Until the end of December I worked for a pacemaker company.
The current telemetry is at low frequencies (under 500 KHz). The interference from your monitor's deflection circuitry is more of a factor than anything RF.
On really old oscilloscopes, Tektronix didn't use printed circuit boards. They used special silver-bearing solder on the ceramic posts the components were soldered to, though.
I think you are referring to medium-old oscilloscopes.
I ran a small but busy social BBS for years with the WWIV 3.21d software. It was distributed only as Turbo Pascal 3 source code, for DOS. It only needed about 200K of RAM to run. I ran it on an old 8088 machine with a five meg hard drive. The drive was old and slow, so I made a disk cache out of the spare 400K of RAM. Running the BBS with the cache, it would only actually fetch from the hard drive for a short while after startup, then only 'writing through' the cache when anybody posted a new message on one of the areas.
Those were the days. A busy bit of 'cyberspace' it was, on the local scene, and on an 8088 machine with a 1200 baud modem.
'Media consoldiation' is a cyclical thing. The biggies merge together and become monolythic dinosaurs. New ideas come from the small faster-moving entities, which cause the failure and breakup of the monolyths.
Same as it ever was.
The one constant is that mediocre people who go to school for a subject because 'that's where the good jobs are' are desk jockeys who help drag the big monoliths down.
Some of us who've been around long enough suspect that Mae Ling Mak sued Slashdot, or somebody associated with this place, to get rid of the old Mae Ling Mak, naked and petrified posts, which were then updated to refer to Natalie.
Naw. Don't leave, stick around and maybe you'll learn something.
The Presidential election wasn't decided in Florida.
It was decided in the Incumbents' states: Tennesee and Arkansas. The states that should have best known the Democratic party candidates.
The margin for the electoral vote counts was such that if Al Gore had won in either of those states, he would have had enough electoral votes to win and the vote in Florida would not have mattered.
In other words, the incumbent couldn't even get the voters in his home state to vote for him.
It's sorta ironic in a discussion about a slander case to see that yellow journal 'The Nation' mentioned.
We could revive UUCP on a grand scale. The modems we use today are so much faster that it would be much more powerful than it was in the past.
Usenet could be liberated from the Internet.
Binary attachments would suck, of course. But back when I ran a small BBS I didn't have a 'files' section anyway. It was all about communications, not geeks trading bad porn and warez.
The Internet is changing, some would say it's evolving. The content you want may soon only be available if you have an AOL or MSN subscription. You'll be required to have a Passport account. Guess what? You won't be able to get one on any of the Linux browsers.
That's all that I am implying. And as the net evolves, the open RFC-based structure will become obsolete.
Take my word for it, there are people working on this.
Make up your mind. Either they are 'older' CD's, which means re-releases where the producers have probably recouped the production costs, and no IP cost is factored in, or they are 'New' CD's, meaning the ones that sell for $12-18, because the cost of producing the IP hasn't yet been met.
This is all a gross simplification of the whole cost equation anyway. My clever retort obviously falls apart when real world factors are added. So does anyboy else's in the discussion, however.
However, since your machine will no longer connect to the Internet, the Linux and Free Software community will have to set up their own Network. That would be cool, but I don't think it'll accomplish what many would hope.
Let's face it, Free Software is subsidized by all the businesses and individuals who support the Internet for purposes other than developing Free Software. If the OSS community had to pay for their own, seperate infrastructure, it'd become impossible for it to be free (as in beer) software. It might still be free (as in birds flying around out there in the sky) software, but I doubt if it would be affordable.
Actually, the case could be made that since the resellers can sell the CD's used for $5, that must represent the 'media and store-space' cost for producing the CD. That means the rest of the price difference is the value of the Intellectual Property of the content.
Oops, but that blows the arguement so many people here make.
If anybody should know about 'legislative intent' it would be the legislature that took Tunney's work, hammered away at it and made what came out of the process a law.
Just cuz Tunney introduced the bill does NOT mean he should have more say than anybody else who voted on it, and the amendments, compromises, etc. that were made to it that allowed it to become law.
