agreed. Xscale had lots of early promise, but alternatives such as Ti's OMAP offer better performance for lower power consumption - simply compare the performance of the Sharp Zaurus with its 400MHz PXA270 against the Nokia N800 with its 400MHz OMAP, the latter beats it hands down.
However, Xscale was a key Intel product for handhelds, and so I was not the only one puzzled when Intel sold Xscale to Marvell, and it was not until the Atom appeared that all became clear.
long long ago in the mists of time I worked for PSINet Inc's UK division, which had previously been EUNet GB before it was bought by PSI. One of the old EUNet machines called "nelson", an old Sun Sparc 5 (or maybe it was a 10, I forget), was both a name server and resolver, and had existed since some of the earliest days of the internet in the UK.
when the old eunet service was finally shut down, there were still a considerable number of people using it as a resolver, and there were still live domains hosted on it where we're been unable to find anyone able to move them!
the/24 IP block was quite useful, so it was re-routed to a different site, and no sooner than machines were deployed on that address, DNS queries began to arrive despite the whole IP block having been unused and unroutable for about a year!
my point is that you can get 99% of the internet to accept updates, but there's a huge number of neglected legacy systems which never get reconfigured because people often don't even know they're there!
rising to the bait, there are fundamental problems to Africa, the two key ones are corruption in the governments and the continuous fighting within and between countries (for resources and between tribes). The D.R. Congo should be one of the richest countries in the world with its unequalled wealth of mineral resources, but years of corruption, greed and fighting have ensured its ability to exploit those resources are minimal.
another key problem is that foreign governments have caused major problems. for example, when Belgium controlled one part of Africa they deemed it unncessary to have much if any higher education, so there are very few universities, and thus people's education plateaus.
the corporate denials were being taken with a very big pinch of salt by everybody... sure, they weren't in talks with *Sony* to put a Bluray drive into it.
phew, at least that dilemma is sorted out. just one big one left...
the next 360 game should be Steve Ballmer on a snow board chasing Jerry Yang, trying to hit him with a chair, called Yamped!
with eight pockets, per corner of cube, plus one in the middle of each wall, 3D pool or billiards or snooker would be pretty tricky game. I think you'd have to relax some of the rules about fouling, and you'd need to wear protection against being hit by a particularly fast ball!
the bbc's cbeebies have a number of games, many are lightweight fun games, some have a little learning (reading), and a few are very good. the nice thing is that you could whitelist that web page and be fairly sure there's nothing nasty on that sub URL.
crayon physics, numpty physics, pocket physics, are all pretty good and offer somewhat similar ideas. there's a flash based variant called magic pen.
google for the others since you'd need to install an application.
Actually, most SSL providers barely check identity, relying on email only which is pretty crap to be honest. To rectify this they have introduced a new tighter specification ssl cert which of course costs more money, but since 95% of the public barely know what https means, it's all pretty pointless.
the secret is to have two paypal accounts, one for receiving payment, and as soon as payment is received to sweep the money into the other. so if the buyer demands a refund, there's no money for paypal to claw back - not only is there no money, but you make sure the account is not linked to any cards or bank, so that paypal can't go after them either.
that's not even completely valid. there was a hack to the earliest unix C compilers which recognised if they were compiling login.c and inserted a back door. If the compiler detected it was compiling the compiler, it inserted the code which looked for compiling login. Then, the non-hacked compiler and login were put back to make the system look innocent.
read more
So, you actually need to examine the program with a debugger. Oh wait, the debugger might be compromised too so as to hide the backdoor!
I had to downgrade to old version of google earth because v4 wouldn't import GPX track logs, has anyone been able to see if this bug has been fixed in the new release?
I get the track logs because I use a tomtom GO (linux based!) and a 3rd party tracker application which uses the tomtom SDK/API - see http://www.opentom.org/Event_Logger
let me fix that for you. you can omit the second half of this sentence thus:
"first year college students... MOST of them do not know the first thing."
