That reminds me of those other talking kids toys. I think they were called See-n-Say, or something like that. It was the one with the animals around this circle. You turned this arrow to point to one of them like a cat, and then pull this cord, and the thing would say, "The cat says: meeooww." I found that they had this funny quirk that if you jerked on the string a little while it was playing, it would jump tracks or something and continue playing from one of the other sound bites. I thought it was pretty funny to do at friends' houses who had little kids and one of these things to mess with their minds.
"The dog says [yank] Mooooo!"
Later, in the toy company's continuing product "improvement", they changed it from a string to a lever built into the side, so that didn't work anymore--too bad.
I also live in Boise. I don't think CableOne is that bad, except for the price--$49.95 a month for 500/128 or $59.95 for 1000/200, plus $5 a month modem rental. I was drooling over this Qwest deal. I can get DSL($15) + Qwest.net ISP($7) + modem rental($3) = $25 a month instead of $55! Alas, DSL not available at my address, and I live in Boise! We're not like way out in the boonies; we're right here in the city!
Good grief! You should have gotten the +5 mod, not that guy above. That response, "Hey, you didn't file your lawsuits against all 5 million of us at the same time. You must be picking on my personally--that's discrimination!" is such a crock. I thought it was considered discrimination if you prosecuted people who hadn't broken the law.
"It would be a hard pill for me to swallow if I couldn't play some games in X anymore."
Would it really be that bad to spare a gig of HD space to have a dual-boot install of Win98 that could run the game? I say Win98 because it is not subjected to the exploits that XP has been hit with, is much smaller, and doesn't have the horrible mandatory registration that XP has.
Welcome to slow computer country. Live CDs like Knoppix are great, especially for demo purposes or as a rescue disk, but they are not exactly fast, especially if you are starting larger programs.
I have a story about this one. I have a mostly-working Debian install (except my sound card), but I was running from a Knoppix CD to see if it could configure my sound card and then maybe I would be able to find out what drivers to set up for my real hard drive install. My wife came into the room, on the phone with her dad, and asked if I could pull up a web browser to find a page she wanted to tell her dad about. I answered, "Well, uh, OK." I clicked to open Mozilla, and as it chugged and chugged (300MHz machine with 192MB RAM) she tried to explain to her dad why it was taking so long. "He's using Linux...It's another operating system that tries to copy what Windows does, but generally only computer-people use it because you have to write your own programs for it." At this point, my Mozilla window came up, but the graphics were really distorted because Knoppix hadn't set up the S3 driver for my video card, so it was using vesa or fbdev. It was pretty much unreadable. "Well, it's really slow, and most of the time stuff doesn't work...[to me:]Why do people use it anyway?" I just said that I was a little too upset to answer right now. Later, we discussed why I was so upset about it. I told her that I was running the version from CD to diagnose something, so it's naturally slower and not as good as it's supposed to be. I said that it's like she had come up to someone who has a flat tire by the side of the road, and she asks for a ride. The person may say OK to try to be nice and help out, but while you're riding along, you're complaining about how this car has terrible ride quality and doesn't corner well and is really bumpy. I am trying to learn to use Linux, but it has been a slow-going experience because I am doing it on our secondary computer that doesn't have great hardware. Even Windows doesn't auto-detect my ISA sound card, but it comes with a driver disk that makes it work. I could go spend the $20 each for a new video card and new sound card, but I figure I would like to learn more about how to overcome problems like this and how to search for answers to this stuff online.
The reason other members of the hardware community are so upset, and the reason that Rambus has been the target of so many lawsuits, is that they were on the design commitee which decided upon the spec. for DDR in the first place, and
they presented their technology to the standards working group conveniently without mentioning the fact that they owned patents on the implementation.
You are getting the most important part of this incorrect(in bold). They did not own any patents on the technologies at the time. They sat in the meetings and found out the SDRAM technologies being adopted. Then they amended those technologies onto some of their pending patent filings so that it would appear that they had patented them earlier. They then waited until their amended patents were issued and the industry was in full swing so that it was too late to consider changing.
