Skype supports MoneyBookers, who in turn support credit cards, domestic (UK) and international bank transfers, and even CHEQUES. In other words, if all else fails you can mail a cheque.
Sorry sir, but you have no excuses. You are in fact the one who "sux" for whining about something you didn't bother looking in to.
We already have SkypeOut, and SkypeIn is coming soon, and Siemens has those Skype compatible phones (Alternatively there are USB devices for using any phone with Skype)
Combining SkypeOut and SkypeIn means that Skype may finally be viable for completely replacing a traditional phoneline (In eastern Canada we have "naked DSL" with no extra costs, and cable internet doesn't require it either).
I envision taking one of these 100$ PCs and using it as a Skype gateway; SkypeIn and SkypeOut provide incoming and outgoing POTS service, the 100$ PC runs skype, and the phones (Which are wireless, so the base stations can be where the PC is) provide the final link.
Now, the only problem is that SkypeOut charges for local calls, which are normally free (for a monthly fee) here. If you make a lot of local calls, even at the very affordable SkypeOut rates it might become expensive.
What I want to know is how this is any better than the usual graphics tablets that come with wireless batteryless mice already. Mice that are tracked by the tablet, not the mouse, so the mouse is small and light. And some of them even have crosshairs attached to the top side for precision movements.
Another vote for Skype. Your dismissal of it because you think it is "commercial" is illogical. It's the best free serverless NAT-friendly solution out there at the moment.
It's no surprise that a desktop Pentium-M machine makes an excellent gaming machine. Past benchmarks in laptops have shown that the Dothan Pentium M can compete with high-end Pentium 4s and Athlon 64s and hold it's own when it comes to gaming. And by hold it's own I mean outperform.
For example, back in June Anandtech did some gaming benchmarks (http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2 129&p=10) that showed the Pentium M 755 (Dothan at 2GHz) outperforming a P4 3.2, which if I recall correctly was one step below the fastest P4 at the time.
"Valve has said publicly they would unlock Half Life2 before the November 16th street date if stores start selling it early."
This is entirely false, VALVe never said it. ShackNews made it up. It turns out what VALVe said was that the STEAM version would unlock when the retail version shipped. Obviously they meant that they'd both be the same date, which turned out the be the 16th. What ShackNews interpreted that as is that if the retail version comes out early via leak, the STEAM version would too.
ShackNews is just digging themselves a hole for something that VALVe has already said isn't going to happen (and that they never said that).
Why gather evidence? The game will come out in just over 2 days (2 days 6 hours at this point). WAIT for it damnit. Stop whining like goddamned 10 year old AOLers.
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Grab two Linksys routers or access points, the kind that allow third party firmware to boost transmit power. The WRT54G would do nicely.
Then buy two Cantennas (http://www.cantenna.com/), and point them at eachother. You should have no problems getting a very strong signal.
"The committee also recommended allowing for extended licensing of Internet material for educational purposes, meaning that a fee cannot be collected for publicly available material.
That publicly available material would be defined as material that available on public Internet sites that do not require subscriptions or passwords and for which there is no associated fee."
Is it just me, or does that seem extremely abusable?
Actually, 16ms is old news, they passed 12ms, and ar e now two levels down at 8ms.
Everybody has 16ms now.
That said, I have a 25ms LCD on my laptop. Is there ghosting? Yes. Is it so bad I can't play? No. I get used to it. The only place I really notice it is in Counter-Strike Source in de:dust, it has some rather high contrast points, the eges of those very well lit areas blurs a bit. Looks kind of cool, however, and I've grown use to it all.
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TekNews.net, a site which aggregates the news from various tech sites (Currently Anandtech, Tom's Hardware, Ars Technica, Xbit, and Slashdot, with more on the way)
TekNews sports an RSS feed generator which allows you to generate an RSS feed containing news from any of it's sources.
No, I mean like System 7.5.x running on a PowerMac 6100 running 68k code. I'm pretty sure at that point it was a hardware emulator, though I'm sure they later moved to software emulation as they reached the diminishing returns of supporting the 68k in hardware.
Keep in mind at the time the PowerPC processors were first used, not a single piece of sofware supported them (OK, perhaps a fiew pieces of software were ported before general availability, I don't recall). Not even the OS had a single line of PowerPC code, it was all 68k. That changed quite rapidly of course.
Those of us who had just purchased 68k macs were pretty much screwed, though 68k versions of lots of software was available for some time after. There were 200$ type upgrade cards for many older macs, but the incentive for zero upgrade path was not strong.
I'm pretty sure it was a hardware emulator; when the PowerPC was first released, I believe the only OS (7.5.something back then) available predated the PPC. Later macs, however, surely must have switched over to software emulation.
