If you wanted to make sure underprivileged people have electricity, perhaps you should NOT bomb their infrastructure[..]
Anybody disagreeing with me simply hasn't done the research or is evil.
You sounded pretty intelligent as long as you talked about science. Perhaps if you had done your research you would have known that most of Gaza's electricity is supplied by Israel, and most electricity outages in Gaza have been caused by Kassam rockets hitting electricity infrastructure in Israeli territory. (And of course, Israeli Electric Company technicians are sent to fix the problem, risking their lives to provide power to the very people attacking them!)
If I were you I'd read the article to the end before writing. The last few photos show their SSD labs. Apparently they are well aware of the situation.
Rest assured the Boxee Box will fit into your entertainment center. If the look doesn’t quite fit with your decor, not to worry. The RF remote means you can place the box out of sight and still control it. Of course, the Boxee Box prefers being on top : )
Last night I was browsing through the headlines on Slashdot's front page. At one point I came across the headline "Sneaky Microsoft Add-On Put Firefox Users At Risk" (story here). While I was reading the text underneath that headline, Firefox's prompt (indicating that it had detected the relevant plugin) popped up. It was so startling that I started wondering whether the browser was reading my mind! Weird stuff.
Because the only thing attaching the cell phone to the camera is duct tape. Because the battery will run out before a tenth of the pictures are transmitted. Because the balloon will pop. Because the little heating bag preventing the electronics from dying of cold will run out of juice within a couple hours. Because nothing you can hack together at $150 is something that you will be able to "just leave up" in the stratosphere.
I had - actually, still have - a very, very nicely hacked 130XE. It got a 1 MB memory upgrade, a video output upgrade, a replacement OS and a keyboard upgrade that made it actually usable to human hands. I believe the parent poster will be eerily familiar with it...
Personally I think this combination made it the best 8-bit except for the 800 (which still wins for best keyboard, internal speaker click which I miss terribly and its nuke-proof construction). It served me well for many years. Thank you, jjmcwill:)
Why is this news? There already is a module named "analogtv" in xscreensaver that does essentially the same thing. It might be moderately interesting when this actually gets released as part of Stella, but until then all we have are some screenshots that look very similar to existing TV simulators.
By the way, the 80's TV sets I played Atari games on never showed afterimages, and flickering objects (like the ghosts in Pac-Man) flickered very clearly. I hope this effect will be optional.
Personally I'd like to see this integrated with the Atari800 emulator, as that's the system I grew up on...
Removing the PS/2 ports and the PCI and PCIe (or is that AGP? sorry) slots would not require a different board design, just a different assembly option (i.e., you tell the factory robot to skip soldering in those components). I don't think that should cost extra when ordering large quantities of boards, and the parts Gigabyte doesn't need to manufacture/acquire and assemble will save everybody money. So I'm with the GP on this one.
There are plenty of pc's made in 1984 that can still work fine.
..and nobody had to put them in a time capsule for them to work just fine - you could probably grab everything you need to get a 1984-era PC working off ebay today. Which makes this whole exercise seem a bit redundant.
No they weren't, Microsoft Israel is a pretty small shop with no significant software development. Intel, on the other hand, is another story; much of its cutting edge CPU technology is in fact developed in Haifa.
Israel is clearly violating the firm international law against collective punishment.
Sorry, but I'm sick of hearing this "collective punishment" crap. Hamas is the governing body of Gaza, therefore this is war. In war civilians get hurt.
When the Brits carpet bombed Dresden, was that not collective punishment?
When the US nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was that not collective punishment?
When Hamas sends rockets into Israel, preventing hundreds of thousands of people from being able to lead normal lives for 8 years (and counting), is that not collective punishment?
And what is this nonsense about "actions of a few"? This is not some small rogue group. Again, this is the democratically elected government, and these are its actions. The Gaza police is not exactly arresting rocket launchers, the rocket launchers are part of the government's army.
You have also conveniently forgotten that with regards to Gaza, Israel has removed all its settlements and withdrawn to its original borders. Do you think that after this response it will be happy to do the same in the West Bank?
It should be noted that local Israeli media is strongly recommending to stay away from this website and not to download the software it is offering, citing reasons of the illegality of the action and the obvious possibility of your PC being hijacked for other purposes.
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If you wanted to make sure underprivileged people have electricity, perhaps you should NOT bomb their infrastructure[..]
Anybody disagreeing with me simply hasn't done the research or is evil.
You sounded pretty intelligent as long as you talked about science. Perhaps if you had done your research you would have known that most of Gaza's electricity is supplied by Israel, and most electricity outages in Gaza have been caused by Kassam rockets hitting electricity infrastructure in Israeli territory. (And of course, Israeli Electric Company technicians are sent to fix the problem, risking their lives to provide power to the very people attacking them!)
Are DOS Batch files too 1990s to be taken seriously in 2010?
No, they are too 1980s.
10 seconds into the video, the screen looks like this:
...fail.
