I first heard this story about 10 years ago. Proof of concept kinda thing that you no longer need a phone in your pocket. This story actually lends more to us. In the future (our future because we aren't M$, Intel, AMD) we not only are freed from a "phone in the pocket" but we can also "receive faxes on the go".
Please keep in mind, "cellular phones" were not common back then. Instead, wireless communications was considered "sacred" and thus termed "emergency communication system".
With no further ado, the story!
Meeting Bill
Gates (CEO of Microsoft), Andy Grove(CEO of Intel) and Jerry Sanders (CEO of AMD) were in a high-powered business meeting. During the serious, tense discussions, a beeping noise suddenly is emitted from where Bill is sitting.
Bill says, "Oh, that's my emergency beeper. Gentlemen, excuse me, I really need to take this call." So Bill lifts his wristwatch to his ear and begins talking into the end of his tie. After completing this call, he notices the others are staring at him.
Bill explains, "Oh, this is my new emergency communication system. I have an earpiece built into my watch and a microphone sewn into the end of my tie. That way, I can a take a call anywhere."
The others nod, and the meeting continues. Five minutes later, the discussion is again interrupted when Andy starts beeping. He also states, "Oh, that is my emergency beeper. Excuse me, gentlemen, this must be an important call." So Andy taps his earlobe and begins talking into thin air.
When he completes his call, he notices the others staring at him and explains, "I also have an emergency communication system. But my earpiece is actually implanted in my earlobe, and the microphone is actually embedded in this fake tooth. Isn't that neat?"
The others nod, and the meeting continues.
Five minutes later, the discussion is again interrupted when Jerry emits a thunderous fart. He looks up at the others staring at him and says, "Uhh, somebody get me a piece of paper... I'm receiving a fax."
i dunno, its what i heard through the corporate grapevine. don't install xp2. so i haven't done so yet. Do I want to try sp2 and find out what chaos it actually causes? no.
Well, the American press (other than tabloids) might self censor themselves against something this...for now. Wait till the evidence builds up. For now, write this off as a sensation story. Call me when something like BBC runs this story.
But the problem is that it is "temporary housing".
It's not going to last 30 years. But then, forking over 5k each year for a new house might be better than renting an apartment some POS 30 year old complex for 1050 a month.
Autopatcher sounds neat. I'll try it out next time I do a format again.
As for NAT, the basic theory is multiple internal private addresses, single public address. If a packet (attack) comes to the public address, the router doesn't know how to foward it to the approiate private address. Thus, the packet gets dumped and attack not successful.
Think of it this way. If you can get the DS to load a packet sniffer to working in the background. Have a kid playing games in a public place. nobody would suspect anything.
I used to work on hardware that had PPC procs in it...and I was the one that had to do the writeup whehn the hardware failed. Based on that expierence, Intel procs are more reliable.
dunno what board. My problem is with the charging. also, my headphone jack is jacked up. dell tech support said call back later when its bla bla bla bla bla.
i hate dell tech support. always blaming the latest spyware/virus for the 1+ hour waittime. so thats why i've put it off calling them for the past 3 months.
I have a work laptop that works just fine. i just leave my insp plugged in all day, and take my work laptop with me when i go out.
I, Forest Grump posess in my ownership a Pentium 3, 1.0 GHZ Tulian chip. It is housed in a Dell Inspiron 8100. I have used this lap of a top for 2 and one half years.
In that time, the DVD has died, 2 HDD have died, 2 batteries have died, 1 wlan nic has died, 1 display hindge has died, and the faithful keyboard that I was once using had died. The motherboard, although not dead, needs to be replaced (and soon because my warranty runs out in 6 months).
I can however, attest, that the cpu is in it's original condition is currenetly running at 0.73 ghz, and shows no sign of death...yet.
I have a friend who bought HL2. Was over at his place last friday night watching the gameplay. He has a 2.2 gig ath, radeon 9700 i think.
Anyway, all details turned up. The studder he expeirneces is right before alot of enemies pop up. he actually likes the studder because it gives a quick warning of what's to come.
