From your links, I don't see this as a "terrible price" at $400 (I rounded up). Most of the searcehs you linked to had the bulk of the entries at $350 or above. Take into account that you have to pay shipping, and then wait for the damn card to come in the mail when you're buying online. Paying an extra $35 (most would be at least $365 incl shipping) in order to get the card right now, here, at this very moment is not that bad when compared to other things.
They were using IRIX, a form of UNIX made for SGI machines. Since IRIX is no longer being supported (from what I hear) the switch makes sense. Hopefully linux will be close enough to the IRIX machines in interface.
I have to wonder how good the quality of this compression scheme will be overall. When listening to spoken words, I generally have to have it at 56 kbps or higher or the words run together for me. Other people may be different, however, so I'm not going to say that I have to have it my way 100% of the time. Music, however, is a different story. I can barely listen to anything at 96 kbps and below in any format, because the tones don't generally sound right. For music, I have to argue that it's not going to replace MP3 or OGG or any other sound compression format that there is.
How about Java 2, instead of 1.5. 1.4 is already out, I thought, at least in beta. I did hear some serious talk about them going straight to 2, instead of making 1.5-1.9
Most of us hate spam, but there are always those stupid users that click on every email promising another money-making opportunity. If you make an authenticated-mail protocol, that means everyone needs to use it, but those people targeted by spammers are the late adopters of new tech, so I don't think it would work too well.
Because of the clause in the constitution stating that that Congress can make all necessary laws, if the law gets passed it's necessary. This is because of the fact that elected leaders choose whethre it passes and elected leaders are "our voice" in government.
Basically, if enough members of Congress believe that this is a necessity and not enough states fight it, Congress can pretty much do what it damn well pleases.
Macromedia never said that Flash was in a sandbox. They just didn't include the ability, at first, to code more than just animations. That changed with version 4 or 5, can't remember, where the Active-script (?whatever it's called) was put into it.
This must have something to do with Real charging for new versions of its product. You can still download RealPlayer 8 for free, it just takes about 15 minutes to find the link. I'm waiting for the day that you have to pay to watch streaming content on the web. Maybe I'd be more enthusiastic if I'd ever seen more than 2 acceptable quality Real Media files, and those were encoded at the highest possible quality for the Real Media encoder. Even those were barely of acceptable quality.
Yes, you can chase someone for libel. Try reading some laws. The article doesn't deal with slander, since slander is verbal, not printed. Notice the article says that anonymous posters' identities cannot be exposed unless there is proof of damage. The companies can chase, it's just that they won't get anywhere without proof that the allegations are untrue and can cause damage. There's nothing about new laws in the article, just new precedents set. You can take someone to court for anything, even if there's a law saying you can't. The judge still has to rule on the case. Throwing the case out for being something that shouldn't be in courts is a ruling.
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Also, I don't get how you're supposed to upgrade it. It says "Remove the cover on th ebottome to access the upgrade slots." But then I'd be really afraid of hurting the LCD when I turned it over. I never thought they'd go back to the supreme unupgradeability of the PowerPC line. I remember almost losing a couple fingers when I upgraded RAM on a few of them.
it doesn't translate to Mystic Quest. It's the fact that when ported to Europe, the series was retitled Mystic quest instead of Final Fantasy because Europeans apparently couldn't handle the ideosyncratics of Final Fantasy (whatever I mean by that).
Since when do old virii not do any damage? any trojan from a few years ago can still totally mangle a computer that doesn't have anti-virus software on it. Also, there are plenty of older virii that do obscene things to hardware that haven't been fixed by MS. I run an anti-virus program just because I do download enough windows files that I want to be protected. This comes from a person that caught sub-seven a few too many times to be comfy without anti-virus software.
The patch in question is for outlook NOT the OS itself. And there was never a time that you couldn't turn off the preview pane, it's the way Outlook parses MIME email, not a basic flaw in the security design. I'm no MS lover or anything, but get it straight that it's the email reader and not the OS that has the problem. Also think, if there was a security exploit of that type in say Pine, then wouldn't you either need a patch or a new version of the program (or at least a recompile) before it was fixed? MS isn't as good as Linux as far as security goes but they aren't as bad as you make them sound.
I'm sorry, but you can't say that. Give the Gamecube a year to find out how it sells in that time and how many games come out for it. The Playstation 2 has at most 3 dozen games out so far, and I'd be willing to bet that by this time next year there will be ove a hundred for the Gamecube. Granted, that still doesn't make it most popular, but it could help it drastically. I'd rather have a system with lots of games to play than one with only a few. I konw, you're gonna say that most of the titles for Gamecube will be crap, but I can also say the same about the PS2. While there are a ew games for PS2 that I'd want to play, the only one that would make me get the console is Final Fantasy 10, which isn't even out yet. As for the Gamecube, I'd buy the console just to play Rogue Leader, Smash Brothers Melee, the new Zelda games, the new Sonic games, and many other licenses that are exclusively for Nintendo. Yes, I'd love to play FF 10, but I'm willing to wait 6 months and see if it comes out on PC or GC and then borrow someone's PS2 to play it if it doesn't.
