I used my C64 in college and used some free word processor that came in COMPUTE! magazine. I used to put my 'papers' on disk and I had a roomate that would load it up and copy what I wrote. I ended up using a sector editor to hide my papers on disk. I still have my boxed C64, Vic-20, 1541 Drive, and 2 cassette drives. I always thought I would fire up the old C64 but I never had. I did set it up about 5 years ago to see if it still works, and it does, but to go through the monumental task of reviewing all my disks just seems like a waste of time today to me.
I've always wondered if I could remember how to unlock my files if I could find them.
I predicted that Windows ME will be a disaster and that the consumer successor based on NT would be the better replacement. I predicted that I would stop using future Windows products if the NT successor (XP) required activation. I predict that Vista upon release will be an abomination for the average end user and it won't get fixed until the first service pack where backwards compatability and user experience will take center stage. With that, you're looking at 2008 for a successful release date of a usable product - that is if Microsoft will allow licenses of XP to be sold until then.
Your local big box computer store will be the ones to suffer as they won't be able to swap an HP laptop with Vista for an iBook running Leopard that will also run Windows apps natively.
Same thing that happens when I drive my car on a road and BAM, I hit a mountain, or a house, or a building, or a lake. I mean shit, maybe the engineers would be smart enough to put it somewhere where there isn't any air traffic and restrict the airspace like all the other high altitude tethered balloons. It isn't like airplanes are just 'flying' around. There are specified airways that commercial pilots take to save fuel and I'd imagine that any GA aircraft would get torn apart if the were to hit the elevator. I'd be more worried about a Uhaul truck with explosives driving up to the base, all it takes is one crazy individual that happens to know how to drive a truck.
Wasn't this the reason for satellite vs. cable debate a while ago? Currently both put out 1080i but as DirecTV upgrades their satellites to MPEG4, they'll be able to send 1080p60 signals before cable is able to?
I have a 21 year old NEC 25" monitor that is a professional studio monitor I acquired through a studio downsizing. It has 2 composite inputs, 1 VTR input, speaker out terminals, and monitor out outputs. Well before composite connectors were included on the front of televisions, I had this one. Played many hours of Sega Genesis, Turbografx, SuperNES and N64 on it as hookup was pretty damn easy.
The colors are still good but the black is starting to get a little light so I've decided to jump on the bandwagon and get an HD set.
The way I see it is that there isn't enough HD content yet. There just isn't and it is analogous to color vs. BW or mastered analog recordings to CD or VHS transfer to DVD vs re-mastered DVD for that matter (remember the AAD,ADD,DDD labels on the early CDs?)
When color TV came out, color programming was few and far between. Today, where is the HD content? Is is being cranked out at an impressive rate but really, if you have HD programming, you have less than 20 channels in a pasture of 200+ channels.
So far, the HD DVDs that have been released are all film based films and not HD films. Where is the IMAX or a 100% true HD DVD? How many films have been filmed using HD equipment? Isn't it 2 Star Wars, a Superman, and a Sin City? We know that they scan film using a 4000dpi process but how good does that look in 1080p?
I will say that the HD programming that does exist is impressive and does make we want more but it'll take years to get there as the current crop of HD DVDs are mediocre and seem to appear that they are only upsampled versions of the standard DVD.
Libertarian too, roads don't change that much every 5 years. Until we get personal teleportation bandwidth, there is plenty of competition space in broadband yet to be conquered. I would like to see infrastructure different from service provider though. I don't want verizon service on verizon backbone as this ensures compatability and fair competition.
If the locals can own the infrastructure and keep up to date, then let that be another competitor. Hell, if I can offer a T1 service on a local cheaper than a Bell, then I'm for government competition.
I'm almost beginning to believe that a nationally run telecommunications monopoly may be a better thing after all.
Um, no.
I remmeber AT&T as king dog and I also remeber phone leases and elevated long distance calls. In the 70s, a phone lease was about $5 a month and a one time purchase of about $70- you never owned the phone you used, kinda like the cable box or satellite receiver is now. In state long distance for my state started at 12cents a minute past 40 miles from the center of town and went up from there. Out of state calls were $.35 a minute - I still have a phone book from the 70s with the rates published.
Keep in mind that in the mid 70s, movies were $.75 for a matinee and $3.00 for evening rates. I was a kid and paid $1.25 to see Star Wars.
You probably grew up in some rural town being 26 and remembering that. I too grew up in a rural town and remember the 5 cent deposit for bottles. I also remember when canned drinks (beer) had removable tabs.
The suspend and sleep features are fairly crappy for Windows; at least not on par with Mac.
I used to use the sleep feature on my Win laptop (used to travel around and install and configure routers and such) and it's fine for a few awakenings but you can't keep a bunch of apps loaded without the system being buggy. I eventually would reboot in the morning and load the essential before venturing out and do it daily. Daily reboots that is.
My Mac has gone months without reboots and might add that it is operational within 2 seconds of opening the lid. I've only manually rebooted when it was time for security related patches that affected me. One thing that I use Windows for is the USB to serial for a console port which is why I use both platforms.
