Diamonds are actually cheap they come from one of the most common elements, carbon... DeBerrs controls 80% of the worlds gem quality diamond productions, and they refuse to sell more gem quality diamonds that the number of engagments in a year... they actually cut supply below demand*, thus making the price inflate. as an industrial material, cutting diamonds and diamond dust are market priced by more conventional market forces, and since most diamonds that come out of a mine are not gem quality, that makes industrial grade diamond products relatively affordable.
*= Yes I'm aware, Russia and canada are also producing gem quality diamonds, but those mines can't exactly afford to flood the market so far that diamonds plummet in value, because thier mines have less diamonds than the debeer's mines.
We need to send all our emails in the form of SPAM because noone in thier right mind would store spam for 7 years! Hot Nude chicks! We have to be seen to be believed! Our chick spread thier pussies wide for you!
See if you only read the bold letters. it's says 'Hi what's up' of course, if you bold the letters it's pretty obvious, there are a lot of other things you can do that will remain in formatting that are less obvious...
Seven years worth of 100% internet data archive would require 6.1299821634635554334333881086012e+223 bytes of data storage. that's 1.4272476927059598810582859694494e+212 400 GB HDs This is assuming growth rate trends etc.. Okay I admit it I pulled the number outa my ass, I started with the number of pages indexed by google, 8,000,000,000 then assumed for each page linked to google 100 pages weren't directly linked to google I then assumed that each page took an average of 100k (some taking more some taking less) I then assumed that the internet doubled in size every year for 7 years. I also for good measure assumed that e-mail/im/irc/p2p traffic made up at least as much traffic data as the entire world wide web by itself. I then devided my first number by the number of bytes in a 400GB HDD (since that is the largest individual data storage unit I'm aware of) to come to the insanely impossible size of storing the entire internet for 7 years. Yes i'm bored.
First off for those who didn't RTFA the card DOES have Fast RAM onboard 16MB of it -- which hasn't been enough to run a 3-d game in a long time, so it's capable of keeping textures (and only textures) in system ram. This is really only a 'good' solution for the 'value' segment. Frankly I think the boys at Nvidia have been feeling the crunch as thier 'low end' cards have been 'too good' and not enough people are paying for 'premium' cards. You can find 128MB video cards for as low as $35 online nowadays.... Yeah they're 'value' segment cards, and if you want better framerate you're gonna need to drop $$ on a better card, but the fact is that $35 card will probably run most games almost as good as a 2 year old $400 card. They're trying to enter a 'new era' of more profitable gpus, with the low end using 'special features' like this to strip off RAM and make them undesirable to serious gamers, but 'acceptable' to the clueless masses. Most people (I've built computers for) say they don't care about PC gaming, and in general the only ones using them for games are their kids. So I doubt features like this will really catch on, The real pushers of substandard technology (the dell's and gateways of the world) already have the entire memory of the card 'shared' from system ram. This solution requires 16MB of faster graphic ram, and then shares out from system ram, it might make it into some fo gateway and dell's mid range offerings, but other than that I don't see much potential for this technology. I certaintly won't be using it...
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Asimo is semi-autonimous, but not because it's got an _optional_ remote control. Asimo has to be 'ordered' or 'programmed' to perform tasks, like any robot butler would... it's not an 'artifical thinking machine' if you tell it to 'go wash the car' it can only perform that taks if it understands what you mean by 'car' where the car 'is' and what you mean by 'wash' They could easily program asimo to work on purely voice commands or hand gestures, but the remote control is for convenience and to make the 'demonstartions' go off without a hitch in recognition software, which is far from being able to perfectly handle human speech or gestures.
You see, therin lies the problem with your joke. It ranks far above the knowledge and intelligence of both the average slashdot reader, and more importantly than almost all of the slashdot moderators*. When making jokes for slashdot you need to follow Basic KISS principals. The long complex jokes that no-one gets aren't going to karma whore for you... you need to cleverly reuse the ones all the moderators understand, and more importantly get them in first.