Nintendo sold a hell of a lot more Gamecubes in the first 2 weeks than PS2 and Xbox even shipped in their first 3 weeks, so I'd say that it's the best console launch ever.
Of course you can post this on your site, as long as you haven't installed Mac OS 10.1, since that's the software in question. Maybe you even have to have not opened it, but I doubt someone would open it and not use it.
I use Yahoo and find their junk-mail folder to be far superior to Hotmail's (I use both actually). Also, Yahoo provides you with 6 MB of email messages in your online mailbox, while Hotmail only allows 2 or 3. I admit that's still not much, but if you save that much email, why is it still online? As for reliability, I've never seen Yahoo to be down ever. Maybe that one time from the DDoS attack, but I didn't check my email that day.
Is the file/print server on a network? If not, why's it there? If it is, you should *always* have all the latest updates since someone could get infected on the intranet, and even if it's not a webserver of any kind, it can still be infected by Code Red and other virii.
I've used StarOffice (Sun's implementation of OpenOffice) since Sun took it over. I'm very happy with it, and though in the beginning it didn't totally convert file formats successfully, but does much better now. My one main gripe is that StarCalc isn't quite as easy to use as Excel, but other than that, I'm almost ready to switch over to StarOffice completely. Now, if I could just get everyone else to switch I'd have no problems.
Now we have the next question that comes to mind. I want to know if there's a software solution to all of this, or if the hardware itself has to be upgraded to take advantage of these speeds.
Also, I know it can be done over existing lines, which is great for the installed base, but it still doesn't help run them all over. I'm just lamenting the fact that they don't have, and probably won't have in my lifetime, fiber as widespread as telephone line. Sorry for the OT part.
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From your links, I don't see this as a "terrible price" at $400 (I rounded up). Most of the searcehs you linked to had the bulk of the entries at $350 or above. Take into account that you have to pay shipping, and then wait for the damn card to come in the mail when you're buying online. Paying an extra $35 (most would be at least $365 incl shipping) in order to get the card right now, here, at this very moment is not that bad when compared to other things.
They were using IRIX, a form of UNIX made for SGI machines. Since IRIX is no longer being supported (from what I hear) the switch makes sense. Hopefully linux will be close enough to the IRIX machines in interface.
I have to wonder how good the quality of this compression scheme will be overall. When listening to spoken words, I generally have to have it at 56 kbps or higher or the words run together for me. Other people may be different, however, so I'm not going to say that I have to have it my way 100% of the time. Music, however, is a different story. I can barely listen to anything at 96 kbps and below in any format, because the tones don't generally sound right. For music, I have to argue that it's not going to replace MP3 or OGG or any other sound compression format that there is.
What I meant was JDK2.0, not Java 2. Sorry for the confusion.
How about Java 2, instead of 1.5. 1.4 is already out, I thought, at least in beta. I did hear some serious talk about them going straight to 2, instead of making 1.5-1.9
I notice it at times, but then again, my car speakers are crappy, so I can't always tell.
Most of us hate spam, but there are always those stupid users that click on every email promising another money-making opportunity. If you make an authenticated-mail protocol, that means everyone needs to use it, but those people targeted by spammers are the late adopters of new tech, so I don't think it would work too well.
Seems like nothing's keeping you from writing meaningless crap, so why should I stop?
Because of the clause in the constitution stating that that Congress can make all necessary laws, if the law gets passed it's necessary. This is because of the fact that elected leaders choose whethre it passes and elected leaders are "our voice" in government.
Basically, if enough members of Congress believe that this is a necessity and not enough states fight it, Congress can pretty much do what it damn well pleases.
I wanna know why being a Karma whore is a bad thing. I don't think being any kind of whore is necessarily bad, just sometimes not the thing I'm into.
Macromedia never said that Flash was in a sandbox. They just didn't include the ability, at first, to code more than just animations. That changed with version 4 or 5, can't remember, where the Active-script (?whatever it's called) was put into it.
This must have something to do with Real charging for new versions of its product. You can still download RealPlayer 8 for free, it just takes about 15 minutes to find the link. I'm waiting for the day that you have to pay to watch streaming content on the web. Maybe I'd be more enthusiastic if I'd ever seen more than 2 acceptable quality Real Media files, and those were encoded at the highest possible quality for the Real Media encoder. Even those were barely of acceptable quality.
