I think shit happens, and every brand of HD can die. Some series are better then others, that why I suppose ppl suggest to buy disks for RAID from different production date. I have 2 WD drives which are fine after about 4 years of use, and another one I'm using now for a bout a year. Friend's new barracuda just died recently. Another friend of mine broke a pin on the IDE connector and blamed it on the HD;)
You mean how much it costs to make one cartridge? Well maybe $10. But how much will they cost to the end user... judging from how much a regular ink jet cartridge costs ($30-40?), this would cost much more.
I bought this one in my local store(in Europe), but I don't know if it's available where you live. Anyway, SAFA SMCD-100R is very slim and light, anti-shock works well and I had no problems with MP3, but some WMA files didn't play correctly. It should play Cd's in Packet-Write, ISO9660, Joliet, Multi-Session. It cost about $100 almost a year ago.
MS may just add different comments(or slightly modify the code) to each licensed source, and when/if they see a leak, they can easily find where the leak is coming from, for example they add something like "#Rewrite this later" on line 135 for your license, "#Redo this part" on line 563 for another license, etc. and when they see source leaked with a comment on line 563, they know which particular license is it coming from.
Absolutely, my other pc is a PII 350, GF2 MX. And MOH, Warcraft 3 run without problems, I also played AvP2, Mafia, GTA3, Hitman 2, RTCW, SoF, Ground Control, Max Payne (the first one) and many others in 1024x768, mostly with medium details. Even UT2003 was playable on smaller maps (but slowed down on November).
I chose an Asus ADSL modem/router (sorry not in English) with my dsl service, it has built in firewall, ip filter and some more stuff. But they do give a choice and most users would probably chose another lame usb modem.
I'm not sure about online, but LAN co-op games are really fun and don't require m4d 5ki11z, I played it with my dad (not a FPS player) and we both enjoyed it. There are options like unlimited respawns, weapons stay and some more stuff which could help a beginner.
Yeah but what kind of graphics card those laptops have? I don't think it is anything close to radeon 9500/600. Because I have a PIII 900 with S3 Savage or something. Of course it doesn't run halo (ok, I didn't try but thats obvious), it doesn't even run UT fast enough, only in 640x480 is the framerate above 30. So the point is that most notebooks aren't made to play games.
Engineer's Papers Dispute Hubble Decision By DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: February 7, 2004
ASA's decision to abandon its crown scientific jewel, the Hubble Space Telescope, cannot be justified on safety grounds, according to a pair of reports by a NASA engineer that have been circulating in scientific and political circles in the last few days.
The unsigned documents are attracting attention on Capitol Hill, particularly in the House Science Committee, which is expected to discuss the Hubble decision at a meeting on Thursday.
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"We're reviewing the Hubble decision, looking at it very closely," said a spokesman for Representative Sherwood Boehlert, Republican of New York and chairman of the committee. "We're going to be examining the views in this particular document as well as a whole host of others."
The documents have also created a buzz among astronomers, who hope that their wider distribution will help spark a larger debate about the telescope's fate. The reports have deepened astronomers' skepticism that safety and not politics and money was the issue last month when Sean O'Keefe, the NASA administrator, announced the cancellation of the space shuttle's planned 2006 maintenance visit to the telescope. As a result, the telescope will probably die in orbit within three years, astronomers say, instead of lasting into the early part of the next decade as originally planned.
In explaining his decision, Mr. O'Keefe had cited a recommendation of the board that investigated the Columbia space shuttle disaster last year that NASA must develop a way to inspect and repair damage to the shuttle's thermal protection system.
While the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was committed to developing this ability for missions to the International Space Station, which could serve as a "safe haven" for the astronauts if the shuttle was damaged, Mr. O'Keefe said it was too risky and expensive to develop an "autonomous" inspection and repair capability for a single mission to the telescope.
The new reports challenge Mr. O'Keefe's conclusion, citing data and references from NASA documents in arguing that the administrator's statement "cannot be supported."
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board recommendations and NASA's plans for "return to flight" include ultimately developing just such an ability to inspect and repair the tiles independently of the station. That autonomous ability is needed because the shuttle might fail to make it to the space station, or the space station may become too big and complex to serve as a repair base, according to the papers.
