Not only is Win2K still in beta, but this guy was talking about Beta 2! When did that come out? Like last March? They've already released Beta 3, RC-1, and RC-2 by now. Also, his gripe about not being able to install Advanced Server over Professional seemed weak to me as well, Server is different in many many ways than Professional is, I'm not surprised it won't install over it, I wouldn't expect it to.
So what if your graphics chip resides on your motherboard? Following the monitor cable might lead you in the general area, but can your mom tell me which of the fifty chips on a motherboard is the one that identifies it's video card? I think the easiest way for any newbie to know what hardware they have is to install Windows98 first, write down all their devices, then install Linux, that's what I do when installing it on unknown hardware when I'm too lazy to open the box and play the model guessing game with Network cards.
Gee, I set up Windows 98 boxes at work in five minutes every day, starting with a blank hard drive and inserting only one floppy disk. Complete with an installation of Microsoft Office 2000, Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, and Pagemaker. Filemaker Pro, Netscape Communicator, SETI@Home, and all the correct device drivers.
How? I boot from a DOS disk that runs DriveImage from our Novell Server and download my images that I created for each machine. Cheating? Maybe, but I'm just trying to show you that install time doesn't mean crap.
What I want from an OS is for it to support all of my hardware with little or no insertion of driver disks even. I can handle doing that, but the main reason I run Windows98 still is that I run bleeding-edge hardware which Linux/Windows NT both can take months or years to support fully, yet Win9x supports out of the box.
I think there will be a steady need for new features as broadband reaches more and more people. Just as the Internet has caused many applications to become "net aware" and spawned many new features (such as your CD player to fetch track names from CDDB) the next level of access will do even more. I'm sure we'll all be disappointed someday when our favorite app doesn't yet support voice recognition, or application sharing over the internet, or doesn't support the newest lossless graphic standard.
Not to mention that we havne't run out of ideas in the hardware arena yet either. Take a look sometime at the discussion over on Macintouch about Connectix not taking advantage of the Altivec instructions in the next version of Virtual PC. These people really are clamoring for every speed increase they can get, and the company does not want to bother to re-code it for free of course. As long as there is new hardware, there will be new software written to take advantage of it.
On the flip side, of course I haven't really found anything new that I use in Microsoft Office since Office95 came out, unless you count Microsoft Frontpage as being part of the office suite. But, like I mentioned above, voice recognition, video-on-demand, and the ability to use VERY large amounts of data in your work without worrying about the amount of bandwidth of your audience will change a lot of things, I'm sure.
I saw the headline and thought "That's weird" I just rented Dr. Strangelove from Netflix.com yesterday on DVD. It'll be here probably tomorrow so that I can watch it for the first time. Of course, I'm only posting this now that I've confimed mine has shipped, as I don't want the whole of Slashdot attempting to rent the DVD I want *grin* For those who haven't checked it out before, Netflix is pretty cool, they rent DVDs through the mail. No I don't own any part of them, or get any money from them, it's just a handy service, since my local video store has a rather small (but still growing) collection of DVDs. --
@Home (from TCI, now AT&T) came and installed my cable modem service about two months ago. Other than when it was down for two weeks (node problems) it's been great. I was running a beta of Windows 2000 at the time, and knew they wouldn't have a clue about what to do, so I told them I had Windows 98 and told the tech who installed it to stay away from my computer. He let me sign a thing waiving his service (called a self-install in their lingo) and I just told him:
"I want a cat 5 wire to this point, plug in your laptop to make sure it works, and I'll take it from there"
I installed my own 3com NIC in my computer (not their generic brand) and was netsurfing in no time. I've already set up a hub, and run cat5 to my two roomies computers, it's working great. BUT, they limit you to only having only 3 IP addresses, and they cost $4.95 a month for those extra two. Solution? Sygate! I don't know that they actually have any OS requirements, but if you tell them Windows 98, they don't actually have to touch your machine, and the guy who came and installed mine had been a cable guy that they sent to class for 3 days to make him an internet guy. He knew how to run basic things (ping, winipcfg, etc.) but seemed rather clueless as to how it actually worked.
