That is what I did with my parents. I set up their xp pro machine with them as Limited users, and I am the only user allowed to log on as admin.
There computer has been hooked up to a Cable modem for two months now. So far, so good. Every once and awhile I get on their machine via remote desktop just to make sure they have the latest windows updates.
When I bought my last system, I could have bought two decient 17" CRT'S for the cost of 1 19" LCD display. So I am now sitting in front of two 17" CRT's and I have twice as much desktop space.
You think the wall paper is cool, try the screen saver. It starts with both screens running identical info, but after a while, each screen has different quotes and images. Very cool.
Oh come one, Europe has had its share of stinkers too. Back in 1992, by father and I rented a car in Frace that will forever stick in my mind as one of the worst cars I have ever had the misfortune of having to ride in. It was some kind of Citreon, but I could not tell you which one. I just remember the wool seats, with no AC, and it was July in southern France. It was uncomfortable and just plain bad.
I will admit, the US has had more than its fair share of stinkers, but in recient years, the quality of cars coming from US manurfacturers has risen dramaticly.
I found one inkjet printer that last. It is an HP Design Jet 600. True, it is a 36" wide plotter, but I have never seen a printer that had more metal parts on it in all my life. I picked it up used last year, and I use it to make plot plans for new construction projects (im a Civil).
When this printer dies, it will make a great boat anchor, or bomb casing.
You could try an old Copy machine tech trick. clean all of hte rollers, and the rubber stoppers with rubbing alcohol. Sometimes a film will build up on the surfaces that prevent the rubber from grabbing the paper.
On the flipside, the Mac already based on proven UNIX technology and security. The GUI is fully hardware accelerated. The core CPU line looks to be in a much better position for moving forward in performance (Intel has been very vocal about the power issues they're running into), and PowerPC's run cooler, which is getting to be an important issue
My impression is that Apple hardware is more stable becauset they have maintained more control over the hardware. My first computer was a Mac 512, way back in the 80's. That computer never crashed.
However, they are still lacking one thing, Applications. I am a Civl Engineer by trade, and just about every piece of software I use is made for windows. It is the old chicken and the egg situation, If they sold more Apples, you will get more applications, you won't sell more Apples until you have more application.
You know what the weather is going to be? Look for some extreme shit, like flooding and more earthquakes, huge temperature swings and drought, coastline erosion, and crazy shit like that. Watch out for thunderstorms and hurricanes in future decades. Things are getting VERY interesting......
Weather is VERY important, and I support this new research as much as anything else out there. And I KNOW what I'm talking about, though I do mostly database research these days and not math-based geometric modeling of weather patterns.
Gee, you know what you are talking about, NEWSFLASH earthquakes are not weather.
Your credibility went down the tubes at that point.
I just know Christmas day, or the day after, I will get a call from at least 3 relitives who got something 'cool' for their PC for christmas, and they are going to want some free 'tech support' from me.
This is why some geeks truly do cringe when they hear a phone ring on Christmas day.
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I am using the ATI card with Windows XP. One of the issues has been using the ATI card with a VIA chipset motherboard. I believe there are some stability issues with the VIA chipset.
I have a Kenwood Here2Anywhere reciever, with a home reciever cradle in my living room, and a reciever cradle in both of my vehicles. One think I must say is that the stock setup for the vehicles SUCK! They come with a tape deck adapter, and my unit bearly puts out enough power to the tape deck that you have to turn the volume all the way up to hear the audio.
In my other vehicle, I didn't have a tape deck, so I bought a $45 FM modulator that you have splice into the antenna. This systme works much better, and sound quality is excelent.
If you are thinking of purchasing any of the protable units, make sure you have an auxilary audio-in on your car sterio system. If not, don't use the dinky tape deck setup, spring for a FM modulator.
The Kenwood FM modulator I purchased uses RCA cables for the audio in. So if you mount an RCA plug set up on your dash, you could use it for not only your satilite system, but you could plug in a CD player, or any other audio device that has an RCA out.
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I reciently bought a ATI AIW 9600 pro card, and It is one of the biggest computer let downs I have ever seen. The drivers were crap, and it took me the better part of two weeks to get all of the 'features' on the card to work.
Maybe now, with more competition in this segment of the market, the card makers will start putting out a good final product, and not make the buyers be the the BETA testers!
I watched the orginal as a kid, I remember thinking it was ok. I knew some of the backstory coming into the new BG, but if you had never seen the old BG, at least you wern't lost.
As with any Sci-Fi series, this one will live or die of it's writing. I got the feeling that the writers of the mini-series held no punches when it came to the brutality of the cylon attack on the colonies, and the desisions that had to be made by the humans. Two scenes that realy stood out in my mind were the drawing of numbers for the refugees to get on the scout ship, and the radio chatter when the president ordered the FTL ships to jump immediatly after the cylons discovered the civilian fleet.
Should this be a series? If you can get the same actors to commit to the series, and most importantly, some good writers, then Yes, I think you could make a series out of it.
The Mini-series set the bar pretty high. I will be interested in seeing if they do pick it up, and if they can keep the same quality as they presented in the mini series.
