No, this is no joke. It's a wireless monitor...don't know the frequencies, but it is limited to 800x600 resolution 16-bit color because anything more than that and there isn't enough bandwidth.
I don't know what technology its using though, but the limited range and large resolution mean it probably isn't this.
Programs will be done similarely if they are done to the same specification.
This is because THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO DO IT! With the exception of people (usually myself) who find some way completely opposite that the teacher tells, using tricks I'm not supposed to know yet, take my C++ class at my high school. Of the 29-some people in the class, at a given time, 20-some of them will turn in work that is similar enough to set off cheat-detector flags-and I know for a fact that they all work independantly, and only at school.
This is because, for the type of stuff we're doing, there are two types of ways people have decided to do it. The shorter but requiring a more detailed understanding of how pointers work (my way) or the way involving passing parameters all over the place with 50 IF-statements in the code (about 2/3 the class's way.) That 2/3 of the class has code that I feel like I look at it once, I've seen every one of theirs, because it's following the exact same logic patterns, those that are easy to code and follow but almost never work, instead of going a little bit deeper and making a new, more efficient routine.
Of course being like 2nd in that class kind of helps, since I'm usually the one providing help (current_ptr, not current_ptr->next!!! that type of thing) I have a different perspective on it.
I never report cheating...but don't take an active part in it either.
Except-make it server-side QoS instead of client-side, or maybe locked in the phone's firmware not easily accessible.
You pay for your QoS on top of the minutes. An "emergency" phone could have say 2K minutes but its calls would be dropped on overloaded circuits, so it would cost less. A standard phone wouldn't do anything other than what they do now-too many circuits? Too bad. Already on and the cell fills up? You stay on it. A high-priority plan could cost maybe $50/month more, and would kill off a low-priority phone when needed. This is like the business exec type plan.
Course people don't like the idea of paying for more importance, but it's sound in business models.
I find myself typing cmd.exe on my Windows 98 boxes at school and my mom's computer when I am trying to do stuff.
She has a tendancy to get utterly confused at the reason I seem to do everything with the keyboard...she said she's almost never seen me use a mouse. Quick use of Winkey shortcuts, TAB combos, and the command line almost totally make it unnecessary.
The shodoclc.dll file is the core of the Windows HTML rendering software...even 98lite leaves this and another IE DLL intact so you can VIEW WEB PAGES without a hassal from your applications.
XP is even more dependant on it, so it makes sense to leave more in.
Honestly, though, Slashdot is supposed to be a legitimate news site...Articles like Linus quitting Linux, Bill Gates murdered, ASCII-QT, and god knows what else, if they're not obviously false (Linus) they are FREAKING ANNOYING. I don't know enough about Unix to know if ASCII QT is real or not...and don't run it here, so I didn't go looking at the source.
Anyways...It's funny for a little bit. Maybe a "Stuff-that-makes-you-go-hmmmmm" thread with "rumors" of what's happened. That'd seperate the real from the funny, but let people enjoy both.
I actually agree with this-between Office, Media Player, and MSIE; each of them provides vital system functionality that would be hard to replicate perfectly elsewhere.
Microsoft doesn't want to have to support 3rd-party extensions to their core software-rightfully so. That's why overclocking voids your warrenty on OEM systems...it's an unsupported modification.
So, let the OEMs who are modifiying Windows do ALL the support. "Sorry, we do not support modified versions of Windows."
Let 'em continue selling a Microsoft-supported version; and for the same price let the OEM's pick either a full copy of a "modular" copy. Just, when the modular copy doesn't work because someone didn't follow the specs properly, they can't complain to MS about it.
Windows 3.1-ish was relatively modular...there were available replacement environments and stuff. For more complex OSes, modular and workable (not necessarely stable) are different things.
I'm going to get my hands on two dead but RMA'able 75GXPs...the 45gig models, for the cost of shipping them to my house. Both are replaceable under IBM's warrenty, I don't exactly trust it though...
I'm probably going to run them in RAID 1 (Mirroring?) I think off of my KT7-RAID. That way....well...They'll both fail, just hopefully not at the same time.
MS Office 97 and later come with VBA - Visual Basic for Applications. I have seen programs created within the confines of an Excel spreadsheet that are more complicated and functional than some sold on store shelves...Built-in help files have complete documentation on the use of the language, I think.
