I wish they would ALL just call my answering machine. It's much easier to delete them that way and I don't have to deal with rude telemarketers wasting my time reading a script to the end even though the first words out of my mouth are: "no thanks, I don't want to subscribe/buy/get a loan/switch long distance blah blah your product/service" The world would be a better place if targeted marketing was a completely opt-in thing, but then we wouldn't have as many funny Jerky Boys audio files to make us laugh.
BTW, it's a grow it guide and biography from the same guy in California who was caught growing 4000 Marijuana plants (yes, he has a very impressive grow room).
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Any way you pronounce it, it's still spelled F-R-E-E, and that's what's really important isn't it?
BTW, I have heard all three pronunciations at one time or another, while my preference is to say/lin-icks/ the fact that it is being said at all is what's important:)
ieatspammers.com but then of course I have too much work to do as it is, so it would just become another domain to me... It's free if anyone wants it. It would be a good one to scare spammers, or perhaps you could alter it to your needs, ie: ikillspammers.com spamhunter.com deathtospammers.com you get the idea.
I'm curious if there is any application for cooling a CPU below sub-zero for anything other than overclocking (ie- since you are dissapating the extra heat energy, x electrons can get to point y faster). I have no idea what the benefits are but it would be interesting to know.
Link: http://www.electronics-coo ling.com/html/2000_may_a1.html Of interest: Researchers identified the advantages of operating electronics at low temperatures. These advantages include: faster semiconductor device switching; increased speed due to lower electrical resistance of interconnecting materials; and a reduction in thermally induced failures. So basically, lower resistance = faster processing speeds, I know I'm stating the obvious here but it's nice to see that there is a more "scientific" approach to this aspect of computing going on.
Liquid nitrogen is not "very expensive" it's actually cheaper then bottled water!
yeah but you can't break your hand off after pouring bottled water on it. There have to be some safety concerns when dealing with the consumer market and supercooled processors. As well as feasability, commercial refrigerant is much cheaper in the long run (refill ever 2-5 years if your system is relatively leak free vs. weekly or daily if the styrofoam container were used). BTW, there are plenty of commercial refrigerants that can cool a space down to -101 take a look at www.grainger.com or www.carrier.com or www.rheem.com for the more commercial solutions.
I'm curious if there is any application for cooling a CPU below sub-zero for anything other than overclocking (ie- since you are dissapating the extra heat energy, x electrons can get to point y faster). I have no idea what the benefits are but it would be interesting to know.
The only thing I found flawed with the experiment is that the energy source for cooling is non-renewable... meaning that to keep -101C for any extended length of time (which ironically is the point where FC-6003 solidifies), you have to keep pouring in liquid Nitrogen as it evaporates (very expensive, unless you keep it compressed). The great thing is that you are cooling an inert liquid, so you don't have to worry about ice crystals, humidity, etc.
That said, why not just throw your computer in the freezer? Or in a more realistic environment, create a zero humidity (or close enough to it) cooler using commercial refrigerants to get the temp down to -101C or whatever is necessary. If I really wanted to, I could go put my computer in the A/C duct right next to the air handler and have it running at 68F, but humidity would be a problem (as water vapor cools it turns into liquid, bad for PC, grrr). Remember when you are doing heat exchange (which is all an A/C is after all, moving the heat in your house outside) you have to move the heat SOMEWHERE, so why not just patch into your existing A/C to get the job done. Now that would be cool.
30 minutes to run the test on a palm? The visor version of the test took a fraction of a second.
Hmm, I guess either all the good programmers left to work for Handspring, or Palm programmers are more interested in cute beeping sounds than in getting it to run fast. BTW it ended up taking about 20min, but at the end it played a little tune. I might run it again and put an LCD timer on it just to scare people at the bank (err, wait... is that legal?).
BTW, could someone who has 8MB tell me how much they have BEFORE they run the pat^H^H^H test program? AFTER running it I'm showing 7936K (on a Palm Vx), which doesn't sound quite right.
Ok, so a month ago I got a Vx so I could travel and not have to lug around a notebook (modem, email client, telnet client, avantgo... it's all I need).
So anyways, now I'm running this stupid "detection utility" which is supposed to take 30min. Well right now it's beeping madly (you'd think they could do a silent check, but nooooo). Maybe they want people who have faulty Palm's to go insane and throw them out the window, that way they won't have to replace them.
