is a patent without any justification, one issued without any proper research for prior art, as so many have been. Perhaps there's a better name, I just can't think of one right now.
'cause apparently, B Flat is 'universal':y Id=7442915
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Some of the best beers in the world are made here.
Pliny the Elder anybody???
http://www.beertown.org/events/wbc/winners_list/w
Yes, you are wrong. Open up an old one sometime an see what's inside. There's usually a channel off to the side where the air that's whirling around get's to go through a filter to weed out nasty things that might have been left behind during manufacture.
They (Mrs. Green's) carry beer too...
Chocolate has many of the same health benefits as red wine, so it's not entirely unhealthy. And don't discount it's psychological effects either...
All this chocolate you speak of is crap. Real, Good, Chocolate is readily available to anybody reading this. You can get El Ray, Scharffen Berger, Chocovic, and many other fine chocolates online. chocosphere.com, for example, has a great selection of *real* chocolate.
Also, my local health food store has begun to cary a decent selection of interesting chocolate from small regional manufacturers.
Yes, I'm a chocolate snob. Deal with it.
VPython does some neat tricks, mostly 3D, but some 2D as well:
http://vpython.org/
ChartDirector produces snazzy looking charts, but Edward Tufte proably would not care for them:
http://www.advsofteng.com/
Almost. If you've got the MONEY, you can buy the TIME to acquire the SKILL. Whether this will be successful or not requires you to have sufficient IQ.
So, the requirements are MONEY and IQ.
I have two such phones, both Western Electric, any-color-you-want-so-long-as-it's-black, and nearly indestructible. One desktop, one wall mount. Sound quality of the highest order (for telephony, anyway). No blisters, 'cause I almost never dial with them...
Seriously, I *have* only one functional eye. The brain uses, IIRC, about 6 different methods to sense 3-D, and only about half of them require two eyes. Having lost vision in my left eye at the age of ten,I believe my brain did some significant compensation to rely on the available methods. This system will not work for me, as it uses only one of the methods, one that requires two eyes.
Could a display be developed that exploited only non-two-eye-3d-perception methods?
I'd have to fire myself...
I've written 4 or 5 of my top ten favorite tools, but for the office, which means it falls under some legal stuff that says I can't talk much about them...
Sorry, you've got it wrong. The gas grill ignitor uses a spring and energy input from the user the smack a peizoelectric crystal, generating enough electricity to create a spark. A peizoelectric speaker is essentially the same thing, only in reverse. Put electricity in, and the crystal vibrates, creating sound. So, I don't beleive that the cell phone buzzer will ignite gasoline vapors. Well, maybe if you removed it from your phone, adjusted it's lead to create a suitable spark gap, and then hit the peizo with a hammer...
The truly old fashioned way is to use a pulse dial phone, or, lacking that, don't press *any* buttons. The system will figure you can't send tones and give up, handing you off to a human. It's worked every time for me.
>I wonder if there are any other uses for this kind of thing?
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Yes, there is:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=venue+group:c
Python.