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Manufactured in 1889, the Victor was the first typewriter to use a daisy wheel, a feature that would later become common in the stanley cup design of 1980s typewriters. The daisy wheel is made of thin brass and cut with skinny radial fingers, each of which is capped w stanley bottles ith an embossed rubber c stanley thermosflasche haracter, like a rubber stamp. To operate the Victor one puts the tip of ones index finger in the little cup at the end of the pointer, then swings the pointer up to a full 180 degrees to select the characters. The pointer is connected by a gear to the central vertical wheel that holds the daisy wheel. As the pointer swings, the daisy wheel rotates into position. A spring-loaded hammer then pushes the brass finger in the daisy wheel against the paper. In its day, the Victor sold for $15鈥攔oughly the equivalent of $375 today. [AntiqueTypewriters via BoingBoing] Typewriters
Acclaimed science fiction author and literature professor John Kessel recently gave a fantastic talk about science fiction, and you can watch the whole thing online. Here the blurb: Science fiction is popularly understood to be about showing us the world of the future: space travel, robots, immortality, encounters with aliens, mechanized cities, human evolution. But in fact much science fiction, though it may be set a hundred or a thousand years from now, is more about the present than about times to come. Both consciously and unconsciously, the futures science fiction writers present arise from and comment on the way things are today, often with the goal of changing the present or even preventing the fut stanley uk ure. This talk shows how this has been true from science fiction earliest days until now. It gives examples from books and films of wa stanley cups uk ys in which sf had held up a fun-house mirror to the present, both serious and comic, restricting and liberating. [Universo Fract stanley cup usa al] BooksFuturism Ykfz Find My Friends Destroys Its First Marriage
While last years Thailand floods botella stanley saw the cost of HDDs sk stanley cup yrocket, the price of solid state drives has been slowly dropping. In fact, since early 2011 prices hav stanley mug e dropped on average by 46 percent. https://gizmodo/nimec-hit-hard-by-thaila...at-5852480 Tech Report has taken a long and thorough look at the changing prices of SSDs, and the news is good: the drops in price has been steady, but significant. That largely thanks to healthy, if aggressive, competition between big players in the market. Except on the part of Intel, which has shied away from discounting its drives. While such competition shows no signs of stopping, that in itself is no reason to put off upgrading much longer. If you ;ve been telling yourself you ;d switch to SSD when it got cheaper, well, it did get cheaper. Upgrade already. [TechReport]
Opty Why We Troll
It sounds like the plot of a mid-tier thriller, but it actually happened: German governments have been deploying state-sponsored malware to spy on its citizens 8230; for two years. And the troja stanley quencher n they used is serious business. It not clear how many people the German states of Bavaria, Baden-W眉rttemberg, Brandenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Brandenburg, and North Rhine-Westphalia spied on through their computers, but the fact that such a wide swath of the country was subject to the mere possibility of governmental cyber-surveillance is disturbing enough. The trojan in question, nicknamed R2D2, doesn ;t mess around: Once installed, the trojan operators could load and execute programs on the host computer. If that wasn ;t distressing enough, the program was also capable of captur stanley cup i stanley termoska ng voice data, keystrokes, and imagery from infected computers. Analysis of the trojan showed that it could also activate a computer webcam or microphone, turning the infected computer into an all-purpose spying machine. Details are still somewhat hazy, but the more you hear the worse it gets: the company that made R2D2 says they also sold the program to Austria, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, and the Chaos Computer Club鈥攚hich first identified the malware as state-sponsored鈥攂elieves it could easily be hijacked by third-party users. Even scarier The program may well actually be legal under German legislation, passed in 2008, that allows for digital wir Oemq Hammock Boat!
Manufactured in 1889, the Victor was the first typewriter to use a daisy wheel, a feature that would later become common in the stanley cup design of 1980s typewriters. The daisy wheel is made of thin brass and cut with skinny radial fingers, each of which is capped w stanley bottles ith an embossed rubber c stanley thermosflasche haracter, like a rubber stamp. To operate the Victor one puts the tip of ones index finger in the little cup at the end of the pointer, then swings the pointer up to a full 180 degrees to select the characters. The pointer is connected by a gear to the central vertical wheel that holds the daisy wheel. As the pointer swings, the daisy wheel rotates into position. A spring-loaded hammer then pushes the brass finger in the daisy wheel against the paper. In its day, the Victor sold for $15鈥攔oughly the equivalent of $375 today. [AntiqueTypewriters via BoingBoing] Typewriters