Pffft. I pulled an SGI IndigoII Extreme out of the trash some years back, complete with 256MB of system memory, and DAT drive--after it had been raining for about 3 days straight. (much to my bewilderment that it was in the trash in the first place)
It was missing the HDD caddy and system disk. It now runs perfectly.
Iv'e also rescued a few sun sparcstations from the rain. I Sold those, though.
As long as it dosen't take a power washer to clean it, it's probably ok. That's my rule.
I think that perhaps he meant spending hours finding and downloading every alternative to IE that exists--in order to find the one that suits you the most. That certianly would take a few hours. Especially for a noob.
Have you ever turned a TV off in a very dark room, when your eyes are ajusted to the darkness (eg not watching the TV)?
Try it sometime. The phosphors do continue to emit light, sometimes long after they have been energized. Of course, this is highly dependant on how much energy the cathode rays put out. TVs with low contrast probably won't have this effect to the extent that others do.
Also, you can use a camera flash. Take the flash unit, and hold it 4-6 inches away from the tube. Close your eyes, so you aren't blinded, and flash it. The TV will continue to glow a fair amount of time after the flash, with more glow in the center, less on the edges.
I wouldn't say that CRTs have no response time, but I'd agree that they have very very little response time (certianly not perceptible during normal use), particullarly when they are highly energized.
Cigarettes are a relatively new thing. Tabacco was traditionally used in pipes, in is raw, dry form, or rolled in it's own leaf (Cigar style) and then usually sparingly. It's not super-adictive, as it hasn't been tampered with by the cig companies, and it's not easily portable, as are cigs..
I think it was one of the kings James that recognized that tobacco was terrible stuff. 1600's, or so.
Sure, I know about all the models you suggested, and they're all quite respectable. Part of what I meant by "not affording one", is even if I did get the money-in some way-to own and maintain a machine such as that (a Ferrari), that I'd certianly go for something a bit more humble (and less resource intensive).
In fact, I'm driving a '90 Audi Quattro Turbo that was giving a non-mechanically inclined lawyer lots of problems. He decided to ditch it and get a Lexus. I got it for $600.
A fuel pump, ignition module, some window motors, door handles, heater motor, and I'm in business. I got to know an Audi junkyard guy, and I got most of that stuff for almost nothing. With 200,000 miles on it, it still runs like a champ! For such a heavy car, it even beats the socks off most cars.
The deals are out there, if you're willing to look (or find them by dumb luck in my case), no doubt. Even more so, if you're willing to put a little elbow greese into it.
Iv'e even got plans to build my own street car from scratch, thanks mostly to dumb luck. I have a v32 Northstar waiting in the shop for some free time (and money) to come around. Got it for free from a GM mechanic's school;)
Yeah, I totally agree on the over-priced part. And that bit about the Porche and the Ferrari... I don't think that was there last I visited. Some premise, anyhow!
Mostly, It's appealing for the drewl factor. Like a Ferrari or a Porche, I don't think I will ever be affording one.
Not only that, but you might start to sound like one of the chipmunks. That's what I would want if I were going to die in a large fireball. 'Least I could laugh about it.
Really, now. You don't want explosive detonation from gasoline. That's a bad thing, and is the reason why high octane fuels are desireable (burns! slower). We want slower burning. It's easier to control.
Ahh, I suppose that is so. I never really understood it that way. I only know that I was trying to run half-life (or something) and that every sign pointed to "Needs a windows install".. Some years back, of course.
Undoubtedly, it would be difficult to keep up with MS in the DirectX area. It's a nightmare to deal with natively.
Right, but last time I tried running a game or something under WINE, it required that I have something from a regular windows install. Chalk one up for Billy G.
Easy. Use a case with a locking front. No grubby fingers to push buttons = no unexpected reboots or CD ejections.
Anyway, a LiveCD won't, and can't be ejected, for obvious reasons, on a drive that supports software locking. The only problem is when someone pushes reset, and the BIOS allows the eject.
