If you send spam on an earthlink account, you must use the earthlink smtp server. They don't allow you to bypass their server. If you do use their server, then they can map that message to an IP address and through that to your account. So, blocking outgoing port 25 connections allows them to catch spammers using earthlink.
The problem is that some of the users of the isp will spoil it for everyone else. If an ISP like earthlink does not take steps to prevent its users from sending out spam, then mail from earthlink's users will get rejected by some sites as potential spam.
This happened to me when I used Mindspring. I would send mail and some remote sites would bounce it back because Mindspring got a bad reputation for allowing spam. Blocking outgoing port 25, while inconveniencing a small percentage of users, is one of the steps they took to make sure that their users could send mail.
For me as a sometimes-windows, sometimes-linux, sometime-unix user, what makes me dislike windows is not just the security aspects.
First, as others have said is the potential for spying in closed-source software compounded by their questionable reputation for caring about the consumer. Maybe they spy, maybe they don't, but I have no way of knowing.
However, I am one of those people who doesn't like the windows environment. I have used unix for many years and prefer the command line (with a good shell - I personally like tcsh).
I don't like the fact that microsoft does not adhere to common standards. I like ascii text files, portable API's, etc.
So, in short there are many things I don't like about windows. If they fixed all the security problems, I still wouldn't enjoy using it.
Microsoft does not want OpenGL on windows because it means that applications aren't tied to the windows platform. Unfortunately for them, they can't say this openly - people need OpenGL and many will move to other platforms to get it.
So, Microsoft says all the right things - that they support OpenGL and include it as part of windows. However, it is a bit like their half-hearted posix mode. Win2k does not included any hardware acceleration for Opengl (according to the register). Also, OpenGL on win32 is stuck at an old version (1.1? or 1.0) and extensions and more recent (eg 1.2) features must be used via their ugly extension mechanism. Microsoft backed out of their agreement with SGI on Fahrenheit - burning SGI in the process.
The thing that amazes me about nvidia is that they do appear to take linux users seriously. There have been several releases of the drivers and support for GF3 was fairly quick after the board came out. The number of OpenGL and GLX extensions they support is overwhelming! While new features appear to make into win32 drivers first, they continue to add new extensions to the linux driver on a fairly rapid basis.
There is no other solution on linux that gives you the power under OpenGL that nvidia does.
I think, if anything, we should be rewarding them, rather than complaining. Without nvidia, linux does not make a reasonable OpenGL platform. (Mesa is nice, but too slow to be practical for many applications).
I have no connections with them; I'm just a happy OpenGL developer.
The way around this problem is to make sure that companies get punished for the bad things they do.
For example, if Monsanto ever is held fully responsible for all the atrocities they have committed, then they would probably end up in a worse position than if they had tried to minimize pollution from the start.
Then you would have an environment in which the right way to maximize profits was to do the right thing for the public.
It looks like a delay loop, but the 16-bit
increment and decrement instructions don't
modify the zero-flag, so it either executes
once or loops forever.
I agree. I typically use emacs, but often use
vi for editing small files. The advantage to
vi is that it is small and simple. vim is vi
without that one advantage - I mean it's in
color for godsakes. Vim was probably ok at 1.0,
but now it just looks tacky.
This argument gets made frequently. Here is why
it doesn't work:
You are assuming perfect hidden surface removal
before you hit the chip. In real life, some things
will get drawn, the obscured by opaque objects
in front of them.
Complicating this is transparency, where things
drawn in front should not completely obscure things behind them.
Multisampling (eg FSAA) where pixels are actually
calculated from sub-pixels.
Volumetric objects. This is an extreme case of
the transparency item above. This is used in
medicine, but can also be used for things like
clouds.
There are no states which allow same-sex
marriage. It amazes me how many people don't
know this. Even Vermont does not allow same-sex
marriage.
Also, if a state does decide to legalize same-sex
marriage, the federal government has already
passed the Defense of Marriage Act
which means that the marriage would not count
for federal law (eg federal taxes).
1) Estate tax. Straight married couples can pass
their estates to their surviving spouses tax
free. Same-sex partners get taxed heavily by this.
2) Straight married couples can put each other
on employer health insurance plans without getting
taxed. If my partner puts me on his insurance plan
(if it is even possible), the !#$% federal
goverment will consider it taxable income and I
would have to pay tax on it.
