A-hem! Not if that person wanted to play Region 1 DVD's.;)
(yawn) In which case he could have bought a high-end DVD player at a home theatre store. Instead of getting a toy to play them on.
I think what we're really going to see is a few users getting kicked off of ebay. Notice that the highest offer on the $15K PS2 from anyone with a two-digit rating is $1200. That's still rather absurd, though.
I believe that AT&T/@Home has a vritual monopoly in the US on the cable modem lines.
Only in the cities they serve. Time Warner's Roadrunner is the other monopoly. Except that DSL is becoming more and more available. Which is competition for both TW and ATT.
So they really don't have a "monopoly in the US". Just in certain cities.
I actually had a friend who ran DOS debug on his BIOS and noted that it *did* actually test every one of the X86's registers during boot
The Atari 7800 had lots more ROM space than it could possibly use for just the 960-bit digital signature lockout code, so they included a full 6502 CPU test in there. Sheesh.
Suncoast may charge full MSRP, but they do have one advantage: they actually have stuff in stock. Many people ordering from those discount e-tailers have had to wait a whole month after a DVD is released before their order comes in!
If only Best Buy had the kind of stock levels in anime that Suncoast did, but that's Economics 101 for you: supply and demand. At Best Buy's prices, they can't keep most anime on the shelves (not that they try, beyond ordering Ghost in the Shell a dozen at a time). But I have never seen a copy of Trigun in stock at Best Buy.:(
Huh? Last I checked, to draw a perfect circle in Photoshop, you had to make a circular selection (with the circular selection tool, hidden away behind the default rectangular selection tool), go to the Edit menu and select 'stroke'
Huh? Last I checked, to draw a perfect circle in Photoshop (at least the Mac version), you simply hold down the shift key while drawing it.
NB, a electric drag racer equipped with Inspiras instead of normal lead acid car batteries, last year did so well, it can no longer compete in the electric class!
Say what? Are you sure you aren't just talking out your ass? Go dig up the issue of Wired magazine from around April 1999 or so. They've got an article on electric drag racing in there, and the reason electrics are in a different class is because they blow away fuel-powered racers. Fuel-powered dragsters have no chance against an electric, because electrics can dump so much energy so quickly.
The reason we don't have electric cars on the highway is not because of strength, but because of duration. You can get great performance out of an electric vehicle for half an hour or so, and then it drops way off.
I've been very happy with it. I'm moving down to Austin soon and hope to find such good service. Anyone have any tips on DSL in Austin? Id like to have at least one static IP, I don't think I'll *need* 768k, at least not up and down.
I chose jump.net because they have an "any server you want policy". I also get an 8 fixed IP block (with a class C netmask, so I can use all 8 if I want) for an extra $10/mo. (A single IP is $5, so splunge a bit.) The total I pay is $80 a month. If I had their 384K up/1.5M+ down ADSL I would pay about twice as much.
However, my circuit is provided by SWB, and they really sucked after they were forced to spin off their DSL business to an annoying little company called ASI. So now you have to deal with both companies (and maybe your ISP as well) to get your line hooked up, and there are a lot of problems. Not only that, but they're regularly capping circuits to 384K downstream. Jump.net put a hold on new orders through them because they sucked so bad, but I'm still on a one-year contract.
I moved up from San Antonio, where I was about 8000 feet from the CO, and wasn't capped, so I got the full 1.5 megabits down. Damn it was nice. But I finally had to move to Austin for the job opportunities. (At least I only had to go 100 miles to do that!) The only trouble I had back in February was they shipped the install kit via two-day UPS on the day before the install... from the other side of town! UPS takes their two-day shipping very seriously, you know. So I got an old Alcatel that the phone guy had in his truck.
I did have to change my fixed IP when moving to Austin, but that's CIDR for you.
One of SWB's little tricks is said to be dropping orders when they get too far behind. It was three weeks before I realized they had never taken my order properly. So I had to wait another three weeks (even with a self-install), and then they managed to set up my ATM circuit wrong. At least my Alcatel can't do PPPoE, so I have an excuse not to run that abomination.