Yes, you can chase someone for libel. Try reading some laws. The article doesn't deal with slander, since slander is verbal, not printed. Notice the article says that anonymous posters' identities cannot be exposed unless there is proof of damage. The companies can chase, it's just that they won't get anywhere without proof that the allegations are untrue and can cause damage. There's nothing about new laws in the article, just new precedents set. You can take someone to court for anything, even if there's a law saying you can't. The judge still has to rule on the case. Throwing the case out for being something that shouldn't be in courts is a ruling.
Also, I don't get how you're supposed to upgrade it. It says "Remove the cover on th ebottome to access the upgrade slots." But then I'd be really afraid of hurting the LCD when I turned it over. I never thought they'd go back to the supreme unupgradeability of the PowerPC line. I remember almost losing a couple fingers when I upgraded RAM on a few of them.
it doesn't translate to Mystic Quest. It's the fact that when ported to Europe, the series was retitled Mystic quest instead of Final Fantasy because Europeans apparently couldn't handle the ideosyncratics of Final Fantasy (whatever I mean by that).
Since when do old virii not do any damage? any trojan from a few years ago can still totally mangle a computer that doesn't have anti-virus software on it. Also, there are plenty of older virii that do obscene things to hardware that haven't been fixed by MS. I run an anti-virus program just because I do download enough windows files that I want to be protected. This comes from a person that caught sub-seven a few too many times to be comfy without anti-virus software.
The patch in question is for outlook NOT the OS itself. And there was never a time that you couldn't turn off the preview pane, it's the way Outlook parses MIME email, not a basic flaw in the security design. I'm no MS lover or anything, but get it straight that it's the email reader and not the OS that has the problem. Also think, if there was a security exploit of that type in say Pine, then wouldn't you either need a patch or a new version of the program (or at least a recompile) before it was fixed? MS isn't as good as Linux as far as security goes but they aren't as bad as you make them sound.
I'm sorry, but you can't say that. Give the Gamecube a year to find out how it sells in that time and how many games come out for it. The Playstation 2 has at most 3 dozen games out so far, and I'd be willing to bet that by this time next year there will be ove a hundred for the Gamecube. Granted, that still doesn't make it most popular, but it could help it drastically. I'd rather have a system with lots of games to play than one with only a few. I konw, you're gonna say that most of the titles for Gamecube will be crap, but I can also say the same about the PS2. While there are a ew games for PS2 that I'd want to play, the only one that would make me get the console is Final Fantasy 10, which isn't even out yet. As for the Gamecube, I'd buy the console just to play Rogue Leader, Smash Brothers Melee, the new Zelda games, the new Sonic games, and many other licenses that are exclusively for Nintendo. Yes, I'd love to play FF 10, but I'm willing to wait 6 months and see if it comes out on PC or GC and then borrow someone's PS2 to play it if it doesn't.
Nintendo sold a hell of a lot more Gamecubes in the first 2 weeks than PS2 and Xbox even shipped in their first 3 weeks, so I'd say that it's the best console launch ever.
Of course you can post this on your site, as long as you haven't installed Mac OS 10.1, since that's the software in question. Maybe you even have to have not opened it, but I doubt someone would open it and not use it.
I use Yahoo and find their junk-mail folder to be far superior to Hotmail's (I use both actually). Also, Yahoo provides you with 6 MB of email messages in your online mailbox, while Hotmail only allows 2 or 3. I admit that's still not much, but if you save that much email, why is it still online? As for reliability, I've never seen Yahoo to be down ever. Maybe that one time from the DDoS attack, but I didn't check my email that day.
Is the file/print server on a network? If not, why's it there? If it is, you should *always* have all the latest updates since someone could get infected on the intranet, and even if it's not a webserver of any kind, it can still be infected by Code Red and other virii.
He said $20 more than dialup. He's assuming $20 for dialup, which makes $20 more equal $40, so he's paying ~ $40 a month, which is about average.
I've used StarOffice (Sun's implementation of OpenOffice) since Sun took it over. I'm very happy with it, and though in the beginning it didn't totally convert file formats successfully, but does much better now. My one main gripe is that StarCalc isn't quite as easy to use as Excel, but other than that, I'm almost ready to switch over to StarOffice completely. Now, if I could just get everyone else to switch I'd have no problems.
Now we have the next question that comes to mind. I want to know if there's a software solution to all of this, or if the hardware itself has to be upgraded to take advantage of these speeds.
Also, I know it can be done over existing lines, which is great for the installed base, but it still doesn't help run them all over. I'm just lamenting the fact that they don't have, and probably won't have in my lifetime, fiber as widespread as telephone line. Sorry for the OT part.