If you use Verizons DNS you wont be able to tell the difference anyways. Seriously, I don't know if Verizon is paid to redirect DNS request or they just have really crappy security/maintinance on them.
A friend of mine, back in High School had a Tanday X86 compatible machine. It had DOS onboard in a ROM, if you hit the reset button it would be back at a C:> before your finger was off the button.
Seems like I used to see some sort of Windows accelerator cards in the mid 90's at Incredible Universe, never heard of one being used, but from what I understand they had part/most of Windows 95 on there for a performance boost, maybe you had to flash it.
Old Macs had ROM based OS's, they didn't necessarily boot that fast.
Try a RAM based solid state HDD. The will help the OS to load as quickly as the bus will allow. BeOS may be the quickest for you, if it will do what you want.
This is why the private industry will pull ahead. I'm not saying the private industry is without politics, that is how Microsoft displaced Novel after all, with corporate lobyist, but on the whole I still put more stock in a private company doing it better than a bunch of politicians.
Out of curiosity, what problem do you have with the Aries vehicles? The Saturn V and the Aries V seem to have a lot in common, even the engines for the Aries V are a near exact copy of the Saturn V's with a revision letter difference. Granted the Aries I is a rather new idea, but I like the idea, it's better for moving people that putting a whole shuttle up there.
I'm still a bit disappointed they didn't go with AMD. Seriously, Intel seems to "normal" at least AMD would be cheaper, at the time performed better, has an awesome mobile chip, and was doing 64 bit better before Intel. Though I'm not a big ATI fan, considering AMD and ATI have merged, and AMD is really trying to do the right thing with ATI I can see loads of benefit for Apple in the AMD camp.
One thing eBay seriously needs is an individual blacklist. Set it up so that you can mark certain sellers (or buyers) as Bozo's and never see their auctions again. There's certain sellers I've never done business with I would like to blacklist for various reasons. 30 point blinking font in all caps on a contrasting background and excessive use of the word "rare" would be some valid reasons I can think of, along with working in names of completely different items into a description. If I could just eliminate sellers who do this serially one by one it would make searching a lot easier.
A nice addition to this would be a notation field that shows up next to people you have done business with that quickly links you to feedback you left for them in the past so you know who's good or who you may not want to mess with again if you can chose someone else.
More shipping info would be nice. Who the heck does "ground based shipping provider" mean? If it's (certain types of) DHL or USPS that has to go to my PO Box in my case, if it's UPS or FedEX it has to go to my house. The fact these retards don't read notes half the time doesn't help matters.
Instead of preventing sellers from leaving retaliatory feedback, there should be a seller review option. If you get retaliatory unexplained feedback check the retaliatory button, both feedbacks get removed temporarily, after the seller gets 10 or so checks, an actual eBay employee takes time out of their day to investigate. If it turns out the seller (or possibly buyer) is a serial feedback abuser they lose their right to leave bad feedback for a while, maybe even their account.
Identity verification needs to exist. Something to prevent any one person from having more than one account.
Make a few changes to get rid of the common dipshit, or at least filter them out, and eBay may be worth using again.
Well, I bought some Broderbund games for my kid from Half Price Books for $5 each, and she loves them. Turns out ripping disk to ISO's, mounting the ISO's to a virtual CDROM drive via a batch file launched with the icon the game came with works really well. I have The Cat and the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham disks safely tucked away out of reach while the perfectly legal backup copy is on the hard disk for play purposes.
You obviously don't have kids with kids games. It doesn't matter if you tell the kid "don't change the CD, call me and I'll do it" once kids figure out how to do it for themselves they will.
Let me put it this way. Would you hand a bare CD you didn't want to have to buy another copy of to six year old?
The users did purchase their games, but low, the game installer caused much discord. From its discord came much reinstalling. From the reinstalling came excess activations, and from the excess activations came denial. Among the users there was much unrest and gnashing of teeth.
