Not exactly. The Sunray is more like a "VNC" Terminal. It uses a remote framebuffer to show the session on your Sunray. An X terminal runs an X server in the terminal itself, the Sunray has the X server run on the host computer. A little bit different. Sun's knowledge base thing has plenty of information on this should you want to learn more.
Not quite. That's chemical energy being converted to kinetic energy. The kinetic energy is converted by your alternator/generator (depending on how old your car is) to electricity. What Politubro was talking about is energy being converted directly from chemical energy to electricity.
Under what law? Remember that silly little thing called the constitution? I think i remember something saying that what it doesn't specifically give to the federal gov't the states or people can decide....
if AOL has computers that are connected to both the Internet and their internal private network, it negates the benefits of having an internal private network. You want to give your employees AIM? Set up a TOC proxy or something. Even NAT is too much to give a client computer. Dumbasses.
Uhh, no. You have the right to do whatever you want with whatever radio waves you want. The "cell phone" exception is only there because congress didn't want people listening in on their cell phone conversations. Do you want to listen to the police? Go right ahead, if you can recieve it, you can listen to it. Do you want to download NASA telemetry? Once again, if you can get it, it's yours. Do you want to use the recieved signals to commit a crime? That's illegal. I like listening in to my local police departments because it gives me a heads up on where traffic might be. Recieving satellite signals is no different. If you use that information you recieve (scrambled data) to commit a crime ("copyrite infringement" or whatever the hell it is), that is illegal. The FCC has no control over that frequencies you listen to. All the FCC controls is who can transmit on what frequency. That's it, buddy.
Linky Apparently, they've been trying to for ages, but as you can imagine, the MTA (nyc metropolitan transit authority) is huge, and it would cost way more money than anyone actually has. All of Akron's busses could fit in one of the MTA's maintenence boards. I agree that diesel busses suck, and they smell, I have to ride them every day. The problem is that Akron is not New York City. Huge sweeping conversions just don't happen like this. Pity, I guess.
Actually, if you spend any length of time in the Tube, your mucous membranes in your nose will turn black. You'll be constantly flinging black boogers from your nose. As for cleanliness, I've noticed no difference between NYC and London, other than the fact that London closes overnight. And remember, subways don't affect the congestion OR put diesel smoke out to just about head level. Ever see a subway groan off in a huge billowing black smoke cloud?
You picked the wrong time to say that...:) I'm an Urban Planning student. Building more roads is actually worse for your transportation infrastructure because if a road is not congested, more people will use it, and if the road is widened, traffic usually gets WORSE within 1 year than better. (Eg a 10 minute trip with old roads now takes 13-15 minutes). I was recently in london, and there is NO PLACE to build a new road where it is needed most. Also, it is against certain zoning regulations to change the current roads. Also, emminent domain "fair market" is BS for the homeowner. They gov't will never give you as much as it's really worth, because you have no bargaining poisition. If you don't accept their offer, they'll just condemn your house, and you don't get anything! Fun! More roads is NOT the answer -- smart driving, use of public transit, and better services outside the city core would be a more effective way of eliminating congestion in the center than just building more roads, which means more pollution anyhow.
Yeah, notice the bitch cops will do every suggestive act short of touching the guy or propositioning him in explicit language to get him to offer a "price", at which time 5-10 armed officers come out with guns drawn to someone who just throught he was gonna get some...Oh yeah, where's Osama?
A police office saying "Here, want to buy this dope" IS entrapment. A police officer having dope out on the table, and you asking for it ISN'T entrapment. Of course, people who commit drug crimes have no rights anyway, so this is a moot point. Maybe people will start getting pissed off when they treat P2P'ers like they treat pot smokers. Pot smokers are too peaceful (stoned?) to get really pissed off and change things.
If you're developing for the Xbox, isn't it pretty much assumed that you HAVE a modchip already? Why would they be giving out modchips to people that are guaranteed to have one? Why not just give out cases of beer or something that the coders really need?
C'mon man! Babies yack on themselves and could care less. Babies are also known to tolerate sitting in shit for a while too. Sounds pretty laid back to me, you think a hiccup is worse than sitting in shit?
I have Cablevision's Optimum Online, and I definaely don't pay $59 a year. More like $49 a month. Obviously, speeds are the same as you. In any case, OOL are very anal about servers. They do portscan, and those who have a buttload of open ports are "watched", (mostly P2P users) and those "watched" users can't upload some magical amount of data before they are capped down to 1megabit/150kilobit.
Insightful? Humor is an appropriate way to deal with trauma. Anyhow, we all know you won't leave. You'll see it, say I TOLD YOU SO, and then lurk around and get all angry about it, posting with your holier-than-thou attitude, "I left slashdot because of the Columbia disaster..." No, we won't ever be free of your oh-so-important bitching posts. Maybe you'll go to kuro5hin and whine about how much slashdot sucks.
It's a fraction of the machine my laptop is.
