That, or something like the old "DRM" (for lack of a batter word) from DOS games in the early 90s... e.g. "put the three icons from page 8 of the user manual in the right order in these three boxes."
Then again it's not like you can't google all of it anyway:|
Thing is (well, at least with "Social Security"... IIRC from high school) that the programs were built to drag our country out of the Great Depression. The trouble is that they have probably outlived their usefulness at this point, and it's difficult to reform them to be something more along the lines of "sustainable".
We had a bunch of horseless carriages designed before the Model-T too.
It just needed the right situation to get them to kick off.
I have to point out that while I admire the appeal to cars, that this is a flawed analogy. The horseless carriage was capable of reproducing every single feature of a horse-drawn carriage (except the pooping), which made it an obvious successor.
I think you're missing the point here.
Before the Model-T, a car was a wealthy person's plaything; costing $2-3,000 (or $50-75,000 in 2012), everyone else walked or rode a horse essentially (or rode some form of public transport). Thus, is wasn't the "obvious successor" to the horse-drawn carriage. The Model T that took the previous developments (the horseless carriage), added in a few innovations (assembly line) and "kicked off" the automobile revolution, because it was "the right thing, at the right time" -- just as new tablets/phones/whatever are doing (i.e. taking the previous developments made in the devices, adding some new stuff/slashing prices/etc to put them in "joe public's" reach).
Checking Wikipedia:
The first Model T cars (1909) cost approx $850 (approx $21,250 in 2012). By the '20s, the cost was down to $220 (or about $3,500 in 2012 -- using 1923 as the source year to calculate the inflation).
IIRC (I was still a kid when records "died out"), the turntable had a pair of "fingers" in the spindle, which were set approx the thickness of a record apart. Dunno the specifics though (i.e. whether both were "open" while a record was playing (so one record by itself, with N above it), or if one was holding all N records, then the second one opened before the lower one closed to allow only one to fall).
Until such time that companies will host games *forever* on their servers, I'm still wary of going the digital-only route.
Sure, I'm probably "never" going to re-install some games... but then again, in the midst of cleaning up the room I've done the "oh, hey, wow, I haven't played this in forever" thing, and subsequently completely forgotten about the "cleaning" thing to deal with zergling rushes or something equally annoying.
I don't need a hacker on staff. I'll just leave a few ports open, like FTP, Telnet, HTTP, RDP, etc. They'll find me and I won't have to spend a cent on payroll!;-)
That's like expecting your car's security will be improved by leaving the windows down in a well-visited parking ramp in an area with no security cameras. No, you'll just get robbed, and likely the inside will be trashed because if there's one thing criminals love more than a free lunch, it's shitting on someone else's hard work for thrills. There aren't many real hackers left in the world... it's all assholes looking for cheap thrills or cash. Those of us who still do it to teach ourselves about how these amazing little boxes of wires and boards work and make them do nifty things for us are about as plentiful as 20-something aged stamp collectors.
It's probably the size moreso than the metallurgy (though, like I said... I was told the guys in the lab thought we were pulling some kind of prank when they ran the tests on a part of one of them) -- the main drive cylinders of the locomotive we're working on are 26" bore with 30" stroke (IIRC, might be a little bigger/smaller in one/both of the directions, since it got retrofitted with a new pair of cylinders after an accident in the '30s or '40s), and the liner itself is something like 1/4" thick, with just a hint of taper on the outer surface so it is easier to get into the cylinder casting (again, don't remember the numbers, but something like 1/32" over the length of the casting). It also has some "complex" voids in it for venting the steam, which apparently need to be cast in, rather than cut out after the fact.
Watch...I'll get numerous replies telling me I'm an idiot for even suggesting garamond is a usable font.
As requested, you're an idiot for even thinking that Garamond is "usable" in any way, shape, or form. You should really be using Times New Roman (or Helvetica, if you're concerned about the viewer's browser compatibility).
In my spare time, I work with a museum that restores steam equipment. Nothing as well-known as the NPK 765, or the UP 844 though...
