they can rent it out if they win it. as in beer. they could throw it open to all carriers using an open GSM platform using whatever flavor of G3 data they like so it's fully world-compatible.
there's an idea that should have "it's MY network, and all these guys behind me will beat you if you disagree" shivering.
yes, bring your BT, NTT, Korean phone over here with you. it will work. every time you hit send, two cents to Google for use of the C block airwaves. one cent if the home phoneco had built the network in that regional area.
profit per click. no investment in the backbone. that's something they know about.
pitchblende is a murky dark colored rock that is a very high quality ore for many radioactive materials. dark. grey to black with some samples pitched to the purple or brown.
yellow radioactive rock is your usual uranium oxide, hydrated "yellowcake," a low concentration. but that's the production ore in north america and most of the world. in the 60s, you could buy a sample in a little plastic box at visitor centers like at the Oak Ridge Laboratories.
there are precious few facts. here they are as I see them...
1) moguls are all about control and big bucks.
2) music moguls are defined by (1), above.
3) analog reproduction was controlled by cheap single-song records in the acetate disk and tape recorder days.
4) industries, for instance radio, were co-opted for promotion purposes.
5) when first the source, and then the distribution, methods changed to digital, all of a sudden all copies were masters. the industry was blissfully unaware of this until somebody's kid told them he could make "greenies". there were no cheap single-song media in circulation. the moguls came unglued, their business model had changed without notice.
6) nothing has changed since. the moguls are unglued, the kids are still finding ways to make "greenies," and even the albums don't have a single song worth buying.
7) clusterfsck. "oh, hey, got an idea. let's attack our customers with badware."
8) no profit.
9) steps 5 though 8 are being repeated at lightning speed every time somebody breathes. the industry is going down the tubes.
10) hey, why NOT try something different? why NOT dump the badware and allow single song sales again? through the distribution network the kids want to use?
oh, that's right, it takes BUSINESSMEN, not moguls, to do that.
folks, buy your own instruments and start learning to play yourselves.
initial articles about the RROD had quite enough evidence. warm, sometimes hot machine, dead and stayed dead. had it pegged right away as heat not getting out.
I grew up as a broadcast brat with dozens of 7-foot racks of nice, hot, red tubes around all the time. the physics never changes. as the temp goes up 10 degrees, the life expectancy of the parts goes down 50 percent. batteries, capacitors, resistors, insulation... semiconductor power output, read your spec sheets. heat kills everything. the use of electrons generates heat. you have to get rid of it. a 10 degree Celsius rise from room temperature puts most equipment at its knife edge. a 20 degree rise is going to be statistically quite significant in early failures.
you don't need an insider, or somebody pretending to be one, to take that to print. somebody decided to rush the product, make it cheap to make, and not do any thermal profiling QC.
voila, mass manufacturing of electro-corpses. ain't the first time. won't be the last. a smart customer will put their hand on a display unit, and if it's too warm, decide to not be an early adopter.
let me explain. just about everybody has heard "thou shalt not steal" once or twice in their life. most folks are pleased to just bump along and follow the path of least resistance. you want to watch "Murderous Androids IV?" tune it in, punch the PPV button and acknowledge, or rent or buy the DVD. no problem.
there is a small fraction that gets its jollies from defying authority any way they can. if the DVD was free in their mailbox, they'd still seek a way to find a source and hack it, just for the exercise, or because it's contrary. you are just going to create a more fearsome breed of hackers, crackers, and crossposters by putting obstacles in their way.
there is a very much smaller fraction of people who see a way to profit from somebody else's effort, and will take any and all cracks, crosspostings, or bumpy video from theater seats, put it on purple disks, and sell it for a couple bucks. you can't stop those people except by international law enforcement.
and every generation of flags, copy protection, rootkits, and the other pernicious slop that media companies have slapped the obedient purchasers in the face with, along with phone-home schemes attachable by identity thieves and the like, just pisses off the good customer more.
in short, give it up, you're putting yourselves out of business. and take your blue-ray and HD-DVD with you. it's all deck chairs on the Titanic. we're surfin' the net now, dude.
if you got the service manual, the crosspoint matrix for the keypad was printed cleverly therein. I put a DB-25 on the back of my 400, horse-whipped an old keyboard off something or other from the surplus store with telco wire, and had a grand old experience.
tie a grenade to each router, with a string on the pin, get behind the door, and yank.
