If you need true compatability, download the Application Compatability Toolkit, which has about a hundred different settings dealing with memory management, system permissions, presentation, APIs and API levels, etc. that you can configure on a per-application basis.
There's some irony in the Christian Right pushing laws which would imprison and fine them, while at the same time actively engaging in the behaviors they are seeking to eliminate.
If you have the time to spend sifting through PACER, you can get the documents for $0.05/print-equiv.-page. Not too bad, really, from the US District and Appellet Courts.
I concur, actually. I was blown away by the scale of it all, but inside the actual spring-mounted buildings (built like navy ships, for some reason) there wasn't anything impressive.
Missile command silos in the middle of Wyoming (for the Peacekeeper fleet, I think) were much more interesting. Obviously, there were some things they had to cover up, certain displays, but there *were* banks of switches and das-blinkenlights which were impressive.
I can't validate my copy of Windows, because it tells me my Internet connection is not working.......................
Okay. Sure. That makes sense. No firewall (hardware or software), I'm just sitting out on the Net with nothing in between. Oh well...automatic updates work.
Killing someone in cold blood should never be something a normal person is acustomed to, but unfortunately in American society, that's the way it is. On the other hand, the natural workings of the human body are things to shame children into never discussing or thinking about except in private.
Nice software. They gave me a few copies of the basic version a few years back, with full city-name databases, element tables for basically every satellite, ever, since its launch, etc.
It was neat to play with but since I had no use for it whatsoever, I ended up wiping it off my hard drive.
Office 2000 marked the beginning of forward-compatability of Office with itself.
Word documents saved by later versions, implementing features not present in the older version, can be opened by the older one, and it will simply skip over the parts it doesn't understand.
Trouble begins when people use the version-specific features to do large portions of their markup. This is what results in glitchy formatting when you open between versions.
Opening 2000 documents in 2003 can have some trouble with complicated markup, because 2003 has a more strict rendering engine, which the older, inferior product couldn't always make quite up to the standard of.
But they don't exist to register! They do *exist* as school districts tend to get (county).k12.(state).us, reasoning that.state.us has a dns server somewhere, but you can't buy them.
I'd kill for a domain name like kth.fl.us for my company, but there's nobody to sell it to me.
A/D converters in the MHz range are tough enough to come by...most are audio ADC which are in the kHz.
Cable goes up to something like 900 MHz, maybe up to 2GHz now.
That's lab-grade equipment right there.
I remember there was a GNU Software Defined Radio project, and the thing that made it so tough was the fact that the DAC for it was insanely expensive.
Using a cantenna (or indeed, any antenna other than that which the device was certified with, except in certain circumstances) *is* against the law.
It just happens to be administrative law, not legislative law. The FCC regulations are laws regarding transmission of radio frequencies, and it is a violation of such regulations to use a "cantenna" to broadcast as a Part 15 user, which is what you fall under as a consumer with your wifi equipment. If you have a HAM license, you can operate under a different set of regulations, but there are restrictions on what you can do with the radio, and most people don't have such authorization who are using these antennas.
Not to mention it is illegal to connect to someone else's computer network and use its resources without their explicit approval. This legal approval may be automated (software that takes payment or verifies location) or not (you have to talk to the owner) but unless you're given some sort of legal authorization, not just the technical authorization, you're also breaking the law.
Congratulations, you have successfully formed an analogy comparing users of Linux, to the physically disabled.
Not too far off in some respects, both literally, and certainly metaphorically, but there are laws in place in most Western nations mandating that Government services be available to people with physical handicaps, whereas there is no such requirement that they be accessible to Linux users.
The entire genre of "cyberpunk" fiction seems designed to cater to the stereotypical slashdotter, speaking in 'leet' and being a dick to people via the Internet.
While I suppose there is a market for such material, it certainly doesn't add anything to the literary sphere of our culture.
The last thing we need is for people to abuse the Internet, and speak in bastardized, acronymical english, to be glorified in novel form.
