but he didn't invent tv ping-pong, anymore than Msft invented 'Windows'. That honor goes to Ralph Baer, excerpt:
On 29th May 1972, Nolan Bushnell (later President of Atari) visits the "Magnavox Profit Caravan" at the Airport Marina Hotel in Burlingame, CA. He signs the guest book for Magnavox Odyssey Demo and plays the Odyssey Ping-Pong game hands-on. Later, he hires Alan Alcorn to design and build a coin-op version of the Ping-Pong game: PONG. This will mark the begining of the coin-op market.
maybe Gore will get better at lying w/ experience - I feel like we need at least an intelligent person in office, rather than a flag waving simpleton - but hopefully he won't think he's so much smarter than everyone else that he won't get caught trying to get away with something embarrasing, like Clinton was, or get himself into a position where you can't admit or deny it (to this day, Clinton's defense aginst disbarment for lying under oath depends on a twisted, tortured definition of 'sex' that does NOT include 'oral genital contact').
This would add a whole new dimension to Robot Wars, or Quake for that matter.
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Have been researching vidgame history and found this blurb about Ralph Baer designing video games for the Pentagon in 1966, which led to the Magnavox Oddessy, Atari Pong, etc.
There used to be fantasies about technology making life easier with more leasure time. The problem is that any gains in productivity due to modern work go to upper level mgmt or one jerk in particular, while mgmt wants front line employees to keep on working just as hard as 19th century coal miners w/ 12hr shifts. It doesn't HAVE to be this way, if you can manage your own work. I've managed to keep a job down that doesn't pay grand sums, but keeps me comfortable, with lots of 'self guided' time during the 8hr day. My supervisor understands, just leave me alone and the computer network stays up. When he starts micromanaging and trying to squeeze more profits out, we start experiencing 'down time' and overall losses. Nice arrangement.
Dave Barry wrote about this too, but I got a letter from a firm stating I was in a class action suit against a bank for the improperly handling of a mortgage escrow account. Upon winning, the law firm received $200,000 for their gallent efforts as public defenders, and we the plaintiffs get $25 off our next loan origination fee. The system really works!
or 72mA in 1/8th of a hour, etc, etc. - that is, sure you can light an LED to half brightness for an hour, or the same battery can blaze a floodlight for a few seconds, it's the same amount of enerfy, just released slowly or quickly. Heck, I have plans for a 100,000w laser that runs off a 6v flashlight battery, only thing is the pulses are only 10nS long. One Ampere is one coulumb/second - the units get quite comfortable once you work with them and actually build things for a few years, constipated liberal arts majors notwithstanding. Only newbies have to expand a unit of measurement into it's basic physical quantities. After saying "coulombs per second" five hundred thousand times, we find it much faster to just say "amps". "Jake, could you flip off that 20 coulombs per second circuit breaker? Thanks!" Got any 1 millionths of a coulomb-volt capacitors anybody?
But I still wouldn't accept a ride in his new car.
The NakedPC page is pure marketing - notice the image mongering: You buy a PC w/o PRODUCT - your naked, cold, in the dark, alone and friendless, exposed to the elements w/o a roof over your head. But buy a PC with PRODUCT and you've got the warm fuzzies, your cozy and sheltered, protected from the storm w/ friends to turn to for help. Pure advertising fluff that has nothing to do with, say, a new USB scanner that does not work with W2K.
DCMA is an overbearing solution to an exaggerated problem. Just as advertisers can always inflate the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns to their customers because it is so difficult to measure accurately (just look at all the otherwise honest businesspeople falling for the spam scams), likewise IP creators, publishers and distributors can ALWAYS claim to be losing revenues to an alleged piracy 'out there', even when none exists, because it is so difficult to accurately measure. Legislation should require compensation for the loss of revenue to come from actual, individually proven cases of piracy, not just some vauge claims by an industry group that they should be earning more than they should (heck, EVERYONE has that complaint!) and having govt. punish everyone for the misdeeds of a very few by restricting the fair use of material by honest folks. There should be more education and raising of consciousness about IP issues to make more honest citizens instead of resorting to technological skulduggery.
