This was and is actually the bane of Cyrix processors.
I think the biggest abuse of this I ever saw was a lady I knew who bought "intel P-166" - turned out it was a Cyrix PR166 - really a 133 (don't worry they got sued out of existance). What got me is that Cyrix chips were a whole lot slower then the Intel (or AMD) equivelent.
The point is the average consumers are going to be fooled yes - maybe for their own good as you suggest, but when it comes to looking under the hood several years later (like I did) the result is sometimes quite suprising.
Also - I don't know that many joe six packs who are buying computers to be leet or to play video games. I used to work in computer sales - and I ran into people that I could literally sell them any machine I told them to buy (which would sometimes even mean a non-intel non-windows computers too), and then on the other side of the cluelesss spectrum is the person who wants a computer, but wants to spend as little as possible - and this chip doesn't qualify for the sub 900$ computer. How does this new marketing scheme fit in?
You know whats funny about those ethernet controllers is that when they were released I just ordered one on sega.com - came in about a week - I think I pay 50$ for it.
This reminds me of a political science assignment the whole class had - we were supposed to write out representatives and/or senators. This is in Oregon - I remember the only people that got written responces were people who contributed money (even very small amounts) or people who had really wacky letters (one topic I recall was someone who was jokingly concerned about violence in the wwf). I didn't vote for any of these people (Defazio and Wyden in the area I was in at the time)
I ran a pretty popular BBS on Maximus under MS-Dos - originally on a timeshared 486 (someone else would use it during the day - I'd use it at night for the bbs) at an office - then it was downgraded to a 286. This was in Coos Bay Oregon - it was called Lidpoint 1:356/24 (was its fidonet address). It was eventually shut down because a crackpot dork named les lemke became the net admin (for net 356) - he not only treated me like crap (because he hated me), but he continually set me duplicate nodeiffs - and I was too stupid or lazy to modify the batch file to extract the nodeiffs without confirmation:(. Those were the days when if you wanted to write a script you really had to know what you were doing mostly because a dos based fido capable BBS was a huge mess (literally) of batch files that would run at specific error levels etc. Batch files were also used to execute doors - like games. You're really a scripting god if you can figure all that out. I guess it wasn't all that complicated if it was layed out properly - errorlevel x bink has to go fetch mail etc.
My second board was actually on an Amiga 3000 - what a difference. For one thing no archaic scripting languages - everything was Arexx - and it was nice, virtually unlimited amount of devices. In fact it was eventually on the internet via the telserd.device - a modem emulator device driver for telnet in the early 90's. Not to mention you could use it while the bbs was running and you - nor the bbs user knew it.
Yeah - your right. I guess I did mention that in another message.
I do actually use it primarily for keeping contacts, keeping appointments, reading offline advantgo pages, and I use it a lot for listening to mp3's while I'm traveling (be it by bus, car, or bike). When I picked it up it was one of very few pda's that would play mp3's - I liked that feature even though a lot of people on here call it a gee wiz feature - its important to me. So much (I've got used to it) I wouldn't buy a PDA that coudn't do that.
And yes I've been working on making optimal movies for it so I can watch them while waiting for the bus or whatever - although right now its kinda a neat trick. I think there's some small setbacks in the speed of the microdrive (in playing large movies).
When I got it the Palm Vx was 500$ - so the ipaq actually cost only a little bit more then that (600$). When I was looking at the two I thought - well 8-9 hours continuous use, colour screen, can play music, and its a PDA I bought it all based on that. And the ipaq is actually a pretty small pda. Its very nice to be able to do just about anything I want on it - I haven't used my compaq laptop in ages in fact - this has replaced it fully (except for the screen size).
Anyhow it most definately was not a waste of money. Some day if Palm gets there act together their handhelds will be doing a lot more and have a lot more capability (this is something they have said themselves).
And the fact still remains - every time I whip this thing out some palm guy has to harass me - when I show him or her what this can do they are usually speachless (personally I can cite several reasons for buying a palm over a wince handheld, but I have yet to meet a palm os user in person that can). Its something you have to see to believe.
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I've got friends with handsprings - a few things about them,
A) a lot of them are big - maybe bigger then the IPAQ? They sure look it.
B) the older ones use AAA batteries - I kinda like the recharge capability of my ipaq.
