Total Transparency of thought and Action. Anything not according to the Group mind will be punished. Any Deviation from accepted behaviour or function will be corrected.
Seems that this is exactly what he wants. Well I want full transparency of all of his email, including corporate as there is nothing to fear except fear itself. Step up and accept the fate you demand and become one with the Collective.
I'm currently running the Win7RC and let me tell you, the only option it offers is the ability to disable it. Just like there's no way to remove the Office Plug-in.
Your right that the government should toss Marriage out the door and tell Rome to fuck em selves. I'm not a religious person but I do know that some religions not only allow but actually insist that a marriage consists of several persons, so the entire definition of marriage a violation of the Seperation of State and Religion provision in the U.S. Constitution as it favors One Religion over another.
A Civil Union would solve the issue and would then fall under standard Contract Law. In this case, a Civil Union could spell out minimum standard set of elements that represent such a contract and in fact, it would allow for even BDSM contracts, that conform to the law, be enforcable.
Is Intel a Gaming GPU Producer? If so, what games recomend using an Intel GPU and where can I get such a dedicated beast?
We've always known that Intel Off-loads what the GPU can't handle to the CPU. Hell it's an accepted practice and recomended by the OpenGL Standard folks along with Microsoft in regards to Direct-X. Simply put anything that the hardware does not support is unimportant as it is the driver that must support the feature. They don't and never have cared how in hell the driver handled the feature as that's beyond the purpose of the standards bodies.
This has been a fact of life for everyone since they developed any kind of standard requirements for interopreability. What constitutes cheating is when the Video Card silently drops frams to gain a performance boost when being benchmarked. That's cheating. Off-loading unsupported features from the GPU to the CPU is not. It's just good sense and standard practice, otherwise why in hell have any kind of standard?
Nahhh - they're either attempting to wake Godzilla, Rhodan or Godzuki unless the Japanese Ministry of Defense was correct and the Gundums aren't in Japan.
Even Better: Don't store CC numbers once you have the payment authorization and transaction ID. It's that damn simple. Once Visa/Master Card/Dinner Club/AmEx authorizes the transaction, the only thing you need is the transaction Authorization ID along with the amount and it's what I don't understand about the entire Credit Card PCI process. Push for this and you'd eliminate many of the reasons to hack Merchant systems for card numbers and I suspect Visa/MasterCard/AmEx would save lots of money on bad charges.
Win7 Dragged me back into the Collective. Yes I started playing with Linux back when Caldera had released v:1.3 and I've still got my copy of it. Hell I've even got a copy of RH5, Mandrake 7 & 8 on Disk (commercial CD's). In 2003, I switched almost full time to Gentoo as it gave me the control I wanted of My computer but after K3B failed on me in April, I gave up and grabbed the Win7-Beta images and gave it a spin. Currently, I'm using the Win7-RC as it's proven itself to be stable and supports all of my games without problems and you know what? It's unlikely I'll go back to Linux due to the loss of control and don't mention Debian to me.
/rant It's almost impossible to setup a custom kernel without printing out 50 pages of docs to do it and no I don't like my system to use an Ramdisk Image to boot./end-rant
I actually like Win7 over Vista due to many improvements and yes it's closer to SP3 for Vista then a brand new OS. Of course as I didn't pay for Vista (got it through the Uni for free), I'm quite happy to pay for Win7 as it is a big improvement.
I've got one question. How much air are we moving to launch something?
My suspicion is something in the range or Cubic Kilometers per Second instead of CFM and if we're talking that much, what impact on our weather is there going to be with such a large fan running all the time?
What I'd suggest instead is use the tube and combine it with maglev. Allows much better control of the thrust (more accurate) and might remove the solid rocket booster stage for orbit. You also get income from the reactors excess power (when its not charging caps or launching something) and it helps reduce greenhouse gases.
As I'm not a CS Major or even a competent programmer (I failed Basic), my idea might not hold water but here goes: Why not go with a Load Balancing setup, just like any high availablilty website/service? You'd need a Master Controller (Root DNS anyone?) and it parcels out clients to each server based upon how much load that sever is under. To me it makes more sense to do away with the Server/Shard/Region system in favor of the Load Balanced setup as it should allow for a seamless addition of resources instead of the problems currently being seen. Of course, as GW (NCSoft) offers, you can ensure that guild-members (special groups) are placed on the same server but other then special membership groups like that, why?
