If you're looking for a up-to-date game of cheap cost, and great value, look at finding a $20 copy of Sid's "Pirates" It's only got moderate replay value, but you will be very blissfully addicted, and a $20, it was well worth the money spent.
I think I'll still get a marker stone once I'm dead, even though being pickled and boxed doesn't sound good to me.
That said, I could have fun with a LCD display above my grave... I'd think it would be rather fitting for all eternity to have a screen displaying: root@dbhost.nsa.gov or root@heaven $
of course, it'd be placed behind UV shielded 2" thick bulletproof glass, just for fun.:p
The Hartford Insurange Group has a wonderful internship program.
I would reccomend it to all those going through college, regardless of major/degree.
I'm an IT guy, working in a Business/IT department, which we'll come to in a moment, but the real joy of a mixed itnern program like this is talking with the Actuaries, MBAs, and the other undergraduate interns. Seeing those who are significantly older than you interning at the same place, kinda makes you feel good.
They pay competitively here, you won't walk away with tons of cash if you have to rent an Appartment near Hartford, but as far as major-related internships go, it's pretty good.
I'm working in the ClaimIT group, my fourth summer with these guys (Started between HS & College), and I couldn't be happier. It's the perfect place for a very technical person to intern. Claim IT exists as an abstraction layer between ISD (the infrastructure folks) and Claim (the business folks). If you know how to talk tech, and want to learn to talk business, it's the perfect melding of the two.
I'm not sure I'd want to stay in ClaimIT, even though the jobs as project managers and business analysts are plentiful, and pay well, but ClaimIT isn't always the most technical of places to be, and as I'm coming off the line with a BS in Applied Networking & Systems Administration from The Rochester Institute of Technology, I want to get my hands deep in the technology, or I won't keep my technical skillset up.
Still, if you're looking to get a good, enjoyable, challenging, and related-to-your-major-even-if-it's-not-IT-related internship, contact the college relations department of The Hartford Insurance Company. You won't regret it. : )
Hi, you are wrong again, and I'm kinda on a campaign against outright WRONG information today.
802.11 in ALL specifications, from 802.11 through 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n (provisional), and 802.11i, CANNOT use Collision Detection.
There is not a overall EMF rise or fall on a radio spectrum.
802.11 uses CSMA/CA, which while similar in a few ways to collision detection, makes a lot more sense in implementation compared to trying to detect collisions on radio spectras.
802.11 is generally implemented in a FHSS setup. Given good hopping set variety, and long hopping sets at that, there's very little problem with 802.11 stepping on itself.
What you are more likely steamed about is 802.11b, which is always (to the best of my knowledge) a DSSS setup. DSSS steps all over each other's signals, but all it effectively does is raise the noisefloor from around -80dB to -60dB, good old 802.11 FHSS will just hammer right through that, in fact, I had to go next to a Hidelberg Press (spelling?)(Giant Full-Color Inked, High-Volume Press), to get the noise floor high enough to mess with 802.11 signals significantly.
Provided you are not trying to do low-power, wide-spectrum transmissions of data, 2.4GHz isn't very crowded. You can catch a lot of interference, but there are a great many Radio Guru minds who have worked out very good ways to skirt around the problems caused by that... except for 802.11b/g, which just get tromped on, exactly like they were designed to do. : )
You know, if videogames has such profound effects on young minds, then there would be a batch of 20-somethings running around in the dark, listening to loud repetitive music, and popping pills.
Onboard battery provides up to 16 hours of 3.3V charge. Sure it'll die if you spend longer than that with the system unplugged, but most motherboards keep power to the cards (for remote boot and the like), even with the power turned off.
Actually, the card only addresses the RAM at 100MHz (I think that's considered PC1600, I may be wrong here though).
That means this card uses your old chump-RAM, or very very cheap to buy RAM. It's a good deal, just in that it gives me something to do with all the PC2100 I've got laying around.
I find it doubtful, in fact, address 17.123.23.5 doesn't respond to reverse lookup, at least through my corporate DNS, and it's in Apple Computer's Class A address space. ; )
I've seen two highly (3+) moderated comments about how much this game bites, application-wise. Both complaints are from users with P4s, one 3.0GHz, one 3.4GHz. Can I hear from some AMD users, are you having the same performance issues?
I'm still sad they edited the rest of Mon Mothma's speech...
The original text read as: "Many Bothans died to bring us this information... Not that any got sent on the missions, I just really *love* killing Bothans."
Wouldn't this be much easier to implement if the keys were backlit by more conventional methods, and the keys just contained normal black/white LCD elements in a "tight" (for LCDs) grid?
