Theres a lot of hate for Godaddy. I thought I was the only one. Personally, Godaddy reminds me of Ronco, Vonage, or perhaps Lesko. Their marketing division is at least on par with those three.
On an unrelated note, who wears a suit covered in question marks?
I can see this going down in cubicles all through the gaming industry. The game is mostly coming together, the models have been tuned, textures drawn, code is coming together, and the coder goes to the pointy haired boss.
Coder: We need more time to make this game multithreaded!
PHB: Why? Can it run on one core of a X?
Coder: Well I suppose it can but...
PHB: Shove it out the door then.
If flight simulator X is any indication (a game that should have been easy to parallize) this conversation happens all the time and games are launched taking advantage of only one core.
I just got a kitten. I had thought about waiting until I wasn't in the current frathouse-type environment. I have 2 other roomates and people are over all the time visiting. I was worried my kitty would end up warped and twisted from this environment. Then I realized that my roomates cat has turned out to be the best cat ever. We're pretty sure its all the people coming and going, different activities, and all the attention it gets. Its very friendly, and has 3 different people to train it to use the scratchpost and not the couch. I am sure my kitten will turn out great.
People are pretty much the same.
This is the 5th patch of the year. Its also the 5th month of the year (May). Apple's patches may not be evenly spaced like Microsofts, but maybe Microsoft is onto something with their one patch day a month policy. It also makes it much easier on administrators having one scheduled day for patches to count on.
Dell pays for Microsoft software just like everybody else. They don't pay very much, but they still pay a little for it. The difference is the 3rd party stuff. The Norton/McAfee third party trials. The AOL links on the desktop. The Nero trials and all the other stuff you either uninstall or wipe with your own installation of XP/what-have-you. *Those* are the sort of things that Dell gets kickbacks on.
I bought my own domain some time ago. Its a small price to pay for an email address that never changes and you can carry through physical and ISP moves. I haven't figured out what to do with the website (aside from important document backups which are not search engine indexed) but the email service has been great. I do use the catchall service to try to track which companies sell my email address. So far I haven't caught anybody doing anything sneaky, although Prosound Stage and Lighting refuses to take me off their list (don't buy anything from them, you'll never get off the list)
Giganews is the most expensive usenet server provider. Does that mean they are the best? possibly.
I use Usenetserver which is only $13 a month if you buy in 3 month increments. They still have 100 day+ 99%+ retention and very high uptime. Oh and a good search engine, which you will need.
Urban sprawl, SUV's, and lack of MPG targets for manufacturers. Average MPG hasn't changed much since the 70's. I also haven't noticed any change in peoples driving habits. People still tailgate, race to the next light (even though it is red) etc. I guess they have money to burn.
There is no good fix for the sprawl. The other two are at least somewhat addressable by some means of legislation or industry curtailing.
There are big red buttons at the power station that kill the plant and are designed to stop all rotating machinery extremely fast. Turbines with a 10 minute cooldown cycle stop in something like 30s with the big red button. The power grid is designed to cope with such an immediate loss of supply- the grid controllers maintain a "spinning reserve" that is greater than the capacity of the the single largest plant. If one plant should happen to have a sudden mishap then nothing happens, an already running plant takes up the slack. But if two large power plants were to simultaneously kick off grid at the same moment on a very hot day bad things could happen.
There were a couple days last summer where there was no spare capacity in the Northeast. It was simply so hot that all the AC's were cranked and the grid was saturated in many places. This year should be interesting.
Price is capped at $1000 per MW*Hr. Comes out to about $1 per KWh. Date was August 8 2006. Every plant ran and Foxwoods went off grid to help out. Some businesses sent people home. This year could be bad since even more people have AC systems and more grid capacity hasn't really been installed.
The top 5% of earners paid 53% of the income tax
The top 1% of earners paid 33% of the income tax
The bottom 50% of earners paid less than 5% of the income tax
Don't believe for a second that the tax code leans too heavilly on wealthy people, or that wealthy people are generous with their taxes. The truth is that the top 5% of "earners" are so fantastically wealthy that even with cooking books, taking every deduction, and accounting tricks, the tax% of a #hugenumber still fairly large.
Plus, education is a collaborative industry already, which makes it a good fit for open source.
While higher level educations may poke around with the source code and contribute, I would say that in general open source doesn't have any special appeal for K-12. Most teachers are more concerned with getting their students to pass the next state/national test, writing lesson plans, wrangling parents and students, and generally doing education to worry about the software behind it all. They just need the software to work (TM). Open sauce may be cheaper, but in the end the districts will get what they need to educate not what will "stick it to the man" or whatever.
