My interpretation of the web page says that the keys are pre-defined, and only the appropriate ones are displayed ('lit', perhaps?). In my mind, this is different from 'drawn' which implies a different level of sophistication.
It does look cool, and the auto-on motion detection is a nice touch.
"852 x 480 resolution isn't going to look that good"
I've played a lot of games at 800x600, and most of them looked pretty good. For me, it was a trade off of speed vs resolution. As for pixel size, that all depends on how far back you sit.
I can't help noticing that the resolution you say "won't look good" exceeds that of DVD. It's also the native resolution of my projector, whichs "looks good".:-)
Multicast is a delightful concept. Consider that it would make it possible for everyone in the country to watch a streaming video or listen to a music station with one and only one original stream from the source.
The traffic would be carried only by those routers who had downstream listeners, and not carried where there were none. What a delight.
What's the problem? It would require the owners of all those routers to cooperate with each other. I think that's enough to kill it right there. (Yes, there are some technical issues as well)
The air temperature of the room simply has to be low enough to keep the equipment heathy. With good airflow between equipment, 70 degrees F could be fine. Without proper airflow, that same temperature could create hot spots that exceed the equipments specifications, bringing on early failure.
One problem with excessive cooling is that maintaining humidity becomes difficult. Equipment in a machine room needs humidity. Humidity means more efficient transfer of heat to air, and helps to keep static electricity from become a problem.
Too cold can be as much a problem as too hot. In the early 90's, IBM had to specify *minimum* air temperature limits to keep some disk drives happy.
"Um... you are actually required to do a station identification at least once an hour."
Yes, once an hour. The original poster was complaining about something else entirely - the fatal habit of radio stations to announce their callsign, frequency and style between every song.
As an example, in the Boston area tune up WCRB - a highly respected classical music station. Excepting those highly-touted 'uninterrupted' moments, you'll here "Classical 102.5 WCRB" at least three times whenever the announcer speaks.
I don't know what posseses these people to be so obnoxious.
"...the Windows 2000, 1.6GHz Pentium 4 stand-alone, un-networked machines at our school, with 256MB of RAM and brand new ATA/133 40GB drives take a blazingly fast 3 minutes from hitting enter to actual log in! That's just frellin' amazing! Now that I think about it, something doesn't add up."
I agree that something doesn't add up. I would say your Win2k machine is seriously broken. My P-266 XP machine takes 15 seconds from 'enter' to ready-to-go desktop.
Well, the previous poster claimed 'obvious reasons'. I interpreted that to mean 'wants to keep physical address more or less private'. You may or may not actually feel that way. I was also thinking more generally than just domain names. If you don't use a P.O. Box, your real address appears in far too many places to consider it private.
"he's saying the only way he'll put in accurate info is if that info is a P.O. Box, which costs money. He doesn't want to list his home address for obvious reasons."
Thank you, I didn't twig to that. On the other hand, I must point out that if the poster doesn't already *have* a P.O. Box (or the equivalent) that game has already been lost.
"I'd rather wait 4 months and pay my money to see it the way it is intended ! - BIG SCREEN, dolby surround sound, comfy chair, popcorn etc."
Ironically, it was seeing the first LOTR episode in a movie theater last year which drove me to build a home theater. The image quality was so bad that I thought to myself 'I can do better than this at home'. I was right.
"Don't want to be flamebait here or anything, but really... this stuff has been going on for years. Like Activeworlds"
Unfortunately, the ActiveWorlds of today is almost indistinguishable from the ActiveWorlds of 1997. My available bandwidth has improved, and the resolution of my screen is greater, but that is about all that has changed for the better.
There is a world within the ActiveWorlds domain modelled after SnowCrash. It even has the Black Sun. It's also empty and dead. Depressing, even.
I *want* the Metaverse... It's not here yet.
