I will agree with you on the mac debat, but do poor 3D artist by the latest and greatest hardware? I'm thinking the $300 Sgi Indy or $500 onyx workstations you can get on ebay. As far as software goes they already have it, you don't upgrade to main stream pro whatever just because its possiable. Unknown software companies pump out great 3D software. Go to the local compusa and see what they stock in the graphics isle. IANA3DA but my two roomates work at ILM across the street, poor as dirt too.
Unless you're forgetting about Outlook being the bringer of death to millions of people, and word macros rooting you're clients machine, sure I'll think you're not a complete doofus for thinking like a PHB. The reason Linux is still an alternative for the desktop? Administration and Training. If MS had not been a monopoly, the ratio of a professional linux support staff to MCSE's would be on the level.
Office for Linux, Yeah I think its called open office. Look at what microsoft did to java, now imagine the incompatiblites and compromises the MS install would be to the kernal. I like the shipping java with XP deal though, however WTF is a special master? Sounds like the DOJ likes playing S&M with MS XP.
Its offtopic but, I remeber an easter egg in SimCity 2k where you could flood a populated area using the water tool and not effect the population. IIRC, I submerged 200K once when I was bored.
Great, now Bill Gates can say open source movement can kill.
When somebody gets hit when the driver's attention is distracted by the radio, phone, or tv it is an accident that was 100% avoidable in the eyes of the law. Just having this rig in your car makes you liable for any accident your in, and any would be theif walking pass your ride. If this is for passenger use Only(?) it fine, just like the game systems/TVs in minivans. Adding anything to the dashboard that distracts the driver is extremly dangerous period. Voice activitation and HUD won't solve the problem either, its still distracts.
IMHO when automated driving systems become standard (which they will) then I'll have no problem with the driver of the SUV fragging the scrpit kiddie in the minivan.
This is offtopic, I can't give you the details about the IRS mess, but the main reason was the act of transferring ownership of these software licences could not be classified as a vaild charitable donation. Our IT department has over 15,000 licences for MS products for our six offices, I was asked to help our adobted grade school with donated computer equipment and also consult them on some grant money they had recieved. Since we recently had alot of uninstalled MS software we had bought and no longer needed I transferred ownership of 55 Office 98 suites for the Macs they had, and 230 copies of Office 2K, and 230 copied of Win98 for the donated PC's.
Take Dell and Compaq, the kings of bundled software crap, either one of two things will happen: all software will be installed with no CD for backup or it will become like the distros of the OS, where the installer can only be used on "your computer".
I got in trouble for donating 500 licences of MS Office 98, and MS windows that had been bundled with our machines when we changed to all open source. Apparently the IRS does not consider donation of microsoft software as a charitable contributuion of any value.
In the non-bundled reatil world, hasn't this been happening a EB and Software etc. for ages? I would beat a game, trade it for a little cash or a credit at the store. I guess when you do this online there is no way to know weather the software is on the original media or not.
They should rent out wireless digital cameras, whenever a pic is taken its upload via 802.11 and before they leave the park, the got prints of the family vacation.
Also a previous article said it would be used to play music around the park based on location. IMHO, kinda of a waste for just CC's.
The settlement offer was donating 1.1 billion in software and hardware to the "poorest" public schools. 900 million in software alone, which after 5 years the schools would have to renew the licence! On the otherhand, Redhat has offered to distribute and support all software needed if microsoft only provides the hardware instead. With the 5th largest economy in the world Cailforina has the ability hold out against MS until a cash settlement is provided.
The "exhaust" would be water and heat. The heat can dissipate on its own if there is a enough surface area, and the water would be only in trace amounts.
The small amount of hydrogen (per device) to manufactured would have less environmental impact than the alloy and chemical production for lithium battiers. Would be lighter too, no more 10lb. dual battery dell laptops to lug around, hopefully.
The new structure is being called the Intel TeraHertz transistor because the transistors will be able to switch on and off more than one trillion times per second. In comparison, it would take a person more than 15,000 years to turn a light switch on and off a trillion times.
Wow, this is great benchmark for the same article that describes gate leakage and CMOS modifications. It sounds like some marketing genius went to the Intel R&D department and got the simple speech and just copied the rest from a quarterly report. I remember when Clinton introduced the DOE new super computer with the line, "It would take a person 10,00 years with a calculator to...that this machine can do in a second". It kinda makes the line between a research scientist and a research spokesperson really obvious. And you thought tweaking drivers for quake 3 was silly.
You could use the "paper" batteries with some electro-floruscent ink, and combine with your traditional dead tree media (newspaper, mag, and textbook) and you would have some cool new ads for computer junk and illumnated text to boot. Also would be cool for maps, starcharts, and lan-party flyers.
