You don't have to run Google Compute to fold, even if you want to fold for Google...
If you want to fold for team Google, install the Folding@home client from http://folding.stanford.edu/, and set your team to 446.
Why you'd want to do that, though, is beyond me. Fold for team 2630, instead - that way, you actually get to fold for a real team (The Tech Report). While you're at it, fold for the subteam (basically, a shared username) "dont_ya_mean_type" (without the quotes).
There's also some page info stuff (possible to emulate with Bookmarklets, but not easy), the PageRank (only the One True Googlebar can do that), and text highlighting (a royal pain with bookmarklets, but the open source toolbar could do that. Besides, Firefox and Opera have inline search, making it unnecessary).
There IS a Computrace Agent BIOS edition, but that is only available on laptops that offer it as part of the BIOS, of course (IBM's i915-based laptops have it as an option, FWIW).
I knew about that, but I was providing examples of chips specifically made for the budget line. The 486SX was a broken 486DX. The Mendocino Celeron was NOT a broken Pentium II.
I'll just stick with IR, and the Nokia stuff - that way, I don't have to pay ANYTHING (except to get an IR dongle for this laptop - I have to use one of the Dells at my college's library to use IR for now).
Well, I don't have the Vision (TCP/IP) package, so it costs $0.01 per kilobyte transferred... And it's hard to see how big things are in a little WAP browser...
I DO know that Verizon will unlock (read: allow the phone to work on a non-Verizon network) their phones.
Now, for some ugly Sprint shenanigans - they don't allow non-Sprint (read: Verizon-unlocked, or Alltel (which come unlocked, from what I've heard)) phones on their network. That said, I'm happy with my phone from Sprint (a Nokia 6225).
True - I guess I forgot about the phone repair aspect, and another one: the phone identification in multiple phone of the same model households aspect, which I've actually experienced... (phone backgrounds and stickers got me out of that one without buying a faceplate, though)
As for wallpaper, it's not bad if you've got a data cable (or built-in IR (like I've got) or Bluetooth), because it's free (unless the bastards at your phone company disabled it. Shenanigans like that are why I won't look at Verizon (even though EVERYONE I know is either on it, or planning to go on it, and won't be stopped, so I can only call them on THEIR nights & weekends for it to be free for both). I'm on Sprint, FWIW.)
As for ringtones, I use a stock tone (not a ring, though). You see, it's for phone identification. I wouldn't EVER pay money for a tone. However, I'll never use the default tone, or a ring - that's what causes everyone to check their phones.
Intel and AMD actually did that in the Celeron Mendocino and the Duron pre-Applebred days - the Mendocino and Morgan cores were actually developed specifically for the budget chips.
Intel had tried to use a regular P2 missing the (external) cache, made on the same production line, for the Celeron (Covington), but that was a real dog. Now, of course, they use the broken Pentium (3/4/M) cores to make a Celeron (D in the case of some P4s, M in the case of P-Ms).
3.141592654. That's how much I remember, because when I'm doing a calculation with Pi, I'm probably using a calculator, which only goes to 3.141592654 (but, I've memorized that.)
FWIW, I'd like to somehow get that as a phone number - "find a calculator, and press the Pi key - it'll give you my phone number"... Unfortunately, Google's definition of Pi is only 3.14159265...
You'd have more trouble getting the Selectmen to approve that.
*Nice* lakefront property (boosts land value, and therefore, taxes) plus a museum (might boost land value, brings in tourists (which brings money into the city), and is "socially responsible" (whatever the hell that means;-)) would be a good idea, and easy to pitch.
This hotel, FWIW, is going on the museum idea, and also puts in a place to PUT the tourists.
At least put something similar to the history exhibits there - don't JUST put in houses. Split it into a museum and a housing development, with the housing development having the lake access?
No, when analog broadcast goes dark, I am not going to have a TV whatsoever. I'm going to use the laptop for watching DVDs and playing games. I don't use a game console anyway, so there's no need for a TV for that.
I'm about FIFTY miles from the transmitter. Besides, I don't care to watch the channel anyway - 50% of the time, it's religious crap ("Be a good Christian and donate to us!"), and the other 50% of the time, it's "family oriented" crap.
I do remember that one day they came and asked, "Are you using the cable TV?"
We said no, because we weren't. They installed a TV filter.
