Degaussing is there to reverse damage caused by magnets too near the screen. It basically dumps lots of AC into a big coil around the screen for a few seconds; if the shadow mask/aperature grille have been magnetized, this will help to demagnetize them and eliminate purity (funky-color) problems.
Phosphor burn-in is the result of the fact that the phosphors (the things in the monitor which light up when an electron beam hits 'em) will lose brightness when they've been worked for a while. If they've been worked disporportionally, like to display a light colored logon box in the middle of a dark screen, then you might get an "image" of burned-out phosphors sitting amongst the non-burned ones.
Concerts are expensive to put on; the fact that they make huge profits doesn't change the initial cost. If you could invest $20 million and get back $50 million, you would have made a costly investment. You would also be making a profitable investment. The two are not opposed to one another.
I would imagine that the original disks and packaging would be worth something. Just because you can get ROMs for old Atari games doesn't mean that the games themselves are worthless; I would imagine that things are similar with classic PC games.
I am not going to buy any technology that is not at least as flexible as my existing equipment.
You won't get much out of your old equipment, flexibility or no. In a few years, due to FCC demands, analog broadcasting will go away. Forever. You will either watch nice DRM-enabled TV, or no TV at all.
Personally, I don't think I will get a new idiot box when I am "required" to. These new rules and regulations are just too much. No time shifting? Fine, no TV.
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Other beta-stuff like Google Glossary and Google Sets looked very nice but both are still in beta.
This is much more likely to be rolled out, as it is a goldmine for advertising. While the Glossary and Sets programs are nice, there's no real way to sell adwords on them. Froogle adwords, on the other hand, could likely command a premium price and thus it would make good business sense to roll out Froogle as soon as possible.
If dig will give you the address/full DNS name you want, it's probably a "user-friendly" addition to your browser.
I've noticed that browsers haven't required a http:// preceding the address for a long time, nor a slash on the end. While I do this out of habit, it seems most users aren't even accustomed to putting the protocol name in front of a name or address.
I would suggest looking through your browser's documentation and configuration, as there's probably an option to turn off the offending problem.
Note that one way to be sure, however, is to try and ping the server in question. Even if the server doesn't reply to ping requests, ping should give you some sort of address which you can compare to the one you want, without any user-hostility getting in your way.
You can't buy a single legal copy. Part of the EULA says that if you don't accept the terms, you should return it for a refund (not that they'll give it to you; remember Windows Refund Day). Of course, it's Microsoft's decision to only license their software.
If they wanted to make an EULA-less copy, that would be a decision on their end. However, they don't. It's theirs, and they can do whatever they want.
And you can't take a joke. The previous poster was poking fun at Gateway's calculations, where all PCs run at maximum flops, all dedicated to the problem no less. Like the previous poster, they made no accounting for moving data around or other overheads in "grid computing".
all i can say is enough evolution filters and no spam, gotta love ximian
And no real mail as well.
I think the solution here should be focused on eliminating spam at the server, rather than the client. No matter how clever your filters are, you will almost certainly either lose some real mail or let some spam through. Neither is acceptable, particularly when spam often eats bandwidth even before it gets filtered.
The point being that companies have a responsibility to their shareholders to do what the shareholders want: the shareholders own the company . If enough Time Warner shareholders don't like it and say so, Time Warner is legally obligated to stop. Buying stock in a company is like buying votes in the US, except it's all perfectly legal.
So naive--you think the Democrats are any better? Ever heard of the Kennedy family?
Yes. I wish the Kennedys would just all disappear. However, on the whole, the Democrats tend to respect my interests more (government regulates business sometimes when necessary, but stays the hell out of my private life).
I know that there have been and are bad Democrats (Fritz Hollings [D-SC], anyone?), just like there have been and are bad Republicans. Still, I must present this one rebuttal to your statement: The Kennedys were/are lecherous assholes with way too much money and power for their own good. But they are nothing compared to John Ashcroft, who is quite frankly evil.
I swear Bush sounds more and more facist and like a smooth talking Hitler every day. "We're in danger. We'll protect you and preserve your freedom. All it will cost is your freedom."
He just works as a mouthpiece for Ashcroft and Cheney. And Hitler was a very persuasive guy. How else could he get the Reichstag to give him a "temporary" emergency dictatorship? The scary thing is, Bush seems to be doing something similar. Watch for the Capitol building to have a mysterious fire. If it does, run for Canada. Or Mexico. Especially if you're not a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. You might just end up detained without trial as a "suspected terrorist" otherwise. At least until the secret tribunal sends you off to the firing squad.
