I must apologize to you. I don't know how third or fourth party sellers are marketing industrial gases. All I really know about is the established use of pure gases in industrial environments.
Thanks. I owe you an apology as well. I've had a nasty respiratory virus for like 10 days now (the doctor says "wait it out") and haven't had the clearest of minds when I've been posting. Fortunately I am starting to feel better.
However, I've heard that filling racing tires with Helium results in a lighter tire weight and therefore less mass.
Now that's one I haven't heard. I'd think the helium would escape fairly fast, but then again the tires are only in use for maybe an hour.
Interestingly enough, I ran across a thread where someone said that Nokian has been experimenting with a clear and neon-filled bicycle tire. Supposedly, the static electricity generated while riding the bicycle is enough to make the neon glow. Very interesting, if true.
My point was that for large fleets it can be a definite cost savings.
You neglected to say how. You also neglected say how much savings was involved. You started your post with "apparently," which I took to mean you weren't even sure yourself that what you were saying was tru Sure, I've found places that say lots of good things about nitrogen, but nearly all of their justification for using nitrogen only applies when proper maintenance is not being performed.
I should have hit preview. Here's a fixed version:
Apparently, filling fleet's tires with nitrogen (instead of compressed air) is beneficial as far as long-term maintenance goes.
Nitrogen is only popular (intentional word choice) for one reason: Racers use it.
What are the supposed benefits of nitrogen-filled tires? Well, the places that are trying to rip you off by filling your tires with nitrogen will tell you that it is somehow "safer" or that it'll make your tires last longer or leak less.
Well, it's true that nitrogen leaks more slowly than oxygen, so less oxygen in your tires naturally means less leaking of it. Properly inflated tires are also safer and last longer. However, it's a very small benefit to have 100% nitrogen. Besides, you should be checking your tire pressure regularly, nitrogen or not, and keeping them properly inflated. So, you've gained nothing there if you are performing proper maintenance on your vehicle.
They will say that using nitrogen decreases tire wear. The basis of this claim is that oxygen degrades rubber, so having nitrogen in the inside causes less degradation. Please, let me know when you've heard of a tire wearing out from the inside due to oxygen. No real benefit, but it makes the customer feel good and gets them to pay extra for nitrogen.
Now, I mentioned early on that racers use nitrogen. Why? Simple: they need a portable source of compressed gas in the pits to run their pneumatic equipment. They also use it to fill the tires. The reason they use nitrogen tanks rather than compressed air tanks is because the nitrogen is water-free, which leads to less rusting of equipment and less water vapor in tires, causing more predictible changes in tire pressure as they get hot. Ordinary people driving ordinary cars do not need this benefit.
Oh, and did I mention that your tires already have 78% nitrogen in them already? It comes right out of the mostly-nitrogen atmosphere of the Earth.
Of course the tradeoff is the cost of being able to provide the N2. Most of the major industrial gas companies (Air Liquide, Air Products, Praxair) now have on-site N2 generators that they'd like to market to gas stations.
They use the same marketing ploys that the makers of other useless products use: emphasize some *very small* possible benefit, even though almost nobody will realize that benefit. It's like the people who advertise penis-enlargement pills.
Apparently, filling fleet's tires with nitrogen (instead of compressed air) is beneficial as far as long-term maintenance goes.
Nitrogen is only popular (intentional word choice) for one reason: Racers use it.
What are the supposed benefits of nitrogen-filled tires? Well, the places that are trying to rip you off by filling your tires with nitrogen will tell you that it is somehow "safer" or that it'll make your tires last longer or leak less.
Well, it's true that nitrogen leaks more slowly than oxygen, so less oxygen in your tires naturally means less leaking of it. Properly inflated tires are also safer and last longer. However, it's a very small benefit to have 100% nitrogen. Besides, you should be checking your tire pressure regularly, nitrogen or not, and keeping them properly inflated. So, you've gained nothing there if you are performing proper maintenance on your vehicle.