And above all, do not go with texas.net if you're the kind of guy who wants a fixed IP. They have great service if you're a Joe Luser, but they filter their connections so you can't run any servers, or anything which quacks like a server, so they can force you to pay for "business" service. Which is also good if you're not their customer, because that's a lot less machines that can be turned into DDoS zombies.
...a Geek Neighborhood! I know this guy in north Austin (in a Geek House, FWIW) who wants to set up some wireless links to link up geeks in the neighborhood, and at least one of the places is gonna have some sort of beta test high bandwidth satellite feed. Too bad I'm living on the south side right now.
A sincere appeal to all parents out there: Don't let your daughers become involved in the FPS world.
Mommas, don't let your daughters grow up to be Quakeheads...
Don't let 'em play Unreal or Half-Life of Doom,
Mommas don't let your daughters grow up to be Quakeheads...
Make 'em be strippers or drive real big trucks.
He spent some time looking at a disassemble of it and told me the garbarge collection on it was stupid, it was bassicly brute force or some such thing.
True. I had an old TRS-80 and remember how the "string gathering", as I remember it being called, would cause the computer to just sit there in deep thought for seconds at a time if your program did anything significant with strings. Most of the time I ran with "CLEAR 256" to reduce the string space to minimum, but that was mostly to recover the memory.
I also remember seeing an ad for a program which replaced the garbage collection with a more efficient one, at the cost of three bytes more per string.
However bad the string garbage collection may have been, Billy sure knew how to write good 8080/Z80 code. Level II Basic was 12K, I think, and I only found about 35 bytes worth of optimizations in it. This is in contrast to the ColecoVision BIOS ROM, which was 8K, of which I have personally optimized over 1K from!
I learned some good 8080/Z80 programming techniques from Billy just by disassembling Level II Basic.
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...I just pulled up www.kuro5hin.org and it has a clock. Counting down as you refresh the page. It's at 02:23:00 right now...
I think that what happened was they over-cooled the CPU to the point where it was unreliable.
See, every overclocker knows that semiconductors have a maximum temperature at which they will operate reliably. But few realize that there is also a minimum rated temperature. I don't remember the exact ranges, but mil-spec parts are rated for a much lower minimum temperature range. I seem to recall that one of the minimum ratings (probably the "regular" one) is -50C. So the dry ice/flourinert may have been the perfect mix after all, with the pour temperature of the flourinert keeping everything (except the 3-D card which they weren't overclocking anyhow) at the perfect temperature, and keeping the cool temperature snug against all the important parts.
Too bad they didn't try to see how fast they could clock it at -46C before trying the LN2. Maybe they can do that for the sequel.
The Palm series uses what is esentially a 16MHz 68000. MP3 requires a lot more CPU power. You can barely get realtime MP3 decoding from a 30-40MHz 68040.
This add-on is as much for the CPU as it is for the storage space.
A few years ago, I noticed bag phones showing up at thrift stores. They were asking like $35-$40 or so for them. Then the 9 inch brick phones started showing up. Now the handheld cellular phones are showing up, and the large quanitity of junked cell phones is starting to become a real problem. They're going for $6-$10 now, cheap enough to buy a junker just for its NIMH battery.
Hell, I was even given one AMPS analog (a really lightweight Motorola) and one PCS digital phone from my mom and stepdad because they hadn't liked the plans with which they got the phones, or something like that.
So does anyone know how easy it is to re-use such phones? (in.us that is) I wouldn't mind a better plan than a new customer, or at least not having to sign a year contract in exchange for re-using a perfectly good cell phone. Even if I had to find one that was originally issued by my intended phone company, that wouldn't be too bad.
There's also another nasty "non-vulnerability" being repo rted on BugTraq related to IIS and the built-in web server in Windows 2000.
An undocumented HTTP request header of "Translate: f" will cause the web server to return the source code of an ASP page! And often, this source code contains juicy tidbits like SQL server passwords, not to mention the business logic behind the web site.
