"The standard answer IBM, Sony and the others provided seems like a dodge to me."
Even in South Africa, what are the chances of those companies still having an old 486 laptop lying around somewhere? They could probably give him a new one at less expense to themselves than paying staff to hunt up the parts to cobble together the antique he's asking for and to make sure that it works.
Seriously, that's where this one came from, and last I heard IBM would rather sell stuff than have it gather dust in the warehouse, and their sales department is bound to have an 800 number.
"...when you pushed it from side to side, it would function as the mouse..."
How did you get it to do up and down, how did you avoid acidentally activating it when typing a "j", and what does double left mean?
This is definitely not my area of expertise, but..
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Does making these movies involve exposing a negative and printing off the actual movie from that? If so, do you still have the negatives and might they not be in better shape?
He's probably got a computer back at the farm house or main building or whatever, so as long as the tractor is going to be used only on that farm wouldn't he be better off with something wireless with a screen and keyboard, but leave the hard drive back home? He certainly doesn't need to have the computer with all the farm's records on it out on a tractor with all the attendant risks, he just needs to be able to connect to that computer from the tractor. Unless the tractor computer is going to be used for the latest FPS's and such also:-)
"And the customers will accept the higher prices."
Ah, but will they? We are already starting to see companies think twice about staying on the Microsoft upgrade track (which is also a hardware upgrade track whether you like it or not), so MS has to be a lot more careful about jacking up their prices than they used to be. They can't make box builders like Dell, IBM, etc. pay a lot more for OEM licenses without getting them started thinking about going to another OS to keep the total retail cost down so that they don't convince customers not to buy a new computer from anybody. The current economy has people looking at prices a lot more closely, and MS can only jack them up just so far before even the hardest core MS fan decides that they'd like to have some money left over for frivolities like food and shelter. If the price of gasoline went to $25 per gallon tomorrow morning wouldn't you start seriously looking for an alternative to the internal combustion engine as we currently know it?
When my little brother and I were teenage or younger I could occasionally hear a TV's horizontal section, but he could hear it well enough that it drove him out of the room.
You do lose the high end as you age, and the horizontal sweep frequency is less that half an octave below the theoretical upper limit of human hearing at its best anyway, so most adults can't hear it unless they already know what to listen for and can do so in an otherwise quiet environment.
Back in the days of vacuum tube high fidelity audio equipment there were a couple of companies making cooling fans that are considerably quieter than the ones in computers today, however, as far as I know they all ran on 120V AC which means they give off a 60Hz magnetic field (get one near a TV or monitor screen and watch it throb), so maybe quiet DC fans are just too cost prohibitive for the average discount store beige box.
"What I didn't know was that the garbage collection routine did a type casting trick with a four byte pointer (instead of putting the pointer into the structure itself) which would overwrite the three byte structures."
Could this have been foreseen/avoided if the code (written by someone else and being reused by you, if I understand correctly) had been better commented?
A corporation is basically the sum of each shareholder's financial holding in that corporation. They joined their financial assets together in the first place to increase said assets. Ultimately they are responsible for the conduct of the corporation because they decide who runs and oversees it on a day-to-day basis. Therefore, the way to punish a corporation is financially, i.e., reduce each shareholder's financial holding proportional to the size fo that holding. You can either take some of the corporation's assests, or in the unlikely event of their misdeeds being such as to deserve a "death penalty", all of their assets.
Microsoft should be punished for their misdeeds by being fined billions and billions of dollars. (I like to call it the Sagan treatment.) This will send a message to the shareholders to make sure that they don't break the law anymore and suffer further punishment, and have the delightful side effect of severely reducing Microsoft's ability to buy near-monopolys in related fields such as cable tv, etc., as well as putting a lot of money into the government coffers to allow the meeting of expenses such as part of the cost of fighting a war without having to increase taxes or federal debt quite as soon or as much.
Was his user # always that low? I don't really remember seeing his name around here until the Andover takeover (I'm sure I remember that he didn't work here until then) and I don't recall ever seeing him post anything *quite* like that before.
There are several good posts in this thread about deciBels, but it should be pointed out that human hearing isn't linear, so a doubling of amplitude isn't going to be percieved as twice as loud.
Unless you can hear well up into the range the rest of us consider untrasonic and are talking about magnetostriction*, you'll probably find that the majority of the noise comes from the power supply's fan. (and other fans)
*The expansion and contraction of iron core coils and transformers caused by the changing magnetic field of the current running through them. This expansion and contraction vibrates the air. One example is the approx. 16kHz given off by the horizontal sweep section of a television or the various frequencies given off by computer monitor horizontal sweep sections. If you can actually hear it you've got good upper range hearing and a cheap or faulty piece of electronics. Switching power supplies pulse the transformer at a much higher, and therefore inaudible, frequency.
