So what you're saying is that because of your ISP's stupid decision to cut Covad and agree to not offer you DSL for a year... you hate Covad? What kind of crap was your ISP smoking that they thought that killing their already existing customer base would be a good idea? Damn, hate them, not Covad. Covad is just trying to keep a customer, which apparently up until your ISP made an idiot move, was a happy customer.
Well, I don't know, all the posters I have could burn if I really wanted to let them catch fire...
Anyway, yes, your suggestion for giving a reason to buy a real product is a good idea IMO. At least its a lot better than letting big companies ruin our kit when we want to make backups.
The problem is when the law is unjust and makes something that shouldn't be illegal into a crime. I do so cherish the thought of a state where those in power can change things such that the masses are in their complete control, as opposed to the masses controlling their government.
So get down off your high horse you coward. Show the world you enjoy your freedoms and liberties. Each small thing the government takes from us leads to another. Where will you draw the line? When will you realize that the law is a changing thing, and if these sorts of injustices keep up, that sometime down the road, maybe not today or tomorrow, it will be defined such that you're breaking it? What will it take?
So think about that for a second. Its not an advocacy of crime, its an advocacy of rights. Hell, we've come a long way to get our rights, and I for one don't want to go back to the persecution that was found mere centuries ago.
I, the undersigned complainant being duly sworn state the following is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. On or about June 26, 2001 in Santa Clara county, in the Northern District of California defendant(s) did, (Track Statutory Language of Offense)
import, offer to the public, provide, and otherwise traffic in a software product that is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof, and aid and abet such conduct.
in violation of Title 17 United States Code, Section(s) 1201(b)(1)(A) and 18 U.S.C. Sec.2
Can it be shown that ROT13 isn't an effective way to protect copyright? Or is the company (and Country) so dumb as to believe that ROT13 will effectively protect copyright?
Except not too many people are forced to authenticate for their SMTP. POP yes, but sending mail is completely unauthenticated in general. The way they keep riff-raff out is to only allow sending based on IP. If your IP is in their allowed range of IP addresses then you may send. And you can send with any email address you want.
Try it out sometime, go into your mail settings and change your from address, send yourself a message. Just don't go spoofing to somebody that's going to turn you in to the authorities. While it may be harmless fun to send your parents a message from "their own account," most people won't appreciate getting virus hoaxes from a spoofed IBM or McAffee address, nor will those companies.
It is incredibly useful when wanting to send mail from one account and you're on a different provider though. Like sending my university email over my DSL's mail server (since my university checks IPs and doesn't allow relay).
I can use as much of mine all the time (and have). I also have a friend on road runner cable who has been using full bandwidth for about 3~4 months running a popular server. I think its just that they plan most people will use relatively little bandwidth.
Well you see, Katz has that attention deficit thing he was ranting about a while ago, and can't fucking sit still for 5 minutes to try to figure out the plot. There was one there, and it was fairly strong if you could follow it.
That said it was quite anime like, and things were a little warped around. Somebody with an IQ of 60-70 like Katz probably couldn't follow it. Sorry Katz, not a movie for kids. Grow up and you might enjoy it.
Damn, I wonder if Katz is really trying to be flamebait. Stupid shit.
Umm, yeah, if they had one computer I don't think MS would have a problem with letting all the kiddies use it. Just like a book, if the library wants to borrow it to multiple people at once there better damn well be multiple copies. Just going in to Barnes and Noble and buying one book, then taking 20 more isn't going to work, is it now? And yes, photocopying the whole book is out of the question too.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Katz needs to STFU and think a little bit before posting this crap.
On a side note, MS is still furthering these technologies which they buy up from smaller companies. While it may not be the most competitive that way there definately is something to further the technology then. How many great ideas out there could benefit from having a giant behind them to make sure they don't die in birth?
I'll give you that anything that can be copied digitally will be traded on the internet. You may even be right about CD sales being zero. There will always be another format though. DVD audio looks pretty promising as far as sound quality is concerned.