*= I haven't gotten mod points since I figured out how to slashcode was dolling them out and could ensure I got mod points every other week... I'm assuming slashcode has protection against intelligent being capable of decyphering how to earn moderator points, and thus blacklists them...
See I could be an IT profesional! I know how to do the redirect without changing the name, but not the redirect that changes the name! I'm qualified, because I'm just as awful as the average IT professional, and all that and I didn't even have to go to school to suck...
Windows doesn't even have a program that can figure that out. The best it has is a program that asks program b a simple question. if program b doesn't answer, then windows decides program a has locked up, and asks the user if they want to halt it, this is done on shutdown, and when users attempt to 'end' an application. Guess bill gates woulda failed.;)
As devils advocate, I would like to point out that any bad teachers or doctors he may have had may have simple been 'pushed' throught the system, by teachers who couldn't fail any more students and still maintain their own career. Doctor's have to earm licences to practice medicine, and those licenses can be revoked, but in general even an incompetant doctor can continue to find states in which to practice medicine. even after having three or four states revoke his or her medical license a doctor can still move and apply for a license in almost any state in the union, the exception being those who have laws on the books prohibiting such 'bad doctor recycling.'
I find the 'report this message as spam' was more useful... I bitched to yahoo about the spam problem at my yahoo account.. I had been using spamcop to report spam and that had been semi-effective at stopping spam... but when I got enemy listed spam was flowing in at much higher rates than before.... But then yahoo decided junk mail didn't count towards quota, and was filtering most of the junk mail properly, and then quota went up to compete with g-mail... So I get maybe 100 spams a day, but it's rare for more than 2 to slip past the yahoo!s spam blocking. So my yahoo account is usable again... for now... even though my hotmail account went up in quota, their spam filters suck. Yahoo!s spam filters can get over zealous at times blocking valid mailing lists etc, but I haven't had any important e-mail end up in the bulk folder...
Some spammers create 'verified lists' of e-mail and sell them to to other spammers on a cd-r for like $40 or $50... So yeah some spammers go to great length to verify that someone is a. recieving said spam, and b. opening it to look at it. it's not to 'remove' names from mailing lists, but rather to 'add' them to a list of people who 'opened' the e-mail despite it's unlikely subject and sender.. Call it a sucker list. You opened the e-mail they're gonna send you 10x as many spams, because they beleive if they send you enough you're gonna click-thru... and if you won't click through, they can always inject code to hijack your browser and force ads to display through athe latest vulnerability in your web browser..
I can tell the difference between various encoding rates, and no i'm not an audiophile and i don't need a drop a grand, a $50 pair of headphones (if you shop around for the right pair) should be able to make it abundantly clear that bitrate matters. IT's easier to tell with certain forms of music, for instance classical mussic demonstrates bitrate loss with exceptional clarity... There are many form of 'modern' music that are so fuill of white noise that lower bitrates are actually preferable to cut out some of the noise, but hey, it depends on the type of music you have, and if you can hear the difference --; Not everyone has a good set of ears. And frankly if you've been listing to music at 110 decibels all your life you probabbly can't hear a person talking to you across a room, much less the difference between bitrates.
interesting, but not really news.. Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 13, @13:37 We all know that articles are posted by crontabs, and there are no real humans posting articles... a few hours of setting up the days crontabs and then off to play with the computer the rest of the day or whatever... so clearly taco thought this article was 1337 enough to be posted at 13:37 PST.
The only 'legit' links i've found are from cnet, and pc mag, and knowing cnet them they probabbly didn't charge the battery to 'full' before testing, and they may have even had wi-fi turned on for the entire duration (hard to say as they didn't mention any of the testing conditions) PC mag on the otherhand got 8 1/2 hours in 'informal' testing, and they did charge the battery to full prior to playing. I've heard of people getting ten or mour hours of gameplay time on a DS, on slashdot, but likely they were playing GBA games on the DS, rather than DS games (while cnet and pc mag were testing DS carts, not GBA cart batt life...) http://reviews.cnet.com/Nintendo_DS/4505-6464_7-30 895578-2.html?tag=glance http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1730092,00.as p People are bitching about load times too, but hey the load times are comperable to ps2 titles, so if you can cope with ps2 load times then psp load times shouldn't bug you much. From what I can tell the PSP's battery is exclusively for keeping your system running while you head to the next power supply, unless you run it as a memory stick based mp3 player, a 2 GB memory stick will run you about $300 and of course every mp3 you want to put on it will only play in sony portable mp3 players, and only on the memory stick you originally copied them onto using sony's DRM software.
