How many Chinese people still have a computer (or a home) to download onto or listen from. I think the idea that we could make money selling our products into the Chinese economy may be temporarily on hold. At the moment I am sending money via the red cross for stuff like tents and water, not cdr blanks and mp3 players. Some parts of China may still be ok, but major sections are not. I am surprised there is anything left of the chinese stock market.
Despite my parents best effort, I found out about Frank Zappa. A friend gave me a copy on cassette. It is the only pirate music I have ever received. What was special was that it was forbidden, not that it was pirated. In the long run, exposure to Zappa didn't hurt me much.
Seeing as how this chipset was made to run Java there is an x86 emulator in Java and they ought to be able to get at least a 4.44MHz 8088 emulation out of this chipset. Just think:-)
As with many manufacturing processes, a failure in the manufacturing of these disks could result in air leakage during storage. A purchaser would only have to buy one pre-expired disk and that would be the end of their loyalty to the technology, and possibly to the store where they bought it. Just look how big a problem it is when a bad run of DVDs makes it to the stores. If an unexpected environmental condition caused many people to sit down with their popcorn and kids to the disappointment, there would be a failed product. It would have to be engineered so that if something went wrong, the disk would remain ok instead of going bad.
If you are serious, and you didn't get it, watch the movie again because there are tons of stuff you will see the second time around. Even if you did get it, watching it again was worthwhile. That was a great movie.
I just renewed my subscription to Apple Developer Connection Select. That is a good clue that it has been a year since I made the big plunge and bought my Mac Pro. I am a switcher. There is no need for me to explain why beyond that I am a software engineer. I decided that despite the installed desktop percentage advantage of Windows, Apple would provide me the development and end-user environment that I wanted to support.
While I like Unix/Linux, I chose to switch to Mac OS X on Apple hardware because I was tired of endless driver problems. So what I am talking about here is one year Windows free using Apple instead. I am an independent developer and I don't have to interact with other people at work, just clients and their needs. At the point where I switched, I kept one Sony VAIO notebook on Windows XP in case a client forced me to deal with a Microsoft file format and I had no choice. I certainly wouldn't want to have to go buy a new machine just if that happened. Well the year has gone by and never once did a client ask me to use Windows. The machine has been out and running once to reprogram my Logitech remote control. I also did have to get it out once to download a file from the Microsoft TechNet site that would only download with IE, and I refuse to load IE on my Mac.
I have been programming in gnu c++ and python. I use the Wing-ide Pro on my Mac for python programming. If I have to deal with a.doc file, I use the Pages app that is part of iWork. The things I use my Mac for are pretty normal. I read my email, I browse the web. I watch podcasts using Miro (which I like a lot).
I have become comfortable with manipulating pictures and sound files on my Mac. When I want to play games, I jump on my console. Some third party programs I purchased and like are BBEdit, Transmit, Yojimbo, VMWare Fusion (for Unix/Linux/and Solaris). I have some pro audio hardware/software that is Macish. My Strat and Martin are Mac compatible, as is my Marshall stack. OK I am dropping some names that imply I have some style and like nice things.
During the last year I have spent no money on anti-virus software for my Mac. Life has been good day after day. No blue screens. No virus infestations. There are some program I want to use that work differently than programs on Windows, but that doesn't bother me. I have not had any trouble with email. I bought some things from Apple that I changed my mind about, and they gave me my money back. That is more than I can say for Microsoft.
All around I am a happy man for my choice. Am I still mad at Bill Gates? Yes, the business with Monsanto and the seed bank has me upset. But I don't buy Monsanto products so I don't regret any past decisions on that basis. I am sured that many people are not in a position to switch because of their work situations, and I am sorry for them. For anyone that does have the option, I recommend giving it a try.
One last thing... I walked away from Microsoft in the face of Vista. As it turns out, I haven't missed anything important from that decision. Vista doesn't have anything going for it that competes with the Mac OS X to a measurable extent. If I could go to a meeting, it would be time for my "chip", and I could nod knowingly at others who understand what I know now. There is life after Microsoft.
My mistake. I was thinking more about the size of CF that consumer devices have proven compatibility with.
As I am sure you realize, just because a widget has a CF intereface doesn't mean it has the hardware support (address lines) to support arbitrary memory sizes). Recently I have purchased several memory devices that didn't end up being compatible with specific devices. My Tascam Portastudio will only support 8GB. My Phone will only support 2GB....
OK I want my mp3's to sound warmer. I am going to buy a Marshall stack for my server. I am committed to the high end. Musicians will prefer tube to solid state storage, I can see that.
