A good number of them will go to Dell or their ISP's
What are Dell or their ISP's going to support?
What criteria to these big companies use?
If I am computer illiterate and every time I have a problem the first explanation from support is use IE what are the odds I will use something else?
The real criteria is enough people not in the know need to want to use a product that it will be supported, and the best way to do that is build a strong brand that people will know about, and maybe even get some larger customers.
People don't call Mozilla either, but if it was biger and perceived as more then a fad Dell and Earthlink might.
You have to wonder how many paying customers of XP are using hardware from last century and playing games on it.
Also, isn't it ATI's job to write drivers?
And if you really did pay for XP there were probably better computer related investments to make, like 15 USD for Cedega, a newer grapics card, and still have some money to spare.
Surley there are things 12 year olds shouldn't watch/play.
I can't speak for games, but there are plrobably things I would have been bettr off not reading that I did.
An immersive environment that depicts you as the protagonist going around and brutaly murdering people in a realistic type setting cannot be a good thing for anybody, but especially not for someone 12 years old. I don't know if such a game exists, but such a blanket statement is just silly. Also anybody, of any age, that thinks wrestling is real probably shouldn't play wrestling games.
Chldrens brains are not fully developed and do have a harder time serperating fantasy from reality.
I'm not saying a 12 year old can't watch 12 The Terminator, or play Quake 3. But they probably shouldn't watch <a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159241/>Aftermat h</a>
There comes a point where a hi-res scan is just as good.
I am not saying this is where it is done, but if the smallest grain is many pixels then it doesn't matter if it is represented as many pixels or one grain.
I read something about this half a decade ago, there was a team working hard to make reproducable results within limits of collecting the proper number of ataoms to make a kilogram.
They were close but still a off by too many atoms (they wanted to be within some rediculously small number, and were like 3 times that away, I think the accuracy they were looking for wa in the realm of 100 atoms).
It really neads to be done so scientists can calibrate their equipment with masses as accurate as possible, and currently to get a true kilogram you need to get the official kilogram from France and in the prossess make it a little bit smaller.
With the exception of limited advancement, which as far as I know is a problem for women in pretty much every field. Probably because women in successful families are likly to take a hiatus from work to raise young children, and therefore from an employers perspective are inherently higher risk.
At least when I was in school (nopt too long ago) IT was geeky, and in IT related classes I was with a bunch of "geeks".
I think that when he asks the hard questions of the right it is because they wanted to get out in front a liberal audiance and explain their views.
It is an adversarial stance, but they are still having fun, ad since people won't take it seriously they can have more freedom. I have never seen him cause anybody to lose their compasure, and he always has fun with them.
The reason I say this seams planned is that the guests always seem happy to answer and even happy the question was asked. Also there are plenty of gravy interviews on the right also, they are just stupid and unmemmorable (Bob Dole).
His best political interview was probably Peggy Noonin.
As for the news stories, there is a large conservative biased in non-mainstream (raidio/cable) news outlets and most democratic faux pas are beaten to death, the republican ones are not, so it is fresher matierial.
Clips such as Dick Cheney calling press members assholes are not going to make it into mainstream media, and they are not going to make it into conservative media, it is a very good niche for him.
I was being sarcastic and really know nothing about the law and was just fuming and ranting.
I imagine this law is being passed a s away to keep the "evil doers" in this case trial lawyers from taking all the money that is won in a class action suit. So the law presumably disinsentivizes the lawyers from bringing too many cases.
In reality suing a large company is very expensive and putting caps on what the lawyers can charge for is irresponsible.
If someone grossly over charges another scum sucking protecter of the people (trial lawyer) will be happy to step in and sue for malpractice.
If we are going to continue to have a legel system where much of the bad acts are handled by the guilty paying the victum and not going to jail or paying the government then we need to let the police of the people do their job.
The whole point to civil court is to let the people (as apposed to The People in criminal court) have their say, and it can cost a lot of money. And if a case is lost many times it is not the class eating the cost, but the lawyers themselves.
PS: trial lawyers suck, but legislating every infraction into criminal code sucks more.
I can't think of any show I saw a graphic head blowing of on broadcast TV though.
And I have not seen anything but the Daily show as far as TV news latly. I didn't even realise they still covered international events though, last time I saw a preview for the news it was:
"eating 7 carrots, find out the news that could save your life" (no that wasn't the daily show).
So you propose for the money I spend now on cable a good solution is to get 3 networks (not even)?
What we really need is aeverything to be PPV and have On demand.
Free cable pay for the few shows I want to watch, of course that won't work eith because people will watch much less TV driving up the price.
