And the teenagers will find this out and you not only lose respect due to being a hypocrite you'll be fighting an increasingly losing battle getting them to do *anything* because they'll just assume you're making shit up to annoy them.
Teenagers pretty much assume adults are trying to opress them.. it's not a good idea to confirm the assumption.
FFXI is about 80% software rendered.. it doesn't matter how fast a card you throw at it, it's going to be slow because the CPU is the bottleneck. I've seen it at 5fps on $700 graphics cards.. it simply doesn't use them.
Get a $20 graphics card and drop as much money as you can on a CPU/memory upgrade.
That what TMC is for. Ideally it gives your GPS system realtime updates of traffic flow so it can reboot.
Unfortunately it has issues...
1. It takes several minutes (sometimes tens of minutes) to update and only covers major routes, not cities where a lot of the jams are. 2. The radio version (RDS-TMC) only works where there's a fairly strong radio signal.. generally, in cities. 3. The mobile version is OK, but I have an iphone and it doesn't support mobile data... grr... so I have to carry a second phone to use it.
But 'God' is not a name - the name is YWYH (incorrectly translated as 'Yahweh' or even worse 'Jehovah' in many english texts - this came about because written hebrew has no vowels and we added them essentially randomly).
It's actually a description, but since in monotheism there is only one of them you can use them interchangably (ie. a roman wouldn't have used the term 'God' because all his friends would have asked 'Which one?').
So G-d is just one of those modern politically correct thing (and incidentally something I've only ever seen on Slashdot). It irritates me too, because it's trying to be clever when it isn't.
I find it kinda boring above about level 30 or so. I usually kill my characters around them. It's not inherently addictive, but to get above that you have to spend a lot of time on it which I could see would interfere with your life if you had poor priorities.
They've started to take a lot of the challenge to it so I haven't played in a while. Instead of questing properly for example they made all the 'hidden' stuff sparkle obviously, and in lots of cases put a huge yellow questionmark above them - removing the point of a huge class of quests.
I hear in the latest patch PvP players can now start fully twinked up at level 70 so they don't even have to play the game to level up, thereby removing the entire point of the game.
Brainwashed doesn't mean inferior, it just means brainwashed. If you're fed the same diet of crap 24/7 you'll believe what you're told, no matter how smart you are.
Just ask any american who's watched too much fox news.
Countries that are heavy in bed with china? Just about any company that wants anything manufactured, especially in the tech field. Apple stuff is built in china, Cisco routers are built in china, nearly all mobile phones are, nearly all TVs... Hell, it's been *years* since I've seen a PSU that didn't have chinese lettering on it.
Basically if you really want to boycott china you'd have to give up on technology.
I've had completely non technical people practically beg me to remove vista and put XP on their new machines. It's *not* coming from pundits it's coming from ordinary people.
There's also been a huge upsurge in people getting macs as well, because people just don't want to have to deal with it - they want something that works out of the box.
10.5 is a little slower but it's not really noticable even on my old G4 - on my intel MBP it flies.
The thing I like about OSX is there's no perception of ever really having to wait for anything.. you click on an app, it appears, or at the very least you get instant feedback that it's loading. It *seems* a lot faster than Windows even though I reckon with a raw benchmark it'd probably only be slightly faster. Perception is everything..
'real tech guys' might buy Cisco routers, but linksys? Give me a break. Being owned by the same company doesn't mean their stuff sucks any less (Cisco also suck, but they have good support which makes up for it).
As far as network cards go 'real tech guys' use what's builtin to the machine and don't fart around with trying to upgrade something that's functional already - because we want to keep our jobs.
Who would want to? You'd be guilty of the abortion that is Vista.
I 100% agree - MS do not know how to make good solid efficient code. Their goal seems to make each new release consumer more and more resources, whether it needs to or not.. then bleat that people need to be running the 'latest hardware' to use it, rather than admit they wouldn't know efficiency if it walked up to them and introduced itself.
Debian has insane amounts of testing - some of my servers have been dist-upgraded since 2001/2 with no ill effects.
Windows service packs do break stuff, like the 2000 service pack that broke login (SP2?) and the one that changed NTFS and hosed the disks (SP4? Possibly 3).
Anyway you can't compare dist-upgrade to a service pack. A closer comparison would be starting with Win2k and upgrading it to vista via XP without a single thing breaking.
Uhh.. often when you move windows on OSX the *whole* window flickers... at least since the 'leopard graphics update' that screwed everything up. And that's on a top end MBP.
It's not only microsoft that can fuck up graphics.
My first thought when I heard that this morning was
(a) how does she know all the emails and aliases of every paedophile. Ask them? Like they're likely to tell her... More likely she only has one on record. (b) does she *realize* how quickly you can create a gmail or hotmail account? (c) good luck getting myspace/facebook/etc. to do this.. they're not UK companies and are just as likely to tell her to sod off.
They're a bottom end ISP. The kind of people who are their target customers surf a couple of times a week and maybe send email... hence they're extremely cheap, but their service is crap when compared to others.
