I honestly don't know. I don't own one of them, but they look neat. I'm not blind so hopefully I'll never need one; however, if I do become blind I might consider getting one:)
I found it looking for some linux-for-the-blind stuff because I have very poor eyesight and some days my eyes get quite strained and it becomes difficult to work. Being the paranoid guy that I am, I decided to look for solutions now in the event that I ever do become blind. Hopefully this isn't something that happens; however, I won't take chances either:)
It is marketed as a terminal to use with Windows; however, it is quite clear in mentioning that it runs Linux and the user is very able to (and encouraged) to use the Linux operating system which is installed on the device.
It comes in two flavors, braille and qwerty keyboards. The only downside is that it is terribly expensive.
This popular myth has been borne of several real problems, especially for users of DOS and Windows which use the FAT filesystems.
FAT is prone to defragmentation. The longer since you've 'defragged' or reformatted, the slower your disk accesses will be. Many newbies are unfamiliar with defragging their drives and for them they only notice that removing programs helps gain speed.
FAT is simply not a good filesystem for large amounts of data. Checkout the following document for a nice intro: http://people.msoe.edu/~taylor/cs384/steph anb.pdf
The speed of Nvidia is *much* better with Nvidia in linux (x86). I have an Nvidia card in my x86 machine and I'm happy. I have an ati card in my PowerPC machine and I'm happy. Unfortunately, if I swapped the cards between the machines I would be very unhappy because the ATI card simply doesn't have the horsepower of the Nvidia card with the linux drivers.
Having worked at providers and doing my own providing, my suggestion is to go for a co-located or dedicated server.
Those fees pay for the salaries of the employees included but not limited to Systems Administration costs, electric, air conditioning, bandwidth, and server resources. The more disk space you use the more likely your account is to be a strain on the server.
Users with 1 gigabyte of disk space are very likely to stress the system more than a user with a 16 megabyte account. Perhaps this isn't always true, but it is true statistically (not counting the spammers and script kiddies who always get cheap accounts and abuse them until they're booted).
If someone wants to provide a private FTP they could just as easily provide a private, seeded, bittorrent. It wouldn't be nearly as effective as a public bittorrent, but it would be still be better than an FTP.
Exactly.. of course, for those who read the article they would realize that they state this quite plainly in the article.
What the article says later is that the GPUs will grow to become more generalized machines; however, this isn't to say that they will become generalized as an x86 cpu; however, they may become more than just Graphics Processor Units and are expanding into specializing in other areas that games require special acceleration.
The good thing is that those 'other areas' are used by things other than games. This means that future, non-game, non-3d, software can begin taking advantage of specialized processors which are installed on these graphics cards. This will not replace the CPU which is a generalized machine; however, the idea is that currently (and more-so in the future) we have many specialized machines in our computers.. currently, all of these specialized machines are embedded on graphics cards.
People who require doing a lot of FFT will benefit from using a high-end graphics card for their calculations because their graphics card has a specialized processor for performing FFT whereas their more generalized CPU doesn't.
No, it isn't. Running a high-traffic private ftp costs a fortune, but with BitTorrent you can have more people downloading and more bandwidth per-user... with little to no cost.
BitTorrent eliminates the 'leecher' problem that FTP has because it is designed to serve the file you're downloading to the other downloaders.
Don't take it personally, but many ISPs are run by people who don't know how to run an ISP. You should probably learn fundementals of networking, become familiar with different daemons, even work for an ISP.. then consider opening your own.
Are there any good tutorials or packages out there for people who've never attempted a small scale ISP endeavor? I don't mean try to build an earthlink, just basic facts, lists of hardware and software required, basic setup, etc.
Geocities reserves the right to disable/remove the account and certainly reserves the right to give the account to someone else. There is just no legal reason for them to give the account to anyone who asks for it except, perhaps, the government.
I assume that Geocities terminated the account according to their TOS and allowed the 'defizzers' to re-open the account.. this would be ok; however, it would be nice if they stated how, exactly, they obtained the account.
So, did they obtain this account via Geocities or did they crack it? If they cracked it, this would be very illegal. Why would geocities give the account to them? They have no legal right to that account.
I knew someone who took the test in 98 and received a combined score of 500, but they tried to do well. They weren't embarrassed about it and I tried to sound supportive, but that wasn't the most sucessful score I've heard of;)
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I honestly don't know. I don't own one of them, but they look neat. I'm not blind so hopefully I'll never need one; however, if I do become blind I might consider getting one :)
:)
I found it looking for some linux-for-the-blind stuff because I have very poor eyesight and some days my eyes get quite strained and it becomes difficult to work. Being the paranoid guy that I am, I decided to look for solutions now in the event that I ever do become blind. Hopefully this isn't something that happens; however, I won't take chances either
This is a site that sells the Elba, the prices are listed on the page (for those too lazy to click, it starts at $3,995.00)
You might be interested in Elba.
