I, for one, cannot understand why Yugos have such a bad rap in the United States, considering that its the country responsible for Dodge, Oldsmobile, Buick, Chevrolet, Lincoln, etc. Has anybody noticed that nobody buys American-brand cars (Fords, Jeeps, American-owned foreign car companies excepted) outside the US?
Two things.
1. Even though many American cars are CRAP, they are comfortable. Plush interior, lots of leg room, real beauties. Even a Ford Focus is nice to sit in. The Yugo in conrast was rather, and I'm being really fair here... spartan.
2. Even the most crappy American car outlasted a Yugo. With your average American car, this would include the Pontiac Grand Am, you need to reubild your head after about 50,000 to 75,000 miles. A Dodge with a Hemi engine is going to eat trannies for breakfast. But the brakes, suspention, and stearing system is going to be rock solid. Plus the fact that the steel used is highly resistant to rust. So while that car American car might not work, it will if you drop in an engine or a transmition, and most important, odds are it will pass inspection in states where it's requried, even those who salt their roads in the winter. A Yugo in contrast... to be fair, doesn't have as strong a frame, nor is it as resistant to rust.
And probally most important... at the time the Yugo was new it cost less than your average used Toyota, yet Consumer Repors reccomended a used Toyota over a new Yugo as it would last longer.
Before true clones were available, the Atari ST could be converted into a Mac by adding the third-party Spectre GCR emulator (which required that the user purchase a set of Mac ROMs). The Amiga could also be converted into a Mac with similar emulators. Since Apple Computer never manufactured a 68060 based Mac, the fastest way to run native 68000 MacOS applications on real hardware was to run it on an Atari or Amiga.
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So your dead mac is worth money. Pull the roms, send the rest back.
That seems to be an odd thing to say. Atari near as i'm aware never came out with a stock 68060 pc. DCE "might" have some out with a 68060 based Amiga in the form of a a6000 but I have never met one. Either of these systems if it had a 68060 odds are really high it was a third party add on. Unless there simply were never any 68060 acceleracers for the Mac, and your application was limited to Mac applications, would it not make more sense to just get that rather than getting another platform that would also require surgery?
As for the ROMs, the emulators I met only required you dump the roms from a mac to run on either the Amiga or the Atari ST. The roms where just something that you kept to indicate you were not actually a filthy pirate, which few actually did.
There has always been and always will be piracy. The best way to minimize it is to offer your consumers what they want, how they want it, and at prices that make for a better value and less effort than going out and getting it illegally.
Clearly you've never ordered from the Adam and Eve catalog. Just see that joke from MST3k the movie "this island earth".
I've never ordered from them, thank god. The problem isn't the fact that they are bastards, or they have bad prices, or anything along those looks. Looks like they have plenty 'o porn for $10 and under including such lovely titles like "Lesbians in Heat" and "Get off with Carmen". "Snoop Dogg's Hustlaz: Diary of a Pimp" is only $5.00 for crying out loud on VHS and apparently a sequal to "Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle" directed by Michael Martin Drew Rose.
From my understanding, ordering from them means you get free gifts, lots and lots of free gifts. I don't think price is an issue... should I wish to get "Ass Angles 4" with it's advertised 4 hours and 17 backdoor scenes on DVD... that's only $10.00. That's alot of ass, that's only 60 cents per ass. I don't know the going rate for ass but to me... for ass, that sounds most reasonable. I think the big thing is being able to get your ass without your flat being flooded with catalogs, and free gifts. This may affect your cost per ass, for better or worse I don't know, but people generally prefer to enjoy their ass privatly... they get embarased when others discover they are enjoying pre-recorded ass. Pirated ass enjoys this benifit.
You can't download anything nowadays over a P2P network without getting a full DVD quality porn.
Whether it's the latest Linux distro of your choice or Ice Age 2, you can almost guarentee that at least one of the results is just a misnamed full length porn.
There essentially trying to come up with a plan to sell ice to eskimos. Definately an uphill battle.
Well imagine what it's like for those actuallying wanting porn... wanting for example "Dikes on Bikes - The Slippery Road" and end up getting *"Gay Canadian Studs - Love me Love my Butt", or worse yet, a Linux distro.
