You know, I've seen a lot of "How come there aren't any girl games for whatever". So my question is, is why don't women get out and write games for other women? I mean, it can't be that difficult in this day and age with all the tools available to women to write games that they themselves would enjoy. So am I totally missing something here? What's the problem with writing games for women by women?
Or have I just totally missed the point cuz I'm a guy and all?
I'm 21, and I'm wondering what this thing you call "book" is? Is it something new in Linux? I'd be interesting in knowing what this "book" is.:-> *snicker*
Besides- if I don't have to pay sales tax for mail-order/1-800 orders for goods - why should I pay taxes for goods ordered by email or web-page? I'm still ordering over state boundaries either way.
You just mentioned what a lot of people are missing around here. In the good 'ol state of Wisconsin (And I'd imagine in all 50 states), you *DO* have to pay a tax on *ANYTHING* you mail order. What you have to do is, is when you buy whatever from the catalog you have to report it to the state and pay the taxes on it (I think you do this when you do your state income tax).
Now, this worked really well for a long time, just one problem with it. The problem with it is, since the government can't tell what you bought when you mail order it you don't have to pay taxes on it.:) Now, this is illegal and you probably would go to jail if they ever found out. That's the WHOLE problem, they can't find out. The only way they can find out is if you report it, and are any of you that stupid to report what you bought by mail order?
Ok, now for those of you who are that stupid(Those people who belive in an "Internet Tax"). What you do is this:
1) Total up everything you've bought on the Internet this past year
2) Multiply that total by your state income tax
3) Write a check out to to your State Goverment
4) Multiply the total from Line 1) by the percentage of your city tax, then do the same for your county tax(if you have any these).
5) Write a check out to your City and/or County
See, now wasn't this whole Internet tax a simple and easy way of doing this? I, some little lamer in Wisconsin figured out how to tax all purchases on the Internet!!!!!!!! Can you belive it? holy shit!!! Isn't that awsome??!?! I mean, all I did was treat it like a mail order purchase!! Whooa neat idea! I wish someone would have thought of this earlier.
Now, those of you who belive in the sales tax for the Internet purchases can do those steps I mentioned above(treat it like you mail ordered something, which you pretty much did), then those of us who think taxes are bunk, will continue to not pay sales tax for anything we buy on the Internet or mail order, because the goverment can't catch you if you don't(Which is the *WHOLE* point of this I might add).:->
Oh, I forgot to mention, every time you have a rumage sale, or you sell a book to a friend, or you pretty sell anything to anyone, you *DO* have to pay sales on that too. It is after a tax on anything you SELL. Since were going after those Internet sales tax everyone is avoiding which is putting Wal-Mart out of business, we should also go after those little 'ol ladies not charging sales tax when they have rumage sales too.
My whole point, having laws for sales tax for sales on the Internet is easy(We already have them), the problem is getting people to PAY the tax. No one wants to pay the tax unless they're faced with going to jail, since the goverment can't catch you currently, no one does. It's not really an issue about about Wal-Mart or whom ever loseing money, if you feel that bad about not paying your taxes for items you bought on the Internet, just write a check out to your State and local goverment like you do for a mail order, then you can feel better by improving your State Highways or something.:)
Here in the UK most (nearly all) of the cost of fuel is in the form of tax - we would probably end up paying the same tax on fuel cells just as soon as they were the norm.
Here in the states we taxed on about 49 cents a gallon. Which at normal gas prices is a 50% tax on gas. Now, were up to about a $1.50/gallon so the tax percentage has changed a little bit. I'm used to gas prices being about $1.00 to $1.10/gallon.
Any how, with fuel cells, and tax, you figure if you're using hydrogen and oxygen you could just fill your tank up with water, and perhaps have some separator to make it go into hydrogen and oxygen, then go back into water again into your tank. I suppose you'd loose a little bit in conversions and such, but you could almost never have to refuel - you'd figure. I'm not quite filmier in the actually conversion process to know for sure. I just think it'd be so awesome to use this type of energy. I could just imagine the people bitching because they're taxing oxygen or something.:-> Actually if you could cheaply convert water into hydrogen and oxygen and store in a tank you could do this at home and get around the tax, of course they may make regulations on this to make you pay for the tax, but of course you're probably right, they'd tax the shit out of you on this as well.
Not so easy to do that with fossil fuel, unless you want to wait a few million years:->
Yeah, but this is what's so cool about this technlogy, you can waste and waste and it'll always come back.:->
In a car, the potential for explosion is negligibly equal to gasoline. The by-product of water is much cleaner than anything to date.
I really love fuel cell discussions:) It's such a GREAT technlogy, espically the car aspect.
This is what I don't get, we've had this technology for quite awhile, and yet we don't see this in everyday use of cars. It'd be so cool to have your exhaust be water. I even bet like you said we could drink it. Imagine that, have the water go into a tank, then when you're thirsty just drink from the tank of your car. There might be some type of health issues with it perhaps, but you'd figure putting Hydrogen and Oxygen together you get water that you can drink or another idea, is to have the water go into a tank and then have it separated back into hydrogen and oxygen to be put back together and you could almost never have to refuel.
