That's because you're a nut, or a troll. I'm still undecided on that point. Honestly, I suspect most people care about the content, not the look of their books (assuming they're at least up to a minimum readable level).
It takes a special person to build a guilded hermetically sealed case for the works of Killgore Trout.
Scary as it sounds, someone actually did make an OGRE computer game once. Lemme dust off my old bookmarks here...
UGU's outdated software archive. Here it is. I had to go through a lot of trouble to get it to compile and run correctly on my machine, but it does work. This is a good example of why you shoudln't call low level operating system calls.
Despite those dire warnings, the FCC's policy on broadband enjoys strong support. Companies with a stake in the matter are gung-ho for it, at least for their own networks
In other news, several CEOs were recently admitted to the Mayo clinic with an unusual condition that caused their eyeballs to actually turn into small dollar signs. When asked about his condition, once CEO could not stop laughing manically long enough to answer.
A spokesman for AOL/Time Warner said he was quite willing to accept customers from price gouging DSL monopolies into his price gouging Cable networks. Comcast could not be reached as their network was apparently down yet again.
Better not go outside. There is the daystar thing some people refer to as the "Sun". This Sun emits tremendous amounts of radiation all across the spectrum. Fortunatly the stuff in the high spectrum is absorbed by the Ozone layer, but most of our radios operate at much lower frequencies than that. Be careful though, if you spent too much time in line of sight of the sun, it can actually burn your skin!
Looks like the writer got distracted half way through the sentence. I think the point he was trying to make was that if you throw a dart at a map of the US, chances are whever it hits will have no available broadband choices outside of satellite. Basically: Broadband is restricted to metropolitan areas for the most part, and most of the US is still rural.
[From the operation manual for the CI-300 Dot Matrix Line Printer, made in Japan]:
The excellent output machine of MODEL CI-300 as extraordinary DOT MATRIX LINE PRINTER, built in two MICRO-PROCESSORs as well as EAROM, is featured by permitting wonderful co-existence such as; "high quality against low cost", "diversified functions with compact design", "flexibility in accessibleness and durability of approx. 2000,000,00 Dot/Head", "being sophisticated in mechanism but possibly agile operating under noises being extremely suppressed" etc.
And as a matter of course, the final goal is just simply to help achieve "super shuttle diplomacy" between cool data, perhaps earned by HOST COMPUTER, and warm heart of human being.
Ironically, it was the Free Unixes that were first to take advantage of the Command Tagged Queueing on the Deskstars. In fact that was one of their major selling points (until the whole quality control fiasco hit). To this day I don't think any other manufacturer has CTQ support on any ATA drive.
Well, right off the top of my head I can think of three that havn't been mentioned: Niksun NetVCR (a really sweet piece of kit), Juniper routers, and the Cybernet NetMAX. LOTS of people with embedded solutions that require a bit more oomph than your normal embedded OS can provide use FreeBSD. From a corporate point of view, the FreeBSD has a very favorable license and a conservative release schedule that helps insure a stable OS for your embedded project. Also, it doesn't hurt that the FreeBSD source tree is in CVS, and you can maintain a branch relativly painlessly without having your proprietary changes merged back in the main branch (although some companies merge their changes anyway, look at vinum).
And the only reason CDs won out is because they sound better after many listenings, not because they sound better.
Well that and the fact that the music industry pushed hard on CDs because they have a higher profit margin (lower production cost, higher price). Remember how CDs were supposed to come down to the price of tapes once the "development costs" were recouped? Notice how they didn't because the industry folks are hoping you forgot all about that by now.
Better check with the Dorm rules before brining in that A/C. Back at tech you had to have a doctors signature and fill out a mount of forms to be allowed to have an A/C in your dorm window.
Really, the best thing to get her is a roommate who already have the Dorm Fridge, Microwave, TV, A/C (if allowed) and all of that other stuff so you don't have to carry it all around (and worry about it being stolen). This is especially useful if you are on the 12th floor (naturally they won't let you use the elevators--that's for cleaning staff only).
Better be careful with blanket statements. I know at least in my area merely owning lockpicks without a valid license can land you in jail. As always, be sure you know the laws in your area and any place you plan to travel to. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Just what I needed, a controller that requires 6 additional hands to operate. Hopefully it won't be grossly oversized and also require replacement of my current hands (like the current X-box controller).
Yeah, why offer a low cost low speed service when you can peddle your high cost low speed service instead?
