Well it was probably made by a production company for IBM, but it was an IBM commercial. The glasses were more like tinted lens regular glasses than sunglasses.
Hell yes I've actually worked in radio*, why do you think I'm so broke now?
More than once I've had to fill out the "sample week" (A Monday from one week, a Tuesday from another, etc.) music logs where you have to enter the title, artist, composer, and licensing organization, although it's been a few years, and apparently the rules on payola have been modified since then, but at one time the stations were considered to be doing the artists a favor by playing their work and thereby giving them free publicity.
*Top 40, Adult Contemporary, Country, Album Oriented Rock, Oldies, live, live assist, and automated. And I hung out at a listener supported Classical for a while.
LOL. Remind me to steal that. The newest real estate agent buzzword--"Wireless Ready". Kind of like all the audio equipment marketed as "Digital Ready" when CDs first came out.
Thank you, I was experiencing a temporary Girl Groups of the Sixties name mental block, which is the kind of thing that happens when you're old enough to to have been around when that song was new.
What I'm wondering now, though, is if they're going to dig up Junior and sue him over BR-549?
Congratulations, it *is* a gentle and friendly satire (with a little self-deprecating humor thrown in) of Bruce's old sig, which he instituted a while back due to the confusion caused when others created user accounts with extremely similar names with an easily overlooked difference, such as appending a period, and then proceeded to post stuff that the real Bruce never would. Sort of like our current Cmdr Taco on, which comes up as "Cmdr Taco on on 09:27 AM September 10th, 2001" where the second "on" is easily overlooked if you don't expect it. I made up the time and day in that example. They have no particular significance, I just didn't feel like going to the trouble of hunting up some troll's real posting.
I think Israel has enough bombs going off with sufficient regularity for them to not consider anything that tall as anything other than an all too tempting target.
You can stick a burning match into a pail of gasoline and the liquid gasoline, by displacing all the air around the flame, will extinguish it. The catch, and the reason why that is an extremely stupid thing to do, is that since gasoline is so volatile there will probably be gasoline fumes hovering above the liquid gasoline and those fumes are basically the same as what explodes inside the cylinders of an internal combustion engine. And of course the explosion will ignite the liquid gasoline and scatter it everywhere.
So you have to move the burning match from far enough away not to ignite the fumes to under the surface of the liquid gasoline fast enough to keep from igniting the fumes before the match is smothered, and you only have to do it not quite fast enough just once to probably render yourself and any onlookers unable to perform that or any other experiment ever again.
The way I heard it a lot of the hydrogen (which being lighter than air tends to travel straight up rather quickly if not restrained in some way) escaped en route to the upper atmosphere instead of burning.
If they keep a record of every time someone tests a valid number, they could sell that list to telemarketers at a pretty good price, as the list contains verified numbers of computer-owning housholds. With a con game like that, who needs copyrights?
Isn't IDE being kept alive by a bunch of tricks designed to get around built-in limitations that were the result of IDE being come up with back when all sorts of digital space was at a much greater premium? Without some scheme to lie to half of your hardware you can't have more than 4 primary partitions per drive no matter what size it is (or 3 primary and only 1 extended), and only 4 IDE devices per machine. (I know you can install an extra controller card for a couple more IDE channels, but who has that many IRQs to spare?)
SCSI offers more devices but can it do more primary partitions per drive?
Maybe it's time to replace the whole ISA-PCI-IDE started out as an 8-bit platform and got patched and kludged time and time again mess with something that anticipates that what now seem like big drives, big RAM sticks, and fast processors and video cards will soon be classed with 8088s and 64K ram chips. And maybe there's something better than x86, or could be.
And while I'm ranting, how about we *don't* go through another episode of incompatible form factors for motherboards, cases, and power supplies (not to mention memory) that make brand name boxes un-upgradeable except by pitching them into the landfill and buying a whole new system.
I'm guessing that, in addition to whatever patents exist for DTMF, the use of those particular frequencies, which were carefully selected to be harmonically unrelated so as to avoid accidentally generating the wrong tone by heterodyning, probably already is covered by one or more copyrights belonging to Bell Labs or some other fragment of what was once known as *the* phone company.
Remember the good old days when 910 was 919 and the phone company ads had that beach music sounding tune "Operator, give me nine one nine, I need a Carolina voice on the end of the line"?
