Even living in a place where gas is notoriously expensive (Southern California), I remember seeing it at 91 cents in 2001. Compared to about $3.50/gallon now.... almost 4x as much.
But maybe, just maybe, those smart guys at Apple have worked that one out for themselves and only left the "do 3G" link off the circuit board because their US carrier doesn't support it. Cingular does support 3G.
"The 3G (third-generation) network is the latest in wireless technology from Cingular. Technology
The Cingular 3G network uses HSDPA/UMTS technology (High Speed Downlink Packet Access/Universal Mobile Telephone System), which makes it possible to enjoy a variety of feature-rich wireless services. It also gives Cingular the advantage of offering simultaneous voice and data services. That means you can talk and use the Internet at the same time. How's that for multitasking? Availability
Right now, Cingular's 3G mobile broadband data network is available in most major metropolitan areas. We're working to expand the network so more people in more places can enjoy it soon."
Have any of the previous posters actually attended a large university in the computer science program?
Every class I've taken at UCSD does some sort of automatic grading on the programming assignments. It would be impossible to grade everything otherwise... Last quarter we wrote a compiler that ended up being a few hundred KB of source. There were over 200 test cases ran by the autograder.
All of the assignments are turned in from a unix prompt using a TURNIN command after prepping for the appropriate class.
The class I'm working on now (Operating Systems, using NACHOS) even has autograder() methods in the skeleton of the code that are used during grading...
I agree for a first class some feedback and hand grading might be necessary, but even with autograding you can add comments after looking at the code that causes similar test cases to fail.
"maximum clock speed of 471 MHz, which corresponds to DDR2-942"
vs
"a memory clock of 421 MHz (DDR2-842)"
So its more than 20% faster than what it is rated at... Whats the big deal? Everyone knows there are certain processors/memory modules from the same exact part# that outperform others. This has been the case since before the Celeron 300a even. If the memory performed below its rating, then there would be a problem
All of my professors (Computer Engineering, UCSD) make the handouts available as PDF only. Or you can go buy a copy of all of them printed out and bound but it is just the same as all of the pdfs printed out.
Even as a good typist (130wpm), I still find it hard to take notes no matter the subject. Some (Psychology and the like) are easier than others though.
Your math may be correct but your prices sure arent.
Phone - $40???? It costs about $12 to have a landline here in Southern California. Dialup - $20??? Maybe for AOL. You can get dialup for $10-$12 that is just as fast.
Basic cable also runs a little less than $50/month....
On the other end, most cell plans start around $40, so $50 or $60 is more like it.
So lets redo the math...
Phone - $12 Dialup - $12 Cable - $50 (not exactly sure on this figure) Total ------ $74/month
OR
Cell (no landline) - $50 Cable w/ Internet - $80 Total ----- $130
I do have a cell, I do have cable/cable internet, and I think the $50 or so a month difference is worth it to have a cell (no landline) and broadband.
A majority of people on Dial Up dont realize how slow it is because they have never had the chance to use broadband on a daily basis. I have known people that were "Completely Satisfied" with their dialup connections, only until they got broadband and couldn't imagine using the internet without it.
Text only pages, or ones with minimal images, are even much faster on broadband. They are still somewhat bearable with Dial Up, but anything with a decent image takes forever. Not to mention streaming legal videos, playing legal games, and downloading pr0....gressively more material.
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 7:41 pm Post subject: Super Mario Brothers (NES) - NEW WORLD RECORD !! BREAKING NEWS - NEW MINIMALIST COMPLETION WORLD RECORD FOR "SUPER MARIO BROTHERS" (NES) As reported February 22nd, 2004
Hello fellow gamers:
I am pleased to announce that after many attempts, gamer Scott Kessler, who hails from North Carolina in the USA, has established a new fastest minimalist completion world record on the legendary NES classic title "Super Mario Brothers" with a completion time of five minutes and seventeen seconds (5:17). This is three (3) seconds faster than the previous world record and is near perfect in execution. I say "near perfect" as Scott may still find a way to shave off one or more seconds someday, but after watching this particular run, that will be a tough challenge indeed.
