I should have pointed out that I was trying to show how bad this article is. I know XP isn't a total rewrite (even longhorn isn't a TOTAL rewrite) but this um well educated person apparently doesn't!
I wasn't aware of this....ehh...I thought XP was just modified Win2k code (and I remember my early XP alphas/betas looked exactly like Win2k...same with Server 2003...)
Was it a "good idea" for Microsoft to rewrite Windows as XP and Server 2003? I don't know, it's their code, they can do whatever they like with it. But I do know that they had a fairly solid, reasonable system with Windows 2000 - quite reliable, combining the better aspects of Windows NT with the multimedia capabilities of Windows 98. Maybe it wasn't perfect, and there were a lot of bugs and vulnerabilities - but was it really a good idea to start from scratch? They billed this as if it was a good thing. It wasn't. It simply introduced a whole slew of new bugs and vulnerabilities, not to mention the instability. It's just another example of where a total rewrite didn't really do anyone any good. I don't think anyone is using Windows for anything so different now than they were when Windows 2000 was around, and yet we're looking at a 100% different codebase. Windows Server 2003 won't even run some older software, which must be fun for those users...
Q: WHY MP3 ?
A: MP3 is the most popular and universal format for digital music. It is the format that people most want, that is the easiest to play freely without any restrictions.
We are also considering selling other files formats such as the second generation of lossy formats such as AAC or ogg or even lossless compressed formats such as FLAC or Monkeysaudio. If people are willing to pay a premium for the bandwidth cost they incur, then even 24bit versions of files could be sold.
If they could somehow program Dx10 so it was backwards compatiable with cards now (such as radeon 9800 etc), if I'd bought such a card I'd be quite annoyed if there wasn't decent support for it in the future.
DX10 will work fine with your new card. DX has always done this. DX9 works fine with DX8 cards like the Radeon 9000/9100 and GeForce4 series.
However the cards do not have support for the new features of DX10 (like PS/VS3/4 etc). The cards can work with the new software, and do, but the hardware just isn't there.
"Ok, we gave him the vaccine 2 weeks ago... let's expose him to the virus and see what happens...."
RTFA! Or maybe it wasn't that article but another I read. Anyway, they're not going to be exposing anyone to ebola, they're just seeing if the vaccine is safe on humans. Not that I'll be raising my hand to volunteer or anything.
I got the feeling that if they determine this is safe they'll do larger human trials, then start innoculating people and seeing if this works when people get exposed to ebola in the wild. I don't think they could ethically expose people to ebola to test this out.
Anyway, seriously, while I see the issue about cryptography preventing terrorists being phone tapped, i'm less than enthusiastic about them being able to tap just anyone.
For that matter the ability of any kid with the right equipment to pick phone conversations out of the air, like that record that got released a few years back...
Yes, any kid with the right equipment can pick up your phone conversations. But if that kid has the resources to illegally acquire $100k equipment and wants to listen in on your phone conversation you probably have other things to worry about.
Old analog phones could easily be tapped into, but todays digital CDMA and GSM phones use many encryption methods (dynamically changing keys, etc....CDMA moreso than GSM..especially now that GSM has that vulnerability...which even so makes it REALLY difficult and pricey...but anyway) to keep this from happening. Usually its just easier to subpoena the phone company to have the line listened to.
We do about the same thing in Oklahoma. It works quite well too, its a strip and you connect the lines of the canidate you want with a magnetic pen, stick it in the giant scanner thing and it counts the vote and you go home. Instant results, too.
I for one recognize our new windows modifying overlords!
yes it was lame. i don't even know if i got it right. oh well.
3 Microsofts Mappoint...please do not kill me!
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yes this will probably get me flamed to hell...
but i love microsoft's mappoint. it has pretty good maps and shows where theres construction on roads and the time periods the construction goes through. (i.e. there is construction for the next 20 miles on i-40 east from august 2, 2002 to october 4, 2004) and it has an easy to use interface, but i haven't tried it with anything but IE so it will probably kill mozilla or something.
i've also used expedia.com which i have found to be horrible, and i used to use mapquest on a regular basis but that was before i found that it would get me lost when in town and then when it sent me 150 miles out of the way when going to toronto.
wheee mappoint!
Actually, someone has. Volkswagon Phaeton
$60k-$100k is currently out of most of our price ranges, however it does exist.