They're going for publicity here - good for them. I don't think they're really standing up to anything.. ISPs are reluctant to do the kind of thing the BPI is asking without a court order anyway, so it's all noise right now.
If the government tried to legislate that ISPs are effectively censors of the internet there would be a bit of a stink. Not least from the ISPs themselves who could suddenly become liable if illegal downloads/kiddie porn/etc. were found on their networks.. at the moment they're no more liable than the post office or british telecom are for these things.
Laying last mile cable is very expensive - I'd guess there's no law saying someone couldn't lay cable and compete it's just they'd have to charge 10* as much to get their investment back.
In the UK we have much the same situation, with BT owning nearly all of the last mile cable (and the cable companies have said they can't afford to build any more cable, so most parts of the country can't get that and may never do). BT is under heavy regulation so that must offer access to that at competitive rates equally to everyone, and the system works well - there's a *huge* amount of competition... ISPs can either put their own DSLAMs in the exchanges (again under regulation they're granted the right to do that) or rent BT lines right up to their building if they like, and many combinations in between. As a result everyone has access to literally hundreds of ISPs offering differing levels of service - it all goes through BT copper in the end but that doesn't really matter.
You don't shape the last mile btw. that refers to the cable between the exchange and the house. It's typically just copper wire that happens to have dual use for either DSL or dedicated circuits. You need to open up competition at the exchanges since that's the first point that shaping can actually happen.
It's pretty standard - built into the base firmware.. although the pocketgpsworld ones are more accurate in my experience.
It's the reason most people I know even have a GPS. I drive at the speed limit but the thought of being caught and getting 3 points just because I missed a sign that was hidden behind a hedge makes it worth it.
Aside from the mythbusters episode where they debunked all this stuff, I've spend some time inside camera centres where they check cars for bus lane violations amongst other things. The only thing that really affects it is heavy rain + headlights causing glare... and even that can be filtered out using image enhancement.
Actually most rickroll links now are to javascript stuff that craps out your browser and opens half a million windows, whilst printing 'you've been rickrolled' in 60 point flashing fonts on the screen.
The latest ones have been adding links to porn sites, just for effect.
I *really* miss the harmless ones that went to youtube - they were only slightly annoying.
Slashdot Mirror
Adverts? Spyware?
It's an alternate root, not a proxy server. Most DNS queries are cached downstream anyway so they wouldn't get a lot of useful data if the tried.
Last I heard it was run by volunteers but according to the site now it looks like they've got some funding. Good for them.
Killing someone before an election is very easy. The trick is to manage the news enough to make everyone beleive you haven't done it.
Try standing for the opposition in north korea some time.
And the teenagers will find this out and you not only lose respect due to being a hypocrite you'll be fighting an increasingly losing battle getting them to do *anything* because they'll just assume you're making shit up to annoy them.
Teenagers pretty much assume adults are trying to opress them.. it's not a good idea to confirm the assumption.
FFXI is about 80% software rendered.. it doesn't matter how fast a card you throw at it, it's going to be slow because the CPU is the bottleneck. I've seen it at 5fps on $700 graphics cards.. it simply doesn't use them.
Get a $20 graphics card and drop as much money as you can on a CPU/memory upgrade.
Dammit. Reroute, not reboot.
I must have been thinking of a Microsoft GPS system.
That what TMC is for. Ideally it gives your GPS system realtime updates of traffic flow so it can reboot.
Unfortunately it has issues...
1. It takes several minutes (sometimes tens of minutes) to update and only covers major routes, not cities where a lot of the jams are.
2. The radio version (RDS-TMC) only works where there's a fairly strong radio signal.. generally, in cities.
3. The mobile version is OK, but I have an iphone and it doesn't support mobile data... grr... so I have to carry a second phone to use it.
It really depends on which country you're in... in this country passing on the left is a traffic offence.
So you can have software that says 'Where do you want to go today?' when it starts up, of course...
Then you can smash it with a hammer.
But 'God' is not a name - the name is YWYH (incorrectly translated as 'Yahweh' or even worse 'Jehovah' in many english texts - this came about because written hebrew has no vowels and we added them essentially randomly).
It's actually a description, but since in monotheism there is only one of them you can use them interchangably (ie. a roman wouldn't have used the term 'God' because all his friends would have asked 'Which one?').
So G-d is just one of those modern politically correct thing (and incidentally something I've only ever seen on Slashdot). It irritates me too, because it's trying to be clever when it isn't.
I find it kinda boring above about level 30 or so. I usually kill my characters around them. It's not inherently addictive, but to get above that you have to spend a lot of time on it which I could see would interfere with your life if you had poor priorities.
They've started to take a lot of the challenge to it so I haven't played in a while. Instead of questing properly for example they made all the 'hidden' stuff sparkle obviously, and in lots of cases put a huge yellow questionmark above them - removing the point of a huge class of quests.
I hear in the latest patch PvP players can now start fully twinked up at level 70 so they don't even have to play the game to level up, thereby removing the entire point of the game.
Brainwashed doesn't mean inferior, it just means brainwashed. If you're fed the same diet of crap 24/7 you'll believe what you're told, no matter how smart you are.
