Personally I think cable is way too expensive. At least it is with Comcast. I pay about $45 a mo. and I only need the $20 service. I really wish there were some more TIERS to broadband. My main issue w/ DSL is that I have to have a phone line 1st. To switch to dsl, I would have to pay a phone line charge on top of the service fees, wich brings me up to the price of cable. so I lose either way. Maybe I can share with my neighbors and bring my price down a bit
Ditto here. Was working at an arcade. Got a ticket to upgrade a comp. Went to throw in the ram real quickly.. Was a little TOO quick. Thought to myself... "damn that went in a little rough..." The magic blue smoke that made it work before quickly left the computer, and I thought I was going to get fired. Luckily my computer geek friend who wittnesed the accident has vowed not to tell the story more than 100 times a year.
On one hand I have a perfect port of Castlevania {I} on my phone. On the other, I was playing Madden 06, and the Ref calls out a pass interferance call on.... A RUNNING PLAY!!!!
Need for Speed Underground 2 is a decent port though.
So, I think the differance really is in the attention to detail. It looks as good or better than many NES games though.
For those that posted from my comment.. This is exactly what I meant.
I know IANAP (I am not a physicist) but I guess It just seamed like they are making a neutron gun http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s1153968. htm, and not really a reactor. Granted they are making one from heavy water, electricity, and some dilithium crystals not with nuclear decay.
I have to wonder wether or not this really is fusion. It sounds to me like they are just moving nuetrons around from one atom to another. There is no mention of atomic # increase. The article did not seem to mention too much technical details.
I hate the blue tooth deal too. I am all for hex editors!..
Interesting that you had an exact opposite expeirience than I did. I do alot of hiking, and Verizon is allways good for me. The bigest problem people have with coverage (that I know about) is all digital phones. Gotta go for TRI-MODE.
I believe your moral though. It's a shame that customer service is pretty much just an abrasive spear...
That is my main beef with comcast. I play WOW & surf the net. I almost never download large files (except WINXP service packs of course...)
I don't need 6 Mbps I need 3. Max. What I want is the lowest latency possible. I don't care too much about any bandwidth over 24-56k/second download speeds. Yeah, it's nice to see peaks over 600, but a little overkill for the home user.
Maybe I am out of place here, but I aint switchin to VoIP anytime soon. Why? I have this thing called a CELL PHONE. They are not loosing there land line $$ to cable. That is wholly laughable.
I ditched Qwest because they didn't ever treat me like a customer. Not ONCE. Unless customers are supposed to get the abrasive unlubricated Spear every time they want a service. My X really wanted a land line and that means only Qwest. However, I was firm that I wouldn't do business with someone who treated me that way. (They double billed me, and charged me for leased equiptment that I owned, and never got the bill straightened out. I had to dispute the debt. They even admitted that it was their mistake on the 1st call. But they never fixed it, constantly lied about it, and finally just abandoned me completely.
So, I switched to cell phones, and had a similar situation with almost every major carrier... I ditched Cingular becuase they couldn't maintain a call in the middle of I-5 on a sunny (or cloudy for that matter)day. I ditched VoiceStream (now T-mobile) because they couldn't calculate a bill to save their collective souls but once every 4 months. When I finally and lastly tried Verizon, I got customer service & descent rates & so far the bill has been totally straight. WOW. Now I am hooked.
BellSouth and Verizon have been trying to force big Web sites to pay extortion-type fees if the sites want adequate bandwidth, with Google a prime target. But Google has news for them: It won't pay.
I don't know the inner workings of the Pipeline system, but are they going to throttle down certain websites? or Boost (read cache) certain websites? It wouldn't really matter in google's case. They are one of the few websites that load quickly over dialup anyway. As for google video, this could be a major hurdle if the company would throttle them down.
Otherwise WTFC?
I also think it is interesting that someone might think google would take a differant position. They pretty much have to take that stance. Google believes in providing quick access to the user, in a fast, free, and USABLE manner. The business' whose bandwidth is at stake here are smaller, content rich sites which would have to cut back content in order too meet their bandwidth budget. Or worse yet, Charge for it.
On that note, is it time to start paying for websites? Subscriptions galore? what kind of effect would that have on the advertising model?
I have used google exclusively since they surpassed metacrawler back in the day... (circa 98?)