Upgrading to W2K SP1 is enough to fix this bug, but with Microsoft's history of NT4 service packs, it's understandable that nobody is in a hurry to upgrade.
This is accomplished through a micropayment system which denominates the internal tokens, called Mojo, in the same resources needed to provide the services
Sounds a lot like the Slashdot karma system. Do they have Mojo whores there?
The reason it reminds you of this is because it is exactly the same thing. The difference is that in the bad old days, the average BBS would only have one phone line, and the leeches could tie it up 30-60 minutes each. Now there are bandwidth leeches, sucking up the limited bandwidth of cable TV modems, and are the reason for upload bandwidth caps. The bandwidth leeches are a large fraction of the top 20%, and the traditional leeches are the bottom 70%.
'course then we'd just take an image, resize and upload it, so that idea didn't exactly work as intended.
The really high tech leeches of the day came up with a slick trick: "Leech Zmodem". When it received the last block of a file, it would NAK it, asking to restart the transmission near the beginning of the file, then cancel the download. Most BBS Zmodem implementations would only debit the leech with the point at which the download was canceled, if it debited their download quota at all!
I don't think there was an afternoon between May and September of 1985 that this movie didn't get played on HBO. This Dave Speed guy made the Green Lantern look like a kick-ass superhero by comparison.
Yes, but his lameness was what made him so endearing. That and his wierd accent. Or was it that they had him re-dub all his lines with no lip sync whatsoever? Maybe that was it. And with that kind of airplay, you can learn to love almost any bad movie. Must be related to that hostage syndrome (Stockholm syndrome?)
I actually would pay to have this one on DVD. Well, 10 bucks anyhow. And if you have a problem with that, some friends of mine are nuts about Thundercats, which I thought was pretty uninfluential myself. (Though I've heard its last season wasn't so bad, when the series was left to die, and the writers were left alone and wrote scripts that weren't aimed at six year olds.)
Which brings up the idea of variations on this theme. Certainly there should be an uninfluential TV series list. And then another one specifically for kids TV series.
I nominate Quark, staring Richard Benjamin, (which I was nuts about back in 1979) for the regular TV series list. Ah, the wonderful adventures of the United Galaxy Space Patrol. And Battlestar Galactica '80, which I absolutely hated, because it used the very same premise (they find Earth, but it's Earth in 1980) that had appeared six months earlier as a parody in Cracked magazine.
What would Perl be like if it was coded by a native Japanese speaker?
Of course Perl wouldn't be Perl unless it Larry Wall had made it, but Perl is based more on the "Unix language" than the English language. Perl is awk+ksh on steriods. With a lot of other stuff (especially from C) thrown in, just becase it could.
Language wise, Japanese is more like Forth (or Postscript). It is an almost entirely postfix language. You say some words, then say a preposition-like word (usually called a "particle") which makes them into a clause, then after a few clauses, you say the verb, which ties the clauses together. Or something like that. Everything is tied together with words at the end, rather than with words in the middle. Certainly instead of "2+3", we'd be doing "3 2 +".
Japanese has such a pure grammar because they were on an island where they were left alone for thousands of years to come up with their own primitive language. Then the Chinese came by, showed them how to write, and the Japanese were mostly left alone for another thousand years to mis-pronounce the Chinese and come up with one of the most bastardly complicated writing systems on the planet. Most kanji have more than one reading, and many times more than one reading is valid in a given context.
Hmmm... and in Perl, There's More Than One Way To Do It. Go figure.
This really kicks butt. I spent way to much time recording all of season 3, then editing out the advertisments so I had 3 long tapes of pure reboot. (which I goofed on and recorded in mono)
If you recorded them from Cartoon Network, you didn't goof. Cartoon Network broadcasts in mono. It is my understanding that they use the other audio channel in the satellite downlink for the SAP (usually Spanish) audio. The reason your TV says it's in stereo is because SAP is an extension to stereo broadcasting. So the cable company just plugs the mono audio into both inputs of the stereo encoder, and the other channel into the SAP input.
