and the camera only takes "still-shots" (not video), wouldn't the picture show just a long blur of your car stretching from the beginning of the intersection to out of the camera's range?
years ago when I wanted Free music I had to sit next to the radio all day until they played the song I wanted and recoreded it using the Tape Deck, crossing my fingers hoping the DJ wouldn't come on early before the song ended.
How about the recent experiment that determined the maximum RPMs a compact disc can handle? That involved angular momentum and velocity, and centripital forces.
Sure, it may not be 'classical physics' but it does involve our everyday lives (at least in some way). IMHO, isn't the best experiments the ones everyone can understand and benefit from? Sure there's many experiments done on Universal Gravity, but determining a mass of a moon orbiting Jupiter isn't as useful as the mechanics aspects of physics.
It's one nice thing for the trains to not have to use cabin lamps within the next few years because by then all those hardcore cellphone users will have a nice radioactive glow emmitting from their heads.
The P10 VPU combines over 200 SIMD processors throughout its geometry, texture and pixel processing pipeline stages to deliver over 170Gflops and one TeraOp of programmable graphics performance together with a full 256-bit DDR memory interface for up to 20GBytes/sec of memory
Geez, one 3D labs video card runs circles around my relatively fast computer. I dont think my Athlon processor works anywhere near 170 Gflops!
The system also included the manufacturer's booklets for the motherboard and CDROM drive, as well as CDs with Windows drivers.
I know it's only windows drivers, but I'd say this package is much better than other systems out there with Windows pre-installed. Every time I have to reinstall windows on a ComCrap computer, I have to hunt down drivers on compaq's site, as well as driverguide.com. I wish every store-bought computer came with a CD containing drivers on it.
I ask this, because we are currently using MediSoft on Windows 98. We are very displeased with the service from medisoft, and the instability of Windows(MediSoft is partly to blame too) is costing us alot of money in downtime.
When it comes to my health (or life), I wouldn't depend on a system that is known to bluescreen.
Receptionist: Well, until we can finish reformatting our system, we cannot bill your Insurance, so you must pay your bill in full today!
If the company was really worried about employees plugging in devices, why dont they eliminate the possiblility of connecting one an mp3 player or digital camera?
Just go to every workstation, open the computer and unplug the serial ports and add-on USB ports from the mobo. Boot up into the BIOS and disable the ONboard USB plugs, then password protect the BIOS so the user cannot go in and change settings. Finally, close the case and physically lock it so no one can clear the BIOS by shorting a jumper inside.
It seems reasonable. For typical office work there really isn't a need for USB or serial ports on the computer. Maybe unless it's a graphics design workstation, then you may need ports for scanners and cameras, but I don't think the secretary or programmer needs USB.
Computer makers could configure their machines to have them start a competitor's software, but only if Microsoft first opted to do the same with its own equivalent feature.
So if someone installs say 5 non-ms programs that start up automatically, Windows will load up 5 of it's own programs?? WTF? Why do users have to drain system resourses for junk they don't use?...tell me how this is in the best interest of Windows users?
If an 8 year old with LITTLe computer experience can (first FIND) the character map and use it in MS WORD, Why is so hard for me to tell other people how to do the exact samething?? and they OWN a computer.
True, Linux distros come with a lot of other software, but it's a collection of products from OTHER Companies/groups. Contrast to windows, EVERYTHING IS MICROSOFT! Under Windows install, I do not have the option to deselect Internet Explorer, Outlook Express or Windows Media Player, but on Linux I can really choose what i want and don't want.
To accept a donated computer, you must adhere to the following:
1. The computer MUST have windows XP on it. If it originally came with windows 9x/me/2000, you must UPGRADE IT! DO NOT ACCEPT MAC computers since you cannot replace it with windows.
1B Installation of Linux is a federal felony.
2. Nowhere on the computer shall the program Netscape Navigator, AOL Instant Messenger, Corel Office Suite, or any other NON-Microsoft software exist.
3. Since it must run XP, the hardware requirements are: 50Ghz Processor, 100TB HDD, 400GB RAM.
because Microsoft's Passport server has been disabled by a virus that exploited a known vulnerablity in IE, Office, IIS, and XP. The Government has alerted MS about the potential problems 6 months ago, but apparently no actions have taken place. Due to the recently passed bill (lobbied by MS) that does not hold software companies liable for damages, and the contract with M$, the US government cannot discontinue use of passport authentication.
--We are also aware that known terrorist groups are behind the virus/hacking, and now have personal data for all our citizens. God Bless America!!!!
