That someone willing to pony up $300 for a domain name is serious about it, and not some luser with a website trying to scam you. Of course, $300 isn't alot of money, but it might help filter out some of the worst bottom feeders.
Speaking as a Windows whore...I'll take MS over that virus posing as software that is Real networks. Install them once...then try to do ANYTHING related to audio that they don't try to get their hooks into. Hate it...I'll take MS "integration" over that POS any day!!! Thus endeth my rant.
Considered getting 20-30 identical PC's, networking them together with a fat pipe out to the net, and letting people game to their hearts content for $X per hour. Then I got to thinking about security, and punks getting out of line when someone takes them to school in the latest FPS. I don't want to be a replacement parent to a bunch of kids, nor do I want to be a truant officer, wondering why my best customers aren't in school.
Then I considered the parents themselves....the people who would be there open to close, dumping their grocery and rent money on Evercrack instead of providing for their families (trust me, video game addiction, while isolated, is real!) I think that would cause me a lot of guilt....bartenders I have known have commented on this...taking money to feed an addiction when they know that other people NEED that money far more than the drinker...I digress....
While 95% of the business would probably fun and educational, the other 5% could be a serious downer to the whole thing. My $0.02 only...
Back when it was Embedded NT. At the time, it was little more than a toy. Although, installing NT onto a Disk On Chip and running it in a totally diskless environment was cool. However, configuration was a royal pain (even when using disk based installs), and getting any app. to work was so close to impossible that you might as well have gone for a full blown NT install. Long story short...yes, Embedded exists...but I wonder how functional it would be, real world, without MS browser being FULLY integrated. Keep tryin' Bill!!
MS would do themselves a HUGE favor but just giving their software to schools. When the government wants to talk anti-trust, they could simply play the school card, and show them that well, yes, maybe we played a little rough...but Johnny can run Windows at no charge in the classroom. "Hans, buubie, I'm your white knight"....and the antitrust charges go away. Get a clue Bill, how much money is enough anyway??
If I could buy a quality MP3 of a song for.25, store it forever, and burn it to my own CD's for personal use, I'd do it. I'd even let them tack on a "protection device" to prevent me from letting others use the copy (of course, no reasonable device yet exists, but all things in time). Instead, @$20 for a CD that all too often contains 50% or more mediocre content. Hmmmm...wonder which plan will eventually win??
"This is exploitation... These networks are raping Africa of half a billion dollars a year."
Just goes to prove, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Europe and the west has kept Africa under one bootheel or another for about 500 years now...happened all the way through the industrial age. Now, at the dawn of the information age....nothings changed.
AOL/BT/WorldCom/all big telcos ought to be ashamed. On the other hand, their stock prices are probably embarresment enough!:)
The year was 1991, and I discovered MUDding via the University's VAX system. My MUD was Genesis, and if anyone was around back then, I was AXL.
We'd stay up til dawn playing (this was TEXT based), crash for a few, then try to do classes. If we could find an open lab on campus and not in the dorm basement, bonus...uninterrupted time.
My grades took a hit, my health took a hit, and all I did was drink and play Genesis. Thankfully, I got a job out of state for the summer with NO net access...that broke my addiction. I tried to go back, but the lure was never the same.
So, when I hear about something like Everquest or Ultima Online, I avoid it, since I KNOW I'd get sucked in, and I have even less time today then I did back then!
I believe the COST in dollars(Pesos, Euros, etc.) of electrolysis (electricity has to be made)to separate H2O does not justify the dollars saved by using H2 instead of more traditional fuels. Again, I may be wrong.
If the H2 is locked up in some other medium other than gas/liquid, the cost associated with extracting it could outweigh the benefit in using it. There's lots of hydrogen all over the planet, but as has been pointed out before, the electrolysis to release the H2 from the H2O takes more energy then is derived from the H2. I hope someone can tell me why this is not the case....the teat that is oil is doing us no favors.
What about when W2K or NT or 95/98, etc. decides to not quite completely clear out of a particular area of memory? Will this plan still flush it out for me??? I hope so...if so...this COULD do alot for Windows stability.
Gator managed to sneak it's way onto my PC with the latest DivX. Can't uninstall Gator without losing DivX. I found an easy workaround...find the gator.exe file (unsure of EXACT name of file), rename it to gator.old. No more Gator starting up with Windows. Bye bye spy.:)
NAS is overkill, until 2 or more PC's want to access the data that is stored. Copying identical data to all PC's in the home isn't all that practical, IMHO. Offloading that storage to the NAS in the basement and sharing it among all is a more elegant solution. Plus, it makes backing up files SOOO much simpler!
