The last two home systems I've built were both unstable mutant time-sucking botch jobs until I replaced the vanilla, base-speed RAM with premium RAM one speed level higher than "necessary". Fixed everything.
I may still bottom feed for price regularly but I've made it a rule to buy premium ram from now on.
I guess since IBM had a license to the Win 3.1 code and OS/2 ran DOS programs very well, I didn't have to develop slavish loyalty to an OS. Win4lin is great. My wife WOULD NOT have used java arachnophilia and The GIMP. OpenOffice for Flash creation? I don't think so. No, she wanted Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, and her HTML editor of choice. The old "it isn't industry standard" argument _and_ the availability NOW of features.
Without win4lin, she wouldn't be booting linux or using linux for email, web, scanner or digital camera software.
Touchscreen voting machines in 11 counties have a software flaw that could make manual recounts impossible in November's presidential election, state officials said.
Vinnie says: Day sounds about perfect ta me.
Yoos gots problems wid dat, maybe we come over ta ur place and talk about it?
About a year ago, I forgot to give the cats the night-time 1/2 can of fancy feast that supplements their kibble and turned in. The Tom knows he isn't supposed to be on the kitchen counter, but he got the plastic knife I use to dish the stuff out, brought it into the bedroom and dropped it with a clank against a tubular chair support.
I suppose he could have:
1. Just decided to play on the counter that night 2. Just happened to choose the knife 3. Just happened to bring it into the bedroom 4. (Just when I had turned in but wasn't asleep) 5. Just happened to drop it so it made noise.
6. And he could have been thinking "Hey, let's play with the knife! We haven't done that before!"
But I think not. Even though the knife itself is a concrete object, I have to believe that the simplest conclusion is that the knife was serving as a _symbol_ to the _social_ _goal_ of "FEED ME!" Which would be mighty impressive as real-world autonomous AI goes.
I have plenty of anecdotes to convince me that cats are sentient creatures. Having had a border collie as a kid, I would say that goes double for them.
And I don't agree that most _cats_ won't recognize themselves in a mirror -- experiments with kittens may give different results. I think there might be developmental effects as well as training effects and I'd like to see the methodology behind this old saying.
If you don't know what you want to do with your life, college can be fun -- for four years. Then where are you and where will you go?
Anything at a voc school interest you? Get something that lets you make enough money, you can always go to college if that is what you really want to do.
Sounds similar to the discredited [*cough -- Reagan *] idea of giving unencumbered federal research grants for universities to develop exploitable ideas for the common good?
'95 through '00: OS/2 -- 1. Load balancing preemptive multitasking 2. virus protection 3. Richer interface than Windows 4. Ability to create an individual config for each program 5. Good IBM site for fixpacks and support
'01 - present: Linux -- #1 and #2 above 3. Freedom 4. Even better security 5. (lack of) cost
And, frankly, with some of the current trojans, I'd be afraid to do anything useful on the web with Windows.
Levels are good. I suppose anyone with my single login for all newspaper web sites could get me carted away by the secret service within hours, but it is convenient all around.
The _important_ stuff is compiled onto a file on a Bochs cylinder with a heck of a pass phrase for the blowfish encryption. Called from a parameterized batch file with a Norton wipefile on editor close. I figure short of a tin foil hat and RFI grounding the room that should be adequate protection against individuals.
But I didn't realize that spontaneous computer combustion during shipment was a problem that needed a solution. Dockworker carelessly flicks a cigarette into a pile of computers and they go up like California sage brush? Who knew?
Sure, this works if you sample your engine noise and want a quiet passenger compartment. But does one really want to create standing waves around a cooling fan?
I can about play Links (ORIGINAL) on my 1.7 ghz machine. I successfully set up a Win95 virtual drive but why bother? I have some DOS stuff I run command line sometimes.
The USA and the Republicans in paticular are a very long way from fascism - corporate welfare and nepotism are not signs of fascism. The whole thing would more strongly resemble a kleptocracy, but that is a long way off too.
