you'd be surprised what you can make work. i can run any game that doesn't blatantly reject my hardware on my P2-350 w/ a Rage 128.
They actually play semi-decent most of the time. Age of Mythology causes my neighbors Duron 800@833 w/ Ti4200 to creep occasionally, and even that holds a playable ~12 FPS on my machine
Next time you want to ask that question, remember: This is slashdot. We do things because we can. In this case, as some of the other replies have pointed out, there are some practical uses. One that hasn't been pointed out is building under cygwin to run under bochs. Just because you wouldn't do it doesn't mean someone else can't.
except that the PSp had been around for nearly 2 YEARS!
A portable playstation powered by rechargable lithium batteries well before Sony got any ideas...
It was called the Road Patriot. It consisted of a simple chassis carrying a engine similar to that of a model rocket, a few large capacitors, and some electrodes that would make contact with the vehicle and direct the charge from the capacitors in to the vehicle's electronics.
The cost was prohibitive and there was the problem of waiting for a straight lineup, as many police chases are very erratic and end up swerving around.
It's to send a clear message that they have violated the law and to not do it again. If the cost was much less, many of the larger telemarketing firms wouldn't bother to follow the law, because they could just pay the fine for the rare person who actually bothers to sue.
I think that $94 was too much for my 78 in a 55, but I sure as hell am not gonna speed again...
This is totally offtopic, but i had to respond to your statement
"and AOL needs to support Linux!"
Please tell me you are joking.
I have thought about this before (wasn't there a rumor that AOL was going to buy Red Hat or something like that?), and it wouldn't be good. It is true that AOL on Linux *could* bring more people over to Linux, but do you really want the average AOL user on Linux? I am not directly judging you for using AOL, as I use it myself (darn parents won't switch to a local ISP), but be reasonable....most AOL users are, to be nice, a little slow in technology.
I vary between which fingers I use on a mouse. I always use my index finger to left click (does anyone vary this?). On the two MS Wheel mice (mouses?) i have, I use my middle finger for the wheel and my third finger for the right button. On my Intellimouse Optical i frequently use my middle finger to right click and then move it over to use the wheel. I feel odd when using a mouse with no wheel, and I feel totally lost on one button mice (dammit apple there are NOTHING good about these!!!)
like i said..it's evolution. what works doesn't change frequently. i know religious people don't frequently understand evolution...we all believe that just one day *poof* life as we know it just appeared
I should point out that ethical "dilemmas" only come about in the presense of incomplete and inaccurate ethical models.....That being said, morals are absolutes. They are not open for interpretation or revision but because humans are fallen moral creatures
I strongly disagree with you. Morals are not absolute. Just like life, morals evolve. They adapt to fit the times. Human morals as a whole generally reflect how most people feel. For example, most people feel that murder is wrong, so it becomes morally wrong.
I respect your beliefs, but i grew tired of Christians a long time ago.
What if you are on a non-switched network, and you run a packet sniffer? While the data wasn't intended for you, it was publicly available to anyone attached to that network. This could also apply to any sort of wireless connection in public spectrum.
My personal opinion is that any data transmitted unencrypted on a system that you have legal access to is moral to capture, and any person transmitting on such mediums should have no expectation of privacy.
Notice that I did specifically say unencrypted data. If you have to actively "break" the system to access the data, then there is no moral backing, as the transmitter of the data expected privacy (i.e. VPNs, digital mobile phones, WiFi (don't laugh...most non-/.ers don't know WEP's weaknesses))
Safari/KHTML vs. Gecko/Mozilla is just like KDE vs. GNOME. It's a matter of personal preference based on what is important to the end user. Some will choose speed, others choose features, and still others choose standards compliance. The end result is the great thing about open-source projects: They will all eventually gain the features pioneered by the competing projects if the public shows enough of a demand to make it worth the developers time. Also, if you like feature a of x browser, but it doesn't have feature b, FIX IT!
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When reading this, did anyone else think of that Volkswagen commercial with the guy 'dancing' in his car to the tune of 'Mr. Roboto'
Turns out he wasn't caught up in the music, he was just trying to change the damn radio station...
you'd be surprised what you can make work. i can run any game that doesn't blatantly reject my hardware on my P2-350 w/ a Rage 128.
