Well I don't know about other/.ers, but for once I'm glad I have Comcast where I live instead of TW. Also, this should be a good time to buy stock in direct tv and other sattalite services, because anyone with a brain will be switching off their TW cable when this happens.
I've followed TI cals for years. I've programed them, used them, and own most all of the models. My current favorites are the 83 (for simplicity), and the 89 (for power). Here are my thoughts on this new calculator:
First of all I have to say that I'm glad they redesigned the 92(+). It's always been a great calculator but the thing is big as hell. It's thick, heavy, HUGE (which is why I like the 89). I'm sure that this one won't weight nearyly so much, which is a MAJOR plus.
It's good to hear that it's compatible with software made for the 92+. This means that tons and tons of games are all ready ready to go. If they don't work, chances are that they won't need much tweaking before they do.
Having more storage is also great. I've always fought with my calculators trying to put on all the games that I like without running out of memory. The flash on the 83+ and 89 is nice, but you can't run assembly programs out of it. You have to move them from flash to normal ram to play them, which is anoying. This is the one thing that I hope they change.
Over all looks good. I'm sorry I didn't write more, but I've got lots of surfing to do. I can't wait to get my hands on one in a store of find someone who buys one so I can check it out first hand.
What we have here is a brick (RIAA), a window (music rights), and the House (perfect metaphore, isn't it!). In themselves there is nothing wrong with them, they're all perfectly legal.
Now the brick was thrown at the window, shattering people's fair use rights (IMHO). The brick is now in the house, and it runs off with some CDs, a Stero, and a HDTV (so it isn't the perfect metaphore after all).
Now the owner of the house has noticed that some of his stuff is missing and is starting to investigate. Let's just hope he looks into things farther and sees that not only was stuff stolen, but his window was broken, and all the other houses on his block are the same way. Maybe they'll get really smart and outlaw the brick, which in this specific case would be a good thing.
Note: If you aren't good with metaphores (or you think that my metaphores aren't good) what I'm saying is that I'm glad they're investigating, maybe now they'll get into all of the other illegal things that the RIAA is doing, IMHO.
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If they're smart they will use this the way that do/should other technologies. It should be used to help them spot POTENTIAL liars. It should help them figure out who to watch more closely. It should not be the be-all-end-all test for such a thing. This way that one liar will still (hopefully) get suspected, and most of those wrongly flagged "innocents" will be realized as such. But to use this without thinking would be like giving random people drug tests where everyone ate poppie-seed muffins before hand and then watering down ever sample with a gallon of water. It just wouldn't be usefully accurate. But to use it to aid judgement instead of replace it would be the only correct way to do it.
If you're an average user, this won't effect you. I do lots of downloading, so speed is important to me. But the fact of the matter is I've never seen download speeds over 375 kbps on my @Home cable line. The other reason it won't effect the average user is most users just surf, and when you surf the bottleneck is almost always the web site's server. There is no realistic difference between 5 mbps and 375 kbps when surfing normal sites. And even places with large images/video, 375 kbps is really VERY fast. The only people negitivly effected by this are those who were running ISO mirrors and the like.
Use The Heater, and a Few Other (Odd) Ideas
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Why not run ducts behind all the computers and have those ducts be the intake from outside for the heater? That way, the air comes in cold, get's warmed up (so your heater doesn't have to do as much) and cools the computers/room (serving it's purpose), then it's business as usual.
Another suggestion is that when I lived in Salt Lake City our house had water heating. What if you ran pipes behind the computers with fins on the pipes (like a heatsink) then that water could go into the hot water heater. Once again, saving you some money.
Where is the room located physically? Don't forget that an underground external room (as opposed to a room in the middle of the house) will be cooler.
Being true geeks, you're probably not opposed to spending some moolah on this. What about doing something like this guy did? If you buried a few large tanks deep the ground deep so it's below the frost line, you'd get cold water for free. Then just hook all you're PCs into water cooling. Have them all draw from the same spot, and then all empty back in. That way you get free cooling and it'd be quiet. If you look back at my earlier suggestion involving the water heater, you'd be all set.
