I believe I said RAM, not swap... god only knows how much virtual memory it was hogging. It's not the price of it all that really bothers me (tho that's a part), its the principle of the matter. Why should you be overly bloated for NO reason? Why?!
Indeed. A buddy of mine from work said he installed the beta version of Vista at home. When he fired it up for the first time, he let it load completely and then checked his system resources. With the system completely idle, 620 megs of ram were being used. Don't ask me how it's even possible for an OS to tie up that amount of ram while doing NOTHING, I couldn't tell you. He said the only real changes he saw with this build was the huge resource hogging, the "eye candy", and things are all (dis)organized differently.
This comment brought a single tear to my eyes. Well said, well said.
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Exactly. On the other hand, they might turn on the "emergency" gps locator as well. If you're going to flee the country tho, you might as well ditch your phone or give it to some random person on the street...
I imagine our kids will never get caught "looking" at porn like we once did - being walked in on. With these RFID tags, they'll know exactly where we're at in the house at all times with their nifty little RFID tracking devices and buzzers.
Are you kidding me? Nobody plays PC games online??? Where do you think they came up with Xbox Live? Good lord. I remember waiting 5 minutes for the list of Counter-Strike servers to refresh back in the day, and ending up with a list of 20000+ servers. That's SERVERS, now multiply it by a conservative number of players per server such as 6. That's a LOT of people playing a SINGLE pc game online.
I thought you were kidding at first, but I re-read your comment a few times and if you're joking, its very subtle.
Too cheap? Nah. I've never bought a CD in my life. Never cared enough about music to want to. Had I never discovered MP3s years ago, I might possibly still feel that way. Now I know a few bands that I really like, and if I wasn't in my current financial situation I'd definately have all their cds.
Now that I look at it, yes I find it very disturbing. I can't for the life of me remember what point I was taking a jab at with that statement, but I know I had one at the time...
I gotta stop smokin weed and drinking 3 cups of coffee before work in the mornings.
I'd say most consumer grade firewall applications are incredibly easy to use. I have had friends fire up that one really popular ZoneAlarm or whatever and get it to lockdown their connections, even as they barely know how to install a piece of software. It doesn't get much easier than that.
Then again, once the little popup messages start rolling in, they have a few questions for me, but all in all I'm impressed with the ease of use.
I worked for Time Warner. I heard it mentioned numerous times throughout training that Viacom was the parent company. Maybe I just gave out a coprorate secret. Oops, my bad.
I'm going on an anti-troll meta-moderating session. For the next 10 days I will MM all troll posts as unfair. Ya'll can't seem to understand the difference between trolling, joking, and sarcasm. Cut the shit.
Well we'll just see how smart you are when your car blows up in your FACE! IN YOUR FACE!!! All because you were too smart to discuss the possible dangers.
It was a joke. Obviously they're at the point where the car is safe enough to be TEST drove by living humans. So I should hope they're past the point where the car blows up upon impact. But I found it ironic that someone might pay to be a guinea pig and find out in a real-world situation.
Not everything can be tested in a laboratory or computer model...
Warner Bros, is a part of Time Warner, who is owned by Viacom. Altogether Time Warner is an owner of about 200 companies. I can't even imagine how big Viacom must be.
They could definately put up a good fight against Disney. The two have been rivals for quite some time now, and things only seem to be getting worse between them. This could be interesting.
Either way, they're going to be gobbled up by some gigantic behemoth that will turn them into just another run of the mill 3d-graphic movie crank.
Charge them $500 a month to have the car blow up upon impact and kill the whole family. Sheesh.
I guess I can kinda see the rationale behind charging them, obviously you'd want some honest opinions, but perhaps a better way would've been to start a reality show based on it. You know, find the most wrong with this car and you can win $1,000,000!
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I believe I said RAM, not swap... god only knows how much virtual memory it was hogging. It's not the price of it all that really bothers me (tho that's a part), its the principle of the matter. Why should you be overly bloated for NO reason? Why?!
Indeed. A buddy of mine from work said he installed the beta version of Vista at home. When he fired it up for the first time, he let it load completely and then checked his system resources. With the system completely idle, 620 megs of ram were being used. Don't ask me how it's even possible for an OS to tie up that amount of ram while doing NOTHING, I couldn't tell you. He said the only real changes he saw with this build was the huge resource hogging, the "eye candy", and things are all (dis)organized differently.
