I believe what your referring to is that the transmeta crusoe processor translates x86 code into its own native code which can be optimized at runtime. Quite a bit of buzzwords there, I hope I explained it correctly. Doesn't have much to do with Windows itself per se..
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I loved andromeda strain, its probably my favorite Micheal Chrichton(sp?) book, and I have them all. The movie kinda sucked, pretty old, so don't even bother, just read the book its a great read.
I just had an idea. Some linux vendor should start selling boxes with simpler linux distribution pre-installed, with KDE, all the extra crap stripped out with their own picked PC hardware
I think someone had the idea before, These guys sell an HP desktop machine or an IBM Thinkpad with a fairly easy to use distro. And nope, I dont work for them, there was a story about them about a week ago..
The Freeway in my city (I-90) is 2 lanes throughout the city, so the onramps go right to a lane of traffic. There will be many times when a Semi needs to get off on the next exit, and will be in that lane. There have been many times when I was glad I had a 4.3 liter V6 Vortec under the hood of my blazer =) 320hp is not necessary to do anything, but it sure helps when the freeway system sucks. It sure helps to get out of the way of those large 18-wheelers, especially trying to get around one when going up a hill, i wasn't able to pass a semi in my subaru when driving to Seattle. You say it sounds like poor highway design, it may be, but you need to get a faster car to deal with the above problems..
Actually, what makes me mad is the sticker next to the pump that says "For every $15 dollars you pump, $5 dollars is for taxes". I know in Washington state part of that tax is supposed to go to fixing the roads, but they don't have enough money to do that (probably because they are using the tax in other ways) and they want to use property taxes to cover the costs..
So, when I see my Gov't spend tax money so childishly thats what makes me mad.
By the time im done thinking about all that, my gas is done pumping and i have forgotten all about it. =P
When I got a site, and it uses flash, i'll usually click on it to see what it looks like (im spoiled with fast connections so waiting ususally isn't an issue). If they can pull off the UI of their site just as good or better in flash then in html, id take flash over it, but ive only found a few sites that are like that.
Flash does have its places though, like another poster that replied to you, cartoons. You really can't touch how good a flash cartoon looks like with much else, and its fairly easy to create that cartoon. I guess it comes down to why flash was used on the site. Ive made some sites with flash, but it was just an experiment to mess around with it. I see too many of these 'experiments' make it onto normal websites, where its just a mess, but Ive also seen many HTML pages like that as well. Anyway, if the author decided to use flash because its *flashy* then id rather see the HTML version.. if he used it to make it easier to navigate, or something along those lines, id rather use the flash site.. Thats just me though.
Actually I think the video you are talking about shows an older couple who do Flight video's for some company, I think Jeppson. He was flying along, and almost hit the Empire State Building, and the woman said, "You almost hit the Empire State Building!" and he said, "Woudln't that be cool!". I believe there is a patch to get that part removed from the movie.
Yea, I was thinking the same thing when I was reading the above posts. Im really all not too sure what they planned on storing, but I think a system where there was a plugin of some sort installed when you go to the page. This may have some sort of config screen where you can fill in your information, such as name, address, yada yada. Then, anytime I go to someplace that requires me to fill out stuff, i could hit a button on the page that inserts that information for me. That would be all I would want it to do though. I wouldn't want this information available to anyone else, and it would be purely for the ease of me not having to manually type that stuff out. I wouldn't want it to hold any sort of credit card information, as I can type out those numbers fairly easily, and it makes me feel just that much safer.
Isn't Microsoft Passport similar to the system that I describe? I don't use passport, and I haven't seen any 3rd party websites start to use passport yet (and I don't see how any company would want to use passport, with all the passport hacks that were going on last year.. I haven't heard of many lately, but they haven't shown a great track record).
To tell you the truth I dont have much of a need for a system like this, I don't even trust my bank at times, and banks have been around for a long time.
I remember being asked for my ID when I was smoking in the downtown area here (fairly small city, fairly large police force, they get real bored at times. They will a lot of times have cops hiding in bushes around here to catch underage smokers.) I wasn't driving that day and didn't have my drivers license with me, and the cop gave me quite a bit of shit about it, and having to call in my name and stuff.
Try to go to canada without having a drivers license, you'd probably have to get a passport or something instead.
In Idaho we can get identification cards, which look exactly like a drivers license but it says Identification Card instead of Class D Drivers License. These can be used as valid ID for bars and whatever else you might need verification. I wonder if in this state they have a similar thing, I would imagine they do. Do you have to submit to all that biometric stuff to get a normal ID card?