*- all titles used in this post are purely fictional. Any similarity to actuall porn living or dead is purely coincidental. Really!
Bullshit. I've paid my ISP for my access. It isn't your bandwidth, and I can't steal what you're handing out for free anyway. Am I stealing "your bandwidth" if I use Lynx? Mentality like this drives me nuts. I loathe ads, they get blocked. I'll never understand how anyone would expect to earn money by using something that myself and most people I know routinely ignore or block. In any format.
They should be so lucky to have issues with too many Lynx users. Lynx users are taking no action to activly block adverts, their interface simply does not support the current slew of adverts. If they were smart they would make lynx adverts, which i'm sure would be more annoying than 5% of my desktop space.
But anyhow, I pay for cable. I get commercials except on those spiffy premium stations like HBO and Showtime. You could say since I pay for cable I shouldn't have to put up with commericals, but the fact remains while my bucks pay for the line, they don't always pay for the programing. Apparently it's a good business model, because there is programing and there are commercials, and from my understanding it's a big industry. It's not shocking at all to see this model filter over to the web.
As for the adverts, perhaps there will be a firefox extention that will be so kind as to pipe adverts directly to/dev/null so they get the spiffy feeling that some bugger is viewing them. I for one don't really care, as long as it's not an annoying popup, I generally ignore them. It's just like watching television, commercial break I fetch a drink, little window with slap the monkey, I just ignore it. I must admit those pictures for singles in my area are harder to ignore.
Then it's clearly not all you can eat if they refuse service to people who eat more than the limit.
Sure it is. They just don't get to come back.
Clearly there is a restriction on how much you can eat there without getting banned, when the they clearly advertise "all-you-can-eat".
I've never had an issue with any all you can eat place, and i'm esp fond of chinese all you can eat buffets, pizza can be nice too. All you can eat Indian is to die for. I've never known of seen a person who was banned from one who eats too much... with the exception of a fast fish joint known as skippers, and even then they only got mildy moody about people ordering a 6th plate of fish. But after all, they said all you can eat.
No. They can refuse service. I worked at a pizza place where some folks were asked to not return... family of 4, ate about 7-8 pizzas off the buffet if I remember right.
Then it's clearly not all you can eat if they refuse service to people who eat more than the limit. I can understand how one might feel offering all you can eat with a few pigs who come in and suck up alot of food, I my self when I was a kid could with some difficulty eat two pizzas at such places. But never once was I asked never to come back... and one place even applauded me for my efforts. "Look at this kid, he can eat all he wants... and you can too for $2.99".
If they have a limit as to what you can eat, they shouldn't advertise all you can eat.
> Why couldn't bittorrent be modified to use HTTP for the downstream, or operate on HTTP > entirely? IANABTH, but that would certainly get around any port-throttling issues.
Because some ISPs filter inbound port 80... damn it.
Since most people do not need the full power of the latest and greatest machines, one wonders why so many are buying upgrades.
Well, I know when I talk to joe users... their common complaint is as follows
"My system says memory is full what do I do" Ends up they are talking about drive space "Well, you can either delete some stuff, or buy a bigger drive" "Oh, you mean if I throw money at it it'll be fixed" "Well, it's not broken, but basicly yes" "Ok, I'll throw some money at it, money will make it go".
I suspect that many customers have the impression their current computers are "too slow" because of all the spyware and viruses they are choked with. I wonder how long it will be until their new machines suffer the same fate.
Very very very likely. Quite sad that many machines offer a restore partition and they can bop back to how it was out of the box in no time flat. But "Money will make it go".
Well, if you really are willing to hand over the $1200, then that would be funny. It might be even funnier if you posted as someone other than an anonymous coward. As it is, it's a troll, but here, I'll rescue you and make it funny.... someonewhogivesashit.com is already registered to someone in the UK (go figure).:-)
http://www.wheresmymoneybitch.com/ I don't know if it's forsale, but I would imagine since they don't have a website setup there they are likely hip to the idea of sale.
I think the first thing they need to develop is the super super glue remover, otherwise the "hyper glue" would be too dangerous to use. Or they could use it in the ads: "Our Hyper Glue -NEVER- comes off, EVER!"
