...the scariest bit about the Terminator is that it had the potential to crosspollinate other related plants that didn't include the Terminator gene, which would effectively reduce the productive seed output on neighboring farms that weren't subscribed to the "seed plan." That in and of itself is scary enough for me.
I worked in the test department next to the passport people, and for various reasons I actually got a rundown in how it worked at one point.
Basically, it's to keep your credit card number from EVER crossing the ether using a public/private key challenge system to log a transaction. The site you visit bills Passport, Passport bills your credit card, and the number never goes anywhere. Since each transaction is logged seperately using a different ID, you can review your transactions online (theoretically) and make certain that they were all transactions that you ordered.
Me? I'll avoid it like the plague. This is MS, after all.
Oh, and I only tested software there. Don't blame me - they didn't listen to me when I found the bugs, so it ain't my fault. ^_^
8x, I would suspect, is the maximum multiplier "officially" supported by the motherboard. Since Celerons all are multiplier locked, you can't increase the multiplier - the system will refuse to boot. HOWEVER...
You CAN increase the FSB speed. Heh.
Normally, your Celeron 433 will run at 66.6_x6.5, or 433.3_ MHz. Now, just up that FSB to 100mhz, and you've got a machine running at 650mhz. PROBLEM! You probably also just melted your motherboard!
Don't worry though - just jump down to 75MHz (487MHz) or 83.5 MHz (542.75MHz) front side bus speeds. Much more friendly on your CPU, but a bitch on your PCI cards, and let's not even talk about AGP. ^_^"
...but the weather here on Tuesday and Wednesday was spectacular. At some points the lightning bolts were coming so fast and furious that instead of hearing individual blasts of thunder, they were coming down in a continuous roar that never faded out. Scary, exhilarating, exciting, and my power never went out. We NEVER get weather like this in Seattle - supposedly over 1000 bolts touched down Tuesday night alone!
This is no apology, though - 9 unscheduled non-weather related downs, and they blame it on the weather? Morons.
Considering that single socsec numbers are used multiple times for different people, I'm probably sharing mine with a convicted child-rapist cop-killing bomb-making gun-owning tax-dodging criminal.
While the potential is there for useful comments to be filtered out, it is there as an OPTION, not a requirement. Same thing could be said about the Anonymous Coward issue, the Moderator issue, the ability to sort threads, etc.
Neal Stephenson DID speak at Microsoft on May 2nd, in support of his book Cryptonomicon. I didn't get to go, because a prick of a manager decided that my excellent work didn't overrule the fact that I was showing everybody just how stupid he was every 3-4 days and laid me off.
Wasn't my fault - he just didn't know that everybody else already knew he was an idiot.
Canada and the US merge? Lord, I hope not. At least (with the exception of Quebec) Canada isn't besot by rightwing loonies who want to take us back to the 19th century socially...
...While I can't give any URL's, a community college I worked at was given a "grant" by Micros~1. Basically, they were given a "budget" which they were allowed to "purchase" Micros~1 software at retail price. Micros~1 then waited 9-12 months before delivering. It was explained to me as a way for Micros~1 to get an up-front tax writeoff for full retail price software, then clean out their warehouses of old stuff that wasn't moving anymore. Sick, but it worked.
...back when I was in IS at a local public utility company. The survey engineers would take the things out with them, run over them with trucks, drop them from telephone poles, and just generally pound the crap out of them.
We only ever had one fail, and that was because it got hit straight on by a pickaxe. Went right through one side of the case and out the other. The casing does great against distributed pressure, but it don't do to good against impaling attacks...
In the book, they were talking about the black ops situations where they would create "reasons" that they could use the intelligence gained from the cracked codes by, say, flying a spyplane over a convoy that was already known about, or faking a merchant ship crossing near a Milchow (supply submarine) or a spy post that supposedly had been in the middle of Italy for 10-12 months previously...
