Reminds me of my preteen years making dozens and dozens of D&D characters, even though I had no idea (at the time) how to play the game. But man, making those characters sure was fun....let's just do that! What's 'psyche'? I don't know, but let's roll a d20 for it! WHEE!
Sorry, Psyche is Marvel Super Heroes. You'd roll d% for it and consult the chart. Maybe you were having trouble learning the games because you were mixing the two (they were both TSR). That could have been fun... "Galstaff, you have entered the door to the north. You are now by yourself standing in a dark room; the pungent stench of mildew emanates from the wet dungeon walls.... There are there are seven ogres surrounding you." "Colossus prepares to throw Wolverine with a Fastball Special" "OGRES!?! Man, I got an ogre slaying claw! It's got a +9 against ogres!"
"If there's any girls there Gambit wants to do them!"
Well sonny, I remember it was back in the '80s. There were these guys who loved their Apple IIIs so much that, despite its faults, they kept them running for years beyond their useful lifetimes. They did this by filling their offices with industrial-strength fans pointed at those Apple IIIs. Ever since then, we've called people who continue to support obviously flawed products "fanboys"
I can imagine the mythbusters episode now. They cheat and place some Sony laptop batteries in it to get the explosion they want.
The only other options are water cooling or passive cooling, and passive cooling isn't acceptable for a machine faster than 800MHz unless you've got a heatsink that looks like Laurelin or Telperion (a big metal tree). So, people just need to be taught to vacuum out their heatsinks once a year.
2) Your antenna won't work well if at all with UHF, which uses a loop antenna, rather than a dipole.
Need a loop? Loop the 12' of wire back around. Tada! Instant ~4' loop of wire. It's more than meets the eye!
IIRC, the Hovermann-Gray is directional, and requires manual fiddling or a robotic twist to get multiple signals.
When the Mac came out, every software user's manual had to explain how to use a mouse.
And up through OS 8,9,X people have had to explain how to use one button mice with ctrl-click, open-apple-click, ctrl-open-close-apple-x-double-click
And what is "maximize" good for.
You've never done image editing, programming, websurfing, watching video, or maybe just wanted to maximize a system status window fullscreen? Here's a website I like to have fullscreen regularly (warning, it's a biiig animated gif): http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php
I see this on iphone OS whenever a UL tag is used.
I also see a lot of posts like this
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as far as I'm aware, the majority of new OS installations nowadays occur on new computers rather then existing systems
The majority of home users and small businesses use whatever came pre-installed. Now, home users and small businesses are a _lot_ of "people" but compare geeks' 5-6 computer hoarding versus the regular folks. And consider large businesses' computer glut. Large businesses and geeks almost always start with a fresh OS, getting rid of the vendor-ware. A lot of computers are being traded second-hand these days. Possibly more than are being purchased new. Many of these computers are wiped clean before or after purchase.
It's not going to happen. Did you know that the mantle (what turns into magma/lava at lower pressures) is solid? So any drilling into solid mantle will cause explosive decompression of hot rock turning it into magma. And that's a long way before you get to the outer core.
I used to copy/paste assignments when I was a TA, and finding cheats was as simple as running all turned in assignments against the library of previous code in a script for similarities. If someone altered their cheating code enough that it fell below the threshold, then they did a lot more useless work than just writing the assignment (and they'd fail the next few classes while paying the university $$$). I found one cheater who didn't change anything though, including the author names in comments. I'd seen variable-name changers and comment changers before, but I'd never thought anyone would be that lazy.
I haven't yet seen an antenna better than a 12+ foot long length of 4 gauge wire connected to a balun. Hides easily, can be bent into a shape that picks up all your channels, and it's $10 if everything's new from the store, and almost no work.
Every modern OS can trace back to Unix in some way or form.
VMS? Windows? ReactOS? Plan9? QNX? Tron? zOS?
I wouldn't call VMS modern...
Windows: take a look in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\ some time. See any Unix style influences?
The others I have no clue about.
But they'll try to make every feel better about it by mentioning that, of course, their own world view and the way they want things like elections to wind up would never influence their editorial and reporting decisions, ever, ever, ever. No sirree.
And they'd Rather quit than have it influence their fact-checking too.
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And where do we get the helium? Fusion!
They're not spiders, they're Dill-Rats. Dwe all understand Yuubuu here.
You're missing a business venture. Put the man from Nigeria in contact with the Scientist for a finder's fee.
Reminds me of my preteen years making dozens and dozens of D&D characters, even though I had no idea (at the time) how to play the game. But man, making those characters sure was fun....let's just do that! What's 'psyche'? I don't know, but let's roll a d20 for it! WHEE!
Sorry, Psyche is Marvel Super Heroes. You'd roll d% for it and consult the chart. Maybe you were having trouble learning the games because you were mixing the two (they were both TSR). That could have been fun... ... There are there are seven ogres surrounding you."