I still fail to see the reason why we haven't had this for years, the only thing I can think of is maybe it's because of the oil industry or something that doesn't want it. Speaking of the oil industry, we wouldn't have to put up with the expensive gas prices if we ALL were using this on our car. The whole fuel cell concept is great and I really love it. This is coming from someone who doesn't care what trees we cut down, just as long as they plant new ones to cut down again.:->
Actually with Win2k you'll notice that it's a Business Operating System, meaning that most home users wouldn't need this OS on their desktop. So one would ask, why would businesses be going to the mall buying their OS?
Everyone forgets that Win2k is Windows NT 5 just renamed. It's a pretty big upgrade from NT4 to NT5 tho.
In my experience I really don't see any barriers that girls face while growing up making them not interested in computers. While I was growing up it was usually the girls who played The Oregon Trail on the Apple II and the boys played with G.I. Joe action figures. When I was in grade school if you played with the girls on the computer you were considered gay or weak so you it was best not to play on the computer with them or else. I never really got into computers until I was 10 years old when I got a computer at home. I talk to a lot of girls from varying ages and most of them like using the computer as a tool, but just aren't interested in going into the IT field. In fact a lot of the younger (13 to 18) girls I talk to just like chatting online and really don't like using the computer for much else. You try encouraging them and try to get them interested and they just don't care all they like to do is chat with their other friends. I really don't think it's a matter of that girls don't get enough computer time while in school. I really don't believe the example that Mrs. Borg gave about boys pushing girls away from the computer and parents/teachers allowing it is just plain bad teaching/parenting. It's along the same lines as another kid taking away a toy from another child would you allow that? So why would you allow this? Any way I just think it's a matter that girls just don't like being in the IT field as much as guys do. I really don't see the problem in it. I wish there would be more girls that like the IT field then I could find someone that has more stuff in common with me, but time and time again I find plenty of women who just aren't interested even if you try getting them interested. So really, if women aren't intrested then what's the problem? Why try forcing someone into something they don't want to go into?
No, you miss understood what he said. He said the temperature at the junction(whatever that is) was 20 degrees(C?). So for the tempture to be 20 degrees C at the junction the temperature in the room the CPU was in, it had to be near Antarctic levels.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. I've never bought this idea that security problems need to be "demonstrated". I don't understand the mentality that thinks that breaking into someone's property is the best way to help them feel safe. (Note: Minor topic drift here)
First off you really can't even consider this a prank, crack, hack, whatever. As far as I can tell, this person basically did a '/nick President_Clinton' and then had that nickname, then proceeded to say, "I like porn". Which really goes to show you that the people at CNN really weren't thinking, they didn't even consider simple things like this, which makes you wonder what type of people are they hiring in their IT department (btw CNN, I'm available if you want someone good). It's not like this guy went out and cracked the system to do this. It's amazing they didn't even think someone would try a/nick if the servers split. So really, in reality, it's good that we had someone doing harmless thing to show how much we really do need security on computer systems especially when there is NO SECURITY WHAT SO EVER. I mean honestly, when you're one of the biggest news medias in the world, having an online chat with the President of the United States of America, and you don't consider that someone could do a '/nick President_Clinton' and start saying stuff like that you really got coming to you.
Also the "I like porn" was kind of funny, I mean, Mr. "I Did not have sexual relations with that woman" saying "I like porn". It would have been even funnier if the guy said, "Any picture showing oral sex on the Internet isn't pornographic", You know, kind like Clinton saying that oral sex isn't really 'sexual relations' I think you get it.:->
The interview seemed to miss the whole DVD issue. It seemed to talk more about television licensing than it did about the DVD issue. Which I think was the fault of the person interviewing Mr. Valenti. The interviewer started off right, but somewhere in the middle he started asking questions about iCrave, which is a different issue than DVD one. With DVD I went out and bought a DVD and I want to play it in my Linux box. With iCrave, they're streaming TV shows, which weren't licensed to them to broadcast in the first place. Would have been nice to have questions about DVD instead of the television questions.
Actually I'm a slashdot reader and I use Windows 2000 + NT4.0. At work I have 103 NT Workstations, 5 Windows 98 workstations, five NT4.0 Servers, one Win2k test server, and one FreeBSD machine. They all seem to work pretty well. I really don't have any down time, only time I reboot the NT servers is for a SP upgrade or Hardware change. The Win2k Server doesn't do much, it runs the DNS currently and seems to work pretty well at doing that. I have Win2k Pro installed on my Workstation at home and the last time I reboot the machine was Janurary 5th, and that was when I installed the final version. So with all do respect, there's at lest one quiet slashdot user that has actually tried Win2k and it works pretty well for him.:)
Heh. A while back I had a (heated) discussion with an MCSE guy. I couldn't get it into his head that Windows indeed *does* run on top of DOS. Yeah, it was fun.
