I think most of the Draft-N hardware has allowed for firmware updates - which could allow you to implement the necessary changes to make something N compliant.
Most do, but there's a big difference between theory and practice. I notice a lot of older (but still being sold) Draft N stuff that isn't even receiving driver updates anymore (cough, cough, DLink). If a company can't be bothered to fix incompatibilities caused by XP SP3 or Vista SP1, what hope is there for getting firmware to fix incompatibilities with nonDraft-N?
In 14 years there was no other way to ascertain if the guy really had the money? Really?
How? The judge can't hire a private eye and an accountant to get to the bottom of every divorce case out there. The judge, on the other hand, CAN throw people in jail. So he threw the guy in jail. I'm not saying it's right, but it was viable.
Now, this doesn't cast the judge in the best light, and I know nothing of the fine details of American court procedure, so if someone has more info please correct me. But to me, it seems that the primary advantage of the jail tactic is that it's fast and free. I know the government has to feed and shelter and guard the guy for however long it takes for him to break, but that's not the judge's concern. On the other hand, a backlog of cases building because someone is balking IS his concern. So it seems like shunting stuff from the "in" box to the "waiting for someone else to do something" box would be, to the judge, a good idea.
I would think that it would have to be, otherwise no one will use the real standard due to backwards compatibility.
Since I've seen Draft-N devices from different companies that had a bloody hard time talking to each other, I have to ask: If it is Draft-N backwards compatible, WHOSE implementation of Draft-N will it be backwards compatible with?
You could spin that in a different way... Obama is "dismantling" the RIAA by taking key players into public service.
The spin doctor clever enough to rephrase "We're stopping an evil organization by making all their worst guys high-ranking members of OUR organization." so it sounds like a good idea deserves a medal. With a live grenade attached to it.
I'm not sure if this is an attempt at humor or not, but I'm tending towards "or not" because of the Insightful mod.
Wait... you're putting faith in the moderation system? You must be new here! Really, I've been a moderator fairly regularly and I'm a complete loon. Partly because once you see a post get 4 insightful/interesting mods, 3 troll/flamebaits, one each of overrated, underrated, and funny, you go nuts. It's like the Necronomicon in web format.
At least on a map an alternate route is generally visible as you have a larger field of view.
Personally I'm at the "I'll never have one" stage with sat-nav at the moment.
Over-reliance on one person/object's advice is bad for anything. For instance: I can use my city's (or Google's) transit planner to figure out a bus route from point A to point B, but there's times when it will give me some amazingly insane answers like a three-transfer trip because it missed something that's bleeding obvious to a human with a system map. On the other hand, a human with a system map can screw things up like holiday schedules vs. regular ones. A second opinion (either way) never hurts.
Personally, I see nothing wrong with sat-nav. My dad uses one when he drives cross-country, since he sometimes has to get way off the beaten path to visit friends and family. But he's got a map (and a cell phone and a list of numbers, including the numbers of the people he's visiting) should it ever fail him. And it sometimes does. But sometimes he's got good and lost by following a cousin's directions simply because the cousin's own local knowledge was required to follow them properly. "No, that's not the big tree, if you had driven another mile you would have seen a tree that's much bigger. That's the big tree!" In those cases he's had to use his Garmin to get him where he was going.
But I don't trust my data to a single data storage device, so I don't see why anyone should trust their route to a single route information device.
Also, it's generally understood in legal circles, and is spelled out in most ISPs' TOS agreements, that the account owner is ultimately responsible for any activity originating from that connection.
How about this hypothetical - what if the ISP sets it up out of the box to be open? An ISP here had a drive in my area to get people on their service, and the roommate and I decided to try it for a year. I came back from work to find it all set up - and was not only shocked to find the wireless completely open, but also that my laptop found three other open networks with similar IDs in range that weren't there when I checked about a week before.
yep. Think of that, all you system administrators! Everytime you do a backup of your servers, you dishonor your company!
Makes perfect sense. Would any Klingon want to be instantly revived if he fell in battle? Forever denied Stovokor because he could never die gloriously in combat? Why should their information be any different? Klingon servers don't crash, damn it, they go down fighting!
Besides, cons notwithstanding, when's the last time you saw a geeky Klingon?
