On September 11th, 2001, I said "oh shit, time to watch Bush bomb the fuck out of the Middle East now."
And I live 50 miles from lower Manhattan.
There are dumbfucks like Osama bin Laden that will pull that kind of shit all the time. He got lucky and made the first major international terrorist strike on American property. How is this different from the acts of terrorism that are committed against Middle Eastern and European cities and countries every day?
My Athlon 2600+ is good at being a space heater when I run emerge -uD world!
But the Thermaltake fan I have on there doubles as a jet engine. 5000 RPM. Does a great job of moving the heat out to the room though.
Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems like Via and nVidia have the chipsets and Asus/Abit/whoever do motherboards and they make great designs for AMD chips, and they're not too pricey. I just put together an Athlon 2600+ box. The chip itself cost $80 and the Asus A7V880 was $60-something. Now let's see, a P4 that has real-world performance (not clock speed) comparable to that Athlon would probably cost over $100.
I'm perfectly happy with this AMD box. The Athlon works great, the A7V880 has onboard audio and LAN, and I wanted something better than an 845 so I got a GeForce FX5500 card. $600 ain't bad for all the stuff I got in here.
This is why quantum physics gets so confusing.
Thinking about it almost requires you to create a new theory of what you're thinking about.
That and how it only describes very small things.
Do we have two sets of physics laws now?
On embedded devices like cable modems it's a bit harder to do but the MAC is always changeable. Most home routers now offer "MAC cloning" so that it looks like you have the original PC that you set up the service with connected to the cable modem still while you can share the connection over the router.
And it's trivially easy to change the MAC address of a NIC in Linux and probably most other *nix systems.
"ifconfig [iface] hw [class] [address]"
How can you say that a standard of living can be too high?
That seems like one of the most horrible things someone could possibly say. Just because it's higher than yours you call it "too high" and want to take it away. I bet you'd call it "immoral" too.
"In God We Trust" was added in 1908.
The Pledge of Allegiance wasn't written until the 1950s.
Let's see, what else...
Oh yeah, the Constitution was written and the Revolution was driven by a small wealthy elite interested in maintaining and expanding their wealth and property. Religion had nothing to do with it.
We need to figure out a new display technology before wearable computers will work. The laser beam that scans across the retina seems like a good possibility.
Until then, however, I don't want a mobile communications platform because of the impossibility of reading web pages on a 2" LCD.
What are they talking about?
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"If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it's not your computer any more."
Your point about that is valid.
What I find more amusing is that it only holds true for operating systems that a) don't distinguish between normal users and administrators and b) don't have real filesystem permissions.
If bad guy X persuades me to run his program on one of my Linux boxen, it's not going to be able to do much other than trash my/home without me giving it root permission, which hopefully I won't be stupid enough to do.
Whereas in Windows, the default user IS the superuser. Bad guy X can then hit any number of holes related to ActiveX and whatnot in IE to put his program on the computer and do whatever he wants.
So I guess TFA's assumption holds true as long as you're running an MS-built operating system instead of a UNIX.
Except that the signal still has to bounce up and down and then through whatever gateways and routers are along the path to the other end. My ping to my CMTS is in the neighborhood of 15ms.
It wastes the CPU! That's your valid reason right there. If MS releases a version of Windows with a 3D interface, you'll have to upgrade your hardware to render the 3D interface, thus extending the hardware upgrade-software upgrade cycle and putting more money into Intel/AMD/nVidia/ATi.
Can't forget/etc. Big pile of configurations in no real order.
That and it's the "if we can't think of anywhere else to put this random text file it goes here" directory.
in loco parentis means that government or specifically appointed persons have the ability to act as guardians when the parents are incapable of doing so.
Around here (suburban NY) all the families and teens have Nextel (ugh) because the PTT feature caught on. So when I walk around at school between classes all I hear is "BLEEP yo what up my homie?"
Not very many people I know have Sprint. I'd say the most popular carriers used in this area are Verizon, Nextel, and Cingular.
My $600 (no MS tax) self-built box is probably running Gentoo a lot faster than your $350 Dell and my $600 probably went a lot farther than it would had I paid a Dell tax.
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Better to link to stories published directly on IBM's website than to Roland Piquepaille's "blog" crap.
On September 11th, 2001, I said "oh shit, time to watch Bush bomb the fuck out of the Middle East now." And I live 50 miles from lower Manhattan. There are dumbfucks like Osama bin Laden that will pull that kind of shit all the time. He got lucky and made the first major international terrorist strike on American property. How is this different from the acts of terrorism that are committed against Middle Eastern and European cities and countries every day?