Since were talking about Windows NT and Windows 2000, I'll say you're wrong. NT/2k doesn't run on top DOS, actually infact it emulates DOS for anything that requires dos. Now Windows 95/98 runs ontop of DOS.:)
There are a lot of people with superficial knowledge of Windows 9x, a fairly large number with superficial knowledge of NT, but it is actually easier to find people who are really capable Linux/UNIX admins than NT.
The reason for having more capable Linux/UNIX admins,I think, is because you can't pull any idiot off the street, give them a 3 week MCSE course, and tell them they are now Admins.
I've run into plenty of lame NT admins, simply because they can get something working, and apear they know something. Even though they did a half assed crappy job, they have something. These people would be totally dead in the Linux/UNIX world. You'd get questions like, "uhh what's a command line now?" I'm not dissing NT admins, I am in fact a NT admin. I admin more NT boxes than I do UNIX boxes (Actually I consider myself more of a NT admin than Linux/UNIX admin). This is just my past experience. Also I see a lot of people with 30 workstation LANs saying they're an NT Admin. Which makes NT really show it's "easy of use" because all they have to do is install it, login as Administrator create a share called "Drive C", put all everyone's files in there, and say they're done. Which in any REAL network you'd laugh his ass all the way back to Microsoft for.
Now if this person was a Linux admin for a 30 user LAN and wanted to run samba or NFS, it's slightly more difficult to up and running and you need to know of actually what's going on behind the scene when configuring that.
Only real difference from a Linux/UNIX Admin to your average NT admin is that a NT Admin can fake it to the majority of the Pointy Haired Bosses (Hey I know more about NT than Bill Gates, I got my MCSE Gates doesn't (I've heard that line, shutter, and the Boss BELIVED him)) and he can't with Linux/UNIX.:)
Sure, you could probably have 10,000 hacked sites. Just think of all the millions of Internet users, now think of all those millions of Internet users having a 24/7 high speed Internet connection.:)
Yeah, but still on the T1 price you need to tack in the ISP charge as well. Which around here is another $600.00. I used the $600.00 price because I'm assuming an ISP that provides DSL already has the infrustructor for this. Actually around here T1's have gone up in price slightly.:(
When Tom goes on to talking about: The PC is Dead! Long Live the... X-Box? Tom talks about the CPU being perhaps irrelevant for some people because you'll be able to download media streams and what not off of a high bandwidth internet connection. While I keep seeing everyone talking about this, I just don't see this happening within a few years. Maybe in 5 to 10 years perhaps, but within a few I just don't see it. Just the other day I was talking to a friend who runs an ISP. The telephone company was telling him to put 100 DSL subscribers per T1. My friend thought this was ludicrous, and I thought it was pretty stupid too. You just start thinking here for a moment, a T1 is 1.544Mbit/sec divided by 100 and you're getting some pretty slow transfer rates if all 100 people are transferring their favorite movie off of the Internet. Even yet so, say for instance you totally forget about what the phone company told me friend and you decide to use 10 DSL users per T1. You still get a 1.544Mbit/sec divided by 10 and that's still a pretty slow Internet connection if all the users decide to stream whatever they want. You figure at a price of say ~$600/mo for a T1(What it costs from the telco here), You then add up the price of say $80.00/mo from your 10 users you come out to be making only $200/mo off of those subscribers not including the other costs associated with keeping those 10 customers happy. So with all that, you figure more and more people will be using these types of things, such as cable and DSL, I start to wonder, "Where is this bandwidth coming from?" So unless T1 connections drop dramatically within the next couple of years, I still think the majority of us will be on either modems or ISDN connections. Of course if T1's drop that much in price, why not just have a T1 installed into your home? So again, I just can't see this convergence of your media and the PC into one thing making the type of CPU you have irrelevant.
Unless I'm completely wrong and not really thinking about this far enough, but I still can't seem to wonder WHERE all this bandwidth is coming from to be able to do the things everyone keeps getting excited about within a budget the typical middle class person can afford.:->
Privacy seems to inevitably go down the drain, no matter what we try to do to protect it...
Not really, if you don't want people looking in your backyard, just build your house to the size of your backyard.:) Enclose it, put a roof over it and there you go. Of course there might be some building restrictions of some sort. You could also buy a bigger plot of land, make an indoor pool, make it so no one can look in from any vantage point and there you go. Your privacy is alset.:)
Real life: a family was turned away from an emergency room, given a bottle of liquid aspirin for their child's fever, and DIRECTIONS to another hospital as they didn't have insurance. Their child died on the 40+ mile trip. It happens with alarming frequency.
