My highschool still runs windows XP and novell with zenworks but its boots with....LILO!!!
one day I turned on a computer tucked in a instrument practice room and I saw lilo start going and thought wow...could it be? but then it booted into XP and I have since then noticed that all the computers use lilo to boot XP
Assumedly this is to save money from some propriety system
does anyone know the standard procedure for a game developer to get its apps licensed? from what I know they can work on it with a development box so they can test without signitures, but what do they pay for the SDK and when they are done, what do they pay for the liceense?
im curious as to, could microsoft legitimately refuse to sell the SDK to someone programming linux or could they allow the SDK (looks as if its not needed since linux runs) and then deny a license? are they allowed to do that?
What if a current developer stepped in and aided with the project and distributed it for a low price (I would prolly pay for it as long as I could download updates or something). if this company also had games, would microsoft refuse them the license and then risk losing their titles or would microsoft grant them a lisense? They could always release the source or a free downloadable version but it wouldnt just plug in and work, givin the xbox's problems with burnt media without a mod-chip.
I run my 17inch trinitron CRT at 85hz and I still can get flickering at times, it is really incredibly annoying but now from reading your post I suppose it could be caused by the 2 year guarenteed light bulbs that I put in before I ever noticed flickering (at least a year and a half before I began seeing it) I will also give adjusting the ambient light a try
well...I know that in 5th grade when I was a crossing guard, my police officer neighbor clocked us with his radar gun and I could sprint at 11mph...
now I am 195lbs and can most likely run faster for longer than I could then.
so doesnt that make me the same as a 120lb person on a segway except they supposedly have better stopping than I would when running and since they arent thinking as much about running they could easily be more observant.
I don't think DVD sales will go down as a result of piracy, even when DVD-R gets cheaper, simply because it's more difficult to cobble all the extras together, and it's not worth the time to do that when you can get the whole thing for $15-20.
some of my friends and I are sweating with anticipation of when we can afford dvd-r but the thought of piracy with it never crossed my mind. We frequently make our own short films about things (many tend to be school projects but we do a good job on them and they could be used for pure entertainment)
however, we are tired of HD space being eaten by the DV files and we havnt found VCD's or other forms of compression to be agreeable at all with storing them. We end up splitting the files and burning them to a series of CDs. The last movie to be backed up took 9 full CDs. It would be much easier of we could just plop it onto a dvd (just as a file or as an actual dvd movie) for the sake of saving space and materials.
my personal opinion about piracy (especialy people who are doing it before the movie comes out) is why bother? unless you have a screen that can be measured in yards and a THX certified room and sound system (not home THX systems but the real deal where you have to lease the crossovers because they cannot be purchased) THEN I can see why you would want to steal the movie and watch it at home but the one full movie I have downloaded wouldnt project that large, frankly it looks like sht even on a 17inch monitor and it had the name of some irc chan permanently displayed in a corner...not at all worth it
why can I only get this as firewire? I WANT ONE IN MY CASE
my mp3 server would love 500gb in a 5.25 drivebay, and that is plenty fast for playing mp3s. And if you need it faster and faster just raid-0 it and go.
I have never really be a fan of the external drive (what good is a 48x burner on USB 1)as a nice ribbon cable has always been faster than whatever I can plug into the back of my case (external scsi exempt) but firewire and firewire 2 are looking good. Personally I prefer them to USB2.0 but I hope that the competition makes them a standard not an obscurity.
I remember making a few tweaks to my geforce 256 and going from 30fps max to 70 something average...all with 3 settings changes...I think there is a differance there
As a high school sophmore I am required to have typed papers. I have had the requirement in english, science, spanish, history, geography, economics, math, and orchestra. The only classes I have not in my year and 1/4 are health and gym.
