I installed Win 95 on a 386 that I was currently running 3.1 on and was amazed at how slow it performed and how it took up 90% of the hard drive space.
It took about 20 minutes before I uninstalled it and went back to 3.1.
It was not until Windows 2000 that I finally found a decent OS come out of Microsoft (I have no experience with NT).
Word should not take 30 seconds to start up on a 2.2 ghz celeron machine. Something is wrong with that persons machine.
I tested word 2003 on my machine, a athlon xp 1.8 ghz with 768 ram and it took 3 seconds to start up, and I am not using the office startup loader as the parent suggested.
Do a fresh install of windows and office on your machine then you can do a scientific comparison properly.
I also thought they were dumb as hell. Usually I look forward to advertisements by alternative type tech companies like apple, etc because they are inventive. Oh well, it is free afterall...
Have you ever had a guy like this running your servers or network? Its gets to the point where you have to run subversion programs/systems to get any work done in a timely fashion.
While he is busy changing 100 of his passwords every week a whole group of users are not getting any work done because they need a port opened on the firewall.
What does this guy do for a living that he has all this time to waste on useless tasks in the name of "what if" security?
I get a discount without them knowing who I am. I just snagged a discount card that someone dropped and I've been using it for over 3 years now. I take great pleasure in the fact that everytime I swipe it their database has another incorrect record inserted into it.
Take that, the man!
If you want to choose every single person that has contact with you you can do that just as easily with email. Its called a whitelist, and whomever is not on it does not get through. Its been around forever.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think the rope stretching would be a problem.
If you were going to paint a picture on a large building you would start by dropping a rope down and anchoring it at the bottom as tight as you could. From that point forward the rope would not stretch anymore. The robot would be able to tell its position by how far it travelled on the rope, not how long the actual rope is.
I would think the wind would be a much bigger problem with doing something like this.
I used to brake check tailgaters until a very large black man communicated his feelings about being brake checked by me by chasing me through traffic and saying bad things about my mother.
I stopped brake checking from that day forward, not because I was afraid of the large black men on the road, but because I saw how angry and filled with rage some people can become over such a pointless action.
There are much bigger problems to deal with in our lives. I just try to ignore tailgaters now, not worth raising my blood pressure or theirs by having a pissing contest with 4000 pound hunks of metal.
I took a Management class in college where we spent a large amount of time focusing on some of the strategies successful companies used. It was all good at the time because the companies were pulling in massive amounts of customers and money. However several years after that class, these companies that were bragging about their innovative strategies were failing.
A few that I can remember was AOL and the Time Warner merger, Jack Welch and GE, and some others.
Just goes to show you, just because your successful in the short term with some crazy new strategy, doesn't mean it is a good one.
In that case we will dispose of the byproducts of the process in your backyard.
I am all for alternatives to producing energy. However the people in charge are historically not very good at keeping their promises of disposing these kinds of wastes in a way that will be safe for the next 10,000 years.
Combining the Internet and Cafeine-challenged coffee is a really bad idea. I figure we are all going to end up falling asleep and being taken over by the Canadians.
This jacket is really just an elaborate stungun. An armed stungun would scare the bejesus out of anyone not expecting it with the loud electrical crackling noise it makes and the visible blue electrical arches.
One of the effects of capitalism on artists is that the best artists are signed to a big record deal for lots of money while the crappy artists are labeled independent and get nothing but a few coffee house gigs each week.
Oh, I'm sure there are still a few good independent artists, the ones that will sign a big record deal soon, and 1 or 2 that don't want to sign with a record company and get lots of money.
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I installed Win 95 on a 386 that I was currently running 3.1 on and was amazed at how slow it performed and how it took up 90% of the hard drive space.
It took about 20 minutes before I uninstalled it and went back to 3.1.
It was not until Windows 2000 that I finally found a decent OS come out of Microsoft (I have no experience with NT).
On my 1.6 ghz machine word took 3 seconds to load without the office pre-loader. There is something wrong with the author's machine.
Word should not take 30 seconds to start up on a 2.2 ghz celeron machine. Something is wrong with that persons machine.
I tested word 2003 on my machine, a athlon xp 1.8 ghz with 768 ram and it took 3 seconds to start up, and I am not using the office startup loader as the parent suggested.
Do a fresh install of windows and office on your machine then you can do a scientific comparison properly.
Seriously though, because I only end up building a new computer every 3-4 years I don't keep up with processor/socket combinations.
This is a good reference to catch up.
I also thought they were dumb as hell. Usually I look forward to advertisements by alternative type tech companies like apple, etc because they are inventive. Oh well, it is free afterall...
Have you ever had a guy like this running your servers or network? Its gets to the point where you have to run subversion programs/systems to get any work done in a timely fashion.
While he is busy changing 100 of his passwords every week a whole group of users are not getting any work done because they need a port opened on the firewall.
What does this guy do for a living that he has all this time to waste on useless tasks in the name of "what if" security?
Many of the comics have already touched on the lack of quality that this contest will showcase. For example, http://www.mousewax.com/
I get a discount without them knowing who I am. I just snagged a discount card that someone dropped and I've been using it for over 3 years now. I take great pleasure in the fact that everytime I swipe it their database has another incorrect record inserted into it. Take that, the man!
If you want to choose every single person that has contact with you you can do that just as easily with email. Its called a whitelist, and whomever is not on it does not get through. Its been around forever.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think the rope stretching would be a problem.
If you were going to paint a picture on a large building you would start by dropping a rope down and anchoring it at the bottom as tight as you could. From that point forward the rope would not stretch anymore. The robot would be able to tell its position by how far it travelled on the rope, not how long the actual rope is.
I would think the wind would be a much bigger problem with doing something like this.
I used to brake check tailgaters until a very large black man communicated his feelings about being brake checked by me by chasing me through traffic and saying bad things about my mother.
I stopped brake checking from that day forward, not because I was afraid of the large black men on the road, but because I saw how angry and filled with rage some people can become over such a pointless action.
There are much bigger problems to deal with in our lives. I just try to ignore tailgaters now, not worth raising my blood pressure or theirs by having a pissing contest with 4000 pound hunks of metal.
I took a Management class in college where we spent a large amount of time focusing on some of the strategies successful companies used. It was all good at the time because the companies were pulling in massive amounts of customers and money. However several years after that class, these companies that were bragging about their innovative strategies were failing.
A few that I can remember was AOL and the Time Warner merger, Jack Welch and GE, and some others.
Just goes to show you, just because your successful in the short term with some crazy new strategy, doesn't mean it is a good one.
In that case we will dispose of the byproducts of the process in your backyard.
I am all for alternatives to producing energy. However the people in charge are historically not very good at keeping their promises of disposing these kinds of wastes in a way that will be safe for the next 10,000 years.
I predict 6 months from now, people will still be predicting more crap based on nothing.
Combining the Internet and Cafeine-challenged coffee is a really bad idea. I figure we are all going to end up falling asleep and being taken over by the Canadians.
This jacket is really just an elaborate stungun. An armed stungun would scare the bejesus out of anyone not expecting it with the loud electrical crackling noise it makes and the visible blue electrical arches.
actually suicide is not illegal. so you do have the right go kill yourself :)
i am by no means a supporter of the RIAA, it the spawn of all evil. i was just making a case that good artists aren't independent for long ;)
One of the effects of capitalism on artists is that the best artists are signed to a big record deal for lots of money while the crappy artists are labeled independent and get nothing but a few coffee house gigs each week.
Oh, I'm sure there are still a few good independent artists, the ones that will sign a big record deal soon, and 1 or 2 that don't want to sign with a record company and get lots of money.