A further possibility for controlling the atmosphere in the Phaeton is offered by the sliding sunroof. It may be had in both glass and solar versions as an option. The sunroof is operated via a preselector in the roof-mounted console. The solar sunroof is the biggest of its kind on the market. The 28 integrated solar cells provide 24 Watts of energy, which is also used to power the electric fan when the vehicle is at a standstill. In the summer this reduces the interior temperature by up to 20 degrees. Unpleasant air currents and loud wind noise when the roof is open are prevented by a speed-sensitive, electronically-controlled wind deflector.
I used to use a Sanford uniball Gel Impact, but the ink runs out too fast...I found as a student, I can't afford to buy a new $2pen every 4 days. So right now I'm using a uniball Vision Elite. It looks very streamlined and writes as smooth as the Gel Impact but it doesn't use as much ink, so I'm going through one every two weeks. You can get refills too, at $2 for two. The pens themselves are usually $8 or $9 for a 4 pack. They're pretty. I've found Sanford's pens cost more (for semi disposable pens) but are well worth it. They're easy on my hands, too. Sanford
Chances are since this test was done on 3G in Europe, they didn't test anything like CDMA2000 (US, Asia) or EDGE or GSM1x (bastardized GSM by Qualcomm combining cdma2000 data/voice and gsm voice)
I think this is just WCDMA/UMTS.
I'm wondering what the impact of CDMA2000 1xEVDO and 1xEVDV would have, if any (since those may be the primary 3G systems in the US).
No, its not 1 in 1000, its 1/1000th of a percent.
1*1000=1%
*100%=100000
so i guess its 1 in 100000
And that would mean that there are around 84 million file sharers around. Does that figure seem a little low to anyone else?
Are they doing a direct trade off where they ramp up the clockspeed and break the instructions down so that less is getting done per clock or something?
Yes, thats exactly what they are doing. The P4 pipeline is 20 stages, and the P3s is something like 10. The longer pipeline helps them to ramp up speed, but at the cost of efficiency. Wheeeee.
YOU may have been having similar problems, but this is not the same thing. Half of Cingular's network is down. This started on Friday. This is one person having problems such as in your case, this is millions of people.
And I think if it couldn't find service and shut off maybe power cycling your phone would help...
Yeah...apparently the problem started in Atlanta. Something went out there, and it switched over to a backup in Chicago, and I guess it couldn't handle the extra traffic so there was a cascading failure? Wait a minute, this sounds familiar...
This is only on Cingular's GSM, not their TDMA. Those with TDMA and GAIT phones are able to use the service normally.
Also, it seems like its only around mid america to the east coast.
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I thought this was one of those things the DMCA made illegal?
All Sprint phones made in the last two years have this. Its just E911 really, although maybe there will be some location based services in the future.
I should have pointed out that I was trying to show how bad this article is. I know XP isn't a total rewrite (even longhorn isn't a TOTAL rewrite) but this um well educated person apparently doesn't!
Was it a "good idea" for Microsoft to rewrite Windows as XP and Server 2003? I don't know, it's their code, they can do whatever they like with it. But I do know that they had a fairly solid, reasonable system with Windows 2000 - quite reliable, combining the better aspects of Windows NT with the multimedia capabilities of Windows 98. Maybe it wasn't perfect, and there were a lot of bugs and vulnerabilities - but was it really a good idea to start from scratch? They billed this as if it was a good thing. It wasn't. It simply introduced a whole slew of new bugs and vulnerabilities, not to mention the instability. It's just another example of where a total rewrite didn't really do anyone any good. I don't think anyone is using Windows for anything so different now than they were when Windows 2000 was around, and yet we're looking at a 100% different codebase. Windows Server 2003 won't even run some older software, which must be fun for those users...
taken from the bleep.com faq section...
Q: WHY MP3 ?
A: MP3 is the most popular and universal format for digital music. It is the format that people most want, that is the easiest to play freely without any restrictions. We are also considering selling other files formats such as the second generation of lossy formats such as AAC or ogg or even lossless compressed formats such as FLAC or Monkeysaudio. If people are willing to pay a premium for the bandwidth cost they incur, then even 24bit versions of files could be sold.
DX10 will work fine with your new card. DX has always done this. DX9 works fine with DX8 cards like the Radeon 9000/9100 and GeForce4 series.
However the cards do not have support for the new features of DX10 (like PS/VS3/4 etc). The cards can work with the new software, and do, but the hardware just isn't there.
"Ok, we gave him the vaccine 2 weeks ago... let's expose him to the virus and see what happens...."
RTFA! Or maybe it wasn't that article but another I read. Anyway, they're not going to be exposing anyone to ebola, they're just seeing if the vaccine is safe on humans. Not that I'll be raising my hand to volunteer or anything.
I got the feeling that if they determine this is safe they'll do larger human trials, then start innoculating people and seeing if this works when people get exposed to ebola in the wild. I don't think they could ethically expose people to ebola to test this out.
