if you havent realised most people are clueless when it comes to anything to do with computers... i heard an arguement between two people one claiming he had a 28800 kbps connection when his mate "only" had a 10 mbit... it turned out the first guy had a 28.8k modem while the second was on a university network...
it is quite amusing isnt it? dual channel ISDN was a 128k connection in almost every case, and relatively it was amazingly fast (especially when you consider that i was on 28.8k before that)... when adsl and cable connections came around nobody went around calling isdn broadband, only the semi-existant terminology of middle-band or something of the like was used, why shouldnt that be applied to this 128k connection which in no way warrants the name "high speed broadband"... perhaps "low speed broadband" or "very high speed narrow-band"? though i know grammatically the high speed applies to connection, but it is mentally challenging for the typical brit to understand what it means...
open source isnt bloated? look at X, why does it still exist? its the qwerty story all over again, all its doing is becoming worse and worse year after year with more and more crap
consciousness is a rather odd thing... it would all depend on the relative values computers gave to different things, imgine how much you value X over Y and how a dog would differentiate between the two objects/acts... we have things that please us, food, sex, etc, thats what we needed to do to survive... computers? theyd probably have something similar... maybe actually sort out their hard drives, get rid of anything resembling windows and make sure they run slow enough as not to come to a near unpleasant temperature... underclockers... lazy sods... anything is possible
kazaa just keeps trying to run a file called bargains.exe... i just have it automatically shut down... then again that might just be kazaa lite...
that definitely doesnt use my spare cpu cycles as im running seti 24/7 and thats always at about 100% cpu use +/- 5%
i managed to drop an old 21 inch monitor over a metre off a desk onto a stone floor a few years back... i was quite surprised to see that not only was it not cracked but it still worked perfectly, for some reason it turned on a bit faster too... smile make shit monitors but they seem to last
i dont understand peoples obsessions with keeping the old, or some people who are entirely against anything that has anything to do with tradition...
why cant you replace the keyboard mouse combo with a 2 mouse combo? with few keys on each, different combinations of keys giving different commands, a simple 3 keys on each mouse could lead to over 720 commands being used if need be and im sure it wouldnt be much harder to get used to than touch typing...
trusting someones decision just due to their position and on no other merit is not the best of paths to take. america excersises its economic and military power too much for its own good, in the long run i hope it all works out well but there can be no guarantees about anyones safety if any country takes the same approach the states do
metric time is for muppets who have nothing better to do other than complicate matters... the reason for metric measurements to be introduced was a) for simplicity and b) for convenience and c) to make it universal worldwide (the 100 in one system with only 2 denominations of money (ie dollar and cent, pound and pence)) the thing about time is that it is simple enough, it is universal (more or less everyone uses the 24 hour system and if they dont where are they?) and though it is easier to make calculations if you make time metric youd have to change the length of a second or whatever it was named instead... which wouldnt be the best of ideas...
on top of that look at all the historic figures which would have to be recalculated, times become wrong, 11 am on the 11th day of the 11th month would no longer be that... what next? metric years... ok let a year have 100 days a year (isnt a day meant to be the time the world spins once and a year the amount of time it takes the world to orbit the sun? can you change that to suit a metric system? didnt think so...)
anyway, time is the one thing that should remain metric, and why dont you like binary, would make things so much easier for computers to calculate if everyone worked with everything in binary huh?
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if you havent realised most people are clueless when it comes to anything to do with computers... i heard an arguement between two people one claiming he had a 28800 kbps connection when his mate "only" had a 10 mbit... it turned out the first guy had a 28.8k modem while the second was on a university network...
it is quite amusing isnt it? dual channel ISDN was a 128k connection in almost every case, and relatively it was amazingly fast (especially when you consider that i was on 28.8k before that)... when adsl and cable connections came around nobody went around calling isdn broadband, only the semi-existant terminology of middle-band or something of the like was used, why shouldnt that be applied to this 128k connection which in no way warrants the name "high speed broadband"... perhaps "low speed broadband" or "very high speed narrow-band"? though i know grammatically the high speed applies to connection, but it is mentally challenging for the typical brit to understand what it means...
open source isnt bloated? look at X, why does it still exist? its the qwerty story all over again, all its doing is becoming worse and worse year after year with more and more crap
consciousness is a rather odd thing... it would all depend on the relative values computers gave to different things, imgine how much you value X over Y and how a dog would differentiate between the two objects/acts... we have things that please us, food, sex, etc, thats what we needed to do to survive... computers? theyd probably have something similar... maybe actually sort out their hard drives, get rid of anything resembling windows and make sure they run slow enough as not to come to a near unpleasant temperature... underclockers... lazy sods... anything is possible
indeed i do... i was going for 125% but i think id need something better than an army of asphmatic pensioners breathing on the heat sink...
kazaa just keeps trying to run a file called bargains.exe... i just have it automatically shut down... then again that might just be kazaa lite... that definitely doesnt use my spare cpu cycles as im running seti 24/7 and thats always at about 100% cpu use +/- 5%
an unnamed source at an unnamed company claims that BMG will release all the material it holders rights to for free to all... hmm...
how long did it take for current writable dvds come down to this price? just wait a year or two, no?
i managed to drop an old 21 inch monitor over a metre off a desk onto a stone floor a few years back... i was quite surprised to see that not only was it not cracked but it still worked perfectly, for some reason it turned on a bit faster too... smile make shit monitors but they seem to last
personally i prefer the little enigma of "100% of statistics are made up"
i dont understand peoples obsessions with keeping the old, or some people who are entirely against anything that has anything to do with tradition... why cant you replace the keyboard mouse combo with a 2 mouse combo? with few keys on each, different combinations of keys giving different commands, a simple 3 keys on each mouse could lead to over 720 commands being used if need be and im sure it wouldnt be much harder to get used to than touch typing...
trusting someones decision just due to their position and on no other merit is not the best of paths to take. america excersises its economic and military power too much for its own good, in the long run i hope it all works out well but there can be no guarantees about anyones safety if any country takes the same approach the states do
metric time is for muppets who have nothing better to do other than complicate matters... the reason for metric measurements to be introduced was a) for simplicity and b) for convenience and c) to make it universal worldwide (the 100 in one system with only 2 denominations of money (ie dollar and cent, pound and pence)) the thing about time is that it is simple enough, it is universal (more or less everyone uses the 24 hour system and if they dont where are they?) and though it is easier to make calculations if you make time metric youd have to change the length of a second or whatever it was named instead... which wouldnt be the best of ideas... on top of that look at all the historic figures which would have to be recalculated, times become wrong, 11 am on the 11th day of the 11th month would no longer be that... what next? metric years... ok let a year have 100 days a year (isnt a day meant to be the time the world spins once and a year the amount of time it takes the world to orbit the sun? can you change that to suit a metric system? didnt think so...) anyway, time is the one thing that should remain metric, and why dont you like binary, would make things so much easier for computers to calculate if everyone worked with everything in binary huh?
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