I can vouch for this, as well. Terragen owns. Very easy to use, even for those that aren't familiar with modeling software. I've made some pretty nice landscapes with it; it comes highly recommended. I as well haven't used it in more than a year, so things may have changed, but from what I can recall, Terragen is worth your attention if you have any interest in landscape modeling on the Win32 platform.
Which is the precise reason why we need to abandon two-dimensional chip design and move up to three-dimensional design. Instead of a signal having to go across the entire chip 2.1cm, it can just go directly up (or directly down).01mm, and the signal is where it needs to be. I've often wondered why this isn't done already, and I'm pretty sure it's because of the cooling factor; layering CPU dies together is one hell of a way to create a heat trap. But when you're running at -100C.....
The population density in rural America is such that it wouldn't be cost effective to deploy broadband services to 4 customers in a 100 square mile area. I think that getting rural American residents to *want* broadband would be the first step. For that to happen though, you have to get them to understand the computer, and maybe even buy one of their very own. (I mean all of them, not the select 4 who will order broadband if it were offered right now)
You should call up a major cable/DSL provider and see if you can get some raw numbers out of them. Customers per square mile in an urban area, versus suburban, versus rural. Those numbers (if they're available) should illustrate for you why rural residential/community broadband access is not on the agenda of any major broadband provider.
mouse gestures have me addicted to Opera. The only problems is that I find myself doing the "Close window" gesture in internet explorer, windows explorer, eudora...etc. I wish that mouse gestures were a core operating system feature, but how they interacted with a specific window would be controlled on a per-program (and thusly per-window) basis.
Basically, I like mouse gestures, and I think they should be used more globally instead of being localised a web browser or other specific application. The operating system should support passing gesture event information to the window in much the same way as it supplies information about a simple "click" event.
You're right that when a new video card hits the market and is top-of-the-line with all the bells and whistles, it won't cost $30. But to say it will never cost $30 is foolish. I believe the parent post was saying he didn't mind the technological push because the sooner something new comes along, the sooner what's new now will become passe and cost $50 instead of $200. You can get an AthlonXP 2100+ CPU w/ motherboard for less than $80 shipped. You can get geforce2 and geforce3 cards for $40 and less. If you're willing to be just a bit behind the cutting edge, it works out to be rather cost effective.
As far as a CPU for $40: this one costs $39. Yes it's a Socket A 900mhz cpu, but it only costs $39. No shipping either, get 'em while the gettin's good! (And the 900 was a good overclocker, as I recall. might be able to bump that baby up to 1.2 before it gives any fuss) Duron 1.3 GHz for $34, free shipping.... Breaking the $40 price point is a AthlonMP 1.2GHz for $44 shipped....
three perfectly nice cpus to put in a motherboard. perfectly nice.
Now AT&T has legal ground to stand on (As the recent Microsoft vs Eolas case has shown us, patent law is still respected in the courts, even if the whole patent system is a total mockery of the idea of intellectual property) and the ability to build a case which carries more weight in court than a simple AUP violation. AUP violations get users suspended accounts, not fines & jail time. Laws in "some states" leave those in other states without a platform to fight from.
We also have to keep in mind that AT&T has their own team of lawyers that they could keep occupied with lawsuits against spammers in every state.
This is somewhat off-topic, but it needs sharing. A very large bag of pretzels purchased at Costco (I think it was 6 pounds) had blatant evidence of Y2K buggery on it. The "best if eaten by" date had a three-digit year. Can you guess what it was? 104. heh. I laughed for a while when I saw that one, because it's gone uncorrected for at least four years now.
In a modern utopic society where people are not selfish and always consider one another's best interests before acting, the truth would of course be more important. In a capitalist American society, however, it all boils down to the almighty buck.
