I know this is a small sample, but one of the machines I sync my iPod with is a total mess of non-standard crap stuffed into too small of a box... Dual Athlon XP 1800+, Windows XP pro (SP1 - I uninstalled SP2 because it was unstable), $6 PCI Firewire card, 2 hard drives, 3 optical drives, PCI sound, PCI USB 2.0, PCI SCSI, PCI ethernet (all PCI slots used) DDS3 tape drive, AGP Gforce 5900, and I've been installing windows via upgrade since windows 3.1 including some Windows 95 betas (official, not pirated). All that, and iTunes still works fine with my iPod. Given all that, I'm gussing your problem is less of the "buggy" type and more of the "driver software or something is messed up" type.
I don't know where you live, but around here (Boston Metro West) PC games that aren't made by Lucasarts, Id Software, or Blizzard cost $35. EA games are under $20 if you wait a few months after they come out.
Console games typically cost $45 or $50, but PC games are cheaper than console games.
A massivley overclocked PC held together with string and duct tape that you've decided is "stable" because you can do basic IO and run SiSoft Sandra's CPU benchmark all the way through without the system crashing.
or
You have some name brand or off brand premade PC that you've never done any maintnence on. You keep it on the floor, the power supply and CPU heat sink have long been clogged with dust and/or the fans have died, and you might even smoke around it constantly...
or
You regularly install pirated software that contains viruses that your three year old virus scanner doesn't catch and you regularly click on e-mail attachments from unknown sender.
Cameron's undersea adventures are documented in IMAX. If you want to see an hour and a half of James Cameron looking out the porthole of a submarine in 3D, I highly recommend it. If you don't like looking at James Cameron's face 6 stories tall for such a long period, however, well... not so much.
There are generally, at least on the broadcast networks, anywhere between one and three 5 second segments promoting other station programming in addition to the ads during an ad break.
No, they're going to prevent equipment from automatically editing copyrighted works before display. And once again, I use this disclaimer that this is a loose interpretation.
I'm not saying I like the law, but there's certainly an argument to be made for their power to enact it.
A combination and loose interpretation of Article 1 section 1 and Article 1 section 8 clause 8.
This of course assumes you mean that they get the power to do what they are trying to do in this law, and not what you may be implying about forcing people to watch something.
Your TiVo doesn't automatically skip commercials, which is what would be disallowed by this law. It's not forcing you to play commercials, or even stopping you from manually skipping them.
Air weighs, give or take depending on the gasses, about 1.2 milligrams per cubic centimeter. To drop 21 grams, you would need to exhale over 25,000 cubic centimeters of gas.
How could they put this 50 yards away from a school?
Probably with a backhoe, a dump truck, a steamroller....
Seriously though, are you implying that it's bad to have this near a school without giving any credible reasoning. Why don't you compare and contrast for us the merits of the hydrogen fuel station 50 yards away from the school with what's likely the natural gas line and furnace that likely runs driectly to and resides inside the school?
Hmm.. Sounds like a 41 or so megabyte hash table would break this. If your spammer can spare 40 megabytes of disk space they get to send e-mail for free.
IP is a Layer 3 protocol. Your (Layer 2) ethernet address isn't transmitted to servers over the internet. Many IP enabled devices don't even use ethernet and thus have no mac address.
Regardless, these machines aren't blocked from connecting to the network. They're allowed to connect, checked and then disconnected.
it is not exposed to sunlight directly and is behind UV protective glass in a frame and the yellow and cyan are already fading. this was on "archival" quality printer from a "archival" quality printer with "archival" quality inks.
"Archival" is probably code for "great for sticking in a lead box in a nitrogen bath in a sub basement for 1000 years without fading", but if you want the picture to be visible, well... You're not really archiving it now, are you?;)
And no online support?!?! Come one. It doesn't take a rocket scientest (just a computer one) to do this.
Thank god they didn't.
If you want Online gaming go get an Xbox. Some of us don't want to deal with all the immature little brats that populate most online titles. Even worse, the online segments of practically every online game fall into one of two categories; Either the game has depth and length but only hardcore players with no lives or jobs get to see all of it, or the game is broken up into little bite-sized missions such that the gameplay is the least common demoninator of the attention spans of all the players. In a single player game, the world can be as big as you'd like and the players can explore it and improve at their own pace, wether it takes months or days.
