My Zaurus is not a PDA but a PDT (Person Digital Tool), and anyone who says otherwise is getting a foot in their arse.
A PDA is a glorified address book that plays music and sells for 300$. My Zaurus (SL-5500) costs less than 200, runs a mobile X-11 server, allows for quick coding (802.11b CF card + ssh) when I am off campus and can't log into something heavy, plays movies, serves webpages, and runs Linux. The Zaurus is very hackable and has a high fun value attached to it. $699 is alot to spend for it, but in 6 months you can ebay one for about 300 which would be more inline.
AMD and intel have numerous cross liscencing deals goinging on that ammount to Intel can use AMD's IP and AMD can use Intel's IP for, I believe, compatibility. I am not sure about the exact deals but in theory AMD can make a compatible implementation Intel's HyperThreading tech (via reverse engineering) and Intel can (apparently) in practice use AMD's 64 bit extensions with neither paying royalties or considerations to the other. Other examples from the other direction are AMD implementing MMX and SSE as 3DNow and 3dNow Pro.
USB is terrible for some applications, video capture being the most obvious. The IEEE1394 spec requires a separate controller for the port, but USB controllers can e implemented in software. So when you are capturing video with firewire you have more free processor time than with usb 2.0. I am sure that there is a similar Niche app for bluetooth that will keep it alive and functioning.
(I am not sure if my explanation is right, but most benchmarks I have seen show that firewire uses less of the processor than USB).
If you were to embed myDoom after the overflow area in the bitmap then when outlook opened the file using ie's render could one have my doom that didn't even need to have the end user open the file? It would just execute replicate, then piss people all to hell? For that matter could I include the windows equivalent of rm -rf / ?
Why are people pursuing touchscreen ballots? Why not hook a computer up to a more physical interface (ie one would have lcd's next to real buttons with the candidates name)? I find it much more, enjoyable to push a button than tap a screen (Of course mashing a screen until it produces a permanant black mark is fun too).
Why is the government (through sub contractor or not) outsourcing to begin with? Maybe this is the reason Bush came up 249,000 jobs short of his goal of 250,000 new jobs in 2003.
Public educaiton in the USA is a wack meeting. First we teachers are given a few days of preplanning where we are at school working, but we have to go to about 8 meetings in 3 days to get caught up on the latest state imposed paperwork. Next you have the Superintendent showing up telling us what he would like to see without actually saying anything for about 30-45 minutes. Then when it is nearly over and he gets that I need a Subway look in his eyes someone raises her hand and asks the question... "Why do you think your ideas will change anything?" At which point any student caught pulling the fire alarm could easily get enough money from a collection from the faculty to hire a really scummy lawyer to get him out of trouble.
Rich people are rich because they clip coupons. Microsoft is rich because they run an effective business (monopolies help this out and yes they are an illegal monopoly that broke the law).
No, this isn't interesting it is a troll, but I will bite.
I have a Radeon AIW 7500, I want to play Savage, but the 7500 makes it look like shit. So I want a new video card and can buy a 8x AGP one, but my motherboard is only 4x. So I am already upgrading two components, why note spend a little more and get a new proc and mobo and make everything faster?
I am sure many who upgrade are in this circle. Their computer works fine, but when they need to upgrade one part they may need to upgrade others to get it to work fully.
(Yes I know there isn't much diferenc between 4x and 8x in performance but it was the most easily identifiable example on hand).
People in New York for one. 10 degrees, feels like 2 and partly cloudy. Here in Atlanta it is frequently sunny during the winter month, but rather chilly for those who live here. Hell I would buy the jacket if their site were up.
Yes, but does it have SSE, SSE2, 64 bit capability, 4+ GB ram addressability, Cool N Quiet support, a nice big L2 cache, and does your motherboard have DDR support or PCI-X support?
I will guess not. My 1.4 Ghz TBird C may have the speed I need but there are new features I would like which is why the A64 is getting such a big push from me personally as my upgrade option. Plus it will hit the magic sub 150$ mark before the Prescott hand warmer.
