Going from memory here so be gentle, but as I recall the idea was to write a bit that was sort of half magnetized and neither a one or a zero. The original disk would read different values if you read it several times, a copy would always give the same value. I recall it also got cracked.
I also recall a friend who's boss had a new-fangled C64 for his small business. He had an accounting package for the C64 which he had bought from a local software house. One day the software's copy protection errored and deciding his legit, store bought disk was a copy. It overwrote a disk with 8 months of payroll data with "PIRATEPIRATEPIRATE..." The developer of the software ended up having to hire someone to re-enter all the data.
I think that if we accept the notion that electric cars are going to get better and cheaper in the future, then sooner or later, maybe not in 8 tears, but maybe in 10 or 15 there will not be many ICE new cars sold. I commute 25 miles each way to work. Most any new electric can do that. That would cover about 90% of my driving. Also, I have a cottage about 250 miles away. Still a bit of a stretch but I think a Chev Bolt could just about do it. Up the range to 300 miles and it would get me to the cottage in the summer and the ski hill in the winter. That would cover 99% of my trips. The odd time I want to take a driving vacation I would rent a gas car. Hell, we did that last year, rented a mustang convertible for 10 days and drove to California and back.
People always look at "now", and seem oddly blind to tomorrow. When digital cameras first showed up, I read somebody who said that digital would never replace film because cameras would have to be over 10 Mp to match the resolution of 35mm film. At the time a digital camera cost $1500 and had a resolution of 640x480 (about 0.3 Mp). Thing is, the digital cameras were roughly doubling in pixel count every year even at that time. Same thing with LCD monitors; The CAD guys at work all had $3000 21" Sonys and they were sure they would never replace them with LCDs. Now they all have 28" 4K displays, and I don't think you can actually buy a glass monitor any more.
Sounds just like me.Cruised through high school with straight A average. Physics teacher gave bonus marks for extra lab and exam questions, I scored 114 %. First year science I was having way too much fun and my marks dropped to Bs. First year engineering I was much harder than I expected and I came within a millimeter of failing the year. Finally figured out that three months of foosball and an all-nighter cramming before the exams wasn't going to cut it any more. I started working problem sets on the blackboard with three other coneheads every night after class and (holy shit) actually learning the course material. By 4th year the marks were back up to As and Bs.
Starcraft gave me my first taste of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Every day 8 hours CAD, 10 hours Starcraft. Hurt like a bitch after a few months. I had to give up the Starcraft for about 3 months and mouse left handed at work.
I think this is for the best. I am old enough to remember a time before cellphones, so take this for my version of "get off my lawn". There is a certain species of person who has a need to carry out a phone conversation while on public transportation. I don't expect dead quiet on a train, but listening to someone shout random phrases into a their phone from the time they get on the train till the time they get off 40 minutes later pushes the boundaries of courtesy a little too far. I'm afraid that if someone sat down next to me and talked all the way from Seattle to Atlanta I might snap. I'm imaging something like Bill Duke in Predator - "bleed ya real quiet, leave ya there." I would like to get through my days without having to leave a seatmate behind with a little plastic knife in his spleen.
Listen up Ladies. You know all those other tech companies that pay you 70 cents for every dollar they pay the men. Well if you come to work for Onkeltech I will pay you 72 cents for every dollar I pay my male employees. I know; it sounds too good to be true. Send resumes now.
You have no idea. Small airplanes have much less stringent security requirements. I flew from Vancouver to Victoria last year on Harbour Air (10 seat floatplane). I called to find out how far in advance i had to be there. HA - What time is your flight?. Me - 7 AM. HA - be there no later than 10 to 7. No security check of any sort. At 7:00 on the nose the pilot walked into the lounge, announced the flight and we all walked down to the dock together. This was downtown to downtown, and the from the time I arrived at the "Airport" to the time I walked off the dock in Victoria was 35 minutes. Pure awesome.
