the fact is, for single dedicated apps OS 9 was a robust operating system. heck 8.1 even 7.5.5 were dang good! I still have one 68K box I run 7.5 on
but mainly that is to provide a network path for an older Apple IIgs I use for certain dedicated tasks (Yes Apple IIs still live)
Actually, you are quite right. pity I have no points to mod you up. Nuke Energy is indeed the best bet. Wind? when do you need energy to run the air conditioner? When it is hot and still. Hydro? but that hurts the fishes; Tear out the dams!. Other renewable? Show me one ONE ton of steel smelted by "Green" fuel. over the last 200 years, the winner of every conflict has been the country with the greatest production of steel by ton. Yes I know Nuke is evil (TM) but it is the only green tech we currently have. Yes Green.
Of course, Alternately, you could learn Mandarin to speak for better treatment from your masters.
mucking manure in a rice farm is after all an eco- paradise...
Taxes are never levied for the benefit of the taxed. I live in Oregon (NO Sales Tax!) so I REFUSE to pay yours. I never voted for it (Taxation without representation ring a bell?) and my states has voted NO on sales tax NINE TIMES. Fix your deficit the way all of us do: Spend less. Too many state wastrels on the payroll? fire a few.
As I recall GPS was developed to guide our ordinance and destroy theirs. Being able to find the local store is a secondary benefit. I also recall a time when every midshipman on every US Naval vessel was required to know how to use a sextant. Query: what happens if something knocks GPS out completely? One EMP can ruin your whole hemispheric constellation
Companies that have programmers or other techs who learned all their people skills from interaction with a pet gerbil are not really clear on the concept of staying in business. I work in tech support and that friends is a person oriented skill. You can have the gosh gee whiz tech creds out the wazoo and still piss off a customer. They don't care how many.NET routines you have written they are interested in getting their screen un-stuck and back to their JOB. Talk down to your co-workers NOT the person who ultimately pays for your play-toys
entry to the system is the big stumbling block; "open box, insert USB or other media close box". Every vending machine I have ever encountered has some code that puts it into a "service mode". I would not be at all surprised that if you say: Punch "Use English" twice then savings account then some other button then slide in a "special" card and do the service voodoo. Now given such a "service personnel only" HOLE and I am SURE its there, it would be trivial to program a basic overflow on a ATM card to make the whole system avaialble via keyboard. Then use ascii to punch in a.com on the keyboard and you are good to go.
If anyone believes that the average user cares about how their actions can effect other people on the "Net"... Try driving on an average interstate....
In Greek myth Zeus had sex with cows, swans, humans etc, Seems to me Greek Gods love life (literally) in all its forms. Oh and his "activities" bore fruit many times...
Methinks some broad assumptions were made prior to experimentation: I would have thought a chick would bond with -A- Mother not the largest number of mothers. But then I don't work in the social welfare field....
You are purchasing a VPN Service. nothing illegal about that. Now, track who paid for it, their downloads, the torrents they nabbed, the IP from which it was nabbed, match to known copyrighted materials.... Sounds an expensive and a possibly futile search given who is running this party. It would also require they hire geeks very good at this sort of thing and fluent in Swedish.
If nothing else it will result in new and interesting letters in the PB legals...
For those of us not all that interested in gosh gee whiz features that require the next iteration of Moore's Law to support, why not a simple uncluttered GUI that operates the hardware and the network and GETS OUT OF THE WAY when you are working? Elegance through simplicity.... Bill is gone now Steve, you could risk excellence of design as a counterpoint
One interesting example of "the cloud" would be the way IBM and other hardware engineers (CEs to the older among us) report basic hardware issues on trouble tickets from customer sites. I say IBM because the ubiquitous "IBM Brick" was the communication device every CE carried in the 70s and 80s. Now everyone from Ikon Office to NCR has a version of it on a Cell network. The Engineer updates the ticket, orders parts, pages people, gets customer authorization and even supply billing , heck he can even chat from his hand-held.
The cloud is old and has been with us for longer then you realize.
I bought a keyboard yesterday. I was asked if I wanted a warranty. I said "On a keyboard?" with a sardonic sound. It went right over her head. Then she put a tape over the edge of the box "Whats that?" I asked "our return policy" she said. "So if I break the tape I cannot return it? You do realize I need to open the box." " I'm sorry sir, that is the policy" she smartly replied. I left with my wallet, but not wits intact...
Ha! I always send text written with an Enochian font (look it up) after first translating into Voynich script! Now if only I could figure out how to decode it I would be able to read this shopping list....
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the fact is, for single dedicated apps OS 9 was a robust operating system. heck 8.1 even 7.5.5 were dang good! I still have one 68K box I run 7.5 on but mainly that is to provide a network path for an older Apple IIgs I use for certain dedicated tasks (Yes Apple IIs still live)
the FDA is giving me a headache.
