That quote from MS is rather, ummmmm, hopeful and glosses over a *lot* of important details.
Much (but not all) of the Kernel in win 9x/me is 16-bit code. It uses a 32-bit thunking layer to translate between the two.
Ever wonder why almsot no API function in 9x will give you a value > 2^16 ??????
Had a lot of fun with that one a few years ago when we were accidentaly using 16-bit integers to store handles... Software worked great on 95... Put it on NT and kabooom....
I think Grand Theft Auto would be a heck of a lot of fun on 16+ screens.... Based upon that "careful conclusion" I should be out carjacking and pimping.... Wait, that does sound like fun.
Although I am not quite in the same boat as the poster, the following combo works out pretty well for me.
Just for reference, I live in northern San Diego county, California. I can not get DSL (too far from C.O.) nor can I get fixed-point wireless (we tried, but there are trees in the way and my H.O.A. sort of owns the trees). I run a business from my home. The services I use serve me for both personal and business use.
I have cablemodem service with Cox. It rocks. The downstream is awesome. At night it has sometimes even beat the supposed 3mb maximum that the cable company claims.
I can get an analog phone line from PacBell or a hybrid phone line from the cable company, where they put a box similar to a cablemodem at my junction (demarcation) point. I don't have either.
I have $39 service with Vonage, as many other posters do. At least with my net service, it is awesome. Sounds about as good as a land-line and has every feature you could ever want included in the base price... Unlimited LD, caller id, callwaiting, callwaiting id, voicemail, incredible forwarding options, etc.
I have a cell phone from Sprint. Sprint isn't the best company around, but the damn thing works and is priced right. I have more minutes than I could ever dream of using and for like $14 a month I put my mom's handset on my account. Soak up those extra minutes! When I get around to buying a new phone I will be able to use their 64-144k service.
Lastly I have a J2 fax mailbox. It gives me send and receive fax capabilities without paper cuts, a fax machine, or even an analog modem. It just works. About $10 a month.
I keep the vonage number on no-answer forward to my cell and everything eventually dumps into my voicemail.
This entire combo runs me about $150 a month for basically the ultimage telephone/pager/cell/internet/fax/voicemail/cablev combo I could come up with. $150, flat, no long distance charges, etc. I know a lot of people who pay $150 alone for their landline or cell phone bills alone. Other than rent, food, and auto-related stuff, that is the extent of my fixed monthly expenses.
Let's say for a second that these ISOs do exist, and that some moron figures out how to play them on the Cube. It will be more expensive to mod the system, burn the game (
10 bucks for a normal sized blank DVD, not sure how much mini-dvds are or if they even exist yet), etc than it would be just to buy the damn thing.
If you are paying ten bucks a pop for blank DVD-R or +R media, you truly are a moron. They can be had for about $2 each in a five or ten pack.
Ahhhh, yes, the standard "why don't I just copyright my identity" post.
I applaud you on your creativity, but sad-to-say, from a legal foundation you are lacking.
In general, tidbits of factual information are not afforded any copyright protection. A compilation may be copyrighted, but the copyright protection extends to the specific compilation, not the individual facts.
That exists for a reason, large companies tend to sue enough when their names are mentioned in print, imagine if they could claim copyright protection over "Wal-Mart" every time they are mentioned in print.
These figures are rough and are based upon my personal experience with a Cisco VoIP gateway as well as some general knowledge of the CODEC's used, and the CODEC's used in CDMA and TDMA/GSM systems. Some of the CODEC's they have developed that are optimized for spoken word are really quite interesting.
Okay, with the disclaimer out of the way, one channel of OK quality voice can be had for about 9.6kb, a good quality one you are looking closer to 14.4kb.
The article doesn't say, who ordered the shredding?
Geeez, did you or any of the people modding you up to 5 even read the article?
Oh wait, this is Slashdot, never mind. Oh well, I'm sure you will read it the next four times this story gets repeated.
And I quote the article:
Caldera -- now The SCO Group -- was paying up to $1,500 a month to store the documents. In October, the company persuaded U.S. District Judge Dee Benson to order their destruction.
Public executions, first offence, for spammers.
Broadcast immediate, ALL channels, satellite, cable, OTA, AM/FM. ALL channels.
Don't forget to send out a mass unsolicited email to make sure everyone knows. And of course, this campaign will need a sponsor.... Herbal viagra, anyone?
Using the server lists included with most IRC clients as well as the server lists provided by the major IRC networks themselves, why don't you just blacklist those IP's?
A programmer's ability to focus on a single task for long periods to the exclusion of all else has led some people to comment on similar behavior in autistics (Asperger's Disorder), and to wonder whether most programmers are mildly autistic. I would be surprised if most programmers were autistic--our concentration is too easily broken.
