I don't know if they're still doing it, but both my HP Athlon XP Mobile based laptop and my fiancé's HP laptop with a P4 have useless ethernet ports. Her's was completely dead within a year of purchase. Mine works on half of the networks I try, but it fails spectacularly when it comes to dealing with Westell routers and a handful of other types of equipment. Also, when connecting it to unflashed Linksys routers, I find myself needing to set it to 10baseT, half-duplex with a static IP to get anything to work.
Also, Broadcomm chipset wifi cards aren't very impressive either.
I've never had anywhere near this level of difficulty with any other brand of network card. Either steer well clear of anything with such a card or be prepared to buy a PCMCIA 8139 card, something common as mud that'll work everywhere.
Also, keep in mind that ATI drivers still kinda suck for Linux, compared with nVidia, if you're going to do anything glx intensive. If you're just doing 2d work, the Intel/SiS/Trident stuff might be better supported than ATI, but I'm not sure. Anyone else know? What's sold today that works reasonably well without binary drivers?
In areas where the human population is taking a beating because of the pests, use the best method we have available to kill them.
It is neither appropriate nor desirable to use extermination in lieu of proper quarantine procedures, when treating infectious diseases. In fact, the point of treating these diseases is to prevent death.
I work for a small cable company, and I'd get skinned alive by my customers if I aggressively lowered the QoS of google et al. That said, I don't understand what this whole debate is about. It's only the peer-to-peer and big-file-http traffic that causes any sort of spike in our traffic. If we were to charge Google for their traffic, it wouldn't amount to anything next to, say, iFilm/YouTube/planet(quake/halflife/etc) or local companies' ftpds and httpds that their employees connect to from home. Presumably the former couldn't pay for a reliable connection, and assuredly the latter would jump ship.
Anyone who actually implements anything other than net neutrality is shooting themselves in the foot.
I don't drink diet sodas because they all seem to taste like flat, expired Busch Lite that's been in the sun too long, with sugar free carmel or lemon-lime flavoring thrown in. They taste so repulsive to me that I cannot simply drink a case and let that magical "this isn't cow-piss" switch go off in my head, although I have tried.
As a result, I still drink real colas, but in moderation.
However, I did, when hiding in a magical ice-locked land in Norbotten, find a sugar free fruit juice concentrate that tasted good. Not passable, but good. It was called something stupid like Fun Juice or Party Juice or something like that, and was probably aimed at six year olds, but it made a wonderfully tasty beverage, and went great with every liquor but whiskey.
Any Swedes around that know the name of the stuff?
Out of the small May, 2005 class of ~20 computer science students at a small state university in the midwest, I know two that are still working part time in unrelated fields, looking for work related to their degree. The only people I knew that were working immediately after graduation were the ~50% that were working before they started the degree program and three students that grabbed the only three internships in the area.
There are tons of listings for sysadmin and programming jobs in Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, etc., but you almost never see any entry level positions. It took me six months to find something, and that was a fluke.
Are there any places (other than Cali) where recent graduates are quickly hired? I'm certainly not aware of any.
Could it be "H.R. 2391 Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2004 As reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on October 7, 2004"?
If it is, take a careful look at titles V and VI. Both look good on the surface.
Please, someone give us more information than the above. I flew off the handle and called my congressman halfway through RTFAing, got asked for a bill number, and couldn't find anything that supported the article. Any ideas on what to tell 'em to look out for? Where is this bill, what if anything has changed since the senate version, etc? Please, give me more stuff before I call my work-area congressman.
PS: People, call your local offices and email your congressmen/congresswomen when someone gives us some usable information. Call the local office, and you'll be the only one talking to his local staff about this issue, and they're probably more likely to pass things up the chain than the DC staff.
(Note: IANA congressional staffer, just someone that trusts local folk more than DC interns and lawyers.)
Could it be "H.R. 2391 Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2004 As reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on October 7, 2004"? If it is, take a careful look at titles V and VI. Both look good on the surface.
