More acquisitions than mergers, but successful nonetheless:
Google + YouTube (in hindsight a very good one), Facebook + Instagram (1 billion seemed ludicrous at the time. Looks like a bargain now), Google + Android, Microsoft + Skype
You have an R9 290X and you waste it on games? Ever heard of scrypt coin mining (Litecoin, Dogecoin, etc.) ? This card could pay for itself in a few weeks or months mining 24/7.
4. Alien species already visited us and most people didn't notice. (Hints: Pyramids, crop circles, abductions,...)
5. They came, and are living among us, with fake skin hiding their reptilian-like nature.
Here in Quebec, Canada we pay $0.0502 canadian dollars total per kwh for the first 900kwh. Thats around $0.0416 US dollars after conversion. And there are no delivery charges.... Also the utility company is state owned (Hydro Quebec)...
What about using a diesel generator instead of batteries to feed these powerful motors..
Oh wait! it's already been done before, and I think I'm even earing one right now (I live next to a railroad track)... its a... diesel locomotive:(... No that woudn't SOUND very sporty doesn't it?
... an OS could fix this by allowing a process to enter a "secure mode" which would force the other thread on the same CPU to be idle when that process was scheduled.
Wouldn't that "secure mode" then become some sort of DoS attack? What if an arbitrary user process request repeatedly this mode, just as to slow the rest of the system to a crawl? I know there is now perfect solutions though...
...this documents looks like @*#& on Word, it's all your fault, it worked before!!"
OOo can export documents to PDFs. With PDFs, you are sure that everybody will get the document displayed correctly, and you will never get blamed for people screwing up your documents because its a read-only document format:)
I've been to Hotels/Motels that offer FREE Wifi Internet access to customers.. I wonder what the big telcos and ISPs are doing to stop this rampant communism!
I used to work at a PC repair shop. After a while I figured out that the largest part of the work I did was fixing up software issues caused by Windows.
So, would the net effect be more wealth in the economy if Microsoft/Windows never existed?:)
Any "Network-security" minded person would always consider a WiFi network as untrusted (like the Internet). Just run a VPN on top of it...and/or when accessing HTTPS web sites, carefully check the certificates.
Also, WiFi and some AP have terrible security flaws. I own an old D-Link DI-514 802.11b Wireless Router. Because WEP is so bad, they added support for WPA-PSK. The problem is that anybody could try to brute-force password the configuration web utility: Password limited to only 8 chars!) and then, in the menus, the WPA-PSK key is displayed in clear text (no '*'!). Wow! What were they thinking?
Looking at the motherboard spec, it looks like stuff from my older PC (VIA bridge, Radeon, PC133 SDRAM,...) and stuff from an older MAC (G3).
Why not have a decent (and recent) PC or MAC emulate the whole thing? (For almost the same price...)
Maybe just have the G3 PPC on a PCI add-on card inside a PC if CPU emulation performance is an issue...
I hate it when people try to reinvent the wheel twice...
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That's a terrible way to recall an email.
More acquisitions than mergers, but successful nonetheless: Google + YouTube (in hindsight a very good one), Facebook + Instagram (1 billion seemed ludicrous at the time. Looks like a bargain now), Google + Android, Microsoft + Skype
You have an R9 290X and you waste it on games? Ever heard of scrypt coin mining (Litecoin, Dogecoin, etc.) ? This card could pay for itself in a few weeks or months mining 24/7.
4. Alien species already visited us and most people didn't notice. (Hints: Pyramids, crop circles, abductions, ...)
5. They came, and are living among us, with fake skin hiding their reptilian-like nature.
Or maybe alse: In Soviet Russia, Vista powers down YOU!
Here in Quebec, Canada we pay $0.0502 canadian dollars total per kwh for the first 900kwh. Thats around $0.0416 US dollars after conversion. And there are no delivery charges.... Also the utility company is state owned (Hydro Quebec)...
Bring your own keyboard!
Maybe adequate batteries would weight too much ...
What about using a diesel generator instead of batteries to feed these powerful motors..
Oh wait! it's already been done before, and I think I'm even earing one right now (I live next to a railroad track) ... its a ... diesel locomotive :( ... No that woudn't SOUND very sporty doesn't it?
Wouldn't that "secure mode" then become some sort of DoS attack? What if an arbitrary user process request repeatedly this mode, just as to slow the rest of the system to a crawl? I know there is now perfect solutions though...
Have you read an EULA lately? NO software company offer ANY kind of liability as a result of their product misbehaving.
OOo can export documents to PDFs. With PDFs, you are sure that everybody will get the document displayed correctly, and you will never get blamed for people screwing up your documents because its a read-only document format :)
I've been to Hotels/Motels that offer FREE Wifi Internet access to customers .. I wonder what the big telcos and ISPs are doing to stop this rampant communism!
Do a google search for "Broken Window Fallacy"
:)
I used to work at a PC repair shop. After a while I figured out that the largest part of the work I did was fixing up software issues caused by Windows. So, would the net effect be more wealth in the economy if Microsoft/Windows never existed?
Can't access http://www.opensolaris.org Connection times out....
Any "Network-security" minded person would always consider a WiFi network as untrusted (like the Internet).
Just run a VPN on top of it...and/or when accessing HTTPS web sites, carefully check the certificates.
Also, WiFi and some AP have terrible security flaws. I own an old D-Link DI-514 802.11b Wireless Router. Because WEP is so bad, they added support for WPA-PSK. The problem is that anybody could try to brute-force password the configuration web utility: Password limited to only 8 chars!) and then, in the menus, the WPA-PSK key is displayed in clear text (no '*'!). Wow! What were they thinking?
Security is only as strong as the weakest link...
Looking at the motherboard spec, it looks like stuff from my older PC (VIA bridge, Radeon, PC133 SDRAM, ...) and stuff from an older MAC (G3).
Why not have a decent (and recent) PC or MAC emulate the whole thing? (For almost the same price...)
Maybe just have the G3 PPC on a PCI add-on card inside a PC if CPU emulation performance is an issue...
I hate it when people try to reinvent the wheel twice...