I have several dozen 386's and a few 486's. I use them for the odd project (like a lego case for a 486), but what I was going to do was give them to schools and so on.
While the hardware might be antiquated, it can still be used to show what the innards of such systems are supposed to look like. (They're standard IBM-style cases.)
Read it, thought it was OK, her sex ideas are majorly screwy, tho'.
Here, tho', are some steps to take for a "wake up call" for Ayn, good after Rand reading, one might say, if you don't tear your eyes out. Sorry, that was un-called for. Here we go:
1. Go to a REAL BOOKSTORE 2. Find a copy of "Why People Believe Stupid Things." Written by the Editor of Skeptic magazine. (Randy?) 3. Read it, pay close attention to the Cult of Ayn Rand section. 4. Either understand it, or go back to thinking Rand was god. But wait, she thought god didn't exist, which means she doesn't exist! Ahh!
Of course there is, as many others in this thread have noticed, but, be warned:
You'll have to partition. Which is fine, however, if you use MacOS there are no programs that I am aware of that can partition without destroying all the data you have on said disk, and which would involve reinstalling MacOS as well.
If I'm wrong, someone please correct me. I bought a copy of LinuxPPC, but I didn't, uhm, realize what I was getting into. (I'm new with MacOS, somewhat new with Linux.)
Something about my iBook NOT being able to run MacOS is just wrong . . . I WANT to learn how they all work.
"Here's another thought - try looking at ULTRA-LOW FREQUENCIES.. "
Scientist 1 and 2 are searching over the ultra low frequency range for E.T.I. (extra terrestrial intelligence) when they here a mysterious low rumbling . . .
S1: "Hey, Doc, do you hear that?" S2: "Yeah, is it?" S1: "I think so." S2: "How exciting, to have found an E.T.I." 10 seconds later, a door opens Kid: "Hi, Mom, Dad, my friend just dropped me off, he's got a PHAT system in his car."
"I mean, the odds are just insurmountable, and how would it help us if we discovered that there's life somewhere in the universe that's too far for us to go, or for them to come? "
Insurmountable. A lot of things are supposedly insurmountable. People landing on the moon, climbing mount everest, finding cures for diseases. The difficult we did yesterday, the impossible, that's tomorrow.
"And insisting in doing SETI is inhuman. I mean, enough of the people in *our* planet are starving;"
And I care?
"yet all these self-described geeks would rather find out if there's life in another planet than see if there's still life in Somalia."
I don't care about somolia. It doesn't matter if they all die. It doesn't matter if we all die. It's all pretty irrelevent.
"It shows that they don't have any *real* concern for life, in this planet or other-- just playing with their tech toys."
Who cares? What makes you happy, you know . . . go ahead, work at the soup kitchen, I'll be in there when I want a free meal.
We could go off and save everyone before we do anything else, but guess what, then we'd NEVER do anything else. There will always be one more person starving, without a home, not willing to work, whatever else you can throw in there. People die, that's what we're here for.
I was thinking of buying a cube sometime, just for "ain't it cool" value, and I want a mac desktop unit, but the lack of a serious 3D card would push me away.
I like my mac, and I want another, but I ain't gonna get the cube without a serious 3D solution. (It's not a luxury, but a necessity! I need my quake3!)
It's not mine. I really don't drive. It's kind of a protest on the fees one has to pay in my state (Illinois) for title transfers. I own the car, why should I have to pay the state if I buy another one?
But a new Malibu, without options, is 16535, SMRP. A Malibu LS is 19215. The depreciation on the friend's Malibu basially allowed the purchaser to get CD/tape player, power everything, etc.
Contrast Corvette, 2 door, convertable (is there any reason for a hardtop?), goes for 45705, again, retail.
Stickin' with the Chevy's, a Metro (severe low end of their product line), 4 door sedan is 10660. But the BASE model of the chevy Blazer (suv) is 45705.
It doesn't help that the low-price market for cars is neatly ignored by Lexus, BMW, Land Rover, etc. . .
Even if the mean price for a car is even 10,000, it still doesn't mean I can afford one when I can't even afford to get new plates and titles on a car (about $150).
Food, shelter, those come first when I can walk nearly everywhere else.
Shouldn't use average. You figure prices for a New caddie, or corvette, or porsche, or McLehren (sp?) F1 . . . those WILL skew the math.
You can get a newish chevy malabu (99) for about 16k, including CD, air, etc. I don't have the Black/Blue book program on this PC, and I'm too lazy to find the web site, so these aren't exact numbers.
And, IMO, the malabu isn't that bad. I haven't crashed in one, but it ain't uncomfy (i'm 6 2).
20,000. Now, some people make a lot of money and don't think that's expensive for the car, but 90% of people do think that's rather steep for a 2 seater non-sports car.
While I wouldn't mind having one, most people see that 20,000 outlay right up front (or in LOWLOWLOW monthy payments!), and shreik. They don't think they could possibly be spending that much on gas.
