Any other large vendor (ie, SUN, etc) will quite happily sell you a system with >16GB of RAM, if you're willing to pay for it. I'm not sure about the 16xPCI-E slots however.
From their main page is a small 'download' link, with links to mirrors where you can get.iso images of all the CD's you get with the Deluxe version. So it is free.
Somebody told me that they go up and down stairs. I didn't believe them. Is it true? If so, then maybe it is an option.
No, they don't go up stairs, unless the height of the stair is about 1/4 of the wheel height (and the motor's strong enough to lift you up that distance).
The guy who designed them previously designed a wheelchair that did go up stairs. Perhaps this is the cause of your confusion.
Personally, does the SegWay need a 120VAC outlet to charge off, or can it handle the 240VAC we have here in Australia? I can't think of a good reason why not, but that doesn't mean it does.
2) You won't be able to kill NPC's, and any named character will be an NPC.
And this is where the game lets me down, by not allowing the players to decide how the plot will run.
If we got enough people together to be able to kill Vader, shouldn't it be possible, and the plot take that into account? After all, it would be the will of the people.
Or are the players just a money source to be told stories, but not allowed to act in them?
This is why I like my DVD player so much. Changable DVD regions. Not Region Free, but I can set it to be Region 4 for all the rentals, Region 1 for the bulk of my collection, and Region 2 for Buffy (which seems to get better DVD collections in the UK, and I was in the UK at the time, so...)
Does NTSC/PAL playback, and switchable voltage too.
Bugger TV (but only if you're that way inclined), go to Greenwich and actually SEE the thing! And Greenwich makes a nice change from London. Take a zodiac up the Thames (if only I could have afforded that, had to take a water-bus instead) and go enjoy uncluttered green for a couple of hours. And they're still counting 'down' to the 2000 millienium (the one we already had, not the real one) there, so maybe they're not that smart.
Oh, and you'll also find out where 'Dutch Courage' comes from.
Yup, and that actually happens in several places around the world.
The pyramids at Giza in relation to the Nile = the belt of Orion in relation to the band of the Milky Way. The Sphinx looks direct (East, I think) and faces Taurus rising (or something) however, it's not Leo, which would make sense given that it's the Sphinx here. However, around 10,000 years ago (or so) the Sphinx faced directly into Leo rising on Mid Summer's Day (or some other silly conjunction)
Now let's visit Asia. The temples at Ankor Wat (and the various other Wat's) mirror the stars in the constellation Draco, with the main entry to the complex pointing direct (East, I think) into Draco rising on Mid Summer's Day, 10,000 years ago (or so) The people who built these also knew about precession etc and it's mirrored in their architecture.
The same sort of thing happens with the ruins in S.America (the Olmecs particularly apparently) There's carvings there that predate Chris Columbus by quite some time, that show bearded, caucasian faces. Pity the oil companies blew up all their pyramids to get at the oil.
And there's this sunken temple just south of Japan which also apparently lines up astronomically for 10,000 years ago
It all builds up into a funky little conspiracy theory (linking in Easter Island no less) about a race of people who knew Astronomy damn well, predicted the end of the world, which then happened. But because they'd predicted it, some escaped and spread the knowledge of shipping and astronomy, math, etc to various cultures around the world.
Some guy wrote a book on this, which I should get around to reading at some point.
If you're after something that's not part of your computer, I can highly reccomend the Panasonic DV-505. Although it's not mentioned in the manual, you can change what area coding it thinks it is. It plays PAL and NTSC, does AC3 decoding, and is dual-voltage. I bought one while in NY, and am taking it back to Australia with me, along with all my area 1 DVD's.
Any idea how I get in on that refferendum if the consulate here doesn't want to know about me?
Actually, the basis of Capitalism is the accumulation of capital. That's why it's called Capitalism. Given that there's really only a certain amount of capital at any given time, that means that you're going to miss out on your capital while someone else gets it instead. Capitalism is directly responsible for the ridiculous divide between the rich and the poor, and the major unemployment problem the USA has.
And the amazing thing is that the USA thinks that this is a GoodThing(TM)
The SEAL didn't die because Sangamon killed him, he died because he lost his air hose in the fight with the corporate diver, and swallowed extremely toxic water.
