IIRC there was a company who made just that type of computers (well kinda), the n-cube. I always think of them as a meta-meta-...-meta-beowulf cluster of smp-machines.
Microsoft may be a bad company, but give me them over Apple anyday
Yes, we owe our cheap hardware to Microsoft. Because Microsoft and IBM opted for the PC like they did and let cheap clone-builders create cheap PC's we can get a cheap Linux box by buying sub-(current)standard (=cheap) hardware.
Perhaps the IOC will ban all filmcrews and photographers taking pictures of the event. They stopped the press taking pictures of falling horses. If a photographer was captured, then he had to hand in his badge and leave for home. So it's unlikely that the IOC will allow pictures of swimmers attacking sharks.
You are so right
In the previous series you could alway count on princes Leia. There was a certain tension between the Princess, Han and Luke. In Episode I, the queen Amidala should have fallen in and out of love with someone and thus seemingly damaging the alliance.
Windows allowing apps to write all over the registry without my knowledge is a feature?
Windows is designed to bring the desktop to the masses. It therefore will hide everything that might be complicated. And they hide it well. So Windows will do a lot that you will not know about, like maybe sending data to Microsoft about your box. This shouldn't worry you because "[They] Do Know What Is Good For You And You Do Not!!!"
That's why I like linux and thats why I uses tarballs. It's my box, so if it's messed up, then it should be my own fault, not the fault of me not understanding some feature.
No, it's not. It is only a thousand times more wear resistant than the silicon substrate they use in micro machines, which are worn out within a few minutes. So let's say that the silicon micro machine will last for 10 minutes, then then the diamond coated micro machine will last for about seven days. When implanted to help your kidneys or your heart, it still will have to be replaced every week.
The part in which the author descibed the essence of not wearing a fake moustache is hilarious. Reminds me of wizards wearing false false beards just to see a flick. It's the same type of (il)logic, 'though it's better in books, than it is in interactive stories.
So you only have a problem if you use it on a pc which contains privacy sensitive information and / or programs other than those used for web-access. Yeah, so there's no problem. hmpff.
>> It feels like this guy's had five or six beers and is trying to pick up
>> 19-year-old chicks at a bar so he won't feel so middle-aged.
>I don't know, but if you want to pick up chicks I don't think talking about music formats is the way to go about it.
Well maybe that's why his wife is 15 years older than he is.
The last time I took a networking class, the differences between bitrate and baudrate were explained. In short, bitrate is the number of bits transferred per second, baudrate is the number of signal changes per second. If you would use only two tones to encode a bit, then the bitrate and the baudrate would be the same. If that is the case with your modem, then you are right in the assumption that listening to a modem is listening in binary.
However, to achieve more than 2800 odd bit/s [1], two or more bits are encoded into one tone, the bitrate multiplies accordingly, so you would listnen in base-4, base-8 or base-16.
[1] please fill in the right number, as I do not know it by heart (shame on me).
I get fed up with people who want to web-enable everything in your entire house.
Well, maybe you're not really into this big brother thing. Some guy overhere in The Netherlands is however so interested in it that he web-enabled his entire house including his frigde and his recylce bin.
Uhm, I guess he meant the Zuse I, 'cause that was invented in a country captured by the Merkins (with Allied allies and Russia) which makes is a merkin invention in the eyes of every Merkin.
One other explanation would be that the comment was written by Al Gore.
You are right in saying that a number is hard to copyright. However IMO copyright protects the work that got into the arranging the symbols that make up the number. As another post pointed out, a book can be copyrighted. A single letter cannot be copyrighted. The result of arranging the letters so that they make up a book is copyrightable.
A few weeks ago I started working with an app that provided a nice work around for right-clicking. This app runs under Win9x and the right mouse button cannot be used in it. Instead, when selecting an object it presents a number of small icons next to the object that make up the right-click menu. IMHO, this is a very nice alternative to the right-click popup menu.
Oh, by the way, the application is called Bryce 3D and is a 3D modelling and drawing application.