In today's world, you can never trust anyone completly, especially if you have kids and hire a in-house nanny/babysitter. (I dont have kids, but I'm just sayin). One day you notice suspicous things like marks on your kids, but it's illegal to setup survaillance at your house to watch if the person you hired is doing something wrong? Geez. I'm sure when I go to a Best Buy or CompUSA I'm being watched and videotaped -they dont trust me.
Use PHP instead of ASP. I've programmed in both, and frankly PHP works better. It integrates seemlessly with MySQL, compared to ASP-MSSQL/Access where I had to define a dsn connection with several lines of code. There are reports taht PHP runs faster than ASP, but I haven't ran my own tests. PHP isn't hard to learn. The good folks at www.php.net give a full documentation of the language, as well as a tutorial. Try finding that on M$ website
It's really about cost. It used to be people would crack open a malfunctioning device, study it for minutes and fix it. I do it sometimes for my smaller devices that are relatively safe to work with. (Like, i wouldn't mess with a PC Power Supply). But when it comes to big ticket electronics like TVs, Refrigerators, and such, the cost to repair it is usually more than 1/2 the cost of a new one. You go ahead and buy a new one with new features and save time. You also have to consider the possibility of shelling out another couple of hundred $$ to fix a new problem that may arise in the near future. So in that respect, yes fix it yourself is going down. But I think electronic hobbying has evolved from soldering capacitors on circut boards (which i think is cool and want to learn those things) to programming and PC building.
I agree. I use RedHat and I'm accustomed to it. I tried Mandrake 8.1 once, and I couldn't find the config programs in the console. I had to spend time going through the GUI, (like Windows). Yes, I'm sure mandrake has text-based configs, but I'm used to RedHat. From the GUI control panel, some of the controls were missing some options (in my opinion.) For example, I wanted to add custom ports to block under Mandrake's firewall, and the only firewall options i had were "low", "med", and "hi". In my opinion, i think some things shouldn't be in a GUI, like XConfigurator. If my GUI doesn't load, I'd like to be able to fix it in the console.
Aureal went out of business a couple of years ago. (its a shame, they made good sound cards that were priced pretty good) Right now, Drivers support is sketchy for Windows 2000 as well as Linux. Try looking at www.vortexofsound.com or searching for aureal on SourceForge. I was able to get my Aureal sound card to work on RH Linux 6.2 once though. The driver only works for kernel 2.4.2 and wont work for RH 7.x.
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and the camera only takes "still-shots" (not video), wouldn't the picture show just a long blur of your car stretching from the beginning of the intersection to out of the camera's range?
years ago when I wanted Free music I had to sit next to the radio all day until they played the song I wanted and recoreded it using the Tape Deck, crossing my fingers hoping the DJ wouldn't come on early before the song ended.
How about the recent experiment that determined the maximum RPMs a compact disc can handle? That involved angular momentum and velocity, and centripital forces.
Sure, it may not be 'classical physics' but it does involve our everyday lives (at least in some way). IMHO, isn't the best experiments the ones everyone can understand and benefit from? Sure there's many experiments done on Universal Gravity, but determining a mass of a moon orbiting Jupiter isn't as useful as the mechanics aspects of physics.
It's one nice thing for the trains to not have to use cabin lamps within the next few years because by then all those hardcore cellphone users will have a nice radioactive glow emmitting from their heads.
The P10 VPU combines over 200 SIMD processors throughout its geometry, texture and pixel processing pipeline stages to deliver over 170Gflops and one TeraOp of programmable graphics performance together with a full 256-bit DDR memory interface for up to 20GBytes/sec of memory
Geez, one 3D labs video card runs circles around my relatively fast computer. I dont think my Athlon processor works anywhere near 170 Gflops!
The system also included the manufacturer's booklets for the motherboard and CDROM drive, as well as CDs with Windows drivers.
I know it's only windows drivers, but I'd say this package is much better than other systems out there with Windows pre-installed. Every time I have to reinstall windows on a ComCrap computer, I have to hunt down drivers on compaq's site, as well as driverguide.com. I wish every store-bought computer came with a CD containing drivers on it.
I ask this, because we are currently using MediSoft on Windows 98. We are very displeased with the service from medisoft, and the instability of Windows(MediSoft is partly to blame too) is costing us alot of money in downtime. When it comes to my health (or life), I wouldn't depend on a system that is known to bluescreen. Receptionist: Well, until we can finish reformatting our system, we cannot bill your Insurance, so you must pay your bill in full today!
If the company was really worried about employees plugging in devices, why dont they eliminate the possiblility of connecting one an mp3 player or digital camera? Just go to every workstation, open the computer and unplug the serial ports and add-on USB ports from the mobo. Boot up into the BIOS and disable the ONboard USB plugs, then password protect the BIOS so the user cannot go in and change settings. Finally, close the case and physically lock it so no one can clear the BIOS by shorting a jumper inside. It seems reasonable. For typical office work there really isn't a need for USB or serial ports on the computer. Maybe unless it's a graphics design workstation, then you may need ports for scanners and cameras, but I don't think the secretary or programmer needs USB.
