Dollars to Donuts if there was such a thing you couldn't call it "OpenMac"
They (or you even) can't legally install OSX either can they? Not an Apple guy so dont know terms but i would assume not.
I suppose in theory one could reverse engineer a clone but it is kinda spendy for a doorstop with no OS. Even then there would be no legit uses and you still couldn't sell them since it is clearly intended to infringe.
Everyone says do it like the utilities but they never seem to look at some of those bills.
Office just got the water bill yesterday for our overflow warehouse. Last month it was $50.42 for..............ZERO water usage. Are you sure thats the model you want?!? I am sure the ISP can think of something to charge you for as well as the city can;)
lol, they forgot to take off the lens cap in my neighborhood:(
With all the media hype of us (spokane) appearing in street view i wanted to check it out but there is a big chunk missing right in the middle of town, so no pic of work or home. The reporter asked why they included some surrounding areas but no mention of the missing areas.
Hmm, tried to find the gravel road i was thinking of in the middle of town...but it is in the missing chunk:(
I wonder if qwest is messing with the indies. My age old DSL has been acting up a bit lately:(
"Besides, my third-party ISP actually has employees who answer the phone, speak english, live in the same town as me and KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT!!"
Not only that but tech support for mine is actually the guy who manages the ISP's routers and stuff!!:)
If you ask google it seems to be armymwr.com and/or armymwr.org
One would really have to know this somehow ahead of time...to actually go there. None of them LOOK right at first glance;)
Gotta agree that mwr.army.mil would seem an obvious and safer choice. At least the few people that looked at the URL would have a chance. Military seems to have quite a few 'odd' named websites for this kind of thing:( I suppose you wait til they print in a newsletter or something;)
"Which won't pay for healthcare for every American, since it amounts to only $670 per person - less than the cost of Health Insurance by a considerable margin, much less the actual cost of healthcare"
Had to hit you on this....
You say that like the cost of healthcare is greater than insurance. If that were the case then insurance companies would lose money...they don't. If you add the money to Medicare/SSI and other current healthcare costs the pool of money to work with gets much bigger tho also.
hehe, i have blackmarket Compaq computer. The old Original one kinda sorta. Actually it is made to look like the second model but only has the power of the original. The keyboard design is copied (surely the attached keyboard was patented). The bios is probably stolen. Several other components are copies. NOTHING above the chip level is marked with anything whatsoever. No brand names, not even a part number on anything inside or outside. Wish i would have left it alone but i swapped out parts to make a more workable unit (and to ebay the semi-rare XT chip it used someday) Kinda tough to find jumper settings for a board that doesn't exist too. But a interesting little piece of computer history.
Wish i knew how these were sold and if they were passed off as compaq or a generic. Passed off as a real Compaq they would have bit it as they were underpowered compared to the Compaq AT they resemble.
Can't the bag just be wider than the laptop and put that stuff next to the laptop instead of on top/underneath. Gonna need a mega wide bag if you want one for external drives and a printer but still doable. Include metal thread embroidery that says LAPTOP and OTHER to really speed you through on the deluxe version;)
Both of my PC's have a joystick. Mainly for racing games (but i'll admit to having FS 2004 installed) even tho i have a full-size wheel/pedal/seat set-up. It is hard to type from the seat as the keyboard placement is awkward. Plus i need to swap monitor cables or invest in a KVM switch. Also it is cold down near the floor in winter, hehe.
Much easier to move the joystick from on top of the computer to in front of it.... and the $35 joystick gives as good of control as a $100+ wheel. I found the really cheap wheels only annoy me.
Don't play a console enough to worry about controller. More of a party type thing and don't want multiple ones for that to keep it fair. Even tho that is how the 2 computers are set up;)
lol, we used to dye rolls of stockinette for a customer. Do you have any idea what happens when you put a 75ft long sock in the washing machine? in the dryer? you really have to see the knot it makes to believe it;) 30 min in washer and 30 min to untangle it, rinse and repeat...err repeat to rinse actually.
