The 800 was far superior - the only difference between that and the 400 was amount of memory and a real keyboard. The first 800 I used was about 1/2 of what the equivalent Apple II cost. Plus it was full color and awesome sound. And they had a ton of games available right away. You weren't forced to buy a 12" crappy green or amber screen monitor - the Atari's hooked up to any color television. I don't care who wants to take credit or who designed what - those things don't interest me. All I know was that Atari was putting out better computers for a lot less than Apple was. I think if Apple hadn't been wise enough to give educational discounts back in the day, they would have really struggled to compete. Having an Apple in a good portion of schools helped keep them viable.
Considering the RIAA formed in 1952, 7 years after Hitler's death, yeah I would say that is a pretty safe bet. Completely irrelevant, but safe. On that note he was never in bed with Microsoft either, much to the chagrin of many Slashdot readers...
Yeah, it was 4 times faster than my old 300 baud modem. Connecting with a 300 baud modem was like watching a teletype slowly fill the screen with characters, line by line. Downloading a few thousand character file could take hours. (Especially if your copper phone lines were bad.)
Ditto with my experience as well. I think that most people who complain about Vista have never actually used a SP1 or newer version for any amount of time. About the only gripe I can come up with about Vista 64-bit is that getting some of the video/audio codecs installed can be a pain. But really, that is the only issue I have had (well, besides some software not being available for 64-bit version, but that is not the fault of the OS). Other than that is has been rather smooth sailing and I am unsure what all the fuss is about.
That helps, but it isn't what really matters. Besides promotion, the biggest thing labels offer is a distribution model. Have you seen the end of the aisle displays at Best Buy and Walmart? You don't get those by being a talented artist, or by "getting off your ass", you get them because they have deals with record labels. If Best Buy wants to sell the big name artists, they will have to sell and advertise some of the smaller bands too. Getting played on the radio is very similar. While there isn't outright open payola as much anymore, there is definitely implied indirect payola. Having talent and working hard will greatly increase your chance for success, but if you don't have someone with some sway behind you, even the best efforts often go nowhere.
Check. Due in part to larger populations of Hmong, Mexican, and African immigrants. We may not have the sheer volume oh NYC, but per capita we do just fine. Minneapolis also has the most off Broadway theaters per capita in any other city except NYC.
Stores where you can pretty much find anything?
Apparently you have never heard of Mall of America before? If you can't find it there, it probably isn't sold anywhere. 520 stoes in 2.5 million square feet of mall hell.
Groceries delivered to your door?
Check. There are at least 5 different places that will deliver to where I live.
Great bar scene
Check. What the hell else do you think there is to do here, especially in the winter? We also have a music scene here that blows most cities away. Just ask Craig Finn from the Hold Steady.
gorgeous women of all kinds
Probably not as varied as NYC, but we do just fine thanks.
Our public transportation isn't the greatest, but it is getting better. And we are also the #2 most bike friendly city in the US, right after Portland.
My taxes didn't buy the lakes, but they certainly help keep them clean. The revenue for the Minnesota State Lotteries all go to the DNR here. And my taxes did pay for the hundreds of miles of bike trails, and hunters and fishers taxes paid for the clean lakes, rivers, parks, and rest of the land.
See, you guys just proved my point. If you ask 10 IT folks about a list of "essential" software, you are going to get 10 very different lists. That is why less is best. There is no such thing as a "one size fits all" approach to software, because every user has different wants and needs.
On the plus side, any software you don't install is software you don't have to answer support questions from customers.
The last Brazilian soap opera I saw had a 5 minute scene of a beautiful girl in the shower. If your theory is correct, the next day the brothels must have been full!
Yeah, my first thought after reading this was - how long until the black market chips that get around this are available? I am guessing within a week if this actually goes into effect.
Or you could just buy a used cop car. Something tells me their cars will not have these devices installed.
Is such a thing possible anywhere?? Most of the time news=opinions and vice-versa. As long as humans are covering the news, there will always be a bias.
