Day by day I'm noticing something that pisses me off. The internet, actually computing in general, is becoming trendy...
Now what are computer nerds supposed to do now that everyone is trying to fit into our clique? There is a new day dawning, and I don't think I like it. I'm sure it'll pass (my hatred towards computer trendiness, that is).
I was just pointing out that both use fiber, and as long as they keep adding more and more fiber to their systems, it's going to add up to more residential broadband.
Well, this will bring DSL/Cable closer to most people actually. Time Warner is constantly expanding their HFC networks (in the fiber area) to make cable available to more neighborhoods. The closer they bring fiber to your neighborhood, the higher speeds you'll be able to achieve from DSL/Cable (or maybe you'll get it at all!). Do they have switching equpiment that's able to keep up with this?
I don't see how this arbiter can just take the domain that someone else owns and give it to someone else. Are they saying that if he had not advertised the domain for sale, and was actually using for a purpose (lets say, for distributing legal MP3s), would they have let him keep it? Even though it was the exact name of a company that wanted it? Or did they make him turn it over simply because it was the same name as another company?
It really is that easy. Setting up the service needs only a NIC and modem (but us nerds already knew that). It's no more or less difficult than installing a 56k modem. You still have the potential for IRQ or other resource conflicts, whether it be a NIC or modem, but the networks they (cable modems) connect to just seem to baffle them. I think it's the whole non-dialing part. If they would stop for a moment to think, they would realize that they really have no idea how it works on a POTS system either. They just think that since there's no dialing involved, and it uses components that networks use, it's got to be more complicated.
For dial-up to be dead, mobile customers such as myself will have to have access to some sort of wireless broadband with decent speed. I don't see any of these available yet. I'm not too familiar with packet radio, but it sounds like some sort of wireless service using radio frequencies. If that's true, then there has to be some sort of transmitting equipment located nearby. On top of that, you as the customer need some sort of transmitting equipment. That doesn't sound like anything that's going to bring an end to dial-ups (not just yet anyway), since you're limited to the coverage area that these transmitters are able to provide.
The bandwidth is another issue altogether. To make this service worth spending the extra money, you'll have to get speeds significantly faster than 56k. While your downstream may be right around ISDN (depening on the fraquencies useable), without some bulky tranmitter attached to your car for travelling, your upstram data really isn't going to rival dial-up at all, so it's not going to make it worth spending the extra money to go with one of these systems.
I'm sure in a few years, wireless technologies will advance somewhat, but I don't see any major changes in the technology today to truly bring an end to dialup. Again, for dial-up to be dead (in my eyes), I have to have 1) a high speed connection 2) that goes where I go 3) without having to lug equipment along for the ride.
Well, how many mobile/roaming broadband services do you know of? The day that I can access a 1.5mbps connection from my laptop driving down a deserted mountain road, or maybe just from my hotel room, then I'll say that dial-up is dead. Even still, accessing that connection will be over some method of dialing. Maybe cellular, but dialing nonetheless. Unless you're talking about satellites, or hotels prewired for ethernet. It may have been more correct to say analog is dead, or 56k is dead (which won't really be true for about 2 years).
I still don't see how they were trying to portray the game itself. You suit up in real equipment and walk into a white room that's covered with texture images. The room they were in was nowhere near the size of the game with textures on it. Like the scene where the motorcycles came from. And those WALLS that they were surrounded by suddenly cease to exist when they have a texture mapped to them? And the fact that they went downstairs in certain parts of the 'game'. And Mulder just DISAPPEARING.
I know the producers and effects people aren't stupid, but I could have done a better job.
I'm still trying to figure out, with all the weapons available throughout time and even in this episode, why her choice of weapons was a Flintlock pistol and a broadsword. Aparrently the bullets did REAL damage, but I guess she was just trying to be a badass...
Well, I don't spin 8.5x11 pieces of paper from the center outward while spinning them at high speed, I think it's been covered from the many many other descriptions of how CD-ROMS drives do and don't work. All I know is I've had on in my 8x ad 24x and they read just like normal CDs.
The only problem I ever had was opening the drive while the CD was reading at full speed (my 52x). It flew clear out of the drive. Could be dangerous if the CD was shaped... uniquely. And by that I mean EXTREMELY uniquely...
