Those things actually do taste pretty good, even when they're WAY past their expiration date (by about a year and a half. They are a little on the salty side, though.
FWIW, someone else mentioned MREs (Meal, Ready to Eat). Basically, this is a civilian MRE.
MS's entry (well, not really, but it DOES use a MS operating system) would be the Gizmondo. It's a do-all device, even more so than the PSP - heck, it's even got a GPS, Bluetooth and a GPRS modem! (Can you say "FREEPING CREATURISM!"?)
It doesn't have many games, though, and I didn't see any big-name franchises (which make or break a console - look at the GP32. Technically superior to the GBA, but have you heard of it? No - there's no big franchises, that's why (and it's a chicken-egg, as well)).
The rationale behind going for a 4 year is that if you spent all that time working towards it, and taking bullsh!t classes along the way, then you'll be a hard worker that can take bullsh!t.
For "mainstream" current generation CPUs, here goes (mobile Celerons use more than equivalent Pentiums when not at load, FWIW):
Pentium/Celeron M Dothan > Pentium/Celeron M Banias > Turion 64 MT series > Mobile Sempron 90nm > Mobile Athlon 64/Sempron and Turion 64 ML series > Sempron > Athlon 64 DTR > Athlon 64 > Northwood P4 > Athlon 64 FX > Prescott P4 > Athlon 64 X2 > Pentium D
That's, of course, rough estimates off the top of my head. VIA says that their C7 kicks Pentium M ass. However, the C7 is not out, and the C3 is the previous generation (and the P-M beats it on IPW...)
Using your Barney analogy, the GTA:SA thing would be like this:
The barney-getting-his-head-blown-off image would be between pages 5 and 6. However, it would be a PaperDisk of the JPG file. You'd then have to find a copy of PaperDisk (an old Windows 3.1 app that doesn't run on XP, and BARELY runs on 2000), and decode it.
The PC version of GTA:SA would be slightly easier - it'd be an ASCII representation of the file. That could be read via OCR.
You can still get these on eBay - there's a place selling a bundle of a PPro keychain, a Pentium keychain, and a "Silicon Valley" keychain (looks like a 386 or 486 to me...) for $16...
The same material is used in a 486, as well. I never got through mine, even trying diamond-impregnated bits (not on a drill press, though).
As for large keychains, I actually know a girl with about 20 or 30 keychains on her keychain (as in, to avoid damaging her car's ignition, she has to have removable keys), with an ultimate goal of getting it as tall as she is (5'1")... It's already about 1.5-2' tall (and that was when I last saw her - about a month ago...) Crazy, isn't it? My keychain holds: a 30-pin SIMM, a car key (to a dead car:-(), a house key, a padlock key, and a key to an old box of 5.25" floppies.
Hey - I've given a girl a 2048Mb (remember, memory chips are measured in megabits, not megabytes, so 256MB) chunk of flash memory with a built-in USB to flash controller and a USB plug;-)
I think the magnet is actually a joke (as in, it's supposed to work, but they chose a magnet BECAUSE it was a bunch of floppy disks). The disks aren't usable, after all.
I've actually used the 256MB UFD trick. Almost worked, too... (OK, OK, OK, I wasn't trying to buy her with the UFD;-))
That actually applies for ANY girl that doesn't have one, and moves files around much at all. It's a gift that they'll use every day, and it's ever so slightly geeky that it'll remind them of you. The girl that I gave one to isn't in to computers, but she's not an idiot. Also, she's kinda geeky herself (as in, if I had to describe whose personality she most resembled of anyone I know, I'd say mine), just not into electronics or computers (fine by me - her interests don't actually conflict with mine).
Hmm... my 30-pin SIMM keychain had been working as RAM from 1993 (module date code is 9308, which places the manufacturing in February 1993) until September 2003. In October '03, IIRC, it was reapportioned as a keychain. The gold is wearing off the connectors, and the edges of the ICs are worn down, but they're most definitely still there.
Keychain made out of old RAM - easy to do, just get a key ring and any old SIMM, DIMM, or SODIMM (I advise against a SODIMM, though. The EDO SODIMMs are worth their weight in gold due to inflation, the SDR SODIMMs are still kinda useful, and the DDR SODIMMs are really useful. If it's dead, OTOH...)
Keychain made out of an old/dead CPU - if it's ceramic, don't bother. If it's organic (like a P3, some socketed K7s, P4, P-M, or K8) or plastic (like some Pentiums (Classic and MMX), socketed Mendocino Celerons), it's fairly easy.
Now, I just want to meet the girl that would wear the capacitor necklace... I've got dibs on her;-)
Gator buries the fact that it sends data back to Claria in the EULA. Bad idea.