One of the reports concludes that missions to the telescope "are as safe as or perhaps safer than" space station missions "conducted in the same time frame."
The author is a NASA engineer who wrote the reports based on internal data and who declined to be identified for fear of losing his job. Copies of the documents were provided to The New York Times by an astronomer who is not part of NASA and opposes the decision to let the telescope die.
"Those documents certainly undercut the public position of the agency," said Dr. Garth Illingworth, an astronomer at the University of California at Santa Cruz and a member of a committee that advises NASA on space science.
Dr. Illingworth added that it was important to open up debate on these issues. "We need to get real information out there, and not just have a few people in NASA saying we know what's best," he said.
A Congressional staff member who was given the documents said they appeared to be credible. "We are taking them seriously," he said. Referring to the requirement of an autonomous repair capability, he said, "NASA's going to have to spend the money to do this" if the agency follows the accident board's recommendations.
The documents also argue that missions to the space station might actually be riskier than going to the space telescope for several reasons. Because of the space
Yeah, Halo often slows down on my main box (2.6), but I played C&C Generals on my old one (PII 350, GF2 MX400) without problems, except for some huge battles, but it was still playable.
What I don't understand is how they are going to keep the cost down, after all 3 PPC won't be cheap + graphics chip faster/better then the R400? OK I know this would be some time from now, but I don't think the prices can drop so much.
If they can put enough flash memory on that, then why can't it replace a hard drive? Or external hard drive could be used (USB 2.0), lowering the cost but still providing an option for playing old games and using more features(downloading stuff).
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I think shit happens, and every brand of HD can die. Some series are better then others, that why I suppose ppl suggest to buy disks for RAID from different production date. I have 2 WD drives which are fine after about 4 years of use, and another one I'm using now for a bout a year. Friend's new barracuda just died recently. Another friend of mine broke a pin on the IDE connector and blamed it on the HD ;)
..that it would include a soundtrack of the same title ;)
So if MS sponsors an open source project they use and benefit from (let's say something from *BSD), does that make them innocent?
>Where do you buy those by the way
Right here
> the victim i keep in my basement *will* love me. ;)
Don't you love yourself already?
You mean how much it costs to make one cartridge? Well maybe $10. But how much will they cost to the end user... judging from how much a regular ink jet cartridge costs ($30-40?), this would cost much more.
I bought this one in my local store(in Europe), but I don't know if it's available where you live. Anyway, SAFA SMCD-100R is very slim and light, anti-shock works well and I had no problems with MP3, but some WMA files didn't play correctly. It should play Cd's in Packet-Write, ISO9660, Joliet, Multi-Session. It cost about $100 almost a year ago.
MS may just add different comments(or slightly modify the code) to each licensed source, and when/if they see a leak, they can easily find where the leak is coming from, for example they add something like "#Rewrite this later" on line 135 for your license, "#Redo this part" on line 563 for another license, etc. and when they see source leaked with a comment on line 563, they know which particular license is it coming from.
In Soviet Russia, malicious code is inserted into YOU!
Of course Mac users know that they have a Mac, or it becomes clear when you tell them to right-click "my computer" ;)
Absolutely, my other pc is a PII 350, GF2 MX. And MOH, Warcraft 3 run without problems, I also played AvP2, Mafia, GTA3, Hitman 2, RTCW, SoF, Ground Control, Max Payne (the first one) and many others in 1024x768, mostly with medium details. Even UT2003 was playable on smaller maps (but slowed down on November).
I chose an Asus ADSL modem/router (sorry not in English) with my dsl service, it has built in firewall, ip filter and some more stuff. But they do give a choice and most users would probably chose another lame usb modem.
I'm not sure about online, but LAN co-op games are really fun and don't require m4d 5ki11z, I played it with my dad (not a FPS player) and we both enjoyed it. There are options like unlimited respawns, weapons stay and some more stuff which could help a beginner.
>Linux would cost them 0 baht which converts to US$0..