My landlord, who lives in the other half of the duplex, and I are going to wire the whole house for cat5, with jacks in every room, then install a second NIC in my machine and run Sygate to do NAT so we can break the 3 IP limit. Yes, I know I could do this with Linux, but I run Windows most of the time at home because I do a lot of videoconferencing with friends around the globe, not to mention Unreal Tournament. I also don't really feel like dropping the $$$ to build another box for routing, and I'd like my machine to still have a "real" IP address.
Oh, and it's fast, my node is shared with only 5 other people (not counting my roomies who are women and don't use much bandwidth:) ) and I've gotten downloads at up to 90K/second, yes, like a little under a tenth of a meg a second. Not too shabby in my book, as you can have a hard time getting that kind of speed out of most internet sites anyhow. --
Considering that the cosmonauts onboard Mir have routinely stayed aboard for six months at a time, as well as a few U.S. personnel who were there, I would think that anything this serious would have already become fairly obvious if it were true. Granted, staying in space wouldn't be the most healthy lifestyle at this point in time, but inducing artificial gravity on a station would help a great deal with muscle atrophy.
I think that it would be appropriate to rotate staff every six months. Not bring on an entirely new crew, but rotate some staff back to earth with each new load of guests coming leaving. I don't know of too many people who'd want to stay on the station for six months at a time anyways, other than Slashdotters, provided Hilton gave them a T1 line to the station. *grin*
How would one connect the internet to a space station? Beam microwaves at a satellite?
I don't know what standards Red Hat is actually using to define whether or not something is Red Hat Compatible, but for simplicity's sake I hope it means that my mother could install Red Hat on it. I think that would enable Linux (Red Hat at least) to reach more users, if they knew without a doubt that if they stuck a Red Hat 6.0 CD into their drive, all of the hardware in their machine would be auto-detected and have drivers installed for it automatically. I build my own machines, so it wouldn't do much for me, I guess I could make my own stickers, but I still think that certifying certain machines as being 100% Linux compatible would be a Good Thing (tm).
I know this is sort of off-topic, but are the new Office & Frontpage 2000 CD's 800MB? I ask for legitimate reasons, as we just buy the licenses needed for additional copies at work, but needed more physical disks for techs to run around with installing it, and I couldn't duplicate them.
Unreal did, and still does to some extent, suck on anything but 3dfx cards. Back when I had my P233mmx, I had a Voodoo Rush Card (Intergraph) and "upgraded" to an STB Velocity 4400. Unreal crawled on my TNT card compared to the Voodoo Rush. Every 2 months or so, when they released a patch for Unreal, it got marginally better, but never as fast as the Voodoo Rush was.
I got my @Home Cable Modem about two weeks ago, and it was down this entire weekend. It took THREE calls to their number for them to actually treat it as a problem with their system, and for them to realize I wasn't a complete idiot. If anyone does know what "Node problems" are, I'd be grateful if you told me, since apparently no one at AT&T does, they just know it's bad.
Call #1:
Me: My cable modem is down, the light marked cable is blinking, which the tech. who installed it told me means it's down. I've reset it, reset my computer, unplugged it, and cycled the power. It doesn't work.
Them: Have you tried resetting it?
Me: Yes, I just said that. Them: Uh, you're having "node problems" we'll get someone on it.
Call #2: 12 hours later
Me: I called yesterday, my cable modem is STILL down, they said I could get part of my bill refunded if it was down this long. (I explain again about the flashing cable light) It worked for about an hour around 2:00 a.m. then it died again. They told me yesterday that there were "node problems". Them: Hmm, reset the cable modem.
Me: I did that. Many times. It doesn't work. The problem does not exist within my house.
Them: It looks like you're having "node problems" we've got a crew working on it, it should be up by this evening.