in 4th grade we were first taught typing but we learned it on these little red keyboard box things that had a small lcd screen with 1 or 2 lines of text and a book then went with it. By that time I had already had a fair ammount of computer experiance (and the internet..compuserve's proggy and then some nice Mosaic action on my screaming 14.4) and our school had a nice apple IIgs lab with a few c64's in the corner
In 6th grade (middle school now) we again had to take a typing class using appleworks on networked IIgs's and in 7th we had to do some spreadsheet, database, and card-presentation work but this time on LCII or LCIII's (these replaced the IIgs typing lab)
In 8th grade my school (a magnet school called technology & language campus) aqquired a lab full of slot iMacs. With this, some students were required to even do digital video presentations and teachers often required a paper be typed but gave classtime to do it in. (unfortinately the next year when I moved to highschool, they ordered 2-3 of the dell laptop cart labs)
Now in highschool I have been to a computer lab with a class
it might be nice to start your kids early, but dont start to early you dont want them to lose interest in the computers but you dont want them to be TOO nerdy, that is the best way to go in my eyes...be with the coolest damn nerds in the whole school. School should teach them what they need to know about some things on the computer but others must be learned, also I suggest keep them OFF linux. They will be mostly exposed to windows or macOS at school and other places and it is better that they are fluent with it...when they get to be around maybe 14 or so...implant some bugs in their windows install and show them the wonders of linux (try a knoppix cd if you want them to try it and still access their own files)
what will happen if it is dropped? how much shock protection does it have? how far can I drop it before it causes perm. damange? and if I kill a drive can I just go buy a new laptop drive? other than that I would love to own a HD based mp3 player
I love the little duck cursor with wings in my thinkpad 360cs that I got for free. if it can be done in that old and bad of a system, why cant it be done on a 2ghz machine?
looking like windows 98 is fine for someone who WANTS to change and needs a nice learning curve
but, this is so close that an average user might just look at it and think, "this looks a lot like windows, it must be a cheap knockoff and probobly crashes even more" and then the same person might look at osX and think "this is pretty cool looking and I have heard a lot about this and its nothing like the windows gui, it must also crash a lot less"
maybe if there was a newbie installer that gave the user a 5 minute or so period in several different gui's in which they were assigned a few simple tasks to complete (open a word proccessor, find some settings, go to a web pate, etc.) then they would have something to base their choice on in a friendly manner
I guess canon realized its been a while since I bought a D60 so they HAD to release something else for me to buy...and I thought the D30 was gonna last me a few years.
my english teacher just the other day said "dont even think about using alot and I dont want to see a lot on your papers either" something about neither one being good blah blah blah...back to my post
If you *REALLY* want to learn more about physics, all you have to do is hack Stephen Hawkings wheelchair
lol you had to mention the ONLY grades in my school district without any physics
I would suggest reading Hawkings "A Brief History of Time" it may be a bit much but you should be able to pull quite a lot out of it if you have some idea what he is talking about
When I want more information about a certian aspect of physics sometimes I search (on google or something) for a posting of a formal lab that has been completed on the subject. Good scientists usually supply enough info into the lab that you can see whats going on and then you get a real world use of the aspect of pysics in question.
my only gripe with small cases is the overly common: I cant fit it all in
they are great for settings where you dont need much. My school library has some small cases for the computers running the card catalog, unfortinately the card catalog computers are running fullpower P4's with tons of ram and all the goodies, while the computers used to do internet research etc. (and not nice small cases) are 1st generation p3s
in my head I dont see why you need more power to look at card catalog text (thin clients would be the ultimate space saver, stick a server somewhere that has room but no easy access to actually have a monitor and stuff) but I have to admit, the cases were very pretty
the suggestions I see for these as a LANparty case just dont make sense, usually I like to have my full graphics and sound etc along with me
from all the info I have on small fuel cells and systems for creating hydrogen it seems that:
it takes much more energy to seperate the hydrogen out of water than the hydrogen itself produces so, you still need a conventional form of energy to create the fuel
but I think that the hydrogen could be made with a less reliable/portable system such as solar or wind power and then you could have the hydrogen all of the time and the sun/wind only when its there
as a student I have noticed that the tech people working for my school district are horribly ignorant of any network security
in my middle school (it was a technology magnet school too) the netware consoles password was the district tech's name, all the bios's used the default password and with that you could easily disable FoolProof on the systems, passwords of the last few users were always left on the systems and were easily crackable
there were template accounts left on the system, you could log in as a teacher via the template which used same thing for user and pass and on a mac with the teacher account you could copy the data from anyone elses user account
now that I am in highschool its not too much different except, in my freshman year I was in a computer lab all of 2-3 times because the teachers did not use them oh, and our netware login names became first 5 letters of last name first 2 of first and grade number and password was your student ID number (not allowed to change them, some people found a way to change them and were suspended)
A friend of mine who has more time in the labs found a complete list of the student body (first name, last name, grade, student ID, basically the user/pass for every student)
now most student information is available through a website here it includes lots of information including a full transcript and even how much lunch money you have.
