MCI slammed me twice, once in the 80's and once in the 90's. Both MCI and AT&T have admitted to condoning slamming in the past, and promised to stop. But once you establish it as acceptable in your saled department, people are going to continue to try to get better sales by slamming.
My motherboard (FIC SD-11), and several others I looked at, have headers for a front USB port, in addition to the ATX ports in the rear. They use a ribbon cable connector, the same as an AT USB capable board would use for rear ports. The motherboard does not come with the front port, but I've seen the cables at various stores (online and offline) that have a good stock of cables. It would probably be hard to find a case with a door for these, but you could cut a small corner out of an unused drive bay cover and wedge it in there. You may be able to find drive bay covers with them already built in, but that will be a little difficult.
You have to draw the line somewhere sometimes. It doesn't always make sense for everyone. And when you start making exceptions, you have to apply those exceptions to everyone equally, or you get discrimination lawsuites.
Wow MIDI on a cell phone. Incredible. Who the hell cares about MIDI on a cell phone? Do you really want to hear the music on that electronic post card you got from your e-girlfriend?
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They used an 800MHz PIII because there seems to be a shortage of Pentium III processors shipping at speeds greater than 800MHz. Funny, even Intel can't get the chips they've been "shipping" for months.
Chances are, the only reason this company feels the need to share specific "sensitive" information with you is because they are looking for an exact skill, not your overall ability. They want someone who can sit down and do X right away. And they want someone who won't talk about it to anyone. Just like so many other technology recruiters, they would rather hire a specific skill or specific experience than someone with a good intellect and flexibility. If the project flops, or the technology's demand disappears, you'll get a pink slip.
$450 will get you a laser printer that, although only BW, will blow any ink jet out of the water, and have full Linux support. That buys an 8ppm HP LJ1100, an 8MB upgrade, and reams of paper.
I thought everyone did DSL this way... The providers in my area, Telocity, BellSouth and I think Covad too, all ship an external modem/router. The Telocity router has ethernet, USB, and parallel port options for connecting your computer. With ethernet, they could care less what OS use. It still took them a few weeks to set up the phone lines and ship the modem. The only problem is my DSLAM was first out of synch, which took two weeks and many long hold times to even get them to make a call to the CO to start fixing it. Now I get frequent carrier drops, and it will probably take a whole damn month to get anyone to do something about it. Sometimes it works, sometimes I'd have better luck with my old USR Password 1200 baud modem.
I did not even hear about LinuxFest until I read this post on Slashdot. Maybe there was some advertising in KC, but national advertising must have been minimal, if not null.
Another thing that would have helped: having classes and forums on development, tools, security, etc. These types of classes would make it so companies would send employees to learn, on the company. This would definately boost attendence, and in turn boost community involvement.
If it works with memory on other cards, it is NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Architecture). That is, there are higher latencies to access the memory on a different card than memory on the card requesting the data. With just one card in use, it is SMP, since the processors all have the same memory latency.
Micorsoft is not just trying to prevent piracy here or make examples of their zero tolerance for piracy. I think they're trying to maintain price regulation. They just jump at the opportunity to use a silk screen such as piracy.
When the high-end PC graphics card market was driven by people who needed the best 2D acceleration at the greatest resloutions and color depths, Number Nine was at its prime. Then 2D high-end PC graphics cards began to plateau, and 3D began emerging. Number Nine's first Imagine 128 series had great expandability and great 2D but really no 3D capability. The Imagine 128 Series 2 came out and still had no real 3D capability, so gamers were actually better off with an S3 Virge! Hardware accelerated OpenGL was now available on Windows platforms, but Nine missed the boat hoping to continue after the "high end" 2D market. By the time the Revolution 3D chips came out, 3Dfx was making waves in the 3D market, and S3 Virge chips were in the very low cost market (where S3 was still making tons of money). The Revolution 3D had much better 3D - relative to the other Nine cards. But it was unspectacular compared to most available chipsets. You can still find these cards that Nine was trying to sell for $300+ in bargain lots. Why pay $300 for 2D that is about the same as a Matrox Millennium II or the I128 Series II, and 3D that sucks? True the Revolution could expand to 32MB and had AGP, but that wasn't enough to make it compare to even a 6MB, $150 Voodoo Graphics card in games!!! Selling their technology to S3 and picking up the Savage 4 on their SR9 was too little, too late.