Just because your sex life gets boring, doesn't mean everyones will.. and frankly your statment of 'if you did it long enough... you'd pay to not have sex' has no real valid proof, however the opposite is fairly easy to prove.. I remember a howard stern where he had the woman from one of the worlds largest gangbang videos and during the interview she mentioned she had sex with her boyfriend when she got home from filming... apparently 1000 guys banging her wasn't enough for one night... the fact of the matter is it's the fault of the individuals involved when a 'sex' life becomes boring. it's not the sex that has become boring, but rather the people you are having sex with cease to arouse you... (or you cease to arouse the people you're having sex with) Sex has too many infinitely variable properties to toy with, being 'bored' with sex shows the weakness of your own libido ^^;
not all spyware comes in the form of browser exploits... some come with annoying software... that people download 'because it was cute'. some even poses as spyware removal software (we've cover this before you know) anyways, just banning a bad browser won't eliminate all spyware... just the most invasive type -- the can affect anyone who's using the wrong browser type...
Commercial aircraft fly at 35,000 feet, which esentially avoids the confusion issue, by taking you out of radio range of most of the towers you're flying over until they're almost directly below you. Last time I was on a plane the guy behind me was on the cell phone talking from take off to mid flight.. despite the cell phone ban. Maybe because he was already conneted to a call the phone had an easier time, or maybe your phone just sucks and can't handle flying, not sure what the case is, but people have used cell phones on airplanes all the time... ban or no ban...
yeah he was kinda foolish to expect a 2.4 ghz to hold up "Be interesting to see how the 2.4 GHz XEON (with a Gbyte of RAM) holds up!" He didn't even have the mod_perl recompiled for a high visitor load site... and he really shoulda had a dual xeon or dual opteron or better... and shoulda had some kinda raid and/or enough ram (4 gb? 8gb? ram is cheap.)... perhaps making a ram disk to mount for/var/log (or perhaps the entire webserver and all files modified by it to a ramdisc) and periodically copy over the files from there to a more permanent hd location or something...
why oh why are you running a duron 700... even if your motherboard is capped to a 1.1 ghz 100 mhz fsb athlon you can get those as remnant parts pretty cheap if you shop around a bit... looks like about $52 on price watch... on such a legacy machine as that you're probabbly only looking at 15%-20% performance difference between a duron 700 and an athlon 1.1 ghz.. and honestly you can upgrade the whole motherboard and cpu with ram and everything for under $200 to a 2.5 ghz semtron... which is probabbly about 250% faster than a duron 700... then again you prob don't have a choice, windows wouldn't be happy (although the 1.1 ghz cpu would work no prob) if you upgraded hardware without buying a new software license...;) thanks for making me feel better about my slow 2000+ athlon xp ^^; it loads every program pretty good, games with custom addons have started to load a bit slower... but it's still working fine for productivity and internet apps...
Windows 3.11 was fairly stable the problem was it's total inability to handle large amounts of ram. If you only had 4 MB of ram windows 3.11 was the way to go for stability on the windows side of things. Windows 95 was a bloody horrible nightmare that crashed running a single application (mirc) on a regular basis.. and that was fully patched, and with the latest versions of mirc running etc... oh hey and remember Windows 95 was the version of windows they patched a '41 day uptime' bug in it about 4 years after it was first released. it took 4 years for anyone anywhere to get a windows 95 machine to run for 41 consecutive days... So the question really is what substances have you been abusing to call windows 3.11 less stable than windows 95? A known memory managment limitation can be compensated for... to achieve higher uptimes. an entirely flawed sub system that can barely remain up for 41 days consecutively when running no applications.... now that's a bit harder to compensate for.
