Look at your old MB manuals. You should see the supported processors there. I have an older ASUS A7V that supports only SDRAM, so I will definitely need to upgrade soon... Doom3 will probably give me the final push.
Chances are you're gonna need to upgrade the MoBo too... and the memory
Antarctica is a continent and the ice shelf there is pretty stable (well, as stable as it can be). At the North Pole you have an ocean and a wildy drifting ice cap. Plus the ice cap there gets thin during the summer, it's not unusual to see ice few inches thick sometimes. IIRC I've read a story about a recently discovered open water patch at the north pole, which comes as no surprise given the global warming problem...
It took them almost 4 weeks and 7-8 calls their CS to configure my.ms domain to point to my own DNS servers. Their CSRs are clueless drones and you absolutely, positively cannot talk to somebody higher than a CS supervisor. Normally, I would use a different registrar (domaindiscover.com is decent) but there aren't many that can do.ms domains.
For what I care, they can be slapped with the 65mil damages, that will make my day...
Yes, it matters a lot. There's more to a video card than the GPU, for example the DACs. Also if the manufacturer gets creative in cutting costs you might end up with a product that overheats, has crappy image quality and/or crashes your whole system occasionally. Honestly, I don't want to spend $200-300 on a videocard and rely on luck to get a product that's working properly. Of course, YMMV.
Actually I think the levels are #31 and #32. You can get into them from level 15. If you're thorough, you should find a computer map, and from there it's easy to check every corner of the level and find the secret exit. You can get into #32 by finding the secret exit close to the end of #31. And yes, there's a room full of hanged Commander Keens at the end of #32.
How about 5000 down and 1000 up for $30? That's Optimum Online in NJ. When I read about the shit that's happening all over the country I start to believe I'm in freaking broadband heaven. Even if they double the price, I'd still be as happy as a clam....
I totally agree, the only thing is I get around 5Mbits only.... oh well, I guess is my crappy modem. I'm happy with it anyway. However I'd be really interested to find out how do you get 1.5-2Mbits upload since OOL caps it at 1Mbps. If you uncapped your modem you might be in hot waters, I don't think it's worth it...
This is so untrue, it's not even funny. If you don't know what you're talking about, then shut up. Nothing that's not your own should appear on your credit history. Not even your wife's accounts, unless you specifically allow it (i.e. joint accounts).
The scary thing is while Credit Bureaus are strictly regulated by FTC, the things this article is talking about won't be... so if there's a mistake in their database, then tough luck buddy, shit happens.
Any company experimenting with it will undoubtly download the free version and play with it. If they like it, they'll buy the licences. If QT saves them one months of work per developer, it covers its cost (the licence per seat is less than the monthly cost of your average developer).
In a medium/large enterprise environment, the cost of licences will be easily absorbed and then recovered through increased productivity. The only question that remains is wether QT can provide the increased productivity. Last time I compared the two (GTK and QT) was a couple of years ago, so my info might not be accurate... but at that time QT beated GTK hands down in architecture, ease of use and documentation (all translate in better productivity)... of course YMMV
This is total BS. I'm on Cablevision/Optimum Online and basically you cannot lease the modem, you have to buy your own. I never had any problems with tech support reps questioning the modem (only the NIC:)
But then again, Cablevision is much saner than all other cable access providers combined...
The problem with this is there isn't any competition. In my area there is one DSL provider (Verizon) and one cable provider (Cablevision) and I consider myself lucky because I have this choice. All other DSL providers were forced out of business, I don't think I need to explain the methods here. There is one other cable provider in the state (Comcast) but they have divided the teritory and now both companies have local monopolies. Right now, I pay somewhere around $30/month for 5000/1000 access that is truly unlimited (for downloads at least). What do you think it would happen if they would be allowed to enter each other's teritorry?
I'm pretty sure there's a law about this. IANAL but I'm sure that if a company missrepresents their product/service in an advertisement you have grounds for a lawsuit. I know I would try at least a small claims suit... if enough customers would do that simultaneously it would be a major pain for them. Imagine 10000 simultaneous lawsuits in 500 different jurisdictions... they would bleed serious money on lawyers. I guess this would be similar to a DDOS attack.
But hey, it's 7:30am after about 4 hours of sleep... maybe I'm still dreaming:)
They don't HAVE to lower your rates, but it's usually in their best interest. You can either threaten to move the balance to a lower interest card or (if it's obvious that you're in too deep) you can tell them you cannot afford the payments and you're considering bankruptcy. Most CC companies will work with you in this situation, they prefer to get SOME money than nothing at all.
I like your idea of considering mp3s large numbers. IANAL, so I'm asking someone that is: could this be a feasible defense in court? If courts think you can copyright a number, then I'd like to let everybody know that all numbers ending in.95 and.99 are my intelectual property and I'm gonna charge 1c for every use of them. Oh, don't forget 69 and 42...
