We used to use mylar tape for our "archival" stuff. Tougher than hell. In fact, you couldn't tear it with your bare hands. As for a reader: eBay. I just looked and found two for sale right now.
I've now got a subscription to MSDN Universal, which gets me any Microsoft product in which I've got a remote interest. What the hell good does it do me to get a voucher for products I already get? These voucher settlements ought to be outlawed (or, alternatively, the plaintiff's lawyers ought to be paid in kind with whatever their 'clients' get paid. Let the shysters eat vouchers with the rest of us if they're so great.)
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Atkins is dead
Well, a few more words are necessary: slipped on an icy walk.
The gym I go to has treadmills, stairmashers, oval running things, etc. in a big room with four big televisions (sound off, broadcasts on different FM radio channels, captions on), so if you want to watch TV to keep your mind off how boring running is or distract the internal monkey-chatter with external monkey-chatter, you can.
I'd find a computer with a broadband connection infinitely more distracting than television. I can get so wrapped up in web surfing that hours can go by.
The most common example being that of making you think you all have the right to bare arms, when really your constitution gives the states the right to form militias.
I have bare arms right now, fuzzbrain. Maybe people would take more notice of your regurgitated Handgun Control Inc. talking points if you weren't so easily outsmarted by homophones.
Symantec was already on my feces list for somehow giving my email address to spammers (I always create a unique email address for dealing with each vendor, and lo and behold, theirs suddenly started being used to sell me Vicodin for enlarging my home mortgage). This pretty much puts it over the edge for me, and I'll avoid their products now, where possible.
>>If you outlaw guns, only the outlaws will have guns.
>I've always found this perspective absurd. If you outlaw seven-winged dogs, only outlaws will have those.
If you want proof of the statement, look to the UK, which has extremely strict laws banning most ownership of firearms. There, the outlaws ARE the only ones with guns. Even people with great wealth (Madonna comes to mind) are routinely faced with people breaking into their homes, often with the owners in residence, something that's a lot riskier in the U.S. A person of my acquaintance who lives out in the county is frequently awakened by cars pulling up on the road, and her doors and windows rattled by yobbos looking for a quick score. They know by the time she phones the constable and gets him out of bed and out to her place, they'll be gone. There isn't a damned thing she could do if they managed to get inside, since she has no weapons with which to defend herself (and if she did, she'd probably be imprisoned if she injured an attacker, based on some experiences of homeowners in the past).
That reminds me of the 80-something guy who was living on the side of Mount St. Helens. Despite the warnings of scientists, he didn't feel the need to leave, since he'd been there most of his life and nothing had ever happened. Blooie.
Would you really like to see us evolve into a society where all laws are enforced at all times by a "no sparrow falls" all-seeing authority? That's where we're headed, and it's disturbing. The idea of living in such an oppressive world seems to suck the very oxygen out of the air. And to complete the role reversal, I'm pretty right of center.
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Yeah, and people would have gotten to the Moon just as soon if NASA hadn't intervened.
Obviously we wouldn't. And that's because there's no profit in it, nor is it needed to stave off some danger. It's also a complete non sequitur to my point that government doesn't need to take action to move us from the oil age. If oil runs low, or some other technology gives the same benefit at a lower cost, it'll happen. I find that a lot more attractive mechanism than having government decide when to act and what to favor. It's almost never right, and causes an entrenchment of interests that actually inhibit innovation. Look at what's going on with the RIAA: because it can enlist the power of government to help prop up its failing business model, the RIAA is resisting changes that would benefit consumers.
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Ways to break the tyranny of oil are coming into view. Governments need to promote them."
Did governments need to promote the alternatives to stone? A thing whose time has come shouldn't need "help". In fact, I'd argue that having government in your corner is often the worst thing that could happen.
Are the Google French servers even located in France? If so, perhaps they should be moved out of the country and the French told to kiss Google's derriere.
I'm an athiest, but I think people who devote themselves to removing every reference to God in public life need to get a life of their own. I'm presented daily with things offensive to me, and I suck it up and move on in a live-and-let-live philosophy. I'm getting increasingly tired of people who feel it's their place to expunge references to the Almighty from every venue, except presumably the privacy of one's home, where worship can be treated like some shameful secret. A reference to God doesn't entitle me to supress public speech any more than those references to The Environment (which I take to be essentially "Mother Gaea" worship in quasi-secular form). How about we also accord the religious people some of that "tolerance" we hear so much about?