*later that day in Topeka, KS Black helicopters silently fly up to an unspeceting house on (address deleted to protect the innocent) St.* One brave commando leaps through the front window, and unloads his clip into the computer room, completely destroying 192.168.0.1.
Meanwhile in an undisclosed location Mr. Black Hat Logs onto his botnet, and notices one of his open cable modem spam relays is down. "Guess another luser got what was coming to them, time to rename the.exe to 'AdBusterV10.exe' haha they'll never know what hit them"
Remember when keeping the graphic content of a website below 15k per page For ALL IMAGES (including the background) was essential.... Well I do... and suprizingly enough one of my personal webpages I made back in those days is still around... I had modem speed simulator when testing all my layouts and I'd benchmark the optimization of my site on the 9600 baud setting... If it wasn't rendering the page at a humanly tolerable rate at 9600 baud it wasn't small enough... I can't believe I was using the whole 'Home.htm' and leaving index.html unmade so the whole directory could be read INTENTIONALLY back then LOL course I was using Win 3.11 and couldn't make a.html file back then only.htm;) Sigh totally off-topic, and i dunno what i was doing still using 3.11 in 1997, I guess windows 95 hadn't matured enough to be conidered stable by me yet*, that or I was still using 486 class systems.. with dialup external modems, to tax the cpu less..
*= windows 95 Still hasn't matured enough to be considered stable by my standards... windows 98 SE was the only relatively** stable/usable 9x/ME edition.. **= if you consider "requires Format and reinstall every 5 months 'stable'"
Someone mentioned thunderbird has a similar feature, but an old USENet/e-mail Client I used to use Forte Agent has had all those fearures Since Pre-Windows ME... If I actually had e-mail to read, instead of just spam to delete, maybe I'd still be using an e-mail client. You could even sort by filter critera, not too useful for e-mail, but great for USENet especially binaries groups er... *COUGH*
Slashdot Mirror
those are my favorite kinda phone to open up and mess around with... wheee
Diamonds are actually cheap they come from one of the most common elements, carbon... DeBerrs controls 80% of the worlds gem quality diamond productions, and they refuse to sell more gem quality diamonds that the number of engagments in a year... they actually cut supply below demand*, thus making the price inflate. as an industrial material, cutting diamonds and diamond dust are market priced by more conventional market forces, and since most diamonds that come out of a mine are not gem quality, that makes industrial grade diamond products relatively affordable.
*= Yes I'm aware, Russia and canada are also producing gem quality diamonds, but those mines can't exactly afford to flood the market so far that diamonds plummet in value, because thier mines have less diamonds than the debeer's mines.
We need to send all our emails in the form of SPAM because noone in thier right mind would store spam for 7 years!
Hot Nude chicks!
We have to be seen to be believed!
Our chick spread thier pussies wide for you!
See if you only read the bold letters. it's says 'Hi what's up' of course, if you bold the letters it's pretty obvious, there are a lot of other things you can do that will remain in formatting that are less obvious...
Seven years worth of 100% internet data archive would require 6.1299821634635554334333881086012e+223 bytes of data storage. that's
1.4272476927059598810582859694494e+212 400 GB HDs
This is assuming growth rate trends etc..
Okay I admit it I pulled the number outa my ass,
I started with the number of pages indexed by google, 8,000,000,000 then assumed for each page linked to google 100 pages weren't directly linked to google I then assumed that each page took an average of 100k (some taking more some taking less) I then assumed that the internet doubled in size every year for 7 years. I also for good measure assumed that e-mail/im/irc/p2p traffic made up at least as much traffic data as the entire world wide web by itself. I then devided my first number by the number of bytes in a 400GB HDD (since that is the largest individual data storage unit I'm aware of) to come to the insanely impossible size of storing the entire internet for 7 years.
Yes i'm bored.