I just went throught this same problem. I looked on the internet but cound't find much of anything. The only solutions that I found were the soundcard based one you mentioned, and ones that hooked to the parallel port. There are some out there but I highly recomend that you do what I did.
Because I couldn't find anything good that required a PC, I went out and just bought a used oscilloscope. I bought a used oscilloscope off of e-bay for ~$400 (you can find cheaper ones easily). What I did was I would search daily for oscilloscopes that worked, included probes (they are really expensive), and most importantly had a "buy now" option. I found one that a guy put up that the "buy now" was really low (considdering the scope would be over $1500 brand new). The other trick is to MISPELL things. If you search for oscilloscope, oscilliscope, osciliscope, etc... you'd be amazed what you can find. Because it's mispelled, most people don't see it and therefore don't bid on it. That way you can get things cheaper.
My last suggestion would be to go around to schools, electronic repair shops, etc. and ask if they have any old oscilloscopes you could buy cheap. If you explain your situation you'd be suprised how nice people can be.
Well, I'll tell you all what I think. First of all I want to mention that my brother owns an iPod and i've used it a little. I use PCs almost exclusivly (the only Mac I have runs Linux 24/7) for about 10 years.
First I'll tell you guys the positives as I see them. The cost is a major factor. Like many people I can't drop more than maybe $50 at the drop of a hat, so the lower the price the better. The fact that for the lower price, you get 2x the storage is great also. The Treo is 2.5 cents per meg, while the iPod is 8 cents. That plus the fact that it works with Windows out of the box will probably give it very good sales. This is also good because USB is quite ubiqutous, unlike FireWire. The last good point that I'd like to touch on is the fact that it only has enough memory for 8 minutes of continuous playback. I have to say that I can't think of any way to use a MP3 player that would be so abusive that it would not be able to read a few megs off of a hard drive every few minutes. Are people planning on settings their MP3 players on those paint mixer things at hardware stores that shake paint cans like mad? Also, it's a serious bonus not to have to buy a Mac or some piece of software to be able to use my new MP3 player; of course if you already have a Mac, that's not a problem.
Now the cons, once again as I see them. Firs the iPod is tiny and has a great UI. The jog dial works extreemly well, and with the exception that it took me a few seconds to figure out how to force it to turn off (hold pause, didn't take long;), the controlls are perfect and obvious. I think that while USB is good, they should have included USB 2.0 for a number of reasons:
USB 2.0 is backwards compatible, so as more computers get USB 2, more people will get faster transfer rates. Let's face it, transfering 10 gigs at USB 1.x speeds would be mind-numbingly slow
FireWire is just too rare (in the wintel arena anyway) to be able to ship and expect good sales without bundeling a FireWire card with the product, IMHO
USB 2.0 is supposed to be faster than FireWire (or at least the current implementation of FireWire as seen on a Mac I could go out and buy today, correct?), so if USB 2 was availible you could transfer files to the Treo faster than the iPod
The computer interface isn't the only problem that I see. First of all the Treo looks physically bigger than an iPod. I understand that it would have to be a tad bigger to hold twice as much storage, but it looks quite a bit wider, which is my complaint. The interface doesn't look nearly as good as the iPod. I don't think that the buttons could beat that slick jog dial. Now if they were to include (at least as an option) a little LCD/remote on a headphone cable like many CD players have these days, something that I think should have been offered on the iPod, that could make up for it easy. The battery life is another problem. If all your songs were encoded at 128kbps, then the Treo should only be able to play about 3.5% of it's capacity without having to recharge. While the iPod holds less, it will let you play 12% of it's capacity without having to recharge. This seems quite significant to me. The last major issue that I can say without haveing used a Treo is that it just doesn't look as cool as the iPod. If there is anything that the iMac taught us (other than how much the industry loves playing "Me too!" with ideas that become annoying fast and last TOO long), it's that sex sells. Let's face it, the average joe prefers something that looks stylish (the iMac) to something that looks like a box (average no-name PC of years ago).