I live close to the boonies, 1 block away from having to use septic tanks. The internet mix is Cox and Sprint Broadband. I haven't heard anything bad regarding this Sprint service. You get your own IP address and VPN isn't an issue.
I just had a client that had her email address removed from cox.net with no warning. She pays them for personal and business services. Finding the reason why took about 3 weeks. There was another first initial/last name account that had a different email address but same FI/LN. (my client, Jane Doe, used jdoe@cox.net. The person who cancelled service was John Doe with email john.doe@cox.net but jdoe@cox.net was removed.)
Laid-off workers got one to three weeks pay for each year of service, up to 16 weeks for hourly employees and 36 weeks for those with base bay of at least $90,000, the company said.
That's been my experience. The carriers aren't going to 'let' you use another phone that isn't theirs. Even though it's technically possible, it takes the actual clerk that has disdain for the company to actually let it happen. I have yet to find a willing clerk and it isn't worth my time to find one. Just gimme my free phone.
I guess you aren't aware of fast food and strip mall stores. Radio Shack qualifies as a strip mall store. None of those businesses have security guards. It's usually the manager on duty to tell the employee "you're fired!", give them their last paycheck, and see them out.
Every cellphone I've had has had the same, a master reset and a master clear which to me, and I'm a snoop, cleaned out everything. Why even try to sell a phone that is so last years model?
If you're on a plan, you get free phones and if you're on a pre-pay, those phones are only good for that plan.
I go through a ream of paper in 2-3 months. Usually 2 months. Printer is ML-1710. It's USB only and I have it on a print server and Lin/Mac/Win prints to it.
I don't want my government telling me what to buy. Let the free market sort it out. Let the idiots pay the inflated electricity prices for using incandescent.
I don't smoke but I think it's criminal for local governments telling businesses that they can't allow smokers in their establishments.
I won't go into a smoky bar but if smokers want to go into a bar and smoke, let them.
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Doesn't it also include 2 channel audio?
I used my C64 in college and used some free word processor that came in COMPUTE! magazine. I used to put my 'papers' on disk and I had a roomate that would load it up and copy what I wrote. I ended up using a sector editor to hide my papers on disk. I still have my boxed C64, Vic-20, 1541 Drive, and 2 cassette drives. I always thought I would fire up the old C64 but I never had. I did set it up about 5 years ago to see if it still works, and it does, but to go through the monumental task of reviewing all my disks just seems like a waste of time today to me.
I've always wondered if I could remember how to unlock my files if I could find them.
I predicted that Windows ME will be a disaster and that the consumer successor based on NT would be the better replacement.
I predicted that I would stop using future Windows products if the NT successor (XP) required activation.
I predict that Vista upon release will be an abomination for the average end user and it won't get fixed until the first service pack where backwards compatability and user experience will take center stage. With that, you're looking at 2008 for a successful release date of a usable product - that is if Microsoft will allow licenses of XP to be sold until then.
Your local big box computer store will be the ones to suffer as they won't be able to swap an HP laptop with Vista for an iBook running Leopard that will also run Windows apps natively.
Same thing that happens when I drive my car on a road and BAM, I hit a mountain, or a house, or a building, or a lake. I mean shit, maybe the engineers would be smart enough to put it somewhere where there isn't any air traffic and restrict the airspace like all the other high altitude tethered balloons.
It isn't like airplanes are just 'flying' around. There are specified airways that commercial pilots take to save fuel and I'd imagine that any GA aircraft would get torn apart if the were to hit the elevator. I'd be more worried about a Uhaul truck with explosives driving up to the base, all it takes is one crazy individual that happens to know how to drive a truck.
That's my point, the grain is evident at that level.
Trying to clarfy some tech specs here, the following may be wrong.
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According to Wikipedia, 1080p30 is the highest for broadcast. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p#Broadcasting_s
Wasn't this the reason for satellite vs. cable debate a while ago? Currently both put out 1080i but as DirecTV upgrades their satellites to MPEG4, they'll be able to send 1080p60 signals before cable is able to?
When you were a kid, you could purchase scenes from a movie on 8mm and 16mm for your projector. And sound wasn't included.
I have a 21 year old NEC 25" monitor that is a professional studio monitor I acquired through a studio downsizing. It has 2 composite inputs, 1 VTR input, speaker out terminals, and monitor out outputs. Well before composite connectors were included on the front of televisions, I had this one.
Played many hours of Sega Genesis, Turbografx, SuperNES and N64 on it as hookup was pretty damn easy.
The colors are still good but the black is starting to get a little light so I've decided to jump on the bandwagon and get an HD set.
The way I see it is that there isn't enough HD content yet. There just isn't and it is analogous to color vs. BW or mastered analog recordings to CD or VHS transfer to DVD vs re-mastered DVD for that matter (remember the AAD,ADD,DDD labels on the early CDs?)
