My car 'advertises it's presence' by being there in plain view, parallel parked on the street.
That doesn't mean that you have the right to open the unlocked back door and take a nap in the back seat, even if I won't be using the car for a few hours.
It makes NO DIFFERENCE if I lock the car doors or not. You broke the law when you entered the car without permission.
To me it seems stupid to install an OS over the net when you can burn a CD, then install it on a bunch of computers and even loan it out to friends to install on their computer(s). Seems like a real waste of network bandwidth.
Just like shuffling around all the same captured recordings of Music everywhere, when you've probably never, ever, even held a microphone in your hand.
The Model 100 is also the last product with software from Microsoft that Bill Gates himself wrote code for. He wrote the word processing program, in 8085 Assembly Language, for the Model 100.
The common understanding is that a machine is x bits if the instruction wordsize is x bits wide. That means that the PDP-8 is a 12 bit machine since it has a row of 12 toggle switches on the console to toggle in instruction words (four digits of octal).
Your notion of what makes a machine 'x bits' is revisionist and really drifts away from common usage.
Wouldn't the archive.org people have to negotigate with each and every content creator about each and every mp3 file that was hosted on mp3.com. I don't necessarily think that everybody who had placed files on mp3.com would necessarily want them to be placed in a purgatory 'file graveyard' forever.
The cost of producing a product with a user-replacable battery is significantly higher than making the battery a sealed-unit part of the device.
I know, I've participated in battery compartment design for small handheld medical devices. It can end up being a huge part of the cost of developing a product. If you haven't done weeks and weeks of drop-testing battery contacts after customer-return problems, you wouldn't understand...
Apple's refurbed products have the same testing & quality requirements before being shipped out as their new equipment does
That is essentially tech-illiterate market-speak and not worthy of a slashdot discussion.
The testing requirements are radically different for a piece of equipment that is fresh off a production line and for a piece of equipment that has been out in the field and treated in an unknown fashion by a random user.
A brand new item can be electrically tested, cosmetically inspected, and shipped.
A returned item may have been dropped 58 times. There may be cracked solder fillets on the pins on surface mounted componets on the circuit board. The device may have been exposed to high humidity and dendritic growth may be building up between fine pitch pins. There may be latent static damage which caused random failures that only manifest themselves every 20 hours.
It's ludicrous to say the same testing regime used for a new product is sufficient for a recondtioned product.
Some would say that the 'best walkman' would be one that is so inexpensive that you can lose one every six months without it mattering that also has adequately high quality playback. For some purposes this could be a $6 garage sale cassette-based 'walkman', for others it might mean something more. It definitely wouldn't mean something that costs over $300.
It's similar to the 'cheap camera' thing. There are tons of places worth photographing but not worth the risk of hauling around an $800 camera. I.e. a whitewater rafting trip.
As far as I know, this short program makes the best simple textmode interactive 'screen dazzler'. Fill it with words and CR's and a few control-Gs and you've got a swirly mess that catches the eye.
I've used it for stream-of-conciousness typing excercizes. Works best on as slow a machine as you can get it to run on. A 386SX-16 or (better yet) an 8088 or '286 machine is fine.
Not sure if it works on my TRS-80 Model 100, which doesn't have batteries in it at the moment.
I'd like to see a sturdy notebook computer with a reflective grayscale display and a serious underclocked processor. In this day and age 'severely underclocked' could mean that it had a 400 MHz chip. A reflective grayscale display combined with 'underclocking' would give it one HELL of a lot longer battery life, and it'd give us geeks who care less about glitz a hell of a machine. I still cling to my Toshiba 2105, the last great grayscale 486 laptop.
The news media should be blacked out from ALL election coverage from midnight the night before the polls open until 8 AM the morning after election day.
If you're going to work 'The Unix way' as you decree, you really don't need more than a VT-100 terminal plugged into serial port A of a SparcStation IPX. No fancy schmancy frambuffer, no nothing fancy. Yeah, a Unix greenscreen console.
Of course, there's no need to use Linux on said IPX. NetBSD is a nice alternative, it's a more unified codebase, etc.
I have some 16MB 30 pin SIMMs that have a datecode far older than 1999. They are rare, but they exist. I am tempted to plug them into my SE/30 which presently only has 32 MB.
The folks who will expedite investigation of credit card fraud are the credit card companies. They have people you should contact, rather than going direct to the police themselves.
