But unlike most ghost written crap, this is being finished by a very good author (and alumnus from my college:-p). I think Robinson's up to it, should be a good read (though it might contain some very bad puns)
Not to mention that he's talking about a Uni, not normal population. My dorm has a 10Mbit jack, but an internet connection that saturates it (and I'm not talking about I2, where my dorm's connection can't even take full advantage at all). My home network is gigabit, but my dsl doesnt even come close to those speeds.
Unis fall into the category of big business for all intents and purposes when talking about internet, the advantage to the students and faculty for web browsing is provided by the research grants for projects that need the bandwidth.
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really? we have old dells in the lab at school (monitors that is, new comps, old dell lcds), and I can pick up on an electric whine as clear as day
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I can do that bit of the monitors with the lcd screens in the lab I work at at school. I tend to work nights to closing and I can check to make sure I got all the machines by standing in the middle of the room still for a few seconds:-P
This is how the world ends. Swallowed in fire, but not in darkness. You will live on. The voice of all our ancestors, the voice of our fathers and our mothers to the last generation. We created the world we think you would have wished for us, and now we leave the cradle for the last time.
I believe that the ability to have an abortion is an important, absolutely essential right. It can and does prevent accidental births by women/couples too young/financial screwed/whatev to support their child.
It can and does prevent unwanted children by women/couples when the condom breaks etc (and dont use the "if you dont want the risk, dont have sex!!" line, that's an unrealistic piece of BS thats spat up by evangelists as a way of forcing people to get married, turn women into breeding stock, and make sex into a dirty, awful, sinful act as opposed to the wonderful, loving, life fulfilling thing it is).
That said, it can be emotionally tramatic experiance and definately should not be used as a drop in replacement for protection. I feel that it is a bad thing to have to go through from what I've seen (both emotionally and physically) but *far* better than the alternative (an unwanted/unsupportable child).
From that perspective, I can see how someone a bit mroe conservative than I might find the idea of abortion repulsive (though I dont, it's termination of a clump of cells...) but still believe it's an essential right in modern society.
SAS is current gen SCSI's sucessor and actually can use sata discs on a sas backplane (though not the other way around, and sas *is* faster albiet more expensive than sata). It scales up very well and is incredibly fast.
The FUD about drivers not being there is for ancient crap like winmodems - stuff that deserves to die a long, painful death.
I respectfully disagree, such things have been dying a slow and painful death. What they really need is to buried now:-P.
Amen, I was picked on a bit (though my highschool was not exactly bullying atmosphere anyway, we were all geeks, I got picked on a bit at camp and outside school sometimes when I was in 6th, 7ht grade etc). That stopped when I hit 8th grade/highschool and started really fencing. I fenced several hours a day, 6 days a week and I swam too. Amazing how much muscle you can put on that way (and reflexes). I also fought back. Kicked the crap out of a couple bullies, never had to again (literally threw a guy twice my size who tried beating me up across a room at camp one year).
I'm short (actually, like a couple other posters, 5 4), but no-one fucked with me. I'm about twice as broad as most sterotypical jocks (not football players, those guys are massive, but everyone else) and I've found that just intimating that you can kick the crap out of a bully, when you can back it up, makes them leave you alone. Also lets you help out other ppl being bullied.
Seriously, defend yourself, show you cant be bullied and you wont be. If you cant physically, do it by public humiliation as another poster did, etc. It's the fighting back that stops it, even if you lose. Lying down and taking it makes you an easy target for them to pet their egos with.
dunno about other people, but I have a very nice desk that I had built with the proper dimensions to fit into my oddly shaped room. Since it was rather expensive, I have a quarter inch thick sheet of plastic from an industrial supplier a couple subway stops away covering the desk (so I dont hurt the wood, the plastic I can more easily replace if it gets scratcher:-P). I *have* to use a mousepad because the clear plastic renders using an optical mouse on it useless. Ironically, a ball based mouse (which is what most ppl used to use pads for) will work find without:-P.
I've actually been pleasantly surprised with the last couple firefox updates. At last it doesnt leak memory like a sieve. Finally (*FINALLY*) it actually seems to release memory as you close tabs (eventually). I dont have to worry about leaving firefox running for a few days and having it crash!
I'll add my voice to the crowd. I'm not that old (20), but I remember having a 500MB disc and a cd-*rom*, and then much later a 2x cd burner. God, I remember getting cds and thinking "wow, this holds more than my HD does".
really? I'm sure that they were definately other before.
In fact I remember being irritated when I shifted to 1.5 that Dictionary.com had been *removed* from the default options.... I don't have machine with 1.0 to check right this instant, but when I get home I'll look.
2 OSs (Debian and WinXP Pro) + Software for them (incl games): 45-50GB
Yeah, I could use this drive.... And in all seriousness, so could a lot of ppl. With dvd ripping coming standard in Vista and people's growing digital multimedia collections incl. TV and Music (from itms and others), the space is definately needed.