Of course, these people are generally not good at math.
But when you can buy a Neon, which isn't bad fuel efficiency wise or another car for under 10 grand (without the options), or a Kia (parts? Who needs parts for cars? We just throw them away now) for $8995, it's kinda pointless.
At least, that's what some would say.
Then again, the SUV's are all the rage now. So, there's no accounting for taste. (Silly me, tho, I want a Hummer so I can drive straight to work, avoid traffic, avoid roads!)
Uhh, using the newest install of Adobe Reader (4.05), you can create your own PDF's in Word and so on, if that's an option for you.
A well done PDF is not all graphics. When I made a job application from a scanned image, it was well over 150k (IIRC), but when I converted the text to actual text, the size dropped to about 20k.
It's not so much the tools, but how you work with them, and personally I don't really have a problem with proprietary as long as it's used responsibly (not an abuse of current existing standards).
I totally agree, working in the midwest, while not glamourous, is financially better than making even 3 times more in an "uppity" neighborhood. But, then again, there is such a stifling amount of stupid pop culture here, so I want to move to Europe, or somewhere, anywhere. Too bad the S.O. doesn't agree. bye
I don't know if this is what you're talking about, but that was part of the terraforming of Mars in the Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy, protecting the cities and generally keping the air in and so on.
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Well, I meant for hardware, the basics of hardware haven't changed all that much.
And besides, they don't have many computers at my school. They still were teaching on apple IIe's 4 years ago.
I dunno, while your idea is good, maybe buying a box fan and some little blocks of syrofoam or something to seperate them for airflow.
My PC laptop BURNS things that touch it after a while, but it's fan is broken (I was wondering why it was so quiet).
My iBook runs great, not a lot of heat.
They have sheilded 486's they've sent up, and remember the story a few (months?) ago about sending some G4's into space?
I dunno about the shuttle.
I have several dozen 386's and a few 486's. I use them for the odd project (like a lego case for a 486), but what I was going to do was give them to schools and so on.
While the hardware might be antiquated, it can still be used to show what the innards of such systems are supposed to look like. (They're standard IBM-style cases.)
Or, the obBeowulf.
later
Replying to myself:
Yes, I know what time period the books represented.
Okay, now I know what happens on that 50 page speech that I skipped over.
I mean, really, and you expect people to watch that on TV? [click, click]
Read it, thought it was OK, her sex ideas are majorly screwy, tho'.
Here, tho', are some steps to take for a "wake up call" for Ayn, good after Rand reading, one might say, if you don't tear your eyes out. Sorry, that was un-called for. Here we go:
1. Go to a REAL BOOKSTORE
2. Find a copy of "Why People Believe Stupid Things." Written by the Editor of Skeptic magazine. (Randy?)
3. Read it, pay close attention to the Cult of Ayn Rand section.
4. Either understand it, or go back to thinking Rand was god. But wait, she thought god didn't exist, which means she doesn't exist! Ahh!
Why McDonalds keeps their coffee so damn hot:
So it tastes "better" longer.
That's it. It's so they don't have to go through an extra pot of dirty, warm water, once a day.
And the lady got more money than she asked for, she wanted medical expenses covered, the jury was, well, made of typical Americans.
Because:
They want a new OS.
They don't like linux.
They can.
It's a called a punchline. Get over it.
Of course there is, as many others in this thread have noticed, but, be warned:
You'll have to partition. Which is fine, however, if you use MacOS there are no programs that I am aware of that can partition without destroying all the data you have on said disk, and which would involve reinstalling MacOS as well.
If I'm wrong, someone please correct me. I bought a copy of LinuxPPC, but I didn't, uhm, realize what I was getting into. (I'm new with MacOS, somewhat new with Linux.)
Something about my iBook NOT being able to run MacOS is just wrong . . . I WANT to learn how they all work.
later
dan
"Here's another thought - try looking at ULTRA-LOW FREQUENCIES.. "
Scientist 1 and 2 are searching over the ultra low frequency range for E.T.I. (extra terrestrial intelligence) when they here a mysterious low rumbling . . .
S1: "Hey, Doc, do you hear that?"
S2: "Yeah, is it?"
S1: "I think so."
S2: "How exciting, to have found an E.T.I."
10 seconds later, a door opens
Kid: "Hi, Mom, Dad, my friend just dropped me off, he's got a PHAT system in his car."
Boom, Boom boom boom, Boom, buzzz
"I mean, the odds are just insurmountable, and how would it help us if we discovered that there's life somewhere in the universe that's too far for us to go, or for them to come? "
Insurmountable. A lot of things are supposedly insurmountable. People landing on the moon, climbing mount everest, finding cures for diseases. The difficult we did yesterday, the impossible, that's tomorrow.
"And insisting in doing SETI is inhuman. I mean, enough of the people in *our* planet are starving;"
And I care?
