Not collecting, but my dads first computer (and hence "my" first computer) came with one and I did indeed manage to destroy it. No keyboard after that ever satisfied me. I bought one online for a quite a respectable sum (for a keyboard at least). I ordered 2 and only got one. That's what the JE was about. I wanted one spare.
Some large corporations still have heaps of them. I heard someone saying they wanted to throw them again. Such a waste.
As for a small Model M anecdote: the first project on my first job consisted of replacing a legacy old system for secretaries with a new y2k compliant one. The secretaries all had IBM PS/2 (I think, this was 1999) where they wrote the reports. When the new system was in place they all got very nice NT 4.0 workstations with new keyboards of the "fluffy type" we all know and have today. Pretty much half of the secretaries wanted their old keyboards back. I smiled, and did exactly that.
You heard it here first: secretaries prefer the Model M. If that isn't a seal of approval, I don't know what it is....
I found one in the recycling centre bin last week, but the connector was borked and I'm quite clumsy with the soldering iron. I let it there:-(
I use Firefox 2.0.x at work, because it was what came out when I started working there. At home, I am faithful to the 1.5.x range. Why? Because Firfox 2.0.x is noticable slower, the interface is... let's say, not as good as the FF 1.5.x interface. Even now, when I install Firefox for someone, I'l more likely to take the 1.5.x branch than anything else.
People often step in front of them because they assume a car they can't hear isn't moving.
That's a matter of education. If more of these would be on the road, pedestrians would start to learn. Besides, pedestrians should stay on the sidewalk and only cross the street as pedestrian crossings... where they have the right of way, always. At least in my country.
Oh, and where is the "look left, look right, look left" rule that you should have learnt? Guess, what? You would recognised that a car is closer at the second "look left". Don't need a second "look right" because usually, you can't be run over by a car on the other side of the street. (In the UK, Japan, etc... inverse rule of course...)
True, but if you want to pull down why the EU was created to one slogan, it would be "Never again war, never again famine" (implied: for the member states). That's it... That's why we have that big ass economic union. Sure, you don't notice much of it these days, but subsidized farming is one of the visible remnants of the original idea.
Back in the seventies, we had such amazing things like "Butter Mountains". Now imagine how much biodiesel one could have made of that! Heck, it would have been ideal timing because of the petrolium crisis back in the seventies. Perhaps the tech wasn't there yet.
Just assuming that you're American: don't complain about our subsidies.... Look at home first, okay?
Never complain about history classes. Not only is said that "history is written by the victors", but it is heavily culturally based. I'm not talking about propaganda, just about the focus that you get in school. Now, I have read much more about American history on slashdot than I had at school. I, however, got fed the whole creation of the European Union with all its boring treaties and whatnot. Americans probably get that as a summary "The EU was created in as the ECSC in 1951 and evolved (or Intelligently Designed) from there on". My contemporary history consisted mainly of EU blah-blah, and at least I understand my part of the world thanks to it.
Overlaps are probably in history are the things that happened a real long time ago: pre-historic times, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans. The sole exception would be World War II, which still differs from content. Europeans get the mantra "look how, horrible, horrible, horrible, it was... let's never do that again", Americans get the mantra "Evil Hilter! We, heroes, had to get over there to save the World".
Geography is the same: we got to learn the name of every country of the world and their capital, plus the internal structure of our own country", you do the same (I hope)... The internal structure is just different;-) I expect a Frenchman to know about his Departements, a German to know about his Bunderlander and an American to know about his states. I don't know them, because I'm neither. So don't ask me what the capital of Utah is. I don't know... If you're an American, you should though.
Doesn't this prove his point? Washington DC to Pittsburg is about 100km less than his reference, he was being kind.... A fast train between the two could trump the current train offering and the car offering (because, that is what the train does in Europe... it is simply faster that driving yourself... You can't do 300kmh peaks on the freeway)
So about 2h10m from Washington DC to Pittsburg, how does that sound to you? In a comfortable environment where you can work and don't bother about anything else....
