These are the same folks who designed most of the dams under the TVA. They designed the steel mesh "tires" on the MOON ROVER, for pete's sake! I'm 40 years old and even I was a kid when that was happening.
It's a way cool place to tour if you're in the area. Don't know if they still have the hangar-size scale model of the san francisco bay but if they don't there's sure to be something equally impressive occupying that space.
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wasn't even a computer, it was a calculator. I had one of these in high school and (stupidly) gave it away a few years later. Since then I've occasionally found myself online looking for one to replace it. It had application specific programming that allowed you to enter an algebraic formula like f=1/2*pi*r*c and it would prompt you for each variable, solving for the missing variable automatically. Only "macro" type programming (no branching) but its algebraic function was so powerful it didn't need anything more to solve some really complex problems.
I bought one of the rebranded Sharps from radio shack a few years later and it was nothing at all like the old machine. Such a simple device, but with functions I've never seen since.
When did you ever hear me claim to be "tolerant?" Or left of center? I have zero tolerance for people who seek to trample our Constitution and have never claimed otherwise.
There are all kinds of sides, I am not a proxy for your assumptions. It appears you studied at the same monochromatic school of life as our president.
Nowhere have I run across any of your "most of these people". The only time I hear about wackos such as you portray is when a non-Christian rants about Christians. Perhaps I have been fortunate picking locales in which to live.
Obviously you just don't go to church or have deep religious discussions with your acquaintances.
I studied religion. I was part of a fundamentalist fellowship in LA back during the Reagan era when these folks were just finding their powerbase. Some of those people would say I then sufffered a "crisis of faith" - more accurately, I see my time in that church as a "crisis of sanity."
But I know the code, I know what Bush is talking about when he says things like "we will fight them there so we don't have to fight them here" - it's NOT as obvious as the clueless press would have you believe.
And this has nothing to do with gays. Gay activists made the issue at this time, it just ended up getting tagged along with the other stuff (rifle, foot, bang). The people I am speaking about support our actions in Iraq - "Persia" - because it provides us a base in the mideast from which to conduct the great war. Jesus will come back when the temple is constructed in Judeah and the people are once again free; the heathen will be left to suffer the great war and the "saved" will be raptured and thus spared the misery. These people don't give a shit about the rise of corporate america because when everyone is finally forced to accept the mark of this "great beast" they will already be "with their god." If you have never heard any of this, then it's obvious you have never been into one of the Millions of Fundamentalist churches across this nation.
The people rising to power in this nation don't care about anyone but themselves - their "flock." they don't care about the Constitution because that's just another document of man - and their only laws are "conceived of a higher power." They don't care about the future, poverty, or any ofther infirmities they have to suffer because it only makes them greater in god's eyes. This isn't a matter of faith to them, it's a matter of objective fact and they will try to argue it with you in just that fashion.
They gather in their churches and pray for the end to come soon... and these are the people who just (re)elected the leader of the most destructive arsenal on the face of the earth.
...do the Democrats finally learn their lesson, and make changes? If so, what are those changes that they have to make to win? I don't know if the party will learn the lesson from this election: there was interesting talk radio about that today; but the posts that answered you weren't appropriately self-reflective.
Change what?
Got news for ya, chappie: the democratic politburo didn't WANT to win this election. They wanted nothing but four more years of misery because they knew any challenger had little chance of winning.
It's not about winning, it's about divide and conquer. Your "party" simply set the stage to foist us off on planet Hillary in 2008. Four more years of this miserable fucker in washington will convince the majority of those sheeple who couldn't make up their minds this time that ANYTHING is better than "that other party."
hell, just let the campaigners go to detroit, chicago and cleveland and they can tie up those three states!
Apparently' you're not familiar with the concept of population dispersion. Look at a county by county map of michigan, for example, and you'll see MOST of the state backed Bush. Yet michigan cast all its votes for kerry. why? Because MOST of the people in the state live in the metro detroit area, so the people in the country get to eat cake. Ohio and Chicago are the same way. So is NY, LA - just about every state has a major population center, but in some states the balance is really disproportionate.