They will say that using nitrogen decreases tire wear. The basis of this claim is that oxygen degrades rubber, so having nitrogen in the inside causes less degradation. Please, let me know when you've heard of a tire wearing out from the inside due to oxygen. No real benefit, but it makes the customer feel good and gets them to pay extra for nitrogen.
Now, I mentioned early on that racers use nitrogen. Why? Simple: they need a portable source of compressed gas in the pits to run their pneumatic equipment. They also use it to fill the tires. The reason they use nitrogen tanks rather than compressed air tanks is because the nitrogen is water-free, which leads to less rusting of equipment and less water vapor in tires, causing more predictible changes in tire pressure as they get hot. Ordinary people driving ordinary cars do not need this benefit.
Oh, and did I mention that your tires already have 78% nitrogen in them already? It comes right out of the mostly-nitrogen atmosphere of the Earth.
Of course the tradeoff is the cost of being able to provide the N2. Most of the major industrial gas companies (Air Liquide, Air Products, Praxair) now have on-site N2 generators that they'd like to market to gas stations.
They use the same marketing ploys that the makers of other useless products use: emphasize some *very small* possible benefit, even though almost nobody will realize that benefit. It's like the people who advertise penis-enlargement pills.
hat snippit is insane. First of all, its not 'slightly' better. glxgears without nvidia drives runs the and FPS in the hundreds, and with and FPS in the 13000s with nvidia drivers.
glxgears is not remotely the proper tool for guaging the performance of a video card.
Lisa: It's a German term for `shameful joy', taking pleasure in the suffering of others.
Really, it means "damage joy" (Schaden = damage, Freude = joy). I get a little bit of it every time I see this episode, because they screwed it up on syndicated TV. The word 'Schadenfreude' doesn't really connote a judgment on the feeling itself.
And speaking of that, not too long ago at the U, I saw some poor business major (guessed - he was going into the business school) catch the strap of his bag on the handle of the door he had just pushed open. Full speed, he swung around when the strap tightened up, and went face-first into the other side of the door. I discovered at that moment that transparent glass doors have distinct advantages over opaque doors.
I had to suppress laughter for about three hours afterwards.
If you are thinking about buying a book, you can browse the subject you like in a bookstore, why can't we do the same with music?
You can. Go to any decent music store and you can listen to the CD in the store. Some places even have automatic preview systems that scan the UPC code of a CD you present to it and play some of the music on the disc. Some places will open a CD and play it for you at the counter.
You can't (legally) photocopy the book and take it home. If you could, would you really pay for the book?
I teach were unable to browse web pages on group theory, klein bottles, and other topics which I really doubt acted as porn for anyone alive now or throughout history.
Don't knock it until you've tried it. Once you go Klein bottle, you never go back!
And you've got to be kidding... Group theory not being related to pr0n?
The real issues are tuition, professor quality, library resources, and campus safety (wide net encompassing dorm safety to the campus rentacops). Open Source is just a buzzword that gets play with a very narrow circle of jerks that think they know what's best.
As one of the people who was popular enough to get elected to student government (first a student Senator, then Treasurer in charge of $millions), I can safely say that nobody outside of the CS department here gives a rat's ass about Open Source software.
If you want to win a student government election at a University (a public one, anyway) you need to focus on buzzwords that will actually get you elected. Specifically, you need to talk about:
Accessibility - Promise to find ways to allow poor people access to higher education.
Diversity - Promise to support diversity in the makeup of the faculty and students. This will gain you support of the various groups that have names in the form of ______ Student Union and _________ Student Assosiation. They can rally a lot of support.
Environment - Promise to encourage green practices at your university. Promise to lobby the government to crack down on polluters. This will get you the support of the local PIRG chapter.
Tuition - Promise to work on lowering tuition, even if you have absolutely no power to do so. This touches the heart of every student that doesn't have mommy and daddy paying for their education. It also avoids the complicated issue known as "the rising cost of education" that drives the tuition increases.
