I have a complete Intel 'Bubble Memory Development Kit' which consists of an ISA card with Bubble memory modules and support logic on it, plus all the support documentation, some driver code and examples. I plugged it into an older system a number of years back and yes, it worked as a solid-state 512K 'disk drive' under an old version of MS-DOS.
I think it's a pretty rare collectors item at this point in time. In original box, etc. etc.
Fidel Castro has significantly more people in jail on Cuban soil for 'Political Crimes' than the US Government.
However, it's fashionable to point to 'high literacy' or 'best health care in Latin America' when subjects like this are mentioned. It's kind of a paraphrase of the 'Trains run on time' Mussolini thing.
If you want glowing animals to be legal in California, the easiest way to ensure it is to have a law passed that permits them.
You've got things backwards.
Legislation is never needed to make something 'legal.' Generally legislation is used to make something illegal. By default, all acts of citizens in a free state are permitted. To set a trend otherwise, i.e. to say 'unless the state gives explicit permission, it is forbidden to do so-and-so' runs against the entire political culture of the United States.
And if it's big enough that it's head is right the same height (or higher!) than your plate of food on the table, it isn't a proper dog either. We have a brute like that here, and it can be annoying.
I remember as a kid when we traveled to California (in the 60's) that there were notices warning people that it was illegal to bring hamsters into California? Have they gotten over that particular fear yet?
Or maybe the fish will cause the demise of their precious Bass or Bluegill or some whatever population
How can you be so ignorant? These are tropical fish, and have been tropical fish that people have kept in aquariums for years. They're not some looming new danger, nor do most Bass or Bluegills that you seem to think of being 'at risk' live in Tropical Fish aquariums.
I can't believe that the Fish and Wildlife guy quoted in the article is such a loon. He right out says his ban is a 'just because' ban.
It would be insane not to acknowledge these fish in their non-GE form, are ubiquitous around the world, and they haven't posed the great threat that you're ranting about. I mean, are you saying all tropical fish pose that sort of threat?
Rock on! I've used TWM in the past but these days prefer FVWM. One of the nicest things about TWM is the printed and bound user manual you can buy for it from O'Reilly. Namely, volumes 3 and 8 of the cannonical X Window Systems documentation they sell. My library wouldn't be complete without at least Volume 8 (X Window System Administrator Guide)
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And what's the big dealio about Lindows defaulting root for the primary user?
The difference is that one has to install all sorts of third party tools and stuff (i.e. Interix and/or Cygwin) to make an XP machine as powerful and dangerous a box for a cracker to break into and use as an attack base. And people who install Interix and/or Cygwin on their XP box aren't the target demographic that Lindows is marketed at.
So Lindows is basically an OS that provides a powerfully dangerous base for crackers, and marketed and provideed to exactly the last kind of people who should not be bumbling around on the net with such a system.
Linux is finally catching up to Microsoft in that regard. Try replacing your FVWM or similar efficient Window Manager with Gnome or KDE, on the Linux box you were using two years ago.
The thing that makes you wrong is that your computer isn't a single 'computer', it's a network of computers. So you put a CD in the CDROM reader. The computer in the CDROM reader reads and interprets the data bits on the CD. Feeds it to the computer on the motherboard. Which feeds it to the computer in your hard drive which writes the bit patterns to the HD platter. Two instances of 'downloading' occured, at least in the classic sense of olden times. I mean, years ago you would have been correct, when we all fired up old analog 'dumb' modems and transferred files to our 'single processor' 8 bit machines which used a primative hardware floppy disk controller peripheral chip (i.e. a Western Digital 1771 or an NEC 765 chip) to write to a floppy. Only one download occured then, and only one processor moved the bits around within the computer.
your more likely to hold onto the low end mac a lot longer before it becomes obsolete
Your typical Apple customer may in fact cling desperately to that low end Mac in an effort to actually get out of it what he paid for it. That isn't saying nearly as much as you try to imply.
Apple hardware is far, far, less upgradable, so when it fades it hits the dumpster. I bet there are a thousand people who'll read this comment who still have at least one piece of hardware in one of their current Intel boxes that they had in a 486 or 386 box sometime in the past.
So, you're saying since there's no definitive proof that a man didn't say something, but there's also no formal 'cite' proving that man did say it, that the safest assumption is that he did??
20 years ago the 'PC Revolution' was in it's startup years. People no longer had to rely on some sinister remote 'staff' to minister to their data needs. But it was just starting then.
I remember, 12 years or so ago, those poor people with terminals on their desks. I knew people who had to run a word processor called 'Lyrix' on Wyse 50 terminals. It crashed all the time, and every time it crashed it wiped out whatever everybody was editing.
Believe me, ten to twenty years ago people in accounting, purchasing, etc. had to deal with those mammoth printouts as their primary form of data retrieval at many companies.
As to employees being allowed to 'muck up a corporate asset'.... There is plenty of that to go around for ALL the employees. I've seen IT Staffers intrude into a well-functioning workgroup and do tremendous damage through their arrogant meddling.
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I have a complete Intel 'Bubble Memory Development Kit' which consists of an ISA card with Bubble memory modules and support logic on it, plus all the support documentation, some driver code and examples. I plugged it into an older system a number of years back and yes, it worked as a solid-state 512K 'disk drive' under an old version of MS-DOS.
I think it's a pretty rare collectors item at this point in time. In original box, etc. etc.
You can purchase Music CDs of similar quality to a super-cheap CD player for a correspondingly low price. There are plenty of $1-5 CDs on the market.
Fidel Castro has significantly more people in jail on Cuban soil for 'Political Crimes' than the US Government.