First off for those who didn't RTFA the card DOES have Fast RAM onboard 16MB of it -- which hasn't been enough to run a 3-d game in a long time, so it's capable of keeping textures (and only textures) in system ram. This is really only a 'good' solution for the 'value' segment. Frankly I think the boys at Nvidia have been feeling the crunch as thier 'low end' cards have been 'too good' and not enough people are paying for 'premium' cards. You can find 128MB video cards for as low as $35 online nowadays.... Yeah they're 'value' segment cards, and if you want better framerate you're gonna need to drop $$
on a better card, but the fact is that $35 card will probably run most games almost as good as a 2 year old $400 card. They're trying to enter a 'new era' of more profitable gpus, with the low end using 'special features' like this to strip off RAM and make them undesirable to serious gamers, but 'acceptable' to the clueless masses.
Most people (I've built computers for) say they don't care about PC gaming, and in general the only ones using them for games are their kids.
So I doubt features like this will really catch on, The real pushers of substandard technology (the dell's and gateways of the world) already have the entire memory of the card 'shared' from system ram. This solution requires 16MB of faster graphic ram, and then shares out from system ram, it might make it into some fo gateway and dell's mid range offerings, but other than that I don't see much potential for this technology. I certaintly won't be using it...
Asimo is semi-autonimous, but not because it's got an _optional_ remote control. Asimo has to be 'ordered' or 'programmed' to perform tasks, like any robot butler would... it's not an 'artifical thinking machine' if you tell it to 'go wash the car' it can only perform that taks if it understands what you mean by 'car' where the car 'is' and what you mean by 'wash' They could easily program asimo to work on purely voice commands or hand gestures, but the remote control is for convenience and to make the 'demonstartions' go off without a hitch in recognition software, which is far from being able to perfectly handle human speech or gestures.
You see, therin lies the problem with your joke. It ranks far above the knowledge and intelligence of both the average slashdot reader, and more importantly than almost all of the slashdot moderators*. When making jokes for slashdot you need to follow Basic KISS principals. The long complex jokes that no-one gets aren't going to karma whore for you... you need to cleverly reuse the ones all the moderators understand, and more importantly get them in first.
*= I haven't gotten mod points since I figured out how to slashcode was dolling them out and could ensure I got mod points every other week... I'm assuming slashcode has protection against intelligent being capable of decyphering how to earn moderator points, and thus blacklists them...
See I could be an IT profesional! I know how to do the redirect without changing the name, but not the redirect that changes the name! I'm qualified, because I'm just as awful as the average IT professional, and all that and I didn't even have to go to school to suck...
Windows doesn't even have a program that can figure that out. The best it has is a program that asks program b a simple question. if program b doesn't answer, then windows decides program a has locked up, and asks the user if they want to halt it, this is done on shutdown, and when users attempt to 'end' an application. ;)
Guess bill gates woulda failed.
As devils advocate, I would like to point out that any bad teachers or doctors he may have had may have simple been 'pushed' throught the system, by teachers who couldn't fail any more students and still maintain their own career. Doctor's have to earm licences to practice medicine, and those licenses can be revoked, but in general even an incompetant doctor can continue to find states in which to practice medicine. even after having three or four states revoke his or her medical license a doctor can still move and apply for a license in almost any state in the union, the exception being those who have laws on the books prohibiting such 'bad doctor recycling.'
I find the 'report this message as spam' was more useful...
I bitched to yahoo about the spam problem at my yahoo account.. I had been using spamcop to report spam and that had been semi-effective at stopping spam... but when I got enemy listed spam was flowing in at much higher rates than before.... But then yahoo decided junk mail didn't count towards quota, and was filtering most of the junk mail properly, and then quota went up to compete with g-mail...
So I get maybe 100 spams a day, but it's rare for more than 2 to slip past the yahoo!s spam blocking. So my yahoo account is usable again... for now... even though my hotmail account went up in quota, their spam filters suck. Yahoo!s spam filters can get over zealous at times blocking valid mailing lists etc, but I haven't had any important e-mail end up in the bulk folder...
Some spammers create 'verified lists' of e-mail and sell them to to other spammers on a cd-r for like $40 or $50... So yeah some spammers go to great length to verify that someone is a. recieving said spam, and b. opening it to look at it. it's not to 'remove' names from mailing lists, but rather to 'add' them to a list of people who 'opened' the e-mail despite it's unlikely subject and sender..