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You know, it's not as bad as you would imagine. Knoppix is quite snappy on a decent machine; 1.1Ghz of Duron with 256MBs of RAM is quite sufficient. OpenOffice and Mozilla are about the slowest to load, OpenOffice being very slow; but it's slow on anything short of a supercomputer anyway. Once the programs are in memory, it's little different than a regular Linux machine. Boot times aren't even that bad. KDE is up and running in a reasonable ammount of time, all in all it's quite good.
These machines will do quite well at what they are being billed as: a "Webstation", and the price isn't all that bad either. I think these machines could be really great in places like libraries and schools. Their cost is lower than a traditional PC, and you don't have to worry about idiots breaking the OS with spyware, viruses and misc. garbage.
Hrm, that's interesting. I'll have to research some more. Last time I put any thought to it, these options were not available; I'll admit it's been a long time.
Perhaps I could be a bit more active and promote some reform, but when I say "fight the good fight", morally speaking, I generally mean as unenthusiastically as possible that one can fight. Raah Rah! *Sits back down* Go men go!
You know, I'd be a donor, BUT, I have an idea of how much companies make from processed tissue. It's almost criminal. They get the material for very little cost, process it, and sell it to doctors to use in superfulous operations such as penis enlargment, at HUGE profits, while people who need such tissue for skin grafting can't get it because it's too expensive.
Your body's a virtual goldmine, even after the medically in-demand organs have been harvested.
If I could see to it that my family would get ALL the profit of my tissue sales (ie processed by a non-profit entity), or that my tissues would REALLY go the the people who NEED it, then I'd sign up right now.
I'm at a moral fork in the road, and for the moment, I'm chosing to fight the good fight, even if someone who might get a life-saving organ from my demise misses out.
Well, let's not forget slashdot! I mean,/.'s not the acme of professionalism, but it sure takes a beating.
I can't think of another database that has as many access per second that the slashdot servers have to put up with, on a regular basis. And, it's been working well for a pretty long time now.
If that dosen't say something about MySQL and it's scalibility, then not much can.
Yeah... My WAP 11 was okay, until it started to do the same thing that other people haev complained about. Except, I can't upgrade the firmware on the damn thing. It locks up my win2k box the instant it's plugged in.
What a hunk-o-junk. Wonder if I can take it apart and use the PCMCIA card in it elsewhere. Perhaps setup an old 486 or somesuch to do the same job, as in this story. Like I'm not busy enough anyway.
Regardless of when a law was made, I'm not so confident that it can't be removed, or changed for the worse. After some of the stuff that's passed in earlier years, and the underhanded tactics that some politicians use, I'm just not sure they're always on the lookout for the people.
Well, it's not my idea, obviously. I'm no lawyer or expert in the field. It's some other genius that's responsible for this whole mess.
But, yeah. Apparently the fair use laws will allow shareholders use of copyrighted media in posession of the company. I guess it would work like a photocopier and a book that the company owns. I'd guess that it's in fair use to copy portions of the book and use them seprately.
EULAs in software prohibit this sort of behaviour, so it dosen't apply here. I'm sure they thought of that. Though I don't know and I am mostly full of shit.
Heh, that will be the day: when CD's have a EULA affixed to the outside saying that opening the packaging makes you accept the contract.
I better make some prior art, and patent it. Sharpie. Check. Post-it. Check. EULA. Check.
Anybody who opens this CD has to sign the soul of their firt-born over to me. Whee.
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Not only that, but you don't want to stand next to a magnum shooter, for, um... Other reasons.
.454 Casul. I don't think he would have used it if he knew it was going to dent his backstop ;)
Getting sprayed with hot powder will make just about anyone get out of the way quickly. It's not very fun at all.
But, it is fun going to a range, and having all of the police officers stand behind you in amazement after a few magnum rounds.
Now, what was really amazing was the shop owner's new
Pffft. I pulled an SGI IndigoII Extreme out of the trash some years back, complete with 256MB of system memory, and DAT drive--after it had been raining for about 3 days straight. (much to my bewilderment that it was in the trash in the first place)
It was missing the HDD caddy and system disk. It now runs perfectly.
