Now, I've had cigars and cigarettes and such, and haven't felt any kind of chemical addiction; maybe more "alert" because that's the effect of nicotine but not "hooked" after one.
There's something to be said for "big cars" just being cooler than small ones.
I was given a car for my 16th birthday because I commute to school 54 miles/day round trip. My parents were tired of driving me there and didn't want me to take the bus, so it was worth $15,000 to get rid of that responsibility.
I was told I could pick any car I wanted from what was available used...Choices ranging from civics, mustangs, escourts, kias, some light pickups and smaller SUVs.
I opted for the Honda Civic sedan. It gets 22/29 MPG; about double what most SUVs get and about 1.4 what my friend's mustang gets. I spend $25/week on gas and I'm good to go; my best friend probably spends $30-40.
I would *much* prefer something like a Dodge Durango to the Civic. It's bigger, it sits higher above ground so I feel more "in control", it has a bigger engine, and it's got a decent stock sound system. And it's *not* one of the gas guzzlers (although it's not anything like my civic.)
Big cars are just nicer for people to have...you can fit more friends, more stuff, stretch your legs, have more room with a girl, whatever it is you're doing, you have more room for it.
Economy cars cost less; bigger cars cost more. It's a tradeoff.
Anyone using the letters PCI, meaning Pheripheral Component Interconnect, and referring to computer expansion cards, is violating their trademark.
EVEN MORE SO by even going as far as to use the PCI logo.
PCI-SIG controls the intellectual property of their name. I don't think the issue was that they were associating themselves with the PCI spec group, but rather, that the service was associating itself with said group, without their consent.
Someone could (IANAL) legally use the word PCI in "PCI Computers" referring to a local comptuer store..."PCI Systems" is a little bit closer to infringement that might not hold up. And of course, if you use PCI when referring to anything other than computers (or even just something other than a computer bus or data bandwidth) they've got nothing on you.
For once, this is a case of the company/IP Holder taking appropriate action. And people still get mad.
Posted on Slashdot earlier, there is a program for Linux that will turn any radio attached to a serial port on your computer into an IP-addressable device.
Your network's operating frequency would only be limited by the hardware in the radio, and of course the speed would be limited by the serial port, which is IIRC about 256kbps.
Plenty fast for a "logic" connection, such as syncing two systems or for IPC between them, but transferring large quantities of data is going to get long.
With all of these horror stories, I am going to open myself up to moderation as flamebait and share some tips with you.
I have routinely had over $500 in my PayPal account, at times bordering on $1000. For me, I use it as a place to stash my "mid-term savings" pool. It's easy enough to get the money out if I need it using the MasterCard-branded debit card; but it's not cash in my wallet that I'll shove into a soda machine or cafeteria line at lunch.
I also do quite a bit of trading on eBay and have even dealt in the more "dangerous" auction fields like playerauctions.com.
For eBay trades, send the thing with some proof that you sent it. USPS Delivery Confirmation if you're cheap or don't care about things like tracking; USPS Registered if you're hung up on USPS. UPS is decent; they have tracking. FedEx has a very good security policy...you can specify to leave the package with no signature, try to get it signed but leave it if waived, or require a personal signature -- no waivers accepted. Of course that costs extra, but if you are worried about being defrauded by your buyer, that's not too much extra to ask.
For PlayerAuctions, my Thawte (www.thawte.com) S/MIME certificate, for signing and authenticating e-mails that I send, is sufficient. A signed message with the account key(s) contained inside it.
It's impossible to forge the digital signature saying I sent the thing; just like it's impossible to convince the FedEx man to leave the package without a signature, when it says "signature required -- no waiver accepted"
Common sense states these things. Online trading is fundamentally about trust. Cover yourself in your auctions -- Seller reserves the right to end the deal at any time; even after payment has been remitted (If payment has been remitted, it will be returned to you.) A bid contract is a legally binding agreement; if they don't like your terms, they don't have to buy it from you.
If you cover your back with these sorts of things, you're virtually guarenteed to have a good reputation in the online community. On the off chance someone still tries to fraud you, you have hard proof that they are lying. And guess what? That's a crime.
The Federal Government and the FTC don't look too kindly on interstate commerce fraud and mail fraud.
It's not so much the application, iexplore.exe, that is the fundamental part of the OS, it's the MSHTML rendering engine that comes in the Internet Explorer backend DLLs.
