Bargain Barn is damn cool. Quick look through their current list shows a Power Mac G3 for about $150, various 450MHz Dells for $175 each, an ultrasound machine for $50 (!), what looks like a full X-Ray machine setup for $250, and a fire truck for $4000.
The stuff I've bought there is more mundane, but I did get a nice 17" monitor for $25. Using it right now to write up this post.:)
(while you can find deals, some of their stuff is somewhat overpriced. Still a fun place to poke around in.)
Whoever it is out there that keeps saying "Could Nokia phones get any uglier?", PLEASE STOP! You see what happens? We get monstrosities like the 5100, the 3650, and now the 7250! Please, stop speculating about how bad it can get! Won't someone please think of the children?!
At that time he also confirmed to eWeek that the company had hired high-profile attorney David Boies and his legal firm to investigate whether Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and versions of BSD infringed on the Unix intellectual property it owned.
SCO is working on suing Apple. (Along with damn near everyone else)
"SCO is in the enviable position of owning the UNIX operating system," said Darl McBride, president and CEO of SCO, before accidentally knocking over the podium with his enormous ego.
Okay, so it didn't say all of that. But it could have.
Uhm, I never thought I would actually say this, but... RTFA. It explains the difference between utility and design patents, and how Apple's patent on the OS X trash can is a design patent.
So is Apple some nasty company abusing the system and United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)? No, at least not for merely filing a design patent on an icon. Design patents are filed on all kinds of mundane things in every day life: shoes, hats, furniture, silverware, lamps, fonts, etc. It helps prevent people knocking off one another's designs.
The editor-added "More on the ideas that Apple owns." title is incorrect ("More on the designs that Apple owns." would have been correct), but the submitter and the linked article have the right idea.
I pulled an ISA card out of a still-running computer. Powered up a computer with one RAM stick only halfway plugged in. Turned on a computer with the voltage switch set to 220v, and shut it back off after it started smoking. Dropped the hard drive onto the exposed CPU. Funny thing... That was all on the same P166-in-a-286-case. The computer and all of those parts still worked afterwards. It's in my closet on a shelf now, but I bet that sonofabitch still runs.
Also, I found an old Apple IIe ontop of a pile of washing machines at a city-wide recycling event that I worked at. There was a dual-floppy DuoDisk hanging from its cable, and the old tilt-screen monitor nearby, face down in the mud. I couldn't pass it up, so I took it home. I couldn't be arsed to open it up to make sure it was all in order on the inside, so I plugged it in and turned it on. Booted right into the Galaxian disk that was in one of the drives. I later opened it up to find the entire insides full of cobwebs, black widow spiders, caked-on mud, and some kind of wierd water damage. Yet it works like it did the day it rolled off the assembly line.
I do remember that. That was an all-around bad campaign and setup. This was just one, single incredibly hideous commercial. I'm sure I'm overreacting about it being the worst ever, but damn that was a bad commercial.:)
"But, I have young children and I want to devote more of my time to them. This has been an extremely difficult decision but I know it is the right one for my family."
"The The New York Times reports that a new polymer by Xerox can be used to make organic transistors on a plastic substrate, which can then be used to inexpensively make light, flexible flat-panel displays for computers, laptops and mobile phones."
Laptops screens? Pfft. I'm thinking wallpaper. Just jack the wallpaper into your computer, and load up iTunes, Geiss, Milkdrop, Quake III, RtCW...
Although I will say that I've only had it happen once and it was pretty much my fault (and it wasn't in OS X, either.). More than I can say for FAT16/FAT32.
They could do some TV commercials with stock footage.
I can see it now...
Quick fade into rocket taking off. Cut to two 70's crash test sedans in a head-on collision. Horizontal wipe to atomic bomb detonating. Crossfade to fat guy taking a cannonball in the stomach. Star wipe to garish orange screen with Microsoft logo and "Where do you want to go today?" tagline. All done to the tune of cheap, generic classical music.
In a strangely Microsoftian twist, this'd all be done with iMovie, which would be revealed on Slashdot a few weeks later. The ad would be immediately pulled.
This is a real bad example even though I agree with Lessig. The Grimm Bothers didn't invent or created the stories as such. They collected and wrote up old German folk tales and made them available so they could be read and cherished.
That's exactly the point. They took something in the public domain and remade it, and when that entered the public domain, Disney remade it. Except that now, Disney's remade versions aren't passing into the public domain to allow the next generation of interpretation.
...but where's the option to install a bunch of subwoofers that rattle the trunk lid, making the stereo sound like crap? And how about coffee can sized exhaust tips that make the engine sound like a bicycle with playing cards in the spokes?
Stickers are essential, too. How else can you show off your Ford Escort Evolution IV or your Chevy Beretta Type R?
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any intended entrants out there want to disclose your secret plans?
*quickly throws robot costume in the closet and shuts the door*
NO! It's a secret! Go away! And geez, don't you know how to knock?