Hmm, can you say lawsuit? I'm sure that'd surely be a win in court. "Child dies because hospital refused to treat child." There is no reason why a hospital should refuse any type of medical treatment to anyone because they don't have insurance. Lets see here, if ANYONE refused medical care to anyone for whatever reason, I'd say that's a good lawsuit, especially if someone dies from it. Just because your child has a fever doesn't mean you can't pay for the medical bill without insurance. It could only cost $10,000 to treat the kid and then if you have no insurance you eat it. Just plain and simple, but refusing medical treatment to anyone for whatever reason is a bad thing. I mean, what if someone died from a hospital refusing to treat them and it turns out the bill cold have cost only $10,000.00 *AND* the person could have afforded the bill. Oh man, I'm sure that'd be a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
Next time there's a war, You'll be the first person I suggest the they rape or murder because they don't like your ethnic/race/whatever background. Maybe the next time if they do some gas chambers we can have you be first in line, since well, well.... The USA decided we weren't going to help anyone out due to those types of things, such a pitty isn't it? I mean, hey who cares if someone else in some foregin country is being raped or murdered cuz of ethernic/race/whatever backround, eh? That's the maximum American life saver. Every time there's a problem like that in some forgin country, we just don't send any troops, let those people deal with their own problems. Right? Isn't that right? Isn't that what you're saying? I mean hey, if the US doesn't send any troops who will?
you obviously don't understand from a philosophical/moral standpoint is that violence should not be an option, period (uh-oh, here come the flames...) this comes from the basic moral premise that one should not do harm to another person. of course, there is the infamous retort, well he did it first! but ppl fail to realise that the original premise still must hold--one should never do harm, otherwise the person who claims to hold peaceful values yet is reactionary fails to maintain their peaceful values. the addition of an unjust action to an unjust action does not result in a just action. basic addition and subtraction can tell you this. just a thought
While, your philosophical/moral standpoint is great and I *REALLY* wish it worked that way in real life, but it doesn't. The problem with taking the attitude of, "oh, lets try and work this out, and not fight" doesn't really work in the real world. In the real world you have people like Hitler, who didn't care less about countries such as France when he just basically rolled over them with the Panza divisions. If Britain weren't able to hold out as long as they did, Europe would have fell to Germany in no time. Actually if France would have started building up their military when Germany was, they probably would have been able to hold out longer and do a better job.
The point I'm trying to make is, when you have a good army, and able to possibly stomp out the other guy, and willing to take the risk of going to war to protect your country and your freedoms from nasty people, then the philosophical/moral thing is useless. What good does it do you to have philosophical ideals when you got some dictator telling you which hand to wipe your ass with?
This is also why it's good to have things such as the CAVE so that we have better trained soldiers able to kill better and quicker. I tell you this, I quite happily enjoy the little freedoms I have left, and I'd like to keep them, thank you very much!
My thinking isn't very linear. As for Quake26 I used that for lack of a better name. Quake is pretty much the same thing Wolf 3D and Doom ever was just better graphics and different story line. Heck, even Half Life is pretty much the same thing, just WAY better story line than what Quake was IMO. If I'm not mistaken it even uses the same graphics engine.
As for Latest 3D graphics card, we've been having 3D graphics cards for how many years now? The video card revolution hasn't changed much since I had my Hercules CGA video card. I remember having EGA, then going to VGA and been at VGA since the early 90's that's almost 10 years! The only difference from now and from when I got my first VGA video card and VGA monitor is, is my VGA monitor is a hell of a lot better than my monitor from back then and my video card is a hell of a lot better/faster than from then too. Also throw in the fact that that I have a 3D graphics video card which I didn't then. When I buy my next video card it'll be able to do 3D/2D all in one card which I wonder why they didn't do in the first place. So really, where have we changed much in the past say.... 10 years in video? Other than the fact cards now are faster/better. Oh, now we have Flat Panel displays for our computers, but that really doesn't compare to a CRT IMHO.
As far as a DISC that holds lots of GB's and we can write to it, we do have that ability now, I'm thinking those DVD writer drives, although they're a tad expensive, and the DISC's are a tad expensive as well. We can copy movie DVD's though, thanks to MoRE and DoD.:->
As far as the TV and the computer merging into one appliance that would almost be a logical conclusion for most people in general. For the common user and the common person this would probably be the ideal way for them to use a computer. It isn't my ideal way, which is why I think the PC will last for quite awhile, since there will be people like you and me using PC's still. I do have a friend who has a PC and he has a TV tuner in his PC. This is how he watches TV because he's too cheap to go out and buy a TV. So thus his TV and PC has merged into one unit. This is what he does everything he does PC related, plus watches TV on it at the same time. This works for him, but I personally prefer watching TV on my 27" TV in my computer room. I then prefer watching TV on my 60" TV in the media room. So that's just personal preference.:->
the PC era is *ending* ?? WTF ? The need for a general computing device is *more* than it was before. how the heck is a wireless internet device going to cope with generalised computation like a PC ?
I think wireless Internet will be able to handle some of the things that a PC does today. I believe in the future you could probably have some type of word processor, a calendar, e-mail, some web browsing all on a device like you see on Star Trek. However a wireless device such as this, I think, wouldn't be practical for use on the desktop. I'd rather have a keyboard that's today size for writing out my 30-page thesis unless in the future you have a voice recognition system that understands me pretty well. Also the PC may become a TV/Computer more so in the future as you have cheap broadband to every home. So you'll be able to have a very powerful TV able to run your seti@home while being able to play Quake26 with the latest 3D graphics card.
