Re:Executive summary (=for the lazy who don't RTFA
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Review of Doom 3 on Linux
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· Score: 5, Informative
You forgot to mention that a large part of this performance difference is likely due to the lack of SSE2 instructions in the linux version. This will be fixed as he finishes porting the ASM from the windows source.
Re:Wow! now what could i do with 10 miles...
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WiMax: When, Not If
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Some of my MIS teachers at U of H were talking about the school being a test location for it. Except, they said it would have a 20 mile range. I think they also mentioned that the students would be able to access it. "Free" high speed internet would be cool to have.
Last I heard, tiptronics were just automatics with a fancy shifter that let the driver think he is cool while inefficently shifting. Could be wrong though.
As far as I can tell, it doesn't seem to have any kind of authentication, you just have to hope that the user numbers on both machines are the same. I guess I could google for some way to secure it...
MTV was here at University of Houston the other day handing out some free stuff. One of the items inside was a CD. I wan't interested in the artists listed, so I tossed it at a friend. He came back the next day telling me that all it had on it was one big data track. He had tried to play it in a regular CD player. We then stuck it in a computer and found many audio tracks. It turned out the Windows Media Player was the only thing that could play it. So, we used WMP to copy the music to the hard drive, and used Quintisential Player to convert the wma's to mp3's. I wonder if this is the same "protection"?
As a student, one of the things I use word for is taking notes. Word has an outline view that lets you use tab to demote things and shift+tab to promote things. It creates the next line at the same level as the previous and the word wrap wraps around to the proper indintion. It also allows you to collapse entire sections to a single line. All very usefull for quick note taking.
AbiWord dowsn't seem to have this, and ouline view in Open Office didn't dow it either
"buy bigger yachts" extra money to the yacht builders, then they spend it. It tricles down. "and private jets" extra money to the jet makers, then they spend it. It tricles down.
If they decide to just stick in in a bank, then there is a large increase in the amount of money banks can lend. This leads to lower intrest rates and more investing (as in spending money to try to make more). Both are good things.
As someone else above said, the money has to go somewhere.
It does make since. If you are getting payed 50K do do something that can be done by someone else for 20K, then the company is over spending by 30K. If they save that 30K, they can pass that savings on to consumers or use the money to expand which creates more jobs. It may suck for you, but the rest of the economy and the world in general is better off. It is just international trade, ecxept now we are trading labor instead of goods.
2) the machine learning is REALLY good and knows not to put porn or sports websites into my favorites but does put websites with API documentation and technews...good luck with that one.
Actualy it would probobly be pretty easy. Have an option when you right click on the learned bookmark to not bookmark pages like this. Also, on your current bookmarks, have an option to bookmark pages like this. Then it will learn what you want / don't want.
It is obvious. I just thought of this the other day when my internet was out (dead DSL modem). I pluged my phone into my server and set up routing an remote access to use it as a dialup connection. Almost worked, found out a few days later, I had DNS configured wrong.
May not be prior art, but I am no expert and I thought of it. I even got it working as long as I knew a website's IP.
Old stuff we'd like to get rid of. Half price moves it faster. And it's ok for them to come take it off our hands for us. Then problem comes when they start taking our time to asking over and over again if there is anything else. Every day. I have better things to do and other customers to help.
Yours might have been an extreme case, but it is generally know to retailers that someone with nothing to do, i.e. waiting on the phone, has a horrible perception of time. You get people who have waited only 1 or 2 minuets claiming 5 or 10, or hanging up and calling someone else after only a minute. However, some one in the store has a better perception of time, can see that you are over loaded, and are generally patient if there is a 5 minute or more delay.
For us it's "What's your district manager's number?" The district manager will inevitably give them what they want and a gift card, and then get pissy at us for "not taking care of the customer". So our managers have become just as spineless at the DM.
No, I think they are annoyed as I am at the customers that come in every day looking at what is on the clearance rack or any other good deal. If they don't see anything they like they ask if there is anything else on clearance. If they are actualy in the store to buy something, they expect us to give them a discount on it. When we say no, they remind us of all the money they spend at our store and couldn't we cut them a little slack this time... I'm always thinking: yes, you spend quite a bit of money here, but every thing you buy is below cost.
NO! because it is a real pain in the ass to get the drivers installed correctly and the device working if it doesn't work. I work retail, and the first thing I ask when someone comes to me with a problem installing a new printer is if they plugged it in before installing the CD. When they say yes (almost always), I show _try_ to show them how to get it removed from the system so windows can put the proper dirvers in place.
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You forgot to mention that a large part of this performance difference is likely due to the lack of SSE2 instructions in the linux version. This will be fixed as he finishes porting the ASM from the windows source.
Some of my MIS teachers at U of H were talking about the school being a test location for it. Except, they said it would have a 20 mile range. I think they also mentioned that the students would be able to access it. "Free" high speed internet would be cool to have.
