It's either all 8-digit or starts with 7 bits and switches to 8. Both hash mark sections do so.
I rotated it a bit past 90 degrees to get the rows to line up horizontally, but it's still too sloppy to be sure which hash marks go with which rows that way.
I noticed it's outside the ASCII realm by quite a bit, so I tried HTML entities (forward and backward), but I don't see anything useful there yet either. I'm sure as hell not ready to try running it as code.
Well, I live in an area of heavy snow in winter and high winds and lots of lightning in the spring and summer. We tend to see technicians at the towers every few weeks.
The customer service people, the phone network admins, the billing department, and the management need to be paid, too. The management probably need to be paid less before the shareholders are paid less, because most US companies overpay top management ludicrously anyway.
I do agree that large-scale price fixing and abuse of market position should be illegal. Let's start with the gasoline industry, in which a daily price change takes about 5 minutes to make it to every station in a town of 115,000 people that covers 54 square miles, like Springfield IL. If that's not price fixing, then there's no meaning to the words.
SMS charges are somewhere down the line from that for me, since I receive them for free and rarely pay $0.10 to send one (new plans are $0.20 apiece, which is silly and outrageous). I can get 250 per month to send for $4.95 if I really need them. That's $0.02 apiece. Not bad. There's even a $9.95 for 750 package or $14.95 for unlimited. Unlimited for a family plan is $19.95 a month. Personally, I do pay $10 a month for unlimited data service on my phone, and I can use Yahoo! Mail or GMail from that if I'm desperate enough to need to use a little bitty keypad to send a message.
Lots of publicly funded vocational/technical schools have computer repair classes. They can often use some random parts with which to teach or for the students to play on side projects.
7. Load some obscure OS on it and do automated smoke tests for Perl or another software project that's trying to maintain portability across platforms.
Haiku, JNode, FreeVMS, eComStation (commercial afterlife of OS/2, which runs damn snappily on a P2 or P3), ReactOS, Hurd, SkyOS, and more can always use more reports themselves, and lots of software packages would love bug reports (and even moreso -- patches!) for these OSes.
I'll pay for shipping for anything running or that fits my needs for parts for my old laptops. The newest laptop I've got that still runs is a 386, so I'd go crazy with a P3.
It's always good to get a first-hand review. Thanks.
The Linux wifi drivers issue on the Axim are an important thing, too, because if I get one of those it'll probably end up with Linux on it eventually, too.
What I really miss is my Psion series 5mx, so I'd probably actually just buy another one of those used on eBay.
In any case, the Chumby will probably continue to get better and better specs over time if people support it, so maybe it's not such a bad idea to throw some money their way. If it's so handy for you as is after adopting it early, maybe there will be an even better unit in a while.
One of the great finds at the state surplus auctions is when the big cardboard boxes of Leatherman-style multi-tools and Victorinox Swiss Army-style knives that were confiscated at the airports go for pennies a pound.
I agree. There are other things in that price range which might be more useful.
I can get a Dell Axim x5 for about the same price, which has faster screen updates and can be used away from the wall socket. I can also get a refurb of a BlackBerry 8700 or a new open box Navman PiN 570 PDA with built-in GPS. If you include specials that are running right now, Geeks.com has a refurbished Axim x51 for $180 or a refurbished Jornada 728 for a few dollars more.
I'm all for the open source angle, the soft shell, and the whole underdog thing, but usefulness is important.
Thanks for insulting my intelligence explicitly after specifically stating you didn't want to insult anyone's intelligence implicitly. You are a lying hypocrite, apparently.
Anyway, my point, which your lying hypocritical stupid ass seems to have missed, is that your post didn't include intent at all, and that intent is a major factor in what's considered "wrong".
Maybe next time so that I don't overestimate your intelligence I should specifically state, "Your post does not mention intent, which is an important factor under the law" since you are obviously without the normal human functions of reading a question and inferring the point the author is trying to make.
DHS, DPA, and ISP have those rooms, too. It's not forever, though. It's until the room is full. Then it all gets shipped to CMS. In the case of the ISP armory downtown (Washington St., I think), the room isn't even allowed to get full.
Anon is probably talking out his ass. I spent a year contracting for DHS, DPA, ISP, DOCorrections, and DOCourts along with a few other clients for an IT consulting firm. I've worked on the hardware, software, wiring plant, and network profiles of some of the State of Illinois systems and have seen the systems come and go. They definitely don't go to the dumpster, at least not until someone buys a pallet and parts it all out.
Are we talking about poison that's specific to humans and specifically meant to be ingested as a poison, or are you including poisons meant as pesticides and useful household and industrial chemicals which also happen to be poisonous?