At any rate the game is far from over. The old economy companies are doing just fine. You don't see them dying by the hundreds yet and you're not going to in the future. Will they make changes? Yes. Will they start to use new methods to do business? Yes. Will they abandon their current methods of having actual people doing a lot of the work? Not likely.
Take a look at an old economy company once. They still manage great sales on old methods. Look for the ones that start to adopt the new economy methods in addition to their current plans. Those are the companies which will last. Its as simple as using all the options available to you.
You're right, most people don't know what an OS is. Now it wouldn't be a bad thing to educate them, but most people I know can barely handle windows, much less maintaining a linux box.
There's a reason that windows has market share, and its not just predatory market techniques. It is too much easier to use than linux currently is. Too many idiots, let them use what they can. Make me a linux distro that my grandma can setup properly and I'll give it to her. Linux is getting better but we're not there yet.
To an extent I guess, but when I want to watch a movie, I generally want to watch it on a big screen, something more than my 19" monitor, and with surround sound. Its hard to do that on the PC. I could get the SB Live 5.1 I suppose, but that's a big investment, and I need to have my stereo system to play the 5.1 sound anyway, the DVD player that's less expensive than a DVD-ROM and the new Live 5.1 (I already have a Live, but no 5.1) is more expensive than my DVD player. For me its all about quality.
I don't like the thought that everything will be controlled though, renting software would suck. I can write my own, but if its not allowed to run, or I have to rent the development tools I'm not going to be a happy camper. I don't think that anything, like hard drives is to blame. Yes, the net has made piracy easier, but its not like it didn't happen before. I don't think that purely open solutions are the only answer, there are plenty of good proprietary solutions out there. Its just when things stop getting better, or become more restrictive that there are problems with the proprietary model. I don't mind paying $40 for a proprietary game, if its decent at least. I would have a problem justifying paying $20 for a game and $10 to play for each month after the first.
I suppose my longwinded point is that we need an open front for everything, from fabs to applications. Not because they're neccessarily better, or because of crap like information wants to be free, but to keep the companies that would be content to bring in massive products without providing advancement on their toes. There are some very good proprietary things out there, they just need a reason to stay good. Generally that had been a newer company who was content with less money. A group not interested in profit at all though seems the least corruptable of any option to keep companies competitive though. I like open source for the options it provides.
1) How many people do you think we can get living on this planet without technology? No apartments that go 10 stories up and house hundreds of people. No efficient way to transfer food to all the people living. Damn, at least half of us are farmers again. Damn, more living space gone there. Damn, don't even have appreciable crop yields. Damn, farming is tough with no technology.
2) Do you think you'd live very long? Those pretty bengal tigers get hungry too you know. And damn, without our guns we'd be up the creek, wouldn't we? If you think your stone axe will take one out I beg you to go to your local zoo. Please, for all of us. And even that is technology. So why don't you go and survive merely hunting with your bare hands and gathering your berries.
3) Carbon monoxide is produced by inefficient combustion. I'm pretty sure fires happened before man had the ability to control them. At any rate its unstable, and breaks down in a short period of time. You might have to worry about it if you're letting your car run in your garage and you're sitting in it, but other than that you don't. I think that's a non-issue. Other pollutants are what nuclear works to get rid of. Coal is very bad for the environment and people. I'll take my chances with relatively very small volumes of nuclear waste, locked up really well, as opposed to SO2 floating through the atmosphere.
4) Nuclear fission isn't producing carbon monoxide, the power is generated by splitting atoms and using the energy released to boil water to turn turbines.
5) Not everything we do is killing us. If you don't believe that take a look at life expectancies across just the last couple of centuries. Without our current medical technology do you think many people would be living past 40? Not a chance.
6) Last tree dead? Last field paved? What is that shit? Do you live in a cave? Have you never used your car to leave a city? Or a bus to be friendlier to the air? Or hell, even walked out? There's plenty of pristene nature left. Sure as hell there's lots of development all over, but if you'd like a place for all us people to live that's the way of it.