I'm assuming your laptop has a kickass 3d card, a dvd drive, component out, kickass controllers (laptop keyboards BLOW for gaming), and almost no OS overhead. Don't fall into the (pretty closedminded) belief that the XBox is just another shitty msft project. The Xbox is as much a regular computer as the new BMW 7 series, which is built with similar off-the-shelf parts and a MSFT OS.
You do not require a license to recieve or "interpret" any radio energy, at least in the US. You can listen to any radio signal you want. Wanna listen to the police? Go ahead. Wanna listen to the McD's drivethrough? Once again, go right ahead. You can even listen to Amateur Radio operators talk about boring stuff if you want. You only require a license to transmit radio energy. What you can't do is use the signals you're tuning to commit a crime. There is no FCC ruling that says that you can't recieve the signals transmitted by a policeman's radar gun. Some states have put laws in place that make the machines that recieve these signals verboten, but that sort of stuff is on very shaky legal ground. Note that since the initial radar detector scare, no other states have passed laws limiting the use of these devices while driving. In the case of DSS, what's illegal is not recieving these signals, but that with the recieving equipment comes a license that states that you won't hack their service. Sure, it's underhanded, but if you don't like those rules, don't buy them and build your own. (Heh, right) Don't feel that you can't listen to certain things just because they're not intended for you. Listen away, it keeps people honest!
I have cingular in the states (NJ), and I don't get charged for any SMS, sent or recieved. WOOHOO. Now all they need to do is get their international gateways up.
Cell phones are more convenient, cheaper over the long run
How is a Cell phone cheaper? Your standard cell phone costs perhaps $200. Then, the cheapest service is $30/month. Yes, there's pay as you go, but that's pushing 50 cents a minute in the US. If you're just recieving a call at a payphone, it costs $0.00. If you're dialing, most pay phones are 50 cents unlimited. Let's say you really need to make on the average two calls a day. Over a year, the cell phone costs $560. 365 calls with the pay phone, only $182.50. How are they cheaper over the long run? 2 years? $920 vs $365. 10 years? $5600 vs $1825. Hey, even if you take out the cost of the cell hpone, it's still not cheaper. And what's so convienent about either having to go to a store to fill up your pre-paid cell phone, or having to sign some awful contract before you even know the cell phone will work for you?
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Not exactly. The Sunray is more like a "VNC" Terminal. It uses a remote framebuffer to show the session on your Sunray. An X terminal runs an X server in the terminal itself, the Sunray has the X server run on the host computer. A little bit different. Sun's knowledge base thing has plenty of information on this should you want to learn more.
If you pay full price for Sun products, I got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you ...
Not quite. That's chemical energy being converted to kinetic energy. The kinetic energy is converted by your alternator/generator (depending on how old your car is) to electricity. What Politubro was talking about is energy being converted directly from chemical energy to electricity.
Or maybe they will happen by Dick Cheney making loads of money off Iraq with Halliburton!
Under what law? Remember that silly little thing called the constitution? I think i remember something saying that what it doesn't specifically give to the federal gov't the states or people can decide....
if AOL has computers that are connected to both the Internet and their internal private network, it negates the benefits of having an internal private network. You want to give your employees AIM? Set up a TOC proxy or something. Even NAT is too much to give a client computer. Dumbasses.
Stable on linux != stable on OSX.
He's insane, Minix is the end-all be-all *nix on my 386!
Uhh, no. You have the right to do whatever you want with whatever radio waves you want. The "cell phone" exception is only there because congress didn't want people listening in on their cell phone conversations. Do you want to listen to the police? Go right ahead, if you can recieve it, you can listen to it. Do you want to download NASA telemetry? Once again, if you can get it, it's yours. Do you want to use the recieved signals to commit a crime? That's illegal. I like listening in to my local police departments because it gives me a heads up on where traffic might be. Recieving satellite signals is no different. If you use that information you recieve (scrambled data) to commit a crime ("copyrite infringement" or whatever the hell it is), that is illegal. The FCC has no control over that frequencies you listen to. All the FCC controls is who can transmit on what frequency. That's it, buddy.
Are they cheaper (easier, more convienente) than just getting a new NES in the super-off chance that you do fry something?
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Apparently, they've been trying to for ages, but as you can imagine, the MTA (nyc metropolitan transit authority) is huge, and it would cost way more money than anyone actually has. All of Akron's busses could fit in one of the MTA's maintenence boards. I agree that diesel busses suck, and they smell, I have to ride them every day. The problem is that Akron is not New York City. Huge sweeping conversions just don't happen like this. Pity, I guess.
Actually, if you spend any length of time in the Tube, your mucous membranes in your nose will turn black. You'll be constantly flinging black boogers from your nose. As for cleanliness, I've noticed no difference between NYC and London, other than the fact that London closes overnight. And remember, subways don't affect the congestion OR put diesel smoke out to just about head level. Ever see a subway groan off in a huge billowing black smoke cloud?