I'm perfectly fine with buying a T-Mobile Hotspot subscription if I need Wifi on the go -- pretty much every Starbucks, Borders, many malls, T-Mobile shops, etc. all have a Hotspot, and a lot of other shops too. $20/month for unlimited access, generally. It won't get me wifi in the park, but it will get me wifi in the coffee shop on the park's perimeter. Good enough, for most of my purposes. (If I bother with my Orinoco card and Blade antenna, I actually can extend the hotspot into the center.)
I'm bothered more by the fact that, at home, I'm paying close to $50/mo for 1.5/256 ADSL (no caps/only port 25 filtered), or I could be paying about $50 a month for 4/1 DOCSIS (but, pretty much all lowports are blocked, and there are usage caps, after which you're 128/64)
In Europe, for 30 a month, you'll get 8/2 DSL. It says it is use-capped, which might not be that bad.
We don't even have anything close to that over here. I don't care about "wireless broadband" (EV-DO) and I don't care about municipal or otherwise, wifi coverage. I want *fast* fixed-point Internet access, that just doesn't seem to exist.
Verizon FIOS is getting there -- but thats only very limited areas. Our telephone system here in the US is superior to that of Europe's but our Internet access is lacking, severely.
You don't even need a merge...just set your DNS server search order to include the other servers in the path, and get the benefits of having both DNS networks.
There are already several "alt-DNS" projects out there, none has a lot of momentum behind it. They work alongside (or, if you're machochistic, in place of) standard DNS servers.
Slashdotters will never prevail over media conglomerates, for one simple reason: the same people who bitch and moan left and right when Congress tries something like this, are the same people who will never donate to campaigns for politicians. Or, if they do, it's not on a scale large enough to matter.
If the Mozilla Foundation donated $10m to John Q. Senator's campaign re-election fund, and the execs of said foundation took the Senator out to a round of golf and dinner at a nice steakhouse, we'd see some results.
I'm still somewhat faithful to our government in that I don't think it's the money doing all the talking -- the money is buying the senator's *attention*, which once had, they can then use the opportunity to share their point of view -- and with no opposing point of view, it's easier to go along with it, then take a stand on an issue there appears to only be one side to.
Generally, that would be every device that is not of a "standard class" (mass storage, generally) released after the OS was shipped.
Unless people are willing to download hundreds of megabytes of driver additions via Windows Update the OS is just not going to have the modules to talk to the newest hardware out of the box.
Speaking as someone who was in that same situation a while ago, I can say this:
You are not better than anyone else because you can use a computer.
Work is more about social and interpersonal skills than it is about technical skills. You need to prove that you know how to show up to work on time, dressed and groomed appropriately, do what managers tell you to do, and interact with customers and coworkers.
You will never get a more advanced *job* without having those things.
I consider myself pretty good at technology, but I worked my way up. McDonalds at age 16, some odd jobs as a sound engineer/ITSA, a junior admin at a travel agency. Jobs that, more than anything, were less about technology and more about people.
Want to work in the tech field? Go apply at a place that *sells* tech, or *repairs* tech. Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, Radio Shack, any of the various gaming stores, Fry's, etc.
No amount of "talent" will make up for the fact that there are some things you just need to do, to be taken seriously. Wanting a skilled job or internship right off the bat portrays you as arrogant, and it's all about how to be a team player these days.
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If you need true compatability, download the Application Compatability Toolkit, which has about a hundred different settings dealing with memory management, system permissions, presentation, APIs and API levels, etc. that you can configure on a per-application basis.
There's some irony in the Christian Right pushing laws which would imprison and fine them, while at the same time actively engaging in the behaviors they are seeking to eliminate.
Good show, really.
How many burning Libraries of Congress is 100 MW?
If you have the time to spend sifting through PACER, you can get the documents for $0.05/print-equiv.-page. Not too bad, really, from the US District and Appellet Courts.
I concur, actually. I was blown away by the scale of it all, but inside the actual spring-mounted buildings (built like navy ships, for some reason) there wasn't anything impressive.