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If I were you I'd read the article to the end before writing. The last few photos show their SSD labs. Apparently they are well aware of the situation.
Rest assured the Boxee Box will fit into your entertainment center. If the look doesn’t quite fit with your decor, not to worry. The RF remote means you can place the box out of sight and still control it. Of course, the Boxee Box prefers being on top : )
they are the mechanism by which Israel is stealing the entire area that was the Palestinian state
Just what Palestinian state do you speak of, sir?
I liked Denmark's happy face design myself.
Personally I think it looks a little too appealing to kids.
The TFA makes a reference [...]
You mean The TFA Article.
Last night I was browsing through the headlines on Slashdot's front page. At one point I came across the headline "Sneaky Microsoft Add-On Put Firefox Users At Risk" (story here). While I was reading the text underneath that headline, Firefox's prompt (indicating that it had detected the relevant plugin) popped up. It was so startling that I started wondering whether the browser was reading my mind! Weird stuff.
Because the only thing attaching the cell phone to the camera is duct tape.
Because the battery will run out before a tenth of the pictures are transmitted.
Because the balloon will pop.
Because the little heating bag preventing the electronics from dying of cold will run out of juice within a couple hours.
Because nothing you can hack together at $150 is something that you will be able to "just leave up" in the stratosphere.
Do you need more or can I stop now?
If you're out, I have a few extras you can borrow:
s s s s
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You're welcome!
I had - actually, still have - a very, very nicely hacked 130XE. It got a 1 MB memory upgrade, a video output upgrade, a replacement OS and a keyboard upgrade that made it actually usable to human hands. I believe the parent poster will be eerily familiar with it...
Personally I think this combination made it the best 8-bit except for the 800 (which still wins for best keyboard, internal speaker click which I miss terribly and its nuke-proof construction). It served me well for many years. Thank you, jjmcwill :)
Funny that the article itself has a large banner advertising RusCams.com, with the tagline "chat with beautiful girls, live on their webcams"!
Why is this news? There already is a module named "analogtv" in xscreensaver that does essentially the same thing. It might be moderately interesting when this actually gets released as part of Stella, but until then all we have are some screenshots that look very similar to existing TV simulators.
By the way, the 80's TV sets I played Atari games on never showed afterimages, and flickering objects (like the ghosts in Pac-Man) flickered very clearly. I hope this effect will be optional.
Personally I'd like to see this integrated with the Atari800 emulator, as that's the system I grew up on...
diealready
Oddly enough, TFA (the YouTube info from which this text was copied) spells it correctly!
Removing the PS/2 ports and the PCI and PCIe (or is that AGP? sorry) slots would not require a different board design, just a different assembly option (i.e., you tell the factory robot to skip soldering in those components). I don't think that should cost extra when ordering large quantities of boards, and the parts Gigabyte doesn't need to manufacture/acquire and assemble will save everybody money. So I'm with the GP on this one.
And in case anyone in the futures wonders why the result appears as it is, here is the original quote:
Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) indicates the end of the Internet Explorer 8 beta period.
That page has already been changed to say
This final release of Internet Explorer 8 is about delivering a browsing experience for all that is richer, easier, and more secure.
so, expect the Google search result to change real soon now.
Already on sale in Australia, at about US$250.
There are plenty of pc's made in 1984 that can still work fine.
..and nobody had to put them in a time capsule for them to work just fine - you could probably grab everything you need to get a 1984-era PC working off ebay today. Which makes this whole exercise seem a bit redundant.
NT and XP were developed by Microsoft Israel
No they weren't, Microsoft Israel is a pretty small shop with no significant software development. Intel, on the other hand, is another story; much of its cutting edge CPU technology is in fact developed in Haifa.
Israel is clearly violating the firm international law against collective punishment.
Sorry, but I'm sick of hearing this "collective punishment" crap. Hamas is the governing body of Gaza, therefore this is war. In war civilians get hurt.
When the Brits carpet bombed Dresden, was that not collective punishment?
When the US nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was that not collective punishment?
When Hamas sends rockets into Israel, preventing hundreds of thousands of people from being able to lead normal lives for 8 years (and counting), is that not collective punishment?
And what is this nonsense about "actions of a few"? This is not some small rogue group. Again, this is the democratically elected government, and these are its actions. The Gaza police is not exactly arresting rocket launchers, the rocket launchers are part of the government's army.
You have also conveniently forgotten that with regards to Gaza, Israel has removed all its settlements and withdrawn to its original borders. Do you think that after this response it will be happy to do the same in the West Bank?
It should be noted that local Israeli media is strongly recommending to stay away from this website and not to download the software it is offering, citing reasons of the illegality of the action and the obvious possibility of your PC being hijacked for other purposes.
Sorry, I couldn't find a link in English.
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3650277,00.html
How about a car windshield that doesn't mist over in cold weather?
I believe the extra space is reserved for use by the wear-leveling mechanism, not the file system.