Lots of luck, I still haven't found a Gorilla Glue remover, I mean besides chisel, scraper, or sandpaper. Granted it may not nessicarly be the strongest glue on Earth sold in stores.... I believe this like other uratane glues is rated at about 3600psi.
Let us focus on Gorilla glue remover before we think about hyper glue.
Except for really dumb criminals, how does US Visit actually improve security? The terminals are away from the gates, you don't need to pass special check points between the domestic and international terminals and ID doesn't get rechecked at the gate. So unless I am gravely mistaken an easy way around it would be
-subject A buys international ticket -subject B buys domestic ticket -both pass security -A checks out at US Visit terminal -A and B swap tickets -B gets on international flight -A gets on domestic flight or leaves the terminal -B gets off the plane outside the country and uses his or her own passport to pass the border control. IIRC, most countries including the US don't feed back who passes passport controls back to the airlines or country of origination. But even if, B could just take a fake passport to a third world country without scanners or live database hookup instead of Europe, Japan or the like.
The way at least airports like SEA and DEN are aranged, one could in theory do this. Once you pass security you can from I can tell go to any airport gate including international. MCO (Orlando) on the other hand seemed to have different concourses with security at each one checking tickets. A friend for example who had a flight going elsewhere couldn't go beyond that checkpoint when they asked about the subject, thinking the tram united all concorses.
Now... Here is the stupid part. From my understanding in most parts of the world, international airports an international concorse where to exit, i.e. enter the country, you have to go through customs. People from outside north america through america to canada for example often don't have visas for America... why should they they are not actually traveling to the US. So rather than have an International zone where people not interested in going to "your" country i.e. America in this case, they prefer to give those TWOVs (Transit WithOut Visa) an escort to make sure they don't enter the United States.
But to resolve this loophole and actually resolve an existing problem... i.e. how to deal with people going though America to Canada or Mexico, it would make sense to have an international zone where only passangers with properly ticketed and ID verified can enter.
Full systems should have at the very least FreeDos on it for testing purposes. While there might not be drivers for network or usb, you can't say it's nakid and you can at least check most of the hardware, and any complaint about it not working out of the box can be totally blamed on the vendor.
Okay, floppy disks were successful in being a technology that just wouldn't go away. I mean, when they invented the 1.44MB floppy did anyone have an upgrade path in mind for the future? 2.88MB floppies? 5MB floppies? Why didn't they double every couple years or so? Why did it stop at 1.44MB and then become obsolete only when memory sticks came out? And even 5 years after memory sticks came out, we STILL find manufactures putting these antiquated devices on computers.
One of the few machines I know of that shipped with a 2.88meg sony floppy drive was the PS/2 late 486 era. As far as drives went, these were ultra mega spiffy. There were issues with DOS because the drives didn't use the density hole like other drives from the time period, so if you were to for example pop in a 720k dos would by default format to 1.44, which worked fine except it wasn't readable on anyone else's machine. They were not near as i'm aware pin compatable with PC floppy drives, which is unfortunate as these were really good floppy drives, tended to read what other drives including teac couldn't.
IBM also shipped some propriority equipment, such one of their 5270 terminal multiplexer with a 2.44meg 5.25 inch floppy for booting.
But the issue is no bugger bought them. When the price on 2.88meg drives dropped to about $50ish I considered it. Afterall it would cut my floppy expences in 1/2. But there was no real assurance that any disc I made would be able to be used by anyone. Also, no bugger knew how to format a disc... you poppped it in and it worked as they came pre-formated. Nothing except some ultra oddball stuff shipped on 2.88m discs. Then things were shipped on CD-rom, so there was really no point for anyone to consider shipping discs on 2.88meg, let alone anything better.
It's hard to to get people on a new standard, note how long it took people to upgrade to 3.5 inch drives. Hell, gateway still shipped their machines with 5.25 inch boot discs well into the 486 age, and win95 was available on 5.25 disc by request.
I don't even know where you'd get a portable DAT recorder.
10 years ago, they were sold at bestbuy like stores... for example "good guys". If I wanted one today, i'd hit froogle.
