This is why I believe antitrust laws should be enforced. Microsoft seems bent on destroying any competition so they can have greater than 90% of the market. Consumers loose. Computers crash. Its costs us a great deal when companies have downtime and loose information and process control. The DOJ needs to act and we need consumer groups to make sure we are protected.
Speaking of magnetic memory, does anyone know where to buy or talk someone out of some core memory? I suppose it would be a challenge to make some from scratch and even to work with it, but it just seems like such a durable form of media.
Perhaps a tiny assembly language program could fit, but I could do a real core dump!
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I'm glad these are available. The NEC notebook at work is outdated and is in need of replacement. Its case is falling apart due to being dropped, kicked, and dragged behind the electric cars.
Speaking of destroying things, we once had a 15,000 lb forklift drive over a Motorola pager and it survived. Our radios; however, suffer from routine abuse as they are heavier and break away from the belt clips. They have been dropped from 40 feet to a concrete floor. They also sometimes take a swim in oil. The rubber antennas are often disfigured. They usually survive.
If I remember from reading a 1975 paperback on semiconductors, bubble memory was another name for a charged coupled device, or CCD. Not only could it store charges, it was sensitive to light. Fairchild made some cameras out of these chips.
I was reading through the usenet posts how people who had the CE devices could play mp3's in real time, but were complaining it took much longer just to retrieve addresses and such. Sometimes its nice to have a smaller horsepower device and have the batteries last for many months too. To me, that is usability!
I just got my pilot and am learning how to gcc some stuff for it and learn how to use the tcpip stack. Fun awaits...
It only took us about a day to build it. We've been thinking about it for a few days and we gathered the parts, and last night we assembled it. In Justin's room -- he lost the coin toss."
I thought this was supposed to be a fast food joint. Eat and run. Where does eating lunch or dinner and the internet go together? Sticky keyboards, indeed! What's the point? The novelty or being the first fast food joint to do it?
I could not imagine a Linux site could be so pleasing. The new site is diverse and yet does not exhibit fancy bloated html dodads. There were a few wonderful gems, like the tale about the Romans. It was great reading and pretty much was a spiritual awakening for me.
Its really nice to know what I buy supports good things like this!:)
OK, so the Y2K thing was a little *cough* oversight. Now, they want to disable compressed audio transmissions on purpose? Sounds criminal to me. What a bunch of thugs!
Oh well, a certain evil operating system pretty much self destructs and disables itself after about a year and a half anyway, so why not your audio/visuals too? Seems like the RIAA wants to become the software dictators for the 21st century.
Yep, here we go again. One billion is 1,000,000,000, not:
1,000,000,000,000 = 1 billion
Quite a difference in the bank balance too! That would indeeed make really sweat about the billionaire Bill Gates. That kind of power would indeed prove someone was evil! Think he doesn't own your ass?
It also says an iris contains 266 points of information, a lot more than a fingerprint. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
In short time, ye old peace pipe can route more than 266 points of information on thee iris! After a night on the town, it might refuse to hand over the dough!
How long will it take for iris roadside checkpoints to catch the drivers that have been hammered and stoned? "We saw your red eyes all the way down the block, step out of the car please!"
Do not be ashamed as an old kernel is quite in style these days. I have been experimenting with some of these older, smaller gems. They were the ones that ran on less hardware and still do it well. Since I have a few 386's, some with 4MB laying around, may I share the following:
Linux is like a diesel, it just keeps on truckin' and can really haul some weight and deliver the goods in a safe manner. 500,000 miles before a rebuild.
Microsoft can only deliver its ego 1/4 miles, then crashes at the finish line, and requires an engine overhaul upgrade. Requires highly volatile fuel to run. Its for the thrill seekers. People who like to turn shades of white and red when the fun ends and the bill strikes. No practical use by me, thank you!
It looks to me like they rushed this one out the door! This must be the strategy for everything: sell it now, bugs will bring them back for more!
