I believe my old '55 Ford could run over anything with barely a scratch. However...with a hard steering wheel(with nice metal center cap), a steel dashboard, a slick bench seat, and no restraints the ride may not be too much fun! At the very least you have a FORD impression in your forehead for the next year:O
Anything you hit had better be the object to give way
I hope the 'competition' is better with those than it is here.
I can use Qwest, the telco, as my ISP for $30/month. Or I can use a 3rd party ISP and only have to pay Qwest $28 for the line and pay the 3rd party $20+ for access......
While i do have a 3rd party ISP, you can bet there are darn few people who wish to pay almost twice for no particular reason. Even cable is cheaper than 3rd party DSL here:(
One of these days i need to get off my vintage DSL line i suppose. Still works great for gaming even at only 640k and i know qwest will mess something up (and add interleaving) if i upgrade (err...downgrade if you watch the ping times) but 5 times the download would be handy now.
lol, i just about had one of those. I made a butterfly style yo-yo with 14 feet of string to use off the 2nd story balcony at camp once. Flinging it out in front of you at ground level would make a weapon...or at least break wood spindles in the staircase if one miscalculates 14 feet by a foot or so....
Ah i remember using a bunch of memory on my 286 for task-switching so you could pretend to run more than one program at once. Combined with dual monitors it was pretty sweet for editing documents at the time. I could push an original to the 2nd monitor and leave it up as I edit on the other:)
Unfortunately, i kept pushing the poor thing til it died....2 monitors, 2 HD, 2 floppies and almost 2 M of ram i think. Just don't try to pick the darned thing up:)
Of course much like the stuff they are talking about for Windows it wasn't the best idea for office use and most of what i did to it was done after 386's came out anyways. Everything after the memory expansion cards to get that 1st MB on old computers was pretty useless and even that relied on 3rd party stuff til DOS caught up.
Hmm, i don't think it will work so well on modern drives but we had an old hard disk from our mini computer turn itself into a metal lathe one night. Came in the next day to find a whole room full of aluminum shavings. Shredded several of the 11" platters into nothingness. After the pieces went through the fan nothing was more than 1/8 x 1". At least everyone understood the value of the offline backup.....
Very effective data destruction however it was a tad messy after it blew about a million aluminum curly-Q's all over the place.
The part even harder to picture these days....they repaired the drive!
Most of the new stuff is probably too hard to convince to destroy itself nearly so well:(
Well, if everyone is trying to hit rock bottom....
Mine is only $1.67 per month if you don't mind a whole 6.67 minutes a month for my emergency phone:)
Unfortunately i am starting my own business this month and will have to get a phone with one of those stupid expensive plans to forward the business number to pretty soon:(
Gotta RTFA nowadays..Slashdot summaries slanted, news at 11.... sigh
Both good comments from parent and GP.
I'll just stay right here on the fence where i am comfy;)
It does not seem unreasonable to give WSJ the info on WSJ subscribers. I can't really believe it would surprise anyone that the WSJ knows you subscribed to the WSJ.
However it also does not seem to be required as Amazon is indeed acting as a sort of subcontractor. It seems like a legit contract term between the two. If he wants he can stop selling subscriptions to Amazon to resell 'anonymously'. That says a lot if the subscriber info is worth more the subscription......
And now i will continue to not give a damn either way.
The defibrillator is no more of a distraction than the dead kid on the floor. The worst day to get anything done in class were the days with dead kids left laying about:(
I avoided a nasty wreck because i knew exactly what my car could do. Two lanes heading east with a car in the right lane behind me. Someone pulls out from a sidestreet and sees traffic coming way to the west apparently and STOPS...blocking the 2 westbound lanes right in front of us. Guy behind/beside skids to a halt but i am too close:( I SPEED UP and throw the car to the left across 2 lanes to give the idiot clearance and back into my lane before before the oncoming traffic gets to us. I tossed it so hard it squealed the tires at all three points of the manuever.
The best part? After i stopped to check the tires the guy behind stopped and asked where i learned to drive like that:)) lol, by doing things i shouldn't like sliding around a vacant subdivsion and driving backwards as fast as possible.
I had been driving the same type of car for 10 years and knew it inside and out. Another car or driver and some old geezer would have gotten T-boned hard.