I don't know, but I'm not 10min into the beeping and it's DRIVING ME NUTS!!!
Neither IE or M17 display the page properly M17 doesn't even render the Tux one properly
read the article: the Windows code is currently broken (bug 36694 and 19283, to be fixed by beta3). If you want IE to work with PNG you need to switch to Mac, or wait... and wait.:)
I like this one a LOT better that that new blue/aqua crap. I like minimalist approaches SOMETIMES, but the new 6.x design was/is just ugly (IMO).
Every once in a while it still likes to hiccup, but for the most part it's pretty good software, I just hope that they can be smart about it and have a minimal d/l package that only has the core browser in it, since I don't use a lot of the other stuff included (no, I DO NOT want to use AIM, or Net2Phone, or...). Of course I'm just bitching, but it would be nice:)
They are trying to do exactly what Texas Instruments has done, only they are gaining some public attention.
They might either be incredibly smart (wanting the public attention, after all they also want to swell their stock prices, since the savvy investor will realize that they are cornering a market).
-Or-
Incredibly stupid, history has shown us that Summer is when RAM/CPU prices are highly inflated and them upping their price even more will only drive technology sectors to begin looking elsewhere for the hardware they need, even if it means developing non-proprietary memory specifications.
Personally, I'm betting they're going to make a bunch of money off this either way.
/************************************************/ / CIA/Iran Conspiracy Generator v0.1 / / This Conspiracy was released under the GNU / Public License, feel free to modify and / redistribute it as necessary, just keep this / License intact (unless responding in a reply / post to the original message). /************************************************/ Here's an off the wall one for you:
1) Someone in the CIA threatens to go public with info about current espianoge schemes that are very dark, sinister, what-have-you.
2) Person has connections with other govt officials, so having him killed outright (or in an "accident" won't suffice.
3) Conveniently, a story is "leaked" to the press, with full name disclosures. The story is leaked to a designated contact person in the press who will cooperate with their full wishes.
4) PDF is published with names poorly marked out, it's only a matter of days before someone, be it tech whiz or Iranian Intel (such a thing?) finds the information.
Now here's where it kinda falls apart: - Iranians could kill the "real" informant, if he has secrets that were to be released upon his death, they will still get out -or- - most likely scenario: Public will get ahold on information and names and will immediately discredit the "real" informant, whose name is listed, if he ever comes forward with the real CIA information. CIA could then kill him at will and have it blamed on Iranian retaliation. Any documents that get released post-mortem would most likely get glossed over since people will still be focusing on the earlier CIA scandal.
Ok, here's my theory on the Gate Philosophy: It keeps the users out, clear and simple. In any OSS model the user is invited to look at the source and actually become smarter. In the Closed model, there is a CLEAR distinction between programmer and end user; the programmer is smart, and the end user is the one who is stupid and we have to dumb this down for him. That boundary is not as prevelant in the OSS model...
So which is it? Would you rather support a model that tells you that you're dumb and that you should be spoon-fed your software, or the one that actually shows you how the spoon works, so you can use it yourself?
Yeah, but who the hell drinks budweiser with sushi? Oh well, just so long as they can say WaSAAAAAABI! I never thought I'd see the day when commercials actually related to me *sigh*
Here's a couple I have that are a bit forward looking:
The Total Recall Patent: Your memories online, save brain space by offloading unnecessary or unhappy memories, Sado-Masochistic people can download and implant them for a fee. The same goes for d/l and implanting happy memories. The Matrix Patent: Not happy with the current world? Live in your own fabricated existence and experience the euphoria of your own personally creation. The Batman/Riddler Patent (sorry, can't remember the name of that one): Direct marketing just got a little more... _direct_ Don't waste time mining data, beam your advertisement straight into your audiences brains.
Ok, these may be a bit of a stretch technologically, but I would hate to see monopolistic control of any technology concerning data manipulation in my brain.:)
I just got finished watching Microsoft's video rebuttal (it's so blatantly misleading it's funny). Anyways, in the middle of this clip (Windows Media Player required).
Anyways, the funny thing I noticed about it is in the middle of the clip, It looks like BG mouths the words F**k You. I swear I had to look at it a couple of times to beleive what I was seeing... too funny!
The Web has dominated how systems present and use information: the model is forced interaction; the user must go get it. Let's go back to having the data come to the user instead
I think that's called SPAM:) Actually this was tried around 96/97 and it was called "push" technology... it failed miserably.
