Obviously, the real issue is the motherboard. Once you have a working motherboard, you can get whatever power supply, cards, and whatnot you want.
Different CPUs talk to the system differently. It's not just a matter of having different pinouts; the functionality of they motherboard is fundamentally different depending on the processor. Otherwise, I'm sure you could buy an adaptor to plug your PPC chip into a P4 motherboard--that would be nice, but it's not realistic.
It depends. Are they saying that web-based businesses have to follow the same rules, or are the creating new web-specific rules? In other words, if the transactions were done by phone instead of by web, would the rules be the same? (They should be, but that doesn't mean that they are.)
In the cartoon, all the SG people wear weird X-Men-ish outfits. The characters are extremely shallow and rather juvinile. The writing is poor. Every episode has some hit-you-over-the-head moral. (Does that make it count towards some FCC-mandated children's programming with morals quota?)
On my Latitude C640, you have one battery-only bay, and one that you can swap between battery, floppy, and CD/DVD. There are only two bays, so you have no option for two batteries and an internal floppy.
However, there is a cable that will plug into the docking station port and connect to a drive that you would normally use in the bay. So it can be done, but hanging a drive off of a cable is a pain.
That's not too hard to do if you have the tuner integrated into the system. I believe you can do that with the DirecTiVo. With a stand-alone box, though, it's pretty pointless to bother setting up that feature, as most people are using cable boxes that only decode one channel at a time.
What I want is to see addressable converters become something that you can buy instead of rent from your cable company. I want to see them integrated with VCRs, TVs, and PVRs in the same way that cable-ready tuners are ubiquitous today. Once you eliminate the need for an independent tuner, there's no reason you can't sell several models of ReplayTV with different numbers of tuners.
In the meantime, people who are far more serious about TV than I am will set up two or three ReplayTV units, each with their own cable box. (Really, people do that; I'm glad I don't watch that much TV.)
TiVo has the advantage of having better name recognition. Most of the numerical advantage TiVo has is due to their integration with satellite receivers. If you only look at the stand-alone units, TiVo and ReplayTV are much closer.
The real issue is advertising. The one message they've gotten out to consumers is "pause live TV." That's nice, but not something you pay hundreds of dollars for. Automatically skipping commercials is probably a better message, and one that TiVo won't have.
I thought that the binary incompatibility was only a C++ thing. So for some projects, that's an issue, but not for all. Of course, the idea of being careless about which compiler version you're using for building a large project is rather strange.
Yup, that's one reason I don't go to movies very often (the ever-increasing price being the other).
I believe much of the problem is based on people having grown acustomed to watching movies at home. When you're watching a DVD at home, you're free to talk; if you miss something, you skip back. At the theater, you still have the same habits.
If I were on the Supreme Court, I suspect I would want to rule that the big problem is the retroactive aspect of the extension. If a retroactive change is allowed, then the limit on copyrights isn't limited. Then there's the question of what's reasonable. More precisely, what is reasonable may change with time (hence, it's not fixed in the Constitution), but shouldn't the definition of "reasonable" be based on the time when the work was created?
I don't see the Supreme Court getting into an argument with Congress over what is reasonable, so for new works, I wouldn't overturn the new limit. (I would instead work to overturn Congress at the ballot box, but that's another issue.)
A quick google search on Liger and Fertile tells me that male hybrids are rarely fertile. Another page states, "No fertile male ligers have yet been found and it is assuemd all are sterile." Though reading a bit more, there may be some fertile males, or males that are fertile for a brief period.
In most cases, refresh seems to be used by sites to get more advertising hits. I find it obnoxious when I leave a page open and it reloads just so that it can show me a new ad. Sure, for news sites the headlines might change, but if I want to see the latest headlines, I have a reload button.
If you follow discussions at other forums for ReplayTV and TiVo owners, you already know that in that situation you don't really care about performance. A 5400rpm drive can easily handle the job. However, noise is critical, and hence, some of these systems don't have fans, making heat also critical--if you upgrade with a drive that runs hotter than the original, you're likely to have random failures.
So this sort of review is wonderful, both for the information it provides, and for encouraging manufacturers to pay attention to these factors so that they will look good in the future.
Yes, there is one section that you can travel on without paying tolls. One of the Pike's directors has been saying that every time a car uses that exit, the Pike loses money. They're pushing to get tolls put on that exit (apparently there used to be tolls there some years ago).
When I'm elected supreme dictator of Massachusetts, I'll disband the Turnpike Authority and use gas taxes to fund the roads.
