--just as a side issue, I think the tech already exists for a better shuttle-like design. The reason why it isn't being used is that it's a military secret used in whatever prototype or low production planes the air force has that have replaced the sr-71, like the reported aurora and brilliant buzzard alleged models.
--I guess it would depend on the business, but maybe figure out a way to offer a base low salary or hourly, then the 'real' money kicks in dependent on productivity, if there's a way to calibrate it. Then there's the incentive to work harder and more efficiently, and there's no real reason to have serious rules on when you want to take a break and surf or do some online personal business.
And definetly I'd agree with you on having to be able to google for answers and to keep up to speed, if it's one thing I've learned as a linux noob is google is THE set of useful man pages.
--thankyou, I'm glad you understood what I was trying to say, and I apologize for not making it clearer in the first place. I'm not a gamer so I didn't realise that's how those games were built, but yes, it's a very accurate way to express it, and it would WORK if other software was made like that and had the manuals and howtos made like that. It's a logical evolutionary step, crawl>walk>run, why most developers assume people can run right from the start is just astounding, but not really when you think of all the companies that go out of business.
anyway, I've finished on this thread, thankyou again.
--sure, I'll agree the ideal is to make it so intuitive that no upgraded instruction is needed for any upgrade. That makes sense. In the meantime before that happens it's not asking much to ask for better manuals and guides is it, or do you want my business or not? I'm speaking as a generic consumer, I'm not a coder. I think you fixated on the word luser and failed to understand any other thing I wrote.OK, I'm sorry, there ya go. "User". Now, re read it again, substitute in your mind just user instead of luser, see if it reads different for you. If it still doesn't, then YOU fuck off,because that would mean you're too stupid and arrogant to understand it, or you just don't care to undersatand it. No, I'm not leet, and neither are you,just a typical arrogant know it all. And you "don't have time" to offer anything more constructive-how giving of you! Or is it that you really don't have much to offer, except the same old stuff? Isn't that the problem, isn't that what we were discussing? at least I offered some sort of "hey, maybe this might make it better" viewpoint coming from someone who gets occassionally frustrated with "new and improved" versions of whatever I encounter, but I guess that isn't wanted in the "software coding community". guys like you don't want to hear what the customer might like, you "know better" so STFU, right?
Thanks for playing, I'm done on this, waste of time. You and the rest of this thread just helped me make up my mind on how much I will spend on software this upcoming year, it's now gone from some to zero. I already started boycotting hollywood and the pro music business, and I think it's time to do it with professional or "free gifted amateur" software, too. No paid, no donations. Not much but one guys efforts, all I can do. I'll "struggle by" with what I have.
--because I used the slightly slangish word luser? Heck I'M a luser! I'm coming from more than a decade of click and drool, you think this linux cli stuff is easy for me? My tech expertise and vocation is not IT either, I just happen to like computers, trying to learn more in a casual manner. I'm replying to the parent as giving an example of what might work better than what's out there now. At least what I have seen myself to be more accurate.
Now, what about my idea itself? Any merit to it? The wizards I have seen concentrate on the new version only, I think they should have a way to show the transition stage, because now all that's installed, that the frustrated user is staring at, is the *new* version of OS whatever or app whatever. How much more K can it take to provide a better set of examples and better and more intuitive guides? I read coders bitch here all the time about under commented code... WELL????????? WELL?????? How about the poor schmoo has to use that stuff at work or at home? That should be the first level "intro" to the new version of the app or OS, the tranistion based wizard, with detailed text manuals as well right there,and the question mark ? "Help" button ought to be an enforced standard for any serious GUI developer, and clicking on that should provide layers of information that actually _are_informative, and have ZERO acronyms. spell the dang acronyms out and just use capital letters to indicate thereis an acronym there. Is it THAT $%^&*& HARD to do that? Someone gonna get finger hernias, or what? Like I said on the k amount, whats a few more total in any modern app or OS? How chintzy can you get? With "you" being the app or OS releaser. Write the dang things in english and not geek, skip "skinning" for a few days and find an english major to write it for you. Clue one on making computers easier to use for mr and mrs sixpack. Ya, "engrish" is pretty funny, but "geek" manuals to a non geek is a painful mess that doesn't help to endear geeks to the people-from corporate on down- with open wallets, dig? Use layers of information based on skill level, not a one size fits nobody model, like 99% of the mans and HOWTOs I have seen.
