Started college in 1992, 5 1/4" drives were still the most common, most of the ones in the computer lab were only 360K. They refreshed half of the computers in the lab the next year, so most of the machines then could read dual sided disks, and half of them also had 3 1/2" drives. It was finally 1995 when all the machines could read double-sided double-density 3 1/2" drives, and quite a few of them still had 5 1/2" drives as well since that's what students (and most of the profs) still had in their home machines.
I guess it depends on where you went to school and how long they took to get the hardware in. The first Apple Macs never had a 5.25. They all shipped with 3.5. I still remember in 1993 finding a box of 5.25 floppy disks and not having anything to read them on. I ended up buying two off of somebody on Usenet. I'm pretty sure it was because they were hard to find, or due to lower demand the prices had gotten outrageous by that time. Even so, I don't recall seeing any new computers with 5.25" floppy drives for some time before that.
I inherited an old Tandy 6000 computer running Xenix which had an 8" drive back in the early 1990s, and I remember even then they were special order items. At that point high density 5.25" inch and 3.5" drives were coming into their own.
By the early 1990's 5.25" floppy disks were antiquated and 3.5" had been the standard for some time.
When will people learn that the water they get from the water tap is the same that is bottled...
When will you learn to stop making stupid statements? Granted, any thing labeled as "spring water", probably is similar to tap, and in some cases is. But purified water certainly is not.
I installed a RO/DI water filter a couple of decades ago for my saltwater aquarium hobby. It keeps the total dissolved solids (TDS) levels of the output water between 0-5 ppm. After drinking water from that I realized just how nasty tasting tap water was.Since I can't take my water filter with me when I travel, I've tested the water from many bottled water brands. I'm not going to shill for any of them, but the ones I will buy (when necessary) have a maximum TDS of 25 ppm. I've tested my tap water as high as 600 and it has never been below 250 ppm. I've also tested for various metallic and other specific contaminants. But TDS is a quick easy test and gives a good indication as to how bad water will taste. Through talking with others in the saltwater hobby, I've found that most areas have similarly high levels in municipal water. Well water can be even worse.
Saying that tap water is the same as bottled water is akin to saying that you should put light sweet crude oil in your car instead of gasoline.
Helium is "manufactured" by radioactive decay underground. Also, He is unnecessary for life. You only need it if you want a funny voice, or poor lift from something less flammable than H. Aside from some uses as a coolant, we wouldn't lose much if there was no He left.
Helium has a lot more uses that you seem to understand. Particularly as a superconductor (not a coolant). Without it there would be no high field MRI scanners. As far as I know, there are not permanent magnet MRI scanners above.3T. The standard MRI in hospitals are 1.5T and 3T are becoming very common. These both require He. The 3T magnets use a lot of it. Particle accelerators need He, as do mag-Lev trains, rail-guns, etc. Obviously these aren't things that mankind can't live without. But unless we can find a suitable replacement to use as a superconductor, it will set back a lot of science and other advances.
Then the investors are stupid, because their about to see another exodus due to an unpopular price hike... and I'll be in the first wave myself.
Did you read anything past the title? You know, like the first sentence of the summary. The way I read it, only new customers will see the rate increase. So unless you aren't currently a customer you won't be affected.
While as a consumer I'll bemoan paying more, the reality is, to deliver quality content they need to find the price sweet spot. It's still way below the cost of cable TV, so I don't think it will hurt them in the long run.
Yes, it seems like it will mainly benefit shareholders, but with the lack of ads and low price, even after the increase, who can really complain?
From TFS, "Netflix Inc said it intends to raise the monthly subscription price for new customers by $1 or $2 a month..."
Unless my reading comprehension is on the blink, as a current customer, you shouldn't see a rate increase. Yet.
He could also die and have a huge insurance policy. If he did it right, Charliemopps would be first in line before his children & wife, credit cards, etc.
Unlikely. But unless things have changed, no one but the beneficiary can touch a dime of life insurance money.