The reason for this is the RDRAM design. It takes more space on a wafer to produce, and that is why it costs more ( commission to to RAMBUS is another part, but the size difference is the key cost difference ).
Well, to clarify a little bit... The other factor in DDR being much cheaper than RDRAM is that DDR (which is DDR SDRAM) is just an incremental change to the basic SDRAM design--a few extra circuits added, and you're done. RDRAM is a totally different kind of design. You have to basically redesign the whole chip, which is more expense, and the test equipment we use for SDRAM does not work to test RDRAM, so there's huge expenditure there to get the appropriate test equipment. Yes, I do work for a memory manufacturer.
You have just described the entire US cellular industry. Scope out the cellular newsgroups and you will find the same exact complaints stated almost daily about EVERY carrier.
Yeah, I with this one could mod up above 5. This seems to sum up this whole discussion forum. You get testimonials on both sides of every carrier. "[carrier] sucks! They screwed me over." and "I'm with [carrier], and I've never had any problems with them."
People's experiences are going to vary widely depending on what area/market they're in. Within my own town I've heard good and bad testimonials about the carrier I'm with. (Granted that I haven't heard any complaints on here yet about T-Mobile, but for everyone else...)I think the moral might be that you should go with whoever has the best price/coverage for your area.
I have an AT&T local plan for our only home phone. (Dropped the land-line!) I do really like the fact that it covers other major cities as part of that "local" area. I'm in Boise Idaho, but it's still "local" to call from Phoenix, Denver, SLC, etc. I think that's exactly what I want from an inexpensive plan because I don't travel all that often, and if I do, it's usually to a decent sized city. I don't want to have to pay more for a plan that allows me to call from places where I don't go anyway. On the rare occasions I do need to call from outside area, I just use a calling card instead.
compiling...compiling...compiling... and out comes...Clippy! "You look like you're trying to steal Microsoft code. Would you like to get sued for that?"
"Why in the hell do you want to copy windows anyway?"
My answer would be for Linux to get good hardware detection and setup like Windows has. Maybe then some of these modems, soundcards and video cards that work in Windows could also be made to work in Linux. I know the PNP stuff is awful to try to make it work. If that leaked Windows stuff has the specs for their hardware compatibility and PNP configuration code, that could be a great help to getting hardware configuration to be a snap.
When I recently started trying Linux to see if I could migrate, I discovered that I had about the most difficult video card and sound card with respect to Linux. I wonder at the logic of Linux distros having several CDs worth of software and stuff, but not enough on there to setup your hardware. Windows has 1 disc, which doesn't contain a ton of software, but at least can get your computer working.
Projects like ALSA are working hard to make sound cards a plug n play experience, but it's still a big pain, even with cards that have been out for 10 years, and should be pretty simple.
Wow, I didn't even know there was a hall of fame here. I will also contribute to the madness. Yeehaw!
How is that a comparison article?
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Their marketing people should be shot. The title of the page is "5 Reasons to Choose UNIX Instead of Linux". That would imply that this is supposed to be a comparison article. So for each of their 5 points, they should be demonstrating why UNIX is good in that respect and Linux is not. Did anyone notice their failure to do any comparisons until the last one? Do they not have a concept of what comparison and contrast writing is supposed to be?
If their marketing department can get paid good money to come up with remedial logic like that, I want to make a commercial on "Why Ford trucks are better than Chevy trucks" #1 Ford trucks are powerful. #2 Ford trucks have 4WD. #3 Ford trucks come in extended cab models. #4 Ford trucks are made in the U.S. #5 Ford trucks get 100 miles per gallon, while Chevy trucks get 100 gallons per mile. (That's about equivalent to the accuracy of the only comparison SCO makes.)
"AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo use their proprietary messaging protocols and server centralization as strategic pinch points." Exactly. The different protocols are for gaining marketshare. They definitely associate the IM tools with other things that are profitable for them. That is why MS installs their MSN Messenger by default in XP, and it is part and parcel with signing up for a.NET account, so you can do all this amazing stuff on the MSN website. Since this is so great, you should tell all your friends to get on this MSN Messenger network so we can suck their bloo^H^H^H^Hserve their messenging needs, too!