To include in your book, one bold line that reads:
A COMPUTER IS WORTHLESS WITHOUT APPLICATIONS TO PERFORM SPECIFIC TASKS.
I allways hear "I just got a new Digital Camcorder and I want to make home movies with it. Could you quickly tell me how I do that?"
or
Comp Ignorant: "My sister can do (long explanation shortend to..)video chat, I want to do that with my computer."
Me: "Oh cool, what kind of computer do you have & how fast is it?"
Comp Ignorant: "A Dell"
Me: (realizing they don't know their specs) "How Old is it?"
Comp Ignorant: "It's not that old.."
Me: (realizing they are not aware computer hardware "AGES" fast in relevance to application performance... )"When did you buy it?"
Comp Ignorant: "2000"
Me: (to save time and energy as I allready wasted 10 minutes trying to get them to tell me anything useful) "Buy a cheap new computer, get broadband, and call me when your ready..."
He suggests we should be writing a practical guidebook printed on long lasting paper containing "the basic accumulated scientific knowledge of humanity."
So he means like my physics, math, and biology textbooks? My books will last forever...
They are extremely heavy, have never / wont ever get used. They practically re-sealed themselves after I purchesed them from the bookstore!
I have an LG VX8100 which thankfully has a standalone mode. I had to show it to the flight attendant everytime I pull it out. I kept pulling it out because, also thankfully, it can play Need For Speed Underground 2 ^TM
So, as an expirement, and to see if the FAA would haul my @$$ to jail, I switched it on in mid-flight & Stowed it in my pocket so no one would freak out during landing.
No engine studder, no sudden drop in cabin preassure, no sudden altitude changes....
And then it happened...
We crash landed in some guys corn farm.. skidded for 3 miles. Everyone got out O.K. Yes I am a survivor of flight 3.14159
(j/k about the corn farm part... it was a potatoe field)
I guess I am proven wrong, on good dry pavement, ABS doesn't help. (other than taking away panic reaction time..)
Well, I just finished reading that link. Interesting information, and very good to know. I personally would not have a bike with the current itteration of ABS, becuase of this situation. If you've been riding long enough, you learn to do things, like countersteering in a cornering slide, and compensating for lean with brakes / steering / throttle. It's very physical. And like the article stated ABS is'nt ready for everything yet.
But every low traction situation ABS acceled in.
Also interesting was this:
Mileman non-ABS 181 ft
w/ ABS 172 ft
Full ABS Control 167 ft
Tourer non-ABS 186 ft
w/ ABS 167 ft Full ABS Control 166 ft
Newguy non-ABS 180ft
w/ ABS 168 ft Full ABS Control 166 ft
I was recently pleasured with a test drive of a Hyabusa(sp?) I was amazed at how it reacted. Most people who ride do so because they like the freedom, and the feeling of becoming one with the machine that you just can't replicate on a car in a decent pricerange. The Busa made everything feel as if I had some form of neuro-kinetic implant or something. It responded so smoothly to everything. I have been riding for some time.. My first bike was a GTMX 80 when I was 13 or so. But nothing felt like this. 0-70-0 for my first time on that style of bike was easy, and didn't take much distance, and took way less time than my car. My car takes about 7 just to get to 70. The Busa was done with the run in that time.
One thing I think is real important is knowing your vehicles handling capabilities. I truly believe though that the majority of people people don't know. Therefore they need help to control their car in emergency situations.
I like knowing that the throttle I put in the engine is getting transfered to the wheels. The times I "needed" it were when I was driving in a manner that without proper experience would be considered wreckless.
Slashdot Mirror
Cowboy... GET SOME SLEEP
Secondly, WHY am I reading this so late?
Last but not least
A POINT
.
Personally I think cable is way too expensive. At least it is with Comcast. I pay about $45 a mo. and I only need the $20 service. I really wish there were some more TIERS to broadband. My main issue w/ DSL is that I have to have a phone line 1st. To switch to dsl, I would have to pay a phone line charge on top of the service fees, wich brings me up to the price of cable. so I lose either way. Maybe I can share with my neighbors and bring my price down a bit
Have a good night all
Ditto here. Was working at an arcade. Got a ticket to upgrade a comp. Went to throw in the ram real quickly.. Was a little TOO quick. Thought to myself... "damn that went in a little rough..." The magic blue smoke that made it work before quickly left the computer, and I thought I was going to get fired. Luckily my computer geek friend who wittnesed the accident has vowed not to tell the story more than 100 times a year.
