In Phoenix and Tucson there are quite a few music stations on AM (KOY 550 and KSAZ 580); indeed they are the only ones I listen to, as FM is full of nothing but rap, rock-n-roll, and what purports to be "country" music but isn't anymore.
I'd listen to a New Age or an Easy Listening station if there were one.
Ah, then what's needed is an "audio card device driver" which "appears to be" but is not actually a sound card -- to intercept the data between the kernel and the hardware.
We have changed our Terms of Service. You hereby agree to leave your television on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with the volume at least 75% of maximum. Furthermore you agree not to watch Public Television or any channel without advertisements. You agree not to use your television for the viewing of videotapes, videodiscs, DVDs, video games, or any service other than we provide. You agree to sit in the couch in front of said TV at least six (6) hours every day, and to consume at least eight (8) servings of food products advertised on our service.
I've read all the fine print of the Windows 98 EULA in the boxed version I got and nowehre in there does it say anything about my having to provide proof of anything. Upon what do you base your comment ("Part of that license state you have to prove you paid for that license at any time the owner (M$) asks you to.") ?
>> At what point did they start making floppy disks from recycled iron filings and rusty nails? <<
I think it's the drives, not the disks. Floppy drives used to cost in the $300 range and there was probably actually some quality control. Now that they are $11 retail at Fry's Electronics that means the cost to produce one is probably $0.50 (the remainder being shipping and mark-up) and how much quality control do you think there is on them?
I blame the floppy drive manufacturers.
That and the fact that Win 9x *writes* on disks (to update the access time) even when you are just reading a disk... so reading a disk in a computer with a misaligned drive will corrupt it! MORAL: Always keep the disk write-protected unless you are really intending to write on it.
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Entirely off-topic, but this does raise the question, What would happen if I attempted to mail helium balloons, with negative "weight" (density, really)... would the post office pay me to send them?
You write, "They can't GPL their code if it uses someone else's code!" and RMS says, "KDE could never be part of a completely free operating system as long as it needed a non-free program to function."
Hmm... if I write a program for Windows that uses Windows API's, why can't I GPL that program, even though it used Windows APIs???
So... if I leave my TV and computer on for a few hours, what am I gonna get, three hundred sixty nine windows, one web page for each commercial that was on?
Oh... and the CD pouch says, "Opening this software [note: it's an unsealed pouch!] constitutes your agreement to the license terms..." I dunno about anyone else but I never opened the pouch, and there's no license agreement on the HARDWARE, so upon what do they base their claims?
How about a MIDI or maybe even wave-oriented daemon for *nix that gives an indication of the system state?
I'm thinking maybe drums for disk drives, flutes for network I/O,...?
It seems an awful waste to think of all the servers out there with sound cards lying uselessly inside, why not put them to good use. You could get a feel for how well the computer was working, just by listening.
There once were some scribbles at Xerox Whose patents to 3com were big shocks That language 'graffiti' We need a no peace treaty Software patents smell like a musk ox
All of which reminds me of the trade show at which I had paid for a booth only to discover upon arrival that persons under age 18, including myself, were not admitted onto the floor! Pretty silly because I started my business when I was 14; fortunately, sanity prevailed in that case, but what a rigamarole...
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I suspect a sizable percentage of readers will read this book looking for precisely this chapter.
Typical reader's thoughts: "I have a couple Windows boxes, and I hear that if I buy some network cards and a copy of Linux, I can use something called Samba as a server?"
It would have been nice had they explained you can add another LILO entry for your "new" kernel while leaving the old entry... then you can boot into either the "new" or "old" one. (Of course, having a boot disk is still a reasonable precaution.)
The problem with outlawing, say, the writing of books on making bombs is that it's entirely too close to outlawing THINKING about making bombs. And as we continue to outlaw more and more kinds of thought...
Don't answer your door when they knock at midnight.
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My mom used them for the middles of crocheted Christmas wreaths.
In Phoenix and Tucson there are quite a few music stations on AM (KOY 550 and KSAZ 580); indeed they are the only ones I listen to, as FM is full of nothing but rap, rock-n-roll, and what purports to be "country" music but isn't anymore.
I'd listen to a New Age or an Easy Listening station if there were one.
welcome to the looking-glass world.
Ah, then what's needed is an "audio card device driver" which "appears to be" but is not actually a sound card -- to intercept the data between the kernel and the hardware.
