You had a programmable terminal? Luxury! I used a 286 running MS-DOS, a null modem cable, and a quick-and-dirty terminal emulator I wrote in QBASIC.
While licking my PDP-11/45 clean with my tongue... OK, getting carried away there... While inspecting my PDP-11/45 I accidentally snapped a very corroded pin off the EPROM. On the PC I typed the PDP-11 boot code (from the manual) into a text file as a script (so it could go back into RUN automatically) then modified my terminal emulator to feed it out when I reset the PDP-11. Worked like a charm.
It was on Discovery or something, some show about a search for a particular fish around Australia??? I just remember this once scene where they found this vortex, went like this:
Marlin: Where? I don't see it.
Dory: There! I see it! I see it!
Marlin: You mean the swirling vortex of terror?
Crush: That's it, dude!
Maybe this needs debunking too, but I clearly remember that there were recordings of conversations on board the shuttle that NASA would not release "out of respect for the families." I don't recall if they were radio communications or recordings on the black box. Does anyone else remember this? It's not mentioned in the article.
The rule of thumb suggested by researchers at Boston Children's Hospital is to hold the volume of a music player no higher than 60 percent of the maximum, and use it for only about an hour a day.
Unfortunately, this recommendation is likely to fall on deaf ears.
Oh, yes, of course it's a wastewater treatment facility. And I suppose it generates swamp gas that people mistake for UFOs, hmmm? Nice try, Captain, but there's no way your disinformation is getting past my tinfoil.
Allchin points to new features in the version of Windows due in 2007 that will allow users to remotely turn PCs on or off, with programs still running.
History of Microsoft innovation:
1995: Windows can halt a PC when you're not there and while programs are running.
2000: Windows can reboot a PC when you're not there and while programs are running.
2007: Windows can turn off a PC when you're not there and while programs are running.
When we come to the point of exploring other solar systems, will we be sending robotic probes dozens of lightyears to explore these "strange new worlds?" No. This kind of exploration will require sending teams of human explorers on long journeys. The only way we can prepare for that is by practicing within our own solar system, by establishing bases on the Moon and sending people to Mars.
It's not about the quality of the science returned. That's what the probes are for. It's about the necessary first steps out of our own solar system.
Their objective TCO studies will still show Windows is cheaper than Linux.
Right! Stop that! It's SILLY. Very SILLY indeed!
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Started off as a nice little idea about old ladies attacking young men, but now it's just got SILLY! His hair's too long for a vicar, too, and you can tell those are not proper traffic barrels! CLEAR OUT, THE LOT OF YOU!
The coolest hack I ever saw was the "VaporLock" on the Apple II+, which allowed you to sync your programs to the video refresh (before this feature was added on the Apple IIe).
If you attempted to read the cassette-out port on the Apple II+, no (tri-state) devices would actually attach to the bus. As a result, the data lines on the bus acted like a DRAM cache and momentarily "stored" the last value read from RAM (the "vapor"). Since the CPU and video refresh circuitry alternated RAM access every half cycle, the last value read was always one from the current video page.
A few bytes of each hi-res graphics page were read by the video refresh circuits but not displayed (during horizontal blanking, if I recall correctly). By storing "unlikely" values in these bytes, and then waiting for them with a read loop, you could determine where the video trace was in the graphics page and calculate when the vertical blanking would start.
You could flip graphics pages during the vertical blanking interval to get smooth animation, or calculate times to switch modes and mix text and graphics anywhere on the screen (a big deal, in those days).
PS. I realize this dates me, but really, who else would?
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You had a programmable terminal? Luxury! I used a 286 running MS-DOS, a null modem cable, and a quick-and-dirty terminal emulator I wrote in QBASIC.
While licking my PDP-11/45 clean with my tongue... OK, getting carried away there... While inspecting my PDP-11/45 I accidentally snapped a very corroded pin off the EPROM. On the PC I typed the PDP-11 boot code (from the manual) into a text file as a script (so it could go back into RUN automatically) then modified my terminal emulator to feed it out when I reset the PDP-11. Worked like a charm.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop taking amphetamines.
... broadband via student loan officer.
... or it doubles as a personal floatation device.
It was on Discovery or something, some show about a search for a particular fish around Australia??? I just remember this once scene where they found this vortex, went like this:
Marlin: Where? I don't see it.
Dory: There! I see it! I see it!
Marlin: You mean the swirling vortex of terror?
Crush: That's it, dude!
...shouldn't they be barred from competition for this sort of thing?"
No, let's just rip his leg off, beat him to death with the bloody end of it, and call it even.
Maybe this needs debunking too, but I clearly remember that there were recordings of conversations on board the shuttle that NASA would not release "out of respect for the families." I don't recall if they were radio communications or recordings on the black box. Does anyone else remember this? It's not mentioned in the article.
The rule of thumb suggested by researchers at Boston Children's Hospital is to hold the volume of a music player no higher than 60 percent of the maximum, and use it for only about an hour a day.
Unfortunately, this recommendation is likely to fall on deaf ears.
That sounds familiar. McCarthy and Barton: just a couple of Joes.
Oh, yes, of course it's a wastewater treatment facility. And I suppose it generates swamp gas that people mistake for UFOs, hmmm? Nice try, Captain, but there's no way your disinformation is getting past my tinfoil.
Shape of... an ice volcano!
Mac + i386 = iMac
Oh, wait...
Soon I'll no longer have to use the mirrors at Blockbuster to look down women's tops.
Aren't you needlesly complicating this? The purpose of money, power, and position is to get sex. Sex is the good time.
University of Calcutta seems to be a good choice.
Like a cockroach.
History of Microsoft innovation:
1995: Windows can halt a PC when you're not there and while programs are running.
2000: Windows can reboot a PC when you're not there and while programs are running.
2007: Windows can turn off a PC when you're not there and while programs are running.
When we come to the point of exploring other solar systems, will we be sending robotic probes dozens of lightyears to explore these "strange new worlds?" No. This kind of exploration will require sending teams of human explorers on long journeys. The only way we can prepare for that is by practicing within our own solar system, by establishing bases on the Moon and sending people to Mars.
It's not about the quality of the science returned. That's what the probes are for. It's about the necessary first steps out of our own solar system.
Voyager had good eps? Like the one where Paris and Janeway got turned into newts?
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They got better.
Their objective TCO studies will still show Windows is cheaper than Linux.
Started off as a nice little idea about old ladies attacking young men, but now it's just got SILLY! His hair's too long for a vicar, too, and you can tell those are not proper traffic barrels! CLEAR OUT, THE LOT OF YOU!
...but just imagine for a moment if M$ had patented it.
You should go to prison for even wanting a Britney track.
If you attempted to read the cassette-out port on the Apple II+, no (tri-state) devices would actually attach to the bus. As a result, the data lines on the bus acted like a DRAM cache and momentarily "stored" the last value read from RAM (the "vapor"). Since the CPU and video refresh circuitry alternated RAM access every half cycle, the last value read was always one from the current video page.
A few bytes of each hi-res graphics page were read by the video refresh circuits but not displayed (during horizontal blanking, if I recall correctly). By storing "unlikely" values in these bytes, and then waiting for them with a read loop, you could determine where the video trace was in the graphics page and calculate when the vertical blanking would start.
You could flip graphics pages during the vertical blanking interval to get smooth animation, or calculate times to switch modes and mix text and graphics anywhere on the screen (a big deal, in those days).
PS. I realize this dates me, but really, who else would?
In much the same way that the death penalty has deterred murder in Texas.
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