Similar story here. I bought an 800XL and a 520ST, and stuck another 512kb into the 520ST. I worked in Silicon Valley at the time and had a couple friends who worked at Atari; one of them handed me the PROMs to upgrade -- I forget which one. The memory and the PROMs were the only fiddling I did at the hardware level.
I think I still have the 520ST (modded to 1040ST) in a box somewhere, as I can't decide what to do with it.
Well, I know it happens every time I restart Firefox, and I think I've caught it other times but am not sure. I suppose you could argue that this mystery site changes a setting which doesn't take effect until restart. I'll have to try successive restarts with no sites opened to test, I guess. Or find the config setting(s) in question and keep an eye on them.
Oh, absolutely. I especially love doing this with the "PC support" scammers. It's easy to take forever to walk to the computer (that I'm actually working on the whole time), boot it up, fumble my way to and through the whole Event Viewer flim-flam, and so on, with all the stalling tactics Oligonicella suggests. Eventually I get bored, tell them I need to get my son to help me, and put the phone down.
I've been tempted to finish with a scream or a police whistle, but I'm afraid my condo neighbors wouldn't appreciate that.
I agree with your final statement -- it absolutely deserves debate. "What this is about" is that that debate should be going on in the Senate, and it isn't.
And focusing on the watchlist question is missing the real problem in another way: There are 4 (four) gun measures up for debate, not all of which have anything to do with the watchlist, and the Senate is refusing to debate (note: I did not say "pass") any of them. Despite the fact that the vast majority of polled Americans disagree.
There does appear to be a problem with the manual update set up. I ended up proceeding as if I were doing a fresh install: go to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/... to download the installer and run it. When you do, and restart Firefox, About will in fact say 39.0,3.
To say the "new evidence surfaced from Warner Music" is rather misleading. The plaintiffs independently found the evidence; what they got from Warner had the evidence "blurred out". Here's the summary from TFA:
"(1) Warner/Chappell Music (who claims to hold the copyright for the publishing, if it exists) suddenly "found" a bunch of relevant documents that it was supposed to hand over in discovery last year, but didn't until just a few weeks ago, and (2) a rather important bit of information in one of those new documents was somewhat bizarrely "blurred out." This led the plaintiffs go searching for the original, and discover that it undermines Warner Music's arguments, to the point of showing that the company was almost certainly misleading the court. Furthermore, it definitively shows that the work was and is in the public domain."
Warner, of course, denies that conclusion. rsilvergun may be right, but the date of the songbook relative to the date of the "copyright" and of the changes to copyright law would seem to weaken Warner's argument fatally.
I read the exchange on Ars, and I'm not convinced IMAX has properly understood their egregious error. Their apology said, "... in this situation we acted too quickly without truly understanding the reference to our brand.... we will try to be better at taking compliments...". That reads to me like they still think the take-down request would have been appropriate if the reference was uncomplimentary. But, as Ars pointed in their open response to the request, it would still have been an inappropriate action in that case for many reasons; and so the IMAX lawyer was (and is?) demonstrating unforgivable ignorance or disregard of the relevant laws.
Um, my Moto G has been running 5.0.8 for several weeks without any problems, and I have a notification that 5.1 is available. But there are reports that 5.1 has issues, so I've been holding off.
Quoting from the Planetary.org article: "While there are countless questions about Ceres, the most popular now seems to be what the bright spots are. It is impossible not to be mesmerized by what appear to be reatlowing beacons, shining out across the cosmic seas from the uncharted lands ahead."
"reatlowing" doesn't appear to be a real word, and I can't figure out what was meant. Any ideas?
If you find it hilarious, you've been fortunate. I tried opening a online CD with Nationwide Bank by calling them, and they asked me questions about my background which they believed the "real" me could answer, and I couldn't. I later realized that the questions were based on Trans Union's error years earlier, when they were incorrectly convinced I had a certain second name and address several states away. I (after much willful stupidity and/or incompetence on TU's part) had gotten that sorted out, but the error had apparently propagated (with further garbling) to whatever source Nationwide was using and unwisely treating as gospel.
Surly the RSO was NASA, not Orbital? And the figure quoted in the press conference was "only" $220 billion. Plus unknown damage to the facility, of course.
If you put items in your cart and then leave them there without purchasing, many sites have been known to email a discount offer a day or two later, to encourage you to complete the purchase. Sadly, Amazon and NewEgg don't.
The summary was not clear so here is my version based on my understanding of the work:
...
