As much as I wish it were, the floppy is a device that simply refuses to die.
I went for three years without using a Floppy and finally just broke down and bought a USB floppy drive. There is just no easier way to flash a bios and make a backup.
Floppy disks are well suited to their current day task of saving small files and flashing the bios.
This coming from a person who uses a Thumbdrive, DVD-RW, or a Archos 20GB hdd to transport files.
My Logitech Cordless Duo MX has an option for secure mode. This not only would eliminate such things as you describe but prevents someone from packet sniffing your keyboard(tinhat zone).
Taken from: http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft_rove r_antennas.html </B> The rover has both a low-gain and high-gain antenna that serve as both its "voice" and its "ears". They are located on the rover equipment deck (its "back").
The low-gain antenna sends and receives information in every direction; that is, it is "omni-directional." The antenna transmits radio waves at a low rate to the Deep Space Network (DSN) antennas on Earth. The high-gain antenna can send a "beam" of information in a specific direction and it is steerable, so the antenna can move to point itself directly to any antenna on Earth. The benefit of having a steerable antenna is that the entire rover doesn´t necessarily have to change positions to talk to Earth. Like turning your neck to talk to someone beside you rather than turning your entire body, the rover can save energy by moving only the antenna.
Not only can the rovers send messages directly to Earth, but they can uplink information to other spacecraft orbiting Mars, utilizing the 2001 Mars Odyssey and Mars Global Surveyor orbiters as messengers who can pass along news to Earth for the rovers. The orbiters can also send messages to the rovers.
The benefits of using the orbiting spacecraft are that the orbiters are closer to the rovers than the Deep Space Network antennas on Earth and the orbiters have Earth in their field of view for much longer time periods than the rovers on the ground.
The radio waves to and from the rover are sent through the orbiters using UHF antennas, which are close-range antennas which are like walky-talkies compared to the long range of the low-gain and high-gain antennas. One UHF antenna is on the rover and one is on the petal of the lander to aid in gaining information during the critical landing event. The Mars Global Surveyor will be in the appropriate location above Mars to track the landing process. (2001 Mars Odyssey will not be in the vicinity.)
<B>Also of note is the data rates and methods used for transmitting pictures back to Earth: </B>
The data rate direct-to-Earth varies from about 12,000 bits per second to 3,500 bits per second (roughly a third as fast as a standard home modem). The data rate to the orbiters is a constant 128,000 bits per second (4 times faster than a home modem). An orbiter passes over the rover and is in the vicinity of the sky to communicate with the rovers for about eight minutes at a time, per sol. In that time, about 60 megabits of data (about 1/100 of a CD) can be transmitted to an orbiter. That same 60 megabits would take between 1.5 and 5 hours to transmit direct to Earth. The rovers can only transmit direct-to-Earth for at most three hours a day due to power and thermal limitations, even though Earth may be in view much longer.
Mars is rotating on its own axis so Mars often "turns its back" to Earth, taking the rover with it. The rover is turned out of the field of view of Earth and goes "dark", just like nighttime on Earth, when the sun goes out of the field of view of Earth at a certain location when the Earth turns its "back" to the sun. The orbiters can see Earth for about 2/3 of each orbit, or about 16 hours a day. They can send much more data direct-to-Earth than the rovers, not only because they can see Earth longer, but because they can operate their radio for much longer since their solar panels get light most of the time, and they have bigger antennas than the rovers.
Duke Nukem Forever Half-Life: Forever Team Fortress: Forever Mortyr: Forever
I would say Doom: Forever, but Carmack will actually finish it once he wins the X-Prize. Besides, he never said it would be out Christmas 2003, that's just what the posters a Quakecon said.
As an owner of a modified Xbox, I cringe whenever I play games off the disc. Playing of the hard drive is a much more pleasant experience. The loading times are reduced DRAMATICALLY, scene changes are almost instantaneous, no studdering at all. So in the end, the Xbox users who willingly violate the EULA get the better gaming experience. Whether or not they actually paid for the game(I have a gamefly subscription so I don't have to buy games anymore, I just rent and usually stick with a game while cycling the other disc I have.)
Why? I know half the pics of me suck, but I don't care. Family members appreciate having the contact. That is what matters. People will have the same opinions of you on the street. Why should you care what individuals on the internet say?
