How many times can we fit "2560 x 1600 resolution" in a summary? Not that I don't admire the res. My first computer ran 128x48 simulated graphics resolution, or something like that? In black and white? So this is pretty cool but, "desktop" it sort've ain't prepared for.
Oh, right, slashdot is just repeating old news from Reddit again.
That said, "only 11 lightyears away" is worth a good chuckle.
I think I'll remove slashdot from my bookmarks. If I'm really that bored, I can check it after buzzfeed or dilbert or something else just barely less useless.
The C64 had slower hard drives than my cassette tape units. It was based on a CPU that was designed to manage stoplights. Its BASIC was a horrible jumble of random scraps. Trying to disassemble the asm code was a painful exercise, as there were code shifts involved. This one might mean "A", or maybe "green", or "robot symbol".
I had one. I would never recommend it with a straight face, unless I really didn't like you and a sales was riding on it.
Novell Netware did not work "fine". It could fairly reliably lock entire files. If you tried to lock individual records, you were taking your life into your hands. Anything at all might happen, and your file system would be completely screwed. They let that bug slide, somehow, for more than a year.
Thank you so much, Novell. May Adobe pass as you did.
Y'all are missing out on something. There is a SysRq key, generally remembered for... actually, it isn't remembered much at all. BUT, the purpose was to be an intentional out-of-the-way key that did System Requests. AKA, things like reboots and shutdowns.
It has very rarely been used by anyone or anything at all, because neither Microsoft nor IBM ever got around to figuring out why they put this odd key on the keyboard in the first place. It might do something if you have some antiquated KVM switch (keyboard, video, monitor) but, the whole reason for the thing is CTRL-ALT-DEL. It's supposed to do that. It just doesn't.
Meanwhile, they added Windows and Menu keys that almost no one actually knows how to use. They are very modestly useful in bizarre emergencies but, mostly, they serve to get in the way.
Someone ask Gates about the Windows and Menu keys, and what the Caps Lock is even doing on a modern keyboard. HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU NEED TO SHOUT AT PEOPLE IF YOU'RE NOT STILL USING AOL?...you are welcome on my lawn if you bring a beer.
Their ergonomic keyboard was amazing, back when they still made it.
Yes... but unreliable as all Hell. I think I owned about ten of them. They'd randomly short-circuit and go completely dead, or start repeating keys endlessly, or enter "p#z" when you typed "t". I like the layout (which was originally an Apple design, but they dropped it for a hideous chiclet-key setup because "think outside of sanity" or something)... but good Lord, the failure rate was 100% over the course of a year or so.
This is all very interesting but, it's entirely from Fitbit data. Is there any information at all about how reliable this is? Are there similar studies that don't rely on cheap consumer devices?
It's much easier to lose weight when you have a lot of it. Forget "anything that really burns calories", exercise isn't going to help much unless you want to spend four hours a day biking. Forget Atkins. Do count the calories. Have a carrot, some broccoli, lentils, onions... cheap! You can cook up some eggs in about five minutes, or just boil a bunch in advance. I'm 53 and have lost 70 lbs, putting me the category of "slightly overweight".
Presumably, you have to pay to be published because no one is ever going to read a word of it. The idea of publication is that you have readers paying to read, and advertisers paying to reach the readers. It appears that you have no readers and, hence, no advertisers. Paying to be published makes about as much sense as paying to masturbate.
Yeah, no. I used Microsoft's "Natural" keyboards for years. They stole the design from Apple, of course. Oddly, Apple no longer makes them, and went to this antique horrible chiclet design... Apple is so randomly clueless. See "pucky mouse".
While I like the feel of the Microsoft "Natural" keyboard, they self-destruct regularly. I'd go through one or more of them every damned year. They'd start putting out wrong keyszK3x, repeating keyssssssss, or just failing to
I have inherited a wireless Microsoft mouse. It still works. I am fine with that.
This is one of the reasons that Microsoft set Windows Update to be automatic in Windows 10. It makes the OS much safer and generally makes the internet safer as a whole.
Citation needed. I have seen many Windows updates that cause Windows to completely fail to start. This may mean you need to completely reinstall the OS, which is time-consuming and may leave you open to infection the whole time.
If you have used Windows for any length at all, you are quite familiar with the ritual of "download!" "reboot!" "download some more!" "reboot!" (repeat while cursing, gnashing your teeth, ripping your hair out and wailing).
Your program would therefore be done before you'd written it. You can then say, "what a dumb-ass I will have had been." I'll just rewrite it. Oh, I will have did? That's looking pretty good. Let's just...
Seriously. The Government is whining again that it doesn't get enough taxes through tariffs, income, sales taxes, property taxes, death taxes... any money you've ever made has already been taxed a dozen times over, and they'll tax you again when you try to spend it.