This article says: The Power Mac G4 Cube doesn't have a single analog circuit in it, except for the power supply. Instead, it relies on USB, FireWire and the breakthough Apple Display Connector to connect with a host of peripherals
Ah, another new display connector from Apple! I remember the ill-fated VideoVision connector from the PowerMac 61xx series and I'm sure people who are buying used Macs at swap meets love it when they find out they can't hook it up to any monitor known to man except the VideoVision monitor, unless they either have the special nuclear-powered cable, or add a video board (either the HPV or AV board).
I do have one concern about this new video connector. Knowing how touchy the MPAA etc. are about digital outputs from DVD, what kind of "copy protection" provisions are built into this new connector?
I'm not sure how they can say it contains "no analog circuitry", because the article mentions it has a VGA port on back, and the new video connector also contains analog signals. VGA is definitely analog. I guess they mean "no analog circuitry except VGA."
"Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki Third series. Listen to the fans cry out for it! Tenchi fans gave us their thoughts with 1500 reader questionnaires. We are investigating the status of this new series."
I still haven't seen anything even semi-official that this will be a TV series rather than an OVA, just the rumors on the internet, but I could live with 9 hours more of the OVA continuity. That would make up for Shin Tenchi/Tenchi in Tokyo, which was utter tripe in comparison to either of the other two series. (Well, the first LD set box had pretty good cover art of Ryoko. But that was about it.)
The reason gas prices are so high is because people are buying gas-guzzling SUV's and driving up the demand for gasoline to insane levels, while OPEC has not increased production to match.
The reason is because OPEC has decreased production early this year. Why? Because the Clinton administration asked them to. Why? So that certain oil-producing countries could make more money to pay off their debts. Russia and Iran in particular. In other words, this "risky idea" (to borrow Algore's favorite word) was a plan to get the American people get to pay off bad foreign debts.
Also, new EPA regulations went into force in the north-central United States, increasing the price because of new additives. At the same time, a pipeline which had been repaired wasn't allowed to run at full capacity for a few months because of EPA regulations. Most of the gasoline had to be trucked in, adding to the cost.
And now Clinton and Gore are blaming the American oil companies for the problem that they themselves created.
The interesting thing is that usually you can't get them all to keep production down for long, because one of them will get greedy and start producing more while the price is high. This time they seem to be staying in line better than ever before.
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(yawn) In which case he could have bought a high-end DVD player at a home theatre store. Instead of getting a toy to play them on.
I think what we're really going to see is a few users getting kicked off of ebay. Notice that the highest offer on the $15K PS2 from anyone with a two-digit rating is $1200. That's still rather absurd, though.
Only in the cities they serve. Time Warner's Roadrunner is the other monopoly. Except that DSL is becoming more and more available. Which is competition for both TW and ATT.
So they really don't have a "monopoly in the US". Just in certain cities.
The Atari 7800 had lots more ROM space than it could possibly use for just the 960-bit digital signature lockout code, so they included a full 6502 CPU test in there. Sheesh.
How many of them were overweight? How many of them were (choke, gag) male? How many of them (whimper) tried to sing?
If only Best Buy had the kind of stock levels in anime that Suncoast did, but that's Economics 101 for you: supply and demand. At Best Buy's prices, they can't keep most anime on the shelves (not that they try, beyond ordering Ghost in the Shell a dozen at a time). But I have never seen a copy of Trigun in stock at Best Buy. :(
Huh? Last I checked, to draw a perfect circle in Photoshop (at least the Mac version), you simply hold down the shift key while drawing it.
Say what? Are you sure you aren't just talking out your ass? Go dig up the issue of Wired magazine from around April 1999 or so. They've got an article on electric drag racing in there, and the reason electrics are in a different class is because they blow away fuel-powered racers. Fuel-powered dragsters have no chance against an electric, because electrics can dump so much energy so quickly.
The reason we don't have electric cars on the highway is not because of strength, but because of duration. You can get great performance out of an electric vehicle for half an hour or so, and then it drops way off.