The marketing campain also seems to be taking this avenue. No matter how rich the content is, what are a few mistakes? It looks good and that is what is going to be hyped. When you have money to back FUD, the details just accelerate the campain and drive for runaway marketing. Which is what they want, I guess. *sigh*
99.97% means 15 minutes a week is lost during an unplanned reboot, while Linux has a 99.9998% uptime, or 10 minutes scheduled a year(if one so desires:)
Here is a nice description of what 99% really means.
99.97% means 15 minutes a week is lost during an unplanned reboot, while Linux has a 99.9998% uptime, or 10 minutes scheduled.
99% is pathetic when it comes to reliability! I want to see that number approach 100 the way a mathematician would be proud!
After seeing NT hiccup last night on a production line, I feel offended! Plastic extruders powered by hundreds of horsepower each, capable of generating 500,000 pounds of thrust are dangerous to be around when temperatures drop (or rise!) and pressures exceed the massive iron head. When a few others and I saw the Visual Basic program decide to change temperature values to just below melting point, I knew we could have major property damage.
Its the most amazing thing to watch large, high speed machines when the operating system freezes. Things keep on running, but never get updated. The once coordinated efforts of energy shaping a new product causes scrap to pile up quickly.
Imaginge a half megawatt at the mercy of a single operating system and you have an idea how I feel.
I would give anything to hear how they plan this stuff in meetings. I would assume this stuff has to be planned carefully. It makes me think the marketing department is a war room fuming with hate and FUD slinging tactics.
When will they grow up and learn some ethics? Its not cool to have a negative business strategy and much energy may be lost trying to destroy competitors rather than having the consumer's needs in mind.
I feel Microsoft is an evil coorporation that must be stopped!
even if $75 is just a single chip, the card can't be thathbad.. ) - we're going to choke the net to death.
256 pins on a chip may take up significant card reale-state. It will be a busy board! I would imagine it could really make use of a 100MHz PCI bus too! I might expect a new generation of motherboards to appear in the future. Get your credit cards ready...
It even comes with that proprietary memory stick discussed before. Is that the technology they are trying to sneak in the US? May the dog bite it.
Anyhow, it does not mention what kind of sensors for negotiating the environment this dog sports. It would also be interesting how developed the locomotion is. Can it run? Jump? Play catch? If it had seperate servos for each foot, there would be significant possibilities for a programmable dog. Fetching the paper unaided, for instance!
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I found a great start up company just by looking through the newspaper to check things out. I went through a few dozen interviews. It was a small shop and sold myself for cheap, because the owner was cool.
At the time it was worth the experience. The owner had a EE and I had the opportunity to work with him on free time for some very interesting projects involving microwaves and minicontrollers. Unfortunately, he was free enough to get started in a bigger money making venture that was not directly related to technology. His wish came true as he opened up some new age dance bars with fancy light shows, but it wasn't for me.
"Union" is a dirty word. The buzzword you may be looking for is a "headhunter." They will social engineer you into a brand new job, with higher pay and better living conditions. Compare this with a union that fights dirty (I'm not kidding!) and extorts the company that you might have profit sharing invested within. Headhunters are a good deal.
Unions may cause strife. You are promised many legal rights by a union, but your company will get hit with lawsuits and complaints from all directions in attempts to settle. Its expensive. My advice is to talk to people who have worked in both union and non-union shops. My experience is that it is no fun.
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Our manufacturing plant is usually closed around the holidays. This lets us avoid the "hangover shifts" that plague the companies that, perhaps, made my car?
I had to drive home the morning of New Years this year to avoid the snow storm in the midwest and that was an experience. 750 miles of night driving with sports cars in the ditch, with swarms of highway patrolmen with flashlights looking for missing occupants. If you need to get hammered, don't pass out while driving, get a ride or spend the night!
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This is why I believe antitrust laws should be enforced. Microsoft seems bent on destroying any competition so they can have greater than 90% of the market. Consumers loose. Computers crash. Its costs us a great deal when companies have downtime and loose information and process control. The DOJ needs to act and we need consumer groups to make sure we are protected.
I have a 4x6 grid of core memory in a clear flat lucite box on the front of my PC . . .