Iv'e also rescued a few sun sparcstations from the rain. I Sold those, though.
As long as it dosen't take a power washer to clean it, it's probably ok. That's my rule.
I think that perhaps he meant spending hours finding and downloading every alternative to IE that exists--in order to find the one that suits you the most. That certianly would take a few hours. Especially for a noob.
Have you ever turned a TV off in a very dark room, when your eyes are ajusted to the darkness (eg not watching the TV)?
Try it sometime. The phosphors do continue to emit light, sometimes long after they have been energized. Of course, this is highly dependant on how much energy the cathode rays put out. TVs with low contrast probably won't have this effect to the extent that others do.
Also, you can use a camera flash. Take the flash unit, and hold it 4-6 inches away from the tube. Close your eyes, so you aren't blinded, and flash it. The TV will continue to glow a fair amount of time after the flash, with more glow in the center, less on the edges.
I wouldn't say that CRTs have no response time, but I'd agree that they have very very little response time (certianly not perceptible during normal use), particullarly when they are highly energized.
Cigarettes are a relatively new thing. Tabacco was traditionally used in pipes, in is raw, dry form, or rolled in it's own leaf (Cigar style) and then usually sparingly. It's not super-adictive, as it hasn't been tampered with by the cig companies, and it's not easily portable, as are cigs..
I think it was one of the kings James that recognized that tobacco was terrible stuff. 1600's, or so.
Sure, I know about all the models you suggested, and they're all quite respectable. Part of what I meant by "not affording one", is even if I did get the money-in some way-to own and maintain a machine such as that (a Ferrari), that I'd certianly go for something a bit more humble (and less resource intensive).
;)
In fact, I'm driving a '90 Audi Quattro Turbo that was giving a non-mechanically inclined lawyer lots of problems. He decided to ditch it and get a Lexus. I got it for $600.
A fuel pump, ignition module, some window motors, door handles, heater motor, and I'm in business. I got to know an Audi junkyard guy, and I got most of that stuff for almost nothing. With 200,000 miles on it, it still runs like a champ! For such a heavy car, it even beats the socks off most cars.
The deals are out there, if you're willing to look (or find them by dumb luck in my case), no doubt. Even more so, if you're willing to put a little elbow greese into it.
Iv'e even got plans to build my own street car from scratch, thanks mostly to dumb luck. I have a v32 Northstar waiting in the shop for some free time (and money) to come around. Got it for free from a GM mechanic's school
Yeah, I totally agree on the over-priced part. And that bit about the Porche and the Ferrari... I don't think that was there last I visited. Some premise, anyhow!
Mostly, It's appealing for the drewl factor. Like a Ferrari or a Porche, I don't think I will ever be affording one.
I rather like this one... AC Propulsion's tZero Both are battery powered, of course.
Ricer's jaws dropping at something faster than them without a dumb sounding exhaust tip: priceless.
Hydroelectric has it's associated negative aspects, too... Environmental problems, displacement of wildlife, sediment buildup, etc, etc.
IIRC the same basic statement is also in the Solairs liscense, or maybe it was IRIX. Maybe both? Not sure.
Nup, Hydrogen should do it, too. In fact, anything "lighter than air" will do it--higher speed of sound in light gasses.
Don't think I would like to try it, however, for obvious reasons. One spark from a nasal hair, and you're hurtin' for 'certian..
Not only that, but you might start to sound like one of the chipmunks. That's what I would want if I were going to die in a large fireball. 'Least I could laugh about it.
Really, now. You don't want explosive detonation from gasoline. That's a bad thing, and is the reason why high octane fuels are desireable (burns! slower). We want slower burning. It's easier to control.
Ahh, I suppose that is so. I never really understood it that way. I only know that I was trying to run half-life (or something) and that every sign pointed to "Needs a windows install".. Some years back, of course.
Undoubtedly, it would be difficult to keep up with MS in the DirectX area. It's a nightmare to deal with natively.
