considering that when I upgraded to a newer system SEVERAL years ago to play Quake3 (dual 400mhz Celerons, 128mb RAM (still have this), and a Voodoo3 w/16mb of RAM) and it worked just fine what would stop it from working just fine now?
As a side note, I am still using that same system with the SAME configuration running WindowsXP *JUST FINE*. It has only recently started seeming slower because I was just upgraded to a 2.66ghz w/1024mb of RAM at work.
Give me a break.
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when have you been able to choose what providor you use for your home phone service? Your choice is in long distance carriers, not the actual line carrier.
sure, we will need to jot things down, does that mean that I have to write it in cursive? I haven't used cursive since the teachers stopped requiring it in 4th or 5th grade.
When I take notes it's in my cross of scribbling and printing. It works for ME. It's not something that anyone else can really decipher.
I perhaps grew up in a middle generation. We were taught cursive but it was never really enforced after 4th or 5th grade.
I had been typing papers since the 2nd grade (on my C64 baby in GEOS Works or something) and could never find a valid reason for me to use cursive other than Mrs. Soandso said to.
Cursive is ugly, useless, and difficult to read.
I think that in the future EVERYONE should be forced to type everything.
AIM is destroying another MORE important part of writing. Grammar, sentence structure, and spelling.
Nothing like having this show up on your screen every time you talk to someone.
Page length requirements on papers are going to be multiplied by 100 due to that:)
I worked with a moron that did this. He copyrighted his name and submitted documents to where we worked to prove that they could not send his information to anyone. He believed this would stop him from having to pay taxes.
not only Joe Sixer... I am a Linux user. I use it for what it is best for (server side). I use Windows for my desktop machine (mind you, I hadn't run Windows for more than 1 application in over 7 years).
Linux does NOT work well for what I need it to do daily (web, random GPS applications, USB, photo importing/editing/printing). Windows does this for me. I am happy with XP/2k and how it performs and stays up.
When Linux can come up with a browser that works as well on every site I use and comes up with 100% Office clone (and I do mean 100%) I will use it on the desktop again, until then, even the "non-Joe-Sixer" will stay with Windows.
It's of no concern of the fine state of Oregon if I drive my car to Florida and back. They cannot charge me an insane tax rate because I felt like taking the fam. to see Disney World in my 30' land yacht.
make sure that there are no rules against doing something like that. Many lab machines are locked down to only allow a certain range of applications and storage points.
This could be considered circumventing those security features and could get you in quite a bit of hot water.
mining materials from the moon is going to be more expensive than raiding Western Russia and mining in Siberia then shipping it back to China.
It's expensive to live there, to ship people there, and to experiment there (what to experiment on I will never know).
I can't see a financial justification to use it as a start point for Mars missions when there is nothing of use on Mars (even if there is water and "life").
Let's have our people suffer and wither away in the wastelands of undeveloped China and build a moon base!
of course not. Home owners want to use their routers and router manus have no desire to support IPv6 (as it would be nearly pointless to have NAT routers).
ISPs really don't want to support IPv6 because then they can't charge for additional IPs or blocks of IPs. They also can't force you not to have your own reverse DNS (as ALL the ISPs I have ever used have denied me).
I am currently using Comcast cable. I have an IPv6 address space through he.net. I have my own reverse DNS and I can actually show off my leet vanity hosts on IRC.
Win9x doesn't support IPv6 except through a PAYFOR version of Winsock (what home user is going to do that and when is MS going to add support, yeah, never.)
So if Win9x isn't supported, ISPs don't want it supported, home networking devices aren't going to support it (most home routers just drop the packets, I had to go back to using Linux as my NAT in order to enable IPv6), how is it going to get adopted?
most people already pay a technology fee for an over-worked network. I went to BGSU and until 2000 they had only 4xT1s for their entire campus network. I was paying $60/semester for this tech fee and was getting between 8 and 12kB/s on transfers. Try doing any kind of work with those speeds.
So they upgraded to a 10mbit DS3 (and had that at least until now). nearly 20k students and a 10mbit Internet connection. That's just ridiculous.