Textbooks - Promise to support causes that say they want to lower the cost of textbooks. This is a big issue as of late, and even though you have absolutely zero power to dictate prices to publishers, you'll get support.
Of course, when I ran I just promised to do my best keep student government from wasting mandatory fee money on trips to Washington DC and off-campus 'retreats' (AKA hotel stays at student body expense). Seems that there is a fair amount of people who think that student government is a waste of resources. I agree. I also promised to hold the rest of the student government to their own constituion and to revise the same.
I delivered a revised constitution to the voters the same year I ran for Treasurer. I got elected and my constitution was adopted. It's still in use without any further revisions and the student government is much more accountable.
Neat, huh?
If I'd ran on the platform of switching all of the computers on campus from Windows and/or MacOs and Microsoft Office to Linux and OpenOffice, I would have came in last in every single election and been written off as a nutjob by the student body.
Have fun then. The timings on the AGP port are more masochistic than even those on PCI, and you have zero proposed applications for it other than video. I can think of some ugly uses for busses in the past (just about anything involving storage and/or video on USB), but AGP for something else would take first prize.
Well, if you strip away the DAC, GPU, and other non-memory components of an AGP card, you can still use the AGP port as a rudimentary memory expansion port using the Linux MTD driver.
Good if you have a PCIe slot and an AGP slot on your new mobo. Reserve the PCIe display for 3d, use a minimal amount of memory on an older card in the AGP slot as a second 2d-only head. Use the remaining video RAM on the AGP card as a ramdisk or for swap space.
The 256 MB on your old AGP-based card looks much more useful.
Sometimes the old, simple technologies are the answer...
Perhaps running a large series of snow making machines drawing water directly from the ocean, or more ideally a fresh water source that deposits into the ocean, 24/7 may be the answer to lower sea levels.
It wouldn't matter much where in the world this process is done, since water will find its level... the key is finding an area that's natually very cold to deposit the snow and, ideally, is located near fresh water.
Thanks for the laugh. The amount of power it would take to do what you suggest (not to mention materials for building the infrastructure) would cause so much fossil fuels to be burned that global warming would increase the entire time you were making snow.
My first was an Apple//c. With 128K of memory, I thought I was *the man*. Of course, my C-64 using friends used to always say that the C-64 had way better graphics, using sprites, and they were probably right. Oh well, anyone remember:
My first was a II+. Still have it. I've also added a IIc and IIgs to the collection.
- call -151
Enter the monitor.
- What pages $100, $200 and $300 were for? (And what '$' meant in those days?)
$ = 0x:)
$100 = 6502 stack. $200 = input buffer. $300 = mostly free, but there were soft vectors for reset, irq, brk, etc. towart the top, plus the autostart rom byte.
- How many 6502 opcodes can you remember? Let's see, here are a few:
I first used a IBM OS/360 (yes I am that old), but early on I used an Apple II, then II+ then IIe then IIgs, and.....I STILL do to this day. In the rush to megabits and megahertz much was lost from the old II days. Google Apple II and you will find there is still quite a community of users of this venerable box..
Ahh, good old COMPUTE! I remember when they stopped publishing programs. I still have almost every issue. I've got 5 1/4" floppies with the programs my parents and I had typed in.
We had an Apple ][+ as well. With a CP/M card. I still have it. I've acquired a couple more Apple IIs along the way:
An Apple IIc with a Unidisk 3.5, a lead-acid external battery pack, and an LCD display.
An Apple IIgs with 5 MB RAM and a 540 MB SCSI hard disk on a RamFast controller, 1.44MB floppy controller, Z80 CP/M card, and a stereo sound card. This one is fun because I have it hooked up via AppleTalk to a Shiva Fastpath 5, which allows the IIgs to talk to netatalk running on a Linux server.
Sadly, I don't have time to play with my old 8- and 16-bit machines these days, so they are all boxed up.
So who's really at fault here? The students? The hospital for not securing their computers and network? Or the adware companies for providing the incentive?
