"That said, do PATA drives deteriorate if left in, say, my closet?"
Not in my experience. I have some old 4GB drives that still work. Those things were built like tanks. Good for critical backups, but can be cranky at first working with new systems.
Your 40/80 drives are probably built pretty well- I (personally, no research) didn't see any dramatic decline until drives topped 100G.
the "Rodney King" riots Chicago trashing itself after the Bulls won Soccer match riots Watts riot (along with a bunch of others that year) the riots in France in 2005 any prison riot
Some of these do have a reasonable starting point, some don't. The problem is that even though the original cause may be righteous, the ensuing damage in lives and property generally vastly outweighs the original reason for the protest. I think the point were I stopped thinking that rioting had any useful purpose was when a truck driver got pulled from his truck during the "Rodney King" riots and was brained with a brick a couple of times. I think I remember people calling it racially motivated, but the real point is that some random guy was hurt (or was he killed?) because a mob was pissed off at someone/thing totally unrelated.
I think that, for the most part, useful riots are a thing of the past, though I'm not well versed in current global affairs so I admit I could be totally ignorant about this. Though with the way the US is going, I wouldn't be surprised to see another revolution in the next 100-200 years.
I guess my point is that riots in general cause far more harm than good, kind of like the US in the middle east.
Well, there is an infinitesimal chance that another Firefly will be made. If I remember correctly, the deal left the option open for 2 more movies, -IF- the studio thought they would be viable. Yeah, I know, I know. At least it went out with a heckuva movie.
Didn't all the same type comments happen back when Apple dropped the floppy drive and legacy ports for USB?
Also, I realize the importance of serial ports for older equipment, but can't the hardware manufacturers get a little bit into the times and use something a little bit newer? Seriously, why the heck do I need some special ass cable to console into some Cisco hardware?
Well, I could claim that I was trying to be funny, but unfortunately, the "any more" was a mistake on my part. Several of the other items were trying to be funny, but I did get this one wrong.
Thanks for pointing that out; I won't be doing that again.
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I got this a few years ago when I was interested in building my own box (then had some financial problems with this). It was great, especially if you coupled it with their website. They go into the legalities of MAME a bit, but mostly focus on how to built the machine.
I run mame on my desktop, which is ok, but I always (and still) want a spin, real joysticks, a flight stick, and the great old games. I've learned you can put multiple simulators on a machine and run stuff like old Apple II games up to fairly recent PC games.
This book is not comprehensive is everything you can do, but it gives you a great start if this is a hobby you would like to do. Well worth the price. And definintly check out their website. You could easily spend hours there.
Where did graphite pencils get mentioned in the article (yup, I even read it). Even Wiki has nothing relating graphene to pencils./. is turning into a rag with sensationalistic headlines that have nothing to do with the article and often even the summary. The sad part is that the stuff might even be interesting without the "Rabbit Fur wrapped Cat5 outperforms fibre".
"Microsoft is currently aiming to release the next version of the Windows operating system [CC] in about three years. "
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I've been out of the networking world for a while. Could you tell me which companies are better in the different categories? (such as home, small business, large business, really big ass deployment)
Or even some sites that do these kind of comparisons?
Fuckers laid me off when they completely flubbed a huge contract. It was a multi-team effort, with my team as the lead. But the big wig in charge led one of the other teams. He kept picking the other team's suggestions over my team. Well, the company lost the contract (some $900 mil).
And better yet, the branch office I worked at is going to be shut down because the fort they support is being shut down! (Partly due to the poor implementation of their plan)
cue Nelson, bitches!
Nah, I'm not bitter or anything. My whole team was trashed due to a few idiots; the winning company had basically 80% of our ideas. And now I've been doing manual jobs for years.
Fuck Booz Allen. Guess it's time to move out of the west coast. I hear that there is something called snow in the northeast.
Seriously, though, at what point will ABC/CBS/NBC start running prime time news headlines ripped from/.?
How many reports/blogs have we seen in the past few years are wildly inaccurate, just wrong, or completely blown out of all proportion? Astroturfing, bought studies, fanboyism.
I'm guessing that the blogs are so popular:
1) People go to blogs where they get to read stuff that agrees with their own ideas/attitudes
2) People don't want to spend time to read anything substantive (ie, RTFA)
3) Ok, this one is good- narrow focus on a subject that you want to learn about
4) We shall totally refrain from the topic of political blogs.
