Yeah, I hear those Lion batteries require a lot of mametenance. I surprised the Chrysler Prowler isn't Lion powered. Though you can be sure owners of such cars will take a lot of pride in them. They don't call you King of the concrete jungle for nothing!
Are you telling me you have the foresight to see more of these coming? Isn't that blindingly obvious? I wish I had that kind of vision. I have yet to see an invisibility device myself, FWIW.
Yes, but they're selling this as an unlimited connection, not a 5 GB/mn connection. BIG difference. Reasonable use of an unlimited connection is more than 5 GB, especially considering the rates they charge.
You're still not entirely safe, however: it could be possible to construct a buffer overflow in the mount/filesystem detection process. Granted, the chances of that are greatly lower than autorun naughtiness.
Exactly. I once considered going completely wireless for internet, until I saw the ridiculously small bandwidth limits the "unlimited" accounts offered.
So that's a DVD install of your favourite distro, some web browsing, a couple youtubes, and you're over the limit. Though Verizon has never been known as generous.
I used AppleWorks in 128 KB of RAM for years without issue... though if you wanted a lot of documents open, yeah, it could have used more. Though when a disk could only hold 140KB of data, it wasn't that bad.
Having used AppleWorks and Lotus 123 on the Apple II series, I can say, hands down, that AppleWorks blew Lotus out of the water. Not only was it the fastest word processor, but its spreadsheet/database function was far faster than Lotus 123's. Using Lotus 123 was also frustrating because the UI was very sluggish. AppleWorks was probably the snappiest application I ever used on the Apple II series (yes, snappy, on a 1 MHz machine!). Beyond brand name, I can't think of a single reason why someone would have wanted Lotus 123 over AppleWorks.
No, it makes no sense in Canada, because the length of the day is so variable. In the middle winter, where I live, the sun rises approximately 9 am MST and falls about 4:30 pm (the offset is because I live on the western edge of Mountain time). In the middle of summer, the sun is up from about 2:30 am to 11:00 pm, MDT, with twilight adding another two hours of light to those figures. Dayling Saving Time makes sense for approximately two months of the year, if you're a late riser: April and September. Other than that, it's pretty much useless. You're up the entire day during the winter, and sleep way more than the entire night in the summer.
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It's people like you that killed Wang.
Yeah, I hear those Lion batteries require a lot of mametenance. I surprised the Chrysler Prowler isn't Lion powered. Though you can be sure owners of such cars will take a lot of pride in them. They don't call you King of the concrete jungle for nothing!
Interesting. I thought the pencil was only five hundred years old.
Haven't upgraded to notebooks yet?
I did in '03, but then I lost my pencil.
Desktop programming is so nineties. I'm a laptop programmer!
Certainly better than that slink-y I had in the late '90s.
Are you telling me you have the foresight to see more of these coming? Isn't that blindingly obvious? I wish I had that kind of vision. I have yet to see an invisibility device myself, FWIW.
Yes, but they're selling this as an unlimited connection, not a 5 GB/mn connection. BIG difference. Reasonable use of an unlimited connection is more than 5 GB, especially considering the rates they charge.
You're still not entirely safe, however: it could be possible to construct a buffer overflow in the mount/filesystem detection process. Granted, the chances of that are greatly lower than autorun naughtiness.
Exactly. I once considered going completely wireless for internet, until I saw the ridiculously small bandwidth limits the "unlimited" accounts offered.
Flinging chairs on the other hand, is totally acceptable.
A +1 funny moderation doesn't give karma. Any other +1 mod does.
Looks like monkey bazorg is tickled pink with the news!
So that's a DVD install of your favourite distro, some web browsing, a couple youtubes, and you're over the limit. Though Verizon has never been known as generous.
That was a real boner of a joke.
I'm a fan of Blunt BASIC.
I think they're dying out because of a lack of wild monkey sex.
Ahh, I was thinking of SuperCalc. My bad.
I used AppleWorks in 128 KB of RAM for years without issue... though if you wanted a lot of documents open, yeah, it could have used more. Though when a disk could only hold 140KB of data, it wasn't that bad.
Having used AppleWorks and Lotus 123 on the Apple II series, I can say, hands down, that AppleWorks blew Lotus out of the water. Not only was it the fastest word processor, but its spreadsheet/database function was far faster than Lotus 123's. Using Lotus 123 was also frustrating because the UI was very sluggish. AppleWorks was probably the snappiest application I ever used on the Apple II series (yes, snappy, on a 1 MHz machine!). Beyond brand name, I can't think of a single reason why someone would have wanted Lotus 123 over AppleWorks.
Can we call this one a dead horse and move on?
Nei-ei-ei-eigh!
"first parallel post"
On that note, you might consider changing the J in your signature to the lowercase variant.
No, it makes no sense in Canada, because the length of the day is so variable. In the middle winter, where I live, the sun rises approximately 9 am MST and falls about 4:30 pm (the offset is because I live on the western edge of Mountain time). In the middle of summer, the sun is up from about 2:30 am to 11:00 pm, MDT, with twilight adding another two hours of light to those figures. Dayling Saving Time makes sense for approximately two months of the year, if you're a late riser: April and September. Other than that, it's pretty much useless. You're up the entire day during the winter, and sleep way more than the entire night in the summer.
I'm all for abolishing DST completely.