Ahh, well in the late 70's early 80's a company ran tons of ads in Byte and other computer mags, had nonworking display's at all the major shows, even had "fake" reviews, they pre-ordered and disappeared. I cant remeber the name maybe someone else can I think it was World Compter Systems or something of the like. But anyhow THATS why someone MIGHT want to do something like this, (I am not saying this is what they are doing at all) I am just saying this is why someone MIGHT want to
This whole console thing is starting to make me feel like its the 70's again, or early 80's anyway. Here a console there a console, everyones got a consol either out or coming out.
Remember some of the oddball consoles (some REALLY cool at the time) that just completley FLOPPED.
Well,
Dosent Stamps, and UPS BOTH offer Web-Based versions ?
Beyond that what about WINE ?
I had a fair bit of problems migrating various people (for some it is simply NOT an option) But many of the others were resolved by the use of WINE and running Win32 apps under it ( some actually seemed to run faster:)
Well I dug up my stereoscope viewer, dusted it off printed out 2 images, and pasted on a piece of cardboard, a little adjusting and VOILA....REALLY COOL 3D, I found this link to build your own stereoscope, quite a bit different from mine but works on the same principals.
OKAY, maybe it was all the years of wearing a patch on my eyes, seriously I can NEVER see these things by crossing my eyes, sticking my finger up my nose, etc.
BUT what I do have is a vintage (circa 1890) Stero viewer, can these images be used in one of those ? I figured Id ask before I spend 3 hours in my asbestos laden attic looking for it, hate to shorten my life if its not gonna let me see the scape in 3D
Cool, but alas I still have om challeneger, well it was actually a superboard kit, and somewhere Ive still got the 8" floppy for it and a few disks, it all still works , my caps didnt go bad for some reason like the Altair and IMSAI did, I have a great ascii golf game my dad wrote for mainframes in the 60's (he actually got on TV a few times for that one) takes wind and everything into account but we converted it to basic to run on the old OSI....ah the good old days
My 6 year old son likes Knoppix, really
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The timing of this article is too funny, today my son, who is 6 (almost 7) grabbed my knoppix CD thinking it was a copy (legal backup:) of I game I had just made a copy of for him for him.
He put it in and after about 30 minutes after not hearing him ask for help with his game (which he ALWAYS does) I went in to see what he was doing, I almost had a heart attack, he was clicking away on Knoppix. It scared me becuase I forgot I had knoppix burned. and I thought he had rebooted my system into linux and changed from Gnome to KDE
But the more I think about it the more I like the idea of setting him loose on a live distro, I dont have to worry about him buggering up my work system (yes I have a spare system for him but its not fast enough for most of his games)
When I first started in computers I was his age and if I made a mistake I rebooted, no OS , MS basic in Rom and a 6502 on an OSI challener (the good 'ole days may date me a bit since that comp came out in 77 and I was 7:)but I got my feet wet in assy programming then. I didnt have to ask dear old dad for any help beyond well, everything, but I didnt have to worry about bonking an OS either.
When I found him on the system he was drawing cats on gimp, bestill my little code monkey....
Hell they can call those prizes ? I doubut first place $1500 would recoup the cost of batteries...
I didnt read enough, (I rarley do:) but many of these contests are nothing but brain suckers, like the X prise, unless theyve changed it you are basically sighning away your rights to the tech if you win, even that prise $10 mi, is a joke for the tech to CHEAPLY put someone into space, on the public market a cheap easy way would be worth billions.
What does DARPA have to loose, maybe 50k in all the prizes TOTAL ?
I mean competition is good, the best, but I have a feeling the comercialization of these technologies is much more valuable.
The sad part is frustrated people from the original competiton will see this a a boon and join to do nothing more than expose their innovations to someone that has the ability (read GM) to bring it to market.
I mean this is cool, bet really the cost on older electron microscopes is pretty low (under 2k) Heck theres a phillips 500 for sale on Ebay for $1000 right now. I've often thought about buying one, but dont have 3 phase in the house and the garage is a little damp.
My 4000 song lawrence welk collection just got found out....
I thought I was doing the music world a favor, renaming song , and artists like shaggy with welk tunes behind em... Guess Ill have to go back to spam for a living....
Dono how it is set up now, the plan has been an excersice for many years now, just as the canadian plan is.
War Plan Red was the original plan,The plan called for quickly seizing the key port of Halifax to prevent British resupply; cutting communication between eastern and western Canada by capturing Winnipeg; securing bridgeheads near Buffalo, Detroit, and Sault Ste. Marie; and attacking Quebec overland from New England. If everything went according to plan, the U.S. military hoped to take the Great Lakes region and St. Lawrence valley before moving on the prairies and British Columbia. a serious one at that in the 20's-30's ,
Read "Bordering on Aggression: Evidence of U.S. Military Preparations against Canada." by Floyd W. Rudmin
You laugh, but when I was a kid our parents told us not to smoke in the woods lest we catch the river on fire, the cuyohoga river is actually what burnt into lake erie...