If she killed someone, she would be tried as an adult. If she sued for emancipation, she would no doubt succeed. In short, she is so thoroughly unlike a "small child" in every way that describing her as such is patently offensive to anyone with the slightest degree of intelligence.
Since when has intelligence had anything to do with the law? I think you're thinking of "justice".
But seriously, didn't some nutball prosecutor try to get a girl tried as an adult for creating kiddie porn... for 'sexting' naked pictures of herself? Follow the logic there:
1) An underage person can be deemed mature and intelligent enough to understand the ramifications of doing something, and be punished as though they were an adult.
2) Child pornography laws are (ideally) meant to protect a person who isn't mature and intelligent enough to understand the ramifications of doing something and thus provide consent.
Someone, somewhere, is trying to set a precedent that the mature #1 and the immature #2 CAN BE THE SAME PERSON AT THE EXACT SAME TIME.
I'm sorry, but as far as any sex crime or kid-related laws go, we left logic and reason and intelligence behind a long time ago.
Ah. Well, my Spanish isn't so good.:) In the English, the origin of the blood isn't specific. Also, on the shelf with the ketchup, I seem to recall one of the more sanguinary options being "Peasant Blood".
No but if manufacturers kept to a certain chip design many components in a computer would be reusable. Replacing merely the chip instead of the entire until.
Except for the fact that all the parts will fail eventually, and once one part of an old system chokes, there's a risk that another part isn't far off. Even if an entire PC was made to be bullet-proof and last about 10 years, that means when one bit dies in 9 years, everything else has an average of one year left. People often don't like the idea of spending money on diagnostics and labor just to patch up an old PC when they can buy a new one that's faster and comes with more features and has a warranty.
But what about upgrades? Problem is, upgrades are by definition ditching a good part and replacing it with a better part, so there's waste anyway, except for the cases of RAM and hard drive where there's often room for old and new.
If by chip design you mean that every Socket 775 proc should be the same basic design as it was when the socket was introduced, that means I'd be using a 90 nm space heater, rather than a more efficient (and thus, less power-hungry so less coal has to die for my sins) 45 nm CPU.
And if by "chip type" you mean socket design, that's not a guarantee. There's boards that do Pentium D but not Core 2, there's boards that do Core 2 65 nm but not 45 nm. And that's all the same socket design.
The fact that we have as much backwards compatibility as we do is quite impressive. Hey, I can still plug a PCI 33.6 modem from almost a decade back into a Core i7 motherboard! But wait, I'm on broadband now. But I can plug in my PCI sound, USB, and network cards from the same era! But all those are onboard now, with ten times the speed and twice the features.
Stuff gets better. We can try make everything play nice over time, but eventually the new leaves the old too far behind, even if they can all work together. I hate to ditch old components, and to show it I have a box of hard drives heavy enough to cause a hernia. They work just fine but combined hold less data than the USB memory stick on my keychain. Sure, I could attach two of them to my new PC via the lone IDE channel, but for somewhere between two and four gigs of storage? Faster to burn a DVD.
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I think most of the Draft-N hardware has allowed for firmware updates - which could allow you to implement the necessary changes to make something N compliant.
Most do, but there's a big difference between theory and practice. I notice a lot of older (but still being sold) Draft N stuff that isn't even receiving driver updates anymore (cough, cough, DLink). If a company can't be bothered to fix incompatibilities caused by XP SP3 or Vista SP1, what hope is there for getting firmware to fix incompatibilities with nonDraft-N?
In 14 years there was no other way to ascertain if the guy really had the money? Really?
How? The judge can't hire a private eye and an accountant to get to the bottom of every divorce case out there. The judge, on the other hand, CAN throw people in jail. So he threw the guy in jail. I'm not saying it's right, but it was viable.
Now, this doesn't cast the judge in the best light, and I know nothing of the fine details of American court procedure, so if someone has more info please correct me. But to me, it seems that the primary advantage of the jail tactic is that it's fast and free. I know the government has to feed and shelter and guard the guy for however long it takes for him to break, but that's not the judge's concern. On the other hand, a backlog of cases building because someone is balking IS his concern. So it seems like shunting stuff from the "in" box to the "waiting for someone else to do something" box would be, to the judge, a good idea.
I know Buffalo Tech has discontinued the infiniti N router of mine.
There's some DLink Draft-N wireless cards that don't - and apparently won't ever - have XP SP3 compatible drivers.
