I burned these to CD's for my long drives between home and school I used to take. Very entertaining. They can be found online pretty easily, and burn nicely to CD's.
Takes a long time to go through 13 CD's worth of story.
actually, if you read the entire article, it sounds to me as if they just negotiated really poor contracts. there's a ton of profit being made, just not by @home, instead it's being made by AT&T. the article mentioned that 80% of the profits are going to people other than @home for their hardware.
just declare bankruptcy, null your former contracts and renegotiate so that they make you money this time around.
sweet, i'm going to be spending the next week in the remote areas of New Mexico, at about 6000 ft. the closest real town is over 50 miles away. this ought to be quite a show.
they just float up there gradually. something to the extent that they're really light. thing is, it takes a long time for them to get that high. i'm sure they're tossed around the atmosphere like anything else, but they're light enough that once they get up top, they stay there. a lot of research went into CFC's. no one thought they would be dangerous. they do nothing bad at all in the atmosphere we live in. no one realized they'd make it up that far though.
Ozone that makes it to the upper atmosphere is most often produced by lightning. the storms tend to push it up high enough that it gets where it needs to be. in the past, lightning wasn't enough to make up for the CFC's. i believe in my physics class they said that one CFC molecule could destroy over 1 million O3 molecules. it basically just comes along, breaks the bonds then goes along its merry way, doing it over and over again.
you know, the funny part was i was cursing a blue streak when installing roxio cd creator 5 toasted my win2k machine. what are the freakin' odds, i would rant? why the frick is a cd software package set up to kill my machine?
well, i guess it's catching, whatever it is.
lol, i think i'll be waiting a few weeks after the release of software from now on. bleeding edge one to many times.
ha ha ha, they'll just release a special "limited" version of open source stuff you're running, that makes it more "compatible" with MS's services. next thing you know your machine isn't your own, and that Linux partition you had has magically disappeared. guess that's a feature.
he he, i set one of these up in order to split the cost of a cable modem. you get a few houses running from one wireless hub and the cost of cable goes way down!:)
and it looks way less suspicious than bright blue wires hung between houses.:P
so does this mean i no longer have to get ripped off to watch my favorite tv shows in series? (rentals) finally, a digital recording option, so all those tv marathons that were recorded in the past can make their way to a respectable media format!
'course, at these current prices i could probably just buy every set of every show i want, but that's not the same.:)
lol, reading how many athlon cpu's you've fried, i've got to wonder if you aren't somehow screwing up the heatsinks. in light of last week's article here on athlon cpu's burning up when heatsinks aren't attached, while the intel's would keep on trucking.
wonder how many of your intel superboxes aren't running at half speed 24/7 to keep cool. he he he.
Motorola taped out the PowerPC 8500 - aka the G5 - last week and is set to go into volume production real soon now at speeds of up to 1.6GHz - a higher clock speed than AMD's latest-generation, 'Palomino' Athlon is expected to ship at - The Register has learned.
So claim sources said to be close to Apple, at any rate. The new CPU will be offered at 800MHz, 1GHz, 1.2GHz, 1.4GHz and 1.6GHz, and while the first two are nominally aimed at the embedded space - the others are aimed straight at the desktop, we hear - we can see Apple using them as to transition over from the top end G4, the PowerPC 7450.
Getting to those clock speeds involved increasing the G5's pipeline from the 7450's seven stages to ten. The part is capable of exceeding 2GHz, we're told, but the initial batch of shipping clock speeds suggests that the either the yield or the stability of 2GHz parts isn't high enough to ship chips at that speed.
High clock speeds also mean high power dissipation, but Motorola has nicely countered it by fabbing the G5 using silicon-on-insulator technology, leading to a power dissipation of 26W at 1.4GHz, our source tells us. By comparison, the 7450 draws 14W at 533MHz. Our source had no word on what process Motorola will use for the part, but we reckon 0.13 micron with copper interconnects. The transistor count will be 58 million gates.
That's said to be twice the 7450's transistor count, which makes us wonder what Motorola will do with the extra gates. The longer pipeline and additional instruction units will account for a lot of it, but we also wonder if the chip will feature a built-in memory manager, something Motorola has been talking about of late.
Beyond far higher clock speeds, the G5 will be a full 64-bit chip, but will support 32-bit addressing at full speed. The part will also support multi-processor configurations.
The G5 will sport a 400MHz frontside bus - like Intel's Pentium 4, though its performance could be limited by whatever memory technology Apple connects to it across the system bus.
Speaking of which, we hear work is progressing on a new chipset, designed for the G5, which will support up to 16GB of DDR SDRAM. What type of DDR, we don't yet know. The chipset's south-bridge part - ie. the chip that primarily handles I/O - will support USB 2.0 and the Bluetooth wireless connectivity standard, in addition to the familiar 1394 - up to 800MBps? - and 802.11 (aka AirPort).
Incidentally, given Apple's recent statement of support for AMD's HyperTransport bus technology, and its presence on the HyperTransport Consortium's founder member list, we reckon that the new chipset may also use HT for chip-to-chip communications, but as yet this is unconfirmed.