You're right on the materials of the boiler, and a few other parts being more or less "common" cast iron (or steel), but there are other bits made from alloys that are more difficult to work with. For example, the cylinder liners needed to be repaired/replaced -- samples were taken to metallurgists, who thought we were BSing them because of the composition (whatever it is, it's still *hard* to get right nearly 100 years after this particular locomotive was completed -- assuming these liners are the originals...). Re-reading my original post, I intended to say "casting" rather than forging.. but in either case, with so few companies able to make the parts (and even fewer who can conform to FRA standards), things get expensive rather quickly
I'd have to do more research on the 1/10 models -- I'm much more familiar with the G-scale models that operate at like 35 PSI or so...
And we don't go to the Moon because we've already been there.
And what if the monarchs of the old world felt the same way about the new world?
We probably also lack the capability to build really large Victorian steam locomotives. So? Are you saying people are stupid? If we need to, we will. Obviously someone will maintain this press.
Actually... the hard part will be getting the steel alloys right more than the forging of them... granted there are very few places in the states that can still forge parts as large as would be needed.
A linux box, iptables experience and a couple of WiFi cards/AP would be ideal, however there is an easier way..
Your ADSL/Cable router plugged into your ISP offers unprotected WiFi.
Buy another cable router and plug it into the above router offering protected WiFi behind its own NAT/Firewall.
Internet <--> ROUTER <--> ROUTER <--> LAN
yep, pretty much this. Just takes a little fighting to get things playing nice (i.e. tomato/ddwrt... but you were gonna do that anyway, right?)
Only thing you have to do then is make sure your devices aren't on the public one. Granted, it's also a good idea to limit the public ap, so people can't saturate your connection...
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That, or something like the old "DRM" (for lack of a batter word) from DOS games in the early 90s... e.g. "put the three icons from page 8 of the user manual in the right order in these three boxes." Then again it's not like you can't google all of it anyway :|
The "authorities"? I thought the police department's motto was "to protect and to serve".
Maybe they missed that day, and got "To punish and enslave" instead?
wish I had mod points today... agree completely.
Thing is (well, at least with "Social Security" ... IIRC from high school) that the programs were built to drag our country out of the Great Depression. The trouble is that they have probably outlived their usefulness at this point, and it's difficult to reform them to be something more along the lines of "sustainable".
In case it is ... http://www.gog.com/
sign up for an account, get a free copy.
Where's my sandwich?
Sorry, you don't have the proper permissions to run makesandwich.pl.
If there be justice, then I should win.
You must be new here.
crushed silicon ... not _silicone_... easy mistake to make though.
The phrase "in the wild" is key here. Your homework assignment is to figure out why.
And then some dumbass scientist decides "hey, we can bring back dinosaurs" ...
not like _THAT_ isn't a bad idea.
Oh, right. Lawyers are involved.
^ This, and the fact that Apple doesn't do the cross-licensing thing.
I have to point out that while I admire the appeal to cars, that this is a flawed analogy. The horseless carriage was capable of reproducing every single feature of a horse-drawn carriage (except the pooping), which made it an obvious successor.
I think you're missing the point here. Before the Model-T, a car was a wealthy person's plaything; costing $2-3,000 (or $50-75,000 in 2012), everyone else walked or rode a horse essentially (or rode some form of public transport). Thus, is wasn't the "obvious successor" to the horse-drawn carriage. The Model T that took the previous developments (the horseless carriage), added in a few innovations (assembly line) and "kicked off" the automobile revolution, because it was "the right thing, at the right time" -- just as new tablets/phones/whatever are doing (i.e. taking the previous developments made in the devices, adding some new stuff/slashing prices/etc to put them in "joe public's" reach).
Checking Wikipedia: The first Model T cars (1909) cost approx $850 (approx $21,250 in 2012). By the '20s, the cost was down to $220 (or about $3,500 in 2012 -- using 1923 as the source year to calculate the inflation).
A strange game ... the only winning move is not to play ...
At least they didn't win the world record for most 1984-like regime.
The Thought Police will be formed shortly...
It has what plants want?
Writing "connexion" instead of "connection" ...
Could also mean that you're reading an older work (Dickens, Poe, etc), or perhaps trying to make something look as if it's from the period.
