I'm just tired of laptops right now... The University I'm going to attend (www.nmu.edu) will require me to lease (yes, that's lease) a Thinkpad from them for only $380 per semister. Or just $760 per year, and just $3040 for four years! Then I give it back!! If I want to keep it--that's another $1600!!! We're up to $4640 now just for a Thinkpad 1412i...
I can't turn it down, can't use my own, can't say I'd never use it. I can't even get rid of Windows!! What will I do?!
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? What have you done? Are there any ways out of this?
(I like to argue about mild tangents and this is no different.)
Why are there car chases in the first place? No one runs... if they're NOT CHASED!! Get the license plate, keep some eyes on the car (but stay back), and fallow it to a stop. Wait, and arrest the person.
Don't do this: see crime. see guy in car. must get. chase. he ran. go faster. he went faster. i go faster. ouch. people dead.
I see car chases often where I live, and I can say with assurance that the police have *caused* at least 80% of them!!
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I'd just to ask you (an atheist), what exactly do you believe?
The textbook definition of an atheist is someone who believes that it can be *proven* that God doesn't exist. Is this what you believe?
Agnostics on the other hand believe that it's impossible to prove anything either way, and that you just have to believe one thing or another.
Sceptics believe that nothing can be proven to 100% certainty, but with matters of God it's close enough.
I've read a modest assortment of sci-fi and the same things keep popping up in most (of the bad) books.
1. Exploring humanity and concluding that "Because we have emotions, that makes us better than aliens and androids."
2. Assuming that emotions are a requirement of sentience and/or an advantage--not just rules-of-thumb with a purely logical core created for beings lacking the mental power to analyze every situation in real-time.
3. Exploring religion and/or God and getting Christianity wrong.
4. Creating singular alien cultures (planet-wide language, religion, clothing, etc.) or aliens that are an exaggeration of a "human" quality such as greed or selfishness.
5. Assuming that most every sentient alien you'll ever see looks 98% human (Two arms, legs, and eyes... One head, speaks at our frequencies, 6'1", and differs only in a bump on the forehead or pointed ears).
6. Using impossible or completely implausible technologies.
7. Every story has to be about something going horribly wrong.
I've got a single PII350 that works beautifully with just a software cooler (& an open case & my room temp being 40 degrees), but I don't think this is much help for dual 500's. I plan on stuffing dual 600's in mine and I need a cooling solution. I'd like to see what people come up with.
First of all, it should be made very clear that the peacefull (and yes, there were many) protesters and the anachists should be held seperate. Second, the protesteres (not anarchists, remember) didn't cause most of this rioting. The police were seen taking people out of coffee shops after kerfew simply because they dind't have anyone to arrest. During the riot, a nurse was trying to help a man but was beaten by the police. She kept screaming that she wasn't protesting--that she was just a nurse helping an inujured man, but they beat her because she was there.
This appears in other classes as well. I remember my math teacher telling me that sqr(-1) is impossible-not just another number system, but impossible....And then of course my Computers teacher says that you can't have files on a hard drive for more than three days because they'll evaporate, but that's another story.
I'd like to take this opportunity to complain about my cable provider.
My friends and I have cable modems from Bresnanink. I've had the fastest connection (in linux) with a one time speed of 160k/s. All six of us average 35k/s. And this is for downloads; small things like web pages are barely faster than my dialup connection.
These speeds are terrable. It doesn't make much difference what the setup is (options, os, card, etc.). It's not my hardware either (dual PII 600, 128MB RAM).
A phone call to Bresnanlink showed just how bad it is--we have some of the *faster* connections! And this is what *everyone* is getting!
"But when Microsoft figures out that this whole case was caused because they forgot to grease some palms along the way, everyone gets upset. Politics works both ways. This whole charade was made because someone wasn't happy that MS had all that money and they weren't giving any of it to "compaign contribution" or lobbying as they like to call it."
Polititions know not to expect money from the silicon valley. They do get some, and they appreciate it, but there is no relable contributer there. They don't expect money from these companies-any of them.
That's right. There's no law against simply having a monopoly, but using monopoly power to break into other markets or harm customers is a crime and punishment should be carried out.
I'm a firm believer in evolutionary biology as a way of explaining (and predicting) peoples behaviors (especially sexual). Experimenting with a few of the theories, I've gone from creepy nobody freshman, to the senoir hugbunny for the freshman girls. It's really kind of amazing.
I'd just like to say that a lot of the advice this writer gave to girls applies to us guys too. (The only difference being that insecure men don't attract geeky girls-they don't attract any.)
After a lengthey philosophical debate with myslef, I concluded that procreation the highest purpose of our existance, and that success is simply a goal programmed into us to increase those chances. I changed my goal from just learning all computer knowledge to becoming attractive.
