I'd like to see a lot more in the way of details before I believe any of the above. I'm not saying it's impossible to believe, but did your grandfather never think to consult a lawyer? A handshake implies an oral contract. Oral contracts aren't necessarily unenforceable. A house built by people who worked for your grandfather, using materials paid for by your grandfather, should also be pretty good corroborating evidence of said oral contract. Especially as James B. Lansing's brother Altec (sorry, old, old joke)wouldn't have any sort of receipt to show that the materials didn't still belong to your grandfather.
Here's another question. It seems that in any line of work there's always somebody whose pay, rate of advancement, job security and stability, etc. seem to be not as dependant on how good they are at their job but on stuff like personality, looks, family influence, and other semi-unquantifiables. How much more or less than average is IT subject to this sort of thing?
They'll be able to communicate with all those Coke machines that can raise the price if it's a hot day. But seriously, folks, can you imagine how much more "interesting" things are going to be for the folks at Underwriters Laboratories.
I didn't post the above at 10:22 PM, I posted it at apprx. 11:06 PM EST and the only post showing was the first one. The other 4 or 5 didn't show 'till I posted. Must be that server out in the middle of the Atlantic again.
This is a test to see if this story has been ignored by all but one person for an hour or if I'm reloading from a server with a long time-delay circuit or what.
Once you mentioned lines crossing the first thing I thought of was schematics and (multi-layer)circuit boards. Is there any open source board design stuff out there that could be modified to give you a 3 dimensions represented in 2 picture of your octopus farm?
Since the demand for telephones or other things such as fax machines that use the phone system continually (continuously?)threatens to outstrip the supply of unique numbers available for assigning to them, it seems pretty obvious that they couldn't be used for incoming calls, as phone numbers aren't plentiful enough to be disposable.
So did I. Same deal with regular ol' "flashlight" batteries. No option but the trash can. (Although I'm still daydream designing a battery draining machine that would fully exhaust them first, with pulse modulation, inverters, diodes, capacitors, and other fun stuff.)
When you say text version, do you mean Dos versions like WordPerfect 5.1? Some of these are still in use in some places. Would releasing the source code leave an opening for people who purchased those rather expensive at the time programs an opening to sue for destroying their resale value? Would the source code reveal too much proprietary information about the current versions of those products? I agree that it would certainly be interesting to see the results of seeing those old programs open-sourced. They might show up in software writing classes being dissected as good or bad examples. The programs being dissected, not the classes.
That noise is your monitor's horizontal deflection and high voltage section trying to self destruct by working at a higher frequency than it was designed to. Next to the CRT this is probably the most expensive part of the monitor to replace. Suggest finding someway to reconfigure X for a lower resolution unless your monitor is supposed to be able to handle those sweep frequencies, in which case it's time to take it back to whoever sold it to you.
I've been reloading the main page every few minutes for the last 45, ever since CNBC mentioned the release, and this story only showed up in the past few minutes(even though others were obviously seeing it enough to generate dozens of comments. Any guesses why? Instinet's staying open late to handle the sell-off, although being down only 2 or 3 per cent isn't exactly a plunge. CNBC says Ballmer could loose three-quarters of a billion on paper today.
Kira went from Major to Colonel, I think Whorf picked up some rank, and Sisco got promoted from Captain to "Instrument of the Gods" (now *that's* a promotion).
If they're 90Hz fans, and you run them at 60 Hz, wouldn't they run too slowly? Unless you mean that their resonant frequency is 90Hz, which I'd need a whole lot more explanation of.
As I recall, that type of foam comes with all sorts of warnings about how easily it burns and the poison fumes it gives off when it does, so I suggest exploring less lethal alternatives.
Before everybody starts piling on the patent office as is usual whenever patents are mentioned, take into consideration that the patent office is currently so backlogged and overloaded with applications (think FCC during CB radio craze, when it had about one thousand employess total, including clerical staff)that the only way they can get any throughput working with the resources Congress gives them is to approve practically everything that isn't immediately obviously disallowable and transfer the burden of sorting it all out to the judicial system. If you want to scream at somebody about it, try Congress. (You might want to avoid the irony of demanding increased Patent Office funding and lower taxes simultaneously, though)
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They'll be able to communicate with all those Coke machines that can raise the price if it's a hot day.
But seriously, folks, can you imagine how much more "interesting" things are going to be for the folks at Underwriters Laboratories.
I didn't post the above at 10:22 PM, I posted it at apprx. 11:06 PM EST and the only post showing was the first one. The other 4 or 5 didn't show 'till I posted. Must be that server out in the middle of the Atlantic again.
This is a test to see if this story has been ignored by all but one person for an hour or if I'm reloading from a server with a long time-delay circuit or what.
(Although I'm still daydream designing a battery draining machine that would fully exhaust them first, with pulse modulation, inverters, diodes, capacitors, and other fun stuff.)
Instinet's staying open late to handle the sell-off, although being down only 2 or 3 per cent isn't exactly a plunge. CNBC says Ballmer could loose three-quarters of a billion on paper today.
It's starting to get strange and interesting again.