I was going to post something like this. I'm all for non-petrolium energy sources, but unless the corn is grown with an organic crop rotation system, it often consumes more oil to grow the crop than if it had just been tipped straight into the car. I notice the article is seriously lacking in any information about the way the crop is grown.
Let's see... # of lives possibly saved in 6 months vs. shipping cost. You really don't think it's worth it?
Let's see... Shipping, setup, testing, deployment, training, batteries/power, support, software licencing -- all of which costs money that could be spent on medicine and takes people out of the system that could be helping more directly. I'll go with no unless someone can provide real details.
SATELLIFE will gladly accept donations of working handheld computers/PDAs with power cord/cradle. Models needed are Palm Vs or newer and any Pocket PCs.
I'm sorry, was the article supposed to be an ad for Epocrates or SATELLIFE?
You're right. When it comes to medical references, surely 2MB isn't enough for anything useful. Also, doesn't the V series have a custom battery pack? Those things just don't last that long. I would have thought that they'd only want the ones that take (easily changeable) AAA batteries.
Palms are also far from ruggedised. I'd put the lifespan of an old Palm V or IIIx in Africa at about six months. Hardly worth shipping out there.
And I'm sure I'm not quite matching what other people use, I'm not being consistant even amongst my own stuff and my spelling is probably a little off.
Meanwhile, this is pretty much what happens in any ad-hoc metadata system, and not all of us have the luxury of paying someone to manage our indexes. The place I used to work is just the same. At least it's better than nothing.
Have you tried saying that the noise is now reaching levels where your ability to do your job is compromised? Have you tried shouting "WHAT? Can you speak up?" down the phone a lot? While most management types are immune to personal comfort issues, they are sensitive to anything that obviously affects the bottom line.
I've been testing WoW on some low-end PCs -- something the games sites appear reluctant to do (perhaps they get kickbacks from hardware manufacturers).
Fujitsu Laptop: 1.1GHz Pentium IIIm, 384MB of RAM, Intel 830m video, WinXP. Originally 6 FPS (7-9 after a driver update and general clean, haven't tested since the new patch.)
Spare parts PC: Celeron 733MHz o/c to 770, 128MB of RAM, GeForce3 ti200, Win98SE. Gets the first frame then connection is kicked.
Mini-ITX PC: 1GHz, 256MB of RAM, on-board S3 video (blech), XP Pro. 0.3 to <6 FPS. Hardware cursor problems.This is stuff that's below the minimum specs, and/or has "unsupported" video hardware. You can use this as a guide as to what it's not worth even trying on.
As mentioned, there is a "guest pass" system, currently only used by the Collector's Edition. If you search Google for "World of Warcraft" beta installer you should be able to find the 2.6Gig installation package.
Or you could wait for the load to calm down enough for Blizzard to start doing magazine cover DVD 10-day demos. You know it's going to happen.
You need to buy a retail pack to create a single account.
A single account can have multiple characters, but you can only have one log on at a time.
You can install the software on as many PCs as you want (I still use the open beta installer as the base).
So, if you and your wife don't want to play at the same time, one account will let you have separate characters, but those characters will never be able to be on at the same time. If a family has one hardcore player and one casual player, my suggestion is for the casual player to see if they can piggy-back on a friend's account. Two or more lots of WoW subscription in the one household is a little expensive.
*hypno powers on* s w i t c h t o w a r c r a f t *hypno powers off*
I think they did. WoW has been coughing and spluttering for three days now. It's hard to do an elite quest that takes 4 hours if the servers are unstable.
These are from a list in the latest Adbusters. I usually get my fiction suggestions from Cory Doctrow's bOINGbOING. So Yesterday was the best recent suggestion.
You can bung a Zalman on lots of cards, but cards that need something that large still dump a lot of heat into the case that you have to shift. Small, simple, passive is much healthier if you have, say, an Antec Phantom fanless power supply.
I'm a sysadmin. I am not the most senior person in the company. While I can suggest levels of security to better safegaurd data, if someone more senior than me wants to be an Administrator on their local PC, they're more than welcome. In fact, all my users are automatically setup as Administrator on their local PCs, or else the database app we use doesn't work.
Where I work, everyone is responsible for the security of the company, and everyone is trusted within their own area of expertise. Occasionally someone screws something up, but that's what backups (and a whole heap of data integrity reports) are for.
I notice the lack of fan. Is this the best passively cooled video card on the market? It's better than everything I've currently got, so when I do my next upgrade it might be worth trying for a silent PC, instead of giving up and going for the fastest, loudest thing available. A nice Zalman 7000-series heatsink for the CPU and my gaming PC doesn't have to sound like a plane taking off.
Soulbinding sometimes triggers just on pickup. This is a PITA. It means that if you find something cool while soloing that one of your friends' characters could use, you can't give it to them.
I seriously hope you didn't just compare the sale of virtual items to rape and murder. One being an interesting copyright issue which may not even be illegal, the others being rape and murder.
