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>You never type in your real email address to any software (Windoze, browsers, flash, etc.) you install, right?
Everybody I know seems to enter "lamer@aol.com" as their email address when Real/Flash/etc asks them....that address must cost AOL hundreds of dollars in bandwidth a month:-)
All three of the major players understand it, it is automatically streamable, using any HTTPD, so why the rush to use proprietory software?
HTTPD is *BAD* for streaming video, since it guarantees delivery. Although this sounds like a drawback rather than an advantage, it is a characteristic particularly suited for streaming media. Unlike data such as files or emails, which must be delivered in their entirety no matter how long transmission time, the value of streaming media date is constrained by time. If a frame of video is lost then it is worthless because it won't arrive within the correct time frame. Transmitting it again is a waste of bandwidth.
As you can see, HTTP would be an awful streaming media protocol.
I was bored, so just for the heck of it, I put 2 USB mice into my 2k box. Surprisingly, no crash, and the mice were "fighting" over the cursor, not 2 cursors.
I don't think that Intel is trying to compete with FireWire by releasing USB2. I think Intel realises that USB2 and FireWire are complementary technologies.
ie. Do I want a FireWire keyboard? Do I want a FireWire camcorder on the same bus as my mouse?
"I'm waiting for a Mobile Communications Device (MCD?) that combines the functionality of a cell phone, two way pager/email, minidisc/mp3 player, web browser, palm VII..."
Well, the only 2 gadgets I carry around are my phone and my Cassiopeia E-105. My Cassiopeia *is* my MP3 player, my web browser, my two way pager/email, and my PalmVII.
Now that Casio and Siemens are making a wireless version of the Cassiopeia...
Does anybody actually know how NV ratings are measured? Is a NV20 chip twice as good as an NV10 chip? Is a NV10 chip 10 times as good as an NV1 chip? - Ekapshi.
"AOL is doing us a favor, really, by getting so many people wired." Hmmm, I don't know about you, but I think I liked it better when the internet was less mainstream. - Ekapshi.
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>You never type in your real email address to any software (Windoze, browsers, flash, etc.) you install, right?
:-)
Everybody I know seems to enter "lamer@aol.com" as their email address when Real/Flash/etc asks them....that address must cost AOL hundreds of dollars in bandwidth a month
Sorry I didn't know you went for animals.
Oh I didn't notice your nick.
Sorry again.
>When MS splits, what's going to stop MS Applications from porting Office?
MS Applications will be run by Gates' best friend, Ballmer. The idea of MS Applications designing products for linux is a pipe dream...for now.
Anyone who uses the blink tag on their page should be criminally liable for it.
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Ekapshi
As Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes" once said,
The best sign that there is intelligent life out there is that none of it has come to contact us
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Ekapshi
Yep, they really do need to inforce the AIM TLD, so that you don't mistake AOLers for normal people :-)
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Ekapshi
All three of the major players understand it, it is automatically streamable, using any HTTPD, so why the rush to use proprietory software?
HTTPD is *BAD* for streaming video, since it guarantees delivery. Although this sounds like a drawback rather than an advantage, it is a characteristic particularly suited for streaming media. Unlike data such as files or emails, which must be delivered in their entirety no matter how long transmission time, the value of streaming media date is constrained by time. If a frame of video is lost then it is worthless because it won't arrive within the correct time frame. Transmitting it again is a waste of bandwidth.
As you can see, HTTP would be an awful streaming media protocol.
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Ekapshi
I was bored, so just for the heck of it, I put 2 USB mice into my 2k box. Surprisingly, no crash, and the mice were "fighting" over the cursor, not 2 cursors.
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Ekapshi.
Name a single piece of microsoft software that is used voluntarily. You can't because there isn't any.
Age of Empires!
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Ekapshi
I don't think that Intel is trying to compete with FireWire by releasing USB2. I think Intel realises that USB2 and FireWire are complementary technologies.
ie. Do I want a FireWire keyboard? Do I want a FireWire camcorder on the same bus as my mouse?
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Ekapshi
RIAA: "We put the "git" in DiGITal Millenium Copyright Act".
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Ekapshi
Okay...who's CPUID is 666? I'll buy it off them.
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Ekapshi
>(.sig)>Stop anonymity now! Stop anonymity now? Sounds cool! Where do I sign up? - Ekapshi.
"I'm waiting for a Mobile Communications Device (MCD?) that combines the functionality of a cell phone, two way pager/email, minidisc/mp3 player, web browser, palm VII..."
Well, the only 2 gadgets I carry around are my phone and my Cassiopeia E-105. My Cassiopeia *is* my MP3 player, my web browser, my two way pager/email, and my PalmVII.
Now that Casio and Siemens are making a wireless version of the Cassiopeia...
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Ekapshi.
>You better watch out or
>he'll pop a cap in your ass
More like,
yo and yo bruddah's betta watch out cause Dr. Dre and his g's will pop yo mutha'fuckin white-ass...
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Ekapshi.
Does anybody actually know how NV ratings are measured? Is a NV20 chip twice as good as an NV10 chip? Is a NV10 chip 10 times as good as an NV1 chip? - Ekapshi.
Default passwords are always easier to remember. That's why I keep my root account passwd as "root" :-)
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Ekapshi.
>How do they get away with this disclaimer?
Errr...nobody actually reads the disclaimer ya know:-)
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Ekapshi
>Each card will render every other pixel of every >other scanline, thereby quadrupling the >effective frame rate. That is, only if you have >4 slots.
Errrr....you'd need to have a motherboard with 4 AGP slots right?
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Ekapshi.
The ATI don't compare to this!
http://www.ultimatechaos.com/ucfx/
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Ekapshi
>Look, they're cheaper, they're faster, and >they're cooler than PIII's. Why buy a >Pentium????
The Pentium3 enhances my internet experience!
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Ekapshi.
Casio is laying low until their deal with Siemens to produce a wireless Cassiopeia is finished.
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Ekapshi.
Hehehe... "You've got ActiveMcScientology!" - Ekapshi.
"AOL is doing us a favor, really, by getting so many people wired." Hmmm, I don't know about you, but I think I liked it better when the internet was less mainstream. - Ekapshi.
Yep, that's why I bought my Cassiopeia E-100. There was no point in my buying a Palm device *AND* a portable MP3 player.
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Ekapshi.