Keyboards and mice (mouses?) don't speak the same language even if they do use the same connector so if the computer is expecting to get a reply back (on the data line) "spoken" in "keyboard" when it applies +5V to the appropriate pin on the keyboard socket it will get one "spoken" in "mouse" instead.
Keyboards don't really use the PS2 protocol though. They use pretty much the same thing they did back before the PS2 came out when they had full size 5 pin DIN plugs. That's why you can interchange them with the proper (completely passive) adapter and sometimes even hot swap.
Now that spawn of Satan, the PS2 mouse, on the other hand...
"It's actually the load of that electrical device lowering the impedance..."
Why would something designed to run on 60 cycle AC have a low impedence to higher frequencies? If it has a motor the coils will act as low pass filters and anything else probably has enough capacitance to act as high shunt filters.
You make excellent points, except that without the FCC and the '34 communications act, you wouldn't need more than one TV 'cause the company with the most money would pump out enough RF to override any other company's signal.
"You're a lesbian and a transexual? I'm confused."
Who knew gender confusion was contagious?:-)
But seriously, having heard of homosexual males who, after undergoing sex change operations, found themselves now attracted to their new same sex (females) instead of the now opposite sex (males), I do wonder which was first, the orientation or the gender swap, and which gender the OP started with and to which they were changed.
Hey, the Paul French "Lucky Starr" books were a big part, way back in the dark ages, of my intro to sci-fi (and they even had something like lightsabers, probably where Lucas got the idea).
You are more right than you know. He refers to it as a dotcom on the website. Is there anything more likely to scare off even someone with more money than sense than calling it a dotcom these days? That's almost as bad as asking someone "Hey, wanna get in on the tail end of a great pyramid scheme?".
Actually Usury as a sin comes from the New Testament: "Neither a borrower or a lender be"
Since it wasn't a part of the Jews bible, they didn't mind violating that stricture:).
Actually...
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."
Polonius, in William Shakespeare's "Hamlet".
Admonitions against usury occur in the Old Testament in the following:
Matthew and Luke in the New Testament mention usury in connection with the parable of the 3 servants given stewardship over some money during their master's absence on a trip. He came back expecting to have turned a profit from usury. Matt and Luke tell the story differently but in both the master uses the word the way we would use the word "interest" (as in a percentage of the principal) nowadays.
Yeah, but I can insure one car with one company and another with another (so to get all my business the insurance company gives me a volume discount) but I can't get cable from one cable company and internet over cable from another cable company (so to discourage me from going with satellite TV the local cable monopoly leverages their cable internet monopoly to try to get me to be a cable TV subscriber as well). Not comparable situations.
"1. Moneylending was a sin (usury) for Christians, but not Jews."
I think the usury as sin idea comes from the Old Testament but the Jews interpreted this to mean "only in dealings with other Jews", so moneylending (at interest) to non-Jews was perfectly fine, and often they found "Christian" monarchs eager to borrow money with which to finance wars on which they expected to turn a profit. Of course Christians may well have thought that usury between Christians was wrong, but it was okay between Christians and non-believers.
When somebody wants to do something involving money they usually manage somehow to find flexibility in their religion.
"The issue that needs more discussion is the culture that treats literacy and knowledge in general as negative qualities in a human being, yet treats drug use and firearm violence as positive qualities."
Bill Cosby just tried that and it didn't go over too well.
"Voters don't have the right to deny consumers the choice to purchase goods they may want."
I refer you to the various drug laws and of course the ammendment to the Constitution of the United States which brought about the period known as "Prohibition", not to mention controls on explosives, firearms, and other materials deemed dangerous, and, of course, certain "adult" materials. Consumers get denied the choice to buy certain things all the time.
"All four of us agreed during the call that Windows XP is constantly reorganizing itself."
Perhaps that explains why I've seen it "forget" on one neighbor's machine which video card it had (reverted to plain vanilla VGA and something like 8 colors) and on another's machine that it had a network card installed--in the middle of using that card to migrate their old programs and settings from their old Windows 98 machine with the XP program designed to do that migration.
Billy the G must get up every day and laugh himself silly.
I'm no luddite (Score:-1, Troll)
by be-fan (61476) on 10:47 PM June 4th, 2004 (#9341980) But I think creating genetically-modified foods in the first place are terrorist activites!
Every time I turn around I've got mod points...except when I really need them. You may not agree with be-fan, but he/she has a legitimate point of view. Hence this guerrilla up-mod.
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Nah, that would have made too much sense.
