Just the other day I was speculating that there was a global conspiracy by OPEC, UPS, and FedEx, and of course the DuPont family to squash teleportation technology. I like this guy's way of thinking. =P
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I love Kaypros, you insensitive clod! Why, I just ran across someone selling one for $20 on craigslist last night. I was seriously considering buying it. That was one fine luggable CPM Computer ! kaypro for sale
I still insist that a Kaypro and an Epson MX-80 is enough computer for any person. I even had a text only version of Lode Runner on that baby.
I can one up you. My dad came home with a circuit board, two paddle controllers, and an RF converter thingy from the famous bay area surplus house Mike Quinn's Electronics. It had 40 different games, all variations of pong. It RULED my 7 year old world, because it was color and the one at the Pizza place was black and white. It was probably a scrapped product that Mike bought in some liquidation. My dad was always making cases for his projects, but for some reason this pong circuit board remained caseless for its entire useful lifetime, it just sat on a shelf behind the TV.
Remind me to tell you about the time Dad came home with bags of thousands of 555 timer chips that we had to straighten out the pins on and plug in to a breadboard tester he had rigged up. The good ones went back to Quinn's and the bad ones... well.. I think the CIA sent them to the USSR for satellites or something.
and Slashdot concludes that RAC is losing street cred?? Which begs the question, Don't you have to have street cred in the first place to be able to lose it ?
This post spurs on the age old debate of the ultimate fight ever. Mike Tyson vs Bruce Lee - if only we could see it - to the death, now that's something I'd snap up on PPV.
You fool, how is Mike Tyson more ultimate than Muhammed Ali ?!? Floats like a butterfly, etc. And the debate rages on...
What's amazing is that Visa ever allowed it in the first place.
(picking myself up off the floor) Its amazing that a soulless multinational mega corporation took money ? They only fall in line when the lawyers deem the risk larger than the reward.
Its like the plot of a noir movie. Dude macks open source filesystem visionary's wife, plies her with ecstasy (MDMA), turns her out into some bdsm freak (you saw that detail didn't you), only doesn't realize that the open source genius is a little off:
Hans Reiser purchased two books "Homicide'' by David Simon and "Masterpieces of Murder" by Jonathan Goodman on Sept. 8 from Barnes & Noble in Berkeley.
and is capable of...... murder...
its not looking pretty, or this is the setup of the century.
I had an idea for a really big keyboard powered by arm strokes, not finger strokes. You could hammer away on it and get a great workout. I thought this would be a great break from a regular keyboard, but not for all day use, or you'd get really tired ! I love the idea of combining computers / computer games and exercise. DDR and the like fascinate me. These interfaces are in their infancy, expect way cooler things to come. Exercise equipment is big business, and computers aren't just for geeks anymore. Everyone that I know has a computer these days, or at least a family computer if they don't have their own.
One huge example of this direction is the nike + ipod thingamajig.
That hates overcompressed splotchy blotchy video with crappy overcompressed audio? I love being able to see some things that people dig up, but cmon, can we all agree that it LOOKS LIKE SHIT.
it would be cool if after receiving a free song, you could remove the 3\3 restriction if you shared with 5 or more zunes. "free" marketing = "free" song
Pure Genius ! Slight potential for abuse, but a really great idea!
Ok, I'll Bite. Over 400 g5's deployed at my site over the last 2 years, all with SATA drives. There has been only one drive failure so far, and it was premature so it was probably a bad unit or the movers roughed up his computer when he changed offices, because it coincided with that event. We had a bunch of the last edition of the grey g4's with maxtor hard drives that all seemed to fail within a few months of each other a 3 years back. We also had a run of bad Maxtors in a batch of small form factor Dell desktops. We lost about 10 in one month. Hooray for 3 year service plans ! the "Super"drives are dropping like flies though...I keep a stock of replacements in the closet. Good thing a replacement with dual layer and lightscribe is around 60 bucks these days.
This is all highly subjective and anecdotal and not meant to slander maxtor in any way:p
Well, now you are going to need one. Either you will need to buy a new computer to run your new OS, or you will want the newest OS for your new computer. They don't want you to be using anything more than 3 years old really. It is just a new development of planned obsolecence. Hardware vendors aren't making any money if computers last as long as appliances. A computer that is 3 or 4 years old is now too old.
want to know which of these operating systems will run on my old ass laptop with a low end P4 in it.
So can I get one of these lasers for my car to blind the speed radar cameras?
Seems you are joking, but actually all you need is a regular old laser, the kind that anyone can buy, not a giant high powered chinese laser. It was covered on slashdot even last year....
Slashdot Mirror
"We had covered this story back when it had first broke; "
More HAD please !!!
(and more cowbell)
Just the other day I was speculating that there was a global conspiracy by OPEC, UPS, and FedEx, and of course the DuPont family to squash teleportation technology.
I like this guy's way of thinking. =P
Think again, botnet mule, Real Men play Nethack.
+11 insightful.
He is after all, made of money...
He is just jealous that his only friend on myspace is Tom.
I love Kaypros, you insensitive clod! Why, I just ran across someone selling one for $20 on craigslist last night.
