The only significant risk would be losing or damaging a card. A damaged card would have to be repunched.
The MOST POPULAR program on the mainframe was SORT. It would take a "shuffled deck" (out of order program deck) and sort it back into order. That program got ran quite a few times a day, every day. So getting your deck shuffled really wasn't that big of a deal. More dramatic than damaging.
I was wondering where DLT went too, but then considered that it was never really a "consumer" storage solution. VERY popular in business though, with quite a history. 9Track also. Had to deal with both of those about 10 yrs ago.
What most amazed me is that the MAJORITY of our big customers provided their raw data, and required us to send back the processed goods, on 9Track. And these were big names like Phillip Morris.
But at that time there just wasn't a more economical way to ship large amounts of data.
Interesting until you get too big that even moving a single step is very costly, then you just end up being a stationary fixture, like a dragon that nobody wants to get too close to.
I was hoping they'd be playing some sort of music created from the sequences. listening to some monotone voice recite letters of the alphabet ad-nausium isn't going to attract anyone
oh don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE lego, but this is a question for robotics. Even back then I had a cothesbasket full of legos and I went with capsela for the moving parts and gears that you don't have with lego.
My favourite toys when I was age 5-10 were capsela, construx, and Jr. Radio kits
definitely capsela for them. Motor, switch, gears, easy to put together. I made a "robot" for a ~5th grade "build a robot" project our class had, and the class went wild over it. Mine was definitely the only one with moving parts. The rest were cutout painted cereal boxes etc.
seems to be that google decided that it was easier to pay off the writer's guild to prevent them from filing a meritless suit against google for using out-of-copyright materials. I don't consider google the enemy here, I think it's retarded that they had to bribe someone to prevent them from engaging in meritless litigation against them. At least they didn't have to pay a lot for it. Though probably this was the best way for Google to go when it all comes down to it, in today's screwed up legal world.
that display used a backlight that didn't look like it was flexible. It's that white tile below the screen visible when he picks it up to show its flexibility. It's taped down on that green grid below it. (not sure what that's for, if anything)
If that backlight is a CCT with spreader, it certainly won't be flexible.
I'd expect that if the backlight was flexible, it would have been attached to the back of the screen.
Flexible E-ink is not much good if you can't see it.
$344 of actual examples of popular Windows Mobile apps included on the iPhone: -Dashboard: WorldMate Pro $75 "world clocks and weather forecasts, flight and travel information" -real email client: Pocket Informant $25 "replacement for Pocket Outlook on the Pocket PC" -real web browser: none seem to exist. -real contacts: Photo Contacts PRO $30 -Photo browser: Imageer $15 -iPod: Pocket Player MP3 player $20 -Movies: Pocket DVD studio $30 -TV: HandiTV $20 "watch TV from mobile devices" -Dial up networking: PDANet $34 "use your mobile as a modem!" -Calculator: Revolutionary Calculator $30 -Touch screen type input: Full Screen Keyboard $10 -PDF: PDF Reader $25 -Notes: List Pro $30 âoeManage your notesâ
Wow... I had no idea windows mobile apps were so expensive! I just got a touch recently and have about 20 apps installed on it, all but three of which were free. The three I bought were $0.99, $1.99, and $2.99. The most expensive app I saw while browsing was an incredible VNC client that does everything plus makes breakfast, for $24.99. over 1/2 the apps in the above list are more expensive than that.
Does MS get some insane cut on the apps or what? Why are they so incredibly more expensive?
It's just so entertaining to watch people find "free energy" in some form or another, by consuming some commonly available thing to produce energy, all the while completely ignoring the energy required to make the consumable.
Someone once described to me a process by which you use electrolysis to create hydrogen from water, and then burn that to create electricity, the surplus of which you can then use to create more hydrogen. (and you can even improve your yield by using the pure oxygen you are getting as a byproduct when creating the hydrogen!) And water is the free fuel! *SMACK*
My point being that lacking the infrastructure that "stone age" people don't have, you can't have 6 billion people in the forests cutting down trees all day. Logging didn't develop until fairly recently (last 300 yrs?) due to limits on society. The advent of the internal combustion engine and later the chainsaw is what got things moving in the logging industry. Though if you look back a few hundred more years they also used alternate transport like dropping trees into the water and rafting them downstream to the mill, or even using steam powered suspension chains to drag them to the mill. But that still requires civilization to make happen.
