>Hey, there's always Via and their crappy Cyrix! (btw: i have that mini-itx mobo with 800mhz via c3... performs like a p2 400, sigh)
Depends what you want it for.
I wish I could have bought a laptop with this processor. I don't need the speed, and it runs with _so_ little power and _so_ cool, I bet I could get 20 hours out of my battery (with an external monitor, of course).
I want more of those processors. They're just _awesome_ when they're used in the right applications.
Not only do the programmers know it will be hacked, but I'm sure they secretly want to keep it that way. I'm sure a few of them have some _really_ devious ideas they've cooked up that would keep a lot more people from copying the disc, but they're keeping their lips shut because they know that would make things suck even more.
>When I am on the road there is no space to pull out my little baby optical mouse and a hard surface to use it on. Tried playing Medal of Honor with the trackpad? Entertaining to say the least.
I agreed. But now I'm staring at the UXGA LCD on my laptop, and I think I've finally found something in an LCD that looks as good as my Mitsubishi DiamondScan 20H CRT. It'll be a long while before they integrate anything into a PC laptop that beats out a modern CRT, though.
>If the telcos aren't doing anything about it, then there isn't enough consumer demand to justify the cost.
No, it's just that the telcos are useless at spending money (to them, it flows like water). Case in point: Running about 100 lines 15 km alongside the already existing fibre to my subdivision a decade ago to an old, out of date, and rather overloaded exchange, rather than building some sort of mini-CO there and using that shiny fibre line.
This is the case with many other companies. Another case in point, I've tried to set up a deal with a few local companies to redistribute their wireless internet to various households here, ensuring they make a profit as well as myself. No interest at all.
And, last example is the cable co. They also run cable under our town. They decided against wiring the houses here, as they'd have to pull it about 1 km or so. So now 95% of the houses have DSS, and they have zero business.
What makes this all the funnier, though, is that the telcos, etc. think that areas like mine are full of hick-homes with people that can't afford high-speed, when the reality is that the average home in this subdivision costs $300k (and for this area, that's probably about $100k above average) and there's no apartments, and being that it is a little ways from the city, communications equipment are WELL used.
Ho hum. More stupid decisions. I'm used to it, and plan to profit on it the moment I get the cash together to put in some wireless 'net.
>Okay, so you'll forgo the best/cheapest contractor and use a more expensive / not as good one just because they can't open your file format? Not a very good business move...
No, I think he's saying that if the staff at the organization isn't equipped to handle something as simple as downloading a free office suite, they probably aren't equipped to handle his job.
Sort of like handing someone at a cigarette company a cigar and seeing if they have the intelligence to snip the end before they light it. If they can't handle that simple problem, then there's nothing they can do for him that he can't easily do for himself.
I don't know if it solves your problem, but at at this site there are many model m keyboards dissassembled. Maybe if you chat with the author of the site he might help you...
Pull the wool off in the new few paragraphs. This is one of the many reasons to detest MS.
>Do you know how much of a backlash there would be if MS put a trojan in their products, and it was discovered by anyone, possibly by noticing their computers randomly connect to the US?
>out of curiosity, what's illegal about boxing day sales? i'm Canadian and i've never heard of a boxing day sale being against the law.
I'm looking for details... this might just be a regional thing (or an Ontario thing) but a few years ago a store opened on Boxing Day and got hit with a $150k fine, if what I remember from the news is correct.
I am sure the law was repealed recently, as a lot of local stores opened for boxing day last year.
Ahhh, finally found something useful. Now anyone with some law books care too look up "Retail Business Holidays Act R.S.O. 1990, ch.R.30 (the Act)".
"Prohibition 2. (1) No person carrying on a retail business in a retail business establishment shall, (a) sell or offer for sale any goods or services therein by retail; or (b) admit members of the public thereto, on a holiday."
Boxing Day was once a legal holiday (it's in the PDF version).
No, I don't work for them. No, I don't use their service anymore (I got WiFi based 'net now). Yes, they support Linux (they even developed a custom, in-house applicaiton for it). No, they don't do any of that leaky-bucket BS that infuriates anyone using most of the competing services. Yes, they sell to anyone who can receive their signal in any country. [Canadians note: If you get their service and want to remain within the law, avoid surfing any sites within Canada].
The coolest part is that it's Ku-Band and it uses standard DVB. This means you can get the dish to receive it for next to nothing, and you can use _any_ DVB card you like.
Oh, and I wrote a (crappy) mini-HOWTO for Linux that you can check on their forums (sorry, they're locked to the public).
Canada has a Thanksgiving, and in our country we don't go insane the day after it. We save that for when it's illegal (Boxing day -- ie day after x-mas). Canadians enjoy buying things when it's illegal for some reason (cross-border smuggling, grey-market satellite, boxing day sales, Sunday sales a couple of decades ago). Anyways, your black sunday It's a new phenomenon to 5,900,000,000 other people in the world and it isn't even named very well at all.