you might as well, for your customers will run faster than you will after pulling the strings.
you might have noticed the plate red hot in a coil
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"refining" a tube typically meant heating it up in an inductive system to burn out impurities and gas in the tube elements, and filaments may or may not also be heated up at that time. typically were. getters are often "flashed" with a high voltage impressed on them during this period to be sure the impurities are fully absorbed and can't get back into the tube metals and glass spacers.
many getters at the period in which that tube type he's duplicating used phosphorus. not as efficient as aluminum and barium, but easier to flash over. WWI, remember, you couldn't pull much vacuum. the getter had to do the job. so old tubes had funny colors inside from the getter flashover.
if you ever had a cathode-ray tube implode on you.
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you wouldn't have asked. that glow is vacuum. good old vacuum.
gas-filled tubes typically flash over as the gas starts conducting, typically violet for argon, bright yellow for hydrogen. because of the flashover point at some voltage, gas tubes are generally trigger tubes or voltage regulators.
glass in CRTs typically is thick enough to withstand tons and tons of atmospheric pressure. sometimes, they don't. that is rather spectacular, unless you are touching the glass, in which case is is amputational.
but the only use for them was in controlling routing in setting up LD calls. they were on the operator consoles in the mid 60s when I got a tour through NW Bell. looked like ITW lighted buttons. at that time, they were not published in the bell telephone engineering standards pubs that were in places like engineering school libraries.
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can I, huh, can I can I pleeeEEEzzze?
(cables suck)
1. wildly optimistic legal research
2. sue everybody including star customers
3. hunker down for duration of battle to ultimate victory.
4. crash and burn against wall of common sense and law
5. ???
6. liquidation in disgrace.
is that he's accepted the resignation of Cheney with sadness... and he's outta here, too.
thus business isn't going there.
they can rent it out if they win it. as in beer. they could throw it open to all carriers using an open GSM platform using whatever flavor of G3 data they like so it's fully world-compatible.
there's an idea that should have "it's MY network, and all these guys behind me will beat you if you disagree" shivering.
yes, bring your BT, NTT, Korean phone over here with you. it will work. every time you hit send, two cents to Google for use of the C block airwaves. one cent if the home phoneco had built the network in that regional area.
profit per click. no investment in the backbone. that's something they know about.
it can work.
and that was with hanging chads. now Chad's hanging his flash card on the side of voting machines....
"your honor, I'm an asshole because the defendent didn't tell me to behave! I demand a hearing on this issue!"
some day, some where, somebody is going to take them up on that offer. they can be fined and jailed for abuse of the federal court system.
pitchblende is a murky dark colored rock that is a very high quality ore for many radioactive materials. dark. grey to black with some samples pitched to the purple or brown.
yellow radioactive rock is your usual uranium oxide, hydrated "yellowcake," a low concentration. but that's the production ore in north america and most of the world. in the 60s, you could buy a sample in a little plastic box at visitor centers like at the Oak Ridge Laboratories.
mission accomplished.
there are precious few facts. here they are as I see them...
1) moguls are all about control and big bucks.
2) music moguls are defined by (1), above.
3) analog reproduction was controlled by cheap single-song records in the acetate disk and tape recorder days.
4) industries, for instance radio, were co-opted for promotion purposes.
5) when first the source, and then the distribution, methods changed to digital, all of a sudden all copies were masters. the industry was blissfully unaware of this until somebody's kid told them he could make "greenies". there were no cheap single-song media in circulation. the moguls came unglued, their business model had changed without notice.
6) nothing has changed since. the moguls are unglued, the kids are still finding ways to make "greenies," and even the albums don't have a single song worth buying.
7) clusterfsck. "oh, hey, got an idea. let's attack our customers with badware."
8) no profit.
9) steps 5 though 8 are being repeated at lightning speed every time somebody breathes. the industry is going down the tubes.
10) hey, why NOT try something different? why NOT dump the badware and allow single song sales again? through the distribution network the kids want to use?
oh, that's right, it takes BUSINESSMEN, not moguls, to do that.
folks, buy your own instruments and start learning to play yourselves.
if Adobe has offices there, and a user there complains, they can take it to state court.
2 years in cooking school at Lino Lakes and $5000 is the shot for each offense.
initial articles about the RROD had quite enough evidence. warm, sometimes hot machine, dead and stayed dead. had it pegged right away as heat not getting out.