I was seriously considering buying it. That was one fine luggable CPM Computer !
kaypro for sale
I still insist that a Kaypro and an Epson MX-80 is enough computer for any person.
I even had a text only version of Lode Runner on that baby.
mod parent up
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I can one up you. My dad came home with a circuit board, two paddle controllers,
and an RF converter thingy from the famous bay area surplus house Mike Quinn's Electronics.
It had 40 different games, all variations of pong. It RULED my 7 year old world, because it was color
and the one at the Pizza place was black and white. It was probably a scrapped product that Mike bought in some liquidation.
My dad was always making cases for his projects, but for some reason this pong circuit board remained caseless
for its entire useful lifetime, it just sat on a shelf behind the TV.
Remind me to tell you about the time Dad came home with bags of thousands of 555 timer chips that we had to straighten
out the pins on and plug in to a breadboard tester he had rigged up. The good ones went back
to Quinn's and the bad ones... well.. I think the CIA sent them to the USSR for satellites or something.
Is Cremaster actually _about_ anything, or just a bunch of wierd images that Matthew Barney filmed?
Off topic I know.....
I'm just curious as to why we had more articles in Games today than we had on a typical day of E3.
Manic upswing ? Mountain Dew Shipment perhaps ?
and Slashdot concludes that RAC is losing street cred??
Which begs the question,
Don't you have to have street cred in the first place to be able to lose it ?
This post spurs on the age old debate of the ultimate fight ever.
Mike Tyson vs Bruce Lee - if only we could see it - to the death, now that's something I'd snap up on PPV.
You fool, how is Mike Tyson more ultimate than Muhammed Ali ?!? Floats like a butterfly, etc.
And the debate rages on...
What's amazing is that Visa ever allowed it in the first place.
(picking myself up off the floor)
Its amazing that a soulless multinational mega corporation took money ?
They only fall in line when the lawyers deem the risk larger than the reward.
Its like the plot of a noir movie. Dude macks open source filesystem visionary's wife, plies her with ecstasy (MDMA), turns her out into some bdsm freak (you saw that detail didn't you), only doesn't realize that the open source genius is a little off:
...... murder ...
Hans Reiser purchased two books "Homicide'' by David Simon and "Masterpieces of Murder" by Jonathan Goodman on Sept. 8 from Barnes & Noble in Berkeley.
and is capable of
its not looking pretty, or this is the setup of the century.
I had an idea for a really big keyboard powered by arm strokes, not finger strokes. You could hammer away on it and get a great workout.
I thought this would be a great break from a regular keyboard, but not for all day use, or you'd get really tired !
I love the idea of combining computers / computer games and exercise. DDR and the like fascinate me. These
interfaces are in their infancy, expect way cooler things to come. Exercise equipment is big business, and computers
aren't just for geeks anymore. Everyone that I know has a computer these days, or at least a family
computer if they don't have their own.
One huge example of this direction is the nike + ipod thingamajig.
That hates overcompressed splotchy blotchy video with crappy overcompressed audio?
I love being able to see some things that people dig up, but cmon, can we all agree
that it LOOKS LIKE SHIT.
his slashdot ID is way lower than yours, Son...
it would be cool if after receiving a free song, you could remove the 3\3 restriction if you shared with 5 or more zunes. "free" marketing = "free" song
Pure Genius ! Slight potential for abuse, but a really great idea!
if you have friends who have Zunes.
Friends don't let friends buy Zunes !
Ok, I'll Bite.
:p
Over 400 g5's deployed at my site over the last 2 years, all with SATA drives. There has been only one drive failure so far,
and it was premature so it was probably a bad unit or the movers roughed up his computer when he changed
offices, because it coincided with that event. We had a bunch of the last edition of the grey g4's with maxtor
hard drives that all seemed to fail within a few months of each other a 3 years back. We also
had a run of bad Maxtors in a batch of small form factor Dell desktops. We lost about 10 in one month.
Hooray for 3 year service plans !
the "Super"drives are dropping like flies though...I keep a stock of replacements in the closet. Good thing
a replacement with dual layer and lightscribe is around 60 bucks these days.
This is all highly subjective and anecdotal and not meant to slander maxtor in any way
Not all of us have the new intel core 2 duos.
Well, now you are going to need one. Either you will need to buy a new computer to run your new OS, or you will want the newest OS for your new computer. They don't want you to be using anything more than 3 years old really. It is just a new development of planned obsolecence. Hardware vendors aren't making any money if computers last as long as appliances. A computer that is 3 or 4 years old is now too old.
want to know which of these operating systems will run on my old ass laptop with a low end P4 in it.
Hello Linux World!
So can I get one of these lasers for my car to blind the speed radar cameras?
Seems you are joking, but actually all you need is a regular old laser, the kind that anyone can buy, not a giant high powered chinese laser.
It was covered on slashdot even last year....
google search for blinding cameras with lasers
if they added 586 more cores it could be the CPU OF THE DEVIL !!!!
You, for one will salute our new 666 core overlords.
Man,
Every time I have a good / funny idea, Penn and Teller have gotten there first !
-D
I'm imagining a game where you run down a really long hallway for 39 1/2 hours ........