I remember seeing a solution that did this a long time ago advertised in a computer magazine, probably around 1996 or so. It relied on some specialized hardware and software. Hardware took in one PS/2 mouse and keyboard and SVGA, and spat out two keyboard, two mice, and two video outputs. Back then USB wasn't widespread. I forget the name of the company (this was ages ago) but they are probably out of business long since and their hardware long since thrown away. Of course today with dual-output graphics cards somewhat the norm and usb keyboards and mice, you could easilly do a software only solution.
for all the crap walmart takes, their laptops are actually a decent deal. I got an Acer 5610Z for $650 a month ago when my 4 year old dell inspiron 8500 died. What does $650 buy you? It came with 1gb of ram, Core 2 duo at 1.6ghz, DVDR/RW and a beautiful 1280x800 15" screen. It also has all the major cardreaders built in, and the best wifi antenna I have ever seen in a laptop (I think the antenna goes up the screen). At that price, you get intel integrated graphics, but since the screen resolution isn't too high, I can run all the GTA games at native resolution without turning much down. Oh, it did come with Vista, but since the Acer 5610 has all the drivers for XP, downgrading to XP Super Student Arrr! Edition was a snap.
If I were to buy such a computer at Best buy or any other store, it would probably come with 512mb of ram and a core solo at that price point.
First of all, Adobe acrobat (I assume thats what you mean since 95% of all corporate machines I have ever seen have Acrobat installed) is bloated and unnecessary for most users. Foxit is a lightweight pdf reader. Its free too.
You could look at some type of disk cloning setup such as norton ghost or something similar. This has many other advantages as well, but it isn't suited to some situations (numerous hardware configurations for one). But if I were you, heres what I would do:
I would resign my position immediately because I was asking for help with my job on slashdot.
Theres also another, rather uncommon format that wasn't tested that is somewhat important. UHARC- File extension UHA. It is dog slow, but offers better compression than probably any of the others. It is still used by software pirates with their custom install scripts, and I have seen it in official software install routines as well.
You can keep Rar and zip and toss out the others, but the UHA extension (or a dummy extension) will probably exist on your computer at some point in time.
It seems good to me, but I could probably look at something with no red and see nothing wrong with it.
It has adjustments for blue red green brightness contrast etc. It also has a handful of profiles you can toggle that have presets for color and brightness correction. One of these profiles is a user-defined profile. This is great for switching between inputs which may have radically different signals.
All of this is for the 1.0. The 1.1 might not have this (they seem to have cut a lot of features)
I have the 1.0. Its a bit on the noisy side. I I haven't gotten around to replacing the stock 40mm fans with something better yet. The 1.0 uses around 170W on my Kill-A-watt meter, which really isn't that much when you compare to the 100W that my mothers 35" tube TV uses.
The 1.0 isn't 16:9. Its 15:9 or 16:10 or something weird like that. I always use 4:3 mode anyway. Its good enough for movies, and its the best TV I ever had. I have a hard time looking at smaller TV's now, even when they are generally considered "big" (32").
The major cost of projectors is in the bulbs. A $600 projector that takes $300 bulbs that only last maybe 2000 hours is no fun. When you have the $300 bulb on your mind you get really stingy about turning the TV off all the time. To get around this, there are about two solutions.
1. Build you own projector, and spec a better cheaper bulb that lasts longer
2. Buy something like the LumenLab Evo which takes $30 bulbs that are supposed to last 6000 hours.
I went with option 2 because I'm a lazy bastard. While there are better projectors with higher resolution, for now (I graduate in 3 weeks) it was worth every penny and then some.
Look, any illiterate kid in a third world country can play type-in-the CAPTCHA all day long. I think the solution is to put up an array of 9 or so pictures, and ask the reader to click on the kitten. The other 8 being something other than a kitten, and all the files having random names which rotate with every view. You could also change the item being asked for to defeat simple image recognition, and have several pictures of kittens/what-have-yous.
To defeat *this*, you would need someone with a greater command of the english language than simple recognition of characters, or very advanced image recogniion software. I wouldn't worry about the software anytime soon if you chose images carefully.
I think the best thing to do right now with the Wii is to have a Gamefly subscription (like netflix). Its a lot cheaper and less hassle than buying a game, discovering its total crap, and trying to hawk it on Ebay. If its a rather short game or lacks replay value, the gamefly ends up a better deal as well. I've sent some games back within 5 minutes of playing them. I'm sure there are equally bad Xbox games too, but some of the launch titles were definitely rushed on the wii.
