Sure... duping happens. Sure... I can understand it happening even as frequent as it does. with all of the Mods and such. But notice it is almost ALWAYS CmdrTaco.
On a slightly unrelated note, expect to see this modded into the ground, right before my account becomes mysteriously banned.
Your father is a moron then. Plain and simple. I have whitnessed multitudes of people sit down at a windows machine, and with a little poking, in minutes, they were doing something apparently productive... at least moreso then when they started. This is probably due to refining the interface over a good 15-20 years. It is plain intuitive. And yes, you fire up a brand spaking new OEM Windows XP machine, and there is NO configuration needed. It just works.
DOS on the other hand was meant for people, back when computer skills were required to use a machine. You wouldnt dare sit down at a DOS prompt without reading something first. Even then, if you had a bit of intuition, you would type "help" and you would get something to get you started. Lets see what I get when I do this on my Linux webserver:
guest@MrWebserver:~$ help
-bash: help: command not found
guest@MrWebserver:~$
You have got to be kidding me. Say Grandma Jones just bought a machine and her grandson installed WHATEVER version of linux on there. For whatever reason, she boots up, and there is a command prompt. How will she know what to type? I mean, christ, how on earth does she even know what COMMANDS are available, LET ALONE how to get help on them? Google seems the most likely candidate, but have you ever googled for a Unix/Linux command? More times then not, you get a bunch of crap that holds no relevance to what you are looking for.
Tell this to AOL. I once made the mistake of using one of their free disks to get a dialup account to spend 5 minutes and check my Yahoo Mail. Signup was done on the computer, over the modem, in less then 60 seconds. To cancel, First, I tried to do it with their customer service online.... they gave me a telephone number to call. After 20 minutes of waiting, I got detailed instructions of a form I had to download, fill out, and fax or snail mail to them before they would terminate the account.
While I personally believe this is a good thing, often these things can be circumvented easily by... booting a knoppix CD. Of course a modern BIOS will allow you to restrict booting from a floppy (yes I know... I am the only person who still uses these), or a CDRom, but all can be undone with 30 seconds and enough balls to open your case. Even then, Im sure there is some trick to purge the CMOS without ever cracking the case.
... but I remember back when Nesticle was first released, and I was an aspiring programmer, still in high school, hanging out in #emu on EFnet... someone had taken apart an NES controller, wired it up to the game port and it just worked. No resistors. No chips.
Going through my really tore up CD-r that is approaching EONS old, I see that in some cases you would need to sauder a single resistor between two points, but you only did this if it didnt work for you for some odd reason. There was only one person in the channel that needed to do this.
I hate replying to myself, but I obviously got a troll (probably from the grandparent posing as an Anonymous Coward), because I am apparently unclear.
SIHM is used to simulate/emulate a PDP-11 so that this old crusty version of Unix can run. Running NetBSD on this would require actual Kernel Porting and some toolchain tweaking. All this little project needed was SIHM at the core, which needed ever so little help to run on the GBA. From there, Unix Version 5 just needed some compiling for the PDP-11.
And how much longer would it have been for you to determine that the cd drive was bad without a floppy drive?
I agree that a flopy drive in day to day use is pretty silly, but when it comes down to it, a good old custom dos floppy, and custom slackware rescue floppy, I can diagnose just about any ailment a computer may have. Especially in a world of SCSI CDRom drives that I tend to deal with, booting a "rescue" cd isnt always possible... at least not without a boot floppy first.
Well, first, you didnt include shipping in any of the estimate. This is usually mistake #1.
Secondly, it appears newegg.com is pulling an amazon.com. I went to their site and found the prices a little different then yours, so ans an experiment, I connected to my work machine, and used IE instead of Firefox, and checked out those prices... again, slightly different then what even I saw before
Unfortunatly, it isnt always that simple. I have had several places that refuse to take one time use numbers... these are places such as Ebay (not exactally Ebay, but give it time), where possible debt can later accumulate, so they have a means to deduct the later fees etc.
How do they do this? Charge whatever you are buying/paying for in two transactions.
I attribute this to the metaphorical "settling of the water". In the 90's people with absolutely no interest in computers, as well as those with no skill, started saturating the market to grab a quick buck. It the past few years, even those with skills have trouble finding employment, and most find themselves working helpdesk at a telemarketing firm, or as a webmaster/designer for a porn site. Those who are still here are the ones that do it more then just for the money... because it is what we were born to do.
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Sure... duping happens. Sure... I can understand it happening even as frequent as it does. with all of the Mods and such. But notice it is almost ALWAYS CmdrTaco.
On a slightly unrelated note, expect to see this modded into the ground, right before my account becomes mysteriously banned.
A P2 366 doesnt cut to half speed to save on energy/heat
I think if the results are provided by 3rd parties (such as google), they already have the skewing well under way.
So he doesn't have a buzz cut... what era do you live in? 1950's?
I suggest you look up "Context Switching", then get back with me what a good idea user space drivers would be.