I would think that it would have to be, otherwise no one will use the real standard due to backwards compatibility.
Since I've seen Draft-N devices from different companies that had a bloody hard time talking to each other, I have to ask: If it is Draft-N backwards compatible, WHOSE implementation of Draft-N will it be backwards compatible with?
My sister project, Flyin' Irons (a lander racing game set in a world of flying steam irons), is more playable as a game at the moment.
Wow, flying steam irons. You must've played too much Megamania as a young'un.
You could spin that in a different way... Obama is "dismantling" the RIAA by taking key players into public service.
The spin doctor clever enough to rephrase "We're stopping an evil organization by making all their worst guys high-ranking members of OUR organization." so it sounds like a good idea deserves a medal. With a live grenade attached to it.
I'm not sure if this is an attempt at humor or not, but I'm tending towards "or not" because of the Insightful mod.
Wait... you're putting faith in the moderation system? You must be new here! Really, I've been a moderator fairly regularly and I'm a complete loon. Partly because once you see a post get 4 insightful/interesting mods, 3 troll/flamebaits, one each of overrated, underrated, and funny, you go nuts. It's like the Necronomicon in web format.
But I have to credit Lifestyle Lift with the trustworthiness needed to at least make their employees wear skirts and wigs.
Yeah! Why is the Attorney General bigoted against transvestites?!
(Dons wig.) SOLIDARITY!
Oh, wait, my coworkers are looking at me funny. Solidarity... after work!
The media is reporting their theories as fact.
Theory? You give them too much credit. The media reports unsubstantiated rumor as fact!
At least on a map an alternate route is generally visible as you have a larger field of view. Personally I'm at the "I'll never have one" stage with sat-nav at the moment.
Over-reliance on one person/object's advice is bad for anything. For instance: I can use my city's (or Google's) transit planner to figure out a bus route from point A to point B, but there's times when it will give me some amazingly insane answers like a three-transfer trip because it missed something that's bleeding obvious to a human with a system map. On the other hand, a human with a system map can screw things up like holiday schedules vs. regular ones. A second opinion (either way) never hurts.
Personally, I see nothing wrong with sat-nav. My dad uses one when he drives cross-country, since he sometimes has to get way off the beaten path to visit friends and family. But he's got a map (and a cell phone and a list of numbers, including the numbers of the people he's visiting) should it ever fail him. And it sometimes does. But sometimes he's got good and lost by following a cousin's directions simply because the cousin's own local knowledge was required to follow them properly. "No, that's not the big tree, if you had driven another mile you would have seen a tree that's much bigger. That's the big tree!" In those cases he's had to use his Garmin to get him where he was going.
But I don't trust my data to a single data storage device, so I don't see why anyone should trust their route to a single route information device.
If it has the DNA, its human.
That's what I said to the judge, but he still wouldn't let me marry my sheep.
You see next step is the artificial uterus, quickly followed by the artificial boob.
Uhmmmm. Since I presume we're speaking in a breastfeeding context, they already invented the artificial breast a long time ago.
If we're speaking in a non-breastfeeding context, fake boobs have still been around for quite a while.
Also, it's generally understood in legal circles, and is spelled out in most ISPs' TOS agreements, that the account owner is ultimately responsible for any activity originating from that connection.
How about this hypothetical - what if the ISP sets it up out of the box to be open? An ISP here had a drive in my area to get people on their service, and the roommate and I decided to try it for a year. I came back from work to find it all set up - and was not only shocked to find the wireless completely open, but also that my laptop found three other open networks with similar IDs in range that weren't there when I checked about a week before.
Does that mean you are the overlord of your CyberTwin or that the CyberTwin is the overlord?
Maybe it depends who feels like overlording at any given time. In other words, maybe he's a switch.:)
yep. Think of that, all you system administrators! Everytime you do a backup of your servers, you dishonor your company!
Makes perfect sense. Would any Klingon want to be instantly revived if he fell in battle? Forever denied Stovokor because he could never die gloriously in combat? Why should their information be any different? Klingon servers don't crash, damn it, they go down fighting!
Besides, cons notwithstanding, when's the last time you saw a geeky Klingon?
If she killed someone, she would be tried as an adult. If she sued for emancipation, she would no doubt succeed. In short, she is so thoroughly unlike a "small child" in every way that describing her as such is patently offensive to anyone with the slightest degree of intelligence.