So, the SEAL kills the corporate diver, and the environment kills the SEAL. Now, just where did the civilian wax the SEAL again?
Anyway, the point is that this is basically marketing, and designed to grab the USA public and make them watch advertisements.
Something like this has been happening in Australia for a couple years, but much more serious. 2 people (usually a couple) were sent down to the back blocks of Tasmania for a year (yup, 1 whole year) with bugger all. No constant tv crews either.
So it was real physical survival, whereas the TV show is about political surival. Guess most of us geeks miss out then. Still, they'll need people to 'die' early on, so don't give up now.
Well, I got me a bank account, and I don't have a SSN, but then I'm also a Foreign National, so that helps.
But this whole thing is rather scary. Sure there's a couple of good reasons for all this information to be stored, collated, sorted and crunched, say your body gets mugged, killed, and dropped somewhere in a nice vat of maggots, only your teeth survive, just run your teeth-prints past their big-ol database, and wallah!, that's who you are.
But there's so many more reasons why all this data shouldn't be collected, mainly because we're giving up rights to our identities. Once we give over that information, do we have any way of checking or limiting what's being done with it?
Reminds me of the whole Australia Card fiasco, glad that died. (it later resurfaced, but was much less public, so no-one stopped it, alas)
Question is, what happens when someone patents your DNA sequence? Are they going to charge you with copyright violation for having kids?
Now, why do we put up with stuff like this? Why don't we take charge of our own lives? If only I could answer those questions.
That sounds very similar to what is being done with the electricity grid in some states over east
Problem.
As far as I can tell, the whole 'we own the pipes, you rent the usage' idea can't work for anything but data. Say some big company owns all the powerlines in your area, but allows you to choose who's power you use. So you use 120KWh of electricity, and your supplier puts in 120KWh of electricity. But how do you know you got your supplier's electricity, and not someone elses? If somebody elses supplier starts putting fluctuations into the lines, you start getting fluctuations, even though it's not your supplier. How do things like that work?
Data, is different, as it can be packeted and seperated, ID'd and tracked. So you can mix it in the pipes, and it's all OK.
But Telstra will never do that. Even though the ACCC has now mandated that they open up their lines, did you notice how they're already stalling? Telstra's damn good at that, and has been doing it for ages on other matters (Like the ISP charging thang)
Telstra used to be good, and had some damn funky research labs.
'Private Industry' obviously isn't a single monolithic organisation. Your first paragraph answers your question in the second.
Anyone with any skills at all has no trouble finding a job
Yeah, right. So why are all these 30-40 year old geeks with impressive resume's getting ditched for 20 year olds, and settling for cruddy little jobs instead?
ask yourself why almost everyone gets payed more than the minimum wage
If humanity were all alike, and all equally good at a job, everybody would be getting the minimum wage (and we'd probably have been hived by now)
But some people are naturally better than the average, and companies will try to hire them rather than the common person. Thus a supply/demand thing happens, so these people get higher wages as companies fight to get a hold of them. This naturally has a follow on effect to those not quite so good, and so on, as companies who don't win fight over who's left.
And I'm not confused, but my paradigm is obviously different to yours.
...meager surpluses to our fuedal lords
Can you think of a better Feudal architecture than the modern Corporation? And how much is the difference betweent the actual value of your work, and what you get paid?
Think what you want BinaryBits, it's your life afterall, just make sure you're thinking and not blindly following (not to imply anything here)
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8we_spec .html
Tyan does motherboards that will handle 16GB of RAM, and has 2 16xPCI-E slots, both running at full speed.
Any other large vendor (ie, SUN, etc) will quite happily sell you a system with >16GB of RAM, if you're willing to pay for it. I'm not sure about the 16xPCI-E slots however.
be happy
Oh does it ever.
I bought a Thompson Tivo in Glasgow and it almost worked with my Telewest Cable (damn digital boxes not getting their channels changed for them).
But it was so much better than the VCR.
Now I'm back in Australia, and haven't gotten it working yet (need my own TV, damnit) and I miss it so.
Now, how to get Max Headroom here in Australia?
Ahh, but this design dumps the heat to the back of the display, so you should be ok there.
