It's actually only $1000 if you don't want the service. $600/8GB plus $350-400 typical PDA discount for 2 year commitment. And, of course, GP is a troll.
Because it's Apple, and it looks cool. I must admit I'm caught up in the hype, too. However, I'm getting an HTC TyTN (8525) next month. Lower res (readable), similar screen height (width, whatever - about 1.75"), smaller footprint, but 7mm thicker gets me a real slide-out keyboard. I'm betting that a 4G and possibly 8G MicroSD will be on the market by next summer.
Those who currently have a iPod and can fit their collections in 4 or 8GB, and like the interface, can upgrade to this and drop a device. I can see the appeal. The interface pictures also look nice. Actually, they make the WM5 interface look like is was designed by a 5 year old. Apple always did have the graphic smarts.
Anyway, I think those of use with PDA phones based on palm or WM will be just as well served without the iPhone, especially if we work on Win desktops and want integration for business stuff. I think an iPhone Nano at the $300 price point might have actually be a better sell. A dual-screen (or tri-screen) flip phone with the open dimensions close to a Nano would go like fire. Hell, I'd consider getting one and just swap my SIM between work and playtime.
Hey, Jobs...did you get that? I want an iPhone Nano - it's the first Apple product I've wanted since I got an Apple ][e. Gotta be a market out there for the dozen of us in the same boat;-)
Just a question...why would you want to rent HD movies for your iPhone? Wouln't you rather pay a bit less for DVD quality movies? I mean, 720p is great and all, but a 480p movie is still higher res than the device can display.
Oh, and I think $499 is a touch on the high side, though not out of the park. The 8525 (lower res, nearly the same height screen, smaller but thicker, includes real keyboard and dedicated phone hard-buttons, 3G) is about $300-$350 on the same contract. That puts the retail of the iPhone somewhere in the $850 range.
Add $100 per year, typically, to get the non-contract price, maybe an extra $50 for no data plan. Many sales associates, I've heard, don't know you can opt out of the contract for the higher dollars up front - or they know and play dumb becuase their commissions are based on the contract lengths (somewhat - again, second hand knowledge).
For $800 you can probably buy one free and clear, but unless you really, really want T-mobile, can unlock the phone yourself (legal, but don't expect cingular to help you), and like to give up the special carrier integration (voicemail stuff) - why would you bother. You're getting it for the phone service anyway, right? The iPod bit is secondary, isn't it? At least on par for double-the-price of an iPod? Unless you just don't have cingular in your area...
As comparison, btw, I'm about to get an 8525 (HTC TyTN for Cing.) - it's $700 for the "real" unlocked TyTN, and about $300-350 with a 2 year voice-only agreement. $50 less (via rebate) with a data plan.
It's that whole volume thing. Wow, all the old people from Korea must be going home, reducing the total text messaging, and causing the rates to climb.
Or maybe cingular realised that they could charge even more and get away with it!
I liken it to having a team of lawyers sift through all my conversations and correnspondance, and similar on the other side. Sometimes that's not a bad thing, but for most of what we do, it's really not necessary (unless, of course, you ask a lawyer for his or her opinion).
Most of what I do on the internet doesn't really require all these bells and whistles. Heck, the first time I saw the www, I commented that it wan't anything special, as I could get the same information from gopher. Of course, a couple months later when there was more than the NCSA site, it became obvious that the web did have a great deal more potential.
Nonethless, much of the messiness in internetworking today is due to (a) the massive poulatiry and need for loadsharing and (b) corporate interests (advertising, for example). (a) is a legitimate extension, (b) does not really serve me in many meaningful ways (except, I suupose, financial - but I would pay for an ad-free internet before I would prefer a free ad-ful internet). It could just be that I actually remember when computers didn't do everything for you, and we didn't have this sort of rampant problem (oh, we had viruses, but not botnets). I do miss the "good old days" when getting rid of a program simply required deleting the directory, and you could actually find the settings you were looking for without searching for the right value out of 20,000 entries in a registry hive (the registry seemed so cool when it first came out).
I guess it's also a bit like having a house full of servants. They do a lot of the grunt work for you, but the overhead is awful and one or two bad apples can rob you blind and cause no end to headaches with the neighbors. Sure, I like some things done for me, but I'm much more comforatble with my own hands on the wheel. *shrug*
Oh, no, this is perfectly safe. Well, mostly safe. You see, by talking on your cell phone and sitting right next to your wireless laptop while using your bluetooth keyboard and mouse, the incremental exposure of these charging systems will change your liklihood of getting radiation induced cancers from 1.00 to 1.00. As they say - don't sweat the small stuff!
