Think what you want about their intentions regarding OLPC; but Intel has done some great work for education and have been doing it for longer than the OLPC has been around. They create much needed curriculum and training for teachers, and it is all free to access. Check it out here: http://www.intel.com/education/
Hmmm, I have always had success getting t-mobile to provide a free unlock code, AT&T as well. AFAIK both companies have a policy of providing unlock codes for free after 90 days service. Just call customer service. The 90 days is reasonable IMHO so people don't rip them off with the contract discounts. Never had a problem doing this to probably 5 or more phones now...
That is just barely slower than a 7200 rpm hard disk, and with less than 1 ms access times the SSD will blow away a 7200 rpm drive in real world performance.
Cecil, thanks for hopping in here and clearing up the confusion. I hadn't looked at MythDora in a while but knew there was no way it had surpassed KnoppMyth. I have been running KnoppMyth for 3 years now and it is perhaps my favorite software ever;) Keep up the good work, can't say how much I appreciate it.
Am I the only one that thinks it is terribly ironic that Steve Jobs and Wozniak were famous for designing and selling phone phreaking blue boxes before they started Apple?
Here is a guy who got his start selling illegal devices designed to rip off the phone company, now years later running a huge company with their own phones, getting hacked by a kid just like him 30 years ago. I sure hope Jobs still has a little phone phreaker left in him and Apple turns a blind eye to all of the iphone hacking, I can't wait for someone to release a good VOIP app for it...
Hear, Hear! Like nearly everything these days, the best info can be found at user communities and forums. cesman has done some amazing work in the 2 years I've been running knoppmyth and I can't thank him enough. It took me probably 4 hours to get setup my first time and that was as a fresh linux convert. Since then I can't count the hours mythtv has saved me in commercial watching alone, not to mention a greater understanding of linux. Hell 3 months ago I set up a knoppmyth box for my mom who has no linux experience and it has worked perfectly for her, I was expecting to have to do way more support and it has been basically none... keep on rocking cesman!
Yeah, gotta love being able to just make up delivery times with no consequences. Quote from an email 4 days ago: "The Upgrade Software should begin shipping late January 2007. You will receive your Vista/Office software within 4-6 weeks from release date."
From the upgrade site today: "Order Status : Order awaiting shipment Shipping Date : TBD. Check back in 2-3 weeks for more information"
Yeah fuck you HP, lying through your teeth to me...
Haven't used Vista myself but I've seen it posted that you can go up a (or many) folder level just by clicking on the name of the folder in the path. So there is your single click to go up any amount of folders. Sounds like an improvement to me...
I wonder how much of the price cuts have to do with the fab costs. Intel has pretty much completely transitioned to 65nm fabs for their new chips, while AMD is still in the middle of the transition and just launched retail 65nm chips at the beginning of the year. Perhaps AMD is dropping their prices to get rid of all of their 90nm chips, and/or they are getting good deals from the 90nm fabs as they drop prices to compete with the 65nm fabs (I believe AMD outsources a lot of their fab work.)
"Biological research is an expensive and time-consuming process; without some way to recoup costs, it just won't get done on the required scale."
I think that is a specious argument. Not every country treats its medical research as a profit center, many have publicly funded health care and associated research. According to your theory the International Human Genome Project would never have happened. I think there is plenty of room for both types of research, I just believe that in this case companies could rely on good old fashioned trade secrets if they develop a novel technique, if it truly is then they are safe, if it is something obvious that others will figure out then they don't deserve a patent anyway.
"The US pharmaceutical industry is one of the strongest in the world, and perhaps that can be attributed to its enforcement of the intellectual property laws."
I would attribute it to the strength of our academic research facilities. I'm no expert but I've seen many times drugs developed most of the way by publicly funded universities and then industry buys the rights for a pittance and does the clinical trials. Also having everyone in this country convinced there are magic pills that will solve all of their problems doesn't hurt profits... (witness their advertising)
The most compelling argument for me was this: "Countries that don't have gene patents actually offer better gene testing than we do, because when multiple labs are allowed to do testing, more mutations are discovered, leading to higher-quality tests."
Making an economic argument, that other countries will gain an advantage over us, is the only way to convince the people who actually have the power to change the situation.
There is a company using net metering laws as a business model to offer homeowners free solar panel systems. Basically you rent the solar panels from them for the price of the electricity they generate, based on your current utility rates and locked for however long you sign up for (1, 5, or 25 years). I really hope this succeeds as it is the first really workable business model for mass solar adoption that I have seen. Check it out here:
Good job completely missing the point; Probably cause you stopped reading or are prone to knee-jerk reactions. S/PDIF will be disabled when playing back protected audio. Like HD-DVDs and Blu-Ray. Not for your own production purposes. It will be no different than XP, except the addition of access to protected content you would not be able to access at all under XP.
Because of the way the POTS transmits. It takes 8000 samples per second of 8 bits, thus providing 64,000 bits of info, minus overhead you get 56k (53k). DSL and this use a different encoding scheme on the data using more modern techniques such as Frequency Division Multiplexing. Also I believe local loops have more bandwidth on the local loop, the lower rate for telephones was implemented for long distance hauls. So while POTS is limited to 56k it has nothing to do with the wire, it has to do with the telephone network equipment. And slashdot sucks at keeping track of threads...
