Really this is mostly BS. Any well designed system will have shielding and be fairly secured from interference. One of the real reasons this ban (and the existing bans in hospitals) was created was so they could charge you outrageous prices for using their in-flight phone services.
If the problem was really that serious the FAA wouldn't be considering lifting the ban on cell phones in planes. I know that cell phones can put out tons of interference but most of the interference is in the short range (under maybe 10 ft or so). Also you industry people, you sound like a bunch of broken records, get off your high horses. You really don't know as much as you'd like to think you do.
Important question: By the "real" RPGs are you referring to all the SquareSoft RPGs that flooded the older Ninentdo Systems. (I am sure some of them were good, and others great but I hated RPGs until about four years ago)
Unless I am mistaken Sony stole Square away from Nintendo by paying them a TON of money to making Playstation and then PS2 only games. In the end Square wound up back with Nintendo and making good RPGs for Gamecube, or so I hear.
To be honest I still prefer my PC RPGs that I have played. Baulder's Gate, Knights of the Old Republic, Morrowind, and my only MMO, WoW.
One final thing, I think Nintendo is bound for some for of eventual hardware doom. Similar to Sega. The two companies who were making GREAT consoles before everyone owned a console really didn't/don't have the continual monetary power to compete against MS (who can pump money from a million places to feed XBox and flog a dead horse for as long as they want) or Sony (who can do a similar thing, heck aren't they still making PS1 games). Sadly if you have enough money to throw at crappy console (PS2 has the worst load times and most overrated Graphics EVER) you can keep it afloat until the masses buy into it because of a few good games (ie X-Box and Halo).
Ok, I can say I was one of the first Trekkies to drop Enterprise right on its head in Season 1. Gave up on it before it got started, and boy was I glad I did. I will admit Season 4 has gotten better but it is too little too late. As for your comment on the movies declining post-Generations, go watch First Contact again. That is the best TNG film and only movie that comes close to Wrath of Khan in many peoples eyes, though I personally prefer Undiscovered Country myself.
Insurrection had considerably more potential and from what I've heard if you ask Frakes about it he'll probably bitch about Braga and Berman, though I don't know who hasn't. In the end those two let the franchise die a painful death post-DS9 and their only gleaming moments were a few surprises late in Voyager.
State's rights are limited by the constitution. Where the constitution guarantees the individuals right to freedom of speech no state can enact a right that conflicts with it.
If they could there would probably still be slavery in a few states. But the 13th amendment prevents it so no state can enact law making it legal. The constitution says states have the right to delegate things not done so by it or not prohibited by it.
The odds of them not offering AMD chips hurting their business might as well not exist. The fact is Dell and Intel spend more on Advertising then most the other manufacturers combined. How many of you have seen AMD commercials? This is why AMD is SO much cheaper. They lack the marketing cost that Intel does. I doubt the Blue Man Group comes cheap.
As for Dell they have always thrown tons of money at Advertising and I would dare say more than most other PC manufacturers with maybe the exception of IBM, though they typically target more business users in the ads it seems.
In the end stupid commercial get stupid people to buy stupid things. The smart ones know what they are doing and will buy the best performance for the price.
Actually this idea of "protected speech" is some made up bullshit created by the bureaucrats because the people in "middle American" (and to a greater extent really, the south) have a problem with what people want to say and watch.
You see we have to worry about offending a select few because they cannot change the channel on TV or the radio. To make things worse the internet is a HUGE place where avoiding the porn is a lot easier than some people think. If porn was such a horrid thing the industry wouldn't be one of the biggest (if not the biggest) in the US. The fact is people want to see people in erotic situations, sex sells. Ask a TV exec, if they could get away with it we'd probably have softcore on a Network channel by now.
And I am sorry if the wording in my original post confused you but I did not mean that gigabit is necessarily better for gaming. It is truly only good at helping with large file transfers and streaming within the network.
Also depending on the computer setup 10/100 is not going to be enough. We have three people in my apartment and there have been times when all three have been streaming at the same time. You begin to run into some trouble here.
And I'd like to see your wonderful data on consumer gigabit sucking. True consumer gigabit is not "true" gigabit. But how many of us can afford copper or fiber gigabit solutions. I may not get 1 Gbps but I have no problem with either my Linksys or Realtek and my transfers on the gigabit switch we have are considerably better then they were on the 10/100 switch.
find me a home user gigabit router then. gigabit in the home line where products are still affordable stop at 10/100 because 90% or more of home users who have no need for gigabit.
