The 1541-II had a 2 MHz 6502A CPU, while the earlier versions had the 1 MHz 6502. Too bad it was hogtied by a serial bus whose 60 us bit clock made it about half as fast as a 33.6 modem.
(I always thought of the 1541 as the original WORM drive -- Write Once, Read Maybe.)
Except the FCC reg you quote says nothing about your right to mount an antenna to something that you do not own. What it does say is, "property within the exclusive use or control of the antenna user where the user has a direct or indirect ownership or leasehold interest in the property." If you put the antenna on a stand inside your apartment or condo so it can see through the window, you are covered by that reg. If you are renting an apartment, you are pretty much screwed right there since the lease will usually not convey any interest in the building exterior. If you own a condo in a multi-unit building, you would have to establish that the particular exterior thingy you want to bolt the antenna to is under your exclusive use and control. I can't think of a multi-unit condo where the exterior is not a common area owned by the condo association.
Balconies and railings thereon are an open question... although I would expect that the balcony itself would be considered under your exclusive control, so putting the antenna on a floor-standing mount should be covered by the reg.
Put enough GHB in Dr. Bronner's and eventually the fine print on the label starts to make sense. (I was going to link to their site, but you really have to score a bottle of the stuff and devote about 20-30 minutes to reading all the fine print.)
You have a choice of cell phone carriers. Yep. At least where I am in the Chicago area.
You don't have a choice of internet service providers. Gotta call bullshit on this one.
You have whoever has a monopoly on your phone service in your region and whoever has a monopoly on your cable service in your region. Do the letters DSL ring a bell? I just checked my local exchange number in DSL Reports and learned that there are over 50 companies who are willing to set me up with DSL service. Sure, they actually resell DSL circuits from a handful of providers, but if DSL Company 1 pisses me off, I can always contract with DSL Company 2 and possibly not even incur any downtime over and above having to change my IP address. I even have a choice of a couple dozen wireless providers.
It's not just cable and voice-phone service out there.
But they are not the complete morons implied by most people's reaction to the Slashdot title for this story.
However, the combined cumulative effects of incestuous polygamy and living downwind from Dugway Proving Ground are beginning to exhibit themselves with a vengeance.
Aren't there already laws against unfair use of someone else's trademark? It strikes me that what this law may end up doing is making it illegal to say "My patented widget will turn your XBOX into a 100% effective chick magnet", even if that statement is 100% factual. There's got to be some existing legal argument why advertisers all over Known Space are not allowed to place the word "super" next to the word "bowl", even if the use of those two words is not even remotely infringing.
The only problem is the scarcity of CPU fans for P3s. There are none on the market. Athlon heatsinks/coolers for the older socket format often need cutting bits off and are also getting rare, so finding a suitable set to refurbish an old box may prove extremely challenging.
I just checked three very popular parts sites and in the space of a couple minutes found about three dozen fans that will fit S370. Hardly "challenging".
Onan refuses God's command to impregnate someone, and instead spills his seed. Onan gets the Heavenly Shithammer. Mary Magdalene kneels before Jesus and anoints his... hmmmmmmm.
In hieroglyphics, the system tray on my laptop says "The radioactive cricket is bringing a 110-volt dolomite croissant to Martha Stewart's hovering crankcase."
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The 1541-II had a 2 MHz 6502A CPU, while the earlier versions had the 1 MHz 6502. Too bad it was hogtied by a serial bus whose 60 us bit clock made it about half as fast as a 33.6 modem.
(I always thought of the 1541 as the original WORM drive -- Write Once, Read Maybe.)
Easy. Time is what keeps everything from happening at once, and space is what keeps everything from happening to you.
