"from the in-soviet-russia,-you-get-information-from-the-gov ernment dept."
"First, michael put a "IN SOVIET RUSSIA" joke in the byline. Though it's completely nonsensical, since you most assuredly did not get much information from the government in Soviet Russia."
Actually it's bitterly ironic since the whole "In Soviet Russia..." thing is about things there being the opposite of things here, and things here are tending towards "In the U.S. government gets plenty of information from and about you but you get precious little information from the government".
That's 'an "IN SOVIET RUSSIA" joke', not 'a "IN SOVIET RUSSIA" joke'.
". Assuming that consumers would buy the same goods whether online or in stores,..."
Yeah, right. I can go right down the street and get it right away for about the same total expenditure but I'd rather buy it online and wait a week or so for delivery. Uh-hu. Sure.
They can replace it with a little searching on eBay, or, more likely, they've got another closet full of the stuff just down the hall.
In addition to the other good reasons mentioned here for starting people out on "legacy" concepts, there's also the very important in a budget conscious setting principle that if the student screws up and fries an old piece of equipment, no big deal and they've learned what not to do, whereas if it's all new expensive stuff everybody's going to be too scared of frying it to let the students actually do any hands on.
Get the feel for removing and installing with old ISA cards and 286 chips and 30 pin SIMMs before you mess with AGP, BIOS chips, etc.
He's talking about the difference between quarter-sawing and plain-sawing. The one that gives boards that are less likely to twist or warp results in fewer boards and more wasted wood (anytime you divide a circle into rectangles there's some leftover).
Not all older lumber is more enjoyable to work with. Several years ago I "recycled" a lot of 2x4s, removed from a mid 50s house my brother owned at the time and was extensively remodeling, to use for an addition to the shop in back of my parents' house. They were about 1/16th to 1/8th of an inch wider and thicker than current 1.5 x 3.5 inch 2x4s (and the 93 inch studs were shorter enough than 93 inches to allow for the thicker top and bottom plates), which made it a hassle to use in conjunction with the current stuff, but the really fun part was that it was 40 some year old Yellow Pine, which meant that it would bend a 16 penny nail in a heartbeat. It was like trying to nail bricks together.
The meter was based on an even fraction of what they thought at the time was the circumference of the earth. Later they redefined it as some wierd multiple of the wavelength of some particular frequency of light or something like that, so it's really even more arbitrary than the length of some king's foot or whatever.
That is (or at least was, before stations went all robot all the time) a major problem with radio station control rooms, it's a major hassle to dust and vacuum while somebody's doing an air shift, especially when you have to be careful not to suck up one of those temporary repairs that have been hanging out the back of some piece of equipment for the last 20 years (and of course it was installed by an engineer who's been gone almost that long and never documented anything anyway).
Yeah, but if you're a registered user you should default to +1, so one or more of those handful of posts must have been the wrong thing in the wrong thread and incurred the wrath of the Slashgods.
Anyway, if you're reasonably proficient with Linux, then you could check out http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ to see about putting together an installation with only the stuff you need and save a GigaByte or so of disk space.
Or just install DOS 6.22 and include a line in autoexec to start up Wolfenstein:-)
I'm pretty sure that 137MHz is right there in the cable tv "cable channels" band, so maybe you could hack the tuner from a TV or VCR and the FM detector in its audio section. Lot better chance of finding schematics for one of those than for a motherboard.:-(
"I remember emailing random people just because it was so cool and easy. (Now I'd be arrested for spamming...)"
I'd like something like that a lot more than all the spam I get trying to sell me stuff I have absolutely no interest in or that's some worm trying to get me to help it spread.
The kicker to that mall story is that they had just had the t-shirts made up at a store there in the mall, but nobody's talking about making the store leave.
Go ahead and write it but be sure that you have documentation that proves you were nowhere near the property or any device connnected to the internet when the program is actually tested.
But seriously, you need to immediately consult a good lawyer with no connection to your employer and to make sure your employer puts this request into notarized written form.
I have no doubt that you work for someone that will not hesitate to throw you to the wolves if any trouble arises out of their use of their competitor's data.
Well if the Canadian Post Office owns the word "Post" then they must own the word "Office" as well. With the right lawyers they could wind up owning Microsoft:-)
Oh yeah, from now on, they get a nickel every time you buy Canadian bacon, too.
But if the only way you can get to that page is to click on a button on another page where it says that by clicking on this button to get to any of the rest of our site you agree to our terms and conditions, can you legally or morally click on that button and then violate those terms and conditions?
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Third base.
