i personally bought them. no i don’t have money. didn’t then either. they were about $200 each, just prior to when vista started shipping (they were on sale). ram was upgraded from scrap, so was one of the video cards and one of the cpu (they were both originally windsors)–the other was bought new for ~$50 in late 2008 or so.
i have a couple dual core athlons (windsor and brisbane athlon 64 x2) at the office from that era. they are still used, even. have 8gb ddr2, dvdrw, and dx10-capable geforce cards.
just put a big pillow ‘on’ the external hard drive.
when i wanted bandwidth available ‘elsewhere’ (such as streaming or games on a different pc) but wanted to continue long transfers, used to neuter the lan adapter configuration on the system doing the transfers by setting it to 10baseT, full or half duplex for 10 or 5mbit max. that was back when my isp connection topped out at < 15mbit. i didn’t always use a program or an addon that had rate limiting, and that was my ‘solution’.
company that profits from porn piracy sues for piracy of porn.
my co-worker wants an ota dvr. what one do you have? and is it easy to use for someone that can barely navigate a tv menu? ease of use and minimal internet bandwidth use (they use a ‘jetpack’ with crappy signal for internet at home) are their main requirements.
anything 4:3 seems ‘old’ these days.
i got suckered once on a different site that got shut down. never again.
it’s been a few months since i’ve had that pc booted-up, but i think this is the one:
https://www.videohelp.com/software/Subtitle-Workshop
note that i don’t create or translate subs, all i really use it for is for adjusting timing of the whole file (using vlc to find the + or -), and the occasional edit or delete of an existing line.
i’ve had ads inside of subs downloaded via browser. whenever i see them, i load 'em up in my sub editor and remove them. i usually have to adjust timing anyway as my sources are rarely the same.
but no refunds past 30 days into a longer-than-one-month term. pay by the year, cancel 6 months in, you’re out half of what you paid. not even converting the ‘used’ time into a shorter appropriate length term (like a six month plan or 2 quarterly ones…) and refunding some if it…
it’s robbery.
cable companies in the u.s. do the same shit, now. no prorated refunds–even on normal monthly billing.
i’ve watched more than a few shows that have been brutally hacked into wide format from the original 4:3. the practice is horrible. they need to stop pulling that shit and let the viewer decide whether to crop the frame or not–or put a proper pan & scan up instead of a blind hack job and leave the original format available, too.
bots will start hitting a brand new subdomain on my web server literally seconds after creating it. looking for exploitable scripts like wordpress, usually.
you can verify warranty on wd’s site.
warranty exchanged drives should carry a minimal warranty or the balance of the original drive’s warranty–whichever is longer.
but it was ‘doa’–get a refund from seller, or via ebay’s/paypal’s buyer protection. don’t mess around with mfg warranty, you don’t need to here.
plenty of room on that ad to replace ‘own it now’ with ‘rent it until the studio deletes it or we quit paying for its rights’
low-bandwidth data plans in bulk are pretty cheap. it’s what many atms, vending machines, redbox and similar, etc., along with sensors and gauges, and what-not for a variety of applications, use.
over the expected lifespan of a car, it would cost the manufactures less than they charge for a set of floor mats.
those other three you mention are mainly for coding or technical help, while pastebins definitely have other ‘use cases’
i have enough… uh… ‘archived’ content that i don’t need to ‘discover’ anything new for years.
ad-skip to present day. encryption and drm is being introduced into the new atsc 3.0 broadcast standard, and some stations are already using it.