eh just slap a new nic in it, it will go for another decade, its not like your site is overly complicated, and it works fine (well it used to work fine)
while your in there pop a new coin cell in it, dont want the next update to be "stupid CR2032 shat out its guts and ate the traces off the motherboard"
There was 2 crashes, arcade and console (3 if you count cheap ass useless computers), game prices have not really risen all that much, colecovision games used to cost me 30-40 bucks in early 80's dollars, Genesis games 40-50 bucks etc, so they have risen a little while your money is worth a fraction of what it was.
Finally, Nintendo was a part of the problem, they made pretty forgettable arcade games outside of a couple of major hits, ballon fight or joust? who gives a shit Im gonna play turbo, and they didnt just shit out a home console in less than a year after the console crash, a little earlier they might have been in the same boat as everyone else, same with sega, though they had 2 pre master-system consoles out by that time, they were pretty localized which reduces their risk in that situation.
yea same, the first few min of a movie on a protector I sorta catch a little flicker (especially if there is a fast moving panoramic shot) which screws with my eyes, but its only temporary
what you actually use that? its kind of ironic that you change the default on a default... I was honestly surprised when a co-worker fired up IE 9 on my computer while I was away, I sat there for a brief moment and thought someone installed firefox 3!
see this is what I dont understand about business at that level, EVEN IF bing is a 2 billion dollar a year money pit (which I seriously doubt) why not cut it? Its not like companies have cut products before, it happens all the time..
But in the computer industry there is this HUGE factor of pride of being 100% right 100% of the time no matter the cost. Shit happens, cost go over, nothing is perfect, but for fuck sake at some point its time to kill the white elephant that consumes too much and only produces shit.
So what Microsoft, you renamed MSN to BING and bundled a bunch of crap into LIVE, no one used it, no one uses it, when do you actually look at whats happening... its only been 20 fucking years of the same bleh
The Apple Restaurant #1 seller is simply a whopper in a new wrapper that will only cost you 14.99 + tax + applecare with no pickles or onions to spare you any chance of heartburn, and any modifications must be approved by the CEO, but may be revoked later
have you seen the documentary on developing watson? it seems very smart in a very specific focus, but in the end it could not tell you its ass from a hole in the ground. its a very high speed database search on common phrases, not intelligence
and as far as the ops center? ohh increase number of LCD screen = better right? I invite you to look into LA's command center, or maybe NYC or any other grade A state of the art traffic center in the last 20 years, fuck my city of just over a million has more than three god damned helicopters, whats the news?
dont take this the wrong way but you should upgrade windows when you get a chance
its not security, or the impending doom of XP, its not XYZ os being better IMO, its one simple thing
moving past directX 9, dx9 is an artificial limit to windows XP microsoft conned into vista, but really 10+ is night and day faster and you get some slightly better shader effects
as a AC points out below your also sucking up sediment more often, though there is a balance... I am just under a quater tank guy, and only right before I get home, that way the chunks of rubber pig, dirt, and general old rotten pipe/tank shit has time to settle down before I drive off in the morning.
depends on how bad they fuck it up. on my old HTC windows mobile phone the battery icon is totally empty when there is 30% power left when looking at the number in a buried menu
50% full really means 80% full
dumb crap like that is what makes our world a worse place... seriously there is more than 100 pixels worth of width on the screen (over 2x that on this tiny screen) but they cant display a gauge as an icon... amazingly stupid
steam functions under wine now, and really what good is it to me? Great, maybe eventually source engine games will get ported, which makes up 2 games in my library of like 20 games
I feel your pain, Ubuntu went nutty so I switched to mint. Mint 10 just ended support this month, 11 and its implementation of gnome 2 is half broken and 12 uses gnome 3, which is perfect for my 2Ghz AGP workbench machine. Theres mint LXDE, but I dont like LXDE is disjointed as a DM, so I finally settled down on xubuntu (XFCE) runs fine, nice DM, up to date for a while too
drop in and go with what you want from the start instead of fiddling around, I used to be one of those who LOVED playing with linux, but now I am old and grouchy I just want to drop in a disk, have more or less what I want and move on
for me its the install process, the others its 1 disc and its like 90% of what I need already there in record time, debian wants to reach out for every single thing and when you have a shit internet (like I have 1Mbs) just getting a base system installed with a command prompt can turn into a couple hours
I would rather use debian, I am rather fond of it... though I would rather just get an os on the machine and go about whatever it was I wanted to do
its better than baby vomit and brown, or tarnished silver, purple, and charcoal, but yea, if theres one thing Ubuntu does perfectly, its make a fugly theme
87,000$ Windows 2000 computers with a nice acquisition card in a custom box connected to the internet so all the doctors can look smart video conferencing in a dark room filled with LCD screens.
gee willikers your top priorities on an operating system is a theme, icons and fonts! Good thing its open source so that everyone will get a glimpse of the brilliance it takes to make an OS that is perfect in any situation, so you have all this time to piss away making a theme that 90% of the people will change instantly!
