> the expensive part is probably paying someone to put the cable
Pulling cable can be tricky, specially if you don't have a guide to do the job, but since the old coaxes are already there, why not use them as guides? Of course this shouldn't be attempted by a humanities major, but this is Slashdot.
I recognize my case might be fairly unique, but I was looking for an affordable DVP for my living room, and XBMC filled in the description nicely. The second day after I got my XBox I chipped it and loaded XBMC into it. Ironically enough, out of the 30 games I ended up buying for the XBox only two were pirates (and one of them sucked, so I basically threw it to the garbage can three days after I got it).
Had it not been for the XBox hackability and the development of XBMC, I would have never bought the box (which is nothing more than a PC, and an obsolete one at the time I got it).
The big labels have been pulling this stunt world wide during years. Recently in Mexico, Police raided the major offices of Sony after it decided to tell Alejandro Fernandez (a Mexican folk country singer) they were going to publish some of his tunes with or without his permission. After the smoke had settled, the Police seiged over 6K pirated CDs from the same offices of those who can't keep their mouth shut when it comes to bashing pirates.
HP's Business Inkjet line is about the only inkjet which is a sane choice to buy. It's cost per page is up there with color lasers.
>Whenever my office has been tempted to put non-HP ink
Some time ago management of the place where I work had somebody "tipped" them about the benefits of retrofitting cheap inkjets with external tanks. I refused to support that solution, if they wanted to play paint smearing I wished them good luck. They wanted a portable color printer, and the BI line came to be a middle ground.
Lets reverse scenario's, what would happen if it was us who were receiving a broadcast the broadcast? That would depend of whoever would pick it up, but it would be a safe bet that it was a government (after all, they are the ones controlling the radio telescopes). Lots of outcries and some panicking but eventually some or all of the following would probably happen:
* We would not immediately reply or make our presence known, at least well after we know the exact content of the broadcast and nature the emitter. * Whoever picked up the signal would probably keep it to themselves, for it puts them in a strategical advantage with respect to other nations. Come to think about it, who is to tell us that China / Russia / the US hasn't already picked up something and are keeping it to themselves? * Even if we chose to eventually reply it would take a couple of years, if not decades for the reply to get back to the original emitting point.
If the emitter is within 60 light years (early TV and radio signals) they most probably already know about us, and have assumed we are still relatively harmless for them to worry about us knowing about their presence (hence, they chose to contact us). If the emitter is further away, then it would be a safe bet to assume that they do not know about us, and our picking up the signal is just a fact that they discovered radio earlier than we did.
We tend to assume that technologically advanced cultures would have a higher sense of moral and respect towards other less developed cultures, but if history has taught us anything it is those cultures that embrace and extend the ones to fare better in most environments.
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Vesna Vulovic, a stewardess for JAT airlines holds the world record for surviving a free fall without a parachute.
Hard to believe no one has mentioned PDFCreator. An excellent option for end users, it will interface with any windows program which supports printing. Open source, lightweight and very handy.
PCs were not that prevalent back then, but to answer your question: YES! DOS 5 was a major upgrade and sold like pancakes. It was the first time you could actually buy the thing, before that you either bought a new computer or pirated it. Feature like undelete and unformat were well worth the money back then.
Thanks for easing my decision on which antivirus I'll be choosing. Kaspersky seems not only to be a lightweight antivirus program, but also an extremely accurate one!
"if you have to bring a truckload of mortars to take out one laser truck"
Mind you, its a twenty ton laser truck. This thing is just way to heavy to see front line action. According to the article the main application of it would be to protect entrenched fortresses against mortar attacks.
Still, if it ever gets to see front line action, my money would still be on a twenty tons worth of mortar shells, rather than on this beast.
XP will run with 256. It will not fly, but tweaking it enough will yield you a usable workstation. Turning off the "XP interface" will give you a huge boost in performance. There are lots of guides out there documenting how to get the best of a XP machine. As a matter of fact I am typing this from a 256 MB XP station.
Why not upgrade? I took the Rambus pill. I refuse to pay 500 dollars for a memory upgrade. It will not happen, I rather invest in getting a new computer.
"Telmex is not that efficient." While that might be true, consider the rest of the competition: as an ISP, you are just getting yourself into a heap of trouble if you dare to go with Alestra, Avantel of MVS. It's not only the reliability of their service, but also the administrative side which you will find to be light-years away. Telmex is expensive, but until you show me a better option, I'll stick with my Prodigy (DSL), thankyou.
"They're now trying to get into internet TV." Please don't get me started on this.... Sky, Cablevision? I am eagerly awaiting that Mr. Slim enters this market. Currently there is only one option for anybody who wants cable, and that is go with Mr Azcarraga's media monopoly (and boy, they SUCK DONKEY BALLS). Poor, expensive, obsolete, content limited service. suck suck suck.
The ways Mr. Slim adquire Telmex are truly shady I must admit. Still, I find it better that he is running the industry than previous attempts at management the government did. Is this the absolute best option? Probably not, but it is currently working well, it is expanding, it provides sustainment to hundreds of mexican families and last I heard it was a nice place to work.
Not to go into history lessons but if you don't want people pointing missiles at you, don't go financing rebels/equipping invasion forces. Plain and simple.
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From where they are scanning (public internet), there is no way for them to figure the MAC of the end device.
> the expensive part is probably paying someone to put the cable
Pulling cable can be tricky, specially if you don't have a guide to do the job, but since the old coaxes are already there, why not use them as guides? Of course this shouldn't be attempted by a humanities major, but this is Slashdot.
I recognize my case might be fairly unique, but I was looking for an affordable DVP for my living room, and XBMC filled in the description nicely. The second day after I got my XBox I chipped it and loaded XBMC into it. Ironically enough, out of the 30 games I ended up buying for the XBox only two were pirates (and one of them sucked, so I basically threw it to the garbage can three days after I got it).