Guess it depends on your viewpoint. If corporate lobbyists are _literally_ writing the bills for laws is that a kleptocracy? Or is it fascism from the viewpoint of the people who have to live under those laws and the _other_ companies who have to compete against those chosen few who are a de facto part of government?
Don't forget Grant. My favorite because he was known for that "deer in the headlights" quality that we have come to love so much (and his admin was also stinking corrupt).
I figure anything is possible after Disney told Miramax not to distribute Fahrenheit 9/11. I understand Miramax bankrolled it! Now that's putting your Fascism where your money is! Not just some Fed witch hunt against people who want an honest election -- that's expected.
With all the talk of "the fall" and "'good' vs. 'evil'" are almost all the posts in the U.S.? I thought Europe was more secular and expected more discussion that humanists like say, Gene Roddenberry, can come up with a morality like the prime directive without religion.
Conversely, would an alien species with the prime directive take the risk of contacting a religious species?
I've gotten good deals. I've gotten ripped off. Money-wise I figure it's equaled out. But I have gotten the obscure stuff I wanted. That's the bottom line that can keep ebay going.
But I've been lucky too. Like the jerk who shipped my scsi controller in a plain brown envelope. Damned if I'm not still using it now years later.
As long as the U.S. doesn't have national health care, I say let the pirate computers stew in their own filth spreading disease throughout the community. Keep libertarian capitalism pure from service pack charity.
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The last two home systems I've built were both unstable mutant time-sucking botch jobs until I replaced the vanilla, base-speed RAM with premium RAM one speed level higher than "necessary". Fixed everything.
I may still bottom feed for price regularly but I've made it a rule to buy premium ram from now on.
Yup, the drop is always the hard part, isn't it?
And thank goodness. We'll always have action movies.
The drugs and hookers would have to be _really_ good. But forgetting to put your helmet on during decompression can be a mind-blowing bummer.
This overlooked movie has always been my standard to judge all movies about what "fun" it would be to work in the greater solar system.
There's a conspiracy theory for you. It's all a corporate plot to charge us for transport to and lodging on terraformed Mars.
I guess since IBM had a license to the Win 3.1 code and OS/2 ran DOS programs very well, I didn't have to develop slavish loyalty to an OS. Win4lin is great. My wife WOULD NOT have used java arachnophilia and The GIMP. OpenOffice for Flash creation? I don't think so. No, she wanted Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, and her HTML editor of choice. The old "it isn't industry standard" argument _and_ the availability NOW of features.
Without win4lin, she wouldn't be booting linux or using linux for email, web, scanner or digital camera software.
I was around for the 70s. Razor blades got replaced with Bics. Ink cartridges got replaced with Bics. Where was the long-range vision then?
Another decade. Another mountain of junk plastic.
Touchscreen voting machines in 11 counties have a software flaw that could make manual recounts impossible in November's presidential election, state officials said.
Vinnie says: Day sounds about perfect ta me.
Yoos gots problems wid dat, maybe we come over ta ur place and talk about it?
About a year ago, I forgot to give the cats the night-time 1/2 can of fancy feast that supplements their kibble and turned in. The Tom knows he isn't supposed to be on the kitchen counter, but he got the plastic knife I use to dish the stuff out, brought it into the bedroom and dropped it with a clank against a tubular chair support.
I suppose he could have:
1. Just decided to play on the counter that night
2. Just happened to choose the knife
3. Just happened to bring it into the bedroom
4. (Just when I had turned in but wasn't asleep)
5. Just happened to drop it so it made noise.
6. And he could have been thinking "Hey, let's play with the knife! We haven't done that before!"
But I think not. Even though the knife itself is a concrete object, I have to believe that the simplest conclusion is that the knife was serving as a _symbol_ to the _social_ _goal_ of "FEED ME!" Which would be mighty impressive as real-world autonomous AI goes.
