I think I'd perfer these to the commercials that interrupt your show. Especially when it's 3am and you're watching a quiet show, and then without warning, the commercial suddenly blasts in at 10x the volumne about Bob's Discount Cars (no money down!).
I especially hate the channels (ie Comedy Central) which play their normal programming at 25% of volume capacity and then the commercials at 100%. So you turn the program up so you can hear the show, then the volume is way too loud when the commercials come on. That's about as subversive as a banner on a web page that's so annoyingly animated that you vow to never buy from that advertised company.
I also noticed ICQ buttons on some pages. It seems that their parser apparently looks for the string "ICQ ######" and then if found, places an image inline afterward to indicate their online status. Of course, it accidently picks up the product name "ICQ 2000" as ICQ user #2000.
There's a great collection of essays by a fellow by the name of Michael R. Feltz who describes the possibility that the three-dimensional universe we live in may be built upon a fourth spatial dimension which is expanding. This could also explain gravity if matter is "dragging behind" in this expanding fourth dimension.
Feltz's essays are located at http://www.cyburban.com/~mrf/. It's really worth checking out, as it gives you some great ways to visualize the fourth spatial dimension, and some interesting insight into the possibilities of the structure of our universe.
Sometimes the math gets a bit heavy, but the discussion is worth reading.
I agree at least with the working drivers part. Am I the only one who seems to think that ATI makes some great hardware, but their software department seems to either be completely mismanaged or underfunded, and once a card is more than 6 months old, you'll see maybe one more driver update, and that's it...
Don't get me wrong. I've been buying All-In-Wonder cards since they were first introduced (they are a great piece of hardware), but I keep coming back, looking for an updated driver for an annoying bug that has been there since the beginning, and I have been disappointed too many times.
And someone please point me to a third-party application that will access the television function in the AIW without having to load that bloated VisualBasic-esque ATI Video Player...
As a counterpoint to your concern about the lighter construction having less strength, keep in mind a lighter car will not inflict as much damage on itself and/or the car of the other crash victim due to it's lower mass.
Someone ran into the back of my 96 Saturn at about 10mph at a stop light and it did nothing but minor abrasions on the surface of my rear bumper, which were so minor they've been weathered away since.
Also, the fact that trademarked companies couldn't buy up all TLD variations of their names, could create potential for unscrupulous people to create "imitation" sites that could fool people into thinking that they are dealing with the real company.
Ever heard of SSL? Besides encryption, it solves the problem you mention about identity. Ever try to get a secure certificate? They want to know everything about you except maybe your medical history...
could you imagine the confusion if they go to a standardized system, ie:.sex,.tv,.geek, etc? Who would be responsable for catagorizing the content of the site?
How long will it take before people realize you can't categorize everything... Sure, it's nice to try, but there's no right way.
What really needs to happen is to find a way to end the practice of squatting domains
Short of a huge bureaucracy, this sounds like the best solution yet. Sure, there'd be some squatting, but it'd be a hell of a lot more difficult to squat everything. If someone sqats on bobs.cars, Bob could then just register bobs.chevys or bobs.autos.
Also check out Nasa's science site about this event. They also have an active email newsletter that keeps you up to date on interesting space stuff like this.
Hear hear, though it's especially true for the crap Compaq ships. [...] It all boils down to quality: if you buy a cheap $200 17" or 19", you should expect it to ruin your eyes.
You should re-read your reply in this context. I have a Compaq P110 21" at work and it is an excellent monitor. I'll probably never spend that much on a monitor for home, but it's a damn nice monitor. If a consumer or business spends $200 for a 17" or 19" Compaq monitor, I imagine most of the people who use the monitor will assume all Compaq monitors are crap.
Then again, if I were Compaq and I were selling crappy monitors cheap, I'd probably not put my brand name in an obvious spot on them.
"DSL speed... stays consistent, as opposed to the shared systems used by cable companies where speed may decrease as more users sign up." So every customer has a dedicated T1 to each major NAP? Bitchin'.