Just as Microsoft gets a bunch of alternate vendors interested, if they don't change their liscense agreement out of fear of competition, they will still not be willing to let someone else dominate. If another platform starts gaining the upper hand, Microsoft will give away thousands of copies of Windows to schools not yet using this technology, and then claim victory, and list it in their "success stories" prooganda.
There is a guy who sometimes plays at a pub nearby that I frequent, and although he is an O.K. songwriter, he can't carry a tune worth a damn. He only got the gig because he is friends with the manager. But guess what, he gets on the top downloads lists! How? He always asks his drunken following (a dozen or so) to go download his song again so he can get on the top downloads list, and then he emails everyone who ever gave him his email address and tells them to do the same. That is why the top downloads list on MP3.com still doesn't help.
The biggest advancement Linux/UNIX GUIs need is Antialiased fonts. Apple did it, now its our turn. X has a lot of great features, a lot of nice and easy windows/desktop managers, but text sure does look like shit unless you have a 100+dpi moniter. Even then it isn't very impressive. My girlfriend always asks "why do the letters look like that when they are small?" and I respond, "Because that is the only thing Windows has better than Linux."
I had a nearly flawless Christmas, with more than half of my gifts ordered online. The exceptions were things mailed so-called "Priority Mail". There were two orders, one from Amazon.com, and one from Buy.com. They were placed in the last days of November, and shipped Dec. 9 and Dec. 2 respectively. Both orders had items shipped the same day UPS Ground, both of which arrived two or three business days later. But the Book and shipped priority mail on Dec. 9 came "about two days later" on Dec. 23, and the CD never came. The addresses were all correct, and all of the other parts of those orders arrived on time, but they were shipped UPS. Buy.com filed a claim for the lost CD, and could only reship the CD via Priority Mail again, and that was taken care of on Dec. 20. No surprise, it still hasn't arrived.
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MCI slammed me twice, once in the 80's and once in the 90's. Both MCI and AT&T have admitted to condoning slamming in the past, and promised to stop. But once you establish it as acceptable in your saled department, people are going to continue to try to get better sales by slamming.
Aren't the current Palms based on 16Bit Motorola 68K CPU's? That would make quite an obstacle for a 32 bit operating system.
The ZDNet article mentions it will come with a new compiler. Is this just a new version of gcc, or something else more noteworthy?
My motherboard (FIC SD-11), and several others I looked at, have headers for a front USB port, in addition to the ATX ports in the rear. They use a ribbon cable connector, the same as an AT USB capable board would use for rear ports. The motherboard does not come with the front port, but I've seen the cables at various stores (online and offline) that have a good stock of cables. It would probably be hard to find a case with a door for these, but you could cut a small corner out of an unused drive bay cover and wedge it in there. You may be able to find drive bay covers with them already built in, but that will be a little difficult.
You have to draw the line somewhere sometimes. It doesn't always make sense for everyone. And when you start making exceptions, you have to apply those exceptions to everyone equally, or you get discrimination lawsuites.
Funny, I don't remember UE10000's running Windows NT/2000: http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.ebay.com
Wow MIDI on a cell phone. Incredible. Who the hell cares about MIDI on a cell phone? Do you really want to hear the music on that electronic post card you got from your e-girlfriend?
They used an 800MHz PIII because there seems to be a shortage of Pentium III processors shipping at speeds greater than 800MHz. Funny, even Intel can't get the chips they've been "shipping" for months.
Chances are, the only reason this company feels the need to share specific "sensitive" information with you is because they are looking for an exact skill, not your overall ability. They want someone who can sit down and do X right away. And they want someone who won't talk about it to anyone. Just like so many other technology recruiters, they would rather hire a specific skill or specific experience than someone with a good intellect and flexibility. If the project flops, or the technology's demand disappears, you'll get a pink slip.
$450 will get you a laser printer that, although only BW, will blow any ink jet out of the water, and have full Linux support. That buys an 8ppm HP LJ1100, an 8MB upgrade, and reams of paper.
I thought everyone did DSL this way... The providers in my area, Telocity, BellSouth and I think Covad too, all ship an external modem/router. The Telocity router has ethernet, USB, and parallel port options for connecting your computer. With ethernet, they could care less what OS use. It still took them a few weeks to set up the phone lines and ship the modem. The only problem is my DSLAM was first out of synch, which took two weeks and many long hold times to even get them to make a call to the CO to start fixing it. Now I get frequent carrier drops, and it will probably take a whole damn month to get anyone to do something about it. Sometimes it works, sometimes I'd have better luck with my old USR Password 1200 baud modem.