Of course now that the entire government is controlled by Republicans, the supreme court soon will be too. Boy these checks and balances really work well!
The US Supreme Court is already predominantly Republican; how do you think Bush got elected? By winning an election?
On a more serious note, remember that the Supremes are nominated by the President for life, so unless one of them goes wacko or kicks the bucket, Bush won't be appointing any more Republicans.
I've been under the impression that MS wasn't going to let Modchipped XBoxes on the Live network for the past few months...
Of course they wouldn't; it's common sense to try to control cheating for quality control purposes, if you're charging a fee for a service like Xbox Live.
The problem is that any Xbox online with a modchip is permenantly banned. Microsoft wants to have Xbox completely under their control. Remember that they take a significant loss on the console; the games make the money back. One of the main purposes of modchips on the Xbox is to read non-approved discs, and thus play pirated games. Another is to cheat. Both are Bad Things from Microsoft's point of view.
The Xbox-Linux users? Microsoft would probably want them to go away too, because they probably won't buy as many games as a console gamer. Plus, remember that according to Bill and his crew, Linux=Absolute, Total, Creeping Evil.
All in all, not too much of a surprise, but rather nasty nonetheless. What happens when a "banned" Xbox gets put up for sale used? One screwed-over end user. The funny thing is that this hurts Microsoft, as well. They will have to take the loss involved in producing another Xbox. So the moral of the story? Go out and buy as many Xboxes as you can, to bring the Evil Empire to its knees!
The closest thing to this I've done is to build a case for a car stero and a computer power supply out of wood. 3/8ths inch plywood on the sides, and a purpleheart (exotic, reddish wood) face. It works great as a small-footprint desktop stereo, and goes better with "nice" furniture than a black metal box.
That, and I once tossed together a 486 router on plywood, with a few finishing nails to hold it down. That was one of the ugliest hacks I've ever done, hardware or software. Worked, though; it still does, although in a "proper" case.
So I wouldn't feel too good about my Adobe stock, maybe. Of course, I don't see them going after Photoshop.
Oh, but they did! As a previous poster mentioned, they had a little product called PhotoDraw, the "Office business graphics program". It was launched with some fanfare about 2 years ago. Since then, it has quietly died off. And what was it designed to compete against? Why, Adobe Photoshop of course! While MS has been able to force many products off the market (like they probably intended to do with Photoshop), this one just didn't make the cut.
Re:There's more to Dune than the first two books.
"God Emperor of Dune" is the third book, after Dune, Dune Messiah.
You seem to be forgetting Children of Dune, which IMHO was not as good as the first two, but better than anything following.
The series really did peak at Dune Messiah, though. A short, simple story showing how a mob can take a movement intended to better humanity and pervert it into an excuse to kill and destroy anyone they don't like. In the end, it becomes a stunning critique of organized religion; how it can destroy even its leader.
Oh, and I agree with you about Brian Herbert. Shooting's too good for the bastard.
Hopefully the fruits of this will feed through into the mainline kernel and so to other systems.
Seriously, do you think that a version of Linux optimized for 65 thousand processors and ~16 terabytes of RAM will run well on your 2-way SMP box? While this will probably be of help to the supercomputing world (if IBM decide to open source it; remember that they're under no obligation to do so if the binaries don't go out into the wild), it probably won't result in much more performance being squeezed out of a 2 or 4-way Xeon setup, with a relatively tiny gigabyte of RAM.
Programmers on this level face entirely different challenges, such as optimizing a 65 thousand thread program so that CPUs aren't idle 90% of the time waiting for others. This is going to output some high quality specialized kernel code that about 10 or 20 computers around the world would find helpful performance-wise. Any desktop or server for mere mortals won't see much improvement.
Linux software is horribly bloated, like even "ls" is above 30k
ls is probably statically linked (all necessary libs reside within the executable), so it will function in almost any circumstance where the executable itself is not corrupted. Would you really want to try to repair a broken system without ls? Most critical utilites and shells are available in statically-linked forms (if not, you can do it yourself). While executable size is an important consideration, it isn't the only one. I would rather have a set of basic programs (like ls) that work even if all the lib directories are toasted, than to save a few K here and there, and have a system that could never pull itself back up if broken.