The keys could be a frosted white plastic look, the lighting with white LEDs or CCFLs, and the keytops all controlled cheap LCDs... heck, the leads for each LCD could be sticking up off the back of the key part of the way, you could get decent density that way I think.
Does this make sense to anyone other than me? I mean, the keyboard would still need a controller chip in it, to update the values of the LCD elements, or else this thing would have a bundle-o-cable (tm) coming out of the back, but, I really think this could be done for far less than $300+ and would provide a good functionality, even if less-cool and only monochrome.
Comments?
Neat looking stuff, maybe in time, once I'm an established user, I'll give it a try. As it is, any startup times seem great compared the the Windows machines I support, and also use here at work. Thanks for the link, it's time for me to clock out.
I'm just a lowly BASH junkie, and I set my environment variables in my startup scripts. For the world I know, my statement is true. But, valid point never-the-less.
Incidentally, is shell bloat actually a significant problem in this day of GHz+ machines? I mean, is the footprint of even a bash shell significant for all but the most overtaxed of servers?
Actually, while it varies according to region, looking at the US as whole, there was roughly a 1.5% (1.47%) part of the population that is deaf.
I go to school at RIT which also houses The National Technical Institute for the Deaf. While I am not part of the Deaf culture, there's one thing I've learned from my time there: Captioning is wonderful. Not only does it allow more people to enjoy the movie, but sometimes, it's just freaking helpful to be able to re-view what just happened.
If captions (open captions, yes, up on the screen, the whole time) are that big of problem for you, maybe you should be the one who has to wait for it to come out on DVD.
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If you're looking for a up-to-date game of cheap cost, and great value, look at finding a $20 copy of Sid's "Pirates" It's only got moderate replay value, but you will be very blissfully addicted, and a $20, it was well worth the money spent.
More likely, similar to XP Starter, Vista Starter will probably not be launched in the US/EU market.
TeraQuads, as in Uplink style TeraQuads? One of the most fun non-graphically intensive games of the past 5 years.
I think I'll still get a marker stone once I'm dead, even though being pickled and boxed doesn't sound good to me.
:p
That said, I could have fun with a LCD display above my grave... I'd think it would be rather fitting for all eternity to have a screen displaying: root@dbhost.nsa.gov or root@heaven $
of course, it'd be placed behind UV shielded 2" thick bulletproof glass, just for fun.
The Hartford Insurange Group has a wonderful internship program.
I would reccomend it to all those going through college, regardless of major/degree.
I'm an IT guy, working in a Business/IT department, which we'll come to in a moment, but the real joy of a mixed itnern program like this is talking with the Actuaries, MBAs, and the other undergraduate interns. Seeing those who are significantly older than you interning at the same place, kinda makes you feel good.
They pay competitively here, you won't walk away with tons of cash if you have to rent an Appartment near Hartford, but as far as major-related internships go, it's pretty good.
I'm working in the ClaimIT group, my fourth summer with these guys (Started between HS & College), and I couldn't be happier. It's the perfect place for a very technical person to intern. Claim IT exists as an abstraction layer between ISD (the infrastructure folks) and Claim (the business folks). If you know how to talk tech, and want to learn to talk business, it's the perfect melding of the two.
I'm not sure I'd want to stay in ClaimIT, even though the jobs as project managers and business analysts are plentiful, and pay well, but ClaimIT isn't always the most technical of places to be, and as I'm coming off the line with a BS in Applied Networking & Systems Administration from The Rochester Institute of Technology, I want to get my hands deep in the technology, or I won't keep my technical skillset up.
Still, if you're looking to get a good, enjoyable, challenging, and related-to-your-major-even-if-it's-not-IT-related internship, contact the college relations department of The Hartford Insurance Company. You won't regret it. : )
Hi, you are wrong again, and I'm kinda on a campaign against outright WRONG information today.
802.11 in ALL specifications, from 802.11 through 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n (provisional), and 802.11i, CANNOT use Collision Detection.
There is not a overall EMF rise or fall on a radio spectrum.
802.11 uses CSMA/CA, which while similar in a few ways to collision detection, makes a lot more sense in implementation compared to trying to detect collisions on radio spectras.
ref: Carrier Sense, Multiple Access / Collision Avoidance 802.11
Google parts of that, and you'll start to get a fuller picture of why CSMA/CD is a bad misnomer for Wireless Collision avoidance back-off mechanisms.
802.11 is generally implemented in a FHSS setup. Given good hopping set variety, and long hopping sets at that, there's very little problem with 802.11 stepping on itself.