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Theres a lot of hate for Godaddy. I thought I was the only one. Personally, Godaddy reminds me of Ronco, Vonage, or perhaps Lesko. Their marketing division is at least on par with those three.
On an unrelated note, who wears a suit covered in question marks?
I can see this going down in cubicles all through the gaming industry. The game is mostly coming together, the models have been tuned, textures drawn, code is coming together, and the coder goes to the pointy haired boss.
Coder: We need more time to make this game multithreaded!
PHB: Why? Can it run on one core of a X?
Coder: Well I suppose it can but...
PHB: Shove it out the door then.
If flight simulator X is any indication (a game that should have been easy to parallize) this conversation happens all the time and games are launched taking advantage of only one core.
I just got a kitten. I had thought about waiting until I wasn't in the current frathouse-type environment. I have 2 other roomates and people are over all the time visiting. I was worried my kitty would end up warped and twisted from this environment. Then I realized that my roomates cat has turned out to be the best cat ever. We're pretty sure its all the people coming and going, different activities, and all the attention it gets. Its very friendly, and has 3 different people to train it to use the scratchpost and not the couch. I am sure my kitten will turn out great. People are pretty much the same.
Thanks for paying that TV fee. A long series of trucks brings it to my house for me for free.
This is the 5th patch of the year. Its also the 5th month of the year (May). Apple's patches may not be evenly spaced like Microsofts, but maybe Microsoft is onto something with their one patch day a month policy. It also makes it much easier on administrators having one scheduled day for patches to count on.
Dell pays for Microsoft software just like everybody else. They don't pay very much, but they still pay a little for it. The difference is the 3rd party stuff. The Norton/McAfee third party trials. The AOL links on the desktop. The Nero trials and all the other stuff you either uninstall or wipe with your own installation of XP/what-have-you. *Those* are the sort of things that Dell gets kickbacks on.
I bought my own domain some time ago. Its a small price to pay for an email address that never changes and you can carry through physical and ISP moves. I haven't figured out what to do with the website (aside from important document backups which are not search engine indexed) but the email service has been great. I do use the catchall service to try to track which companies sell my email address. So far I haven't caught anybody doing anything sneaky, although Prosound Stage and Lighting refuses to take me off their list (don't buy anything from them, you'll never get off the list)
Giganews is the most expensive usenet server provider. Does that mean they are the best? possibly.
I use Usenetserver which is only $13 a month if you buy in 3 month increments. They still have 100 day+ 99%+ retention and very high uptime. Oh and a good search engine, which you will need.
Urban sprawl, SUV's, and lack of MPG targets for manufacturers. Average MPG hasn't changed much since the 70's. I also haven't noticed any change in peoples driving habits. People still tailgate, race to the next light (even though it is red) etc. I guess they have money to burn.
There is no good fix for the sprawl. The other two are at least somewhat addressable by some means of legislation or industry curtailing.
There are big red buttons at the power station that kill the plant and are designed to stop all rotating machinery extremely fast. Turbines with a 10 minute cooldown cycle stop in something like 30s with the big red button. The power grid is designed to cope with such an immediate loss of supply- the grid controllers maintain a "spinning reserve" that is greater than the capacity of the the single largest plant. If one plant should happen to have a sudden mishap then nothing happens, an already running plant takes up the slack. But if two large power plants were to simultaneously kick off grid at the same moment on a very hot day bad things could happen.
There were a couple days last summer where there was no spare capacity in the Northeast. It was simply so hot that all the AC's were cranked and the grid was saturated in many places. This year should be interesting.
Price is capped at $1000 per MW*Hr. Comes out to about $1 per KWh. Date was August 8 2006. Every plant ran and Foxwoods went off grid to help out. Some businesses sent people home. This year could be bad since even more people have AC systems and more grid capacity hasn't really been installed.
The top 5% of earners paid 53% of the income tax
The top 1% of earners paid 33% of the income tax
The bottom 50% of earners paid less than 5% of the income tax
Don't believe for a second that the tax code leans too heavilly on wealthy people, or that wealthy people are generous with their taxes. The truth is that the top 5% of "earners" are so fantastically wealthy that even with cooking books, taking every deduction, and accounting tricks, the tax% of a #hugenumber still fairly large.
Plus, education is a collaborative industry already, which makes it a good fit for open source.
While higher level educations may poke around with the source code and contribute, I would say that in general open source doesn't have any special appeal for K-12. Most teachers are more concerned with getting their students to pass the next state/national test, writing lesson plans, wrangling parents and students, and generally doing education to worry about the software behind it all. They just need the software to work (TM). Open sauce may be cheaper, but in the end the districts will get what they need to educate not what will "stick it to the man" or whatever.