Call #3: 15 hours after call #2
Me: My service has been out since Friday. They've told me I'm having "node problems", the problem is not with my computer.
Them: We'll have to transfer you to a senior tech to analyze your problem.
Me: I'm having "node problems" apparently, whatever those are. I've had no service since Friday, other than a couple hour long periods. I've reset my cable modem and my computer many times, just in case, but the cable light is blinking, suggesting that the problem isn't here.
Them-Senior Tech: You're the third person who's called, which means we can now declare this to be an "outage" we'll call someone in to work on it, please hold.
I Hold.
Them (super-senior tech): Could you try resetting your cable modem?
Me: It is NOT my cable modem or my computer. I am a support specialist. Fix your network.
Them: Oh, so you probably know what you're doing, that's great! Since this is now an "outage" we'll get a crew working on it right away. However, I'm still going to have to schedule an appointment for a tech to come to your house to verify it's nothing on your end.
Me: Why, if you know your network is down?
Them: Because it's procedure.
Me: Uh, okay then. Them: Howabout.....8:00 a.m. on the 11th?
Me: So you're sending a tech two weeks from now to determine whether or not the problem is on my end? Why don't you fix your network first?
Them: I'm pretty sure the problem is with our network, but we've still got to check out your place.
Me: I'm going to go dig my analog modem out of my closet now so I can check my e-mail.
Them: Is there anything else we can do for you?
Me: You could fix your network problem, and believe me when I call, the FIRST time.
My cable modem is now on, Monday afternoon, it went out Friday night. I had to resort to dialing into a free AOL account for two days to check my mail!
What I hate most is when the owners of arcade machines (at local pizza places, etc.) unplug or turn off the power at night! I set the high scores on Space Invaders, Pac Man and Asteroids everytime I go to our local movie theatre. I might feel like I'd accomplished more if it meant I'd beaten someone any better than the high school kid who put in a quarter and said "this sucks" then walked away. There should UPS systems built into every arcade machine, or at least the arcade equivalent of a CMOS battery to keep the scores!
Exactly what I do, I'm rarely if ever hung over, regardless of how much I drink, since I try to keep some gatorade on hand in my fridge. After I get done partying or whatever, I drink a 32 oz. gatorade and go to bed. May have to get up to piss a few times in the night, but no hangover in the morning!
Heinlein advocated (in Job: A Comedy of Justice) taking a shower as hot as you can possibly stand, then quickly throwing the temperature controls to ice cold. I've tried this, and it does seem to work, at the very least, it's like a reset switch for your nervous system. Try to keep your screaming down to a minimum for those who do have the hangovers though.
He then suggested a Bloody Mary for afterwards, and I believe that the axiom about the "hair of the dog that bit you" has been proven to ease hangover suffering. It had something to do with how the liver breaks down alcohol, and that the second stage of alcohol breakdown makes you feel crappy, but as long as you keep your liver doing some of the first-stage breakdown, you still feel okay.
I agree, the first time I saw "SIMAAM" I was mildly amused, but when HBO and Showtime started running it several times a week, and I saw it more, I laughed more and more each time I saw it. It's not my favorite Mike Meyers movie, hands down. Mike Meyers as his dad is absolutely hilarious, and the whole bit he does about Colonel Sanders putting a secret ingredient in his extra crispy tasty chicken to make you crave it fortnightly makes me bust up.
My favorite DeForest Kelley line is from Star Trek VI. At the trial, McCoy almost breaks down in tears, desperate to explain the truth to the unbelieving Klingons. "I tried to save him! I tried to save him! He was the last, best hope for peace."
Great line, great deliverance, I swear that you can hear the gentle doctors heart breaking over the loss of the great man he couldn't save.
Anyone know how old the other TOS stars are offhand? It's sad to see DeForest go, I'd always hoped they'd have him in one more episode of Voyager, since he was still alive at the start of ST:TNG. Anyhow, how old are Shatner, Nemoy, Takei, Nichols, Doohan, and Koenig? Who'll be the last to go?