Scott has been hammering away at this title for weeks, now, and has come close, actually tying the previous world record of 5:20 a few days back, but further fine-tuning of his skills and techniques has shaved off a very significant three whole seconds from his personal best, more than enough to claim top-spot for this hotly contested record.
Without using any of the known glitches for this title, Scott guided "Mario", the world's most famous plumber, through the time-honoured path towards a fastest completion record, first warping to stage (4-1) and then to (8-1). Score is irrelevant in such an attempt, but what is the absolute key are these two considerations...(A) no game-deaths are advisable, as they are permissible but slow you down, and (B) ensuring that when the stage-end flag is touched that the timer is neither on "1, 3 or 6" as that results in unwanted time wasted due to the award of extra points and the resulting fanfare explosions.
Scott, as with many top players, has mastered each of the eight ( stages that need to be negotiated in order to achieve the final goal...defeating "Bowser", Mario's second most famous adversary (the first being none other than "Donkey Kong"). The rules governing the world record for fastest minimalist completion are simple...the "clock" starts the instant you press the start button, and ends the instant that either the final bridge key by "Bowser" is touched, or when the final blow to "Bowser" is delivered via fireball. Game deaths are permitted but top players will most likely not die in pursuit of this record.
Being that the path to completion is so well known, I will include for purposes of this recap the benchmark times that Scott has achieved in pursuit of his new world record. Time is measured in whole seconds rounded to the nearest whole second.
THE PATH TO VICTORY
0:21 - touches flagpole in stage (1-1) 1:03 - enters warp pipe to stage (4-1) 1:31 - touches flagpole in stage (4-1) 2:17 - enters warp pipe to stage (8-1) 3:02 - touches flagpole in stage (8-1) 3:39 - touches flagpole in stage (8-2) 4:16 - touches flagpole in stage (8-3) 4:37 - enters 1st pipe in stage (8-4) 4:46 - enters 2nd pipe in stage (8-4) 4:54 - enters 3rd pipe in stage (8-4) 5:17 - touches bridge key and completes game under Twin Galaxies rules governing this title
The times above of course do not tell the entire story to Scott's success. A lot of trial and tribulation must have been undertaken to master every jump and situation in the path to completion. In truth, when executed properly and via identical means, the game is indeed a pattern in that the enemies will behave the same way based on your proximity, speed and approach, so finding the perfect combination of all three factors, and adjusting so that the flagpoles are not touched when the score ends in a (1, 3 or 6), is what every player hopes for.
The path that Scott took is well known and extremely difficult to execute. Nintendo did an excellent job with respect to the controls for Mario...the character can be made to do whatever the player wishes. Your only drawback at times might be momentum, such as when the hidden vine is opened
I've done this several times with movies that I have already seen.. The last time I can remember was right before ROTK came out.
I watched Felloship of the Ring and Two Towers both on 1.5-2x speed because I already knew what happened, but just wanted to refresh everything. The dialog at 2x for some characters was too fast, but for others (Gandalf) it was still slow.
They do have a moderation/editing system but I have submitted several things to them (mostly namechanges for teachers, etc) and they have never been done (It has been months).
I'm not sure that they are paying very close attention to the comments posted:) Plus, not enough students know about the site!
Sales isn't about having a person buy something that they want... If that were the case then salesmen would not exist.
The nature of a salesman is selling something that a person didn't know they need or didn't know they wanted, and making them feel like they need/want it.
When I was on Dialup with Pacific Bell as well as a couple of other companies, they had a webpage that you could login to in order to see the large emails that were in your account. You could delete any ones that you did not want to keep and then you'd just have to wait for the other ones that you wanted to download.
I think this solution works fine and it will take a long time whether the customer downloads it from a website or through their email client. This utility just allows people to not download something that isnt necessary.
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I couldn't agree more...
Earthquakes aren't a decidable event by any means. However, terrorist attacks are.
I'd rather just troll and call you an idiot than actually explain it.
Kthx (not posted anonymously, just have no mod points and saw that this was "insightful" which it isn't in the least)
Even living in a place where gas is notoriously expensive (Southern California), I remember seeing it at 91 cents in 2001. Compared to about $3.50/gallon now.... almost 4x as much.
http://www.cingular.com/learn/why/technology/3g-u
"The 3G (third-generation) network is the latest in wireless technology from Cingular.