I remember seeing a solution that did this a long time ago advertised in a computer magazine, probably around 1996 or so. It relied on some specialized hardware and software. Hardware took in one PS/2 mouse and keyboard and SVGA, and spat out two keyboard, two mice, and two video outputs. Back then USB wasn't widespread. I forget the name of the company (this was ages ago) but they are probably out of business long since and their hardware long since thrown away. Of course today with dual-output graphics cards somewhat the norm and usb keyboards and mice, you could easilly do a software only solution.
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I hate kids. Maybe I'll join this think on a lark.
for all the crap walmart takes, their laptops are actually a decent deal. I got an Acer 5610Z for $650 a month ago when my 4 year old dell inspiron 8500 died. What does $650 buy you? It came with 1gb of ram, Core 2 duo at 1.6ghz, DVDR/RW and a beautiful 1280x800 15" screen. It also has all the major cardreaders built in, and the best wifi antenna I have ever seen in a laptop (I think the antenna goes up the screen). At that price, you get intel integrated graphics, but since the screen resolution isn't too high, I can run all the GTA games at native resolution without turning much down. Oh, it did come with Vista, but since the Acer 5610 has all the drivers for XP, downgrading to XP Super Student Arrr! Edition was a snap.
If I were to buy such a computer at Best buy or any other store, it would probably come with 512mb of ram and a core solo at that price point.
First of all, Adobe acrobat (I assume thats what you mean since 95% of all corporate machines I have ever seen have Acrobat installed) is bloated and unnecessary for most users. Foxit is a lightweight pdf reader. Its free too.
You could look at some type of disk cloning setup such as norton ghost or something similar. This has many other advantages as well, but it isn't suited to some situations (numerous hardware configurations for one). But if I were you, heres what I would do:
I would resign my position immediately because I was asking for help with my job on slashdot.
Theres also another, rather uncommon format that wasn't tested that is somewhat important. UHARC- File extension UHA. It is dog slow, but offers better compression than probably any of the others. It is still used by software pirates with their custom install scripts, and I have seen it in official software install routines as well.
You can keep Rar and zip and toss out the others, but the UHA extension (or a dummy extension) will probably exist on your computer at some point in time.
It seems good to me, but I could probably look at something with no red and see nothing wrong with it. It has adjustments for blue red green brightness contrast etc. It also has a handful of profiles you can toggle that have presets for color and brightness correction. One of these profiles is a user-defined profile. This is great for switching between inputs which may have radically different signals.
All of this is for the 1.0. The 1.1 might not have this (they seem to have cut a lot of features)
I have the 1.0. Its a bit on the noisy side. I I haven't gotten around to replacing the stock 40mm fans with something better yet. The 1.0 uses around 170W on my Kill-A-watt meter, which really isn't that much when you compare to the 100W that my mothers 35" tube TV uses.
The 1.0 isn't 16:9. Its 15:9 or 16:10 or something weird like that. I always use 4:3 mode anyway. Its good enough for movies, and its the best TV I ever had. I have a hard time looking at smaller TV's now, even when they are generally considered "big" (32").
The major cost of projectors is in the bulbs. A $600 projector that takes $300 bulbs that only last maybe 2000 hours is no fun. When you have the $300 bulb on your mind you get really stingy about turning the TV off all the time. To get around this, there are about two solutions.
1. Build you own projector, and spec a better cheaper bulb that lasts longer
2. Buy something like the LumenLab Evo which takes $30 bulbs that are supposed to last 6000 hours.
I went with option 2 because I'm a lazy bastard. While there are better projectors with higher resolution, for now (I graduate in 3 weeks) it was worth every penny and then some.
Look, any illiterate kid in a third world country can play type-in-the CAPTCHA all day long. I think the solution is to put up an array of 9 or so pictures, and ask the reader to click on the kitten. The other 8 being something other than a kitten, and all the files having random names which rotate with every view. You could also change the item being asked for to defeat simple image recognition, and have several pictures of kittens/what-have-yous.
To defeat *this*, you would need someone with a greater command of the english language than simple recognition of characters, or very advanced image recogniion software. I wouldn't worry about the software anytime soon if you chose images carefully.
I think the best thing to do right now with the Wii is to have a Gamefly subscription (like netflix). Its a lot cheaper and less hassle than buying a game, discovering its total crap, and trying to hawk it on Ebay. If its a rather short game or lacks replay value, the gamefly ends up a better deal as well. I've sent some games back within 5 minutes of playing them. I'm sure there are equally bad Xbox games too, but some of the launch titles were definitely rushed on the wii.