my preious machine had a gig and half and i never, ever touched swap, even when using gimp, firefox, downloading torrents, and running compiz at the same time. (My single core celeron M was running at 100 percent though) On my new laptop I have 4 gigs of ram (It came with vista, but I never booted into it) I had trouble installing the 64 bit version of ubuntu so I just installed the 32 and called it good enough. It reconizes 3.1 gigabytes of ram which is more than I will (probably) ever use on the system.
honestly though you mentioned using linux on adial up connection? I tried that before on my old machine before we got dsl and I had two problems: sound didn't work and my dialup modem was not supported out of the box. working behind a dial-up connection really just made searching for solutions to problems take forever. I never did really get everything working until we got dsl. Then I got a new machine and installed ubuntu on that I'm no programmer but it is nice to use, except everything doesn't work out of the box.
people download music and music illegally because the entertainment industry has gone off the deep end. How much wold it cost to even fill a moderately sized mp3 player (8gb) with music? A hell of a lot more than the mp3 player for sure.
could be in the situation I'm in. I live in rural USA and have the choice of dial-up or "Century-Tel extended High Speed"- pretty much slow dsl (60 kbps down, 40 up but I can't maintain both speeds at the same time I have to limit my p2p downloads to 20 kbps up so I can average 40 kbps down sick, huh.
When I try and view the site from school where we use IE 7 the entire site is messed up and if I try to leave a comment the entire browser freezes. Never happens to me in firefox.
I know, for one of my classes that I had to take at my high school we used special cad software. It was part of the ciriculumn that was put on us by Project Lead the Way. Anyway it was CAD software. It was pretty easy to use but I looked at the prices for the liscencse, just insane. The school had to pay it if they wanted this class though (Intro to Engineering and Design)
If someone has an inherrited disease then they did not choose to have it. Are you denying Health Care to children whose parents were too stupid to foresee the consequences of their actions?
Yes, but you're missing the point about health care. If health care were more affordable then the populace as a whole would see a doctor more and therefore be more healthy (early detection, but one other thing doctors need to stop giving out medication for everything If a person can recover effectively without the medication don't give it to them.) But anyway back to health care costs. I'm all for capitalism and all, but when you look at health care its where it all breaks down. What about giving children from poor families health care? or the Elderly? I know we have programs in place now but they are nortoriously expensive for taxpayers. But then again if Health Care is socialized then how do you decide who gets what treatment? The rich would bribe doctors to get better faster service and more attention in hospitals or maybe private hospitals that charge outrageous fees and don't accept the government's health care wold spring up for the wealthy. How do you get rid of that? cap Incomes? Complete Socialism? It just wouldn't work. No matter what we do Health Care is broken. What I'm trying to say is that everyone deserves access to quality health care no matter who they are or what station in life they are in but I cannot see any way to solve that problem.
I only have one computer (a laptop cause I'm in high school and we have a desktop in the house.) I bought one of the bargain basement one's from toshiba a couple years back. Anyway it should not have had Vista on it. I was thinking about getting xp when I was talking to one of my friends (that runs linux, I think he was using dream linux at the time) told me about Linux. After I installed Ubuntu it took me a day to get my speakers to mute when I plugged in some headphones, but beyond that no problems. It supported my screen resolution, wifi card, whole 9 yards. It really amazed me. Since then I've only used Ubuntu on my machine and have learned a lot about computers. Enough to make me appreciate electronics and give me an understanding on how to make the machine work when it doesn't, but after learning some stuff it made me not want to get a degree in computer science, ever. Being computer literate is nescesarry to be productive on a computer if you are doing anything but writing a word document.
Talking about market shares for browsers and stuff, have you noticed this site not displaying right in IE. I use it at school and the comments are all messed up. I use Firefox at my house and the page looks fine. Anyone else notice this?
Really, I have met only two other people besides myself that run Linux. One of them switched OS's every other day of the week and the other just used it for attempting to hack someone else's computer.
(I'm no computer expert, I just use Ubuntu because it looks nice, runs nice, and is a hell of a lot better and more stable than Vista)
Obviously you haven't seen the newspaper in my town. They report things weeks late, and print some pretty bogus stories. One time a story about two high schoolers who looked for paranormal activivity, one time at an old building in my town, was on the covor page. I mean come on I think they got the onion beat as far as reporting goes.
