Thats the beauty of slashdot. Some people live the high-performance, cutting edge, gotta-be-connected, crackberry life, but as us older geeks age, its nice to have our news slowed down. It gives us time to think about it.
I agree. I'm also getting ready to switch from cable to DSL because cable is just too darn fast.
Both parent and grandparent posts make good points. I used to do tables only, but finally got handed the Zen of CSS Design book by a designer and decided it was time to learn. I'm a programmer, not a design guy. I was really impressed with how much could be done with CSS, but like the parent says, CSS sucks at layout. I like the fact that it seperates the content from the style. However, after spending a couple days trying to get a couple pages laid out purely using div tags and CSS, I ended up using a couple tables to get things the way I wanted them. It kinda felt like I was cheating after looking at all the cool stuff people were able to do with Zen Garden, but is it really cheating to mix tables and CSS? No. Use the best tool(s) for the job and your life becomes much easier.
My first was an Apple II+ with 48k on the motherboard and a 16k expansion card. It also had an Z-80 processor card made by Microsoft (wierd huh?) that would allow it to run CP/M.
It also had an 80 column card--the built in 40-column mode didn't even have lower-case characters. There was a little wire that ran from the keyboard to one of the pins for the joystick that would actually allow the shift key to be read separate from the characters. Kind of a wierd set up.
The cost of the computer, 2 160k floppy drives, 10" green-screen monochrome monitor, and dot matrix printer came to somewhere between $5000-$6000. (Not sure if that included the Wordstar and VisiCalc software that came with it.)
Later on added a 10MB hard drive for $499 and 300bps modem for $120. The modem was the type where you had to dial the number on the phone, then flip a switch to turn on the carrier when the other end answered.
One thing I distinctly remember was the great documentation that came with the computer. Not just for the operating system, but for BASIC and Assembly languange programming as well. Even had the actual schematics for the machine in one of the manuals.
People are so divided along party lines that anyone who pays any attention to the news media would read this question as "Are you for or against the current administration?" or "Do you support Democrats or Republicans?" Not surprisingly about half go one way and half go the other.
This is my favorite example:
During the 2000 campaign, Bush promised to be a "uniter, not a divider."
Forty-nine percent of 1,007 adult Americans said in phone interviews they believe Bush is a "uniter," according to the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Wednesday. Another 49 percent called him a "divider," and 2 percent had no opinion.
Here's a bit of trivia that some of you might know. It's common for a bartender to refill your mug without you asking when they see your mug completely empty, especially in Germany. If you leave a little beer on the bottom, the bartender won't give you a refill.
In the US it's common for them to refill your mug without asking if it's less than a quarter full and you aren't laying on the floor and you haven't assaulted another patron. At least in Jacksonville Beach. I love this town.
Smoking crack kills too. What does this have to do with pot? Absolutely nothing. First of all, pot is not tobacco. Also, pot doesn't need insecticides and other chemicals to grow. Not to mention all the additives that the tobacco companies add to cigarettes. No doubt you are inhaling some carcinogens when you smoke something, but smoking pot is nowhere near as damaging or dangerous as smoking a cigarette.
Keep in mind that there are many ways to consume marijuana. For example the THC can be vaporized and inhaled without actually burning any of the plant matter, which gets rid of the carcinogen problem. Marijuanna also makes a great cooking ingredient.
a study involving repeated IQ tests of nearly 1400 participants over a time period of 12 years showed absolutely no statistical correlation between marijuana use and cognitive ability.
All the scientific studies show this same thing. All the studies showing that marijuana use does permanant damage always turn out to be bullshit. OK, saying "all the studies" might sound like a generalization--but actually try to find one that uses any kind of scientific method and shows that marijuana is bad for you. It's suprisingly hard considering what a great evil people claim it to be. It's truly evil that very sick people aren't allowed to use this cheap, easily produced drug to help them through their illnesses. It's illegal for no good reason.
BTW, if you sit around the house and smoke pot incessantly, it's true that you're probably not going to accomplish much with your life. Don't think that just because pot isn't inherently bad for you that you can't abuse it.
VOIP only takes 64kbps and a bit for the least compressed codec (G.711)
That's all the codec takes, but I've noticed that my phone calls take about 80kbps each way (due to overhead I'm sure)
Throttling everything going upstream to leave room for VoIP helps, but if you're downloading you'll still run into trouble. Not because you're maxing out your downstream, but because even downloading requires some upstream overhead.