Because of the way the POTS transmits. It takes 8000 samples per second of 8 bits, thus providing 64,000 bits of info, minus overhead you get 56k (53k). DSL and this use a different encoding scheme on the data using more modern techniques such as Frequency Division Multiplexing. Also I believe local loops have more bandwidth on the local loop, the lower rate for telephones was implemented for long distance hauls. So while POTS is limited to 56k it has nothing to do with the wire, it has to do with the telephone network equipment.
When oh when will some games start coming out with random object placement on MP maps. I want a level where the box that you can hide behind isn't in the same place every time, where the blown up car is on the other side of the street. Maps are too static and it leads to people camping in 1 or 2 good ambush spots every round. Switch up the objects and all of a sudden attacks aren't coming from the same place every time. It is simple and effective, I don't know why it isn't used more...
Ehh, sorry those Diamond Nexus Labs things are not diamonds. Probably cubic zirconium. Look at the chart: http://www.diamondnexuslabs.com/jewelry/informatio n/chart_comparison.htm An artificial diamond would still have a hardness of 10, and you can see they never actually call them diamonds, instead DNL gems. You second link goes to a company that measures gem light performance but doesn't sell any gems as far as I can tell...
This machine was out 2 months before Dell bought Alienware, I believe acer makes them.
Also it depends on what you consider your average dell lappie. The Inspirons are complete plastic crap you are correct, the XPS and Latitude line are quite nice, you get what you pay for...
This guy needs to install from the -bin packages if his computer is that slow or he can't stand to use it while it compiles. I never had a problem doing other things with my machine while it compiled...
Re:enough of the tuners, how 'bout TV out support?
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Hmm, I've been running KnoppMyth for over 1.5 years accross a few versions, with different Nvidia drivers, and have great tv output. I am usuing a geforce mx420 with an s-video output into a 32" CRT tv. I am running it at 1024x768 resolution. Maybe try a newer version of the nvidia drivers or a better nvidia card, they just work in every case I've seen, plug in the svideo and go...
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Think what you want about their intentions regarding OLPC; but Intel has done some great work for education and have been doing it for longer than the OLPC has been around. They create much needed curriculum and training for teachers, and it is all free to access. Check it out here:
http://www.intel.com/education/
It's actually 1.21 Gigawatts.
Or do you think jiga is a SI prefix.
Pot, kettle, black. Hand in your nerd card sir!
Hmmm, I have always had success getting t-mobile to provide a free unlock code, AT&T as well. AFAIK both companies have a policy of providing unlock codes for free after 90 days service. Just call customer service. The 90 days is reasonable IMHO so people don't rip them off with the contract discounts. Never had a problem doing this to probably 5 or more phones now...
Huh?
A quick look at newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609245
"Sequential Access - Read 60MB/s (min)
Sequential Access - Write 45MB/s (min)"
That is just barely slower than a 7200 rpm hard disk, and with less than 1 ms access times the SSD will blow away a 7200 rpm drive in real world performance.
Cecil, thanks for hopping in here and clearing up the confusion. I hadn't looked at MythDora in a while but knew there was no way it had surpassed KnoppMyth. I have been running KnoppMyth for 3 years now and it is perhaps my favorite software ever ;)
Keep up the good work, can't say how much I appreciate it.
Am I the only one that thinks it is terribly ironic that Steve Jobs and Wozniak were famous for designing and selling phone phreaking blue boxes before they started Apple?
Here is a guy who got his start selling illegal devices designed to rip off the phone company, now years later running a huge company with their own phones, getting hacked by a kid just like him 30 years ago. I sure hope Jobs still has a little phone phreaker left in him and Apple turns a blind eye to all of the iphone hacking, I can't wait for someone to release a good VOIP app for it...
Haha, good one.
Fun with math!
Hear, Hear! Like nearly everything these days, the best info can be found at user communities and forums. cesman has done some amazing work in the 2 years I've been running knoppmyth and I can't thank him enough. It took me probably 4 hours to get setup my first time and that was as a fresh linux convert. Since then I can't count the hours mythtv has saved me in commercial watching alone, not to mention a greater understanding of linux. Hell 3 months ago I set up a knoppmyth box for my mom who has no linux experience and it has worked perfectly for her, I was expecting to have to do way more support and it has been basically none...
keep on rocking cesman!
Yeah, gotta love being able to just make up delivery times with no consequences.
Quote from an email 4 days ago:
"The Upgrade Software should begin shipping late January 2007. You will receive your Vista/Office software within 4-6 weeks from release date."
From the upgrade site today:
"Order Status : Order awaiting shipment
Shipping Date : TBD. Check back in 2-3 weeks for more information"
Yeah fuck you HP, lying through your teeth to me...
Haven't used Vista myself but I've seen it posted that you can go up a (or many) folder level just by clicking on the name of the folder in the path. So there is your single click to go up any amount of folders. Sounds like an improvement to me...