I have been playing FPS since I was just a wee teen, and for some reason, I have a life*, and I have not gone out and wiped out the block with my shot gun.
This is bull hockey, games dont cause violence, bad parenting causes violence. My kid won't be allowed near a FPS until he can kick my ass at Netrek.
* ok, i read slashdot, so maybe I don't have much of a life.
I think it is going to be hard to sell 10,000 units of a 25 year old video game. There may still be a bit of a market in Japan, but the coin-op market in the US is pretty much dead.
About the only place left in the US that video games still make a buck are family entertainment centers (FEC). In recient years, the trend in FECs has been toward simulators and games with LARGE screens. back in the 80's a 15" screen was the standard. Now-a-days, most cabinets have at least a 22" monitor.
The sad part of this is that pinball machines got nixed in the process. Midway shutdown there operation in 1999, and the only company realy pouring money into it these days is Sega.
If it weren't for MAME and Visual Pinball, a lot of the old games would be forever lost, or locked away in some companies code vault.
I feel sorry for anyone who actualy gives out there real personal information to websites. Unless it is someone I expect be dealing with on a financial level, I fake my real name, address, and back-up email address.
However, over the years, I am sure that 'smith@aol.com' is getting tired of getting spam intended for me.
As the article states, most cities and counties use the Opticon system by 3M. This system has two components, an encoded flash reciever, and a radio reciever. In order to pre-empt the light, you had to have a valid encoded flasher, and the encoded radio signal. There is no nation-wide standard for the pre-emting devices, so each locality sets up its own code. Good luck trying to us one of these black boxes to trip signals, it won't work 99.99% of the time.
I worked on the traffic signal system in a central california town, and we had 3 different codes: 1 for fire/police, 1 for ambulances, and one for maintenance work. Each time a signal was pre-empted, it was logged at the signal control center downtown. I worked with a guy who had a maintenance encoded flasher on his truck. It was kinda fun cruising through town, never hitting a green, but we didn't do it very often.
I think the black boxes they are selling are just for people dumb enough to think they work.
It is a little known fact that the 48gx makes an excellent platform for Data Collecting, and doing field calcs for land surveying. When you are out in the field, the 48gx can be easily placed in a water proof case, and used to send, recieve, and store data from a surveyor's total Station. The battery life is suppior to PDAs, and weather resistant PDAs are pretty pricy.
One a side note, It is pretty hard to crash a 48gx. I shutter to think about using a windows CE PDA, only to loose 8 hours of work to a tiny blue screen of death.
There are a couple of good software packages out that support the 48gx, and most cost way more than the calculator.
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Oh god, please don't make me go start up netrek again! Modem Joe must STAY retired.
I want to know the Coconut Transfer rate of a Swallow.
And to make this reference complete....
both African and European Swollows!
That is what I did with my parents. I set up their xp pro machine with them as Limited users, and I am the only user allowed to log on as admin.
There computer has been hooked up to a Cable modem for two months now. So far, so good. Every once and awhile I get on their machine via remote desktop just to make sure they have the latest windows updates.
Ouch. That was so bad it hurts.
When I bought my last system, I could have bought two decient 17" CRT'S for the cost of 1 19" LCD display. So I am now sitting in front of two 17" CRT's and I have twice as much desktop space.
Oh happy me!
Eggad, not one of those phony people who have to remind you at least once an hour that they don't own a TV.
Go annoy someone else.
You think the wall paper is cool, try the screen saver. It starts with both screens running identical info, but after a while, each screen has different quotes and images. Very cool.
Oh come one, Europe has had its share of stinkers too. Back in 1992, by father and I rented a car in Frace that will forever stick in my mind as one of the worst cars I have ever had the misfortune of having to ride in. It was some kind of Citreon, but I could not tell you which one. I just remember the wool seats, with no AC, and it was July in southern France. It was uncomfortable and just plain bad.
I will admit, the US has had more than its fair share of stinkers, but in recient years, the quality of cars coming from US manurfacturers has risen dramaticly.
I found one inkjet printer that last. It is an HP Design Jet 600. True, it is a 36" wide plotter, but I have never seen a printer that had more metal parts on it in all my life. I picked it up used last year, and I use it to make plot plans for new construction projects (im a Civil).
When this printer dies, it will make a great boat anchor, or bomb casing.
You could try an old Copy machine tech trick. clean all of hte rollers, and the rubber stoppers with rubbing alcohol. Sometimes a film will build up on the surfaces that prevent the rubber from grabbing the paper.
My impression is that Apple hardware is more stable becauset they have maintained more control over the hardware. My first computer was a Mac 512, way back in the 80's. That computer never crashed.
However, they are still lacking one thing, Applications. I am a Civl Engineer by trade, and just about every piece of software I use is made for windows. It is the old chicken and the egg situation, If they sold more Apples, you will get more applications, you won't sell more Apples until you have more application.
Gee, you know what you are talking about, NEWSFLASH earthquakes are not weather. Your credibility went down the tubes at that point.
I just know Christmas day, or the day after, I will get a call from at least 3 relitives who got something 'cool' for their PC for christmas, and they are going to want some free 'tech support' from me.