If their Messaging services were all compatible, they would lose the audiences that get attracted to their revenue-generating advertising sites.
It's bad enough that DSL and cable up/down bandwidth is so ridiculously asynchronous that you have to pay COMMERCIAL rates if you want to host anything of consequence on your personal machine. That already is them trying to push the internet-as-TV model on us.
So here's a technical question I have. Cable internet is notoriously asynchronous (I think DSL is less so.), where download bandwidth is much higher than upload bandwidth. Since they use the same cables to send the TV signals, they have to multiplex time/frequency/whatever the TV data with the internet data. Maybe here is my misunderstanding, but I thought there is equal total bandwith in both directions of the cable line. Since the downstream direction also has to carry the TV signals, wouldn't there be extra bandwidth available for our upstream internet connections, since there's no upstream TV data to send?
Is the answer that the cable can't be used both directions at once, so they set some ratio of time/frequency to send more downstream than upstream?
Again, I do not understand this. Linux has some awsome configuration utilities, certainly more than windows, so this can not be barring it's acceptance into the desktop world. What utilities are you missing?
I realize this discussion is mostly about software, so you're probably talking about software configuration, but I've found Linux to be lacking in hardware-related configuration. Better than Windows you say? How do you change your X desktop resolution in Linux? dpkg-reconfigure? It seems not as easy as right-clicking on your background to view properties and then clicking 1024x768. What if you change a drive, video card, etc? I'm sure Linux is better with configuring your servers and whatnot, but for general system configuration, I think it could use some improvement.
I didn't even notice that little "shuttle" difference because it's kind of an offhand line that wasn't very memorable to me. Some of the ones that bother me are a couple of cases where they intentionally took out humorous lines and replaced them with boring stuff that's just lame filler.
In ESB, when R2 has just gotten spit out by that whale-thing on Dagobah, Luke turns him back rightside up and asks him if he's OK. In the original, he says the line, "You're lucky you don't taste very good." It is replaced with "You're lucky to get out of there."
In ROTJ, when Han is hanging off the edge of the skiff on Tatooine, and he gets the blaster so he can shoot the Sarlacc tentacle that's holding Lando, Lando yells, "Wait, I thought you were blind!" In the original, Han's response is, "It's all right. Trust me." It was changed to, "It's all right. I can see a lot better."
Is that some kind of thing to make them easier to understand for non-native English speakers or something? I've never seen any mention of why they messed up clever dialogue like that. It wasn't even a special effect "improvement"; it was just dumbing down the script!
Under this problem, one believes that everything is either good OR bad, black OR white, present OR nonexistent, etc. I think most of you already know what I'm going to say next, and a good deal are likely to stop reading at this point because it's been said so many times before, but I'm going to say it, anyway. The world is full of color and number, beyond the arbitrarily set demarkations of 0s and 1s.
Here I'd like to introduce two of my own personal adages. Nothing is ever so simple as to be yes or no/black or white/etc. if you will take the time to look deeper than just the bare surface; and also, there is an exception to every rule, even the rule that there is an exception to every rule.
I think you may have just overstated your point, but your belief statement contradicts itself. It is a mistake to see everything in black/white, but it is also a mistake to say(as you do) that nothing is black/white. There is such a thing as absolute truth, but not every thing or instance can be immediately cast into a right or wrong side of it.
You would, I hope, agree that there are some things that are wrong. Things like rape, child molestation, murder, etc. are understood to be wrong by pretty much everyone. Those are moral absolutes, and people who say/belive that they are OK are usually either not sane, or just trying to deceive themselves to override their conscience. I belive that God has set some things as right and wrong, regardless of circumstance. Some well known examples are do not kill and do not commit adultry.
There are other things, however, that are not absolute. An example I can think of is drinking. Consuming alcohol is never forbidden or specified as wrong in the Bible. The rightness or wrongness of it can be determined by the situation sometimes. I have friends that don't have any problem with it, and so there would be nothing wrong with having a few drinks while hanging out with these friends. I know other people, though, who are either very opposed to drinking, or are overcoming a long addiction to alcoholism. They would be bothered by my drinking in front of them, and there is no reason I need to do so. It would be wrong in that situation because I'm needlessly causing a problem for them. Romans 14 verses 12-15 explain it with respect to eating certain types of food:
12So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. 13Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way. 14As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. 15If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died.