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ps: For another interesting view of computer-enhanced environment, I recommend reading Vernor Vinge's novella "Fast Times at Fairmont High". It's available for free (registration required) download at:
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook4380.htm
Re:It's going to be more complicated than that
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If/When your PS2 has a broadband adapter, you might want this device:
"Yes, but that's difficult without portable address space. Even if you have redundant links, if you need to push through a DNS change to activate incoming connections on the alternate line, then you are screwed for several days, unless you keep your SOA TTL very low at all times, which is inefficient."
Umn... I don't think so. The routing of the IP addresses has nothing to do with DNS. There is no requirement that you have to use the ISP which assigned your IP addresses to get your packets to you.
This is what routing is all about. Another poster mentioned BGP. It and other routing protocols do this sort of thing every day.
There *are* situations where your IP addresses could become unreachable (the dying ISP insists on distribuing bad routing information, for instance). This is the exception rather than the rule.
Tag & Rename is a relative cheap program for mass editing of ID3 tags. One of it's many features is that if you have a directory that contains all of the tracks of one album, in order, it will go to CDDB and retrieve the album/track information. It will of course create ID3 tags from this information if you desire.
The user interface takes a little getting used to, and it's a Windows program, and it's payware, but I had to respond to all the folks who say "it can't be done". Tag&Rename does it.
"Uh, if you HAD read the articles on the terminal velocity link, you'd notice that Joe Kittenger did NOT break the sound barrier. We forget that he broke it, because he didn't."
from the link I originally posted:
"On August 16, 1960, Kittinger jumped his last Excelsior jump, doing so from an air-thin height of 102,800 feet (31,334 meters). From that nearly 20 miles altitude, his tumble toward terra firma took some 4 minutes and 36 seconds. Exceeding the speed of sound during the fall, Kittinger used a small stabilizing chute before a larger, main parachute opened in the denser atmosphere."
So we have one web page that says one thing, and another page that says another. Your reference says 'Captain Kittinger most likely did not exceed the speed of sound on 16 August 1960.'
Learning is *naturally* fun to most of the human species. We are by nature insatiably curious.
It is our school systems and our society that make learning into boring make-work. It our attempt to mass-educate our children with one curriculum for all that destroys the joy of discovery.
Learning *is* fun. If you have forgotten that I feel sorry for you.
You can bang your fist and stamp your feet, and attempt to be as pedantic as possible, but you won't change the reality. PC is short for IBM PC which today means some compatible clone of that machine.
As was driven home to me in 1981, PC, as relates to computers, has never meant *just* 'personal computer'.
"Not necassarily. On switches a collision should never happen. Hubs, on the other hand, collisions are commonplace since the bandwith is shared. What he described are relaly the only two reasons that a collision should occur on a switch."
Collisions can happen on a switch any time two packets (or more) are generated on the wire at the same time. This could be the switch itself and the host at the other end of the cat5. It can happens often on a busy segment (you don't *want* it to happen often, but...).
The original quoted description of collisions is just wrong. The collision light on an Ethernet device has absolutely nothing to do with IP addresses.
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Re:What does HAM stand for?
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"A new use for mainframes -- virtual machines"
A new use? You're out of your mind. I first used a virtual machine on a mainframe in 1976. It existed well *before* I got there.
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My interpretation of the web page says that the keys are pre-defined, and only the appropriate ones are displayed ('lit', perhaps?). In my mind, this is different from 'drawn' which implies a different level of sophistication.
It does look cool, and the auto-on motion detection is a nice touch.
A.
"852 x 480 resolution isn't going to look that good"
:-)
I've played a lot of games at 800x600, and most of them looked pretty good. For me, it was a trade off of speed vs resolution. As for pixel size, that all depends on how far back you sit.
I can't help noticing that the resolution you say "won't look good" exceeds that of DVD. It's also the native resolution of my projector, whichs "looks good".
A.
Multicast is a delightful concept. Consider that it would make it possible for everyone in the country to watch a streaming video or listen to a music station with one and only one original stream from the source.