I tried in vain to get people interested in my product idea. A 5-1/4" drawer with zif sockets for three notebook hds. A raid solution for home computers. Kind of like the Drobo but much smaller. I couldn't get anyone excited about what I considered a killer app. All single spindle hard drive based home computers are just waiting to fail. I don't see why raid5 for home computing never took off.
They were a must have for trendy nerds. Although they used more power than flash devices, the cute little IBM drives (mine was 1GB) were a triumph of miniaturization and if I hadn't owned one, I might be denying they existed. I bought one to put in my Pocket PC. Unfortunately HP and Microsoft dropped support for the product, but I still have the drive. The state of the art right now for compact flash seems to be 8GB (I just bought one for my Tascam Portastud) and this obsoletes the 1GB device. Unfortunately the device is Type 2 and won't fit in my camera. In contrast though, the Microdrive (1GB ) is substantially more dense than the IBM Hard drive that attached to the 1620 system. It had a capacity to store 100x20K characters. I guest that would be 2 megabytes.
There I was with the reps from IBM at Boca Raton. I was porting the first word processor for the IBM-PC. We had a spare moment and I looked up and spoke with the manager. I said, "OK I want the game" He said, "You know about the game?". I said, "Yes". He said, "OK,here it is, and he removed a floppy disk from his jacket pocket and gave it to me. It contained the 8088 dos port of the Adventure game (you know, xyzzy, and plough). He finaly asked how I found out about the game. I said, "No machine reaches this state of development without at least one game." A little social engineering on my part got me an early copy.
At Western Bancorp in El Segundo, we had a vast room filled with 3350's as far as the eye could see. They were attached to the VM/CMS systems (2 195's as I recall). We ran the airline control protocol for use in banking. IBM finance industry stuff...
In a story so old that most people know about it, they had to use RAST1 (redundant array of stone tablets mode 1 = mirror) because the manager in charge destroyed the first set of tablets, and substantial trouble was gone to replacing the lost data. The data happened to be an ordered list with only ten items on it, so a linear access method was efficient enough for most people. Later the RAST media were stored in a famous enclosure to prevent further damage or unauthorized disclosure. Unfortunately the enclosure was lost, or so we believe, unless it was stored in a large warehouse by the CIA. Use of this data became so commonplace that the items were generally referred to by name and not by number. But this dataset was commonly referred to by the size of the database and the data type of its entries.
I guess he should be careful though that he doesn't work for someone who is happy to knock him off after he does the work so he doesn't turn on them later. I am sure there are organized crime and government agencies that wouldn't have any more problem sanctioning him than he has breaking people's security measures. He needs to be careful that he is not worth more money dead than alive:-)
Thirty years ago I designed the hardware and wrote the software for the first smart card. It was a card for a Savin copier that contained the number of authorized copies an individual could make. I guess I am just too simple minded. It never occurred to me to play both sides on that game. Although there probably wasn't much market for pirate copy cards. It was an interesting project though with an 8085 based controller and the first bit looping hardware I had heard of. The fun part was learning no normalize the loop if the card got pulled unexpectedly.
Oh Yea... Chuck is the one who decided that the assembler and linker shouldn't be distributed with CP/M because users don't need to write programs. Luckily Apple doesn't agree and they do distribute the software development with the operating system. Of course now days Microsoft gives away development software too. Too bad I lost my taste for Windows development before the software was free. I paid for thousands of dollars of buggy Windows compilers before I saw the light.
As a music lover and a Marshall appreciator, I would guess this signature regards a special amplifier with a knob that goes to 11 instead of just 10, eh?
While I am pissed off at Netgear for violating the GPL, I think it is time for me to mention that for mere money you can purchase a Netgear 8-port ProSafe VPM Firewall with 10/100 Mbps switch FVS318. This router detects spurious RST packets and will email you reports about them with details. For less trouble than porting Windows code to another platform (a Mac in my case) you can spend less than two hundred dollars for a hardware solution that provides email records to be used as proof later. My only problem with this solution was that there were so many RST packets that my email was getting clogged with reports. By the way, I NEVER use torrents, and I was seeing RST packets while I was on eBay. I have Comcast HSI and while I seem to be happy with the throughput, the thought of them forging TCP packets and inserting them into my communications stream bothers me quite a lot. I pay top dollar for my cable connection and I expect a clean pipe.
The people who invented the mouse were clicking on things first. I seem to remember they could click on text or video overlays. Remember the demo in SF?
Actually in this case, one side makes the claim that the ownership of the land was granted to them by the original owner in perpetuity. You know, by God (root@universe.org).
I have it on good authority that the invoices are printed on recycled SCO Linux Invoices. It saves paper and has the same basic value. In fact it is probably Daryl that owns the company. This smells like him.