Last 3 studios I was in did not have a DAT machine at all. They are all computer based, and if they do have "tape", it's ADAT. I have a DAT machine, a Sony something, it's collecting dust in my studio
Well... I'll have to agree that all the 4mm tape drives with flashed roms I gave to small time studios don't get much use, except to convert DAT to something else, and even then the application is pretty much jacking into the mixer board at live shows.
With all the new Compact Flash recorders, you can just hook it up via USB and drag and drop the files into whatever program you want to use.
Likly to be faster than a scsi 4mm dat drive. But still 5 bucks a pop for 120min tape for a standard that is archival, vs solid state media which is, in all fairness, more spendy, and mostly depends on a pc to operate.
Honestly man, DAT is dead as well. All the high end and good low end stuff records either to Hard Disks or Compact Flash. Marantz, Fostex, Edirol, etc. all use them.
Well, it's rather easier to lug around a Sony Datman than it is to lug around a PC. Odds are the studio is going to have the equipoment to read a Dat, even if it is an old school flashed exabye drive. With the exception of CD/DVD it's the one thing that you know has the space for your material, will be compatable with their equipment, and is an archival standard.
In the studio... you can monkey with the PC standards... but recording anything live Dat is proven reliable durable standard technology.
I'm not going to buy something that was designed on the assumption that the user is a criminal and can't be trusted
Yeah, then they assume I'm a criminal it makes it harder to copy stuff. I prefer products made by people that "know" i'm a criminal, not just assume I'm one.
Most ATMs already support outputting any denomination of money. For example goto a Bank of America ATM, it'll ask you to punch in the amount you'd like rather than select it from a list. That's because the software and the machine both support other denominations. However, the bank chooses to only put $20 bills in the machine.
Yes, I remember Mexico the cooler ATMs when you withdrew like 3000 pesos gave you 500s, 200s 100s, 50s, and sometimes 20s. I was most impressed with a stack of 5 20s, that was nice. I forget if it gave me 1000s or not. I do however remember stores getting annoyed with people like my self paying with a MX$200, let alone a MX$500.
Bank of America is one of the few places I remember that offered $5.00s from their machine, though in more recent years, I can't say I noticed anything above and beyond $10.00. I can't say all their machines did, in fact one branch offered $5s from one machine, and $5s and $20s from another. Not like spending $20s is typicaly an issue, it's those pesky $50s that some stores turn their noses at, like Starbucks for example.
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I'm actually surprised that Mcintoshlabs never took exception to apple's use of the brand "Macintosh" that i've been made aware of. Slashdot users who are unaware Mcintosh is a brand name for highfi equipment. To me it's the same issue with apple records, sort of a problem before Apple got into audio, but huge confusion after apple got into audio.
I think I must've missed something here. What is it with this "OMG!!! Ponies!!!" business anyway? Is it this season's "All Your Base"?
First I thought about "my little pony", a really awful cartoon circa 1982 that was pretty much a marketing scheme for cute toys for girls.
Then for some reason... I thought about "Voltron", aka golion or some such, a cheezy show pretty much targeted for boys, which resulted in the great Voltron vs My little Pony battles in the sand box.
However, both are rather sexist targeting respective markets.... so it's best to combine the two. "My Little Voltron". A force for good and cuteness, loved by good, feared by evil. When these little ponies combine they form the most powerful mecha pony robot in the universe. "Form Blazing Sparkly Banana Clip!". It's my Little Voltron. "OMG PONIES"
I seem to remember some years back there was goldleafing material for laser printers. Basicly one would print normaly, than refeed the sheet with the material on top where the fuser would cause the toner to remelt, the gold-leaf would then stick when the two sheets were seperated.
Does anyone know what this stuff was called and where one might aquire some. I know it's silly to ask "here", but might as well as it's "somewhat" related to OMG glittering ponies.
I don't know what scares me more, the pink theme or the fact that Taco researched such mainstream programing such as the "OC". People like my self have to hit wikipedia to figure out what "OC" is as opposed to some other crap on Fox, let alone know one of the main characters tried "drugs"
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I, for one, cannot understand why Yugos have such a bad rap in the United States, considering that its the country responsible for Dodge, Oldsmobile, Buick, Chevrolet, Lincoln, etc. Has anybody noticed that nobody buys American-brand cars (Fords, Jeeps, American-owned foreign car companies excepted) outside the US?
