Zworykin or however its spelled stole his ideas from Farnsworth. Baird invented a mechanical TV system, which had very limited potential.
Farnsworth invented electronic TV. He is the inventor of what everyone knows as TV, specifically he came up with the idea of scanning lines on a CRT to produce the image. The only practical way to have TV.
not lazy. I just hate STUFF. Clutter. Possessions. Hate them. I hate our consumer culture where owning physical things is considered success. I see the need to own as a sickness.
I want only my clothes and my PC. Maybe a blanket.
I have it all backed up on another HD, stuck away in a safe place. True, I could use the writable DVD to back it up, but it would probably be slower, and my bet is the new flavor DVD, if writable, will come with some form of copy management system.
Migrating to a new PC is no problem. I have 2 HDs, one 180 gig for media, and the other for the system. I just pop out the media drive and put it in my new system.
And that way I don't have to dig around in a stack trying to find the right piece of removable media. Everything is on line all the time. So as I lie in bed I can use my remote to cue up any one of over 10k tracks of music.
I like neatness. Everything self-contained in a little machine. Everything instantly accessible online. I HATE swapping discs, I HATE having CD shelves.
I HATE having media which has no need of being wedded to a physical format being FORCED to be. I want the MUSIC, I don't want a chunk of plastic.
I don't WANT more on DVDs. I want bigger HARD DRIVES.
Thing is, I don't want to have hundreds of stupid little plastic discs in their stupid little plastic boxes lining shelves in my place.
Thats why I ripped all my CDs to my hard drive and hooked my comp. to my stereo. I listen to stuff I never bothered to before because it was a pain going through all my 1000+ CDs.
I want to store all my DVDs on my HD for the same reason. But I cant as it is!
Give us 50,000 TB hard drives FIRST (what comes after tera??)
...will be the "Magic Eye Monitor," where you have to look just the right way for several hours before you can see whats on the screen.
This will be a kind of a sequel product, specifically marketed to the people whose eyes have been permanently crossed from the 3D model.
Its lets you easily and quickly scan your inbox for spam, clean it out, and send a message back to the spammer that the spam bounced because your email address is invalid - resulting in your addy being taken off their list (hopefully)
But even if they don't take me off their list, it still makes getting rid of the spam much quicker, AND gives me the satisfaction of thinking that at least the spammer has to deal with all of the bounced emails I fling back at him.:)
re: point 2...
More likely, it's just another way to get people to spend more on ink.
My rather new Epson used to claim its carts were "empty" after using only about 35% of the ink. By telling it I had installed a new cartridge when in fact I had not, I was able to go through almost two complete "new cartridges" before the ink showed any signs of running out.
They didn't even mention the vectrex - best console of all time!
I have one and almost all the carts, and the light pen and 3d imager. Them puppies bring in decent $$ if you sell them.
I'm a former NASA nut, used to research the Soviet space program, etc., and so was very forgiving... This ISS program is a turkey, though, and we should cut our losses.
The problem is simply that the ONLY reason for the existence of the ISS is to KEEP PEOPLE EMPLOYED. First of all, NASA itself as a beaurocracy has pushed and pushed for the only mega-project that it could keep getting funding for because a beaurocracy wants to EAT. They couldn't get funding for more sensible programs like a shuttle replacement, or other more mundane but necessary things, so they push for funding for the incredibly wasteful ISS because $15 billion a year wasted is $15 billion a year they WANT, no matter what it's for. If they can't have $15 billion a year for sensible things, they'll take $15 billion for non-sensible things, just so long as no one loses their job.
As far as the Russian's involvement, it was actually the PLAN to get them involved simply to keep them employed! The Clinton administration changed the ISS from a US program, space station Freedom, to the ISS, almost exclusively to keep former soviet rocket scientists at their jobs instead of following money to other, more threatening sources. That was almost the sole reason for it. That, actually, made a least a LITTLE bit of sense. Sort of. Anyway, you could argue that with the Russian's participation the ISS has been more successful that it would have been otherwise, even WITH them dragging the program down - because with billions thrown down a rathole in either case, at least this way it was a bit more interesting, and did at least give the US and Russia something to strengthen our ties.
Tiny amounts of radiation in catshit in a landfill is too much, even though its probably full of smoke so detectors. So.... FLUSH it, so it ends up in the septic tank, runs out through the leach bed into the ditch, down to the creek and into Lake Ontario.
I sell books on Amazon...
I have a few thousand excess used books that I cant get rid of, mostly cheap romance trash like harlequins.
If anyone is willing to transport them, you can have them to donate to him!;)
Who gets to decide what content is suitable? Will discussion of the birds and the bees not be permitted by the repubs, but sites that exploit kids by trying to sell them stuff be allowed?
So, no Learnhowyourbodyworks.kids.us or whatswiththesethingsgrowingonme.kids.us or somepeoplebelieveinevolution.kids.us, but plenty of disneyshop.kids.us or sugaredcereal.kids.us sites?
Exactly. I also worked for a paper, and here is where the most likely place for a person to get advance prices was in OUR operation - the people involved in stuffing the inserts INTO the paper!
We would get the pallets of inserts a week in advance, sometimes two. And let me tell you, the people making minimum wage who did the crappy jobs around the place certainly didn't sign any NDA, and they all had access to copies of the circulars.
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Zworykin or however its spelled stole his ideas from Farnsworth. Baird invented a mechanical TV system, which had very limited potential. Farnsworth invented electronic TV. He is the inventor of what everyone knows as TV, specifically he came up with the idea of scanning lines on a CRT to produce the image. The only practical way to have TV.
not lazy. I just hate STUFF. Clutter. Possessions. Hate them.
