Don't be cheap. Buy a new (or used office-class) HP and enjoy!
Hmm, wouldn't an OEM copy of Windows be cheaper?
If it works under Linux, there's a fair chance its performance under Windows will be better than a Windows-only printer. It'll be able to offload more of the workload to the printer; if the printer supports PostScript, it'll be able to offload pretty much all of the rasterization to the printer. It's like the difference between onboard video (from Intel or VIA, anyway) and a decent add-on graphics card.
If it works under Linux, it's probably a bit more expensive than the cheap Windows-only printer. This may make it more expensive up front, but it's probably going to be better built and will last longer.
For one, it gives you free and unlimited dialup Internet access in the world. Many places have wifi in this day and age, but the places where my family travels to most do not.
The family members using AOL have the broadband service at home, and then they use the 56K at their cottage. Without this, they would normally be required to buy two Internet packages.
It's been years since I've used it (I tend to use either free WiFi or the data service on my cellphone nowadays), but MaGlobe does pretty cheap prepaid dialup access. For the week or two per year they might need dialup, it (or something like it) has to be cheaper and better than putting up with AOHell.
This bandwidth cap is somewhat like setting a highway speed limit of 670616629 mph.
No, it's more like they set the highway speed limit to 55 mph and you're complaining that you can't possibly go that fast on your 3 speed bicycle.
How many people have substantially more than 3 Mbps of upstream bandwidth to play with at home? I'm on my service provider's fastest available connection, and upstream bandwidth maxes out at 1 Mbps.
Also, show me a product that DOES not use electricity to spin up the compressor. It does not exist, and a car does not count. We are talking about products for the home.
You have to have electricity one way or the other. Even thermoelectric, a solid state technology, requires electricity.
Gas refrigerators (could be powered by gasoline, diesel, propane, kerosene, etc.) don't have compressors and don't use electricity to operate.
Mopeds are fuel-inefficient. They're also slow and no fun in the rain or snow.
I bolted a 49cc 4-stroke onto an old beach-cruiser bicycle last summer. Under the law, it's considered a moped. Until the gearbox started acting up, it was delivering about 100 mpg hauling me around (at about 250 lbs.) at somewhere around 25 mph (could sometimes get 30 out of it at WOT). I have a replacement gearbox on order now and should have it running again shortly. Since it's a 4-stroke, you don't have to fart around with mixing gas and oil, either; just pull up to the pump.
Can't help you with the rain and snow, though...they're not much of a problem here in Las Vegas.:-)
For the other 99.999% of us, I think 30 gigabytes in a DAY is more than enough.
...especially when you consider that at 1.5 Mbps upstream, the most you can upload in a day is somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 GB. This bandwidth cap is somewhat like setting a highway speed limit of 670616629 mph.
The ST225 in my PC/XT still works, but it needs to be reformatted (I wonder if the move across town knocked the heads out of alignment, even though I'm pretty sure they were parked the last time I fired it up before the move).
Most of my Latitudes (work computers / ex-work computers, etc.) have both. Inspirons (home line) tend to only have touch pads. I prefer an external mouse in any case.
This. I keep one of these with my notebook, which connects to it with the built-in Bluetooth without any problems on Windows or Linux. It runs on a couple of NiMH AAAs, which it can recharge over USB (or you can just pop in another set and recharge them elsewhere).
Before that, I packed a Microsoft corded optical mouse. They're nice (they're what I use at home) and don't cost much, but they take a bit more space in the notebook bag.
Huh? The whole project is 6.5 million lines. 4% comes out to 260,000 lines according to my calculator.
The way I read the summary, it sounds like the "6.5 Mloc" referred to the 4% that had to be rewritten, not the entire system. That would put the entire system somewhere around 163 Mloc (which is still a long way from the GP's 8 Gloc).
Not really, I didn't turn on Remote Desktop Sharing, but I get the same output...