Those broadband fiber network people will still recoup their investment. Sure, they might have to charge a small amount more than they would have for the broadband itself, but it leaves the option over for us to select our ISP. And with the recent partnerships between AT&T, TCI, and Microsoft, this is VERY important. How would you like to be FORCED to use a Microsoft product in order to get cheap broadband access? I know I wouldn't like it at all...
Is why he feels safe calling Windows 95 and NT by name, as well as referring to a certain individual in the book as being sued to the point of bankruptcy by Micro$oft, but he can't come out and call Linux by name - instead, he calls it Finux, and makes some comment about an open source UNIX written by the Finns just to show the rest of the world just how crazy they all are.
I'm on page 350 out of ~900 and lovin' it, tho... Damn good book.
...but words cut much more deeply. The price of being an individual SHOULD NOT be our sanity, our emotional well being, our future. Emotional battery often has a much deeper and longer-lasting effect than physical battery ever could. Snuff it out before it begins. Teach children to respect those who view the world in other ways. Up with the Dogma of Otherness!
I remember the saying, but I don't remember who said it. "It is important in the process of fighting monsters, that we ourselves do not become monsters." This is the most important thing. Pointing the finger is not what will solve the problem - that's what got us here in the first place. Instead, offer solutions. Yes, school administrators, jocks, teachers, and parents are part of the problem, but that doesn't mean that we should just blame them and expect them to fix it. We need to stop letting ourselves be the victims. We need solutions. Suggestion: Read "King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine" by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette. That book has done more to help me understand our society's dysfunction than 25 years of living in it did. The first couple chapters are really the most awakening, then for the rest of the book, I was saying "Uh-huh, right, yeah, that makes sense..."
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...the scariest bit about the Terminator is that it had the potential to crosspollinate other related plants that didn't include the Terminator gene, which would effectively reduce the productive seed output on neighboring farms that weren't subscribed to the "seed plan." That in and of itself is scary enough for me.
I worked in the test department next to the passport people, and for various reasons I actually got a rundown in how it worked at one point.
Basically, it's to keep your credit card number from EVER crossing the ether using a public/private key challenge system to log a transaction. The site you visit bills Passport, Passport bills your credit card, and the number never goes anywhere. Since each transaction is logged seperately using a different ID, you can review your transactions online (theoretically) and make certain that they were all transactions that you ordered.
Me? I'll avoid it like the plague. This is MS, after all.
Oh, and I only tested software there. Don't blame me - they didn't listen to me when I found the bugs, so it ain't my fault. ^_^
Quick, bust out Hiroaki!
8x, I would suspect, is the maximum multiplier "officially" supported by the motherboard. Since Celerons all are multiplier locked, you can't increase the multiplier - the system will refuse to boot. HOWEVER...
You CAN increase the FSB speed. Heh.
Normally, your Celeron 433 will run at 66.6_x6.5, or 433.3_ MHz. Now, just up that FSB to 100mhz, and you've got a machine running at 650mhz. PROBLEM! You probably also just melted your motherboard!
Don't worry though - just jump down to 75MHz (487MHz) or 83.5 MHz (542.75MHz) front side bus speeds. Much more friendly on your CPU, but a bitch on your PCI cards, and let's not even talk about AGP. ^_^"
I guess you remember the Steve Barkto incident?
I think the URL is http://www.pjprimer.com/jihad.html
...but the weather here on Tuesday and Wednesday was spectacular. At some points the lightning bolts were coming so fast and furious that instead of hearing individual blasts of thunder, they were coming down in a continuous roar that never faded out. Scary, exhilarating, exciting, and my power never went out. We NEVER get weather like this in Seattle - supposedly over 1000 bolts touched down Tuesday night alone!
This is no apology, though - 9 unscheduled non-weather related downs, and they blame it on the weather? Morons.
given my luck...
Considering that single socsec numbers are used multiple times for different people, I'm probably sharing mine with a convicted child-rapist cop-killing bomb-making gun-owning tax-dodging criminal.