There are plenty of online games, and if that's what you want then go play one of those. For the rest of us though, we like that there are still some single player games out there, so stop bitching that all games aren't online.
By quasi-management I mean people who aren't quite managers but aren't quite engineers because they aren't really good at either, and were stuck there because there was nobody else around to do the job. If you're still employed I would guess that you *are* good at one, the other, or both.
I guess at least my current postion is also considered an "embedded" position however the reason I think it's still in the US is mostly that companies are still unwilling to outsource processes that they consider critical. Without the driver, nothing works. The company I work for outsources about 20 positions, but none that they consider critical to success.
Generally it means a "glorified programmer" who does more design, project managment, or analysis work instead of just coding.
Ditch the management part, and you've got it. The quasi-management techies will remain unemployed. The ones that get their hands dirty and leave the scheduling to somebody else all have jobs.
The specs are relatively clear up front. You you email the specs to India and have the results back for pennies on the dollar.
That has to be the funniest thing I've read all day. If only it were true, my job would be much easier.
Regardless, as a device driver writer and an operating system engineer I can tell you that a little over a year ago I was averaging one headhunter call every six months or so, and now I'm getting two or three a week. Pay is up too. A year ago offers were in the $70k range. Now they're in the $100k range. I'm not just talking about the Boston area (where I live) either. I've gotten calls from companies in the San Fransisco area too.
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I know this is a small sample, but one of the machines I sync my iPod with is a total mess of non-standard crap stuffed into too small of a box... Dual Athlon XP 1800+, Windows XP pro (SP1 - I uninstalled SP2 because it was unstable), $6 PCI Firewire card, 2 hard drives, 3 optical drives, PCI sound, PCI USB 2.0, PCI SCSI, PCI ethernet (all PCI slots used) DDS3 tape drive, AGP Gforce 5900, and I've been installing windows via upgrade since windows 3.1 including some Windows 95 betas (official, not pirated). All that, and iTunes still works fine with my iPod. Given all that, I'm gussing your problem is less of the "buggy" type and more of the "driver software or something is messed up" type.
I don't know where you live, but around here (Boston Metro West) PC games that aren't made by Lucasarts, Id Software, or Blizzard cost $35. EA games are under $20 if you wait a few months after they come out.
Console games typically cost $45 or $50, but PC games are cheaper than console games.
Let me guess, you have either:
A massivley overclocked PC held together with string and duct tape that you've decided is "stable" because you can do basic IO and run SiSoft Sandra's CPU benchmark all the way through without the system crashing.
or
You have some name brand or off brand premade PC that you've never done any maintnence on. You keep it on the floor, the power supply and CPU heat sink have long been clogged with dust and/or the fans have died, and you might even smoke around it constantly...
or
You regularly install pirated software that contains viruses that your three year old virus scanner doesn't catch and you regularly click on e-mail attachments from unknown sender.
and the part we know for sure:
You wonder why some things don't work.
Cameron's undersea adventures are documented in IMAX. If you want to see an hour and a half of James Cameron looking out the porthole of a submarine in 3D, I highly recommend it. If you don't like looking at James Cameron's face 6 stories tall for such a long period, however, well... not so much.
There are generally, at least on the broadcast networks, anywhere between one and three 5 second segments promoting other station programming in addition to the ads during an ad break.
No, they're going to prevent equipment from automatically editing copyrighted works before display. And once again, I use this disclaimer that this is a loose interpretation.
I'm not saying I like the law, but there's certainly an argument to be made for their power to enact it.
30 second skip doesn't work 100% of the time? 30 Second skip on a ReplayTv is just a button that skips 30 seconds. Whenever you hit it, it works.
I suppose you live in a magical world with commercial blocks that are multiples of 30 seconds long all the time?
A combination and loose interpretation of Article 1 section 1 and Article 1 section 8 clause 8.
This of course assumes you mean that they get the power to do what they are trying to do in this law, and not what you may be implying about forcing people to watch something.
Acutally, the best way to irritate a TiVo owner is to be an obnoxious troll like you seem to be doing.
Fast forward works 100% of the time, which isn't even true of 30 second skip, which TiVo does have, and still most TiVo owners don't use it.
