After the merger, I wish they'd used the Compaq name instead of HP. Everything Carly has done is an insult to this once great company. How low can she take HP?
Last month, a bunch of trendy featherbrains in Austin, TX met in front of a downtown Starbucks, walked around with umbrellas for a few minutes, then left. Details here.
Paramount should market some 'Starfleet Lube' that fans can buy to ease the pain of merchandise-related anal rape. Berman personally tested it out on Brannon Braga.
The Borg MegaCube, the ultimate DVD collection, contains the Complete Star Trek: The Next Generation series 1- 7 across 48 discs and is strictly limited to just 1000 numbered copies worldwide.
I wonder if it's region encoded.
The press release is full of foofoo crap ("By order of Starfleet Command...") and doesn't contain too many specs, like whether it's NTSC or PAL!
It makes me cringe to think about people dropping 450 #'s on this thing and then not opening it up for fear of it losing the precious MINT, NIB collector's status. Personally, I'd rather have a complete run of the series in a nice binder. (On DVD-R.)
Buy an HP 48GX. It's the last decent HP scientific calculator and the RPN works great. The new HP's (like the 49G+) are crap, and aren't even made by HP. (They're rebranded.)
Salon has a pretty good story on XyWrite, the old DOS word processor which is apparently a favorite among a lot of writers. If you want to play around with it, you can build a "XyLite" system with a little work. Also check out the XyWWWeb, an excellent resource for XyWrite related stuff.
IANAAM (I am not an advertising major..), but apparently the "X" is supposed to make us think of sex, and therefore make whatever product a company is pitching more appealing. "SX" is even more blatant. In product model lineups, it's everywhere.
With that in mind, and seeing past the fnords, LX or LS (think Lexus LS 400, or whatever the latest is), is the most appealing of all: lesbian sex.
I hope I don't come across as crazy or perverted, but advertising will do ANYTHING to sell crap to people.
Wow, my AMD Duron 1000 can show a 'high definition video stream.' I bet it looked gorgeous and impressed the hell out of everybody (as good HD usually does), but this isn't really a difficult thing to do.
Show something useful, like, say, transcoding a dual layer DVD so it will fit on a single DVD-R.
A co-worker's brother-in-law was one who found the Arnold interview with Oui and put it on eBay. (BTW, TSG paid him $150 to scan it.) Anyway, since he was accepting payment via PayPal, eBay canceled the auction because it violated their terms of service which apparently has some clause about 'adult' material. He relisted the item, but they made him put it in the mature audience section.
Nevermind that searching for 'playboy' in the (non-mature) Magazines & Catalogs section yields 2064 hits. There are also 3 listings for the August '77 Oui in question.
This happened within a week or so of eBay canceling the iTunes auction.
Seriously though, the iPod and new harddrive based players like the Toshiba Gigabeat are amazingly tiny and crush the RAM based players in GB/$ comparisons.
For RAM based players too be tempting, they're going to have to get way cheaper and sexier. $160 for 256 MB is not hot at all.
Honestly, it does not surprise me. Carly Fiorina, HP CEO and stupid bitch, has basically ruined Hewlett-Packard. After the HP-Compaq merger, I remember reading that one of the founder's sons made a plaque that said "HP, 1938-2001." Really, though, I think it would more accurate if the sign indicated HP's death when Carly started.
Unfortunately, the traditional lavatory system doesn't do much to foster community. Patrons come and go, but there is very little opportunity to establish relationships with people or groups of people. In fact, if you try to talk with someone using the toilet you like - you'll probably get shushed. The Distributed Lavatory Project works in exactly the opposite way, where the very function of the lavatory depends on interaction.
Why the hell do we have to Rheingold everything and turn it into some 'distributed project' with 'interaction'?
They are runningFreeBSD. This sort of pandering doesn't really do much for me, but at least these guys aren't pitching their 'Mozilla Coffee' with IIS.
Anyone who buys into this 'conspiracy theory' has had their brain fried by the Apple reality distortion ray gun. Here are a couple reasons why the company I work for has never, and probably will never, consider Macs:
cost
Check gotapex? or techbargains and you'll see Dell P4's for $400-500 bucks. Seriously, what Mac can compare?
software
AutoCAD? GIS apps? Engineering apps? (Canvas doesn't count. Get real.)