I used to work at a $Very Big Transportation Company from 1982 to 1998. They are now clients of our company. Earlier this year Transportation Company needed to give me access to some of their systems. My old username and account, from 1998, were still in their systems.
Hack the iPhone. The problem with this is the FBI doesn't care one particle about the data on "the iPhone" They just want to use it as a lever to bend Apple to their will.
"Whatever is in them". - They contain ethanol. Ethanol will happily kill bacteria on contact. Bacteria do not become resistant to ethanol. They just die.
This friend of a friend of a guy who knew my cousin (it wasn't me, really) once drove 3 hours the wrong way in Germany because he was following maps and signs to Rottenburg, when he was actually trying to get to Rothenburg.
BYOD works fine for me. I own the phone, I manage the voice and data plan and the company pays for half. This definitely works out in my favor. If I travel out of the country the company pays for the roaming plan. At work I use the company guest wifi to save on data use. I had to install some kind of app so they can wipe the company email if I lose the phone. My personal email is completely separate. The company has next to no issues supporting me. I don't have to carry two phones. Everybody wins.
Gambling used to be illegal almost everywhere in the US. Gambling was addictive, it ruined families, it caused all manner of social ills.Then governments figured out how much money there was to be made from lotteries and casinos, and now gambling is legal and casinos and lotteries are everywhere.
I think the very same thing is going to happen with cannabis. Colorado made about $125 million in tax revenue on weed last year. There are going to be a whole lot of other state governments that see that and start doing whatever it takes to get their hands on that revenue.
Here it is kids - the obligatory, passive aggressive, bullshit, answer a question with a question, non-answer used everywhere by apologists for bad design.
Q. - How do I change colors and fonts? A. - Why would you want to do that?
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Going from memory here so be gentle, but as I recall the idea was to write a bit that was sort of half magnetized and neither a one or a zero. The original disk would read different values if you read it several times, a copy would always give the same value. I recall it also got cracked.
I also recall a friend who's boss had a new-fangled C64 for his small business. He had an accounting package for the C64 which he had bought from a local software house. One day the software's copy protection errored and deciding his legit, store bought disk was a copy. It overwrote a disk with 8 months of payroll data with "PIRATEPIRATEPIRATE..." The developer of the software ended up having to hire someone to re-enter all the data.
I think that if we accept the notion that electric cars are going to get better and cheaper in the future, then sooner or later, maybe not in 8 tears, but maybe in 10 or 15 there will not be many ICE new cars sold. I commute 25 miles each way to work. Most any new electric can do that. That would cover about 90% of my driving. Also, I have a cottage about 250 miles away. Still a bit of a stretch but I think a Chev Bolt could just about do it. Up the range to 300 miles and it would get me to the cottage in the summer and the ski hill in the winter. That would cover 99% of my trips. The odd time I want to take a driving vacation I would rent a gas car. Hell, we did that last year, rented a mustang convertible for 10 days and drove to California and back.
People always look at "now", and seem oddly blind to tomorrow. When digital cameras first showed up, I read somebody who said that digital would never replace film because cameras would have to be over 10 Mp to match the resolution of 35mm film. At the time a digital camera cost $1500 and had a resolution of 640x480 (about 0.3 Mp). Thing is, the digital cameras were roughly doubling in pixel count every year even at that time. Same thing with LCD monitors; The CAD guys at work all had $3000 21" Sonys and they were sure they would never replace them with LCDs. Now they all have 28" 4K displays, and I don't think you can actually buy a glass monitor any more.
We bought them for our managers. Six of ten kept the surface pro tablets and four went back to laptops (zbook g3). So they are around.
At $45 / bbl who is going to be doing any offshore exploring?
Sounds just like me.Cruised through high school with straight A average. Physics teacher gave bonus marks for extra lab and exam questions, I scored 114 %. First year science I was having way too much fun and my marks dropped to Bs. First year engineering I was much harder than I expected and I came within a millimeter of failing the year. Finally figured out that three months of foosball and an all-nighter cramming before the exams wasn't going to cut it any more. I started working problem sets on the blackboard with three other coneheads every night after class and (holy shit) actually learning the course material. By 4th year the marks were back up to As and Bs.
