I find that's not at all true on gmail. I give my email out all the time. It's urza9814@gmail.com. I still get about one spam message a week, if that. And in the...oh wow, getting on 2 years? I didn't think it'd been that long...but anyways, in all that time, I've had one email misclassified as spam. Well, that I know of. lol.
Yea, except you can generally save around $50 by overclocking. That's why I do it. I can pretty much get processors for half the price of what they would be at the speed I'm running 'em. (Yes, I'm using $50 processors. What can I say, I'm on a budget.)
We don't have a democracy. Votes are worth exactly nothing. The majority of the people voted _against_ Bush in the last election, but he's still our president. Your votes are technically (and occasionally actually) worthless.
My grandfather bought a TV...probably in the '60s or '70s. It had a lifetime guarantee on the picture tube, which was a big deal back then, because those were usually only good for a few years. Well, he kept it until a couple years ago, simply because he wanted to see what would happen if he tried to take it back to have the picture tube replaced 30+ years later. It never did break. In fact, it worked better than any of the TVs in my house, none of which are more than 5 years old. Of course, it probably also was quite a bit more expensive at the time, but for that kind of work, it would be well worth the price.
I've run Sim City 2000 fine on a 600Mhz with 256MB of RAM....these things have 433MHz with 256MB RAM...it may work. I can't seem to find the system requirements for Sim City 2000, but it does say it'll run on Windows 95...and there are Game Boy Advance and Pocket PC versions, and the Game Boy Advance has a whopping 17Mhz of processing power...so I'm sure they could get it running in some form.
He donated the ORIGINAL SimCity? That game's over ten years old! Big deal! It's not like it's worth anything anymore! I mean, sure, it's great that he's trying to help, but ya know, I'm pretty sure some of the newer SimCity games might do a slightly better job. Probably not the latest, but the second and I believe third ones were pretty good. Added things like garbage disposal and water, zoning, and a large variety of structures.
Wow. Your school is messed up man. That's the same punishment I got when I got caught fooling around with a chick in the guy's bathroom 3 years ago. And I was on my school's literary magazine staff once. It was a complete joke. Oh, and in the US at least, supreme court has ruled that for school newspapers students can basically publish whatever they want. The school newspapers are supposed to be operated by the students, not the school, even if the school pays for it. I don't see why a literary magazine would be any different, though I'm guessing you aren't in the US...
If one user's activity degrades the quality of another's connection, then the ISP is selling a product that they don't actually have. I should be able to use all the bandwidth that I pay for.
Except at the rates the record companies pay them, they could have gotten a lot LESS donations and still done better than if their album had been sold the traditional way. So the free publicity is great, the new fans are great, but they don't really need them to profit. Hell, the new fans are probably the ones not donating at all and bringing down the average. But hey, it's still a damn good average, considering it's all going straight to the band.
Ha. I have 3.5GB of RAM, and even I notice a significant performance difference between Vista and Mandriva Linux. Though to be fair, it was only the beta free release version of Vista. No way I'd ever actually _pay_ for that junk.
How are you calculating $50/80GB = $6.50??? 50/80 is NOT 6.50. Just look at the numbers. Does 50 look 6 times bigger than 80? No. Even at your prices it'd be less than $1/GB. Though your $8/GB calculation for flash drives looks ok. Besides, you can get a 250GB drive for $50 now. 80GBs are closer to $20. But again, your prices for flash memory are about right. Actually can be found for around $7.25/GB.
So yea. Try checking your calculations next time. Flash memory is still about 36 times more expensive than standard hard drives.
Eh. Not worth the cost to me. I've been getting pretty upset about the price of MP3 players lately actually. They've almost all moved totally to flash, which doesn't offer enough space and is way too expensive. I mean, hell, I've got a 7 year old iPod, been dropped countless times, and it's just finally starting to crap out on me...though I think it may just need reformatted. That tends to fix 'em usually. I've got a nano too, which is nice, but it just can't hold enough music. What happened to the old RCA lyra? That thing was perfect. Cheaper than an iPod, you had the option of their software or just drag-and-drop, so it was compatible with anything that could use a USB hard drive, it had better features (custom equalizer, FM radio, etc...), and it used a hard drive. Wish they hadn't switched that line over to all flash players...
Yea...that's not at all what they're saying. I believe they're just saying that, for example, verizon can't force you to use a verizon brand bluetooth headset with their phones.
No, you just need a colony of mind control capable citizens hidden from the rest of society (not hard when they have mind control) to ensure things always go the way you want.
A lot of the gear that helped him avoid cops would help him avoid peds too. And we _should_ be cheering him _because_ he didn't do any damage. He did smething that seems reckless, but he did it extremely safely.
I haven't needed to type in my root password in a couple days. And the reason I don't think control panel should have a UAC is because the UAC window says "UAC helps stop unauthorized changes to your computer."...so it's not 'we think you'll do something to break it', it's 'we don't know that this program is safe to run'.