For some reason I dont think they make PCI hardware modems, I haven't seen any at least, as well as a USB hardware modem..
Your best bet is to find an ISA modem (which are usually hardware) or an external modem. Id also imagine you could find one of these on www.pricewatch.com
The problem is that everytime microsoft bundles some basic software with the OS, like an internet browser for example, everyone starts yelling "Monopoly! Monopoly!".
No, the problem is people don't understand all the reasons why people yell Monopoly(tm) all of the time. First off, its ok that a browser is bundled with the operating system, its fairly popular to do that. The problem is that the OS in question has become dependent upon that browser. When you hear Microsoft testify that IE can't be removed, they are somewhat correct. Microsoft *could* build an OS that didn't rely upon IE, and its technically possible to take IE out of Windows completely, and use other methods for showing help files and whatever else IE is used for. I can imagine its more possible when you also have the source code available to you =). You can bet that they will still be saying that its impossible to take IE out of windows 4 years from now..
I really don't see that as *too* bad of a thing anyway. What makes me think that Microsoft is a Monopoly is the contracts between them and OEM's. Lets go back 2 years. Company X is a fairly large OEM (think Dell, Compaq, etc), and they sell 10,000 PC's that year, and 9,000 of them had Windows preinstalled. The others were either other os's or nothing on them. Company X has to pay Microsoft for 10,000 Windows licenses.. Does that sound right? The list goes on and on in that area as well.
Microsoft has been found a monopoly. If you don't think its correct, then read the laws. If you don't agree, complain about the law, but they did break them plain and simple.
You might want to try editpad (www.jgsoft.com). You can open multiple text files with tabs at the top for each one, they have a freeware one available as well, no annoyances at all =)
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The springier quality of ti is probably one of the things they like about mountain bike frames, from maybe a technical, i make mountain bike frames and I think its cool type of thing. Most mountain bikers see a titanium frame as strong and light, and thats about it, at least the mountain bikers that i ride with.
I just read this in todays newspaper
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From the article in the paper, they were saying that neutron stars are made up of neutrons and collections of quarks in groups of 3 (they call them bags of quarks I believe).
The new star they found has these quarks but they are not in groups of 3, they are just single quarks.
They were also mentioning that it may help to understand dark matter and such, im pretty clueless when it comes to this stuff but i find it very interesting to read about.. so sorry if my info above is not accurate =).
Sorry I wasn't really trying to offend you in anyway, none taken so no biggie. And don't worry, people that have spoken english thier whole life still say that.
When I posted the reply, I was REAL bored at work, and it caught my eye =).
Ya, like I said though, they don't enforce it really.
Id imagine that line is in there when they catch someone doing something a bit overboard when it comes to how much traffic is going to them, and they have complaints around the area that its slower, they can point to that and say you are a bad person and cut off yer services..
I think this is the real reason why they are doing this:
Its much cheaper to send an email to the president of an enemy country, with an attachment thats a simulation of a few nukes being dropped on their country, then it is to actually do it. Its just a new diplomacy tool =)
I guess im somewhat amazed, and also hoping its not true, that we are relying upon a simulation to tell if our nukes are good or not. Sure, run a ton of simulations, im sure that some portion of them are going to come back as saying its bad in some respect. What do they do next? Give the computer a map of the storage facilities, and have it *simulate* where the bad ones are?
In my opinion they are up to more then just that.
Lets say we have 1000 nukes, that have been in storage for 10 years. You do a bunch of simulations, and they come back positive. You wait 5 years, you do some more test, and now it says that 5 are bad.
Now, we don't use nukes that often, in fact we have only used 2 bombs in war, as far as i know. If for some reason in the future, we need to use another nuke, would our government really rely upon a bunch of nukes that have been in storage for 15 years, and our best guess is 5 of them are bad. What if the one we pick is a bad one? What if they didn't simluate it, and the whole batch of nukes is bad, and we try to fire them, and we die because they are all duds and they come back and kick our ass. I really think the best way of doing this is dismantle the nukes we have and get it over with. If some country launches a nuke at us, or some other country, we're all fucked anyway so its not going to matter..
Keep in mind i really have no idea how the testing process goes, but if it is anything like above im scared =).
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I believe what your referring to is that the transmeta crusoe processor translates x86 code into its own native code which can be optimized at runtime. Quite a bit of buzzwords there, I hope I explained it correctly. Doesn't have much to do with Windows itself per se..
