I've got a 30-pin SIMM on my keys too. i'm not sure what the capacity on it is, though. Mine's only got 2 ram chips on it, and most i see lying around computer classrooms at school have8 in them. it's different.
What's wrong with just letting people save money on their own for their retirement? I say we end Social Security and let people plan for themselves.
You're forgetting that many Americans aren't capable of budgetting their paychecks to pay the bills on time, let alone plan for (years until retirement) years down the road, when they will need the money even more than they do right now. But yeah, I agree that if Social Security keeps getting leeched for other purposes, it needs to be shitcanned and the government needs to find a new way to pay for multi-million dollar dinners and other wastes like that.
I had a NES when I was 2 or 3. I started playing Gorillas(QBASIC game) and Lemmings when i was 4-6, i think. I didn't immediatly grasp that I could change gorillas then. It took until about 2nd or 3rd grade for me to learn just a wee bit of programming. I'm not sure what the best way to get into programming would be, though. I restarted programming on a TI-73 graphing calculator in 7th grade. It's pretty good for starting out on. If you go that route, go for a TI-83/84 silver edition. Same basic thing, but more functionality, esp. for math.
this one wouldn't boot at all, off AC, different main battery, different CMOS battery, anything. So now I have a bunch of old laptop parts, including a 800x600 screen and a parallel port floppy drive.
My mom's old Sony VAIO laptop did this a couple of years ago. I don't remember the exact details, but the power controller is very broken in it. It can't boot to anything, although the other components appear to be usable. It was about 4 years old when it broke, though.
Sounds like a plan. Plus it might help no child left behind by tracking people who go to religious private schools. After all, we need to keep track of our children!
This is the version that's been shipping on new machines and sitting on store shelves for half a year now.
SP2 came out in August, so it's only been around about 3 months. It wasn't the service pack on new CDs for a while after that. My friend did some playtesting for MS about a month after SP2 launched, and got a brand-new copy of XP pro. We had to slipstream a SP2 cd to install windows onto a new hard drive with a athlon64, since the authentic WinXP cd he just got and my sp1 cd wouldn't complete an install. The majority of WinXP users have only had SP2 for a month or two, leaving plenty of time to be zombified.
My friend has a different last name than his mom, but for the most part no one cares, and passes it through. The only time we had to go get cash at a ATM instead of using it was one time at Jack in the Box. Even at PC club when we went to go get a Athlon 64 and MB, he had no problems using his mom's debit card. It really doesn't seem to matter very much.
I've seen these at the mall, supersales in exibition halls, and swap meets. I never liked them much, not because they were pirated, but becuase they felt like cheap PoS.
If you build it yourself, you can build a respectable gaming PC for about a thousand bucks. Granted, this won't all be bleeding edge, but it will be more than capable of playing the newest games at a decent framerate and detail settings.
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I've got a 30-pin SIMM on my keys too. i'm not sure what the capacity on it is, though. Mine's only got 2 ram chips on it, and most i see lying around computer classrooms at school have8 in them. it's different.
except when the government doesn't replace what they take from the forced savings.
What's wrong with just letting people save money on their own for their retirement? I say we end Social Security and let people plan for themselves. You're forgetting that many Americans aren't capable of budgetting their paychecks to pay the bills on time, let alone plan for (years until retirement) years down the road, when they will need the money even more than they do right now. But yeah, I agree that if Social Security keeps getting leeched for other purposes, it needs to be shitcanned and the government needs to find a new way to pay for multi-million dollar dinners and other wastes like that.
I had a NES when I was 2 or 3. I started playing Gorillas(QBASIC game) and Lemmings when i was 4-6, i think. I didn't immediatly grasp that I could change gorillas then. It took until about 2nd or 3rd grade for me to learn just a wee bit of programming. I'm not sure what the best way to get into programming would be, though. I restarted programming on a TI-73 graphing calculator in 7th grade. It's pretty good for starting out on. If you go that route, go for a TI-83/84 silver edition. Same basic thing, but more functionality, esp. for math.
*prepares for more Republican complaints* They just can't accept defeat gracefully, huh?
Maybe I should give my friend his GTA2 CD back now. It's only been a year or two since I grabbed it.
*prays republican party headquarters in WA gets lava'D* They're suing to block the recount. They realized the jig is up.
I like robotics, programming (esp. games), i'm trying to learn Linux, but that's a special case, i think. A cool project we can take home also helps.
I usually drop in the coin change from when I buy something this time of year. Other than that, nothing.
this one wouldn't boot at all, off AC, different main battery, different CMOS battery, anything. So now I have a bunch of old laptop parts, including a 800x600 screen and a parallel port floppy drive.
My mom's old Sony VAIO laptop did this a couple of years ago. I don't remember the exact details, but the power controller is very broken in it. It can't boot to anything, although the other components appear to be usable. It was about 4 years old when it broke, though.
Sounds like a plan. Plus it might help no child left behind by tracking people who go to religious private schools. After all, we need to keep track of our children!
This is the version that's been shipping on new machines and sitting on store shelves for half a year now.
SP2 came out in August, so it's only been around about 3 months. It wasn't the service pack on new CDs for a while after that. My friend did some playtesting for MS about a month after SP2 launched, and got a brand-new copy of XP pro. We had to slipstream a SP2 cd to install windows onto a new hard drive with a athlon64, since the authentic WinXP cd he just got and my sp1 cd wouldn't complete an install. The majority of WinXP users have only had SP2 for a month or two, leaving plenty of time to be zombified.
I've known about it since July 20th.
But, like all early implementations of a new technology, they break down often, and eventually can't be fixed.
damn, i can't get a new board and a second GF4Ti. Time to get a job.
Is the SLI only compatible with the new GeForce 6x00 series or can you use an older GeForce set?
Here's a torrent for doom with better graphics. HL2 is nothing like this.
My friend has a different last name than his mom, but for the most part no one cares, and passes it through. The only time we had to go get cash at a ATM instead of using it was one time at Jack in the Box. Even at PC club when we went to go get a Athlon 64 and MB, he had no problems using his mom's debit card. It really doesn't seem to matter very much.
I've seen these at the mall, supersales in exibition halls, and swap meets. I never liked them much, not because they were pirated, but becuase they felt like cheap PoS.
If you build it yourself, you can build a respectable gaming PC for about a thousand bucks. Granted, this won't all be bleeding edge, but it will be more than capable of playing the newest games at a decent framerate and detail settings.