So your company chose to put the trial software on the systems that you sold, you fail to warn the "unsuspecting" customer that it is only trial software, the customer agrees to the terms and are told when launching the applications that it is trial software, and this is somehow Microsoft's fault?
And now you are installing other third party software? Why not just let the customers decide which software they would like to use themselves? First thing I always do when buying a system from a shop (as opposed to building it myself, which I usually do) is wipe the hard drive and put the OS of my choice on it, and whatever other software I wish. I hate pre-configured anything.
Just because you think there is doesn't mean there is. ("Because I can" isn't a valid reason, I'm sorry.)
I notice you sidestepped the issue. If you can see a valid use for this, please, enlighten us.
Well, to be technical, it didn't say "allows you to run a webserver off the battery indefinitely". It just said you could run a server. Even if it was only running for a second it was technically "running".
I have the same opinion. I hate Keanu and Ryder but love Robert Downey Jr, and thought the stuff between him and Woody Harrelson was priceless. They gave a much needed comic aspect to the pretty dark material. Overall I thought the film was done well, and stayed relatively faithful to the story - especially considering some of the other "adaptations" of his work on film.
But if the machine they use to determine that.08 reading is faulty, isn't it pretty much the same thing?
This happened to a friend of mine about 15 years ago. He had been at a party earlier and had drank a few drinks. He then ate a huge meal, and waited several hours before he drove home - without having any more alcohol. He was pulled over on the way home by a cop who he had some previous run-ins with, and seemed to have an attitude towards my friend. (The cop had gone to high school with my friend's older brother and apparently they never got along.) After the cop pulled him over, he told my friend he had been "swerving all over the road, and crossed the center line several times". My friend told me that was bullshit, that he had been driving fine and wasn't impaired in the slightest. I was at the same party and had personally witnessed how much he had drank, and the time frame in which he had been consuming. I know he hadn't had any alcohol for at least 3 hours and had only had a few cocktails prior to that. So I have no reason to think my friend wasn't being truthful. The cop got him out and made him do the roadside sobriety tests. Which he did and passed with flying colors. The cop seemed mad about that and told my friend "I don't care if you passed those tests or not, I know you are drunk." He got out the portable breathalyzer, and had my friend blow. It came up green - meaning zero alcohol in his breath. The cop got even more mad, and said that the machine wasn't working because it was too cold (this was the middle of winter in Minnesota). He brought the machine into his car and held it in front of the heat for a few minutes, and then made my friend blow again. It came up green again. The cop insisted the machine was still not working correctly, and had my friend blow yet again. Green once more. Not to be stopped by reality, the cop once more insisted my friend blow, and this time it was yellow - meaning some alcohol in the system but not over the legal limit. Then the cop actually arrested him for DWI. Towed his car and my friend go to spend the night in jail. My friend got a lawyer and went to court, and the lawyer took the cop apart. He got all charges dismissed, AND got my friends money back he had paid in fines and towing charges. His lawyer told him he probably had a good harassment/wrongful arrest case, but my friend didn't want to pursue it any further. So after 3 blows of zero, the portable breathalyzer decided that in fact he did have some alcohol in his system. If I ever had to blow into one of those things and it said I was over the limit, (I have had to twice before and both times I hadn't had anything to drink at all and came up clean) I would get a lawyer and try to fight it. They just are not reliable enough to trust.
After living in Rio de Janeiro in the past, I came to the same conclusion. Everyone here is "on the take" as much as they are in Rio, the difference is in Rio they don't pretend that they aren't. At least they are "honest" dirty cops, lawyers, and judges.
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And 10 seconds to the five year old who wants Spongebob Squarepants NOW!!!! IS a big deal.
Great. It is preparation for their future - get used to taking a big bite out of the shit sandwich now son...
The 800 was far superior - the only difference between that and the 400 was amount of memory and a real keyboard. The first 800 I used was about 1/2 of what the equivalent Apple II cost. Plus it was full color and awesome sound. And they had a ton of games available right away. You weren't forced to buy a 12" crappy green or amber screen monitor - the Atari's hooked up to any color television. I don't care who wants to take credit or who designed what - those things don't interest me. All I know was that Atari was putting out better computers for a lot less than Apple was. I think if Apple hadn't been wise enough to give educational discounts back in the day, they would have really struggled to compete. Having an Apple in a good portion of schools helped keep them viable.