The students, clearly.
Yeah, you'd think that would be clear, but the simple fact that the question was asked shows it's not clear to some people.
Pop quiz for you people that somehow think that it wasn't the students fault:
(1) Man forgets to lock his house. Someone enters the house and takes his stereo. Who is guilty?
[Man] who forgot to lock up or [Thief] who trespassed and committed larceny? (circle one)
(2) Woman walks down the street with a purse. Someone snatches the purse. Who is guilty?
[Woman] who has a purse or [Thief] who stole it?
(3) Elderly couple has a fenced swimming pool in their back yard. Some neighbor's kid climbs oveer the fence and drowns in the pool. Whose fault is that?
[Elderly Couple] who own the pool or [Stupid Kid] who trespassed?
(4) Some kid goes shooting up his school after playing violent video games. Whose fault is that?
[Game Maker] who wrote the game or [Psycho Kid] who did the shooting?
(5) Some girl wears some sexy clothes for going out to the club with some friends. She gets raped. Who is guilty?
[Girl] for wearing sexy clothes, or the [Sick F***er]?
If you circled Thief, Thief, Stupid Kid, Psycho Kid, and Sick F***er, congratulations.
If you circled any of Man, Woman, Elderly Couple, Game Maker, or Girl, you have a serious problem with your sense of right and wrong.
Dubbed Honda Accord ADAS, the vehicle can change gears...
This... this... "automatic transmission" (for lack of a better name) will surely revolutionize how people drive! No more depressing the clutch, no more taking one hand off the wheel in order to shift gears.
Amazing. Honda has true engineering geniuses working for them.
While he did screw up the second 'S' in SCSI, you cannnot seriously expect anyone who knows anything about the evolution of SCSI to take you seriously after you stated the above.
I will prove your statement false with a single counterexample: Serial Attached SCSI (PDF). Note the date of the document.
Remeber that with SCSI-3, the standard became more modularized in order to do things like separate the SCSI command set and the SCSI physical interface.
Here's the SAS FAQ from the SCSI trade association.
Slashdot Mirror
Just seems to be a challenge to the virus writers. I expect it won't be long now.
I must apologize to you. I don't know how third or fourth party sellers are marketing industrial gases. All I really know about is the established use of pure gases in industrial environments.
Thanks. I owe you an apology as well. I've had a nasty respiratory virus for like 10 days now (the doctor says "wait it out") and haven't had the clearest of minds when I've been posting. Fortunately I am starting to feel better.
However, I've heard that filling racing tires with Helium results in a lighter tire weight and therefore less mass.
Now that's one I haven't heard. I'd think the helium would escape fairly fast, but then again the tires are only in use for maybe an hour.
Interestingly enough, I ran across a thread where someone said that Nokian has been experimenting with a clear and neon-filled bicycle tire. Supposedly, the static electricity generated while riding the bicycle is enough to make the neon glow. Very interesting, if true.
My point was that for large fleets it can be a definite cost savings.
You neglected to say how. You also neglected say how much savings was involved. You started your post with "apparently," which I took to mean you weren't even sure yourself that what you were saying was tru Sure, I've found places that say lots of good things about nitrogen, but nearly all of their justification for using nitrogen only applies when proper maintenance is not being performed.
I imagine everything said by the companies selling nitrogen inflation systems is true to some extent, however the extent is not really given. Innovative Balancing claims that filling tires with nitrogen can extend tire life up to 25%, but not how many people will realize this gain? The state lottery claims that I can win up to $5,000 when I buy a certain lottery ticket, but what is the likelihood?
Producing near pure nitrogen from air is not all that complicated, as your post implies.
Exactly how does my post imply that?
I should have hit preview. Here's a fixed version:
Apparently, filling fleet's tires with nitrogen (instead of compressed air) is beneficial as far as long-term maintenance goes.
Nitrogen is only popular (intentional word choice) for one reason: Racers use it.
