After about two weeks, I think I would be so bleary-eyed and fatigued that I would not play a computer game again for months. I get tired enough just working on a computer for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. To go 12 hours a day would kill my already lousy vision.
That doesn't quite wash. Several government agencies here in the US have made a steady migration from Windows to UNIX or Linux. It appears that more are getting on the bandwagon, too. Such being the case, I can't see UNIX losing too much ground, at least in business. Maybe in the home market it has lost ground, but there seems to be a healthy move in favor of UNIX in the workplace in certain areas.
The writer gives a nifty little formula and all, with the constants included. But, what values did he plug in to said formula to get.98 for cards? What are the acceptable ranges of the coefficients? How do you decide which coeffients have more weight than others?
So, assuming he has clear skies for most of that trip, no problem. However, if he hits "inclement weather," how much energy does that plane store up before it runs out of juice? Or can it be assumed he will be above the cloud cover for the whole trip? And, is it assumed the trip is continuous or will he be able to stop at "jump points" (this makes more sense for obvious reasons). If he can stop even briefly, this idea becomes a lot more feasible.
Several years ago, I took some of that old cabling and stripped out the copper wire. I then used that wire as the loop on fishing sinkers. Saved me a good $0.02 - $0.05 per sinker, and I got to go fishing all summer. Life's pretty good sometimes.
Actually, having a unique bar code could be very beneficial when recovering lost and stolen property. If everything is uniquely identified, and you have somehow recorded your id codes for certain things that are of some value (either real value or sentimental), this could potentially aid in goods recovery. Granted, it could be taken to absurd extremes, but for more important items (artwork, computers, rare books, etc), this could be invaluable.
Their benchmarks won't mean a thing if there's a shortage of titles for the platform and everyone buys a PC anyway. I'd love to have one of these machines, I am sure I could find some cool things to do with it. But for the price of admission, there's not enough titles out there to make spending the extra $$$ on the hardware worth it.
There are at least two people holding PhDs in my department (I am in the MIS department of a large retailer). Both of them are worker bees, although they are definitely well respected. They are not part of the "good ol' boy network" so they probably won't make management, but management around here definitely listens very closely to them.
Some of us are still on dialup, and an automagic update of Windows via 56K modem would literally take HOURS if the connection even holds at all. I don't think I should be forced into high-speed access just so I can update my Windows partition periodically.
There is an interesting [related] article on chessbase here about knight's tours. On the main chessbase page, they reference the main article involving magic tours.
It has been demonstrated that while nVidia may have the fastest overall chip, ATi has concentrated on a more balanced solution -- better color and clarity of the image. ATi's ship is not all that much slower than nVidia anyway when you look at the specs and benchmarks. I would rather have a game console that's fast and has a good, crisp image than a fuzzy-around-the-edges rendering. This is a good thing for XBox.
The case itself is an obscenity charge for selling an adult comic to an adult undercover police officer in Dallas.
At the risk of getting myself modded down for being a little clueless... Why is selling adult materials to adults in Dallas a problem? Is adult content illegal there? Or did he violate some ordinance? If it's a local thing, this should not be a big deal at all and is way out of proportion...
(if he thought said police officer was a minor, well, then I think I can understand the issue.)
...$999.95 every time the letters 'S', 'C', and 'O' appear on my screen, in that order and without other letters immediately adjacent to them, as reading about their dumbass lawsuit has cost me valuable time and has annoyed me, damaging my well being and quality of life. They can buy an unlimited license for displaying their name on my PC for a mere $24,900, giving them unlimited displays and no further aggravation.
Let's get started. I have those letters in sequence in the subject of my message. Cough up the cash, or be in violation of my license agreement.
Essentially, SCO's letter could alternately be read, "Waah! No fair! I'm the only one who can do that! You're not playing nice. I want my mom!"
Go Red Hat. I hope they tie up SCO in court for a nice long time and win their case. SCO seems to be playing the intimidation game and is being very smug -- the tune will change if they get a slap in the face in court. Too bad only Red Hat has had the nads to fight back up to this point.