5252 is right. Torque is instantenous force. Torque is what makes you accelerate. Horsepower is a measurement of how much work an engine can do at a particular RPM.
When looking at car brochures/magazines, the hp/torque numbers quoted are maximum.
Ok, so lets put torque and HP into perspective and what each means to you, the driver.
Put these two cars side by side. 2003 Volkswagen Jetta with a 1.9 liter turbocharged diesel makes about 100 hp@ 5000 rpm, but 150 ftlb of torque at 1500 rpm. 2003 Mazda 6 with a 2.3 liter naturally aspirated gas engine makes about 160 hp@ 6000 rpm and 150 ftlb of troque at 3800 rpm.
Both cars weigh about 3000 pounds, give or take a few hundred. They both make make about the same amout of torque but the mazda makes 60 more hp than the VW.
Because the VW has the torque at 1500 rpm, its going to leave the mazda at the stoplight. However, once the mazda gets rolling, it is going to reach 60 mph faster than the VW would. Why? Because the mazda has more HP.
Note: numbers are approximate, i'm recaling from memory.
So what should you buy? Depends what you like. A diesel engine gives wonderful torque on the "low end" and thus gives alot of city drivablity and allows you to go up hills in a higher gear (for lazy manual tranny drivers who don't want to shift). Gas engines however are designed to produce torque in the midband and horsepower on the high end. If you like tearing up hills or want fast 0-60 times, go for gas.
In summary. Torque gives you acceleration, horsepower determines your 0-60 time.
Note: This is a very general explaination. As the previous poster mentioned gearing. Gearing is a way to multiply engine output to allow for maximum driveablity and mileage.
I understand the switching thing, but it gets very annoying.
Ok, this is a scenario that happens alot. I'm on campus and I have a little time to kill. I fire up Aol IM and Pocket IE (PIE).
Let me establish that I try to have as much free ram as I can. I have 2 256 SD cards. 1 for Multimedia (mp3, videos) and the other for "Everything else". AIM is installed to the "built-in storage".
So I'm surfing along doing my thing when AIM randomly pops up with "do you want to sign off?" diaglog box. NO! If i wanted ot sign off I would. But too late. It had swtiched to AIM and PIE is closed. Well, I Just lost my place in internet land.
It is half assed multi-tasking like that which pisses me off. I like the idea over Palm where you can run multiple things at once, but if AIM/PIE randomly die becasuse Windows says "out of ram!" That doesn't fly with me.
Then it was a palm V with 2 meg. Wow, 2 meg was ALOT.
Then this summer i got an axim x5 basic. When buying it I thought, gee 32 meg. I'm moving from a 2 meg Palm V...what the heak am I going to do with 32 meg?
So when I first start playing with it, the multi tasking thing got me confused. I was used to one program at a time. Ok, so I figured that multi-task thing out. But to add insult to injury, it would RANDOMLY CLOSE running programs.
Now I know 32 meg of ram is NOT ENOUGH. Geez, I never realized how different the Palm and Windows Mobile architectures are.
But after reading this, I'm glad I went with Microsoft. (yes, I'm glad I went with M$ in this case)
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I first heard this story about 10 years ago. Proof of concept kinda thing that you no longer need a phone in your pocket. This story actually lends more to us. In the future (our future because we aren't M$, Intel, AMD) we not only are freed from a "phone in the pocket" but we can also "receive faxes on the go".
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Please keep in mind, "cellular phones" were not common back then. Instead, wireless communications was considered "sacred" and thus termed "emergency communication system".
With no further ado, the story!
Meeting Bill
Gates (CEO of Microsoft), Andy Grove(CEO of Intel) and Jerry Sanders (CEO of AMD) were in a high-powered business meeting. During the serious, tense discussions, a beeping noise suddenly is emitted from where Bill is sitting.
Bill says, "Oh, that's my emergency beeper. Gentlemen, excuse me, I really need to take this call." So Bill lifts his wristwatch to his ear and begins talking into the end of his tie. After completing this call, he notices the others are staring at him.
Bill explains, "Oh, this is my new emergency communication system. I have an earpiece built into my watch and a microphone sewn into the end of my tie. That way, I can a take a call anywhere."