Actually, you are quite right. pity I have no points to mod you up. Nuke Energy is indeed the best bet. Wind? when do you need energy to run the air conditioner? When it is hot and still. Hydro? but that hurts the fishes; Tear out the dams!. Other renewable? Show me one ONE ton of steel smelted by "Green" fuel. over the last 200 years, the winner of every conflict has been the country with the greatest production of steel by ton. Yes I know Nuke is evil (TM) but it is the only green tech we currently have. Yes Green. Of course, Alternately, you could learn Mandarin to speak for better treatment from your masters. mucking manure in a rice farm is after all an eco- paradise...
Taxes are never levied for the benefit of the taxed. I live in Oregon (NO Sales Tax!) so I REFUSE to pay yours. I never voted for it (Taxation without representation ring a bell?) and my states has voted NO on sales tax NINE TIMES. Fix your deficit the way all of us do: Spend less. Too many state wastrels on the payroll? fire a few.
A floodgate of hyperbole held by a Hoover Dam of secrecy. It predates Bush by a few generations folks.
Does this mean my updates for Duke Nukem Forever may be delayed?
As I recall GPS was developed to guide our ordinance and destroy theirs. Being able to find the local store is a secondary benefit. I also recall a time when every midshipman on every US Naval vessel was required to know how to use a sextant. Query: what happens if something knocks GPS out completely? One EMP can ruin your whole hemispheric constellation
Companies that have programmers or other techs who learned all their people skills from interaction with a pet gerbil are not really clear on the concept of staying in business. I work in tech support and that friends is a person oriented skill. You can have the gosh gee whiz tech creds out the wazoo and still piss off a customer. They don't care how many .NET routines you have written they are interested in getting their screen un-stuck and back to their JOB. Talk down to your co-workers NOT the person who ultimately pays for your play-toys
entry to the system is the big stumbling block; "open box, insert USB or other media close box". Every vending machine I have ever encountered has some code that puts it into a "service mode". I would not be at all surprised that if you say: Punch "Use English" twice then savings account then some other button then slide in a "special" card and do the service voodoo. Now given such a "service personnel only" HOLE and I am SURE its there, it would be trivial to program a basic overflow on a ATM card to make the whole system avaialble via keyboard. Then use ascii to punch in a .com on the keyboard and you are good to go.
If anyone believes that the average user cares about how their actions can effect other people on the "Net" ... Try driving on an average interstate....
Please review the documentary Good Copy Bad Copy http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/ then return for the scheduled discussion 3rd period.
well that went up like a heavy deuterium balloon
Treason Never Prospers What's the reason? Why if it Prospers None Dare Call It Treason! -Sir John Harrington
In Greek myth Zeus had sex with cows, swans, humans etc, Seems to me Greek Gods love life (literally) in all its forms. Oh and his "activities" bore fruit many times...
I always thought it was sum ergo cogito..... but then I always was getting Descartes before de Horse
Methinks some broad assumptions were made prior to experimentation: I would have thought a chick would bond with -A- Mother not the largest number of mothers. But then I don't work in the social welfare field....
hummm that does seem a somewhat...DIFFERENT business model...
ok but when it comes back with "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike" I'm out of here...
You are purchasing a VPN Service. nothing illegal about that. Now, track who paid for it, their downloads, the torrents they nabbed, the IP from which it was nabbed, match to known copyrighted materials.... Sounds an expensive and a possibly futile search given who is running this party. It would also require they hire geeks very good at this sort of thing and fluent in Swedish. If nothing else it will result in new and interesting letters in the PB legals...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127001.300-space-storm-alert-90-seconds-from-catastrophe.html?full=true some excellent points there. We are about to loose civilization to a new form of "global Warm/toasting"
For those of us not all that interested in gosh gee whiz features that require the next iteration of Moore's Law to support, why not a simple uncluttered GUI that operates the hardware and the network and GETS OUT OF THE WAY when you are working? Elegance through simplicity.... Bill is gone now Steve, you could risk excellence of design as a counterpoint
One interesting example of "the cloud" would be the way IBM and other hardware engineers (CEs to the older among us) report basic hardware issues on trouble tickets from customer sites. I say IBM because the ubiquitous "IBM Brick" was the communication device every CE carried in the 70s and 80s. Now everyone from Ikon Office to NCR has a version of it on a Cell network. The Engineer updates the ticket, orders parts, pages people, gets customer authorization and even supply billing , heck he can even chat from his hand-held. The cloud is old and has been with us for longer then you realize.
Kelvin works. Use molecular activity as the base. Water? only you puny meat-bags concern yourselves with water!
I bought a keyboard yesterday. I was asked if I wanted a warranty. I said "On a keyboard?" with a sardonic sound. It went right over her head. Then she put a tape over the edge of the box "Whats that?" I asked "our return policy" she said. "So if I break the tape I cannot return it? You do realize I need to open the box." " I'm sorry sir, that is the policy" she smartly replied. I left with my wallet, but not wits intact...
Ha! I always send text written with an Enochian font (look it up) after first translating into Voynich script! Now if only I could figure out how to decode it I would be able to read this shopping list....