This is what annoys me--Comcast gives you just enough upstream to handle the overhead on downloads. If you want to preserve your upstream you have to throttle your downloading by a Mbit or two.
Imagine if the Olympics were some kind of free-for-all where just any country could participate. This would deprive a lot of big organizations of money. I think people fail to realize how important money is. They seem to think the whole Olympics thing is about sports and competition. Get a grip. The Olympics aren't about money. Pay attention to the news!
When I moved to Florida one of my friends gave me the number. It's great for knowing when to watch for a launch here--not just shuttles, but any launch from Kennedy Space Center.
If you call you'll hear in the first 10 seconds of the recorded message that the launch is currently targeted for July 13th. The message said the same as last time I checked a week or two ago.
Definately a handy number to have:)
1-800-KSC-INFO for anyone that didn't see the subject.
So, where's the friggin' lawsuit against C|Net to find out who leaked?
Sorry, I think it might've been me that leaked the story in this Slashdot post from May 25th. C-Net posted their "scoop" on June 3rd, over a week later.
I can only assume they read my post and thought I was being serious.
The trio is almost done with an application binary interface and language extensions for Cell. A system-level simulator is also nearly complete. Yet to come is a full-fledged Linux implementation for the CPU.
All the WiFi phones I've seen are ridiculously expensive. Maybe if the price on these types of phones comes down it will be worth it. Otherwise it's a better deal to get an ATA for your home/office and use a regular cordless phone--and all your phones can work off the ATA instead of just one phone.
Being able to walk into a hotspot to use it would be nice I guess, but why not just use a cell phone for these occasions? The good thing is I could see this driving down the cost of WiFi phones.
Nah, it was just a joke. Anyone who's been on Slashdot a while probably remembers the "Trinity Dies" spoilers that were popular when the Matrix movies were still coming out.
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Thats the beauty of slashdot. Some people live the high-performance, cutting edge, gotta-be-connected, crackberry life, but as us older geeks age, its nice to have our news slowed down. It gives us time to think about it.
I agree. I'm also getting ready to switch from cable to DSL because cable is just too darn fast.
I think that must've been the Pentium 60Mhz with the floating point bug. The joke back then was "Intel: Where quality is job 0.999999"
Both parent and grandparent posts make good points. I used to do tables only, but finally got handed the Zen of CSS Design book by a designer and decided it was time to learn. I'm a programmer, not a design guy. I was really impressed with how much could be done with CSS, but like the parent says, CSS sucks at layout. I like the fact that it seperates the content from the style. However, after spending a couple days trying to get a couple pages laid out purely using div tags and CSS, I ended up using a couple tables to get things the way I wanted them. It kinda felt like I was cheating after looking at all the cool stuff people were able to do with Zen Garden, but is it really cheating to mix tables and CSS? No. Use the best tool(s) for the job and your life becomes much easier.
My first was an Apple II+ with 48k on the motherboard and a 16k expansion card. It also had an Z-80 processor card made by Microsoft (wierd huh?) that would allow it to run CP/M.
It also had an 80 column card--the built in 40-column mode didn't even have lower-case characters. There was a little wire that ran from the keyboard to one of the pins for the joystick that would actually allow the shift key to be read separate from the characters. Kind of a wierd set up.
The cost of the computer, 2 160k floppy drives, 10" green-screen monochrome monitor, and dot matrix printer came to somewhere between $5000-$6000. (Not sure if that included the Wordstar and VisiCalc software that came with it.)
Later on added a 10MB hard drive for $499 and 300bps modem for $120. The modem was the type where you had to dial the number on the phone, then flip a switch to turn on the carrier when the other end answered.
One thing I distinctly remember was the great documentation that came with the computer. Not just for the operating system, but for BASIC and Assembly languange programming as well. Even had the actual schematics for the machine in one of the manuals.
This is my favorite example:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/19/poll/
Yeah, but it was actually a pretty good product.
Here's a bit of trivia that some of you might know. It's common for a bartender to refill your mug without you asking when they see your mug completely empty, especially in Germany. If you leave a little beer on the bottom, the bartender won't give you a refill.
In the US it's common for them to refill your mug without asking if it's less than a quarter full and you aren't laying on the floor and you haven't assaulted another patron. At least in Jacksonville Beach. I love this town.
Brain changes or not, tobacco smoking kills.
