This is a case of the American government doing what they do best, screw things up. Yes, illegal immigrants living on welfare is bad. No, visa holders who give needed skills, and help to add to the country are not bad. It is very simple, where the problem is, and it is not here. If the people have a good job, are comfortable, let them stay.
I have seen a recurring trend among the top linux distributions, which upsets me. Try to download a distribution other than a very basic one, and the companies make it difficult to impossible. Suse lets you get one of the six disks. Redhat gives you only the standard distribution. Turbolinus gives only the workstation install. I am not sure if this is exactly legal. If the distribution is using gpl software, doesn't it hve to be made available? Please respond, I am confused.
Before you are a smartass, and go around knocking an incredible product, check your sources. I have successfully installed BeOS r4.5.2 on a machine with a TNT2, a Promise Ultra66 and Soundblaster Live!. The beautiful thing was that it was all autodetected. Why dont you try looking at the updates section every now and then 4.5.2 is stable, fast, and functional with a wide variety of hardware. You ever try to get those pieces of hardware you mentioned to work in linux. Hours of patching, editing configs, and recompiling shit, especially Promise Ultra66.
I have well over 3000 MP3's, many of them by artists such as Dave Matthews who promote live recordings, and I also own over 350 cd's. I am a big fan of music, and work at a radio station. My point is that Napster allows me to get rare live shows, or artists that I can not purchase locally. I can honestly say that I have purchased CD's from artists that had songs on Napster, and that if anything, Napster has caused me to increase my spending on music, by assuring me that I will enjoy what I purchase.
In Quake3 there are two differant modes, pure server, and non pure. I have made my own HUD, and to use it, the server must be in non pure mode. If it is a pure server, it uses only the.pk* files that came with the game, hence original HUD for me. Building your own HUD, and building in cheats are very similar, just a recompile away. This seams to prevent cheating, and very few online servers run non pure, but at lan parties with less than 30 people, we are safe to run non pure, because we know that cheating is not a concern.
As an engineer for 3 radio stations, all of which are streaming online, I would recomend Microsoft Media Encoder, which is embeeded in 2000 Advanced Server, or can be run on NT 4. When deciding which format we would like to stream, sound quality per amount of bandwidth was our most important consideration. Real player just sounded bad, so it was hardly considered. Icecast/Shoutcast was considered, but many people using it have found it unstable. We needed stations that were up 24/7. However, we do not use the default asf format with Microsoft Media Encoder, it tends to produce a very annoying wavy/wahwah/flange effect, but if you dig into the settings, it will stream MP3, which does not sound bad, even with a bitrate low enough that a 33.6 can connect reliably. If you do not expect a large number of hits, the machine encoding can serve as well, but otherwise, use a second machine as a redirecter. As others have said, bandwidth is king, celerons can encode fine, as can any of the faster PII and PIIIs. Please do not flame this, Microsoft Media Encoder is a product that fit our needs better than any other product available, It stills does not make me partial to Microsoft.
I have been on aol for 5 years, and it is not that bad. I get 6 Kb downloads from them, and very rarely a busy signal. All in all they are not a bad isp. I wish they were open to other platforms, so I wouldn't have to use a proxy server. You ask, why do I stay with them? Very simple, my dad collects model trains, and AOL has avery large bulletin board community of model train collectors. I have the choice of aol, or paying for my own. Stop dogging AOL, they aren't that bad.
I just read his new book, timeline, which deals with quantum physics in a science fiction/historical setting. Good read, but not very scientifically correct.
I seem to remember some movie where they were fighting the "black shakes" a disease caused by all the radio waves going through people. A small group of people discovered the solution and broadcast it over TV. My only question is how do you compile a vcr tape? Is this some old school unix trick?
This school requires every incoming freshman to purchase a laptop. I think that this is a great policy. We are turning into an information society, and especially engineers need to have as much information available to them.. Many people will whine and complain about how this is cheating, but in the real world, one can and should use any information possible, it does not need to be memorized, just accessible. What colleges teach is not information, but how to use information.
I saw this movie last night, and it was a good way to waste 2.5 hours, but there were major lapses in the plot. A little too much appolo 13 in the beginning as well. Worth the matinee price, but not any more.
I don't know if it would make much performance differance, but if a distro made setting up common gaming hardware easier and gave faster frame rates, that would be enough for me to use it. Ever tried to use a a SBLive or Voodoo 3 in Quake 3. I learned more about linux doing this than anything else. Linux has been constantly evolving into more of an everyday person's OS than an IT guy's OS, and as this happens setting up hardware must be a no brainer. I believe a gaming OS could help this area.
I like puzzlers, but I think that all types of puzzles should be considered, not just chess. As fas as time wasters, I have seen many good java rubbicks cubes. Time wasters are great.
I have a P2 350 running at 466. I paid $150 for the chip over a year ago. It will run every app, and all the heavy games no problem. People need to take the money they would spend on a faster processor, and instead buy a faster video card or more ram. I did a Voodoo 3 and 192 Mbs of ram with the extra money and on the benchmarks my system is still one of the fastest, especially given it's age.
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I was board, and built one out of 486's.
This is a case of the American government doing what they do best, screw things up. Yes, illegal immigrants living on welfare is bad. No, visa holders who give needed skills, and help to add to the country are not bad. It is very simple, where the problem is, and it is not here. If the people have a good job, are comfortable, let them stay.
