I just wish I could get to old DOS version of simcity to work on new machines. Sure, I've got the newer versions (which I never play, since I don't run Windows if I don't hae to, and since I don't have to, I don't...), but that old game was just FUN.
recall reading an interview with some MS exec (wish i coudl remember his name... Steven something). this was a year or two ago where he said that the path to security for MS/Windows was basically a 10 year road map.
... so Microsoft figures less then 10 more years before everyone's switched from Window to OSX or linux...
I don't think its a good idea to try to flash your memory. From what I hear, electro-shock therapy makes your memory worse, not better, at least for short-term memory:-)
Save your money. for the same or better image quality, at half the price or less, get a rear-projection TV. Tehy've improved a lot over the last few years.
Great - so how am I supposed to even load those monstrosities into my thumbchip 'puter in 30 years?
p
Especially since all optical lasers will have been banned as potention "terr'rist weapons" under the laws passed by Emporer Bush the First in 2016?
Others said the blocking of Wikipedia has been a major blow to their research projects and even to their prospects of passing civil-service exams. 'How can I do my thesis now?' a university student asked on another Chinese website."
Soap, Ballot, Ammo; yes, of course.
Unfortunately the first use must often be in reverse order.
There is a more peaceful solution - just go to the friging library and READ (oh, but that's too hard. I can't just google for the "good bits" - I'll have to read everything IN CONTEXT!)
"Research" is not the same as a quick google or yahoo. Anyone caught depending entirely on cut-n-paste citations from the web deserves a zero, and only because you can-t award a lower mark.
Ummm... by the time its into production, its already obsolete.
Thats the way it works with everything nowadays. There is not getting away from it.
I love my cell phone, but its 3 years old, and I can't replace it with a similar one - its obsolete.
The ones that are hot sellers now went from ultra-rare preproduction $1400 a pop IF you could get your hands on one at the beginning of last year to "we'll throw one in if you sign up now". They'll be obsoleted in a few months - their replacement has already been announced.
Better yet, look at big screen tvs. Plasma is being dumped as the garbage it is. And yet, it was HOT a year ago. People were still buying them this christmas, not having "read the memo", or kept current. They're figuring "Wow, I got that plasma TV I've been salivating all year for" - oops - obsolete.
I can just see the marketing slogans now - "This computer holds acres and acres of data. Help save the forests - every time you buy one of these computers, you help preserve 5,000 acres of trees. We've already sold enough trees to cover the world 3 times, but ITS NOT ENOUGH! Do your share. Buy our computers. Save the world."
A lot of people must have missed the SNL skit where Steve Jobs introduces the ipon iMini, then says "Its' obsolete", "Since when did that happen?" "Ths morning"
Then he introduces the ipod iMicro, then says "But its obsolete too", "Since when"? "5 minutes ago"
Then he "shows" the ipod iNVisible - "holds every song ever recorded, all the video you could ever watch, and its so small you can't see it. And when you drop it, it doesn't fall - it f-l-o-a-t-s" "Sure, Steve, whatever... go away"
Good point - but don't forget/usr/local (or whatever passes for that on some of the weirder configs nowadays - I never did like/opt or/srv) and/var/lib -/var/lib/mysql, for example...
Sounds like a good plan, but you forgot to put it into a form slashdotters can relate to:
I have them do small CD backups of crucial data, clone machines to secondary drives, and then take a large external drive off site - but make sure the off-site storage is YOU
Quit
Profit!
At the very least, you'll have a few spare drives to play with; if you snag your maried boss's love letters to his gf, those drives might be your best bet for a glowing recommendation on your resume AND a golden parachute:-)
The problem I ran into ws that the stupid hardware card that came with the drive was one of those old full-length custom not-quite-scuzzy cards. I was able to fit it into the box (but try to find a non-pci box nowadays), but even with the "right" drivers, it never worked properly - the computer was too fast for the timing loop in the software to sync properly. It was probably like trying to play an old 8086 game on today's machines.