Well, those are my thoughts. I'd love to do a better in-depth comparison, so you guys feel free to send me any MP3 player (or anything else;) that you want. My e-mail address is above! All in all I must say that for me, there is no contest that I would have to go with the iPod.
OK, I'm not sure, but if you can prove that you've been doing something before someone who has it patented, doesn't that mean that:
A. The pattent is invalid, or
B. They can't sue you/charge you for useing the pattent?
I might be wrong, but with all the proof that TiVo has that they've been useing this idea since before it was patented (it would be VERY hard to get that thrown out). Also, remember that Microsoft's Ultimate TV is also a DVR, so if they wanted to collect money they would either have to
A. Go against Microsoft (we all know how well that would work), or
B. Selectivly prosecute, which TiVo could argue about.
Well, first I'd like to say "you guys never post my stories even thought they may be the same as one that gets posted later".
SERIOUSLY: I have Comcast@Home and do NOT want to lose my service. This is the best ISP that I've had (partly because of the speed). I waited for months to be able to get off of my 56k modem (which could only get ~21 due to the terrible phone lines), only to have it canceled in a few months? Just my luck. I am about 12x too far out for DSL and my only other option would be to go back to ISDN which is about 15x slower and costs easily 3x as much per month. I hope @home knows that there are many people like me who would be willing to pay an extra $5 or $10 per month if only I could keep my service. I have no other options. Let's review why:
Modem - Phone lines only let me have ~21kbps
Cable - Have now, could lose
Sattalite - Still needs modem, not as fast, HORRID PING
DLS - Way to far out for any kind
ISDN - 3x plus more expensive than current, and slower
Carrier Pigeon Protocall - Can't afford the birdseed
I'm off to try to find the Judge's e-mail so that I can tell him of the situation he may put me and many others in. Of course hopefully the talks will work and none of this will happen, but with my luck...
First I'd like to note that this is based off of a post that listed the specs from the site, because the site has been/.ed right now and I can't view it myself. If that post was incorrect, sorry. But it's still a good rant;)
So we will finaly get hardware iDCT? It's about time. When I built my first computer it was a PII 300 with an ATI All-In-Wonder 8mb AGP Pro. I bought it because it had 3d acceleration (I bought a Voodoo 2 within 6 months that was 3x as fast and didn't make Quake 2 look like I was on an LCD trip when there were FINALY miniGL drivers), and because it could play DVD. I can tell you that "play DVD" on that computer meant "more than 3 fps".
But I wanted to be able to watch DVD movies, so I did the radical thing: I bought a hardware MPEG decoder (RealMagic Hollywood Plus) that has served me for years. It's been in many computers, and I have yet to see something that I think works as well. Low CPU usage (I can do all sorts of other things while watching a DVD). The only other computer that I have that can do that with software/"hardware assisted" DVD is my Dell laptop with a GeForce2 GO.
I must say that I'm amazed that it has taken this long for DVD support that is more than "We draw a blank rectange on the screen and you draw the image ontop" to appear. Kudos to nVidia, not only for finally doing something that should have been done long ago, but also makeing sure that the graphics card industry didn't become stale a few years ago.
I don't know if this happens with other browsers/OSes (I can only get to a windows box now), but IE (5.5) has MAJOR problems with that site. The page is wide as hell (we're talking a few 1000x the screen width), and the header and footer cells in the table are too tall too. I'm sure this is IE, becase no one in their right mind would make a site look like that unless it was a prank. Hope they fix this soon.
Why does it take so long? They could just phone/e-mail you the license number and then send off the certificate when they get it printed, that way you wouldn't have to wait/install Linux instead.
I just tried to open the.doc file and Norton AntiVirus told me there was a macro trying to do mail activity. Is this a virus or just a harmless macro? Oh well, I'll look at the HTMLs instread. Another vote for a MS free world I guess.
I remember Bob. The first (and only) time I ever saw "him" was when my friend got a new PC. He didn't know what it was, and neither did I, so we started it up. We laughed so hard we almost ruined the capet.
Also, does anyone else think that bob looks like the Disney charicter Marsupalami (the thing with a 12 foot tale)? Sorry that I can't find a picture.