But that's far from the only reason I prefer Linux. A major issue is the fact that Freenet, which I have running 24/7 on my Linux node without any noticeable slowing of the system, will usually crash WinXP in under ten minutes, and won't run at all on Vista. Oh, and setting up servers are a hell of a lot easier on Linux. I can download, install, and configure an FTP, SSH, HTTP, etc. server in under 5 minutes usually. And hell, installing programs in general is easier. Urpmi is ten times quicker than loading up a browser, trying to find a good, free program to do what you want, downloading it, and going through its installer.
I gotta say, I didn't use Vista for very long, but I checked it out shortly after it was released, and I gotta say, ANY time I launched a program it was giving me a security alert and I couldn't figure out how to turn the damn things off. Even for windows components! I'd hit control panel, it'd pop up a security alert. I'd then hit the display or whatever icon, and it'd pop up _another_ security alert. I pretty much had to go through two or three of those things for every program I ran, not per day.
And that's why I run Linux. The WinXP installer won't install to the right drive (lost several months of data one time because it decided to format BOTH drives instead of the one I selected), and Vista just plain sucks.
I'm actually wondering that myself. I mean, after win XP decided to format the wrong drive (apparently it's known to do that - wish someone had told _me_) and I lost about 6 months of my life, I decided to switch completely to Mandriva. No going back. And I haven't needed to. And I have yet to find anything it can't handle once you find the right programs.
First of all, the iPod isn't that much more expensive. Secondly, it's easily worth it. Those things last FOREVER, They're cheap to get used, there's a huge amount of accessories and stuff. Plus they can run Linux:) Seriously though, I have 3 of 'em and I didn't spend more than $100 on all of 'em combined. The one's around 6 years old and still running perfectly. Had an RCA lyra a while back for comparison, and it was an amazing little device, loved everything about it, until the hard drive failed less than a year after buying it.
I saw a double-blind test that said the opposite actually. Using an iPod, with the standard iPod earbuds, the majority of the people tested were able to tell the difference between...I believe it was a 128kbps MP3 and an AAC.
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I find that's not at all true on gmail. I give my email out all the time. It's urza9814@gmail.com. I still get about one spam message a week, if that. And in the...oh wow, getting on 2 years? I didn't think it'd been that long...but anyways, in all that time, I've had one email misclassified as spam. Well, that I know of. lol.
Yea, except you can generally save around $50 by overclocking. That's why I do it. I can pretty much get processors for half the price of what they would be at the speed I'm running 'em. (Yes, I'm using $50 processors. What can I say, I'm on a budget.)
We don't have a democracy. Votes are worth exactly nothing. The majority of the people voted _against_ Bush in the last election, but he's still our president. Your votes are technically (and occasionally actually) worthless.
...is there a limit on how many you can submit? :)
My grandfather bought a TV...probably in the '60s or '70s. It had a lifetime guarantee on the picture tube, which was a big deal back then, because those were usually only good for a few years. Well, he kept it until a couple years ago, simply because he wanted to see what would happen if he tried to take it back to have the picture tube replaced 30+ years later. It never did break. In fact, it worked better than any of the TVs in my house, none of which are more than 5 years old. Of course, it probably also was quite a bit more expensive at the time, but for that kind of work, it would be well worth the price.
Bring back the long-lasting, repairable gadgets!
I've run Sim City 2000 fine on a 600Mhz with 256MB of RAM....these things have 433MHz with 256MB RAM...it may work. I can't seem to find the system requirements for Sim City 2000, but it does say it'll run on Windows 95...and there are Game Boy Advance and Pocket PC versions, and the Game Boy Advance has a whopping 17Mhz of processing power...so I'm sure they could get it running in some form.
He donated the ORIGINAL SimCity? That game's over ten years old! Big deal! It's not like it's worth anything anymore! I mean, sure, it's great that he's trying to help, but ya know, I'm pretty sure some of the newer SimCity games might do a slightly better job. Probably not the latest, but the second and I believe third ones were pretty good. Added things like garbage disposal and water, zoning, and a large variety of structures.
Yea, but he also used .doc
*shudders*
Wow. Your school is messed up man. That's the same punishment I got when I got caught fooling around with a chick in the guy's bathroom 3 years ago.
And I was on my school's literary magazine staff once. It was a complete joke.
Oh, and in the US at least, supreme court has ruled that for school newspapers students can basically publish whatever they want. The school newspapers are supposed to be operated by the students, not the school, even if the school pays for it. I don't see why a literary magazine would be any different, though I'm guessing you aren't in the US...
If one user's activity degrades the quality of another's connection, then the ISP is selling a product that they don't actually have. I should be able to use all the bandwidth that I pay for.