I have a copy of Windows 1.03 on my shelf, and I learned to program machine code on a 6502 back when 8 bits was all anyone needed. Byte me.
Of course the idea needs more thought. And internet traffic needs more control. Why should I need to have random packets going out and back when I'm not doing anything on the net? DHCP keep alive? UPnP? I say bullshit. I'm not running server apps, so there isn't a need to be on all the time. I shouldn't have to use a sniffer on a machine that is idling. And my OS should be able to deny any traffic I tell it to - or, more importantly, should be able to allow only the traffic I tell it to - out of the box. Except that Windows doesn't - and that's were these botnets live.
See, the problem is that for our "convenience" the internet world has become infinitely obfuscated, with commercial site redirecting willy-nilly and advertisers running the show. You can't tell the difference between the legitimate assholes and the real assholes by net traffic, and you can't filter them. Why does is take 30 fucking megabytes in a driver to connect to a HP printer on the internal network? And for that matter, why does it take an individual process for each fucking one? Just like computers - the internet has gotten so much bandwitdth that nobody has to be careful with their programming, so they just leave all the lights on and the doors open with the AC running. (sorry, I'm getting a bit carried away).
Anyway, it should be possible, but it would also break most of the corporate mish-mash that currently exists. And I know we'd all much rather have a hundred pump-and-dumps a day than deny Grandma her blinking, animated advertisements that surround the Current Weather activex widget on her desktop at 2am.
So all we need is a widget on the desktop that allows you to turn on and off the internet connection, and logs all information that goes in and out, along with denying any redirection of data to other than the specific target request (if you send a request to www.google.com, only www.google.com may respond).
Any traffic that isn't specifically requested by the user is blocked. You manually open and close ports as you need them.
Oh, right, that would break most authenticity checks to combat "piracy", and totally botch most advertising on the net, and set us back to the early 90s. BTW - sign me up.
$9k was an arbitrary number, but probably close to the US average spent per student in public schools. I won't argue over 10%.
I'm not saying you could hire an educator for minimum wage. I'm saying that as compensation, the government should at least allow you to claim the federal minimum wage for the required contact hours, adjusted for class size (you're kids get the benefit of a low instructor-student ratio at your expense). Since there are no special federal education requirements, licensing exams, or annual education requirements for home educators, a reasonable compensation is FMW - it's the lowest common denominator. You're not doing it to save money - you're doing it because you want them to get a "better" education (however it is you define better - eveyone does it differently).
Expenses are deductible, I just suggested a statutory labor deduction for home school instructors who do not get paid. If you want to pay your spouse $40,000 per year, along with the payroll taxes and such, you can deduct up to $9,000 of the expense. Be my guest. Just remember that you'll pay income, employment, FUTA, and local taxes on that money. Books are deductible. Buildings and electricity must be carefully justified, just as in a home based business - if you use that space for any other purpose, it's probably not deductible. If you sell your house with a dedicated addition, you must claim the proceeds (as a portion of your basis) as a capital gain for any deduction you've taken.
It would have worked, but two things got in the way:
1. Apple screwed the pooch with their product between the IIe and the Macintosh, effectively taking themselves out of the market. Anyone remember Lisa?
2. The IBM-PC got genericized hardware, allowing a flood of relatively inexpensive clones and interchangability. Hardware Choice.
Warning: from this year forward there will no longer be public subsidization of the results of your libido. No more tax exemptions for children. $9000 will be added to your tax bill for each child you have from next year forward to cover public education expenses. If you want them educated somewhere else, provide receipts for deduction up to $9000 maximum per child. Uncompensated instructors (home schoolers) will be compensated at a rate of current federal minimum wage divided by 25 (for theoretical average public class size) times 5.5 hours (school day) x 180 days schooling, currently $204 per child per year. Note: uncompensated instructors claiming the $204 per child will be subject to 15% self-empoyment taxes. Fees will be subject to increases each year to keep up with cost of education, and will be added until such child reaches 18 years old. If you can't keep your kids in school 'til they're 18, consider the tax a parental penalty for truancy.
Fear not, all of these 15M/2M FTTP guys on/. are in the cherry picked areas of the country. Most of the US is still on dialup. I define most as "more than 50% of landmass," and I'd bet a dollar that it's closer to 70-80% of landmass, but I'm not going to try and look it up.
