It's Already 2AM: 12th? 14th? Edition... Time to consult your Financial Advisers!!!

[vipergts831]

you are correct, i think the 40d is a good fit for me.



I think about selling mine and the wheel everyday, and when i go to the bike shop the urge gets even stronger. I love that new bike smell.

I think its time to pull the trigger! Or get those nice new wheels :D

[Blurr Cube]

that's why I feel like I am better off with the 500D :lol: nobody tells me my photos are nice coz I have a nice camera when I was still using the 500D.

now they call my camera the Magic Camera :lol: it Makes everybody look beautiful and handsome hehe

It's all in the gear, then? :p

Roger, I believe Jake is real and only needs some guidance. He could use coaching from old folks like you and me and tutoring from Mel and Harm. He is lucky in many ways, he has rich parents and plenty of peeps in this forum to teach him. I only wish he spends less time here and enjoy real, his young life, including chasing girls as suggestedby a few.

Raz is a real fake.

Morning Tony. Good advice. ;)

bw!bw!

Jake, you should heed Tony's advice.

I am watching the markets taking a real hammering today, Tony.

The market gave back all those gains. :mad:

[SUB1IM388]

good afternoon every one!

[vipergts831]

How does it go Farlet? Beyond losing some dollars as we speak ;)

[Blurr Cube]

How does it go Farlet? Beyond losing some dollars as we speak ;)

Oh it goes... trying to make it to Friday. ;)

Is it Friday yet? :p

[Harm]

It is Friday in Australia :D

[SUB1IM388]

So I found out I missed my promotion by 6pts :( pretty bummed but there is always next year.

[Blurr Cube]

It is Friday in Australia :D

At Monk3y's place too... where he is slumbering and dreaming of bananas... or Gitzos. ;)

[Harm]

http://harm.smugmug.com/Australia/Sydney/IMG1639/1168600599_qKubQ-XL.jpg

[*sigh*]

It's really slow here at work today...

[SUB1IM388]

It's really slow here at work today...

seems slow in this thread as well..... looks like jake is missing

[Fricks]

I doubt it! They suffer from different social disorders.

Of course, they do have senses of entitlement in common....

:shock:

Nah. Raz couldn't keep up a second persona this long... his Doctor one fell apart after a much shorter period of time. He could hardly keep one false persona straight, let alone two.

You guys can't possibly think this :roll:

[SUB1IM388]

You guys can't possibly think this :roll:

oops i spoke to soon

[*sigh*]

You guys can't possibly think this :roll:No we don't... that's why we made posts saying that you are different people. :p

[Fricks]

No we don't... that's why we made posts saying that you are different people. :p

I know that you don't but the fools don't

[tonyniev]

I shot the sun today hoping to catch a glimpse of the sunspot that erupted a few days ago. I usedthe 100-400 With thousand oaks filter, all over exposed on the sun and not sharp focus. I am also preparing for the transit of Venus on June 5 2012, visible during sun rise in Europe , sunset in north America and visible the whole time in the Pacific,Including Cebu, noon time in Hawaii. This is the pair transit and will h appen again 212 years from 2012. My transit picture 7 years ago from long island NY. No filter used, the clouds diffuse the sun rays, Venus is that small black dot,lower right of sun
http://tonyniev.smugmug.com/Astronomy/Astrophotos/transit/794930508_y3oMb-L.jpg

Transit of Mercury
http://tonyniev.smugmug.com/Astronomy/Astrophotos/Mercurytransitrs1/825473406_YCogQ-L.jpg

[FJ LOVE]

good afternoon every one!

hi Danny :)

[20droger]

Roger, I believe Jake is real and only needs some guidance. He could use coaching from old folks like you and me and tutoring from Mel and Harm. He is lucky in many ways, he has rich parents and plenty of peeps in this forum to teach him. I only wish he spends less time here and enjoy real, his young life, including chasing girls as suggestedby a few.

Raz is a real fake.
I, too, believe Fricks is real. Beyond that, we disagree about him.

I, too, believe Raz to be a fake. No disagreement at all there.

What they do have in common is that I won't respond to either of them. I consider it a waste of my time.

[AngryCorgi]

Who cares!!!

Obviously I do, you crotchety old geezer! :-P

[Fricks]

I, too, believe Fricks is real. Beyond that, we disagree about him.

I, too, believe Raz to be a fake. No disagreement at all there.

What they do have in common is that I won't respond to either of them. I consider it a waste of my time.

:confused: ok?

[FJ LOVE]

I know that you don't but the fools don't

hey! who you callin' a fool :mad:

[SUB1IM388]

hi Danny :)

Hey Martin hows it going?

[Fricks]

hey! who you callin' a fool :mad:

Not you:p

[20droger]

I think mine is very reasonable...:lol: $600 tax for $6000 worth of gear :lol:

just a tad more than the 8% tax in NY :lol:
I see math is not your strong suit.

$600 tax on $6000 is a tax of 10%. 10% is an increase of 25% over 8%. A difference of 25% is not a "tad" more, it's a significant difference.

Politicians love people like you.

[tonyniev]

I, too, believe Fricks is real. Beyond that, we disagree about him.