You need to add space between each block for synching. the smart thing would be 2 sync spaces between each byte. Ditto for every 8 rows. So add 50%, just to be on the safe side.
Sorry, you just reminded me of the History of Life Part I, where Moses comes out with the Fifteen Commandments... Oops, Ten Commandments...
The way I heard it, it was originally supposed to be one commandment (God didn't want to make it too hard on his people), but Moses had to ruin it. Here's what ACTUALLY happened, before they edited the Bible:
Scene: God sitting in the mountaintop, waiting for someone to pass by.
A desert pirate goes by...
God: WILL YOU OBEY MY COMMANDMENT
Desert pirate: Who said that?
God: IT'S ME, GOD. WILL YOU OBEY MY COMMANDMENT?
Desert pirate: Depends. What is your commandment?
God: THOU SHALT NOT STEAL!
Desert pirate: Are you nuts? I'm a pirate!
... time passes... God does some restrategizing... comes up with a new plan...
A sultan passes with his harem
God: WILL YOU OBEY MY COMMANDMENT
Sultan:Who said that?
God: IT'S ME, GOD. WILL YOU OBEY MY COMMANDMENT?
Sultan: Depends. What is your commandment?
God: THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY!
Sultan: I have 100 wives and 300 concubines! Fuggadaboutit!
... more time passes... God does some more restrategizing...
God: WILL YOU OBEY MY COMMANDMENT
Moses:Who said that?
God: IT'S ME, GOD. WILL YOU OBEY MY COMMANDMENT?
Moses: Depends. How much does it cost?
God: ITS FREE!
Moses: Well, in that case, I'll take 10 of them!
The worlds' supply of punch cards ended up being made into christmas decorations (remember those days?)
The paper tape - that would be fun. Can you imagine trying to boot a modern distro off paper tape? It would have to go through the reader so fast it would catch fire - now THAT is DRM to the max.
Quick - someone patent it - songs distributed on paper tape. The write once - play never media. What a business model (well, someone will throw money at it, I'm sure).
I have original 5-1/4" floppies with Dos 3.something, 5.0, Win 3.0, DBase IV on them that are still readable - and weirdly enough, the 5-1/4" drive still works, even on the latest machines.
Ditto for 3-1/2" floppies with Dos, Win31, WFW, BC++3.1, Dbase IV.2, DBase5, Clipper, etc., etc...
I think the best bet is to have a spare hard drive offline, copy everything to it, and every year or so, upgrade to a new drive, and use the other one as your archive.
Lets face it, the last time I backed up my drives to optical disks, it took 200 disks. I am NEVER doing that again. Not with 2/3 of a terrabyte.
Here's a legit use for bittorrent - "don't back it up - post it and let the world be your backup".
The article says to use magnetic tape because the CDs degrade.
So does tape. Unless you're the BOfH, in which case you have a tape safe. But you can't use that to store tapes - its not climate controlled, and you've got too many bodies hidden in it anyway... but ever tried to read a 10-year-od tape on a new machine? I gave up - it was easier to connect to a serial port and just dump the whole database over the course of a week, its that bad. Then another day for updates. Todays USB and Firewire will be the next generation's serial ports.
So, use a hard drive?
Leave it sitting on a shelf too long and you get "stiction" - so that's no good either. And have you even TRIED to access a 10-year-old drive in todays machines? The bois tries to auto-config, and the machine won't boot.
Zip disks? Hahahah click of death hahahah (I've got several zip drives that are "unzipped")
Paper printouts? Well, those are good for a few decades, but not exactly portable... anyone care to figure out how many acres of trees a hex dump of a 200-gig drive will take?
Nope, stone tablets - to hit anyone over the head with who thinks that there's any real long-term solution other than to just re-copy to the latest format and pray.
Since this is a dupe debate (it happens ALL the time) why not just link to the previous list of comments? I'm not even going to read TFA, because these useless debates have gotten to be a waste of time. There's no winning this debate - we're all losers for having editors who think that this is "news".