I chose jump.net because they have an "any server you want policy". I also get an 8 fixed IP block (with a class C netmask, so I can use all 8 if I want) for an extra $10/mo. (A single IP is $5, so splunge a bit.) The total I pay is $80 a month. If I had their 384K up/1.5M+ down ADSL I would pay about twice as much.
However, my circuit is provided by SWB, and they really sucked after they were forced to spin off their DSL business to an annoying little company called ASI. So now you have to deal with both companies (and maybe your ISP as well) to get your line hooked up, and there are a lot of problems. Not only that, but they're regularly capping circuits to 384K downstream. Jump.net put a hold on new orders through them because they sucked so bad, but I'm still on a one-year contract.
I moved up from San Antonio, where I was about 8000 feet from the CO, and wasn't capped, so I got the full 1.5 megabits down. Damn it was nice. But I finally had to move to Austin for the job opportunities. (At least I only had to go 100 miles to do that!) The only trouble I had back in February was they shipped the install kit via two-day UPS on the day before the install... from the other side of town! UPS takes their two-day shipping very seriously, you know. So I got an old Alcatel that the phone guy had in his truck.
I did have to change my fixed IP when moving to Austin, but that's CIDR for you.
One of SWB's little tricks is said to be dropping orders when they get too far behind. It was three weeks before I realized they had never taken my order properly. So I had to wait another three weeks (even with a self-install), and then they managed to set up my ATM circuit wrong. At least my Alcatel can't do PPPoE, so I have an excuse not to run that abomination.
And above all, do not go with texas.net if you're the kind of guy who wants a fixed IP. They have great service if you're a Joe Luser, but they filter their connections so you can't run any servers, or anything which quacks like a server, so they can force you to pay for "business" service. Which is also good if you're not their customer, because that's a lot less machines that can be turned into DDoS zombies.
...a Geek Neighborhood! I know this guy in north Austin (in a Geek House, FWIW) who wants to set up some wireless links to link up geeks in the neighborhood, and at least one of the places is gonna have some sort of beta test high bandwidth satellite feed. Too bad I'm living on the south side right now.
A sincere appeal to all parents out there: Don't let your daughers become involved in the FPS world.
Mommas, don't let your daughters grow up to be Quakeheads...
Don't let 'em play Unreal or Half-Life of Doom,
Mommas don't let your daughters grow up to be Quakeheads...
Make 'em be strippers or drive real big trucks.
He spent some time looking at a disassemble of it and told me the garbarge collection on it was stupid, it was bassicly brute force or some such thing.
True. I had an old TRS-80 and remember how the "string gathering", as I remember it being called, would cause the computer to just sit there in deep thought for seconds at a time if your program did anything significant with strings. Most of the time I ran with "CLEAR 256" to reduce the string space to minimum, but that was mostly to recover the memory.
I also remember seeing an ad for a program which replaced the garbage collection with a more efficient one, at the cost of three bytes more per string.
However bad the string garbage collection may have been, Billy sure knew how to write good 8080/Z80 code. Level II Basic was 12K, I think, and I only found about 35 bytes worth of optimizations in it. This is in contrast to the ColecoVision BIOS ROM, which was 8K, of which I have personally optimized over 1K from!
I learned some good 8080/Z80 programming techniques from Billy just by disassembling Level II Basic.
...I just pulled up www.kuro5hin.org and it has a clock. Counting down as you refresh the page. It's at 02:23:00 right now...
I think that what happened was they over-cooled the CPU to the point where it was unreliable.
See, every overclocker knows that semiconductors have a maximum temperature at which they will operate reliably. But few realize that there is also a minimum rated temperature. I don't remember the exact ranges, but mil-spec parts are rated for a much lower minimum temperature range. I seem to recall that one of the minimum ratings (probably the "regular" one) is -50C. So the dry ice/flourinert may have been the perfect mix after all, with the pour temperature of the flourinert keeping everything (except the 3-D card which they weren't overclocking anyhow) at the perfect temperature, and keeping the cool temperature snug against all the important parts.
