I was running Win2k on my HPVLI8 here at work (you can look up the specs at hp's web site). I recently added another HD and installed XP with the Plus pack, and Office XP. My 2k partition was running Off. XP as well. I have 256MB of mem installed, to speed things up a bit (they come with 128).
Well, let me tell you how disapointed I was. The XP partition is slower than *anything* I have used before. The article is bang on the money, but doesn't mention a video card *anywhere*! I have the same configuration at home (with a 32 Meg D3D card, pIII 533, 655MB RAM) and it just purrs. Fast boot, fast shutdown, everything. My only complaint is with IE 6. It sucks. If I get any more of those "Do you wish to Debug?" windows I'm gonna lose it.
If you're in charge of purchasing, and you're reading this...upgrade to 2k. Not XP.
A couple of years ago, I was working late in the office one night (maybe 5:30 or so) and this woman came up to me asking me where the copy room was. I asked her if I could see her ID, because the company has a policy of visible ID at all times. She kind of chuckled and said it was on her desk. I didn't know what to do next, as I was relatively new with this company, so I asked her if I could see it (Mine was clipped to my belt). She agreed, and walked me around to the other side of the office to her *office*. A big office. She shows me her ID, I apoligize for the inconvienience, but she says "no no...that's ok!"
Monday, I show up at work and everyone is laughing at me. Turns out, I ID'd the new VP. Later that morning an email went around asking everyone to be more security conscious, and always ask someone you don't know for their ID.
It was sent out by the VP and corporate security.
People stopped laughing, and started asking for ID from those they didn't know.
Moral of the story: it doesn't hurt to ask someone to show their ID, and you never know who you'll be asking. (Plus, the brownie points are fabulous!);)
I called, and the rep told me you have to be using Microsoft's OS if you want to subscribe to their new MSN service. You can still have a regular Qwest account.
I agree, however, a great deal of money that goes into research comes from grants and bursaries from private organizations and *taxpayers*. What is the budget for AIDS research in the US alone? Did the company base their drug on any previous works done by public organizations?
I don't specifically agree with Brazil's decision but this is human life we're talking about. What's more important to you? Making the _big company_ a few more bucks, or preserving quality of life ? I personally think Brazil is going to get away with this one. If it were a cough medicine, or something more mainstream, then no. Other countries (read: Africa) will be sure to follow their example. In Africa people are dying of AIDS at an alarming rate.
"Human blood platelets, destined for transfusion, are damaged by cooling to around 4C. The deterioration is linked to a cell membrane transition from a liquid crystalline state to a gel state, says Ann Oliver, but AFGPs seem to provide protection."
Perhaps a vaccine could be developed, as a precautionary measure, to help those exposed to extreme cold - ie. Deep sea divers, scientists in Antarctica, astronauts on Mars...
Problem is...I don't think too many people would be so keen on having fish protein in their system - people are freaked out enough with GM foods.
Not quite. Read the patent. If on posesses a basic knowledge of embryology, you'll see that this is a process to extract and maintain a culture of cells. It makes no difference whether the cells are pig, monkey, dog, rat or of the CowboyNeal variety. The process is the same. That's the key here - process.
If you ask me, your president (assuming you're American) who no doubt has *some* ties to the company that holds this patent, knew exactly what he was doing when he made his announcement to prohibit developing new cultures.I wonder what his stock portfolio will look like in about 10 years...
"How about putting fake humans with electric shock devices into the water all around the area. Soon the sharks will assosicate humans with electric shocks and start looking elsewhere for lunch!"
Lamarck also thought that giraffes 'grew' their necks becuase they needed to reach the leaves on the higher branches. Darwin was more correct in that he postulated the giraffes with necks not long enough would die out, and those with the longer necks survived. Lamarck's views on this were "learned behavior from the parents" translated to hereditary traits, while Darwin's were hereditary, through natural selection.
You seem to take Lamarck's view. It won't work, and not for just the reasons I've outlined here.
The whole point of the project is to determine not just the location of the sharks but a _pattern_ of movement. Infinitely valuable data, IMO.
Actually, Sudbury, Ontario is the site that the original Lunar Buggy was tested. Due to mining, all the vegetation was stripped from the surrounding area, and you were left with something that...well...looked a lot like the lunar surface. Only now is vegetation starting to grow again around Sudbury.