7) Didn't have to worry about cancer. No, instead we had to worry about vicious animals, whether there would be enough harvest to feed your immediate family, whether the winter would kill of your livestock, and a billion other things. Cancer is one of the few life threatening things that we have to worry about these days. Worried about the plauge? Worried about typhoid? Cow-pox? Measles? Mumps? No, you're vaccinated or we've gotten rid of or contained these killers. Wow, technology at work. Of course you could just believe that god is pissed with you whenever you get sick. Then die because your solution is to pray until it goes away. Or be eaten by animals in the meantime.
Sure, some of the things that happen aren't pretty. Sure, in a perfect world we could all frolic through fields, gathering berries. Sorry to burst your bubble, but this world is a little more harsh than that. Humans have beat nature at its game of eliminating us. We still die, but if you think that anybody was living to 100 before technology came around you've invested a little too heavily in those intoxicating chemicals you're so worried about. If you think that as simple gatherers without technology we could house this many people on Earth, think again. Come visit Minnesota this time of year without clothing made by tools, have fun freezing to death.
Technology builds upon itself, you can't stop it. You can join the Amish and freeze it at a point, but you can't stop using some technology, and you can't stop more from coming into existance. Its the only way we can keep supporting all this life on this little planet. I for one am happy that I don't have to worry about if there will be enough wild berries. I like getting my food from a supermarket.
So in response to your final question, now what? I'll say this, live with it. Quit worrying so much, you'd be dead a lot quicker without it all. Why ruin the extra years you're getting from technology with the whining, worrying, anti-technology sentiment?
Gods, how much time have I spent playing this game. I did chuckle at the dwarf's seeming dislike of elves, too many campaigns have I played where that sort of thing happens. However, it was only a little thing and didn't make up for the absolute lack of plot, nor was it played out consistantly. At any rate I've both played and run campaigns where there was more plot than this movie provided. I found myself wondering if the people involved (the thieves especially, were they even trying to sneak?) had ever played the game. My biggest thought was "Great, now people that haven't played are going to think the game is even lamer than they thought it was before."
The CG of the dragons was really cool, but really short. I wasn't aware of the budget for the movie, and while I wasn't expecting perfection out of the CG, it just seemed that most of it looked really cheesy. Also, the same spell over and over again wore pretty thin, since there really wasn't much casting to begin with. My two cents, but if others were expecting wonderful CG with tons of really, really neat effects I thought I'd throw out a heads up.
As for your 4th comment, I didn't think Star Wars I was that bad. Sure, it wasn't quite the trilogy I grew up with, but I didn't think it deserved all the flaming received. I'm still kid enough I guess. But as a serious gamer I was hoping that this movie would play out more like a one shot campaign rather than the farce it made of itself.
But in VR shouldn't one want the ability to climb stairs, go uphill, and the like? I know this probably isn't something doable yet, but still, that'd be something more than the world ends at a certain point. Who really wants to walk around a endless flat plain?
I wonder too, if it wouldn't compile a linux kernel you'd think they wouldn't ship it. For crying out loud they know the Itanium, not even released yet compiles linux, don't they? Did some PHB walk into the factory and just switch something without an engineers consent or what? I would hate to think that windows is the only system booted to check if a processor works or not.
First off, is that even possible, short of, say, an undocumented MMX or SSE or something call? Even if, why would MS want to do something like cut out AMD? Intel maybe, but I can't see MS jumping on that without that feature offering big performance benefits. Its not like MS wants its software to run on fewer machines. Isn't world domination what Bill is all about?
Anyway I've had more than my share of K5 problems under normal windows, not to mention NT.
I'm not sure which conspiracy theory to believe, that intel would make features for MS only, which sounds a bit far fetched since offering these performance enhancing features to all operating systems would make them look a lot better for any type of solution, that MS would make intel only features which shouldn't happen without the first option since the x86 spec is there for everybody to see and again the world domination thing, or AMD makes some bad parts. I never did like the K5 so I'd be inclined to believe option 3, but I don't want to assume anything based on the few K5's I've used sucking.