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I wish they would ALL just call my answering machine. It's much easier to delete them that way and I don't have to deal with rude telemarketers wasting my time reading a script to the end even though the first words out of my mouth are: "no thanks, I don't want to subscribe/buy/get a loan/switch long distance blah blah your product/service" The world would be a better place if targeted marketing was a completely opt-in thing, but then we wouldn't have as many funny Jerky Boys audio files to make us laugh.
Just like DeCSS :)
Here's my link: http://www.growmedicine.com/.
BTW, it's a grow it guide and biography from the same guy in California who was caught growing 4000 Marijuana plants (yes, he has a very impressive grow room).
Any way you pronounce it, it's still spelled F-R-E-E, and that's what's really important isn't it?
/lin-icks/ the fact that it is being said at all is what's important :)
BTW, I have heard all three pronunciations at one time or another, while my preference is to say
ieatspammers.com but then of course I have too much work to do as it is, so it would just become another domain to me... It's free if anyone wants it. It would be a good one to scare spammers, or perhaps you could alter it to your needs, ie: ikillspammers.com spamhunter.com deathtospammers.com you get the idea.
If anyone is interested:
I'm curious if there is any application for cooling a CPU below sub-zero for anything other than overclocking (ie- since you are dissapating the extra heat energy, x electrons can get to point y faster). I have no idea what the benefits are but it would be interesting to know.
Link: http://www.electronics-coo ling.com/html/2000_may_a1.html
Of interest: Researchers identified the advantages of operating electronics at low temperatures. These advantages include: faster semiconductor device switching; increased speed due to lower electrical resistance of interconnecting materials; and a reduction in thermally induced failures.
So basically, lower resistance = faster processing speeds, I know I'm stating the obvious here but it's nice to see that there is a more "scientific" approach to this aspect of computing going on.
Liquid nitrogen is not "very expensive" it's actually cheaper then bottled water!
yeah but you can't break your hand off after pouring bottled water on it. There have to be some safety concerns when dealing with the consumer market and supercooled processors. As well as feasability, commercial refrigerant is much cheaper in the long run (refill ever 2-5 years if your system is relatively leak free vs. weekly or daily if the styrofoam container were used). BTW, there are plenty of commercial refrigerants that can cool a space down to -101 take a look at www.grainger.com or www.carrier.com or www.rheem.com for the more commercial solutions.
I'm curious if there is any application for cooling a CPU below sub-zero for anything other than overclocking (ie- since you are dissapating the extra heat energy, x electrons can get to point y faster). I have no idea what the benefits are but it would be interesting to know.
The only thing I found flawed with the experiment is that the energy source for cooling is non-renewable... meaning that to keep -101C for any extended length of time (which ironically is the point where FC-6003 solidifies), you have to keep pouring in liquid Nitrogen as it evaporates (very expensive, unless you keep it compressed). The great thing is that you are cooling an inert liquid, so you don't have to worry about ice crystals, humidity, etc.
That said, why not just throw your computer in the freezer? Or in a more realistic environment, create a zero humidity (or close enough to it) cooler using commercial refrigerants to get the temp down to -101C or whatever is necessary. If I really wanted to, I could go put my computer in the A/C duct right next to the air handler and have it running at 68F, but humidity would be a problem (as water vapor cools it turns into liquid, bad for PC, grrr). Remember when you are doing heat exchange (which is all an A/C is after all, moving the heat in your house outside) you have to move the heat SOMEWHERE, so why not just patch into your existing A/C to get the job done. Now that would be cool.
30 minutes to run the test on a palm? The visor version of the test took a fraction of a second.
Hmm, I guess either all the good programmers left to work for Handspring, or Palm programmers are more interested in cute beeping sounds than in getting it to run fast. BTW it ended up taking about 20min, but at the end it played a little tune. I might run it again and put an LCD timer on it just to scare people at the bank (err, wait... is that legal?).
I like the classic look too but the problem is it's platform specific. At the moment it is only being released with the Windows version I believe.
Umm, nope... I saw a screenshot of someone elses on MozillaZine.
BTW, could someone who has 8MB tell me how much they have BEFORE they run the pat^H^H^H test program? AFTER running it I'm showing 7936K (on a Palm Vx), which doesn't sound quite right.
There is no patch, there is no spoon.
