N-Gage was a disaster by design. You could not pull the chip without pulling the battery. When you did this, you pretty much lost all of your scores and saved games that were on the phones NVRAM.
BTX as a attempt by Intel to corner the form factor market that had one foot in the grave even before it entered preproduction. All that they did with BTX as to flip the bloody board 180 degrees on it's Y axis. What's the big deal about that?
Intel and Dell entered into an agreement to make custom boards and backplanes where the standoffs are 2cm offset from the ATX standard, invalidating any attempt by anyone wishing to upgrade the system to a better board and chip. Talk about waste management! If the user wishes to do anything about major upgrades, they are forced to pull all the accessories save for the main board out of the case and throw it away. It's next to useless.
The spectre of mccarthyisim may never fade from memory as long as fear dominates the nation. The impact of the indy film "Good Night, and Good Luck" rings loud and clear the general attitude of the national security agencies.
Even the politicals cannot see beyond their threat lists and sealed envelopes. We need a nice little scandal that will force the system to look inward and ask itself;
"Who am I and what am I doing?"
"Am I doing right for the good for the people, or the nation?"
"Is security a good tradeoff for the freedom that our forefathers guranteed when they penned The Constitution?"
Ben Franklin was right... "He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither"
The feds (FCC, FTC, SEC) catch wind of this they will go ballistic. The House and Senate committes will grill the telcos until they are well done over QOS or priority packeting, filtering, depeering and email routing. They won't hear the end of it until they drop the bloody thing altogether.
Never had a problen with the main power supply cookin'.
I had gunfights with the 1541's power supply, its transformer was internal and right UNDERNEATH the main logic board. About a hour into operation the poor drive would go nuts. I solved that headache by poaching a miniature Broan squirrel cage deskfan and putting it on top of the drive, blowing downward into the back vent.
Great lil fans, as long as you didn't let your fingers wander close to the spinning fins... zap!
Actually turn that around.. It's Slashdot being Tom's mouthpiece. The way I see it, things were slowing down and they need the holiday dough, soo they spammed Slashdot with this little compilation.
Why do I get the feeling that they have put out similar comparison charts about the same time of the year?
As a lead tech support rep for a ISP, we are at the crossroads as if we either go Asterisk to deploy a call wait queue, or stick with a old-fashoned answering machine system.
"50 cents one way," we've caught hell that they have to talk to a machine. What one solution that i'm working on is the call queue feature that Asterisk deploys.
"Half a buck the other" If our techs are swamped with calls, they immediately enter the call queue, listening to music and helpful hints. All of our agents are currently busy, please hold and we'll get to you as soon as humanly as possible..
What's a small time ISP to do when they hit the phones extra hard?
"co.uk domains get depeered by Cogent, Level3 for hosting large numbers of botnets".
To be painfully honest, 'crats all over the world needs to keep their brains disengaged and let their IT specialists do the speechwriting.
That brit just found his "career in decline" light lit.
Getting Struck by Lightning while showering..
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or on the phone for that matter. You guys partially busted that, but I feel that the energy source that you guys used did not have the voltage or amperage that real lightning packs. What about using a Quarter Shrinker to get the genuine results? The gadget pushes over 100K Amps @ 15K Volts @ 6,500 Joules, can reshape any metallic object that you wind in a copper coil. IMHO, that is as close as you can get to the genuine article.
Mod parent up. RICO statutes actually DO apply agianst the so-called "escort" services. What Match.com and yahoo.com is doing, the regulations do swing agianst them in favor of the plaintiff.
They really need to be more careful about that kind of stuff.
Big oops, my ass.. Airnail their butts to the wall with your pocketbook and stock trades. This breaking story aint getting the airtime that it truly deserves because you stock traders hardly pay any attention to the geek news sites.
Thats why we got the class-action suits cookin' 'cuz Sony ain't listening.
The shuttle is a bulky, overpriced Delta IV booster when they used it to fire satellites into orbit.
What needed to be done is to utilize the shuttle in building the Large Communications Arrays that they had been planning on ever since the inception of the RLV programs.
But noo, NASA had to use the shuttles in their PR campaign by blowing taxpayer dollars in putting itty bitty commo and recon birds into orbit.
