I'm sorry, but I can't imagine a universe where "Ewoks" hold up well. The entire idea seemed like Lucas took a fucked up childhood dream about teddy bears and ran with it. He even went so far as having the teddy bears getting together to brush out Leia's long hair. Talk about sexually repressed childhood fantasies! The entire 3rd movie was nothing but a cry for help by Lucas!
Dude, chill. Check a couple stories back and you'll see they're just getting around to the flying cars everyone was promised would be here by now back in the 50s and you're bitching about 80s promises!
Apollo was a company that made mini-computers back in the day. The OS was called "Domain" and the system was used in a manufacturing environment, controlling an automated circuit assembly system.
They, too, used unsigned ints for date keeping, but it used an odd epoch date. On October 30th, 1999 I was notified by our supplier that there wasn't a "Y2K" issue. There WAS a November 3rd, 1999 issue, however. At that time, the system would not boot.
Some of the boot code used signed ints, some unsigned. Early in boot, one of the routines waited for a certain time + interval to start. Essentially, waiting for the last process to complete. However, the last process wrapped and the timestamp was something like 6,500 B.C. and the next process used an == to compare, not >=. It would wait for the next few thousand years before completing. "Oh look, I've got time!"
Luckily we had the Sun Solaris-based replacement equipment there...for a year. We had just needed motivation to actually make the transition. 4 days we motivation enough -- the bastards.
Thanks for clearing that up. I did not know it was an id person who did the port. I thought it was all done by SD, and only licensed from id. Kudos to TTimo.
The transition from Office 97 to Office 2000 caused major headaches because of the lack of proper support for.doc format. People got thru that by recreating many documents, or just doing without them, or waiting until a service pack came out many months later.
Ditto with the transition from Office 2003 to 2007. I've dealt with numerous cases, especially with Powerpoint, where opening and saving in Office 2007 totally fucked up a document. Stuff disappeared, or was rearranged. One case, where the boss got a new laptop 2 days before a conference. His old one died and his new one came with Office 2007. He edited his presentation, saved it as an Office 2003.ppt and sent it to his assistant to finish. It was totally fubar, but she only edited a few slides in the beginning and didn't see the mess later on. When she sent it to him, her edits looked like crap to him and his earlier edits were gone. It was a nightmare that saw the assistant recreate the entire thing from a printout the day before the conference -- and a total office ban on Office 2007 the day after.
Shit happens, even when exclusively in the MS world. People would redo the documents that didn't translate properly. They'd bitch, but they'd do it. I've seen it time and time again over the last 20+ years. Wordstar (dot commands FTW!) to Wordperfect to Word; Lotus 1-2-3 to Excel; god-knows-what to Visio; and don't even get me started on CAD!
And SuSE, Red Hat, TRW or IBM would be happy to take your money for a support contract.
For a minute there I was wondering how you get table salt to run on an arm, but then I just turned my arm up and it ran. Thanks for the tip. As for bugs...the only problem I've had is ants, and they don't like salt to begin with. They seem to prefer the coffee.
Apps would run on the device, but be initially loaded from the web. There is no installed, only cached. When net connectivity isn't available, they run from the system cache. Syncing is done when connectivity is restored. I mean, if it was 100% web based then there wouldn't be much of a need for a big SSD, would there?
So, if you're using a compatible OS, will you be able to take advantage of the drive by having it present you with 4,096 byte logical sector sizes? Or is that all in the disk format?
Yeah, I know. With two major exceptions, I've had fairly good luck with Dell desktops, laptops and servers.
The first they fixed, after lots and lots of threats to pull my business. It only worked because I had a $20,000+ order pending that they made good on swapping out a defective system. I wasn't interested in yet another repair.
The second is a laptop with the same issue (nVidia graphics chipset that had substrate issues and fried itself) that I just gave up on and purchased a replacement motherboard variant with the Intel chipset. Dell just insisted on sending out repair techs every month when it fried itself again. After the third time I told them never mind and purchased a motherboard from Ebay. I just won't but laptops or desktops from them ever again. Servers, okay. Other PCs, no way.
Dell has NOTHING on Packard Bell. I'm not sure what happened to them, but their equipment was shit and totally random. There are a few differences with CherryPal, though.