I like the idea of having some live and having to remove the free ones tho:)
You want a really awful experience try it a firewall/spyware suite installed that asks about system changes:/
At least 4 passes thru windows update and about 200 queries from the security software and MS programs toss in a few more questions for good measure. Right in the middle of 50 updates is IE7 that has to download more of itself so i can't download the updates,pull the plug and kill the security program, too obvious:(
I answer ok as i get the chance, when i get up, etc. as it is too far away to reach:(
I always thought a Service Pack was the earlier updates combined. Why does it then d/l 50 updates, SP2, 50 more updates?
Are there any you can do co-op even if it isn't expecting it?
I race online (PC only tho) and a couple of us regulars have have created our own variation. Everyone has to stop the bus from finishing the race. Turns a 'violent' race game (flatout2) almost into a co-op mode. On the topic of the headline those guys are actually a few years older than i am at 58 and 49 i think:)
hurfy/royce/cyclone Online gamer for over 25 years, since ASCII darts on a teletype;)
As a buyer with a couple hundred purchases now it is down to 25-33% of sellers who have left feedback after paying:( Several with that explicit policy of only leaving feedback after i have done so,WTF? That includes buy it now purchases and auctions paid within 24 hrs. If that isn't good enough for them, I generally don't leave feedback at all. Luckily it has been a couple years since i found a bad seller (probably the types of things i buy). I would like to comment on some poor packaging but it isn't worth the hassle or retaliation anymore.
Unfortunately without some kind of automation, maybe auto positive after x amount of time, added that wouldn't work either as poor sellers simply wouldn't leave feedback thus not allowing the buyer to either.
What i would like is an unfavorites list to track those i don't wish to do business with again! Or a second favorites list so i could actually save my favorites since i corrupted it into unfavorites instead.
That and a way to sort for negative comments as i like to have an idea what they are and they are a pain to find for ppl with 129783452 feedback now:( Some of us are capable of determining if retalitory or a trend or whatever, so let us.
Kinda mixed feelings on this idea. Especially as i need to start selling some of the extra junk one of these days;)
ahha, there's what i was looking for and it was mattel as i thought:)
Mine still survives too even after being modded for Highschool:) I added a speaker kill switch and earphone jack so it wouldn't beep during classes. I also added a battery jack to hook it a Emergency locator beacon battery from one of my dad's planes for extended (as in years!) play when mobility not so important;)
Not an original bell phone but a pretty early one, my old Conair? trimline style phone is still going strong. I think i got it when i moved out in the 80's? The whole thing has been dropped about 10^264 times by now;)
"When you buy water you pay for each gallon. You might use budget billing schemes to smooth out your monthly payment, but over time you pay for what you use."
Of course that is perfectly reasonable and the ISP would love to follow suit....
$10.58 for Water meter fee $3.50 for Water rate stabilization $9.80 for Stormwater drainage $6.97 for Sewer use treatment $2.37 for Sewer use collection $13.65 for Sewer Treatment $13.00 for Sewer Rate stabilization $4.79 for Sewer collect service chg Oh almost forgot: $16.50 for WATER USAGE
So it costs $30.58 to get our $16.50 worth of water......and only $40.78 to get rid of it...plus $9.80 to get rid of the free water!
No wonder the ISP would like this price scheme...as soon as they figure out how to bill us for waste bits we are in deep shit:O
I think if we recycled every drop from last month and used zero it would shave about $20 and change off that so zero useage is $60 (office bill cause it was in front of me):/
Actually our internet is the same price as our $16.50 worth of water...
There is nothing stopping Buck knives or Fantasyswords.com from advertising in your RPG tho is there?
I assume this will be in addition the the nvidia logo that seems to be standard startup fare in half my games:(
No thanks, just produce a game worth buying please.
I already don't go to theaters to watch ads and buy/rent few new movies with a zillions ads and monster animated logos. Thankfully most TV shows on DVD avoid this (for now). Don't reduce me to only buying BBC dvds , they are on the spendy side;( And no i don't have cable, if i am going to get ads every 7 minutes anyway i am NOT paying for it.