He should have paid more attention when he worked at Atari. Atari's computer line was superior and cheaper than Apple's offerings at the time.
Considering the RIAA formed in 1952, 7 years after Hitler's death, yeah I would say that is a pretty safe bet. Completely irrelevant, but safe. On that note he was never in bed with Microsoft either, much to the chagrin of many Slashdot readers...
Yeah, it was 4 times faster than my old 300 baud modem. Connecting with a 300 baud modem was like watching a teletype slowly fill the screen with characters, line by line. Downloading a few thousand character file could take hours. (Especially if your copper phone lines were bad.)
Ditto with my experience as well. I think that most people who complain about Vista have never actually used a SP1 or newer version for any amount of time. About the only gripe I can come up with about Vista 64-bit is that getting some of the video/audio codecs installed can be a pain. But really, that is the only issue I have had (well, besides some software not being available for 64-bit version, but that is not the fault of the OS). Other than that is has been rather smooth sailing and I am unsure what all the fuss is about.
That helps, but it isn't what really matters. Besides promotion, the biggest thing labels offer is a distribution model. Have you seen the end of the aisle displays at Best Buy and Walmart? You don't get those by being a talented artist, or by "getting off your ass", you get them because they have deals with record labels. If Best Buy wants to sell the big name artists, they will have to sell and advertise some of the smaller bands too. Getting played on the radio is very similar. While there isn't outright open payola as much anymore, there is definitely implied indirect payola. Having talent and working hard will greatly increase your chance for success, but if you don't have someone with some sway behind you, even the best efforts often go nowhere.
No, if it was kdawson he would be ranting about how Microsoft is ruining the vibrator industry.
I don't know. Offering people free rides on a bus? Sounds like Socialism to me. Wouldn't it be better if everyone drove their own individual cars?
Great job opportunities in just about every industry?
Check. We were rated #1 Best Place To Live by Money magazine in 2006.
Excellent ethnic cuisines from around the world?
Check. Due in part to larger populations of Hmong, Mexican, and African immigrants. We may not have the sheer volume oh NYC, but per capita we do just fine. Minneapolis also has the most off Broadway theaters per capita in any other city except NYC.
Stores where you can pretty much find anything?
Apparently you have never heard of Mall of America before? If you can't find it there, it probably isn't sold anywhere. 520 stoes in 2.5 million square feet of mall hell.
Groceries delivered to your door?
Check. There are at least 5 different places that will deliver to where I live.
Great bar scene
Check. What the hell else do you think there is to do here, especially in the winter? We also have a music scene here that blows most cities away. Just ask Craig Finn from the Hold Steady.
gorgeous women of all kinds
Probably not as varied as NYC, but we do just fine thanks.
Our public transportation isn't the greatest, but it is getting better. And we are also the #2 most bike friendly city in the US, right after Portland.
Yeah.
Drinkypoo doesn't live here.
My taxes didn't buy the lakes, but they certainly help keep them clean. The revenue for the Minnesota State Lotteries all go to the DNR here. And my taxes did pay for the hundreds of miles of bike trails, and hunters and fishers taxes paid for the clean lakes, rivers, parks, and rest of the land.
See, you guys just proved my point. If you ask 10 IT folks about a list of "essential" software, you are going to get 10 very different lists. That is why less is best. There is no such thing as a "one size fits all" approach to software, because every user has different wants and needs.
On the plus side, any software you don't install is software you don't have to answer support questions from customers.
The last Brazilian soap opera I saw had a 5 minute scene of a beautiful girl in the shower. If your theory is correct, the next day the brothels must have been full!
Yeah, my first thought after reading this was - how long until the black market chips that get around this are available? I am guessing within a week if this actually goes into effect.
Or you could just buy a used cop car. Something tells me their cars will not have these devices installed.