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Well it was probably made by a production company for IBM, but it was an IBM commercial. The glasses were more like tinted lens regular glasses than sunglasses.
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2. Don't seek investors until you have completed Step 1.
Seriously, it's an impressive product. Promote it professionally.
What about Nascar's unfortunately named Dick Trickle? Maybe his parents were operating on the "Boy Named Sue" theory.
And where, so I can look there too.
More than once I've had to fill out the "sample week" (A Monday from one week, a Tuesday from another, etc.) music logs where you have to enter the title, artist, composer, and licensing organization, although it's been a few years, and apparently the rules on payola have been modified since then, but at one time the stations were considered to be doing the artists a favor by playing their work and thereby giving them free publicity.
*Top 40, Adult Contemporary, Country, Album Oriented Rock, Oldies, live, live assist, and automated. And I hung out at a listener supported Classical for a while.
Yeah, but only because Death Star is already taken by AT&T.
Did you put an ATX board into an AT case? If so, please give details.
Just don't put it on top of on old Socket 4 Pentium 60 or 66, it'll melt down and/or catch fire.
LOL. Remind me to steal that. The newest real estate agent buzzword--"Wireless Ready". Kind of like all the audio equipment marketed as "Digital Ready" when CDs first came out.
I gotta quit posting so much. Starting tomorrow. Or right after the weekend. Anyway, real soon now.
What I'm wondering now, though, is if they're going to dig up Junior and sue him over BR-549?
"Primordial Soup, it's what's for dinner!"
Congratulations, it *is* a gentle and friendly satire (with a little self-deprecating humor thrown in) of Bruce's old sig, which he instituted a while back due to the confusion caused when others created user accounts with extremely similar names with an easily overlooked difference, such as appending a period, and then proceeded to post stuff that the real Bruce never would. Sort of like our current Cmdr Taco on, which comes up as "Cmdr Taco on on 09:27 AM September 10th, 2001" where the second "on" is easily overlooked if you don't expect it. I made up the time and day in that example. They have no particular significance, I just didn't feel like going to the trouble of hunting up some troll's real posting.
Who said anything about the U.S. killing innocents? He was talking about how powerful a bomb a jet airliner could be.
I think Israel has enough bombs going off with sufficient regularity for them to not consider anything that tall as anything other than an all too tempting target.
Why would you bother arguing with someone who thinks of FoxNews as a reputable and reliable source?
How about the Spruce Goose? Large wooden airplanes are nothing new.
So you have to move the burning match from far enough away not to ignite the fumes to under the surface of the liquid gasoline fast enough to keep from igniting the fumes before the match is smothered, and you only have to do it not quite fast enough just once to probably render yourself and any onlookers unable to perform that or any other experiment ever again.
The way I heard it a lot of the hydrogen (which being lighter than air tends to travel straight up rather quickly if not restrained in some way) escaped en route to the upper atmosphere instead of burning.
Another excellent tune (that I should have thought of as well).
If they keep a record of every time someone tests a valid number, they could sell that list to telemarketers at a pretty good price, as the list contains verified numbers of computer-owning housholds. With a con game like that, who needs copyrights?
SCSI offers more devices but can it do more primary partitions per drive?
Maybe it's time to replace the whole ISA-PCI-IDE started out as an 8-bit platform and got patched and kludged time and time again mess with something that anticipates that what now seem like big drives, big RAM sticks, and fast processors and video cards will soon be classed with 8088s and 64K ram chips. And maybe there's something better than x86, or could be.
And while I'm ranting, how about we *don't* go through another episode of incompatible form factors for motherboards, cases, and power supplies (not to mention memory) that make brand name boxes un-upgradeable except by pitching them into the landfill and buying a whole new system.
If it had been done at random by monkeys there would be fewer bugs. Now aplogise for insulting the monkeys.
I'm guessing that, in addition to whatever patents exist for DTMF, the use of those particular frequencies, which were carefully selected to be harmonically unrelated so as to avoid accidentally generating the wrong tone by heterodyning, probably already is covered by one or more copyrights belonging to Bell Labs or some other fragment of what was once known as *the* phone company.
Remember the good old days when 910 was 919 and the phone company ads had that beach music sounding tune "Operator, give me nine one nine, I need a Carolina voice on the end of the line"?