Err..wait, you didn't want what creates the downtime?
I'll have to agree on the self-selecting comment:) Besides online forums? Buying sf books on ebay perhaps, usually my last hour which is 5-6pm and usually noone left:)
How about we just make a external connector that we plug a molex connector into the back end of? Could be molex or another shape or whatever. Laptops could biuld one in and desktop could have an extremely simple one that goes in a slot cover with the external connector(s) on outside and a molex on the inside. Could build-in something to step down voltage to have several choices available at connector even. Then a power cord going to that could replace the wall wart powering SATA,USB,speakers or virtually anything by grabbing power off the correct pins. Still 2 cords but at least they would going the same direction now;)
hehe, that's what our accounting system runs on. Seems appropriate since the accounting program is an old outdated piece of crap that comes out with a new version every year anyway:O Can't be more than a handful of these specialty programs using it anymore. Zero issues with OS in 3-1/2 years tho, of course it doesn't do anything but serve up one program from one disk and backup to one tape drive. The IBM box, however, croaked in the 1st year (suspect cap. problem the repair was too easy to get)
I did actually ask what happens when SCO goes under when we got it, the plan seemed to be to ignore it. I assume no OS support really needed.
Frustrating deal tho. We bought it cause that was all the software company did was this one program so we would be 1 of a couple hundred customers. Bought out the next year by a national naturally after 20 years of doing their own thing:( And that bought out the following year by an international:// Not so cozy to be 1 customer out of a couple HUNDRED THOUSAND
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Dollars to Donuts if there was such a thing you couldn't call it "OpenMac"
They (or you even) can't legally install OSX either can they? Not an Apple guy so dont know terms but i would assume not.
I suppose in theory one could reverse engineer a clone but it is kinda spendy for a doorstop with no OS. Even then there would be no legit uses and you still couldn't sell them since it is clearly intended to infringe.
Next time just hold the contest at night please and save us all the arguements over solar equivalents :)
Everyone says do it like the utilities but they never seem to look at some of those bills.
;)
Office just got the water bill yesterday for our overflow warehouse. Last month it was $50.42 for..............ZERO water usage. Are you sure thats the model you want?!? I am sure the ISP can think of something to charge you for as well as the city can
lol, me and my 10 year-old cisco 675 are impressed ;)
:(
Sigh
A URL should be an address, a picture should be a picture, and a song should be a song and none of the above should be DOING anything
lol, they forgot to take off the lens cap in my neighborhood :(
:(
With all the media hype of us (spokane) appearing in street view i wanted to check it out but there is a big chunk missing right in the middle of town, so no pic of work or home. The reporter asked why they included some surrounding areas but no mention of the missing areas.
Hmm, tried to find the gravel road i was thinking of in the middle of town...but it is in the missing chunk
I wonder if qwest is messing with the indies. :(
:)
My age old DSL has been acting up a bit lately
"Besides, my third-party ISP actually has employees who answer the phone, speak english, live in the same town as me and KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT!!"
Not only that but tech support for mine is actually the guy who manages the ISP's routers and stuff!!
If you ask google it seems to be armymwr.com and/or armymwr.org
;)
:( I suppose you wait til they print in a newsletter or something ;)
One would really have to know this somehow ahead of time...to actually go there. None of them LOOK right at first glance
Gotta agree that mwr.army.mil would seem an obvious and safer choice. At least the few people that looked at the URL would have a chance. Military seems to have quite a few 'odd' named websites for this kind of thing
"Which won't pay for healthcare for every American, since it amounts to only $670 per person - less than the cost of Health Insurance by a considerable margin, much less the actual cost of healthcare"
Had to hit you on this....
You say that like the cost of healthcare is greater than insurance. If that were the case then insurance companies would lose money...they don't. If you add the money to Medicare/SSI and other current healthcare costs the pool of money to work with gets much bigger tho also.
Presumably...after all it DID say North Dakota :)
Please stop ....