There was an Amway daughter company that was using these type of CDs for their marketing presentations. Quixtar was the name I believe. They hold seminars every now and then, and for people that are interested, then send them a CD in a little clear plastic case (much like a sleeve for your credit/bank card).
They can be used for much more sophisticated purposes however. Most noteable, as your business card, perhaps your entire website, authentication (probably not likely), medical/personal records, identification (probably not likely, too easy to forge/fake), Product documentation (no more bulky manuals), and many other things conceivable...
Mario is a classic, but it got old after the third or forth version, just like SF and Mortal Kombat. I'll have to agree with the person you replied to WRT Mario Bros...
When I was in high school, they were teaching TURBO PASCAL ON MS DOS 5.0 !!!! Even then it was outdated, but I'm truly shocked to hear that some schools in SA are still teaching it!!!!!!!! They should be teaching real technology: Zope, Python, Perl, Java, Linux, BSD, Cisco, Cyclades, FORTRAN, NT, Solaris, Tru 64 UNIX, OpenVMS, HP/UX, IRIX, Corel Certificate Maker, and C/C++.
I graduated in 97/98. In my junior year, the only classes that were offered were Basic/Qbasic. When a faction of computer-related students approached the administration about the inadequacies of their 'computer programming curriculum' they saw things our way. They only saw fit to add Pascal and C++. There's still much room for improvement, but it's not much different in a lot of places here in the U.S.
I knew someone who hadn't bought a computer before, but needed two, for her kids to do their school projects and her husband and son to do their CAD applications. (They work for a design firm). Now, she was so adamant about buying a PIII, she didn't even consider the price difference between them and the AMD's, Celerons, etc!!!
When you go shopping, you don't expect the comparisons to hop into your lap. Unless you're saying that resellers hide this information to get you to buy the more expensive products. But research is important.
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Day by day I'm noticing something that pisses me off. The internet, actually computing in general, is becoming trendy ...
Now what are computer nerds supposed to do now that everyone is trying to fit into our clique? There is a new day dawning, and I don't think I like it. I'm sure it'll pass (my hatred towards computer trendiness, that is).
DN[A|S]? Was that a typo?
I wasn't born with enough middle fingers... I used to use that as a sig all the time. :) But that was back when MM was more popular...
I was just pointing out that both use fiber, and as long as they keep adding more and more fiber to their systems, it's going to add up to more residential broadband.
Well, this will bring DSL/Cable closer to most people actually. Time Warner is constantly expanding their HFC networks (in the fiber area) to make cable available to more neighborhoods. The closer they bring fiber to your neighborhood, the higher speeds you'll be able to achieve from DSL/Cable (or maybe you'll get it at all!). Do they have switching equpiment that's able to keep up with this?
I don't see how this arbiter can just take the domain that someone else owns and give it to someone else. Are they saying that if he had not advertised the domain for sale, and was actually using for a purpose (lets say, for distributing legal MP3s), would they have let him keep it? Even though it was the exact name of a company that wanted it? Or did they make him turn it over simply because it was the same name as another company?
It really is that easy. Setting up the service needs only a NIC and modem (but us nerds already knew that). It's no more or less difficult than installing a 56k modem. You still have the potential for IRQ or other resource conflicts, whether it be a NIC or modem, but the networks they (cable modems) connect to just seem to baffle them. I think it's the whole non-dialing part. If they would stop for a moment to think, they would realize that they really have no idea how it works on a POTS system either. They just think that since there's no dialing involved, and it uses components that networks use, it's got to be more complicated.
For dial-up to be dead, mobile customers such as myself will have to have access to some sort of wireless broadband with decent speed. I don't see any of these available yet. I'm not too familiar with packet radio, but it sounds like some sort of wireless service using radio frequencies. If that's true, then there has to be some sort of transmitting equipment located nearby. On top of that, you as the customer need some sort of transmitting equipment. That doesn't sound like anything that's going to bring an end to dial-ups (not just yet anyway), since you're limited to the coverage area that these transmitters are able to provide.
The bandwidth is another issue altogether. To make this service worth spending the extra money, you'll have to get speeds significantly faster than 56k. While your downstream may be right around ISDN (depening on the fraquencies useable), without some bulky tranmitter attached to your car for travelling, your upstram data really isn't going to rival dial-up at all, so it's not going to make it worth spending the extra money to go with one of these systems.