Don't know about the GP, but I do it for spare cash (I'm in college), and yes I do do all of the above mentioned. OTOH, I wouldnt do it for 10-15, I charge 45/hr, they want someone cheaper, they can get a button pusher:-P...
Honestly, thank you for saying, in a clear succinct post, what sorely needed to be said in exactly the tone that needed to be taken. Best post I've seen here in a long time. I don't think ID and creationist proponents will listen, specifically because their beliefs are not based on logic and therefore can't be swayed by logic, but it still needed to be said.
"Ethically and Legally there's nothing to prevent them (or anyone else) from doing just that."
Perhaps, but itd be rather stupid to alienate the many developers who are intimately familliar with the code, very very good at auditing it for security and stability, and have maintained it for a long time....
Interesting, I just finished installing osx 10.3 on an old pmac (350mhz g3, I put 768mb of ram in it) for the hell of it. I've found that in general, osx scales easily as well as XP, if not better, on the proc end of things, but devoures more ram. IE XP on a 500-700mhz p3 with 256-384mb of ram is about equiv to the a 300-400mhz g3 with 512-768mb of ram performance-wise (simply my observations, no hard nums, just my standard usages).
Also, if you're running 10.2.8, you mightve noticed a slowdown, it was the only update I know of that really actually slowed the machines down. 10.3.x or 10.2.8-x runs much nicer.
Considering that I and my friends sit around and play the SNES on a 62inch screen TV, where the pixels become as big as my thumb and it's a helluva lot of fun, I'd say that fun>graphics resolution. If the revolution has lotsa fun games (as I'm sure it will), then who cares if it cant do 1080i... Most xbox660 games I've seen are pretty and stupid, I'll take fun with less graphics any day.
Incidentally, do Macs still have that Ethernet hack that allows you to connect two systems without a hub or a special cable? That's the classical "Yeah, a good idea, but not worth the cost it adds to a system" -- how many folks have precisely two systems and no broadband internet connection?
Yeps, though it's not exactly an uncommon thing these days AFAIK. It's just that the port does auto-sense switching like a normal switch does. I havent bothered to acually check, but I believe my nforce2 based gigabyte motherboard on my main desktop has a realtek ethernet card builtin that does that too (since it's hooked up to a switch, I've never bothered to try)...
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But unlike most ghost written crap, this is being finished by a very good author (and alumnus from my college :-p). I think Robinson's up to it, should be a good read (though it might contain some very bad puns)
Not to mention that he's talking about a Uni, not normal population. My dorm has a 10Mbit jack, but an internet connection that saturates it (and I'm not talking about I2, where my dorm's connection can't even take full advantage at all). My home network is gigabit, but my dsl doesnt even come close to those speeds.
Unis fall into the category of big business for all intents and purposes when talking about internet, the advantage to the students and faculty for web browsing is provided by the research grants for projects that need the bandwidth.
really? we have old dells in the lab at school (monitors that is, new comps, old dell lcds), and I can pick up on an electric whine as clear as day
I can do that bit of the monitors with the lcd screens in the lab I work at at school. I tend to work nights to closing and I can check to make sure I got all the machines by standing in the middle of the room still for a few seconds :-P
Hey, have you seen Babylon 5!
This is how the world ends. Swallowed in fire, but not in darkness. You will live on. The voice of all our ancestors, the voice of our fathers and our mothers to the last generation. We created the world we think you would have wished for us, and now we leave the cradle for the last time.
I can offer my view on it...
I believe that the ability to have an abortion is an important, absolutely essential right. It can and does prevent accidental births by women/couples too young/financial screwed/whatev to support their child.
It can and does prevent unwanted children by women/couples when the condom breaks etc (and dont use the "if you dont want the risk, dont have sex!!" line, that's an unrealistic piece of BS thats spat up by evangelists as a way of forcing people to get married, turn women into breeding stock, and make sex into a dirty, awful, sinful act as opposed to the wonderful, loving, life fulfilling thing it is).
That said, it can be emotionally tramatic experiance and definately should not be used as a drop in replacement for protection. I feel that it is a bad thing to have to go through from what I've seen (both emotionally and physically) but *far* better than the alternative (an unwanted/unsupportable child).
From that perspective, I can see how someone a bit mroe conservative than I might find the idea of abortion repulsive (though I dont, it's termination of a clump of cells...) but still believe it's an essential right in modern society.
SAS is current gen SCSI's sucessor and actually can use sata discs on a sas backplane (though not the other way around, and sas *is* faster albiet more expensive than sata). It scales up very well and is incredibly fast.
The FUD about drivers not being there is for ancient crap like winmodems - stuff that deserves to die a long, painful death. I respectfully disagree, such things have been dying a slow and painful death. What they really need is to buried now :-P.
