No, you say every possible permutation of your sentences simultaneously and then when the other person hears this they instantly forget what they have heard.
As many people have said, have fun with 555 timers & LEDs etc.
We once mixed the electronics with the metalwork/woodwork class - the kids had to put their name in a metal sheet either via drilling, punching etc., mount this on the front of a wooden frame and then make it progressively light up using a 555 timer circuit and a 4017 decade counter - first driving just LEDs and then scaling up the project to use SCRs and neon lamps. At the lower end (555+4017+LEDs), this should stay close to the $5 budget and is more fun the Karnaugh mapping!
Sound-to-light is also fun, cheap, entertaining and fits with the music-driven generation - a few RC filters and some SCRs & Lamps or drive a few sets of high-brightness LEDs to avoid mains stuff.
"...so nobody gets hit on the head...". For some reason, that conjured up a Monty Python-type sketch...
"Oh doctor, it was terrible; there I was minding my own business, walking down the street without a care in the world when this bloody big space station hit me on the head. It's given me such a headache..."
Newspapers generate revenue to help fund their business by having ads on their page, yet if I flip past the full-page, right-facing ad for 'Product X', no one's going to cry 'foul' and insist I turn back and read the ad in full.
I have freedom of choice to read, or not read, ads in print - and I take steps to exercise that freedom online too.
A big Amen to that. Many years ago a major UK training company ground to a halt (literally) because the bearings seized around the same time on two identical disk drives in their 5-disk RAID-5 array.
When building any form of multi-drive array I always mix manufacturers.
I understand NASA is going to buy some return tickets from RyanAir - they fly to Moon(ISS) - sure, that's a bit out of town, but there's a shuttle bus for the remainder of the journey and it makes the actual main ticket cost look quite cheap. It may be also be possible to share a ride from ISS to Moon and split the fare.
Just avoid the in-flight food as the prices are a rip-off - best take a few freeze-dried panninis and a carton of orange juice with you.
I have a Space pen too (/rly) - it's faultless: writes upside down, on wet paper, grease, underwater. It doesn't leak at high altitude and is guaranteed 'for life' etc.
It's the bullet type with no shirt clip and I'll be darned if I can remember where I left it most of the time, so when I need a pen I end up grabbing the nearest Bic!
1) There's been pinout sites for as long as I can remember - I can recall using one a serious amount of time ago to help me interface some kit to a serial multiplexer, but all the merrier I suppose. 2) How long before some manufacturer claims their pinouts are proprietary/trade secret/patented/act of god and slaps a takedown order on their info?
As a happy Acer Aspire One user (running Fedora 11), I'd appreciate a 10" (maybe 12", at a push) version for easier, mobile working, but it's clear that the netbook market was a double-edged sword for the manufacturers because the units were popular, but margins were crap.
I've slowly watched the decent netbook products migrate towards 12" screens at price points that make me think "I might as well get a low-end laptop for that" and although "ultra thin" would be nice, it's not top of my list. The 'regular' technology in the netbooks/slim laptops is 'fine for me'.
Fair enough, I am not 'everyone', but how many are willing to pay a premium for ultra-thin cases, batteries etc. when the kit on the market today isn't exactly hernia-inducing? This smells of a marketing angle designed to keep margins up. We're not all like Mac sheeple that will buy it simply because it's shiny and made by Apple/Acer/Asus etc.: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary
I understand they just need a bit more time to conclude their purchase of the Duke Nukem Forever codebase and issue a call for investors to fund completion of this vital work.
Oh, there won't be a game coming out of all this - SCO will have a pile of algorithms and methods specific to the gaming world stretching back as far as the first annoucement of DNF and so they can then start to examine games produced since that date from all the big players to see if they have 'pinched' anything.
Olivetti/AT&T: On the M24-M280 series' used a 9-pin D connector for keyboard. If you plugged keyboard into your EGA port you blew a diode and lost (ISTR) green.
Olivetti/AT&T: (See above). M290 model - putting the EGA and keyboard connectors NEXT TO EACH OTHER! (WTF).
Olivetti/AT&T: (See above). If you killed your keyboard (coffee spill etc.), a new one was £160 ('no discount') and nothing else fitted. We actually used to repair these keyboards as they cost so much.
Olivetti/AT&T: Low cost (M200 ?) series - no cover on PSU and integrated power switch on left side of case - when you slid off the case top without unplugging, there was a better than even chance one of your fingers would touch the live switch contacts - saw an engineer do this and then proceed to throw the system unit across the workshop while yelping in pain.
Olivetti/AT&T: 'Integrated' UPS that slid into the bottom of some of their servers. NO covering on bottom circuit board and so if you didn't get the unit into its rails properly, the board would touch the bottom inside of the case and short out the batteries/weld itself to the case, leaving you tugging for all your might to break the contact before the batteries (or something else) exploded.
Tulip: 'Fault tolerant' server with active pull-up on the SCSI bus powered from ONE of the 'redundant' PSUs - so if *that* PSU blew you lost your disk data and command channels even though the other PSU kept everything else running.