Ok, so a month ago I got a Vx so I could travel and not have to lug around a notebook (modem, email client, telnet client, avantgo... it's all I need).
So anyways, now I'm running this stupid "detection utility" which is supposed to take 30min. Well right now it's beeping madly (you'd think they could do a silent check, but nooooo). Maybe they want people who have faulty Palm's to go insane and throw them out the window, that way they won't have to replace them.
I don't know, but I'm not 10min into the beeping and it's DRIVING ME NUTS!!!
Neither IE or M17 display the page properly M17 doesn't even render the Tux one properly
:)
read the article: the Windows code is currently broken (bug 36694 and 19283, to be fixed by beta3). If you want IE to work with PNG you need to switch to Mac, or wait... and wait.
I like this one a LOT better that that new blue/aqua crap. I like minimalist approaches SOMETIMES, but the new 6.x design was/is just ugly (IMO).
:)
Every once in a while it still likes to hiccup, but for the most part it's pretty good software, I just hope that they can be smart about it and have a minimal d/l package that only has the core browser in it, since I don't use a lot of the other stuff included (no, I DO NOT want to use AIM, or Net2Phone, or...). Of course I'm just bitching, but it would be nice
Isn't this a monolopoly of the SDRAM market?
:)
No, it's not a monopoly, they haven't built any hotels yet.
They are trying to do exactly what Texas Instruments has done, only they are gaining some public attention.
They might either be incredibly smart (wanting the public attention, after all they also want to swell their stock prices, since the savvy investor will realize that they are cornering a market).
-Or-
Incredibly stupid, history has shown us that Summer is when RAM/CPU prices are highly inflated and them upping their price even more will only drive technology sectors to begin looking elsewhere for the hardware they need, even if it means developing non-proprietary memory specifications.
Personally, I'm betting they're going to make a bunch of money off this either way.
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Here's an off the wall one for you:
1) Someone in the CIA threatens to go public with info about current espianoge schemes that are very dark, sinister, what-have-you.
2) Person has connections with other govt officials, so having him killed outright (or in an "accident" won't suffice.
3) Conveniently, a story is "leaked" to the press, with full name disclosures. The story is leaked to a designated contact person in the press who will cooperate with their full wishes.
4) PDF is published with names poorly marked out, it's only a matter of days before someone, be it tech whiz or Iranian Intel (such a thing?) finds the information.
Now here's where it kinda falls apart:
- Iranians could kill the "real" informant, if he has secrets that were to be released upon his death, they will still get out -or-
- most likely scenario: Public will get ahold on information and names and will immediately discredit the "real" informant, whose name is listed, if he ever comes forward with the real CIA information. CIA could then kill him at will and have it blamed on Iranian retaliation. Any documents that get released post-mortem would most likely get glossed over since people will still be focusing on the earlier CIA scandal.
Ok, here's my theory on the Gate Philosophy: It keeps the users out, clear and simple. In any OSS model the user is invited to look at the source and actually become smarter. In the Closed model, there is a CLEAR distinction between programmer and end user; the programmer is smart, and the end user is the one who is stupid and we have to dumb this down for him. That boundary is not as prevelant in the OSS model...
So which is it? Would you rather support a model that tells you that you're dumb and that you should be spoon-fed your software, or the one that actually shows you how the spoon works, so you can use it yourself?
You know, I've seen porno flicks that started like this
Also, did anyone else notice the rearv iew mirror?
Yeah, but who the hell drinks budweiser with sushi? Oh well, just so long as they can say WaSAAAAAABI! I never thought I'd see the day when commercials actually related to me *sigh*
Forget the car, when does bidding start on the girl? :)
Ok, these may be a bit of a stretch technologically, but I would hate to see monopolistic control of any technology concerning data manipulation in my brain.
I just got finished watching Microsoft's video rebuttal (it's so blatantly misleading it's funny). Anyways, in the middle of this clip (Windows Media Player required).
Anyways, the funny thing I noticed about it is in the middle of the clip, It looks like BG mouths the words F**k You. I swear I had to look at it a couple of times to beleive what I was seeing... too funny!
The Web has dominated how systems present and use information: the model is forced interaction; the user must go get it. Let's go back to having the data come to the user instead
:)
I think that's called SPAM
Actually this was tried around 96/97 and it was called "push" technology... it failed miserably.
Yeah, that's all fine and dandy, but can you program missiles with it like my Playstation II ?