A lot of these P2P apps share your entire home or your entire computer by default when you first install them, it's up to you to go in and shut that stuff off, or at least define a specific folder to share from rather than the default.
Tagging this with "windows" isn't fair - it can affect any other system equally, this isn't a software problem, it's a user or developer issue. For example, I've worked on numerous macs with Limewire installed on them that are sharing all the user's music automatically by default.
I don't think stone age people can clearcut forests....
What would happen is cities would basically cease to exist since the necessary infrastructure to support them would be gone, and all that would be left are rural populations that are much closer to being self-sufficient.
paypal, along with ebay and other services that have an insane number of customers and a virtual product, all have nonexistent support. You just have to pray you don't ever have a serious problem.
indeed... most sane development teams have a "feature freeze" at some point in their development, preferably before the last beta test cycle begins. If your beta test or focus group or whatever is being used to determine what new features to cobble in at the last minute rather than ironing out bugs and ease of use issues, you can tell it's going to be a rambling wreck when it rolls out the door.
I was wondering that myself. Of all the systems that could benefit from being distributed, that would seem to be the one. If say, one of the central modules develops a leak (micro meteor etc) and has to be sealed quickly, splitting the station in half air-wise, would positively suck to be on the wrong side of the door from 100% of the life support systems...
There's something seriously wrong with that "wheel chart" of theirs comparing browser and OS dominance.
It shows the "Apple" OS wedge at about 20%. Then it shows the Safari wedge at about 1%. Firefox is popular on the mac platform, but nowhere near THAT popular that (at the very least) 95% of mac users use firefox. ((20-1)/20)
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Why does MS have to make everything more complicated than it should be?
You could hear his anguish miles away!
The only significant risk would be losing or damaging a card. A damaged card would have to be repunched.
The MOST POPULAR program on the mainframe was SORT. It would take a "shuffled deck" (out of order program deck) and sort it back into order. That program got ran quite a few times a day, every day. So getting your deck shuffled really wasn't that big of a deal. More dramatic than damaging.
I was wondering where DLT went too, but then considered that it was never really a "consumer" storage solution. VERY popular in business though, with quite a history. 9Track also. Had to deal with both of those about 10 yrs ago.
What most amazed me is that the MAJORITY of our big customers provided their raw data, and required us to send back the processed goods, on 9Track. And these were big names like Phillip Morris.
But at that time there just wasn't a more economical way to ship large amounts of data.
secret multiplayer javascript spreadsheet game
Interesting until you get too big that even moving a single step is very costly, then you just end up being a stationary fixture, like a dragon that nobody wants to get too close to.
was just gonna say, we can do one better:
Windows 7 Lets You Uninstall IE8
and ubunu lets you uninstall Windows 7
I was hoping they'd be playing some sort of music created from the sequences. listening to some monotone voice recite letters of the alphabet ad-nausium isn't going to attract anyone
oh don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE lego, but this is a question for robotics. Even back then I had a cothesbasket full of legos and I went with capsela for the moving parts and gears that you don't have with lego.
My favourite toys when I was age 5-10 were capsela, construx, and Jr. Radio kits
definitely capsela for them. Motor, switch, gears, easy to put together. I made a "robot" for a ~5th grade "build a robot" project our class had, and the class went wild over it. Mine was definitely the only one with moving parts. The rest were cutout painted cereal boxes etc.
Looks like on the back they removed the DVI hog port to make room for a mini dvi, a mini display, and another usb port.
Why did they add a mini dvi AND a mini display port? Can you attach two monitors to it at the same time now?
seems to be that google decided that it was easier to pay off the writer's guild to prevent them from filing a meritless suit against google for using out-of-copyright materials. I don't consider google the enemy here, I think it's retarded that they had to bribe someone to prevent them from engaging in meritless litigation against them. At least they didn't have to pay a lot for it. Though probably this was the best way for Google to go when it all comes down to it, in today's screwed up legal world.
You should never loose sight of the fact that their are going to be people that speak a different variety of English than your used to hearing.
that display used a backlight that didn't look like it was flexible. It's that white tile below the screen visible when he picks it up to show its flexibility. It's taped down on that green grid below it. (not sure what that's for, if anything)
If that backlight is a CCT with spreader, it certainly won't be flexible.
I'd expect that if the backlight was flexible, it would have been attached to the back of the screen.
