I'm not sure this is true. Lots of home users want to be able to open documents that they might get emailed, or find on the web.
There are two ways to handle that:
Tell people to stop mailing you data that's locked up in a proprietary format. (Before OpenOffice, this was what RMS and his acolytes were telling everybody. Maybe it still is.)
Use one of the viewers Microsoft makes available for its files (anyone know if these work under Wine?).
though I did inadvertently discover that those little plastic ribs on the SATA connectors aren't quite as strong as you might expect . . . *snap*
Mechanically speaking, the SATA connector doesn't seem particularly robust. I've had problems at work with one system in which the drive would occasionally disconnect and reconnect. Since the connectors use flat contacts that slide past each other and don't have much (if any) spring force behind them, it seems to me that you don't get as solid a connection as you did with PATA.
Under Windows, having the boot drive randomly disconnect usually results in a BSOD. It's just great when you're trying to get work done.:-|
have you ever seen a motherboard with a PCI Express slot and AGP? I've never seen one, though they might exist, they're not common, and certainly not cost-effective.
I've seen one (from ECS, IIRC) at Fry's, and Google returns a bunch of results. A good picture of one such board is here.
Yeah...I just got a CB installed in my car the other day...mostly for when my car club goes on long cruises to keep in touch. I've been trying to use it while on the road just in general...and reception sucks. I've learned I need to look more into a better antenna possibly, but, at this point, unless the person I'm talking to is within 5 car lengths...I can't seem to communicate with any clarity at all.
Something's not right with that. Back in 1988, my father bought a couple of handheld CBs at Radio Shack, along with a couple of "rubber-duck" antennas so they could be used inside the cars on a cross-country trip without sticking antennas on the outside. We got better range than that out of them, and I'm fairly sure our setup was less optimal than yours. Maybe it's your transceiver that's not working right, or the cabling between it and the antenna.
Unfortunately, it's unlikely any jet in US service will hit the civilian market: the military insists that the aircraft are destroyed (ones sent to museums have the spars and other structural parts cut with an ablative saw, and are heavily stripped).
While that's the fate that meets most of our aircraft, a (very small) number escape unharmed. I know there's an F-4, for instance, that flies the airshow circuit. Newer aircraft than that most likely haven't started doing that yet because they're still in service. A couple of years ago, there was an air show in Glendale, AZ, that included a couple of F-15As that had flown in from Eglin AFB. They were most likely some of the same planes for which my father was a maintenance supervisor back in the late '70s/early '80s, when they were new. Wait a few more years and you'll start seeing planes like that do airshows full-time.
Technically, none of the old aircraft (that the Air Force has flown, anyway) ever hit the civilian market. The old warbirds that fly in airshows and sit in museums still belong to Uncle Sam; they're just put out to selected organizations on long-term loan. If those organizations screw up (like the groups that were squabbling recently over the Memphis Belle), the Air Force can take its planes back.
To be honest, litigation isn't YouTube's problem. The poor video quality and the lack of people willing to pay for it is what's going to do them in.
Poor A/V sync has been a bugaboo of theirs as well. There's nothing like clicking on a video, starting to watch it, and then noticing a couple or three minutes in that the audio and video have drifted so far apart that whatever you're watching looks like a badly-dubbed kung fu movie.
It's Called MdiaPlayerClassic but it's not M$ And when it's installed with the K-Lite codec pack it rocks !
Codec packs can be dangerous. ffdshow handles nearly everything all by itself, is just one codec to install, and is free-as-in-speech.
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Well sure, for AA it's pointless. But what if you could charge a laptop battery with it? With two of them you could charge the main battery and the spare and never run dry!
Do you understand the power and current it takes to charge a laptop battery?
That sound you hear is the joke whooshing over your head. The Simpsons quote should've been a major tipoff.
In other news, it was found that a chair was the cause of the recent leak on the ISS. Authorities have no understanding of why the chair was in orbit in the first place.
Steve Ballmer's throwing arm must be as big around as a sequoia to have pulled that off.
I do with the search on the forums was a little better
Search on most forums sucks IME, and forums.gentoo.org is no exception. It's easy enough, though, to just hand the search off to Google, with a search term like "foo site:forums.gentoo.org."
Also, at 20,000 rpm.. assuming that the "revolution" is a distance of 1 or 2 millimeters.. the ACTUAL velocity is nothing to send a letter home with.
TFA said it runs at 20 krps, which would be 1.2 million rpm. Even if the mass is low, do you really want to be around when the compressor and/or turbine blades come apart? Historically, compressor disintegration has been a Bad Thing.
