It sounds excellent to me, as a non-cellphone user.
If they had to hang up every six minutes and call again, it wouldn't always be as annoying. Still, I worry about the tard in front of me on the road, who'd likely sit at the stopsign and wind the thing up, which is even worse that the way it goes now.
The only use I ever found for the LW spectrum on my Grundig radio was when I worked at a company that was doing close-range telemetry down in the 70KHz range. I could monitor and 'play' the telemetry audibly.
I always had the dream of running a BBS on a laptop or lunchbox portable with a cellular modem, powered by the vehicle sometime. I dreamed of smuggling it onto a city bus and installing it surrpetitiously.
Then everybody could dial it up, wherever it happened to be.
It was an impractical idea, of course, but those were the olden days of 1200 baud being for the rich kids, etc.
I have several hand-powered drills. They're cordless and not even electric.
One piece of gear that kinda fits into this discussion is a wind-up non-battery portable cassette player that I remember hearing about. It uses a clockwork/spring system for the tape transport and generates the small amount of power neede to run the electronics and drive the headphone.
I've thought for a long time that it would be a really cool thing to have, but haven't ever tracked down who makes and sells it.
Oh, and there's a DigiComp 1 for sale on eBay right now. That's a hand powered all-plastic digital computer. I had one when I was a kid. It's selling for a heck of a lot of money now.
Until you learn how to squash it, it pops up that annoying 'buy the better version' thing every time you run it.
And let's not get started about the brushed-chrome frame it pulls up, that you can't get rid of, or the way it ignores the Windows User Interface conventions.
My problem is that they actively hide intrusive settings and options when you're installing their crap. In that tediously long set of dialogues where their software tries to take over every bloody multimedia extension on your system. All the default-checked radio buttons are scrolled down below view in the window. Obviously put there on purpose.
Isn't there still a bunch of 'preferences' stuck away in the System folder that need to be cleared out? I know I've seen the mess in there on OS 9 machines. Did they do away with that in OS 10?
- an OS 7, 8, & 9 holdout.
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Stallman's software wasn't a 'myth' back in the BBS days. I have a printed GNU Emacs manual written by Stallman that was publised in 1986. The difference is, back in 'those days' the UNIX people lived apart from us 'mere home computer' folks from their expensive UNIX workstations. Stallman's culture just comes at the modern computing world from a different starting point than the BBS'n folks. It was around then.
Do developers out there voice the need to store binaries? I can imagine this being needed for web developers and such, but I think programmers can just build their binaries from CVS.
Yes, developers definitely need to store binaries. I worked on a project awhile back where the boot block code was a finished binary. Because CVS was used to house the project, a horrible kludge involving UUENCODE had to be used to store the binary commits. Sometimes the binary was created by a totally different tool that the main build machine doesn't have. In the case I speak of, the binary was built with an expensive licensed assembler for an Analog Devices DSP chip, and contained as a body of the 'build' because it was dynamically 'injected' into the dsp processor from the native processor, which happened to be an 80196.
There are always cases where a binary needs to be committed. Think about bitmaps and other resources. It doesn't make sense to 'generate them from source' every time a build is done.
Given all this, it's my understanding that with newer versions of CVS binaries can be committed safely. Is this even an instance where 'Subversion' is needed?
When I installed Office 2000 recently, it told me, with the tons of options that I selected, that it was going to take up about 240MB of my hard drive.
There's tons and tons of filler, clipart, fonts, and 'training' fluff crowded onto the CD. Just like there always has been, going back to Office 4.3 with 'Bookshelf.'
Newsbin is a shareware application primarily targetted at people downloading porn jpegs.
Sure, there are a handful of jpeg groups that don't focus entirely on porn, but I'd estimate they represent less than 2% of the traffic. Newsbin, if you've never tried it, gives you 'clickable' previews as each jpeg is downloaded, so you can 'abort' download of the ones that aren't your particular flavor of porn. Or, I suppose, you can do the wank-into-hankie thing while watching them stream by.
I'd rather have him go to a third party USENET server. If enough ISPs quit providing binary USENET groups, they would become purely a third-party-provider thing. That would characterise them as nothing more than the equivalent of FTP warez sites, which is about right.
What I'm not happy about is the possiblity of USENET being snuffed out entirely.
Better yet, go to a good surplus equipment auction. I went to one a few months ago where there were all sorts of laser printers, many with a half full toner cartridge already in them, that sold for $10-25. I saw a LaserJet 5P go for $20. (Ouch! That's the printer I use, and I paid like $800 for mine new). I have four or five printers from one of those auctions out in the garage, and I'm probably going to end up throwing away most of them because it's just not worth fussing with them. (I bought one of the 'tables' of printers after everybody had bought off the printer they wanted. Got the whole table for $5 and it had a nice commercial shredder that I use, which paid for the whole deal)
In any case, laserjet toner cartridges don't dry out from not being used, and you get a cartridge that will print five or six reams of paper for $40 if you buy refilled carts.
