Yes, it's on screen, so you can see what you're writing. I like it a lot better. You can see what the manual (pdf) says about it (page 37), but I'd also recommend trying it out in a store. It's what I use primarily. The keyboard is just icing on the cake...
I can still fit my Zaurus inside my front pocket on a normal pair of jeans. Also, the apps availible for the Zaurus are pretty extentsive, since it is linux-based and supports Java. It also supports the ipkg packaging system designed for those running Linux on their iPaq's. So there's some more apps for you. I have yet to find an app that the Palm has that I can't get an equivalent of. And show me a Palm that can run a bash shell.:-D As far as the Palm peripherals, the only one that I find myself longing for is the GPS add-on. And with Palm releasing a P.O.S. like the Tungsten, how long will that last?
P.S. The Zaurus's input methods kick the shit out of the Palm's. On-screen stylus entry, where you can actually see the letter you're writing? Awesome. Built in QWERTY keyboard? Sweet.
It was $334 when I bought it at Buy.com two months ago ($347.99 now) & I've fallen in love. Seriously, I thought they were kidding when I read the specs for the new Palms. Compare it to the Zaurus specs and decide for yourself...
What I don't understand is why everyone always talk about it being impossible to catch the "smart" spammers. These people aren't sending this shit out for fun. Yeah, they forge headers, return addresses, & so forth. But why does that matter?
If they're sending these damn things out for commercial gain, at some point they have to get your money. They either have a website (which can be tracked down via the hosting ISP, DNS entries, shit - traceroute the bitch & call the next people upstream), or an address, or a phone number. That should get all of the stateside jackasses. Even the ones who host overseas can have the hurt put on them. They have to take credit cards or paypal or something. That means a paper trail & it means that Discover Card or Visa or whoever can lock them out.
All that leaves is chain mail (which is stupid, but sent by your buddies that you can tell to fuck off) and people after bank account info (such as Nigerian princes).
Honestly, why is it claimed to be so hard for spammers to be tracked down? For the average joe, yeah, it's hard. For those enforcing anti-spam laws it should be relatively easy (if a little tedious) to nab the majority. Can someone explain this?
Last year, 42 people in the U.S. died from SAS (sudden acceleration syndrome) due to roller coasters.
I might care if you can show me a link to that statistic. A quick Google search turned up a whole lot of nothing, except a Book Review of someone saying that sudden acceleration syndrome was B.S. in the Audi case and it was bad science. If your statistic is legit, then yes, I would care. But it looks like FUD, which is probably why you posted AC.
Sorry, I realized that I neglected to mention this after I posted. The CQWS has rails out the ying-yang. It's significantly more modular than the other versions of the M4. It's actually kinda difficult for me to describe well, but if you saw it, you would see what I mean. The diopter sight is very similar AimPoint. It will come standard (don't know if that's the case with the M4). The CQWS is an evolutionary form of the M4 line, not revolutionary. They are very similar, but different. From what I understood from them, the primary difference was beefed up railing & modularity.
...The Close-Quarters Weapons System (CQWS). It's a variant of the M4A1 Carbine that will potentially replace the MP4-N (made by H&K) currently used by the Marine Corps. The primary difference in our variant is that it uses a rail system for adding just about any crazy little accessory that you could ever imagine (M203 grenade launcher, flashlight, laser sight, diopter sight, etc). The diopter sight is standard and I had the opportunity to try it out at Quantico's Weapons Battlion's range with the guys of the Marine Corps Scout-Sniper Instructor School (the FBI Academy is a half-mile up the road, ironically enough). I fixed their computers all the time when I was stationed there, so this was their way of thanking me.
