whatever happend to the good old days when an IBM model M was all you needed:)
Whaddaya mean "good old days"? That's what's on my desk, now. I've got two more in storage in their original packaging for when this one gives out (14 years and counting). Hopefully, the PS/2 style connector won't be abandoned on motherboards in the next 30 years...
Not at all. By "treatment" I meant the necessity of untold numbers of fans having to spend untold amounts of time and dollars to get the show a proper ending.
Yes, well, don't be so sure. Jolene Blalock (T'Pol) called the series finale appalling. Being that it was written by Brannon & Braga, I'm sure it will at least live up to my expectations, if not exceed them. Yes, I'll Tivo it anyway.
Don't be fooled, airplane junkies won't be using this kind of laptop, they'll want something ultra compact with a long battery life.
I agree. I'd love to have this 19" LCD laptop for days I want to work outside on the patio (with appropriate shade). However, when I'm commuting on the train, nothing has served me better than my Thinkpad 701C ("butterfly" keyboard, bright LCD, long battery life, footprint of a sheet of paper when closed). Sadly, it died, and the two that came after it sucked.
Actually, a rather smart fellow by the name of Einstein theorized that time travel was indeed possible.
Want to travel in time? Hop into your spaceship, head out for a leisurely cruise at or near the speed of light. Turn around after six months and return to Earth. You've aged a year, but quite a few more than that have passed on Earth.
Want to go backwards in time? I leave that as an exercise to the reader. Hint: think black holes.
They are convinced the ratings dropped due to the show competing against other Trek re-runs.
So, they admit that the new show isn't as good as the shows produced between 4 and 40 years ago? We don't need a rest, we need new blood! Or we need another Babylon 5 to scare the crap out of Berman and Braga, which really improved DS9.
It's dark, you're travelling on a dangerous road known for ambushes. You can't see the huddled shapes lurking in the darkness behind their vehicles. Suddenly a floodlight paints your vehicle. You can't see anything but the floodlight and shots are fired. American checkpoint or insurgent ambush? Decide quickly, because you'll be killed if you stop and it's insurgents, and you be killed if you don't stop immediately and it's the Americans.
American checkpoints in Iraq are not well-lit traffic-coned "approach the gate and the waving officer slowly" affairs. They block the road at the best place to kill oncomers and hide behind their barriers. It's often the worst place for approaching vehicles to see the roadblock until you're on top of it. By then, they start firing "warning shots" in the general direction of (if not into) your vehicle. It doesn't always play out like that, but dozens of dead Iraqi families can't be wrong...
First, shred the documents, preferably with a cross-cut or confetti-cut shredder. Second, secure the shredded documents in a burn bag and ignite. If you don't have a burn bag, construct a wire mesh container (with small holes, but sufficient gauge to not melt) to keep the burning bits of paper from floating away. Liberally spray with lighter fluid and place over an open fire.
Optionally, "wash" the shredded documents in a spin washer before burning. Ensure that the basin can be thoroughly cleaned out and that no scrap of document can be lost by draining.
Well, I live in a "trendy" condo. It's no brownstone walk-up, and there's almost no culture within 50 miles, but I couldn't afford this level of living downstate. It'd be back to a 2BR flat and a half hour train ride. Still, living out here, you gotta ask yourself if the pay cut and a much smaller job market, that gets tighter every time a few hundred tech workers gets laid off, is worth it.
SF = big city = high cost of living + California = even higher cost of living. If you were making 38k in a more rural area, you could live quite comfortably.
Indeed, you are correct about the high cost of living in California and other metro areas. Pray tell, where are these plum jobs in rural America? I haven't found any. Lots of people being laid off out here in the boondocks though. I'm thinking of moving back downstate and take the extra $15-20k/year pay increase and accept losing most of it to housing and transportation.
I turn on the computer. I go to the bathroom. I get up and go get a drink, and when I come back it's ready to use. You can't remove both delays, and you're just hiding one in the other. It's pointless.
Kid, you don't know what waiting is until you've flicked the 3-inch long toggle switch of your 80286-16MHz Workstation to "ON", gone to the bathroom, gotten your coffee, talked to a few people in the break room, returned to your desk, and waited another few minutes for your application to finish loading before you could get any work done.
Like those eeeeevil parts in the SpongeBob movie (no joke! see http://www.clearplay.com/Releases.aspx
Apparently SpongeBob is polluting the mind of my nephew...
Thematic Elements and Related Content in Movie: Revealing Clothing Threatening Dialogue Comical Fighting/Action Non-Graphic Injury/Wound Bar/Club Environment
You get that just by flicking through the commercials on TV.
If EVERYONE has a computer in their car to help them avoid traffic jams, then it would be absolutely pointless.
Not at all. If someone wrote a vir...er, "program enhancement" that could be propagated into the aforementioned computers, I could easily make it home in time for dinner more often.
