Ok, at least that makes a bit of sense. I was looking at my new Hard Disk packaging wondering WTF just a couple days ago.
Now why the 'OEM' HD needed to be in a very well sealed very large clamshell capable of standing upright on it's own is the next big question. I miss the old reuseable plastic packages these used to come in, at least this time i wasn't saving the old drive.
I use EMT style utility scissors capable of cutting thru seatbelts (or metal) to open this crap.
If it does, then doesn't that take the output of a power plant (or more?) all it's own...plus add a plant (or 2) for maintenance/redundancy. That doesn't sound that cheap to operate unless it is sending a LOT of stuff to LEO. Their estimate seems to be the (additional) energy to launch something, not lifting the tube itself (and presumably keeping there)
If it doesn't, i am having a hard time imagining it going up/down gracefully EVERY time...Who gets to test it and how?
Have to wonder where this could be built that wouldn't mind the permanent no-fly zone 100 miles long or so. Plus no earthquakes, hurricanes, etc. No vandals trying to sell your cable for scrap (ok, disconnecting the cable and getting slingshot to orbit from the tension is a good mental image);p How are lightning strikes going to affect operation? It seems inevitable. Perhaps you just get an extra g or 2;)
$60billion must be raw materials.... Batteries not included right?... Maybe you have to buy the cables seperately!
Cargo model seems 'reasonable'
Perhaps some kind of hybrid using this to accellerate a rocket? Could save a lot of rocket fuel (and rocket) it you gave one a running start. Wonder if that could be incorporated into the cargo model...full power for cargo and partial plus rocket for people?
The article says it wouldnt work on a XT class computer. Didn't know that. Now i am tempted to go turn on my old XT tonight and see...never did get it disinfected:)
(tough to fix when it refuses to boot from a floppy instead of HD)
I think the intial copy came with some used equipment after the the intial scare from a big facility so not everyone panicked (enough) I've got an extra infected floppies if you have something that can still use a 360k disk:O
If anyone can point me to a copy of the virus removal he talks about...:) I assume that fits on 360k floppy, my old AV doesn't:/
So they are no longer reviewing the copy of the game i would get!
Not sure i want much to do with the reviewers either then:O
If they can't review a retail copy give it a 0 or a pass and move on to the next game...... I don't give a hoot about reading reviews of versions i can't get.
My online racing buddies are 11-63 with an average in the 40's. Seems kinda silly to try and pin down your demographics too much:) I did find it interesting to be gaming with someone who is younger than one of my avatars:O
rofl, i have a MMORPG avatar older than one of the guys i regularly race online with:)
I know both games span pre-teen to 60-something. Pretty tough to nail down your demographics with that kind of spread. Author does seem to have a pretty narrow viewpoint. There's competitive, nerdy, social (or anti-social), etc people of all ages....
If one was the mechanical or handyman type it could have the screwdriver/nutdriver version:) Instead of flex and open/close it would do left/right and magnetize/demagnetize. Give em time and the hand should be removable while the sensors stay put making it easy. Even simpler: add an attachement for the middle finger:O
I probably should not suggest the impact wrench option around you folks tho;p
Always thought that was the most dangerous show ever....Shoot machine guns wildly in the street and flip a car every week and get a couple scraped elbows on a bad day:O
Tax is based on destination. or where the item will be used as they say.
If he buys and has it shipped to you it should not be taxed.
Oh, the horror stories...i did our taxes for WA and ID which have entirely different ideas of what items should be taxed:/ $50,000 accounting system and $1000/month support and they were clueless. Very few systems handle SOMETIMES very well as an answer to TAXABLE?.... Don't even think about a normally nontaxable item (syringes or injectables ) that needs to be taxed (sold to vet instead of a people dr)
I think Amazon blew it. They admit they have a presence in TX if they say they have the power over it to remove it. Ooops, should have skipped that threat.
Now that you mention it i do have a great sounding Sony turntable...