Why should the candidates even bother with campaign stops? How many people actually show up for these hokey circle jerks, anyway? Most folks sit home and watch tv - the candidates don't even need to leave washington for that. Now that we have the web and literally anyone can speak their views those quaint "campaign stops" are even more a decadent waste of jet fuel.
One man, one vote is the only fair way. The "electoral college" was made obsolete by the communications revolution.
"American intelligence" is one of those things like "military intelligence" and "jumbo shrimp." And the irony, of course, is that the word describing this includes the word "moron."
Living in the bible belt I can tell you most of the folks around here are just that. Most of them, in fact, are really little different than those "primitives" living in caves and calling for jihad. This country has become a superpower and is in real danger of becoming just another of those fundamentalist states bent on world destruction in the name of allah. Of course most around here will deny it because (just like those other guys) "they are objectively right and the others are wrong." They defend "right to life" but in reality want nothing more than to see us all dead, dead, dead. What do they care? After all, they'll be "raptured" before the bloody end - "let'em eat cake."
At least the USSR had the courtesy to be a "godless superpower." This nation is already well on the road to becoming exactly what it fears most: a fundamentalist "superpower."
I grew up in the midwest and now live in the bible belt and I can tell you with complete certainty the majority of the people I know don't give a shit about the facts or reality. Most of them still believe saddahm worked with the terrorists that blew up the wtc, that abortion is their decision for everyone, that gay marriage is their decision for everyone, that "faith" should be their decision for everyone because "they are right." Most of the people around here, in fact, are believers in all that second coming bullshit - to them chaos in the mideast is a GOOD thing because it "clears the way for jesus." These goddamned wackos want nothing more than to see the world vaporized in a cloud of thunder, and this administration is not only catering to their whims, it's preaching those wacko beliefs from the state department.
In Sony, SCOTUS didn't say "timeshifting is legal." Look it up. In fact, the majority opinion, as I recall it (and I'm not going to look it up right now because my head's full of nyquil) explicitly makes the point that (paraphrasing) "while technically an infringement of the owner's copyright, is not practical to enforce without intruding too much into people's homes."
That "fair use" stuff is written into old school recordings. The RIAA tried to quash home taping in the 70's, tried to squash home video, tried to squash mp3s and such - but no matter how many times they lose (on those rare occasions) it's not because "personal copying is legal" - it's because some things just cannot be policed without setting all kinds of other precedents.
That's why things need to be changed NOW. Once we're all online and every activity is just a click away, it won't be impractical at all to enforce the unenforceable.
wait until you turn 18 and have an incident with the bank you choose. Doesn't matter whose fault it is, if the bank says it wants your ass you better bend over and take it, lest you be blacklisted by ALL banks (and anyone else who wants to jump onboard).
PATRIOT is legislated intrusion into your privacy, but it's not just the government that you have to worry about abusing this newly created power.
What you're describing is a de minimus Copyright infraction - technically illegal, but not strictly enforced (or enforceable). Think of the tree falling in the forest and no one being around to hear...
Making a copy of a Hollywood DVD you purchased - even if it's not encrypted - is almost surely illegal (just as making MP3 copies of your CDs is, under US law, illegal). The only exceptions to this would be the occasional creator endorsement (like Michael Moore encouraging people to copy F911) or a feature that has fallen out of copyright - and even that could be illegal if it's been "enhanced" in any way (like the version of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" with the rock soundtrack).
I'm not saying this to call you a thief or any of that moronic bullshit, only making the point that THE LAW is often stupid and needs to be changed. (and purchasing ANYTHING from Hollywood is a very good way to help make sure that doesn't happen in our near future.) Laws set precedence in our society, and the precedents we've been setting in recent years are all headed strictly in the direction of making this a world where you need a "license" (and therefore some form of corporate permission) for literally everything relating to the exchange of information.
Personally, I swore the entire US industry off years ago. And I find I rarely miss the stuff I used to miss. Recently after losing a large chunk of my music from my hard drive I surprised myself when I realized the first things I was looking to replace (after re-ripping my own few CDs purchased used or directly from artists) were downloads from Magnatune, "foreign" stuff (mostly from Russia and France), and underground techno.
