Who doesn't keep all their data on a seperate drive these days? I mean yeah I download crap to the desktop to filter later, but anything I might keep for more than 60 days is immediately saved to the D: drive. Virus? No problem, just reinstall windows + specific apps. 2 hours down the drain, but you know your virus problem is nixed. Windows 7 RC expired? Just re-install XP.
Err counties, haha. Blackberry spell check doesn't like the plural of county. The joke being that chicago is more important/renowned than the state (Illinois) it resides in.
Planned neighborhoods are cities designed for rapid growth. See: any LA or Dallas/Houston or Phoenix suburb(s). Plano, TX is probably the most recognizable posterchild claiming to be a "master planned" community. i.e. any house built west of the mississippi since 1980 is likely to be in one.
I'm from Texas and even I'm familiar with the NY metro area being called the tri state area. Indiana got promoted to a state? Did that happen recently? I thought they were a country in Chicago.
Protip: If you check the edits on all the midwest states, you'll notice I'vd added a link in the "see also" section that says "Flyover State", which is latin for "Places that only matter during a presidential election".
I had my card in hand, looking for the local number to switch here in Dallas, but the story doesn't point out that they're only located in the Tri-State (NJ-NY-CT) area. Bummer. Cablevision, do you hear me?
Google Cache used to go back to 2000, but I've noticed in the last six months or so their cache typically only goes back a week, and in some cases as far back as six months. A lot of the older, more obscure stuff, google might have a link to, but the link is dead and the cached version may be incomplete.
They're losing half a billion a year, but how much does the service actually cost to run? 2 billion? Three? If they're making 1.5 or 2.5 billion dollars in revenue then it's not terribly difficult to tighten the screws and make it profitable over the long term. Most businesses lose money the first two years. I think Geocities lived as long as it did because of the name recognition, and Yahoo attempted to (but failed) to convert that community into a loyal group of users who used Yahoo services and ads. I see the connection you're trying to make here but it's a pretty weak link.
Some of us live in cities close to mexico, with a high hispanic population (Austin, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio). Houston's the second largest city in the US. If "only" 1000 people die of this, chances are, 70%+ will be on border states. The neighborhood I live in, near downtown dallas is almost 50% hispanic, and many of them go home at least once a month to mexico to visit family. You might recall, Hong Kong is an island, and most of the people passing through there hardly leave the airport.
Also, who is going to pay for all those flash cards?
I suspect, that in five years' time, 50GB of flash memory will be less costly (or at least under a dollar) in mass quantities. Blu-Ray will probably be The Last Great Optical Media. Whoever writes a song with that title, I want credit in the line notes. Thanks in advance.
The original site of Kramerica Industries. Or something like that. And then there was another page of the animated gif of the guy walking, stops and pees, but tiled on the background with no text. The early internet was the best.
I think the days of bleeding edge CPUs are over for consoles. The cell was an interesting design, but a failure in the marketplace outside of fanbois. The Xbox and Gamecube/Wii are examples that you can throw a PPC (or 3, in microsoft's case) plus whatever the cutting edge GPU technology is at the time at the problem and have a functional console. The rapidly shrinking cost of processors ill probably keep the cost at $300 for the next decade or so. Besides, subsidizing the first 100,000 units isn't a big deal when you plan on ultimately selling 20 million of them over the lifespan of the design. I think even sony is making money on consoles now. Nintendo was able to take half a step back from bleeding edge tech and make a profit immediately.
How much ram can a 286 address? That's an 8 bit processor, right? from wikipedia:
Having a 24-bit address bus, the 286 was able to address up to 16 MB of RAM...As well, there was a performance penalty involved in accessing extended memory from real mode, as noted below.
How many square inches of T-Rex skin do you think 16mb is? Not including the wire frame mesh, or course:)
PSP, on the other hand, sells like shit because there are no good games for it
This, and the hardware is just unappealing. I'm definitely in their core market, the 21-30 bachelor with tons of cash to burn, but
a) I already own a nintendo DS and
b) who gives a flip about a silly single (non-touch) screen gaming device these days?
I remember watching an episode of good eats at quakecon when they first came out (06?), for the novelty of it, but even then the speakers weren't loud enough for the three of us to hear over the din. The PSP is just a black slab of video game console, and like you said, theres nothing really eye opening about the PSP that would make you pick it over the DS except maybe, you already own a DS and feel the need to own both? I think that's really the market sony is after at this point. I honestly hadn't even thought about the PSP in probably 18 months until this article hit slashdot. My 3 year old DS Lite works just fine, thanks.
A couple of years ago there was a/. article about how they were dropping the morse code requirement for the licence. As far as I know (and that's not very far) they're practically handing them out for free these days to get people interested in the hobby to keep the skillset alive.
I'd consider replacing cables exposed to the elements or extreme temperatures (+/- 40 from room temp) every 10 years if you have the budget. Perhaps 2% of your cabling? Drawing from zero experience though.
So in English (im guessing isnt you're first language), what you're saying is that trojan writers will develop a program that allows third world windows 7 cripple edition users to run more than 3 apps, and at the same time install trojans while doing so? Similar to webshots and all those "custom mouse cursor" programs? That's pretty brilliant, and I have zero doubt that it'll happen.
I wouldn't mind paying $50 for the cripple version if it meant I could continue getting service packs legitimately for the next 10 years wo having to worry abour re-downloading a potentially infested iso; if all I had to do was copy over a folder at my convenience. I keep around an old powerbook with a cd-r drive specifically to burn pirated ISOs.
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Who doesn't keep all their data on a seperate drive these days? I mean yeah I download crap to the desktop to filter later, but anything I might keep for more than 60 days is immediately saved to the D: drive. Virus? No problem, just reinstall windows + specific apps. 2 hours down the drain, but you know your virus problem is nixed. Windows 7 RC expired? Just re-install XP.
fp bitches
Err counties, haha. Blackberry spell check doesn't like the plural of county. The joke being that chicago is more important/renowned than the state (Illinois) it resides in.