The weapon is about as perfect as one could ask. And the diopter sight? Awesome. Forget iron sights. This little puppy has a suspended red dot and all you have to do is put the dot on the appropriate part of the target (chest-level @ 200M, shoulder-level @ 300M, head-level @ 500M) and you'll hit center mass every time. I even went crazy trying to get improper sight-alignment and/or sight-picture and miss - it didn't happen. If the dot appears to be on the target, you'll hit it. One of the best weapons systems I have ever used (other than the Mk-19: imagine a heavy machine gun that fires grenades) and I hope the Marine Corps adopts it.
He said, "we should be pushing for accountability". What I think he's saying is that if Microsoft refuses to open it's code, then that's fine - it's their right. However, if they don't, then they should be held liable for their incompetence or maliciousness (whichever applies today).
It's an interesting concept. Personally, I think Microsoft would be better off opening the code, rather than expose themselves to that kind of liability.
I don't care how rich you are, you can't lawyer away the middle finger.
Yeah, it isn't like you can go around spouting off any old thing on the Internet. We have high standards to be upheld here, people, and we don't want to hear any of that cry-ass First Amendment crap.;-)
The topic is about DJ'ing with MP3's. Now, I can see arguments about the lack of scratching (still something of a problem), beatmatching (programs do exist & and are pretty damn good, IMHO), and possibly computer problems "crashing" the party, so to speak. What I can't understand is all this bullshit about lack of sound quality! This is the same bullshit all the analog-obsessed DJ's of the world started spouting when the rest of us started using CD's in our performances. Who the hell cares about the "warmth" of the sound??? I still remember when I started using MP3's to DJ and I never had comments about them. Starting with parties I did back in 1997 while I was the house DJ at the Delta Upsilon house at Carnegie Mellon, I would switch between vinyl, CD, CD-R's with converted MP3's on them, and MP3's played off my laptop. Guess what? It wasn't a bunch of old people sitting around bitching about the lack of "warmth" in the sound. It was a shitload of college kids getting piss-drunk and having fun, in part because of me. They didn't complain about the sound quality at the beginning of the parties when sober & they didn't say a word at the end when they were drunk & tone-deaf. I would mix & beatmatch with simple utilities (whose names escape me) downloaded off the net. For scratches, I would impose the turntable's sound with the mixer. The trick was finding something appropraite to scratch with a paticular song, however this made me a much stronger DJ, not the other way around. And as far as the image goes, the bitches loved coming up there and seeing a laptop running Winamp mixing in with the CD's. They thought it was the coolest shit they'd ever seen.
So, to conclude, not only does your argument (sound quality) have nothing to do with parties, but all of the other arguments against MP3 DJ'ing are either bullshit or pretty weak as well.
-Kikta
P.S. If it makes you vinyl guys feel any better, I was against automatic-HTML generation programs for a long time in favor of text editors. So I guess I can sort-of see how you feel...
His later jumps were much more stable, and with a functioning 6 foot drogue, he achieved a terminal velocity of 702 MPH! He is still the holder of several world records, including longest (4.5 minutes) and highest freefall (81,000 feet) as well as highest bailout.
FYI, Gateway is run by Ted Waitt. Michael Dell runs... Dell
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There was a radio station in Louisville, KY (102.3 FM) that was re-launching back around '96 as a alternative rock station. About a week before they went on the air, they started playing the Beatles song "I Am The Walrus" over and over and over again. The rumor was that they were out to set a record. Either way, people would check in every once in a while to see if the station was up yet or maybe just out of morbid curiosity. When they did finally premier, everyone had heard of them and their ratings were sky-high.
I'm assuming that the folks at G4 are just trying to create some buzz and do something fun at the same time. So, good luck to them... of course that alternative rock station is now a "smooth-rock" station.:-)
I believe it has to do with the interconnects. While a cluster's many nodes may be talking to each other at 1 Gbps, or whatever, these speeds don't work for a supercomputer like this. A cluster or distributed network is good for jobs that can be split up easily. For example, SETI@home or load balancing servers. However, this is the world of simulations. Like people were pointing out during our discussion on ASCI White, the entire environment of the simulation must be calculated simultaneously. You can't calculate what is going on at point (x1,y1,z1) at time t1 and then move on to (x2,y2,z2) at time t1 becuase the two are touching and interdependant on each other. This is true for every point in the simulation's scope. Therefore, the processors have to have an interconnect speed that will allow them to act as if they are all on the same bus and process data simultaneously for all points before moving on to the next time increment.