C) the colour ones (at least the one my co-worker had) had about the same battery life as my ipaq - but was considerably slower.
And I dunno - I think palm users saying our devices don't play mp3 devices and were proud is just an envy thing. I use my ipaq for playing mp3's and keeping contacts and appointments too - as well as a lot of other utilitarian purposes - I think its nice to be able to listen to it too. I use it to listen to music (or sometimes radio plays - like the Goon Show) while I'm riding on the train or the bus to places - and it saves a lot of space in by backpack - which is already loaded with books, or disks, or bicycle locks - where I might have to carry around another device to play mp3's or cd's.
Well in all honesty the pocket pc is a different class in its own. I've got an IPAQ and I tell people that are interested in it (which is just about everyone on the bus, in class, at work etc) that it can do just about anything your desktop computer can do. I've found that palm users usually have no good defenses for their products too (a few I could think of is the longer battery life, its sheer utiliatian purposes, and its size, but they never say that...).
They always ask - can it play movies? Yup via pocket divx, and windows media player - and I always keep a few movies on my microdrive just to show them. It can play games (like doom), it can cruise the internet (via avantgo wireless, or wired or wireless ethernet), it can read and send e-mail in real time or offline and I can look at naughty pictures with it.
It many ways its a very small laptop. You can get the casio's and hp's on half.com for as low as 250$ sometimes. And when I got the IPAQ is was just 100$ more then the Palm Vx (mind you that was like a year ago when the Vx cost 400$~495$).
When I was working at a my last job (a.com) we had a co-location at at a company the mirrored the internet (quite famous one too) - they stored the internet literally on hundreds of those 76 gig IBM deskstar drives (running over 250 machines) - we had two fail, they've had a couple fail too - but for the most part most of them have survived years of really intense use.
So I bought one (76g gig just like our co-location and the mentioned article) for home use - used from an ad in a local computer magazine - worked fine for the first few months - then it started going clack clack clack and making a scratch noise while doing so - freaked me out - so I used ghost to back it up to a Seagate 40 gig disk drive. I ran DFT over the "bad drive" and it said I had a bad sector on it (error 0x70) - it tried to fix it - the first time I did this it worked just fine for another few months - but then it happened again - to the point where dft could only fix it for like a week. So finally I sent it back - I got a brand new part back. I should mention I never actually lost any data (or any crucial data) during this whole period.
One thing I noticed about the replacement is that it runs like twice as cool as the last one. The first drive was very hot to the touch - this one is just warm. So far its been running for the last two months without a single hitch.
Who buys CD's anymore anyhow? We should be supporting unsigned artists more then ever. There more of a threat in the long run to major labels then anything else.
I used to work in TV and I think the only technology that could do this in 92 (and prior to that) are instant replay machines - which were in essense computers with huge magnetic disks in them (like disk drives, but more like video tape) which could buffer video in real time - kinda like a huge TBC (which also buffer video, but only for seconds)
This would pause any video signal - and even let you rewind (thus the replay), but when you hit the release button it would of course not leave you off where you were watching - just like a video recorder. I guess the neat thing about these machines was the abilty to capture video at any time, then play it back at any speed.
This is not a new idea - I believe the technology to do this has been around since the 70's (maybe even earlier) - if thats what there patenting...
I've read more then one x-rated comic book that involved "minors" - in compromising conditions. I don't think its illegal in Japan - and I can import them into the US without troubles.
What about similar comic books produced in the US? Is there a precedent? I'm sure it would apply to computerized pron.
Thats really odd - since I've been building lots of AMD K7 based systems as well - I've never had one die on me - and I've never had a bad part. I don't know how many i've built, but its quite a lot.
I have however had people bring systems to me that didn't work - just two - both had bad procs, not because they were bad from the factory, but because they either a) used thermatake cpu coolers (please - don't use those) or b) put the heatsink the wrong way around - both of which will crunch the chip - which is relatively fragile being a ceramic package. Yeah - I know you can use thermatake coolers, but in my experience 90% of everyone who buys them doesn't seem to know how to properly use them - I don't recomend them myself - not only are they not the most efficent, but they also cost more.
So - you might want to switch heat sink manufacturers or check your supplier for defective parts.
