"Macromedia, Inc., the same people that brought you Flash, have done it again"
Actually, all macromedia did was BUY futuresplash animator from FutureSplash Inc because it was a very great, much easier to use compeditor to their shockwave offering if you just wanted to do simple good looking animation. I can remember being forced to use the original product under protest, then actually not minding having to use windows for a few weeks because it was actually a fun to use product.
It took me about 3 weeks of playing with Gentoo to realize that it completely obviates debian. Gentoo has become my fallback OS until some of the stranger hardware I have gets supported in FreeBSD better.
I have my thoroughbredB 1700+ running at exactly the same speed and it only cost me 45 bucks. It DID require a boost to 1.75 volts from the stock 1.5 and a thermalright slk-800 + 120mm fan though:)
Dude, I am ten times beyond sorry. The only thing it did in mozilla was play the flash. I'm modify it so I can annoy republicans without making their redhat boxes freeze. Once again, I'm very sorry.
I bought a line6 over a marshall about 3.2 seconds after pluging into one. It's also nice not having to redo your tube bias if you accidentally knock the thing. It's great for touring. If you play guitar, you have to try one of the line6 amps out. Also, it's got really cool blinking lights.
The truly sad thing is,
on
Half Mast
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· Score: 2, Interesting
The antagonist in this story is probably the one that has it right. I point to this post:
and I suggest that the sooner you cast off the idea that you should be nice to everyone, have respect for other people, and just try to get along, the faster you'll wake up to the true nature of the world. Then you'll be able to succeed, and go even further because of your intelligence and general geekishness. It's sad, but it appear to be true.
Time to add their mailserver to the spam filter. Everybody else should probably do the same. If you aren't mature enough to know when and who to email, you don't deserve to send email to any of my machines.
It all makes sense now! They need to make this new wonder drug as expensive as possible to protect us. I'm sure that's exactly what they were thinking too. The though of making a huge ass profit didn't factor in at all. What a bunch of nice guys.
You know full well I wasn't suggesting they just GIVE them away. But for christ sakes, you have to agree that the money is in treating the disease, not curing it. They know that, we know that, and you have to know that. The current business model involves sucking every last dollar out of a new wonder medicine and inflating the cost no matter how many people die because they can't pony up the sheckles.
About these pharmaceutical companies that are more than willing to sell off their discoveries to the highest bidder instead of doing what's right for humanity. I mean, for christ sakes. How vampirical is it to put profit about human lives? I think Chris Rock said something to the effect that we haven't cured a disease in 50 some odd years, but we used to do it twice a week. It's really sad.
Because if nVidia stuff is still faster on linux, this entire story doesn't mean much to me. I'm serious. Is anyone getting really great 3d on Linux with an ATI products? I'm looking for faster than geforce3 ti500 speed. If you are, how? XFree DRI? Commercial ATI drivers? How good is the 3d support for ATI cards on Linux at the moment, and how stable are the drivers? If ATI is faster than nVidia stuff on Linux right now, I'd seriously consider switching camps. Thank In Advance!
Even though technically, I did sign up on their list way back when
Congrats. They can spam you at will because they have your permission to do so until the end of time unless you notify them otherwise which it doesn't seem you have done.
this might end up being catagorized as SPAM, and as such
In what alternate reality? You gave them permission. See point above.
Microsoft may end up with one hell of a penalty... I'm of the opinion, that they are simply trying to cover their asses, since it's rather easy to claim what they sent is spam from one of the "I hate Microsoft" zealots, and real difficult for Microsoft to provide hard evidence that says, "Here, you opted in to be on your mailing list back in 1998"... See the potential problem to be screwed over by ANTI-MICROSOFT activists?
Ok, I see you trying very hard here to say something negative about the honest hardworking people that generally just don't like the way Microsoft does business, but it just doesn't fly. You can't connect a pointless "whatif" that has no merit to "anti-microsoft zealots" without being a zealot yourself. Nice try though.
It's not a plot to give Microsoft control over bulk unsolicited email distribution, it's just some lawyers and accountants going... HOLY CRAP! We need damage control, and we need it NOW!:P
Actually, it does appear to be a shifty play to give microsoft control over bulk email distribution. At least, the state of washington seems to think it's a little fishy and it is kinda up to them so I'm more inclined to believe the state and lawmakers that made the bill over an increasingly greedy and untrustworthy corporation that has been declared a monopoly in the highest court in the land, and one of it's misguided fans. No disrespect intended.
