First 3 parts of 29119 cost $775, the total for all the parts when they are finished will probably be around $1200. This seems to be more about money than anything else.
The cutout should have been placed very close to the focal point(where the arc lamp is) for the searchlight reflector to have any chance of focusing it. A cutout on the front of the searchlight is not at the focal point and will not focus without more optics.
With the production of Barite at 8,000,000 metric tons per year (http://www.indexmundi.com/en/commodities/minerals/barite/barite_t7.html) the real shortage is caused by the fixed price medicare pays for a procedure involving a barium swallow.
Actually I saw this pallet of Core I7 processor boxes too, they were not fake processors, just the factory heat sinks & fans. The boxes were all ripped open and processor had already been removed. They were selling for $5 each. I bought one of the i7 975 extreme ones.
1. Show up late, leave early or leave your booth unmanned for long periods of time. 2. Don't bring any literature describing the company or its products. 3. Don't bring applications. 4. Tell everyone that they have to go to your website to see the openings and apply and submit resumes. 5. Make sure the people who are manning your booth don't have any influence on the hiring process. 6. Send stand ins (or new hires) and tell everyone the hiring managers are at another location where the applicants are more qualified. 7. Only have openings that everyone attending is overqualified(Janitor) or underqualified(CFO, Senior Mgr) for. 8. Only have openings in locations across the country but there will be no relocation assistance. 9. Tell people that you are really interested in hiring them, take their resume, fill out application, and never contact them again. 10. Have a hiring freeze in place.
It was like this when I went to school 25 years ago and writers have been complaining there are not enough engineering students ever since. The real problem is that there is not enough to be able to pay them $20K/yr when they graduate like most other majors without a graduate degree.
Same problem here. Credit Card company called at least once a day. After two weeks I called my cell phone company and they gladly changed my number(no charge). Problem Solved.
Any one ever hacked the BIOS themselves? I have a system that hangs at boot up because the BIOS boot order code is defective and the manufacturer's tech support is totally clueless.
Most companies don't recover. Except for some types of manufacturing where layoffs are common and are made up by having lots of overtime when production resumes.
1) Take the pay cut and look for a new job.
2) Once you have a new job lined up. Ask your current employer for compensation for leaving voluntarily.
Finding a job when you are layed off is much harder then when you are currently employed. Also they will offer you less than if they think you need the job.
IBM could have written their own OS or bought something better from someone else. Or they could have used CPM like most everyone else at that time.
Apple had their own OS (if you could call it that). So did Tandy(Radio Shack).
Imagine if the IBM PC had come out with an OS written by someone who had a clue(or at least a CS degree). Instead they went with a CPM clone which we still suffer with today.
Any one out there that actualy personaly owned a DEC PDP-8 and used at home before the Altair came out? I have never met anyone that has claimed to personaly own one at that time.
As for stand alone computers I remember seeing a retired HP system which someone claimed to have used in the late 60's. It had paper tape and core memory and was mounted in a truck which would make it one of the first portable computers too.
Anyways, personal computers, as in something an individual bought with his own personal money, don't seem to exist until the time of the Altair.
Try Ctrl-Alt-Del unless of course you are using WinNT.
BTW-Anyone want to explain why the three finger salute to the IBM PC became the System Request key for WinNT even though the SysRq key has been there forever?
The IBM PC only delayed Linux and the OOS revolution about 10 years. It did this by sucking the wind(money) out of all the other systems(hardware and software) that were around at the time.
Anyone know when IBM site celebrating the 20th anniversary of the PC jr will be up?
Having been around when it was released I know it was one of IBM's proudest acheivements/moments(after leaving Microsoft with rights to the os, letting the BIOS be cloned, and buying the CPU from Intel).
I ordered a kit because i wanted to build it, but after a while they said that kits were no longer available and sent me an assembled one. I still have it in the original box. I did use it a little bit but it was too under powered and I already had a TRS80 Model 1. I do remember that there was an instruction in the ZX81 basic to turn off the display so the program would run much faster (2X?). I also remember that the assembled ones were selling for about $20 more than the kit. The main thing about the ZX81 was that it was 2-5 times cheaper than anything else at the time.
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First 3 parts of 29119 cost $775, the total for all the parts when they are finished will probably be around $1200. This seems to be more about money than anything else.
Bugatti Veyron Super Sport has $42K Tires.
This sounds like they just want to bring back slavery.
The cutout should have been placed very close to the focal point(where the arc lamp is) for the searchlight reflector to have any chance of focusing it. A cutout on the front of the searchlight is not at the focal point and will not focus without more optics.
