...where the official graphing calculator is the TI-83. We're given instructions on what buttons to press for various functions (including trigonometric and graphing functions) rather than being told why a postulate or theory works and how to apply it to different problems. Of course, everyone either has a TI-83 or borrows one from the school's set, so we don't have any problems with non-"standard" calculators as of yet. I suppose the cruddy education guidelines in NYS are to blame (Regents exams in almost every required course, etc). I haven't even tried signing up for a computer course yet, but there seems to be a "computer basics" course required before you can do anything else. Hopefully I can get away with challenging it and jumping into a programming course next year.
haha, "all this money"? $10 million is a drop in the bucket compared to what IBM could make once it clears this legal bull up and goes on selling Linux workstations/servers. They're not looking out for anyone but themselves.
Yeah, I've got Optimum Online from Cablevision too. $44.95 for 10Mbps/1Mbps with crap DNS/email/Usenet servers. Cable plant issues too, I just got my service back this morning after a day and a half outage due to a bad line amp. However, that's the first extended outage I've had, and the 10Mbps pipe is great.
I think the point was that the first generation of phone service was the best in the US. And now all that copper needs to be replaced with fiber.
And you have to realize that wireless in the US is a completely different situation from wireless services in European countries. Companies have to cover a lot more land for a great deal less people. So the incentive to build enough towers for that quality of service isn't there like you'd have in a densely populated European country. And then there's the whole CDMA vs. GSM issue. You can't buy a phone from one provider and roam onto towers owned by other providers because they don't use the same networks. And even the ones that do use the same technology (AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile, Cingular) charge an arm and a leg for GSM roaming. In short, it's not going to get better here until some mergers and acquisitions happen to consolidate network properties and a single network technology is used (right now Verizon operates a CDMA network, Sprint has a proprietary PCS system, Nextel is on iDEN, and both AT&T and Cingular have both GSM and TDMA networks.)
I don't think they sell the HL-1240 any more, but you could get a comparable model. I'm not sure what retail price is on these because I got it at a garage sale, but it's a good printer. Works fine with CUPS and lprNG, and the toner cartridges last for a while. I don't refill cartridges, but it looks like the stuff is available to do so.
The article is just some faceless writer creating mindless praise of Apple's product.
Apple just has the balls to jump out in front with new designs, and a massive marketing department to back that up with ads.
Odd version numbers are used for development branches of the kernel, I think. You can download them, but it's probably not a good idea because they have stuff that's experimental and not guaranteed to create a functioning kernel on all systems.
the censorship/privacy issue here?
I thought the Internet was supposed to provide access to information to everyone. If governments can put restrictions on access to computers (yes, even just game networks) it sets a precedent for more general censorship of our communications.
Also, what's to stop the government from tracking the usage of each person with an adult logon?...just to toss a little Big Brother-oriented paranoia into your day...
Huh? No more Uematsu soundtracks? Dammit. I agree, removing him was a bad thing. I didn't like it when they installed those other guys as additional composers for X, and this will probably just get worse.
Heh, most of the time parents will buy their kids computers and they won't know how to set up parental controls like that. Obviously most people on/. who have kids are different, but a lot of parents know next to nothing and either don't set it up or set it up in such a way that a reasonably intelligent kid can break through it. Personally, my parents talked about installing one of those things but soon realized that I'd just go around it.
Uh. This paper has been published for months already and was submitted to at least one SIG conference. Statistics on it are actually quite interesting in that they show popularity of objects to be non-Zipf.
You're either quite stupid, or make horrible jokes.
VoIP interfaces to the regular telephone system and is transparent to the phone handset, giving you a ten-digit number like you're used to.
And as to the economics of it, I think it's good. It's not going to hurt the telcos any, they gouge everyone else enough. Besides, it might not even change the services they buy anyway. I'd bet that IBM has fast fiber trunks to most of the larger facilities which just digitize everything anyway, and they're probably provided by the telcos. So instead of paying for voice/data, they'll just pay for more data. I know for a fact that they recently contracted their global private network out to AT&T.
So the image ghosting looks like when a digital cable/satellite box drops a frame from the MPEG-2 stream, I'm guessing? That would suck to have 1/4 of the resources of every single one of those boxes unavailable. Even more reason to boycott Belkin.
heh. VBS and ActiveX are the buggiest pieces of shit ever. People have taken to including a little VB script that opens an IE user's CD-ROM drive on 404 pages and stuff like that.
Yeah, I would too. NAT routing makes it really hard to do file transfers over the various chat protocols, especially if you have more than one machine you want to do it with. Setting port ranges and forwarding is a major pain in the ass.
I picked up an UNUSED Brother HL-1240 at a garage sale for $50. Probably the best hardware investment I've made so far, seeing as with the amount of papers I print out for school, I'd have gone through two inkjet cartridges in the last two months alone.
If you print a lot of text, get a low-end B&W laser printer. It will save you money in the long run.
I think that was a matter of someone getting mixed up with names. Trinity used nmap to find a running OpenSSH daemon on the machine she wanted in to, ran an exploit (not sure which one) to change the root password, and logged on.
Along with our RFID-happy school districts? Now we can drive to school in our Hummers and get yelled at for being late AND for polluting the environment!
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Above post is NOT informative, it's redundant. The whole SI prefixes on binary units was discussed to death at the beginning of this thread.