Good points. I would rather see a bigger tax on CD burners and blank recordable media (akin to the proposed 1-cent-a-pound Sugar tax back a few years back here in Florida...Almost nothing to the consumer, but it was BILLIONS of dollars annually for ecosystem restoration projects...too bad Big Sugar railroaded it into the ground.)
I'd rather not pay anything extra. But that not being an option, I'd rather pay a few 0.0$ or $.00 to the music industry for freely copyable CDs and media. They'd make a decent amount even off burned CDs cuz of the media tax.
IRRC there are some european countries that do have these type of taxes.
I'd argue in favor of the gaming comission on this one. Excel has a very nice scripting language known as formulas, and with VBA, it's even more powerful. I've seen Excel workbooks with dropdown menus in fields and all kinds of stuff.
Think about it in the context of a language run through an interpreter. Is the interpreter software? Yes. Are the programs that must use THAT PRORGAM to run also software? Yes. Excel workbook is the same way.
Windows 2000 comes with Vetrias Volume Manager "lite" for lack of a better term, known as the Logical Disk Manager Service. It's what provides the software RAID functionality. (Raid 0 IIRC in Pro, perhaps RAID 0 and also RAID 1 in Server+)
aka, a peltier, used frequently with water cooling.
Hey-now that's an idea. Water cooling.
I'm sure that were you so inclined, you could make a purely passive water cooling system...a sufficiently large resivouir of water attached/surrounding a heat sink or plate. Make it big enough so that a 500MHz CPU won't boil it away overnight, and put some air-cooled fins in for heat dissipation.
They seem to have not done anything useful yet...aside from create a few new TLDs that nobody really cares for.
Why are we subjugating ourselves to them? It's not like they actually control the servers and backbones...if a few big companies said "fuck you" to ICANN instead of going along with it, you can bet damn well that they wouldn't be doing much.
Why run crypto? If the system is going to be localized anonymous hardware-based, crypto is a non-issue, because there aren't going to be any usernames/passwords/credit card information/SSN/etc. passed on the air waves. So what if a cop is listening in with a device...it'd be just shy of impossible to catch you. And they problably wouldn't care anyways-the average traffic or guard-duty cop wouldn't know Napster from Morpheus from Gnutella anyways.
It's called I went there a long time ago. A year and a half. No pictures. Parts of the rooms walled off with partitions to keep it unclassified. As for a few floors down...well what do you call all those stairs you have to go up and down, for instance, in the building with the mess hall? There's three floors in *that* building.
If I'm so wrong-what about the disel resivouir that has a layer of water on the very bottom to insulate it from the rock. Or that the buildings themselves are built on very large springs, and there are huge holes in the sides that are rivited shut as a result of computers being bigger back in the day than they are today.
Or that C-in-C NORAD is the only person aloud to drive the car *into* the mountain and park right by the first builting, not in the parking lot outside. In the hole, through the right blast door and straight ahead through the second, and down the...right tunnel, IIRC. It might have been the left though...yah I think it was the left, the right tunnel had storage and stuff along the side.
So what if my numbering is a bit wrong. I didn't see the whole place-but I did see parts of it.
True that. I've been inside NORAD and seen the satellite tracking facility (it's about 50 SGI Indigo and Indigo 2 workstations running a DOD-specific version of IRIX, with a second "hot backup" also used for training with identical hardware but a different room config a few floors down. (all that from only about 5 minutes in the lab...)
It's pretty cool actually, you can open their anaylisis program and plot x; where x = the chronological number from 1 = Sputnik of the satellite launched, for a bunch of nice apogee/perigee/period/distance/elevation graphs. plot (some number I don't remember, and is probably classified anyway) plotted Mir, and the graphing was so accurate you could literally picture in your mind the space station flying around in closer and closer spirals until perigee=0 and reentry.
But anyways-yes, they do track the stuff. And yes, they do course correct. A lot more than you might think too.
I have a Ph.D. in international market economics in my family...Her opinion is that GDP/GNP as a statistic at all has fundamental flaws.
One of em (GDP, iirc...the domestic product) counts in everything made by non-US citizens living on US soil or employed by a company in the US. Bigger number.
GNP counts only stuff made by US citizens made on US soil. Smaller number.
I think a more meaningful statistic (speaking as a *not* Ph.D. in economics) is the per-capita yearly income. That compares, more accurately, the lifestyle of the people of that country on average, if they lived in your country...India's per-capita income is what...$10k/yr? Decent but that's dirt poor here in America. Guess what? So are most native Indians.