Except the FCC reg you quote says nothing about your right to mount an antenna to something that you do not own. What it does say is, "property within the exclusive use or control of the antenna user where the user has a direct or indirect ownership or leasehold interest in the property." If you put the antenna on a stand inside your apartment or condo so it can see through the window, you are covered by that reg. If you are renting an apartment, you are pretty much screwed right there since the lease will usually not convey any interest in the building exterior. If you own a condo in a multi-unit building, you would have to establish that the particular exterior thingy you want to bolt the antenna to is under your exclusive use and control. I can't think of a multi-unit condo where the exterior is not a common area owned by the condo association.
Balconies and railings thereon are an open question... although I would expect that the balcony itself would be considered under your exclusive control, so putting the antenna on a floor-standing mount should be covered by the reg.
Jim Post once said that Beloit was the noise made by a quarter dropping into a toilet.
You mean Yosemite Sam with a dunce cap??
The good news is that the memory is full of photonic goodness.
The bad news is it's all gamma rays.
Better hope your side windows are heavily leaded.
You've been snorting Dr. Bronner's again, haven't you.
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"... how much can a poor nation stand?"
This article's been out for five hours and NOT ONE /.ER HAS USED THE WORD "PHASER".
(Well, until now.)
Are all the trekkies getting hammered and watching Boston Legal these days?
Well, that's if he filed in DC. He'd have much better chances if he filed in the Ninth Circuit.
Yep.
Put enough GHB in Dr. Bronner's and eventually the fine print on the label starts to make sense. (I was going to link to their site, but you really have to score a bottle of the stuff and devote about 20-30 minutes to reading all the fine print.)
Vonnegut, Clemens, Molly Ivins, Mike Royko...
Hey, God, how about leaving US some of the good ones for a change?
How do you pronounce "href", anyway?
Imagine Stimpy coughing up a hairball.
Yep. At least where I am in the Chicago area.
You don't have a choice of internet service providers.
Gotta call bullshit on this one.
You have whoever has a monopoly on your phone service in your region and whoever has a monopoly on your cable service in your region.
Do the letters DSL ring a bell? I just checked my local exchange number in DSL Reports and learned that there are over 50 companies who are willing to set me up with DSL service. Sure, they actually resell DSL circuits from a handful of providers, but if DSL Company 1 pisses me off, I can always contract with DSL Company 2 and possibly not even incur any downtime over and above having to change my IP address. I even have a choice of a couple dozen wireless providers.
It's not just cable and voice-phone service out there.
However, the combined cumulative effects of incestuous polygamy and living downwind from Dugway Proving Ground are beginning to exhibit themselves with a vengeance.
Aren't there already laws against unfair use of someone else's trademark? It strikes me that what this law may end up doing is making it illegal to say "My patented widget will turn your XBOX into a 100% effective chick magnet", even if that statement is 100% factual. There's got to be some existing legal argument why advertisers all over Known Space are not allowed to place the word "super" next to the word "bowl", even if the use of those two words is not even remotely infringing.
I just checked three very popular parts sites and in the space of a couple minutes found about three dozen fans that will fit S370. Hardly "challenging".
Unfortunetly, port 69 is already reserved for TFTP. ... and it is well-known that if you leave port 69 open, eventually you will be screwed hard.
Heh.
Onan refuses God's command to impregnate someone, and instead spills his seed. Onan gets the Heavenly Shithammer. Mary Magdalene kneels before Jesus and anoints his... hmmmmmmm.
"Tell me more, Father Kelly..."
(Today's captcha was "impious", by the way.)
Mastodon???? Come on; those guys belong in a museum, for crissake.
I'd chime in with a few, but my musical pun composer is baroquen.
This can't be the same guy who blew the whistle on the Sony CD rootkit in 2005. It just can't.
Sony Music is probably whupping themselves upside their collective head and lamenting, "Now why couldn't have WE gottten to him first?"
I guess he who takes the King's pence gets to be the King's sock puppet.
In hieroglyphics, the system tray on my laptop says "The radioactive cricket is bringing a 110-volt dolomite croissant to Martha Stewart's hovering crankcase."