With that said,talking about dads, my dad was a mainframe hardware guy starting in the mid 50's until he retired in the late 70's. He hates personal computers, too, won't have one, the most any of us kids could talk him into is a webtv, and mostly my mom uses it. Ton of other electronic gadgets, but no PC.
..not a developer here, just a luser. I switched to open source for my desktop. Why? Because I think the industry mode of having full time work on "new and improved" for 100% of the profit you need to live on is a bad idea and causes what you are referring to, "breaking what ain't broke". It's because of money. We all need money, that's a gimme, and we all need a job, but some jobs become advanced busywork projects. Like professional government grant sponsored "art" and half the "research" that goes on. Expensive busywork in a way.
As just a software consumer, I'd rather see stability over new and improved that creates a never ending stream of alpha and beta ware. And then when it's finally not beta,finally when it's fixed and debuggified- it get's trashed,abandoned, orphaned, and another new and improved version conmes out, that starts back at square one alpha stage! Nuts! And even in open source/sorta "free" software I can see this happening now that it's taking off more. I think once a niche product is made, new releases should just fix security bugs and functionality bugs. Keep the "brand new completely" releases to a much slower schedule, years, not months or even a single year. research well, code well, in advance. If more money is needed, then custom writing for enterprise customers, or another job doing something else. from a company to an individual coder. A lot of the planet does more than one job to bring home the bacon, and that job might be very physically demanding and not pay verywell at all, so no hard and fast rule that sitting in front of an editor is the only way to "make money"..
I don't know if this is possible, or what you were asking, but I hope I was clear enough.
..idea, version change wizards. Say ya got "work from the office" version some number, the software company "upgrades" it. When you boot up, there's an obvious button that will walk the luser through what it USED to look like and what it did back then, THEN it goes on to the "new and improved" version. At least that would give the luser a point of familiar reference for each feature change that occurred.
--my pooter and I poot in your general direction, trollish1. neener neener. cya
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--I honestly gave it a good look over, but will admit to not being the best engineer here. There was so much fried-looking stuff I wouldn't have known where to start. It's still a good story though, although I should have taken some pics of it before I chucked it, or sent it to apple maybe, let their engineers look at it just to see what was "right" still with it, where they did good.
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....been wanting to make a router/firewall from one of these old pentium one serious junkers I got kicking around, partly for that purpose of physical protection. Just been lazy and need to figure out where to put the thing, about ran out of room in my RV "office" here. Office is I took the front passenger seat out, all my stuff is crammed in there.
Of course, I was going to use one of those runs on a floppy drive router things, but reading the poll thread I see I won't be 1337 and "cool" if I admit to even owning a floppy, so......
..the solar rig here is complex. there's two redundant large arrays that feed two seperate battery banks, those goto the main house on the estate where I live. (we the po folks do the grunt work here). I pull a 15 amp AC feed from a sub panel installed off the smaller of the two arrays. that is now underground inside conduit, heh. The inverters themselves use the grid for AC-1 in, and there's a diesel genny for AC-2 in, so there's plenty of options. My own personal rig is three panels and a charge controller going to 4 storage batts with a strict 12 volt system, that runs the lights and some other jazz in here (an RV) and my smaller old powerbook 280c which is my "storm" throw away computer now if anything happens to it. I haven't seen any problems with the hard drives yet, or any weird voltages problem. I manually set the options menu on the inverters pretty high so they kick over if the voltage starts to drop. Those batteries are expensive so we do whatever is possible to keep them as full as possible and only do real shallow cycling. Also added de-sulphators which apparently work quite well, at least the electroylyte got a lot cleaner visually and they seem to be in almost new condition still.