So, instead of hogging the Internet bandwith with morons downloading porn AND music off the net, conserve the external bandwith for music and let them trade on the internal fiber network... Sounds like a plan to me.
that was a major reason that I left the CS program at BGSU. I felt that it was behind the times and boring. Other people I knew who were going to schools like MIT and Bucknell were learning Java and Scheme (MIT obviously) and were doing interesting coding projects I was stuck writing "grading programs for 10 students in Ms. Smith's 8th Grade Math Class".
I saw the need to learn the fundamentals of C/C++ but I didn't think that boring projects were the way to accomplish that.
Nothing like being forced to learn a non-existant version of ASM that was created by BGSU for teaching purposes. It was SO out-dated and worthless that I couldn't take it anymore.
I have since graduated with an equally worthless degree in History. At least writing papers about things that happened 300+ years ago is useful;)
then you don't live in an area controlled by broadband monopoly.
I moved from NW Ohio to Burnsville, MN in November (I am now 15-20 mins out of downtown Minneapolis). I moved from an area that offered a steady 300kB/s cable pipe (TimeWarner RR) to an area that offered a 1.5mbs pipe (about 220kB/s steady with ATTBI)...
Comcast recently took over the entire region and raised my Internet rates (without CATV) to 60.95 from 46.95... Not only that but now I have download speeds in the 180kB/s range.
More money, slower speeds, and the same crap customer service...
JakCrow asks: Why aren't the phone and cable companies addressing the reasons for the municipal push? Municipal broadband is developing because people are tired of the bad service, high prices, and lousy coverage, yet the phone and cablecos would rather spend money using propaganda to fight municipal projects than fix their own problems.
Jim Baller: I believe that there are many good people working for cable and telephone companies who would like to deliver good products at reasonable prices and also offer good service. Consider, for example, an article in the Tacoma News Tribune on May 19, 2003, in which Comcast spokesman Steve Kipp said that competition with Tacoma's Click! Network was a good thing for all concerned, including Comcast. Specifically, Mr. Kipp was quoted as saying that: "It's that competition that has really spurred the additional investment in cable and customer service." (link). Think of where we would be if Comcast, as a whole company, acted as though it really believes this. Unfortunately, as a company, it does not.
Explain to me how Comcast has competition? DSL is NOT competition for Comcast Internet services (this is not an arguable point BTW). Comcast is THE only option for broadband where I live (no DSL and wireless access is cost prohibitive). They took over ATTBI and immediately raised the rates (which have yet to take effect but I am sure that (based on previous practices) will be "noticed at a later date" and corrected by charging for the back months in a single bill...)
Competition for Comcast IS good but it doesn't exist. I seriously believe that Muni's that run their own broadband service would actually be helping the community and THEMSELVES.
Force the "natural monopolies" (their words, not mine) to compete instead of taking over and doing what they want.
The problem is that the vendors won't release enough information about the chipset for the volunteers to write the drivers and now w/the DMCA I am sure many fear legal action for reverse engineering the card.
great but this has nothing to do w/the TOP post. He said it would replace laptops (and that's what MS wants it to do).
a TabletPC will NEVER replace a keyboard. Handwriting recgonition, no matter how good it gets, will NEVER be faster than a Keyboard, I don't care who you are or what you are doing. Unless it learns shorthand and the user learns shorthand, there is no sense in that.
A TabletPC user should be someone who CAN run Photoshop if he wants.
Spending $1300-$2500 for a machine that you use to take notes and check off boxes if fucking insanity. I would rather use a printed tablet or a fucking handheld for that.
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considering that when I upgraded to a newer system SEVERAL years ago to play Quake3 (dual 400mhz Celerons, 128mb RAM (still have this), and a Voodoo3 w/16mb of RAM) and it worked just fine what would stop it from working just fine now?
As a side note, I am still using that same system with the SAME configuration running WindowsXP *JUST FINE*. It has only recently started seeming slower because I was just upgraded to a 2.66ghz w/1024mb of RAM at work.
Give me a break.
when have you been able to choose what providor you use for your home phone service? Your choice is in long distance carriers, not the actual line carrier.
sure, we will need to jot things down, does that mean that I have to write it in cursive? I haven't used cursive since the teachers stopped requiring it in 4th or 5th grade.
