Weird, I use Nuvio and haven't ever had any problems with delay. I think the box they use has some built in QoS features that prioritize the voice packets over the other data packets. My latency to them is about 50ms, so my connection is about average for cable modems, I'm guessing.
I can certainly agree about the long distance savings. My Nuvio account only costs me about $40/month for their unlimited account and I probably use over 1000 minutes of long distance a month. Used to cost me an arm and a leg. Now, I have numbers in three different cities pointing to my phone so all of my family can call me for free. Not a bad deal...:-)
... and I love it. They give you a great amount of control over your account with their website. You can have their system email notify you when you get voicemail, attach the voicemail to an email to you, and notify you via SMS. You can sign up for "Virtual Numbers" in something like 1200 cities that ring to your normal line. My call quality has always been very good. I use their "Unlimited" plan for $39.95-ulimited US long distance and local calling.
The only time I've noticed my service being out is when my cable modem went out for a couple of hours, but I had entered my "Network Unavailabilty Number" so my calls automatically went to my cell phone when there servers couldn't reach my telephone adapter.
You can check out their site at www.nuvio.com. Hope this helps.
Anything that opens a remote shell has a destructive payload. It basically gives a remote user full control of your pc. That means at a whim, they (or someone else who figures out that it is there) can delete files, format drives, or store kiddy porn on your pc--whatever they want. I would argue that that is a destructive payload...
Japanese most certainly does not have an english 'L' sound. At least, not that I am aware of... maybe they don't teach you that until you take Japanese IV though... The Ra, Ri, Ru, Re, Ro syllables really sound nothing like the english 'L' (nor 'R' for that matter).
Actually, in the above mentioned Feynman lecture, There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, Feynman talks about making machines that make smaller machines that make smaller machines that make... you get the picture. From the above lecture:
Why can't we manufacture these small computers somewhat like we manufacture the big ones? Why can't we drill holes, cut things, solder things, stamp things out, mold different shapes all at an infinitesimal level? What are the limitations as to how small a thing has to be before you can no longer mold it? How many times when you are working on something frustratingly tiny like your wife's wrist watch, have you said to yourself, ``If I could only train an ant to do this!'' What I would like to suggest is the possibility of training an ant to train a mite to do this. What are the possibilities of small but movable machines? They may or may not be useful, but they surely would be fun to make.
One of the ways they were cutting down on office space was allowing people to work from home as well. In this sense, it is easy to see how they would have to fire some people for being unproductive. Some people (myself included) have trouble focusing and staying motivated when working at home.
When I first saw Matrix, I hadn't really heard about it, so it suprised the hell out of me. I remember thinking during the opening scene--"Damn. She's a bad ass. I wonder if she's the 'bad guy'." Since I had absolutely no idea what the movie was going to be about (no, I hadn't seen a trailer or anything), I found the original movie extremely suspensful. Hell, I found out about the matrix about the same time that Neo did. Would it have been suspenseful if I had already known the basic premise of the movie? Probably not.
So how could any of the sequels have the same kind of suspense? We already know a lot of the story, so there isn't nearly as much room for surprise.
I'm not bashing Apple (I really want a 17" powerbook and a G5), just making a correction. Windows has a quick launch bar on the taskbar that you can add applications to by dragging them. This is roughly equivalent to the taskbar in OS X. Also, the Windows XP Power Tools are a free download from Microsoft, and they include the Virtual Desktop Manager app.
I would love to see tabbed browsing in IE, though. Of course, while I'm wishing, I'd like a job where I don't have to use Windows at all...
The obvious solution: spend at least part of your 500 years amassing wealth. Yeah, it's cheesy. Yes, there are far more valuable things to do with your time. But, unfortunately, a lot of those things take some cash (i.e. research, etc.). Be smart, and it shouldn't really take that long. Use the rest of your life (which you would expect to be extended even more--surely, with 500 years they could come up with something) to achieve the things that you really care about.
Or, spend your time trying to design ways for money to be irrelevant. Cheap/limitless energy and some kind of replicator-type technology come to mind. Just think what you could accomplish with all of that time! Mankind really has trouble working on really long-term goals because, well, we don't have all that long to individually work on them.
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1) For portability it is best to leave any GUI out of the base MAME project. MAME32 isn't really a separate GUI as it is all part of the MAME32 executable. 2) In MAME32, at least, go to Options -> Interface Options and check Skip disclaimer and Skip game info. This should take care of the "OK" problem.