SPF doesn't stop spam by itself, it's one tool. Ironically, spammers were early adopters of SPF say postini, now owned by google, and valid SPF for an email's origin can actually be an indicator of spam!
I've had very little spam that actually came from googlemail, maybe two items in a year. I've had a lot of spam that purported to come from googlemail, but examination of the headers quickly revealed it was simply faking the origin.
they treat you but don't let you go until your finger has healed or you can pay, if you can't pay they take a kidney on deposit against a loan to pay it back!
I've seen twitter used usefully, but by and large people who post "what I'm currently doing" to twitter, jaiku, facebook etc are people who're filled with a massive sense of their own value such that they think other people are waiting excitedly to hear of every tedious thing that happens in the twitterer's life.
I think many people who blog, twitter, jaiku and facebook-micro-blog secretly want to star on Big Brother or other banal reality TV crappy show but simply don't have the popular appeal.
Your post explains a lot. I don't do much P2P, I don't run the client full time, and the only thing I share are my downloads of drivers and freeware/shareware that you can get from anywhere, but this includes my varied collection of soundblaster drivers for the live!value! and 5.1 series. These always seem to be very popular downloads, and it surprised me up till now until you said that Creative don't let you download the full suite anymore.
Why do I keep multple drivers around?
I bought a soundblaster live! value card and added an S/PDFIF in/out adaptor from Hoontech. I went through hell trying to find drivers that actually showed the digital input and allow me to control what the card did.
I use that card in a multimedia PC, it connects to my DVB-S digital satellite receiver to record BBC radio programs in very high quality, far better than DVB-T or DAB!
I never saw frogs and flies, but Astraware have a game called bzzz where you feed the frog by guiding its tongue. My four year old son loves it on wife's Palm TX.
I am not affiliated with www.Astraware.com except as a satisfied customer.
whilst the game is luke-warm for adults, it's a fun game for kids so long as you don't have to explain the overdose of innuendo! The comedy value is quite good, with on-screen comments like "mow my meadow" and "peel my plums": they don't mean much to my four year old, but I have to admit to a schoolboy snigger!
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agreed. Xscale had lots of early promise, but alternatives such as Ti's OMAP offer better performance for lower power consumption - simply compare the performance of the Sharp Zaurus with its 400MHz PXA270 against the Nokia N800 with its 400MHz OMAP, the latter beats it hands down.
However, Xscale was a key Intel product for handhelds, and so I was not the only one puzzled when Intel sold Xscale to Marvell, and it was not until the Atom appeared that all became clear.
mod parent up!
when the old eunet service was finally shut down, there were still a considerable number of people using it as a resolver, and there were still live domains hosted on it where we're been unable to find anyone able to move them!
the /24 IP block was quite useful, so it was re-routed to a different site, and no sooner than machines were deployed on that address, DNS queries began to arrive despite the whole IP block having been unused and unroutable for about a year!
my point is that you can get 99% of the internet to accept updates, but there's a huge number of neglected legacy systems which never get reconfigured because people often don't even know they're there!
X mph is approximately X/2 m/s, so 186mph is approx 93m/s, which is pretty quick.
remember, it's not altitude and speed which kill, is the descending rapidly gaining speed and the sudden stop at the end which does!
you really gotta stop using that old Intel Pentium for your math!
rising to the bait, there are fundamental problems to Africa, the two key ones are corruption in the governments and the continuous fighting within and between countries (for resources and between tribes). The D.R. Congo should be one of the richest countries in the world with its unequalled wealth of mineral resources, but years of corruption, greed and fighting have ensured its ability to exploit those resources are minimal.
another key problem is that foreign governments have caused major problems. for example, when Belgium controlled one part of Africa they deemed it unncessary to have much if any higher education, so there are very few universities, and thus people's education plateaus.
the corporate denials were being taken with a very big pinch of salt by everybody... sure, they weren't in talks with *Sony* to put a Bluray drive into it.
phew, at least that dilemma is sorted out. just one big one left...
