That's a nice CGA screen you have. In graphics mode there may be 16 total colors, but you could only use 4 of them at a time. EGA did 16 out of 64 IIRC. EGA was great for playing Falcon AT on a 286. The first VGA screens I saw were 320x200 with 256 colors.
I get mine well after I checked and downloaded the free track for each week. The track is made available early Tuesday morning (PST) and Japan's site is updated around noon (PST).
Any coincidence that iTunes music store (at least in the US and Japan) did not have a "New Music Tuesday" this week? No email notice and nothing but last week's offering on iTunes for now.
Yellow Dog Linux is an Apple "Value Added Reseller". From their website:
A Unique Apple Reseller
Terra Soft, an Apple Authorized OEM VAR (Value Added Reseller) is granted a unique license to install Yellow Dog Linux on Apple computers and maintain full Apple hardware warranty for home, commercial, education, and government customers.
If that isn't approval by Apple, I don't know what is.
While I forgot what these phone books were called, they do give out phone numbers:
I did computer work on the side for a mortgage company back in the mid-90's, and they had the most interesting phonebooks. The phone company has a special white pages that are leased to certain companies that list phone numbers not by customer/company names, but by street address. All numbers are included in this book, even unlisted ones. While I was able to manage to leaf through one, the owner of the business treated them like they were solid gold.
The phone company has all sorts of lists. So does just about anyone else. Anything you buy that may show a certain interest, predisposition to buying over the phone, give to charity, new home owner, you name it - a list exists to be bought and sold.
Works for me. If there's a trend of only black people being idiots in the store then there's a case for a civil rights violation. I tend to believe idiocy is an equal-opportunity attribute.
"We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone"?
You can refuse to deal with a customer because they are a jerk, they want to do something illegal and open you up to liability -- especially if you were told of their intent in the first place. The gun store in question can refuse, and if the customer makes a scene the store calls the police to handle a trespassing issue. I'm sure the customer would love to wait for the cops to explain the reason why she (or he, according to recent court decisions) was asked to leave.
You cannot refuse service based on certain other reasons that are protected, like race, sex, religion, etc.
Perhaps they will vaporize it before it comes too close. It's obviously DRM-free, and the United Corporations of America would not like it falling into the wrong hands.
There are two ways of securing the computers, but first you need to make a choice:
1. Use the computers in an unsecured (unclassified) area 2. Classify the entire area the computers are in
If #1, you will need to make sure that the area has no uncleared personnel while the classified info is processed and that the drives on the computer are removable and lockable and can be placed into a secure area (like a Mosler safe) for storage when not in use.
If #2, you will secure an area of the building. The advantages to this is that the entire floor or room is secure. PCs in this area can be regular off-the-shelf jobs because the room itself needs to be secured with an alarm, appropriate locks, etc. for access control.
If you really want to get into the nastiness with classified data, try transferring data (unclassified) from a classified system to a non-classified one and see the hoops you need to jump through. Do it improperly and you have another classified system to deal with. That's a real pisser if it winds up being your personal notebook.
(Or World of Atari?) back in Vegas in 1999, I was a volunteer who helped set up Mr. Baer's "Brown Box" unit for a speech he was giving later that day. Some components had small pink stickers on them. I asked about them and he said they were evidence tags from his court appearances.
We were setting up the prototype for the demo and we tried it out playing pong against each other for a few minutes.
Satisfied the machine was working properly, I got up to attend other matters. A small group of people who were watching said "You played Pong with Ralph Baer?" and I suddenly realized what I had just done - and on the original prototype too... It would have been a great moment to take a photo of it while it was happening and I even had my camera there.
Ralph Baer was quite entertaining and a rather nice guy to talk to.
Actually my old LP of the band "The Vapors" (or was it "The Vapours"?) says "New Clear Days" and features a weatherman pointing to radiation symbols in false-color.
The other album was called "Magnets" and a relatively new CD is/was in print called "Anthology"
Little else is known about ROM Mark at this time, except that the statement describes it as being undetectable to consumers. This is noteworthy in itself, since a previously heralded watermark applied to first-generation DVDs was notoriously defeated by someone writing over it with a permanent marker.
Huh? Wasn't this instead the first generation or two of CD copy protection that used sessions to lock out computers?
Watermarking was defeated by Edward Felten as part of the SDMI challenge. I never heard of it in the DVD market aside from so-called special codes encoded into screener discs to add traceability and prevent their distribution.
Yes, I heard those also. They wre quite the subject of conversation back then.