"yet all these self-described geeks would rather find out if there's life in another planet than see if there's still life in Somalia."
I don't care about somolia. It doesn't matter if they all die. It doesn't matter if we all die. It's all pretty irrelevent.
"It shows that they don't have any *real* concern for life, in this planet or other-- just playing with their tech toys."
Who cares? What makes you happy, you know . . . go ahead, work at the soup kitchen, I'll be in there when I want a free meal.
We could go off and save everyone before we do anything else, but guess what, then we'd NEVER do anything else. There will always be one more person starving, without a home, not willing to work, whatever else you can throw in there. People die, that's what we're here for.
JR did it!
I don't really think that's an issue for me. I have 2 DVD players right now. (one in PC, one "real" apex player)
but my hidden menu doesn't work. Sux. BUt I can override the macrovision on my PC.
later
I was thinking of buying a cube sometime, just for "ain't it cool" value, and I want a mac desktop unit, but the lack of a serious 3D card would push me away.
I like my mac, and I want another, but I ain't gonna get the cube without a serious 3D solution. (It's not a luxury, but a necessity! I need my quake3!)
apple.com has pictures, too.
"Honey, I shrunk the supercomputer."
Cute.
later
"Such as if I start typing a letter in Word and the paperclip interupts my typing asking me if I want help. "
Doesn't actually bother me in an active way. You don't have to click on it, it kinda pops up in the background.
Of course, I always turn the damn thing off.
Never fails to amaze me, though, if I'm writing some poetry and I make a new line:
To crash microsoft:
It asks me that letter thing. Even 2 or 3 pages in . . . annoying, yes, avoidable, yes.
Now, if someone can tell me how to turn OFF autoformatting, I'll be happy.
later
It's not mine. I really don't drive. It's kind of a protest on the fees one has to pay in my state (Illinois) for title transfers. I own the car, why should I have to pay the state if I buy another one?
But a new Malibu, without options, is 16535, SMRP. A Malibu LS is 19215. The depreciation on the friend's Malibu basially allowed the purchaser to get CD/tape player, power everything, etc.
Contrast Corvette, 2 door, convertable (is there any reason for a hardtop?), goes for 45705, again, retail.
Stickin' with the Chevy's, a Metro (severe low end of their product line), 4 door sedan is 10660. But the BASE model of the chevy Blazer (suv) is 45705.
It doesn't help that the low-price market for cars is neatly ignored by Lexus, BMW, Land Rover, etc. . .
Even if the mean price for a car is even 10,000, it still doesn't mean I can afford one when I can't even afford to get new plates and titles on a car (about $150).
Food, shelter, those come first when I can walk nearly everywhere else.
later
Shouldn't use average. You figure prices for a New caddie, or corvette, or porsche, or McLehren (sp?) F1 . . . those WILL skew the math.
You can get a newish chevy malabu (99) for about 16k, including CD, air, etc. I don't have the Black/Blue book program on this PC, and I'm too lazy to find the web site, so these aren't exact numbers.
And, IMO, the malabu isn't that bad. I haven't crashed in one, but it ain't uncomfy (i'm 6 2).
Later
20,000. Now, some people make a lot of money and don't think that's expensive for the car, but 90% of people do think that's rather steep for a 2 seater non-sports car.
While I wouldn't mind having one, most people see that 20,000 outlay right up front (or in LOWLOWLOW monthy payments!), and shreik. They don't think they could possibly be spending that much on gas.
Of course, these people are generally not good at math.
But when you can buy a Neon, which isn't bad fuel efficiency wise or another car for under 10 grand (without the options), or a Kia (parts? Who needs parts for cars? We just throw them away now) for $8995, it's kinda pointless.
At least, that's what some would say.
Then again, the SUV's are all the rage now. So, there's no accounting for taste. (Silly me, tho, I want a Hummer so I can drive straight to work, avoid traffic, avoid roads!)
Okay, bye.
Uhh, using the newest install of Adobe Reader (4.05), you can create your own PDF's in Word and so on, if that's an option for you.
A well done PDF is not all graphics. When I made a job application from a scanned image, it was well over 150k (IIRC), but when I converted the text to actual text, the size dropped to about 20k.
It's not so much the tools, but how you work with them, and personally I don't really have a problem with proprietary as long as it's used responsibly (not an abuse of current existing standards).
hasta la buy buy
I totally agree, working in the midwest, while not glamourous, is financially better than making even 3 times more in an "uppity" neighborhood. But, then again, there is such a stifling amount of stupid pop culture here, so I want to move to Europe, or somewhere, anywhere. Too bad the S.O. doesn't agree. bye
I can vouch for this one trick pony known as pong.
I have one.
Yes, I'm a dork. No, I don't know if it works.
I don't know if this is what you're talking about, but that was part of the terraforming of Mars in the Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy, protecting the cities and generally keping the air in and so on.
Good books, I think.