If you have a 32-bit OS, you can still play Exile III from spiderweb software. It's one of the best RPGs ever made. The story, combat, spell list, writing, and non-annoying puzzles were so far ahead of their time, it's insane.
Yes, like superscript in America. As in above the script. Super has two definitions and that's one of them so it's still the most accurate and similar Latin rooted word and the most appropriate translation.
At Sony it's under qualified foreigners that work for cheap and have no idea what they're doing after Sony lies about needing more foreign visas. Thus, someone can steal 100Tb of data without being detected.
This is the problem with all tablet, cell phone, and all other lithium-based batteries. THEY ALL FAIL! In fact you're lucky if a laptop battery lasts 2 years. I don't know why lithium is so unreliable compared to lead-acid but the whole technology is garbage. Have you ever heard of a lithum-based APC UPS? Of course not! It's like $100-180 to get a legitimate replacement lithium battery for a laptop and it barely lasts 200 recharge cycles if you're lucky.
Elon claims his batteries last 10 years but of course they can't prove it and others say that's just not true. They also lose capacity over time and I do not mean a long period of time. A well made capacitor is rated for 18 years and can technically last 100 years easily. We need 100 year batteries, or at least ones that don't diminish 10% in one year. I don't care if it takes a small shed full of batteries if I don't have to buy replacements for decades.
Not exactly. Maybe for mobile but these days you spend $50 million, hire foreigners to do everything hard, make a deal with McDonalds and Doritos, bribe review companies, launch at midnight, and use early adopters as free beta testers or your game fails.
This is just marketing nonsense. Everyone with a brain knew netbooks were NOT the biggest new thing and a shift in computers. Nobody wanted a laptop that had a higher failure rate, was slower, was harder to type on, and had a miniature screen that nobody could read. They died after about 2 years of being popular. Now every pawn shop is flooded with them.
Smartwatches died after about 5 minutes of pretending to be popular for the same reason. They're neat and cheap and futuristic but OOPS nobody wants them.
As soon as someone's smartfridge is hacked to send spam, their pacemaker is susceptible to getting hacked, and the a bad firmware flash bricks their toaster and someone drives off with their Lexus after 60 seconds of standing near it with a laptop, the alleged Internet of Things will turn back into the internet of actual computers. Oh wait, that last one is happening right now. And Sync is about to be illegal in cars in most states. Come to think of it, Slashdot covered a smartfridge that was hacked to be a spam server. Oh that's right, Dick Cheney had his pacemaker swapped out for a new one because it was susceptible to remote hacking. I'm sure a smart toaster got bricked somewhere too so kiss the IoT goodbye.
This was shortly after the NES and partially Atari completely ruined everything. Companies thought they could put out anything that was vaguely a game, regardless of quality and fun level, and people would buy it. There were more bad Atari games than the NES but still, there were some real tragedies from no-name startup companies that instantly bankrupted them. When the Playstation came out, they enforced better standards and suddenly game makers realized games couldn't suck. This was just in time for the whole world to start considering video games a fad and collapsing the entire market.
So they're calling it the Google tax when Google is actually based in the United States and the law doesn't affect Google in any way. Great choice of names.
I am happy a country finally had the balls to pass a law like this and end the complete nonsense of pretending to be based overseas. Hopefully the US passes it next.
Let's back up about 2 years. Mastercard said they were going to create a bitcoin-backed credit card. Then they pulled out of the project unexpectedly after getting everyone in the community excited about it. So now that bitcoin grew to huge popularity, they get exactly what they deserve for stabbing us in the back.
I thought England was just going to kick them all out of the country. Muslims in England bring back the good old days of the early 1900's in America. People hated the Irish not because of their speech, the color of their skin, or their beliefs. They hated them just because they were culturally unbearable alcohol lazy pieces of shit that beat their wives and couldn't hold down a job and fought everyone. The same goes for muslims. England was all inclusive and friendly and pro-immigrant until they actually had muslims start living there. Discrimination purely based on merit. It's what Martin Luther King dreamed of.
They're about half the price and they have a management back end that's friendly to IT departments. That's all there is to it. Unfortunately, they're cheap, featureless pieces of crap that break constantly due to horribly cheap parts because they're just awful pretend laptops but every school district I know of passes the hardware failure cost onto the kid who "broke" it even if they didn't break it. What a great system.
Are you serious? If you're doing something, the CPU usage is maxed. If you're doing nothing, it's at a low multiplier and low effective speed. So no, you can't do nothing at half the speed but you can do something at half the speed. By the way, the lowest power state isn't really any better than the pentium before it. It's the peak power usage they improved.
Photons emitted in the direction the star is moving cannot be moving at the speed of light plus the speed of the star. They then take off with less energy. Explain that.
By "close" to the speed of light, they mean not even close to the speed of light. To accelerate a standard US space shuttle to 99.99999% light speed would take nearly all the energy in the entire universe. A star is a bit bigger.
I suck a physics but photons emitted in the same direction as the star would slow it down and ones on the back would propel it but since it's already moving and the speed of light doesn't change, there would be a net slowdown from the photons on the "front" end and the star would gradually slow down, right?
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If you have a 32-bit OS, you can still play Exile III from spiderweb software. It's one of the best RPGs ever made. The story, combat, spell list, writing, and non-annoying puzzles were so far ahead of their time, it's insane.
I'm so glad NASA is concerned about my health but I'm worried they may find out that I'm an alien.
They turn the damn power plant down and feed it less fuel which costs less money. I call massive bullshit on this one.
Look at the sales numbers of Office 365 and then fire whoever's idea this was. I'm not paying $1000 a seat over 10 years for MS fucking Office.
