The Kaypro was a direct competitor to the osborne. And there was a Kaypro II (?) that ran DOS. The thing I remember about Kaypros is that they had a bigger screen that the osborne.
I really don't much care what others think of my geek credentials - I started building machines to save money. Now I still do it to get the machine I want with the parts I want. Dell just doesn't offer that.
If you don't think spending afternoon drinking beer and building a computer is a pleasent pass time then it may very well be worth the extra money (and loss of freedom) to purchase.
Search on Linux - MSN gives you Gentoo as the first distro hit and then, on page three, you get RedHat. Google gets you RedHat, Debian, and Mandrake prior to Gentoo.
We ammend "no child left behind" to include cigarette machines in all the grade schools, ban motorcycle helmets, and outlaw the use of seat belts. Imagine a generation of smokers that aren't going to die off hooked as children. Smoking will be allowed in bars, restruants, public schools, and airplanes again because second hand smoke will no longer be an issue.
We'll use the revenue from the cigarette sales to pay off the people who manage not to die in a horrific traffic accident. Call me a Utopian Idealist but I think it will work!
With M$ out sourcing to India the local talent pool is pretty rich. The only people I know that are leaving jobs are doing so due to out sourcing. I imagine that Seattle alone could fill all the H1-B visa requests with qualified to over qualified people.
nVidea's SLI push is pretty transparent - they want to sell 2 video cards per system. I must admit I'm coveting like a good consumer even though I know that I don't need any of this PCIe, SLI, NCQ stuff. Its all good marketing differentiation and a lot of promise for faster desktop boxen in the future. If you want a system that will run games at high speed today (and for the near future) you want an AGP based system without all this fancy crap.
It isn't a high end video card. Its a pretty good video card that is built right into the chipset. This can do the things most people want to do with their video cards.
Its going to appeal to OEMs that want to build capable systems for less money. The average geek who builds his own machine will still want to use a separate video card.
You appearently missed the 60's (70's and a good part of the 80's). Stoned people don't look like that.
They just look pretty happy that they're good enough looking to get paid for standing around shirtless. If I got paid for putting my arms around those two gals I know I'd be smiling broadly and looking pretty damn smug.
Let's not say your average gamer system uses 500W.
Your average gamer system uses about 200W at full load and about 130W at idle. Your basic power supply is generally capable of delivering 350W Max - a few systems go up to 550W.
Leaving a computer on 24/7 has a measurable effect on the power bill - but my firewall was more like $3/mo.
You have that same issue with any voting system. Ultimately you vote, you put your ballot into a system that is a black box to you, and results come out the other end.
Only by auditing the voting machines can you tell they're working correctly. If you have no paper trail there can be no audit. If the paper trail was created by the machine you are auditing it would be a real suprise for an audit to ever turn up anything.
As for stupid people not filling out their ballots correctly - its an on-going problem in American politics;).
an optical scanner system. You get a paper ballot handed to you, take a pen or dark pencil, and darken in an oval. These ovals are far apart I would be difficult to accidently spoil your ballot.
You take your ballot and put it into an optical scanner that tabulates your ballot then and there. Any recount has a paper ballot clearly marked with your intent. Every election they randomly choose some precincts to count by hand to audit the machines. Its a good system.
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What an Odd day to have mod points. Not sure what to use them on today.
The Kaypro was a direct competitor to the osborne. And there was a Kaypro II (?) that ran DOS. The thing I remember about Kaypros is that they had a bigger screen that the osborne.
I certainly look down on you for owning a Dell ;)
I really don't much care what others think of my geek credentials - I started building machines to save money. Now I still do it to get the machine I want with the parts I want. Dell just doesn't offer that.
If you don't think spending afternoon drinking beer and building a computer is a pleasent pass time then it may very well be worth the extra money (and loss of freedom) to purchase.
You generally pay for every minute you're on the phone.
This book fueled the steroid scandal. If this book hadn't been published Mark McGwire wouldn't be on the front page of todays newspaper.
On your 65th bithday or the day you win the lottery - which ever come first.
