Actually they may have a case for claiming copyright on the mnemonic 1-800-FLOWERS, but if they stop paying the bill I'm sure the phone company wouldn't hesitate to collect the monthly rent on 1-800-356-9377 from some other company.
What I was thinking was don't be standing in the way when Katz rushes to jump on this bandwagon.
As far as video blogs (and blogs in general for that matter) are concerned, it brings to mind the old saying "Fools' names, like fools' faces, are often seen in public places".
I was under the impression that it was under the (Soviet) Russian occupation that both sexes were being educated (and no doubt indoctrinated) and that after the Taliban took over the boys got to learn to read the Koran (Quran, whatever) and the girls got learn how to be barefoot and pregnant.
DOS 6.x--3 floppies Windows 3.1--6 floppies Windows 3.1 comes with Write, which is usable as a simple word processor. There's also a 16 bit version of Internet Explorer 5.0 if you search for it hard enough. Or you could try Arachne.
When they went from 3.1 to 95 they replaced Paintbrush with Paint, which not eveyone considered an improvement, and replaced Write with Wordpad, which not everyone considered an improvement.
Apparently the powertoys release for XP includes a replacement for the calculator that lets you graph and evaluate functions.
Mostly, though, Microsoft seems to "update" stuff that doesn't need it just to annoy people with having to learn a new way to do it.
The only solution is a new type of email where you pay postage. Unfortunately that probably means getting governments involved so that a commercial spammer can't get cheap bulk rates but a legitimate charity or such can CC to a mailing list of the willing without spending a fortune.
I didn't see it until after you changed "drivers" to "drives", so your addendum (I'm sure that should be "drives" and not "drivers") left me searching for a non-existant instance of the word "drivers".
That whole "Enemy Mine" thing goes back at least as far as 1968's "Hell in the Pacific" (http://www.imdb.com/Title?0063056) and probably a century or three further back than that.
If I were that idiot Tucker Carlson I'd probably make some snide remark about the impossibility of being too non-Canadian, but, fortunately for me, I'm not, so I won't.
The "other" plate, or electrode (in this case the cathode), is the electrolytic solution. The mylar is there to keep the electrolyte from touching the non-oxidated side of the foil (the anode) when it's rolled up like a jellyroll.
The classic definition of a capacitor remains 2 conductors (electrodes, or plates) separated by an insulator (the dielectric).
It may or may not need one or more tubes replaced but what you've described is the classic symptom of a bad filter capacitor in the power supply.
See if there's a community college or trade school in your area with an electronics servicing class that might want to fix it as a learning experience, or try a radio-TV repair shop that's been in business for a long time and might still have a tube tester.
Since it's a Decca, I'm guessing you're probably not here in eastern NC where I could help but somewhere that was once a part of the empire upon which the sun never set.
The high pitched whine (apprx 15,750 Hz) of which some people have complained ever since televisions came to be is caused by magnetostriction of the transformer laminations expanding and contracting or just plain vibrating under the influence of the magnetic field which is changing at the rate of horizontal sweep. These vibrations are coupled to the surrounding air and converted to sound waves.
This doesn't mean that Cathode Ray Tubes cannot vibrate in some way and couple these vibrations to the surrounding air, but if someone whose high frequency hearing is still good finds it physically painful to be around a particular televsion set, it's almost certainly due to magnetostriction at the horizontal sweep frequency.
A capacitor is 2 conductors separated by an insulator. The 2 conductors are referred to as the plates and the insulator is the dielectric. Extra electrons pile up on one of the plates because they're attracted to the other plate but can't get through the dielectric. Electrons have been drawn off of the other plate by whatever is moving them towards the first plate, so that second plate is positively charged with regard to the first plate and the first plate is negatively charged with regard to the second plate.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "plate capacitor". Perhaps you refer to multi-plate air dielectric capacitors such as you'll find in the tuning circuits of old radios.
Capacitor plates are more likely to be attracted towards each other (being oppositely charged) than to repel each other. A capacitor whose plates don't hold charge is electrically useless.
If it ain't got plates it ain't a capacitor. The plates in an electrolytic capacitor are thin pieces of tinfoil with some sort of dielectric in between and the whole thing rolled up like a jellyroll before being sealed inside the case.
Once upon a time there were what are called "carrier current" stations on college campuses. The audio was fed over a leased telephone line from the campus radio station studio to each dorm where a "transmitter" used the audio to amplitude modulate a carrier and then coupled the result into the dorm's AC wiring. The wiring then acted as a building wide transmitting antenna.
What you're talking about, however, is the speaker wires acting as an antenna, and the audio being "detected" by something "non-linear" in the circuit. Practically anything in the speaker circuit except the wire will be non-linear. In addition to this happening with AM signals it can happen with FM as well due to something called "slope detection".
