Are you serious? You spin off into 'angry-F-word-sputtering' when somebody challanges the notion that corruption can be solved by government fiat?
Why are you so heavily invested in the idea that there has to be a strong overbearing government enforcing ethics or a totally out-of-control 'invisible hand' process?
How would 'I' recommend 'we' proceed? I didn't know 'we' were all going one place together. Is this a happy field trip to prosperity? Fuck that. I want to go somewhere else. It doesn't even matter where.
That's right. The Republicans are in power now, so the 'fashionable opposition' needs to be the Democrats. It won't do to point out that they're all crooked politicians and the whole political game is a slime fest. . .
That and there are many people who can find ways to fill pretty much any cycle count processor.
True. To put it crudely, in any dicksize competition, there is always somebody trying to justify why it is essential that we all upgrade to the 'new model.' Even if it mostly means being a pendulous schmuck for most ot the time.
Part of maturity and coming to grips with the world is understanding that a 4 year old computer will do almost anything you really need to do and two or four 4 year old computers will do it ALL for you, except the part about flashing plastic in the show-room and a few lame excuses for entertainment software.
I know, and the practical alternative, and it's not that difficult, is learning what to seed your searches with to 'killfile' the spammers yourself. They're usually saying at least one thing consistently unique in their ad copy that you can keep track of.
Don't worry. There are bands of attorneys already converging on civil court to suck down all that wealth. He doesn't need to be alive for his estate to be contested in civil court.
His family won't starve. They probably won't get the whole wad of loot, either.
The rolling blackouts in California were caused by the NIMBY attitude and refusal to build generating capacity. That Enron came along and decided to engage in some lucrative parallel stupidity is irrelevant.
People who try to tie Enron, Rolling Blackouts, and Deregulation are opportunists.
We know that, but normally there isn't someone like you out making noise about it, and ruining the conspiracy. (the conspiracy of secrecy that keeps the price of tinfoil low enough for those of us 'in the know' to afford it.) Believe me, we laugh discreetly in our secret gathering places at the fools who wrap their heads in aluminum.
Nothing wrong with making money. I set out to make money on many transactions on eBay.
But the 'powerseller' mentality on eBay is about 'moving product.' To bring it back to my original point, haven't you seen those shitty booths at a flea market where everything for sale is new second-rate merchadise? And the guy running the booth is a typical sales type? Us tech geeks revile sales types ya know...
A big slice of eBay is a peer-to-peer network, and those of us who make up that part of eBay don't pretend that we're the 'carney' out looking for 'marks.' That was my point.
People who aim to 'make their business' with a 'storefront' at the 'eBay mall'... C'mon. It's a flea market. Is a card table a business??
What eBay needs is a 'killfile' feature. When you've had your fill of page after page of mousepads and t-shirts in the "Sun Hardware" area, you should be able to bump the spammer right off your search/browses.
As is the case with any flea market, there are going to be people who think like 'businesspeople' and make loads of money from the operation. But for the rest of us it's a good place to exchange cool stuff with each other easily and with less hassle than in many other markets or forums.
The trick is to figure out who the 'hustlers' are so they can be avoided like pariahs. eBay can and is a peer-to-peer environment for many of us. I get cool older/odd/unobtainable tech there and don't regret participating in the least.
Anyway, most of the 'hustle' people are similar to the same sort of people at the flea market. Their 'booths' suck.
I'm not sure who you are claiming was 'angry' and dropped two nuclear bombs. From the history I have heard, it was a calm deliberate move. Or are you talking about some internal incident where someone got mad and then careless, and dropped a warhead on his foot in a munitions depot somewhere?
Furthermore: If you don't know the internal bugs and quirks of the 8255, you should be using 74LS245s instead. Or a 6821.
The wirewrap gun is our friend.
I'd LOVE to have a Z80 emulator. I hope you're not talking about a bit of software, though. I have an 8051 ICE and a couple of 68HC11 emulators. I have some monitor code for the Z80 that works in a pinch, but nothing beats a hardware emulator.
In the United States, the tangling net laced with glue would mess up somebody who can afford a lawyer's expensive insulated leather jacket. The media would get involved, and suddenly the tangling nets would be whisked off to a special room of the police armory, never to be deployed again.
The NSA contends that nationwide wiretaps are necessary. That doesn't make it so.
You have that in writing? 'Nationwide wiretapes' is a ludicrious notion. There would be so much information flowing that anything of value would be lost in a flood of irrelevance. The NSA, if anything, contends that narrow focused wiretaps are necessary.