Our cats here have started figuring it out, and it's become more of a hassle to 'play' with them using the laser pointer. When I get it out, they tend to stare right at my hand, wanting to get at the red beam of light there. I have to work to convince them that the red dot on the floor/wall is far more interesting. Which they usually pick up on eventually.
But good flamenco and jazz is impossible to get.most of it is simply not available anywhere.
And using a P2P to get it completely obliterates the small market for it, making it even less likely that you'll ever be able to get it on commercial pressings.
So unless the flamenco and jazz artists themselves choose to begin distributing their works directly through P2P means, you're destroying their distribution method.
Yeah, I know that in your personal case, you figure you can bend the rules and if not that many other people do so it'll all work out okay. But what kind of moral base is that for a whole culture to adopt??
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Firefighting is the most non-productive thing an IT department can do,
Management has a way of sorting the operations of their business into two categories: One category is people who do the work to produce product, sell product, promote product, etc. The second category is the people who support those people in producing, selling, and promoting product.
The efforts and expenses put toward the first category of people is money that earns a direct return to the business. The resources allocated to the second group are a negative sink on the buiness.
When things go wrong in the information flow that the people in the first category need to do their work, the second category of people do some of the only work that justifies the business keeping them employed.
It's hard to see how you can consider this work 'the least productive work' when it's actually the only work IT does that isn't money down a sinkhole.
Ask your local PHB. The above info isn't obscure, it's how things are seen.
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Wait until people discover the new 'terminals' are tempremental flaky substitutes for those 'green screens' that you could turn on, like a shredder, the telephone, or an electric stapler and just use, for years at a time, with only routine maintenance.
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Not locking the doors on my car is the equivalent of leaving an 'Open For Business' sign in the window of a shop?
I don't think I am the idiot here.
My car 'advertises it's presence' by being there in plain view, parallel parked on the street.
That doesn't mean that you have the right to open the unlocked back door and take a nap in the back seat, even if I won't be using the car for a few hours.
It makes NO DIFFERENCE if I lock the car doors or not. You broke the law when you entered the car without permission.
To me it seems stupid to install an OS over the net when you can burn a CD, then install it on a bunch of computers and even loan it out to friends to install on their computer(s). Seems like a real waste of network bandwidth.
Just like shuffling around all the same captured recordings of Music everywhere, when you've probably never, ever, even held a microphone in your hand.
The Model 100 is also the last product with software from Microsoft that Bill Gates himself wrote code for. He wrote the word processing program, in 8085 Assembly Language, for the Model 100.
The common understanding is that a machine is x bits if the instruction wordsize is x bits wide. That means that the PDP-8 is a 12 bit machine since it has a row of 12 toggle switches on the console to toggle in instruction words (four digits of octal).
Your notion of what makes a machine 'x bits' is revisionist and really drifts away from common usage.
Wouldn't the archive.org people have to negotigate with each and every content creator about each and every mp3 file that was hosted on mp3.com. I don't necessarily think that everybody who had placed files on mp3.com would necessarily want them to be placed in a purgatory 'file graveyard' forever.
Eeeek! That 'online sample' page looks like Slashdot used to, before I set my preference to 'light'....
If they're big lead-acid batteries, and you have a semi-load of them to dispose of, dead batteries can cost a HELL of a lot.
The cost of producing a product with a user-replacable battery is significantly higher than making the battery a sealed-unit part of the device.
I know, I've participated in battery compartment design for small handheld medical devices. It can end up being a huge part of the cost of developing a product. If you haven't done weeks and weeks of drop-testing battery contacts after customer-return problems, you wouldn't understand...
Apple's refurbed products have the same testing & quality requirements before being shipped out as their new equipment does
That is essentially tech-illiterate market-speak and not worthy of a slashdot discussion.
The testing requirements are radically different for a piece of equipment that is fresh off a production line and for a piece of equipment that has been out in the field and treated in an unknown fashion by a random user.
A brand new item can be electrically tested, cosmetically inspected, and shipped.
A returned item may have been dropped 58 times. There may be cracked solder fillets on the pins on surface mounted componets on the circuit board. The device may have been exposed to high humidity and dendritic growth may be building up between fine pitch pins. There may be latent static damage which caused random failures that only manifest themselves every 20 hours.
It's ludicrous to say the same testing regime used for a new product is sufficient for a recondtioned product.
That's marketing bullet-point speak.