Since CP has their own Debian distro, people won't have to wonder if their are Linux drivers for the hardware found in the system. If it ships, it works and has drivers. Packard Bell was a challenge. "Oh. They shipped one of THOSE parts this time!"
PB wasn't guaranteeing minimum specs, they were saying exact specs on CPU, RAM and HD. CP's "at least this" is an interesting idea.
Thus, all children who grow up on farms (something like 70+% before the industrial revolution) were scarred?
Sex is procreation and a necessary and natural function of life. There is nothing scarring about it unless you mix violence in. Considering you should probably be teaching your kids that violence is unacceptable except in self-defense (if at all!), I don't see what the issue is.
Sex may be CONFUSING to children, but it is by no means SCARRING.
Dress in a black turtleneck sweater and use a Macbook while talking (via bluetooth) on your iPhone. If you wear glasses, make sure to look over them, down your nose at other people and scowl protectively when anyone gets near your personal space. That'll make you look arrogant and pompous no matter where you go.
The entire birthday? Holy crap! What did they expect?! Even just narrowing it down to birth year gives you a way to narrow the set considerably when combined with the other two items. What was wrong with the traditional "18-24, 25-40, etc." age ranges?
You are either displaying very subtle sarcastic humor or a MASSIVE amount of IGNORANCE here. Being/., I'm betting on the latter but apologize if it is the former.
Cuba provided "advisors", training, arms and money for thirty-plus years to SEVERAL communist revolutionary groups around the world, in such places as Angola, Bolivia, Congo, Nicaragua and Grenada just to name a few. These actions were a legitimate part of their government. Does Che Guevara not ring a bell?
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I wonder if this is for sale, yet.
Heh. Looks like every last Sprint customer, then.
Does the MJ actually work worth a darn? How is call quality?
I'm sorry, but I can't imagine a universe where "Ewoks" hold up well. The entire idea seemed like Lucas took a fucked up childhood dream about teddy bears and ran with it. He even went so far as having the teddy bears getting together to brush out Leia's long hair. Talk about sexually repressed childhood fantasies! The entire 3rd movie was nothing but a cry for help by Lucas!
Dude, chill. Check a couple stories back and you'll see they're just getting around to the flying cars everyone was promised would be here by now back in the 50s and you're bitching about 80s promises!
Relax and check back in another 20-30 years.
To get a swab test to make damn sure it is a cold (rhinovirus, etc.) and not something like strep, mono or something nasty that NEEDS antibiotics?
Yeah, but with just one eye his depth perception is for shit and you can avoid him pretty easily in low light.
Apollo was a company that made mini-computers back in the day. The OS was called "Domain" and the system was used in a manufacturing environment, controlling an automated circuit assembly system.
They, too, used unsigned ints for date keeping, but it used an odd epoch date. On October 30th, 1999 I was notified by our supplier that there wasn't a "Y2K" issue. There WAS a November 3rd, 1999 issue, however. At that time, the system would not boot.
Some of the boot code used signed ints, some unsigned. Early in boot, one of the routines waited for a certain time + interval to start. Essentially, waiting for the last process to complete. However, the last process wrapped and the timestamp was something like 6,500 B.C. and the next process used an == to compare, not >=. It would wait for the next few thousand years before completing. "Oh look, I've got time!"
Luckily we had the Sun Solaris-based replacement equipment there...for a year. We had just needed motivation to actually make the transition. 4 days we motivation enough -- the bastards.
Thanks for clearing that up. I did not know it was an id person who did the port. I thought it was all done by SD, and only licensed from id. Kudos to TTimo.
Splash Damage was the company that did the port of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars to Linux. The port was good and I still play quite a bit.
This isn't totally honest.
The transition from Office 97 to Office 2000 caused major headaches because of the lack of proper support for .doc format. People got thru that by recreating many documents, or just doing without them, or waiting until a service pack came out many months later.
Ditto with the transition from Office 2003 to 2007. I've dealt with numerous cases, especially with Powerpoint, where opening and saving in Office 2007 totally fucked up a document. Stuff disappeared, or was rearranged. One case, where the boss got a new laptop 2 days before a conference. His old one died and his new one came with Office 2007. He edited his presentation, saved it as an Office 2003 .ppt and sent it to his assistant to finish. It was totally fubar, but she only edited a few slides in the beginning and didn't see the mess later on. When she sent it to him, her edits looked like crap to him and his earlier edits were gone. It was a nightmare that saw the assistant recreate the entire thing from a printout the day before the conference -- and a total office ban on Office 2007 the day after.
