Back in the dot-com days I worked for a local ISP, and established my online identity over the years. The company died, and I lost my long-established email address. Lesson learned - I obtained my own domain name and webhosting, just on shared servers, mind you, and now I have a portable identity that I have control over. Webhost screwing up? I've had it happen a few times now. I just point the domain elsewhere. I have unlimited POP, IMAP, and even webmail. Multiple spam controls that I can fiddle with. And I don't have to worry about Google, Yahoo, etc fiddling with anything either.
It isn't hard, either. My 63-yo father is now doing the same thing, as he switched ISPs for the first time now that he can get DSL out on the farm, and he isn't the most technical guy.
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas - a gigantic nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is fused into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees. Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. The heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reactions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium.
If you live in the sticks, I imagine this won't be too much of a problem for you. I don't live there and don't intend to find out for sure. Me, I live in Philadelphia (home of the useless muni wifi). I used to work in the far suburbs. I had two options for getting there: 1) Drive on the Schuykyll "Expressway," or 2) take the train. Of course, I had to wait for the train, but then again I didn't have to wait in traffic - evens out. But I could read a book on the way to work, and overall I saved gas money. And in so doing, I'm pretty sure I helped the environment to boot.
If I want to go downtown to the Gallery mall, I can drive, or I can take the trolley that runs one block from my apartment. The trolley goes underground at 40th Street, so it can zip through what would normally be some nice urban gridlock to 13th Street, the end of the line. The Gallery is two blocks on foot from there. Total time saved - usually 10 minutes or so, plus, again, I can read a book and not use gas.
Seriously, they couldn't spring the $20 for a simple DVD-R drive? What happens WHEN (not IF, WHEN) you bork your OS somehow and render it unbootable (or, at least unbootable without some herculean effort)? I gotta send it to Shuttle to reinstall the OS? I think not, varlet.
...IF they'll sell it to you. They won't sell it to me. I live in Philadelphia - you know, Comcast HQ? I can't buy FIOS, despite my burning desire to do so, so I can get Comcast cable internet or DSL at half the speed (but around the same price). My gf, however, lives about half an hour away in Norristown, PA, and she just got a computer (whoah). She wanted to know her options, so I looked them up for her.
She CAN get FIOS, but much to my shock I found that in her area she can get something called "Comcast Blast." 16Mbps service, as opposed to my 6 service. Like FIOS, I'd buy it, if they'd only sell it to me.
They won't sell it to me. Why bother? I can't buy FIOS or any faster alternative, so I'm stuck with whatever crumbs they'll toss me. Oh well, at least it beats Wireless Philadelphia (tried that for a few weeks - don't even waste your time).
Sorry, these reviews are not from reliable peer-reviewed sources and all references to them should be deleted. In fact, this whole article should be speedy deleted as non-notable.
"Apple has Microsoft Office, Linux doesn't; Apple has Adobe Creative Suite, Linux doesn't; Apple has easily accessed and easy to use service and support, Linux doesn't; Apple is driven by someone who has some understanding of end-user needs, Linux is not."
Well gee, that doesn't sound like APPLE is killing Linux on the desktop. That sounds like Microsoft, Adobe, and Linux itself is killing Linux on the desktop.
Then again, are people really buying Apple so they can run Microsoft Office and Adobe...? I tend to doubt it. The last two points are a little more valid than the first two, but that isn't something that Apple is doing WRONG, as the headline implies. That's something that Linux is doing wrong. Or, at least, that is how it is being perceived by many would-be end users.
Dr. Bruner: Do you feel more relaxed in your favorite K-mart clothes? Charlie Babbitt: Tell him, Ray. Raymond Babbitt: K-mart sucks. Dr. Bruner: I see.
I know it wasn't mine. My strong suite was the Presidential Suite at the Hyatt Regency in Baltimore. Had a big party there at Otakon back in 2000. Two of the dealers got in a drunken fistfight in the hall, security was called, they found me passed out in a puddle of strawberry daiquiri.
I'm not allowed to stay at the Hyatt anymore. True story.
Chen must love his dog very much. Because my guess is that he's probably going to lose his life over this. Oh, maybe they won't find a way to put him in prison. Not as such. But I'm sure this old fellow is going to have, say, problems collecting his pension. Lost your paperwork, they'll say, so sorry - come back in six months and maybe we'll find it then.
