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I like this idea. I M2ed today and I mostly got a bunch of two liners which I didn't know what to do with. Being out of context, these were difficult to rate fair or unfair. I left a few in neutral. I know I could've reload to get a new batch but ain't that cheating?
OTOH, slashdot was unreachable to me for most of the evening. So the additional performance hit from implementing this would be brutal.
Lemme guess, you used to hang around on alt.hackers. I used to hang out there too, I was surprised to not see 31337 k-rad alt.2600 people there at first. The ObHack requirement was quite a nice touch. I remember when it got to food hacks:-)*
Actually, it's a combination of reading too much AFU and suffering from Undernet LagMonsters(tm).
I agree that users shouldn't be made fun of, because I'm sure we're all ignorant of some subject.
However, when it's your job to know the terms and products... well, I just have to shake my head.
Rewind (1988/1989), I was looking for a new system to upgrade from my dual-floppy 5.25" XT. I asked "does it a hard drive", the poor sales person showed me a 3.5" floppy and says "yes it uses these!"
Just a year ago, I was channel surfer and landed on TSC (The Shopping Channel) where this guy was explaining the features of this Pentium system. "It has 16 megabits of bytes of RAM." My brother and I laugh SO hard we nearing fell to the floor. We still watch TSC when they're selling computers, because it's funnier than the Comedy Network.
"It comes with SDRAM... that's the fastest, most expensive RAM you can buy!!!"
"It has a 8 Gigabytes hard drive to make your computer go faster...."
ObTrueStory(tm): I once saw a guy with a 5.25" sloffy -- faced with a computer with only a 3.5" drive -- tried to put it into the drive by folding the floppy in half!!
I was at COMDEX/Toronto in July and saw the similar/same product there. From the pic on ElectroFuel's website it looks like the same product but since I don't remember the name of the company that was at COMDEX, I'm not sure if it is the same company. They were demoing this battery with the 16hr runtime on a Toshiba(?? don't remember). It's pretty cool if you ask me.
Anyway, I picked it up and it felt like it was a lot less than 2lbs; maybe 1lb. Although, I did eat my Wheaties that morning...
[Print Screen] is very useful for capturing screen shots. As for the others... [Scroll Lock] never used it when ^S works just fine. [Break] -- when ^C won't. [Num Lock] -- most people either like it ON or OFF, and set it up that way in their BIOS; so this could probably go.
What they should do is get rid of those stupid Windows~1 keys.
BTW, I've never use [CAPS Lock], so on my keyboard it's pretty redudent when you have two [SHIFT] keys. Although, I'm sure people we feel different about this one.
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I like this idea. I M2ed today and I mostly got a bunch of two liners which I didn't know what to do with. Being out of context, these were difficult to rate fair or unfair. I left a few in neutral. I know I could've reload to get a new batch but ain't that cheating?
OTOH, slashdot was unreachable to me for most of the evening. So the additional performance hit from implementing this would be brutal.
Actually, it's a combination of reading too much AFU and suffering from Undernet LagMonsters(tm).
kiboI agree that users shouldn't be made fun of, because I'm sure we're all ignorant of some subject.
... well, I just have to shake my head.
However, when it's your job to know the terms and products
Rewind (1988/1989), I was looking for a new system to upgrade from my dual-floppy 5.25" XT. I asked "does it a hard drive", the poor sales person showed me a 3.5" floppy and says "yes it uses these!"
Just a year ago, I was channel surfer and landed on TSC (The Shopping Channel) where this guy was explaining the features of this Pentium system. "It has 16 megabits of bytes of RAM." My brother and I laugh SO hard we nearing fell to the floor. We still watch TSC when they're selling computers, because it's funnier than the Comedy Network.
"It comes with SDRAM... that's the fastest, most expensive RAM you can buy!!!"
"It has a 8 Gigabytes hard drive to make your computer go faster...."
ObTrueStory(tm):
I once saw a guy with a 5.25" sloffy -- faced with a computer with only a 3.5" drive -- tried to put it into the drive by folding the floppy in half!!
I was at COMDEX/Toronto in July and saw the similar/same product there. From the pic on ElectroFuel's website it looks like the same product but since I don't remember the name of the company that was at COMDEX, I'm not sure if it is the same company. They were demoing this battery with the 16hr runtime on a Toshiba(?? don't remember). It's pretty cool if you ask me.
Anyway, I picked it up and it felt like it was a lot less than 2lbs; maybe 1lb. Although, I did eat my Wheaties that morning...
Cool. When can we have that here in my neck of the woods (North American Great Lakes).
Don't worry it'll handle repeating NULLs, so there's no need to rush.
...DNA? We'd be estatic for such luck. In my days we had to move atoms.
Yeah, yeah, I know, you move quarks...
We have a few of these keyboards. They are supposed to be "better", but noone I know actually likes them.
Fortunately there's a switch on the back side of the keyboard to select BackSpace or normal Space.
Why do you even need TWO? Just hold down the key when you want 1, and let go when you want 0.
If you really want to dumb-down your keyboard look at this interesting mouse/keyboard made especially for dumb users (Keyboards for Dummies(tm)?)
[Print Screen] is very useful for capturing screen shots. As for the others...
[Scroll Lock] never used it when ^S works just fine.
[Break] -- when ^C won't.
[Num Lock] -- most people either like it ON or OFF, and set it up that way in their BIOS; so this could probably go.
What they should do is get rid of those stupid Windows~1 keys.
BTW, I've never use [CAPS Lock], so on my keyboard it's pretty redudent when you have two [SHIFT] keys. Although, I'm sure people we feel different about this one.
Actually "exporting" crypto to Canada is perfectly legal, so in that sense Canada is a "state".
Anyway, you'd probably only "P off" 30 people. Most Canadians say "sorry" when *you* step om their foot.
D'accord, back intos mon igloo.
OK, so how many guns do you need to fend off the tanks, and nukes?
Please...
Why do we need to conform to SI when Kilobyte and Megabyte doesn't have prefixes anyway.
These are just single words with the following definitions: Kilobyte = 1024 bytes; Megabytes = 1024 Kilobytes.
We don't try to disassemble "re-ally" (to go into the ally again?), so why should we assume Giga-bytes.
//yeah, whatever
notice how pretty much the whole world except China either speaks english or falls all over itself trying to learn?)
!?!! You've probably never been to Quebec.
Anywho this is drifting off-topic...