Realtime diagnostics, now there's an idea. I could collect the data and upload it wirelessly to my desktop for further analysis. Unfortunately for me, I'm not that good of an auto mechanic, nor do I have the kind of equipment you'd really need for larger jobs, computerised diagnostics, and things like that. Besides, I don't like blue collar shirts nor do I like grease on my hands. On top of that, my car's not worthy of having computerised bling like that. It looks more like it belongs in a junkyard instead. Then there's the body damage I've done to it myself in the past few year I've owned it. With the way I drive on the rough terrain around here, I don't think a car computer would take the beating, and I doubt I'd be willing to change my driving habits just so it would survive.;-)
....isn't it just one more distraction to deal with while driving? Maybe I'm just old school, but I think it's nerveracking enough dealing with other drivers as it is. Let alone $2.70 for a gallon of unleaded.:-(
iirc, it wasn't excluded either. I believe it's left ambiguous for a reason, and that's so they can sneak in a piece of backdoor legislation later on while no one's looking. Thet won't give up, so neither must we.
Personally, I just want a case where I don't have to worry about cutting my hand all to hell and gone when I'm working inside of it. Another pet peeve I have is those slot blanks in the back that you have to break off just to insert PCI cards. Last time I put a PC together, I cut my finger so badly that I considered going to the hospital for stitches. Meanwhile, I had blood all over the new motherboard, all over the floor, and clear up to the bathroom where I went and tended to my wound. I'm beginning to wonder if I'll have to spend over $100 these days just so that I don't have to worry about injuring myself.
I think I'll check out the Lian Li in the article once the/. effect dies down. I can't say I'm necessarily willing to go with a high-end enclosure, but I'm definately done with the El Cheapo cases.
Actually, I get fond memories when I think of old computers. If the Apple ][ and the Trash-80 didn't exist when I was waaay back in the first grade and doing stupid BASIC shit on them in school, I probably wouldn't have any interest in computers now.
My neighbors are obnoxious redneck assholes that are either revving their pickup engines at 3am while in a drunken stupor, having their dogs barking at all hours of the night, or blaring their stereo until morning. I don't want to know them. I want to beat the shit out of them. Aww the hell with it. I'm planning to move out of here soon enough anyway. This place really isn't worth wasting hate over.
I'm talking about making sensible choices. Not turning back the fucking clock 5000 years. Think you're going to put your money your mouth is and walk the walk? Nah. Didn't think so.
Yeah but the thing is, some of those idiots are 30+ and still hiding in their parent's basement, shouting out, "KILL ALL N******!!" and that their numbers probably amount to millions. It's also these types of mental muttfucks that give the nation's cops good job security. That's what worries me. I'm still trying to figure out how they can even breed, or maybe they inbreed instead. I bet most of them look like Walmart shopping inbred chickenboners if you actually could see them.;-)
The 7200.8 has excellent desktop performance, a 5 year warranty, and a fair price. You would be a fool not to consider one in your system. I'm getting two. Just do your regular backups or set up a mirror array and don't worry about it. Seagate drives will run forever, from my expirence at least. Just don't expect me to put a Maxtor in my machine or in anyone else's. They're junk. I went through enough of them in a short period of time to avoid them like the plague.
Just remember that one day you won't be flattening anything when shortsighted, closed minded asshats like you use up all the oil with nothing to replace it with. Or do you really think your god is going to come down and bless you all with an endless supply of oil? Fool!
And if you were on a Yahoo! message board, (shudder) you'll get to hear from the right wing retards all about how liberals hate freedom, from the champagne socialists on how neocons are destroying the planet in the name of God and money, and they're always some damn fool's always saying in all caps, (like everybody else) "KILL ALL N******!!" Yep, it's no wonder why the country's all screwed up with all these mental muttfucks running loose in society.:-(
And it's also where I can get a -1 for saying what the majority already knows, but is afraid to say. Crazy! Note that I never said it was his fault, I only said he was an warmongering s.o.b. and I stand by my opinion. Just look at the farce that Congress passed, the piece of crap they call an energy bill. Do I blame the s.o.b. for signing it? No. I blame the idiots that drafted and passed the law. Yeah, let's tear up the Arctic Wilderness for a few extra weeks of oil, and while we're at it, let's extend Daylight Savings Time. Now there's a non-solution that won't touch the problem.:-(
Why not put more r&d money into alternative fuels and get the gas guzzlers off the roads once and for all? What's it going to take? $100 barrels of oil? $200? Will there even be oil left after 50 years? Dubya doesn't realize it, but he can't run his war machines on empty tanks and his so-called faith in God. So much for defending the nation in the future when we'll really need it.