What are the supposed benefits of nitrogen-filled tires? Well, the places that are trying to rip you off by filling your tires with nitrogen will tell you that it is somehow "safer" or that it'll make your tires last longer or leak less.
Well, it's true that nitrogen leaks more slowly than oxygen, so less oxygen in your tires naturally means less leaking of it. Properly inflated tires are also safer and last longer. However, it's a very small benefit to have 100% nitrogen. Besides, you should be checking your tire pressure regularly, nitrogen or not, and keeping them properly inflated. So, you've gained nothing there if you are performing proper maintenance on your vehicle.
They will say that using nitrogen decreases tire wear. The basis of this claim is that oxygen degrades rubber, so having nitrogen in the inside causes less degradation. Please, let me know when you've heard of a tire wearing out from the inside due to oxygen. No real benefit, but it makes the customer feel good and gets them to pay extra for nitrogen.
Now, I mentioned early on that racers use nitrogen. Why? Simple: they need a portable source of compressed gas in the pits to run their pneumatic equipment. They also use it to fill the tires. The reason they use nitrogen tanks rather than compressed air tanks is because the nitrogen is water-free, which leads to less rusting of equipment and less water vapor in tires, causing more predictible changes in tire pressure as they get hot. Ordinary people driving ordinary cars do not need this benefit.
Oh, and did I mention that your tires already have 78% nitrogen in them already? It comes right out of the mostly-nitrogen atmosphere of the Earth.
Of course the tradeoff is the cost of being able to provide the N2. Most of the major industrial gas companies (Air Liquide, Air Products, Praxair) now have on-site N2 generators that they'd like to market to gas stations.
They use the same marketing ploys that the makers of other useless products use: emphasize some *very small* possible benefit, even though almost nobody will realize that benefit. It's like the people who advertise penis-enlargement pills.
Apparently, filling fleet's tires with nitrogen (instead of compressed air) is beneficial as far as long-term maintenance goes.
Nitrogen is only popular (intentional word choice) for one reason: Racers use it.
What are the supposed benefits of nitrogen-filled tires? Well, the places that are trying to rip you off by filling your tires with nitrogen will tell you that it is somehow "safer" or that it'll make your tires last longer or leak less.
Well, it's true that nitrogen leaks more slowly than oxygen, so less oxygen in your tires naturally means less leaking of it. Properly inflated tires are also safer and last longer. However, it's a very small benefit to have 100% nitrogen. Besides, you should be checking your tire pressure regularly, nitrogen or not, and keeping them properly inflated. So, you've gained nothing there if you are performing proper maintenance on your vehicle.
They will say that using nitrogen decreases tire wear. The basis of this claim is that oxygen degrades rubber, so having nitrogen in the inside causes less degradation. Please, let me know when you've heard of a tire wearing out from the inside due to oxygen. No real benefit, but it makes the customer feel good and gets them to pay extra for nitrogen.
Now, I mentioned early on that racers use nitrogen. Why? Simple: they need a portable source of compressed gas in the pits to run their pneumatic equipment. They also use it to fill the tires. The reason they use nitrogen tanks rather than compressed air tanks is because the nitrogen is water-free, which leads to less rusting of equipment and less water vapor in tires, causing more predictible changes in tire pressure as they get hot. Ordinary people driving ordinary cars do not need this benefit.
Oh, and did I mention that your tires already have 78% nitrogen in them already? It comes right out of the mostly-nitrogen atmosphere of the Earth.
Of course the tradeoff is the cost of being able to provide the N2. Most of the major industrial gas companies (Air Liquide, Air Products, Praxair) now have on-site N2 generators that they'd like to market to gas stations.
They use the same marketing ploys that the makers of other useless products use: emphasize some *very small* possible benefit, even though almost nobody will realize that benefit. It's like the people who advertise penis-enlargement pills.
hat snippit is insane. First of all, its not 'slightly' better. glxgears without nvidia drives runs the and FPS in the hundreds, and with and FPS in the 13000s with nvidia drivers.
glxgears is not remotely the proper tool for guaging the performance of a video card.