Doppler weather radar works for wind speed and direction pretty much always because there is always enough reflective material in the air no matter how much water vapor is present. It works across a "volume coverage pattern" that is made up of many "cones" made through repeated 360 degree scans at varying angles. This is how you can nail with extreme accuracy what distance and height air is moving at what speed and direction. Granted, I'm basing this on real world experience as a certified Unit Control Position administrator on the WSR-88D NexRAD doppler weather radar for 3 years.:) I'm considering this radar as it's the one that is in place at most official reporting stations. The military loves the thing. You were close though.
The weather channel gets their data from hourly observations taken by weather observers. Every hour on the hour, everywhere around the world, weather observers all go outside at roughly the same time and measure temp, dewpoint, wind direction and speed, cloud coverage, ceiling, etc. and put it into an "observation" that is sent to one of the weather hubs. Then big computers generate surface charts. Other big computers run analysis on that data and spit out forcast models. Those models are then sent out to people that want them. There are usually really lame errors like weather fronts being truncated or way off. The "forecaster" then modifies these projected models and incorporates then into his forecast, then sents his forecast for his area back out to the big computers. The weather channel then pays to steal that forecast information from the big computer, and put it on their screen doing little to no actual work in the process. They also buy their pretty satellite images from someone like kavouris probably. Weather balloons, along with PIREPS or "Pilot Reports" fill in some of the blanks in the upper atmosphere and over the oceans, but I'd hazard to guess that doppler radar technology that allows you to know wind direction and speed at a great distance away and great altitude is slowly filling at least part of that.
It now seems appropriate to mention....
on
The Linux Uprising
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Microsoft is dieing. No trolling intended here.
Seriously. I mean, this is a story in business week predicting their demise basically. How can you stop a compeditor that doesn't have bills to pay, or debt? I mean, I was worried back in the day. I was sure they'd come up with some way of simply taking advantage of strong political ties to make Linux essentially illegal. That doesn't even matter anymore. Money is getting invested. Huge companies are in. I used to flat out laugh at the "world domination" types on here because it just sounded so silly. My argument was always, who cares about the rest of the world. How can they stop something free? It's turning out to be their achilles heel. Microsoft can't buy Linux out. Microsoft is moving too slowly to make something that can compete on cost. They've spent a fortune on trying to market their way out of this inevitable approaching death, and people just don't buy it anymore. I'm not saying that Microsoft will fade into the distance. That's just not realistic. But they will have to give up the childish name calling and get onboard at some point. The sooner they realize they need to give up the server market and embrace Linux as much as they can, the less money they'll bleed down the road. If they don't, they'll lose the server market within a short time, then they'll slowly lose the desktop market. It's all right there in that article. It's what I see. I can't be the only one. Imagine all the PHB's reading that going "wow, that geeky guy telling me about Linux years ago was right. We need Linux now". I don't even feel silly saying that. I would have a year ago. Scott McNeilly in a Penguin suit speaks volumes. It's only a matter of time now.
She follows me around and tells me to sit in a corner and that I'm a newbie. You have made the mistake of actually making sense in a reply to my pet troll and she may follow you around now!
ALL companys I've done business with that made small mistakes and fixed them at NO COST TO ME AT ALL. Mwave was even nice enough to mail me a prepaid shipping label when they accidentally shipped me the wrong memory, and cross-shipped the correct ram OVERNIGHT at no cost. There are businesses willing to go the extra mile to make sure they have an excellent reputation. Even with an economy this bad. Companys like OCsystem have NO EXCUSE for the way they treat their customers.
We are in complete agreement! I think a lot of people blunder forward without doing enough research. I truly enjoy trading a lot of time on research for an enormous outlay of cash. And I know exactly what you mean by "riceboys". They are like a plague here. There is an excellent rant about them at a
Slashdot Mirror
"Macromedia, Inc., the same people that brought you Flash, have done it again"
Actually, all macromedia did was BUY futuresplash
animator from FutureSplash Inc because it was a
very great, much easier to use compeditor to their
shockwave offering if you just wanted to do simple
good looking animation. I can remember being forced
to use the original product under protest, then
actually not minding having to use windows for a few
weeks because it was actually a fun to use product.
It took me about 3 weeks of playing with Gentoo to
realize that it completely obviates debian. Gentoo
has become my fallback OS until some of the stranger
hardware I have gets supported in FreeBSD better.
unless you don't count the Deparment Of Homeland
Security as big enough to put the USA on the list.