I didn't see anyone mention this, but a BIG difference is gigabit enabled on the LAN ports. So not only do they have QoS preset for gaming, but you have the benefits of faster transfer speeds within the network while getting to keep the router and wireless together. You guys price a gigabit switch and a g-router then see how ridiculous this is (or is not).
No need to read a how-to. Simply download and install ATIs 9600 drivers. Don't try getting mobility drivers to work. Regular 9600 drivers run fine on my computer and have no adverse effect that I can noticed. Just follows ATIs instructions.
I am running Fedora Core 3 on my Dell 8600. I have had zero problems. Heck, the only drivers I had to install after I was done installing FC3 was ipw2200 drivers and ati 9600 drivers (so I could actually use 3D.)
This thing runs smoother then it did under Windows for sure. My only complaint is the problems I had getting WPA to work with the ipw2200 drivers.
Don't worry the other guy obviously went to some strange small college. In the US if you get a class with under 30 students it is called "honors" or "english."
Another replier sort of addressed this, but anyone who got a CS degree probably isn't wanting to work in IT. It would be like saying a CE (Computer Engineer) would want to work in IT. In the end, if you want IT you go to a CC or teach yourself. The best IT staff people I know don't even have college degrees. If you want to work in a programming or a design environment on software go to a 'real' school and get your BS in CS. And if you want to do hardware, more then likely you want a CE degree, or ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering, or a EE (Electrical engineering) degree with the proper specializations. IT != CS
They are going after the wrong people. The could stop about 3/4 of the piracy by cleaning up their own studios. A lot of those early DVD screeners all get out because of insiders and movie cam captures are a problem with theaters. Stop piracy there not at the end.
You know the one they implanted in the back of our skulls to monitor our thoughts. Every so often it starts hurting, but thats about it for how its affected me.
While you basically never use the equation and mostly just look stuff up in tables, any Electrical Engineer or anyone else doing differential equations has to love this one:
Y(s)=integral(exp(-st)*y(t)*d(t),0,infinity).
I remember this making a great many problems in my EE classes easier. Second is the fourier transform, mostly because its Discrete form makes my Digital signals class so much easier. Guess I have a thing for some hard to type equations.
What you want is Star Trek? I mean seriously anyone who thinks that any sci-fi television show (or possibly any TV show) is going to create as much success as Star Trek needs to get their head examined. Firefly was not that good. The only Whedon show I liked was Angel.
Back on topic to Farscape though, the show was actually fairly good early on, and then things got pretty weird, pretty fast and then the Sci-Fi channel found much better shows including the Stargates.
The problem with worrying about the DMCA is that it is not Verizon who can call for it. You see the hardware is create and owned by Motorola. So if anyone would complain it would be them. To be honest if I was Motorola I would be just as pissed at Verizon for castrating my product.
I suppose Motorola could go after the people, but really do they have anything to lose by people figuring out how to turn a feature on that was originally in the phone to begin with?
Who are you kidding...this is going to turn into another way for them to raise rates and drop people. Sort of like health insurance won't cover some people unless they can pass a physical or charge inordinate amounts of money if you are a bit overweight.
The first time they clock you doing anything over 75 or 80 mph they'll probably be sending you notices. They start sensing sharp breaking and wild turns you may just find yourself without insurance. Chris Rock once said it should be called "in case shit" because you have in case shit happens. And you don't exactly get your money back if you don't. Now they'll see the shit coming and drop you before they have to make a payoff.
Well considering I have DVDs that are nearly 6 years old now that are dual-layer, I guess that means you should look into taking better care of your media. I mean I almost killed my brother over handling of my discs. I have a few Dreamcast discs that nearly cost him his life.
*poke* look at my original post. i specifically said java or c++. we all started with something easy. i learned basic, then pascal before c/c++. then i got to college and learned a bastardized c (thank you OSU) and several assembly languages.
This is another one of those horrible things that happens every once in a while on slashdot. This argument is about as big as MS v. Linux or AMD v. Intel or ATI v. nVidia (for those who care).
The fact is you have some people who are super java fan boys and will stand by it until the day they die and most of them probably haven't programmed enough in other languages to say anything but the few bad experiences they did have.
Don't think I am letting the C/C++ programmers off either. I am one of them and I will be the first to admit I have hardly ever used java, but I have also had enough first-hand bad experience to not want to use it.
The fact is that people will stick with they know best and odds are whichever you learned first (java or c++) that will more than likely be the one you spend the majority of your time working with. So half the people can continue to rip on java now and the rest of you can praise it. I do digital design so I don't care enough about code to get into this argument.
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Really this is mostly BS. Any well designed system will have shielding and be fairly secured from interference. One of the real reasons this ban (and the existing bans in hospitals) was created was so they could charge you outrageous prices for using their in-flight phone services.