Too bad they didn't try to see how fast they could clock it at -46C before trying the LN2. Maybe they can do that for the sequel.
Storage is not the problem.
The Palm series uses what is esentially a 16MHz 68000. MP3 requires a lot more CPU power. You can barely get realtime MP3 decoding from a 30-40MHz 68040.
This add-on is as much for the CPU as it is for the storage space.
A few years ago, I noticed bag phones showing up at thrift stores. They were asking like $35-$40 or so for them. Then the 9 inch brick phones started showing up. Now the handheld cellular phones are showing up, and the large quanitity of junked cell phones is starting to become a real problem. They're going for $6-$10 now, cheap enough to buy a junker just for its NIMH battery.
.us that is) I wouldn't mind a better plan than a new customer, or at least not having to sign a year contract in exchange for re-using a perfectly good cell phone. Even if I had to find one that was originally issued by my intended phone company, that wouldn't be too bad.
Hell, I was even given one AMPS analog (a really lightweight Motorola) and one PCS digital phone from my mom and stepdad because they hadn't liked the plans with which they got the phones, or something like that.
So does anyone know how easy it is to re-use such phones? (in
There's also another nasty "non-vulnerability" being repo rted on BugTraq related to IIS and the built-in web server in Windows 2000.
An undocumented HTTP request header of "Translate: f" will cause the web server to return the source code of an ASP page! And often, this source code contains juicy tidbits like SQL server passwords, not to mention the business logic behind the web site.
Upgrading to W2K SP1 is enough to fix this bug, but with Microsoft's history of NT4 service packs, it's understandable that nobody is in a hurry to upgrade.
This is accomplished through a micropayment system which denominates the internal tokens, called Mojo, in the same resources needed to provide the services
Sounds a lot like the Slashdot karma system. Do they have Mojo whores there?
Reminds me of the BBS days of file ratios
The reason it reminds you of this is because it is exactly the same thing. The difference is that in the bad old days, the average BBS would only have one phone line, and the leeches could tie it up 30-60 minutes each. Now there are bandwidth leeches, sucking up the limited bandwidth of cable TV modems, and are the reason for upload bandwidth caps. The bandwidth leeches are a large fraction of the top 20%, and the traditional leeches are the bottom 70%.
'course then we'd just take an image, resize and upload it, so that idea didn't exactly work as intended.
The really high tech leeches of the day came up with a slick trick: "Leech Zmodem". When it received the last block of a file, it would NAK it, asking to restart the transmission near the beginning of the file, then cancel the download. Most BBS Zmodem implementations would only debit the leech with the point at which the download was canceled, if it debited their download quota at all!
I don't think there was an afternoon between May and September of 1985 that this movie didn't get played on HBO. This Dave Speed guy made the Green Lantern look like a kick-ass superhero by comparison.
Yes, but his lameness was what made him so endearing. That and his wierd accent. Or was it that they had him re-dub all his lines with no lip sync whatsoever? Maybe that was it. And with that kind of airplay, you can learn to love almost any bad movie. Must be related to that hostage syndrome (Stockholm syndrome?)
I actually would pay to have this one on DVD. Well, 10 bucks anyhow. And if you have a problem with that, some friends of mine are nuts about Thundercats, which I thought was pretty uninfluential myself. (Though I've heard its last season wasn't so bad, when the series was left to die, and the writers were left alone and wrote scripts that weren't aimed at six year olds.)
Which brings up the idea of variations on this theme. Certainly there should be an uninfluential TV series list. And then another one specifically for kids TV series.
I nominate Quark, staring Richard Benjamin, (which I was nuts about back in 1979) for the regular TV series list. Ah, the wonderful adventures of the United Galaxy Space Patrol. And Battlestar Galactica '80, which I absolutely hated, because it used the very same premise (they find Earth, but it's Earth in 1980) that had appeared six months earlier as a parody in Cracked magazine.
What would Perl be like if it was coded by a native Japanese speaker?
