once turned a 5400RPM drive into a 7200RPM drive merely by giving it a good squirt of WD-40. I swear!
That's nothing -- back in the 386-era of forty megabyte Western Digital drives, I once saw an MSCE use STAC compression on a server hard drive to turn a WD40 into a WD80. I swore!
When someone clicks a banner ad for a $349 computer from a large online retailer, does anyone really think the system builder will change parts based on the consumers' last minute decision to purchase protection?
Like swapping out the one year warranty HD for the same manufacturer's more expensive three year hard drive, because the consumer upgrades the coverage on their bare-bones lossleader whitebox to 24 months instead of the minimal 90 days?
I am fairly well-read but don't remember anybody mentioning the following yet:
Just two percent of the 5+ million people with camera phones could capture 100,000 of the little "XP 1-2 processor" Product ID stickers in plain view on the sides of computers at banks, government agencies, small businesses, etc.
2% is probably a low end figure for the public engaging in piracy via multiple S/N.
A small software company gets their product
bundled with Oracle which is then
bought out by IBM and the leftovers get picked up by the domain name vultures until
Microsoft eventually gets in on the action.
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But why did Microsoft pay
$$$ earlier this year for my domain ?
if low-end machines like this were as ubiquitous as phones
20 years ago, Southwestern Bell had tens of thousands of people connecting little boxes with chicklet keyboards to phones lines to chat with each other -- based on the success of a previous French project to link people with similar hardware.
A few years earlier the French also proved their trendsetting knack for technology with the red
ALICE units that were 300 baud (300bps for rude Americans who cannot properly pronouce Emile Baudot's namesake)
I always have someone come back with "But XP is better for games." I've never seen this. To this day I play all my PC games on 2k
Go back seven years to September of 1999 when few new games ran correctly on the release candidate of the next Windows to reach market in the next 90 days.
Developers had no incentive to try their games under Windows 2K. It was the spectre of XP on the horizon that made your 12/99 Microsoft OS eventually play games after January of 2002.
When I read the part where it "can replace rockets and make trains, planes and automobiles obsolete" I also thought it is about damn time for something new. (I'm in the 35-44 demographic group)
My grandmother never drove a car, my grandfather didn't live to see rockets with chimps inside, my parents have never been on a plane, and I doubt my own kids will ever take a trip on an Amtrak train.
Not all AAs are created equal
on
USB Batteries
·
· Score: 2, Informative
The first rechargeable AA batteries were properly 1.5V each. Then 1.25V became the norm and my devices requiring six volts from regular batteries are only getting five.
In the last couple years they've dropped rechargeables to 1.2V which means normal batteries are delivering 25% more power if the amps stay the same. I don't want 'em.
I found the handwriting recognition in Brain Age hit and miss, reading my 4s as 9s half of the time. In the Stroop test where it uses voice recognition, I have to repeat the word "Blue" frequently
I've let dozens of people play the game and it is a show-stopper for most everyone over the age of 35 or 40 -- way beyond frustrating, due to this big BAD bug in this software.
I still think it does a couple of the exercises well, but why they never bothered fixing this is bewildering at best (if you really try to give them the benefit of the $$ doubt).
I barely know the Japanese written and verbal language, but if I wrote a program solely dependent on it, my marginal phonetics would at least be caught with 5 minutes of beta testing.
takes a good amount of time, and if you are accessing it from a slower PC this is very noticable
Wait until the older computers (and older folks) try logging in with 800x600 resolution. This is a mainstream site for mainstream people, and there's a healthy part of that demographic who use 1999-2003 technology.
With the prevalence of keystroke loggers on Windows boxes, is the typical home user better off having encrypted/stored passwords for website forms -- or better off crossing his fingers and typing them manually dozens of times per day?
Discussing encryption under ideal circumstances is like saying birth control pills are 99.97% effective when taken as directed in laboratory studies.
Samuel Johnson remarked
"(It) is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is
not done well;
but you are surprised to find it done at all."
I remember a 1980 or 1981 tv news story from the University of Illinois where a robot "solved" Rubik's Cube
-- early on in the phenomena -- in just over 15 minutes.
The press paid attention to the WHO and the WHEN rather than the WHAT and HOW of the story. Color recognition from the camera and the mechanics were the real issue:
The computer used had actually solved each puzzle in the first ten seconds while onlookers watched the mechanical contraption in suspense for the next quarter hour.
Every authentic, ISA Soundblaster audio card came with a thumbwheel volume control. People thought it was an April Fools joke when news came out that it would be removed in all future revisions.
Dual booting (via floppy disk, of course) became a pain with the reliance on virtual volume control through software. Ditto for the "hoaxes" about self-serve gas pumps and temporary tax plans.
Who still wants a service where you are violating the terms of service by running ad-blocking software? What next -- type 3 lines of text into your HOSTs file and lose your ISP...