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-some weird story. Glad I got to see the pics with the correct URL. WHY did this lady do this?
--here's my tough as nails apple story. We run on solar here. The first year though I didn't have a proper buried power cable, my AC feed from the inverters was literally just an extension cord on top of the ground. Was running a mac 6400 tower at the time, through a surge protector/power strip (no, too dumb to send in warranty card when I got the surge, duh on me). Anywho, one day there's a thunderstorm, being reasonably cautious I unplugged everything. Storm goes away, cool, plug all the stuff back in. About 5 minutes later ZAP! Rogue lightning bolt hits I guess the ground nearby or the cord directly. Pooter goes POP, everything shuts down. I mean it was loud, a very close by hit.
I am steamed, think oh crap no pooter. Reset breaker, hit power button, CHIME, that nice boot up chord! Amazing! thing boots but ran sorta screwy. Just-screwy. surfing was a tad slower, would get occassional screen freezes, etc, but as it was at the time my "best" computer I just kept using it. Next day I open the case, WOW, the mobo is all crispy! I mean fried city, and the thing is still working. Hard to describe except it looked -lightning hit. there's burnt stuff all over. I cleaned it as good as possible and put it back together. Used it for a few more months in crippled mode, then upgraded an old quadra to use instead, then I bought a used pb 1400, then I just parted the 6400 out, kept the drives and those great built in speakers.
--I use my nifty old 68k macs for fun once in awhile. Without floppies or a serial to serial cable I'd be up a stump for a lot of things. On my linux desktop I store just a few things on flop, like the boot disk they ask you if you want to make (yes), and for a few small security/utility apps I keep CLEAN for emergency purposes. And when I goto the library to use their broadband (really a schweet treet for me) all they allow is blank floppies in their machines to snag files with. And yep, I don't own a cd burner yet. When I see one for 25$ on the shelf locally I can buy with cash I'll buy one, but around here out in the stix burners retail on the shelf are still -->100$, and I don't buy much online, don't trust it, if my card get's scammed I'm hosed. In fact I rarely use a cc much anymore, once a quarter, tops. Small level mostly fixed income makes ya paranoid with your loot.. Especially ebay, just the idea of it gives me the buckwheats.
you pups! In my day, we had to use a stereoscope and an electromagnet made out of a horsehoe nail and a leyden jar to burn bits on our floppies, and they were made from mason jar lids!! And both ways, uphill! And we LIKED it!
--you can get agricultural grade peroxide at 35% with no problems whatsoever, by the barrel for that matter, some folks use it in place of a bleach chemical for their swimming pools.
Now, if he can get that, how hard is it to make it twice as concentrated? Back yard chemist in the house?
....it works both ways. If the fcc says one IP, and the isp cuts you off, they ain't the cops. They've broken the contract in theory and can be sued. If they are smart they would ask first, if they just cut off the service I think they might be liable prettyquickly, but really, contracts have fine print for a reason.
In contract law, every single teeny tiny word and clause has an exact defined definition. what IS *A* computer? Anyone could-in theory anyway and this is how I would address it if challenged- maintain their home LAN constituted a cluster, and as such was just a single distributed model style computer. I don't think there's a description of what a single computer looks like or how it's configured in most peoples net connect contracts. At least I've never seen one besides microsofts EULA with cpu count and etc.
wow! what an intelligent troll! Tell ya what bufoon, why don't you provide a link disputing the lady astronaut didn't interview the photographer, and that the government didn't think it important enough to go pick up the camera in a military jet. Oh ya, why don't you ask the science editor of the chronicle while you're at it, if it's a real story or not.
try again next time after you grow up and your brain hairs out, really pathetic trolling,sub- amateur quality
--not trusting them is my default position. I didn't start out with that position as a young man, but have been forced into it by analysis and retrospection of events and previous words. (and a ton of personal anecdotal with people who *know stuff* being insiders in government)
Occasionaly I think they will tell the truth when the truth suits their agenda of command/control/manipulation. In other circumstances when a lie works better, they use that. Reality for a rough rule of thumb is they intermix the two most times.