Let's say your neighborhood has cable. So from your neighborhood to the central network the bandwidth is 40MB/s. Now if 80 people are using it at once, each gets 500k/s. Let's say your cable provider has a OC-3 (155.52 Mbps). Now if your neighborhood is utilizing 100% of your 40MB line to the central router but the other four neighborhoods are only at 50% utilization, then your bottleneck is the 40MB/s line (since only 120MB/s of the OC-3 is being used). If all of the neighborhoods are at maximum utilization (200MB/s), then the bottleneck is their OC-3 line.
With ADSL, your bottleneck can only be at the OC-3, since your bandwidth to the central router is always going to be the same. It's sort of like the queue system at Borders (everyone waits in one line for multiple cashiers), where cable is more like the queue system at McDonalds (multiple queues, if you get in a slow line, you're screwed).
So the only problem I see with cable modems is that they have two potential bottlenecks before the data hits the net backbone, instead of one. I will admit though that if you are in a situation where bottlenecks aren't likely, the cable modem will deliver faster speeds. This may only be a short-lived situation as more people in your neighborhood get the need for speed.
Actually, it's cool air that causes thunderstorms. Warm air will raise the water capacity of the air and lower the humidity (clouds disperse). Cool air lowers the water capacity and raises humidity. When the humidity passes 100%, its much more likely to rain. That's why cold fronts in the summer cause nasty thunderstorms.
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Hmm.. good point.. Although it can still be useful for the three non-porn sites on the 'net:)
One of the "Powertools" for MSIE includes a feature which adds two items to your "Tools" menu: "Add to Trusted Zone" and "Add to Restricted Zone". These items, when clicked, will automatically add the domain of the site you are currently viewing to the specified security zone. This should work just as effectively as the button you mention, since you can instantly add a site to the restritcted zone. Actually this would be better than a "toggle" button, because it will remember the site in the future.
Why do you bunch up a group of people who are obviously going to have differing opinions and then call that group as a whole hypocritical? I doubt that a group of such varied opinions can be called hypocritical... That's like saying the citizens of a particular country are as a whole hypocritical because many of their citizens vote for opposite platforms.
Am I the only one to notice that the original text of this article contains either unbalanced parenthesis xor a malformed "winking" emoticon sans mouth?
You can order them directly off IBM's web site. It's amazing that no one else makes a decent keyboard.
All I could find was a 104-key keyboard with "quiet keys". I must have clicky-keys! I've still got one of the ol' PS/2 keyboards (it says copyright 1984 underneath), and I'd never replace it with any of that new quiet-key trash...:)
The most difficult part of the mission to Mars isn't going to be maintaining a habitat on the planet when we get there. The difficulty of this mission is mostly in getting there and getting back to Earth.
The first problem is planning a way to get there in a short amount of time so that the astronauts are exposed to the least amount of radiation, while not requiring a lot of fuel. Popular Science had an article about the possible propulsion systems which are in development which will get the most thrust for the least amount of fuel. Remember that the more fuel you use, the more fuel you need also to provide acceleration for the fuel itself, and then the fuel for that, etc (I think of it as recursive fuel).
Another well-known problem is how to get people used to being in space for so long, and still have the ability to return to earth without spending the rest of their lives in physical rehabilitation.
What seems like the biggest problem is how to get back. I saw on a program on the Discovery Channel a plan for sending ahead an unmanned ship to land on the ground and automatically begin producing fuel from the atmosphere (I forgot the details on how this was be possible). The return vehicle would use the fuel generated by this device for the return trip. This would provide a huge advantage so we don't have to send all of the fuel on the trip to Mars.
I think a lot of people are discouraged by the failures of recent probes sent to mars, but they have to keep in mind that when we send people, they can solve the problems themselves en route and in real-time.
Actually I meant to make a pun to the name of the router company, but I guess that is the way the character's name is spelled. As far as spelling captain incorrectly, I plead guilty:)
If BXXP is significantly more complicated than HTTP, I don't see it replacing HTTP. HTTP (and HTML) became widely popular because they are very simple to write code for. If I have a quick program to throw together that makes a socket connection to a remote server to retrieve data from a custom CGI query, I'm going to use HTTP because it's a simple process of sending a URL as a request, then reading until EOF the results of that reqeust. If BXXP requires abstractions such as XML and the overhead of writing multithreaded code just to pull down a single document, then I'll stick to HTTP, thank you.
BXXP may find a niche, but I doubt it will replace HTTP.
