Re:Americans are from Mars, Soviets are from Venus
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Here's a good link to pictures and info on the Venera missions.
Imagine how much it sucked when, according to the site, two landers had their lens caps stuck, and a third one ejected its lens cap right where its probe arm was supposed to touch the ground!
I don't know what bugs other people saw, but I had 13 messages in my orkut box this morning, all of which were about how there was a but that let anybody message everybody:)
I didn't read into it so unfortunately I can't give details.
Note to mods: parent is clearly wrong. How did this get +5? As others have stated, the AMD rating is an estimation of how fast their processor is compared to an Intel Pentium 4 running at the PR speed in megahertz.
The original design for the walkman included the ability to record. iirc, it was originally supposed to be a tape recorder, but they couldn't fit the recording bit in. They were going to throw the idea out, but then they noticed employees using the beta walkmans (walkmen?) to listen to tapes while they worked, and so they shipped the product.
One way you might try to get money is to bargain with the school. Look at the other schools that you've been accepted to. Which ones have really good tech programs? Tell your school that you've been excepted to $TECH_SCHOOL and that you'd like an incentive to go to $YOUR_SCHOOL instead of $TECH_SCHOOL.
If you're me and couldn't get into any better schools, then you could consider simply begging them. My dad wrote them a letter saying that we were poor, and they have me $4k. Not much relative to the cost, but still a good sum.
If you really want to go there and can't get any money, you might consider sucking it up and paying full price while kicking your ass at academics. Then next year you can tell them that you're a good student and that they should give you more money.
After my freshman year, my resonably decent grades allowed the school to just throw money at me in things called "Institutional Scholarship" and other such things.
After one particularly late night of studying in college 3 years ago, my roomate, a friend, and I started cursing at each other over AIM in our tiny freshman dorm room. It was memorable as one of those "everything is funny because you're tired" nights.
These days, AIM is useful in finding out if somebody is in their apartment before going down the hall to visit.
I made fun of thost commercials I saw on TV advertising lottery tickets. If you don't win, the gift says you're a loser. If you do win, you feel bad for the person who gave them to you who got nothing out of it.
If you look at this picture: Element Helium then at this one: powernotebooks Sager NP2880 they're a good match. Look at the three buttons across the front on both, along with other little things like the sliver that sticks up to latch the screen corners that is visible when it swivels.
Anyway, they look the same to me, and if it is true, then here are the specs from powernotebooks.com
VIA(TM) Antaur 1GHz Processor
Windows XP Home or Professional w/ ritePen and riteMail
1.25" thick
5.5 lb.
14.1" XGA (1024 x 768) Active Matrix TFT "Touch Panel" LCD Display - VIA CLE266 8X AGP 3D Video Card w/32MB max. user definable (Share Memory Architecture) Video Memory
Data entry by "Touch Panel" Display or Keyboard
256MB PC2100 DDR Memory built-in (Expandable to 1024 MB)
20GB - 80GB Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive
Integrated Web Cam
4-in-1 Memory Card Reader Supports SD/MMC/SmartMedia/Sony MemoryStick
Built-in 56k V.90 Modem (RJ-11)
Built-in 802.11b Wireless Networking (Optional)
Built-in 10/100BaseT Ethernet (RJ-45)
No floppy or CD/DVD optical drive built-in
External USB 2.0 24X CD, 8X DVD, Combo 8X DVD/24x10x24 CD-RW, or 2X DVD-R/RW-16x10x24 CD-RW (Optional)
Two USB 2.0 ports
I can't find the post, but there was a guy a couple of years ago who wrote a program for his computer that, in the event that he didn't log into his machine for n days, would email his friends and post to some bboards saying that he was dead.
I've been told by professors that "back in the day" storage densities were so low that one could take a magnetic tape and some metal shavings, mix them together, and determine the 1s and 0s on the tape with a small magnifying glass.
At Carnegie Mellon University there is a stairwell called Architect's Leap, and a common pasttime is to Leap old monitors by dropping them from the top story. It is usually fairly effective and equally satisfying.
Register: "has a special decoder without a special key,and that means hard drives can 'never be opened by anyone'"
Abit: "has a special decoder; without a special key, your hard disk cannot be opened by anyone. "
So for those of you whose anti-RTFA isn't on recursive, you would think that there wasn't a special key, but what Abit was saying that without the special key (USB memory key, apparently), the drive is secure.
Never take the elevator. Ever. Do you work on the 30th floor of an office building? Run them to get to your work area, then run them to and from lunch, then run them when you go home. 120 flights of steps right there. If you're like me and you live in an apartment, take the steps there every time you leave or come home, and when you are swapping laundry from washer to drier. It adds up very quickly. Last year I lived on the 9th floor and I took them at least 6 times a day to and from class, and to and from activities. 54 flights of steps a day.
Next time you walk past the elevator or are in an elevator, take a look around: what type of people are the ones taking the elevator up one story?