Pretty much the only birds that actually were worth the E-Ticket were the Magellan Probe and Hubble Telescope. Pulling regular scheduled maitainence on the HST was where the shuttle really came into it's element by doing what it was designed for; in-space repair and upgrades to large ailing satellites that are too expensive or time-consuming to replace.
Maybe 20, 30 years down the line we can start looking into another series of RLVs that can do what the original SST program's goals had in mind, but for now, we'll settle for the Son of the Saturn V family to loft us back to the good ole moon to stay.
IMHO, I think that the first virus that came out actually was designed to see how many folks it could infect, logging their systems onto IRC where a bot kept census of how many, who it was, and where from. Once that count was completed, they could decide if it would be worth to proceed with the 2nd stage: the creation of the more harmful worms and trojans. It all hinged on how many systems got wormed with Sony's rootkit.
Mod Parent up. Alot of folks miss this little detail when they are dealing with End of Days. And trust me, the stress of being laid off is higher than what you are dealing with on a day to day basis, might cause a medicial issue down the road.
"Telco grounding is insane anyway. Most places have #6AWG from each rack to a 1/0 aisle ground cable, and all the aisle grounds meet on a 750KCMil that runs the length of the building, over to the "office principal ground point". Track down a copy of TP76200MP and read up."
Considering that telco hangs on telephone poles, and pretty much anything that hangs out in the open like that is a magnet for lightning strikes.
I've seen #9 solid copper insulated wire get turned into pools of molten slag from strikes, so be thankful for the outrageous grounding procedures. It's better that the equipment takes the hits instead of the users hanging on the end of a telephone receiver.
To be fair to all, it was a glitch allowing the software to be flexable enough allowing the docs to program it in the manner that they did. Checkpoints and safety interlocks in the software would have stop-punched it right then and there.
Open-ended software allow folks to use it in ways that the original design didn't have in mind. This is good for it allows for upgrades without major recoding and patching. But as the example shows, it can also be very bad if a inexperienced user gets his/hers claws in it and tries to make it run their way.
"OpenSourceEnergy" reeks of being faddish. His energy budget is way out of porportion in comparison to the requirements of the initial startup of his reactor. The use of boron in his fuel mixture is highly questionable due to the fact that it is an excellent moderator in fission/fusion applications.
All he has done was to create a minor magnetic "pinch" in which the hydrogen was burned, but the boron contaminated the reaction, making it appear that it is a "cool" fusion.
Bottom line, he replicated a pair of hydrogen bomb tests out in the Bikini Atoll. Their upper end was supposed to be in the tens of megatons range, but turned out to be "fizzles" due to H3 contamination.
The key word here is CONSPIRACY. Sony contracted this bunch to create the DRM package. SO this means that both Sony and first4internet are conspirators in a crime and both knowingly and willingly agreed to proceed on this route.
Odds are that Sony will sell out and finger first4internet on this so the little guy will get the hammer, but this little guy should have known better than to take on a job like this.
My gawd the Attorney General will have a field day with this.
Not to mention content. The deal that SBC made with Yahoo (two devils making a deal... *shudders*) that the latter provide content and email services to the former has it's drawbacks.
For instance, Yahoo restricted all underaged profiles from accessing it's chat groups for the main reason that the bible-beating SIGs and two person coalitions to preserve their own way of life (whatever that is) reared their ugly heads.
The other is their own groups, they are pretty much turning into spam factories and need to be policed vigirously. But not, please, not for content, just the spamvertising that they dish out.
Yahoo admins are nazis with kneejerk trigger fingers when they get a complaint about adult content, even on groups that are marked and catagorized in hidden ADULT groups!
Yahoo's gears are starting to slip rather badly when it comes to providing up to date content and discussion groups.
Sorry SBC, your clarification just made it that much more clear that your execs are still stuck in the 20th century, pre AT&T splitup.
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N-Gage was a disaster by design. You could not pull the chip without pulling the battery. When you did this, you pretty much lost all of your scores and saved games that were on the phones NVRAM.
BTX as a attempt by Intel to corner the form factor market that had one foot in the grave even before it entered preproduction. All that they did with BTX as to flip the bloody board 180 degrees on it's Y axis. What's the big deal about that?
