The modern direct descendant of the IBM model M is Unicomp (pckeyboard.com). And at $79 it's a good deal. Highly recommended.
Note: their website isn't confidence inspiring, but they're alive and well and usually ship out the same day you order. They're also made in the USA which is kinda cool.
Yeah, I wonder how technology would have saved the kid killed yesterday when his truck was squished between a semi tractor and a school bus. Force field? Transporter? Maybe those Speed Racer jump jack things.
While it's a worthwhile goal, I suspect the reality will be a bit different.
I agree. I've used cell phones, VHF/UHF HTs, and satellite phones in the backcountry and if reliable emergency communication is your primary concern a satellite phone like Iridium is your best bet.
You can get portable high frequency ham radios that can talk over the horizon, but they start go get a bit bulky and require an more complex antenna setup for best results.
With an Iridium phone you can get it out, lock onto a satellite and be talking to someone in minutes. You do need to see a sizable portion of the sky, though -- they don't work very well in dense forest. And keep in mind 911 doesn't work on Iridium so have some numbers programmed in. The cell phone revolution seems to have rendered actually remembering someone's phone number a lost art.
I grew up near this area over the state line in neighboring Joplin Missouri.
Back in the 70s and 80s piles of chat hundreds of feet tall could be seen for miles. Chat is the local term for the mining waste -- in this case mostly limestone that's been pulverized and the lead and zinc removed. But there are trace amounts of lead remaining. Most of the chat has since been removed and used as railroad ballast and road base.
As kids we used to play in these chat piles -- you could find all kinds of interesting minerals and occasionally fossils. Occasionally the ground would collapse around the flooded and abandoned mines.
I was just back to this area several months ago and me and some friends spent the day taking pictures around Picher, OK and nearby Route 66. Picher is essentially a ghost town nowadays, but interestingly you can still drive and walk around the area, even though it's an EPA superfund site.
BTW, there's a geek connection to Picher. One of the companies to survive the mining is Eagle-Picher; they were an early innovator in battery technology and became a major supplier of batteries in aerospace, including the batteries for the Apollo missions. In nearby Quapaw, OK that built a boron enrichment plant producing boron 10 isotopes for the nuclear industry, too.
You never want a lay a bike down. All bikes stop better sticky side down.
Once you lay a bike down you have no control and you're just sliding along dragging your axle nuts into the pavement (usually with your leg trapped under the bike, too).
Ideally, you do everything possible to avoid a collision. But if you can't, the best thing you can do is lay on the brakes with proper (and practiced) technique and decrease your speed as much as possible before hitting the object.
This is also the recommendation of the Motorcycle Safety Foundation.
While Dvorak has always been the Rush Limbaugh of the PC world (they kinda look alike, too, huh?), he doesn't usually (AFAIK) engage in such wild off-base conjecture.
Why would Apple want to compete with those "stodgy Chinese makers"? Those makers are already putting those Macs together. Fanatical Mac users didn't like the switch to Intel? Really? I get the feeling most don't care what the chip is -- I know I don't; I'm even typing this on an Intel iMac.
Macs have a proprietary architecture? I didn't seem to matter two days ago when I installed a third-party SCSI controller, a third-party firewire card, and a gigabit Ethernet card (sorry, I don't remember where this one came from) in an old G4 to use as a server. And Tiger OS X Server used all the new hardware and just worked with it -- no third-party drivers needed.
For me -- an many others -- I use Macs in my IT business because it's by far the most cost effective solution. The things just work. If one burst into flames or got stolen (or whatever) I could just hop down to the nearest Mac reseller and be back working in an hour. Mail, browser, Unix, ssh, CVS, etc. -- it's all there and just works.
OTOH, if Apple did switch to Windows that would be a good incentive to switch to a Linux desktop...
Sony always seemed to be lacking in both their CCD and their glass quality.
Hmm, I wonder why Canon uses Sony CCD chips in their Powershot line?
Also, why would you buy an SLR without interchangeable lenses?
No dust on the imaging chip. I probably spend more time cleaning and doing the Photoshop clone thing to get rid of dust spots than I do taking pictures.
It's a little different than today's cars. There's three pedals on the floor, two levers on the steering column, and a floor lever on the left.