the next 360 game should be Steve Ballmer on a snow board chasing Jerry Yang, trying to hit him with a chair, called Yamped!
that's almost a 3D air-hockey?
with eight pockets, per corner of cube, plus one in the middle of each wall, 3D pool or billiards or snooker would be pretty tricky game. I think you'd have to relax some of the rules about fouling, and you'd need to wear protection against being hit by a particularly fast ball!
the bbc's cbeebies have a number of games, many are lightweight fun games, some have a little learning (reading), and a few are very good. the nice thing is that you could whitelist that web page and be fairly sure there's nothing nasty on that sub URL.
crayon physics, numpty physics, pocket physics, are all pretty good and offer somewhat similar ideas. there's a flash based variant called magic pen.
google for the others since you'd need to install an application.
Actually, most SSL providers barely check identity, relying on email only which is pretty crap to be honest. To rectify this they have introduced a new tighter specification ssl cert which of course costs more money, but since 95% of the public barely know what https means, it's all pretty pointless.
according to Larry Niven's Rainbow Mars, it's Yggdrasil which caused Mars to die.
Joking aside, an excellent book.
the secret is to have two paypal accounts, one for receiving payment, and as soon as payment is received to sweep the money into the other. so if the buyer demands a refund, there's no money for paypal to claw back - not only is there no money, but you make sure the account is not linked to any cards or bank, so that paypal can't go after them either.
that's not even completely valid. there was a hack to the earliest unix C compilers which recognised if they were compiling login.c and inserted a back door. If the compiler detected it was compiling the compiler, it inserted the code which looked for compiling login. Then, the non-hacked compiler and login were put back to make the system look innocent. read more
So, you actually need to examine the program with a debugger. Oh wait, the debugger might be compromised too so as to hide the backdoor!
I had to downgrade to old version of google earth because v4 wouldn't import GPX track logs, has anyone been able to see if this bug has been fixed in the new release?
I get the track logs because I use a tomtom GO (linux based!) and a 3rd party tracker application which uses the tomtom SDK/API - see http://www.opentom.org/Event_Logger
let me fix that for you. you can omit the second half of this sentence thus:
"first year college students... MOST of them do not know the first thing."
SPF doesn't stop spam by itself, it's one tool. Ironically, spammers were early adopters of SPF say postini, now owned by google, and valid SPF for an email's origin can actually be an indicator of spam!
I've had very little spam that actually came from googlemail, maybe two items in a year. I've had a lot of spam that purported to come from googlemail, but examination of the headers quickly revealed it was simply faking the origin.
they treat you but don't let you go until your finger has healed or you can pay, if you can't pay they take a kidney on deposit against a loan to pay it back!
MTU is measured in octets, not bits.
I've seen twitter used usefully, but by and large people who post "what I'm currently doing" to twitter, jaiku, facebook etc are people who're filled with a massive sense of their own value such that they think other people are waiting excitedly to hear of every tedious thing that happens in the twitterer's life.
I think many people who blog, twitter, jaiku and facebook-micro-blog secretly want to star on Big Brother or other banal reality TV crappy show but simply don't have the popular appeal.
My my, I'm bitchy today. miaow!
Why do I keep multple drivers around?
I bought a soundblaster live! value card and added an S/PDFIF in/out adaptor from Hoontech. I went through hell trying to find drivers that actually showed the digital input and allow me to control what the card did.
I use that card in a multimedia PC, it connects to my DVB-S digital satellite receiver to record BBC radio programs in very high quality, far better than DVB-T or DAB!
I never saw frogs and flies, but Astraware have a game called bzzz where you feed the frog by guiding its tongue. My four year old son loves it on wife's Palm TX.
I am not affiliated with www.Astraware.com except as a satisfied customer.
whilst the game is luke-warm for adults, it's a fun game for kids so long as you don't have to explain the overdose of innuendo! The comedy value is quite good, with on-screen comments like "mow my meadow" and "peel my plums": they don't mean much to my four year old, but I have to admit to a schoolboy snigger!