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How many Chinese people still have a computer (or a home) to download onto or listen from. I think the idea that we could make money selling our products into the Chinese economy may be temporarily on hold. At the moment I am sending money via the red cross for stuff like tents and water, not cdr blanks and mp3 players. Some parts of China may still be ok, but major sections are not. I am surprised there is anything left of the chinese stock market.
Despite my parents best effort, I found out about Frank Zappa. A friend gave me a copy on cassette. It is the only pirate music I have ever received. What was special was that it was forbidden, not that it was pirated. In the long run, exposure to Zappa didn't hurt me much.
The hearing was more like a colonoscopy and his disbarment like the removal of a polyp.
Seeing as how this chipset was made to run Java there is an x86 emulator in Java and they ought to be able to get at least a 4.44MHz 8088 emulation out of this chipset. Just think :-)
As with many manufacturing processes, a failure in the manufacturing of these disks could result in air leakage during storage. A purchaser would only have to buy one pre-expired disk and that would be the end of their loyalty to the technology, and possibly to the store where they bought it. Just look how big a problem it is when a bad run of DVDs makes it to the stores. If an unexpected environmental condition caused many people to sit down with their popcorn and kids to the disappointment, there would be a failed product. It would have to be engineered so that if something went wrong, the disk would remain ok instead of going bad.
If you are serious, and you didn't get it, watch the movie again because there are tons of stuff you will see the second time around. Even if you did get it, watching it again was worthwhile. That was a great movie.
While I like Unix/Linux, I chose to switch to Mac OS X on Apple hardware because I was tired of endless driver problems. So what I am talking about here is one year Windows free using Apple instead. I am an independent developer and I don't have to interact with other people at work, just clients and their needs. At the point where I switched, I kept one Sony VAIO notebook on Windows XP in case a client forced me to deal with a Microsoft file format and I had no choice. I certainly wouldn't want to have to go buy a new machine just if that happened. Well the year has gone by and never once did a client ask me to use Windows. The machine has been out and running once to reprogram my Logitech remote control. I also did have to get it out once to download a file from the Microsoft TechNet site that would only download with IE, and I refuse to load IE on my Mac.
I have been programming in gnu c++ and python. I use the Wing-ide Pro on my Mac for python programming. If I have to deal with a .doc file, I use the Pages app that is part of iWork. The things I use my Mac for are pretty normal. I read my email, I browse the web. I watch podcasts using Miro (which I like a lot).
I have become comfortable with manipulating pictures and sound files on my Mac. When I want to play games, I jump on my console. Some third party programs I purchased and like are BBEdit, Transmit, Yojimbo, VMWare Fusion (for Unix/Linux/and Solaris). I have some pro audio hardware/software that is Macish. My Strat and Martin are Mac compatible, as is my Marshall stack. OK I am dropping some names that imply I have some style and like nice things.
During the last year I have spent no money on anti-virus software for my Mac. Life has been good day after day. No blue screens. No virus infestations. There are some program I want to use that work differently than programs on Windows, but that doesn't bother me. I have not had any trouble with email. I bought some things from Apple that I changed my mind about, and they gave me my money back. That is more than I can say for Microsoft.
All around I am a happy man for my choice. Am I still mad at Bill Gates? Yes, the business with Monsanto and the seed bank has me upset. But I don't buy Monsanto products so I don't regret any past decisions on that basis. I am sured that many people are not in a position to switch because of their work situations, and I am sorry for them. For anyone that does have the option, I recommend giving it a try. One last thing... I walked away from Microsoft in the face of Vista. As it turns out, I haven't missed anything important from that decision. Vista doesn't have anything going for it that competes with the Mac OS X to a measurable extent. If I could go to a meeting, it would be time for my "chip", and I could nod knowingly at others who understand what I know now. There is life after Microsoft.
OPen source voting software would probably draw the ire of the government.
My mistake. I was thinking more about the size of CF that consumer devices have proven compatibility with. As I am sure you realize, just because a widget has a CF intereface doesn't mean it has the hardware support (address lines) to support arbitrary memory sizes). Recently I have purchased several memory devices that didn't end up being compatible with specific devices. My Tascam Portastudio will only support 8GB. My Phone will only support 2GB....
OK I want my mp3's to sound warmer. I am going to buy a Marshall stack for my server. I am committed to the high end. Musicians will prefer tube to solid state storage, I can see that.
I tried in vain to get people interested in my product idea. A 5-1/4" drawer with zif sockets for three notebook hds. A raid solution for home computers. Kind of like the Drobo but much smaller. I couldn't get anyone excited about what I considered a killer app. All single spindle hard drive based home computers are just waiting to fail. I don't see why raid5 for home computing never took off.
