Well, there are most certainly legit uses for banknote pics.
Ever try to buy numismatic items online? You really need a pic, both for identification (the note with Timashev's name is worth way more than the one with Shipov's) and for checking quality
It doesn't start at 0 (a la Z80). It starts at 0xFFFF0, and there's an vector table at 0.
The smart thing to do would have been to have a vestigal "jump to 0x1000" at 0xFFFF0, and once down in low memory, turn off the ROM at 0xFFFF0 allowing expansive memory
>IF we want the public to trust software and computers more we have to develop a more "engineering" like mentality.
if engineering was like software engineering, you'd go into an architect's office, and say "great job on that suspension bridge. Whip up a motorcar engine for a universe where an electron is +5 charge"
I'm in a fairly urban-sprawly market. Many of the large broadcasters use 100kW towers. Some use 300kW. I find I can easily see a *35kw* station located 160km+ from here
A tablet needs to go only a hundred metres or so.
>You have essentially said nothing.
I'll admit that was written awfully. Today's tablets are smarter than just 'click 160,30'. They have to parse a remote-desktop protocol. In the tablet I suggest, the CPU never sees screen data
I don't get it. We've been getting ~640x480, colour displays of ample quality over the air for decades. Ever seen TV?
A panel easily flourishes with that model. The panel itself is essentially a nice LCD TV with a small processor (you could probably do it on a Z80) and sensitivity. it sends "click 160,30" messages and that's it. The display is essentially the TV-out of the videocard being broadcast
>"Learning superseded by transparent interface to smart computer" in 2025 sound cool, but doesn't it sound scary as well?
Depends on the nature of the interface.
If we decided to trim school down to 5 years and, rather than spending 300 class hours getting students to memorise all the presidents/kings/grand poobahs, just told them "here's a 802.11b card, here's how you Google", it's the same deal
>Most of us use credit cards without knowing the encryption level of the network.
At the same time, if someone hacks the network and produces thousands in fake charges on my account, there are legal limits on my liability.
'Trusted Computing' houses say "trust us" but then go to great lengths to avoid taking the blame when the product sucks. Fine. Give me your trusted system... but you'd better not try to say 'the EULA doesn't hold us liable' when you betray MY trust
proportion of RL hunters to game hunters is VERY low
Also, RL prey dries up. If the magenta sludge is extinct, the items it supplies will become pricy fast
I'd like to see value-add products. If you have to take your iron filings to a high-level smith to get a good weapon, the economy would collapse if nobody will become a smith.
This can be overdone, especially because what you own is not what you will own. I bought a vastly overpriced and flimsy desk with shelves for every peripheral I needed.
The PC changed from a minitower to a full tower and then a server cube, neither of which fit in the original opening
The scanner left
The monitor grew from 17 to 19 inches and 21 is looking awfully tempting lately.
I replaced the $19 2.1 speaker set with a $26 stereo system, and thus no longer have little satellites fitting the space
Now I have a huge, half-empty desk that looks like it will collapse under the mass of the monitor any second now.
Next time, I'm going to get one of those heavy metal teacher's desks.
Many banks will do bill-pay through their own sites. I believe USD 5 a month to be typical; some will waive it if you're getting a paycheque direct-deposited.
I never understood that about the Borg. Presumably they would have assimilated *some* marketing staff over the years, enabling them to come up with a better slogan than "Resistance is Futile"... perhaps "Assimilation makes you fresh and sexually appealing, while saving money on long distance!"
Remember who you're talking about. The firm that wants licence fees for all the logos of the companies they've absorbed... over the past 100 years (why is there no YRO story?). The firm that decided 'Hurl' was a good colour for locomotives in 1939 and apparently bought enough paint to keep it to the present day.
