I do indeed get the scope of the 5150 keyboards. The Mini version had the 10 key attached via a cord instead of as part of the base unit, and it was usually a reverse 10 key designed for financial applications. I worked for quite a while on 3179/3180 CRT's attached to mainframe based CICS and TPS applications, back in the day when a disk was a DASD.
I agree with you in the conventional sense, if you go into a casino and gamble it is your responsibility. But in this case online gambling is illegal. If Visa had been allowing payments from an online casino, they'd be in criminal court in an instant. Valve, Steam, YouTube and the idiots pumping this setup all deserve criminal punishment and fines.
It does when the casino is knowingly marketing itself in an area where online gambling is NOT legal. I realize steam reaches an international audience but it primarily a US based venue and online gambling in the US is heavily restricted if not outright illegal, so there is a high degree of fault to be laid at the casinos' feet in this case.
Apparently a lawyer for the family has mental defect that causes them to repeat statements. Either that or the/. editors are once again showing their true dedication and attention to detail. Either way things that were getting better following the most recent change of hands have begun to erode already.
I use the lowest common denominator electronic wise, a standard text editor. It is cross platform generic, no format issues, small foot print. I used to use a notebook but I lost one with critical notes once and that convinced me to go electronic so I could make backups.
I love my old IBM kb's. I wish I had several more, they are tough and just seem to chug along. I did some upgrades for a company that had many of them and wanted them out for a 'better' newer KB. I kept a dozen or so and have hoarded them since then. Great tactile feedback, tough construction, I just wish they'd had more of the mini version.
I totally agree, especially in the light of the fact that a dealer can drive your 'new' car around for several hundred miles with no 'depreciation', but the instant the purchaser drives away the car is suddenly worth less ? If there was any real basis for that issue I'd demand a car with ZERO miles on it.
There is no AI involved, just some code written by humans. A computer cannot express compassion. IMHO Compassion is the highest virtue, and the first to be discarded. Hope can be rekindled, faith restored, love reunited but compassion once lost is rarely seen again. Even the guilty deserve compassion, it is that which elevates man from beast. We do that which is necessary but it should NOT stop us from being sorry it has to come to that.
Will it even run on intel chips these days. I remember using as a youngster, a friends dad worked for the Navy as a physicist and we played the original Zork on it. I read somewhere the new OS/2 called Blue Lion was coming to modern hardware. I'd really love to see it work smoothly and get full industry support. I'd smoke that pipe again.
"...Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached..."
Lets face it, if you buy a pre-installed system these days your 1st step should always be format and install a 'clean' version of an OS, whatever flavor you choose.
DirecTV is now part of the AT&T frankenfamily. Without warning our DVR cost went from $15 to $25, and the net quality for spooling back has deteriorated noticeably. I was previously able to 'restart' a program with no issue whatsoever, but now when I do so I quite often get a warning message and the playback freezes or skips. How does the crowd here view Dish Network ? I watch very little regular TV but I'd be hard-pressed to lose my British Premier League, or La Liga, and the Rugby channels. I really love EUFA and the other European soccer leagues as well.
The production/publishing companies are making a fortune, and yet the artists and performers keep getting less and less. It MUST be pirates, cause we all know the sweet and gentle labels only have their slaves*cough* employees best interests at heart.
I am old enough to remember the time when you did not even own your home phone but leased them all from Ma Bell, and a pay phone call cost $.10. That doesn't mean it was better. The town I was born in had a shared phone exchange and lines, you had to use an operator to assist you in dialing any number outside the local exchange. There was a time when people died regularly from simple infections, and TB crippled lots of people, it sucked then. The good old days really weren't all that golden. I do totally agree with you though on one point, smart phones seem to be making dumb people, but I still carry a dumb flip phone and don't text.
True, I was referring to the use of a technical means, but you are correct. A restaurant, theatre or really any private business has the right to set the rules and enforce them by asking people to leave, I just think that possible need for emergency use should outweigh a silly solution like the sealed bag idea the article provided. Just patrol and toss out those that violate the rules.
There is nothing like seeing a good band or musician in a small club like venue, the sound and feel is so-much better. In the SF bay area there are many small clubs and some of the best shows happen there. I can recall seeing Blue Oyster Cult playing under a pseudonym Soft White Underbelly giving great shows and playing tunes they'd never do on a big stage. Even today, every now and then someone really famous will wander in and play a set with the house band or whomever is top bill for the night.
