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  1. Re:Try a real TV transmitter on TV "Broadcasting" Over Wireless Networks? · · Score: 1

    We've got that already. We have the equipment and do broadcasts live every morning from the same room as the channel one box. The thing is we want to be able to broadcast from another room, thus be able to get the signal from the camera to the box.

  2. Re:But... Beer isn't free? on TV "Broadcasting" Over Wireless Networks? · · Score: 2

    This is a stupid question: where on earth did that phrase come from? Beer isn't free, is it? Have I been ripped off all along?

    It's simply a way to differentiate the types of free.

    If something is free (as in beer), it's free in the sense you don't have to pay for it, but you don't have direct access to the recipie so to speek.

    If it's free (as in speech), it's related to liberties.

  3. Re:This is not VHS quality on TV "Broadcasting" Over Wireless Networks? · · Score: 1

    especially on the early-1990s 19" TVs (courtesy of Channel One Communications Corporation) we have in school

  4. Re:Gimme my AIM-CQ on FCC Lifts AOL IM Limits · · Score: 1

    I dont know how to add people however, since there is no program-native documentation on it.

    Add their ICQ number

    I assume perhaps add their ICQ numbers?

    Very Good

    It also says you must have both an AIM and ICQ number. But thats as much information as I seem to be able to find.

    You need an AIM SN to use the AIM client. You need an ICQ# to use the ICQ client. You don't need an ICQ # to send messages to ICQ from AIM, you just need an AIM SN.

    The recipient must use the latest ICQ Lite.

  5. Re:Gimme my AIM-CQ on FCC Lifts AOL IM Limits · · Score: 1

    What the hell are you talking about?

    From http://www.aim.com/get_aim/win/latest_win.adp:
    Av ailable Now! Communicate with your buddies on ICQ. Check out the beta.

    The ICQ users need to be using the latest ICQ LITE

  6. wait a second on Palm Reveals New Name · · Score: 1

    correct me if im wrong... wasnt Handspring founded by the two guys who originally founded Palm and then left?

  7. Re:Why? on Windows 95 in 4.47MB · · Score: 1

    throw drivers on the hard disk for Windows Setup to discover all mass storage devices, and create an unattend.txt for whatever server version of Windows you're installing.

    Careful... around here, them's fightin words

  8. Re:Why? on Windows 95 in 4.47MB · · Score: 1

    Our lighting control board (Strand 300 series) at school for plays and the like uses a very very minimal Win 95. They call it "Strand OS" but basically it's Windows 95 stripped to a kernel and their GUI.

    No, it hasn't crashed.

  9. Re:This is terribly stupid. on Cell Phones on Commercial Flights by 2006? · · Score: 1

    With a sufficiently concealed device a possible abuser could take over some, if not all controls of the airplane.

    Now, call me weird, but I have this hunch that most aircraft controls weren't built with a toggle switch to enable "allow wireless takeover by anyone" mode.

  10. Re:tablets on Good and Bad Uses of Tech in Public Schools? · · Score: 1

    By the fact it's a Catholic school so they're not going to call it Muslim Service. It's good deeds for the community. It's basically a Godless religion class.

  11. Re:Frankly.... on Good and Bad Uses of Tech in Public Schools? · · Score: 1

    See, we learned how to do matrix multiplications, we learned how to graph some pretty spiffy functions, we learned how to find the roots for all sorts of goofy functions, we learned to take logs and nth roots.

    Or, at least, we learned the commands to do so on the calculator.


    My Algebra 2/Precalculus teacher did it right. He made us make sure we knew how to do it without first (multiply rows by columns, a logarithm is an exponent, etc), then show us how to use the calculator.

    The funniest part was his example always failed somehow and one of us had to figure it out.

  12. Re:tablets on Good and Bad Uses of Tech in Public Schools? · · Score: 1

    Frosh year is essentially sex ed.
    Soph year is bible history.
    Junior year is Social Justice, which is basically a preparation for Christian Service senior year, where you get to go out and do community service (hospitals, etc) instead of sitting in class. It's rather cool actually.

    And senior year there's also a look at world religions and a spirituality in the arts class that discusses movies.

  13. Re:tablets on Good and Bad Uses of Tech in Public Schools? · · Score: 1

    Oh... and they don't get them free. They have to spend $2999 on them.

    I'm going to bring my wireless laptop and see if I can take advantage of the network.

  14. tablets on Good and Bad Uses of Tech in Public Schools? · · Score: 1

    My school (a 950-student Catholic school) is investing in 50 tablet PCs that will allow 50 of the CP freshmen (College Prep is the low classes, then Honors, then AP) to take part in a test program. They'll be split into two groups of 25, and have all of their core courses (religion, english, algebra, world history, gym/health, biology) together. The teachers will be taught how to have them effectively use the tablet PCs and wireless network connection.

    The idea is it's a monkey-in-space experiment. If the stupidest kids in the school can do it, then AP Seniors should have no trouble.

    How long til they develop pen-based Quake skills?