Coincidentally, I re-upgraded my original Tivo (yes, I'm a two-Tivo owner!) to a single Maxtor 120 after it started acting sick. Man is it quiet in comparison. I think my original 80Gb IBM upgrade drive put a permanent notch in my hearing acuity somewhere around the 4 KHz frequency. What's amazing is that I put up with that for 3 years. Surprising what you can get used to.
Well, I'd like to put one in my Tivo. I'm building up quite a collection of concerts off of Direct TV's free channel.
Unfortunately, Tivos can't make use of all the space on drives this big. I think Linux limits the usable space on a single drive to @160Gb unless something has changed. Maybe you could partition a 300 and trick Tivo into thinking it's two drives; that'd be something to research. The Tivo seems to slow down quite a bit too, when it has that much space to deal with. I upgraded my DirecTV Tivo to twin 120Gb drives, and there are now long pauses in the menus at times.
Or, get a Firewire-equipped external case for the drive itself. That's what I've done in the past, and it seems to work fine (although I've never compared the speed to an in-the-case drive, so maybe that suffers).
If the DNC list is so difficult to get, why not convert your telemarketing business into one that calls up other tlemarketers, preferably after 5 pm, and sells them the DNC list? Two birds with one stone: one less telemarketing company pestering me, and a valuable service to your fellow telemarketers. High fives!
Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC, he could end up an MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP.
Then I guess you're going to hate thin clients [twindata.com] and blade servers [bioteam.net] then.
No. What do I care where the computing is happening as long as I can control it? Back in the Days Of The Mainframe, you had to keypunch your programs (or, in the case of one place I worked, HANDWRITE your program and have a unionized keypunchist punch the damned thing for you), then hand your card deck to the dweeb at the counter, then wait an hour or two to get your printout back. Lather, rinse, repeat. It was a good day when you could get three runs in. I'd rather stick pins in my eyeballs than go back to anything resembling that. Which thin clients aren't.
I think it would depend on whether I continue to run the same apps as in the past. If I were still running Wordstar on today's hardware, it would be going lickety-split. Word does more than I want now, so I see no compelling reason to upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft bloatware in the future. Therefore, I have to think that there's at least the possibility that I'll eventually find the speed adequate. That excludes gaming, though. I can see that chewing up whatever whizzbang improvements come along, and wanting more.
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We used to use mylar tape for our "archival" stuff. Tougher than hell. In fact, you couldn't tear it with your bare hands. As for a reader: eBay. I just looked and found two for sale right now.
I've now got a subscription to MSDN Universal, which gets me any Microsoft product in which I've got a remote interest. What the hell good does it do me to get a voucher for products I already get? These voucher settlements ought to be outlawed (or, alternatively, the plaintiff's lawyers ought to be paid in kind with whatever their 'clients' get paid. Let the shysters eat vouchers with the rest of us if they're so great.)
Well, a few more words are necessary: slipped on an icy walk.
I'd find a computer with a broadband connection infinitely more distracting than television. I can get so wrapped up in web surfing that hours can go by.
Hey, how'd it get dark outside?
I have bare arms right now, fuzzbrain. Maybe people would take more notice of your regurgitated Handgun Control Inc. talking points if you weren't so easily outsmarted by homophones.
Symantec was already on my feces list for somehow giving my email address to spammers (I always create a unique email address for dealing with each vendor, and lo and behold, theirs suddenly started being used to sell me Vicodin for enlarging my home mortgage). This pretty much puts it over the edge for me, and I'll avoid their products now, where possible.
>>If you outlaw guns, only the outlaws will have guns.
>I've always found this perspective absurd. If you outlaw seven-winged dogs, only outlaws will have those.
If you want proof of the statement, look to the UK, which has extremely strict laws banning most ownership of firearms. There, the outlaws ARE the only ones with guns. Even people with great wealth (Madonna comes to mind) are routinely faced with people breaking into their homes, often with the owners in residence, something that's a lot riskier in the U.S. A person of my acquaintance who lives out in the county is frequently awakened by cars pulling up on the road, and her doors and windows rattled by yobbos looking for a quick score. They know by the time she phones the constable and gets him out of bed and out to her place, they'll be gone. There isn't a damned thing she could do if they managed to get inside, since she has no weapons with which to defend herself (and if she did, she'd probably be imprisoned if she injured an attacker, based on some experiences of homeowners in the past).
