You mean like every object you can buy? Last time I checked, everything was a chemical. Better not wash those Oranges off, after all, water is a chemical!!
Actually AFAIK the so called keyboard prints can cause permanent dammage to the "polarizer" layer of the screen. If you don't keep the screen clean(and possibly the keyboard too) then you may find yourself looking at a replacement laptop screen...
That's why you don't touch the screen, you don't let anyone else touch the screen...and if some moron from accounting sticks a Post-It on your screen, you hunt the bitch down and pump her full of lead.:-)
Even cleaning (with anything more than a soft cloth) isn't that great for a monitor. The anti-glare coating on the monitor that came with my Apple IIe developed a bit of a semi-gloss appearance after 5 years or so of cleaning the dust off with Windex. Now I just use a dry paper tissue to wipe the dust off, whether it's a CRT- or LCD-based display (though it's CRTs that tend to attract more dust).
Having a IIe emulator on one of my work machines helps.:-)
They are indeed using cooperative multitasking
Hmm...might be fun to look at, but given the reliability issues associated with most cooperative-multitasking systems (one crash wipes out your system), it's not something on which I'd want to lean too heavily. I suppose it's like the talking dog...it's not the quality of the speech, but that the dog can talk at all.:-)
Hi-Res graphics gives you 280x192 to play with, but before that, HCOLOR needs = between it and the number.
These ~1Mhz systems are going to have their work cut out for them trying to multitask, but I presume that their TCP/IP traffic is going to be limited to the comm technology of their day (1200/2400 baud)
I had a 14.4-kbps faxmodem hooked up to my IIGS, and I was moving files between it and whatever x86 box I was using at the time at up to 57.6 kbps. Even on the IIe, I was getting 19.2 kbps through a Super Serial Card. (Nowadays, though, the IIGS is connected to my home network through a GatorBox CS. It has direct access to files on a Quadra 610 and a Linux server, and indirect access to Win32 boxen through the Linux server. The GatorBox serves as an Ethernet-LocalTalk bridge, allowing a connection speed of 230.4 kbps.)
The bigger trick to getting this to work on an 8-bit Apple II, though, will be the lack of a periodic interrupt source. You could do cooperative multitasking (like pre-X MacOS or Win16), but preemptive multitasking without something to cause the preemption would be difficult to pull off. (It wouldn't take much to build an expansion card that just triggers an interrupt every once in a while. Some existing cards, such as clock cards and mouse interfaces, could also be used.)
BTW, see also missouritrailertrash.com, for examples of stuff like a trailer with one end on pylons as tall as a telephone pole, and two-story trailers. No tree-trailers yet, AFAIK.
(2) Term. - Subject to the payment of fees under this title, such grant shall be for a term beginning on the date on which the patent issues and ending 20 years...
It's worth noting that you have to keep paying periodically to keep a patent in effect. Check out the PTO's fee schedule...you can lose a patent after as little as 3.5 years if you don't keep forking over the money.
I had a gadget idea (related to the production of homebrew) for which it was recommended that I obtain a patent, but I'm not sure that I could recover the nearly $3500 it'd take to keep a patent in force for 20 years...and that's before you add in attorney fees and other expenses associated with obtaining a patent.
Too many people like to dump on Windows security, but very few have ever even bothered to try and set it up properly.
It doesn't help that, as you noted, the default Windows install is horribly insecure. You could proceed to lock it down...but that would be like having to go through a fresh install of $RANDOM_LINUX_DISTRO and chmod go-w the contents of entire directories to lock it up. A default install ought to be reasonably secure...it doesn't necessarily need to be hardened against all present and future exploits, but making the factory install as wide open as the goatse.cx guy isn't the brightest idea in the world.
I find it easier to just not allow Win32 boxen to connect directly to the Internet. They're all firewalled behind systems running Linux (usually). That doesn't guard against local users hosing their systems, but since this is a software-coding shop, most of our people are smart enough to not do something like that. It's not like we have some old biddy flipping the power switch on/off all day between bouts of tinkering with some Excel spreadsheet.
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Watch as I type edit and the screen goes blank!
You are aware that %systemroot%\system32\edit.com is a text-mode app, right?
cmd.exe is rather limited in what it can do...but it wouldn't take much to FTP a Cygwin install from someplace and fire that up. You might also manually install VNC (copy the files where they need to go and insert the necessary registry entries) and take over the desktop.
As funny as this is, there is a point to be made here. Roughly a year ago I bought a $300 laser printer made by Brother. (it's $250 today) I'm still on the original cartridge.