--oh yaa, a meteor came in at exactly the same millisecond to cross the path of a speeding mach 12 craft, and also at the exact millisecond a photographer snapped the shutter. umm, do the rough math, I can't get it exact but that would be maybe one buhzillion to one, or worse odds.
And all this depends on the photo, said photo of such "wowness" factor that the camera gets taken in it's own dispatched military training jet for "investigation".
To ME it stinks so far, beyond that won't speculate. One thing I DON'T think is a piece of compressed foam with ablative qualities to it falling down struck a wing enough to crack it or damage it enough for it to be significant. Maybe it will turn out to be so, I don't know, right now though I think this photo is *suspicious*. And again, it's too bad the guy didn't realease it, IMO he's blown it, and reliable evidenciary data from the photo(s) is now destroyed.
--I agree. If the guy was that concerned about it, his best defense was full release immediately. He also is really dumb to give up ownership and control of the camera, to let it out of his sight. He's screwed now, and as far as I am concerned the camera is now tainted. Any investigation of the camera and negatives should have taken place in full and open view of any interested press persons and especially his lawyer present and a hired camera tech scientist. IF his photos do in fact show some sort of "lightning bolt" or "beam", especially coming from ABOVE, that is some scary stuff potentially.
I do NOT trust the government. ANY nation's government. I also don't trust scammers. So we are stuck on this one. The good news is he doesn't seem to have tried to immediately sell the photos, that's a good sign.
With that said, I'll wait to inspect the photo myself before commenting on it. At least it needs the highest resolution scan possible to be released on the net.
--great browser. Best cookie control, best image control. It's my browser of choice on the mac. I will admit I've not tried omniweb though, but have tried all the other browsers on mac (classic) so far that I could find. Better than all of them, IMO. Apple should have sought those guys out for "howtos" on making safari, or just bought them. I see people going on and on about opera and chimera and konq and now safari, "small, fast" etc. Phooie, icab got small and fast down already. The developer is a mac loyalist as well, too bad he's not as appreciated as these other guys. That was the first thing I thought of when I read about safari, that it would take away from people trying iCab. Also the only modern GUI browser that is fully functional with any speed on the older 68k macs that I have own.
--if you will re read my post, you'll see that what was "theory" turned out to be "data" after historical inspection. That's why I used those examples. What you may make of that is your business. What's "freakier" is that so many people-yourself for example-refuse to learn from history, and refuse to consider that you might have an incorrect belief system that might be based on purposeful actions and manipulated media press releases and pronouncements. If the concept of the "big lie" didn't work, there wouldn't be so many examples of it in past history to reflect upon.
How the latest shuttle disaster might play out in the long run, I do not know, no idea whatsoever. But I reject the notion that you, or anyone else posting on this website, has all the data on which to base an immediate assumption as to "the facts" surrounding this case.. I don't, nor do you, other than there's dead people and a large craft smashed on the ground.
Like I said, my default position is that when it comes to matters of extreme importance, that governments more often than not will lie, and lie so quickly and casualy that it is an endemic and ingrained part of their "jobs". You or anyone else may go blithely along and "believe in" each and every official government pronouncement, I will remain content to wait and see how matters shake out, and add to the data mix and adjust my position accordingly as new data gets added. The only thing I hold as carved in stone is that nothing really IS carved in stone, especially on very recent occurrences such as this disaster. I learned my lesson on "trust" with government and the media and "popular opinion" a long time ago.
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--just as a side issue, I think the tech already exists for a better shuttle-like design. The reason why it isn't being used is that it's a military secret used in whatever prototype or low production planes the air force has that have replaced the sr-71, like the reported aurora and brilliant buzzard alleged models.
