Actaually, though the IPs provided by Comcast (and previously AT&T) are served by DHCP, they're effectively static. Since they use the MAC address of the connected machine to authenticate* legitimate clients, you end up getting the same IP every time thanks to:
host yadda { hardware ethernet [MAC...]}
directives. I assume that's what they're doing; I've had the same "dynamic" IP for a bit over three years now.
* In this case, "authenticate" means identify, so they can refuse to give more than 1 IP per client connection in the markets where this is enforced.
Not only do most telemarketers (who make it through the DNC list and the Qwest anti-solicitor services we have) hang up, most of our friends no longer call either, since they think they have the wrong number!
Ack, replying to myself - but I misread your post. You're referring to the refill canister? That is an interesting question... but if I remember my airline restrictions correctly, I think you'd still be ok.
You can have cans of shaving cream (for example) in carry-on luggage.
At the outer boundary of your domain. What this means in email delivery terms is unclear, though. Citing case law:
"We therefore categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another. If this prohibition operates to impede the flow of even valid ideas, the answer is that no one has a right to press even 'good' ideas on an unwilling recipient. That we are often 'captives' outside the sanctuary of the home and subject to objectionable speech and other sound does not mean we must be captives everywhere. See Public Utilities Comm. of District of Columbia v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451 (1952). The asserted right of a mailer, we repeat, stops at the outer boundary of every person's domain."
- ROWAN v. U. S. POST OFFICE DEPT. , 397 U.S. 728 (1970)
Let me say this again, since you clearly didn't hear me the first time.
It is worth it to me to pay Transgaming $5/month so I don't have to run Windows to play games.
If it's not worth it to you, then Windows is an option for you. Trying to talk me into saving money by buying Windows is tilting at windmills, though, I'm afraid, since my issue with Microsoft isn't the money they charge. If what you're trying to do is present an alternative, I think you have it backwards. Most people who play games know about Windows already.
And yes, there are games it doesn't work with. There's a list on their website that details them, which ones, and what the problems are. You go into the purchase decision for WineX knowing if it'll work for you.
This is true of games like EverQuest, too (and I assume City of Heroes, which may or may not run under WineX, never checked).
When EQ patches they may break WineX's ability to run the game, in which case you'd want to be able to patch your WineX to the latest release.
It's $5 a month to be free from having to keep Windows around to play games. For me, saying that's worth it is an understatement. Besides which, I've never had a problem paying for good software, regardless of its license.
This is common in the legal profession. WordPerfect somehow became the standard there, while Word took over everywhere else.
That "somehow" was: WordPerfect deliberately included specific features that were helpful/necessary to the production of legal documents. Word (at the time) didn't.
WordPerfect also heavily courted the medical industry the same way, but to a lesser degree of success.
Excellent overview, but I believe this is incorrect:
- Brake bias; controls the front and rear split of pressure on the brakes allowing the driver to set the car up
As far as I am aware, you cannot use the computer to adjust brake bias. This must be done via an analog control, usually a knob or lever with control cables. On the F2004, it is behind the steering wheel on the right side.
(Reference: 2004 Canadian Grand Prix Speed TV telecast; commentary over in-cockpit view of Schumacher while adjusting the bias).
iTunes solves this issue with a simple, high-speed search capability that makes it much faster for me to pick the song by typing a part of its title than I can by navigating through the Finder, even if I already know its exact path in the filesystem.
Finder can do that, too - it will do as-you-type searching just like iTunes will. And it's fast. Try it sometime. The text entry for Finder is in the exact same place it is in iTunes.
The speed of the interaction has a component that hasn't gotten any faster in the last 15 years - the user.
It's no surprise that creating and printing a document hasn't gotten much faster - both computers were sitting around waiting for you to click the next button or issue the next command.
It amazes me that with all of the competition in the cellular market ANY company can get away with treating people like that and not suffer a mass exodus of customers. I suppose its because of the fine tradition they have of locking us in to contracts
Actually, I think it's more an issue of there being nowhere to go. All the carriers suck. No matter which cellular service you're talking about, you can find someone with a horror story about coverage, billing, contracts, etc. etc. There are also a lot of people (myself being one) who have had no really bad problems, and I've been on two different services with a variety of harware. The only reason I switched was to get hardware my previous carrier didn't offer (bluetooth phone).
