Which still exist at the odd c-store in the country... I see them on occasion, but now they are "sticks" in a box that just happens to look like a pack of smokes.
Exactly that's why we simply need to have a government mandated "uni-car" that will only go certain speeds on certain roads and will keep a detailed log of all use to be uploaded one a year when you must pay your road use tax since we will have then abolished fuel taxes.
That's 20 inches more than you need on your monitor
More Screen = More Data Displayed = More better work.
and a full-length mirror
When your profession requires a uniform or suit with a strict attention to detail that seems like a given for someone highly paced in such organizations.
Gob: Tell you what we're gonna do: "Rock Paper Scissors" for it.
Michael: No, no I'm not...
Gob: One, two, three. Paper covers rock.
Michael: It is a rock, though. Should beat everything.
Gob: There's not a lot of logic to it. It's kind of like on a boat with "Women and children first." I mean, why should they...
A bit later I bought a 1 GHz PIII HP Pavillion. After I replaced the 60 GB WD HDD with a 13 GB unit (big drives are for servers; clients get small drives) and replaced the trialware-laden WinME with Win98 boot times dropped from 35 seconds to 25. That's gotta be 6, 7 years ago by now... how old is your box?
I always found ME to boot much faster than 98/98SE, but that was the only improvement... Oh and defrag was quicker, it would usually finish before something crashed or locked up.
Can you afford the extra electricity to power the old PC, and the extra air conditioning to get rid of the massive amounts of heat that old thing is going to put out?
The old things don't put off heat... Listen to yourself. I can't tell you how many Pentiums/K6/Cryix based systems I've seen with no fan but the one in the PSU. Oh and the PSU's, when's the last time you've opened an old computer and found anything higher then 250-300watts max? Can't say that I have, ever. In fact when I received 6 Pentium D's a few weeks ago from an office upgrading all there kit all they came equipped with mere 250w PSU, and those are somewhat modern systems based on an architecture that was known for reaching up to 115 W in 3.6-3.8 GHz Prescotts. So yeah I think your point is moot and your talking out your ass. But we'll never know:) He didn't specify the hardware.
I don't know, how about the part where it's a stupid idea and he should just invest in a PC that isn't more than 10 years old?
Don't feed the trolls but...
There are those of us that like old cars, old planes, old trains, old things, for whatever reason. I myself enjoy having old rigs, there is nothing like launching Win 3.11 again to bring me straight back to middle school and my first computer. And when that software is running on the hardware of it's era it becomes so much sweeter. Or sometimes I like to overclock the old stuff, much trickier then it is now. Or sometimes I need a fan, or a case to mod as a rough draft... Yeah when you see something as irrelevant due to it's age and no other criteria you're really limiting yourself to that everything is disposable Wal-Mart style economy, and I pity you.
But doesn't a new motherboard for a years-old PC typically have new, incompatible CPU and RAM sockets, which require a new CPU and new RAM? At that point, you're practically building a new PC with an old case and drives.
It really depends, but even best case your window for upgrades is really limited to a few years. I'm mostly thinking along the lines of Socket 939 and to a lesser extent Socket AM2, fairly wide range of processors (value, mainstream, enthusiast) has been developed for these sockets, and generally your memory, video card and all other relevant peripherals should transfer smoothly in these cases. Although it's only a matter of time before something like PCI-E or DDR2/3 come along to ruin all the fun. But I digress, and hope to find out more on this. Today at work I got a tip, 9 Pentium computers in the wonderful AT form factor... A fast boot time would really open up some options to find use in this old kit.
An 18-year-old hacker responsible for writing a number of applications used by an online group called 'the A-Team' that allowed the creation of a million-plus machine botnet and a range of credit card fraud activities to take place,
Hah, I'm assuming there's some exaggeration taking place here... and from the sounds of it they're on the same Old English ego boosting bender those kids are probably on after doing something remotely notable.
I don't think that will be too much of an issue. My guess it will be used as a device like a GPU or DSP on a sound card.
