So Samsung pays a fine (to lawyers), this drives up their expenses, therefore their prices, so memory is now even MORE expensive. And I as a consumer gain.....what...exactly?
1989? I stopped watching commercial TV in the 80s too; No matter the tech, no matter the ease of use, if there is JUST NOTHING ON WORTH WATCHING it won't do a lick of good.
Personally, I have a Mac and an EyeHome.
My interest runs to documentaries. BBC, Australian Television, Finland... These folks seem to run far superior and more informational programs then any I could find on the Paint By Numbers networks in the US. Thanks to the Net and to folks who like me are sick of the crap offered, Other shows are available. You really KNOW you want to watch something when you spend several hours to several days awaiting a bit torrent completion...all the while......reading a book..
"I can't fathom how investors would accept that as a [good] way to spend your time," says David D'Alessandro, who ran John Hancock Financial Services Inc. until shortly after its 2004 acquisition by Manulife Financial Corp. Mr. D'Alessandro, who is 54 years old, limited email access to the executives who reported to him. Soliciting email from all employees can "turn into a huge complaint line to the CEO, and you can't get out of it," he warns. And if a CEO promises to answer every email and then fails to do so, he adds, "you have lost credibility."
-Or... if he fails to keep track of what is going on by only listening to his apointed yes men..., like Mr D"alessandro, he looses the company it would seem..
Which is why emergency workers, as a first response priority, disarmed every refugee who fled, or was forced to leave the Katrina devestated area. Individualism and self reliance are not atributes admired by anyone usurping "normal" authority during a disaster.
You are right. there is no good incentive for them to release a new master remix. There is none for the artist: he was paid a bottle of Ripple and a cheap hooker. None for the original engineer; He was fortunate he kept his day job down at the auto plant. None for the original promoters, album artists, or any of the original creative people; they have all gone on to other things and like the artist, retain no rights to their own work. Who is left? The suit with the cigar of course. That feller sure doesn't want this system to change. then again, What is the incentive to issue a new version, patch, fix or re-write of ANY "software"?
The probably software that runs your backups was called "Retrospect" from Dantz -Possibly version 2.0 or 3.0 I would guess. I would also guess the tape drive is SCSI. What I would do is: Get a PC with a SCSI card in it, a AHA2940 or 2920 Adaptec is a good choice. Now, make sure you have a bit of free space and load a Mac emulator. Basilisk II is probably the best: http://www.students.uni-mainz.de/bauec002/B2Main.h tml then just load Retrospect (it can be found many places and there may even be a download or two online...) Then restore data to a emulated "drive" and copy from HFS to FAT and you got it...
I am not a super fan of the iPod and yes it is now an old thing;
MY iPod is a Gen 1 I swapped some parts for and put a new battery in. I am not one to buy the latest gee whiz when it comes out...but...have you actually HELD this thing? I went to a local Apple franchiser and picked one up. Not look at, not see commercial, not read review...picked one up. That is all it took. I want one.
My hobby is retro computing. This means I have spent a bit of time at yard sales, Salvation Army and Goodwill. I have purchased cheap boxes of every description form Next Cubes to old Apple IIGS with a Vulcan drive inside the power supply, to early PCs. I have seen countless files, personal and public on machines for many many years. Being a good net citizen I reformat the drives and use them (unless I find a really hot app I wanted.:) -I would use apps I found (especially on old System 7 or earlier Macs, old Ataris, Amigas, and ProDOS based Apple II apps. Sometimes these boses were the ONLY sources of lost and needed applications (try finding a copy of raster Blaster these days;). I would though: delete all files that were none of my business.
In the course of this scrounging I learned something SlashDotters may not consider: There is an entire subculture in America of people who use second hand machines. These are poor folks who cannot afford the latest Alien ware or G5 iMac. People who just don't have the money for even cheap Celeron box. I am talkin' poor folks here. They get by on Windows 98 and Office 97, or even Mac OS 7.1 and MS Word 5.0 for their computer needs. They use a old Performa Mac or a Mac Classic II, or a 486 or Pentium 166mhz PC to do what they need to do.