So all the newspapers of the USA were closed and no TV stations were broadcasting news? Certainly today it would make a strong story - after all we're resurrecting it after all these years; I'm dubious that the fact that the newspapers of New York were shut would be a such a barrier then.
Those were much different times. There were no 24 hour news channels, no internet, and radio was somewhat different then. Print was just about the only place this kind of thing would have showed up. And since most papers were more focused on the city they were based in, it's unlikely it would be reported in another cities paper. Remember, TV news was an hour, at best, in the evening. Even if it would have ended up on the evening news, it would probably have been mentioned in a 30 second bit at best. There wouldn't have been a 2 hour "special report" on it.
So what about Tsunamis? What if a giant rock or snowball from outerspace hits it at upwards of 17000 miles per hour?
I believe the tsunamis are why it's to be placed several miles off shore in 100 m of water, or more. At least that's what the summary said. As for the others, A giant rock colliding in the ocean, with or without the reactor, is going to be a pretty big problem. That's how we got the gulf of Mexico along with a possible planetary extinction event. You might as well be worried about the devil himself opening up a giant hole in the ground and swallowing the entire city you live in and bringing forth the apocalypse.
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So even with 189 channels, Pink Floyd is still pretty close with the lyrics from "Nobody's Home"
I've got thirteen channels of shit on the T.V. to choose from.
We just called him Zak. Good guy.
Just how old are you? He died in 1904.
Now the bank robber doesn't have a gun and can't threaten people.
Assuming he only has one gun. Or is alone.
Wasn't that around the time of the "You've got questions, we've got answers" ad campaign? ;-)
Started college in 1992, 5 1/4" drives were still the most common, most of the ones in the computer lab were only 360K. They refreshed half of the computers in the lab the next year, so most of the machines then could read dual sided disks, and half of them also had 3 1/2" drives. It was finally 1995 when all the machines could read double-sided double-density 3 1/2" drives, and quite a few of them still had 5 1/2" drives as well since that's what students (and most of the profs) still had in their home machines.
I guess it depends on where you went to school and how long they took to get the hardware in. The first Apple Macs never had a 5.25. They all shipped with 3.5. I still remember in 1993 finding a box of 5.25 floppy disks and not having anything to read them on. I ended up buying two off of somebody on Usenet. I'm pretty sure it was because they were hard to find, or due to lower demand the prices had gotten outrageous by that time. Even so, I don't recall seeing any new computers with 5.25" floppy drives for some time before that.
I inherited an old Tandy 6000 computer running Xenix which had an 8" drive back in the early 1990s, and I remember even then they were special order items. At that point high density 5.25" inch and 3.5" drives were coming into their own.
By the early 1990's 5.25" floppy disks were antiquated and 3.5" had been the standard for some time.
And Leonard Nimoy's response was only three words.
"WHAT THE FUCK!"
Gorn chicks are hotter.
That kinda depends on whether it's sunny or not.
Until Comcast gets split into NBC and ISP again, no one will ever support them in expanding their business.
Sure they will...
For the right price.
When will people learn that the water they get from the water tap is the same that is bottled...
When will you learn to stop making stupid statements? Granted, any thing labeled as "spring water", probably is similar to tap, and in some cases is. But purified water certainly is not.
I installed a RO/DI water filter a couple of decades ago for my saltwater aquarium hobby. It keeps the total dissolved solids (TDS) levels of the output water between 0-5 ppm. After drinking water from that I realized just how nasty tasting tap water was.Since I can't take my water filter with me when I travel, I've tested the water from many bottled water brands. I'm not going to shill for any of them, but the ones I will buy (when necessary) have a maximum TDS of 25 ppm. I've tested my tap water as high as 600 and it has never been below 250 ppm. I've also tested for various metallic and other specific contaminants. But TDS is a quick easy test and gives a good indication as to how bad water will taste. Through talking with others in the saltwater hobby, I've found that most areas have similarly high levels in municipal water. Well water can be even worse.
Saying that tap water is the same as bottled water is akin to saying that you should put light sweet crude oil in your car instead of gasoline.