It seems to me, that the only license Linksys has to distribute Linux specifically states that they have to distribute any source modifications they have made to it or else that license is revoked. Ergo, their problem.
Linksys wrote drivers to support the Broadcom chips and directly modified the Linux source to support these chips. Everything is statically linked. There are no modules. Linksys is violating the GPL, and they do have to give us the source to *their* f***ing driver. They distributed it. It's not our fault. I don't think they will be able to successfully undistribute it...
Not that I'm trying to be difficult or play the devils advocate, but what is so great about innocence? Especially if one considers ignorance as a drop in replacement for innocence.
Obviously one can't expose children to everything all at once--even if it was wise, there just isn't enough time in the day. Again, that isn't what I am advocating. It is "protecting" children from things that are not a threat to them that irritates me. I don't feel that what a naked woman looks like should be "secret knowledge" any more than what a naked gazelle looks like. The fact that most "bad" words really have no particular meaning and are used merely to express intense displeasure is also no secret. Why we as a society which seems to have given up on the social graces is still offended by swearing, on the other hand, is.
I don't know about everyone else, but as a child I had no problem differentiating between what was OK for the "people on TV" and for me. Being raised "not to hit" along side watching tons of marial arts movies did not confuse me. I was able to discern the differnce between fiction and reality.
I really don't like the idea of heavily censoring what children are exposed to (in the various forms of media). How do you learn to deal with something without being exposed to it? By teaching kids that there is something "naughty" about sex/nudity/etc (by showing them it is something they shouldn't see), you only attach feelings of guilt to it and peak their interest. I am speaking from experience here. I was once an extremely right-wing, staunch, Southern Baptist. I also had a 300bps modem when I was 11. I found all kinds of interesting things on BBS's, etc. And I felt guilty about it. What good did that do me? Wouldn't it have been better to have been exposed to it with some parental guidance (ala sex ed. type situation) so that it wouldn't have had such a "mystique" about it? Why are we so up tight about sex?
The United States became a Berne signatory in 1988. The major changes for the U.S. copyright system as a result of Berne were: greater protection for proprietors, new copyright relationships with twenty-four countries, and elimination of the requirement of copyright notice for copyright protection.
The ones who work for a percentage often work for a portion of the salary that you accept when you take the job. You don't have to work there for a year--they still get a percentage of what your yearly salary is/will be.
If I remember correctly, one does not have to put a copyright notice on something to retain copyright protection. I believe this was after the US became a Berne signatory in 1988.
Where did you see that it is 7% slower with one proc? What is 7% slower than what with one processor? Not trying to disagree with you or anything, I just didn't notice anything in the article and was hoping for link.
If these are magnesium oxide nanotubes filled with liquid gallium, don't you think that SPINNING AT 7200 RPMs would cause a little bit of a fluctuation in the readings?:-)
The places that I have worked, the person making a change to a project is responsible for documenting any change that they make. Pushing the responsibility for documentation to anyone else just doesn't make sense.
If the manager tells someone to make a change, documents it, and the guy has to go pick up his kids and doesn't get to it that day... you have problems. Documentation should be done only after a change is made, and then by someone who made (or at least witnessed) the change.
Perhaps the response that you had was the one that he was trying to elicit. Makes since if he was "kind of pissed" about it inspiring the poly crowd... By exaggerating a topic and carrying the exaggeration through to its "logical" (by the author's standards) conclusion, authors typically condemn things in their books that they show as commonplace. Just my $0.02.
Of course, I am a semi-rabid Heinlein fan, so I have to say that... don't I? What can I say? I grew up reading his books and they had a profound impact on me. I never really took him as condoning polyamorism or incest, but merely showing that sexual "tastes" were culturally based patterns of behaviour. Asimov did the same thing with some of his Robot/Foundation books (societies where no one knew who their children were, so the concept of incest became unimportant, etc.).
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If I'm correct, I believe that that IM is done entirely with SIP. SIMPLE is the SIP IM extension. You can read up on it here.
There are 10 types of people in the world--those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Well, semantically anyway. :-) I don't think you can have non-lethal execution by definition.
I can certainly agree about the long distance savings. My Nuvio account only costs me about $40/month for their unlimited account and I probably use over 1000 minutes of long distance a month. Used to cost me an arm and a leg. Now, I have numbers in three different cities pointing to my phone so all of my family can call me for free. Not a bad deal... :-)
The only time I've noticed my service being out is when my cable modem went out for a couple of hours, but I had entered my "Network Unavailabilty Number" so my calls automatically went to my cell phone when there servers couldn't reach my telephone adapter.
