I'm sure there will be RFID security issues, but the trend does remind me of a commercial I saw a few years back. I forget the company (real effective, then, huh?), but the gist was that this Gen-Xer walks into a supermarket, starts stuffing TV dinners in his trenchcoat, then walks out. The security guard stops him, but just hands him a receipt.
I kinda like the idea. Grovery shopping without having to deal with all that pesky human interaction. Qool.
I did an interview years ago with some guy in the gaming business. He said that someday he expected VR equipment to have "three gloves."
I'm all for new technology and all, but that just doesn't pass the laugh test IMHO. I mean, for one thing, electronics and bodily fluids just don't mix...
Make sure you have another geek at least as good as the one you're going to fire, to do the security checks first before you break the news to them. Otherwise you could have all sorts of interesting surprises on your network; who would think to connect a break-in months later with a terminated employee who didn't seem all that upset when he/she left?
Yes -- the original was 8K, with the option to add the additional 8K memory module. I have two of them, the original which works but is very well-worn, and a newer one in near-mint condition. Faster than the Timex-Sinclair I learned to program on -- and far more reliable! (I'm still regretting learning BASIC as my first language!)
I believe you're right that they were made by Sharp.
The Tandy PC-6 would be IMHO a good addition. I had one in junior high in the mid-80s; it spoke BASIC and assembly. Not too impressive these days, but back then a pocket calculator -- with 16K(!) of memory, and which spoke BASIC was amazing. I even wrote a crude 3D version of "Hunt the Wumpus" for it.
The On-Hand PC is also pretty cool. I bought one a while back. While it goes through CR2025 batteries like they're candy -- and two at a time -- the idea that you can program yourself a new watch when you get tired of the old one is very cool.
Listen to the specific music I not only like but am in the mood for at the moment, without interruptions, anywhere I want, with good quality, or...
Listen to a prefab mix of so-called "Top 40," most of which consists of people screaming off-key as if they had been seriously injured, no matter what kind of music I feel like listening to; having to put up with constant advertisements as the price of listening to this crap; only while in range of a radio station, and with dubious quality.
Let's just say for the sake of argument that we all agree that the Judeo-Christian "God" does exist, and created the world. (Work with me here; it's a valid hypothesis.)
Which would be more exemplary of the sort of omniscient, omnipotent God portrayed by religious leaders:
* A God who created an imperfect world, then constantly had to intervene to set things right due to flaws in the design...
...or...
* A God intelligent enough to come up with "interesting" laws of physics that were not only self-consistent, but allowed for the formation of intelligent life capable of making free-will decisions. To paraphrase Einstein, perhaps God not only plays dice with the Universe, but built this randomness in so that free will *could* exist.
(After all, He'd already know all of the possible scenarios that would result from all the choices we *could* make, so He could still be omniscient and omnipotent...)
Is there really a NEED to go against what thousands of scientific observations have shown us -- just to justify a very narrow, limited view of God?
There's got to be a fairly straightforward formula relating inherent resolution loss when performing any noninteger upsampling, or any downsampling. Any other change in resolution must necessarily degrade the signal, yes? (Except perhaps if a clever algorithm could losslessly encode the original data in a 1.5x-upsampled version, without distorting it.)
I was under the impression that a lack of opinion on the existence of a god or gods was agnosticism. If Atheism is not direct belief that no god exists, then what is, after all?
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...he should have ended it with "I'll probably be fired for this, so each of you go tell everybody you know." Or something to that effect.
How are you going to suppress a n^x communication growth curve?
I'm sure there will be RFID security issues, but the trend does remind me of a commercial I saw a few years back. I forget the company (real effective, then, huh?), but the gist was that this Gen-Xer walks into a supermarket, starts stuffing TV dinners in his trenchcoat, then walks out. The security guard stops him, but just hands him a receipt.
I kinda like the idea. Grovery shopping without having to deal with all that pesky human interaction. Qool.
OK, I admit it, that one was good. But the overall quality just hasn't been the same.
...we'll see the return of really good Superbowl commercials!