Technology
The Cingular 3G network uses HSDPA/UMTS technology (High Speed Downlink Packet Access/Universal Mobile Telephone System), which makes it possible to enjoy a variety of feature-rich wireless services. It also gives Cingular the advantage of offering simultaneous voice and data services. That means you can talk and use the Internet at the same time. How's that for multitasking?
Availability
Right now, Cingular's 3G mobile broadband data network is available in most major metropolitan areas. We're working to expand the network so more people in more places can enjoy it soon."
Have any of the previous posters actually attended a large university in the computer science program?
Every class I've taken at UCSD does some sort of automatic grading on the programming assignments. It would be impossible to grade everything otherwise... Last quarter we wrote a compiler that ended up being a few hundred KB of source. There were over 200 test cases ran by the autograder.
All of the assignments are turned in from a unix prompt using a TURNIN command after prepping for the appropriate class.
The class I'm working on now (Operating Systems, using NACHOS) even has autograder() methods in the skeleton of the code that are used during grading...
I agree for a first class some feedback and hand grading might be necessary, but even with autograding you can add comments after looking at the code that causes similar test cases to fail.
From TFA:
"Its DDR2-667 memory......"
"maximum clock speed of 471 MHz, which corresponds to DDR2-942"
vs
"a memory clock of 421 MHz (DDR2-842)"
So its more than 20% faster than what it is rated at... Whats the big deal? Everyone knows there are certain processors/memory modules from the same exact part# that outperform others. This has been the case since before the Celeron 300a even. If the memory performed below its rating, then there would be a problem
I'm not sure what indentifiable is.
Care to explain?
Confirmed on my machine as well. I have IE7 as well as Firefox and it opens Firefox when I type a web address into Windows Explorer
All of my professors (Computer Engineering, UCSD) make the handouts available as PDF only. Or you can go buy a copy of all of them printed out and bound but it is just the same as all of the pdfs printed out.
Remember some of us have professors that barely speak english. Engineering comes up again ;)
Even as a good typist (130wpm), I still find it hard to take notes no matter the subject. Some (Psychology and the like) are easier than others though.
An Electrical Engineering professor I had at UCSD didn't allow laptops either. I thought it was a good idea.
In math/engineering classes (or most of them) it is hard to take notes without a pen and paper(tablet) anyway.
Only 10 penis enlargement emails? Each one only promises 1-2inches. I'd never get to the length I desire!
Your math may be correct but your prices sure arent.
Phone - $40???? It costs about $12 to have a landline here in Southern California.
Dialup - $20??? Maybe for AOL. You can get dialup for $10-$12 that is just as fast.
Basic cable also runs a little less than $50/month....
On the other end, most cell plans start around $40, so $50 or $60 is more like it.
So lets redo the math...
Phone - $12
Dialup - $12
Cable - $50 (not exactly sure on this figure)
Total ------
$74/month
OR
Cell (no landline) - $50
Cable w/ Internet - $80
Total -----
$130
I do have a cell, I do have cable/cable internet, and I think the $50 or so a month difference is worth it to have a cell (no landline) and broadband.
The newest version of NetLimiter does include a firewall, but I hate it so I still use 1.29.
This review was done with a desktop motherboard for the Pentium M...
I've been using none@none.com for several years
There is even a program that does this for you, and gives you information about each plugin:
9 854583
Adobe Reader Speed Up
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=106
A majority of people on Dial Up dont realize how slow it is because they have never had the chance to use broadband on a daily basis. I have known people that were "Completely Satisfied" with their dialup connections, only until they got broadband and couldn't imagine using the internet without it.
Text only pages, or ones with minimal images, are even much faster on broadband. They are still somewhat bearable with Dial Up, but anything with a decent image takes forever. Not to mention streaming legal videos, playing legal games, and downloading pr0....gressively more material.
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 7:41 pm Post subject: Super Mario Brothers (NES) - NEW WORLD RECORD !!