The statistics were probably skewed from their hearts exploding after beating like a hummingbird on meth.
Really, what is the raiton between the risk of cardio injury from drinking this much coffee and the risk of getting diabetes in general? I would htink that cardiovascular disease would be a bigger threat than diabetes. (If I had to pick I would rather go with the cardiovascular disease but neither are nice)
And was the regular coffee or my double brewed boiled down recipie where I fit two pots into one cup?
I don't download movies and (until mp3.com died) didn't download music from p2p netowkrs. TV shows on the other hand are usually filling my harddrives at massive rates. It isn't the movie studios that have to worry but pay per view channels and premium channels like Showtime that are in trouble. Of course TV shows are much easier to justify, I could have watched it, or already have seen it and thus could have recorded it and encoded it and editing out the commercials for myself.
Why does it seem that movies are making trailers look more and more like commercials? Take RE2 for instance, when my friends and I first saw it we had been subjigated to the coke music commercial and some other atrocitiy of advertising that made my brainstem try to separate from the saucer section so by the time we saw the faux skin cream ad popcorn and coke were in full launch sequence to be thrown at the screen until we heard the words "Umbrella Corp."
But anyway, I went to see RotK in a mostly rural (read redneck) area and head a leteral collective huh at three laws safe. (Oddly enough I alo heard a few geeks yell its four laws)
"You see, I told you inciteful wasn't a word" Here is to a midly amusing SCO story instead of the crapola it usally is (much like playing Rouge Leader and finding out that there ARE good Star Wars games)
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My Zaurus is not a PDA but a PDT (Person Digital Tool), and anyone who says otherwise is getting a foot in their arse.
A PDA is a glorified address book that plays music and sells for 300$. My Zaurus (SL-5500) costs less than 200, runs a mobile X-11 server, allows for quick coding (802.11b CF card + ssh) when I am off campus and can't log into something heavy, plays movies, serves webpages, and runs Linux. The Zaurus is very hackable and has a high fun value attached to it. $699 is alot to spend for it, but in 6 months you can ebay one for about 300 which would be more inline.
So then is it illegal for them to keep the media player libraries so you get thumbnailed video previews?
AMD and intel have numerous cross liscencing deals goinging on that ammount to Intel can use AMD's IP and AMD can use Intel's IP for, I believe, compatibility. I am not sure about the exact deals but in theory AMD can make a compatible implementation Intel's HyperThreading tech (via reverse engineering) and Intel can (apparently) in practice use AMD's 64 bit extensions with neither paying royalties or considerations to the other. Other examples from the other direction are AMD implementing MMX and SSE as 3DNow and 3dNow Pro.
Horribly off topic here but here it goes.
USB is terrible for some applications, video capture being the most obvious. The IEEE1394 spec requires a separate controller for the port, but USB controllers can e implemented in software. So when you are capturing video with firewire you have more free processor time than with usb 2.0. I am sure that there is a similar Niche app for bluetooth that will keep it alive and functioning.
(I am not sure if my explanation is right, but most benchmarks I have seen show that firewire uses less of the processor than USB).
If you were to embed myDoom after the overflow area in the bitmap then when outlook opened the file using ie's render could one have my doom that didn't even need to have the end user open the file? It would just execute replicate, then piss people all to hell? For that matter could I include the windows equivalent of rm -rf / ?
Why are people pursuing touchscreen ballots? Why not hook a computer up to a more physical interface (ie one would have lcd's next to real buttons with the candidates name)? I find it much more, enjoyable to push a button than tap a screen (Of course mashing a screen until it produces a permanant black mark is fun too).
Anyway thanks for any insight.
I don't mind menus that much, but what I hate are the 20 minute hold times after you break out of them to be transferred.
Why is the government (through sub contractor or not) outsourcing to begin with? Maybe this is the reason Bush came up 249,000 jobs short of his goal of 250,000 new jobs in 2003.