In other news tonight, over 75% of OnStar subscribers are considdering canceling the service, or maybe just driving into the store window "to your left that has a great sale on plus size jeanes."
Wow, I think this is probalby a first. Have we, as a community, Slashdotted an e-mail address before? Is this one holding up? What would you guys like to slashdot next? Maybe one of those coke machines at some college that's on the internet. Of course I should probably heed the saying "A closed mouth gathers no foot."
It's getting better, but I have to say that I won't invest in one untill it can do what all good robots can do, DISCO!!!!!!
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What about CodeWarrior by Metrowerks? I use it for C++ codeing and I think that it's great. It's got stanex highlighting, a debugger, etc. It can also do C and Java, so maybe that would be right up your alley.
Didn't Saddam and Gamora (I know they're spelled wrong, sue me) supposedly get destroyed by falling rock and fireballs? Those were in the middle east. Maybe this rock destroyed Atlantis!
First, the thing that someone has to say: "now if only one would hit a certain part of the middle east again."
But seriously, this is very interesting. Remember that this is just what we KNOW OF. It is possible that the first human civilizations (IE, nomadic tribes) might have been wiped out too. This could mean that human civilization has developed MORE THAN ONCE. Wouldn't that be an interesting turn?
OK, just remember that the thing at the top is a JOKE. It's not meant to be taken seriously.
OK, I don't know about the rest of you out there but here is what I saw/thought:
First of all is why the AMD processor doesn't fail in this video. Tom's Hardware mentioned that while there WAS thermal protection in athlons, the thermal diode responded too slow to be usefull (~1 degree Celcius per second was the max rate of change). Well if AMD switched to a diode that could respond much faster to throttle the CPU/shutdown the PC, things would be like seen in the video. The other two parts to this are they may be useing a thermal sensor on the motherboard that rests against the CPU instead of the onboard diode. The last thing is that I believe that Tom's mentioned that most motherboards don't pay attention to that diode. So it seems to me that either that the new athlons have a better thermal diode, or this rig was well set up so that the motherboard would shut the computer down in the event of an overheat.
While this is still quite a bit better, if you pay attention you may notice that Intel is STILL ahead of AMD. When the heatsinks were removed from Pentium IIIs and IVs, they computer continued to run, but the clockspeed was throttled way down. With the AMD, as shown in this video, the computer shuts down. While this is obviously prefferable to getting a new keychain, I'd rather be able to save my work if I was doing something more important like maybe 3D rendering.
In conclusion, AMD still has a ways to go. But if this is how things will work now, then bravo AMD, for fixing a dangerous problem. Keep up the good work. Personaly, I'd rather have a fast processor that costs $100 and shutsdown my computer when it overheats, to a fast $600 processor that let's me continue to run my PC.
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Well I don't know about other /.ers, but for once I'm glad I have Comcast where I live instead of TW. Also, this should be a good time to buy stock in direct tv and other sattalite services, because anyone with a brain will be switching off their TW cable when this happens.
First of all I have to say that I'm glad they redesigned the 92(+). It's always been a great calculator but the thing is big as hell. It's thick, heavy, HUGE (which is why I like the 89). I'm sure that this one won't weight nearyly so much, which is a MAJOR plus.
It's good to hear that it's compatible with software made for the 92+. This means that tons and tons of games are all ready ready to go. If they don't work, chances are that they won't need much tweaking before they do.
Having more storage is also great. I've always fought with my calculators trying to put on all the games that I like without running out of memory. The flash on the 83+ and 89 is nice, but you can't run assembly programs out of it. You have to move them from flash to normal ram to play them, which is anoying. This is the one thing that I hope they change.
Over all looks good. I'm sorry I didn't write more, but I've got lots of surfing to do. I can't wait to get my hands on one in a store of find someone who buys one so I can check it out first hand.
What we have here is a brick (RIAA), a window (music rights), and the House (perfect metaphore, isn't it!). In themselves there is nothing wrong with them, they're all perfectly legal.
Now the brick was thrown at the window, shattering people's fair use rights (IMHO). The brick is now in the house, and it runs off with some CDs, a Stero, and a HDTV (so it isn't the perfect metaphore after all).