Supposedly some branch of the K6's (K6-2, 3?) I don't know, throws up when running 98SE, but is fine in just 98 first edition. That's what one of the computer shops in my area told me when I commented on their lack of anything AMD, no Athlon, nothing. I haven't played with the particular combination, 98SE seemed like such a waste. As did running it on a K6 at the point when 98SE came out.
AMD apparently said to the shop it was a windows issue and the processors would work fine when underclocked if 98SE had to be run. At that the owner of the shop decided to do without AMD. If thats the case I probably wouldn't have thought highly of pin the blame elsewhere, especially if they worked when underclocked.
I know the shop doesn't carry anything AMD and this is the given reason and they supposedly tested this out thoroughly and received that response from AMD, but could somebody tell me up as to whether this was ever an issue? I'm inclined to believe them because they know their stuff, and are one of the best shops in town, but I'm not big on the whole conspiracy thing. Does anybody know if or which AMD's aren't fully compatible?
I built my computer about a year ago, and could find any Dual Processor ATA/66 motherboards at the time. So I went and got the Promise Ultra66 controler card, and while it gave me numerable problems with linux to start with, its now one of the best things thats happened, since I have two hard drives, a zip drive, an LS-120, and two CD-ROM drives, like you said, burner reader. All internal, all happy. It cost me about $50 a year ago, and is cheaper now, but it was well worth it as I have six internal IDE devices with room for two more.
Also, on a side note, I saw a while back a motherboard which had both ATA/33 and 66 onboard, so you could actually run 8 IDE devices without using up a PCI slot like I did. I wish I could remember the board now, but can't.
John
It sure would be a burden communicating at light speed, and a ping of 16 years would be terrible for playing quake...
However, seeing as we don't know how to communicate any faster than light speed, I think it would be difficult to pick up transmissions that are travelling faster than light. I'm pretty sure that SETI is keeping an eye out for any anomolies (sp?) that it may find in general, meaning possible detection though. It would be nice to pick up a free advance in communications by accidentally bumping into a faster than light transmission though.
I guess the biggest thing is that their doing what they can, with the tools available. It may be like finding a needle in a haystack, but it would be worth it if it pays off. And if there is indeed intelligence out there we may learn something.
Actually Pokemon is a cartoon, because it was already friendly for children, whereas the others were hacked to death from their original Japenese format. The Sailor Moon that so many little kiddies watch every morning before school (or used to, I have no idea if its still running then) is a bit more graphic in the original, showing nudity and all the stuff any parent would freak about having their six year old see.
Anime is for adults, cartoons for kids. Anime is a genre, not a medium.
Sorry, I get all weird when somebody says Pokemon is anime. Not that pokemon aren't amusing in their own right, its just that its a kids show. And yeah, I agree, without seeing more than just what the CN hacks to pieces, you can't make a real judgement on anime.
Because Netscape screws up java on windows too. A lot of pages run just fine on IE and crash on both windows and linux netscape. There's nothing like getting 20 java error windows and then having netscape freeze.
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So what you're saying is that because of your ISP's stupid decision to cut Covad and agree to not offer you DSL for a year... you hate Covad? What kind of crap was your ISP smoking that they thought that killing their already existing customer base would be a good idea? Damn, hate them, not Covad. Covad is just trying to keep a customer, which apparently up until your ISP made an idiot move, was a happy customer.
Well, I don't know, all the posters I have could burn if I really wanted to let them catch fire...
Anyway, yes, your suggestion for giving a reason to buy a real product is a good idea IMO. At least its a lot better than letting big companies ruin our kit when we want to make backups.
So get down off your high horse you coward. Show the world you enjoy your freedoms and liberties. Each small thing the government takes from us leads to another. Where will you draw the line? When will you realize that the law is a changing thing, and if these sorts of injustices keep up, that sometime down the road, maybe not today or tomorrow, it will be defined such that you're breaking it? What will it take?
