Asus P5W64 Workstation (my Core2duo m/b) has a floppy controller.
ASRock Z77 extreme 6 (core i3/5/7 m/b) has a floppy controller, although it is inconveniently located at the back bottom corner... no IDE on it, though. I've moved my IDEs to an external enclosure with esata/usb.
But yes, it is increasingly difficult to find floppy controllers on modern motherboards. I may eventually need an external (usb) floppy drive or something. The internal usb floppy drives are nigh impossible to find also.
2) pretty sure I'd want my burrito to lock from the inside, so the flight crew doesn't steal my wallet or include sedated passengers in their in-flight orgy.
from the summary: "Information Operation Condition (INFOCOM)"
Shouldn't that be INF O CON? There's no M in Condition.
Also, I thought INFOCOM was an old game company...
In Windows 8, the Free Cell game is a 200 MB download
Wow, are you serious?! In Windows 7 x64, the installed Free Cell files, all four of them, add up to 927,256 bytes (not even 1 MB). What have they done to free cell?
... this is so lame! Think how much better it would be to put a tax on verbs! Then you could derive income from speech, text, posts, signage, display, heck, even thinking!
Dear Mr/Ms Tribble,
Please add $0.25 to your tax filing this year for five verbs at the rate of $0.05 per verb.
- IRS
Dear ISP,
I have found that an IP address coming from your network has illegally shared my copywritten work. Please terminate its connection. The address listed is: 127.0.0.1.
Other than the "vaccine" portion of this so-called-treatment, isn't this pretty close to Clockwork Orange stuff? If we can make you feel sick, you will stop the behavior... But yeah, how is this a vaccine?
All else, such as file sizes, card, tape or disk storage, network bandwidth, logic frequency and the like were strictly Base 10. Then small systems crept in and base 2 assumptions began to spread.
The base-2 system seemed to stick with floppy diskettes. My "1.44 MB" floppy diskette has a formatted capacity of 1,457,664 bytes...
bait and switch, false advertising could both refer to the same thing: the removal of "OtherOS" (Linux) from PS/3 through firmware updates... a feature that was advertised on their own packaging, not a retailer problem. I'm not sure if there's other examples that AC had in mind... and I have no idea what they mean by conflict minerals....
As a side note, when I attended college, the CS department assigned usernames (and email address) as firstinitial lastinitial last5digitsofSSN @ cs01.pcc.edu (without the spaces) - this was several years ago, but it seemed like a rather bad practice to me.
I'm not "John Q. Public" but I have Windows 3.1 and workgroups 3.11 readily available... that is, if the floppy disks are still readable. But yeah, how easily will any average "Joe" be able to obtain that old of software, if they don't have it lying around already?
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latin doesnt use punctuation neither do i in fact i dont use capitalization either
This is not high art. This is fingerpainting.
In the case of assembly, I think it's more like pointillism than finger-painting. :-)
Asus P5W64 Workstation (my Core2duo m/b) has a floppy controller.
ASRock Z77 extreme 6 (core i3/5/7 m/b) has a floppy controller, although it is inconveniently located at the back bottom corner... no IDE on it, though. I've moved my IDEs to an external enclosure with esata/usb.
But yes, it is increasingly difficult to find floppy controllers on modern motherboards. I may eventually need an external (usb) floppy drive or something. The internal usb floppy drives are nigh impossible to find also.
To further the loop, here's a Google link to this page, currently the top result.
2) pretty sure I'd want my burrito to lock from the inside, so the flight crew doesn't steal my wallet or include sedated passengers in their in-flight orgy.
That is not a small caveat, either.
Caveman didn't invent/discover/harness fire with the express purpose of burning down his neighbors cave, or long term dominance of all cavemankind.
Actually, that's exactly why fire was invented/discovered/harnessed.
Incidentally, the fire also destroyed his own cave in the process...
from the summary: "Information Operation Condition (INFOCOM)"
Shouldn't that be INF O CON? There's no M in Condition.
Also, I thought INFOCOM was an old game company...
The fine folks running ioccc.org may disagree... just because you have the source code doesn't mean every thing therein is perspicuous.
In Windows 8, the Free Cell game is a 200 MB download
Wow, are you serious?! In Windows 7 x64, the installed Free Cell files, all four of them, add up to 927,256 bytes (not even 1 MB). What have they done to free cell?
Quick: What's 2/3 of 1-3/4 liters?
... this is so lame! Think how much better it would be to put a tax on verbs! Then you could derive income from speech, text, posts, signage, display, heck, even thinking!
Dear Mr/Ms Tribble,
Please add $0.25 to your tax filing this year for five verbs at the rate of $0.05 per verb.
- IRS
... I for one think it would make it interesting to pit legions of robot warriors against each other...
it's been done. According to the all-wise wikipedians, "Storm 2" was the last world-champ.
Personally, I find I'm often more influenced by whether by a native speaker makes frequent basic grammatical errors or not. (e.g. "to" vs. "too").
I've tried listening to native speakers very closely, and still find it very hard to determine whether they are speaking "to" or "too."
Dear ISP,
I have found that an IP address coming from your network has illegally shared my copywritten work. Please terminate its connection. The address listed is: 127.0.0.1.
Other than the "vaccine" portion of this so-called-treatment, isn't this pretty close to Clockwork Orange stuff? If we can make you feel sick, you will stop the behavior... But yeah, how is this a vaccine?
A video card for a server should be pretty cheap ... unless the server is specifically using it (Cg / CUDA) for some server process ..
hmm.... how about "Max Power?"
I think that's the best explanation I've seen on the subject so far... pity I have no moderation points at the moment :(
All else, such as file sizes, card, tape or disk storage, network bandwidth, logic frequency and the like were strictly Base 10. Then small systems crept in and base 2 assumptions began to spread.
The base-2 system seemed to stick with floppy diskettes. My "1.44 MB" floppy diskette has a formatted capacity of 1,457,664 bytes...
I had to physically remove its folder from the Program Files area...
I just got this mental picture of someone opening up their hard drive and scraping a section off one of the platters.... :)
bait and switch, false advertising could both refer to the same thing: the removal of "OtherOS" (Linux) from PS/3 through firmware updates... a feature that was advertised on their own packaging, not a retailer problem. I'm not sure if there's other examples that AC had in mind... and I have no idea what they mean by conflict minerals....
As a side note, when I attended college, the CS department assigned usernames (and email address) as firstinitial lastinitial last5digitsofSSN @ cs01.pcc.edu (without the spaces) - this was several years ago, but it seemed like a rather bad practice to me.
I'm not "John Q. Public" but I have Windows 3.1 and workgroups 3.11 readily available... that is, if the floppy disks are still readable. But yeah, how easily will any average "Joe" be able to obtain that old of software, if they don't have it lying around already?
Funny thing is, I just finished ordering some cables from Newegg before visiting slashdot tonight...
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