"Verizon says it has not yet decided whether to levy a number portability fee."
http://news.com.com/2117-1039-1020501.html Verizon Wireless Chief Executive Denny Strigl said Tuesday that unlike rivals, Verizon won't collect monthly or one-time fees from subscribers who want to keep their original telephone number after switching carriers.
Has Verizon wavered in their stance in the past two months, or are they just trying to leave themselves some wriggle room?
That is pretty much where we are now. It seems that 90% of new PC games are RPG/FPS/RTS/SIM. With about 9% being 'light' games (The Sims, xyz Tycoon, etc.)
Hardcore RPG; create/share new levels, if you need lot of text unless you like scrolling ten words at a time a TV won't cut it, you need a high res display.
FPS; need mouse and keyboard, Goldeneye and Halo would still be better with K/M.
RTS; lots of micromanagement, need mouse and tons of keyboard shortcuts.
Hard Core Sims; when you have an entire 747 cockpit on the screen you need high resolution to read every gauge.
Opponents argue that the blackout occurred in a region where just such a type of grid management has been touted.
"The (FERC) measure... goes to the question of whether or not we would mandate and force down the throats of regional areas of the country a federal approach to deregulation of the marketplace"
"Deregulation has left us without adequate consumer protection and safeguards like reliable service and protection from market manipulation," said Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.
If they want to spread the system already in place in the NE to the rest of the country, how will this help them? Perhaps by forcing other states to house the polluting plants and giving them the resulting electricity? If NY needs more electricity, they can house the plants and deal with the pollution.
"If we really want to encourage game companies to start making Linux versions, we're going to have to start boycotting the Windows version, and wait until the Linux version comes out (if it ever does) to buy new games. Short term pain for long term gain.."
You expect this from the crowd that lambastes the MPAA one day, and then creams their pants when a Matrix/LOTR/SW/ST story is posted on the front page the next?
Spammers are already breaking laws; highjacking mail servers, using trojans such as 'jeem' and 'proxy-guzu' to make others send spam, etc. I doubt this law is going to be the one that finally makes them operate ethically.
Perhaps they need to also make it a crime for an individual in the state to purchase a product or service from a spammer...
The P4 has a much larger die than the AthlonXP (146mm^2 vs 101mm^2 ) , so it has a lower core temperature spread over a larger area but the overall heat output is higher.
" They already revoked access to WU for people who used pirated licence keys. As a result, there are plenty of XP installations which will never be patched"
Not true. Only people who use the key that came out at the XP launch FCKGW-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx are prevented from updating. If you use the key-gen that came out later then you can use WU.
Start there and read the next couple pages. Native 64-bit runs up to 30% faster.
As far as 64-bit native q3a probably not until the end of the year when a more stable Win-64 build is available. Although there is already a Half-Life2 64-bit build running on Win-64 Alpha, which may lead to some leaked figures earlier.
"The most likely reason that this has happened is that the power companies did not want to spend as much money"
No, they want to spend billions building new plants so this does not occur. The NIMBY crowd prevents this from happening. Hell, they won't even let them build windmills. Without new production capacity this is going to become a more common occurance.
And in Belgium Santa has a little black slave called 'Swarte Piet'(black Pete). He also rides a white horse and comes over the Pyrenees from Spain each December 5.
How much ice (m^3) is present on the earth's land masses (Antarctica and Greenland mainly) and what effect would the melting of this ice (25%,50%,75% and 100% melted) have on global ocean levels?
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Slashdot post ads disguised as stories for thinkgeek? The Slashdot editors have too much journalistic integrity for that, I simply will not believe it. What's next, a story about a smoke ring gun from thinkgeek?
Is there any speculation out there about what type of supercomputers the NSA has? Their budget is off the record (estimated $6Billion+/yr) and surely they have interest in cracking all of those 4096-bit encrypted messages sent between the US and Saudi Arabia et al.
"Now, DeRisi has chosen malaria as his next victim."
Until there is some breakthrough here DDT should be used to save lives. Over 1 million of the 300 million people infected with malaria each year worldwide die. There is not a single peer-reviewed, repeatable study showing any adverse effect on health of humans from the use of DDT.
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"say one wrong thing, against the government, or against their sleazy funders (big business) and your screwed."
They only fund one of the parties. The other party is funded by trial lawyers, labor unions and Hollywood.
I suppose this story is one where my sig is applicable.
What is the power consumption of the G5 processors?
The upcoming P4 3.4GHz is going to consume 103 WATTS.
Intel document confirms Prescott dissipates 103 W
Has Verizon wavered in their stance in the past two months, or are they just trying to leave themselves some wriggle room?
That is pretty much where we are now. It seems that 90% of new PC games are RPG/FPS/RTS/SIM. With about 9% being 'light' games (The Sims, xyz Tycoon, etc.)