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That's nothing -- back in the 386-era of forty megabyte Western Digital drives, I once saw an MSCE use STAC compression on a server hard drive to turn a WD40 into a WD80. I swore!
AOL's three little beloved words ranks right up there with "I love you" ...
That guy's gotta be wishing he had a better agent negotiating royalties.
Last night CNN posted results of a study regarding mutated genes and the link to autism.
"Redmond said it would modify the welcome screen presented
to Vista users to include links to other security software."
Maybe the forced Vista sound at logon will play a friendly tune for Microsoft's solution, and dire music for those who bypassed it.
2 . Wait for Microsoft to make a retroactive Vista upgrade announcment in mid-November.
3a. Return software should Microsoft not do the obvious.
3b. Get at least $150 credit toward Vista
4 . Unload XP-Home to someone for $20 loss.
Like swapping out the one year warranty HD for the same manufacturer's more expensive three year hard drive, because the consumer upgrades the coverage on their bare-bones lossleader whitebox to 24 months instead of the minimal 90 days?
Just two percent of the 5+ million people with camera phones could capture 100,000 of the little "XP 1-2 processor" Product ID stickers in plain view on the sides of computers at banks, government agencies, small businesses, etc.
2% is probably a low end figure for the public engaging in piracy via multiple S/N.
--
But why did Microsoft pay
$$$ earlier this year for
my domain ?
2. Teenager turns 16 and gets car
3. +++ATH0
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You weren't a real BBS if your AC
wasn't one of the 35 reachable by
PC PURSUIT
20 years ago, Southwestern Bell had tens of thousands of people connecting little boxes with chicklet keyboards to phones lines to chat with each other -- based on the success of a previous French project to link people with similar hardware.
A few years earlier the French also proved their trendsetting knack for technology with the red ALICE units that were 300 baud (300bps for rude Americans who cannot properly pronouce Emile Baudot's namesake)
Go back seven years to September of 1999 when few new games ran correctly on the release candidate of the next Windows to reach market in the next 90 days.
Developers had no incentive to try their games under Windows 2K. It was the spectre of XP on the horizon that made your 12/99 Microsoft OS eventually play games after January of 2002.
When I read the part where it "can replace rockets and make trains, planes and automobiles obsolete" I also thought it is about damn time for something new. (I'm in the 35-44 demographic group)
My grandmother never drove a car, my grandfather didn't live to see rockets with chimps inside, my parents have never been on a plane, and I doubt my own kids will ever take a trip on an Amtrak train.
In the last couple years they've dropped rechargeables to 1.2V which means normal batteries are delivering 25% more power if the amps stay the same. I don't want 'em.
After all it's a big public university with large class sizes, and you have better things to do than go to class and do original work.
The problem is, the people of your state actually expect something in return for the $50000 they've invested in you (and saved you).
I've let dozens of people play the game and it is a show-stopper for most everyone over the age of 35 or 40 -- way beyond frustrating, due to this big BAD bug in this software.
I still think it does a couple of the exercises well, but why they never bothered fixing this is bewildering at best (if you really try to give them the benefit of the $$ doubt).
I barely know the Japanese written and verbal language, but if I wrote a program solely dependent on it, my marginal phonetics would at least be caught with 5 minutes of beta testing.
with the subsequent warmer weather, less energy use will follow.
2nd scenario: Use less energy this winter and the greenhouse gas effect drops;
with the subsequent colder weather, more energy use will follow.
Wait until the older computers (and older folks) try logging in with 800x600 resolution. This is a mainstream site for mainstream people, and there's a healthy part of that demographic who use 1999-2003 technology.
Aug 1996 NT4
Dec 1999 NT5.0
Oct 2001 NT5.1
Dec 2006 NT5.5
Discussing encryption under ideal circumstances is like saying birth control pills are 99.97% effective when taken as directed in laboratory studies.
I remember a 1980 or 1981 tv news story from the University of Illinois where a robot "solved" Rubik's Cube -- early on in the phenomena -- in just over 15 minutes.
The press paid attention to the WHO and the WHEN rather than the WHAT and HOW of the story. Color recognition from the camera and the mechanics were the real issue:
The computer used had actually solved each puzzle in the first ten seconds while onlookers watched the mechanical contraption in suspense for the next quarter hour.
Dual booting (via floppy disk, of course) became a pain with the reliance on virtual volume control through software. Ditto for the "hoaxes" about self-serve gas pumps and temporary tax plans.
Las Vegas odds currently show a better chance for 30 days later: Feb 29th 2007
Outside of searches, that's how MSN, Yahoo! and AOL envisioned themselves becoming major portals in early 1998.
Maybe the manufacturer of the XBOX 360 will update their game system to fill this void in the living rooms across America.