I'd bet you would indeed see a mass exodus, from all the current carriers, were one to prove itself notably superior. So far, that hasn't been the case.
Both a Kenworth over-the-road tractor and a Formula 1 car have about 1000 horsepower. But one will accelerate a LOT faster than the other. And one can tow 20 tons of stuff behind it.
Even IF MHz were directly comparable, you still couldn't judge the speed of a computer without considering what that computer was built to do.
I hear you, and I never thought that was a good idea either. However, I noticed in OS X (which is the first MacOS version I've used seriously) when you begin dragging an "ejectable" item, the trash can changes to an eject symbol.
Not as scary, certainly, and much more informative about the action that will be taken if you drop it there.
That said, I still CTL-Click -> Eject a lot more than I drag.
Very true, but consider - the CPU spec depends on what your servers are doing. I have one that runs my firewall; it's a K6 266. Another runs DNS/DHCP and et cetera for my local LAN; it's a P-III 500, and that's likely overkill in both cases.
Not all servers need screaming fast processors, either. So, AMD's market could be even larger than just -gamer.
This just shows how they've completely lost sight of their market.
Microsoft does this over and over again. They see a market between small, efficient single-purpose or dedicated task technology (think PalmPilot, for a moment) and the larger, full-function device it is meant to complement (think laptop PC), and then build a device priced out of reach of the lower market, but not as useful as the upper.
They've done ok with PocketPC overall, but those first years are rough. They may eventually find a market space for this hybrid console/PC, also, but the first ones can flounder all they want. They have billions to spend, and years to fiddle with the details.
The U.S. felt it needed to demonstrate it could build more than one.
It had already been proven that N battleships and/or aircraft carriers could be built, but as a "wonder weapon", the atomic bomb wasn't all that devastating unless we could demonstrate we could drop dozens. I mean, think of the efficiency... one plane, one bomb, one city.
Up to that point, it had taken hundreds of aircraft and thousands of bombs to acheive the same destructive result. Tokyo had been under a fire-bombing campaign for months.
I also think it might have had something to do with the Japanese philosophy toward war at the time - they were willing to fight to the last man. Perhaps the U.S. needed to show they were willing to kill to the last man, were that what Japan required.
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host yadda { hardware ethernet [MAC...]}
directives. I assume that's what they're doing; I've had the same "dynamic" IP for a bit over three years now.
* In this case, "authenticate" means identify, so they can refuse to give more than 1 IP per client connection in the markets where this is enforced.
In the QuickTime demo for Dashboard, MSFT and APPL are both up in the stock ticker applet.
Not only do most telemarketers (who make it through the DNC list and the Qwest anti-solicitor services we have) hang up, most of our friends no longer call either, since they think they have the wrong number!
Ah... blissful silence. Ola!
You can have cans of shaving cream (for example) in carry-on luggage.
This device is no less safe than they are.
"We therefore categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another. If this prohibition operates to impede the flow of even valid ideas, the answer is that no one has a right to press even 'good' ideas on an unwilling recipient. That we are often 'captives' outside the sanctuary of the home and subject to objectionable speech and other sound does not mean we must be captives everywhere. See Public Utilities Comm. of District of Columbia v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451 (1952). The asserted right of a mailer, we repeat, stops at the outer boundary of every person's domain."
- ROWAN v. U. S. POST OFFICE DEPT. , 397 U.S. 728 (1970)
It is worth it to me to pay Transgaming $5/month so I don't have to run Windows to play games.
If it's not worth it to you, then Windows is an option for you. Trying to talk me into saving money by buying Windows is tilting at windmills, though, I'm afraid, since my issue with Microsoft isn't the money they charge. If what you're trying to do is present an alternative, I think you have it backwards. Most people who play games know about Windows already.
And yes, there are games it doesn't work with. There's a list on their website that details them, which ones, and what the problems are. You go into the purchase decision for WineX knowing if it'll work for you.