To say the US 'stockpiles bioweapons' in an abuse of both words.
However, the US has stockpiles of chemical weapons that are proving to be very expensive to deactiveate and dispose of. Belive me, I know, I live within five hours drive of some of the biggest stockpiles. They're struggling to dispose of it all.
Bochs is a more widely ported environment. But it's good, and important, for both projects to continue.
Remember, all kinds of stuff can run on Bochs, which makes it a more universal option. DOSBox seems to be almost entirely focused on making old graphical games run. Which is cool, but it ain't CP/M-86, it isn't all sorts of weird old stuff that it's cool that there is a bare x86 emulation environment for. A CP/M-86 prompt on a Macintosh SE/30 running NetBSD? No problem! Run it on your SparcStation IPC, too! (don't plan on running anything fast)
I will have to throw together a Bochs environment sometime soon and try running Visual Basic for MS-DOS under FreeDOS. Because I can. And because it's a pretty cool 'dead-end' product from Microsoft, to be honest.
Tons of other stuff won't and never will. Some of them because all that exists are binaries. So it's cool that ways of running them in modern environments exist. Especially when a 'sandbox' approach allows them to run on modern hardware. But for the real experience, you want to keep around an old 386 system with a real sound blaster, etc.
Speaking of DOS games, would you happen to know if Build Engine games such as Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood and so forth work under FreeDOS?
I would predict they would. The whole concept for those games fits with the MS_DOS philosophy which is that the OS should be capable of 'getting the hell out of the way' of an application that comes along and does it all itself.
Many modern programmers are terrified of having to code to the bare hardware, and many act like it's always a bad thing. I've had to 'clean up' embedded controller projects written by programmers who mostly have experience relying on a 'system' to initialize timers, interrupts, and what-not. It isn't pretty.
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Are you serious? You spin off into 'angry-F-word-sputtering' when somebody challanges the notion that corruption can be solved by government fiat?
Why are you so heavily invested in the idea that there has to be a strong overbearing government enforcing ethics or a totally out-of-control 'invisible hand' process?
How would 'I' recommend 'we' proceed? I didn't know 'we' were all going one place together. Is this a happy field trip to prosperity? Fuck that. I want to go somewhere else. It doesn't even matter where.
That's right. The Republicans are in power now, so the 'fashionable opposition' needs to be the Democrats. It won't do to point out that they're all crooked politicians and the whole political game is a slime fest. . .
That and there are many people who can find ways to fill pretty much any cycle count processor.
True. To put it crudely, in any dicksize competition, there is always somebody trying to justify why it is essential that we all upgrade to the 'new model.' Even if it mostly means being a pendulous schmuck for most ot the time.
Part of maturity and coming to grips with the world is understanding that a 4 year old computer will do almost anything you really need to do and two or four 4 year old computers will do it ALL for you, except the part about flashing plastic in the show-room and a few lame excuses for entertainment software.
Just get a computer that fulfills your needs now.
And the way to do that, these days, is to get a good KVM switch and add on a few more $50 used computers.
The day is long gone when adequate performance isn't obtainable with a machine two or more years old. Let the suckers and the chumps pay retail.
There is no evidence that Bill Clinton's dad worked for the CIA. Furthermore he died decades ago.
I know, and the practical alternative, and it's not that difficult, is learning what to seed your searches with to 'killfile' the spammers yourself. They're usually saying at least one thing consistently unique in their ad copy that you can keep track of.
What exactly are people's problems with Sarbanes-Oxley?
The ludicrous notion that ethical business practices can be enforced by government fiat.
Don't worry. There are bands of attorneys already converging on civil court to suck down all that wealth. He doesn't need to be alive for his estate to be contested in civil court.
His family won't starve. They probably won't get the whole wad of loot, either.
The rolling blackouts in California were caused by the NIMBY attitude and refusal to build generating capacity. That Enron came along and decided to engage in some lucrative parallel stupidity is irrelevant.
People who try to tie Enron, Rolling Blackouts, and Deregulation are opportunists.
We know that, but normally there isn't someone like you out making noise about it, and ruining the conspiracy. (the conspiracy of secrecy that keeps the price of tinfoil low enough for those of us 'in the know' to afford it.) Believe me, we laugh discreetly in our secret gathering places at the fools who wrap their heads in aluminum.
By 'tactical' use, you meant they can be used more widely, in new deployments, and in higher volume.
Nothing wrong with making money. I set out to make money on many transactions on eBay.