I flew off the handle and called my congressman halfway through RTFAing, got asked for a bill number, and couldn't find anything that supported the article. Any ideas on what to tell 'em to look out for?
PS: People, call your local offices and email your congressmen/congresswomen when someone gives us some usable information. Call the local office, and you'll be the only one talking to his local staff about this issue, and they're probably more likely to pass things up the chain than the DC staff.
(Note: IANA congressional staffer, just someone that trusts local folk more than DC interns and lawyers.)
Any claim to the first link's S.African detractor/environmentalist that pebble beds create more nuclear waste per killowatt generated? Can the spent fuel of a pebble bed reactor recycled?
The wiki doesn't seem to answer either question (yet).
If you get far enough north, you'll find Swedes that still say "yaho" as an interjection. Only problem is that you can't sail with parrots in Norbotten. Polly want a thermal blanket.
While I love and frequently use JustReader on my Zaurus, I'd still say a PDA isn't ideal for some types of books. Comics, technical manuals with lots of drawings, etc. still benefit from a larger screen or from old fashioned paper.
However, I'd take it over paper anyday for your everyday novel or novella. On that same note, everyone with access to a decent eBook reader should grab LocalRoger's Passages stories. They really are astoundingly well writen, given the medium (k5).
Wonder what they'll do with the smaller companies they're lined up to acquire. Business Week says they'll be snapping up Zend (PHP), JBoss, and something called "Sleepycat".
Three Days Before the Fissure Formed: Ghost of Haile Selassie: Oh Lord, restore my home. Allow them access to the sea, that they might flourish again. God: Sure thing, mac.
Three Days After: God: Happy yet? Ghost: I meant give us back Eritrea! God: That'll teach you to pray
You're saying iTunes is easier to use than other media library manager type things, but I'm saying that the whole concept is icky compared to mass-storage devices being able to handle whatever you dump on them without proprietary software.
The only major question in my post was this: Will the iPods play what you dump on them with bash, Finder, or explorer, or are they dependant on the iTunes-generated playlists?
Furthermore, as I said before, I have used recent builds of iTunes, and have still not been impressed. It'd be nice to be able to connect an mp3 player to a computer that can't handle iTunes well, i.e. the old Lombard G3 I'm typing this on.
On the topic of CD players, the mp3-decoding variety are very, very useful. I can't hardly live without my mp3-decoding boombox when I'm in the country or my MP3 aware dash unit. They suck for portable uses, though.
They have sold un-encumbered mp3s through an audio book reseller for years. They just don't have free podcasts, and may not have RSS feeds set up (but probably do).
I went the route of a 1gb flash card for my Zaurus after fiddling with a friend's 2nd gen iPod and iTunes for about an hour. Getting music onto the iPod was a hellish nightmare compared to most mp3 players and PDAs.
Are things much better? I'm not asking if iTunes has improved, as I've used it more recently and still not been impressed. I'm asking if there's sane ways to just dump mp3s and AAC files onto the Nano and other recent iPods and make them play with minimal pain-in-the-assedness.
If not, I'd go with the Wal-Mart Special. A proper, intelligently designed mass-storage device/mp3 player should Just Work.
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I don't know if they're still doing it, but both my HP Athlon XP Mobile based laptop and my fiancé's HP laptop with a P4 have useless ethernet ports. Her's was completely dead within a year of purchase. Mine works on half of the networks I try, but it fails spectacularly when it comes to dealing with Westell routers and a handful of other types of equipment. Also, when connecting it to unflashed Linksys routers, I find myself needing to set it to 10baseT, half-duplex with a static IP to get anything to work.
Also, Broadcomm chipset wifi cards aren't very impressive either.
I've never had anywhere near this level of difficulty with any other brand of network card. Either steer well clear of anything with such a card or be prepared to buy a PCMCIA 8139 card, something common as mud that'll work everywhere.
Also, keep in mind that ATI drivers still kinda suck for Linux, compared with nVidia, if you're going to do anything glx intensive. If you're just doing 2d work, the Intel/SiS/Trident stuff might be better supported than ATI, but I'm not sure. Anyone else know? What's sold today that works reasonably well without binary drivers?