As for any of the above in the last quarter century...not so great;O
(I never realized my pawnshop purchase in the 80's sounds better than the highly rated high-end Pioneer setup i got much later til i ran them side-by-side recently... )
Well, it does mention the fact that there are 1100 sex offenders and 43 tracking devices....one would hope they put them on the most serious instead of the least serious. On the other hand having 1057 'sex offenders' that aren't dangerous enough to track but dangerous enough to label seems odd too.
As much as every loves the copyright arguements here....
It is old enough anyone should be able to make an edited version as long as it is labeled as such. I'd be pissed if i bought it thinking it is what he wrote. As long as the original is (or could be) available it isnt even censorship. I imagine it will have a foreword or something saying what a wonderful thing the editor did tho...
This was gonna be a wonderful long comment full of insight to change the world but this chat box is annoying the hell outta me, i have a 8088 computer that types faster:O
Looks like you should use... a superscript number enclosed in brackets:O
At least that is what i got out of that link. (=== Most of what i type gets the spaces sucked out by the computer anyways.... and some seem to suck out anything useful for readibility;)
Well, i do have a traditional phone and i don't think i'd want some punk from a video game to be crank calling me over it. AFAIK i am the only one in my time zone at least with my name. There ma be a couple in the US and a few on the other side of the world in total. No Thanks.
lol, I am still driving my 1991 explorer for the same reason:) Only driving 3000 miles a year i would have to increase my driving like 10-fold to make a newer car with twice the mileage make sense. Much less taking the insurance into account. Or similiarly taking in the energy to build me that new car in account. Even then by the time it did pan out, that car would be old, out of warrenty and probably have at least as many issues as my old one which has actually been cheap to maintain.
If someone wants me to save gas to simply save gas...come help me repair my old '74 Opel which should get 35mpg+ with new pistons and a rebuild (and a 5-speed). (why the horrible low-compression setup and no overdrive on US 'economy' cars back then?)
I agree mostly not that impressive;) I can come up with that much stuff myself also! Organization somewhere in the middle of the range, some of it is sorted in those large plastic drawers stacked up 8 ft high. Alot of it is redundant but i do mess with vintage stuff a bit so some is invaluable to have on hand.
And for the record...my lamp is on a stack of 12" removable platters from my 1980 Wang minicomputer:O The other lamp is on top of an original Compaq computer on top of a Wang PC on top of the minicomputer.....
lol, i used to get LJ 5 printers for our office right up til last year when we sold out:) One of them was dropped by UPS (from a rooftop apparently) and came in with 23 pieces of plastic broken...of course it still prints fine once you put back the piece that trips a sensor and put the display back where it belongs:) Our original LJ5 was at 700,000 pages last i saw, why change?
Now if only someone near by had an actual monochrome monitor and a 10MB hard drive i could rebuild these 2 other old Compaq:( Trade ya 2 17" SVGA CRT for one amber hercules compatible....
I think i just fixed my old 386 laptop using a 64mb CF card and an adapter if only i could get the darn keyboard connector back on:/
Does anyone else here have a Hard Drive that weighs more than they do? I kept our old Wang minicomputer we retired in the mid-90's after 15 years in use...175 pounds to store a massive 80MB...oh, you need the 35 pound disk controller box too:O
If only i knew enough to mod one of the wang keyboards for a PC:(
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Ok, at least that makes a bit of sense. I was looking at my new Hard Disk packaging wondering WTF just a couple days ago.
Now why the 'OEM' HD needed to be in a very well sealed very large clamshell capable of standing upright on it's own is the next big question. I miss the old reuseable plastic packages these used to come in, at least this time i wasn't saving the old drive.
I use EMT style utility scissors capable of cutting thru seatbelts (or metal) to open this crap.
Does that tube stay in the air all the time?
If it does, then doesn't that take the output of a power plant (or more?) all it's own...plus add a plant (or 2) for maintenance/redundancy. That doesn't sound that cheap to operate unless it is sending a LOT of stuff to LEO. Their estimate seems to be the (additional) energy to launch something, not lifting the tube itself (and presumably keeping there)
If it doesn't, i am having a hard time imagining it going up/down gracefully EVERY time...Who gets to test it and how?