Until just two years ago, I was ten miles from a major university with several GB/s of bandwidth (may be tens of GB, for all I know) and when I called the local telco and cableco inquiring about "high speed internet" they were excited to tell me that they had high speed internet - they'd just upgraded more than half of their modem pool to 56kb! By the time I left there, they had a 768/128kb ADSL that I badgered them into extending to my house (about 20,000 ft from the CO), where I got 680/65kb. And a bargain at $45/mo. Note that this is not some university in the middle of nowhere, as we're less than 250 miles from Washington, D.C. Now I'm "in town" and can get better DSL, or cable if I don't mind being down for 10-15% of the time (fuck you Adephia). Ten years ago they were all going to have 10bT to the houses thanks to the University, but I can only guess that Adelphia and Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) squashed that pretty quickly.
The best file system for archival purposes is the one you're using today. Why? Because of you want that archive to be readable in any expedient manner, you are going to have to constantly monitor and update the media on which it is stored. All media will degrade over time, and you will have no idea how bad that degradation has been until you re-read it. No vendor will compensate you for the loss of your data, because there is some data which simply cannot be recreated.
If you want archival storage, you need to have your data on- or near-line, and rewrite the data to the "new" hardware every couple of years. By choosing a filesystem that is current, you are more likely to be cable to read it in a couple years than if you (try to) stick with a single filesystem. I know this sounds like a lot of work, but if the data is truly worth archiving, it's worth keeping both the storage mechanism and format up to date.
2700? I'd classify that as a small school. I'm thinking of 25000+ universities. The last class I took (grad level, engineering, at a major engineering university) had about 12 people in it. Tuition was about $850 for the one class for me. Most engineering classes at the senior level rarely have more then 25 students (undergrads, mostly on an all-you-can-eat full time tuition), and professors complain when they have to do three classes a semester.
Associated research sections pay more than 50% of their grant to the university for "overhead", before they hire the first grad student or secretary.
Not on your life. That 40k is eaten up so fast it would make your head spin. Though to be honest, the state unis have it worse, having to work with sub-10k annual in-state tuitions. Sure it's fine for 200 person lectures, but look at a typical grad class: $1000 class tuition (typ in-state rate) x 12 participants / 45 contact hours, 45 grading hours, 45 office hours = $89/hr. Overhead and G&A at most universities is well over 100% of direct labor. Even if you managed to keep a professor chock full of grad classes, you couldn't pay them more than $75-$80k/yr. And you rarely see professors with more than 20 hrs a week dedicated to classes - plus the several weeks a year of non-semester calendar time. You'd have to be paying them $30k just to break even, presuming you never wanted to expand the campus.
Yeah, it's worth burning a little karma just to say you did it once. And, I suppose, to burn karma for saying it's okay.
Though you should have said something at least slightly relavant to claim honest FP honors. Even something like "based on WordPerfect's in and out of the market during it's buyouts, it managed to lose practically all of its market share to Word, what makes anyone think that it can go back and unseat Final Cut."
Bingo - by making the research public (domain), it cannot be patented. However, if someone were to extend the research, that could be patented with no benefit or restrictions placed on it by the original "inventor."
In theory, they could use this basic patent to prevent pharma from harvesting cash in the future. But they won't. This is academia, where the system cannot function without large cash flows. Do you really think that university presidents with solid six-figure salaries, thousand square foot office suites, and stone-clad buildings can be supported by tuition alone?
Twice a day XRs are 1g/(32.5mg?)x2 with a total dose of 4g amox, iirc. And, as you can tell by the parents correction of my post, I am neither a molecular biologist or a doctor. *shrug*
It could be a typo, or it could be that the compiler was using part of the 384k of memory that existed above the 640k line (there was actually 1MB of memory). That "high memory" was often used for drivers, but special programs were used to put utilities in those memory locations. A portion of that memory was used for the video buffer, hence the sibling post.
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It's actually only $1000 if you don't want the service. $600/8GB plus $350-400 typical PDA discount for 2 year commitment. And, of course, GP is a troll.
Because it's Apple, and it looks cool. I must admit I'm caught up in the hype, too. However, I'm getting an HTC TyTN (8525) next month. Lower res (readable), similar screen height (width, whatever - about 1.75"), smaller footprint, but 7mm thicker gets me a real slide-out keyboard. I'm betting that a 4G and possibly 8G MicroSD will be on the market by next summer.