While all of these look good and they all have some pretty spiffy specs, it would have been nice to have seen some reliability test scores in there. A flaky power supply is a hard thing to track sometimes, and knowing which ones have the best chance of running reliably for the longest time period would be handy information, especially for those of us who have fought with bad power supplies at one point or another in the past.
For those of us that work with Linux and UNIX on a daily basis, especially in the work place, and have been at it for years, it's even easier than Windows. (That's not sarcasm, BTW).
I have Verizon Wireless. Last month, I drove from Northern Virginia to northern Indiana (and back), and I never lost the signal and never went into roaming, even in the mountains of West Virginia. Can't get too much better than that...
In spite of some serious competiton by Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE and other very good distributions, a lot of people still prefer Slackware as their distro of choice. That's a nice 10-year birthday present.
If it's not copyrighted materials, no worries. The article makes it clear that they're targeting copyright violations.
That said, I would be willing to wager that they go after major file swappers that are trading legitimate stuff just to ruffle feathers and scare people. "Look how big and mean and powerful we are!" Intimidation factor.
For those of us trading legitimate stuff, like home movie bloopers and stuff like that, it will eventually backlash on us. It'll be called an "innocent mistake" after they grab everything and put us in jail for a few days.
Regarding to Opera... if you are comparing it to mozilla... Opera is faster, damn faster.
My experience has actually been the opposite. I have to agree, Opera is plenty fast, but every time I have compared the two, Mozilla has left Opera behind. It very well could be a function of my Windows configuration, though, as I have done some odd things to my system. I haven't tried Opera under Linux (since early beta), so I can't compare there, but I have used Mozilla under Linux and have been most pleased.
Regardless, Mozilla and Opera are both faster than Netscape.
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After about two weeks, I think I would be so bleary-eyed and fatigued that I would not play a computer game again for months. I get tired enough just working on a computer for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. To go 12 hours a day would kill my already lousy vision.
Just one indiscretion and you get called a whore!
A guy walks into a bar. "Ouch", he says.
That doesn't quite wash. Several government agencies here in the US have made a steady migration from Windows to UNIX or Linux. It appears that more are getting on the bandwagon, too. Such being the case, I can't see UNIX losing too much ground, at least in business. Maybe in the home market it has lost ground, but there seems to be a healthy move in favor of UNIX in the workplace in certain areas.
The writer gives a nifty little formula and all, with the constants included. But, what values did he plug in to said formula to get .98 for cards? What are the acceptable ranges of the coefficients? How do you decide which coeffients have more weight than others?
So, assuming he has clear skies for most of that trip, no problem. However, if he hits "inclement weather," how much energy does that plane store up before it runs out of juice? Or can it be assumed he will be above the cloud cover for the whole trip? And, is it assumed the trip is continuous or will he be able to stop at "jump points" (this makes more sense for obvious reasons). If he can stop even briefly, this idea becomes a lot more feasible.
Several years ago, I took some of that old cabling and stripped out the copper wire. I then used that wire as the loop on fishing sinkers. Saved me a good $0.02 - $0.05 per sinker, and I got to go fishing all summer. Life's pretty good sometimes.
Actually, having a unique bar code could be very beneficial when recovering lost and stolen property. If everything is uniquely identified, and you have somehow recorded your id codes for certain things that are of some value (either real value or sentimental), this could potentially aid in goods recovery. Granted, it could be taken to absurd extremes, but for more important items (artwork, computers, rare books, etc), this could be invaluable.
Their benchmarks won't mean a thing if there's a shortage of titles for the platform and everyone buys a PC anyway. I'd love to have one of these machines, I am sure I could find some cool things to do with it. But for the price of admission, there's not enough titles out there to make spending the extra $$$ on the hardware worth it.
...how is this different than getting rid of all that damn spam in my inbox every day? Would I even notice what the worm does to my inbox?