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I especially hate the channels (ie Comedy Central) which play their normal programming at 25% of volume capacity and then the commercials at 100%. So you turn the program up so you can hear the show, then the volume is way too loud when the commercials come on. That's about as subversive as a banner on a web page that's so annoyingly animated that you vow to never buy from that advertised company.
What's hilarious is that they will also link on negative reviews of the product. Here's an interesting example
I also noticed ICQ buttons on some pages. It seems that their parser apparently looks for the string "ICQ ######" and then if found, places an image inline afterward to indicate their online status. Of course, it accidently picks up the product name "ICQ 2000" as ICQ user #2000.
There's a great collection of essays by a fellow by the name of Michael R. Feltz who describes the possibility that the three-dimensional universe we live in may be built upon a fourth spatial dimension which is expanding. This could also explain gravity if matter is "dragging behind" in this expanding fourth dimension.
Feltz's essays are located at http://www.cyburban.com/~mrf/. It's really worth checking out, as it gives you some great ways to visualize the fourth spatial dimension, and some interesting insight into the possibilities of the structure of our universe.
Sometimes the math gets a bit heavy, but the discussion is worth reading.
[...] and 6 months to get working drivers.
I agree at least with the working drivers part. Am I the only one who seems to think that ATI makes some great hardware, but their software department seems to either be completely mismanaged or underfunded, and once a card is more than 6 months old, you'll see maybe one more driver update, and that's it...
Don't get me wrong. I've been buying All-In-Wonder cards since they were first introduced (they are a great piece of hardware), but I keep coming back, looking for an updated driver for an annoying bug that has been there since the beginning, and I have been disappointed too many times.
And someone please point me to a third-party application that will access the television function in the AIW without having to load that bloated VisualBasic-esque ATI Video Player...
How about a treadmill-generator in the mouse?
As a counterpoint to your concern about the lighter construction having less strength, keep in mind a lighter car will not inflict as much damage on itself and/or the car of the other crash victim due to it's lower mass.
Someone ran into the back of my 96 Saturn at about 10mph at a stop light and it did nothing but minor abrasions on the surface of my rear bumper, which were so minor they've been weathered away since.
Ever heard of SSL? Besides encryption, it solves the problem you mention about identity. Ever try to get a secure certificate? They want to know everything about you except maybe your medical history...
could you imagine the confusion if they go to a standardized system, ie:How long will it take before people realize you can't categorize everything... Sure, it's nice to try, but there's no right way.
What really needs to happen is to find a way to end the practice of squatting domainsShort of a huge bureaucracy, this sounds like the best solution yet. Sure, there'd be some squatting, but it'd be a hell of a lot more difficult to squat everything. If someone sqats on bobs.cars, Bob could then just register bobs.chevys or bobs.autos.
Also check out Nasa's science site about this event. They also have an active email newsletter that keeps you up to date on interesting space stuff like this.
Strange.. I thought TCP took care of this problem.
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Hear hear, though it's especially true for the crap Compaq ships.
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It all boils down to quality: if you buy a cheap $200 17" or 19", you should expect it to ruin your eyes.
You should re-read your reply in this context. I have a Compaq P110 21" at work and it is an excellent monitor. I'll probably never spend that much on a monitor for home, but it's a damn nice monitor. If a consumer or business spends $200 for a 17" or 19" Compaq monitor, I imagine most of the people who use the monitor will assume all Compaq monitors are crap.
Then again, if I were Compaq and I were selling crappy monitors cheap, I'd probably not put my brand name in an obvious spot on them.
maybe they underclocked it to reduce power consumption for the laptop
Or heat output... be careful not to cook the 'book...
"DSL speed ... stays consistent, as opposed to the shared systems used by cable companies where speed may decrease as more users sign up."
So every customer has a dedicated T1 to each major NAP? Bitchin'.
Let's say your neighborhood has cable. So from your neighborhood to the central network the bandwidth is 40MB/s. Now if 80 people are using it at once, each gets 500k/s. Let's say your cable provider has a OC-3 (155.52 Mbps). Now if your neighborhood is utilizing 100% of your 40MB line to the central router but the other four neighborhoods are only at 50% utilization, then your bottleneck is the 40MB/s line (since only 120MB/s of the OC-3 is being used). If all of the neighborhoods are at maximum utilization (200MB/s), then the bottleneck is their OC-3 line.
