Has anyone ever actually made an effort to see what ways Verizon will help you determine if you can get coverage at key spots like within your home? Did the Verizon rep turn you down when you asked to exchange your drivers license for a temporary cheapy phone to test the service out within your residence? Or did you just sign a 3 year 100 a month contract first, then bitch later?
We have a DSL line through Qwest, that is "Business DSL", with a static IP block and full rights to serve anything on it, including reverse DNS authority. It is as much business as a T-1.
A couple of the blacklists and AOL's mailserver blacklisted the IP's for being "home IP's", even though they weren't. Took a number of emails from both us and Qwest's NOC to get removed off all the blacklists.
So, beware of situations where ISP's designate blocks of IP's for business use "within" those they've classified as "home". It happens.
Only marketing points that ever stuck in my mind about their CPUs were,
- Could run other OS's through emulation.
- Would give your notebook insane long battery life.
The first point never mattered in a Windows / Linux world that ran on i386 anyway. The second point never really came to be. I remember looking at Sony Picturebooks with dinky screens and Transmeta CPUs and seeing them last like 2 hours. Big deal. If they didn't double battery life, the public wouldn't notice enough to buy Transmeta on purpose. Then Centrino came out and, well, yeah, thanks for playing.
Yeah, I know my neighbor with an IQ of 7 would rather be writing code that parses XML work orders and turns them into statistical graphs than watching NASCAR. It's just that complicated Java syntax kicks his ass so he's kicking back with a 6 pack of Black Label waiting for this technology to come out.
Will someone please explain to me (and I'm being serious here) the fascination with Blogging? I will be honest when I say I don't spend much time looking at them, so I am assuming I'm just missing something. But the whole concept of everyone given a soapbox to spout off whatever meandering tripe they are hung up on that day just seems revolting to me.
Most of what comes out of the mouths of educated professionals is either incorrect, biased, boring or all three. Taking it "down a level" to the average Joe seems torturous.
Podcasting sounded interesting so I downloaded one that was acclaimed as "one of the few worth downloading!" on some site. It was just a college kid who rambles on for literally an hour every (day? week?) about what he's doing (like, "I ate dinner with Mike last night."), its like who gives a shit? Surely this isn't what Blogging is all about? 99% of it can't just be people typing "I took a dump yesterday, and it was a floater. Um. I like sausage pizza. Um.". What am I missing?
Examples of KDE and Gnome truly innovating the GUI and not just knocking off OSX or XP? Something along the lines of Expose or XP's bubbling frequently used apps Start Menu?
You know I get kind of tired of hearing cop outs like this. "Don't lump us together" is more valid for things like "all black people are criminals" or "all short guys have a chip on their shoulder". Because the qualities of a black or short person really are all over the map. So "criminal" or "chip on shoulder" is an innacurate stereotype that applies to a very small percentage.
But crap like this? Nearly every Christian or right winger I know is for the government swooping in to "save this precious life" no matter how retarded and without logic it is. If you claim patronage to that group, then you deserve to be labelled with the actions and opinions of its general populous. If you don't like or disagree with it, maybe you should consider a different group before others consider defining you by all your stipulations.
I remember I used to listen to this late night AM radio talk show host who'd give advice on everything from stocks and bonds to etiquette. One night a guy called in and said "Hey, I shave my head, have lots of tatoos including a swastika on my forehead and demons on my arms, but I'm really a good person. I don't believe in killing jews or anything, I just like the symbols and having a shaved head. I wish people would see me for who I really am though, I get stereotyped." Well, the host obviously told him "You're living on the wrong planet." Get real. If you're going to be so closely affiliated with a group that almost-always do have certain characteristics (how many skinhead, swastika forehead, demon arm tatoo guys do you know are just really nice people helping old ladies across the street and working towards world peace?) then you deserve the negative connotations that come with it.
They "had" to break the bone to fit into a transport helicopter? That's either a very big thigh bone or a very small helicopter. One would think a team looking for dinosaur bones would properly prepare for a large enough transport mechanism to return with one.
Either way, if it really is that big why don't they just hang half of it out the back with a tied on red flag. I think that's all the DOT requires.
"When ever I access my mail account at https://mail.yahoo.com, [with Firefox 1.0x] the browser crashes when I log out." Score: 0 Offtopic
"I hate those smilie popups which seems to be unblockable, please make them go away. [which is to say Firefox still isn't blocking all popups] Score: 0 Offtopic
"I hope this fixes the problems with this document contains no data." Score: 0 Troll
"Open source software can react far faster to new threats than any closed source development model." Score: +5 Informative
Mmmm gotta love that pure Slashdot fanboi machine. Work in a plug for Linux or Open Source, instant +5. Mention a valid and existing bug with the open source software the post is about, you're an offtopic troll, probably a NAMBLA member or Nazi too. Die!
