the best i can say is that i heard it on a mailing list for tibooks, of all things. i can't seem to find the actual email currently, but the person who mentioned it originally didn't have anything backing his statement up....call it a rumor.
everytime this comes up, be it lindows on wal*mart pc's, red hat or mandrake, or just plain old no OS, someone forgets to mention that this is an option for PC's bought off of walmart's website, not somthing you can drive down to and pick up from your local walmart. have you ever seen a PC for sale in a retail walmart store? i sure haven't.
as a result, people still have to buy a windows/mac PC (or at least borrow someone's internet access) and get online to order, let alone discover, that walmart sells PCs sans OS, or with linux on them. kinda defeats the purpose, hunh?
i figure in 2014, when people who were born in 1994 (generally accepted as turning point where the internet became "mainstream") turn 20, and go off to college, will expect a broadband connection in their dorm room (alot/most of older dorm rooms in non-major colleges still don't have anything more than a coupel 120v power outlets and a single RJ-11 jack). they'll demand it when they go to college, and will refuse to live anywhere where they don't have immediate access to the internet. smaller rural towns will use the last of the cash reserves to connect themselves to the "information grid" in hopes of preventing their population from dwindling any further. at that point the smaller towns will lobby the states to provide "last mile internet". at that point it'll be cheaper for the states to lobby that broadband internet will be considered a utility, and various things paid for with federal funds. it'll take another 4 years to get it through legislation, and another 2 years to implement (government contract work takes FOREVER). so it'll probably be everywhere by 2020, rough estimate.
not positive if we're talking about the same thing, but the rev. A iMacs had a slot that resembled a PCI slot very closely, and i believe it was infact one. you could buy an aftermarket voodoo 2 banshee for it, i believe, that really made the video fly on those old iMacs. apple got wind of this and shut them down almost as fast as they shut down griffin and their iPod-turned IR tv remote control mod (which would be bad ass, and a good reason to buy an iPod....oh well)
i'd wager 10 minutes before this gets slashdotted....basically, the case looks the same as a G4 mac case....from about 10 feet away and if you squint real hard. no handle on each side, just round bumps where there would be a handle. 3 5 1/2" bays, a 4th 5 1/2" bay with flip out cover for a CD drive. oh, and it doesn't unfold like a suitcase (like the mac cases do - one of the main reasons to want one).
i can't say i'm altogether impressed with this one, but put some blue LEDs on it and you have a case-modder's dream:)
as for making it black, 20 minutes with paint thinner should make those outside panels clear, like the G3/G4 cases, and you can paint it whatever you want. the front has a flip down bit, behind it is a firewire, usb, audio in/out ports, which could be useful.
i run win95 on a backup router/spare net terminal for looking up FAQ's online when i fubar my main rig. i've gotten more PC's since that computer, but i don't ever change anything on it, and it's actually quite stable for what it does. as for a server, lol, it's my backup when my mac LC II(68020 processor! circa 1991!) goes down for repairs/upgrades, which is primarily a web/ftp/mail server. i have a sony viao w/tv tuner card (ati all in wonder rage 2-ish card) that serves as my roomate and i's tv/media center, it runs win 95 SE w/usb support(what came preinstalled on it 6 years ago or so). all the drivers for it were custom tailored for that hardware setup, and as a result, it's almost as stable as my OS X powerbook. all my other legacy windows machines, of course, run like ass. i know my school in plano (rich suburb of dallas) ran win 95 until this summer, they're switching to win 2k this fall.
diamonds in a hydraulic press? granted, they're not going to be very big diamonds, but do you have more details/links involving how they achieved this? this ranks right up there with my curiosity of making artificial rubies in the microwave.
"Liquidmetal Technologies' first product was golf club heads, because of another exotic property of the metal: it transfers more of the club's energy to the ball than steel or titanium, at least in theory.
transfers energy well? as in kenetic energy?? the same kind a cell phone gains as it is dropped? and they want to make CELL PHONE CASES out of the stuff??
what good is this for cell phone cases if it doesn't break when you drop it, but garuntees the death of the LC Display inside it???
minutes too short? a metric day has 10 hours, as opposed to 24...so 2.4 hours per metric hour...100 minutes per metric hour... my my 5am and haven't slept calculations, 1 metric minute = 1.2 "normal" minutes. of course, "normal" minutes ARE metric minutes...well, seconds are. it's an SI unit, and SI units are all metric. huzzah. i should sleep now. oh, and i agree, a movie being one metric hour or less just doesn't seem right.
actually i've read that the earth is slowly, sloooowly slowing down it's rate of spin. dunno why exactly; likely has to do with the moon's gravitational effect on the oceans and the soild parts of the earth also.
"the desktop"? i hope you're not trying to run anything any larger than 800x600...text is squintably readable @ that rez...1024x768 you can make out common error messages by the shape of the word if you're right up next to the screen. 640x680 seems to be about the optimal for a TV. an HDTV might show clear text at 1024x768, but most friendly interfaces can be done at a much lower rez (640x480). just some things to ponder.
