You have me there. I've seen most of the Linksys routers and they have in the past two years all been the same blue and black case. They're intentionally designed so that even if you have several different models they will all stack and look alike. Even the wireless one has the same form factor, except for the two black antenna sticking out of the back.
Actually, you get to choose which, if any, 4 ports can use QoS. The remaining 4 get low priority. But I think all 8 are still switched.
While I won't say that isn't correct (it may be), it wasn't the impression I was given in the manual that came with this particular model that I have in front of me. I don't know where the book is at this moment to double check.
Providing another 4 ports (one extra bit?) requires the firmware to be that different?
Having used both, I can tell you that they are not "exactly the same" as you put it.
The two models are very different.
For starters, the 8 port version is NOT a few inches wider. It's the exact same width and looks identical from the front except the light arrangement which is slightly different.
Secondly, it's a 4 port Switch AND a 4 port Hub, (4 switched ports, and 4 hub ports).
The 4 Switched ports have QoS options, and the 4 port hub can be given a priority of it's own (higher or lower than the switched ports, I believe).
There are also a few other details in the 8 port version that are not present in the 4 port version so we can safely assume they are functionality that is not present in the 4 port model for obvious reasons (it doesn't need them.)
I was going to mention that myself, but I'll add nearly any laser capable of really doing some serious damage to large objects from a distance ARE going to burn up some kind of chemical.
Anymore, I simply weed out certain developers and I buy far fewer shit games this way.
Acclaim, anything they make is automatically going to be worse than horrible. Sometimes there are exceptions, and their quality containment people actually let something half way playable slip out, but that doesn't happen too often. Their QC people are pretty good at making sure only the biggest piles of shit see the light of day.
EA has a pretty good QC department as well. They immediately let out any new sport-game title which of course is going to suck completely by default, but they refuse to try anything new. It's a well known fact that EA loves to cash in on tried and true titles. Still, sometimes even their played out lines sneak a good one past the QC.
Infograms is a bag of dice. Some of the developers they publish are really great, and some of them are real crap-shots.
When it comes to buying GOOD games, I don't just stick to the tried and true studios, though there are a few that are good bets. Bioware, Rareware, Nintendo, Sega, DMA Design, Capcom, Activision, etc. I like to get a good mix, but I'm very quick to eliminate pure shit sellers, and they're easy to spot (just look for the ones that do movie titles or sports games with a year in the title).
How then, do you explain the excellent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Konami were in their prime around that time, and if you recall, TMNT Tournament Fighters really wasn't as good as all the games before it.
So while TMNT enjoyed a great line of very good games (some better than others of course), even that line of games too got milked till everybody lost interest.
Though, I hear that Konami has the rights back again and plans on doing a new TMNT game.:D
I wish you only the best with that car.... Not sure where you got the impression that I felt otherwise.;)
I probably should have stated that my reply was a collective reply to many other posts, and something of a statement about how not everybody just buys a nice car to show off or because they are brainwashed. So don't take it personally.
I pretty much agree with you that the statement being made through personal posessions is normally not much of a statement worth making, but people do it all the time. Sometimes it's nothing more than the clothes they choose to wear. It's not something I normally do myself, and like I said, I bought my car because I just happened to like it, and fell in love with it after driving one just a few minutes.
I also very clearly said "Not everyone who buys..." which pretty much means I do agree on many levels that there are SOME people who definately DO buy cars because they are brainwashed or trying to impress someone.
I know other Camaro owners who have never even driven a Mustang, but hate them religiously. And I know Ford owners who always feel the need to come up to me and drill me on how fast my car goes and how soon I'd like to race. THAT sort of thing does bother me a little.
Your probably right, but you know what? I'm glad developers don't always pay attention to things like that, because if they did Windows would be the only OS with any support what-so-ever. I'd dare say 95% of all desktop machines run Windows, if not more. So by your logic, supporting Linux or Mac OSX is a waste of time.
Proof that elaborate marketing campaigns work wonders.
