Intel's BX chipset was for the PII but works on the PIII as well. I wonder if more PII or PIII processors were mated with this chipset over the years? I've got four BX chipset boards now (one Intel, one Tyan and two Asus) running processors from PIII 850 Coppermine to 1.3 Gig Tualatin Celerons.
Yep, I was at a CompUSA last weekend (downtown Chicago) and they had all kinds of cases there at the entrance. Like you said, good opportunity to see them up close.
ask Gary Powers, who probably still has burn scars on his ass... unless he's dead by now
Gary Powers has been dead almost 25 years - he crashed a L.A. television news helicopter he was flying. I was a kid when he died yet still remember seeing the morning newspaper headlines very well because it was the first time I'd heard of his U2 incident over the USSR.
My niece and nephew's dog is named Lego, but nobody has tried (to the best of my knowledge) to snap a Lego block on him, only to have this not work, then call customer support at Lego to complain and request a new set of Lego blocks.
However, imagine this scenerio... a parent and child download LegOS because it has "Lego" in it, so it must be a Lego product. Okay, there's warnings all over the place about LegOS not being affiliated or supported by Lego or whatever, but we know how useful this is. So the child now has a LegOS powered Mindstorm and it does something Lego-unapproved, dangerous, pornographic, becomes inoperable, or whatever (pick a Simpsons episode like the one where the talking Krusty doll tries to kill Homer or the Funby toy that destroys products made by its manufacture's competitors). Now Lego has a big problem on their hands.
Maybe it's not just popularity, but popularity combined with a functionality reasonably relevant to the product.
Along with your dog named LegOS issue, I wonder if the reason the dog becomes popular is part of the equation. If you name the dog LegOS and it becomes popular because it saves a drowning family, there's probably no lawsuit issue. But if LegOS mauls someone... hmmmm. I wonder if something like this has ever happened, like someone has named a racehorse after a product, and the horse is a pathetic on the racetrack, so the company tells the owner to change the horse's name or risk a lawsuit?
Mindstorms executives felt a strong kinship with the hackers. "We didn't want to get flamed and be the bad guy," says Mike Dooley, who was senior product marketing manager of Mindstorms before leaving Lego earlier this year. "And you don't want to get into a fight with these people. They'll shut down your website."
On the one hand there's a "strong kinship" and on the other there's an assumption that hackers will immediately decide to turn on you by doing something extreme. Which is the feeling that Lego truly has about "hackers" who tinker with their products? Besides, shutting down a website implies a totally different type of hacking from that which involves modifying products. So once again, two different kinds of hacker get equated.
I have three six-foot folding tables in a C shape. They were purchased one at a time over the years as I needed more room, with the thought that they could be easily be folded up and carried if I ever moved. At some point I got a 21" monitor, so I bolted extra legs on its table to support the weight, and this was done to another table when I put a 20" monitor on it. The tables also have heavy, adjustable lamps bolted to them, keyboard drawers screwed underneath, and one table has a wooden shelf that holds my network equipment bolted to the top of it. Occasionally a table gets too much weight on it and the metal frame separates from the pressboard top, so I have to drill a hold in the top and bolt it on the frame. Drink spills and glass sweating lead to the fake woodgrain veneer wrinkling and eventually tearing, so I cover those spots with packing tape (the table edges are covered with tape also due to wear and the fact that I constantly swivel my chair against them). Plus, my newest pressboard bookshelf is seven years old (the oldest has been around sixteen years) so you can imagine how wonderful those look! Still, the whole mess is very functional and as long as it's all piled into its own room I can always shut the door and hide it from guests.
She described Microsoft's new strategy as a "more metered approach," with the company "rolling out subscription offerings on a country-by-country basis."
I wonder if they considered another "more metered approach" - don't they have any other products that have a smaller market (or are possibly more amenable to the subscription concept) than Office? Try working those products first. Office must be a nightmare when it comes to strategy changes... everyone uses it from college students to grandmothers and small businesses to the largest multinationals. Besides, is "country-by-country" going to prevent pirating and give an accurate idea of expectations?