Of course, I am only a lowly CS student and I'm sure that someone out there can give a more detailed explanation. Thanks.
One irritation with the ViewSonic: text mode (BIOS startup, etc) chops off the lower right section of the screen when using the DVI port (everything's fine via analog).
Hook them both up at the same time - that's what I do & everything's fine. If you're already configured that way, maybe the monitor (or the video card) doesn't like your BIOS.
I'm only 24, but looking at a monitor for too long makes my eyes burn. It's gotten worse and worse in the last few years. Finally, I traded in my 17" Sony Trintron 17sfII for a 19" ViewSonic ViewPanel VG191. It's is so much better. The strain on my eyes is considerably less. Whether it's daylight or under the crappy flouresent lights in my dorm room, I can see it better. I don't know if it the fact it's an LCD or what but I can work for a lot longer and my eyes no longer ache afterwards, even running at 1280x1024, which hasn't made things any larger. The problem is that it costs about $1000, but I must say - it was worth every penny.
P.S. I also upgraded my video card to a GeForce3 Ti 500 with a digital output. The picture isn't drastically different, but I can honestly say it is easier on the eyes than analog (I think it has to do with the way the colors are presented).
Remeber how great gopher used to be? It was the shit for those of us on terminal connections back in the day. Forget Lynx, with gopher you had everything right there in a logically organized menu system. Find what you need & the read the text file or save the gif to your server to be transmitted to you via xmodem, zmodem, kermit, etc. And chatting? Who could beat the old-school Unix chat client or command-line IRC... damn, now I feel old (and I'm still 2 weeks from 24 *sigh*).
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"You have a rental period of 30 days to play the movie. Once started, watch the movie as many times as you'd like within 24-hours."
Also, it looks like it is offered in Real or Windows Media Player formats.
A rather verbose memo about not putting the seat up before you take a leak. :-D
I'm Gumby, damnit!
Yes, it's on screen, so you can see what you're writing. I like it a lot better. You can see what the manual (pdf) says about it (page 37), but I'd also recommend trying it out in a store. It's what I use primarily. The keyboard is just icing on the cake...
I can still fit my Zaurus inside my front pocket on a normal pair of jeans. Also, the apps availible for the Zaurus are pretty extentsive, since it is linux-based and supports Java. It also supports the ipkg packaging system designed for those running Linux on their iPaq's. So there's some more apps for you. I have yet to find an app that the Palm has that I can't get an equivalent of. And show me a Palm that can run a bash shell. :-D As far as the Palm peripherals, the only one that I find myself longing for is the GPS add-on. And with Palm releasing a P.O.S. like the Tungsten, how long will that last?
P.S. The Zaurus's input methods kick the shit out of the Palm's. On-screen stylus entry, where you can actually see the letter you're writing? Awesome. Built in QWERTY keyboard? Sweet.
It was $334 when I bought it at Buy.com two months ago ($347.99 now) & I've fallen in love. Seriously, I thought they were kidding when I read the specs for the new Palms. Compare it to the Zaurus specs and decide for yourself...
uhhh... Jenny?
What I don't understand is why everyone always talk about it being impossible to catch the "smart" spammers. These people aren't sending this shit out for fun. Yeah, they forge headers, return addresses, & so forth. But why does that matter?
If they're sending these damn things out for commercial gain, at some point they have to get your money. They either have a website (which can be tracked down via the hosting ISP, DNS entries, shit - traceroute the bitch & call the next people upstream), or an address, or a phone number. That should get all of the stateside jackasses. Even the ones who host overseas can have the hurt put on them. They have to take credit cards or paypal or something. That means a paper trail & it means that Discover Card or Visa or whoever can lock them out.
