Whoa, slow down there. I still have some Beta tapes, as well as eight-track tapes, 45 rpm records (some 33's too) and, heck, for that matter, 5 1/2 inch diskettes too. My MFM drives are gone, as are my 78 rpm records, but I thought that once I upgraded, I'd be good forever. Have I missed something?
Not only the operating system, but Intel. They have a very stable set of options to sell now, so to deviate from their formula might not be desirable. I'd like to see AMD 64 X2 options as well.
Seems that the cost of living is much greater in Japan than in the USA. They can beat the USA by their manufacturing effeciency. I don't see how Japan can hope to compete with Taiwan and China though, unless they out research Taiwan. If they come up with even sharper, leading-edge manufacturing, maybe.
OK, finally RTFA. Far Cry was last year, so no biggie, but Quake 4 was recent and it's failure to be mentioned is significant. Nothing that I like was included and the few I do like were excluded. Oh well. I still vote with my wallet.
Since I can't get into next-gen.biz, I'll wing it.
I think the biggest thing to happen to PC gaming this year was the inclusion of dual processors (and dual threading) to Quake 4. The next best thing was the support for 64 bit processors given by Far Cry.
Boinc doesn't cut it with me. Tried it for several months earlier this year and went back to the classic. With me too, I started from scratch, after getting on board with Seti at Home in its early days, and nothing of those efforts were added to my new Boinc account. That was only a mild disappointment, but the days of going without a new work unit turned me away from them and back to the original.
Change can be good if it's progress, but I don't see any progress with this, just an unwarranted pain in the butt.
Where are you going and who are the people you will be interacting with? My major was Chemistry, then I changed. I went to Physics. Then I went to Computer Science. The only way to pull this all together was via a non-standard school. If I'd had the self discipline to stick to something, I could have had a Master's in some damn thing from an accredited university. As it was I got a B.S. in Computer Science. When my previous manager saw from where I got my degree, he dropped me into a Black Hole.
Depending on your industry, you'll have to pay the dues required from a graduate of a major university in order to get anything worthwhile. Internet doesn't cut it with hard core managers from the old school.
Naw, but they can earn more respect from some of their actions. Their setting up a honey-pot type of network where bushels of spammers were snared made me smile and nod approval. Doing things like this has to be good for business.
Was the time, recently actually, when I had to start my day with the newspaper. Too many late deliveries, and I discovered that with my laptop, I could still sit on the throne in the morning and read the latest news. Out went the paper (that part anyway). They still bug me regularly to subscribe again, but not a chance.
Mouses (I think 'mice' are the furry little critters), with features never seem to work with my KVM switch. Is that just me or do others suffer from this 'feature'?
Almost 10 years ago a ham buddy and me did encrypted voice over landline using our 24K modems. We both had two Soundblaster cards, to allow full duplex, and a program we found on a BBS. We yakked for over an hour as we simply enjoyed the conversation and thought of the potential. We didn't do it again because it was a kluge and simply for fun. The Blowfish algorithm it used was claimed to be very secure but we were primarily trying the digital voice potential. I'd think that at this time if we tried it over the internet it would be at least as secure but less klugey. That experiment has always left me with the question of why VOIP is such a big deal?
Yes. Because for the time we've seen since its start (Yucca), it has been mostly a study. The study has apparently proven worthy since it made it through both houses with a "Go", despite many objections from powerful political foes. I fully agree that it is not a great solution, but given the alternatives, it is a very good solution.
The Yucca Mountain project can contain the nuclear waste, safely and easily for countless millenniums. Nevada doesn't want it in their back yard so there is much effort on their part to keep this repository from happening on the scale it was envisioned.
If you've checked out the Google Earth area around 37.115, -116.050, you'll understand why contained nuclear waste in carefully laid out tunnels should never be a problem, relative to what Nevada has inherited.
I agree. After decades of working rotating shifts, any hour works for me, just don't add some clock-shift crap to the equation. If high-noon for us is 1700 hours, so be it. It's no harder to visualize that the east coast team doesn't start to work until 1500 hours than it is to figure they don't start until 8:00 a.m., or was that DST or Standard? Hate this biannual time tweak like the plague.
How does this help the phone line customer or even the web one be more secure? I have a gizmo that changes its number every few seconds as a secure third method to get into my company's network. It's a minor pain to have to carry this thing along with my keyring, but apparently it makes for quite a secure connection. I'll not carry another one. I can see me entering my work access number for my VISA one, or vice-versa, several times in a row and getting locked out. If everyone could get together on this (fat chance), and each person have such a device unique to them, it could work on a much larger scale.
RF spectrum allocation is an international issue. The FCC is our interface for the civilian side in the US (the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, NTIA, does it for the government agencies), with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Signatories meet every three years or so and hash out the allocation rules. Among other things, the ITU assigns satellite locations and frequencies for their links. They are sensitive about usage of frequencies where other members have a vested interest, including the amateur bands. Without the FCC to enforce these international agreements within our country, as frequently mentioned previously, we'd quickly have pirates stepping all over everyone with their undisciplined spectrum use. The satellite links are especially sensitive bands because of the signal strengths involved and some of them are right next to nearly unregulated bands (example: 2.2-2.3 GHz is space to earth, but 2.4 GHz is OK for wireless LANS).
