I realize that the beagle had a shoestring budget compared to NASA, but I don't understand is why no testing of the reentry system?
Yeah, they are rocket scientists, but they are not successfull rocket scientists yet. NASA, the USAF, the Soviets, and the Chinese had their share of tests that malfunctioned spectacularly, but they learned and continued on. They even had their share of missions that failed publicly. Why did the ESA decide to forego a re-entry to earth test? The Russians have so much experience in hard surface landings, why not ask them for help? I believe that the end of Mir was the only water landing in the history of the Russian program. They bring cosmonauts, astronauts, and millionaires safely back to hard earth via parachute. They should have some insight to share about how to put a probe on Mars.
I doubt if the average Slashdotter can answer but maybe someone from the ESA lurks here.
What makes YOUR work worth more than the same quality work from India? The fact that you are an American?
Corporations do not get tax incentives for outsourcing, they get a better return on their costs of labor. No bullshit with unions, no messy healthcare, no worries about ADA, OSHA, EEOC, Afirmitave action, etc. Those are the incentives to work offshore. Why work here and not be able to compete with the other companies that outsource? They are in business to make money, not provide you with a job.
Will you reward the All American corporation for their patriotism? Or will you scorn them and buy from the cheaper competition? Walmart, Toyota, Masda, Sony, etc prove that patriotism and loyalty stop at the wallet.
It is a cruel, cold, world out there; you are going to have to compete in it, or die. It is a buyers market when it comes to labor. The low bidder wins. That's economic law, you can't repeal it because it is "unfair."
Why just stop Corporate Welfare, when you can stop ALL Welfare! Without "Corporate Welfare" of reasonable taxation, the Corps will go overseas. Then the tax burden will fall on the "Filty Rich" who will emigrate to someplace with reasonable taxes. The "working class" and the poor will finaly have to start paying thier fair share of taxes to support their way of life. There will be no more greedy capitalists left to subsidize your welfare way of life.
No one owes you a living. No one owes you a living wage. The accident of your birth does not grant you a right to the fruits of my labor. Nor does the fact that you are my neighbor require me to buy your products.
you just format it like a bootable disk. Works with the sandisk 256 and pendrive 32. Booted them to a win98 "dos" session to test it out. Now if the USB bootable Motherboards start hitting the cafe's and libraries we will be set. As it is, I just reboot the machines, set the CMOS to boot from CD, ( if not set already or PW secured) and boot Knoppix-3.3 It is surprising how few PCs have a CMOS password.
I've been using Knoppix 3.2 as a tutoring aid at college, teaching an intro to linux class. Nice thing is the school burned the CDs for the class, and the students got to take Knoppix home to practice. No worries about hosing something up trying to dual boot. By the end of the semister, they were ready to take the plunge, and we have an install fest planned for the first week of class. Most are going redhat, a few are SuSE and a couple are perfectly happy with Knoppix, just want it on the HD.
You have to load the 72mb of OS into ram. That should be no problem with the system requirements of any post Windows 98 OS. Check my above post for the link to the System Rescue CD. Saved my bacon a few times in the last couple of months.
Meets my needs for EverQuest and BF-1942. Never crashes during those 12 hour EQ sessions. I just reboot once a day to pacify the Gremlins before I start to play.
I will agree that it is wholly unaceptable when using MS Word or any other productivity product, so I just use Linux for the office.
The game box is no longer a state-of-the-art game machine, just an athalon 1.1 with 512 ram.
The Linux work boxes will not run EQ or BF-1942, but they run my business. And what more do I need?
You obviously have never flown a helecopter. It requires constant attention, there is no cruise control, it is not like the games you play on your PC. I take it you never watched TV and noticed that the Apaches and the Blackhawks fly in close formation, and if you are daydreaming, you don't have a fender-bender, you fall out of the sky and die! There is no pulling over onto a cloud and getting a spare rotor out of the trunk.
When it is a helmet mounted HUD, he has a screen in front of his eye, he can not look away, but has to concentrate and look through the screen image.