We took it as hand-waving, but in retrospect, I think Bush actually believed it.
His powers of self-delusion make the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field look like the work of an fumble-thumbed amateur with a bread-board kit and cheap, lead-based solder (Bush, OTOH, may have have gotten his from eating cheap, lead-based paint chips:-)
The worst part - a Mars colony is doable with current tech and resources, provided we don't care about bringing anyone back "home", but really want to establish a permanent base. The requirements don't scale well when you have to bring them back, as opposed to just one-way re-supply "trains".
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I just wish I could get to old DOS version of simcity to work on new machines. Sure, I've got the newer versions (which I never play, since I don't run Windows if I don't hae to, and since I don't have to, I don't ...), but that old game was just FUN.
A lot of the older drives (less than 100 meg) don't allow the machine to even finish the POST. And yes, this was under linux.
I don't think its a good idea to try to flash your memory. From what I hear, electro-shock therapy makes your memory worse, not better, at least for short-term memory :-)
My point was that blocking wikipedia wasn't the end of the world.
The end result of blocking the "Cliff's Notes of the Internet" will probably be an improvement in chinese research relative to the rest of the world.
Last i looked, wikipedia != Teh IntarWeb :-)
Well, most books are quite a bit longer than a wiki article. They give more context, more background, more information than a wiki entry.
Google for "plasma tv problem"
Save your money. for the same or better image quality, at half the price or less, get a rear-projection TV. Tehy've improved a lot over the last few years.
Great - so how am I supposed to even load those monstrosities into my thumbchip 'puter in 30 years? p Especially since all optical lasers will have been banned as potention "terr'rist weapons" under the laws passed by Emporer Bush the First in 2016?
Soap, Ballot, Ammo; yes, of course.
There is a more peaceful solution - just go to the friging library and READ (oh, but that's too hard. I can't just google for the "good bits" - I'll have to read everything IN CONTEXT!)
"Research" is not the same as a quick google or yahoo. Anyone caught depending entirely on cut-n-paste citations from the web deserves a zero, and only because you can-t award a lower mark.
Ummm ... by the time its into production, its already obsolete.
Thats the way it works with everything nowadays. There is not getting away from it.
I love my cell phone, but its 3 years old, and I can't replace it with a similar one - its obsolete.
The ones that are hot sellers now went from ultra-rare preproduction $1400 a pop IF you could get your hands on one at the beginning of last year to "we'll throw one in if you sign up now". They'll be obsoleted in a few months - their replacement has already been announced.
Better yet, look at big screen tvs. Plasma is being dumped as the garbage it is. And yet, it was HOT a year ago. People were still buying them this christmas, not having "read the memo", or kept current. They're figuring "Wow, I got that plasma TV I've been salivating all year for" - oops - obsolete.
I can just see the marketing slogans now - "This computer holds acres and acres of data. Help save the forests - every time you buy one of these computers, you help preserve 5,000 acres of trees. We've already sold enough trees to cover the world 3 times, but ITS NOT ENOUGH! Do your share. Buy our computers. Save the world."
Then they'll apply for a "green tax" credit.
A lot of people must have missed the SNL skit where Steve Jobs introduces the ipon iMini, then says "Its' obsolete", "Since when did that happen?" "Ths morning"
Then he introduces the ipod iMicro, then says "But its obsolete too", "Since when"? "5 minutes ago"
Then he "shows" the ipod iNVisible - "holds every song ever recorded, all the video you could ever watch, and its so small you can't see it. And when you drop it, it doesn't fall - it f-l-o-a-t-s" "Sure, Steve, whatever ... go away"
Good point - but don't forget /usr/local (or whatever passes for that on some of the weirder configs nowadays - I never did like /opt or /srv) and /var/lib - /var/lib/mysql, for example ...
Sounds like a good plan, but you forgot to put it into a form slashdotters can relate to:
At the very least, you'll have a few spare drives to play with; if you snag your maried boss's love letters to his gf, those drives might be your best bet for a glowing recommendation on your resume AND a golden parachute :-)
Ouch!