All that leaves is chain mail (which is stupid, but sent by your buddies that you can tell to fuck off) and people after bank account info (such as Nigerian princes).
Honestly, why is it claimed to be so hard for spammers to be tracked down? For the average joe, yeah, it's hard. For those enforcing anti-spam laws it should be relatively easy (if a little tedious) to nab the majority. Can someone explain this?
I might care if you can show me a link to that statistic. A quick Google search turned up a whole lot of nothing, except a Book Review of someone saying that sudden acceleration syndrome was B.S. in the Audi case and it was bad science. If your statistic is legit, then yes, I would care. But it looks like FUD, which is probably why you posted AC.
Sorry, I realized that I neglected to mention this after I posted. The CQWS has rails out the ying-yang. It's significantly more modular than the other versions of the M4. It's actually kinda difficult for me to describe well, but if you saw it, you would see what I mean. The diopter sight is very similar AimPoint. It will come standard (don't know if that's the case with the M4). The CQWS is an evolutionary form of the M4 line, not revolutionary. They are very similar, but different. From what I understood from them, the primary difference was beefed up railing & modularity.
...The Close-Quarters Weapons System (CQWS). It's a variant of the M4A1 Carbine that will potentially replace the MP4-N (made by H&K) currently used by the Marine Corps. The primary difference in our variant is that it uses a rail system for adding just about any crazy little accessory that you could ever imagine (M203 grenade launcher, flashlight, laser sight, diopter sight, etc). The diopter sight is standard and I had the opportunity to try it out at Quantico's Weapons Battlion's range with the guys of the Marine Corps Scout-Sniper Instructor School (the FBI Academy is a half-mile up the road, ironically enough). I fixed their computers all the time when I was stationed there, so this was their way of thanking me.
The weapon is about as perfect as one could ask. And the diopter sight? Awesome. Forget iron sights. This little puppy has a suspended red dot and all you have to do is put the dot on the appropriate part of the target (chest-level @ 200M, shoulder-level @ 300M, head-level @ 500M) and you'll hit center mass every time. I even went crazy trying to get improper sight-alignment and/or sight-picture and miss - it didn't happen. If the dot appears to be on the target, you'll hit it. One of the best weapons systems I have ever used (other than the Mk-19: imagine a heavy machine gun that fires grenades) and I hope the Marine Corps adopts it.
Don't you mean your parents' garden?
He said, "we should be pushing for accountability". What I think he's saying is that if Microsoft refuses to open it's code, then that's fine - it's their right. However, if they don't, then they should be held liable for their incompetence or maliciousness (whichever applies today).
It's an interesting concept. Personally, I think Microsoft would be better off opening the code, rather than expose themselves to that kind of liability.
And only one semester of Probability and Statistics for Engineers? Must be nice...
Yeah, it isn't like you can go around spouting off any old thing on the Internet. We have high standards to be upheld here, people, and we don't want to hear any of that cry-ass First Amendment crap.
P.S. Fsck you, not fuck you.
The topic is about DJ'ing with MP3's. Now, I can see arguments about the lack of scratching (still something of a problem), beatmatching (programs do exist & and are pretty damn good, IMHO), and possibly computer problems "crashing" the party, so to speak. What I can't understand is all this bullshit about lack of sound quality! This is the same bullshit all the analog-obsessed DJ's of the world started spouting when the rest of us started using CD's in our performances. Who the hell cares about the "warmth" of the sound??? I still remember when I started using MP3's to DJ and I never had comments about them. Starting with parties I did back in 1997 while I was the house DJ at the Delta Upsilon house at Carnegie Mellon, I would switch between vinyl, CD, CD-R's with converted MP3's on them, and MP3's played off my laptop. Guess what? It wasn't a bunch of old people sitting around bitching about the lack of "warmth" in the sound. It was a shitload of college kids getting piss-drunk and having fun, in part because of me. They didn't complain about the sound quality at the beginning of the parties when sober & they didn't say a word at the end when they were drunk & tone-deaf. I would mix & beatmatch with simple utilities (whose names escape me) downloaded off the net. For scratches, I would impose the turntable's sound with the mixer. The trick was finding something appropraite to scratch with a paticular song, however this made me a much stronger DJ, not the other way around. And as far as the image goes, the bitches loved coming up there and seeing a laptop running Winamp mixing in with the CD's. They thought it was the coolest shit they'd ever seen.