5) Main stream media can be/will be/usually are behind in reporting things that have been mentioned on blogs. Supposedly, main stream media does fact checking, plus camera shots, background, live shots, etc. With a blog, you can pretty much just type anything you want with no reprecussions (with the usual caveats)
I know that mainstream media is abhorrent now, but at least (again, supposedly) they do some background into seek before splashing the "bad news" over anyones' walls.
"Another example: In Europe (I don't know how it is in the US) farmers get paid for not producing, where one might think that for the same price one could eliminate hunger in the world."
Yup, we do this in the US also. The gov explains that it keeps up prices for the farmers that DO farm. Here's a fun bit of info- a bunch of "farms" that get paid to not grow anything are owned by rich politicians and corporate interests. So, people and companies that would never grow anything anyway are getting paid to do exactly that.
As far as I can tell, there is no IE for OS X (I looked because a local radio station can stream only to IE for some weird reason).
Since there is no IE, and there have been some goodly (for random value of goodly) Macs upgraded to OS X, plus some switchers, perhaps this has helped?
Also, there is also the fact (where fact = my opinion) that IE is FF's whipping boy.....
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"That said, do PATA drives deteriorate if left in, say, my closet?"
Not in my experience. I have some old 4GB drives that still work. Those things were built like tanks. Good for critical backups, but can be cranky at first working with new systems.
Your 40/80 drives are probably built pretty well- I (personally, no research) didn't see any dramatic decline until drives topped 100G.
Let's see...
the "Rodney King" riots
Chicago trashing itself after the Bulls won
Soccer match riots
Watts riot (along with a bunch of others that year)
the riots in France in 2005
any prison riot
Some of these do have a reasonable starting point, some don't. The problem is that even though the original cause may be righteous, the ensuing damage in lives and property generally vastly outweighs the original reason for the protest. I think the point were I stopped thinking that rioting had any useful purpose was when a truck driver got pulled from his truck during the "Rodney King" riots and was brained with a brick a couple of times. I think I remember people calling it racially motivated, but the real point is that some random guy was hurt (or was he killed?) because a mob was pissed off at someone/thing totally unrelated.
I think that, for the most part, useful riots are a thing of the past, though I'm not well versed in current global affairs so I admit I could be totally ignorant about this. Though with the way the US is going, I wouldn't be surprised to see another revolution in the next 100-200 years.
I guess my point is that riots in general cause far more harm than good, kind of like the US in the middle east.
"he rubber bullet firing tear gas cannon super-bright torch baton."
I like this- may I subscribe to your newsletter and buy one?
Well, there is an infinitesimal chance that another Firefly will be made. If I remember correctly, the deal left the option open for 2 more movies, -IF- the studio thought they would be viable. Yeah, I know, I know. At least it went out with a heckuva movie.
You Fool! This is SLASHDOT!
There is NO ROOM FOR COMMON SENSE HERE!
This public service announcement brought to you by wild badger in your pants.
Didn't all the same type comments happen back when Apple dropped the floppy drive and legacy ports for USB?
Also, I realize the importance of serial ports for older equipment, but can't the hardware manufacturers get a little bit into the times and use something a little bit newer? Seriously, why the heck do I need some special ass cable to console into some Cisco hardware?
I soooo hate you for sending me to that page... I was mesmerized for about 5 minutes trying to pick out random stuff.
No soup for you 2 years!
The sketches *were* essential.
"Today we learn A & 3, today we learn A & 3! Aqua aqua aqua!"
Well, I could claim that I was trying to be funny, but unfortunately, the "any more" was a mistake on my part. Several of the other items were trying to be funny, but I did get this one wrong.
Thanks for pointing that out; I won't be doing that again.
Care to suggest a good remote that is in the reach of us regular shlubs?
Amiga
Philadelphia Phillies
Curling in the US
Proper grammar any more
Frosty Paws for dogs
Fried food as a food group
Dvorak as a writer
the Pet Rock
any Stehpen King movie adaption
Babylon 5's 5th season
Or that awful dance scene with the hullahoops.
Or that witch coven with the "magic dancing".
Wow, that movie was beyond cool.
I got this a few years ago when I was interested in building my own box (then had some financial problems with this). It was great, especially if you coupled it with their website. They go into the legalities of MAME a bit, but mostly focus on how to built the machine.
I run mame on my desktop, which is ok, but I always (and still) want a spin, real joysticks, a flight stick, and the great old games. I've learned you can put multiple simulators on a machine and run stuff like old Apple II games up to fairly recent PC games.