I, too, believe Raz to be a fake. No disagreement at all there.

What they do have in common is that I won't respond to either of them. I consider it a waste of my time.

That is the beauty of this forum, we can agree on some things and agree to disagree on others. To each own opinions.

Changing topics, so you did assembler programming, was that on the 360? I also did assembler and even RPG on S360 model 20. cobol, Fortran, Pl/1 and even APL. The first programming language I learned was autocoder on the 1401... Eek that is old. I also learned how to wire accounting machines and calculating punch, much older. I believe I am older that you and you are older than Tony Long?

[20droger]

Nothing to do with the US budget. That is just delaying a bigger crash for a future date. This is all to do with European countries debt. Mainly Spain, Italy & Greece.

Oh and throw in the Japanese lowering the value of the Yen to boost exports to get their economy going.
Ah, well.... Things will be different when the Chinese foreclose on all of us....

Can you say "the Balkanized States of America"?

[AngryCorgi]

I, too, believe Fricks is real. Beyond that, we disagree about him.

I, too, believe Raz to be a fake. No disagreement at all there.

What they do have in common is that I won't respond to either of them. I consider it a waste of my time.

:confused: ok?

Don't feel bad li'l Frickers...At Roger's age, any moment could be his last, so he has to be selective on who he spouts nonsense at. ;)

[tonyniev]

Harm
DOW down 3% even IBM down 2%+
time not to panic...anyway I have reserved and placed on my savings the money I need to buy the house a few weeks back, so will just not touch my investments till 2013 :-)
Will buy my tripods from target.

[20droger]

Obviously I do, you crotchety old geezer! :-P
Like Popeye, I yam what I yam.

[FJ LOVE]

Hey Martin hows it going?

not bad, just sitting here curling my 2LB dumbell trying to strengthen my hand, i got motivation from Harm :lol:

[AngryCorgi]

not bad, just sitting here curling my 2LB dumbell trying to strengthen my hand, i got motivation from Harm :lol:

T M I !!!!

[FJ LOVE]

That is the beauty of this forum, we can agree on some things and agree to disagree on others. To each own opinions.

Changing topics, so you did assembler programming, was that on the 360? I also did assembler and even RPG on S360 model 20. cobol, Fortran, Pl/1 and even APL. The first programming language I learned was autocoder on the 1401... Eek that is old. I also learned how to wire accounting machines and calculating punch, much older. I believe I am older that you and you are older than Tony Long?

Roger was using an Abacus Tony :lol:

[tonyniev]

Roger was using an Abacus Tony :lol:
Most Chinese hardware and lumber store owners in the Philippines use abacus...so you can imagine Steven, in his shorts, one leg up the stool, conputing board feet and total bill using the abacus.

[AngryCorgi]

Roger was using an Abacus Tony :lol:

Not just any ol' abacus, but one he got autographed by Cyrus the Great (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great) back when Roger met him while on vacation in Persia.

[20droger]

That is the beauty of this forum, we can agree on some things and agree to disagree on others. To each own opinions.

Changing topics, so you did assembler programming, was that on the 360? I also did assembler and even RPG on S360 model 20. cobol, Fortran, Pl/1 and even APL. The first programming language I learned was autocoder on the 1401... Eek that is old. I also learned how to wire accounting machines and calculating punch, much older. I believe I am older that you and you are older than Tony Long?
Well, in the pre-microprocessor days, I programmed an old Honeywell vacuum tube and thyratron machine, but that was directly in machine language, hard programming with patch cords. It was used as a troposcatter encoder/decoder. Eccles-Jordan circuits anyone?

In the micro world, I cut my Assembly teeth on the 8008 (I missed the 4004), then on to the 8080, 8085, Z80, 8086/88, Z800, 80186/88, and so forth. Back then, they needed people like me to write drivers for all those new-fangled gizmos, like daisy-wheel printers and floppy disks. I was heavy into CP/M, TurboDOS, and the early versions of MS-DOS.

How many of the new generation code plunkers even know what "DOS" stands for? Do you remember front panels? Or paper-tape readers?

I dropped out of programming in the days of the 80486, which should let you know just how rusty I am. Hell, Windows was still running under DOS back then!

[SUB1IM388]

not bad, just sitting here curling my 2LB dumbell trying to strengthen my hand, i got motivation from Harm :lol:

oh you nasty man!

[AngryCorgi]

I dropped out of programming in the days of the 80486, which should let you know just how rusty I am. Hell, Windows was still running under DOS back then!

Well, The 486 ruled for ~4 years (until ~1993), but windows continued to run atop DOS until ~2000. So the CPU generation is a better indicator than the general windows architecture is.

[jetta-the-hut]

pawn shops got a manfrotto tripod and ball head sitting in the corner, went to snag it for 60 bucks and she then tells me its in Pawn not for sale, 30 days i'm going back to see if hes got it out of pawn.

[*sigh*]

Well, in the pre-microprocessor days, I programmed an old Honeywell vacuum tube and thyratron machine, but that was directly in machine language, hard programming with patch cords. It was used as a troposcatter encoder/decoder. Eccles-Jordan circuits anyone?