And here we see the fallacy and why the 'tricks' people use to save on printing will never scale:
When the original cartridge was just too bad to recycle it it was time to finally buy a new one, but we were unable to find it in Rosario nor in Buenos Aires.
The original cartridge was unavailable because nobody is buying them. In a world where everybody refills, there won't be any cartridges to refill.
It hasn't come from anywhere yet. If the statute he suggested were enacted then the right would come from that statute, obviously
You've got it entirely backwards.
'Rights' are not granted by government. They exist naturally, and good government is established and laws and a constitution are codified to insure that said rights are preserved.
Anything not specifically prohibited is a 'right.' The notion that government 'grants' rights is backwards and feudal. We don't have a 'King' anymore who gives people their liberty.
Or are you from one of those countries that still has a Monarchy?
But you misunderstand the mission of the FSF, the GPL is only necessary while copyright law exists.
Umm, I think you are the one misunderstanding the mission of the FSF. Nowhere in their mission statements or documents does it say anything about abolishing copyright. Thank goodness the opponents of the FSF can't quote you on this, cuz you're just a Slashdot A.C., because your attitude discredits the FSF.
No, they can just 'clip the eighth bit,' i.e. do things that make it impossible to include binary attachments.
It wouldn't be that difficult. Sure, it's all UUEncoded or some other method which makes it ASCII clean, but the encoded text can be 'broken' easily and still result in readable ASCII newsgroup text for 'legitimate' news articles.
The thing I can think of is that without the binaries, USENET would be much more manageable for the ISPs. Plus the corn-dog porn guys who download all those girlie pix suck bigtime bandwidth. I know somebody who downloads that crap 24/7 for some reason, stashing it all on cakeboxes full of CDRs.
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It sounds excellent to me, as a non-cellphone user.
If they had to hang up every six minutes and call again, it wouldn't always be as annoying. Still, I worry about the tard in front of me on the road, who'd likely sit at the stopsign and wind the thing up, which is even worse that the way it goes now.
The only use I ever found for the LW spectrum on my Grundig radio was when I worked at a company that was doing close-range telemetry down in the 70KHz range. I could monitor and 'play' the telemetry audibly.
I always had the dream of running a BBS on a laptop or lunchbox portable with a cellular modem, powered by the vehicle sometime. I dreamed of smuggling it onto a city bus and installing it surrpetitiously.
Then everybody could dial it up, wherever it happened to be.
It was an impractical idea, of course, but those were the olden days of 1200 baud being for the rich kids, etc.
I have several hand-powered drills. They're cordless and not even electric.
One piece of gear that kinda fits into this discussion is a wind-up non-battery portable cassette player that I remember hearing about. It uses a clockwork/spring system for the tape transport and generates the small amount of power neede to run the electronics and drive the headphone.
I've thought for a long time that it would be a really cool thing to have, but haven't ever tracked down who makes and sells it.
Oh, and there's a DigiComp 1 for sale on eBay right now. That's a hand powered all-plastic digital computer. I had one when I was a kid. It's selling for a heck of a lot of money now.
Quicktime isn't unobtrusive.
Until you learn how to squash it, it pops up that annoying 'buy the better version' thing every time you run it.
And let's not get started about the brushed-chrome frame it pulls up, that you can't get rid of, or the way it ignores the Windows User Interface conventions.
My problem is that they actively hide intrusive settings and options when you're installing their crap. In that tediously long set of dialogues where their software tries to take over every bloody multimedia extension on your system. All the default-checked radio buttons are scrolled down below view in the window. Obviously put there on purpose.
Isn't there still a bunch of 'preferences' stuck away in the System folder that need to be cleared out? I know I've seen the mess in there on OS 9 machines. Did they do away with that in OS 10?
- an OS 7, 8, & 9 holdout.
Stallman's software wasn't a 'myth' back in the BBS days. I have a printed GNU Emacs manual written by Stallman that was publised in 1986. The difference is, back in 'those days' the UNIX people lived apart from us 'mere home computer' folks from their expensive UNIX workstations. Stallman's culture just comes at the modern computing world from a different starting point than the BBS'n folks. It was around then.
Do developers out there voice the need to store binaries? I can imagine this being needed for web developers and such, but I think programmers can just build their binaries from CVS.
Yes, developers definitely need to store binaries. I worked on a project awhile back where the boot block code was a finished binary. Because CVS was used to house the project, a horrible kludge involving UUENCODE had to be used to store the binary commits. Sometimes the binary was created by a totally different tool that the main build machine doesn't have. In the case I speak of, the binary was built with an expensive licensed assembler for an Analog Devices DSP chip, and contained as a body of the 'build' because it was dynamically 'injected' into the dsp processor from the native processor, which happened to be an 80196.
There are always cases where a binary needs to be committed. Think about bitmaps and other resources. It doesn't make sense to 'generate them from source' every time a build is done.