I snagged an HL-630 at Goodwill a while back for $7.50. It ended up needing a new drum unit (~$110, but I tried fixing the original first...the OPC drum was shot) and output tray (<$20...the original was missing), but now it runs like new. I don't know how much toner is left in the cartridge that came with it, but it'll only cost ~$30 to replace when the time comes (and should last about 3000 pages). Brother also had the 1-meg memory upgrade for it dirt-cheap ($20), compared to what they were getting for them five years ago. It might only be 300 dpi and 6 ppm, but it gets the job done and will be dirt-cheap to keep running.
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When I see those jocks that used to oppress and torture me years ago in high school, I undertip them, and call the pizza shop to tell them it was cold.
That gives a new meaning to <voice style=ricardo-montalban> the Klingon proverb which tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold... </voice>
Yep, I know so many Mac users that just hate the PowerPC and want to go back to the old 68k CPUs. And OS/X is a big failure for the same reason.
It's easier to pull off that kind of change when it's just one company that's involved. I also don't doubt that Steve Jobs' infamous Reality Distortion Field (R) played a part in each transition.
The only thing this eats up is cache; because the system has a correspondingly wider data bus, there isn't a hit in memory bandwidth (unless the designers are trying to be cheap bastards and give a 64-bit CPU the same data bus width you'd use for a 32-bit CPU).
Nope...it has more or less the same type of instruction set as any other 8-bit processor. If I'm not mistaken, all of the different addressing modes it supports (immediate, absolute, zero-page, indexed, indexed indirect, indirect indexed) aren't something you'd see on a RISC processor. The single 8-bit accumulator and two 8-bit index registers are also too few for RISC...even x86 gives you more registers with which to play. (The ALU also lacks multiplication and division support, but that's not a RISC-vs-CISC determining factor. It's mainly an annoyance if you need to multiply/divide by numbers other than powers of 2.)
(To see what I've done with 6502 assembly language lately, you might want to have a look at this page.)
Disagreeing with Fox does not make a person right or wrong but it does mean they are either left or right of center (in the U.S.).
That's upsetting, but unfortunately probably right. "Centrist" in U.S. political terms is really, really far right according to most of the rest of the world.
...and that only shows how fscked up the rest of the world really is.:-P
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Senater Hollings will ensure that there are enough loopholes big enough to get a dinosaur through.
...or at least big enough to get Mickey through. Beyond that, he doesn't care.
I'll admit that mine has spent its entire life in the southwest...but Dad has an even older one (a '73), it's been all over the country, and it's no rustbucket either. That one has spent more time in Virginia than anywhere else (both the Tidewater area in the south and northern Virginia, up by DC), but it's also been through winters in Washington state, Colorado, Illinois, and Rhode Island. It could use a paint job now, but the paint is still doing its primary job of protecting the metal underneath. (It just looks somewhat dull in places.)
What little I know of Russian, I picked up from Tom Clancy novels...but between that and all of the "In Soviet Russia" jokes people post, that's a fairly off-color sig you're using...funny, but definitely not kulturniy.
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Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide!
Better yet, let it hit France. Their white flags would be useless against it.
That's why you don't touch the screen, you don't let anyone else touch the screen...and if some moron from accounting sticks a Post-It on your screen, you hunt the bitch down and pump her full of lead. :-)
Even cleaning (with anything more than a soft cloth) isn't that great for a monitor. The anti-glare coating on the monitor that came with my Apple IIe developed a bit of a semi-gloss appearance after 5 years or so of cleaning the dust off with Windex. Now I just use a dry paper tissue to wipe the dust off, whether it's a CRT- or LCD-based display (though it's CRTs that tend to attract more dust).
For those who'd rather not give AOHell the click, it's useful if someone copies it here.
(Not that it matters too much from work, though, where I've set up a transparent ad-filtering proxy...)
Having a IIe emulator on one of my work machines helps. :-)
Hmm...might be fun to look at, but given the reliability issues associated with most cooperative-multitasking systems (one crash wipes out your system), it's not something on which I'd want to lean too heavily. I suppose it's like the talking dog...it's not the quality of the speech, but that the dog can talk at all. :-)
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Hi-Res graphics gives you 280x192 to play with, but before that, HCOLOR needs = between it and the number.
I had a 14.4-kbps faxmodem hooked up to my IIGS, and I was moving files between it and whatever x86 box I was using at the time at up to 57.6 kbps. Even on the IIe, I was getting 19.2 kbps through a Super Serial Card. (Nowadays, though, the IIGS is connected to my home network through a GatorBox CS. It has direct access to files on a Quadra 610 and a Linux server, and indirect access to Win32 boxen through the Linux server. The GatorBox serves as an Ethernet-LocalTalk bridge, allowing a connection speed of 230.4 kbps.)