My point is that ACLs can do the same thing more efficiently and flexibly than creating specialized users and groups. While it is possible to work the POSIX 4-octal-digit permission system into something workable for almost any situation, you will eventually be pounding a round peg into a hole that's looking more and more like a square.
While a full ACL system may not have been practical when the UNIX security model was first laid out, modern systems can handle ACLs with ease. For me, this is one major area where GNU/Linux really lags behind the competition (Solaris, WinNT). Quite simply, until the standard (unpatched!) Linux kernel comes with ACL support, and distributions include the userspace tools to manage them as standard, Linux won't be as modern an OS as many others.
You're kidding, right? While SUDO may provide a finer granularity of control than granting admin privliges to a lot of people, ACLs are another way to increase the granularity of control.
Say you want Joe from accounting to be able to access only a certain few files owned by the Engineering working group, for whatever reason. With ACLs, you could select specific files, and say that Joe has access to them. Without, you would have to either deny Joe access, give him total access to all Engineering files, or make copies for him.
As you said, more control means better security. If you implement both ACLs and a SUDO-style "run as this user" system, you have more control than with either one. How is this not a good thing?
Linux comes from the kernel that Linus wrote - which did not have any GNU software in it !!
Using just the kernel is not a fun way to work on your computer. What the GNU Project did write were free versions of basic UNIX tools, things like ls and cd, all the way to rather unglamorous things like yes. Unless you use something like BusyBox for your basic UNIX tools under Linux, it's only fair to give the GNU project credit for a lot of hard work.
have a 75 MHz pentium that's practically useless. It takes forever to do anything in Win95, and even Linux is unacceptably slow. (As for KDE or GNOME, I can just forget about those.)
Why not run something like WindowMaker or BlackBox? I've used both on a P-120 and it was tolerable as long as no processor-hogs other than X were running. KDE and GNOME are not the only window managers available!
One would think that nanomachines would not need something with the complexity of TCP/IP. More likely they would have very little intelligence onboard, and just enough smarts to recieve simple orders from the master controller.
See if you can find a used HP laser online. I have an old Laserjet IIp that has been in continious use for longer than I can remember. Supports Postscript natively, has decently fast printing, great quality. While the toner cartriges aren't cheap (about $60-70 US), with my moderate usage I can squeeze 3-4 years of use out of one cartridge. Also, it can take really cheap paper that an inkjet would never print on. Anything that won't melt onto the fuser will print beautifully. And because it's got native Postscript support, it will coexist happily with damn near anything. Windows, Linux, Mac, oddball machine that was only produced for 6 months by an unknown Taiwanese company, anything. Not only that, they're relatively cheap. You could probably score one on ebay or something for the $80-150 range.
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Phosphor burn-in is the result of the fact that the phosphors (the things in the monitor which light up when an electron beam hits 'em) will lose brightness when they've been worked for a while. If they've been worked disporportionally, like to display a light colored logon box in the middle of a dark screen, then you might get an "image" of burned-out phosphors sitting amongst the non-burned ones.
Concerts are expensive to put on; the fact that they make huge profits doesn't change the initial cost. If you could invest $20 million and get back $50 million, you would have made a costly investment. You would also be making a profitable investment. The two are not opposed to one another.
I would imagine that the original disks and packaging would be worth something. Just because you can get ROMs for old Atari games doesn't mean that the games themselves are worthless; I would imagine that things are similar with classic PC games.
Personally, I don't think I will get a new idiot box when I am "required" to. These new rules and regulations are just too much. No time shifting? Fine, no TV.
I've noticed that browsers haven't required a http:// preceding the address for a long time, nor a slash on the end. While I do this out of habit, it seems most users aren't even accustomed to putting the protocol name in front of a name or address.
I would suggest looking through your browser's documentation and configuration, as there's probably an option to turn off the offending problem.
Note that one way to be sure, however, is to try and ping the server in question. Even if the server doesn't reply to ping requests, ping should give you some sort of address which you can compare to the one you want, without any user-hostility getting in your way.
If they wanted to make an EULA-less copy, that would be a decision on their end. However, they don't. It's theirs, and they can do whatever they want.
And you can't take a joke. The previous poster was poking fun at Gateway's calculations, where all PCs run at maximum flops, all dedicated to the problem no less. Like the previous poster, they made no accounting for moving data around or other overheads in "grid computing".
