I actually downgraded from GIMP 2.8 back to 2.6 after installing 2.8 on my new computer and discovering how badly they'd screwed up saving files (I had 2.6 on my old computer). And in 2.8 even when I do use their alternate dialog to save as.PNG or whatever, the stupid thing still insists that I haven't saved the file when I try to close it, even though I/just did/.
Could go back to refrigerators more like the old GE Monitor Top ones (some of which are still working since the late '20s and '30s). Not much in the way of high-tech polymers - they're insulated with corrugated cardboard and used refrigerants like Sulfur Dioxide or Methyl Formate. Or for a more modern refrigerator, if all it needs is recharged, in a pinch find a tank of propane - a.k.a. R290.
For the motors, I'm sure someone could rewind it if needed with wire scavenged from bigger, less useful motors.
Well, if you don't have any use for the self-destructed Roombas, I could probably find something fun to do with them... How much do you think shipping to 46383 would cost? (Whatever the cheapest method is, of course. Usually USPS, but I suppose it could be UPS.)
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Specifically, they not only record what was bought, but most importantly, what else what bought with it.
I wonder what they would corrolate from the time I bought 3 bags of Funyuns, 4 2-liter bottles of generic store-brand Mountain Dew, a bag of gummi bears, a bag of Pixie Stix, a cheap horror movie, and a couple of discount-bin Carebears DVDs all in one purchase one night...??
Interesting, it opened fine for me in Wordpad, which normally refuses to understand files saved in Word. (I don't even have Word. If something needs formatting, I use Wordpad. If it doesn't need formatting, I use Notepad. And last I checked, any Windows machine from 3.0 onwards comes with Wordpad and Notepad.)
You might not be able to get the/original/ source code, and depending what language it's written in you may be stuck with ASM source code, but there are ways I'm sure... Such as this, for example...
Not that I have the skill for such a thing, just offering upn an idea.
According to the sticker on the bottom of my Model M, it was made 01APR87, and (C)1984. Part No. 1391401 and Plt. No. F4. I've noticed that generally the non-removable cord Model M keyboards aren't nearly as sturdy as the removeable-cord versions, and that the newer removable-cord Model M (some newer than the non-removable ord versions!) still aren't quite the same as the older ones. I wonder why? And if there's a specific cutoff date on the various revisions, when? More info is needed here I suspect. Anyone have more info on this?
Random side note: I'm using an ancient pair of Realitic Nova'40 headphones right now, with an adapter to plug them into my computer (they have the huge old-style headphone plug on them.)
For those who don't have a Windows key (1987 IBM Model M keyboard in my case), ctrl-esc brings up the start menu also, might be able to select run with R from there. (Win-R seems to bypass the start menu entirely?)
Easy. In this case (#3), the only ones who'd have say is the country it's flagged under, right? Flag the boat with one of the countries that allows pot (I can think of a couple just off the top of my head...) Problem solved.
I agree. In fact, It'd be even more fun to carry, say, a backpack loaded with them to classes, and to encourage other students to do the same. Some could look like other students' IDs, some like IDs for nonexistant students, some could just spew gibberish at the system. The more people carrying as many of these as they can, the better! Bring their tracking system to its knees!!! >:)
The age-restriction is still easy to beat. Since the only advantage that the 18-pill has that the 15-pill doesn't is strength - then double or triple-up on a lower-than-18-pill! Heck, enough G-rated pills added together could probably descramble a 21+ film...
Of the $8 that the record company gets for the CD, about two bucks goes to cost of manufacturing, a buck goes to royalties, and some goes to marketing, accural for returns (the record company eats the cost when the retailer returns it) and various other realities of selling something on the retail market. Even if sales, marketing and shipping were free, and no CDs ever got returned or damaged, you're still looking at a gross of about four or five bucks, which is, percentage-wise, about what Logitech makes on mice.