--I guess it would depend on the business, but maybe figure out a way to offer a base low salary or hourly, then the 'real' money kicks in dependent on productivity, if there's a way to calibrate it. Then there's the incentive to work harder and more efficiently, and there's no real reason to have serious rules on when you want to take a break and surf or do some online personal business.
And definetly I'd agree with you on having to be able to google for answers and to keep up to speed, if it's one thing I've learned as a linux noob is google is THE set of useful man pages.
--thankyou, I'm glad you understood what I was trying to say, and I apologize for not making it clearer in the first place. I'm not a gamer so I didn't realise that's how those games were built, but yes, it's a very accurate way to express it, and it would WORK if other software was made like that and had the manuals and howtos made like that. It's a logical evolutionary step, crawl>walk>run, why most developers assume people can run right from the start is just astounding, but not really when you think of all the companies that go out of business.
anyway, I've finished on this thread, thankyou again.
--sure, I'll agree the ideal is to make it so intuitive that no upgraded instruction is needed for any upgrade. That makes sense. In the meantime before that happens it's not asking much to ask for better manuals and guides is it, or do you want my business or not? I'm speaking as a generic consumer, I'm not a coder. I think you fixated on the word luser and failed to understand any other thing I wrote.OK, I'm sorry, there ya go. "User". Now, re read it again, substitute in your mind just user instead of luser, see if it reads different for you. If it still doesn't, then YOU fuck off,because that would mean you're too stupid and arrogant to understand it, or you just don't care to undersatand it. No, I'm not leet, and neither are you,just a typical arrogant know it all. And you "don't have time" to offer anything more constructive-how giving of you! Or is it that you really don't have much to offer, except the same old stuff? Isn't that the problem, isn't that what we were discussing? at least I offered some sort of "hey, maybe this might make it better" viewpoint coming from someone who gets occassionally frustrated with "new and improved" versions of whatever I encounter, but I guess that isn't wanted in the "software coding community". guys like you don't want to hear what the customer might like, you "know better" so STFU, right?
Thanks for playing, I'm done on this, waste of time. You and the rest of this thread just helped me make up my mind on how much I will spend on software this upcoming year, it's now gone from some to zero. I already started boycotting hollywood and the pro music business, and I think it's time to do it with professional or "free gifted amateur" software, too. No paid, no donations. Not much but one guys efforts, all I can do. I'll "struggle by" with what I have.
--because I used the slightly slangish word luser? Heck I'M a luser! I'm coming from more than a decade of click and drool, you think this linux cli stuff is easy for me? My tech expertise and vocation is not IT either, I just happen to like computers, trying to learn more in a casual manner. I'm replying to the parent as giving an example of what might work better than what's out there now. At least what I have seen myself to be more accurate.
Now, what about my idea itself? Any merit to it? The wizards I have seen concentrate on the new version only, I think they should have a way to show the transition stage, because now all that's installed, that the frustrated user is staring at, is the *new* version of OS whatever or app whatever. How much more K can it take to provide a better set of examples and better and more intuitive guides? I read coders bitch here all the time about under commented code... WELL????????? WELL?????? How about the poor schmoo has to use that stuff at work or at home? That should be the first level "intro" to the new version of the app or OS, the tranistion based wizard, with detailed text manuals as well right there,and the question mark ? "Help" button ought to be an enforced standard for any serious GUI developer, and clicking on that should provide layers of information that actually _are_informative, and have ZERO acronyms. spell the dang acronyms out and just use capital letters to indicate thereis an acronym there. Is it THAT $%^&*& HARD to do that? Someone gonna get finger hernias, or what? Like I said on the k amount, whats a few more total in any modern app or OS? How chintzy can you get? With "you" being the app or OS releaser. Write the dang things in english and not geek, skip "skinning" for a few days and find an english major to write it for you. Clue one on making computers easier to use for mr and mrs sixpack. Ya, "engrish" is pretty funny, but "geek" manuals to a non geek is a painful mess that doesn't help to endear geeks to the people-from corporate on down- with open wallets, dig? Use layers of information based on skill level, not a one size fits nobody model, like 99% of the mans and HOWTOs I have seen.