And we all know how easy it is to add hardware acceleration for products from major vendors like Creative, Nvidia, AMD... The architectures these companies have produced have far greater market penetration then Toshiba could dream to see and yet there isn't across the board support for such common devices. Not many are going to be coding for a piece of hardware only one manufacture is producing. Unless this thing is seen in rigs across the board and/or it demonstrates a highly tangible benefit it simply won't be supported by the fast majority of software.
When is the last time a company come along with a proprietary technology like this and received market acceptance? I seem to recall companies like Aegia and Rambus... Hell RDRAM didn't even require any change to software and provided higher performance, but it was one company and of course the price remained high.... Nah I don't expect to see this go much further than it already has, a few people will buy it and it will ship with some in house programs on it and just like every other system from a major manufacturer support and software will slowly fade into obscurity. Sure a few websites will be started in dedication of this thing and they will light up their message boards with how superior and awesome it was/is/could of been...
but as a kid, I chowed on their burgers and fries and actually liked it. Today, I tried their chicken nuggets once on a long drive home and almost threw them away. It was as if they somehow formed the nuggets from some mixed slurry, prettied it up with a coating, and then cooked the outside to make it appear appetizing. Hmmm, mixed slurry, prettied up, made to appear appetizing? Remind you of anyone?
Yeah equating liking McDonald's to childishness, you are so superior to the rest of us. With your mature palate could you please tell me more about your disdain for the world's most popular restaurant, it's just oh so hip!
Actually it seems the USPS is the market leader in air freight... The data may be a bit stale, but I'm sure things are much the same today. And I'm sure Air Freight is a good indicator over other related sectors in the shipping industry.
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Which still exist at the odd c-store in the country... I see them on occasion, but now they are "sticks" in a box that just happens to look like a pack of smokes.
Exactly that's why we simply need to have a government mandated "uni-car" that will only go certain speeds on certain roads and will keep a detailed log of all use to be uploaded one a year when you must pay your road use tax since we will have then abolished fuel taxes.
That's 20 inches more than you need on your monitor
More Screen = More Data Displayed = More better work.
and a full-length mirror
When your profession requires a uniform or suit with a strict attention to detail that seems like a given for someone highly paced in such organizations.
But what of the massive involvement of the United States Postal Service prior to the internet revolution?
Gob: Tell you what we're gonna do: "Rock Paper Scissors" for it.
Michael: No, no I'm not...
Gob: One, two, three. Paper covers rock.
Michael: It is a rock, though. Should beat everything.
Gob: There's not a lot of logic to it. It's kind of like on a boat with "Women and children first." I mean, why should they...
Oh really, please do tell. And what mechanisms or processes are at work to garner such fantastilistic boot times?
Yeah, but they're so SHINEY!
All that shine and no eye candy. Where's the games Apple?
Good call.
A bit later I bought a 1 GHz PIII HP Pavillion. After I replaced the 60 GB WD HDD with a 13 GB unit (big drives are for servers; clients get small drives) and replaced the trialware-laden WinME with Win98 boot times dropped from 35 seconds to 25. That's gotta be 6, 7 years ago by now... how old is your box?
I always found ME to boot much faster than 98/98SE, but that was the only improvement... Oh and defrag was quicker, it would usually finish before something crashed or locked up.
Can you afford the extra electricity to power the old PC, and the extra air conditioning to get rid of the massive amounts of heat that old thing is going to put out?
The old things don't put off heat... Listen to yourself. I can't tell you how many Pentiums/K6/Cryix based systems I've seen with no fan but the one in the PSU. Oh and the PSU's, when's the last time you've opened an old computer and found anything higher then 250-300watts max? Can't say that I have, ever. In fact when I received 6 Pentium D's a few weeks ago from an office upgrading all there kit all they came equipped with mere 250w PSU, and those are somewhat modern systems based on an architecture that was known for reaching up to 115 W in 3.6-3.8 GHz Prescotts. So yeah I think your point is moot and your talking out your ass. But we'll never know :) He didn't specify the hardware.
I don't know, how about the part where it's a stupid idea and he should just invest in a PC that isn't more than 10 years old?
Don't feed the trolls but...
