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Comment My worry is not your domain experience (Score 1) 176

My concern is not your domain experience, but your business experience. It sounds like you're approaching things from a largely technical viewpoint, and that's going to get you in trouble with running a business. Your focus, first and foremost, should be on revenue, a product portfolio, and a plan for growing the customer base.

Sure you'll need an accountant and should outsource your payroll and get a corporate lawyer on board and all the other things people have advised you to do, but first and foremost, you need to get your head around the idea that you're no longer going to be an engineer and will have to focus on business needs and decisions that would apply to any industry.

Comment Re:Nice... (Score 1) 147

The 68030 has an MMU providing you don't have the cut down 68EC030 model...
Motorola made an external MMU for the 68020, known as the 68851 i believe.
Some 68000 based machines also used an external MMU, but typically not a Motorola design, eg the early sun workstations.

Comment Re:I'd be happy if 4:3 came back! (Score 1) 330

Forget square monitors, I'd be happy if 4:3 made a comeback. Yes, I know they still exist, but they're a lot harder to find than they used to be. Go to any Best Buy or Staples and all you see are 16:9. Those are great for watching movies, but I prefer to watch movies on my TV and do work on my computer. And for pretty much all work except video and movie editing, 4:3 is better. I'm currently working on an old Samsung 4:3 which is starting to give me trouble (making strange noises and going dark at random times requiring me to cycle the power on the monitor.) I hope I won't have too much trouble replacing it when it dies.

If that old Samsung is new enough not to be a CRT, then you've probably got "capacitor plague" going on in the power supply.

Plug the Sammy's model number in at lcdalternatives.com and see if they already offer a replacement cap kit for that model.

If they do, that most likely means that model was produced with the "plagued" caps and lots of other people have had the same problems as you.

Comment Re:Are you American, perchance? (Score 1) 330

"it's not so useful TO watching video"

I think you mean "FOR watching video", but then, those damn two and three letter prepositions are just SO difficult for you Americans, aren't they.

You moron.

Or should I say "moran", since that seems to be have most Americans spell it, the irony being lost on their tiny brains. And let me add in 'definAtely', 'rEdiculous', and 'could care less' to that long list of words and phrases that moronic Americans can't spell or write correctly. You fucking idiots.

At least those of us who know not to say "different than" know that when things differ, they differ "from" each other, not "to" each other.

Comment Re:Squarer is better. (Score 1) 330

Televisions have been advertised by diagonal measure pretty much starting with when they went to rectangular screens from round ones well over 60 years ago.

Since they were all 4:3 ratio, if you were comparison shopping a 19" Zenith and a 19" RCA, it was apples to apples, and you could figure out x and y from the hypotenuse if you had to know width and height.

Comment Re:Random sample from one paper (Score 1) 137

Your spell-checker ruined the fun or did you not notice that they have an editorial borad?

Than it should be fine for submission to the above mentioned "journal" as well as many others and Slashdot!

I'm not trying to tar and feather Indian technologists, I know that the who subject feeds into our US domestic politics and the whole H1-B quagmire. But have a look at the "editorial board" of this and other simular fraudulant "journals, and than remember a recent Slashdot story:

https://politics.slashdot.org/...

Over the last 25 years of my adult employment, I've worked with many gifted people from many countries including India, Eastern and Western Europe, and a fair number stereotypical North American bone heads. But things seemed to have changed in the last few years We lost all of our Blue Collar jobs the NAFTA (thanks, Bill Clinton), and we are now losing all of our white collar jobs. Soon we will all be Wal-Mart greeters or asking if you want fries with that. Of course, pumping gas went away except in a few states years ago.

Comment Re:Random sample from one paper (Score 4, Insightful) 137

Also note the "Editorial Board" for this illustrious publication: http://www.ijact.org/eb.htm

I suspect that this "journal" not only provides these guys with extra income, but also serves publication destination for their own dubious science papers.

Of course what keeps these "journals" in business is the fever pitch that academics must publish just to stay relevant in their professional / social strata (and who cares what they publish as long as they do), and their quest for tenure...

Comment Re:Beall's list not neutral (Score 3, Informative) 137

Mr. Beall's list has been criticized as being not neutral...

Not by Science Magazine... From Wikipedia:

In 2013, Science published the results of a "sting operation" in which a scientifically flawed spoof publication was submitted to open access publications.[11] Many accepted the manuscript, and a disproportionate number of the accepting journals were on Beall's list. The publication, entitled Who's Afraid of Peer Review?, stated that "The results show that Beall is good at spotting publishers with poor quality control: For the publishers on his list that completed the review process, 82% accepted the paper."[11] Beall agreed, saying that the author of the sting, John Bohannon, "basically found what I've been saying for years."

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