Uhhhhh, DUH! Is all I have to say to that, of course Unreal runs faster on your G3, it has a Rage 128 video card, which is faster than a TNT. Also, your TNT is in the AMD which completely blows for FPU performance, which Unreal relies on VERY heavily. And, honestly, the TNT just blows in Unreal still, I own one, it sucks, my VooDoo Rush card ran the game faster (I have a Pentium 233mmx) I'm not faulting the card, I'm faulting Unreal here.
Now, I use a 300mhz Mac at work, and the reason they feel slow is that they don't multi-task well. I know that Windows may not have "true" pre-emptive multi-tasking, but what it does have is still much better than the MacOS. Multi-tasking on my Mac reminds me of when I ran dosshell under DOS 6.0 and I could switch between applications on my 386sx-16. Look at the tips people offer for increased Distributed.net/SETI rates, one of them is "Kill the Finder" not too many people suggest "Kill Explorer" in windows to boost your processing speed. I don't love Microsoft by any means, Linux is my favorite OS for speed, hands down, but I tell my boss about twice a day that I could get twice as much done under Windows or Linux than I can with the Mac.
Well, a third graphics card does make your graphics look better if you're running a Voodoo 2 SLI setup, the 2nd Voodoo board lets you run at 1024x768, which looks better to me, so I suppose it could be a correct statement.
"Bear in mind this is also ecologically unfreindly"
Uh, Mineral Oil is ecologically unfriendly? It's not toxic to mammals to ingest it, how much worse could it be to the environment? I know we pour that stuff down the throats of our horses when they get sand collic. I don't think Mineral Oil is petroleum based, but I could be wrong, my degree was in Psychology.:)
Isn't one of the theories about that massive explosion that took place in Tunguska (sp?), Siberia/Russia/whatever in 190X that antimatter was released/crashed to earth/created/whatever?
If I remember my Discovery Channel right, it leveled something like 100,000 square miles of forest, with a force exceeding several atomic bombs.
Anyone know anything more about this? Am I out of my head?
I've got two working Texas Intruments 994A's (one black and silver, one beige) I've even got the speech synthesizer for them, it was pretty sweet having a computer that actually talked when all my friends were still using Atari 2600's. I think I still have the adapter to use Atari 2600 joysticks on it too, you could play Slymoids, Hunt The Wumpus, or my favorite, Parsec!.
I've still got an IBM XT that I snagged when my dad's business was throwing it away, it still has all their data on it's massive 10MB FULL HEIGHT hard drive. This one has the nice full height 5.25" floppy drive too, the thing still works, a secretary was using wordperfect on it when it was last plugged in. Too bad the XT keyboards don't work with AT computers, it has a nice clickety-clack feel too it.
I suffer from this too, even writing a paragraph or two causes me considerable pain, but I can type a small novel on my M$ Natural (1.0) keyboard with out even minor irritation. Thank god I'm graduating in 48 hours, these last essay tests about did me in. I think if I have to ever write any essays again, I'm going to get special permission to bring a lap-top to class. Maybe this is something that should be seriously studied, even if the "PIP" is total crap, I could see how neglecting to write a substantial amount could lead to a loss of penmanship or rapid muscle fatigue when being forced to write. I too have a signature that is wildly variable, thank god no one checks.
I agree, anything of Heinlein's is far superior to Star Wars. I see that it would be un-hero-like to actually kill people in Star Wars, so in the first three, they were nameless, faceless people in storm trooper suits, still too personal for the prequels, so now they have to fight computer generated robots en masse. Where's the moral dilemmas here? Where's the tough choices? Star Wars is not Sci-Fi, it's Fantasy.
You can still get one of the old MS Natural keyboards, if you wanna do a little digging. Due to an unfortunate combination of my girlfriend and a glass of water, mine was ruined last week, but I bid on a new one on eBay, got it for 52.02 (a buck less than mine cost me originally) it's brand new, and on it's way to me now.