"My father just bought a five-acre farm with multiple buildings. I am looking for a way to set up a WLAN that covers the entire property.
Do you mean just around the buildings, or everywhere on the property? If it's the latter, use a handful of cheap WAPs and high tech Pringles can antennae on the out-buildings, pointed at the external antenna on the home.
Do Slashdot readers know how to provide wireless access for more than one house without blanketing the entire neighborhood (hopefully for a reasonable price)? Are there single, high-powered routers that will do the job?"
People are going to be able to snoop your RF communications if they want to. If you're worried about that, bury copper or fiber to the buildings. Otherwise, could I perhaps interest you in experimenting with laser communications? On the cheap? Now where did I stash those Laser Tag toys...
AS far as perfecting it, if I were a retailer, I'd rather have it get an extra 99 people out of a thousand who were innocent but also get the one person who was actually stealing something than not go off.
Yes, it's that mentality that encourages people to buy car alarms that go off all hours of the night because a loud truck drives by, or a rainstorm sets it off. Better to inconvenience/alienate/embarrass customers, rather than pay for a decent system, right?
Media Play, one of my least favorite stores for regularly priced merchandise (great clearance prices), has one of those lousy theft alarm systems that go off all the time. The staff don't care, rarely bothering to look up when it goes off. I saw a young hoodlum obviously pocketing XBox games and mentioned it to one of the drones at the service desk. No interest. The kid didn't set off the alarm, he had a nice, lined pouch in his coat... quite popular among thieves at the mall. Maybe we should all have foil-lined bags to put our purchases (or thefts) in before we leave the store...
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whatever happend to the good old days when an IBM model M was all you needed :)
Whaddaya mean "good old days"? That's what's on my desk, now. I've got two more in storage in their original packaging for when this one gives out (14 years and counting). Hopefully, the PS/2 style connector won't be abandoned on motherboards in the next 30 years...
I can't count how many times that 'helpful' bots have gotten stuck around corners, forcing a console reboot.
Still having those Daikatana flashbacks, eh?
Not at all. By "treatment" I meant the necessity of untold numbers of fans having to spend untold amounts of time and dollars to get the show a proper ending.
Yes, well, don't be so sure. Jolene Blalock (T'Pol) called the series finale appalling. Being that it was written by Brannon & Braga, I'm sure it will at least live up to my expectations, if not exceed them. Yes, I'll Tivo it anyway.
Creative made sure it wasn't a general hardware API.
Uh... you're going to have to explain this one.
Weird... GLIDE was 3DFX's proprietary API. All I can think of is that Creative made a GLIDE wrapper for their TNT2 cards. It was bad. Very bad.
I really hope not, that is a hiddeous name.
Let's see... Elijah Wood (Frodo).
Hmm, Xbox 360... Xbox - fairly obvious.
360 - relating to degrees, a circle, a ring! The Precious?
Wait, would that make Bill Gates Sauron or Gollum?
Don't be fooled, airplane junkies won't be using this kind of laptop, they'll want something ultra compact with a long battery life.
I agree. I'd love to have this 19" LCD laptop for days I want to work outside on the patio (with appropriate shade). However, when I'm commuting on the train, nothing has served me better than my Thinkpad 701C ("butterfly" keyboard, bright LCD, long battery life, footprint of a sheet of paper when closed). Sadly, it died, and the two that came after it sucked.
South Florida Airport. You will never find a more wretched hive of spammers and villainy-- we must be cautious.
The million dollars might be better spent getting ATi to open up one or two of their high-end 3D cards?
Or hire some talented engineers to reverse engineer ATI's cards/drivers?
Yet you seem to have no problem with Guild Wars. What powers the SPELLS in GW, hmm?
Could it be... SATAN?!?
you're just making your religion look like it's populated by narrow-minded superstitious zealots like yourself.
Well, isn't that special?
Actually, a rather smart fellow by the name of Einstein theorized that time travel was indeed possible.
Want to travel in time? Hop into your spaceship, head out for a leisurely cruise at or near the speed of light. Turn around after six months and return to Earth. You've aged a year, but quite a few more than that have passed on Earth.
Want to go backwards in time? I leave that as an exercise to the reader. Hint: think black holes.
They are convinced the ratings dropped due to the show competing against other Trek re-runs.
So, they admit that the new show isn't as good as the shows produced between 4 and 40 years ago? We don't need a rest, we need new blood! Or we need another Babylon 5 to scare the crap out of Berman and Braga, which really improved DS9.
It's dark, you're travelling on a dangerous road known for ambushes. You can't see the huddled shapes lurking in the darkness behind their vehicles. Suddenly a floodlight paints your vehicle. You can't see anything but the floodlight and shots are fired. American checkpoint or insurgent ambush? Decide quickly, because you'll be killed if you stop and it's insurgents, and you be killed if you don't stop immediately and it's the Americans.