From their main page is a small 'download' link, with links to mirrors where you can get .iso images of all the CD's you get with the Deluxe version. So it is free.
Somebody told me that they go up and down stairs. I didn't believe them. Is it true? If so, then maybe it is an option.
No, they don't go up stairs, unless the height of the stair is about 1/4 of the wheel height (and the motor's strong enough to lift you up that distance).
The guy who designed them previously designed a wheelchair that did go up stairs. Perhaps this is the cause of your confusion.
Personally, does the SegWay need a 120VAC outlet to charge off, or can it handle the 240VAC we have here in Australia? I can't think of a good reason why not, but that doesn't mean it does.
2) You won't be able to kill NPC's, and any named character will be an NPC.
And this is where the game lets me down, by not allowing the players to decide how the plot will run.
If we got enough people together to be able to kill Vader, shouldn't it be possible, and the plot take that into account? After all, it would be the will of the people.
Or are the players just a money source to be told stories, but not allowed to act in them?
This is why I'm still hanging out for Shadowbane
Dude, netflix.com. If dropping a DVD in the mail whenever you're tired of watching it isn't convenient enough for you... you are too fscking lazy ; ]
And when they're willing to ship to Australia, I'd be willing to use their service.
Until then, I'm stuck to the limited range available at the local BlockBuster.
Actually, you've probably seen Mennonites (sp?) with Cell Phones.
This is why I like my DVD player so much. Changable DVD regions. Not Region Free, but I can set it to be Region 4 for all the rentals, Region 1 for the bulk of my collection, and Region 2 for Buffy (which seems to get better DVD collections in the UK, and I was in the UK at the time, so...)
Does NTSC/PAL playback, and switchable voltage too.
Pity it won't read DVD-R's.
Um, my computer first, but I'd soon stop worrying about that and start wondering what there was to drink.
Pity that these were reviewed on Geek Grrls sometime mid last year.
/. to be up to date.
Not that I expect everything on
Maybe not, but they belive in image tags
The page actually reads under lynx
(and any pointers to getting X 6.4.1 to run on a
Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDT?)
Lord Bhaal
Bugger TV (but only if you're that way inclined), go to Greenwich and actually SEE the thing! And Greenwich makes a nice change from London. Take a zodiac up the Thames (if only I could have afforded that, had to take a water-bus instead) and go enjoy uncluttered green for a couple of hours. And they're still counting 'down' to the 2000 millienium (the one we already had, not the real one) there, so maybe they're not that smart.
Oh, and you'll also find out where 'Dutch Courage' comes from.
Muahahahahaha
Yup, and that actually happens in several places around the world.
The pyramids at Giza in relation to the Nile = the belt of Orion in relation to the band of the Milky Way. The Sphinx looks direct (East, I think) and faces Taurus rising (or something) however, it's not Leo, which would make sense given that it's the Sphinx here. However, around 10,000 years ago (or so) the Sphinx faced directly into Leo rising on Mid Summer's Day (or some other silly conjunction)
Now let's visit Asia. The temples at Ankor Wat (and the various other Wat's) mirror the stars in the constellation Draco, with the main entry to the complex pointing direct (East, I think) into Draco rising on Mid Summer's Day, 10,000 years ago (or so) The people who built these also knew about precession etc and it's mirrored in their architecture.
The same sort of thing happens with the ruins in S.America (the Olmecs particularly apparently) There's carvings there that predate Chris Columbus by quite some time, that show bearded, caucasian faces. Pity the oil companies blew up all their pyramids to get at the oil.
And there's this sunken temple just south of Japan which also apparently lines up astronomically for 10,000 years ago
It all builds up into a funky little conspiracy theory (linking in Easter Island no less) about a race of people who knew Astronomy damn well, predicted the end of the world, which then happened. But because they'd predicted it, some escaped and spread the knowledge of shipping and astronomy, math, etc to various cultures around the world.
Some guy wrote a book on this, which I should get around to reading at some point.
Now you're just discriminating against all us people who happen to live south of the equator.
If you're after something that's not part of your computer, I can highly reccomend the Panasonic DV-505. Although it's not mentioned in the manual, you can change what area coding it thinks it is. It plays PAL and NTSC, does AC3 decoding, and is dual-voltage. I bought one while in NY, and am taking it back to Australia with me, along with all my area 1 DVD's.
