Games of chance are a tax on the stupid. For example, the national lottery in the UK is generally known as 'a tax on the poor and stupid'. Well, at least those with a poor grasp of statistics.
The PowerMate is rather pricy at 40 dollars. Is it any good?
It's OK. Nicely machined, sexy looking, works under Linux but certainly not worth $40. I've bought more useful gadgets for a lot less.
It's one of those things you initially think will be great, but one day, in an idle moment you look at it and think: I haven't touched that device in 6 months. And then you think about selling it on eBay, but never quite get round to it.
Programmed normally, they had 64k of memory mapped into a segment in high-mem. To get some of the more bizarre 'ModeX' modes you had to program the VGA registers directly to change the timing and remap segments of it's larger memory in and out of the normal 0xa000h (or something like that). I think VGA cards had at least 256K to play with. You could do some really cool stuff in ModeX, anyone else remember the smooth scrolling in Bananoids? IIRC MCGA was IBM's cheaper adapter. It only had enough memory to do 320x200x8.
God, I can still remember that stuff, but I can't remember my Mother's birthday.
If you believe in that sort of thing. The theory seems to be that it prevents the virus from binding in the first place. It has no chance to mutate, within the host at least.
in the driver section of the X config file. My card (a 9800SE) was detected as a 9800 proper and the driver tried to use the two extra pipelines (faulty in my case, sadly - that would have been a bargain) causing the box to lock up hard.
Using the ChipId of a less capable card (I went for a 9600 I think), solved the problem for me. ATI's linux drivers suck really badly, but their support is even worse. I fill their support form out with each new driver release (politely!), but I never get a reply, the problems go unheeded and my solutions are ignored. I'll be going back to NVidia when I can justify a new card.:)
Well, I was just about to say that my cat has an extraordinarily well developed set of senses and is therefore completely sentient, when she decided to reply for herself:
(Actually her contribution (random repeated alphanumerics) has been deemed 'lame', which is felist at best)
Well then, my SunVideoPlus (really a Sun badged Osprey 15something) works just fine on my Ultra60. I use it *every bit* as much as I do my PC's Logitech USB camera.
The grandparent should have used "terrorist," a behavioral label, rather than implying some ethnic group = terrorist.
He should have said 'islamic terrorists'. That's what they are. They're 'bad' muslims just as much as Northern Irish republican and loyalist terrorists are 'bad' Catholics / Protestants. Not all muslims are terrorists, but the vast majority of acts of terror being carried out today are being done so 'in the name of' islam. Like all major religions they have a 'do not kill' clause which is conveniently ignored when their religious leaders feel threatened. Note the Irony.
Ethnic? Religious? What difference does it make, it's the latest manifestation of tribal conflict that we've been suffering from for millenia.
I'm on some large Solaris machines here with static partitioning..
Sun didn't make any domainable machines which aren't dynamic, unless not enough boards are present on yours. They're hardware domainable at the board level and at the Solaris level using processor sets or Solaris Resource Manager. Shifting CPUs around without some sort of hardware failure fencing is asking for trouble.
This is certainly the most interesting thing that I've read today. Though I'm not sure that I would lump agnostics in with the other religions in your last paragraph, as it isn't necessarily a 'belief system'.
I consider myself agnostic rather than atheist precisely because I don't believe in God as much as I don't believe there isn't a God (since there's no way on disproving the theory). Actually I don't much care one way or the other. My 'guess' is that when I die, I cease to exist as a concious being and I decompose. But maybe I'll be surprised. I'm not particularly looking forward to it, but then everyone has to go sometime.
It's what I achieve now (and perhaps my progeny) which form my 'afterlife'. Hey I've got a slashdot account, some open source code out there and I'm already on a census! Maybe I'll become a fossil:)
If they're worried about ministers not voting according to their briefs, then dump the whole system of ministers and just mail in the briefs!
Or we could just ditch the whole thing. My parents voted to join a common market in the 70s (a 2 way split in this household). What we have now is a fundamentally un-democratic, sleaze-ridden gravy train for an 'elite' band of largely unknown technocrats, elected through an utterly flawed process.
The sooner we have a referendum to get out of this farce the better.
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Incredibly cute
Cuteness is in the eye of the beholder. That creature looks as ugly as sin to me.
Mind you, I hate dogs.
Games of chance are a tax on the stupid. For example, the national lottery in the UK is generally known as 'a tax on the poor and stupid'. Well, at least those with a poor grasp of statistics.
Poker isn't *just* a a game of chance. Simple.
I know. The original parent asked about a volume control for his PeeCee.
Oh, and the USB cable is stupidly short - only about 18".
SunOS when it was first upgraded to 64 bits (becoming Solaris)
Indeed, SunOS became Solaris when Sun abandoned BSD in favour of SVR4. Solaris 7 was the first 64 version. As any fule kno.
The PowerMate is rather pricy at 40 dollars. Is it any good?
It's OK. Nicely machined, sexy looking, works under Linux but certainly not worth $40. I've bought more useful gadgets for a lot less.
It's one of those things you initially think will be great, but one day, in an idle moment you look at it and think: I haven't touched that device in 6 months. And then you think about selling it on eBay, but never quite get round to it.