...can be sort of a tiny resume (if you went to a well-known school).
The "well-known" part is key, if the school is not well-known then there's probably not much value, and if it is your email address could backfire. For example, a Harvard alum email address would be well-known, but could come across as arrogant. On the other hand, if I gave out a name@alum.purdue.edu email address, would someone think "Guess he couldn't get into MIT" or "Purdue didn't admit me, I hate this guy"? This is why I prefer affiliating with a professional organization, and use my IEEE email address.
Systems like this could allow a computer terminal to figure out who is using it, and who else is in the room.
My first thought was that Bluetooth enables this feature, as in this article's quote:
Wireless security company Ensure Technologies introduced XyLoc technology that uses Bluetooth to authenticate people on a PC. The system unlocks a workstation when a person with a Bluetooth access card approaches a workstation, said marketing manager Lynn Pollack.
However, Bluetooth requires that individuals are wearing a device, which leaves the question of how to handle the deviceless. Wow, now you've hit on something really exciting, a system that reads a person's face and reacts appropriately as you described next.
Have your computer automatically minimize that quake game when your boss/mom walks into the room.
OR plays a.wav file saying "I have a higher score than you do, na, na..." if your best friend walks in!
Excellent... Now when I'm standing around waiting for assistance muttering "How much f***ing longer do they expect me to wait?" someone will rush to help me!
Shoving water 3700 feet straight up will be quite an undertaking. That's going to take some incredible water pumps, plus think of the pressure on pipes, fixtures, joints. What a project!
If someone is running an old "cheap-assed" system, they might not have any DIMM slots. I've got an old 200 Mhz pentium on my LAN that I'd love to put memory in, but it only has SIMM slots. SIMMs are so expensive that putting 128 MB in is not an option (I could build a new system for the cost).
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I wonder if they'll have anything to say by 2sday?
Intel's BX chipset was for the PII but works on the PIII as well. I wonder if more PII or PIII processors were mated with this chipset over the years? I've got four BX chipset boards now (one Intel, one Tyan and two Asus) running processors from PIII 850 Coppermine to 1.3 Gig Tualatin Celerons.
Yep, I was at a CompUSA last weekend (downtown Chicago) and they had all kinds of cases there at the entrance. Like you said, good opportunity to see them up close.
Check out this article on bios settings.
... Gnu Bear License (not to be confused with GPL of course).
Gary Powers has been dead almost 25 years - he crashed a L.A. television news helicopter he was flying. I was a kid when he died yet still remember seeing the morning newspaper headlines very well because it was the first time I'd heard of his U2 incident over the USSR.
My niece and nephew's dog is named Lego, but nobody has tried (to the best of my knowledge) to snap a Lego block on him, only to have this not work, then call customer support at Lego to complain and request a new set of Lego blocks.
However, imagine this scenerio... a parent and child download LegOS because it has "Lego" in it, so it must be a Lego product. Okay, there's warnings all over the place about LegOS not being affiliated or supported by Lego or whatever, but we know how useful this is. So the child now has a LegOS powered Mindstorm and it does something Lego-unapproved, dangerous, pornographic, becomes inoperable, or whatever (pick a Simpsons episode like the one where the talking Krusty doll tries to kill Homer or the Funby toy that destroys products made by its manufacture's competitors). Now Lego has a big problem on their hands.
Maybe it's not just popularity, but popularity combined with a functionality reasonably relevant to the product.
Along with your dog named LegOS issue, I wonder if the reason the dog becomes popular is part of the equation. If you name the dog LegOS and it becomes popular because it saves a drowning family, there's probably no lawsuit issue. But if LegOS mauls someone... hmmmm. I wonder if something like this has ever happened, like someone has named a racehorse after a product, and the horse is a pathetic on the racetrack, so the company tells the owner to change the horse's name or risk a lawsuit?