The traffic would be carried only by those routers who had downstream listeners, and not carried where there were none. What a delight.
What's the problem? It would require the owners of all those routers to cooperate with each other. I think that's enough to kill it right there. (Yes, there are some technical issues as well)
A.
The air temperature of the room simply has to be low enough to keep the equipment heathy. With good airflow between equipment, 70 degrees F could be fine. Without proper airflow, that same temperature could create hot spots that exceed the equipments specifications, bringing on early failure.
One problem with excessive cooling is that maintaining humidity becomes difficult. Equipment in a machine room needs humidity. Humidity means more efficient transfer of heat to air, and helps to keep static electricity from become a problem.
Too cold can be as much a problem as too hot. In the early 90's, IBM had to specify *minimum* air temperature limits to keep some disk drives happy.
A.
"Um... you are actually required to do a station identification at least once an hour."
Yes, once an hour. The original poster was complaining about something else entirely - the fatal habit of radio stations to announce their callsign, frequency and style between every song.
As an example, in the Boston area tune up WCRB - a highly respected classical music station. Excepting those highly-touted 'uninterrupted' moments, you'll here "Classical 102.5 WCRB" at least three times whenever the announcer speaks.
I don't know what posseses these people to be so obnoxious.
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Bringing you offtopic posts since the 50,000s.
"...the Windows 2000, 1.6GHz Pentium 4 stand-alone, un-networked machines at our school, with 256MB of RAM and brand new ATA/133 40GB drives take a blazingly fast 3 minutes from hitting enter to actual log in! That's just frellin' amazing! Now that I think about it, something doesn't add up."
I agree that something doesn't add up. I would say your Win2k machine is seriously broken. My P-266 XP machine takes 15 seconds from 'enter' to ready-to-go desktop.
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"What game is that?"
Well, the previous poster claimed 'obvious reasons'. I interpreted that to mean 'wants to keep physical address more or less private'. You may or may not actually feel that way. I was also thinking more generally than just domain names. If you don't use a P.O. Box, your real address appears in far too many places to consider it private.
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"he's saying the only way he'll put in accurate info is if that info is a P.O. Box, which costs money. He doesn't want to list his home address for obvious reasons."
Thank you, I didn't twig to that. On the other hand, I must point out that if the poster doesn't already *have* a P.O. Box (or the equivalent) that game has already been lost.
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Who has had a P.O. Box all of his adult life.
"Pay for my P.O. Box and I'll update my contact information. I'm not giving people my home address."
Why did you say this? Where does it say that a P.O. Box is problematic?
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"I'd rather wait 4 months and pay my money to see it the way it is intended ! - BIG SCREEN, dolby surround sound, comfy chair, popcorn etc."
Ironically, it was seeing the first LOTR episode in a movie theater last year which drove me to build a home theater. The image quality was so bad that I thought to myself 'I can do better than this at home'. I was right.
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"http://www.sgi.com/workstations/fuel/ [sgi.com]
Nothing Apple has compares to that."
While true, you didn't bother to mention that the Fuel starts at $11,500...
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"Don't want to be flamebait here or anything, but really... this stuff has been going on for years. Like Activeworlds"
Unfortunately, the ActiveWorlds of today is almost indistinguishable from the ActiveWorlds of 1997. My available bandwidth has improved, and the resolution of my screen is greater, but that is about all that has changed for the better.
There is a world within the ActiveWorlds domain modelled after SnowCrash. It even has the Black Sun. It's also empty and dead. Depressing, even.
I *want* the Metaverse... It's not here yet.
A.
ps: For another interesting view of computer-enhanced environment, I recommend reading Vernor Vinge's novella "Fast Times at Fairmont High". It's available for free (registration required) download at:
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook4380.htm
If/When your PS2 has a broadband adapter, you might want this device:
d =2 2&prid=432
http://www.linksys.com/Products/product.asp?gri
The WET11 is a wireless bridge that allows any (?) Ethernet capable device to participate in a wireless network.