The floor lever is neutral while in the upright position, second gear when in the forward position while the leftmost pedal is not depressed, and emergency brake when all the way back.
The leftmost pedal is first gear while depressed, second gear if the floor lever is forward when released. The middle pedal is reverse gear and the rightmost pedal is the brake. The right lever on the steering column is the throttle, and the left lever is the spark advance.
Every company that I've seen actually do something like this went out of business shortly thereafter.
What sort of things did these companies do you ask? How about floor to ceiling windows that can go from clear to very dark at the flick of a switch in the conference room next to the data center floor. At the right time during a sales pitch -- and to "Also Sprach Zarathustra" -- the presenter flicks the switch revealing the data center and ops center.
Big plasma displays were all the rage for the ops centers a few years ago. With the prices of those coming down and getting more popular I'm not sure how impressive those now are. Maybe an array of rear projection screens along one wall with a (useless) graphic of your network would do the trick. These would also be handy for porn viewing during the night shift.
I'd suggest that looking for a new job might be a priority if this subject comes up. Seriously.
Your '86 Geo only had to meet the emissions standards in affect in 1986. The Prius is a SULEV (super ultra low emissions vehicle) that has to meet 2005 emissions standards.
A carburated '86 Geo probably puts out more pollution per mile than a modern diesel semi...
I just read the first chapter of this book on O'Reilly's Safari and the authors make it sound like they're observing from downtown Bagdad.
Between the warnings of not leaving women alone, bundling up for tick protection, and carrying a.44 revolver or 12-gauge shotgun, I have to wonder why they don't just setup a remote robotic telescope and observe from inside a locked bunker.
Those reading this from outside the US probably think we're full of lunatics running around in the wild raping and pillaging. Assuming, of course, the wild bears and coyotes don't get you first.
I've been from one side of the US to the other over the years, speeding many a night in remote places and have never need to use a weapon against any critter (beyond a little chemical warfare against mosquitoes).
One of my favorite statics on this sort of thing is deaths in Yellowstone National Park between 1839 - 1994. There were less deaths due to bears (4) than indian battles (7). The number one cause of death is drowning (101). Perhaps a flotation device would be a good idea for star gazing in remote areas. Can't be too safe, you know...
It was a big ISA card that took up two full length slots.
At the time I worked in QA for a large software company that did graphics software for the PC (and UNIX ports, too) and SGI loaned us a few of these things to beta.
They worked well but the drivers were somewhat buggy. I don't recall what happened but I figure the market for PC graphic cards that cost more than the PC wasn't destined to be a big seller back in those days.
The equatorial radius of Mars is 3397 km which means the circumfrence is 21344 km. Let's assume for simplicity each rover is exactly opposite the other, so they're 10672 km apart.
Travel time to go 10672 km at 0.036 km per hour is 33.84 years earth time.
Of course, this assumes travel around the clock, which they can't do since they need to recharge batteries.
In other words, it'd take a long damn time -- it ain't gonna happen.
Hmm, the D30 I had focused just fine, as did my 10D and my current 20D. None of the front/back focus problems at all, even with a 300mm f/2.8 wide open.
As for the flash, yeah, Canon's flash system wasn't the best, and now you're flaming them for improving it?
You know, it really sucks that my Sun Ultra 5 workstation won't work with my USB mouse -- damn Sun for not including USB in the system before it was widely available.
Basically, your 10D precedes the new flash metering system in the 580EX -- it's not reasonable to expect older cameras to know about and use features of newer flashes.
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The modern direct descendant of the IBM model M is Unicomp (pckeyboard.com). And at $79 it's a good deal. Highly recommended.
Note: their website isn't confidence inspiring, but they're alive and well and usually ship out the same day you order. They're also made in the USA which is kinda cool.
Yeah, I wonder how technology would have saved the kid killed yesterday when his truck was squished between a semi tractor and a school bus. Force field? Transporter? Maybe those Speed Racer jump jack things.
While it's a worthwhile goal, I suspect the reality will be a bit different.
I agree. I've used cell phones, VHF/UHF HTs, and satellite phones in the backcountry and if reliable emergency communication is your primary concern a satellite phone like Iridium is your best bet.
You can get portable high frequency ham radios that can talk over the horizon, but they start go get a bit bulky and require an more complex antenna setup for best results.
