"...the Huygens probe didn't run as planned because someone forgot to turn it on...The team lead for the experiment has put eighteen years of his life into the project, just to watch it not happen after a seven year ride to its destination...."
Probably just so they can buy time to advertise/hype while their programmers translate Windows Me into the new XML, and so they can brag about their newfangled "trillion-line-OS".
I have one of those mice, and it's not bad, for presentation type stuff. Also, it does have an optic sensor, so you can still use it like a regular mouse.
Personally, my family uses it for Media Center because I was too lazy to buy a splitter and extra receiver and run them upstairs to the TVs.
Anyone that actually needs a desktop search has entirely too much stuff on their computer, or just can't organize.
I guess if one wanted to search through their masses of pr0n or pirated movies it would be useful, but for the average computer user, it shouldn't be necessary. Most people will probably get it because it's the "new item on the market", and they think just because it's new, it must be better.
I remeber the day our $2000 486 with 48 MB of RAM showed up. One of the first things I remember doing on it was sitting there with my dad (this would have been around 5 or 6) as we took a picture of a spider and zoomed in and out to ridicuous proportions. I was fascinated by the fact that as you got closer, the detail changed (as an obvious result of the resolution, I realize now), and at a certain point, all you could see was a blank blue screen (not Windows' middle finger, for once); in any case, I ended up enthralled by computers.
Eventually, I got my hands on a copy of the DOS manual, and became somewhat of a DOS wizard (for being about 7), and was dismayed to find the absence of QBASIC. I so wanted to program in that skiing program!
Anyway, interest soon shifted to Command & Conquer: Red Alert, and the endless after-school days of 4 pixel bloodshed whist pitted against my best friend over a 14400 modem (he had the glorious 28800 with a second phone line).
By freshman year, my interest in real computing took off, and since I've learned a few real programming languages, but mostly lived off online tutorials of CSS/PHP/SQL...whatever I didn't know yet.
And now, this weekend, I plan on installing a version of Linux (Which should I try first: SUSE or Mandrake? Send your recommendation to adlaiff6@gmail.com--suck it, spambots), and what new wonders could await?
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"...the Huygens probe didn't run as planned because someone forgot to turn it on...The team lead for the experiment has put eighteen years of his life into the project, just to watch it not happen after a seven year ride to its destination...."
...maybe Microsoft will develop a "low-system-resources" OS for servers!
Oh, wait. Dozed off there for a moment.
Probably just so they can buy time to advertise/hype while their programmers translate Windows Me into the new XML, and so they can brag about their newfangled "trillion-line-OS".
...so I can't wait to see their reaction to this.
You can get an external Firewire drive that's faster than an internal.
The current ad banner at the top of this page.
It shows Windows Server 2003 outperforming Red Hat by 273% with 2 processors.
I have one of those mice, and it's not bad, for presentation type stuff. Also, it does have an optic sensor, so you can still use it like a regular mouse.
Personally, my family uses it for Media Center because I was too lazy to buy a splitter and extra receiver and run them upstairs to the TVs.
Anyone that actually needs a desktop search has entirely too much stuff on their computer, or just can't organize.
I guess if one wanted to search through their masses of pr0n or pirated movies it would be useful, but for the average computer user, it shouldn't be necessary. Most people will probably get it because it's the "new item on the market", and they think just because it's new, it must be better.
I was at a LAN at a church and all the admins had shirts with those girls on the back. It made me laugh until I stopped.
Make sure you use Linux if you want them to feel safe.
I remeber the day our $2000 486 with 48 MB of RAM showed up. One of the first things I remember doing on it was sitting there with my dad (this would have been around 5 or 6) as we took a picture of a spider and zoomed in and out to ridicuous proportions. I was fascinated by the fact that as you got closer, the detail changed (as an obvious result of the resolution, I realize now), and at a certain point, all you could see was a blank blue screen (not Windows' middle finger, for once); in any case, I ended up enthralled by computers.
Eventually, I got my hands on a copy of the DOS manual, and became somewhat of a DOS wizard (for being about 7), and was dismayed to find the absence of QBASIC. I so wanted to program in that skiing program!
Anyway, interest soon shifted to Command & Conquer: Red Alert, and the endless after-school days of 4 pixel bloodshed whist pitted against my best friend over a 14400 modem (he had the glorious 28800 with a second phone line).
By freshman year, my interest in real computing took off, and since I've learned a few real programming languages, but mostly lived off online tutorials of CSS/PHP/SQL...whatever I didn't know yet.
And now, this weekend, I plan on installing a version of Linux (Which should I try first: SUSE or Mandrake? Send your recommendation to adlaiff6@gmail.com--suck it, spambots), and what new wonders could await?
Only if they install linux...otherwise, it's just a blessing.
Wow. Infinium Labs sure employs the creme de la creme.... You sure about that, Kev-boy?
The article said it was 15 years old. I guess 16-bit systems are really named for their expiration date.