If I recall correctly it wasn't that Apple was forbidding him from making the Replica 1. He was just worried that Apple MIGHT sue him. So he tried to get permission from Apple but kept running into brick walls. No one ever said no to him, they just kept saying no comment. So out of left field he calls up the Woz to see if maybe he knows who to talk to in Apple. He tells the Woz what he's up to and the Woz loves it. Woz told him to go ahead because the Apple 1 ROM is "open source". Woz made copies of the ROM code freely available to anyone who wanted it. Then Woz offered him copies of the original code and documentation.
It's not so much Apple authorized but Woz blessed.
I worked at a coffee shop for a time and the owner wanted to implement something similar. If we didn't smile and say the little schpeel when we greeted a customer, they would get a free muffin. After he finished explaining the policy to me I told him I was going to repeat what I heard. "If I talk to the customers (whose happiness I place a higher value on than yours) with a straight face, they get a free muffin."
I would say one big problem to go. That problem is platinum. We simply have not been able to eliminate the need for platinum in fuel cells to extract the electricity from the reaction of hydrogen and oxygen.
I just kept telling them my only car was a 1964 Plymouth Valiant. I told them that I really wanted the warranty coverage incase the push button gear selector went out.
Once upon a time (back when gas first hit $2) I was stuck in the position of having to choose between putting gas in my tank and food in my belly. I had a car that got about 12 mpg, I lived about 30 miles from work, and my job barely paid the bills. My monthly fuel bill rivaled my dirt cheap rent. I remember one time I was down to my last $15. I didn't have any food at home and the low fuel light was on on my car. If I put all $15 in my gas tank I could make it to work until payday but no food. So I spent like $4 on some hot-dogs and bread a put the rest in the tank. I planed to call in sick the next day so I could save enough gas to coast into work on fumes on payday. To save money for a more fuel efficient car I had my gas service shut off. For about 5 months my only source of hot water was my coffee maker. I was able to scrape together $500 for a car that was in worst shape than the one I had but it got 30 mpg. Halving my fuel bill let me save enough cash for a deposit on an apartment that was walking distance to work. After I moved I got rid of the car.
Being poor come with implicit understanding that your screwed unless your willing to be creative.
" I owned a 6-cylinder '95 Intrepid with a 3.5L V6 just a few years ago that got a measly 35MPG when I drove with a lead foot"
Dude. I drive a Dodge Intrepid. A 1999 with a 2.7L V6. A Dodge Intrepid will not get 35MPG. You can maybe get 30MPG on the highway if you have have the cruise set 50 mph. In town the best I've ever gotten was 20MPG. That was after a week of training the transmission to shift properly with low speed takeoffs. When I say low speed takeoffs I mean getting up to 30 after a block and a half. I keep track of my mileage, If I baby it I can get 19/29 if I beat on it 17/26.
Do you know where the whole "the oil companies want Detroit to make inefficient cars." thing comes from? A GM exec was talking to reporters about the 1958 Buick Limited. A reporter asked about its poor gas mileage, 8 MPG I think. The exec quipped "we have too keep the oil companies happy somehow." The reason it got that poor of mileage was the style of transmission they were using. It had really super smooth acceleration and shifts (like you would expect in a Buick) but had massive parasitic loss. Buick stop using that transmission by the early 60's because the mileage was just so bad.
The EAA has rules about flying over the audience at AirVenture. The rule is no, no, fuck no. They have a pilot crash during the daily air show almost every year. The EAA knows better than anyone that even when you have the best pilots flying the best planes, shit can happen. So it's audience, safety margin, runway, air show performers. It's the best air show on the planet. Ever.
vertical drags, that's so for n00bs. I was at Oshkosh when pushy galore set a time to climb record. An aircraft powered by a Continental O-200 should not be able to go straight up that far that fast.
this is not really exciting for an average year at Oshkosh. I saw 17 P-51's sitting idling waiting for clearance to taxi. I was 20 feet away from Chuck Yeagers P-51 as it sat mid pack (flock?, fight?). I saw a Long-EZ with a pulse jet a couple of years ago. rocket planes....boring.
