2Gb RAM, 3GHz CPU, 20Gb of disk - Windows Vista: 1 4Mb RAM, 4MHz CPU, 500Kb ram disk - Minix: ? Wow.... 2 gigabits, 20 gigabits, 4 megabits and 500 kilobits.
Capital letter 'B' is for bytes.
At least 'Hz' was spelled right. That's another one most folks fuck up. Sorry for being so anal about this but this is something my high school physics/chem teachers were extreme sticklers for and I agree with them. In their fields a misspelled unit is all that's needed for potential disaster.
Same here. That was the first thing that came to mind after about 3 lines. "Why are there so many commas and parentheses (sp?) and not more periods?" Damn block of text reads like a legal filing to a layman.
I'm in no hurry to buy a Wii but I know for sure that I will be buying one at some point in the future. I had the Wii on my must-buy list around the same time the pre-launch frenzy was nearing its peak. If only for Paper Mario. Damn those gameplay vids rock!
..then why the fuck do we always get these blurbs where people mix up "Gb" and "GB"?? THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE I.O.W. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!
IMNSHO IF YOU DON'T KNOW THIS BASIC TIDBIT OF UNIT NOTATION YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS BEING ON SLASHDOT. ...so tell me, what the fuck's a "gb" gerbil brain? There's no such thing as "gb". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga
And don't tell me it's a limitation of/.'s headings like Wikipedia's, the word "PCIe" next to it has three capital letters in it just fine.
Holy CRAP! That's around 31 euros. Here in the Netherlands the more up-market shops sell it for 24,99 euros at the most.
Average CDs are 15~20 euros.
On a sliiiightly different note:
Thankfully though, I'm 100% metal only so I save a bundle buying my favorite, hand-numbered-in-goat's-blood, seventh repress, Singapore-release, limited-to-666-copies, underground tunes for peanuts.
Metalheads BUY tangible things always and musicians sell all their merch even though they know they'll lose money 90% of the time.
It's for the love of earache. \m/
Damn, that IS huge. Travel a BILLION years at the speed of light from one end to the other. Fsck me...
And I already get goose bumps from thinking about the Boötes void (which is only 250M ly across).
Don't want to be an ass here, I know the word rolls off the tongue real smooth but Czechoslovakia split up into the Czech republic and Slovakia back in 1993. Absolutely beautiful countries and well worth a long visit.
...is way ahead of the rest of the world after all like their propaganda proclaims.
What, with their wood burning cars and trucks and eco-friendly nightly blackouts it's a vision of the future to come.:-P
I used to be a bugzilla poster and nightly tester a long time ago.
I haven't been able to find where the FF2rc-nightly builds are hosted.
Some Google results are dead links and others are FF3 builds.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Got a good URL?
Or can I use a FF3 nighly to check against a FF2rc bug?
As a spanish speakers I had to cringe and laugh at "Sabayon" as it pronounced almost identically to sabañón.
(= Redness, inflammation and ulceration with itching in mostly hands, feet and ears due to cold.)
MOD UP!!
My father is 65 and started having these horrible leaking ulcers on his ankles a couple of years ago.
He went to many different doctors and "specialists" in different countries and eventually got told that it all happened because all his working career he'd have "stand-up" jobs.
Even at home he did NOT like to sit down. I remember the many fight my mom had with him because he wouldn't sit down while eating and even when he did he prefered the barstool next to the kitchen (=elevated sitting position).
I tell you there's nothing to laugh about when you feel like your feet and lower legs are being eaten up by fire ants 24/7/365. No sleep, no rest, nowhere, never. Painkillers don't help either. You can't wear anything except sandals or flip-flops and even thin socks agravate the wounds because your skin has turned paper-thin. There's just NO blood circulation because the valves in your veins have lost all elasticity and so all the blood pools down below.
His last doc told him these ulcers also happen a lot to diabetics (although he's not).
So let me say this: standing while working might be a good way to control your weight but DON'T OVERDO IT!
LOL, well guess that's not an option for data CDs and DVDs no. But I can't recall ever having "broken" LP sleeves.
For DATA (original or otherwise) I use the (spray-paint color-coded/marker-written) cakeboxes where my empty CD-Rs and DVD+Rs come in and a few of those nylon book-type thingies from Case-Logic. Also; my dad seems to have tons of those slimline CDR cases but these come already in lotsa purdy colors. Should be available empty just like the regular sized ones also come in colors.
As for my music/movies: I have all original CDs and DVDs and like keeping them prominently on display next to the HiFi, TV, whatever. Home-made, wall-anchored wooden racks for me. I have special cases for transport when needed.
I've been avoiding nForce chipsets on mobos because of their supposedly binary-only and/or non-existant/reverse-engineered drivers for Linux.
I'm confused.
Does all the hardware on an nForce work with Linux nowadays?
Are the drivers OSS or closed like their video ones? Are all even available?
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4Mb RAM, 4MHz CPU, 500Kb ram disk - Minix: ? Wow.... 2 gigabits, 20 gigabits, 4 megabits and 500 kilobits.
Capital letter 'B' is for bytes.
At least 'Hz' was spelled right. That's another one most folks fuck up.
Sorry for being so anal about this but this is something my high school physics/chem teachers were extreme sticklers for and I agree with them. In their fields a misspelled unit is all that's needed for potential disaster.
Same here.
That was the first thing that came to mind after about 3 lines. "Why are there so many commas and parentheses (sp?) and not more periods?" Damn block of text reads like a legal filing to a layman.
