The problem with buying a full system is that you don't get all the options you want, and you're get stuck with extras you don't need. I'm ordering parts for a $1300 (+ $100 shipping)system from newegg.com. A similarly outfitted Dell 4500 would cost $1500, plus $200 shipping, probably from the non-optional OS, keyboard, mouse, and software. When I looked at other manufacturers, they had even less options, and seemed to cost more. It was also harder to find the specs for various parts, like the motherboard brand/features.
Building my own lets me know exactly what I'm getting. The lite-on cd-r will be able to make backups of protected games. The case is easy to get into and has a good power supply. The motherboard supports USB 2.
Prebuilts may be cheaper for low-end systems, but building your own is better if you want to make sure you get quality parts at reasonable prices.
I just graduated from HS. For the last two years I was in a Cisco class taught by the track coach. We had to do about one chapter a week, but everyone got an A regardless of thier test performance. The 'lab' had 5 decent computers connected to a hub, but we had some good times playing Quake and Q2.
It seems like the author understands how to stop teachers from using the programs, but doesn't have the authority to do so. The problem seems social, not technical.
I've noticed that lots of people seem paranoid about viruses, but I've never gotten one on my computer, and all the people I know who had one got it from running programs they got in email.
Assuming a windows computer with dsl or cable without any servers running, filesharing disabled or password protected, and no Outlook, would it be possible to get a virus?
Being better doesn't guarantee sucess. I've been informed that ogg compression is better than mp3, but mp3s are still the most common type of digital music file. The first format to become widely used tends to stay on top, even if it isn't as good as it's competitors.
It seems rather obvious from the context that the author used the term 'mandated' to mean explicit authorization rather than a command. It's also obvious that the piece was meant to explain the author's opinion rather than give an objective description of the conflict. The ability to post your opinions for anyone who wants to read them is one of the best things about the internet, and the value of an opinion shouldn't be based on how much you agree with it.
I'm not a Linux user, but from what i've read, the appeal Linux has is a powerful command line. I've also read numerous complaints about the GUIs. When doing typical multiple window tasks, say web browsing, IRC, downloading mp3s, and writing a report in a word processor at the same time, is Linux still more stable and faster than Windows?
I wish I had one of these last summer. I was helping my college's tech depatment wire some classrooms and I spent way too much time under desks with a punch-down tool.
Considering where it's located though, it would probably be cheaper and easier if it was just an unpowered hub instead of a switch. A cubicle with around four devices doesn't really need it's own switch.
Looking at the dslreports ads, a T1 costs about $500/month. A T1 has about 200kB/s bandwidth, and $10,000 should get around 20 T1s, so they should be using around 4MB/s. Why do they need that much bandwidth for one-time 5MB downloads? Why don't they just ask people to mirror the files?
I've been ripping CDs using what I assumed were free codecs like LAME. I thought that mp3 was just an standard format. Who owns the patent to the mp3 format, and what restrictions are there to it's use?
People in this division get to spend our tax dollars investigating various methods of getting porn off the internet. I think that I'm uniquely qualified for this job, where do I sign up?
Does it have to be proven using the raised hands?
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Couldn't the kid just scrape some mud off his head and show it to the guy?
I learned this formula in elementary school, the teacher said Aristotle discovered this when he was a kid, and I think my algebra teacher said the same thing about Napier. Wierd.
For a while it's been obvious that pretty much any kind of content that can be loaded into a computer is available somewhere on the internet if you know where to look. Then napster came along and made it really easy to download mp3s straight from other users. Now there are some clones, but all of the easy to use ones use an easy to find central server. Now it looks like courts are ruling against p2p file sharing and copyright holders are going be able to shut down the central servers. People with patience will still be able to get whatever they want for free, but many people who aren't familiar with other methods like gnutella, hotline, and FTP will have to pay for stuff (wow, paying for content, what an unusual idea), or do without. It looks like we're screwed. With the legal system ruling against napster and the RIAA sending threatening letters to opennap servers, does the central server/search engine type of file sharing have any serious chance at surviving?
Bandwidth isnt the problem, its latency
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Most games i've played use less then 5kB/s. The reason people on modems can't compete with broadband users on FPS games is lag. I can't think of any way a fast real time game like Quake 3 can be expected to give a similar multiplayer experience to a 300ms modem and a 50ms broadband connection. RTS games, however, seem better able to deal with lag because no one notices if a unit takes half a second to start moving. Waiting half a second for your rail gun to fire, on the other hand, means its a lot harder to aim. Modem users should either play games that don't give LPBs the advantage or stop bitching.
The link has an interview with Jon Hall about Linux and open source in the special features section. His responses are in quicktime format. This seem odd to anyone?
I'd like to patent a revolutionary concept for storing information on 'digital' media. I call it a 'bit'. It consists of a space on any type of media that can have 2 distinct values. One value will be considered to have no value and will only act as a placeholder(Like, say a 0). The other will convey a numerical(like say, a 1). longer strings of 'bits' will form 'bytes', which can be used in various schemes to represent numbers, letters, or just about anything. I've noticed that millions of people have copied this idea, so I will be expecting royalties any time now...
Because those commercials were getting annoying I broke down and visited artists against piracy. It was mostly the usual label rhetoric, but they did have this link: http://www.newsbytes.com/news/00/157500.html
To yet another survey that talks about how people spend less money on CDs after getting good at using napster. Napster rocks, it lets you get exposed to music that doesn't get played on MTV and commercial radio, lets poor kids like me get music for free, and should be legal, but don't start calling it a 'potentially revolutionary model for marketing culture'.
