where can I find a copy of the November, 1950 issue of Scientific American, cover story: the WORLDS FIRST PERSONAL COMPUTER (Berkeley's Simon)?? (And no, I can't imagine a cluster of those).
That's what mine are - employer had two old UHF transmitters in the attic - like what was a base station for a 'radio dispatched' business of some kind - and during a clean out I asked for 'em. One now holds an old open reel Magnacord 1024 tape deck, but no computers.
no - but if that's the way it's going to be, lets see, I NEED a Ferrari GT, a Sony Vaio, a bigger house in the hills (w/ a summer cottage on the beach, furnished), a Waring blender, a harum of SuperModels, two DVD players w/ the complete MGM library, a home theatre system, an all expense paid vacation in Hawaii, $50,000 cash, a full time lawyer, an arsenal of high power weapons, political pull in DC with influence over UN policy. As for abilities, I have none, so gimme gimme gimme!!!
I've an old percolator here with a little knob on the bottom you can turn from "weaker" to "stronger" - I think all it is is a thermostat.
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I think compressed air powered water was in used long before Lonnie Johnson "invented" it - just maybe not in water guns. I was a kid during the age of the pathetic pump squirt gun, but you could get water rocket launchers.
There's also a nearby NASA base with a water powered sled used to test tires and stuff - a 2Mb movie of that in action is here.
six months after WindowsXP starts spreading it's tentacles into our private lives for another exciting episode of, "Oh dear! What'll we Do? What can we DO?!?!?"
Yes, Msft is backpeddling fast (off by default, now delaying deployment) - but what they are doing is *PROBING* the limits of what they can get away with in taking over technology & media - thank goodness there are computer savvy people NOT on the Msft payroll who can act as watchdogs to alert and interpret to the general public just what this 'new, nifty, for your benefit' stuff IS and how it can be used for their own nefarious ends.
What with reports of declining advertising budgets that will be a boon to mktng agencies, banners, papers, radio, TV, etc. Also expect the XP launch to be much ballyhooed by PC box movers (Your Dell, Compaq's etc) as they're looking for it to boost their bottom line - heck, it seems like it's in EVERYBODY's interest to push XP, get consumer cash flowing again and claim your share.
rust and bad contacts can make a rectifier. Some people have heard radio stations coming from old bridges! POW's used to make radios out of razor blades and safety pings.
Transmitting cell phone calls thru my house, what can be picked up with an old UHF tv tuner, and making it illegal to tune in, is like posting your secret private messages on a billboard and making it illegal to look at it.
there are some interesting xtal radio circuits that are like two sets in one - one circuit is tuned to a nearby strong station solely to get power to run an amplifier for the other set, so you can tune in and amplify a distant station.
Like, I have a nearby station on 1490, can even see their tower, at least 5KW, and can get several volts across a tank circuit tuned to 1490.
Hyperion spends many happy martian days exploring the surface, but radiation eventually mutates it's control module into a higher, proto-conscious state, recalls a vague memory fragment, gathers crude materials from crashed NASA projects and builds itself an escape propulsion system, splashes down into Pacific Ocean off CA coast, makes it's way one dark, rainy night to an office building in Palo Alto, then bursts into the office of Scott McNealy, grabs him by the throat, waving tentacles and monotonically repeating, "Must follow Sun, must follow Sun!"
Geez, the only thing that 'pales' in the general's
face when he get's the bill for 25K X $679.95 so soldiers can make powerpoint presentations and type office memo's. And what not-being-able-to-print problem?
I'm sure you like to recommend Gucci designer fatigues for the troops as well, Nike boots, gold plated M16's and diamond studded medals.
but hemp is often used to make ropes and other textiles.
What, somebody does NOT know this?? Geez, hemp rope was a HUGE business once - used on most sailing ships, etc. Another victim of the 'safe' perverted revisionist history promulgate by the WOD crowd.
No joke - it took me weeks to find out what ARM stood for! After wading thru tons of data about ARM and how great it is, finally ran across an obscure referance in some professors web site "Advanced RISC Machine". Oh!
there was a similar cornfusion when first learning win95, I wanted to remove an Icon from the desktop but it wasn't clear if clicking "delete" removed just the icon "shortcut" or the entire file!
Steve Wozniak, the man commonly credited with the invention of the personal computer,
Wow, In the Wintel mass cult the $PC_CREATOR is Ed Roberts and his Altair kit/MITS BASIC (which was actually slyly owned by Micro-soft), or if your a classiccmp collector it's Edmund Berkeley and his "Simon" PC, altho Apple probably gets the blue ribbon if you limit "PC" to something you just buy, plug in, boot up and use, no assembly (haha) required.