That high pitched whine isn't the CRT itself, it's the audible result of the laminations of a transformer core expanding and contracting under the influence of the current, which is varying at the horizontal sweep frequency, in the transformer windings. This expansion and contraction is called magnetostriction.
Batteries do explode. Not necessarily in a huge fireball, but if a conductive enough path is established between the terminals to allow a great enough amount more current to flow than should, the battery will overheat so quickly that the water in the electrolyte will turn to steam and burst the battery's case.
If you're lucky the hood will be closed at the time.
Actually, music wasn't free in the 1800s (19th Century). That's when people made money off of popular songs by selling the sheet music, hence "publishing rights". And yes, back then, publishers bought all rights to songs from the composers for a one time payment unless the composer was popular enough to play one publishing house against another to negotiate more favorable terms.
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Is it okay to attack his policy of being a lying, greedy idiot?
Actually they may have a case for claiming copyright on the mnemonic 1-800-FLOWERS, but if they stop paying the bill I'm sure the phone company wouldn't hesitate to collect the monthly rent on 1-800-356-9377 from some other company.
Oh yeah, you didn't see the CEO of Sony coming up with innovations like green and purple ketchup!
Already happening. FoxNews, MSNBC, et cetera.
As far as video blogs (and blogs in general for that matter) are concerned, it brings to mind the old saying "Fools' names, like fools' faces, are often seen in public places".
And you thought the stuff about who could get first post was the important info?
No, that's a "please don't ask and please, please don't tell" question.
--insert "in Soviet Russia" joke here--
Nope, I mean 5.0
DOS 6.x--3 floppies
Windows 3.1--6 floppies
Windows 3.1 comes with Write, which is usable as a simple word processor. There's also a 16 bit version of Internet Explorer 5.0 if you search for it hard enough. Or you could try Arachne.
Apparently the powertoys release for XP includes a replacement for the calculator that lets you graph and evaluate functions.
Mostly, though, Microsoft seems to "update" stuff that doesn't need it just to annoy people with having to learn a new way to do it.
The only solution is a new type of email where you pay postage. Unfortunately that probably means getting governments involved so that a commercial spammer can't get cheap bulk rates but a legitimate charity or such can CC to a mailing list of the willing without spending a fortune.
I didn't see it until after you changed "drivers" to "drives", so your addendum (I'm sure that should be "drives" and not "drivers") left me searching for a non-existant instance of the word "drivers".
That whole "Enemy Mine" thing goes back at least as far as 1968's "Hell in the Pacific" (http://www.imdb.com/Title?0063056) and probably a century or three further back than that.
If I were that idiot Tucker Carlson I'd probably make some snide remark about the impossibility of being too non-Canadian, but, fortunately for me, I'm not, so I won't.
If they ask if you've ever cheated on a test answer yes, just don't tell them that it's the lie detector test that you're cheating on.
The classic definition of a capacitor remains 2 conductors (electrodes, or plates) separated by an insulator (the dielectric).
See if there's a community college or trade school in your area with an electronics servicing class that might want to fix it as a learning experience, or try a radio-TV repair shop that's been in business for a long time and might still have a tube tester.
Since it's a Decca, I'm guessing you're probably not here in eastern NC where I could help but somewhere that was once a part of the empire upon which the sun never set.
This doesn't mean that Cathode Ray Tubes cannot vibrate in some way and couple these vibrations to the surrounding air, but if someone whose high frequency hearing is still good finds it physically painful to be around a particular televsion set, it's almost certainly due to magnetostriction at the horizontal sweep frequency.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "plate capacitor". Perhaps you refer to multi-plate air dielectric capacitors such as you'll find in the tuning circuits of old radios.
Capacitor plates are more likely to be attracted towards each other (being oppositely charged) than to repel each other. A capacitor whose plates don't hold charge is electrically useless.
If it ain't got plates it ain't a capacitor. The plates in an electrolytic capacitor are thin pieces of tinfoil with some sort of dielectric in between and the whole thing rolled up like a jellyroll before being sealed inside the case.
What you're talking about, however, is the speaker wires acting as an antenna, and the audio being "detected" by something "non-linear" in the circuit. Practically anything in the speaker circuit except the wire will be non-linear. In addition to this happening with AM signals it can happen with FM as well due to something called "slope detection".
That high pitched whine isn't the CRT itself, it's the audible result of the laminations of a transformer core expanding and contracting under the influence of the current, which is varying at the horizontal sweep frequency, in the transformer windings. This expansion and contraction is called magnetostriction.
If you're lucky the hood will be closed at the time.
Actually, music wasn't free in the 1800s (19th Century). That's when people made money off of popular songs by selling the sheet music, hence "publishing rights". And yes, back then, publishers bought all rights to songs from the composers for a one time payment unless the composer was popular enough to play one publishing house against another to negotiate more favorable terms.