It didn't work for me. I had Remote Desktop Sharing off because I normally use OSXvnc; the alleged attack just sat there until I hit Ctrl-C. Even after enabling Remote Desktop Sharing, it bombed out with an error:
23:47: execution error: ARDAgent got an error: "whoami" doesn't understand the do shell script message. (-1708)
This is on a G4 mini running 10.4.11; YMMV (and it apparently did).
Are you sure the oldest computer music isn't just x=peek(-16636)
That's not going to do anything. The address is wrong (you wanted -16336, or 49200...$C030 if you're doing assembly language, which was required for anything more than a low drone or the beep that PRINT CHR$(7) would give you), and even if you had gotten it right, I don't know that a single click of the speaker would qualify as "music."
I can personally vouch for this. When it came time for my cub scout troop to do the 'religion' merit badge. I was forced to pick a religion- they were not satisfied with me quietly being an agnostic.
I think it's safe to say that you're speaking out of your backside on this. Someone else already pointed out that Cub Scouts don't earn merit badges; those come later, if they decide to become Boy Scouts. Cub Scouts also aren't organized into troops; they form packs, and where troops are made up of named patrols, packs are made up of numbered dens. You fail it.
In nearly 10 years of Scouting, religion was pretty much a non-issue IME. At summer camp, if it was one where a central mess hall fed everybody, someone might've said grace before the meals, but that was about it. The troops and packs to which I belonged were sponsored mainly by schools and military organizations; whether that had anything to do with it, I don't know, but even the pack that was sponsored by a church (of a denomination other than my own) wasn't substantially different than the others.
Right now poor neighborhoods tend to have worse schools, and the parents in those neighborhoods have no choice but to send their kids to those schools.
Really? Around here (Toronto, Canada) you can send your kids to whatever school you want. Junior high schools even have field trips for the students so they can pick the best high school for them.
That, unfortunately, is not how things work down here in the States. The public skrools to which you send your kids are determined almost entirely by where you live. People have gotten in trouble for trying to manipulate the system (usually by having their kids spend some time with relatives or friends in better parts of town) to get their kids into better schools. Magnet schools (which provide an emphasis in some subject area, such as science, performing arts, or vocational skills) are a notable exception, but there aren't nearly enough of them for everybody who might want in. Without a voucher system, your choices are (1) pay for private schooling, (2) home-school your kids, or (3) put them in whatever public skrools are in your neighborhood. If you can't afford the first two options and the public skrools in your neighborhood suck, odds are you also can't afford to move to a better neighborhood with better schools.
Numerous fixes to this broken system have been proposed, but the teachers' unions have quite the racket going and have been mostly successful at shooting down most of them in most locales where they've been attempted. They don't want the accountability that most reforms would bring, as it'd shine a spotlight on the slackers and jobsworths who are ripping us off.
I saw something somewhere (think it was an episode of 20/20) that said that in some European countries, school tax money follows the kids around; it isn't just dumped into a school based on how many kids are nearby. Schools have some incentive to do a good job: if they don't, they start losing students, and when they lose students, they also lose money. Most proposals here for school vouchers would work in a similar manner, but see the previous paragraph for the reason why they're having a hard time getting implemented.
I'll just note that the past tense isn't correct - I'm typing this post on a Model M manufactured 2008-03-06, and with native USB.;)
This...except that mine says 14 May 2007 and is the space-saver model. It is USB, though, so it works like a champ with both the Mac mini and the various x86 boxen I have around here. I also have a couple of older PS/2 Model Ms: a Lexmark from '93 and an IBM from '87. I picked those up cheap on eBay and use them at work; the Unicomp keyboard is at home (typing on it right now), where it replaced a Focus FK2001 (another good, clicky keyboard...not as durable as a Model M, but it didn't cost as much when I bought it new).
In the USA the EPA forced all the engine makers and truck makers to only offer 2007 emissions rated engines in all trucks made after October 2007. Now the 2007 rated engines add another six to eight thousand dollars to a truck so guess what happened? Thats right, in 2006 trucking companies scrambled to purchase pre-2007 trucks not only because they were cheaper but the reliability of 2007 engines was unknown and untrusted. So now you have plenty of 2006 sales but sales were dead in 2007 threatening truck makers here in the states. If the EPA did what the EU did they would have eased the pain in transitioning and we would have more cleaner trucks on the road.
