And can/do cable companies monitor what people watch?
Absolutely. If you have digital cable, the ability to track your viewing habits is built right into the set-top box. I can't see too many people accepting this PeoplePeeper, er People Meter. It's too invasive in my view. A Nielsen box just sits quietly on your TV, but this thing you have to lug around. The scary thing is that there are people who will accept this invasion. To make it really effective, they should put this into cellphones (and bury the data collection into the terms of use contract, of course).
Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems by Keith Clarke (ISBN 0-13-294786-2). Short and skimmable for important info. It's a bit dated (1996) but will give you a quick overview of GIS terms before you move on to more specific needs (ESRI vs. Intergraph), and your local library probably has a copy. There are shortcomings to both packages, and you'll need to know something about what your people want to do with the GIS in order to select the best package. And, yes, Virginia, there is a Unix version. My employer (a university in the northeast) is a Sun house and we use ESRI's packages on a dozen SunBlade 1000s.
They'll cut the merchandise by two thirds, as they still have tons of unsold Episode One merchandise
I did my part in supporting the Lucas franchise: My catharsis involved the purchase of 3 Jar Jar Binks action figures, an old microwave, an extension cord and my backyard. Of course, after the 2nd one has been melted in the microwave, most of the curative effect has expended itself.
I miss the real *BSD is dying troll... (at least he posted in *BSD discussions)
Sure, we all know that the *BSD is dying guy is a failure, but why? Why did he fail? Once you get past the green, warty skin and the fact that his attention is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible toll-collection schemes under bridges, there is the historical record that he is a weenie. *BSD is dying guy experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles (kindergarten). Since then, his social skills have been in steady decline. We all know *BSD is dying guy isn't getting any, but why? Is it the problematic personality? Or is it larger than that?
The record is clear on one thing: no personality this bad has ever recovered. Efforts to get *BSD is dying guy laid are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the *BSD is dying guy, sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over his warty exterior. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia for the good old days (before the restraining order) has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD is dying guy.
The kind that doesn't like to have their SO yelling at them all the time for having "all those damn noisy machines." Ever hear the noise that a 500W p/s and a pair of full height Micropolis SCSI drives makes inside an ancient AT&T WGS case (think industrial overkill) makes when you power it on? Now that's music to lull you to sleep (IMO)...
Isn't it the same as their usual new market share acquisition plan?
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!
What incentive does Microsoft have to "work with the Open Source community"? They've built a rather successful company around Closed Source software, absorbing (much) smaller competitors, backdoor shenanigans (I just like to say that whenever I can), and having licensing schemes worthy of The Devil Himself. Want to see the code? You can: for the right price and under very restrictive terms. Microsoft understands this market and can make money with its well known "embrace, extend, control" methodology. Open Source is a new threat and they haven't figured out what to do with it.
Just as they first dismissed (or missed) the Internet, they dismissed Open Source. But, Mr. Gates turned the company around on a dime and went after the market very quickly. The same is now happening with Open Source (albiet with the closed fist, rather than the open hand). Be afraid... be very afraid!
I've never gotten as much head() and tail() as when I program in Lisp or SML. You procedural guys just don't understand the give and take: sometimes you get the head, other times you have to eat the tail. Some people say Lisp and SML are too strict. If you're just looking for a good time, I'd recommend Miranda...
We are badly in need of facts from someone schooled in heat transfer and/or geology
I'm no expert in heat transfer: I slept through most of the (7AM!) Thermodynamics course I took back when I was a student. I decided to bone up on it, however, the book is lodged in the middle of a stack of textbooks holding up one side of the shelf that my monitor rests upon. So, instead I'll bullshit my way through it. Just think of the earth to a big computer: the crust is the CPU, the atmosphere is the heatsink and the seas are the liquid cooling system God put in so He could overclock the world.
After thoroughly reading Tom's Hardware Guide, HardOCP, and a bunch of other sites on the web, I can say with all the authority of an expert in a completely different science making a bad analogy that we just need to shave a few mountains, apply a nice, thick layer of thermal compound and put tall enough (must reach beyond the atmosphere) heatsink/fan combos on top. Or maybe the Overclocked Jesus can turn the seas to liquid nitrogen and save us all! Of course, I'd never have a taste of fried halibut again, but I'm willing to make sacrifices.
If, in fact, there is a global warming trend, which I'm not inclined to dispute as there may well be, just what can we realistically do to prevent it? At this point, I'd suggest adapting, since there's only one other certain solution...