I'm sure in a few years, wireless technologies will advance somewhat, but I don't see any major changes in the technology today to truly bring an end to dialup. Again, for dial-up to be dead (in my eyes), I have to have 1) a high speed connection 2) that goes where I go 3) without having to lug equipment along for the ride.
I still think it'll be a while...
Well, how many mobile/roaming broadband services do you know of? The day that I can access a 1.5mbps connection from my laptop driving down a deserted mountain road, or maybe just from my hotel room, then I'll say that dial-up is dead. Even still, accessing that connection will be over some method of dialing. Maybe cellular, but dialing nonetheless. Unless you're talking about satellites, or hotels prewired for ethernet. It may have been more correct to say analog is dead, or 56k is dead (which won't really be true for about 2 years).
Well, it's hot enough to melt malleable metals. :)
Should you ever need to get support for your card from the manufacturer, you will be able to...
Is there any soldering involved to remove the BIOS chip? From the pics, it looked like it was seated snugly in a socket..
If your soldering art not very well is and you nevertheless no 350 DM for a FASTTRAK66 CONTROLLER to pay wants then... Bad translation...
Hehehhe. Your post made me laugh...
I still don't see how they were trying to portray the game itself. You suit up in real equipment and walk into a white room that's covered with texture images. The room they were in was nowhere near the size of the game with textures on it. Like the scene where the motorcycles came from. And those WALLS that they were surrounded by suddenly cease to exist when they have a texture mapped to them? And the fact that they went downstairs in certain parts of the 'game'. And Mulder just DISAPPEARING.
I know the producers and effects people aren't stupid, but I could have done a better job.
Yeah, she just jumped programs. Imagine that...
I'm still trying to figure out, with all the weapons available throughout time and even in this episode, why her choice of weapons was a Flintlock pistol and a broadsword. Aparrently the bullets did REAL damage, but I guess she was just trying to be a badass...
Well, I don't spin 8.5x11 pieces of paper from the center outward while spinning them at high speed, I think it's been covered from the many many other descriptions of how CD-ROMS drives do and don't work. All I know is I've had on in my 8x ad 24x and they read just like normal CDs.
The only problem I ever had was opening the drive while the CD was reading at full speed (my 52x). It flew clear out of the drive. Could be dangerous if the CD was shaped... uniquely. And by that I mean EXTREMELY uniquely...
There was an Amway daughter company that was using these type of CDs for their marketing presentations. Quixtar was the name I believe. They hold seminars every now and then, and for people that are interested, then send them a CD in a little clear plastic case (much like a sleeve for your credit/bank card).
They can be used for much more sophisticated purposes however. Most noteable, as your business card, perhaps your entire website, authentication (probably not likely), medical/personal records, identification (probably not likely, too easy to forge/fake), Product documentation (no more bulky manuals), and many other things conceivable...
Mario is a classic, but it got old after the third or forth version, just like SF and Mortal Kombat. I'll have to agree with the person you replied to WRT Mario Bros...
What is there left to develop?? Or is this a completely different piece of software? Or a mod or something?
News for nerds? Actually, yes. Who else but nerds would really care what happens to this guy, other than his family and friends? :)
Gracias, senor Taco.
When I was in high school, they were teaching TURBO PASCAL ON MS DOS 5.0 !!!! Even then it was outdated, but I'm truly shocked to hear that some schools in SA are still teaching it!!!!!!!! They should be teaching real technology: Zope, Python, Perl, Java, Linux, BSD, Cisco, Cyclades, FORTRAN, NT, Solaris, Tru 64 UNIX, OpenVMS, HP/UX, IRIX, Corel Certificate Maker, and C/C++.
I graduated in 97/98. In my junior year, the only classes that were offered were Basic/Qbasic. When a faction of computer-related students approached the administration about the inadequacies of their 'computer programming curriculum' they saw things our way. They only saw fit to add Pascal and C++. There's still much room for improvement, but it's not much different in a lot of places here in the U.S.
I knew someone who hadn't bought a computer before, but needed two, for her kids to do their school projects and her husband and son to do their CAD applications. (They work for a design firm). Now, she was so adamant about buying a PIII, she didn't even consider the price difference between them and the AMD's, Celerons, etc!!!
When you go shopping, you don't expect the comparisons to hop into your lap. Unless you're saying that resellers hide this information to get you to buy the more expensive products. But research is important.
You foget, there is no spoon.