Looks like they've renamed Fly the Doom Guy to "John Grimm", if I'm reading the cast list right.
Too bad. I read the first two DooM books, loved them. I have the second one myself, never got to read/buy the third/fourth/etc. Really would like to find copies, be it used, library, online, etc.
I'm going by the comparisons Slashdot has frequently posted, comparing the originals, to the special edition, to the DVDs. When looking at the frames, the lightsabers look like smudges compared to the original theatrical release.
Seriously, if you're going to devote that kind of hardware to a restoration, why can't you be bothered to pay a guy to airbrush the lightsabers in rather than use the blurred crap that was the result of the cleanup? The lightsabers (in order to look good onscreen) need a white core with a coloured edge. The DVD version blurred them so much the white core is entirely gone and they're just coloured smudges all the way through.
I believe the parent poster was remarking that it's redundant:
CBC Canada turns into Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Canada. Just like BBC Great Britain would be, I think, British Broadcasting Corporation Great Britain.
I'm Canadian, I'm allowed to have preconceptions about the US presidential candidates;)
Besides, outside the US, nearly everybody hates bush. How's that for preconceptions?
I'll say again, bush isn't an idiot, but I don't think he knows enough about VoIP to respond to that question, when he seems to hardly know what the internet is. This is the problem with these type of non-live Q&A sessions, I have to wonder if the candidates ever even see the questions, or if flunkies respond to them.
I don't know about Kerry, for all I know he might not have (Though his responses where he appears to have no idea what the question is talking about would indicate he did).
Considering his statement in the debate about "I hear there have been rumours on the internets (Yes, notice the plural he used for internets), do you REALLY think he'd then answer the VoIP question like this:
You mean that little kiosk in fairview? Now much of a store really, it's a little kiosk in the middle of the hallway of the mall. If you want to buy one the guy runs you through the online purchase.
Anyhow, there are Sony stores all over the place already, what's so special about these ones? Heck, there's a sony store a kilometer or two from me.
How can they have sequenced the entire human genome if they STILL don't actually know HOW MANY genomes there are (It's still indicated as an estimate)?
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Do you even need audio in/out to use Skype if you're using a USB adapter to connect a phone to Skype?
Also, while details are light, I'm sure the SolarLite has audio in/out...
Skype supports MoneyBookers, who in turn support credit cards, domestic (UK) and international bank transfers, and even CHEQUES. In other words, if all else fails you can mail a cheque.
Sorry sir, but you have no excuses. You are in fact the one who "sux" for whining about something you didn't bother looking in to.
Their prices seem significantly higher than SkypeOut.
We already have SkypeOut, and SkypeIn is coming soon, and Siemens has those Skype compatible phones (Alternatively there are USB devices for using any phone with Skype)
Combining SkypeOut and SkypeIn means that Skype may finally be viable for completely replacing a traditional phoneline (In eastern Canada we have "naked DSL" with no extra costs, and cable internet doesn't require it either).
I envision taking one of these 100$ PCs and using it as a Skype gateway; SkypeIn and SkypeOut provide incoming and outgoing POTS service, the 100$ PC runs skype, and the phones (Which are wireless, so the base stations can be where the PC is) provide the final link.
Now, the only problem is that SkypeOut charges for local calls, which are normally free (for a monthly fee) here. If you make a lot of local calls, even at the very affordable SkypeOut rates it might become expensive.
What I want to know is how this is any better than the usual graphics tablets that come with wireless batteryless mice already. Mice that are tracked by the tablet, not the mouse, so the mouse is small and light. And some of them even have crosshairs attached to the top side for precision movements.
Another vote for Skype. Your dismissal of it because you think it is "commercial" is illogical. It's the best free serverless NAT-friendly solution out there at the moment.
It's no surprise that a desktop Pentium-M machine makes an excellent gaming machine. Past benchmarks in laptops have shown that the Dothan Pentium M can compete with high-end Pentium 4s and Athlon 64s and hold it's own when it comes to gaming. And by hold it's own I mean outperform.
2 129&p=10) that showed the Pentium M 755 (Dothan at 2GHz) outperforming a P4 3.2, which if I recall correctly was one step below the fastest P4 at the time.
For example, back in June Anandtech did some gaming benchmarks (http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=
"Valve has said publicly they would unlock Half Life2 before the November 16th street date if stores start selling it early."
This is entirely false, VALVe never said it. ShackNews made it up. It turns out what VALVe said was that the STEAM version would unlock when the retail version shipped. Obviously they meant that they'd both be the same date, which turned out the be the 16th. What ShackNews interpreted that as is that if the retail version comes out early via leak, the STEAM version would too.
ShackNews is just digging themselves a hole for something that VALVe has already said isn't going to happen (and that they never said that).