But the 'powerseller' mentality on eBay is about 'moving product.' To bring it back to my original point, haven't you seen those shitty booths at a flea market where everything for sale is new second-rate merchadise? And the guy running the booth is a typical sales type? Us tech geeks revile sales types ya know...
A big slice of eBay is a peer-to-peer network, and those of us who make up that part of eBay don't pretend that we're the 'carney' out looking for 'marks.' That was my point.
People who aim to 'make their business' with a 'storefront' at the 'eBay mall'... C'mon. It's a flea market. Is a card table a business??
What were you primarily buying on eBay? The big rolls of astroturf you're now peddling here?
What eBay needs is a 'killfile' feature. When you've had your fill of page after page of mousepads and t-shirts in the "Sun Hardware" area, you should be able to bump the spammer right off your search/browses.
As is the case with any flea market, there are going to be people who think like 'businesspeople' and make loads of money from the operation. But for the rest of us it's a good place to exchange cool stuff with each other easily and with less hassle than in many other markets or forums.
The trick is to figure out who the 'hustlers' are so they can be avoided like pariahs. eBay can and is a peer-to-peer environment for many of us. I get cool older/odd/unobtainable tech there and don't regret participating in the least.
Anyway, most of the 'hustle' people are similar to the same sort of people at the flea market. Their 'booths' suck.
I'm not sure who you are claiming was 'angry' and dropped two nuclear bombs. From the history I have heard, it was a calm deliberate move. Or are you talking about some internal incident where someone got mad and then careless, and dropped a warhead on his foot in a munitions depot somewhere?
Furthermore: If you don't know the internal bugs and quirks of the 8255, you should be using 74LS245s instead. Or a 6821.
The wirewrap gun is our friend.
I'd LOVE to have a Z80 emulator. I hope you're not talking about a bit of software, though. I have an 8051 ICE and a couple of 68HC11 emulators. I have some monitor code for the Z80 that works in a pinch, but nothing beats a hardware emulator.
I just have a hard time dealing with how many soybean 'embryos' got killed to make that tub of tofu, maaaan. Each bean was a living thing.
In the United States, the tangling net laced with glue would mess up somebody who can afford a lawyer's expensive insulated leather jacket. The media would get involved, and suddenly the tangling nets would be whisked off to a special room of the police armory, never to be deployed again.
it also enables field commanders to use landmines tactically.
Indeed. The 'More, Better Landmines' salespitch. How could we forget that?
I'm sure there are business concerns proud to be producing them as a humanitarian gesture.
The NSA contends that nationwide wiretaps are necessary. That doesn't make it so.
You have that in writing? 'Nationwide wiretapes' is a ludicrious notion. There would be so much information flowing that anything of value would be lost in a flood of irrelevance. The NSA, if anything, contends that narrow focused wiretaps are necessary.
To say the US 'stockpiles bioweapons' in an abuse of both words.
However, the US has stockpiles of chemical weapons that are proving to be very expensive to deactiveate and dispose of. Belive me, I know, I live within five hours drive of some of the biggest stockpiles. They're struggling to dispose of it all.
Bochs is a more widely ported environment. But it's good, and important, for both projects to continue.
Remember, all kinds of stuff can run on Bochs, which makes it a more universal option. DOSBox seems to be almost entirely focused on making old graphical games run. Which is cool, but it ain't CP/M-86, it isn't all sorts of weird old stuff that it's cool that there is a bare x86 emulation environment for. A CP/M-86 prompt on a Macintosh SE/30 running NetBSD? No problem! Run it on your SparcStation IPC, too! (don't plan on running anything fast)
I will have to throw together a Bochs environment sometime soon and try running Visual Basic for MS-DOS under FreeDOS. Because I can. And because it's a pretty cool 'dead-end' product from Microsoft, to be honest.
Tons of other stuff won't and never will. Some of them because all that exists are binaries. So it's cool that ways of running them in modern environments exist. Especially when a 'sandbox' approach allows them to run on modern hardware. But for the real experience, you want to keep around an old 386 system with a real sound blaster, etc.
Speaking of DOS games, would you happen to know if Build Engine games such as Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood and so forth work under FreeDOS?
I would predict they would. The whole concept for those games fits with the MS_DOS philosophy which is that the OS should be capable of 'getting the hell out of the way' of an application that comes along and does it all itself.
Many modern programmers are terrified of having to code to the bare hardware, and many act like it's always a bad thing. I've had to 'clean up' embedded controller projects written by programmers who mostly have experience relying on a 'system' to initialize timers, interrupts, and what-not. It isn't pretty.