Contrary to the case where classical physics is used as the source of randomness and where determinism is hidden behind complexity, one can say that with quantum physics randomness is revealed by simplicity.
Anyone who's studied Quantum Physics and doesn't see that the innate quality of the randomness is a presumed conclusion just wasn't paying enough attention.
Most Circuit City stores have these in stock. You can look online for availability at a local store, then order it and pick it up yourself, no extraneous delivery hassles involved.
Notes on the machine (I'm typing on it right now):
The 802.11g internal wireless unit is 802.11b compatible, but you're mad if you don't upgrade your home to an 802.11g WAP router (or better, one of these) first thing after saving on the computer.
The PCMCIA slot is single-height (type-I/II), so any double-height (type-III) cards you have won't fit any more.
There are 4 USB 2.0 ports and 1 firewire port but *no* DB-9 or DB-25 connectors. You can buy a USB/RS-232 adapter for about $30 almost anywhere, but with the internal modem you probably won't need them.
I haven't done any gaming on the Radeon 9600 yet. No time for that right now.
The keyboard is a little goofy, but you were going to take a US keyboard and 60-Hz power supply and NTSC video back to Blighty, so you might not mind the hassle of the keyboard so much. They won't tell me how to remap it, either, so YMMV.
The 64-bit "3000+" Athlon CPU is overrated, but what else is new from Jerry's Kids. It's really running at about 2 GHz and is not any faster or slower than my Pentium 2.2-GHz desktop. Must be why these things are so damn cheap. Some day Microsoft will present us with non-beta versions of 64-bit Windows and we'll see if there's any real end-user value in the extra width.
Incorrect. Integrated APIs means much less modality in user and programmer interaction. No more trying to remember whether the file pointer is the first arg or the last. Man I'd kill for that in UNIX.
The man who brought you copyright-controlled Usenet comes up with a plan to MAKE MONEY FAST selling the part of the URL you know you shouldn't even have to type.
I could sell everyone here a new 4-function Winnebago with square wheels and a fahnestock clip on the ethernet port if this is how y'all perceive product marketing.
3 years ago, I got tired of the holes in Sprint's coverage and switched to T-Mobile.
This weekend, I bought a Samsung SPH-i500 phone and had to get Sprint because that's the only service offered with the phone.
I figured, 3 years later, these guys must have fixed some of the problems with their network.
Nope. It's worse.
Lousy signal almost everywhere, and even if I get most of bars lit, people still get sent straight to voicemail when they call me.
SPRINT FUCKING SUCKS!
DON'T BUY SPRINT!
(I figure if I tell about 10 million people how lousy their service is maybe I'll get back a few hundred dollars of satisfaction to compensate me for the money I won't be able to recoup on the $500 phone because I'll be on the road for the next several months. So spread the word. Sprint sucks, has always sucked, and makes stupid excuses for continuing to suck.)
It's humiliating to spend $450 on a piece of geek gear and then realize it's keeping you awake at night.
The worst offender is the ReplayTV 5040, which has a *stepper* motor in its fan, which is kept at a very low speed by the mobo to stop ordinary fan noise - white noise - but instead produces a fluttering rumble.
I had to disconnect the fan and leave the cover off the unit (or it shuts itself down). And I get to live with persistent "Fan error" messages when I turn the TV on...
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Fuck you, Scott McNealy.
From the Generating Random Numbers page:
Contrary to the case where classical physics is used as the source of randomness and where determinism is hidden behind complexity, one can say that with quantum physics randomness is revealed by simplicity.
Anyone who's studied Quantum Physics and doesn't see that the innate quality of the randomness is a presumed conclusion just wasn't paying enough attention.
A book that needs batteries.
Where's my broker?
Thank you for supporting the adoption of Open Software by the masses.
Or not, as the case may be.
It's not about smaller, it's all about bigger.
Making a megabyte of SRAM have a smaller footprint won't change much in the current world of microelectronics.
Making a megabyte-sized SMD hold a gigabyte, however...
Didn't Jack Gallo, publisher of Blush Magazine, have a wood-cased LCD flatpanel monitor on his desk?
Why yes, he did.
In like 1998.
And there's always competition.
>What do you think one trillion dollars can get us this time around? Perhaps IPv6 deployment.
Man. That's gonna be one long-ass Cat6e cable...
In a way, integrating API is in the spirit of UNIX, as it decouples the API definition from the internal definition.