Flexible E-ink is not much good if you can't see it.
$344 of actual examples of popular Windows Mobile apps included on the iPhone:
-Dashboard: WorldMate Pro $75 "world clocks and weather forecasts, flight and travel information"
-real email client: Pocket Informant $25 "replacement for Pocket Outlook on the Pocket PC"
-real web browser: none seem to exist.
-real contacts: Photo Contacts PRO $30
-Photo browser: Imageer $15
-iPod: Pocket Player MP3 player $20
-Movies: Pocket DVD studio $30
-TV: HandiTV $20 "watch TV from mobile devices"
-Dial up networking: PDANet $34 "use your mobile as a modem!"
-Calculator: Revolutionary Calculator $30
-Touch screen type input: Full Screen Keyboard $10
-PDF: PDF Reader $25
-Notes: List Pro $30 âoeManage your notesâ
Wow... I had no idea windows mobile apps were so expensive! I just got a touch recently and have about 20 apps installed on it, all but three of which were free. The three I bought were $0.99, $1.99, and $2.99. The most expensive app I saw while browsing was an incredible VNC client that does everything plus makes breakfast, for $24.99. over 1/2 the apps in the above list are more expensive than that.
Does MS get some insane cut on the apps or what? Why are they so incredibly more expensive?
It's just so entertaining to watch people find "free energy" in some form or another, by consuming some commonly available thing to produce energy, all the while completely ignoring the energy required to make the consumable.
Someone once described to me a process by which you use electrolysis to create hydrogen from water, and then burn that to create electricity, the surplus of which you can then use to create more hydrogen. (and you can even improve your yield by using the pure oxygen you are getting as a byproduct when creating the hydrogen!) And water is the free fuel! *SMACK*
My point being that lacking the infrastructure that "stone age" people don't have, you can't have 6 billion people in the forests cutting down trees all day. Logging didn't develop until fairly recently (last 300 yrs?) due to limits on society. The advent of the internal combustion engine and later the chainsaw is what got things moving in the logging industry. Though if you look back a few hundred more years they also used alternate transport like dropping trees into the water and rafting them downstream to the mill, or even using steam powered suspension chains to drag them to the mill. But that still requires civilization to make happen.
from TFA: Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., said he would ask Congress to investigate how to prevent this from happening again.
And you're going to do WHAT? Stop using defense contractors? Train the entire world on common sense? good luck!
A lot of these P2P apps share your entire home or your entire computer by default when you first install them, it's up to you to go in and shut that stuff off, or at least define a specific folder to share from rather than the default.
Tagging this with "windows" isn't fair - it can affect any other system equally, this isn't a software problem, it's a user or developer issue. For example, I've worked on numerous macs with Limewire installed on them that are sharing all the user's music automatically by default.
That would require mass deforestation
I don't think stone age people can clearcut forests....
What would happen is cities would basically cease to exist since the necessary infrastructure to support them would be gone, and all that would be left are rural populations that are much closer to being self-sufficient.
paypal, along with ebay and other services that have an insane number of customers and a virtual product, all have nonexistent support. You just have to pray you don't ever have a serious problem.
There's something a little fishy about this story.
But you'll still swallow it, hook, party line, and sinker
to work out a plan that keeps everyone's business intact.
Well, I'm sure that's close to what he meant to say...
indeed... most sane development teams have a "feature freeze" at some point in their development, preferably before the last beta test cycle begins. If your beta test or focus group or whatever is being used to determine what new features to cobble in at the last minute rather than ironing out bugs and ease of use issues, you can tell it's going to be a rambling wreck when it rolls out the door.
and tonto called, he has tipi in hand and wants you to get your house off his land.
Nowadays, being "first" doesn't make it yours. Having it, and being able to keep it for a sufficient period of time makes it yours.
I was wondering that myself. Of all the systems that could benefit from being distributed, that would seem to be the one. If say, one of the central modules develops a leak (micro meteor etc) and has to be sealed quickly, splitting the station in half air-wise, would positively suck to be on the wrong side of the door from 100% of the life support systems...
There's something seriously wrong with that "wheel chart" of theirs comparing browser and OS dominance.
It shows the "Apple" OS wedge at about 20%. Then it shows the Safari wedge at about 1%. Firefox is popular on the mac platform, but nowhere near THAT popular that (at the very least) 95% of mac users use firefox. ((20-1)/20)