Public educaiton in the USA is a wack meeting. First we teachers are given a few days of preplanning where we are at school working, but we have to go to about 8 meetings in 3 days to get caught up on the latest state imposed paperwork. Next you have the Superintendent showing up telling us what he would like to see without actually saying anything for about 30-45 minutes. Then when it is nearly over and he gets that I need a Subway look in his eyes someone raises her hand and asks the question... "Why do you think your ideas will change anything?" At which point any student caught pulling the fire alarm could easily get enough money from a collection from the faculty to hire a really scummy lawyer to get him out of trouble.
Rich people are rich because they clip coupons. Microsoft is rich because they run an effective business (monopolies help this out and yes they are an illegal monopoly that broke the law).
No, this isn't interesting it is a troll, but I will bite.
I have a Radeon AIW 7500, I want to play Savage, but the 7500 makes it look like shit. So I want a new video card and can buy a 8x AGP one, but my motherboard is only 4x. So I am already upgrading two components, why note spend a little more and get a new proc and mobo and make everything faster?
I am sure many who upgrade are in this circle. Their computer works fine, but when they need to upgrade one part they may need to upgrade others to get it to work fully.
(Yes I know there isn't much diferenc between 4x and 8x in performance but it was the most easily identifiable example on hand).
Perhaps the one thing Windows does much better than Linux is graphical file management.
Someone has never tried to open an ftp (forget sftp, ip lookups of samba shares, etc) site in explorer.exe.
People in New York for one. 10 degrees, feels like 2 and partly cloudy. Here in Atlanta it is frequently sunny during the winter month, but rather chilly for those who live here. Hell I would buy the jacket if their site were up.
Yes, but does it have SSE, SSE2, 64 bit capability, 4+ GB ram addressability, Cool N Quiet support, a nice big L2 cache, and does your motherboard have DDR support or PCI-X support?
I will guess not. My 1.4 Ghz TBird C may have the speed I need but there are new features I would like which is why the A64 is getting such a big push from me personally as my upgrade option. Plus it will hit the magic sub 150$ mark before the Prescott hand warmer.
The statistics were probably skewed from their hearts exploding after beating like a hummingbird on meth.
Really, what is the raiton between the risk of cardio injury from drinking this much coffee and the risk of getting diabetes in general? I would htink that cardiovascular disease would be a bigger threat than diabetes. (If I had to pick I would rather go with the cardiovascular disease but neither are nice)
And was the regular coffee or my double brewed boiled down recipie where I fit two pots into one cup?
IIRC the Kennedy mission challenge was only taken in earnest after he was shot. One can only dream though.
Apparently Slashdot does, or is this a funny attempt at turning his servers into a crater one at a time and remove his sold out ass from the world?
I don't download movies and (until mp3.com died) didn't download music from p2p netowkrs. TV shows on the other hand are usually filling my harddrives at massive rates. It isn't the movie studios that have to worry but pay per view channels and premium channels like Showtime that are in trouble. Of course TV shows are much easier to justify, I could have watched it, or already have seen it and thus could have recorded it and encoded it and editing out the commercials for myself.
Why does it seem that movies are making trailers look more and more like commercials? Take RE2 for instance, when my friends and I first saw it we had been subjigated to the coke music commercial and some other atrocitiy of advertising that made my brainstem try to separate from the saucer section so by the time we saw the faux skin cream ad popcorn and coke were in full launch sequence to be thrown at the screen until we heard the words "Umbrella Corp."
But anyway, I went to see RotK in a mostly rural (read redneck) area and head a leteral collective huh at three laws safe. (Oddly enough I alo heard a few geeks yell its four laws)
...is like going to war with France without the Germans.
Well I know this is off topic, but santa cam eraly for me. 3.0 gpa all B's (at Georgia Tech).
Hordes of the Underdark already has my gaming fix for this finals rotation.
... to pass my finals.
I used to throw bricks at my monitor until I realized that my monitor had done nothing wrong.
Finally I had to break down and buy a magnesium alloy case becuse computers are su much more expensive than tubes.
"You see, I told you inciteful wasn't a word"
Here is to a midly amusing SCO story instead of the crapola it usally is (much like playing Rouge Leader and finding out that there ARE good Star Wars games)