I used to go through weeks of school without saying a word; now I talk in every period to people. I used to simply leave girls be; now I talk to them, hug them, and and jake with them. I decided to get A's and lose the gut (as firm as it was).
It worked, they were attracted to fit, successfull, confident people.
That's absolutely right. Programming feats attributed to Gates are fake. And he didn't build the billion dollar empire from nothing. (Started with a few million (from his parents), went broke, got millions more from his parents and got wealthy.)
Now to defend Gates, I don't think he's very involved in the software development. We can't blame every bug and every glitch on him. We may be able to blame much of the business practices on him, but he doesn't develop the software - don't blame him!
-- start rant --
Now, where did this whole "MS could be replaced tomorrow" idea come from. Is there anything more convenient for a monopoly to say than "Well, we may just up and dissappear in a minute, so don't worry about us having godly power right now." I argue that it's almost impossible to kill off MS. People just buy MS, companies ship MS, and if say (for the sake of argument) no one baught MS products for 5 years, they have enough money to remain operating like nothing happend the whole time! They aren't going away just because some guy in his garage gets an idea. His idea is just another way for MS to make money...
-- more rants --
I think Gates, and his top managers, don't really know what their software is like. I imagine Gates running Windows on a 800Mhz PIII Xeon and wondering why people say it crashes when under stress. I mean, he word processes and reads mail...
As for Windows 2K, why does the operating system require a 300Mhz processor and 64MB (minimum) RAM? Imagine telling someone in the 80's that they won't be able to turn their computer on and word process without a 300Mhz chip and 128MB of RAM.
Gates may think this is okay. His computer can always meet these requirements, but mine can't. The operating system shouldn't require more than a 386! Leave some cycles for the appz!!!
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I'm just tired of laptops right now... The University I'm going to attend (www.nmu.edu) will require me to lease (yes, that's lease) a Thinkpad from them for only $380 per semister. Or just $760 per year, and just $3040 for four years! Then I give it back!! If I want to keep it--that's another $1600!!! We're up to $4640 now just for a Thinkpad 1412i...
I can't turn it down, can't use my own, can't say I'd never use it. I can't even get rid of Windows!! What will I do?!
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? What have you done? Are there any ways out of this?
There are two God particles, Chicken & Soy.
Yeah.... I was just trying to say that Carmack is known for optimizing past hell and that's what we want done to the stack, nothing more.
Well, if anyone can "squeeze the latency out of both of these components" it would be Carmack. We still do need a multitasking IP stack, right?
Denial of service attacks are a violent and criminal abuse which put their perpetrators in the same league with people who bomb abortion clinics.
You've got to be kidding! Don't you think it's more like locking a store door. "Nope. You can't buy anything here! Uh-oh here come the police!"
Bombing abortion clinics? You've got to be kidding...
Incredible! I thought we looked like a bunch of guys shooting each other!
(I like to argue about mild tangents and this is no different.)
Why are there car chases in the first place? No one runs... if they're NOT CHASED!! Get the license plate, keep some eyes on the car (but stay back), and fallow it to a stop. Wait, and arrest the person.
Don't do this: see crime. see guy in car. must get. chase. he ran. go faster. he went faster. i go faster. ouch. people dead.
I see car chases often where I live, and I can say with assurance that the police have *caused* at least 80% of them!!
I'd just to ask you (an atheist), what exactly do you believe?
The textbook definition of an atheist is someone who believes that it can be *proven* that God doesn't exist. Is this what you believe?
Agnostics on the other hand believe that it's impossible to prove anything either way, and that you just have to believe one thing or another.
Sceptics believe that nothing can be proven to 100% certainty, but with matters of God it's close enough.
So, what are you? Still an atheist?
I've read a modest assortment of sci-fi and the same things keep popping up in most (of the bad) books.
1. Exploring humanity and concluding that "Because we have emotions, that makes us better than aliens and androids."
2. Assuming that emotions are a requirement of sentience and/or an advantage--not just rules-of-thumb with a purely logical core created for beings lacking the mental power to analyze every situation in real-time.
3. Exploring religion and/or God and getting Christianity wrong.
4. Creating singular alien cultures (planet-wide language, religion, clothing, etc.) or aliens that are an exaggeration of a "human" quality such as greed or selfishness.
5. Assuming that most every sentient alien you'll ever see looks 98% human (Two arms, legs, and eyes... One head, speaks at our frequencies, 6'1", and differs only in a bump on the forehead or pointed ears).
6. Using impossible or completely implausible technologies.
7. Every story has to be about something going horribly wrong.
I guess all of philosophy sucks too.
If only software coolers worked in SMP boxes...
I've got a single PII350 that works beautifully with just a software cooler (& an open case & my room temp being 40 degrees), but I don't think this is much help for dual 500's. I plan on stuffing dual 600's in mine and I need a cooling solution. I'd like to see what people come up with.