Now the owner of the house has noticed that some of his stuff is missing and is starting to investigate. Let's just hope he looks into things farther and sees that not only was stuff stolen, but his window was broken, and all the other houses on his block are the same way. Maybe they'll get really smart and outlaw the brick, which in this specific case would be a good thing.
Note: If you aren't good with metaphores (or you think that my metaphores aren't good) what I'm saying is that I'm glad they're investigating, maybe now they'll get into all of the other illegal things that the RIAA is doing, IMHO.
If they're smart they will use this the way that do/should other technologies. It should be used to help them spot POTENTIAL liars. It should help them figure out who to watch more closely. It should not be the be-all-end-all test for such a thing. This way that one liar will still (hopefully) get suspected, and most of those wrongly flagged "innocents" will be realized as such. But to use this without thinking would be like giving random people drug tests where everyone ate poppie-seed muffins before hand and then watering down ever sample with a gallon of water. It just wouldn't be usefully accurate. But to use it to aid judgement instead of replace it would be the only correct way to do it.
If you're an average user, this won't effect you. I do lots of downloading, so speed is important to me. But the fact of the matter is I've never seen download speeds over 375 kbps on my @Home cable line. The other reason it won't effect the average user is most users just surf, and when you surf the bottleneck is almost always the web site's server. There is no realistic difference between 5 mbps and 375 kbps when surfing normal sites. And even places with large images/video, 375 kbps is really VERY fast. The only people negitivly effected by this are those who were running ISO mirrors and the like.
Another suggestion is that when I lived in Salt Lake City our house had water heating. What if you ran pipes behind the computers with fins on the pipes (like a heatsink) then that water could go into the hot water heater. Once again, saving you some money.
Where is the room located physically? Don't forget that an underground external room (as opposed to a room in the middle of the house) will be cooler.
Being true geeks, you're probably not opposed to spending some moolah on this. What about doing something like this guy did? If you buried a few large tanks deep the ground deep so it's below the frost line, you'd get cold water for free. Then just hook all you're PCs into water cooling. Have them all draw from the same spot, and then all empty back in. That way you get free cooling and it'd be quiet. If you look back at my earlier suggestion involving the water heater, you'd be all set.
Because I couldn't find anything good that required a PC, I went out and just bought a used oscilloscope. I bought a used oscilloscope off of e-bay for ~$400 (you can find cheaper ones easily). What I did was I would search daily for oscilloscopes that worked, included probes (they are really expensive), and most importantly had a "buy now" option. I found one that a guy put up that the "buy now" was really low (considdering the scope would be over $1500 brand new). The other trick is to MISPELL things. If you search for oscilloscope, oscilliscope, osciliscope, etc... you'd be amazed what you can find. Because it's mispelled, most people don't see it and therefore don't bid on it. That way you can get things cheaper.
My last suggestion would be to go around to schools, electronic repair shops, etc. and ask if they have any old oscilloscopes you could buy cheap. If you explain your situation you'd be suprised how nice people can be.
First I'll tell you guys the positives as I see them. The cost is a major factor. Like many people I can't drop more than maybe $50 at the drop of a hat, so the lower the price the better. The fact that for the lower price, you get 2x the storage is great also. The Treo is 2.5 cents per meg, while the iPod is 8 cents. That plus the fact that it works with Windows out of the box will probably give it very good sales. This is also good because USB is quite ubiqutous, unlike FireWire. The last good point that I'd like to touch on is the fact that it only has enough memory for 8 minutes of continuous playback. I have to say that I can't think of any way to use a MP3 player that would be so abusive that it would not be able to read a few megs off of a hard drive every few minutes. Are people planning on settings their MP3 players on those paint mixer things at hardware stores that shake paint cans like mad? Also, it's a serious bonus not to have to buy a Mac or some piece of software to be able to use my new MP3 player; of course if you already have a Mac, that's not a problem.