(Had to state the obvious, flame away)
I'm sorry, this is a great idea, but dont host the site on a vintage computer :) Its a little slow.
I have seen a recurring trend among the top linux distributions, which upsets me. Try to download a distribution other than a very basic one, and the companies make it difficult to impossible. Suse lets you get one of the six disks. Redhat gives you only the standard distribution. Turbolinus gives only the workstation install. I am not sure if this is exactly legal. If the distribution is using gpl software, doesn't it hve to be made available? Please respond, I am confused.
Yup, dude, its all about freedom
The key of c# and c are differant. At one point I knew why this is, but I havent taken music theory in years.
Before you are a smartass, and go around knocking an incredible product, check your sources. I have successfully installed BeOS r4.5.2 on a machine with a TNT2, a Promise Ultra66 and Soundblaster Live!. The beautiful thing was that it was all autodetected. Why dont you try looking at the updates section every now and then 4.5.2 is stable, fast, and functional with a wide variety of hardware. You ever try to get those pieces of hardware you mentioned to work in linux. Hours of patching, editing configs, and recompiling shit, especially Promise Ultra66.
I have well over 3000 MP3's, many of them by artists such as Dave Matthews who promote live recordings, and I also own over 350 cd's. I am a big fan of music, and work at a radio station. My point is that Napster allows me to get rare live shows, or artists that I can not purchase locally. I can honestly say that I have purchased CD's from artists that had songs on Napster, and that if anything, Napster has caused me to increase my spending on music, by assuring me that I will enjoy what I purchase.
In Quake3 there are two differant modes, pure server, and non pure. I have made my own HUD, and to use it, the server must be in non pure mode. If it is a pure server, it uses only the .pk* files that came with the game, hence original HUD for me. Building your own HUD, and building in cheats are very similar, just a recompile away. This seams to prevent cheating, and very few online servers run non pure, but at lan parties with less than 30 people, we are safe to run non pure, because we know that cheating is not a concern.
I think yu made a joke, and I am too tight to get it, but I spent all day Thursday cleaning up after ILOVEYOU
I can only guess, Linux or NetBSD.
Laugh, it's a joke
As an engineer for 3 radio stations, all of which are streaming online, I would recomend Microsoft Media Encoder, which is embeeded in 2000 Advanced Server, or can be run on NT 4. When deciding which format we would like to stream, sound quality per amount of bandwidth was our most important consideration. Real player just sounded bad, so it was hardly considered. Icecast/Shoutcast was considered, but many people using it have found it unstable. We needed stations that were up 24/7. However, we do not use the default asf format with Microsoft Media Encoder, it tends to produce a very annoying wavy/wahwah/flange effect, but if you dig into the settings, it will stream MP3, which does not sound bad, even with a bitrate low enough that a 33.6 can connect reliably. If you do not expect a large number of hits, the machine encoding can serve as well, but otherwise, use a second machine as a redirecter. As others have said, bandwidth is king, celerons can encode fine, as can any of the faster PII and PIIIs. Please do not flame this, Microsoft Media Encoder is a product that fit our needs better than any other product available, It stills does not make me partial to Microsoft.
I have been on aol for 5 years, and it is not that bad. I get 6 Kb downloads from them, and very rarely a busy signal. All in all they are not a bad isp. I wish they were open to other platforms, so I wouldn't have to use a proxy server. You ask, why do I stay with them? Very simple, my dad collects model trains, and AOL has avery large bulletin board community of model train collectors. I have the choice of aol, or paying for my own. Stop dogging AOL, they aren't that bad.
I just read his new book, timeline, which deals with quantum physics in a science fiction/historical setting. Good read, but not very scientifically correct.
I seem to remember some movie where they were fighting the "black shakes" a disease caused by all the radio waves going through people. A small group of people discovered the solution and broadcast it over TV. My only question is how do you compile a vcr tape? Is this some old school unix trick?
This school requires every incoming freshman to purchase a laptop. I think that this is a great policy. We are turning into an information society, and especially engineers need to have as much information available to them.. Many people will whine and complain about how this is cheating, but in the real world, one can and should use any information possible, it does not need to be memorized, just accessible. What colleges teach is not information, but how to use information.
I saw this movie last night, and it was a good way to waste 2.5 hours, but there were major lapses in the plot. A little too much appolo 13 in the beginning as well. Worth the matinee price, but not any more.
I don't know if it would make much performance differance, but if a distro made setting up common gaming hardware easier and gave faster frame rates, that would be enough for me to use it. Ever tried to use a a SBLive or Voodoo 3 in Quake 3. I learned more about linux doing this than anything else. Linux has been constantly evolving into more of an everyday person's OS than an IT guy's OS, and as this happens setting up hardware must be a no brainer. I believe a gaming OS could help this area.
I like puzzlers, but I think that all types of puzzles should be considered, not just chess. As fas as time wasters, I have seen many good java rubbicks cubes. Time wasters are great.
I am for it, as long as quality isnt affected
I have a P2 350 running at 466. I paid $150 for the chip over a year ago. It will run every app, and all the heavy games no problem. People need to take the money they would spend on a faster processor, and instead buy a faster video card or more ram. I did a Voodoo 3 and 192 Mbs of ram with the extra money and on the benchmarks my system is still one of the fastest, especially given it's age.