God gave mankind a conscience to figure out some of these things, but people can corrupt their conscience by rationalizing and convincing themselves that some things are OK. God is still alive, and he'll help through prayer to figure out what's right in things we encounter every day.
[WHATACROCK]You're right, that first poster should have jumped in his time machine to check what this thread would have in it tomorrow and then he could see that someone would follow him up with a "me too" post. Then he could have come back to the present and not posted to avoid that redundant mod.[/WHATACROCK]
Um, so how did this act seem to conveniently forget "It only authorizes entry and inspection by the permission of the defendants. The plaintiff's must get the defendants' permission." This whole entering and searching and seizing without notifying the defendant seems a little counter to how they originally got this act. I suppose that just means that they are not notified in advance, so that when they show up, they have to choose to give permission on the spot.
Holy diagrammed sentence, Batman! It's certainly complicated, and a fairly confusing one, but it is not a run-on sentence. I can break it down if you want, but the gist of it is: MIPI obtained an Anton Pilar order [clauses], and began raiding premises [clauses].
Their only grammatical mistake is that they have a compound predicate, (MIPI obtained...and began raiding...) rather than a compound sentence, so there should not be a comma in there after "Wilcox".
Now let's watch the mod effect; the wrong information gets modded up, while the correct information doesn't.
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That reminds me of those other talking kids toys. I think they were called See-n-Say, or something like that. It was the one with the animals around this circle. You turned this arrow to point to one of them like a cat, and then pull this cord, and the thing would say, "The cat says: meeooww." I found that they had this funny quirk that if you jerked on the string a little while it was playing, it would jump tracks or something and continue playing from one of the other sound bites. I thought it was pretty funny to do at friends' houses who had little kids and one of these things to mess with their minds.
"The dog says [yank] Mooooo!"
Later, in the toy company's continuing product "improvement", they changed it from a string to a lever built into the side, so that didn't work anymore--too bad.
I also live in Boise. I don't think CableOne is that bad, except for the price--$49.95 a month for 500/128 or $59.95 for 1000/200, plus $5 a month modem rental. I was drooling over this Qwest deal. I can get DSL($15) + Qwest.net ISP($7) + modem rental($3) = $25 a month instead of $55!
Alas, DSL not available at my address, and I live in Boise! We're not like way out in the boonies; we're right here in the city!
Some tinfoil hat editor changed the title. It is supposed to be "BudNet Tracks Their Own Suds".
At the point of sale, when it would become "your" suds, they cease tracking it. Now relax and drink your Budwater in peace.
uh, yeah--a bend over and take it, $50+ rate.
Good grief! You should have gotten the +5 mod, not that guy above. That response, "Hey, you didn't file your lawsuits against all 5 million of us at the same time. You must be picking on my personally--that's discrimination!" is such a crock. I thought it was considered discrimination if you prosecuted people who hadn't broken the law.
"It would be a hard pill for me to swallow if I couldn't play some games in X anymore."
Would it really be that bad to spare a gig of HD space to have a dual-boot install of Win98 that could run the game? I say Win98 because it is not subjected to the exploits that XP has been hit with, is much smaller, and doesn't have the horrible mandatory registration that XP has.
"He's using Linux...It's another operating system that tries to copy what Windows does, but generally only computer-people use it because you have to write your own programs for it."
At this point, my Mozilla window came up, but the graphics were really distorted because Knoppix hadn't set up the S3 driver for my video card, so it was using vesa or fbdev. It was pretty much unreadable.
"Well, it's really slow, and most of the time stuff doesn't work...[to me:]Why do people use it anyway?"
I just said that I was a little too upset to answer right now. Later, we discussed why I was so upset about it. I told her that I was running the version from CD to diagnose something, so it's naturally slower and not as good as it's supposed to be. I said that it's like she had come up to someone who has a flat tire by the side of the road, and she asks for a ride. The person may say OK to try to be nice and help out, but while you're riding along, you're complaining about how this car has terrible ride quality and doesn't corner well and is really bumpy.