In other words when youre not working with graphics or DVDs, writing code or playing games, you'll use your Mac.
Sweet. Spend 20-50% more on proprietary hardware/software combo to spend 90% of your time running Remote Desktop into a Windows box. But by God when you hit the Dashboard key you can be like "look at my wicked English to French dictionary and flight checker, with its sweet drop shadows and rounded corners!"
That's basically what I found. I'd like to run OSX, but I'd end up just working in RD all the time when I'm doing anything non-trivial, and I just can't see the logic in that.
I do love how in Linux vs Windows flame wars, when someone says Linux is a nightmare to administer and keep running everyone screams how it's not true and any granny can install and run Today's Linux (tm), that its even easier than Windows!
But when someone who loves OSX complains how many problems they had just keeping Linux running and how wonderful OSX is in comparison, everyone just nods and agrees.
I'm not really seeing the "my $2000 Mac is better than a $2500 PC!!11!!1!", basically if you don't mind trading less screen resolution, widescreen and a dual layer writer for DVI out and OSX, and throwing in another $600 (enough for 5 iPod Shuffles and a decent hooker), then Apple Powerbooks are for you. They're both good decisions, but I have not seen any rational way to make Apples cheaper than Windows machines with comparable configurations.
+5 communist liberal with an axe to grind and does so by spewing vague and knee jerk bullshit responses.
I've got a 1.2GHz processor with 1024Mb of RAM, and my box chugs opening an M$ Word doc?! WTF?!
That's probably because your box is so full of spyware you've said YES to installing. Word on my simliar machine opens in like 2 seconds retard.
As for your lazy programmer knee jerk comments, it's been said time and again by people with functioning gray matter; Very often the time spent optimizing code costs more than the few seconds wasted here and there by "lazy" (ie, often far more readable and easier to bug fix) code.
But thanks for your wonderful insight Ralph Nader.
"...The Low Power LCD mode lowers the refresh rate to extend battery life. An easy way to understand this may be to think of it this way: when on AC power, the Mobility Radeon 7500 uses higher clock speeds and more voltage for more performance; when the Mobility Radeon 7500 is in DC mode, it lowers the clock speed and voltage for maximum battery life..."
Spoken like a true upper class suburban white angst ridden goth male teenager who would likely be covered in tears and feces at the first sight of anyone of authority knocking on their (ahem, their parents) door.
The obvious ones come to mind, "invisibility", "telekenisis" and "flight". While "superhuman strength" might have some use, it will likely be less so in the future as computers get smaller and lighter. You might also look into "shape shifting" and "teleportation", the latter being helpful if your employment requires long commutes.
I give up, why do we have windows on the space shuttle? In case they have to fly to space manually? If its for the view, how about moveable covers for them or something so they stay protected 99% of the time?
Depends on the game design. Everquest 2 is arguably the best or second best looking game available today. However it was written in such a manner as to make the CPU a total bottleneck in the rendering process. You can blame SOE for writing a game that doesn't exploit the very graphics card but the fact of the matter is they chose to do a lot of rendering functions on CPU because "having a CPU" is universal to everyone playing the game.
What I'm getting at is, while you're partially correct when you say a GPU is faster than a CPU, in the real world the CPU can and is also a limiting factor in many scenarios including games that are selling hundreds of thousands of copies. So a dual core, available at this very moment would likely almost double some peoples framerates in Everquest2 and other games. That is more than an excersize in futility.
Not only that but, more cores and more threads mean a better game experience. Not "everything" a game is doing is rendering things on the GPU. Play any modern game and watch your CPU usage. I'm guessing your CPU isn't idle while you're playing. Whatever your CPU "is" doing, it will be able to do a lot more of with dual cores. Exploited correctly, that has the potential to result in a better game.
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This is like comment #492 that XML is slow and a poor format to use for databasing.
People are trying to use XML for something other than for which it was intended then complaining at the sub-standard results. Surprise? XML is a common format to make it possible to move data between different, I'll use the word "domains" (as in division not URL), it should be used for "just" that.
In other words, XML should be a "transport" mechanism. It's so I'm not writing a new parser by hand everytime some wanker like you sends me a file in yet another made-up-on-the-spot type. Your example is relatively clean but in the real world as the data gets harder to describe, humans start to make more ignorant made-up-on-the-spot rules like "Well ok if theres a sub record the line will start with a -, well ok it could be a + too, if the subrecord can only contain numbers... no you know what lets make it -n if the sub records can contain numbers only..". No matter how ingenious your "format" is, the problem isn't your format, its that your format isn't my other customers format.
