Some older ones are, many of the newer cards can easily change the IP address. Many routers have a setup page to clone the MAC address of a network card built into the firmware.
Well, not exactly. That's about $6 for each license, not a legal copy. Schools agreements for enterprise (that just means lots of licenses) pay per seat. Student and teacher licenses are included in this, esp through Microsoft agreements. Your school has found a way to pass some of this cost onto the students. Technically it's yours to use for school purposes only while you are student.
I don't know how it is in other schools, but at IU, what you say isn't true. I pay $5 per CD (usually, patches and suplementary CDs usually are given away for free when the main disks are purchased.) for MS software. This cost is suppose to be for the cost to press the CDs, print up documentation, record keeping for the program, etc. It is not for the license for the disk. IU purchases what equates to a site license for the major MS software (OSs, Office, Visual Studio). They (IU and regional campuses) can then install that software on any number of computers that are school owned and they produce disks to distribute to staff, students, and faculty. I can then buy the disks and install them on any number of computers that I own. When I leave school, I own a legal license for those copies that I currently have posession of. I can even get a real license on requests when I leave school. See more here.
No, it's not predatory pricing. I have basicly the same deal at my school (Indiana Univ regional campus). Any of MS major software is $5 per CD. I can get any of the OSs (except 2000 Server), Office, Visual Studio. Indiana University has paid X amount of dollars to Microsoft for what equates to a site license. For this fee, IU gets the right to produce copies of the disks that they sell to students, staff, and faculty for the $5 fee (which is suppose to cover "costs"). For that $5 fee, I can install that copy of the OS on any number of computers that I personally own.
It is not predatory pricing since I am in reality paying more for the license in the way of technology fees, tuition, etc. You as a taxpayer (if you were in Indiana) also foot a small portion of the bill through taxes. It's not much different the some vendor charging $5 for a copy of Red Hat, Suse, Debian, or Mandrake. They are not charging for the OS (usually), but rather the time and expense of producing the CDs, advertising, mailing, packaging, whatever.
Although I have very little experience in electronics, what would be the purpose to of a DC/DC inverter? Wouldn't it just make a +12DC into -12DC? Or did you mean converter?
It's not. The joke/urban legend/whatever is that everytime the copyright on Steamboat Willie is set to expire, there is another retroactive copyright extension. Trademarks never expire. No one can use the likeness of Mickey Mouse to promote their company. If the copyright to Steam Boat Willie were to expire, it would then be free for anyone to sell, distribute, modify, whatever the cartoon without Disney's permission.
He should have been more clear. Many species of birds can not release excess pressure by "burping". The bird explodes from the buildup of pressure, not from the gasses exploding. The same thing can be done with Alka-Seltzer.
If you just want the privacy of an unlisted number (so people can't look you up to bug you), most phone companies will put your phone number under any name you want. Just tell them to put your name as John Doe. It won't cut down on the telemarketers, but if you ever get a call for John Doe, you could instantly hang up. Plus it saves you a buck or two a month.
The specs for USB 2.0 specify 480 Mbits/sec. Firewire specs are 400 MBits. The difference is that the USB can not substain the high transfer rate. I believe the reason was that USB is a slow protocol. It wasn't designed originaly to transfer large amounts of data quickly.
If a USB 1.x device is present, then the transfer rate is further reduced. USB also has the whole master/slave thing. The master device (usually the computer) has to control the flow of data. This is what the USB On-The-Go will help with.
The PCI bus wouldn't be the bottleneck anymore then what an on-board chipset would do. Most likely the on-board would just be hardwired into the PCI bus. , much like sound/video cards are these days. The slowest PCI busses have about 80-90 MBytes of available bandwidth after accounting for system overhead.
There usually isn't anything that is truely magical about having something built in on the motherboard. The main reason for doing this is cost. The chipset manufacturer can incorperate all the different interfaces (USB, IR, IDE, etc) into one chip cheaper then what it would cost to produce individual chips for all the above, the board space, connectors, etc.
This is one reason why USB has taken off a lot quicker then Firewire. Intel supported USB initially, so it included it in it's chipsets. Firewire wasn't "theirs" so they don't include it. Guess what chipset is used for many motherboards.
