Nows a good time to stock up on un drmed CPU's, motherboards, hdd's, ram, cdrw and the rest.
Treated well, and unused until needed, each one should late about 7 or 8 years. Get 10 full computers now, a few thousand cdr's, store them well and they should last until the revolution - or at least your death.
It is worrying, if someone would only think of the children to stop unpatriotic terrorists like this from obviously planning how to cheaply fly a jumbo jet into the side of a large building!
Oh by the way, what's the rest of the world using as their desktop OS & office suite? Couldn't be an AMERICAN product could it? Here's a big fuck-off for ya.
Well, americans doneted a lot of the code, but the OS was initiated by a Finn.
All ads, by my argument, are abusive. Just think how wonderful television could have been if they figured out some other way to fund it back in the day -- but they didn't, so now we have such an abundance of wonderful advertainment.
insightful? What a laod of crap. They did come up with another way of dunding TV back in the day, its called the BBC - no adverts, no product placment, enforce £100 a year.
Do you subscribe to all the websites you go to? Or are you a freeloader?
Oh and to the mods - if you mod me down I've got 47 other points to come back with - and I really dont care.
That's a *really* good deal for them, considering where it's going and how cheap that is. the whole $500,000,000 shebang is somewhere in the region of about 15 cents a mile, about the same as I pay for petrol in the UK.
conversely I had a computer game ($10 game, $15 shipping) arrive here last week no proble. took 2 days from gamestop near dallas. Had 2 copies of the packing list on the outside, didnt get done by customs (landed about 1AM at east mids, was in the exeter depot by 6AM and here by 8AM).
Shipping and handling is not counted for customs, so perhaps £6.70 wasnt worth the vat (£1.20 extra), or perhaps UPS had something to do with it.
Nice of them to put "If seal broken check contents" tape arround the box though:)
well, maybe not steal, but talk to your local radio or tv station, or prodction house, about getting some old equipment, they are usually receptive, as they can write it off for tax (if your school is a charity), and not have costly disposal charges.
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Also worked on the first electronic computer in manchester called "The Baby", I believe.
Wasnt he the one that committed suiide cause he was gay?
Nows a good time to stock up on un drmed CPU's, motherboards, hdd's, ram, cdrw and the rest.
Treated well, and unused until needed, each one should late about 7 or 8 years. Get 10 full computers now, a few thousand cdr's, store them well and they should last until the revolution - or at least your death.
I call shotgun!
That's OK, as long as I'm driving
It's pretty slow today, I cant believe how many people are selling their souls to lucas film, instead of boycotting the evil corporations.
Ho hum. Perhaps that means the mod's'll leave me alone today...
Interesting project.
Wire all the lights to a centralised box, which acts as a keyboard pass through.
I wonder if you could adapt a system to efficently manage networks?
OPerhaps you hsould by some LED's with IPV6 intergrated? That would be pretty cool - if they are available.
It is worrying, if someone would only think of the children to stop unpatriotic terrorists like this from obviously planning how to cheaply fly a jumbo jet into the side of a large building!
Oh by the way, what's the rest of the world using as their desktop OS & office suite? Couldn't be an AMERICAN product could it? Here's a big fuck-off for ya.
Well, americans doneted a lot of the code, but the OS was initiated by a Finn.
The Times is a great paper thats been arround longer then america, this article is from the New York Times
got attacked while my ship was unmanned :)
Damn those kilrathi! Do they have no honor?
I actually like the slashdot big ads, usualy informative, non distracting, great in other words.
It's funny how all the replies list different speeds of light in mph..
Only because everyone's ruler is a different length
Everything is on 2.4GHz, theres not much to go arround though! wireless networking, last le, bluetooth, wireless video senders, cordless phones
Put it all together and none of it will work, except the microwave.
Note: I'm as anonymous for protection from the hipocrats...
really fferreres? really?
All ads, by my argument, are abusive. Just think how wonderful television could have been if they figured out some other way to fund it back in the day -- but they didn't, so now we have such an abundance of wonderful advertainment.
insightful? What a laod of crap. They did come up with another way of dunding TV back in the day, its called the BBC - no adverts, no product placment, enforce £100 a year.
Do you subscribe to all the websites you go to? Or are you a freeloader?
Oh and to the mods - if you mod me down I've got 47 other points to come back with - and I really dont care.
and bingo the users download IE 6
OK, lets say that windows can be sold without all the gunk that it comes with, without breaking netscape.
So What?
Microsoft then sell "Cutdown Windows" for $99.50, and "full windows" for $99.99, with a free upgrade from the "cut down" version for download?
I'm not sure what forcing windows to be modularisable would do to benefit the consumer?
And why dont they do microsoft for bundling msn messanger with XP - easilly removable with a regedit hack.
He gave a 20 minutes spill about how the books should not be read or even given away because the content was copyrighted.
Ahh, this was after the DMCA then, he's just covering his back.
I will be damned if I call anything GNU/Linux or use that damn editor emacs.
emacs is an editor? Never seen that mode, I save 3 letters typing "vi"
Yes, it would be awful if Yahoo got slashdotted, wouldn't it?
Hey, it could be worse, how long to people link to google cache's of the API's in Google Releases an API for Their Database?
But someone might yet post a link to the google cache of his post, just in case!
OK, diseration due in in 18 hours. not started it yet. A quick game of civ 3 before to get me going.
OK disertation due in in 18 minutes, not started it yet. A quick round of quake 3 to get me going.
OK disertation due in in 17 minutes 12 second, not started it yet. Get Stressed.
Strange, the packing note said "customs value is sub total". Sub total was $9.99, then S&H another $15.
"How far is Pluto ? - Is he anywhere near that Europe place I've been hearing so much about lately ?
Well done! You've just hit on how to get funding for a mission to Europa!
That's a *really* good deal for them, considering where it's going and how cheap that is.
the whole $500,000,000 shebang is somewhere in the region of about 15 cents a mile, about the same as I pay for petrol in the UK.
"Hi, we blew all our money on nerf guns and win2k licenses, please help us!"
:rolls eyes in a very obvious way:
Seriously, if you make a bad buisness dcision, then tough titties, dont expect the slashdot crew to help you out
conversely I had a computer game ($10 game, $15 shipping) arrive here last week no proble. took 2 days from gamestop near dallas. Had 2 copies of the packing list on the outside, didnt get done by customs (landed about 1AM at east mids, was in the exeter depot by 6AM and here by 8AM).
:)
Shipping and handling is not counted for customs, so perhaps £6.70 wasnt worth the vat (£1.20 extra), or perhaps UPS had something to do with it.
Nice of them to put "If seal broken check contents" tape arround the box though
If you want to rip on star trek, just come out with spock saving kirk from a fall by stopping him 3 foot above the ground.
Or VOYL Parallax: With the hole in the event horizon and being able to punch your way though
well, maybe not steal, but talk to your local radio or tv station, or prodction house, about getting some old equipment, they are usually receptive, as they can write it off for tax (if your school is a charity), and not have costly disposal charges.