"I was illegally searched on school property, but because it was on school property the police told me I had no rights to deny them access to anything, including my person."
School lockers are property of the school, so the school has sole say over who has access to the locker. Were you patted down (aka frisked) before you were searched?
A frisk is not a search according to SCOTUS (Terry v. Ohio). If the officer had reasonable suspicion to stop you, they are allowed to pat you down for weapons. If the officer found the knife during the pat down that gives them probable cause to arrest you.
"20 minutes later I got home and the cops showed up to say they figured out the knife was illegal."
Just because you were home doesn't mean you were out of their jurisdiction.
"Even though I was arrested on my own property after being released from school property (a school bus, so that's debatable whether or not it was even on school property) I was hit with possession of a deadly weapon on school property charge"
Was the bus painted yellow and have a stop sign on the side? If yes, then you were on school property. Just because the officer didn't arrest you on the spot didn't mean they couldn't arrest you later. Ever heard of something called statue of limitations? It's the amount of time that the state has to arrest you and charge you with a crime. Some how I don't think the statue of limitations for possession of a deadly weapon on school property expires in less than 20 minutes.
'(and possession of a deadly weapon, too.)"
One act can violate two laws at the same time.
As far as the public defender thing, that sucks. It just goes to show how stretched thin they are. Public defenders have a very, very, very limited budget to work with. That means they have to make some very hard decisions about who they help. The county I live in, you have to make less than $16k per year to qualify for a public defender, and we're perity generous compared to surrounding counties
However If you were illegally searched, the most dumb fuck lawyer on the face of the planet should be able to make this go away. Dumb fuck lawyers can be had for less than a grand, look in the yellow pages. Your only real chance to beat this is to attack the officer's reasonable suspicion for stopping you in the first place. If you were making threats, in a fight, or not complying with the teachers instructions to sit down and shut the fuck up, you are screwed. If you were just sitting there writing in your journal and the cop came up to you and started hasseling you, you might get out of this.
A fine example of using multiple accounts to add an air of legitimacy to your mindless waste of bandwidth. And, you did it without quoting a Dell price sheet.
Then you must sell any organs that you can do without and get a second Mac. Just sell both your kidneys, then you can have a Mac at home and the dialysis clinic!!
Ma Mopar was close to running turbine motors down the assembly line in the late seventies. What I've read and head about the decion not to use them was the fact that they couldn't get better mileage than the standard Lean Burn equipped LA small bock.
it's nice to see the guys and gals in St. Paul talking about something other than that same-sex marriage ban. Now if the house, senate and governor could agree on a bonding bill thing might be looking up.
You know the kind with the hansom young Nazi officer on all fours with a leash around his balls being held by a burly black man saying, "So, what were you a saying about being part of the master race?" que the porn music
I'm glad somebody actually took the time to investigate the matter before bashing this nifty affordable little sportscar that got some pretty cool aftermarket upgrades later in the production run. If I wanted to build a mid-engine road racer to show the rice-burners what real power is, I'd have to seriously consider dropping a small-block in a '67 Corvair. Kudos to you for not blindly buying into the hype without following up on the story.
Why stop at a small block when you can wedge in a 500 ci Caddy big block in the same space? Sure you won't have much for leg room in the frount but with that much power you won't care. Or something I'm thinking about for my 63 Corvair Spyder is putting a Wankel rotory in the back end. If for no other reason than I would get to go around saying "Wankel" all the time.
try it some time "Wankel, Wankel, Wankel, Wankel, Wankel"
New suits are hard to come by, but used russian suits can be had for a few grand each. US suits are hard to get. The only people I've seen with NASA or USAF suits "know someone".
Is it just me... or do the old suits look freakin' cool and the new ones look totally gay? Totally gay is a good thing. Be nicer.
Speaking as member of the gay fetish comunty I'd have to agree with the parent on this one. The new suits look like something you would see the local gym bunnies prancing around in. The old style suits have a certin S&M quality about them. Look at this http://gralls.goalie.cx/ff/20002004/jul2304/jul230 4-02.jpg and tell me there's nothing homoerotic about it. (I know, it's not an extravehicular suit but it still makes the point)
The space suits being gay comment could be taken as bad taste, but it's not that far off the mark. Surf over to http://www.gearfetish.com/ and you will see that space suits can in fact be very gay in a "Who's your daddy asstronaut boy." kind of way.