On the one hand there's a "strong kinship" and on the other there's an assumption that hackers will immediately decide to turn on you by doing something extreme. Which is the feeling that Lego truly has about "hackers" who tinker with their products? Besides, shutting down a website implies a totally different type of hacking from that which involves modifying products. So once again, two different kinds of hacker get equated.
I have three six-foot folding tables in a C shape. They were purchased one at a time over the years as I needed more room, with the thought that they could be easily be folded up and carried if I ever moved. At some point I got a 21" monitor, so I bolted extra legs on its table to support the weight, and this was done to another table when I put a 20" monitor on it. The tables also have heavy, adjustable lamps bolted to them, keyboard drawers screwed underneath, and one table has a wooden shelf that holds my network equipment bolted to the top of it. Occasionally a table gets too much weight on it and the metal frame separates from the pressboard top, so I have to drill a hold in the top and bolt it on the frame. Drink spills and glass sweating lead to the fake woodgrain veneer wrinkling and eventually tearing, so I cover those spots with packing tape (the table edges are covered with tape also due to wear and the fact that I constantly swivel my chair against them). Plus, my newest pressboard bookshelf is seven years old (the oldest has been around sixteen years) so you can imagine how wonderful those look! Still, the whole mess is very functional and as long as it's all piled into its own room I can always shut the door and hide it from guests.
You mean Gnclippy?
You can already... Linux is free.
I wonder if they considered another "more metered approach" - don't they have any other products that have a smaller market (or are possibly more amenable to the subscription concept) than Office? Try working those products first. Office must be a nightmare when it comes to strategy changes... everyone uses it from college students to grandmothers and small businesses to the largest multinationals. Besides, is "country-by-country" going to prevent pirating and give an accurate idea of expectations?
The "well-known" part is key, if the school is not well-known then there's probably not much value, and if it is your email address could backfire. For example, a Harvard alum email address would be well-known, but could come across as arrogant. On the other hand, if I gave out a name@alum.purdue.edu email address, would someone think "Guess he couldn't get into MIT" or "Purdue didn't admit me, I hate this guy"? This is why I prefer affiliating with a professional organization, and use my IEEE email address.
I agree, especially when it comes to more "toys," but the layers idea sounds useful.
I seem to recall that paper clips can lead to quite nasty consequences.
I guess I need to change my cell phone's ring. It's only a matter of time before Metallica finds out it's playing "Master of Puppets."
My first thought was that Bluetooth enables this feature, as in this article's quote:
Wireless security company Ensure Technologies introduced XyLoc technology that uses Bluetooth to authenticate people on a PC. The system unlocks a workstation when a person with a Bluetooth access card approaches a workstation, said marketing manager Lynn Pollack.
However, Bluetooth requires that individuals are wearing a device, which leaves the question of how to handle the deviceless. Wow, now you've hit on something really exciting, a system that reads a person's face and reacts appropriately as you described next.
Have your computer automatically minimize that quake game when your boss/mom walks into the room.
OR plays a .wav file saying "I have a higher score than you do, na, na..." if your best friend walks in!
Excellent... Now when I'm standing around waiting for assistance muttering "How much f***ing longer do they expect me to wait?" someone will rush to help me!
What about those of us who use Perl?
Many links on XML here.
I'd be interested in knowing if anyone tried building a pc in this case. How serious is the static problem?
14 months ago things were still good. Now though, any money is probably okay especially given the picture in this article from the LA Times.
Shoving water 3700 feet straight up will be quite an undertaking. That's going to take some incredible water pumps, plus think of the pressure on pipes, fixtures, joints. What a project!
Great idea, no problems with escaping fire. People could just go out the windows and slide down to safety!
If someone is running an old "cheap-assed" system, they might not have any DIMM slots. I've got an old 200 Mhz pentium on my LAN that I'd love to put memory in, but it only has SIMM slots. SIMMs are so expensive that putting 128 MB in is not an option (I could build a new system for the cost).