Win95 did not have full preemptive multi-tasking. It was basically co-operative multi-tasking with a few warts added on. The innovation in 95 was that Windows would force you to yield your time slice every time you made a system call (or something like that, I don't remember the exact details). However, if your program never made a system call (just sat and spun in a loop) it would still lock up the box, and there was nothing you could do about it (other than deal with the BSOD, of course).
This thread is sort of amusing to read for me, because I just finished dealing with these issues.
What most people don't take into consideration is that Linux support for WPA encryption is even worse than it is for wifi devices in general. Its true that one is able to use ndiswrapper if there are no other drivers available, but ndiswrapper does not support WPA encryption. Granted, WPA encryption is not needed for a wireless connection, but since I use wireless at my apartment as my main internet connection, I really need some form of encryption to work, or else the entire building ends up sharing my connection with me. In these situations, I've resigned myself to using windows, simply because of the headache involved in getting Wifi with encryption to work reliably for a long period of time.
According to TFA, the amount of cloud cover is within safety limits, but is making controllers nervous. Also according to TFA, the weather forecast for tomorrow is the same. Just how long can the shuttle stay up there before they need to use the alternate site in California?
Wireless security is a huge issue these days. When I set up my wireless network, I made sure to get equipment capable of working with WPA encryption, and turned the SSID off, etc. From where I am sitting right now, however, I can access 2 of my neighbor's unsecured, unencrypted Wi-Fi networks. And that will always be the problem. We have the capability to secure wirless networks these days with a reasonable degree of security, but people just refuse to do it.
Amazon does this all the time. I've frequently left reviews for products on Amazon, and if the review is anything but glowing adoration for the product, they tend to not post the review at all. Or, they'll simply edit the review so it doesn't say anything at all helpful.
This sounds like a very disturbing ruling. IANAL, so I'm not sure how any of this will stand to to serious scrutiny, but would this give employers the power to "ban" employee unions it doesn't like? And yet workers have the right to associate (at least I believe they do, its been a while since I researched workers rights at all, correct me if I'm wrong:) )
More importantly, what useful purpose could this serve, and how would you enforce it? Without following your workers around 24/7, this ruling is nearly unenforcable.
Yes, I knew this. What I was trying to say (apparently badly) in my original post is that in a bit-torrent type situation, I'd have to supply bits of the file. Normally I don't mind doing this, but if it is something as big as HL2, I would have to pay for all that bandwidth. Which would suck, because I'm a little short on cash. Steam, on the other hand, obtains the file from a central server, and in that scenario I don't have to pay for anything (other than the game itself).
I would not be in favor of using bit-torrents to distribute games. Imagine downloading something like HL2 over Bittorrent. My bandwidth would definitely be shot for a month or two in that scenario.
(Not that Steam was that much better of a distribution platform though, they never seemed to have any bandwidth either)
I'm somewhat ignorant when it comes to astronomy like this, so if the following questions are ridiculous, just ignore me:)
If the object is as big as the story says (With orbit that JPL predicted for it) why haven't we noticed it before? Given its (apparent) proximity to Pluto's orbit, wouldn't we have detected some sort of gravitational interaction?
This is another example of the legislature do a parents job for them. This is just stupid. If you don't want your kid to play these games, don't let them! Instead of simply talking with their kids about stuff like this, parents spend 10x the effort lobbying lawmakers to enact legislation that achieves the same end!
Didn't LBJ cut taxes during the Vietnam war? I suppose you could split hairs and say that Vietnam was not a declared war, but it was a military operation much larger than Iraq is today, and we had a tax cut. Granted, it was a disaster for the economy. . .
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ModelSim is the application you use as an example? I'm running it in Linux right now. Did you only pay for the PE version or something?
Win95 did not have full preemptive multi-tasking. It was basically co-operative multi-tasking with a few warts added on. The innovation in 95 was that Windows would force you to yield your time slice every time you made a system call (or something like that, I don't remember the exact details). However, if your program never made a system call (just sat and spun in a loop) it would still lock up the box, and there was nothing you could do about it (other than deal with the BSOD, of course).