Me personally, I'll stick to my flight gear. I prefer my kink to have at least alittle atmosphere.
Speaking as someone who used a 28.8 modem as his main conection to the internet untill about 2 years ago anything less is impractical if not unusable. 14.4 is like saying "You my use my car but it has 4 flat tires." Yes it will work but you really cant do anything with it. 9600 and 2400 is good for light email use and that's about it.
I agree that govt shouldn't force industry to roll out universal broadband, but they should be offering incentives to do so. After all shouldn't a govt encourage the growth of tech that can benefit all of its citizens?
PS. Thankyou for seeing farms as business. Most people I come across don't see them as such.
I may be wrong but you sound like someone whos never lived in a rural area. My aunt and uncle live on a farm in Iowa. If they get a dial-up at 20+k, that's broadband baby. Most of the time they connect at 9600. To top it all off they pay long distance to get online. they are not exceptonal cases, many rural communities have phone lines that barely support voice and no local ISPs. Hell their local phone company didn't support touch tone dialing untill 1993.
Moden farming requires access to massive amouts of data, IRS, EPA, USDA, and tractors software up dates just off the top of my head. (I'm not making that last one up. I've seen farmers pissed off because the firmware in their $100K tractor is incompatable with the software in the corn planter.) My aunt and uncle are thinking about getting satellite internet next spring but it's still over priced when all they really want is a reliable, useable, and local dial-up.
I agree that mandating high speed lines for all is a bit foollish, but we need to at least mandate minimum levels of useably.
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If I recall correctly it wasn't that Apple was forbidding him from making the Replica 1. He was just worried that Apple MIGHT sue him. So he tried to get permission from Apple but kept running into brick walls.
No one ever said no to him, they just kept saying no comment. So out of left field he calls up the Woz to see if maybe he knows who to talk to in Apple. He tells the Woz what he's up to and the Woz loves it. Woz told him to go ahead because the Apple 1 ROM is "open source". Woz made copies of the ROM code freely available to anyone who wanted it. Then Woz offered him copies of the original code and documentation.
It's not so much Apple authorized but Woz blessed.
Come on. Don't make the whole post a troll.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/10/1237245/College-Credits-For-Trolling-the-Web?art_pos=23
That's just not fair, luring them in with a softball post only to have them get slaughtered by the slashdot rank and file.
Low man.
I worked at a coffee shop for a time and the owner wanted to implement something similar. If we didn't smile and say the little schpeel when we greeted a customer, they would get a free muffin.
After he finished explaining the policy to me I told him I was going to repeat what I heard.
"If I talk to the customers (whose happiness I place a higher value on than yours) with a straight face, they get a free muffin."
Yup, that job didn't last long.
I would say one big problem to go. That problem is platinum. We simply have not been able to eliminate the need for platinum in fuel cells to extract the electricity from the reaction of hydrogen and oxygen.
Ah, yes we have.
I just kept telling them my only car was a 1964 Plymouth Valiant. I told them that I really wanted the warranty coverage incase the push button gear selector went out.
Once upon a time (back when gas first hit $2) I was stuck in the position of having to choose between putting gas in my tank and food in my belly. I had a car that got about 12 mpg, I lived about 30 miles from work, and my job barely paid the bills. My monthly fuel bill rivaled my dirt cheap rent.
I remember one time I was down to my last $15. I didn't have any food at home and the low fuel light was on on my car. If I put all $15 in my gas tank I could make it to work until payday but no food. So I spent like $4 on some hot-dogs and bread a put the rest in the tank. I planed to call in sick the next day so I could save enough gas to coast into work on fumes on payday.
To save money for a more fuel efficient car I had my gas service shut off. For about 5 months my only source of hot water was my coffee maker. I was able to scrape together $500 for a car that was in worst shape than the one I had but it got 30 mpg. Halving my fuel bill let me save enough cash for a deposit on an apartment that was walking distance to work. After I moved I got rid of the car.
Being poor come with implicit understanding that your screwed unless your willing to be creative.