FROM: The Cable Company
We have changed our Terms of Service. You hereby agree to leave your television on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with the volume at least 75% of maximum. Furthermore you agree not to watch Public Television or any channel without advertisements. You agree not to use your television for the viewing of videotapes, videodiscs, DVDs, video games, or any service other than we provide. You agree to sit in the couch in front of said TV at least six (6) hours every day, and to consume at least eight (8) servings of food products advertised on our service.
I've read all the fine print of the Windows 98 EULA in the boxed version I got and nowehre in there does it say anything about my having to provide proof of anything. Upon what do you base your comment ("Part of that license state you have to prove you paid for that license at any time the owner (M$) asks you to.") ?
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I think it's the drives, not the disks. Floppy drives used to cost in the $300 range and there was probably actually some quality control. Now that they are $11 retail at Fry's Electronics that means the cost to produce one is probably $0.50 (the remainder being shipping and mark-up) and how much quality control do you think there is on them?
I blame the floppy drive manufacturers.
That and the fact that Win 9x *writes* on disks (to update the access time) even when you are just reading a disk... so reading a disk in a computer with a misaligned drive will corrupt it! MORAL: Always keep the disk write-protected unless you are really intending to write on it.
Entirely off-topic, but this does raise the question, What would happen if I attempted to mail helium balloons, with negative "weight" (density, really)... would the post office pay me to send them?
I don't understand this.
You write, "They can't GPL their code if it uses someone else's code!" and RMS says, "KDE could never be part of a completely free operating system as long as it needed a non-free program to function."
Hmm... if I write a program for Windows that uses Windows API's, why can't I GPL that program, even though it used Windows APIs???
So... if I leave my TV and computer on for a few hours, what am I gonna get, three hundred sixty nine windows, one web page for each commercial that was on?
Oh... and the CD pouch says, "Opening this software [note: it's an unsealed pouch!] constitutes your agreement to the license terms..." I dunno about anyone else but I never opened the pouch, and there's no license agreement on the HARDWARE, so upon what do they base their claims?
(Anyone remember Fargo North, Decoder from Electric Company)
How about a MIDI or maybe even wave-oriented daemon for *nix that gives an indication of the system state?
I'm thinking maybe drums for disk drives, flutes for network I/O,...?
It seems an awful waste to think of all the servers out there with sound cards lying uselessly inside, why not put them to good use. You could get a feel for how well the computer was working, just by listening.
Anyone?
Aha! So that's why Lt. Cmdr. Data got stuck in the sonic shower and was so late for his duty shift.
Actually someone IS making the Northgate keyboards again... see http://www.cvtinc.com
If you're a fan of the OmniKey (formerly Northgate) keyboards, you might want to visit Creative Vision Technologies --
http://www.cvtinc.com/
They are making the "Avant Stellar" keyboard based on the OmniKey design...
Anyone like me who used a Heathkit H-8 computer might remember its boot sequence:
REG PC ALTER 030 000 ALTER GO
(Unless you had the nifty auto-start PAM-8 ROM mod kit, that is)
There once were some scribbles at Xerox
Whose patents to 3com were big shocks
That language 'graffiti'
We need a no peace treaty
Software patents smell like a musk ox
>> an Arthur C.Clarke story where it was illegal to drive a manually controlled car
Perhaps you're recalling "Sally" by Isaac Asimov.
All of which reminds me of the trade show at which I had paid for a booth only to discover upon arrival that persons under age 18, including myself, were not admitted onto the floor! Pretty silly because I started my business when I was 14; fortunately, sanity prevailed in that case, but what a rigamarole...
I suspect a sizable percentage of readers will read this book looking for precisely this chapter.
Typical reader's thoughts: "I have a couple Windows boxes, and I hear that if I buy some network cards and a copy of Linux, I can use something called Samba as a server?"
It would have been nice had they explained you can add another LILO entry for your "new" kernel while leaving the old entry... then you can boot into either the "new" or "old" one. (Of course, having a boot disk is still a reasonable precaution.)
Don't "disposable" cameras get reused or recycled when you turn them in for photo processing?
>> less [than] 35 percent of the country receive their television over the air.
Don't you have this backwards? I thought it was about 33% of households who had cable or satellite.
"Pay -- PAY?? -- for television? And it STILL HAS COMMERCIALS??? You must be joking."
The problem with outlawing, say, the writing of books on making bombs is that it's entirely too close to outlawing THINKING about making bombs. And as we continue to outlaw more and more kinds of thought...
Don't answer your door when they knock at midnight.
Or maybe "Quark" ?
See http://www.primenet.com/~luethy/