.. have already figured it out - let other willing users pay the power bill, bandwidth cost, etc. and crunch the data in their spare time. Seems to be working well for seti@home, etc.
Of course, if you are working with sensitive data (military stuff, major trade secrets, etc.) your security/privacy needs will outweigh the costs involved with doing it all in house.
Don't forget that for what most people want in a PDF file (an electronic version of a simple printed page, no chapters/bookmarks/forms/etc), setting up a fake printer in samba to use ps2pdf, etc. works quite well.
We chose Mozilla to go along with IE and Outlook. All the Netscape users are happy (we used to standardize on 4.77), all the Outlook users are saying "WTF is this dragon head on my desktop"
.. microenough payment? Or has it all gone to click thru 'cause too many of us block popus, filter spam, and block adservers with cool things in userContent.css like
A:link[HREF*="ads."] IMG { display: none ! important }
??
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Wrong. If you have netscape 4.x installed, Mozilla will copy and then upgrade your profile(s). If you have Netscape 6 or 7 installed, they use the same profile info.
I have an old Dell laptop (p1-166 w/ 48mb ram), broken monitor (but the vid out works) doing dsl gateway duty... previous, I had a 486sx33 laptop with 12mb ram in charge of sharing a modem connection. That was a bit wimpy though. The 166 seems to do great. You can probably get something similar on ebay for under $100.
They should be able include their own java - as long as they don't call it java, or use the same file names, etc. I suppose that being generous, I wouldn't mind to much if they called it a Java implementation.
Not having RTFA or being able to remember enough background, but shouldn't/didn't Sun sue them over the name and non-standard implementation?
... has been using computers damm near 15 years. She still calls me occasionally for a reminder on how to get a console window in Win2k (can't call it a DOS window can I?) so she can copy files to her floppy drive from c:\docs
They already have, sorta. When I got my first CD player in '84 or '85, I paid $15 a pop for cds. I haven't bought one in years, but they are still about $15 each. Lets look at the cost of everything else, or at least a base pay reference. Minimum wage was about $3.35 an hour. Today minimum wage is around $6/hr. So you've halved the amount of time you got to work a McJob in order to buy that new CD you want.
... is open standard "document" formats. I don't care if Uncle Sam or anyone else chooses to use Microsoft (or any other) software. However, anything and everything that The People have access to must be stored in an open format that The People can read with the software of my choice. PDF, XML, plain text, latex, postscript/ghostscript, PNG images out of a scanner, dead trees, who cares.
And what part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?
Really? I mean, I've been playing 3d FPS games since the original Quake/QuakeWorld, and the only thing that has mattered since then is what kind of score you can get on a timedemo. I don't care if a card can get 200000 frames/sec in glxgears or the 3dmark tests - I care about how it works in the latest/greatest 3d FPS. In Quake/QuakeWorld, you *needed* to get at least 40 frames/sec. In Quake2, 60 was an ideal minimum. With Quake3, it changed to 125f/s because there were/are some trick jumps/moves you can only do with a minimum of 125f/s framerate. And of course, when playing online, your connection had to be able to get enough data to feed the card as well.
So throw the benchmark software out, fire up Q3 or whatever, and let us know how the card really performs.
Perhaps it is time to split up some class A networks so that more could be released for other users... for example, I'm sure that even MIT isn't using all 16.something million addresses their 18.foo class A allows for...
Actually, depending on the school, your tutition probably doesn't even cover half of your educational costs. Most of it is state subsidiezed (sp? who cares?), which is why out of state tutition fees are sooo much higher than in-state.
Actually, the gas station thing has happened. When the big shift from leaded to (mandatory) unleaded happened, "they" made the nozzle for the unleaded slightly smaller than the leaded nozzle. They also changed the size of the filler hole to match - so it is impossible to accidentally fill a unleaded car with leaded gas.
Strangely, on my old car ('65 356), the filler hole is damm near big enough to put a coke can in, much less any of the available gas nozzles. Oh well, as long as I don't grab the deisel one by mistake, I'm fine...
Someone with a laggy connection, for example, becomes harder to hit.
Lemme guess - you've never played classic Quake with a ping of 400 have you? Ok, it may be harder for a LPB to hit my lagged butt, but then, it is near impossible for me to make it around corners/thru doors wihtout getting stuck, stay out of lava/slime, or hit anything at all - since by the time my poor packet with "pull trigger" in it has reached the server, you've already communicated with the server up to 10 times.
No... having lag and RFC1149 style pings isn't cheating - its a major disadvantage.
Actually, there is a book over in Baen's free (as in beer) online library of some of their titles that has these (Bats, Rats, and Vats - I forget the author). Modified bats as well. Pretty good read, as is a lot of other stuff on that site, including some very "known" authors.
is which bill has been looked over and given a decent thumbs up by people a typical/.'er will have blind loyalty to. A statement from the EFF or some other completely trusted party or something like that.
.. when we all have our own portable phones/pdas/computers/etc. will be a space that provides privacy and quite, as well as either a damm good external universal anteanna setup or a hard wire.
I also predict that you will be able to drop a dime/quarter/etc. in a glass jar and get a free connection, since pay authentication will be sound based.
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I can't be dead - I've still got 3 credits!
.. have already figured it out - let other willing users pay the power bill, bandwidth cost, etc. and crunch the data in their spare time. Seems to be working well for seti@home, etc.
Of course, if you are working with sensitive data (military stuff, major trade secrets, etc.) your security/privacy needs will outweigh the costs involved with doing it all in house.
