This isn't a question, rather a thank you. When I was a kid, WarGames played on network television for the first time. Later that night, Nightline had an interview with you where Ted Koppel posed the question "What would you do if someone hacked into your systems?" you reply "I'd hire him". Thank you for that! I had been dabbling in program on your Apple ][ and other home computers, but my parents didn't see a future in it. Not until they heard your response. Without there support I wouldn't be a software engineer today!
When the game-blaster was $500 or so we made our own thank you.:)
I used to get reels of matching resistors and make soundcards for everyone I knew with a PC.
Originally released by Covox, it was simple to make your own, and way cheaper than everything on the market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing
Wario Touched (She played this first and has pretty much mastered it) Monkey Ball (She only likes Monkey Bowling) Cooking Mama 1 (We picked up Cooking Mama 2 for Christmas) Dora Saves the Mermaids (Kind of disapointing, she mastered the game in 10 minutes, and now refuses to play it anymore)
Because what Congress and the CRB (Copyright Royalty Board) set up was a compulsory license, which means that SoundExchange represents and collects money for ALL artists/labels, regardless.
You have to pay SoundExchange a yearly membership as an artist/label to receive money they do collect and they don't say what they do with the money they collect for artists that have no label and dont sign up for membership, apparently this is free money for their coffers.
I travel once every 3 months or so. My technology of choice is a PocketPC Cell Phone (not a smartphone) with Bluetooth / EVDO/GPRS / SD-slot, a Bluetooth GPS and a decent 4-6Mpx camera with SD-slot, and a SD chip. You can pick up a wireless IRDA or BT keyboard if you want. This combination allows me to do pretty much everything I want (technically) while on the road/trail (music,geocaching,shopping,email,web).
Get some more SD cards for your music, and run solid state 100%, I wouldn't want to take any device with a harddrive around the world.
Current arsenal: Audiovox PPC-6700, Pharos BT GPS, 2gb SanDisk SD, Canon PS SD500. Total weight is less than 1lbs, great for a backpack.
I totally agree with the author. When my daughter was born; she's 2 1/2 now; I made the decision that I wanted her to learn about programming and computers like I did. I look back on my childhood and I've never thought of the Commodore64 or Apple][e as lacking, in fact all I ever saw was potential. So I too went on eBay and picked up 3 vic-20's and 2 C-64's for her when she's old enough to want to play.
I don't see how the glitz of windows or osx will help her in anyway other than to confuse her.
All of the classic computers just sat there doing nothing, a blinking cursor. It was up to you to make it do "anything"! I love that! A device that is totally under my control. Look at today's computers: Multi-processor, multi-threaded applications, no one can tell me they know exactly what their modern computer is doing at any point in time, save for the robust *nix user who in all probability had a c64 or apple when they where a kid.
So for my daughter, she will have the same benefit as I did. Total control. Yes it's crude, yes the 'language' has been superseded over and over, but the fundamentals have not. That's what I believe she needs. "BASIC" Fundamentals.
Remember the old Commodore Vic-20 Commercials? 25 years have passed, the situation is the same. People don't hire kids who are good at Video Games.
I was thinking about a project like this when I was a wee little kid. Back then I though that you could send the scan thru an oscillating crystal, but it never would have worked out. Oh and the fact that a blue laser (or full color?) was in the 10's of thousands of dollars.
But more importantly was how to solve the Vertical scan issue?
Simple, A hexagonal mirrored surface (add more surfaces, get a higher refresh rate).
This way you only need the one horizontal high-speed scan, and a 'relatively' slow Vertical scan.
Apply it to movie theaters... up the wattage of the lasers used and the number of surfaces on the vertical drum. Take that IMAX!
Well, I'm sure it will never happen. but when I was 16, boy could I dream:)
The difference is that writing a paper that can stand a proof-read means it has one execution path, you read the article top to bottom and are done.
A program has any number of execution combinations, and without a decent test-harness some paths may not be checked. If ever piece of software written was tested in every concievable scenario we wouldnt have any bugs, when that day comes I'll be a happy coder. The more 'features' one adds to a program, the problems of detecting bugs increases. Simply creating a piece of code once that doesnt break, doesnt mean the addition of more code that does something else wont break the older code.
So for every new line of code, you have to go back and verify that all the previous lines of code have no negative outcome to the new line. So we developers use our experience and foresight to hopefully avoid this problem, but the problem can still occur... How many rev's of the Linux kernel we upto now?
But what is a Bug? Is it simply that a new piece of code was written poorly? Is the bug the new code you wrote, or the interaction with the old code? I can write solid bug free code all day long, as long as it doesnt have to interact with anything.
What happens when the DRM solution is broken, like hymn and itunes... Does this mean that if the DRM solution we pick gets broken, we're breaking the law?
...and the Award goes to Slashdot flamers who read the first paragraph of an article before getting diarrhea of the mouth.
"This is a spoof article. Please compare it with the original and you will see how little it has been changed"
"Constructed by Chris McEvoy with apologies to Jakob Nielsen."
It's pretty simple to get around that patent. The verbage talks about an MP3 Player. Well, don't play MP3's over it, do m4a or wma. Problem solved. Does Apple call the iPod an MP3 Player exclusively, no. There other option is to not meet one of the requirements of the patent for violation.
>> 8. The assembly of claim 1, wherein the FM transmitter produces an output frequency audio signal in a range of from about 85 to about 95 Megaherz.
Aside from the horrible spelling job on the patent, simply broadcast from 100mhz to 108mhz.
The patent is precise in it's usage around the iPod, it's FM Broadcast portion is very vauge.
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This seems more like an Ad than a news post.
3 years before Intel. Cyrix at Comdex 98' with their WebPad. x86 CPU, Harris wireless, Resistive touch screen.
https://archive.org/details/CC...
