Go to http://google.stanford.edu/ search for asimov.net get stuff like ftp://ftp.asimov.net apple.asimov.net and others that seem to be talking about apple emulators for games. good luck report your ultimate findings. thank you
Saw the guy behind that site on TV news the other evening for a few moments and he was saying something about using the list as a reference for prosecutions when abortion is outlawed. Is he ignorant of the ex post facto thing that says you can't make something illegal retroactively or does he also plan to change that part of the constitution? If the "no ex post facto laws" clause is removed what other retroactive laws will be passed? What high moral principle is served by hiding behind the constitution until you can destroy it?
So many of those people seem to think that life begins at conception and ends at birth. I've always suspected they really just want to make sure that the woman is punished for having sex (whether she wanted to or not). A lot of religious "fanatics" seem convinced (at least subconciously) that humans have some obligation to suffer and it bothers them if someone doesn't.
Acting from a purely technological interest I checked out that link and found another one to a patent for a device for bending glass. Intrigued by what could possibly be the relevance I checked it out and when I read the description there were a number of relevant euphemisms.
The fifth student just wasn't media savvy enough to die right away instead of lingering in the hospital a day or two before succumbing to his wound(s).
Do lasers work backwards as photo-detectors the way light-emitting diodes are supposed to do? Or is it a lasar (light amplification by stimulated absorption of radiation)?
Once upon a time many years ago there were "over the phone line" jukeboxes. You picked up the receiver (handset), told the operator/disk jockey what song you wanted to hear and dropped coins into the slot just like a pay phone. The operator then put the record on the turntable and played it and the sound was fed down the phone line. I'm assuming it was a leased line rather than a dial-up connection so the phone company probably put some EQ on the line (they called it conditioning)just like they did for leased lines running to radio stations. Of course these were 78 rpm records so they probably sounded as good that way as if there had been an actual juke box with turntable on site. Lo-Fi either way. And since the people paying to here the music probably "remembered" what they heard, I think we can beckon to Sightsound to "lean close so that we can whisper to you" and then scream "Prior Art !!!" Back when digital recording of audio was just beginning to take off (pre commercial Internet days)there were several different schemes in the works to let someone walk into a store and up to a kiosk where they would select the songs they wanted and cassettes would be made for them from music stored digitally either on site or at the other end of a leased line and they would pay so much per song. Cost would be about the same as buying an album but you got only cuts that you wanted. Of course the audio cassette had to be recorded in real time so it could take an hour or so. Apparently these patents, or at least the first one, came out of one of these schemes, and possibly the second patent was an attempt to extend the first one to jump on the internet bandwagon. I think the best way to handle this would be for the sellers to discount their prices by 1 per cent and tell Sightsound to collect from the consumers, and to add "sorry, our customer privacy policy prevents us from releasing any identification information about our customers."
Since Pournelle charges a subscription for access to part of his site, perhaps that other "professional writer" Jon Katz could be a "subscription only" part of Slashdot.
Well, after all, the Internet was born out of preparations for war as a sort of defensive weapon. No way someone wasn't going to see it as an offensive one sooner or later. Surprised it wasn't sooner.
If I lived in Arizona I'd appreciate the concern for my privacy but wouldn't much care for the state interfering in my choice of processors. 'Course this whole serial number thing could be just to make it easier to recall them for FPU problems.
If Amazon wants to subsidise my slashdot habit, great, but isn't this a review of a book that's been out for three or four years? And isn't it about time for a new one from him where he says this one and the one before that were all wrong?
"Writing another book to sell that is basically a correction of his last book. You'd have to be a sucker to buy it." Why does that make me think of Windows98?
"I remember Babylon" is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke (I think it's included in the "Nine Billion Names of God" anthology, but that's not a promise). It's very interesting and thought-provoking reading for anyone wondering where entertainment is going and dragging us along with it. Gil Scott-Heron was wrong. The revolution will be televised. With commercials.
Now that you've won why not take a vacation and close down the site for a few days to prevent it being overrun with tourists, and then, when they've all given up and gone on to some other flavor of the week, re-open?
Until it gets replaced by Saturday's paper this site http://www.news-observer.com/biz/ has a story about how the states are not only selling your name, address, et cetera, from their drivers license files but now they're selling your picture too! "Your face is in the database"
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Go to http://google.stanford.edu/
search for asimov.net
get stuff like ftp://ftp.asimov.net
apple.asimov.net
and others that seem to be talking about apple emulators for games.
good luck
report your ultimate findings.
thank you
If it wasn't for the patents you couldn't get anybody to believe some of these things really exist!
Time to face the music when it breaks.
Saw the guy behind that site on TV news the other evening for a few moments and he was saying something about using the list as a reference for prosecutions when abortion is outlawed.
Is he ignorant of the ex post facto thing that says you can't make something illegal retroactively or does he also plan to change that part of the constitution?