Lye, ammonia, hydrogen peroxide, bleach, ant spray, toilet cleaner, oven cleaner, paint thinner, benzene, and lots of other things are poisons that we typically use in small amounts with proper precautions, but which can be deadly in sufficient amounts.
I doubt they get the dumpster treatment. They might get sold by the uni or by the state's surplus property warehouse in Springfield. They might even be sold by the pallet at auction. About 7 years ago I know it wasn't uncommon for the newest computers to be sold individually and for pallets of PCs and/or monitors to go for $75-$100 at the auctions.
It's possible the university in question does this (Sounds like Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to me from the description), but most state agencies use the CMS surplus property route in Illinois. The university system is more independent than most state agencies, though.
There's a reason Central Management Services exists -- it's to provide the central management of the services all state agencies need to kkeep duplication of effort to a minimum. One thing all state agencies need is to dispose of surplus equipment.
Consider Anysystem.com, where you can get dirt-cheap Sun gear. Check out the Ugly Duckling specials for working systems with cosmetic damage dirt cheap. They sell IBM server stuff, too, but that's pretty much all marked "call for pricing".
Well, this is certainly inspiring, what with all the achieving a millennia-old dream of mankind to strap on a wing and fly.
If inspiration isn't enough for you, there's the chance this could be used to deliver rescue workers, supplies, and maybe even medical professionals to the scene of a disaster very quickly. If this is ever developed well enough to be a practical delivery system for a man and his gear, it could be used for all sorts of urgent peaceful missions.
Then, of course, there's the military applications, but anything useful to civilians has some military equivalent.
Much of the software new users need is easy to pick up, but there are some confusing differences when moving from similar apps on other OSes.
I think your car tinkering analogy has actually been an ongoing process for many years now. Hardly anybody wires up their own motherboards any longer. Nobody implements their own storage devices. There are some stubborn hardware hackers, but they're few and far between compared to general PC users.
Software has started to follow the same trend. It used to be that to know how to use a computer meant to know how to alter the boot sequence, how to issue commands at a CLI, how to do administrative tasks, and how to mess with configuration files. Now, everything is a wizard, even on Linux. Some OSes still let you get "under the hood", but more and more people who use computers don't do that.
The biggest difference probably isn't that the complexity has gone past the point that people don't care. It's that the time and money involved in doing everything down to the bare semiconductors just isn't feasible at all. Combine that with the fact that the tinkerers (in cars and computers, just like any other tinkering hobby) are the enthusiastic few, and are the early adopters of new toys.
By the time the auto was a sensible investment in terms of reliability, ease of use, and retail price for those who considered it a tool and not a major hobby expenditure, the common drivers started to join the car ownership club. It's the same with PCs. The easier, cheaper, and more reliable they get, the more people are going to get them that aren't interested in the fiddly bits. There aren't necessarily any fewer people fiddling with them as toys, but that group has become progressively smaller as a percentage of users.
That breaks the Apple experience the company wants you to have, and there's probably something in the EULA about that, too. It's certainly not supported.
That said, it's a cool trick, and I might just try it out.
As with eating in a restaurant, what you use is little of the cost and the people who make sure you get served high-quality stuff in a timely manner are the bulk of the cost. Those towers don't just function without staff to oversee them. There's probably still enormous profit involved, but that's why the companies offer the service.
Step 1: Buy it shrink wrapped from Circuit City or Best Buy
Step 2: Read the EULA
Step 3: Try to return the opened software package to the store where you bought it
Step 4: Get turned away by the store employees, because software companies bitched about copyright infringement when consumers could return software that had been opened.
Step 5: Return home with software you tried to return to fulfill your requirement under the EULA, only to be denied that possibility.
Step 6: Use the software anyway.
Step 7: Find a way to get the software vendor to sue you for breach.
Step 8: Countersue, as their reseller did not honor the contract allowing you to return the software.
Step 9: Probably lose the suit, but make a lot of publicity.
Step 10: Sell your movie rights.
Step 11: Deposit check that's almost worth your legal fees and hassle!
Breaking the EULA for something you paid money for is not the same as making a copy of some software you didn't buy. Disagreeing with Apple and breaking their one-sided "contract" is not the same as violating their copyright. If you buy it, they're the ones who distributed the copy and you're just using it other than as they wish.
If you really want an exclusive, high-end experience, go with a mid-to-high range SGI, IBM p-series, or any Sparc-based Sun. Maybe get a Tadpole laptop. Apple is far more commodity than those.
If you want something that works and runs the software you need or want to use, then figure out what that software is and buy one of the platforms it supports.
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It's either all 8-digit or starts with 7 bits and switches to 8. Both hash mark sections do so.
I rotated it a bit past 90 degrees to get the rows to line up horizontally, but it's still too sloppy to be sure which hash marks go with which rows that way.