Nevertheless, my apologies to everyone for flying off the handle, but let's face it. I'm growing incresingly impatient and hostile with people that bitch about the high price of gas, yet would rather fill up the tanks in their gas guzzling SUVs and pickups instead of trading them in for a more sensible vehicle. Meanwhile, I have to tighten my belt, make sacrifices, and pay the high price for their selfish gluttony? F*** them! They deserve the blame, too.
Meanwhile, we're gladly filling up the tanks on our SUV's at $2.50+ per gallon, blissfully ignorant of the problems staring us in the face.
I for one have had enough. I'm planning to move back to the city where I can just walk around town to take care of business, instead of having to hop in the car all the time. Alas, it's probably too late to prevent the inevitable, and it looks like most people would rather bury their heads in the sand and ignore the problem anyway. Why should I further contribute to the problem and waste money in the process?
It sure amazes me that some people are still trying to push those crooked Diebold voting machines on the voting public. Those people certainly have no shame at all.
...as evil as the RIAA is for their greed and corruption, and as scummy as Intel is for 'selling out', this author simply sounds way too much like a blowhard, doomsday shill. His ravings are blown so far out of proportion that I really can't take his opinion seriously. Just don't buy the f---ing thing and don't worry about it. I'd rather see the money support the indie stuff anyways.
Once the bootloader kicks in, however, the BIOS is irrelevant
Not Quite.
iirc, DOS makes calls directly to the BIOS for a lot of its functions, but memory management techniques in later versions of DOS + the 80386's capabilities could 'shadow' the BIOS, copying those functions into RAM for faster performance. Later motherboards also added BIOS Shadowing so you don't have to use the HIMEM.SYS driver to speed up BIOS calls. It especially sped up floppy disk I/O among other things. Course now that's mostly been replaced by software drivers so all the BIOS really has to do is perform POST tests and bootstrap the system. All those other archaic BIOS functions, like the floppy drive and DOS itself, are slightly more useful these days than the appendix in your abdomen.
I don't understand people who consider it some sort of God-given right that they be entitled to free analog TV at the expense of things like better emegergency service communications systems, which is one of the things that spectrum is going to be used for once it's available.
Not only that, they could use some of that spectrum for wireless broadband too. Especially when that might be the only real broadband option in many rural areas. (aside from expensive, lagging sattelite broadband.) I say the sooner they phaze it out, the better. They've had plenty of time to prepare for it, and I think it's bullshit to stop progress just because a handful of backwards luddites aren't happy about being phazed out, or because some poor family from Pig Snout, Arkansas sitting on welfare can't afford a set top convertor box.
I remember how outraged I originally felt when it was announced that analog broadcasts would end in 2006, (or was it 2007?) and how I'd have to throw out my TV when the transition would take place.
Now, I live in an area where broadcast TV reception is nigh impossible without some sort of expensive outdoor tower and antenna setup, and I have digital sattelite anyways, so where I stand, that issue is really a nonissue.
As to the eminent domain issue, councils and governments have always had the power to aquire property at market value, nothing new or controversial here.
Eminent domain is supposed to be used to take private property for public uses, like a park, highway, courthouse, and stuff like that to solve the 'Not in my Backyard' problem. It's not for kicking people out of their homes for the purpose of putting up condominiums and country clubs for the rich! I don't have a problem with the former, but I do have a major problem with the latter. How would you feel if you were poor and the city took your property for a pittance and put up condos in it's place? Would you not be royally pissed off at that? Surely I'd be pissed as it is if I was being kicked out, but at least if they put up a park or a highway in it's place, it would improve the city as a whole and I could get some use out of it back. However, if they just take private property simply to kick people out, and then put up condos, then it really becomes nothing more than legalized property theft imo.