I'm in no hurry to buy a Wii but I know for sure that I will be buying one at some point in the future.
I had the Wii on my must-buy list around the same time the pre-launch frenzy was nearing its peak.
If only for Paper Mario. Damn those gameplay vids rock!
..then why the fuck do we always get these blurbs where people mix up "Gb" and "GB"??
...so tell me, what the fuck's a "gb" gerbil brain? There's no such thing as "gb". /.'s headings like Wikipedia's, the word "PCIe" next to it
THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE I.O.W. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!
IMNSHO IF YOU DON'T KNOW THIS BASIC TIDBIT OF UNIT NOTATION YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS BEING ON SLASHDOT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga
And don't tell me it's a limitation of
has three capital letters in it just fine.
Holy CRAP! That's around 31 euros. Here in the Netherlands the more up-market shops sell it for 24,99 euros at the most.
Average CDs are 15~20 euros.
On a sliiiightly different note:
Thankfully though, I'm 100% metal only so I save a bundle buying my favorite, hand-numbered-in-goat's-blood, seventh repress, Singapore-release, limited-to-666-copies, underground tunes for peanuts.
Metalheads BUY tangible things always and musicians sell all their merch even though they know they'll lose money 90% of the time.
It's for the love of earache. \m/
Damn, that IS huge. Travel a BILLION years at the speed of light from one end to the other. Fsck me...
And I already get goose bumps from thinking about the Boötes void (which is only 250M ly across).
Say what?
Windows Vista DOESN'T support OpenGL? At all?? (serious question)
Breaking news to me, this.
A government's wet dream. How sweet. Implant RFIDs in people from birth and *poof* it's 1984 just a few decades late!
LOL! I just substituted "Watts" for "Gasoline" in your piece and kept thinking about "V8's".
Man did I get a big smile on my face.
FFS people, it's Mbps. Mbps!!!!! The *is* no mbps.
*pops vein in head*
...that's that for Duke Nukem Forever.
Nice knowin' ya!
Czechoslovakia
Don't want to be an ass here, I know the word rolls off the tongue real smooth but Czechoslovakia split up into the Czech republic and Slovakia back in 1993. Absolutely beautiful countries and well worth a long visit.
Maybe you should try the Bruce DickInson School for the not-moronic.
SHAME on you for misspelling His name.
...is way ahead of the rest of the world after all like their propaganda proclaims. :-P
What, with their wood burning cars and trucks and eco-friendly nightly blackouts it's a vision of the future to come.
I used to be a bugzilla poster and nightly tester a long time ago.
I haven't been able to find where the FF2rc-nightly builds are hosted.
Some Google results are dead links and others are FF3 builds. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Got a good URL?
Or can I use a FF3 nighly to check against a FF2rc bug?
LOL. In dutch snyder (or snijder, the more modern spelling) means 'cutter'.
Not the ship kind but the tradesman kind.
As a spanish speakers I had to cringe and laugh at "Sabayon" as it pronounced almost identically to sabañón.
(= Redness, inflammation and ulceration with itching in mostly hands, feet and ears due to cold.)
Extremadura actually means "extra mature" so this would be like Grandma-ILF quality pr0n.
;-)
(*No peeps, I'm a native spanish speaker so need to point out the obvious
MOD UP!!
My father is 65 and started having these horrible leaking ulcers on his ankles a couple of years ago.
He went to many different doctors and "specialists" in different countries and eventually got told that it all happened because all his working career he'd have "stand-up" jobs.
Even at home he did NOT like to sit down. I remember the many fight my mom had with him because he wouldn't sit down while eating and even when he did he prefered the barstool next to the kitchen (=elevated sitting position).
I tell you there's nothing to laugh about when you feel like your feet and lower legs are being eaten up by fire ants 24/7/365. No sleep, no rest, nowhere, never. Painkillers don't help either. You can't wear anything except sandals or flip-flops and even thin socks agravate the wounds because your skin has turned paper-thin.
There's just NO blood circulation because the valves in your veins have lost all elasticity and so all the blood pools down below.
His last doc told him these ulcers also happen a lot to diabetics (although he's not).
So let me say this: standing while working might be a good way to control your weight but DON'T OVERDO IT!
LOL, well guess that's not an option for data CDs and DVDs no. But I can't recall ever having "broken" LP sleeves.
For DATA (original or otherwise) I use the (spray-paint color-coded/marker-written) cakeboxes where my empty CD-Rs and DVD+Rs come in and a few of those nylon book-type thingies from Case-Logic.
Also; my dad seems to have tons of those slimline CDR cases but these come already in lotsa purdy colors. Should be available empty just like the regular sized ones also come in colors.
As for my music/movies: I have all original CDs and DVDs and like keeping them prominently on display next to the HiFi, TV, whatever. Home-made, wall-anchored wooden racks for me. I have special cases for transport when needed.
It's TERA not TERRA (earth?) The webpage you link to has it in plain sight too.
Like ABN-Amro. My internet banking is flawless with Moz and Linux.
...was right all along!
I've been avoiding nForce chipsets on mobos because of their supposedly binary-only and/or non-existant/reverse-engineered drivers for Linux. I'm confused. Does all the hardware on an nForce work with Linux nowadays? Are the drivers OSS or closed like their video ones? Are all even available?
All of a sudden something struck me; why isn't there a www.ogg.net (or .info or .biz) to push the better format?
Sounds catchy too: "awg dot net"