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You can go to the same store and buy a Firewire card for about the same price. And for that price, you can get the ability to sustain 400 Mbit transfers where USB 2.0 can only burst to those speeds. FireWire has also been around longer and I think is more mature then USB 2.0. Firewire 2.0 will come eventually, but right now, I think that it still beats USB 2.0 as a technology
No, the recession is the trip down. The depression is what is left in the ground after the recession in this case has ended.
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Your assuming that they transmit every key in it's entirety. You could easily tell each client check the keys in the range of 0x0000 through 0x0FFF, another 0x1000 through 0x1999. So instead of sending 1000 keys @ 8 bytes each, you only have to send 2 keys (start and end) @ 8 bytes. Larger groups would obviously cut down the transfers even farther.
You also don't take into consideration compression.
Yes...I get one about 1 a week. Random BSOD that don't seem to follow any particular pattern. I notice it slightly more occasionally when running WinMX then other applications, but not often enough to conclude it's the application. And I'm running your typical system, not 75 fibre channel drives like the other guy is.
2K and 98SE never seemed to have any problems with the same setup.
A teacher in highschool once told me a student has a choice. They can choose 2 of 3 things: social life, good grades, a job. If all three are chosen, then one or more will untimately suffer.
At the time, no one believed him (remember, we were highschool students who knew everything). To the day, I still use the same idea on many of the things I deal with. Lately its been more like: Quick, cheap, good. Pick 2.
I can't vouch for the accuracy of the maps right now on Amazon, they look like the same maps that were on the Voicestream site. OF course there is the disclaimer that says actual coverage may change blah blah blah.
I don't think your address is blocked. I think that they have a bad server or some other technical problem.
I have been with Voicestream for a year or two now and have been quite happy with them. They are in the midst of switching everything over to T-mobile, so my guess is that they have growing pains and everything is not going as expected. In my experience, their webpage is not indicative of their cellular service.
Try checking out Amazon's cellular store. They have most/all the information that you need, great prices on phones (after rebates) and should have access maps to look at with rate plans.
While you are free to tell your friends/family about your experience, I think that your reaction is kinda extreme. I bet if you called Verizon, Sprint, etc and told them that their webpage was down, they'd either say "Who cares", "Oh, ok" or "Thanks for calling" and then prompty take the next call doing nothing.
Circuit City had a drive 2 weeks ago that broke the $1/gig barrier. It was a 7200 RPM WD 120 GB drive, $129 + tax and there was a $30 rebate. They were labeled as 5400 but they contain a 7200 RPM drive. The same drive packaged as a 7200 RPM drive was like $250. I remember the first harddrive I bought new...a Seagate 330 meg drive for 365. Oh the momories...
Actually, it is not to give them incentive to invent, it is to give them protection that once they invent something, someone can't just go and steal the idea. The incentive is that once a patent is granted, they can then safely (and hopefully) reap the financial rewards from marketing or licensing it. A patent alone is not the incentive.
People still have incentive to invent new things without patents. They can choose to keep them secret and hold on to them for as long as they like. If they do so, and someone out finds a way to duplicate it, then they have no protection.
I once heard the example of this using Intel and Coca-Cola.
Intel invents some new technology...lets say a new super-scaler pipeline for the sake of arguments. They file a patent and must state how it works. AMD can see the patent and how they do it, but they can't duplicate it exactly since it is patented. Intel is granted protection for some period of time. Eventually, this new super-scaler pipeline won't be benificial anymore since a newer super-duper-scaler pipeline was just invented. Then the old expired patent doesn't matter since it is virtually worthless.
Coca-Cola on the otherhand came out with a newly "invented" formula for Coca-Cola. They don't want Pepsi to find out how they make it, so they decide to keep it a trade secret. Coca Cola has the ability to keep it a secret forever...but Pepsi is free to try to duplicate the taste and market their version of the beverage.
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Some older ones are, many of the newer cards can easily change the IP address. Many routers have a setup page to clone the MAC address of a network card built into the firmware.