I saw this earlier from a link at osnews (yeah, I know). I was a little surprised it hadn't been mentioned here until I read the article. The site comes across as just another of those l337 haxor orgs trying to "go legit." Lots more disclaimers like that one blaming "people with agendas" writing bad press and even blaming the search engines for linking to it and helping spread the evil word. A "news" page linking to all their press releases where they quote themselves a lot.. oh boy, that's impressive.
Anyway, just in the last fews days I can think of at least one exploit requiring users of real player (on ANY platform) to "update their software" lest they be rooted by a malicious video stream. Previous hacks mentioned in the article were related to both Real and Quicktime being vulnerable to malicious skins.
Since I don't use either of these pieces of crapware I guess I'm 100% safer than everyone else and I don't have to worry about being rooted - because, after all, it's just bad software that makes you vulnerable, not being a warez whore and installing every piece of shit toy on your system that catches your eye.
I lived in the Detroit area most of my life until I was in my twenties and we NEVER had to present any ID to cross the border at Windsor. So now you have to have a passport to enter back from Canada?
I'm sorry, but this entire "terrorist" bit is nonsense. Until 2001 our single greatest terrorist event in this country had been commited by fellow Americans. Trying to lock up our borders isn't going to prevent nutjobs from doing bad - what we need to be doing is finding the nutjobs we have, and trying to prevent the creation of more by combatting poverty and ignorance.
I have to keep the amp off when I'm not listening to something because of all the shit coming through the speakers. I'm using nvidia's drivers from their website and the only thing that makes their drivers "better" than generic intel 810 sound drivers is the nvidia drivers allow the sound card to be detected on boot thus preserving my volume settings.
This is a well reviewed shuttle motherboard. The one I had before was a well reviewed Asus. Neither have been any better than my old S3.
I'll never buy one of these piece of shit nvidia motherboards again. And if AMD doesn't put some pressure on SOMEONE (anyone) to provide a chipset that's not locked up in NDAs and other bullshit, I'll never buy another AMD.
Want to buy a dualhead miniatx nvidia motherboard?
The p3 was a hell of a processor. A 1ghz p3 will make a p4 nearly twice as fast feel like a raw deal, but intel decided they had to crank the mhz even while talking about all this multicore stuff.
Too bad they didn't just spend that money figuring out how to cram more PERFORMANCE into the chip instead of more mhz. A four core 1GHz P3 with 2MB of fast (shared) l3 cache deployed on 90nm tech would probably still be smaller and cheaper than any of the P4s they've introduced this year... and it would also, quite likely, walk all over them.
there are chipsets but I've not seen any retail products yet. Don't be confused by the "generic" name - wimax is really just a standard that pools together lots of previously proprietary and competing products within the 2-11ghz band. If you have the money to go to one of these guys you can do it today - I know someone in LA who has supposedly been using a 5GHz system to provide nlos coverage on the west side of town. It's cost effective there because you can get enough subscribers to pay the costs of the base equipment but not exactly something most home users would go for.
Given the hefty prices these folks charge for their antennas and base units, I think it's obvious why many would drag their feet on adopting a "standard" that would, ultimately, drop the price of competing equipment to commodity levels.
A) the MCP-T also provides 1394 connectivity. I wanted a motherboard I could use in a very low profile system and didn't want to have to use a PCI slot as I already had one in use by the tv tuner card and, because it's low profile and all, it's on a riser card laying flat across the other slots.
B) That "on board sound" is controlled by a pretty powerful DSP. Problem is it's completely closed, the drivers suck, and because Nvidia think the sky will fall in if they allow us "lusers' to add features WE want to it, that's not likely to change. I had, however, heard good things (just like the comments here from people who use the thing and "have never had that problem) so I grit my teeth and tried it even against my better judgement.
And no, most onboard sound system are not "crappier than the soundblaster live..." Many of them have very good sound systems, as the people who laid out the board understood to keep the sound traces away from crap like bit clocks and usb buses. That, however, is neither here nor there if one plans to use the system with an outboard DAC - as I had. The problem is the POS drivers resample everything and introduce tones and other distortion (just like that sb live) which render an outboard DAC meaningless - the "noise" is in the digital domain and therefore a "feature."
