Yeah, and if size is your issue, there's the 12". If that's too bulky for you, well, I don't think anything will ever please you... aside from a PDA, but that's not really a laptop, is it?
I played in the War3 beta as well. I loved the game, but for some reason, I never bought it. Cheap bastard!...wait, that's me. (My favorite part was when my ally, with only a single Tree of Life, ate his way through a large grove of trees to the middle, where he set up camp... took a long time for them to find him.)
I also signed up for the Diablo 2 beta both times and was accepted for the second one. I never did it cause I would've had to download 100MB over dial-up. Not for me.
My dad wanted to throw out my NES. Can you believe it? Throw out a perfectly good a-few-generations-ago console? It's actally catching dust in our garage now, so it's much better off. How could you just toss out precious heirlooms willy-nilly like that? I'll never part with any PC hardware either. As long as it works, I'll let it sit in a box somewhere.
Why would you have to dial 1? I thought you only had to dial one if it was long-distance.
About a decade ago in Minnesota, the 612 area code stretched from Minneapolis out to where I lived... Hickville. If you were making a call down the street... 7 digits. If you were making a call in the Cities, 11 digits. But say you always had to do 11-digit dialing. You dial the wrong number, there's a reasonable chance you'll get charged for lond distance, even though you were calling down the street.
The reason you have to dial 1 to call long-distance is so you won't end up accidentaly calling long-distance if you didn't want to. It's completely arbitrary to make people dial one for local calls. All they need to do is dial 10-digits, I mean dammit! So many people are idiots.
First off, Microsoft despises Linux. If they were to turn around and give the penguin a big ol' hug, they'd look like hypocrites. Nobody likes being thought of as a hypocrite.
But that doesn't mean M$ would give up on basing their OS on other existing OSes. There's always BSD. If you had any memory at all, you'd remember the/. story Why Unix is better than Windows... By Microsoft. M$ goes on and on about all the things BSD does better than Windows. And who could forget that Hotmail used to be run on BSD.
Don't expect Windows 2004 to be based on Linux. It'd be BSD if anything (and if they give a rat's behind about security, they should go with OpenBSD... but that's just me).
From dasmegabyte: Offtopic? I think not. You can't review a book called "Hacker's Delight" and not have somebody do a bad parody of "Rapper's Delight." It's a given.
But I suppose I can't expect your average slashdot moderator to understand the great works of old school hip hop.
Yeah! and I thought it was pretty good... but then they up and made your post offtopic as well. That doesn't make any sense either. These moderators are relentless... or maybe it's just one moderator who just can't stand to see anything about that song. Damn them youngsters with their foul-mouthed rap music! Why back in my day...
... and I know you didn't... but if you did, I'd tell you that all these lawsuits concerning Microsoft are bad. Just plain bad. Why does Microsoft have to be forced into losing money? I'd much rather see them lose money because more and more people are switching to *nix/Mac OSes because M$ software is so riddled with bugs and security flaws. I don't see why the courts have to intervene & ruin all my fun.
It can't make you a master, but it can help you understand the underlying concepts of everything so you can take in the full scope of what the language is. The better you understand it, the better you'll be at it. I've read books on C++ that were hellish. I read one that was extremely cryptic, in which I couldn't learn anything, and I've read some that were not explaining things, so I would not understand it well. I HAVE found some books in which the author took the time to explain the topic, and not with loads of techno jargon that he picked up long after he learned the language. If you ask me, books like that (very techy) are just plain dangerous to learners.
In summation, well written books CAN give you the tools and knowledge that are fundamental in mastering the language. The reader must use them. I can only show you the door. You are the one who has to open it. - Morpheus
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... and don't forget about having help along the way. It would be nice if the install could be like it is in RH's install where it has that help on the left that you can scroll through each step of the way. Then again, sometimes in the RH install, I had a question that the help didn't answer.... So like Red Hat's but BETTER! That seems like a lot.
Well, you can always install Linux/BSD on it. And just cause it doesn't run Mac OS X doesn't mean it's a bad laptop. Think about it: How can a company come out with a good looking laptop that looks like a TiBook and not running Mac OS X without getting ridiculed (sorry on the spelling)? They then have two choices:
A relatively unpopular (with the general public, that is) *nix OS
Windows, a relatively popular OS, on it
Just because it looks like a TiBook doesn't mean it has to be one.
After using LCDs at school, I would have to say that I would never get one. They really have to make a big transformation for me to even consider using one. Even in IE, when I scroll down, it's like all the text just smears for a second. They're new, too. Gateway FPD1520... new this year.
Have you never taken physics? Here's a little story to explain it to you:
When the USSR sent up Sputnik, the American government was of course nervous. After all, it was during the cold war. Well, it was feared that it was carrying a nuke on board. It was, however, impossible to determine the mass of a satellite based solely on the length of time of an orbit, the distance it is from the earth, and the mass of the earth. To prove it, I have the following equations (from Physics For Beginners): Here & here. (look at them if you will continue reading)
Both equations give you the force required to hold the satellite in orbit. The first goes about it by using the velocity of the object, the distance between the objects, and the mass of it. The second looks at the distance from the earth and the mass of the two objects. If you set the two equal to each other and attempt to solve for m (or m1 in the second), well, you can't. Any value for m (or m1) will work, no matter what the other values are.
In conclusion, no matter what the mass of the object is, it has no bearing on the speed of the satellite. The only thing that does is the distance between the objects (the greater it is, the slower it'll go). Ask anybody in the know, they'll tell you the same.