When I take notes it's in my cross of scribbling and printing. It works for ME. It's not something that anyone else can really decipher.
I perhaps grew up in a middle generation. We were taught cursive but it was never really enforced after 4th or 5th grade.
:)
I had been typing papers since the 2nd grade (on my C64 baby in GEOS Works or something) and could never find a valid reason for me to use cursive other than Mrs. Soandso said to.
Cursive is ugly, useless, and difficult to read.
I think that in the future EVERYONE should be forced to type everything.
AIM is destroying another MORE important part of writing. Grammar, sentence structure, and spelling.
Nothing
like
having this
show up on
your screen every
time you talk to
someone.
Page length requirements on papers are going to be multiplied by 100 due to that
Just my worthless rambling.
just b/c release dates get pushed back does NOT mean that their products are "vaporware".
;)
Do they lie about their stability and capabilities, probably
they are different than we are. We lost our freedom under the same regime we had 227 years ago.
we used to have that right. We lost that in recent years.
They tell the government what to do w/what used to be our money and the government then tells us what to do.
We live in a world with fake freedom.
I worked with a moron that did this. He copyrighted his name and submitted documents to where we worked to prove that they could not send his information to anyone. He believed this would stop him from having to pay taxes.
Uhh, moron.
not only Joe Sixer... I am a Linux user. I use it for what it is best for (server side). I use Windows for my desktop machine (mind you, I hadn't run Windows for more than 1 application in over 7 years).
Linux does NOT work well for what I need it to do daily (web, random GPS applications, USB, photo importing/editing/printing). Windows does this for me. I am happy with XP/2k and how it performs and stays up.
When Linux can come up with a browser that works as well on every site I use and comes up with 100% Office clone (and I do mean 100%) I will use it on the desktop again, until then, even the "non-Joe-Sixer" will stay with Windows.
It's of no concern of the fine state of Oregon if I drive my car to Florida and back. They cannot charge me an insane tax rate because I felt like taking the fam. to see Disney World in my 30' land yacht.
If we say yes to this we say yes to Stalinism.
make sure that there are no rules against doing something like that. Many lab machines are locked down to only allow a certain range of applications and storage points.
This could be considered circumventing those security features and could get you in quite a bit of hot water.
mining materials from the moon is going to be more expensive than raiding Western Russia and mining in Siberia then shipping it back to China.
It's expensive to live there, to ship people there, and to experiment there (what to experiment on I will never know).
I can't see a financial justification to use it as a start point for Mars missions when there is nothing of use on Mars (even if there is water and "life").
Let's have our people suffer and wither away in the wastelands of undeveloped China and build a moon base!
of course not. Home owners want to use their routers and router manus have no desire to support IPv6 (as it would be nearly pointless to have NAT routers).
ISPs really don't want to support IPv6 because then they can't charge for additional IPs or blocks of IPs. They also can't force you not to have your own reverse DNS (as ALL the ISPs I have ever used have denied me).
I am currently using Comcast cable. I have an IPv6 address space through he.net. I have my own reverse DNS and I can actually show off my leet vanity hosts on IRC.
Win9x doesn't support IPv6 except through a PAYFOR version of Winsock (what home user is going to do that and when is MS going to add support, yeah, never.)
So if Win9x isn't supported, ISPs don't want it supported, home networking devices aren't going to support it (most home routers just drop the packets, I had to go back to using Linux as my NAT in order to enable IPv6), how is it going to get adopted?
how about those of us that are notified by Windows Update automatically but were not notified of this pack yet?
I had no icon letting me know they were ready.
most people already pay a technology fee for an over-worked network. I went to BGSU and until 2000 they had only 4xT1s for their entire campus network. I was paying $60/semester for this tech fee and was getting between 8 and 12kB/s on transfers. Try doing any kind of work with those speeds.
So they upgraded to a 10mbit DS3 (and had that at least until now). nearly 20k students and a 10mbit Internet connection. That's just ridiculous.
So, instead of hogging the Internet bandwith with morons downloading porn AND music off the net, conserve the external bandwith for music and let them trade on the internal fiber network... Sounds like a plan to me.