You can tease a Linksys access point into doing this as well (you need appropriate firmware.
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"It is not because of c pointer aliasing issues, it is because nothing in c was allowed to be inline, this is all mute with C99."
Umn, that would be 'moot', methinks.
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"Yes, but that's difficult without portable address space. Even if you have redundant links, if you need to push through a DNS change to activate incoming connections on the alternate line, then you are screwed for several days, unless you keep your SOA TTL very low at all times, which is inefficient."
Umn... I don't think so. The routing of the IP addresses has nothing to do with DNS. There is no requirement that you have to use the ISP which assigned your IP addresses to get your packets to you.
This is what routing is all about. Another poster mentioned BGP. It and other routing protocols do this sort of thing every day.
There *are* situations where your IP addresses could become unreachable (the dying ISP insists on distribuing bad routing information, for instance). This is the exception rather than the rule.
A.
Tag & Rename is a relative cheap program for mass editing of ID3 tags. One of it's many features is that if you have a directory that contains all of the tracks of one album, in order, it will go to CDDB and retrieve the album/track information. It will of course create ID3 tags from this information if you desire.
The user interface takes a little getting used to, and it's a Windows program, and it's payware, but I had to respond to all the folks who say "it can't be done". Tag&Rename does it.
http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
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"Throwing a fit about a 20 dollar OS upgrade? Were they insane? It sure beats a 199 dollar upgrade to windows XP Pro :)."
I think it's more like paying $20 for SP1.
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"Uh, if you HAD read the articles on the terminal velocity link, you'd notice that Joe Kittenger did NOT break the sound barrier. We forget that he broke it, because he didn't."
from the link I originally posted:
"On August 16, 1960, Kittinger jumped his last Excelsior jump, doing so from an air-thin height of 102,800 feet (31,334 meters). From that nearly 20 miles altitude, his tumble toward terra firma took some 4 minutes and 36 seconds. Exceeding the speed of sound during the fall, Kittinger used a small stabilizing chute before a larger, main parachute opened in the denser atmosphere."
So we have one web page that says one thing, and another page that says another. Your reference says 'Captain Kittinger most likely did not exceed the speed of sound on 16 August 1960.'
That's hardly definitive.
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"it does make you wonder why something like this has not been undertaken by any government agency."
y di vin.shtml
/. injects a space in that URL.
This has been done. I'm not sure why we forget. In 1960, Joe Kittenger jumped from ~20 miles, breaking the sound barrier. See:
http://www.dropzone.com/news/SpaceParachutingSk
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ps: I'm sorry that
"Why does learning have to be fun?"
Learning is *naturally* fun to most of the human species. We are by nature insatiably curious.
It is our school systems and our society that make learning into boring make-work. It our attempt to mass-educate our children with one curriculum for all that destroys the joy of discovery.
Learning *is* fun. If you have forgotten that I feel sorry for you.
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"X-BOXES The plural of box is boxes, not boxen."
If you think language is static, you are confused.
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"PC := Personal Computer"
You can bang your fist and stamp your feet, and attempt to be as pedantic as possible, but you won't change the reality. PC is short for IBM PC which today means some compatible clone of that machine.
As was driven home to me in 1981, PC, as relates to computers, has never meant *just* 'personal computer'.
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"Not necassarily. On switches a collision should never happen. Hubs, on the other hand, collisions are commonplace since the bandwith is shared. What he described are relaly the only two reasons that a collision should occur on a switch."
Collisions can happen on a switch any time two packets (or more) are generated on the wire at the same time. This could be the switch itself and the host at the other end of the cat5. It can happens often on a busy segment (you don't *want* it to happen often, but...).
The original quoted description of collisions is just wrong. The collision light on an Ethernet device has absolutely nothing to do with IP addresses.
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"From the National Association for Amateur Radio"
The ARRL is the American Radio Relay League.
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