I don't know about everything else but I just priced a replacement battery for my laptop: $209 at three different sources. Not exactly the kind of thing where I could keep 2 or 3 spares around. Thats 40% of what I paid for the whole box. How did batteries get so damn expensive?
A looooong time ago, at a college not too far away, 1/2 inch tape drives were in very common use. The capstan motors were capable of small movements and could be reversed quickly. IBM had a demonstration set up at one of our E-Days programs with a paper speaker cone mounted on a small stick. The stick was clamped to a capstan and they had a program running to play quite acceptable quality music. IIRC, they could even control the volume. Since this was over 30 years ago, I don't remember all the details but I was impressed at the time.
I was in a semi-technical maintenance job when our first child was born. We has a PC in the house, DOS 2.something, color graphics, and an amazing 10 meg hard drive. We came downstairs one morning when he was about 3. He had gotten out of bed and come down to the computer, cold booted it, gone through 2 levels of test menus, and was playing some game we had for him. It just took off from there. By 4th grade, he was helping out the first grade teachers with their old Apples. 6th grade science fair project was a working display with a poster board backdrop. No Powerpoint but all the labels and notes were done on the color inkjet and cut and pasted on the project. Now studing Cisco in high school. Guess what? He is fairly well adjusted socially, has friends of both sexes, is involved with school and church activities. To me, he typifies a modern person. The computer has always been present in his life. It is just another tool like a knife and fork or a book. You use it for what it is good for, nothing else. He takes notes in class on a laptop because his handwritting is attricious - he has a health problem that affects his fine motor control. No ammount of paper and pencil practice will ever improve that. When he turns in a printed report, it gets graded on content because the teacher can actually read it without struggling. He did have the advantage of attending a "fundamental" public school where they actually expected the students to learn the basics and do homework. Basic skills were taught and access to computers was where appropriate. This is how I thing computers should be used in education - just another useful tool, not a crutch. Always there, not abused or overused.
I suppose we fit the target demographic but my question is why would we want it? Nobody outside our facility has any use for the majority of data we create and store locally. Even the facility 2 blocks away where the Suits live only wants statistical summaries. One page for multiple megabytes of data. Access to everything we produce all over the country would drown almost any system. Local (well, fileserver) storage works well for most everything, the national systems only have to deal with what they NEED.
BTW, my personal tax information is safe and secure on my local hard drive with a Zip disk and tape backup. They won't be data mining my returns.
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Its been discussed higher in the thread but you are reading and posting in a U S forum. There are lots of international users but the servers and administration are in the U S. I really think a halfway astute reader would be able to know and understand the context where he is posting. In case you really didn't know, our standard date format is mm/dd/yy. When I deal with your side of the pond, I accept you guys think that a "," is the decimal separator, not the correct ".".
I have seen most of these quotes before but I have never seen them attributed to any written or published work of these men. Without such supporting evidence, I have to assume they are the figments of someone's inagination.
I've been associated with 3 wet cellphones. One dropped in a sink, one in my kids pocket when he was thrown into a tank, and one dropped into a flowing gutter. All were audiovox and under warantee. One started working by itself in a couple of days with no special treatment. The other 2 were dried carefully and remained DOA. Sent them for service and was told they were water damaged, unrepairable and would not be replaced under warantee. 1 for 3. Since phones are used everywhere, why can't they make them a least a little waterproof?
I guess if you've squirrled away a few million dollars in the bank, its easy to spout off and take the credit. Most of us, however, have things like rent or a mortgage, maybe a family, and definitly a future to worry about. Especially if you have inside information, you can't always afford to have your name tied to what you say. I usually post under my name now but for a long time, I was only an A C. There are still occasional issues where my comments will be without my nick. Some of the A C's are clearly lowlifes but others have things to say that are better or more safely said minus their identity. I don't automatically disregard the A C's but check out what they say first (well, at least if they somehow get +1 where I browse).
Maybe you'd like some POWER for this thing, or have you learned something from Tesla about transmitting electricity that the rest of the world doesn't yet know?
Gee, I used to have some chips around here that came from the factory with little windows in them. They were really funny,tho. If you shined one of those ulrtaviolet light thingies on them, they wouldn't work any more. I think they were EPROM or some name like that.