The big difference is that in space there is no opportunity to walk home.
sure there is. Just watch that first step.
" I owned a 6-cylinder '95 Intrepid with a 3.5L V6 just a few years ago that got a measly 35MPG when I drove with a lead foot"
Dude. I drive a Dodge Intrepid. A 1999 with a 2.7L V6. A Dodge Intrepid will not get 35MPG. You can maybe get 30MPG on the highway if you have have the cruise set 50 mph. In town the best I've ever gotten was 20MPG. That was after a week of training the transmission to shift properly with low speed takeoffs. When I say low speed takeoffs I mean getting up to 30 after a block and a half.
I keep track of my mileage, If I baby it I can get 19/29 if I beat on it 17/26.
Do you know where the whole "the oil companies want Detroit to make inefficient cars." thing comes from? A GM exec was talking to reporters about the 1958 Buick Limited. A reporter asked about its poor gas mileage, 8 MPG I think. The exec quipped "we have too keep the oil companies happy somehow." The reason it got that poor of mileage was the style of transmission they were using. It had really super smooth acceleration and shifts (like you would expect in a Buick) but had massive parasitic loss. Buick stop using that transmission by the early 60's because the mileage was just so bad.
The EAA has rules about flying over the audience at AirVenture.
The rule is no, no, fuck no.
They have a pilot crash during the daily air show almost every year.
The EAA knows better than anyone that even when you have the best pilots flying the best planes, shit can happen.
So it's audience, safety margin, runway, air show performers.
It's the best air show on the planet. Ever.
vertical drags, that's so for n00bs.
I was at Oshkosh when pushy galore set a time to climb record. An aircraft powered by a Continental O-200 should not be able to go straight up that far that fast.
this is not really exciting for an average year at Oshkosh.
I saw 17 P-51's sitting idling waiting for clearance to taxi. I was 20 feet away from Chuck Yeagers P-51 as it sat mid pack (flock?, fight?).
I saw a Long-EZ with a pulse jet a couple of years ago.
rocket planes....boring.
Your ether ok or screwed.
"I was illegally searched on school property, but because it was on school property the police told me I had no rights to deny them access to anything, including my person."
School lockers are property of the school, so the school has sole say over who has access to the locker.
Were you patted down (aka frisked) before you were searched?
A frisk is not a search according to SCOTUS (Terry v. Ohio). If the officer had reasonable suspicion to stop you, they are allowed to pat you down for weapons. If the officer found the knife during the pat down that gives them probable cause to arrest you.
"20 minutes later I got home and the cops showed up to say they figured out the knife was illegal."
Just because you were home doesn't mean you were out of their jurisdiction.
"Even though I was arrested on my own property after being released from school property (a school bus, so that's debatable whether or not it was even on school property) I was hit with possession of a deadly weapon on school property charge"
Was the bus painted yellow and have a stop sign on the side? If yes, then you were on school property.
Just because the officer didn't arrest you on the spot didn't mean they couldn't arrest you later. Ever heard of something called statue of limitations? It's the amount of time that the state has to arrest you and charge you with a crime. Some how I don't think the statue of limitations for possession of a deadly weapon on school property expires in less than 20 minutes.
'(and possession of a deadly weapon, too.)"
One act can violate two laws at the same time.
As far as the public defender thing, that sucks. It just goes to show how stretched thin they are. Public defenders have a very, very, very limited budget to work with. That means they have to make some very hard decisions about who they help. The county I live in, you have to make less than $16k per year to qualify for a public defender, and we're perity generous compared to surrounding counties
However
If you were illegally searched, the most dumb fuck lawyer on the face of the planet should be able to make this go away.
Dumb fuck lawyers can be had for less than a grand, look in the yellow pages.
Your only real chance to beat this is to attack the officer's reasonable suspicion for stopping you in the first place.
If you were making threats, in a fight, or not complying with the teachers instructions to sit down and shut the fuck up, you are screwed.
If you were just sitting there writing in your journal and the cop came up to you and started hasseling you, you might get out of this.
A fine example of using multiple accounts to add an air of legitimacy to your mindless waste of bandwidth.
And, you did it without quoting a Dell price sheet.