I hate our consumer culture where owning physical things is considered success. I see the need to own as a sickness.
I want only my clothes and my PC. Maybe a blanket.
I have it all backed up on another HD, stuck away in a safe place. True, I could use the writable DVD to back it up, but it would probably be slower, and my bet is the new flavor DVD, if writable, will come with some form of copy management system.
Migrating to a new PC is no problem. I have 2 HDs, one 180 gig for media, and the other for the system.
I just pop out the media drive and put it in my new system.
And that way I don't have to dig around in a stack trying to find the right piece of removable media. Everything is on line all the time. So as I lie in bed I can use my remote to cue up any one of over 10k tracks of music.
I like neatness. Everything self-contained in a little machine. Everything instantly accessible online. I HATE swapping discs, I HATE having CD shelves.
I HATE having media which has no need of being wedded to a physical format being FORCED to be. I want the MUSIC, I don't want a chunk of plastic.
I don't WANT more on DVDs. I want bigger HARD DRIVES.
Thing is, I don't want to have hundreds of stupid little plastic discs in their stupid little plastic boxes lining shelves in my place.
Thats why I ripped all my CDs to my hard drive and hooked my comp. to my stereo. I listen to stuff I never bothered to before because it was a pain going through all my 1000+ CDs.
I want to store all my DVDs on my HD for the same reason. But I cant as it is!
Give us 50,000 TB hard drives FIRST (what comes after tera??)
anyone know if my AIW 7500 is compatible?
that's my vote.
...will be the "Magic Eye Monitor," where you have to look just the right way for several hours before you can see whats on the screen.
This will be a kind of a sequel product, specifically marketed to the people whose eyes have been permanently crossed from the 3D model.
Now why hasn't anyone named their company this????
I recommend this free proggy.
:)
Its lets you easily and quickly scan your inbox for spam, clean it out, and send a message back to the spammer that the spam bounced because your email address is invalid - resulting in your addy being taken off their list (hopefully)
But even if they don't take me off their list, it still makes getting rid of the spam much quicker, AND gives me the satisfaction of thinking that at least the spammer has to deal with all of the bounced emails I fling back at him.
re: point 2... More likely, it's just another way to get people to spend more on ink. My rather new Epson used to claim its carts were "empty" after using only about 35% of the ink. By telling it I had installed a new cartridge when in fact I had not, I was able to go through almost two complete "new cartridges" before the ink showed any signs of running out.
time for a fucking revolution.
slow news day. Rumors can be fun.
I have a Wang VS mini in the basement, with workstations in a few spots in the house.
That's Wang VS mini - not mini wang.
They didn't even mention the vectrex - best console of all time! I have one and almost all the carts, and the light pen and 3d imager. Them puppies bring in decent $$ if you sell them.
thanks I was waiting for someone to notice! Thunked it up all by myself.
All I can say is, awesome Simply awesome. :)
Of course, this could lead to new restrictions on who can access aerial photos, etc.
The only civilian to walk on the moon was Harrison Schmidt, geologist on Apollo 17, but not the last to step off the surface.
Later elected to the Senate
I'm a former NASA nut, used to research the Soviet space program, etc., and so was very forgiving...
This ISS program is a turkey, though, and we should cut our losses.
The problem is simply that the ONLY reason for the existence of the ISS is to KEEP PEOPLE EMPLOYED. First of all, NASA itself as a beaurocracy has pushed and pushed for the only mega-project that it could keep getting funding for because a beaurocracy wants to EAT. They couldn't get funding for more sensible programs like a shuttle replacement, or other more mundane but necessary things, so they push for funding for the incredibly wasteful ISS because $15 billion a year wasted is $15 billion a year they WANT, no matter what it's for.
If they can't have $15 billion a year for sensible things, they'll take $15 billion for non-sensible things, just so long as no one loses their job.
As far as the Russian's involvement, it was actually the PLAN to get them involved simply to keep them employed! The Clinton administration changed the ISS from a US program, space station Freedom, to the ISS, almost exclusively to keep former soviet rocket scientists at their jobs instead of following money to other, more threatening sources. That was almost the sole reason for it.
That, actually, made a least a LITTLE bit of sense. Sort of.
Anyway, you could argue that with the Russian's participation the ISS has been more successful that it would have been otherwise, even WITH them dragging the program down - because with billions thrown down a rathole in either case, at least this way it was a bit more interesting, and did at least give the US and Russia something to strengthen our ties.
Tiny amounts of radiation in catshit in a landfill is too much, even though its probably full of smoke so detectors. So.... FLUSH it, so it ends up in the septic tank, runs out through the leach bed into the ditch, down to the creek and into Lake Ontario.
Fucking brilliant.
I sell books on Amazon... ;)
I have a few thousand excess used books that I cant get rid of, mostly cheap romance trash like harlequins.
If anyone is willing to transport them, you can have them to donate to him!
(I bet thinkforyourself.kids.us would never make the cut)
Its a better solution than some others, BUT
Who gets to decide what content is suitable? Will discussion of the birds and the bees not be permitted by the repubs, but sites that exploit kids by trying to sell them stuff be allowed?
So, no Learnhowyourbodyworks.kids.us or whatswiththesethingsgrowingonme.kids.us or somepeoplebelieveinevolution.kids.us, but plenty of disneyshop.kids.us or sugaredcereal.kids.us sites?
Exactly. I also worked for a paper, and here is where the most likely place for a person to get advance prices was in OUR operation - the people involved in stuffing the inserts INTO the paper!
We would get the pallets of inserts a week in advance, sometimes two. And let me tell you, the people making minimum wage who did the crappy jobs around the place certainly didn't sign any NDA, and they all had access to copies of the circulars.
hey, no troll! I'm serious.