It is funny how fast the surface to air missles (SAMS) can change lanes in front of you! Parallel parking those Apaches are a bitch also. I spent 2 years of my career in the 101st Airborne and witnessed some spectacular incidents at the FARP (forward arming and refueling point) in daylight. They didn't permit nonessential people around the FARP at night or during inclement weather
It is true that the helecopter and fighter pilots are a breed apart. They are not your average slashdot reader, and far from your average countryman. Their testing and training is designed to weed out the average, the above average, and select only those who are above the best.
I met the mental and physical requirements, and was selected for Rotary Wing Flight Training at Ft Rucker Alabama. I just didn't have what it took to fly those contraptions with the finesse and grace required to share the sky with other 'copters, so I was washed out. I could fly if I was the only one on the field, but was a liability in formations.
We had exercises to train our minds to focus on changes at the periphery of our vision, so I guess you are accurate when you said: you can see what other cars are doing with your mind focus
I became an aerial surviellance specialist instead, and rode around taking photos, and collecting radar imagery in fixed wing aircraft.
I know an over-the-road team who have a company issued laptop connected to the dash on the passenger side. It has GPS, their Logs, and sat-com messages to/from the dispatcher.
I guess the company will now have to stop delivering to California, or drop the trailers at the border crossings/fruit inspection points.
Killing an animal for no other reason than to eat it is cruel and wrong.
So If I kill an animal for food and sport it is ok?
So I take it you eat synthetic pap and wear only synthetic clothing that was manufactured by solar power. Forget hydroelectric, the poor fishies may die in the turbines. Forget being a vegan, since you are taking food from the poor animals, causing starvation and ultimately death.
Everthing that is living will die, get over it. It is all part of the overall plan. Someday I will be wormfood, in accord with the natural order of the wheel of life. Until then, I am at the top of the food pyramid, and I intend on eating well.
Sounds like someone hit a little too close to home.
Ergonomic case? you sit on the case? Windows in the case are ergonomic features? UV reactive lighting is ergonomic?
For convenience I use a laptop with a trackpoint. No wires needed, no Ricer peripherals or input options needed. My Multi user systems are rack mounted, and since I started using Knoppix on the Laptop, I don't need fault tolerant redundant storage. All I need is a spare CD offsite and a thumbdrive.
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I would like to donate, but I do not donate to causes that try to hide what they will do with the money. And it looks like that is what is being done here.
Yet you pay taxes!
At least with Wikipedia you can have a direct impact. So if you can't contribute money, then contribute some knowledge. Write an article, show the world what you know.
Times are tight, but $1.00 from each Slashdotter would do it.
Yep I'm flaming, but I could not resist: I know, the best proof it's possible is Microsoft: nobody there has been forcedly lobotomized, and the strong company culture ensures that employees think technology theft as survival of the fittest, fair game, corporate smartness or other brutal but honest reasons that won't conflict with employees' sense of morality.
Can you show proof that no one at MS has been lobotomized? Either a lobotomy or low moral standards are the root cause of the tripe they market to the consumer.
So which is it, the icepick to the forhead? Or is it that they hire no one with a shred of decency for the marketing department?
Try reading the third paragraph again:
There were some issues to the rollover on 1/1/2000, but not the disasters predicted by the junk scientists in our own ranks.
I spent most of 1998, all of 1999 and the first two months of 2000 working on Y2K issues. The Junk science that surrounded the Y2K panic is what I was talking about. How many embedded systems in cars failed to roll over? How many planes fell from the sky on 1-1-2000? Where were the wide spread blackouts that we were promised? What happened to all the communications blackouts that never happened? The core infrastructure of the telecommunications industry was prophesied to collapse..
There was a subculture of self proclaimed experts spreading FUD for their own gain that was not countered by the industry. The general public believed every dire warning that was thrown at them, and did not heed the faint cries of the sensible voices that called for intelligent preparation. Many managers in IT departments were culpable in defrauding the industry during the ramp up to 2000. I was consulting at a Fortune 100 electrical manufacturer and saw the IT department use the Y2K excuse to push pet projects and replace perfectly functional infrastructure that could not be justified by any other business model. The Y2K budget was the deep pockets that bypassed normal fiscal responsibility, and helped fuel the following recession. I helped repair or replace mission critical systems that were not compliant. Our systems were all compliant by March 1999, but as the year progressed, the spending on non essential replacements increased.