You can check out their site at www.nuvio.com. Hope this helps.
Anything that opens a remote shell has a destructive payload. It basically gives a remote user full control of your pc. That means at a whim, they (or someone else who figures out that it is there) can delete files, format drives, or store kiddy porn on your pc--whatever they want. I would argue that that is a destructive payload...
Japanese most certainly does not have an english 'L' sound. At least, not that I am aware of... maybe they don't teach you that until you take Japanese IV though... The Ra, Ri, Ru, Re, Ro syllables really sound nothing like the english 'L' (nor 'R' for that matter).
One of the ways they were cutting down on office space was allowing people to work from home as well. In this sense, it is easy to see how they would have to fire some people for being unproductive. Some people (myself included) have trouble focusing and staying motivated when working at home.
So how could any of the sequels have the same kind of suspense? We already know a lot of the story, so there isn't nearly as much room for surprise.
I would love to see tabbed browsing in IE, though. Of course, while I'm wishing, I'd like a job where I don't have to use Windows at all...
Or, spend your time trying to design ways for money to be irrelevant. Cheap/limitless energy and some kind of replicator-type technology come to mind. Just think what you could accomplish with all of that time! Mankind really has trouble working on really long-term goals because, well, we don't have all that long to individually work on them.
2) In MAME32, at least, go to Options -> Interface Options and check Skip disclaimer and Skip game info. This should take care of the "OK" problem.
Hope this helps.
It seems to me, that the only license Linksys has to distribute Linux specifically states that they have to distribute any source modifications they have made to it or else that license is revoked. Ergo, their problem.
Linksys wrote drivers to support the Broadcom chips and directly modified the Linux source to support these chips. Everything is statically linked. There are no modules. Linksys is violating the GPL, and they do have to give us the source to *their* f***ing driver. They distributed it. It's not our fault. I don't think they will be able to successfully undistribute it...
Obviously one can't expose children to everything all at once--even if it was wise, there just isn't enough time in the day. Again, that isn't what I am advocating. It is "protecting" children from things that are not a threat to them that irritates me. I don't feel that what a naked woman looks like should be "secret knowledge" any more than what a naked gazelle looks like. The fact that most "bad" words really have no particular meaning and are used merely to express intense displeasure is also no secret. Why we as a society which seems to have given up on the social graces is still offended by swearing, on the other hand, is.
I really don't like the idea of heavily censoring what children are exposed to (in the various forms of media). How do you learn to deal with something without being exposed to it? By teaching kids that there is something "naughty" about sex/nudity/etc (by showing them it is something they shouldn't see), you only attach feelings of guilt to it and peak their interest. I am speaking from experience here. I was once an extremely right-wing, staunch, Southern Baptist. I also had a 300bps modem when I was 11. I found all kinds of interesting things on BBS's, etc. And I felt guilty about it. What good did that do me? Wouldn't it have been better to have been exposed to it with some parental guidance (ala sex ed. type situation) so that it wouldn't have had such a "mystique" about it? Why are we so up tight about sex?
The ones who work for a percentage often work for a portion of the salary that you accept when you take the job. You don't have to work there for a year--they still get a percentage of what your yearly salary is/will be.
If I remember correctly, one does not have to put a copyright notice on something to retain copyright protection. I believe this was after the US became a Berne signatory in 1988.
Where did you see that it is 7% slower with one proc? What is 7% slower than what with one processor? Not trying to disagree with you or anything, I just didn't notice anything in the article and was hoping for link.
If these are magnesium oxide nanotubes filled with liquid gallium, don't you think that SPINNING AT 7200 RPMs would cause a little bit of a fluctuation in the readings? :-)
Unless their machine is currently plugged in somewhere else, then you get MAC conflicts. Ugliness ensues.
If the manager tells someone to make a change, documents it, and the guy has to go pick up his kids and doesn't get to it that day... you have problems. Documentation should be done only after a change is made, and then by someone who made (or at least witnessed) the change.
Of course, I am a semi-rabid Heinlein fan, so I have to say that... don't I? What can I say? I grew up reading his books and they had a profound impact on me. I never really took him as condoning polyamorism or incest, but merely showing that sexual "tastes" were culturally based patterns of behaviour. Asimov did the same thing with some of his Robot/Foundation books (societies where no one knew who their children were, so the concept of incest became unimportant, etc.).