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Not only is Win2K still in beta, but this guy was talking about Beta 2! When did that come out? Like last March? They've already released Beta 3, RC-1, and RC-2 by now. Also, his gripe about not being able to install Advanced Server over Professional seemed weak to me as well, Server is different in many many ways than Professional is, I'm not surprised it won't install over it, I wouldn't expect it to.
So what if your graphics chip resides on your motherboard? Following the monitor cable might lead you in the general area, but can your mom tell me which of the fifty chips on a motherboard is the one that identifies it's video card? I think the easiest way for any newbie to know what hardware they have is to install Windows98 first, write down all their devices, then install Linux, that's what I do when installing it on unknown hardware when I'm too lazy to open the box and play the model guessing game with Network cards.
Gee, I set up Windows 98 boxes at work in five minutes every day, starting with a blank hard drive and inserting only one floppy disk. Complete with an installation of Microsoft Office 2000, Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, and Pagemaker. Filemaker Pro, Netscape Communicator, SETI@Home, and all the correct device drivers.
How? I boot from a DOS disk that runs DriveImage from our Novell Server and download my images that I created for each machine. Cheating? Maybe, but I'm just trying to show you that install time doesn't mean crap.
What I want from an OS is for it to support all of my hardware with little or no insertion of driver disks even. I can handle doing that, but the main reason I run Windows98 still is that I run bleeding-edge hardware which Linux/Windows NT both can take months or years to support fully, yet Win9x supports out of the box.
I think there will be a steady need for new features as broadband reaches more and more people. Just as the Internet has caused many applications to become "net aware" and spawned many new features (such as your CD player to fetch track names from CDDB) the next level of access will do even more. I'm sure we'll all be disappointed someday when our favorite app doesn't yet support voice recognition, or application sharing over the internet, or doesn't support the newest lossless graphic standard.
Not to mention that we havne't run out of ideas in the hardware arena yet either. Take a look sometime at the discussion over on Macintouch about Connectix not taking advantage of the Altivec instructions in the next version of Virtual PC. These people really are clamoring for every speed increase they can get, and the company does not want to bother to re-code it for free of course. As long as there is new hardware, there will be new software written to take advantage of it.
On the flip side, of course I haven't really found anything new that I use in Microsoft Office since Office95 came out, unless you count Microsoft Frontpage as being part of the office suite. But, like I mentioned above, voice recognition, video-on-demand, and the ability to use VERY large amounts of data in your work without worrying about the amount of bandwidth of your audience will change a lot of things, I'm sure.
I saw the headline and thought "That's weird" I just rented Dr. Strangelove from Netflix.com yesterday on DVD. It'll be here probably tomorrow so that I can watch it for the first time. Of course, I'm only posting this now that I've confimed mine has shipped, as I don't want the whole of Slashdot attempting to rent the DVD I want *grin* For those who haven't checked it out before, Netflix is pretty cool, they rent DVDs through the mail. No I don't own any part of them, or get any money from them, it's just a handy service, since my local video store has a rather small (but still growing) collection of DVDs.
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@Home (from TCI, now AT&T) came and installed my cable modem service about two months ago. Other than when it was down for two weeks (node problems) it's been great. I was running a beta of Windows 2000 at the time, and knew they wouldn't have a clue about what to do, so I told them I had Windows 98 and told the tech who installed it to stay away from my computer. He let me sign a thing waiving his service (called a self-install in their lingo) and I just told him:
:) ) and I've gotten downloads at up to 90K/second, yes, like a little under a tenth of a meg a second. Not too shabby in my book, as you can have a hard time getting that kind of speed out of most internet sites anyhow.
