On good hardware, Windows 98 (particularly SE) was a pretty stable OS. Much moreso than the poo you ended up with if you tried to get USB working on 95 (even the "USB compatible" 95C release).
They all pale in comparison to 2000 or XP. 2000 was never a home/"normal" user release though, it was the refresh to NT4.
I run a web forum (with admittedly, a very narrow automotive focus) and I find that there is a HUGE volume of knowledge regularly shared. We have the occasional troublemaker, but myself and 3 other moderators can handle the situations easily, and questionable behaviors/users are essentially sent before a democratic panel of the rest of the users to determine what to do with them.
I think the issues come when you have a very general site, which attracts, to be blunt, less intelligent users (my site is >20% engineers among active posters), you slowly push out the worthwhile posters until you're left with nothing but poor grammar and LOLcats. The worse it gets the harder it is to moderate and deal with and the less useful the information becomes.
I found an iPhone 4S on a restroom sink in a restroom a few weeks ago. The only thing I accessed on it was the ownership information, and the phone book to look for a second number for the owner. He had a second cell (maybe business phone?) that he promptly called it on. I met him at my office and handed it back to him.
I did NOT leave it with the attendant at the gas station; after seeing these statistics, I'm glad I didn't as he may not have seen it again. He was somewhat amazed that I would return it; I was somewhat amazed that he would think someone wouldn't. Makes me sad to see his expectations were more realistic than my own.
In a "it's a small world" realization later, it turned out that the gentleman who lost the phone was a friend of mine's father. Had no idea at the time though.
I hear the CEO recently heard about this thing called a "firewall" and is very interested in looking into one. He also heard a rumor about "passwords" and their possibilities for increasing security. Things are a changing at Sony it seems.
What about speaking to a friend or simply fellow patron on the bus? I'm at a loss as to why it is more bothersome to a stranger that a conversation is one way.
I fully agree that being overly loud is annoying regardless, but since you're speaking in absolutes, I figure I might as well join in.
How is this insightful? Are we all Luddites today? This whole argument is akin to saying "people drive like assholes in front of my house, so I jackhammered a hole in the road so that the road is not usable". I'm surprised the government doesn't endorse this, it's very bureaucratic to attempt to resolve one problem by creating another.
Valid points, but it's worth noting that if a prison is unlikely to help reform a person, it either a) makes no sense to send them there or b) makes no sense to ever release them.
I'd be curious how many people left prison worse off than they entered, vs. how many showed improvement.
Also, I'm not saying people don't need to be imprisoned for their crimes, but the whole "well, you go to jail, you get raped, beat up and forced to join a gang" mentality is not helping the situation. Prisons are supposed to REFORM people, not make them worse off, more effective criminals. As a society we should NEVER be okay with people being abused, knowingly subjecting people to that is borderline infraction of the 8th Amendment. Removal of freedom is the intended punishment of a prison; the rest is not supposed to be part of the deal.
I've gone at least 5-6 months without committing a felony, probably nearly as long without committing a misdemeanor. I do admit I've certainly committed several traffic infractions. I guess I must just be a boring person.
I would love to see AMD do this, but honestly, outside of CPU/GPU hybrid tech (they do have a great graphics division after all) I don't see this happening. Honestly, they've never really been able to leapfrog Intel. The times they have had the lead had more to do with Intel missteps than AMD having advanced tech.
I have long been a big AMD fan, I'm just not sure they have the power to stay relevant in the cutting edge. At the moment AMD seems to agree. Perhaps they can keep pushing the midrange stuff though, honestly that's where I (and most people) spend most of my money anyway.
I went to a mix of private and public schools (though, perhaps oddly, I was moved to the public school to take advanced courses, the private school did not offer them). I was in Kindergarten 25 years ago, and by the end of the year I could read on "a 4th grade level" do basic multiplication, and spell better than many adults I know now. This was due about 50/50 to the school and to my parents.
My wife is a Kindergarten teacher now; her students are doing similar math (addition/subtraction with a hint of what multiplication means), as well as learning all 50 states and capitals, the oceans, continents, US presidents, etc. Slightly different from what I learned, but approximately equivalent in difficulty.
I do agree that consistent standards are important, and training children, instead of teaching them, needs to stop. Standardized testing is idiotic and does nothing to prove or disprove the quality of education.
I'm a big fan of leaving Iran the hell alone, but I think it's a bit naive to think that the military benefits of the concrete were not taken into account by them. The same goes for the theory that they are not developing weapons capability. Think about it, if you ran Iran, and a big chunk of the world was unfriendly with you, would you produce weapons that can help you strategically? Would you tell people about them during development?
Tesla stated that because the individual in question had his car unplugged for a prolonged period of time, the battery unit had become damaged and must be replaced at his cost, totaling 41k dollars. The MANUFACTURER stated that the battery was dead after they looked at it.
BTW, with no power, the Tesla will now even allow the wheels to turn, there is no neutral. Pretty brick'ish, if not the conventional meaning.
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On good hardware, Windows 98 (particularly SE) was a pretty stable OS. Much moreso than the poo you ended up with if you tried to get USB working on 95 (even the "USB compatible" 95C release).
They all pale in comparison to 2000 or XP. 2000 was never a home/"normal" user release though, it was the refresh to NT4.
They'll just keep the old version for longer. Windows XP -> Vista is a great case study on this topic. 98 -> ME is another.
I run a web forum (with admittedly, a very narrow automotive focus) and I find that there is a HUGE volume of knowledge regularly shared. We have the occasional troublemaker, but myself and 3 other moderators can handle the situations easily, and questionable behaviors/users are essentially sent before a democratic panel of the rest of the users to determine what to do with them.