...and thought "Public display of affection"? I thought they were saying Japan was going to film porno on the streets or something!
As a New York resident, I like to think of Bush as just one more of the problems with Connecticut.
My Athlon 2600+ is good at being a space heater when I run emerge -uD world! But the Thermaltake fan I have on there doubles as a jet engine. 5000 RPM. Does a great job of moving the heat out to the room though.
NiCd is out of date by a good while. I'd bet that the only major use of NiCd batteries is in consumer-grade rechargeables from the 90s.
Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems like Via and nVidia have the chipsets and Asus/Abit/whoever do motherboards and they make great designs for AMD chips, and they're not too pricey. I just put together an Athlon 2600+ box. The chip itself cost $80 and the Asus A7V880 was $60-something. Now let's see, a P4 that has real-world performance (not clock speed) comparable to that Athlon would probably cost over $100. I'm perfectly happy with this AMD box. The Athlon works great, the A7V880 has onboard audio and LAN, and I wanted something better than an 845 so I got a GeForce FX5500 card. $600 ain't bad for all the stuff I got in here.
American beer is similar to having sex in a canoe. It's fucking close to water.
This is why quantum physics gets so confusing. Thinking about it almost requires you to create a new theory of what you're thinking about. That and how it only describes very small things. Do we have two sets of physics laws now?
On embedded devices like cable modems it's a bit harder to do but the MAC is always changeable. Most home routers now offer "MAC cloning" so that it looks like you have the original PC that you set up the service with connected to the cable modem still while you can share the connection over the router. And it's trivially easy to change the MAC address of a NIC in Linux and probably most other *nix systems. "ifconfig [iface] hw [class] [address]"
Has Donald Trump patented his hair then?
How can you say that a standard of living can be too high? That seems like one of the most horrible things someone could possibly say. Just because it's higher than yours you call it "too high" and want to take it away. I bet you'd call it "immoral" too.
Time for the car of the future that drives itself!
"In God We Trust" was added in 1908. The Pledge of Allegiance wasn't written until the 1950s. Let's see, what else... Oh yeah, the Constitution was written and the Revolution was driven by a small wealthy elite interested in maintaining and expanding their wealth and property. Religion had nothing to do with it.
We need to figure out a new display technology before wearable computers will work. The laser beam that scans across the retina seems like a good possibility. Until then, however, I don't want a mobile communications platform because of the impossibility of reading web pages on a 2" LCD.
Everyone knows Santa has a time machine.
If this is a 2 on that scale... What does 10 mean? "Stick your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye?"
"If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it's not your computer any more." Your point about that is valid. What I find more amusing is that it only holds true for operating systems that a) don't distinguish between normal users and administrators and b) don't have real filesystem permissions. If bad guy X persuades me to run his program on one of my Linux boxen, it's not going to be able to do much other than trash my /home without me giving it root permission, which hopefully I won't be stupid enough to do.
Whereas in Windows, the default user IS the superuser. Bad guy X can then hit any number of holes related to ActiveX and whatnot in IE to put his program on the computer and do whatever he wants.
So I guess TFA's assumption holds true as long as you're running an MS-built operating system instead of a UNIX.
Except that the signal still has to bounce up and down and then through whatever gateways and routers are along the path to the other end. My ping to my CMTS is in the neighborhood of 15ms.
It wastes the CPU! That's your valid reason right there. If MS releases a version of Windows with a 3D interface, you'll have to upgrade your hardware to render the 3D interface, thus extending the hardware upgrade-software upgrade cycle and putting more money into Intel/AMD/nVidia/ATi.
Can't forget /etc. Big pile of configurations in no real order.
That and it's the "if we can't think of anywhere else to put this random text file it goes here" directory.
in loco parentis means that government or specifically appointed persons have the ability to act as guardians when the parents are incapable of doing so.
That and Motorola's oh-so-wonderful bleep sound and the huge speakers they put into the iDEN phones so you can hear it from 100 feet away!
Around here (suburban NY) all the families and teens have Nextel (ugh) because the PTT feature caught on. So when I walk around at school between classes all I hear is "BLEEP yo what up my homie?" Not very many people I know have Sprint. I'd say the most popular carriers used in this area are Verizon, Nextel, and Cingular.
My $600 (no MS tax) self-built box is probably running Gentoo a lot faster than your $350 Dell and my $600 probably went a lot farther than it would had I paid a Dell tax.