Bad ? I saw it when it first came out I was about 7 scared the shit out of me, took me years to get over the sight of a dead bird (like died in the beggining) NOW weve got west nile killing birds around here, still makes me skittish.
Dont see how you could call it bad I thought it was well done and suspensfull
The stuff that they are catching the particles in, That stuff sounds way cool, I bet I can come up with.....well no real uses but at least I could say I own some of the lightest solid on earth.
Colud it be used to build a semi-rigid airship ? Or....well whatever but its cool, I cant find any exacting details on what its made of however
This is cool, the old CRAY used to use something like this but I think it was freon , What I want to know is what would happen if you cooled the ENTIRE MB ? Memory and all ? Could you pull 10+ gHz ?
Daisy Airguns Reported RedRyder BB Guns have killed 110,000 birds in the last 20 years.
Seriously SO friggin what, how many birds were pasted all over windshields in the last 20 years, Hell Ive hit at least 5 birds in that time. Almost even hit a toucan once that must have escaped from the Zoo (seriously I live in Ohio:)
And how many of the kids out there clipped a bird first thing when they got their first BB gun ? I sure did 2 blue jays and a cardinal, I was 7 and scared as hell about the cardinal it being our state bird and all, but I was safe since I was in NY visiting cousins:)
Lets add something to kill MORE birds then the damm windfarms can serve 2 purposes.
My hatred of birds is SOLEY based on being raised on a chicken farm I am sure....
Im serious RH8 was the biggest pice of scrap from RH since 5.0. (and Im a Redhat fan)I understand development cycles have to start somewhere, and RH 8 was probably release when it started, But hasnt enough time passed to replace it with a more solid distro.
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Ahh, well in the late 70's early 80's a company ran tons of ads in Byte and other computer mags, had nonworking display's at all the major shows, even had "fake" reviews, they pre-ordered and disappeared. I cant remeber the name maybe someone else can I think it was World Compter Systems or something of the like. But anyhow THATS why someone MIGHT want to do something like this, (I am not saying this is what they are doing at all) I am just saying this is why someone MIGHT want to
This whole console thing is starting to make me feel like its the 70's again, or early 80's anyway. Here a console there a console, everyones got a consol either out or coming out.
Remember some of the oddball consoles (some REALLY cool at the time) that just completley FLOPPED.
Well I would but your IRC seems to have been slashdotted
Connect retry #12 mars.telascience.org (6667)
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* Unable to connect (Connection refused)
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* Connect retry #13 mars.telascience.org (6667)
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* Unable to connect (Connection refused)
And so on and on......
Well, Dosent Stamps, and UPS BOTH offer Web-Based versions ? Beyond that what about WINE ? I had a fair bit of problems migrating various people (for some it is simply NOT an option) But many of the others were resolved by the use of WINE and running Win32 apps under it ( some actually seemed to run faster :)
Ummmm. There is a pretty serious problem with heat dissapation and CARBON nanotubes Like this report shows
Isnt this going to cause a pretty serious problem in integrating nanotube technology into electronics ?
Well, as I posted before I cant see these things without a Stereoscope, if you dont have an antique stereoscope lying around like I do
I found this HERE and HERE is a bit better one (more like mine:)
The second one gives a couple of different types , the 3x9 is for using cards like I made for mine or viewing the old cards from before like 1900 ish.
Well I dug up my stereoscope viewer, dusted it off printed out 2 images, and pasted on a piece of cardboard, a little adjusting and VOILA ....REALLY COOL 3D, I found this link to build your own stereoscope, quite a bit different from mine but works on the same principals.
OKAY, maybe it was all the years of wearing a patch on my eyes, seriously I can NEVER see these things by crossing my eyes, sticking my finger up my nose, etc.
BUT what I do have is a vintage (circa 1890) Stero viewer, can these images be used in one of those ?
I figured Id ask before I spend 3 hours in my asbestos laden attic looking for it, hate to shorten my life if its not gonna let me see the scape in 3D
Cool, but alas I still have om challeneger, well it was actually a superboard kit, and somewhere Ive still got the 8" floppy for it and a few disks, it all still works , my caps didnt go bad for some reason like the Altair and IMSAI did, I have a great ascii golf game my dad wrote for mainframes in the 60's (he actually got on TV a few times for that one) takes wind and everything into account but we converted it to basic to run on the old OSI....ah the good old days
The timing of this article is too funny, today my son, who is 6 (almost 7) grabbed my knoppix CD thinking it was a copy (legal backup:) of I game I had just made a copy of for him for him.