I don't believe the PC era will end for quite awhile, the number of PC's in homes may drop because maybe most people just need a little device to do word processing and use the Internet. So they may get one of these devices that can do that, and that's all they need. That would be all my Father needs, plus he has the ability to take it to work and to other places with him. That would be a great device for him and also me. However I would still have a PC at home to do other things, such as programming, playing games, learning new OS's, trying out different applications and educating myself as much as possible in the latest and greatest applications. There's a whole galore of things I do on my PC that I could mention that couldn't be capable on this device but I doubt most "normal" people do those things. For most people I think this "general" type of device will probably be quite suited for those general tasks as I mentioned above.
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You know, I've seen a lot of "How come there aren't any girl games for whatever". So my question is, is why don't women get out and write games for other women? I mean, it can't be that difficult in this day and age with all the tools available to women to write games that they themselves would enjoy. So am I totally missing something here? What's the problem with writing games for women by women?
Or have I just totally missed the point cuz I'm a guy and all?
I'm 21, and I'm wondering what this thing you call "book" is? Is it something new in Linux? I'd be interesting in knowing what this "book" is. :-> *snicker*
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You just mentioned what a lot of people are missing around here. In the good 'ol state of Wisconsin (And I'd imagine in all 50 states), you *DO* have to pay a tax on *ANYTHING* you mail order. What you have to do is, is when you buy whatever from the catalog you have to report it to the state and pay the taxes on it (I think you do this when you do your state income tax).
Now, this worked really well for a long time, just one problem with it. The problem with it is, since the government can't tell what you bought when you mail order it you don't have to pay taxes on it. :) Now, this is illegal and you probably would go to jail if they ever found out. That's the WHOLE problem, they can't find out. The only way they can find out is if you report it, and are any of you that stupid to report what you bought by mail order?
Ok, now for those of you who are that stupid(Those people who belive in an "Internet Tax"). What you do is this:
1) Total up everything you've bought on the Internet this past year
2) Multiply that total by your state income tax
3) Write a check out to to your State Goverment
4) Multiply the total from Line 1) by the percentage of your city tax, then do the same for your county tax(if you have any these).
5) Write a check out to your City and/or County
See, now wasn't this whole Internet tax a simple and easy way of doing this? I, some little lamer in Wisconsin figured out how to tax all purchases on the Internet!!!!!!!! Can you belive it? holy shit!!! Isn't that awsome??!?! I mean, all I did was treat it like a mail order purchase!! Whooa neat idea! I wish someone would have thought of this earlier.
Now, those of you who belive in the sales tax for the Internet purchases can do those steps I mentioned above(treat it like you mail ordered something, which you pretty much did), then those of us who think taxes are bunk, will continue to not pay sales tax for anything we buy on the Internet or mail order, because the goverment can't catch you if you don't(Which is the *WHOLE* point of this I might add). :->
Oh, I forgot to mention, every time you have a rumage sale, or you sell a book to a friend, or you pretty sell anything to anyone, you *DO* have to pay sales on that too. It is after a tax on anything you SELL. Since were going after those Internet sales tax everyone is avoiding which is putting Wal-Mart out of business, we should also go after those little 'ol ladies not charging sales tax when they have rumage sales too.
My whole point, having laws for sales tax for sales on the Internet is easy(We already have them), the problem is getting people to PAY the tax. No one wants to pay the tax unless they're faced with going to jail, since the goverment can't catch you currently, no one does. It's not really an issue about about Wal-Mart or whom ever loseing money, if you feel that bad about not paying your taxes for items you bought on the Internet, just write a check out to your State and local goverment like you do for a mail order, then you can feel better by improving your State Highways or something. :)
I wonder if you're kidding. Actually the failer of Free-PC shows it doesn't work. If it did work they would be dropping it. :)
Here in the states we taxed on about 49 cents a gallon. Which at normal gas prices is a 50% tax on gas. Now, were up to about a $1.50/gallon so the tax percentage has changed a little bit. I'm used to gas prices being about $1.00 to $1.10/gallon.
Any how, with fuel cells, and tax, you figure if you're using hydrogen and oxygen you could just fill your tank up with water, and perhaps have some separator to make it go into hydrogen and oxygen, then go back into water again into your tank. I suppose you'd loose a little bit in conversions and such, but you could almost never have to refuel - you'd figure. I'm not quite filmier in the actually conversion process to know for sure. I just think it'd be so awesome to use this type of energy. I could just imagine the people bitching because they're taxing oxygen or something. :-> Actually if you could cheaply convert water into hydrogen and oxygen and store in a tank you could do this at home and get around the tax, of course they may make regulations on this to make you pay for the tax, but of course you're probably right, they'd tax the shit out of you on this as well.
Not so easy to do that with fossil fuel, unless you want to wait a few million yearsYeah, but this is what's so cool about this technlogy, you can waste and waste and it'll always come back. :->
I really love fuel cell discussions:) It's such a GREAT technlogy, espically the car aspect.