Ah. MCGA. I remember drooling when I got my copy of Deluxe Paint II and you could manipulate photorealistic pictures using its 320x200x8 mode.
My copy came with a free mouse!
Back in those days, of course there were only 3 256 colour pictures. The frog on the leaf, the babe with the earrings and the sinister clown.
Programmed normally, they had 64k of memory mapped into a segment in high-mem. To get some of the more bizarre 'ModeX' modes you had to program the VGA registers directly to change the timing and remap segments of it's larger memory in and out of the normal 0xa000h (or something like that). I think VGA cards had at least 256K to play with. You could do some really cool stuff in ModeX, anyone else remember the smooth scrolling in Bananoids? IIRC MCGA was IBM's cheaper adapter. It only had enough memory to do 320x200x8.
God, I can still remember that stuff, but I can't remember my Mother's birthday.
A company like IBM, on the other hand, which sells silicon but gives away information, can expect a long and prosperous future.
You've obviously never come across mainframe licensing.
IBM are still around after all these years because they're good at making money on hardware AND software AND services. They're certainly *not* saints.
Sounds like delta 32.
If you believe in that sort of thing. The theory seems to be that it prevents the virus from binding in the first place. It has no chance to mutate, within the host at least.
Feel free to use my hardware company marketing BS detector:
#!/bin/sh
# BS detector
grep "high bandwidth, low latency"
Works every time, or your money back.
Try fiddling with
:)
Option ChipId
in the driver section of the X config file. My card (a 9800SE) was detected as a 9800 proper and the driver tried to use the two extra pipelines (faulty in my case, sadly - that would have been a bargain) causing the box to lock up hard.
Using the ChipId of a less capable card (I went for a 9600 I think), solved the problem for me. ATI's linux drivers suck really badly, but their support is even worse. I fill their support form out with each new driver release (politely!), but I never get a reply, the problems go unheeded and my solutions are ignored. I'll be going back to NVidia when I can justify a new card.
Well, I was just about to say that my cat has an extraordinarily well developed set of senses and is therefore completely sentient, when she decided to reply for herself:
(Actually her contribution (random repeated alphanumerics) has been deemed 'lame', which is felist at best)
Well then, my SunVideoPlus (really a Sun badged Osprey 15something) works just fine on my Ultra60. I use it *every bit* as much as I do my PC's Logitech USB camera.
Thanks for asking!
...but only with the most clueless consumers; government departments.
The grandparent should have used "terrorist," a behavioral label, rather than implying some ethnic group = terrorist.
He should have said 'islamic terrorists'. That's what they are. They're 'bad' muslims just as much as Northern Irish republican and loyalist terrorists are 'bad' Catholics / Protestants. Not all muslims are terrorists, but the vast majority of acts of terror being carried out today are being done so 'in the name of' islam. Like all major religions they have a 'do not kill' clause which is conveniently ignored when their religious leaders feel threatened. Note the Irony.
Ethnic? Religious? What difference does it make, it's the latest manifestation of tribal conflict that we've been suffering from for millenia.
Haven't had it happen yet in 1.0PR, so fingers crossed.
Q. What's a Shih Tzu?
A. One that hasn't got any penguins!
Linda Smith, BBC Radio 4.
I'm on some large Solaris machines here with static partitioning..
Sun didn't make any domainable machines which aren't dynamic, unless not enough boards are present on yours. They're hardware domainable at the board level and at the Solaris level using processor sets or Solaris Resource Manager. Shifting CPUs around without some sort of hardware failure fencing is asking for trouble.
This is certainly the most interesting thing that I've read today. Though I'm not sure that I would lump agnostics in with the other religions in your last paragraph, as it isn't necessarily a 'belief system'.
:)
I consider myself agnostic rather than atheist precisely because I don't believe in God as much as I don't believe there isn't a God (since there's no way on disproving the theory). Actually I don't much care one way or the other. My 'guess' is that when I die, I cease to exist as a concious being and I decompose. But maybe I'll be surprised. I'm not particularly looking forward to it, but then everyone has to go sometime.
It's what I achieve now (and perhaps my progeny) which form my 'afterlife'. Hey I've got a slashdot account, some open source code out there and I'm already on a census! Maybe I'll become a fossil
There's a UK law which permits the killing of Welsh people in Chester, provided you use a bow...
Sensible policies for a happier Chester.
Sadly there's no such thing as mahogany any more. Not growing at least. It's one of the reasons Chippendale furniture is so jolly expensive.
Microsoft could save a lot in licensing fees if they just switched to Linux and OpenOffice.
No, they did the TCO study, and get this, it turns out that Linux and OpenOffice actually costs more! Who'd have thought...
If they're worried about ministers not voting according to their briefs, then dump the whole system of ministers and just mail in the briefs!
Or we could just ditch the whole thing. My parents voted to join a common market in the 70s (a 2 way split in this household). What we have now is a fundamentally un-democratic, sleaze-ridden gravy train for an 'elite' band of largely unknown technocrats, elected through an utterly flawed process.
The sooner we have a referendum to get out of this farce the better.
If it's too full, you don't let them in. In real life, that's also how it works.
Hence the phrase "book early to avoid disappointment".