When "F3" means the same thing in all tools, your UI has become a module unto itself.
Most Circuit City stores have these in stock. You can look online for availability at a local store, then order it and pick it up yourself, no extraneous delivery hassles involved.
Notes on the machine (I'm typing on it right now):
The 802.11g internal wireless unit is 802.11b compatible, but you're mad if you don't upgrade your home to an 802.11g WAP router (or better, one of these) first thing after saving on the computer.
The PCMCIA slot is single-height (type-I/II), so any double-height (type-III) cards you have won't fit any more.
There are 4 USB 2.0 ports and 1 firewire port but *no* DB-9 or DB-25 connectors. You can buy a USB/RS-232 adapter for about $30 almost anywhere, but with the internal modem you probably won't need them.
I haven't done any gaming on the Radeon 9600 yet. No time for that right now.
The keyboard is a little goofy, but you were going to take a US keyboard and 60-Hz power supply and NTSC video back to Blighty, so you might not mind the hassle of the keyboard so much. They won't tell me how to remap it, either, so YMMV.
The 64-bit "3000+" Athlon CPU is overrated, but what else is new from Jerry's Kids. It's really running at about 2 GHz and is not any faster or slower than my Pentium 2.2-GHz desktop. Must be why these things are so damn cheap. Some day Microsoft will present us with non-beta versions of 64-bit Windows and we'll see if there's any real end-user value in the extra width.
This borders on the apocryphal.
Why would Bill Gates even have a credit card in his own name?
And why in hell would he use it online, instead of a one-time electronic transaction instrument?
And just what was he buying?
Incorrect. Integrated APIs means much less modality in user and programmer interaction. No more trying to remember whether the file pointer is the first arg or the last. Man I'd kill for that in UNIX.
Just tell us what "otaku" means and we'll let you go.
This is the ultimate cooling system:
1. Walk up to Tyra Banks.
2. Drop "How would you like to be a model?" on her.
3. Seek shelter.
Though some of it borders on criminal.
Anyone else getting cigarette ads when you're sent to MSN branded websites?
Selling tobacco is murder.
but I know it when I see it.
Impeach Bush now.
Your constitution is counting on you.
The man who brought you copyright-controlled Usenet comes up with a plan to MAKE MONEY FAST selling the part of the URL you know you shouldn't even have to type.
So copying the feature set and appearance of popular and profitable software is a "common base from which all people can profit."
I guess we have Bill Gates to thank for both sides of that equation.
I could sell everyone here a new 4-function Winnebago with square wheels and a fahnestock clip on the ethernet port if this is how y'all perceive product marketing.
Who ever told you that you were "anonymous" on the Internet?
SprintBlows.Com is all you need to know about cellular service from the worst technical organization in the world.
3 years ago, I got tired of the holes in Sprint's coverage and switched to T-Mobile.
This weekend, I bought a Samsung SPH-i500 phone and had to get Sprint because that's the only service offered with the phone.
I figured, 3 years later, these guys must have fixed some of the problems with their network.
Nope. It's worse.
Lousy signal almost everywhere, and even if I get most of bars lit, people still get sent straight to voicemail when they call me.
SPRINT FUCKING SUCKS!
DON'T BUY SPRINT!
(I figure if I tell about 10 million people how lousy their service is maybe I'll get back a few hundred dollars of satisfaction to compensate me for the money I won't be able to recoup on the $500 phone because I'll be on the road for the next several months. So spread the word. Sprint sucks, has always sucked, and makes stupid excuses for continuing to suck.)
The only way this intrusive abuse of my bandwidth would be justified is if every commercial features Jennifer Garner and/or the Coors Light Twins.
This is not negotiable.
are they going to coat them in extensible insulator, too?
and every crush-injury will destroy them
these guys need ome more requirements analysis
There are two features every PVR must have:
1. No fan or other noisemaking moving parts.
2. Noiseless disk drives.
It's humiliating to spend $450 on a piece of geek gear and then realize it's keeping you awake at night.
The worst offender is the ReplayTV 5040, which has a *stepper* motor in its fan, which is kept at a very low speed by the mobo to stop ordinary fan noise - white noise - but instead produces a fluttering rumble.
I had to disconnect the fan and leave the cover off the unit (or it shuts itself down). And I get to live with persistent "Fan error" messages when I turn the TV on...
And with a terabyte of DRAM, it'd do it an order of magnitude faster yet.