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Jealous of your superiors, I take it?
I always wanted to move into Apartment 3G myself.
Even in South Africa, what are the chances of those companies still having an old 486 laptop lying around somewhere? They could probably give him a new one at less expense to themselves than paying staff to hunt up the parts to cobble together the antique he's asking for and to make sure that it works.
Condsidering that I've learned a lot from the answers I'd have to disagree with you.
Besides, Slashdot has Jon Katz, so it's not as though there are any particular standards to adhere to.
Seriously, that's where this one came from, and last I heard IBM would rather sell stuff than have it gather dust in the warehouse, and their sales department is bound to have an 800 number.
How did you get it to do up and down, how did you avoid acidentally activating it when typing a "j", and what does double left mean?
Does making these movies involve exposing a negative and printing off the actual movie from that? If so, do you still have the negatives and might they not be in better shape?
So who is Bill more like, Osama (as another poster suggested) or Saddam?
Hey, I was fine with it at the score it was when I posted it.
Is that the blue one with the white letters and the cryptic message?
Haven't you heard? We bombed it on purpose to keep the Taliban from stealing the food inside. I heard it on CNN or MSNBC, so it must be true!
He's probably got a computer back at the farm house or main building or whatever, so as long as the tractor is going to be used only on that farm wouldn't he be better off with something wireless with a screen and keyboard, but leave the hard drive back home? He certainly doesn't need to have the computer with all the farm's records on it out on a tractor with all the attendant risks, he just needs to be able to connect to that computer from the tractor. Unless the tractor computer is going to be used for the latest FPS's and such also :-)
Ah, but will they? We are already starting to see companies think twice about staying on the Microsoft upgrade track (which is also a hardware upgrade track whether you like it or not), so MS has to be a lot more careful about jacking up their prices than they used to be. They can't make box builders like Dell, IBM, etc. pay a lot more for OEM licenses without getting them started thinking about going to another OS to keep the total retail cost down so that they don't convince customers not to buy a new computer from anybody. The current economy has people looking at prices a lot more closely, and MS can only jack them up just so far before even the hardest core MS fan decides that they'd like to have some money left over for frivolities like food and shelter. If the price of gasoline went to $25 per gallon tomorrow morning wouldn't you start seriously looking for an alternative to the internal combustion engine as we currently know it?
You do lose the high end as you age, and the horizontal sweep frequency is less that half an octave below the theoretical upper limit of human hearing at its best anyway, so most adults can't hear it unless they already know what to listen for and can do so in an otherwise quiet environment.
Back in the days of vacuum tube high fidelity audio equipment there were a couple of companies making cooling fans that are considerably quieter than the ones in computers today, however, as far as I know they all ran on 120V AC which means they give off a 60Hz magnetic field (get one near a TV or monitor screen and watch it throb), so maybe quiet DC fans are just too cost prohibitive for the average discount store beige box.
Could this have been foreseen/avoided if the code (written by someone else and being reused by you, if I understand correctly) had been better commented?
Microsoft should be punished for their misdeeds by being fined billions and billions of dollars. (I like to call it the Sagan treatment.) This will send a message to the shareholders to make sure that they don't break the law anymore and suffer further punishment, and have the delightful side effect of severely reducing Microsoft's ability to buy near-monopolys in related fields such as cable tv, etc., as well as putting a lot of money into the government coffers to allow the meeting of expenses such as part of the cost of fighting a war without having to increase taxes or federal debt quite as soon or as much.
Was his user # always that low? I don't really remember seeing his name around here until the Andover takeover (I'm sure I remember that he didn't work here until then) and I don't recall ever seeing him post anything *quite* like that before.
Maybe your phone has better taste in music.
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The real unitron's IQ is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
There are several good posts in this thread about deciBels, but it should be pointed out that human hearing isn't linear, so a doubling of amplitude isn't going to be percieved as twice as loud.
But is the earth truly living up to that potential?
If mom ever comes to visit that apartment she thinks is vacuumed so often, boy are you in trouble.
*The expansion and contraction of iron core coils and transformers caused by the changing magnetic field of the current running through them. This expansion and contraction vibrates the air. One example is the approx. 16kHz given off by the horizontal sweep section of a television or the various frequencies given off by computer monitor horizontal sweep sections. If you can actually hear it you've got good upper range hearing and a cheap or faulty piece of electronics. Switching power supplies pulse the transformer at a much higher, and therefore inaudible, frequency.