XML should be used in scenarios where the time spent being able to use all the readily available XML parsing and validating tools you don't have to re-invent the wheel writing is more than the milliseconds saved parsing a longer document "once".
Don't use XML as your main, permanent, datastore for a gigantic database and complain. It's not for that. Its for when I need a copy of your data and I don't want to pay for a copy of "JackoffDb version 5" that you run, or hire a team of programmers to write a translator just to read your files. Gimme XML, I can take that and understand its contents and schema with ease, then Ill import it into my own system here.
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Has anyone ever actually made an effort to see what ways Verizon will help you determine if you can get coverage at key spots like within your home? Did the Verizon rep turn you down when you asked to exchange your drivers license for a temporary cheapy phone to test the service out within your residence? Or did you just sign a 3 year 100 a month contract first, then bitch later?
Quick, find some stairs!
A couple of the blacklists and AOL's mailserver blacklisted the IP's for being "home IP's", even though they weren't. Took a number of emails from both us and Qwest's NOC to get removed off all the blacklists.
So, beware of situations where ISP's designate blocks of IP's for business use "within" those they've classified as "home". It happens.
- Could run other OS's through emulation.
- Would give your notebook insane long battery life.
The first point never mattered in a Windows / Linux world that ran on i386 anyway. The second point never really came to be. I remember looking at Sony Picturebooks with dinky screens and Transmeta CPUs and seeing them last like 2 hours. Big deal. If they didn't double battery life, the public wouldn't notice enough to buy Transmeta on purpose. Then Centrino came out and, well, yeah, thanks for playing.
Yeah, its almost as if moderation is done by more than one person with more than one opinion.
Yeah, I know my neighbor with an IQ of 7 would rather be writing code that parses XML work orders and turns them into statistical graphs than watching NASCAR. It's just that complicated Java syntax kicks his ass so he's kicking back with a 6 pack of Black Label waiting for this technology to come out.
Hey brudda, how long beefo it be talkin ebonics yo?
Most of what comes out of the mouths of educated professionals is either incorrect, biased, boring or all three. Taking it "down a level" to the average Joe seems torturous.
Podcasting sounded interesting so I downloaded one that was acclaimed as "one of the few worth downloading!" on some site. It was just a college kid who rambles on for literally an hour every (day? week?) about what he's doing (like, "I ate dinner with Mike last night."), its like who gives a shit? Surely this isn't what Blogging is all about? 99% of it can't just be people typing "I took a dump yesterday, and it was a floater. Um. I like sausage pizza. Um.". What am I missing?
Examples of KDE and Gnome truly innovating the GUI and not just knocking off OSX or XP? Something along the lines of Expose or XP's bubbling frequently used apps Start Menu?
Linux is many things, but "innovative GUI" is not one of them.
But crap like this? Nearly every Christian or right winger I know is for the government swooping in to "save this precious life" no matter how retarded and without logic it is. If you claim patronage to that group, then you deserve to be labelled with the actions and opinions of its general populous. If you don't like or disagree with it, maybe you should consider a different group before others consider defining you by all your stipulations.
I remember I used to listen to this late night AM radio talk show host who'd give advice on everything from stocks and bonds to etiquette. One night a guy called in and said "Hey, I shave my head, have lots of tatoos including a swastika on my forehead and demons on my arms, but I'm really a good person. I don't believe in killing jews or anything, I just like the symbols and having a shaved head. I wish people would see me for who I really am though, I get stereotyped." Well, the host obviously told him "You're living on the wrong planet." Get real. If you're going to be so closely affiliated with a group that almost-always do have certain characteristics (how many skinhead, swastika forehead, demon arm tatoo guys do you know are just really nice people helping old ladies across the street and working towards world peace?) then you deserve the negative connotations that come with it.
Either way, if it really is that big why don't they just hang half of it out the back with a tied on red flag. I think that's all the DOT requires.
"When ever I access my mail account at https://mail.yahoo.com, [with Firefox 1.0x] the browser crashes when I log out."
Score: 0 Offtopic
"I hate those smilie popups which seems to be unblockable, please make them go away. [which is to say Firefox still isn't blocking all popups]
Score: 0 Offtopic
"I hope this fixes the problems with this document contains no data."
Score: 0 Troll
"Open source software can react far faster to new threats than any closed source development model."
Score: +5 Informative
Mmmm gotta love that pure Slashdot fanboi machine. Work in a plug for Linux or Open Source, instant +5. Mention a valid and existing bug with the open source software the post is about, you're an offtopic troll, probably a NAMBLA member or Nazi too. Die!
Sweet. Spend 20-50% more on proprietary hardware/software combo to spend 90% of your time running Remote Desktop into a Windows box. But by God when you hit the Dashboard key you can be like "look at my wicked English to French dictionary and flight checker, with its sweet drop shadows and rounded corners!"
