I haven't been on the new tour as I went pre-9/11. Is it any good? Clearly it's not as detailed as the old Hard Hat Tour, but then again, they didn't close the dam entirely, either, or the terrorists would have won.
As to Lost Wages, that's a matter of personal taste. On the plus side, there are lots of shows to see, such as Blue Man Group, and Cirque du Soleil [flash required]... provided you can get tickets. Le Cirque has two very different shows in town and they're booked far in advance. BMG isn't much better. Don't pay scalper prices! [please!]
It's a five plus hour long drive to the Grand Canyon [as in the main entrance] from Hoover Dam. "Close" in American terms, but damn far through the stinking desert.
Growing up just outside of DC, we often went to the C & O Canal National Historical Park during the summer. Down at the south end of the park you can rent canoes and kayaks and then go paddling up and down the canal. It's an interesting part of our history and a pleasant place to visit in DC to get away from the city, as is Rock Creek Park, also a part of our National Park Service.
However, the entirety of the Smithsonian is worth visiting. I recommend you spend at least a day per museum for the "quick tour" - I am not kidding. It's not called "America's Attic" for nothing.
My personal recommendations:
When I was a kid, the Insect Zoo used to be well-hidden in a back corner of the Natural History Museum - with minimal signage - that it took us three visits to find it. My father joked that "insect zoo" meant "tour of the museum". These days there's more to it than dead mounted bugs and a glass-walled bee hive.
Surplus stores vary by locale, of course. There was an ask.slashdot topic on this last March.
Basically, the most interesting are near NASA centers, followed by military bases and National Laboratories [sort of like CSIRO but not really]. Silicon Valley also has interesting surplus stores, of course.
I toured WWVH years back... big fun looking at the GIANT tubes that provide transmission power as well as the HUGE monopole antennas for the lower frequencies. I presume that WWV in Colorado Springs, CO has a similar tour.
Billware is still stuck with a 16-bit non-protected model.. something that was supposed to disappear in '93 with the unified windoze 3.1 & nt release due to appear then.
People use unix because it works. You're not stuck with things, you can change them. Take a few tools, saute them and voila, something new and useful.
As to your cars example, they're rapidly moving towards unrepairable -- many repairs are of a "keep on replacing boards until the problem goes away" nature. The modern auto, while featureful, is not an end-user friendly device if it's lacking a feature you need to have.
Any of you who think you were rich before the bust are just fooling yourself. The real rich are the bosses, the ones who consistently vote themselves more options, big bonuses and pay raises.
What piddling riches you had (or still have) are nothing compared to what the Bosses make. What you had was at their whim.
They're hoping for export business. They're thinking that somehow the little guy doesn't matter. They forget to consider who will buy their shit once they've impoverished us.
Another thing that drives me nuts is when people in the theater are whispering to each other. They'll be a couple of rows back and it will break any chance I have of watching the movie. Of course my companions never hear a thing.
Give it a decade or so. Your hearing will eventually go.
Which I still find odd as not only is it a smoking cessation aid as has been pointed out, but it originally hit the market as an anti-depressant -- it's a SSRI - Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitor. That's the same class of drugs that Prozac belongs to.
Why it works on ADHD I have no clue, but I'm not a neurobiologist.
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MSG is known as "gourmet powder" in Chinese, fwiw.
Generally not added to chicken because it's already the most delicious meat.
They're great if you need cheap Red Chinese tools, that's for sure.
The best buys there come from the cable bins. Just about any kind imaginable and really cheap.
I'm less than impressed with Disk Drive Despot/Dot Com Despot/Disk Drive Warehouse, CSC Inc (not affiliated with Computer Sciences Corporation), etc. If you can use IDE, you'll get better prices at Fr*'s, just across the expressway...the SCSI drives they have there are usually very out of date and don't seem to last long.
Software&Stuff [SurplusComputers, visible from US-101] has very little in the way of real surplus, but they do have fantastic prices on some new-from-China stuff like 50-pack spindles of DVD-Rs for under a buck apiece.
WeirdStuff was better before it was weirdstuff
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Even back in the day when WeirdStuff had a normal name and a warehouse off Phelan in San Jose they did carry a lot of stuff that they charged too much for and did horriffic things such as sawing the edge connectors off of otherwise perfectly good S100 boards.
Sure, they have the occasional great find, but it's often just silly, like the previously-mentioned $4k Cisco switch.
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Yeah, it works, but it was a serious pain and we have much better things now.
The current "one-button" interface [heck, you can fit a jog wheel+button in that space] would be Dasher in my not-so-humble opinion.
But wait for Moore's law to catch up with software and we may yet end up with the microphone+speaker interface to the computer.
Graffiti is to Morse as a DC-3 is to a kite.
I haven't been on the new tour as I went pre-9/11. Is it any good? Clearly it's not as detailed as the old Hard Hat Tour, but then again, they didn't close the dam entirely, either, or the terrorists would have won.