I have plenty of anecdotes to convince me that cats are sentient creatures. Having had a border collie as a kid, I would say that goes double for them.
And I don't agree that most _cats_ won't recognize themselves in a mirror -- experiments with kittens may give different results. I think there might be developmental effects as well as training effects and I'd like to see the methodology behind this old saying.
If you don't know what you want to do with your life, college can be fun -- for four years. Then where are you and where will you go?
Anything at a voc school interest you? Get something that lets you make enough money, you can always go to college if that is what you really want to do.
Sounds similar to the discredited [*cough -- Reagan *] idea of giving unencumbered federal research grants for universities to develop exploitable ideas for the common good?
'95 through '00: OS/2 --
1. Load balancing preemptive multitasking
2. virus protection
3. Richer interface than Windows
4. Ability to create an individual config for each program
5. Good IBM site for fixpacks and support
'01 - present: Linux --
#1 and #2 above
3. Freedom
4. Even better security
5. (lack of) cost
And, frankly, with some of the current trojans, I'd be afraid to do anything useful on the web with Windows.
Levels are good. I suppose anyone with my single login for all newspaper web sites could get me carted away by the secret service within hours, but it is convenient all around.
The _important_ stuff is compiled onto a file on a Bochs cylinder with a heck of a pass phrase for the blowfish encryption. Called from a parameterized batch file with a Norton wipefile on editor close. I figure short of a tin foil hat and RFI grounding the room that should be adequate protection against individuals.
But I didn't realize that spontaneous computer combustion during shipment was a problem that needed a solution. Dockworker carelessly flicks a cigarette into a pile of computers and they go up like California sage brush? Who knew?
Well, yeah. That is what I was wondering.
Sure, this works if you sample your engine noise and want a quiet passenger compartment. But does one really want to create standing waves around a cooling fan?
Yeah, this will be a step forward for mankind.
I can about play Links (ORIGINAL) on my 1.7 ghz machine. I successfully set up a Win95 virtual drive but why bother? I have some DOS stuff I run command line sometimes.
The USA and the Republicans in paticular are a very long way from fascism - corporate welfare and nepotism are not signs of fascism. The whole thing would more strongly resemble a kleptocracy, but that is a long way off too.
Guess it depends on your viewpoint. If corporate lobbyists are _literally_ writing the bills for laws is that a kleptocracy? Or is it fascism from the viewpoint of the people who have to live under those laws and the _other_ companies who have to compete against those chosen few who are a de facto part of government?
Don't forget Grant. My favorite because he was known for that "deer in the headlights" quality that we have come to love so much (and his admin was also stinking corrupt).
I figure anything is possible after Disney told Miramax not to distribute Fahrenheit 9/11. I understand Miramax bankrolled it! Now that's putting your Fascism where your money is! Not just some Fed witch hunt against people who want an honest election -- that's expected.
This is rocket science, not accounting!
Guess it shows which is harder.
And as an amateur radio operator, I'll miss sine waves.
With all the talk of "the fall" and "'good' vs. 'evil'" are almost all the posts in the U.S.? I thought Europe was more secular and expected more discussion that humanists like say, Gene Roddenberry, can come up with a morality like the prime directive without religion.
Conversely, would an alien species with the prime directive take the risk of contacting a religious species?
And the cruxifix would look really creepy.
So Jesus died for our sins but didn't die for their sins, and they didn't have their own Jesus either?
They'd have angels too. They're called Vorlons.
I've gotten good deals. I've gotten ripped off. Money-wise I figure it's equaled out. But I have gotten the obscure stuff I wanted. That's the bottom line that can keep ebay going.
But I've been lucky too. Like the jerk who shipped my scsi controller in a plain brown envelope. Damned if I'm not still using it now years later.
As long as the U.S. doesn't have national health care, I say let the pirate computers stew in their own filth spreading disease throughout the community. Keep libertarian capitalism pure from service pack charity.