I noticed it's outside the ASCII realm by quite a bit, so I tried HTML entities (forward and backward), but I don't see anything useful there yet either. I'm sure as hell not ready to try running it as code.
Jose Cuervo Especial, 750 ml, 12-pack case.
Mystery solved!
Damn, Google has us spoiled.
Well, I live in an area of heavy snow in winter and high winds and lots of lightning in the spring and summer. We tend to see technicians at the towers every few weeks.
The customer service people, the phone network admins, the billing department, and the management need to be paid, too. The management probably need to be paid less before the shareholders are paid less, because most US companies overpay top management ludicrously anyway.
I do agree that large-scale price fixing and abuse of market position should be illegal. Let's start with the gasoline industry, in which a daily price change takes about 5 minutes to make it to every station in a town of 115,000 people that covers 54 square miles, like Springfield IL. If that's not price fixing, then there's no meaning to the words.
SMS charges are somewhere down the line from that for me, since I receive them for free and rarely pay $0.10 to send one (new plans are $0.20 apiece, which is silly and outrageous). I can get 250 per month to send for $4.95 if I really need them. That's $0.02 apiece. Not bad. There's even a $9.95 for 750 package or $14.95 for unlimited. Unlimited for a family plan is $19.95 a month. Personally, I do pay $10 a month for unlimited data service on my phone, and I can use Yahoo! Mail or GMail from that if I'm desperate enough to need to use a little bitty keypad to send a message.
Lots of publicly funded vocational/technical schools have computer repair classes. They can often use some random parts with which to teach or for the students to play on side projects.
7. Load some obscure OS on it and do automated smoke tests for Perl or another software project that's trying to maintain portability across platforms.
Haiku, JNode, FreeVMS, eComStation (commercial afterlife of OS/2, which runs damn snappily on a P2 or P3), ReactOS, Hurd, SkyOS, and more can always use more reports themselves, and lots of software packages would love bug reports (and even moreso -- patches!) for these OSes.
I'll pay for shipping for anything running or that fits my needs for parts for my old laptops. The newest laptop I've got that still runs is a 386, so I'd go crazy with a P3.
Actually, Dell will recycle computers from other companies fairly cheaply, too.
It's always good to get a first-hand review. Thanks.
The Linux wifi drivers issue on the Axim are an important thing, too, because if I get one of those it'll probably end up with Linux on it eventually, too.
What I really miss is my Psion series 5mx, so I'd probably actually just buy another one of those used on eBay.
In any case, the Chumby will probably continue to get better and better specs over time if people support it, so maybe it's not such a bad idea to throw some money their way. If it's so handy for you as is after adopting it early, maybe there will be an even better unit in a while.
One of the great finds at the state surplus auctions is when the big cardboard boxes of Leatherman-style multi-tools and Victorinox Swiss Army-style knives that were confiscated at the airports go for pennies a pound.
I can get a Dell Axim x5 for about the same price, which has faster screen updates and can be used away from the wall socket. I can also get a refurb of a BlackBerry 8700 or a new open box Navman PiN 570 PDA with built-in GPS. If you include specials that are running right now, Geeks.com has a refurbished Axim x51 for $180 or a refurbished Jornada 728 for a few dollars more.
I'm all for the open source angle, the soft shell, and the whole underdog thing, but usefulness is important.
Thanks for insulting my intelligence explicitly after specifically stating you didn't want to insult anyone's intelligence implicitly. You are a lying hypocrite, apparently.
Anyway, my point, which your lying hypocritical stupid ass seems to have missed, is that your post didn't include intent at all, and that intent is a major factor in what's considered "wrong".
Maybe next time so that I don't overestimate your intelligence I should specifically state, "Your post does not mention intent, which is an important factor under the law" since you are obviously without the normal human functions of reading a question and inferring the point the author is trying to make.
DHS, DPA, and ISP have those rooms, too. It's not forever, though. It's until the room is full. Then it all gets shipped to CMS. In the case of the ISP armory downtown (Washington St., I think), the room isn't even allowed to get full.
Anon is probably talking out his ass. I spent a year contracting for DHS, DPA, ISP, DOCorrections, and DOCourts along with a few other clients for an IT consulting firm. I've worked on the hardware, software, wiring plant, and network profiles of some of the State of Illinois systems and have seen the systems come and go. They definitely don't go to the dumpster, at least not until someone buys a pallet and parts it all out.
Are we talking about poison that's specific to humans and specifically meant to be ingested as a poison, or are you including poisons meant as pesticides and useful household and industrial chemicals which also happen to be poisonous?
Lye, ammonia, hydrogen peroxide, bleach, ant spray, toilet cleaner, oven cleaner, paint thinner, benzene, and lots of other things are poisons that we typically use in small amounts with proper precautions, but which can be deadly in sufficient amounts.