BMW made a 3 wheel car that seated 1 or 2 people with a door that hinged at the front. kinda a clown-car looking thing, but street legal. they got 60 for sure, 63 mpg maybe. of course, it was built in the mid 60's (probably to compete with the VW beetle), so that puts it out of the 1986 and up range you mentioned. still, worth a look.
"1) xserve isn't shipping yet. apple site says 2-3 weeks still, though there are rumors they will be shipping any day now."
likely the xserve doesn't run anything less than 10.2, or some variant of OS X server 10.2, which means they'll probably be arriving @ scientist's doorsteps the day of MWNY keynote.
actually there's a flavor of BSD that runs on 68020's (Mac LC II circa 1991), 30's and 40's, but requires a software emulaiton of a fpu, as only the 40 has an on-chip fpu. i almost loaded BSD on my LC II (My webserver), but lost interest in the project as i realized a)it's entirely text based and b) it already works great on a "security through obscurity" OS 7.5 or so and c) i found freeware web email telnet ssh2 and ftp software for it with GUI's.
but i think you're right; i have yet to see BSD of any flavor run on my mac SE or old atari
264. and they're not in sequential order, unless you opt to do ALL the packages. (...please insert disk 9....please insert disk 83....please insert disk 63...)i really wish my last CD-ROM drive hadn't died on me:(
Heard any news of Warcraft 3 or Neverwinter Nights or Morrowind making it to console? No. they just don't work there.
funny - i remember playing morrowind on my friend's xbox last saturday morning (~3am). controls sucked compared to what's on the PC, but it was very playable.
i think morrowind came out for the Xbox less than a week ago, so that might explain your confusion. the xbox is a great machine, it's a pity all the games for it are shit (minus morrowind). maybe if they get decent games, it'll do better. regardless, i'm not getting one.
in theroy, there should be a high pressure air bubble infront of the train that would push it out of the way, or at least off to the side. even if the rock-catching front spoiler failed to deflect the rock, at worst, the train would be shoved against one of the sides of it's U shaped maglev track. if anything, it'd be a 11 cm explosive proximity mine
you should'be been more stealthy! wireless access point in the bathroom. get craft-sey and buy an apple WAP, dremmel out the bottom of a toothbrush holder, and epoxy it to the top of the WAP. it's in the bathroom, and you get to keep your geek status by a)having eithernet to every room, and b) keeping current (cat-5? what's wrong with you??? we're in the 21st century!).
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the best i can say is that i heard it on a mailing list for tibooks, of all things. i can't seem to find the actual email currently, but the person who mentioned it originally didn't have anything backing his statement up....call it a rumor.
everytime this comes up, be it lindows on wal*mart pc's, red hat or mandrake, or just plain old no OS, someone forgets to mention that this is an option for PC's bought off of walmart's website, not somthing you can drive down to and pick up from your local walmart. have you ever seen a PC for sale in a retail walmart store? i sure haven't.
as a result, people still have to buy a windows/mac PC (or at least borrow someone's internet access) and get online to order, let alone discover, that walmart sells PCs sans OS, or with linux on them. kinda defeats the purpose, hunh?
i figure in 2014, when people who were born in 1994 (generally accepted as turning point where the internet became "mainstream") turn 20, and go off to college, will expect a broadband connection in their dorm room (alot/most of older dorm rooms in non-major colleges still don't have anything more than a coupel 120v power outlets and a single RJ-11 jack). they'll demand it when they go to college, and will refuse to live anywhere where they don't have immediate access to the internet. smaller rural towns will use the last of the cash reserves to connect themselves to the "information grid" in hopes of preventing their population from dwindling any further. at that point the smaller towns will lobby the states to provide "last mile internet". at that point it'll be cheaper for the states to lobby that broadband internet will be considered a utility, and various things paid for with federal funds. it'll take another 4 years to get it through legislation, and another 2 years to implement (government contract work takes FOREVER). so it'll probably be everywhere by 2020, rough estimate.
that's just my guess anyways.
not positive if we're talking about the same thing, but the rev. A iMacs had a slot that resembled a PCI slot very closely, and i believe it was infact one. you could buy an aftermarket voodoo 2 banshee for it, i believe, that really made the video fly on those old iMacs. apple got wind of this and shut them down almost as fast as they shut down griffin and their iPod-turned IR tv remote control mod (which would be bad ass, and a good reason to buy an iPod....oh well)
i'd wager 10 minutes before this gets slashdotted....basically, the case looks the same as a G4 mac case....from about 10 feet away and if you squint real hard. no handle on each side, just round bumps where there would be a handle. 3 5 1/2" bays, a 4th 5 1/2" bay with flip out cover for a CD drive. oh, and it doesn't unfold like a suitcase (like the mac cases do - one of the main reasons to want one).