I think the solution here should be focused on eliminating spam at the server, rather than the client. No matter how clever your filters are, you will almost certainly either lose some real mail or let some spam through. Neither is acceptable, particularly when spam often eats bandwidth even before it gets filtered.
The point being that companies have a responsibility to their shareholders to do what the shareholders want: the shareholders own the company . If enough Time Warner shareholders don't like it and say so, Time Warner is legally obligated to stop. Buying stock in a company is like buying votes in the US, except it's all perfectly legal.
I know that there have been and are bad Democrats (Fritz Hollings [D-SC], anyone?), just like there have been and are bad Republicans. Still, I must present this one rebuttal to your statement: The Kennedys were/are lecherous assholes with way too much money and power for their own good. But they are nothing compared to John Ashcroft, who is quite frankly evil.
On a more serious note, remember that the Supremes are nominated by the President for life, so unless one of them goes wacko or kicks the bucket, Bush won't be appointing any more Republicans.
Yes, I am a bitter liberal. So what?
The problem is that any Xbox online with a modchip is permenantly banned. Microsoft wants to have Xbox completely under their control. Remember that they take a significant loss on the console; the games make the money back. One of the main purposes of modchips on the Xbox is to read non-approved discs, and thus play pirated games. Another is to cheat. Both are Bad Things from Microsoft's point of view.
The Xbox-Linux users? Microsoft would probably want them to go away too, because they probably won't buy as many games as a console gamer. Plus, remember that according to Bill and his crew, Linux=Absolute, Total, Creeping Evil.
All in all, not too much of a surprise, but rather nasty nonetheless. What happens when a "banned" Xbox gets put up for sale used? One screwed-over end user. The funny thing is that this hurts Microsoft, as well. They will have to take the loss involved in producing another Xbox. So the moral of the story? Go out and buy as many Xboxes as you can, to bring the Evil Empire to its knees!
That, and I once tossed together a 486 router on plywood, with a few finishing nails to hold it down. That was one of the ugliest hacks I've ever done, hardware or software. Worked, though; it still does, although in a "proper" case.
The series really did peak at Dune Messiah, though. A short, simple story showing how a mob can take a movement intended to better humanity and pervert it into an excuse to kill and destroy anyone they don't like. In the end, it becomes a stunning critique of organized religion; how it can destroy even its leader.
Oh, and I agree with you about Brian Herbert. Shooting's too good for the bastard.
Programmers on this level face entirely different challenges, such as optimizing a 65 thousand thread program so that CPUs aren't idle 90% of the time waiting for others. This is going to output some high quality specialized kernel code that about 10 or 20 computers around the world would find helpful performance-wise. Any desktop or server for mere mortals won't see much improvement.
While a full ACL system may not have been practical when the UNIX security model was first laid out, modern systems can handle ACLs with ease. For me, this is one major area where GNU/Linux really lags behind the competition (Solaris, WinNT). Quite simply, until the standard (unpatched!) Linux kernel comes with ACL support, and distributions include the userspace tools to manage them as standard, Linux won't be as modern an OS as many others.
Say you want Joe from accounting to be able to access only a certain few files owned by the Engineering working group, for whatever reason. With ACLs, you could select specific files, and say that Joe has access to them. Without, you would have to either deny Joe access, give him total access to all Engineering files, or make copies for him.
As you said, more control means better security. If you implement both ACLs and a SUDO-style "run as this user" system, you have more control than with either one. How is this not a good thing?
One would think that nanomachines would not need something with the complexity of TCP/IP. More likely they would have very little intelligence onboard, and just enough smarts to recieve simple orders from the master controller.
See if you can find a used HP laser online. I have an old Laserjet IIp that has been in continious use for longer than I can remember. Supports Postscript natively, has decently fast printing, great quality. While the toner cartriges aren't cheap (about $60-70 US), with my moderate usage I can squeeze 3-4 years of use out of one cartridge. Also, it can take really cheap paper that an inkjet would never print on. Anything that won't melt onto the fuser will print beautifully. And because it's got native Postscript support, it will coexist happily with damn near anything. Windows, Linux, Mac, oddball machine that was only produced for 6 months by an unknown Taiwanese company, anything. Not only that, they're relatively cheap. You could probably score one on ebay or something for the $80-150 range.