1. It does/not/ cost $2 to make a CD. Otherwise the places that sell cheap lame CDs would be out of business, along with the companies who sell $1 DVDs at places like WalMart, Dollar Tree, etc. And for 'music industry' types it'd be even cheaper, simply because of pressing in such bulk quantities. It costs them at most a cent or two to make a CD. Heck,/burning/ a CD costs less than $2 if you buy a big spindle of discs.
2. A buck for royalties? From what I've heard , artists get less than that. Like, $0.20 or so IIRC.
3. A gross of $4 or $5 minimum? Like I said, if that's the case, all those discount CDs and DVDs that are being sold in the $1-$3 range (or the $5-$6 kids' CDs, like the new Care Bears music CDs - and those probably have huge licensing to pay, too) wouldn't even be available, let alone as common as they are.
I call dibs on the vintage IBM Model M and the boxy original-style Logitech TrackMan (serial port variety, of course!) in that case!!
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In other words, a caddy drive like Macs used to have, except the disc comes in a caddy already so you don't need to swap discs in the caddys or buy piles of disc caddys.
I say print up some plate numbers (in the appropriate size/font of course) on a big sheet of cardboard and walk them past the cameras, maybe have a bunch of people walk past all the cameras doing this all at once every fifteen minutes or so... up to you whether or not to purposely use plate numbers that'll set off all the bells and whistles in the system...
Why exactly that specific symbol means "power" is quite beyond me.
Well, if the rocker switch has 2 positions, and a symbol for each, when both functions are set to the same button, you simply assign both symbols tho the same button by superimposing one onto the other. That's how it makes sense.
Oh, and with the scissors, they make sense for 'cut' because that's what scisors do. They cut. (paper, your finger, the cat's tail if they're sharp enough, etc.)
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I actually downgraded from GIMP 2.8 back to 2.6 after installing 2.8 on my new computer and discovering how badly they'd screwed up saving files (I had 2.6 on my old computer). And in 2.8 even when I do use their alternate dialog to save as .PNG or whatever, the stupid thing still insists that I haven't saved the file when I try to close it, even though I /just did/.
Could go back to refrigerators more like the old GE Monitor Top ones (some of which are still working since the late '20s and '30s). Not much in the way of high-tech polymers - they're insulated with corrugated cardboard and used refrigerants like Sulfur Dioxide or Methyl Formate. Or for a more modern refrigerator, if all it needs is recharged, in a pinch find a tank of propane - a.k.a. R290. For the motors, I'm sure someone could rewind it if needed with wire scavenged from bigger, less useful motors.
Well, if you don't have any use for the self-destructed Roombas, I could probably find something fun to do with them... How much do you think shipping to 46383 would cost? (Whatever the cheapest method is, of course. Usually USPS, but I suppose it could be UPS.)
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Specifically, they not only record what was bought, but most importantly, what else what bought with it.
I wonder what they would corrolate from the time I bought 3 bags of Funyuns, 4 2-liter bottles of generic store-brand Mountain Dew, a bag of gummi bears, a bag of Pixie Stix, a cheap horror movie, and a couple of discount-bin Carebears DVDs all in one purchase one night...??
Interesting, it opened fine for me in Wordpad, which normally refuses to understand files saved in Word. (I don't even have Word. If something needs formatting, I use Wordpad. If it doesn't need formatting, I use Notepad. And last I checked, any Windows machine from 3.0 onwards comes with Wordpad and Notepad.)
You might not be able to get the /original/ source code, and depending what language it's written in you may be stuck with ASM source code, but there are ways I'm sure... Such as this, for example...
Not that I have the skill for such a thing, just offering upn an idea.
According to the sticker on the bottom of my Model M, it was made 01APR87, and (C)1984. Part No. 1391401 and Plt. No. F4. I've noticed that generally the non-removable cord Model M keyboards aren't nearly as sturdy as the removeable-cord versions, and that the newer removable-cord Model M (some newer than the non-removable ord versions!) still aren't quite the same as the older ones. I wonder why? And if there's a specific cutoff date on the various revisions, when? More info is needed here I suspect. Anyone have more info on this?