The other time someone pulled out in front of me i skidded it sideways to a stop about a foot away and parallel to them. If i had not rotated the car the bumper (1974 car, the bumpers are REAL) would have been a foot or two into the others drivers door. Same damn thing too...pulled out from side and STOPPED in the middle of the road when they saw me coming. He wouldn't reimburse for the studs i tore off...next time he gets the bumper perhaps....besides any idiot that can't see the NEON GREEN car coming downhill towards you....
""What we're doing is diverting a resource from landfill or incineration and treating it with green technology.""
Umm, they extract a chemical by using an ethanol bath and microwaves or something like that. The rest of the monitor just magically disappears?!? Wasn't there an issue with the mercury and stuff in some of them, i don't see how this cures that issue either. I don't think the big issue was the 'glue' they are extracting is it?
Ok, i will move my vote over to the totally stupid column.
Just downloaded the 25.5MB reader. Then downloaded the 26.1MB in updates!
So they appear to have you download one version and then replace it:/
Having it download the downloader probably doesn't simplify anything for Joe Sixpack either. Trying to download Acrobat Reader gives a warning message about installing something that is not Acrobat Reader...Didn't we try to teach Joe NOT to do that?!?
Even if they want to they would have to try pretty hard to update some of it. 2nd computer has Acrobat reader 7 on it. If you click check for updates it gives me some language pack. Umm...no mention of the other 20 versions between 7.0 and now! Like someone else mentioned, it is entirely possible to accidentally get an old version installed along with something else. Joe Sixpack certainly is not going research what version it should be if the update button can't be bothered to figure it out.
Have they tried the cheesy little devices they sell on TV that you plug in to keep rodents and stuff out of your house? Keep It Stupid Simple...or something like that;)
Has anyone seen another program admit they screwed up and go backwards?
I purchased the old shareware database program PC-File (and still use it!) Not sure of the 1st versions, i don't think it had a number. 2nd one i got was version 5 and was a good program that could have used a few tweaks but was fast and simple. Version 6 changed drasticly and many functions got slow as it tried to go to a pretty UI. Version 7 tried to fix version 7 but was still sluggish. The next version released was.....version 5.5! They tried to fix up the old one by adding a couple needed features but missed a couple others. I think he sold out or moved on at that point and it faded away.
It was simple and fast enough that i used it for looking up names and other info from a barcode in real time into a database as fast as i could scan in labels on a 386:) Ok, i did need 10M of ram so it could use a ramdisk since the HD couldn't keep up.
Just make sure to format the disks on the old 360k! You may or may not be able to write info using a 1.2M drive and have it readable by the old one after that it seems to vary. You will need a 286/386/486 and move a 360k drive to it to copy software from 3-1/2" drives or 1.2M drives or even a CD to a 360k drive if your drives don't like stuff written by a 1.2M. Most systems after 486 will not use a real 360k drive:(
Currently setting up most all the above this summer:)
DOS 3.3 is probably the best OS for it. I thought it would be easier to find on ebay but keeping looking. Luckily i kept the software and lost most of the hardware which is easy to replace.
Currently have working: Compaq (original luggable with original software) 10MB HD Generic XT (like OP with dual floppy) Black market Compaq clone (originally a XT that looked like a 286 Compaq!) Generic 286 (for transfering to 360k disks for the above) My original 386 upgraded to 500MB HD with all my games and original software loaded sans windows 3 including a barcode printer and reader system i put together from PC-File and some other shareware. 386 laptop with windows 3 (rebuilt a battery!)
Putting together a mini-museum in the den with each flavor of DOS and Windows:)
I think Tommy's Toys are still available for some ASCII type games that play on anything. Try hitting up garage sales too but actual 360k disks and programs are tough to find.
hehe, just a little Cessna 310 albeit a fast one. Charters and training and noone else onboard at the time and lots of runway but still took some nerve. Did so little damage they got the ok to drop and lock the gear and fly it back a few miles for repair (without retracting gear obviously)
We gave her a hard time (in jest) as it was insured for more than cost;) Both engines and the nose probably would have totaled it back then (quite some time ago) So would have the repair, as we also owned a repair facility. Dad did ok on flight school and repair until he blew it all trying to start an 'airline' ala the TV show Wings:(
I wonder what the actual issue was they had to fix. Didn't sound like it needed parts and 45 min isn't much time. Probably found a loose wire;) 90% of the issues really aren't anything special to fix even on the big boys.