Hmmm, I wasn't aware of that technique.... Still, according to the article the heat need to be dissipated from the absorber. I don't know if you could use a CPU to heat the ammonia mixture, since the CPU needs to be cooled. I guess that using it as a heat source isn't sufficient to cool it.
A new market for cases with built-in refrigerator?;-) If it would work, I think someone would have done it by now...
Hmmmm, I used OpenOffice 2.0 on a P-III 600MHz with 512Meg Ram on Windows XP Pro and it worked just fine. A bit long on the startup, but then I didn't install the Quickstarter. I also had Microsoft Office 2003 on that machine. Not exactly a speed demon either. Oh, that was mainly because I always remove OSA.EXE. Fair is fair... Office without OSA.EXE is slow at startup too.
At work my laptop runs Windows XP with Outlook, Firefox, and Eclipse at the same time and rarely use much more than half a GB
That is only true if you work on small Eclipse projects. Make that a few huge projects, and run a tomcat server on it and you'll burst the 1.4Gig in no time... What you run, is exactly what I run at work, but my usage is around 1.4Gig.... On bootup, Task Manager reports about 200Meg uses, and I'm fairly certain that there is no crap on it.
And in the summer, you can use the heat to powerup a small refrigerator
Can you explain? I don't understand: a refrigerator outputs heat to cool the inside of the refrigerator. That's why the "radiator" at the back of your fridge becomes hot. Inputting heat isn't going to help a refrigerator at all.
Funny, I'm pretty sure that in the first Novell ad, PC says "you've sure grown up fast".... I saw that exactly as a reference to the IBM ad. Of course, I might just be making up things.
Well, so do I... In Dutch, French and German.... but in English it always morphs into Lin-nux. I don't know why, but lee-nucks doesn't work in English.
I never use the Windows Media Player. I download K-Lite Video Codec Pack which includes Media Player Classic. It's miles ahead of what Microsoft offers....
Why is this guy modded Troll? I had the luck of acquiring a PSP for 150€ because a store mislabeled their advertisement. I wouldn't have bought it for 250€, but 150€ was okay.
I have bought some games and by far the best games I played are GTA Liberty City Stories, Sid Meiers Pirates (which really gives me the good retro feel) and Popolocrois which is a kinda weird childish game, but it's fun to play. I also bought Locoroco last weekend, but hadn't had the occasion to play (since Pirates is my main concern now). I've got some car racing games to but they bore me.
Of course, I also own a Game Gear and was convinced of the superiority of the Game Gear when it was competing with the Gameboy. History will tell you that I was wrong.:-(
The only problem with the PSP is the high price. It has become better, and I expect it to drop at 150€ levels soon. That's the only way that Sony can save the PSP... It has to be an impulse buy. (Which the Wii and the DS both are....) Yesterday I was at a store and saw a pile of Wiis and I had to fight myself not to take one... especially because my wife already said that I could buy one if I wanted....
I don't get it either... Had a checking account at age 14 (IIRC). I got a debit card almost as soon as I got a checking account. I had my first credit card before age 17 (I needed one, because I was leaving home for University). True, my dad had to sign a paper that he would come up for eventual debt that I would accumulate.
Needless to say that he never had to pay anything. However, now that I think of it: I still have the very same credit card on the very same account and the paper he signed is still valid. I should contact the bank to cancel that paper, after all I'm 30 now.
I use it to take banking information with me. Certificates, certain codes... I like to have them with me. I'm not exactly scared that anyone wants this information. I use it in case I lose my USB key: anyone finds it, will have a nice USB key that he can format and put his own stuff on. My banking information will not be visible to them. Just call it an insurance;-)
I don't want to sound like an Microsoft advocate, but... all Operating System upgrades are considered a "critical operation". All of them. OS X warns you, Debian GNU/Linux warns you, and OpenBSD most certainly warns you. (Just a small subset of operating systems I know) Upgrades can bork, and the people writing operating systems tell you to backup because they know that the upgrade could bork.