FWIW, I'm with Time Warner. Because my ISP is Earthlink (by far the best TOS of my choices - the other choices were noname ISPs, RoadRunner, and AOL for Broadband. All of them had DREADFUL TOSes (well, I didn't check AOL)), I wouldn't have gotten any discounts for having cable TV.
On TW, there's no discount to go with Earthlink cable plus basic cable. There ARE discounts to go with RoadRunner plus basic cable, but the RoadRunner TOS is a piece of shit not worth the bits sent down my DSL connection when I was researching which cable ISP to go with.
So, I'm now on Earthlink cable for $41.95/mo (actually, we convinced them to give it to us for $29.95/mo for 6 months, because of RoadRunner running a similar promotion RIGHT after we signed up, IIRC)...
You know, I've heard that there's a WB/UPN combo channel where I live, and my friends (with cable) have seen it, but I don't believe it - I've never picked it up;-)
There's also a PAX channel that could be picked up near where I used to live, but I'm way too far away to pick it up now (my school, OTOH, is a mile down the road from their transmitter)...
Well, I can watch Fox on the OLD TV outside, by holding the rusty baling wire that serves as an antenna at EXACTLY the right angle.
The TV inside doesn't even see a channel there - it just shows static. It's even got one of those fancy $20 antennas that's supposed to get better reception.
However, do I REALLY want to watch Fox?
On both TVs, it's often hard to read text on NBC - it has to be in BIG LETTERING to be at all readable (so sports statistics are impossible to read). As for CBS, I USUALLY get near-cable quality.
I'm in an interesting situation. I've got cable Internet access, but no cable TV - can't afford it, and don't see the need for it.
I can pick up NBC, ABC (sorta), CBS, and PBS (kinda) with my antenna. Between NBC and CBS, I've got enough to watch (yes, I watch the lame shows.)
However, when analog broadcast goes dark, I'm simply not going to HAVE a TV. I've got cable Internet - if I want to watch a certain show, I can run BitTorrent.
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You don't have to run Google Compute to fold, even if you want to fold for Google...
If you want to fold for team Google, install the Folding@home client from http://folding.stanford.edu/, and set your team to 446.
Why you'd want to do that, though, is beyond me. Fold for team 2630, instead - that way, you actually get to fold for a real team (The Tech Report). While you're at it, fold for the subteam (basically, a shared username) "dont_ya_mean_type" (without the quotes).
There's also some page info stuff (possible to emulate with Bookmarklets, but not easy), the PageRank (only the One True Googlebar can do that), and text highlighting (a royal pain with bookmarklets, but the open source toolbar could do that. Besides, Firefox and Opera have inline search, making it unnecessary).
There IS a Computrace Agent BIOS edition, but that is only available on laptops that offer it as part of the BIOS, of course (IBM's i915-based laptops have it as an option, FWIW).
I knew about that, but I was providing examples of chips specifically made for the budget line. The 486SX was a broken 486DX. The Mendocino Celeron was NOT a broken Pentium II.
I'll just stick with IR, and the Nokia stuff - that way, I don't have to pay ANYTHING (except to get an IR dongle for this laptop - I have to use one of the Dells at my college's library to use IR for now).
However, that is a nice idea, your site...
Well, I don't have the Vision (TCP/IP) package, so it costs $0.01 per kilobyte transferred... And it's hard to see how big things are in a little WAP browser...
I DO know that Verizon will unlock (read: allow the phone to work on a non-Verizon network) their phones.
Now, for some ugly Sprint shenanigans - they don't allow non-Sprint (read: Verizon-unlocked, or Alltel (which come unlocked, from what I've heard)) phones on their network. That said, I'm happy with my phone from Sprint (a Nokia 6225).
True - I guess I forgot about the phone repair aspect, and another one: the phone identification in multiple phone of the same model households aspect, which I've actually experienced... (phone backgrounds and stickers got me out of that one without buying a faceplate, though)
As for wallpaper, it's not bad if you've got a data cable (or built-in IR (like I've got) or Bluetooth), because it's free (unless the bastards at your phone company disabled it. Shenanigans like that are why I won't look at Verizon (even though EVERYONE I know is either on it, or planning to go on it, and won't be stopped, so I can only call them on THEIR nights & weekends for it to be free for both). I'm on Sprint, FWIW.)
As for ringtones, I use a stock tone (not a ring, though). You see, it's for phone identification. I wouldn't EVER pay money for a tone. However, I'll never use the default tone, or a ring - that's what causes everyone to check their phones.