Actually, the tolls are going up on other highways. The Big Dig is mostly I-93, which will remain free. The tolls have already gone up on I-90, and are projected to go up again later. The only part of the Big Dig that will have tolls is the new tunnel to the airport. I expect they could do the accounting to say that that tunnel is the part that the state paid for.
Though I would much prefer higher gas tax an no tolls whatsoever. The Mass Pike is a huge patronage system that exists primarily for the sake of providing perks for the powerful and connected. (Note, for example, that they didn't reduce the number of tolltakers when over half of the cars now use automatic EZ-Pass style transponders.)
I'm still getting a feel for it. Previously, I've been relying mostly on a customized my.yahoo.com page. (Before that, I used my.excite.com until they clobbered it with the bankruptcy.) I like that Yahoo has local news, so I can get my local paper's headlines. Perhaps Google will eventually get a bunch of local sections set up and let you customize which ones you use, but that would require creating accounts (I would hate to have that much info stored in a cookie, as I would have to recreate it on each computer).
Anyway, it will be interesting to ask the same question in a month.
In some species, the female will store sperm after mating for future fertilization. Perhaps something like that is at work here? It should be easy enough to do a DNA test to see if the offspring have a father.
I have ReplayTV, and it has totally changed how I watch TV. I don't sit down and surf to whatever is on; I sit down and watch something that I already decided I was interested in. And I agree, commercials are so much more annoying now that I don't see them at home.
American Tower may not be selling too many of those sites, they're not exactly honest in saying "these are the only towers that are for sale." They should qualify that to be the only towers that they are selling. I expect that there are others being sold by other parties. If you're seriously intersted in one in a given area, you can do some research and find where they are and who owns them.
For the most part, though, what's interesting is that there are a bunch of unusual structures out there, and in some cases they are surprisingly affordable. And even if you don't buy one, it's fun to think of all the different things you could do with such a site.
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Obviously, the real issue is the motherboard. Once you have a working motherboard, you can get whatever power supply, cards, and whatnot you want.
Different CPUs talk to the system differently. It's not just a matter of having different pinouts; the functionality of they motherboard is fundamentally different depending on the processor. Otherwise, I'm sure you could buy an adaptor to plug your PPC chip into a P4 motherboard--that would be nice, but it's not realistic.
It depends. Are they saying that web-based businesses have to follow the same rules, or are the creating new web-specific rules? In other words, if the transactions were done by phone instead of by web, would the rules be the same? (They should be, but that doesn't mean that they are.)
The cartoon is horrible.
In the cartoon, all the SG people wear weird X-Men-ish outfits. The characters are extremely shallow and rather juvinile. The writing is poor. Every episode has some hit-you-over-the-head moral. (Does that make it count towards some FCC-mandated children's programming with morals quota?)
On my Latitude C640, you have one battery-only bay, and one that you can swap between battery, floppy, and CD/DVD. There are only two bays, so you have no option for two batteries and an internal floppy.
However, there is a cable that will plug into the docking station port and connect to a drive that you would normally use in the bay. So it can be done, but hanging a drive off of a cable is a pain.
The F-117 was first used in combat in Panama in December of 1989. The Pentagon admited it existed in November of 1988.
Best Buy just announced that they will be carrying ReplayTV. The speculation is that they will be selling the new 5000 series starting next week.
Some guy. There's been some weird stuff going on in the SonicBlue boardroom with the ousting of their previous CEO and such.
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That's not too hard to do if you have the tuner integrated into the system. I believe you can do that with the DirecTiVo. With a stand-alone box, though, it's pretty pointless to bother setting up that feature, as most people are using cable boxes that only decode one channel at a time.
What I want is to see addressable converters become something that you can buy instead of rent from your cable company. I want to see them integrated with VCRs, TVs, and PVRs in the same way that cable-ready tuners are ubiquitous today. Once you eliminate the need for an independent tuner, there's no reason you can't sell several models of ReplayTV with different numbers of tuners.
In the meantime, people who are far more serious about TV than I am will set up two or three ReplayTV units, each with their own cable box. (Really, people do that; I'm glad I don't watch that much TV.)
Greg Ballard is the CEO of SonicBlue. I believe he is the former CEO of 3dfx.
Steve Balmer is the CEO of Microsoft.
TiVo has the advantage of having better name recognition. Most of the numerical advantage TiVo has is due to their integration with satellite receivers. If you only look at the stand-alone units, TiVo and ReplayTV are much closer.
The real issue is advertising. The one message they've gotten out to consumers is "pause live TV." That's nice, but not something you pay hundreds of dollars for. Automatically skipping commercials is probably a better message, and one that TiVo won't have.