If the "no ex post facto laws" clause is removed what other retroactive laws will be passed?
What high moral principle is served by hiding behind the constitution until you can destroy it?
So many of those people seem to think that life begins at conception and ends at birth. I've always suspected they really just want to make sure that the woman is punished for having sex (whether she wanted to or not). A lot of religious "fanatics" seem convinced (at least subconciously) that humans have some obligation to suffer and it bothers them if someone doesn't.
another $89.95
Acting from a purely technological interest I checked out that link and found another one to a patent for a device for bending glass. Intrigued by what could possibly be the relevance I checked it out and when I read the description there were a number of relevant euphemisms.
Reminds me of Granddaddy's old early data transport manual "Waiting for Baudot"
Is Baconium the name of that new element 114?
"Dogs don't know it's a celeron."
The important question is whether or not the Celeron is a dog.
The fifth student just wasn't media savvy enough to die right away instead of lingering in the hospital a day or two before succumbing to his wound(s).
No wonder my e-mail kept getting bounced back! I thought it was just Stamp Act protocol incompatability.
"Ditto says the only requirements for building a chaotic operating system are two irregular or unpredictable elements."
A human user and a computer
"Ditto says the only requirements for building a chaotic operating system are two irregular or unpredictable elements."
Microsoft's secret formula!
Do lasers work backwards as photo-detectors the way light-emitting diodes are supposed to do?
Or is it a lasar (light amplification by stimulated absorption of radiation)?
But did you know that Giga is pronounced "jiga"?
(from same root as gigantic)
According to this
t ory/0,2257,12439-21077-153977-0,00.html
http://www.nandotimes.com/24hour/nao/business/s
Sony is going to be selling music over the net.
Soundsight's (or whatever their name is)lawyers probably won't even know what hit them.
Once upon a time many years ago there were "over the phone line" jukeboxes. You picked up the receiver (handset), told the operator/disk jockey what song you wanted to hear and dropped coins into the slot just like a pay phone. The operator then put the record on the turntable and played it and the sound was fed down the phone line. I'm assuming it was a leased line rather than a dial-up connection so the phone company probably put some EQ on the line (they called it conditioning)just like they did for leased lines running to radio stations. Of course these were 78 rpm records so they probably sounded as good that way as if there had been an actual juke box with turntable on site. Lo-Fi either way. And since the people paying to here the music probably "remembered" what they heard, I think we can beckon to Sightsound to "lean close so that we can whisper to you" and then scream "Prior Art !!!"
Back when digital recording of audio was just beginning to take off (pre commercial Internet days)there were several different schemes in the works to let someone walk into a store and up to a kiosk where they would select the songs they wanted and cassettes would be made for them from music stored digitally either on site or at the other end of a leased line and they would pay so much per song. Cost would be about the same as buying an album but you got only cuts that you wanted. Of course the audio cassette had to be recorded in real time so it could take an hour or so. Apparently these patents, or at least the first one, came out of one of these schemes, and possibly the second patent was an attempt to extend the first one to jump on the internet bandwagon.
I think the best way to handle this would be for the sellers to discount their prices by 1 per cent and tell Sightsound to collect from the consumers, and to add "sorry, our customer privacy policy prevents us from releasing any identification information about our customers."
Since Pournelle charges a subscription for access to part of his site, perhaps that other "professional writer" Jon Katz could be a "subscription only" part of Slashdot.
Well, after all, the Internet was born out of preparations for war as a sort of defensive weapon. No way someone wasn't going to see it as an offensive one sooner or later. Surprised it wasn't sooner.
If I lived in Arizona I'd appreciate the concern for my privacy but wouldn't much care for the state interfering in my choice of processors.
'Course this whole serial number thing could be just to make it easier to recall them for FPU problems.
I've often been able to disable it just by installing it or trying to use it, and it often disables itself.
If Amazon wants to subsidise my slashdot habit, great, but isn't this a review of a book that's been out for three or four years? And isn't it about time for a new one from him where he says this one and the one before that were all wrong?
"Writing another book to sell that is basically a correction of his last book. You'd have to be a sucker to buy it."
Why does that make me think of Windows98?
"I remember Babylon" is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke (I think it's included in the "Nine Billion Names of God" anthology, but that's not a promise). It's very interesting and thought-provoking reading for anyone wondering where entertainment is going and dragging us along with it. Gil Scott-Heron was wrong. The revolution will be televised. With commercials.
Now that you've won why not take a vacation and close down the site for a few days to prevent it being overrun with tourists, and then, when they've all given up and gone on to some other flavor of the week, re-open?
Until it gets replaced by Saturday's paper this site
http://www.news-observer.com/biz/
has a story about how the states are not only selling your name, address, et cetera, from their drivers license files but now they're selling your picture too! "Your face is in the database"