Two things.
1. Even though many American cars are CRAP, they are comfortable. Plush interior, lots of leg room, real beauties. Even a Ford Focus is nice to sit in. The Yugo in conrast was rather, and I'm being really fair here... spartan.
2. Even the most crappy American car outlasted a Yugo. With your average American car, this would include the Pontiac Grand Am, you need to reubild your head after about 50,000 to 75,000 miles. A Dodge with a Hemi engine is going to eat trannies for breakfast. But the brakes, suspention, and stearing system is going to be rock solid. Plus the fact that the steel used is highly resistant to rust. So while that car American car might not work, it will if you drop in an engine or a transmition, and most important, odds are it will pass inspection in states where it's requried, even those who salt their roads in the winter. A Yugo in contrast... to be fair, doesn't have as strong a frame, nor is it as resistant to rust.
And probally most important... at the time the Yugo was new it cost less than your average used Toyota, yet Consumer Repors reccomended a used Toyota over a new Yugo as it would last longer.
That's kind of like Yugo being protective of their drivetrain design.
Yugo was very protective of their drivetrain design... they would never say what particular Russian car it fell off from.
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So your dead mac is worth money. Pull the roms, send the rest back.
That seems to be an odd thing to say. Atari near as i'm aware never came out with a stock 68060 pc. DCE "might" have some out with a 68060 based Amiga in the form of a a6000 but I have never met one. Either of these systems if it had a 68060 odds are really high it was a third party add on. Unless there simply were never any 68060 acceleracers for the Mac, and your application was limited to Mac applications, would it not make more sense to just get that rather than getting another platform that would also require surgery?
As for the ROMs, the emulators I met only required you dump the roms from a mac to run on either the Amiga or the Atari ST. The roms where just something that you kept to indicate you were not actually a filthy pirate, which few actually did.
There has always been and always will be piracy. The best way to minimize it is to offer your consumers what they want, how they want it, and at prices that make for a better value and less effort than going out and getting it illegally.
Clearly you've never ordered from the Adam and Eve catalog. Just see that joke from MST3k the movie "this island earth".
I've never ordered from them, thank god. The problem isn't the fact that they are bastards, or they have bad prices, or anything along those looks. Looks like they have plenty 'o porn for $10 and under including such lovely titles like "Lesbians in Heat" and "Get off with Carmen". "Snoop Dogg's Hustlaz: Diary of a Pimp" is only $5.00 for crying out loud on VHS and apparently a sequal to "Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle" directed by Michael Martin Drew Rose.
From my understanding, ordering from them means you get free gifts, lots and lots of free gifts. I don't think price is an issue... should I wish to get "Ass Angles 4" with it's advertised 4 hours and 17 backdoor scenes on DVD... that's only $10.00. That's alot of ass, that's only 60 cents per ass. I don't know the going rate for ass but to me... for ass, that sounds most reasonable. I think the big thing is being able to get your ass without your flat being flooded with catalogs, and free gifts. This may affect your cost per ass, for better or worse I don't know, but people generally prefer to enjoy their ass privatly... they get embarased when others discover they are enjoying pre-recorded ass. Pirated ass enjoys this benifit.
You can't download anything nowadays over a P2P network without getting a full DVD quality porn.
Whether it's the latest Linux distro of your choice or Ice Age 2, you can almost guarentee that at least one of the results is just a misnamed full length porn.
There essentially trying to come up with a plan to sell ice to eskimos.
Definately an uphill battle.
Well imagine what it's like for those actuallying wanting porn... wanting for example "Dikes on Bikes - The Slippery Road" and end up getting *"Gay Canadian Studs - Love me Love my Butt", or worse yet, a Linux distro.
*- all titles used in this post are purely fictional. Any similarity to actuall porn living or dead is purely coincidental. Really!
Bullshit. I've paid my ISP for my access. It isn't your bandwidth, and I can't steal what you're handing out for free anyway. Am I stealing "your bandwidth" if I use Lynx? Mentality like this drives me nuts. I loathe ads, they get blocked. I'll never understand how anyone would expect to earn money by using something that myself and most people I know routinely ignore or block. In any format.
