Let me begin by saying that my cable co is Rogers and I live in Ontario, Canada.
Long before @Home came along, I had cable internet through Rogers. Back then it was called Rogers Wave. IIRC there was also Shaw Wave and so on. Once @Home came along our service was changed to Rogers@Home. What the exact arrangement between the two companies is, I can't say, but I imagine Rogers is buying a service from @Home in this case.
Regardless, if the day arrives that @Home dies I fully expect that my service will go back to being good old Rogers Wave or something else.
I never wanted an "online service" anyway. I much prefer a simple ISP.
No kidding.
People seem to be ignoring the real possibility of a heatsink and fan coming off.
Chips run so hot these days (especially Athlons) that motherboards are quite literally bending under the strain of heatsink retaining clips.
I hope AMD does help establish a performance rating system that isn't determined by AMD alone.
It would be far too easy for AMD to say "We need this chip to do well, so play it up a bit."
AMD is a company above all else and they're here to make money.
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Oh that's right. Dan Quayle invented the internet!
Atari 130XE (modified - 576K RAM)
3 Atari 1050 floppies
1 Atari 1050 floppy (modified - double speed, double density)
1 "PR Connector"
1 Supra 2400 external modem
and of course, a little TV
We formatted 512k as a RAMdisk and loaded all the menus into that for faster loading.
We ran that for about a year, then referred our callers to a friend's board.
A few years later I was back into the BBS scene on a 286. I have friends on my ICQ list I met through BBS's. I even dated a girl I met on one for a while.
I wish they would take the ball and run with it. What I'd love to see is the Tualatin scaled past 1.2GHz and drop the low end P4's (without them gouging us for Tualatin - Ha ha).
Is that what you have in mind?
I'd also like to see Intel stop dragging their feet with DDR support.
The Tualatin does perform very well right now, but it doesn't have much of a future. It still uses the aging FPU of the PIII. It will likely never be capable of reaching clock speeds as high as the P4. Tualatin may hold its own against the current P4, but soon the P4 will also get a die shrink. Once the P4 reaches a high enough clock speed it *should* stop suffering from its own long pipeline. I actually don't like the current P4, but I think it's a bit too early to write its epitaph.
Tualatin is a great chip, but it wouldn't make sense to call it P5.
First you should know what it's like to be a Canadian reading this. First, you regret that you have no voice regarding bills in the US. Second, you can only wonder how this will eventually affect you if it somehow gets passed.
If they're not mortally wounded and have water, then some could still be alive. You can go a long time without food..... but not nearly as long without water.
I installed it once. It didn't like my ATI All-In-Wonder (original) at all. By the time it finished booting, the screen was black. I'd never had any prob with any other distro with that card, so needless to say, I wasn't impressed.
I don't believe these people had any idea that the plane they were on was to be used as a terrorist weapon and that the plan was that they were all to die anyway. When a plane is hijacked, the assumption (based on history) is that it will be landed somewhere and that the people on it will be held until such time as their government negotiates for their release. Keeping that in mind, the passengers will be inclined (and rightly so) to cooperate with the hijackers and wait for the negotiations.
I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that 60 unarmed passengers can overwhelm 3 to 5 terrorists armed with knives. I would hope that if these people knew they were going to die anyway that they would band together and try to overpower the terrorists and at least try to minimize the casualties to the unfortunate passengers on the plane by crashing it into an unpopulated area. Perhaps this is what happened in Pennsylvania. Having never been in such a situation I can't honestly say, but I'd like to think it's what I would do.
No kidding! The article even mentioned (more than once) Apache and how many servers on the net run it. So what? Unless I missed a paragraph, Apache has nothing to do with it!
A lot of Car CD players do the same thing... presumably to help prevent skipping. How will the record company offering a downloadable proprietary encoding of the music help someone listen to it in their car?
I remember reading about this when they were planning it. I'm glad to see people aren't putting up with it. People who listen to Charley Pride are people like my mom... people who aren't exactly in the know. I'm sure they were counting on getting this 'technology' rolling at the expense of these people.
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Personally I'd rank memory above sound.
The less swapping the better.
...either they wipe your hard disk or fill your screen with popups. I'm not sure which is worse.
I'm not entirely sure that @Home is relevant.
Let me begin by saying that my cable co is Rogers and I live in Ontario, Canada.
Long before @Home came along, I had cable internet through Rogers. Back then it was called Rogers Wave. IIRC there was also Shaw Wave and so on. Once @Home came along our service was changed to Rogers@Home. What the exact arrangement between the two companies is, I can't say, but I imagine Rogers is buying a service from @Home in this case.
Regardless, if the day arrives that @Home dies I fully expect that my service will go back to being good old Rogers Wave or something else.
I never wanted an "online service" anyway. I much prefer a simple ISP.