Sorry that you're only part of a small corner of the world. I know it feels strange to be told that, but it's just so true. Just as proof that holiday events aren't so international, what do Muslims do during Ramadan (no googling allowed)?
This is unlike all the other items you've mentioned which are a pretty much world-wide phenomenon. Saying that if you aren't American you're a fool just pushes that level of world-wide American-desting and American-arrogance a little higher (which is unfortunate, because in my experience you're the extreme minority, apart from Motorola).
Sorry if you think I'm ranting like a fool, but I feel I speak for about 5 billion others when I say "Details, please".
Not great, but I guess it gets the job done (I prefer to use professional software myself). It is nice that it doesn't support quicktime (yes, I don't like quicktime. Sorry, the player's interface is as nice looking as a beat up Pinto, and there's not exactly a lot of third party quicktime players, AFAIK).
The only thing I know of that you get free with a Mac that you don't get some kind of equivalent free on a windows PC would be iPhoto. Not that every digital camera in the world doesn't include some sort of crappy windows photo software.
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>Man I *really* hope no one mods you up 'Funny'. You are entitled to sexist views, but I hope no-one else shares them.
You are *so* right. Shows like Clueless, Ally McBeal and Blossom should be banned for their sexist views and attitudes against men.
It's about time that men march up and tell women they want to be treated as equals! It's time for some jockstrap burning!
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>no, they invade france.
:-)
Invade? I thought when you give something away it was called "taking"...
>Hey, there's always Via and their crappy Cyrix! (btw: i have that mini-itx mobo with 800mhz via c3... performs like a p2 400, sigh)
Depends what you want it for.
I wish I could have bought a laptop with this processor. I don't need the speed, and it runs with _so_ little power and _so_ cool, I bet I could get 20 hours out of my battery (with an external monitor, of course).
I want more of those processors. They're just _awesome_ when they're used in the right applications.
Just underclock the processor. Problem solved.
There's another thing to understand:
Not only do the programmers know it will be hacked, but I'm sure they secretly want to keep it that way. I'm sure a few of them have some _really_ devious ideas they've cooked up that would keep a lot more people from copying the disc, but they're keeping their lips shut because they know that would make things suck even more.
>I'm curious, was the person able to remember the name of tomatoes? Maybe we can solve this argument once and far all...
I'll counter that reference with another:
Can he remember the name for Ketchup?
>When I am on the road there is no space to pull out my little baby optical mouse and a hard surface to use it on. Tried playing Medal of Honor with the trackpad? Entertaining to say the least.
Solution.
>The keyboard as well leaves a lot to be desired.
1 + 2 = Solution.
>This sort of includes the LCD monitor, too.
I agreed. But now I'm staring at the UXGA LCD on my laptop, and I think I've finally found something in an LCD that looks as good as my Mitsubishi DiamondScan 20H CRT. It'll be a long while before they integrate anything into a PC laptop that beats out a modern CRT, though.
"What's happening?"
"All 6,000 hulls have been breached."
"Oh, the fools! If only they'd built it with 6,001 hulls! When will they learn?"
>What's that? Not receiving any ACKs for your SYNs? Oh well.
Sounds to me like were down to one hacked router: The one on your end.
Maybe you've got a clue, but today's frontpage shows that isn't Microsoft's style at all.
This?
>unless, you are doing the same stupid thing 98% of bad users out there do: run as admin.
:-(
I'm not a bad user. I just have to use bad code most of the time (nothing new in Microsoft land, though, is it?)...
>If the telcos aren't doing anything about it, then there isn't enough consumer demand to justify the cost.
No, it's just that the telcos are useless at spending money (to them, it flows like water). Case in point: Running about 100 lines 15 km alongside the already existing fibre to my subdivision a decade ago to an old, out of date, and rather overloaded exchange, rather than building some sort of mini-CO there and using that shiny fibre line.
This is the case with many other companies. Another case in point, I've tried to set up a deal with a few local companies to redistribute their wireless internet to various households here, ensuring they make a profit as well as myself. No interest at all.
And, last example is the cable co. They also run cable under our town. They decided against wiring the houses here, as they'd have to pull it about 1 km or so. So now 95% of the houses have DSS, and they have zero business.
What makes this all the funnier, though, is that the telcos, etc. think that areas like mine are full of hick-homes with people that can't afford high-speed, when the reality is that the average home in this subdivision costs $300k (and for this area, that's probably about $100k above average) and there's no apartments, and being that it is a little ways from the city, communications equipment are WELL used.
Ho hum. More stupid decisions. I'm used to it, and plan to profit on it the moment I get the cash together to put in some wireless 'net.
>there was no alternative to Win95 at the time it was introduced.
Say Again?
>That comes on the heels of a 1.30 release, into a parking meter.
:-)
They still make parking meters that take dimes and nickels?
Wow. You're lucky.
>Does the new version address any of the issues that lead to this message appearing?
I don't know, but if it says that about Pine, imagine the message it must have about OpenSSH!