PLEASE RTFA.
This was a DVD widescreen copy w/surround sound.
stop running Win9x and stop giving a stupid joke that died with WinNT based WinOSs.
that was a major reason that I left the CS program at BGSU. I felt that it was behind the times and boring. Other people I knew who were going to schools like MIT and Bucknell were learning Java and Scheme (MIT obviously) and were doing interesting coding projects I was stuck writing "grading programs for 10 students in Ms. Smith's 8th Grade Math Class".
;)
I saw the need to learn the fundamentals of C/C++ but I didn't think that boring projects were the way to accomplish that.
Nothing like being forced to learn a non-existant version of ASM that was created by BGSU for teaching purposes. It was SO out-dated and worthless that I couldn't take it anymore.
I have since graduated with an equally worthless degree in History. At least writing papers about things that happened 300+ years ago is useful
then you don't live in an area controlled by broadband monopoly.
I moved from NW Ohio to Burnsville, MN in November (I am now 15-20 mins out of downtown Minneapolis). I moved from an area that offered a steady 300kB/s cable pipe (TimeWarner RR) to an area that offered a 1.5mbs pipe (about 220kB/s steady with ATTBI)...
Comcast recently took over the entire region and raised my Internet rates (without CATV) to 60.95 from 46.95... Not only that but now I have download speeds in the 180kB/s range.
More money, slower speeds, and the same crap customer service...
JakCrow asks: Why aren't the phone and cable companies addressing the reasons for the municipal push? Municipal broadband is developing because people are tired of the bad service, high prices, and lousy coverage, yet the phone and cablecos would rather spend money using propaganda to fight municipal projects than fix their own problems.
Jim Baller: I believe that there are many good people working for cable and telephone companies who would like to deliver good products at reasonable prices and also offer good service. Consider, for example, an article in the Tacoma News Tribune on May 19, 2003, in which Comcast spokesman Steve Kipp said that competition with Tacoma's Click! Network was a good thing for all concerned, including Comcast. Specifically, Mr. Kipp was quoted as saying that: "It's that competition that has really spurred the additional investment in cable and customer service." (link). Think of where we would be if Comcast, as a whole company, acted as though it really believes this. Unfortunately, as a company, it does not.
Explain to me how Comcast has competition? DSL is NOT competition for Comcast Internet services (this is not an arguable point BTW). Comcast is THE only option for broadband where I live (no DSL and wireless access is cost prohibitive). They took over ATTBI and immediately raised the rates (which have yet to take effect but I am sure that (based on previous practices) will be "noticed at a later date" and corrected by charging for the back months in a single bill...)
Competition for Comcast IS good but it doesn't exist. I seriously believe that Muni's that run their own broadband service would actually be helping the community and THEMSELVES.
Force the "natural monopolies" (their words, not mine) to compete instead of taking over and doing what they want.
The problem is that the vendors won't release enough information about the chipset for the volunteers to write the drivers and now w/the DMCA I am sure many fear legal action for reverse engineering the card.
remember that these cards are only supported in the 2mbs and 11mbs group. The 22mbs and 54mbs are not supported yet.
I have been happily using DLINK 650Ws for a few years now (w/the RICOH PCIPCMCIA bridge on my desktop).
I would love to upgrade but I prefer a Linux-based setup for the WLAN for added control.
that would be, I don't use HTTP... I use Gopher you insensitive clod!
great but this has nothing to do w/the TOP post. He said it would replace laptops (and that's what MS wants it to do).
a TabletPC will NEVER replace a keyboard. Handwriting recgonition, no matter how good it gets, will NEVER be faster than a Keyboard, I don't care who you are or what you are doing. Unless it learns shorthand and the user learns shorthand, there is no sense in that.
A TabletPC user should be someone who CAN run Photoshop if he wants.
Spending $1300-$2500 for a machine that you use to take notes and check off boxes if fucking insanity. I would rather use a printed tablet or a fucking handheld for that.
Don't be ridiculous.
you're wrong. I passed the test w/o issue and I had never seen an Xray machine in my life.