With ADSL, your bottleneck can only be at the OC-3, since your bandwidth to the central router is always going to be the same. It's sort of like the queue system at Borders (everyone waits in one line for multiple cashiers), where cable is more like the queue system at McDonalds (multiple queues, if you get in a slow line, you're screwed).
So the only problem I see with cable modems is that they have two potential bottlenecks before the data hits the net backbone, instead of one. I will admit though that if you are in a situation where bottlenecks aren't likely, the cable modem will deliver faster speeds. This may only be a short-lived situation as more people in your neighborhood get the need for speed.
Actually, it's cool air that causes thunderstorms. Warm air will raise the water capacity of the air and lower the humidity (clouds disperse). Cool air lowers the water capacity and raises humidity. When the humidity passes 100%, its much more likely to rain. That's why cold fronts in the summer cause nasty thunderstorms.
Hmm.. good point.. Although it can still be useful for the three non-porn sites on the 'net :)
One of the "Powertools" for MSIE includes a feature which adds two items to your "Tools" menu: "Add to Trusted Zone" and "Add to Restricted Zone". These items, when clicked, will automatically add the domain of the site you are currently viewing to the specified security zone. This should work just as effectively as the button you mention, since you can instantly add a site to the restritcted zone. Actually this would be better than a "toggle" button, because it will remember the site in the future.
Why do you bunch up a group of people who are obviously going to have differing opinions and then call that group as a whole hypocritical? I doubt that a group of such varied opinions can be called hypocritical... That's like saying the citizens of a particular country are as a whole hypocritical because many of their citizens vote for opposite platforms.
Anyone else notice the "Current Ranking" on the root page of the Geek Shirts site is sorted alphabetically rather than numerically?
Am I the only one to notice that the original text of this article contains either unbalanced parenthesis xor a malformed "winking" emoticon sans mouth?
You can order them directly off IBM's web site. It's amazing that no one else makes a decent keyboard.
All I could find was a 104-key keyboard with "quiet keys". I must have clicky-keys! I've still got one of the ol' PS/2 keyboards (it says copyright 1984 underneath), and I'd never replace it with any of that new quiet-key trash... :)
The most difficult part of the mission to Mars isn't going to be maintaining a habitat on the planet when we get there. The difficulty of this mission is mostly in getting there and getting back to Earth.
The first problem is planning a way to get there in a short amount of time so that the astronauts are exposed to the least amount of radiation, while not requiring a lot of fuel. Popular Science had an article about the possible propulsion systems which are in development which will get the most thrust for the least amount of fuel. Remember that the more fuel you use, the more fuel you need also to provide acceleration for the fuel itself, and then the fuel for that, etc (I think of it as recursive fuel).
Another well-known problem is how to get people used to being in space for so long, and still have the ability to return to earth without spending the rest of their lives in physical rehabilitation.
What seems like the biggest problem is how to get back. I saw on a program on the Discovery Channel a plan for sending ahead an unmanned ship to land on the ground and automatically begin producing fuel from the atmosphere (I forgot the details on how this was be possible). The return vehicle would use the fuel generated by this device for the return trip. This would provide a huge advantage so we don't have to send all of the fuel on the trip to Mars.
I think a lot of people are discouraged by the failures of recent probes sent to mars, but they have to keep in mind that when we send people, they can solve the problems themselves en route and in real-time.
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Oh great... we're only 72 generations away from returning to the 8086...
Actually I meant to make a pun to the name of the router company, but I guess that is the way the character's name is spelled. As far as spelling captain incorrectly, I plead guilty :)
If BXXP is significantly more complicated than HTTP, I don't see it replacing HTTP. HTTP (and HTML) became widely popular because they are very simple to write code for. If I have a quick program to throw together that makes a socket connection to a remote server to retrieve data from a custom CGI query, I'm going to use HTTP because it's a simple process of sending a URL as a request, then reading until EOF the results of that reqeust. If BXXP requires abstractions such as XML and the overhead of writing multithreaded code just to pull down a single document, then I'll stick to HTTP, thank you.
BXXP may find a niche, but I doubt it will replace HTTP.