I bought a sports car because I wanted something that was truely fun to drive. Something that really DOES go fast and doesn't just look fast, and something that I didn't have to soup up aftermarket just to make it move.
I did my research, read up on specs, test drove a few models, and then based my decision on what I liked and what I could comfortably afford.
Marketing had nothing to do with it.
My decision was a Camaro SS, and oddly enough, I do feel it expresses certain things about my personality. From it's ominous growling LS1 to it's leather interior, some things about my car just feel comfortable to me.
I looked at alternatives, and I decided I didn't like them because, well, they sucked.
If you don't like my car, you certainly don't have to buy one like it. And until someone makes a hybrid that performs like my car (that'll be very long way off I'm betting), I'll stick with my car well on into the years where people are calling it a classic.
Oh, and given the amount of power this car makes, it's fuel consumption is actually pretty damned good, so I have no complaints there.
Just because I didn't buy a small, weak, girly looking import doesn't mean I'm a brainwashed American. It might actually mean I like to enjoy the wide opened roads I get to drive on. For some reason those roads just aren't as much fun in a wimpy car.
Maybe you should take a sports car for a test drive down a curvy back road sometime, then you would understand. Esspecially if you happen to live in a state with some relaxed speed-limits.
Why does everyone seem to forget that these charges were brought up against Nintendo back in the late 80's and early 90's?
These are old charges that have FINALLY been punished?
Nintendo was able to get away with some of these business practices when they were the only game in town, but have become more and more agressive with pricing with each passing system.
I hear comments such as "They deserve this" or "they'll never change" and it makes me wonder why people don't realize that Sony and Microsoft have been doing the same thing just as long as Nintendo, if not longer.
I guess it's okay to overprice CDs and Operating Systems, but not video games? It's okay to make exclusive deals with retailers if you sell major electronics or software, but if you are a retail outlet selling video game systems it's not okay?
Nintendo was guilty of those things, and is probably still guilty even if to a lesser degree today. But taking one look around I see the things Nintendo used to do still being done by other companies, and in many cases it's much worse.
I for one hated Nintendo during their 8 bit days for some of the things they were known for. Over the years I've seen them mature as a company and I've grown to respect them. Sure, they fixed prices, they strong-armed retailers to only carry Nintendo systems, and they agressively fought to keep unliscensed games off of retailer's shelves. But they've shown a strong commitment to gamers (their core costomers) and an undying talent for dishing out great games. And, their system is cheaper than their competitors. In my book, Nintendo has become a very respectable company.
As for the exclusive deals and other such things, I'm not saying they wouldn't try that today. I think everyone would, but the competition now days is too stiff to be able to get away with it for long.
As for unliscensed developers making games, that hasn't happened for ANY system in a very long time. I don't think Nintendo had anything to do with that.
There are no restrictions to the regular Trillian, and only a few tiny bells and whistles in Trillian Pro. The reasons to buy Trillian Pro are almost totally about donating to the developement, and little else.
I seem to remember a white paint from a few years back that was being tested on Airliners.
Apparently, if struck by hard objects the paint "BLED". That is, the white paint turned blue under stress.
Tiny little blue dots on an airplane might just indicate that it had run into your average airborne items such as hailstones or birds, but larger blue splotches would be a visual clue that there was an impact to the plane that might warrent some attention.
I never heard if this paint went into full-time service or not, but this was many years ago that I heard about it.
I've had to explain and discuss these issues numerous times with parents, uncles, coworkers, etc.
I wonder if your experience with this was anything like mine. Everyone I've had to explain it to didn't really see why it was illegal in the first place.
"It's not like they've stolen the CD out of a record shop."
Seems that "Intellectual Property" is a vague concept some people seem to have a hard time grasping......
Just to clear things up -- I'm a firm believer in copyrights. I'm also a firm believer in free sharing of information. Somewhere in the middle between one side and the other is a realistic ground where things will sometimes be illegal and sometimes be legal and sometimes be hard to define. I both buy and download music, though... so...
Actually, RAM AIR works by intaking air and pushing the air into the fuel injection where the cooler, higher pressure air creates a richer fuel/oxygen mixture.