;-)
Those who currently have a iPod and can fit their collections in 4 or 8GB, and like the interface, can upgrade to this and drop a device. I can see the appeal. The interface pictures also look nice. Actually, they make the WM5 interface look like is was designed by a 5 year old. Apple always did have the graphic smarts.
Anyway, I think those of use with PDA phones based on palm or WM will be just as well served without the iPhone, especially if we work on Win desktops and want integration for business stuff. I think an iPhone Nano at the $300 price point might have actually be a better sell. A dual-screen (or tri-screen) flip phone with the open dimensions close to a Nano would go like fire. Hell, I'd consider getting one and just swap my SIM between work and playtime.
Hey, Jobs...did you get that? I want an iPhone Nano - it's the first Apple product I've wanted since I got an Apple ][e. Gotta be a market out there for the dozen of us in the same boat
Just a question...why would you want to rent HD movies for your iPhone? Wouln't you rather pay a bit less for DVD quality movies? I mean, 720p is great and all, but a 480p movie is still higher res than the device can display.
Oh, and I think $499 is a touch on the high side, though not out of the park. The 8525 (lower res, nearly the same height screen, smaller but thicker, includes real keyboard and dedicated phone hard-buttons, 3G) is about $300-$350 on the same contract. That puts the retail of the iPhone somewhere in the $850 range.
Add $100 per year, typically, to get the non-contract price, maybe an extra $50 for no data plan. Many sales associates, I've heard, don't know you can opt out of the contract for the higher dollars up front - or they know and play dumb becuase their commissions are based on the contract lengths (somewhat - again, second hand knowledge).
For $800 you can probably buy one free and clear, but unless you really, really want T-mobile, can unlock the phone yourself (legal, but don't expect cingular to help you), and like to give up the special carrier integration (voicemail stuff) - why would you bother. You're getting it for the phone service anyway, right? The iPod bit is secondary, isn't it? At least on par for double-the-price of an iPod? Unless you just don't have cingular in your area...
As comparison, btw, I'm about to get an 8525 (HTC TyTN for Cing.) - it's $700 for the "real" unlocked TyTN, and about $300-350 with a 2 year voice-only agreement. $50 less (via rebate) with a data plan.
It's that whole volume thing. Wow, all the old people from Korea must be going home, reducing the total text messaging, and causing the rates to climb.
Or maybe cingular realised that they could charge even more and get away with it!
I liken it to having a team of lawyers sift through all my conversations and correnspondance, and similar on the other side. Sometimes that's not a bad thing, but for most of what we do, it's really not necessary (unless, of course, you ask a lawyer for his or her opinion).
Most of what I do on the internet doesn't really require all these bells and whistles. Heck, the first time I saw the www, I commented that it wan't anything special, as I could get the same information from gopher. Of course, a couple months later when there was more than the NCSA site, it became obvious that the web did have a great deal more potential.
Nonethless, much of the messiness in internetworking today is due to (a) the massive poulatiry and need for loadsharing and (b) corporate interests (advertising, for example). (a) is a legitimate extension, (b) does not really serve me in many meaningful ways (except, I suupose, financial - but I would pay for an ad-free internet before I would prefer a free ad-ful internet). It could just be that I actually remember when computers didn't do everything for you, and we didn't have this sort of rampant problem (oh, we had viruses, but not botnets). I do miss the "good old days" when getting rid of a program simply required deleting the directory, and you could actually find the settings you were looking for without searching for the right value out of 20,000 entries in a registry hive (the registry seemed so cool when it first came out).
I guess it's also a bit like having a house full of servants. They do a lot of the grunt work for you, but the overhead is awful and one or two bad apples can rob you blind and cause no end to headaches with the neighbors. Sure, I like some things done for me, but I'm much more comforatble with my own hands on the wheel. *shrug*
Oh, no, this is perfectly safe. Well, mostly safe. You see, by talking on your cell phone and sitting right next to your wireless laptop while using your bluetooth keyboard and mouse, the incremental exposure of these charging systems will change your liklihood of getting radiation induced cancers from 1.00 to 1.00. As they say - don't sweat the small stuff!
Well, at least one moderator gets the joke, but there's a lot of whoosh going on here.
(hint)
Yeah, if he'd been in a better neighborhood, they would have called him Macaca.