"I should point out that some powers in the world are on the way to militarizing outer space, not peacefully exploring outer resources," Huang Huikang, an official from China's foreign ministry, told the China Daily.
"Another arms race in outer space has begun since 1998 and we should be watchful," Huang said.
I would like a few more facts and less fundumentalist tone to be interested in this. A satallite program for China makes perfect sense for communications and survey for the billion(s) of people. I sure the US will be paying attention to the launch activites of our future olympic hopefuls, but an arms race in outer space is not econmically nor politiclly fesiable to begin with. Talk is cheap and that is all this is, political grandstanding: US bad--China good.
"The Proples' rocket is going to lay the smack down on the evil american capitalist pigs!"
Please don't take this article as being newsworthy.
I played the MP demo/beta version, and I must say that gamers can look forward to becoming isolated, unshaven caffine junkies (if not already). The game is true to the orignal in the most important area--replay value. Entertainment doesn't have to be ground-breaking to be great, just immersive IMHO. Just hope santa brings me better moniter before I go blind.
I just returned from the Serria Mnts. on the CA side near Truckee, I must of seen a couple of hundred really bright flashes, and about 5 red fireballs. I also noticed that I was not alone even though I was well off the beaten path. 20 or 30 observes stopped and watched from 1230am to 330am. So now I am back at work (in SF) with no sleep and a full plate of Java programming to do. I hope many of you tore yourself away from your new xbox long enough to venture a look see. Check my URL in a few days and I will post the images I got with my night vision equipment.
The reason a lot of people cram into warehouses thousands at a time is dance, listen, but also because the DJ too. Hmmm DJ "heartbeat" or Paul Okenfold. Also what the DJ mixes charges is damn near an art form, the really good ones can deliever quite an experience. We have seen purly computer generated/AI "art" before, imagine having to listen to it at 300Db. Plus I don't think a wireless HB moniter is going to match my leopard pattern leather pants and sparkly vest.
I didn't exactly fall for that Fox News garbage either, I read the article from jun 2000 about using screen printers to as a way to manufacture OLED's. The previous OLED article on slashdot was pretty good too.
Not trusting the headline whores at fox news, I did a little searching on google and found this article published in June of 2000. It has a better review of the actually technology from a pure science point of view, rather than the "marketing press release as if it were a product" garbage that was posted.
I live near Sonoma County and heard about the community networks, problem is that using a anything other than a regular computer with a wireless 802.11b device can't get access. I had my Ipaq with linux installed, and with a good signal. Maybe it just needs tweaking.
Yes I have a 8K series and a 7500 inspiron. That article is a little off though. The 7500 was the first dell laptop w/speedstep, but it would throttle down only if it was running off batteries when it booted. The 8K series changed speeds in realtime(?) I ended up patching both and disabling speedstep. But dell is much better than gateway's attempt with the 750 Mhz solo. Not only did it fry PC cards, and occassionlly make a burn mark on my desk. It would power up and down the so much, it crapped out the little HD after 3 months, burned up the internal modem and then the onboard video card went. That notebook (9300) went through 3 HD, 2 MB and about a gig of notebook RAM. Talk about a lemon.
"At the end of the day, we need to get a Compaq, Dell or HP," he said. "IBM is going to be tough."
On the consumer desktops and notebooks it will be hard for AMD to displace Intel. The "Oh it must be faster it says so" mantra will always be a key selling point in the retail world. The server side will be interesting with promise of less heat, smaller size and 64-bit application support, Intel chips will have more competition in the rack systems market. IMHO I would love to see dell ditch intel for all its notebooks and use the new AMD chips. The batteries have to discarge so fast it fries my PC cards with the heat.
When one Commerce employee detected investigators trying to hack the agency's computers during their testing, he launched an illegal, electronic counterattack against the GAO.
This makes it apparent that the IT department is extremly mismanged. Standards and procedures for dealing with hacker attacks, critical loss, and computer abuse are the core requirements of ant IT support. I'm guessing that alot of gov't computers have access to the internet that do not require access for its job function. Every terminal thats connected is a security risk that must be addressed. Probably setup by very underpaid gov't worker that was "trained" in a day.
When he jumped from that high he actually became the first man to break the sound barrier without an aircraft. Though the 18 1/2 mile sky dive record has been broken by a flying squirrel getup. Unless these guys plan on jumping out, who cares? Could be a cool spycraft though.
Until IBM fix the CCA software to prevent our attack, banks are vulnerable to a dishonest branch manager whose teenager has $995 and a few hours to spend in duplicating our work.
I like the tech about hacking the processor, very clever. The rest is better read as bad fiction. Chalk this one up under the anarchist cookbook. Sure you may be able too, but you'll get thrown into jail or blow off a limb.