He put it in and after about 30 minutes after not hearing him ask for help with his game (which he ALWAYS does) I went in to see what he was doing, I almost had a heart attack, he was clicking away on Knoppix. It scared me becuase I forgot I had knoppix burned. and I thought he had rebooted my system into linux and changed from Gnome to KDE
But the more I think about it the more I like the idea of setting him loose on a live distro, I dont have to worry about him buggering up my work system (yes I have a spare system for him but its not fast enough for most of his games)
When I first started in computers I was his age and if I made a mistake I rebooted, no OS , MS basic in Rom and a 6502 on an OSI challener (the good 'ole days may date me a bit since that comp came out in 77 and I was 7:)but I got my feet wet in assy programming then. I didnt have to ask dear old dad for any help beyond well, everything, but I didnt have to worry about bonking an OS either.
When I found him on the system he was drawing cats on gimp, bestill my little code monkey....
Hell they can call those prizes ? I doubut first place $1500 would recoup the cost of batteries...
I didnt read enough, (I rarley do:) but many of these contests are nothing but brain suckers, like the X prise, unless theyve changed it you are basically sighning away your rights to the tech if you win, even that prise $10 mi, is a joke for the tech to CHEAPLY put someone into space, on the public market a cheap easy way would be worth billions.
What does DARPA have to loose, maybe 50k in all the prizes TOTAL ?
I mean competition is good, the best, but I have a feeling the comercialization of these technologies is much more valuable.
The sad part is frustrated people from the original competiton will see this a a boon and join to do nothing more than expose their innovations to someone that has the ability (read GM) to bring it to market.
I mean this is cool, bet really the cost on older electron microscopes is pretty low (under 2k) Heck theres a phillips 500 for sale on Ebay for $1000 right now. I've often thought about buying one, but dont have 3 phase in the house and the garage is a little damp.
No problem, convert it to VB.NET using the MS convertor, then run it under MONO
Looks pretty swtraight forward to me....Then again I convert old VB code pretty much all day long..
Well,
My 4000 song lawrence welk collection just got found out....
I thought I was doing the music world a favor, renaming song , and artists like shaggy with welk tunes behind em...
Guess Ill have to go back to spam for a living....
Write a game where the goal is offing "Haitian" litigators.....
Dono how it is set up now, the plan has been an excersice for many years now, just as the canadian plan is.
War Plan Red was the original plan,The plan called for quickly seizing the key port of Halifax to prevent British resupply; cutting communication between eastern and western Canada by capturing Winnipeg; securing bridgeheads near Buffalo, Detroit, and Sault Ste. Marie; and attacking Quebec overland from New England. If everything went according to plan, the U.S. military hoped to take the Great Lakes region and St. Lawrence valley before moving on the prairies and British Columbia. a serious one at that in the 20's-30's ,
Read "Bordering on Aggression: Evidence of U.S. Military Preparations against Canada." by Floyd W. Rudmin
Never said it was, I'da let him have Kuwait first time around, let him piss all over isreal and S.A. and made friends with him to buy lotsa oil cheap.
Massey-Ferguson ....you mean the Great Tractor Scandal ?
You laugh, but when I was a kid our parents told us not to smoke in the woods lest we catch the river on fire, the cuyohoga river is actually what burnt into lake erie...
Ahh the good old days
We currently have PLANS to invade Canada, we have for years, the Canadians have the same "Plans" I figure buffalo might be in serious trouble.....
.....
So what we had plans, not a serious OP or we would have done it.
If anyone remeber the gas crunch and sitting at gas station for Hours on end... Too bad we didnt
Bad ?
I saw it when it first came out I was about 7 scared the shit out of me, took me years to get over the sight of a dead bird (like died in the beggining) NOW weve got west nile killing birds around here, still makes me skittish.
Dont see how you could call it bad I thought it was well done and suspensfull
The stuff that they are catching the particles in, That stuff sounds way cool, I bet I can come up with.....well no real uses but at least I could say I own some of the lightest solid on earth.
....well whatever but its cool, I cant find any exacting details on what its made of however
Colud it be used to build a semi-rigid airship ? Or
This is cool, the old CRAY used to use something like this but I think it was freon , What I want to know is what would happen if you cooled the ENTIRE MB ? Memory and all ? Could you pull 10+ gHz ?
Daisy Airguns Reported RedRyder BB Guns have killed 110,000 birds in the last 20 years.
:)
Seriously SO friggin what, how many birds were pasted all over windshields in the last 20 years, Hell Ive hit at least 5 birds in that time. Almost even hit a toucan once that must have escaped from the Zoo (seriously I live in Ohio:)
And how many of the kids out there clipped a bird first thing when they got their first BB gun ? I sure did 2 blue jays and a cardinal, I was 7 and scared as hell about the cardinal it being our state bird and all, but I was safe since I was in NY visiting cousins
Lets add something to kill MORE birds then the damm windfarms can serve 2 purposes.
My hatred of birds is SOLEY based on being raised on a chicken farm I am sure....
You'll SHOOT your eye out
Im serious RH8 was the biggest pice of scrap from RH since 5.0. (and Im a Redhat fan)I understand development cycles have to start somewhere, and RH 8 was probably release when it started, But hasnt enough time passed to replace it with a more solid distro.