My $0.02 adjusted for inflation a few times, and probably wrongly.
Think about it. The technology is there, so why not use it? It's the same thing I tell my programming teacher when she gets pissed about my using strrev(char *string); instead of writing my own string reverse function in C++.
Hell, a lot of shitty compilers aren't even optimized for MMX yet, and that set of instructions DOES exist in every processor out there now.
I'd assume that if you're using the Intel compiler on an AMD chip, it's not going to try to optimize for P3 and P4 instruction sets. So why not use an AMD compiler for compiling to 3dNow! and the like?
Intel isn't obligated to produce a compiler that is faster for *every* architecture in existance. They're only obligated to make a straight compiler that works with it all...if it happens to like its own processors better than others, thats called the left hand working well with the right. It would be pretty hard for Intel to make their compiler work as well with 3dNow! as it does with SSE and SSE2.
I'm thinking an internal UPS that operates sort-of like the "Shead" switch in small aircraft. When you have to use it to conserve power, it kills all power to all instruments on the copilot side, some lights, and other stuff, leaving only the radios and nav instruments operating - enough to fly but not enough to do much else.
The question is - how would Windows react to suddenly having it's, say...CD-ROM and floppy drives just cease to exist while the OS were running? I've accidently pulled power cables on drives that weren't in use, had no active handles on them, and hadn't even had media inserted into them that session, and they still caused massive problems in Win2K.
I don't think most OSes would react well to having the power to everything except the processor and hdd0 shead from under it, even to conserve power while a savestate took place.
Did netscape stop being able to make money selling its product because of increasing internet connection speeds?
If people don't have to wait 24 hours to download a 6MB file, they'll download it instead of paying $$$ for it.
I'd imagine Linux will be the same situation. You'll find specialized distros/intro distros for retail sale, and all the others will be download-only, because people simply wouldn't buy the boxed versions when they can download for free in a reasonable amount of time.
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IIRC, Matrox has released a wireless monitor.
No, this is no joke. It's a wireless monitor...don't know the frequencies, but it is limited to 800x600 resolution 16-bit color because anything more than that and there isn't enough bandwidth.
I don't know what technology its using though, but the limited range and large resolution mean it probably isn't this.
Programs will be done similarely if they are done to the same specification.
This is because THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO DO IT! With the exception of people (usually myself) who find some way completely opposite that the teacher tells, using tricks I'm not supposed to know yet, take my C++ class at my high school. Of the 29-some people in the class, at a given time, 20-some of them will turn in work that is similar enough to set off cheat-detector flags-and I know for a fact that they all work independantly, and only at school.
This is because, for the type of stuff we're doing, there are two types of ways people have decided to do it. The shorter but requiring a more detailed understanding of how pointers work (my way) or the way involving passing parameters all over the place with 50 IF-statements in the code (about 2/3 the class's way.) That 2/3 of the class has code that I feel like I look at it once, I've seen every one of theirs, because it's following the exact same logic patterns, those that are easy to code and follow but almost never work, instead of going a little bit deeper and making a new, more efficient routine.
Of course being like 2nd in that class kind of helps, since I'm usually the one providing help (current_ptr, not current_ptr->next!!! that type of thing) I have a different perspective on it.
I never report cheating...but don't take an active part in it either.
Exactly.
I actually think this is a good idea.
Except-make it server-side QoS instead of client-side, or maybe locked in the phone's firmware not easily accessible.
You pay for your QoS on top of the minutes. An "emergency" phone could have say 2K minutes but its calls would be dropped on overloaded circuits, so it would cost less. A standard phone wouldn't do anything other than what they do now-too many circuits? Too bad. Already on and the cell fills up? You stay on it. A high-priority plan could cost maybe $50/month more, and would kill off a low-priority phone when needed. This is like the business exec type plan.
Course people don't like the idea of paying for more importance, but it's sound in business models.
I find myself typing cmd.exe on my Windows 98 boxes at school and my mom's computer when I am trying to do stuff.
She has a tendancy to get utterly confused at the reason I seem to do everything with the keyboard...she said she's almost never seen me use a mouse. Quick use of Winkey shortcuts, TAB combos, and the command line almost totally make it unnecessary.
The shodoclc.dll file is the core of the Windows HTML rendering software...even 98lite leaves this and another IE DLL intact so you can VIEW WEB PAGES without a hassal from your applications.
