I was under the impression you couldn't trademark a number, IE thats why Intel started using the word "Pentium" rather than 586.
VIIV is a number in Roman Numerals and =10
VI is SIX and IV is FOUR.
SIXTY FOUR in Roman numerals would be LXIV.
So it looks like some dickhead marketeer thinks VIIV looks clever as 64 but it's actually 10.
It's taken the Amiga ten years already and they still haven't produced anything worthy since the original.
Maybe give them another 20 or so years and they'll have a marketable product that would have sold well if it was brought out 50 years ago.
For the past number of years I have had computer controlled Xmas lights at my house in Edmonton, Canada.
Although not controlled via the internet it would be relatively easy, just some software mod's and a web server required.
The computer is a Pentium 90 stuck out in the garage, running a hand coded C' program to sequence the lights. The program checks the state of the real time clock in the computer and the light show is automatic between 18:00 - 22:00 nightly.
The C' program runs under DOS (although this year it's now under Win98, because I was going to use VNC for control over the house LAN.)
The program controls the printer port which is connected to 4 solid state relays, I currently have 4 channels with 4 strings of 5W bulbs on each channel (4*4*5*25=2KW) all these strings are strung around a 20' spruce tree. The lights fade in/out and the sequences have variable delay times and some random sequences so each time it runs the output is slightly different each time.
Just clicking on the little camera icon thereby turning off the loading of graphics stops most ad's. Refusing pop-ups (standard in Opera, no plug in required) gets rid of the rest.
The ability to turn off the graphics has been there all along so when are these advertisers going to wake up, advertising doesn't work it just pisses people off and becomes intrusive.
Personally though I don't think that advertising blocking will affect the revenues, there are still plenty of stupid people out there who will continue to use Outlook/IE and click on everything. Just look at the amount of people who buy the PSP at Best Buy. It's this kind of person the advertisers are targeting.
When a person gets to feel that certain ad's are intrusive they (well me anyway) will go out of their way to buy from a competitor rather than the one thats "in your face" the whole time.
One would assume that the light from the anomaly would have illuminated other objects nearby.
I was trying to determine if the anomaly did indeed occcur on the light pole, if it did then we should be able to see the light bouncing off of the other nearby poles/objects.
This image almost looks like a "set-up" there is no reflection of that light pole in the water because of the ground in the way.
I agree though that right about the time of these pictures would be "lighting up time" so I could see the explosion occuring but the dark streak is a strange one.
Have you noticed how all the pictures of UFO's are always grainy and out of focus, shame because I really want to believe.
When you get to a set of lights that aren't sensitive enough to pick up a bicycle or motorcycle the trick here is to find the induction loops, park over the centre of them and then lean the bike over towards the loops, this allows the loops to "see" more metal in the field as well as bringing the metal closer to the loop's.
For those that don't know elgoog is literally a mirror (not in the true sense, but in the image and text sense) of Google, everything is backwards, when you search you even have to type your search in backwards.
However I'm sure most of you/. crowd already know about this.
Sadly I couldn't seem to connect, maybe China sent a few nukes to the address of the server.
Since when did the Amish have the internet?
Let alone the fact you first need a computer before you can have Internet.
"I've heard they have internet on computers now"
Well up here in Canada eh!! Well it can get pretty damm cold outside so I doubt very much flourescent tubes work outside at anything below -10 deg C. I should imagine that the LED's are largely unaffected by the climate.
One more negative point about some of the compact flourescents is they generate an awfull lot of RFI so they are not really welcomed around Amatuer radio enthusiasts.
Maybe by removing Winamp from the masses (Windoze)is a way to stop Ogg Vorbis from becoming a standard format.
Lets face it these large corporations are only intrested in the bottom line, corporate greed. The company has the potential to make more money from the consumables (the music) than they do from the player itself.
They probably treat Ogg Vorbis as a serious threat to their little DRM shananigans.
By removing the player (Winamp) from the masses before Ogg gets popular means the masses will choose the other formats such as MP3 or iTunes.
The company you refer to is FLYMO
and these things are a breeze (ignore the pun) to use.
http://www.flymo.com/
Unfortunately when I try to access their site using Opera I get the following:
WELCOME TO FLYMO
UNSUPPORTED BROWSER
The browser you are currently using is not supported on this site. Please upgrade to one of the supported browsers. See listing and links below.