In the micro world, I cut my Assembly teeth on the 8008 (I missed the 4004), then on to the 8080, 8085, Z80, 8086/88, Z800, 80186/88, and so forth. Back then, they needed people like me to write drivers for all those new-fangled gizmos, like daisy-wheel printers and floppy disks. I was heavy into CP/M, TurboDOS, and the early versions of MS-DOS.

How many of the new generation code plunkers even know what "DOS" stands for? Do you remember front panels? Or paper-tape readers?

I dropped out of programming in the days of the 80486, which should let you know just how rusty I am. Hell, Windows was still running under DOS back then!That's quite the résumé you've got there.

I don't program... ever... I've tried to start a few times but it just bores the crap out of me... that and there are so many languages out there now I don't even know the best place to start.

[20droger]

Roger was using an Abacus Tony :lol:
Actually, I have. And a slide rule, too.

And calculators! Remember the Frieden Calculator? It could divide!!!

[tonyniev]

Well, in the pre-microprocessor days, I programmed an old Honeywell vacuum tube and thyratron machine, but that was directly in machine language, hard programming with patch cords. It was used as a troposcatter encoder/decoder.

In the micro world, I cut my Assembly teeth on the 8008 (I missed the 4004), then on to the 8080, 8085, Z80, 8086/88, Z800, 80186/88, and so forth. Back then, they needed people like me to write drivers for all those new-fangled gizmos, like daisy-wheel printers and floppy disks. I was heavy into CP/M, TurboDOS, and the early versions of MS-DOS.

How many of the new generation code plunkers even know what "DOS" stands for? Do you remember front panels? Or paper-tape readers?

I dropped out of programming in the days of the 80486, which should let you know just how rusty I am. Hell, Windows was still running under DOS back then!

You are a young kid then, micrprocessors, circa late 70 to 80...i even built an analog Heath Kit computer using vacuum tubes, very conversant with those...i got involved involved with primarily main frame except was part of the world wide team deciding on two competing projects, one became the IBMPC, while our project was more advanced in processor and operating system, the IBM Displaywriter using 8086 and UCSD Pascal operating system, visicalc for spreadsheet and the first spell check word processor...well the PC initially with 8088, later at AT with 80186, won because it was decided to be shared and open to the industry, while the Displaywriter was a proprietary system.

[AngryCorgi]

Actually, I have. And a slide rule, too.

And calculators! Remember the Frieden Calculator? It could divide!!!

Remember when you had to beat off pterodactyls with a stick? You must be thrilled that they died off!

[SUB1IM388]

pawn shops got a manfrotto tripod and ball head sitting in the corner, went to snag it for 60 bucks and she then tells me its in Pawn not for sale, 30 days i'm going back to see if hes got it out of pawn.


I wish the local pawn shops had anything worth getting... Oklahoma city is so full of crack heads there is only crappy stuff and to many shops to look for it.

[20droger]

Not just any ol' abacus, but one he got autographed by Cyrus the Great (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great) back when Roger met him while on vacation in Persia.
If I've told you once, I've told you a million time: don't exaggerate!!!

It was his son Darius who gave me my abacus. And, I knew how to pronounce his name correctly! (de-RYE-us, not DARE-ee-us)

[jetta-the-hut]

I wish the local pawn shops had anything worth getting... Oklahoma city is so full of crack heads there is only crappy stuff and to many shops to look for it.


i know i have a friend that lives out there, he told me the same thing.

i've been to 3 thrift stores and 1 pawn shop and unless i want a kodak P&S i really didnt find much either but it only took the last shop to make we wanna look more, also the .44 desert eagle was very tempting.

WE have more consignment and thrift stores at the beach than pawn shops. actually we only have 1 pawn hop.

[20droger]

You are a young kid then, micrprocessors, circa late 70 to 80...i even built an analog Heath Kit computer using vacuum tubes, very conversant with those...i got involved involved with primarily main frame except was part of the world wide team deciding on two competing projects, one became the IBMPC, while our project was more advanced in processor and operating system, the IBM Displaywriter using 8086 and UCSD Pascal operating system, visicalc for spreadsheet and the first spell check word processor...well the PC initially with 8088, later at AT with 80186, won because it was decided to be shared and open to the industry, while the Displaywriter was a proprietary system.
Oh, I played with lots of analog machines, but one didn't really program them, not in the modern sense anyway. More like structured them for specific tasks.

As far as being a young kid, well, let's just say I remember WWII.

[20droger]

Remember when you had to beat off pterodactyls with a stick? You must be thrilled that they died off!
Rocks. Ferns didn't make good sticks. Real sticks came later.

[Harm]

not bad, just sitting here curling my 2LB dumbell trying to strengthen my hand, i got motivation from Harm :lol:

:shock:

T M I !!!!

Bums against the wall time!


Roger was using an Abacus Tony :lol:

Were they even invented back "then"?


Remember when you had to beat off pterodactyls with a stick? You must be thrilled that they died off!