I loved andromeda strain, its probably my favorite Micheal Chrichton(sp?) book, and I have them all. The movie kinda sucked, pretty old, so don't even bother, just read the book its a great read.
I think someone had the idea before, These guys sell an HP desktop machine or an IBM Thinkpad with a fairly easy to use distro. And nope, I dont work for them, there was a story about them about a week ago..
The Freeway in my city (I-90) is 2 lanes throughout the city, so the onramps go right to a lane of traffic. There will be many times when a Semi needs to get off on the next exit, and will be in that lane. There have been many times when I was glad I had a 4.3 liter V6 Vortec under the hood of my blazer =) 320hp is not necessary to do anything, but it sure helps when the freeway system sucks. It sure helps to get out of the way of those large 18-wheelers, especially trying to get around one when going up a hill, i wasn't able to pass a semi in my subaru when driving to Seattle. You say it sounds like poor highway design, it may be, but you need to get a faster car to deal with the above problems..
Actually, what makes me mad is the sticker next to the pump that says "For every $15 dollars you pump, $5 dollars is for taxes". I know in Washington state part of that tax is supposed to go to fixing the roads, but they don't have enough money to do that (probably because they are using the tax in other ways) and they want to use property taxes to cover the costs..
So, when I see my Gov't spend tax money so childishly thats what makes me mad.
By the time im done thinking about all that, my gas is done pumping and i have forgotten all about it. =P
When I got a site, and it uses flash, i'll usually click on it to see what it looks like (im spoiled with fast connections so waiting ususally isn't an issue). If they can pull off the UI of their site just as good or better in flash then in html, id take flash over it, but ive only found a few sites that are like that.
Flash does have its places though, like another poster that replied to you, cartoons. You really can't touch how good a flash cartoon looks like with much else, and its fairly easy to create that cartoon. I guess it comes down to why flash was used on the site. Ive made some sites with flash, but it was just an experiment to mess around with it. I see too many of these 'experiments' make it onto normal websites, where its just a mess, but Ive also seen many HTML pages like that as well. Anyway, if the author decided to use flash because its *flashy* then id rather see the HTML version.. if he used it to make it easier to navigate, or something along those lines, id rather use the flash site.. Thats just me though.
Ya, and I feel sorry for those who would base thier decision of not going to Rio because Homer Simpson was abducted by terrorists..
Actually I think the video you are talking about shows an older couple who do Flight video's for some company, I think Jeppson. He was flying along, and almost hit the Empire State Building, and the woman said, "You almost hit the Empire State Building!" and he said, "Woudln't that be cool!". I believe there is a patch to get that part removed from the movie.
You could always use Winrar, which runs natively on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac (the mac version is in beta).
.exe files.
Im fairly sure that program will open self extracting
Yea, I was thinking the same thing when I was reading the above posts. Im really all not too sure what they planned on storing, but I think a system where there was a plugin of some sort installed when you go to the page. This may have some sort of config screen where you can fill in your information, such as name, address, yada yada. Then, anytime I go to someplace that requires me to fill out stuff, i could hit a button on the page that inserts that information for me. That would be all I would want it to do though. I wouldn't want this information available to anyone else, and it would be purely for the ease of me not having to manually type that stuff out. I wouldn't want it to hold any sort of credit card information, as I can type out those numbers fairly easily, and it makes me feel just that much safer.
Isn't Microsoft Passport similar to the system that I describe? I don't use passport, and I haven't seen any 3rd party websites start to use passport yet (and I don't see how any company would want to use passport, with all the passport hacks that were going on last year.. I haven't heard of many lately, but they haven't shown a great track record).
To tell you the truth I dont have much of a need for a system like this, I don't even trust my bank at times, and banks have been around for a long time.
Thats kind of amazing, seeing that I could take your birth certificate and they wouldn't know the difference..
I remember being asked for my ID when I was smoking in the downtown area here (fairly small city, fairly large police force, they get real bored at times. They will a lot of times have cops hiding in bushes around here to catch underage smokers.) I wasn't driving that day and didn't have my drivers license with me, and the cop gave me quite a bit of shit about it, and having to call in my name and stuff. Try to go to canada without having a drivers license, you'd probably have to get a passport or something instead. In Idaho we can get identification cards, which look exactly like a drivers license but it says Identification Card instead of Class D Drivers License. These can be used as valid ID for bars and whatever else you might need verification. I wonder if in this state they have a similar thing, I would imagine they do. Do you have to submit to all that biometric stuff to get a normal ID card?