:O
I now have an overwhelming desire to hack my VHS to use it as a backup tape drive
hehe, i have blackmarket Compaq computer. The old Original one kinda sorta. Actually it is made to look like the second model but only has the power of the original. The keyboard design is copied (surely the attached keyboard was patented). The bios is probably stolen. Several other components are copies. NOTHING above the chip level is marked with anything whatsoever. No brand names, not even a part number on anything inside or outside. Wish i would have left it alone but i swapped out parts to make a more workable unit (and to ebay the semi-rare XT chip it used someday) Kinda tough to find jumper settings for a board that doesn't exist too. But a interesting little piece of computer history.
Wish i knew how these were sold and if they were passed off as compaq or a generic. Passed off as a real Compaq they would have bit it as they were underpowered compared to the Compaq AT they resemble.
Not that hard is it?
;)
Can't the bag just be wider than the laptop and put that stuff next to the laptop instead of on top/underneath. Gonna need a mega wide bag if you want one for external drives and a printer but still doable. Include metal thread embroidery that says LAPTOP and OTHER to really speed you through on the deluxe version
Both of my PC's have a joystick. Mainly for racing games (but i'll admit to having FS 2004 installed) even tho i have a full-size wheel/pedal/seat set-up. It is hard to type from the seat as the keyboard placement is awkward. Plus i need to swap monitor cables or invest in a KVM switch. Also it is cold down near the floor in winter, hehe.
;)
Much easier to move the joystick from on top of the computer to in front of it.... and the $35 joystick gives as good of control as a $100+ wheel. I found the really cheap wheels only annoy me.
Don't play a console enough to worry about controller. More of a party type thing and don't want multiple ones for that to keep it fair. Even tho that is how the 2 computers are set up
lol, we used to dye rolls of stockinette for a customer. Do you have any idea what happens when you put a 75ft long sock in the washing machine? in the dryer? you really have to see the knot it makes to believe it
I like the idea of having some live and having to remove the free ones tho
You want a really awful experience try it a firewall/spyware suite installed that asks about system changes :/
:(
:(
At least 4 passes thru windows update and about 200 queries from the security software and MS programs toss in a few more questions for good measure. Right in the middle of 50 updates is IE7 that has to download more of itself so i can't download the updates,pull the plug and kill the security program, too obvious
I answer ok as i get the chance, when i get up, etc. as it is too far away to reach
I always thought a Service Pack was the earlier updates combined. Why does it then d/l 50 updates, SP2, 50 more updates?
Are there any you can do co-op even if it isn't expecting it?
:)
;)
I race online (PC only tho) and a couple of us regulars have have created our own variation. Everyone has to stop the bus from finishing the race. Turns a 'violent' race game (flatout2) almost into a co-op mode. On the topic of the headline those guys are actually a few years older than i am at 58 and 49 i think
hurfy/royce/cyclone
Online gamer for over 25 years, since ASCII darts on a teletype
I don't think i have to go any farther than this.
:( Several with that explicit policy of only leaving feedback after i have done so,WTF? That includes buy it now purchases and auctions paid within 24 hrs. If that isn't good enough for them, I generally don't leave feedback at all. Luckily it has been a couple years since i found a bad seller (probably the types of things i buy). I would like to comment on some poor packaging but it isn't worth the hassle or retaliation anymore.
:( Some of us are capable of determining if retalitory or a trend or whatever, so let us.
;)
As a buyer with a couple hundred purchases now it is down to 25-33% of sellers who have left feedback after paying
Unfortunately without some kind of automation, maybe auto positive after x amount of time, added that wouldn't work either as poor sellers simply wouldn't leave feedback thus not allowing the buyer to either.
What i would like is an unfavorites list to track those i don't wish to do business with again! Or a second favorites list so i could actually save my favorites since i corrupted it into unfavorites instead.