Last I heard, tiptronics were just automatics with a fancy shifter that let the driver think he is cool while inefficently shifting. Could be wrong though.
They used to be funny, but I think he has run out of ideas. Every now and then one does get a laugh out of me though.
As far as I can tell, it doesn't seem to have any kind of authentication, you just have to hope that the user numbers on both machines are the same. I guess I could google for some way to secure it...
An old HP calculater. I'm pretty sure they will be around with the roaches when we are all dead.
MTV was here at University of Houston the other day handing out some free stuff. One of the items inside was a CD. I wan't interested in the artists listed, so I tossed it at a friend. He came back the next day telling me that all it had on it was one big data track. He had tried to play it in a regular CD player. We then stuck it in a computer and found many audio tracks. It turned out the Windows Media Player was the only thing that could play it. So, we used WMP to copy the music to the hard drive, and used Quintisential Player to convert the wma's to mp3's. I wonder if this is the same "protection"?
As a student, one of the things I use word for is taking notes. Word has an outline view that lets you use tab to demote things and shift+tab to promote things. It creates the next line at the same level as the previous and the word wrap wraps around to the proper indintion. It also allows you to collapse entire sections to a single line. All very usefull for quick note taking.
AbiWord dowsn't seem to have this, and ouline view in Open Office didn't dow it either
"buy bigger yachts"
extra money to the yacht builders, then they spend it. It tricles down.
"and private jets"
extra money to the jet makers, then they spend it. It tricles down.
If they decide to just stick in in a bank, then there is a large increase in the amount of money banks can lend. This leads to lower intrest rates and more investing (as in spending money to try to make more). Both are good things.
As someone else above said, the money has to go somewhere.
It does make since. If you are getting payed 50K do do something that can be done by someone else for 20K, then the company is over spending by 30K. If they save that 30K, they can pass that savings on to consumers or use the money to expand which creates more jobs. It may suck for you, but the rest of the economy and the world in general is better off. It is just international trade, ecxept now we are trading labor instead of goods.
It acutualy runs many games that 2000 couldn't run, or ran poorly. The big feature you missed was the emulating of older versions of windows.
I read the article... what makes this legal? not much in the way of details...
took me a second, but that was hilarious. Too bad no mod points at the monment...
Unless the username was bad. If so, you now have 2 users stored for the site and have to go to the trouble of digging up and deleting the bad one.
2) the machine learning is REALLY good and knows not to put porn or sports websites into my favorites but does put websites with API documentation and technews...good luck with that one.
Actualy it would probobly be pretty easy. Have an option when you right click on the learned bookmark to not bookmark pages like this. Also, on your current bookmarks, have an option to bookmark pages like this. Then it will learn what you want / don't want.
yeah, so I cant spel or tipe verie wel...
If Firefox had a spell checker for textboxes, then it wouldn't have been a problem.
lol, you forgot the semicolon after the pritf line...
#include
int main()
{
printf("Hello World\n");
return 0;
}
I was dissapointed, a google search on that didn't turn up anything useful. Somone really should make one...
Although, I supose all it realy takes is three of these with one of these
It is obvious. I just thought of this the other day when my internet was out (dead DSL modem). I pluged my phone into my server and set up routing an remote access to use it as a dialup connection. Almost worked, found out a few days later, I had DNS configured wrong.
May not be prior art, but I am no expert and I thought of it. I even got it working as long as I knew a website's IP.
actualy I'm one of the worst in the store about offering them. Kinda hard to sell something you don't beleave in...
Old stuff we'd like to get rid of. Half price moves it faster. And it's ok for them to come take it off our hands for us. Then problem comes when they start taking our time to asking over and over again if there is anything else. Every day. I have better things to do and other customers to help.
Yours might have been an extreme case, but it is generally know to retailers that someone with nothing to do, i.e. waiting on the phone, has a horrible perception of time. You get people who have waited only 1 or 2 minuets claiming 5 or 10, or hanging up and calling someone else after only a minute. However, some one in the store has a better perception of time, can see that you are over loaded, and are generally patient if there is a 5 minute or more delay.
For us it's "What's your district manager's number?" The district manager will inevitably give them what they want and a gift card, and then get pissy at us for "not taking care of the customer". So our managers have become just as spineless at the DM.
No, I think they are annoyed as I am at the customers that come in every day looking at what is on the clearance rack or any other good deal. If they don't see anything they like they ask if there is anything else on clearance. If they are actualy in the store to buy something, they expect us to give them a discount on it. When we say no, they remind us of all the money they spend at our store and couldn't we cut them a little slack this time... I'm always thinking: yes, you spend quite a bit of money here, but every thing you buy is below cost.
NO! because it is a real pain in the ass to get the drivers installed correctly and the device working if it doesn't work. I work retail, and the first thing I ask when someone comes to me with a problem installing a new printer is if they plugged it in before installing the CD. When they say yes (almost always), I show _try_ to show them how to get it removed from the system so windows can put the proper dirvers in place.