I remember the shell burning! Not a very hydrogen-like fire. Look up the film on the net. Very bright yellowish. The hydrogen probably escaped after the shell caught on fire.
CDs are the one thing we should not be recycling. They are easy to recycle. But let the people of the future do it. IMHO In the future, garbage dumps will be archeological gold mines. Bought and sold for millions because of all the non-recycled plastics and metals the future can grab from them.
They will also preserve information about all we did in the 20th. Think about it! Looking through our garbage is the only way to see a honest representation of a people. CDs will be better than newspapers to tell the people of the future, what the hell happened back in the 90s!
We should fill them up with our daily journals and pack them in the garbage. Nude pics of our girlfriends, scans of receipts, email archives, ICQ logs, anything you can think of. Pack them with all of the things TV and Newspapers will not record about our time.
Well I meant some type of small cpu + memory + flashram that I could use for all kinds of things like DNS DHCP masq Quake etc. Think of an Atari 800 with a Duron cpu, 64 megs of memory, Disk On Module.
I could load up anything into the Disk On Module and have something that would survive a hard boot without fans, hard drives, fsck and a lot of power.
The great thing about an Atari is that they have no moving parts, and are low power. The tape can be any stereo tape player as far as I remember, as long as you have the proper serial cable.
I was going to use an old 486/133 w 16m ram for an firewall, but I don't know if having that power supply fan running 24/7 would be a good idea. Rebooting on a floppy is problematic as well. (I guess there is a good use for one of those i-openers after all!) The only good reason to get one of those linksys firewalls IMHO is that they are low power don't need a floppy to reboot.
Is there any cheap alternative for a linux router? A small low power EPROM-able device that could run a Linux router at low power? Something without a fan and a hard drive?
With Intel creating better video, and embedding it into motherboards, what else can *video card* manufacturers do? It's inevitable. Many HP, Compaq, and Dells come with the embedded video already. In no time they will have sound, modem and NIC cards built in! In the shadow of that giant, you'd run for cover too!
Ogg will not replace MP3 if nobody supports it (for fear of lawsuits).
Didn't Stop Diamond RIO from making a MP3 player. They where sued by RIAA and won. If you had to pay for a GIF you would use PNG in a minute. You would find it was technically superior. But only if someone asked you to pay up for GIFs.
Many of the people posting to this story seem to be implying that MS is just plain evil and they will do anything in their power to close up open-source. That is plain and simply not true. MS in a large corporation that is in the business of making $$$$.
What is your definition of evil? Breaking a commandment? Telling a lie? What? Is all fair in Love, War, and Business? What makes you think that making money is not evil. Selling the gold from the mouths of holocaust victims is making $$$$ (Definition of evil--- no Godwin's thanks).
Just making money is not evil, granted, but making money at all costs (usually of others) is evil. Using unfair advantage to win is cowardly. When a person does this it is, but when a multi-billion dollar company does it, it pushes cowardly up to evil.
So what is your definition of evil? Just making $$$ isn't an excuse.
I'm still waiting for the FreeDOS clone of plain and simple DOS. Just being able to fdisk and format a hard drive with free software would be of great use to the used PC people! Considering Microsofts creative licensing schemes. Many old hard drives need to be wipped clean before business will let them be carted off.
There is, quite simply, no good reason for genetic engineering, and many bad ones.
Maybe one day scientists will find out why we are so F*CKING evil to each other. Did god ever solve that one? He is the one who gave us these feelings and motivations, right?
Oh I forgot it wasn't him it was that angel that got away from him that one time. Lucifer? The one he created. The one that he can't control anymore. He is the one that makes us do things, or is it free will? When there are people like Ted Bundy killing people who is responsible? God made Bundy they way he is right? Does god kill people or do murders kill people? What about war? Is it OK for me to kill people in war or is that a sin?
Whoa! That was 10 years of catholic school comming out! Anyway, I know what this will lead to. Bodybuilders the size of trucks, and if you thought woman went too far with breast implants... wait till you see what the guys do with this!
Well, now that computers are "inexpensive", why do we want to move away from personal computers back to terminals? (sure, fancy ones, but terminals nevetheless.)
"Back to terminals" is a load of BS. It is the same load that PDA and wireless sales-people where pushing at PC Expo! They want to be the first ones to support the next big thing. But are PDAs and wireless the next big thing? It may be.... but there is another reason to push new technology.