What I'd really like to see is a "power user" or "enthusiast" service with higher caps and the ability to run VPNs (very useful for the work-at-home crowd), or even low bandwidth servers. I'm sure there'd be plenty of people willing to pay to be able to run their own SSH daemon without being in violation of the TOS. I know I would be.
Unless the manufacturers ridiculously over charge for the bulbs...
Bingo. LCD projector manufacturers know they are on the gravy train and they like it. Also, some projectors use regular Halogen bulbs, those are MUCH cheaper but the projectors themselves tend to be of low quality (and will only work in small rooms).
Since when did they offer any warnings before disconnecting you? The various anecdotes I've seen say that they just cut you off permanently no questions asked.
That's not the problem. There is plenty of bandwidth to go around (at least on my loop, we were getting phnominal rates before Comcast came and capped us), the problem is the 1500/128 bandwith cap in this area. That's more than a 12:1 D/U ratio! It only takes one person trying to do video conferencing, uploading a file, running VNC or whatever to max out the upload and cause horrendous performace for the entire network. Remember that TCP backs off when it sees loss, and even if you are only using a faction of your download you will start loosing ACK packets at the modem and your download will slow down to a crawl.
I wouldn't complain except that Comcast offers no "power user" service with a more reasonable upload cap (like 384 kb or so) and I live 17km from my nearest CO. I don't understand why Comcast doesn't offer tiers of service like many DSL providers, they could make a fortune off of their artificial scarcity of bandwidth and their monopoly in this area.
I think MTV figured out that modern manufactured bands (especially Boy Bands and the Britney Spears of the world) suck, but they can't play real music because that's not their business. So now they try to distance themselves from the music as much as possible by slowly turning itself into E![1] for teens.
[1] You know, that channel that's always showing something called Sex on the Naughty Island or We
Want to Show Naked People but We're on Basic Cable.
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Yes, that would be way too consistent for English.
That's because you're a nut, or a troll. I'm still undecided on that point. Honestly, I suspect most people care about the content, not the look of their books (assuming they're at least up to a minimum readable level).
It takes a special person to build a guilded hermetically sealed case for the works of Killgore Trout.
Scary as it sounds, someone actually did make an OGRE computer game once. Lemme dust off my old bookmarks here...
UGU's outdated software archive. Here it is. I had to go through a lot of trouble to get it to compile and run correctly on my machine, but it does work. This is a good example of why you shoudln't call low level operating system calls.
Despite those dire warnings, the FCC's policy on broadband enjoys strong support. Companies with a stake in the matter are gung-ho for it, at least for their own networks
In other news, several CEOs were recently admitted to the Mayo clinic with an unusual condition that caused their eyeballs to actually turn into small dollar signs. When asked about his condition, once CEO could not stop laughing manically long enough to answer.
A spokesman for AOL/Time Warner said he was quite willing to accept customers from price gouging DSL monopolies into his price gouging Cable networks. Comcast could not be reached as their network was apparently down yet again.
Better not go outside. There is the daystar thing some people refer to as the "Sun". This Sun emits tremendous amounts of radiation all across the spectrum. Fortunatly the stuff in the high spectrum is absorbed by the Ozone layer, but most of our radios operate at much lower frequencies than that. Be careful though, if you spent too much time in line of sight of the sun, it can actually burn your skin!
Looks like the writer got distracted half way through the sentence. I think the point he was trying to make was that if you throw a dart at a map of the US, chances are whever it hits will have no available broadband choices outside of satellite. Basically: Broadband is restricted to metropolitan areas for the most part, and most of the US is still rural.
In the FreeBSD 4.2 Release notes. Scroll down to the "Tagged Queueing on ATA disks" section.
I've made my choice. -- Homer Simpson.
[From the operation manual for the CI-300 Dot Matrix Line Printer, made
in Japan]:
The excellent output machine of MODEL CI-300 as extraordinary DOT
MATRIX LINE PRINTER, built in two MICRO-PROCESSORs as well as EAROM, is
featured by permitting wonderful co-existence such as; "high quality
against low cost", "diversified functions with compact design",
"flexibility in accessibleness and durability of approx. 2000,000,00
Dot/Head", "being sophisticated in mechanism but possibly agile
operating under noises being extremely suppressed" etc.
And as a matter of course, the final goal is just simply to help
achieve "super shuttle diplomacy" between cool data, perhaps earned by
HOST COMPUTER, and warm heart of human being.