Hell, I even put some of those embarrasing childhood photos online.
WHO CARES?
If you want to see some of those embarassing pics, woods.us/leah
Here, in Colorado Springs, Revolutions started showing at 7:20AM. Caught the first showing for $3.75(Early Bird Price).
The ending certainly was not what was expected. Decent none the less. Certainly better than the second one. But once again, nothing in comparison to the original.
The dialog at the end with Agent Smith was great. Best part of the movie, IMHO.
IBM already took their Power4 and stripped it down for Apple(G5), next logical step is to do the same with the Power5 while ramping the clock speed.
I imagine that the move by Microsoft in purchasing VirtualPC may be related to this announcement. Take an already proven PC emulator, port it for Xbox2 use.
Even as an individual who benefitted from the 90+fps bug, I like this idea. It really levels the playing field. Now, I just hope Doom3 plays nicely with my Dual 3200+/9700Pro or Dual 2GHz G5/9600 Pro at something close to 1280x1024(LCD).
John Carmack just scored more points in my book. Now if only we could force everyone to use full shadows...
You will be able to use any of the XBOX tunnels with the gamecube. It is all the same concept, a vpn.
I don't know why these guys are even working on another tunnel. Certainly not to bring the tunnels to linux. Half the Xbox tunnels out there are linux.
This CPU is aimed at the gaming/multimedia community. All that extra cache should make Doom3/HL2 speed along a little better. It should also help us that encode DVDs/DivX on the fly. What supprises me is that they didn't finally go to 1GHz FSB. Yeah, I know, that would mean you need DDR500(PC4000). While I'm sure you make have problems taxing your 3.2GHz CPU with MS Word or Counter-Strike, I am left longing for more CPU power with my Dual Athlon MP2100+ when De-interlacing video from my DV cam or running Urban Terror with SMP @ 1152x864x32+2xAA+AF.
You say software needs to catch up? I say hardware has and will be playing catchup for a long time. I'm sure that hardware will never exceed the demands of software. Multimedia has been the driving force behind computers since they became "good enough for Twin/QuatroPro/WP/etc." and will continue to be that driving force.
I am also a former Aeneas customer. Unless Aeneas has made some major changes they are quite certainly the worst ISP I have ever worked with. Aeneas has contracts with the Jackson-Madison County School System to provide internet service district wide. The quality of such service is, bar none, the worst I have experienced. I did some volunteer work at a local Elementary school helping teachers work out any lingering computing problems they had(Virii, printer drivers, misconfigured ip settings, file transfer to a new computer, etc). The internet service I experienced while I was there lead me to believe I was on a 128k ISDN line. Not until I went to the server room did I realize that I was, infact, on a T1. Now this is during the middle of summer, mabye four other persons were in the building, three of which were in the same room as myself. The service was also intermittent, having several dead periods while I was working. Needless to say, I remained unimpressed by said experience.
When I was an Aeneas dialup customer, in 1998, the service provided by Aeneas was also subpar. The dialup speeds were averaging 21.6kbps, where as when I switched to U.S. Internet(now owned by Earthlink) my dialup speeds were always above 26.4kbps(Except on Mother's Day). There were frequent disconnections, and they had a limit of 150hrs/month.
I'm not supprised how easy it is to restore subpar service. All they had to do was tie together the strings that are their backbone.
(And I don't want to hear any crap about recruiters that lie. When a recruiter lies, they go to prison, and the person they lied to is allowed to go home. Try joining the Army and telling your sergeant in drill camp that your recruiter never told you it would be this hard. You'll see first hand how seriously they take that.)
Right, that's why no one cares that recruiters lied to you, they just point and laugh. I was there, I've seen it. Most of the rest of us also laughed at the poor dumb bastards who thought Basic Combat Training was going to be something like they have it in the Air Force. For the most part recruiters do not lie. They just forget to tell you about the bad stuff. But then again, when I'm getting friends to join the Army, I do the same thing. The Army is a great opertunity for young men and women to exceed the capabilities of their peers. The Army does not care if you have a background in computers or anything else for that matter. If you score well on the technical part of your ASVAB, you can get just about any job. I have a friend who completed the Satellite Controller course with me who didn't even know what the Start button was until I showed him. Not to say the course is easy, it is not. But the Army teaches you everything you need to know and whatever they don't teach you in class, you will learn in the field.