And it came to pass that the users gathered together and announced their lamentations unto the manufacturer, but the manufacturer heard their lamentations not declaring "For ours is to profit and yours is to consume, for the criminal he doth consume, but from that that the criminal consumes he also copies, and allow others to consume from the results of my minions labor. How doeth it profit us for a criminal to copy, and how doeth I as the provider of my minions labor know that you, and those gathered with you are not a criminals? Nay, not only is it safer for me to lock in the results of my minions by allowing not but three activations, it profits me even more if those activations are squander on unclean install and hardware not fit for supporting our products."
Then the users hearing this from the manufacturer brought their lamentations unto Slashdot, for Slashdot has a voice which carriers farther than just the voices of the users alone, but the manufactures still heard their lamentations not.
In the months that followed there was much casting of stones, but the fortress of the manufacturer had high walls and the stones cleared them not. The users then declared "We will trap them within their stone walls, and we will purchase their products not, and in time, when they hunger, they will come forth from their walls and allow us unlimited activations, for they will have empty wallets."
In this plan there was much wisdom, but the bulk of the users had not the courage to uphold this plan, for they were already committed and could survive without their games not. Among the users was a multitude for which the plan fell upon deaf ears, and money continued to flow to the manufacturer as water flows down a river.
And it came to pass that a band of users gathered together and gave their lamentations unto the pharacies, and they stated unto the pharacies that for the loss of their wages they were entitled a class action.
The spies of the manufacturer were many, and the spy among the pharacies reported back to the manufacturer of the news of class action. It was then that the manufacturer relented, not of wisdom, or of kindness, but of cowardice, for the manufacturer loves his purse and the money which it contains and wanted to part with that the he has already obtained not, prefer instead to risk the reduction of that which comes in by way of bandit interception.
The users upon hearing this declared that it was good, and their activations were good until the end of days.
Well, considering your attitude instead of paying the trash company to pick up trash I'll just dump it all in your yard, because as you said - recycle bin. It is your friend - when applied to things you didn't request
Billboards, radio, television, placement etc... Fine, I'll ignore it.
What the fuck do you expect me to do about tresspassing advertising like a ringing telephone (I work nights, a ringing phone in the day is BAD), knocks on the door, spam in the inbox, junk mail that makes it feel like I am the one wasting paper, or jackasses knocking on the window of my car when I come up to a stop light? Those are a little bit harder to ignore.
"Marketing" is killing entertainment in this country (perhaps the world). I'm seriously at a loss to try to think of something that someone hasn't tried to attach marketing to. The earth the sky, the water, the very air we breath.
I turn on the TV, I'm assaulted by ads, I browse the web, I'm assaulted by ads, I drive my car, I have at least two advertisements in my field of view at all times, I sit at home with my doors locked they call me on the phone or knock on the door. If I pay to watch a movie without commercials I see product placement that goes beyond just happenstance within the story.
I'm so inundated with marketing I only watch 1 TV show now, use an IRiver instead of the radio, and I visit a select few websites on a regular bases. None of those website attempts to inflict the ever sophisticated back door pop-ups or the ever annoying flash hanging over the article tactic. (thought they may link to them)
A lot of cable companies rely on the ignorance of the average consumer to put cable boxes out there. Cable boxes are a way of insuring higher rates. If they have to have a box to watch TV, then the company can charge per box. There's more than one cable company that doesn't even have analog TV going over their cable anymore with lame excuses to the customer sighting imaginary technical reasons such as "you can't do regular analog cable once you deploy digital" or "The FCC says we have to do digital now" (that's broadcast, not cable). A lot of them refuse to do QAM, etc.... on the same basis so you have to pay for the proprietary box and lock in.
A standard is good for consumers, not for cable companies.
Do either you have any idea what level of user I'm talking about here?
Rent DVD's over the internet? You mean I can do that? I can watch movies on the computer to? Why would I want to do that?
