I upgraded on a trash-80, with the 'approved' method of piggy-back soldering multiple ram chips. I forget the size, but it was something in the order of 4k to a thundering 16k. Try doing that with a SMD
If you can't have a fast system with 512 MB of RAM you are doing something wrong.
More than that, if you can't have a fast system where the footprint of operating system, virus checker, and all the other stuff that runs in the background will be happy with 512 MB[1], there's something wrong.
[1] admission, I typed 512k here before re-reading it. I wish!
I would have guessed the USSR, not current figures, but when Stalin was in power. Or possibly China and its 'reeducation' centres. Someone else can google, I'm leaving for the day.
His audience is people who *buy* his books, not those who copy[1] them.
[1] I don't feel like using loaded words like pirate, steal etc, and derail into a wanky discussion about those words being wrong. Copy is a reasonable description.
For a long time, Microsoft has been calling.NET "managed code", and C++ "unmanaged code", everywhere, emphasizing the benefits of "managed". Now, it's not "unmanaged" anymore - it's "native".
C++/Win32 is back, baby!.NET isn't going away, of course, but it's no longer "my way or the highway" anymore.
Managed vs Unmanaged... Managed is *always* going to sound better to the PHBs. Native just sounds better.
Make the Redmontonians uncomfortable, and ask them when they are implementing Office or Visual Studio in.Net
It's fairly obvious that "obscenity" is nothing more than a tool to justify censorship. The concept of banning obscene material really has the same exact purpose that banning "uncomfortable" material has.
Google "Henson + art + censorship" sometime. Confected outrage gone mad.
While gamers (of adult age) have by and large won the right to this entertainment
Does anyone read To Kill a Mockingbird or Scarlet Letter for entertainment? Hardly. People read these books to explore the human condition and take a hard look at where society fails the individual.
Not those books, I recall reading them at school, and disliking them eventually. Why? Because I finished reading them the day I got them, and was then forced to wait weeks for the next book. Teachers got pissed if I read my own stuff. But I still read a lot of books, adult or otherwise today, for relaxation after a day's work. Juvenile self indulgence? Maybe so. I'm not after exloring the human condition.
Does anyone play an "adult" videogame to explore the human condition. Heck no. It's all about juvenille self-indulgence. Real adults are far past that stage and have no real desire to subject themselves to unsavory sights and sounds.
We've covered it before on Columbine to Fallujah, but I noticed through GamePolitics recently a large trend in severely controversial video games.
The funny part is that the Fallujah game is the type of controversial topic that can use video games for exploring the human condition. Which is exactly why it's blocked while *cough*"adult entertainment"*cough* runs rampant. No one really wants to take a hard look at the unpleasentries that need to change. Books like Mockingbird were once burned for their controversal nature. Let's see if someone has the guts to watch a few of their DVDs burn.
Do you mean their as in the authors of the DVDs, or the owners^H licensees of the DVDs? If the latter, I've dropped a few DVDs through a shredder. Some games I keep playing. WoW still has its claws in me.
Yes, but it isn't going to be obviously malicious to a dumb user, or even a smart user who sits down at a dumb user's computer and isn't having a good day. If you see a file that is called minutes (it won't have any extension supplied, and it will have a faked icon that will make it appear to be a word document) then blaming a user for double-clicking it isn't what you should be saying.
Please, Microsoft, have a setting that allows for examining the magic number as a default, instead of relying on the extension. Also, start using Windows File streams for something useful, like maybe storing the application used to create the document. Hmmm, seems like another well known company does that.
Maybe the Austrailian authorities should import something like a giant Cane Toad to eat all the spiders? What could be the harm in that? Oh wait... they already tried that. Maybe the spiders will eat the cane toads...
Cane toads are the spiders hallucinogen of choice.
I'll let you in on a little secret - Dusky "Crab" Cakes are really made from spider legs! I know it's a bit disgusting, but the cakes have a nice, tangy flavor and make great snacks! Bring me Gooey Spider Legs and I'll whip you up a few of them.
I have seen wolf spiders with my own eyes. And with spread legs, they easily fill a large dinner plate. Which is way over those 10 cm. More like 18 cm.
Tasty. What do you normally serve with them? And do you roast them or fry them?
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I upgraded on a trash-80, with the 'approved' method of piggy-back soldering multiple ram chips. I forget the size, but it was something in the order of 4k to a thundering 16k. Try doing that with a SMD
I must be doing this whole google thing wrong then. When I use google, I do it for the search results. I rarely look a the ads that pop up...
Oh you should glance at them, for the occasional humour between your search and the adsense, or your email, and the adsense.
If you can't have a fast system with 512 MB of RAM you are doing something wrong.
More than that, if you can't have a fast system where the footprint of operating system, virus checker, and all the other stuff that runs in the background will be happy with 512 MB[1], there's something wrong.