Uptime on a IBM mainframe is 100% close as dammit.
Well, one of our mainframes needed an IPL yesterday. It functions as an information warehouse and receives many ad-hoc requests. Although it isn't a production machine, it was still an unscheduled downtime of about one and a half hour.
I hate waiting 20 mins for the latest build to compile.
Well maybe you could give your wrist a little rest. While waiting may be annoying, there is definitly an upside to it. Slow computers and computer crashes allow us to break free from our screens every now and then. Having to wait 10 minutes to boot Win95, 30 minutes to render 1 image allows me to socialise with my collegues (and at home with my wife). I still suspect Micro Soft to give us the BSOD every now and then on purpose, just based on our activities with the machine. Hey! That's where the CPU-cycles go!
Funny then that there's numerous non-Windows COM implementations, even one for IBM S/390 mainframes
You mean the LE/370 thing? Yes I use it at work, but only in combination with OS/VS COBOL and COBOL/370. Works kinda neat.
What I meant with the CORBA kind / style of thing... was a Object Request Broker that acts as an enhanced and platform independent remote procedure call interface. I said CORBA style of thing because of the fact that the Windows DCOM implementation is much more practical to use than a CORBA implementation in that it has spread much wider. It isn't better, it's just more available. I certainly would like one good implementation compatible through IIOP or whatever to use and connect all kinds of machines. Just like in the days of open computing.
CORBA is an architecture not an implementation. CORBA ORBS are the implementation. Windows DCOM is an implementation, not an architecture, its an enhancement of an enhancement of OLE.
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A meta-Beowulf cluster...
IIRC there was a company who made just that type of computers (well kinda), the n-cube. I always think of them as a meta-meta-...-meta-beowulf cluster of smp-machines.
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Microsoft may be a bad company, but give me them over Apple anyday
Yes, we owe our cheap hardware to Microsoft. Because Microsoft and IBM opted for the PC like they did and let cheap clone-builders create cheap PC's we can get a cheap Linux box by buying sub-(current)standard (=cheap) hardware.
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Perhaps the IOC will ban all filmcrews and photographers taking pictures of the event. They stopped the press taking pictures of falling horses. If a photographer was captured, then he had to hand in his badge and leave for home.
So it's unlikely that the IOC will allow pictures of swimmers attacking sharks.
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You are so right
In the previous series you could alway count on princes Leia. There was a certain tension between the Princess, Han and Luke. In Episode I, the queen Amidala should have fallen in and out of love with someone and thus seemingly damaging the alliance.
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Windows allowing apps to write all over the registry without my knowledge is a feature?
Windows is designed to bring the desktop to the masses. It therefore will hide everything that might be complicated. And they hide it well. So Windows will do a lot that you will not know about, like maybe sending data to Microsoft about your box. This shouldn't worry you because "[They] Do Know What Is Good For You And You Do Not!!!"
That's why I like linux and thats why I uses tarballs. It's my box, so if it's messed up, then it should be my own fault, not the fault of me not understanding some feature.
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Dat was reely stupid, of me. I am a stupid troll, i will report myself to Detritus, sorry
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Sure it's wear resistant, ...
No, it's not. It is only a thousand times more wear resistant than the silicon substrate they use in micro machines, which are worn out within a few minutes.
So let's say that the silicon micro machine will last for 10 minutes, then then the diamond coated micro machine will last for about seven days. When implanted to help your kidneys or your heart, it still will have to be replaced every week.
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The part in which the author descibed the essence of not wearing a fake moustache is hilarious. Reminds me of wizards wearing false false beards just to see a flick. It's the same type of (il)logic, 'though it's better in books, than it is in interactive stories.
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So you only have a problem if you use it on a pc which contains privacy sensitive information and / or programs other than those used for web-access.
Yeah, so there's no problem. hmpff.
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Those long arms had to come in useful sometime...
Especially when you equip the watch with some kind of 'auto-rewind' kinetic energy, like those seiko watches have.