This is what I don't get, we've had this technology for quite awhile, and yet we don't see this in everyday use of cars. It'd be so cool to have your exhaust be water. I even bet like you said we could drink it. Imagine that, have the water go into a tank, then when you're thirsty just drink from the tank of your car. There might be some type of health issues with it perhaps, but you'd figure putting Hydrogen and Oxygen together you get water that you can drink or another idea, is to have the water go into a tank and then have it separated back into hydrogen and oxygen to be put back together and you could almost never have to refuel.
I still fail to see the reason why we haven't had this for years, the only thing I can think of is maybe it's because of the oil industry or something that doesn't want it. Speaking of the oil industry, we wouldn't have to put up with the expensive gas prices if we ALL were using this on our car. The whole fuel cell concept is great and I really love it. This is coming from someone who doesn't care what trees we cut down, just as long as they plant new ones to cut down again. :->
Actually with Win2k you'll notice that it's a Business Operating System, meaning that most home users wouldn't need this OS on their desktop. So one would ask, why would businesses be going to the mall buying their OS?
Everyone forgets that Win2k is Windows NT 5 just renamed. It's a pretty big upgrade from NT4 to NT5 tho.
In my experience I really don't see any barriers that girls face while growing up making them not interested in computers. While I was growing up it was usually the girls who played The Oregon Trail on the Apple II and the boys played with G.I. Joe action figures. When I was in grade school if you played with the girls on the computer you were considered gay or weak so you it was best not to play on the computer with them or else. I never really got into computers until I was 10 years old when I got a computer at home. I talk to a lot of girls from varying ages and most of them like using the computer as a tool, but just aren't interested in going into the IT field. In fact a lot of the younger (13 to 18) girls I talk to just like chatting online and really don't like using the computer for much else. You try encouraging them and try to get them interested and they just don't care all they like to do is chat with their other friends. I really don't think it's a matter of that girls don't get enough computer time while in school. I really don't believe the example that Mrs. Borg gave about boys pushing girls away from the computer and parents/teachers allowing it is just plain bad teaching/parenting. It's along the same lines as another kid taking away a toy from another child would you allow that? So why would you allow this? Any way I just think it's a matter that girls just don't like being in the IT field as much as guys do. I really don't see the problem in it. I wish there would be more girls that like the IT field then I could find someone that has more stuff in common with me, but time and time again I find plenty of women who just aren't interested even if you try getting them interested. So really, if women aren't intrested then what's the problem? Why try forcing someone into something they don't want to go into?
No, you miss understood what he said. He said the temperature at the junction(whatever that is) was 20 degrees(C?). So for the tempture to be 20 degrees C at the junction the temperature in the room the CPU was in, it had to be near Antarctic levels.
Ha! I couldn't have said this better myself, moderrate it up!
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First off you really can't even consider this a prank, crack, hack, whatever. As far as I can tell, this person basically did a '/nick President_Clinton' and then had that nickname, then proceeded to say, "I like porn". Which really goes to show you that the people at CNN really weren't thinking, they didn't even consider simple things like this, which makes you wonder what type of people are they hiring in their IT department (btw CNN, I'm available if you want someone good). It's not like this guy went out and cracked the system to do this. It's amazing they didn't even think someone would try a /nick if the servers split. So really, in reality, it's good that we had someone doing harmless thing to show how much we really do need security on computer systems especially when there is NO SECURITY WHAT SO EVER. I mean honestly, when you're one of the biggest news medias in the world, having an online chat with the President of the United States of America, and you don't consider that someone could do a '/nick President_Clinton' and start saying stuff like that you really got coming to you.
Also the "I like porn" was kind of funny, I mean, Mr. "I Did not have sexual relations with that woman" saying "I like porn". It would have been even funnier if the guy said, "Any picture showing oral sex on the Internet isn't pornographic", You know, kind like Clinton saying that oral sex isn't really 'sexual relations' I think you get it. :->
The interview seemed to miss the whole DVD issue. It seemed to talk more about television licensing than it did about the DVD issue. Which I think was the fault of the person interviewing Mr. Valenti. The interviewer started off right, but somewhere in the middle he started asking questions about iCrave, which is a different issue than DVD one. With DVD I went out and bought a DVD and I want to play it in my Linux box. With iCrave, they're streaming TV shows, which weren't licensed to them to broadcast in the first place. Would have been nice to have questions about DVD instead of the television questions.
Actually I'm a slashdot reader and I use Windows 2000 + NT4.0. At work I have 103 NT Workstations, 5 Windows 98 workstations, five NT4.0 Servers, one Win2k test server, and one FreeBSD machine. They all seem to work pretty well. I really don't have any down time, only time I reboot the NT servers is for a SP upgrade or Hardware change. The Win2k Server doesn't do much, it runs the DNS currently and seems to work pretty well at doing that. I have Win2k Pro installed on my Workstation at home and the last time I reboot the machine was Janurary 5th, and that was when I installed the final version. So with all do respect, there's at lest one quiet slashdot user that has actually tried Win2k and it works pretty well for him. :)
Since were talking about Windows NT and Windows 2000, I'll say you're wrong. NT/2k doesn't run on top DOS, actually infact it emulates DOS for anything that requires dos. Now Windows 95/98 runs ontop of DOS. :)
The reason for having more capable Linux/UNIX admins,I think, is because you can't pull any idiot off the street, give them a 3 week MCSE course, and tell them they are now Admins.