The research advisor Thomas E. Mallouk suggested trying it without the oxidizer. The researcher Nina Kovtyukhona was reluctant to perform this experiment as she thought it would be a failure. Her advisor persuaded her to try it by making a bet that he would pay her $100 if it succeeded, and she would pay him $10 if she failed. The experiment was a success, and researchers now have a new avenue to explore for synthesizing graphene.
From the article:
"I kept asking her to try it and she kept saying no," Mallouk said. "Finally, we made a bet, and to make it interesting I gave her odds. If the reaction didn't work I would owe her $100, and if it did she would owe me $10. I have the ten dollar bill on my wall with a nice Post-it note from Nina complimenting my chemical intuition."
one answer is to offer wider seat spacing for a little extra price on some flights
At check-in, United Airlines offers economy seats with much better legroom for a modest upcharge. On a transcontinental flight it's usually around $60 - $70.
I travel a lot for business (60 segments so far this year), often in Economy Plus, and there are usually many seats in E+ available, even when sardine class is completely packed.
People simply refuse to shell out the coin for additional comfort. I think if E+ *were* full you'd see United expanded it until eventually their entire aircraft had room leg room at a higher price.
$60-70? I wish. On a United transcon (IAD-SFO) 3 weeks ago, they charged $89. That's out of the "modest" range, IMHO.
This of course assumes they can get in the door to see the necessary people and convince them it actually works. I remember an old SF short story about a guy who stumbled onto a way to cheaply build an anti-grav device. He was unable to get anyone who mattered to believe him. He was in despair until inspiration struck: he advertised the gizmo in comic books and made a mint. So... Kickstarter is today's comic book ad page?
I'm confused. I have one of your early prototypes, and when I aim it at your post it blinks like crazy!
That means your post is a scam. But if your post is a scam, my device shouldn't be blinking. But my device is blinking...so your post must be a scam.....but...
... backing slowly away from the imminent head explosion as the logic circuits overload...
Emacs
Firefox
Dexpot (best multi-desktop tool for my needs, out of several I've tried)
IZArc (7zip's GUI just annoys me for some reason)
vlc
ClamWin
Agent Ransack (I'll admit I've not tried the alternatives)
Cygwin
(I haven't got a clear favorite for music yet -- Foobar2000 or MediaMonkey, usually, but might give MusicBee a try)
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Similar story here. I bought an 800XL and a 520ST, and stuck another 512kb into the 520ST. I worked in Silicon Valley at the time and had a couple friends who worked at Atari; one of them handed me the PROMs to upgrade -- I forget which one. The memory and the PROMs were the only fiddling I did at the hardware level. I think I still have the 520ST (modded to 1040ST) in a box somewhere, as I can't decide what to do with it.
Well, I know it happens every time I restart Firefox, and I think I've caught it other times but am not sure. I suppose you could argue that this mystery site changes a setting which doesn't take effect until restart. I'll have to try successive restarts with no sites opened to test, I guess. Or find the config setting(s) in question and keep an eye on them.
The only problem is, Firefox changes the default back to Yahoo at the drop of the hat. Really pisses me off...
Oh, absolutely. I especially love doing this with the "PC support" scammers. It's easy to take forever to walk to the computer (that I'm actually working on the whole time), boot it up, fumble my way to and through the whole Event Viewer flim-flam, and so on, with all the stalling tactics Oligonicella suggests. Eventually I get bored, tell them I need to get my son to help me, and put the phone down. I've been tempted to finish with a scream or a police whistle, but I'm afraid my condo neighbors wouldn't appreciate that.
I agree with your final statement -- it absolutely deserves debate. "What this is about" is that that debate should be going on in the Senate, and it isn't. And focusing on the watchlist question is missing the real problem in another way: There are 4 (four) gun measures up for debate, not all of which have anything to do with the watchlist, and the Senate is refusing to debate (note: I did not say "pass") any of them. Despite the fact that the vast majority of polled Americans disagree.
The US had a year where pennies were unclad zinc during WWII, so needed was every scrap of copper for the war.
"unclad"? No. The 1943 pennies were steel-clad zinc, and are generally referred to as "steel cents" or "steel pennies".
"Congress has displeased ever since." Yes, it certainly has, and not just on NASA funding.
There does appear to be a problem with the manual update set up. I ended up proceeding as if I were doing a fresh install: go to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/... to download the installer and run it. When you do, and restart Firefox, About will in fact say 39.0,3.