So yes, they are totally f'ed up. I'd have used a mod point for you but I wanted to post this bit of trivia.
Dang, but this is good news. I had an uncomfortable feeling that heavy solar activity might be a show stopper for a manned Mars mission. During September's storms I feared the space station's crew were getting hammered.
Why do you have a computer in the first place if you're taking pictures of a questionable nature? I'd guess that you're going to filter the stuff you don't want others to see with it. So, you take the ones that you don't want others to see and print them yourself. The rest, go to a cheap printer outlet.
As in the ancient libraries as that of Alexander, or if Google becomes our Oracle of Delphi, all of our world's accumulated knowledge is stored in modern media and some calamity prevents our updating or refreshing of that huge data bank for a several generations or so?
It would be nice to think that after going to the great trouble of accumulating such a vast store of knowledge, it would be backed up in ways not so vulnerable to degradation with time. Is there a medium that can contain such a vast amount of data but is not badly degraded after a century or two?
If Google accomplishes this task, I hope they do the next step, and archive it in some manner where it can be totally readable to those a hundred years in the future with a recovering technology.
Sounds like a super assist for my arthritic joints. Sure don't want to have to be an ironman simply to wear one. Have to wonder though, how big and heavy is the battery I'll have to carry? What happens after the battery dies and I'm jaunting about five miles from home? Can I plug in at a recharge center nearby?
It is a grin to always see new things that are just beyond our reach, but things our grand kids will not believe have always existed.
Happiness only comes to me after much strife and unhappiness. It seems that in order to attain the goal of all, happiness, we have much to pay in advance. Once we overcome the many causes of our unhappiness, we can then relish the results of our efforts. Happiness does not come for free and it isn't even cheap. We pay dearly for it. To obtain it we need to set realistic goals then fight the battles necessary to reach them. The satisfaction we have once they are reached should bring happiness. If not, we continue with new goals and struggles. If we never reach there then our goals were probably not realistic.
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Whoa, slow down there. I still have some Beta tapes, as well as eight-track tapes, 45 rpm records (some 33's too) and, heck, for that matter, 5 1/2 inch diskettes too. My MFM drives are gone, as are my 78 rpm records, but I thought that once I upgraded, I'd be good forever. Have I missed something?
Not only the operating system, but Intel. They have a very stable set of options to sell now, so to deviate from their formula might not be desirable. I'd like to see AMD 64 X2 options as well.
I'm amazed that more /. folks don't frequent http://isc.sans.org/ They've been on Yellow Alert most of the day due to this one.
Seems that the cost of living is much greater in Japan than in the USA. They can beat the USA by their manufacturing effeciency. I don't see how Japan can hope to compete with Taiwan and China though, unless they out research Taiwan. If they come up with even sharper, leading-edge manufacturing, maybe.
OK, finally RTFA. Far Cry was last year, so no biggie, but Quake 4 was recent and it's failure to be mentioned is significant. Nothing that I like was included and the few I do like were excluded. Oh well. I still vote with my wallet.
Since I can't get into next-gen.biz, I'll wing it.
I think the biggest thing to happen to PC gaming this year was the inclusion of dual processors (and dual threading) to Quake 4. The next best thing was the support for 64 bit processors given by Far Cry.
Boinc doesn't cut it with me. Tried it for several months earlier this year and went back to the classic. With me too, I started from scratch, after getting on board with Seti at Home in its early days, and nothing of those efforts were added to my new Boinc account. That was only a mild disappointment, but the days of going without a new work unit turned me away from them and back to the original.
Change can be good if it's progress, but I don't see any progress with this, just an unwarranted pain in the butt.
Is he supposing that national assets be brought into play? I'd hope that they are much better at this than the local police.
Where are you going and who are the people you will be interacting with? My major was Chemistry, then I changed. I went to Physics. Then I went to Computer Science. The only way to pull this all together was via a non-standard school. If I'd had the self discipline to stick to something, I could have had a Master's in some damn thing from an accredited university. As it was I got a B.S. in Computer Science. When my previous manager saw from where I got my degree, he dropped me into a Black Hole.
Depending on your industry, you'll have to pay the dues required from a graduate of a major university in order to get anything worthwhile. Internet doesn't cut it with hard core managers from the old school.
Naw, but they can earn more respect from some of their actions. Their setting up a honey-pot type of network where bushels of spammers were snared made me smile and nod approval. Doing things like this has to be good for business.
Was the time, recently actually, when I had to start my day with the newspaper. Too many late deliveries, and I discovered that with my laptop, I could still sit on the throne in the morning and read the latest news. Out went the paper (that part anyway). They still bug me regularly to subscribe again, but not a chance.