"Galstaff, you have entered the door to the north. You are now by yourself standing in a dark room; the pungent stench of mildew emanates from the wet dungeon walls.
"Colossus prepares to throw Wolverine with a Fastball Special"
"OGRES!?! Man, I got an ogre slaying claw! It's got a +9 against ogres!"
"If there's any girls there Gambit wants to do them!"
how is the parent a troll?? that's some pretty harsh modding
The moderator's grandfather invented the numlock
No, it's "Gaffa Tape".
No, it's "Gaffi Stick!"
Rrhrr! Rr rr rr rr!
You can do it with a CD now.
That hole is really small. Are you sure?
/guttermind
Well sonny, I remember it was back in the '80s. There were these guys who loved their Apple IIIs so much that, despite its faults, they kept them running for years beyond their useful lifetimes. They did this by filling their offices with industrial-strength fans pointed at those Apple IIIs. Ever since then, we've called people who continue to support obviously flawed products "fanboys"
I can imagine the mythbusters episode now. They cheat and place some Sony laptop batteries in it to get the explosion they want.
The only other options are water cooling or passive cooling, and passive cooling isn't acceptable for a machine faster than 800MHz unless you've got a heatsink that looks like Laurelin or Telperion (a big metal tree). So, people just need to be taught to vacuum out their heatsinks once a year.
2) Your antenna won't work well if at all with UHF, which uses a loop antenna, rather than a dipole.
Need a loop? Loop the 12' of wire back around. Tada! Instant ~4' loop of wire. It's more than meets the eye! IIRC, the Hovermann-Gray is directional, and requires manual fiddling or a robotic twist to get multiple signals.
When the Mac came out, every software user's manual had to explain how to use a mouse.
And up through OS 8,9,X people have had to explain how to use one button mice with ctrl-click, open-apple-click, ctrl-open-close-apple-x-double-click
And what is "maximize" good for.
You've never done image editing, programming, websurfing, watching video, or maybe just wanted to maximize a system status window fullscreen? Here's a website I like to have fullscreen regularly (warning, it's a biiig animated gif): http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php
I see this on iphone OS whenever a UL tag is used.
I /. owns an iphone to test on, and they don't realize their new iphone mode can't make a sentence stretch the screen horizontally. And there's still clickable JS content on the _entire_page_ so that when I fat-finger, it does the stupid "jump to top, reload everything again" Seriously, /., I want to read /. at lunch, but I'm going to have to start reading digg or CNN or something if you don't fix things.
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as far as I'm aware, the majority of new OS installations nowadays occur on new computers rather then existing systems
The majority of home users and small businesses use whatever came pre-installed. Now, home users and small businesses are a _lot_ of "people" but compare geeks' 5-6 computer hoarding versus the regular folks. And consider large businesses' computer glut. Large businesses and geeks almost always start with a fresh OS, getting rid of the vendor-ware. A lot of computers are being traded second-hand these days. Possibly more than are being purchased new. Many of these computers are wiped clean before or after purchase.
It's not going to happen. Did you know that the mantle (what turns into magma/lava at lower pressures) is solid? So any drilling into solid mantle will cause explosive decompression of hot rock turning it into magma. And that's a long way before you get to the outer core.
I used to copy/paste assignments when I was a TA, and finding cheats was as simple as running all turned in assignments against the library of previous code in a script for similarities. If someone altered their cheating code enough that it fell below the threshold, then they did a lot more useless work than just writing the assignment (and they'd fail the next few classes while paying the university $$$). I found one cheater who didn't change anything though, including the author names in comments. I'd seen variable-name changers and comment changers before, but I'd never thought anyone would be that lazy.
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I haven't yet seen an antenna better than a 12+ foot long length of 4 gauge wire connected to a balun. Hides easily, can be bent into a shape that picks up all your channels, and it's $10 if everything's new from the store, and almost no work.
I always thought melons were '%'
Unless the entire botnet is just the initial C&C system for a wider array of international botnets.
You fail it. If you mod someone and then post, your mad machiavellian mod (de)materializes.
You fail it. GP posted Anon, probably from another IP as well.
You can often tell that an operating system is in the Unix family if it has a name that is a combination of the letters U, I, and X.
That's a little unfair to the users of BSD based operating systems like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OSX and other variants.
MacOSX has an X. "B" is just two small sideways U's and an I. "D" is a wide sideways U and an I
I doubt Microsoft would be taking notes from Multics for Windows NT.
Here's a nickel kid, go buy yourself a real computer.
Every modern OS can trace back to Unix in some way or form.
VMS? Windows? ReactOS? Plan9? QNX? Tron? zOS?
I wouldn't call VMS modern...
Windows: take a look in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\ some time. See any Unix style influences?
The others I have no clue about.
But they'll try to make every feel better about it by mentioning that, of course, their own world view and the way they want things like elections to wind up would never influence their editorial and reporting decisions, ever, ever, ever. No sirree.
And they'd Rather quit than have it influence their fact-checking too.