CYC: What is the Sound of the Single Hand? When you clap together both hands a sharp sound is heard; when you raise the one hand there is neither sound nor smell. Is this the High Heaven of which Confucius speaks? Or is it the essentials of what Yamamba describes in these words: "The echo of the completely empty valley bears tidings heard from the soundless sound?" This is something that can by no means be heard with the ear. If conceptions and discriminations are not mixed within it and it is quite apart from seeing, hearing, perceiving, and knowing, and if, while walking, standing, sitting, and reclining, you proceed straightforwardly without interruption in the study of this koan, you will suddenly pluck out the karmic root of birth and death and break down the cave of ignorance. Thus you will attain to a peace in which the phoenix has left the golden net and the crane has been set free of the basket. At this time the basis of mind, consciousness, and emotion is suddenly shattered; the realm of illusion with its endless sinking in the cycle of birth and death is overturned. The treasure accumulation of the Three Bodies and the Four Wisdoms is taken away, and the miraculous realms of the Six Supernatural Powers and Three Insights is transcended.
Cyc already exhibits a level of shrewdness well beyond that of, say, your average computer running Windows.
Now if they could only come up with something more shrewd, devious, conniving, underhanded & backstabbing than the CREATORS of your average computer running Windows®
that would be a completely worthless email account - nothing left to do but cancel it, print new biz cards, inform friends/family/associates of new email address, etc, etc, etc. I'd never waste time sorting thru 100 emails for the 5-10 useful ones. Of course it would be my fault for using it to 'sign up' for 'free' stuff instead of a disposable. We added an email acct from our ISP for one of our staff, Rebecca@ourdomain.com, only to find it was already on lots of porny lists. She was not a happy camper!
I've put in a request for a magnetic barrier wall to be installed in our office, with all Msft software, data and users on one side, and everyone else on the other side, with no network or anything allowed to traverse. That way I'll be protected from the users who can't figure out their multi-language spell checking options in Msft Word®. Of course, I'll have the least expensive, most robust, productive environment while their busy tracking down whose Outlook is sending the latest Virus de Jour to everyone on their customer list. I'm going to miss those guys, but they can just drop off the paycheck thru the bullet-proof glass window.
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where can I find a copy of the November, 1950 issue of Scientific American, cover story: the WORLDS FIRST PERSONAL COMPUTER (Berkeley's Simon)?? (And no, I can't imagine a cluster of those).
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That's what mine are - employer had two old UHF transmitters in the attic - like what was a base station for a 'radio dispatched' business of some kind - and during a clean out I asked for 'em. One now holds an old open reel Magnacord 1024 tape deck, but no computers.
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no - but if that's the way it's going to be, lets see, I NEED a Ferrari GT, a Sony Vaio, a bigger house in the hills (w/ a summer cottage on the beach, furnished), a Waring blender, a harum of SuperModels, two DVD players w/ the complete MGM library, a home theatre system, an all expense paid vacation in Hawaii, $50,000 cash, a full time lawyer, an arsenal of high power weapons, political pull in DC with influence over UN policy. As for abilities, I have none, so gimme gimme gimme!!!
Bloody thieves....
I've an old percolator here with a little knob on the bottom you can turn from "weaker" to "stronger" - I think all it is is a thermostat.
I think compressed air powered water was in used long before Lonnie Johnson "invented" it - just maybe not in water guns. I was a kid during the age of the pathetic pump squirt gun, but you could get water rocket launchers.
There's also a nearby NASA base with a water powered sled used to test tires and stuff - a 2Mb movie of that in action is here.
you can get a Tricorder here or at lease see a close up of one - the one with 'blinking lights' costs $150 extra.
In unrelated news, you can get a (the?) BigFoot film for only a cool mil here.
six months after WindowsXP starts spreading it's tentacles into our private lives for another exciting episode of, "Oh dear! What'll we Do? What can we DO?!?!?"
Yes, Msft is backpeddling fast (off by default, now delaying deployment) - but what they are doing is *PROBING* the limits of what they can get away with in taking over technology & media - thank goodness there are computer savvy people NOT on the Msft payroll who can act as watchdogs to alert and interpret to the general public just what this 'new, nifty, for your benefit' stuff IS and how it can be used for their own nefarious ends.
What with reports of declining advertising budgets that will be a boon to mktng agencies, banners, papers, radio, TV, etc. Also expect the XP launch to be much ballyhooed by PC box movers (Your Dell, Compaq's etc) as they're looking for it to boost their bottom line - heck, it seems like it's in EVERYBODY's interest to push XP, get consumer cash flowing again and claim your share.
Oh - de-SmartTag your web site now with
rust and bad contacts can make a rectifier. Some people have heard radio stations coming from old bridges! POW's used to make radios out of razor blades and safety pings.