Any idea how I get in on that refferendum if the consulate here doesn't want to know about me?
Actually, the basis of Capitalism is the accumulation of capital. That's why it's called Capitalism. Given that there's really only a certain amount of capital at any given time, that means that you're going to miss out on your capital while someone else gets it instead. Capitalism is directly responsible for the ridiculous divide between the rich and the poor, and the major unemployment problem the USA has.
And the amazing thing is that the USA thinks that this is a GoodThing(TM)
Damn I'm glad I'm leaving in 1w5d
The book was Zodiac.
The SEAL didn't die because Sangamon killed him, he died because he lost his air hose in the fight with the corporate diver, and swallowed extremely toxic water.
So, the SEAL kills the corporate diver, and the environment kills the SEAL. Now, just where did the civilian wax the SEAL again?
Ok, so I just read that book.
Was it 7 weeks? I can't seem to find it again.
Anyway, the point is that this is basically marketing, and designed to grab the USA public and make them watch advertisements.
Something like this has been happening in Australia for a couple years, but much more serious. 2 people (usually a couple) were sent down to the back blocks of Tasmania for a year (yup, 1 whole year) with bugger all. No constant tv crews either.
So it was real physical survival, whereas the TV show is about political surival. Guess most of us geeks miss out then. Still, they'll need people to 'die' early on, so don't give up now.
Or is this only to hide it better?
Funky. Add anti-radar stuff to your car. Cop lights you up, have your car automatically launch chaff, and possibly a HARM.
Is that legal in USA?
Howabout 'QDOS' (Quick and Dirty OS)
Anybody remember that?
But this whole thing is rather scary. Sure there's a couple of good reasons for all this information to be stored, collated, sorted and crunched, say your body gets mugged, killed, and dropped somewhere in a nice vat of maggots, only your teeth survive, just run your teeth-prints past their big-ol database, and wallah!, that's who you are.
But there's so many more reasons why all this data shouldn't be collected, mainly because we're giving up rights to our identities. Once we give over that information, do we have any way of checking or limiting what's being done with it?
Reminds me of the whole Australia Card fiasco, glad that died. (it later resurfaced, but was much less public, so no-one stopped it, alas)
Question is, what happens when someone patents your DNA sequence? Are they going to charge you with copyright violation for having kids?
Now, why do we put up with stuff like this? Why don't we take charge of our own lives? If only I could answer those questions.
Problem.
As far as I can tell, the whole 'we own the pipes, you rent the usage' idea can't work for anything but data. Say some big company owns all the powerlines in your area, but allows you to choose who's power you use. So you use 120KWh of electricity, and your supplier puts in 120KWh of electricity. But how do you know you got your supplier's electricity, and not someone elses? If somebody elses supplier starts putting fluctuations into the lines, you start getting fluctuations, even though it's not your supplier. How do things like that work?
Data, is different, as it can be packeted and seperated, ID'd and tracked. So you can mix it in the pipes, and it's all OK.
But Telstra will never do that. Even though the ACCC has now mandated that they open up their lines, did you notice how they're already stalling? Telstra's damn good at that, and has been doing it for ages on other matters (Like the ISP charging thang)
Telstra used to be good, and had some damn funky research labs.
Pity. But that's nostalgia really.
Yeah, right. So why are all these 30-40 year old geeks with impressive resume's getting ditched for 20 year olds, and settling for cruddy little jobs instead?
If humanity were all alike, and all equally good at a job, everybody would be getting the minimum wage (and we'd probably have been hived by now)
But some people are naturally better than the average, and companies will try to hire them rather than the common person. Thus a supply/demand thing happens, so these people get higher wages as companies fight to get a hold of them. This naturally has a follow on effect to those not quite so good, and so on, as companies who don't win fight over who's left.
And I'm not confused, but my paradigm is obviously different to yours.
Can you think of a better Feudal architecture than the modern Corporation? And how much is the difference betweent the actual value of your work, and what you get paid?
Think what you want BinaryBits, it's your life afterall, just make sure you're thinking and not blindly following (not to imply anything here)