This has nothing to do with "catching drag", it's more about giving the engine a better way to breathe.
Because you are burning fuel, the drag induced by the hood-scoop will in most cases be overcome by the higher output from a richer fuel mixture.
The inactive scoops on some cars today (such as the Mustang) add drag without actually doing anything. These scoops are just for looks and are not actual intake vents.
The active scoops on very few cars (such as the Camaro SS) are good for about 10-15 extra horsies. Since I have owned a 99 Camaro Z28, and now own a 2000 Camaro SS, I can personally testify that the ram air does create a little more power, though not enough to really notice unless you're intentionally testing the car for the difference. Also, I've noticed the results are best when the air is cool and moist.
I know of another set of programs by some company called eAcceleration.
One of their programs (Stopsign, to be exact)while not technically a worm, installs it's self over the web without actually telling the user that it will be installing software. They click a link to "SCAN" their system and it then gives the normal prompt for them to accept the software from blah blah blah.
This wouldn't be so bad if the software didn't proceed to install on the users system, but it does just that. To make matters worse, it doesn't provide any easy method of removing the software. You are able to disable the programs it installs, but they seem to like reactivating themselves after a reset (at least from what I've seen anyway).
These annoying traits are kind of dubious from a company that claims to be fighting spyware and malware. They tempt the user into installing the software out of fear they might have Spyware or Viruses, but then the provide no method for removing the software that later asks to be purchased.
I know this is slightly off topic, but it is in-line with unethical software, and while I hate to see laws that take away rights, I do wish more companies would be punished for the laws they break. In my view, this company is guilty of a form of fraud.
Everything would be peachy if they simply offered a method of truely removing the software, but they don't, and that's my biggest gripe.
No, he means everything old is GNU again. (Which would be funnier if you pronoucned GNU the way it's spelled, and not the way some idiotic illiterates decided it should be said.)
although I encourage them to try other operating systems
Actually, as I've mentioned many times in the past...
My FreeBSD machine rocks, too. That's why --I-- get annoyed. People sling mud at me for actually liking Windows XP and tell me to try some form of Unix, without even knowing that I've been running FreeBSD for quite some time and love it, too!
If I had the space/time/money I would probably also run a MAC.
I have no problems being multi-platform, even if one of those platforms happens to be Windows.
The GURU MEDITATION was replaced in AmigaOS 2.0x, which was what I ran from about the time it become available for older Amigas, on up till I had my A1200 and A4000.
It was simply called a "SOFTWARE FAILURE", and they did indeed format out the error codes differently.
I would hook up the A1200 and GURU it real quick, but it's really not worth it.
In 2.0, there was also a YELLOW version of the GURU called "RECOVERABLE ERROR", it was like the standard "SOFTWARE FAILURE" except 9 out of 10 times it would shut down the application that was running and return you to the Workbench. Not too shabby for an OS without memory protection.
Actually, that's just the last part of the error, I left out quite a bit because memory did fail me.
However, the final part of the error message was two sets of four numbers.
The first part, if I remember correct (and I don't claim to be remembering everything perfectly), had something to do with the ROM range, and the second was an error number, at least, in some of the GURU types anyway.
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I wonder what I was actually looking at
You have me there. I've seen most of the Linksys routers and they have in the past two years all been the same blue and black case. They're intentionally designed so that even if you have several different models they will all stack and look alike. Even the wireless one has the same form factor, except for the two black antenna sticking out of the back.
Actually, you get to choose which, if any, 4 ports can use QoS. The remaining 4 get low priority. But I think all 8 are still switched.
While I won't say that isn't correct (it may be), it wasn't the impression I was given in the manual that came with this particular model that I have in front of me. I don't know where the book is at this moment to double check.
Providing another 4 ports (one extra bit?) requires the firmware to be that different?
Having used both, I can tell you that they are not "exactly the same" as you put it.
The two models are very different.
For starters, the 8 port version is NOT a few inches wider. It's the exact same width and looks identical from the front except the light arrangement which is slightly different.