Then you must sell any organs that you can do without and get a second Mac.
Just sell both your kidneys, then you can have a Mac at home and the dialysis clinic!!
Ma Mopar was close to running turbine motors down the assembly line in the late seventies. What I've read and head about the decion not to use them was the fact that they couldn't get better mileage than the standard Lean Burn equipped LA small bock.
got an article about it here http://www.allpar.com/mopar/turbine.html
Dude, we already have a seed bank for weed. It's called a collage campus.
it's nice to see the guys and gals in St. Paul talking about something other than that same-sex marriage ban. Now if the house, senate and governor could agree on a bonding bill thing might be looking up.
can I have it?
Right?
You know the kind with the hansom young Nazi officer on all fours with a leash around his balls being held by a burly black man saying, "So, what were you a saying about being part of the master race?"
que the porn music
that's still ok right?
I'm glad somebody actually took the time to investigate the matter before bashing this nifty affordable little sportscar that got some pretty cool aftermarket upgrades later in the production run. If I wanted to build a mid-engine road racer to show the rice-burners what real power is, I'd have to seriously consider dropping a small-block in a '67 Corvair.
Kudos to you for not blindly buying into the hype without following up on the story.
Why stop at a small block when you can wedge in a 500 ci Caddy big block in the same space? Sure you won't have much for leg room in the frount but with that much power you won't care.
Or something I'm thinking about for my 63 Corvair Spyder is putting a Wankel rotory in the back end. If for no other reason than I would get to go around saying "Wankel" all the time.
try it some time "Wankel, Wankel, Wankel, Wankel, Wankel"
New suits are hard to come by, but used russian suits can be had for a few grand each.
US suits are hard to get. The only people I've seen with NASA or USAF suits "know someone".
Is it just me... or do the old suits look freakin' cool and the new ones look totally gay?
0 4-02.jpg and tell me there's nothing homoerotic about it. (I know, it's not an extravehicular suit but it still makes the point)
Totally gay is a good thing. Be nicer.
Speaking as member of the gay fetish comunty I'd have to agree with the parent on this one. The new suits look like something you would see the local gym bunnies prancing around in. The old style suits have a certin S&M quality about them.
Look at this http://gralls.goalie.cx/ff/20002004/jul2304/jul23
The space suits being gay comment could be taken as bad taste, but it's not that far off the mark.
Surf over to http://www.gearfetish.com/ and you will see that space suits can in fact be very gay in a "Who's your daddy asstronaut boy." kind of way.
Me personally, I'll stick to my flight gear. I prefer my kink to have at least alittle atmosphere.
As far as I know (and I could be wrong) Apple provides a program similar to Beowulf called Xgrid. If your Mac can use 10.3 you can use Xgrid.
Speaking as someone who used a 28.8 modem as his main conection to the internet untill about 2 years ago anything less is impractical if not unusable.
14.4 is like saying "You my use my car but it has 4 flat tires." Yes it will work but you really cant do anything with it.
9600 and 2400 is good for light email use and that's about it.
I agree that govt shouldn't force industry to roll out universal broadband, but they should be offering incentives to do so.
After all shouldn't a govt encourage the growth of tech that can benefit all of its citizens?
PS. Thankyou for seeing farms as business. Most people I come across don't see them as such.
I may be wrong but you sound like someone whos never lived in a rural area.
My aunt and uncle live on a farm in Iowa. If they get a dial-up at 20+k, that's broadband baby. Most of the time they connect at 9600. To top it all off they pay long distance to get online.
they are not exceptonal cases, many rural communities have phone lines that barely support voice and no local ISPs. Hell their local phone company didn't support touch tone dialing untill 1993.
Moden farming requires access to massive amouts of data, IRS, EPA, USDA, and tractors software up dates just off the top of my head. (I'm not making that last one up. I've seen farmers pissed off because the firmware in their $100K tractor is incompatable with the software in the corn planter.) My aunt and uncle are thinking about getting satellite internet next spring but it's still over priced when all they really want is a reliable, useable, and local dial-up.
I agree that mandating high speed lines for all is a bit foollish, but we need to at least mandate minimum levels of useably.