It does if that sofware is controlling something dangerous or important--like medical equipment, trafic lights, and nuculear bombs etc...
I think it's because as a small fast OS, they'd like it to be used in small embedded systems.
"Of course, most people would probably rather exercise than have 12-gauge needles stuck in numerous sites in their arms and legs."
I disagree. I'd easily go for the needle--it's much less painfull than exercise and a lot more productive.
Sometimes the police just get a little fight-happy. At least they don't use confiscated drugs and go home to beat their wives like where I'm from.
First of all, it should be made very clear that the peacefull (and yes, there were many) protesters and the anachists should be held seperate. Second, the protesteres (not anarchists, remember) didn't cause most of this rioting. The police were seen taking people out of coffee shops after kerfew simply because they dind't have anyone to arrest. During the riot, a nurse was trying to help a man but was beaten by the police. She kept screaming that she wasn't protesting--that she was just a nurse helping an inujured man, but they beat her because she was there.
This appears in other classes as well. I remember my math teacher telling me that sqr(-1) is impossible-not just another number system, but impossible. ...And then of course my Computers teacher says that you can't have files on a hard drive for more than three days because they'll evaporate, but that's another story.
I'd like to take this opportunity to complain about my cable provider.
My friends and I have cable modems from Bresnanink. I've had the fastest connection (in linux) with a one time speed of 160k/s. All six of us average 35k/s. And this is for downloads; small things like web pages are barely faster than my dialup connection.
These speeds are terrable. It doesn't make much difference what the setup is (options, os, card, etc.). It's not my hardware either (dual PII 600, 128MB RAM).
A phone call to Bresnanlink showed just how bad it is--we have some of the *faster* connections! And this is what *everyone* is getting!
"But when Microsoft figures out that this whole case was caused because they forgot to grease some palms along the way, everyone gets upset. Politics works both ways. This whole charade was made because someone wasn't happy that MS had all that money and they weren't giving any of it to "compaign contribution" or lobbying as they like to call it."
Polititions know not to expect money from the silicon valley. They do get some, and they appreciate it, but there is no relable contributer there. They don't expect money from these companies-any of them.
S133739 would be sleeper, etc.
That's right. There's no law against simply having a monopoly, but using monopoly power to break into other markets or harm customers is a crime and punishment should be carried out.
I'm a firm believer in evolutionary biology as a way of explaining (and predicting) peoples behaviors (especially sexual). Experimenting with a few of the theories, I've gone from creepy nobody freshman, to the senoir hugbunny for the freshman girls. It's really kind of amazing.
I'd just like to say that a lot of the advice this writer gave to girls applies to us guys too. (The only difference being that insecure men don't attract geeky girls-they don't attract any.)
After a lengthey philosophical debate with myslef, I concluded that procreation the highest purpose of our existance, and that success is simply a goal programmed into us to increase those chances. I changed my goal from just learning all computer knowledge to becoming attractive.
I used to go through weeks of school without saying a word; now I talk in every period to people. I used to simply leave girls be; now I talk to them, hug them, and and jake with them. I decided to get A's and lose the gut (as firm as it was).
It worked, they were attracted to fit, successfull, confident people.
That's absolutely right. Programming feats attributed to Gates are fake. And he didn't build the billion dollar empire from nothing. (Started with a few million (from his parents), went broke, got millions more from his parents and got wealthy.)
Sorry, the stats I had were from ZdTV. (Why did I trust them..?)
Now to defend Gates, I don't think he's very involved in the software development. We can't blame every bug and every glitch on him. We may be able to blame much of the business practices on him, but he doesn't develop the software - don't blame him!
-- start rant --
Now, where did this whole "MS could be replaced tomorrow" idea come from. Is there anything more convenient for a monopoly to say than "Well, we may just up and dissappear in a minute, so don't worry about us having godly power right now." I argue that it's almost impossible to kill off MS. People just buy MS, companies ship MS, and if say (for the sake of argument) no one baught MS products for 5 years, they have enough money to remain operating like nothing happend the whole time! They aren't going away just because some guy in his garage gets an idea. His idea is just another way for MS to make money...
-- more rants --
I think Gates, and his top managers, don't really know what their software is like. I imagine Gates running Windows on a 800Mhz PIII Xeon and wondering why people say it crashes when under stress. I mean, he word processes and reads mail...
As for Windows 2K, why does the operating system require a 300Mhz processor and 64MB (minimum) RAM? Imagine telling someone in the 80's that they won't be able to turn their computer on and word process without a 300Mhz chip and 128MB of RAM.
Gates may think this is okay. His computer can always meet these requirements, but mine can't. The operating system shouldn't require more than a 386! Leave some cycles for the appz!!!