Funny that everyone is talking about PSU's and them being to small since I just helped a friend with a PSU that was Too Big. Yep that can happen. I'd suggested a nice 550 watt PSU that would have worked quite well (single rail design) and he goes and spends the money on a 1KW unit. Of course his system refuses to even post as the PSU isn't being loaded hard enough to continue (part of the ATX specs) so it immediately shuts down.
To make a long story short, I took over a testing PSU (300 watt by FSP) to make sure his board wasn't DOA and lo and behold, it posts with a video card installed.
Lesson Learned - keep a small PSU on hand for testing DOA board status along with a decent low power Vid Card like a 7300GT and yes it's good nuff to post a board that doesn't have IGP
That's because you have the "Get Windows Live" link in your start menu and you validated the complaint of extra garbage (Writer/Messenger) when all I wanted was Mail. That's what I was complaining about. It insists on adding garbage that I'm not interested in at this time. For what it's worth, until you actually run the damn downloader called wlsetup-web.exe, you wont have any clue what garbage they make you go through when trying to install just a mail client.
Try reading my post again and you'll see that it's the client who uses OE, not me.
Yes I agree there are better offerings out there but she's been using both OE and IE for the last 10 years and being >70 years old, aint willing to learn something new at this point in time.
Hell most of my clients are old nuff to be in the old folks home 70-98 at this time.
In regards to the term Lappy that the AC complained about, that's the customers term, not mine, which is MPS, which stands for Mobile Personal Computer unless it's an ultralight model that then gets a U added to the front, standing for Ultralight
and to get the damn Live-Mail, you almost have to use IE and jump through a lot of hoops just to get it. Went through that the other day and it was a real PITA as the Live Downloaded wanted to install a whole rash of other crap, just like all the other freebies out there. Of course instead of adding the Ask Toolbar, it wanted to add in Messenger, the damn Blogger accelerator for IE and sign you up for both a Live Id and a damn hotmail account.
Damn MS for making it even harder on people to simply get a copy of Outlook Express and don't even get me started on the Student and Teacher Edition of Office from which they've dropped Outlook in favor of One Note. They could at least include a copy of OE/Live Mail on the disk with the rest of Office so people who are using Win7 get a working mail client.
I've got a friend who's told me in no uncertain terms that she's getting a new lappy with Win7 on it. Current one is a 7+ yr old Dell running XP so she's making a big jump. Thankfully, I've already grabbed Live-Mail so it's not neccessary to go through all the agravation to get it once again if her new system isn't preloaded with it.
Yep. I'm a Linux (Gentoo preferred) user who switched back to Windows simply due to stability issues and I have well supported hardware (Intel Board and C2D). Simply put, I got tired of a damn update fragging K3b or Kmail or something else that was a critical app and no unlike many Gentoo users, I didn't believe in pushing 11 on the system, going for very conservative optimizations, using Os as my default (Optimze for Size). It was recently after a Crash Log Review that I determined that both Linux and Windows in 64bit flavors simply aint ready for the desktop, even though both work great on servers due to the limited functionality. Face it folks, update one core component on a 64bit desktop and likely you'll break at least two apps, which happened all to damn often for my peace of mind.
Because of this, I pulled 3 sticks of memory from my dekstop and dropped back to a meager 2GB and installed Win7-32, which seems to be pretty stable. Even XP/Vista/Linux are all pretty stable for 32bits, it's just that the 64bit versions still have quite a few speed bumps and I got tired of having to fix either of them on a regular basis.
The first effort I think would be to take a well known story (Foundation/Time Enough for Love) and tear into the plot itself and explain why/how it works. Is the story itself important? Maybe but you want something that's recognized as being a strong story with solid plot elements and this could work with any genre. Fiction in general with stories such as "To Kill a Mockingbird", that I was required to read during High School, were formulative of my wide reading interests. Prior to that, I restricted myself to very narrow set of genre's, mainly of Sci-Fi/Fantasy but began branching out into many different directions such as War and Peace, Hardy Boys Series, Tom Switf, Nancy Drew, even Harlequin stories if they're well written. I even started on Tom Clancy, a few Koontz and many other authors and no longer make the distinction between Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Techno-Thriller as they're all Fiction.
