There are a hell of a lot of places one can go in an automobile, more than can be reached by any other means at all.
Unless you've got support depots of granola and replacement hiking shoes spread out all around the world, you're using a bait and switch arguement technique.
And your point about 'individual freedom' being reduced by the infrastructure sounds like more of a philosophy debate than a practical reality. 'What is Freedom' and all that is cool to argue about in armchairs, but the rest of us are out enjoying our freedom.
And the future of mass transit, or so we are told, is to pack people into sardine can highrise apartment along 'corridors'.
A lot of people's response to that is 'the hell with that.'
I am no lover of the freeways, and I detest the 'drive an auto everywhere' mentality, but I am also realistic to know that people don't want to ride the bus.
It looks like a few tech savvy folks like me should spend some time hanging around the hangars offering to build kit planes for people. There are lots of people who would invest the $300K but might not have the time to build it themselves. We could form a 'plane building club' and they could coincidentally 'buy' stuff from me on eBay at ridiculously inflated prices as compensation.
I have a whole box of SCSI to Ethernet adaptors for the Mac. I also understand they've got driver support for use on the Amiga. I mean to find a home for them through eBay sometime... I checked them recently and they do work, pretty good, with my ancient Powerbook.
You mean that speculators, who thrive on 'chum' and rapid buy and sell activities, the people who contribute almost nothing to the capitalization of industry (what the stock market is supposed to be about) got stung by this?
I'm a real medical devices person. I worked on Telemetry firmware for pacemakers a few years ago.
Your 'strong signal' would wipe out the internal battery in no time.
Most devices currently on the market use low-frequency 'magnetic field' transmission for telemetry. On the order of 80-300 KHz. The current generation now in development use high radio frequencies. A portion of the 'Weather Balloon' spectrum was reallocated to 'medical devices' a few years ago.
My first IBM Compatible computer was housed in a Leading Edge Model D case. It had nothing original in it, though. I bought the case cheap at a swapmeet and at the same time bought an original IBM 63.2 watt power supply and a turbo (8 MHz) XT motherboard.
I ended up having to carve away some of the IO bracket slots on the case (it had a non-standard spacing) to get the motherboard into the case. I ended up entirely removing the Power Supply PC Board to get it into the Leading Edge case (I mounted the P.S. circuit boards on standoffs.
Yep, extensive case modding in about 1986. It ended up looking okay. I later gave that machine to a friend, who further 'modded' it by replacing the plastic front face of the case with wood.
Unfortunately you have to choose between putting a Color display card or an ethernet card in an SE/30. And the whole notion of attaching an external monitor to an SE/30 just seems unclean to me. I snap in the power cord, ADB cord, ethernet cord and it's all set up.
Apple was also the first to come out with a computer (the original Macintosh) deliberately designed to be difficult to open the case of.
Steve Jobs called it 'hacker proof' in an early press event at the Macintosh launch. I and lots of other hardware/computer enthusiasts at the time thought he was a dirty bastard.
If they're 'On Call' they're being paid to be 'On Call'. They can and should have a slightly limited scope of possible activities avaialble to them while they're 'on call.'
If there are critical emergency needs for communications, they shouldn't be on the same bands as 'general chatter' communications in the first place.
Ummm, modern implantable cardiac devices communicate using telemetry. Sticking it in a shielded can means it can no longer be controlled or data events it records read by an external reading device.
And Jabber Jack on his cellphone may even communicate with the device or interfere with critical communications to the device.
I rarely encourage people to adopt an 'upgrade' path unless the OS vendor has gone far out of their way to make 'upgrade' a viable and rigorously tested process. (sorry, Microsoft). But really, if you were running a Linux system, all your user data should have been well compartmentalized and it should be easy for you to do an upgrade to 2.0.
To be frank, if your critical business data was that disk-bound, you were taking a heck of a lot of chances as it is, the way you were running your system.
I've burned a lot of VCDs in the last five years. I guess I could reburn 'em all as DVDs if I wanted to record all those Simpsons episodes over again.
But really, I enjoy some music that's recorded on 78 RPM platters. If you're going to obsess about the 'quality of the medium' you'd best off just get out your credit card and wave it furiously at anybody who'll take your money. No point in sitting down, relaxing, and enjoying the actual program content.