Faceplates, though? That's idiotic.
Intel and AMD actually did that in the Celeron Mendocino and the Duron pre-Applebred days - the Mendocino and Morgan cores were actually developed specifically for the budget chips.
Intel had tried to use a regular P2 missing the (external) cache, made on the same production line, for the Celeron (Covington), but that was a real dog. Now, of course, they use the broken Pentium (3/4/M) cores to make a Celeron (D in the case of some P4s, M in the case of P-Ms).
However, one can take advantage of the "oh, can you fix my computer for me" factor ;-)
(I only wish that I could get it to WORK...)
3.141592654. That's how much I remember, because when I'm doing a calculation with Pi, I'm probably using a calculator, which only goes to 3.141592654 (but, I've memorized that.)
FWIW, I'd like to somehow get that as a phone number - "find a calculator, and press the Pi key - it'll give you my phone number"... Unfortunately, Google's definition of Pi is only 3.14159265...
You'd have more trouble getting the Selectmen to approve that.
;-)) would be a good idea, and easy to pitch.
*Nice* lakefront property (boosts land value, and therefore, taxes) plus a museum (might boost land value, brings in tourists (which brings money into the city), and is "socially responsible" (whatever the hell that means
This hotel, FWIW, is going on the museum idea, and also puts in a place to PUT the tourists.
At least put something similar to the history exhibits there - don't JUST put in houses. Split it into a museum and a housing development, with the housing development having the lake access?
My school's had two 60GXPs fail. Unfortunately, this class action only covers the 75GXP...
Just don't order from a whiteboxer that's cheaper than Dell.
That's a Really Bad Idea(tm), as they're the ones that DON'T do the QA checks, and use the BAD PC Chips motherboards.
No, when analog broadcast goes dark, I am not going to have a TV whatsoever. I'm going to use the laptop for watching DVDs and playing games. I don't use a game console anyway, so there's no need for a TV for that.
My SCHOOL is a mile away from the transmitter.
I'm about FIFTY miles from the transmitter. Besides, I don't care to watch the channel anyway - 50% of the time, it's religious crap ("Be a good Christian and donate to us!"), and the other 50% of the time, it's "family oriented" crap.
They put a filter on the TV frequencies already...
I do remember that one day they came and asked, "Are you using the cable TV?"
We said no, because we weren't. They installed a TV filter.
FWIW, I'm with Time Warner. Because my ISP is Earthlink (by far the best TOS of my choices - the other choices were noname ISPs, RoadRunner, and AOL for Broadband. All of them had DREADFUL TOSes (well, I didn't check AOL)), I wouldn't have gotten any discounts for having cable TV.
On TW, there's no discount to go with Earthlink cable plus basic cable. There ARE discounts to go with RoadRunner plus basic cable, but the RoadRunner TOS is a piece of shit not worth the bits sent down my DSL connection when I was researching which cable ISP to go with.
So, I'm now on Earthlink cable for $41.95/mo (actually, we convinced them to give it to us for $29.95/mo for 6 months, because of RoadRunner running a similar promotion RIGHT after we signed up, IIRC)...
You know, I've heard that there's a WB/UPN combo channel where I live, and my friends (with cable) have seen it, but I don't believe it - I've never picked it up ;-)
There's also a PAX channel that could be picked up near where I used to live, but I'm way too far away to pick it up now (my school, OTOH, is a mile down the road from their transmitter)...
Well, I can watch Fox on the OLD TV outside, by holding the rusty baling wire that serves as an antenna at EXACTLY the right angle.
The TV inside doesn't even see a channel there - it just shows static. It's even got one of those fancy $20 antennas that's supposed to get better reception.
However, do I REALLY want to watch Fox?
On both TVs, it's often hard to read text on NBC - it has to be in BIG LETTERING to be at all readable (so sports statistics are impossible to read). As for CBS, I USUALLY get near-cable quality.
Time Warner offers it...
You probably can't get TW, though...
I'm in an interesting situation. I've got cable Internet access, but no cable TV - can't afford it, and don't see the need for it.
I can pick up NBC, ABC (sorta), CBS, and PBS (kinda) with my antenna. Between NBC and CBS, I've got enough to watch (yes, I watch the lame shows.)
However, when analog broadcast goes dark, I'm simply not going to HAVE a TV. I've got cable Internet - if I want to watch a certain show, I can run BitTorrent.