Not a problem. The final consumer version of this guitar will include a slot for swiping your credit card through to enable automatic billing of royalty payments.
Or perhaps to be able to play it at all. You just know that even now someone at Gibson is thinking "subscription".
"anything to do with guitars that involves transistors just makes the guitar sound like a bee in a can."
Back in the '70s I rewound a Telecaster front pickup for low impedence and installed a one transistor lo-Z in, hi-Z out pre-amp. Went from muddy to mellow.
That separate pickup for each string idea ain't new either.
Nothing spoils humor quite so much as having to explain it, but I was trying to snidely make the point that not all of us consider the "success" of the Winmodem to be a good thing. Without it 56K modems with all the necessary hardware on board to do the job without burdening the CPU or locking you in to a particular OS would have been in higher demand which would have led to more choices at lower prices as happened with the 33K modems after a year or so.
"But the chances are that you will simply horrify your 12 year old self by imploding as soon as the 12 year old understands who you are. Meeting yourself is generally embarassing, but altering your life would obviously invalidate your existance and you would dissapear in a puff of logic."
The real problem is how horrified your 12 year old self is going to be upon seeing how he really turns out as opposed to his mental image of himself in the future. No matter how positive your current self-image is, your 12 year old self is going to perceive it as a fate worse than death.
And of course if you're running straight DOS (MS or PC), there's always good ol' browse.com (the file, not a URL) from about 10 years ago. Very handy to have on boot, utility, and emergency floppies.
"Maybe someone here can finally provide me with a reason why Moore gets all the credit for Turning's ideas."
Moore was talking specifically about the number of devices per square inch on a single substrate. In other words, he was talking about integrated circuit semiconductor fabrication technology and the economics involved. Turing was dealing in much broader concepts.
This whole "let's put it on a hidden part of the hard drive" idea seems to be popping up a lot in the past few days. Apparently nothing can prevent the spreading contamination from a bad idea whose time has come (apologies to Victor Hugo).
If your hard drive goes bad you still have a chance of paying some specialist a lot of money to retrieve your data from it and if your data is valuable enough you'll be willing to pay the price. If your battery backup goes bad, the data is gone and nobody can get it back for you at any price.
I realise that it's two different ways of saying the same thing, but, where the PC platform is concerned, "mutated" just seems to capture the spirit of things better than does "evolved".
It has a lot less to do with getting old than it does with a desire to avoid getting hosed by new stuff that's worse than the old stuff and designed more to extend the manufacturer's control over you than your control over the equipment.
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I'm surprised nobody yet has mentioned anything about Great White guitar player Ty Longley.
Or perhaps to be able to play it at all. You just know that even now someone at Gibson is thinking "subscription".
Back in the '70s I rewound a Telecaster front pickup for low impedence and installed a one transistor lo-Z in, hi-Z out pre-amp. Went from muddy to mellow.
That separate pickup for each string idea ain't new either.
Just be glad it was only your TV and not your Tivo.
Of course not. Otherwise you'd be able to use a Gibson guitar in a Fender amp or the other way around instead of being locked in to one manufacturer.
Nothing spoils humor quite so much as having to explain it, but I was trying to snidely make the point that not all of us consider the "success" of the Winmodem to be a good thing. Without it 56K modems with all the necessary hardware on board to do the job without burdening the CPU or locking you in to a particular OS would have been in higher demand which would have led to more choices at lower prices as happened with the 33K modems after a year or so.
Yeah, if the first movie back in '77 had used a well known actor to play that Kenobi guy it would have ruined everything.
I see that success is very much a matter of perspective.
There's no place for those of your ilk here on Slashdot. Begone.
The real problem is how horrified your 12 year old self is going to be upon seeing how he really turns out as opposed to his mental image of himself in the future. No matter how positive your current self-image is, your 12 year old self is going to perceive it as a fate worse than death.
And of course if you're running straight DOS (MS or PC), there's always good ol' browse.com (the file, not a URL) from about 10 years ago. Very handy to have on boot, utility, and emergency floppies.
Okay, here's that sentence in plain language: Moore's law keeps turning up because it's vague enough that you can't really prove it or disprove it.
Moore was talking specifically about the number of devices per square inch on a single substrate. In other words, he was talking about integrated circuit semiconductor fabrication technology and the economics involved. Turing was dealing in much broader concepts.
Depends on how many lobbyists you hire and politicians you bribe. :-)
"They need it to analyze what went wrong so ..." fewer " ....people die in the future.
This whole "let's put it on a hidden part of the hard drive" idea seems to be popping up a lot in the past few days. Apparently nothing can prevent the spreading contamination from a bad idea whose time has come (apologies to Victor Hugo).
If your hard drive goes bad you still have a chance of paying some specialist a lot of money to retrieve your data from it and if your data is valuable enough you'll be willing to pay the price. If your battery backup goes bad, the data is gone and nobody can get it back for you at any price.
I thought 6.1 (and 6.3) was the IBM PC-DOS version and 6.2 was the MS-DOS version (which had to be followed by 6.21 and 6.22).
If he were a real hacker (not cracker), he would have gone to Dremel University.
A local thing? No. A federal thing. Search for "must carry, must pay".
At this rate the BIOS will all be in the power supply in a year or two.
Of course with all the bad electrolytic capacitors out there lots of us already have power supplies that have been "flashed".
I realise that it's two different ways of saying the same thing, but, where the PC platform is concerned, "mutated" just seems to capture the spirit of things better than does "evolved".
It has a lot less to do with getting old than it does with a desire to avoid getting hosed by new stuff that's worse than the old stuff and designed more to extend the manufacturer's control over you than your control over the equipment.
Especially since one of the first things you do when troubleshooting a motherboard is disconnect every drive except maybe the floppy.
No, peppercoin.
That's what I said, peppercorn.