I got drafted by our airplane mechanic a couple times to help as i was the only one who could reach the other end of a bolt. Apparently the license test for a mechanic neglects to include a test for double jointedness.....
As long as the dude fixing it is going to fly on it i am all for it. After a couple major repairs on my dad's plane he would take the mechanic along on the 1st flight. Since he got on board we figured the front gear would come down this time;)
Our little flight school had some crack people tho. The chief instructor got an ovation from the tower bringing in a fast little twin with no nose gear. Dead stick, both props feathered and moved with the starter out of the way...only scrapped up the nose a bit. Well, as little as sliding aluminum onto concrete at 50mph can be...
Someone else mentioned their state had 400 tax codes. WA has about 366 ( i think they added a couple lately).
now hold those numbers.....
That is not the worst part tho. Not every state taxes the same items. WA does not tax food...ID does. ID does not tax crutches...but WA does!
Not every item that is 'non-taxable' is always non-taxable. Syringes are non-taxable....unless you are giving your cat insulin injections in which they should be taxed.
Now add in the dozens/hundreds of such exemptions and rules for each state......
NOW you can multiply it all out !
(i had over 1100 choices for the customer tax code just to do the above for WA and ID(and ID only has like 3 zones not 300-400!))
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No doubt.
I believe my old '55 Ford could run over anything with barely a scratch. However...with a hard steering wheel(with nice metal center cap), a steel dashboard, a slick bench seat, and no restraints the ride may not be too much fun! At the very least you have a FORD impression in your forehead for the next year :O
Anything you hit had better be the object to give way
I hope the 'competition' is better with those than it is here.
I can use Qwest, the telco, as my ISP for $30/month. Or I can use a 3rd party ISP and only have to pay Qwest $28 for the line and pay the 3rd party $20+ for access......
While i do have a 3rd party ISP, you can bet there are darn few people who wish to pay almost twice for no particular reason. Even cable is cheaper than 3rd party DSL here :(
One of these days i need to get off my vintage DSL line i suppose. Still works great for gaming even at only 640k and i know qwest will mess something up (and add interleaving) if i upgrade (err...downgrade if you watch the ping times) but 5 times the download would be handy now.
lol, i just about had one of those. I made a butterfly style yo-yo with 14 feet of string to use off the 2nd story balcony at camp once. Flinging it out in front of you at ground level would make a weapon...or at least break wood spindles in the staircase if one miscalculates 14 feet by a foot or so....
"Because we all know what a danger Individualism is."
Certainly
And the yo-yo and trompo are the perfect solution because they...err...ummm...ahhhh....well, nothing brings the community together like a good yo-yo.
Perhaps the plan is to only allow one yo-yo and one top per 10 kids?
(neither the spell-checker nor myself knew what trompo was without a little help)
Hey, if you flipped the joke book over it had Irish jokes in the other half.
Interesting point above tho, i have no idea where the stupid Polish stereotype came from.
Ah i remember using a bunch of memory on my 286 for task-switching so you could pretend to run more than one program at once. Combined with dual monitors it was pretty sweet for editing documents at the time. I could push an original to the 2nd monitor and leave it up as I edit on the other :)
Unfortunately, i kept pushing the poor thing til it died....2 monitors, 2 HD, 2 floppies and almost 2 M of ram i think. Just don't try to pick the darned thing up :)
Of course much like the stuff they are talking about for Windows it wasn't the best idea for office use and most of what i did to it was done after 386's came out anyways. Everything after the memory expansion cards to get that 1st MB on old computers was pretty useless and even that relied on 3rd party stuff til DOS caught up.
Hmm, i don't think it will work so well on modern drives but we had an old hard disk from our mini computer turn itself into a metal lathe one night. Came in the next day to find a whole room full of aluminum shavings. Shredded several of the 11" platters into nothingness. After the pieces went through the fan nothing was more than 1/8 x 1". At least everyone understood the value of the offline backup.....