Any relevant data to back up that claim? We're only talking a 9mm hole and a couple of pounds of pressure differential here. It seems to me if the slug went out forward, the pressure would actually increase, a 500 mph wind causes a lot of pressure. If someone is taking over the plane, my life is likely toast anyway so I would be willing to risk a couple of small holes.
I didn't see any hint of white supremist talk and you only see racism if the whole idea offends you. I can just about guarntee that white will not be the color of a blended race: brown, yellow, or black maybe, but not white. Yea, I'm white and know there are far too few of us to dominate in the long run. I have a couple of friends who are in inter-racial marrages and, guess what, the kids aren't white or even light skinned. With our sensitivity to sun and inclination to skin cancer, we're really in a pretty weak position geniticly, anyway.
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In SCUBA class, I was taught that it is the partial pressure of oxygen that is the problem, not just pure oxygen. The safe limit for any exposure is 2 atmospheres. Normal air is about 1/5 O2 so you need 10 atm. of air to produce a partial pressure of O2 equal to 2 atm. This happens at about 400 feet under water. This is considered the safe limit for diving on air. Any deeper and a special mix is used with a reduced oxygen content. Hyperbaric chambers used to treat altitude sickness and a variety of other things face the same limit - less that 2 atm of O2. Pure O2 at.2 atm. gives you the smae effect as air at 1 atm. so this is why space capsules can use oxyben at low pressures.
Gee, I looked at the link and discovered that the government is expected to pay for using the services of the Post Office. If you really looked at the sheets, you would dicover little details like salaries are the largest single expense, capitol construction is there, retirement costs are in there, too. I wish we got a ton of tax money, it would make things a whole lot more plesant. Also, FYI, it is Congress that makes the laws about how we operate. They decided that a flat rate, universal first class mail service was in the best interests of the whole country. I'd have no problem giving up the first class monopoly but the competetors would need to play by the same rules - deliver to every mailbox in the whole country six days a week, no skimming on just the high volume routes. Any takers on that basis?
I hardly think EVERYONE agrees its a little more. In my case, its $70 a month more even including the 3 cell phones. The article was pretty vague but unless they throw in a whole bunch of extra features, the price is outrageous. If it becomes at all popular, I also wonder just how much capacity a video-on-demand system can have.
I have dialup and a second line for a couple of reasons: I have teenagers and the second line gets used for regular calls and the fax. Also, DSL is not available and I don't like the cable company. Oh, having a fat pipe at work helps too - anything big just gets burned to disk at work and carried home. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a cd in the pocket.
Hey! I'm a baby boomer and I'd vote to use tax money for this in my city in a flash. A fair number of us are computer savy and would love a city-wide network. I still almost cry when I see the Ricochet box on the street light in sight of my house (and no DSL available).
1. Oh! I didn't know that my SLR 35's didn't have a preview. Not everybody uses digital for the LCD screen, I'd almost pay extra for one without that power-sucking feature. I like a viewfinder and use digital mainly for the ease in processing and the capacity of the CF cards.
2. Am I the only one in the world who wouldn't mind carring a belt pack with extra battery power to have decent life and a reasonably powerful flash? I remember carring a 510 volt battery on my hip for a long time because it gave me a strobe with a 40' range and 2 second recycle times. Talk about being able to get those otherwise missed shots.
3. This would not be a toy for the masses but for serious amatures and pros who already have a serious investment in a quality system and accessories. Custom backs for a few Nikons and Canons would cover most of the market.
4. Removable storage? A simple CF slot on those few custom backs we already decided on. How many gigs do you need?
Maybe RECREATION.photo.digital isn't the place for such discussions.
OK, do you mean under 50 Mhz since you were talking about a snapshot at 30Mhz? Dang near everything except cell phones operates under 500MHz including aircraft at about 120.
I think it far more likely that big dishes are there to do a good job of receiving a very weak signal from a long way away. Satellite customers don't like noise and dropouts.
I read the insert in my bill almost by accident. They stuff the bill with all kinds of ads and I barely noticed it was something different. I went immediately to my computer, accessed the listed web site, and opted out without incident. Nothing broken then - a couple of weeks ago.
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If you write See ID on the signature line of your card and try to use it at any Post Office, it will be rejected. Cards must technically be signed to be valid.