One time the shuttle passed directly over Los Angeles and it really rattled things around. Since the booms are short and occur once per shuttle launch (one every few weeks or months) they never got annoying. It'd be just:
"B-Boom!!" (a peculiar double-boom)
"What's that!?!"
"Oh, looks like the shuttle came home again"
And we then go about our business. You could tell the space geeks from the rest of the population easily by the booms: the geeks would never ask what it was, 'cause they already knew. The hardcore ones would look at their watch, pause and listen, then go about their work.
Yup, I heard them. It was a good sound, I haven't heard the booms from the shuttle since it started landing in Florida. Back in the late 80's you heard them all the time in Los Angeles.
Well, I was also playing arcades back in elementary school. For me, the jump from arcade machines to computers was pretty significant.
Come to think of it, in 8th grade ('79/'80), my Jr. high school had a Radio Shack Model I and a tape drive. The school didn't know what to do with it and it just sat there unused in a math class - we did know what to do with it. We fired up Dancing Demon, Star Trek and Battle of Midway.
In America, for example, half of the population plays computer or video games. However most players are under 40--according to Nielsen, a market-research firm, 76% of them--while most critics of gaming are over 40. An entire generation that began gaming as children has kept playing.
This rings true for me. I'll be 39 this year, and what makes that significant dates all the way back to high school. During my last year or so in HS in 1983/1984, computers were finally introduced to the students (Radio Shack Model III's, Atari 800's and a couple of Apple II's).
If I were a year older and went to school a year earlier I never would have been exposed to computers. The school at that time had them readily available to play with and my folks would never buy such an expensive "toy". I would have went on through life doing something else.
So I can easily see why the "over 40" crowd would not understand. That group would have had to wait until college for an opportunity to see a computer and probably only would if they were in the appropriate majors.
Those couple years were also the years that brought out the home computer revolution. The people who used them extensively were the kids at the time and they used them for games. Those kids would be 40 or under now.
Japanese salarymen do this partying with their coworkers after hours -karaoke, bars, etc.
They also don't frown on public drunkeness over there, and as far as I can tell it isn't even a crime. Frozen pools of vomit are commonplace on the train station and subway steps during the morings on cold winters.
Getting drunk and acting like a fool (note: fool, not asshat) after hours is an expected part of the culture and are not usually held against the employee by the boss the next day.
No, but I did have another "worthless project" that turned into gold for her.
She likes to watch Japanese programming: comedies, dramas and music programs. We can't get them here in the states - that was until we discovered Bittorrent. Now the TiVo won't cooperate there, but those two XBOXes sure would after I slapped XBMC on them.
Now I have someone who used to use computers for web, email and office apps now cruising the torrent sites, running Azureus, downloading her files while maintaining a proper ratio, copying them over to the share, and running XBMC.
I could not believe my ears when I was at Fry's one day and my wife asked me about TiVo and why we didn't have one.
So I asked her to repeat herself and she did. She then wondered if I had ever heard of one and I replied that I certainly did know what one was - but with the lifetime service and the cost of the unit, it would be nearly $500 when we were done with it.
She seemed disappointed. I was again in shock. Why the hell was she interested in a piece of "geek gear"? The answer was: Oprah talked about it one day and said how neat it was.
I then replied "Did Oprah talk about how cool those new 2.5GHz Powermacs are? The ones with the new huge cinema displays?
All that got me was a dirty look. Still, by the end of the month we had a new TiVo. And TiVo - it's TV HER way.
I miss you more then Michael Bay missed the mark When he made Pearl Harbor I miss you more than that movie missed the point And that's an awful lot girl And now, now you've gone away And all I'm trying to say is Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you
I need u like Ben Affleck needs acting school He was terrible in that film I need u like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part He's way better than Ben Affleck And now all I can think about is your smile and that shitty movie too Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you
Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies? I guess Pearl Harbor sucked Just a little bit more than I miss you
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It was $3000 just yesterday. Technically it was $2499 two weeks ago, because that's how far back Apple's price protection goes.
That's a nice CGA screen you have. In graphics mode there may be 16 total colors, but you could only use 4 of them at a time. EGA did 16 out of 64 IIRC. EGA was great for playing Falcon AT on a 286. The first VGA screens I saw were 320x200 with 256 colors.
I get mine well after I checked and downloaded the free track for each week. The track is made available early Tuesday morning (PST) and Japan's site is updated around noon (PST).
Nothing yet as of Wednesday.