There are those of us that like old cars, old planes, old trains, old things, for whatever reason. I myself enjoy having old rigs, there is nothing like launching Win 3.11 again to bring me straight back to middle school and my first computer. And when that software is running on the hardware of it's era it becomes so much sweeter. Or sometimes I like to overclock the old stuff, much trickier then it is now. Or sometimes I need a fan, or a case to mod as a rough draft... Yeah when you see something as irrelevant due to it's age and no other criteria you're really limiting yourself to that everything is disposable Wal-Mart style economy, and I pity you.
But doesn't a new motherboard for a years-old PC typically have new, incompatible CPU and RAM sockets, which require a new CPU and new RAM? At that point, you're practically building a new PC with an old case and drives.
It really depends, but even best case your window for upgrades is really limited to a few years. I'm mostly thinking along the lines of Socket 939 and to a lesser extent Socket AM2, fairly wide range of processors (value, mainstream, enthusiast) has been developed for these sockets, and generally your memory, video card and all other relevant peripherals should transfer smoothly in these cases. Although it's only a matter of time before something like PCI-E or DDR2/3 come along to ruin all the fun. But I digress, and hope to find out more on this. Today at work I got a tip, 9 Pentium computers in the wonderful AT form factor... A fast boot time would really open up some options to find use in this old kit.
An 18-year-old hacker responsible for writing a number of applications used by an online group called 'the A-Team' that allowed the creation of a million-plus machine botnet and a range of credit card fraud activities to take place,
Hah, I'm assuming there's some exaggeration taking place here... and from the sounds of it they're on the same Old English ego boosting bender those kids are probably on after doing something remotely notable.
I don't think that will be too much of an issue. My guess it will be used as a device like a GPU or DSP on a sound card.
And we all know how easy it is to add hardware acceleration for products from major vendors like Creative, Nvidia, AMD... The architectures these companies have produced have far greater market penetration then Toshiba could dream to see and yet there isn't across the board support for such common devices. Not many are going to be coding for a piece of hardware only one manufacture is producing. Unless this thing is seen in rigs across the board and/or it demonstrates a highly tangible benefit it simply won't be supported by the fast majority of software.
When is the last time a company come along with a proprietary technology like this and received market acceptance? I seem to recall companies like Aegia and Rambus... Hell RDRAM didn't even require any change to software and provided higher performance, but it was one company and of course the price remained high.... Nah I don't expect to see this go much further than it already has, a few people will buy it and it will ship with some in house programs on it and just like every other system from a major manufacturer support and software will slowly fade into obscurity. Sure a few websites will be started in dedication of this thing and they will light up their message boards with how superior and awesome it was/is/could of been...
You are a rube.
This appears to be some earlier info on the kit they are using in this laptop, here, with pictures!
And who is going to start writing custom built apps or patches to utilize the hardware on this one laptop?
but as a kid, I chowed on their burgers and fries and actually liked it. Today, I tried their chicken nuggets once on a long drive home and almost threw them away. It was as if they somehow formed the nuggets from some mixed slurry, prettied it up with a coating, and then cooked the outside to make it appear appetizing. Hmmm, mixed slurry, prettied up, made to appear appetizing? Remind you of anyone?
Yeah equating liking McDonald's to childishness, you are so superior to the rest of us. With your mature palate could you please tell me more about your disdain for the world's most popular restaurant, it's just oh so hip!
USENET is dead, remember?
That's bullshit.
cheat consensually with friends
Keep doing that and you'll go blind!
Actually it seems the USPS is the market leader in air freight... The data may be a bit stale, but I'm sure things are much the same today. And I'm sure Air Freight is a good indicator over other related sectors in the shipping industry.
and the rest of the joys that our government has imposed on us.
Like .42 USD postage? I highly doubt if anyone but the government ran our postal system we'd see anything but higher rates.
IIRC, only 4 games used the expansion pack at all.
Not exactly correct. 2 required it, 2 had needed it for major features and all the rest.
The current motion sensing is pretty bad, it flinches alot, it jumps around, it felt added on.
The exact opposite of my experience, simply amazing. Are you my evil twin?