I had a Scientific Atlanta DVR that I got at an estate sale. I paid $10 because nobody else seemed to know what it was. It had an 80 gig hard drive it it but no smartcard.
We can't get cable here. So I yanked the 80 gid drive out of it and sold the box without drive or smartcard on eBay for $80.
Indeed, I am a very happy Scientific Atlanta DVR customer, even though I despise almost all television and only powered the thing up once to see that it worked. It got me a free 80 gig drive with a $70 cash rebate.
That's a backpedal, right, since it now appears that when you pull up help in OpenOffice, a little picture-in-frame thing pops up in the lower right corner.
I (believe ir not) attended Microsoft's Office 2000 Launch Simulcast, and they had a significantly long anti-Clippy bit included as part of the program (since they'd introduced a whole plethora of helper-assistant options) Microsoft KNEW about the 'hate-clippy' thing even then. I think, if I remember right, that section of the program was even kind of a 'death to Clippy' thing.
But still, people slam 'clippy' as if it's a clever anti-Microsoft thing to do.
Sometimes, when I'm not sure if its a dogmatically Coke or Pepsi establishment (people take this stuff seriously, you know) I pronounce out the word Cola, as in 'I'd like a Cola, please' which almost always confuses the hell out of the order taker who is poised to say 'Would a [Pepsi|Coke] be alright.' Often they have to ask again what beverage I want.
Most of the people who I encounter who strut around acting all 'southern' and what-not get horrified if you confuse any other product for their cherished 'Coke' which must come from an authorized Coca-Cola bottling plant. Don't even mention Pepsi, because, you see, there's a BIG difference.
But, then, I spend too much time around people from the 'middle' states, i.e. Kentucky, who are really aggressive in asserting their 'southern-ness.'
I get treated weird on the job all the time for actually liking the tech. I have more, and better, oscilloscopes, test equipment, and other tools at home than I am assigned at work. There's a genuine distate that 'professionals' hold for people with 'enthusiasm' for the tech who work in the field. And lord help you if you're not on the management track and striving for that 'office with a door' within ten years of entering the field.
But there are also bosses and company owners who will go out of their way to find 'enthusiasts' to work for them in critical capacities.
It's important for there to be large dull organizations where knowning how to attend meetings and spew out fucking ISO-9000 drivel is important. But it's also important for there to be people who can do the creative work.
Luckily there are a lot of people willing to do the former and leave the cool stuff for some of the rest of us to have gainful fun doing.
You have to be willing to break a few things beyond repair while making mods.
Oh, come on. It's worse than that. The 'real' hardware hackers have been 'breaking things beyond repair' since before they could read and write. They dragged home electric things that got them in trouble with mom while in grade school. And they've been modifying, scrapping out, reusing parts from things for nearly that long.
An early inspiration for some of us was the Brains Benton novel series, i.e. the book Brains Benton (a red-headed genuine nerd from the old days) turned an ordinary AM radio into a transmitter that he and Jimmy (his 'regular kid' sidekick) used to trap the criminals.
I bought my copy of Horowitz & Hill in 1982 and I have never regretted it.
It's targeted, or it originally was, at the 'advanced scientist' who wants a good all-purpose electronics text/reference for laboratory instrumentation development. Sort of a shortcut text for those who didn't have time for a core EE courseload but actually USE a lot of electronics in practical applications.
Finding that buyer is expensive, though, and eats away any profit you'd make. I, for instance, have a pair of National Instruments NuBus data acquisition cards. When I looked online to find out how much they are worth, the only places I found selling them charge a HUGE amount. That's because scientific labs that still have systems using those cards will pay _*whatever*_ is necessary to get the system up and running if it stops because that almost unobtainable card fails.
But keeping a site up and running that panders to that market is fairly expensive. I could put the cards on eBay and get maybe ten dollars for them. It's quite possible one of the expensive vendors would buy, refurbish, and list them.
Ummm, this isn't an Apple fanboy site. Hell, this isn't even apple.slashdot.org. So it's not really the place to boast you paid more for Apple branded upgrade components.
Police activity and raids may decrease it, may drive people farther underground, but it will never go away.
Indeed. And police activity and raids should continue to drive it deeper and deeper underground. To do otherwise, yet call something 'illegal' is to put out bait for selective enforcement.
That's utter nonsense. There are many highly efficient file formats for compressing EXE files, that aren't lossy. Similarly, you can save a bitmap as a JPEG image, without any compression, and it will get somewhat smaller, and not lose information. Your comment seems to imply something is 'lossy' if something it's not designed to do doesn't work.
A bare piece of copper wire is 'lossy' if you try to run water through it.
If I am driving the safe distance behind the car in front of me in the left lane (right lane? either you're in the U.K. or you're a REALLY fucked up driver) at the same speed as the rest of traffic in that lane, back the fuck off. Thanks.
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I had a Scientific Atlanta DVR that I got at an estate sale. I paid $10 because nobody else seemed to know what it was. It had an 80 gig hard drive it it but no smartcard.
We can't get cable here. So I yanked the 80 gid drive out of it and sold the box without drive or smartcard on eBay for $80.
Indeed, I am a very happy Scientific Atlanta DVR customer, even though I despise almost all television and only powered the thing up once to see that it worked. It got me a free 80 gig drive with a $70 cash rebate.
That's a backpedal, right, since it now appears that when you pull up help in OpenOffice, a little picture-in-frame thing pops up in the lower right corner.
I (believe ir not) attended Microsoft's Office 2000 Launch Simulcast, and they had a significantly long anti-Clippy bit included as part of the program (since they'd introduced a whole plethora of helper-assistant options) Microsoft KNEW about the 'hate-clippy' thing even then. I think, if I remember right, that section of the program was even kind of a 'death to Clippy' thing.
