Hey, my little brother has devoted countless hours to Runescape while on sub-56k dialup. It's really not all that bandwidth intensive save for updates. The actual gameplay portion can easily be had with a 28k modem. Just have a little patience (and hope they don't do a slew of updates in a short period of time).
Edgar Allen Poe had an obsession with this sort of thing. He once wrote a short piece on it, detailing one of his nightmares. Apparently he had a medical condition where he was prone to bouts of *extremely* restful sleep, and (rightly?) considered himself at risk.
It was apparently a surprisingly big thing Back In the Day to have some sort of alarm cord you could pull from inside your coffin/crypt/tomb/thing if you were buried alive. (Or so says the English teach.) Just hope you're not cremeated.
Unless you're a Really Big Corporation, you're unlikely to have much sucess suing Microsoft. Any corporation who doesn't realize that... probably deserves to waste lots of money on lawyers.:)
Actually, there is a fascinating research project by IBM, the History Flow tool, which charts the history of a Wikipedia article. Email conversations with the guy in charge have revealed that they are going through the (internal, corporate) motions required to get it released for use, and it may possibly even end up GPLed or something like that.
But adding a page about yourself? Generally considered very bad. Vanity pages, advertising: Bad No. Get an account and stick up a user page, if you want that. (Be aware, however, that Wikipedia is not a free web host. =b)
That's the way Wikinfo works, not Wikipedia. Wikipedia does not, as a policy, state anything about what is good, what is bad, what is right or what is wrong. It states only pure facts and, if there is any dispute about the matter, states who claims what. What you'd have is that "Anti-abortion advocates claim such and such and such and such". This is the essence of NPOV. Try to be descriptive, rather than perscriptive.
Also, there are a few big fat disclaimer notices which tend to get put up on certain pages: Wikipedia is not a source for medical advice, legal advice, et cetera.:)
Google is BIG. VERY VERY BIG. They have server farms all over. What's more, they have different DNS entries depending on which server you look them up from- this helps spread the load out geographically. So, someone Googling on the east coast doesn't get the same server as Google on the west coast. Therefore, though part of Google is down, the rest may yet be up.
Please, tell me: What do you do to reprocess plutonium debris to make it safer? Which materials did you have in mind? Do these materials exist? If so, which are they?
Well, that and the fact that the steel was much more brittle than it should have been. This was due to impurities in the manufacturing process, excabarated by the conditions of the North Atlantic ocean. This wasn't due to cheapness per se, but the fact that no one had really tested the integrity of their steel in subzero arctic salt water. The steel was quite acceptable, otherwise.
That, and just a bit of a design flaw: the ship was secured against flooding in two, three, four compartments... not five or six. Flooding in 6 compartments? Impossible. The only way you'd get that is if you had some sort of iceberg come along and rip the side of the boat off!
They say that if the Titanic had hit the iceberg head on, instead of scraping it across the side, it would not have sunk.
Does the RealPlayer music store also have spyware, like when they bundled New.net in with RealOne? Call me crazy, but I percieve that's not the sort of thing which *Apple* would ever do.
With regards to the GIMP vs Photoshop debate, I'll admit that Photoshop is technologically superior. CMYK color space! A more sophisticated brush engine (dual brushes, hue jitter, wet edges, a totally *insane* amount of choice...) Stuff like that. Its interface is also a somewhere between a lot and a little friendlier, depending on how you like to work.
But face it- if you're Average Joe home user, you have no need for the CMYK color space, or more brush options than you can shake a stick at. So why pay $600 for a piece of software which has it, when you can download the GIMP for free?
I'd just like to see the GIMP team do a $@#!*%*&!%$# multiple-document interface, like everyone complains about, instead of using the project to enforce thier many-documents many-windows paradigm. (Not that commercial software never does this sort of paradigm-enforcement stuff, but they tend to have a bigger incentive not to). =b
PGP/GPG are nice, but they have nothing to do with the anti-spamming technology present in SPF. All SPF is, is special data set in your DNS telling you which hosts are allowed to send mail on behalf of your server. That way when your 0wn3d computer sends mail from "hotgirl@hotmail.com", people can tell it's a fake.
I don't know... what does "implicit information storage" refer to? How am I supposed to take its... err, implicitness? Most of the time, I want my data to be pretty darned explicit, thank you very much. How much explicit storage (think: how many gigs of, erm, valuable research data;) could you get off of these?
How well do the laptops handle pressure sensitivity in artistic applications? I know that a Wacon Cintiq has "512 layers of pressure sensitivity" (more than enough for me), but it runs about $2500 each (after a $1000 price drop, mind you!) If I were to do my web comic (link delibrately left blank, go away/.:) with a new tablet like this, would it be reasonably sensitive, or just on-off? Would I be better off with a regular old drawing tablet, where I can't look at it and see the screen as well?
Just like my shiny new IBM ThinkPad from my university. On the other hand I've managed a 96% faculty-dependant tution-concession rebate. I'm all for this sort of stuff.
And if I can get our local Tech Quarters to run a pilot program of some sort, all the better.;)
Lilo, no. Grub? Not on a box with important stuff. On the other hand, I have mixed up the order of certain arguments to tar -xzf and wiped the Important file.:)
The trick is basically a permissions system for memory. If the memory isn't in a certain range, you can't (write to|execute) it. This keeps you from executing your data section, or writing over your code. This prevents buffer overflows from being exploted with the "arbitraty code injection" that you hear so much about.