Back when I lived in Port Huron, the city used eminent domain to kick out and bulldoze a small neighborhood despite protests and lawsuits from those targetted for removal. Sadly for them, the suits were decided in the city's favor and since the families there had no money to take it further, they had to move. I was thinking at the time that it was sad for them, but at least they would be able to put the land to public use, like a park or something. After all, isn't that what 'eminent domain' is supposed to be for? Nope! These asswipes bulldozed over a neighborhood of poor people just so they can put up fucking condominiums. That's right. They kicked out the poor people purely for the benefit of the rich, and that's all there is to it. However, this didn't happen recently, this happened about 10 years ago iirc. All the Supreme Court did there was to uphold the status quo and let eminent domain abuses continue to run rampant, and the common man gets bent over and reamed again. (sigh)
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Realtime diagnostics, now there's an idea. I could collect the data and upload it wirelessly to my desktop for further analysis. Unfortunately for me, I'm not that good of an auto mechanic, nor do I have the kind of equipment you'd really need for larger jobs, computerised diagnostics, and things like that. Besides, I don't like blue collar shirts nor do I like grease on my hands. On top of that, my car's not worthy of having computerised bling like that. It looks more like it belongs in a junkyard instead. Then there's the body damage I've done to it myself in the past few year I've owned it. With the way I drive on the rough terrain around here, I don't think a car computer would take the beating, and I doubt I'd be willing to change my driving habits just so it would survive. ;-)
....isn't it just one more distraction to deal with while driving? Maybe I'm just old school, but I think it's nerveracking enough dealing with other drivers as it is. Let alone $2.70 for a gallon of unleaded. :-(
iirc, it wasn't excluded either. I believe it's left ambiguous for a reason, and that's so they can sneak in a piece of backdoor legislation later on while no one's looking. Thet won't give up, so neither must we.
I think I'll check out the Lian Li in the article once the /. effect dies down. I can't say I'm necessarily willing to go with a high-end enclosure, but I'm definately done with the El Cheapo cases.
Actually, I get fond memories when I think of old computers. If the Apple ][ and the Trash-80 didn't exist when I was waaay back in the first grade and doing stupid BASIC shit on them in school, I probably wouldn't have any interest in computers now.
My neighbors are obnoxious redneck assholes that are either revving their pickup engines at 3am while in a drunken stupor, having their dogs barking at all hours of the night, or blaring their stereo until morning. I don't want to know them. I want to beat the shit out of them. Aww the hell with it. I'm planning to move out of here soon enough anyway. This place really isn't worth wasting hate over.
I'm talking about making sensible choices. Not turning back the fucking clock 5000 years. Think you're going to put your money your mouth is and walk the walk? Nah. Didn't think so.
Yeah but the thing is, some of those idiots are 30+ and still hiding in their parent's basement, shouting out, "KILL ALL N******!!" and that their numbers probably amount to millions. It's also these types of mental muttfucks that give the nation's cops good job security. That's what worries me. I'm still trying to figure out how they can even breed, or maybe they inbreed instead. I bet most of them look like Walmart shopping inbred chickenboners if you actually could see them. ;-)
The 7200.8 has excellent desktop performance, a 5 year warranty, and a fair price. You would be a fool not to consider one in your system. I'm getting two. Just do your regular backups or set up a mirror array and don't worry about it. Seagate drives will run forever, from my expirence at least. Just don't expect me to put a Maxtor in my machine or in anyone else's. They're junk. I went through enough of them in a short period of time to avoid them like the plague.
It's anybody that benefits from fixing an election.
Just remember that one day you won't be flattening anything when shortsighted, closed minded asshats like you use up all the oil with nothing to replace it with. Or do you really think your god is going to come down and bless you all with an endless supply of oil? Fool!
And if you were on a Yahoo! message board, (shudder) you'll get to hear from the right wing retards all about how liberals hate freedom, from the champagne socialists on how neocons are destroying the planet in the name of God and money, and they're always some damn fool's always saying in all caps, (like everybody else) "KILL ALL N******!!" Yep, it's no wonder why the country's all screwed up with all these mental muttfucks running loose in society. :-(
Why not put more r&d money into alternative fuels and get the gas guzzlers off the roads once and for all? What's it going to take? $100 barrels of oil? $200? Will there even be oil left after 50 years? Dubya doesn't realize it, but he can't run his war machines on empty tanks and his so-called faith in God. So much for defending the nation in the future when we'll really need it.