On top of that its the best walkman ever.
Only for certain 'best walkman' paramaters.
Some would say that the 'best walkman' would be one that is so inexpensive that you can lose one every six months without it mattering that also has adequately high quality playback. For some purposes this could be a $6 garage sale cassette-based 'walkman', for others it might mean something more. It definitely wouldn't mean something that costs over $300.
It's similar to the 'cheap camera' thing. There are tons of places worth photographing but not worth the risk of hauling around an $800 camera. I.e. a whitewater rafting trip.
A better program is:
10 A$=""
20 A$=A$+INKEY$
30 PRINT A$;
40 GOTO 20
As far as I know, this short program makes the best simple textmode interactive 'screen dazzler'. Fill it with words and CR's and a few control-Gs and you've got a swirly mess that catches the eye.
I've used it for stream-of-conciousness typing excercizes. Works best on as slow a machine as you can get it to run on. A 386SX-16 or (better yet) an 8088 or '286 machine is fine.
Not sure if it works on my TRS-80 Model 100, which doesn't have batteries in it at the moment.
I'd like to see a sturdy notebook computer with a reflective grayscale display and a serious underclocked processor. In this day and age 'severely underclocked' could mean that it had a 400 MHz chip. A reflective grayscale display combined with 'underclocking' would give it one HELL of a lot longer battery life, and it'd give us geeks who care less about glitz a hell of a machine. I still cling to my Toshiba 2105, the last great grayscale 486 laptop.
The news media should be blacked out from ALL election coverage from midnight the night before the polls open until 8 AM the morning after election day.
STFU and let people vote.
You are so full of shit, on so many counts, that it's almost embarassing to have to point it out to you.
I'm surprised we don't have thousands of people out there taping themselves strumming on a guitar and sharing it under various names and titles.
The RIAA would pay said thousands of people to do so. It would completely contaminate the P2P network, rendering it worthless.
If you're going to work 'The Unix way' as you decree, you really don't need more than a VT-100 terminal plugged into serial port A of a SparcStation IPX. No fancy schmancy frambuffer, no nothing fancy. Yeah, a Unix greenscreen console.
Of course, there's no need to use Linux on said IPX. NetBSD is a nice alternative, it's a more unified codebase, etc.
So you're saying that Ken T. and Dennis R. designed the vi editor, and Bill Joy came along and just re-implemented it again?
I have some 16MB 30 pin SIMMs that have a datecode far older than 1999. They are rare, but they exist. I am tempted to plug them into my SE/30 which presently only has 32 MB.
The folks who will expedite investigation of credit card fraud are the credit card companies. They have people you should contact, rather than going direct to the police themselves.
Well, ATM machines are on a different network.
Though, if we're going to address all networks, I have this string of Christmas lights that are all networked together.... hmmm...
Our cats here have started figuring it out, and it's become more of a hassle to 'play' with them using the laser pointer. When I get it out, they tend to stare right at my hand, wanting to get at the red beam of light there. I have to work to convince them that the red dot on the floor/wall is far more interesting. Which they usually pick up on eventually.
But good flamenco and jazz is impossible to get.most of it is simply not available anywhere.
And using a P2P to get it completely obliterates the small market for it, making it even less likely that you'll ever be able to get it on commercial pressings.
So unless the flamenco and jazz artists themselves choose to begin distributing their works directly through P2P means, you're destroying their distribution method.
Yeah, I know that in your personal case, you figure you can bend the rules and if not that many other people do so it'll all work out okay. But what kind of moral base is that for a whole culture to adopt??
Firefighting is the most non-productive thing an IT department can do,
Management has a way of sorting the operations of their business into two categories: One category is people who do the work to produce product, sell product, promote product, etc. The second category is the people who support those people in producing, selling, and promoting product.
The efforts and expenses put toward the first category of people is money that earns a direct return to the business. The resources allocated to the second group are a negative sink on the buiness.
When things go wrong in the information flow that the people in the first category need to do their work, the second category of people do some of the only work that justifies the business keeping them employed.
It's hard to see how you can consider this work 'the least productive work' when it's actually the only work IT does that isn't money down a sinkhole.
Ask your local PHB. The above info isn't obscure, it's how things are seen.
Wait until people discover the new 'terminals' are tempremental flaky substitutes for those 'green screens' that you could turn on, like a shredder, the telephone, or an electric stapler and just use, for years at a time, with only routine maintenance.