Just ask any american who's watched too much fox news.
Countries that are heavy in bed with china? Just about any company that wants anything manufactured, especially in the tech field. Apple stuff is built in china, Cisco routers are built in china, nearly all mobile phones are, nearly all TVs... Hell, it's been *years* since I've seen a PSU that didn't have chinese lettering on it.
Basically if you really want to boycott china you'd have to give up on technology.
I've had completely non technical people practically beg me to remove vista and put XP on their new machines. It's *not* coming from pundits it's coming from ordinary people.
There's also been a huge upsurge in people getting macs as well, because people just don't want to have to deal with it - they want something that works out of the box.
10.5 is a little slower but it's not really noticable even on my old G4 - on my intel MBP it flies.
The thing I like about OSX is there's no perception of ever really having to wait for anything.. you click on an app, it appears, or at the very least you get instant feedback that it's loading. It *seems* a lot faster than Windows even though I reckon with a raw benchmark it'd probably only be slightly faster. Perception is everything..
'real tech guys' might buy Cisco routers, but linksys? Give me a break. Being owned by the same company doesn't mean their stuff sucks any less (Cisco also suck, but they have good support which makes up for it).
As far as network cards go 'real tech guys' use what's builtin to the machine and don't fart around with trying to upgrade something that's functional already - because we want to keep our jobs.
Who would want to? You'd be guilty of the abortion that is Vista.
I 100% agree - MS do not know how to make good solid efficient code. Their goal seems to make each new release consumer more and more resources, whether it needs to or not.. then bleat that people need to be running the 'latest hardware' to use it, rather than admit they wouldn't know efficiency if it walked up to them and introduced itself.
Debian has insane amounts of testing - some of my servers have been dist-upgraded since 2001/2 with no ill effects.
Windows service packs do break stuff, like the 2000 service pack that broke login (SP2?) and the one that changed NTFS and hosed the disks (SP4? Possibly 3).
Anyway you can't compare dist-upgrade to a service pack. A closer comparison would be starting with Win2k and upgrading it to vista via XP without a single thing breaking.
Uhh.. often when you move windows on OSX the *whole* window flickers... at least since the 'leopard graphics update' that screwed everything up. And that's on a top end MBP.
It's not only microsoft that can fuck up graphics.
My first thought when I heard that this morning was
(a) how does she know all the emails and aliases of every paedophile. Ask them? Like they're likely to tell her... More likely she only has one on record.
(b) does she *realize* how quickly you can create a gmail or hotmail account?
(c) good luck getting myspace/facebook/etc. to do this.. they're not UK companies and are just as likely to tell her to sod off.
They're a bottom end ISP. The kind of people who are their target customers surf a couple of times a week and maybe send email... hence they're extremely cheap, but their service is crap when compared to others.
They're going for publicity here - good for them. I don't think they're really standing up to anything.. ISPs are reluctant to do the kind of thing the BPI is asking without a court order anyway, so it's all noise right now.
If the government tried to legislate that ISPs are effectively censors of the internet there would be a bit of a stink. Not least from the ISPs themselves who could suddenly become liable if illegal downloads/kiddie porn/etc. were found on their networks.. at the moment they're no more liable than the post office or british telecom are for these things.
Laying last mile cable is very expensive - I'd guess there's no law saying someone couldn't lay cable and compete it's just they'd have to charge 10* as much to get their investment back.
In the UK we have much the same situation, with BT owning nearly all of the last mile cable (and the cable companies have said they can't afford to build any more cable, so most parts of the country can't get that and may never do). BT is under heavy regulation so that must offer access to that at competitive rates equally to everyone, and the system works well - there's a *huge* amount of competition... ISPs can either put their own DSLAMs in the exchanges (again under regulation they're granted the right to do that) or rent BT lines right up to their building if they like, and many combinations in between. As a result everyone has access to literally hundreds of ISPs offering differing levels of service - it all goes through BT copper in the end but that doesn't really matter.
You don't shape the last mile btw. that refers to the cable between the exchange and the house. It's typically just copper wire that happens to have dual use for either DSL or dedicated circuits. You need to open up competition at the exchanges since that's the first point that shaping can actually happen.
It's pretty standard - built into the base firmware.. although the pocketgpsworld ones are more accurate in my experience.
It's the reason most people I know even have a GPS. I drive at the speed limit but the thought of being caught and getting 3 points just because I missed a sign that was hidden behind a hedge makes it worth it.
TomTom devices have had this for a while now.
When you see a speed camera you hit a button and it notes the location.
Nope. They don't work at all.
Aside from the mythbusters episode where they debunked all this stuff, I've spend some time inside camera centres where they check cars for bus lane violations amongst other things. The only thing that really affects it is heavy rain + headlights causing glare... and even that can be filtered out using image enhancement.
Actually most rickroll links now are to javascript stuff that craps out your browser and opens half a million windows, whilst printing 'you've been rickrolled' in 60 point flashing fonts on the screen.
The latest ones have been adding links to porn sites, just for effect.
I *really* miss the harmless ones that went to youtube - they were only slightly annoying.