On a more serious note, what if I convert a mp3 into an ASCII representation of it's decimal value? I could send that to my friend, right? If not, can I send him the number 69? What's the difference?
You can run encryption on the fly on the voice stream. Your gateway admin will only be able to tell that a call is going on, not what you're saying...
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AFAIK, G729 is 8kbps. It uses 10 bytes frames, each carrying 10ms of voice. Usually you want to pack 2-4 of them in a packet so you don't waste too much bandwidth on headers. Say 3 FPP = 30 bytes + 12 bytes RTP header + 8 bytes UDP header + another 20(?) bytes the IP header = 70 bytes for 30 ms of voice. So you get a bit under 20kbps bandwidth used.
Of course they could use a different encoding, say G723 (5.3 or 6.3 kbps). But it doesn't sound that nice and if you have broadband it would be a pitty not to take advantage of it...
All my credit cards have 0 liability for online purchases. If you get shafted, you pay nothing. It happened to me and I got the money back in 48 hours (yay Citibank).
That thing about having your own connection with DSL is much overrated. DSL hits wire limitations so unless you live right next to the CO, your bandwith will be quite limited. Now coax cable can carry a much bigger amount of data than twisted pair, I think Docsys standard says something about a max of around 30Mbps. It's up to the cable company to make sure they don't oversubscribe the nodes. So it happens that my cable connection goes 3000-4000 kbps down and 950 up, and I'm talking peak time. Compare this to the 600/90 DSL line that's available in my area.
I guess it all depends on the company and how much they value customer satisfaction. The only DSL ISPs still standing are the big telcos and we all know how customer friendly they are.
You can be sure the Telcos and big cable companies are perfectly aware of this and they'll fight it to the end to prevent it from happening. If their monopoly is broken, there goes their cash cow. They will have to actually *compete* (shudder)...
They use to refuel planes in flight, you know. You need to turn your engine off only as a precaution, so you don't blow up the entire station and there's a very slim chance of that happening.
Anyway, I bet your laptop will have a tiny refueling hole where you can stick a needle or something while it's running.
Wrong! Your ISP pays a flat rate for their lines (T3/DS/OC or whatever they are). The rate is certainly high, and they want to share the line among as many users as possible to make it as profitable as possible, but it's definitely a flat rate.
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Look at your old MB manuals. You should see the supported processors there. I have an older ASUS A7V that supports only SDRAM, so I will definitely need to upgrade soon... Doom3 will probably give me the final push.
Chances are you're gonna need to upgrade the MoBo too... and the memory
Antarctica is a continent and the ice shelf there is pretty stable (well, as stable as it can be). At the North Pole you have an ocean and a wildy drifting ice cap. Plus the ice cap there gets thin during the summer, it's not unusual to see ice few inches thick sometimes. IIRC I've read a story about a recently discovered open water patch at the north pole, which comes as no surprise given the global warming problem...
It took them almost 4 weeks and 7-8 calls their CS to configure my .ms domain to point to my own DNS servers. Their CSRs are clueless drones and you absolutely, positively cannot talk to somebody higher than a CS supervisor. Normally, I would use a different registrar (domaindiscover.com is decent) but there aren't many that can do .ms domains.
For what I care, they can be slapped with the 65mil damages, that will make my day...
Just my $0.02...
Yes, it matters a lot. There's more to a video card than the GPU, for example the DACs. Also if the manufacturer gets creative in cutting costs you might end up with a product that overheats, has crappy image quality and/or crashes your whole system occasionally. Honestly, I don't want to spend $200-300 on a videocard and rely on luck to get a product that's working properly. Of course, YMMV.
Actually I think the levels are #31 and #32. You can get into them from level 15. If you're thorough, you should find a computer map, and from there it's easy to check every corner of the level and find the secret exit. You can get into #32 by finding the secret exit close to the end of #31. And yes, there's a room full of hanged Commander Keens at the end of #32.
How about 5000 down and 1000 up for $30?
That's Optimum Online in NJ. When I read about the shit that's happening all over the country I start to believe I'm in freaking broadband heaven. Even if they double the price, I'd still be as happy as a clam....
I totally agree, the only thing is I get around 5Mbits only.... oh well, I guess is my crappy modem. I'm happy with it anyway. However I'd be really interested to find out how do you get 1.5-2Mbits upload since OOL caps it at 1Mbps. If you uncapped your modem you might be in hot waters, I don't think it's worth it...
You sir are either a TROLL or extremely STUPID.
Or both.
Nope, it's in Red Bank. The name's Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash. Google it if you want to get their info.
This is so untrue, it's not even funny. If you don't know what you're talking about, then shut up. Nothing that's not your own should appear on your credit history. Not even your wife's accounts, unless you specifically allow it (i.e. joint accounts).