"I want a cat 5 wire to this point, plug in your laptop to make sure it works, and I'll take it from there"
I installed my own 3com NIC in my computer (not their generic brand) and was netsurfing in no time. I've already set up a hub, and run cat5 to my two roomies computers, it's working great. BUT, they limit you to only having only 3 IP addresses, and they cost $4.95 a month for those extra two. Solution? Sygate! I don't know that they actually have any OS requirements, but if you tell them Windows 98, they don't actually have to touch your machine, and the guy who came and installed mine had been a cable guy that they sent to class for 3 days to make him an internet guy. He knew how to run basic things (ping, winipcfg, etc.) but seemed rather clueless as to how it actually worked.
My landlord, who lives in the other half of the duplex, and I are going to wire the whole house for cat5, with jacks in every room, then install a second NIC in my machine and run Sygate to do NAT so we can break the 3 IP limit. Yes, I know I could do this with Linux, but I run Windows most of the time at home because I do a lot of videoconferencing with friends around the globe, not to mention Unreal Tournament. I also don't really feel like dropping the $$$ to build another box for routing, and I'd like my machine to still have a "real" IP address.
Oh, and it's fast, my node is shared with only 5 other people (not counting my roomies who are women and don't use much bandwidth
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Considering that the cosmonauts onboard Mir have routinely stayed aboard for six months at a time, as well as a few U.S. personnel who were there, I would think that anything this serious would have already become fairly obvious if it were true. Granted, staying in space wouldn't be the most healthy lifestyle at this point in time, but inducing artificial gravity on a station would help a great deal with muscle atrophy.
I think that it would be appropriate to rotate staff every six months. Not bring on an entirely new crew, but rotate some staff back to earth with each new load of guests coming leaving. I don't know of too many people who'd want to stay on the station for six months at a time anyways, other than Slashdotters, provided Hilton gave them a T1 line to the station. *grin*
How would one connect the internet to a space station? Beam microwaves at a satellite?
I don't know what standards Red Hat is actually using to define whether or not something is Red Hat Compatible, but for simplicity's sake I hope it means that my mother could install Red Hat on it. I think that would enable Linux (Red Hat at least) to reach more users, if they knew without a doubt that if they stuck a Red Hat 6.0 CD into their drive, all of the hardware in their machine would be auto-detected and have drivers installed for it automatically. I build my own machines, so it wouldn't do much for me, I guess I could make my own stickers, but I still think that certifying certain machines as being 100% Linux compatible would be a Good Thing (tm).
I know this is sort of off-topic, but are the new Office & Frontpage 2000 CD's 800MB? I ask for legitimate reasons, as we just buy the licenses needed for additional copies at work, but needed more physical disks for techs to run around with installing it, and I couldn't duplicate them.
Unreal did, and still does to some extent, suck on anything but 3dfx cards. Back when I had my P233mmx, I had a Voodoo Rush Card (Intergraph) and "upgraded" to an STB Velocity 4400. Unreal crawled on my TNT card compared to the Voodoo Rush. Every 2 months or so, when they released a patch for Unreal, it got marginally better, but never as fast as the Voodoo Rush was.
I got my @Home Cable Modem about two weeks ago, and it was down this entire weekend. It took THREE calls to their number for them to actually treat it as a problem with their system, and for them to realize I wasn't a complete idiot. If anyone does know what "Node problems" are, I'd be grateful if you told me, since apparently no one at AT&T does, they just know it's bad.
Call #1:
Me: My cable modem is down, the light marked cable is blinking, which the tech. who installed it told me means it's down. I've reset it, reset my computer, unplugged it, and cycled the power. It doesn't work.
Them: Have you tried resetting it?
Me: Yes, I just said that.
Them: Uh, you're having "node problems" we'll get someone on it.
Call #2: 12 hours later
Me: I called yesterday, my cable modem is STILL down, they said I could get part of my bill refunded if it was down this long. (I explain again about the flashing cable light) It worked for about an hour around 2:00 a.m. then it died again. They told me yesterday that there were "node problems".
Them: Hmm, reset the cable modem.
Me: I did that. Many times. It doesn't work. The problem does not exist within my house.
