Everything about the [DELL] boxes were fairly standard for the most part.
Just hope they weren't manufactured between '98 and '04 (thru the 8100 series)... because they used nonstandard, proprietary, power supplies and motherboards.
And try to find a power supply for one of those frickin mini-HPs or compaqs for under $100...
Just cut a slot in the top of your case... the current P-4's are plenty hot enough to toast bread. you'll still have to flip it tho to get the other side..;)
While the report does not name a single cause for the failure, it does name several problems including the lack of funding, lack of margin in the design, and treating Beagle 2 as a scientific instrument rather than as a spacecraft
Did anyone else read this as the "it's not our fault!! They didn't give us enough money and were mean to us!" defense?
They have a voice activated car with one of these in it....
Telling it to "Back up" while you're cruising at highway speeds would end up with your transmission in the middle of the road and you looking at the bottom of a ditch!!;)
miss the point of what? every time someone mentions how our liberties are getting more and more restricted, someone responds with "but we haven't gotten attacked again!" as if that's a completely logical reason for taking away our rights. It is not. plain and simple.
I am so sick of this weak-ass justification for our moving closer and closer to a police state. "no attacks since then" OH my! they must be doing something right! Wait a minute.. BEFORE all this stomping on liberties, we had TWO, that's T W O (counting 9/11) attacks on US soil by foreigners in OVER FIFTY years (since Pearl Harbor). And those two both happened in the last 12 years. No attacks for fifty years prior and yet we're supposed to be overjoyed with how well this administration has "protected" us for the last 4? Not hardly.
Seriously. Ghosting a drive to save data and reloading windows takes 1.5 hours or less. If you find yourself taking more than an hour fighting spyware, bite the bullet and wipe the machine. You'll save time and money in the long run. Unless you're one of those people who installs every program ever written and then loses the CD's...
Starting on almost exactly December 1st, 2004, I started receiving approx 30-40% MORE spam every day... I now get on average about 80-90 spam per day, whereas prior to thankgsgiving/dec 1st, I was getting around 50-60. (yes I know many here get way more)
10. Certain Collision A collision is certain, capable of causing a global climatic catastrophe that may threaten the future of civilization as we know it, whether impacting land or ocean. Such events occur on average once per 100,000 years, or less often.
I attended a one day intel channel conference last week and they talked about this when presenting the CPU roadmap for the next few quarters. They were calling it EM64.
What was more interesting is how they seriously played it down as unimportant. It was like, "we now have 64 bit!" "But there are only 2 versions of linux and a beta version of winXP that use it so it's not really that important." "and all your apps are still 32 bit so it doesn't matter anyway"
Basically, it's not important that we had to copy the other guys stuff and not offer it til almost a year later because nothing really important *cough*NON-microsoft*cough* runs 64 bit anyway. But we have it!! And the itanium had it a year ago! (was amusing how he threw that in too)
There's no need for a single player game to connect to its maker every damn time it is played.
This statement is just plaing WRONG. As has been said many many times, you have to connect ONCE; to activate the game. After this, you can disconnect your ISP, and happily play HL2 whenever you feel like it. you could unhook your computer, fly to zimbabwe desert, and as long as you had electricity, you can play HL2.
Sure.. and for every complaint you see, there are at least a dozen other people that had no problems whatsoever.
Tuesday night at 8 PM EST, smack in the middle of prime internet time, I clicked purchase, entered my info, waited about 2 minutes for the purchase validation, was greeted by a thank you. Started the downloads of the files at about 8:10. Went to the gym. came back to watch the download finish up at an average 1.9 Mbps. Closed my email and chat windows, and started it right up. Loaded, played for about half an hour and went to bed. No problems at all.
And based on the response on a gaming forum I run, out of all our active users, roughly 100, there were 3, that's THREE, that reported problems with STEAM on the first night.
And then, even when I'm not playing, Steam pops up and sends messages to my screen.
RTFM. Or at least look at the options screen. There are 2 check boxes to TURN OFF this notification. I've been running steam since it came out and it's never popped up a message on my screen i didn't ask for. Try actually looking at the program before saying it sucks.
In internet time, this was ages ago. the problem was resolved like 24 hours before this story was posted... Then again Slashdot never was a timely news source.:/
Actually... if it removes file sharing programs, I would almost consider it helpful. Since half or more of the file sharing programs are the reason we get so many PCs in our shop F'd up with spyware and trojans. There are very few good file sharing programs remaining that DON'T come loaded with spyware crap. Last time I looked, I think Kazaa installs 5 different spy/adware programs that are REQUIRED in order to use Kazaa. Crap!
So this program could almost be useful... not that I'd ever download something from any of the **AA's...
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Everything about the [DELL] boxes were fairly standard for the most part.
Just hope they weren't manufactured between '98 and '04 (thru the 8100 series)... because they used nonstandard, proprietary, power supplies and motherboards.
And try to find a power supply for one of those frickin mini-HPs or compaqs for under $100...
Just cut a slot in the top of your case... the current P-4's are plenty hot enough to toast bread. ;)
you'll still have to flip it tho to get the other side..
Perhaps if you RTFA, you'd find out;
And before you ask, the new dual-cores require new chipsets, so these CPUs will not run on existing systems.
but wait, this is slashdot. Where posting comes before reading.
While the report does not name a single cause for the failure, it does name several problems including the lack of funding, lack of margin in the design, and treating Beagle 2 as a scientific instrument rather than as a spacecraft
Did anyone else read this as the "it's not our fault!! They didn't give us enough money and were mean to us!" defense?