I have a copy of Windows 1.03 on my shelf, and I learned to program machine code on a 6502 back when 8 bits was all anyone needed. Byte me.
Of course the idea needs more thought. And internet traffic needs more control. Why should I need to have random packets going out and back when I'm not doing anything on the net? DHCP keep alive? UPnP? I say bullshit. I'm not running server apps, so there isn't a need to be on all the time. I shouldn't have to use a sniffer on a machine that is idling. And my OS should be able to deny any traffic I tell it to - or, more importantly, should be able to allow only the traffic I tell it to - out of the box. Except that Windows doesn't - and that's were these botnets live.
See, the problem is that for our "convenience" the internet world has become infinitely obfuscated, with commercial site redirecting willy-nilly and advertisers running the show. You can't tell the difference between the legitimate assholes and the real assholes by net traffic, and you can't filter them. Why does is take 30 fucking megabytes in a driver to connect to a HP printer on the internal network? And for that matter, why does it take an individual process for each fucking one? Just like computers - the internet has gotten so much bandwitdth that nobody has to be careful with their programming, so they just leave all the lights on and the doors open with the AC running. (sorry, I'm getting a bit carried away).
Anyway, it should be possible, but it would also break most of the corporate mish-mash that currently exists. And I know we'd all much rather have a hundred pump-and-dumps a day than deny Grandma her blinking, animated advertisements that surround the Current Weather activex widget on her desktop at 2am.
So all we need is a widget on the desktop that allows you to turn on and off the internet connection, and logs all information that goes in and out, along with denying any redirection of data to other than the specific target request (if you send a request to www.google.com, only www.google.com may respond).
Any traffic that isn't specifically requested by the user is blocked. You manually open and close ports as you need them.
Oh, right, that would break most authenticity checks to combat "piracy", and totally botch most advertising on the net, and set us back to the early 90s. BTW - sign me up.
$9k was an arbitrary number, but probably close to the US average spent per student in public schools. I won't argue over 10%.
I'm not saying you could hire an educator for minimum wage. I'm saying that as compensation, the government should at least allow you to claim the federal minimum wage for the required contact hours, adjusted for class size (you're kids get the benefit of a low instructor-student ratio at your expense). Since there are no special federal education requirements, licensing exams, or annual education requirements for home educators, a reasonable compensation is FMW - it's the lowest common denominator. You're not doing it to save money - you're doing it because you want them to get a "better" education (however it is you define better - eveyone does it differently).
Expenses are deductible, I just suggested a statutory labor deduction for home school instructors who do not get paid. If you want to pay your spouse $40,000 per year, along with the payroll taxes and such, you can deduct up to $9,000 of the expense. Be my guest. Just remember that you'll pay income, employment, FUTA, and local taxes on that money. Books are deductible. Buildings and electricity must be carefully justified, just as in a home based business - if you use that space for any other purpose, it's probably not deductible. If you sell your house with a dedicated addition, you must claim the proceeds (as a portion of your basis) as a capital gain for any deduction you've taken.
It would have worked, but two things got in the way:
1. Apple screwed the pooch with their product between the IIe and the Macintosh, effectively taking themselves out of the market. Anyone remember Lisa?
2. The IBM-PC got genericized hardware, allowing a flood of relatively inexpensive clones and interchangability. Hardware Choice.
Warning: from this year forward there will no longer be public subsidization of the results of your libido. No more tax exemptions for children. $9000 will be added to your tax bill for each child you have from next year forward to cover public education expenses. If you want them educated somewhere else, provide receipts for deduction up to $9000 maximum per child. Uncompensated instructors (home schoolers) will be compensated at a rate of current federal minimum wage divided by 25 (for theoretical average public class size) times 5.5 hours (school day) x 180 days schooling, currently $204 per child per year. Note: uncompensated instructors claiming the $204 per child will be subject to 15% self-empoyment taxes. Fees will be subject to increases each year to keep up with cost of education, and will be added until such child reaches 18 years old. If you can't keep your kids in school 'til they're 18, consider the tax a parental penalty for truancy.
Fear not, all of these 15M/2M FTTP guys on /. are in the cherry picked areas of the country. Most of the US is still on dialup. I define most as "more than 50% of landmass," and I'd bet a dollar that it's closer to 70-80% of landmass, but I'm not going to try and look it up.