Most applications, if they want to launch a web session or access HTML content, load an iexplore.exe inside of their own window, instead of rendering the page itself. Easier that way...
IE isn't just the program people use to browse the Internet; the API (seems) to involve quite a bit of talking to the application itself, not just the backend. Designed, no doubt, to make something like that easier -- for my database program to be able to show me the manufactuerer's web site, inside it's own window, while still correctly rendering all the scripts, etc.
In EverQuest, the license agreement must be accepted each time you start up the game.
No auto-yes option. No "I understand and agree, don't tell me again" option. You [b]must[/b] click "I Accept" every time the game EXE is called.
If you've accumulated any significant level or/played time, you've seen that license hundreds of times. Whether or not you've read it is illrelevant, but you've willingly clicked yes to it hundreds, if not thousands of times.
Microsoft's X-Box division has a profit margin of -300%.
The OS division is where MS gets the cash to pour into products that will never turn a profit, or at best break even; the services they're providing (even for a charge) that are good to have but aren't really marketable, or are only marketed by MS for the sole purpose of having a presence in that market, without hope of actually taking over.
Your description of the encrypted data expanding is accurate. That could certainly be one reason CSS encryption is quite weak -- the early players weren't powerful enough to decrypt any more than that, and still have CPU time left to decode the MPEG stream; it could also be the disk wasn't big enough to hold the movie encrypted with "strong" encryption.
OSI uses "Open Source" as it's "trademark" slogan. If you here about an Open Source program, you can safely assume it's probably an xGPL licensed program, approved by OSI/FSF.
OSI doesn't use "open source" meaning "the developer gives you his code for whatever purposes you want to do with it, as long as he maintains the copyright" (Frequently, it is even just "do whatever you want with this code")
It's all about recognition...you have to recognize the difference in the words (in this case the capital letters) and take from that the political issues of the license, or lack of them.
my system heats the room it is in to aprox. 4F hotter than the rest of the structure it is contained in. The house averages about 74F; my room is generally closer to 78-80F depending on the weather outside (south-facing windows)
The CPU and case temp themselves are quite reasonable; 43C/48C chassis/CPU, but it does add some heat to the ambient levels.
This Intel chip has to have double the heat output of my Athlon...that would be a nightmare to cool.
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I disagree with you there...
Open source means, to me, that they let you look at it, download it, mess with it, etc.
Open Source (capitals) means the political licenses put out by OSI/FSF as a way of influencing developers, to try and get their licenses rendered legally enforceable.
I personally think that OSI is almost as bad as ICANN is, but there is a lot more need for OSI than there is for ICANN. Just, the implimentation if it should be different.
One reason that there are no other devices than graphics cards for AGP is that the data throughput rates are highly asymmetrical.
We're talking gigabits/sec of "push" bandwidth (textures, etc. to the graphics card) and sometimes as few as megabytes or even kilobytes of "pull" data, reading back from the AGP card. It wasn't designed with sending data back, it was designed to take data as fast as the host system can throw it off and process it.
Additionally, a dual-AGP controller wouldn't work because it is connected too directly to the CPU and Northbridge. NICs branch off the PCI bus, attached to the Northbridge; AGP has its own lines on the Northbridge. More AGP slots, the Northbridge is going to run into bandwidth problems, and it is frequently already the bottleneck in the highest of performance gaming machines.
the Ministry of Truth, concerened with lies the Ministry of Peace, concerened with war the Ministry of Plenty, concerened with poverty the Ministry of Love, concerened with policing the citizens.
My geekroom/bedroom is preetty simple...Two systems, one my server and one my gaming rig; a rackmount network concentrator that is pretending to be a bedside table for me; a Linksys switch, a 1988 laser printer, and some lamps and programming books.
Nothing majorly obtrusive.
I'd love a room full of Rackmount goodness, but I barely even use the Linux partition on my gaming rig; a whole second (third, fourth) system would never get used.
I just wasted a moderator point replying to this, but I will anyway.
You've got a valid point there. But, concerts really aren't that expensive. Tomorrow night (I'd see it if I had the money; being a poor student means I don't get to go out much unless it's to somewhere relatively low-cost), Saliva, Audiovent, and Theory of a Deadman are playing at the local ampetheatre. For $16/person. That's about 3 movies @ 5.00/ea; assuming you can get them for that price.