Hey, how else will ISP companies entice you to install their spyware and "branded" applications?
Give users a download page for other software with links to SSH, WS_FTP, Pegasus Mail, Eudora, Agent, etc. Don't forget us non-Windows users. There's not much point in sending out CDs full of apps anymore: they're already on the user's system, the computer is hopelessly outdated, or the user is running an alternate OS (and can most likely get whatever they need themselves). A software CD just adds another layer of confusion for that 10-15% of callers that generate 80% of tech support calls.
If your users can't set up DHCP with step-by-step full color instructions, you're going to have support problems no matter what you send them.
Excellent source for memory
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30-pin SIMMs
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· Score: 2, Informative
For the last 6-7 years, I've bought all of my memory from Coast to Coast Memory (1-800-4-MEMORY) I've never been screwed by these guys. Had to have one 256MB PC133 SDRAM replaced that crapped out on its second day of use, no problems with exchange.
They're at all the local computer shows, always test before they sell and have a lifetime guarantee on all memory. Plus, they carry old stuff like the 30-pin SIMMs (up to 16MB, I think), SIPPs, SOJJs and they can find more esoteric stuff.
There's nothing wrong with Crucial, either. Have you tried checking out local computer shows? If they're any good, they test the memory right there. No shipping charges, and often, no taxes.
Why would you want to build a cult around Xinu? Oh, sure, if you've been forced to use it for an Operating Systems course and the implementation used was a dodgy port from VMS to Solaris running on a handful of headless Sparc5 stations that went down faster than (insert vile thought here), you might just take up prayer to space aliens as a pastime.
On a serious note, good for Google! It'll be interesting to see what the fallout is on this. The Co$ is very litigious and the DMCA needs to be tested (and struck down) in court. Not going to happen, I know... just a pipe dream.
Thanks for the input. Well it is a *BSD distro. You can find a lot more info on it here [sourceforge.net]
That was a troll (parent of parent)? At the time, the only info was what was in the story blurb! Oh well, some moderators should take their lithium regularly. And it's good to finally see some information on the sourceforge site.
I like the idea of integrated voice control, though I'm not too sure about voice password authorization. It's too hard to tell the difference between live and Memorex with consumer grade stuff. Plus, I can't be the *only* person that brings their parabolic microphone in to work. Heh.
Well, OS/2 passed the "Egghead test" for me*. When I went to my local Egghead store (back in the day), they had two racks full of OS/2 software and a sign that indicated most Windows software ran fine on OS/2. The people working there were actually competent and could answer questions, too! I bought it and never regretted it. Amazingly, I could run DOS apps alongside Windows apps and when, not if, a Windows app crashed, it didn't take down the whole system!
Of course, Egghead is no more, thanks to CrapUSA and some other computer superstore that went out of business while destroying local competition, and IBM gave up the "desktop war" to its comeptition. Sure, OS/2 still exists, but who's going to pay $284 for an OS when Windows comes pre-bundled with every computer you buy? This is the problem OS/2 faced when it was affordable ($99 for Warp, circa 1995). So they gave up trying to position it as a consumer OS. No more games, little productivity software, just vertical apps that businesses could afford. The superior OS just disappeared.
That being said, we probably won't see anything interesting being ported from OS/2 to Linux. Most of the software out there is vertical apps, a few outdated office suites, games by companies that disappeared, shareware device drivers (SIO rocked), some ancient BBS software, and many neat little shareware helper programs, some of them written in REXX.
That's what I gathered from deciphering the "LainOS" website. But they claim, "LainOS is for the most part a modfified version of FreeBSD 4.5," and, "It sports a animated splash screen, a more fully intergrated X server, and a custom graphical login interface, amoung several other improvments over FreeBSD and Linux."
Either they don't know what they're talking about (a theme is not an OS, as you pointed out) or their goal is to roll their own *BSD distribution. Which is it? Themes are great, but that's not much of a vision for a distro. Does *BSD need another distro anyway? I think FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD fit nicely in their own niches. About the only distro I'd like to see would be a fork off OpenBSD to harden security, much like what the NSA did with SE-Linux. OpenBSD is great, but could benefit from a little more paranoia.
Is switching to FreeBSD an option? The virtual memory management there is much better than in Linux under stress.
