I did that over the weekend at Sears, attempting to buy some tools. They wanted my phone number, and I said "I dont want to give that out" The cashier blanked, paused, and had to call over a supervisor. She mumbled something to the supervisor, who poked at the screen for a bit, and said to her "OK, all set", then to me "Whats your phone number" I said, again, that I dont want to give it out. Supervisor paused, looked at me, and said "We need your phone number" I said "not for a cash transaction you dont". She reiterated she did, so I said "thanks anyway", turned around and walked away, leaving $70 some odd worth of tools on the counter.
Im trying to get my framerate up to where I can even play games. Ive got Win2k, a Radeon 9600, 1.2 processor, gig of ram. I cant even get 5fps out of my box, and have no clue what is causing it. Are there utilities around showing what drivers are loaded yet unneeded? HELP!
Is any of this getting press in the media, besides these odd articles at non-mainstream news sites? Or investiment news sites? I can't imagine all this SCO news exists in a vacumn.
I *STILL* get goosebumps when I hear the audio from the decent. In school, they rolled these huge TVs into the room every time there was a NASA feed, every launch, landing, whatever was televised, we saw it. Very cool to a 4th grader.
Interesing idea. Im not sure how embedded device programming is now, but when I was doing it (late 80's, early 90's), we were constantly tweaking the code to get the last few bytes of memory down. Anything that stuck in a virus-like amount of code would have been immediately noticed from the code size, and instrucion set. Though, now, Im willing to believe that nobody really knows how big their stuff should compile down to, so stuff like this could pass unnoticed.
Last fall, I sent over 2 dozen old 486 boxes (had grandiose plans for a renderfarm a few years ago) up to a recycling place in NH. They took them for free. The rest of my crap goes into the electronics bin at the dump.
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I did that over the weekend at Sears, attempting to buy some tools. They wanted my phone number, and I said "I dont want to give that out" The cashier blanked, paused, and had to call over a supervisor. She mumbled something to the supervisor, who poked at the screen for a bit, and said to her "OK, all set", then to me "Whats your phone number" I said, again, that I dont want to give it out. Supervisor paused, looked at me, and said "We need your phone number" I said "not for a cash transaction you dont". She reiterated she did, so I said "thanks anyway", turned around and walked away, leaving $70 some odd worth of tools on the counter.
Q-Link. I still have the Q-Link coffee mug I bought years ago. Gets a lot of "Whats QLink" questions.
Anyone remember PC Pursuit? The dial-in/dial-out service from Sprint(?)
Cool, thanks. Now all I need is a list of MPAA movies. Time to vacumn IMDB
The basis of law in the US is innocent until proven guilty. They have to prove that you had the file available.
Got this script handy?
One handed keyboards be damned, I want a one-handed mouse so I can surf my, er, financial data one handed.
What? Oh, nevermind.
The Blue Sky of Death!
But really, this is very cool. UAV's are neat, and this is a cool use of mostly off-the shelf tech.
All these youngins messin' up the place.
[gets his walker]
Yea, Im contemplating changing from 2k, I think Il have to dual boot with either XP or 98.
Even when I have everything turned down, and running 800x600 8 bit color, bzflag barely gives me 8fps. VERY unplayable..
Time to dual boot I guess...
Im trying to get my framerate up to where I can even play games. Ive got Win2k, a Radeon 9600, 1.2 processor, gig of ram. I cant even get 5fps out of my box, and have no clue what is causing it. Are there utilities around showing what drivers are loaded yet unneeded? HELP!
I guess they'll just put a timing light on my, er, finger, and check my RPM.
So, Microsoft is gonna surrender to Linux? Hooray!
but only in Kenya.
Its war? Guess so, cause google.fr just surrendered...
You, bring me the Wall St Journal! (I want to check SCO quotes)
...and a fine chianti.
Is any of this getting press in the media, besides these odd articles at non-mainstream news sites? Or investiment news sites? I can't imagine all this SCO news exists in a vacumn.
News sites that make you log in make baby Jesus cry...
Now THATS funny. [golf clap]
I *STILL* get goosebumps when I hear the audio from the decent. In school, they rolled these huge TVs into the room every time there was a NASA feed, every launch, landing, whatever was televised, we saw it. Very cool to a 4th grader.
Ive been trying to dig for the info, but I cant find it. I remember it was in Hudson, NH, but so far, I havent been able to google it up.
Interesing idea. Im not sure how embedded device programming is now, but when I was doing it (late 80's, early 90's), we were constantly tweaking the code to get the last few bytes of memory down. Anything that stuck in a virus-like amount of code would have been immediately noticed from the code size, and instrucion set. Though, now, Im willing to believe that nobody really knows how big their stuff should compile down to, so stuff like this could pass unnoticed.
Somewhat akin to killing the patient, and starting over with a new baby.
Last fall, I sent over 2 dozen old 486 boxes (had grandiose plans for a renderfarm a few years ago) up to a recycling place in NH. They took them for free. The rest of my crap goes into the electronics bin at the dump.
how about "for all intents and purposes" instead, Chuck?
(double checks his post for mistakes)