Really, it means "damage joy" (Schaden = damage, Freude = joy). I get a little bit of it every time I see this episode, because they screwed it up on syndicated TV. The word 'Schadenfreude' doesn't really connote a judgment on the feeling itself.
And speaking of that, not too long ago at the U, I saw some poor business major (guessed - he was going into the business school) catch the strap of his bag on the handle of the door he had just pushed open. Full speed, he swung around when the strap tightened up, and went face-first into the other side of the door. I discovered at that moment that transparent glass doors have distinct advantages over opaque doors.
I had to suppress laughter for about three hours afterwards.
Ahh, sweet Schadenfreude.
If you are thinking about buying a book, you can browse the subject you like in a bookstore, why can't we do the same with music?
You can. Go to any decent music store and you can listen to the CD in the store. Some places even have automatic preview systems that scan the UPC code of a CD you present to it and play some of the music on the disc. Some places will open a CD and play it for you at the counter.
You can't (legally) photocopy the book and take it home. If you could, would you really pay for the book?
It destroys the viewers sex life
Huh?
I teach were unable to browse web pages on group theory, klein bottles, and other topics which I really doubt acted as porn for anyone alive now or throughout history.
Don't knock it until you've tried it. Once you go Klein bottle, you never go back!
And you've got to be kidding... Group theory not being related to pr0n?
what made people think that evolution stopped with the modern era?
Modern medicine has allowed people to survive and reproduce with less than optimal genes where they otherwise would have perished.
We've violated the principle of natural selection.
Now, don't go assuming I think that it's all bad... obviously it is a noble goal to give everyone a reasonably normal and happy life.
The Jerk factory called. It wants me back. I'm outtie.
No, it was the village that called...
We use MAGIC HELPDESK here where I work. It's clunky, but it works. I would have designed it much differently.
I hear that if you take the MAGIC MUSHROOMS first, the interface appears far less clunky.
Seriously. Many CS classes (assuming you are a CS student) will have you do some medium-sized projects anyway. Why not kill two birds with one stone?
I wrote a web-based trouble ticket tracking system for my Database Processing class.
As one of the people who was popular enough to get elected to student government (first a student Senator, then Treasurer in charge of $millions), I can safely say that nobody outside of the CS department here gives a rat's ass about Open Source software.
If you want to win a student government election at a University (a public one, anyway) you need to focus on buzzwords that will actually get you elected. Specifically, you need to talk about:
Of course, when I ran I just promised to do my best keep student government from wasting mandatory fee money on trips to Washington DC and off-campus 'retreats' (AKA hotel stays at student body expense). Seems that there is a fair amount of people who think that student government is a waste of resources. I agree. I also promised to hold the rest of the student government to their own constituion and to revise the same.
I delivered a revised constitution to the voters the same year I ran for Treasurer. I got elected and my constitution was adopted. It's still in use without any further revisions and the student government is much more accountable.
Neat, huh?
If I'd ran on the platform of switching all of the computers on campus from Windows and/or MacOs and Microsoft Office to Linux and OpenOffice, I would have came in last in every single election and been written off as a nutjob by the student body.
Have fun then. The timings on the AGP port are more masochistic than even those on PCI, and you have zero proposed applications for it other than video. I can think of some ugly uses for busses in the past (just about anything involving storage and/or video on USB), but AGP for something else would take first prize.
Well, if you strip away the DAC, GPU, and other non-memory components of an AGP card, you can still use the AGP port as a rudimentary memory expansion port using the Linux MTD driver.
Good if you have a PCIe slot and an AGP slot on your new mobo. Reserve the PCIe display for 3d, use a minimal amount of memory on an older card in the AGP slot as a second 2d-only head. Use the remaining video RAM on the AGP card as a ramdisk or for swap space.
The 256 MB on your old AGP-based card looks much more useful.
Sometimes the old, simple technologies are the answer ...