With the production of Barite at 8,000,000 metric tons per year (http://www.indexmundi.com/en/commodities/minerals/barite/barite_t7.html) the real shortage is caused by the fixed price medicare pays for a procedure involving a barium swallow.
Actually I saw this pallet of Core I7 processor boxes too, they were not fake processors, just the factory heat sinks & fans. The boxes were all ripped open and processor had already been removed. They were selling for $5 each. I bought one of the i7 975 extreme ones.
1. Show up late, leave early or leave your booth unmanned for long periods of time.
2. Don't bring any literature describing the company or its products.
3. Don't bring applications.
4. Tell everyone that they have to go to your website to see the openings and apply and submit resumes.
5. Make sure the people who are manning your booth don't have any influence on the hiring process.
6. Send stand ins (or new hires) and tell everyone the hiring managers are at another location where the applicants are more qualified.
7. Only have openings that everyone attending is overqualified(Janitor) or underqualified(CFO, Senior Mgr) for.
8. Only have openings in locations across the country but there will be no relocation assistance.
9. Tell people that you are really interested in hiring them, take their resume, fill out application, and never contact them again.
10. Have a hiring freeze in place.
It was like this when I went to school 25 years ago and writers have been complaining there are not enough engineering students ever since. The real problem is that there is not enough to be able to pay them $20K/yr when they graduate like most other majors without a graduate degree.
The national DO-Not-Call list does not apply.
They already have an on going business relationship with you or the person they think they are calling.
Same problem here. Credit Card company called at least once a day. After two weeks I called my cell phone company and they gladly changed my number(no charge). Problem Solved.
Any one ever hacked the BIOS themselves?
I have a system that hangs at boot up because the BIOS boot order
code is defective and the manufacturer's tech support is totally clueless.
I agree.
Most companies don't recover. Except for some types of manufacturing where layoffs are common and are made up by having lots of overtime when production resumes.
1) Take the pay cut and look for a new job.
2) Once you have a new job lined up. Ask your current employer for compensation for leaving voluntarily.
Finding a job when you are layed off is much harder then when you are currently employed. Also they will offer you less than if they think you need the job.
IBM could have written their own OS or bought something better from someone else. Or they could have used CPM like most everyone else at that time.
Apple had their own OS (if you could call it that). So did Tandy(Radio Shack).
Imagine if the IBM PC had come out with an OS written by someone who had a clue(or at least a CS degree). Instead they went with a CPM clone which we still suffer with today.
Thanks, I have been waiting 20 years for someone to tell me that that key was actually a use for that key.
Any one out there that actualy personaly owned a DEC PDP-8 and used at home before the Altair came out? I have never met anyone that has claimed to personaly own one at that time.
As for stand alone computers I remember seeing a retired HP system which someone claimed to have used in the late 60's. It had paper tape and core memory and was mounted in a truck which would make it one of the first portable computers too.
Anyways, personal computers, as in something an individual bought with his own personal money, don't seem to exist until the time of the Altair.
Try Ctrl-Alt-Del unless of course you are using WinNT.
BTW-Anyone want to explain why the three finger salute to the IBM PC became the System Request key for WinNT even though the SysRq key has been there forever?
The IBM PC only delayed Linux and the OOS revolution about 10 years. It did this by sucking the wind(money) out of all the other systems(hardware and software) that were around at the time.
Worthless obsolete relic. Enough said.
Anyone know when IBM site celebrating the 20th anniversary of the PC jr will be up?
Having been around when it was released I know it was one of IBM's proudest acheivements/moments(after leaving Microsoft with rights to the os, letting the BIOS be cloned, and buying the CPU from Intel).
Twenty years ago IBM released a home computer based on a crippled cpu, and a crappy os.
Sure have made a lot of progress since then. (Same crippled cpu with a bunch of extra registers, same crappy os with a bunch of extra libraries.)
All IBM did was ligitimize the desktop single user computer to large businesses and ended up giving away most of the store.
I ordered a kit because i wanted to build it, but after a while they said that kits were no longer available and sent me an assembled one. I still have it in the original box. I did use it a little bit but it was too under powered and I already had a TRS80 Model 1. I do remember that there was an instruction in the ZX81 basic to turn off the display so the program would run much faster (2X?). I also remember that the assembled ones were selling for about $20 more than the kit. The main thing about the ZX81 was that it was 2-5 times cheaper than anything else at the time.