Didn't read the article or even the summary did you... Towards the bottom of the second page, it states that multiple AGP 3.0 devices are supported.
Not to get too nit-pickey, but they are both wireless so I think the original comment still holds some merit.
I don't know how it is in other schools, but at IU, what you say isn't true. I pay $5 per CD (usually, patches and suplementary CDs usually are given away for free when the main disks are purchased.) for MS software. This cost is suppose to be for the cost to press the CDs, print up documentation, record keeping for the program, etc. It is not for the license for the disk. IU purchases what equates to a site license for the major MS software (OSs, Office, Visual Studio). They (IU and regional campuses) can then install that software on any number of computers that are school owned and they produce disks to distribute to staff, students, and faculty. I can then buy the disks and install them on any number of computers that I own. When I leave school, I own a legal license for those copies that I currently have posession of. I can even get a real license on requests when I leave school. See more here.
No, it's not predatory pricing. I have basicly the same deal at my school (Indiana Univ regional campus). Any of MS major software is $5 per CD. I can get any of the OSs (except 2000 Server), Office, Visual Studio. Indiana University has paid X amount of dollars to Microsoft for what equates to a site license. For this fee, IU gets the right to produce copies of the disks that they sell to students, staff, and faculty for the $5 fee (which is suppose to cover "costs"). For that $5 fee, I can install that copy of the OS on any number of computers that I personally own.
It is not predatory pricing since I am in reality paying more for the license in the way of technology fees, tuition, etc. You as a taxpayer (if you were in Indiana) also foot a small portion of the bill through taxes. It's not much different the some vendor charging $5 for a copy of Red Hat, Suse, Debian, or Mandrake. They are not charging for the OS (usually), but rather the time and expense of producing the CDs, advertising, mailing, packaging, whatever.
Although I have very little experience in electronics, what would be the purpose to of a DC/DC inverter? Wouldn't it just make a +12DC into -12DC? Or did you mean converter?
OR you could just use an already established escrow serivce
It's not. The joke/urban legend/whatever is that everytime the copyright on Steamboat Willie is set to expire, there is another retroactive copyright extension. Trademarks never expire. No one can use the likeness of Mickey Mouse to promote their company. If the copyright to Steam Boat Willie were to expire, it would then be free for anyone to sell, distribute, modify, whatever the cartoon without Disney's permission.
Sorry, since the original post was refering to the cost of having an unlisted number, I was only thinking about that.
He should have been more clear. Many species of birds can not release excess pressure by "burping". The bird explodes from the buildup of pressure, not from the gasses exploding. The same thing can be done with Alka-Seltzer.
I beleive that cold calling a random number isn't against the law. Using a computer to actaully place the call and deliver the message is.
If you just want the privacy of an unlisted number (so people can't look you up to bug you), most phone companies will put your phone number under any name you want. Just tell them to put your name as John Doe. It won't cut down on the telemarketers, but if you ever get a call for John Doe, you could instantly hang up. Plus it saves you a buck or two a month.
Or just get a cellphone.
The specs for USB 2.0 specify 480 Mbits/sec. Firewire specs are 400 MBits. The difference is that the USB can not substain the high transfer rate. I believe the reason was that USB is a slow protocol. It wasn't designed originaly to transfer large amounts of data quickly.
If a USB 1.x device is present, then the transfer rate is further reduced. USB also has the whole master/slave thing. The master device (usually the computer) has to control the flow of data. This is what the USB On-The-Go will help with.
The PCI bus wouldn't be the bottleneck anymore then what an on-board chipset would do. Most likely the on-board would just be hardwired into the PCI bus. , much like sound/video cards are these days. The slowest PCI busses have about 80-90 MBytes of available bandwidth after accounting for system overhead.
There usually isn't anything that is truely magical about having something built in on the motherboard. The main reason for doing this is cost. The chipset manufacturer can incorperate all the different interfaces (USB, IR, IDE, etc) into one chip cheaper then what it would cost to produce individual chips for all the above, the board space, connectors, etc.
This is one reason why USB has taken off a lot quicker then Firewire. Intel supported USB initially, so it included it in it's chipsets. Firewire wasn't "theirs" so they don't include it. Guess what chipset is used for many motherboards.