You picked the wrong time to say that...:) I'm an Urban Planning student. Building more roads is actually worse for your transportation infrastructure because if a road is not congested, more people will use it, and if the road is widened, traffic usually gets WORSE within 1 year than better. (Eg a 10 minute trip with old roads now takes 13-15 minutes). I was recently in london, and there is NO PLACE to build a new road where it is needed most. Also, it is against certain zoning regulations to change the current roads. Also, emminent domain "fair market" is BS for the homeowner. They gov't will never give you as much as it's really worth, because you have no bargaining poisition. If you don't accept their offer, they'll just condemn your house, and you don't get anything! Fun! More roads is NOT the answer -- smart driving, use of public transit, and better services outside the city core would be a more effective way of eliminating congestion in the center than just building more roads, which means more pollution anyhow.
I smell RIPOFF. Try at least saying this isn't yours. Ripping off other people's work is pretty lame, even for karma.
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Ahh, take the whole damn thing.
Yeah, notice the bitch cops will do every suggestive act short of touching the guy or propositioning him in explicit language to get him to offer a "price", at which time 5-10 armed officers come out with guns drawn to someone who just throught he was gonna get some...Oh yeah, where's Osama?
A police office saying "Here, want to buy this dope" IS entrapment. A police officer having dope out on the table, and you asking for it ISN'T entrapment. Of course, people who commit drug crimes have no rights anyway, so this is a moot point. Maybe people will start getting pissed off when they treat P2P'ers like they treat pot smokers. Pot smokers are too peaceful (stoned?) to get really pissed off and change things.
If you're developing for the Xbox, isn't it pretty much assumed that you HAVE a modchip already? Why would they be giving out modchips to people that are guaranteed to have one? Why not just give out cases of beer or something that the coders really need?
C'mon man! Babies yack on themselves and could care less. Babies are also known to tolerate sitting in shit for a while too. Sounds pretty laid back to me, you think a hiccup is worse than sitting in shit?
I have Cablevision's Optimum Online, and I definaely don't pay $59 a year. More like $49 a month. Obviously, speeds are the same as you. In any case, OOL are very anal about servers. They do portscan, and those who have a buttload of open ports are "watched", (mostly P2P users) and those "watched" users can't upload some magical amount of data before they are capped down to 1megabit/150kilobit.
Insightful? Humor is an appropriate way to deal with trauma. Anyhow, we all know you won't leave. You'll see it, say I TOLD YOU SO, and then lurk around and get all angry about it, posting with your holier-than-thou attitude, "I left slashdot because of the Columbia disaster..." No, we won't ever be free of your oh-so-important bitching posts. Maybe you'll go to kuro5hin and whine about how much slashdot sucks.
It's a fraction of the machine my laptop is.
I'm assuming your laptop has a kickass 3d card, a dvd drive, component out, kickass controllers (laptop keyboards BLOW for gaming), and almost no OS overhead. Don't fall into the (pretty closedminded) belief that the XBox is just another shitty msft project. The Xbox is as much a regular computer as the new BMW 7 series, which is built with similar off-the-shelf parts and a MSFT OS.
You do not require a license to recieve or "interpret" any radio energy, at least in the US. You can listen to any radio signal you want. Wanna listen to the police? Go ahead. Wanna listen to the McD's drivethrough? Once again, go right ahead. You can even listen to Amateur Radio operators talk about boring stuff if you want. You only require a license to transmit radio energy. What you can't do is use the signals you're tuning to commit a crime. There is no FCC ruling that says that you can't recieve the signals transmitted by a policeman's radar gun. Some states have put laws in place that make the machines that recieve these signals verboten, but that sort of stuff is on very shaky legal ground. Note that since the initial radar detector scare, no other states have passed laws limiting the use of these devices while driving. In the case of DSS, what's illegal is not recieving these signals, but that with the recieving equipment comes a license that states that you won't hack their service. Sure, it's underhanded, but if you don't like those rules, don't buy them and build your own. (Heh, right) Don't feel that you can't listen to certain things just because they're not intended for you. Listen away, it keeps people honest!
I have cingular in the states (NJ), and I don't get charged for any SMS, sent or recieved. WOOHOO. Now all they need to do is get their international gateways up.
Oops, instead of "Two calls a day", i mean "One call a day". Sorry.
How is a Cell phone cheaper? Your standard cell phone costs perhaps $200. Then, the cheapest service is $30/month. Yes, there's pay as you go, but that's pushing 50 cents a minute in the US. If you're just recieving a call at a payphone, it costs $0.00. If you're dialing, most pay phones are 50 cents unlimited. Let's say you really need to make on the average two calls a day. Over a year, the cell phone costs $560. 365 calls with the pay phone, only $182.50. How are they cheaper over the long run? 2 years? $920 vs $365. 10 years? $5600 vs $1825. Hey, even if you take out the cost of the cell hpone, it's still not cheaper. And what's so convienent about either having to go to a store to fill up your pre-paid cell phone, or having to sign some awful contract before you even know the cell phone will work for you?