Amen, I was picked on a bit (though my highschool was not exactly bullying atmosphere anyway, we were all geeks, I got picked on a bit at camp and outside school sometimes when I was in 6th, 7ht grade etc). That stopped when I hit 8th grade/highschool and started really fencing. I fenced several hours a day, 6 days a week and I swam too. Amazing how much muscle you can put on that way (and reflexes). I also fought back. Kicked the crap out of a couple bullies, never had to again (literally threw a guy twice my size who tried beating me up across a room at camp one year).
I'm short (actually, like a couple other posters, 5 4), but no-one fucked with me. I'm about twice as broad as most sterotypical jocks (not football players, those guys are massive, but everyone else) and I've found that just intimating that you can kick the crap out of a bully, when you can back it up, makes them leave you alone. Also lets you help out other ppl being bullied.
Seriously, defend yourself, show you cant be bullied and you wont be. If you cant physically, do it by public humiliation as another poster did, etc. It's the fighting back that stops it, even if you lose. Lying down and taking it makes you an easy target for them to pet their egos with.
:-D (see my sig, Zelazny is my god :-P)
dunno about other people, but I have a very nice desk that I had built with the proper dimensions to fit into my oddly shaped room. Since it was rather expensive, I have a quarter inch thick sheet of plastic from an industrial supplier a couple subway stops away covering the desk (so I dont hurt the wood, the plastic I can more easily replace if it gets scratcher :-P). I *have* to use a mousepad because the clear plastic renders using an optical mouse on it useless. Ironically, a ball based mouse (which is what most ppl used to use pads for) will work find without :-P.
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We use them as barcode readers to do cataloging work (books). Very useful :-P
All too true.. Up until recently.
I've actually been pleasantly surprised with the last couple firefox updates. At last it doesnt leak memory like a sieve. Finally (*FINALLY*) it actually seems to release memory as you close tabs (eventually). I dont have to worry about leaving firefox running for a few days and having it crash!
I'll add my voice to the crowd. I'm not that old (20), but I remember having a 500MB disc and a cd-*rom*, and then much later a 2x cd burner. God, I remember getting cds and thinking "wow, this holds more than my HD does".
really? I'm sure that they were definately other before.
In fact I remember being irritated when I shifted to 1.5 that Dictionary.com had been *removed* from the default options.... I don't have machine with 1.0 to check right this instant, but when I get home I'll look.
Complete dvd rips of my dvd collection: 800GB.
My music, ripped to FLAC: 100GB
2 OSs (Debian and WinXP Pro) + Software for them (incl games): 45-50GB
Yeah, I could use this drive.... And in all seriousness, so could a lot of ppl. With dvd ripping coming standard in Vista and people's growing digital multimedia collections incl. TV and Music (from itms and others), the space is definately needed.
yah, I guess I did :-P
Don't know about the GP, but I do it for spare cash (I'm in college), and yes I do do all of the above mentioned. OTOH, I wouldnt do it for 10-15, I charge 45/hr, they want someone cheaper, they can get a button pusher :-P...
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Honestly, thank you for saying, in a clear succinct post, what sorely needed to be said in exactly the tone that needed to be taken. Best post I've seen here in a long time. I don't think ID and creationist proponents will listen, specifically because their beliefs are not based on logic and therefore can't be swayed by logic, but it still needed to be said.
Kudos.
"Ethically and Legally there's nothing to prevent them (or anyone else) from doing just that."
Perhaps, but itd be rather stupid to alienate the many developers who are intimately familliar with the code, very very good at auditing it for security and stability, and have maintained it for a long time....
Let's at least hope they dont evolve into these, then we're really "screwed"....
Interesting, I just finished installing osx 10.3 on an old pmac (350mhz g3, I put 768mb of ram in it) for the hell of it. I've found that in general, osx scales easily as well as XP, if not better, on the proc end of things, but devoures more ram. IE XP on a 500-700mhz p3 with 256-384mb of ram is about equiv to the a 300-400mhz g3 with 512-768mb of ram performance-wise (simply my observations, no hard nums, just my standard usages).
Also, if you're running 10.2.8, you mightve noticed a slowdown, it was the only update I know of that really actually slowed the machines down. 10.3.x or 10.2.8-x runs much nicer.
Considering that I and my friends sit around and play the SNES on a 62inch screen TV, where the pixels become as big as my thumb and it's a helluva lot of fun, I'd say that fun>graphics resolution. If the revolution has lotsa fun games (as I'm sure it will), then who cares if it cant do 1080i... Most xbox660 games I've seen are pretty and stupid, I'll take fun with less graphics any day.
Incidentally, do Macs still have that Ethernet hack that allows you to connect two systems without a hub or a special cable? That's the classical "Yeah, a good idea, but not worth the cost it adds to a system" -- how many folks have precisely two systems and no broadband internet connection?
Yeps, though it's not exactly an uncommon thing these days AFAIK. It's just that the port does auto-sense switching like a normal switch does. I havent bothered to acually check, but I believe my nforce2 based gigabyte motherboard on my main desktop has a realtek ethernet card builtin that does that too (since it's hooked up to a switch, I've never bothered to try)...