However, it's fashionable to point to 'high literacy' or 'best health care in Latin America' when subjects like this are mentioned. It's kind of a paraphrase of the 'Trains run on time' Mussolini thing.
Huh? That doesn't make sense.
You have a basis for your fear-mongering? You've discovered new scientific laws where natural selection no longer functions to cull a population?
Or is this one of those 'political' discussions?
I choose to flip-flop on that issue, dude.
If you want glowing animals to be legal in California, the easiest way to ensure it is to have a law passed that permits them.
You've got things backwards.
Legislation is never needed to make something 'legal.' Generally legislation is used to make something illegal. By default, all acts of citizens in a free state are permitted. To set a trend otherwise, i.e. to say 'unless the state gives explicit permission, it is forbidden to do so-and-so' runs against the entire political culture of the United States.
If they're not as hardy, in a few generations you'd have the GE strain bred out of the population.
And if it's big enough that it's head is right the same height (or higher!) than your plate of food on the table, it isn't a proper dog either. We have a brute like that here, and it can be annoying.
I remember as a kid when we traveled to California (in the 60's) that there were notices warning people that it was illegal to bring hamsters into California? Have they gotten over that particular fear yet?
Or maybe the fish will cause the demise of their precious Bass or Bluegill or some whatever population
How can you be so ignorant? These are tropical fish, and have been tropical fish that people have kept in aquariums for years. They're not some looming new danger, nor do most Bass or Bluegills that you seem to think of being 'at risk' live in Tropical Fish aquariums.
I can't believe that the Fish and Wildlife guy quoted in the article is such a loon. He right out says his ban is a 'just because' ban.
As a Californian, I'm glad we won't have them here.
Are hamsters and gerbils still illegal in California? I can remember when they were, not long ago. Haven't checked on it in awhile.
It would be insane not to acknowledge these fish in their non-GE form, are ubiquitous around the world, and they haven't posed the great threat that you're ranting about. I mean, are you saying all tropical fish pose that sort of threat?
Rock on! I've used TWM in the past but these days prefer FVWM. One of the nicest things about TWM is the printed and bound user manual you can buy for it from O'Reilly. Namely, volumes 3 and 8 of the cannonical X Window Systems documentation they sell. My library wouldn't be complete without at least Volume 8 (X Window System Administrator Guide)
And what's the big dealio about Lindows defaulting root for the primary user?
The difference is that one has to install all sorts of third party tools and stuff (i.e. Interix and/or Cygwin) to make an XP machine as powerful and dangerous a box for a cracker to break into and use as an attack base. And people who install Interix and/or Cygwin on their XP box aren't the target demographic that Lindows is marketed at.
So Lindows is basically an OS that provides a powerfully dangerous base for crackers, and marketed and provideed to exactly the last kind of people who should not be bumbling around on the net with such a system.
Linux is finally catching up to Microsoft in that regard. Try replacing your FVWM or similar efficient Window Manager with Gnome or KDE, on the Linux box you were using two years ago.
"A few hours ago, I learned that I am now (at least in theory) absurdly rich."
I looked on ESR's vanity page, and NO he doesn't have this clinker listed as one of his essays.
The thing that makes you wrong is that your computer isn't a single 'computer', it's a network of computers. So you put a CD in the CDROM reader. The computer in the CDROM reader reads and interprets the data bits on the CD. Feeds it to the computer on the motherboard. Which feeds it to the computer in your hard drive which writes the bit patterns to the HD platter. Two instances of 'downloading' occured, at least in the classic sense of olden times. I mean, years ago you would have been correct, when we all fired up old analog 'dumb' modems and transferred files to our 'single processor' 8 bit machines which used a primative hardware floppy disk controller peripheral chip (i.e. a Western Digital 1771 or an NEC 765 chip) to write to a floppy. Only one download occured then, and only one processor moved the bits around within the computer.
Funny, mine is "I probably have enough CDRs for this week" but then I go to the library and check out another 10 CDs to copy using XCDRoast....
your more likely to hold onto the low end mac a lot longer before it becomes obsolete
Your typical Apple customer may in fact cling desperately to that low end Mac in an effort to actually get out of it what he paid for it. That isn't saying nearly as much as you try to imply.
Apple hardware is far, far, less upgradable, so when it fades it hits the dumpster. I bet there are a thousand people who'll read this comment who still have at least one piece of hardware in one of their current Intel boxes that they had in a 486 or 386 box sometime in the past.
I like the Tab Window Manager, but I've recently upgraded to FVWM2 and it rocks.
Also, anything he says 'did' happen probably didn't, or at least, not in the way he 'describes' it.
I mean, come on. The man plasters his face in between Jobs and Gates on his webpage like some sort of fricking Mount Rushmore thing.
So, you're saying since there's no definitive proof that a man didn't say something, but there's also no formal 'cite' proving that man did say it, that the safest assumption is that he did??
Most kids these days don't know what you mean by 'line printer.'
Please take your racist stereotypes elsewhere. I was talking about historical business practices, not racial characteristics.
20 years ago the 'PC Revolution' was in it's startup years. People no longer had to rely on some sinister remote 'staff' to minister to their data needs. But it was just starting then.
I remember, 12 years or so ago, those poor people with terminals on their desks. I knew people who had to run a word processor called 'Lyrix' on Wyse 50 terminals. It crashed all the time, and every time it crashed it wiped out whatever everybody was editing.
Believe me, ten to twenty years ago people in accounting, purchasing, etc. had to deal with those mammoth printouts as their primary form of data retrieval at many companies.
As to employees being allowed to 'muck up a corporate asset'.... There is plenty of that to go around for ALL the employees. I've seen IT Staffers intrude into a well-functioning workgroup and do tremendous damage through their arrogant meddling.