I've run into plenty of lame NT admins, simply because they can get something working, and apear they know something. Even though they did a half assed crappy job, they have something. These people would be totally dead in the Linux/UNIX world. You'd get questions like, "uhh what's a command line now?" I'm not dissing NT admins, I am in fact a NT admin. I admin more NT boxes than I do UNIX boxes (Actually I consider myself more of a NT admin than Linux/UNIX admin). This is just my past experience. Also I see a lot of people with 30 workstation LANs saying they're an NT Admin. Which makes NT really show it's "easy of use" because all they have to do is install it, login as Administrator create a share called "Drive C", put all everyone's files in there, and say they're done. Which in any REAL network you'd laugh his ass all the way back to Microsoft for.
Now if this person was a Linux admin for a 30 user LAN and wanted to run samba or NFS, it's slightly more difficult to up and running and you need to know of actually what's going on behind the scene when configuring that.
Only real difference from a Linux/UNIX Admin to your average NT admin is that a NT Admin can fake it to the majority of the Pointy Haired Bosses (Hey I know more about NT than Bill Gates, I got my MCSE Gates doesn't (I've heard that line, shutter, and the Boss BELIVED him)) and he can't with Linux/UNIX. :)
lakdjfalkdjSure, you could probably have 10,000 hacked sites. Just think of all the millions of Internet users, now think of all those millions of Internet users having a 24/7 high speed Internet connection. :)
Yeah, but still on the T1 price you need to tack in the ISP charge as well. Which around here is another $600.00. I used the $600.00 price because I'm assuming an ISP that provides DSL already has the infrustructor for this. Actually around here T1's have gone up in price slightly. :(
When Tom goes on to talking about: The PC is Dead! Long Live the... X-Box? Tom talks about the CPU being perhaps irrelevant for some people because you'll be able to download media streams and what not off of a high bandwidth internet connection. While I keep seeing everyone talking about this, I just don't see this happening within a few years. Maybe in 5 to 10 years perhaps, but within a few I just don't see it. Just the other day I was talking to a friend who runs an ISP. The telephone company was telling him to put 100 DSL subscribers per T1. My friend thought this was ludicrous, and I thought it was pretty stupid too. You just start thinking here for a moment, a T1 is 1.544Mbit/sec divided by 100 and you're getting some pretty slow transfer rates if all 100 people are transferring their favorite movie off of the Internet. Even yet so, say for instance you totally forget about what the phone company told me friend and you decide to use 10 DSL users per T1. You still get a 1.544Mbit/sec divided by 10 and that's still a pretty slow Internet connection if all the users decide to stream whatever they want. You figure at a price of say ~$600/mo for a T1(What it costs from the telco here), You then add up the price of say $80.00/mo from your 10 users you come out to be making only $200/mo off of those subscribers not including the other costs associated with keeping those 10 customers happy. So with all that, you figure more and more people will be using these types of things, such as cable and DSL, I start to wonder, "Where is this bandwidth coming from?" So unless T1 connections drop dramatically within the next couple of years, I still think the majority of us will be on either modems or ISDN connections. Of course if T1's drop that much in price, why not just have a T1 installed into your home? So again, I just can't see this convergence of your media and the PC into one thing making the type of CPU you have irrelevant.
Unless I'm completely wrong and not really thinking about this far enough, but I still can't seem to wonder WHERE all this bandwidth is coming from to be able to do the things everyone keeps getting excited about within a budget the typical middle class person can afford. :->
Not really, if you don't want people looking in your backyard, just build your house to the size of your backyard. :) Enclose it, put a roof over it and there you go. Of course there might be some building restrictions of some sort. You could also buy a bigger plot of land, make an indoor pool, make it so no one can look in from any vantage point and there you go. Your privacy is alset. :)
Hmm, can you say lawsuit? I'm sure that'd surely be a win in court. "Child dies because hospital refused to treat child." There is no reason why a hospital should refuse any type of medical treatment to anyone because they don't have insurance. Lets see here, if ANYONE refused medical care to anyone for whatever reason, I'd say that's a good lawsuit, especially if someone dies from it. Just because your child has a fever doesn't mean you can't pay for the medical bill without insurance. It could only cost $10,000 to treat the kid and then if you have no insurance you eat it. Just plain and simple, but refusing medical treatment to anyone for whatever reason is a bad thing. I mean, what if someone died from a hospital refusing to treat them and it turns out the bill cold have cost only $10,000.00 *AND* the person could have afforded the bill. Oh man, I'm sure that'd be a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
Next time there's a war, You'll be the first person I suggest the they rape or murder because they don't like your ethnic/race/whatever background. Maybe the next time if they do some gas chambers we can have you be first in line, since well, well.... The USA decided we weren't going to help anyone out due to those types of things, such a pitty isn't it? I mean, hey who cares if someone else in some foregin country is being raped or murdered cuz of ethernic/race/whatever backround, eh? That's the maximum American life saver. Every time there's a problem like that in some forgin country, we just don't send any troops, let those people deal with their own problems. Right? Isn't that right? Isn't that what you're saying? I mean hey, if the US doesn't send any troops who will?