I have my thoroughbredB 1700+ running at exactly the :)
same speed and it only cost me 45 bucks. It DID
require a boost to 1.75 volts from the stock 1.5 and
a thermalright slk-800 + 120mm fan though
Dude, I am ten times beyond sorry. The only thing
it did in mozilla was play the flash. I'm modify it
so I can annoy republicans without making their
redhat boxes freeze. Once again, I'm very sorry.
I bought a line6 over a marshall about 3.2 seconds
after pluging into one. It's also nice not having
to redo your tube bias if you accidentally knock
the thing. It's great for touring. If you play
guitar, you have to try one of the line6 amps
out. Also, it's got really cool blinking lights.
The antagonist in this story is probably the one
that has it right. I point to this post:
Advice you would give your 12 year old Self
and I suggest that the sooner you cast off the idea
that you should be nice to everyone, have respect
for other people, and just try to get along, the
faster you'll wake up to the true nature of the
world. Then you'll be able to succeed, and go even
further because of your intelligence and general
geekishness. It's sad, but it appear to be true.
Time to add their mailserver to the spam filter.
Everybody else should probably do the same. If you
aren't mature enough to know when and who to email,
you don't deserve to send email to any of my
machines.
Oh, and it's becoming highly publisized. If they
truly are microsoft in disguise, wouldn't this
mearly be business as usual?
It all makes sense now! They need to make this new
wonder drug as expensive as possible to protect us.
I'm sure that's exactly what they were thinking too.
The though of making a huge ass profit didn't factor
in at all. What a bunch of nice guys.
You know full well I wasn't suggesting they just
GIVE them away. But for christ sakes, you have to
agree that the money is in treating the disease,
not curing it. They know that, we know that, and you
have to know that. The current business model
involves sucking every last dollar out of a new
wonder medicine and inflating the cost no matter
how many people die because they can't pony up
the sheckles.
About these pharmaceutical companies that are more
than willing to sell off their discoveries to the
highest bidder instead of doing what's right for
humanity. I mean, for christ sakes. How vampirical
is it to put profit about human lives? I think
Chris Rock said something to the effect that we
haven't cured a disease in 50 some odd years, but
we used to do it twice a week. It's really sad.
Because if nVidia stuff is still faster on linux,
this entire story doesn't mean much to me. I'm
serious. Is anyone getting really great 3d on
Linux with an ATI products? I'm looking for faster
than geforce3 ti500 speed. If you are, how? XFree
DRI? Commercial ATI drivers? How good is the 3d
support for ATI cards on Linux at the moment, and
how stable are the drivers? If ATI is faster than
nVidia stuff on Linux right now, I'd seriously
consider switching camps. Thank In Advance!
Even though technically, I did sign up on their list way back when
:P
Congrats. They can spam you at will because they
have your permission to do so until the end of
time unless you notify them otherwise which it
doesn't seem you have done.
this might end up being catagorized as SPAM, and as such
In what alternate reality? You gave them permission.
See point above.
Microsoft may end up with one hell of a penalty... I'm of the opinion, that they are simply trying to cover their asses, since it's rather easy to claim what they sent is spam from one of the "I hate Microsoft" zealots, and real difficult for Microsoft to provide hard evidence that says, "Here, you opted in to be on your mailing list back in 1998"... See the potential problem to be screwed over by ANTI-MICROSOFT activists?
Ok, I see you trying very hard here to say
something negative about the honest hardworking
people that generally just don't like the way
Microsoft does business, but it just doesn't fly.
You can't connect a pointless "whatif" that has
no merit to "anti-microsoft zealots" without being
a zealot yourself. Nice try though.
It's not a plot to give Microsoft control over bulk unsolicited email distribution, it's just some lawyers and accountants going... HOLY CRAP! We need damage control, and we need it NOW!
Actually, it does appear to be a shifty play to give
microsoft control over bulk email distribution.
At least, the state of washington seems to think
it's a little fishy and it is kinda up to them
so I'm more inclined to believe the state and
lawmakers that made the bill over an increasingly
greedy and untrustworthy corporation that has
been declared a monopoly in the highest court in
the land, and one of it's misguided fans. No
disrespect intended.
For a home device that shoots just enough microwaves
into commonly bought consumer good to fry the RFID
tag.
If a Govt has to keep something like this so secret,
it tends to indicate even they know they are doing
something wrong.
This isn't a troll. I don't see 50 comments after this. I don't even see how you could think this is a troll. Damn sensitive nascar rednecks.
would be why there don't seem to be many women or
ethnic drivers in NASCAR. That's just my opinion.