Very effective data destruction however it was a tad messy after it blew about a million aluminum curly-Q's all over the place.
The part even harder to picture these days....they repaired the drive!
Most of the new stuff is probably too hard to convince to destroy itself nearly so well :(
I get a search page on bing.com using IE7 but didn't update today :( I think i have previous updates except IE8.
Well, if everyone is trying to hit rock bottom....
Mine is only $1.67 per month if you don't mind a whole 6.67 minutes a month for my emergency phone :)
Unfortunately i am starting my own business this month and will have to get a phone with one of those stupid expensive plans to forward the business number to pretty soon :(
A leftie, eh?
Gotta RTFA nowadays..Slashdot summaries slanted, news at 11.... sigh
Both good comments from parent and GP.
I'll just stay right here on the fence where i am comfy ;)
It does not seem unreasonable to give WSJ the info on WSJ subscribers. I can't really believe it would surprise anyone that the WSJ knows you subscribed to the WSJ.
However it also does not seem to be required as Amazon is indeed acting as a sort of subcontractor. It seems like a legit contract term between the two. If he wants he can stop selling subscriptions to Amazon to resell 'anonymously'. That says a lot if the subscriber info is worth more the subscription......
And now i will continue to not give a damn either way.
Hey, I am designing a mouse to find and click 'next' to read long inane articles you insensitive clod!
The defibrillator is no more of a distraction than the dead kid on the floor. The worst day to get anything done in class were the days with dead kids left laying about :(
Too true...
I avoided a nasty wreck because i knew exactly what my car could do. Two lanes heading east with a car in the right lane behind me. Someone pulls out from a sidestreet and sees traffic coming way to the west apparently and STOPS...blocking the 2 westbound lanes right in front of us. Guy behind/beside skids to a halt but i am too close :( I SPEED UP and throw the car to the left across 2 lanes to give the idiot clearance and back into my lane before before the oncoming traffic gets to us. I tossed it so hard it squealed the tires at all three points of the manuever.
The best part? After i stopped to check the tires the guy behind stopped and asked where i learned to drive like that :)) lol, by doing things i shouldn't like sliding around a vacant subdivsion and driving backwards as fast as possible.
I had been driving the same type of car for 10 years and knew it inside and out. Another car or driver and some old geezer would have gotten T-boned hard.
The other time someone pulled out in front of me i skidded it sideways to a stop about a foot away and parallel to them. If i had not rotated the car the bumper (1974 car, the bumpers are REAL) would have been a foot or two into the others drivers door. Same damn thing too...pulled out from side and STOPPED in the middle of the road when they saw me coming. He wouldn't reimburse for the studs i tore off...next time he gets the bumper perhaps....besides any idiot that can't see the NEON GREEN car coming downhill towards you....
...and required the entire output of a power plant to do that much.
Scaling up might be a bit of an issue for a while :O
""What we're doing is diverting a resource from landfill or incineration and treating it with green technology.""
Umm, they extract a chemical by using an ethanol bath and microwaves or something like that. The rest of the monitor just magically disappears?!? Wasn't there an issue with the mercury and stuff in some of them, i don't see how this cures that issue either. I don't think the big issue was the 'glue' they are extracting is it?
Ok, i will move my vote over to the totally stupid column.
Just downloaded the 25.5MB reader.
Then downloaded the 26.1MB in updates!
So they appear to have you download one version and then replace it :/
Having it download the downloader probably doesn't simplify anything for Joe Sixpack either. Trying to download Acrobat Reader gives a warning message about installing something that is not Acrobat Reader...Didn't we try to teach Joe NOT to do that?!?
Even if they want to they would have to try pretty hard to update some of it. 2nd computer has Acrobat reader 7 on it. If you click check for updates it gives me some language pack. Umm...no mention of the other 20 versions between 7.0 and now! Like someone else mentioned, it is entirely possible to accidentally get an old version installed along with something else. Joe Sixpack certainly is not going research what version it should be if the update button can't be bothered to figure it out.
Have they tried the cheesy little devices they sell on TV that you plug in to keep rodents and stuff out of your house? Keep It Stupid Simple...or something like that ;)
Has anyone seen another program admit they screwed up and go backwards?