-Daniel Wood, PFC, U.S. Army Satellite Network Controller
Nokia has filed suit against Intel for its Emerging Platforms Lab's purchase of a Sim card writer. Citing the intended use of the writer is the defrauding of cellular telecommunications companies which Nokia has contracts with.
I'm typing this e-mail from my laptop connected to the net through my Sanyo phone and Sprint PCS Vision. I pay $10/month for Unlimited data usage, and it is well worth it. I have been using this setup since November 2002. The coverage is excellent and the speed is awesome, except on Sunday evenings. My average download speed is over 100kbits. If I use multisource downloading I can almost always pull 138+kbits with bursts up to 250kbits. Supprisingly the upload is much faster than the download. Average upload speed is over 150kbits with bursts of over 350kbits. The only thing the service is not suitable for is low latency applications(games). Ping times average 1500+ in game, with over 50% PL.
One has to wonder whether this has anything to do with the WASTE fiasco.
Wonder? When he says, "The company controls what I do with my code [in the past, it seemed I had
freedom, but it turns out all of that was not really the case--rather, I
was somehow avoiding the control illicitly (for 4 years)]," it becomes rather clear as to exactly what he is talking about.
This has everything to do with WASTE and any other projects that AOL canned.
SPAM! Yes, blame it all on spam. The enticing ads told him to do it! I think this is a bandwagon everyone can jump on. Now if only we could put the right spin on it!
I completely recommend this game to fans of the original. I recieved my Japanese copy yesterday and I am hooked. Most of the game is already in english except for dialogs. Completely playable by anyone who has no clue as to what Kanji is.
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No! Stop! Heeeeelp!!!
(I used to sleep in the same room as one of those. Talk about nightmares of getting blasted from afterburners and such.)
Cool, does that mean that XXX really means 1000? :)
As much as I wish it were, the floppy is a device that simply refuses to die.
I went for three years without using a Floppy and finally just broke down and bought a USB floppy drive. There is just no easier way to flash a bios and make a backup.
Floppy disks are well suited to their current day task of saving small files and flashing the bios.
This coming from a person who uses a Thumbdrive, DVD-RW, or a Archos 20GB hdd to transport files.
My Logitech Cordless Duo MX has an option for secure mode. This not only would eliminate such things as you describe but prevents someone from packet sniffing your keyboard(tinhat zone).
Taken from: http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft_rove r_antennas.html </B>
The rover has both a low-gain and high-gain antenna that serve as both its "voice" and its "ears". They are located on the rover equipment deck (its "back").
The low-gain antenna sends and receives information in every direction; that is, it is "omni-directional." The antenna transmits radio waves at a low rate to the Deep Space Network (DSN) antennas on Earth. The high-gain antenna can send a "beam" of information in a specific direction and it is steerable, so the antenna can move to point itself directly to any antenna on Earth. The benefit of having a steerable antenna is that the entire rover doesn´t necessarily have to change positions to talk to Earth. Like turning your neck to talk to someone beside you rather than turning your entire body, the rover can save energy by moving only the antenna.
Not only can the rovers send messages directly to Earth, but they can uplink information to other spacecraft orbiting Mars, utilizing the 2001 Mars Odyssey and Mars Global Surveyor orbiters as messengers who can pass along news to Earth for the rovers. The orbiters can also send messages to the rovers.
The benefits of using the orbiting spacecraft are that the orbiters are closer to the rovers than the Deep Space Network antennas on Earth and the orbiters have Earth in their field of view for much longer time periods than the rovers on the ground.
The radio waves to and from the rover are sent through the orbiters using UHF antennas, which are close-range antennas which are like walky-talkies compared to the long range of the low-gain and high-gain antennas. One UHF antenna is on the rover and one is on the petal of the lander to aid in gaining information during the critical landing event. The Mars Global Surveyor will be in the appropriate location above Mars to track the landing process. (2001 Mars Odyssey will not be in the vicinity.)
