Oye, I think I saw one and tried it. Northgate and Gateway were competitors at one time (late 80s?) and as I recall, the Anykey wasn't quite as tactile...a little spongy.
I can't remember what company bought the Northgate technology, but a gal at a place I worked wore her Omnikey out, and paid ~$200 for a very good repro.
My first encounter with *paid* IT was with a Tandy 286, 20mb ST-225 HD that was having brain farts. They kept locking up, and using the 3 finger salute...I was a hero for running chkdsk/f - DOS 3.0:))
Hey, $25/hr in 1986? Don't knock it 'til you tried it...
If you actually use one of those I bow before you. I'm not worthy!
Actually in the closest proximity to me are my main board - IBM model M, and my second box has a Northgate Omnikey 101 (1993).My favorite is broken - Omnikey with function keys on the left circa 1989. It has Ctrl where God intended: left of the "A".
I use this moniker or a derivitive of it almost everywhere on line:) Gets me into some cool conversations like "how much of that $100k you got left" or "did you pack your own parachute?"...mostly from people in the Pacific NW.
I do a Google for my real name, and it comes up with nothing even close - of course there are 21,300 hits when I use quotes!
J.H. Hatfield was targeted by the "family" that included a former CIA director who still reportedly recieves frequent briefing from the agency. This because he's a former president. More frequent, they say, than any other former president...especially since dubya's rise to power.
You see, the Skull & Bones (*cough* Kerry *cough*) is not the only secret society in the world of this type...blood oaths, etc. Word has it that Oxford's Rhodes Scholars (*cough* Clinton *cough*) have a similar org...something about 'New World Order' but I can't remember the club's name. Google it.
No tinfoil here, just knowing that anyone in power as is Blair has close ties with the CIA type agencies that exist there. Kelly was a liability, especially if grilled about his "leak". Do they make Kevlar Wristbands?
In summary, I don't believe either Hatfield or Kelly killed themselves. Oh yeah, and don't do anything that might mar the image of someone powerful, especially if it's telling the truth!
so... I searched the/. story for the word "idiot" and this is where I landed. I've (without adequate research) determined in my own mind that Internet Voting is not quite ready for Prime Time.
I think that it might be possible, but not using cookies, of all things, and via SSL, which we all know is not foolproof (ie: ironclad), there might be a way for us to vote in the "e" fashion.
Now, I'd like to propose that the vote be moved ahead to happen every Month or Week, so that our approval ratings apply with some weight.
Put a revolving door on the Presidency - like it's that important that we keep an eye on who has control.
I know that's unrealistic, considering the expense involved, but wouldn't that be cool? (I'm the prez - I fukk up for a week, next month I'm outta here because of it.)
Kinda would put reality back in the driver's seat, wouldn't it?
My twenty cents, (I'm splurging here - feeling generous, and I care about this shit)
I saw the news on this a couple of days ago on google news rotations. Wondered why it didn't show up here sooner - I don't bother posting news anymore because (not being in the "loop") I'm sick of rejections.
But when I first read about the reorganization, my first (usually correct) assumption was that M$ indeed was trying to emulate the beauty part of OSS for two things it needs/wants:
Perhaps I could have used the word "emulated" rather that "imitated". You must agree that their culture didn't exactly crave some of the products that were blatant knockoffs - that were to undercut US products in this market.
I didn't mean to slander the Japanese Intellect - I was drawing an analogy in what I suspect M$ is steering toward. In all fairness, their per-capita IQ is much higher, call it TQM for the mind...
Never mind the 50's Russian and Japanese knockoffs of the German Leica, Minox and Voigtlander cameras...I'm done with my musing.
Shooting from the hip I'm taking this guess at the model for M$ future:
After WWII, Japan (well, Asia et.al.) learned to imitate US technology - we even helped them! Autos, Electronics, Watches and Cameras are prime examples.
The thing to watch for is what happened next - after Imitation came Innovation...and the popularity of those commodities took a swing to the East. The US economy took a pretty good hit, as I recall!
This is a wake-up call for Linux devs to stay sharp and keep up the steam of progress.
About Apple iTunes... I read an article in the newspaper (here in Ottawa) about how artists are only receiveing one DIME out of each $1.00 download. Apple takes 34 cents and the record company gets the rest. Nice eh? Once again the industry manages to screw the artist out of 90% of the profit. This is why people are downloading illegally online. If I felt that the artist was going to get 50% of the profit I might actually go and pay ITunes a visit. As it stands now the only way to make sure an artist gets any real money is to buy their merch when I go and see them. At least then I don't feel guilty about downloading a song or two because I know I'm not giving it to some fat cat in a suit who could care less about developing a band anyway. (Bassballs)
In this case, for the metaphor to be accurate, the bubble would be more like a shit bubble, filled with the gases generated in the process of the rotting of a giant, festering, bacteria-infested patty of cow shit in a field somewhere.
As a musician, and having dabbled more than the average joe into MIDI, I must say that the videos I painfully watched confirm your report.
I suppose I'm getting old, but the noise I heard was nothing resembling music.