Starcraft gave me my first taste of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Every day 8 hours CAD, 10 hours Starcraft. Hurt like a bitch after a few months. I had to give up the Starcraft for about 3 months and mouse left handed at work.
I think this is for the best. I am old enough to remember a time before cellphones, so take this for my version of "get off my lawn". There is a certain species of person who has a need to carry out a phone conversation while on public transportation. I don't expect dead quiet on a train, but listening to someone shout random phrases into a their phone from the time they get on the train till the time they get off 40 minutes later pushes the boundaries of courtesy a little too far. I'm afraid that if someone sat down next to me and talked all the way from Seattle to Atlanta I might snap. I'm imaging something like Bill Duke in Predator - "bleed ya real quiet, leave ya there." I would like to get through my days without having to leave a seatmate behind with a little plastic knife in his spleen.
Listen up Ladies. You know all those other tech companies that pay you 70 cents for every dollar they pay the men. Well if you come to work for Onkeltech I will pay you 72 cents for every dollar I pay my male employees. I know; it sounds too good to be true. Send resumes now.
You have no idea. Small airplanes have much less stringent security requirements. I flew from Vancouver to Victoria last year on Harbour Air (10 seat floatplane). I called to find out how far in advance i had to be there. HA - What time is your flight?. Me - 7 AM. HA - be there no later than 10 to 7. No security check of any sort. At 7:00 on the nose the pilot walked into the lounge, announced the flight and we all walked down to the dock together. This was downtown to downtown, and the from the time I arrived at the "Airport" to the time I walked off the dock in Victoria was 35 minutes. Pure awesome.
I used to work at a $Very Big Transportation Company from 1982 to 1998. They are now clients of our company. Earlier this year Transportation Company needed to give me access to some of their systems. My old username and account, from 1998, were still in their systems.
They all go on the B-Ark.
Hack the iPhone. The problem with this is the FBI doesn't care one particle about the data on "the iPhone" They just want to use it as a lever to bend Apple to their will.
Interesting idea. Does ISIS threaten to punch people wearing Google Glass "right in the face"
"Whatever is in them". - They contain ethanol. Ethanol will happily kill bacteria on contact. Bacteria do not become resistant to ethanol. They just die.
" First off, why shouldn't anybody fight that under any circumstances?" - Absolutely - Why have an ox pull your plow when your wife can do it.
Which particular tenet of atheism requires murdering people?
This friend of a friend of a guy who knew my cousin (it wasn't me, really) once drove 3 hours the wrong way in Germany because he was following maps and signs to Rottenburg, when he was actually trying to get to Rothenburg.
I heard someone refer to one of his coworkers as a "Zika baby". That didn't take long.
And one ovary!
"Get some rest. If you haven't got your health, then you haven't got anything."
Exactly. We should treat them like China.
BYOD works fine for me. I own the phone, I manage the voice and data plan and the company pays for half. This definitely works out in my favor. If I travel out of the country the company pays for the roaming plan. At work I use the company guest wifi to save on data use. I had to install some kind of app so they can wipe the company email if I lose the phone. My personal email is completely separate. The company has next to no issues supporting me. I don't have to carry two phones. Everybody wins.
Gambling used to be illegal almost everywhere in the US. Gambling was addictive, it ruined families, it caused all manner of social ills.Then governments figured out how much money there was to be made from lotteries and casinos, and now gambling is legal and casinos and lotteries are everywhere.
I think the very same thing is going to happen with cannabis. Colorado made about $125 million in tax revenue on weed last year. There are going to be a whole lot of other state governments that see that and start doing whatever it takes to get their hands on that revenue.
Jim, you stay the hell away from Svetlana! I'm warning you.
Here it is kids - the obligatory, passive aggressive, bullshit, answer a question with a question, non-answer used everywhere by apologists for bad design.
Q. - How do I change colors and fonts?
A. - Why would you want to do that?