I did an interview years ago with some guy in the gaming business. He said that someday he expected VR equipment to have "three gloves."
I'm all for new technology and all, but that just doesn't pass the laugh test IMHO. I mean, for one thing, electronics and bodily fluids just don't mix...
Make sure you have another geek at least as good as the one you're going to fire, to do the security checks first before you break the news to them. Otherwise you could have all sorts of interesting surprises on your network; who would think to connect a break-in months later with a terminated employee who didn't seem all that upset when he/she left?
After all, revenge is best served cold, right?
I know. But I'd rather see that than the Blowing Things Up Channel.
How about instead of hog-cooking, they bring back the Discovery Wings channel?
I dunno. All the power of BASIC with the ease-of-use of C -- maybe it's designed to discourage people from becoming programmers.
I keep waiting for the first-person-shooter fad to end and for people to insist on more interesting games.
Somehow I get the impression I'll be waiting for some time yet...
Yes -- the original was 8K, with the option to add the additional 8K memory module. I have two of them, the original which works but is very well-worn, and a newer one in near-mint condition. Faster than the Timex-Sinclair I learned to program on -- and far more reliable! (I'm still regretting learning BASIC as my first language!)
I believe you're right that they were made by Sharp.
The Tandy PC-6 would be IMHO a good addition. I had one in junior high in the mid-80s; it spoke BASIC and assembly. Not too impressive these days, but back then a pocket calculator -- with 16K(!) of memory, and which spoke BASIC was amazing. I even wrote a crude 3D version of "Hunt the Wumpus" for it.
The On-Hand PC is also pretty cool. I bought one a while back. While it goes through CR2025 batteries like they're candy -- and two at a time -- the idea that you can program yourself a new watch when you get tired of the old one is very cool.
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Listen to the specific music I not only like but am in the mood for at the moment, without interruptions, anywhere I want, with good quality, or...
Listen to a prefab mix of so-called "Top 40," most of which consists of people screaming off-key as if they had been seriously injured, no matter what kind of music I feel like listening to; having to put up with constant advertisements as the price of listening to this crap; only while in range of a radio station, and with dubious quality.
Hmm. No wonder I hardly ever listen to radio!
I've seen more realistic scenery in Flight Simulator.
Unfair modding on this one. This isn't flamebait or a troll; just the unvarnished truth...
Check the permissions on the link. Thanks.
Hmm...
I guess if you live in a place where the "flat-Earth" theory makes sense, you get all sorts of crazy ideas...
As a citizen of the US, I'd laugh, except that this isn't funny. I worry for the future of our country if we're exchanging science for superstition.
Let's just say for the sake of argument that we all agree that the Judeo-Christian "God" does exist, and created the world. (Work with me here; it's a valid hypothesis.)
...or...
Which would be more exemplary of the sort of omniscient, omnipotent God portrayed by religious leaders:
* A God who created an imperfect world, then constantly had to intervene to set things right due to flaws in the design...
* A God intelligent enough to come up with "interesting" laws of physics that were not only self-consistent, but allowed for the formation of intelligent life capable of making free-will decisions. To paraphrase Einstein, perhaps God not only plays dice with the Universe, but built this randomness in so that free will *could* exist.
(After all, He'd already know all of the possible scenarios that would result from all the choices we *could* make, so He could still be omniscient and omnipotent...)
Is there really a NEED to go against what thousands of scientific observations have shown us -- just to justify a very narrow, limited view of God?
Those mails are probably just "get-safe-quick" schemes anyway. Not surprising the spamfilter snagged 'em...
There's got to be a fairly straightforward formula relating inherent resolution loss when performing any noninteger upsampling, or any downsampling. Any other change in resolution must necessarily degrade the signal, yes? (Except perhaps if a clever algorithm could losslessly encode the original data in a 1.5x-upsampled version, without distorting it.)
...When converted from pounds Sterling to Euros?
I was under the impression that a lack of opinion on the existence of a god or gods was agnosticism. If Atheism is not direct belief that no god exists, then what is, after all?