I am not disputing that there were rollover issues that were mitigated well before the date.
I am stating that the media and other scare-mongers fed the publics fears with unfounded junk science of horrors that never came to pass. Many of these so-called experts came from the ranks of IT Industry Pundits.
John Q Public now feels like a dupe, having bought generators, stored water for a non event. How many bought silver coins and have basements full of expired military rations?
The chicken-little attitude that was perpetrated by those we entrust to report facts has colored the public's perception of all warnings and pronouncements. We have to start holding the news media and industry experts accountable for their actions or they will end up having all the credibility of Baghdad Bob.
Hell, I even get laid in Europe... And I don't have to visit the brothels to accomplish this feat. European women are kind and loving creatures as long as they are in their native habitat. Bring them to America, and they turn into frigid sexless bitches like their American sisters. Must be the water over here or something!
It is not stupid when the greens have blind faith in Junk science.
When the Scientific community has prostituted itself both to the politics of the greens and to the money of the corporations, it is time to show some healthy scepticism in their pronouncements. Look at the FUD over Y2K.
There were some issues to the rollover on 1/1/2000, but not the disasters predicted by the junk scientists on our own ranks.
Faith in science is good, but only when tempered by verification. Faith in the supernatural is human nature, something that is never going to fade.
This is not an internet scam. It is an old scam that has been around for years, now it is just easier to find "marks" by spamming on the internet. In days of old, the scammers had to be a bit better salesmen and judges of character since they did a lot of cold calling. This lead to the possibility of one of the marks knowing what was going on and reporting them to the authorities. It relied on human greed then and it relies on human greed now, not human compassion or religious zeal. It is "money for nothing"...
Now most people just delete the spam, and those who try to report it usually are stymied by fake addresses or apathetic authorities.
If the Government wants to plan some stings, they can give me the money to send to these guys and we can get some of them off the net. I'll do it for a mere 10%
The computer GUI. Without windows you'd still be using a text based system, and probably Lynx or Links on nothing but a 16 color CGA moniter but maybe with a 200 by 120 character screen!.
Funny, how is then that my Weiss 286-6 had EGA (gasp) and a NEC multisync II back then before windows? Maybe I was doing CAD? or even sharing 256 color porn? Ever hear of the Amiga or PC-Geos? I guess you believe that the MAC-OS is a clone of Windows..
Naaa It had to be Big Brother Bill, from whom all blessings flow: O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
Book reprints and other good info
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Look at The Boy Mechanic Series volume 1: (1913) "700 Things for Boys to Do. How to construct wireless outfits, boats, camp equipment, aerial gliders, kites, self-propelled vehicles, engines, motors, electrical apparatus, cameras and hundreds of other things which delight every boy."
You get wall-to-wall projects that in most cases are not too detailed, but are more than enough to whet the appetite and make you want to get started. Build a Wright-brothers style glider! A Wimshurst machine! An arc light! An electric stove! A toy steam engine! A telegraph key! A water rheostat! An alarm clock chicken feeder! A flat bottomed boat! An induction coil! A library table! A machine to put paraffin on wire! A pipe fitting steam engine! An electric postcard projector! An ammeter! A paper hot air balloon! A workbench! It's a combination of practical projects, not-so-practical projects, crazy ideas, and plain ol' fun nostalgia. 1913 edition. It's a classic book well worth your consideration. Order a copy today! 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 softcover 469 pages
Every book and reprint I got from these guys was a keeper. I have some of the project books and most of the Gingery foundry/casting books. I use the charcoal foundry to recycle old hard drive aluminum platters & shells into shop tools.
Have Fun, read the safety precautions, and don't burn down your garage!