More often (I forget my student ID, ticket counter woman is evil, etc.) I end up paying $6.25 for a movie ticket. This, plus the cost of drinks, popcorn, etc. at extortional prices, can bring the cost of a movie up to between $10 and $20/person.
Additionally, the local movie theatre, while having 8 screens, is terribly maintained and has no services (no concessions, etc.) after it was bought out by an independant owner, from Regal Cinemas. So, I drive between 20 and 45 minutes to a cineplex that is closer to the houses of people I go to movies with, and is of higher quality. Result: Gas. Probably only about $2 or $3 in gas per trip, but that adds up.
We've now got a $15 movie ticket, counting admission, consumables, and travel. Which is almost exactly that of the small concert going on. Larger concerts, or ones with legends like Aerosmith, U2, Pearl Jam, etc. obviously will cost more. The Doors (that remain, anyway) are playing a show in Vegas/may already have played said show for something to the tune of $120/head, at a club. Tell me that's not extortional. But, it's also something you probably will never say again.
All and all, an *average* concert is on level footing with movies in terms of value and quality. Larger concerts, festivals (Ozzfest, Vans Warped Tour, etc.) are more expensive, but you get more "bang for your buck" too.
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Now, I've had cigars and cigarettes and such, and haven't felt any kind of chemical addiction; maybe more "alert" because that's the effect of nicotine but not "hooked" after one.
There's something to be said for "big cars" just being cooler than small ones.
I was given a car for my 16th birthday because I commute to school 54 miles/day round trip. My parents were tired of driving me there and didn't want me to take the bus, so it was worth $15,000 to get rid of that responsibility.
I was told I could pick any car I wanted from what was available used...Choices ranging from civics, mustangs, escourts, kias, some light pickups and smaller SUVs.
I opted for the Honda Civic sedan. It gets 22/29 MPG; about double what most SUVs get and about 1.4 what my friend's mustang gets. I spend $25/week on gas and I'm good to go; my best friend probably spends $30-40.
I would *much* prefer something like a Dodge Durango to the Civic. It's bigger, it sits higher above ground so I feel more "in control", it has a bigger engine, and it's got a decent stock sound system. And it's *not* one of the gas guzzlers (although it's not anything like my civic.)
Big cars are just nicer for people to have...you can fit more friends, more stuff, stretch your legs, have more room with a girl, whatever it is you're doing, you have more room for it.
Economy cars cost less; bigger cars cost more. It's a tradeoff.
Anyone using the letters PCI, meaning Pheripheral Component Interconnect, and referring to computer expansion cards, is violating their trademark.
EVEN MORE SO by even going as far as to use the PCI logo.
PCI-SIG controls the intellectual property of their name. I don't think the issue was that they were associating themselves with the PCI spec group, but rather, that the service was associating itself with said group, without their consent.
Someone could (IANAL) legally use the word PCI in "PCI Computers" referring to a local comptuer store..."PCI Systems" is a little bit closer to infringement that might not hold up. And of course, if you use PCI when referring to anything other than computers (or even just something other than a computer bus or data bandwidth) they've got nothing on you.
For once, this is a case of the company/IP Holder taking appropriate action. And people still get mad.
"Electricity" that is, kicking electrons out of place in a sequence to move them, runs at the speed of light.
*An electron* moves very slowly.
Nero gives me 3 options to burn:
CD
DD CD
DVD
of course the last 2 are greyed out because I only have a 48x24x48 CD burner, but...what's a DD CD?
A 1 in 10,000 chance of dying....not bad. About the odds of a lightning strike during a storm, if I recall correctly.
However, when you go through a cycle of far more than 10000 operations in the course of your trip, those odds suddenly become less remote...
Seems reasonable to me.
Here's the software source code/package/whatever. If you can figure out how to install it and make it work, great, it's free.
If you want our help installing it, it's gonna cost you.
What's so wrong about that?
Posted on Slashdot earlier, there is a program for Linux that will turn any radio attached to a serial port on your computer into an IP-addressable device.
Your network's operating frequency would only be limited by the hardware in the radio, and of course the speed would be limited by the serial port, which is IIRC about 256kbps.
Plenty fast for a "logic" connection, such as syncing two systems or for IPC between them, but transferring large quantities of data is going to get long.
With all of these horror stories, I am going to open myself up to moderation as flamebait and share some tips with you.
