Comment Re:The market is getting tighter and tighter (Score 2) 203
But what makes it worth while is that the pigeons often win the argument!
But what makes it worth while is that the pigeons often win the argument!
The young kids play WiiFit SKi Jump and some Mario stuff at weekends, and rest of the family play Quantum of Solace at Christmas.
We bought a bunch of other stuff and its mostly not playable. Anyway Android games keep kids occupied, and everyone else watches Youtube.
WTF is with yet another Mario title?
Some needs tog et some originality. Where is "World Ndombolo Challenge"? that is what I want to know! I am still waiting!
Only after a prolonged (or possibly multi-pronged) anal probing.
True Dat.
Before money, the world population was less than a million. Now it is growing by millions a day.
It was American money that funded the rebels, and the Europeans that insisted the government "negotiate" with the rebels as if they were a legitimate democratic opposition. This is the equivalent of asking the Italian government to negotiate with the Mafia. Only worse: The rebels knew they would go to hell for crimes against humanity if caught, so they were prepared to go to any extreme to avoid being caught - chopping random limbs off men women and children without mercy in drug-fueled rampages was only a part of it.
Yes its a f*ckup - but they were forced into this mess by outsiders. It take a lot to recover from that.
Thats what we have Fox News for.
Ebay the PDP11 and buy a dozen Pentium4s with the money.Assuming your PDP11 services 12 users, the performance will be similar, and the electric bill less than half. You may need an extra P4 to act as a tape server, a couple more to act as disk servers, and some others as terminal servers..
OK, maybe the PDP11 IS more power efficient!
We thought computers would replace accountants, even in 1967. Shakespeare had alerady recommended killing all the lawyers hundreds of years earlier, and who could argue with the bard?
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight