A one-way cable modem is like the early satellite internet connections. You use a phone line modem to request the information and the download comes back over the cable modem.
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Once you create the folder you can just drag it into another folder. Once you have your PHP, Perl and Java folder filled, you can click on the "Show all bookmarks" icon in the bookmark bar. Then click on the Development folder. Then drag the PHP... folders from the collections pane to the bookmarks pane.
The other things that you mention blocking traffic are either unavoidable (weather) or planned (road work/parades). In the case of planned blockages, it would be simple to have alternative routes planned and to move a couple of firetruck/ambulances out of the firehouse/garage to make sure that they are available if needed.
Also the main purpose of parades and road work is not disruption, although they both cause plenty. With a protest, the main goal is distruption and I think that the protesters might be a little slower in getting out of the way.
How many disks did your OS X machine come with? Mine came with at least 5, 2 for the OS and 3 for applications.
You do have a whole bunch of little programs that do specific tasks in the BSD subsystem. They are just hidden from most users by being accessible from the terminal.
I find I much prefer OS X to redhat for most things but in my opinion you are making linux sound much worse than it really is.
How is it "working" for you? What are you getting for not buying CDs? You think you are voting with your dollar but the RIAA isn't hearing you. They see a decline in sales and assume that all losses are due to piracy. So, they start adding DRM and making disks that can't be played in any computers. Maybe someday the price will be down to 8 bucks but it will probably only play in Windows 2005 using Super Secure Media Player 10.
Consider this example, a store sells a shirt that come in red and yellow. You and a bunch of other people like the style but want it in blue. So you all "vote with your dollar" and refuse to buy the shirt. How is the store ever going to know that it could have a lot more sales if it offered the shirt in blue? Unless you tell the RIAA why you aren't buying CDs, your vote is likely not being heard.
Maybe I'm just a masochist but I use Flash for presentations instead of powerpoint. It was great to be able to create some simple movies illustrating different excitation mechanism in a crystal.
It was also immune to the font problems I saw in every powerpoint presentation that semester. Almost every talk had some greek letters replaced by seemingly random characters because the OS/MSOffice versions were different on the machine the ppt presentation was written on and presented on.
The number of apps I used are rather limited. Other than Mail, Safari, and iTunes, most of what I run is mathematics/scientific software(Matlab,Mathematica,Crystal98,Molden).
I never use any "Classic" applications, so my experience supports your idea that they might be the cause. I'm sorry you've had such problems, my machine has been rock solid except for a couple of Safari crashes.
If you have an app that pegs the proc and you are stuck with the spinning beachball, you can usually click the desktop to get the finder active and then click apple->force quit. I don't think I've ever had a runaway process that I couldn't kill that way.
While your scenario works fails to work using simple isotropic antennas like we use today, it could work with a more advanced system. All you need is some directivity. A phased array with some logic controlling it could scan all directions for a given 'color', locate the sources, and seperate the two signals. I know that the multipath/scattering issue would cause some problems but they might not be insurmountable.
The 'red' traffic light does not stop you from seeing the 'red' car next to you.
Apple notebooks (well at least my iBook) do reduce processor performance when using the battery. This is the "automatic" energy saver setting that is set by default.
If you are hitting the disk hard under both OSes, and are using IDE drives in the machine W2K probably runs rings around the Redhat. Redhat chooses some extremely conservative choices for setting up IDE disk which results in a maximum transfer rate of ~3 MB/s. Compare this to to 30-40 MB/s a modern IDE drive can sustain.
If you read the man page on hdparm ( or google ) you can with a simple command increase your hard drive transfer speeds by 10x. That should make the comparison a bit more fair.
The concept was probably thought of before but it's implimentation in an analog system would be a nightmare.
Currently with the package system, they can use a simple low pass filter in the box outside of your house. If you want basic, use filter "A". If you want expanded basic, use filter "B" instead. Premium service? Don't use any filter. These filters are very cheap and don't have a very sharp drop off. I have basic cable, i.e. ch 2-28, but you can still tune in channels 29 and 30 with reduced quality.
To implement an "pick your channels" system in analog you would need a lot of notch filters with very sharp edges. If you didn't want lifetime, you wouldn't want the filter to reduce the sound/picture quality of the surrounding channels. These filters would be more expensive. You would also need 1 filter for every channel you didn't want. This would add a lot of cost for the cable company.
With digital the filtering is much simpler but my digital service isn't digital for all channels. Here, channels 2-72 are all analog.
There already is a system for paying musicians directly. Fairtunes.com was a third party who collected and distributed over $15,000 to various artist. The founders of the site are no longer with the project but the system continues at this site. There is a minimum donation of $10.00 but you can spread it out to numerous artists.
No solder needed for the new (well probably not the ones released today) ibooks. A firmware script was discussed here that enabled multi-display without mirroring.
With the price drops announced today I'm finally going to make the switch. I hope they come up with a similar hack for these new ibooks with their 32MB Mobility Radeon 7500 graphics.
Neverwinter nights, when it first came out. Bioware release a patch later that disabled the "protection" and made the game playable.
Unreal Tournament 2003 currently suffers because of the use of their "copy protection"
The games are not tested after the copy protection is added so while the developer think everything is golden, the publishers throw on a protection scheme and ship broken games until someone comes up with a fix.
An "automated escrow agent" could be very useful in the world on online auctions.
If it included a tie in with shipping companies so that delivery conformation was sent back to the escrow agent, you could eliminate all human interaction except for cases where the item shipped does not match the description. I have no idea what the percentages of these problems are but I have to believe that failure to pay/ship far outweigh the cases of fraudulent descriptions.
I think part of the reason why this is widespread yet is that most people expect to get screwed and don't spend more than they can afford to lose. Count how many posts here saw that they would spend more than $100 at auction. If these people are willing to throw that money away then it may not be worth the additional cost of some sort of escrow service.
Rather than imposing fines on both people, wouldn't it make more sense to fine the party holding up the transaction? The buyers responsability ends when he pays and the sellers when the proper goods are received. I would hate to have sent in my payment and then get fined because the company refuses to ship the products.
Well, I hope there is something stimulating in there that makes up for my sarcastic comment.
Maybe I needed to add a:) to my post. Maybe you are carrying the negative additude from lucifuge31337's post above down to mine. Maybe you should add yourself to that list.
I was not trying to troll or flame, just making a sarcastic comment. At least I thought it was sarcastic, but what do I know?:)
Another problem is that the disks are write once media. I'm usually an early adopter, but I just couldn't justify spending over $10 a disk for a 500 MB write once disk, no matter how physically small it is.
I know if there were more devices using the prices would come down but these things cost more than 10000% the cost of a cd-r.
The toshiba laptop keyboards seem to suffer from a lot of key bounce under linux. On a dual boot setup, the problem only showed up under redhat 7.2 and not under windows 2000.
The problem and a kernel patch are described here. This was the only way I found to fix this problem. I didn't find any "tunable" parameter in config files that would help.
A search for "keyboard bounce" might turn up some more info.
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Apple's iTunes store sells AACs not MP3s.
A one-way cable modem is like the early satellite internet connections. You use a phone line modem to request the information and the download comes back over the cable modem.
Once you create the folder you can just drag it into another folder. Once you have your PHP, Perl and Java folder filled, you can click on the "Show all bookmarks" icon in the bookmark bar. Then click on the Development folder. Then drag the PHP... folders from the collections pane to the bookmarks pane.
The other things that you mention blocking traffic are either unavoidable (weather) or planned (road work/parades). In the case of planned blockages, it would be simple to have alternative routes planned and to move a couple of firetruck/ambulances out of the firehouse/garage to make sure that they are available if needed.
Also the main purpose of parades and road work is not disruption, although they both cause plenty. With a protest, the main goal is distruption and I think that the protesters might be a little slower in getting out of the way.
How many disks did your OS X machine come with? Mine came with at least 5, 2 for the OS and 3 for applications.
You do have a whole bunch of little programs that do specific tasks in the BSD subsystem. They are just hidden from most users by being accessible from the terminal.
I find I much prefer OS X to redhat for most things but in my opinion you are making linux sound much worse than it really is.
How is it "working" for you? What are you getting for not buying CDs? You think you are voting with your dollar but the RIAA isn't hearing you. They see a decline in sales and assume that all losses are due to piracy. So, they start adding DRM and making disks that can't be played in any computers. Maybe someday the price will be down to 8 bucks but it will probably only play in Windows 2005 using Super Secure Media Player 10.
Consider this example, a store sells a shirt that come in red and yellow. You and a bunch of other people like the style but want it in blue. So you all "vote with your dollar" and refuse to buy the shirt. How is the store ever going to know that it could have a lot more sales if it offered the shirt in blue? Unless you tell the RIAA why you aren't buying CDs, your vote is likely not being heard.
Maybe I'm just a masochist but I use Flash for presentations instead of powerpoint. It was great to be able to create some simple movies illustrating different excitation mechanism in a crystal.
It was also immune to the font problems I saw in every powerpoint presentation that semester. Almost every talk had some greek letters replaced by seemingly random characters because the OS/MSOffice versions were different on the machine the ppt presentation was written on and presented on.
The number of apps I used are rather limited. Other than Mail, Safari, and iTunes, most of what I run is mathematics/scientific software(Matlab,Mathematica,Crystal98,Molden).
I never use any "Classic" applications, so my experience supports your idea that they might be the cause. I'm sorry you've had such problems, my machine has been rock solid except for a couple of Safari crashes.
If you have an app that pegs the proc and you are stuck with the spinning beachball, you can usually click the desktop to get the finder active and then click apple->force quit. I don't think I've ever had a runaway process that I couldn't kill that way.
While your scenario works fails to work using simple isotropic antennas like we use today, it could work with a more advanced system. All you need is some directivity. A phased array with some logic controlling it could scan all directions for a given 'color', locate the sources, and seperate the two signals. I know that the multipath/scattering issue would cause some problems but they might not be insurmountable.
The 'red' traffic light does not stop you from seeing the 'red' car next to you.
Apple notebooks (well at least my iBook) do reduce processor performance when using the battery. This is the "automatic" energy saver setting that is set by default.
The origins of "mad as a hatter" are not as clear as you imply in your post. See Snopes
If you are hitting the disk hard under both OSes, and are using IDE drives in the machine W2K probably runs rings around the Redhat. Redhat chooses some extremely conservative choices for setting up IDE disk which results in a maximum transfer rate of ~3 MB/s. Compare this to to 30-40 MB/s a modern IDE drive can sustain.
If you read the man page on hdparm ( or google ) you can with a simple command increase your hard drive transfer speeds by 10x. That should make the comparison a bit more fair.
The concept was probably thought of before but it's implimentation in an analog system would be a nightmare.
Currently with the package system, they can use a simple low pass filter in the box outside of your house. If you want basic, use filter "A". If you want expanded basic, use filter "B" instead. Premium service? Don't use any filter. These filters are very cheap and don't have a very sharp drop off. I have basic cable, i.e. ch 2-28, but you can still tune in channels 29 and 30 with reduced quality.
To implement an "pick your channels" system in analog you would need a lot of notch filters with very sharp edges. If you didn't want lifetime, you wouldn't want the filter to reduce the sound/picture quality of the surrounding channels. These filters would be more expensive. You would also need 1 filter for every channel you didn't want. This would add a lot of cost for the cable company.
With digital the filtering is much simpler but my digital service isn't digital for all channels. Here, channels 2-72 are all analog.
There already is a system for paying musicians directly. Fairtunes.com was a third party who collected and distributed over $15,000 to various artist. The founders of the site are no longer with the project but the system continues at this site.
There is a minimum donation of $10.00 but you can spread it out to numerous artists.
No solder needed for the new (well probably not the ones released today) ibooks. A firmware script was discussed here that enabled multi-display without mirroring.
With the price drops announced today I'm finally going to make the switch. I hope they come up with a similar hack for these new ibooks with their 32MB Mobility Radeon 7500 graphics.
Unreal Tournament 2003 currently suffers because of the use of their "copy protection"
The games are not tested after the copy protection is added so while the developer think everything is golden, the publishers throw on a protection scheme and ship broken games until someone comes up with a fix.
If it included a tie in with shipping companies so that delivery conformation was sent back to the escrow agent, you could eliminate all human interaction except for cases where the item shipped does not match the description. I have no idea what the percentages of these problems are but I have to believe that failure to pay/ship far outweigh the cases of fraudulent descriptions.
I think part of the reason why this is widespread yet is that most people expect to get screwed and don't spend more than they can afford to lose. Count how many posts here saw that they would spend more than $100 at auction. If these people are willing to throw that money away then it may not be worth the additional cost of some sort of escrow service.
Rather than imposing fines on both people, wouldn't it make more sense to fine the party holding up the transaction? The buyers responsability ends when he pays and the sellers when the proper goods are received. I would hate to have sent in my payment and then get fined because the company refuses to ship the products.
Well, I hope there is something stimulating in there that makes up for my sarcastic comment.
Maybe you are carrying the negative additude from lucifuge31337's post above down to mine.
Maybe you should add yourself to that list.
I was not trying to troll or flame, just making a sarcastic comment. At least I thought it was sarcastic, but what do I know?
Congratulations, you just reinvented escrow.
It's jenny's number from the 1980's song by Tommy Two Tone.
Another problem is that the disks are write once media. I'm usually an early adopter, but I just couldn't justify spending over $10 a disk for a 500 MB write once disk, no matter how physically small it is.
I know if there were more devices using the prices would come down but these things cost more than 10000% the cost of a cd-r.
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Hm, the link works fine for me but regardless, I know how agrravating that problem is so I'm glad I could help.
The toshiba laptop keyboards seem to suffer from a lot of key bounce under linux. On a dual boot setup, the problem only showed up under redhat 7.2 and not under windows 2000.
The problem and a kernel patch are described here. This was the only way I found to fix this problem. I didn't find any "tunable" parameter in config files that would help.
A search for "keyboard bounce" might turn up some more info.