Them: It looks like you're having "node problems" we've got a crew working on it, it should be up by this evening.
Call #3: 15 hours after call #2
Me: My service has been out since Friday. They've told me I'm having "node problems", the problem is not with my computer.
Them: We'll have to transfer you to a senior tech to analyze your problem.
Me: I'm having "node problems" apparently, whatever those are. I've had no service since Friday, other than a couple hour long periods. I've reset my cable modem and my computer many times, just in case, but the cable light is blinking, suggesting that the problem isn't here.
Them-Senior Tech: You're the third person who's called, which means we can now declare this to be an "outage" we'll call someone in to work on it, please hold.
I Hold.
Them (super-senior tech): Could you try resetting your cable modem?
Me: It is NOT my cable modem or my computer. I am a support specialist. Fix your network.
Them: Oh, so you probably know what you're doing, that's great! Since this is now an "outage" we'll get a crew working on it right away. However, I'm still going to have to schedule an appointment for a tech to come to your house to verify it's nothing on your end.
Me: Why, if you know your network is down?
Them: Because it's procedure.
Me: Uh, okay then.
Them: Howabout.....8:00 a.m. on the 11th?
Me: So you're sending a tech two weeks from now to determine whether or not the problem is on my end? Why don't you fix your network first?
Them: I'm pretty sure the problem is with our network, but we've still got to check out your place.
Me: I'm going to go dig my analog modem out of my closet now so I can check my e-mail.
Them: Is there anything else we can do for you?
Me: You could fix your network problem, and believe me when I call, the FIRST time.
My cable modem is now on, Monday afternoon, it went out Friday night. I had to resort to dialing into a free AOL account for two days to check my mail!
Bug Recipes at the site I used to work on. For a minute, I thought Orkin had stolen some of our recipes, god knows other sites have.....
What I hate most is when the owners of arcade machines (at local pizza places, etc.) unplug or turn off the power at night! I set the high scores on Space Invaders, Pac Man and Asteroids everytime I go to our local movie theatre. I might feel like I'd accomplished more if it meant I'd beaten someone any better than the high school kid who put in a quarter and said "this sucks" then walked away. There should UPS systems built into every arcade machine, or at least the arcade equivalent of a CMOS battery to keep the scores!
Heinlein advocated (in Job: A Comedy of Justice) taking a shower as hot as you can possibly stand, then quickly throwing the temperature controls to ice cold. I've tried this, and it does seem to work, at the very least, it's like a reset switch for your nervous system. Try to keep your screaming down to a minimum for those who do have the hangovers though.
He then suggested a Bloody Mary for afterwards, and I believe that the axiom about the "hair of the dog that bit you" has been proven to ease hangover suffering. It had something to do with how the liver breaks down alcohol, and that the second stage of alcohol breakdown makes you feel crappy, but as long as you keep your liver doing some of the first-stage breakdown, you still feel okay.
I agree, the first time I saw "SIMAAM" I was mildly amused, but when HBO and Showtime started running it several times a week, and I saw it more, I laughed more and more each time I saw it. It's not my favorite Mike Meyers movie, hands down.
Mike Meyers as his dad is absolutely hilarious, and the whole bit he does about Colonel Sanders putting a secret ingredient in his extra crispy tasty chicken to make you crave it fortnightly makes me bust up.
My favorite DeForest Kelley line is from Star Trek VI. At the trial, McCoy almost breaks down in tears, desperate to explain the truth to the unbelieving Klingons. "I tried to save him! I
tried to save him! He was the last, best hope for peace."
Great line, great deliverance, I swear that you can hear the gentle doctors heart breaking over the loss of the great man he couldn't save.
Anyone know how old the other TOS stars are offhand? It's sad to see DeForest go, I'd always hoped they'd have him in one more episode of Voyager, since he was still alive at the start of ST:TNG. Anyhow, how old are Shatner, Nemoy, Takei, Nichols, Doohan, and Koenig? Who'll be the last to go?