American checkpoints in Iraq are not well-lit traffic-coned "approach the gate and the waving officer slowly" affairs. They block the road at the best place to kill oncomers and hide behind their barriers. It's often the worst place for approaching vehicles to see the roadblock until you're on top of it. By then, they start firing "warning shots" in the general direction of (if not into) your vehicle. It doesn't always play out like that, but dozens of dead Iraqi families can't be wrong...
First, shred the documents, preferably with a cross-cut or confetti-cut shredder. Second, secure the shredded documents in a burn bag and ignite. If you don't have a burn bag, construct a wire mesh container (with small holes, but sufficient gauge to not melt) to keep the burning bits of paper from floating away. Liberally spray with lighter fluid and place over an open fire.
Optionally, "wash" the shredded documents in a spin washer before burning. Ensure that the basin can be thoroughly cleaned out and that no scrap of document can be lost by draining.
I've never seen the appeal in using a stack to keep track of directories as I've rarely needed to go A, B, C, D, C, B, A in my navigation.
Most prompts that show you pwd do it with backticks or something, afaik.
Yes, I'm using backqoutes in my example.
I dunno if you can have both at the same time...
alias setprompt 'set prompt="\\
`pwd`\\
`hostname`# "'
alias cd 'chdir \!* && setprompt'
setprompt
Actually, they were "shut down" over this. Well, they crumbled under a C&D to pull the strip, anyway.
Most of it? More like all of it, plus.
Well, I live in a "trendy" condo. It's no brownstone walk-up, and there's almost no culture within 50 miles, but I couldn't afford this level of living downstate. It'd be back to a 2BR flat and a half hour train ride. Still, living out here, you gotta ask yourself if the pay cut and a much smaller job market, that gets tighter every time a few hundred tech workers gets laid off, is worth it.
SF = big city = high cost of living + California = even higher cost of living. If you were making 38k in a more rural area, you could live quite comfortably.
Indeed, you are correct about the high cost of living in California and other metro areas. Pray tell, where are these plum jobs in rural America? I haven't found any. Lots of people being laid off out here in the boondocks though. I'm thinking of moving back downstate and take the extra $15-20k/year pay increase and accept losing most of it to housing and transportation.
I turn on the computer. I go to the bathroom. I get up and go get a drink, and when I come back it's ready to use. You can't remove both delays, and you're just hiding one in the other. It's pointless.
Kid, you don't know what waiting is until you've flicked the 3-inch long toggle switch of your 80286-16MHz Workstation to "ON", gone to the bathroom, gotten your coffee, talked to a few people in the break room, returned to your desk, and waited another few minutes for your application to finish loading before you could get any work done.
Like those eeeeevil parts in the SpongeBob movie (no joke! see http://www.clearplay.com/Releases.aspx
Apparently SpongeBob is polluting the mind of my nephew...
Thematic Elements and Related Content in Movie:
Revealing Clothing
Threatening Dialogue
Comical Fighting/Action
Non-Graphic Injury/Wound
Bar/Club Environment
You get that just by flicking through the commercials on TV.
What's OS/2? Like, half an operating system or something? :P
Careful with that joke, it's an antique.
If EVERYONE has a computer in their car to help them avoid traffic jams, then it would be absolutely pointless.
Not at all. If someone wrote a vir...er, "program enhancement" that could be propagated into the aforementioned computers, I could easily make it home in time for dinner more often.
"My father just bought a five-acre farm with multiple buildings. I am looking for a way to set up a WLAN that covers the entire property.
Do you mean just around the buildings, or everywhere on the property? If it's the latter, use a handful of cheap WAPs and high tech Pringles can antennae on the out-buildings, pointed at the external antenna on the home.
Do Slashdot readers know how to provide wireless access for more than one house without blanketing the entire neighborhood (hopefully for a reasonable price)? Are there single, high-powered routers that will do the job?"
People are going to be able to snoop your RF communications if they want to. If you're worried about that, bury copper or fiber to the buildings. Otherwise, could I perhaps interest you in experimenting with laser communications? On the cheap? Now where did I stash those Laser Tag toys...
Wetsuit.
Drysuit
AS far as perfecting it, if I were a retailer, I'd rather have it get an extra 99 people out of a thousand who were innocent but also get the one person who was actually stealing something than not go off.
Yes, it's that mentality that encourages people to buy car alarms that go off all hours of the night because a loud truck drives by, or a rainstorm sets it off. Better to inconvenience/alienate/embarrass customers, rather than pay for a decent system, right?
Media Play, one of my least favorite stores for regularly priced merchandise (great clearance prices), has one of those lousy theft alarm systems that go off all the time. The staff don't care, rarely bothering to look up when it goes off. I saw a young hoodlum obviously pocketing XBox games and mentioned it to one of the drones at the service desk. No interest. The kid didn't set off the alarm, he had a nice, lined pouch in his coat... quite popular among thieves at the mall. Maybe we should all have foil-lined bags to put our purchases (or thefts) in before we leave the store...