Good. The maximum punishment seems a tad harsh, but yeah, they should, in fact, be busted. What they did was dangerous, and they actually hurt somebody (the pilot). It could have been worse. The pilot could have been blinded. He could have crashed the helicopter right into somebody's house. Okay, so maybe they didn't mean any actual harm, and maybe the judge will take that into account.
...unless, of course, this is just damage control on the school's part, and they are now trying to make this kid lie to the public or face additional retribution for making his teacher look like a twit. I'm certain that MY school district would have done that, no reason why this one shouldn't.
TFA: "Still, the C64 had an uneven reputation. It was widely considered clunky, its BASIC outdated and graphics weak in comparison to the Apple II and Atari 800, according to McCracken."
McCracken must have been ON crack, because that would be the exact polar opposite of reality. C64 screenshots were the ones shown on game boxes for years. Why? They were the best ones. Always. There was a BRIEF period when the Atari ST was the standard, and of course our friend the Amiga, but the Apple II? The Atari 800? I think not. Don't take my word for it. Compare for yourself:
Ultima III screenshots
I'm sure other, better examples, could be found, but I'm supposed to be working and stuff.
For what its worth, I miss my souped-up Commodore 128. I had JiffyDOS installed, a 1571 5 1/4 drive, and the rare 3 1/2 1581, which, with JiffyDOS, was a relative speed-demon. I took my SSI Goldbox games, which had no copy protection, and consolidated them onto 1-2 3 1/2 disks as opposed to 6-8 sides of a 5 1/4 disk. Good times.
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Back in the dot-com days I worked for a local ISP, and established my online identity over the years. The company died, and I lost my long-established email address. Lesson learned - I obtained my own domain name and webhosting, just on shared servers, mind you, and now I have a portable identity that I have control over. Webhost screwing up? I've had it happen a few times now. I just point the domain elsewhere. I have unlimited POP, IMAP, and even webmail. Multiple spam controls that I can fiddle with. And I don't have to worry about Google, Yahoo, etc fiddling with anything either.
It isn't hard, either. My 63-yo father is now doing the same thing, as he switched ISPs for the first time now that he can get DSL out on the farm, and he isn't the most technical guy.
I see what you did there.
Rules 1 and 2
EBAUM'S DID IT
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas - a gigantic nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is fused into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees. Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. The heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reactions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium.
1) Wrong direction
2) I work in Bala Cynwyd now anyhow
I like this idea. No, really.
If you live in the sticks, I imagine this won't be too much of a problem for you. I don't live there and don't intend to find out for sure. Me, I live in Philadelphia (home of the useless muni wifi). I used to work in the far suburbs. I had two options for getting there: 1) Drive on the Schuykyll "Expressway," or 2) take the train. Of course, I had to wait for the train, but then again I didn't have to wait in traffic - evens out. But I could read a book on the way to work, and overall I saved gas money. And in so doing, I'm pretty sure I helped the environment to boot.
If I want to go downtown to the Gallery mall, I can drive, or I can take the trolley that runs one block from my apartment. The trolley goes underground at 40th Street, so it can zip through what would normally be some nice urban gridlock to 13th Street, the end of the line. The Gallery is two blocks on foot from there. Total time saved - usually 10 minutes or so, plus, again, I can read a book and not use gas.
Does that mean they'll be removing the (usually unskippable) ads from pay games?
No, of course not.
Trogdor was a man!
I mean, he was a... dragon-man!
Er, maybe he was just a dragon
But he was still
TROGDOOOOOOR! TROGDOOOOOR!
AND THEN TROGDOR COMES IN THE NIIIIIIGHT!
The cake is a lie.
Seriously, they couldn't spring the $20 for a simple DVD-R drive? What happens WHEN (not IF, WHEN) you bork your OS somehow and render it unbootable (or, at least unbootable without some herculean effort)? I gotta send it to Shuttle to reinstall the OS? I think not, varlet.
While it looks cool, its not exactly news, is it? When I was in 4th grade I had a Hypercolor shirt that did the same thing. That was like... 1986?