If the problem was really that serious the FAA wouldn't be considering lifting the ban on cell phones in planes. I know that cell phones can put out tons of interference but most of the interference is in the short range (under maybe 10 ft or so). Also you industry people, you sound like a bunch of broken records, get off your high horses. You really don't know as much as you'd like to think you do.
Important question: By the "real" RPGs are you referring to all the SquareSoft RPGs that flooded the older Ninentdo Systems. (I am sure some of them were good, and others great but I hated RPGs until about four years ago)
Unless I am mistaken Sony stole Square away from Nintendo by paying them a TON of money to making Playstation and then PS2 only games. In the end Square wound up back with Nintendo and making good RPGs for Gamecube, or so I hear.
To be honest I still prefer my PC RPGs that I have played. Baulder's Gate, Knights of the Old Republic, Morrowind, and my only MMO, WoW.
One final thing, I think Nintendo is bound for some for of eventual hardware doom. Similar to Sega. The two companies who were making GREAT consoles before everyone owned a console really didn't/don't have the continual monetary power to compete against MS (who can pump money from a million places to feed XBox and flog a dead horse for as long as they want) or Sony (who can do a similar thing, heck aren't they still making PS1 games). Sadly if you have enough money to throw at crappy console (PS2 has the worst load times and most overrated Graphics EVER) you can keep it afloat until the masses buy into it because of a few good games (ie X-Box and Halo).
overthrow the government?
*gets dragged away by men in black suits*
Ok, I can say I was one of the first Trekkies to drop Enterprise right on its head in Season 1. Gave up on it before it got started, and boy was I glad I did. I will admit Season 4 has gotten better but it is too little too late. As for your comment on the movies declining post-Generations, go watch First Contact again. That is the best TNG film and only movie that comes close to Wrath of Khan in many peoples eyes, though I personally prefer Undiscovered Country myself.
Insurrection had considerably more potential and from what I've heard if you ask Frakes about it he'll probably bitch about Braga and Berman, though I don't know who hasn't. In the end those two let the franchise die a painful death post-DS9 and their only gleaming moments were a few surprises late in Voyager.
State's rights are limited by the constitution. Where the constitution guarantees the individuals right to freedom of speech no state can enact a right that conflicts with it.
If they could there would probably still be slavery in a few states. But the 13th amendment prevents it so no state can enact law making it legal. The constitution says states have the right to delegate things not done so by it or not prohibited by it.
The odds of them not offering AMD chips hurting their business might as well not exist. The fact is Dell and Intel spend more on Advertising then most the other manufacturers combined. How many of you have seen AMD commercials? This is why AMD is SO much cheaper. They lack the marketing cost that Intel does. I doubt the Blue Man Group comes cheap.
As for Dell they have always thrown tons of money at Advertising and I would dare say more than most other PC manufacturers with maybe the exception of IBM, though they typically target more business users in the ads it seems. In the end stupid commercial get stupid people to buy stupid things. The smart ones know what they are doing and will buy the best performance for the price.
Actually this idea of "protected speech" is some made up bullshit created by the bureaucrats because the people in "middle American" (and to a greater extent really, the south) have a problem with what people want to say and watch.
You see we have to worry about offending a select few because they cannot change the channel on TV or the radio. To make things worse the internet is a HUGE place where avoiding the porn is a lot easier than some people think. If porn was such a horrid thing the industry wouldn't be one of the biggest (if not the biggest) in the US. The fact is people want to see people in erotic situations, sex sells. Ask a TV exec, if they could get away with it we'd probably have softcore on a Network channel by now.
And I am sorry if the wording in my original post confused you but I did not mean that gigabit is necessarily better for gaming. It is truly only good at helping with large file transfers and streaming within the network. Also depending on the computer setup 10/100 is not going to be enough. We have three people in my apartment and there have been times when all three have been streaming at the same time. You begin to run into some trouble here. And I'd like to see your wonderful data on consumer gigabit sucking. True consumer gigabit is not "true" gigabit. But how many of us can afford copper or fiber gigabit solutions. I may not get 1 Gbps but I have no problem with either my Linksys or Realtek and my transfers on the gigabit switch we have are considerably better then they were on the 10/100 switch.
find me a home user gigabit router then. gigabit in the home line where products are still affordable stop at 10/100 because 90% or more of home users who have no need for gigabit.
I didn't see anyone mention this, but a BIG difference is gigabit enabled on the LAN ports. So not only do they have QoS preset for gaming, but you have the benefits of faster transfer speeds within the network while getting to keep the router and wireless together. You guys price a gigabit switch and a g-router then see how ridiculous this is (or is not).