But it doesn't prevent the overflow, just the injection. This leaves your program free to (behave poorly|crash).
I thought the major point of a virus wasn't to cause damage and harm to humans and evil stuff like that... the point of viruses is to make the machine your zombie and send spam.
Speaking of which, I wanted a HP ProLiant DL145 (dual 1.8opterons, 2 gigabytes of RAM). They said about 3 weeks. Then, after three weeks, the figure slipped to about three months.
ahem You know, guys, when Dell builds your server all custom-like, they actually have the parts to do it!!! =b
(I've whined about this before, and have since switched to an IBM.)
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Hey, my little brother has devoted countless hours to Runescape while on sub-56k dialup. It's really not all that bandwidth intensive save for updates. The actual gameplay portion can easily be had with a 28k modem. Just have a little patience (and hope they don't do a slew of updates in a short period of time).
It was apparently a surprisingly big thing Back In the Day to have some sort of alarm cord you could pull from inside your coffin/crypt/tomb/thing if you were buried alive. (Or so says the English teach.) Just hope you're not cremeated.
It's implemented in wetware. Solution exists between keyboard and chair. :)
And sue Britannica? Eh? Over what?
Actually, there is a fascinating research project by IBM, the History Flow tool, which charts the history of a Wikipedia article. Email conversations with the guy in charge have revealed that they are going through the (internal, corporate) motions required to get it released for use, and it may possibly even end up GPLed or something like that.
You're referring to Bomis. Apparently they're big in the internet porn industry, or so I'm repeatedly told. :)
Yes. :) If it makes it through Votes for Deletion it's generally OK. :)
But adding a page about yourself? Generally considered very bad. Vanity pages, advertising: Bad No. Get an account and stick up a user page, if you want that. (Be aware, however, that Wikipedia is not a free web host. =b)
Also, there are a few big fat disclaimer notices which tend to get put up on certain pages: Wikipedia is not a source for medical advice, legal advice, et cetera. :)
Google is BIG. VERY VERY BIG. They have server farms all over. What's more, they have different DNS entries depending on which server you look them up from- this helps spread the load out geographically. So, someone Googling on the east coast doesn't get the same server as Google on the west coast. Therefore, though part of Google is down, the rest may yet be up.
Please, tell me: What do you do to reprocess plutonium debris to make it safer? Which materials did you have in mind? Do these materials exist? If so, which are they?
That, and just a bit of a design flaw: the ship was secured against flooding in two, three, four compartments... not five or six. Flooding in 6 compartments? Impossible. The only way you'd get that is if you had some sort of iceberg come along and rip the side of the boat off!
They say that if the Titanic had hit the iceberg head on, instead of scraping it across the side, it would not have sunk.
Does the RealPlayer music store also have spyware, like when they bundled New.net in with RealOne? Call me crazy, but I percieve that's not the sort of thing which *Apple* would ever do.
But face it- if you're Average Joe home user, you have no need for the CMYK color space, or more brush options than you can shake a stick at. So why pay $600 for a piece of software which has it, when you can download the GIMP for free?
I'd just like to see the GIMP team do a $@#!*%*&!%$# multiple-document interface, like everyone complains about, instead of using the project to enforce thier many-documents many-windows paradigm. (Not that commercial software never does this sort of paradigm-enforcement stuff, but they tend to have a bigger incentive not to). =b
You don't release articles under the GPL, by and large - though it can be done, there are better ways: you use one of the Creative Commons licenses or possibly the GNU Free Documentation License, like Wikipedia.
PGP/GPG are nice, but they have nothing to do with the anti-spamming technology present in SPF. All SPF is, is special data set in your DNS telling you which hosts are allowed to send mail on behalf of your server. That way when your 0wn3d computer sends mail from "hotgirl@hotmail.com", people can tell it's a fake.
Hey, Microsoft willingly employs HTTP as well! Maybe this open-source thing isn't so bad after all!
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Yes. Your video game controller goes into your TV. The cable is supposed to go into the cable modem. Get it right. :)
I don't know... what does "implicit information storage" refer to? How am I supposed to take its... err, implicitness? Most of the time, I want my data to be pretty darned explicit, thank you very much. How much explicit storage (think: how many gigs of, erm, valuable research data ;) could you get off of these?
How well do the laptops handle pressure sensitivity in artistic applications? I know that a Wacon Cintiq has "512 layers of pressure sensitivity" (more than enough for me), but it runs about $2500 each (after a $1000 price drop, mind you!) If I were to do my web comic (link delibrately left blank, go away /. :) with a new tablet like this, would it be reasonably sensitive, or just on-off? Would I be better off with a regular old drawing tablet, where I can't look at it and see the screen as well?
And if I can get our local Tech Quarters to run a pilot program of some sort, all the better. ;)
Lilo, no. Grub? Not on a box with important stuff. :)
On the other hand, I have mixed up the order of certain arguments to tar -xzf and wiped the Important file.
But it doesn't prevent the overflow, just the injection. This leaves your program free to (behave poorly|crash).
I'm not afraid about "killer numbers"... but keep those penis-melting Zionist robot combs far, far away from me!
Oh, wait. Yeah, I guess you're right. Never mind.
ahem You know, guys, when Dell builds your server all custom-like, they actually have the parts to do it!!! =b
(I've whined about this before, and have since switched to an IBM.)