I've got an 802.11b/g router that's configured to 2mbps on the b side only and my users like it since we have several different routers in the neighborhood that show up. The advantage is that by restricting the thing to the b protocol and limiting it to 2mbps, it actually runs at the full 2mbps at max range unlike all the other routers we see. As to file and Printer Sharing, sure it doesn't run as fast as it could, but that's not a major issue here. The only thing we do is share some pictures/music/videos across the network and as WMP 12 (using W7-RC) caches things, it doesn't affect performance at all. For those who use WMP, change your buffering from the default to 30 seconds. That makes even a slow wifi connection acceptable to you for music/video streaming.
On a side note, I'm not afraid to let my idle systems continue their downloading efforts in the background for a week if needed to grab the files I'm after even when I'm at work (reason I have a UPS on my primary system).
Right now I'm finding this discussion to be damn funny when people bitch about saturating even a Gig-E connection as I know none of you have Gig-E to the home.Sorry folks but you can have your Ferrari while I still get by fine with my old Model-A and yes you have to slow down around me as the damn thing will crap all over your new car. How do you like the gravel my tires throw and don't forget the Oil slick it'll drop in a heart beat.
The last official email I've recieved from Thwate was a year ago when my certs expired. As to whether this is actually happening, I simply have to say it's a bogus message put out by someone who's got an axe to grind with Thwate. As to Verisign purchasing thwate 10 years ago, I wasn't aware of that as there was and is no information about such a purchase on their website, which is a critical piece of information that must be provided (of course I've not looked at their SEC filings to okay/deny).
Based on past actions by Apple, I suspect they'd actually be the first to succeed in making such a thing work. Hell they've already got the iPhone App Store along with ITMS so what's one more store that's stictly for Mac software? In fact this fits right into their philosophy of "Control" and if they could lock the platform down where you can't install anything except from their App Store, then they'd be damn happy. Only problem with that total control is Adobe and the other big software vendors. They'd scream bloody murder and raise anti-trust and of course you've got all the users with a clue who'd drop out of the "Reality Distortion Field", which is not a good thing for Apple.
The only reason MS wouldn't do something like this is there are to many anti-trust issues and governments that would shoot them in the head very quickly for such. Personally, I'd give MS the benefit of the doubt so long as they don't block the installation of software from outside sources such as CD/DVD (Games/Shi-Painter/Virtual-Dub/OSS).
ROFLMAO as that doesn't even cover my MP3 collection and when you look at my porn collection, lets just say I've got to get another drive since 320GB isn't large enough for it now and it's all videos.
Everyone is thinking about this the wrong way. First off, we don't have the charging infrastructure in place (no parking meters with chargers - pay for an hour charging and get free parking) and that means that it's useless to think about range in a one-way manner. You must think about it in the round-trip manner instead, which means your usable range is short by 30-60 Miles. In other words, a 300 Mile one-way range translates into a 120 Mile usable range for round trip purposes and the 500 mile one-way becomes a meager 220 usable miles and until we get the round-trip range to 300-500 usable files (600-1000) one-way, the EV simply wont be practical in the United States.
I'll give you an example of the difference between round-trip and one-way consideration. Once a quarter (every 3 months) I have to drive into Los Angeles, Ca for the day. For me this is a One-way trip of 180 miles and I normally avg. 420 miles for the round-trip. In order to complete such a trip with an EV, I must have a minimum of a 500 mile range, which gives me 20 miles of spare range over the requisite 220(440) mile usable range. You might wonder why I state usable and the answer is simply asked "Do you run your car on empty?" to which most people answer a resounding "Hell No!" so why would you run an EV down to empty? You can't coast into a fuel station and buy 10 miles of Electricity can you, so you have to keep some range in reserve.
Great Analogy/explanation of the Web Of Trust for Joe Sixpack/Soccer Mom. I'm going to steal it for the classes I teach on basic computer usage. Maybe I'll finally be able to get some more folks to digital email certs.
Infidel! You can't teach children to think. That's completely against the law and it means the loss of your consumer privileges for the foreseeable future.