Now the cons, once again as I see them. Firs the iPod is tiny and has a great UI. The jog dial works extreemly well, and with the exception that it took me a few seconds to figure out how to force it to turn off (hold pause, didn't take long ;), the controlls are perfect and obvious. I think that while USB is good, they should have included USB 2.0 for a number of reasons:
- USB 2.0 is backwards compatible, so as more computers get USB 2, more people will get faster transfer rates. Let's face it, transfering 10 gigs at USB 1.x speeds would be mind-numbingly slow
- FireWire is just too rare (in the wintel arena anyway) to be able to ship and expect good sales without bundeling a FireWire card with the product, IMHO
- USB 2.0 is supposed to be faster than FireWire (or at least the current implementation of FireWire as seen on a Mac I could go out and buy today, correct?), so if USB 2 was availible you could transfer files to the Treo faster than the iPod
The computer interface isn't the only problem that I see. First of all the Treo looks physically bigger than an iPod. I understand that it would have to be a tad bigger to hold twice as much storage, but it looks quite a bit wider, which is my complaint. The interface doesn't look nearly as good as the iPod. I don't think that the buttons could beat that slick jog dial. Now if they were to include (at least as an option) a little LCD/remote on a headphone cable like many CD players have these days, something that I think should have been offered on the iPod, that could make up for it easy. The battery life is another problem. If all your songs were encoded at 128kbps, then the Treo should only be able to play about 3.5% of it's capacity without having to recharge. While the iPod holds less, it will let you play 12% of it's capacity without having to recharge. This seems quite significant to me. The last major issue that I can say without haveing used a Treo is that it just doesn't look as cool as the iPod. If there is anything that the iMac taught us (other than how much the industry loves playing "Me too!" with ideas that become annoying fast and last TOO long), it's that sex sells. Let's face it, the average joe prefers something that looks stylish (the iMac) to something that looks like a box (average no-name PC of years ago).Well, those are my thoughts. I'd love to do a better in-depth comparison, so you guys feel free to send me any MP3 player (or anything else ;) that you want. My e-mail address is above! All in all I must say that for me, there is no contest that I would have to go with the iPod.
OK, I'm not sure, but if you can prove that you've been doing something before someone who has it patented, doesn't that mean that:
A. The pattent is invalid, or
B. They can't sue you/charge you for useing the pattent?
I might be wrong, but with all the proof that TiVo has that they've been useing this idea since before it was patented (it would be VERY hard to get that thrown out). Also, remember that Microsoft's Ultimate TV is also a DVR, so if they wanted to collect money they would either have to
A. Go against Microsoft (we all know how well that would work), or
B. Selectivly prosecute, which TiVo could argue about.
SERIOUSLY: I have Comcast@Home and do NOT want to lose my service. This is the best ISP that I've had (partly because of the speed). I waited for months to be able to get off of my 56k modem (which could only get ~21 due to the terrible phone lines), only to have it canceled in a few months? Just my luck. I am about 12x too far out for DSL and my only other option would be to go back to ISDN which is about 15x slower and costs easily 3x as much per month. I hope @home knows that there are many people like me who would be willing to pay an extra $5 or $10 per month if only I could keep my service. I have no other options. Let's review why:
I'm off to try to find the Judge's e-mail so that I can tell him of the situation he may put me and many others in. Of course hopefully the talks will work and none of this will happen, but with my luck...
I sure hope it does because my current card has a hard time doing AA. Words like AArdvark just kill it.
So we will finaly get hardware iDCT? It's about time. When I built my first computer it was a PII 300 with an ATI All-In-Wonder 8mb AGP Pro. I bought it because it had 3d acceleration (I bought a Voodoo 2 within 6 months that was 3x as fast and didn't make Quake 2 look like I was on an LCD trip when there were FINALY miniGL drivers), and because it could play DVD. I can tell you that "play DVD" on that computer meant "more than 3 fps".
But I wanted to be able to watch DVD movies, so I did the radical thing: I bought a hardware MPEG decoder (RealMagic Hollywood Plus) that has served me for years. It's been in many computers, and I have yet to see something that I think works as well. Low CPU usage (I can do all sorts of other things while watching a DVD). The only other computer that I have that can do that with software/"hardware assisted" DVD is my Dell laptop with a GeForce2 GO.