The reason is: They can't sell anymore of the old technology. Personal Computers are cheap and plentifully. If you set out to compete with Compaq, Dell, IBM, and Sony in this arena be prepared to eat it. The profits from a nice new PC is not what it was in the old days. Competition has cut profits to the bone.
In order to sell you something that they can profit from, they have to sell you something new. Of course Microsoft is going to try to sell you something new. They have 95% of the market! What else can they do, besides go after pirates! That is chasing crumbs for Microsoft (they'll do it though).
Hey Microsoft! What happened to the old idea you were pushing a couple of years ago? About a convergence of TV and PC? Did that go out the windows? I guess so since PC are out this year. So much for your vision of the future.
How about cookie MANGLERS that send back 100K cookies with lots of funky characters (maybe crash their server)? Or cookie swappers that send back cookies to make you look like you surf random sites.
Maybe you could send them some real good virus code and hope that during a scan their virus software goes beserk! It would certainly catch someones eye!
They went through all that trouble to keep the CPU at 4 degrees C? Put the damn thing in a refrigerator. All they are doing is trying to remove the heat from the CPU as fast as they can, not trying to cool the CPU down to -190C. I don't think these guys know anything about science. A metal wire from a heat sink will draw a lot of heat away if you keep one end cold! You of course have to watch out for moisture, but it's better that this science project (train wreck).
whilst the orignal Star Wars trilogy had its appeal at the time
Are you one of the people that thinks Lucas lost it? Guess what. It was a cute little comic book kind of adventure from the start. He hasn't lost anything. Is it just me, or is it sort of weird that they blew up the Death Star twice?
Luke.... LUKE... next time check for big Death Star chunks!
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Your article has too many words. Couldn't you just sum it up in a few sentences?
How about geek web page loyalty?
I remember the shell burning! Not a very hydrogen-like fire. Look up the film on the net. Very bright yellowish. The hydrogen probably escaped after the shell caught on fire.
CDs are the one thing we should not be recycling. They are easy to recycle. But let the people of the future do it. IMHO In the future, garbage dumps will be archeological gold mines. Bought and sold for millions because of all the non-recycled plastics and metals the future can grab from them.
They will also preserve information about all we did in the 20th. Think about it! Looking through our garbage is the only way to see a honest representation of a people. CDs will be better than newspapers to tell the people of the future, what the hell happened back in the 90s!
We should fill them up with our daily journals and pack them in the garbage. Nude pics of our girlfriends, scans of receipts, email archives, ICQ logs, anything you can think of. Pack them with all of the things TV and Newspapers will not record about our time.
Well I meant some type of small cpu + memory + flashram that I could use for all kinds of things like DNS DHCP masq Quake etc. Think of an Atari 800 with a Duron cpu, 64 megs of memory, Disk On Module.
I could load up anything into the Disk On Module and have something that would survive a hard boot without fans, hard drives, fsck and a lot of power.
The great thing about an Atari is that they have no moving parts, and are low power. The tape can be any stereo tape player as far as I remember, as long as you have the proper serial cable.
I was going to use an old 486/133 w 16m ram for an firewall, but I don't know if having that power supply fan running 24/7 would be a good idea. Rebooting on a floppy is problematic as well. (I guess there is a good use for one of those i-openers after all!) The only good reason to get one of those linksys firewalls IMHO is that they are low power don't need a floppy to reboot.
Is there any cheap alternative for a linux router? A small low power EPROM-able device that could run a Linux router at low power? Something without a fan and a hard drive?
Funny you mentioned Intel.
With Intel creating better video, and embedding it into motherboards, what else can *video card* manufacturers do? It's inevitable. Many HP, Compaq, and Dells come with the embedded video already. In no time they will have sound, modem and NIC cards built in! In the shadow of that giant, you'd run for cover too!
Are you kidding? Have you seen the estimates Microsoft has made with their products? I think it'll be....
To install Windows 2005:
486/66 CPU (only one, don't try two or more)
150 Mb of Hard Drive space
24 Mb of available RAM (32 Mb suggested)
Didn't Stop Diamond RIO from making a MP3 player. They where sued by RIAA and won. If you had to pay for a GIF you would use PNG in a minute. You would find it was technically superior. But only if someone asked you to pay up for GIFs.
What is your definition of evil? Breaking a commandment? Telling a lie? What? Is all fair in Love, War, and Business? What makes you think that making money is not evil. Selling the gold from the mouths of holocaust victims is making $$$$ (Definition of evil--- no Godwin's thanks).