Speaking of MIDI, there are ways - I'm sure - to redirect SysEx commands and subsequent note-on/off (etc) commands to do almost all of the things this guy does with his "robots", and actually use quality sounds to achieve melodic results. I could be dreaming, but then again, my band opened for the Beach Boys twice, and where am I now? At a computer...
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I can't remember what company bought the Northgate technology, but a gal at a place I worked wore her Omnikey out, and paid ~$200 for a very good repro.
Hey, $25 /hr in 1986? Don't knock it 'til you tried it...
Actually in the closest proximity to me are my main board - IBM model M, and my second box has a Northgate Omnikey 101 (1993).My favorite is broken - Omnikey with function keys on the left circa 1989. It has Ctrl where God intended: left of the "A".
Wow. I didn't know you could get internet access in a isolated cell?
Yo. 'Preciate that!
I do a Google for my real name, and it comes up with nothing even close - of course there are 21,300 hits when I use quotes!
You see, the Skull & Bones (*cough* Kerry *cough*) is not the only secret society in the world of this type...blood oaths, etc. Word has it that Oxford's Rhodes Scholars (*cough* Clinton *cough*) have a similar org...something about 'New World Order' but I can't remember the club's name. Google it.
No tinfoil here, just knowing that anyone in power as is Blair has close ties with the CIA type agencies that exist there. Kelly was a liability, especially if grilled about his "leak". Do they make Kevlar Wristbands?
In summary, I don't believe either Hatfield or Kelly killed themselves. Oh yeah, and don't do anything that might mar the image of someone powerful, especially if it's telling the truth!
That's the estimated ship date for the desktop I looked at for $319.
You just have to drill down deeper as if you're going to buy one.
Yeah, you're right. Everything goes soooo slooowww.
I think that it might be possible, but not using cookies, of all things, and via SSL, which we all know is not foolproof (ie: ironclad), there might be a way for us to vote in the "e" fashion.
Now, I'd like to propose that the vote be moved ahead to happen every Month or Week, so that our approval ratings apply with some weight.
Put a revolving door on the Presidency - like it's that important that we keep an eye on who has control.
I know that's unrealistic, considering the expense involved, but wouldn't that be cool? (I'm the prez - I fukk up for a week, next month I'm outta here because of it.)
Kinda would put reality back in the driver's seat, wouldn't it? My twenty cents, (I'm splurging here - feeling generous, and I care about this shit)
But when I first read about the reorganization, my first (usually correct) assumption was that M$ indeed was trying to emulate the beauty part of OSS for two things it needs/wants:
Better Security
Profit!
I didn't mean to slander the Japanese Intellect - I was drawing an analogy in what I suspect M$ is steering toward. In all fairness, their per-capita IQ is much higher, call it TQM for the mind...
Never mind the 50's Russian and Japanese knockoffs of the German Leica, Minox and Voigtlander cameras...I'm done with my musing.
Shooting from the hip I'm taking this guess at the model for M$ future:
After WWII, Japan (well, Asia et.al.) learned to imitate US technology - we even helped them! Autos, Electronics, Watches and Cameras are prime examples.
The thing to watch for is what happened next - after Imitation came Innovation...and the popularity of those commodities took a swing to the East. The US economy took a pretty good hit, as I recall!
This is a wake-up call for Linux devs to stay sharp and keep up the steam of progress.
About Apple iTunes... I read an article in the newspaper (here in Ottawa) about how artists are only receiveing one DIME out of each $1.00 download. Apple takes 34 cents and the record company gets the rest. Nice eh? Once again the industry manages to screw the artist out of 90% of the profit. This is why people are downloading illegally online. If I felt that the artist was going to get 50% of the profit I might actually go and pay ITunes a visit. As it stands now the only way to make sure an artist gets any real money is to buy their merch when I go and see them. At least then I don't feel guilty about downloading a song or two because I know I'm not giving it to some fat cat in a suit who could care less about developing a band anyway. (Bassballs)
This link has more, worth a look.... It has a spoof on the "switch" ads...
InterestinK Analogy!
It's still crippled...;))
Perhaps I wax pragmatically?
And that's not the only place in the text that precludes any liability on the part of Government.
Seems that this is being "snaked" through with clauses of immunity for the "skull and bones" people...Disgusting...
yes, you are.
I suppose I'm getting old, but the noise I heard was nothing resembling music.
Speaking of MIDI, there are ways - I'm sure - to redirect SysEx commands and subsequent note-on/off (etc) commands to do almost all of the things this guy does with his "robots", and actually use quality sounds to achieve melodic results. I could be dreaming, but then again, my band opened for the Beach Boys twice, and where am I now? At a computer...
Thanks for the additional info.
Although I suppose their vehicle list is not comprehensive, it's an interesting source of info.
I'm so sick of seeing (4 times in the last day) people writing a post with "then" where "than" should have been used.
I know that's not the only term misused, but I'm getting damned sick of it.
Don't have a link to send these idiots to to teach them grammar, but you know I wish I did.
BTW this is not the worst, but there are more typos there as well.
And yeah, the poster is a troll...
Where I come from that's called "tampering with evidence"...