With that said,talking about dads, my dad was a mainframe hardware guy starting in the mid 50's until he retired in the late 70's. He hates personal computers, too, won't have one, the most any of us kids could talk him into is a webtv, and mostly my mom uses it. Ton of other electronic gadgets, but no PC.
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hey! Good work! thanks for the reply!
..not a developer here, just a luser. I switched to open source for my desktop. Why? Because I think the industry mode of having full time work on "new and improved" for 100% of the profit you need to live on is a bad idea and causes what you are referring to, "breaking what ain't broke". It's because of money. We all need money, that's a gimme, and we all need a job, but some jobs become advanced busywork projects. Like professional government grant sponsored "art" and half the "research" that goes on. Expensive busywork in a way.
As just a software consumer, I'd rather see stability over new and improved that creates a never ending stream of alpha and beta ware. And then when it's finally not beta,finally when it's fixed and debuggified- it get's trashed,abandoned, orphaned, and another new and improved version conmes out, that starts back at square one alpha stage! Nuts! And even in open source/sorta "free" software I can see this happening now that it's taking off more. I think once a niche product is made, new releases should just fix security bugs and functionality bugs. Keep the "brand new completely" releases to a much slower schedule, years, not months or even a single year. research well, code well, in advance. If more money is needed, then custom writing for enterprise customers, or another job doing something else. from a company to an individual coder. A lot of the planet does more than one job to bring home the bacon, and that job might be very physically demanding and not pay verywell at all, so no hard and fast rule that sitting in front of an editor is the only way to "make money"..
I don't know if this is possible, or what you were asking, but I hope I was clear enough.
..idea, version change wizards. Say ya got "work from the office" version some number, the software company "upgrades" it. When you boot up, there's an obvious button that will walk the luser through what it USED to look like and what it did back then, THEN it goes on to the "new and improved" version. At least that would give the luser a point of familiar reference for each feature change that occurred.
..try as I might I just can't seem to get my normal leet bubbaebonics normal speech pattern down into type form... oh well, anywho....
maybe make everyone on slashdot use klingon as a universal esperanto? And then it would be klingon written as 1337 5p34|
--my pooter and I poot in your general direction, trollish1. neener neener. cya
--I honestly gave it a good look over, but will admit to not being the best engineer here. There was so much fried-looking stuff I wouldn't have known where to start. It's still a good story though, although I should have taken some pics of it before I chucked it, or sent it to apple maybe, let their engineers look at it just to see what was "right" still with it, where they did good.
....been wanting to make a router/firewall from one of these old pentium one serious junkers I got kicking around, partly for that purpose of physical protection. Just been lazy and need to figure out where to put the thing, about ran out of room in my RV "office" here. Office is I took the front passenger seat out, all my stuff is crammed in there.
Of course, I was going to use one of those runs on a floppy drive router things, but reading the poll thread I see I won't be 1337 and "cool" if I admit to even owning a floppy, so......
--ok, -1 for saying "pooter", but I get a +1 for NOT saying "boxen", so it cancels.....
heh heh heh
..the solar rig here is complex. there's two redundant large arrays that feed two seperate battery banks, those goto the main house on the estate where I live. (we the po folks do the grunt work here). I pull a 15 amp AC feed from a sub panel installed off the smaller of the two arrays. that is now underground inside conduit, heh. The inverters themselves use the grid for AC-1 in, and there's a diesel genny for AC-2 in, so there's plenty of options. My own personal rig is three panels and a charge controller going to 4 storage batts with a strict 12 volt system, that runs the lights and some other jazz in here (an RV) and my smaller old powerbook 280c which is my "storm" throw away computer now if anything happens to it. I haven't seen any problems with the hard drives yet, or any weird voltages problem. I manually set the options menu on the inverters pretty high so they kick over if the voltage starts to drop. Those batteries are expensive so we do whatever is possible to keep them as full as possible and only do real shallow cycling. Also added de-sulphators which apparently work quite well, at least the electroylyte got a lot cleaner visually and they seem to be in almost new condition still.
some pics are online of the main stuff. Go to the middle of the page, mountain top in georgia pics.