Missile command silos in the middle of Wyoming (for the Peacekeeper fleet, I think) were much more interesting. Obviously, there were some things they had to cover up, certain displays, but there *were* banks of switches and das-blinkenlights which were impressive.
I can't validate my copy of Windows, because it tells me my Internet connection is not working. ......................
Okay. Sure. That makes sense. No firewall (hardware or software), I'm just sitting out on the Net with nothing in between. Oh well...automatic updates work.
Killing someone in cold blood should never be something a normal person is acustomed to, but unfortunately in American society, that's the way it is. On the other hand, the natural workings of the human body are things to shame children into never discussing or thinking about except in private.
Europe has it right -- no violence, and more sex.
Nice software. They gave me a few copies of the basic version a few years back, with full city-name databases, element tables for basically every satellite, ever, since its launch, etc.
It was neat to play with but since I had no use for it whatsoever, I ended up wiping it off my hard drive.
Amazing software, though.
If I were a HAM, I'd actively interfere with the BPL, and wave my copy of the CFR in their face if they asked me to stop.
Licensed use > part 15 use
Office 2000 marked the beginning of forward-compatability of Office with itself.
Word documents saved by later versions, implementing features not present in the older version, can be opened by the older one, and it will simply skip over the parts it doesn't understand.
Trouble begins when people use the version-specific features to do large portions of their markup. This is what results in glitchy formatting when you open between versions.
Opening 2000 documents in 2003 can have some trouble with complicated markup, because 2003 has a more strict rendering engine, which the older, inferior product couldn't always make quite up to the standard of.
Because nobody's bothered to set it up correctly.
.com.us, .co.us, or geo-TLD .fl.us.
.state.us has a dns server somewhere, but you can't buy them.
I tried to buy a
But they don't exist to register! They do *exist* as school districts tend to get (county).k12.(state).us, reasoning that
I'd kill for a domain name like kth.fl.us for my company, but there's nobody to sell it to me.
That would be one hell of a quality loss.
A/D converters in the MHz range are tough enough to come by...most are audio ADC which are in the kHz.
Cable goes up to something like 900 MHz, maybe up to 2GHz now.
That's lab-grade equipment right there.
I remember there was a GNU Software Defined Radio project, and the thing that made it so tough was the fact that the DAC for it was insanely expensive.
Using a cantenna (or indeed, any antenna other than that which the device was certified with, except in certain circumstances) *is* against the law.
It just happens to be administrative law, not legislative law. The FCC regulations are laws regarding transmission of radio frequencies, and it is a violation of such regulations to use a "cantenna" to broadcast as a Part 15 user, which is what you fall under as a consumer with your wifi equipment. If you have a HAM license, you can operate under a different set of regulations, but there are restrictions on what you can do with the radio, and most people don't have such authorization who are using these antennas.
Not to mention it is illegal to connect to someone else's computer network and use its resources without their explicit approval. This legal approval may be automated (software that takes payment or verifies location) or not (you have to talk to the owner) but unless you're given some sort of legal authorization, not just the technical authorization, you're also breaking the law.
So, two things in one there, really.
Congratulations, you have successfully formed an analogy comparing users of Linux, to the physically disabled.
Not too far off in some respects, both literally, and certainly metaphorically, but there are laws in place in most Western nations mandating that Government services be available to people with physical handicaps, whereas there is no such requirement that they be accessible to Linux users.
The entire genre of "cyberpunk" fiction seems designed to cater to the stereotypical slashdotter, speaking in 'leet' and being a dick to people via the Internet.
While I suppose there is a market for such material, it certainly doesn't add anything to the literary sphere of our culture.
The last thing we need is for people to abuse the Internet, and speak in bastardized, acronymical english, to be glorified in novel form.
