If you need to move you computer around a bunch, stay away from the rounded IDE cables. They don't fit too snugly in the connectors so they like to pop out.
It's been said before, but stay away from the Soundblaster Live!s. Mine won't output 5.1 surrond unless I'm watching a movie... Yes, i'm on the latest drivers and everything's configured correctly (in theory, at least).
I've heard CD-RW drives tend to wear out faster since they have a heavier read/write mechanism and that helps wear down the servo. I haven't verified this but it's a good excuse to spring for a DVD drive.
If you want to run linux or whatnot (and who doesn't?) stay away from nVidia. I can't get their freakin' drivers to compile, but maybe I'm a just a dumbass. In light of my recent purchases that seems pretty likely.
I've always run SETI because i've enjoyed the competion, not because I want to discover ET (I do, of course, but that's not the reason I run the client).
IIRC SETI is privately funded so don't gripe about your dollars going to waste.
This thing was definately not meant to ever be a consumer product, or even a prototype. Instead, the fine folks at IBM built this thing to show off the flexibility of the linux kernel. Either that or they have way too much time on their hands.
Satellite modems will surely bring the wrath of alien conquerers down upon our lush green planet.
You're kidding, right?
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Why not just use an akamai server?
Hop over to google and put in akamaitech.
Find a hit like this: a1392.g.akamaitech.net/7/1392/939/0001/www.eudora. com/download/
Copy the address into the browser and replace the second address with where you want to go. It will look like, say, this: a1392.g.akamaitech.net/7/1392/939/0001/slashdot.or g
Simple! Kudos to www.peacefire.org for this trick.
I wonder if this extended lifespan thing might just be an evolutionary adaptation? Perhaps, if the fruitfly is living on a reduced calorie diet, it's merely living longer so it can have a chance to sit and wait until conditions are better for the offspring (when there's more food around). I'd like to hear from you biology types about this.
Still sounds like a substantial salary gap, but the benefits of a Federal job can be pretty sweet incentive. Anyone out there on a Federal paycheck care to comment?
Miranova said the greenhouse gases could be made in factories on the planet surface from elements found in abundance in the Martian soil and atmosphere.
Vaporware all the way. Why's that you ask? Well for starters there's no specs. Anywhere. Next: can you possibly imagine how much it costs to build such a thing? The touchscreen itself will cost you an arm and a leg. If it's lucky enough to get through the design stage; this thing will die on the market. There's no way Joe User will buy this thing: "5000 BUCKS FOR A FREAKIN' COMPUTER!? SCREW THIS I'M BUYING AN EMACHINE!" This thing is supposed to appeal to the people caught on the wrong end of the "Digital Divide", just like the Web TV. Guess how well the Web TV is selling. In fact the only demographic that would ever buy this thing are the geeks. Last time I checked there's not exactly a nerd on every block.
A shame though... it would have made such a good toy.
Two words: adaptive optics. What happens is a laser is pointed into the atmosphere and as some of the laser light is reflected back by air molocules detectors pick up the reflected light. This map of tubulence is then fed into a computer to interpret. Finaly the computer tells tiny pistons attached to the backside of a flexable mirror thereby compensating for atmospheric turbulence.
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The problem isn't in the contraceptives themselves (hell, latex condoms are over 99.9% effective IIRC), it's getting people to use the damn things.
It's been said before, but stay away from the Soundblaster Live!s. Mine won't output 5.1 surrond unless I'm watching a movie... Yes, i'm on the latest drivers and everything's configured correctly (in theory, at least).
I've heard CD-RW drives tend to wear out faster since they have a heavier read/write mechanism and that helps wear down the servo. I haven't verified this but it's a good excuse to spring for a DVD drive.
I've had good luck w/ Plextor's CD-RWs.
If you want to run linux or whatnot (and who doesn't?) stay away from nVidia. I can't get their freakin' drivers to compile, but maybe I'm a just a dumbass. In light of my recent purchases that seems pretty likely.
No, the heatsink does not include a fan. Yes, you need to buy one.
IIRC SETI is privately funded so don't gripe about your dollars going to waste.
This thing was definately not meant to ever be a consumer product, or even a prototype. Instead, the fine folks at IBM built this thing to show off the flexibility of the linux kernel. Either that or they have way too much time on their hands.
You're kidding, right?
Hop over to google and put in akamaitech.
Find a hit like this: a1392.g.akamaitech.net/7/1392/939/0001/www.eudora. com/download/
Copy the address into the browser and replace the second address with where you want to go. It will look like, say, this: a1392.g.akamaitech.net/7/1392/939/0001/slashdot.or g
Simple! Kudos to www.peacefire.org for this trick.
My son was born color blind and you're going to charge me a licensing fee?! Great, why don't you patent incontinence too, and sell my aunt a license?
I wonder if this extended lifespan thing might just be an evolutionary adaptation? Perhaps, if the fruitfly is living on a reduced calorie diet, it's merely living longer so it can have a chance to sit and wait until conditions are better for the offspring (when there's more food around). I'd like to hear from you biology types about this.
How can you not be more productive than the competiton after you've called out an agent orange strike on them?
Jeez... I don't think I've ever bought/seen a piece of finished software.
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
Yeah, carnivore's real fun.
Few people know that you can actually be recruited to work at Bill Gate's house as a servant, a towel boy for instance.
So I can't buy martian beer on Sundays? Dammit.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these things! ;)
Vaporware all the way. Why's that you ask? Well for starters there's no specs. Anywhere. Next: can you possibly imagine how much it costs to build such a thing? The touchscreen itself will cost you an arm and a leg. If it's lucky enough to get through the design stage; this thing will die on the market. There's no way Joe User will buy this thing: "5000 BUCKS FOR A FREAKIN' COMPUTER!? SCREW THIS I'M BUYING AN EMACHINE!" This thing is supposed to appeal to the people caught on the wrong end of the "Digital Divide", just like the Web TV. Guess how well the Web TV is selling. In fact the only demographic that would ever buy this thing are the geeks. Last time I checked there's not exactly a nerd on every block.
A shame though... it would have made such a good toy.
That sucker would corrupt it's system the second you tried to do something usefull.
Two words: adaptive optics. What happens is a laser is pointed into the atmosphere and as some of the laser light is reflected back by air molocules detectors pick up the reflected light. This map of tubulence is then fed into a computer to interpret. Finaly the computer tells tiny pistons attached to the backside of a flexable mirror thereby compensating for atmospheric turbulence.
There goes my karma.
Dammit what use is this if I don't know the storage in terms of MP3s!
HA HA I'm an American I'll sue you! It's the American way!
french inteligence... isn't that an oxymoron?
I guess that this means that the sheep farmers can sell the original and keep the clone for their own perverted devices. I dunno i'm tired and drunk.