So, no Microsoft doesn't get a free pass.... Neither do any other operating system I know: they warn you and for good reason and it is right to do so. Backup... A USB harddisk isn't that expensive anymore.
True. But I said "if Microsoft had done it right", which implied that they would have to reverse engineer their own convulted code. That's the whole irony: Microsoft set itself in the position everyone else was... documenting the undocumentable. What they did is work around it, by saying "do as that particular program does" without saying what it does because they don't know it themselves.
Actually, if Microsoft would have done it right, both loading and writing would be easy. Imagine Microsoft Word 2007 detecting a Mac Word 5.3 document (binary, evidently) that has odd margin handling. Instead of writing a tag "emulate-word-5-3-mac", it would write "margin="-77,3pt"
If you do this, the output and thus target format would just have the clean information for displaying. No "just do as if you are Word on Mac", but "compensate margins -77,3pt". That this was because it was created on a Mac or that the user specified that, has no importance...
Having used (and still use) HD68, HD50 and DB25.... automatic terminating devices, and non-automatic terminating devices... Heck, I don't think I've seen them all, but it was never hard. End of chain is end of chain and you just need to know if the device is intelligent enough to terminate itself. Our AFGA scanner is not intelligent enough, my good old 1Gig Jaz drive can do it itself (if I recall, it's somewhere in a closet).
It's become friggin hard to get SCSI CD-Rom drives. We had a CD-R (not RW) before anyone and it was a Plextor, SCSI only. Good old times *sigh*
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Not collecting, but my dads first computer (and hence "my" first computer) came with one and I did indeed manage to destroy it. No keyboard after that ever satisfied me. I bought one online for a quite a respectable sum (for a keyboard at least). I ordered 2 and only got one. That's what the JE was about. I wanted one spare.
Some large corporations still have heaps of them. I heard someone saying they wanted to throw them again. Such a waste.
As for a small Model M anecdote: the first project on my first job consisted of replacing a legacy old system for secretaries with a new y2k compliant one. The secretaries all had IBM PS/2 (I think, this was 1999) where they wrote the reports. When the new system was in place they all got very nice NT 4.0 workstations with new keyboards of the "fluffy type" we all know and have today. Pretty much half of the secretaries wanted their old keyboards back. I smiled, and did exactly that.
You heard it here first: secretaries prefer the Model M. If that isn't a seal of approval, I don't know what it is....
I found one in the recycling centre bin last week, but the connector was borked and I'm quite clumsy with the soldering iron. I let it there :-(
Klop? You mean like a IBM Model M? I have one of those on my normal x86 computer. You can still buy them.
Yes, you're not alone....
I use Firefox 2.0.x at work, because it was what came out when I started working there. At home, I am faithful to the 1.5.x range. Why? Because Firfox 2.0.x is noticable slower, the interface is... let's say, not as good as the FF 1.5.x interface. Even now, when I install Firefox for someone, I'l more likely to take the 1.5.x branch than anything else.
I hope that Firefox 3 goes back to the roots...
People often step in front of them because they assume a car they can't hear isn't moving.
That's a matter of education. If more of these would be on the road, pedestrians would start to learn. Besides, pedestrians should stay on the sidewalk and only cross the street as pedestrian crossings... where they have the right of way, always. At least in my country.
Oh, and where is the "look left, look right, look left" rule that you should have learnt? Guess, what? You would recognised that a car is closer at the second "look left". Don't need a second "look right" because usually, you can't be run over by a car on the other side of the street. (In the UK, Japan, etc... inverse rule of course...)
True, but if you want to pull down why the EU was created to one slogan, it would be "Never again war, never again famine" (implied: for the member states). That's it... That's why we have that big ass economic union. Sure, you don't notice much of it these days, but subsidized farming is one of the visible remnants of the original idea.