Pictures! Oh, please! This is too good to keep as a secret: please share some pictures!
(I still have not found good instructions for rolling my own core memory...)
My mistake.
Speaking of magnetic memory, does anyone know where to buy or talk someone out of some core memory? I suppose it would be a challenge to make some from scratch and even to work with it, but it just seems like such a durable form of media.
Perhaps a tiny assembly language program could fit, but I could do a real core dump!
I'm glad these are available. The NEC notebook at work is outdated and is in need of replacement. Its case is falling apart due to being dropped, kicked, and dragged behind the electric cars.
Speaking of destroying things, we once had a 15,000 lb forklift drive over a Motorola pager and it survived. Our radios; however, suffer from routine abuse as they are heavier and break away from the belt clips. They have been dropped from 40 feet to a concrete floor. They also sometimes take a swim in oil. The rubber antennas are often disfigured. They usually survive.
If I remember from reading a 1975 paperback on semiconductors, bubble memory was another name for a charged coupled device, or CCD. Not only could it store charges, it was sensitive to light. Fairchild made some cameras out of these chips.
RAM that uses latches or transistors for the logical on/off, goes by its more popular name static ram, or SRAM. Dynamic ram is just capacitor memory.
I was reading through the usenet posts how people who had the CE devices could play mp3's in real time, but were complaining it took much longer just to retrieve addresses and such. Sometimes its nice to have a smaller horsepower device and have the batteries last for many months too. To me, that is usability!
I just got my pilot and am learning how to gcc some stuff for it and learn how to use the tcpip stack. Fun awaits...
Its all interesting stuff. I thought EPROMs were nothing more than charges embedded deeper than the normal capacitor hanging off a transistor gate.
I have always wondered why airport xrays do not destroy laptops, because are rays not high energy electrons that can leave a charge on a target?
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It only took us about a day to build it. We've been thinking about it for a few days and we gathered the parts, and last night we assembled it. In Justin's room -- he lost the coin toss."
I thought this was supposed to be a fast food joint. Eat and run. Where does eating lunch or dinner and the internet go together? Sticky keyboards, indeed! What's the point? The novelty or being the first fast food joint to do it?
Would you like clean mouse balls with that?
I could not imagine a Linux site could be so pleasing. The new site is diverse and yet does not exhibit fancy bloated html dodads. There were a few wonderful gems, like the tale about the Romans. It was great reading and pretty much was a spiritual awakening for me.
:)
Its really nice to know what I buy supports good things like this!
OK, so the Y2K thing was a little *cough* oversight. Now, they want to disable compressed audio transmissions on purpose? Sounds criminal to me. What a bunch of thugs!
Oh well, a certain evil operating system pretty much self destructs and disables itself after about a year and a half anyway, so why not your audio/visuals too? Seems like the RIAA wants to become the software dictators for the 21st century.
Yep, here we go again. One billion is 1,000,000,000, not:
1,000,000,000,000 = 1 billion
Quite a difference in the bank balance too! That would indeeed make really sweat about the billionaire Bill Gates. That kind of power would indeed prove someone was evil! Think he doesn't own your ass?
It also says an iris contains 266 points of information, a lot more than a fingerprint. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
In short time, ye old peace pipe can route more than 266 points of information on thee iris! After a night on the town, it might refuse to hand over the dough!
How long will it take for iris roadside checkpoints to catch the drivers that have been hammered and stoned? "We saw your red eyes all the way down the block, step out of the car please!"
Do not be ashamed as an old kernel is quite in style these days. I have been experimenting with some of these older, smaller gems. They were the ones that ran on less hardware and still do it well. Since I have a few 386's, some with 4MB laying around, may I share the following:
Superant - sells cheapo CDs catering to small computers
Xdenu Versions
Linux On A Floppy
Etherboot home page
My favorite:
toms router boot home page
Linux is like a diesel, it just keeps on truckin' and can really haul some weight and deliver the goods in a safe manner. 500,000 miles before a rebuild.