Well, I'll just huff off and make another donation to the EFF, on that note!
(I made a small 'protest' donation of $3 to the EFF using PayPal a few weeks ago. Today I got my first mailing from them. I'm fairly certain that they'll piss away the $3 I gave them multiple times. Sending out mailings, of course, is a great way to 'employ a staff' which is really what organizations like the EFF are all about.)
You'll likely find a whole pegboard rack filled with different card games, all using unique non-standard decks of cards.
I haven't made this comment to contradict all of what you said. However, most of those decks of cards can typically be used for one game, or a half dozen at most ("Old Maid" for example.) Meanwhile there are 'plastic pieces' (i.e. dice come to mind) that can be used to play a huge number of games.
My in-laws, who are 'cracked' (i.e. no longer ranting or practicing) Pentecostals, are obsessed with Euchre. I sometimes mumble 'sinful: drinking, dancing, playing cards' under my breath. It's not considered humorous.
Microsoft handed off development to a third party called SCO.
I was wrong in saying 'SCO was part of Microsoft'. I was not wrong in saying Microsoft produced the first version of Xenix (which they handed off to SCO).
I used to own an Altos 8086 box that ran Microsoft Xenix. It had (C)Microsoft all over the place in bootup messages, etc.
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I wouldn't call the 'open road' myth a lie.
There are a hell of a lot of places one can go in an automobile, more than can be reached by any other means at all.
Unless you've got support depots of granola and replacement hiking shoes spread out all around the world, you're using a bait and switch arguement technique.
And your point about 'individual freedom' being reduced by the infrastructure sounds like more of a philosophy debate than a practical reality. 'What is Freedom' and all that is cool to argue about in armchairs, but the rest of us are out enjoying our freedom.
And the future of mass transit, or so we are told, is to pack people into sardine can highrise apartment along 'corridors'.
A lot of people's response to that is 'the hell with that.'
I am no lover of the freeways, and I detest the 'drive an auto everywhere' mentality, but I am also realistic to know that people don't want to ride the bus.
It looks like a few tech savvy folks like me should spend some time hanging around the hangars offering to build kit planes for people. There are lots of people who would invest the $300K but might not have the time to build it themselves. We could form a 'plane building club' and they could coincidentally 'buy' stuff from me on eBay at ridiculously inflated prices as compensation.
I have a whole box of SCSI to Ethernet adaptors for the Mac. I also understand they've got driver support for use on the Amiga. I mean to find a home for them through eBay sometime... I checked them recently and they do work, pretty good, with my ancient Powerbook.
You didn't say anything about what the os/390 system, the Windows servers, or the linux box are doing.
I can throw Linux on a little 386sx box in the corner, power it with a UPS, and clock uptime, if that's what it's all about.
The financial sector is looking at these funds like a shark that sees nice juicy prey swimming in the water.
Of course, the inverse is that currently, the political sector sees these funds as a giant slush fund to fiddle around with.
I can see why a lot of polticians in Washington would oppose privatizing Social Security. It takes away a lot of their power.
You mean that speculators, who thrive on 'chum' and rapid buy and sell activities, the people who contribute almost nothing to the capitalization of industry (what the stock market is supposed to be about) got stung by this?
I guess we should all cry a river...
I'm a real medical devices person. I worked on Telemetry firmware for pacemakers a few years ago.
Your 'strong signal' would wipe out the internal battery in no time.
Most devices currently on the market use low-frequency 'magnetic field' transmission for telemetry. On the order of 80-300 KHz. The current generation now in development use high radio frequencies. A portion of the 'Weather Balloon' spectrum was reallocated to 'medical devices' a few years ago.
Where is the Xerox 820 and/or it's hobbyist clone the 'Big Board'??
CP/M on the Z-80 rulez!
My first IBM Compatible computer was housed in a Leading Edge Model D case. It had nothing original in it, though. I bought the case cheap at a swapmeet and at the same time bought an original IBM 63.2 watt power supply and a turbo (8 MHz) XT motherboard.