Just good SUPPORT. Provide the fucking documentation we need to support these devices within the community. With rare exception intel has been good about this, but those that provide AMD-centric chipsets have not.
I'm really amazed AMD has such a good rap around here considering the only chipsets (if you want even halfway decent graphics) supported by their CPU are all wrapped up in proprietary (and generally terrible quality) linux drivers.
I don't frag, I don't care about "squeezing out" two or even ten percent more performance - I want something that works and can be supported within the community that has proven itself, time and again, capable of providing the superior product. Unless SiS or Nvidia get their heads out of their butts, my next system purchase will have "intel inside" - and I won't be looking back again.
I use an AMD box now - I have for some time. It's not even a powerhouse, it's an old XP1800. I've used this CPU on three different motherboards now, and so far I'm still looking for a reason to consider AMD when I finally replace it. I've had an S3 motherboard, a via motherboard, and TWO Nvidia motherboards. The closest I came to having decent chipset support was with the S3 and that's only because the guy who wrote the 3D drivers was able to basically con S3 out of the information he needed in order to do it (ie if you get a mainstream distro his drivers won't be in it due to potential legal issues).
The first Nvidia I bought to try out, then decided I wanted that great whajamacallit sound support so I spent weeks looking for a miniATX motherboard that had this feature. When I finally got it I discovered it has TERRIBLE sound - I mean atrocious, like the crap you would expect from a five year old emachine. Overtones, quantization noise - just horrid. And this is using THEIR drivers, which I cannot use along with THEIR 3D supporting video drivers because of random lockups the two together cause on my mandrake system.
If I get an intel system I at least get decent drivers. So here we have an intel motherboard that offers basically the same performance as the top of the line AMD, meaning "it can be done" and a lesser system (as I would buy) will also be proportionately less expensive. So for a premium of just a few bucks I can get similar performance AND I get open drivers that will work with my linux system?
so the UK is going to pass these "privacy" laws to bar corporations from exchanging data that people willingly provide to them?
I wonder what they're going to do with those laws requiring ISPs to keep detailed logs for years.
Well isn't that some grand consolation? Even if you do have the government fishing through logs in search of wankers looking at kinderpix or anything else it might find objectionable it's ok, because you, at least, don't have to worry about Yahoo selling your email address.
The best parts of it are the strip bars. Don't know what it's like now but 20 years ago we used to go up there just to spend the evening at Jason's or the Latin Quarter because the women were incredibly naked and incredibly beautiful and the exchage rate made it cheaper per dance or drink than going to an american bar right across the border. Walk down the street at 2AM and you could find old people out strolling or eating at a sidewalk cafe. And they have that great healthcare system and a penal system that seems to genuinely be about reform rather than revenge.
Don't want to leave canada? Just wait until a couple more generations get raised on that violent american TV you're so eager to import. Detroit is right across the river and, unlike the beer sellers at tiger stadium, the people who sell black market guns don't give a shit where you're from.
I do think making it illegal for someone to "import" american tv into their own home is absurd. Nice to see one government is figuring out prohibition never works. But no matter how stupid the law it's easy to see the motivation for it.
Better legalize that profitable black market drug trade before the culture shift moves in. The gunsellers are waiting...
MP3.com built its business around the concept of being one of those "revolutionaries" that rejects the system. Record your garage band, post it here, foster "community" as best you can and build on it - reject the system?
But when it became clear this wasn't working for them what did Mr. Mike do to "bring in new ears?" He decided to co-opt that very same system. The CEO said openly, again and again, this was an attempt to bring in more "madonna fans" to expose them to "the community."
In other words it wasn't 'revolutionary" at all and this "controversial" ploy was simply one more attempt at the new trying to co-opt the old rather than define itself on its own terms. he didn't really believe in any of those people who believed in him, he was just looking for a way to build a collection of music he could "license" to others but wouldn't have to pay for. He sold out the site, and sold out the thousands of people who believed in him enough to contribute their works to his "community."