I'm perfectly fine with buying a T-Mobile Hotspot subscription if I need Wifi on the go -- pretty much every Starbucks, Borders, many malls, T-Mobile shops, etc. all have a Hotspot, and a lot of other shops too. $20/month for unlimited access, generally. It won't get me wifi in the park, but it will get me wifi in the coffee shop on the park's perimeter. Good enough, for most of my purposes. (If I bother with my Orinoco card and Blade antenna, I actually can extend the hotspot into the center.)
I'm bothered more by the fact that, at home, I'm paying close to $50/mo for 1.5/256 ADSL (no caps/only port 25 filtered), or I could be paying about $50 a month for 4/1 DOCSIS (but, pretty much all lowports are blocked, and there are usage caps, after which you're 128/64)
In Europe, for 30 a month, you'll get 8/2 DSL. It says it is use-capped, which might not be that bad.
We don't even have anything close to that over here. I don't care about "wireless broadband" (EV-DO) and I don't care about municipal or otherwise, wifi coverage. I want *fast* fixed-point Internet access, that just doesn't seem to exist.
Verizon FIOS is getting there -- but thats only very limited areas. Our telephone system here in the US is superior to that of Europe's but our Internet access is lacking, severely.
Well, the official British unit of weight would be the Bowler Hat of Sand, the Bowler Hat itself being the official unit of volume.
You don't even need a merge...just set your DNS server search order to include the other servers in the path, and get the benefits of having both DNS networks.
There are already several "alt-DNS" projects out there, none has a lot of momentum behind it. They work alongside (or, if you're machochistic, in place of) standard DNS servers.
I'd bet you're the exception to the rule.
Most people are just lazy.
I work for this company, collecting positioning data. Let me tell you, it's a slick setup, and they have a very novel idea for positioning.
Assuming people don't get swap-happy and trade access points all over the place, the reliability should be very high, too.
Slashdotters will never prevail over media conglomerates, for one simple reason: the same people who bitch and moan left and right when Congress tries something like this, are the same people who will never donate to campaigns for politicians. Or, if they do, it's not on a scale large enough to matter.
If the Mozilla Foundation donated $10m to John Q. Senator's campaign re-election fund, and the execs of said foundation took the Senator out to a round of golf and dinner at a nice steakhouse, we'd see some results.
I'm still somewhat faithful to our government in that I don't think it's the money doing all the talking -- the money is buying the senator's *attention*, which once had, they can then use the opportunity to share their point of view -- and with no opposing point of view, it's easier to go along with it, then take a stand on an issue there appears to only be one side to.
I can think of quite a few smaller corps or individuals who might want to do the same, for financial reasons, not even out of ideology.
Generally, that would be every device that is not of a "standard class" (mass storage, generally) released after the OS was shipped.
Unless people are willing to download hundreds of megabytes of driver additions via Windows Update the OS is just not going to have the modules to talk to the newest hardware out of the box.
Agreed -- I took a Calculus 2 with Linear Algebra class, no calculator at all. Not even a four-function one.
Got a decent grade in the class (and then dropped engineering as a major, so that actually was the last math class I will ever take in my life.)
I could do it -- and I'm not a very gifted individual, especially with respect to math. If I can, anyone who is in college can.
Speaking as someone who was in that same situation a while ago, I can say this:
You are not better than anyone else because you can use a computer.
Work is more about social and interpersonal skills than it is about technical skills. You need to prove that you know how to show up to work on time, dressed and groomed appropriately, do what managers tell you to do, and interact with customers and coworkers.
You will never get a more advanced *job* without having those things.
I consider myself pretty good at technology, but I worked my way up. McDonalds at age 16, some odd jobs as a sound engineer/ITSA, a junior admin at a travel agency. Jobs that, more than anything, were less about technology and more about people.
Want to work in the tech field? Go apply at a place that *sells* tech, or *repairs* tech. Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, Radio Shack, any of the various gaming stores, Fry's, etc.
No amount of "talent" will make up for the fact that there are some things you just need to do, to be taken seriously. Wanting a skilled job or internship right off the bat portrays you as arrogant, and it's all about how to be a team player these days.