Seeing as how Lucas is to be involved, there will be references to aliens and/or space ships featured prominently but loosely involved in the plot line.
Your soldering iron, power supply, battery charger have computers in them? Must be pretty advanced. All of these usually just have some kind of comparator inside and basic logic ICs - unless they have menus with settings, etc
...Actually, the reason you need 4 GB of RAM is because the programs you're using are far more complex than the ones that people were using when 256 MB was top-of-the-line. You may say, "But all I need is to read e-mail and browse the web!" -- except that nowadays those tasks involve rendering GUIs with Javascript, streaming and playing HD video in realtime...
I was doing all of these on my 386 4MB machine, windows 3.1 and aol+realplayer (I know, I know...)
Around Y2K I started seeing the bloat; programs that would tell you your local IP address at 1MB, where if assembled natively could go to 1KB (512 stub, 512 data/code), Installers that no longer fit on floppy disks for new versions of programs that provided nothing new compared to older, slimmer (exe) versions.
Hell, I had no problem multitasking VisualStudio6, ICQ, Yahoo, Netscape on my 486/66, upgraded to 64MB RAM + 1GB HD. Now I can barely run firefox alone on 4GB ofRAM. The only time I had to kill things was when I went into photoshop or premiere which heavily cached in RAM.
I'd assume the protections there are for lightning strikes would work on transmission lines during such an incident, and metal-paneled cars may have a chance w/ the Faraday cage effect?
Yet another generic phone story slapped as "iPhone" to improve SEO hits. The little stickers with powdered red dye is them have been in every phone I've ever seen for almost 10 years now.
I've had adobe's 64bit linux plugin forever, both in FF and Chrome. The only thing new may be the subversion (instead of 10.1.2.3 or whatever I've been on, now they are on 10.1.2.3b?)
Its the swing something or other UI, yes. It's distinctive, and If I see that?... the applet get deleted.
I didn't try it at all beyond launching it, you're right!
Java has left a very foul taste in my mouth and that hint of feces just doesn't go away...
a 10MB minor update? That's what the download screen said. I just took a peek at the primary download site and Windows download is listed as 8MB on the front page.
On a related note, what pisses me off even more is going to a website and trying to use a strong password and their system doesn't allow it.
Notable offenders for me:
American Express only allows 8 characters. Hell, they even have a javascript alert telling you "Invalid password" if you type in more than 8.
Discover Card only allows 10 characters. These guys are a little more HTML savvy and have a MAXLENGTH=10 on the password field
This suggests to me they store the password as-is or with some lame cypher so that it may be recovered plaintext. (The user database password field length limited to 8) If they hash the passwords, then you could use any length password resulting in a same-length hash to store in the DB.
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Seeing as how Lucas is to be involved, there will be references to aliens and/or space ships featured prominently but loosely involved in the plot line.
I believe the middle eastern models do.
Your soldering iron, power supply, battery charger have computers in them? Must be pretty advanced. All of these usually just have some kind of comparator inside and basic logic ICs - unless they have menus with settings, etc
...Actually, the reason you need 4 GB of RAM is because the programs you're using are far more complex than the ones that people were using when 256 MB was top-of-the-line. You may say, "But all I need is to read e-mail and browse the web!" -- except that nowadays those tasks involve rendering GUIs with Javascript, streaming and playing HD video in realtime...
I was doing all of these on my 386 4MB machine, windows 3.1 and aol+realplayer (I know, I know...)
Around Y2K I started seeing the bloat; programs that would tell you your local IP address at 1MB, where if assembled natively could go to 1KB (512 stub, 512 data/code), Installers that no longer fit on floppy disks for new versions of programs that provided nothing new compared to older, slimmer (exe) versions.
Hell, I had no problem multitasking VisualStudio6, ICQ, Yahoo, Netscape on my 486/66, upgraded to 64MB RAM + 1GB HD. Now I can barely run firefox alone on 4GB ofRAM.
The only time I had to kill things was when I went into photoshop or premiere which heavily cached in RAM.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/22/2035256/BrainPort-Lets-the-Blind-See-With-Their-Tongues
I'd assume the protections there are for lightning strikes would work on transmission lines during such an incident, and metal-paneled cars may have a chance w/ the Faraday cage effect?
I've been looking for this site again forever, thanks! It's applied to many-a-slashdot story claiming to have invented something similar
I don't know if that'd be a step up; the Pentium has problems properly creating floaters...
This is why I don't buy albums, but individual tracks.
Or utilizing their already-inbuilt "Allow Apps Rated" restrictions. (Don't Allow, 4+, 9+, 12+, 17+, Allow All Apps)
Yet another generic phone story slapped as "iPhone" to improve SEO hits. The little stickers with powdered red dye is them have been in every phone I've ever seen for almost 10 years now.
You must be new here. Any article relating to *.phones automatically becomes iPhone-specific.
I've had adobe's 64bit linux plugin forever, both in FF and Chrome. The only thing new may be the subversion (instead of 10.1.2.3 or whatever I've been on, now they are on 10.1.2.3b?)
You missed LARK Swap (You have PARK Swap)
http://www.livermoreark.org/swap/swap.html
WTF are you going to get a Fry's anymore? Maybe some batteries and a battery holder? Their components selection is worthless now.
Fractal antennas
Fujitsu's Stylistic series has been around forever and is/does what the iPad is/does plus a plethora more.
Nothing novel or revolutionary has happened here, move along...
Its the swing something or other UI, yes. It's distinctive, and If I see that?... the applet get deleted.
I didn't try it at all beyond launching it, you're right!
Java has left a very foul taste in my mouth and that hint of feces just doesn't go away...
It was a P2 400 Gateway you insensitive clod!
A++++ post, would mod if had points.
Memory gluttons and high latency. I took one look at eclipse to see what the fuss was about and immediately uninstalled it when I saw the java gui.
That's what I use... or gedit in lunix or vim(m) when ssh'ing
SOOSTE? or did you mean 600613
a 10MB minor update? That's what the download screen said. I just took a peek at the primary download site and Windows download is listed as 8MB on the front page.
This sounds like a good cover for a prostitution ring.
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On a related note, what pisses me off even more is going to a website and trying to use a strong password and their system doesn't allow it.
Notable offenders for me:
American Express only allows 8 characters. Hell, they even have a javascript alert telling you "Invalid password" if you type in more than 8.
Discover Card only allows 10 characters. These guys are a little more HTML savvy and have a MAXLENGTH=10 on the password field
This suggests to me they store the password as-is or with some lame cypher so that it may be recovered plaintext. (The user database password field length limited to 8) If they hash the passwords, then you could use any length password resulting in a same-length hash to store in the DB.