Bargain Barn is damn cool. Quick look through their current list shows a Power Mac G3 for about $150, various 450MHz Dells for $175 each, an ultrasound machine for $50 (!), what looks like a full X-Ray machine setup for $250, and a fire truck for $4000.
:)
The stuff I've bought there is more mundane, but I did get a nice 17" monitor for $25. Using it right now to write up this post.
(while you can find deals, some of their stuff is somewhat overpriced. Still a fun place to poke around in.)
Geez. I wish there was a TiVo-like device that would allow you to skip through the obligatory "I don't have a TV and thus am superior" posts.
Oh wait, scroll wheel. Right.
Whoever it is out there that keeps saying "Could Nokia phones get any uglier?", PLEASE STOP! You see what happens? We get monstrosities like the 5100, the 3650, and now the 7250! Please, stop speculating about how bad it can get! Won't someone please think of the children?!
SCO is working on suing Apple. (Along with damn near everyone else)
Okay, so it didn't say all of that. But it could have.
China is starting to sound like an interesting place to be.
Err, aside from the whole "oppressive communist government" thing they've got going on over there, that is.
The editor-added "More on the ideas that Apple owns." title is incorrect ("More on the designs that Apple owns." would have been correct), but the submitter and the linked article have the right idea.
Let's see...
I pulled an ISA card out of a still-running computer. Powered up a computer with one RAM stick only halfway plugged in. Turned on a computer with the voltage switch set to 220v, and shut it back off after it started smoking. Dropped the hard drive onto the exposed CPU. Funny thing... That was all on the same P166-in-a-286-case. The computer and all of those parts still worked afterwards. It's in my closet on a shelf now, but I bet that sonofabitch still runs.
Also, I found an old Apple IIe ontop of a pile of washing machines at a city-wide recycling event that I worked at. There was a dual-floppy DuoDisk hanging from its cable, and the old tilt-screen monitor nearby, face down in the mud. I couldn't pass it up, so I took it home. I couldn't be arsed to open it up to make sure it was all in order on the inside, so I plugged it in and turned it on. Booted right into the Galaxian disk that was in one of the drives. I later opened it up to find the entire insides full of cobwebs, black widow spiders, caked-on mud, and some kind of wierd water damage. Yet it works like it did the day it rolled off the assembly line.
Nice flamebait. :)
"Evolution!"
"God!"
"Evolution!"
"God!"
"EVOLUTION, DAMNIT!"
"GOD, DAMNIT! Err, wait..."
So, uh, shouldn't they call it the Commodore 32768?
Only if Jobs has a few digital cameras to use as weapons. :)
I do remember that. That was an all-around bad campaign and setup. This was just one, single incredibly hideous commercial. I'm sure I'm overreacting about it being the worst ever, but damn that was a bad commercial. :)
Worst. Commercial. Ever.
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So... Did she adopt, or eat her husband?
...the music industry's long-standing tradition of royally screwing things up is set to continue...
I saw the headline "Newton's Principia stolen" and immediately thought that someone stole a technology called "Principia" from the NewtonOS.
Damn, I'm a geek.
I tried to write in CowboyNeal for California governor. There was no pen in the booth. So I voted for the blank spot underneath the candidates.
NASA Guy 1: "You idiot! We were supposed to nudge it at forty feet per second, not forty meters per se-- Shit! There goes Florida!"
NASA Guy 2: "I'm in trouble, aren't I?"
NASA Guy 1: "Uhm, yes. Yes you are."
NASA Guy 2: "Well, look on the bright side. We get to land in California this time!"
Although I will say that I've only had it happen once and it was pretty much my fault (and it wasn't in OS X, either.). More than I can say for FAT16/FAT32.
I can see it now...
Quick fade into rocket taking off. Cut to two 70's crash test sedans in a head-on collision. Horizontal wipe to atomic bomb detonating. Crossfade to fat guy taking a cannonball in the stomach. Star wipe to garish orange screen with Microsoft logo and "Where do you want to go today?" tagline. All done to the tune of cheap, generic classical music.
In a strangely Microsoftian twist, this'd all be done with iMovie, which would be revealed on Slashdot a few weeks later. The ad would be immediately pulled.
That's exactly the point. They took something in the public domain and remade it, and when that entered the public domain, Disney remade it. Except that now, Disney's remade versions aren't passing into the public domain to allow the next generation of interpretation.
That video games are a bad habit and can kill you!
Wait, no, it's just proof that being a dumbass can kill you. Never mind, carry on.
...but where's the option to install a bunch of subwoofers that rattle the trunk lid, making the stereo sound like crap? And how about coffee can sized exhaust tips that make the engine sound like a bicycle with playing cards in the spokes?
Stickers are essential, too. How else can you show off your Ford Escort Evolution IV or your Chevy Beretta Type R?