Since when has intelligence had anything to do with the law? I think you're thinking of "justice".
But seriously, didn't some nutball prosecutor try to get a girl tried as an adult for creating kiddie porn... for 'sexting' naked pictures of herself? Follow the logic there:
1) An underage person can be deemed mature and intelligent enough to understand the ramifications of doing something, and be punished as though they were an adult.
2) Child pornography laws are (ideally) meant to protect a person who isn't mature and intelligent enough to understand the ramifications of doing something and thus provide consent.
Someone, somewhere, is trying to set a precedent that the mature #1 and the immature #2 CAN BE THE SAME PERSON AT THE EXACT SAME TIME.
I'm sorry, but as far as any sex crime or kid-related laws go, we left logic and reason and intelligence behind a long time ago.
Congratulations! According to Andreesen's Law, you are 24 years old.
But when I was 24, I read the newspaper and watched TV. Now, at 30, I don't. So when I was 24, I wasn't 24, but when I'm 30, I'm 24.
So, what we can conclude from this is that I'm a time machine.
I'm obsolete at 36.
Look at the bright side! At 37, Marc Andreessen is more obsolete than you are!
I would die a happy man if I got to see a good rendition of Deus Ex on the silver screen before I went.
And I would die laughing if someone then revamped it a la Deus Ex Recut or the Malkavian Mod.
"I see it like this: Everybody's gonna shoot it out. "
"And?"
"My wolf wins and takes over the whole country."
Really? I'ts just "bat blood" in the Spanish dub
Ah. Well, my Spanish isn't so good.:) In the English, the origin of the blood isn't specific. Also, on the shelf with the ketchup, I seem to recall one of the more sanguinary options being "Peasant Blood".
Oh my gods, you two are making me feel old...
And you thinking it makes you old is making ME feel old.:)
And ketchup instead of bat blood...
Now they have to wait until the moon is in the Eighth House of Aquarius again to attempt the resurrection
Actually, to be painfully pedantic about it, it was bat wing and blood, not bat blood.
Your reference is appropriate, though, because this latest reincarnation of Windows hasn't run according to plan.
Why is parent modded insightful? It's clearly a joke...
You may wish to look up the phrase "Ha ha, only serious."
No but if manufacturers kept to a certain chip design many components in a computer would be reusable. Replacing merely the chip instead of the entire until.
Except for the fact that all the parts will fail eventually, and once one part of an old system chokes, there's a risk that another part isn't far off. Even if an entire PC was made to be bullet-proof and last about 10 years, that means when one bit dies in 9 years, everything else has an average of one year left. People often don't like the idea of spending money on diagnostics and labor just to patch up an old PC when they can buy a new one that's faster and comes with more features and has a warranty.
But what about upgrades? Problem is, upgrades are by definition ditching a good part and replacing it with a better part, so there's waste anyway, except for the cases of RAM and hard drive where there's often room for old and new.
If by chip design you mean that every Socket 775 proc should be the same basic design as it was when the socket was introduced, that means I'd be using a 90 nm space heater, rather than a more efficient (and thus, less power-hungry so less coal has to die for my sins) 45 nm CPU.
And if by "chip type" you mean socket design, that's not a guarantee. There's boards that do Pentium D but not Core 2, there's boards that do Core 2 65 nm but not 45 nm. And that's all the same socket design.
The fact that we have as much backwards compatibility as we do is quite impressive. Hey, I can still plug a PCI 33.6 modem from almost a decade back into a Core i7 motherboard! But wait, I'm on broadband now. But I can plug in my PCI sound, USB, and network cards from the same era! But all those are onboard now, with ten times the speed and twice the features.
Stuff gets better. We can try make everything play nice over time, but eventually the new leaves the old too far behind, even if they can all work together. I hate to ditch old components, and to show it I have a box of hard drives heavy enough to cause a hernia. They work just fine but combined hold less data than the USB memory stick on my keychain. Sure, I could attach two of them to my new PC via the lone IDE channel, but for somewhere between two and four gigs of storage? Faster to burn a DVD.
How can it take 1/2 a blackboard, when about 3 lines of algebra yield either 1 dollar = 1 cent, or .02 dollar = 2 dollar.
He wasn't very good at algebra, either.