>In fact, the universal remotes for household devices such as TVs are often crippled and have significant less functionality
I assumed this was more an attempt to support the lowest common denominator of features for the product. If you go the other way (the remote on my Pioneer amplifier, for example, has numerous buttons that map to features the attached TV doesn't have), I bet you get plenty of support calls along the line of
"The '25.7 speaker surround sound with extra chrome' button doesn't work!" "What does it say on your TV?" "Generico Monaural TV and waffle iron"
Well, I think there are a few sizes they can reasonable sell. If your drives have 20Gb platters, you can sell 20, 40, 60, 80G drives. Probably not much more than that. The 20 is cheaper than the 80 because it has fewer parts and less testing.
A 70Gb drive, OTOH, is probably not going to be sold for much less than a 80. Same amount of parts, similar test amount (perhaps you can avoid testing the unused side of a platter)
while you may be correct in that nobody needs a Radeon 9800XT in and of itself, it does serve a useful purpose as a video card. If you pull my Radeon (7000!), I can't use my computer to make money.
Sports serve little useful purpose. While there might be some logic behind sports PARTICIPATION (exercise), watching sports has minimal practical benefit to society. Indeed, you often have extra problems due to sport (high stadium costs, rioting after large games)
Moreover, we're all geeks here. Professional sports create well-proportioned males (by and large). That's an image we can't hope to compare to, as few members of the preferred sex take "wanna see my Radeon 9800XT?" as a pickup line yet.
me too, but I got one of those "Matrix" 900mhz broadcasters from ThinkGeek (super on sale!) so my computer plays to the AUX in on my stereo.
And this is better than a $2.49 1/8-to-dual-RCA cable how?
Just make a cool PC and you can justify putting it on show. Mine pipes into the reciever too. 2003 model PC wired into 1995 model amp driving 1979 model speakers. Something's wrong, but what?
>Yea there were no schools in the US before the FEDERAL Dept of Education.
Shouldn't there be some degree of federal oversight? I would feel very short-changed if my local schools weren't expected to be competitive with schools in the rest of the union.
>Its in the constitution, get over it.
So was 'no income tax' and 'slaves count as 3/5 of a person'.
>Just let another 3000 die in another attack, eah thats fucing brilliant solution to the problem. Tell the families of the victims of 9/11 your idea is to spit on their graves.
So there's no chance we're just making MORE upset terrorists?
Let's ask ourselves: why does nobody ever attack Canada? Maybe perhaps they don't spend every waking hour cramming their culture, economic system, and self-interest into the rest of the globe's throat
>Yea , only certain monopolies have to be stopped, even though the government has a monopoly on a host of issues ( and the Left wants even more ). Hypocrits as usual.
A monopoly is the most effective way of providing certain goods and services. Do you want five different companies each running their own power lines and cable to the house
However, a monopoly has severe risks for abuse. At least a state-run is eventually accountable to voters.
Make the sets like 16:10 instead of 16:9. As an added plus, you can have useful information in the non-picture area (am I the only one who likes having the frequency number displayed constantly? A clock would be cool too, perhaps some information supplied by the broadcaster like ratings data)
On a flagged broadcast, write 'Naughty naughty naughty' in the non-picture area. People will be embarrassed to camcorder it
What is wrong with giving a little money back to the developers?
In general they want more than 'a little money'.
If my favourite distro sold what Cheapbytes sells-- just the CDs, no book, no support, I'd gladly buy from them, possibly even at a slightly higher rate. But I don't want to pay $40 for a boxed set
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Well, there are most certainly legit uses for banknote pics.
Ever try to buy numismatic items online? You really need a pic, both for identification (the note with Timashev's name is worth way more than the one with Shipov's) and for checking quality
The problem is with the 8088 design.
It doesn't start at 0 (a la Z80). It starts at 0xFFFF0, and there's an vector table at 0.
The smart thing to do would have been to have a vestigal "jump to 0x1000" at 0xFFFF0, and once down in low memory, turn off the ROM at 0xFFFF0 allowing expansive memory
>IF we want the public to trust software and computers more we have to develop a more "engineering" like mentality.
if engineering was like software engineering, you'd go into an architect's office, and say "great job on that suspension bridge. Whip up a motorcar engine for a universe where an electron is +5 charge"
>Even small markets use 2.5 million watt towers.