Just making money is not evil, granted, but making money at all costs (usually of others) is evil. Using unfair advantage to win is cowardly. When a person does this it is, but when a multi-billion dollar company does it, it pushes cowardly up to evil.
So what is your definition of evil? Just making $$$ isn't an excuse.
Just the domain will drive the MPAA crazy! Remember VERIZON registered VERIZONsucks.com so 2600 registered verizonREALLYsucks.com!
useDeCSS.com
iloveDeCSS.com
DeCSStasteslikechicken.com
got 70 bucks?
Today, you can buy the gel in sleeves that fit right over the bulbs.
Yea That's what I need. My eyes hurt after being in the white-blue light from a flurescent. Got any idea where I could order them from?
are you out of you fscking mind? People where protesting got it? This is not illegal! A few idiots broke some windows in a Starbucks.
When you call them riot you might as well call the Boston Tea Party a riot!
I'm still waiting for the FreeDOS clone of plain and simple DOS. Just being able to fdisk and format a hard drive with free software would be of great use to the used PC people! Considering Microsofts creative licensing schemes. Many old hard drives need to be wipped clean before business will let them be carted off.
Didn't we give the Panama Canal back? Maybe I should check again.
The irony is that the "opressive regieme" which you rebelled from in 1776 is more free today than you are now.
Do you mean England? Where have you been?
As long as PGP can't be decrypted, we can shrug our shoulders at stories like this.
Not so fast... Read this!
God gave us free will because that way our love for him will mean something rather than being blind obedience.
What will it mean?
Free will? Blind obedience? What difference does it make to god?
There is, quite simply, no good reason for genetic engineering, and many bad ones.
Maybe one day scientists will find out why we are so F*CKING evil to each other. Did god ever solve that one? He is the one who gave us these feelings and motivations, right?
Oh I forgot it wasn't him it was that angel that got away from him that one time. Lucifer? The one he created. The one that he can't control anymore. He is the one that makes us do things, or is it free will? When there are people like Ted Bundy killing people who is responsible? God made Bundy they way he is right? Does god kill people or do murders kill people? What about war? Is it OK for me to kill people in war or is that a sin?
Whoa! That was 10 years of catholic school comming out!
Anyway, I know what this will lead to. Bodybuilders the size of trucks, and if you thought woman went too far with breast implants... wait till you see what the guys do with this!
I believe this came from HNN (Hacker News Network). www.hackernews.com
Where they got it from I don't know.
In the past, computers were expensive.
Well, now that computers are "inexpensive", why do we want to move away from personal computers back to terminals? (sure, fancy ones, but terminals nevetheless.)
"Back to terminals" is a load of BS. It is the same load that PDA and wireless sales-people where pushing at PC Expo! They want to be the first ones to support the next big thing. But are PDAs and wireless the next big thing? It may be.... but there is another reason to push new technology.
The reason is: They can't sell anymore of the old technology. Personal Computers are cheap and plentifully. If you set out to compete with Compaq, Dell, IBM, and Sony in this arena be prepared to eat it. The profits from a nice new PC is not what it was in the old days. Competition has cut profits to the bone.
In order to sell you something that they can profit from, they have to sell you something new. Of course Microsoft is going to try to sell you something new. They have 95% of the market! What else can they do, besides go after pirates! That is chasing crumbs for Microsoft (they'll do it though).
Hey Microsoft! What happened to the old idea you were pushing a couple of years ago? About a convergence of TV and PC? Did that go out the windows? I guess so since PC are out this year. So much for your vision of the future.
How about cookie MANGLERS that send back 100K cookies with lots of funky characters (maybe crash their server)? Or cookie swappers that send back cookies to make you look like you surf random sites.
Maybe you could send them some real good virus code and hope that during a scan their virus software goes beserk! It would certainly catch someones eye!
They went through all that trouble to keep the CPU at 4 degrees C? Put the damn thing in a refrigerator. All they are doing is trying to remove the heat from the CPU as fast as they can, not trying to cool the CPU down to -190C. I don't think these guys know anything about science.
A metal wire from a heat sink will draw a lot of heat away if you keep one end cold! You of course have to watch out for moisture, but it's better that this science project (train wreck).
Are you one of the people that thinks Lucas lost it? Guess what. It was a cute little comic book kind of adventure from the start. He hasn't lost anything. Is it just me, or is it sort of weird that they blew up the Death Star twice?
Luke.... LUKE... next time check for big Death Star chunks!