Of course Perl wouldn't be Perl unless it Larry Wall had made it, but Perl is based more on the "Unix language" than the English language. Perl is awk+ksh on steriods. With a lot of other stuff (especially from C) thrown in, just becase it could.
Language wise, Japanese is more like Forth (or Postscript). It is an almost entirely postfix language. You say some words, then say a preposition-like word (usually called a "particle") which makes them into a clause, then after a few clauses, you say the verb, which ties the clauses together. Or something like that. Everything is tied together with words at the end, rather than with words in the middle. Certainly instead of "2+3", we'd be doing "3 2 +".
Japanese has such a pure grammar because they were on an island where they were left alone for thousands of years to come up with their own primitive language. Then the Chinese came by, showed them how to write, and the Japanese were mostly left alone for another thousand years to mis-pronounce the Chinese and come up with one of the most bastardly complicated writing systems on the planet. Most kanji have more than one reading, and many times more than one reading is valid in a given context.
Hmmm... and in Perl, There's More Than One Way To Do It. Go figure.
This really kicks butt. I spent way to much time recording all of season 3, then editing out the advertisments so I had 3 long tapes of pure reboot. (which I goofed on and recorded in mono)
If you recorded them from Cartoon Network, you didn't goof. Cartoon Network broadcasts in mono. It is my understanding that they use the other audio channel in the satellite downlink for the SAP (usually Spanish) audio. The reason your TV says it's in stereo is because SAP is an extension to stereo broadcasting. So the cable company just plugs the mono audio into both inputs of the stereo encoder, and the other channel into the SAP input.
This article says: The Power Mac G4 Cube doesn't have a single analog circuit in it, except for the power supply. Instead, it relies on USB, FireWire and the breakthough Apple Display Connector to connect with a host of peripherals
Ah, another new display connector from Apple! I remember the ill-fated VideoVision connector from the PowerMac 61xx series and I'm sure people who are buying used Macs at swap meets love it when they find out they can't hook it up to any monitor known to man except the VideoVision monitor, unless they either have the special nuclear-powered cable, or add a video board (either the HPV or AV board).
I do have one concern about this new video connector. Knowing how touchy the MPAA etc. are about digital outputs from DVD, what kind of "copy protection" provisions are built into this new connector?
I'm not sure how they can say it contains "no analog circuitry", because the article mentions it has a VGA port on back, and the new video connector also contains analog signals. VGA is definitely analog. I guess they mean "no analog circuitry except VGA."
And the makers of internet censorware also only provide a list, which you can choose not to install in your computer.
So if yesmail were to win, wouldn't that mean peacefire.org could sue the makers of censorware?
"Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki Third series. Listen to the fans cry out for it! Tenchi fans gave us their thoughts with 1500 reader questionnaires. We are investigating the status of this new series."
I still haven't seen anything even semi-official that this will be a TV series rather than an OVA, just the rumors on the internet, but I could live with 9 hours more of the OVA continuity. That would make up for Shin Tenchi/Tenchi in Tokyo, which was utter tripe in comparison to either of the other two series. (Well, the first LD set box had pretty good cover art of Ryoko. But that was about it.)
The reason gas prices are so high is because people are buying gas-guzzling SUV's and driving up the demand for gasoline to insane levels, while OPEC has not increased production to match.
The reason is because OPEC has decreased production early this year. Why? Because the Clinton administration asked them to. Why? So that certain oil-producing countries could make more money to pay off their debts. Russia and Iran in particular. In other words, this "risky idea" (to borrow Algore's favorite word) was a plan to get the American people get to pay off bad foreign debts.
Also, new EPA regulations went into force in the north-central United States, increasing the price because of new additives. At the same time, a pipeline which had been repaired wasn't allowed to run at full capacity for a few months because of EPA regulations. Most of the gasoline had to be trucked in, adding to the cost.
And now Clinton and Gore are blaming the American oil companies for the problem that they themselves created.
The interesting thing is that usually you can't get them all to keep production down for long, because one of them will get greedy and start producing more while the price is high. This time they seem to be staying in line better than ever before.