Slashdot Mirror
Phillip K. Dick was right. It's Disc world
We Are One People
We Are Borg
Resistance is Futile as you will be assimulated
Total Transparency of thought and Action. Anything not according to the Group mind will be punished. Any Deviation from accepted behaviour or function will be corrected.
Seems that this is exactly what he wants. Well I want full transparency of all of his email, including corporate as there is nothing to fear except fear itself. Step up and accept the fate you demand and become one with the Collective.
I'm currently running the Win7RC and let me tell you, the only option it offers is the ability to disable it. Just like there's no way to remove the Office Plug-in.
Your right that the government should toss Marriage out the door and tell Rome to fuck em selves. I'm not a religious person but I do know that some religions not only allow but actually insist that a marriage consists of several persons, so the entire definition of marriage a violation of the Seperation of State and Religion provision in the U.S. Constitution as it favors One Religion over another.
A Civil Union would solve the issue and would then fall under standard Contract Law. In this case, a Civil Union could spell out minimum standard set of elements that represent such a contract and in fact, it would allow for even BDSM contracts, that conform to the law, be enforcable.
Is Intel a Gaming GPU Producer? If so, what games recomend using an Intel GPU and where can I get such a dedicated beast?
We've always known that Intel Off-loads what the GPU can't handle to the CPU. Hell it's an accepted practice and recomended by the OpenGL Standard folks along with Microsoft in regards to Direct-X. Simply put anything that the hardware does not support is unimportant as it is the driver that must support the feature. They don't and never have cared how in hell the driver handled the feature as that's beyond the purpose of the standards bodies.
This has been a fact of life for everyone since they developed any kind of standard requirements for interopreability. What constitutes cheating is when the Video Card silently drops frams to gain a performance boost when being benchmarked. That's cheating. Off-loading unsupported features from the GPU to the CPU is not. It's just good sense and standard practice, otherwise why in hell have any kind of standard?
Nahhh - they're either attempting to wake Godzilla, Rhodan or Godzuki unless the Japanese Ministry of Defense was correct and the Gundums aren't in Japan.
Even Better: Don't store CC numbers once you have the payment authorization and transaction ID. It's that damn simple. Once Visa/Master Card/Dinner Club/AmEx authorizes the transaction, the only thing you need is the transaction Authorization ID along with the amount and it's what I don't understand about the entire Credit Card PCI process. Push for this and you'd eliminate many of the reasons to hack Merchant systems for card numbers and I suspect Visa/MasterCard/AmEx would save lots of money on bad charges.
Win7 Dragged me back into the Collective. Yes I started playing with Linux back when Caldera had released v:1.3 and I've still got my copy of it. Hell I've even got a copy of RH5, Mandrake 7 & 8 on Disk (commercial CD's). In 2003, I switched almost full time to Gentoo as it gave me the control I wanted of My computer but after K3B failed on me in April, I gave up and grabbed the Win7-Beta images and gave it a spin. Currently, I'm using the Win7-RC as it's proven itself to be stable and supports all of my games without problems and you know what? It's unlikely I'll go back to Linux due to the loss of control and don't mention Debian to me.
I actually like Win7 over Vista due to many improvements and yes it's closer to SP3 for Vista then a brand new OS. Of course as I didn't pay for Vista (got it through the Uni for free), I'm quite happy to pay for Win7 as it is a big improvement.
I've got one question. How much air are we moving to launch something?
My suspicion is something in the range or Cubic Kilometers per Second instead of CFM and if we're talking that much, what impact on our weather is there going to be with such a large fan running all the time?
What I'd suggest instead is use the tube and combine it with maglev. Allows much better control of the thrust (more accurate) and might remove the solid rocket booster stage for orbit. You also get income from the reactors excess power (when its not charging caps or launching something) and it helps reduce greenhouse gases.
As I'm not a CS Major or even a competent programmer (I failed Basic), my idea might not hold water but here goes: Why not go with a Load Balancing setup, just like any high availablilty website/service? You'd need a Master Controller (Root DNS anyone?) and it parcels out clients to each server based upon how much load that sever is under. To me it makes more sense to do away with the Server/Shard/Region system in favor of the Load Balanced setup as it should allow for a seamless addition of resources instead of the problems currently being seen. Of course, as GW (NCSoft) offers, you can ensure that guild-members (special groups) are placed on the same server but other then special membership groups like that, why?