The people I'm talking about are doing good to check their email. I've fully automated updates/scans for Spybot and AVG for them so I don't have to babysit the computer at least once a month.
I've used this tactic on more than one person. Just hiding the crud out of IE does it for me. Once I've done this and they get used to the "other icon" they're fine. They don't even realize the difference since they were never power users to begin with.
I know how to make the Superbowl Halftime Show NOT suck. Execute Spamford Wallace on the field.
Don't just execute him. Make a game of it. Bring down the lucky fans who have their seats drawn or something along the lines, and give them lead weighted or steel footballs to throw at him. The one who delivers the death ball (could be the first guy if he's good enough) wins a Chevy truck.
During the world series, have a contest taking out his partner.
Then we need to get the rest of the world involved, I'm sure something could be done with the world cup. The Olympics? Well China has LOTS of spammers in their country, and they have no problem executing criminals either. I could see contest with discus, shot put, and javelins.
Make this the year of spammer carnage, see if we get much spam next year. We wouldn't even have to execute them all, just a few high profile ones at a few events and the others will chicken out. At least in Spamford Wallaces case his will be well earned.
Can you imagine the advertising revenue doing this would generate in the half time show? People would tune in just for the half time show, talk about a win/win situation.
People tend to forget about ISDN. ISDN in itself isn't incredibly fast, but it's dedicated, damned stable and still technically counts as "broadband". Plus if you get ISDN IDSL may become an option. Then you have two ISDN phone lines to play with where you can ditch the original analog line.
Slashdot Mirror
If you use Verizons DNS you wont be able to tell the difference anyways. Seriously, I don't know if Verizon is paid to redirect DNS request or they just have really crappy security/maintinance on them.
that might be what I saw. Dang, looking at the specs on that now, well, my mobile phone has better video specs that that.....
(ok fine, it doesn't do that high of a resolution, and I doubt the refresh rate, but still)
A friend of mine, back in High School had a Tanday X86 compatible machine. It had DOS onboard in a ROM, if you hit the reset button it would be back at a C:> before your finger was off the button.
Seems like I used to see some sort of Windows accelerator cards in the mid 90's at Incredible Universe, never heard of one being used, but from what I understand they had part/most of Windows 95 on there for a performance boost, maybe you had to flash it.
Old Macs had ROM based OS's, they didn't necessarily boot that fast.
Try a RAM based solid state HDD. The will help the OS to load as quickly as the bus will allow. BeOS may be the quickest for you, if it will do what you want.
There are a lot of politics involved
This is why the private industry will pull ahead. I'm not saying the private industry is without politics, that is how Microsoft displaced Novel after all, with corporate lobyist, but on the whole I still put more stock in a private company doing it better than a bunch of politicians.
Out of curiosity, what problem do you have with the Aries vehicles? The Saturn V and the Aries V seem to have a lot in common, even the engines for the Aries V are a near exact copy of the Saturn V's with a revision letter difference. Granted the Aries I is a rather new idea, but I like the idea, it's better for moving people that putting a whole shuttle up there.
I tend to remember a "system on a chip" experiment from the late 90's. One of my clients got one with a Compaq label. Crap. Complete and utter crap.
That doesn't mean I've dismissed PWRficient, and I am intrigued by it, even though Atom does exist. It's worth watching.
Nifty, if Toshiba hurries they may be able to outdo the next iProduct.
I'm still a bit disappointed they didn't go with AMD. Seriously, Intel seems to "normal" at least AMD would be cheaper, at the time performed better, has an awesome mobile chip, and was doing 64 bit better before Intel. Though I'm not a big ATI fan, considering AMD and ATI have merged, and AMD is really trying to do the right thing with ATI I can see loads of benefit for Apple in the AMD camp.
I've actually been wondering if it would be possible to put the PS3's Cell processor into a laptop. I would pay reasonable money for that.
If I would have held out just a little bit longer!