<B>Also of note is the data rates and methods used for transmitting pictures back to Earth: </B>
The data rate direct-to-Earth varies from about 12,000 bits per second to 3,500 bits per second (roughly a third as fast as a standard home modem). The data rate to the orbiters is a constant 128,000 bits per second (4 times faster than a home modem). An orbiter passes over the rover and is in the vicinity of the sky to communicate with the rovers for about eight minutes at a time, per sol. In that time, about 60 megabits of data (about 1/100 of a CD) can be transmitted to an orbiter. That same 60 megabits would take between 1.5 and 5 hours to transmit direct to Earth. The rovers can only transmit direct-to-Earth for at most three hours a day due to power and thermal limitations, even though Earth may be in view much longer.
Mars is rotating on its own axis so Mars often "turns its back" to Earth, taking the rover with it. The rover is turned out of the field of view of Earth and goes "dark", just like nighttime on Earth, when the sun goes out of the field of view of Earth at a certain location when the Earth turns its "back" to the sun. The orbiters can see Earth for about 2/3 of each orbit, or about 16 hours a day. They can send much more data direct-to-Earth than the rovers, not only because they can see Earth longer, but because they can operate their radio for much longer since their solar panels get light most of the time, and they have bigger antennas than the rovers.
So now Vivendi gets sued because you play a cop in Miami Vice and beat up Hatians and Cubans?
(Note: Miami Vice was before my time, so I'm just guessing here)
Entry: vice
Function: noun
Definition: bad habit
Synonyms: carnality, corruption, debasement, debauchery, decay, degeneracy, depravity, evil, evildoing, ill, immorality, indecency, iniquity, lechery, lewdness, libidinousness, licentiousness, looseness, lubricity, lust, maleficence, malignance, offense, perversion, profligacy, rot, sensuality, **********sin**********, squalor, transgression, trespass, venality, wickedness, wrong
Concept: immorality
Source: Roget's Interactive Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.0.0)
Copyright (C) 2004 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.
Emphasis mine.
I hope they didn't cut the Horse and His Boy. That was the best book in the series, IMHO.
Duke Nukem Forever
Half-Life: Forever
Team Fortress: Forever
Mortyr: Forever
I would say Doom: Forever, but Carmack will actually finish it once he wins the X-Prize. Besides, he never said it would be out Christmas 2003, that's just what the posters a Quakecon said.
As an owner of a modified Xbox, I cringe whenever I play games off the disc. Playing of the hard drive is a much more pleasant experience. The loading times are reduced DRAMATICALLY, scene changes are almost instantaneous, no studdering at all. So in the end, the Xbox users who willingly violate the EULA get the better gaming experience. Whether or not they actually paid for the game(I have a gamefly subscription so I don't have to buy games anymore, I just rent and usually stick with a game while cycling the other disc I have.)
Why? I know half the pics of me suck, but I don't care.
Family members appreciate having the contact. That is what matters. People will have the same opinions of you on the street. Why should you care what individuals on the internet say?
Hell, I even put some of those embarrasing childhood photos online.
WHO CARES?
If you want to see some of those embarassing pics, woods.us/leah
Here, in Colorado Springs, Revolutions started showing at 7:20AM. Caught the first showing for $3.75(Early Bird Price).
The ending certainly was not what was expected. Decent none the less. Certainly better than the second one. But once again, nothing in comparison to the original.
The dialog at the end with Agent Smith was great. Best part of the movie, IMHO.
IBM already took their Power4 and stripped it down for Apple(G5), next logical step is to do the same with the Power5 while ramping the clock speed.
I imagine that the move by Microsoft in purchasing VirtualPC may be related to this announcement. Take an already proven PC emulator, port it for Xbox2 use.
Even as an individual who benefitted from the 90+fps bug, I like this idea. It really levels the playing field. Now, I just hope Doom3 plays nicely with my Dual 3200+/9700Pro or Dual 2GHz G5/9600 Pro at something close to 1280x1024(LCD).
John Carmack just scored more points in my book. Now if only we could force everyone to use full shadows...
You will be able to use any of the XBOX tunnels with the gamecube. It is all the same concept, a vpn.
I don't know why these guys are even working on another tunnel. Certainly not to bring the tunnels to linux. Half the Xbox tunnels out there are linux.
Yeah, you probably were one of those people too.