At least two cable companies are able to service my neighborhood, not including FiOS.
Planned neighborhoods are cities designed for rapid growth. See: any LA or Dallas/Houston or Phoenix suburb(s). Plano, TX is probably the most recognizable posterchild claiming to be a "master planned" community. i.e. any house built west of the mississippi since 1980 is likely to be in one.
I'm from Texas and even I'm familiar with the NY metro area being called the tri state area. Indiana got promoted to a state? Did that happen recently? I thought they were a country in Chicago.
Protip: If you check the edits on all the midwest states, you'll notice I'vd added a link in the "see also" section that says "Flyover State", which is latin for "Places that only matter during a presidential election".
I had my card in hand, looking for the local number to switch here in Dallas, but the story doesn't point out that they're only located in the Tri-State (NJ-NY-CT) area. Bummer. Cablevision, do you hear me?
Google Cache used to go back to 2000, but I've noticed in the last six months or so their cache typically only goes back a week, and in some cases as far back as six months. A lot of the older, more obscure stuff, google might have a link to, but the link is dead and the cached version may be incomplete.
This is what happens when you put a woman in charge. Look at what happened to HP after Carly Fiona. +10 flamebait, but you know it's true.
I think the kimichi diode page was hosted on geocities. Theres only one page about this phenomenon left on the internet left, sadly.
They're losing half a billion a year, but how much does the service actually cost to run? 2 billion? Three? If they're making 1.5 or 2.5 billion dollars in revenue then it's not terribly difficult to tighten the screws and make it profitable over the long term. Most businesses lose money the first two years. I think Geocities lived as long as it did because of the name recognition, and Yahoo attempted to (but failed) to convert that community into a loyal group of users who used Yahoo services and ads. I see the connection you're trying to make here but it's a pretty weak link.
Some of us live in cities close to mexico, with a high hispanic population (Austin, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio). Houston's the second largest city in the US. If "only" 1000 people die of this, chances are, 70%+ will be on border states. The neighborhood I live in, near downtown dallas is almost 50% hispanic, and many of them go home at least once a month to mexico to visit family. You might recall, Hong Kong is an island, and most of the people passing through there hardly leave the airport.
I suspect, that in five years' time, 50GB of flash memory will be less costly (or at least under a dollar) in mass quantities. Blu-Ray will probably be The Last Great Optical Media. Whoever writes a song with that title, I want credit in the line notes. Thanks in advance.
Realm/TimesSquare/4350 bay-bee.
The original site of Kramerica Industries. Or something like that. And then there was another page of the animated gif of the guy walking, stops and pees, but tiled on the background with no text. The early internet was the best.
I think even outlook express has had this feature enabled as well, circa 2002 or so.
I think the days of bleeding edge CPUs are over for consoles. The cell was an interesting design, but a failure in the marketplace outside of fanbois. The Xbox and Gamecube/Wii are examples that you can throw a PPC (or 3, in microsoft's case) plus whatever the cutting edge GPU technology is at the time at the problem and have a functional console. The rapidly shrinking cost of processors ill probably keep the cost at $300 for the next decade or so. Besides, subsidizing the first 100,000 units isn't a big deal when you plan on ultimately selling 20 million of them over the lifespan of the design. I think even sony is making money on consoles now. Nintendo was able to take half a step back from bleeding edge tech and make a profit immediately.
How much ram can a 286 address? That's an 8 bit processor, right? from wikipedia:
How many square inches of T-Rex skin do you think 16mb is? Not including the wire frame mesh, or course :)
This, and the hardware is just unappealing. I'm definitely in their core market, the 21-30 bachelor with tons of cash to burn, but
a) I already own a nintendo DS and
b) who gives a flip about a silly single (non-touch) screen gaming device these days?
I remember watching an episode of good eats at quakecon when they first came out (06?), for the novelty of it, but even then the speakers weren't loud enough for the three of us to hear over the din. The PSP is just a black slab of video game console, and like you said, theres nothing really eye opening about the PSP that would make you pick it over the DS except maybe, you already own a DS and feel the need to own both? I think that's really the market sony is after at this point. I honestly hadn't even thought about the PSP in probably 18 months until this article hit slashdot. My 3 year old DS Lite works just fine, thanks.
A couple of years ago there was a /. article about how they were dropping the morse code requirement for the licence. As far as I know (and that's not very far) they're practically handing them out for free these days to get people interested in the hobby to keep the skillset alive.
Rommel, I read your book, you magnificent bastard!
Name that movie, using other obscure movie references. Go.
40F of course. We all know those heathens outside the US aren't worthy of networks better than token ring. Why even bother broach the subject? Sheesh.
I'd consider replacing cables exposed to the elements or extreme temperatures (+/- 40 from room temp) every 10 years if you have the budget. Perhaps 2% of your cabling? Drawing from zero experience though.
This is probably going to be the version (rebranded of course) that'll come preinstalled on netbooks starting in 2010. So its sort of a big deal.
So in English (im guessing isnt you're first language), what you're saying is that trojan writers will develop a program that allows third world windows 7 cripple edition users to run more than 3 apps, and at the same time install trojans while doing so? Similar to webshots and all those "custom mouse cursor" programs? That's pretty brilliant, and I have zero doubt that it'll happen.
I wouldn't mind paying $50 for the cripple version if it meant I could continue getting service packs legitimately for the next 10 years wo having to worry abour re-downloading a potentially infested iso; if all I had to do was copy over a folder at my convenience. I keep around an old powerbook with a cd-r drive specifically to burn pirated ISOs.