You are preaching to the choir, I worked in the banking industry for quite some time in the contingency recovery department. Banks have to have their secure data backed up and a plan in place to prevent them from being closed for more than 3 consecutive days. The hoops we jumped though and the crap that was put forth would resemble what you have described greatly.
This is bad for an individual to do but OK for the 2nd hand reselling companies that snap up 100's of prime seats and sell them online for ridiculous amounts. Reselling is OK if you don't do it on the street in front of the venue, where it is considered scalping in many places. I've been to shows where the first 3 or 4 rows were corporate owned seats that rarely fill up, and heard the performers complain about the empty seats and call for the fans to fill them up, stating it gives them energy to have true fans up close vs. wine sipping corporate douche bags sitting on their hands.
Not that I disagree with the politeness argument, I don't, but the flashing light argument is pure BS. If you've ever been on stage, I have been a spotlight rigger at commercial shows, the performers can barely see the audience because of the spots and highlights and if they want to address the audience they generally have to ask for all the stage lights to be brought down.
You are correct, but the law does prevent people from blocking the use of cell phones. I think that unless it was made clear prior to the purchase of the ticket that you were forbidden the use of a cell phone you ARE due a refund. What if an emergency situation arises inside the venue, like it catches fire, or someone gets really sick of Alicia Keyes crappy music and goes into cardiac arrest, or your kid gets hit by a car and the hospital calls you ? If they want to stop people from taking pictures or videos of a second rate performance so be it, forbid those actions and escort violators outside.
So will you then be able to sue say Google, or Apple, Blackberry (QNX), or the manufacturer if your auto drive car gets in a collision? What happens when your auto drive car swerves to miss a dog in the road and crashes through someone's' fence. Ethically who will be responsible when your car swerves to miss a car with 1 occupant and broadsides a bus with 25 passengers. What happens in the case presented in I,robot when the AI decides to save a 45 year old man vs a 10 year old girl because of a 5% better chance ?
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I do indeed get the scope of the 5150 keyboards. The Mini version had the 10 key attached via a cord instead of as part of the base unit, and it was usually a reverse 10 key designed for financial applications. I worked for quite a while on 3179/3180 CRT's attached to mainframe based CICS and TPS applications, back in the day when a disk was a DASD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I agree with you in the conventional sense, if you go into a casino and gamble it is your responsibility. But in this case online gambling is illegal. If Visa had been allowing payments from an online casino, they'd be in criminal court in an instant. Valve, Steam, YouTube and the idiots pumping this setup all deserve criminal punishment and fines.
It does when the casino is knowingly marketing itself in an area where online gambling is NOT legal. I realize steam reaches an international audience but it primarily a US based venue and online gambling in the US is heavily restricted if not outright illegal, so there is a high degree of fault to be laid at the casinos' feet in this case.
This reeks of hype and a startup looking for venture capital to blow before being sold to the highest bidder for far too much money.
This stinks like phones in hotels. Adding a huge surcharge to any long distance calls.
Apparently a lawyer for the family has mental defect that causes them to repeat statements. Either that or the /. editors are once again showing their true dedication and attention to detail. Either way things that were getting better following the most recent change of hands have begun to erode already.
I use the lowest common denominator electronic wise, a standard text editor. It is cross platform generic, no format issues, small foot print. I used to use a notebook but I lost one with critical notes once and that convinced me to go electronic so I could make backups.
I love my old IBM kb's. I wish I had several more, they are tough and just seem to chug along. I did some upgrades for a company that had many of them and wanted them out for a 'better' newer KB. I kept a dozen or so and have hoarded them since then. Great tactile feedback, tough construction, I just wish they'd had more of the mini version.
I totally agree, especially in the light of the fact that a dealer can drive your 'new' car around for several hundred miles with no 'depreciation', but the instant the purchaser drives away the car is suddenly worth less ? If there was any real basis for that issue I'd demand a car with ZERO miles on it.
There is no AI involved, just some code written by humans. A computer cannot express compassion. IMHO Compassion is the highest virtue, and the first to be discarded. Hope can be rekindled, faith restored, love reunited but compassion once lost is rarely seen again. Even the guilty deserve compassion, it is that which elevates man from beast. We do that which is necessary but it should NOT stop us from being sorry it has to come to that.
We used to call it popcorn. In our area you could dial 767-any4digits and get the time.
http://articles.latimes.com/20...