You are mistaking entrepreneurship with the Mega corp. The majority of corporations in America are small, less than 100 employees. And the owner is a successful entrepreneur.
My family is full of successful self-employed or small business owners. None started out with a silver spoon, or a rich daddy. Children or grandchildren of immigrants - maybe we are misfits in today's society, but we seem to do better as our own boss instead of being a cog in the giant corporate machine. I control my own destiny, I'll never fear economic downturns or corporate downsizing.
The immigrants have an unfair advantage over the average American: They are not afraid to work hard; to try, fail and get up and try again. They also know what it is to do without, and know how to delay their gratification until they can afford to pay for it.
Not sure where you come from, but Class is a myth in middle America. If you believe that someone is better than you, well then maybe you are right. I, however, know I am better than most and equal to the rest. Now having said that - I do understand your perception that there is a pseudo upper class in America. I am not impressed by the Nuevo-rich that are in debt up to their eyebrows. I am impressed by abilities, what you personally can do, not what you can buy. I watched my father make a good living repairing the vehicles of the people who drove cars that the bank owned. I make 6 figures fixing the computers of the rich and indolent
My depression era parents taught me the virtues of hard work and self restraint; and that is what made them, and me, a success. I would like to find out how you plan on being a success without working for it. You seem to equate work with servitude, birth with riches. I wish you luck.
Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur; most people are followers, not leaders. I wasn't born to follow!
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I realize that the beagle had a shoestring budget compared to NASA, but I don't understand is why no testing of the reentry system?
Yeah, they are rocket scientists, but they are not successfull rocket scientists yet. NASA, the USAF, the Soviets, and the Chinese had their share of tests that malfunctioned spectacularly, but they learned and continued on. They even had their share of missions that failed publicly.
Why did the ESA decide to forego a re-entry to earth test? The Russians have so much experience in hard surface landings, why not ask them for help? I believe that the end of Mir was the only water landing in the history of the Russian program. They bring cosmonauts, astronauts, and millionaires safely back to hard earth via parachute. They should have some insight to share about how to put a probe on Mars.
I doubt if the average Slashdotter can answer but maybe someone from the ESA lurks here.
Envy...Hate... Such similar emotions!
Everyone hates us, but everyone tries to emulate us or immigrate to join us.
What makes YOUR work worth more than the same quality work from India? The fact that you are an American?
Corporations do not get tax incentives for outsourcing, they get a better return on their costs of labor. No bullshit with unions, no messy healthcare, no worries about ADA, OSHA, EEOC, Afirmitave action, etc. Those are the incentives to work offshore. Why work here and not be able to compete with the other companies that outsource? They are in business to make money, not provide you with a job.
Will you reward the All American corporation for their patriotism? Or will you scorn them and buy from the cheaper competition? Walmart, Toyota, Masda, Sony, etc prove that patriotism and loyalty stop at the wallet. It is a cruel, cold, world out there; you are going to have to compete in it, or die. It is a buyers market when it comes to labor. The low bidder wins. That's economic law, you can't repeal it because it is "unfair."
Why just stop Corporate Welfare, when you can stop ALL Welfare! Without "Corporate Welfare" of reasonable taxation, the Corps will go overseas. Then the tax burden will fall on the "Filty Rich" who will emigrate to someplace with reasonable taxes. The "working class" and the poor will finaly have to start paying thier fair share of taxes to support their way of life. There will be no more greedy capitalists left to subsidize your welfare way of life.
No one owes you a living. No one owes you a living wage. The accident of your birth does not grant you a right to the fruits of my labor. Nor does the fact that you are my neighbor require me to buy your products.
you just format it like a bootable disk. Works with the sandisk 256 and pendrive 32. Booted them to a win98 "dos" session to test it out.
Now if the USB bootable Motherboards start hitting the cafe's and libraries we will be set. As it is, I just reboot the machines, set the CMOS to boot from CD, ( if not set already or PW secured) and boot Knoppix-3.3 It is surprising how few PCs have a CMOS password.