I tried to submit this as a news story a few times a few weeks ago, and it was rejected. Regardless, I have to point out: Bitboys HAVE PRODUCED a product, and we should stop making fun of them on the front page. It is the first graphics chip to do actual curve rendering, supposedly. Check out their product page here:
Yes but dubya spends a lot of time in Texas. He has a ranch there. He used to own a baseball team there. He used to be an oil baron there. He's a "southerner" for all intents and purposes. Being "from" a place amounts to less than does where one is "most recently from."
Actually, the distance from the sun to the earth is only 1 AU. I'm pretty sure that what you mean is that 90 AUs is the distance between Earth and Voyager.
Also, I'm sure google can help us out here. That's right, google can convert (using its calculator functionality) between astronomical units and light hours. The answer is 12.4751304 light hours if you're too lazy to click the link. That's 0.00142315729 light years. 1.346382 x 10^15 centimeters....
I just love this keyboard, to be honest with you. The 't' key and the backspace are finally starting to stick with irritating frequency, and the 'a' key is soon to follow. According to the plastic case of this keyboard, it was minted in 1986. The circuit board, however, was created in '87. It's an Acer 101 key keyboard, complete with AT-style plug and all.
What about a cheap ISP that only has one IP address and proxies all connections through it? What about the firewalls/proxies at most corporate businesses that send hundreds of users through single IPs? Any federal regulations on those? I really don't think ISPs are required by law to keep any such records, honestly. Moreso, I think there is a lot of technological mumbo-jumbo waiting to complicate things for the RIAA. I'll give you a hint: "proxy" is on the list.
The thing that gets me is that broadband providers never have a minimum speed that they guarantee. If they do, it's something extremely small; ie, Earthlink guarantees 2400bps on its DSL service. However they usually do have a maximum speed which, if exceeded, they'll take notice. The double standard amuses me, "If we're giving the customer piss poor service we don't care but if they're getting really good connection speeds we do." Hmmm...
It's all about prosecution, and since Kazaa owns the network, it's Kazaa who chooses which offenses to prosecute. So they may well prosecute the RIAA (because they're a big, easy target) but not the 100,000 other users out there with illegal clients. (My reasoning would be that 9 times out of ten, people say "I use Kazaa" not "I use Kazaa Lite" even if they mean the latter; so leaving those 100,000 users alone = free advertising)
It's actually more like saying "Hey everyone, I have this copy of Windows XP that you can copy if you like. It'll be on the countertop if you want it. door's open." Nowhere on the kazaa network or any p2p network is any stipulation of the legality of downloaded materials made; it's up to the end-user to determine how to act responsibly and legally. I'm only facilitating a crime if somebody on the other end chooses to commit a crime--I'm by no means encouraging it; but at the point in time somebody downloads a song from me, I'm committing no more a crime than leaving the front door open, so I fail to see how it can be distinguished as criminal.
How does this matter? A client running Windows can distribute a worm by email just as well as a server can. Could the notion that most servers run Linux account for the notion that most servers that were hacked... ran Linux?
I've used this comparison before and I'm using it again now: If I leave my front door open one day and somebody waltzes in and walks off with my television, do the police arrest me (for leaving the door open) or the person who walked off with my tv (for stealing)? The latter, of course.
So when I leave my files available for download, what law have I broken? I'm just leaving the front door open, letting people peruse. It's up to THEM to break the law and download the file. If I own every album that every MP3 I possess comes from, what law have I broken by *ALLOWING* others to download from me? I'm not encouraging it, I'm not endorsing it, but I'm allowing it to happen.
So I'm lost. Why hasn't this issue been raised yet? Are we waiting until the first court case to bring up that leaving the front door open is not illegal? Having an open file share with no password on a Windows platform computer isn't illegal, so why should this be?
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I can vouch for this, as well. Terragen owns. Very easy to use, even for those that aren't familiar with modeling software. I've made some pretty nice landscapes with it; it comes highly recommended. I as well haven't used it in more than a year, so things may have changed, but from what I can recall, Terragen is worth your attention if you have any interest in landscape modeling on the Win32 platform.
