'...because after all 640KB should be enough for everyone.'
Nope, that isn't played out.
At all.
And of course...: "Meanwhile, I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again."
Silly quotations do have a way of floating like rumors.
'-The Car Analogy (obligatory): take to mechanic for repair, leave illegal material in an unlocked glovebox. Fuses are in the glovebox, mechanic finds illegal material. Arrested, trail court dismisses on evidentiary grounds, prosecution appeal currently pending. Al Sharpton somehow becomes involved in media coverage.'
Reminds me of something that happened when I used to work at Sears down in TN. Customer came in with a large truck for an oil change or whatever, and I had to get the owners manual to reset the oil change light. Opened up the glovebox, and what do I find? Loaded Beretta 92FS.
I suppose you don't consider that sometimes stock just flies off of the shelves after a day or two?
Many times in my store, we'd have quite a few of an item, then the ad would come out, and they'd all be gone within two days, at most for the good items. The ordering system was such crap that it'd take maybe a week to order and get new product in, at that point the sale flyer would be over and since we didn't give 'rain checks'...
In some of the cases it was the fault of the ASM, most of the time it was completely unexpected demand, even when ordering more than normal for the ad. Even so, no one in the store but the ASM or GM could process the orders for new items.
Glad to hear that they're shutting down. I worked there for nearly a year on the front end...awesome coworkers and general atmosphere, but store policies, managers, etc, sucked. Bad(ly?). Ripped off customers on return policies, warranties, replacement plans, etc. Restocking fees? At the manager's discretion, of course.
I haven't flown in ~2 years, but I haven't seen a phone in-flight for maybe two-three years of flying back when I did.
That's roughly '02-'05, mostly smaller jets but some large Boeings (a 747 or so, I believe...I'm no good at identifying planes for the most part). All of this was in coach, so who knows in first class.
A few days ago, I just deactivated my Facebook account just because of crap like this.
Wrote up a nice little thing about privacy, beacon, blahblahblah. This is yet another issue in likely a long line to come...
Frankly, IMHO their privacy setup sucks, but since no one (that the site really seems to appeal to) reads news sites that cover Facebook privacy issues, or reads the TOS about information they (the users) provide... People will continue to use it, then bitch when they show up with their personal information spread all over Google and 'affiliated sites'. Prospective employers already Google names, find MySpace sites, etc. This will be probably be just as bad.
At $1200 for just the processor (according to the blurb) for now and likely no massive price drop in the future, I highly doubt it's marketed towards 'Jane and Joe User', at least for a reasonable approximation of time.
IME scanning local subnets around me (hey, I get bored) the only routers I have never seen using the default password are Belkins, presumably because one of the first requirements in the 'setup' software (IIRC) is to set the admin password.
I worked up at 354 for a year (Columbia, MD). Awesome job, but solely for two reasons: my co-workers (we were friends outside of work) and the discount.
Nothing beats our overpriced shit when getting the employee purchase...$40 USB and IEEE 1394 cables for $2 or $3. When I left I was making $7.81/hr at returns...let's just say I'm glad I left...I couldn't really handle Returns. Well I could handle it, but the higher-ups couldn't.
'CompUSA is reportedly carrying these items in stores'
Reportedly? We've been carrying these things for quite a long time now, a few months at least. They generally take up 90% of the Belkin area, and usually there's a table on the floor near networking with Pre-N equipment piled high on it.
A couple of weeks ago, following the last presidential debate, I said some rather inflammatory things about George W. Bush in a public post in my LJ, done in a satirical style. We laughed, we ranted, we all said some things. I thought it was a fairly harmless (and rather obvious) attempt at humor in the face of annoyance, and while a couple of people were offended, as is typical behavior from me, I saw something shiny and forgot about it, thinking that the whole thing was over and done and nothing else would come of what I said.
I was wrong.
At 9:45 last night, the Secret Service showed up on my mother's front door to talk to me about what I said about the President
Slashdot Mirror
Depends on the state, apparently.
First hit on Google: http://blogs.consumerreports.org/electronics/2009/05/update-about-911-and-disconnected-landlines.html
'Besides which, ... mouse gestures, etc are hardly world-rocking features. It doesn't affect the user experience much if they aren't there.'
Indeed, until you start using them. They make the browsing experience better overall.
Don't forget Paula Bean, and T/F/FNF.
'I want one of those to run pine and vi!'
OEMs releasing computers with 4GB of memory standard? Finally, we have machines that'll be able to run emacs...
'...because after all 640KB should be enough for everyone.'