When color TV came out, color programming was few and far between. Today, where is the HD content? Is is being cranked out at an impressive rate but really, if you have HD programming, you have less than 20 channels in a pasture of 200+ channels.
So far, the HD DVDs that have been released are all film based films and not HD films. Where is the IMAX or a 100% true HD DVD? How many films have been filmed using HD equipment? Isn't it 2 Star Wars, a Superman, and a Sin City?
We know that they scan film using a 4000dpi process but how good does that look in 1080p?
I will say that the HD programming that does exist is impressive and does make we want more but it'll take years to get there as the current crop of HD DVDs are mediocre and seem to appear that they are only upsampled versions of the standard DVD.
Libertarian too, roads don't change that much every 5 years. Until we get personal teleportation bandwidth, there is plenty of competition space in broadband yet to be conquered. I would like to see infrastructure different from service provider though. I don't want verizon service on verizon backbone as this ensures compatability and fair competition.
If the locals can own the infrastructure and keep up to date, then let that be another competitor. Hell, if I can offer a T1 service on a local cheaper than a Bell, then I'm for government competition.
I'm almost beginning to believe that a nationally run telecommunications monopoly may be a better thing after all.
Um, no.
I remmeber AT&T as king dog and I also remeber phone leases and elevated long distance calls.
In the 70s, a phone lease was about $5 a month and a one time purchase of about $70- you never owned the phone you used, kinda like the cable box or satellite receiver is now.
In state long distance for my state started at 12cents a minute past 40 miles from the center of town and went up from there. Out of state calls were $.35 a minute - I still have a phone book from the 70s with the rates published.
Keep in mind that in the mid 70s, movies were $.75 for a matinee and $3.00 for evening rates. I was a kid and paid $1.25 to see Star Wars.
You probably grew up in some rural town being 26 and remembering that. I too grew up in a rural town and remember the 5 cent deposit for bottles.
I also remember when canned drinks (beer) had removable tabs.
The suspend and sleep features are fairly crappy for Windows; at least not on par with Mac.
I used to use the sleep feature on my Win laptop (used to travel around and install and configure routers and such) and it's fine for a few awakenings but you can't keep a bunch of apps loaded without the system being buggy. I eventually would reboot in the morning and load the essential before venturing out and do it daily. Daily reboots that is.
My Mac has gone months without reboots and might add that it is operational within 2 seconds of opening the lid. I've only manually rebooted when it was time for security related patches that affected me. One thing that I use Windows for is the USB to serial for a console port which is why I use both platforms.
Have you looked at Sprint Broadband? http://www.sprintbroadband.com/
I live close to the boonies, 1 block away from having to use septic tanks. The internet mix is Cox and Sprint Broadband.
I haven't heard anything bad regarding this Sprint service. You get your own IP address and VPN isn't an issue.
I just had a client that had her email address removed from cox.net with no warning.
She pays them for personal and business services.
Finding the reason why took about 3 weeks. There was another first initial/last name account that had a different email address but same FI/LN.
(my client, Jane Doe, used jdoe@cox.net. The person who cancelled service was John Doe with email john.doe@cox.net but jdoe@cox.net was removed.)
Now, she is with another email service.
Wow, I guess you didn't read TFA either.
Laid-off workers got one to three weeks pay for each year of service, up to 16 weeks for hourly employees and 36 weeks for those with base bay of at least $90,000, the company said.
hourly employees = strip mall employees
That's been my experience. The carriers aren't going to 'let' you use another phone that isn't theirs. Even though it's technically possible, it takes the actual clerk that has disdain for the company to actually let it happen. I have yet to find a willing clerk and it isn't worth my time to find one. Just gimme my free phone.
I guess you aren't aware of fast food and strip mall stores. Radio Shack qualifies as a strip mall store.
None of those businesses have security guards. It's usually the manager on duty to tell the employee "you're fired!", give them their last paycheck, and see them out.
Every cellphone I've had has had the same, a master reset and a master clear which to me, and I'm a snoop, cleaned out everything.
Why even try to sell a phone that is so last years model?
If you're on a plan, you get free phones and if you're on a pre-pay, those phones are only good for that plan.
Linky to the $39 Progressive DVD player9 425&type=product&productCategoryId=cat03013&id=113 4703131739
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=767
You must be pretty young then.
I remember when Star Wars was $80 for a Beta tape in 1981.
I paid $29 each for Star Trek:TMP and III in 1984.
I go through a ream of paper in 2-3 months. Usually 2 months. Printer is ML-1710. It's USB only and I have it on a print server and Lin/Mac/Win prints to it.
My point about the $80 is that is the cost of a toner cartridge.
You miss Russia of the 60's?
I don't want my government telling me what to buy. Let the free market sort it out. Let the idiots pay the inflated electricity prices for using incandescent.
I don't smoke but I think it's criminal for local governments telling businesses that they can't allow smokers in their establishments.
I won't go into a smoky bar but if smokers want to go into a bar and smoke, let them.
My $99 Samsung ML-1710 uses $40 of toner per year (that's $80 every two years)