... is not only that it is synching up with the trendy "i*" jargon of our times, but that it references its operating system, the fact that it's a computer, and brings home the feel of the kitchen in one name.
To break it down:
1) The "i" starter is cool
2) It seems to run WinCE as its OS
3) It is indeed a BOX
4) Who can deny that an iCEBOX belongs in a kitchen?
Wow! I've seen ten-year-old Ferraris you couldn't buy with that money. There's no chance you'd get up to Alaska and have them say "reserve not yet met" is there?
O.K. out of date joke given the current selling price but I couldn't resist. 8^)
AOL subscribers swelled from 9 million in autumn1997 to 33 million at the beginning of this year. In December alone, AOL gained 1.9 million new subscribers, the company said. MSN, by contrast, foundered for years, going from 2.5 million subscribers in 1997 to 7.7 million in December.
Translation: in several years time AOL more than tripled subscribership whereas MSN only got slightly more than three times the number of subscribers in that same time period.
Actually they require memory + HDD swap partition to be 1GB. The thing that amuses the heck out of me is that they list a minimum disk size of 500 MB so (totally ignoring the need to actually store the program somewhere to keep this from sounding even more silly) if you have a computer with a 500 MB HDD then you should be O.K.
As long as that outdated thing also has half a Gig of memory...
I'll agree with you that the winner was ok, but what's up with the runner up entry? That was just bad. I don't see how you could defend it.
I thought it was a brilliant referance to Monty Python's spam skit. Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam baked beans Spam Spam and Spam were the dinner options IIRC.
I really don't think that Microsoft discontinuing support for old versions of Windows will make anyone switch to Linux.
When was the last time you called up MS for tech support for Windows? Most people just don't care, or are even aware MS will provide any tech support at all.
The point is not what Microsoft will do. They never did do support for the OEM versions of Win95 I owned. That is something they left for the vendors. (a note to those of you that buy the OEM versions from your local computer shop: You are the only support you have. Study well.)
What is far more significant to me is that now that Win95 is an unsupported product, no one else feels the urge to make anything work under it. For me, no problem; I've moved on. However, I've spruced up and passed on old Windows boxes to a couple of my relatives. The non-profit for whom I do tech support is running on a donated Win95 box. What are these people going to do when they can't use functional anti-virus software when connecting to the internet? What happens when they can't install the new version of some software to read a document (and the StarOffice import filter doesn't yet cut it)?
These people will be left out in the cold, and I don't see myself recommending they give uncle Bill $99 for an "upgrade" just to be supported for another 15 months. Linux has been and is difficult for someone who is not interested in computers to install. It is getting better and I'm learning more myself. Windows is getting harder to use as it becomes obvious that the software has a time limit on it even without a pre-defined end to the license.
As these two things cross you can bet your bottom dollar I will migrate the dozen people I now support to a better, open platform.
Well, it isn't free as in speech, cause we don't get source code, which means it is x86 only (amoung other issues).
It's O.K. for it to run on x86 only. The focus of FreeBSD is to run as well as possible on x86 machines. If you want to run on other architectures, try NetBSD whose motto is ``Of course it runs NetBSD.''
What a crapload of free advertising for something I 'm not interested in, dunno about the other slashdot readers but lately it seems that a lot of people and projects are getting unnecessary advertisements..
So who do I pay to get my site mentioned ?:)
If only I could think of something GiMP, if only you had an obvious project you liked, GiMP.
There was some discussion of whether IE6 was vulnerable in the same way as IE5; the published exploit didn't seem to work on IE6.
OK let me pitch out some paranoid forced-update conspiricy theory: (1) The exploit may work in IE5.5sp2 but not in IE6 (2) IE6 won't install on Win95 (3) Win95 became an unsupported product within the last month.
Is the message I'm supposed to get out of this that I must upgrade all the Win95 machines I might contact in order to keep them safe?
Let me see if I have this right...they're concerned their IBM hard drives might go south, so they're replacing them with Maxtors?
honest question here - i've had two Western Digitals go south on me in four years of owning real (actually advanced far enough to have a HDD) computer - What do folks here actually like? I don't know what to buy next.
Similarly, when you go in to a fast food place like Burger King, and they refuse any bill larger than $20 or a whole pile of change. How is that legal? If I show up with $100, its real US money, why don't they have to take it?
I suppose they might have to take it, but the bill says nothing about them being required to give you change. Do you think you can consume $100 worth of Burger King before it goes bad?
I tend to surf in several windows simultaneously (read one while the others are loading) and I have a 56K connection. Java pisses me off. When a page with javascript starts to load the browser is locked until the script runs, negating any bonus I get out of surfing in several windows.
My solution:
Three browsers installed each with its own purpose.
Netscape 5.7x is my default browser with no cookies and no java. Everything loads quickly and lets me get on with life.
Mozilla keeps cookies but it also set to ignore java content. This way I can/. with my prefs saved and use a shopping cart etc.
IE is still in (close to) default joe user mode. If it really seems worth waiting for the flash, java or whatever next generation bandwith-hogging K-Mart-Blue-Light-Special-level attention getting script, I'll pop it open in IE with good old cut and paste. I also use IE when I have a guest who wants to check something on the web. Sadly this is now what is familiar to almost everyone.