Look - this is the FBI and CIA's own admissions - not to mention the findings of a trial in Nyrobi - Yes its likely that bin laden was pulling the strings - just there's no hard evidence that points at that.
Well all that stuff was a level up in some ways. AK-47's are more durable, but M-16's are more accurate (in my experience at least).
Vietnamese had very little in the way of aviation accessories. And what little they had were Russian made - for the most part US fighter jets, and helicopters have always been better - if not more durable they at least have better avionics. Besides from what I've heard Vietnamese pilots were rather lousy.
What about the comment in the article that there's really nothing to bomb. How much technology do you need to waste a city (or was goes for a city in Afghanistan)
Vietnam in essense shares a lot of the same points. There was a certian time during the war the the US ran out of "essential" targets to hit - it was the goal of the Vietnamese to exhaust the US's interest in the war - you know what it worked!
Iraq is different - because they have targets that are important. The last 10 years has turned the country into a 3rd world again, but prior to that one could easily argue they were an industrialized nation - who's main export was oil.
Besides didn't you read the article - he said its different then iraq, and the like because Afghanistan is a very mountainous territory with hiding places everywhere - much like Vietnam - and I need not remind anyone that we were technologically superiour in that war.
Personally I'm against bombing Afghanistan because I've seen what its like there - if anything we need to extend our goodwill.
Well there's no hard evidence that osama bin laden had anything to do with the wtc (event 1), or the events in Nyrobi or the American Embassy there. Yet we still bombed the hell out of them anyhow.
Chechnya was a war against terrorism wasn't it? Its funny because the war was condemned by the US and the UN. As far as I know its still going on, but you don't hear word one about it.
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This was and is actually the bane of Cyrix processors.
I think the biggest abuse of this I ever saw was a lady I knew who bought "intel P-166" - turned out it was a Cyrix PR166 - really a 133 (don't worry they got sued out of existance). What got me is that Cyrix chips were a whole lot slower then the Intel (or AMD) equivelent.
The point is the average consumers are going to be fooled yes - maybe for their own good as you suggest, but when it comes to looking under the hood several years later (like I did) the result is sometimes quite suprising.
Also - I don't know that many joe six packs who are buying computers to be leet or to play video games. I used to work in computer sales - and I ran into people that I could literally sell them any machine I told them to buy (which would sometimes even mean a non-intel non-windows computers too), and then on the other side of the cluelesss spectrum is the person who wants a computer, but wants to spend as little as possible - and this chip doesn't qualify for the sub 900$ computer. How does this new marketing scheme fit in?
You know whats funny about those ethernet controllers is that when they were released I just ordered one on sega.com - came in about a week - I think I pay 50$ for it.
Nope no IE - at least not officially released. The Planetweb browser was made in Sega's own OS - it doesn't even use CE.
This reminds me of a political science assignment the whole class had - we were supposed to write out representatives and/or senators. This is in Oregon - I remember the only people that got written responces were people who contributed money (even very small amounts) or people who had really wacky letters (one topic I recall was someone who was jokingly concerned about violence in the wwf). I didn't vote for any of these people (Defazio and Wyden in the area I was in at the time)
I ran a pretty popular BBS on Maximus under MS-Dos - originally on a timeshared 486 (someone else would use it during the day - I'd use it at night for the bbs) at an office - then it was downgraded to a 286. This was in Coos Bay Oregon - it was called Lidpoint 1:356/24 (was its fidonet address). It was eventually shut down because a crackpot dork named les lemke became the net admin (for net 356) - he not only treated me like crap (because he hated me), but he continually set me duplicate nodeiffs - and I was too stupid or lazy to modify the batch file to extract the nodeiffs without confirmation :(. Those were the days when if you wanted to write a script you really had to know what you were doing mostly because a dos based fido capable BBS was a huge mess (literally) of batch files that would run at specific error levels etc. Batch files were also used to execute doors - like games. You're really a scripting god if you can figure all that out. I guess it wasn't all that complicated if it was layed out properly - errorlevel x bink has to go fetch mail etc.
My second board was actually on an Amiga 3000 - what a difference. For one thing no archaic scripting languages - everything was Arexx - and it was nice, virtually unlimited amount of devices. In fact it was eventually on the internet via the telserd.device - a modem emulator device driver for telnet in the early 90's. Not to mention you could use it while the bbs was running and you - nor the bbs user knew it.