Why gather evidence? The game will come out in just over 2 days (2 days 6 hours at this point). WAIT for it damnit. Stop whining like goddamned 10 year old AOLers.
Grab two Linksys routers or access points, the kind that allow third party firmware to boost transmit power. The WRT54G would do nicely.
Then buy two Cantennas (http://www.cantenna.com/), and point them at eachother. You should have no problems getting a very strong signal.
Is this bit:
"The committee also recommended allowing for extended licensing of Internet material for educational purposes, meaning that a fee cannot be collected for publicly available material.
That publicly available material would be defined as material that available on public Internet sites that do not require subscriptions or passwords and for which there is no associated fee."
Is it just me, or does that seem extremely abusable?
I should clarify, by "everybody has 16ms", I mean every (or most) manufacturers make 16ms LCDs, not everybody owns one.
Actually, 16ms is old news, they passed 12ms, and ar e now two levels down at 8ms.
Everybody has 16ms now.
That said, I have a 25ms LCD on my laptop. Is there ghosting? Yes. Is it so bad I can't play? No. I get used to it. The only place I really notice it is in Counter-Strike Source in de:dust, it has some rather high contrast points, the eges of those very well lit areas blurs a bit. Looks kind of cool, however, and I've grown use to it all.
TekNews.net, a site which aggregates the news from various tech sites (Currently Anandtech, Tom's Hardware, Ars Technica, Xbit, and Slashdot, with more on the way)
TekNews sports an RSS feed generator which allows you to generate an RSS feed containing news from any of it's sources.
No, I mean like System 7.5.x running on a PowerMac 6100 running 68k code. I'm pretty sure at that point it was a hardware emulator, though I'm sure they later moved to software emulation as they reached the diminishing returns of supporting the 68k in hardware.
Keep in mind at the time the PowerPC processors were first used, not a single piece of sofware supported them (OK, perhaps a fiew pieces of software were ported before general availability, I don't recall). Not even the OS had a single line of PowerPC code, it was all 68k. That changed quite rapidly of course.
Those of us who had just purchased 68k macs were pretty much screwed, though 68k versions of lots of software was available for some time after. There were 200$ type upgrade cards for many older macs, but the incentive for zero upgrade path was not strong.
I'm pretty sure it was a hardware emulator; when the PowerPC was first released, I believe the only OS (7.5.something back then) available predated the PPC. Later macs, however, surely must have switched over to software emulation.
Looks like they've renamed Fly the Doom Guy to "John Grimm", if I'm reading the cast list right.
Too bad. I read the first two DooM books, loved them. I have the second one myself, never got to read/buy the third/fourth/etc. Really would like to find copies, be it used, library, online, etc.
What's the difference? The first PowerPCs used a (hardware) emulator to run virtually ALL software, since nothing was native at that point.
I'm going by the comparisons Slashdot has frequently posted, comparing the originals, to the special edition, to the DVDs. When looking at the frames, the lightsabers look like smudges compared to the original theatrical release.
Seriously, if you're going to devote that kind of hardware to a restoration, why can't you be bothered to pay a guy to airbrush the lightsabers in rather than use the blurred crap that was the result of the cleanup? The lightsabers (in order to look good onscreen) need a white core with a coloured edge. The DVD version blurred them so much the white core is entirely gone and they're just coloured smudges all the way through.
I believe the parent poster was remarking that it's redundant:
CBC Canada turns into Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Canada. Just like BBC Great Britain would be, I think, British Broadcasting Corporation Great Britain.
I'm Canadian, I'm allowed to have preconceptions about the US presidential candidates ;)
Besides, outside the US, nearly everybody hates bush. How's that for preconceptions?
I'll say again, bush isn't an idiot, but I don't think he knows enough about VoIP to respond to that question, when he seems to hardly know what the internet is. This is the problem with these type of non-live Q&A sessions, I have to wonder if the candidates ever even see the questions, or if flunkies respond to them.
Nope, don't go downtown often.
However, do they have the products in-store, or do they order them for you?
I don't know about Kerry, for all I know he might not have (Though his responses where he appears to have no idea what the question is talking about would indicate he did).
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Considering his statement in the debate about "I hear there have been rumours on the internets (Yes, notice the plural he used for internets), do you REALLY think he'd then answer the VoIP question like this:
http://www.comptia.org/pressroom/election_2004.
Bush is no idiot, but I'm pretty sure that the question/response was way over his head.
You mean that little kiosk in fairview? Now much of a store really, it's a little kiosk in the middle of the hallway of the mall. If you want to buy one the guy runs you through the online purchase.
Anyhow, there are Sony stores all over the place already, what's so special about these ones? Heck, there's a sony store a kilometer or two from me.
How can they have sequenced the entire human genome if they STILL don't actually know HOW MANY genomes there are (It's still indicated as an estimate)?