- they left something for the owners to do, today you can get ready made software for almost every need, where as then if you needed a simple fucking 4 function calculator you needed to learn programming
- when you turned those computers you were in the programming interface, and with no software you had no other choice
- Personal computers were the magic new things of that decade, people were still cursing it. Nowadays a PC with 16G of RAM and a quad core CPU is "just another" computer and more of a commodity than some bullshit you needed a PHD to operate
- Only a certain segment of nerds loved to build things (like small electronic circuits, small programs) ourselves. Nowadays consumerism has taken everywhere. We just need to pay and buy for them to encroach on our elitism
Listen, I grew up with this batch of 30 year old computers, I love them, and I was inspired by them, but they were not magical boxes of imignation, they were devel boxes of fustration that took damn near 30 years for average people to be fully functional with. And frankly all the knowledge I gained as a child gave me fuck all nothing with modern computers, so what I can pull the zeropage address of a Apple II out of the top of my head, doesn't do me any good past 1990, neither does the programming techniques or basic operations, these computers may have inspired a generation of hard core nerds, but outside of that they had little or nothing in common with modern machines. ASM wont do a kid much good if they cant even make a spreadsheet now.
yea and all Frenchmen smell bad, and all Brittan have bad teeth, and all Germans are shit eating psychopaths, do us all a favor and the next time your on one of your walks, just jump off a bridge
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eh just slap a new nic in it, it will go for another decade, its not like your site is overly complicated, and it works fine (well it used to work fine)
while your in there pop a new coin cell in it, dont want the next update to be "stupid CR2032 shat out its guts and ate the traces off the motherboard"
There was 2 crashes, arcade and console (3 if you count cheap ass useless computers), game prices have not really risen all that much, colecovision games used to cost me 30-40 bucks in early 80's dollars, Genesis games 40-50 bucks etc, so they have risen a little while your money is worth a fraction of what it was.
Finally, Nintendo was a part of the problem, they made pretty forgettable arcade games outside of a couple of major hits, ballon fight or joust? who gives a shit Im gonna play turbo, and they didnt just shit out a home console in less than a year after the console crash, a little earlier they might have been in the same boat as everyone else, same with sega, though they had 2 pre master-system consoles out by that time, they were pretty localized which reduces their risk in that situation.
yea same, the first few min of a movie on a protector I sorta catch a little flicker (especially if there is a fast moving panoramic shot) which screws with my eyes, but its only temporary
anoyone else thats not shoving their 1970's final fight and latest publicity stunt as a sales pitch
what you actually use that? its kind of ironic that you change the default on a default ... I was honestly surprised when a co-worker fired up IE 9 on my computer while I was away, I sat there for a brief moment and thought someone installed firefox 3!
three fiddy
see this is what I dont understand about business at that level, EVEN IF bing is a 2 billion dollar a year money pit (which I seriously doubt) why not cut it? Its not like companies have cut products before, it happens all the time ..
But in the computer industry there is this HUGE factor of pride of being 100% right 100% of the time no matter the cost. Shit happens, cost go over, nothing is perfect, but for fuck sake at some point its time to kill the white elephant that consumes too much and only produces shit.
