If power failures and natural disaster periods are the only time the hams can operate their gear in those bands, do you seriously think they will be maintained and the network of ham operators will continue to exist?
This is a step backward to the days of spark gap broadcasting. It's crude and it's a horrendously unintelligent approach to carrying bandwidth. It's the equivalent of deciding that we can recover the sewer lines and instead use them to deliver fresh milk to people's homes, just by running it through the existing pipes the other way.
Well, to start with, there are layers of directories instead of a few clean textfiles. And if you go in and touch it yourself with a plain editor you're likely to break the automatic config tools.
There don't appear to have been very many Olumpus or Fuji cameras on the racks at Walgreens, where the volume camera buyers (Grandmas and Aunts) do their shopping. Face it, the twinks at Best Buy do NOT dominate the market for cameras.
There are countless brands (or there were) of 126 cartridges. The point in the 126 cartridge wasn't to lock people into a proprietary technology, it was to make it easy for grandma to change the film.
The same is true of the 110 cartridge.
You've gotta stop using cookie-cutter 'evile corporation' templates to define your whole world-vision, dude.
Kodak is like IBM, in that they spend oodles of money on R&D and have one hell of a patent portfolio.
Also, they have tremendous market share in current digital photography infrastructure, in the form of all those printing kiosks in Walgreens.
Further, they have the brand and mindshare.
Okay, some of the above are viewed as 'bad' by the twinks who hang out on Slashdot. But Kodak knows what they're doing, and they're gonna hold onto the market.
My main experience has been that the local Metro paper here has a website for the whole paper, except instead of publishing the actual want ads online as printed in the paper, they've somehow bought into the 'Careerbuilder' bullshit so you are dragged to a not-local junksite instead of being able to view the ads published in the daily paper.
It's not adequate, and it seems that the 'Careerbuilder' sorts have done a sales job. I suppose my complaints should be directed at the local paper, though.
Really stupid idea. Publish the fricking help wanted ads from your print edition online, newspapers.
I knew a few people with Amigas, and they copped an attitude. But I had an 8088 cobbled together out of swapmeet parts, and it for a long time only had an MDA card (80x25 text only). I was impressed when I finally got one of those tricky Paradise cards that let me run CGA graphics on my 'green screen' Monochrome monitor. I was too cheap back in that era to buy an EGA monitor, and the text quality of CGA graphics cards on the PC was/is below tolerable. I turned 'elite' for a time and ran EGA monochrome. With the real IBM EGA card, unexpanded with it's base 64K of RAM, there was a jumper setting to use it in 'monochrome' mode with a regular mono monitor that gave nice snappy high-res. graphics for Windows and a very few select programs (this was running Windows 2.1 and later 3.0). It made it impossible to run almost any 'games' at all.
I only got a VGA monitor when the cheap grayscale monitors came on the market, and only bought a fixed frequency color monitor when I had to for Sim Earth.
I prefer The Big U. It's Neil Stephenson before he got all full of himself and started bloating out his prose with filler. And it's a riot of a read, and perfectly describes the 'Hacker' culture as one of 'never figured out the real world so remained a permanent denizen of a campus' mentality. As best depicted by RMS himself.
And as always, it's about what Apple's marketing people have accomplished. Not the fumblings of the lameos in development at Apple, who diddled around with 'the next generation OS' for a decade before they gave up and bought NeXT.
It doesn't matter what percentage of the population they make up. What percent of the criminals are black, and dressed in the 'street culture' fashion? It's time to get past 'race' and recognize people as individuals, and social problems as cultural, not genetic.
There are still people who revere and honor journalists like John Reed who covered up genocide and atrocities in the Soviet Union. There are still publications like The Nation that maintain the Big Lie as truth.
I recently picked up a skid of old HP Vectras at an auction. I got ten Pentium II 400 machines for $15 apiece. I've slapped a Pentium III processor in one of them and retired my 'clone' box, which was a P III 800 in a minitower case. The Vectra is smaller, less noisy, and now I'm going to sell off the motherboard out of the 800 machine on eBay for a profit.
And I've switched my wife to one of the Vectras with the P II processor intact, without even telling her she's been downgraded from a P III 450 to a P II 400. The most strenuous task she puts her computer to is some online java games and Diablo II. And D II runs better now, as the new box has embedded Matrox graphics hardware, whereas her old clone box had a cheap no-name SiS graphic card.
On the 'server' side, I just got an IBM PC Server 704 at auction for $15, which has provision for four PPro 200 chips (came with just one installed) that I'm going to fire up to be the freenix box here. It has a 'Red Hat' sticker on it from whatever it was used for in the past. I'm going to 'liberate' it for NetBSD.
There are laws on the book that prohibit the use of the SSN as an ID number. They're laws that are often ignored, but my wife is a bit extreme about it and refuses to give it out in all kinds of circumstances many people wouldn't imagine they could get away with.
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If power failures and natural disaster periods are the only time the hams can operate their gear in those bands, do you seriously think they will be maintained and the network of ham operators will continue to exist?
This is a step backward to the days of spark gap broadcasting. It's crude and it's a horrendously unintelligent approach to carrying bandwidth. It's the equivalent of deciding that we can recover the sewer lines and instead use them to deliver fresh milk to people's homes, just by running it through the existing pipes the other way.
Well, to start with, there are layers of directories instead of a few clean textfiles. And if you go in and touch it yourself with a plain editor you're likely to break the automatic config tools.
Linux (especially Debian) makes this REALLY EASY.
Hah. You just discredited yourself right out in the open.