2.5 million watts?!
I'm in a fairly urban-sprawly market. Many of the large broadcasters use 100kW towers. Some use 300kW. I find I can easily see a *35kw* station located 160km+ from here
A tablet needs to go only a hundred metres or so.
>You have essentially said nothing.
I'll admit that was written awfully.
Today's tablets are smarter than just 'click 160,30'. They have to parse a remote-desktop protocol. In the tablet I suggest, the CPU never sees screen data
I don't get it. We've been getting ~640x480, colour displays of ample quality over the air for decades. Ever seen TV?
A panel easily flourishes with that model. The panel itself is essentially a nice LCD TV with a small processor (you could probably do it on a Z80) and sensitivity. it sends "click 160,30" messages and that's it. The display is essentially the TV-out of the videocard being broadcast
With HDTV it would rock-- a 1080i image
>Sending more than 20 email in 10 minutes The >first time you log on to a new account
From: Joe.Blow@bigpond.com.au
To: Entire Address Book
Subject: New address
>"Learning superseded by transparent interface to smart computer" in 2025 sound cool, but doesn't it sound scary as well?
Depends on the nature of the interface.
If we decided to trim school down to 5 years and, rather than spending 300 class hours getting students to memorise all the presidents/kings/grand poobahs, just told them "here's a 802.11b card, here's how you Google", it's the same deal
>Most of us use credit cards without knowing the encryption level of the network.
At the same time, if someone hacks the network and produces thousands in fake charges on my account, there are legal limits on my liability.
'Trusted Computing' houses say "trust us" but then go to great lengths to avoid taking the blame when the product sucks. Fine. Give me your trusted system... but you'd better not try to say 'the EULA doesn't hold us liable' when you betray MY trust
proportion of RL hunters to game hunters is VERY low
Also, RL prey dries up. If the magenta sludge is extinct, the items it supplies will become pricy fast
I'd like to see value-add products. If you have to take your iron filings to a high-level smith to get a good weapon, the economy would collapse if nobody will become a smith.
>Biggest tip: Give everything you own a home.
This can be overdone, especially because what you own is not what you will own. I bought a vastly overpriced and flimsy desk with shelves for every peripheral I needed.
The PC changed from a minitower to a full tower and then a server cube, neither of which fit in the original opening
The scanner left
The monitor grew from 17 to 19 inches and 21 is looking awfully tempting lately.
I replaced the $19 2.1 speaker set with a $26 stereo system, and thus no longer have little satellites fitting the space
Now I have a huge, half-empty desk that looks like it will collapse under the mass of the monitor any second now.
Next time, I'm going to get one of those heavy metal teacher's desks.
Many banks will do bill-pay through their own sites. I believe USD 5 a month to be typical; some will waive it if you're getting a paycheque direct-deposited.
I never understood that about the Borg. Presumably they would have assimilated *some* marketing staff over the years, enabling them to come up with a better slogan than "Resistance is Futile"... perhaps "Assimilation makes you fresh and sexually appealing, while saving money on long distance!"
Remember who you're talking about. The firm that wants licence fees for all the logos of the companies they've absorbed... over the past 100 years (why is there no YRO story?). The firm that decided 'Hurl' was a good colour for locomotives in 1939 and apparently bought enough paint to keep it to the present day.
(Can you tell I'm a bitter SP fan?)
>In fact, the universal remotes for household devices such as TVs are often crippled and have significant less functionality
I assumed this was more an attempt to support the lowest common denominator of features for the product. If you go the other way (the remote on my Pioneer amplifier, for example, has numerous buttons that map to features the attached TV doesn't have), I bet you get plenty of support calls along the line of
"The '25.7 speaker surround sound with extra chrome' button doesn't work!"
"What does it say on your TV?"