I tried them days ago and found them to be a good "preview" but ultimately unusable as a source of utility. The desktop behaved in all sorts of strange manner - most likely because these do not seem to be built with "final" code but with various bits of prerelease code (hence the odd 2.7 release number vs. the official 2.8)
Now, what do you mean "set it up with the software sources manager?" There is no install script and those "uncooked" RPMs are a nightmare of dependancies. URPMI worked alright, but it was still a long and arduous install process. If you know a method of installing a reliable desktop from these packages, please provide some details.
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These are the same folks who designed most of the dams under the TVA. They designed the steel mesh "tires" on the MOON ROVER, for pete's sake! I'm 40 years old and even I was a kid when that was happening.
It's a way cool place to tour if you're in the area. Don't know if they still have the hangar-size scale model of the san francisco bay but if they don't there's sure to be something equally impressive occupying that space.
wasn't even a computer, it was a calculator. I had one of these in high school and (stupidly) gave it away a few years later. Since then I've occasionally found myself online looking for one to replace it. It had application specific programming that allowed you to enter an algebraic formula like f=1/2*pi*r*c and it would prompt you for each variable, solving for the missing variable automatically. Only "macro" type programming (no branching) but its algebraic function was so powerful it didn't need anything more to solve some really complex problems.
I bought one of the rebranded Sharps from radio shack a few years later and it was nothing at all like the old machine. Such a simple device, but with functions I've never seen since.
let's see how you laugh when ralph reed and the wildman of tupelo have rewritten the fucking constitution.
There are all kinds of sides, I am not a proxy for your assumptions. It appears you studied at the same monochromatic school of life as our president.
Obviously you just don't go to church or have deep religious discussions with your acquaintances.
I studied religion. I was part of a fundamentalist fellowship in LA back during the Reagan era when these folks were just finding their powerbase. Some of those people would say I then sufffered a "crisis of faith" - more accurately, I see my time in that church as a "crisis of sanity."
But I know the code, I know what Bush is talking about when he says things like "we will fight them there so we don't have to fight them here" - it's NOT as obvious as the clueless press would have you believe.
And this has nothing to do with gays. Gay activists made the issue at this time, it just ended up getting tagged along with the other stuff (rifle, foot, bang). The people I am speaking about support our actions in Iraq - "Persia" - because it provides us a base in the mideast from which to conduct the great war. Jesus will come back when the temple is constructed in Judeah and the people are once again free; the heathen will be left to suffer the great war and the "saved" will be raptured and thus spared the misery. These people don't give a shit about the rise of corporate america because when everyone is finally forced to accept the mark of this "great beast" they will already be "with their god." If you have never heard any of this, then it's obvious you have never been into one of the Millions of Fundamentalist churches across this nation.
The people rising to power in this nation don't care about anyone but themselves - their "flock." they don't care about the Constitution because that's just another document of man - and their only laws are "conceived of a higher power." They don't care about the future, poverty, or any ofther infirmities they have to suffer because it only makes them greater in god's eyes. This isn't a matter of faith to them, it's a matter of objective fact and they will try to argue it with you in just that fashion.
They gather in their churches and pray for the end to come soon... and these are the people who just (re)elected the leader of the most destructive arsenal on the face of the earth.
Change what?
Got news for ya, chappie: the democratic politburo didn't WANT to win this election. They wanted nothing but four more years of misery because they knew any challenger had little chance of winning.
It's not about winning, it's about divide and conquer. Your "party" simply set the stage to foist us off on planet Hillary in 2008. Four more years of this miserable fucker in washington will convince the majority of those sheeple who couldn't make up their minds this time that ANYTHING is better than "that other party."
hell, just let the campaigners go to detroit, chicago and cleveland and they can tie up those three states!
Apparently' you're not familiar with the concept of population dispersion. Look at a county by county map of michigan, for example, and you'll see MOST of the state backed Bush. Yet michigan cast all its votes for kerry. why? Because MOST of the people in the state live in the metro detroit area, so the people in the country get to eat cake. Ohio and Chicago are the same way. So is NY, LA - just about every state has a major population center, but in some states the balance is really disproportionate.
Why should the candidates even bother with campaign stops? How many people actually show up for these hokey circle jerks, anyway? Most folks sit home and watch tv - the candidates don't even need to leave washington for that. Now that we have the web and literally anyone can speak their views those quaint "campaign stops" are even more a decadent waste of jet fuel.