Im not saying Atlantis existed, but if we assume what we are looking at is Atlantis then those lines could have been canals used for transportation. They were supposed to be really advanced, so wouldn't a sophisticated water based transportation system fit the bill of really advanced for their time.
I really don't think it is. If somehow a city dropped by a minimum of 3.5 miles then I think the layout of the structures would be changed tremendously.
I read the book. Actually I read the entire series, 2001-3000. The books are completley awesome. I think I'll look for the movie on the net now.
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
The Dust in "Dust Rag" was suspended in space over the south magnetic pole of the moon. (Yes the moon does have a magnetic field, although its probably too weak to actually do this) The charged dust particles stuck to the faceplates.
In "A Fall of Moondust" a ship that rode on a "lake" of dust sank and needed to be rescued before they all died.
I find it sickening that the record labels charge 20 dollars for a cd. How much of that money gets to the composer/artist? In reality more people would pay for music if the price came down considerably. The fact of the matter is that if you buy a song for a dollar off ITunes it doesn't seem like your getting your dollars worth of entertainment. One of two things should happen:
Songs could get longer so you have "more entertainment" in the song. Probably not a good idea.
The price comes down.
Look at pirating video games. Even though video games are expensive the number of pirated copies are a lot lower* than for music. This is because when you buy a game the entertainment lasts for more than 4 minutes at a time. The entertainment is cheap when you figure in how long you play the game for.
The one thing that I have been wondering is what is the percentage of the internet users that use peer to peer networking tools. I can find statistics saying it uses 70 percent of the available bandwidth, but no figures (besides "very little" real descriptive huh) as to how many users are using peer to peer networks.
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my preious machine had a gig and half and i never, ever touched swap, even when using gimp, firefox, downloading torrents, and running compiz at the same time. (My single core celeron M was running at 100 percent though) On my new laptop I have 4 gigs of ram (It came with vista, but I never booted into it) I had trouble installing the 64 bit version of ubuntu so I just installed the 32 and called it good enough. It reconizes 3.1 gigabytes of ram which is more than I will (probably) ever use on the system.
yah, i know after i got dsl I looked into it. It was an agrege softmodem or something like that. anyway its not like it matters anymore.
honestly though you mentioned using linux on adial up connection? I tried that before on my old machine before we got dsl and I had two problems: sound didn't work and my dialup modem was not supported out of the box. working behind a dial-up connection really just made searching for solutions to problems take forever. I never did really get everything working until we got dsl. Then I got a new machine and installed ubuntu on that I'm no programmer but it is nice to use, except everything doesn't work out of the box.
I got a dell studio from dell didn't boot into vista either. Just installed ubuntu and got everthing working, sound, wifi the whole 9 yards yeah!!!
But its still sickening that my only choices are dial-up,dsl through one company, or prohibitably expensive sattelite internet.
people download music and music illegally because the entertainment industry has gone off the deep end. How much wold it cost to even fill a moderately sized mp3 player (8gb) with music? A hell of a lot more than the mp3 player for sure.
could be in the situation I'm in. I live in rural USA and have the choice of dial-up or "Century-Tel extended High Speed"- pretty much slow dsl (60 kbps down, 40 up but I can't maintain both speeds at the same time I have to limit my p2p downloads to 20 kbps up so I can average 40 kbps down sick, huh.
you use the batteries to charge up your capacitors duh
When I try and view the site from school where we use IE 7 the entire site is messed up and if I try to leave a comment the entire browser freezes. Never happens to me in firefox.
I know, for one of my classes that I had to take at my high school we used special cad software. It was part of the ciriculumn that was put on us by Project Lead the Way. Anyway it was CAD software. It was pretty easy to use but I looked at the prices for the liscencse, just insane. The school had to pay it if they wanted this class though (Intro to Engineering and Design)
If someone has an inherrited disease then they did not choose to have it. Are you denying Health Care to children whose parents were too stupid to foresee the consequences of their actions?