Microsoft can only deliver its ego 1/4 miles, then crashes at the finish line, and requires an engine overhaul upgrade. Requires highly volatile fuel to run. Its for the thrill seekers. People who like to turn shades of white and red when the fun ends and the bill strikes. No practical use by me, thank you!
It looks to me like they rushed this one out the door! This must be the strategy for everything: sell it now, bugs will bring them back for more!
The marketing campain also seems to be taking this avenue. No matter how rich the content is, what are a few mistakes? It looks good and that is what is going to be hyped. When you have money to back FUD, the details just accelerate the campain and drive for runaway marketing. Which is what they want, I guess. *sigh*
oops!
:)
99.97% means 15 minutes a week is lost during an unplanned reboot, while Linux has a 99.9998% uptime, or 10 minutes scheduled a year (if one so desires
Here is a nice description of what 99% really means.
99.97% means 15 minutes a week is lost during an unplanned reboot, while Linux has a 99.9998% uptime, or 10 minutes scheduled.
99% is pathetic when it comes to reliability! I want to see that number approach 100 the way a mathematician would be proud!
After seeing NT hiccup last night on a production line, I feel offended! Plastic extruders powered by hundreds of horsepower each, capable of generating 500,000 pounds of thrust are dangerous to be around when temperatures drop (or rise!) and pressures exceed the massive iron head. When a few others and I saw the Visual Basic program decide to change temperature values to just below melting point, I knew we could have major property damage.
Its the most amazing thing to watch large, high speed machines when the operating system freezes. Things keep on running, but never get updated. The once coordinated efforts of energy shaping a new product causes scrap to pile up quickly.
Imaginge a half megawatt at the mercy of a single operating system and you have an idea how I feel.
I would give anything to hear how they plan this stuff in meetings. I would assume this stuff has to be planned carefully. It makes me think the marketing department is a war room fuming with hate and FUD slinging tactics.
When will they grow up and learn some ethics? Its not cool to have a negative business strategy and much energy may be lost trying to destroy competitors rather than having the consumer's needs in mind.
I feel Microsoft is an evil coorporation that must be stopped!
even if $75 is just a single chip, the card can't be thathbad.. ) - we're going to choke the net to death.
256 pins on a chip may take up significant card reale-state. It will be a busy board! I would imagine it could really make use of a 100MHz PCI bus too! I might expect a new generation of motherboards to appear in the future. Get your credit cards ready...
It even comes with that proprietary memory stick discussed before. Is that the technology they are trying to sneak in the US? May the dog bite it.
Anyhow, it does not mention what kind of sensors for negotiating the environment this dog sports. It would also be interesting how developed the locomotion is. Can it run? Jump? Play catch? If it had seperate servos for each foot, there would be significant possibilities for a programmable dog. Fetching the paper unaided, for instance!
I found a great start up company just by looking through the newspaper to check things out. I went through a few dozen interviews. It was a small shop and sold myself for cheap, because the owner was cool.
At the time it was worth the experience. The owner had a EE and I had the opportunity to work with him on free time for some very interesting projects involving microwaves and minicontrollers. Unfortunately, he was free enough to get started in a bigger money making venture that was not directly related to technology. His wish came true as he opened up some new age dance bars with fancy light shows, but it wasn't for me.
"Union" is a dirty word. The buzzword you may be looking for is a "headhunter." They will social engineer you into a brand new job, with higher pay and better living conditions. Compare this with a union that fights dirty (I'm not kidding!) and extorts the company that you might have profit sharing invested within. Headhunters are a good deal.
Unions may cause strife. You are promised many legal rights by a union, but your company will get hit with lawsuits and complaints from all directions in attempts to settle. Its expensive. My advice is to talk to people who have worked in both union and non-union shops. My experience is that it is no fun.
Our manufacturing plant is usually closed around the holidays. This lets us avoid the "hangover shifts" that plague the companies that, perhaps, made my car?
I had to drive home the morning of New Years this year to avoid the snow storm in the midwest and that was an experience. 750 miles of night driving with sports cars in the ditch, with swarms of highway patrolmen with flashlights looking for missing occupants. If you need to get hammered, don't pass out while driving, get a ride or spend the night!