Which is the precise reason why we need to abandon two-dimensional chip design and move up to three-dimensional design. Instead of a signal having to go across the entire chip 2.1cm, it can just go directly up (or directly down) .01mm, and the signal is where it needs to be. I've often wondered why this isn't done already, and I'm pretty sure it's because of the cooling factor; layering CPU dies together is one hell of a way to create a heat trap. But when you're running at -100C .....
Duck Tape.
"Jimo won't launch until at least 2011."
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"The spacecraft is envisioned as being 60 to 100 feet in length."
also unlike normal radio, you can't pull in the signal with a transitor radio and 2 AA batteries.
The population density in rural America is such that it wouldn't be cost effective to deploy broadband services to 4 customers in a 100 square mile area. I think that getting rural American residents to *want* broadband would be the first step. For that to happen though, you have to get them to understand the computer, and maybe even buy one of their very own. (I mean all of them, not the select 4 who will order broadband if it were offered right now)
You should call up a major cable/DSL provider and see if you can get some raw numbers out of them. Customers per square mile in an urban area, versus suburban, versus rural. Those numbers (if they're available) should illustrate for you why rural residential/community broadband access is not on the agenda of any major broadband provider.
mouse gestures have me addicted to Opera. The only problems is that I find myself doing the "Close window" gesture in internet explorer, windows explorer, eudora...etc. I wish that mouse gestures were a core operating system feature, but how they interacted with a specific window would be controlled on a per-program (and thusly per-window) basis.
Basically, I like mouse gestures, and I think they should be used more globally instead of being localised a web browser or other specific application. The operating system should support passing gesture event information to the window in much the same way as it supplies information about a simple "click" event.
You're right that when a new video card hits the market and is top-of-the-line with all the bells and whistles, it won't cost $30. But to say it will never cost $30 is foolish. I believe the parent post was saying he didn't mind the technological push because the sooner something new comes along, the sooner what's new now will become passe and cost $50 instead of $200. You can get an AthlonXP 2100+ CPU w/ motherboard for less than $80 shipped. You can get geforce2 and geforce3 cards for $40 and less. If you're willing to be just a bit behind the cutting edge, it works out to be rather cost effective.
As far as a CPU for $40: this one costs $39. Yes it's a Socket A 900mhz cpu, but it only costs $39. No shipping either, get 'em while the gettin's good! (And the 900 was a good overclocker, as I recall. might be able to bump that baby up to 1.2 before it gives any fuss) Duron 1.3 GHz for $34, free shipping.... Breaking the $40 price point is a AthlonMP 1.2GHz for $44 shipped....
three perfectly nice cpus to put in a motherboard. perfectly nice.
Now AT&T has legal ground to stand on (As the recent Microsoft vs Eolas case has shown us, patent law is still respected in the courts, even if the whole patent system is a total mockery of the idea of intellectual property) and the ability to build a case which carries more weight in court than a simple AUP violation. AUP violations get users suspended accounts, not fines & jail time. Laws in "some states" leave those in other states without a platform to fight from.
We also have to keep in mind that AT&T has their own team of lawyers that they could keep occupied with lawsuits against spammers in every state.
This is somewhat off-topic, but it needs sharing. A very large bag of pretzels purchased at Costco (I think it was 6 pounds) had blatant evidence of Y2K buggery on it. The "best if eaten by" date had a three-digit year. Can you guess what it was? 104. heh. I laughed for a while when I saw that one, because it's gone uncorrected for at least four years now.
In a modern utopic society where people are not selfish and always consider one another's best interests before acting, the truth would of course be more important. In a capitalist American society, however, it all boils down to the almighty buck.