Digital device makers could put a little random noise in with each playback, so the first viewing looks acceptable, but every time you copy it it gets a little bit worse and worse - just like the old stuff. Would this make everybody happy? (no).
the market debugging windows for free is helping to fix their tightly held closed private property, whereas debugging a distro of open software is helping out the entire community of GPL users, including oneself. XFree86 ver 4 isn't RH 'property', nor is their own GPL'd creations. I'll help debug Msft property for free the day BG comes over and mows my grass and paints my windows for free. That's one of the secrets of their vast riches and there's still a lot of MS suckers out there working for nothing, or maybe for the priviledge of an early preview of upcoming products.
I've always wanted to build a radio control model airplane, preferably with an electric motor, and somehow strap in (comfortably) a parakeet, and fly it around. Talk about putting legs on a snake...
Basically, if you edit a Word doc with the 'fast save' feature ON, your recepient may be able to see the previous version (using 'strings' for ex). Real world example, create a doc offering someone $30,000 and save it. Then edit the offer to $22,000 and email it, they could dig into the doc and find your previous figure and hold out for a better deal, knowing you were thinking of offering more. W/ fast save, the changed are just appended to the file. I tried it and it's true.
I've archived my old MITS Altair sw eariler this year and found that MP3 worked great with the 88-ACR. It stores data using 2400 and 1850Hz at 300 baud. Dunno about the ZX81 audio format (I bought one of those from these guys before they raised the price to $100 - it was around $40 a couple years ago, heheh. Haven't even built it yet tho).
BTW - saving old computer audio data with a PC sound card, preferably just make an audio CD, is HIGHLY recommended as you won't have any of the tape problems of noise, hiss, drop outs and speed fluctuations, is much more reliable - and those old tapes aren't getting any younger you know. After a time the lube dries up and then you'll have a problem with it squealing and that definitely throws a monkey wrench into loading 8K BASIC.
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Before "Pong" started the coin-op video game market, Noland tried to market a coin op game called Computer Space.
but he didn't invent tv ping-pong, anymore than Msft invented 'Windows'. That honor goes to Ralph Baer, excerpt:
On 29th May 1972, Nolan Bushnell (later President of Atari) visits the "Magnavox Profit Caravan" at the Airport Marina Hotel in Burlingame, CA. He signs the guest book for Magnavox Odyssey Demo and plays the Odyssey Ping-Pong game hands-on. Later, he hires Alan Alcorn to design and build a coin-op version of the Ping-Pong game: PONG. This will mark the begining of the coin-op market.
maybe Gore will get better at lying w/ experience - I feel like we need at least an intelligent person in office, rather than a flag waving simpleton - but hopefully he won't think he's so much smarter than everyone else that he won't get caught trying to get away with something embarrasing, like Clinton was, or get himself into a position where you can't admit or deny it (to this day, Clinton's defense aginst disbarment for lying under oath depends on a twisted, tortured definition of 'sex' that does NOT include 'oral genital contact').
between a .com VC and a pigeon?
The pigeon can still leave a deposit on a BMW.
[this joke is 100% recycled humor from the '87 crash]
This would add a whole new dimension to Robot Wars, or Quake for that matter.
Have been researching vidgame history and found this blurb about Ralph Baer designing video games for the Pentagon in 1966, which led to the Magnavox Oddessy, Atari Pong, etc.
From what I could find.
punch clock. go home.
I'm happy w/ SO on my PPro200, 96Mb. It's the major reason I rarely have to start Windows anymore, but >64Mb is recommended.
I dunno - I just got an email that is offering me $50,000 / week working part time at home. Hey, I can't wait to get started!
There used to be fantasies about technology making life easier with more leasure time. The problem is that any gains in productivity due to modern work go to upper level mgmt or one jerk in particular, while mgmt wants front line employees to keep on working just as hard as 19th century coal miners w/ 12hr shifts. It doesn't HAVE to be this way, if you can manage your own work. I've managed to keep a job down that doesn't pay grand sums, but keeps me comfortable, with lots of 'self guided' time during the 8hr day. My supervisor understands, just leave me alone and the computer network stays up. When he starts micromanaging and trying to squeeze more profits out, we start experiencing 'down time' and overall losses. Nice arrangement.
meant "18 mA for 1/2 Hour", or "36 mA for 1/4 Hour", etc.