frankly, from what I have seen on the inschool networks I dont really trust this system for the teachers to do my grading and then have it available on the web
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one day I turned on a computer tucked in a instrument practice room and I saw lilo start going and thought wow...could it be? but then it booted into XP and I have since then noticed that all the computers use lilo to boot XP
Assumedly this is to save money from some propriety system
im curious as to, could microsoft legitimately refuse to sell the SDK to someone programming linux or could they allow the SDK (looks as if its not needed since linux runs) and then deny a license? are they allowed to do that?
What if a current developer stepped in and aided with the project and distributed it for a low price (I would prolly pay for it as long as I could download updates or something). if this company also had games, would microsoft refuse them the license and then risk losing their titles or would microsoft grant them a lisense? They could always release the source or a free downloadable version but it wouldnt just plug in and work, givin the xbox's problems with burnt media without a mod-chip.
I run my 17inch trinitron CRT at 85hz and I still can get flickering at times, it is really incredibly annoying but now from reading your post I suppose it could be caused by the 2 year guarenteed light bulbs that I put in before I ever noticed flickering (at least a year and a half before I began seeing it) I will also give adjusting the ambient light a try
now I am 195lbs and can most likely run faster for longer than I could then.
so doesnt that make me the same as a 120lb person on a segway except they supposedly have better stopping than I would when running and since they arent thinking as much about running they could easily be more observant.
however, we are tired of HD space being eaten by the DV files and we havnt found VCD's or other forms of compression to be agreeable at all with storing them. We end up splitting the files and burning them to a series of CDs. The last movie to be backed up took 9 full CDs. It would be much easier of we could just plop it onto a dvd (just as a file or as an actual dvd movie) for the sake of saving space and materials.
my personal opinion about piracy (especialy people who are doing it before the movie comes out) is why bother? unless you have a screen that can be measured in yards and a THX certified room and sound system (not home THX systems but the real deal where you have to lease the crossovers because they cannot be purchased) THEN I can see why you would want to steal the movie and watch it at home but the one full movie I have downloaded wouldnt project that large, frankly it looks like sht even on a 17inch monitor and it had the name of some irc chan permanently displayed in a corner...not at all worth it
none, they would rather sit around in the dark and cry about it
How many flys does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Two, but how do you get them in there?
my mp3 server would love 500gb in a 5.25 drivebay, and that is plenty fast for playing mp3s. And if you need it faster and faster just raid-0 it and go.
I have never really be a fan of the external drive (what good is a 48x burner on USB 1)as a nice ribbon cable has always been faster than whatever I can plug into the back of my case (external scsi exempt) but firewire and firewire 2 are looking good. Personally I prefer them to USB2.0 but I hope that the competition makes them a standard not an obscurity.