:)
i can't say i'm altogether impressed with this one, but put some blue LEDs on it and you have a case-modder's dream
as for making it black, 20 minutes with paint thinner should make those outside panels clear, like the G3/G4 cases, and you can paint it whatever you want. the front has a flip down bit, behind it is a firewire, usb, audio in/out ports, which could be useful.
i run win95 on a backup router/spare net terminal for looking up FAQ's online when i fubar my main rig. i've gotten more PC's since that computer, but i don't ever change anything on it, and it's actually quite stable for what it does. as for a server, lol, it's my backup when my mac LC II(68020 processor! circa 1991!) goes down for repairs/upgrades, which is primarily a web/ftp/mail server. i have a sony viao w/tv tuner card (ati all in wonder rage 2-ish card) that serves as my roomate and i's tv/media center, it runs win 95 SE w/usb support(what came preinstalled on it 6 years ago or so). all the drivers for it were custom tailored for that hardware setup, and as a result, it's almost as stable as my OS X powerbook. all my other legacy windows machines, of course, run like ass. i know my school in plano (rich suburb of dallas) ran win 95 until this summer, they're switching to win 2k this fall.
diamonds in a hydraulic press? granted, they're not going to be very big diamonds, but do you have more details/links involving how they achieved this? this ranks right up there with my curiosity of making artificial rubies in the microwave.
i know plenty of nerds who drive old volkswagons
"Liquidmetal Technologies' first product was golf club heads, because of another exotic property of the metal: it transfers more of the club's energy to the ball than steel or titanium, at least in theory.
transfers energy well? as in kenetic energy?? the same kind a cell phone gains as it is dropped? and they want to make CELL PHONE CASES out of the stuff??
what good is this for cell phone cases if it doesn't break when you drop it, but garuntees the death of the LC Display inside it???
i read somewhere that 80% of russia's dollar income came from it's vodka exports
minutes too short? a metric day has 10 hours, as opposed to 24...so 2.4 hours per metric hour...100 minutes per metric hour... my my 5am and haven't slept calculations, 1 metric minute = 1.2 "normal" minutes. of course, "normal" minutes ARE metric minutes...well, seconds are. it's an SI unit, and SI units are all metric. huzzah. i should sleep now. oh, and i agree, a movie being one metric hour or less just doesn't seem right.
actually i've read that the earth is slowly, sloooowly slowing down it's rate of spin. dunno why exactly; likely has to do with the moon's gravitational effect on the oceans and the soild parts of the earth also.
"the desktop"? i hope you're not trying to run anything any larger than 800x600...text is squintably readable @ that rez...1024x768 you can make out common error messages by the shape of the word if you're right up next to the screen. 640x680 seems to be about the optimal for a TV. an HDTV might show clear text at 1024x768, but most friendly interfaces can be done at a much lower rez (640x480). just some things to ponder.
sounds like the college mantra...or somthing
Grades, Social Life, Sleep.
pick any two.
BMW made a 3 wheel car that seated 1 or 2 people with a door that hinged at the front. kinda a clown-car looking thing, but street legal. they got 60 for sure, 63 mpg maybe. of course, it was built in the mid 60's (probably to compete with the VW beetle), so that puts it out of the 1986 and up range you mentioned. still, worth a look.
"1) xserve isn't shipping yet. apple site says 2-3 weeks still, though there are rumors they will be shipping any day now."
likely the xserve doesn't run anything less than 10.2, or some variant of OS X server 10.2, which means they'll probably be arriving @ scientist's doorsteps the day of MWNY keynote.
actually there's a flavor of BSD that runs on 68020's (Mac LC II circa 1991), 30's and 40's, but requires a software emulaiton of a fpu, as only the 40 has an on-chip fpu. i almost loaded BSD on my LC II (My webserver), but lost interest in the project as i realized a)it's entirely text based and b) it already works great on a "security through obscurity" OS 7.5 or so and c) i found freeware web email telnet ssh2 and ftp software for it with GUI's.
but i think you're right; i have yet to see BSD of any flavor run on my mac SE or old atari
264. and they're not in sequential order, unless you opt to do ALL the packages. (...please insert disk 9....please insert disk 83....please insert disk 63...)i really wish my last CD-ROM drive hadn't died on me :(
Heard any news of Warcraft 3 or Neverwinter Nights or Morrowind making it to console? No. they just don't work there.
funny - i remember playing morrowind on my friend's xbox last saturday morning (~3am). controls sucked compared to what's on the PC, but it was very playable.
i think morrowind came out for the Xbox less than a week ago, so that might explain your confusion. the xbox is a great machine, it's a pity all the games for it are shit (minus morrowind). maybe if they get decent games, it'll do better. regardless, i'm not getting one.
what's the difference in size of file/sound quality?
in theroy, there should be a high pressure air bubble infront of the train that would push it out of the way, or at least off to the side. even if the rock-catching front spoiler failed to deflect the rock, at worst, the train would be shoved against one of the sides of it's U shaped maglev track. if anything, it'd be a 11 cm explosive proximity mine
where do you live in relation to houston?
i think it's just blatant karma whoring. that's my guess anyhow.
you should'be been more stealthy! wireless access point in the bathroom. get craft-sey and buy an apple WAP, dremmel out the bottom of a toothbrush holder, and epoxy it to the top of the WAP. it's in the bathroom, and you get to keep your geek status by a)having eithernet to every room, and b) keeping current (cat-5? what's wrong with you??? we're in the 21st century!).
can you explain your homework bear sig? seems like it's making reference to somthing i should know about