I wonder how much of the price cuts have to do with the fab costs. Intel has pretty much completely transitioned to 65nm fabs for their new chips, while AMD is still in the middle of the transition and just launched retail 65nm chips at the beginning of the year. Perhaps AMD is dropping their prices to get rid of all of their 90nm chips, and/or they are getting good deals from the 90nm fabs as they drop prices to compete with the 65nm fabs (I believe AMD outsources a lot of their fab work.)
Yeah WTF? Shares of AMD are at $14.80. I thing they cut and pasted wrong...
"Biological research is an expensive and time-consuming process; without some way to recoup costs, it just won't get done on the required scale."
I think that is a specious argument. Not every country treats its medical research as a profit center, many have publicly funded health care and associated research. According to your theory the International Human Genome Project would never have happened. I think there is plenty of room for both types of research, I just believe that in this case companies could rely on good old fashioned trade secrets if they develop a novel technique, if it truly is then they are safe, if it is something obvious that others will figure out then they don't deserve a patent anyway.
"The US pharmaceutical industry is one of the strongest in the world, and perhaps that can be attributed to its enforcement of the intellectual property laws."
I would attribute it to the strength of our academic research facilities. I'm no expert but I've seen many times drugs developed most of the way by publicly funded universities and then industry buys the rights for a pittance and does the clinical trials. Also having everyone in this country convinced there are magic pills that will solve all of their problems doesn't hurt profits... (witness their advertising)
The most compelling argument for me was this:
"Countries that don't have gene patents actually offer better gene testing than we do, because when multiple labs are allowed to do testing, more mutations are discovered, leading to higher-quality tests."
Making an economic argument, that other countries will gain an advantage over us, is the only way to convince the people who actually have the power to change the situation.
There is a company using net metering laws as a business model to offer homeowners free solar panel systems. Basically you rent the solar panels from them for the price of the electricity they generate, based on your current utility rates and locked for however long you sign up for (1, 5, or 25 years). I really hope this succeeds as it is the first really workable business model for mass solar adoption that I have seen. Check it out here:
http://www.jointhesolution.com/makepower
DD-WRT vpn version also had OpenVPN and might be easier to setup...
www.dd-wrt.com
Good job completely missing the point; Probably cause you stopped reading or are prone to knee-jerk reactions. S/PDIF will be disabled when playing back protected audio. Like HD-DVDs and Blu-Ray. Not for your own production purposes. It will be no different than XP, except the addition of access to protected content you would not be able to access at all under XP.
Because of the way the POTS transmits. It takes 8000 samples per second of 8 bits, thus providing 64,000 bits of info, minus overhead you get 56k (53k).
DSL and this use a different encoding scheme on the data using more modern techniques such as Frequency Division Multiplexing. Also I believe local loops have more bandwidth on the local loop, the lower rate for telephones was implemented for long distance hauls.
So while POTS is limited to 56k it has nothing to do with the wire, it has to do with the telephone network equipment.
And slashdot sucks at keeping track of threads...
Because of the way the POTS transmits. It takes 8000 samples per second of 8 bits, thus providing 64,000 bits of info, minus overhead you get 56k (53k).
DSL and this use a different encoding scheme on the data using more modern techniques such as Frequency Division Multiplexing. Also I believe local loops have more bandwidth on the local loop, the lower rate for telephones was implemented for long distance hauls.
So while POTS is limited to 56k it has nothing to do with the wire, it has to do with the telephone network equipment.
When oh when will some games start coming out with random object placement on MP maps. I want a level where the box that you can hide behind isn't in the same place every time, where the blown up car is on the other side of the street. Maps are too static and it leads to people camping in 1 or 2 good ambush spots every round. Switch up the objects and all of a sudden attacks aren't coming from the same place every time. It is simple and effective, I don't know why it isn't used more...
Ehh, sorry those Diamond Nexus Labs things are not diamonds. Probably cubic zirconium. Look at the chart: http://www.diamondnexuslabs.com/jewelry/informatio n/chart_comparison.htm
An artificial diamond would still have a hardness of 10, and you can see they never actually call them diamonds, instead DNL gems.
You second link goes to a company that measures gem light performance but doesn't sell any gems as far as I can tell...
SO wrong on so many levels. Raid 1 does speed disc access: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/si ngleLevel1-c.html
Slows write a little, speeds up reads.
This machine was out 2 months before Dell bought Alienware, I believe acer makes them.
Also it depends on what you consider your average dell lappie. The Inspirons are complete plastic crap you are correct, the XPS and Latitude line are quite nice, you get what you pay for...
This guy needs to install from the -bin packages if his computer is that slow or he can't stand to use it while it compiles. I never had a problem doing other things with my machine while it compiled...
Hmm, I've been running KnoppMyth for over 1.5 years accross a few versions, with different Nvidia drivers, and have great tv output. I am usuing a geforce mx420 with an s-video output into a 32" CRT tv. I am running it at 1024x768 resolution. Maybe try a newer version of the nvidia drivers or a better nvidia card, they just work in every case I've seen, plug in the svideo and go...