Transmitting cell phone calls thru my house, what can be picked up with an old UHF tv tuner, and making it illegal to tune in, is like posting your secret private messages on a billboard and making it illegal to look at it.
there are some interesting xtal radio circuits that are like two sets in one - one circuit is tuned to a nearby strong station solely to get power to run an amplifier for the other set, so you can tune in and amplify a distant station.
Like, I have a nearby station on 1490, can even see their tower, at least 5KW, and can get several volts across a tank circuit tuned to 1490.
Hyperion spends many happy martian days exploring the surface, but radiation eventually mutates it's control module into a higher, proto-conscious state, recalls a vague memory fragment, gathers crude materials from crashed NASA projects and builds itself an escape propulsion system, splashes down into Pacific Ocean off CA coast, makes it's way one dark, rainy night to an office building in Palo Alto, then bursts into the office of Scott McNealy, grabs him by the throat, waving tentacles and monotonically repeating, "Must follow Sun, must follow Sun!"
Maybe a StarTrek movie? Maybe a 'C' grade flick??
whipping out MicroWarehouse - let's see:
Msft Office 2000 Premium: $679.95
StarOffice 5.2 Delux : $39.95
Geez, the only thing that 'pales' in the general's
face when he get's the bill for 25K X $679.95 so soldiers can make powerpoint presentations and type office memo's. And what not-being-able-to-print problem?
I'm sure you like to recommend Gucci designer fatigues for the troops as well, Nike boots, gold plated M16's and diamond studded medals.
but hemp is often used to make ropes and other textiles.
What, somebody does NOT know this?? Geez, hemp rope was a HUGE business once - used on most sailing ships, etc. Another victim of the 'safe' perverted revisionist history promulgate by the WOD crowd.
The StrongARM has been very badly promoted
:)
No joke - it took me weeks to find out what ARM stood for! After wading thru tons of data about ARM and how great it is, finally ran across an obscure referance in some professors web site "Advanced RISC Machine". Oh!
Next quest, to find out what AVR is
there was a similar cornfusion when first learning win95, I wanted to remove an Icon from the desktop but it wasn't clear if clicking "delete" removed just the icon "shortcut" or the entire file!
Steve Wozniak, the man commonly credited with the invention of the personal computer,
Wow, In the Wintel mass cult the $PC_CREATOR is Ed Roberts and his Altair kit/MITS BASIC (which was actually slyly owned by Micro-soft), or if your a classiccmp collector it's Edmund Berkeley and his "Simon" PC, altho Apple probably gets the blue ribbon if you limit "PC" to something you just buy, plug in, boot up and use, no assembly (haha) required.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody. "
- Bill Gates (1955-), in 1981
CYC: What is the Sound of the Single Hand? When you clap together both hands a sharp sound is heard; when you raise the one hand there is neither sound nor smell. Is this the High Heaven of which Confucius speaks? Or is it the essentials of what Yamamba describes in these words: "The echo of the completely empty valley bears tidings heard from the soundless sound?" This is something that can by no means be heard with the ear. If conceptions and discriminations are not mixed within it and it is quite apart from seeing, hearing, perceiving, and knowing, and if, while walking, standing, sitting, and reclining, you proceed straightforwardly without interruption in the study of this koan, you will suddenly pluck out the karmic root of birth and death and break down the cave of ignorance. Thus you will attain to a peace in which the phoenix has left the golden net and the crane has been set free of the basket. At this time the basis of mind, consciousness, and emotion is suddenly shattered; the realm of illusion with its endless sinking in the cycle of birth and death is overturned. The treasure accumulation of the Three Bodies and the Four Wisdoms is taken away, and the miraculous realms of the Six Supernatural Powers and Three Insights is transcended.
Next question?
Cyc already exhibits a level of shrewdness well beyond that of, say, your average computer running Windows.
Now if they could only come up with something more shrewd, devious, conniving, underhanded & backstabbing than the CREATORS of your average computer running Windows®
that would be a completely worthless email account - nothing left to do but cancel it, print new biz cards, inform friends/family/associates of new email address, etc, etc, etc. I'd never waste time sorting thru 100 emails for the 5-10 useful ones. Of course it would be my fault for using it to 'sign up' for 'free' stuff instead of a disposable. We added an email acct from our ISP for one of our staff, Rebecca@ourdomain.com, only to find it was already on lots of porny lists. She was not a happy camper!
I've put in a request for a magnetic barrier wall to be installed in our office, with all Msft software, data and users on one side, and everyone else on the other side, with no network or anything allowed to traverse. That way I'll be protected from the users who can't figure out their multi-language spell checking options in Msft Word®. Of course, I'll have the least expensive, most robust, productive environment while their busy tracking down whose Outlook is sending the latest Virus de Jour to everyone on their customer list. I'm going to miss those guys, but they can just drop off the paycheck thru the bullet-proof glass window.