This thread is sort of amusing to read for me, because I just finished dealing with these issues.
What most people don't take into consideration is that Linux support for WPA encryption is even worse than it is for wifi devices in general. Its true that one is able to use ndiswrapper if there are no other drivers available, but ndiswrapper does not support WPA encryption. Granted, WPA encryption is not needed for a wireless connection, but since I use wireless at my apartment as my main internet connection, I really need some form of encryption to work, or else the entire building ends up sharing my connection with me. In these situations, I've resigned myself to using windows, simply because of the headache involved in getting Wifi with encryption to work reliably for a long period of time.
According to TFA, the amount of cloud cover is within safety limits, but is making controllers nervous. Also according to TFA, the weather forecast for tomorrow is the same. Just how long can the shuttle stay up there before they need to use the alternate site in California?
Wireless security is a huge issue these days. When I set up my wireless network, I made sure to get equipment capable of working with WPA encryption, and turned the SSID off, etc. From where I am sitting right now, however, I can access 2 of my neighbor's unsecured, unencrypted Wi-Fi networks. And that will always be the problem. We have the capability to secure wirless networks these days with a reasonable degree of security, but people just refuse to do it.
Amazon does this all the time. I've frequently left reviews for products on Amazon, and if the review is anything but glowing adoration for the product, they tend to not post the review at all. Or, they'll simply edit the review so it doesn't say anything at all helpful.
Google cache, since article is already going slow:: www.americanrightsatwork.org/workersrights/eye7_20 05.cfm+&hl=en
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http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:mO-w2Me3Sy4J
This sounds like a very disturbing ruling. IANAL, so I'm not sure how any of this will stand to to serious scrutiny, but would this give employers the power to "ban" employee unions it doesn't like? And yet workers have the right to associate (at least I believe they do, its been a while since I researched workers rights at all, correct me if I'm wrong
More importantly, what useful purpose could this serve, and how would you enforce it? Without following your workers around 24/7, this ruling is nearly unenforcable.
This whole think reeks of silliness.
Yes, I knew this. What I was trying to say (apparently badly) in my original post is that in a bit-torrent type situation, I'd have to supply bits of the file. Normally I don't mind doing this, but if it is something as big as HL2, I would have to pay for all that bandwidth. Which would suck, because I'm a little short on cash. Steam, on the other hand, obtains the file from a central server, and in that scenario I don't have to pay for anything (other than the game itself).
I would not be in favor of using bit-torrents to distribute games. Imagine downloading something like HL2 over Bittorrent. My bandwidth would definitely be shot for a month or two in that scenario. (Not that Steam was that much better of a distribution platform though, they never seemed to have any bandwidth either)
some of those linked humor pages are pretty funny.
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http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/beeros
http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/diskca
A few of those made me laugh, and now everyone in the surrounding cubicles thinks I'm insane. Thanks
I'm somewhat ignorant when it comes to astronomy like this, so if the following questions are ridiculous, just ignore me :)
If the object is as big as the story says (With orbit that JPL predicted for it) why haven't we noticed it before? Given its (apparent) proximity to Pluto's orbit, wouldn't we have detected some sort of gravitational interaction?
This is another example of the legislature do a parents job for them. This is just stupid. If you don't want your kid to play these games, don't let them! Instead of simply talking with their kids about stuff like this, parents spend 10x the effort lobbying lawmakers to enact legislation that achieves the same end!
I hope your joking.
If you don't know what link to click on, I think you'll have bigger problems when it comes time to take the test.
Could we use this technology around existing nuclear reactors? They're already throwing off a ton of radiation, beta and otherwise I would imagine.
Didn't LBJ cut taxes during the Vietnam war? I suppose you could split hairs and say that Vietnam was not a declared war, but it was a military operation much larger than Iraq is today, and we had a tax cut. Granted, it was a disaster for the economy. . .