...where the official graphing calculator is the TI-83. We're given instructions on what buttons to press for various functions (including trigonometric and graphing functions) rather than being told why a postulate or theory works and how to apply it to different problems. Of course, everyone either has a TI-83 or borrows one from the school's set, so we don't have any problems with non-"standard" calculators as of yet. I suppose the cruddy education guidelines in NYS are to blame (Regents exams in almost every required course, etc). I haven't even tried signing up for a computer course yet, but there seems to be a "computer basics" course required before you can do anything else. Hopefully I can get away with challenging it and jumping into a programming course next year.
haha, "all this money"? $10 million is a drop in the bucket compared to what IBM could make once it clears this legal bull up and goes on selling Linux workstations/servers. They're not looking out for anyone but themselves.
Yeah, I've got Optimum Online from Cablevision too. $44.95 for 10Mbps/1Mbps with crap DNS/email/Usenet servers. Cable plant issues too, I just got my service back this morning after a day and a half outage due to a bad line amp. However, that's the first extended outage I've had, and the 10Mbps pipe is great.
I think the point was that the first generation of phone service was the best in the US. And now all that copper needs to be replaced with fiber. And you have to realize that wireless in the US is a completely different situation from wireless services in European countries. Companies have to cover a lot more land for a great deal less people. So the incentive to build enough towers for that quality of service isn't there like you'd have in a densely populated European country. And then there's the whole CDMA vs. GSM issue. You can't buy a phone from one provider and roam onto towers owned by other providers because they don't use the same networks. And even the ones that do use the same technology (AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile, Cingular) charge an arm and a leg for GSM roaming. In short, it's not going to get better here until some mergers and acquisitions happen to consolidate network properties and a single network technology is used (right now Verizon operates a CDMA network, Sprint has a proprietary PCS system, Nextel is on iDEN, and both AT&T and Cingular have both GSM and TDMA networks.)
I don't think they sell the HL-1240 any more, but you could get a comparable model. I'm not sure what retail price is on these because I got it at a garage sale, but it's a good printer. Works fine with CUPS and lprNG, and the toner cartridges last for a while. I don't refill cartridges, but it looks like the stuff is available to do so.
The article is just some faceless writer creating mindless praise of Apple's product. Apple just has the balls to jump out in front with new designs, and a massive marketing department to back that up with ads.
Odd version numbers are used for development branches of the kernel, I think. You can download them, but it's probably not a good idea because they have stuff that's experimental and not guaranteed to create a functioning kernel on all systems.
the censorship/privacy issue here? I thought the Internet was supposed to provide access to information to everyone. If governments can put restrictions on access to computers (yes, even just game networks) it sets a precedent for more general censorship of our communications. Also, what's to stop the government from tracking the usage of each person with an adult logon? ...just to toss a little Big Brother-oriented paranoia into your day...
Huh? No more Uematsu soundtracks? Dammit. I agree, removing him was a bad thing. I didn't like it when they installed those other guys as additional composers for X, and this will probably just get worse.
Heh, most of the time parents will buy their kids computers and they won't know how to set up parental controls like that. Obviously most people on /. who have kids are different, but a lot of parents know next to nothing and either don't set it up or set it up in such a way that a reasonably intelligent kid can break through it. Personally, my parents talked about installing one of those things but soon realized that I'd just go around it.
Having google bots that do nothing but record logs would probably piss networks off. Can you say "permanent g-line added for *@*.google.com?"
Uh. This paper has been published for months already and was submitted to at least one SIG conference. Statistics on it are actually quite interesting in that they show popularity of objects to be non-Zipf.
You're either quite stupid, or make horrible jokes. VoIP interfaces to the regular telephone system and is transparent to the phone handset, giving you a ten-digit number like you're used to. And as to the economics of it, I think it's good. It's not going to hurt the telcos any, they gouge everyone else enough. Besides, it might not even change the services they buy anyway. I'd bet that IBM has fast fiber trunks to most of the larger facilities which just digitize everything anyway, and they're probably provided by the telcos. So instead of paying for voice/data, they'll just pay for more data. I know for a fact that they recently contracted their global private network out to AT&T.
So the image ghosting looks like when a digital cable/satellite box drops a frame from the MPEG-2 stream, I'm guessing? That would suck to have 1/4 of the resources of every single one of those boxes unavailable. Even more reason to boycott Belkin.
Or Cisco Aironet products. But I'm guessing those are out of the price range for everyone except megacorps.
heh. VBS and ActiveX are the buggiest pieces of shit ever. People have taken to including a little VB script that opens an IE user's CD-ROM drive on 404 pages and stuff like that.
Yeah, I would too. NAT routing makes it really hard to do file transfers over the various chat protocols, especially if you have more than one machine you want to do it with. Setting port ranges and forwarding is a major pain in the ass.
So this means we can buy a few thousand, dispatch them all over the planet, and build our own Matrix?
Yes! We can /. the RIAA's networks to death.
Yeah, Metroid Prime made an excellent transition from 2D to 3D. Nintendo designed a good control layout and a beautifully rendered environment.
I picked up an UNUSED Brother HL-1240 at a garage sale for $50. Probably the best hardware investment I've made so far, seeing as with the amount of papers I print out for school, I'd have gone through two inkjet cartridges in the last two months alone. If you print a lot of text, get a low-end B&W laser printer. It will save you money in the long run.
I think that was a matter of someone getting mixed up with names. Trinity used nmap to find a running OpenSSH daemon on the machine she wanted in to, ran an exploit (not sure which one) to change the root password, and logged on.
Along with our RFID-happy school districts? Now we can drive to school in our Hummers and get yelled at for being late AND for polluting the environment!
A gas tax would do nothing but piss off everyone in the States while the oil corporations whine like crazy over it.