When EQ patches they may break WineX's ability to run the game, in which case you'd want to be able to patch your WineX to the latest release.
It's $5 a month to be free from having to keep Windows around to play games. For me, saying that's worth it is an understatement. Besides which, I've never had a problem paying for good software, regardless of its license.
That "somehow" was: WordPerfect deliberately included specific features that were helpful/necessary to the production of legal documents. Word (at the time) didn't.
WordPerfect also heavily courted the medical industry the same way, but to a lesser degree of success.
- Brake bias; controls the front and rear split of pressure on the brakes allowing the driver to set the car up
As far as I am aware, you cannot use the computer to adjust brake bias. This must be done via an analog control, usually a knob or lever with control cables. On the F2004, it is behind the steering wheel on the right side.
(Reference: 2004 Canadian Grand Prix Speed TV telecast; commentary over in-cockpit view of Schumacher while adjusting the bias).
Finder can do that, too - it will do as-you-type searching just like iTunes will. And it's fast. Try it sometime. The text entry for Finder is in the exact same place it is in iTunes.
Have fun.
1. Better reception; dramatically so for some areas
2. I can get stations from Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, etc. from Minneapolis.
It's no surprise that creating and printing a document hasn't gotten much faster - both computers were sitting around waiting for you to click the next button or issue the next command.
Actually, I think it's more an issue of there being nowhere to go. All the carriers suck. No matter which cellular service you're talking about, you can find someone with a horror story about coverage, billing, contracts, etc. etc. There are also a lot of people (myself being one) who have had no really bad problems, and I've been on two different services with a variety of harware. The only reason I switched was to get hardware my previous carrier didn't offer (bluetooth phone).
I'd bet you would indeed see a mass exodus, from all the current carriers, were one to prove itself notably superior. So far, that hasn't been the case.
Both a Kenworth over-the-road tractor and a Formula 1 car have about 1000 horsepower. But one will accelerate a LOT faster than the other. And one can tow 20 tons of stuff behind it.
Even IF MHz were directly comparable, you still couldn't judge the speed of a computer without considering what that computer was built to do.
Not as scary, certainly, and much more informative about the action that will be taken if you drop it there.
That said, I still CTL-Click -> Eject a lot more than I drag.
I've never understood that.
Not all servers need screaming fast processors, either. So, AMD's market could be even larger than just -gamer.
Will quality software be written for the hobby market?
Millions of Linux and BSD machines say: Yep. And they're not getting paid money, either.
Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
This makes both the CapsLock and Control keys function as Control.
I'm happy since I can use CapsLock for Control, but when others sit at my board to drive, they're not messed up by the switch.
What do you call deep frying? We have that, too - it's how all the food in the Midwest is prepared. =)
Microsoft does this over and over again. They see a market between small, efficient single-purpose or dedicated task technology (think PalmPilot, for a moment) and the larger, full-function device it is meant to complement (think laptop PC), and then build a device priced out of reach of the lower market, but not as useful as the upper.
They've done ok with PocketPC overall, but those first years are rough. They may eventually find a market space for this hybrid console/PC, also, but the first ones can flounder all they want. They have billions to spend, and years to fiddle with the details.
You can't install using this particular card, but the mini-ISO is enough to get it going; then you can pkg_add to complete your install.
This card may be hard to find, but I don't need it anymore, so an eBay solution is a strong possibility. =)
It had already been proven that N battleships and/or aircraft carriers could be built, but as a "wonder weapon", the atomic bomb wasn't all that devastating unless we could demonstrate we could drop dozens. I mean, think of the efficiency... one plane, one bomb, one city.
Up to that point, it had taken hundreds of aircraft and thousands of bombs to acheive the same destructive result. Tokyo had been under a fire-bombing campaign for months.
I also think it might have had something to do with the Japanese philosophy toward war at the time - they were willing to fight to the last man. Perhaps the U.S. needed to show they were willing to kill to the last man, were that what Japan required.
I was comparing 802.11b and 802.11g the other day, and wondered why 11Mb fell back to ~2Mb even three feet from my MX4550 base station ...
That's one reason why a straight ^[A-Z] wouldn't work. That would have to be one smart little regexp.