I'd have to agree. The author should look into using FreeBSD. A GIS project I'm currently working on allocates 3GB of RAM at startup. Until we get the rest of the funding for our SunFire solution, we're using what we have available, which is (was, actually: we've replaced the OS with FreeBSD) a P4 Linux box with 2GB of RAM, a 9GB SCSI drive for swap partition and a 36GB SCSI drive for everything else.
I'm not a Linux expert, but the techs in the department are. After a few weeks of their tinkering, it did pretty much the same thing as you're experiencing. I have a small development system at home (P3, 1GB RAM, 4GB SCSI swap, 40GB IDE for all else) running FreeBSD. Installed the software, and it runs like a charm. X works beautifully, Apache still serves up pages (of course, it doesn't get much traffic at home) and the program never chokes the system. Granted, with only a gig of real memory, it spends a fair amount of time accessing the disk (about 30 seconds every 2 minutes), and it steals almost all the cycles from dnetc!
We tried to stop him from even getting into office.
I woke up cynical today, so
<CYNICISM>
We obviously didn't try hard enough. The Democrats were wrong to only want recounts in areas that they knew would benefit Gore. The whole state should've been forced to recount, or have a revote. The Supremes are ultimately to blame. But then, how often does the judicial branch get the opportunity to select the next President?
You think Bush isn't going to try riding the "axis of evil" to a second term? He learned from his daddy (and Clinton) that if the polls are down, bomb the Iraqis. Lucky for him, and horribly unlucky for the victims, the actions of the terrorists have given him a veneer of teflon. Criticism can't stick: you're a terrorist or terrorist lover if you criticize the President.
That goes double for our Senators. Don't dare question the billions of dollars that are being pumped into our "just war," simply accept that you don't need to know what the parameters of our War on Terrorism are.
If you pull away the veil of terrorism, what has the President (and his administration) done for the American people? Giant tax cuts to the rich, a pittance for the poor and working class (what did you do with your $300 check?), Dick "Undisclosed Location" Cheney stonewalling the GAO, claiming that we absolutely must drill in ANWR to reduce our dependence on foreign oil (with no mention of reducing our USAGE), backing out of the Kyoto treaty (it's not like Congress would have ratified it anyway!), backing out of the 1972 ABM treaty and developing a missile shield that is never going to work (unless angering the world is the goal).
</CYNICISM>
Now I'm angry, and sad. It looks like the Pentagon wants to be ready to act upon the more unreasonable portion of the report (using nuclear arms in a conventional war). Of course, nobody will listen to the scientists (from the article):
"The explosion simply blows out a massive crater of radioactive dirt, which rains down on the local region with an especially intense and deadly fallout," Dr. Nelson wrote last year.
You havea 701C with a working active matrix LCD? I would probably be willing to pay $200 for that. I used to carry mine around with me everywhere. Had a great battery and none of those pesky peripherals built in. Used it for notes mostly. The outer cover of the LCD is notoriously flimsy.
Ironically, the LCD was killed while it was safely stored in a padded laptop bag. Not sure how it happened, but the next time I opened it up, I found that the LCD had leaked its bodily fluids.
I sold mine for $140 on Ebay, clearly noting the status of the LCD. I'd say the $200 range would be a fair price for a working one with all standard peripherals and cables included. So, that's about 2*MHz, but my PII-233 (OCed to 300) with maxed out RAM, 24x CD-R and 6GB Travelstar would barely fetch 1.25*(natural)MHz.
I think that's more an apples to oranges comparison anyway, as one is a collectible (in my mind) and the other is not. Maybe the author is only looking at the lastest and greatest (PIII + Celeron, TFT active matrix) used laptops, which might make a closer fit to Cost = 2*MHz.
Each lecture seems to come in at about half a gig, although YMMV. Not something to download lightly, at least not on a common cable modem line.
Especially considering that, even before they went belly-up, my average d/l rate for the lectures hovered around 3-6KB/sec (on a T-1). Half a gig for a 1 - 1.5hr lecture? Sure, mirror them if you can get permission, but convert them to a more sane format first.
It's a random sample of the Tivo users who haven't opted out.
Whether you can extrapolate meaningful data depends on what you're trying to accomplish. It's not going to give you a cross-sectional analysis of the general population's viewing habits, because Tivo doesn't have a broad enough base. However, it will most likely clue you in to what the average Tivo user watches (unless a significant percentage of Tivo users have opted out).
And what would armed resistance have achieved, other than bringing down more force on them, AND the government labelling them more strongly as subversive terrorists, swinging public opinion further away from them.