I thought that the binary incompatibility was only a C++ thing. So for some projects, that's an issue, but not for all. Of course, the idea of being careless about which compiler version you're using for building a large project is rather strange.
Yup, that's one reason I don't go to movies very often (the ever-increasing price being the other).
I believe much of the problem is based on people having grown acustomed to watching movies at home. When you're watching a DVD at home, you're free to talk; if you miss something, you skip back. At the theater, you still have the same habits.
If I were on the Supreme Court, I suspect I would want to rule that the big problem is the retroactive aspect of the extension. If a retroactive change is allowed, then the limit on copyrights isn't limited. Then there's the question of what's reasonable. More precisely, what is reasonable may change with time (hence, it's not fixed in the Constitution), but shouldn't the definition of "reasonable" be based on the time when the work was created?
I don't see the Supreme Court getting into an argument with Congress over what is reasonable, so for new works, I wouldn't overturn the new limit. (I would instead work to overturn Congress at the ballot box, but that's another issue.)
A quick google search on Liger and Fertile tells me that male hybrids are rarely fertile. Another page states, "No fertile male ligers have yet been found and it is assuemd all are sterile." Though reading a bit more, there may be some fertile males, or males that are fertile for a brief period.
So what is really interesting is whether the offspring are fertile. If so, then we can start breeding mules from mules, and we have a new species.
And where does the infertility in mules normally lie? Is it a male thing or a female thing? Or both?
I've heard that fertile mules are generally destoyed. The breeders don't want to sell them and put themselves out of business.
Or perhaps that's just a legend?
In most cases, refresh seems to be used by sites to get more advertising hits. I find it obnoxious when I leave a page open and it reloads just so that it can show me a new ad. Sure, for news sites the headlines might change, but if I want to see the latest headlines, I have a reload button.
Are there any legitimate uses of refresh?
If you follow discussions at other forums for ReplayTV and TiVo owners, you already know that in that situation you don't really care about performance. A 5400rpm drive can easily handle the job. However, noise is critical, and hence, some of these systems don't have fans, making heat also critical--if you upgrade with a drive that runs hotter than the original, you're likely to have random failures.
So this sort of review is wonderful, both for the information it provides, and for encouraging manufacturers to pay attention to these factors so that they will look good in the future.
Yes, there is one section that you can travel on without paying tolls. One of the Pike's directors has been saying that every time a car uses that exit, the Pike loses money. They're pushing to get tolls put on that exit (apparently there used to be tolls there some years ago).
When I'm elected supreme dictator of Massachusetts, I'll disband the Turnpike Authority and use gas taxes to fund the roads.
Actually, the tolls are going up on other highways. The Big Dig is mostly I-93, which will remain free. The tolls have already gone up on I-90, and are projected to go up again later. The only part of the Big Dig that will have tolls is the new tunnel to the airport. I expect they could do the accounting to say that that tunnel is the part that the state paid for.
Though I would much prefer higher gas tax an no tolls whatsoever. The Mass Pike is a huge patronage system that exists primarily for the sake of providing perks for the powerful and connected. (Note, for example, that they didn't reduce the number of tolltakers when over half of the cars now use automatic EZ-Pass style transponders.)
I'm still getting a feel for it. Previously, I've been relying mostly on a customized my.yahoo.com page. (Before that, I used my.excite.com until they clobbered it with the bankruptcy.) I like that Yahoo has local news, so I can get my local paper's headlines. Perhaps Google will eventually get a bunch of local sections set up and let you customize which ones you use, but that would require creating accounts (I would hate to have that much info stored in a cookie, as I would have to recreate it on each computer).
Anyway, it will be interesting to ask the same question in a month.
In some species, the female will store sperm after mating for future fertilization. Perhaps something like that is at work here? It should be easy enough to do a DNA test to see if the offspring have a father.
I have ReplayTV, and it has totally changed how I watch TV. I don't sit down and surf to whatever is on; I sit down and watch something that I already decided I was interested in. And I agree, commercials are so much more annoying now that I don't see them at home.
American Tower may not be selling too many of those sites, they're not exactly honest in saying "these are the only towers that are for sale." They should qualify that to be the only towers that they are selling. I expect that there are others being sold by other parties. If you're seriously intersted in one in a given area, you can do some research and find where they are and who owns them.
For the most part, though, what's interesting is that there are a bunch of unusual structures out there, and in some cases they are surprisingly affordable. And even if you don't buy one, it's fun to think of all the different things you could do with such a site.