In "The Hacker Crackdown" he said (or may have been quoting a police detective) "10% of the population will steal anything not nailed down, 10% will never steal anything, the battle is for the hearts and minds of the rest."
Hmmm. Not really. Instead of plugging the turntable into the amp, you plug it into the sound card. Then you just play it. Most ripping programs have a way of detecting the breaks between songs. Many can clean up pops, hisses, and rumble. I've transferred some of my old LPs to CD.
Cleaning the LP before you played it, to get every bit of dust off of it. Spending $300 (so years ago) on a direct drive turntable+needle to get good sound. Hanging the turntable from the ceiling from chains and springs, so you and your friends could dance without making the needle skip.
Nowadays you just stick a CD into a $50 player sitting on the table and get just as good a sound, and you don't have to worry about dust nearly as much.
I don't miss LPs.
I do miss the cover art, though. Cover art is why I still have about 50 of them.
OS/2 was an excellent system, technically. Certainly far better than Windows. Trouble was, DOS+Windows was Good Enough and cost about 1/5th as much. IBM, at that time, couldn't market space heaters in Nome Alaska in January.
Seroiusly, though, what different hardware would be needed for those who are mentally, rather than physically, handicapped? Or software, for that matter?
Pretty good, actually. My accessibility test is to use lynx (a command line text only browser) to (try to) navigate a site. Slashdot is very navigable.
I don't know if that would help the guy on the right hand side of this group, but...
You've never worked in the Real World, have you? It is very rare for a network to be put in place, with everything attached in it's final location, and then never ever upgraded until the entire thing is replaced.
In the Real World, where you can't shut everything down at upgrade time, a PDP-11 connected to terminals was put in 25 years ago. The PDP-11 was replaced with a VAX, which ran in parallel with the PDP-11 while it was brought online. A few years later a couple of PC's (running DOS 3.0) were hooked up to each other via a Novell network, which was connected to the VAX. Ten years ago the VAX was replaced with a few servers, which ran in parallel with the VAX until they were trusted. Along the way various hubs, switches, and routers were installed. And upgraded as the need arose. The cables were upgraded, also as the need arose, and not all at once.
What sort of programming do you do? I've done machine tools programs and xml to Oracle data converters and I spend more time developing algorithms and data structures than I do wtriting code.
They didn't use cell phones, they used pay phones and calling cards. When I was in the Army in 85-88 I knew some guys who were there.
The only one I knew who was wounded by enemy, rather than friendly, action was shot in the ass by an irate farmer, armed with a shotgun, who thought it 'them damn kids' after his livestock again.
Heh. Once they're elected they can send all sorts of stuff via snail mail at taxpayer's (you and me) expense. The 'franking priviledge' that congressmen get.
I think political spam is a good thing. The low cost means that a third party can communicate as effectively as the two majors.
Got it from "Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Rhodes. It was mentioned in passing when he was talking about Oppenheimer's visit to Joachimsthal. Which is also a source for pitchblende, btw.
What does this "kernel" program do It does automated remote popcorn popping using XML-RPC to communicate bidirectionally with TCP/IP enabled microwave ovens.
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In "The Hacker Crackdown" he said (or may have been quoting a police detective) "10% of the population will steal anything not nailed down, 10% will never steal anything, the battle is for the hearts and minds of the rest."
Hmmm. Not really. Instead of plugging the turntable into the amp, you plug it into the sound card. Then you just play it. Most ripping programs have a way of detecting the breaks between songs. Many can clean up pops, hisses, and rumble. I've transferred some of my old LPs to CD.
Nowadays you just stick a CD into a $50 player sitting on the table and get just as good a sound, and you don't have to worry about dust nearly as much.
I don't miss LPs.
I do miss the cover art, though. Cover art is why I still have about 50 of them.
OS/2 was an excellent system, technically. Certainly far better than Windows. Trouble was, DOS+Windows was Good Enough and cost about 1/5th as much. IBM, at that time, couldn't market space heaters in Nome Alaska in January.
Or guns. A couple rounds into the block gets attention.
Maybe. Anyway, look up the Americans with Disabilities Act. (ADA)
In Virginia there's a tire disposal fee you pay when you get new tires.
The April 1998 Byte cover story has a graphic Why PCs Crash, and Mainframes Don't. It's interesting to see how little has changed in almost 5 years.
I actually liked Buckaroo Banzai. Campy, but it was supposed to be. John Lithgow was great as Dr. Lizardo.
Does Mrs NickName know about this?
the spoiler obsession, born of the Internet's fan-geek culture, is the enemy of real criticism, real discussion and maybe even real thought.
Andrew O'Hehir, at Salon.com
That's the point. We want to lose at trial. That way we can (try to) get the law tossed on appeal.
Seroiusly, though, what different hardware would be needed for those who are mentally, rather than physically, handicapped? Or software, for that matter?
I don't know if that would help the guy on the right hand side of this group, but...
The best Trek episode (classic, tng, movies, whatever) ever. Written by Harlan Ellison.
From what I've heard from people who knew the Heinlein's, many of his female characters are based on his wife.
In the Real World, where you can't shut everything down at upgrade time, a PDP-11 connected to terminals was put in 25 years ago. The PDP-11 was replaced with a VAX, which ran in parallel with the PDP-11 while it was brought online. A few years later a couple of PC's (running DOS 3.0) were hooked up to each other via a Novell network, which was connected to the VAX. Ten years ago the VAX was replaced with a few servers, which ran in parallel with the VAX until they were trusted. Along the way various hubs, switches, and routers were installed. And upgraded as the need arose. The cables were upgraded, also as the need arose, and not all at once.
Ya put yer high bit out
Ya put yer high bit in, and ya twiddle it about.
A Jedi needs not registration.
What sort of programming do you do? I've done machine tools programs and xml to Oracle data converters and I spend more time developing algorithms and data structures than I do wtriting code.
The only one I knew who was wounded by enemy, rather than friendly, action was shot in the ass by an irate farmer, armed with a shotgun, who thought it 'them damn kids' after his livestock again.
I think political spam is a good thing. The low cost means that a third party can communicate as effectively as the two majors.
Got it from "Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Rhodes. It was mentioned in passing when he was talking about Oppenheimer's visit to Joachimsthal. Which is also a source for pitchblende, btw.
What does this "kernel" program do
It does automated remote popcorn popping using XML-RPC to communicate bidirectionally with TCP/IP enabled microwave ovens.