This is why some geeks truly do cringe when they hear a phone ring on Christmas day.
I am using the ATI card with Windows XP. One of the issues has been using the ATI card with a VIA chipset motherboard. I believe there are some stability issues with the VIA chipset.
I have a Kenwood Here2Anywhere reciever, with a home reciever cradle in my living room, and a reciever cradle in both of my vehicles. One think I must say is that the stock setup for the vehicles SUCK! They come with a tape deck adapter, and my unit bearly puts out enough power to the tape deck that you have to turn the volume all the way up to hear the audio. In my other vehicle, I didn't have a tape deck, so I bought a $45 FM modulator that you have splice into the antenna. This systme works much better, and sound quality is excelent. If you are thinking of purchasing any of the protable units, make sure you have an auxilary audio-in on your car sterio system. If not, don't use the dinky tape deck setup, spring for a FM modulator. The Kenwood FM modulator I purchased uses RCA cables for the audio in. So if you mount an RCA plug set up on your dash, you could use it for not only your satilite system, but you could plug in a CD player, or any other audio device that has an RCA out.
I reciently bought a ATI AIW 9600 pro card, and It is one of the biggest computer let downs I have ever seen. The drivers were crap, and it took me the better part of two weeks to get all of the 'features' on the card to work.
Maybe now, with more competition in this segment of the market, the card makers will start putting out a good final product, and not make the buyers be the the BETA testers!
I think Robotech letdown is pretty common. I saw the orignal series on DVD last year, and just had to pick it up.
I can't believe I used to watch that stuff!
I watched the orginal as a kid, I remember thinking it was ok. I knew some of the backstory coming into the new BG, but if you had never seen the old BG, at least you wern't lost.
As with any Sci-Fi series, this one will live or die of it's writing. I got the feeling that the writers of the mini-series held no punches when it came to the brutality of the cylon attack on the colonies, and the desisions that had to be made by the humans. Two scenes that realy stood out in my mind were the drawing of numbers for the refugees to get on the scout ship, and the radio chatter when the president ordered the FTL ships to jump immediatly after the cylons discovered the civilian fleet.
Should this be a series? If you can get the same actors to commit to the series, and most importantly, some good writers, then Yes, I think you could make a series out of it.
The Mini-series set the bar pretty high. I will be interested in seeing if they do pick it up, and if they can keep the same quality as they presented in the mini series.
I have been playing FPS since I was just a wee teen, and for some reason, I have a life*, and I have not gone out and wiped out the block with my shot gun.
This is bull hockey, games dont cause violence, bad parenting causes violence. My kid won't be allowed near a FPS until he can kick my ass at Netrek.
* ok, i read slashdot, so maybe I don't have much of a life.
You are correct, It was Williams. My memory must be slipping in my old age....
I think it is going to be hard to sell 10,000 units of a 25 year old video game. There may still be a bit of a market in Japan, but the coin-op market in the US is pretty much dead.
About the only place left in the US that video games still make a buck are family entertainment centers (FEC). In recient years, the trend in FECs has been toward simulators and games with LARGE screens. back in the 80's a 15" screen was the standard. Now-a-days, most cabinets have at least a 22" monitor.
The sad part of this is that pinball machines got nixed in the process. Midway shutdown there operation in 1999, and the only company realy pouring money into it these days is Sega.
If it weren't for MAME and Visual Pinball, a lot of the old games would be forever lost, or locked away in some companies code vault.
I feel sorry for anyone who actualy gives out there real personal information to websites. Unless it is someone I expect be dealing with on a financial level, I fake my real name, address, and back-up email address.
However, over the years, I am sure that 'smith@aol.com' is getting tired of getting spam intended for me.
As the article states, most cities and counties use the Opticon system by 3M. This system has two components, an encoded flash reciever, and a radio reciever. In order to pre-empt the light, you had to have a valid encoded flasher, and the encoded radio signal. There is no nation-wide standard for the pre-emting devices, so each locality sets up its own code. Good luck trying to us one of these black boxes to trip signals, it won't work 99.99% of the time.
I worked on the traffic signal system in a central california town, and we had 3 different codes: 1 for fire/police, 1 for ambulances, and one for maintenance work. Each time a signal was pre-empted, it was logged at the signal control center downtown. I worked with a guy who had a maintenance encoded flasher on his truck. It was kinda fun cruising through town, never hitting a green, but we didn't do it very often.
I think the black boxes they are selling are just for people dumb enough to think they work.
The 48gx is very widely used as a platform for data collecting for land surveyors. PDA's are not nearly as effective for this function.
--C. Alan
It is a little known fact that the 48gx makes an excellent platform for Data Collecting, and doing field calcs for land surveying. When you are out in the field, the 48gx can be easily placed in a water proof case, and used to send, recieve, and store data from a surveyor's total Station. The battery life is suppior to PDAs, and weather resistant PDAs are pretty pricy.
One a side note, It is pretty hard to crash a 48gx. I shutter to think about using a windows CE PDA, only to loose 8 hours of work to a tiny blue screen of death.
There are a couple of good software packages out that support the 48gx, and most cost way more than the calculator.
--C. Alan