I have four P4 2ghz machines that I pulled out of the e-waste trailer. I put in new drives, reinstalled (xp stickers on the box) and set them up for my kids.
Put a half decent old video card in and the kids can play most older games.
I have thousands invested in software and I'm not going to repurchase anything unless I absolutely have to.
I have about 14 systems in my house and my netbook is the only thing less than a year old. I can buy tons of cheap replacement parts on ebay so I should be able to keep this stuff running for years.
Please, please, please, would the winner send back a hi def photo of some of the Nasa junk left there. This would end all tinfoil hat theories on whether Nasa actually went there.
I heard this explained this way: If you want to change anything, 1/3 are ahead of you and are helping to change others minds, 1/3 will never change and the last third are watching to see which side to support.
It was interesting at the conference. The speaker began by telling us that for the good of the seminar, we all had to switch seats. Nobody wanted to.
I have 3 kids using his stuff now. All different ages and levels, so each kid has to download (stream) as they need it. If my internet goes flaky, we have issues. If it's on my server, I'm laughing.
Khan rocks. He has helped my kids advance their mathematics skills considerably in the 2 months that we have been using his academy.
Read about the Alberta Supernet. Fibre, paid by Gov't, throughout the province. Cheap bandwidth to isps. I get 2.5 mbps out in the boonies with a 75 gig cap for $35 a month. Never been charged for extra bandwidth.
I can ping the nearest city 2 hours away by car in 30ms. Most of that latency is in the Motorola Radios. On the fibre... 2ms.
I don't have the source, but this was on TV in Southern Ontario a few years ago. Residents thought a neighbor was selling drugs. New cars, new furniture, new tv etc coming into the house all the time and it didn't look like anyone had a real job. Turns out the kid was 18 and was selling penis enlargement pills via spam. He would offer a money back guarantee! $50 a bottle and he would buy them for $5. He had employed both of his sisters to package the product and mail them out. Who is going to call their credit card company and tell them that they need a refund because the penis enlargement pills they ordered over the internet didn't work? The kid was almost a genius... seems he actually did get busted for abuse of bandwidth from Rogers because of the server / spam farm in the basement.
I LOL'd. Then I read about your early morning RAID adventure and realized you are an undercover non-nerd hanging out at/. You don't put a bunch of disks from the same batch in the same array, that's asking for a multiple failure.
Does everyone here forget the jump in crude a couple years ago to $147.00 a barrel? That caused the current recession. It's amazing how people can ignore the blatantly obvious. We use oil for EVERYTHING. When the price skyrockets, the whole economy crumbles. I don't care about tree-huggers dreaming about alternate fuels. The fact remains, we have hit peak already and the chickens will come home to roost within 10 to 15 years. Nothing will stop that.
GOG and http://www.direct2drive.com/ are my two favourites. I can download forever or burn them to disk if I want. No cd cracks, no cd's. THIS is the way to go and I have bought all my games from these two companies since I discovered them. I have installed my d2d games or gog games on two systems on my lan without issue so my kids can play them.
Steam is just more drm bullshit in my opinion.
I am voting with my wallet. DRM in any form, no sale.
When will these pea brains figure this out. I can just as easily pirate anything I want but I would rather pay for it and have something that doesn't need a patch or the damn cd every time I want to use it. Is it really any sweat off their asses if I want to let my kids play a game I bought? I'm not buying two copies.
The whole point was to put them in the same place to make filtering easier. Eventually, it will happen, by themselves or forced by legislation. (Think of the children:-) )
It really only makes sense. If all porn was there, the people that want it can find it easily and the ones that want to filter it, can do so very easily. I can't understand the so called "controversy". The whole issue seems pretty silly.
If this does pass, they will be the party out on their asses. I live in Alberta. We are the most conservative province in the country and we're just about fed up with both the provincial and federal conservatives. We don't want to be americans and we yelled at them long and hard the last time they tried this shit.
Harper, your days are numbered. The whole country is sick of your games. If there was any decent challenger, these guys would already be gone.
I have an old P4 running media portal connected to my stereo and projector. I have an 80" projector system for under $1000.
My dumb LG 32 flatscreen tv cost more than that last year. Guess which one I watch the most?
Right click - open in new window. I've been doing this since Netscape 3.