A couple weeks ago, I repartitioned my HD. Once I got plenty of stuff installed, I started typing up my paper for English. 750 words later, I was done. Saved it to my data partition... all was well. A couple days later, I go back to my data partition, and I find all of the file names and the disk label are all sequences of random ASCII characters. In short... paper is gone. Well, after much repartitioning and reinstalling, I had my PC back, and wrote the paper AGAIN.
I was so happy that I had done it, I turned off my PC and stepped away from it for a while. A few hours later, switch it on, and walk away as it booted. And wouldn't you know it (not a logical deduction... just cause it's posted here), I hear a loud explosion. Look back at my compruter, and see a haze of smoke. I at first feared the worst (monitor) but saw it spewing out of my PSU (I wasn't using a case at the time so everything was out in the open). And you know what, my paper was stuck on the HD. Just when I thought I was out, it pulled me right back in.
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Has a nice ring to it. incripshin
I also signed up for the Diablo 2 beta both times and was accepted for the second one. I never did it cause I would've had to download 100MB over dial-up. Not for me.
incripshin
That's striping. Why am I even bothering posting this? Maybe if my class wasn't cancelled, you wouldn't have to read such a worthless post.
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My dad wanted to throw out my NES. Can you believe it? Throw out a perfectly good a-few-generations-ago console? It's actally catching dust in our garage now, so it's much better off. How could you just toss out precious heirlooms willy-nilly like that? I'll never part with any PC hardware either. As long as it works, I'll let it sit in a box somewhere.
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This
(Reporter == idiot)
Would be better as
if (Reporter == idiot)
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return ERROR;
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About a decade ago in Minnesota, the 612 area code stretched from Minneapolis out to where I lived ... Hickville. If you were making a call down the street ... 7 digits. If you were making a call in the Cities, 11 digits. But say you always had to do 11-digit dialing. You dial the wrong number, there's a reasonable chance you'll get charged for lond distance, even though you were calling down the street.
The reason you have to dial 1 to call long-distance is so you won't end up accidentaly calling long-distance if you didn't want to. It's completely arbitrary to make people dial one for local calls. All they need to do is dial 10-digits, I mean dammit! So many people are idiots.
incripshin
But that doesn't mean M$ would give up on basing their OS on other existing OSes. There's always BSD. If you had any memory at all, you'd remember the /. story Why Unix is better than Windows... By Microsoft. M$ goes on and on about all the things BSD does better than Windows. And who could forget that Hotmail used to be run on BSD.
Don't expect Windows 2004 to be based on Linux. It'd be BSD if anything (and if they give a rat's behind about security, they should go with OpenBSD ... but that's just me).
And you KNOW this.
incripshin
Offtopic? I think not. You can't review a book called "Hacker's Delight" and not have somebody do a bad parody of "Rapper's Delight." It's a given.
But I suppose I can't expect your average slashdot moderator to understand the great works of old school hip hop.
Yeah! and I thought it was pretty good ... but then they up and made your post offtopic as well. That doesn't make any sense either. These moderators are relentless ... or maybe it's just one moderator who just can't stand to see anything about that song. Damn them youngsters with their foul-mouthed rap music! Why back in my day...
first post!
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Well, then. I guess he's just insane. :)
In summation, well written books CAN give you the tools and knowledge that are fundamental in mastering the language. The reader must use them. I can only show you the door. You are the one who has to open it. - Morpheus
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... and don't forget about having help along the way. It would be nice if the install could be like it is in RH's install where it has that help on the left that you can scroll through each step of the way. Then again, sometimes in the RH install, I had a question that the help didn't answer. ... So like Red Hat's but BETTER! That seems like a lot.
Well, you can always install Linux/BSD on it. And just cause it doesn't run Mac OS X doesn't mean it's a bad laptop. Think about it: How can a company come out with a good looking laptop that looks like a TiBook and not running Mac OS X without getting ridiculed (sorry on the spelling)? They then have two choices:
- A relatively unpopular (with the general public, that is) *nix OS
- Windows, a relatively popular OS, on it
Just because it looks like a TiBook doesn't mean it has to be one.Incripshin
Why buy a fast LCD monitor rather than a CRT? And why buy any LCD if you can get a CRT for far less anywhere?
incripshin
That's what the Nazis said.
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Both equations give you the force required to hold the satellite in orbit. The first goes about it by using the velocity of the object, the distance between the objects, and the mass of it. The second looks at the distance from the earth and the mass of the two objects. If you set the two equal to each other and attempt to solve for m (or m1 in the second), well, you can't. Any value for m (or m1) will work, no matter what the other values are.
In conclusion, no matter what the mass of the object is, it has no bearing on the speed of the satellite. The only thing that does is the distance between the objects (the greater it is, the slower it'll go). Ask anybody in the know, they'll tell you the same.
Mark
I was so happy that I had done it, I turned off my PC and stepped away from it for a while. A few hours later, switch it on, and walk away as it booted. And wouldn't you know it (not a logical deduction ... just cause it's posted here), I hear a loud explosion. Look back at my compruter, and see a haze of smoke. I at first feared the worst (monitor) but saw it spewing out of my PSU (I wasn't using a case at the time so everything was out in the open). And you know what, my paper was stuck on the HD. Just when I thought I was out, it pulled me right back in.
incripshin
maybe a loose else statement?