Back in the seventies, we had such amazing things like "Butter Mountains". Now imagine how much biodiesel one could have made of that! Heck, it would have been ideal timing because of the petrolium crisis back in the seventies. Perhaps the tech wasn't there yet.
Just assuming that you're American: don't complain about our subsidies.... Look at home first, okay?
Never complain about history classes. Not only is said that "history is written by the victors", but it is heavily culturally based. I'm not talking about propaganda, just about the focus that you get in school. Now, I have read much more about American history on slashdot than I had at school. I, however, got fed the whole creation of the European Union with all its boring treaties and whatnot. Americans probably get that as a summary "The EU was created in as the ECSC in 1951 and evolved (or Intelligently Designed) from there on". My contemporary history consisted mainly of EU blah-blah, and at least I understand my part of the world thanks to it.
Overlaps are probably in history are the things that happened a real long time ago: pre-historic times, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans. The sole exception would be World War II, which still differs from content. Europeans get the mantra "look how, horrible, horrible, horrible, it was... let's never do that again", Americans get the mantra "Evil Hilter! We, heroes, had to get over there to save the World".
Geography is the same: we got to learn the name of every country of the world and their capital, plus the internal structure of our own country", you do the same (I hope)... The internal structure is just different ;-) I expect a Frenchman to know about his Departements, a German to know about his Bunderlander and an American to know about his states. I don't know them, because I'm neither. So don't ask me what the capital of Utah is. I don't know... If you're an American, you should though.
Doesn't this prove his point? Washington DC to Pittsburg is about 100km less than his reference, he was being kind.... A fast train between the two could trump the current train offering and the car offering (because, that is what the train does in Europe... it is simply faster that driving yourself... You can't do 300kmh peaks on the freeway)
So about 2h10m from Washington DC to Pittsburg, how does that sound to you? In a comfortable environment where you can work and don't bother about anything else....
Yeah, the Europeans got it...
Hmmm, I wasn't aware of that technique.... Still, according to the article the heat need to be dissipated from the absorber. I don't know if you could use a CPU to heat the ammonia mixture, since the CPU needs to be cooled. I guess that using it as a heat source isn't sufficient to cool it.
A new market for cases with built-in refrigerator? ;-) If it would work, I think someone would have done it by now...
Hmmmm, I used OpenOffice 2.0 on a P-III 600MHz with 512Meg Ram on Windows XP Pro and it worked just fine. A bit long on the startup, but then I didn't install the Quickstarter. I also had Microsoft Office 2003 on that machine. Not exactly a speed demon either. Oh, that was mainly because I always remove OSA.EXE. Fair is fair... Office without OSA.EXE is slow at startup too.
The first thing I typed at the prompt was "keyb sf" and it hangs... Great...
I can use the US layout, that's not it, but I prefer to see the letters on my keyboard when I type.
At work my laptop runs Windows XP with Outlook, Firefox, and Eclipse at the same time and rarely use much more than half a GB
That is only true if you work on small Eclipse projects. Make that a few huge projects, and run a tomcat server on it and you'll burst the 1.4Gig in no time... What you run, is exactly what I run at work, but my usage is around 1.4Gig.... On bootup, Task Manager reports about 200Meg uses, and I'm fairly certain that there is no crap on it.
And in the summer, you can use the heat to powerup a small refrigerator
Can you explain? I don't understand: a refrigerator outputs heat to cool the inside of the refrigerator. That's why the "radiator" at the back of your fridge becomes hot. Inputting heat isn't going to help a refrigerator at all.
Funny, I'm pretty sure that in the first Novell ad, PC says "you've sure grown up fast".... I saw that exactly as a reference to the IBM ad. Of course, I might just be making up things.
Married too, eh? :-(
Well, so do I... In Dutch, French and German.... but in English it always morphs into Lin-nux. I don't know why, but lee-nucks doesn't work in English.