I really wish they would just not let me FF the commercials and get rid of the loud banner adds (FX) and let me time shift however I pleased.
I didn't get Tivo to skip adds, it is a perk, but I got it to watch my TV when I wanted.
I want to know why the FCC thinks it is OK to broadcast degenerate worthless trash into my house (trading spouses) but not let me see a tit at 3 AM or heaven forbid someone say "fuck".
What we need is more subsidized media for adults (look at what the BBC puts out, it's awsome).
I'm sorry I didn't mean to imply that I used these things just pointing out some wuick examples that come to mind. I guess I have never really seen a 64-Bit PCI slot (I work for a small company that beige boxes make shift servers when we nead one and we are cheap). I am currentlt expanding the capacity of one of these "servers" (we use 1-2 TB a year and I want to keep a longer archive live), and it would be nice to have many 800 Mb/s channels to pop many 250 GB drives in. I would expect 150 Mb/s a drive to be more than enough, so I could have 2-3 RAIDed(1) pairs of 250 GB drives on each channel, allowing me to get our archive live and go into the furture. With Gb ethernet, access to these would be pretty fast (throughput). Yes SCSI could work too, but price is king, this is not a use for 16GB of RAM obviously, just the thoughput.
As for teh scanner that was far more theroretical, but scanning 11 x 17 at even a modest resolution is very slow over SCSI (not seen SCSI 3 in action though, again we are not that big, we do a few hundred thousand here and there). Right now the bottle neck is transmitting the uncompressed image. If something used a card that took advantage of most of the PCI-X bus writing to disk could become a bottle neck (depending on compression) and you would then need lots of RAM to feed that stack of 1000's of sheets without waiting to write.
The only truly highspeed color scanner I have seen scanned to a local drive that you could access over the network or burn CD's from, I don't know what it ran or what its hardware was. The computer that drove it probably had lots of RAM and really fast PCI type bus, but I concede 16 GB of RAM would be exsessive, and if the output files are compressed early enough RAM levels could probably be fairly low, wqe usually look at 10 MB jpegs for output files (11 x 17).
I saw a scanner that could do 30 pages a minute color (8.5 x 11) depending on where the compression happpens and how much it is expected to be used with it could use a very large RAM buffer and fill it pretty quick (25 MB each (about)) puts 640 pictures in RAM at 15GB the stack feeders for these things are 1000's tall so I could see the controler/prossessor for one of these haveing lots of RAM.
My original comment was more just that I didn't assume graphics when I saw PCI-X and threw out a couple uses.
The next "server" I make will have PCI-X and it will not be for the graphics at all.
I could see an instance where 3 800 Mb channels of FireWire 2 would help throughput, and no, that's not a graphics card, and yes it is a PCI-X card.
I have also worked with High Speed color scanners, and a cutting edge one could easily need the RAM and PCI-X to scan to RAM and write inbetween stacks and to do it fast.
Also, to the questioner:
Buy Linux Format, they weview huge ass Linux servers with tons of RAM every month (though more like 8GB if memmory serves correctly).
Or they don't mind paying customers not committing crimes (spaming/port scanning) or they look at themselves as a utility (I woudn't expect the electric company to respond to me if I said my neighbor was doing something illegel with their power).
Why do we expect our ISP's to let us do as we wish, and then to cut others service as we wish too.
In anything I've used $2b would be a variable with that name.
0x2B | ~0x2B == 0xFF
$2B OR NOT $2B = $FF Would return true or false depending on the value of $FF.
$2B = $FF should return as true (the assignment, the NOT makes it false, so the $2B would equal $FF and return as true for non-zero values (as a condition to an if).
I am not criticizing to be an asshole, I really liked the sig and it made me think, you were just a sensless victum who is forced to listen (after my girlfriend rolled her eyes and left the room).
Who wins 2x2 chess Black or White?
It starts with a checkmate, but in Chess you cannot take the king, so what happens?
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Who do these consumers go to for support?
A good number of them will go to Dell or their ISP's
What are Dell or their ISP's going to support?
What criteria to these big companies use?
If I am computer illiterate and every time I have a problem the first explanation from support is use IE what are the odds I will use something else?
The real criteria is enough people not in the know need to want to use a product that it will be supported, and the best way to do that is build a strong brand that people will know about, and maybe even get some larger customers.
People don't call Mozilla either, but if it was biger and perceived as more then a fad Dell and Earthlink might.
Really, what is the point of Windows XP?
And was it worth the money?
You have to wonder how many paying customers of XP are using hardware from last century and playing games on it.
Also, isn't it ATI's job to write drivers?
And if you really did pay for XP there were probably better computer related investments to make, like 15 USD for Cedega, a newer grapics card, and still have some money to spare.