[1] admission, I typed 512k here before re-reading it. I wish!
So, essentially, to increase my security (after all, that's what this is about, riiiiiiight?) I should install spyware?
Right. It can go on my sandbox.
I would have guessed the USSR, not current figures, but when Stalin was in power. Or possibly China and its 'reeducation' centres. Someone else can google, I'm leaving for the day.
His audience is people who *buy* his books, not those who copy[1] them.
[1] I don't feel like using loaded words like pirate, steal etc, and derail into a wanky discussion about those words being wrong. Copy is a reasonable description.
To be inserted at birth.
/cry.
I guess if I don't like the answer, I shouldn't have asked the question.
Sure, after all, we synchronise our raids to Blizzard's restart times, and they repopulate the trash. (some of it)
For a long time, Microsoft has been calling .NET "managed code", and C++ "unmanaged code", everywhere, emphasizing the benefits of "managed". Now, it's not "unmanaged" anymore - it's "native".
C++/Win32 is back, baby! .NET isn't going away, of course, but it's no longer "my way or the highway" anymore.
Managed vs Unmanaged... Managed is *always* going to sound better to the PHBs. Native just sounds better.
Make the Redmontonians uncomfortable, and ask them when they are implementing Office or Visual Studio in .Net
Time to drink a coffee whilst machine boots.
It's fairly obvious that "obscenity" is nothing more than a tool to justify censorship. The concept of banning obscene material really has the same exact purpose that banning "uncomfortable" material has.
Google "Henson + art + censorship" sometime. Confected outrage gone mad.
I am about to become very unpopular...
So do people only post here to become popular?
Does anyone read To Kill a Mockingbird or Scarlet Letter for entertainment? Hardly. People read these books to explore the human condition and take a hard look at where society fails the individual.
Not those books, I recall reading them at school, and disliking them eventually. Why? Because I finished reading them the day I got them, and was then forced to wait weeks for the next book. Teachers got pissed if I read my own stuff. But I still read a lot of books, adult or otherwise today, for relaxation after a day's work. Juvenile self indulgence? Maybe so. I'm not after exloring the human condition.
Does anyone play an "adult" videogame to explore the human condition. Heck no. It's all about juvenille self-indulgence. Real adults are far past that stage and have no real desire to subject themselves to unsavory sights and sounds.
The funny part is that the Fallujah game is the type of controversial topic that can use video games for exploring the human condition. Which is exactly why it's blocked while *cough*"adult entertainment"*cough* runs rampant. No one really wants to take a hard look at the unpleasentries that need to change. Books like Mockingbird were once burned for their controversal nature. Let's see if someone has the guts to watch a few of their DVDs burn.
Do you mean their as in the authors of the DVDs, or the owners^H licensees of the DVDs? If the latter, I've dropped a few DVDs through a shredder. Some games I keep playing. WoW still has its claws in me.
Ok mods. I've said my piece. Backlash time.
Backlash? You got Insightful, so far.
It's forced its own standards onto the web by being free, and leveraged a number of unfree products.
It could be, if you were really bad at windsurfing, be a voluntary form of it.
Office? Door? What a curious world you do live in.
Glenlivet! That's going to keep me happy. ANyone who *wants* Johnny Walker, give them the generic, they'll never know.
DOes it destroy them, or are they just hidden as your old user name?
But Mac didn't implement this by simply hiding the extension. THey implemented it properly. Which I which Microsoft would do.
Or...do most people just put everything in My Documents?
You can alter that to point to other locations. I've found it works *much* faster pointing it to a ramdrive :^)
Yes, but it isn't going to be obviously malicious to a dumb user, or even a smart user who sits down at a dumb user's computer and isn't having a good day. If you see a file that is called minutes (it won't have any extension supplied, and it will have a faked icon that will make it appear to be a word document) then blaming a user for double-clicking it isn't what you should be saying.
Please, Microsoft, have a setting that allows for examining the magic number as a default, instead of relying on the extension. Also, start using Windows File streams for something useful, like maybe storing the application used to create the document. Hmmm, seems like another well known company does that.
Maybe the Austrailian authorities should import something like a giant Cane Toad to eat all the spiders? What could be the harm in that? Oh wait... they already tried that. Maybe the spiders will eat the cane toads...
Cane toads are the spiders hallucinogen of choice.
You play Warcraft, right?
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=93
I'll let you in on a little secret - Dusky "Crab" Cakes are really made from spider legs! I know it's a bit disgusting, but the cakes have a nice, tangy flavor and make great snacks! Bring me Gooey Spider Legs and I'll whip you up a few of them.
I have seen wolf spiders with my own eyes. And with spread legs, they easily fill a large dinner plate. Which is way over those 10 cm. More like 18 cm.
Tasty. What do you normally serve with them? And do you roast them or fry them?