The problem I ran into ws that the stupid hardware card that came with the drive was one of those old full-length custom not-quite-scuzzy cards. I was able to fit it into the box (but try to find a non-pci box nowadays), but even with the "right" drivers, it never worked properly - the computer was too fast for the timing loop in the software to sync properly. It was probably like trying to play an old 8086 game on today's machines.
You need to add space between each block for synching. the smart thing would be 2 sync spaces between each byte. Ditto for every 8 rows. So add 50%, just to be on the safe side.
The way I heard it, it was originally supposed to be one commandment (God didn't want to make it too hard on his people), but Moses had to ruin it. Here's what ACTUALLY happened, before they edited the Bible:
The worlds' supply of punch cards ended up being made into christmas decorations (remember those days?)
The paper tape - that would be fun. Can you imagine trying to boot a modern distro off paper tape? It would have to go through the reader so fast it would catch fire - now THAT is DRM to the max.
Quick - someone patent it - songs distributed on paper tape. The write once - play never media. What a business model (well, someone will throw money at it, I'm sure).
I have original 5-1/4" floppies with Dos 3.something, 5.0, Win 3.0, DBase IV on them that are still readable - and weirdly enough, the 5-1/4" drive still works, even on the latest machines.
Ditto for 3-1/2" floppies with Dos, Win31, WFW, BC++3.1, Dbase IV.2, DBase5, Clipper, etc., etc...
I think the best bet is to have a spare hard drive offline, copy everything to it, and every year or so, upgrade to a new drive, and use the other one as your archive.
Lets face it, the last time I backed up my drives to optical disks, it took 200 disks. I am NEVER doing that again. Not with 2/3 of a terrabyte.
Here's a legit use for bittorrent - "don't back it up - post it and let the world be your backup".
The article says to use magnetic tape because the CDs degrade.
So does tape. Unless you're the BOfH, in which case you have a tape safe. But you can't use that to store tapes - its not climate controlled, and you've got too many bodies hidden in it anyway ... but ever tried to read a 10-year-od tape on a new machine? I gave up - it was easier to connect to a serial port and just dump the whole database over the course of a week, its that bad. Then another day for updates. Todays USB and Firewire will be the next generation's serial ports.
So, use a hard drive?
Leave it sitting on a shelf too long and you get "stiction" - so that's no good either. And have you even TRIED to access a 10-year-old drive in todays machines? The bois tries to auto-config, and the machine won't boot.
Zip disks? Hahahah click of death hahahah (I've got several zip drives that are "unzipped")
Paper printouts? Well, those are good for a few decades, but not exactly portable ... anyone care to figure out how many acres of trees a hex dump of a 200-gig drive will take?
Nope, stone tablets - to hit anyone over the head with who thinks that there's any real long-term solution other than to just re-copy to the latest format and pray.
Since this is a dupe debate (it happens ALL the time) why not just link to the previous list of comments? I'm not even going to read TFA, because these useless debates have gotten to be a waste of time. There's no winning this debate - we're all losers for having editors who think that this is "news".
We took it as hand-waving, but in retrospect, I think Bush actually believed it.
His powers of self-delusion make the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field look like the work of an fumble-thumbed amateur with a bread-board kit and cheap, lead-based solder (Bush, OTOH, may have have gotten his from eating cheap, lead-based paint chips :-)
The worst part - a Mars colony is doable with current tech and resources, provided we don't care about bringing anyone back "home", but really want to establish a permanent base. The requirements don't scale well when you have to bring them back, as opposed to just one-way re-supply "trains".
What "domestic TV manufacturing industry"?
Zenith was the last US-based manufacturer, and they closed their last US plant a couple of decades ago.
So, ? Here's the list:
So, who does Dell buy their flat panels from? Some other member of the "US Domestic TV Industry" ...
Next you'll be talking about the "US Domestic DVD Player Industry".