With an Iridium phone you can get it out, lock onto a satellite and be talking to someone in minutes. You do need to see a sizable portion of the sky, though -- they don't work very well in dense forest. And keep in mind 911 doesn't work on Iridium so have some numbers programmed in. The cell phone revolution seems to have rendered actually remembering someone's phone number a lost art.
I grew up near this area over the state line in neighboring Joplin Missouri.
Back in the 70s and 80s piles of chat hundreds of feet tall could be seen for miles. Chat is the local term for the mining waste -- in this case mostly limestone that's been pulverized and the lead and zinc removed. But there are trace amounts of lead remaining. Most of the chat has since been removed and used as railroad ballast and road base.
As kids we used to play in these chat piles -- you could find all kinds of interesting minerals and occasionally fossils. Occasionally the ground would collapse around the flooded and abandoned mines.
I was just back to this area several months ago and me and some friends spent the day taking pictures around Picher, OK and nearby Route 66. Picher is essentially a ghost town nowadays, but interestingly you can still drive and walk around the area, even though it's an EPA superfund site.
BTW, there's a geek connection to Picher. One of the companies to survive the mining is Eagle-Picher; they were an early innovator in battery technology and became a major supplier of batteries in aerospace, including the batteries for the Apollo missions. In nearby Quapaw, OK that built a boron enrichment plant producing boron 10 isotopes for the nuclear industry, too.
You never want a lay a bike down. All bikes stop better sticky side down.
Once you lay a bike down you have no control and you're just sliding along dragging your axle nuts into the pavement (usually with your leg trapped under the bike, too).
Ideally, you do everything possible to avoid a collision. But if you can't, the best thing you can do is lay on the brakes with proper (and practiced) technique and decrease your speed as much as possible before hitting the object.
This is also the recommendation of the Motorcycle Safety Foundation.
The Pacific Intertie that supplies southern California with power from dams along the Columbia in Oregon is overland HVDC.
My god, the man has gone off the deep end.
While Dvorak has always been the Rush Limbaugh of the PC world (they kinda look alike, too, huh?), he doesn't usually (AFAIK) engage in such wild off-base conjecture.
Why would Apple want to compete with those "stodgy Chinese makers"? Those makers are already putting those Macs together. Fanatical Mac users didn't like the switch to Intel? Really? I get the feeling most don't care what the chip is -- I know I don't; I'm even typing this on an Intel iMac.
Macs have a proprietary architecture? I didn't seem to matter two days ago when I installed a third-party SCSI controller, a third-party firewire card, and a gigabit Ethernet card (sorry, I don't remember where this one came from) in an old G4 to use as a server. And Tiger OS X Server used all the new hardware and just worked with it -- no third-party drivers needed.
For me -- an many others -- I use Macs in my IT business because it's by far the most cost effective solution. The things just work. If one burst into flames or got stolen (or whatever) I could just hop down to the nearest Mac reseller and be back working in an hour. Mail, browser, Unix, ssh, CVS, etc. -- it's all there and just works.
OTOH, if Apple did switch to Windows that would be a good incentive to switch to a Linux desktop...
Hmm, I wonder why Canon uses Sony CCD chips in their Powershot line?
Also, why would you buy an SLR without interchangeable lenses?No dust on the imaging chip. I probably spend more time cleaning and doing the Photoshop clone thing to get rid of dust spots than I do taking pictures.
We run The New York Review of Books on OpenACS which does a nice job for the sorts of things an online publication needs.
Have you ever driven a Model T Ford?
It's a little different than today's cars. There's three pedals on the floor, two levers on the steering column, and a floor lever on the left.
The floor lever is neutral while in the upright position, second gear when in the forward position while the leftmost pedal is not depressed, and emergency brake when all the way back.
The leftmost pedal is first gear while depressed, second gear if the floor lever is forward when released. The middle pedal is reverse gear and the rightmost pedal is the brake. The right lever on the steering column is the throttle, and the left lever is the spark advance.
But it does have a steering wheel and four tires.
What is it with some people and antennas?
It's OK to park a bright yellow Hummer in my driveway but a satellite dish in the backyard is an eyesore?
And why do some people think a cell phone tower is more attractive when it's dressed up to look like a fake pine tree?
Well said.