Shit happens, even when exclusively in the MS world. People would redo the documents that didn't translate properly. They'd bitch, but they'd do it. I've seen it time and time again over the last 20+ years. Wordstar (dot commands FTW!) to Wordperfect to Word; Lotus 1-2-3 to Excel; god-knows-what to Visio; and don't even get me started on CAD!
And SuSE, Red Hat, TRW or IBM would be happy to take your money for a support contract.
For a minute there I was wondering how you get table salt to run on an arm, but then I just turned my arm up and it ran. Thanks for the tip. As for bugs...the only problem I've had is ants, and they don't like salt to begin with. They seem to prefer the coffee.
I believe they are probably working towards a system similar to Zero Install.
http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/faq.html
Apps would run on the device, but be initially loaded from the web. There is no installed, only cached. When net connectivity isn't available, they run from the system cache. Syncing is done when connectivity is restored. I mean, if it was 100% web based then there wouldn't be much of a need for a big SSD, would there?
It actually has a lot of potential.
Its your mom's birthday, too?
So, if you're using a compatible OS, will you be able to take advantage of the drive by having it present you with 4,096 byte logical sector sizes? Or is that all in the disk format?
Damn, now I got to go dig thru my DVD collection and watch it again.
Mmmmm...Milla.
Yeah, I know. With two major exceptions, I've had fairly good luck with Dell desktops, laptops and servers.
The first they fixed, after lots and lots of threats to pull my business. It only worked because I had a $20,000+ order pending that they made good on swapping out a defective system. I wasn't interested in yet another repair.
The second is a laptop with the same issue (nVidia graphics chipset that had substrate issues and fried itself) that I just gave up on and purchased a replacement motherboard variant with the Intel chipset. Dell just insisted on sending out repair techs every month when it fried itself again. After the third time I told them never mind and purchased a motherboard from Ebay. I just won't but laptops or desktops from them ever again. Servers, okay. Other PCs, no way.
Dell has NOTHING on Packard Bell. I'm not sure what happened to them, but their equipment was shit and totally random. There are a few differences with CherryPal, though.
Since CP has their own Debian distro, people won't have to wonder if their are Linux drivers for the hardware found in the system. If it ships, it works and has drivers. Packard Bell was a challenge. "Oh. They shipped one of THOSE parts this time!"
PB wasn't guaranteeing minimum specs, they were saying exact specs on CPU, RAM and HD. CP's "at least this" is an interesting idea.
Thus, all children who grow up on farms (something like 70+% before the industrial revolution) were scarred?
Sex is procreation and a necessary and natural function of life. There is nothing scarring about it unless you mix violence in. Considering you should probably be teaching your kids that violence is unacceptable except in self-defense (if at all!), I don't see what the issue is.
Sex may be CONFUSING to children, but it is by no means SCARRING.
Perfectly acceptable in a data center, though.
Dress in a black turtleneck sweater and use a Macbook while talking (via bluetooth) on your iPhone. If you wear glasses, make sure to look over them, down your nose at other people and scowl protectively when anyone gets near your personal space. That'll make you look arrogant and pompous no matter where you go.
The entire birthday? Holy crap! What did they expect?! Even just narrowing it down to birth year gives you a way to narrow the set considerably when combined with the other two items. What was wrong with the traditional "18-24, 25-40, etc." age ranges?
No pitching your own crappy stuff here, ok?
On Slashdot?! You must be new here.
You are either displaying very subtle sarcastic humor or a MASSIVE amount of IGNORANCE here. Being /., I'm betting on the latter but apologize if it is the former.
Cuba provided "advisors", training, arms and money for thirty-plus years to SEVERAL communist revolutionary groups around the world, in such places as Angola, Bolivia, Congo, Nicaragua and Grenada just to name a few. These actions were a legitimate part of their government. Does Che Guevara not ring a bell?
Buy a cheap phone without 3G, because you aren't going to be able to use it on T-Mobile since the frequencies are different.