That reminds me of the 80-something guy who was living on the side of Mount St. Helens. Despite the warnings of scientists, he didn't feel the need to leave, since he'd been there most of his life and nothing had ever happened. Blooie.
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Would you really like to see us evolve into a society where all laws are enforced at all times by a "no sparrow falls" all-seeing authority? That's where we're headed, and it's disturbing. The idea of living in such an oppressive world seems to suck the very oxygen out of the air. And to complete the role reversal, I'm pretty right of center.
Obviously we wouldn't. And that's because there's no profit in it, nor is it needed to stave off some danger. It's also a complete non sequitur to my point that government doesn't need to take action to move us from the oil age. If oil runs low, or some other technology gives the same benefit at a lower cost, it'll happen. I find that a lot more attractive mechanism than having government decide when to act and what to favor. It's almost never right, and causes an entrenchment of interests that actually inhibit innovation. Look at what's going on with the RIAA: because it can enlist the power of government to help prop up its failing business model, the RIAA is resisting changes that would benefit consumers.
Did governments need to promote the alternatives to stone? A thing whose time has come shouldn't need "help". In fact, I'd argue that having government in your corner is often the worst thing that could happen.
Poor babies, did I insult you?
Are the Google French servers even located in France? If so, perhaps they should be moved out of the country and the French told to kiss Google's derriere.
I'm an athiest, but I think people who devote themselves to removing every reference to God in public life need to get a life of their own. I'm presented daily with things offensive to me, and I suck it up and move on in a live-and-let-live philosophy. I'm getting increasingly tired of people who feel it's their place to expunge references to the Almighty from every venue, except presumably the privacy of one's home, where worship can be treated like some shameful secret. A reference to God doesn't entitle me to supress public speech any more than those references to The Environment (which I take to be essentially "Mother Gaea" worship in quasi-secular form). How about we also accord the religious people some of that "tolerance" we hear so much about?
Coincidentally, I re-upgraded my original Tivo (yes, I'm a two-Tivo owner!) to a single Maxtor 120 after it started acting sick. Man is it quiet in comparison. I think my original 80Gb IBM upgrade drive put a permanent notch in my hearing acuity somewhere around the 4 KHz frequency. What's amazing is that I put up with that for 3 years. Surprising what you can get used to.
Unfortunately, Tivos can't make use of all the space on drives this big. I think Linux limits the usable space on a single drive to @160Gb unless something has changed. Maybe you could partition a 300 and trick Tivo into thinking it's two drives; that'd be something to research. The Tivo seems to slow down quite a bit too, when it has that much space to deal with. I upgraded my DirecTV Tivo to twin 120Gb drives, and there are now long pauses in the menus at times.
Or, get a Firewire-equipped external case for the drive itself. That's what I've done in the past, and it seems to work fine (although I've never compared the speed to an in-the-case drive, so maybe that suffers).
If the DNC list is so difficult to get, why not convert your telemarketing business into one that calls up other tlemarketers, preferably after 5 pm, and sells them the DNC list? Two birds with one stone: one less telemarketing company pestering me, and a valuable service to your fellow telemarketers. High fives!
That's not good enough.
Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if
it leaks to the VC, he could end up an MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP.
No. What do I care where the computing is happening as long as I can control it? Back in the Days Of The Mainframe, you had to keypunch your programs (or, in the case of one place I worked, HANDWRITE your program and have a unionized keypunchist punch the damned thing for you), then hand your card deck to the dweeb at the counter, then wait an hour or two to get your printout back. Lather, rinse, repeat. It was a good day when you could get three runs in. I'd rather stick pins in my eyeballs than go back to anything resembling that. Which thin clients aren't.
Console gaming sucks. Give me a PC any day of the week.
I think it would depend on whether I continue to run the same apps as in the past. If I were still running Wordstar on today's hardware, it would be going lickety-split. Word does more than I want now, so I see no compelling reason to upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft bloatware in the future. Therefore, I have to think that there's at least the possibility that I'll eventually find the speed adequate. That excludes gaming, though. I can see that chewing up whatever whizzbang improvements come along, and wanting more.