As to Lost Wages, that's a matter of personal taste. On the plus side, there are lots of shows to see, such as Blue Man Group, and Cirque du Soleil [flash required] ... provided you can get tickets. Le Cirque has two very different shows in town and they're booked far in advance. BMG isn't much better. Don't pay scalper prices! [please!]
It's a five plus hour long drive to the Grand Canyon [as in the main entrance] from Hoover Dam. "Close" in American terms, but damn far through the stinking desert.
Growing up just outside of DC, we often went to the C & O Canal National Historical Park during the summer. Down at the south end of the park you can rent canoes and kayaks and then go paddling up and down the canal. It's an interesting part of our history and a pleasant place to visit in DC to get away from the city, as is Rock Creek Park, also a part of our National Park Service.
I see a number of recommendations for the computer exhibit at the American History Museum. And of course for the National Air and Space Museum.
However, the entirety of the Smithsonian is worth visiting. I recommend you spend at least a day per museum for the "quick tour" - I am not kidding. It's not called "America's Attic" for nothing. My personal recommendations:
When I was a kid, the Insect Zoo used to be well-hidden in a back corner of the Natural History Museum - with minimal signage - that it took us three visits to find it. My father joked that "insect zoo" meant "tour of the museum". These days there's more to it than dead mounted bugs and a glass-walled bee hive.
Surplus stores vary by locale, of course. There was an ask.slashdot topic on this last March.
Basically, the most interesting are near NASA centers, followed by military bases and National Laboratories [sort of like CSIRO but not really]. Silicon Valley also has interesting surplus stores, of course.
I toured WWVH years back... big fun looking at the GIANT tubes that provide transmission power as well as the HUGE monopole antennas for the lower frequencies. I presume that WWV in Colorado Springs, CO has a similar tour.
Which is why you posted as A.C.
Billware is still stuck with a 16-bit non-protected model .. something that was supposed to disappear in '93 with the unified windoze 3.1 & nt release due to appear then.
People use unix because it works. You're not stuck with things, you can change them. Take a few tools, saute them and voila, something new and useful.
As to your cars example, they're rapidly moving towards unrepairable -- many repairs are of a "keep on replacing boards until the problem goes away" nature. The modern auto, while featureful, is not an end-user friendly device if it's lacking a feature you need to have.
Preach on my Brother.
Any of you who think you were rich before the bust are just fooling yourself. The real rich are the bosses, the ones who consistently vote themselves more options, big bonuses and pay raises.
What piddling riches you had (or still have) are nothing compared to what the Bosses make. What you had was at their whim.
They're hoping for export business. They're thinking that somehow the little guy doesn't matter. They forget to consider who will buy their shit once they've impoverished us.
In the USA, sure.
In Nazi Germany, however...
Preach on my Brother!
And consider the lubricants in the spinning components....
Tool collecting is a hobby in itself for sure...but you're really there once you start rewiring everything to run off of 220 power...
Give it a decade or so. Your hearing will eventually go.
Which I still find odd as not only is it a smoking cessation aid as has been pointed out, but it originally hit the market as an anti-depressant -- it's a SSRI - Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitor. That's the same class of drugs that Prozac belongs to.
Why it works on ADHD I have no clue, but I'm not a neurobiologist.
MSG is known as "gourmet powder" in Chinese, fwiw.
Generally not added to chicken because it's already the most delicious meat.
It's a ThinkPad 730TE, which does normally boot off of the PCMCIA, as it has no internal drives at all, just 3 PCMCIA slots
Even the floppy drive is external and hangs off of a cable from the port "replicator".
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I've been running W95 for years on a 220Mib PCMCIA ATA card, SanDisk brand - top-shelf. No problems.
Are you using an off-brand CF card bychance?
Oh big help that is with Brazil being the #1 source of spam these days.
.br from my smtp server.
Yes, I do block
No word on their web site if they pushed the release out yet .... but they did have a coup d'état at the CEO level in February.
They're great if you need cheap Red Chinese tools, that's for sure.
The best buys there come from the cable bins. Just about any kind imaginable and really cheap.
I'm less than impressed with Disk Drive Despot/Dot Com Despot/Disk Drive Warehouse, CSC Inc (not affiliated with Computer Sciences Corporation), etc. If you can use IDE, you'll get better prices at Fr*'s, just across the expressway...the SCSI drives they have there are usually very out of date and don't seem to last long.
Software&Stuff [SurplusComputers, visible from US-101] has very little in the way of real surplus, but they do have fantastic prices on some new-from-China stuff like 50-pack spindles of DVD-Rs for under a buck apiece.
Even back in the day when WeirdStuff had a normal name and a warehouse off Phelan in San Jose they did carry a lot of stuff that they charged too much for and did horriffic things such as sawing the edge connectors off of otherwise perfectly good S100 boards.
Sure, they have the occasional great find, but it's often just silly, like the previously-mentioned $4k Cisco switch.
It has a bigger display, better HWR, and is more featureful than the latest whiz-bang pocket-gadget from the PalmOS camp or the PocketPC camp.