They actually play semi-decent most of the time. Age of Mythology causes my neighbors Duron 800@833 w/ Ti4200 to creep occasionally, and even that holds a playable ~12 FPS on my machine
Next time you want to ask that question, remember: This is slashdot. We do things because we can. In this case, as some of the other replies have pointed out, there are some practical uses. One that hasn't been pointed out is building under cygwin to run under bochs. Just because you wouldn't do it doesn't mean someone else can't.
except that the PSp had been around for nearly 2 YEARS! A portable playstation powered by rechargable lithium batteries well before Sony got any ideas...
uh....did you happen to have 2 post windows open at the same time and pick the wrong one? or is this an interesting new bug in /. ?
It was called the Road Patriot. It consisted of a simple chassis carrying a engine similar to that of a model rocket, a few large capacitors, and some electrodes that would make contact with the vehicle and direct the charge from the capacitors in to the vehicle's electronics.
The cost was prohibitive and there was the problem of waiting for a straight lineup, as many police chases are very erratic and end up swerving around.
It's to send a clear message that they have violated the law and to not do it again. If the cost was much less, many of the larger telemarketing firms wouldn't bother to follow the law, because they could just pay the fine for the rare person who actually bothers to sue.
I think that $94 was too much for my 78 in a 55, but I sure as hell am not gonna speed again...
This is totally offtopic, but i had to respond to your statement
"and AOL needs to support Linux!"
Please tell me you are joking.
I have thought about this before (wasn't there a rumor that AOL was going to buy Red Hat or something like that?), and it wouldn't be good. It is true that AOL on Linux *could* bring more people over to Linux, but do you really want the average AOL user on Linux? I am not directly judging you for using AOL, as I use it myself (darn parents won't switch to a local ISP), but be reasonable....most AOL users are, to be nice, a little slow in technology.
I vary between which fingers I use on a mouse. I always use my index finger to left click (does anyone vary this?). On the two MS Wheel mice (mouses?) i have, I use my middle finger for the wheel and my third finger for the right button. On my Intellimouse Optical i frequently use my middle finger to right click and then move it over to use the wheel. I feel odd when using a mouse with no wheel, and I feel totally lost on one button mice (dammit apple there are NOTHING good about these!!!)
like i said..it's evolution. what works doesn't change frequently. i know religious people don't frequently understand evolution...we all believe that just one day *poof* life as we know it just appeared
I should point out that ethical "dilemmas" only come about in the presense of incomplete and inaccurate ethical models.....That being said, morals are absolutes. They are not open for interpretation or revision but because humans are fallen moral creatures
I strongly disagree with you. Morals are not absolute. Just like life, morals evolve. They adapt to fit the times. Human morals as a whole generally reflect how most people feel. For example, most people feel that murder is wrong, so it becomes morally wrong.
I respect your beliefs, but i grew tired of Christians a long time ago.
What if you are on a non-switched network, and you run a packet sniffer? While the data wasn't intended for you, it was publicly available to anyone attached to that network. This could also apply to any sort of wireless connection in public spectrum.
My personal opinion is that any data transmitted unencrypted on a system that you have legal access to is moral to capture, and any person transmitting on such mediums should have no expectation of privacy.
Notice that I did specifically say unencrypted data. If you have to actively "break" the system to access the data, then there is no moral backing, as the transmitter of the data expected privacy (i.e. VPNs, digital mobile phones, WiFi (don't laugh...most non-/.ers don't know WEP's weaknesses))
Safari/KHTML vs. Gecko/Mozilla is just like KDE vs. GNOME. It's a matter of personal preference based on what is important to the end user. Some will choose speed, others choose features, and still others choose standards compliance. The end result is the great thing about open-source projects: They will all eventually gain the features pioneered by the competing projects if the public shows enough of a demand to make it worth the developers time. Also, if you like feature a of x browser, but it doesn't have feature b, FIX IT!
damn i love open source
might your computer automatically adjust fan speed? if it increases when processing, that sounds probable
Right about when a regular computer is capable of playing Xbox games.
But he changer the DVD drive, thus removing ability to play original xbox games (he still can play burned games)