Mouses (I think 'mice' are the furry little critters), with features never seem to work with my KVM switch. Is that just me or do others suffer from this 'feature'?
Almost 10 years ago a ham buddy and me did encrypted voice over landline using our 24K modems. We both had two Soundblaster cards, to allow full duplex, and a program we found on a BBS. We yakked for over an hour as we simply enjoyed the conversation and thought of the potential. We didn't do it again because it was a kluge and simply for fun. The Blowfish algorithm it used was claimed to be very secure but we were primarily trying the digital voice potential. I'd think that at this time if we tried it over the internet it would be at least as secure but less klugey. That experiment has always left me with the question of why VOIP is such a big deal?
Yes. Because for the time we've seen since its start (Yucca), it has been mostly a study. The study has apparently proven worthy since it made it through both houses with a "Go", despite many objections from powerful political foes. I fully agree that it is not a great solution, but given the alternatives, it is a very good solution.
The Yucca Mountain project can contain the nuclear waste, safely and easily for countless millenniums. Nevada doesn't want it in their back yard so there is much effort on their part to keep this repository from happening on the scale it was envisioned. If you've checked out the Google Earth area around 37.115, -116.050, you'll understand why contained nuclear waste in carefully laid out tunnels should never be a problem, relative to what Nevada has inherited.
I agree. After decades of working rotating shifts, any hour works for me, just don't add some clock-shift crap to the equation. If high-noon for us is 1700 hours, so be it. It's no harder to visualize that the east coast team doesn't start to work until 1500 hours than it is to figure they don't start until 8:00 a.m., or was that DST or Standard? Hate this biannual time tweak like the plague.
How does this help the phone line customer or even the web one be more secure? I have a gizmo that changes its number every few seconds as a secure third method to get into my company's network. It's a minor pain to have to carry this thing along with my keyring, but apparently it makes for quite a secure connection. I'll not carry another one. I can see me entering my work access number for my VISA one, or vice-versa, several times in a row and getting locked out. If everyone could get together on this (fat chance), and each person have such a device unique to them, it could work on a much larger scale.
RF spectrum allocation is an international issue. The FCC is our interface for the civilian side in the US (the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, NTIA, does it for the government agencies), with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Signatories meet every three years or so and hash out the allocation rules. Among other things, the ITU assigns satellite locations and frequencies for their links. They are sensitive about usage of frequencies where other members have a vested interest, including the amateur bands. Without the FCC to enforce these international agreements within our country, as frequently mentioned previously, we'd quickly have pirates stepping all over everyone with their undisciplined spectrum use. The satellite links are especially sensitive bands because of the signal strengths involved and some of them are right next to nearly unregulated bands (example: 2.2-2.3 GHz is space to earth, but 2.4 GHz is OK for wireless LANS).
So yes, they are totally f'ed up. I'd have used a mod point for you but I wanted to post this bit of trivia.
Dang, but this is good news. I had an uncomfortable feeling that heavy solar activity might be a show stopper for a manned Mars mission. During September's storms I feared the space station's crew were getting hammered.
Nothing wrong with letting them brag. Help to open source is always welcome. Only time will tell if theirs is actually an asset though.
Why do you have a computer in the first place if you're taking pictures of a questionable nature? I'd guess that you're going to filter the stuff you don't want others to see with it. So, you take the ones that you don't want others to see and print them yourself. The rest, go to a cheap printer outlet.
The best of both worlds.
There have been many dues paid. I think this site can tell us about many of them: http://www.labiker.org/xb70.html
As in the ancient libraries as that of Alexander, or if Google becomes our Oracle of Delphi, all of our world's accumulated knowledge is stored in modern media and some calamity prevents our updating or refreshing of that huge data bank for a several generations or so?
It would be nice to think that after going to the great trouble of accumulating such a vast store of knowledge, it would be backed up in ways not so vulnerable to degradation with time. Is there a medium that can contain such a vast amount of data but is not badly degraded after a century or two?
If Google accomplishes this task, I hope they do the next step, and archive it in some manner where it can be totally readable to those a hundred years in the future with a recovering technology.
Sounds like a super assist for my arthritic joints. Sure don't want to have to be an ironman simply to wear one. Have to wonder though, how big and heavy is the battery I'll have to carry? What happens after the battery dies and I'm jaunting about five miles from home? Can I plug in at a recharge center nearby? It is a grin to always see new things that are just beyond our reach, but things our grand kids will not believe have always existed.
Happiness only comes to me after much strife and unhappiness. It seems that in order to attain the goal of all, happiness, we have much to pay in advance. Once we overcome the many causes of our unhappiness, we can then relish the results of our efforts. Happiness does not come for free and it isn't even cheap. We pay dearly for it. To obtain it we need to set realistic goals then fight the battles necessary to reach them. The satisfaction we have once they are reached should bring happiness. If not, we continue with new goals and struggles. If we never reach there then our goals were probably not realistic.