Helium is "manufactured" by radioactive decay underground. Also, He is unnecessary for life. You only need it if you want a funny voice, or poor lift from something less flammable than H. Aside from some uses as a coolant, we wouldn't lose much if there was no He left.
Helium has a lot more uses that you seem to understand. Particularly as a superconductor (not a coolant). Without it there would be no high field MRI scanners. As far as I know, there are not permanent magnet MRI scanners above .3T. The standard MRI in hospitals are 1.5T and 3T are becoming very common. These both require He. The 3T magnets use a lot of it. Particle accelerators need He, as do mag-Lev trains, rail-guns, etc. Obviously these aren't things that mankind can't live without. But unless we can find a suitable replacement to use as a superconductor, it will set back a lot of science and other advances.
From TFA: "If successful ISEE-3 will spend its retirement as a platform for citizen science, with smartphone apps—and a twitter feed"
Perhaps it would be better to let it drift off into space and die with some dignity after all.
What do you think those bombs do after being dropped from a bomber? I'm fairly certain they ain't delivering flowers.
Then the investors are stupid, because their about to see another exodus due to an unpopular price hike ... and I'll be in the first wave myself.
Did you read anything past the title? You know, like the first sentence of the summary. The way I read it, only new customers will see the rate increase. So unless you aren't currently a customer you won't be affected.
While as a consumer I'll bemoan paying more, the reality is, to deliver quality content they need to find the price sweet spot. It's still way below the cost of cable TV, so I don't think it will hurt them in the long run.
Yes, it seems like it will mainly benefit shareholders, but with the lack of ads and low price, even after the increase, who can really complain?
From TFS, "Netflix Inc said it intends to raise the monthly subscription price for new customers by $1 or $2 a month..."
Unless my reading comprehension is on the blink, as a current customer, you shouldn't see a rate increase. Yet.
He could also die and have a huge insurance policy. If he did it right, Charliemopps would be first in line before his children & wife, credit cards, etc.
Unlikely. But unless things have changed, no one but the beneficiary can touch a dime of life insurance money.
no one can be called "astronaut" unless they travelled to another star system
Well the Russians really set the bar high then, didn't they?
So all the newspapers of the USA were closed and no TV stations were broadcasting news? Certainly today it would make a strong story - after all we're resurrecting it after all these years; I'm dubious that the fact that the newspapers of New York were shut would be a such a barrier then.
Those were much different times. There were no 24 hour news channels, no internet, and radio was somewhat different then. Print was just about the only place this kind of thing would have showed up. And since most papers were more focused on the city they were based in, it's unlikely it would be reported in another cities paper. Remember, TV news was an hour, at best, in the evening. Even if it would have ended up on the evening news, it would probably have been mentioned in a 30 second bit at best. There wouldn't have been a 2 hour "special report" on it.
In TFA. You might know it as the thing nobody reads before posting comments.
FTFY.
"would be virtually impossible at sea."
Ah, use of those famous last words I see......
It's unsinkable I tell you!
So what about Tsunamis? What if a giant rock or snowball from outerspace hits it at upwards of 17000 miles per hour?
I believe the tsunamis are why it's to be placed several miles off shore in 100 m of water, or more. At least that's what the summary said. As for the others, A giant rock colliding in the ocean, with or without the reactor, is going to be a pretty big problem. That's how we got the gulf of Mexico along with a possible planetary extinction event. You might as well be worried about the devil himself opening up a giant hole in the ground and swallowing the entire city you live in and bringing forth the apocalypse.
See, that's the genius of it! The radiation kills the sea life before it can attach...
Or turns it into a giant rampaging lizard that destroys Tokyo.
No, like Green Jello.
Didn't Jello sue them over the Jello trademark and they changed their name to "Green Jelly"
A 480GB Crucial M500 is slightly cheaper per GB than a 4TB spinning drive right now. I think the 960GB SSD is as well.
Where are you shopping? Crucial M500 480GB $240is $.50 per GB. Seagate 4TB $165 is $.04 per GB.
They were afraid the computers would steal their souls through their tax returns.
Sadly we gave them away for free, in the name of (false) security, not long after September 11, 2001.