At one point, Rep. Tom Lantos asks if Microsoft is ashamed of their actions in China.
I don't think it's fair for those companies to have to answer a question like that. They aren't in the position to make policy, that's the governments job.
I think the real culprit here is improper Volume (loudness) settings and not headphones/earbuds.
I have some real nice Princess Leia style headphones, and even though they totally surround the ear, I never set the volume so high that I can't hear someone speak to me with a normal tone of voice. Hearing loss runs in my family, so keeping a reasonable Volume setting is very important to me.
If you could combine features from all of the IM clients out there, what would they be?
This question seems to me that the author of it assumes that features is what motivates most people to choose an IM client. When it could be something entirely different, like convenience. With MSN... it's already installed and ready to go.
I also think that what the author was really aiming at was what made you choose your IM in the first place and what might make you choose a different one later ?
I remember buying Quake 2 from the store and at the time the fastest thing I had to play on was a Pentium 233 MHz with 64RAM and a 3Dfx Voodoo 2 video pass-thru card.
Performance wasn't exactly on par with what everyone else was bragging about on the popular review sites at the time, but fair and good enough to play, which for me was around 20-30fps at 640x480.
I think an 800 MHz CPU would've been 2 to 3 times faster than what the game was originally made for.
If I recall, the fastest CPU on the market then at the time was something between 300 and 500. This would've been the summer of 1996 I think. What was the average CPU speed back then during Quake 2's retail days ? I wasn't on the "bleeding edge" with my hardware at the time, but I wasn't far behind.
Also, what's good about a person who does their entire degree online. They may have never worked in a group. Learning to work in a group is an important part of your education and is very important when venturing out into the real world.
The Open Source community is a perfect example of lots of online groups in the real world.
Could you clarify why you feel it's not possible to achieve group collaboration with an online education ?
Hang on a second. Let's take a look at the point their trying to make. Sometimes the door to my house is left unlocked.. my kids are bad for that. That does not mean that because my door is unlocked that Joe Public can stroll in off the street and help himself to my refrigerator.
I think it goes too far when they feel it's OK to arrest Joe Public for walking by the front of my house while it's unlocked though.
However, if they caught the bastard in my house eating my groceries, then I'd want him arrested also.
"The notes reflect a part of Newton's life which he kept hidden from public scrutiny during his lifetime, in part because the making of gold or silver was a felony and had been since a law was passed by Henry IV in 1404."
Am I reading too much into this or are geeks always into some sort of trouble ?
I'm sure beta versions of native linux tools were just as bad back when they were this new..
Ahh, no. I was using Linux back then, and even the beta software was reliable for most daily tasks. I'm not a programmer so I can't tell why that is at the code level. But as a daily user of both Windows and Linux I can tell that there's a distinct difference between a general Linux programmer and a general Windows programmer. I see the general Linux programmer takes far more pride in their work. Especially so when their source code is in full public view.
Use an older machine for basic web searching. Something that doesn't need a fan to stay cool. I've seen some 400MHz CPU's run just a giant heatsink without a fan. Try to avoid having any fans if possible.
Stay with a Pentium brand CPU for it's heat protection safegaurd incase dust buildup happens between cleanings.
Cut an old T-Shirt into pieces large enough to cover any case openings and spray a light oil onto the cloth to help catch smaller particulates that might pass through. Something like WD40 would do.
Get a desktop style UPS to help protect your PC from power spikes caused by workshop power tools. A model/brand that has a line "filter" or "conditioner" to keep the white and pink noise to a minimum.
I use OpenVPN because it works on damn near anything. It allows for network tunneling which covers any port or protocol you could need. From Linux to Windows or Windows to Windows or Linux to Linux. Windows File Sharing works without a hitch. As does games and VNC. Only had to open one port on the firewall to allow the VPN software to talk to each other. The only thing I'm limited by is my internet bandwidth.