If anyone watched the original movie "Jason and the Argonauts", there was a blind old man who fought off those Greek mythological Pterodactylesque creatures. That was in my mind when I read your statement, Tom

edit, even found a youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGCvFusMSt8

[SUB1IM388]

i know i have a friend that lives out there, he told me the same thing.

i've been to 3 thrift stores and 1 pawn shop and unless i want a kodak P&S i really didnt find much either but it only took the last shop to make we wanna look more, also the .44 desert eagle was very tempting.

WE have more consignment and thrift stores at the beach than pawn shops. actually we only have 1 pawn hop.

where do you live? if ever i go to a pawn shop their is plenty of old pentax and older (wayolder) brand equipment, Never any canon gear I want.

[tonyniev]

Did anyone see the word troposcatter? Okay before the advent of satellite communications, most rely on radio communications, the short wave that we hear broadcast from foreign stations will be an example, shortwave 3 mhz to 30 mhz, sends signals that are bounced by the diffeferent layers of the athmosphere, the ionesphere, that is a function of the sun and the sunspot cycle...in any case it was not that reliable znd dependent on the ionodphere conditions...vhf, 3-300 mhz, and uhf 300-3 ghz, very high and ultra high freq are line of sight communications useful overvshort distances

To cover longer distances 700-1000 miles using vhf radio, some, the military primarily, use very powerful transmitter in the hope that the troposhere will reflect back some of the radio waves. For Filipinos familiar with the very large antennas, like a big fence, in Tagaytay ridge, that is the military troposcatter to Mindanao.

I even sold a few meteor shower radios, using the ionized region caused by meteors.

I wonder how many ham radio folks are here. I was DU1AVN.

[jetta-the-hut]

where do you live? if ever i go to a pawn shop their is plenty of old pentax and older (wayolder) brand equipment, Never any canon gear I want.


Southport,NC but my buddy lives on the east side of OKI city hes an older guys who works for AT&T like me.

[*sigh*]

Ugh... the 1.5TB versions of the drives I bought are on sale for the same price I paid for 1TB.... Ah well... I already have more space than I need. :mad:

[tonyniev]

Oh, I played with lots of analog machines, but one didn't really program them, not in the modern sense anyway. More like structured them for specific tasks.

As far as being a young kid, well, let's just say I remember WWII.


Oh you are older then...now I feel like a young man. :-) I just married young.

[jetta-the-hut]

I wonder how many ham radio folks are here. I was DU1AVN.


.......waiting for Jake to chime in and say" yummy, i love Ham"

[Harm]

People are....odd
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14406766

[tonyniev]

.......waiting for Jake to chime in and say" yummy, i love Ham"


Rofl

[Harm]

.......waiting for Jake to chime in and say" yummy, i love Ham"

I was waiting for Jake to try and get one over someone and say "spelling fail, it is Harm, not ham" :rolleyes:;)

[jetta-the-hut]

People are....odd
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14406766


ha,ha we have a nuke plant near us, like less than 2 miles from my house but anyway, GE makes the fuel rods to go into the reactors. A guy was working at the GE plant and found out he was going to get laid off so he stole a bucket of Uranium Pellets and took them to his house. He then called the plant and told them if they wanted them back they would have to pay a 1/2 million dollars. They knew who he was and the police raided his house and locked him up for a long time,

Moral of the story.....

some people are just dumb A$$'s

[AngryCorgi]

If anyone watched the original movie "Jason and the Argonauts", there was a blind old man who fought off those Greek mythological Pterodactylesque creatures. That was in my mind when I read your statement, Tom

edit, even found a youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGCvFusMSt8

LOL...Great find! :lol:

[20droger]

Were they even invented back "then"?
If you mean the time of Cyrus and Darius, yes they were. The abacus was invented in China around 3000 B.C.E.

It used quinary math (base 5). While not quite as convenient as decimal math (for humans), it beat the Hell out anybody else's math at the time.

I still can't grasp how the Romans built such a well engineered empire with their math! You divide MDCCXXVII by LXXII! (The answer is XXIV).

[vipergts831]

Ugh... the 1.5TB versions of the drives I bought are on sale for the same price I paid for 1TB.... Ah well... I already have more space than I need. :mad:

Return and buy :D

[*sigh*]

People are....odd
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14406766Yes... Yes they are.

Just today alone I've read about a man being decapitated by his hovercraft, a man being bitten by a shark he was trying to french kiss, and more articles on the swede in that article you linked. And this is all just on gizmodo :/

[jetta-the-hut]

I was waiting for Jake to try and get one over someone and say "spelling fail, it is Harm, not ham" :rolleyes:;)


i thought about that. All the computer talk was making me feel like i missed some important steps in life that lead up to my commador 64 i had in the early 80's.

[*sigh*]

Return and buy :DI think it would be more hassle than it's worth, and by the time I paid for return shipping and such it wouldn't be the same price.

I'll get almost 2TB of usable space out of this array, plus an older 1TB for a junk drive, it will be plenty as I am using about 600-700GB on my current rig.

[Harm]

Moral of the story.....

some people are just dumb A$$'s

bw!

LOL...Great find! :lol:

It was just the 1st thing that popped into my mind. I love crazy old movies, with great storylines.


I still can't grasp how the Romans built such a well engineered empire with their math! You divide MDCCXXVII by LXXII! (The answer is XXIV).