Tech support is supplied by a whole bunch of self taught techs who tinker. I know many of this sort.
The size of this population of users might surprise folks. There are a lot of them. The problem with all the current talk of: "OH! I left Aunt Tillie's phone number in Outlook Express and all 26 of my credit card numbers in Quicken!" is the effect it has had on this catagory of user. They are not able to "upgrade" to a newer junker because everyone is afraid to dump their box for fear of the data being stolen. This means the bottom of the food chain looses. It also means there will ALWAYS be compromised Win 3.1/95/98 boxes on the net.
BTW....if anyone out there has any older Conner or Western Digital (pre-Caviar) 20-40-120-240mb hard drives I am looking for a few to reformat as Vulcan Gold Drives....
In a post petroleum era, control of the air may rely on balloon technology. One byproduct of oil production in the US is that we are virtually the world leader in supplies of helium. This fact, and our reluctance to sell same to Germany, was the main reason for a particular fire in Lakehurst NJ some years back
You mean it wasn't a recipe or how to?
Shucks! and here I thought I was usin all 500 megabytes of that sucker. First I formated it into 12 distinct partitions. Why 12? Well, once you discount the two 5.25 drives on slot 6, and illiminate the two 3.5s on slot 5, you are only left with 12 available ProDOS partitions on an Apple IIe. Once I got all 12 formated into clean maximum 32mb sized ProDOS partitions I now have a full 512 mb available so there......uh that was "mb" and not "gb" you guys were discussin....uh right?
A Californian a Texan and an Oregonian are sittin around a fire sipping their evening beverage. Texan pulls out a 45 caliber hog leg, tosses his empty of Lone Star Beer up in the air, and plugs it dead center.
Californian finishes his mulled Petite Sara, tosses the wine bottle in the air and shatters it with one round from a Saturday night special.
The Oregonian takes a last sip of his bottled Starbucks Late`, tosses it in the air, grabs his deer rifle, plugs the Californian and catches the bottle
"Why'd ya go and do THAT?" says the Texan.
"Because", says the Oregonian, "We have plenty of those up here" gesturing at the dead Californian, "and this", holding up the bottle, "is worth FIVE CENTS!"
Would finding that genetic code be something like...oh..... offloading some rats in Milan from Baltic trade ships to investgate the unique characteristics of yersinia pestis sometime in the 14th century? Or Perhaps the warm welcome Cavasa DeVaca got from the Mississipian Mound Builders when he shared the fruits of Smalpox and the common cold. How about residents of New Zealand, Tahiti or Easter Island when they were brought some interesting new genetic material to experiment with? Trans-planetary DNA may be interesting but, then, I prefer to observe Martian desert conditions....on Mars...
With the advent of missles, real guns were removed from fighters because "the Dogfight is now History" said the received wisdom of the day. Pilots soon corrected that brainless move. I would no be suprised to see a new fighter with lasers, and no missles.....and of course...no guns. After all, "the older tech is now history"...
So if CS is about the pure science of it, and if we have all these CS majors out there eagerly engaged in this pure science, who pays the research grant to support all these pure science seekers? Indian code monkeys?
I recall that one of the early uses of dexadrine and its cousins was with pilots, sspecial forces, and other military personel heading into harm's way. the drug was given before parachute jumps, firefights, bombing runs and the like to help the solider keep their "edge". After combat the user woud...in 60s parlance: "crash" for a few days to recover. Will this drug be the new "speed"?
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So Samsung pays a fine (to lawyers), this drives up their expenses, therefore their prices, so memory is now even MORE expensive. And I as a consumer gain.....what...exactly?
but, but, but..... if the Net goes away... what can I DO!!! I never renewed my membership at the McHenry BBS! do they still do dial-up?
1989? I stopped watching commercial TV in the 80s too; No matter the tech, no matter the ease of use, if there is JUST NOTHING ON WORTH WATCHING it won't do a lick of good.
Personally, I have a Mac and an EyeHome.
