I was a Systems Engineer for Tandy in 1992, when the "Sensation!" came out. I had completely, thoroughly forgotten about it until reading this article. Main reason is that it sold for crap! The Tandy 1000 I could see making a list of "Most Important" in that it was one of the first PC's to be truly accessible to the average consumer. It had the DeskMate operating environment built into ROM, which made it a lot easier for the average Joe (or Jane) to deal with.
By the time the Sensation! came out, customers were pretty accustomed to computers. Windows 3.1 was around, and while the $2,200 tag wasn't bad, it wasn't THAT much cheaper than the other computers. Packard Bell and Leading Edge were still around then as I recall, and those would have been cheaper (though garbage).
TRS-80, Amiga, Timex/Sinclair, TI99, Commodore Pet, GRiDPad, Coleco Adam, and many others have just as much business on that list as anything he put there.
if the deposit is only $20 (for a total of $30 for the camera) people will still just walk away with 'em.
I'd think that $20 or so would be plenty. They're making a profit on the ones that do come back; the deposit is just to mitigate the losses from the (presumably small) percentage that don't. It's likely that each camera will be used a certain number of times before finally disappearing. The profit from each use plus the $20 retained from the fellow who actually keeps the unit will take care of the capital loss.
I learned at Mervyn's that major credit card companies tend to eat the cost of the fraud. The customer gets their money back and the store the fraud occured at gets their money.
Nonsense. The merchant takes it in the shorts in most instances. The merchant is only protected in very limited situations - pretty much when shipping a physical product, with proof of delivery, to the recorded billing address of the credit card. Otherwise the merchant is charged back for the fraudulent purchase.
I'm going to have to shell out another $10US or something to get the updated discs
Good grief, man, they aren't requiring you to FedEx overnight the discs! Two DVDs will cost about $0.60 for first-class mail, or $4.30 to send Priority Mail with delivery confirmation.
I carry a WAP/Router with me when I travel. My purposes are a little different, I travel by RV and use it to get Internet access (broadband or dial-up; I have the D-Link with RS-232 secondary connection) in my motor home. Great when parked outside my brother-in-law's house; I just hooked up to his cable modem & went to town. I expect the same thing would work in a hotel room.
The point of this whole "cooperation" dealie... it's because their help is necessary.
Sure, to do it on the scale it is being done. My point is that we need to either (a) scale back to a project we can afford, or (b) increase the budget to support the project we want to do.
for US Space Station. NASA should never have embarked on a "cooperative" project without having the wherewithal to go it alone should the partners have to bail out.
I'm all for cooperation, the Soyuz/Apollo missions were great. US astronauts working on Mir, and Cosmonauts on Spacelab (had it lasted) are great ideas... but someone needs to be in charge, and capable of running the project by themselves if need be.
600kbit+ upstream connections that people can actually afford? Huh? Has anyone heard anything about this anywhere else?
I'm on fixed terrestrial wireless and get synchronous connection of around 1.1Mb/s at my business ($100/mo) and at home ($50/mo).
DSL is available at my business (through Sprint) but the fastest uplink available is their 640K SDSL for $165/mo, or 3Mb/s down & 512Kb/s up for $190/mo.
Upstream is important to me (at least at the business) because I run a VPN to the house so I can work from there.
As the previous poster pointed out, this applies only to Music CDs. Sterero-component style audio CD recorders look for encoding present on the Music CDs, and they will not record to "Standard" CD-R discs. Computer CD-RW drives do not require special media. There is no RIAA "Tax" on media not specifically marked "Music".
This is an opensource forum with pro-free software people...
Really? Huh, I must be in the wrong place. I thought this was Slashdot - News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters. I'm a Windows developer of quite proprietary software, and I use Windows and MS apps for my personal projects as well.
I guess I missed the decree that Nerds had to use OSS...
MSDN Universal does kick some serious ass... Developers, comments?
What more is there to say? For $2500 you get a full license of Visual Studio, plus a dev license of virtually everything Microsoft sells. For $2000 you get Studio, the OS's, plus SQL, Exchange, Commerce, and a few others. Hell, the $1090 Professional version gives you VS plus all the OS's, which meets the needs of a lot of developers. Hella deals!
Editors, cinematographers,screenwriters etc.... do much more work.
The guy who cleaned out my septic tank works harder in a day than I do, does that mean he deserves more money?
More to the point, Mel Gibson's presence will mean tens of millions of dollars' difference at the box office, compared to what it would do without him. Why shouldn't he get a healthy share of that?
no child will get really harmed just by accidentally browsing to a page that contains "adult" content...
Two points. One, there is more danger than just stumbling across a pr0n site. Chat sites are rife with sickos trying to lure kids into situations that are, to say the least, harmful.
Two, whether you or I think that a little pr0n isn't so bad for a kid, I believe that it is up to that child's parents to decide that for their own family. Net-Nanny style software just can't keep up with the onslaught of pr0n, hate, and so forth on the "Public" Internet. I see the.kids.us domain as having the potential to be a VERY GOOD THING for parents who choose to make use of it for their families.
Hostway has done a great job for me. My WWW traffic is light enough that I can work with a virtual server, so for $135 I have their (W2K) Diamond package with 500MB storage, 30GB traffic, and 70MB of MS-SQL. They have Linux packages available, as well as dedicated boxes. 24x7 service has been great the few times I've needed them in 3 years.
I worked at the Shack for 6-1/2 years, in Indianapolis. Maybe 10-12 years ago, some fsckhead though it'd be cute to make up a tube of toothpaste (one of the old "Pump" type that stands up) into a bomb, and put it on the shelf at the local K-mart. He did a real nice job - a pressure switch on the bottom, and a slide switch (painted white so it wasn't noticeable) on top that activated it after he set it down.