Just my luck
A-men, brother.
I'm getting tired of 80+ hour weeks... I'd like to enjoy my life while I still have one!
While the potential is there for useful comments to be filtered out, it is there as an OPTION, not a requirement. Same thing could be said about the Anonymous Coward issue, the Moderator issue, the ability to sort threads, etc.
...that George Burns died this past year.
Neal Stephenson DID speak at Microsoft on May 2nd, in support of his book Cryptonomicon. I didn't get to go, because a prick of a manager decided that my excellent work didn't overrule the fact that I was showing everybody just how stupid he was every 3-4 days and laid me off.
Wasn't my fault - he just didn't know that everybody else already knew he was an idiot.
Now, I've gotta go dry the drool out of my keyboard...
I've got a pretty hard time lookin' in the mirror as well - I work at MS!
Canada and the US merge? Lord, I hope not. At least (with the exception of Quebec) Canada isn't besot by rightwing loonies who want to take us back to the 19th century socially...
Yeah, I live in the US, what of it?
...While I can't give any URL's, a community college I worked at was given a "grant" by Micros~1. Basically, they were given a "budget" which they were allowed to "purchase" Micros~1 software at retail price. Micros~1 then waited 9-12 months before delivering. It was explained to me as a way for Micros~1 to get an up-front tax writeoff for full retail price software, then clean out their warehouses of old stuff that wasn't moving anymore. Sick, but it worked.
...back when I was in IS at a local public utility company. The survey engineers would take the things out with them, run over them with trucks, drop them from telephone poles, and just generally pound the crap out of them.
We only ever had one fail, and that was because it got hit straight on by a pickaxe. Went right through one side of the case and out the other. The casing does great against distributed pressure, but it don't do to good against impaling attacks...
...the book by Neal Stephenson.
In the book, they were talking about the black ops situations where they would create "reasons" that they could use the intelligence gained from the cracked codes by, say, flying a spyplane over a convoy that was already known about, or faking a merchant ship crossing near a Milchow (supply submarine) or a spy post that supposedly had been in the middle of Italy for 10-12 months previously...
Those broadband fiber network people will still recoup their investment. Sure, they might have to charge a small amount more than they would have for the broadband itself, but it leaves the option over for us to select our ISP. And with the recent partnerships between AT&T, TCI, and Microsoft, this is VERY important. How would you like to be FORCED to use a Microsoft product in order to get cheap broadband access? I know I wouldn't like it at all...
Is why he feels safe calling Windows 95 and NT by name, as well as referring to a certain individual in the book as being sued to the point of bankruptcy by Micro$oft, but he can't come out and call Linux by name - instead, he calls it Finux, and makes some comment about an open source UNIX written by the Finns just to show the rest of the world just how crazy they all are.
I'm on page 350 out of ~900 and lovin' it, tho... Damn good book.
Man, that's sneaky.
:)
Sorry, couldn't resist.
His comment was sarcastic, ok?
...but words cut much more deeply. The price of being an individual SHOULD NOT be our sanity, our emotional well being, our future. Emotional battery often has a much deeper and longer-lasting effect than physical battery ever could. Snuff it out before it begins. Teach children to respect those who view the world in other ways. Up with the Dogma of Otherness!
I remember the saying, but I don't remember who said it. "It is important in the process of fighting monsters, that we ourselves do not become monsters." This is the most important thing. Pointing the finger is not what will solve the problem - that's what got us here in the first place. Instead, offer solutions. Yes, school administrators, jocks, teachers, and parents are part of the problem, but that doesn't mean that we should just blame them and expect them to fix it. We need to stop letting ourselves be the victims. We need solutions. Suggestion: Read "King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine" by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette. That book has done more to help me understand our society's dysfunction than 25 years of living in it did. The first couple chapters are really the most awakening, then for the rest of the book, I was saying "Uh-huh, right, yeah, that makes sense..."
Prepare to suffer the fury of /. :)