Secondly, it's a 4 port Switch AND a 4 port Hub, (4 switched ports, and 4 hub ports).
The 4 Switched ports have QoS options, and the 4 port hub can be given a priority of it's own (higher or lower than the switched ports, I believe).
There are also a few other details in the 8 port version that are not present in the 4 port version so we can safely assume they are functionality that is not present in the 4 port model for obvious reasons (it doesn't need them.)
And there are nuclear power plants to drive them.
This is a chemically-pumped laser.
I was going to mention that myself, but I'll add nearly any laser capable of really doing some serious damage to large objects from a distance ARE going to burn up some kind of chemical.
MIRACL comes to mind. (Look it up at Google.)
Anymore, I simply weed out certain developers and I buy far fewer shit games this way.
Acclaim, anything they make is automatically going to be worse than horrible. Sometimes there are exceptions, and their quality containment people actually let something half way playable slip out, but that doesn't happen too often. Their QC people are pretty good at making sure only the biggest piles of shit see the light of day.
EA has a pretty good QC department as well. They immediately let out any new sport-game title which of course is going to suck completely by default, but they refuse to try anything new. It's a well known fact that EA loves to cash in on tried and true titles. Still, sometimes even their played out lines sneak a good one past the QC.
Infograms is a bag of dice. Some of the developers they publish are really great, and some of them are real crap-shots.
When it comes to buying GOOD games, I don't just stick to the tried and true studios, though there are a few that are good bets. Bioware, Rareware, Nintendo, Sega, DMA Design, Capcom, Activision, etc. I like to get a good mix, but I'm very quick to eliminate pure shit sellers, and they're easy to spot (just look for the ones that do movie titles or sports games with a year in the title).
How then, do you explain the excellent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
:D
Konami were in their prime around that time, and if you recall, TMNT Tournament Fighters really wasn't as good as all the games before it.
So while TMNT enjoyed a great line of very good games (some better than others of course), even that line of games too got milked till everybody lost interest.
Though, I hear that Konami has the rights back again and plans on doing a new TMNT game.
I wish you only the best with that car.... Not sure where you got the impression that I felt otherwise. ;)
I probably should have stated that my reply was a collective reply to many other posts, and something of a statement about how not everybody just buys a nice car to show off or because they are brainwashed. So don't take it personally.
I pretty much agree with you that the statement being made through personal posessions is normally not much of a statement worth making, but people do it all the time. Sometimes it's nothing more than the clothes they choose to wear. It's not something I normally do myself, and like I said, I bought my car because I just happened to like it, and fell in love with it after driving one just a few minutes.
I also very clearly said "Not everyone who buys..." which pretty much means I do agree on many levels that there are SOME people who definately DO buy cars because they are brainwashed or trying to impress someone.
I know other Camaro owners who have never even driven a Mustang, but hate them religiously. And I know Ford owners who always feel the need to come up to me and drill me on how fast my car goes and how soon I'd like to race. THAT sort of thing does bother me a little.
there must be 10 times less BSD desktop users
Your probably right, but you know what? I'm glad developers don't always pay attention to things like that, because if they did Windows would be the only OS with any support what-so-ever. I'd dare say 95% of all desktop machines run Windows, if not more. So by your logic, supporting Linux or Mac OSX is a waste of time.
I happen to personally really like FreeBSD.
Proof that elaborate marketing campaigns work wonders.
I bought a sports car because I wanted something that was truely fun to drive. Something that really DOES go fast and doesn't just look fast, and something that I didn't have to soup up aftermarket just to make it move.
I did my research, read up on specs, test drove a few models, and then based my decision on what I liked and what I could comfortably afford.
Marketing had nothing to do with it.
My decision was a Camaro SS, and oddly enough, I do feel it expresses certain things about my personality. From it's ominous growling LS1 to it's leather interior, some things about my car just feel comfortable to me.
I looked at alternatives, and I decided I didn't like them because, well, they sucked.
If you don't like my car, you certainly don't have to buy one like it. And until someone makes a hybrid that performs like my car (that'll be very long way off I'm betting), I'll stick with my car well on into the years where people are calling it a classic.