Gasp! "Labelling them more strongly," oh, one cannot even imagine a much worse fate than that. Oh, wait. 4-6 million Jews dehumanized and put to death in concentration camps, yeah, that's worse.
What happens is that the device 'listens' for silence in the stream, and removes it, building up a buffer but is nevertheless delayed to the common listener. Eventually you get 7 seconds of buffer all over again. I assume this works in the same way, except we're dealing with video in addition to audio too here. Nothing 'new' about it.
Sorta. Actually, for radio, it does time-expansion, not compression. You'd never have a buffer for the dump if you remove the dead air!
As far as I can tell (I hate poorly designed websites), the company doesn't specifically allow Joe Luser to sell his wares on eBay. I wouldn't expect them to act any differently than Verant, and considering their business model, to be more aggressive about it (if possible). What it does do, is let Joe Luser spend his credit limit to get fakeBux(tm) to buy his in-game eq that degrades over time. Please note that nowhere does it say that real money is anything but a one-way transaction to the company. Great model for the company running the game, by the way.
However, what about game balance? I suppose trying to have balance in a MMORPG is a very tricky subject, but come on! It's bad enough when it's unsanctioned, cuts down on the number of people willing to buy and sell in real life. But when the game specifically allows buying eq with real money? Yeesh. Perhaps it will be fun for a little while...
And what happens when mommy find out that little Timmy's been using her Gold Card? (Bad Timmy, Bad!)
For those of you who just can't pick one platform. Not, dual booting, what is that, like the equivalent of quadruple booting?
You forgot to mention "(booting) without the wait!" OS/2 rules! Well, it used to rule. Ok, it never ruled, but damn, it could have and should have! The WPS was rock solid. And a fully re-entrant virtually bomb-proof kernel? I almost enjoyed watching my Windows programs blow up without taking down the whole system. Too bad IBM was running the show and gave up the desktop "war" when they finally had a product with real potential (3.0 and up). Hmm, I've still got a few of the Blues (Warp Connect) sitting around somewhere...
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And can/do cable companies monitor what people watch?
Absolutely. If you have digital cable, the ability to track your viewing habits is built right into the set-top box. I can't see too many people accepting this PeoplePeeper, er People Meter. It's too invasive in my view. A Nielsen box just sits quietly on your TV, but this thing you have to lug around. The scary thing is that there are people who will accept this invasion. To make it really effective, they should put this into cellphones (and bury the data collection into the terms of use contract, of course).
Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems by Keith Clarke (ISBN 0-13-294786-2). Short and skimmable for important info. It's a bit dated (1996) but will give you a quick overview of GIS terms before you move on to more specific needs (ESRI vs. Intergraph), and your local library probably has a copy. There are shortcomings to both packages, and you'll need to know something about what your people want to do with the GIS in order to select the best package. And, yes, Virginia, there is a Unix version. My employer (a university in the northeast) is a Sun house and we use ESRI's packages on a dozen SunBlade 1000s.
They'll cut the merchandise by two thirds, as they still have tons of unsold Episode One merchandise
I did my part in supporting the Lucas franchise: My catharsis involved the purchase of 3 Jar Jar Binks action figures, an old microwave, an extension cord and my backyard. Of course, after the 2nd one has been melted in the microwave, most of the curative effect has expended itself.
I miss the real *BSD is dying troll... (at least he posted in *BSD discussions)
Sure, we all know that the *BSD is dying guy is a failure, but why? Why did he fail? Once you get past the green, warty skin and the fact that his attention is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible toll-collection schemes under bridges, there is the historical record that he is a weenie. *BSD is dying guy experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles (kindergarten). Since then, his social skills have been in steady decline. We all know *BSD is dying guy isn't getting any, but why? Is it the problematic personality? Or is it larger than that?
The record is clear on one thing: no personality this bad has ever recovered. Efforts to get *BSD is dying guy laid are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the *BSD is dying guy, sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over his warty exterior. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia for the good old days (before the restraining order) has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD is dying guy.
What kind of geek likes quiet machines?
The kind that doesn't like to have their SO yelling at them all the time for having "all those damn noisy machines." Ever hear the noise that a 500W p/s and a pair of full height Micropolis SCSI drives makes inside an ancient AT&T WGS case (think industrial overkill) makes when you power it on? Now that's music to lull you to sleep (IMO)...
Isn't it the same as their usual new market share acquisition plan?