"First, michael put a "IN SOVIET RUSSIA" joke in the byline. Though it's completely nonsensical, since you most assuredly did not get much information from the government in Soviet Russia."
Actually it's bitterly ironic since the whole "In Soviet Russia..." thing is about things there being the opposite of things here, and things here are tending towards "In the U.S. government gets plenty of information from and about you but you get precious little information from the government".
That's 'an "IN SOVIET RUSSIA" joke', not 'a "IN SOVIET RUSSIA" joke'.
Yeah, right. I can go right down the street and get it right away for about the same total expenditure but I'd rather buy it online and wait a week or so for delivery. Uh-hu. Sure.
In addition to the other good reasons mentioned here for starting people out on "legacy" concepts, there's also the very important in a budget conscious setting principle that if the student screws up and fries an old piece of equipment, no big deal and they've learned what not to do, whereas if it's all new expensive stuff everybody's going to be too scared of frying it to let the students actually do any hands on.
Get the feel for removing and installing with old ISA cards and 286 chips and 30 pin SIMMs before you mess with AGP, BIOS chips, etc.
Well, we know that the Statue of Liberty will survive atomic blast, partial burial, and the rise of the ape culture.
Are there any plastics that won't out-gas and get brittle after 30 or 50 years?
Not all older lumber is more enjoyable to work with. Several years ago I "recycled" a lot of 2x4s, removed from a mid 50s house my brother owned at the time and was extensively remodeling, to use for an addition to the shop in back of my parents' house. They were about 1/16th to 1/8th of an inch wider and thicker than current 1.5 x 3.5 inch 2x4s (and the 93 inch studs were shorter enough than 93 inches to allow for the thicker top and bottom plates), which made it a hassle to use in conjunction with the current stuff, but the really fun part was that it was 40 some year old Yellow Pine, which meant that it would bend a 16 penny nail in a heartbeat. It was like trying to nail bricks together.
No, he said regular sex.
Can you tell that I'm bitter about my recent experiences with dead or dying slot one and socket 370 boards and various VGA monitors?
The meter was based on an even fraction of what they thought at the time was the circumference of the earth. Later they redefined it as some wierd multiple of the wavelength of some particular frequency of light or something like that, so it's really even more arbitrary than the length of some king's foot or whatever.
That is (or at least was, before stations went all robot all the time) a major problem with radio station control rooms, it's a major hassle to dust and vacuum while somebody's doing an air shift, especially when you have to be careful not to suck up one of those temporary repairs that have been hanging out the back of some piece of equipment for the last 20 years (and of course it was installed by an engineer who's been gone almost that long and never documented anything anyway).
Anyway, if you're reasonably proficient with Linux, then you could check out http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ to see about putting together an installation with only the stuff you need and save a GigaByte or so of disk space.
Or just install DOS 6.22 and include a line in autoexec to start up Wolfenstein :-)
Next time just don't leave any straight lines lying around for me :-) I lack the character to resist them.
I'm pretty sure that 137MHz is right there in the cable tv "cable channels" band, so maybe you could hack the tuner from a TV or VCR and the FM detector in its audio section. Lot better chance of finding schematics for one of those than for a motherboard. :-(
Yeah, but what protects it during dissent?
Yeah, they were called "slaves".
Came in handy for all sorts of unpleasant things you didn't want to deal with yourself.
'Course if you were the slave your appreciation of the system was probably somewhat lacking.
You've made quite an assumption or two about me based on my having just asked a question.
I'd like something like that a lot more than all the spam I get trying to sell me stuff I have absolutely no interest in or that's some worm trying to get me to help it spread.
Hey you might get lucky with SevenOfNine or the Vulcan chick on Enterprise!
Are you sure that the jury isn't still out on that? We are talking about Microsoft here.
If we could just figure out who the 5 or 6 people are that link Kevin Bacon to Bin Laden, we could take him out with one shot! (Bin Laden, that is.)
The kicker to that mall story is that they had just had the t-shirts made up at a store there in the mall, but nobody's talking about making the store leave.
But seriously, you need to immediately consult a good lawyer with no connection to your employer and to make sure your employer puts this request into notarized written form.
I have no doubt that you work for someone that will not hesitate to throw you to the wolves if any trouble arises out of their use of their competitor's data.
Oh yeah, from now on, they get a nickel every time you buy Canadian bacon, too.
But if the only way you can get to that page is to click on a button on another page where it says that by clicking on this button to get to any of the rest of our site you agree to our terms and conditions, can you legally or morally click on that button and then violate those terms and conditions?