I think the issues come when you have a very general site, which attracts, to be blunt, less intelligent users (my site is >20% engineers among active posters), you slowly push out the worthwhile posters until you're left with nothing but poor grammar and LOLcats. The worse it gets the harder it is to moderate and deal with and the less useful the information becomes.
I found an iPhone 4S on a restroom sink in a restroom a few weeks ago. The only thing I accessed on it was the ownership information, and the phone book to look for a second number for the owner. He had a second cell (maybe business phone?) that he promptly called it on. I met him at my office and handed it back to him.
I did NOT leave it with the attendant at the gas station; after seeing these statistics, I'm glad I didn't as he may not have seen it again. He was somewhat amazed that I would return it; I was somewhat amazed that he would think someone wouldn't. Makes me sad to see his expectations were more realistic than my own.
In a "it's a small world" realization later, it turned out that the gentleman who lost the phone was a friend of mine's father. Had no idea at the time though.
I hear the CEO recently heard about this thing called a "firewall" and is very interested in looking into one. He also heard a rumor about "passwords" and their possibilities for increasing security. Things are a changing at Sony it seems.
Troll? Really? Apparently "tongue in cheek" humor is lost on the mods today.
Looks like the corporate conversion of the country is nearing completion.
So, by this metric, the sentient toaster invasion clock is at 20 minutes to midnight.
And who thought this was a reasonable metric?
I may have wasted our hours, but I intended to simply say hours. Ugh, long day.
I have wasted many ours on Fester's Quest. I think it may be impossible.
I have only beaten Battletoads with save states on an emulator. The stupid level with the snakes always stopped me up.
I have landed in Top Gun, maybe 2-3 out of 5000 tries. Never won in Days of Thunder, have beaten Double Dragon though.
What about Boy and his Blob? I could never figure out WHAT to do to beat that game.
Did the rabbit happen to belong to Chuck Norris, or possibly a mutated rat with martial arts skills?
Can you give an example that has equivalent output/density and is not fossil fuel powered?
I think you mean "not ALL medicine is science". Those pesky absolutes have infiltrated far too much of the common vernacular.
What about speaking to a friend or simply fellow patron on the bus? I'm at a loss as to why it is more bothersome to a stranger that a conversation is one way.
I fully agree that being overly loud is annoying regardless, but since you're speaking in absolutes, I figure I might as well join in.
I am 100% positive I've never smoked pot, and that there is none in my car. ;-)
How is this insightful? Are we all Luddites today? This whole argument is akin to saying "people drive like assholes in front of my house, so I jackhammered a hole in the road so that the road is not usable". I'm surprised the government doesn't endorse this, it's very bureaucratic to attempt to resolve one problem by creating another.
Valid points, but it's worth noting that if a prison is unlikely to help reform a person, it either a) makes no sense to send them there or b) makes no sense to ever release them.
I'd be curious how many people left prison worse off than they entered, vs. how many showed improvement.
Also, I'm not saying people don't need to be imprisoned for their crimes, but the whole "well, you go to jail, you get raped, beat up and forced to join a gang" mentality is not helping the situation. Prisons are supposed to REFORM people, not make them worse off, more effective criminals. As a society we should NEVER be okay with people being abused, knowingly subjecting people to that is borderline infraction of the 8th Amendment. Removal of freedom is the intended punishment of a prison; the rest is not supposed to be part of the deal.
Really, not a day without committing a felony?
I've gone at least 5-6 months without committing a felony, probably nearly as long without committing a misdemeanor. I do admit I've certainly committed several traffic infractions. I guess I must just be a boring person.
I would love to see AMD do this, but honestly, outside of CPU/GPU hybrid tech (they do have a great graphics division after all) I don't see this happening. Honestly, they've never really been able to leapfrog Intel. The times they have had the lead had more to do with Intel missteps than AMD having advanced tech.
I have long been a big AMD fan, I'm just not sure they have the power to stay relevant in the cutting edge. At the moment AMD seems to agree. Perhaps they can keep pushing the midrange stuff though, honestly that's where I (and most people) spend most of my money anyway.
I went to a mix of private and public schools (though, perhaps oddly, I was moved to the public school to take advanced courses, the private school did not offer them). I was in Kindergarten 25 years ago, and by the end of the year I could read on "a 4th grade level" do basic multiplication, and spell better than many adults I know now. This was due about 50/50 to the school and to my parents.
My wife is a Kindergarten teacher now; her students are doing similar math (addition/subtraction with a hint of what multiplication means), as well as learning all 50 states and capitals, the oceans, continents, US presidents, etc. Slightly different from what I learned, but approximately equivalent in difficulty.
I do agree that consistent standards are important, and training children, instead of teaching them, needs to stop. Standardized testing is idiotic and does nothing to prove or disprove the quality of education.
...but no concrete evidence
This article is all about the concrete... evidence.
I'm a big fan of leaving Iran the hell alone, but I think it's a bit naive to think that the military benefits of the concrete were not taken into account by them. The same goes for the theory that they are not developing weapons capability. Think about it, if you ran Iran, and a big chunk of the world was unfriendly with you, would you produce weapons that can help you strategically? Would you tell people about them during development?
What good would it to do generate slightly wet fields?
Tesla stated that because the individual in question had his car unplugged for a prolonged period of time, the battery unit had become damaged and must be replaced at his cost, totaling 41k dollars. The MANUFACTURER stated that the battery was dead after they looked at it. BTW, with no power, the Tesla will now even allow the wheels to turn, there is no neutral. Pretty brick'ish, if not the conventional meaning.