Every company that I've seen actually do something like this went out of business shortly thereafter.
What sort of things did these companies do you ask? How about floor to ceiling windows that can go from clear to very dark at the flick of a switch in the conference room next to the data center floor. At the right time during a sales pitch -- and to "Also Sprach Zarathustra" -- the presenter flicks the switch revealing the data center and ops center.
Big plasma displays were all the rage for the ops centers a few years ago. With the prices of those coming down and getting more popular I'm not sure how impressive those now are. Maybe an array of rear projection screens along one wall with a (useless) graphic of your network would do the trick. These would also be handy for porn viewing during the night shift.
I'd suggest that looking for a new job might be a priority if this subject comes up. Seriously.
Ok, I've seen everything now.
This is a company that sells software that creates analog graphic guages priced in the hundreds to thousands of dollars -- for one license.
Your '86 Geo only had to meet the emissions standards in affect in 1986. The Prius is a SULEV (super ultra low emissions vehicle) that has to meet 2005 emissions standards.
A carburated '86 Geo probably puts out more pollution per mile than a modern diesel semi...
Some ISPs are starting to block mail if the forward and reverse DNS for the sending mail server don't match exactly.
As Yoda would say "Break me a fucking give."
.44 revolver or 12-gauge shotgun, I have to wonder why they don't just setup a remote robotic telescope and observe from inside a locked bunker.
I just read the first chapter of this book on O'Reilly's Safari and the authors make it sound like they're observing from downtown Bagdad.
Between the warnings of not leaving women alone, bundling up for tick protection, and carrying a
Those reading this from outside the US probably think we're full of lunatics running around in the wild raping and pillaging. Assuming, of course, the wild bears and coyotes don't get you first.
I've been from one side of the US to the other over the years, speeding many a night in remote places and have never need to use a weapon against any critter (beyond a little chemical warfare against mosquitoes).
One of my favorite statics on this sort of thing is deaths in Yellowstone National Park between 1839 - 1994. There were less deaths due to bears (4) than indian battles (7). The number one cause of death is drowning (101). Perhaps a flotation device would be a good idea for star gazing in remote areas. Can't be too safe, you know...
Why's that?
Did you see that episode of the Discovery Channel's Mythbusters testing explosive decompression in a pressurized aircraft from a bullet hole?
It's not as bad as movies would have you believe.
I had an SGI PC graphics card back in '91 or '92.
It was a big ISA card that took up two full length slots.
At the time I worked in QA for a large software company that did graphics software for the PC (and UNIX ports, too) and SGI loaned us a few of these things to beta.
They worked well but the drivers were somewhat buggy. I don't recall what happened but I figure the market for PC graphic cards that cost more than the PC wasn't destined to be a big seller back in those days.
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I was in this situation when I lived in rural New Hampshire.
I got a T1 -- you can get these most anyplace a phone line can be ran nowadays.
Sure, it might not be as cheap as you'd like, but you do have options. And two-way satellite works reasonably well for general surfing and email, too.
What, the iMac won't compete with the more expensive Power Mac line? What are those folks in marketing at Apple thinking? How dare they....
Next you'll tell me that Honda's don't compete with cars from Lexus.
Wouldn't it be amazing if they both lasted long enough to eventually meet up somewhere?
Let's do some math:
The top speed of the rover is roughly 0.036 km per hour.
The equatorial radius of Mars is 3397 km which means the circumfrence is 21344 km. Let's assume for simplicity each rover is exactly opposite the other, so they're 10672 km apart.
Travel time to go 10672 km at 0.036 km per hour is 33.84 years earth time.
Of course, this assumes travel around the clock, which they can't do since they need to recharge batteries.
In other words, it'd take a long damn time -- it ain't gonna happen.
Hmm, the D30 I had focused just fine, as did my 10D and my current 20D. None of the front/back focus problems at all, even with a 300mm f/2.8 wide open.
As for the flash, yeah, Canon's flash system wasn't the best, and now you're flaming them for improving it?
You know, it really sucks that my Sun Ultra 5 workstation won't work with my USB mouse -- damn Sun for not including USB in the system before it was widely available.
Basically, your 10D precedes the new flash metering system in the 580EX -- it's not reasonable to expect older cameras to know about and use features of newer flashes.