Everybody hates change... it's part of our nature. I went to a conference once. The speaker said, "for the good of the seminar, I need all of your to change seats" Guess how many of 30 people changed? None.
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Put a half decent old video card in and the kids can play most older games.
I have thousands invested in software and I'm not going to repurchase anything unless I absolutely have to. I have about 14 systems in my house and my netbook is the only thing less than a year old. I can buy tons of cheap replacement parts on ebay so I should be able to keep this stuff running for years.
It's not back yet.
Hostmonster for $75 a year is a very good deal. Real tech support, excellent service. I'm a customer and obviously very happy.
Old AOL users?
hehehe, Ya, but did you bring popcorn to this thread? If nothing else, it's entertaining.
Please, please, please, would the winner send back a hi def photo of some of the Nasa junk left there. This would end all tinfoil hat theories on whether Nasa actually went there.
It was interesting at the conference. The speaker began by telling us that for the good of the seminar, we all had to switch seats. Nobody wanted to.
I just quit a job a couple months ago. The last thing I did was to disable remote login on the the router and the systems before I left.
Khan rocks. He has helped my kids advance their mathematics skills considerably in the 2 months that we have been using his academy.
Impressive response.
Read about the Alberta Supernet. Fibre, paid by Gov't, throughout the province. Cheap bandwidth to isps. I get 2.5 mbps out in the boonies with a 75 gig cap for $35 a month. Never been charged for extra bandwidth. I can ping the nearest city 2 hours away by car in 30ms. Most of that latency is in the Motorola Radios. On the fibre... 2ms.
I don't have the source, but this was on TV in Southern Ontario a few years ago. Residents thought a neighbor was selling drugs. New cars, new furniture, new tv etc coming into the house all the time and it didn't look like anyone had a real job. Turns out the kid was 18 and was selling penis enlargement pills via spam. He would offer a money back guarantee! $50 a bottle and he would buy them for $5. He had employed both of his sisters to package the product and mail them out. Who is going to call their credit card company and tell them that they need a refund because the penis enlargement pills they ordered over the internet didn't work? The kid was almost a genius... seems he actually did get busted for abuse of bandwidth from Rogers because of the server / spam farm in the basement.
Read the Peter Principle.
I LOL'd. Then I read about your early morning RAID adventure and realized you are an undercover non-nerd hanging out at /. You don't put a bunch of disks from the same batch in the same array, that's asking for a multiple failure.
Owned. ;-) Awesome, thanks for the chuckle!
Does everyone here forget the jump in crude a couple years ago to $147.00 a barrel? That caused the current recession. It's amazing how people can ignore the blatantly obvious. We use oil for EVERYTHING. When the price skyrockets, the whole economy crumbles. I don't care about tree-huggers dreaming about alternate fuels. The fact remains, we have hit peak already and the chickens will come home to roost within 10 to 15 years. Nothing will stop that.
Steam is just more drm bullshit in my opinion.
I am voting with my wallet. DRM in any form, no sale.
When will these pea brains figure this out. I can just as easily pirate anything I want but I would rather pay for it and have something that doesn't need a patch or the damn cd every time I want to use it. Is it really any sweat off their asses if I want to let my kids play a game I bought? I'm not buying two copies.
A proper hosts file can help here. http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm/
The whole point was to put them in the same place to make filtering easier. Eventually, it will happen, by themselves or forced by legislation. (Think of the children :-) )
It really only makes sense. If all porn was there, the people that want it can find it easily and the ones that want to filter it, can do so very easily. I can't understand the so called "controversy". The whole issue seems pretty silly.
Harper, your days are numbered. The whole country is sick of your games. If there was any decent challenger, these guys would already be gone.
I live 25 miles from the American border and haven't been there in over 10 years. I don't like their attitude.
(For those not in the know, British Columbia is home to the best marijuana in North America. Residents tend to be granola munchers.)
I thought it was granola bars... whatever isn't nuts or fruits is flakes.
Or to quote Despair.com "none of us is as dumb as all of us"
Now get off my lawn ;-)
I have an old P4 running media portal connected to my stereo and projector. I have an 80" projector system for under $1000. My dumb LG 32 flatscreen tv cost more than that last year. Guess which one I watch the most?
Everybody hates change... it's part of our nature. I went to a conference once. The speaker said, "for the good of the seminar, I need all of your to change seats" Guess how many of 30 people changed? None.