-some weird story. Glad I got to see the pics with the correct URL. WHY did this lady do this?
--here's my tough as nails apple story. We run on solar here. The first year though I didn't have a proper buried power cable, my AC feed from the inverters was literally just an extension cord on top of the ground. Was running a mac 6400 tower at the time, through a surge protector/power strip (no, too dumb to send in warranty card when I got the surge, duh on me). Anywho, one day there's a thunderstorm, being reasonably cautious I unplugged everything. Storm goes away, cool, plug all the stuff back in. About 5 minutes later ZAP! Rogue lightning bolt hits I guess the ground nearby or the cord directly. Pooter goes POP, everything shuts down. I mean it was loud, a very close by hit.
I am steamed, think oh crap no pooter. Reset breaker, hit power button, CHIME, that nice boot up chord! Amazing! thing boots but ran sorta screwy. Just-screwy. surfing was a tad slower, would get occassional screen freezes, etc, but as it was at the time my "best" computer I just kept using it. Next day I open the case, WOW, the mobo is all crispy! I mean fried city, and the thing is still working. Hard to describe except it looked -lightning hit. there's burnt stuff all over. I cleaned it as good as possible and put it back together. Used it for a few more months in crippled mode, then upgraded an old quadra to use instead, then I bought a used pb 1400, then I just parted the 6400 out, kept the drives and those great built in speakers.
tough boxes for sure
--I use my nifty old 68k macs for fun once in awhile. Without floppies or a serial to serial cable I'd be up a stump for a lot of things. On my linux desktop I store just a few things on flop, like the boot disk they ask you if you want to make (yes), and for a few small security/utility apps I keep CLEAN for emergency purposes. And when I goto the library to use their broadband (really a schweet treet for me) all they allow is blank floppies in their machines to snag files with. And yep, I don't own a cd burner yet. When I see one for 25$ on the shelf locally I can buy with cash I'll buy one, but around here out in the stix burners retail on the shelf are still -->100$, and I don't buy much online, don't trust it, if my card get's scammed I'm hosed. In fact I rarely use a cc much anymore, once a quarter, tops. Small level mostly fixed income makes ya paranoid with your loot.. Especially ebay, just the idea of it gives me the buckwheats.
you pups! In my day, we had to use a stereoscope and an electromagnet made out of a horsehoe nail and a leyden jar to burn bits on our floppies, and they were made from mason jar lids!! And both ways, uphill! And we LIKED it!
--you can get agricultural grade peroxide at 35% with no problems whatsoever, by the barrel for that matter, some folks use it in place of a bleach chemical for their swimming pools.
Now, if he can get that, how hard is it to make it twice as concentrated? Back yard chemist in the house?
....it works both ways. If the fcc says one IP, and the isp cuts you off, they ain't the cops. They've broken the contract in theory and can be sued. If they are smart they would ask first, if they just cut off the service I think they might be liable prettyquickly, but really, contracts have fine print for a reason.
In contract law, every single teeny tiny word and clause has an exact defined definition. what IS *A* computer? Anyone could-in theory anyway and this is how I would address it if challenged- maintain their home LAN constituted a cluster, and as such was just a single distributed model style computer. I don't think there's a description of what a single computer looks like or how it's configured in most peoples net connect contracts. At least I've never seen one besides microsofts EULA with cpu count and etc.
wow! what an intelligent troll! Tell ya what bufoon, why don't you provide a link disputing the lady astronaut didn't interview the photographer, and that the government didn't think it important enough to go pick up the camera in a military jet. Oh ya, why don't you ask the science editor of the chronicle while you're at it, if it's a real story or not.
try again next time after you grow up and your brain hairs out, really pathetic trolling,sub- amateur quality
--not trusting them is my default position. I didn't start out with that position as a young man, but have been forced into it by analysis and retrospection of events and previous words. (and a ton of personal anecdotal with people who *know stuff* being insiders in government)
Occasionaly I think they will tell the truth when the truth suits their agenda of command/control/manipulation. In other circumstances when a lie works better, they use that. Reality for a rough rule of thumb is they intermix the two most times.