That's basically what I found. I'd like to run OSX, but I'd end up just working in RD all the time when I'm doing anything non-trivial, and I just can't see the logic in that.
But when someone who loves OSX complains how many problems they had just keeping Linux running and how wonderful OSX is in comparison, everyone just nods and agrees.
4 lbs, 12.1" 1280x800 widescreen
1.8 Ghz
512 RAM
80 Gig Drive
5.5 Hour Battery
8x DVD+/-RW Dual Layer
802.11g
1 Year Warranty
$1365 - (or $1092 with 20% off any notebook over $1000 special, commonly posted to gotapex.com)
Apple Powerbook 12-inch
4.6 lbs, 12.1" 1024x768
1.5 Ghz
512 RAM
80 Gig Drive
5 hour battery
8x SuperDrive DVD+/-RW
1 Year Warranty
$1700
I'm not really seeing the "my $2000 Mac is better than a $2500 PC!!11!!1!", basically if you don't mind trading less screen resolution, widescreen and a dual layer writer for DVI out and OSX, and throwing in another $600 (enough for 5 iPod Shuffles and a decent hooker), then Apple Powerbooks are for you. They're both good decisions, but I have not seen any rational way to make Apples cheaper than Windows machines with comparable configurations.
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I've got a 1.2GHz processor with 1024Mb of RAM, and my box chugs opening an M$ Word doc?! WTF?!
That's probably because your box is so full of spyware you've said YES to installing. Word on my simliar machine opens in like 2 seconds retard.
As for your lazy programmer knee jerk comments, it's been said time and again by people with functioning gray matter; Very often the time spent optimizing code costs more than the few seconds wasted here and there by "lazy" (ie, often far more readable and easier to bug fix) code.
But thanks for your wonderful insight Ralph Nader.
"...The Low Power LCD mode lowers the refresh rate to extend battery life. An easy way to understand this may be to think of it this way: when on AC power, the Mobility Radeon 7500 uses higher clock speeds and more voltage for more performance; when the Mobility Radeon 7500 is in DC mode, it lowers the clock speed and voltage for maximum battery life..."
Spoken like a true upper class suburban white angst ridden goth male teenager who would likely be covered in tears and feces at the first sight of anyone of authority knocking on their (ahem, their parents) door.
The obvious ones come to mind, "invisibility", "telekenisis" and "flight". While "superhuman strength" might have some use, it will likely be less so in the future as computers get smaller and lighter. You might also look into "shape shifting" and "teleportation", the latter being helpful if your employment requires long commutes.
porn stars?
I give up, why do we have windows on the space shuttle? In case they have to fly to space manually? If its for the view, how about moveable covers for them or something so they stay protected 99% of the time?
What I'm getting at is, while you're partially correct when you say a GPU is faster than a CPU, in the real world the CPU can and is also a limiting factor in many scenarios including games that are selling hundreds of thousands of copies. So a dual core, available at this very moment would likely almost double some peoples framerates in Everquest2 and other games. That is more than an excersize in futility.
Not only that but, more cores and more threads mean a better game experience. Not "everything" a game is doing is rendering things on the GPU. Play any modern game and watch your CPU usage. I'm guessing your CPU isn't idle while you're playing. Whatever your CPU "is" doing, it will be able to do a lot more of with dual cores. Exploited correctly, that has the potential to result in a better game.
People are trying to use XML for something other than for which it was intended then complaining at the sub-standard results. Surprise? XML is a common format to make it possible to move data between different, I'll use the word "domains" (as in division not URL), it should be used for "just" that.
In other words, XML should be a "transport" mechanism. It's so I'm not writing a new parser by hand everytime some wanker like you sends me a file in yet another made-up-on-the-spot type. Your example is relatively clean but in the real world as the data gets harder to describe, humans start to make more ignorant made-up-on-the-spot rules like "Well ok if theres a sub record the line will start with a -, well ok it could be a + too, if the subrecord can only contain numbers... no you know what lets make it -n if the sub records can contain numbers only..". No matter how ingenious your "format" is, the problem isn't your format, its that your format isn't my other customers format.
XML should be used in scenarios where the time spent being able to use all the readily available XML parsing and validating tools you don't have to re-invent the wheel writing is more than the milliseconds saved parsing a longer document "once".
Don't use XML as your main, permanent, datastore for a gigantic database and complain. It's not for that. Its for when I need a copy of your data and I don't want to pay for a copy of "JackoffDb version 5" that you run, or hire a team of programmers to write a translator just to read your files. Gimme XML, I can take that and understand its contents and schema with ease, then Ill import it into my own system here.