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I will agree with you on the mac debat, but do poor 3D artist by the latest and greatest hardware? I'm thinking the $300 Sgi Indy or $500 onyx workstations you can get on ebay. As far as software goes they already have it, you don't upgrade to main stream pro whatever just because its possiable. Unknown software companies pump out great 3D software. Go to the local compusa and see what they stock in the graphics isle. IANA3DA but my two roomates work at ILM across the street, poor as dirt too.
Unless you're forgetting about Outlook being the bringer of death to millions of people, and word macros rooting you're clients machine, sure I'll think you're not a complete doofus for thinking like a PHB. The reason Linux is still an alternative for the desktop? Administration and Training. If MS had not been a monopoly, the ratio of a professional linux support staff to MCSE's would be on the level.
Office for Linux, Yeah I think its called open office. Look at what microsoft did to java, now imagine the incompatiblites and compromises the MS install would be to the kernal. I like the shipping java with XP deal though, however WTF is a special master? Sounds like the DOJ likes playing S&M with MS XP.
If LA sunk, would it still be a city?
No just a really bad B movie sequal.
Its offtopic but, I remeber an easter egg in SimCity 2k where you could flood a populated area using the water tool and not effect the population. IIRC, I submerged 200K once when I was bored.
Great, now Bill Gates can say open source movement can kill.
When somebody gets hit when the driver's attention is distracted by the radio, phone, or tv it is an accident that was 100% avoidable in the eyes of the law. Just having this rig in your car makes you liable for any accident your in, and any would be theif walking pass your ride. If this is for passenger use Only(?) it fine, just like the game systems/TVs in minivans. Adding anything to the dashboard that distracts the driver is extremly dangerous period. Voice activitation and HUD won't solve the problem either, its still distracts.
IMHO when automated driving systems become standard (which they will) then I'll have no problem with the driver of the SUV fragging the scrpit kiddie in the minivan.
This is offtopic, I can't give you the details about the IRS mess, but the main reason was the act of transferring ownership of these software licences could not be classified as a vaild charitable donation. Our IT department has over 15,000 licences for MS products for our six offices, I was asked to help our adobted grade school with donated computer equipment and also consult them on some grant money they had recieved. Since we recently had alot of uninstalled MS software we had bought and no longer needed I transferred ownership of 55 Office 98 suites for the Macs they had, and 230 copies of Office 2K, and 230 copied of Win98 for the donated PC's.
So when we bash on M$ winblows we can now say Microsoft© Windows XP ?
Take Dell and Compaq, the kings of bundled software crap, either one of two things will happen: all software will be installed with no CD for backup or it will become like the distros of the OS, where the installer can only be used on "your computer".
I got in trouble for donating 500 licences of MS Office 98, and MS windows that had been bundled with our machines when we changed to all open source. Apparently the IRS does not consider donation of microsoft software as a charitable contributuion of any value.
In the non-bundled reatil world, hasn't this been happening a EB and Software etc. for ages? I would beat a game, trade it for a little cash or a credit at the store. I guess when you do this online there is no way to know weather the software is on the original media or not.
They should rent out wireless digital cameras, whenever a pic is taken its upload via 802.11 and before they leave the park, the got prints of the family vacation.
Also a previous article said it would be used to play music around the park based on location. IMHO, kinda of a waste for just CC's.
The settlement offer was donating 1.1 billion in software and hardware to the "poorest" public schools. 900 million in software alone, which after 5 years the schools would have to renew the licence! On the otherhand, Redhat has offered to distribute and support all software needed if microsoft only provides the hardware instead. With the 5th largest economy in the world Cailforina has the ability hold out against MS until a cash settlement is provided.
The "exhaust" would be water and heat. The heat can dissipate on its own if there is a enough surface area, and the water would be only in trace amounts.
The small amount of hydrogen (per device) to manufactured would have less environmental impact than the alloy and chemical production for lithium battiers. Would be lighter too, no more 10lb. dual battery dell laptops to lug around, hopefully.
The new structure is being called the Intel TeraHertz transistor because the transistors will be able to switch on and off more than one trillion times per second. In comparison, it would take a person more than 15,000 years to turn a light switch on and off a trillion times.
Wow, this is great benchmark for the same article that describes gate leakage and CMOS modifications. It sounds like some marketing genius went to the Intel R&D department and got the simple speech and just copied the rest from a quarterly report. I remember when Clinton introduced the DOE new super computer with the line, "It would take a person 10,00 years with a calculator to...that this machine can do in a second". It kinda makes the line between a research scientist and a research spokesperson really obvious. And you thought tweaking drivers for quake 3 was silly.
You could use the "paper" batteries with some electro-floruscent ink, and combine with your traditional dead tree media (newspaper, mag, and textbook) and you would have some cool new ads for computer junk and illumnated text to boot. Also would be cool for maps, starcharts, and lan-party flyers.
