But the thing is, I've got this Gateway Pentium-90 box with 64 MB of RAM, and it ran DSL slightly faster than the fraggin' K6-2 did.
Also, DSL's RAM gauge (the dealie on the upper-right of the default screen) showed it still had about 30 MB free from 64, *and* Windows 98SE works fine with 32 MB, so it's really not the RAM that's limiting it.
That depended on whether your motherboard had the jumpers to set CPU multiplier, voltage, and FSB speed. Kind of like today, but it now depends on what your chipset and BIOS can handle.
Corner case: people with e.g. 300 MHz K6-2s and 64 MB of RAM running Windows 98, and they want to get on the Internet. That's a new machine unless they really want to learn Damn Small Linux (and the machine I'm speaking of was too slow even for DSL, probably due to the crap SiS chipset).
Of course, nobody will agree on it; neocons will probably worship him like Republicans do Reagan, and sensible people will rue the 300 votes he won Florida by.
The other problem was that early-on, they re-used WW2-surplus Navy gunpowder in 5.56mm cartridges.
The Navy gunpowder had some anti-caking (or desiccating, can't remember) agent in it that worked great in naval artillery, but jammed the M-16's action.
The 7.62 millimeter round is the old "NATO" round from the Korean conflict. There's a LOT of ammunition floating around in that size. Try finding suitable quantities of 5.56 millimeter ammunition if you have an AR-16.
You don't know what you're talking about. Shut up before you make a bigger fool of yourself.
The AK-47's round is the 7.62x39, also called "7.62 Soviet" and "M43", since it was developed in 1943 in the Soviet Union. It has nothing to do with NATO. The round is also used in the SKS carbine.
There will be plenty of 5.56mm "floating around" because it's also a civilian caliber:.223 Remington, just like 7.62 NATO's civilian counterpart is.308 Winchester. The difference between the military 5.56 and civilian.223 is the amount of pressure a cartridge generates when fired; you can fire civilian ammo in a military arm, but the reverse is not safe.
Further, the M-16's civilian counterpart is the AR-15, which differs mainly in being semi-automatic only, while the M-16 is select-fire. Depending on which '16, the selector has three positions: safe, semi-automatic, and either full-auto or 3-round burst.
The mod who gave you points evidently doesn't know anything about guns either.
Some people (and I don't understand this position) believe that restricting how much money a person or a corp can give to a political candidate is restricting free speech.
Yes, they think that money == political speech. Again, I don't understand that.
Back in Lincoln's day the Republicans were the social liberals, you know (hello, abolishing slavery?). The parties flipped about the time of FDR and his socialist-type reforms.
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Lawyer paratroops. Parachutes definitely optional.
The Republican Party is dying.
But the thing is, I've got this Gateway Pentium-90 box with 64 MB of RAM, and it ran DSL slightly faster than the fraggin' K6-2 did.
Also, DSL's RAM gauge (the dealie on the upper-right of the default screen) showed it still had about 30 MB free from 64, *and* Windows 98SE works fine with 32 MB, so it's really not the RAM that's limiting it.
That depended on whether your motherboard had the jumpers to set CPU multiplier, voltage, and FSB speed. Kind of like today, but it now depends on what your chipset and BIOS can handle.
Ah, the bad old days.
Corner case: people with e.g. 300 MHz K6-2s and 64 MB of RAM running Windows 98, and they want to get on the Internet. That's a new machine unless they really want to learn Damn Small Linux (and the machine I'm speaking of was too slow even for DSL, probably due to the crap SiS chipset).
He still has his legacy to consider.
Of course, nobody will agree on it; neocons will probably worship him like Republicans do Reagan, and sensible people will rue the 300 votes he won Florida by.
Except that EasyUbuntu appears to be dead. It hasn't had a stable release since just after Dapper and there's no news on their website.
I have this problem on a desktop computer, too. :(
He really did know that she was only fourteen.
A Morse-operator's style was referred to as his "fist". This is referenced in Cryptonomicon.
I think this is a pretty nifty idea, and I'm surprised it hasn't been done before.
It's just that some of us were on superior platforms at that time.
//c.
I still had my Apple
ITYM slightly over a year. Windows Me Harder was released in September 2000 and XP in October 2001.
Why did some twit mod this offtopic?
FTM, who modded the posts critical of Zonk's lack-of-editing offtopic?
Both are pretty damn topical.
Nice "editing", Zonk. I hope Slashdot is paying you what you're worth.
Read GP again. You missed "either", which implies mutex.
The other problem was that early-on, they re-used WW2-surplus Navy gunpowder in 5.56mm cartridges.
The Navy gunpowder had some anti-caking (or desiccating, can't remember) agent in it that worked great in naval artillery, but jammed the M-16's action.
You don't know what you're talking about. Shut up before you make a bigger fool of yourself.
The AK-47's round is the 7.62x39, also called "7.62 Soviet" and "M43", since it was developed in 1943 in the Soviet Union. It has nothing to do with NATO. The round is also used in the SKS carbine.
There will be plenty of 5.56mm "floating around" because it's also a civilian caliber:
Further, the M-16's civilian counterpart is the AR-15, which differs mainly in being semi-automatic only, while the M-16 is select-fire. Depending on which '16, the selector has three positions: safe, semi-automatic, and either full-auto or 3-round burst.
The mod who gave you points evidently doesn't know anything about guns either.
Then you need to practice your penis-fencing.
You want he should give you another car analogy?
This is at least different and pertinent.
What's your hardware (CPU, RAM, video card, monitor) on that Ubuntu box? Mostly curious.
Some people (and I don't understand this position) believe that restricting how much money a person or a corp can give to a political candidate is restricting free speech.
Yes, they think that money == political speech. Again, I don't understand that.
Spammers tend to buy "bulletproof" hosting that will ignore takedown requests.
I say we lift off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I laughed, at least.
It's a television, so more pixels than HDTV can use would be a waste.
If you're sitting close enough to this thing to see the individual dots, you're 1) sitting too close, and 2) in possession of more money than sense.
Back in Lincoln's day the Republicans were the social liberals, you know (hello, abolishing slavery?). The parties flipped about the time of FDR and his socialist-type reforms.