Wouldn't it be funny...
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"Early tests with scale models of inflatable rovers showed that this type of vehicle could easily scale rocks that were 1/3 the diameter of the wheels. Thus a wheel size of 1.5 m diameter was chosen to allow the rover to traverse well over 99% of the Martian surface. "
...if NASA landed one of these rovers on the 1% of the surface that it *couldn't* traverse?
Sunday through Thursday: 1hr/day for pager duty.
Friday to Saturday: 2hrs/day for pager duty.
Holidays: 4hr/day for pager duty.
What if you get called in? Well, then you get 4 hours pay MINIMUM for the call. If you can fix the prob in 2 hours, hit the beer store, if not, well too bad suckah!
Uh...anyone heard of this little standard for audio?
I must say, I'm not surprised. Not at all. USB 2, MP3...what's next? Hard drives?
Mr. Gates: "Well, people will just have to learn to live without HD support in Windows 2010. Why don't they use.NET? All their data will be protected from loss, corruption and theft - Microsoft servers are very secure and reliable. Who doesn't have broadband access these days?"
The thing I think I enjoyed most about the original Zelda, was the fact that once you beat the game, the ENTIRE game started again. All items, secrets, EVERYTHING was in a different place. Talk about a surprise. Sleepless for a week to beat the game, then sleepless for another week to beat it again - just to see if there was anything else. Cudos to Nintendo.
There's nothing worse than looking forward to a game, beating it, and then...it's over. Talk about your replay value. I wish they would incorporate this idea into more of today's adventure/RPG video games. They did it then...why not now?
DON'T CLICK THIS AT WORK. (unless your boss doesn't mind you lookin' at porn).
My favorite is this site . Just scroll down to the PK thumbnails link and you're off to the races.;) All free, good pics, nasty pics, every day. Ah....*sigh* nothin' like free porn.
''The human species is on the path to becoming the intelligence of the universe,'' Hodges said, satisfied that his farm marks a forward leap in that process.
WTF? What universe does this guy live in? Certainly not mine. Granted, the farm is AMAZING. If this idea were to be economically viable, GREAT! We can feed BILLIONS! Good show!
But...*THE* intelligence in the universe? C'mon buddy...you're a scientist. You honestly don't believe that...do you?
I'll buy one of these for my wife, mom, and kids. Hell, I'll even keep one in my wallet. Great for emergency use. It will give me some comfort knowing that if someone needs me they're just a phone call away - what if the wife gets a flat tire? MUCH better than getting "regular" cell phones for everyone and paying monthly fees. Plus, these things will fit easily in my wallet.
Yeah, yeah. We've heard it ALL. Does this really surprise anyone?
I'm pissed that Napster is going down the tubes. I've bought more CD's since I've started using Napster than I have in the last 5 years combined. Why is that? Because there's nothing like coming home, opening that damn trickey plastic wrap on the cd...smelling the case...(ahhh), pulling the tightly placed cd off the holder and placing it in my cd tray. I sit and listen to the cd, while browsing the cover art...I read the credits...dissect the whole thing. I ENJOY this. Y'know what happens to 90% of the songs I download from Napster? I delete 'em.
The only artists that Napster could possibly hurt are the "One Hit Wonders". Why should I go out and buy a whole cd for one song? Quality music doesn't suffer from file sharing....Crap does. It's just too damn bad RIAA has their panties in a bunch because they think they're losing money.
News flash: They'll NEVER stop file sharing. Finger in the damn anyone? Good luck RIAA.
PS. Fuck you guys. I'm not buying any CD's for a year. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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I was running Win2k on my HPVLI8 here at work (you can look up the specs at hp's web site). I recently added another HD and installed XP with the Plus pack, and Office XP. My 2k partition was running Off. XP as well. I have 256MB of mem installed, to speed things up a bit (they come with 128).
Well, let me tell you how disapointed I was. The XP partition is slower than *anything* I have used before. The article is bang on the money, but doesn't mention a video card *anywhere*! I have the same configuration at home (with a 32 Meg D3D card, pIII 533, 655MB RAM) and it just purrs. Fast boot, fast shutdown, everything. My only complaint is with IE 6. It sucks. If I get any more of those "Do you wish to Debug?" windows I'm gonna lose it.