One man, one vote is the only fair way. The "electoral college" was made obsolete by the communications revolution.
"American intelligence" is one of those things like "military intelligence" and "jumbo shrimp." And the irony, of course, is that the word describing this includes the word "moron."
Living in the bible belt I can tell you most of the folks around here are just that. Most of them, in fact, are really little different than those "primitives" living in caves and calling for jihad. This country has become a superpower and is in real danger of becoming just another of those fundamentalist states bent on world destruction in the name of allah. Of course most around here will deny it because (just like those other guys) "they are objectively right and the others are wrong." They defend "right to life" but in reality want nothing more than to see us all dead, dead, dead. What do they care? After all, they'll be "raptured" before the bloody end - "let'em eat cake."
At least the USSR had the courtesy to be a "godless superpower." This nation is already well on the road to becoming exactly what it fears most: a fundamentalist "superpower."
"God" help us all.
I grew up in the midwest and now live in the bible belt and I can tell you with complete certainty the majority of the people I know don't give a shit about the facts or reality. Most of them still believe saddahm worked with the terrorists that blew up the wtc, that abortion is their decision for everyone, that gay marriage is their decision for everyone, that "faith" should be their decision for everyone because "they are right." Most of the people around here, in fact, are believers in all that second coming bullshit - to them chaos in the mideast is a GOOD thing because it "clears the way for jesus." These goddamned wackos want nothing more than to see the world vaporized in a cloud of thunder, and this administration is not only catering to their whims, it's preaching those wacko beliefs from the state department.
Fuck your hypocritical "beliefs."
In Sony, SCOTUS didn't say "timeshifting is legal." Look it up. In fact, the majority opinion, as I recall it (and I'm not going to look it up right now because my head's full of nyquil) explicitly makes the point that (paraphrasing) "while technically an infringement of the owner's copyright, is not practical to enforce without intruding too much into people's homes."
That "fair use" stuff is written into old school recordings. The RIAA tried to quash home taping in the 70's, tried to squash home video, tried to squash mp3s and such - but no matter how many times they lose (on those rare occasions) it's not because "personal copying is legal" - it's because some things just cannot be policed without setting all kinds of other precedents.
That's why things need to be changed NOW. Once we're all online and every activity is just a click away, it won't be impractical at all to enforce the unenforceable.
Game over.
PATRIOT is legislated intrusion into your privacy, but it's not just the government that you have to worry about abusing this newly created power.
What you're describing is a de minimus Copyright infraction - technically illegal, but not strictly enforced (or enforceable). Think of the tree falling in the forest and no one being around to hear...
Making a copy of a Hollywood DVD you purchased - even if it's not encrypted - is almost surely illegal (just as making MP3 copies of your CDs is, under US law, illegal). The only exceptions to this would be the occasional creator endorsement (like Michael Moore encouraging people to copy F911) or a feature that has fallen out of copyright - and even that could be illegal if it's been "enhanced" in any way (like the version of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" with the rock soundtrack).
I'm not saying this to call you a thief or any of that moronic bullshit, only making the point that THE LAW is often stupid and needs to be changed. (and purchasing ANYTHING from Hollywood is a very good way to help make sure that doesn't happen in our near future.) Laws set precedence in our society, and the precedents we've been setting in recent years are all headed strictly in the direction of making this a world where you need a "license" (and therefore some form of corporate permission) for literally everything relating to the exchange of information.
Personally, I swore the entire US industry off years ago. And I find I rarely miss the stuff I used to miss. Recently after losing a large chunk of my music from my hard drive I surprised myself when I realized the first things I was looking to replace (after re-ripping my own few CDs purchased used or directly from artists) were downloads from Magnatune, "foreign" stuff (mostly from Russia and France), and underground techno.
I saw this earlier from a link at osnews (yeah, I know). I was a little surprised it hadn't been mentioned here until I read the article. The site comes across as just another of those l337 haxor orgs trying to "go legit." Lots more disclaimers like that one blaming "people with agendas" writing bad press and even blaming the search engines for linking to it and helping spread the evil word. A "news" page linking to all their press releases where they quote themselves a lot.. oh boy, that's impressive.