No, that would convert to #DIVISION BY ZERO
Yeah but what kind of graphics card those laptops have? I don't think it is anything close to radeon 9500/600. Because I have a PIII 900 with S3 Savage or something. Of course it doesn't run halo (ok, I didn't try but thats obvious), it doesn't even run UT fast enough, only in 640x480 is the framerate above 30. So the point is that most notebooks aren't made to play games.
Memory you say? But how much, 512? a Gig? Also the speed is important, get at least DDR400.
Engineer's Papers Dispute Hubble Decision
By DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: February 7, 2004
ASA's decision to abandon its crown scientific jewel, the Hubble Space Telescope, cannot be justified on safety grounds, according to a pair of reports by a NASA engineer that have been circulating in scientific and political circles in the last few days.
The unsigned documents are attracting attention on Capitol Hill, particularly in the House Science Committee, which is expected to discuss the Hubble decision at a meeting on Thursday.
Advertisement
"We're reviewing the Hubble decision, looking at it very closely," said a spokesman for Representative Sherwood Boehlert, Republican of New York and chairman of the committee. "We're going to be examining the views in this particular document as well as a whole host of others."
The documents have also created a buzz among astronomers, who hope that their wider distribution will help spark a larger debate about the telescope's fate. The reports have deepened astronomers' skepticism that safety and not politics and money was the issue last month when Sean O'Keefe, the NASA administrator, announced the cancellation of the space shuttle's planned 2006 maintenance visit to the telescope. As a result, the telescope will probably die in orbit within three years, astronomers say, instead of lasting into the early part of the next decade as originally planned.
In explaining his decision, Mr. O'Keefe had cited a recommendation of the board that investigated the Columbia space shuttle disaster last year that NASA must develop a way to inspect and repair damage to the shuttle's thermal protection system.
While the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was committed to developing this ability for missions to the International Space Station, which could serve as a "safe haven" for the astronauts if the shuttle was damaged, Mr. O'Keefe said it was too risky and expensive to develop an "autonomous" inspection and repair capability for a single mission to the telescope.
The new reports challenge Mr. O'Keefe's conclusion, citing data and references from NASA documents in arguing that the administrator's statement "cannot be supported."
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board recommendations and NASA's plans for "return to flight" include ultimately developing just such an ability to inspect and repair the tiles independently of the station. That autonomous ability is needed because the shuttle might fail to make it to the space station, or the space station may become too big and complex to serve as a repair base, according to the papers.
One of the reports concludes that missions to the telescope "are as safe as or perhaps safer than" space station missions "conducted in the same time frame."
The author is a NASA engineer who wrote the reports based on internal data and who declined to be identified for fear of losing his job. Copies of the documents were provided to The New York Times by an astronomer who is not part of NASA and opposes the decision to let the telescope die.
"Those documents certainly undercut the public position of the agency," said Dr. Garth Illingworth, an astronomer at the University of California at Santa Cruz and a member of a committee that advises NASA on space science.
Dr. Illingworth added that it was important to open up debate on these issues. "We need to get real information out there, and not just have a few people in NASA saying we know what's best," he said.
A Congressional staff member who was given the documents said they appeared to be credible. "We are taking them seriously," he said. Referring to the requirement of an autonomous repair capability, he said, "NASA's going to have to spend the money to do this" if the agency follows the accident board's recommendations.
The documents also argue that missions to the space station might actually be riskier than going to the space telescope for several reasons. Because of the space
Yeah, Halo often slows down on my main box (2.6), but I played C&C Generals on my old one (PII 350, GF2 MX400) without problems, except for some huge battles, but it was still playable.
Of course they couldn't call it WWME - World-Wide Media Exchange
"Microsoft" and "released the source code" in one sentence! Never though this was possible 8)
There is a videoconferencing watch, running linux! Its right on this page.
The developers are busy doing something useful.
What I don't understand is how they are going to keep the cost down, after all 3 PPC won't be cheap + graphics chip faster/better then the R400? OK I know this would be some time from now, but I don't think the prices can drop so much.
If they can put enough flash memory on that, then why can't it replace a hard drive? Or external hard drive could be used (USB 2.0), lowering the cost but still providing an option for playing old games and using more features(downloading stuff).
Here you go:
Imagine a beowulf cluster of GMs!