Maybe you should go and see the old Roman ruins that are not crappy tourist attractions in Rome to find out :D

[20droger]

People are....odd
Now there is a profound understatement!!!

[tonyniev]

Roman engineering, Aqueduct in Segovia, Spain
http://tonyniev.smugmug.com/Travel/Segovia-Spain/IMG8248/1078763997_5SiMU-L-1.jpg

[FJ LOVE]

Actually, I have. And a slide rule, too.

And calculators! Remember the Frieden Calculator? It could divide!!!

for calculators i can go back as far as the 9 digit red LED Texas instruments version :lol:

[tonyniev]

two obsolete technologies: Aqueduct and wired pay telephones
http://tonyniev.smugmug.com/Travel/Segovia-Spain/IMG8273/1078776696_erSzV-L-1.jpg

[FJ LOVE]

Remember when you had to beat off pterodactyls with a stick? You must be thrilled that they died off!

LMAO :lol::lol::lol:

[AngryCorgi]

It was just the 1st thing that popped into my mind. I love crazy old movies, with great storylines.

I tried to show my wife the original "Clash of the Titans" recently, but she wouldn't watch it after ~15-20 minutes saying it was lame. I remember getting really excited whenever that would come on TV. Different times, different expectations. :-P

[jetta-the-hut]

for calculators i can go back as far as the 9 digit red LED Texas instruments version :lol:

you didn't have one of those cool watches casio made in the 80's that was a calculator?

[20droger]

Maybe you should go and see the old Roman ruins that are not crappy tourist attractions in Rome to find out :D
I've seen them. Very impressive engineering. Very strange math.

[20droger]

for calculators i can go back as far as the 9 digit red LED Texas instruments version :lol:
Newbie!

I was an HP man myself. I love RPN.

[jetta-the-hut]

two obsolete technologies: Aqueduct and wired pay telephones


i have an old bellsouth one in my house that i got when they sold off that part of the company. They threw away a ton of them.

[tonyniev]

Harm
you should hang your junk for a few months, give it a rest, see this guy displayed his at MoMA, NYC
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p150/tonyniev/IMG_0818.jpg

[Harm]

^aren't those the balls that Jake and Steven want?

[FJ LOVE]

you didn't have one of those cool watches casio made in the 80's that was a calculator?

i think i did , it was right after my red LED watch they came out with LCD's :lol:

[20droger]

you didn't have one of those cool watches casio made in the 80's that was a calculator?
I did, and they still make it, in several models: http://www.casio.com/products/Watches/Databank/

[jetta-the-hut]

i think i did , it was right after my red LED watch they came out with LCD's :lol:


very clever, i had that opposite problem with my 55" Phillips TV and i still cant convince the wife to swap it for the LED version.

[20droger]

I even have one of these buried in a drawer somewhere:

[jetta-the-hut]

I did, and they still make it, in several models: http://www.casio.com/products/Watches/Databank/


i used to use it all the time, my dad was military so we always got the stuff straight from Korea. Those and the really cool jackets with the dragon and the islands on the back and our name stitched on the front.

[Harm]

I tried to show my wife the original "Clash of the Titans" recently, but she wouldn't watch it after ~15-20 minutes saying it was lame. I remember getting really excited whenever that would come on TV. Different times, different expectations. :-P

Uncultured :D You can't beat the good old films :)

one gun shot, instant kill. None of this constant getting back up bull****, with everything blowing up, left, right and centre...

They do not make films like they used to, that is for sure.

[jetta-the-hut]

I even have one of these buried in a drawer somewhere:

doesn't look much different than the HP Palm Pre plus phone i have
:rolleyes:

[tonyniev]

I even have one of these buried in a drawer somewhere:

nice Roger, never had a chance to use scientific programmable..only used my bamboo slide rule..was looking for it cannot find it..I had an HP financial calculator, that I used for my MBA to do discounted cash flow etc...now you get all these calculators in the net.

[jetta-the-hut]

Uncultured :D You can't beat the good old films :)

one gun shot, instant kill. None of this constant getting back up bull****, with everything blowing up, left, right and centre...

They do not make films like they used to, that is for sure.


And how could they leave out the little metal bird in the new one, he picks it up and then leaves it, the old one was way better, theres another C-O-T-T coming out next year i believe.

[20droger]

doesn't look much different than the HP Palm Pre plus phone i have
:rolleyes:
Oh trust me. It's different. It's the one and only model of programmer's calculator HP ever produced, the HP-16C. A real godsend if you did Assembly.

[jetta-the-hut]

i was just making a funny how HP technology really hasn't advanced as much as other companies.

[Jon]

I even have one of these buried in a drawer somewhere:
I do too, except I know just where, and it works . . . Also a couple of 41Cs, a slew of modules for them, the expansion pack for one, and a couple of HP-48s and an HP-50. The HP-45 doesn't still work, I fear, but I think it's the battery pack that's gone. Several slide rules, both straight and circular, and a couple of abaci. Earliest proramming was on a PDP-8, via TTY33s and a 110 baud dial-up. Program storage was the good old paper tape.