'Though I shall travel in the valley of dselect I shall fear no evil.'
since most of the stuff past the kernel level is exactly the same anyway.
Not really.
Most Linux systems conceal the configuration behind layers of python scripts and shiney-gooey-croft.
Most BSD systems can be properly configured using any 'UNIX system administration' book published in the last decade, and the vi editor.
So you just scatter your photographs around, and they exist, for the moment, in inboxes all 'round.
Prepare to be forgotten, dude.
There don't appear to have been very many Olumpus or Fuji cameras on the racks at Walgreens, where the volume camera buyers (Grandmas and Aunts) do their shopping. Face it, the twinks at Best Buy do NOT dominate the market for cameras.
Huh??
There are countless brands (or there were) of 126 cartridges. The point in the 126 cartridge wasn't to lock people into a proprietary technology, it was to make it easy for grandma to change the film.
The same is true of the 110 cartridge.
You've gotta stop using cookie-cutter 'evile corporation' templates to define your whole world-vision, dude.
How do I shave my face with your 'digital' razor?
The point this time was not to bash the Evil Empire(TM),
BZZZZZTT!
You're on slashdot, dude.
Kodak is like IBM, in that they spend oodles of money on R&D and have one hell of a patent portfolio.
Also, they have tremendous market share in current digital photography infrastructure, in the form of all those printing kiosks in Walgreens.
Further, they have the brand and mindshare.
Okay, some of the above are viewed as 'bad' by the twinks who hang out on Slashdot. But Kodak knows what they're doing, and they're gonna hold onto the market.
My main experience has been that the local Metro paper here has a website for the whole paper, except instead of publishing the actual want ads online as printed in the paper, they've somehow bought into the 'Careerbuilder' bullshit so you are dragged to a not-local junksite instead of being able to view the ads published in the daily paper.
It's not adequate, and it seems that the 'Careerbuilder' sorts have done a sales job. I suppose my complaints should be directed at the local paper, though.
Really stupid idea. Publish the fricking help wanted ads from your print edition online, newspapers.
I knew a few people with Amigas, and they copped an attitude. But I had an 8088 cobbled together out of swapmeet parts, and it for a long time only had an MDA card (80x25 text only). I was impressed when I finally got one of those tricky Paradise cards that let me run CGA graphics on my 'green screen' Monochrome monitor. I was too cheap back in that era to buy an EGA monitor, and the text quality of CGA graphics cards on the PC was/is below tolerable. I turned 'elite' for a time and ran EGA monochrome. With the real IBM EGA card, unexpanded with it's base 64K of RAM, there was a jumper setting to use it in 'monochrome' mode with a regular mono monitor that gave nice snappy high-res. graphics for Windows and a very few select programs (this was running Windows 2.1 and later 3.0). It made it impossible to run almost any 'games' at all.
I only got a VGA monitor when the cheap grayscale monitors came on the market, and only bought a fixed frequency color monitor when I had to for Sim Earth.
These were second hand SIMMs that I bought from a friend.
I suppose the 'fence' market would be lower, which this appears to pertain to.
I prefer The Big U. It's Neil Stephenson before he got all full of himself and started bloating out his prose with filler. And it's a riot of a read, and perfectly describes the 'Hacker' culture as one of 'never figured out the real world so remained a permanent denizen of a campus' mentality. As best depicted by RMS himself.
And as always, it's about what Apple's marketing people have accomplished. Not the fumblings of the lameos in development at Apple, who diddled around with 'the next generation OS' for a decade before they gave up and bought NeXT.
Private businesses are still not supposed to use the SSN as an index.
It doesn't matter what percentage of the population they make up. What percent of the criminals are black, and dressed in the 'street culture' fashion? It's time to get past 'race' and recognize people as individuals, and social problems as cultural, not genetic.
Fox News is widely decried as propaganda.
There are still people who revere and honor journalists like John Reed who covered up genocide and atrocities in the Soviet Union. There are still publications like The Nation that maintain the Big Lie as truth.
Librarians and file clerks often come up with the label for things they didn't create.
No, in about 1994 or so I paid $40 apiece for some 1 meg SIMMs and felt I was getting a good deal.
I thought Shockwave Rider by John Brunner was a better work. And it's the true 'pioneer' of cyberpunk novels. Gibson is just an also-ran.
Ummm, nobody's Apple //c was 'state of the art' back in the late '80s. 8 bittedness was tired by 1985.
Hear, hear.
I recently picked up a skid of old HP Vectras at an auction. I got ten Pentium II 400 machines for $15 apiece. I've slapped a Pentium III processor in one of them and retired my 'clone' box, which was a P III 800 in a minitower case. The Vectra is smaller, less noisy, and now I'm going to sell off the motherboard out of the 800 machine on eBay for a profit.
And I've switched my wife to one of the Vectras with the P II processor intact, without even telling her she's been downgraded from a P III 450 to a P II 400. The most strenuous task she puts her computer to is some online java games and Diablo II. And D II runs better now, as the new box has embedded Matrox graphics hardware, whereas her old clone box had a cheap no-name SiS graphic card.
On the 'server' side, I just got an IBM PC Server 704 at auction for $15, which has provision for four PPro 200 chips (came with just one installed) that I'm going to fire up to be the freenix box here. It has a 'Red Hat' sticker on it from whatever it was used for in the past. I'm going to 'liberate' it for NetBSD.
Naw. He just described Sourceforge.
There are laws on the book that prohibit the use of the SSN as an ID number. They're laws that are often ignored, but my wife is a bit extreme about it and refuses to give it out in all kinds of circumstances many people wouldn't imagine they could get away with.