/dev/null so they get the spiffy feeling that some bugger is viewing them. I for one don't really care, as long as it's not an annoying popup, I generally ignore them. It's just like watching television, commercial break I fetch a drink, little window with slap the monkey, I just ignore it. I must admit those pictures for singles in my area are harder to ignore.
They should be so lucky to have issues with too many Lynx users. Lynx users are taking no action to activly block adverts, their interface simply does not support the current slew of adverts. If they were smart they would make lynx adverts, which i'm sure would be more annoying than 5% of my desktop space.
But anyhow, I pay for cable. I get commercials except on those spiffy premium stations like HBO and Showtime. You could say since I pay for cable I shouldn't have to put up with commericals, but the fact remains while my bucks pay for the line, they don't always pay for the programing. Apparently it's a good business model, because there is programing and there are commercials, and from my understanding it's a big industry. It's not shocking at all to see this model filter over to the web.
As for the adverts, perhaps there will be a firefox extention that will be so kind as to pipe adverts directly to
Sure it is. They just don't get to come back.
Clearly there is a restriction on how much you can eat there without getting banned, when the they clearly advertise "all-you-can-eat".
I've never had an issue with any all you can eat place, and i'm esp fond of chinese all you can eat buffets, pizza can be nice too. All you can eat Indian is to die for. I've never known of seen a person who was banned from one who eats too much... with the exception of a fast fish joint known as skippers, and even then they only got mildy moody about people ordering a 6th plate of fish. But after all, they said all you can eat.
No. They can refuse service. I worked at a pizza place where some folks were asked to not return... family of 4, ate about 7-8 pizzas off the buffet if I remember right.
Then it's clearly not all you can eat if they refuse service to people who eat more than the limit. I can understand how one might feel offering all you can eat with a few pigs who come in and suck up alot of food, I my self when I was a kid could with some difficulty eat two pizzas at such places. But never once was I asked never to come back... and one place even applauded me for my efforts. "Look at this kid, he can eat all he wants... and you can too for $2.99".
If they have a limit as to what you can eat, they shouldn't advertise all you can eat.
> Why couldn't bittorrent be modified to use HTTP for the downstream, or operate on HTTP
> entirely? IANABTH, but that would certainly get around any port-throttling issues.
Because some ISPs filter inbound port 80... damn it.
Since most people do not need the full power of the latest and greatest machines, one wonders why so many are buying upgrades.
Well, I know when I talk to joe users... their common complaint is as follows
"My system says memory is full what do I do"
Ends up they are talking about drive space
"Well, you can either delete some stuff, or buy a bigger drive"
"Oh, you mean if I throw money at it it'll be fixed"
"Well, it's not broken, but basicly yes"
"Ok, I'll throw some money at it, money will make it go".
I suspect that many customers have the impression their current computers are "too slow" because of all the spyware and viruses they are choked with. I wonder how long it will be until their new machines suffer the same fate.
Very very very likely. Quite sad that many machines offer a restore partition and they can bop back to how it was out of the box in no time flat. But "Money will make it go".
Here's $1200. Go buy someonewhogivesashit.com.
Well, if you really are willing to hand over the $1200, then that would be funny. It might be even funnier if you posted as someone other than an anonymous coward. As it is, it's a troll, but here, I'll rescue you and make it funny.... someonewhogivesashit.com is already registered to someone in the UK (go figure).
http://www.wheresmymoneybitch.com/ I don't know if it's forsale, but I would imagine since they don't have a website setup there they are likely hip to the idea of sale.
I think the first thing they need to develop is the super super glue remover, otherwise the "hyper glue" would be too dangerous to use. Or they could use it in the ads: "Our Hyper Glue -NEVER- comes off, EVER!"
Lots of luck, I still haven't found a Gorilla Glue remover, I mean besides chisel, scraper, or sandpaper. Granted it may not nessicarly be the strongest glue on Earth sold in stores.... I believe this like other uratane glues is rated at about 3600psi.
Let us focus on Gorilla glue remover before we think about hyper glue.