There are at least two people holding PhDs in my department (I am in the MIS department of a large retailer). Both of them are worker bees, although they are definitely well respected. They are not part of the "good ol' boy network" so they probably won't make management, but management around here definitely listens very closely to them.
Some of us are still on dialup, and an automagic update of Windows via 56K modem would literally take HOURS if the connection even holds at all. I don't think I should be forced into high-speed access just so I can update my Windows partition periodically.
There is an interesting [related] article on chessbase here about knight's tours. On the main chessbase page, they reference the main article involving magic tours.
It has been demonstrated that while nVidia may have the fastest overall chip, ATi has concentrated on a more balanced solution -- better color and clarity of the image. ATi's ship is not all that much slower than nVidia anyway when you look at the specs and benchmarks. I would rather have a game console that's fast and has a good, crisp image than a fuzzy-around-the-edges rendering. This is a good thing for XBox.
The case itself is an obscenity charge for selling an adult comic to an adult undercover police officer in Dallas.
At the risk of getting myself modded down for being a little clueless... Why is selling adult materials to adults in Dallas a problem? Is adult content illegal there? Or did he violate some ordinance? If it's a local thing, this should not be a big deal at all and is way out of proportion...
(if he thought said police officer was a minor, well, then I think I can understand the issue.)
Flame away...
Don't forget SCO's $699 licensing fee... ;-)
...$999.95 every time the letters 'S', 'C', and 'O' appear on my screen, in that order and without other letters immediately adjacent to them, as reading about their dumbass lawsuit has cost me valuable time and has annoyed me, damaging my well being and quality of life. They can buy an unlimited license for displaying their name on my PC for a mere $24,900, giving them unlimited displays and no further aggravation.
Let's get started. I have those letters in sequence in the subject of my message. Cough up the cash, or be in violation of my license agreement.
Well said.
Essentially, SCO's letter could alternately be read, "Waah! No fair! I'm the only one who can do that! You're not playing nice. I want my mom!"
Go Red Hat. I hope they tie up SCO in court for a nice long time and win their case. SCO seems to be playing the intimidation game and is being very smug -- the tune will change if they get a slap in the face in court. Too bad only Red Hat has had the nads to fight back up to this point.
While all of these look good and they all have some pretty spiffy specs, it would have been nice to have seen some reliability test scores in there. A flaky power supply is a hard thing to track sometimes, and knowing which ones have the best chance of running reliably for the longest time period would be handy information, especially for those of us who have fought with bad power supplies at one point or another in the past.
For those of us that work with Linux and UNIX on a daily basis, especially in the work place, and have been at it for years, it's even easier than Windows. (That's not sarcasm, BTW).
I have Verizon Wireless. Last month, I drove from Northern Virginia to northern Indiana (and back), and I never lost the signal and never went into roaming, even in the mountains of West Virginia. Can't get too much better than that...
Strangely absent from that list is Motorola... This is probably a good thing, but their absence is very conspicuous.
In spite of some serious competiton by Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE and other very good distributions, a lot of people still prefer Slackware as their distro of choice. That's a nice 10-year birthday present.
If it's not copyrighted materials, no worries. The article makes it clear that they're targeting copyright violations.
That said, I would be willing to wager that they go after major file swappers that are trading legitimate stuff just to ruffle feathers and scare people. "Look how big and mean and powerful we are!" Intimidation factor.
For those of us trading legitimate stuff, like home movie bloopers and stuff like that, it will eventually backlash on us. It'll be called an "innocent mistake" after they grab everything and put us in jail for a few days.
Regarding to Opera... if you are comparing it to mozilla... Opera is faster, damn faster.
My experience has actually been the opposite. I have to agree, Opera is plenty fast, but every time I have compared the two, Mozilla has left Opera behind. It very well could be a function of my Windows configuration, though, as I have done some odd things to my system. I haven't tried Opera under Linux (since early beta), so I can't compare there, but I have used Mozilla under Linux and have been most pleased.
Regardless, Mozilla and Opera are both faster than Netscape.