I thought that was what Knoppix was.
Yeah, but large illegel download vs free wit commercials.
I persoanally would take the free, but maybe I am too lazy. I rarly skip adds with my Tivo because it is a pain in the ass.
Surley there are things 12 year olds shouldn't watch/play.
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I can't speak for games, but there are plrobably things I would have been bettr off not reading that I did.
An immersive environment that depicts you as the protagonist going around and brutaly murdering people in a realistic type setting cannot be a good thing for anybody, but especially not for someone 12 years old. I don't know if such a game exists, but such a blanket statement is just silly. Also anybody, of any age, that thinks wrestling is real probably shouldn't play wrestling games.
Chldrens brains are not fully developed and do have a harder time serperating fantasy from reality.
I'm not saying a 12 year old can't watch 12 The Terminator, or play Quake 3. But they probably shouldn't watch <a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159241/>Afterma
There comes a point where a hi-res scan is just as good.
I am not saying this is where it is done, but if the smallest grain is many pixels then it doesn't matter if it is represented as many pixels or one grain.
Hate to reply to my own post... LINK
It would be nice to have a working link, eh?
Ouch,
never mention the Dreamcase controller again.
I still have blisters from the memmory card holder hitting my knuckles.
I read something about this half a decade ago, there was a team working hard to make reproducable results within limits of collecting the proper number of ataoms to make a kilogram.
They were close but still a off by too many atoms (they wanted to be within some rediculously small number, and were like 3 times that away, I think the accuracy they were looking for wa in the realm of 100 atoms).
It really neads to be done so scientists can calibrate their equipment with masses as accurate as possible, and currently to get a true kilogram you need to get the official kilogram from France and in the prossess make it a little bit smaller.
Evey single issue there applies to guys as weel.
With the exception of limited advancement, which as far as I know is a problem for women in pretty much every field. Probably because women in successful families are likly to take a hiatus from work to raise young children, and therefore from an employers perspective are inherently higher risk.
At least when I was in school (nopt too long ago) IT was geeky, and in IT related classes I was with a bunch of "geeks".
I think that when he asks the hard questions of the right it is because they wanted to get out in front a liberal audiance and explain their views.
It is an adversarial stance, but they are still having fun, ad since people won't take it seriously they can have more freedom. I have never seen him cause anybody to lose their compasure, and he always has fun with them.
The reason I say this seams planned is that the guests always seem happy to answer and even happy the question was asked. Also there are plenty of gravy interviews on the right also, they are just stupid and unmemmorable (Bob Dole).
His best political interview was probably Peggy Noonin.
As for the news stories, there is a large conservative biased in non-mainstream (raidio/cable) news outlets and most democratic faux pas are beaten to death, the republican ones are not, so it is fresher matierial.
Clips such as Dick Cheney calling press members assholes are not going to make it into mainstream media, and they are not going to make it into conservative media, it is a very good niche for him.
Actually Nintendo probably doesn't want there early shots to look like Wind Waker, because they are making no mo ney on it.
If there are 10's of 1000's of looks the developer really should make the caracter look different and release new shots.
I was being sarcastic and really know nothing about the law and was just fuming and ranting.
I imagine this law is being passed a s away to keep the "evil doers" in this case trial lawyers from taking all the money that is won in a class action suit. So the law presumably disinsentivizes the lawyers from bringing too many cases.
In reality suing a large company is very expensive and putting caps on what the lawyers can charge for is irresponsible.
If someone grossly over charges another scum sucking protecter of the people (trial lawyer) will be happy to step in and sue for malpractice.
If we are going to continue to have a legel system where much of the bad acts are handled by the guilty paying the victum and not going to jail or paying the government then we need to let the police of the people do their job.
The whole point to civil court is to let the people (as apposed to The People in criminal court) have their say, and it can cost a lot of money. And if a case is lost many times it is not the class eating the cost, but the lawyers themselves.
PS:
trial lawyers suck, but legislating every infraction into criminal code sucks more.
I can't think of any show I saw a graphic head blowing of on broadcast TV though.
And I have not seen anything but the Daily show as far as TV news latly. I didn't even realise they still covered international events though, last time I saw a preview for the news it was:
"eating 7 carrots, find out the news that could save your life" (no that wasn't the daily show).
TO answer your questions:
1) the plaintiff will be limitted, not the defendant, only fair that way
2) It will only be tied up if the case is moving int he Plaintiffs' favor.
3) Customers will wish it was a $5.00 coupon to buy more product, in the end expect a $0.50 coupon to cover postage to get into the class.
So you propose for the money I spend now on cable a good solution is to get 3 networks (not even)?