Funny that everyone is talking about PSU's and them being to small since I just helped a friend with a PSU that was Too Big. Yep that can happen. I'd suggested a nice 550 watt PSU that would have worked quite well (single rail design) and he goes and spends the money on a 1KW unit. Of course his system refuses to even post as the PSU isn't being loaded hard enough to continue (part of the ATX specs) so it immediately shuts down.
To make a long story short, I took over a testing PSU (300 watt by FSP) to make sure his board wasn't DOA and lo and behold, it posts with a video card installed.
Lesson Learned - keep a small PSU on hand for testing DOA board status along with a decent low power Vid Card like a 7300GT and yes it's good nuff to post a board that doesn't have IGP
That's because you have the "Get Windows Live" link in your start menu and you validated the complaint of extra garbage (Writer/Messenger) when all I wanted was Mail. That's what I was complaining about. It insists on adding garbage that I'm not interested in at this time. For what it's worth, until you actually run the damn downloader called wlsetup-web.exe, you wont have any clue what garbage they make you go through when trying to install just a mail client.
Try reading my post again and you'll see that it's the client who uses OE, not me.
Yes I agree there are better offerings out there but she's been using both OE and IE for the last 10 years and being >70 years old, aint willing to learn something new at this point in time.
Hell most of my clients are old nuff to be in the old folks home 70-98 at this time.
In regards to the term Lappy that the AC complained about, that's the customers term, not mine, which is MPS, which stands for Mobile Personal Computer unless it's an ultralight model that then gets a U added to the front, standing for Ultralight
and to get the damn Live-Mail, you almost have to use IE and jump through a lot of hoops just to get it. Went through that the other day and it was a real PITA as the Live Downloaded wanted to install a whole rash of other crap, just like all the other freebies out there. Of course instead of adding the Ask Toolbar, it wanted to add in Messenger, the damn Blogger accelerator for IE and sign you up for both a Live Id and a damn hotmail account.
Damn MS for making it even harder on people to simply get a copy of Outlook Express and don't even get me started on the Student and Teacher Edition of Office from which they've dropped Outlook in favor of One Note. They could at least include a copy of OE/Live Mail on the disk with the rest of Office so people who are using Win7 get a working mail client.
I've got a friend who's told me in no uncertain terms that she's getting a new lappy with Win7 on it. Current one is a 7+ yr old Dell running XP so she's making a big jump. Thankfully, I've already grabbed Live-Mail so it's not neccessary to go through all the agravation to get it once again if her new system isn't preloaded with it.
Yep. I'm a Linux (Gentoo preferred) user who switched back to Windows simply due to stability issues and I have well supported hardware (Intel Board and C2D). Simply put, I got tired of a damn update fragging K3b or Kmail or something else that was a critical app and no unlike many Gentoo users, I didn't believe in pushing 11 on the system, going for very conservative optimizations, using Os as my default (Optimze for Size). It was recently after a Crash Log Review that I determined that both Linux and Windows in 64bit flavors simply aint ready for the desktop, even though both work great on servers due to the limited functionality. Face it folks, update one core component on a 64bit desktop and likely you'll break at least two apps, which happened all to damn often for my peace of mind.
Because of this, I pulled 3 sticks of memory from my dekstop and dropped back to a meager 2GB and installed Win7-32, which seems to be pretty stable. Even XP/Vista/Linux are all pretty stable for 32bits, it's just that the 64bit versions still have quite a few speed bumps and I got tired of having to fix either of them on a regular basis.
The first effort I think would be to take a well known story (Foundation/Time Enough for Love) and tear into the plot itself and explain why/how it works. Is the story itself important? Maybe but you want something that's recognized as being a strong story with solid plot elements and this could work with any genre. Fiction in general with stories such as "To Kill a Mockingbird", that I was required to read during High School, were formulative of my wide reading interests. Prior to that, I restricted myself to very narrow set of genre's, mainly of Sci-Fi/Fantasy but began branching out into many different directions such as War and Peace, Hardy Boys Series, Tom Switf, Nancy Drew, even Harlequin stories if they're well written. I even started on Tom Clancy, a few Koontz and many other authors and no longer make the distinction between Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Techno-Thriller as they're all Fiction.