The pics ripped from their mainframe. Does this mean we'll finally get a VAX/VMS port of a Quake game!? Whoop
I did not even hear about LinuxFest until I read this post on Slashdot. Maybe there was some advertising in KC, but national advertising must have been minimal, if not null.
Another thing that would have helped: having classes and forums on development, tools, security, etc. These types of classes would make it so companies would send employees to learn, on the company. This would definately boost attendence, and in turn boost community involvement.
Ooo 23 free floppies What are you going to do with those free 32MB of storage that is read at 0.5Mbps?
If it works with memory on other cards, it is NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Architecture). That is, there are higher latencies to access the memory on a different card than memory on the card requesting the data. With just one card in use, it is SMP, since the processors all have the same memory latency.
Micorsoft is not just trying to prevent piracy here or make examples of their zero tolerance for piracy. I think they're trying to maintain price regulation. They just jump at the opportunity to use a silk screen such as piracy.
When the high-end PC graphics card market was driven by people who needed the best 2D acceleration at the greatest resloutions and color depths, Number Nine was at its prime. Then 2D high-end PC graphics cards began to plateau, and 3D began emerging. Number Nine's first Imagine 128 series had great expandability and great 2D but really no 3D capability. The Imagine 128 Series 2 came out and still had no real 3D capability, so gamers were actually better off with an S3 Virge! Hardware accelerated OpenGL was now available on Windows platforms, but Nine missed the boat hoping to continue after the "high end" 2D market. By the time the Revolution 3D chips came out, 3Dfx was making waves in the 3D market, and S3 Virge chips were in the very low cost market (where S3 was still making tons of money). The Revolution 3D had much better 3D - relative to the other Nine cards. But it was unspectacular compared to most available chipsets. You can still find these cards that Nine was trying to sell for $300+ in bargain lots. Why pay $300 for 2D that is about the same as a Matrox Millennium II or the I128 Series II, and 3D that sucks? True the Revolution could expand to 32MB and had AGP, but that wasn't enough to make it compare to even a 6MB, $150 Voodoo Graphics card in games!!! Selling their technology to S3 and picking up the Savage 4 on their SR9 was too little, too late.
We need to get the NLUGs (Nashville) to March down Music Row where all of the record companies have offices. I'll help!
Just as Microsoft gets a bunch of alternate vendors interested, if they don't change their liscense agreement out of fear of competition, they will still not be willing to let someone else dominate. If another platform starts gaining the upper hand, Microsoft will give away thousands of copies of Windows to schools not yet using this technology, and then claim victory, and list it in their "success stories" prooganda.
There is a guy who sometimes plays at a pub nearby that I frequent, and although he is an O.K. songwriter, he can't carry a tune worth a damn. He only got the gig because he is friends with the manager. But guess what, he gets on the top downloads lists! How? He always asks his drunken following (a dozen or so) to go download his song again so he can get on the top downloads list, and then he emails everyone who ever gave him his email address and tells them to do the same. That is why the top downloads list on MP3.com still doesn't help.
The biggest advancement Linux/UNIX GUIs need is Antialiased fonts. Apple did it, now its our turn. X has a lot of great features, a lot of nice and easy windows/desktop managers, but text sure does look like shit unless you have a 100+dpi moniter. Even then it isn't very impressive. My girlfriend always asks "why do the letters look like that when they are small?" and I respond, "Because that is the only thing Windows has better than Linux."
I had a nearly flawless Christmas, with more than half of my gifts ordered online. The exceptions were things mailed so-called "Priority Mail". There were two orders, one from Amazon.com, and one from Buy.com. They were placed in the last days of November, and shipped Dec. 9 and Dec. 2 respectively. Both orders had items shipped the same day UPS Ground, both of which arrived two or three business days later. But the Book and shipped priority mail on Dec. 9 came "about two days later" on Dec. 23, and the CD never came. The addresses were all correct, and all of the other parts of those orders arrived on time, but they were shipped UPS. Buy.com filed a claim for the lost CD, and could only reship the CD via Priority Mail again, and that was taken care of on Dec. 20. No surprise, it still hasn't arrived.