--oh yaa, a meteor came in at exactly the same millisecond to cross the path of a speeding mach 12 craft, and also at the exact millisecond a photographer snapped the shutter. umm, do the rough math, I can't get it exact but that would be maybe one buhzillion to one, or worse odds.
And all this depends on the photo, said photo of such "wowness" factor that the camera gets taken in it's own dispatched military training jet for "investigation".
To ME it stinks so far, beyond that won't speculate. One thing I DON'T think is a piece of compressed foam with ablative qualities to it falling down struck a wing enough to crack it or damage it enough for it to be significant. Maybe it will turn out to be so, I don't know, right now though I think this photo is *suspicious*. And again, it's too bad the guy didn't realease it, IMO he's blown it, and reliable evidenciary data from the photo(s) is now destroyed.
--I agree. If the guy was that concerned about it, his best defense was full release immediately. He also is really dumb to give up ownership and control of the camera, to let it out of his sight. He's screwed now, and as far as I am concerned the camera is now tainted. Any investigation of the camera and negatives should have taken place in full and open view of any interested press persons and especially his lawyer present and a hired camera tech scientist. IF his photos do in fact show some sort of "lightning bolt" or "beam", especially coming from ABOVE, that is some scary stuff potentially.
I do NOT trust the government. ANY nation's government. I also don't trust scammers. So we are stuck on this one. The good news is he doesn't seem to have tried to immediately sell the photos, that's a good sign.
With that said, I'll wait to inspect the photo myself before commenting on it. At least it needs the highest resolution scan possible to be released on the net.
related article, former astronaut wowed by images snapped of shuttle breakup The images purport to show a very interesting ...uhh... anyone can go read it for themselves.
--great browser. Best cookie control, best image control. It's my browser of choice on the mac. I will admit I've not tried omniweb though, but have tried all the other browsers on mac (classic) so far that I could find. Better than all of them, IMO. Apple should have sought those guys out for "howtos" on making safari, or just bought them. I see people going on and on about opera and chimera and konq and now safari, "small, fast" etc. Phooie, icab got small and fast down already. The developer is a mac loyalist as well, too bad he's not as appreciated as these other guys. That was the first thing I thought of when I read about safari, that it would take away from people trying iCab. Also the only modern GUI browser that is fully functional with any speed on the older 68k macs that I have own.
--if you will re read my post, you'll see that what was "theory" turned out to be "data" after historical inspection. That's why I used those examples. What you may make of that is your business. What's "freakier" is that so many people-yourself for example-refuse to learn from history, and refuse to consider that you might have an incorrect belief system that might be based on purposeful actions and manipulated media press releases and pronouncements. If the concept of the "big lie" didn't work, there wouldn't be so many examples of it in past history to reflect upon.
How the latest shuttle disaster might play out in the long run, I do not know, no idea whatsoever. But I reject the notion that you, or anyone else posting on this website, has all the data on which to base an immediate assumption as to "the facts" surrounding this case.. I don't, nor do you, other than there's dead people and a large craft smashed on the ground.
Like I said, my default position is that when it comes to matters of extreme importance, that governments more often than not will lie, and lie so quickly and casualy that it is an endemic and ingrained part of their "jobs". You or anyone else may go blithely along and "believe in" each and every official government pronouncement, I will remain content to wait and see how matters shake out, and add to the data mix and adjust my position accordingly as new data gets added. The only thing I hold as carved in stone is that nothing really IS carved in stone, especially on very recent occurrences such as this disaster. I learned my lesson on "trust" with government and the media and "popular opinion" a long time ago.