...IF they'll sell it to you. They won't sell it to me. I live in Philadelphia - you know, Comcast HQ? I can't buy FIOS, despite my burning desire to do so, so I can get Comcast cable internet or DSL at half the speed (but around the same price). My gf, however, lives about half an hour away in Norristown, PA, and she just got a computer (whoah). She wanted to know her options, so I looked them up for her.
She CAN get FIOS, but much to my shock I found that in her area she can get something called "Comcast Blast." 16Mbps service, as opposed to my 6 service. Like FIOS, I'd buy it, if they'd only sell it to me.
They won't sell it to me. Why bother? I can't buy FIOS or any faster alternative, so I'm stuck with whatever crumbs they'll toss me. Oh well, at least it beats Wireless Philadelphia (tried that for a few weeks - don't even waste your time).
Sorry, these reviews are not from reliable peer-reviewed sources and all references to them should be deleted. In fact, this whole article should be speedy deleted as non-notable.
"Apple has Microsoft Office, Linux doesn't; Apple has Adobe Creative Suite, Linux doesn't; Apple has easily accessed and easy to use service and support, Linux doesn't; Apple is driven by someone who has some understanding of end-user needs, Linux is not."
Well gee, that doesn't sound like APPLE is killing Linux on the desktop. That sounds like Microsoft, Adobe, and Linux itself is killing Linux on the desktop.
Then again, are people really buying Apple so they can run Microsoft Office and Adobe...? I tend to doubt it. The last two points are a little more valid than the first two, but that isn't something that Apple is doing WRONG, as the headline implies. That's something that Linux is doing wrong. Or, at least, that is how it is being perceived by many would-be end users.
Dr. Bruner: Do you feel more relaxed in your favorite K-mart clothes?
Charlie Babbitt: Tell him, Ray.
Raymond Babbitt: K-mart sucks.
Dr. Bruner: I see.
I know it wasn't mine. My strong suite was the Presidential Suite at the Hyatt Regency in Baltimore. Had a big party there at Otakon back in 2000. Two of the dealers got in a drunken fistfight in the hall, security was called, they found me passed out in a puddle of strawberry daiquiri.
I'm not allowed to stay at the Hyatt anymore. True story.
Good times.
Chen must love his dog very much. Because my guess is that he's probably going to lose his life over this. Oh, maybe they won't find a way to put him in prison. Not as such. But I'm sure this old fellow is going to have, say, problems collecting his pension. Lost your paperwork, they'll say, so sorry - come back in six months and maybe we'll find it then.
Your first red flag should have been the seller's inability to spell "Oregon."
Most annoying neighbor ever? I'd be looking into cutting their power lines after the first evening. But I'm a bit of a depressed grinch.
Hm, gee, I wonder if this same impossible standard will be applied to non-foreign companies in China.
My guess is "no."
Probably not.
BUT AS THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN, then yes, that's how I feel about this particular case.
Good. The maximum punishment seems a tad harsh, but yeah, they should, in fact, be busted. What they did was dangerous, and they actually hurt somebody (the pilot). It could have been worse. The pilot could have been blinded. He could have crashed the helicopter right into somebody's house. Okay, so maybe they didn't mean any actual harm, and maybe the judge will take that into account.
...unless, of course, this is just damage control on the school's part, and they are now trying to make this kid lie to the public or face additional retribution for making his teacher look like a twit. I'm certain that MY school district would have done that, no reason why this one shouldn't.
Nintendo may hype pulling their ads to avoid hype to generate more hype!
Translation: In Soviet Russia, ads pull YOU!
McCracken must have been ON crack, because that would be the exact polar opposite of reality. C64 screenshots were the ones shown on game boxes for years. Why? They were the best ones. Always. There was a BRIEF period when the Atari ST was the standard, and of course our friend the Amiga, but the Apple II? The Atari 800? I think not. Don't take my word for it. Compare for yourself: Ultima III screenshots
I'm sure other, better examples, could be found, but I'm supposed to be working and stuff.
For what its worth, I miss my souped-up Commodore 128. I had JiffyDOS installed, a 1571 5 1/4 drive, and the rare 3 1/2 1581, which, with JiffyDOS, was a relative speed-demon. I took my SSI Goldbox games, which had no copy protection, and consolidated them onto 1-2 3 1/2 disks as opposed to 6-8 sides of a 5 1/4 disk. Good times.