What we really need is aeverything to be PPV and have On demand.
Free cable pay for the few shows I want to watch, of course that won't work eith because people will watch much less TV driving up the price.
I really wish they would just not let me FF the commercials and get rid of the loud banner adds (FX) and let me time shift however I pleased.
I didn't get Tivo to skip adds, it is a perk, but I got it to watch my TV when I wanted.
I want to know why the FCC thinks it is OK to broadcast degenerate worthless trash into my house (trading spouses) but not let me see a tit at 3 AM or heaven forbid someone say "fuck".
What we need is more subsidized media for adults (look at what the BBC puts out, it's awsome).
I'm sorry I didn't mean to imply that I used these things just pointing out some wuick examples that come to mind. I guess I have never really seen a 64-Bit PCI slot (I work for a small company that beige boxes make shift servers when we nead one and we are cheap). I am currentlt expanding the capacity of one of these "servers" (we use 1-2 TB a year and I want to keep a longer archive live), and it would be nice to have many 800 Mb/s channels to pop many 250 GB drives in. I would expect 150 Mb/s a drive to be more than enough, so I could have 2-3 RAIDed(1) pairs of 250 GB drives on each channel, allowing me to get our archive live and go into the furture. With Gb ethernet, access to these would be pretty fast (throughput). Yes SCSI could work too, but price is king, this is not a use for 16GB of RAM obviously, just the thoughput.
As for teh scanner that was far more theroretical, but scanning 11 x 17 at even a modest resolution is very slow over SCSI (not seen SCSI 3 in action though, again we are not that big, we do a few hundred thousand here and there). Right now the bottle neck is transmitting the uncompressed image. If something used a card that took advantage of most of the PCI-X bus writing to disk could become a bottle neck (depending on compression) and you would then need lots of RAM to feed that stack of 1000's of sheets without waiting to write.
The only truly highspeed color scanner I have seen scanned to a local drive that you could access over the network or burn CD's from, I don't know what it ran or what its hardware was. The computer that drove it probably had lots of RAM and really fast PCI type bus, but I concede 16 GB of RAM would be exsessive, and if the output files are compressed early enough RAM levels could probably be fairly low, wqe usually look at 10 MB jpegs for output files (11 x 17).
I saw a scanner that could do 30 pages a minute color (8.5 x 11) depending on where the compression happpens and how much it is expected to be used with it could use a very large RAM buffer and fill it pretty quick (25 MB each (about)) puts 640 pictures in RAM at 15GB the stack feeders for these things are 1000's tall so I could see the controler/prossessor for one of these haveing lots of RAM.
My original comment was more just that I didn't assume graphics when I saw PCI-X and threw out a couple uses.
The next "server" I make will have PCI-X and it will not be for the graphics at all.
I could see an instance where 3 800 Mb channels of FireWire 2 would help throughput, and no, that's not a graphics card, and yes it is a PCI-X card.
I have also worked with High Speed color scanners, and a cutting edge one could easily need the RAM and PCI-X to scan to RAM and write inbetween stacks and to do it fast.
Also, to the questioner:
Buy Linux Format, they weview huge ass Linux servers with tons of RAM every month (though more like 8GB if memmory serves correctly).
Or they don't mind paying customers not committing crimes (spaming/port scanning) or they look at themselves as a utility (I woudn't expect the electric company to respond to me if I said my neighbor was doing something illegel with their power).
Why do we expect our ISP's to let us do as we wish, and then to cut others service as we wish too.
My favorite part of that game is towards the beginning when the gargoyle thing is saying something and it ends with
"Suffer like Jay did"?
instead of being a threat/promise to you it is definatly asking it in an inquisitive/confused manner. The same way one could say:
Tacos for dinner tonight?
I didn't expect to be taken seriously there,
I truly think it reads better the way you had it, I was just board and as I said, I liked it and thought too much.
But can You take the King?
There is no rule saying you can't, in chess it is impossinle to be able to take the king.
Shouldn't the sig be 0x2b OR NOT 0x2b??
In anything I've used $2b would be a variable with that name.
0x2B | ~0x2B == 0xFF
$2B OR NOT $2B = $FF
Would return true or false depending on the value of $FF.
$2B = $FF should return as true (the assignment, the NOT makes it false, so the $2B would equal $FF and return as true for non-zero values (as a condition to an if).
I am not criticizing to be an asshole, I really liked the sig and it made me think, you were just a sensless victum who is forced to listen (after my girlfriend rolled her eyes and left the room).
Who wins 2x2 chess Black or White?
It starts with a checkmate, but in Chess you cannot take the king, so what happens?
The only "property" really being used is the router though.