For some reason I dont think they make PCI hardware modems, I haven't seen any at least, as well as a USB hardware modem..
Your best bet is to find an ISA modem (which are usually hardware) or an external modem. Id also imagine you could find one of these on www.pricewatch.com
I think he meant the full AOL client, you know, "You got mail!", not just the IM program..
No, the problem is people don't understand all the reasons why people yell Monopoly(tm) all of the time. First off, its ok that a browser is bundled with the operating system, its fairly popular to do that. The problem is that the OS in question has become dependent upon that browser. When you hear Microsoft testify that IE can't be removed, they are somewhat correct. Microsoft *could* build an OS that didn't rely upon IE, and its technically possible to take IE out of Windows completely, and use other methods for showing help files and whatever else IE is used for. I can imagine its more possible when you also have the source code available to you =). You can bet that they will still be saying that its impossible to take IE out of windows 4 years from now..
I really don't see that as *too* bad of a thing anyway. What makes me think that Microsoft is a Monopoly is the contracts between them and OEM's. Lets go back 2 years. Company X is a fairly large OEM (think Dell, Compaq, etc), and they sell 10,000 PC's that year, and 9,000 of them had Windows preinstalled. The others were either other os's or nothing on them. Company X has to pay Microsoft for 10,000 Windows licenses.. Does that sound right? The list goes on and on in that area as well.
Microsoft has been found a monopoly. If you don't think its correct, then read the laws. If you don't agree, complain about the law, but they did break them plain and simple.
You might want to try editpad (www.jgsoft.com). You can open multiple text files with tabs at the top for each one, they have a freeware one available as well, no annoyances at all =)
The springier quality of ti is probably one of the things they like about mountain bike frames, from maybe a technical, i make mountain bike frames and I think its cool type of thing. Most mountain bikers see a titanium frame as strong and light, and thats about it, at least the mountain bikers that i ride with.
From the article in the paper, they were saying that neutron stars are made up of neutrons and collections of quarks in groups of 3 (they call them bags of quarks I believe).
The new star they found has these quarks but they are not in groups of 3, they are just single quarks.
They were also mentioning that it may help to understand dark matter and such, im pretty clueless when it comes to this stuff but i find it very interesting to read about.. so sorry if my info above is not accurate =).
Sorry I wasn't really trying to offend you in anyway, none taken so no biggie. And don't worry, people that have spoken english thier whole life still say that.
When I posted the reply, I was REAL bored at work, and it caught my eye =).
Cheers!
How about..
The layout is not as good =)
less good?
Ya, like I said though, they don't enforce it really.
Id imagine that line is in there when they catch someone doing something a bit overboard when it comes to how much traffic is going to them, and they have complaints around the area that its slower, they can point to that and say you are a bad person and cut off yer services..
Ahh well, im just glad im not on time warner
I think this is the real reason why they are doing this:
Its much cheaper to send an email to the president of an enemy country, with an attachment thats a simulation of a few nukes being dropped on their country, then it is to actually do it. Its just a new diplomacy tool =)
I guess im somewhat amazed, and also hoping its not true, that we are relying upon a simulation to tell if our nukes are good or not. Sure, run a ton of simulations, im sure that some portion of them are going to come back as saying its bad in some respect. What do they do next? Give the computer a map of the storage facilities, and have it *simulate* where the bad ones are?
In my opinion they are up to more then just that.
Lets say we have 1000 nukes, that have been in storage for 10 years. You do a bunch of simulations, and they come back positive. You wait 5 years, you do some more test, and now it says that 5 are bad.
Now, we don't use nukes that often, in fact we have only used 2 bombs in war, as far as i know. If for some reason in the future, we need to use another nuke, would our government really rely upon a bunch of nukes that have been in storage for 15 years, and our best guess is 5 of them are bad. What if the one we pick is a bad one? What if they didn't simluate it, and the whole batch of nukes is bad, and we try to fire them, and we die because they are all duds and they come back and kick our ass. I really think the best way of doing this is dismantle the nukes we have and get it over with. If some country launches a nuke at us, or some other country, we're all fucked anyway so its not going to matter..
Keep in mind i really have no idea how the testing process goes, but if it is anything like above im scared =).
Nope, hes just one of those that they sucessfully brainwashed in the 50's and he somehow escaped..