The others nod, and the meeting continues. Five minutes later, the discussion is again interrupted when Andy starts beeping. He also states, "Oh, that is my emergency beeper. Excuse me, gentlemen, this must be an important call." So Andy taps his earlobe and begins talking into thin air.
When he completes his call, he notices the others staring at him and explains, "I also have an emergency communication system. But my earpiece is actually implanted in my earlobe, and the microphone is actually embedded in this fake tooth. Isn't that neat?"
The others nod, and the meeting continues.
Five minutes later, the discussion is again interrupted when Jerry emits a thunderous fart. He looks up at the others staring at him and says, "Uhh, somebody get me a piece of paper... I'm receiving a fax."
just googled and found this. a few more jokes too!
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i dunno, its what i heard through the corporate grapevine. don't install xp2. so i haven't done so yet. Do I want to try sp2 and find out what chaos it actually causes? no.
2k3 server will be like w2k, but is locked down by default- giving you a more secure install than a straight w2k.
Not that I would know anything though, I run XP Pro at work (with sp1 b/c sp2 breaks excel) and xp home with sp2 at home.
Grump.
Well, the American press (other than tabloids) might self censor themselves against something this...for now. Wait till the evidence builds up. For now, write this off as a sensation story. Call me when something like BBC runs this story.
agreed. when microsoft screwed over their xbox live members, they gave them free games. bargain bin games too.
Hey there sexy...mind telling me your ASL? ... ... ...
oh sorry, your male too!?!?!?!? damnit slashdot!
But the problem is that it is "temporary housing".
It's not going to last 30 years. But then, forking over 5k each year for a new house might be better than renting an apartment some POS 30 year old complex for 1050 a month.
Atleast you heard one.
A year ago, a friend gave me a 3 doors down DVD-A disc for my birthday.
Honestly, I've never heard it in its full potential because I lack such equipment.
Consider yourself lucky to have *even heard DVD-A*
Grump
riight, thats not a google cache. it goes to scat.dk
dont bother clicking.
Autopatcher sounds neat. I'll try it out next time I do a format again.
As for NAT, the basic theory is multiple internal private addresses, single public address. If a packet (attack) comes to the public address, the router doesn't know how to foward it to the approiate private address. Thus, the packet gets dumped and attack not successful.
but its a religous household...
God won't like the pron.
reasonable price too.
Too bad there is no service on the west coast (I work for motorola...oh well, atleast I got a discounted voice phone plan.)
Or the game system would be banned alltogehter.
Think of it this way. If you can get the DS to load a packet sniffer to working in the background. Have a kid playing games in a public place. nobody would suspect anything.
Hold a sec! I'll call you back on my CINGULAR phone!
I used to work on hardware that had PPC procs in it...and I was the one that had to do the writeup whehn the hardware failed. Based on that expierence, Intel procs are more reliable.
oh yea, i just remembered.
At work, we bought a bunch of machiens once. 1.8 gig p4, intel mobo, some generic ati radeon.
I tried to get the corp image onto it, the process failed about half through. So what to do...lets try updating the bios!
And bam! the bios update caused it to not boot. Revert back to the old bios with the floppy/jumper rescue method.
Just goes to show that intel boards aren't 100%, but overall, i'd spring for an intel board if i was to build my own comp.
dunno what board. My problem is with the charging. also, my headphone jack is jacked up. dell tech support said call back later when its bla bla bla bla bla.
i hate dell tech support. always blaming the latest spyware/virus for the 1+ hour waittime. so thats why i've put it off calling them for the past 3 months.
I have a work laptop that works just fine. i just leave my insp plugged in all day, and take my work laptop with me when i go out.
single core on a single die?
Wha ha ha ha ha that's HT for you.
Did I mention that your Compy sees 2 cores for the price of one? What a bargain!
(its meant to be funny)
you have a gap in your logic. let me help you.
I, Forest Grump posess in my ownership a Pentium 3, 1.0 GHZ Tulian chip. It is housed in a Dell Inspiron 8100. I have used this lap of a top for 2 and one half years.
