Remember when Windows 95 only used somewhere around the neighborhood of 50MB? With todays OS storage requirements sitting around one GB...
I don't know when you last looked at OS requirements being around 1GB, unless you meant 1GB of RAM. Sure, I can get linux installed on a 3GB hard drive (albeit really cramped), but Windows? Not a chance... The mainstream uses XP (for now) and a clean install with patches sits around 4GB. A bare-bones install on Vista on my laptop is almost 9GB. I don't know exactly what's in that space, but it's getting ridiculous... even with a selection of apps installed on linux it'd be around the size of a default Windows XP install.
In the long run it seems to be going down. But what about years 94, 95, and 98? We could be in store for another spike. Those spikes are not really predictable, nor is their duration.
I had a lot of problems with the mouse as well. I don't use it a lot as it is, but I went back to a trackball after about 9 years of using a mouse.
The one that I linked is quite ergonomic and keeps the hand in a more natural position. I haven't had any problems since getting it. The only annoying part was getting used to using my fingers to move the trackball instead of the thumb (my old trackball was a thumb-type) but now I'm past that I won't use a mouse at home again.
(traditionally, cinder blocks or wood blocks in poor areas)
People actually use cinder blocks to prop up their cars? That's not a particularly safe thing to do - cinder blocks are strong only when the weight is distributed evenly over the entire surface area of the block. There is a very high chance that the block with break under an axle because the weight isn't spread evenly over the block.
Damnit, they need a car with pure attitude. I'd suggest Christine! They can go around doing good deeds and the main character can get mauled at the end of every show!
I've always wondered about that fee. I remember when I first got a cell phone eons ago, when I signed up for a plan and the first bill did not jive with the plan. I didn't remember paying a large fee for my landline so I phoned them and got quite upset at first. After that I noticed that the sales reps tell you there is an "access charge" which by now shouldn't need to exist.
It is also interesting that Bell raised their fees. Good thing I don't use them as my cell phone carrier.
I know I have seen my client report that a chunk has a bogus checksum and re-download it. It's pretty rare but it does happen. It doesn't even have to be malicious, some people have dodgy computers that will silently corrupt data or frankly the TCP checksum isn't all that strong and it's not impossible for corrupt data to get through it.
Not only that, most clients blacklist a peer who is sending bad data. Once a threshold is met connections are ignored from that peer.
BitTorrent Inc. can say they are the reference implementation as often as they like but it won't make it true - instead, an open BitTorrent implementation will probably become the reference, and just like SSH Inc. BitTorrent Inc. will fade towards irrelevance (although they may continue to exist).
I hate to be a pessimist, but we have various "unofficial" extensions to the protocol as it is. Without a central source to manage the forked protocol, I can envision a huge mess of every client doing their own thing, then winding up with several versions of the protocol not compatible with each other. Besides that, what happens when there is someone else controlling the protocol and they refuse to add a developers' addition? What then?
It worked for OpenSSH, but I'm seriously wondering what the future of *cough*OpenBT*cough* is.
Movie theaters are history. Why would anyone would pay the price equal to a good DVD for the privilege to risk being prosecuted in a sticky theater with farting and sweaty people shoulder to shoulder.
You forgot the asshats who talk on their stupid phones during a movie.
From what I understand he was selling placebos. How would this help anyone? There's no actual medicine in those pills, although they were sold like the real deal.
I believe that the bittorrent protocol already has means to detect whether or not it's on the same network segment, and shares packets in that segment by preference.
That doesn't sound right to me... that would largely create segregated clusters of peers that don't talk to each other. That would likely hurt the swarm rather than help it.
I do recall discussions about a piece of hardware ISPs can use to lower their bandwidth load, but I don't know if this actually exists. Even if it did, it would affect the swarm in a negative way as well.
d) I often need the computer screen to write a review document.
You should try using a multi-screen setup if you do this often. Works wonders, and wastes a heck of a lot less paper. Since I've started using my dual screen setup at work, my requirements to print have dropped to virtually none - I might print 50 pages a year... before was much, much more.
Take Office, I think that Word and Excel were the only two products that MS wrote out of the entire collection.
I don't know about Excel, but if I remember correctly Microsoft hired a developer who was writing a word processor (who was working for another company.) The resulting version of the program was "renamed" to Microsoft Word and most of it's design was taken from the program the developer wrote originally.
I wouldn't really consider that writing it in-house. To me, they stole a developer who already wrote a program from another company, had him rewrite enough of it to not get sued, renamed it and away they went. To me, that's bought.
Ah, Wikipedia has more information on this. It's all up to interpretation. I wouldn't consider them to be writing this on their own. I think it's rather underhanded.
Keep in mind the person that passed him in wealth had a few large spikes to get him there - I wouldn't consider this stable and Slim could fall back out of the #1/#2 spot fairly easily depending on fluctuations in the market. Billy has amassed quite a bit over a long period of time to get where he is now and is still growing at a stable and steady rate.
What makes you think the car would come with a full tank of gas?
1/8 of a tank is more like it, when comparing to printers. It seems you print 10 pages and you need to replace the cartridges that came with the printer already. [/sarcasm]
Physical media isn't going anywhere soon. Have you even bothered to talk to anyone on the street? A large majority of people don't even know you can download/stream video using their computers. Most people know about getting music online.
At this point the majority is still technically minded people that know about getting movies online. Your average mom and pop have no idea. This could change in 10 years, but I wouldn't say that's "fast."