One thing eBay seriously needs is an individual blacklist. Set it up so that you can mark certain sellers (or buyers) as Bozo's and never see their auctions again. There's certain sellers I've never done business with I would like to blacklist for various reasons. 30 point blinking font in all caps on a contrasting background and excessive use of the word "rare" would be some valid reasons I can think of, along with working in names of completely different items into a description. If I could just eliminate sellers who do this serially one by one it would make searching a lot easier.
A nice addition to this would be a notation field that shows up next to people you have done business with that quickly links you to feedback you left for them in the past so you know who's good or who you may not want to mess with again if you can chose someone else.
More shipping info would be nice. Who the heck does "ground based shipping provider" mean? If it's (certain types of) DHL or USPS that has to go to my PO Box in my case, if it's UPS or FedEX it has to go to my house. The fact these retards don't read notes half the time doesn't help matters.
Instead of preventing sellers from leaving retaliatory feedback, there should be a seller review option. If you get retaliatory unexplained feedback check the retaliatory button, both feedbacks get removed temporarily, after the seller gets 10 or so checks, an actual eBay employee takes time out of their day to investigate. If it turns out the seller (or possibly buyer) is a serial feedback abuser they lose their right to leave bad feedback for a while, maybe even their account.
Identity verification needs to exist. Something to prevent any one person from having more than one account.
Make a few changes to get rid of the common dipshit, or at least filter them out, and eBay may be worth using again.
Well, I bought some Broderbund games for my kid from Half Price Books for $5 each, and she loves them. Turns out ripping disk to ISO's, mounting the ISO's to a virtual CDROM drive via a batch file launched with the icon the game came with works really well. I have The Cat and the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham disks safely tucked away out of reach while the perfectly legal backup copy is on the hard disk for play purposes.
You obviously don't have kids with kids games. It doesn't matter if you tell the kid "don't change the CD, call me and I'll do it" once kids figure out how to do it for themselves they will.
Let me put it this way. Would you hand a bare CD you didn't want to have to buy another copy of to six year old?
The users did purchase their games, but low, the game installer caused much discord. From its discord came much reinstalling. From the reinstalling came excess activations, and from the excess activations came denial. Among the users there was much unrest and gnashing of teeth.
And it came to pass that the users gathered together and announced their lamentations unto the manufacturer, but the manufacturer heard their lamentations not declaring "For ours is to profit and yours is to consume, for the criminal he doth consume, but from that that the criminal consumes he also copies, and allow others to consume from the results of my minions labor. How doeth it profit us for a criminal to copy, and how doeth I as the provider of my minions labor know that you, and those gathered with you are not a criminals? Nay, not only is it safer for me to lock in the results of my minions by allowing not but three activations, it profits me even more if those activations are squander on unclean install and hardware not fit for supporting our products."
Then the users hearing this from the manufacturer brought their lamentations unto Slashdot, for Slashdot has a voice which carriers farther than just the voices of the users alone, but the manufactures still heard their lamentations not.
In the months that followed there was much casting of stones, but the fortress of the manufacturer had high walls and the stones cleared them not. The users then declared "We will trap them within their stone walls, and we will purchase their products not, and in time, when they hunger, they will come forth from their walls and allow us unlimited activations, for they will have empty wallets."
In this plan there was much wisdom, but the bulk of the users had not the courage to uphold this plan, for they were already committed and could survive without their games not. Among the users was a multitude for which the plan fell upon deaf ears, and money continued to flow to the manufacturer as water flows down a river.
And it came to pass that a band of users gathered together and gave their lamentations unto the pharacies, and they stated unto the pharacies that for the loss of their wages they were entitled a class action.
The spies of the manufacturer were many, and the spy among the pharacies reported back to the manufacturer of the news of class action. It was then that the manufacturer relented, not of wisdom, or of kindness, but of cowardice, for the manufacturer loves his purse and the money which it contains and wanted to part with that the he has already obtained not, prefer instead to risk the reduction of that which comes in by way of bandit interception.
