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- GlytchMeister
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Re: Windows 10
...Tennis Shoe network?
*headtilt*
Huh?
*headtilt*
Huh?
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He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
- GlytchMeister
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Re: Windows 10
Oooooh.
I geddit.
I think there was an xkcd what-if article about this sort of thing...
I geddit.
I think there was an xkcd what-if article about this sort of thing...
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
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Re: Windows 10
*Raises hand* Used them with the old CompEdit photocomp machines, which were just about obsolete when I got started on them.AmriloJim wrote:I'm sure I'm not the only one who used the 5.25" variety.
What did those floppies hold, about 1 kb? Sometimes it took 3 of them to set one table.
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Re: Windows 10
I did some of my early work on 8" floppies!Typeminer wrote:*Raises hand* Used them with the old CompEdit photocomp machines, which were just about obsolete when I got started on them.AmriloJim wrote:I'm sure I'm not the only one who used the 5.25" variety.
One project involved using an 8" floppy as a software swap/paging device. Each sector held an individual software subroutine, all the subroutines expected to be loaded at the same location in RAM (we didn't have much on that device) and I wrote a library that let you call from one subroutine into another and then return (reading in the new code during the call, and restoring the old software when the call returned).
It wasn't fast, but it let us do some very complex operations on a micro that had only a kilobyte or so of RAM available.
Re: Windows 10
Yeah, I remember moving to that smaller size.AmriloJim wrote:I'm sure I'm not the only one who used the 5.25" variety.
(The first 5.25" floppy drive I worked with had greater capacity per disk than the 8" drives of the time. The first 3.5" drive I worked with had greater capacity than the 5.25" drives of the time. I wondered what the capacity would be when they first come out with 0" floppy drives.)
Re: Windows 10
And now you can acquire a flash drive that can hold 128gb. Think about that. The storage disk of an old 1gb drive was the size of a dinner plate. Now you can hold more than a hundred times that on something the size of your thumb.
In ten years or less, we'll be seeing terabyte flash drives.
Somewhere around then, someone will figure out, in theory, how to actually store memories.
From there, we'll have externalized memory, organic in origin, and memory recording implants. Which means a lot of crazy, scary cyberpunk stuff...
Whoa... Maaaaybe I shouldn't be watching creepy pasta videos on YouTube this late at night...
In ten years or less, we'll be seeing terabyte flash drives.
Somewhere around then, someone will figure out, in theory, how to actually store memories.
From there, we'll have externalized memory, organic in origin, and memory recording implants. Which means a lot of crazy, scary cyberpunk stuff...
Whoa... Maaaaybe I shouldn't be watching creepy pasta videos on YouTube this late at night...
There is no such thing as a science experiment gone wrong.
Re: Windows 10
Oh, it's creepier than you think, my friend.Alkarii wrote:Whoa... Maaaaybe I shouldn't be watching creepy pasta videos on YouTube this late at night...
Riddle me this: How do you know, for certain, that you aren't just a disembodied memory recording, bring exercised in some very elaborate reality simulator running in a high-end cloud server in an internet of the future?
Of course, you can decide that this is an utterly impertinent question to be asked by a simulated personality like I might be!
- Sgt. Howard
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Re: Windows 10
If I am a disembodied memory, as you are suggesting, then I need desperately to find the sick bastard who created me and choke the living dogsnot out of him for inventing child support and alimony...Dave wrote:Oh, it's creepier than you think, my friend.Alkarii wrote:Whoa... Maaaaybe I shouldn't be watching creepy pasta videos on YouTube this late at night...
Riddle me this: How do you know, for certain, that you aren't just a disembodied memory recording, bring exercised in some very elaborate reality simulator running in a high-end cloud server in an internet of the future?
Of course, you can decide that this is an utterly impertinent question to be asked by a simulated personality like I might be!
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- GlytchMeister
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Re: Windows 10
We already have terabyte flash drives
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
Re: Windows 10
Realm now...
Which means, right now, someone is researching digitizing organic memory.
As for being a simulation... If that's the case, someone better get me some damn cheat codes.
Which means, right now, someone is researching digitizing organic memory.
As for being a simulation... If that's the case, someone better get me some damn cheat codes.
There is no such thing as a science experiment gone wrong.
- GlytchMeister
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Re: Windows 10
That research has been happening for a while now. I've heard of some concepts of expanding the hippocampus with an implanted memory device, and the idea of uploading a mind to a computer has been around for a very long time.Alkarii wrote:Realm now...
Which means, right now, someone is researching digitizing organic memory.
As for being a simulation... If that's the case, someone better get me some damn cheat codes.
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
Re: Windows 10
Based on the size reference, I think the intent was terabyte microSD cards.GlytchMeister wrote:We already have terabyte flash drives
And those also already exist.
Re: Windows 10
Yeah,I'd already heard of that, more than a decade ago. Which means the idea is probably decades old, at least.
I also noticed that friggin' autocorrect changed a word that was already correct in my post...
I also noticed that friggin' autocorrect changed a word that was already correct in my post...
There is no such thing as a science experiment gone wrong.
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Re: Windows 10
OH MY GAWD the charge port on my iPhone 4 was absolutely disgusting!
I need to clean my ports more often... It was so clogged with crud only half of the plug would fit into the port. I never bothered until it stopped charging... I just cleaned it out. *shudder*
Public Service Announcement: CLEAN YOUR PORTS. It's gross if you don't.
I need to clean my ports more often... It was so clogged with crud only half of the plug would fit into the port. I never bothered until it stopped charging... I just cleaned it out. *shudder*
Public Service Announcement: CLEAN YOUR PORTS. It's gross if you don't.
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
- Catawampus
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Re: Windows 10
Also clean the ones on any electronic devices that you may own.GlytchMeister wrote:Public Service Announcement: CLEAN YOUR PORTS. It's gross if you don't.
Re: Windows 10
I'm expecting a Client's PC be dropped shipped to my door Tuesday AM, it'll be Win10 and the older broken previous PC was (is )Vista.
I've already copied the 'Users' directories, inc AppData* (to archive MS Mail folders), any tips, obvious or not? (My ego can take me asking the question...)
(It's not called AppData, I just ferget the proper name; Application... blah, blah, blah. (Same place Outlook places it's on-system mail folders, etc...)
PS- anyone have experience w/ ordering MS Office licenses off of the Internet? I'm defaulting to a company called SoftwareKing.com . Ever heard of them?
Previous to now I've either gotten s/w through a Corporate Discount or through a Non-Profit...
I've already copied the 'Users' directories, inc AppData* (to archive MS Mail folders), any tips, obvious or not? (My ego can take me asking the question...)
(It's not called AppData, I just ferget the proper name; Application... blah, blah, blah. (Same place Outlook places it's on-system mail folders, etc...)
PS- anyone have experience w/ ordering MS Office licenses off of the Internet? I'm defaulting to a company called SoftwareKing.com . Ever heard of them?
Previous to now I've either gotten s/w through a Corporate Discount or through a Non-Profit...
Re: Windows 10
Ferget all the above; system came w/ WIn 7x64...
- Jabberwonky
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Re: Windows 10
Good advice for all facets of your life...Glytchmeister wrote:Public Service Announcement: CLEAN YOUR PORTS. It's gross if you don't.
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