I'm in the market for a new Mobo/CPU, to upgrade from an XP 2600/333. It looks good and appears to demand a bit less power, however, after all the trouble I've had with my present mobo (Asus A7V8X) I'm still iffy on dropping the cash. Processors always look good, mobos (now that I'm a bit cynical) all look like dressed up used cars you don't want to look under the hood of.
Recommendations on a good solid board for one of these? (I don't have money to go out and buy new boards and stack them up as dust collectors, probably same as most, but some people appear to have an endless supply of cash to play with until they get their boxen right.) Are Asus SK8N/SK8V any good, or problematic? I basically what to put this thing together, slap in about 8G of RAM and get back to work, thanks in advance.
I'd prefer to see Google sell shares right over the internet through their website, maybe allow you to buy via an online payment service or other immediate means, such as credit card (with a validation period or something like that to prevent fraud.) I'd probably buy a few shares just 'cause I think they'd look cool in frames and would make great geek gifts!:-)
Google's geek following is strong, it would be a shame if a bunch of suits were owners. Good idea to keep it to only 1/3, but how long will that last?
GOO appears available as a stock ticker symbol.
Regarding blackmail, how so? Hasn't Google already been under the scope for fixing searches? Seems a dodgy thing to do once you're publicly traded, but fine as long as you're privately held.
Does it default allowed or denied? The screenshot shows it checked (allowed) but did it come that way?
1. The most annoying option will be the default. 2. The more aggrevating the behavior of a default option, the more difficult it will be to find where it's set and change the setting.
It let me know a pop-up blocker was on the way (I was SO going to get Earthlink:),
You of course realize that pop-up blocking becoming mainstream will just push sites and advertisers into another, equally or more annoying method of pushing unwanted crap in your face before you can get to the content you want.
I can just see it, you must view the ad for 15 seconds before you can load the next page and there's no getting around it, unless you want to spend your life picking apart javascript or whatever for code to load the next page.
What you got today is an annoyance, what you might have tomorrow is a headache. Time to get back to lynx.
All that money and all that time and still got the picture of the backs of heads. Funny how these martians look like NASA geeks. Maybe if we flew in some babes and a couple cases of beer there really would be life on Mars.
Office for OSX has a better feature list than the PC version.
I remember Word being far better on Macs than on Windows years ago, back when people were still on 286's. I figure M$ sharpened their claws on the best windowing OS at the time and then rolled it all out on Win 95. Probably a good core of Mac developers still at M$, but only to keep their finger in the pie. Whatever else you think is the goal of M$, their bread and butter is office automation. The spread of other tools in that line is a threat and they treat it as such.
So, will Microsoft continue to snub the Mac or is will Redmond try to counter this move? Free software on Linux is one thing, spreading to other platforms is another. We could hope they will take the opportunity to improve their products and approach, but I'm rather cynical these days, I expect dirty tricks -- maybe they'll invest in some company hanging on by a thread who claims some intellectual property made it's way into KDE/KOffice and start suing.
I get 'spam-fighting tools' spam all the time now. Its still spam and still annoying. I don't think people are responding to spam anymore anyways, which is why they send so much more of it.
I generally ignore the spamfighting spam, too, but because I figure it's just some bait in a scam. A simple message without any links would probably have better success.
...ideally CCD chips would be embedded into the lense -- certainly a molecular nanotechnology based manufacturing process would greatly improve precision here. This would yield resolution improvement in the realm of orders of magnitude.
I noticed in the main article that Jerry Nelson is regarded as ex-faculty of UCSC, any idea why, what impact this could be? Do you have any links on the telescope array they're working on? I just pick up my info at 99 Bottles (as good a place for gossip as any, plus 40+ beers on draft:-)
Yes, UCSC is a very cool school, and not just because of the weed.
It's a very cool place and it keeps a steady flow of the babes through town, and you don't need no scope to see 'em, either! 8^)
And that, my geeky friends, is why we need giant telescopes.
And also why I recently bought a Meade ETX-125EC with all the doo-dads, so I can lookit stuff too! (c: (geez, I wish it would hurry up and get here! Full moon on the 7th!)
The lifespan of the Hubble telescope, which is almost unanimously celebrated by astronomers as an unparalleled success, has already been extended twice.
How quickly we forget the pioneers when looking at new bright and shiny toys.
I was sad to see MIR come down, it really was a marvel how long it served and what accomplishments were achieved there. Nowdays it seems the ISS one problem after another.
When Webb is totally booked solid, it would still be great to have Hubble and the way these things go, you know Hubble would still book solid, too.
I was in London back in 1993, late December, and took a few slides from my window in the Hotel Russel. I was rather impressed how lit-up the sky was with light pollution. It was a clear night but I could hardly make out any stars. Best of luck.
I was just talking with someone a few nights ago about Univerisity of California Santa Cruz, seems they're going to build a radio telescope on the cheap side, good for them. A bunch of smaller dishes over a wide area. Probably eventually hooked up to that el-cheapo Athlon studded supercomputer they built.
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but when you've got a lean budget you innovate.