Anyway, just in the last fews days I can think of at least one exploit requiring users of real player (on ANY platform) to "update their software" lest they be rooted by a malicious video stream. Previous hacks mentioned in the article were related to both Real and Quicktime being vulnerable to malicious skins.
Since I don't use either of these pieces of crapware I guess I'm 100% safer than everyone else and I don't have to worry about being rooted - because, after all, it's just bad software that makes you vulnerable, not being a warez whore and installing every piece of shit toy on your system that catches your eye.
I lived in the Detroit area most of my life until I was in my twenties and we NEVER had to present any ID to cross the border at Windsor. So now you have to have a passport to enter back from Canada?
I'm sorry, but this entire "terrorist" bit is nonsense. Until 2001 our single greatest terrorist event in this country had been commited by fellow Americans. Trying to lock up our borders isn't going to prevent nutjobs from doing bad - what we need to be doing is finding the nutjobs we have, and trying to prevent the creation of more by combatting poverty and ignorance.
the fucking drivers worked.
I have to keep the amp off when I'm not listening to something because of all the shit coming through the speakers. I'm using nvidia's drivers from their website and the only thing that makes their drivers "better" than generic intel 810 sound drivers is the nvidia drivers allow the sound card to be detected on boot thus preserving my volume settings.
This is a well reviewed shuttle motherboard. The one I had before was a well reviewed Asus. Neither have been any better than my old S3.
I'll never buy one of these piece of shit nvidia motherboards again. And if AMD doesn't put some pressure on SOMEONE (anyone) to provide a chipset that's not locked up in NDAs and other bullshit, I'll never buy another AMD.
Want to buy a dualhead miniatx nvidia motherboard?
The p3 was a hell of a processor. A 1ghz p3 will make a p4 nearly twice as fast feel like a raw deal, but intel decided they had to crank the mhz even while talking about all this multicore stuff.
Too bad they didn't just spend that money figuring out how to cram more PERFORMANCE into the chip instead of more mhz. A four core 1GHz P3 with 2MB of fast (shared) l3 cache deployed on 90nm tech would probably still be smaller and cheaper than any of the P4s they've introduced this year... and it would also, quite likely, walk all over them.
there are chipsets but I've not seen any retail products yet. Don't be confused by the "generic" name - wimax is really just a standard that pools together lots of previously proprietary and competing products within the 2-11ghz band. If you have the money to go to one of these guys you can do it today - I know someone in LA who has supposedly been using a 5GHz system to provide nlos coverage on the west side of town. It's cost effective there because you can get enough subscribers to pay the costs of the base equipment but not exactly something most home users would go for.
Given the hefty prices these folks charge for their antennas and base units, I think it's obvious why many would drag their feet on adopting a "standard" that would, ultimately, drop the price of competing equipment to commodity levels.
A) the MCP-T also provides 1394 connectivity. I wanted a motherboard I could use in a very low profile system and didn't want to have to use a PCI slot as I already had one in use by the tv tuner card and, because it's low profile and all, it's on a riser card laying flat across the other slots.
B) That "on board sound" is controlled by a pretty powerful DSP. Problem is it's completely closed, the drivers suck, and because Nvidia think the sky will fall in if they allow us "lusers' to add features WE want to it, that's not likely to change. I had, however, heard good things (just like the comments here from people who use the thing and "have never had that problem) so I grit my teeth and tried it even against my better judgement.
And no, most onboard sound system are not "crappier than the soundblaster live..." Many of them have very good sound systems, as the people who laid out the board understood to keep the sound traces away from crap like bit clocks and usb buses. That, however, is neither here nor there if one plans to use the system with an outboard DAC - as I had. The problem is the POS drivers resample everything and introduce tones and other distortion (just like that sb live) which render an outboard DAC meaningless - the "noise" is in the digital domain and therefore a "feature."
Just good SUPPORT. Provide the fucking documentation we need to support these devices within the community. With rare exception intel has been good about this, but those that provide AMD-centric chipsets have not.
