"Starting in the early 1980s, Britain's Silsoe Research Institute received about $200,000 a year from the government to design a humane harvesting machine"
I first read this as, design a HUMAN harvesting machine. Oooohhh, yuk, Soylent Green anyone?
Nasty.
1239th post!!! If you got as far as this post yuo've probably already wasted you're entire summer vacation. I just read "All Tomorrows Parties" by William Gibson. And it SUCKED! I don't know if I'll ever be able to pick up another Gibson book after that letdown. He definitely forced the post-semi-apocalyptic future. I also just got finished with Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" and that was a fun quick read. Actually i didn't read it, I got the audio book from the library and finished in four days during my commute.
I imagine he got quite a bit of toungue in cheek the day after All Fool's Day. I know I avoided all 'news' sites until the 3rd to avoid the foolishness. It was only then that I could look back on the previous days and reflect on what was real news and what was faked.
This was just to preserve my sanity after the crazy stuff that got posted last year.
I bought some used 3Com ISA NICs on eBay for about $6 ea. 3Com works with anything. In fact, they contribute. They coded their own device drivers and submitted to the kernel hackers ages ago. When in doubt I use 3Com.
If they win against Rambus, then can the people that payed the license fee/royalty get their money back? I would think that with DDR beating the pants off RDRAM in performance and recently being dropped by Intel that if everyone refused to pay Rambus they would wither and die.
Companies need to stop infusing these idiots with cash to fight the legal battles. The last thing we need is to have the price of RAM go up again like it did after the series of earthquakes in Tiawan and then STAY artificially high.
I was in college in '89-'94 and I remember the guys in my dorm lining up to play the latest flight simulator or even the chance to see the game play on the few PCs around. Then one weekend someone brought an old Atari 2600 from home. Even more people lined up to play and watch, but mostly to play. You didn't have to read a manual of key commands and strategy to be able to play a game. You could squeeze in a couple of quick games of Combat or Battlezone before class and a round of Asteroids or Adventure before lunch. In the weeks to come, some other people brought their favorite games from home and we had a great time. That old Atari console got warm, but never did burn up.
Sure the eyecandy of Wing Commander was amazing, but everyone flocked to the console system. I now feel the same way about some of the DOS games I played since I don't get the latest, greatest PC hardware to be able to keep up with the new games. Those old games hold up for playability for the long haul. Then again I never did have a long attention-span for game play. Long games of Monopoly, cards or PC games bore me. I want to play for a short time then do something else, not spend several hours just learning to play.
I live in one of the 'burbs of KC. While DSL and Time Warner's Road Runner have been available in many parts for some time, it is only recently come to my part of town. I was too far from the switch for DSL for the last six months and in a town not serviced by Road Runner or Time Warner cable. I just moved to a different house and was told I was close enough for DSL and it would be available at the end of October. Called the cable company (Comcast) and they were installing in my area now. I got it installed within a few days of the call.
I'd rather not have to pay the $10-30 extra to be a cable subscriber, but the service was FAST and the cable modem is FASTER. If the telco can't get its act together quicker than it has, it will miss out on even more customers. It really sucks to be in one of the LAST areas to get broadband, but you would have to pay me to live on the left or right coast.
Then how is it that I can run MuLinux or Tom's Rootboot or LRP or FreeSCO or Edge Firewall or need I even go on, all from a 1.44MB floppy? I have used MuLinux a lot and they can put on a couple of floppies a pretty full distribution. It all depends on how many free tools you want to put in the distro, how much you want people to download themselves and how much compression of files you want to do to shoehorn it in there. On one floppy you're not going to get as much stuff as a Red Hat CD, but you can get a working system.
QNX can fit on a floppy too with minimal tools. I believe the 91MB download from QNX is give you the kernel, GUI, and plenty of tools to get you started developing. If you had to get all this stuff separate how likely are you to download?
What's wrong with paying when you get rid of the device? If I'm the one that throws it in the trash, then I pay the fee. If I take the time to take aluminum cans in for recycling I get paid the going rate for aluminum by the pound (usually enough to fill my gas tank). After it becomes cost effective to recycle old PCs then maybe I get paid by the pound to drop off my PC. Remember there' gold contacts and other metal in there.
I'd still like to know if this is the same guy. Also still wondering why he thought he could DESIGN AND BUILD the plane in that amount of time without the proper training and only a private pilot's licence and the CAD drawing help of a real engineer to prevent him killing himself.
The K5 guys do a great job and are only getting a hand from some guys that enjoy what they do. I've seen your crap you call art (themes) and I can do without it and the filth you spew here on this site. If you don't have anything nice to say at least try to say it with out cursing and giving the sexual enuendos that you apparently enjoy. When you post these you identify yourself as nothing more than a 12 year old rant fiend.