I started with a 6 pound laptop with a 14" screen, the typical machine. It was fine, but I found that at that weight it was still somewhat of a burden to carry around. 6 pounds isn't much, but throw a book, papers, and pens into a backpack and it adds up. Also, with the 14" screen, it is fairly large and therefore harder to handle physically. Most of the time I would leave my laptop at home because I didn't want to deal with the added weight or the size it occupied in my backpack.
After it died and I sent it back 3 times, I went with a 3.5 pound 12" screeen Thinkpad, and it was perfect. I carry it anywhere I want to, and I barely notice it. It is the size of a textbook, but half as thick and much lighter, so I just slide it into my backpack with everything else. If I need to show somebody something, I can easily pass the machine with one hand with no fear of dropping it when weight shifts. Anymore, when I play with friend's 6 pound laptops, I find them large and burdensome.
For notes I still use pencil and paper becuase I can mentally imagine which sheet of paper a particular note or drawing is on and find it much faster. It is nice to be able to code, check email, and write papers when I'm sitting in a lounge at school.
I agree. I just bought Zodiac, and while it was a good read, there were several cases of misspellings (Bone instead of the character Boone) and a few places where words were simply dropped. I find that mistakes like that detract from the flow of the story because I have to go back and reread the paragraph to see if I had simply parsed the sentence incorrectly. When that happens, my mind had already lost the flow of the previous pages.
My friend bought an LCD from best buy, and they wouldn't let her test it for dead pixels before she bought it. Once she flashed the plastic, they gladly hooked it up. I'm assuming they did that so it deterrs people who weren't going to buy it in the first place from making an open box item.
The real problem isn't that Microsoft is giving out free software. It isn't a problem that they can give software out for free and not require a license.
The real problem is that when the feds come knocking on your door, you aren't going to have a license for that CD and they're going to bust you for it. Microsoft isn't going to help you then, unless for some reason they kept a list of names of people to whom they distributed the CDs.
I was at a LAN party once, and my mom called me via telephone to tell me that she couldn't get the modem to disconnect from the Internet and that it was blocking the phone line. She told me over the phone that she needed the line to make a phone call.
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Here's a good link to pictures and info on the Venera missions.
Imagine how much it sucked when, according to the site, two landers had their lens caps stuck, and a third one ejected its lens cap right where its probe arm was supposed to touch the ground!
The Rosenbergs did a similar thing in 2001. They included a second copy of the CD, dubbed the "Napster Copy"
http://www.livedaily.com/news/2625.html
"No word on who's playing Zaphod"
Am I the only one who sees Zaphod as being played by Stephen Root in NewsRadio? (with an extra head and arm of course)
I suppose it wouldn't be beneath SCO to start suing IPs that hit its website :)
I don't know what bugs other people saw, but I had 13 messages in my orkut box this morning, all of which were about how there was a but that let anybody message everybody :)
I didn't read into it so unfortunately I can't give details.
Note to mods: parent is clearly wrong. How did this get +5? As others have stated, the AMD rating is an estimation of how fast their processor is compared to an Intel Pentium 4 running at the PR speed in megahertz.
"a built-in microphone"
The original design for the walkman included the ability to record. iirc, it was originally supposed to be a tape recorder, but they couldn't fit the recording bit in. They were going to throw the idea out, but then they noticed employees using the beta walkmans (walkmen?) to listen to tapes while they worked, and so they shipped the product.
Now you can save face and not have to lie about your iPod being a Pop Tart :)
One way you might try to get money is to bargain with the school. Look at the other schools that you've been accepted to. Which ones have really good tech programs? Tell your school that you've been excepted to $TECH_SCHOOL and that you'd like an incentive to go to $YOUR_SCHOOL instead of $TECH_SCHOOL.
If you're me and couldn't get into any better schools, then you could consider simply begging them. My dad wrote them a letter saying that we were poor, and they have me $4k. Not much relative to the cost, but still a good sum.
If you really want to go there and can't get any money, you might consider sucking it up and paying full price while kicking your ass at academics. Then next year you can tell them that you're a good student and that they should give you more money.
After my freshman year, my resonably decent grades allowed the school to just throw money at me in things called "Institutional Scholarship" and other such things.
After one particularly late night of studying in college 3 years ago, my roomate, a friend, and I started cursing at each other over AIM in our tiny freshman dorm room. It was memorable as one of those "everything is funny because you're tired" nights.
These days, AIM is useful in finding out if somebody is in their apartment before going down the hall to visit.
I made fun of thost commercials I saw on TV advertising lottery tickets. If you don't win, the gift says you're a loser. If you do win, you feel bad for the person who gave them to you who got nothing out of it.
Then I got some for Christmas. Hah.
If you look at this picture: Element Helium then at this one: powernotebooks Sager NP2880 they're a good match. Look at the three buttons across the front on both, along with other little things like the sliver that sticks up to latch the screen corners that is visible when it swivels.
Anyway, they look the same to me, and if it is true, then here are the specs from powernotebooks.com
VIA(TM) Antaur 1GHz Processor
Windows XP Home or Professional w/ ritePen and riteMail
1.25" thick
5.5 lb.