[SUB1IM388]

this just made me laugh..... nothing to do with anything right now but hope you all enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWv5Flp0DCA

[tonyniev]

I cannot find my slide rule, my wife burst into laughter when I asked here if she knows where my slide rule is, she said last time I saw it was 40 years ago......time to clean the home office.... so many junks :-)...oh it could be in my studio (art painting not photography), more junks, art books, easels, brushes, canvases, ....here is an early water color study:
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p150/tonyniev/yellowhousecypresses.jpg

[vipergts831]

doesn't look much different than the HP Palm Pre plus phone i have
:rolleyes:

bw!:lol:

[tonyniev]

Hi Omar.

[vipergts831]

Hey Tony! How is it going?

Not sure if you noticed but Paul (panda) is going to vegas i think in a few weeks.

[tonyniev]

Yes, I read that..so let me reach to him...Paul I will be in town, give me a pm so we can meet.

[Fricks]

^aren't those the balls that Jake and Steven want?

No the one i got is black.;)

[tonyniev]

Geomagnetic storm predicted in next 12 hours...will not shoot the sun, sensors might get direct hit...ehhh, do not want hot pixels

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/geomagnetic-storm-predicted-earth-next-24-hou

[vipergts831]

Yes, I read that..so let me reach to him...Paul I will be in town, give me a pm so we can meet.

Ive noticed the Dow isnt too popular these days.

[AngryCorgi]

I even have one of these buried in a drawer somewhere:

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=549014&stc=1&d=1312480745

You should have donated it to NASA. They could have harvested the PCB from it to replace the HP boards on the shuttle, then we wouldn't need to float around in russian sardine cans in space.

[tonyniev]

Ive noticed the Dow isnt too popular these days.

yup, down 3% today, down 2000 since high a few weeks back..even IBM is down 3% today.

[vipergts831]

You should have donated it to NASA. They could have harvested the PCB from it to replace the HP boards on the shuttle, then we wouldn't need to float around in russian sardine cans in space.

:lol::lol::lol:

[jetta-the-hut]

sweet jesus, time to wax up the old board:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/tropical-depression-five-storm-hurricane-emily_2011-07-29?role=

[AngryCorgi]

I can't stop watching this => Ben Franklin VS Billy Mays (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAaE7sJahiw)

Totally frickin' funny! :lol:

[vipergts831]

sweet jesus, time to wax up the old board:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/tropical-depression-five-storm-hurricane-emily_2011-07-29?role=

Ill maybe feel a gust up here ;)

[tonyniev]

Ill maybe feel a gust up here ;)

nope too early for northeastern.

[vipergts831]

nope too early for northeastern.

Yup what i meant was once its up here around tuesday. Maybe a gust or trail of rain would make it up here.

[jetta-the-hut]

were already getting 15mph winds on the beach, its blowing pretty good right now. Its probably not from the storm as its constant and not in bands but it could be.

[tonyniev]

Yup what i meant was once its up here around tuesday. Maybe a gust or trail of rain would make it up here.

yup...my home in Long Island have storm windows, wooden shutters and used it when we have the northeasterns..

[jetta-the-hut]

my grandparents lived in Long Island, i'de love to have a home up there but i could never afford it. They lived in Glen Cove.

[JWright]

Did anyone saw the word troposcatter? Okay before the advent of satellite communications, most rely on radio communications, the short wave that we hear broadcast from foreign stations will be an example, shortwave 3 mhz to 30 mhz, sends signals that are bounced by the diffeferent layers of the athmosphere, the ionesphere, that is a function of the sun and the sunspot cycle...in any case it was not that reliable znd dependent on the ionodphere conditions...vhf, 3-300 mhz, and uhf 300-3 ghz, very high and ultra high freq are line of sight communications useful overvshort distances

To cover longer distances 700-1000 miles using vhf radio, some, the military primarily, use very powerful transmitter in the hope that the troposhere will reflect back some of the radio waves. For Filipinos familiar with the very large antennas, like a big fence, in Tagaytay ridge, that is the military troposcatter to Mindanao.

I even sold a few meteor shower radios, using the ionized region caused by meteors.

I wonder how many ham radio folks are here. I was DU1AVN.

A few, I'm sure...

KJ6MDX...

you didn't have one of those cool watches casio made in the 80's that was a calculator?

When the first Casio G-Shock watches appeared, the Navy issued them to all the instructors at the Second Class Diving School in San Diego. The watches would beep twice on the hour and once on the half hour. During staff meetings, everything would come to a halt when all the watches started beeping. Of course, there was always someone who was a bit slow so the meeting was held up even more waiting for that last beep. :D

[Fricks]

Yup what i meant was once its up here around tuesday. Maybe a gust or trail of rain would make it up here.

Fail:p

[tonyniev]

my grandparents lived in Long Island, i'de love to have a home up there but i could never afford it. They lived in Glen Cove.

yes Glen Cove nice it is in the north short..near my sister's home in Manhassett...I lived in the south short in Babylon, further into the island mid way to the Hamptons.

[vipergts831]

were already getting 15mph winds on the beach, its blowing pretty good right now. Its probably not from the storm as its constant and not in bands but it could be.