BREAKING NEWS - NEW MINIMALIST COMPLETION WORLD RECORD FOR "SUPER MARIO BROTHERS" (NES)
As reported February 22nd, 2004
Hello fellow gamers:
I am pleased to announce that after many attempts, gamer Scott Kessler, who hails from North Carolina in the USA, has established a new fastest minimalist completion world record on the legendary NES classic title "Super Mario Brothers" with a completion time of five minutes and seventeen seconds (5:17). This is three (3) seconds faster than the previous world record and is near perfect in execution. I say "near perfect" as Scott may still find a way to shave off one or more seconds someday, but after watching this particular run, that will be a tough challenge indeed.
Scott has been hammering away at this title for weeks, now, and has come close, actually tying the previous world record of 5:20 a few days back, but further fine-tuning of his skills and techniques has shaved off a very significant three whole seconds from his personal best, more than enough to claim top-spot for this hotly contested record.
Without using any of the known glitches for this title, Scott guided "Mario", the world's most famous plumber, through the time-honoured path towards a fastest completion record, first warping to stage (4-1) and then to (8-1). Score is irrelevant in such an attempt, but what is the absolute key are these two considerations...(A) no game-deaths are advisable, as they are permissible but slow you down, and (B) ensuring that when the stage-end flag is touched that the timer is neither on "1, 3 or 6" as that results in unwanted time wasted due to the award of extra points and the resulting fanfare explosions.
Scott, as with many top players, has mastered each of the eight ( stages that need to be negotiated in order to achieve the final goal...defeating "Bowser", Mario's second most famous adversary (the first being none other than "Donkey Kong"). The rules governing the world record for fastest minimalist completion are simple...the "clock" starts the instant you press the start button, and ends the instant that either the final bridge key by "Bowser" is touched, or when the final blow to "Bowser" is delivered via fireball. Game deaths are permitted but top players will most likely not die in pursuit of this record.
Being that the path to completion is so well known, I will include for purposes of this recap the benchmark times that Scott has achieved in pursuit of his new world record. Time is measured in whole seconds rounded to the nearest whole second.
THE PATH TO VICTORY
0:21 - touches flagpole in stage (1-1)
1:03 - enters warp pipe to stage (4-1)
1:31 - touches flagpole in stage (4-1)
2:17 - enters warp pipe to stage (8-1)
3:02 - touches flagpole in stage (8-1)
3:39 - touches flagpole in stage (8-2)
4:16 - touches flagpole in stage (8-3)
4:37 - enters 1st pipe in stage (8-4)
4:46 - enters 2nd pipe in stage (8-4)
4:54 - enters 3rd pipe in stage (8-4)
5:17 - touches bridge key and completes game under Twin Galaxies rules governing this title
The times above of course do not tell the entire story to Scott's success. A lot of trial and tribulation must have been undertaken to master every jump and situation in the path to completion. In truth, when executed properly and via identical means, the game is indeed a pattern in that the enemies will behave the same way based on your proximity, speed and approach, so finding the perfect combination of all three factors, and adjusting so that the flagpoles are not touched when the score ends in a (1, 3 or 6), is what every player hopes for.
The path that Scott took is well known and extremely difficult to execute. Nintendo did an excellent job with respect to the controls for Mario...the character can be made to do whatever the player wishes. Your only drawback at times might be momentum, such as when the hidden vine is opened
I've done this several times with movies that I have already seen.. The last time I can remember was right before ROTK came out.
I watched Felloship of the Ring and Two Towers both on 1.5-2x speed because I already knew what happened, but just wanted to refresh everything. The dialog at 2x for some characters was too fast, but for others (Gandalf) it was still slow.
They do have a moderation/editing system but I have submitted several things to them (mostly namechanges for teachers, etc) and they have never been done (It has been months).
:) Plus, not enough students know about the site!
I'm not sure that they are paying very close attention to the comments posted
How long before a keygen is out?
Sales isn't about having a person buy something that they want... If that were the case then salesmen would not exist.
The nature of a salesman is selling something that a person didn't know they need or didn't know they wanted, and making them feel like they need/want it.
When I was on Dialup with Pacific Bell as well as a couple of other companies, they had a webpage that you could login to in order to see the large emails that were in your account. You could delete any ones that you did not want to keep and then you'd just have to wait for the other ones that you wanted to download.
I think this solution works fine and it will take a long time whether the customer downloads it from a website or through their email client. This utility just allows people to not download something that isnt necessary.