Don't forget that for what most people want in a PDF file (an electronic version of a simple printed page, no chapters/bookmarks/forms/etc), setting up a fake printer in samba to use ps2pdf, etc. works quite well.
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html
We chose Mozilla to go along with IE and Outlook. All the Netscape users are happy (we used to standardize on 4.77), all the Outlook users are saying "WTF is this dragon head on my desktop"
Time for a Monty Python quote -
" 'Tis just a flesh wound!"
.. microenough payment? Or has it all gone to click thru 'cause too many of us block popus, filter spam, and block adservers with cool things in userContent.css like
A:link[HREF*="ads."] IMG { display: none ! important }
??
Wrong. If you have netscape 4.x installed, Mozilla will copy and then upgrade your profile(s). If you have Netscape 6 or 7 installed, they use the same profile info.
..want to boldly go where no man^h^h^hone has gone before!
(sorry... someone had to say it)
I have an old Dell laptop (p1-166 w/ 48mb ram), broken monitor (but the vid out works) doing dsl gateway duty... previous, I had a 486sx33 laptop with 12mb ram in charge of sharing a modem connection. That was a bit wimpy though. The 166 seems to do great. You can probably get something similar on ebay for under $100.
They should be able include their own java - as long as they don't call it java, or use the same file names, etc. I suppose that being generous, I wouldn't mind to much if they called it a Java implementation.
Not having RTFA or being able to remember enough background, but shouldn't/didn't Sun sue them over the name and non-standard implementation?
Look into the PJRC MP3 board - http://www.pjrc.com/tech/mp3/ . No need for a full computer.
... has been using computers damm near 15 years. She still calls me occasionally for a reminder on how to get a console window in Win2k (can't call it a DOS window can I?) so she can copy files to her floppy drive from c:\docs
They already have, sorta. When I got my first CD player in '84 or '85, I paid $15 a pop for cds. I haven't bought one in years, but they are still about $15 each. Lets look at the cost of everything else, or at least a base pay reference. Minimum wage was about $3.35 an hour. Today minimum wage is around $6/hr. So you've halved the amount of time you got to work a McJob in order to buy that new CD you want.
Or is it using canned gas (or whatever) to do directional changes, etc. and the nuke power is to run the sensors/recorders/beowulf cluster?
... is open standard "document" formats. I don't care if Uncle Sam or anyone else chooses to use Microsoft (or any other) software. However, anything and everything that The People have access to must be stored in an open format that The People can read with the software of my choice. PDF, XML, plain text, latex, postscript/ghostscript, PNG images out of a scanner, dead trees, who cares.
And what part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?
Really? I mean, I've been playing 3d FPS games since the original Quake/QuakeWorld, and the only thing that has mattered since then is what kind of score you can get on a timedemo. I don't care if a card can get 200000 frames/sec in glxgears or the 3dmark tests - I care about how it works in the latest/greatest 3d FPS. In Quake/QuakeWorld, you *needed* to get at least 40 frames/sec. In Quake2, 60 was an ideal minimum. With Quake3, it changed to 125f/s because there were/are some trick jumps/moves you can only do with a minimum of 125f/s framerate. And of course, when playing online, your connection had to be able to get enough data to feed the card as well.
So throw the benchmark software out, fire up Q3 or whatever, and let us know how the card really performs.
Yes... but I don't think there are red Swingline staplers in EQ....
Perhaps it is time to split up some class A networks so that more could be released for other users... for example, I'm sure that even MIT isn't using all 16.something million addresses their 18.foo class A allows for...
That, or one heck of a NAT is needed.
Actually, depending on the school, your tutition probably doesn't even cover half of your educational costs. Most of it is state subsidiezed (sp? who cares?), which is why out of state tutition fees are sooo much higher than in-state.
Actually, the gas station thing has happened. When the big shift from leaded to (mandatory) unleaded happened, "they" made the nozzle for the unleaded slightly smaller than the leaded nozzle. They also changed the size of the filler hole to match - so it is impossible to accidentally fill a unleaded car with leaded gas.
Strangely, on my old car ('65 356), the filler hole is damm near big enough to put a coke can in, much less any of the available gas nozzles. Oh well, as long as I don't grab the deisel one by mistake, I'm fine...
Someone with a laggy connection, for example, becomes harder to hit.
Lemme guess - you've never played classic Quake with a ping of 400 have you? Ok, it may be harder for a LPB to hit my lagged butt, but then, it is near impossible for me to make it around corners/thru doors wihtout getting stuck, stay out of lava/slime, or hit anything at all - since by the time my poor packet with "pull trigger" in it has reached the server, you've already communicated with the server up to 10 times.
No... having lag and RFC1149 style pings isn't cheating - its a major disadvantage.
Actually, there is a book over in Baen's free (as in beer) online library of some of their titles that has these (Bats, Rats, and Vats - I forget the author). Modified bats as well. Pretty good read, as is a lot of other stuff on that site, including some very "known" authors.
is which bill has been looked over and given a decent thumbs up by people a typical /.'er will have blind loyalty to. A statement from the EFF or some other completely trusted party or something like that.
You obviously haven't seen the Brazillian soccer team photos floating around have you?
.. when we all have our own portable phones/pdas/computers/etc. will be a space that provides privacy and quite, as well as either a damm good external universal anteanna setup or a hard wire.
I also predict that you will be able to drop a dime/quarter/etc. in a glass jar and get a free connection, since pay authentication will be sound based.