In areas where the human population is taking a beating because of the pests, use the best method we have available to kill them.
It is neither appropriate nor desirable to use extermination in lieu of proper quarantine procedures, when treating infectious diseases. In fact, the point of treating these diseases is to prevent death.
It really doesn't matter very much.
How many calls really go QwestQwest? The NSA can probably get 30-60% of all calls made by/to Qwest subscribers from the other telecoms.
http://www.northerner.com/html/mat-sf-funlight-gul a.html
Fun Light!
Found it. Swedes, go back to walking with sticks.
I work for a small cable company, and I'd get skinned alive by my customers if I aggressively lowered the QoS of google et al. That said, I don't understand what this whole debate is about. It's only the peer-to-peer and big-file-http traffic that causes any sort of spike in our traffic. If we were to charge Google for their traffic, it wouldn't amount to anything next to, say, iFilm/YouTube/planet(quake/halflife/etc) or local companies' ftpds and httpds that their employees connect to from home. Presumably the former couldn't pay for a reliable connection, and assuredly the latter would jump ship.
Anyone who actually implements anything other than net neutrality is shooting themselves in the foot.
I don't drink diet sodas because they all seem to taste like flat, expired Busch Lite that's been in the sun too long, with sugar free carmel or lemon-lime flavoring thrown in. They taste so repulsive to me that I cannot simply drink a case and let that magical "this isn't cow-piss" switch go off in my head, although I have tried.
As a result, I still drink real colas, but in moderation.
However, I did, when hiding in a magical ice-locked land in Norbotten, find a sugar free fruit juice concentrate that tasted good. Not passable, but good. It was called something stupid like Fun Juice or Party Juice or something like that, and was probably aimed at six year olds, but it made a wonderfully tasty beverage, and went great with every liquor but whiskey.
Any Swedes around that know the name of the stuff?
I think he's saying he likes to shoot Gentoo users.
And it's for kids!
Genius alert: Nintendo sells children, TINY FRICKIN' CHILDREN, a slot loading console. How long till the recall & "Wii SE"?
Out of the small May, 2005 class of ~20 computer science students at a small state university in the midwest, I know two that are still working part time in unrelated fields, looking for work related to their degree. The only people I knew that were working immediately after graduation were the ~50% that were working before they started the degree program and three students that grabbed the only three internships in the area.
There are tons of listings for sysadmin and programming jobs in Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, etc., but you almost never see any entry level positions. It took me six months to find something, and that was a fluke.
Are there any places (other than Cali) where recent graduates are quickly hired? I'm certainly not aware of any.
http://www.techlawjournal.com/cong108/ippa/2004100 7notes.asp [techlawjournal.com]e =0 [cbo.gov]
http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=5989&sequenc
Could it be "H.R. 2391
Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2004
As reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on October 7, 2004"?
If it is, take a careful look at titles V and VI. Both look good on the surface.
Please, someone give us more information than the above. I flew off the handle and called my congressman halfway through RTFAing, got asked for a bill number, and couldn't find anything that supported the article. Any ideas on what to tell 'em to look out for? Where is this bill, what if anything has changed since the senate version, etc? Please, give me more stuff before I call my work-area congressman.
PS: People, call your local offices and email your congressmen/congresswomen when someone gives us some usable information. Call the local office, and you'll be the only one talking to his local staff about this issue, and they're probably more likely to pass things up the chain than the DC staff.
(Note: IANA congressional staffer, just someone that trusts local folk more than DC interns and lawyers.)
(grr... responded to the wrong thread)
http://www.techlawjournal.com/cong108/ippa/2004100 7notes.aspe =0
http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=5989&sequenc
Could it be "H.R. 2391
Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2004
As reported by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on October 7, 2004"? If it is, take a careful look at titles V and VI. Both look good on the surface.
I flew off the handle and called my congressman halfway through RTFAing, got asked for a bill number, and couldn't find anything that supported the article. Any ideas on what to tell 'em to look out for?