So what Microsoft, you renamed MSN to BING and bundled a bunch of crap into LIVE, no one used it, no one uses it, when do you actually look at whats happening ... its only been 20 fucking years of the same bleh
The Apple Restaurant #1 seller is simply a whopper in a new wrapper that will only cost you 14.99 + tax + applecare with no pickles or onions to spare you any chance of heartburn, and any modifications must be approved by the CEO, but may be revoked later
Have it your way!
have you seen the documentary on developing watson? it seems very smart in a very specific focus, but in the end it could not tell you its ass from a hole in the ground. its a very high speed database search on common phrases, not intelligence
and as far as the ops center? ohh increase number of LCD screen = better right? I invite you to look into LA's command center, or maybe NYC or any other grade A state of the art traffic center in the last 20 years, fuck my city of just over a million has more than three god damned helicopters, whats the news?
dont take this the wrong way but you should upgrade windows when you get a chance
its not security, or the impending doom of XP, its not XYZ os being better IMO, its one simple thing
moving past directX 9, dx9 is an artificial limit to windows XP microsoft conned into vista, but really 10+ is night and day faster and you get some slightly better shader effects
think about it ... no rush
as a AC points out below your also sucking up sediment more often, though there is a balance ... I am just under a quater tank guy, and only right before I get home, that way the chunks of rubber pig, dirt, and general old rotten pipe/tank shit has time to settle down before I drive off in the morning.
no, you number a line in basic, making it line number X, your not putting a graph of numbers on a line to represent an analog value
depends on how bad they fuck it up. on my old HTC windows mobile phone the battery icon is totally empty when there is 30% power left when looking at the number in a buried menu
50% full really means 80% full
dumb crap like that is what makes our world a worse place... seriously there is more than 100 pixels worth of width on the screen (over 2x that on this tiny screen) but they cant display a gauge as an icon ... amazingly stupid
steam functions under wine now, and really what good is it to me? Great, maybe eventually source engine games will get ported, which makes up 2 games in my library of like 20 games
I feel your pain, Ubuntu went nutty so I switched to mint. Mint 10 just ended support this month, 11 and its implementation of gnome 2 is half broken and 12 uses gnome 3, which is perfect for my 2Ghz AGP workbench machine. Theres mint LXDE, but I dont like LXDE is disjointed as a DM, so I finally settled down on xubuntu (XFCE) runs fine, nice DM, up to date for a while too
drop in and go with what you want from the start instead of fiddling around, I used to be one of those who LOVED playing with linux, but now I am old and grouchy I just want to drop in a disk, have more or less what I want and move on
+ its a download, see above
for me its the install process, the others its 1 disc and its like 90% of what I need already there in record time, debian wants to reach out for every single thing and when you have a shit internet (like I have 1Mbs) just getting a base system installed with a command prompt can turn into a couple hours
I would rather use debian, I am rather fond of it ... though I would rather just get an os on the machine and go about whatever it was I wanted to do
its better than baby vomit and brown, or tarnished silver, purple, and charcoal, but yea, if theres one thing Ubuntu does perfectly, its make a fugly theme
87,000$ Windows 2000 computers with a nice acquisition card in a custom box connected to the internet so all the doctors can look smart video conferencing in a dark room filled with LCD screens.
save yourself the time and just install xubuntu (XFCE)
gee willikers your top priorities on an operating system is a theme, icons and fonts! Good thing its open source so that everyone will get a glimpse of the brilliance it takes to make an OS that is perfect in any situation, so you have all this time to piss away making a theme that 90% of the people will change instantly!
who says it wasnt tracked the whole 3 seconds it came into our range and blew up?
LYCOS FOREVER!
The bad thing about those computers was that
- they left something for the owners to do, today you can get ready made software for almost every need, where as then if you needed a simple fucking 4 function calculator you needed to learn programming
- when you turned those computers you were in the programming interface, and with no software you had no other choice
- Personal computers were the magic new things of that decade, people were still cursing it. Nowadays a PC with 16G of RAM and a quad core CPU is "just another" computer and more of a commodity than some bullshit you needed a PHD to operate
- Only a certain segment of nerds loved to build things (like small electronic circuits, small programs) ourselves. Nowadays consumerism has taken everywhere. We just need to pay and buy for them to encroach on our elitism
Listen, I grew up with this batch of 30 year old computers, I love them, and I was inspired by them, but they were not magical boxes of imignation, they were devel boxes of fustration that took damn near 30 years for average people to be fully functional with. And frankly all the knowledge I gained as a child gave me fuck all nothing with modern computers, so what I can pull the zeropage address of a Apple II out of the top of my head, doesn't do me any good past 1990, neither does the programming techniques or basic operations, these computers may have inspired a generation of hard core nerds, but outside of that they had little or nothing in common with modern machines. ASM wont do a kid much good if they cant even make a spreadsheet now.
yea and all Frenchmen smell bad, and all Brittan have bad teeth, and all Germans are shit eating psychopaths, do us all a favor and the next time your on one of your walks, just jump off a bridge