Smoking crack kills too. What does this have to do with pot? Absolutely nothing. First of all, pot is not tobacco. Also, pot doesn't need insecticides and other chemicals to grow. Not to mention all the additives that the tobacco companies add to cigarettes. No doubt you are inhaling some carcinogens when you smoke something, but smoking pot is nowhere near as damaging or dangerous as smoking a cigarette.
Keep in mind that there are many ways to consume marijuana. For example the THC can be vaporized and inhaled without actually burning any of the plant matter, which gets rid of the carcinogen problem. Marijuanna also makes a great cooking ingredient.
a study involving repeated IQ tests of nearly 1400 participants over a time period of 12 years showed absolutely no statistical correlation between marijuana use and cognitive ability.
All the scientific studies show this same thing. All the studies showing that marijuana use does permanant damage always turn out to be bullshit. OK, saying "all the studies" might sound like a generalization--but actually try to find one that uses any kind of scientific method and shows that marijuana is bad for you. It's suprisingly hard considering what a great evil people claim it to be. It's truly evil that very sick people aren't allowed to use this cheap, easily produced drug to help them through their illnesses. It's illegal for no good reason.
BTW, if you sit around the house and smoke pot incessantly, it's true that you're probably not going to accomplish much with your life. Don't think that just because pot isn't inherently bad for you that you can't abuse it.
VOIP only takes 64kbps and a bit for the least compressed codec (G.711)
That's all the codec takes, but I've noticed that my phone calls take about 80kbps each way (due to overhead I'm sure)
Throttling everything going upstream to leave room for VoIP helps, but if you're downloading you'll still run into trouble. Not because you're maxing out your downstream, but because even downloading requires some upstream overhead.
This is what annoys me--Comcast gives you just enough upstream to handle the overhead on downloads. If you want to preserve your upstream you have to throttle your downloading by a Mbit or two.
Ask people which state ends with a "K". I dunno why, but it usually throws people for a loop.
The Olympics ARE about money.
Sorry bout that.
Imagine if the Olympics were some kind of free-for-all where just any country could participate. This would deprive a lot of big organizations of money. I think people fail to realize how important money is. They seem to think the whole Olympics thing is about sports and competition. Get a grip. The Olympics aren't about money. Pay attention to the news!
I believe this came about from Michael Moore (and others) creating links that say miserable failure and link to GWB's biography.
If you'll notice, Michael Moore's site shows up next on this list despite the fact that it no longer contains the "miserable failure" link.
I short, if you create a link to a site, the words in your link will also be associated with that site.
When I moved to Florida one of my friends gave me the number. It's great for knowing when to watch for a launch here--not just shuttles, but any launch from Kennedy Space Center.
:)
If you call you'll hear in the first 10 seconds of the recorded message that the launch is currently targeted for July 13th. The message said the same as last time I checked a week or two ago.
Definately a handy number to have
1-800-KSC-INFO for anyone that didn't see the subject.
So, where's the friggin' lawsuit against C|Net to find out who leaked?
Sorry, I think it might've been me that leaked the story in this Slashdot post from May 25th. C-Net posted their "scoop" on June 3rd, over a week later.
I can only assume they read my post and thought I was being serious.
People get spammers, sharks and dolphins mixed up all the time.
OK, but what the hell is the difference between a dolphin and a porpise?
Oh, and hopefully the chef knows the difference between a dolfin and a dolphin.
What's next? Next thing you know Apple will start using Intel chips instead. Strange days. :)
From the article:
The trio is almost done with an application binary interface and language extensions for Cell. A system-level simulator is also nearly complete. Yet to come is a full-fledged Linux implementation for the CPU.
All the WiFi phones I've seen are ridiculously expensive. Maybe if the price on these types of phones comes down it will be worth it. Otherwise it's a better deal to get an ATA for your home/office and use a regular cordless phone--and all your phones can work off the ATA instead of just one phone.
Being able to walk into a hotspot to use it would be nice I guess, but why not just use a cell phone for these occasions? The good thing is I could see this driving down the cost of WiFi phones.
Nah, it was just a joke. Anyone who's been on Slashdot a while probably remembers the "Trinity Dies" spoilers that were popular when the Matrix movies were still coming out.
I'm sure Padme is just fine at the end of Ep III.
Don't read this if you don't want to spoil the ending.
Another clone
Officer: I just clocked you driving 70mph. This is a 35mph zone.
Steve: I know, but I didn't intend to be out that long.
Jitter is definitely the kicker for VOIP, delay isn't that big of a deal.
I understand about the delay. But how does jitter effect the call? What is it exactly?