It is marketed as a terminal to use with Windows; however, it is quite clear in mentioning that it runs Linux and the user is very able to (and encouraged) to use the Linux operating system which is installed on the device.
It comes in two flavors, braille and qwerty keyboards. The only downside is that it is terribly expensive.
This popular myth has been borne of several real problems, especially for users of DOS and Windows which use the FAT filesystems.
h anb.pdf
FAT is prone to defragmentation. The longer since you've 'defragged' or reformatted, the slower your disk accesses will be. Many newbies are unfamiliar with defragging their drives and for them they only notice that removing programs helps gain speed.
FAT is simply not a good filesystem for large amounts of data. Checkout the following document for a nice intro:
http://people.msoe.edu/~taylor/cs384/step
Thank theoddone33 for doing an excellent job on removing the x86 asm, and the icculus.org guys in general on an excellent port.
Please remember the era of whence postscript originates.
The speed of Nvidia is *much* better with Nvidia in linux (x86). I have an Nvidia card in my x86 machine and I'm happy. I have an ati card in my PowerPC machine and I'm happy. Unfortunately, if I swapped the cards between the machines I would be very unhappy because the ATI card simply doesn't have the horsepower of the Nvidia card with the linux drivers.
Unfortunately, the performance of the (ATI/DRI) drivers is pitiful according to many people.
I'll only buy Nvidia on x86 due to poor performance of ATI cards and on PowerPC I'll only buy ATI due to lack of *any* support from Nvidia.
Having worked at providers and doing my own providing, my suggestion is to go for a co-located or dedicated server.
Those fees pay for the salaries of the employees included but not limited to Systems Administration costs, electric, air conditioning, bandwidth, and server resources. The more disk space you use the more likely your account is to be a strain on the server.
Users with 1 gigabyte of disk space are very likely to stress the system more than a user with a 16 megabyte account. Perhaps this isn't always true, but it is true statistically (not counting the spammers and script kiddies who always get cheap accounts and abuse them until they're booted).
If someone wants to provide a private FTP they could just as easily provide a private, seeded, bittorrent. It wouldn't be nearly as effective as a public bittorrent, but it would be still be better than an FTP.
Don't forget that GPL *never* means free.
MIT or BSD, maybe.. GPL, no.
Except the current crop of consumer-level 802.11g equipment sucks.. and nobody would dare buying the more expensive commercial-level equipment.
Yes it was. Their first cards were based on the then-popular Lucent wavlan cards.
The EX has a better engine.. but the hybrid doesn't need a (gasoline) engine that powerful, supposedly. It is vastly underpowered; however.
I considered buying one.. but for a little more I can get a nice full-size Nissan or Toyota rather than a compact like the Civic.
The hybrid Civic is only a couple thousand more than the non-hybrid Civic EX according to my local dealer.
Exactly.. of course, for those who read the article they would realize that they state this quite plainly in the article.
What the article says later is that the GPUs will grow to become more generalized machines; however, this isn't to say that they will become generalized as an x86 cpu; however, they may become more than just Graphics Processor Units and are expanding into specializing in other areas that games require special acceleration.
The good thing is that those 'other areas' are used by things other than games. This means that future, non-game, non-3d, software can begin taking advantage of specialized processors which are installed on these graphics cards. This will not replace the CPU which is a generalized machine; however, the idea is that currently (and more-so in the future) we have many specialized machines in our computers.. currently, all of these specialized machines are embedded on graphics cards.
People who require doing a lot of FFT will benefit from using a high-end graphics card for their calculations because their graphics card has a specialized processor for performing FFT whereas their more generalized CPU doesn't.
No, it isn't. Running a high-traffic private ftp costs a fortune, but with BitTorrent you can have more people downloading and more bandwidth per-user... with little to no cost.
BitTorrent eliminates the 'leecher' problem that FTP has because it is designed to serve the file you're downloading to the other downloaders.
Don't take it personally, but many ISPs are run by people who don't know how to run an ISP. You should probably learn fundementals of networking, become familiar with different daemons, even work for an ISP.. then consider opening your own.
If you need to ask, you don't need to know.
Geocities reserves the right to disable/remove the account and certainly reserves the right to give the account to someone else. There is just no legal reason for them to give the account to anyone who asks for it except, perhaps, the government.
I assume that Geocities terminated the account according to their TOS and allowed the 'defizzers' to re-open the account.. this would be ok; however, it would be nice if they stated how, exactly, they obtained the account.
So, did they obtain this account via Geocities or did they crack it? If they cracked it, this would be very illegal. Why would geocities give the account to them? They have no legal right to that account.
He will direct the games as he directs movies.. sega will be the 'actors'.
Blender is not that hard, it can be taught easily by an instructor; however, self-teaching is much more difficult.
old-school vaporware. Must be a slow day.
I knew someone who took the test in 98 and received a combined score of 500, but they tried to do well. They weren't embarrassed about it and I tried to sound supportive, but that wasn't the most sucessful score I've heard of ;)
I also knew a couple people who scored 1600.