So, on the off chance you were planning to get me anything this year, here are a few things I could really use. He's right, it's a VERY off chance. If he's so damn rich he doesn't need any gifts from me.
I'm a single father of a teen-age daughter. She's an Honor student and has been since elementary school.
A couple of years ago one of my cousins had experienced some hard times so she asked if her son could live with me till she gets back on her feet again. He was failing the 4th grade when he arrived, he is now an Honor student too.
I have 6 computers in this house. Each has their own machine. Learning doesn't come from any of these computers, infact they are a distraction. But they are also a reward for working hard.
I don't think computers helped my kids education, but I don't think it hurts either. I volunteer to help them with homework everyday, if I felt like it or not. I encourage them to get work out of the way so they can enjoy their free time on their computers without worry or stress. I also manage their internet access, when the grades fail so does their net connection.:)
That's not entirely true. This is why people get assassin^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hremoved from office. If you won't be a puppet for the greedy, then they'll find a way to get rid of you.
Before you label me as a cynic, think "Jimmy Hoffa".
I generally don't commit junk data to CD's, so I may have to avoid these new corn-made discs.
I still have some archives I burnt to CD-R from way back in 1999. That archive is getting quite extensive, I'd be very upset if I had to reburn that archive every year to avoid media rot. Due to OS reinstalls and FAT32 file corruption, most of my archives are now the sole surviving copy of previous backups. Media rot is already a worrisome concern with me. The media giants, such as the ones represented by the RIAA and the MPAA may be rather pleased with this kind of research. One might need to investigate the source of R&D funding to find the truth for certain. Personally I think this is a bad thing for consumers that rely on data backups.
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I don't think it's fair for those companies to have to answer a question like that. They aren't in the position to make policy, that's the governments job.
There is more than 1 type of maturity,
- Physical maturity
- Mental maturity
to name 2.
One is mandatory, and the latter is voluntary.
You'd think after this long they'd atleast have the damn demo ready by now.
I think the real culprit here is improper Volume (loudness) settings and not headphones/earbuds.
I have some real nice Princess Leia style headphones, and even though they totally surround the ear, I never set the volume so high that I can't hear someone speak to me with a normal tone of voice. Hearing loss runs in my family, so keeping a reasonable Volume setting is very important to me.
This question seems to me that the author of it assumes that features is what motivates most people to choose an IM client. When it could be something entirely different, like convenience. With MSN... it's already installed and ready to go.
I also think that what the author was really aiming at was what made you choose your IM in the first place and what might make you choose a different one later ?
I remember buying Quake 2 from the store and at the time the fastest thing I had to play on was a Pentium 233 MHz with 64RAM and a 3Dfx Voodoo 2 video pass-thru card.
Performance wasn't exactly on par with what everyone else was bragging about on the popular review sites at the time, but fair and good enough to play, which for me was around 20-30fps at 640x480.
I think an 800 MHz CPU would've been 2 to 3 times faster than what the game was originally made for.
If I recall, the fastest CPU on the market then at the time was something between 300 and 500. This would've been the summer of 1996 I think. What was the average CPU speed back then during Quake 2's retail days ? I wasn't on the "bleeding edge" with my hardware at the time, but I wasn't far behind.
The Open Source community is a perfect example of lots of online groups in the real world.
Could you clarify why you feel it's not possible to achieve group collaboration with an online education ?
Hang on a second. Let's take a look at the point their trying to make. Sometimes the door to my house is left unlocked.. my kids are bad for that. That does not mean that because my door is unlocked that Joe Public can stroll in off the street and help himself to my refrigerator.
I think it goes too far when they feel it's OK to arrest Joe Public for walking by the front of my house while it's unlocked though.
However, if they caught the bastard in my house eating my groceries, then I'd want him arrested also.
Am I reading too much into this or are geeks always into some sort of trouble ?
There's two worlds here. Real life with real people, and then a fantasy where everything is as it should be.
I wonder which world they're living in ?