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>> It feels like this guy's had five or six beers and is trying to pick up >> 19-year-old chicks at a bar so he won't feel so middle-aged. >I don't know, but if you want to pick up chicks I don't think talking about music formats is the way to go about it. Well maybe that's why his wife is 15 years older than he is.
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Perhaps Zinedine Zidane was preocupied elsewhere...
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So, what would be the gimmick developed for the winning team? Does anyone have a link?
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The last time I took a networking class, the differences between bitrate and baudrate were explained. In short, bitrate is the number of bits transferred per second, baudrate is the number of signal changes per second. If you would use only two tones to encode a bit, then the bitrate and the baudrate would be the same. If that is the case with your modem, then you are right in the assumption that listening to a modem is listening in binary.
However, to achieve more than 2800 odd bit/s [1], two or more bits are encoded into one tone, the bitrate multiplies accordingly, so you would listnen in base-4, base-8 or base-16.
[1] please fill in the right number, as I do not know it by heart (shame on me).
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Perhaps the /. site html is deemed as a good benchmark site for opera.
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I get fed up with people who want to web-enable everything in your entire house.
Well, maybe you're not really into this big brother thing. Some guy overhere in The Netherlands is however so interested in it that he web-enabled his entire house including his frigde and his recylce bin.
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Uhm, I guess he meant the Zuse I, 'cause that was invented in a country captured by the Merkins (with Allied allies and Russia) which makes is a merkin invention in the eyes of every Merkin.
One other explanation would be that the comment was written by Al Gore.
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You are right in saying that a number is hard to copyright. However IMO copyright protects the work that got into the arranging the symbols that make up the number. As another post pointed out, a book can be copyrighted. A single letter cannot be copyrighted. The result of arranging the letters so that they make up a book is copyrightable.
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No, they will provide the Cobol sourcecode for it, because Cobol is the only constant in the evermoving world of programming languages.
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A few weeks ago I started working with an app that provided a nice work around for right-clicking. This app runs under Win9x and the right mouse button cannot be used in it. Instead, when selecting an object it presents a number of small icons next to the object that make up the right-click menu. IMHO, this is a very nice alternative to the right-click popup menu.
Oh, by the way, the application is called Bryce 3D and is a 3D modelling and drawing application.
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Well, under Linux my Soundcard is so slow, it actually plays everything in twice the time. Under win95 it works fine.
Please do not pay attention to the above.
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Uptime on a IBM mainframe is 100% close as dammit.
Well, one of our mainframes needed an IPL yesterday. It functions as an information warehouse and receives many ad-hoc requests. Although it isn't a production machine, it was still an unscheduled downtime of about one and a half hour.
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I hate waiting 20 mins for the latest build to compile.
Well maybe you could give your wrist a little rest. While waiting may be annoying, there is definitly an upside to it. Slow computers and computer crashes allow us to break free from our screens every now and then. Having to wait 10 minutes to boot Win95, 30 minutes to render 1 image allows me to socialise with my collegues (and at home with my wife). I still suspect Micro Soft to give us the BSOD every now and then on purpose, just based on our activities with the machine. Hey! That's where the CPU-cycles go!
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Complete is indeed the complete package. You are allowed to run it on one (1) cpu.
Unlimited contains the same package, but you are allowed to run it on 9999 cpu's.
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Funny then that there's numerous non-Windows COM implementations, even one for IBM S/390 mainframes
You mean the LE/370 thing? Yes I use it at work, but only in combination with OS/VS COBOL and COBOL/370. Works kinda neat.
What I meant with the CORBA kind / style of thing... was a Object Request Broker that acts as an enhanced and platform independent remote procedure call interface. I said CORBA style of thing because of the fact that the Windows DCOM implementation is much more practical to use than a CORBA implementation in that it has spread much wider. It isn't better, it's just more available. I certainly would like one good implementation compatible through IIOP or whatever to use and connect all kinds of machines. Just like in the days of open computing.
CORBA is an architecture not an implementation. CORBA ORBS are the implementation. Windows DCOM is an implementation, not an architecture, its an enhancement of an enhancement of OLE.
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