I have routinely had over $500 in my PayPal account, at times bordering on $1000. For me, I use it as a place to stash my "mid-term savings" pool. It's easy enough to get the money out if I need it using the MasterCard-branded debit card; but it's not cash in my wallet that I'll shove into a soda machine or cafeteria line at lunch.
I also do quite a bit of trading on eBay and have even dealt in the more "dangerous" auction fields like playerauctions.com.
For eBay trades, send the thing with some proof that you sent it. USPS Delivery Confirmation if you're cheap or don't care about things like tracking; USPS Registered if you're hung up on USPS. UPS is decent; they have tracking. FedEx has a very good security policy...you can specify to leave the package with no signature, try to get it signed but leave it if waived, or require a personal signature -- no waivers accepted. Of course that costs extra, but if you are worried about being defrauded by your buyer, that's not too much extra to ask.
For PlayerAuctions, my Thawte (www.thawte.com) S/MIME certificate, for signing and authenticating e-mails that I send, is sufficient. A signed message with the account key(s) contained inside it.
It's impossible to forge the digital signature saying I sent the thing; just like it's impossible to convince the FedEx man to leave the package without a signature, when it says "signature required -- no waiver accepted"
Common sense states these things. Online trading is fundamentally about trust. Cover yourself in your auctions -- Seller reserves the right to end the deal at any time; even after payment has been remitted (If payment has been remitted, it will be returned to you.) A bid contract is a legally binding agreement; if they don't like your terms, they don't have to buy it from you.
If you cover your back with these sorts of things, you're virtually guarenteed to have a good reputation in the online community. On the off chance someone still tries to fraud you, you have hard proof that they are lying. And guess what? That's a crime.
The Federal Government and the FTC don't look too kindly on interstate commerce fraud and mail fraud.
Agreed.
It's not so much the application, iexplore.exe, that is the fundamental part of the OS, it's the MSHTML rendering engine that comes in the Internet Explorer backend DLLs.
Most applications, if they want to launch a web session or access HTML content, load an iexplore.exe inside of their own window, instead of rendering the page itself. Easier that way...
IE isn't just the program people use to browse the Internet; the API (seems) to involve quite a bit of talking to the application itself, not just the backend. Designed, no doubt, to make something like that easier -- for my database program to be able to show me the manufactuerer's web site, inside it's own window, while still correctly rendering all the scripts, etc.
(IANA Developer)
In EverQuest, the license agreement must be accepted each time you start up the game.
/played time, you've seen that license hundreds of times. Whether or not you've read it is illrelevant, but you've willingly clicked yes to it hundreds, if not thousands of times.
No auto-yes option. No "I understand and agree, don't tell me again" option. You [b]must[/b] click "I Accept" every time the game EXE is called.
If you've accumulated any significant level or
I'd say that makes it pretty binding.
So, basically, this is a DVD player that just happens to be able to interface to a computer as well.
Nifty idea, I'd buy one. I have both USB2 and Firewire ports on my system.
I don't know about 98, but in Win 2K Pro, to create a share from the command line, I can either do it through menus, or type
/remark:"This is a command line-created share." /unlimited
/remark:"My Docs" /unlimited would open up a share on my computer named docs, with unlimited users, default permissions.
NET SHARE sharename=drive:path
to do the same thing. So
NET SHARE docs=c:/docs
This is one of the best ideas ever. I can't imagine for a skilled programmer, it would be too difficult to add to a Mozilla clone.
In addition to / instead of
[]Block images and cookies that do not originate from the same domain as the current page
I'd like to see
[]Disallow scripts to spawn new windows (Override using the SHIFT key)
Automatically stop popups, in the browser itself--no need for a "popup blocker" type software.
Someone hack it to run Windows 2000.
No kidding, either. Instead of a Linux install on the HDD...put a Windows install on it.
It is, after all, standard X86 hardware, with a different graphics processor, that's all.
I bet if someone did this, there would be zero complaints from MS about it.
Microsoft OS division has a profit margin of 85%.
That's great.
Microsoft's X-Box division has a profit margin of -300%.
The OS division is where MS gets the cash to pour into products that will never turn a profit, or at best break even; the services they're providing (even for a charge) that are good to have but aren't really marketable, or are only marketed by MS for the sole purpose of having a presence in that market, without hope of actually taking over.
Your description of the encrypted data expanding is accurate. That could certainly be one reason CSS encryption is quite weak -- the early players weren't powerful enough to decrypt any more than that, and still have CPU time left to decode the MPEG stream; it could also be the disk wasn't big enough to hold the movie encrypted with "strong" encryption.
