Comment US Robotics? (Score 5, Funny) 50
I thought this article was going to promote the Sportster X2 over those Chinese Zoom v32bis modems!
I thought this article was going to promote the Sportster X2 over those Chinese Zoom v32bis modems!
Totally agree. Nearly unlimited players, and real-time combat in the dial-up days. It was a game changer for sure.
I'd have to reach further back for others: Wolf 3D for real FPS. There were others but Wolf set the standard.
Maybe early Zelda for OG stateful pre-internet RPG.
Does anybody post on Slashdot anymore? After I clicked, I was surprised the few number of comments.
I was about to throw out an arbitrary 'Eff Ed Sheeran' comment, but I realized I wasn't reading Reddit. lol
How are the rest of you old Slashdotters? Haven't checked in since we were setting up Novell Netware on NT... Or, is there a new, better Slashdot forum now?
Yeah before Crystal Palace declares DEFCON 1.
Words of wisdom, Lloyd. Words of wisdom.
Can Hulu have South Park back now, please?
What's your point Vanessa?
I hate fumbling with my phone in the car, but XM has good variety, few commercials, it doesn't fade or lose signals when driving long distances and doesn't use cellular data.
Nm, face palm, Jurassic Park.
That would be Contact, no?
I just read that the clean-up robots at Fukushima can't withstand the radiation of the site. I wonder if this sort of improvement could be adapted to improve the clean-up hardware. Is temperature and radiation it the same kind of 'heat'?
Could someone explain the difference between what MIT accomplished with the ARC reactor, versus what the Wendelstein 7-X demonstrated today; successful hydrogen plasma containment. Sounds like the German project is closer to success... The ARC reactor sounds like it's smaller and less expensive?
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWendelstein_7-X
So what? Ad engines on websites have been doing the same thing for years. Fix it the same way; just identify the domain names that the TV is radioing home to, and redirect those domains via DNS (OpenDNS makes this easy), to anywhere else where they'll just 404.
http://www.costco.com/Common/Category.aspx?cat=4802&eCat=BC|90607|4802&lang=en-US&whse=BC&topnav=
4 IR cams expandable to 8 with a 500 Gb DVR for $280. Not a bad deal short of putting your camcorder on a tripod and pointing it out the back door.
Isn't it ALL original content? (Minus the official music videos and movie trailers)
What makes 'official' original content; it's produced by Google? it's costs over n dollars to produce? it airs on basic cable after it's no longer popular on You Tube?
They wanted to see who would wine about it.
I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck. -- Rob Pike, on X.