I ended up having to carve away some of the IO bracket slots on the case (it had a non-standard spacing) to get the motherboard into the case. I ended up entirely removing the Power Supply PC Board to get it into the Leading Edge case (I mounted the P.S. circuit boards on standoffs.
Yep, extensive case modding in about 1986. It ended up looking okay. I later gave that machine to a friend, who further 'modded' it by replacing the plastic front face of the case with wood.
Unfortunately you have to choose between putting a Color display card or an ethernet card in an SE/30. And the whole notion of attaching an external monitor to an SE/30 just seems unclean to me. I snap in the power cord, ADB cord, ethernet cord and it's all set up.
Apple was also the first to come out with a computer (the original Macintosh) deliberately designed to be difficult to open the case of.
Steve Jobs called it 'hacker proof' in an early press event at the Macintosh launch. I and lots of other hardware/computer enthusiasts at the time thought he was a dirty bastard.
Naw. He's not picking and choosing who can't communicate with others.
He's just shutting them all up indiscriminately.
Go home if you want to jabber on the phone.
Of course, rapists and burglars can use a simple wire cutter to cut the landline before committing their crimes.
Therefore, I propose a ban on wire cutters.
If they're 'On Call' they're being paid to be 'On Call'. They can and should have a slightly limited scope of possible activities avaialble to them while they're 'on call.'
If there are critical emergency needs for communications, they shouldn't be on the same bands as 'general chatter' communications in the first place.
Such people need to be either A) killed; or B) stopped.
No. A) Painfully maimed. Killing them leaves a messy body lying there and shortens their suffering.
Ummm, modern implantable cardiac devices communicate using telemetry. Sticking it in a shielded can means it can no longer be controlled or data events it records read by an external reading device.
And Jabber Jack on his cellphone may even communicate with the device or interfere with critical communications to the device.
I rarely encourage people to adopt an 'upgrade' path unless the OS vendor has gone far out of their way to make 'upgrade' a viable and rigorously tested process. (sorry, Microsoft). But really, if you were running a Linux system, all your user data should have been well compartmentalized and it should be easy for you to do an upgrade to 2.0.
To be frank, if your critical business data was that disk-bound, you were taking a heck of a lot of chances as it is, the way you were running your system.
does anyone know what standard original movie footage is "filmed" on?
In many instances, particularly older movies, it's 'filmed' on this novel medium called 'film.' Usually on 35mm width film, though sometimes wider.
I wondered about that, too.
I've burned a lot of VCDs in the last five years. I guess I could reburn 'em all as DVDs if I wanted to record all those Simpsons episodes over again.
But really, I enjoy some music that's recorded on 78 RPM platters. If you're going to obsess about the 'quality of the medium' you'd best off just get out your credit card and wave it furiously at anybody who'll take your money. No point in sitting down, relaxing, and enjoying the actual program content.
SCO violations have been found on the Moon???
Well, I'll just huff off and make another donation to the EFF, on that note!
(I made a small 'protest' donation of $3 to the EFF using PayPal a few weeks ago. Today I got my first mailing from them. I'm fairly certain that they'll piss away the $3 I gave them multiple times. Sending out mailings, of course, is a great way to
'employ a staff' which is really what organizations like the EFF are all about.)
Go into a game shop sometime.
You'll likely find a whole pegboard rack filled with different card games, all using unique non-standard decks of cards.
I haven't made this comment to contradict all of what you said. However, most of those decks of cards can typically be used for one game, or a half dozen at most ("Old Maid" for example.) Meanwhile there are 'plastic pieces' (i.e. dice come to mind) that can be used to play a huge number of games.
My in-laws, who are 'cracked' (i.e. no longer ranting or practicing) Pentecostals, are obsessed with Euchre. I sometimes mumble 'sinful: drinking, dancing, playing cards' under my breath. It's not considered humorous.
I see you used your +1 modifier, dude.
Microsoft developed Xenix in-house.
Microsoft handed off development to a third party called SCO.
I was wrong in saying 'SCO was part of Microsoft'. I was not wrong in saying Microsoft produced the first version of Xenix (which they handed off to SCO).
I used to own an Altos 8086 box that ran Microsoft Xenix. It had (C)Microsoft all over the place in bootup messages, etc.