Have to wonder where this could be built that wouldn't mind the permanent no-fly zone 100 miles long or so. Plus no earthquakes, hurricanes, etc. No vandals trying to sell your cable for scrap (ok, disconnecting the cable and getting slingshot to orbit from the tension is a good mental image) ;p ;)
How are lightning strikes going to affect operation? It seems inevitable. Perhaps you just get an extra g or 2
$60billion must be raw materials.... ... Maybe you have to buy the cables seperately!
Batteries not included right?
Cargo model seems 'reasonable'
Perhaps some kind of hybrid using this to accellerate a rocket? Could save a lot of rocket fuel (and rocket) it you gave one a running start. Wonder if that could be incorporated into the cargo model...full power for cargo and partial plus rocket for people?
The article says it wouldnt work on a XT class computer. Didn't know that. Now i am tempted to go turn on my old XT tonight and see...never did get it disinfected :)
(tough to fix when it refuses to boot from a floppy instead of HD)
I think the intial copy came with some used equipment after the the intial scare from a big facility so not everyone panicked (enough) :O
I've got an extra infected floppies if you have something that can still use a 360k disk
If anyone can point me to a copy of the virus removal he talks about... :) I assume that fits on 360k floppy, my old AV doesn't :/
Say, Staples says they do virus removal....
So they are no longer reviewing the copy of the game i would get!
Not sure i want much to do with the reviewers either then :O
If they can't review a retail copy give it a 0 or a pass and move on to the next game......
I don't give a hoot about reading reviews of versions i can't get.
They caught one group of thieves that got a business license here (WA) to get around the wait. I wonder how many they haven't caught...
Now if someone would care to add in the cost of producing and mailing the $$#%@! updates to all those paper manuals....
I think my dad had a kid so there would be someone to update that damn Jeppesen manual :O
Nice
My online racing buddies are 11-63 with an average in the 40's. Seems kinda silly to try and pin down your demographics too much :) I did find it interesting to be gaming with someone who is younger than one of my avatars :O
rofl, i have a MMORPG avatar older than one of the guys i regularly race online with :)
I know both games span pre-teen to 60-something. Pretty tough to nail down your demographics with that kind of spread. Author does seem to have a pretty narrow viewpoint. There's competitive, nerdy, social (or anti-social), etc people of all ages....
If one was the mechanical or handyman type it could have the screwdriver/nutdriver version :) Instead of flex and open/close it would do left/right and magnetize/demagnetize. Give em time and the hand should be removable while the sensors stay put making it easy. Even simpler: add an attachement for the middle finger :O
I probably should not suggest the impact wrench option around you folks tho ;p
lol, Counter-Strike: A-Team !
Always thought that was the most dangerous show ever....Shoot machine guns wildly in the street and flip a car every week and get a couple scraped elbows on a bad day :O
Tax is based on destination. or where the item will be used as they say.
If he buys and has it shipped to you it should not be taxed.
Oh, the horror stories...i did our taxes for WA and ID which have entirely different ideas of what items should be taxed :/
$50,000 accounting system and $1000/month support and they were clueless. Very few systems handle SOMETIMES very well as an answer to TAXABLE?.... Don't even think about a normally nontaxable item (syringes or injectables ) that needs to be taxed (sold to vet instead of a people dr)
I think Amazon blew it. They admit they have a presence in TX if they say they have the power over it to remove it. Ooops, should have skipped that threat.
If they don't own it then how are they able to close it.........
If they have that much control then it will count as a presence in the state!
If only i had that much control over my typing in these new 286-emulated comment boxes,sigh.
*sound of needle*
Wait...
Now that you mention it i do have a great sounding Sony turntable...
As for any of the above in the last quarter century...not so great ;O
(I never realized my pawnshop purchase in the 80's sounds better than the highly rated high-end Pioneer setup i got much later til i ran them side-by-side recently... )
There are apparently 2 "chains"
US, Central and South America are a diferent chain, and didnt seem too impressed.