So think about that for a second. Its not an advocacy of crime, its an advocacy of rights. Hell, we've come a long way to get our rights, and I for one don't want to go back to the persecution that was found mere centuries ago.
I, the undersigned complainant being duly sworn state the following is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. On or about June 26, 2001 in Santa Clara county, in the Northern District of California defendant(s) did, (Track Statutory Language of Offense) import, offer to the public, provide, and otherwise traffic in a software product that is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof, and aid and abet such conduct. in violation of Title 17 United States Code, Section(s) 1201(b)(1)(A) and 18 U.S.C. Sec.2
Can it be shown that ROT13 isn't an effective way to protect copyright? Or is the company (and Country) so dumb as to believe that ROT13 will effectively protect copyright?
Just an odd thought that jumped out at me.
Try it out sometime, go into your mail settings and change your from address, send yourself a message. Just don't go spoofing to somebody that's going to turn you in to the authorities. While it may be harmless fun to send your parents a message from "their own account," most people won't appreciate getting virus hoaxes from a spoofed IBM or McAffee address, nor will those companies.
It is incredibly useful when wanting to send mail from one account and you're on a different provider though. Like sending my university email over my DSL's mail server (since my university checks IPs and doesn't allow relay).
I can use as much of mine all the time (and have). I also have a friend on road runner cable who has been using full bandwidth for about 3~4 months running a popular server. I think its just that they plan most people will use relatively little bandwidth.
That said it was quite anime like, and things were a little warped around. Somebody with an IQ of 60-70 like Katz probably couldn't follow it. Sorry Katz, not a movie for kids. Grow up and you might enjoy it.
Damn, I wonder if Katz is really trying to be flamebait. Stupid shit.
Umm, yeah, if they had one computer I don't think MS would have a problem with letting all the kiddies use it. Just like a book, if the library wants to borrow it to multiple people at once there better damn well be multiple copies. Just going in to Barnes and Noble and buying one book, then taking 20 more isn't going to work, is it now? And yes, photocopying the whole book is out of the question too.
It's already illegal to wear a mask there...
Well, light is doing pretty well without mass.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Katz needs to STFU and think a little bit before posting this crap.
On a side note, MS is still furthering these technologies which they buy up from smaller companies. While it may not be the most competitive that way there definately is something to further the technology then. How many great ideas out there could benefit from having a giant behind them to make sure they don't die in birth?
At any rate the game is far from over. The old economy companies are doing just fine. You don't see them dying by the hundreds yet and you're not going to in the future. Will they make changes? Yes. Will they start to use new methods to do business? Yes. Will they abandon their current methods of having actual people doing a lot of the work? Not likely.
Take a look at an old economy company once. They still manage great sales on old methods. Look for the ones that start to adopt the new economy methods in addition to their current plans. Those are the companies which will last. Its as simple as using all the options available to you.
There's a reason that windows has market share, and its not just predatory market techniques. It is too much easier to use than linux currently is. Too many idiots, let them use what they can. Make me a linux distro that my grandma can setup properly and I'll give it to her. Linux is getting better but we're not there yet.
I don't like the thought that everything will be controlled though, renting software would suck. I can write my own, but if its not allowed to run, or I have to rent the development tools I'm not going to be a happy camper. I don't think that anything, like hard drives is to blame. Yes, the net has made piracy easier, but its not like it didn't happen before. I don't think that purely open solutions are the only answer, there are plenty of good proprietary solutions out there. Its just when things stop getting better, or become more restrictive that there are problems with the proprietary model. I don't mind paying $40 for a proprietary game, if its decent at least. I would have a problem justifying paying $20 for a game and $10 to play for each month after the first.
I suppose my longwinded point is that we need an open front for everything, from fabs to applications. Not because they're neccessarily better, or because of crap like information wants to be free, but to keep the companies that would be content to bring in massive products without providing advancement on their toes. There are some very good proprietary things out there, they just need a reason to stay good. Generally that had been a newer company who was content with less money. A group not interested in profit at all though seems the least corruptable of any option to keep companies competitive though. I like open source for the options it provides.