I must say that I'm amazed that it has taken this long for DVD support that is more than "We draw a blank rectange on the screen and you draw the image ontop" to appear. Kudos to nVidia, not only for finally doing something that should have been done long ago, but also makeing sure that the graphics card industry didn't become stale a few years ago.
I don't know if this happens with other browsers/OSes (I can only get to a windows box now), but IE (5.5) has MAJOR problems with that site. The page is wide as hell (we're talking a few 1000x the screen width), and the header and footer cells in the table are too tall too. I'm sure this is IE, becase no one in their right mind would make a site look like that unless it was a prank. Hope they fix this soon.
At this rate, when will we have Linux on a credit card? And are penguins accepted at Olympics? Because they won't take my American Express ;)
Why does it take so long? They could just phone/e-mail you the license number and then send off the certificate when they get it printed, that way you wouldn't have to wait/install Linux instead.
I just tried to open the .doc file and Norton AntiVirus told me there was a macro trying to do mail activity. Is this a virus or just a harmless macro? Oh well, I'll look at the HTMLs instread. Another vote for a MS free world I guess.
I remember Bob. The first (and only) time I ever saw "him" was when my friend got a new PC. He didn't know what it was, and neither did I, so we started it up. We laughed so hard we almost ruined the capet. Also, does anyone else think that bob looks like the Disney charicter Marsupalami (the thing with a 12 foot tale)? Sorry that I can't find a picture.
In other news tonight, over 75% of OnStar subscribers are considdering canceling the service, or maybe just driving into the store window "to your left that has a great sale on plus size jeanes."
Wow, I think this is probalby a first. Have we, as a community, Slashdotted an e-mail address before? Is this one holding up? What would you guys like to slashdot next? Maybe one of those coke machines at some college that's on the internet. Of course I should probably heed the saying "A closed mouth gathers no foot."
It's getting better, but I have to say that I won't invest in one untill it can do what all good robots can do, DISCO!!!!!!
What about CodeWarrior by Metrowerks? I use it for C++ codeing and I think that it's great. It's got stanex highlighting, a debugger, etc. It can also do C and Java, so maybe that would be right up your alley.
Didn't Saddam and Gamora (I know they're spelled wrong, sue me) supposedly get destroyed by falling rock and fireballs? Those were in the middle east. Maybe this rock destroyed Atlantis!
But seriously, this is very interesting. Remember that this is just what we KNOW OF. It is possible that the first human civilizations (IE, nomadic tribes) might have been wiped out too. This could mean that human civilization has developed MORE THAN ONCE. Wouldn't that be an interesting turn?
OK, just remember that the thing at the top is a JOKE. It's not meant to be taken seriously.
First of all is why the AMD processor doesn't fail in this video. Tom's Hardware mentioned that while there WAS thermal protection in athlons, the thermal diode responded too slow to be usefull (~1 degree Celcius per second was the max rate of change). Well if AMD switched to a diode that could respond much faster to throttle the CPU/shutdown the PC, things would be like seen in the video. The other two parts to this are they may be useing a thermal sensor on the motherboard that rests against the CPU instead of the onboard diode. The last thing is that I believe that Tom's mentioned that most motherboards don't pay attention to that diode. So it seems to me that either that the new athlons have a better thermal diode, or this rig was well set up so that the motherboard would shut the computer down in the event of an overheat.
While this is still quite a bit better, if you pay attention you may notice that Intel is STILL ahead of AMD. When the heatsinks were removed from Pentium IIIs and IVs, they computer continued to run, but the clockspeed was throttled way down. With the AMD, as shown in this video, the computer shuts down. While this is obviously prefferable to getting a new keychain, I'd rather be able to save my work if I was doing something more important like maybe 3D rendering.
In conclusion, AMD still has a ways to go. But if this is how things will work now, then bravo AMD, for fixing a dangerous problem. Keep up the good work. Personaly, I'd rather have a fast processor that costs $100 and shutsdown my computer when it overheats, to a fast $600 processor that let's me continue to run my PC.