Intel and Dell entered into an agreement to make custom boards and backplanes where the standoffs are 2cm offset from the ATX standard, invalidating any attempt by anyone wishing to upgrade the system to a better board and chip. Talk about waste management! If the user wishes to do anything about major upgrades, they are forced to pull all the accessories save for the main board out of the case and throw it away. It's next to useless.
The spectre of mccarthyisim may never fade from memory as long as fear dominates the nation. The impact of the indy film "Good Night, and Good Luck" rings loud and clear the general attitude of the national security agencies.
Even the politicals cannot see beyond their threat lists and sealed envelopes. We need a nice little scandal that will force the system to look inward and ask itself;
"Who am I and what am I doing?"
"Am I doing right for the good for the people, or the nation?"
"Is security a good tradeoff for the freedom that our forefathers guranteed when they penned The Constitution?"
Ben Franklin was right... "He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither"
The feds (FCC, FTC, SEC) catch wind of this they will go ballistic. The House and Senate committes will grill the telcos until they are well done over QOS or priority packeting, filtering, depeering and email routing. They won't hear the end of it until they drop the bloody thing altogether.
You know it aint going to happen.
I put a three of those neat stickers on my Latitude CP. Rather fitting too for it's on it's 3rd hard drive..
Never had a problen with the main power supply cookin'.
I had gunfights with the 1541's power supply, its transformer was internal and right UNDERNEATH the main logic board. About a hour into operation the poor drive would go nuts. I solved that headache by poaching a miniature Broan squirrel cage deskfan and putting it on top of the drive, blowing downward into the back vent.
Great lil fans, as long as you didn't let your fingers wander close to the spinning fins... zap!
Actually turn that around.. It's Slashdot being Tom's mouthpiece. The way I see it, things were slowing down and they need the holiday dough, soo they spammed Slashdot with this little compilation.
Why do I get the feeling that they have put out similar comparison charts about the same time of the year?
As a lead tech support rep for a ISP, we are at the crossroads as if we either go Asterisk to deploy a call wait queue, or stick with a old-fashoned answering machine system.
"50 cents one way," we've caught hell that they have to talk to a machine. What one solution that i'm working on is the call queue feature that Asterisk deploys.
"Half a buck the other" If our techs are swamped with calls, they immediately enter the call queue, listening to music and helpful hints.
All of our agents are currently busy, please hold and we'll get to you as soon as humanly as possible..
What's a small time ISP to do when they hit the phones extra hard?
"co.uk domains get depeered by Cogent, Level3 for hosting large numbers of botnets".
To be painfully honest, 'crats all over the world needs to keep their brains disengaged and let their IT specialists do the speechwriting.
That brit just found his "career in decline" light lit.
or on the phone for that matter. You guys partially busted that, but I feel that the energy source that you guys used did not have the voltage or amperage that real lightning packs. What about using a Quarter Shrinker to get the genuine results? The gadget pushes over 100K Amps @ 15K Volts @ 6,500 Joules, can reshape any metallic object that you wind in a copper coil. IMHO, that is as close as you can get to the genuine article.
http://teslamania.delete.org/frames/shrinker.html
And knowing Adam, he'll be giggling like a kid in a candy store when he hears the shrinker fire the first time at 5K Joules.
Mod parent up. RICO statutes actually DO apply agianst the so-called "escort" services. What Match.com and yahoo.com is doing, the regulations do swing agianst them in favor of the plaintiff.
They really need to be more careful about that kind of stuff.
Big oops, my ass.. Airnail their butts to the wall with your pocketbook and stock trades. This breaking story aint getting the airtime that it truly deserves because you stock traders hardly pay any attention to the geek news sites.
Thats why we got the class-action suits cookin' 'cuz Sony ain't listening.
The shuttle is a bulky, overpriced Delta IV booster when they used it to fire satellites into orbit.
What needed to be done is to utilize the shuttle in building the Large Communications Arrays that they had been planning on ever since the inception of the RLV programs.
But noo, NASA had to use the shuttles in their PR campaign by blowing taxpayer dollars in putting itty bitty commo and recon birds into orbit.
Pretty much the only birds that actually were worth the E-Ticket were the Magellan Probe and Hubble Telescope. Pulling regular scheduled maitainence on the HST was where the shuttle really came into it's element by doing what it was designed for; in-space repair and upgrades to large ailing satellites that are too expensive or time-consuming to replace.