I tried to submit this as a news story a few times a few weeks ago, and it was rejected. Regardless, I have to point out: Bitboys HAVE PRODUCED a product, and we should stop making fun of them on the front page. It is the first graphics chip to do actual curve rendering, supposedly. Check out their product page here:
http://www.acceleon.com/
Yes but dubya spends a lot of time in Texas. He has a ranch there. He used to own a baseball team there. He used to be an oil baron there. He's a "southerner" for all intents and purposes. Being "from" a place amounts to less than does where one is "most recently from."
Actually, the distance from the sun to the earth is only 1 AU. I'm pretty sure that what you mean is that 90 AUs is the distance between Earth and Voyager.
Also, I'm sure google can help us out here. That's right, google can convert (using its calculator functionality) between astronomical units and light hours. The answer is 12.4751304 light hours if you're too lazy to click the link. That's 0.00142315729 light years. 1.346382 x 10^15 centimeters....
I just love this keyboard, to be honest with you. The 't' key and the backspace are finally starting to stick with irritating frequency, and the 'a' key is soon to follow. According to the plastic case of this keyboard, it was minted in 1986. The circuit board, however, was created in '87. It's an Acer 101 key keyboard, complete with AT-style plug and all.
What about a cheap ISP that only has one IP address and proxies all connections through it? What about the firewalls/proxies at most corporate businesses that send hundreds of users through single IPs? Any federal regulations on those? I really don't think ISPs are required by law to keep any such records, honestly. Moreso, I think there is a lot of technological mumbo-jumbo waiting to complicate things for the RIAA. I'll give you a hint: "proxy" is on the list.
The thing that gets me is that broadband providers never have a minimum speed that they guarantee. If they do, it's something extremely small; ie, Earthlink guarantees 2400bps on its DSL service. However they usually do have a maximum speed which, if exceeded, they'll take notice. The double standard amuses me, "If we're giving the customer piss poor service we don't care but if they're getting really good connection speeds we do." Hmmm...
Why do you get modded up for not answering the goddamned question?
anybody who has ever been the guardian of a small child sure can... they'll bang on anything. endlessly.
"Ah, middle management."
It's all about prosecution, and since Kazaa owns the network, it's Kazaa who chooses which offenses to prosecute. So they may well prosecute the RIAA (because they're a big, easy target) but not the 100,000 other users out there with illegal clients. (My reasoning would be that 9 times out of ten, people say "I use Kazaa" not "I use Kazaa Lite" even if they mean the latter; so leaving those 100,000 users alone = free advertising)
It's actually more like saying "Hey everyone, I have this copy of Windows XP that you can copy if you like. It'll be on the countertop if you want it. door's open." Nowhere on the kazaa network or any p2p network is any stipulation of the legality of downloaded materials made; it's up to the end-user to determine how to act responsibly and legally. I'm only facilitating a crime if somebody on the other end chooses to commit a crime--I'm by no means encouraging it; but at the point in time somebody downloads a song from me, I'm committing no more a crime than leaving the front door open, so I fail to see how it can be distinguished as criminal.
How does this matter? A client running Windows can distribute a worm by email just as well as a server can. Could the notion that most servers run Linux account for the notion that most servers that were hacked... ran Linux?
I've used this comparison before and I'm using it again now: If I leave my front door open one day and somebody waltzes in and walks off with my television, do the police arrest me (for leaving the door open) or the person who walked off with my tv (for stealing)? The latter, of course.
So when I leave my files available for download, what law have I broken? I'm just leaving the front door open, letting people peruse. It's up to THEM to break the law and download the file. If I own every album that every MP3 I possess comes from, what law have I broken by *ALLOWING* others to download from me? I'm not encouraging it, I'm not endorsing it, but I'm allowing it to happen.
So I'm lost. Why hasn't this issue been raised yet? Are we waiting until the first court case to bring up that leaving the front door open is not illegal? Having an open file share with no password on a Windows platform computer isn't illegal, so why should this be?
FuckY0U!
G0DdamM!T
Ih4tEP4SSW0RDS!
now that's password rage...