Your TiVo doesn't automatically skip commercials, which is what would be disallowed by this law. It's not forcing you to play commercials, or even stopping you from manually skipping them.
as they get double or more the money they normally would. Even multicore CPUs won't get them that.
I expect that multi-core chips will cost exponentially more than multiple single core chips.
BTX doesn't look like it allows for multi-processor boards. Is intel pusing towards a world where SMP is via multi-core CPUs only?
I replied to the parent saying almost the same thing, but....
Now that I think about it more.. That density is at STP. I wonder what the pressure is inside the lungs of a person who is about to die.
Air weighs, give or take depending on the gasses, about 1.2 milligrams per cubic centimeter. To drop 21 grams, you would need to exhale over 25,000 cubic centimeters of gas.
How could they put this 50 yards away from a school?
Probably with a backhoe, a dump truck, a steamroller....
Seriously though, are you implying that it's bad to have this near a school without giving any credible reasoning. Why don't you compare and contrast for us the merits of the hydrogen fuel station 50 yards away from the school with what's likely the natural gas line and furnace that likely runs driectly to and resides inside the school?
All you need is Microsoft to refuse to license any games that don't support all of the variants and you don't have that problem.
Hmm.. Sounds like a 41 or so megabyte hash table would break this. If your spammer can spare 40 megabytes of disk space they get to send e-mail for free.
IP is a Layer 3 protocol. Your (Layer 2) ethernet address isn't transmitted to servers over the internet. Many IP enabled devices don't even use ethernet and thus have no mac address.
Regardless, these machines aren't blocked from connecting to the network. They're allowed to connect, checked and then disconnected.
it is not exposed to sunlight directly and is behind UV protective glass in a frame and the yellow and cyan are already fading. this was on "archival" quality printer from a "archival" quality printer with "archival" quality inks.
;)
"Archival" is probably code for "great for sticking in a lead box in a nitrogen bath in a sub basement for 1000 years without fading", but if you want the picture to be visible, well... You're not really archiving it now, are you?
And no online support?!?! Come one. It doesn't take a rocket scientest (just a computer one) to do this.
Thank god they didn't.
If you want Online gaming go get an Xbox. Some of us don't want to deal with all the immature little brats that populate most online titles. Even worse, the online segments of practically every online game fall into one of two categories; Either the game has depth and length but only hardcore players with no lives or jobs get to see all of it, or the game is broken up into little bite-sized missions such that the gameplay is the least common demoninator of the attention spans of all the players. In a single player game, the world can be as big as you'd like and the players can explore it and improve at their own pace, wether it takes months or days.
There are plenty of online games, and if that's what you want then go play one of those. For the rest of us though, we like that there are still some single player games out there, so stop bitching that all games aren't online.
You're telling me that the common definition of "information technology industry" includes anyone anywhere who has ever used a computer for anything?
No, I'm telling you that there are categories of workers who use a computer to do their job that are called "IT" workers.
You're completely full of shit.
Being an asshole doesn't help make your points.
Twice a week since I upgraded to XP a month ago, but maybe twice the entire 2 years I was running Windows 2000.
BSODs are retro. They're in style again. XP SP2 is the new Windows ME.
By quasi-management I mean people who aren't quite managers but aren't quite engineers because they aren't really good at either, and were stuck there because there was nobody else around to do the job. If you're still employed I would guess that you *are* good at one, the other, or both.
:)
There's always exceptions to the rule too.
I guess at least my current postion is also considered an "embedded" position however the reason I think it's still in the US is mostly that companies are still unwilling to outsource processes that they consider critical. Without the driver, nothing works. The company I work for outsources about 20 positions, but none that they consider critical to success.
Generally it means a "glorified programmer" who does more design, project managment, or analysis work instead of just coding.
Ditch the management part, and you've got it. The quasi-management techies will remain unemployed. The ones that get their hands dirty and leave the scheduling to somebody else all have jobs.
The specs are relatively clear up front. You you email the specs to India and have the results back for pennies on the dollar.
That has to be the funniest thing I've read all day. If only it were true, my job would be much easier.
Regardless, as a device driver writer and an operating system engineer I can tell you that a little over a year ago I was averaging one headhunter call every six months or so, and now I'm getting two or three a week. Pay is up too. A year ago offers were in the $70k range. Now they're in the $100k range. I'm not just talking about the Boston area (where I live) either. I've gotten calls from companies in the San Fransisco area too.