Except for really dumb criminals, how does US Visit actually improve security? The terminals are away from the gates, you don't need to pass special check points between the domestic and international terminals and ID doesn't get rechecked at the gate. So unless I am gravely mistaken an easy way around it would be
-subject A buys international ticket
-subject B buys domestic ticket
-both pass security
-A checks out at US Visit terminal
-A and B swap tickets
-B gets on international flight
-A gets on domestic flight or leaves the terminal
-B gets off the plane outside the country and uses his or her own passport to pass the border control. IIRC, most countries including the US don't feed back who passes passport controls back to the airlines or country of origination. But even if, B could just take a fake passport to a third world country without scanners or live database hookup instead of Europe, Japan or the like.
The way at least airports like SEA and DEN are aranged, one could in theory do this. Once you pass security you can from I can tell go to any airport gate including international. MCO (Orlando) on the other hand seemed to have different concourses with security at each one checking tickets. A friend for example who had a flight going elsewhere couldn't go beyond that checkpoint when they asked about the subject, thinking the tram united all concorses.
Now... Here is the stupid part. From my understanding in most parts of the world, international airports an international concorse where to exit, i.e. enter the country, you have to go through customs. People from outside north america through america to canada for example often don't have visas for America... why should they they are not actually traveling to the US. So rather than have an International zone where people not interested in going to "your" country i.e. America in this case, they prefer to give those TWOVs (Transit WithOut Visa) an escort to make sure they don't enter the United States.
But to resolve this loophole and actually resolve an existing problem... i.e. how to deal with people going though America to Canada or Mexico, it would make sense to have an international zone where only passangers with properly ticketed and ID verified can enter.
Full systems should have at the very least FreeDos on it for testing purposes. While there might not be drivers for network or usb, you can't say it's nakid and you can at least check most of the hardware, and any complaint about it not working out of the box can be totally blamed on the vendor.
Okay, floppy disks were successful in being a technology that just wouldn't go away. I mean, when they invented the 1.44MB floppy did anyone have an upgrade path in mind for the future? 2.88MB floppies? 5MB floppies? Why didn't they double every couple years or so? Why did it stop at 1.44MB and then become obsolete only when memory sticks came out? And even 5 years after memory sticks came out, we STILL find manufactures putting these antiquated devices on computers.
One of the few machines I know of that shipped with a 2.88meg sony floppy drive was the PS/2 late 486 era. As far as drives went, these were ultra mega spiffy. There were issues with DOS because the drives didn't use the density hole like other drives from the time period, so if you were to for example pop in a 720k dos would by default format to 1.44, which worked fine except it wasn't readable on anyone else's machine. They were not near as i'm aware pin compatable with PC floppy drives, which is unfortunate as these were really good floppy drives, tended to read what other drives including teac couldn't.
IBM also shipped some propriority equipment, such one of their 5270 terminal multiplexer with a 2.44meg 5.25 inch floppy for booting.
But the issue is no bugger bought them. When the price on 2.88meg drives dropped to about $50ish I considered it. Afterall it would cut my floppy expences in 1/2. But there was no real assurance that any disc I made would be able to be used by anyone. Also, no bugger knew how to format a disc... you poppped it in and it worked as they came pre-formated. Nothing except some ultra oddball stuff shipped on 2.88m discs. Then things were shipped on CD-rom, so there was really no point for anyone to consider shipping discs on 2.88meg, let alone anything better.
It's hard to to get people on a new standard, note how long it took people to upgrade to 3.5 inch drives. Hell, gateway still shipped their machines with 5.25 inch boot discs well into the 486 age, and win95 was available on 5.25 disc by request.
I don't even know where you'd get a portable DAT recorder.
10 years ago, they were sold at bestbuy like stores... for example "good guys". If I wanted one today, i'd hit froogle.
Last 3 studios I was in did not have a DAT machine at all. They are all computer based, and if they do have "tape", it's ADAT. I have a DAT machine, a Sony something, it's collecting dust in my studio
Well... I'll have to agree that all the 4mm tape drives with flashed roms I gave to small time studios don't get much use, except to convert DAT to something else, and even then the application is pretty much jacking into the mixer board at live shows.