It's quite possible that it's F. It's been a long time since I read up on this stuff. My point was it's a big difference between hydrogen and propane.
... and yes, I'm aware that -40 is the same on both scales.
The lower the boiling point, the higher pressure required to keep it in a liquid state at room temperature.
Propane boils at about -40 degrees (C or F)
Hydrogen boils at about -670 degrees (C I think... it's been a while)
That'll give ya a rough idea of how much harder hydrogen is to deal with.
Actually, the SSSCA bill was introduced before September 11th.
No kidding.
People seem to be ignoring the real possibility of a heatsink and fan coming off.
Chips run so hot these days (especially Athlons) that motherboards are quite literally bending under the strain of heatsink retaining clips.
I hope AMD does help establish a performance rating system that isn't determined by AMD alone.
It would be far too easy for AMD to say "We need this chip to do well, so play it up a bit."
AMD is a company above all else and they're here to make money.
Oh that's right. Dan Quayle invented the internet!
Back in '90 I ran a BBS:
Atari 130XE (modified - 576K RAM)
3 Atari 1050 floppies
1 Atari 1050 floppy (modified - double speed, double density)
1 "PR Connector"
1 Supra 2400 external modem
and of course, a little TV
We formatted 512k as a RAMdisk and loaded all the menus into that for faster loading.
We ran that for about a year, then referred our callers to a friend's board.
A few years later I was back into the BBS scene on a 286. I have friends on my ICQ list I met through BBS's. I even dated a girl I met on one for a while.
Don't laugh. I knew a guy with a 300 baud modem. Everyone could type faster than his modem could transmit! :)
I wish they would take the ball and run with it.
What I'd love to see is the Tualatin scaled past 1.2GHz and drop the low end P4's (without them gouging us for Tualatin - Ha ha).
Is that what you have in mind?
I'd also like to see Intel stop dragging their feet with DDR support.
The Tualatin does perform very well right now, but it doesn't have much of a future.
It still uses the aging FPU of the PIII. It will likely never be capable of reaching clock speeds as high as the P4.
Tualatin may hold its own against the current P4, but soon the P4 will also get a die shrink. Once the P4 reaches a high enough clock speed it *should* stop suffering from its own long pipeline.
I actually don't like the current P4, but I think it's a bit too early to write its epitaph.
Tualatin is a great chip, but it wouldn't make sense to call it P5.
If you're going to troll, please leave my country out of your sig. You're giving the rest of us Canadians a bad name.
Thank you.
I'm still gonna call 'em "redshirts" tho...
If that doesn't precisely define pornography....
It's damn unlikely that the borg would wipe out a species that close to earth but not be seen by another soul in the alpha quadrant for 200 years.
It uses TCP/IP to connect to battle.net, but to be honest, I don't remember which I tried.
Sure does. I was able to get Starcraft to run... only in single player though.
I wanna see the black knight scene!
:)
Move to Canada?
First you should know what it's like to be a Canadian reading this.
First, you regret that you have no voice regarding bills in the US. Second, you can only wonder how this will eventually affect you if it somehow gets passed.
It sucks.
If they're not mortally wounded and have water, then some could still be alive.
You can go a long time without food..... but not nearly as long without water.
I installed it once. It didn't like my ATI All-In-Wonder (original) at all. By the time it finished booting, the screen was black.
I'd never had any prob with any other distro with that card, so needless to say, I wasn't impressed.
I don't believe these people had any idea that the plane they were on was to be used as a terrorist weapon and that the plan was that they were all to die anyway.
When a plane is hijacked, the assumption (based on history) is that it will be landed somewhere and that the people on it will be held until such time as their government negotiates for their release. Keeping that in mind, the passengers will be inclined (and rightly so) to cooperate with the hijackers and wait for the negotiations.
I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that 60 unarmed passengers can overwhelm 3 to 5 terrorists armed with knives.
I would hope that if these people knew they were going to die anyway that they would band together and try to overpower the terrorists and at least try to minimize the casualties to the unfortunate passengers on the plane by crashing it into an unpopulated area.
Perhaps this is what happened in Pennsylvania.
Having never been in such a situation I can't honestly say, but I'd like to think it's what I would do.
No kidding!
The article even mentioned (more than once) Apache and how many servers on the net run it.
So what? Unless I missed a paragraph, Apache has nothing to do with it!
A lot of Car CD players do the same thing... presumably to help prevent skipping.
How will the record company offering a downloadable proprietary encoding of the music help someone listen to it in their car?
I remember reading about this when they were planning it. I'm glad to see people aren't putting up with it.
People who listen to Charley Pride are people like my mom... people who aren't exactly in the know.
I'm sure they were counting on getting this 'technology' rolling at the expense of these people.