Also, there are a number of diesel performance tuners. Even old 80s diesels can put over 150HP to the ground, see http://www.vwdiesel.net/phpBB/ (scroll down for English forums). Modern TDIs can do well over 200HP.
A few years ago, Gale Banks dropped a modified Cummins turbodiesel into a Dodge Dakota. Project Sidewinder pulled somewhere around 600 hp from the engine and set a new speed record in its class of about 213 mph.
You can code spaghettic crap in any language. Basic just made it easier
I'd like to see you try to create spaghetti code in Pascal. It's kinda like the idea behind 1984's Newspeak: if certain words (like GOTO) don't exist in a language, then "bad" ideas (like spaghetti code) become impossible to express.
I've also come across a number of sites which are aggressively IE sites. they do both a user agent check and then they also ask the number of plugins, which catches the user agent switcher plugin.
Why can't you simply argue (or villify) on the facts? Why is it that the rabid left insists on making ad hominem attacks?
They can't do that because the facts of the matter aren't in their favor. All they have left is an inflated, unjustified sense of moral and intellectual superiority. When that by itself doesn't achieve the results they want, the poo-flinging begins.
If they want this country to change direction, they could start by winning elections. You do that by nominating candidates who appeal to a reasonably broad cross-section of society. Given that they haven't managed to win the White House since 1996 (and they had less than a majority in both '92 and '96) and that they are in thrall to their most extreme elements, that seems unlikely.
(This post, like yours, will be modded down by the Slashbot moonbat brownshirts in 5...4...3...2...)
My assembly class use 8086 (with Microsoft's assember... I prefer nasm).
Sounds like the class I took, except they also threw in three or four weeks of VAX assembly at the end. That way, we had some 32-bit experience as well.
Can you name one country including the muslim ones that has not had a muslim attack in recent history?
Canada.
I remember hearing something about a plot among some Mohammedans to behead the Canadian prime minister a little while back. It was stopped before they could get too far, but don't make the mistake of thinking that they're not trying to kill or subjugate the "kufr" everywhere they can.
The back of the Commodore 64 has an RS-232 interface. Any schmuck with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering can hook the Commodore 64's serial interface into the serial interface of any modern desktop.
No, actually it doesn't have an RS-232 interface. It has something called a User Port, using a male card-edge connector, which can transmit and receive serial data, but it only does so at TTL levels. But yeah, any schmuck with a soldering iron and a breadboard can slap together a true RS-232 interface using a 25 cent MAX232 chip and a few caps.
Without a 6551 ACIA or something similar, you're going to have to do all of the signal timing in software. I suppose it'd be doable, but you're going to be limited to slower speeds. You'd probably be lucky to get 2400 bps. With a 6551, you could easily do 19.2 kbps on a 1-MHz machine; with an accelerator, you could go even faster.
I don't know what kind of hardware was commonly used for serial ports on Commodores, but the Super Serial Card (and the many clones thereof) was the most popular interface for the Apple II. It used a 6551.
Even if a train is a little bit^W^W^Wmuch slower than a plane
I fixed that for you. It takes maybe seven or eight hours (give or take a bit) to fly across the United States (as little as 5.5 hours if you can score a nonstop flight). A train would most likely take at least three or four days to make the same trip. Even the "high-speed" trains that run in Europe and Japan are less than half as fast as your average twin-turbofan airliner. For the short trips (300 miles or less) where time spent waiting in the airport ends up becoming a significant fraction of your travel time, you might as well just hop in your car and drive there, as it'll take about the same amount of time and will save you the expense of renting a car at your destination.
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Nobody built the "Roosevelt Interstate System." It doesn't exist. The interstates were Eisenhower's idea.
$12.5 billion would be more concise, and less of a mouthful.
There are two ways to handle that:
Mechanically speaking, the SATA connector doesn't seem particularly robust. I've had problems at work with one system in which the drive would occasionally disconnect and reconnect. Since the connectors use flat contacts that slide past each other and don't have much (if any) spring force behind them, it seems to me that you don't get as solid a connection as you did with PATA.
Under Windows, having the boot drive randomly disconnect usually results in a BSOD. It's just great when you're trying to get work done. :-|
I've seen one (from ECS, IIRC) at Fry's, and Google returns a bunch of results. A good picture of one such board is here.
Something's not right with that. Back in 1988, my father bought a couple of handheld CBs at Radio Shack, along with a couple of "rubber-duck" antennas so they could be used inside the cars on a cross-country trip without sticking antennas on the outside. We got better range than that out of them, and I'm fairly sure our setup was less optimal than yours. Maybe it's your transceiver that's not working right, or the cabling between it and the antenna.