So, to conclude, not only does your argument (sound quality) have nothing to do with parties, but all of the other arguments against MP3 DJ'ing are either bullshit or pretty weak as well.
-Kikta
P.S. If it makes you vinyl guys feel any better, I was against automatic-HTML generation programs for a long time in favor of text editors. So I guess I can sort-of see how you feel...
FYI, Gateway is run by Ted Waitt. Michael Dell runs... Dell
There was a radio station in Louisville, KY (102.3 FM) that was re-launching back around '96 as a alternative rock station. About a week before they went on the air, they started playing the Beatles song "I Am The Walrus" over and over and over again. The rumor was that they were out to set a record. Either way, people would check in every once in a while to see if the station was up yet or maybe just out of morbid curiosity. When they did finally premier, everyone had heard of them and their ratings were sky-high.
:-)
I'm assuming that the folks at G4 are just trying to create some buzz and do something fun at the same time. So, good luck to them... of course that alternative rock station is now a "smooth-rock" station.
I believe it has to do with the interconnects. While a cluster's many nodes may be talking to each other at 1 Gbps, or whatever, these speeds don't work for a supercomputer like this. A cluster or distributed network is good for jobs that can be split up easily. For example, SETI@home or load balancing servers. However, this is the world of simulations. Like people were pointing out during our discussion on ASCI White, the entire environment of the simulation must be calculated simultaneously. You can't calculate what is going on at point (x1,y1,z1) at time t1 and then move on to (x2,y2,z2) at time t1 becuase the two are touching and interdependant on each other. This is true for every point in the simulation's scope. Therefore, the processors have to have an interconnect speed that will allow them to act as if they are all on the same bus and process data simultaneously for all points before moving on to the next time increment.
Of course, I am only a lowly CS student and I'm sure that someone out there can give a more detailed explanation. Thanks.
For when the metal ones decide to come for you... and they will!
(Low bandwidth one here.)
Ever seen Office Space ?
Hook them both up at the same time - that's what I do & everything's fine. If you're already configured that way, maybe the monitor (or the video card) doesn't like your BIOS.
I'm only 24, but looking at a monitor for too long makes my eyes burn. It's gotten worse and worse in the last few years. Finally, I traded in my 17" Sony Trintron 17sfII for a 19" ViewSonic ViewPanel VG191. It's is so much better. The strain on my eyes is considerably less. Whether it's daylight or under the crappy flouresent lights in my dorm room, I can see it better. I don't know if it the fact it's an LCD or what but I can work for a lot longer and my eyes no longer ache afterwards, even running at 1280x1024, which hasn't made things any larger. The problem is that it costs about $1000, but I must say - it was worth every penny.
P.S. I also upgraded my video card to a GeForce3 Ti 500 with a digital output. The picture isn't drastically different, but I can honestly say it is easier on the eyes than analog (I think it has to do with the way the colors are presented).
Remeber how great gopher used to be? It was the shit for those of us on terminal connections back in the day. Forget Lynx, with gopher you had everything right there in a logically organized menu system. Find what you need & the read the text file or save the gif to your server to be transmitted to you via xmodem, zmodem, kermit, etc. And chatting? Who could beat the old-school Unix chat client or command-line IRC... damn, now I feel old (and I'm still 2 weeks from 24 *sigh*).