"Generico Monaural TV and waffle iron"
Well, I think there are a few sizes they can reasonable sell. If your drives have 20Gb platters, you can sell 20, 40, 60, 80G drives. Probably not much more than that. The 20 is cheaper than the 80 because it has fewer parts and less testing.
A 70Gb drive, OTOH, is probably not going to be sold for much less than a 80. Same amount of parts, similar test amount (perhaps you can avoid testing the unused side of a platter)
What the hell are you talking about their? No... don't tell me. I don't want to know.
Imagine what a desirable member of your preferred sex is thinking. "Do I go out with the football team player, or the science team?
Eliminate the football team and you look a lot better.
while you may be correct in that nobody needs a Radeon 9800XT in and of itself, it does serve a useful purpose as a video card. If you pull my Radeon (7000!), I can't use my computer to make money.
Sports serve little useful purpose. While there might be some logic behind sports PARTICIPATION (exercise), watching sports has minimal practical benefit to society. Indeed, you often have extra problems due to sport (high stadium costs, rioting after large games)
Moreover, we're all geeks here. Professional sports create well-proportioned males (by and large). That's an image we can't hope to compare to, as few members of the preferred sex take "wanna see my Radeon 9800XT?" as a pickup line yet.
me too, but I got one of those "Matrix" 900mhz broadcasters from ThinkGeek (super on sale!) so my computer plays to the AUX in on my stereo.
And this is better than a $2.49 1/8-to-dual-RCA cable how?
Just make a cool PC and you can justify putting it on show. Mine pipes into the reciever too. 2003 model PC wired into 1995 model amp driving 1979 model speakers. Something's wrong, but what?
>Yea there were no schools in the US before the FEDERAL Dept of Education.
Shouldn't there be some degree of federal oversight? I would feel very short-changed if my local schools weren't expected to be competitive with schools in the rest of the union.
>Its in the constitution, get over it.
So was 'no income tax' and 'slaves count as 3/5 of a person'.
>Just let another 3000 die in another attack, eah thats fucing brilliant solution to the problem. Tell the families of the victims of 9/11 your idea is to spit on their graves.
So there's no chance we're just making MORE upset terrorists?
Let's ask ourselves: why does nobody ever attack Canada? Maybe perhaps they don't spend every waking hour cramming their culture, economic system, and self-interest into the rest of the globe's throat
>Yea , only certain monopolies have to be stopped, even though the government has a monopoly on a host of issues ( and the Left wants even more ).
Hypocrits as usual.
A monopoly is the most effective way of providing certain goods and services. Do you want five different companies each running their own power lines and cable to the house
However, a monopoly has severe risks for abuse. At least a state-run is eventually accountable to voters.
Indeed. That's why I suggest that they comply with the letter of the rule while ignoring its spirit.
Okay. Here's a hint
Make the sets like 16:10 instead of 16:9. As an added plus, you can have useful information in the non-picture area (am I the only one who likes having the frequency number displayed constantly? A clock would be cool too, perhaps some information supplied by the broadcaster like ratings data)
On a flagged broadcast, write 'Naughty naughty naughty' in the non-picture area. People will be embarrassed to camcorder it
What is wrong with giving a little money back to the developers?
In general they want more than 'a little money'.
If my favourite distro sold what Cheapbytes sells-- just the CDs, no book, no support, I'd gladly buy from them, possibly even at a slightly higher rate. But I don't want to pay $40 for a boxed set
If they're DX4s or 5x86, running at 5 volts is a fun trip. Find yourself an older mobo and enjoy the struggle.
Pitiful DX4/100! Your puny purple heatsink will not save you!
The problem is they can tell 'what', but 'why' is a mystery.
If my savings-card records show I buy brand X, but not Y, does that mean:
Y costs too much, give me 20 cents off and I'll buy it
I've never tried Y, but if you give me a free sample I might switch
I hate how Y tastes
I hate the business practices of Y which are changeable
Marketers must approach these differently.
Silly. They'd use a marketing firm, which would produce 'Xtreeem Amerika!" Skateboarders on the banknotes and all.