I never use the Windows Media Player. I download K-Lite Video Codec Pack which includes Media Player Classic. It's miles ahead of what Microsoft offers....
Why is this guy modded Troll? I had the luck of acquiring a PSP for 150€ because a store mislabeled their advertisement. I wouldn't have bought it for 250€, but 150€ was okay.
I have bought some games and by far the best games I played are GTA Liberty City Stories, Sid Meiers Pirates (which really gives me the good retro feel) and Popolocrois which is a kinda weird childish game, but it's fun to play. I also bought Locoroco last weekend, but hadn't had the occasion to play (since Pirates is my main concern now). I've got some car racing games to but they bore me.
Of course, I also own a Game Gear and was convinced of the superiority of the Game Gear when it was competing with the Gameboy. History will tell you that I was wrong. :-(
The only problem with the PSP is the high price. It has become better, and I expect it to drop at 150€ levels soon. That's the only way that Sony can save the PSP... It has to be an impulse buy. (Which the Wii and the DS both are....) Yesterday I was at a store and saw a pile of Wiis and I had to fight myself not to take one... especially because my wife already said that I could buy one if I wanted....
I don't get it either... Had a checking account at age 14 (IIRC). I got a debit card almost as soon as I got a checking account. I had my first credit card before age 17 (I needed one, because I was leaving home for University). True, my dad had to sign a paper that he would come up for eventual debt that I would accumulate.
Needless to say that he never had to pay anything. However, now that I think of it: I still have the very same credit card on the very same account and the paper he signed is still valid. I should contact the bank to cancel that paper, after all I'm 30 now.
I use it to take banking information with me. Certificates, certain codes... I like to have them with me. I'm not exactly scared that anyone wants this information. I use it in case I lose my USB key: anyone finds it, will have a nice USB key that he can format and put his own stuff on. My banking information will not be visible to them. Just call it an insurance ;-)
No tin-foil here...
I don't want to sound like an Microsoft advocate, but... all Operating System upgrades are considered a "critical operation". All of them. OS X warns you, Debian GNU/Linux warns you, and OpenBSD most certainly warns you. (Just a small subset of operating systems I know) Upgrades can bork, and the people writing operating systems tell you to backup because they know that the upgrade could bork.
So, no Microsoft doesn't get a free pass.... Neither do any other operating system I know: they warn you and for good reason and it is right to do so. Backup... A USB harddisk isn't that expensive anymore.
This is not reserved to Vista. XP does this too....
True. But I said "if Microsoft had done it right", which implied that they would have to reverse engineer their own convulted code. That's the whole irony: Microsoft set itself in the position everyone else was... documenting the undocumentable. What they did is work around it, by saying "do as that particular program does" without saying what it does because they don't know it themselves.
Actually, if Microsoft would have done it right, both loading and writing would be easy. Imagine Microsoft Word 2007 detecting a Mac Word 5.3 document (binary, evidently) that has odd margin handling. Instead of writing a tag "emulate-word-5-3-mac", it would write "margin="-77,3pt"
If you do this, the output and thus target format would just have the clean information for displaying. No "just do as if you are Word on Mac", but "compensate margins -77,3pt". That this was because it was created on a Mac or that the user specified that, has no importance...
with the only real competition being the WordPerfect suite...
You must be pretty new here. No, and that is not the only one: KOffice, StarOffice, Gnumerus, AbiWord and even Google Documents
Having used (and still use) HD68, HD50 and DB25.... automatic terminating devices, and non-automatic terminating devices... Heck, I don't think I've seen them all, but it was never hard. End of chain is end of chain and you just need to know if the device is intelligent enough to terminate itself. Our AFGA scanner is not intelligent enough, my good old 1Gig Jaz drive can do it itself (if I recall, it's somewhere in a closet).
It's become friggin hard to get SCSI CD-Rom drives. We had a CD-R (not RW) before anyone and it was a Plextor, SCSI only. Good old times *sigh*