To say the "new evidence surfaced from Warner Music" is rather misleading. The plaintiffs independently found the evidence; what they got from Warner had the evidence "blurred out". Here's the summary from TFA:
Warner, of course, denies that conclusion. rsilvergun may be right, but the date of the songbook relative to the date of the "copyright" and of the changes to copyright law would seem to weaken Warner's argument fatally.
I read the exchange on Ars, and I'm not convinced IMAX has properly understood their egregious error. Their apology said, "... in this situation we acted too quickly without truly understanding the reference to our brand. ... we will try to be better at taking compliments ...". That reads to me like they still think the take-down request would have been appropriate if the reference was uncomplimentary. But, as Ars pointed in their open response to the request, it would still have been an inappropriate action in that case for many reasons; and so the IMAX lawyer was (and is?) demonstrating unforgivable ignorance or disregard of the relevant laws.
Um, my Moto G has been running 5.0.8 for several weeks without any problems, and I have a notification that 5.1 is available. But there are reports that 5.1 has issues, so I've been holding off.
I posted a comment on the blog about it, and the author said he wrote "glowing" but somehow it got mangled. Fixed now.
Quoting from the Planetary.org article: "While there are countless questions about Ceres, the most popular now seems to be what the bright spots are. It is impossible not to be mesmerized by what appear to be reatlowing beacons, shining out across the cosmic seas from the uncharted lands ahead." "reatlowing" doesn't appear to be a real word, and I can't figure out what was meant. Any ideas?
If you find it hilarious, you've been fortunate. I tried opening a online CD with Nationwide Bank by calling them, and they asked me questions about my background which they believed the "real" me could answer, and I couldn't. I later realized that the questions were based on Trans Union's error years earlier, when they were incorrectly convinced I had a certain second name and address several states away. I (after much willful stupidity and/or incompetence on TU's part) had gotten that sorted out, but the error had apparently propagated (with further garbling) to whatever source Nationwide was using and unwisely treating as gospel.
Surly the RSO was NASA, not Orbital? And the figure quoted in the press conference was "only" $220 billion. Plus unknown damage to the facility, of course.
In the later press conference last night, the question of insurance was asked. The answer was "yes", but the extent of coverage was not addressed.
If you put items in your cart and then leave them there without purchasing, many sites have been known to email a discount offer a day or two later, to encourage you to complete the purchase. Sadly, Amazon and NewEgg don't.
The Planetary Society's LightSail project is apparently still on track, so Clarke (and we) shouldn't despair just yet.
The summary was not clear so here is my version based on my understanding of the work:
From the article:
Looks like you got it backwards in your version.
one answer is to offer wider seat spacing for a little extra price on some flights
At check-in, United Airlines offers economy seats with much better legroom for a modest upcharge. On a transcontinental flight it's usually around $60 - $70. I travel a lot for business (60 segments so far this year), often in Economy Plus, and there are usually many seats in E+ available, even when sardine class is completely packed. People simply refuse to shell out the coin for additional comfort. I think if E+ *were* full you'd see United expanded it until eventually their entire aircraft had room leg room at a higher price.
$60-70? I wish. On a United transcon (IAD-SFO) 3 weeks ago, they charged $89. That's out of the "modest" range, IMHO.
This of course assumes they can get in the door to see the necessary people and convince them it actually works. I remember an old SF short story about a guy who stumbled onto a way to cheaply build an anti-grav device. He was unable to get anyone who mattered to believe him. He was in despair until inspiration struck: he advertised the gizmo in comic books and made a mint. So... Kickstarter is today's comic book ad page?
I'm confused. I have one of your early prototypes, and when I aim it at your post it blinks like crazy!
That means your post is a scam. But if your post is a scam, my device shouldn't be blinking. But my device is blinking...so your post must be a scam.....but...
... backing slowly away from the imminent head explosion as the logic circuits overload ...
Somebody with a major Humor Deficiency apparently moderated the parent.
Emacs
Firefox
Dexpot (best multi-desktop tool for my needs, out of several I've tried)
IZArc (7zip's GUI just annoys me for some reason)
vlc
ClamWin
Agent Ransack (I'll admit I've not tried the alternatives)
Cygwin
(I haven't got a clear favorite for music yet -- Foobar2000 or MediaMonkey, usually, but might give MusicBee a try)
You seem to be making some incorrect assumptions. There was a bidding process. Amazon's bid was selected over IBM's. IBM did protest. They lost.