BTW, there's this interesting other stuff in the news about Aussies seaching the heavens for likely places to host another earth.
Obligatory filching of Galaxy Song lyrics: So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
how amazingly unlikely is your birth,
Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
because there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Instead of lowering yourself to their standards, sink even further(!), by getting a few of these CD's and broadcasting advice to avoid spam:-)
Granted, it won't do much for pr0n, as pr0n customers know a bit of what they are getting into (although a tip about their credit cards being coopted might help.) How about a nice little piece, such as, "SPAM is Fraud,.." and sending it out using their own network?
Make the golden geese a bit wiser and maybe the goose eggs won't produce as much gold for the spammers, thus hurt their own methods and markets.
Sometimes they are just putting along, but my point was the driver who knows he/she will be on their phone or doing some other activity while driving, and sits in the left lane so they won't have to attend traffic other than keeping off the bumper of the car ahead. Lane changing is where accidents frequently happen -- someone wants to get into another lane and even with signal on may be cut off by other (more aggressive drivers) in the midst. Presenting an obstacle to traffic which requires more lane changing by other drivers is effectively why there's a minimum speed. Sitting in the far left crawling along behind a sloth on the phone or simply two people in the front seat in a heated discussion can be frustrating, and we know that frustration is the root of roadrage.
In Britain you are not allowed to be controlling a vehicle while using your hand with a phone. I don't know what the law is wrt computers. This seems a lot more sensible and workable than banning cell phones/computers from the front seat(s); as long as your hands and eyes are free to drive, you can pretty much do what you want.
Last January 1 (2003) A state law went into effect banning the talking on cell phones while driving. Consider that I can wait at a light and see every other driver crossing the intersection blathering away while one-handed-driving, I don't think this is going to be any more enforced.
In the USA you drive on the right hand side. Drivers going slow are to remain to the right lanes, leaving the left for passing. Yet on multilane freeways I frequently observe cars crawling along, well under the speed limit, while the driver gesticulates (why do people even do this while on cell phones?) and ignores all the traffic having to pass on the right because they can't be bothered with merging traffic while they concentrate on their phone call.
Just one day of the police rigidly enforcing the ban on cell phones while driving would be a good thing to get the message across, too bad they don't. I see patrol cars pass drivers chatting away. There's no enforcement
Not only a jerk, but a lying jerk. It's hard for me to believe that of the 2700 spams I got last week (while on vacation and AFK) not a single one came from him. 400+ a day and none from the king? Well, what would it be if I was receiving trash from him?
I expect, as in other things Ralsky, that this line about computer problems and complying is nothing but bullshit and he's doing business as usual via other means. The man understands things and probably pays off those who know things he doesn't to make things possible for him.
Back when the pictures and story of the photographer broke on slashdot, he made some threats via untraceable cellphones. That suggests to me he's resourceful. That he's undoubtably made his fortune by now and keeps going suggests he's not just an arrogant bastard, but he's a greedy arrogant bastard. They'll probably name a public school or a street after him someday...
I can't wait to see him wresting bread crusts from sea gulls in a K Mart parking lot. He's an excellent example of a selfish individual and capitalism at its worst.
The Earth knows that we're watching now, so it's taking extra care to be punctual...
Damn, and I _just_ bought that stinking atomic clock so I could be the most precise on the block and I'm going to be off by a freaking second now! I couldn't be happy with the Bart Simpson watch from Burger King...
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Recommendations on a good solid board for one of these? (I don't have money to go out and buy new boards and stack them up as dust collectors, probably same as most, but some people appear to have an endless supply of cash to play with until they get their boxen right.) Are Asus SK8N/SK8V any good, or problematic? I basically what to put this thing together, slap in about 8G of RAM and get back to work, thanks in advance.
Probably 75% by black suits at the SEC.
I'd prefer to see Google sell shares right over the internet through their website, maybe allow you to buy via an online payment service or other immediate means, such as credit card (with a validation period or something like that to prevent fraud.) I'd probably buy a few shares just 'cause I think they'd look cool in frames and would make great geek gifts! :-)
Google's geek following is strong, it would be a shame if a bunch of suits were owners. Good idea to keep it to only 1/3, but how long will that last?
GOO appears available as a stock ticker symbol.
Regarding blackmail, how so? Hasn't Google already been under the scope for fixing searches? Seems a dodgy thing to do once you're publicly traded, but fine as long as you're privately held.
1. The most annoying option will be the default.
2. The more aggrevating the behavior of a default option, the more difficult it will be to find where it's set and change the setting.
You of course realize that pop-up blocking becoming mainstream will just push sites and advertisers into another, equally or more annoying method of pushing unwanted crap in your face before you can get to the content you want.
I can just see it, you must view the ad for 15 seconds before you can load the next page and there's no getting around it, unless you want to spend your life picking apart javascript or whatever for code to load the next page.
What you got today is an annoyance, what you might have tomorrow is a headache. Time to get back to lynx.
All that money and all that time and still got the picture of the backs of heads. Funny how these martians look like NASA geeks. Maybe if we flew in some babes and a couple cases of beer there really would be life on Mars.
Just be glad the pictures don't show this guy, riding it like some damn cowboy and laughing back at us.
Hello Andromeda Strain!
I remember Word being far better on Macs than on Windows years ago, back when people were still on 286's. I figure M$ sharpened their claws on the best windowing OS at the time and then rolled it all out on Win 95. Probably a good core of Mac developers still at M$, but only to keep their finger in the pie. Whatever else you think is the goal of M$, their bread and butter is office automation. The spread of other tools in that line is a threat and they treat it as such.
Does only me finds this funny? NOW the hard BORING part starts...
Be glad it's not written in asp.net, that's pure unadulterated aggrevation.
So, will Microsoft continue to snub the Mac or is will Redmond try to counter this move? Free software on Linux is one thing, spreading to other platforms is another. We could hope they will take the opportunity to improve their products and approach, but I'm rather cynical these days, I expect dirty tricks -- maybe they'll invest in some company hanging on by a thread who claims some intellectual property made it's way into KDE/KOffice and start suing.
I generally ignore the spamfighting spam, too, but because I figure it's just some bait in a scam. A simple message without any links would probably have better success.
Mmmm .. nanotech enabled adaptive optics... (Homer-esque drooling) Hhhrrrrggghhhhhhh.
Yes, UCSC is a very cool school, and not just because of the weed.
It's a very cool place and it keeps a steady flow of the babes through town, and you don't need no scope to see 'em, either! 8^)
And also why I recently bought a Meade ETX-125EC with all the doo-dads, so I can lookit stuff too! (c: (geez, I wish it would hurry up and get here! Full moon on the 7th!)
How quickly we forget the pioneers when looking at new bright and shiny toys.
I was sad to see MIR come down, it really was a marvel how long it served and what accomplishments were achieved there. Nowdays it seems the ISS one problem after another.
When Webb is totally booked solid, it would still be great to have Hubble and the way these things go, you know Hubble would still book solid, too.
I was in London back in 1993, late December, and took a few slides from my window in the Hotel Russel. I was rather impressed how lit-up the sky was with light pollution. It was a clear night but I could hardly make out any stars. Best of luck.
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but when you've got a lean budget you innovate.
BTW, there's this interesting other stuff in the news about Aussies seaching the heavens for likely places to host another earth.
Obligatory filching of Galaxy Song lyrics: So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
how amazingly unlikely is your birth,
Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
because there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Granted, it won't do much for pr0n, as pr0n customers know a bit of what they are getting into (although a tip about their credit cards being coopted might help.) How about a nice little piece, such as, "SPAM is Fraud, .." and sending it out using their own network?
Make the golden geese a bit wiser and maybe the goose eggs won't produce as much gold for the spammers, thus hurt their own methods and markets.
Sometimes they are just putting along, but my point was the driver who knows he/she will be on their phone or doing some other activity while driving, and sits in the left lane so they won't have to attend traffic other than keeping off the bumper of the car ahead. Lane changing is where accidents frequently happen -- someone wants to get into another lane and even with signal on may be cut off by other (more aggressive drivers) in the midst. Presenting an obstacle to traffic which requires more lane changing by other drivers is effectively why there's a minimum speed. Sitting in the far left crawling along behind a sloth on the phone or simply two people in the front seat in a heated discussion can be frustrating, and we know that frustration is the root of roadrage.
Last January 1 (2003) A state law went into effect banning the talking on cell phones while driving. Consider that I can wait at a light and see every other driver crossing the intersection blathering away while one-handed-driving, I don't think this is going to be any more enforced.
In the USA you drive on the right hand side. Drivers going slow are to remain to the right lanes, leaving the left for passing. Yet on multilane freeways I frequently observe cars crawling along, well under the speed limit, while the driver gesticulates (why do people even do this while on cell phones?) and ignores all the traffic having to pass on the right because they can't be bothered with merging traffic while they concentrate on their phone call.
Just one day of the police rigidly enforcing the ban on cell phones while driving would be a good thing to get the message across, too bad they don't. I see patrol cars pass drivers chatting away. There's no enforcement
I expect, as in other things Ralsky, that this line about computer problems and complying is nothing but bullshit and he's doing business as usual via other means. The man understands things and probably pays off those who know things he doesn't to make things possible for him.
Back when the pictures and story of the photographer broke on slashdot, he made some threats via untraceable cellphones. That suggests to me he's resourceful. That he's undoubtably made his fortune by now and keeps going suggests he's not just an arrogant bastard, but he's a greedy arrogant bastard. They'll probably name a public school or a street after him someday...
I can't wait to see him wresting bread crusts from sea gulls in a K Mart parking lot. He's an excellent example of a selfish individual and capitalism at its worst.
Damn, and I _just_ bought that stinking atomic clock so I could be the most precise on the block and I'm going to be off by a freaking second now! I couldn't be happy with the Bart Simpson watch from Burger King...
It's a tough life being an ubergeek.
In other news...
A rose achieved 3.7GHz and a segment of rubber hose was clocked to 7.5GHz. A red rubber ball, however was unable to surpass 300 MHz befor shattering.