Until just two years ago, I was ten miles from a major university with several GB/s of bandwidth (may be tens of GB, for all I know) and when I called the local telco and cableco inquiring about "high speed internet" they were excited to tell me that they had high speed internet - they'd just upgraded more than half of their modem pool to 56kb! By the time I left there, they had a 768/128kb ADSL that I badgered them into extending to my house (about 20,000 ft from the CO), where I got 680/65kb. And a bargain at $45/mo. Note that this is not some university in the middle of nowhere, as we're less than 250 miles from Washington, D.C. Now I'm "in town" and can get better DSL, or cable if I don't mind being down for 10-15% of the time (fuck you Adephia). Ten years ago they were all going to have 10bT to the houses thanks to the University, but I can only guess that Adelphia and Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) squashed that pretty quickly.
The best file system for archival purposes is the one you're using today. Why? Because of you want that archive to be readable in any expedient manner, you are going to have to constantly monitor and update the media on which it is stored. All media will degrade over time, and you will have no idea how bad that degradation has been until you re-read it. No vendor will compensate you for the loss of your data, because there is some data which simply cannot be recreated.
If you want archival storage, you need to have your data on- or near-line, and rewrite the data to the "new" hardware every couple of years. By choosing a filesystem that is current, you are more likely to be cable to read it in a couple years than if you (try to) stick with a single filesystem. I know this sounds like a lot of work, but if the data is truly worth archiving, it's worth keeping both the storage mechanism and format up to date.
2700? I'd classify that as a small school. I'm thinking of 25000+ universities. The last class I took (grad level, engineering, at a major engineering university) had about 12 people in it. Tuition was about $850 for the one class for me. Most engineering classes at the senior level rarely have more then 25 students (undergrads, mostly on an all-you-can-eat full time tuition), and professors complain when they have to do three classes a semester.
Associated research sections pay more than 50% of their grant to the university for "overhead", before they hire the first grad student or secretary.
Not on your life. That 40k is eaten up so fast it would make your head spin. Though to be honest, the state unis have it worse, having to work with sub-10k annual in-state tuitions. Sure it's fine for 200 person lectures, but look at a typical grad class: $1000 class tuition (typ in-state rate) x 12 participants / 45 contact hours, 45 grading hours, 45 office hours = $89/hr. Overhead and G&A at most universities is well over 100% of direct labor. Even if you managed to keep a professor chock full of grad classes, you couldn't pay them more than $75-$80k/yr. And you rarely see professors with more than 20 hrs a week dedicated to classes - plus the several weeks a year of non-semester calendar time. You'd have to be paying them $30k just to break even, presuming you never wanted to expand the campus.
Yeah, it's worth burning a little karma just to say you did it once. And, I suppose, to burn karma for saying it's okay.
Though you should have said something at least slightly relavant to claim honest FP honors. Even something like "based on WordPerfect's in and out of the market during it's buyouts, it managed to lose practically all of its market share to Word, what makes anyone think that it can go back and unseat Final Cut."
Bingo - by making the research public (domain), it cannot be patented. However, if someone were to extend the research, that could be patented with no benefit or restrictions placed on it by the original "inventor."
In theory, they could use this basic patent to prevent pharma from harvesting cash in the future. But they won't. This is academia, where the system cannot function without large cash flows. Do you really think that university presidents with solid six-figure salaries, thousand square foot office suites, and stone-clad buildings can be supported by tuition alone?
Twice a day XRs are 1g/(32.5mg?)x2 with a total dose of 4g amox, iirc. And, as you can tell by the parents correction of my post, I am neither a molecular biologist or a doctor. *shrug*
It could be a typo, or it could be that the compiler was using part of the 384k of memory that existed above the 640k line (there was actually 1MB of memory). That "high memory" was often used for drivers, but special programs were used to put utilities in those memory locations. A portion of that memory was used for the video buffer, hence the sibling post.
Well, you've already got end part right. Just skip the first part and get that middle part done.
P.S. - if you can come up with a modification that will reduce the age to under 6, there's a massive DOD contract in your future.
Yeah, but at least your getting results.
You could be at Notre Dame, where even with God on their side they can't win a bowl game.
Nobody uses Usenet anymore?
Screen. Like. Buy DVD when it comes out.
Screen. Don't like. Download something else.
Heck, I even pay a monthly fee for my access - it makes it realatively easy to search, easy to download, and I get music as a bonus.
Oh, sure it would be nice if it were legal. Bonus points for easier serachability and a reliable back catalog. But for now, I'm happy with it.