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Probably the Apple Airport. Wireless Lan Hub.
Just a guess.
I remember seeing an ad in a catalog from igo.com (they carry accessories for laptops, PDAs and cellphones) that showed a solar panel that was the size of a large novel. You unzip it and it opens up to have two solar panels for charging your cell batteries or your laptop. Good Luck. On a whim I went just now and here is the link:
here for solar charger
After I saw Triumph of the Nerds on tape I saw you do a documentary on building an airplane in 30 days. While we both know you could have done it in 30 days if you picked a simple plan that has been tested by thousands of homebuilders before yourself, you picked to design the plane also. Number one: are you nuts? Building a fiberglass plane on your first one is insane. But seriously, why didn't you start out with a professional plane builder to assist you and a safe, tested design for the plane?
Try www.linuxrouter.org and download the idiot image for a floppy. It has real easy text setup, runs from a floppy and saves config changes. Once it's running the way you want, save config, write-protect the floppy and let it filter and pass packets. I built a dedicated firewall box from a $30 minitower case, $15 floppy, used AOpen mobo ~$25, used P-166 (can even work on 486) and two used 10Mbps NICs $6 ea. Easy as cake.
Is it me or is Lars the most illiterate, confusing person to listen to or read? Damn man, complete a thought or at least a sentence once in a while. He can't be the one writing music, because his thoughts just seem to go everywhere at once. Hey, maybe he's on crank or coke. Anyway, he just confirms what I've thought about him for a long time: He's the one that made his head get so big. Have you ever seen such a large noggin' on a person? I personally would just like him to shut the F@#$ up. I doubt anyone will see this post but here it is.
This reminds me of the book "How to Build a Flying Saucer" by Andrew Paulicki (not completely sure on the name, were is that darn book?). The math and some of the diagrams at the web site look damn close to the book.
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I get my movies from the library reserved via their website...you insensitive clod!!
"Starting in the early 1980s, Britain's Silsoe Research Institute received about $200,000 a year from the government to design a humane harvesting machine"
I first read this as, design a HUMAN harvesting machine. Oooohhh, yuk, Soylent Green anyone? Nasty.
Hmm, porn, Britney, porn, Britney, porn, Britney, porn, Britney. What was the question again? All I can think of is b88bies.
1239th post!!!
If you got as far as this post yuo've probably already wasted you're entire summer vacation. I just read "All Tomorrows Parties" by William Gibson. And it SUCKED! I don't know if I'll ever be able to pick up another Gibson book after that letdown. He definitely forced the post-semi-apocalyptic future. I also just got finished with Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" and that was a fun quick read. Actually i didn't read it, I got the audio book from the library and finished in four days during my commute.
My spell check never went so fast!!!
Next test, loading http://www.userfriendly.org/static.
I imagine he got quite a bit of toungue in cheek the day after All Fool's Day. I know I avoided all 'news' sites until the 3rd to avoid the foolishness. It was only then that I could look back on the previous days and reflect on what was real news and what was faked.
This was just to preserve my sanity after the crazy stuff that got posted last year.
I bought some used 3Com ISA NICs on eBay for about $6 ea. 3Com works with anything. In fact, they contribute. They coded their own device drivers and submitted to the kernel hackers ages ago. When in doubt I use 3Com.
If they win against Rambus, then can the people that payed the license fee/royalty get their money back? I would think that with DDR beating the pants off RDRAM in performance and recently being dropped by Intel that if everyone refused to pay Rambus they would wither and die.
Companies need to stop infusing these idiots with cash to fight the legal battles. The last thing we need is to have the price of RAM go up again like it did after the series of earthquakes in Tiawan and then STAY artificially high.
I was in college in '89-'94 and I remember the guys in my dorm lining up to play the latest flight simulator or even the chance to see the game play on the few PCs around. Then one weekend someone brought an old Atari 2600 from home. Even more people lined up to play and watch, but mostly to play. You didn't have to read a manual of key commands and strategy to be able to play a game. You could squeeze in a couple of quick games of Combat or Battlezone before class and a round of Asteroids or Adventure before lunch. In the weeks to come, some other people brought their favorite games from home and we had a great time. That old Atari console got warm, but never did burn up.
Sure the eyecandy of Wing Commander was amazing, but everyone flocked to the console system. I now feel the same way about some of the DOS games I played since I don't get the latest, greatest PC hardware to be able to keep up with the new games. Those old games hold up for playability for the long haul. Then again I never did have a long attention-span for game play. Long games of Monopoly, cards or PC games bore me. I want to play for a short time then do something else, not spend several hours just learning to play.
