It and a bunch of other OSDN sites went down about 2:45 pm EDT, at least for me. I, too, thought it might have been hordes of MSNBC readers slashdotting Slashdot.
You left out the part about putting together a mailing list of the people who asked to be removed (thus verifying that it's a good working address) and your paying customers, and then selling that list (to people looking to sell just about any *other* product or service) as verified and charging a premium price for it.
Did anyone else notice that this guy basically said he was in other facets of internet-based business, and when that slowed down, well, he had an uncle doing it and knew a guy from high school doing it and watched and learned from him for a while, and then opened a school to teach others how, but never seems to have actually had or run his own site of that sort?
Are you sure you aren't referring to the Salon article which Slashdot linked to, but did not write? Or did you get all bent out of shape over this one sentence? "Ah, a nice respectable trade -- every parent's dream for their business-school dropout child."
You can choose which time zone you want things expressed in somewhere in the preferences, but it doesn't always work on everything. F'rinstance, I submitted a story last Saturday night around 9 or 10 Eastern Daylight Time, but the "pending" notice that came back said Sunday morning at 1.
You couldn't plug it in to the standard wall socket anyway, but you could run a dedicated circuit for it from your main panelboard and use it at home. About the same power load as your stove or your dryer and water heater running at the same time.
40 years ago that 1k$ would have bought you a brand new automobile, so you'd need to explain it to them in terms of 1961 purchasing power versus 2001 purchasing power.
"Once you turned on the power you would have to wait for the filaments in the tubes to heat up."
Not if you had a standby switch that kept the filaments on and just shut down the B+ to the plates, which would be desirable to avoid the thermal shock that would burn out the filaments quicker. I would hope that IBM would have thought to include this.
Computer grade vacuum tubes aren't necessarily better than the category known as receiving tubes, they just need to be optimized for use as switches (either fully conducting or not conducting at all), instead of for the things that were more important in receiving tubes, stuff like low noise, particular power curves, ability to work over a range of B+ voltages, input and output impedence versus frequency, et cetera.
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How about Computing History for all those obnoxious young punks who think that all of this appeared magically for their convenience just because they have deigned to bless the world with their existence.
"...and that happens to be a type of micro it co-invented."
If you're talking about the IBM PC, you're mistaken. IBM came up with the hardware first (based in part on some of their own previous hardware), and then went looking for an operating system. It could just as easily have been CP/M. You might be able to make an arguement for Intel as co-inventor (and that would be a stretch), but not MS.
Hundreds of failing companies, eager for revenge on the employee that aired their dirty laundery in public and anxious to block issuance of that severance check are currently frantically searching their employee records for "Coward, Anonymous NMI"
The first Slashdot story, which was about repossessing automobiles, was based on an MSNBC article, but the link to that is broken and searching MSNBC for "repo man" doesn't find it either.
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It and a bunch of other OSDN sites went down about 2:45 pm EDT, at least for me. I, too, thought it might have been hordes of MSNBC readers slashdotting Slashdot.
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Did anyone else notice that this guy basically said he was in other facets of internet-based business, and when that slowed down, well, he had an uncle doing it and knew a guy from high school doing it and watched and learned from him for a while, and then opened a school to teach others how, but never seems to have actually had or run his own site of that sort?
Then perhaps you'd be happier if you went to some other web site. I'm sure others would as well.
Are you sure you aren't referring to the Salon article which Slashdot linked to, but did not write? Or did you get all bent out of shape over this one sentence? "Ah, a nice respectable trade -- every parent's dream for their business-school dropout child."
When you can't decide between "funny" and "insightful" it comes in handy not having any moderator points available to dispense.
You're making the mistake of thinking that the moderators actually know what "redundant" means.
The old dude was Lorne Greene, a Canadian, probably best known for his role as Ben Cartwright on the 60's NBC western Bonanza.
Okay, so when do they get into accidents?
You can choose which time zone you want things expressed in somewhere in the preferences, but it doesn't always work on everything. F'rinstance, I submitted a story last Saturday night around 9 or 10 Eastern Daylight Time, but the "pending" notice that came back said Sunday morning at 1.
You couldn't plug it in to the standard wall socket anyway, but you could run a dedicated circuit for it from your main panelboard and use it at home. About the same power load as your stove or your dryer and water heater running at the same time.
40 years ago that 1k$ would have bought you a brand new automobile, so you'd need to explain it to them in terms of 1961 purchasing power versus 2001 purchasing power.
Not if you had a standby switch that kept the filaments on and just shut down the B+ to the plates, which would be desirable to avoid the thermal shock that would burn out the filaments quicker. I would hope that IBM would have thought to include this.
Computer grade vacuum tubes aren't necessarily better than the category known as receiving tubes, they just need to be optimized for use as switches (either fully conducting or not conducting at all), instead of for the things that were more important in receiving tubes, stuff like low noise, particular power curves, ability to work over a range of B+ voltages, input and output impedence versus frequency, et cetera.
How about Computing History for all those obnoxious young punks who think that all of this appeared magically for their convenience just because they have deigned to bless the world with their existence.
If you're talking about the IBM PC, you're mistaken. IBM came up with the hardware first (based in part on some of their own previous hardware), and then went looking for an operating system. It could just as easily have been CP/M. You might be able to make an arguement for Intel as co-inventor (and that would be a stretch), but not MS.
I'm not endorsing anything about Rev. Ike, but I tend to agree with him when he says that the lack of money is the root of all evil.
At least I got "severance" right.
Hundreds of failing companies, eager for revenge on the employee that aired their dirty laundery in public and anxious to block issuance of that severance check are currently frantically searching their employee records for "Coward, Anonymous NMI"
The first Slashdot story, which was about repossessing automobiles, was based on an MSNBC article, but the link to that is broken and searching MSNBC for "repo man" doesn't find it either.
I'm an idiot? I'm not the one who designed a computer case to look like a kitchen appliance.
Maybe they were listed right next to each other in the Yellow Pages.
Does the Cube have a little trap door in the bottom so that you can clean out the bread crumbs?
If I were you I wouldn't expect much from these guys in the way of well-coded English.
If they'd stayed true to the original story there wouldn't have been a character for Jude Law to play, or at least not that character.