Call it a sucker list. You opened the e-mail they're gonna send you 10x as many spams, because they beleive if they send you enough you're gonna click-thru... and if you won't click through, they can always inject code to hijack your browser and force ads to display through athe latest vulnerability in your web browser..
Tsk I already knew what she looked like. She was on one of the 'last' Unscrewed episodes. Slashdot as usual is 'old news'
I can tell the difference between various encoding rates, and no i'm not an audiophile and i don't need a drop a grand, a $50 pair of headphones (if you shop around for the right pair) should be able to make it abundantly clear that bitrate matters. IT's easier to tell with certain forms of music, for instance classical mussic demonstrates bitrate loss with exceptional clarity... There are many form of 'modern' music that are so fuill of white noise that lower bitrates are actually preferable to cut out some of the noise, but hey, it depends on the type of music you have, and if you can hear the difference --; Not everyone has a good set of ears. And frankly if you've been listing to music at 110 decibels all your life you probabbly can't hear a person talking to you across a room, much less the difference between bitrates.
interesting, but not really news.. Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 13, @13:37
We all know that articles are posted by crontabs, and there are no real humans posting articles... a few hours of setting up the days crontabs and then off to play with the computer the rest of the day or whatever... so clearly taco thought this article was 1337 enough to be posted at 13:37 PST.
The only 'legit' links i've found are from cnet, and pc mag, and knowing cnet them they probabbly didn't charge the battery to 'full' before testing, and they may have even had wi-fi turned on for the entire duration (hard to say as they didn't mention any of the testing conditions)0 895578-2.html?tag=glance s p
PC mag on the otherhand got 8 1/2 hours in 'informal' testing, and they did charge the battery to full prior to playing.
I've heard of people getting ten or mour hours of gameplay time on a DS, on slashdot, but likely they were playing GBA games on the DS, rather than DS games (while cnet and pc mag were testing DS carts, not GBA cart batt life...)
http://reviews.cnet.com/Nintendo_DS/4505-6464_7-3
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1730092,00.a
People are bitching about load times too, but hey the load times are comperable to ps2 titles, so if you can cope with ps2 load times then psp load times shouldn't bug you much.
From what I can tell the PSP's battery is exclusively for keeping your system running while you head to the next power supply, unless you run it as a memory stick based mp3 player, a 2 GB memory stick will run you about $300 and of course every mp3 you want to put on it will only play in sony portable mp3 players, and only on the memory stick you originally copied them onto using sony's DRM software.
Just because your sex life gets boring, doesn't mean everyones will.. and frankly your statment of 'if you did it long enough... you'd pay to not have sex' has no real valid proof, however the opposite is fairly easy to prove.. I remember a howard stern where he had the woman from one of the worlds largest gangbang videos and during the interview she mentioned she had sex with her boyfriend when she got home from filming... apparently 1000 guys banging her wasn't enough for one night...
the fact of the matter is it's the fault of the individuals involved when a 'sex' life becomes boring. it's not the sex that has become boring, but rather the people you are having sex with cease to arouse you... (or you cease to arouse the people you're having sex with)
Sex has too many infinitely variable properties to toy with, being 'bored' with sex shows the weakness of your own libido ^^;
not all spyware comes in the form of browser exploits... some come with annoying software... that people download 'because it was cute'. some even poses as spyware removal software (we've cover this before you know)
anyways, just banning a bad browser won't eliminate all spyware... just the most invasive type -- the can affect anyone who's using the wrong browser type...
Commercial aircraft fly at 35,000 feet, which esentially avoids the confusion issue, by taking you out of radio range of most of the towers you're flying over until they're almost directly below you.