Those hip, trendy commercials don't help either. I want a box to crunch numbers, not to make a fashion statement.
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(But not sexy devil horns like the BSD chick. Carly is an evil bitch, not a hot booth babe.)
John, do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugar water? Or do you want to change the world?
Fucking Windows 98! Get Bill Gates in here! You told us Windows 98 would be faster, and more efficient, with better access to the Internet!
As Gates tries to defend Windows, the General blows his head off. I thought that was pretty cool.
Killing great product lines? Yes!
Laying off the talent that made HP? Yes!
Funding SCO? Yes!
What's next, Carly?
Is this a smart mob?
Paramount should market some 'Starfleet Lube' that fans can buy to ease the pain of merchandise-related anal rape. Berman personally tested it out on Brannon Braga.
I wonder if it's region encoded.
The press release is full of foofoo crap ("By order of Starfleet Command...") and doesn't contain too many specs, like whether it's NTSC or PAL!
It makes me cringe to think about people dropping 450 #'s on this thing and then not opening it up for fear of it losing the precious MINT, NIB collector's status. Personally, I'd rather have a complete run of the series in a nice binder. (On DVD-R.)
Man, this is weak. I always look forward Academy screener time. I get to toss out my old, crappy telesync SVCDs and replace them with pristine DVD-Rs.
Why does HP's current calculator lineup suck?
Salon has a pretty good story on XyWrite, the old DOS word processor which is apparently a favorite among a lot of writers. If you want to play around with it, you can build a "XyLite" system with a little work. Also check out the XyWWWeb, an excellent resource for XyWrite related stuff.
With that in mind, and seeing past the fnords, LX or LS (think Lexus LS 400, or whatever the latest is), is the most appealing of all: lesbian sex.
I hope I don't come across as crazy or perverted, but advertising will do ANYTHING to sell crap to people.
Show something useful, like, say, transcoding a dual layer DVD so it will fit on a single DVD-R.
I remember seeing a WTX case from Addtronics. I thought that was the next standard.
Nevermind that searching for 'playboy' in the (non-mature) Magazines & Catalogs section yields 2064 hits. There are also 3 listings for the August '77 Oui in question.
This happened within a week or so of eBay canceling the iTunes auction.
Not to troll or anything, but after Bush Sr. left the CIA in '77, he became director of Eli Lilly.
For RAM based players too be tempting, they're going to have to get way cheaper and sexier. $160 for 256 MB is not hot at all.
MS always likes to withhold some nice piece of tech to force people to upgrade.
No USB in Windows NT.
No Hyperthreading in Windows 2000.
No ??? in Windows XP.
Let the SCO DDoS attack continue, please.
Hewlett-Packard 1938-1999
Take care of your old HP calculators!
According to Apple, in certain benchmarks, the G5 is faster than the NEC Earth Simulator.
He was born in New Haven, Connecticut.
I need to turn this into a bumpersticker.
Unfortunately, the traditional lavatory system doesn't do much to foster community. Patrons come and go, but there is very little opportunity to establish relationships with people or groups of people. In fact, if you try to talk with someone using the toilet you like - you'll probably get shushed. The Distributed Lavatory Project works in exactly the opposite way, where the very function of the lavatory depends on interaction.
Why the hell do we have to Rheingold everything and turn it into some 'distributed project' with 'interaction'?
They are running FreeBSD. This sort of pandering doesn't really do much for me, but at least these guys aren't pitching their 'Mozilla Coffee' with IIS.
Anyone who buys into this 'conspiracy theory' has had their brain fried by the Apple reality distortion ray gun. Here are a couple reasons why the company I work for has never, and probably will never, consider Macs:
cost
Check gotapex? or techbargains and you'll see Dell P4's for $400-500 bucks. Seriously, what Mac can compare?
software
AutoCAD? GIS apps? Engineering apps? (Canvas doesn't count. Get real.)
Those hip, trendy commercials don't help either. I want a box to crunch numbers, not to make a fashion statement.
This guy put an ant farm in his case.