My interest runs to documentaries. BBC, Australian Television, Finland... These folks seem to run far superior and more informational programs then any I could find on the Paint By Numbers networks in the US. Thanks to the Net and to folks who like me are sick of the crap offered, Other shows are available. You really KNOW you want to watch something when you spend several hours to several days awaiting a bit torrent completion...all the while......reading a book..
The rest of that section of the article says:
"I can't fathom how investors would accept that as a [good] way to spend your time," says David D'Alessandro, who ran John Hancock Financial Services Inc. until shortly after its 2004 acquisition by Manulife Financial Corp.
Mr. D'Alessandro, who is 54 years old, limited email access to the executives who reported to him. Soliciting email from all employees can "turn into a huge complaint line to the CEO, and you can't get out of it," he warns. And if a CEO promises to answer every email and then fails to do so, he adds, "you have lost credibility."
-Or... if he fails to keep track of what is going on by only listening to his apointed yes men..., like Mr D"alessandro, he looses the company it would seem..
Are they sure they have concrete plans? From what I have heard, everything at NASA is up in the air...
Sony needs a market all her very own where others won't beat her on market share, inovation, and new products....I KNOW! Bring back the ......BETAMAX!
Good. Now all these WoW junkies at work will have a place to go....
Which is why emergency workers, as a first response priority, disarmed every refugee who fled, or was forced to leave the Katrina devestated area. Individualism and self reliance are not atributes admired by anyone usurping "normal" authority during a disaster.
You are right. there is no good incentive for them to release a new master remix. There is none for the artist: he was paid a bottle of Ripple and a cheap hooker. None for the original engineer; He was fortunate he kept his day job down at the auto plant. None for the original promoters, album artists, or any of the original creative people; they have all gone on to other things and like the artist, retain no rights to their own work. Who is left? The suit with the cigar of course. That feller sure doesn't want this system to change.
then again, What is the incentive to issue a new version, patch, fix or re-write of ANY "software"?
sounds like what we REALLY need to do is take lawyer jokes more seriously....
The probably software that runs your backups was called "Retrospect" from Dantz -Possibly version 2.0 or 3.0 I would guess. I would also guess the tape drive is SCSI. What I would do is: Get a PC with a SCSI card in it, a AHA2940 or 2920 Adaptec is a good choice. Now, make sure you have a bit of free space and load a Mac emulator. Basilisk II is probably the best: http://www.students.uni-mainz.de/bauec002/B2Main.h tml
then just load Retrospect (it can be found many places and there may even be a download or two online...) Then restore data to a emulated "drive" and copy from HFS to FAT and you got it...
EyeTV, EyeHome, and a G4 -Good combo and no BS
see www.elgato.com
I am not a super fan of the iPod and yes it is now an old thing;
MY iPod is a Gen 1 I swapped some parts for and put a new battery in. I am not one to buy the latest gee whiz when it comes out...but...have you actually HELD this thing? I went to a local Apple franchiser and picked one up. Not look at, not see commercial, not read review...picked one up. That is all it took. I want one.
yeah those would do. humm Way Back Machine doesn't have a transporter interface...oh well...
Mr Peabody where are you now that we need you??
My hobby is retro computing. This means I have spent a bit of time at yard sales, Salvation Army and Goodwill. I have purchased cheap boxes of every description form Next Cubes to old Apple IIGS with a Vulcan drive inside the power supply, to early PCs. I have seen countless files, personal and public on machines for many many years. Being a good net citizen I reformat the drives and use them (unless I find a really hot app I wanted. :) -I would use apps I found (especially on old System 7 or earlier Macs, old Ataris, Amigas, and ProDOS based Apple II apps. Sometimes these boses were the ONLY sources of lost and needed applications (try finding a copy of raster Blaster these days ;). I would though: delete all files that were none of my business.
In the course of this scrounging I learned something SlashDotters may not consider: There is an entire subculture in America of people who use second hand machines. These are poor folks who cannot afford the latest Alien ware or G5 iMac. People who just don't have the money for even cheap Celeron box. I am talkin' poor folks here. They get by on Windows 98 and Office 97, or even Mac OS 7.1 and MS Word 5.0 for their computer needs.