Sounds to some extent like a replay of the transition to unleaded gasoline. In 1975, manufacturers were required to start installing catalytic converters; cars so equipped can only run on unleaded as lead-based anti-knock compounds inhibit the operation of the catalyst. This created a seller's market for unleaded gasoline, which throughout the second half of the '70s and into the '80s a bit was almost always of lower quality and higher price. (Remember how, in addition to the "cop motor" and "cop shocks," one of the Bluesmobile's features was that it'd run on regular (leaded) fuel?) The auto industry and the oil companies eventually wrapped their heads around the performance characteristics of unleaded and started shipping products that worked well together, but the first few years were painful.
Contrast that with how the Europeans managed the transition. AFAIK, nothing was mandated until (maybe) fairly recently. When I moved to Germany in 1986, unleaded was just beginning to show up at gas stations. It tended to be a bit cheaper than leaded fuel, so there was an economic incentive for you to buy it if your car ran well enough on it. Over time, more and more cars on the road were capable of running on unleaded. At some point (late '80s or early '90s), they started installing catalytic converters. I think they're now selling only unleaded fuel, just as we've been doing since the mid-to-late '80s, but their path to getting there has been less painful than ours.
I moved to the US 18 months ago, from the UK, and I'm amazed by the money, and how user unfriendly it is.
All the notes are the same size and color - I stand at the head of the queueline at the checkoutregister, and take notes out of my wallet, one at a time, saying "Nope, that's a single; nope, that's a single; I'm sure there's a 20 in here somewhere."
What's so hard about looking at the numbers on the bills? They're in each corner on both sides. If you keep them sorted, it takes no time at all to pull out whatever you need. That's what I did with British currency back when I had to deal with it ~20 years ago (lived there for a couple of years as a teenager); if anything, multiple sizes are an annoyance because they won't stack together neatly in your hand or your wallet. Besides, how do you design a bill acceptor (like you'd find in vending machines and such) to reliably accept bills in multiple sizes? I'm sure it's nothing a bit of engineering can't overcome, but it makes things more complex than they should be.
Yes, I too had a heck of a time replacing the engine in my Mercedes. Next time I'll pay someone. Replacing the HD in a laptop is not much different than replacing the engine in an automobile. Both are really built into the heart of their respective products with a lot of screws.
O RLY? Why, then, are the hard drives in my two HP notebooks so easy to get at? Two screws hold on a panel that hides the drive. Once the panel is off and the drive is pulled out, four screws hold it to its carrier. One of them also uses a right-angle adapter across the IDE connector to hook into the motherboard; it gets pulled off the old drive and pushed onto the new drive. It doesn't have to be hard to swap drives, if the machine's set up with upgradability in mind.
That's for a fleet of tankers, numbnuts, not for just one tanker. Before getting your Two Minutes Hate on next time, you might want to get your facts straight.
But not everyone is capable of making beer that isn't toxic either.
You'd have to work hard at it to make beer that is toxic. Malt, hops, yeast, and water aren't going to produce anything that'll kill you unless you seriously mishandle them, and even then I'm doubtful. Keep in mind that, a few hundred years ago, everybody made beer (and everybody drank it, even kids) because it was safer to drink than water.
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If it works under Linux, there's a fair chance its performance under Windows will be better than a Windows-only printer. It'll be able to offload more of the workload to the printer; if the printer supports PostScript, it'll be able to offload pretty much all of the rasterization to the printer. It's like the difference between onboard video (from Intel or VIA, anyway) and a decent add-on graphics card.
If it works under Linux, it's probably a bit more expensive than the cheap Windows-only printer. This may make it more expensive up front, but it's probably going to be better built and will last longer.
It's been years since I've used it (I tend to use either free WiFi or the data service on my cellphone nowadays), but MaGlobe does pretty cheap prepaid dialup access. For the week or two per year they might need dialup, it (or something like it) has to be cheaper and better than putting up with AOHell.