I've been using Knoppix 3.2 as a tutoring aid at college, teaching an intro to linux class. Nice thing is the school burned the CDs for the class, and the students got to take Knoppix home to practice. No worries about hosing something up trying to dual boot. By the end of the semister, they were ready to take the plunge, and we have an install fest planned for the first week of class. Most are going redhat, a few are SuSE and a couple are perfectly happy with Knoppix, just want it on the HD.
You have to load the 72mb of OS into ram. That should be no problem with the system requirements of any post Windows 98 OS. Check my above post for the link to the System Rescue CD. Saved my bacon a few times in the last couple of months.
A happy user of QTParted
I have it on a mini CDRW. All the utils mentioned plus a minimum Xserver to run qt_parted.
Check out System Rescue CD They even have a PPC version.
I compare the price and license of the rescue CD to that of Ghost. I can give the CD away to anyone without a worry, I can't do that with Ghost.
Meets my needs for EverQuest and BF-1942. Never crashes during those 12 hour EQ sessions. I just reboot once a day to pacify the Gremlins before I start to play.
I will agree that it is wholly unaceptable when using MS Word or any other productivity product, so I just use Linux for the office.
The game box is no longer a state-of-the-art game machine, just an athalon 1.1 with 512 ram.
The Linux work boxes will not run EQ or BF-1942, but they run my business. And what more do I need?
You obviously have never flown a helecopter. It requires constant attention, there is no cruise control, it is not like the games you play on your PC. I take it you never watched TV and noticed that the Apaches and the Blackhawks fly in close formation, and if you are daydreaming, you don't have a fender-bender, you fall out of the sky and die! There is no pulling over onto a cloud and getting a spare rotor out of the trunk.
When it is a helmet mounted HUD, he has a screen in front of his eye, he can not look away, but has to concentrate and look through the screen image.
It is funny how fast the surface to air missles (SAMS) can change lanes in front of you! Parallel parking those Apaches are a bitch also. I spent 2 years of my career in the 101st Airborne and witnessed some spectacular incidents at the FARP (forward arming and refueling point) in daylight. They didn't permit nonessential people around the FARP at night or during inclement weather
It is true that the helecopter and fighter pilots are a breed apart. They are not your average slashdot reader, and far from your average countryman. Their testing and training is designed to weed out the average, the above average, and select only those who are above the best.
I met the mental and physical requirements, and was selected for Rotary Wing Flight Training at Ft Rucker Alabama. I just didn't have what it took to fly those contraptions with the finesse and grace required to share the sky with other 'copters, so I was washed out. I could fly if I was the only one on the field, but was a liability in formations.
We had exercises to train our minds to focus on changes at the periphery of our vision, so I guess you are accurate when you said:
you can see what other cars are doing with your mind focus
I became an aerial surviellance specialist instead, and rode around taking photos, and collecting radar imagery in fixed wing aircraft.
I know an over-the-road team who have a company issued laptop connected to the dash on the passenger side. It has GPS, their Logs, and sat-com messages to/from the dispatcher.
I guess the company will now have to stop delivering to California, or drop the trailers at the border crossings/fruit inspection points.
Clinton argued over the definition of the word 'is'.
Search for ethical administration and Clinton.
But you already knew that, and chose to ignore it since it does not fit your view of reality.
"Apparently sticking anything in their flight path will do the job... "
I better go out and cut down all those trees to save the birds!
Wonder why the enviromentalists are stopping the loggers? They should be helping them! How many birds fly into trees everyday?
Sorry, I just watched George of the Jungle 1&2 last night with my kids....
"Watch out for that tree!"
Killing an animal for no other reason than to eat it is cruel and wrong.
So If I kill an animal for food and sport it is ok?
So I take it you eat synthetic pap and wear only synthetic clothing that was manufactured by solar power. Forget hydroelectric, the poor fishies may die in the turbines. Forget being a vegan, since you are taking food from the poor animals, causing starvation and ultimately death.
Everthing that is living will die, get over it. It is all part of the overall plan. Someday I will be wormfood, in accord with the natural order of the wheel of life. Until then, I am at the top of the food pyramid, and I intend on eating well.