I am trying to learn to use Linux, but it has been a slow-going experience because I am doing it on our secondary computer that doesn't have great hardware. Even Windows doesn't auto-detect my ISA sound card, but it comes with a driver disk that makes it work. I could go spend the $20 each for a new video card and new sound card, but I figure I would like to learn more about how to overcome problems like this and how to search for answers to this stuff online.
The other factor in DDR being much cheaper than RDRAM is that DDR (which is DDR SDRAM) is just an incremental change to the basic SDRAM design--a few extra circuits added, and you're done. RDRAM is a totally different kind of design. You have to basically redesign the whole chip, which is more expense, and the test equipment we use for SDRAM does not work to test RDRAM, so there's huge expenditure there to get the appropriate test equipment. Yes, I do work for a memory manufacturer.
"Your phone is both out of date"
...and was free.
Gee, it Just Works(TM)
"...and expensive"
Yeah, I with this one could mod up above 5. This seems to sum up this whole discussion forum. You get testimonials on both sides of every carrier. "[carrier] sucks! They screwed me over." and "I'm with [carrier], and I've never had any problems with them."
People's experiences are going to vary widely depending on what area/market they're in. Within my own town I've heard good and bad testimonials about the carrier I'm with. (Granted that I haven't heard any complaints on here yet about T-Mobile, but for everyone else...)I think the moral might be that you should go with whoever has the best price/coverage for your area.
I have an AT&T local plan for our only home phone. (Dropped the land-line!) I do really like the fact that it covers other major cities as part of that "local" area. I'm in Boise Idaho, but it's still "local" to call from Phoenix, Denver, SLC, etc. I think that's exactly what I want from an inexpensive plan because I don't travel all that often, and if I do, it's usually to a decent sized city. I don't want to have to pay more for a plan that allows me to call from places where I don't go anyway. On the rare occasions I do need to call from outside area, I just use a calling card instead.
compiling...compiling...compiling...
and out comes...Clippy!
"You look like you're trying to steal Microsoft code. Would you like to get sued for that?"
"Why in the hell do you want to copy windows anyway?"
My answer would be for Linux to get good hardware detection and setup like Windows has. Maybe then some of these modems, soundcards and video cards that work in Windows could also be made to work in Linux. I know the PNP stuff is awful to try to make it work. If that leaked Windows stuff has the specs for their hardware compatibility and PNP configuration code, that could be a great help to getting hardware configuration to be a snap.
When I recently started trying Linux to see if I could migrate, I discovered that I had about the most difficult video card and sound card with respect to Linux. I wonder at the logic of Linux distros having several CDs worth of software and stuff, but not enough on there to setup your hardware. Windows has 1 disc, which doesn't contain a ton of software, but at least can get your computer working.
Projects like ALSA are working hard to make sound cards a plug n play experience, but it's still a big pain, even with cards that have been out for 10 years, and should be pretty simple.
Wow, I didn't even know there was a hall of fame here. I will also contribute to the madness. Yeehaw!
Their marketing people should be shot. The title of the page is "5 Reasons to Choose UNIX Instead of Linux". That would imply that this is supposed to be a comparison article. So for each of their 5 points, they should be demonstrating why UNIX is good in that respect and Linux is not. Did anyone notice their failure to do any comparisons until the last one? Do they not have a concept of what comparison and contrast writing is supposed to be?
If their marketing department can get paid good money to come up with remedial logic like that, I want to make a commercial on "Why Ford trucks are better than Chevy trucks"
#1 Ford trucks are powerful.
#2 Ford trucks have 4WD.
#3 Ford trucks come in extended cab models.
#4 Ford trucks are made in the U.S.
#5 Ford trucks get 100 miles per gallon, while Chevy trucks get 100 gallons per mile. (That's about equivalent to the accuracy of the only comparison SCO makes.)
"AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo use their proprietary messaging protocols and server centralization as strategic pinch points." .NET account, so you can do all this amazing stuff on the MSN website. Since this is so great, you should tell all your friends to get on this MSN Messenger network so we can suck their bloo^H^H^H^Hserve their messenging needs, too!