IIRC (I was still a kid when records "died out"), the turntable had a pair of "fingers" in the spindle, which were set approx the thickness of a record apart. Dunno the specifics though (i.e. whether both were "open" while a record was playing (so one record by itself, with N above it), or if one was holding all N records, then the second one opened before the lower one closed to allow only one to fall).
Until such time that companies will host games *forever* on their servers, I'm still wary of going the digital-only route. Sure, I'm probably "never" going to re-install some games ... but then again, in the midst of cleaning up the room I've done the "oh, hey, wow, I haven't played this in forever" thing, and subsequently completely forgotten about the "cleaning" thing to deal with zergling rushes or something equally annoying.
I don't need a hacker on staff. I'll just leave a few ports open, like FTP, Telnet, HTTP, RDP, etc. They'll find me and I won't have to spend a cent on payroll! ;-)
That's like expecting your car's security will be improved by leaving the windows down in a well-visited parking ramp in an area with no security cameras. No, you'll just get robbed, and likely the inside will be trashed because if there's one thing criminals love more than a free lunch, it's shitting on someone else's hard work for thrills. There aren't many real hackers left in the world... it's all assholes looking for cheap thrills or cash. Those of us who still do it to teach ourselves about how these amazing little boxes of wires and boards work and make them do nifty things for us are about as plentiful as 20-something aged stamp collectors.
I believe "woosh" is in order.
ah, if I only had mod points...
It's probably the size moreso than the metallurgy (though, like I said ... I was told the guys in the lab thought we were pulling some kind of prank when they ran the tests on a part of one of them) -- the main drive cylinders of the locomotive we're working on are 26" bore with 30" stroke (IIRC, might be a little bigger/smaller in one/both of the directions, since it got retrofitted with a new pair of cylinders after an accident in the '30s or '40s), and the liner itself is something like 1/4" thick, with just a hint of taper on the outer surface so it is easier to get into the cylinder casting (again, don't remember the numbers, but something like 1/32" over the length of the casting). It also has some "complex" voids in it for venting the steam, which apparently need to be cast in, rather than cut out after the fact.
Watch...I'll get numerous replies telling me I'm an idiot for even suggesting garamond is a usable font.
As requested, you're an idiot for even thinking that Garamond is "usable" in any way, shape, or form. You should really be using Times New Roman (or Helvetica, if you're concerned about the viewer's browser compatibility).
In my spare time, I work with a museum that restores steam equipment. Nothing as well-known as the NPK 765, or the UP 844 though...
.. but in either case, with so few companies able to make the parts (and even fewer who can conform to FRA standards), things get expensive rather quickly
You're right on the materials of the boiler, and a few other parts being more or less "common" cast iron (or steel), but there are other bits made from alloys that are more difficult to work with. For example, the cylinder liners needed to be repaired/replaced -- samples were taken to metallurgists, who thought we were BSing them because of the composition (whatever it is, it's still *hard* to get right nearly 100 years after this particular locomotive was completed -- assuming these liners are the originals...). Re-reading my original post, I intended to say "casting" rather than forging
I'd have to do more research on the 1/10 models -- I'm much more familiar with the G-scale models that operate at like 35 PSI or so...
And we don't go to the Moon because we've already been there.
And what if the monarchs of the old world felt the same way about the new world?
We probably also lack the capability to build really large Victorian steam locomotives. So? Are you saying people are stupid? If we need to, we will. Obviously someone will maintain this press.
Actually ... the hard part will be getting the steel alloys right more than the forging of them... granted there are very few places in the states that can still forge parts as large as would be needed.
A linux box, iptables experience and a couple of WiFi cards/AP would be ideal, however there is an easier way..
Your ADSL/Cable router plugged into your ISP offers unprotected WiFi.
Buy another cable router and plug it into the above router offering protected WiFi behind its own NAT/Firewall.
Internet <--> ROUTER <--> ROUTER <--> LAN
yep, pretty much this. Just takes a little fighting to get things playing nice (i.e. tomato/ddwrt ... but you were gonna do that anyway, right?)
Only thing you have to do then is make sure your devices aren't on the public one. Granted, it's also a good idea to limit the public ap, so people can't saturate your connection...