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I don't know about everything else but I just priced a replacement battery for my laptop: $209 at three different sources. Not exactly the kind of thing where I could keep 2 or 3 spares around. Thats 40% of what I paid for the whole box.
How did batteries get so damn expensive?
A looooong time ago, at a college not too far away, 1/2 inch tape drives were in very common use. The capstan motors were capable of small movements and could be reversed quickly. IBM had a demonstration set up at one of our E-Days programs with a paper speaker cone mounted on a small stick. The stick was clamped to a capstan and they had a program running to play quite acceptable quality music. IIRC, they could even control the volume. Since this was over 30 years ago, I don't remember all the details but I was impressed at the time.
I was in a semi-technical maintenance job when our first child was born. We has a PC in the house, DOS 2.something, color graphics, and an amazing 10 meg hard drive. We came downstairs one morning when he was about 3. He had gotten out of bed and come down to the computer, cold booted it, gone through 2 levels of test menus, and was playing some game we had for him. It just took off from there. By 4th grade, he was helping out the first grade teachers with their old Apples. 6th grade science fair project was a working display with a poster board backdrop. No Powerpoint but all the labels and notes were done on the color inkjet and cut and pasted on the project. Now studing Cisco in high school. Guess what? He is fairly well adjusted socially, has friends of both sexes, is involved with school and church activities. To me, he typifies a modern person. The computer has always been present in his life. It is just another tool like a knife and fork or a book. You use it for what it is good for, nothing else. He takes notes in class on a laptop because his handwritting is attricious - he has a health problem that affects his fine motor control. No ammount of paper and pencil practice will ever improve that. When he turns in a printed report, it gets graded on content because the teacher can actually read it without struggling. He did have the advantage of attending a "fundamental" public school where they actually expected the students to learn the basics and do homework. Basic skills were taught and access to computers was where appropriate. This is how I thing computers should be used in education - just another useful tool, not a crutch. Always there, not abused or overused.
I suppose we fit the target demographic but my question is why would we want it? Nobody outside our facility has any use for the majority of data we create and store locally. Even the facility 2 blocks away where the Suits live only wants statistical summaries. One page for multiple megabytes of data. Access to everything we produce all over the country would drown almost any system. Local (well, fileserver) storage works well for most everything, the national systems only have to deal with what they NEED.
BTW, my personal tax information is safe and secure on my local hard drive with a Zip disk and tape backup. They won't be data mining my returns.
Its been discussed higher in the thread but you are reading and posting in a U S forum. There are lots of international users but the servers and administration are in the U S. I really think a halfway astute reader would be able to know and understand the context where he is posting. In case you really didn't know, our standard date format is mm/dd/yy. When I deal with your side of the pond, I accept you guys think that a "," is the decimal separator, not the correct ".".
I have seen most of these quotes before but I have never seen them attributed to any written or published work of these men. Without such supporting evidence, I have to assume they are the figments of someone's inagination.
I've been associated with 3 wet cellphones. One dropped in a sink, one in my kids pocket when he was thrown into a tank, and one dropped into a flowing gutter. All were audiovox and under warantee. One started working by itself in a couple of days with no special treatment. The other 2 were dried carefully and remained DOA. Sent them for service and was told they were water damaged, unrepairable and would not be replaced under warantee. 1 for 3. Since phones are used everywhere, why can't they make them a least a little waterproof?
I guess if you've squirrled away a few million dollars in the bank, its easy to spout off and take the credit. Most of us, however, have things like rent or a mortgage, maybe a family, and definitly a future to worry about. Especially if you have inside information, you can't always afford to have your name tied to what you say. I usually post under my name now but for a long time, I was only an A C. There are still occasional issues where my comments will be without my nick. Some of the A C's are clearly lowlifes but others have things to say that are better or more safely said minus their identity. I don't automatically disregard the A C's but check out what they say first (well, at least if they somehow get +1 where I browse).
Maybe you'd like some POWER for this thing, or have you learned something from Tesla about transmitting electricity that the rest of the world doesn't yet know?
Gee, I used to have some chips around here that came from the factory with little windows in them. They were really funny,tho. If you shined one of those ulrtaviolet light thingies on them, they wouldn't work any more. I think they were EPROM or some name like that.