"I should point out that some powers in the world are on the way to militarizing outer space, not peacefully exploring outer resources," Huang Huikang, an official from China's foreign ministry, told the China Daily.
"Another arms race in outer space has begun since 1998 and we should be watchful," Huang said.
I would like a few more facts and less fundumentalist tone to be interested in this. A satallite program for China makes perfect sense for communications and survey for the billion(s) of people. I sure the US will be paying attention to the launch activites of our future olympic hopefuls, but an arms race in outer space is not econmically nor politiclly fesiable to begin with. Talk is cheap and that is all this is, political grandstanding: US bad--China good.
"The Proples' rocket is going to lay the smack down on the evil american capitalist pigs!"
Please don't take this article as being newsworthy.
I played the MP demo/beta version, and I must say that gamers can look forward to becoming isolated, unshaven caffine junkies (if not already). The game is true to the orignal in the most important area--replay value. Entertainment doesn't have to be ground-breaking to be great, just immersive IMHO. Just hope santa brings me better moniter before I go blind.
I just returned from the Serria Mnts. on the CA side near Truckee, I must of seen a couple of hundred really bright flashes, and about 5 red fireballs. I also noticed that I was not alone even though I was well off the beaten path. 20 or 30 observes stopped and watched from 1230am to 330am. So now I am back at work (in SF) with no sleep and a full plate of Java programming to do. I hope many of you tore yourself away from your new xbox long enough to venture a look see. Check my URL in a few days and I will post the images I got with my night vision equipment.
The reason a lot of people cram into warehouses thousands at a time is dance, listen, but also because the DJ too. Hmmm DJ "heartbeat" or Paul Okenfold. Also what the DJ mixes charges is damn near an art form, the really good ones can deliever quite an experience. We have seen purly computer generated/AI "art" before, imagine having to listen to it at 300Db. Plus I don't think a wireless HB moniter is going to match my leopard pattern leather pants and sparkly vest.
(no, I don't use drugs at raves)
I didn't exactly fall for that Fox News garbage either, I read the article from jun 2000 about using screen printers to as a way to manufacture OLED's. The previous OLED article on slashdot was pretty good too.
Not trusting the headline whores at fox news, I did a little searching on google and found this article published in June of 2000. It has a better review of the actually technology from a pure science point of view, rather than the "marketing press release as if it were a product" garbage that was posted.
I live near Sonoma County and heard about the community networks, problem is that using a anything other than a regular computer with a wireless 802.11b device can't get access. I had my Ipaq with linux installed, and with a good signal. Maybe it just needs tweaking.
Yes I have a 8K series and a 7500 inspiron. That article is a little off though. The 7500 was the first dell laptop w/speedstep, but it would throttle down only if it was running off batteries when it booted. The 8K series changed speeds in realtime(?) I ended up patching both and disabling speedstep. But dell is much better than gateway's attempt with the 750 Mhz solo. Not only did it fry PC cards, and occassionlly make a burn mark on my desk. It would power up and down the so much, it crapped out the little HD after 3 months, burned up the internal modem and then the onboard video card went. That notebook (9300) went through 3 HD, 2 MB and about a gig of notebook RAM. Talk about a lemon.
"At the end of the day, we need to get a Compaq, Dell or HP," he said. "IBM is going to be tough."
On the consumer desktops and notebooks it will be hard for AMD to displace Intel. The "Oh it must be faster it says so" mantra will always be a key selling point in the retail world. The server side will be interesting with promise of less heat, smaller size and 64-bit application support, Intel chips will have more competition in the rack systems market. IMHO I would love to see dell ditch intel for all its notebooks and use the new AMD chips. The batteries have to discarge so fast it fries my PC cards with the heat.
When one Commerce employee detected investigators trying to hack the agency's computers during their testing, he launched an illegal, electronic counterattack against the GAO.
This makes it apparent that the IT department is extremly mismanged. Standards and procedures for dealing with hacker attacks, critical loss, and computer abuse are the core requirements of ant IT support. I'm guessing that alot of gov't computers have access to the internet that do not require access for its job function. Every terminal thats connected is a security risk that must be addressed. Probably setup by very underpaid gov't worker that was "trained" in a day.
When he jumped from that high he actually became the first man to break the sound barrier without an aircraft. Though the 18 1/2 mile sky dive record has been broken by a flying squirrel getup. Unless these guys plan on jumping out, who cares? Could be a cool spycraft though.
Until IBM fix the CCA software to prevent our attack, banks are vulnerable to a dishonest branch manager whose teenager has $995 and a few hours to spend in duplicating our work.
I like the tech about hacking the processor, very clever. The rest is better read as bad fiction. Chalk this one up under the anarchist cookbook. Sure you may be able too, but you'll get thrown into jail or blow off a limb.