Right, but last time I tried running a game or something under WINE, it required that I have something from a regular windows install. Chalk one up for Billy G.
Haha. That was great. Makes me hungry for cyber-turkey.
VoIP.. Nahh.. *woosh* *woosh*
Video over IP? Might just catch on.
Easy. Use a case with a locking front. No grubby fingers to push buttons = no unexpected reboots or CD ejections.
Anyway, a LiveCD won't, and can't be ejected, for obvious reasons, on a drive that supports software locking. The only problem is when someone pushes reset, and the BIOS allows the eject.
You know, it's not as bad as you would imagine. Knoppix is quite snappy on a decent machine; 1.1Ghz of Duron with 256MBs of RAM is quite sufficient. OpenOffice and Mozilla are about the slowest to load, OpenOffice being very slow; but it's slow on anything short of a supercomputer anyway. Once the programs are in memory, it's little different than a regular Linux machine. Boot times aren't even that bad. KDE is up and running in a reasonable ammount of time, all in all it's quite good.
These machines will do quite well at what they are being billed as: a "Webstation", and the price isn't all that bad either. I think these machines could be really great in places like libraries and schools. Their cost is lower than a traditional PC, and you don't have to worry about idiots breaking the OS with spyware, viruses and misc. garbage.
Hrm, that's interesting. I'll have to research some more. Last time I put any thought to it, these options were not available; I'll admit it's been a long time.
Perhaps I could be a bit more active and promote some reform, but when I say "fight the good fight", morally speaking, I generally mean as unenthusiastically as possible that one can fight. Raah Rah! *Sits back down* Go men go!
You know, I'd be a donor, BUT, I have an idea of how much companies make from processed tissue. It's almost criminal. They get the material for very little cost, process it, and sell it to doctors to use in superfulous operations such as penis enlargment, at HUGE profits, while people who need such tissue for skin grafting can't get it because it's too expensive.
Your body's a virtual goldmine, even after the medically in-demand organs have been harvested.
If I could see to it that my family would get ALL the profit of my tissue sales (ie processed by a non-profit entity), or that my tissues would REALLY go the the people who NEED it, then I'd sign up right now.
I'm at a moral fork in the road, and for the moment, I'm chosing to fight the good fight, even if someone who might get a life-saving organ from my demise misses out.
Well, let's not forget slashdot! I mean, /.'s not the acme of professionalism, but it sure takes a beating.
I can't think of another database that has as many access per second that the slashdot servers have to put up with, on a regular basis. And, it's been working well for a pretty long time now.
If that dosen't say something about MySQL and it's scalibility, then not much can.
Yeah... My WAP 11 was okay, until it started to do the same thing that other people haev complained about. Except, I can't upgrade the firmware on the damn thing. It locks up my win2k box the instant it's plugged in.
What a hunk-o-junk. Wonder if I can take it apart and use the PCMCIA card in it elsewhere. Perhaps setup an old 486 or somesuch to do the same job, as in this story. Like I'm not busy enough anyway.
Regardless of when a law was made, I'm not so confident that it can't be removed, or changed for the worse. After some of the stuff that's passed in earlier years, and the underhanded tactics that some politicians use, I'm just not sure they're always on the lookout for the people.
Well, it's not my idea, obviously. I'm no lawyer or expert in the field. It's some other genius that's responsible for this whole mess.
But, yeah. Apparently the fair use laws will allow shareholders use of copyrighted media in posession of the company. I guess it would work like a photocopier and a book that the company owns. I'd guess that it's in fair use to copy portions of the book and use them seprately.
EULAs in software prohibit this sort of behaviour, so it dosen't apply here. I'm sure they thought of that. Though I don't know and I am mostly full of shit.
Heh, that will be the day: when CD's have a EULA affixed to the outside saying that opening the packaging makes you accept the contract.
I better make some prior art, and patent it. Sharpie. Check. Post-it. Check. EULA. Check.
Anybody who opens this CD has to sign the soul of their firt-born over to me. Whee.