We don't know the ship date either, though we've been told that Apple is shooting to get boxes out for a January launch. If Motorola is sampling the G5 now or is about to, then we'd estimate that volume won't begin until early to mid Q1 2002, which would enable Apple to launch at Macworld Expo San Francisco and ship the higher end boxes in, say, February, as it's done before.
Apple will launch Mac OS X 10.2 around the same time, we're told, and offer it as a 64-bit version. To do so would surely limit users of older hardware to 10.1 and its updates, but that hasn't stopped the company making such moves in the past. The G5's 32-bit support will allow apps to be carried forward, and developers have been told they will be able to make '64-bit clean' apps with a simple recompile.
If our source's claims are accurate, the timing would be right for Motorola to unveil the new chip at this autumn's Microprocessor Forum, on 15 October. ®
I was listening to NPR last night, they were interviewing one of these scientists. Said he got the idea from an Oasis concert, guess people miles away were calling about an earthquake from all the fans jumping up and down. The vibrations could be felt farther away than the music could be heard. Kinda cool.
This is some ghetto ass charity give away cd, right? How good could it be? You didn't pay for it, and it's likely to be a bunch of artists who's songs are either on the radio all the time or unheard of. I'd love to see someone try and release a commercial product with this scheme. If record companies are so bent out of shape about making money, this crap will never fly.
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he he, so IE6 drops quicktime, and Linux picks it up. good deal. i must say i'm a little surprised that Apple is better about making a Linux friendly quicktime viewer, especially in light of what asses MS have been over the quicktime plug-in....
lol, yeah, i think you might have just figured out why they're in trouble financially.:P
you don't expect a company that does dumbass stuff like this to survive, do you? these are market forces at their best. only the strong or the worthy survive baby!
i have a quick question. would something like pgp work to stop this snooping garbage? just have the data encrypted when you send it to people, and then no one can snoop, right?
it would be a bit of a pain, but nothing too bad. ftp servers would just contain the key when you log in, and irc people could just have the key displayed every min. or so.
Yeah, I know pricewatch has MSI listed as making a dual board, but look a little closer. It's just a typo. That's the Tyan board. My friend and I had this discussion just the other day. That MSI board listed is really the Tyan board, look at the model #. Or else go and try to buy it, that'll be tough.
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some of those viagra infused chopsticks?
shoot, better get on that before i stop getting 50+ e-mails about it a week.
At $5 per episode, that's only 1 redshirt.
bummer.
I burned these to CD's for my long drives between home and school I used to take. Very entertaining. They can be found online pretty easily, and burn nicely to CD's.
Takes a long time to go through 13 CD's worth of story.
For the last friggin' time, being a monopoly IS NOT ILLEGAL!!!!
abusing the monopoly power that you have is illegal. MS abused their monopoly power, that's what they're in trouble for.
the act of being a monopoly is not a crime, so shut up about it already.
i can just imagine the stream of sniveling drivel coming to the DOJ about how M$ Sux0rs, and how they h4x to get a m0n0p0ly.
sheet. don't write a letter to the DOJ or anyone else until you know what they did that was illegal for Pete's sake.
actually, if you read the entire article, it sounds to me as if they just negotiated really poor contracts. there's a ton of profit being made, just not by @home, instead it's being made by AT&T. the article mentioned that 80% of the profits are going to people other than @home for their hardware.
just declare bankruptcy, null your former contracts and renegotiate so that they make you money this time around.
sweet, i'm going to be spending the next week in the remote areas of New Mexico, at about 6000 ft. the closest real town is over 50 miles away. this ought to be quite a show.
they just float up there gradually. something to the extent that they're really light. thing is, it takes a long time for them to get that high. i'm sure they're tossed around the atmosphere like anything else, but they're light enough that once they get up top, they stay there. a lot of research went into CFC's. no one thought they would be dangerous. they do nothing bad at all in the atmosphere we live in. no one realized they'd make it up that far though.
Ozone that makes it to the upper atmosphere is most often produced by lightning. the storms tend to push it up high enough that it gets where it needs to be. in the past, lightning wasn't enough to make up for the CFC's. i believe in my physics class they said that one CFC molecule could destroy over 1 million O3 molecules. it basically just comes along, breaks the bonds then goes along its merry way, doing it over and over again.
you know, the funny part was i was cursing a blue streak when installing roxio cd creator 5 toasted my win2k machine. what are the freakin' odds, i would rant? why the frick is a cd software package set up to kill my machine?
well, i guess it's catching, whatever it is.
lol, i think i'll be waiting a few weeks after the release of software from now on. bleeding edge one to many times.
anyone know if there are going to be any copywrite issues with these things? seems like everyone is adding something nowadays.
ha ha ha, they'll just release a special "limited" version of open source stuff you're running, that makes it more "compatible" with MS's services. next thing you know your machine isn't your own, and that Linux partition you had has magically disappeared. guess that's a feature.
he he, i set one of these up in order to split the cost of a cable modem. you get a few houses running from one wireless hub and the cost of cable goes way down! :)
:P
and it looks way less suspicious than bright blue wires hung between houses.
as just one more user decides they hate MS more than anything, and begins writing the latest virus to take them out.
so do people hate MS 'cause their assholes, or are they assholes 'cause people hate them?