General: Plastic clips on early SIMM sockets that snapped when you sneezed near them
General: USB socket is same width as RJ45 so you can slide a USB plug into the network port and it feels 'right', but gets you nowhere until you look and check!
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No, you say every possible permutation of your sentences simultaneously and then when the other person hears this they instantly forget what they have heard.
ROT13
Karnaugh maps as the intro to basic electronics?
As many people have said, have fun with 555 timers & LEDs etc.
We once mixed the electronics with the metalwork/woodwork class - the kids had to put their name in a metal sheet either via drilling, punching etc., mount this on the front of a wooden frame and then make it progressively light up using a 555 timer circuit and a 4017 decade counter - first driving just LEDs and then scaling up the project to use SCRs and neon lamps. At the lower end (555+4017+LEDs), this should stay close to the $5 budget and is more fun the Karnaugh mapping!
Sound-to-light is also fun, cheap, entertaining and fits with the music-driven generation - a few RC filters and some SCRs & Lamps or drive a few sets of high-brightness LEDs to avoid mains stuff.
Thanks - you've saved me some typing!
"A modern operating system includes a bundled browser."
Says who exactly? Ah, Microsoft? - I see.
Tut
"...so nobody gets hit on the head...". For some reason, that conjured up a Monty Python-type sketch...
"Oh doctor, it was terrible; there I was minding my own business, walking down the street without a care in the world when this bloody big space station hit me on the head. It's given me such a headache..."
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary
This is always going to be a hotly-debated topic.
Newspapers generate revenue to help fund their business by having ads on their page, yet if I flip past the full-page, right-facing ad for 'Product X', no one's going to cry 'foul' and insist I turn back and read the ad in full.
I have freedom of choice to read, or not read, ads in print - and I take steps to exercise that freedom online too.
Keep an eye out for the BIOS ROMs degrading. Some EPROMS of that age will start 'forgetting' the odd bit.
Some 16-bit ISA cards will work in 8-bit slots. Mind you - you've still go to find some of those!
A big Amen to that. Many years ago a major UK training company ground to a halt (literally) because the bearings seized around the same time on two identical disk drives in their 5-disk RAID-5 array.
When building any form of multi-drive array I always mix manufacturers.
I understand NASA is going to buy some return tickets from RyanAir - they fly to Moon(ISS) - sure, that's a bit out of town, but there's a shuttle bus for the remainder of the journey and it makes the actual main ticket cost look quite cheap. It may be also be possible to share a ride from ISS to Moon and split the fare.
Just avoid the in-flight food as the prices are a rip-off - best take a few freeze-dried panninis and a carton of orange juice with you.
No, it stands for 'Sheep' ;-)
Wow, ...and I just got an HTC Touch Pro and..erm..installed pretty much anything I wanted to run 'just like that'
Shouldn't that be ilectrolytes?
...has a quick look and goes back to catching up with news on the MailScanner mailing list.
That's OK, even though you saw "fluffybunnies" because it's your password, all we saw on our screens was "*************"
No need to panic
I have a Space pen too (/rly) - it's faultless: writes upside down, on wet paper, grease, underwater. It doesn't leak at high altitude and is guaranteed 'for life' etc.
It's the bullet type with no shirt clip and I'll be darned if I can remember where I left it most of the time, so when I need a pen I end up grabbing the nearest Bic!
At least the ink will last a damn long time!
Just ask to see the company's quarterly electricity bill. If it's greater than 0.00EUR (0.00GBP/0.00USD) walk away.
That's a very good point.
1) There's been pinout sites for as long as I can remember - I can recall using one a serious amount of time ago to help me interface some kit to a serial multiplexer, but all the merrier I suppose.
2) How long before some manufacturer claims their pinouts are proprietary/trade secret/patented/act of god and slaps a takedown order on their info?
As a happy Acer Aspire One user (running Fedora 11), I'd appreciate a 10" (maybe 12", at a push) version for easier, mobile working, but it's clear that the netbook market was a double-edged sword for the manufacturers because the units were popular, but margins were crap.
I've slowly watched the decent netbook products migrate towards 12" screens at price points that make me think "I might as well get a low-end laptop for that" and although "ultra thin" would be nice, it's not top of my list. The 'regular' technology in the netbooks/slim laptops is 'fine for me'.
Fair enough, I am not 'everyone', but how many are willing to pay a premium for ultra-thin cases, batteries etc. when the kit on the market today isn't exactly hernia-inducing? This smells of a marketing angle designed to keep margins up. We're not all like Mac sheeple that will buy it simply because it's shiny and made by Apple/Acer/Asus etc.: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary
I understand they just need a bit more time to conclude their purchase of the Duke Nukem Forever codebase and issue a call for investors to fund completion of this vital work.
Oh, there won't be a game coming out of all this - SCO will have a pile of algorithms and methods specific to the gaming world stretching back as far as the first annoucement of DNF and so they can then start to examine games produced since that date from all the big players to see if they have 'pinched' anything.
3. Profit
I could go on...!