The other HQ had no comment yet. Benihana of Tokyo (in New York!) The name alone is.....well nm
pretty entertaining comment section...i hope their lawyer eats A LOT of food....doesn't sound like many others there plan to :O
Sure, but that return freight is gonna bite ya in the ass :O
I think the QA guy at L-M should get a free shuttle ride ;)
That is how my dad ran his aircraft repair...the mechanic got to be the 1st passenger. You can bet all the bolts got double checked :)
Well, it does mention the fact that there are 1100 sex offenders and 43 tracking devices....one would hope they put them on the most serious instead of the least serious. On the other hand having 1057 'sex offenders' that aren't dangerous enough to track but dangerous enough to label seems odd too.
As much as every loves the copyright arguements here....
It is old enough anyone should be able to make an edited version as long as it is labeled as such. I'd be pissed if i bought it thinking it is what he wrote. As long as the original is (or could be) available it isnt even censorship. I imagine it will have a foreword or something saying what a wonderful thing the editor did tho...
This was gonna be a wonderful long comment full of insight to change the world but this chat box is annoying the hell outta me, i have a 8088 computer that types faster :O
STILL using?
The one they sent 6 months still requires a phone line :(
For the record i don't even have a cash register so you are safe here for some time yet.
Why can i hunt and peck three times as fast as this box can display it ?!?!? Everything here seems to be getting slower and slower :(
Try our water bill..the envy of the cablecos...
$84 for $3.71 worth of water :/
Makes me want to strangle the fools saying internet should be a utility :O
At least 50% of my internet bill is not for getting rid of waste bits.
An even better way to tell would be if the owner reports it as stolen....sigh
>Hello Apple, someone stole my phone...what do i do ?!?
>> There's an App for that! $4.99 please
No thanks, i don't want devices trying to GUESS if they are being stolen (or tampered with!)
That's what the guts of this paptent seem to be.
Looks like you should use ... a superscript number enclosed in brackets :O
At least that is what i got out of that link. (=== Most of what i type gets the spaces sucked out by the computer anyways.... and some seem to suck out anything useful for readibility ;)
Well, i do have a traditional phone and i don't think i'd want some punk from a video game to be crank calling me over it. AFAIK i am the only one in my time zone at least with my name. There ma be a couple in the US and a few on the other side of the world in total. No Thanks.
I forsee a really boring forum
lol, I am still driving my 1991 explorer for the same reason :) Only driving 3000 miles a year i would have to increase my driving like 10-fold to make a newer car with twice the mileage make sense. Much less taking the insurance into account. Or similiarly taking in the energy to build me that new car in account. Even then by the time it did pan out, that car would be old, out of warrenty and probably have at least as many issues as my old one which has actually been cheap to maintain.
If someone wants me to save gas to simply save gas...come help me repair my old '74 Opel which should get 35mpg+ with new pistons and a rebuild (and a 5-speed). (why the horrible low-compression setup and no overdrive on US 'economy' cars back then?)
I agree mostly not that impressive ;) I can come up with that much stuff myself also! Organization somewhere in the middle of the range, some of it is sorted in those large plastic drawers stacked up 8 ft high. Alot of it is redundant but i do mess with vintage stuff a bit so some is invaluable to have on hand.
And for the record...my lamp is on a stack of 12" removable platters from my 1980 Wang minicomputer :O The other lamp is on top of an original Compaq computer on top of a Wang PC on top of the minicomputer.....
lol, i used to get LJ 5 printers for our office right up til last year when we sold out :) :) Our original LJ5 was at 700,000 pages last i saw, why change?
One of them was dropped by UPS (from a rooftop apparently) and came in with 23 pieces of plastic broken...of course it still prints fine once you put back the piece that trips a sensor and put the display back where it belongs
Now if only someone near by had an actual monochrome monitor and a 10MB hard drive i could rebuild these 2 other old Compaq :( Trade ya 2 17" SVGA CRT for one amber hercules compatible....
I think i just fixed my old 386 laptop using a 64mb CF card and an adapter if only i could get the darn keyboard connector back on :/
Does anyone else here have a Hard Drive that weighs more than they do? I kept our old Wang minicomputer we retired in the mid-90's after 15 years in use...175 pounds to store a massive 80MB...oh, you need the 35 pound disk controller box too :O
If only i knew enough to mod one of the wang keyboards for a PC :(
Long live dead computer tech