Ironically, it was the Free Unixes that were first to take advantage of the Command Tagged Queueing on the Deskstars. In fact that was one of their major selling points (until the whole quality control fiasco hit). To this day I don't think any other manufacturer has CTQ support on any ATA drive.
I guess I'm going to have to be the wiseass who points out that Napster never got anywhere near making a profit.
Well, right off the top of my head I can think of three that havn't been mentioned: Niksun NetVCR (a really sweet piece of kit), Juniper routers, and the Cybernet NetMAX. LOTS of people with embedded solutions that require a bit more oomph than your normal embedded OS can provide use FreeBSD. From a corporate point of view, the FreeBSD has a very favorable license and a conservative release schedule that helps insure a stable OS for your embedded project. Also, it doesn't hurt that the FreeBSD source tree is in CVS, and you can maintain a branch relativly painlessly without having your proprietary changes merged back in the main branch (although some companies merge their changes anyway, look at vinum).
And the only reason CDs won out is because they sound better after many listenings, not because they sound better.
Well that and the fact that the music industry pushed hard on CDs because they have a higher profit margin (lower production cost, higher price). Remember how CDs were supposed to come down to the price of tapes once the "development costs" were recouped? Notice how they didn't because the industry folks are hoping you forgot all about that by now.
Better check with the Dorm rules before brining in that A/C. Back at tech you had to have a doctors signature and fill out a mount of forms to be allowed to have an A/C in your dorm window.
Really, the best thing to get her is a roommate who already have the Dorm Fridge, Microwave, TV, A/C (if allowed) and all of that other stuff so you don't have to carry it all around (and worry about it being stolen). This is especially useful if you are on the 12th floor (naturally they won't let you use the elevators--that's for cleaning staff only).
Better be careful with blanket statements. I know at least in my area merely owning lockpicks without a valid license can land you in jail. As always, be sure you know the laws in your area and any place you plan to travel to. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Yes. :) They are masters of marketing, they're hoping nobody notices they just told the truth.
Just what I needed, a controller that requires 6 additional hands to operate. Hopefully it won't be grossly oversized and also require replacement of my current hands (like the current X-box controller).
That is officially the weakest excuse for bad writing I have ever heard.
Yeah, why offer a low cost low speed service when you can peddle your high cost low speed service instead?
What I'd really like to see is a "power user" or "enthusiast" service with higher caps and the ability to run VPNs (very useful for the work-at-home crowd), or even low bandwidth servers. I'm sure there'd be plenty of people willing to pay to be able to run their own SSH daemon without being in violation of the TOS. I know I would be.
Unless the manufacturers ridiculously over charge for the bulbs...
Bingo. LCD projector manufacturers know they are on the gravy train and they like it. Also, some projectors use regular Halogen bulbs, those are MUCH cheaper but the projectors themselves tend to be of low quality (and will only work in small rooms).
Yeah, but they'd never get into orbit. They were still working on getting the potato past Mach 1 when their site disappeard off the face of the web.
Since when did they offer any warnings before disconnecting you? The various anecdotes I've seen say that they just cut you off permanently no questions asked.
That's not the problem. There is plenty of bandwidth to go around (at least on my loop, we were getting phnominal rates before Comcast came and capped us), the problem is the 1500/128 bandwith cap in this area. That's more than a 12:1 D/U ratio! It only takes one person trying to do video conferencing, uploading a file, running VNC or whatever to max out the upload and cause horrendous performace for the entire network. Remember that TCP backs off when it sees loss, and even if you are only using a faction of your download you will start loosing ACK packets at the modem and your download will slow down to a crawl.
I wouldn't complain except that Comcast offers no "power user" service with a more reasonable upload cap (like 384 kb or so) and I live 17km from my nearest CO. I don't understand why Comcast doesn't offer tiers of service like many DSL providers, they could make a fortune off of their artificial scarcity of bandwidth and their monopoly in this area.
I think MTV figured out that modern manufactured bands (especially Boy Bands and the Britney Spears of the world) suck, but they can't play real music because that's not their business. So now they try to distance themselves from the music as much as possible by slowly turning itself into E![1] for teens.
[1] You know, that channel that's always showing something called Sex on the Naughty Island or We Want to Show Naked People but We're on Basic Cable.
Why would they negotiate with the artists? The artists have no control over their songs, they're owned lock stock and barrel by the labels.