Let's face it, home users are going to start needing additional space outside of their desktop PC's in a few years. Music, video, and information will eventually overflow their older PC's, and many people won't want to buy a new PC, yet they'll want 24 hour access to their data.
Anyway...my point, and I do have one, is this: The company that can make an affordable ($200) NAS and make it SIMPLE for ANYONE to use, will succeed. THe cheapest out there (last time I checked) is @$400, and is a paltry 40GB. Sell 100 GB of storage for $200 or less, and people will buy it. I rolled my own NAS for not much more than the cost of a new HDD, but I have mad skillz that the average consumer doesn't (ability to scrounge and build a PC for close to nothing):-).
Lufthansa Business Class lounge (company dime during dotcom heights of glory!)....toilet there was self cleaning. Stand up, flush....the seat rotated while a squeegee sprayed it w. disinfectant and wiped it clean...all ready for the next "user input". Not as high tech as the article's executive platinum premier commode...but for a guy who has crapped in many places (from a hole in the ground all the way to 35,000 feet (not a problem in the 777!)), I was way impressed!!!
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MOXI really excited me. Oh well. Now I guess I'll have to cave in and go buy me a Tivo! I can't wait!:)
LOTR as it was on screen was great, but, still overall a kids/everyone movie. Moving it to R rated, DVD only release will make this the grown up picture that we will all know and love!! THANK YOU PETER!!
Name it Hal. Then I'll start referring to my house as my pod. Then I'll come home everynight, and say "Open the pod bay door Hal!". Then I'll giggle insanely! It'll never ever stop being funny!:)
It's Lucas' story. Jar Jar or no Jar Jar...it's his story to tell. When you raise a bajillion dollars in capital, then you can make and tell your story on the big screen. Until then, STFU.
Either a phone with a long cord, or a wireless headset...confine use of the headset to within the room and you shouldn't have many problems with reception.....you'll be glad for the headset when you spend 3+ hours with someone's Tech Support fixing something...I been there, trust me!
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That someone willing to pony up $300 for a domain name is serious about it, and not some luser with a website trying to scam you. Of course, $300 isn't alot of money, but it might help filter out some of the worst bottom feeders.
Speaking as a Windows whore...I'll take MS over that virus posing as software that is Real networks. Install them once...then try to do ANYTHING related to audio that they don't try to get their hooks into. Hate it...I'll take MS "integration" over that POS any day!!! Thus endeth my rant.
Considered getting 20-30 identical PC's, networking them together with a fat pipe out to the net, and letting people game to their hearts content for $X per hour. Then I got to thinking about security, and punks getting out of line when someone takes them to school in the latest FPS. I don't want to be a replacement parent to a bunch of kids, nor do I want to be a truant officer, wondering why my best customers aren't in school.
Then I considered the parents themselves....the people who would be there open to close, dumping their grocery and rent money on Evercrack instead of providing for their families (trust me, video game addiction, while isolated, is real!) I think that would cause me a lot of guilt....bartenders I have known have commented on this...taking money to feed an addiction when they know that other people NEED that money far more than the drinker...I digress....
While 95% of the business would probably fun and educational, the other 5% could be a serious downer to the whole thing. My $0.02 only...
Back when it was Embedded NT. At the time, it was little more than a toy. Although, installing NT onto a Disk On Chip and running it in a totally diskless environment was cool. However, configuration was a royal pain (even when using disk based installs), and getting any app. to work was so close to impossible that you might as well have gone for a full blown NT install. Long story short...yes, Embedded exists...but I wonder how functional it would be, real world, without MS browser being FULLY integrated. Keep tryin' Bill!!
MS would do themselves a HUGE favor but just giving their software to schools. When the government wants to talk anti-trust, they could simply play the school card, and show them that well, yes, maybe we played a little rough...but Johnny can run Windows at no charge in the classroom. "Hans, buubie, I'm your white knight"....and the antitrust charges go away. Get a clue Bill, how much money is enough anyway??
If I could buy a quality MP3 of a song for .25, store it forever, and burn it to my own CD's for personal use, I'd do it. I'd even let them tack on a "protection device" to prevent me from letting others use the copy (of course, no reasonable device yet exists, but all things in time). Instead, @$20 for a CD that all too often contains 50% or more mediocre content. Hmmmm...wonder which plan will eventually win??
"This is exploitation... These networks are raping Africa of half a billion dollars a year."
:)
Just goes to prove, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Europe and the west has kept Africa under one bootheel or another for about 500 years now...happened all the way through the industrial age. Now, at the dawn of the information age....nothings changed.