Nope, that isn't played out.
At all.
And of course...:
"Meanwhile, I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again."
Silly quotations do have a way of floating like rumors.
Well, the truth starts here.
He never said it.
'-The Car Analogy (obligatory): take to mechanic for repair, leave illegal material in an unlocked glovebox. Fuses are in the glovebox, mechanic finds illegal material. Arrested, trail court dismisses on evidentiary grounds, prosecution appeal currently pending. Al Sharpton somehow becomes involved in media coverage.'
Reminds me of something that happened when I used to work at Sears down in TN. Customer came in with a large truck for an oil change or whatever, and I had to get the owners manual to reset the oil change light. Opened up the glovebox, and what do I find? Loaded Beretta 92FS.
Some people just don't think...
I'm 640516, and I registered...2000, ish? Something like that.
I suppose you don't consider that sometimes stock just flies off of the shelves after a day or two?
Many times in my store, we'd have quite a few of an item, then the ad would come out, and they'd all be gone within two days, at most for the good items. The ordering system was such crap that it'd take maybe a week to order and get new product in, at that point the sale flyer would be over and since we didn't give 'rain checks'...
In some of the cases it was the fault of the ASM, most of the time it was completely unexpected demand, even when ordering more than normal for the ad. Even so, no one in the store but the ASM or GM could process the orders for new items.
Glad to hear that they're shutting down. I worked there for nearly a year on the front end...awesome coworkers and general atmosphere, but store policies, managers, etc, sucked. Bad(ly?). Ripped off customers on return policies, warranties, replacement plans, etc. Restocking fees? At the manager's discretion, of course.
Thank god, is all I can say.
-- 297504 from store 354...
I haven't flown in ~2 years, but I haven't seen a phone in-flight for maybe two-three years of flying back when I did.
That's roughly '02-'05, mostly smaller jets but some large Boeings (a 747 or so, I believe...I'm no good at identifying planes for the most part). All of this was in coach, so who knows in first class.
A few days ago, I just deactivated my Facebook account just because of crap like this.
Wrote up a nice little thing about privacy, beacon, blahblahblah. This is yet another issue in likely a long line to come...
Frankly, IMHO their privacy setup sucks, but since no one (that the site really seems to appeal to) reads news sites that cover Facebook privacy issues, or reads the TOS about information they (the users) provide... People will continue to use it, then bitch when they show up with their personal information spread all over Google and 'affiliated sites'. Prospective employers already Google names, find MySpace sites, etc. This will be probably be just as bad.
Eh, mini-rant.
At $1200 for just the processor (according to the blurb) for now and likely no massive price drop in the future, I highly doubt it's marketed towards 'Jane and Joe User', at least for a reasonable approximation of time.
What, like those switches in Jurassic Park to turn on the electric fences?
What society has come to, we must refer to movies about dinosaurs in normal conversation...
IME scanning local subnets around me (hey, I get bored) the only routers I have never seen using the default password are Belkins, presumably because one of the first requirements in the 'setup' software (IIRC) is to set the admin password.
I worked up at 354 for a year (Columbia, MD). Awesome job, but solely for two reasons: my co-workers (we were friends outside of work) and the discount.
Nothing beats our overpriced shit when getting the employee purchase...$40 USB and IEEE 1394 cables for $2 or $3. When I left I was making $7.81/hr at returns...let's just say I'm glad I left...I couldn't really handle Returns. Well I could handle it, but the higher-ups couldn't.
Ask and ye shall recieve.
The TOS for GMail also prohibits the use of things like gmailfs as well, IIRC, but they're still used.
Just because it's prohibited doesn't mean that it won't happen.
The Google Uploader app (https://upload.video.google.com/Google%20Video%20 Uploader%20Installer.exe) is, of course, Windows only.
I wonder how long before someone makes a third party tool to do this on Linux/Mac?
There's a mirror here: http://googlex.foxified.info/, from someone in ATM at DSLR.
'But any software has a security record better than IE.'
:)
What about Windows proper?
'CompUSA is reportedly carrying these items in stores'
Reportedly? We've been carrying these things for quite a long time now, a few months at least. They generally take up 90% of the Belkin area, and usually there's a table on the floor near networking with Pre-N equipment piled high on it.
His account was, apparently, suspended by vDeck...probably because of the spike in bandwidth usage by us wonderful /.'ers...
'just on the linux front, practically every distribution supports PPC now'
Like Slackware, Fedora, Gibraltar, TSL, JB Linux, Rock, Libranet, Smoothwall, etc?
Check this out.
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