The scary thing is while Credit Bureaus are strictly regulated by FTC, the things this article is talking about won't be... so if there's a mistake in their database, then tough luck buddy, shit happens.
Any company experimenting with it will undoubtly download the free version and play with it. If they like it, they'll buy the licences. If QT saves them one months of work per developer, it covers its cost (the licence per seat is less than the monthly cost of your average developer).
In a medium/large enterprise environment, the cost of licences will be easily absorbed and then recovered through increased productivity. The only question that remains is wether QT can provide the increased productivity. Last time I compared the two (GTK and QT) was a couple of years ago, so my info might not be accurate... but at that time QT beated GTK hands down in architecture, ease of use and documentation (all translate in better productivity)... of course YMMV
This is total BS. I'm on Cablevision/Optimum Online and basically you cannot lease the modem, you have to buy your own. I never had any problems with tech support reps questioning the modem (only the NIC:)
But then again, Cablevision is much saner than all other cable access providers combined...
The problem with this is there isn't any competition. In my area there is one DSL provider (Verizon) and one cable provider (Cablevision) and I consider myself lucky because I have this choice. All other DSL providers were forced out of business, I don't think I need to explain the methods here. There is one other cable provider in the state (Comcast) but they have divided the teritory and now both companies have local monopolies. Right now, I pay somewhere around $30/month for 5000/1000 access that is truly unlimited (for downloads at least). What do you think it would happen if they would be allowed to enter each other's teritorry?
I'm pretty sure there's a law about this. IANAL but I'm sure that if a company missrepresents their product/service in an advertisement you have grounds for a lawsuit. I know I would try at least a small claims suit... if enough customers would do that simultaneously it would be a major pain for them. Imagine 10000 simultaneous lawsuits in 500 different jurisdictions... they would bleed serious money on lawyers. I guess this would be similar to a DDOS attack.
:)
But hey, it's 7:30am after about 4 hours of sleep... maybe I'm still dreaming
They don't HAVE to lower your rates, but it's usually in their best interest. You can either threaten to move the balance to a lower interest card or (if it's obvious that you're in too deep) you can tell them you cannot afford the payments and you're considering bankruptcy. Most CC companies will work with you in this situation, they prefer to get SOME money than nothing at all.
I like your idea of considering mp3s large numbers. IANAL, so I'm asking someone that is: could this be a feasible defense in court? If courts think you can copyright a number, then I'd like to let everybody know that all numbers ending in .95 and .99 are my intelectual property and I'm gonna charge 1c for every use of them. Oh, don't forget 69 and 42...
On a more serious note, what if I convert a mp3 into an ASCII representation of it's decimal value? I could send that to my friend, right? If not, can I send him the number 69? What's the difference?
You can run encryption on the fly on the voice stream. Your gateway admin will only be able to tell that a call is going on, not what you're saying...
AFAIK, G729 is 8kbps. It uses 10 bytes frames, each carrying 10ms of voice. Usually you want to pack 2-4 of them in a packet so you don't waste too much bandwidth on headers. Say 3 FPP = 30 bytes + 12 bytes RTP header + 8 bytes UDP header + another 20(?) bytes the IP header = 70 bytes for 30 ms of voice. So you get a bit under 20kbps bandwidth used.
Of course they could use a different encoding, say G723 (5.3 or 6.3 kbps). But it doesn't sound that nice and if you have broadband it would be a pitty not to take advantage of it...
Link to the ISOs please... all I could find are some apps...
All my credit cards have 0 liability for online purchases. If you get shafted, you pay nothing. It happened to me and I got the money back in 48 hours (yay Citibank).
That thing about having your own connection with DSL is much overrated. DSL hits wire limitations so unless you live right next to the CO, your bandwith will be quite limited. Now coax cable can carry a much bigger amount of data than twisted pair, I think Docsys standard says something about a max of around 30Mbps. It's up to the cable company to make sure they don't oversubscribe the nodes. So it happens that my cable connection goes 3000-4000 kbps down and 950 up, and I'm talking peak time. Compare this to the 600/90 DSL line that's available in my area.
I guess it all depends on the company and how much they value customer satisfaction. The only DSL ISPs still standing are the big telcos and we all know how customer friendly they are.
You can be sure the Telcos and big cable companies are perfectly aware of this and they'll fight it to the end to prevent it from happening. If their monopoly is broken, there goes their cash cow. They will have to actually *compete* (shudder) ...
They use to refuel planes in flight, you know. You need to turn your engine off only as a precaution, so you don't blow up the entire station and there's a very slim chance of that happening.
Anyway, I bet your laptop will have a tiny refueling hole where you can stick a needle or something while it's running.
Correct, but if I remember correctly, he has his own business :)
Wrong! Your ISP pays a flat rate for their lines (T3/DS/OC or whatever they are). The rate is certainly high, and they want to share the line among as many users as possible to make it as profitable as possible, but it's definitely a flat rate.