As someone who is a programmer and autistic I felt the need to jump in. I am diagnosed with both Asperger Syndrome and ADD. Although I have many of the classic autistic symptoms (nonverbal language deficits, sensory integration issues, near-photographic memory, obsessive interests, etc.)
My concentration is interesting. While it is normally quite short, I have the ability to hyperfocus for hours on anything I am obsessing on. This is usually code, so that works out just fine, tyvm.
As far as working accomodations, to get what I really needed, I had to jump off the deep end and become self-employed. My home office has extensive soundproofing and other "accoustical management" stuff, most of it was pretty easy/cheap.
For the first time in my life, I have all of the people I need to be in contact with to do mainly via IM. If I'm lucky, one of these days I can cancel my phone, but for now, I will just settle for turning the ringer off (it flashes, too).
Diamond video cards worked fine, but they were virtually identical to the S3 and 3DFX reference boards.
Their drivers were known to be buggy and loaded with weird stuff (e.g. the click on the desktop, get the start menu stuff they put in their 95/98 video drivers). So you were better off with the S3 drivers shipped with your OS or the S3 reference drivers.
Their support and commitment to their customers sucked. I had a Diamond ISDN adapter, a couple of months after I bought mine (this was like 1998) I found out the drivers would not work with the latest NT4 service pack. Call Diamond. They tell me they know about the problem but have no plans to release updated drivers. Ever.
Don't even get me started on the support issues with their earlier MP3 players.
You treat your customers like that, you go under. At least you should. It really is that simple.
Yes, and I can just see it now... Another random American wanders into a "coffee shop" and asks for a "big pipe"...
After a while, you won't really care how fast your connection is... Your time perception will slow down and you will just want to sit on the couch and eat cheatos...
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Why do you think they call it a monolithic kernel?
Sorry, couldn't resist. I'll go back to my corner now.
That quote from MS is rather, ummmmm, hopeful and glosses over a *lot* of important details.
Much (but not all) of the Kernel in win 9x/me is 16-bit code. It uses a 32-bit thunking layer to translate between the two.
Ever wonder why almsot no API function in 9x will give you a value > 2^16 ??????
Had a lot of fun with that one a few years ago when we were accidentaly using 16-bit integers to store handles... Software worked great on 95... Put it on NT and kabooom....
This parody IRC conversation was funny, oh, what, the first five or ten times it was scored a 5?
Is Karma-whoring now just a question of who can copy/paste this post the quickest????
I think Grand Theft Auto would be a heck of a lot of fun on 16+ screens.... Based upon that "careful conclusion" I should be out carjacking and pimping.... Wait, that does sound like fun.
Although I am not quite in the same boat as the poster, the following combo works out pretty well for me.
v combo I could come up with. $150, flat, no long distance charges, etc. I know a lot of people who pay $150 alone for their landline or cell phone bills alone. Other than rent, food, and auto-related stuff, that is the extent of my fixed monthly expenses.
Just for reference, I live in northern San Diego county, California. I can not get DSL (too far from C.O.) nor can I get fixed-point wireless (we tried, but there are trees in the way and my H.O.A. sort of owns the trees). I run a business from my home. The services I use serve me for both personal and business use.
I have cablemodem service with Cox. It rocks. The downstream is awesome. At night it has sometimes even beat the supposed 3mb maximum that the cable company claims.
I can get an analog phone line from PacBell or a hybrid phone line from the cable company, where they put a box similar to a cablemodem at my junction (demarcation) point. I don't have either.
I have $39 service with Vonage, as many other posters do. At least with my net service, it is awesome. Sounds about as good as a land-line and has every feature you could ever want included in the base price... Unlimited LD, caller id, callwaiting, callwaiting id, voicemail, incredible forwarding options, etc.
I have a cell phone from Sprint. Sprint isn't the best company around, but the damn thing works and is priced right. I have more minutes than I could ever dream of using and for like $14 a month I put my mom's handset on my account. Soak up those extra minutes! When I get around to buying a new phone I will be able to use their 64-144k service.
Lastly I have a J2 fax mailbox. It gives me send and receive fax capabilities without paper cuts, a fax machine, or even an analog modem. It just works. About $10 a month.
I keep the vonage number on no-answer forward to my cell and everything eventually dumps into my voicemail.
This entire combo runs me about $150 a month for basically the ultimage telephone/pager/cell/internet/fax/voicemail/cable
If you are paying ten bucks a pop for blank DVD-R or +R media, you truly are a moron. They can be had for about $2 each in a five or ten pack.
Gee, I wonder how many emails from Commodore-wielding teenagers in Afghanistan that address gets....
After two clicks, I am here... I liked your's better... I think...
Ahhhh, yes, the standard "why don't I just copyright my identity" post.