Given all this, it's my understanding that with newer versions of CVS binaries can be committed safely. Is this even an instance where 'Subversion' is needed?
Microsoft Office doesn't really soak up two CDs.
When I installed Office 2000 recently, it told me, with the tons of options that I selected, that it was going to take up about 240MB of my hard drive.
There's tons and tons of filler, clipart, fonts, and 'training' fluff crowded onto the CD. Just like there always has been, going back to Office 4.3 with 'Bookshelf.'
Yes, but a luddite could have said 'brush your teeth with arsenic' in the 19th century and demanded a shutdown of the science of Chemistry.
Newsbin is a shareware application primarily targetted at people downloading porn jpegs.
Sure, there are a handful of jpeg groups that don't focus entirely on porn, but I'd estimate they represent less than 2% of the traffic. Newsbin, if you've never tried it, gives you 'clickable' previews as each jpeg is downloaded, so you can 'abort' download of the ones that aren't your particular flavor of porn. Or, I suppose, you can do the wank-into-hankie thing while watching them stream by.
I'd rather have him go to a third party USENET server. If enough ISPs quit providing binary USENET groups, they would become purely a third-party-provider thing. That would characterise them as nothing more than the equivalent of FTP warez sites, which is about right.
What I'm not happy about is the possiblity of USENET being snuffed out entirely.
You haven't studied the US Constitution or the history of the discussion that led up to it's writing.
Maybe it's irrelevant to you. Are you a US Citizen? You could be, we let just about anybody in.
To your last question: Yes those 'rights' exist independently of government, unless you live under a government that has taken them away.
Sheesh. You'd do well under feudalism with your attitude.
That isn't his job. His job is to sit on his hands and watch them struggle, then come here and slag Microsoft for fun.
A perfect snapshot example of the kind of admin arrogance that Personal Computer users revile.
The days of 'fill out form 11-B and wait two weeks and maybe we'll install that app for you' are gone.
That model of administration is dead, except in the largest most reptilian corporations.
Better yet, go to a good surplus equipment auction. I went to one a few months ago where there were all sorts of laser printers, many with a half full toner cartridge already in them, that sold for $10-25. I saw a LaserJet 5P go for $20. (Ouch! That's the printer I use, and I paid like $800 for mine new). I have four or five printers from one of those auctions out in the garage, and I'm probably going to end up throwing away most of them because it's just not worth fussing with them. (I bought one of the 'tables' of printers after everybody had bought off the printer they wanted. Got the whole table for $5 and it had a nice commercial shredder that I use, which paid for the whole deal)
In any case, laserjet toner cartridges don't dry out from not being used, and you get a cartridge that will print five or six reams of paper for $40 if you buy refilled carts.
In some cars, the diagnostics and control electronics are embedded into the radio chassis. So yanking out that factory radio screws up the car.
All I could thing of is: "But what about the Macintoshes?!?" (yelled in 'what about the children' tone of voice)
And here we see the fallacy and why the 'tricks' people use to save on printing will never scale:
When the original cartridge was just too bad to recycle it it was time to finally buy a new one, but we were unable to find it in Rosario nor in Buenos Aires.
The original cartridge was unavailable because nobody is buying them. In a world where everybody refills, there won't be any cartridges to refill.
Well, Linux is a confederacy of little fiefdoms.
Linus is an enlightened despot.
It hasn't come from anywhere yet. If the statute he suggested were enacted then the right would come from that statute, obviously
You've got it entirely backwards.
'Rights' are not granted by government. They exist naturally, and good government is established and laws and a constitution are codified to insure that said rights are preserved.
Anything not specifically prohibited is a 'right.' The notion that government 'grants' rights is backwards and feudal. We don't have a 'King' anymore who gives people their liberty.
Or are you from one of those countries that still has a Monarchy?
But you misunderstand the mission of the FSF, the GPL is only necessary while copyright law exists.
Umm, I think you are the one misunderstanding the mission of the FSF. Nowhere in their mission statements or documents does it say anything about abolishing copyright. Thank goodness the opponents of the FSF can't quote you on this, cuz you're just a Slashdot A.C., because your attitude discredits the FSF.
Ellison was one of the (few) writers in Television in the 60's who make it worth watching the reruns. Not just Star Trek. Outer Limits, etc.
And his novels and short stories are good too. Short stories better than novels, for the most part.
He also is in person arrogant, with low social skills. Most people who meet him in person either get along with him or hate his guts.
No, they can just 'clip the eighth bit,' i.e. do things that make it impossible to include binary attachments.
It wouldn't be that difficult. Sure, it's all UUEncoded or some other method which makes it ASCII clean, but the encoded text can be 'broken' easily and still result in readable ASCII newsgroup text for 'legitimate' news articles.
The thing I can think of is that without the binaries, USENET would be much more manageable for the ISPs. Plus the corn-dog porn guys who download all those girlie pix suck bigtime bandwidth. I know somebody who downloads that crap 24/7 for some reason, stashing it all on cakeboxes full of CDRs.