O RLY?
(Never mind that I skipped commercials with a TiVo before that, and with a pair of VCRs before TiVo...)
How many people have substantially more than 3 Mbps of upstream bandwidth to play with at home? I'm on my service provider's fastest available connection, and upstream bandwidth maxes out at 1 Mbps.
Gas refrigerators (could be powered by gasoline, diesel, propane, kerosene, etc.) don't have compressors and don't use electricity to operate.
I bolted a 49cc 4-stroke onto an old beach-cruiser bicycle last summer. Under the law, it's considered a moped. Until the gearbox started acting up, it was delivering about 100 mpg hauling me around (at about 250 lbs.) at somewhere around 25 mph (could sometimes get 30 out of it at WOT). I have a replacement gearbox on order now and should have it running again shortly. Since it's a 4-stroke, you don't have to fart around with mixing gas and oil, either; just pull up to the pump.
Can't help you with the rain and snow, though...they're not much of a problem here in Las Vegas. :-)
The ST225 in my PC/XT still works, but it needs to be reformatted (I wonder if the move across town knocked the heads out of alignment, even though I'm pretty sure they were parked the last time I fired it up before the move).
This. I keep one of these with my notebook, which connects to it with the built-in Bluetooth without any problems on Windows or Linux. It runs on a couple of NiMH AAAs, which it can recharge over USB (or you can just pop in another set and recharge them elsewhere).
Before that, I packed a Microsoft corded optical mouse. They're nice (they're what I use at home) and don't cost much, but they take a bit more space in the notebook bag.
The way I read the summary, it sounds like the "6.5 Mloc" referred to the 4% that had to be rewritten, not the entire system. That would put the entire system somewhere around 163 Mloc (which is still a long way from the GP's 8 Gloc).
An abomination?
Damn...now where the hell did I put that brain bleach?
For this article, "swoosh" might be more appropriate than "whoosh." :-)
It didn't work for me. I had Remote Desktop Sharing off because I normally use OSXvnc; the alleged attack just sat there until I hit Ctrl-C. Even after enabling Remote Desktop Sharing, it bombed out with an error:
23:47: execution error: ARDAgent got an error: "whoami" doesn't understand the do shell script message. (-1708)
This is on a G4 mini running 10.4.11; YMMV (and it apparently did).
That's not going to do anything. The address is wrong (you wanted -16336, or 49200...$C030 if you're doing assembly language, which was required for anything more than a low drone or the beep that PRINT CHR$(7) would give you), and even if you had gotten it right, I don't know that a single click of the speaker would qualify as "music."
I think it's safe to say that you're speaking out of your backside on this. Someone else already pointed out that Cub Scouts don't earn merit badges; those come later, if they decide to become Boy Scouts. Cub Scouts also aren't organized into troops; they form packs, and where troops are made up of named patrols, packs are made up of numbered dens. You fail it.
In nearly 10 years of Scouting, religion was pretty much a non-issue IME. At summer camp, if it was one where a central mess hall fed everybody, someone might've said grace before the meals, but that was about it. The troops and packs to which I belonged were sponsored mainly by schools and military organizations; whether that had anything to do with it, I don't know, but even the pack that was sponsored by a church (of a denomination other than my own) wasn't substantially different than the others.
That, unfortunately, is not how things work down here in the States. The public skrools to which you send your kids are determined almost entirely by where you live. People have gotten in trouble for trying to manipulate the system (usually by having their kids spend some time with relatives or friends in better parts of town) to get their kids into better schools. Magnet schools (which provide an emphasis in some subject area, such as science, performing arts, or vocational skills) are a notable exception, but there aren't nearly enough of them for everybody who might want in. Without a voucher system, your choices are (1) pay for private schooling, (2) home-school your kids, or (3) put them in whatever public skrools are in your neighborhood. If you can't afford the first two options and the public skrools in your neighborhood suck, odds are you also can't afford to move to a better neighborhood with better schools.