With all the new Compact Flash recorders, you can just hook it up via USB and drag and drop the files into whatever program you want to use.
Likly to be faster than a scsi 4mm dat drive. But still 5 bucks a pop for 120min tape for a standard that is archival, vs solid state media which is, in all fairness, more spendy, and mostly depends on a pc to operate.
Honestly man, DAT is dead as well. All the high end and good low end stuff records either to Hard Disks or Compact Flash. Marantz, Fostex, Edirol, etc. all use them.
Well, it's rather easier to lug around a Sony Datman than it is to lug around a PC. Odds are the studio is going to have the equipoment to read a Dat, even if it is an old school flashed exabye drive. With the exception of CD/DVD it's the one thing that you know has the space for your material, will be compatable with their equipment, and is an archival standard.
In the studio... you can monkey with the PC standards... but recording anything live Dat is proven reliable durable standard technology.
I'm not going to buy something that was designed on the assumption that the user is a criminal and can't be trusted
Yeah, then they assume I'm a criminal it makes it harder to copy stuff. I prefer products made by people that "know" i'm a criminal, not just assume I'm one.
Most ATMs already support outputting any denomination of money. For example goto a Bank of America ATM, it'll ask you to punch in the amount you'd like rather than select it from a list. That's because the software and the machine both support other denominations. However, the bank chooses to only put $20 bills in the machine.
Yes, I remember Mexico the cooler ATMs when you withdrew like 3000 pesos gave you 500s, 200s 100s, 50s, and sometimes 20s. I was most impressed with a stack of 5 20s, that was nice. I forget if it gave me 1000s or not. I do however remember stores getting annoyed with people like my self paying with a MX$200, let alone a MX$500.
Bank of America is one of the few places I remember that offered $5.00s from their machine, though in more recent years, I can't say I noticed anything above and beyond $10.00. I can't say all their machines did, in fact one branch offered $5s from one machine, and $5s and $20s from another. Not like spending $20s is typicaly an issue, it's those pesky $50s that some stores turn their noses at, like Starbucks for example.
I'm actually surprised that Mcintoshlabs never took exception to apple's use of the brand "Macintosh" that i've been made aware of. Slashdot users who are unaware Mcintosh is a brand name for highfi equipment. To me it's the same issue with apple records, sort of a problem before Apple got into audio, but huge confusion after apple got into audio.
I think I must've missed something here. What is it with this "OMG!!! Ponies!!!" business anyway? Is it this season's "All Your Base"?
First I thought about "my little pony", a really awful cartoon circa 1982 that was pretty much a marketing scheme for cute toys for girls.
Then for some reason... I thought about "Voltron", aka golion or some such, a cheezy show pretty much targeted for boys, which resulted in the great Voltron vs My little Pony battles in the sand box.
However, both are rather sexist targeting respective markets.... so it's best to combine the two. "My Little Voltron". A force for good and cuteness, loved by good, feared by evil. When these little ponies combine they form the most powerful mecha pony robot in the universe. "Form Blazing Sparkly Banana Clip!". It's my Little Voltron. "OMG PONIES"
I seem to remember some years back there was goldleafing material for laser printers. Basicly one would print normaly, than refeed the sheet with the material on top where the fuser would cause the toner to remelt, the gold-leaf would then stick when the two sheets were seperated.
Does anyone know what this stuff was called and where one might aquire some. I know it's silly to ask "here", but might as well as it's "somewhat" related to OMG glittering ponies.
I don't know what scares me more, the pink theme or the fact that Taco researched such mainstream programing such as the "OC". People like my self have to hit wikipedia to figure out what "OC" is as opposed to some other crap on Fox, let alone know one of the main characters tried "drugs"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O.C.
All I have to say is OMG... like totally well done... gag me with a microchip.
FoolTron --The adventures of Bush after getting transported into his computer.
Is that in anyway related to Voltron?
Don't use your light saber to open beer bottles
Don't use your light saber to pick your teeth.
Don't use your light saber to gut fish
If you do any of these things, you might be a jedi redneck.
Bubba-Boe-Bob-Bader: "Shoot, son come on over t' the dark side... it'll be a hoot"