Fuck the government and the airhead assholes who support this bullshit. Fuck them with a corkscrew. Never say "we". "We" are not a people, not a country, and "we" don't appreciate having our wages stolen for random bullshit. Fuck off.
Don't fuck Trump supporters. I expect they're easy, but dudes. condoms on and run away.
You may have forgotten my first account. I certainly did, and I didn't record it. But, either come in and have a beer or get the hell off my lawn. I guess you could do both. Show me your I.D., I don't serve kids.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this news was posted everywhere else a day or so back. Slashdot may want to upgrade those 1200-bps modems. I respect the importance that Hayes and U.S. Robotics had 30 years ago, but I don't need another "yesterday's news today" site.
"Editors" like msmash, who barely seem to understand English to begin with, are really not helping. Not that Slashies ever had much of anyone who took the title of "editor" as meaning anything other than as a point on their McDonald's application. I do not wish to disparage the noble Big Mac!
...sigh. Yes, I'll have fries with that but, you know, I'm ordering them from Reddit. Or Buzzfeed. Or Digg, if I have to, I'm not proud. I kind've want my fries now, not tomorrow.
>Sometimes a real dick will perform a much needed public service.
A real dick will, yes, but generally not as a "public" service. Plus, have you ever seen the old Burger King mascot? If that thing has a dick, it would give you nightmares for decades.
Dude. The Microsoft DOS days made me considerable cash on FIXING all of the things that were completely wrong with the existing software. I'd make your EMS or XMS memory look like convenient RAM or a file system. It was a good time to be slicy-sharp in the computer industry. Watch me replace your display code with something that updates instantly. See my telecom code, fax engines, crypto,.ZIP handling, graphics.
Those computers were slow and nasty. They were immense fun and modestly profitable.
These days, I am not so much interested in being "pinball wizard". I'm bored.
It might be prudent to move away from the nuclear reactor but, don't let me interrupt your enjoyment of getting a good... haircut. Just a light trim, extra Brylcreem?
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How many times can we fit "2560 x 1600 resolution" in a summary? Not that I don't admire the res. My first computer ran 128x48 simulated graphics resolution, or something like that? In black and white? So this is pretty cool but, "desktop" it sort've ain't prepared for.
Err, yes, Apple, Google, and Microsoft all rip 30% off your products. Very generous of them, I'm sure. Used to be, a tithe was 10%.
Oh, right, slashdot is just repeating old news from Reddit again.
That said, "only 11 lightyears away" is worth a good chuckle.
I think I'll remove slashdot from my bookmarks. If I'm really that bored, I can check it after buzzfeed or dilbert or something else just barely less useless.
The C64 had slower hard drives than my cassette tape units. It was based on a CPU that was designed to manage stoplights. Its BASIC was a horrible jumble of random scraps. Trying to disassemble the asm code was a painful exercise, as there were code shifts involved. This one might mean "A", or maybe "green", or "robot symbol".
I had one. I would never recommend it with a straight face, unless I really didn't like you and a sales was riding on it.
Novell Netware did not work "fine". It could fairly reliably lock entire files. If you tried to lock individual records, you were taking your life into your hands. Anything at all might happen, and your file system would be completely screwed. They let that bug slide, somehow, for more than a year.
Thank you so much, Novell. May Adobe pass as you did.
Y'all are missing out on something. There is a SysRq key, generally remembered for... actually, it isn't remembered much at all. BUT, the purpose was to be an intentional out-of-the-way key that did System Requests. AKA, things like reboots and shutdowns.
It has very rarely been used by anyone or anything at all, because neither Microsoft nor IBM ever got around to figuring out why they put this odd key on the keyboard in the first place. It might do something if you have some antiquated KVM switch (keyboard, video, monitor) but, the whole reason for the thing is CTRL-ALT-DEL. It's supposed to do that. It just doesn't.
Meanwhile, they added Windows and Menu keys that almost no one actually knows how to use. They are very modestly useful in bizarre emergencies but, mostly, they serve to get in the way.
Someone ask Gates about the Windows and Menu keys, and what the Caps Lock is even doing on a modern keyboard. HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU NEED TO SHOUT AT PEOPLE IF YOU'RE NOT STILL USING AOL? ...you are welcome on my lawn if you bring a beer.
I really don't see this at all. Pournelle was far from a libertarian. He loved the government and regularly schmoozed with the politicians.
Their ergonomic keyboard was amazing, back when they still made it.
Yes... but unreliable as all Hell. I think I owned about ten of them. They'd randomly short-circuit and go completely dead, or start repeating keys endlessly, or enter "p#z" when you typed "t". I like the layout (which was originally an Apple design, but they dropped it for a hideous chiclet-key setup because "think outside of sanity" or something)... but good Lord, the failure rate was 100% over the course of a year or so.