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!
What incentive does Microsoft have to "work with the Open Source community"? They've built a rather successful company around Closed Source software, absorbing (much) smaller competitors, backdoor shenanigans (I just like to say that whenever I can), and having licensing schemes worthy of The Devil Himself. Want to see the code? You can: for the right price and under very restrictive terms. Microsoft understands this market and can make money with its well known "embrace, extend, control" methodology. Open Source is a new threat and they haven't figured out what to do with it.
Just as they first dismissed (or missed) the Internet, they dismissed Open Source. But, Mr. Gates turned the company around on a dime and went after the market very quickly. The same is now happening with Open Source (albiet with the closed fist, rather than the open hand). Be afraid... be very afraid!
I've never gotten as much head() and tail() as when I program in Lisp or SML. You procedural guys just don't understand the give and take: sometimes you get the head, other times you have to eat the tail. Some people say Lisp and SML are too strict. If you're just looking for a good time, I'd recommend Miranda...
We are badly in need of facts from someone schooled in heat transfer and/or geology
I'm no expert in heat transfer: I slept through most of the (7AM!) Thermodynamics course I took back when I was a student. I decided to bone up on it, however, the book is lodged in the middle of a stack of textbooks holding up one side of the shelf that my monitor rests upon. So, instead I'll bullshit my way through it. Just think of the earth to a big computer: the crust is the CPU, the atmosphere is the heatsink and the seas are the liquid cooling system God put in so He could overclock the world.
After thoroughly reading Tom's Hardware Guide, HardOCP, and a bunch of other sites on the web, I can say with all the authority of an expert in a completely different science making a bad analogy that we just need to shave a few mountains, apply a nice, thick layer of thermal compound and put tall enough (must reach beyond the atmosphere) heatsink/fan combos on top. Or maybe the Overclocked Jesus can turn the seas to liquid nitrogen and save us all! Of course, I'd never have a taste of fried halibut again, but I'm willing to make sacrifices.
If, in fact, there is a global warming trend, which I'm not inclined to dispute as there may well be, just what can we realistically do to prevent it? At this point, I'd suggest adapting, since there's only one other certain solution...
Hey, how else will ISP companies entice you to install their spyware and "branded" applications?
Give users a download page for other software with links to SSH, WS_FTP, Pegasus Mail, Eudora, Agent, etc. Don't forget us non-Windows users. There's not much point in sending out CDs full of apps anymore: they're already on the user's system, the computer is hopelessly outdated, or the user is running an alternate OS (and can most likely get whatever they need themselves). A software CD just adds another layer of confusion for that 10-15% of callers that generate 80% of tech support calls.
If your users can't set up DHCP with step-by-step full color instructions, you're going to have support problems no matter what you send them.
For the last 6-7 years, I've bought all of my memory from Coast to Coast Memory (1-800-4-MEMORY) I've never been screwed by these guys. Had to have one 256MB PC133 SDRAM replaced that crapped out on its second day of use, no problems with exchange.
They're at all the local computer shows, always test before they sell and have a lifetime guarantee on all memory. Plus, they carry old stuff like the 30-pin SIMMs (up to 16MB, I think), SIPPs, SOJJs and they can find more esoteric stuff.
There's nothing wrong with Crucial, either. Have you tried checking out local computer shows? If they're any good, they test the memory right there. No shipping charges, and often, no taxes.
Why would you want to build a cult around Xinu? Oh, sure, if you've been forced to use it for an Operating Systems course and the implementation used was a dodgy port from VMS to Solaris running on a handful of headless Sparc5 stations that went down faster than (insert vile thought here), you might just take up prayer to space aliens as a pastime.
On a serious note, good for Google! It'll be interesting to see what the fallout is on this. The Co$ is very litigious and the DMCA needs to be tested (and struck down) in court. Not going to happen, I know... just a pipe dream.
Thanks for the input. Well it is a *BSD distro. You can find a lot more info on it here [sourceforge.net]
That was a troll (parent of parent)? At the time, the only info was what was in the story blurb! Oh well, some moderators should take their lithium regularly. And it's good to finally see some information on the sourceforge site.
I like the idea of integrated voice control, though I'm not too sure about voice password authorization. It's too hard to tell the difference between live and Memorex with consumer grade stuff. Plus, I can't be the *only* person that brings their parabolic microphone in to work. Heh.