This isn't a question, rather a thank you. When I was a kid, WarGames played on network television for the first time. Later that night, Nightline had an interview with you where Ted Koppel posed the question "What would you do if someone hacked into your systems?" you reply "I'd hire him". Thank you for that! I had been dabbling in program on your Apple ][ and other home computers, but my parents didn't see a future in it. Not until they heard your response. Without there support I wouldn't be a software engineer today!
When the game-blaster was $500 or so we made our own thank you. :)
I used to get reels of matching resistors and make soundcards for everyone I knew with a PC.
Originally released by Covox, it was simple to make your own, and way cheaper than everything on the market.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing
Formerly sold at Radius Shack as an OEM product. I learned on Radio Shack's earlier version the 100-1 Electronic Project Kit when I was 10.
Elenco 200-in-1 Electronic Project Lab, you can find it on amazon.
How long before the doomsday (12-21-12) nut jobs connect the dots?
Wario Touched (She played this first and has pretty much mastered it)
Monkey Ball (She only likes Monkey Bowling)
Cooking Mama 1 (We picked up Cooking Mama 2 for Christmas)
Dora Saves the Mermaids (Kind of disapointing, she mastered the game in 10 minutes, and now refuses to play it anymore)
Because what Congress and the CRB (Copyright Royalty Board) set up was a compulsory license, which means that SoundExchange represents and collects money for ALL artists/labels, regardless.
You have to pay SoundExchange a yearly membership as an artist/label to receive money they do collect and they don't say what they do with the money they collect for artists that have no label and dont sign up for membership, apparently this is free money for their coffers.
Must be one of those slow news days we've heard about.
I travel once every 3 months or so. My technology of choice is a PocketPC Cell Phone (not a smartphone) with Bluetooth / EVDO/GPRS / SD-slot, a Bluetooth GPS and a decent 4-6Mpx camera with SD-slot, and a SD chip. You can pick up a wireless IRDA or BT keyboard if you want. This combination allows me to do pretty much everything I want (technically) while on the road/trail (music,geocaching,shopping,email,web).
Get some more SD cards for your music, and run solid state 100%, I wouldn't want to take any device with a harddrive around the world.
Current arsenal: Audiovox PPC-6700, Pharos BT GPS, 2gb SanDisk SD, Canon PS SD500. Total weight is less than 1lbs, great for a backpack.
I heard there's a new pirate movie out today. I don't know the name of it, but I hear is rated 'Arrrr'
I don't see how the glitz of windows or osx will help her in anyway other than to confuse her.
All of the classic computers just sat there doing nothing, a blinking cursor. It was up to you to make it do "anything"! I love that! A device that is totally under my control. Look at today's computers: Multi-processor, multi-threaded applications, no one can tell me they know exactly what their modern computer is doing at any point in time, save for the robust *nix user who in all probability had a c64 or apple when they where a kid.
So for my daughter, she will have the same benefit as I did. Total control. Yes it's crude, yes the 'language' has been superseded over and over, but the fundamentals have not. That's what I believe she needs. "BASIC" Fundamentals.
Remember the old Commodore Vic-20 Commercials? 25 years have passed, the situation is the same. People don't hire kids who are good at Video Games.
With the Magic Commodore Key C= :)
10 REM hide your stuff from the fuzz 20 POKE 53280,0 : POKE 53281,0
I was thinking about a project like this when I was a wee little kid. Back then I though that you could send the scan thru an oscillating crystal, but it never would have worked out. Oh and the fact that a blue laser (or full color?) was in the 10's of thousands of dollars.
:)
But more importantly was how to solve the Vertical scan issue?
Simple, A hexagonal mirrored surface (add more surfaces, get a higher refresh rate).
This way you only need the one horizontal high-speed scan, and a 'relatively' slow Vertical scan.
Apply it to movie theaters... up the wattage of the lasers used and the number of surfaces on the vertical drum. Take that IMAX!
Well, I'm sure it will never happen. but when I was 16, boy could I dream
The difference is that writing a paper that can stand a proof-read means it has one execution path, you read the article top to bottom and are done.
A program has any number of execution combinations, and without a decent test-harness some paths may not be checked. If ever piece of software written was tested in every concievable scenario we wouldnt have any bugs, when that day comes I'll be a happy coder. The more 'features' one adds to a program, the problems of detecting bugs increases. Simply creating a piece of code once that doesnt break, doesnt mean the addition of more code that does something else wont break the older code.
So for every new line of code, you have to go back and verify that all the previous lines of code have no negative outcome to the new line. So we developers use our experience and foresight to hopefully avoid this problem, but the problem can still occur... How many rev's of the Linux kernel we upto now?
But what is a Bug? Is it simply that a new piece of code was written poorly?
Is the bug the new code you wrote, or the interaction with the old code? I can write solid bug free code all day long, as long as it doesnt have to interact with anything.
What happens when the DRM solution is broken, like hymn and itunes... Does this mean that if the DRM solution we pick gets broken, we're breaking the law?
Why settle and get both, I know I'm glad I did, now they arent lonely on the shelf collecting dust.
Ron Howard could be listening...
"This is a spoof article. Please compare it with the original and you will see how little it has been changed"
"Constructed by Chris McEvoy with apologies to Jakob Nielsen."
>> 8. The assembly of claim 1, wherein the FM transmitter produces an output frequency audio signal in a range of from about 85 to about 95 Megaherz.
Aside from the horrible spelling job on the patent, simply broadcast from 100mhz to 108mhz. The patent is precise in it's usage around the iPod, it's FM Broadcast portion is very vauge.
OS/2
Thanks for the heads-up. Anything music related, except for our top 10 picks have been removed from the site.