Any relevant data to back up that claim? We're only talking a 9mm hole and a couple of pounds of pressure differential here. It seems to me if the slug went out forward, the pressure would actually increase, a 500 mph wind causes a lot of pressure. If someone is taking over the plane, my life is likely toast anyway so I would be willing to risk a couple of small holes.
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I didn't see any hint of white supremist talk and you only see racism if the whole idea offends you. I can just about guarntee that white will not be the color of a blended race: brown, yellow, or black maybe, but not white. Yea, I'm white and know there are far too few of us to dominate in the long run. I have a couple of friends who are in inter-racial marrages and, guess what, the kids aren't white or even light skinned. With our sensitivity to sun and inclination to skin cancer, we're really in a pretty weak position geniticly, anyway.
In SCUBA class, I was taught that it is the partial pressure of oxygen that is the problem, not just pure oxygen. The safe limit for any exposure is 2 atmospheres. Normal air is about 1/5 O2 so you need 10 atm. of air to produce a partial pressure of O2 equal to 2 atm. This happens at about 400 feet under water. This is considered the safe limit for diving on air. Any deeper and a special mix is used with a reduced oxygen content. Hyperbaric chambers used to treat altitude sickness and a variety of other things face the same limit - less that 2 atm of O2. Pure O2 at .2 atm. gives you the smae effect as air at 1 atm. so this is why space capsules can use oxyben at low pressures.
Gee, I looked at the link and discovered that the government is expected to pay for using the services of the Post Office. If you really looked at the sheets, you would dicover little details like salaries are the largest single expense, capitol construction is there, retirement costs are in there, too. I wish we got a ton of tax money, it would make things a whole lot more plesant. Also, FYI, it is Congress that makes the laws about how we operate. They decided that a flat rate, universal first class mail service was in the best interests of the whole country. I'd have no problem giving up the first class monopoly but the competetors would need to play by the same rules - deliver to every mailbox in the whole country six days a week, no skimming on just the high volume routes. Any takers on that basis?
I guess I should just sell my soul to the Devil. I have Qwest as my local provider and Verizon for cell service.
Am I the only one who read this and briefly wondered why Saturday Night Live even employed engineers?
I hardly think EVERYONE agrees its a little more. In my case, its $70 a month more even including the 3 cell phones. The article was pretty vague but unless they throw in a whole bunch of extra features, the price is outrageous. If it becomes at all popular, I also wonder just how much capacity a video-on-demand system can have.
I have dialup and a second line for a couple of reasons: I have teenagers and the second line gets used for regular calls and the fax. Also, DSL is not available and I don't like the cable company. Oh, having a fat pipe at work helps too - anything big just gets burned to disk at work and carried home. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a cd in the pocket.
Hey! I'm a baby boomer and I'd vote to use tax money for this in my city in a flash. A fair number of us are computer savy and would love a city-wide network. I still almost cry when I see the Ricochet box on the street light in sight of my house (and no DSL available).
1. Oh! I didn't know that my SLR 35's didn't have a preview. Not everybody uses digital for the LCD screen, I'd almost pay extra for one without that power-sucking feature. I like a viewfinder and use digital mainly for the ease in processing and the capacity of the CF cards.
2. Am I the only one in the world who wouldn't mind carring a belt pack with extra battery power to have decent life and a reasonably powerful flash? I remember carring a 510 volt battery on my hip for a long time because it gave me a strobe with a 40' range and 2 second recycle times. Talk about being able to get those otherwise missed shots.
3. This would not be a toy for the masses but for serious amatures and pros who already have a serious investment in a quality system and accessories. Custom backs for a few Nikons and Canons would cover most of the market.
4. Removable storage? A simple CF slot on those few custom backs we already decided on. How many gigs do you need?
Maybe RECREATION.photo.digital isn't the place for such discussions.
OK, do you mean under 50 Mhz since you were talking about a snapshot at 30Mhz? Dang near everything except cell phones operates under 500MHz including aircraft at about 120.
I think it far more likely that big dishes are there to do a good job of receiving a very weak signal from a long way away. Satellite customers don't like noise and dropouts.
I read the insert in my bill almost by accident. They stuff the bill with all kinds of ads and I barely noticed it was something different. I went immediately to my computer, accessed the listed web site, and opted out without incident. Nothing broken then - a couple of weeks ago.
If you write See ID on the signature line of your card and try to use it at any Post Office, it will be rejected. Cards must technically be signed to be valid.