Come now, "stragmatize" is a perfectly cromulent word. It wouldn't hurt for you to embiggen your vocabulary.
Well to beat google M$ would have to leverage its monopoly on the desk top to gain a competitive advantage. They wouldn't do that; that's illegal.
Google is the next Alta Vista.
Search on Linux - MSN gives you Gentoo as the first distro hit and then, on page three, you get RedHat. Google gets you RedHat, Debian, and Mandrake prior to Gentoo.
Wonder how it does with "Balmer goes ape"?
We can still save Social security:
We ammend "no child left behind" to include cigarette machines in all the grade schools, ban motorcycle helmets, and outlaw the use of seat belts. Imagine a generation of smokers that aren't going to die off hooked as children. Smoking will be allowed in bars, restruants, public schools, and airplanes again because second hand smoke will no longer be an issue.
We'll use the revenue from the cigarette sales to pay off the people who manage not to die in a horrific traffic accident. Call me a Utopian Idealist but I think it will work!
See now there's your problem. If you had been running 2003 Server you'd be need'n a faster machine by now.
They have a corporate security group. The IT folks spend about 10% of their time responding to mandates from this group.
With M$ out sourcing to India the local talent pool is pretty rich. The only people I know that are leaving jobs are doing so due to out sourcing. I imagine that Seattle alone could fill all the H1-B visa requests with qualified to over qualified people.
nVidea's SLI push is pretty transparent - they want to sell 2 video cards per system. I must admit I'm coveting like a good consumer even though I know that I don't need any of this PCIe, SLI, NCQ stuff. Its all good marketing differentiation and a lot of promise for faster desktop boxen in the future. If you want a system that will run games at high speed today (and for the near future) you want an AGP based system without all this fancy crap.
Oh, C'mon now. Can't you at least wait until Frye's or Best Buy is having a sale.
It isn't a high end video card. Its a pretty good video card that is built right into the chipset. This can do the things most people want to do with their video cards.
Its going to appeal to OEMs that want to build capable systems for less money. The average geek who builds his own machine will still want to use a separate video card.
Then I made a quick check on Net Craft: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=http%3A%2 F%2Fwww.electoral-vote.com%2F
If you can't beat 'em join 'em.
Ha! Mr Tanebaum - Your micro kernals will not save you now! We have unleashed the slashdot effect.
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You appearently missed the 60's (70's and a good part of the 80's). Stoned people don't look like that.
They just look pretty happy that they're good enough looking to get paid for standing around shirtless. If I got paid for putting my arms around those two gals I know I'd be smiling broadly and looking pretty damn smug.
I may switch distros just to support this theme.
Let's not say your average gamer system uses 500W.
Your average gamer system uses about 200W at full load and about 130W at idle. Your basic power supply is generally capable of delivering 350W Max - a few systems go up to 550W.
Leaving a computer on 24/7 has a measurable effect on the power bill - but my firewall was more like $3/mo.
As soon as news got out about this little burp every webcam site was "/.ed" These guys: http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/ need to get Boa
You have that same issue with any voting system. Ultimately you vote, you put your ballot into a system that is a black box to you, and results come out the other end.
;).
Only by auditing the voting machines can you tell they're working correctly. If you have no paper trail there can be no audit. If the paper trail was created by the machine you are auditing it would be a real suprise for an audit to ever turn up anything.
As for stupid people not filling out their ballots correctly - its an on-going problem in American politics
an optical scanner system. You get a paper ballot handed to you, take a pen or dark pencil, and darken in an oval. These ovals are far apart I would be difficult to accidently spoil your ballot.
You take your ballot and put it into an optical scanner that tabulates your ballot then and there. Any recount has a paper ballot clearly marked with your intent. Every election they randomly choose some precincts to count by hand to audit the machines. Its a good system.
Why couldn't we have something like that?
Anybody remember this?
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/
The jet engine for keeping beer cold.
Well just don't spend any money on her. She can't dump you - all she can do is get bitchy. Then You'll feel better about not having a real girlfriend.