If it comes with multimedia support, the Pixter would also be the "My First MP3 Player"
Computer makers could configure their machines to have them start a competitor's software, but only if Microsoft first opted to do the same with its own equivalent feature.
So if someone installs say 5 non-ms programs that start up automatically, Windows will load up 5 of it's own programs?? WTF? Why do users have to drain system resourses for junk they don't use?...tell me how this is in the best interest of Windows users?
If an 8 year old with LITTLe computer experience can (first FIND) the character map and use it in MS WORD, Why is so hard for me to tell other people how to do the exact samething?? and they OWN a computer.
True, Linux distros come with a lot of other software, but it's a collection of products from OTHER Companies/groups. Contrast to windows, EVERYTHING IS MICROSOFT! Under Windows install, I do not have the option to deselect Internet Explorer, Outlook Express or Windows Media Player, but on Linux I can really choose what i want and don't want.
I can't help but wonder if Microsoft was helped by the open information provided by IBM. Didn't IBM publish a "purple book" or something?
To accept a donated computer, you must adhere to the following:
1. The computer MUST have windows XP on it. If it originally came with windows 9x/me/2000, you must UPGRADE IT! DO NOT ACCEPT MAC computers since you cannot replace it with windows.
1B Installation of Linux is a federal felony.
2. Nowhere on the computer shall the program Netscape Navigator, AOL Instant Messenger, Corel Office Suite, or any other NON-Microsoft software exist.
3. Since it must run XP, the hardware requirements are: 50Ghz Processor, 100TB HDD, 400GB RAM.
because Microsoft's Passport server has been disabled by a virus that exploited a known vulnerablity in IE, Office, IIS, and XP. The Government has alerted MS about the potential problems 6 months ago, but apparently no actions have taken place. Due to the recently passed bill (lobbied by MS) that does not hold software companies liable for damages, and the contract with M$, the US government cannot discontinue use of passport authentication.
--We are also aware that known terrorist groups are behind the virus/hacking, and now have personal data for all our citizens. God Bless America!!!!
In today's world, you can never trust anyone completly, especially if you have kids and hire a in-house nanny/babysitter. (I dont have kids, but I'm just sayin). One day you notice suspicous things like marks on your kids, but it's illegal to setup survaillance at your house to watch if the person you hired is doing something wrong? Geez. I'm sure when I go to a Best Buy or CompUSA I'm being watched and videotaped -they dont trust me.
Use PHP instead of ASP. I've programmed in both, and frankly PHP works better. It integrates seemlessly with MySQL, compared to ASP-MSSQL/Access where I had to define a dsn connection with several lines of code. There are reports taht PHP runs faster than ASP, but I haven't ran my own tests. PHP isn't hard to learn. The good folks at www.php.net give a full documentation of the language, as well as a tutorial. Try finding that on M$ website
It's really about cost. It used to be people would crack open a malfunctioning device, study it for minutes and fix it. I do it sometimes for my smaller devices that are relatively safe to work with. (Like, i wouldn't mess with a PC Power Supply). But when it comes to big ticket electronics like TVs, Refrigerators, and such, the cost to repair it is usually more than 1/2 the cost of a new one. You go ahead and buy a new one with new features and save time. You also have to consider the possibility of shelling out another couple of hundred $$ to fix a new problem that may arise in the near future. So in that respect, yes fix it yourself is going down. But I think electronic hobbying has evolved from soldering capacitors on circut boards (which i think is cool and want to learn those things) to programming and PC building.
I agree. I use RedHat and I'm accustomed to it. I tried Mandrake 8.1 once, and I couldn't find the config programs in the console. I had to spend time going through the GUI, (like Windows). Yes, I'm sure mandrake has text-based configs, but I'm used to RedHat. From the GUI control panel, some of the controls were missing some options (in my opinion.) For example, I wanted to add custom ports to block under Mandrake's firewall, and the only firewall options i had were "low", "med", and "hi". In my opinion, i think some things shouldn't be in a GUI, like XConfigurator. If my GUI doesn't load, I'd like to be able to fix it in the console.
Aureal went out of business a couple of years ago. (its a shame, they made good sound cards that were priced pretty good) Right now, Drivers support is sketchy for Windows 2000 as well as Linux. Try looking at www.vortexofsound.com or searching for aureal on SourceForge. I was able to get my Aureal sound card to work on RH Linux 6.2 once though. The driver only works for kernel 2.4.2 and wont work for RH 7.x.