While that's the fate that meets most of our aircraft, a (very small) number escape unharmed. I know there's an F-4, for instance, that flies the airshow circuit. Newer aircraft than that most likely haven't started doing that yet because they're still in service. A couple of years ago, there was an air show in Glendale, AZ, that included a couple of F-15As that had flown in from Eglin AFB. They were most likely some of the same planes for which my father was a maintenance supervisor back in the late '70s/early '80s, when they were new. Wait a few more years and you'll start seeing planes like that do airshows full-time.
Technically, none of the old aircraft (that the Air Force has flown, anyway) ever hit the civilian market. The old warbirds that fly in airshows and sit in museums still belong to Uncle Sam; they're just put out to selected organizations on long-term loan. If those organizations screw up (like the groups that were squabbling recently over the Memphis Belle), the Air Force can take its planes back.
Poor A/V sync has been a bugaboo of theirs as well. There's nothing like clicking on a video, starting to watch it, and then noticing a couple or three minutes in that the audio and video have drifted so far apart that whatever you're watching looks like a badly-dubbed kung fu movie.
Like this, but at twice the price?
Codec packs can be dangerous. ffdshow handles nearly everything all by itself, is just one codec to install, and is free-as-in-speech.
That sound you hear is the joke whooshing over your head. The Simpsons quote should've been a major tipoff.
Steve Ballmer's throwing arm must be as big around as a sequoia to have pulled that off.
Search on most forums sucks IME, and forums.gentoo.org is no exception. It's easy enough, though, to just hand the search off to Google, with a search term like " foo site:forums.gentoo.org."
TFA said it runs at 20 krps, which would be 1.2 million rpm. Even if the mass is low, do you really want to be around when the compressor and/or turbine blades come apart? Historically, compressor disintegration has been a Bad Thing.
A few years ago, Gale Banks dropped a modified Cummins turbodiesel into a Dodge Dakota. Project Sidewinder pulled somewhere around 600 hp from the engine and set a new speed record in its class of about 213 mph.
I'd like to see you try to create spaghetti code in Pascal. It's kinda like the idea behind 1984's Newspeak: if certain words (like GOTO) don't exist in a language, then "bad" ideas (like spaghetti code) become impossible to express.
Something like this would've been more likely (and more useful):
Two can play that game. (Go here with IE to see it in action.)
They can't do that because the facts of the matter aren't in their favor. All they have left is an inflated, unjustified sense of moral and intellectual superiority. When that by itself doesn't achieve the results they want, the poo-flinging begins.
If they want this country to change direction, they could start by winning elections. You do that by nominating candidates who appeal to a reasonably broad cross-section of society. Given that they haven't managed to win the White House since 1996 (and they had less than a majority in both '92 and '96) and that they are in thrall to their most extreme elements, that seems unlikely.
(This post, like yours, will be modded down by the Slashbot moonbat brownshirts in 5...4...3...2...)
Sounds like the class I took, except they also threw in three or four weeks of VAX assembly at the end. That way, we had some 32-bit experience as well.
I remember hearing something about a plot among some Mohammedans to behead the Canadian prime minister a little while back. It was stopped before they could get too far, but don't make the mistake of thinking that they're not trying to kill or subjugate the "kufr" everywhere they can.
It also lets you use Firefox instead of IE to grab your updates, which is reason enough to prefer it.
Without a 6551 ACIA or something similar, you're going to have to do all of the signal timing in software. I suppose it'd be doable, but you're going to be limited to slower speeds. You'd probably be lucky to get 2400 bps. With a 6551, you could easily do 19.2 kbps on a 1-MHz machine; with an accelerator, you could go even faster.
I don't know what kind of hardware was commonly used for serial ports on Commodores, but the Super Serial Card (and the many clones thereof) was the most popular interface for the Apple II. It used a 6551.
You're off by an order of magnitude. 2400 bps = 2.4 kbps.
I fixed that for you. It takes maybe seven or eight hours (give or take a bit) to fly across the United States (as little as 5.5 hours if you can score a nonstop flight). A train would most likely take at least three or four days to make the same trip. Even the "high-speed" trains that run in Europe and Japan are less than half as fast as your average twin-turbofan airliner. For the short trips (300 miles or less) where time spent waiting in the airport ends up becoming a significant fraction of your travel time, you might as well just hop in your car and drive there, as it'll take about the same amount of time and will save you the expense of renting a car at your destination.