Nothing against Google (use it all the time), but sometimes the best thing about "Ask Slashdot" is the slightly off-topic post that clues you to something that you wouldn't have known to ask about. Besides, when someone else uses Google instead of posting their question here, the rest of us don't get a chance to learn anything because of it.
Speaking of "letting the marketplace decide", anyone remember when there were 5 different standards for AM stereo for the marketplace to decide on? Listened to any good AM stereo lately?
Just tell your local congresscritter that you can spend the money on campaign contributions or on a new TV if the old one gets obsoleted, their choice.
Yeah, the cable companies would love that, another opportunity to render "cable ready" TV's and VCR's obsolete and force people to rent converter boxes.
It's my opinion that the case did not deserve to be cut up and buried. If you can't find a use for it, find someone who can. That said, I doubt if the case contained any lead. The electronics mounted in the case no doubt use lead/tin alloy solder but the case is probably just steel and recycled dinosaurs, i.e. plastic.
That "data blob...with the text strings off to one side" is the same thing you'd see with debug or Norton's Diskedit, and they did call it a sector editor (or something like that), so that part, at least, was reasonably accurate.
Why would it need a connection with a story on transistors? This story is about the CBS television show CSI, which makes its discussion of police officers and depictions of them at least somewhat on-topic.
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So in addition to writing off all his movie tickets on his tax returns, now he can deduct his cable bill too?
Figures that Voyager would finally get unhorrible about the time that nobody in my market would carry it anymore after all those years I waited for it to "live up to its potential". Hope they (Paramount) haen't permanently poisoned the waters around here for themselves so that some local station will pick up the new series.
Anybody remember the original appearance or thereabouts of the Lone Gunmen well enough to tell me what's making me think that there was a fourth guy? This would be when one of them made a crack about them sitting around laughing at the scientific inaccuracies in "Earth 2".
i don't know what else (other than the peace symbol) to call it either, but those sticks are supposed to be the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D" for nuclear disarmament.
"Pull a nova" sounds like a good catch phrase to sneak into the language.
Are you wanting to use this as some sort of gamepad or did you create an operating system that only recognizes 12 characters?
I just got through googling stuff like "keyboard emulator", "keyboard port wiring", "dummy keyboard" and stuff along those lines looking for info on what circuitry to add to a passive KVM switch so that I can boot one computer, switch the switch, and boot the second with the first still thinking that it has a mouse, keyboard, and monitor attached.
Didn't find much of what I was looking for but found a bunch of links about game controls and using the integrated circuit in keyboards that send the scan codes to the computer as part of custom game controls.
Considering that the descendants of the Earl of Sandwich (the guy who invented them) are now in the sandwich business, you might want to tread lightly in that whole area.
Wouldn't it be more likely for that drug drealer to be called "El Diablo"? Wouldn't it make more sense for New Line to call the movie "El Diablo"? Didn't Zorro have a dog or something named Diablo? (Wasn't his horse called Toranado?)
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Which means that they'll have to share all those juicy marketing details insead of having them all to themselves.
Nothing against Google (use it all the time), but sometimes the best thing about "Ask Slashdot" is the slightly off-topic post that clues you to something that you wouldn't have known to ask about. Besides, when someone else uses Google instead of posting their question here, the rest of us don't get a chance to learn anything because of it.
Speaking of "letting the marketplace decide", anyone remember when there were 5 different standards for AM stereo for the marketplace to decide on? Listened to any good AM stereo lately?
Just tell your local congresscritter that you can spend the money on campaign contributions or on a new TV if the old one gets obsoleted, their choice.
Yeah, the cable companies would love that, another opportunity to render "cable ready" TV's and VCR's obsolete and force people to rent converter boxes.
Here's another one for you to moderate as off-topic. Idiot.
Now *that* would be a great sig!
It's my opinion that the case did not deserve to be cut up and buried. If you can't find a use for it, find someone who can. That said, I doubt if the case contained any lead. The electronics mounted in the case no doubt use lead/tin alloy solder but the case is probably just steel and recycled dinosaurs, i.e. plastic.
I'm just posting this so I can find the story again.
That "data blob...with the text strings off to one side" is the same thing you'd see with debug or Norton's Diskedit, and they did call it a sector editor (or something like that), so that part, at least, was reasonably accurate.
Why would it need a connection with a story on transistors? This story is about the CBS television show CSI, which makes its discussion of police officers and depictions of them at least somewhat on-topic.
So in addition to writing off all his movie tickets on his tax returns, now he can deduct his cable bill too?
Anybody remember the original appearance or thereabouts of the Lone Gunmen well enough to tell me what's making me think that there was a fourth guy? This would be when one of them made a crack about them sitting around laughing at the scientific inaccuracies in "Earth 2".
"Pull a nova" sounds like a good catch phrase to sneak into the language.
What do you use to make the ampersand less than show up as typed instead of getting "translated" into a "birdmouth"?
You've heard of Reader's Digest Condensed Books? This was a Reader's Digest Condensed Title.
I just got through googling stuff like "keyboard emulator", "keyboard port wiring", "dummy keyboard" and stuff along those lines looking for info on what circuitry to add to a passive KVM switch so that I can boot one computer, switch the switch, and boot the second with the first still thinking that it has a mouse, keyboard, and monitor attached.
Didn't find much of what I was looking for but found a bunch of links about game controls and using the integrated circuit in keyboards that send the scan codes to the computer as part of custom game controls.
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Considering that the descendants of the Earl of Sandwich (the guy who invented them) are now in the sandwich business, you might want to tread lightly in that whole area.
Whereas your failure to notice "Yes, that's a joke." at the end of the post is evidence of your brilliance?
Was it irony or poetic justice that you misspelled irony?
Jeep came from GP, as in General Purpose Vehicle, which was the military's scintillating name for the original version of that type of vehicle.
If I had screwed up like that, I'd want to remain anonymous too.
How come the guy selling all those cheap drugs never comes around when *I* get stuck with moderator duty?
How long ago did the wrestler start using that name? Before the band The Police showed up on Anerican radio?
Wouldn't it be more likely for that drug drealer to be called "El Diablo"? Wouldn't it make more sense for New Line to call the movie "El Diablo"? Didn't Zorro have a dog or something named Diablo? (Wasn't his horse called Toranado?)