Being Micheal Jackson's cosmetic surgeon!
Didn't Clinton say that about himself? I know that Nixon stated "I am not a crook".
The firmware in the linksys wireless router is remotely flashable. It is disabled by default, but the option is there.
The present software in cars is accessed by direct link, not by a remote connection.
Anything that can be remotely accessed can be remotely exploited, it is just a matter of time.
Sounds like someone hit a little too close to home.
Ergonomic case? you sit on the case? Windows in the case are ergonomic features?
UV reactive lighting is ergonomic?
For convenience I use a laptop with a trackpoint. No wires needed, no Ricer peripherals or input options needed.
My Multi user systems are rack mounted, and since I started using Knoppix on the Laptop, I don't need fault tolerant redundant storage. All I need is a spare CD offsite and a thumbdrive.
I would like to donate, but I do not donate to causes that try to hide what they will do with the money. And it looks like that is what is being done here.
Yet you pay taxes!
At least with Wikipedia you can have a direct impact. So if you can't contribute money, then contribute some knowledge. Write an article, show the world what you know.
Times are tight, but $1.00 from each Slashdotter would do it.
Yep I'm flaming, but I could not resist:
I know, the best proof it's possible is Microsoft: nobody there has been forcedly lobotomized, and the strong company culture ensures that employees think technology theft as survival of the fittest, fair game, corporate smartness or other brutal but honest reasons that won't conflict with employees' sense of morality.
Can you show proof that no one at MS has been lobotomized? Either a lobotomy or low moral standards are the root cause of the tripe they market to the consumer.
So which is it, the icepick to the forhead? Or is it that they hire no one with a shred of decency for the marketing department?
Try reading the third paragraph again:
There were some issues to the rollover on 1/1/2000, but not the disasters predicted by the junk scientists in our own ranks.
I spent most of 1998, all of 1999 and the first two months of 2000 working on Y2K issues. The Junk science that surrounded the Y2K panic is what I was talking about. How many embedded systems in cars failed to roll over? How many planes fell from the sky on 1-1-2000? Where were the wide spread blackouts that we were promised? What happened to all the communications blackouts that never happened? The core infrastructure of the telecommunications industry was prophesied to collapse..
There was a subculture of self proclaimed experts spreading FUD for their own gain that was not countered by the industry. The general public believed every dire warning that was thrown at them, and did not heed the faint cries of the sensible voices that called for intelligent preparation. Many managers in IT departments were culpable in defrauding the industry during the ramp up to 2000. I was consulting at a Fortune 100 electrical manufacturer and saw the IT department use the Y2K excuse to push pet projects and replace perfectly functional infrastructure that could not be justified by any other business model. The Y2K budget was the deep pockets that bypassed normal fiscal responsibility, and helped fuel the following recession. I helped repair or replace mission critical systems that were not compliant. Our systems were all compliant by March 1999, but as the year progressed, the spending on non essential replacements increased.
I am not disputing that there were rollover issues that were mitigated well before the date.
I am stating that the media and other scare-mongers fed the publics fears with unfounded junk science of horrors that never came to pass. Many of these so-called experts came from the ranks of IT Industry Pundits.
John Q Public now feels like a dupe, having bought generators, stored water for a non event. How many bought silver coins and have basements full of expired military rations?
The chicken-little attitude that was perpetrated by those we entrust to report facts has colored the public's perception of all warnings and pronouncements. We have to start holding the news media and industry experts accountable for their actions or they will end up having all the credibility of Baghdad Bob.
Hell, I even get laid in Europe... And I don't have to visit the brothels to accomplish this feat. European women are kind and loving creatures as long as they are in their native habitat. Bring them to America, and they turn into frigid sexless bitches like their American sisters. Must be the water over here or something!
It is not stupid when the greens have blind faith in Junk science.
When the Scientific community has prostituted itself both to the politics of the greens and to the money of the corporations, it is time to show some healthy scepticism in their pronouncements. Look at the FUD over Y2K.