Any coincidence that iTunes music store (at least in the US and Japan) did not have a "New Music Tuesday" this week? No email notice and nothing but last week's offering on iTunes for now.
They do - in a way.
Yellow Dog Linux is an Apple "Value Added Reseller". From their website:
A Unique Apple Reseller
Terra Soft, an Apple Authorized OEM VAR (Value Added Reseller) is granted a unique license to install Yellow Dog Linux on Apple computers and maintain full Apple hardware warranty for home, commercial, education, and government customers.
If that isn't approval by Apple, I don't know what is.
You mean "Michael Hertz Associates, NYC"? (check copyright section in lower left)
They seem to have done a lot of maps for the MTA. No web page for them turned up on a quick google search.
While I forgot what these phone books were called, they do give out phone numbers:
I did computer work on the side for a mortgage company back in the mid-90's, and they had the most interesting phonebooks. The phone company has a special white pages that are leased to certain companies that list phone numbers not by customer/company names, but by street address. All numbers are included in this book, even unlisted ones. While I was able to manage to leaf through one, the owner of the business treated them like they were solid gold.
The phone company has all sorts of lists. So does just about anyone else. Anything you buy that may show a certain interest, predisposition to buying over the phone, give to charity, new home owner, you name it - a list exists to be bought and sold.
Wow! Deja-Vu!
Just like DVD-R and DVD+R. Apple supporing Blu-Ray made this no big surprise.
Works for me. If there's a trend of only black people being idiots in the store then there's a case for a civil rights violation. I tend to believe idiocy is an equal-opportunity attribute.
Whatever happened to this little sign:
"We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone"?
You can refuse to deal with a customer because they are a jerk, they want to do something illegal and open you up to liability -- especially if you were told of their intent in the first place. The gun store in question can refuse, and if the customer makes a scene the store calls the police to handle a trespassing issue. I'm sure the customer would love to wait for the cops to explain the reason why she (or he, according to recent court decisions) was asked to leave.
You cannot refuse service based on certain other reasons that are protected, like race, sex, religion, etc.
Perhaps they will vaporize it before it comes too close. It's obviously DRM-free, and the United Corporations of America would not like it falling into the wrong hands.
There are two ways of securing the computers, but first you need to make a choice:
1. Use the computers in an unsecured (unclassified) area
2. Classify the entire area the computers are in
If #1, you will need to make sure that the area has no uncleared personnel while the classified info is processed and that the drives on the computer are removable and lockable and can be placed into a secure area (like a Mosler safe) for storage when not in use.
If #2, you will secure an area of the building. The advantages to this is that the entire floor or room is secure. PCs in this area can be regular off-the-shelf jobs because the room itself needs to be secured with an alarm, appropriate locks, etc. for access control.
If you really want to get into the nastiness with classified data, try transferring data (unclassified) from a classified system to a non-classified one and see the hoops you need to jump through. Do it improperly and you have another classified system to deal with. That's a real pisser if it winds up being your personal notebook.
(Or World of Atari?) back in Vegas in 1999, I was a volunteer who helped set up Mr. Baer's "Brown Box" unit for a speech he was giving later that day. Some components had small pink stickers on them. I asked about them and he said they were evidence tags from his court appearances.
We were setting up the prototype for the demo and we tried it out playing pong against each other for a few minutes.
Satisfied the machine was working properly, I got up to attend other matters. A small group of people who were watching said "You played Pong with Ralph Baer?" and I suddenly realized what I had just done - and on the original prototype too... It would have been a great moment to take a photo of it while it was happening and I even had my camera there.
Ralph Baer was quite entertaining and a rather nice guy to talk to.
Actually my old LP of the band "The Vapors" (or was it "The Vapours"?) says "New Clear Days" and features a weatherman pointing to radiation symbols in false-color.
The other album was called "Magnets" and a relatively new CD is/was in print called "Anthology"
Little else is known about ROM Mark at this time, except that the statement describes it as being undetectable to consumers. This is noteworthy in itself, since a previously heralded watermark applied to first-generation DVDs was notoriously defeated by someone writing over it with a permanent marker.
Huh? Wasn't this instead the first generation or two of CD copy protection that used sessions to lock out computers?
Watermarking was defeated by Edward Felten as part of the SDMI challenge. I never heard of it in the DVD market aside from so-called special codes encoded into screener discs to add traceability and prevent their distribution.
Yes, I heard those also. They wre quite the subject of conversation back then.