I don't often reply to this kind of thing, but...
OSI uses "Open Source" as it's "trademark" slogan. If you here about an Open Source program, you can safely assume it's probably an xGPL licensed program, approved by OSI/FSF.
OSI doesn't use "open source" meaning "the developer gives you his code for whatever purposes you want to do with it, as long as he maintains the copyright" (Frequently, it is even just "do whatever you want with this code")
It's all about recognition...you have to recognize the difference in the words (in this case the capital letters) and take from that the political issues of the license, or lack of them.
my system heats the room it is in to aprox. 4F hotter than the rest of the structure it is contained in. The house averages about 74F; my room is generally closer to 78-80F depending on the weather outside (south-facing windows)
The CPU and case temp themselves are quite reasonable; 43C/48C chassis/CPU, but it does add some heat to the ambient levels.
This Intel chip has to have double the heat output of my Athlon...that would be a nightmare to cool.
I disagree with you there...
Open source means, to me, that they let you look at it, download it, mess with it, etc.
Open Source (capitals) means the political licenses put out by OSI/FSF as a way of influencing developers, to try and get their licenses rendered legally enforceable.
I personally think that OSI is almost as bad as ICANN is, but there is a lot more need for OSI than there is for ICANN. Just, the implimentation if it should be different.
One reason that there are no other devices than graphics cards for AGP is that the data throughput rates are highly asymmetrical.
We're talking gigabits/sec of "push" bandwidth (textures, etc. to the graphics card) and sometimes as few as megabytes or even kilobytes of "pull" data, reading back from the AGP card. It wasn't designed with sending data back, it was designed to take data as fast as the host system can throw it off and process it.
Additionally, a dual-AGP controller wouldn't work because it is connected too directly to the CPU and Northbridge. NICs branch off the PCI bus, attached to the Northbridge; AGP has its own lines on the Northbridge. More AGP slots, the Northbridge is going to run into bandwidth problems, and it is frequently already the bottleneck in the highest of performance gaming machines.
George Orwell, 1984
the Ministry of Truth, concerened with lies
the Ministry of Peace, concerened with war
the Ministry of Plenty, concerened with poverty
the Ministry of Love, concerened with policing the citizens.
My geekroom/bedroom is preetty simple...Two systems, one my server and one my gaming rig; a rackmount network concentrator that is pretending to be a bedside table for me; a Linksys switch, a 1988 laser printer, and some lamps and programming books.
Nothing majorly obtrusive.
I'd love a room full of Rackmount goodness, but I barely even use the Linux partition on my gaming rig; a whole second (third, fourth) system would never get used.
I just wasted a moderator point replying to this, but I will anyway.
You've got a valid point there. But, concerts really aren't that expensive. Tomorrow night (I'd see it if I had the money; being a poor student means I don't get to go out much unless it's to somewhere relatively low-cost), Saliva, Audiovent, and Theory of a Deadman are playing at the local ampetheatre. For $16/person. That's about 3 movies @ 5.00/ea; assuming you can get them for that price.
More often (I forget my student ID, ticket counter woman is evil, etc.) I end up paying $6.25 for a movie ticket. This, plus the cost of drinks, popcorn, etc. at extortional prices, can bring the cost of a movie up to between $10 and $20/person.
Additionally, the local movie theatre, while having 8 screens, is terribly maintained and has no services (no concessions, etc.) after it was bought out by an independant owner, from Regal Cinemas. So, I drive between 20 and 45 minutes to a cineplex that is closer to the houses of people I go to movies with, and is of higher quality. Result: Gas. Probably only about $2 or $3 in gas per trip, but that adds up.
We've now got a $15 movie ticket, counting admission, consumables, and travel. Which is almost exactly that of the small concert going on. Larger concerts, or ones with legends like Aerosmith, U2, Pearl Jam, etc. obviously will cost more. The Doors (that remain, anyway) are playing a show in Vegas/may already have played said show for something to the tune of $120/head, at a club. Tell me that's not extortional. But, it's also something you probably will never say again.
All and all, an *average* concert is on level footing with movies in terms of value and quality. Larger concerts, festivals (Ozzfest, Vans Warped Tour, etc.) are more expensive, but you get more "bang for your buck" too.
I'm going to do this.
But:
How do you compile in Linux?