Yes, like superscript in America. As in above the script. Super has two definitions and that's one of them so it's still the most accurate and similar Latin rooted word and the most appropriate translation.
Nobody copy the name Ayquarterber. I'm naming my next company after it.
Uber. It means super in German. That's misleading. It should be called Rides with Strangers Without Background Checks.
A hotel in Thailand? I guess those in-room movies are really expensive after all if they have to hack Sony to get pre-release movies.
At Sony it's under qualified foreigners that work for cheap and have no idea what they're doing after Sony lies about needing more foreign visas. Thus, someone can steal 100Tb of data without being detected.
This is the problem with all tablet, cell phone, and all other lithium-based batteries. THEY ALL FAIL! In fact you're lucky if a laptop battery lasts 2 years. I don't know why lithium is so unreliable compared to lead-acid but the whole technology is garbage. Have you ever heard of a lithum-based APC UPS? Of course not! It's like $100-180 to get a legitimate replacement lithium battery for a laptop and it barely lasts 200 recharge cycles if you're lucky.
Elon claims his batteries last 10 years but of course they can't prove it and others say that's just not true. They also lose capacity over time and I do not mean a long period of time. A well made capacitor is rated for 18 years and can technically last 100 years easily. We need 100 year batteries, or at least ones that don't diminish 10% in one year. I don't care if it takes a small shed full of batteries if I don't have to buy replacements for decades.
OMG someone robbed a bank. We should totally blame cars for letting them drive away.
Wow, what a logical and well thought out counterpoint to my completely backed up and logical argument.
Not exactly. Maybe for mobile but these days you spend $50 million, hire foreigners to do everything hard, make a deal with McDonalds and Doritos, bribe review companies, launch at midnight, and use early adopters as free beta testers or your game fails.
This is just marketing nonsense. Everyone with a brain knew netbooks were NOT the biggest new thing and a shift in computers. Nobody wanted a laptop that had a higher failure rate, was slower, was harder to type on, and had a miniature screen that nobody could read. They died after about 2 years of being popular. Now every pawn shop is flooded with them.
Smartwatches died after about 5 minutes of pretending to be popular for the same reason. They're neat and cheap and futuristic but OOPS nobody wants them.
As soon as someone's smartfridge is hacked to send spam, their pacemaker is susceptible to getting hacked, and the a bad firmware flash bricks their toaster and someone drives off with their Lexus after 60 seconds of standing near it with a laptop, the alleged Internet of Things will turn back into the internet of actual computers. Oh wait, that last one is happening right now. And Sync is about to be illegal in cars in most states. Come to think of it, Slashdot covered a smartfridge that was hacked to be a spam server. Oh that's right, Dick Cheney had his pacemaker swapped out for a new one because it was susceptible to remote hacking. I'm sure a smart toaster got bricked somewhere too so kiss the IoT goodbye.
This was shortly after the NES and partially Atari completely ruined everything. Companies thought they could put out anything that was vaguely a game, regardless of quality and fun level, and people would buy it. There were more bad Atari games than the NES but still, there were some real tragedies from no-name startup companies that instantly bankrupted them. When the Playstation came out, they enforced better standards and suddenly game makers realized games couldn't suck. This was just in time for the whole world to start considering video games a fad and collapsing the entire market.
So they're calling it the Google tax when Google is actually based in the United States and the law doesn't affect Google in any way. Great choice of names.
I am happy a country finally had the balls to pass a law like this and end the complete nonsense of pretending to be based overseas. Hopefully the US passes it next.
Let's back up about 2 years. Mastercard said they were going to create a bitcoin-backed credit card. Then they pulled out of the project unexpectedly after getting everyone in the community excited about it. So now that bitcoin grew to huge popularity, they get exactly what they deserve for stabbing us in the back.
Don't forget, kids develop a hell of a lot faster these days too. There were no six foot tall 10 year olds girls back then.
I thought England was just going to kick them all out of the country. Muslims in England bring back the good old days of the early 1900's in America. People hated the Irish not because of their speech, the color of their skin, or their beliefs. They hated them just because they were culturally unbearable alcohol lazy pieces of shit that beat their wives and couldn't hold down a job and fought everyone. The same goes for muslims. England was all inclusive and friendly and pro-immigrant until they actually had muslims start living there. Discrimination purely based on merit. It's what Martin Luther King dreamed of.
then-Superintendent John Deasy had been in communication with vendors Apple and Pearson before the contracts were put to bid
I read this as: it's now illegal to be a biased mac fanboy. It's about time!
They're about half the price and they have a management back end that's friendly to IT departments. That's all there is to it. Unfortunately, they're cheap, featureless pieces of crap that break constantly due to horribly cheap parts because they're just awful pretend laptops but every school district I know of passes the hardware failure cost onto the kid who "broke" it even if they didn't break it. What a great system.
Are you serious? If you're doing something, the CPU usage is maxed. If you're doing nothing, it's at a low multiplier and low effective speed. So no, you can't do nothing at half the speed but you can do something at half the speed. By the way, the lowest power state isn't really any better than the pentium before it. It's the peak power usage they improved.
Photons emitted in the direction the star is moving cannot be moving at the speed of light plus the speed of the star. They then take off with less energy. Explain that.
I'm sending Mozilla a message and using IE 11 for a month. I hope they have a heart attack when they see the stats. Anyone with me?
By "close" to the speed of light, they mean not even close to the speed of light. To accelerate a standard US space shuttle to 99.99999% light speed would take nearly all the energy in the entire universe. A star is a bit bigger.
I suck a physics but photons emitted in the same direction as the star would slow it down and ones on the back would propel it but since it's already moving and the speed of light doesn't change, there would be a net slowdown from the photons on the "front" end and the star would gradually slow down, right?