PC/Windows
To be able to see this site as it is intended please upgrade to at least version 4 of either Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. We recommend version 5.5 for Internet Explorer and 4.77 for Netscape Navigator. Follow the links below to download.
Macintosh
To be able to see this site as it is intended please upgrade to at least version 5 of Microsoft Internet Explorer or at least version 4 of Netscape Navigator. We recommend version 5.0 for Internet Explorer and 4.77 for Netscape Navigator. Follow the links below to download.
This is not exactly a new idea. Yes I know this one works on the digital systems but the one I describe below is so old it was on the market before the digital revolution.
Motorola have been making an interface that allows you to plug regular desk sets or fax machines into an analogue cell phone for a long time.
The interface goes in between the cellular handset and the cellular transceiver. It even generates dial tone when you pick up one of the phones connected to it as well as providing ringing voltages to ring connected phones or fax machines just as if they were connected to the hard wired PSTN.
It is commonly referred to as a "cell jack", I don't know the model number and I couldn't seem to find any trace of it on Google. Mind you Motorola stopped making the analogue (3 watt) style phones several years ago.
Very strange because GM must have a huge stash of these analogue phones somewhere because that's what they are using in all the Onstar equipped vehicles.
The blob over Canada appears to be Alberta, one of Canada's richest Provinces due to the amount of oil wells and natural gas plants.
It looks like the main culprit here though may well be the Athabasca Tar Sands in Fort McMurray.
(North Eastern Alberta)
Apparently the largest deposit of oil ever but its trapped in sand, the exctraction process generates huge amounts of noxious fumes but the Government turns a blind eye because of the revenue stream.
After all money is more important than the environment.
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I was under the impression you couldn't trademark a number, IE thats why Intel started using the word "Pentium" rather than 586. VIIV is a number in Roman Numerals and =10 VI is SIX and IV is FOUR. SIXTY FOUR in Roman numerals would be LXIV. So it looks like some dickhead marketeer thinks VIIV looks clever as 64 but it's actually 10.
It's taken the Amiga ten years already and they still haven't produced anything worthy since the original. Maybe give them another 20 or so years and they'll have a marketable product that would have sold well if it was brought out 50 years ago.
Well the police are really going to enjoy chasing someone who has this fitted to their vehicle.
From Canada just dial 1015945 (there is no external dial tone or call progress indicator) and then dial long distance as you would normally.
This uses the low cost routing provided by YAK
http://www.yak.ca/en/
Using this service you can unsubscribe to your current long distance plan and drop the ridiculous "long distance administration charge"
For the cost of the LDAC I can call a lot of places using YAK.
For the past number of years I have had computer controlled Xmas lights at my house in Edmonton, Canada.
Although not controlled via the internet it would be relatively easy, just some software mod's and a web server required.
The computer is a Pentium 90 stuck out in the garage, running a hand coded C' program to sequence the lights. The program checks the state of the real time clock in the computer and the light show is automatic between 18:00 - 22:00 nightly.
The C' program runs under DOS (although this year it's now under Win98, because I was going to use VNC for control over the house LAN.)
The program controls the printer port which is connected to 4 solid state relays, I currently have 4 channels with 4 strings of 5W bulbs on each channel (4*4*5*25=2KW) all these strings are strung around a 20' spruce tree. The lights fade in/out and the sequences have variable delay times and some random sequences so each time it runs the output is slightly different each time.
Sorry no video or stills of this yet.
Just clicking on the little camera icon thereby turning off the loading of graphics stops most ad's. Refusing pop-ups (standard in Opera, no plug in required) gets rid of the rest.
The ability to turn off the graphics has been there all along so when are these advertisers going to wake up, advertising doesn't work it just pisses people off and becomes intrusive.
Personally though I don't think that advertising blocking will affect the revenues, there are still plenty of stupid people out there who will continue to use Outlook/IE and click on everything. Just look at the amount of people who buy the PSP at Best Buy. It's this kind of person the advertisers are targeting.
When a person gets to feel that certain ad's are intrusive they (well me anyway) will go out of their way to buy from a competitor rather than the one thats "in your face" the whole time.
One would assume that the light from the anomaly would have illuminated other objects nearby.