This book is not comprehensive is everything you can do, but it gives you a great start if this is a hobby you would like to do. Well worth the price. And definintly check out their website. You could easily spend hours there.
Sir, graphite is used in pencils. Graphite is made of carbon. Diamonds are made of carbons. Diamond pencils will now replace electrical wiring.
Gimme a break- it's still a stupid ass title, and you are just being cranky. I'd say trying to be informative if you were not AC'ing.
Where did graphite pencils get mentioned in the article (yup, I even read it). Even Wiki has nothing relating graphene to pencils. /. is turning into a rag with sensationalistic headlines that have nothing to do with the article and often even the summary. The sad part is that the stuff might even be interesting without the "Rabbit Fur wrapped Cat5 outperforms fibre".
errrr.....
"Known world wide as the ultimate spot for networking..."
What? I thought this was the ultimate spot for 14 year olds to put up useless crap on the net.
And great, "my so called life" and something else is going to be played via myspace. Wow, taking over the world 10 years behind at a time.
"Microsoft is currently aiming to release the next version of the Windows operating system [CC] in about three years. "
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Sorry
I've been out of the networking world for a while. Could you tell me which companies are better in the different categories? (such as home, small business, large business, really big ass deployment)
Or even some sites that do these kind of comparisons?
Thanks in advance.
Fuckers laid me off when they completely flubbed a huge contract. It was a multi-team effort, with my team as the lead. But the big wig in charge led one of the other teams. He kept picking the other team's suggestions over my team. Well, the company lost the contract (some $900 mil).
And better yet, the branch office I worked at is going to be shut down because the fort they support is being shut down! (Partly due to the poor implementation of their plan)
cue Nelson, bitches!
Nah, I'm not bitter or anything. My whole team was trashed due to a few idiots; the winning company had basically 80% of our ideas. And now I've been doing manual jobs for years.
Fuck Booz Allen. Guess it's time to move out of the west coast. I hear that there is something called snow in the northeast.
"smash their brains out with a blunt object."
-
"No, no, no. Don't be mean. Don't be mean. Remember, no matter where you go.... your brains are still here"
but with more fiber!
/.?
Seriously, though, at what point will ABC/CBS/NBC start running prime time news headlines ripped from
How many reports/blogs have we seen in the past few years are wildly inaccurate, just wrong, or completely blown out of all proportion? Astroturfing, bought studies, fanboyism.
I'm guessing that the blogs are so popular:
1) People go to blogs where they get to read stuff that agrees with their own ideas/attitudes
2) People don't want to spend time to read anything substantive (ie, RTFA)
3) Ok, this one is good- narrow focus on a subject that you want to learn about
4) We shall totally refrain from the topic of political blogs.
5) Main stream media can be/will be/usually are behind in reporting things that have been mentioned on blogs. Supposedly, main stream media does fact checking, plus camera shots, background, live shots, etc. With a blog, you can pretty much just type anything you want with no reprecussions (with the usual caveats)
I know that mainstream media is abhorrent now, but at least (again, supposedly) they do some background into seek before splashing the "bad news" over anyones' walls.
Cheers
Like I said, I was only being annoying. :)
Besides, ever hear of someone dropping their laptop into a toilet?
"Ah, boss, I need a new laptop."
"Why?"
"I dropped it into the toilet."
"?!"
I agree, that was a big cluster fuck. Either we just ignore the private lives (as long as it's legal) of politicians or we hang 'em all.
I'm so disillusioned at this point I'm just going to vote Libertarian from now on and hope for the best.
I used to like the Republicans, but Dubya has twisted them into pretzels.
"Another example: In Europe (I don't know how it is in the US) farmers get paid for not producing, where one might think that for the same price one could eliminate hunger in the world."
Yup, we do this in the US also. The gov explains that it keeps up prices for the farmers that DO farm. Here's a fun bit of info- a bunch of "farms" that get paid to not grow anything are owned by rich politicians and corporate interests. So, people and companies that would never grow anything anyway are getting paid to do exactly that.
Good times, good times.
As far as I can tell, there is no IE for OS X (I looked because a local radio station can stream only to IE for some weird reason).
Since there is no IE, and there have been some goodly (for random value of goodly) Macs upgraded to OS X, plus some switchers, perhaps this has helped?
Also, there is also the fact (where fact = my opinion) that IE is FF's whipping boy.....