In that time, the DVD has died, 2 HDD have died, 2 batteries have died, 1 wlan nic has died, 1 display hindge has died, and the faithful keyboard that I was once using had died. The motherboard, although not dead, needs to be replaced (and soon because my warranty runs out in 6 months).
I can however, attest, that the cpu is in it's original condition is currenetly running at 0.73 ghz, and shows no sign of death...yet.
Grump
I have a friend who bought HL2.
Was over at his place last friday night watching the gameplay. He has a 2.2 gig ath, radeon 9700 i think.
Anyway, all details turned up. The studder he expeirneces is right before alot of enemies pop up. he actually likes the studder because it gives a quick warning of what's to come.
humm, don't know about lag there. I've driven both and I feel that the mazda has more lag because of the electronic throttle.
Probably it is that the lag is more noticeable due to the lack of low end torque.
5252 is right.
Torque is instantenous force. Torque is what makes you accelerate.
Horsepower is a measurement of how much work an engine can do at a particular RPM.
When looking at car brochures/magazines, the hp/torque numbers quoted are maximum.
Ok, so lets put torque and HP into perspective and what each means to you, the driver.
Put these two cars side by side.
2003 Volkswagen Jetta with a 1.9 liter turbocharged diesel makes about 100 hp@ 5000 rpm, but 150 ftlb of torque at 1500 rpm.
2003 Mazda 6 with a 2.3 liter naturally aspirated gas engine makes about 160 hp@ 6000 rpm and 150 ftlb of troque at 3800 rpm.
Both cars weigh about 3000 pounds, give or take a few hundred. They both make make about the same amout of torque but the mazda makes 60 more hp than the VW.
Because the VW has the torque at 1500 rpm, its going to leave the mazda at the stoplight. However, once the mazda gets rolling, it is going to reach 60 mph faster than the VW would. Why? Because the mazda has more HP.
Note: numbers are approximate, i'm recaling from memory.
So what should you buy? Depends what you like. A diesel engine gives wonderful torque on the "low end" and thus gives alot of city drivablity and allows you to go up hills in a higher gear (for lazy manual tranny drivers who don't want to shift). Gas engines however are designed to produce torque in the midband and horsepower on the high end. If you like tearing up hills or want fast 0-60 times, go for gas.
In summary. Torque gives you acceleration, horsepower determines your 0-60 time.
Note: This is a very general explaination. As the previous poster mentioned gearing. Gearing is a way to multiply engine output to allow for maximum driveablity and mileage.
correction. Torque in a combustion engine (in cars) is typically in the middle. somewhere between 2000 and 5000 rpm.
Horsepower is on the high end.
I understand the switching thing, but it gets very annoying.
Ok, this is a scenario that happens alot. I'm on campus and I have a little time to kill. I fire up Aol IM and Pocket IE (PIE).
Let me establish that I try to have as much free ram as I can. I have 2 256 SD cards. 1 for Multimedia (mp3, videos) and the other for "Everything else". AIM is installed to the "built-in storage".
So I'm surfing along doing my thing when AIM randomly pops up with "do you want to sign off?" diaglog box. NO! If i wanted ot sign off I would. But too late. It had swtiched to AIM and PIE is closed. Well, I Just lost my place in internet land.
It is half assed multi-tasking like that which pisses me off. I like the idea over Palm where you can run multiple things at once, but if AIM/PIE randomly die becasuse Windows says "out of ram!" That doesn't fly with me.
i agree with you.
I started off with a pilot 1000 with 128k of ram.
Then it was a palm V with 2 meg. Wow, 2 meg was ALOT.
Then this summer i got an axim x5 basic. When buying it I thought, gee 32 meg. I'm moving from a 2 meg Palm V...what the heak am I going to do with 32 meg?
So when I first start playing with it, the multi tasking thing got me confused. I was used to one program at a time. Ok, so I figured that multi-task thing out. But to add insult to injury, it would RANDOMLY CLOSE running programs.
Now I know 32 meg of ram is NOT ENOUGH. Geez, I never realized how different the Palm and Windows Mobile architectures are.
But after reading this, I'm glad I went with Microsoft. (yes, I'm glad I went with M$ in this case)
Grump