I remember making a few tweaks to my geforce 256 and going from 30fps max to 70 something average...all with 3 settings changes...I think there is a differance there
in 4th grade we were first taught typing but we learned it on these little red keyboard box things that had a small lcd screen with 1 or 2 lines of text and a book then went with it. By that time I had already had a fair ammount of computer experiance (and the internet..compuserve's proggy and then some nice Mosaic action on my screaming 14.4) and our school had a nice apple IIgs lab with a few c64's in the corner
In 6th grade (middle school now) we again had to take a typing class using appleworks on networked IIgs's and in 7th we had to do some spreadsheet, database, and card-presentation work but this time on LCII or LCIII's (these replaced the IIgs typing lab)
In 8th grade my school (a magnet school called technology & language campus) aqquired a lab full of slot iMacs. With this, some students were required to even do digital video presentations and teachers often required a paper be typed but gave classtime to do it in. (unfortinately the next year when I moved to highschool, they ordered 2-3 of the dell laptop cart labs)
Now in highschool I have been to a computer lab with a class it might be nice to start your kids early, but dont start to early you dont want them to lose interest in the computers but you dont want them to be TOO nerdy, that is the best way to go in my eyes...be with the coolest damn nerds in the whole school. School should teach them what they need to know about some things on the computer but others must be learned, also I suggest keep them OFF linux. They will be mostly exposed to windows or macOS at school and other places and it is better that they are fluent with it...when they get to be around maybe 14 or so...implant some bugs in their windows install and show them the wonders of linux (try a knoppix cd if you want them to try it and still access their own files)
what will happen if it is dropped? how much shock protection does it have? how far can I drop it before it causes perm. damange? and if I kill a drive can I just go buy a new laptop drive? other than that I would love to own a HD based mp3 player
and I dont want sex, just something as close to it as possible
I love the little duck cursor with wings in my thinkpad 360cs that I got for free. if it can be done in that old and bad of a system, why cant it be done on a 2ghz machine?
what happens when someone hacks it and it starts adding hardcore porn to the paris nightlife?
I think its a pretty good deal being the CDRs are (I think) rated to 32x but they burn perfectly at 48x without any errors that I have found so far
but, this is so close that an average user might just look at it and think, "this looks a lot like windows, it must be a cheap knockoff and probobly crashes even more" and then the same person might look at osX and think "this is pretty cool looking and I have heard a lot about this and its nothing like the windows gui, it must also crash a lot less"
maybe if there was a newbie installer that gave the user a 5 minute or so period in several different gui's in which they were assigned a few simple tasks to complete (open a word proccessor, find some settings, go to a web pate, etc.) then they would have something to base their choice on in a friendly manner
I guess canon realized its been a while since I bought a D60 so they HAD to release something else for me to buy...and I thought the D30 was gonna last me a few years.
If you *REALLY* want to learn more about physics, all you have to do is hack Stephen Hawkings wheelchair
I would suggest reading Hawkings "A Brief History of Time" it may be a bit much but you should be able to pull quite a lot out of it if you have some idea what he is talking about
When I want more information about a certian aspect of physics sometimes I search (on google or something) for a posting of a formal lab that has been completed on the subject. Good scientists usually supply enough info into the lab that you can see whats going on and then you get a real world use of the aspect of pysics in question.
they are great for settings where you dont need much. My school library has some small cases for the computers running the card catalog, unfortinately the card catalog computers are running fullpower P4's with tons of ram and all the goodies, while the computers used to do internet research etc. (and not nice small cases) are 1st generation p3s
in my head I dont see why you need more power to look at card catalog text (thin clients would be the ultimate space saver, stick a server somewhere that has room but no easy access to actually have a monitor and stuff) but I have to admit, the cases were very pretty
the suggestions I see for these as a LANparty case just dont make sense, usually I like to have my full graphics and sound etc along with me
it takes much more energy to seperate the hydrogen out of water than the hydrogen itself produces so, you still need a conventional form of energy to create the fuel
but I think that the hydrogen could be made with a less reliable/portable system such as solar or wind power and then you could have the hydrogen all of the time and the sun/wind only when its there
in my middle school (it was a technology magnet school too) the netware consoles password was the district tech's name, all the bios's used the default password and with that you could easily disable FoolProof on the systems, passwords of the last few users were always left on the systems and were easily crackable
there were template accounts left on the system, you could log in as a teacher via the template which used same thing for user and pass and on a mac with the teacher account you could copy the data from anyone elses user account
now that I am in highschool its not too much different except, in my freshman year I was in a computer lab all of 2-3 times because the teachers did not use them oh, and our netware login names became first 5 letters of last name first 2 of first and grade number and password was your student ID number (not allowed to change them, some people found a way to change them and were suspended)
A friend of mine who has more time in the labs found a complete list of the student body (first name, last name, grade, student ID, basically the user/pass for every student) now most student information is available through a website here it includes lots of information including a full transcript and even how much lunch money you have.
frankly, from what I have seen on the inschool networks I dont really trust this system for the teachers to do my grading and then have it available on the web