On one hand I have a perfect port of Castlevania {I} on my phone. On the other, I was playing Madden 06, and the Ref calls out a pass interferance call on .... A RUNNING PLAY!!!!
Need for Speed Underground 2 is a decent port though.
So, I think the differance really is in the attention to detail. It looks as good or better than many NES games though.
Oh, the phone is a LG vx8100
I LOVE IMDB!
I can't believe I forgot to include it!
TY BTW
OMG that is so funny.
I tried to point that Correlation != cause to my ex-wife.
Well, lets just say, she never got it!
For those that posted from my comment.. This is exactly what I meant.
. htm, and not really a reactor. Granted they are making one from heavy water, electricity, and some dilithium crystals not with nuclear decay.
I know IANAP (I am not a physicist) but I guess It just seamed like they are making a neutron gun http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s1153968
I have to wonder wether or not this really is fusion. It sounds to me like they are just moving nuetrons around from one atom to another. There is no mention of atomic # increase.
The article did not seem to mention too much technical details.
Anyone have a better link?
THE SAINT
I can't believe I haven't heard a reference to Shiny's
SACRIFICE
Come on what game has more soul than that? -DW
I lived on acid for 9 years in the 60's!
or do you mean like betamax was to VHS.. technically superior, but economically useless?
I hate the blue tooth deal too. I am all for hex editors!..
Interesting that you had an exact opposite expeirience than I did. I do alot of hiking, and Verizon is allways good for me. The bigest problem people have with coverage (that I know about) is all digital phones. Gotta go for TRI-MODE.
I believe your moral though. It's a shame that customer service is pretty much just an abrasive spear...
BINGO!
That is my main beef with comcast. I play WOW & surf the net. I almost never download large files (except WINXP service packs of course...)
I don't need 6 Mbps I need 3. Max. What I want is the lowest latency possible. I don't care too much about any bandwidth over 24-56k/second download speeds. Yeah, it's nice to see peaks over 600, but a little overkill for the home user.
Maybe I am out of place here, but I aint switchin to VoIP anytime soon. Why? I have this thing called a CELL PHONE. They are not loosing there land line $$ to cable. That is wholly laughable.
I ditched Qwest because they didn't ever treat me like a customer. Not ONCE. Unless customers are supposed to get the abrasive unlubricated Spear every time they want a service.
My X really wanted a land line and that means only Qwest. However, I was firm that I wouldn't do business with someone who treated me that way. (They double billed me, and charged me for leased equiptment that I owned, and never got the bill straightened out. I had to dispute the debt. They even admitted that it was their mistake on the 1st call. But they never fixed it, constantly lied about it, and finally just abandoned me completely.
So, I switched to cell phones, and had a similar situation with almost every major carrier...
I ditched Cingular becuase they couldn't maintain a call in the middle of I-5 on a sunny (or cloudy for that matter)day. I ditched VoiceStream (now T-mobile) because they couldn't calculate a bill to save their collective souls but once every 4 months. When I finally and lastly tried Verizon, I got customer service & descent rates & so far the bill has been totally straight. WOW. Now I am hooked.
BellSouth and Verizon have been trying to force big Web sites to pay extortion-type fees if the sites want adequate bandwidth, with Google a prime target. But Google has news for them: It won't pay.
I don't know the inner workings of the Pipeline system, but are they going to throttle down certain websites? or Boost (read cache) certain websites? It wouldn't really matter in google's case. They are one of the few websites that load quickly over dialup anyway. As for google video, this could be a major hurdle if the company would throttle them down.
Otherwise WTFC?
I also think it is interesting that someone might think google would take a differant position. They pretty much have to take that stance. Google believes in providing quick access to the user, in a fast, free, and USABLE manner. The business' whose bandwidth is at stake here are smaller, content rich sites which would have to cut back content in order too meet their bandwidth budget. Or worse yet, Charge for it.
On that note, is it time to start paying for websites? Subscriptions galore? what kind of effect would that have on the advertising model?