Dave Barry wrote about this too, but I got a letter from a firm stating I was in a class action suit against a bank for the improperly handling of a mortgage escrow account. Upon winning, the law firm received $200,000 for their gallent efforts as public defenders, and we the plaintiffs get $25 off our next loan origination fee. The system really works!
or 72mA in 1/8th of a hour, etc, etc. - that is, sure you can light an LED to half brightness for an hour, or the same battery can blaze a floodlight for a few seconds, it's the same amount of enerfy, just released slowly or quickly. Heck, I have plans for a 100,000w laser that runs off a 6v flashlight battery, only thing is the pulses are only 10nS long. One Ampere is one coulumb/second - the units get quite comfortable once you work with them and actually build things for a few years, constipated liberal arts majors notwithstanding. Only newbies have to expand a unit of measurement into it's basic physical quantities. After saying "coulombs per second" five hundred thousand times, we find it much faster to just say "amps". "Jake, could you flip off that 20 coulombs per second circuit breaker? Thanks!" Got any 1 millionths of a coulomb-volt capacitors anybody?
But I still wouldn't accept a ride in his new car.
before this scrolls off into oblivion -
The NakedPC page is pure marketing - notice the image mongering: You buy a PC w/o PRODUCT - your naked, cold, in the dark, alone and friendless, exposed to the elements w/o a roof over your head. But buy a PC with PRODUCT and you've got the warm fuzzies, your cozy and sheltered, protected from the storm w/ friends to turn to for help. Pure advertising fluff that has nothing to do with, say, a new USB scanner that does not work with W2K.
harnessing the complexity of it all.
What would Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, Ted Hoff and Federico Fagin do?
DCMA is an overbearing solution to an exaggerated problem. Just as advertisers can always inflate the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns to their customers because it is so difficult to measure accurately (just look at all the otherwise honest businesspeople falling for the spam scams), likewise IP creators, publishers and distributors can ALWAYS claim to be losing revenues to an alleged piracy 'out there', even when none exists, because it is so difficult to accurately measure. Legislation should require compensation for the loss of revenue to come from actual, individually proven cases of piracy, not just some vauge claims by an industry group that they should be earning more than they should (heck, EVERYONE has that complaint!) and having govt. punish everyone for the misdeeds of a very few by restricting the fair use of material by honest folks. There should be more education and raising of consciousness about IP issues to make more honest citizens instead of resorting to technological skulduggery.
Digital device makers could put a little random noise in with each playback, so the first viewing looks acceptable, but every time you copy it it gets a little bit worse and worse - just like the old stuff. Would this make everybody happy? (no).
Just being facitious.
the market debugging windows for free is helping to fix their tightly held closed private property, whereas debugging a distro of open software is helping out the entire community of GPL users, including oneself. XFree86 ver 4 isn't RH 'property', nor is their own GPL'd creations. I'll help debug Msft property for free the day BG comes over and mows my grass and paints my windows for free. That's one of the secrets of their vast riches and there's still a lot of MS suckers out there working for nothing, or maybe for the priviledge of an early preview of upcoming products.
I've always wanted to build a radio control model airplane, preferably with an electric motor, and somehow strap in (comfortably) a parakeet, and fly it around. Talk about putting legs on a snake...
as described here.
Basically, if you edit a Word doc with the 'fast save' feature ON, your recepient may be able to see the previous version (using 'strings' for ex). Real world example, create a doc offering someone $30,000 and save it. Then edit the offer to $22,000 and email it, they could dig into the doc and find your previous figure and hold out for a better deal, knowing you were thinking of offering more. W/ fast save, the changed are just appended to the file. I tried it and it's true.
I've archived my old MITS Altair sw eariler this year and found that MP3 worked great with the 88-ACR. It stores data using 2400 and 1850Hz at 300 baud. Dunno about the ZX81 audio format (I bought one of those from these guys before they raised the price to $100 - it was around $40 a couple years ago, heheh. Haven't even built it yet tho).
BTW - saving old computer audio data with a PC sound card, preferably just make an audio CD, is HIGHLY recommended as you won't have any of the tape problems of noise, hiss, drop outs and speed fluctuations, is much more reliable - and those old tapes aren't getting any younger you know. After a time the lube dries up and then you'll have a problem with it squealing and that definitely throws a monkey wrench into loading 8K BASIC.
an NC connected to an application terminal server mainframe made out of a cluster of inexpensive PC's.
Article I, section 8 - "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to Authors and Inventors...."
It doesn't say "In order to create value..." or "To create jobs...."
what comes with most scanners.
All generalizations are false