So, a 6-year-old girl picked up the toothpaste for her mommy, and kerblooey - no more right hand. She's lucky to have survived.
Fibbers came by with a few mangled parts for us to look at (being the largest RS store in the area, and close to the blast) and we were able to give them the part numbers. This was in the days of the hand-written sales tickets, one copy of which stayed at the store for all eternity. They spent a few weeks thumbing through tickets to find people who had purchased the components in the bomb. Found him, fortunately for society he'd gassed himself with a running car in his garage shortly after the incident thus sparing the taxpayers the expense of a trial. It was definitely the guy, though, they found a couple more toothpaste pumps that were evidently "trial runs" that he used to work on the technique of fitting the explosives & electronics.
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The recidivism rate of sexual offenders is incredibly high. Registries are necessary because of that, not because sex crimes are "worse" than murder.
Now THERE's a movie! I have my $7.50 waiting :-)
Anyone seen the strip online?
I wish Tom's would get it straight, that "DVD-R" != "DVD+R". They keep interchanging the terms.
By the time the Sensation! came out, customers were pretty accustomed to computers. Windows 3.1 was around, and while the $2,200 tag wasn't bad, it wasn't THAT much cheaper than the other computers. Packard Bell and Leading Edge were still around then as I recall, and those would have been cheaper (though garbage).
TRS-80, Amiga, Timex/Sinclair, TI99, Commodore Pet, GRiDPad, Coleco Adam, and many others have just as much business on that list as anything he put there.
Good grief, man, they aren't requiring you to FedEx overnight the discs! Two DVDs will cost about $0.60 for first-class mail, or $4.30 to send Priority Mail with delivery confirmation.
Oh, the silent majesty of a winter's morn...the clean, cool chill of the holiday air...an asshole in his bathrobe, emptying a chemical toilet into my sewer...
No computers? How would we be able to watch our granddaughter (several states away) open her gifts without a Web cam?
Sure, to do it on the scale it is being done. My point is that we need to either (a) scale back to a project we can afford, or (b) increase the budget to support the project we want to do.
for US Space Station. NASA should never have embarked on a "cooperative" project without having the wherewithal to go it alone should the partners have to bail out. I'm all for cooperation, the Soyuz/Apollo missions were great. US astronauts working on Mir, and Cosmonauts on Spacelab (had it lasted) are great ideas... but someone needs to be in charge, and capable of running the project by themselves if need be.
I'm on fixed terrestrial wireless and get synchronous connection of around 1.1Mb/s at my business ($100/mo) and at home ($50/mo).
DSL is available at my business (through Sprint) but the fastest uplink available is their 640K SDSL for $165/mo, or 3Mb/s down & 512Kb/s up for $190/mo.
Upstream is important to me (at least at the business) because I run a VPN to the house so I can work from there.
As the previous poster pointed out, this applies only to Music CDs. Sterero-component style audio CD recorders look for encoding present on the Music CDs, and they will not record to "Standard" CD-R discs. Computer CD-RW drives do not require special media. There is no RIAA "Tax" on media not specifically marked "Music".
Really? Huh, I must be in the wrong place. I thought this was Slashdot - News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters. I'm a Windows developer of quite proprietary software, and I use Windows and MS apps for my personal projects as well.
I guess I missed the decree that Nerds had to use OSS...
That would've been awesome! :-)
What more is there to say? For $2500 you get a full license of Visual Studio, plus a dev license of virtually everything Microsoft sells. For $2000 you get Studio, the OS's, plus SQL, Exchange, Commerce, and a few others. Hell, the $1090 Professional version gives you VS plus all the OS's, which meets the needs of a lot of developers. Hella deals!
The guy who cleaned out my septic tank works harder in a day than I do, does that mean he deserves more money?
More to the point, Mel Gibson's presence will mean tens of millions of dollars' difference at the box office, compared to what it would do without him. Why shouldn't he get a healthy share of that?
Farenheit 451...
Two points. One, there is more danger than just stumbling across a pr0n site. Chat sites are rife with sickos trying to lure kids into situations that are, to say the least, harmful.
Two, whether you or I think that a little pr0n isn't so bad for a kid, I believe that it is up to that child's parents to decide that for their own family. Net-Nanny style software just can't keep up with the onslaught of pr0n, hate, and so forth on the "Public" Internet. I see the .kids.us domain as having the potential to be a VERY GOOD THING for parents who choose to make use of it for their families.
Hostway has done a great job for me. My WWW traffic is light enough that I can work with a virtual server, so for $135 I have their (W2K) Diamond package with 500MB storage, 30GB traffic, and 70MB of MS-SQL. They have Linux packages available, as well as dedicated boxes. 24x7 service has been great the few times I've needed them in 3 years.
So, a 6-year-old girl picked up the toothpaste for her mommy, and kerblooey - no more right hand. She's lucky to have survived.
Fibbers came by with a few mangled parts for us to look at (being the largest RS store in the area, and close to the blast) and we were able to give them the part numbers. This was in the days of the hand-written sales tickets, one copy of which stayed at the store for all eternity. They spent a few weeks thumbing through tickets to find people who had purchased the components in the bomb. Found him, fortunately for society he'd gassed himself with a running car in his garage shortly after the incident thus sparing the taxpayers the expense of a trial. It was definitely the guy, though, they found a couple more toothpaste pumps that were evidently "trial runs" that he used to work on the technique of fitting the explosives & electronics.
I think it was Carlin who pointed out, "Obviously crime DOES pay. If it didn't, there would be no crime."