You can already download The Two Towers from various *cough* sources?
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...that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous bloatware or to use an obsolete OS that won't run any new games...
The wording is so ridiculously broad it could be interpereted to prohibit having a 7 year old, because any 7 year old can decipher Adobe's ROT-13 encryption on eBooks. That makes 7-year-olds an illegal copyright circumvention tool according to the DMCA. What, for christ's sake, were they smoking when they wrote the DMCA?
Except try to say it nicely and don't be so vitriolic.;)
Why bother to mess around with obsolete computers when you don't need to because you have a new one? It's a total waste of time. An old 486 might contribute about 0.1% of the processing power to the distributed computing project of your choice compared to a cheap Athlon XP 2000+, and it might be able to run minesweeper on Windows 3.1 or Linux 2.4 Whoop-dee-doo. Unless you're an antiquiphilic, throw away (or recycle) your old boxes.
nForce2 motherboards have been available for the general public to buy for about a week now. You can get them here or at other stores.
The Asus A7N8X board based on nForce2 is about $150, which isn't bad considering the KT400 alternative is about $125. IMO the performance boost from of nForce2 over KT400 (look at the benchmarks) is worth the extra $20. Plus you get great integrated sound, 2xlan, etc so you don't need to spend more on those things.
Good point, but how is microsoft going to take advantage of their OS monopoly to monopolize cell phones? I mean, they have nothing to do with one another. Unless they plan to modify windows so that other mobile phone OSes can't interface with it, I don't see how Microsoft's windows monopoly will be of any benefit to them in the cell phone market.
It works out so that it costs almost exactly $1/GB
Suppose a college has 20,000 students. 50,220GB/month/20,000students = 2.5GB/month/student
The cost of an OC3 is also only $50,000/month/20,000stu = $2.50/month/stu
therefore, it makes no sense to put such harsh restrictions on bandwidth when they could just charge each student a nominal fee of $10/month and get an extra 4 OC3s or an OC12 (which is probably cheaper).
IMO, they should just record how much bandwidth students use and charge them a nominal fee of $2 for each GB in excess of 10GB/month. They would even make a profit from the internet access then.
A PCI ram expansion will have abysmal performance because the bandwidth of the PCI bus is limited to 133mb/sec, which is only about twice as fast as a good hard drive swap file and 1/8 the speed of PC133 SDRAM, or 1/20 the speed of PC2700 DDR.
A 512mb PC133 stick is $50, and a 256mb PC2700 stick is $80. PC2100 is about $65 for 256mb. That's cheaper than getting a new mobo. Just throw out one of your 128mb dimms and replace it with a bigger one.
MicrosoftSucks.org
is a fully functioning webmail service, with all the features any other service has. But unlike Yahoo, there's NO SPAM, no ads, no banners, or any other annoyances. It's completely free with no advertizing support. It's awesome. Plus you get an address @microsoftsucks.org, which is nice.:)
I think it's run by some linux philanthropist guy, because whoever runs it is obviously not making any money from it, since there's no advertizing or spam at all.
IP ban everyone who gets impossibly high completion rates in excess of 1000GHz of athlon XP's (which is like the whole top 20 of that netherlands team and accounts for most of their WU's)
Actually, it could be possible to determine the rough distribution of matter within a black hole.
If a black hole has X amount of matter as a singularity, it will exert a certain amount of force on an object at a certain distance from it, just outside the event horizon. If the matter inside it is more spread out, the black hole would exert more force on the object.
By the same token, the size of the event horizon of black holes of equal mass should vary slightly with the distribution of matter within them.
The diameter of the event horizon of a black hole is proportional to the square root its mass, but the volume is proportional to the cube of the diameter. So mass^1.5 is proportional to volume. Therefore, as the mass of a black hole increases, the density (in terms of mass over event horizon volume) decreases, and a supermassive black hole can actually be much less dense than a star
So, while a black hole with mass equal to the sun would be much smaller than the sun, a black hole with mass 3x10^6 times that of the sun would have an event horizon with ~5x10^9 times the volume of a black hole with the same mass as the sun
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I'm going to go see it in the theater anyway, maybe multiple times. I just want to see it earlier and have my own copy. :)
You can already download The Two Towers from various *cough* sources?
...that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous bloatware or to use an obsolete OS that won't run any new games...
The wording is so ridiculously broad it could be interpereted to prohibit having a 7 year old, because any 7 year old can decipher Adobe's ROT-13 encryption on eBooks. That makes 7-year-olds an illegal copyright circumvention tool according to the DMCA. What, for christ's sake, were they smoking when they wrote the DMCA?
;)
Except try to say it nicely and don't be so vitriolic.
Well, you have nothing to worry about, because this crack-headed scheme would have been impossibly cumbersome to implement. :)
Those students had to go 36 hours without pr0n???
my 1mhz Commodore cost me $5,000!!!