I have used google exclusively since they surpassed metacrawler back in the day... (circa 98?)
thoughts?
Thats why I am a member of Team 11108 for FAH!
When I build a machine for a client, I try to encourage them to run the FAH core whenever their computer is on, and install it by default.
I can tell that you still use "GOTO's"....
To include in your book, one bold line that reads:
A COMPUTER IS WORTHLESS WITHOUT APPLICATIONS TO PERFORM SPECIFIC TASKS.
I allways hear "I just got a new Digital Camcorder and I want to make home movies with it. Could you quickly tell me how I do that?"
or
Comp Ignorant: "My sister can do (long explanation shortend to..)video chat, I want to do that with my computer."
Me: "Oh cool, what kind of computer do you have & how fast is it?"
Comp Ignorant: "A Dell"
Me: (realizing they don't know their specs) "How Old is it?"
Comp Ignorant: "It's not that old.."
Me: (realizing they are not aware computer hardware "AGES" fast in relevance to application performance... )"When did you buy it?"
Comp Ignorant: "2000"
Me: (to save time and energy as I allready wasted 10 minutes trying to get them to tell me anything useful) "Buy a cheap new computer, get broadband, and call me when your ready..."
He suggests we should be writing a practical guidebook printed on long lasting paper containing "the basic accumulated scientific knowledge of humanity."
So he means like my physics, math, and biology textbooks?
My books will last forever...
They are extremely heavy, have never / wont ever get used. They practically re-sealed themselves after I purchesed them from the bookstore!
I don't think there is a threat from a cell phone, let alone a darned gameboy.
Unless of course you rig the GPS to allow the plane to become a target for some kind of cellular homing missle..
NO DOUBT!
...
I have an LG VX8100 which thankfully has a standalone mode. I had to show it to the flight attendant everytime I pull it out. I kept pulling it out because, also thankfully, it can play Need For Speed Underground 2 ^TM
So, as an expirement, and to see if the FAA would haul my @$$ to jail, I switched it on in mid-flight & Stowed it in my pocket so no one would freak out during landing.
No engine studder, no sudden drop in cabin preassure, no sudden altitude changes....
And then it happened
We crash landed in some guys corn farm.. skidded for 3 miles. Everyone got out O.K.
Yes I am a survivor of flight 3.14159
(j/k about the corn farm part... it was a potatoe field)
you obviously didn't see the video of the AC propulsion car eh?
I guess I am proven wrong, on good dry pavement, ABS doesn't help. (other than taking away panic reaction time..)
Well, I just finished reading that link. Interesting information, and very good to know. I personally would not have a bike with the current itteration of ABS, becuase of this situation. If you've been riding long enough, you learn to do things, like countersteering in a cornering slide, and compensating for lean with brakes / steering / throttle. It's very physical. And like the article stated ABS is'nt ready for everything yet.
But every low traction situation ABS acceled in.
Also interesting was this:
Mileman non-ABS 181 ft
w/ ABS 172 ft
Full ABS Control 167 ft
Tourer non-ABS 186 ft
w/ ABS 167 ft
Full ABS Control 166 ft
Newguy non-ABS 180ft
w/ ABS 168 ft
Full ABS Control 166 ft
I was recently pleasured with a test drive of a Hyabusa(sp?) I was amazed at how it reacted. Most people who ride do so because they like the freedom, and the feeling of becoming one with the machine that you just can't replicate on a car in a decent pricerange. The Busa made everything feel as if I had some form of neuro-kinetic implant or something. It responded so smoothly to everything. I have been riding for some time.. My first bike was a GTMX 80 when I was 13 or so. But nothing felt like this. 0-70-0 for my first time on that style of bike was easy, and didn't take much distance, and took way less time than my car. My car takes about 7 just to get to 70. The Busa was done with the run in that time.
One thing I think is real important is knowing your vehicles handling capabilities. I truly believe though that the majority of people people don't know. Therefore they need help to control their car
in emergency situations.
Thank you for that insightful information!
As for traction control, I hate it too.
I like knowing that the throttle I put in the engine is getting transfered to the wheels. The times I "needed" it were when I was driving in a manner that without proper experience would be considered wreckless.
Now they will just incorporate those questions into it's scripting scheme!.... I can't believe you let them in on our secret!