Random side note: I'm using an ancient pair of Realitic Nova'40 headphones right now, with an adapter to plug them into my computer (they have the huge old-style headphone plug on them.)
So basically, it's a big lumpy Palm Pilot with a color screen?
OS/2's win16/32? I thought it only did win16/32s programs, and that you needed to run something like Odin to use full win32 programs...
For those who don't have a Windows key (1987 IBM Model M keyboard in my case), ctrl-esc brings up the start menu also, might be able to select run with R from there. (Win-R seems to bypass the start menu entirely?)
Easy. In this case (#3), the only ones who'd have say is the country it's flagged under, right? Flag the boat with one of the countries that allows pot (I can think of a couple just off the top of my head...) Problem solved.
Sounds like fun to carry.
I agree. In fact, It'd be even more fun to carry, say, a backpack loaded with them to classes, and to encourage other students to do the same. Some could look like other students' IDs, some like IDs for nonexistant students, some could just spew gibberish at the system. The more people carrying as many of these as they can, the better! Bring their tracking system to its knees!!! >:)
And on every Gameboy from the original up to the GBA-SP, Dunno if the DS uses one...
The age-restriction is still easy to beat. Since the only advantage that the 18-pill has that the 15-pill doesn't is strength - then double or triple-up on a lower-than-18-pill! Heck, enough G-rated pills added together could probably descramble a 21+ film...
Of the $8 that the record company gets for the CD, about two bucks goes to cost of manufacturing, a buck goes to royalties, and some goes to marketing, accural for returns (the record company eats the cost when the retailer returns it) and various other realities of selling something on the retail market. Even if sales, marketing and shipping were free, and no CDs ever got returned or damaged, you're still looking at a gross of about four or five bucks, which is, percentage-wise, about what Logitech makes on mice. 1. It does /not/ cost $2 to make a CD. Otherwise the places that sell cheap lame CDs would be out of business, along with the companies who sell $1 DVDs at places like WalMart, Dollar Tree, etc. And for 'music industry' types it'd be even cheaper, simply because of pressing in such bulk quantities. It costs them at most a cent or two to make a CD. Heck, /burning/ a CD costs less than $2 if you buy a big spindle of discs.
2. A buck for royalties? From what I've heard , artists get less than that. Like, $0.20 or so IIRC.
3. A gross of $4 or $5 minimum? Like I said, if that's the case, all those discount CDs and DVDs that are being sold in the $1-$3 range (or the $5-$6 kids' CDs, like the new Care Bears music CDs - and those probably have huge licensing to pay, too) wouldn't even be available, let alone as common as they are.
I call dibs on the vintage IBM Model M and the boxy original-style Logitech TrackMan (serial port variety, of course!) in that case!!
In other words, a caddy drive like Macs used to have, except the disc comes in a caddy already so you don't need to swap discs in the caddys or buy piles of disc caddys.
I happen to actually /use/ a rotary phone, you insensitive clod!
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I say print up some plate numbers (in the appropriate size/font of course) on a big sheet of cardboard and walk them past the cameras, maybe have a bunch of people walk past all the cameras doing this all at once every fifteen minutes or so... up to you whether or not to purposely use plate numbers that'll set off all the bells and whistles in the system...
National TV Turnoff Week.
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National Monitor Turnon Week
National TV Tuner Card Install week
Man, that must be some nasty STD, if it makes you die when you use your 'tool'...
...that these will give a new meaning to the term "Blazingly Fast!"?
Why exactly that specific symbol means "power" is quite beyond me.
Well, if the rocker switch has 2 positions, and a symbol for each, when both functions are set to the same button, you simply assign both symbols tho the same button by superimposing one onto the other. That's how it makes sense.
Oh, and with the scissors, they make sense for 'cut' because that's what scisors do. They cut. (paper, your finger, the cat's tail if they're sharp enough, etc.)
Hmm, looks like people gave each other everything but the... oh, wait. They gave that too...