14.1" XGA (1024 x 768) Active Matrix TFT "Touch Panel" LCD Display - VIA CLE266 8X AGP 3D Video Card w/32MB max. user definable (Share Memory Architecture) Video Memory
Data entry by "Touch Panel" Display or Keyboard
256MB PC2100 DDR Memory built-in
(Expandable to 1024 MB)
20GB - 80GB Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive
Integrated Web Cam
4-in-1 Memory Card Reader Supports SD/MMC/SmartMedia/Sony MemoryStick
Built-in 56k V.90 Modem (RJ-11)
Built-in 802.11b Wireless Networking (Optional)
Built-in 10/100BaseT Ethernet (RJ-45)
No floppy or CD/DVD optical drive built-in
External USB 2.0 24X CD, 8X DVD, Combo 8X DVD/24x10x24 CD-RW, or 2X DVD-R/RW-16x10x24 CD-RW (Optional)
Two USB 2.0 ports
It says 2 hours of battery time. Ick.
I can't find the post, but there was a guy a couple of years ago who wrote a program for his computer that, in the event that he didn't log into his machine for n days, would email his friends and post to some bboards saying that he was dead.
I've been told by professors that "back in the day" storage densities were so low that one could take a magnetic tape and some metal shavings, mix them together, and determine the 1s and 0s on the tape with a small magnifying glass.
Here's a webcomic that's just over a year old that some of you might like, it is called ctrl+alt+del :)
http://ctrlaltdel-online.com/
The main characters are a few crazy gamers, and a linux guy who has a live-in penguin named Ted. Hillarity ensues.
At Carnegie Mellon University there is a stairwell called Architect's Leap, and a common pasttime is to Leap old monitors by dropping them from the top story. It is usually fairly effective and equally satisfying.
The register misread the report.
Register:
"has a special decoder without a special key,and that means hard drives can 'never be opened by anyone'"
Abit:
"has a special decoder; without a special key, your hard disk cannot be opened by anyone. "
So for those of you whose anti-RTFA isn't on recursive, you would think that there wasn't a special key, but what Abit was saying that without the special key (USB memory key, apparently), the drive is secure.
CMU is one step ahead of you. There is already a seperate project devoted to the challenge in question.
Never take the elevator. Ever. Do you work on the 30th floor of an office building? Run them to get to your work area, then run them to and from lunch, then run them when you go home. 120 flights of steps right there. If you're like me and you live in an apartment, take the steps there every time you leave or come home, and when you are swapping laundry from washer to drier. It adds up very quickly. Last year I lived on the 9th floor and I took them at least 6 times a day to and from class, and to and from activities. 54 flights of steps a day.
Next time you walk past the elevator or are in an elevator, take a look around: what type of people are the ones taking the elevator up one story?
If you don't need a DVD burner, it might be better to get this one for $1555:
powernotebooks
(I don't work for them, and I would never buy one. I'm just suggesting an alternative).
I started with a 6 pound laptop with a 14" screen, the typical machine. It was fine, but I found that at that weight it was still somewhat of a burden to carry around. 6 pounds isn't much, but throw a book, papers, and pens into a backpack and it adds up. Also, with the 14" screen, it is fairly large and therefore harder to handle physically. Most of the time I would leave my laptop at home because I didn't want to deal with the added weight or the size it occupied in my backpack.
After it died and I sent it back 3 times, I went with a 3.5 pound 12" screeen Thinkpad, and it was perfect. I carry it anywhere I want to, and I barely notice it. It is the size of a textbook, but half as thick and much lighter, so I just slide it into my backpack with everything else. If I need to show somebody something, I can easily pass the machine with one hand with no fear of dropping it when weight shifts. Anymore, when I play with friend's 6 pound laptops, I find them large and burdensome.
For notes I still use pencil and paper becuase I can mentally imagine which sheet of paper a particular note or drawing is on and find it much faster. It is nice to be able to code, check email, and write papers when I'm sitting in a lounge at school.
I agree. I just bought Zodiac, and while it was a good read, there were several cases of misspellings (Bone instead of the character Boone) and a few places where words were simply dropped. I find that mistakes like that detract from the flow of the story because I have to go back and reread the paragraph to see if I had simply parsed the sentence incorrectly. When that happens, my mind had already lost the flow of the previous pages.
My friend bought an LCD from best buy, and they wouldn't let her test it for dead pixels before she bought it. Once she flashed the plastic, they gladly hooked it up. I'm assuming they did that so it deterrs people who weren't going to buy it in the first place from making an open box item.
The real problem isn't that Microsoft is giving out free software. It isn't a problem that they can give software out for free and not require a license.
The real problem is that when the feds come knocking on your door, you aren't going to have a license for that CD and they're going to bust you for it. Microsoft isn't going to help you then, unless for some reason they kept a list of names of people to whom they distributed the CDs.
I was at a LAN party once, and my mom called me via telephone to tell me that she couldn't get the modem to disconnect from the Internet and that it was blocking the phone line. She told me over the phone that she needed the line to make a phone call.
I was speechless