In an interview (no - I didn't get the job, and I'm not bitter). "Yup - everthing comes back to the big daddy eventually" - we were talking about AXP.
Yeah - your right. I guess I did mention that in another message.
I do actually use it primarily for keeping contacts, keeping appointments, reading offline advantgo pages, and I use it a lot for listening to mp3's while I'm traveling (be it by bus, car, or bike). When I picked it up it was one of very few pda's that would play mp3's - I liked that feature even though a lot of people on here call it a gee wiz feature - its important to me. So much (I've got used to it) I wouldn't buy a PDA that coudn't do that.
And yes I've been working on making optimal movies for it so I can watch them while waiting for the bus or whatever - although right now its kinda a neat trick. I think there's some small setbacks in the speed of the microdrive (in playing large movies).
When I got it the Palm Vx was 500$ - so the ipaq actually cost only a little bit more then that (600$). When I was looking at the two I thought - well 8-9 hours continuous use, colour screen, can play music, and its a PDA I bought it all based on that. And the ipaq is actually a pretty small pda. Its very nice to be able to do just about anything I want on it - I haven't used my compaq laptop in ages in fact - this has replaced it fully (except for the screen size).
Anyhow it most definately was not a waste of money. Some day if Palm gets there act together their handhelds will be doing a lot more and have a lot more capability (this is something they have said themselves).
And the fact still remains - every time I whip this thing out some palm guy has to harass me - when I show him or her what this can do they are usually speachless (personally I can cite several reasons for buying a palm over a wince handheld, but I have yet to meet a palm os user in person that can). Its something you have to see to believe.
I've got friends with handsprings - a few things about them,
A) a lot of them are big - maybe bigger then the IPAQ? They sure look it.
B) the older ones use AAA batteries - I kinda like the recharge capability of my ipaq.
C) the colour ones (at least the one my co-worker had) had about the same battery life as my ipaq - but was considerably slower.
And I dunno - I think palm users saying our devices don't play mp3 devices and were proud is just an envy thing. I use my ipaq for playing mp3's and keeping contacts and appointments too - as well as a lot of other utilitarian purposes - I think its nice to be able to listen to it too. I use it to listen to music (or sometimes radio plays - like the Goon Show) while I'm riding on the train or the bus to places - and it saves a lot of space in by backpack - which is already loaded with books, or disks, or bicycle locks - where I might have to carry around another device to play mp3's or cd's.
Well in all honesty the pocket pc is a different class in its own. I've got an IPAQ and I tell people that are interested in it (which is just about everyone on the bus, in class, at work etc) that it can do just about anything your desktop computer can do. I've found that palm users usually have no good defenses for their products too (a few I could think of is the longer battery life, its sheer utiliatian purposes, and its size, but they never say that...).
They always ask - can it play movies? Yup via pocket divx, and windows media player - and I always keep a few movies on my microdrive just to show them. It can play games (like doom), it can cruise the internet (via avantgo wireless, or wired or wireless ethernet), it can read and send e-mail in real time or offline and I can look at naughty pictures with it.
It many ways its a very small laptop. You can get the casio's and hp's on half.com for as low as 250$ sometimes. And when I got the IPAQ is was just 100$ more then the Palm Vx (mind you that was like a year ago when the Vx cost 400$~495$).
When I was working at a my last job (a .com) we had a co-location at at a company the mirrored the internet (quite famous one too) - they stored the internet literally on hundreds of those 76 gig IBM deskstar drives (running over 250 machines) - we had two fail, they've had a couple fail too - but for the most part most of them have survived years of really intense use.
So I bought one (76g gig just like our co-location and the mentioned article) for home use - used from an ad in a local computer magazine - worked fine for the first few months - then it started going clack clack clack and making a scratch noise while doing so - freaked me out - so I used ghost to back it up to a Seagate 40 gig disk drive. I ran DFT over the "bad drive" and it said I had a bad sector on it (error 0x70) - it tried to fix it - the first time I did this it worked just fine for another few months - but then it happened again - to the point where dft could only fix it for like a week. So finally I sent it back - I got a brand new part back. I should mention I never actually lost any data (or any crucial data) during this whole period.