This paper is good news for my WORLD DOMINATION plan to enslave the human race as borg drones! Yay for nanotech!
Why bother to mess around with obsolete computers when you don't need to because you have a new one? It's a total waste of time. An old 486 might contribute about 0.1% of the processing power to the distributed computing project of your choice compared to a cheap Athlon XP 2000+, and it might be able to run minesweeper on Windows 3.1 or Linux 2.4 Whoop-dee-doo. Unless you're an antiquiphilic, throw away (or recycle) your old boxes.
nForce2 motherboards have been available for the general public to buy for about a week now. You can get them here or at other stores. The Asus A7N8X board based on nForce2 is about $150, which isn't bad considering the KT400 alternative is about $125. IMO the performance boost from of nForce2 over KT400 (look at the benchmarks) is worth the extra $20. Plus you get great integrated sound, 2xlan, etc so you don't need to spend more on those things.
This cartoon is probably going to be even worse than the one that spun off of [i]Men in Black[/i]
Good point, but how is microsoft going to take advantage of their OS monopoly to monopolize cell phones? I mean, they have nothing to do with one another. Unless they plan to modify windows so that other mobile phone OSes can't interface with it, I don't see how Microsoft's windows monopoly will be of any benefit to them in the cell phone market.
OC3 = 155Mb/s = 1,674GB/day = 50,220 GB/month = $50,000/month
It works out so that it costs almost exactly $1/GB
Suppose a college has 20,000 students.
50,220GB/month/20,000students = 2.5GB/month/student
The cost of an OC3 is also only $50,000/month/20,000stu = $2.50/month/stu
therefore, it makes no sense to put such harsh restrictions on bandwidth when they could just charge each student a nominal fee of $10/month and get an extra 4 OC3s or an OC12 (which is probably cheaper).
IMO, they should just record how much bandwidth students use and charge them a nominal fee of $2 for each GB in excess of 10GB/month. They would even make a profit from the internet access then.
The site that the article linked to has a map which shows there will be a big total solar eclipse accross the USA in 2012. :)
A PCI ram expansion will have abysmal performance because the bandwidth of the PCI bus is limited to 133mb/sec, which is only about twice as fast as a good hard drive swap file and 1/8 the speed of PC133 SDRAM, or 1/20 the speed of PC2700 DDR.
A 512mb PC133 stick is $50, and a 256mb PC2700 stick is $80. PC2100 is about $65 for 256mb. That's cheaper than getting a new mobo. Just throw out one of your 128mb dimms and replace it with a bigger one.
How can you prosecute a company for antitrust violations when it doesn't even have a majority of the market share?
MicrosoftSucks.org is a fully functioning webmail service, with all the features any other service has. But unlike Yahoo, there's NO SPAM, no ads, no banners, or any other annoyances. It's completely free with no advertizing support. It's awesome. Plus you get an address @microsoftsucks.org, which is nice. :)
I think it's run by some linux philanthropist guy, because whoever runs it is obviously not making any money from it, since there's no advertizing or spam at all.
this means in 3 months I'll be able to download higher quality DVD rips to replace my DS9 collection!
I've had a 3.2ghz (watercooled) P4 ever since the first northwood core P4s came out almost a year ago...
IP ban everyone who gets impossibly high completion rates in excess of 1000GHz of athlon XP's (which is like the whole top 20 of that netherlands team and accounts for most of their WU's)
Actually, it could be possible to determine the rough distribution of matter within a black hole.
If a black hole has X amount of matter as a singularity, it will exert a certain amount of force on an object at a certain distance from it, just outside the event horizon. If the matter inside it is more spread out, the black hole would exert more force on the object.
By the same token, the size of the event horizon of black holes of equal mass should vary slightly with the distribution of matter within them.
The diameter of the event horizon of a black hole is proportional to the square root its mass, but the volume is proportional to the cube of the diameter. So mass^1.5 is proportional to volume. Therefore, as the mass of a black hole increases, the density (in terms of mass over event horizon volume) decreases, and a supermassive black hole can actually be much less dense than a star
So, while a black hole with mass equal to the sun would be much smaller than the sun, a black hole with mass 3x10^6 times that of the sun would have an event horizon with ~5x10^9 times the volume of a black hole with the same mass as the sun
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but microsoft has every reason to use their software to sabotage OS X and make it unstable. ;)
ATA-33 supports 33mb/sec. That's equivalent to burning a 700mb CDR in 21 seconds. That's 228x speed. The IDE bus is NOT the bottleneck. :)
Besides, they could start using ATA66 or ATA100 if ATA33 wasn't fast enough.
...Satan himself announced his plans to upscale the use of popup ads in Hell, as a way to torture people without the costs of hiring demons...