But still, people slam 'clippy' as if it's a clever anti-Microsoft thing to do.
Yay for Patents!
Sometimes, when I'm not sure if its a dogmatically Coke or Pepsi establishment (people take this stuff seriously, you know) I pronounce out the word Cola, as in 'I'd like a Cola, please' which almost always confuses the hell out of the order taker who is poised to say 'Would a [Pepsi|Coke] be alright.' Often they have to ask again what beverage I want.
Big K cola from Kroeger rules, btw.
Most of the people who I encounter who strut around acting all 'southern' and what-not get horrified if you confuse any other product for their cherished 'Coke' which must come from an authorized Coca-Cola bottling plant. Don't even mention Pepsi, because, you see, there's a BIG difference.
But, then, I spend too much time around people from the 'middle' states, i.e. Kentucky, who are really aggressive in asserting their 'southern-ness.'
I get treated weird on the job all the time for actually liking the tech. I have more, and better, oscilloscopes, test equipment, and other tools at home than I am assigned at work. There's a genuine distate that 'professionals' hold for people with 'enthusiasm' for the tech who work in the field. And lord help you if you're not on the management track and striving for that 'office with a door' within ten years of entering the field.
But there are also bosses and company owners who will go out of their way to find 'enthusiasts' to work for them in critical capacities.
It's important for there to be large dull organizations where knowning how to attend meetings and spew out fucking ISO-9000 drivel is important. But it's also important for there to be people who can do the creative work.
Luckily there are a lot of people willing to do the former and leave the cool stuff for some of the rest of us to have gainful fun doing.
You have to be willing to break a few things beyond repair while making mods.
Oh, come on. It's worse than that. The 'real' hardware hackers have been 'breaking things beyond repair' since before they could read and write. They dragged home electric things that got them in trouble with mom while in grade school. And they've been modifying, scrapping out, reusing parts from things for nearly that long.
An early inspiration for some of us was the Brains Benton novel series, i.e. the book Brains Benton (a red-headed genuine nerd from the old days) turned an ordinary AM radio into a transmitter that he and Jimmy (his 'regular kid' sidekick) used to trap the criminals.
I bought my copy of Horowitz & Hill in 1982 and I have never regretted it.
It's targeted, or it originally was, at the 'advanced scientist' who wants a good all-purpose electronics text/reference for laboratory instrumentation development. Sort of a shortcut text for those who didn't have time for a core EE courseload but actually USE a lot of electronics in practical applications.
I sell Macs on eBay as a business. I don't buy them.
I'm confused. Are you equating the coke with shit? Or do you get shitfaced at lunch?
But how could any other business copy a TiVo system easily? I thought it had an embedded OS in it.
They released the SOURCE to the embedded OS in the TiVo??
Is he buying this car with SSI benefits? He's clearly too young to be using Social Security payments to pay for the vehicle.
Why is any agency that would sell him a car allowed to require, or request, his Social Security Number?
'tty' based messaging concepts are obsolete.
Finding that buyer is expensive, though, and eats away any profit you'd make. I, for instance, have a pair of National Instruments NuBus data acquisition cards. When I looked online to find out how much they are worth, the only places I found selling them charge a HUGE amount. That's because scientific labs that still have systems using those cards will pay _*whatever*_ is necessary to get the system up and running if it stops because that almost unobtainable card fails.
But keeping a site up and running that panders to that market is fairly expensive. I could put the cards on eBay and get maybe ten dollars for them. It's quite possible one of the expensive vendors would buy, refurbish, and list them.
Ummm, this isn't an Apple fanboy site. Hell, this isn't even apple.slashdot.org. So it's not really the place to boast you paid more for Apple branded upgrade components.
heh.
I remember when I could boast to friends that I only paid $7 each for 256Kx1 DIP DRAM chips. They were used, sweated off old cards in a solder pot.
Whoah! Nice Astroturf!
The kind I could even lie down on and stare up at the clouds in.
Too bad I can't afford the admission cost.
Police activity and raids may decrease it, may drive people farther underground, but it will never go away.
Indeed. And police activity and raids should continue to drive it deeper and deeper underground. To do otherwise, yet call something 'illegal' is to put out bait for selective enforcement.
It's good to know we can agree on some things.
That's utter nonsense. There are many highly efficient file formats for compressing EXE files, that aren't lossy. Similarly, you can save a bitmap as a JPEG image, without any compression, and it will get somewhat smaller, and not lose information. Your comment seems to imply something is 'lossy' if something it's not designed to do doesn't work.
A bare piece of copper wire is 'lossy' if you try to run water through it.
Whoah! And I bet it all gets pixelated if they make the part too big, huh?
If I am driving the safe distance behind the car in front of me in the left lane (right lane? either you're in the U.K. or you're a REALLY fucked up driver) at the same speed as the rest of traffic in that lane, back the fuck off. Thanks.
Brake fluid works pretty good, too.
It makes paint literally peel away that it's been in contact with for any length of time.
Joe Dicksize, with his big gun, just stands there in his driveway scratching his nuts and trying to figure out what happened to his fancy paint job.
I've seen you typing that 'sorry... ' line at the bottom of a number of your posts. With a chosen 'name' like yours it's kind of ironic.
You appear to be a rather average person, judging from your journal entries. An average dull urban 'rebel' without a hell of a clue.
I was once like you. However, I'm working hard at getting a fucking clue. You should be, too.
What makes you think the trash hauler who I employ don't do the seperating out for me? The name of the company is "Southern Scavenger Service."
Why are the 'days you can do this limited'?? So people will dump stuff on vacant lots instead?
When's the last time you took a basic high school social studies class?
Probably before many of you were born. Liie, uh, in 1975 or so.