Maybe 20, 30 years down the line we can start looking into another series of RLVs that can do what the original SST program's goals had in mind, but for now, we'll settle for the Son of the Saturn V family to loft us back to the good ole moon to stay.
IMHO, I think that the first virus that came out actually was designed to see how many folks it could infect, logging their systems onto IRC where a bot kept census of how many, who it was, and where from. Once that count was completed, they could decide if it would be worth to proceed with the 2nd stage: the creation of the more harmful worms and trojans. It all hinged on how many systems got wormed with Sony's rootkit.
Mod Parent up. Alot of folks miss this little detail when they are dealing with End of Days. And trust me, the stress of being laid off is higher than what you are dealing with on a day to day basis, might cause a medicial issue down the road.
"Telco grounding is insane anyway. Most places have #6AWG from each rack to a 1/0 aisle ground cable, and all the aisle grounds meet on a 750KCMil that runs the length of the building, over to the "office principal ground point". Track down a copy of TP76200MP and read up."
Considering that telco hangs on telephone poles, and pretty much anything that hangs out in the open like that is a magnet for lightning strikes.
I've seen #9 solid copper insulated wire get turned into pools of molten slag from strikes, so be thankful for the outrageous grounding procedures. It's better that the equipment takes the hits instead of the users hanging on the end of a telephone receiver.
Hell, i'll make my cell phone wear one then!
Obligatory Darth Vader quote...
"Don't underestimate the power of the Dark Side"
^.^
Wonders will never cease when a VERY large set of pliers are applied to one's balls....
Hesse might wind up back in The Line if he don't start thinking before he starts yapping.
I wonder if all music execs think like he does..
*nukes the troll*
Ok, who's for lunch?
To be fair to all, it was a glitch allowing the software to be flexable enough allowing the docs to program it in the manner that they did. Checkpoints and safety interlocks in the software would have stop-punched it right then and there.
Open-ended software allow folks to use it in ways that the original design didn't have in mind. This is good for it allows for upgrades without major recoding and patching. But as the example shows, it can also be very bad if a inexperienced user gets his/hers claws in it and tries to make it run their way.
Here kitty kitty kitty.. Nice kitty... Where's that dammed cat?
ROWR!
Who let the cougar in?!
*runs*
"OpenSourceEnergy" reeks of being faddish. His energy budget is way out of porportion in comparison to the requirements of the initial startup of his reactor. The use of boron in his fuel mixture is highly questionable due to the fact that it is an excellent moderator in fission/fusion applications.
All he has done was to create a minor magnetic "pinch" in which the hydrogen was burned, but the boron contaminated the reaction, making it appear that it is a "cool" fusion.
Bottom line, he replicated a pair of hydrogen bomb tests out in the Bikini Atoll. Their upper end was supposed to be in the tens of megatons range, but turned out to be "fizzles" due to H3 contamination.
The key word here is CONSPIRACY. Sony contracted this bunch to create the DRM package. SO this means that both Sony and first4internet are conspirators in a crime and both knowingly and willingly agreed to proceed on this route.
Odds are that Sony will sell out and finger first4internet on this so the little guy will get the hammer, but this little guy should have known better than to take on a job like this.
My gawd the Attorney General will have a field day with this.
Not to mention content. The deal that SBC made with Yahoo (two devils making a deal... *shudders*) that the latter provide content and email services to the former has it's drawbacks.
For instance, Yahoo restricted all underaged profiles from accessing it's chat groups for the main reason that the bible-beating SIGs and two person coalitions to preserve their own way of life (whatever that is) reared their ugly heads.
The other is their own groups, they are pretty much turning into spam factories and need to be policed vigirously. But not, please, not for content, just the spamvertising that they dish out.
Yahoo admins are nazis with kneejerk trigger fingers when they get a complaint about adult content, even on groups that are marked and catagorized in hidden ADULT groups!
Yahoo's gears are starting to slip rather badly when it comes to providing up to date content and discussion groups.
Sorry SBC, your clarification just made it that much more clear that your execs are still stuck in the 20th century, pre AT&T splitup.
Try rigging out your own PBX system likes Asterisk. Make folks punch in #s to get to one of your lines. Autodialers can't handle that so they hang up.