No thanks M$. I pass.
This comment brought a single tear to my eyes. Well said, well said.
Exactly. On the other hand, they might turn on the "emergency" gps locator as well. If you're going to flee the country tho, you might as well ditch your phone or give it to some random person on the street...
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Hahaha. That last statement was priceless. Now send me a squeegy to clean off my monitor.
Or run from war over this?
I imagine our kids will never get caught "looking" at porn like we once did - being walked in on. With these RFID tags, they'll know exactly where we're at in the house at all times with their nifty little RFID tracking devices and buzzers.
Lucky little stiffs.
Just because your pins are smaller than my sockets doesn't mean we can't try to make it work...
Embed me please! I want never again to have to manually pay for anything, prove my identity, or set my TiVo to my preferences. Thanks.
Are you kidding me? Nobody plays PC games online??? Where do you think they came up with Xbox Live? Good lord. I remember waiting 5 minutes for the list of Counter-Strike servers to refresh back in the day, and ending up with a list of 20000+ servers. That's SERVERS, now multiply it by a conservative number of players per server such as 6. That's a LOT of people playing a SINGLE pc game online.
I thought you were kidding at first, but I re-read your comment a few times and if you're joking, its very subtle.
Too cheap? Nah. I've never bought a CD in my life. Never cared enough about music to want to. Had I never discovered MP3s years ago, I might possibly still feel that way. Now I know a few bands that I really like, and if I wasn't in my current financial situation I'd definately have all their cds.
Who wants to bet on whether or not this guy studied these apes to prove another theory that sasquatch is for real?
Now that I look at it, yes I find it very disturbing. I can't for the life of me remember what point I was taking a jab at with that statement, but I know I had one at the time...
I gotta stop smokin weed and drinking 3 cups of coffee before work in the mornings.
I would definately recommend GigaNews. Very good news source! NewsHosting is awesome as well, just not quite the retention I like to see.
Hahaha! No kidding. Honestly I can't believe usenet has made it thus far without any major lawsuit news ripping thru the media.
It can only be a matter of time...
I'd say most consumer grade firewall applications are incredibly easy to use. I have had friends fire up that one really popular ZoneAlarm or whatever and get it to lockdown their connections, even as they barely know how to install a piece of software. It doesn't get much easier than that.
Then again, once the little popup messages start rolling in, they have a few questions for me, but all in all I'm impressed with the ease of use.
I worked for Time Warner. I heard it mentioned numerous times throughout training that Viacom was the parent company. Maybe I just gave out a coprorate secret. Oops, my bad.
I'd say that looks like it could be an entry for a Fark Photoshop contest.
I'm going on an anti-troll meta-moderating session. For the next 10 days I will MM all troll posts as unfair. Ya'll can't seem to understand the difference between trolling, joking, and sarcasm. Cut the shit.
THIS IS A TROLL.
Well we'll just see how smart you are when your car blows up in your FACE! IN YOUR FACE!!! All because you were too smart to discuss the possible dangers.
Waaaay too much coffee today.
It was a joke. Obviously they're at the point where the car is safe enough to be TEST drove by living humans. So I should hope they're past the point where the car blows up upon impact. But I found it ironic that someone might pay to be a guinea pig and find out in a real-world situation.
Not everything can be tested in a laboratory or computer model...
Warner Bros, is a part of Time Warner, who is owned by Viacom. Altogether Time Warner is an owner of about 200 companies. I can't even imagine how big Viacom must be.
They could definately put up a good fight against Disney. The two have been rivals for quite some time now, and things only seem to be getting worse between them. This could be interesting.
Either way, they're going to be gobbled up by some gigantic behemoth that will turn them into just another run of the mill 3d-graphic movie crank.
Charge them $500 a month to have the car blow up upon impact and kill the whole family. Sheesh.
I guess I can kinda see the rationale behind charging them, obviously you'd want some honest opinions, but perhaps a better way would've been to start a reality show based on it. You know, find the most wrong with this car and you can win $1,000,000!
*sigh* I hate tv tho.
I wouldn't date myself if I were the last person on Earth.