Uhhhhh, DUH! Is all I have to say to that, of course Unreal runs faster on your G3, it has a Rage 128 video card, which is faster than a TNT. Also, your TNT is in the AMD which completely blows for FPU performance, which Unreal relies on VERY heavily. And, honestly, the TNT just blows in Unreal still, I own one, it sucks, my VooDoo Rush card ran the game faster (I have a Pentium 233mmx) I'm not faulting the card, I'm faulting Unreal here.
Now, I use a 300mhz Mac at work, and the reason they feel slow is that they don't multi-task well. I know that Windows may not have "true" pre-emptive multi-tasking, but what it does have is still much better than the MacOS. Multi-tasking on my Mac reminds me of when I ran dosshell under DOS 6.0 and I could switch between applications on my 386sx-16. Look at the tips people offer for increased Distributed.net/SETI rates, one of them is "Kill the Finder" not too many people suggest "Kill Explorer" in windows to boost your processing speed. I don't love Microsoft by any means, Linux is my favorite OS for speed, hands down, but I tell my boss about twice a day that I could get twice as much done under Windows or Linux than I can with the Mac.
Well, a third graphics card does make your graphics look better if you're running a Voodoo 2 SLI setup, the 2nd Voodoo board lets you run at 1024x768, which looks better to me, so I suppose it could be a correct statement.
"Bear in mind this is also ecologically unfreindly"
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Uh, Mineral Oil is ecologically unfriendly? It's not toxic to mammals to ingest it, how much worse could it be to the environment? I know we pour that stuff down the throats of our horses when they get sand collic. I don't think Mineral Oil is petroleum based, but I could be wrong, my degree was in Psychology.
Isn't one of the theories about that massive explosion that took place in Tunguska (sp?), Siberia/Russia/whatever in 190X that antimatter was released/crashed to earth/created/whatever?
If I remember my Discovery Channel right, it leveled something like 100,000 square miles of forest, with a force exceeding several atomic bombs.
Anyone know anything more about this? Am I out of my head?
I've got two working Texas Intruments 994A's (one black and silver, one beige) I've even got the speech synthesizer for them, it was pretty sweet having a computer that actually talked when all my friends were still using Atari 2600's. I think I still have the adapter to use Atari 2600 joysticks on it too, you could play Slymoids, Hunt The Wumpus, or my favorite, Parsec!.
I've still got an IBM XT that I snagged when my dad's business was throwing it away, it still has all their data on it's massive 10MB FULL HEIGHT hard drive. This one has the nice full height 5.25" floppy drive too, the thing still works, a secretary was using wordperfect on it when it was last plugged in. Too bad the XT keyboards don't work with AT computers, it has a nice clickety-clack feel too it.
I suffer from this too, even writing a paragraph or two causes me considerable pain, but I can type a small novel on my M$ Natural (1.0) keyboard with out even minor irritation. Thank god I'm graduating in 48 hours, these last essay tests about did me in. I think if I have to ever write any essays again, I'm going to get special permission to bring a lap-top to class. Maybe this is something that should be seriously studied, even if the "PIP" is total crap, I could see how neglecting to write a substantial amount could lead to a loss of penmanship or rapid muscle fatigue when being forced to write. I too have a signature that is wildly variable, thank god no one checks.
I agree, anything of Heinlein's is far superior to Star Wars. I see that it would be un-hero-like to actually kill people in Star Wars, so in the first three, they were nameless, faceless people in storm trooper suits, still too personal for the prequels, so now they have to fight computer generated robots en masse. Where's the moral dilemmas here? Where's the tough choices? Star Wars is not Sci-Fi, it's Fantasy.
You can still get one of the old MS Natural keyboards, if you wanna do a little digging. Due to an unfortunate combination of my girlfriend and a glass of water, mine was ruined last week, but I bid on a new one on eBay, got it for 52.02 (a buck less than mine cost me originally) it's brand new, and on it's way to me now.