For that matter the ability of any kid with the right equipment to pick phone conversations out of the air, like that record that got released a few years back...
Yes, any kid with the right equipment can pick up your phone conversations. But if that kid has the resources to illegally acquire $100k equipment and wants to listen in on your phone conversation you probably have other things to worry about.
Old analog phones could easily be tapped into, but todays digital CDMA and GSM phones use many encryption methods (dynamically changing keys, etc....CDMA moreso than GSM..especially now that GSM has that vulnerability...which even so makes it REALLY difficult and pricey...but anyway) to keep this from happening. Usually its just easier to subpoena the phone company to have the line listened to.
But I couldn't find what the hell the contest was. What it involved, what the people had to do. Would anyone care to enlighten me?
We do about the same thing in Oklahoma. It works quite well too, its a strip and you connect the lines of the canidate you want with a magnetic pen, stick it in the giant scanner thing and it counts the vote and you go home. Instant results, too.
for those of us that are now curious but can't afford one!
Java Cube
yes it was lame. i don't even know if i got it right. oh well.
yes this will probably get me flamed to hell...
but i love microsoft's mappoint. it has pretty good maps and shows where theres construction on roads and the time periods the construction goes through. (i.e. there is construction for the next 20 miles on i-40 east from august 2, 2002 to october 4, 2004) and it has an easy to use interface, but i haven't tried it with anything but IE so it will probably kill mozilla or something.
i've also used expedia.com which i have found to be horrible, and i used to use mapquest on a regular basis but that was before i found that it would get me lost when in town and then when it sent me 150 miles out of the way when going to toronto.
wheee mappoint!
Volkswagon Phaeton
$60k-$100k is currently out of most of our price ranges, however it does exist.
A further possibility for controlling the atmosphere in the Phaeton is offered by the sliding sunroof. It may be had in both glass and solar versions as an option. The sunroof is operated via a preselector in the roof-mounted console. The solar sunroof is the biggest of its kind on the market. The 28 integrated solar cells provide 24 Watts of energy, which is also used to power the electric fan when the vehicle is at a standstill. In the summer this reduces the interior temperature by up to 20 degrees. Unpleasant air currents and loud wind noise when the roof is open are prevented by a speed-sensitive, electronically-controlled wind deflector.
wheeeeeeeee!
All the nerds are arriving to their cubicles (myself included) and the site has just been /.ed. Ah well I guess I can look at this later.
I used to use a Sanford uniball Gel Impact, but the ink runs out too fast...I found as a student, I can't afford to buy a new $2pen every 4 days. So right now I'm using a uniball Vision Elite. It looks very streamlined and writes as smooth as the Gel Impact but it doesn't use as much ink, so I'm going through one every two weeks. You can get refills too, at $2 for two. The pens themselves are usually $8 or $9 for a 4 pack. They're pretty. I've found Sanford's pens cost more (for semi disposable pens) but are well worth it. They're easy on my hands, too.
Sanford
I for one welcome our new porn deleting overlords!
Chances are since this test was done on 3G in Europe, they didn't test anything like CDMA2000 (US, Asia) or EDGE or GSM1x (bastardized GSM by Qualcomm combining cdma2000 data/voice and gsm voice)
I think this is just WCDMA/UMTS. I'm wondering what the impact of CDMA2000 1xEVDO and 1xEVDV would have, if any (since those may be the primary 3G systems in the US).
No, its not 1 in 1000, its 1/1000th of a percent. 1*1000=1% *100%=100000 so i guess its 1 in 100000 And that would mean that there are around 84 million file sharers around. Does that figure seem a little low to anyone else?
Yes, thats exactly what they are doing. The P4 pipeline is 20 stages, and the P3s is something like 10. The longer pipeline helps them to ramp up speed, but at the cost of efficiency. Wheeeee.
YOU may have been having similar problems, but this is not the same thing. Half of Cingular's network is down. This started on Friday. This is one person having problems such as in your case, this is millions of people. And I think if it couldn't find service and shut off maybe power cycling your phone would help...
Yeah...apparently the problem started in Atlanta. Something went out there, and it switched over to a backup in Chicago, and I guess it couldn't handle the extra traffic so there was a cascading failure? Wait a minute, this sounds familiar... This is only on Cingular's GSM, not their TDMA. Those with TDMA and GAIT phones are able to use the service normally. Also, it seems like its only around mid america to the east coast.
First power networks, now cell phone networks...PATCH YOUR WINDOWS!
Does anyone else thinks this looks like a $600 football?