The bigger trick to getting this to work on an 8-bit Apple II, though, will be the lack of a periodic interrupt source. You could do cooperative multitasking (like pre-X MacOS or Win16), but preemptive multitasking without something to cause the preemption would be difficult to pull off. (It wouldn't take much to build an expansion card that just triggers an interrupt every once in a while. Some existing cards, such as clock cards and mouse interfaces, could also be used.)
Only until the Apple II port is released. It may be 1977 technology, but it's good 1977 technology! :-)
Just wait for the next tornado to blow through...
Try googling for siege engines...
Michael Moore is an idiot, and a piss-poor excuse for a human being.
I would think that if unfriendly neighbors were underneath while you're seeing a man about a horse, it'd serve them right.
It's worth noting that you have to keep paying periodically to keep a patent in effect. Check out the PTO's fee schedule...you can lose a patent after as little as 3.5 years if you don't keep forking over the money.
I had a gadget idea (related to the production of homebrew) for which it was recommended that I obtain a patent, but I'm not sure that I could recover the nearly $3500 it'd take to keep a patent in force for 20 years...and that's before you add in attorney fees and other expenses associated with obtaining a patent.
It doesn't help that, as you noted, the default Windows install is horribly insecure. You could proceed to lock it down...but that would be like having to go through a fresh install of $RANDOM_LINUX_DISTRO and chmod go-w the contents of entire directories to lock it up. A default install ought to be reasonably secure...it doesn't necessarily need to be hardened against all present and future exploits, but making the factory install as wide open as the goatse.cx guy isn't the brightest idea in the world.
I find it easier to just not allow Win32 boxen to connect directly to the Internet. They're all firewalled behind systems running Linux (usually). That doesn't guard against local users hosing their systems, but since this is a software-coding shop, most of our people are smart enough to not do something like that. It's not like we have some old biddy flipping the power switch on/off all day between bouts of tinkering with some Excel spreadsheet.
You are aware that %systemroot%\system32\edit.com is a text-mode app, right?
cmd.exe is rather limited in what it can do...but it wouldn't take much to FTP a Cygwin install from someplace and fire that up. You might also manually install VNC (copy the files where they need to go and insert the necessary registry entries) and take over the desktop.
I snagged an HL-630 at Goodwill a while back for $7.50. It ended up needing a new drum unit (~$110, but I tried fixing the original first...the OPC drum was shot) and output tray (<$20...the original was missing), but now it runs like new. I don't know how much toner is left in the cartridge that came with it, but it'll only cost ~$30 to replace when the time comes (and should last about 3000 pages). Brother also had the 1-meg memory upgrade for it dirt-cheap ($20), compared to what they were getting for them five years ago. It might only be 300 dpi and 6 ppm, but it gets the job done and will be dirt-cheap to keep running.
That gives a new meaning to <voice style=ricardo-montalban> the Klingon proverb which tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold... </voice>
It's easier to pull off that kind of change when it's just one company that's involved. I also don't doubt that Steve Jobs' infamous Reality Distortion Field (R) played a part in each transition.
You've never heard of write-only memory? Signetics put out a datasheet on a WOM chip once.
ItanicSX, anyone?
Nope...it has more or less the same type of instruction set as any other 8-bit processor. If I'm not mistaken, all of the different addressing modes it supports (immediate, absolute, zero-page, indexed, indexed indirect, indirect indexed) aren't something you'd see on a RISC processor. The single 8-bit accumulator and two 8-bit index registers are also too few for RISC...even x86 gives you more registers with which to play. (The ALU also lacks multiplication and division support, but that's not a RISC-vs-CISC determining factor. It's mainly an annoyance if you need to multiply/divide by numbers other than powers of 2.)
(To see what I've done with 6502 assembly language lately, you might want to have a look at this page.)
Try this link...unlicensed FM broadcasting is limited to a field strength of 250 V/m at a distance of 3 m from the antenna.
I'll admit that mine has spent its entire life in the southwest...but Dad has an even older one (a '73), it's been all over the country, and it's no rustbucket either. That one has spent more time in Virginia than anywhere else (both the Tidewater area in the south and northern Virginia, up by DC), but it's also been through winters in Washington state, Colorado, Illinois, and Rhode Island. It could use a paint job now, but the paint is still doing its primary job of protecting the metal underneath. (It just looks somewhat dull in places.)
What little I know of Russian, I picked up from Tom Clancy novels...but between that and all of the "In Soviet Russia" jokes people post, that's a fairly off-color sig you're using...funny, but definitely not kulturniy.
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