  15. Re:I wish AOL would fix what they have first on AOL To Launch Blogging Service · · Score: 1

    All three are in AOL 9 (currently the Blue Hawaii Beta)

    Word-based spam filtering and a "saved on AOL" folder

  16. Re:Yes they do on Public Confused by Tech Lingo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can be the best engineer in the world but unless you are able to communicate your ideas [to a non-engineer], be it in writing or voice, you are of no use to anyone.

    One piece of good advice a teacher once gave me was this.

    If an idea can't be simplified so that you can explain it with a simple drawing on a paper napkin, it's probably too complex and not worth explaining.

  17. well let's not have any field-specific terms on Public Confused by Tech Lingo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let's get rid of all confusing field specific terms.

    Brake rotor, piston, spark plug, cadalydic converter, distributor cap...

    Defendant, prosecution, jury...

    Computer terms are used to describe the items. I'm sure this same problem existed when people first started to learn how cars work. They're not confusing terms, they're new terms. You don't learn them, you'll be confused.

  18. whaa? on Star Wars Galaxies - Fastest Selling MMOG Ever · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fastest selling massively multiplayer online ever?

  19. Re:[OT] Re:Be gone from here!!! on Telemarketers Plan Counterattack · · Score: 1

    So download Firebird. No install needed, just drop it anywhere and run the exe.

  20. Re:Good reputation? on Hormel Sues Over SpamArrest Name · · Score: 1

    The rest of the civilized world loaths it because it is made from sub-standard, machanically recovered meat that no nutritionally aware person in their right mind would even feed to their dog (not that it'd eat it, anyway).

    For an 8th grade world war 2 project we had to set up "stations" with activities worth a total of 25 points for classmates to do (obviously to accumulate 100 points (five groups, you did the four that weren't yours)). 10 of the 25 points my group had to give out involved eating a chunk of spam. The guys took it in stride, most girls held their breath, turned red, ran into the bathroom and spat it out.

    Relevance: Nil

  21. Re:The devil you know on Microsoft Pulls Plug for Support on NT4 · · Score: 1

    See the post I just made here

  22. Re:The devil you know on Microsoft Pulls Plug for Support on NT4 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Windows XP resets without warning because that's the default behavior on the blue screen of death. To make it show the BSOD and possibly track down the problem

    Start > Control Panel > System
    Advanced Tab
    Startup and Reovery settings
    Uncheck "Automatically restart" under System Failure

  23. Re:what can save us from burn-in? on Do Later LCDs Need Screen Savers? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who can forget the immortal Phlegm Boy

  24. Re:Bnet issues a box of Ball Bearings vs WC3 on FreeCraft Cease and Desisted by Blizzard · · Score: 1

    Although EVERYTHING you said is absolutely correct, I could have had more fun with a $50.00 box of steel ball bearings

    If you hate the game so much, why didn't you take it back to the store, give it to a friend, or sell it off on eBay instead of whining about how evil they are for making a game you didn't like and forcing you to give out optional personal info.

  25. Re:Bnet issues on FreeCraft Cease and Desisted by Blizzard · · Score: 1

    Well, let me recall. IIRC, you have a serial number on your CD, and that is the one way you get onto the server. By using that number on the CD. To be honest I don't remember if email was a "requirement" to get a password, the handle you could choose as whatever you wanted. But then again, you said yourself, you haven't even played WC3 on Bnet. So you are talking apples and I am talking oranges. By paying $50.00 they don't fscking need to know who I am.

    So DON'T TELL THEM. It's not a hard concept. You don't need to give a name, you don't need to give an address, you don't need an email address, you don't even need a zip code.

    All you need is your serial, a username, and password. You're whining that they don't need to know who you are and they DON'T. They never DEMAND that information from you. Your argument is baseless because you're whining about optional information.

    I was charged $50.00 (actually IIRC it was more after tax.) So, Bnet was NOT FREE to begin with.
    I wasn't talking about stopping the use of the game because of glitch's in the software, I was DENIED ACCESS TO BATTLE NET! Can you comprehend that now? I paid $50, then I am denied fair use!


    What part of "excluding the cost of the disk" didn't you bother to read. If your account was that important (ie a high-level Diablo II character w/ a ton of rare items) you should have simply called Blizzard, and provided them w/ the aformentioned information (as another poster mentioned). Unless you got caught using a trainer or a map hack or something to that effect, you weren't DENIED access, it was a glitch on their part, that could have easily been fixed by a simple phone call.

    Personally to me the term "God Damn" could never happen, since I do not believe in the christian god anyway, he (who says god is a he anyway?) can not touch me or damn me in any way, because if he did he would be limited and not a god. (in fact if it was a "he" it couldn't be a god either since god can not be described without limiting it, and if you limit it, it's no longer a god.)

    Religion never came into this, let's keep it that way. I couldn't care less what you're assuming when you say god damn.

    And finally for you. You no longer have anything else to productively argue with me about, so you sink down into the gutter like a troll, to take a stab at my character.

    Actually, I was pointing something out. And my argument is that you're whining that Blizzard has too much information on you when you aren't required to provide any more information than the nessecary serial/username/password.