Are we to believe that he shouted out, "Ok, Google, call the sheriff?"
This is all very interesting but, it's entirely from Fitbit data. Is there any information at all about how reliable this is? Are there similar studies that don't rely on cheap consumer devices?
It's much easier to lose weight when you have a lot of it. Forget "anything that really burns calories", exercise isn't going to help much unless you want to spend four hours a day biking. Forget Atkins. Do count the calories. Have a carrot, some broccoli, lentils, onions... cheap! You can cook up some eggs in about five minutes, or just boil a bunch in advance. I'm 53 and have lost 70 lbs, putting me the category of "slightly overweight".
Presumably, you have to pay to be published because no one is ever going to read a word of it. The idea of publication is that you have readers paying to read, and advertisers paying to reach the readers. It appears that you have no readers and, hence, no advertisers. Paying to be published makes about as much sense as paying to masturbate.
Alan... Tourin? ...keep up your study of English as a second language. You'll get there.
Yeah, no. I used Microsoft's "Natural" keyboards for years. They stole the design from Apple, of course. Oddly, Apple no longer makes them, and went to this antique horrible chiclet design... Apple is so randomly clueless. See "pucky mouse".
While I like the feel of the Microsoft "Natural" keyboard, they self-destruct regularly. I'd go through one or more of them every damned year. They'd start putting out wrong keyszK3x, repeating keyssssssss, or just failing to
I have inherited a wireless Microsoft mouse. It still works. I am fine with that.
This is one of the reasons that Microsoft set Windows Update to be automatic in Windows 10. It makes the OS much safer and generally makes the internet safer as a whole.
Citation needed. I have seen many Windows updates that cause Windows to completely fail to start. This may mean you need to completely reinstall the OS, which is time-consuming and may leave you open to infection the whole time.
If you have used Windows for any length at all, you are quite familiar with the ritual of "download!" "reboot!" "download some more!" "reboot!" (repeat while cursing, gnashing your teeth, ripping your hair out and wailing).
Your program would therefore be done before you'd written it. You can then say, "what a dumb-ass I will have had been." I'll just rewrite it. Oh, I will have did? That's looking pretty good. Let's just...
Seriously. The Government is whining again that it doesn't get enough taxes through tariffs, income, sales taxes, property taxes, death taxes... any money you've ever made has already been taxed a dozen times over, and they'll tax you again when you try to spend it.
Fuck the government and the airhead assholes who support this bullshit. Fuck them with a corkscrew. Never say "we". "We" are not a people, not a country, and "we" don't appreciate having our wages stolen for random bullshit. Fuck off.
Don't fuck Trump supporters. I expect they're easy, but dudes. condoms on and run away.
The FAT file system has been coughing blood for 30 years. What's next, support for hard-sectored CP/M floppies?
Does this stupid thing at least acknowledge .ISO files yet? As everything else does?
You may have forgotten my first account. I certainly did, and I didn't record it. But, either come in and have a beer or get the hell off my lawn. I guess you could do both. Show me your I.D., I don't serve kids.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this news was posted everywhere else a day or so back. Slashdot may want to upgrade those 1200-bps modems. I respect the importance that Hayes and U.S. Robotics had 30 years ago, but I don't need another "yesterday's news today" site.
"Editors" like msmash, who barely seem to understand English to begin with, are really not helping. Not that Slashies ever had much of anyone who took the title of "editor" as meaning anything other than as a point on their McDonald's application. I do not wish to disparage the noble Big Mac!
...sigh. Yes, I'll have fries with that but, you know, I'm ordering them from Reddit. Or Buzzfeed. Or Digg, if I have to, I'm not proud. I kind've want my fries now, not tomorrow.
16k, babes. You could get it to 48k with the expansion unit.
>Sometimes a real dick will perform a much needed public service.
A real dick will, yes, but generally not as a "public" service. Plus, have you ever seen the old Burger King mascot? If that thing has a dick, it would give you nightmares for decades.
Dude. The Microsoft DOS days made me considerable cash on FIXING all of the things that were completely wrong with the existing software. I'd make your EMS or XMS memory look like convenient RAM or a file system. It was a good time to be slicy-sharp in the computer industry. Watch me replace your display code with something that updates instantly. See my telecom code, fax engines, crypto, .ZIP handling, graphics.
Those computers were slow and nasty. They were immense fun and modestly profitable.
These days, I am not so much interested in being "pinball wizard". I'm bored.
It might be prudent to move away from the nuclear reactor but, don't let me interrupt your enjoyment of getting a good... haircut. Just a light trim, extra Brylcreem?
>The people who are going to sign up to get prerelease versions of Windows are going to be the more tech savvy crowd...
Really? How do you figure? I'd expect the more tech-savvy crowd to be running Windows 7, if they were stuck with Windows.