I don't understand why whenever a report like
this is released, people jump on it and emphasize
the fact that no one knows what the
future climate will be like.
Listen, there is a non-trivial likelihood that
these predictions are correct and if they come
through, it could have devastating effects on our
descendents. By then, it will probably be too late
for a quick fix.
It is better to be safe than sorry. Maybe global
warming is being overestimated, maybe not. Do
you want to take that risk? It surprises
me that so many people are willing to risk the
lives of our descendents just so they can drive
bigger cars, etc.
As a consumer, I am dismayed by your continual litigation. I have
tended to stay away from rambus products for that reason. Now that
it has been shown that you are "judge shopping" I will not hesitate
to recommend others to stay away from rambus-based systems as well.
Various people have posted about the no-call list. I went through this recently with ATT (they were also calling me at least once a day, sometimes more often).
I told them it was illegal for them to call me after I had asked to be placed on their no-call list. They told me that by law they have 60 days to comply. Maybe I was reading too much into it, but I could swear there was a smirk in their voice when they told me that.
No, I probably wouldn't. But, there are a lot of independent artists out there recording in their homes, friends homes, or smaller studios who make great recordings without spending a lot of cash. I would pay for that. I think they can be better than albums put out by major labels because you get to listen to the music the way the artist intended. If you limit yourself to albums costing only a set amount of money to create, you are missing out on a lot of interesting music.
Some people have pointed out that some pop/rock
albums cost a huge amount of money to make and the cost must be recouped somehow.
On the other hand, a lot of independent music is created for virtually nothing (like the stereotype of indiepop created in peoples' bedrooms).
The existence of large record companies with deep pockets is what permits and encourages these expensive recordings. Things would certainly be different if they did not exist and all recordings had to be made with smaller budgets. I'm not sure we would be worse off in that case; maybe we would be better off.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but by encouraging bands to spend a lot of money on recordings, one could claim the record companies are just trying to make themselves useful.
The chip can do 256^3 at 20fps. Larger sized
volumes can be held on the board (current
board has 256MB ram) and is handled transparently
by the library they supply. So, you probably
have nothing to worry about. I routinely use
512^3 volumes and get maybe 4 frames per second.
I would guess future boards would support larger
volumes and be faster at doing it.
In the current card, a voxel is a scalar sample value (8 or 12 bits).
Color and opacity are determined by applying
a lookup table you supply. Lighting is handled
by computing local gradients and using a standard
CG lighting equation. You have control over
diffuse, specular, emissive components, specular
color and exponent, and specular color.
So, a 256^3 volume takes 16meg (8bit) or 32meg (12 bit). More memory allows for larger volumes or multiple volumes.
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If you send spam on an earthlink account, you must use the earthlink smtp server. They don't allow you to bypass their server. If you do use their server, then they can map that message to an IP address and through that to your account. So, blocking outgoing port 25 connections allows them to catch spammers using earthlink.
This happened to me when I used Mindspring. I would send mail and some remote sites would bounce it back because Mindspring got a bad reputation for allowing spam. Blocking outgoing port 25, while inconveniencing a small percentage of users, is one of the steps they took to make sure that their users could send mail.
First, as others have said is the potential for spying in closed-source software compounded by their questionable reputation for caring about the consumer. Maybe they spy, maybe they don't, but I have no way of knowing.
However, I am one of those people who doesn't like the windows environment. I have used unix for many years and prefer the command line (with a good shell - I personally like tcsh).
I don't like the fact that microsoft does not adhere to common standards. I like ascii text files, portable API's, etc.
So, in short there are many things I don't like about windows. If they fixed all the security problems, I still wouldn't enjoy using it.
So, Microsoft says all the right things - that they support OpenGL and include it as part of windows. However, it is a bit like their half-hearted posix mode. Win2k does not included any hardware acceleration for Opengl (according to the register). Also, OpenGL on win32 is stuck at an old version (1.1? or 1.0) and extensions and more recent (eg 1.2) features must be used via their ugly extension mechanism. Microsoft backed out of their agreement with SGI on Fahrenheit - burning SGI in the process.