I was trying to determine if the anomaly did indeed occcur on the light pole, if it did then we should be able to see the light bouncing off of the other nearby poles/objects.
This image almost looks like a "set-up" there is no reflection of that light pole in the water because of the ground in the way.
I agree though that right about the time of these pictures would be "lighting up time" so I could see the explosion occuring but the dark streak is a strange one.
Have you noticed how all the pictures of UFO's are always grainy and out of focus, shame because I really want to believe.
When you get to a set of lights that aren't sensitive enough to pick up a bicycle or motorcycle the trick here is to find the induction loops, park over the centre of them and then lean the bike over towards the loops, this allows the loops to "see" more metal in the field as well as bringing the metal closer to the loop's.
A win win situation.
Well I wonder if "elgooG" will be able to help the poor old rice pickers.
/. crowd already know about this.
http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/
For those that don't know elgoog is literally a mirror (not in the true sense, but in the image and text sense) of Google, everything is backwards, when you search you even have to type your search in backwards.
However I'm sure most of you
Sadly I couldn't seem to connect, maybe China sent a few nukes to the address of the server.
Since when did the Amish have the internet? Let alone the fact you first need a computer before you can have Internet. "I've heard they have internet on computers now"
Well up here in Canada eh!!
Well it can get pretty damm cold outside so I doubt very much flourescent tubes work outside at anything below -10 deg C. I should imagine that the LED's are largely unaffected by the climate.
One more negative point about some of the compact flourescents is they generate an awfull lot of RFI so they are not really welcomed around Amatuer radio enthusiasts.
Try opening LEXPPS.EXE in Resource Hacker.
The information is as follows for those who are fortunate enough not to have any Lexmark products.
VALUE "Comments", "MarkVision for Windows '95 New P2P Server (32-bit)"
VALUE "CompanyName", "Lexmark International, Inc."
very very scary!!!
Maybe by removing Winamp from the masses (Windoze)is a way to stop Ogg Vorbis from becoming a standard format. Lets face it these large corporations are only intrested in the bottom line, corporate greed. The company has the potential to make more money from the consumables (the music) than they do from the player itself. They probably treat Ogg Vorbis as a serious threat to their little DRM shananigans. By removing the player (Winamp) from the masses before Ogg gets popular means the masses will choose the other formats such as MP3 or iTunes.
The company you refer to is FLYMO and these things are a breeze (ignore the pun) to use. http://www.flymo.com/ Unfortunately when I try to access their site using Opera I get the following: WELCOME TO FLYMO UNSUPPORTED BROWSER The browser you are currently using is not supported on this site. Please upgrade to one of the supported browsers. See listing and links below. PC/Windows To be able to see this site as it is intended please upgrade to at least version 4 of either Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. We recommend version 5.5 for Internet Explorer and 4.77 for Netscape Navigator. Follow the links below to download. Macintosh To be able to see this site as it is intended please upgrade to at least version 5 of Microsoft Internet Explorer or at least version 4 of Netscape Navigator. We recommend version 5.0 for Internet Explorer and 4.77 for Netscape Navigator. Follow the links below to download.
This is not exactly a new idea.
Yes I know this one works on the digital systems but the one I describe below is so old it was on the market before the digital revolution.
Motorola have been making an interface that allows you to plug regular desk sets or fax machines into an analogue cell phone for a long time.
The interface goes in between the cellular handset and the cellular transceiver. It even generates dial tone when you pick up one of the phones connected to it as well as providing ringing voltages to ring connected phones or fax machines just as if they were connected to the hard wired PSTN.
It is commonly referred to as a "cell jack", I don't know the model number and I couldn't seem to find any trace of it on Google. Mind you Motorola stopped making the analogue (3 watt) style phones several years ago.
Very strange because GM must have a huge stash of these analogue phones somewhere because that's what they are using in all the Onstar equipped vehicles.
It's fun because if you leave them all in the bucket long enough, they will eat each other.. :-)
The blob over Canada appears to be Alberta, one of Canada's richest Provinces due to the amount of oil wells and natural gas plants. It looks like the main culprit here though may well be the Athabasca Tar Sands in Fort McMurray. (North Eastern Alberta) Apparently the largest deposit of oil ever but its trapped in sand, the exctraction process generates huge amounts of noxious fumes but the Government turns a blind eye because of the revenue stream. After all money is more important than the environment.