I grew up as a broadcast brat with dozens of 7-foot racks of nice, hot, red tubes around all the time. the physics never changes. as the temp goes up 10 degrees, the life expectancy of the parts goes down 50 percent. batteries, capacitors, resistors, insulation... semiconductor power output, read your spec sheets. heat kills everything. the use of electrons generates heat. you have to get rid of it. a 10 degree Celsius rise from room temperature puts most equipment at its knife edge. a 20 degree rise is going to be statistically quite significant in early failures.
you don't need an insider, or somebody pretending to be one, to take that to print. somebody decided to rush the product, make it cheap to make, and not do any thermal profiling QC.
voila, mass manufacturing of electro-corpses. ain't the first time. won't be the last. a smart customer will put their hand on a display unit, and if it's too warm, decide to not be an early adopter.
10 stop war
20 fix domestic problems
30 printf "Woo!"
40 goto 10
hmm, doesn't seem to be working. hairbrained theory, anyway.
it would probably take 80kb to do that in visual C.
next I suppose you'll be telling me that nobody cares if I can't read my floppies any mmore.
EXCEPT for january 2038, when you have a payment of $126,347,883.39 and escrow due of $998,554,073.18.
please make a note for your records.
thank you.
FOSS Mortgage Co.
let me explain. just about everybody has heard "thou shalt not steal" once or twice in their life. most folks are pleased to just bump along and follow the path of least resistance. you want to watch "Murderous Androids IV?" tune it in, punch the PPV button and acknowledge, or rent or buy the DVD. no problem.
there is a small fraction that gets its jollies from defying authority any way they can. if the DVD was free in their mailbox, they'd still seek a way to find a source and hack it, just for the exercise, or because it's contrary. you are just going to create a more fearsome breed of hackers, crackers, and crossposters by putting obstacles in their way.
there is a very much smaller fraction of people who see a way to profit from somebody else's effort, and will take any and all cracks, crosspostings, or bumpy video from theater seats, put it on purple disks, and sell it for a couple bucks. you can't stop those people except by international law enforcement.
and every generation of flags, copy protection, rootkits, and the other pernicious slop that media companies have slapped the obedient purchasers in the face with, along with phone-home schemes attachable by identity thieves and the like, just pisses off the good customer more.
in short, give it up, you're putting yourselves out of business. and take your blue-ray and HD-DVD with you. it's all deck chairs on the Titanic. we're surfin' the net now, dude.
oh, wait, left hand, right hand.
but the comparison is valid nonetheless.
no idea if their flying monkeys would go away, but the RIAA would.
and their little dog, too.
if you got the service manual, the crosspoint matrix for the keypad was printed cleverly therein. I put a DB-25 on the back of my 400, horse-whipped an old keyboard off something or other from the surplus store with telco wire, and had a grand old experience.
they'll make jags out of rejects from the beer can on wheels.
screeners ask everybody going by, "Hey, where ya got the bomb today?"
anybody who points goes straight to gitmo.
tie a grenade to each router, with a string on the pin, get behind the door, and yank.
you might as well, for your customers will run faster than you will after pulling the strings.
"refining" a tube typically meant heating it up in an inductive system to burn out impurities and gas in the tube elements, and filaments may or may not also be heated up at that time. typically were. getters are often "flashed" with a high voltage impressed on them during this period to be sure the impurities are fully absorbed and can't get back into the tube metals and glass spacers.
many getters at the period in which that tube type he's duplicating used phosphorus. not as efficient as aluminum and barium, but easier to flash over. WWI, remember, you couldn't pull much vacuum. the getter had to do the job. so old tubes had funny colors inside from the getter flashover.
you wouldn't have asked. that glow is vacuum. good old vacuum.
gas-filled tubes typically flash over as the gas starts conducting, typically violet for argon, bright yellow for hydrogen. because of the flashover point at some voltage, gas tubes are generally trigger tubes or voltage regulators.
glass in CRTs typically is thick enough to withstand tons and tons of atmospheric pressure. sometimes, they don't. that is rather spectacular, unless you are touching the glass, in which case is is amputational.
but the only use for them was in controlling routing in setting up LD calls. they were on the operator consoles in the mid 60s when I got a tour through NW Bell. looked like ITW lighted buttons. at that time, they were not published in the bell telephone engineering standards pubs that were in places like engineering school libraries.