That and a way to sort for negative comments as i like to have an idea what they are and they are a pain to find for ppl with 129783452 feedback now
Kinda mixed feelings on this idea. Especially as i need to start selling some of the extra junk one of these days
ahha, there's what i was looking for and it was mattel as i thought :)
:) I added a speaker kill switch and earphone jack so it wouldn't beep during classes. I also added a battery jack to hook it a Emergency locator beacon battery from one of my dad's planes for extended (as in years!) play when mobility not so important ;)
Mine still survives too even after being modded for Highschool
LOL
;)
Not an original bell phone but a pretty early one, my old Conair? trimline style phone is still going strong. I think i got it when i moved out in the 80's? The whole thing has been dropped about 10^264 times by now
Either would have to be close to qualifying.
"When you buy water you pay for each gallon. You might use budget billing schemes to smooth out your monthly payment, but over time you pay for what you use."
...and only $40.78 to get rid of it...plus $9.80 to get rid of the free water!
:O
:/
Of course that is perfectly reasonable and the ISP would love to follow suit....
$10.58 for Water meter fee
$3.50 for Water rate stabilization
$9.80 for Stormwater drainage
$6.97 for Sewer use treatment
$2.37 for Sewer use collection
$13.65 for Sewer Treatment
$13.00 for Sewer Rate stabilization
$4.79 for Sewer collect service chg
Oh almost forgot:
$16.50 for WATER USAGE
So it costs $30.58 to get our $16.50 worth of water...
No wonder the ISP would like this price scheme...as soon as they figure out how to bill us for waste bits we are in deep shit
I think if we recycled every drop from last month and used zero it would shave about $20 and change off that so zero useage is $60 (office bill cause it was in front of me)
Actually our internet is the same price as our $16.50 worth of water...
There is nothing stopping Buck knives or Fantasyswords.com from advertising in your RPG tho is there?
:(
;( And no i don't have cable, if i am going to get ads every 7 minutes anyway i am NOT paying for it.
I assume this will be in addition the the nvidia logo that seems to be standard startup fare in half my games
No thanks, just produce a game worth buying please.
I already don't go to theaters to watch ads and buy/rent few new movies with a zillions ads and monster animated logos. Thankfully most TV shows on DVD avoid this (for now). Don't reduce me to only buying BBC dvds , they are on the spendy side
Install Windows updates
:) :)
Err..wait, you didn't want what creates the downtime?
I'll have to agree on the self-selecting comment
Besides online forums? Buying sf books on ebay perhaps, usually my last hour which is 5-6pm and usually noone left
How about we just make a external connector that we plug a molex connector into the back end of? Could be molex or another shape or whatever. Laptops could biuld one in and desktop could have an extremely simple one that goes in a slot cover with the external connector(s) on outside and a molex on the inside. Could build-in something to step down voltage to have several choices available at connector even. Then a power cord going to that could replace the wall wart powering SATA,USB,speakers or virtually anything by grabbing power off the correct pins. Still 2 cords but at least they would going the same direction now ;)
hehe, that's what our accounting system runs on. Seems appropriate since the accounting program is an old outdated piece of crap that comes out with a new version every year anyway :O Can't be more than a handful of these specialty programs using it anymore.
:( And that bought out the following year by an international :// Not so cozy to be 1 customer out of a couple HUNDRED THOUSAND
Zero issues with OS in 3-1/2 years tho, of course it doesn't do anything but serve up one program from one disk and backup to one tape drive. The IBM box, however, croaked in the 1st year (suspect cap. problem the repair was too easy to get)
I did actually ask what happens when SCO goes under when we got it, the plan seemed to be to ignore it. I assume no OS support really needed.
Frustrating deal tho. We bought it cause that was all the software company did was this one program so we would be 1 of a couple hundred customers. Bought out the next year by a national naturally after 20 years of doing their own thing
"why not spend the money on innovating new games and or new forms of already present games,"
:O ;)
Maybe new versions of old games? Never seems to get worn out i guess:
http://www.boardgames.com/monopolygames1.html
Yikes, and one of those links leads to another list for colleges
Not going to admit to seeing 3 of those at my parents house....
There seems to be few new games and mostly party/trivia games, tho Apples to Apples was a fun party game during the holidays.