The big companies in the oil and copper markets got control of almost all physical oil and copper resources. That was what allowed them to become monopolies.
Are you saying Microsoft has gained control over all the ones and zeroes?
Your whole arguement crumbles. You can't use the classic 19th and early 20th century monopoly cases to illustrate the 'Monopoly' charges spun up by the DOJ at the urging of Microsoft's foes in the marketplace.
I find it shocking that anybody who says 'no, copyrights can not be selectively revoked' is automatically an astro-turfer. You'll find yourself taking on a hell of a lot more people than simply shills for Microsoft.
Do you realize that the only way the GPL is enforcable is through copyright law? If copyright law is 'rolled back selectively' what is to prevent the precedent from being used to nullify the GPL?
Transmeta isn't listed prominently on his personal site.
However, he is one of the big players in the founding of Transmeta.
My conclusion is that Transmeta isn't very important.
It's sort of fizzled, ya know. The StrongARM, for instance, is generally a better choice for the kind of stuff they're still hyping the Transmeta processor for. Most of what they were hyping the Transmeta processor for they've backed away from.
Let's try to get over the idea that 'Touched by Linus' makes a business automatically viable.
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I would have raised hell, if I were you.
I mean, the guy wasn't willing to quote you the highest price you could pay for a copy of Office.
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Ummm,
Fuck you.
Eat shit, you children. Your first computer didn't require anything but a phillips screwdriver to assemble.
Goddamn children these days.
Until the end of December I worked for a pacemaker company.
The current telemetry is at low frequencies (under 500 KHz). The interference from your monitor's deflection circuitry is more of a factor than anything RF.
On really old oscilloscopes, Tektronix didn't use printed circuit boards. They used special silver-bearing solder on the ceramic posts the components were soldered to, though.
I think you are referring to medium-old oscilloscopes.
My first computer....
Had a Z80 processor and 64K of RAM.
It had two 8" Floppy drives that held 720K each.
It had no case until I got around to building one.
I ran a small but busy social BBS for years with the WWIV 3.21d software. It was distributed only as Turbo Pascal 3 source code, for DOS. It only needed about 200K of RAM to run. I ran it on an old 8088 machine with a five meg hard drive. The drive was old and slow, so I made a disk cache out of the spare 400K of RAM. Running the BBS with the cache, it would only actually fetch from the hard drive for a short while after startup, then only 'writing through' the cache when anybody posted a new message on one of the areas.
Those were the days. A busy bit of 'cyberspace' it was, on the local scene, and on an 8088 machine with a 1200 baud modem.
'Media consoldiation' is a cyclical thing. The biggies merge together and become monolythic dinosaurs. New ideas come from the small faster-moving entities, which cause the failure and breakup of the monolyths.
Same as it ever was.
The one constant is that mediocre people who go to school for a subject because 'that's where the good jobs are' are desk jockeys who help drag the big monoliths down.
Is that supported also by something else than Internet Explorer?
"Is your training available for cats, too? You see, I like cats better than dogs, and so I'd prefer you produce a Seeing-Eye Cat for me."
Some of us who've been around long enough suspect that Mae Ling Mak sued Slashdot, or somebody associated with this place, to get rid of the old Mae Ling Mak, naked and petrified posts, which were then updated to refer to Natalie.
It should be easy for you to prove you've not been masturbating over a big jar of yogurt which you then stir and give to your mother to eat.
All you need to do is allow one of our 'proctors' to sit in your house and monitor your behavior.
Surely you don't have anything to hide, just like Microsoft shouldn't be 'ashamed' of their source code.
Right?
whoops.
I guess he should have read that letter and made his case in court, instead of just throwing the letter away and not showing up.
Naw. Don't leave, stick around and maybe you'll learn something.
The Presidential election wasn't decided in Florida.
It was decided in the Incumbents' states: Tennesee and Arkansas. The states that should have best known the Democratic party candidates.