Show me a platform with good OpenGL performance based on open-source drivers. Unfortunately, there aren't any.
There is no other solution on linux that gives you the power under OpenGL that nvidia does.
I think, if anything, we should be rewarding them, rather than complaining. Without nvidia, linux does not make a reasonable OpenGL platform. (Mesa is nice, but too slow to be practical for many applications).
I have no connections with them; I'm just a happy OpenGL developer.
If you are doing OpenGL development, it is a good platform. Linux + GF3 (or GF2 for that matter) beats low-end SGI and costs a tenth as much.
Don't you mean wookie?
For example, if Monsanto ever is held fully responsible for all the atrocities they have committed, then they would probably end up in a worse position than if they had tried to minimize pollution from the start.
Then you would have an environment in which the right way to maximize profits was to do the right thing for the public.
It looks like a delay loop, but the 16-bit increment and decrement instructions don't modify the zero-flag, so it either executes once or loops forever.
You probably want:
LD BC,0ffffh
LOOP: DEC BC
LD A,B
OR C
JP NZ,LOOP
Yes, if you have already spent a lot of time and money making that room look the way you want it to look.
I agree. I typically use emacs, but often use vi for editing small files. The advantage to vi is that it is small and simple. vim is vi without that one advantage - I mean it's in color for godsakes. Vim was probably ok at 1.0, but now it just looks tacky.
There are no states which allow same-sex marriage. It amazes me how many people don't know this. Even Vermont does not allow same-sex marriage.
Also, if a state does decide to legalize same-sex marriage, the federal government has already passed the Defense of Marriage Act which means that the marriage would not count for federal law (eg federal taxes).
Since you were asking, here are some gay taxes:
1) Estate tax. Straight married couples can pass
their estates to their surviving spouses tax
free. Same-sex partners get taxed heavily by this.
2) Straight married couples can put each other
on employer health insurance plans without getting
taxed. If my partner puts me on his insurance plan
(if it is even possible), the !#$% federal
goverment will consider it taxable income and I
would have to pay tax on it.
That's not true. It just means that the files would be named 1, 3, 4, etc.
Listen, there is a non-trivial likelihood that these predictions are correct and if they come through, it could have devastating effects on our descendents. By then, it will probably be too late for a quick fix.
It is better to be safe than sorry. Maybe global warming is being overestimated, maybe not. Do you want to take that risk? It surprises me that so many people are willing to risk the lives of our descendents just so they can drive bigger cars, etc.
Thanks.
I told them it was illegal for them to call me after I had asked to be placed on their no-call list. They told me that by law they have 60 days to comply. Maybe I was reading too much into it, but I could swear there was a smirk in their voice when they told me that.
No, I probably wouldn't. But, there are a lot of independent artists out there recording in their homes, friends homes, or smaller studios who make great recordings without spending a lot of cash. I would pay for that. I think they can be better than albums put out by major labels because you get to listen to the music the way the artist intended. If you limit yourself to albums costing only a set amount of money to create, you are missing out on a lot of interesting music.
On the other hand, a lot of independent music is created for virtually nothing (like the stereotype of indiepop created in peoples' bedrooms).
The existence of large record companies with deep pockets is what permits and encourages these expensive recordings. Things would certainly be different if they did not exist and all recordings had to be made with smaller budgets. I'm not sure we would be worse off in that case; maybe we would be better off.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but by encouraging bands to spend a lot of money on recordings, one could claim the record companies are just trying to make themselves useful.
Oops. Please make that ~1 fps for 512^3.
The chip can do 256^3 at 20fps. Larger sized volumes can be held on the board (current board has 256MB ram) and is handled transparently by the library they supply. So, you probably have nothing to worry about. I routinely use 512^3 volumes and get maybe 4 frames per second. I would guess future boards would support larger volumes and be faster at doing it.
Why can't they just pull an RIAA and claim they never promised to use RDRAM?
In the current card, a voxel is a scalar sample value (8 or 12 bits). Color and opacity are determined by applying a lookup table you supply. Lighting is handled by computing local gradients and using a standard CG lighting equation. You have control over diffuse, specular, emissive components, specular color and exponent, and specular color. So, a 256^3 volume takes 16meg (8bit) or 32meg (12 bit). More memory allows for larger volumes or multiple volumes.