They use a old Performa Mac or a Mac Classic II, or a 486 or Pentium 166mhz PC to do what they need to do.
Tech support is supplied by a whole bunch of self taught techs who tinker. I know many of this sort.
The size of this population of users might surprise folks. There are a lot of them.
The problem with all the current talk of: "OH! I left Aunt Tillie's phone number in Outlook Express and all 26 of my credit card numbers in Quicken!" is the effect it has had on this catagory of user. They are not able to "upgrade" to a newer junker because everyone is afraid to dump their box for fear of the data being stolen. This means the bottom of the food chain looses. It also means there will ALWAYS be compromised Win 3.1/95/98 boxes on the net.
BTW....if anyone out there has any older Conner or Western Digital (pre-Caviar) 20-40-120-240mb hard drives I am looking for a few to reformat as Vulcan Gold Drives....
WYSIWYG? Hardly. it is more:
WYSIWYP -What you see is why you're Pissed!
In a post petroleum era, control of the air may rely on balloon technology. One byproduct of oil production in the US is that we are virtually the world leader in supplies of helium. This fact, and our reluctance to sell same to Germany, was the main reason for a particular fire in Lakehurst NJ some years back
Actually this brings up the question as to if the micro FM signal can be picked up on slash dot tinfoil headsets. I would say...yes.....
You mean it wasn't a recipe or how to?
Shucks! and here I thought I was usin all 500 megabytes of that sucker. First I formated it into 12 distinct partitions. Why 12? Well, once you discount the two 5.25 drives on slot 6, and illiminate the two 3.5s on slot 5, you are only left with 12 available ProDOS partitions on an Apple IIe. Once I got all 12 formated into clean maximum 32mb sized ProDOS partitions I now have a full 512 mb available so there......uh that was "mb" and not "gb" you guys were discussin....uh right?
A Californian a Texan and an Oregonian are sittin around a fire sipping their evening beverage.
Texan pulls out a 45 caliber hog leg, tosses his empty of Lone Star Beer up in the air, and plugs it dead center.
Californian finishes his mulled Petite Sara, tosses the wine bottle in the air and shatters it with one round from a Saturday night special.
The Oregonian takes a last sip of his bottled Starbucks Late`, tosses it in the air, grabs his deer rifle, plugs the Californian and catches the bottle
"Why'd ya go and do THAT?" says the Texan.
"Because", says the Oregonian, "We have plenty of those up here" gesturing at the dead Californian, "and this", holding up the bottle, "is worth FIVE CENTS!"
You mean they PAY for this? I thought the only renumeration was /. mod points....
Would finding that genetic code be something like...oh..... offloading some rats in Milan from Baltic trade ships to investgate the unique characteristics of yersinia pestis sometime in the 14th century? Or Perhaps the warm welcome Cavasa DeVaca got from the Mississipian Mound Builders when he shared the fruits of Smalpox and the common cold. How about residents of New Zealand, Tahiti or Easter Island when they were brought some interesting new genetic material to experiment with? Trans-planetary DNA may be interesting but, then, I prefer to observe Martian desert conditions....on Mars...
With the advent of missles, real guns were removed from fighters because "the Dogfight is now History" said the received wisdom of the day. Pilots soon corrected that brainless move. I would no be suprised to see a new fighter with lasers, and no missles.....and of course...no guns. After all, "the older tech is now history"...
So if CS is about the pure science of it, and if we have all these CS majors out there eagerly engaged in this pure science, who pays the research grant to support all these pure science seekers? Indian code monkeys?
I recall that one of the early uses of dexadrine and its cousins was with pilots, sspecial forces, and other military personel heading into harm's way. the drug was given before parachute jumps, firefights, bombing runs and the like to help the solider keep their "edge". After combat the user woud...in 60s parlance: "crash" for a few days to recover. Will this drug be the new "speed"?