I've got an 802.11b/g router that's configured to 2mbps on the b side only and my users like it since we have several different routers in the neighborhood that show up. The advantage is that by restricting the thing to the b protocol and limiting it to 2mbps, it actually runs at the full 2mbps at max range unlike all the other routers we see. As to file and Printer Sharing, sure it doesn't run as fast as it could, but that's not a major issue here. The only thing we do is share some pictures/music/videos across the network and as WMP 12 (using W7-RC) caches things, it doesn't affect performance at all. For those who use WMP, change your buffering from the default to 30 seconds. That makes even a slow wifi connection acceptable to you for music/video streaming.
On a side note, I'm not afraid to let my idle systems continue their downloading efforts in the background for a week if needed to grab the files I'm after even when I'm at work (reason I have a UPS on my primary system).
Right now I'm finding this discussion to be damn funny when people bitch about saturating even a Gig-E connection as I know none of you have Gig-E to the home.Sorry folks but you can have your Ferrari while I still get by fine with my old Model-A and yes you have to slow down around me as the damn thing will crap all over your new car. How do you like the gravel my tires throw and don't forget the Oil slick it'll drop in a heart beat.
Which is why the only commodities I trust are Hot Lead and the Will Power to use them
The last official email I've recieved from Thwate was a year ago when my certs expired. As to whether this is actually happening, I simply have to say it's a bogus message put out by someone who's got an axe to grind with Thwate. As to Verisign purchasing thwate 10 years ago, I wasn't aware of that as there was and is no information about such a purchase on their website, which is a critical piece of information that must be provided (of course I've not looked at their SEC filings to okay/deny).
No Lawyer works for "Free" but they would be willing to take such a case on "Contingency", which means they only get paid if you win.
Based on past actions by Apple, I suspect they'd actually be the first to succeed in making such a thing work. Hell they've already got the iPhone App Store along with ITMS so what's one more store that's stictly for Mac software? In fact this fits right into their philosophy of "Control" and if they could lock the platform down where you can't install anything except from their App Store, then they'd be damn happy. Only problem with that total control is Adobe and the other big software vendors. They'd scream bloody murder and raise anti-trust and of course you've got all the users with a clue who'd drop out of the "Reality Distortion Field", which is not a good thing for Apple.
The only reason MS wouldn't do something like this is there are to many anti-trust issues and governments that would shoot them in the head very quickly for such. Personally, I'd give MS the benefit of the doubt so long as they don't block the installation of software from outside sources such as CD/DVD (Games/Shi-Painter/Virtual-Dub/OSS).
If you are storing 100 GB (a shit ton)...
ROFLMAO as that doesn't even cover my MP3 collection and when you look at my porn collection, lets just say I've got to get another drive since 320GB isn't large enough for it now and it's all videos.
Everyone is thinking about this the wrong way. First off, we don't have the charging infrastructure in place (no parking meters with chargers - pay for an hour charging and get free parking) and that means that it's useless to think about range in a one-way manner. You must think about it in the round-trip manner instead, which means your usable range is short by 30-60 Miles. In other words, a 300 Mile one-way range translates into a 120 Mile usable range for round trip purposes and the 500 mile one-way becomes a meager 220 usable miles and until we get the round-trip range to 300-500 usable files (600-1000) one-way, the EV simply wont be practical in the United States.
I'll give you an example of the difference between round-trip and one-way consideration. Once a quarter (every 3 months) I have to drive into Los Angeles, Ca for the day. For me this is a One-way trip of 180 miles and I normally avg. 420 miles for the round-trip. In order to complete such a trip with an EV, I must have a minimum of a 500 mile range, which gives me 20 miles of spare range over the requisite 220(440) mile usable range. You might wonder why I state usable and the answer is simply asked "Do you run your car on empty?" to which most people answer a resounding "Hell No!" so why would you run an EV down to empty? You can't coast into a fuel station and buy 10 miles of Electricity can you, so you have to keep some range in reserve.
Great Analogy/explanation of the Web Of Trust for Joe Sixpack/Soccer Mom. I'm going to steal it for the classes I teach on basic computer usage. Maybe I'll finally be able to get some more folks to digital email certs.
Infidel! You can't teach children to think. That's completely against the law and it means the loss of your consumer privileges for the foreseeable future.