No need to read a how-to. Simply download and install ATIs 9600 drivers. Don't try getting mobility drivers to work. Regular 9600 drivers run fine on my computer and have no adverse effect that I can noticed. Just follows ATIs instructions.
I am running Fedora Core 3 on my Dell 8600. I have had zero problems. Heck, the only drivers I had to install after I was done installing FC3 was ipw2200 drivers and ati 9600 drivers (so I could actually use 3D.)
This thing runs smoother then it did under Windows for sure. My only complaint is the problems I had getting WPA to work with the ipw2200 drivers.
Don't worry the other guy obviously went to some strange small college. In the US if you get a class with under 30 students it is called "honors" or "english."
Another replier sort of addressed this, but anyone who got a CS degree probably isn't wanting to work in IT. It would be like saying a CE (Computer Engineer) would want to work in IT. In the end, if you want IT you go to a CC or teach yourself. The best IT staff people I know don't even have college degrees. If you want to work in a programming or a design environment on software go to a 'real' school and get your BS in CS. And if you want to do hardware, more then likely you want a CE degree, or ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering, or a EE (Electrical engineering) degree with the proper specializations.
IT != CS
They are going after the wrong people. The could stop about 3/4 of the piracy by cleaning up their own studios. A lot of those early DVD screeners all get out because of insiders and movie cam captures are a problem with theaters. Stop piracy there not at the end.
You know the one they implanted in the back of our skulls to monitor our thoughts. Every so often it starts hurting, but thats about it for how its affected me.
While you basically never use the equation and mostly just look stuff up in tables, any Electrical Engineer or anyone else doing differential equations has to love this one:
Y(s)=integral(exp(-st)*y(t)*d(t),0,infinity).
I remember this making a great many problems in my EE classes easier. Second is the fourier transform, mostly because its Discrete form makes my Digital signals class so much easier. Guess I have a thing for some hard to type equations.
ummm...7 yrs of TV Shows and 10 movies. He basically referenced Star Trek. Go back and read again.
What you want is Star Trek? I mean seriously anyone who thinks that any sci-fi television show (or possibly any TV show) is going to create as much success as Star Trek needs to get their head examined. Firefly was not that good. The only Whedon show I liked was Angel.
Back on topic to Farscape though, the show was actually fairly good early on, and then things got pretty weird, pretty fast and then the Sci-Fi channel found much better shows including the Stargates.
I will handle some grammar. A preposition ending a sentence, what were you thinking?
The problem with worrying about the DMCA is that it is not Verizon who can call for it. You see the hardware is create and owned by Motorola. So if anyone would complain it would be them. To be honest if I was Motorola I would be just as pissed at Verizon for castrating my product.
I suppose Motorola could go after the people, but really do they have anything to lose by people figuring out how to turn a feature on that was originally in the phone to begin with?
Who are you kidding...this is going to turn into another way for them to raise rates and drop people. Sort of like health insurance won't cover some people unless they can pass a physical or charge inordinate amounts of money if you are a bit overweight.
The first time they clock you doing anything over 75 or 80 mph they'll probably be sending you notices. They start sensing sharp breaking and wild turns you may just find yourself without insurance. Chris Rock once said it should be called "in case shit" because you have in case shit happens. And you don't exactly get your money back if you don't. Now they'll see the shit coming and drop you before they have to make a payoff.
Well considering I have DVDs that are nearly 6 years old now that are dual-layer, I guess that means you should look into taking better care of your media. I mean I almost killed my brother over handling of my discs. I have a few Dreamcast discs that nearly cost him his life.
*poke* look at my original post. i specifically said java or c++. we all started with something easy. i learned basic, then pascal before c/c++. then i got to college and learned a bastardized c (thank you OSU) and several assembly languages.
This is another one of those horrible things that happens every once in a while on slashdot. This argument is about as big as MS v. Linux or AMD v. Intel or ATI v. nVidia (for those who care).
The fact is you have some people who are super java fan boys and will stand by it until the day they die and most of them probably haven't programmed enough in other languages to say anything but the few bad experiences they did have.
Don't think I am letting the C/C++ programmers off either. I am one of them and I will be the first to admit I have hardly ever used java, but I have also had enough first-hand bad experience to not want to use it.
The fact is that people will stick with they know best and odds are whichever you learned first (java or c++) that will more than likely be the one you spend the majority of your time working with. So half the people can continue to rip on java now and the rest of you can praise it. I do digital design so I don't care enough about code to get into this argument.
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