While, your philosophical/moral standpoint is great and I *REALLY* wish it worked that way in real life, but it doesn't. The problem with taking the attitude of, "oh, lets try and work this out, and not fight" doesn't really work in the real world. In the real world you have people like Hitler, who didn't care less about countries such as France when he just basically rolled over them with the Panza divisions. If Britain weren't able to hold out as long as they did, Europe would have fell to Germany in no time. Actually if France would have started building up their military when Germany was, they probably would have been able to hold out longer and do a better job.
The point I'm trying to make is, when you have a good army, and able to possibly stomp out the other guy, and willing to take the risk of going to war to protect your country and your freedoms from nasty people, then the philosophical/moral thing is useless. What good does it do you to have philosophical ideals when you got some dictator telling you which hand to wipe your ass with?
This is also why it's good to have things such as the CAVE so that we have better trained soldiers able to kill better and quicker. I tell you this, I quite happily enjoy the little freedoms I have left, and I'd like to keep them, thank you very much!
Forget getting to live in your favorite TV show, just imagin, recreate an image of some hot babe off of TV and have her do whatever you want her to. :)
Net sex takes on a whole new meaning.... doesn't it?:)
Remember! Safe sex, is Holodeck sex! :)
My thinking isn't very linear. As for Quake26 I used that for lack of a better name. Quake is pretty much the same thing Wolf 3D and Doom ever was just better graphics and different story line. Heck, even Half Life is pretty much the same thing, just WAY better story line than what Quake was IMO. If I'm not mistaken it even uses the same graphics engine.
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As for Latest 3D graphics card, we've been having 3D graphics cards for how many years now? The video card revolution hasn't changed much since I had my Hercules CGA video card. I remember having EGA, then going to VGA and been at VGA since the early 90's that's almost 10 years! The only difference from now and from when I got my first VGA video card and VGA monitor is, is my VGA monitor is a hell of a lot better than my monitor from back then and my video card is a hell of a lot better/faster than from then too. Also throw in the fact that that I have a 3D graphics video card which I didn't then. When I buy my next video card it'll be able to do 3D/2D all in one card which I wonder why they didn't do in the first place. So really, where have we changed much in the past say.... 10 years in video? Other than the fact cards now are faster/better. Oh, now we have Flat Panel displays for our computers, but that really doesn't compare to a CRT IMHO.
As far as a DISC that holds lots of GB's and we can write to it, we do have that ability now, I'm thinking those DVD writer drives, although they're a tad expensive, and the DISC's are a tad expensive as well. We can copy movie DVD's though, thanks to MoRE and DoD.
As far as the TV and the computer merging into one appliance that would almost be a logical conclusion for most people in general. For the common user and the common person this would probably be the ideal way for them to use a computer. It isn't my ideal way, which is why I think the PC will last for quite awhile, since there will be people like you and me using PC's still. I do have a friend who has a PC and he has a TV tuner in his PC. This is how he watches TV because he's too cheap to go out and buy a TV. So thus his TV and PC has merged into one unit. This is what he does everything he does PC related, plus watches TV on it at the same time. This works for him, but I personally prefer watching TV on my 27" TV in my computer room. I then prefer watching TV on my 60" TV in the media room. So that's just personal preference.
I think wireless Internet will be able to handle some of the things that a PC does today. I believe in the future you could probably have some type of word processor, a calendar, e-mail, some web browsing all on a device like you see on Star Trek. However a wireless device such as this, I think, wouldn't be practical for use on the desktop. I'd rather have a keyboard that's today size for writing out my 30-page thesis unless in the future you have a voice recognition system that understands me pretty well. Also the PC may become a TV/Computer more so in the future as you have cheap broadband to every home. So you'll be able to have a very powerful TV able to run your seti@home while being able to play Quake26 with the latest 3D graphics card.
I don't believe the PC era will end for quite awhile, the number of PC's in homes may drop because maybe most people just need a little device to do word processing and use the Internet. So they may get one of these devices that can do that, and that's all they need. That would be all my Father needs, plus he has the ability to take it to work and to other places with him. That would be a great device for him and also me. However I would still have a PC at home to do other things, such as programming, playing games, learning new OS's, trying out different applications and educating myself as much as possible in the latest and greatest applications. There's a whole galore of things I do on my PC that I could mention that couldn't be capable on this device but I doubt most "normal" people do those things. For most people I think this "general" type of device will probably be quite suited for those general tasks as I mentioned above.
lakdjfalkdj - cuz I couldn't think of anything better at the time:)