Except at the rates the record companies pay them, they could have gotten a lot LESS donations and still done better than if their album had been sold the traditional way. So the free publicity is great, the new fans are great, but they don't really need them to profit. Hell, the new fans are probably the ones not donating at all and bringing down the average. But hey, it's still a damn good average, considering it's all going straight to the band.
Ha. I have 3.5GB of RAM, and even I notice a significant performance difference between Vista and Mandriva Linux. Though to be fair, it was only the beta free release version of Vista. No way I'd ever actually _pay_ for that junk.
How are you calculating $50/80GB = $6.50??? 50/80 is NOT 6.50. Just look at the numbers. Does 50 look 6 times bigger than 80? No. Even at your prices it'd be less than $1/GB. Though your $8/GB calculation for flash drives looks ok. Besides, you can get a 250GB drive for $50 now. 80GBs are closer to $20. But again, your prices for flash memory are about right. Actually can be found for around $7.25/GB.
So yea. Try checking your calculations next time. Flash memory is still about 36 times more expensive than standard hard drives.
Eh. Not worth the cost to me. I've been getting pretty upset about the price of MP3 players lately actually. They've almost all moved totally to flash, which doesn't offer enough space and is way too expensive. I mean, hell, I've got a 7 year old iPod, been dropped countless times, and it's just finally starting to crap out on me...though I think it may just need reformatted. That tends to fix 'em usually. I've got a nano too, which is nice, but it just can't hold enough music. What happened to the old RCA lyra? That thing was perfect. Cheaper than an iPod, you had the option of their software or just drag-and-drop, so it was compatible with anything that could use a USB hard drive, it had better features (custom equalizer, FM radio, etc...), and it used a hard drive. Wish they hadn't switched that line over to all flash players...
Or you could do what I do and just USE Freenet. 0.5 that is. It's still very much alive. Hell, it seems to me to be more alive than most p2p networks.
Yea...that's not at all what they're saying. I believe they're just saying that, for example, verizon can't force you to use a verizon brand bluetooth headset with their phones.
No, you just need a colony of mind control capable citizens hidden from the rest of society (not hard when they have mind control) to ensure things always go the way you want.
A lot of the gear that helped him avoid cops would help him avoid peds too. And we _should_ be cheering him _because_ he didn't do any damage. He did smething that seems reckless, but he did it extremely safely.
I haven't needed to type in my root password in a couple days. And the reason I don't think control panel should have a UAC is because the UAC window says "UAC helps stop unauthorized changes to your computer." ...so it's not 'we think you'll do something to break it', it's 'we don't know that this program is safe to run'.
But that's far from the only reason I prefer Linux. A major issue is the fact that Freenet, which I have running 24/7 on my Linux node without any noticeable slowing of the system, will usually crash WinXP in under ten minutes, and won't run at all on Vista. Oh, and setting up servers are a hell of a lot easier on Linux. I can download, install, and configure an FTP, SSH, HTTP, etc. server in under 5 minutes usually. And hell, installing programs in general is easier. Urpmi is ten times quicker than loading up a browser, trying to find a good, free program to do what you want, downloading it, and going through its installer.
I gotta say, I didn't use Vista for very long, but I checked it out shortly after it was released, and I gotta say, ANY time I launched a program it was giving me a security alert and I couldn't figure out how to turn the damn things off. Even for windows components! I'd hit control panel, it'd pop up a security alert. I'd then hit the display or whatever icon, and it'd pop up _another_ security alert. I pretty much had to go through two or three of those things for every program I ran, not per day.
And that's why I run Linux. The WinXP installer won't install to the right drive (lost several months of data one time because it decided to format BOTH drives instead of the one I selected), and Vista just plain sucks.
I'm actually wondering that myself. I mean, after win XP decided to format the wrong drive (apparently it's known to do that - wish someone had told _me_) and I lost about 6 months of my life, I decided to switch completely to Mandriva. No going back. And I haven't needed to. And I have yet to find anything it can't handle once you find the right programs.
First of all, the iPod isn't that much more expensive. Secondly, it's easily worth it. Those things last FOREVER, They're cheap to get used, there's a huge amount of accessories and stuff. Plus they can run Linux :)
Seriously though, I have 3 of 'em and I didn't spend more than $100 on all of 'em combined. The one's around 6 years old and still running perfectly. Had an RCA lyra a while back for comparison, and it was an amazing little device, loved everything about it, until the hard drive failed less than a year after buying it.
Oddly enough, the Debian installer gets further on my machine than Ubuntu's.
But they're _Ubuntu_ installs! Those things are damn near _impossible_!
*waits to me modded troll/flamebait*
(Hey, that statement is entirely true in my experience)
I saw a double-blind test that said the opposite actually. Using an iPod, with the standard iPod earbuds, the majority of the people tested were able to tell the difference between...I believe it was a 128kbps MP3 and an AAC.