XP is even more dependant on it, so it makes sense to leave more in.
Honestly, though, Slashdot is supposed to be a legitimate news site...Articles like Linus quitting Linux, Bill Gates murdered, ASCII-QT, and god knows what else, if they're not obviously false (Linus) they are FREAKING ANNOYING. I don't know enough about Unix to know if ASCII QT is real or not...and don't run it here, so I didn't go looking at the source.
Anyways...It's funny for a little bit. Maybe a "Stuff-that-makes-you-go-hmmmmm" thread with "rumors" of what's happened. That'd seperate the real from the funny, but let people enjoy both.
I actually agree with this-between Office, Media Player, and MSIE; each of them provides vital system functionality that would be hard to replicate perfectly elsewhere.
Microsoft doesn't want to have to support 3rd-party extensions to their core software-rightfully so. That's why overclocking voids your warrenty on OEM systems...it's an unsupported modification.
So, let the OEMs who are modifiying Windows do ALL the support. "Sorry, we do not support modified versions of Windows."
Let 'em continue selling a Microsoft-supported version; and for the same price let the OEM's pick either a full copy of a "modular" copy. Just, when the modular copy doesn't work because someone didn't follow the specs properly, they can't complain to MS about it.
Windows 3.1-ish was relatively modular...there were available replacement environments and stuff. For more complex OSes, modular and workable (not necessarely stable) are different things.
I'm going to get my hands on two dead but RMA'able 75GXPs...the 45gig models, for the cost of shipping them to my house. Both are replaceable under IBM's warrenty, I don't exactly trust it though...
I'm probably going to run them in RAID 1 (Mirroring?) I think off of my KT7-RAID. That way....well...They'll both fail, just hopefully not at the same time.
MS Office 97 and later come with VBA - Visual Basic for Applications. I have seen programs created within the confines of an Excel spreadsheet that are more complicated and functional than some sold on store shelves...Built-in help files have complete documentation on the use of the language, I think.
I never got GCC to work on Cygwin.
"Checking to see if GCC can produce executables...failed"
no matter what I did. No installing apps for me.
Good points. I would rather see a bigger tax on CD burners and blank recordable media (akin to the proposed 1-cent-a-pound Sugar tax back a few years back here in Florida...Almost nothing to the consumer, but it was BILLIONS of dollars annually for ecosystem restoration projects...too bad Big Sugar railroaded it into the ground.)
I'd rather not pay anything extra. But that not being an option, I'd rather pay a few 0.0$ or $.00 to the music industry for freely copyable CDs and media. They'd make a decent amount even off burned CDs cuz of the media tax.
IRRC there are some european countries that do have these type of taxes.
I'd argue in favor of the gaming comission on this one. Excel has a very nice scripting language known as formulas, and with VBA, it's even more powerful. I've seen Excel workbooks with dropdown menus in fields and all kinds of stuff.
Think about it in the context of a language run through an interpreter. Is the interpreter software? Yes. Are the programs that must use THAT PRORGAM to run also software? Yes. Excel workbook is the same way.
Windows 2000 comes with Vetrias Volume Manager "lite" for lack of a better term, known as the Logical Disk Manager Service. It's what provides the software RAID functionality. (Raid 0 IIRC in Pro, perhaps RAID 0 and also RAID 1 in Server+)
The real version adds more stuff though.
aka, a peltier, used frequently with water cooling.
Hey-now that's an idea. Water cooling.
I'm sure that were you so inclined, you could make a purely passive water cooling system...a sufficiently large resivouir of water attached/surrounding a heat sink or plate. Make it big enough so that a 500MHz CPU won't boil it away overnight, and put some air-cooled fins in for heat dissipation.
Probably be tough to do though.
What is ICANN's authority again?
They seem to have not done anything useful yet...aside from create a few new TLDs that nobody really cares for.
Why are we subjugating ourselves to them? It's not like they actually control the servers and backbones...if a few big companies said "fuck you" to ICANN instead of going along with it, you can bet damn well that they wouldn't be doing much.
Why run crypto? If the system is going to be localized anonymous hardware-based, crypto is a non-issue, because there aren't going to be any usernames/passwords/credit card information/SSN/etc. passed on the air waves. So what if a cop is listening in with a device...it'd be just shy of impossible to catch you. And they problably wouldn't care anyways-the average traffic or guard-duty cop wouldn't know Napster from Morpheus from Gnutella anyways.