'course, at these current prices i could probably just buy every set of every show i want, but that's not the same.
wonder how many of your intel superboxes aren't running at half speed 24/7 to keep cool. he he he.
not exactly a killer vote of confidence.
this is the header (before the info) of the readme.eml file.
what does it mean exactly?
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type="multipart/alternative"; boundary="====_ABC1234567890DEF_====" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Unsent: 1 --====_ABC1234567890DEF_==== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="====_ABC0987654321DEF_====" --====_ABC0987654321DEF_==== Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable --====_ABC0987654321DEF_====-- --====_ABC1234567890DEF_==== Content-Type: audio/x-wav; name="readme.exe" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-ID:
Motorola taped out the PowerPC 8500 - aka the G5 - last week and is set to go into volume production real soon now at speeds of up to 1.6GHz - a higher clock speed than AMD's latest-generation, 'Palomino' Athlon is expected to ship at - The Register has learned.
So claim sources said to be close to Apple, at any rate. The new CPU will be offered at 800MHz, 1GHz, 1.2GHz, 1.4GHz and 1.6GHz, and while the first two are nominally aimed at the embedded space - the others are aimed straight at the desktop, we hear - we can see Apple using them as to transition over from the top end G4, the PowerPC 7450.
Getting to those clock speeds involved increasing the G5's pipeline from the 7450's seven stages to ten. The part is capable of exceeding 2GHz, we're told, but the initial batch of shipping clock speeds suggests that the either the yield or the stability of 2GHz parts isn't high enough to ship chips at that speed.
High clock speeds also mean high power dissipation, but Motorola has nicely countered it by fabbing the G5 using silicon-on-insulator technology, leading to a power dissipation of 26W at 1.4GHz, our source tells us. By comparison, the 7450 draws 14W at 533MHz. Our source had no word on what process Motorola will use for the part, but we reckon 0.13 micron with copper interconnects. The transistor count will be 58 million gates.
That's said to be twice the 7450's transistor count, which makes us wonder what Motorola will do with the extra gates. The longer pipeline and additional instruction units will account for a lot of it, but we also wonder if the chip will feature a built-in memory manager, something Motorola has been talking about of late.
Beyond far higher clock speeds, the G5 will be a full 64-bit chip, but will support 32-bit addressing at full speed. The part will also support multi-processor configurations.
The G5 will sport a 400MHz frontside bus - like Intel's Pentium 4, though its performance could be limited by whatever memory technology Apple connects to it across the system bus.
Speaking of which, we hear work is progressing on a new chipset, designed for the G5, which will support up to 16GB of DDR SDRAM. What type of DDR, we don't yet know. The chipset's south-bridge part - ie. the chip that primarily handles I/O - will support USB 2.0 and the Bluetooth wireless connectivity standard, in addition to the familiar 1394 - up to 800MBps? - and 802.11 (aka AirPort).
Incidentally, given Apple's recent statement of support for AMD's HyperTransport bus technology, and its presence on the HyperTransport Consortium's founder member list, we reckon that the new chipset may also use HT for chip-to-chip communications, but as yet this is unconfirmed.
We don't know the ship date either, though we've been told that Apple is shooting to get boxes out for a January launch. If Motorola is sampling the G5 now or is about to, then we'd estimate that volume won't begin until early to mid Q1 2002, which would enable Apple to launch at Macworld Expo San Francisco and ship the higher end boxes in, say, February, as it's done before.
Apple will launch Mac OS X 10.2 around the same time, we're told, and offer it as a 64-bit version. To do so would surely limit users of older hardware to 10.1 and its updates, but that hasn't stopped the company making such moves in the past. The G5's 32-bit support will allow apps to be carried forward, and developers have been told they will be able to make '64-bit clean' apps with a simple recompile.
If our source's claims are accurate, the timing would be right for Motorola to unveil the new chip at this autumn's Microprocessor Forum, on 15 October. ®
I was listening to NPR last night, they were interviewing one of these scientists. Said he got the idea from an Oasis concert, guess people miles away were calling about an earthquake from all the fans jumping up and down. The vibrations could be felt farther away than the music could be heard. Kinda cool.
This is some ghetto ass charity give away cd, right? How good could it be? You didn't pay for it, and it's likely to be a bunch of artists who's songs are either on the radio all the time or unheard of. I'd love to see someone try and release a commercial product with this scheme. If record companies are so bent out of shape about making money, this crap will never fly.
he he, so IE6 drops quicktime, and Linux picks it up. good deal. i must say i'm a little surprised that Apple is better about making a Linux friendly quicktime viewer, especially in light of what asses MS have been over the quicktime plug-in....
you don't expect a company that does dumbass stuff like this to survive, do you? these are market forces at their best. only the strong or the worthy survive baby!
it would be a bit of a pain, but nothing too bad. ftp servers would just contain the key when you log in, and irc people could just have the key displayed every min. or so.
nosy bastards oughtta leave me and my data alone!