In any event, why didn't you just downgrade SSL?
Also, perhaps you could have solved the problem by simply recompiling wget?
I suppose I could have downgraded SSL but the world update would recompile it. Not to mention if I used --skipfirst something later on would fail due to the SSL requirement. And, I couldn't compile the new wget package dependent on the new SSL libraries because wget stopped working! Lynx was broken too. Emerge just died there.
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I don't know when you last looked at OS requirements being around 1GB, unless you meant 1GB of RAM. Sure, I can get linux installed on a 3GB hard drive (albeit really cramped), but Windows? Not a chance... The mainstream uses XP (for now) and a clean install with patches sits around 4GB. A bare-bones install on Vista on my laptop is almost 9GB. I don't know exactly what's in that space, but it's getting ridiculous... even with a selection of apps installed on linux it'd be around the size of a default Windows XP install.
In the long run it seems to be going down. But what about years 94, 95, and 98? We could be in store for another spike. Those spikes are not really predictable, nor is their duration.
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Did you guess I'm a pessimistic person?
Huh, every time I think of Vista I'm reminded of the Eagle Vista. And it looks slow to boot!
I had a lot of problems with the mouse as well. I don't use it a lot as it is, but I went back to a trackball after about 9 years of using a mouse.
The one that I linked is quite ergonomic and keeps the hand in a more natural position. I haven't had any problems since getting it. The only annoying part was getting used to using my fingers to move the trackball instead of the thumb (my old trackball was a thumb-type) but now I'm past that I won't use a mouse at home again.
People actually use cinder blocks to prop up their cars? That's not a particularly safe thing to do - cinder blocks are strong only when the weight is distributed evenly over the entire surface area of the block. There is a very high chance that the block with break under an axle because the weight isn't spread evenly over the block.
Damnit, they need a car with pure attitude. I'd suggest Christine! They can go around doing good deeds and the main character can get mauled at the end of every show!
I've always wondered about that fee. I remember when I first got a cell phone eons ago, when I signed up for a plan and the first bill did not jive with the plan. I didn't remember paying a large fee for my landline so I phoned them and got quite upset at first. After that I noticed that the sales reps tell you there is an "access charge" which by now shouldn't need to exist.
It is also interesting that Bell raised their fees. Good thing I don't use them as my cell phone carrier.
Not only that, most clients blacklist a peer who is sending bad data. Once a threshold is met connections are ignored from that peer.
My LG F1-Series laptop came with a recovery disk. Some of the cheap Acers we have at work didn't.
The question is: Will they sell the battery at the retail level.
I hate to be a pessimist, but we have various "unofficial" extensions to the protocol as it is. Without a central source to manage the forked protocol, I can envision a huge mess of every client doing their own thing, then winding up with several versions of the protocol not compatible with each other. Besides that, what happens when there is someone else controlling the protocol and they refuse to add a developers' addition? What then?
It worked for OpenSSH, but I'm seriously wondering what the future of *cough*OpenBT*cough* is.
You forgot the asshats who talk on their stupid phones during a movie.
From what I understand he was selling placebos. How would this help anyone? There's no actual medicine in those pills, although they were sold like the real deal.
Sure, but monitors don't clutter my desk like paper does.
That doesn't sound right to me... that would largely create segregated clusters of peers that don't talk to each other. That would likely hurt the swarm rather than help it.
I do recall discussions about a piece of hardware ISPs can use to lower their bandwidth load, but I don't know if this actually exists. Even if it did, it would affect the swarm in a negative way as well.
Oh goody! Only another 41 years to go for me!
You should try using a multi-screen setup if you do this often. Works wonders, and wastes a heck of a lot less paper. Since I've started using my dual screen setup at work, my requirements to print have dropped to virtually none - I might print 50 pages a year... before was much, much more.
Until a porn ad pops up on said public terminal... heads will roll...
I don't know about Excel, but if I remember correctly Microsoft hired a developer who was writing a word processor (who was working for another company.) The resulting version of the program was "renamed" to Microsoft Word and most of it's design was taken from the program the developer wrote originally.
I wouldn't really consider that writing it in-house. To me, they stole a developer who already wrote a program from another company, had him rewrite enough of it to not get sued, renamed it and away they went. To me, that's bought. Ah, Wikipedia has more information on this. It's all up to interpretation. I wouldn't consider them to be writing this on their own. I think it's rather underhanded.
Keep in mind the person that passed him in wealth had a few large spikes to get him there - I wouldn't consider this stable and Slim could fall back out of the #1/#2 spot fairly easily depending on fluctuations in the market. Billy has amassed quite a bit over a long period of time to get where he is now and is still growing at a stable and steady rate.
The RAZR? My GOD man, that's SO last year!
What makes you think the car would come with a full tank of gas?
1/8 of a tank is more like it, when comparing to printers. It seems you print 10 pages and you need to replace the cartridges that came with the printer already. [/sarcasm]
Physical media isn't going anywhere soon. Have you even bothered to talk to anyone on the street? A large majority of people don't even know you can download/stream video using their computers. Most people know about getting music online.
At this point the majority is still technically minded people that know about getting movies online. Your average mom and pop have no idea. This could change in 10 years, but I wouldn't say that's "fast."
I'm just waiting for HD DVD to get over the hill, that's when they'll get momentum and be unstoppable!