This is a bit of a stab in the dark but you may want to check out that Tom's hardware article that was posted on/. yesterday. I didn't have the patience to click through the orgy of graphs he posts but from what I understand he benchmarked unreal with 65 different cpu's using modern hardware (e.g. radeon 9700). Those benchmarks may have just the answer you are looking for. Good luck!
A lifetime career in IT is easy if you don't mind the below average pay, ancient tech, and stultifying boredom a government job gives you. I know the work sucks but everytime I read about more layoffs and coders volunteering for a chance at a paying gig I am thankful for my extremely secure, good benefits, regular salary increases federal job.
I am not sure if you completely understand how the GPS system works. I am not sure if I do either for that matter but the GPS system is in very little danger of being "overloaded". It is the actual GPS device that does the triangulation calculations. All the sats do is keep track of their relative position to their peers and broadcast a unique signal. Doesn't matter if 1 device or 1 million devices are earthside it is just a broadcast.
I really don't understand why anyone can get up in arms about this. I bought the software when it first came out (I know I am sick but I like to have an idea of what kind of return I am getting) and was impressed with this common sense solution. You are encouraged to share the software with others and they can use and save their prepared return on any machine. If you want to print the return or e-file you just have to go back to the person who actually PAID for the software. The cost of this package is so resonable and the activation thing just seems like a no brainer. I can wail and moan with the best of them about unfair practices by software companies but this just seems like common sense.
I agree whole heartedly with m.lemur. Elsewhere in the article it was mentioned that this was about half the yearly income of one person in the country it was targeted to. Now ask yourself would you spend, oh about, 25k on what amounts to a PDA? This doesn't even have a chance. Unless of course a village gets some kind of grant funding.
So now I am confused. The redsheriff privacy policy seems to indicate they just are standard cookie spyware which would seem to be no problem with adaware. But if this is java were does it reside?.... Ahhh I just read Letch's post. I understand now why adaware wouldn't detect it. I guess disabling jave in the browser will squash it then.
Not to sound like too much of an idiot but the newspost didn't have much in the way of detecting the spyware on my box. I suppose it is safe to assume if I have hit the BBC site lately I am "infected" but I would like to be able to remove it manually not just disable it in the firewall. Anybody willing to offer some insight on this on both win2k(work) and linux boxes?
can you please explain your sig to me? Seriously I have been reading a bit about Mencken But I am not sure If am making the correct associations to understand the quote.
Any game in the Metal Slug series. But my all time fave is Strider. If you haven't checked that game out get MAME and try it. There is something so great about an engaging, fun game that you don't have to commit a year of your life to.
Quote: For example, if I were a linux guy, I would find one of the groups that collects old hardware, reconditions it and deploys it with Linux at places (wherever) that cannot afford new computers and/or Windows. If you can do that and train a few locals too you will be making greater impact than volunteering for the Peace corps and handing out leaflets on birth control, vaccines, etc.
I am not trying to troll but this statement seems misguided at best and assinine at worst. You honestly think deploying a few computers in the third world will have more impact than life saving vaccines? I guess it is all about priorities.
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OK Alex we seem to have a bit of a disconnect on the population thing. If you want to have children for the survival of your people or for ANY other reason whatsoever well then more power to you. More children will not fix social security. The fact of the matter is it was never envisioned to be the only retirement solution for all Americans. It is simply a plan thow would provide enough funds for basic needs. We are drifting pretty far off topic on what seems to be a very interesting one for many slashdotters so lets just bounce back to the main threads.
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First off this post is so rosy I just want to puke. I know the spreadsheet you have your life entered into adds everything perfectly but sometimes a little thing called life rounds your numbers off in unexpected ways.
Anywho what I really wanted to respond to was about the whole population thing. Declining populations suck for social security but it is an inherently flawed system anyway. You advocate propping it up by having more children? The fact of the matter is the world IS overpopulated. Granted, much of the excess is in the areas least prepared to deal with it whereas europe and the US are seeing population declines or stasis.
What I am trying to say is economic growth is not the meaning of life. Which I suppose is a typical view of many of my peers as we have not made the sacrifices the author of the fortune article advocate. Quality of life in the now seems to be more important than wealth or security.
I have to agree with floppy ears on this one. To add a little substance to his rant it is clear that although unemployement is rather low in historical terms with our economy transitioning to being service based most of these new jobs are low pay - low advancement potential postitions. Many families today need to work two wage earners to survive much less afford the BMW which for some reason has become the defining asset of the "successful".
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Actually, I am pretty sure in the "millionares in the making" excludes the home equity in your prime residence unless you are living in a multi-unit rental.
Would you still want to use a fan for somethng like this? Would it increase the efficiency of the micro cooler or would it simply be required to move the thermal energy away from the chip and coolers?
It seems pretty obvious that this is not enough to actually control anything. However the speed with which this system was compromised (I think I read a couple days) implies how little attention is payed to security within some of our most sensitive agencies. It is disconcerting. And wouldn't having access to the source make it much easier for a cracker to figure out more about the encryption methods your NDA prohibits you from discussing?
You would be right if we were talking about a celeron where the L2 cache holds a copy of the L1 cache. However, in the duron and Tbird the L2 cache is exclusive and holds completely different data than the L1. Hence the celeron with 32 L1 and 128 L2 actually only has 160 KB of cache. The Duron has the 128 KB of L1 and 64 L2 for a total of 192 KB. Of course the L2 is slower than the L1 in both cases.
