It's well known that the tcp/ip stack in Windows was lifted from BSD, as it was the most rock-solid implementation existing. How MS managed to screw it up is entirely beyond me.
I work for the largest producer of traveling interactive exhibits for children's museums, science museums, etc... in the USA. Our traveling show on Africa just came back from a 5 year run. All of the audio was done with cheap Sony (DON'T use another brands, they don't hold up) CD players (bought refurbished, in bulk, from a Sony outlet store... check their online store as well). They were controlled by a Basic Stamp programmed so that when the play button was pressed, they pulsed a DIP reed relay which pulsed the start contacts, then timed out so that further presses wouldn't have a problem with the play/pause being on the same button. Cheap amplifiers from Radio Shack, push buttons from Happ Controls (Accept NO substitutes, no one else's are worth a damn), and either small speakers from Radio Shack or armored phone headsets from ID Tell in NYC round out the package. Burn a single audio track on each CD, assemble it in a compact box, and you're good to go. Don't try to use headphones; if you don't build your own out of armor jacketed cable and industrial ear protector headsets, they WILL NOT hold up. Total cost will be under $100 per station and the sound quality will be as good as any industrial DMR out there, while being RELIABLE and EASILY SERVICED (EXTREMELY important considerations in the museum environment). Anything involving a PC for something like this is technical overkill and simply won't hold up in the museum environment.
Because as Americans, it's our God-given, constitutional right to take a perfectly good, simple, working process, and fuck it up beyond recognition by application of successive layers of increasingly complex technology.
This is not a troll, idiot. This is a serious possibility. It's been done before in other fields under the guise of national security here in the US. I have personal experience of at least one instance, I'm sure there have been MANY more.
M$ decided to pull out of Europe, stop selling its products there, and invalidate all existing licenses?
Hmmm... how about not merely seizure of physical assets, but also seizure and invalidation of European copyrights on ALL M$ software on national security grounds, and release of said code into the public domain?
Yeah, that'd be a REAL good business decision on Bill's part.
Planet CCRMA
http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software /
The AGNULA Project
http://www.agnula.org/
Enough toys to keep you busy for a day or two.
...for many professors, writing textbooks provides a serious boost to their salary. I had several courses in which the professor not only wrote the text, but made serious revisions every year in order to keep his revenue stream up. So not only could you not shop around to find a better price on a new text nor buy a used copy to keep your costs down, the resale value at the end of the semester was zip.
We were using them for multimedia presentations at the Museum of Science and Industry in L.A. They controlled full motion interactive video using Sony LDP1000s, and all networked together to the mighty Corvus 5 MB (enormous!) hard drive. Reliable as a brick. And all this in 1984.
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...and you do realize that he mentioned timestamping at the end of the story... wait, you didn't read it to the end?
I would assume everyone here has heard of it, but let me bring those new to the party up to speed...
Apple IS working on an x86 port of OSX. Or was, anyway. Never officially, but Google "Project Marklar" and see what you find.
You don't think Bill is keeping Office alive on the Mac platform for altruistic reasons, do you?
It's well known that the tcp/ip stack in Windows was lifted from BSD, as it was the most rock-solid implementation existing. How MS managed to screw it up is entirely beyond me.
I work for the largest producer of traveling interactive exhibits for children's museums, science museums, etc... in the USA. Our traveling show on Africa just came back from a 5 year run. All of the audio was done with cheap Sony (DON'T use another brands, they don't hold up) CD players (bought refurbished, in bulk, from a Sony outlet store... check their online store as well). They were controlled by a Basic Stamp programmed so that when the play button was pressed, they pulsed a DIP reed relay which pulsed the start contacts, then timed out so that further presses wouldn't have a problem with the play/pause being on the same button. Cheap amplifiers from Radio Shack, push buttons from Happ Controls (Accept NO substitutes, no one else's are worth a damn), and either small speakers from Radio Shack or armored phone headsets from ID Tell in NYC round out the package. Burn a single audio track on each CD, assemble it in a compact box, and you're good to go. Don't try to use headphones; if you don't build your own out of armor jacketed cable and industrial ear protector headsets, they WILL NOT hold up. Total cost will be under $100 per station and the sound quality will be as good as any industrial DMR out there, while being RELIABLE and EASILY SERVICED (EXTREMELY important considerations in the museum environment). Anything involving a PC for something like this is technical overkill and simply won't hold up in the museum environment.
Because as Americans, it's our God-given, constitutional right to take a perfectly good, simple, working process, and fuck it up beyond recognition by application of successive layers of increasingly complex technology.
You do know he killed John Lennon, right?
Personally, I prefer Everclear.
This is not a troll, idiot. This is a serious possibility. It's been done before in other fields under the guise of national security here in the US. I have personal experience of at least one instance, I'm sure there have been MANY more.
M$ decided to pull out of Europe, stop selling its products there, and invalidate all existing licenses? Hmmm... how about not merely seizure of physical assets, but also seizure and invalidation of European copyrights on ALL M$ software on national security grounds, and release of said code into the public domain? Yeah, that'd be a REAL good business decision on Bill's part.
Planet CCRMA http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software /
The AGNULA Project
http://www.agnula.org/
Enough toys to keep you busy for a day or two.
but would that be running an Indian 7-11 or driving a cab? ;)
...and who copied it? ;)
...for many professors, writing textbooks provides a serious boost to their salary. I had several courses in which the professor not only wrote the text, but made serious revisions every year in order to keep his revenue stream up. So not only could you not shop around to find a better price on a new text nor buy a used copy to keep your costs down, the resale value at the end of the semester was zip.
We were using them for multimedia presentations at the Museum of Science and Industry in L.A. They controlled full motion interactive video using Sony LDP1000s, and all networked together to the mighty Corvus 5 MB (enormous!) hard drive. Reliable as a brick. And all this in 1984.
...who has any dealings with the police whatsoever can expect, at some point, to spend time in handcuffs.
Remember... Deputy Dan has no friends.
...before we get Godzilla On Ice?