Actually, :)
:) I'm considering this radar as it's the
Doppler weather radar works for wind speed and
direction pretty much always because there is
always enough reflective material in the air no
matter how much water vapor is present. It works
across a "volume coverage pattern" that is made up
of many "cones" made through repeated 360 degree
scans at varying angles. This is how you can nail
with extreme accuracy what distance and height
air is moving at what speed and direction.
Granted, I'm basing this on real world experience
as a certified Unit Control Position administrator
on the WSR-88D NexRAD doppler weather radar for
3 years.
one that is in place at most official reporting
stations. The military loves the thing.
You were close though.
The weather channel gets their data from hourly
observations taken by weather observers. Every hour
on the hour, everywhere around the world, weather
observers all go outside at roughly the same time
and measure temp, dewpoint, wind direction and
speed, cloud coverage, ceiling, etc. and put it
into an "observation" that is sent to one of the
weather hubs. Then big computers generate surface
charts. Other big computers run analysis on that
data and spit out forcast models. Those models are
then sent out to people that want them. There are
usually really lame errors like weather fronts
being truncated or way off. The "forecaster" then
modifies these projected models and incorporates
then into his forecast, then sents his forecast
for his area back out to the big computers. The
weather channel then pays to steal that forecast
information from the big computer, and put it on
their screen doing little to no actual work in
the process. They also buy their pretty satellite
images from someone like kavouris probably.
Weather balloons, along with PIREPS or "Pilot
Reports" fill in some of the blanks in the upper
atmosphere and over the oceans, but I'd hazard
to guess that doppler radar technology that allows
you to know wind direction and speed at a great
distance away and great altitude is slowly filling
at least part of that.
Microsoft is dieing. No trolling intended here.
Seriously. I mean, this is a story in business week
predicting their demise basically. How can you stop
a compeditor that doesn't have bills to pay, or
debt? I mean, I was worried back in the day. I was
sure they'd come up with some way of simply taking
advantage of strong political ties to make Linux
essentially illegal. That doesn't even matter
anymore. Money is getting invested. Huge companies
are in. I used to flat out laugh at the
"world domination" types on here because it just
sounded so silly. My argument was always, who
cares about the rest of the world. How can they
stop something free? It's turning out to be their
achilles heel. Microsoft can't buy Linux out.
Microsoft is moving too slowly to make something
that can compete on cost. They've spent a fortune
on trying to market their way out of this
inevitable approaching death, and people just
don't buy it anymore. I'm not saying that
Microsoft will fade into the distance. That's just
not realistic. But they will have to give up the
childish name calling and get onboard at some
point. The sooner they realize they need to give
up the server market and embrace Linux as much
as they can, the less money they'll bleed down
the road. If they don't, they'll lose the server
market within a short time, then they'll slowly
lose the desktop market. It's all right there in
that article. It's what I see. I can't be the only
one. Imagine all the PHB's reading that going
"wow, that geeky guy telling me about Linux years
ago was right. We need Linux now". I don't even
feel silly saying that. I would have a year ago.
Scott McNeilly in a Penguin suit speaks volumes.
It's only a matter of time now.
She follows me around and tells me to sit in a
corner and that I'm a newbie. You have made the
mistake of actually making sense in a reply to my
pet troll and she may follow you around now!
I'll start dusting more places on the bench off
for the inevitable flood of layed off tech
workers.
but lets turn your retarded pointless post into
something worthwhile.
NewEgg.com's 9.77 out of 10
Sidewinder's 9.77 out of 10
Dealsonic's 9.69 out of 10
GoogleGear's 8.37 out of 10
Mwave's 8.42 out of 10
ALL companys I've done business with that made
small mistakes and fixed them at NO COST TO ME
AT ALL. Mwave was even nice enough to mail me
a prepaid shipping label when they accidentally
shipped me the wrong memory, and cross-shipped
the correct ram OVERNIGHT at no cost. There are
businesses willing to go the extra mile to make
sure they have an excellent reputation. Even with
an economy this bad. Companys like OCsystem have
NO EXCUSE for the way they treat their customers.
:)
We are in complete agreement!
I think a lot of people blunder forward without
doing enough research. I truly enjoy trading a
lot of time on research for an enormous outlay
of cash. And I know exactly what you mean by
"riceboys". They are like a plague here. There
is an excellent rant about them at a
friends's website.
There is a huge difference between someone going
for flashy and bragging rights, and someone
concerned with optimal performance/bang for the
buck.