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If you look at the site it says this is Part I: Falcon's Quest of the game Sorcery. I find following links helpful on occasion ;-)
This is a bit of a stab in the dark but you may want to check out that Tom's hardware article that was posted on /. yesterday. I didn't have the patience to click through the orgy of graphs he posts but from what I understand he benchmarked unreal with 65 different cpu's using modern hardware (e.g. radeon 9700). Those benchmarks may have just the answer you are looking for. Good luck!
A lifetime career in IT is easy if you don't mind the below average pay, ancient tech, and stultifying boredom a government job gives you. I know the work sucks but everytime I read about more layoffs and coders volunteering for a chance at a paying gig I am thankful for my extremely secure, good benefits, regular salary increases federal job.
I am not sure if you completely understand how the GPS system works. I am not sure if I do either for that matter but the GPS system is in very little danger of being "overloaded". It is the actual GPS device that does the triangulation calculations. All the sats do is keep track of their relative position to their peers and broadcast a unique signal. Doesn't matter if 1 device or 1 million devices are earthside it is just a broadcast.
I really don't understand why anyone can get up in arms about this. I bought the software when it first came out (I know I am sick but I like to have an idea of what kind of return I am getting) and was impressed with this common sense solution. You are encouraged to share the software with others and they can use and save their prepared return on any machine. If you want to print the return or e-file you just have to go back to the person who actually PAID for the software. The cost of this package is so resonable and the activation thing just seems like a no brainer. I can wail and moan with the best of them about unfair practices by software companies but this just seems like common sense.
I agree whole heartedly with m.lemur. Elsewhere in the article it was mentioned that this was about half the yearly income of one person in the country it was targeted to. Now ask yourself would you spend, oh about, 25k on what amounts to a PDA?
This doesn't even have a chance. Unless of course a village gets some kind of grant funding.
So now I am confused. The redsheriff privacy policy seems to indicate they just are standard cookie spyware which would seem to be no problem with adaware. But if this is java were does it reside? .... Ahhh I just read Letch's post. I understand now why adaware wouldn't detect it. I guess disabling jave in the browser will squash it then.
Not to sound like too much of an idiot but the newspost didn't have much in the way of detecting the spyware on my box. I suppose it is safe to assume if I have hit the BBC site lately I am "infected" but I would like to be able to remove it manually not just disable it in the firewall. Anybody willing to offer some insight on this on both win2k(work) and linux boxes?
can you please explain your sig to me? Seriously I have been reading a bit about Mencken But I am not sure If am making the correct associations to understand the quote.
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Any game in the Metal Slug series. But my all time fave is Strider. If you haven't checked that game out get MAME and try it. There is something so great about an engaging, fun game that you don't have to commit a year of your life to.
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For example, if I were a linux guy, I would find one of the groups that collects old hardware, reconditions it and deploys it with Linux at places (wherever) that cannot afford new computers and/or Windows. If you can do that and train a few locals too you will be making greater impact than volunteering for the Peace corps and handing out leaflets on birth control, vaccines, etc.
I am not trying to troll but this statement seems misguided at best and assinine at worst. You honestly think deploying a few computers in the third world will have more impact than life saving vaccines? I guess it is all about priorities.
OK Alex we seem to have a bit of a disconnect on the population thing. If you want to have children for the survival of your people or for ANY other reason whatsoever well then more power to you. More children will not fix social security. The fact of the matter is it was never envisioned to be the only retirement solution for all Americans. It is simply a plan thow would provide enough funds for basic needs. We are drifting pretty far off topic on what seems to be a very interesting one for many slashdotters so lets just bounce back to the main threads.
First off this post is so rosy I just want to puke. I know the spreadsheet you have your life entered into adds everything perfectly but sometimes a little thing called life rounds your numbers off in unexpected ways.
Anywho what I really wanted to respond to was about the whole population thing. Declining populations suck for social security but it is an inherently flawed system anyway. You advocate propping it up by having more children? The fact of the matter is the world IS overpopulated. Granted, much of the excess is in the areas least prepared to deal with it whereas europe and the US are seeing population declines or stasis.
What I am trying to say is economic growth is not the meaning of life. Which I suppose is a typical view of many of my peers as we have not made the sacrifices the author of the fortune article advocate. Quality of life in the now seems to be more important than wealth or security.
I have to agree with floppy ears on this one. To add a little substance to his rant it is clear that although unemployement is rather low in historical terms with our economy transitioning to being service based most of these new jobs are low pay - low advancement potential postitions. Many families today need to work two wage earners to survive much less afford the BMW which for some reason has become the defining asset of the "successful".
Actually, I am pretty sure in the "millionares in the making" excludes the home equity in your prime residence unless you are living in a multi-unit rental.
I havn't tested one but an ipod seems to be an obvious candidate
Sorry, but what is a HEPC?
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Would you still want to use a fan for somethng like this? Would it increase the efficiency of the micro cooler or would it simply be required to move the thermal energy away from the chip and coolers?
It seems pretty obvious that this is not enough to actually control anything. However the speed with which this system was compromised (I think I read a couple days) implies how little attention is payed to security within some of our most sensitive agencies. It is disconcerting. And wouldn't having access to the source make it much easier for a cracker to figure out more about the encryption methods your NDA prohibits you from discussing?
wondering if there other educational opportunities out there to further a career as an "artifex"
You would be right if we were talking about a celeron where the L2 cache holds a copy of the L1 cache. However, in the duron and Tbird the L2 cache is exclusive and holds completely different data than the L1. Hence the celeron with 32 L1 and 128 L2 actually only has 160 KB of cache. The Duron has the 128 KB of L1 and 64 L2 for a total of 192 KB. Of course the L2 is slower than the L1 in both cases.
aiwa is coming out with a cd based mp3 player in june I think it is going to retail for about $350. you can see it at www.aiwa.com