GDI used to be in user space (WIndows if you are oblivious), but it was moved to kernel space because thats where that stuff belongs.
Running Alcohol... 91% great for scrubbing the computers of smell and stain. Makes a great aftershave too.
Your father is a moron then. Plain and simple. I have whitnessed multitudes of people sit down at a windows machine, and with a little poking, in minutes, they were doing something apparently productive... at least moreso then when they started. This is probably due to refining the interface over a good 15-20 years. It is plain intuitive. And yes, you fire up a brand spaking new OEM Windows XP machine, and there is NO configuration needed. It just works.
DOS on the other hand was meant for people, back when computer skills were required to use a machine. You wouldnt dare sit down at a DOS prompt without reading something first. Even then, if you had a bit of intuition, you would type "help" and you would get something to get you started. Lets see what I get when I do this on my Linux webserver:
guest@MrWebserver:~$ help
-bash: help: command not found
guest@MrWebserver:~$
Who would have thought.
You have got to be kidding me. Say Grandma Jones just bought a machine and her grandson installed WHATEVER version of linux on there. For whatever reason, she boots up, and there is a command prompt. How will she know what to type? I mean, christ, how on earth does she even know what COMMANDS are available, LET ALONE how to get help on them? Google seems the most likely candidate, but have you ever googled for a Unix/Linux command? More times then not, you get a bunch of crap that holds no relevance to what you are looking for.
The obviously didnt learn with MFC.
Tell this to AOL. I once made the mistake of using one of their free disks to get a dialup account to spend 5 minutes and check my Yahoo Mail. Signup was done on the computer, over the modem, in less then 60 seconds. To cancel, First, I tried to do it with their customer service online.... they gave me a telephone number to call. After 20 minutes of waiting, I got detailed instructions of a form I had to download, fill out, and fax or snail mail to them before they would terminate the account.
While I personally believe this is a good thing, often these things can be circumvented easily by... booting a knoppix CD. Of course a modern BIOS will allow you to restrict booting from a floppy (yes I know... I am the only person who still uses these), or a CDRom, but all can be undone with 30 seconds and enough balls to open your case. Even then, Im sure there is some trick to purge the CMOS without ever cracking the case.
I have the controller I modified, the experience using it to tell you it worked great, and the original MS Paint made schematics.
... but I remember back when Nesticle was first released, and I was an aspiring programmer, still in high school, hanging out in #emu on EFnet... someone had taken apart an NES controller, wired it up to the game port and it just worked. No resistors. No chips.
Going through my really tore up CD-r that is approaching EONS old, I see that in some cases you would need to sauder a single resistor between two points, but you only did this if it didnt work for you for some odd reason. There was only one person in the channel that needed to do this.
I hate replying to myself, but I obviously got a troll (probably from the grandparent posing as an Anonymous Coward), because I am apparently unclear.
SIHM is used to simulate/emulate a PDP-11 so that this old crusty version of Unix can run. Running NetBSD on this would require actual Kernel Porting and some toolchain tweaking. All this little project needed was SIHM at the core, which needed ever so little help to run on the GBA. From there, Unix Version 5 just needed some compiling for the PDP-11.
Read the article... SIHM is used to emulate a PDP-11... do you know how much power a PDP-11 has? NetBSD appears to need a little Oomph behind it.
Oh yeah... tell that to the person trying to listen
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And how much longer would it have been for you to determine that the cd drive was bad without a floppy drive?
I agree that a flopy drive in day to day use is pretty silly, but when it comes down to it, a good old custom dos floppy, and custom slackware rescue floppy, I can diagnose just about any ailment a computer may have. Especially in a world of SCSI CDRom drives that I tend to deal with, booting a "rescue" cd isnt always possible... at least not without a boot floppy first.
Well, first, you didnt include shipping in any of the estimate. This is usually mistake #1.
Secondly, it appears newegg.com is pulling an amazon.com. I went to their site and found the prices a little different then yours, so ans an experiment, I connected to my work machine, and used IE instead of Firefox, and checked out those prices... again, slightly different then what even I saw before
Global Warming Is a myth
These players will remain backward compatible with former DVD Standards
Maybe I am a little short sighted, but the only shortage in labor is in the IT sector, as far as I know.
Unfortunatly, it isnt always that simple. I have had several places that refuse to take one time use numbers... these are places such as Ebay (not exactally Ebay, but give it time), where possible debt can later accumulate, so they have a means to deduct the later fees etc.
How do they do this? Charge whatever you are buying/paying for in two transactions.
I attribute this to the metaphorical "settling of the water". In the 90's people with absolutely no interest in computers, as well as those with no skill, started saturating the market to grab a quick buck. It the past few years, even those with skills have trouble finding employment, and most find themselves working helpdesk at a telemarketing firm, or as a webmaster/designer for a porn site. Those who are still here are the ones that do it more then just for the money... because it is what we were born to do.
Call me a troll, but I would gather, pretty close to the same as if there were two processors.