One time the shuttle passed directly over Los Angeles and it really rattled things around. Since the booms are short and occur once per shuttle launch (one every few weeks or months) they never got annoying. It'd be just:
"B-Boom!!" (a peculiar double-boom)
"What's that!?!"
"Oh, looks like the shuttle came home again"
And we then go about our business. You could tell the space geeks from the rest of the population easily by the booms: the geeks would never ask what it was, 'cause they already knew. The hardcore ones would look at their watch, pause and listen, then go about their work.
Yup, I heard them. It was a good sound, I haven't heard the booms from the shuttle since it started landing in Florida. Back in the late 80's you heard them all the time in Los Angeles.
Well, I was also playing arcades back in elementary school. For me, the jump from arcade machines to computers was pretty significant.
Come to think of it, in 8th grade ('79/'80), my Jr. high school had a Radio Shack Model I and a tape drive. The school didn't know what to do with it and it just sat there unused in a math class - we did know what to do with it. We fired up Dancing Demon, Star Trek and Battle of Midway.
In America, for example, half of the population plays computer or video games. However most players are under 40--according to Nielsen, a market-research firm, 76% of them--while most critics of gaming are over 40. An entire generation that began gaming as children has kept playing.
This rings true for me. I'll be 39 this year, and what makes that significant dates all the way back to high school. During my last year or so in HS in 1983/1984, computers were finally introduced to the students (Radio Shack Model III's, Atari 800's and a couple of Apple II's).
If I were a year older and went to school a year earlier I never would have been exposed to computers. The school at that time had them readily available to play with and my folks would never buy such an expensive "toy". I would have went on through life doing something else.
So I can easily see why the "over 40" crowd would not understand. That group would have had to wait until college for an opportunity to see a computer and probably only would if they were in the appropriate majors.
Those couple years were also the years that brought out the home computer revolution. The people who used them extensively were the kids at the time and they used them for games. Those kids would be 40 or under now.
Well, the after-work socialization is expected and pretty much mandatory.
If one refuses to participate, they are violating the team spirit that is part of the Japanese work ethic which can also be career-limiting.
Still, the Japanese love to tie one on whenever they get a chance. It's one of the few socially acceptable ways to let loose in their society.
Japanese salarymen do this partying with their coworkers after hours -karaoke, bars, etc.
They also don't frown on public drunkeness over there, and as far as I can tell it isn't even a crime. Frozen pools of vomit are commonplace on the train station and subway steps during the morings on cold winters.
Getting drunk and acting like a fool (note: fool, not asshat) after hours is an expected part of the culture and are not usually held against the employee by the boss the next day.
Well, there were the Godaikin "Goraion" (get it? five lions?) available through 1985/1986.
The original series was called "Hyaku Juu oo Goraion" or "King of 100 beasts Go Lion". It enjoyed a run on Japanese TV from about 1981 to 1982.
Check google for "golion" and "torrent" to see if the fansubs of the first few episodes are still available.
No, but I did have another "worthless project" that turned into gold for her.
She likes to watch Japanese programming: comedies, dramas and music programs. We can't get them here in the states - that was until we discovered Bittorrent. Now the TiVo won't cooperate there, but those two XBOXes sure would after I slapped XBMC on them.
Now I have someone who used to use computers for web, email and office apps now cruising the torrent sites, running Azureus, downloading her files while maintaining a proper ratio, copying them over to the share, and running XBMC.
I could not believe my ears when I was at Fry's one day and my wife asked me about TiVo and why we didn't have one.
So I asked her to repeat herself and she did. She then wondered if I had ever heard of one and I replied that I certainly did know what one was - but with the lifetime service and the cost of the unit, it would be nearly $500 when we were done with it.
She seemed disappointed. I was again in shock. Why the hell was she interested in a piece of "geek gear"? The answer was: Oprah talked about it one day and said how neat it was.
I then replied "Did Oprah talk about how cool those new 2.5GHz Powermacs are? The ones with the new huge cinema displays?
All that got me was a dirty look. Still, by the end of the month we had a new TiVo. And TiVo - it's TV HER way.
I just can't resist posting this:
Pearl Harbor from Team America
I miss you more then Michael Bay missed the mark
When he made Pearl Harbor
I miss you more than that movie missed the point
And that's an awful lot girl
And now, now you've gone away
And all I'm trying to say is
Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you
I need u like Ben Affleck needs acting school
He was terrible in that film
I need u like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part
He's way better than Ben Affleck
And now all I can think about is your smile
and that shitty movie too
Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you
Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies?
I guess Pearl Harbor sucked
Just a little bit more than I miss you