Keyboards and mice (mouses?) don't speak the same language even if they do use the same connector so if the computer is expecting to get a reply back (on the data line) "spoken" in "keyboard" when it applies +5V to the appropriate pin on the keyboard socket it will get one "spoken" in "mouse" instead.
Now that spawn of Satan, the PS2 mouse, on the other hand...
Why would something designed to run on 60 cycle AC have a low impedence to higher frequencies? If it has a motor the coils will act as low pass filters and anything else probably has enough capacitance to act as high shunt filters.
You make excellent points, except that without the FCC and the '34 communications act, you wouldn't need more than one TV 'cause the company with the most money would pump out enough RF to override any other company's signal.
Who knew gender confusion was contagious? :-)
But seriously, having heard of homosexual males who, after undergoing sex change operations, found themselves now attracted to their new same sex (females) instead of the now opposite sex (males), I do wonder which was first, the orientation or the gender swap, and which gender the OP started with and to which they were changed.
Hey, the Paul French "Lucky Starr" books were a big part, way back in the dark ages, of my intro to sci-fi (and they even had something like lightsabers, probably where Lucas got the idea).
Partially sited? As in not entirely "there"?
Does it sound like Ahh-nold?
Doesn't everyone?
Okay, technically mine's on a shelf right above my monitor, but still...
But if you FP as an AC, how do you know if it was you or another AC that got FP?
Well, if you're going to throw them out, throw them in my direction. I'll find good homes for them.
For Paul Johnson the front lines stretched across the border into Saudia Arabia. Look for them to keep spreading.
More like con man sense but, unfortunately, no common sense.
You are more right than you know. He refers to it as a dotcom on the website. Is there anything more likely to scare off even someone with more money than sense than calling it a dotcom these days? That's almost as bad as asking someone "Hey, wanna get in on the tail end of a great pyramid scheme?".
Actually...
Admonitions against usury occur in the Old Testament in the following:
Exodus 22:25
Leviticus 25:36
Leviticus 25:37
Deuteronomy 23:19
Deuteronomy 23:20
Nehemiah 5:7
Nehemiah 5:10
Psalm 15:5
Proverbs 28:8
Isaiah 24:2
Jeremiah 15:10
Ezekiel 18:8
Ezekiel 18:13
Ezekiel 18:17
Ezekiel 22:12
Matthew and Luke in the New Testament mention usury in connection with the parable of the 3 servants given stewardship over some money during their master's absence on a trip. He came back expecting to have turned a profit from usury. Matt and Luke tell the story differently but in both the master uses the word the way we would use the word "interest" (as in a percentage of the principal) nowadays.
Yeah, but I can insure one car with one company and another with another (so to get all my business the insurance company gives me a volume discount) but I can't get cable from one cable company and internet over cable from another cable company (so to discourage me from going with satellite TV the local cable monopoly leverages their cable internet monopoly to try to get me to be a cable TV subscriber as well). Not comparable situations.
I think the usury as sin idea comes from the Old Testament but the Jews interpreted this to mean "only in dealings with other Jews", so moneylending (at interest) to non-Jews was perfectly fine, and often they found "Christian" monarchs eager to borrow money with which to finance wars on which they expected to turn a profit. Of course Christians may well have thought that usury between Christians was wrong, but it was okay between Christians and non-believers.
When somebody wants to do something involving money they usually manage somehow to find flexibility in their religion.
Or, as Napolean and Hitler found out, in Russia, Winter Invades YOU!
Bill Cosby just tried that and it didn't go over too well.
I refer you to the various drug laws and of course the ammendment to the Constitution of the United States which brought about the period known as "Prohibition", not to mention controls on explosives, firearms, and other materials deemed dangerous, and, of course, certain "adult" materials. Consumers get denied the choice to buy certain things all the time.
The above list is by no means inclusive.
Perhaps that explains why I've seen it "forget" on one neighbor's machine which video card it had (reverted to plain vanilla VGA and something like 8 colors) and on another's machine that it had a network card installed--in the middle of using that card to migrate their old programs and settings from their old Windows 98 machine with the XP program designed to do that migration.
Billy the G must get up every day and laugh himself silly.
Oh yeah, no interservice rivalry problems forseeable here. :-)
:-)
(whadda ya bet somebody posts about Sony being a Japanese company anyway?)
Every time I turn around I've got mod points...except when I really need them. You may not agree with be-fan, but he/she has a legitimate point of view. Hence this guerrilla up-mod.