You can go to the same store and buy a Firewire card for about the same price. And for that price, you can get the ability to sustain 400 Mbit transfers where USB 2.0 can only burst to those speeds. FireWire has also been around longer and I think is more mature then USB 2.0. Firewire 2.0 will come eventually, but right now, I think that it still beats USB 2.0 as a technology
No, the recession is the trip down. The depression is what is left in the ground after the recession in this case has ended.
Your assuming that they transmit every key in it's entirety. You could easily tell each client check the keys in the range of 0x0000 through 0x0FFF, another 0x1000 through 0x1999. So instead of sending 1000 keys @ 8 bytes each, you only have to send 2 keys (start and end) @ 8 bytes. Larger groups would obviously cut down the transfers even farther.
You also don't take into consideration compression.
Yes...I get one about 1 a week. Random BSOD that don't seem to follow any particular pattern. I notice it slightly more occasionally when running WinMX then other applications, but not often enough to conclude it's the application. And I'm running your typical system, not 75 fibre channel drives like the other guy is.
2K and 98SE never seemed to have any problems with the same setup.
A teacher in highschool once told me a student has a choice. They can choose 2 of 3 things: social life, good grades, a job. If all three are chosen, then one or more will untimately suffer.
At the time, no one believed him (remember, we were highschool students who knew everything). To the day, I still use the same idea on many of the things I deal with. Lately its been more like: Quick, cheap, good. Pick 2.
I can't vouch for the accuracy of the maps right now on Amazon, they look like the same maps that were on the Voicestream site. OF course there is the disclaimer that says actual coverage may change blah blah blah.
I don't think your address is blocked. I think that they have a bad server or some other technical problem.
Are you refering to the smell of your skin being burnt? Hmm...I guess that would smell better then most of CKs scents, but no thanks.
I have been with Voicestream for a year or two now and have been quite happy with them. They are in the midst of switching everything over to T-mobile, so my guess is that they have growing pains and everything is not going as expected. In my experience, their webpage is not indicative of their cellular service.
Try checking out Amazon's cellular store. They have most/all the information that you need, great prices on phones (after rebates) and should have access maps to look at with rate plans.
While you are free to tell your friends/family about your experience, I think that your reaction is kinda extreme. I bet if you called Verizon, Sprint, etc and told them that their webpage was down, they'd either say "Who cares", "Oh, ok" or "Thanks for calling" and then prompty take the next call doing nothing.
Circuit City had a drive 2 weeks ago that broke the $1/gig barrier. It was a 7200 RPM WD 120 GB drive, $129 + tax and there was a $30 rebate. They were labeled as 5400 but they contain a 7200 RPM drive. The same drive packaged as a 7200 RPM drive was like $250. I remember the first harddrive I bought new...a Seagate 330 meg drive for 365. Oh the momories...
Global Thermonuclear War?
Actually, it is not to give them incentive to invent, it is to give them protection that once they invent something, someone can't just go and steal the idea. The incentive is that once a patent is granted, they can then safely (and hopefully) reap the financial rewards from marketing or licensing it. A patent alone is not the incentive.
People still have incentive to invent new things without patents. They can choose to keep them secret and hold on to them for as long as they like. If they do so, and someone out finds a way to duplicate it, then they have no protection.
I once heard the example of this using Intel and Coca-Cola.
Intel invents some new technology...lets say a new super-scaler pipeline for the sake of arguments. They file a patent and must state how it works. AMD can see the patent and how they do it, but they can't duplicate it exactly since it is patented. Intel is granted protection for some period of time. Eventually, this new super-scaler pipeline won't be benificial anymore since a newer super-duper-scaler pipeline was just invented. Then the old expired patent doesn't matter since it is virtually worthless.
Coca-Cola on the otherhand came out with a newly "invented" formula for Coca-Cola. They don't want Pepsi to find out how they make it, so they decide to keep it a trade secret. Coca Cola has the ability to keep it a secret forever...but Pepsi is free to try to duplicate the taste and market their version of the beverage.
Yeah, but UANAL, right?