Except that the majority of computers in the USA are still running Windows 98.
No automatic update installs for them...
When I'm drunk off my rocker and want to select a particular song, it takes forever. Overscroll, scroll back, overscroll, scroll back, etc
;)
And you think it's going to understand your drunken shhhlurrerredddedd blabbering any better?
They have a voice activated car with one of these in it....
;)
Telling it to "Back up" while you're cruising at highway speeds would end up with your transmission in the middle of the road and you looking at the bottom of a ditch!!
miss the point of what?
every time someone mentions how our liberties are getting more and more restricted, someone responds with "but we haven't gotten attacked again!" as if that's a completely logical reason for taking away our rights.
It is not. plain and simple.
there have been no attacks on US soil since then.
I am so sick of this weak-ass justification for our moving closer and closer to a police state.
"no attacks since then" OH my! they must be doing something right! Wait a minute.. BEFORE all this stomping on liberties, we had TWO, that's T W O (counting 9/11) attacks on US soil by foreigners in OVER FIFTY years (since Pearl Harbor). And those two both happened in the last 12 years. No attacks for fifty years prior and yet we're supposed to be overjoyed with how well this administration has "protected" us for the last 4?
Not hardly.
two words...
format c:\
Seriously. Ghosting a drive to save data and reloading windows takes 1.5 hours or less. If you find yourself taking more than an hour fighting spyware, bite the bullet and wipe the machine. You'll save time and money in the long run.
Unless you're one of those people who installs every program ever written and then loses the CD's...
Starting on almost exactly December 1st, 2004, I started receiving approx 30-40% MORE spam every day...
I now get on average about 80-90 spam per day, whereas prior to thankgsgiving/dec 1st, I was getting around 50-60. (yes I know many here get way more)
Lot of good this is doing.
10. Certain Collision
A collision is certain, capable of causing a global climatic catastrophe that may threaten the future of civilization as we know it, whether impacting land or ocean. Such events occur on average once per 100,000 years, or less often.
So yeah.. bend over.
Whoever thought this was informative should turn in their geek badge and go back to high school physics class...
In the real world, the size of n does matter
Yeah.. like my ex-gf used to tell me;
it's not the size of the n, it's the efficiency of the algorithm...
badum-ching.
Sadly enough.. this was the same thing I thought at first... :/
And I don't even have a LiveJournal.
Uhhh was this post a joke or intentionally stupid?
The DNCL is for land lines only. It is already illegal to telemarket call cell phones.
I attended a one day intel channel conference last week and they talked about this when presenting the CPU roadmap for the next few quarters. They were calling it EM64.
What was more interesting is how they seriously played it down as unimportant. It was like, "we now have 64 bit!" "But there are only 2 versions of linux and a beta version of winXP that use it so it's not really that important." "and all your apps are still 32 bit so it doesn't matter anyway"
Basically, it's not important that we had to copy the other guys stuff and not offer it til almost a year later because nothing really important *cough*NON-microsoft*cough* runs 64 bit anyway. But we have it!! And the itanium had it a year ago! (was amusing how he threw that in too)
My coworker and i tried not to laugh out loud.
There's no need for a single player game to connect to its maker every damn time it is played.
This statement is just plaing WRONG.
As has been said many many times, you have to connect ONCE; to activate the game.
After this, you can disconnect your ISP, and happily play HL2 whenever you feel like it. you could unhook your computer, fly to zimbabwe desert, and as long as you had electricity, you can play HL2.
You do not have to be online to play HL2.
Sure.. and for every complaint you see, there are at least a dozen other people that had no problems whatsoever.
Tuesday night at 8 PM EST, smack in the middle of prime internet time, I clicked purchase, entered my info, waited about 2 minutes for the purchase validation, was greeted by a thank you.
Started the downloads of the files at about 8:10.
Went to the gym. came back to watch the download finish up at an average 1.9 Mbps. Closed my email and chat windows, and started it right up.
Loaded, played for about half an hour and went to bed. No problems at all.
And based on the response on a gaming forum I run, out of all our active users, roughly 100, there were 3, that's THREE, that reported problems with STEAM on the first night.
And then, even when I'm not playing, Steam pops up and sends messages to my screen.
RTFM. Or at least look at the options screen.
There are 2 check boxes to TURN OFF this notification.
I've been running steam since it came out and it's never popped up a message on my screen i didn't ask for.
Try actually looking at the program before saying it sucks.
Nah... they're obviously Mentats.
They have a whole office chanting, "It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion."
In internet time, this was ages ago. the problem was resolved like 24 hours before this story was posted... :/
Then again Slashdot never was a timely news source.
I know that...
But try explaining those to the average (l)user that thinks Kazaa = free music.
Actually... if it removes file sharing programs, I would almost consider it helpful.
Since half or more of the file sharing programs are the reason we get so many PCs in our shop F'd up with spyware and trojans.
There are very few good file sharing programs remaining that DON'T come loaded with spyware crap. Last time I looked, I think Kazaa installs 5 different spy/adware programs that are REQUIRED in order to use Kazaa. Crap!
So this program could almost be useful... not that I'd ever download something from any of the **AA's...
The game has to be activated via STEAM before you can play it. Even for single player.
ACtivation does not start until Tues. Nov 16th.
But you can drool over the box and wear your T-shirt until then!!