"We guarantee that if you install this software within 6 months your box will be rootable".
Sorry, I don't run BSD. I don't know if they stick to their principles throughout their software or not... IMHO, I think they would.
>Okay, so you'll forgo the best/cheapest contractor and use a more expensive / not as good one just because they can't open your file format? Not a very good business move...
No, I think he's saying that if the staff at the organization isn't equipped to handle something as simple as downloading a free office suite, they probably aren't equipped to handle his job.
Sort of like handing someone at a cigarette company a cigar and seeing if they have the intelligence to snip the end before they light it. If they can't handle that simple problem, then there's nothing they can do for him that he can't easily do for himself.
I don't know if it solves your problem, but at at this site there are many model m keyboards dissassembled. Maybe if you chat with the author of the site he might help you...
Here's another site that might be helpful.
>What a load of FUD.
Pull the wool off in the new few paragraphs. This is one of the many reasons to detest MS.
>Do you know how much of a backlash there would be if MS put a trojan in their products, and it was discovered by anyone, possibly by noticing their computers randomly connect to the US?
Not much.
>That would be a absolutely stupid business decision.
Not really.
TTYL + HTH!
>Yeah, we all saw "Rising Sun" too. It is _not_ indicative of reality, moron.
Yup, because in real life we always insult someone to their face when we think they've made an honest mistake.
>out of curiosity, what's illegal about boxing day sales? i'm Canadian and i've never heard of a boxing day sale being against the law.
I'm looking for details... this might just be a regional thing (or an Ontario thing) but a few years ago a store opened on Boxing Day and got hit with a $150k fine, if what I remember from the news is correct.
I am sure the law was repealed recently, as a lot of local stores opened for boxing day last year.
Ahhh, finally found something useful. Now anyone with some law books care too look up "Retail Business Holidays Act R.S.O. 1990, ch.R.30 (the Act)".
Here it is. PDF.
And the rules:
"Prohibition
2. (1) No person carrying on a retail business in a retail business establishment shall,
(a) sell or offer for sale any goods or services therein by retail; or
(b) admit members of the public thereto,
on a holiday."
Boxing Day was once a legal holiday (it's in the PDF version).
HTH!
Now try the best.
No, I don't work for them. No, I don't use their service anymore (I got WiFi based 'net now). Yes, they support Linux (they even developed a custom, in-house applicaiton for it). No, they don't do any of that leaky-bucket BS that infuriates anyone using most of the competing services. Yes, they sell to anyone who can receive their signal in any country. [Canadians note: If you get their service and want to remain within the law, avoid surfing any sites within Canada].
The coolest part is that it's Ku-Band and it uses standard DVB. This means you can get the dish to receive it for next to nothing, and you can use _any_ DVB card you like.
Oh, and I wrote a (crappy) mini-HOWTO for Linux that you can check on their forums (sorry, they're locked to the public).
Canada has a Thanksgiving, and in our country we don't go insane the day after it. We save that for when it's illegal (Boxing day -- ie day after x-mas). Canadians enjoy buying things when it's illegal for some reason (cross-border smuggling, grey-market satellite, boxing day sales, Sunday sales a couple of decades ago). Anyways, your black sunday It's a new phenomenon to 5,900,000,000 other people in the world and it isn't even named very well at all.
Sorry that you're only part of a small corner of the world. I know it feels strange to be told that, but it's just so true. Just as proof that holiday events aren't so international, what do Muslims do during Ramadan (no googling allowed)?
This is unlike all the other items you've mentioned which are a pretty much world-wide phenomenon. Saying that if you aren't American you're a fool just pushes that level of world-wide American-desting and American-arrogance a little higher (which is unfortunate, because in my experience you're the extreme minority, apart from Motorola).
Sorry if you think I'm ranting like a fool, but I feel I speak for about 5 billion others when I say "Details, please".
>I really prefer juice ;)
"I'll take a crab juice..."
>They do not support DRM, they support the right of artists to get paid for their work.
Artists have a right to get paid for their work?
Damn, if only I had a right to get paid every time I built a computer! I want a special law for me too!
>but it beats Nothing which is the video creation program you get free with Windows.
.
That's interesting. On my machine it's called "Windows Movie Maker"
Not great, but I guess it gets the job done (I prefer to use professional software myself). It is nice that it doesn't support quicktime (yes, I don't like quicktime. Sorry, the player's interface is as nice looking as a beat up Pinto, and there's not exactly a lot of third party quicktime players, AFAIK).
The only thing I know of that you get free with a Mac that you don't get some kind of equivalent free on a windows PC would be iPhoto. Not that every digital camera in the world doesn't include some sort of crappy windows photo software.
>Man I *really* hope no one mods you up 'Funny'. You are entitled to sexist views, but I hope no-one else shares them.
You are *so* right. Shows like Clueless, Ally McBeal and Blossom should be banned for their sexist views and attitudes against men.
It's about time that men march up and tell women they want to be treated as equals! It's time for some jockstrap burning!