1) How many people do you think we can get living on this planet without technology? No apartments that go 10 stories up and house hundreds of people. No efficient way to transfer food to all the people living. Damn, at least half of us are farmers again. Damn, more living space gone there. Damn, don't even have appreciable crop yields. Damn, farming is tough with no technology.
2) Do you think you'd live very long? Those pretty bengal tigers get hungry too you know. And damn, without our guns we'd be up the creek, wouldn't we? If you think your stone axe will take one out I beg you to go to your local zoo. Please, for all of us. And even that is technology. So why don't you go and survive merely hunting with your bare hands and gathering your berries.
3) Carbon monoxide is produced by inefficient combustion. I'm pretty sure fires happened before man had the ability to control them. At any rate its unstable, and breaks down in a short period of time. You might have to worry about it if you're letting your car run in your garage and you're sitting in it, but other than that you don't. I think that's a non-issue. Other pollutants are what nuclear works to get rid of. Coal is very bad for the environment and people. I'll take my chances with relatively very small volumes of nuclear waste, locked up really well, as opposed to SO2 floating through the atmosphere.
4) Nuclear fission isn't producing carbon monoxide, the power is generated by splitting atoms and using the energy released to boil water to turn turbines.
5) Not everything we do is killing us. If you don't believe that take a look at life expectancies across just the last couple of centuries. Without our current medical technology do you think many people would be living past 40? Not a chance.
6) Last tree dead? Last field paved? What is that shit? Do you live in a cave? Have you never used your car to leave a city? Or a bus to be friendlier to the air? Or hell, even walked out? There's plenty of pristene nature left. Sure as hell there's lots of development all over, but if you'd like a place for all us people to live that's the way of it.
7) Didn't have to worry about cancer. No, instead we had to worry about vicious animals, whether there would be enough harvest to feed your immediate family, whether the winter would kill of your livestock, and a billion other things. Cancer is one of the few life threatening things that we have to worry about these days. Worried about the plauge? Worried about typhoid? Cow-pox? Measles? Mumps? No, you're vaccinated or we've gotten rid of or contained these killers. Wow, technology at work. Of course you could just believe that god is pissed with you whenever you get sick. Then die because your solution is to pray until it goes away. Or be eaten by animals in the meantime.
Sure, some of the things that happen aren't pretty. Sure, in a perfect world we could all frolic through fields, gathering berries. Sorry to burst your bubble, but this world is a little more harsh than that. Humans have beat nature at its game of eliminating us. We still die, but if you think that anybody was living to 100 before technology came around you've invested a little too heavily in those intoxicating chemicals you're so worried about. If you think that as simple gatherers without technology we could house this many people on Earth, think again. Come visit Minnesota this time of year without clothing made by tools, have fun freezing to death.
Technology builds upon itself, you can't stop it. You can join the Amish and freeze it at a point, but you can't stop using some technology, and you can't stop more from coming into existance. Its the only way we can keep supporting all this life on this little planet. I for one am happy that I don't have to worry about if there will be enough wild berries. I like getting my food from a supermarket.
So in response to your final question, now what? I'll say this, live with it. Quit worrying so much, you'd be dead a lot quicker without it all. Why ruin the extra years you're getting from technology with the whining, worrying, anti-technology sentiment?
The CG of the dragons was really cool, but really short. I wasn't aware of the budget for the movie, and while I wasn't expecting perfection out of the CG, it just seemed that most of it looked really cheesy. Also, the same spell over and over again wore pretty thin, since there really wasn't much casting to begin with. My two cents, but if others were expecting wonderful CG with tons of really, really neat effects I thought I'd throw out a heads up.