Nevertheless, my apologies to everyone for flying off the handle, but let's face it. I'm growing incresingly impatient and hostile with people that bitch about the high price of gas, yet would rather fill up the tanks in their gas guzzling SUVs and pickups instead of trading them in for a more sensible vehicle. Meanwhile, I have to tighten my belt, make sacrifices, and pay the high price for their selfish gluttony? F*** them! They deserve the blame, too.
I for one have had enough. I'm planning to move back to the city where I can just walk around town to take care of business, instead of having to hop in the car all the time. Alas, it's probably too late to prevent the inevitable, and it looks like most people would rather bury their heads in the sand and ignore the problem anyway. Why should I further contribute to the problem and waste money in the process?
It sure amazes me that some people are still trying to push those crooked Diebold voting machines on the voting public. Those people certainly have no shame at all.
Don't blame me. I didn't vote for that backwards, warmongering son of a bitch. :-(
Darl? Darl McBride? Is that you?
...as evil as the RIAA is for their greed and corruption, and as scummy as Intel is for 'selling out', this author simply sounds way too much like a blowhard, doomsday shill. His ravings are blown so far out of proportion that I really can't take his opinion seriously. Just don't buy the f---ing thing and don't worry about it. I'd rather see the money support the indie stuff anyways.
iirc, it's at ot past Stage 255
Not Quite.
iirc, DOS makes calls directly to the BIOS for a lot of its functions, but memory management techniques in later versions of DOS + the 80386's capabilities could 'shadow' the BIOS, copying those functions into RAM for faster performance. Later motherboards also added BIOS Shadowing so you don't have to use the HIMEM.SYS driver to speed up BIOS calls. It especially sped up floppy disk I/O among other things. Course now that's mostly been replaced by software drivers so all the BIOS really has to do is perform POST tests and bootstrap the system. All those other archaic BIOS functions, like the floppy drive and DOS itself, are slightly more useful these days than the appendix in your abdomen.
Not only that, they could use some of that spectrum for wireless broadband too. Especially when that might be the only real broadband option in many rural areas. (aside from expensive, lagging sattelite broadband.) I say the sooner they phaze it out, the better. They've had plenty of time to prepare for it, and I think it's bullshit to stop progress just because a handful of backwards luddites aren't happy about being phazed out, or because some poor family from Pig Snout, Arkansas sitting on welfare can't afford a set top convertor box.
Now, I live in an area where broadcast TV reception is nigh impossible without some sort of expensive outdoor tower and antenna setup, and I have digital sattelite anyways, so where I stand, that issue is really a nonissue.
http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/04-480.pd f
Eminent domain is supposed to be used to take private property for public uses, like a park, highway, courthouse, and stuff like that to solve the 'Not in my Backyard' problem. It's not for kicking people out of their homes for the purpose of putting up condominiums and country clubs for the rich! I don't have a problem with the former, but I do have a major problem with the latter. How would you feel if you were poor and the city took your property for a pittance and put up condos in it's place? Would you not be royally pissed off at that? Surely I'd be pissed as it is if I was being kicked out, but at least if they put up a park or a highway in it's place, it would improve the city as a whole and I could get some use out of it back. However, if they just take private property simply to kick people out, and then put up condos, then it really becomes nothing more than legalized property theft imo.
Back when I lived in Port Huron, the city used eminent domain to kick out and bulldoze a small neighborhood despite protests and lawsuits from those targetted for removal. Sadly for them, the suits were decided in the city's favor and since the families there had no money to take it further, they had to move. I was thinking at the time that it was sad for them, but at least they would be able to put the land to public use, like a park or something. After all, isn't that what 'eminent domain' is supposed to be for? Nope! These asswipes bulldozed over a neighborhood of poor people just so they can put up fucking condominiums. That's right. They kicked out the poor people purely for the benefit of the rich, and that's all there is to it. However, this didn't happen recently, this happened about 10 years ago iirc. All the Supreme Court did there was to uphold the status quo and let eminent domain abuses continue to run rampant, and the common man gets bent over and reamed again. (sigh)