Numerous fixes to this broken system have been proposed, but the teachers' unions have quite the racket going and have been mostly successful at shooting down most of them in most locales where they've been attempted. They don't want the accountability that most reforms would bring, as it'd shine a spotlight on the slackers and jobsworths who are ripping us off.
I saw something somewhere (think it was an episode of 20/20) that said that in some European countries, school tax money follows the kids around; it isn't just dumped into a school based on how many kids are nearby. Schools have some incentive to do a good job: if they don't, they start losing students, and when they lose students, they also lose money. Most proposals here for school vouchers would work in a similar manner, but see the previous paragraph for the reason why they're having a hard time getting implemented.
This...except that mine says 14 May 2007 and is the space-saver model. It is USB, though, so it works like a champ with both the Mac mini and the various x86 boxen I have around here. I also have a couple of older PS/2 Model Ms: a Lexmark from '93 and an IBM from '87. I picked those up cheap on eBay and use them at work; the Unicomp keyboard is at home (typing on it right now), where it replaced a Focus FK2001 (another good, clicky keyboard...not as durable as a Model M, but it didn't cost as much when I bought it new).
Model M keyboards FTMFW!
Sounds to some extent like a replay of the transition to unleaded gasoline. In 1975, manufacturers were required to start installing catalytic converters; cars so equipped can only run on unleaded as lead-based anti-knock compounds inhibit the operation of the catalyst. This created a seller's market for unleaded gasoline, which throughout the second half of the '70s and into the '80s a bit was almost always of lower quality and higher price. (Remember how, in addition to the "cop motor" and "cop shocks," one of the Bluesmobile's features was that it'd run on regular (leaded) fuel?) The auto industry and the oil companies eventually wrapped their heads around the performance characteristics of unleaded and started shipping products that worked well together, but the first few years were painful.
Contrast that with how the Europeans managed the transition. AFAIK, nothing was mandated until (maybe) fairly recently. When I moved to Germany in 1986, unleaded was just beginning to show up at gas stations. It tended to be a bit cheaper than leaded fuel, so there was an economic incentive for you to buy it if your car ran well enough on it. Over time, more and more cars on the road were capable of running on unleaded. At some point (late '80s or early '90s), they started installing catalytic converters. I think they're now selling only unleaded fuel, just as we've been doing since the mid-to-late '80s, but their path to getting there has been less painful than ours.
Fixed that for you. Right now, they're getting a free ride at our expense. It's how they can afford their massive-welfare-state lifestyle.
(BTW, so-called "entitlement" programs account for over 50% more in federal spending than defense.)
What's so hard about looking at the numbers on the bills? They're in each corner on both sides. If you keep them sorted, it takes no time at all to pull out whatever you need. That's what I did with British currency back when I had to deal with it ~20 years ago (lived there for a couple of years as a teenager); if anything, multiple sizes are an annoyance because they won't stack together neatly in your hand or your wallet. Besides, how do you design a bill acceptor (like you'd find in vending machines and such) to reliably accept bills in multiple sizes? I'm sure it's nothing a bit of engineering can't overcome, but it makes things more complex than they should be.
O RLY? Why, then, are the hard drives in my two HP notebooks so easy to get at? Two screws hold on a panel that hides the drive. Once the panel is off and the drive is pulled out, four screws hold it to its carrier. One of them also uses a right-angle adapter across the IDE connector to hook into the motherboard; it gets pulled off the old drive and pushed onto the new drive. It doesn't have to be hard to swap drives, if the machine's set up with upgradability in mind.
That's for a fleet of tankers, numbnuts, not for just one tanker. Before getting your Two Minutes Hate on next time, you might want to get your facts straight.
Maybe he doesn't have a lawn, you insensitive clod!
You'd have to work hard at it to make beer that is toxic. Malt, hops, yeast, and water aren't going to produce anything that'll kill you unless you seriously mishandle them, and even then I'm doubtful. Keep in mind that, a few hundred years ago, everybody made beer (and everybody drank it, even kids) because it was safer to drink than water.