Oh, and given the amount of power this car makes, it's fuel consumption is actually pretty damned good, so I have no complaints there.
Just because I didn't buy a small, weak, girly looking import doesn't mean I'm a brainwashed American. It might actually mean I like to enjoy the wide opened roads I get to drive on. For some reason those roads just aren't as much fun in a wimpy car.
Maybe you should take a sports car for a test drive down a curvy back road sometime, then you would understand. Esspecially if you happen to live in a state with some relaxed speed-limits.
The little plastic fruits have been sticking to my grandmother's fridge for 50 years now.
Good thing, too. If they were to all fall off at once the milk would spoil.
Why does everyone seem to forget that these charges were brought up against Nintendo back in the late 80's and early 90's?
These are old charges that have FINALLY been punished?
Nintendo was able to get away with some of these business practices when they were the only game in town, but have become more and more agressive with pricing with each passing system.
I hear comments such as "They deserve this" or "they'll never change" and it makes me wonder why people don't realize that Sony and Microsoft have been doing the same thing just as long as Nintendo, if not longer.
I guess it's okay to overprice CDs and Operating Systems, but not video games? It's okay to make exclusive deals with retailers if you sell major electronics or software, but if you are a retail outlet selling video game systems it's not okay?
Nintendo was guilty of those things, and is probably still guilty even if to a lesser degree today. But taking one look around I see the things Nintendo used to do still being done by other companies, and in many cases it's much worse.
I for one hated Nintendo during their 8 bit days for some of the things they were known for. Over the years I've seen them mature as a company and I've grown to respect them. Sure, they fixed prices, they strong-armed retailers to only carry Nintendo systems, and they agressively fought to keep unliscensed games off of retailer's shelves. But they've shown a strong commitment to gamers (their core costomers) and an undying talent for dishing out great games. And, their system is cheaper than their competitors. In my book, Nintendo has become a very respectable company.
As for the exclusive deals and other such things, I'm not saying they wouldn't try that today. I think everyone would, but the competition now days is too stiff to be able to get away with it for long.
As for unliscensed developers making games, that hasn't happened for ANY system in a very long time. I don't think Nintendo had anything to do with that.
Haven't tried the $25USD Trillian.
No, Trillian is $Free. Trillian Pro costs $25.
There is a difference.
There are no restrictions to the regular Trillian, and only a few tiny bells and whistles in Trillian Pro. The reasons to buy Trillian Pro are almost totally about donating to the developement, and little else.
I seem to remember a white paint from a few years back that was being tested on Airliners.
Apparently, if struck by hard objects the paint "BLED". That is, the white paint turned blue under stress.
Tiny little blue dots on an airplane might just indicate that it had run into your average airborne items such as hailstones or birds, but larger blue splotches would be a visual clue that there was an impact to the plane that might warrent some attention.
I never heard if this paint went into full-time service or not, but this was many years ago that I heard about it.
Well, its not Verdi, but its definitely interesting.
Well, it's not pretty, but its definitely interesting.
I've had to explain and discuss these issues numerous times with parents, uncles, coworkers, etc.
...
I wonder if your experience with this was anything like mine. Everyone I've had to explain it to didn't really see why it was illegal in the first place.
"It's not like they've stolen the CD out of a record shop."
Seems that "Intellectual Property" is a vague concept some people seem to have a hard time grasping...
Just to clear things up -- I'm a firm believer in copyrights. I'm also a firm believer in free sharing of information. Somewhere in the middle between one side and the other is a realistic ground where things will sometimes be illegal and sometimes be legal and sometimes be hard to define. I both buy and download music, though... so...
apps like windows update are pretty silly as you have to ask the user to look every day and how many lusers do that ?
Not many, which is why Microsoft added the feature to automatically check for at least critical updates, but even still users don't update.
Actually, RAM AIR works by intaking air and pushing the air into the fuel injection where the cooler, higher pressure air creates a richer fuel/oxygen mixture.
This has nothing to do with "catching drag", it's more about giving the engine a better way to breathe.