Yes, but you're missing the point about health care. If health care were more affordable then the populace as a whole would see a doctor more and therefore be more healthy (early detection, but one other thing doctors need to stop giving out medication for everything If a person can recover effectively without the medication don't give it to them.) But anyway back to health care costs. I'm all for capitalism and all, but when you look at health care its where it all breaks down. What about giving children from poor families health care? or the Elderly? I know we have programs in place now but they are nortoriously expensive for taxpayers. But then again if Health Care is socialized then how do you decide who gets what treatment? The rich would bribe doctors to get better faster service and more attention in hospitals or maybe private hospitals that charge outrageous fees and don't accept the government's health care wold spring up for the wealthy. How do you get rid of that? cap Incomes? Complete Socialism? It just wouldn't work. No matter what we do Health Care is broken. What I'm trying to say is that everyone deserves access to quality health care no matter who they are or what station in life they are in but I cannot see any way to solve that problem.
I only have one computer (a laptop cause I'm in high school and we have a desktop in the house.) I bought one of the bargain basement one's from toshiba a couple years back. Anyway it should not have had Vista on it. I was thinking about getting xp when I was talking to one of my friends (that runs linux, I think he was using dream linux at the time) told me about Linux. After I installed Ubuntu it took me a day to get my speakers to mute when I plugged in some headphones, but beyond that no problems. It supported my screen resolution, wifi card, whole 9 yards. It really amazed me. Since then I've only used Ubuntu on my machine and have learned a lot about computers. Enough to make me appreciate electronics and give me an understanding on how to make the machine work when it doesn't, but after learning some stuff it made me not want to get a degree in computer science, ever. Being computer literate is nescesarry to be productive on a computer if you are doing anything but writing a word document.
Talking about market shares for browsers and stuff, have you noticed this site not displaying right in IE. I use it at school and the comments are all messed up. I use Firefox at my house and the page looks fine. Anyone else notice this?
Really, I have met only two other people besides myself that run Linux. One of them switched OS's every other day of the week and the other just used it for attempting to hack someone else's computer. (I'm no computer expert, I just use Ubuntu because it looks nice, runs nice, and is a hell of a lot better and more stable than Vista)
Obviously you haven't seen the newspaper in my town. They report things weeks late, and print some pretty bogus stories. One time a story about two high schoolers who looked for paranormal activivity, one time at an old building in my town, was on the covor page. I mean come on I think they got the onion beat as far as reporting goes.
Im not saying Atlantis existed, but if we assume what we are looking at is Atlantis then those lines could have been canals used for transportation. They were supposed to be really advanced, so wouldn't a sophisticated water based transportation system fit the bill of really advanced for their time. I really don't think it is. If somehow a city dropped by a minimum of 3.5 miles then I think the layout of the structures would be changed tremendously.
I read the book. Actually I read the entire series, 2001-3000. The books are completley awesome. I think I'll look for the movie on the net now. I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Hey couldn't an idea like this be used to clean the dust off of the martian rovers. I'm no engineer (yet). But it seems like it could work.
The Dust in "Dust Rag" was suspended in space over the south magnetic pole of the moon. (Yes the moon does have a magnetic field, although its probably too weak to actually do this) The charged dust particles stuck to the faceplates. In "A Fall of Moondust" a ship that rode on a "lake" of dust sank and needed to be rescued before they all died.
awesome book, I haven't seen the movie yet.
I find it sickening that the record labels charge 20 dollars for a cd. How much of that money gets to the composer/artist? In reality more people would pay for music if the price came down considerably. The fact of the matter is that if you buy a song for a dollar off ITunes it doesn't seem like your getting your dollars worth of entertainment. One of two things should happen: Songs could get longer so you have "more entertainment" in the song. Probably not a good idea. The price comes down. Look at pirating video games. Even though video games are expensive the number of pirated copies are a lot lower* than for music. This is because when you buy a game the entertainment lasts for more than 4 minutes at a time. The entertainment is cheap when you figure in how long you play the game for.
In all seriousness here I use the model number of my laptop.
The one thing that I have been wondering is what is the percentage of the internet users that use peer to peer networking tools. I can find statistics saying it uses 70 percent of the available bandwidth, but no figures (besides "very little" real descriptive huh) as to how many users are using peer to peer networks.
I for one use peer to peer networks, for (some) legal purposes. Sharing uncopyrighted material/copylefted material.