As for your 4th comment, I didn't think Star Wars I was that bad. Sure, it wasn't quite the trilogy I grew up with, but I didn't think it deserved all the flaming received. I'm still kid enough I guess. But as a serious gamer I was hoping that this movie would play out more like a one shot campaign rather than the farce it made of itself.
But in VR shouldn't one want the ability to climb stairs, go uphill, and the like? I know this probably isn't something doable yet, but still, that'd be something more than the world ends at a certain point. Who really wants to walk around a endless flat plain?
I don't get it, I really don't. It wasn't like you couldn't get IE out of windows if you took a minute either.
What the entire lawsuit is trying to decide? I don't think that just because they say so its neccessarily illegal.
I wonder too, if it wouldn't compile a linux kernel you'd think they wouldn't ship it. For crying out loud they know the Itanium, not even released yet compiles linux, don't they? Did some PHB walk into the factory and just switch something without an engineers consent or what? I would hate to think that windows is the only system booted to check if a processor works or not.
Anyway I've had more than my share of K5 problems under normal windows, not to mention NT.
I'm not sure which conspiracy theory to believe, that intel would make features for MS only, which sounds a bit far fetched since offering these performance enhancing features to all operating systems would make them look a lot better for any type of solution, that MS would make intel only features which shouldn't happen without the first option since the x86 spec is there for everybody to see and again the world domination thing, or AMD makes some bad parts. I never did like the K5 so I'd be inclined to believe option 3, but I don't want to assume anything based on the few K5's I've used sucking.
Supposedly some branch of the K6's (K6-2, 3?) I don't know, throws up when running 98SE, but is fine in just 98 first edition. That's what one of the computer shops in my area told me when I commented on their lack of anything AMD, no Athlon, nothing. I haven't played with the particular combination, 98SE seemed like such a waste. As did running it on a K6 at the point when 98SE came out.
AMD apparently said to the shop it was a windows issue and the processors would work fine when underclocked if 98SE had to be run. At that the owner of the shop decided to do without AMD. If thats the case I probably wouldn't have thought highly of pin the blame elsewhere, especially if they worked when underclocked.
I know the shop doesn't carry anything AMD and this is the given reason and they supposedly tested this out thoroughly and received that response from AMD, but could somebody tell me up as to whether this was ever an issue? I'm inclined to believe them because they know their stuff, and are one of the best shops in town, but I'm not big on the whole conspiracy thing. Does anybody know if or which AMD's aren't fully compatible?
I built my computer about a year ago, and could find any Dual Processor ATA/66 motherboards at the time. So I went and got the Promise Ultra66 controler card, and while it gave me numerable problems with linux to start with, its now one of the best things thats happened, since I have two hard drives, a zip drive, an LS-120, and two CD-ROM drives, like you said, burner reader. All internal, all happy. It cost me about $50 a year ago, and is cheaper now, but it was well worth it as I have six internal IDE devices with room for two more. Also, on a side note, I saw a while back a motherboard which had both ATA/33 and 66 onboard, so you could actually run 8 IDE devices without using up a PCI slot like I did. I wish I could remember the board now, but can't. John
However, seeing as we don't know how to communicate any faster than light speed, I think it would be difficult to pick up transmissions that are travelling faster than light. I'm pretty sure that SETI is keeping an eye out for any anomolies (sp?) that it may find in general, meaning possible detection though. It would be nice to pick up a free advance in communications by accidentally bumping into a faster than light transmission though.
I guess the biggest thing is that their doing what they can, with the tools available. It may be like finding a needle in a haystack, but it would be worth it if it pays off. And if there is indeed intelligence out there we may learn something.
Anime is for adults, cartoons for kids. Anime is a genre, not a medium.
Sorry, I get all weird when somebody says Pokemon is anime. Not that pokemon aren't amusing in their own right, its just that its a kids show. And yeah, I agree, without seeing more than just what the CN hacks to pieces, you can't make a real judgement on anime.
Because Netscape screws up java on windows too. A lot of pages run just fine on IE and crash on both windows and linux netscape. There's nothing like getting 20 java error windows and then having netscape freeze.