PS: People, call your local offices and email your congressmen/congresswomen when someone gives us some usable information. Call the local office, and you'll be the only one talking to his local staff about this issue, and they're probably more likely to pass things up the chain than the DC staff.
(Note: IANA congressional staffer, just someone that trusts local folk more than DC interns and lawyers.)
"Any claim to" = "Any truth to the claim of"
Any truth to the claim of the first link's S.African detractor/environmentalist that pebble beds create more nuclear waste per killowatt generated?
Grr... where's an edit button when you need it.
As a side note, NPR had an interesting piece on pebble bed reactors just this morning.y Id=5345501
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor
Older piece from '04, on Living on Earth:
http://www.loe.org/shows/shows.htm?programID=06-P
Any claim to the first link's S.African detractor/environmentalist that pebble beds create more nuclear waste per killowatt generated? Can the spent fuel of a pebble bed reactor recycled?
The wiki doesn't seem to answer either question (yet).
http://lakdiva.org/clarke/1945ww/
Case in point. Look at all the wasted space on the above link.
*scoff*
If you get far enough north, you'll find Swedes that still say "yaho" as an interjection. Only problem is that you can't sail with parrots in Norbotten. Polly want a thermal blanket.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does
Done.
While I love and frequently use JustReader on my Zaurus, I'd still say a PDA isn't ideal for some types of books. Comics, technical manuals with lots of drawings, etc. still benefit from a larger screen or from old fashioned paper.
However, I'd take it over paper anyday for your everyday novel or novella. On that same note, everyone with access to a decent eBook reader should grab LocalRoger's Passages stories. They really are astoundingly well writen, given the medium (k5).
His latest story, with links to his earlier ones.
Wonder what they'll do with the smaller companies they're lined up to acquire. Business Week says they'll be snapping up Zend (PHP), JBoss, and something called "Sleepycat".
b 2006/tc20060209_810527.htm
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/fe
Three Days Before the Fissure Formed:
Ghost of Haile Selassie: Oh Lord, restore my home. Allow them access to the sea, that they might flourish again.
God: Sure thing, mac.
Three Days After:
God: Happy yet?
Ghost: I meant give us back Eritrea!
God: That'll teach you to pray
The filesystem itself gives a decent index, but most mp3 players I've seen do scan through the whole fs at boot or while accepting files.
Of course, on my zaurus, I just use "madplay" or "mpg123" just like I would on my desktop, or an opie-based player if I'm in the mood.
Bah. Easy to use.
You're saying iTunes is easier to use than other media library manager type things, but I'm saying that the whole concept is icky compared to mass-storage devices being able to handle whatever you dump on them without proprietary software.
The only major question in my post was this:
Will the iPods play what you dump on them with bash, Finder, or explorer, or are they dependant on the iTunes-generated playlists?
Furthermore, as I said before, I have used recent builds of iTunes, and have still not been impressed. It'd be nice to be able to connect an mp3 player to a computer that can't handle iTunes well, i.e. the old Lombard G3 I'm typing this on.
On the topic of CD players, the mp3-decoding variety are very, very useful. I can't hardly live without my mp3-decoding boombox when I'm in the country or my MP3 aware dash unit. They suck for portable uses, though.
PS: "You're" English-speaker card is revoked.
Should be and was, but, well, have you ever seen Multiplicity? The name was rare in '96-98, but this simpler title works a little better nowadays.
A nice, simple, DRM-averse ape is I.
That's not one hundred percent true.
They have sold un-encumbered mp3s through an audio book reseller for years. They just don't have free podcasts, and may not have RSS feeds set up (but probably do).
Are things much better? I'm not asking if iTunes has improved, as I've used it more recently and still not been impressed. I'm asking if there's sane ways to just dump mp3s and AAC files onto the Nano and other recent iPods and make them play with minimal pain-in-the-assedness.
If not, I'd go with the Wal-Mart Special. A proper, intelligently designed mass-storage device/mp3 player should Just Work.