Ive only experienced harsh winds maybe once or twice in my life. Living in the north east you dont get many unless your out on long island.

yup...my home in Long Island have storm windows, wooden shutters and used it when we have the northeasterns..

Yup long island always gets strong gusts.

[vipergts831]

Fail:p

How is meant a fail? It means intent. I give you the apostrophe but ive already explained i dont deal with that online. I just type away :lol:

[vipergts831]

A few, I'm sure...

KJ6MDX...



When the first Casio G-Shock watches appeared, the Navy issued them to all the instructors at the Second Class Diving School in San Diego. The watches would beep twice on the hour and once on the half hour. During staff meetings, everything would come to a halt when all the watches started beeping. Of course, there was always someone who was a bit slow so the meeting was held up even more waiting for that last beep. :D

:lol: That is hilarious.

[Harm]

How is meant a fail? It means intent. I give you the apostrophe but ive already explained i dont deal with that online. I just type away :lol:

Jake thinks it is "ment" :rolleyes:

[vipergts831]

Jake thinks it is "ment" :rolleyes:

ROFL!!!!!!! :lol::lol::lol:

[Harm]

When the first Casio G-Shock watches appeared, the Navy issued them to all the instructors at the Second Class Diving School in San Diego. The watches would beep twice on the hour and once on the half hour. During staff meetings, everything would come to a halt when all the watches started beeping. Of course, there was always someone who was a bit slow so the meeting was held up even more waiting for that last beep. :D

Bet the NAVY made sure to get silent Casio watches after that ;)

[vipergts831]

Bet the NAVY made sure to get silent Casio watches after that ;)

Then you would hear the sound of vibrators :shock: :lol:

[Fricks]

Jake thinks it is "ment" :rolleyes:

I actully though it was a first that why I put it in bold but relized that is was right so I went back to change it and it must have never went.

[Timphoto]

Did anyone saw the word troposcatter? Okay before the advent of satellite communications, most rely on radio communications, the short wave that we hear broadcast from foreign stations will be an example, shortwave 3 mhz to 30 mhz, sends signals that are bounced by the diffeferent layers of the athmosphere, the ionesphere, that is a function of the sun and the sunspot cycle...in any case it was not that reliable znd dependent on the ionodphere conditions...vhf, 3-300 mhz, and uhf 300-3 ghz, very high and ultra high freq are line of sight communications useful overvshort distances

To cover longer distances 700-1000 miles using vhf radio, some, the military primarily, use very powerful transmitter in the hope that the troposhere will reflect back some of the radio waves. For Filipinos familiar with the very large antennas, like a big fence, in Tagaytay ridge, that is the military troposcatter to Mindanao.

I even sold a few meteor shower radios, using the ionized region caused by meteors.

I wonder how many ham radio folks are here. I was DU1AVN.

W6MU here. I'm also trustee for W6SRJ

[Harm]

^ you oldies and your ham radios!

[vipergts831]

I actully though it was a first that why I put it in bold but relized that is was right so I went back to change it and it must have never went.

http://surfwithberserk.com/img/funny/epic_fails/54.jpg

[tonyniev]

73's to all the hams.

[jetta-the-hut]

yes Glen Cove nice it is in the north short..near my sister's home in Manhassett...I lived in the south short in Babylon, further into the island mid way to the Hamptons.

very nice area, we drove out that way to surf in hamptons before and we always hung out at Jones beach alot too.

Ive only experienced harsh winds maybe once or twice in my life. Living in the north east you dont get many unless your out on long island.
Yup long island always gets strong gusts.

45mph winds and standing on beach front with a 8ft fiberglass board waiting to go out. Who said i'm crazy for doing Tri's, i've done way dumber stuff!

after 45mph its hard to stand up on anything solid much less moving. but i've road out alot of storms in our house and unless it 4 or a 5 we stay put and huncker down.

[vipergts831]

very nice area, we drove out that way to surf in hamptons before and we always hung out at Jones beach alot too.



45mph winds and standing on beach front with a 8ft fiberglass board waiting to go out. Who said i'm crazy for doing Tri's, i've done way dumber stuff!

after 45mph its hard to stand up on anything solid much less moving. but i've road out alot of storms in our house and unless it 4 or a 5 we stay put and huncker down.

Yeah that is intense. Every where you live has some compromise with mother nature.

[jetta-the-hut]

http://surfwithberserk.com/img/funny/epic_fails/54.jpg


Just like Julian to drop in and dog Jake and drop back out,lol

[vipergts831]

Just like Julian to drop in and dog Jake and drop back out,lol

:lol::lol::lol:

[Harm]

When you are from the UK, esp Northern UK, you get lots and lots of gale force winds. You get by. Umbrellas are useless since the rain is always sideways :D:D

[tonyniev]

Dow down 470 More than 4%.but oil is also down now $86... Time to start driving and shoot in locations..market down more than 11% bad, investors might retreat.

[Harm]

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All those percentages are down!

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[Harm]

Well, at the close, Tony, at this rate, you'll be making your own tripods out of kitchen roll tubes and tape ;)

[vipergts831]

:lol: !