I purchased the old shareware database program PC-File (and still use it!) Not sure of the 1st versions, i don't think it had a number. 2nd one i got was version 5 and was a good program that could have used a few tweaks but was fast and simple. Version 6 changed drasticly and many functions got slow as it tried to go to a pretty UI. Version 7 tried to fix version 7 but was still sluggish. The next version released was.....version 5.5! They tried to fix up the old one by adding a couple needed features but missed a couple others. I think he sold out or moved on at that point and it faded away.
It was simple and fast enough that i used it for looking up names and other info from a barcode in real time into a database as fast as i could scan in labels on a 386 :) Ok, i did need 10M of ram so it could use a ramdisk since the HD couldn't keep up.
Didn't see him include 5,6,7,5.5 in the article :)
Just make sure to format the disks on the old 360k! You may or may not be able to write info using a 1.2M drive and have it readable by the old one after that it seems to vary. You will need a 286/386/486 and move a 360k drive to it to copy software from 3-1/2" drives or 1.2M drives or even a CD to a 360k drive if your drives don't like stuff written by a 1.2M. Most systems after 486 will not use a real 360k drive :(
Currently setting up most all the above this summer :)
DOS 3.3 is probably the best OS for it. I thought it would be easier to find on ebay but keeping looking. Luckily i kept the software and lost most of the hardware which is easy to replace.
Currently have working:
Compaq (original luggable with original software) 10MB HD
Generic XT (like OP with dual floppy)
Black market Compaq clone (originally a XT that looked like a 286 Compaq!)
Generic 286 (for transfering to 360k disks for the above)
My original 386 upgraded to 500MB HD with all my games and original software loaded sans windows 3 including a barcode printer and reader system i put together from PC-File and some other shareware.
386 laptop with windows 3 (rebuilt a battery!)
Putting together a mini-museum in the den with each flavor of DOS and Windows :)
I think Tommy's Toys are still available for some ASCII type games that play on anything. Try hitting up garage sales too but actual 360k disks and programs are tough to find.
hehe, just a little Cessna 310 albeit a fast one. Charters and training and noone else onboard at the time and lots of runway but still took some nerve. Did so little damage they got the ok to drop and lock the gear and fly it back a few miles for repair (without retracting gear obviously)
We gave her a hard time (in jest) as it was insured for more than cost ;) Both engines and the nose probably would have totaled it back then (quite some time ago) :(
So would have the repair, as we also owned a repair facility.
Dad did ok on flight school and repair until he blew it all trying to start an 'airline' ala the TV show Wings
I wonder what the actual issue was they had to fix. Didn't sound like it needed parts and 45 min isn't much time. Probably found a loose wire ;) 90% of the issues really aren't anything special to fix even on the big boys.
True, you can buy the car....just not the gas ;)
lol, i wonder what the oil change and tune-up runs?
been there, done that.
more or less :)
I got drafted by our airplane mechanic a couple times to help as i was the only one who could reach the other end of a bolt. Apparently the license test for a mechanic neglects to include a test for double jointedness.....
As long as the dude fixing it is going to fly on it i am all for it. After a couple major repairs on my dad's plane he would take the mechanic along on the 1st flight. Since he got on board we figured the front gear would come down this time ;)
Our little flight school had some crack people tho. The chief instructor got an ovation from the tower bringing in a fast little twin with no nose gear. Dead stick, both props feathered and moved with the starter out of the way...only scrapped up the nose a bit. Well, as little as sliding aluminum onto concrete at 50mph can be...
lol, that's easy.
Someone else mentioned their state had 400 tax codes.
WA has about 366 ( i think they added a couple lately).
now hold those numbers.....
That is not the worst part tho. Not every state taxes the same items.
WA does not tax food...ID does. ID does not tax crutches...but WA does!
Not every item that is 'non-taxable' is always non-taxable.
Syringes are non-taxable....unless you are giving your cat insulin injections in which they should be taxed.
Now add in the dozens/hundreds of such exemptions and rules for each state......
NOW you can multiply it all out !
(i had over 1100 choices for the customer tax code just to do the above for WA and ID(and ID only has like 3 zones not 300-400!))