What you are more likely steamed about is 802.11b, which is always (to the best of my knowledge) a DSSS setup. DSSS steps all over each other's signals, but all it effectively does is raise the noisefloor from around -80dB to -60dB, good old 802.11 FHSS will just hammer right through that, in fact, I had to go next to a Hidelberg Press (spelling?)(Giant Full-Color Inked, High-Volume Press), to get the noise floor high enough to mess with 802.11 signals significantly.
Provided you are not trying to do low-power, wide-spectrum transmissions of data, 2.4GHz isn't very crowded. You can catch a lot of interference, but there are a great many Radio Guru minds who have worked out very good ways to skirt around the problems caused by that... except for 802.11b/g, which just get tromped on, exactly like they were designed to do. : )
You know, if videogames has such profound effects on young minds, then there would be a batch of 20-somethings running around in the dark, listening to loud repetitive music, and popping pills.
If it was hard to write the code, it should be hard to understand the code! It's only fair, dammit. : )
How to sell a goat worth $20, when no one around you has $20.
Offer people a ticket for a raffle to win the goat, sell them for $1.
Appologize to the winner, after selling no less than 50 tickets, and inform him/her that the goat got loose, and ran away.
"But won't they be mad at you? You took their money!"
Ah, but I refunded the winner the cost of his ticket.
Can you say Read The Article?
Onboard battery provides up to 16 hours of 3.3V charge. Sure it'll die if you spend longer than that with the system unplugged, but most motherboards keep power to the cards (for remote boot and the like), even with the power turned off.
Actually, the card only addresses the RAM at 100MHz (I think that's considered PC1600, I may be wrong here though).
That means this card uses your old chump-RAM, or very very cheap to buy RAM. It's a good deal, just in that it gives me something to do with all the PC2100 I've got laying around.
It's actually a prediction from the future I think: "DAVIS WINS TWO"
All this and more fun can be had because A MANTRA BEARS GREET
(anagrams are better)
I find it doubtful, in fact, address 17.123.23.5 doesn't respond to reverse lookup, at least through my corporate DNS, and it's in Apple Computer's Class A address space. ; )
Thank you.
I've seen two highly (3+) moderated comments about how much this game bites, application-wise. Both complaints are from users with P4s, one 3.0GHz, one 3.4GHz. Can I hear from some AMD users, are you having the same performance issues?
I'm still sad they edited the rest of Mon Mothma's speech... The original text read as: "Many Bothans died to bring us this information... Not that any got sent on the missions, I just really *love* killing Bothans."
Wouldn't this be much easier to implement if the keys were backlit by more conventional methods, and the keys just contained normal black/white LCD elements in a "tight" (for LCDs) grid? The keys could be a frosted white plastic look, the lighting with white LEDs or CCFLs, and the keytops all controlled cheap LCDs... heck, the leads for each LCD could be sticking up off the back of the key part of the way, you could get decent density that way I think. Does this make sense to anyone other than me? I mean, the keyboard would still need a controller chip in it, to update the values of the LCD elements, or else this thing would have a bundle-o-cable (tm) coming out of the back, but, I really think this could be done for far less than $300+ and would provide a good functionality, even if less-cool and only monochrome. Comments?
Submitter forgot the word "Poorly" in the headline. : )
Tragically, and unlike the real world, in /. funny does not help karma.
Neat looking stuff, maybe in time, once I'm an established user, I'll give it a try. As it is, any startup times seem great compared the the Windows machines I support, and also use here at work. Thanks for the link, it's time for me to clock out.
I'm just a lowly BASH junkie, and I set my environment variables in my startup scripts. For the world I know, my statement is true. But, valid point never-the-less.
Incidentally, is shell bloat actually a significant problem in this day of GHz+ machines? I mean, is the footprint of even a bash shell significant for all but the most overtaxed of servers?
You could have saved a keystroke or two by using `ls -ld ~`
Oh, I seem to have missed the point entirely again.
Point stands, open captions hurt nothing, and cost up to $500/screen to implement, with no incremental costs. Some of us (me) even like them.
Actually, while it varies according to region, looking at the US as whole, there was roughly a 1.5% (1.47%) part of the population that is deaf.
I go to school at RIT which also houses The National Technical Institute for the Deaf. While I am not part of the Deaf culture, there's one thing I've learned from my time there: Captioning is wonderful. Not only does it allow more people to enjoy the movie, but sometimes, it's just freaking helpful to be able to re-view what just happened.
If captions (open captions, yes, up on the screen, the whole time) are that big of problem for you, maybe you should be the one who has to wait for it to come out on DVD.