... the key is finding an area that's natually very cold to deposit the snow and, ideally, is located near fresh water.
Perhaps running a large series of snow making machines drawing water directly from the ocean, or more ideally a fresh water source that deposits into the ocean, 24/7 may be the answer to lower sea levels.
It wouldn't matter much where in the world this process is done, since water will find its level
Thanks for the laugh. The amount of power it would take to do what you suggest (not to mention materials for building the infrastructure) would cause so much fossil fuels to be burned that global warming would increase the entire time you were making snow.
$3D0G was only needed if DOS was detached (e.g. DOS commands stopped working). Otherwise you could hit Ctrl-C.
$200-$2FF is the keyboard input buffer.
9mhz Zipchip
Heh. I so want that Zip chip for my IIgs.
My first was an Apple //c. With 128K of memory, I thought I was *the man*. Of course, my C-64 using friends used to always say that the C-64 had way better graphics, using sprites, and they were probably right. Oh well, anyone remember:
:)
:)
My first was a II+. Still have it. I've also added a IIc and IIgs to the collection.
- call -151
Enter the monitor.
- What pages $100, $200 and $300 were for? (And what '$' meant in those days?)
$ = 0x
$100 = 6502 stack. $200 = input buffer. $300 = mostly free, but there were soft vectors for reset, irq, brk, etc. towart the top, plus the autostart rom byte.
- How many 6502 opcodes can you remember? Let's see, here are a few:
4c JMP
20 JSR
60 RTS
A9 LDA(?) (Load accumulator, direct)
I think A9 was load accumulator from the zero page. I believe A5 was load accumulator immediate. You remember the same other three that I remember.
And to think I used to enter opcodes directly with the monitor!
Well, it's been quite a long time, I'm surprised I can remember any of those.
how about any I/O addresses:
$c000? $c010? $c030?
What was special about $cfff?
Name the screen holes
Of course, this quizzing could get old after a while...
I first used a IBM OS/360 (yes I am that old), but early on I used an Apple II, then II+ then IIe then IIgs, and.....I STILL do to this day. In the rush to megabits and megahertz much was lost from the old II days. Google Apple II and you will find there is still quite a community of users of this venerable box..
I wish I had the room the pull out my IIgs.
Ahh, good old COMPUTE! I remember when they stopped publishing programs. I still have almost every issue. I've got 5 1/4" floppies with the programs my parents and I had typed in.
We had an Apple ][+ as well. With a CP/M card. I still have it. I've acquired a couple more Apple IIs along the way:
Sadly, I don't have time to play with my old 8- and 16-bit machines these days, so they are all boxed up.
Yeah, you'd think that would be clear, but the simple fact that the question was asked shows it's not clear to some people.
Pop quiz for you people that somehow think that it wasn't the students fault:If you circled Thief, Thief, Stupid Kid, Psycho Kid, and Sick F***er, congratulations.
If you circled any of Man, Woman, Elderly Couple, Game Maker, or Girl, you have a serious problem with your sense of right and wrong.
Dubbed Honda Accord ADAS, the vehicle can change gears ...
... this... "automatic transmission" (for lack of a better name) will surely revolutionize how people drive! No more depressing the clutch, no more taking one hand off the wheel in order to shift gears.
This
Amazing. Honda has true engineering geniuses working for them.
scsi absolutely is not serial, duh
While he did screw up the second 'S' in SCSI, you cannnot seriously expect anyone who knows anything about the evolution of SCSI to take you seriously after you stated the above.
I will prove your statement false with a single counterexample: Serial Attached SCSI (PDF). Note the date of the document.
Remeber that with SCSI-3, the standard became more modularized in order to do things like separate the SCSI command set and the SCSI physical interface.
Here's the SAS FAQ from the SCSI trade association.
You people are really showing your (inadvanced) age!
And you are showing your senility:
Don't forget what SCSI stands for - Small Computer (Serial|Standard) Interface.
Heh. Wrong.
Small Computer System Interface.