Had it not been for the XBox hackability and the development of XBMC, I would have never bought the box (which is nothing more than a PC, and an obsolete one at the time I got it).
The big labels have been pulling this stunt world wide during years. Recently in Mexico, Police raided the major offices of Sony after it decided to tell Alejandro Fernandez (a Mexican folk country singer) they were going to publish some of his tunes with or without his permission. After the smoke had settled, the Police seiged over 6K pirated CDs from the same offices of those who can't keep their mouth shut when it comes to bashing pirates.
How about vein or arteries stiffening? I can imagine that having a pulse might help these vessels keep certain elasticity and fight stiffening.
Yea... unless its a Mac. Then I am suuuurre it would be OK, at least according to Apple.
>our business class printers
HP's Business Inkjet line is about the only inkjet which is a sane choice to buy. It's cost per page is up there with color lasers.
>Whenever my office has been tempted to put non-HP ink
Some time ago management of the place where I work had somebody "tipped" them about the benefits of retrofitting cheap inkjets with external tanks. I refused to support that solution, if they wanted to play paint smearing I wished them good luck. They wanted a portable color printer, and the BI line came to be a middle ground.
Lets reverse scenario's, what would happen if it was us who were receiving a broadcast the broadcast? That would depend of whoever would pick it up, but it would be a safe bet that it was a government (after all, they are the ones controlling the radio telescopes). Lots of outcries and some panicking but eventually some or all of the following would probably happen:
* We would not immediately reply or make our presence known, at least well after we know the exact content of the broadcast and nature the emitter.
* Whoever picked up the signal would probably keep it to themselves, for it puts them in a strategical advantage with respect to other nations. Come to think about it, who is to tell us that China / Russia / the US hasn't already picked up something and are keeping it to themselves?
* Even if we chose to eventually reply it would take a couple of years, if not decades for the reply to get back to the original emitting point.
If the emitter is within 60 light years (early TV and radio signals) they most probably already know about us, and have assumed we are still relatively harmless for them to worry about us knowing about their presence (hence, they chose to contact us). If the emitter is further away, then it would be a safe bet to assume that they do not know about us, and our picking up the signal is just a fact that they discovered radio earlier than we did.
We tend to assume that technologically advanced cultures would have a higher sense of moral and respect towards other less developed cultures, but if history has taught us anything it is those cultures that embrace and extend the ones to fare better in most environments.
Vesna Vulovic, a stewardess for JAT airlines holds the world record for surviving a free fall without a parachute.
Ghostscript + ghostview is also great for breaking Adobe's locks (cant print, cant save, etc). Just open the document and save it back.
Hard to believe no one has mentioned PDFCreator. An excellent option for end users, it will interface with any windows program which supports printing. Open source, lightweight and very handy.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
probably not, but I'll settle if it plays Microsoft own DRM ridden format: playsforsure?
...currently Mr Ballmer does have a point.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."
M. Ghandi
Last time it was chairs flying, maybe this time the desk will follow?
http://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=PentiumJokes
More like Dont Fuck With the Nazgul
PCs were not that prevalent back then, but to answer your question: YES! DOS 5 was a major upgrade and sold like pancakes. It was the first time you could actually buy the thing, before that you either bought a new computer or pirated it. Feature like undelete and unformat were well worth the money back then.
Here goes mine:
Thanks for easing my decision on which antivirus I'll be choosing. Kaspersky seems not only to be a lightweight antivirus program, but also an extremely accurate one!
Version 8 does seem to be a step in the right direction. It seems to be less bloated, and might I even suggest that it feels faster?
This and the resurrection of suprnova.org leave little doubt in my mind on who is winning this war.
Yep, Token Ring was indeed more efficient. Good luck reviving it.
"if you have to bring a truckload of mortars to take out one laser truck"
Mind you, its a twenty ton laser truck. This thing is just way to heavy to see front line action. According to the article the main application of it would be to protect entrenched fortresses against mortar attacks.
Still, if it ever gets to see front line action, my money would still be on a twenty tons worth of mortar shells, rather than on this beast.
If my memory serves me right, Compaq Armadas were the first laptops to place the battery there.
XP will run with 256. It will not fly, but tweaking it enough will yield you a usable workstation. Turning off the "XP interface" will give you a huge boost in performance. There are lots of guides out there documenting how to get the best of a XP machine. As a matter of fact I am typing this from a 256 MB XP station.
Why not upgrade? I took the Rambus pill. I refuse to pay 500 dollars for a memory upgrade. It will not happen, I rather invest in getting a new computer.
"Telmex is not that efficient."
While that might be true, consider the rest of the competition: as an ISP, you are just getting yourself into a heap of trouble if you dare to go with Alestra, Avantel of MVS. It's not only the reliability of their service, but also the administrative side which you will find to be light-years away. Telmex is expensive, but until you show me a better option, I'll stick with my Prodigy (DSL), thankyou.
"They're now trying to get into internet TV."
Please don't get me started on this.... Sky, Cablevision? I am eagerly awaiting that Mr. Slim enters this market. Currently there is only one option for anybody who wants cable, and that is go with Mr Azcarraga's media monopoly (and boy, they SUCK DONKEY BALLS). Poor, expensive, obsolete, content limited service. suck suck suck.
The ways Mr. Slim adquire Telmex are truly shady I must admit. Still, I find it better that he is running the industry than previous attempts at management the government did. Is this the absolute best option? Probably not, but it is currently working well, it is expanding, it provides sustainment to hundreds of mexican families and last I heard it was a nice place to work.
Not to go into history lessons but if you don't want people pointing missiles at you, don't go financing rebels/equipping invasion forces. Plain and simple.