I'm really amazed AMD has such a good rap around here considering the only chipsets (if you want even halfway decent graphics) supported by their CPU are all wrapped up in proprietary (and generally terrible quality) linux drivers.
I don't frag, I don't care about "squeezing out" two or even ten percent more performance - I want something that works and can be supported within the community that has proven itself, time and again, capable of providing the superior product. Unless SiS or Nvidia get their heads out of their butts, my next system purchase will have "intel inside" - and I won't be looking back again.
I use an AMD box now - I have for some time. It's not even a powerhouse, it's an old XP1800. I've used this CPU on three different motherboards now, and so far I'm still looking for a reason to consider AMD when I finally replace it. I've had an S3 motherboard, a via motherboard, and TWO Nvidia motherboards. The closest I came to having decent chipset support was with the S3 and that's only because the guy who wrote the 3D drivers was able to basically con S3 out of the information he needed in order to do it (ie if you get a mainstream distro his drivers won't be in it due to potential legal issues).
The first Nvidia I bought to try out, then decided I wanted that great whajamacallit sound support so I spent weeks looking for a miniATX motherboard that had this feature. When I finally got it I discovered it has TERRIBLE sound - I mean atrocious, like the crap you would expect from a five year old emachine. Overtones, quantization noise - just horrid. And this is using THEIR drivers, which I cannot use along with THEIR 3D supporting video drivers because of random lockups the two together cause on my mandrake system.
If I get an intel system I at least get decent drivers. So here we have an intel motherboard that offers basically the same performance as the top of the line AMD, meaning "it can be done" and a lesser system (as I would buy) will also be proportionately less expensive. So for a premium of just a few bucks I can get similar performance AND I get open drivers that will work with my linux system?
Where do I sign up?
Only if Montreal has moved across the river from Detroit.
I know you can't help it... you're from America.
so the UK is going to pass these "privacy" laws to bar corporations from exchanging data that people willingly provide to them?
I wonder what they're going to do with those laws requiring ISPs to keep detailed logs for years.
Well isn't that some grand consolation? Even if you do have the government fishing through logs in search of wankers looking at kinderpix or anything else it might find objectionable it's ok, because you, at least, don't have to worry about Yahoo selling your email address.
Yeesh.
The best parts of it are the strip bars. Don't know what it's like now but 20 years ago we used to go up there just to spend the evening at Jason's or the Latin Quarter because the women were incredibly naked and incredibly beautiful and the exchage rate made it cheaper per dance or drink than going to an american bar right across the border. Walk down the street at 2AM and you could find old people out strolling or eating at a sidewalk cafe. And they have that great healthcare system and a penal system that seems to genuinely be about reform rather than revenge.
Don't want to leave canada? Just wait until a couple more generations get raised on that violent american TV you're so eager to import. Detroit is right across the river and, unlike the beer sellers at tiger stadium, the people who sell black market guns don't give a shit where you're from.
I do think making it illegal for someone to "import" american tv into their own home is absurd. Nice to see one government is figuring out prohibition never works. But no matter how stupid the law it's easy to see the motivation for it.
Better legalize that profitable black market drug trade before the culture shift moves in. The gunsellers are waiting...
MP3.com built its business around the concept of being one of those "revolutionaries" that rejects the system. Record your garage band, post it here, foster "community" as best you can and build on it - reject the system?
But when it became clear this wasn't working for them what did Mr. Mike do to "bring in new ears?" He decided to co-opt that very same system. The CEO said openly, again and again, this was an attempt to bring in more "madonna fans" to expose them to "the community."
In other words it wasn't 'revolutionary" at all and this "controversial" ploy was simply one more attempt at the new trying to co-opt the old rather than define itself on its own terms. he didn't really believe in any of those people who believed in him, he was just looking for a way to build a collection of music he could "license" to others but wouldn't have to pay for. He sold out the site, and sold out the thousands of people who believed in him enough to contribute their works to his "community."
Now, what do you mean "set it up with the software sources manager?" There is no install script and those "uncooked" RPMs are a nightmare of dependancies. URPMI worked alright, but it was still a long and arduous install process. If you know a method of installing a reliable desktop from these packages, please provide some details.