Actually, several stories have been playing hide and seek lately. There was one that appeared about 7:30 AM one day marked as being posted at 7:30 PM (12 hours later) that same day. About an hour later it disappeared from the main page until about 7:30 that evening. (all times EDT) Go figure.
CNBC is reporting some increased demand (and therefore price increase) in Fatbrain stock so somebody thinks they smell money to be made. Of course somebody may have just told them "Hey, it's another new way to make money with the internet so how can you loose?"
Not only that, but at the top of the comments page where I looked to try to find out what the story was there was a link to the archived "Hope in the Hellmouth" story, apparently from May 3rd instead of the links to the stories above and below on the main page.
And I'm sure that a couple of stories on today's page that say they posted yesterday weren't where they are now when I looked last night.
What about the sentence that followed? "Wealthy landowners in the colonies rose up after the poor taxed man." Did they mean "against the poor tax man"?, "the uprising wasn't held until after man was taxed by the poor"?, "they rose up to 'go after'(chase, hound, attack, etc.)the man who was taxed and for whom sympathy and/or pity is felt(that 'poor' man)"? I wish there were still journalists and editors around who could code in English.
Apparently this guy unhooked his peripherals and removed the systems unit(s) from the apartment, but I'm wondering just how much of them he felt it necessary to destroy to erase the evidence. Was he afraid that his case and power supply had encoded their serial numbers into his Office '97 docs?
When it comes to Art, I'm more comfortable with something by Mucha or Parrish or even Escher, but what makes Mapplewhatsisname's work Art is that if I used the same equipment to photograph the same subjects most anyone would be able to compare the results and see that one of us knew about light and shadow and color and the other one of us was me.
I had to stop reading after a couple of pages so that I could stop laughing long enough to catch my breath but I wonder what those who seem so contemptuous of users who haven't spent their every waking moment learning about computers to the exclusion of all else are really angry about.
I enjoy doing "tech-support" type work. It feels good to take what I've worked hard to learn and make it easier for someone else to learn by my being smart enough or clever enough to see the problem through their eyes (so as to understand what it is that's confusing or misleading them) even though their area of expertise is terra incognita to me.
Just because I don't hold them in contempt for not being 'leet doesn't mean those stories aren't hilarious, though.
I don't know how much you, personally, know about Southern Baptists, or just which churches and people you think are Southern Baptists, but I suspect most here may know very little and quite possibly be greatly misinformed. Practically any kind of Baptist church you can name is an independent institution, governed only by the local congregation. No state, national, or world level entity tells them what to do, picks their preachers for them, et cetera. Many of the traditionally black Baptist churchs are affiliated with the American Baptist Convention, and that's pretty much all that I know about them. Many of the traditionally white Baptist churches are voluntarily affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, which traces its philosophical and spiritual roots back to early "Priesthood of the Believer" (decide for yourself what message God's word, i.e., The Bible, has for you instead of being told by Rome or London or whoever) advocates such as Roger Williams of Rhode Island or Delaware or thereabouts back in the Puritan Days. Although the Southern Baptist Convention came about as a result of the rift with Northern churches over slavery, by the 1950's the SBC and the average of the churches affiliated with it were far more "liberal" than most of the other Baptist churches in the South, which were often referred to as Freewill, hardshell, or Primitive. It is these latter churches that persons outside the South are usually thinking of when they say or hear "Southern Baptist". Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson were not Southern Baptists. In recent years the Southern Baptist Convention has been the object of a power struggle as Conservatives of the Falwell-Robertson "God wants a Republican Congress and Presidency" stripe have organized and gotten themselves into many of the more important and influential offices of the Convention, but for the most part the Convention and its affiliates have been strongly behind separation of church and state, continuing a tradition that stretches back well before the Revolutionary War. I will admit that this affinity for church-state separation is based a trifle more on the desire to keep government from controlling religion than the other way around.
I believe you'll find that the sub radios work not in the kiloHertz range but in the Hertz range. Infrasonic. E.L.F. This is all from distant memory, by the way.
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Which article? The one the link goes to has nothing about set-top boxes. Actually it doesn't have much of anything, although I assume they're planning a cable and not a broadcast channel. Of course if they want to actually get on any cable systems they'll probably need to be part owners of same.
First thing to do would be to check with the F.C.C. (assuming you're in U.S.ofA.)who will probably tell you that there aren't any fequencies up there legally available for what you want to do, but ask them if the experimental band between 160kHz and 190kHz is still available. A few component changes to the front end of an old AM car radio will give you a receiver to use in initial design and testing.
What kind of program does she have that'll need 20 years to complete its run? "The assistant tried and tried to explain to her that it would be hideousl slow, and there would be no software..." Actually it should run the software that comes with it at the same speed as it did when new, and if that software does what the owner needs done, no problem. I suspect that the gentle lady has heard some upgrade horror stories (IRQ conflicts, etc.) and wished to avoid all that unpleasantness.
I'm pretty sure that the Ford slogan is something about quality being job 1 and that it was Zenith, back when they were still trying to compete with (criminally underpriced)Japanese television sets, that used the quality in before name slogan.
My $25 or less Casio wristwatch keeps time *much* better (i.e., with greater accuaracy) than $2500 PC's or $250 VCR's. It saddens me that the world is that way.
But seriously, are we going to see an era of processor brand specific PC clone motherboards? Kind of defeats the whole purpose of being able to mix and match.
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Actually, several stories have been playing hide and seek lately. There was one that appeared about 7:30 AM one day marked as being posted at 7:30 PM (12 hours later) that same day. About an hour later it disappeared from the main page until about 7:30 that evening. (all times EDT) Go figure.
And I'm sure that a couple of stories on today's page that say they posted yesterday weren't where they are now when I looked last night.
I had to stop reading after a couple of pages so that I could stop laughing long enough to catch my breath but I wonder what those who seem so contemptuous of users who haven't spent their every waking moment learning about computers to the exclusion of all else are really angry about.
I enjoy doing "tech-support" type work. It feels good to take what I've worked hard to learn and make it easier for someone else to learn by my being smart enough or clever enough to see the problem through their eyes (so as to understand what it is that's confusing or misleading them) even though their area of expertise is terra incognita to me.
Just because I don't hold them in contempt for not being 'leet doesn't mean those stories aren't hilarious, though.
Sounded like the first moron to me.
Does that work for VHS machines or just Betamax?
"The assistant tried and tried to explain to her that it would be hideousl slow, and there would be no software..." Actually it should run the software that comes with it at the same speed as it did when new, and if that software does what the owner needs done, no problem. I suspect that the gentle lady has heard some upgrade horror stories (IRQ conflicts, etc.) and wished to avoid all that unpleasantness.
But seriously, are we going to see an era of processor brand specific PC clone motherboards? Kind of defeats the whole purpose of being able to mix and match.