Now the only left after that is to find someone to blame when things aren't as thay should be.
I could probably handle being around the fan-boy for a brief while.. so long as he didn't install a window kit.
From the Slashdot artical; optical audio
Sounds like an oxymoron to me.
Ahh, no. I was using Linux back then, and even the beta software was reliable for most daily tasks. I'm not a programmer so I can't tell why that is at the code level. But as a daily user of both Windows and Linux I can tell that there's a distinct difference between a general Linux programmer and a general Windows programmer. I see the general Linux programmer takes far more pride in their work. Especially so when their source code is in full public view.
Use an older machine for basic web searching. Something that doesn't need a fan to stay cool. I've seen some 400MHz CPU's run just a giant heatsink without a fan. Try to avoid having any fans if possible.
Stay with a Pentium brand CPU for it's heat protection safegaurd incase dust buildup happens between cleanings.
Cut an old T-Shirt into pieces large enough to cover any case openings and spray a light oil onto the cloth to help catch smaller particulates that might pass through. Something like WD40 would do.
Get a desktop style UPS to help protect your PC from power spikes caused by workshop power tools. A model/brand that has a line "filter" or "conditioner" to keep the white and pink noise to a minimum.
I use OpenVPN because it works on damn near anything. It allows for network tunneling which covers any port or protocol you could need. From Linux to Windows or Windows to Windows or Linux to Linux. Windows File Sharing works without a hitch. As does games and VNC. Only had to open one port on the firewall to allow the VPN software to talk to each other. The only thing I'm limited by is my internet bandwidth.
Having read this post I feel like I just sat through another office meeting. :/
By any chance, are you in Marketing or Sales ?
My sister is in Marketing and she sounds like this every once in a while.
Looks like someone is boasting that they've found a way to discover Steam usernames and passwords in this page here.
And they offer many examples.
Apparently my joke on the articals joke has a higher requirement to catch. What did you role ?
So, on the off chance you were planning to get me anything this year, here are a few things I could really use.
He's right, it's a VERY off chance. If he's so damn rich he doesn't need any gifts from me.
Moral terms ?
There are no morals in Marketing.
There are no morals in Business.
Now ethics on the other hand... maybe, and even that is hit and miss.
I'm a single father of a teen-age daughter. She's an Honor student and has been since elementary school.
:)
A couple of years ago one of my cousins had experienced some hard times so she asked if her son could live with me till she gets back on her feet again. He was failing the 4th grade when he arrived, he is now an Honor student too.
I have 6 computers in this house. Each has their own machine. Learning doesn't come from any of these computers, infact they are a distraction. But they are also a reward for working hard.
I don't think computers helped my kids education, but I don't think it hurts either.
I volunteer to help them with homework everyday, if I felt like it or not. I encourage them to get work out of the way so they can enjoy their free time on their computers without worry or stress. I also manage their internet access, when the grades fail so does their net connection.
That's not entirely true. This is why people get assassin^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hremoved from office. If you won't be a puppet for the greedy, then they'll find a way to get rid of you.
Before you label me as a cynic, think "Jimmy Hoffa".
There's yet another 3rd party patch of sorts over at mozilla.org
I generally don't commit junk data to CD's, so I may have to avoid these new corn-made discs.
I still have some archives I burnt to CD-R from way back in 1999. That archive is getting quite extensive, I'd be very upset if I had to reburn that archive every year to avoid media rot. Due to OS reinstalls and FAT32 file corruption, most of my archives are now the sole surviving copy of previous backups. Media rot is already a worrisome concern with me. The media giants, such as the ones represented by the RIAA and the MPAA may be rather pleased with this kind of research. One might need to investigate the source of R&D funding to find the truth for certain. Personally I think this is a bad thing for consumers that rely on data backups.
[BLOCKQUOTE][I]Will this physics book include information about how he brought his niece back from the dead?[/I][BLOCKQUOTE]
Maybe if it has lots of pictures.