This CPU is aimed at the gaming/multimedia community. All that extra cache should make Doom3/HL2 speed along a little better. It should also help us that encode DVDs/DivX on the fly. What supprises me is that they didn't finally go to 1GHz FSB. Yeah, I know, that would mean you need DDR500(PC4000). While I'm sure you make have problems taxing your 3.2GHz CPU with MS Word or Counter-Strike, I am left longing for more CPU power with my Dual Athlon MP2100+ when De-interlacing video from my DV cam or running Urban Terror with SMP @ 1152x864x32+2xAA+AF.
You say software needs to catch up? I say hardware has and will be playing catchup for a long time. I'm sure that hardware will never exceed the demands of software. Multimedia has been the driving force behind computers since they became "good enough for Twin/QuatroPro/WP/etc." and will continue to be that driving force.
http://tentei.org/gargamel/
I am also a former Aeneas customer.
Unless Aeneas has made some major changes they are quite certainly the worst ISP I have ever worked with. Aeneas has contracts with the Jackson-Madison County School System to provide internet service district wide. The quality of such service is, bar none, the worst I have experienced.
I did some volunteer work at a local Elementary school helping teachers work out any lingering computing problems they had(Virii, printer drivers, misconfigured ip settings, file transfer to a new computer, etc). The internet service I experienced while I was there lead me to believe I was on a 128k ISDN line. Not until I went to the server room did I realize that I was, infact, on a T1. Now this is during the middle of summer, mabye four other persons were in the building, three of which were in the same room as myself. The service was also intermittent, having several dead periods while I was working. Needless to say, I remained unimpressed by said experience.
When I was an Aeneas dialup customer, in 1998, the service provided by Aeneas was also subpar. The dialup speeds were averaging 21.6kbps, where as when I switched to U.S. Internet(now owned by Earthlink) my dialup speeds were always above 26.4kbps(Except on Mother's Day). There were frequent disconnections, and they had a limit of 150hrs/month.
I'm not supprised how easy it is to restore subpar service. All they had to do was tie together the strings that are their backbone.
Right, that's why no one cares that recruiters lied to you, they just point and laugh. I was there, I've seen it. Most of the rest of us also laughed at the poor dumb bastards who thought Basic Combat Training was going to be something like they have it in the Air Force. For the most part recruiters do not lie. They just forget to tell you about the bad stuff. But then again, when I'm getting friends to join the Army, I do the same thing.
The Army is a great opertunity for young men and women to exceed the capabilities of their peers. The Army does not care if you have a background in computers or anything else for that matter. If you score well on the technical part of your ASVAB, you can get just about any job. I have a friend who completed the Satellite Controller course with me who didn't even know what the Start button was until I showed him. Not to say the course is easy, it is not. But the Army teaches you everything you need to know and whatever they don't teach you in class, you will learn in the field.
-Daniel Wood, PFC, U.S. Army Satellite Network Controller
Nokia has filed suit against Intel for its Emerging Platforms Lab's purchase of a Sim card writer. Citing the intended use of the writer is the defrauding of cellular telecommunications companies which Nokia has contracts with.
Still yet to come...
DirectTV owners............
Tron!
Oh wait....
I'm typing this e-mail from my laptop connected to the net through my Sanyo phone and Sprint PCS Vision.
I pay $10/month for Unlimited data usage, and it is well worth it.
I have been using this setup since November 2002. The coverage is excellent and the speed is awesome, except on Sunday evenings.
My average download speed is over 100kbits. If I use multisource downloading I can almost always pull 138+kbits with bursts up to 250kbits.
Supprisingly the upload is much faster than the download. Average upload speed is over 150kbits with bursts of over 350kbits.
The only thing the service is not suitable for is low latency applications(games). Ping times average 1500+ in game, with over 50% PL.
This service is a roadwarrior life saver.
Wonder? When he says, "The company controls what I do with my code [in the past, it seemed I had freedom, but it turns out all of that was not really the case--rather, I was somehow avoiding the control illicitly (for 4 years)]," it becomes rather clear as to exactly what he is talking about.
This has everything to do with WASTE and any other projects that AOL canned.
SPAM!
Yes, blame it all on spam. The enticing ads told him to do it!
I think this is a bandwagon everyone can jump on. Now if only we could put the right spin on it!
I completely recommend this game to fans of the original. I recieved my Japanese copy yesterday and I am hooked. Most of the game is already in english except for dialogs. Completely playable by anyone who has no clue as to what Kanji is.