Opera says in plain English that it'll send stuff to Google, and only if you use the Google text ads (which I use). Not nearly as bad, because it's made obvious (FWIW, I DO use Opera with the Google ads).
I'm just looking for the non-conspiracy theory (read: technical) explanation...
Another theory: when an app adds itself to various areas, MS AntiSpyware stops it, and asks you whether that's OK. The answer is sent to SpyNet by default. So, if you are INTENTIONALLY installing a Claria product, you'd almost certainly click yes (if you clicked no, it wouldn't work, and you'd have to start over and click yes).
I agree that it appears that the Claria deal affected this, though.
I removed a spyware-ridden online poker game from one system, and found an alternative.
If someone's got PrecisionTime, I'll point them towards WinXP's Internet Time feature (2000 has it as well, but it has to be enabled from the command prompt. It's available for NT, FWIW), or (if they don't have XP, 2000, or NT) a FOSS NTP client.
I'm pretty good about replacing spyware with non-spyware equivalent apps, not just wiping out the spyware.
Typical infection process of a Claria app, if it's downloaded legitimately (I don't recall Claria's stuff doing drive-by downloads):
User sees "Free password manager", "Free calendar thingy", or "Keep your computer clock up to date" (on the last one, not knowing that their XP box has a built-in NTP client, and easy to set up, too)
User downloads, and installs, not reading the EULA (as they've been taught - it's all legalese BS, after all, but there's often a string of legalese in the EULAs of these apps that boils down to "this is spyware")
User wonders why computer is running so slow, so he/she calls a friend over to remove the spyware. Said friend mentions something about "Claria junk", and removes it.
User sees that their little clock thingy isn't working right, and redownloads it.
User again realizes that their computer is running slow, but hears about this "Microsoft AntiSpyware" thingy that helps it go faster, so they download it.
On the first scan, it says "OMG! There's Claria on here!" (not really, but that'd be the general gist of the screen to a user). The user remembers that when the friend cleaned stuff off, Claria was the thing that when removed, broke the clock thingy, so he/she tells it not to erase. Default behavior is to send the actions to SpyNet, so it went to SpyNet that he/she chose to keep it.
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Those things actually do taste pretty good, even when they're WAY past their expiration date (by about a year and a half. They are a little on the salty side, though.
FWIW, someone else mentioned MREs (Meal, Ready to Eat). Basically, this is a civilian MRE.
MS's entry (well, not really, but it DOES use a MS operating system) would be the Gizmondo. It's a do-all device, even more so than the PSP - heck, it's even got a GPS, Bluetooth and a GPRS modem! (Can you say "FREEPING CREATURISM!"?)
It doesn't have many games, though, and I didn't see any big-name franchises (which make or break a console - look at the GP32. Technically superior to the GBA, but have you heard of it? No - there's no big franchises, that's why (and it's a chicken-egg, as well)).
The rationale behind going for a 4 year is that if you spent all that time working towards it, and taking bullsh!t classes along the way, then you'll be a hard worker that can take bullsh!t.
For "mainstream" current generation CPUs, here goes (mobile Celerons use more than equivalent Pentiums when not at load, FWIW):
Pentium/Celeron M Dothan > Pentium/Celeron M Banias > Turion 64 MT series > Mobile Sempron 90nm > Mobile Athlon 64/Sempron and Turion 64 ML series > Sempron > Athlon 64 DTR > Athlon 64 > Northwood P4 > Athlon 64 FX > Prescott P4 > Athlon 64 X2 > Pentium D
That's, of course, rough estimates off the top of my head. VIA says that their C7 kicks Pentium M ass. However, the C7 is not out, and the C3 is the previous generation (and the P-M beats it on IPW...)
*smashes head in stupidity*
OK, it WAS the right STORY. *smacks self again*
What was wrong is that it was the wrong THREAD...
He replied to my comment that Excel 95's "FPS" mode possibly used the Doom 95 engine. That's not the right thread...
Ehm... you are either:
A. A repost troll
B. Posting in the wrong story. Try the ESRB and GTA story next time, m'kay?
Using your Barney analogy, the GTA:SA thing would be like this:
The barney-getting-his-head-blown-off image would be between pages 5 and 6. However, it would be a PaperDisk of the JPG file. You'd then have to find a copy of PaperDisk (an old Windows 3.1 app that doesn't run on XP, and BARELY runs on 2000), and decode it.
The PC version of GTA:SA would be slightly easier - it'd be an ASCII representation of the file. That could be read via OCR.
FWIW, there's actually some theories that it's built on the Doom 95 code base...
Also, that's Excel 95, not Word (to correct the grandparent's post)...
Ah, forgot about that trick...
As for the 486, it no longer has ANY pins (used pliers, of all things, to pull them off. For about a week, I had bits of gold pin in my fingers...)