Will it even run on intel chips these days. I remember using as a youngster, a friends dad worked for the Navy as a physicist and we played the original Zork on it.
I read somewhere the new OS/2 called Blue Lion was coming to modern hardware. I'd really love to see it work smoothly and get full industry support. I'd smoke that pipe again.
"...Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached..."
Lets face it, if you buy a pre-installed system these days your 1st step should always be format and install a 'clean' version of an OS, whatever flavor you choose.
You'd think that if the scientists had to force a computer to watch it would really highlight how crappy most TV is ?
DirecTV is now part of the AT&T frankenfamily. Without warning our DVR cost went from $15 to $25, and the net quality for spooling back has deteriorated noticeably. I was previously able to 'restart' a program with no issue whatsoever, but now when I do so I quite often get a warning message and the playback freezes or skips. How does the crowd here view Dish Network ? I watch very little regular TV but I'd be hard-pressed to lose my British Premier League, or La Liga, and the Rugby channels. I really love EUFA and the other European soccer leagues as well.
The production/publishing companies are making a fortune, and yet the artists and performers keep getting less and less. It MUST be pirates, cause we all know the sweet and gentle labels only have their slaves*cough* employees best interests at heart.
I am old enough to remember the time when you did not even own your home phone but leased them all from Ma Bell, and a pay phone call cost $.10. That doesn't mean it was better. The town I was born in had a shared phone exchange and lines, you had to use an operator to assist you in dialing any number outside the local exchange. There was a time when people died regularly from simple infections, and TB crippled lots of people, it sucked then. The good old days really weren't all that golden. I do totally agree with you though on one point, smart phones seem to be making dumb people, but I still carry a dumb flip phone and don't text.
True, I was referring to the use of a technical means, but you are correct. A restaurant, theatre or really any private business has the right to set the rules and enforce them by asking people to leave, I just think that possible need for emergency use should outweigh a silly solution like the sealed bag idea the article provided. Just patrol and toss out those that violate the rules.
There is nothing like seeing a good band or musician in a small club like venue, the sound and feel is so-much better. In the SF bay area there are many small clubs and some of the best shows happen there. I can recall seeing Blue Oyster Cult playing under a pseudonym Soft White Underbelly giving great shows and playing tunes they'd never do on a big stage. Even today, every now and then someone really famous will wander in and play a set with the house band or whomever is top bill for the night.
You are preaching to the choir, I worked in the banking industry for quite some time in the contingency recovery department. Banks have to have their secure data backed up and a plan in place to prevent them from being closed for more than 3 consecutive days. The hoops we jumped though and the crap that was put forth would resemble what you have described greatly.
This is bad for an individual to do but OK for the 2nd hand reselling companies that snap up 100's of prime seats and sell them online for ridiculous amounts. Reselling is OK if you don't do it on the street in front of the venue, where it is considered scalping in many places. I've been to shows where the first 3 or 4 rows were corporate owned seats that rarely fill up, and heard the performers complain about the empty seats and call for the fans to fill them up, stating it gives them energy to have true fans up close vs. wine sipping corporate douche bags sitting on their hands.
https://seatgeek.com/tba/artic....
Not that I disagree with the politeness argument, I don't, but the flashing light argument is pure BS. If you've ever been on stage, I have been a spotlight rigger at commercial shows, the performers can barely see the audience because of the spots and highlights and if they want to address the audience they generally have to ask for all the stage lights to be brought down.
You are correct, but the law does prevent people from blocking the use of cell phones. I think that unless it was made clear prior to the purchase of the ticket that you were forbidden the use of a cell phone you ARE due a refund. What if an emergency situation arises inside the venue, like it catches fire, or someone gets really sick of Alicia Keyes crappy music and goes into cardiac arrest, or your kid gets hit by a car and the hospital calls you ? If they want to stop people from taking pictures or videos of a second rate performance so be it, forbid those actions and escort violators outside.
So will you then be able to sue say Google, or Apple, Blackberry (QNX), or the manufacturer if your auto drive car gets in a collision? What happens when your auto drive car swerves to miss a dog in the road and crashes through someone's' fence. Ethically who will be responsible when your car swerves to miss a car with 1 occupant and broadsides a bus with 25 passengers. What happens in the case presented in I,robot when the AI decides to save a 45 year old man vs a 10 year old girl because of a 5% better chance ?