It's called I went there a long time ago. A year and a half. No pictures. Parts of the rooms walled off with partitions to keep it unclassified. As for a few floors down...well what do you call all those stairs you have to go up and down, for instance, in the building with the mess hall? There's three floors in *that* building.
If I'm so wrong-what about the disel resivouir that has a layer of water on the very bottom to insulate it from the rock. Or that the buildings themselves are built on very large springs, and there are huge holes in the sides that are rivited shut as a result of computers being bigger back in the day than they are today.
Or that C-in-C NORAD is the only person aloud to drive the car *into* the mountain and park right by the first builting, not in the parking lot outside. In the hole, through the right blast door and straight ahead through the second, and down the...right tunnel, IIRC. It might have been the left though...yah I think it was the left, the right tunnel had storage and stuff along the side.
So what if my numbering is a bit wrong. I didn't see the whole place-but I did see parts of it.
True that. I've been inside NORAD and seen the satellite tracking facility (it's about 50 SGI Indigo and Indigo 2 workstations running a DOD-specific version of IRIX, with a second "hot backup" also used for training with identical hardware but a different room config a few floors down. (all that from only about 5 minutes in the lab...)
It's pretty cool actually, you can open their anaylisis program and plot x; where x = the chronological number from 1 = Sputnik of the satellite launched, for a bunch of nice apogee/perigee/period/distance/elevation graphs. plot (some number I don't remember, and is probably classified anyway) plotted Mir, and the graphing was so accurate you could literally picture in your mind the space station flying around in closer and closer spirals until perigee=0 and reentry.
But anyways-yes, they do track the stuff. And yes, they do course correct. A lot more than you might think too.
I have a Ph.D. in international market economics in my family...Her opinion is that GDP/GNP as a statistic at all has fundamental flaws.
One of em (GDP, iirc...the domestic product) counts in everything made by non-US citizens living on US soil or employed by a company in the US. Bigger number.
GNP counts only stuff made by US citizens made on US soil. Smaller number.
I think a more meaningful statistic (speaking as a *not* Ph.D. in economics) is the per-capita yearly income. That compares, more accurately, the lifestyle of the people of that country on average, if they lived in your country...India's per-capita income is what...$10k/yr? Decent but that's dirt poor here in America. Guess what? So are most native Indians.
My $0.02 adjusted for inflation a few times, and probably wrongly.
(iirc) USD $0.0178 / 1 EverQuest Platnium Piece (pp)
.pdf of the study posted elsewhere.
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Well written. I saved this comment as a text file in case I'll ever need to use it.
This is a good thing.
Think about it. The technology is there, so why not use it? It's the same thing I tell my programming teacher when she gets pissed about my using strrev(char *string); instead of writing my own string reverse function in C++.
Hell, a lot of shitty compilers aren't even optimized for MMX yet, and that set of instructions DOES exist in every processor out there now.
I'd assume that if you're using the Intel compiler on an AMD chip, it's not going to try to optimize for P3 and P4 instruction sets. So why not use an AMD compiler for compiling to 3dNow! and the like?
Intel isn't obligated to produce a compiler that is faster for *every* architecture in existance. They're only obligated to make a straight compiler that works with it all...if it happens to like its own processors better than others, thats called the left hand working well with the right. It would be pretty hard for Intel to make their compiler work as well with 3dNow! as it does with SSE and SSE2.
I'm thinking an internal UPS that operates sort-of like the "Shead" switch in small aircraft. When you have to use it to conserve power, it kills all power to all instruments on the copilot side, some lights, and other stuff, leaving only the radios and nav instruments operating - enough to fly but not enough to do much else.
The question is - how would Windows react to suddenly having it's, say...CD-ROM and floppy drives just cease to exist while the OS were running? I've accidently pulled power cables on drives that weren't in use, had no active handles on them, and hadn't even had media inserted into them that session, and they still caused massive problems in Win2K.
I don't think most OSes would react well to having the power to everything except the processor and hdd0 shead from under it, even to conserve power while a savestate took place.
Did netscape stop being able to make money selling its product because of increasing internet connection speeds?
If people don't have to wait 24 hours to download a 6MB file, they'll download it instead of paying $$$ for it.
I'd imagine Linux will be the same situation. You'll find specialized distros/intro distros for retail sale, and all the others will be download-only, because people simply wouldn't buy the boxed versions when they can download for free in a reasonable amount of time.