They were a must have for trendy nerds. Although they used more power than flash devices, the cute little IBM drives (mine was 1GB) were a triumph of miniaturization and if I hadn't owned one, I might be denying they existed. I bought one to put in my Pocket PC. Unfortunately HP and Microsoft dropped support for the product, but I still have the drive. The state of the art right now for compact flash seems to be 8GB (I just bought one for my Tascam Portastud) and this obsoletes the 1GB device. Unfortunately the device is Type 2 and won't fit in my camera. In contrast though, the Microdrive (1GB ) is substantially more dense than the IBM Hard drive that attached to the 1620 system. It had a capacity to store 100x20K characters. I guest that would be 2 megabytes.
There I was with the reps from IBM at Boca Raton. I was porting the first word processor for the IBM-PC. We had a spare moment and I looked up and spoke with the manager. I said, "OK I want the game" He said, "You know about the game?". I said, "Yes". He said, "OK ,here it is, and he removed a floppy disk from his jacket pocket and gave it to me. It contained the 8088 dos port of the Adventure game (you know, xyzzy, and plough). He finaly asked how I found out about the game. I said, "No machine reaches this state of development without at least one game." A little social engineering on my part got me an early copy.
At Western Bancorp in El Segundo, we had a vast room filled with 3350's as far as the eye could see. They were attached to the VM/CMS systems (2 195's as I recall). We ran the airline control protocol for use in banking. IBM finance industry stuff...
In a story so old that most people know about it, they had to use RAST1 (redundant array of stone tablets mode 1 = mirror) because the manager in charge destroyed the first set of tablets, and substantial trouble was gone to replacing the lost data. The data happened to be an ordered list with only ten items on it, so a linear access method was efficient enough for most people. Later the RAST media were stored in a famous enclosure to prevent further damage or unauthorized disclosure. Unfortunately the enclosure was lost, or so we believe, unless it was stored in a large warehouse by the CIA. Use of this data became so commonplace that the items were generally referred to by name and not by number. But this dataset was commonly referred to by the size of the database and the data type of its entries.
Those platters turned up again mounted on a pod racer. This time right out in the open and not enclosed in a dust resistant area.
I guess he should be careful though that he doesn't work for someone who is happy to knock him off after he does the work so he doesn't turn on them later. I am sure there are organized crime and government agencies that wouldn't have any more problem sanctioning him than he has breaking people's security measures. He needs to be careful that he is not worth more money dead than alive :-)
Thirty years ago I designed the hardware and wrote the software for the first smart card. It was a card for a Savin copier that contained the number of authorized copies an individual could make. I guess I am just too simple minded. It never occurred to me to play both sides on that game. Although there probably wasn't much market for pirate copy cards. It was an interesting project though with an 8085 based controller and the first bit looping hardware I had heard of. The fun part was learning no normalize the loop if the card got pulled unexpectedly.
Oh Yea... Chuck is the one who decided that the assembler and linker shouldn't be distributed with CP/M because users don't need to write programs. Luckily Apple doesn't agree and they do distribute the software development with the operating system. Of course now days Microsoft gives away development software too. Too bad I lost my taste for Windows development before the software was free. I paid for thousands of dollars of buggy Windows compilers before I saw the light.
As a music lover and a Marshall appreciator, I would guess this signature regards a special amplifier with a knob that goes to 11 instead of just 10, eh?
While I am pissed off at Netgear for violating the GPL, I think it is time for me to mention that for mere money you can purchase a Netgear 8-port ProSafe VPM Firewall with 10/100 Mbps switch FVS318. This router detects spurious RST packets and will email you reports about them with details. For less trouble than porting Windows code to another platform (a Mac in my case) you can spend less than two hundred dollars for a hardware solution that provides email records to be used as proof later. My only problem with this solution was that there were so many RST packets that my email was getting clogged with reports. By the way, I NEVER use torrents, and I was seeing RST packets while I was on eBay. I have Comcast HSI and while I seem to be happy with the throughput, the thought of them forging TCP packets and inserting them into my communications stream bothers me quite a lot. I pay top dollar for my cable connection and I expect a clean pipe.
The people who invented the mouse were clicking on things first. I seem to remember they could click on text or video overlays. Remember the demo in SF?
Actually in this case, one side makes the claim that the ownership of the land was granted to them by the original owner in perpetuity. You know, by God (root@universe.org).
I have it on good authority that the invoices are printed on recycled SCO Linux Invoices. It saves paper and has the same basic value. In fact it is probably Daryl that owns the company. This smells like him.