If you're in charge of purchasing, and you're reading this...upgrade to 2k. Not XP.
A couple of years ago, I was working late in the office one night (maybe 5:30 or so) and this woman came up to me asking me where the copy room was. I asked her if I could see her ID, because the company has a policy of visible ID at all times. She kind of chuckled and said it was on her desk. I didn't know what to do next, as I was relatively new with this company, so I asked her if I could see it (Mine was clipped to my belt). She agreed, and walked me around to the other side of the office to her *office*. A big office. She shows me her ID, I apoligize for the inconvienience, but she says "no no...that's ok!"
;)
Monday, I show up at work and everyone is laughing at me. Turns out, I ID'd the new VP. Later that morning an email went around asking everyone to be more security conscious, and always ask someone you don't know for their ID.
It was sent out by the VP and corporate security.
People stopped laughing, and started asking for ID from those they didn't know.
Moral of the story: it doesn't hurt to ask someone to show their ID, and you never know who you'll be asking. (Plus, the brownie points are fabulous!)
Call 1-800-244-1111
I called, and the rep told me you have to be using Microsoft's OS if you want to subscribe to their new MSN service. You can still have a regular Qwest account.
So what's all the hooplah about?
Just out of curiosity...how many /.'ers read the *entire* article?
-1 Troll...I know...but I'm curious. Judging by the responses that were modded +3 or better, I'm guessing not many ppl did...
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Hold down "shift" then right click what you want to run. It will pop up a menu (like any right clicking) and you select "Run As".
*Almost* like 'su'.
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I agree, however, a great deal of money that goes into research comes from grants and bursaries from private organizations and *taxpayers*. What is the budget for AIDS research in the US alone? Did the company base their drug on any previous works done by public organizations?
I don't specifically agree with Brazil's decision but this is human life we're talking about. What's more important to you? Making the _big company_ a few more bucks, or preserving quality of life ? I personally think Brazil is going to get away with this one. If it were a cough medicine, or something more mainstream, then no. Other countries (read: Africa) will be sure to follow their example. In Africa people are dying of AIDS at an alarming rate.
This is an ethical debate. Not political.
"Human blood platelets, destined for transfusion, are damaged by cooling to around 4C. The deterioration is linked to a cell membrane transition from a liquid crystalline state to a gel state, says Ann Oliver, but AFGPs seem to provide protection."
Perhaps a vaccine could be developed, as a precautionary measure, to help those exposed to extreme cold - ie. Deep sea divers, scientists in Antarctica, astronauts on Mars...
Problem is...I don't think too many people would be so keen on having fish protein in their system - people are freaked out enough with GM foods.
Not quite. Read the patent. If on posesses a basic knowledge of embryology, you'll see that this is a process to extract and maintain a culture of cells. It makes no difference whether the cells are pig, monkey, dog, rat or of the CowboyNeal variety. The process is the same. That's the key here - process.
If you ask me, your president (assuming you're American) who no doubt has *some* ties to the company that holds this patent, knew exactly what he was doing when he made his announcement to prohibit developing new cultures.I wonder what his stock portfolio will look like in about 10 years...
What's a vandetta?
(Filling in for the grammar nazi.)
"How about putting fake humans with electric shock devices into the water all around the area. Soon the sharks will assosicate humans with electric shocks and start looking elsewhere for lunch!"
Lamarck also thought that giraffes 'grew' their necks becuase they needed to reach the leaves on the higher branches. Darwin was more correct in that he postulated the giraffes with necks not long enough would die out, and those with the longer necks survived. Lamarck's views on this were "learned behavior from the parents" translated to hereditary traits, while Darwin's were hereditary, through natural selection.
You seem to take Lamarck's view. It won't work, and not for just the reasons I've outlined here.
The whole point of the project is to determine not just the location of the sharks but a _pattern_ of movement. Infinitely valuable data, IMO.
You, Sir, are a Troll. If I had mod points, I'd label you as such.
Actually, Sudbury, Ontario is the site that the original Lunar Buggy was tested. Due to mining, all the vegetation was stripped from the surrounding area, and you were left with something that...well...looked a lot like the lunar surface. Only now is vegetation starting to grow again around Sudbury.