Well, OS/2 passed the "Egghead test" for me*. When I went to my local Egghead store (back in the day), they had two racks full of OS/2 software and a sign that indicated most Windows software ran fine on OS/2. The people working there were actually competent and could answer questions, too! I bought it and never regretted it. Amazingly, I could run DOS apps alongside Windows apps and when, not if, a Windows app crashed, it didn't take down the whole system!
Of course, Egghead is no more, thanks to CrapUSA and some other computer superstore that went out of business while destroying local competition, and IBM gave up the "desktop war" to its comeptition. Sure, OS/2 still exists, but who's going to pay $284 for an OS when Windows comes pre-bundled with every computer you buy? This is the problem OS/2 faced when it was affordable ($99 for Warp, circa 1995). So they gave up trying to position it as a consumer OS. No more games, little productivity software, just vertical apps that businesses could afford. The superior OS just disappeared.
That being said, we probably won't see anything interesting being ported from OS/2 to Linux. Most of the software out there is vertical apps, a few outdated office suites, games by companies that disappeared, shareware device drivers (SIO rocked), some ancient BBS software, and many neat little shareware helper programs, some of them written in REXX.
* disclaimer: I once was a Team OS/2 booster.
It's just a sawfish theme.
That's what I gathered from deciphering the "LainOS" website. But they claim, "LainOS is for the most part a modfified version of FreeBSD 4.5," and, "It sports a animated splash screen, a more fully intergrated X server, and a custom graphical login interface, amoung several other improvments over FreeBSD and Linux."
Either they don't know what they're talking about (a theme is not an OS, as you pointed out) or their goal is to roll their own *BSD distribution. Which is it? Themes are great, but that's not much of a vision for a distro. Does *BSD need another distro anyway? I think FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD fit nicely in their own niches. About the only distro I'd like to see would be a fork off OpenBSD to harden security, much like what the NSA did with SE-Linux. OpenBSD is great, but could benefit from a little more paranoia.
Is switching to FreeBSD an option? The virtual memory management there is much better than in Linux under stress.
I'd have to agree. The author should look into using FreeBSD. A GIS project I'm currently working on allocates 3GB of RAM at startup. Until we get the rest of the funding for our SunFire solution, we're using what we have available, which is (was, actually: we've replaced the OS with FreeBSD) a P4 Linux box with 2GB of RAM, a 9GB SCSI drive for swap partition and a 36GB SCSI drive for everything else.
I'm not a Linux expert, but the techs in the department are. After a few weeks of their tinkering, it did pretty much the same thing as you're experiencing. I have a small development system at home (P3, 1GB RAM, 4GB SCSI swap, 40GB IDE for all else) running FreeBSD. Installed the software, and it runs like a charm. X works beautifully, Apache still serves up pages (of course, it doesn't get much traffic at home) and the program never chokes the system. Granted, with only a gig of real memory, it spends a fair amount of time accessing the disk (about 30 seconds every 2 minutes), and it steals almost all the cycles from dnetc!
We tried to stop him from even getting into office.
I woke up cynical today, so
<CYNICISM>
We obviously didn't try hard enough. The Democrats were wrong to only want recounts in areas that they knew would benefit Gore. The whole state should've been forced to recount, or have a revote. The Supremes are ultimately to blame. But then, how often does the judicial branch get the opportunity to select the next President?
You think Bush isn't going to try riding the "axis of evil" to a second term? He learned from his daddy (and Clinton) that if the polls are down, bomb the Iraqis. Lucky for him, and horribly unlucky for the victims, the actions of the terrorists have given him a veneer of teflon. Criticism can't stick: you're a terrorist or terrorist lover if you criticize the President.
That goes double for our Senators. Don't dare question the billions of dollars that are being pumped into our "just war," simply accept that you don't need to know what the parameters of our War on Terrorism are.
If you pull away the veil of terrorism, what has the President (and his administration) done for the American people? Giant tax cuts to the rich, a pittance for the poor and working class (what did you do with your $300 check?), Dick "Undisclosed Location" Cheney stonewalling the GAO, claiming that we absolutely must drill in ANWR to reduce our dependence on foreign oil (with no mention of reducing our USAGE), backing out of the Kyoto treaty (it's not like Congress would have ratified it anyway!), backing out of the 1972 ABM treaty and developing a missile shield that is never going to work (unless angering the world is the goal).