Exactly. The different protocols are for gaining marketshare. They definitely associate the IM tools with other things that are profitable for them. That is why MS installs their MSN Messenger by default in XP, and it is part and parcel with signing up for a
If their Messaging services were all compatible, they would lose the audiences that get attracted to their revenue-generating advertising sites.
Is the answer that the cable can't be used both directions at once, so they set some ratio of time/frequency to send more downstream than upstream?
I didn't even notice that little "shuttle" difference because it's kind of an offhand line that wasn't very memorable to me. Some of the ones that bother me are a couple of cases where they intentionally took out humorous lines and replaced them with boring stuff that's just lame filler.
In ESB, when R2 has just gotten spit out by that whale-thing on Dagobah, Luke turns him back rightside up and asks him if he's OK. In the original, he says the line, "You're lucky you don't taste very good." It is replaced with "You're lucky to get out of there."
In ROTJ, when Han is hanging off the edge of the skiff on Tatooine, and he gets the blaster so he can shoot the Sarlacc tentacle that's holding Lando, Lando yells, "Wait, I thought you were blind!" In the original, Han's response is, "It's all right. Trust me." It was changed to, "It's all right. I can see a lot better."
Is that some kind of thing to make them easier to understand for non-native English speakers or something? I've never seen any mention of why they messed up clever dialogue like that. It wasn't even a special effect "improvement"; it was just dumbing down the script!
I think you may have just overstated your point, but your belief statement contradicts itself. It is a mistake to see everything in black/white, but it is also a mistake to say(as you do) that nothing is black/white. There is such a thing as absolute truth, but not every thing or instance can be immediately cast into a right or wrong side of it.
You would, I hope, agree that there are some things that are wrong. Things like rape, child molestation, murder, etc. are understood to be wrong by pretty much everyone. Those are moral absolutes, and people who say/belive that they are OK are usually either not sane, or just trying to deceive themselves to override their conscience. I belive that God has set some things as right and wrong, regardless of circumstance. Some well known examples are do not kill and do not commit adultry.
There are other things, however, that are not absolute. An example I can think of is drinking. Consuming alcohol is never forbidden or specified as wrong in the Bible. The rightness or wrongness of it can be determined by the situation sometimes. I have friends that don't have any problem with it, and so there would be nothing wrong with having a few drinks while hanging out with these friends. I know other people, though, who are either very opposed to drinking, or are overcoming a long addiction to alcoholism. They would be bothered by my drinking in front of them, and there is no reason I need to do so. It would be wrong in that situation because I'm needlessly causing a problem for them. Romans 14 verses 12-15 explain it with respect to eating certain types of food:
12So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
13Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way. 14As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. 15If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died.
God gave mankind a conscience to figure out some of these things, but people can corrupt their conscience by rationalizing and convincing themselves that some things are OK. God is still alive, and he'll help through prayer to figure out what's right in things we encounter every day.
I actually still have a silver certificate. I got it from my grandfather, and it is a special part of my coin collection.
[WHATACROCK]You're right, that first poster should have jumped in his time machine to check what this thread would have in it tomorrow and then he could see that someone would follow him up with a "me too" post. Then he could have come back to the present and not posted to avoid that redundant mod.[/WHATACROCK]
Um, so how did this act seem to conveniently forget "It only authorizes entry and inspection by the permission of the defendants. The plaintiff's must get the defendants' permission." This whole entering and searching and seizing without notifying the defendant seems a little counter to how they originally got this act. I suppose that just means that they are not notified in advance, so that when they show up, they have to choose to give permission on the spot.
Holy diagrammed sentence, Batman!
It's certainly complicated, and a fairly confusing one, but it is not a run-on sentence. I can break it down if you want, but the gist of it is:
MIPI obtained an Anton Pilar order [clauses], and began raiding premises [clauses].
Their only grammatical mistake is that they have a compound predicate, (MIPI obtained...and began raiding...) rather than a compound sentence, so there should not be a comma in there after "Wilcox".
Now let's watch the mod effect; the wrong information gets modded up, while the correct information doesn't.