One thing I noticed about the replacement is that it runs like twice as cool as the last one. The first drive was very hot to the touch - this one is just warm. So far its been running for the last two months without a single hitch.
Who buys CD's anymore anyhow? We should be supporting unsigned artists more then ever. There more of a threat in the long run to major labels then anything else.
I used to work in TV and I think the only technology that could do this in 92 (and prior to that) are instant replay machines - which were in essense computers with huge magnetic disks in them (like disk drives, but more like video tape) which could buffer video in real time - kinda like a huge TBC (which also buffer video, but only for seconds)
This would pause any video signal - and even let you rewind (thus the replay), but when you hit the release button it would of course not leave you off where you were watching - just like a video recorder. I guess the neat thing about these machines was the abilty to capture video at any time, then play it back at any speed.
This is not a new idea - I believe the technology to do this has been around since the 70's (maybe even earlier) - if thats what there patenting...
Not anymore - these days its more social conscious then anything. The book dreamland japan talks about this actually.
I've read more then one x-rated comic book that involved "minors" - in compromising conditions. I don't think its illegal in Japan - and I can import them into the US without troubles.
What about similar comic books produced in the US? Is there a precedent? I'm sure it would apply to computerized pron.
I'm still getting hack attempts from compromised nimba boxes on my linux machine (running roxen).
Then again I just realized they don't want to pay anyone.
Sure - whatever.
And you just got laid (heh heh) off from a .com or whatever you call it (www.rulespace.com) and just graduated from college you sign up :).
Oregon Public Broadcasting (the only pbs in the state) doesn't carry anything like that - most definately.
Sometimes I wish we could start our own PBS station for students and by students.
Thats really odd - since I've been building lots of AMD K7 based systems as well - I've never had one die on me - and I've never had a bad part. I don't know how many i've built, but its quite a lot.
I have however had people bring systems to me that didn't work - just two - both had bad procs, not because they were bad from the factory, but because they either a) used thermatake cpu coolers (please - don't use those) or b) put the heatsink the wrong way around - both of which will crunch the chip - which is relatively fragile being a ceramic package. Yeah - I know you can use thermatake coolers, but in my experience 90% of everyone who buys them doesn't seem to know how to properly use them - I don't recomend them myself - not only are they not the most efficent, but they also cost more.
So - you might want to switch heat sink manufacturers or check your supplier for defective parts.
Look - this is the FBI and CIA's own admissions - not to mention the findings of a trial in Nyrobi - Yes its likely that bin laden was pulling the strings - just there's no hard evidence that points at that.
Well all that stuff was a level up in some ways. AK-47's are more durable, but M-16's are more accurate (in my experience at least).
Vietnamese had very little in the way of aviation accessories. And what little they had were Russian made - for the most part US fighter jets, and helicopters have always been better - if not more durable they at least have better avionics. Besides from what I've heard Vietnamese pilots were rather lousy.
What about the comment in the article that there's really nothing to bomb. How much technology do you need to waste a city (or was goes for a city in Afghanistan)
Vietnam in essense shares a lot of the same points. There was a certian time during the war the the US ran out of "essential" targets to hit - it was the goal of the Vietnamese to exhaust the US's interest in the war - you know what it worked!
Iraq is different - because they have targets that are important. The last 10 years has turned the country into a 3rd world again, but prior to that one could easily argue they were an industrialized nation - who's main export was oil.
Besides didn't you read the article - he said its different then iraq, and the like because Afghanistan is a very mountainous territory with hiding places everywhere - much like Vietnam - and I need not remind anyone that we were technologically superiour in that war.
Personally I'm against bombing Afghanistan because I've seen what its like there - if anything we need to extend our goodwill.
Well there's no hard evidence that osama bin laden had anything to do with the wtc (event 1), or the events in Nyrobi or the American Embassy there. Yet we still bombed the hell out of them anyhow.
Chechnya was a war against terrorism wasn't it? Its funny because the war was condemned by the US and the UN. As far as I know its still going on, but you don't hear word one about it.
Not quite - there are good hackers and bad hackers - are you saying there are good terrorists and bad terrorists?
Slashdot is most certianly a hacker site - no doubt about it.