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The problem with buying a full system is that you don't get all the options you want, and you're get stuck with extras you don't need. I'm ordering parts for a $1300 (+ $100 shipping)system from newegg.com. A similarly outfitted Dell 4500 would cost $1500, plus $200 shipping, probably from the non-optional OS, keyboard, mouse, and software. When I looked at other manufacturers, they had even less options, and seemed to cost more. It was also harder to find the specs for various parts, like the motherboard brand/features.
Building my own lets me know exactly what I'm getting. The lite-on cd-r will be able to make backups of protected games. The case is easy to get into and has a good power supply. The motherboard supports USB 2.
Prebuilts may be cheaper for low-end systems, but building your own is better if you want to make sure you get quality parts at reasonable prices.
I just graduated from HS. For the last two years I was in a Cisco class taught by the track coach. We had to do about one chapter a week, but everyone got an A regardless of thier test performance. The 'lab' had 5 decent computers connected to a hub, but we had some good times playing Quake and Q2.
It seems like the author understands how to stop teachers from using the programs, but doesn't have the authority to do so. The problem seems social, not technical.
I've noticed that lots of people seem paranoid about viruses, but I've never gotten one on my computer, and all the people I know who had one got it from running programs they got in email.
Assuming a windows computer with dsl or cable without any servers running, filesharing disabled or password protected, and no Outlook, would it be possible to get a virus?
Being better doesn't guarantee sucess. I've been informed that ogg compression is better than mp3, but mp3s are still the most common type of digital music file. The first format to become widely used tends to stay on top, even if it isn't as good as it's competitors.
It seems rather obvious from the context that the author used the term 'mandated' to mean explicit authorization rather than a command. It's also obvious that the piece was meant to explain the author's opinion rather than give an objective description of the conflict. The ability to post your opinions for anyone who wants to read them is one of the best things about the internet, and the value of an opinion shouldn't be based on how much you agree with it.
I'm not a Linux user, but from what i've read, the appeal Linux has is a powerful command line. I've also read numerous complaints about the GUIs. When doing typical multiple window tasks, say web browsing, IRC, downloading mp3s, and writing a report in a word processor at the same time, is Linux still more stable and faster than Windows?
I wish I had one of these last summer. I was helping my college's tech depatment wire some classrooms and I spent way too much time under desks with a punch-down tool.
Considering where it's located though, it would probably be cheaper and easier if it was just an unpowered hub instead of a switch. A cubicle with around four devices doesn't really need it's own switch.
Looking at the dslreports ads, a T1 costs about $500/month. A T1 has about 200kB/s bandwidth, and $10,000 should get around 20 T1s, so they should be using around 4MB/s. Why do they need that much bandwidth for one-time 5MB downloads? Why don't they just ask people to mirror the files?
I've been ripping CDs using what I assumed were free codecs like LAME. I thought that mp3 was just an standard format. Who owns the patent to the mp3 format, and what restrictions are there to it's use?
People in this division get to spend our tax dollars investigating various methods of getting porn off the internet. I think that I'm uniquely qualified for this job, where do I sign up?
Couldn't the kid just scrape some mud off his head and show it to the guy?
I learned this formula in elementary school, the teacher said Aristotle discovered this when he was a kid, and I think my algebra teacher said the same thing about Napier. Wierd.
For a while it's been obvious that pretty much any kind of content that can be loaded into a computer is available somewhere on the internet if you know where to look. Then napster came along and made it really easy to download mp3s straight from other users. Now there are some clones, but all of the easy to use ones use an easy to find central server. Now it looks like courts are ruling against p2p file sharing and copyright holders are going be able to shut down the central servers. People with patience will still be able to get whatever they want for free, but many people who aren't familiar with other methods like gnutella, hotline, and FTP will have to pay for stuff (wow, paying for content, what an unusual idea), or do without. It looks like we're screwed. With the legal system ruling against napster and the RIAA sending threatening letters to opennap servers, does the central server/search engine type of file sharing have any serious chance at surviving?
Most games i've played use less then 5kB/s. The reason people on modems can't compete with broadband users on FPS games is lag. I can't think of any way a fast real time game like Quake 3 can be expected to give a similar multiplayer experience to a 300ms modem and a 50ms broadband connection. RTS games, however, seem better able to deal with lag because no one notices if a unit takes half a second to start moving. Waiting half a second for your rail gun to fire, on the other hand, means its a lot harder to aim. Modem users should either play games that don't give LPBs the advantage or stop bitching.
The link has an interview with Jon Hall about Linux and open source in the special features section. His responses are in quicktime format. This seem odd to anyone?
I'd like to patent a revolutionary concept for storing information on 'digital' media. I call it a 'bit'. It consists of a space on any type of media that can have 2 distinct values. One value will be considered to have no value and will only act as a placeholder(Like, say a 0). The other will convey a numerical(like say, a 1). longer strings of 'bits' will form 'bytes', which can be used in various schemes to represent numbers, letters, or just about anything. I've noticed that millions of people have copied this idea, so I will be expecting royalties any time now...
Because those commercials were getting annoying I broke down and visited artists against piracy. It was mostly the usual label rhetoric, but they did have this link: http://www.newsbytes.com/news/00/157500.html To yet another survey that talks about how people spend less money on CDs after getting good at using napster. Napster rocks, it lets you get exposed to music that doesn't get played on MTV and commercial radio, lets poor kids like me get music for free, and should be legal, but don't start calling it a 'potentially revolutionary model for marketing culture'.