Hardcore RPG; create/share new levels, if you need lot of text unless you like scrolling ten words at a time a TV won't cut it, you need a high res display.
FPS; need mouse and keyboard, Goldeneye and Halo would still be better with K/M.
RTS; lots of micromanagement, need mouse and tons of keyboard shortcuts.
Hard Core Sims; when you have an entire 747 cockpit on the screen you need high resolution to read every gauge.
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0803/98999.htm
If they want to spread the system already in place in the NE to the rest of the country, how will this help them? Perhaps by forcing other states to house the polluting plants and giving them the resulting electricity? If NY needs more electricity, they can house the plants and deal with the pollution.
"If we really want to encourage game companies to start making Linux versions, we're going to have to start boycotting the Windows version, and wait until the Linux version comes out (if it ever does) to buy new games.
Short term pain for long term gain.."
You expect this from the crowd that lambastes the MPAA one day, and then creams their pants when a Matrix/LOTR/SW/ST story is posted on the front page the next?
+5 Troll
Good job mods. You could have either 1.read the story and saw it was not sd'd or 2.actually read the post and noticed the alterations.
Spammers are already breaking laws; highjacking mail servers, using trojans such as 'jeem' and 'proxy-guzu' to make others send spam, etc. I doubt this law is going to be the one that finally makes them operate ethically.
Perhaps they need to also make it a crime for an individual in the state to purchase a product or service from a spammer...
"Guys who use an overclocked Athlon in an aluminum Lian Li or Coolermaster, stuck on top of an old door on bricks"
lol, I have an overclocked barton 2500+ in a Lian-Li PC-75B sitting on two cinder blocks. Is this really a common setup?
The P4 has a much larger die than the AthlonXP (146mm^2 vs 101mm^2 ) , so it has a lower core temperature spread over a larger area but the overall heat output is higher.
" They already revoked access to WU for people who used pirated licence keys. As a result, there are plenty of XP installations which will never be patched"
Not true. Only people who use the key that came out at the XP launch FCKGW-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx are prevented from updating. If you use the key-gen that came out later then you can use WU.
P4's have higher themal dissipation than AMD chips:
P4 3.06 GHz; A New Record: 82 Watts Power Dissipation
These are everywhere in a 2 proc setup(xeon 3.06 x2) in a 1u configuration.
"Nice rant, but more plants wouldn't have helped this problem"
If there were two more nuclear plants in NY, they would not have to import power from Canada at all.
" I want to know how much faster 64-bit native stuff will run vs. 32-bit stuff."
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Check it out:
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030422/opteron-
Start there and read the next couple pages. Native 64-bit runs up to 30% faster.
As far as 64-bit native q3a probably not until the end of the year when a more stable Win-64 build is available. Although there is already a Half-Life2 64-bit build running on Win-64 Alpha, which may lead to some leaked figures earlier.
" It is well-known that the Opteron chips and mobos are manufactured in mainland China"
Not according to AMD: AMD Opteron(TM) Processor
All Opterons are made in Germany.
The only two fabs they they have are Dresden, Germany(fab 30) and Austin, Texas(fab 25).
Microsoft pre-beta Windows for AMD64 available(to resellers)
Opteron 246 Overclocking Benchmarks
The same warning about the new clone has been released by dozens of other groups including...
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/msblast.shtml
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp
"The most likely reason that this has happened is that the power companies did not want to spend as much money"
No, they want to spend billions building new plants so this does not occur. The NIMBY crowd prevents this from happening. Hell, they won't even let them build windmills. Without new production capacity this is going to become a more common occurance.
And in Belgium Santa has a little black slave called 'Swarte Piet'(black Pete). He also rides a white horse and comes over the Pyrenees from Spain each December 5.
How much ice (m^3) is present on the earth's land masses (Antarctica and Greenland mainly) and what effect would the melting of this ice (25%,50%,75% and 100% melted) have on global ocean levels?
http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html
http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/
http://www.research.ibm.com/tts/coredemo.html
Slashdot post ads disguised as stories for thinkgeek? The Slashdot editors have too much journalistic integrity for that, I simply will not believe it. What's next, a story about a smoke ring gun from thinkgeek?
Is there any speculation out there about what type of supercomputers the NSA has? Their budget is off the record (estimated $6Billion+/yr) and surely they have interest in cracking all of those 4096-bit encrypted messages sent between the US and Saudi Arabia et al.
"Now, DeRisi has chosen malaria as his next victim."
Until there is some breakthrough here DDT should be used to save lives. Over 1 million of the 300 million people infected with malaria each year worldwide die. There is not a single peer-reviewed, repeatable study showing any adverse effect on health of humans from the use of DDT.
They are re-running the original show about this find on Discovery Science Channel today, now I know why.