I live in one of the 'burbs of KC. While DSL and Time Warner's Road Runner have been available in many parts for some time, it is only recently come to my part of town. I was too far from the switch for DSL for the last six months and in a town not serviced by Road Runner or Time Warner cable. I just moved to a different house and was told I was close enough for DSL and it would be available at the end of October. Called the cable company (Comcast) and they were installing in my area now. I got it installed within a few days of the call.
I'd rather not have to pay the $10-30 extra to be a cable subscriber, but the service was FAST and the cable modem is FASTER. If the telco can't get its act together quicker than it has, it will miss out on even more customers. It really sucks to be in one of the LAST areas to get broadband, but you would have to pay me to live on the left or right coast.
The way I read it, they didn't want to have Novell be able to read NTFS, but pulled the rug out from Linux development at the same time.
So maybe they still don't see Linux as abig of a threat as Novell in the Server space.
Make that Bagnell Dam. I've been there many times as a kid.
Then how is it that I can run MuLinux or Tom's Rootboot or LRP or FreeSCO or Edge Firewall or need I even go on, all from a 1.44MB floppy? I have used MuLinux a lot and they can put on a couple of floppies a pretty full distribution. It all depends on how many free tools you want to put in the distro, how much you want people to download themselves and how much compression of files you want to do to shoehorn it in there. On one floppy you're not going to get as much stuff as a Red Hat CD, but you can get a working system.
QNX can fit on a floppy too with minimal tools. I believe the 91MB download from QNX is give you the kernel, GUI, and plenty of tools to get you started developing. If you had to get all this stuff separate how likely are you to download?
I think it uses a PCTel modem chip. These are the guys really helping on the Linmodem front. They were the first to post a driver at linmodems.org
GnuVegimite. Yuck. Just as bad as Spam.
What's wrong with paying when you get rid of the device? If I'm the one that throws it in the trash, then I pay the fee. If I take the time to take aluminum cans in for recycling I get paid the going rate for aluminum by the pound (usually enough to fill my gas tank). After it becomes cost effective to recycle old PCs then maybe I get paid by the pound to drop off my PC. Remember there' gold contacts and other metal in there.
I'd still like to know if this is the same guy. Also still wondering why he thought he could DESIGN AND BUILD the plane in that amount of time without the proper training and only a private pilot's licence and the CAD drawing help of a real engineer to prevent him killing himself.
The K5 guys do a great job and are only getting a hand from some guys that enjoy what they do. I've seen your crap you call art (themes) and I can do without it and the filth you spew here on this site. If you don't have anything nice to say at least try to say it with out cursing and giving the sexual enuendos that you apparently enjoy. When you post these you identify yourself as nothing more than a 12 year old rant fiend.
Probably the Apple Airport. Wireless Lan Hub.
Just a guess.
I am an American and I speak five languages, or at least at various times I have. So, what does that make me?
Answer: A polyglot
I remember seeing an ad in a catalog from igo.com (they carry accessories for laptops, PDAs and cellphones) that showed a solar panel that was the size of a large novel. You unzip it and it opens up to have two solar panels for charging your cell batteries or your laptop. Good Luck. On a whim I went just now and here is the link:
here for solar charger
After I saw Triumph of the Nerds on tape I saw you do a documentary on building an airplane in 30 days. While we both know you could have done it in 30 days if you picked a simple plan that has been tested by thousands of homebuilders before yourself, you picked to design the plane also. Number one: are you nuts? Building a fiberglass plane on your first one is insane. But seriously, why didn't you start out with a professional plane builder to assist you and a safe, tested design for the plane?
Try www.linuxrouter.org and download the idiot image for a floppy. It has real easy text setup, runs from a floppy and saves config changes. Once it's running the way you want, save config, write-protect the floppy and let it filter and pass packets. I built a dedicated firewall box from a $30 minitower case, $15 floppy, used AOpen mobo ~$25, used P-166 (can even work on 486) and two used 10Mbps NICs $6 ea. Easy as cake.
Is it me or is Lars the most illiterate, confusing person to listen to or read? Damn man, complete a thought or at least a sentence once in a while. He can't be the one writing music, because his thoughts just seem to go everywhere at once.
Hey, maybe he's on crank or coke.
Anyway, he just confirms what I've thought about him for a long time: He's the one that made his head get so big. Have you ever seen such a large noggin' on a person?
I personally would just like him to shut the F@#$ up.
I doubt anyone will see this post but here it is.
This reminds me of the book "How to Build a Flying Saucer" by Andrew Paulicki (not completely sure on the name, were is that darn book?). The math and some of the diagrams at the web site look damn close to the book.