I doubt they get the dumpster treatment. They might get sold by the uni or by the state's surplus property warehouse in Springfield. They might even be sold by the pallet at auction. About 7 years ago I know it wasn't uncommon for the newest computers to be sold individually and for pallets of PCs and/or monitors to go for $75-$100 at the auctions.
It's possible the university in question does this (Sounds like Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to me from the description), but most state agencies use the CMS surplus property route in Illinois. The university system is more independent than most state agencies, though.
Go to http://www.state.il.us/CMS/1_buying/statesurp.htm, which is the firs tlink on Google when searching for "Illinois state surplus auction" for more info.
Go to our state online auction site to see if they end up there, too.
There's a reason Central Management Services exists -- it's to provide the central management of the services all state agencies need to kkeep duplication of effort to a minimum. One thing all state agencies need is to dispose of surplus equipment.
Consider Anysystem.com, where you can get dirt-cheap Sun gear. Check out the Ugly Duckling specials for working systems with cosmetic damage dirt cheap. They sell IBM server stuff, too, but that's pretty much all marked "call for pricing".
Well, this is certainly inspiring, what with all the achieving a millennia-old dream of mankind to strap on a wing and fly.
If inspiration isn't enough for you, there's the chance this could be used to deliver rescue workers, supplies, and maybe even medical professionals to the scene of a disaster very quickly. If this is ever developed well enough to be a practical delivery system for a man and his gear, it could be used for all sorts of urgent peaceful missions.
Then, of course, there's the military applications, but anything useful to civilians has some military equivalent.
It only takes a couple hours these days to notice some drop.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7402016.stm (without the trailing slash) will work a little better.
Much of the software new users need is easy to pick up, but there are some confusing differences when moving from similar apps on other OSes.
I think your car tinkering analogy has actually been an ongoing process for many years now. Hardly anybody wires up their own motherboards any longer. Nobody implements their own storage devices. There are some stubborn hardware hackers, but they're few and far between compared to general PC users.
Software has started to follow the same trend. It used to be that to know how to use a computer meant to know how to alter the boot sequence, how to issue commands at a CLI, how to do administrative tasks, and how to mess with configuration files. Now, everything is a wizard, even on Linux. Some OSes still let you get "under the hood", but more and more people who use computers don't do that.
The biggest difference probably isn't that the complexity has gone past the point that people don't care. It's that the time and money involved in doing everything down to the bare semiconductors just isn't feasible at all. Combine that with the fact that the tinkerers (in cars and computers, just like any other tinkering hobby) are the enthusiastic few, and are the early adopters of new toys.
By the time the auto was a sensible investment in terms of reliability, ease of use, and retail price for those who considered it a tool and not a major hobby expenditure, the common drivers started to join the car ownership club. It's the same with PCs. The easier, cheaper, and more reliable they get, the more people are going to get them that aren't interested in the fiddly bits. There aren't necessarily any fewer people fiddling with them as toys, but that group has become progressively smaller as a percentage of users.
That breaks the Apple experience the company wants you to have, and there's probably something in the EULA about that, too. It's certainly not supported.
That said, it's a cool trick, and I might just try it out.
As with eating in a restaurant, what you use is little of the cost and the people who make sure you get served high-quality stuff in a timely manner are the bulk of the cost. Those towers don't just function without staff to oversee them. There's probably still enormous profit involved, but that's why the companies offer the service.
Step 1: Buy it shrink wrapped from Circuit City or Best Buy
Step 2: Read the EULA
Step 3: Try to return the opened software package to the store where you bought it
Step 4: Get turned away by the store employees, because software companies bitched about copyright infringement when consumers could return software that had been opened.
Step 5: Return home with software you tried to return to fulfill your requirement under the EULA, only to be denied that possibility.
Step 6: Use the software anyway.
Step 7: Find a way to get the software vendor to sue you for breach.
Step 8: Countersue, as their reseller did not honor the contract allowing you to return the software.
Step 9: Probably lose the suit, but make a lot of publicity.
Step 10: Sell your movie rights.
Step 11: Deposit check that's almost worth your legal fees and hassle!
Breaking the EULA for something you paid money for is not the same as making a copy of some software you didn't buy. Disagreeing with Apple and breaking their one-sided "contract" is not the same as violating their copyright. If you buy it, they're the ones who distributed the copy and you're just using it other than as they wish.
If you really want an exclusive, high-end experience, go with a mid-to-high range SGI, IBM p-series, or any Sparc-based Sun. Maybe get a Tadpole laptop. Apple is far more commodity than those.
If you want something that works and runs the software you need or want to use, then figure out what that software is and buy one of the platforms it supports.