You'd have to see one in person to really grasp the benefit. They are extremely bright and easy to read compared to backlit LCD displays and work in any temperature. A photograph can't capture this.
I installed one in the dash of my Jeep behind a pane of smoked plexiglass and the finished product looks totally professional.
Lead was necessary to lubricate and cool exhaust valves. Metallurgy had not progressed to the level we have today and durable, hardened valves did not exist. Engines produced during the period of leaded gasoline will be destroyed very quickly when used with modern gasoline and no lead substitute.
"Gotta hand it to you tracy... The last of the V8 Interceptors. Piece of history. Would have been a shame to blow it up."
My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos. (??something??) But most of all, I remember the Road Warrior.
To understand who he was you have to go back to another time. When the world was powered by the black fuel and the deserts sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now. Swept away. For reasons long forgotten two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze that engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They built a house of straw.
Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Men began to feed on men. A firestorm of fear. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavage, brutile enough to pillage would survive.
And in this maelstrom if decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed. Men like Max. The warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything. And became a shell of man. A burnt out desolate man. A man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again.
"Damage? You should see the damage, bronze! Metal damage! Brain damage! You listening bronze??! I am the Nightrider. I'm a fuel injected suicide machine! I am the rocker! I am the roller! I am the metal controller! I'm the nightrider baby!"... "I am the chosen one! The mighty hand of vengence sent down to stike the unroadworthy!!... Step right up chum, and watch the kid lay down the rubber road right to freedom!!!"
"The chain in those handcuffs is high tensile steel. It'd take ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now. If you're lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes."
I hope Johnny The Kid shows up in MM4 with one foot missing. That would kick ass.
I know someone with one of these new data services - costs $10 a megabyte for bandwidth. I think these people seriously overestimate the utility of wireless data services (aka demand).
When it competes with dialup (at least during off peak) then I'll buy.
Besides, the money is going to a good place. I'd rather see my tax dollars go to science and engineering regardless of the outcome. It's not like $40B has been launched into space, never to return. It went back into the economy where it belongs.
I've seen a couple versions of IP enabled FOSSIL drivers that will talk to telnet clients.
Get your tapes working, move everything over to a modern box (unless you're feeling extra nostalgic), and run it through the net. A dedicated dialup line would be plenty of bandwidth (compared to 1200BPS/300baud, etc).
BBS's provided many of the same things the Internet does, but not in such BULK.
Someone else touched on the community of bulletin boards. In my opinion, the Internet can never approach the sense of community that was offered by bulletin boards.
The strange thing is, people will YELL things into a cell phone that they would never say in a face to face conversation in a public place.
On my train ride to work this morning, I learned all about a passenger's:
1. Divorce
2. Joint debts with ex wife.
3. Kid's behavior problems and learning disorder.
4. New house.
I DON'T CARE. I WAS TRYING TO READ A BOOK. It's a public place and the rest of us shouldn't be forced to endure someone's personal business.
Evening news: "Disgruntled DC area commuter assaults passenger on morning commuter train. Surgeons were unable to extract the cellular phone from the victim's [choose an oriface] and fear it may be permanently lodged there..."
I tried to donate a truck load of 486's and 15" monitors to my old high school in '99. They didn't want them! The 486's were too slow and they only want 17" and larger monitors!
When I was there in 1993, they had ONE room with a dozen Apple IIgs's for the only CSC course, Pascal.
They'll wait if they're getting something for free. A good customer experience is critical to e-commerce and a fast loading site is a competitive advantage.
It's quite easy to install the plug in - as long as you're not on a dial-up.
You can't expect a technology to be useful to the general public when it takes 15-30 minutes of staring at the screen before anything happens. Microsoft knew this and made every effort to use it to their advantage.
Of course, I think Netscape is as much to blame as MS. Navigator-4's Symantec VM was not only out dated before release, but is more to blame than MS for the public's belief that client side Java is slow and unstable.
I really hope the author of the original question read that post.
...and everyone who suggested "Trust the billing service" or "Use a firewall" - please tell me where you work so I'll know not to buy anything from them.
Security through obscurity doesn't work. Use the right tools.
(5) Get the 310%, then hire someone else to do the real work for you and pay them 40% of the original rate. First you'll need a snazzy name and a mission statement.
I'm sure everyone here is more productive with Linux than Windows, but I use my parents as a benchmark. The day will come when my mother can take a clean slate PC and a Redhat CD (version 49.0, I presume) and have an accounting package running on the same day.
Until then, Windows has it's place. (grumble grumble.. )
As for profit from a "free alternative to windows", follow Microsoft's example. Sell the service (support for Linux, entertainment for M$).
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You'd have to see one in person to really grasp the benefit. They are extremely bright and easy to read compared to backlit LCD displays and work in any temperature. A photograph can't capture this.
I installed one in the dash of my Jeep behind a pane of smoked plexiglass and the finished product looks totally professional.
Lead was necessary to lubricate and cool exhaust valves. Metallurgy had not progressed to the level we have today and durable, hardened valves did not exist. Engines produced during the period of leaded gasoline will be destroyed very quickly when used with modern gasoline and no lead substitute.
Nice conspiracy theory, though.
"Gotta hand it to you tracy... The last of the V8 Interceptors. Piece of history. Would have been a shame to blow it up."
My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos. (??something??) But most of all, I remember the Road Warrior.
To understand who he was you have to go back to another time. When the world was powered by the black fuel and the deserts sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now. Swept away. For reasons long forgotten two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze that engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They built a house of straw.
Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Men began to feed on men. A firestorm of fear. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavage, brutile enough to pillage would survive.
And in this maelstrom if decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed. Men like Max. The warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything. And became a shell of man. A burnt out desolate man. A man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again.
(Not 100% accurate, 'cause I'm going on memory.)
"Damage? You should see the damage, bronze! Metal damage! Brain damage! You listening bronze??! I am the Nightrider. I'm a fuel injected suicide machine! I am the rocker! I am the roller! I am the metal controller! I'm the nightrider baby!" ... "I am the chosen one! The mighty hand of vengence sent down to stike the unroadworthy!! ... Step right up chum, and watch the kid lay down the rubber road right to freedom!!!"
"The chain in those handcuffs is high tensile steel. It'd take ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now. If you're lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes."
I hope Johnny The Kid shows up in MM4 with one foot missing. That would kick ass.
And yes, I DO need to get out more!
This is perhaps the coolest thing to ever happen!!
"Two days ago I saw a vehicle that'd haul that tanker. You want to get out of here, you talk to me."
"Damage? You should see the damage, bronze! Metal damage! Brain damage! You listening bronze??!"
Ahh. I feel better now...
Mine are stored in a locked safe and will never harm anyone.
Unless you stub your toe on the safe.
I know someone with one of these new data services - costs $10 a megabyte for bandwidth. I think these people seriously overestimate the utility of wireless data services (aka demand).
When it competes with dialup (at least during off peak) then I'll buy.
Besides, the money is going to a good place. I'd rather see my tax dollars go to science and engineering regardless of the outcome. It's not like $40B has been launched into space, never to return. It went back into the economy where it belongs.
I've seen a couple versions of IP enabled FOSSIL drivers that will talk to telnet clients.
Get your tapes working, move everything over to a modern box (unless you're feeling extra nostalgic), and run it through the net. A dedicated dialup line would be plenty of bandwidth (compared to 1200BPS/300baud, etc).
BBS's provided many of the same things the Internet does, but not in such BULK.
Someone else touched on the community of bulletin boards. In my opinion, the Internet can never approach the sense of community that was offered by bulletin boards.
The strange thing is, people will YELL things into a cell phone that they would never say in a face to face conversation in a public place.
On my train ride to work this morning, I learned all about a passenger's:
1. Divorce
2. Joint debts with ex wife.
3. Kid's behavior problems and learning disorder.
4. New house.
I DON'T CARE. I WAS TRYING TO READ A BOOK. It's a public place and the rest of us shouldn't be forced to endure someone's personal business.
Evening news: "Disgruntled DC area commuter assaults passenger on morning commuter train. Surgeons were unable to extract the cellular phone from the victim's [choose an oriface] and fear it may be permanently lodged there..."
Ahhh... I feel better now.
At least newer jvm's will allow runtime acceptance of unknown certs with a yes/no dialog box on signed applets. Useful, but still irritating.
Good deal. I wish Sun's Java Virtual Machine shipped with their root cert already installed.
I tried to donate a truck load of 486's and 15" monitors to my old high school in '99. They didn't want them! The 486's were too slow and they only want 17" and larger monitors!
When I was there in 1993, they had ONE room with a dozen Apple IIgs's for the only CSC course, Pascal.
If it worked, just mail an unsealed envelope to yourself in case you "invent" something at a later date.
Oohh! I just invented the hyperlink!
They'll wait if they're getting something for free. A good customer experience is critical to e-commerce and a fast loading site is a competitive advantage.
It's quite easy to install the plug in - as long as you're not on a dial-up.
You can't expect a technology to be useful to the general public when it takes 15-30 minutes of staring at the screen before anything happens. Microsoft knew this and made every effort to use it to their advantage.
Of course, I think Netscape is as much to blame as MS. Navigator-4's Symantec VM was not only out dated before release, but is more to blame than MS for the public's belief that client side Java is slow and unstable.
True, but the world would be a better place if it was simpler to deploy a Java rich-client.
Of course, Sun's focus at JavaOne this year was the future of Java on the handheld. If that's the case, it's also a future of me using C#(pound).
I kept looking for the "Reply" button so I could tell them how it turned out.
I guess it wouldn't work in that direction, though.
Chips are fragile. Check this out. Washable, wearable, durable.
I really hope the author of the original question read that post.
...and everyone who suggested "Trust the billing service" or "Use a firewall" - please tell me where you work so I'll know not to buy anything from them.
Security through obscurity doesn't work. Use the right tools.
You're with a help desk? How often do you hear yourself saying,
"Now click that icon with the right mouse button."
"No, the OTHER right mouse button."
Everything is reduced to the lowest common denominator. Microsoft capitalizes on that fact.
Better yet:
(5) Get the 310%, then hire someone else to do the real work for you and pay them 40% of the original rate. First you'll need a snazzy name and a mission statement.
I'm sure everyone here is more productive with Linux than Windows, but I use my parents as a benchmark. The day will come when my mother can take a clean slate PC and a Redhat CD (version 49.0, I presume) and have an accounting package running on the same day.
Until then, Windows has it's place. (grumble grumble.. )
As for profit from a "free alternative to windows", follow Microsoft's example. Sell the service (support for Linux, entertainment for M$).
yyyeeeeeeesss!!
Great idea!
I'll just wait until I get a hardcopy-spam (junkmail) from a place I'd like to go.
Then tape the reply envelope to my forehead!
Woohoo! Free vacation!
...but what about the return trip?