[tonyniev]

Well, at the close, Tony, at this rate, you'll be making your own tripods out of kitchen roll tubes and tape ;)
Will be using sand bags to stabilize the camera...Macy's down more than 6%.

[vipergts831]

Will be using sand bags to stabilize the camera...Macy's down more than 6%.

Back to where they were in June but still much better than where they were 2 years ago. Roll with the punches.

[SUB1IM388]

Hello again every one!

Jake these are for you! i pushed my self to do them right when i got off work really quick setup so excuse the sloppiness and the poor PP

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6010/6009786104_96bf270b41_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/37169915@N07/6009786104/)
IMG_0419 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/37169915@N07/6009786104/) by Daniel U photography (http://www.flickr.com/people/37169915@N07/), on Flickr

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6134/6009236579_072e7856dc_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/37169915@N07/6009236579/)
IMG_0449 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/37169915@N07/6009236579/) by Daniel U photography (http://www.flickr.com/people/37169915@N07/), on Flickr

[vipergts831]

Nice Danny! Jake will drool ;)

[SUB1IM388]

Nice Danny! All things Jake wishes he had ;)

Haha Im actually thinking of selling the 70-200 and picking up a 135 f2 since my 17-55 for some reason wont EVER sell

[*sigh*]

Haha Im actually thinking of selling the 70-200 and picking up a 135 f2 since my 17-55 for some reason wont EVER sellI'll give you $50 for it. :p :lol:


I'm actually surprised your having trouble selling the 17-55... how long have you been trying to sell it?

[vipergts831]

I'll give you $50 for it. :p :lol:


I'm actually surprised your having trouble selling the 17-55... how long have you been trying to sell it?

Same here. They usually sell pretty quickly. Ill give you $51 Danny ;)

[SUB1IM388]

I'll give you $50 for it. :p :lol:


I'm actually surprised your having trouble selling the 17-55... how long have you been trying to sell it?

locally for about 3 weeks, and on here about 2 weeks I had one bite but the dude wanted me to drop my asking price cause im the second owner...... last i check a used lens goes for around 850-900 to me used is used no matter how many hands its been in.

I honestly think its cause i openly said it has some dust that might be scaring people away but that what this lens does delivers great IQ and sucks dust.

[SUB1IM388]

Same here. They usually sell pretty quickly. Ill give you $51 Danny ;)

throw in your old lady and we have a deal.... Sorry Nick

[*sigh*]

locally for about 3 weeks, and on here about 2 weeks I had one bite but the dude wanted me to drop my asking price cause im the second owner...... last i check a used lens goes for around 850-900 to me used is used no matter how many hands its been in.Yeah... it's not like it's a car...

I do want a 17-55... I just don't want to spend $900 on one, at least not before I have a 70-200 F4 IS (Or heck a 2.8 MKII :lol:) :/

[*sigh*]

throw in your old lady and we have a deal.... Sorry NickHe'll never give her up. :p

[SUB1IM388]

Yeah... it's not like it's a car...

I do want a 17-55... I just don't want to spend $900 on one, at least not before I have a 70-200 F4 IS (Or heck a 2.8 MKII :lol:) :/

its a great lens I think but the build quality kills me..... at first it felt solid but now I think it feel poorly made, and since it sucks so much dust I cant convince my self to keep it if i cant use it on my 1D3 so im looking for a 24-105 or a 24-70 which ever comes first after i sell this lens.

He'll never give her up. :p

lol

[vipergts831]

throw in your old lady and we have a deal.... Sorry Nick

He'll never give her up. :p

This :lol: She supports my expensive hobbies with out questioning. Im no fool to give that up :lol:

[jetta-the-hut]

its a great lens I think but the build quality kills me..... at first it felt solid but now I think it feel poorly made, and since it sucks so much dust I cant convince my self to keep it if i cant use it on my 1D3 so im looking for a 24-105 or a 24-70 which ever comes first after i sell this lens.



lol

i'll trade you a hed 3 rear wheel to go on your bike and a 8ft WRV surfboard for the 70-200L.

[tonyniev]

locally for about 3 weeks, and on here about 2 weeks I had one bite but the dude wanted me to drop my asking price cause im the second owner...... last i check a used lens goes for around 850-900 to me used is used no matter how many hands its been in.

I honestly think its cause i openly said it has some dust that might be scaring people away but that what this lens does delivers great IQ and sucks dust.

Will he really care?
http://picchore.com/clever/the-greatest-used-car-ad-ever/

[vipergts831]

NOoooo!

HTC-Highroad to disband at the end of the season :( Mark did say he had made a decision on where he was racing a few days ago but didnt confirm where:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/htc-highroad-disbands-after-failed-sponsor-search

[SUB1IM388]

i'll trade you a hed 3 rear wheel to go on your bike and a 8ft WRV surfboard for the 70-200L.

Dude I live in Oklahoma..... What would I do with a surfboard? hahaha

This :lol: She supports my expensive hobbies with out questioning. Im no fool to give that up :lol:

good point

Will he really care?
http://picchore.com/clever/the-greatest-used-car-ad-ever/

ahhhhh i love it hahahaha