Didn't think of that...
However, a revision system could be put in place. There's still SOME potential for abuse, though...
You can still get these on eBay - there's a place selling a bundle of a PPro keychain, a Pentium keychain, and a "Silicon Valley" keychain (looks like a 386 or 486 to me...) for $16...
The same material is used in a 486, as well. I never got through mine, even trying diamond-impregnated bits (not on a drill press, though).
:-(), a house key, a padlock key, and a key to an old box of 5.25" floppies.
As for large keychains, I actually know a girl with about 20 or 30 keychains on her keychain (as in, to avoid damaging her car's ignition, she has to have removable keys), with an ultimate goal of getting it as tall as she is (5'1")... It's already about 1.5-2' tall (and that was when I last saw her - about a month ago...) Crazy, isn't it? My keychain holds: a 30-pin SIMM, a car key (to a dead car
Hey - I've given a girl a 2048Mb (remember, memory chips are measured in megabits, not megabytes, so 256MB) chunk of flash memory with a built-in USB to flash controller and a USB plug ;-)
I think the magnet is actually a joke (as in, it's supposed to work, but they chose a magnet BECAUSE it was a bunch of floppy disks). The disks aren't usable, after all.
Correction: if she's not too bad to look at...
(Taco, it's 2005. Every competing comment system, except PHPNuke, can handle editing comments. Update Slash, will ya?)
I've actually used the 256MB UFD trick. Almost worked, too... (OK, OK, OK, I wasn't trying to buy her with the UFD ;-))
That actually applies for ANY girl that doesn't have one, and moves files around much at all. It's a gift that they'll use every day, and it's ever so slightly geeky that it'll remind them of you. The girl that I gave one to isn't in to computers, but she's not an idiot. Also, she's kinda geeky herself (as in, if I had to describe whose personality she most resembled of anyone I know, I'd say mine), just not into electronics or computers (fine by me - her interests don't actually conflict with mine).
Hmm... my 30-pin SIMM keychain had been working as RAM from 1993 (module date code is 9308, which places the manufacturing in February 1993) until September 2003. In October '03, IIRC, it was reapportioned as a keychain. The gold is wearing off the connectors, and the edges of the ICs are worn down, but they're most definitely still there.
Keychain made out of old RAM - easy to do, just get a key ring and any old SIMM, DIMM, or SODIMM (I advise against a SODIMM, though. The EDO SODIMMs are worth their weight in gold due to inflation, the SDR SODIMMs are still kinda useful, and the DDR SODIMMs are really useful. If it's dead, OTOH...)
;-)
Keychain made out of an old/dead CPU - if it's ceramic, don't bother. If it's organic (like a P3, some socketed K7s, P4, P-M, or K8) or plastic (like some Pentiums (Classic and MMX), socketed Mendocino Celerons), it's fairly easy.
Now, I just want to meet the girl that would wear the capacitor necklace... I've got dibs on her
4MB? You b@(#$)*#d! I've only got 1MB! (I've got a 128MB DDR SODIMM lying around, but that is actually USABLE, so I'd rather not reappropriate it ;-))
I tried to turn my old 486 into a keychain, FWIW, but that didn't work at all...
8088 earrings, though? Wow... (Besides - why not 6502 earrings?)
Gator buries the fact that it sends data back to Claria in the EULA. Bad idea.
Opera says in plain English that it'll send stuff to Google, and only if you use the Google text ads (which I use). Not nearly as bad, because it's made obvious (FWIW, I DO use Opera with the Google ads).
I forget now... it's been a while...
However, AdAware had found several spyware files in it's directory, so I knew that it was the poker game...
I'm just looking for the non-conspiracy theory (read: technical) explanation...
Another theory: when an app adds itself to various areas, MS AntiSpyware stops it, and asks you whether that's OK. The answer is sent to SpyNet by default. So, if you are INTENTIONALLY installing a Claria product, you'd almost certainly click yes (if you clicked no, it wouldn't work, and you'd have to start over and click yes).
I agree that it appears that the Claria deal affected this, though.
And, if I can find an alternative, I do that.
I removed a spyware-ridden online poker game from one system, and found an alternative.
If someone's got PrecisionTime, I'll point them towards WinXP's Internet Time feature (2000 has it as well, but it has to be enabled from the command prompt. It's available for NT, FWIW), or (if they don't have XP, 2000, or NT) a FOSS NTP client.
I'm pretty good about replacing spyware with non-spyware equivalent apps, not just wiping out the spyware.
Does that sufficiently explain it?
Ah, didn't think about Greasemonkey...
FWIW, User JavaScripts is the Opera version of it, and it has a Greasemonkey compatibility mode.