The users upon hearing this declared that it was good, and their activations were good until the end of days.
Well, considering your attitude instead of paying the trash company to pick up trash I'll just dump it all in your yard, because as you said - recycle bin. It is your friend - when applied to things you didn't request
Billboards, radio, television, placement etc... Fine, I'll ignore it.
What the fuck do you expect me to do about tresspassing advertising like a ringing telephone (I work nights, a ringing phone in the day is BAD), knocks on the door, spam in the inbox, junk mail that makes it feel like I am the one wasting paper, or jackasses knocking on the window of my car when I come up to a stop light? Those are a little bit harder to ignore.
well, at least you hear about it less than the knock off IPod......
"Marketing" is killing entertainment in this country (perhaps the world). I'm seriously at a loss to try to think of something that someone hasn't tried to attach marketing to. The earth the sky, the water, the very air we breath.
I turn on the TV, I'm assaulted by ads, I browse the web, I'm assaulted by ads, I drive my car, I have at least two advertisements in my field of view at all times, I sit at home with my doors locked they call me on the phone or knock on the door. If I pay to watch a movie without commercials I see product placement that goes beyond just happenstance within the story.
I'm so inundated with marketing I only watch 1 TV show now, use an IRiver instead of the radio, and I visit a select few websites on a regular bases. None of those website attempts to inflict the ever sophisticated back door pop-ups or the ever annoying flash hanging over the article tactic. (thought they may link to them)
A lot of cable companies rely on the ignorance of the average consumer to put cable boxes out there. Cable boxes are a way of insuring higher rates. If they have to have a box to watch TV, then the company can charge per box. There's more than one cable company that doesn't even have analog TV going over their cable anymore with lame excuses to the customer sighting imaginary technical reasons such as "you can't do regular analog cable once you deploy digital" or "The FCC says we have to do digital now" (that's broadcast, not cable). A lot of them refuse to do QAM, etc.... on the same basis so you have to pay for the proprietary box and lock in.
A standard is good for consumers, not for cable companies.
Do either you have any idea what level of user I'm talking about here?
Rent DVD's over the internet? You mean I can do that? I can watch movies on the computer to? Why would I want to do that?
The people I'm talking about are doing good to check their email. I've fully automated updates/scans for Spybot and AVG for them so I don't have to babysit the computer at least once a month.
I've used this tactic on more than one person. Just hiding the crud out of IE does it for me. Once I've done this and they get used to the "other icon" they're fine. They don't even realize the difference since they were never power users to begin with.
I know how to make the Superbowl Halftime Show NOT suck. Execute Spamford Wallace on the field.
Don't just execute him. Make a game of it. Bring down the lucky fans who have their seats drawn or something along the lines, and give them lead weighted or steel footballs to throw at him. The one who delivers the death ball (could be the first guy if he's good enough) wins a Chevy truck.
During the world series, have a contest taking out his partner.
Then we need to get the rest of the world involved, I'm sure something could be done with the world cup. The Olympics? Well China has LOTS of spammers in their country, and they have no problem executing criminals either. I could see contest with discus, shot put, and javelins.
Make this the year of spammer carnage, see if we get much spam next year. We wouldn't even have to execute them all, just a few high profile ones at a few events and the others will chicken out. At least in Spamford Wallaces case his will be well earned.
Can you imagine the advertising revenue doing this would generate in the half time show? People would tune in just for the half time show, talk about a win/win situation.
Not to long ago I was cleaning up at work. I found an unopened box of 8 INCH floppies. I still know where they are. Still unopened.
People tend to forget about ISDN. ISDN in itself isn't incredibly fast, but it's dedicated, damned stable and still technically counts as "broadband". Plus if you get ISDN IDSL may become an option. Then you have two ISDN phone lines to play with where you can ditch the original analog line.
As long as you can live with a Red Ring Of Death.