"Early tests with scale models of inflatable rovers showed that this type of vehicle could easily scale rocks that were 1/3 the diameter of the wheels. Thus a wheel size of 1.5 m diameter was chosen to allow the rover to traverse well over 99% of the Martian surface. "
...if NASA landed one of these rovers on the 1% of the surface that it *couldn't* traverse?
Here's the review of the Japanese version of GBA over at IGN. As well as an older preview, with all sorts of links for the GBA here.
Enjoy.
"We don't know what's beyond that [event] horizon," Trimble said. "Every grad student we've sent in to study this has never come back."
;P
Might I suggest using the Liberal Arts students? There seems to be an abundance of them.
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Sunday through Thursday: 1hr/day for pager duty.
Friday to Saturday: 2hrs/day for pager duty.
Holidays: 4hr/day for pager duty.
What if you get called in? Well, then you get 4 hours pay MINIMUM for the call. If you can fix the prob in 2 hours, hit the beer store, if not, well too bad suckah!
g
Uh...anyone heard of this little standard for audio?
.NET? All their data will be protected from loss, corruption and theft - Microsoft servers are very secure and reliable. Who doesn't have broadband access these days?"
I must say, I'm not surprised. Not at all. USB 2, MP3...what's next? Hard drives?
Mr. Gates: "Well, people will just have to learn to live without HD support in Windows 2010. Why don't they use
*chill running down spine*
The thing I think I enjoyed most about the original Zelda, was the fact that once you beat the game, the ENTIRE game started again. All items, secrets, EVERYTHING was in a different place. Talk about a surprise. Sleepless for a week to beat the game, then sleepless for another week to beat it again - just to see if there was anything else. Cudos to Nintendo.
There's nothing worse than looking forward to a game, beating it, and then...it's over. Talk about your replay value. I wish they would incorporate this idea into more of today's adventure/RPG video games. They did it then...why not now?
DON'T CLICK THIS AT WORK. (unless your boss doesn't mind you lookin' at porn).
;) All free, good pics, nasty pics, every day. Ah....*sigh* nothin' like free porn.
My favorite is this site . Just scroll down to the PK thumbnails link and you're off to the races.
g
One uses a conventional charge-coupled device detector, the other a new technology detector.
We're doomed. It's using and NT detector. Let's just hope it doesnt explode in a ball of blue and white light.
''The human species is on the path to becoming the intelligence of the universe,'' Hodges said, satisfied that his farm marks a forward leap in that process.
WTF? What universe does this guy live in? Certainly not mine. Granted, the farm is AMAZING. If this idea were to be economically viable, GREAT! We can feed BILLIONS! Good show!
But...*THE* intelligence in the universe? C'mon buddy...you're a scientist. You honestly don't believe that...do you?
I'll buy one of these for my wife, mom, and kids. Hell, I'll even keep one in my wallet. Great for emergency use. It will give me some comfort knowing that if someone needs me they're just a phone call away - what if the wife gets a flat tire? MUCH better than getting "regular" cell phones for everyone and paying monthly fees. Plus, these things will fit easily in my wallet.
Talk about your ecological consequences. *shudder*
But, if ugly bearded guys is what the
Yeah, yeah. We've heard it ALL. Does this really surprise anyone?
I'm pissed that Napster is going down the tubes. I've bought more CD's since I've started using Napster than I have in the last 5 years combined. Why is that? Because there's nothing like coming home, opening that damn trickey plastic wrap on the cd...smelling the case...(ahhh), pulling the tightly placed cd off the holder and placing it in my cd tray. I sit and listen to the cd, while browsing the cover art...I read the credits...dissect the whole thing. I ENJOY this. Y'know what happens to 90% of the songs I download from Napster? I delete 'em.
The only artists that Napster could possibly hurt are the "One Hit Wonders". Why should I go out and buy a whole cd for one song? Quality music doesn't suffer from file sharing....Crap does. It's just too damn bad RIAA has their panties in a bunch because they think they're losing money.
News flash: They'll NEVER stop file sharing. Finger in the damn anyone? Good luck RIAA.
PS. Fuck you guys. I'm not buying any CD's for a year. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.