Is such a thing possible anywhere?? Most of the time news=opinions and vice-versa. As long as humans are covering the news, there will always be a bias.
I know. And then they didn't even do Stonehenge later that night...
Ubiquitous monitoring fits Obama's Socialist agenda perfectly.
Citation needed.
Obama's Socialist agenda
Dictionary needed.
So your company chose to put the trial software on the systems that you sold, you fail to warn the "unsuspecting" customer that it is only trial software, the customer agrees to the terms and are told when launching the applications that it is trial software, and this is somehow Microsoft's fault?
And now you are installing other third party software? Why not just let the customers decide which software they would like to use themselves? First thing I always do when buying a system from a shop (as opposed to building it myself, which I usually do) is wipe the hard drive and put the OS of my choice on it, and whatever other software I wish. I hate pre-configured anything.
No it isn't. I charge $40/hour. If they don't like it, they can go somewhere else.
Just because you think there is doesn't mean there is. ("Because I can" isn't a valid reason, I'm sorry.)
I notice you sidestepped the issue. If you can see a valid use for this, please, enlighten us.
Well, to be technical, it didn't say "allows you to run a webserver off the battery indefinitely". It just said you could run a server. Even if it was only running for a second it was technically "running".
A gigantic phone bill?
I have the same opinion. I hate Keanu and Ryder but love Robert Downey Jr, and thought the stuff between him and Woody Harrelson was priceless. They gave a much needed comic aspect to the pretty dark material. Overall I thought the film was done well, and stayed relatively faithful to the story - especially considering some of the other "adaptations" of his work on film.
But if the machine they use to determine that .08 reading is faulty, isn't it pretty much the same thing?
This happened to a friend of mine about 15 years ago. He had been at a party earlier and had drank a few drinks. He then ate a huge meal, and waited several hours before he drove home - without having any more alcohol. He was pulled over on the way home by a cop who he had some previous run-ins with, and seemed to have an attitude towards my friend. (The cop had gone to high school with my friend's older brother and apparently they never got along.) After the cop pulled him over, he told my friend he had been "swerving all over the road, and crossed the center line several times". My friend told me that was bullshit, that he had been driving fine and wasn't impaired in the slightest. I was at the same party and had personally witnessed how much he had drank, and the time frame in which he had been consuming. I know he hadn't had any alcohol for at least 3 hours and had only had a few cocktails prior to that. So I have no reason to think my friend wasn't being truthful. The cop got him out and made him do the roadside sobriety tests. Which he did and passed with flying colors. The cop seemed mad about that and told my friend "I don't care if you passed those tests or not, I know you are drunk." He got out the portable breathalyzer, and had my friend blow. It came up green - meaning zero alcohol in his breath. The cop got even more mad, and said that the machine wasn't working because it was too cold (this was the middle of winter in Minnesota). He brought the machine into his car and held it in front of the heat for a few minutes, and then made my friend blow again. It came up green again. The cop insisted the machine was still not working correctly, and had my friend blow yet again. Green once more. Not to be stopped by reality, the cop once more insisted my friend blow, and this time it was yellow - meaning some alcohol in the system but not over the legal limit. Then the cop actually arrested him for DWI. Towed his car and my friend go to spend the night in jail. My friend got a lawyer and went to court, and the lawyer took the cop apart. He got all charges dismissed, AND got my friends money back he had paid in fines and towing charges. His lawyer told him he probably had a good harassment/wrongful arrest case, but my friend didn't want to pursue it any further. So after 3 blows of zero, the portable breathalyzer decided that in fact he did have some alcohol in his system. If I ever had to blow into one of those things and it said I was over the limit, (I have had to twice before and both times I hadn't had anything to drink at all and came up clean) I would get a lawyer and try to fight it. They just are not reliable enough to trust.
After living in Rio de Janeiro in the past, I came to the same conclusion. Everyone here is "on the take" as much as they are in Rio, the difference is in Rio they don't pretend that they aren't. At least they are "honest" dirty cops, lawyers, and judges.