AOL/BT/WorldCom/all big telcos ought to be ashamed. On the other hand, their stock prices are probably embarresment enough!
alt.sex.stories.* And see what the results are!! :) What "patterns" might develop? The mind reels!!
The year was 1991, and I discovered MUDding via the University's VAX system. My MUD was Genesis, and if anyone was around back then, I was AXL.
We'd stay up til dawn playing (this was TEXT based), crash for a few, then try to do classes. If we could find an open lab on campus and not in the dorm basement, bonus...uninterrupted time.
My grades took a hit, my health took a hit, and all I did was drink and play Genesis. Thankfully, I got a job out of state for the summer with NO net access...that broke my addiction. I tried to go back, but the lure was never the same.
So, when I hear about something like Everquest or Ultima Online, I avoid it, since I KNOW I'd get sucked in, and I have even less time today then I did back then!
I believe the COST in dollars(Pesos, Euros, etc.) of electrolysis (electricity has to be made)to separate H2O does not justify the dollars saved by using H2 instead of more traditional fuels. Again, I may be wrong.
If the H2 is locked up in some other medium other than gas/liquid, the cost associated with extracting it could outweigh the benefit in using it. There's lots of hydrogen all over the planet, but as has been pointed out before, the electrolysis to release the H2 from the H2O takes more energy then is derived from the H2. I hope someone can tell me why this is not the case....the teat that is oil is doing us no favors.
What about when W2K or NT or 95/98, etc. decides to not quite completely clear out of a particular area of memory? Will this plan still flush it out for me??? I hope so...if so...this COULD do alot for Windows stability.
Just do an Ebay search on either topic...I have pieces of each. Honest. Trust me...I have a positive rating, so you KNOW that I won't screw ya! :)
The government ought to regulate and monitor this somehow!! *NOT!!!*
Gator managed to sneak it's way onto my PC with the latest DivX. Can't uninstall Gator without losing DivX. I found an easy workaround...find the gator.exe file (unsure of EXACT name of file), rename it to gator.old. No more Gator starting up with Windows. Bye bye spy. :)
NAS is overkill, until 2 or more PC's want to access the data that is stored. Copying identical data to all PC's in the home isn't all that practical, IMHO. Offloading that storage to the NAS in the basement and sharing it among all is a more elegant solution. Plus, it makes backing up files SOOO much simpler!
Let's face it, home users are going to start needing additional space outside of their desktop PC's in a few years. Music, video, and information will eventually overflow their older PC's, and many people won't want to buy a new PC, yet they'll want 24 hour access to their data.
:-).
Anyway...my point, and I do have one, is this: The company that can make an affordable ($200) NAS and make it SIMPLE for ANYONE to use, will succeed. THe cheapest out there (last time I checked) is @$400, and is a paltry 40GB. Sell 100 GB of storage for $200 or less, and people will buy it. I rolled my own NAS for not much more than the cost of a new HDD, but I have mad skillz that the average consumer doesn't (ability to scrounge and build a PC for close to nothing)
Too bad they didn't have developers from popular games that still matter. Still...interesting viewpoints.
Lufthansa Business Class lounge (company dime during dotcom heights of glory!)....toilet there was self cleaning. Stand up, flush....the seat rotated while a squeegee sprayed it w. disinfectant and wiped it clean...all ready for the next "user input". Not as high tech as the article's executive platinum premier commode...but for a guy who has crapped in many places (from a hole in the ground all the way to 35,000 feet (not a problem in the 777!)), I was way impressed!!!
MOXI really excited me. Oh well. Now I guess I'll have to cave in and go buy me a Tivo! I can't wait! :)
LOTR as it was on screen was great, but, still overall a kids/everyone movie. Moving it to R rated, DVD only release will make this the grown up picture that we will all know and love!! THANK YOU PETER!!
Add an AGP slot so power users can put in their own video, and this system will own MANY LAN parties. Until then, it's just a cute toy.
Name it Hal. Then I'll start referring to my house as my pod. Then I'll come home everynight, and say "Open the pod bay door Hal!". Then I'll giggle insanely! It'll never ever stop being funny! :)
It's Lucas' story. Jar Jar or no Jar Jar...it's his story to tell. When you raise a bajillion dollars in capital, then you can make and tell your story on the big screen. Until then, STFU.
Either a phone with a long cord, or a wireless headset...confine use of the headset to within the room and you shouldn't have many problems with reception.....you'll be glad for the headset when you spend 3+ hours with someone's Tech Support fixing something...I been there, trust me!