</CYNICISM>
Now I'm angry, and sad. It looks like the Pentagon wants to be ready to act upon the more unreasonable portion of the report (using nuclear arms in a conventional war). Of course, nobody will listen to the scientists (from the article):
"The explosion simply blows out a massive crater of radioactive dirt, which rains down on the local region with an especially intense and deadly fallout," Dr. Nelson wrote last year.
You havea 701C with a working active matrix LCD? I would probably be willing to pay $200 for that. I used to carry mine around with me everywhere. Had a great battery and none of those pesky peripherals built in. Used it for notes mostly. The outer cover of the LCD is notoriously flimsy.
Ironically, the LCD was killed while it was safely stored in a padded laptop bag. Not sure how it happened, but the next time I opened it up, I found that the LCD had leaked its bodily fluids.
I sold mine for $140 on Ebay, clearly noting the status of the LCD. I'd say the $200 range would be a fair price for a working one with all standard peripherals and cables included. So, that's about 2*MHz, but my PII-233 (OCed to 300) with maxed out RAM, 24x CD-R and 6GB Travelstar would barely fetch 1.25*(natural)MHz.
I think that's more an apples to oranges comparison anyway, as one is a collectible (in my mind) and the other is not. Maybe the author is only looking at the lastest and greatest (PIII + Celeron, TFT active matrix) used laptops, which might make a closer fit to Cost = 2*MHz.
Is there a secret society of Grand Master programmers
I sense much fear in this one. Train you, I cannot.
Each lecture seems to come in at about half a gig, although YMMV. Not something to download lightly, at least not on a common cable modem line.
Especially considering that, even before they went belly-up, my average d/l rate for the lectures hovered around 3-6KB/sec (on a T-1). Half a gig for a 1 - 1.5hr lecture? Sure, mirror them if you can get permission, but convert them to a more sane format first.
It's a random sample of the Tivo users who haven't opted out.
Whether you can extrapolate meaningful data depends on what you're trying to accomplish. It's not going to give you a cross-sectional analysis of the general population's viewing habits, because Tivo doesn't have a broad enough base. However, it will most likely clue you in to what the average Tivo user watches (unless a significant percentage of Tivo users have opted out).
...are The New James Beard Cookbook (and Beard on Bread) and Numerical Recipes in C.
I think most of the recipes in Bachelor Chow can be improved with a liberal application of Pepto-Bismol or Tums. Mmmm, Tums.
And what would armed resistance have achieved, other than bringing down more force on them, AND the government labelling them more strongly as subversive terrorists, swinging public opinion further away from them.
Gasp! "Labelling them more strongly," oh, one cannot even imagine a much worse fate than that. Oh, wait. 4-6 million Jews dehumanized and put to death in concentration camps, yeah, that's worse.
What happens is that the device 'listens' for silence in the stream, and removes it, building up a buffer but is nevertheless delayed to the common listener. Eventually you get 7 seconds of buffer all over again. I assume this works in the same way, except we're dealing with video in addition to audio too here. Nothing 'new' about it.
Sorta. Actually, for radio, it does time-expansion, not compression. You'd never have a buffer for the dump if you remove the dead air!
As far as I can tell (I hate poorly designed websites), the company doesn't specifically allow Joe Luser to sell his wares on eBay. I wouldn't expect them to act any differently than Verant, and considering their business model, to be more aggressive about it (if possible). What it does do, is let Joe Luser spend his credit limit to get fakeBux(tm) to buy his in-game eq that degrades over time. Please note that nowhere does it say that real money is anything but a one-way transaction to the company. Great model for the company running the game, by the way.
However, what about game balance? I suppose trying to have balance in a MMORPG is a very tricky subject, but come on! It's bad enough when it's unsanctioned, cuts down on the number of people willing to buy and sell in real life. But when the game specifically allows buying eq with real money? Yeesh. Perhaps it will be fun for a little while...
And what happens when mommy find out that little Timmy's been using her Gold Card? (Bad Timmy, Bad!)
For those of you who just can't pick one platform. Not, dual booting, what is that, like the equivalent of quadruple booting?
You forgot to mention "(booting) without the wait!" OS/2 rules! Well, it used to rule. Ok, it never ruled, but damn, it could have and should have! The WPS was rock solid. And a fully re-entrant virtually bomb-proof kernel? I almost enjoyed watching my Windows programs blow up without taking down the whole system. Too bad IBM was running the show and gave up the desktop "war" when they finally had a product with real potential (3.0 and up). Hmm, I've still got a few of the Blues (Warp Connect) sitting around somewhere...