Because you are burning fuel, the drag induced by the hood-scoop will in most cases be overcome by the higher output from a richer fuel mixture.
The inactive scoops on some cars today (such as the Mustang) add drag without actually doing anything. These scoops are just for looks and are not actual intake vents.
The active scoops on very few cars (such as the Camaro SS) are good for about 10-15 extra horsies. Since I have owned a 99 Camaro Z28, and now own a 2000 Camaro SS, I can personally testify that the ram air does create a little more power, though not enough to really notice unless you're intentionally testing the car for the difference. Also, I've noticed the results are best when the air is cool and moist.
I know of another set of programs by some company called eAcceleration.
One of their programs (Stopsign, to be exact)while not technically a worm, installs it's self over the web without actually telling the user that it will be installing software. They click a link to "SCAN" their system and it then gives the normal prompt for them to accept the software from blah blah blah.
This wouldn't be so bad if the software didn't proceed to install on the users system, but it does just that. To make matters worse, it doesn't provide any easy method of removing the software. You are able to disable the programs it installs, but they seem to like reactivating themselves after a reset (at least from what I've seen anyway).
These annoying traits are kind of dubious from a company that claims to be fighting spyware and malware. They tempt the user into installing the software out of fear they might have Spyware or Viruses, but then the provide no method for removing the software that later asks to be purchased.
I know this is slightly off topic, but it is in-line with unethical software, and while I hate to see laws that take away rights, I do wish more companies would be punished for the laws they break. In my view, this company is guilty of a form of fraud.
Everything would be peachy if they simply offered a method of truely removing the software, but they don't, and that's my biggest gripe.
No problems with WinMX, you say?
I've had mixed results with WinMX, and great results with Gnutella.
However, I know people who have had the exact opposite experience.
Generally speaking, however, I get faster downloads with Gnutella (Gnucleus specifically.)
As for my ISP, I use Telocity/DirectTVDSL and have not had a single complaint with them in well over a year.
That's what I mean.
It's CORRECTLY pronounced with a silent "G".
However, in the case of GNU it's pronounced "GUH-NOO" because, well...
Uh... Nevermind. See my previous post. I've already been moderated -1 Flamebait. I'm not going for another.
(I'm still right).
No, he means everything old is GNU again. (Which would be funnier if you pronoucned GNU the way it's spelled, and not the way some idiotic illiterates decided it should be said.)
I'm a vegetarian
Well, then I guess they're going to have to grow your organs on trees and bushes, huh?
On the other hand, if you don't normally eat the thing, I wouldn't suggest trying to use it as a host for organs.
I don't normally eat pork, though.
I can't see them harvesting a chicken or turkey for human body parts, though.
although I encourage them to try other operating systems
Actually, as I've mentioned many times in the past...
My FreeBSD machine rocks, too. That's why --I-- get annoyed. People sling mud at me for actually liking Windows XP and tell me to try some form of Unix, without even knowing that I've been running FreeBSD for quite some time and love it, too!
If I had the space/time/money I would probably also run a MAC.
I have no problems being multi-platform, even if one of those platforms happens to be Windows.
The GURU MEDITATION was replaced in AmigaOS 2.0x, which was what I ran from about the time it become available for older Amigas, on up till I had my A1200 and A4000.
It was simply called a "SOFTWARE FAILURE", and they did indeed format out the error codes differently.
I would hook up the A1200 and GURU it real quick, but it's really not worth it.
In 2.0, there was also a YELLOW version of the GURU called "RECOVERABLE ERROR", it was like the standard "SOFTWARE FAILURE" except 9 out of 10 times it would shut down the application that was running and return you to the Workbench. Not too shabby for an OS without memory protection.
Actually, that's just the last part of the error, I left out quite a bit because memory did fail me.
However, the final part of the error message was two sets of four numbers.
The first part, if I remember correct (and I don't claim to be remembering everything perfectly), had something to do with the ROM range, and the second was an error number, at least, in some of the GURU types anyway.
000C -- Failed Sanity Check.
Look it up.