I applaud you on your creativity, but sad-to-say, from a legal foundation you are lacking.
In general, tidbits of factual information are not afforded any copyright protection. A compilation may be copyrighted, but the copyright protection extends to the specific compilation, not the individual facts.
That exists for a reason, large companies tend to sue enough when their names are mentioned in print, imagine if they could claim copyright protection over "Wal-Mart" every time they are mentioned in print.
I'll do you one better and actually patent it. You already have copyright ownership of almost anything you create, some restrictions aply.
Try user%domain or user%40domain for the login instead of user@domain, that often works, depends on the mail server in question.
While I hate SCO as much as the next guy here, you are really grasping at straws to find a conspiracy in that.
An executive selling LESS THAN THREE PERCENT of his shares TWO DAYS after news becomes public is hardly even news.
These figures are rough and are based upon my personal experience with a Cisco VoIP gateway as well as some general knowledge of the CODEC's used, and the CODEC's used in CDMA and TDMA/GSM systems. Some of the CODEC's they have developed that are optimized for spoken word are really quite interesting.
Okay, with the disclaimer out of the way, one channel of OK quality voice can be had for about 9.6kb, a good quality one you are looking closer to 14.4kb.
The article doesn't say, who ordered the shredding?
Geeez, did you or any of the people modding you up to 5 even read the article?
Oh wait, this is Slashdot, never mind. Oh well, I'm sure you will read it the next four times this story gets repeated.
And I quote the article:
Broadcast immediate, ALL channels, satellite, cable, OTA, AM/FM. ALL channels.
Using the server lists included with most IRC clients as well as the server lists provided by the major IRC networks themselves, why don't you just blacklist those IP's?
- Cingular Wireless is a joint venture between the domestic wireless divisions of SBC (NYSE:SBC) and BellSouth (NYSE: BLS).
- SBC owns 60 percent of the company and BellSouth owns 40 percent, based on the value of the assets both contributed to the venture.
From Verizon's web site..It would be like GM trying to buy Ford.
Or it would be like DaimlerMercedes buying Chrysler. Wait a minute, that already happened.
If GM were to purchase Ford, it would create nowhere near a monopoly.
Now, if GM where to try to engage in a leveraged buyout of Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Toyota, BMW, Volkswagon, etc., well that might raise some eyebrows.
This is going to bring spamming on behalf of legitimate businesses to a screeching halt.
Oh, yes, and those penis enlargements, nigerian 419 scams and "prescription drugs without a prescription" businesses are so legitimate to begin with!
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A programmer's ability to focus on a single task for long periods to the exclusion of all else has led some people to comment on similar behavior in autistics (Asperger's Disorder), and to wonder whether most programmers are mildly autistic. I would be surprised if most programmers were autistic--our concentration is too easily broken.
As someone who is a programmer and autistic I felt the need to jump in. I am diagnosed with both Asperger Syndrome and ADD. Although I have many of the classic autistic symptoms (nonverbal language deficits, sensory integration issues, near-photographic memory, obsessive interests, etc.)My concentration is interesting. While it is normally quite short, I have the ability to hyperfocus for hours on anything I am obsessing on. This is usually code, so that works out just fine, tyvm.
As far as working accomodations, to get what I really needed, I had to jump off the deep end and become self-employed. My home office has extensive soundproofing and other "accoustical management" stuff, most of it was pretty easy/cheap.
For the first time in my life, I have all of the people I need to be in contact with to do mainly via IM. If I'm lucky, one of these days I can cancel my phone, but for now, I will just settle for turning the ringer off (it flashes, too).
Well, let's see here...
Diamond video cards worked fine, but they were virtually identical to the S3 and 3DFX reference boards.
Their drivers were known to be buggy and loaded with weird stuff (e.g. the click on the desktop, get the start menu stuff they put in their 95/98 video drivers). So you were better off with the S3 drivers shipped with your OS or the S3 reference drivers.
Their support and commitment to their customers sucked. I had a Diamond ISDN adapter, a couple of months after I bought mine (this was like 1998) I found out the drivers would not work with the latest NT4 service pack. Call Diamond. They tell me they know about the problem but have no plans to release updated drivers. Ever.
Don't even get me started on the support issues with their earlier MP3 players.
You treat your customers like that, you go under. At least you should. It really is that simple.
Technically there is now no reason to ever leave McDonalds.
Well, unless you count the lack of a shower..
No, wait, this is slashdot
unless you count having someplace private to bring a girl..
No, wait, this is slashdot
Oh never mind
Yes, and I can just see it now... Another random American wanders into a "coffee shop" and asks for a "big pipe"...
After a while, you won't really care how fast your connection is... Your time perception will slow down and you will just want to sit on the couch and eat cheatos...