A few drops of liquid nitrogen on your skin won't hurt -- as it boils, the gaseous nitrogen will act as an insulator
Just wanted to mention to those who have not run into the concept of film boiling yet how this amazingly cool phenomenon works. It's called the Leidenfrost Effect and a 1977 Scientific American article written by a hilariously brave professor is what sparked my original interest in science.
Some people have gotten it right and *they* get my money.
Example: underwatermoonlight.com is the new home of the band The Soft Boys. They give away about an hours worth of MP3s from the 2001 reunion tour (that was worth a ten hour car trip for me to see, so I'll admit I'm a bit committed to this band)absolutely free. If you like those you can cough up $15 via Paypal, register a username and PW and, download five more hours.
I got to sample. The price was better than buying physical music could ever be. Payment was quick and easy. What more could I ask. Oh yeah, that others eventually pick up on this kind of model.
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To break it down:
1) The "i" starter is cool
2) It seems to run WinCE as its OS
3) It is indeed a BOX
4) Who can deny that an iCEBOX belongs in a kitchen?
O.K. out of date joke given the current selling price but I couldn't resist. 8^)
Translation: in several years time AOL more than tripled subscribership whereas MSN only got slightly more than three times the number of subscribers in that same time period.
As long as that outdated thing also has half a Gig of memory...
I thought it was a brilliant referance to Monty Python's spam skit. Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam baked beans Spam Spam and Spam were the dinner options IIRC.
No boss, I can prove that I didn't use any company resources. Check the dither on the yellow ink - I ran off copies of my ass at Kinkos #3361!
O.K. The encoder and the joke. So sorry.
No, no. Lame is just the encoder...
The point is not what Microsoft will do. They never did do support for the OEM versions of Win95 I owned. That is something they left for the vendors. (a note to those of you that buy the OEM versions from your local computer shop: You are the only support you have. Study well.)
What is far more significant to me is that now that Win95 is an unsupported product, no one else feels the urge to make anything work under it. For me, no problem; I've moved on. However, I've spruced up and passed on old Windows boxes to a couple of my relatives. The non-profit for whom I do tech support is running on a donated Win95 box. What are these people going to do when they can't use functional anti-virus software when connecting to the internet? What happens when they can't install the new version of some software to read a document (and the StarOffice import filter doesn't yet cut it)?
These people will be left out in the cold, and I don't see myself recommending they give uncle Bill $99 for an "upgrade" just to be supported for another 15 months. Linux has been and is difficult for someone who is not interested in computers to install. It is getting better and I'm learning more myself. Windows is getting harder to use as it becomes obvious that the software has a time limit on it even without a pre-defined end to the license.
As these two things cross you can bet your bottom dollar I will migrate the dozen people I now support to a better, open platform.
It's O.K. for it to run on x86 only. The focus of FreeBSD is to run as well as possible on x86 machines. If you want to run on other architectures, try NetBSD whose motto is ``Of course it runs NetBSD.''
If only I could think of something GiMP, if only you had an obvious project you liked, GiMP.
Maybe I should try the homepage listed in the header... HEY that's not what I expected!
Well sir, the good news is that if we get your car back in one piece the thieves might leave fingerprints behind.
(1) The exploit may work in IE5.5sp2 but not in IE6
(2) IE6 won't install on Win95
(3) Win95 became an unsupported product within the last month.
Is the message I'm supposed to get out of this that I must upgrade all the Win95 machines I might contact in order to keep them safe?
Yeah - trust me; this is the new kernel...
Are you sure a better monitore wouldn't encourage behaviour that might make you go blind?
honest question here - i've had two Western Digitals go south on me in four years of owning real (actually advanced far enough to have a HDD) computer - What do folks here actually like? I don't know what to buy next.
I suppose they might have to take it, but the bill says nothing about them being required to give you change. Do you think you can consume $100 worth of Burger King before it goes bad?
My solution:
Three browsers installed each with its own purpose.
Netscape 5.7x is my default browser with no cookies and no java. Everything loads quickly and lets me get on with life.
Mozilla keeps cookies but it also set to ignore java content. This way I can /. with my prefs saved and use a shopping cart etc.
IE is still in (close to) default joe user mode. If it really seems worth waiting for the flash, java or whatever next generation bandwith-hogging K-Mart-Blue-Light-Special-level attention getting script, I'll pop it open in IE with good old cut and paste. I also use IE when I have a guest who wants to check something on the web. Sadly this is now what is familiar to almost everyone.
If so someone ought to help the author figure out how to target only the correct kind of files...
Just wanted to mention to those who have not run into the concept of film boiling yet how this amazingly cool phenomenon works. It's called the Leidenfrost Effect and a 1977 Scientific American article written by a hilariously brave professor is what sparked my original interest in science.
A reprint can be found at http://www.lovephy.com/public_html/exp/2000exp/lei den1.html
Example: underwatermoonlight.com is the new home of the band The Soft Boys. They give away about an hours worth of MP3s from the 2001 reunion tour (that was worth a ten hour car trip for me to see, so I'll admit I'm a bit committed to this band)absolutely free. If you like those you can cough up $15 via Paypal, register a username and PW and, download five more hours.
I got to sample. The price was better than buying physical music could ever be. Payment was quick and easy. What more could I ask. Oh yeah, that others eventually pick up on this kind of model.