Last time I was on a plane the guy behind me was on the cell phone talking from take off to mid flight.. despite the cell phone ban. Maybe because he was already conneted to a call the phone had an easier time, or maybe your phone just sucks and can't handle flying, not sure what the case is, but people have used cell phones on airplanes all the time... ban or no ban...
yeah he was kinda foolish to expect a 2.4 ghz to hold up "Be interesting to see how the 2.4 GHz XEON (with a Gbyte of RAM) holds up!" He didn't even have the mod_perl recompiled for a high visitor load site... and he really shoulda had a dual xeon or dual opteron or better... and shoulda had some kinda raid and/or enough ram (4 gb? 8gb? ram is cheap.)... perhaps making a ram disk to mount for /var/log (or perhaps the entire webserver and all files modified by it to a ramdisc) and periodically copy over the files from there to a more permanent hd location or something...
why oh why are you running a duron 700... even if your motherboard is capped to a 1.1 ghz 100 mhz fsb athlon you can get those as remnant parts pretty cheap if you shop around a bit... looks like about $52 on price watch... on such a legacy machine as that you're probabbly only looking at 15%-20% performance difference between a duron 700 and an athlon 1.1 ghz.. and honestly you can upgrade the whole motherboard and cpu with ram and everything for under $200 to a 2.5 ghz semtron... which is probabbly about 250% faster than a duron 700... ;)
then again you prob don't have a choice, windows wouldn't be happy (although the 1.1 ghz cpu would work no prob) if you upgraded hardware without buying a new software license...
thanks for making me feel better about my slow 2000+ athlon xp ^^; it loads every program pretty good, games with custom addons have started to load a bit slower... but it's still working fine for productivity and internet apps...
Windows 3.11 was fairly stable the problem was it's total inability to handle large amounts of ram. If you only had 4 MB of ram windows 3.11 was the way to go for stability on the windows side of things. Windows 95 was a bloody horrible nightmare that crashed running a single application (mirc) on a regular basis.. and that was fully patched, and with the latest versions of mirc running etc... oh hey and remember Windows 95 was the version of windows they patched a '41 day uptime' bug in it about 4 years after it was first released. it took 4 years for anyone anywhere to get a windows 95 machine to run for 41 consecutive days... So the question really is what substances have you been abusing to call windows 3.11 less stable than windows 95?
A known memory managment limitation can be compensated for... to achieve higher uptimes. an entirely flawed sub system that can barely remain up for 41 days consecutively when running no applications.... now that's a bit harder to compensate for.
*later that day in Topeka, KS Black helicopters silently fly up to an unspeceting house on (address deleted to protect the innocent) St.* One brave commando leaps through the front window, and unloads his clip into the computer room, completely destroying 192.168.0.1.
.exe to 'AdBusterV10.exe' haha they'll never know what hit them"
Meanwhile in an undisclosed location Mr. Black Hat Logs onto his botnet, and notices one of his open cable modem spam relays is down. "Guess another luser got what was coming to them, time to rename the
*set darkens to maniacle laughter*
Sorry I don't do happy endings...
Remember when keeping the graphic content of a website below 15k per page For ALL IMAGES (including the background) was essential.... Well I do... and suprizingly enough one of my personal webpages I made back in those days is still around... I had modem speed simulator when testing all my layouts and I'd benchmark the optimization of my site on the 9600 baud setting... If it wasn't rendering the page at a humanly tolerable rate at 9600 baud it wasn't small enough... I can't believe I was using the whole 'Home.htm' and leaving index.html unmade so the whole directory could be read INTENTIONALLY back then LOL course I was using Win 3.11 and couldn't make a .html file back then only .htm ;)
Sigh totally off-topic, and i dunno what i was doing still using 3.11 in 1997, I guess windows 95 hadn't matured enough to be conidered stable by me yet*, that or I was still using 486 class systems.. with dialup external modems, to tax the cpu less..
*= windows 95 Still hasn't matured enough to be considered stable by my standards... windows 98 SE was the only relatively** stable/usable 9x/ME edition..
**= if you consider "requires Format and reinstall every 5 months 'stable'"
Someone mentioned thunderbird has a similar feature, but an old USENet/e-mail Client I used to use Forte Agent has had all those fearures Since Pre-Windows ME... If I actually had e-mail to read, instead of just spam to delete, maybe I'd still be using an e-mail client.
You could even sort by filter critera, not too useful for e-mail, but great for USENet especially binaries groups er... *COUGH*