The margin for the electoral vote counts was such that if Al Gore had won in either of those states, he would have had enough electoral votes to win and the vote in Florida would not have mattered.
In other words, the incumbent couldn't even get the voters in his home state to vote for him.
It's sorta ironic in a discussion about a slander case to see that yellow journal 'The Nation' mentioned.
And, of course, one person can order the snail mailed CD, then post it on his web site for everybody.
9 track magnetic tape should be acceptable.
Or a CD-ROM, of course.
Punched paper tape probably would be unreasonable at this point in time.
We could revive UUCP on a grand scale. The modems we use today are so much faster that it would be much more powerful than it was in the past.
Usenet could be liberated from the Internet.
Binary attachments would suck, of course. But back when I ran a small BBS I didn't have a 'files' section anyway. It was all about communications, not geeks trading bad porn and warez.
The Internet is changing, some would say it's evolving. The content you want may soon only be available if you have an AOL or MSN subscription. You'll be required to have a Passport account. Guess what? You won't be able to get one on any of the Linux browsers.
That's all that I am implying. And as the net evolves, the open RFC-based structure will become obsolete.
Take my word for it, there are people working on this.
Make up your mind. Either they are 'older' CD's, which means re-releases where the producers have probably recouped the production costs, and no IP cost is factored in, or they are 'New' CD's, meaning the ones that sell for $12-18, because the cost of producing the IP hasn't yet been met.
This is all a gross simplification of the whole cost equation anyway. My clever retort obviously falls apart when real world factors are added. So does anyboy else's in the discussion, however.
It's coming from the same people who claim that Microsoft Office is $700.
They find the highest listed price they can find. Makes their case stronger.
However, since your machine will no longer connect to the Internet, the Linux and Free Software community will have to set up their own Network. That would be cool, but I don't think it'll accomplish what many would hope.
Let's face it, Free Software is subsidized by all the businesses and individuals who support the Internet for purposes other than developing Free Software. If the OSS community had to pay for their own, seperate infrastructure, it'd become impossible for it to be free (as in beer) software. It might still be free (as in birds flying around out there in the sky) software, but I doubt if it would be affordable.
Actually, the case could be made that since the resellers can sell the CD's used for $5, that must represent the 'media and store-space' cost for producing the CD. That means the rest of the price difference is the value of the Intellectual Property of the content.
Oops, but that blows the arguement so many people here make.
Never Mind.
Remove the floppy drives and lock the cases.
Problem solved.
If anybody should know about 'legislative intent' it would be the legislature that took Tunney's work, hammered away at it and made what came out of the process a law.
Just cuz Tunney introduced the bill does NOT mean he should have more say than anybody else who voted on it, and the amendments, compromises, etc. that were made to it that allowed it to become law.
The big companies in the oil and copper markets got control of almost all physical oil and copper resources. That was what allowed them to become monopolies.
Are you saying Microsoft has gained control over all the ones and zeroes?
Your whole arguement crumbles. You can't use the classic 19th and early 20th century monopoly cases to illustrate the 'Monopoly' charges spun up by the DOJ at the urging of Microsoft's foes in the marketplace.
I find it shocking that anybody who says 'no, copyrights can not be selectively revoked' is automatically an astro-turfer. You'll find yourself taking on a hell of a lot more people than simply shills for Microsoft.
Do you realize that the only way the GPL is enforcable is through copyright law? If copyright law is 'rolled back selectively' what is to prevent the precedent from being used to nullify the GPL?
Transmeta isn't listed prominently on his personal site.
However, he is one of the big players in the founding of Transmeta.
My conclusion is that Transmeta isn't very important.
It's sort of fizzled, ya know. The StrongARM, for instance, is generally a better choice for the kind of stuff they're still hyping the Transmeta processor for. Most of what they were hyping the Transmeta processor for they've backed away from.
Let's try to get over the idea that 'Touched by Linus' makes a business automatically viable.
I would have raised hell, if I were you.
I mean, the guy wasn't willing to quote you the highest price you could pay for a copy of Office.
Did it blow your case for buying Corel Office?