I tried Thunderhawk yesterday and it was completely unreadable, even the UI. As such, I couldn't find any options that appeared to affect the rendering engine in order to fix it.
All you need is a big, well funded industry body behind you. Of course, they'll take 90% of your profit, but at least you'll have artistic freedom so long as you do what they tell you to do.
I was thinking of adapting our existing in-house website (notes, marks, timetables, enrolment, etc) so it could be used on small screens, like Opera running on Nokia's Series 60 platform. Any students out there think something like this would be valuable? Or do you all tend to have good enough access to full-blown PCs?
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I was going to post something like this. I'm all for non-petrolium energy sources, but unless the corn is grown with an organic crop rotation system, it often consumes more oil to grow the crop than if it had just been tipped straight into the car. I notice the article is seriously lacking in any information about the way the crop is grown.
Palms are also far from ruggedised. I'd put the lifespan of an old Palm V or IIIx in Africa at about six months. Hardly worth shipping out there.
Meanwhile, this is pretty much what happens in any ad-hoc metadata system, and not all of us have the luxury of paying someone to manage our indexes. The place I used to work is just the same. At least it's better than nothing.
There's a puTTY client for the series 60 mobile phones, and it certainly works over Australia's Optus mobile network.
Have you tried saying that the noise is now reaching levels where your ability to do your job is compromised? Have you tried shouting "WHAT? Can you speak up?" down the phone a lot? While most management types are immune to personal comfort issues, they are sensitive to anything that obviously affects the bottom line.
Fujitsu Laptop: 1.1GHz Pentium IIIm, 384MB of RAM, Intel 830m video, WinXP. Originally 6 FPS (7-9 after a driver update and general clean, haven't tested since the new patch.)
Spare parts PC: Celeron 733MHz o/c to 770, 128MB of RAM, GeForce3 ti200, Win98SE. Gets the first frame then connection is kicked.
Mini-ITX PC: 1GHz, 256MB of RAM, on-board S3 video (blech), XP Pro. 0.3 to <6 FPS. Hardware cursor problems.This is stuff that's below the minimum specs, and/or has "unsupported" video hardware. You can use this as a guide as to what it's not worth even trying on.
Or you could wait for the load to calm down enough for Blizzard to start doing magazine cover DVD 10-day demos. You know it's going to happen.
- You need to buy a retail pack to create a single account.
- A single account can have multiple characters, but you can only have one log on at a time.
- You can install the software on as many PCs as you want (I still use the open beta installer as the base).
So, if you and your wife don't want to play at the same time, one account will let you have separate characters, but those characters will never be able to be on at the same time. If a family has one hardcore player and one casual player, my suggestion is for the casual player to see if they can piggy-back on a friend's account. Two or more lots of WoW subscription in the one household is a little expensive."Deals with all piracy matters regarding the Music Industry. Part of ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association)."
- Jennifer Government
- Everyone in Silico
- Pattern Recognition
- The Savage Girl
- PopCo
These are from a list in the latest Adbusters. I usually get my fiction suggestions from Cory Doctrow's bOINGbOING. So Yesterday was the best recent suggestion.Then pursue criminal charges. Surely "treason" could be on the list.
You can bung a Zalman on lots of cards, but cards that need something that large still dump a lot of heat into the case that you have to shift. Small, simple, passive is much healthier if you have, say, an Antec Phantom fanless power supply.
Where I work, everyone is responsible for the security of the company, and everyone is trusted within their own area of expertise. Occasionally someone screws something up, but that's what backups (and a whole heap of data integrity reports) are for.
Nah, wait until someone does this with the 6800-series, then start asking about dual-dual-GPU.
I notice the lack of fan. Is this the best passively cooled video card on the market? It's better than everything I've currently got, so when I do my next upgrade it might be worth trying for a silent PC, instead of giving up and going for the fastest, loudest thing available. A nice Zalman 7000-series heatsink for the CPU and my gaming PC doesn't have to sound like a plane taking off.
Soulbinding sometimes triggers just on pickup. This is a PITA. It means that if you find something cool while soloing that one of your friends' characters could use, you can't give it to them.
I seriously hope you didn't just compare the sale of virtual items to rape and murder. One being an interesting copyright issue which may not even be illegal, the others being rape and murder.
I tried Thunderhawk yesterday and it was completely unreadable, even the UI. As such, I couldn't find any options that appeared to affect the rendering engine in order to fix it.
All you need is a big, well funded industry body behind you. Of course, they'll take 90% of your profit, but at least you'll have artistic freedom so long as you do what they tell you to do.
That was a seriously awful trailer. Does anyone have a better one, perhaps with different music and fewer cuts?
No, wait, one. Homestar Runner. Though I usually go straight to the new pages from Fark.
I was thinking of adapting our existing in-house website (notes, marks, timetables, enrolment, etc) so it could be used on small screens, like Opera running on Nokia's Series 60 platform. Any students out there think something like this would be valuable? Or do you all tend to have good enough access to full-blown PCs?