There were some issues to the rollover on 1/1/2000, but not the disasters predicted by the junk scientists on our own ranks.
Faith in science is good, but only when tempered by verification. Faith in the supernatural is human nature, something that is never going to fade.
This is not an internet scam. It is an old scam that has been around for years, now it is just easier to find "marks" by spamming on the internet. In days of old, the scammers had to be a bit better salesmen and judges of character since they did a lot of cold calling. This lead to the possibility of one of the marks knowing what was going on and reporting them to the authorities. It relied on human greed then and it relies on human greed now, not human compassion or religious zeal. It is "money for nothing"...
Now most people just delete the spam, and those who try to report it usually are stymied by fake addresses or apathetic authorities.
If the Government wants to plan some stings, they can give me the money to send to these guys and we can get some of them off the net. I'll do it for a mere 10%
The computer GUI. Without windows you'd still be using a text based system, and probably Lynx or Links on nothing but a 16 color CGA moniter but maybe with a 200 by 120 character screen!.
Funny, how is then that my Weiss 286-6 had EGA (gasp) and a NEC multisync II back then before windows? Maybe I was doing CAD? or even sharing 256 color porn? Ever hear of the Amiga or PC-Geos? I guess you believe that the MAC-OS is a clone of Windows..
Naaa It had to be Big Brother Bill, from whom all blessings flow:
O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
Check out Lindsay Publications for a fine collection of reprints.
Look at The Boy Mechanic Series volume 1: (1913) "700 Things for Boys to Do. How to construct wireless outfits, boats, camp equipment, aerial gliders, kites, self-propelled vehicles, engines, motors, electrical apparatus, cameras and hundreds of other things which delight every boy."
You get wall-to-wall projects that in most cases are not too detailed, but are more than enough to whet the appetite and make you want to get started. Build a Wright-brothers style glider! A Wimshurst machine! An arc light! An electric stove! A toy steam engine! A telegraph key! A water rheostat! An alarm clock chicken feeder! A flat bottomed boat! An induction coil! A library table! A machine to put paraffin on wire! A pipe fitting steam engine! An electric postcard projector! An ammeter! A paper hot air balloon! A workbench!
It's a combination of practical projects, not-so-practical projects, crazy ideas, and plain ol' fun nostalgia. 1913 edition. It's a classic book well worth your consideration. Order a copy today! 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 softcover 469 pages
Every book and reprint I got from these guys was a keeper. I have some of the project books and most of the Gingery foundry/casting books. I use the charcoal foundry to recycle old hard drive aluminum platters & shells into shop tools.
Have Fun, read the safety precautions, and don't burn down your garage!
You are mistaking entrepreneurship with the Mega corp. The majority of corporations in America are small, less than 100 employees. And the owner is a successful entrepreneur.
My family is full of successful self-employed or small business owners. None started out with a silver spoon, or a rich daddy. Children or grandchildren of immigrants - maybe we are misfits in today's society, but we seem to do better as our own boss instead of being a cog in the giant corporate machine. I control my own destiny, I'll never fear economic downturns or corporate downsizing.
The immigrants have an unfair advantage over the average American: They are not afraid to work hard; to try, fail and get up and try again. They also know what it is to do without, and know how to delay their gratification until they can afford to pay for it.
Not sure where you come from, but Class is a myth in middle America. If you believe that someone is better than you, well then maybe you are right. I, however, know I am better than most and equal to the rest. Now having said that - I do understand your perception that there is a pseudo upper class in America. I am not impressed by the Nuevo-rich that are in debt up to their eyebrows. I am impressed by abilities, what you personally can do, not what you can buy. I watched my father make a good living repairing the vehicles of the people who drove cars that the bank owned. I make 6 figures fixing the computers of the rich and indolent
My depression era parents taught me the virtues of hard work and self restraint; and that is what made them, and me, a success. I would like to find out how you plan on being a success without working for it. You seem to equate work with servitude, birth with riches. I wish you luck.
Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur; most people are followers, not leaders. I wasn't born to follow!