Um, since opposite charges attract, I would suppose there's more to it than just "electrons and nuclei are crammed together much closer than their charges would like them to be", and I invoke the Pauli exclusion principle. AFAIK this is all about electron shell degeneracy.
Anarchy parks, where there is almost no law, are patrolled by floating spheres... I guess I'm too old, who still reads Niven these days? OK, how about Bit from the first Tron? Yes! No! YESYESYESYESYES!
I submitted a story yesterday about the outrageous prices for old hard drives on eBay. MFM and ST-506 drives for hundreds of dollars, in some case thousands, for 85M of storage that won't even connect to a modern computer...
Nice to have some low-level hardware stories once in a while. I used to be a PCB designer so I know it's not a simple process, esp. for the type of hardware people expect these days. It's a shame it's so specialized. (read: not too many jobs anymore in North America, all Far East)
"More than fair. The problem is, there is a HUGE political wing that not only believes it understands the complexities of ecological change, but understands them well enough to want to impose corrective measures."
And there's the wing that believes "business as usual" is just as good since, obviously, THEY understand the complexities...
As a collector of old electronics I have a keen interest in anything that lets people see and feel the history of electronics and computer technology. I have an Intel bubble memory with its chipset that I've been meaning to fire up for , um, decades. Maybe it's time to get cracking?
Yeah, that's baffling to me. The 1351 (I still have mine) is a rugged and reliable device. It is a mechanical mouse so there are three rollers inside that pick up an amazing amount of gunk that needs regular removal. But that's true of any mechanical mouse.
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Yeah, like Commodore did? Commodore was a billion dollar company once. Thanks, Scully!
Um, since opposite charges attract, I would suppose there's more to it than just "electrons and nuclei are crammed together much closer than their charges would like them to be", and I invoke the Pauli exclusion principle. AFAIK this is all about electron shell degeneracy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook
VIC-20 represent! I built a 16K memory expansion from plans in 73 magazine and chips I bought with money from collecting return deposit bottles!
6000? That's the same IQ as 12000 PE teachers!
Cue a gaziliion posts from kids who don't realize they'll be exactly the same in 10 years.... 9 years, 11 months, 29 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds... 9 years, 11 months, 29 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, 58 seconds... 9 years, 11 months, 29 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, 57 seconds...
I'm in Montreal, go ETS! Yay!
Anarchy parks, where there is almost no law, are patrolled by floating spheres... I guess I'm too old, who still reads Niven these days? OK, how about Bit from the first Tron? Yes! No! YESYESYESYESYES!
I've been using one of these for years.
I submitted a story yesterday about the outrageous prices for old hard drives on eBay. MFM and ST-506 drives for hundreds of dollars, in some case thousands, for 85M of storage that won't even connect to a modern computer...
I'm perfecting a new kind of mirror that's far more efficient than old mirrors...
Nice to have some low-level hardware stories once in a while. I used to be a PCB designer so I know it's not a simple process, esp. for the type of hardware people expect these days. It's a shame it's so specialized. (read: not too many jobs anymore in North America, all Far East)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_16
The worst part is that Mr Pease was coming back from the funeral of Jim Williams, another analog great working at Linear Tech.
And there's the wing that believes "business as usual" is just as good since, obviously, THEY understand the complexities...
... Lockheed what the true top speed of the SR-71 was?
As a collector of old electronics I have a keen interest in anything that lets people see and feel the history of electronics and computer technology. I have an Intel bubble memory with its chipset that I've been meaning to fire up for , um, decades. Maybe it's time to get cracking?
Yeah, that's baffling to me. The 1351 (I still have mine) is a rugged and reliable device. It is a mechanical mouse so there are three rollers inside that pick up an amazing amount of gunk that needs regular removal. But that's true of any mechanical mouse.
Also try Protector, A Gift From Earth, World of Ptavvs and A World Out Of Time.
Just this morning I finished turning my VGA port into a micro-SD card slot. Now I can't submit my story to /.
Never had a HP calculator, but I typed in a RPN calculator program for the VIC-20 about 25 years ago.
For their sake... I still run a PIII with W2K.
Make emo nanotubes, they cut themselves! Bahaha, I'm pretty funny!
I've already started converting my house to run on gasoline, thus leaving enough electricity for charging my car.
Nice! Mod me down instead of debating the point! Thanks Slashbots! I dared defy the groupthink of the cult of programmers! Bad hardware!