Heh. I always wondered what cable service was like in norther Harford county. If you look in the TV Guide included in the Sunday paper, there was a doted line drawn about 1/3 of the way down the county. South of the line, you get Comcast, north of the line you get... I forget. I was south of the line. Thats comptition for you.
Saddam Hussein has bought dud nukes from South Africa and another country (I think Russia or N. Korea). It's only a matter of time until he gets the real thing.
Kim Jong Il delivers to prison? You learn something new every day.
Popular Science is just chock full of good articles this month. One in-depth article addresses the question many are afraid to acknowledge is a possibility - can terrorists acquire the raw materials and then deliver a nuclear bomb?
Except, of course, that article was in last months issue. Or at least the issue that they sent me last month. Why are magazine publishers and car manufacturs always releasing stuff a month/year before the date the put on the product? When did we get this far ahead? Can't they just release an "intrim" issue (Febuary, 2005 B) or something and get the dates back on track?
Another, fairly new feature of Y!PP: Spades tables. If you get tired of sailing or crafting or tournament fighting, you can always settle down in the Inn for a nice game of cards. Hopefully, with more income, they can go add some more games to thier card engine.
Reading the desciption of OpenDoc in TFA, I am reminded of Douglas Adams's article "Frank the Vandal" in MacUser in 1989. (Well, OK, I don't have 15 year old back issues of MacUser lying arround, but I do have "The Salmon of Doubt," which also has the article, the first on in "The Universe" section.) He pretty much describes the same thing, in between moaning about his electrician and talking about his Mac Portable, though he is talking about Hypercard, another canidate for this list.
The only exception is the processor suffix (G4 or G5), which doesn't really indicate the product generation anyway. This applies to iPods as well.
Execept thst the G stands for generation, though of the CPU rather then the machine. G3 (which had a three in the name) was the third major generation of PPC chips that Apple used. At this point, I wish Apple would number things more. Though for a while they played arround with "DV" and "SE," there have been various machines in three different form factors all basically going by the name iMac for almost six years now. There have been PowerBook G4's on the market since January 2001, and I doubt that Apple's latest refresh have much in common with the 400 MHz model of yore. Same thing with the iBooks and iPods. Really, all I am asking is for some simple way to figure out what hardware revision someone is talking about without haveing to go look up processor speeds, drive capacities, and development code names.
It's a relatively unremarkable space rock, orbiting 224 million miles (358 million kilometers) from the sun in the main asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter.
In Adams terms, "It's a relatively unremarkable space rock, orbiting 224 million miles from an unregarded yellow sun far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy."
"For sites like no-ip.com it could be annoying, but financial sites would instantly be known to have something wrong going on."
Problem, though: big sites tend to have web server clusters, with a different IP address for each mirroring box. Really big sites use some sort of geographic load balancing scheme, like akamai where you never know quite what you will get back from the DNS server. Do an nslookup on google some time to see.
Its not the comic itself thats influential. Yeah, its entertaining, but what I really check the website for are the newsposts. Basically blog entries, yes, but they come from a (sorta) regular gamer, telling about the new cool game. Yeah, Gabe and Tycho have contacts "on the inside" and get to play with all sorts of neat stuff before we do, and they seem to have way more time to devote to gaming then I can ever seem to arrange, and they can bring webservers to their knees almost as easily as slashdot just by posting a link, but they are still, to me at least, just regular guys, telling me what games they are playing, and who's server are taking all the fun out of it.
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Is the slot for the WiFi\Bluetooth card any sort of standard connector? Apple carges $75 for 802.11* ($125 for 802 and Bluetooth), which seems sorta pricy, unless, of course, you need to get an Apple specifc part, at which point it is just a ripoff.
Yeah, you probably could just hook up a USB 802 adapter, but then you loose some "look how small it is" points.
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But I thought we were the ape-like decendants of telephone sanitizers. Shouldn't cleaning the keyboard be instinctual?
Finally, a reason to get an HDTV. At least, if I could get one at a reasonable price.
I've started to go to Wikipedia for this sorta stuff rather then googe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080i
Yes, 1080i=1920x1080x60 fields (30 frames) per second.
This has to be new low.
Sounds sorta like warchalking, but I don't think that caught on either.
thus yielding a notable performance gain for people who are not overly blessed with RAM.
She has money, she has a title, she has huge... tracts of RAM!
At least Galactica goes on for one more week.
Heh. I always wondered what cable service was like in norther Harford county. If you look in the TV Guide included in the Sunday paper, there was a doted line drawn about 1/3 of the way down the county. South of the line, you get Comcast, north of the line you get... I forget. I was south of the line. Thats comptition for you.
Ah, yes. The "meaning of life" stuff.
Or skip right to Thunderbird 2006.
Hit Ctrl+P and it does.
In Soviet Russia, software tests you.
Everyones growing by canibalizing BSD sales. Everyone knows its dead, anyway.
Saddam Hussein has bought dud nukes from South Africa and another country (I think Russia or N. Korea). It's only a matter of time until he gets the real thing.
Kim Jong Il delivers to prison? You learn something new every day.
Popular Science is just chock full of good articles this month. One in-depth article addresses the question many are afraid to acknowledge is a possibility - can terrorists acquire the raw materials and then deliver a nuclear bomb?
Except, of course, that article was in last months issue. Or at least the issue that they sent me last month. Why are magazine publishers and car manufacturs always releasing stuff a month/year before the date the put on the product? When did we get this far ahead? Can't they just release an "intrim" issue (Febuary, 2005 B) or something and get the dates back on track?
It means you can plug it in when the device is lukewarm. If nessesary, use a hairdryer or a ice pack prior to insertion.
Another, fairly new feature of Y!PP: Spades tables. If you get tired of sailing or crafting or tournament fighting, you can always settle down in the Inn for a nice game of cards. Hopefully, with more income, they can go add some more games to thier card engine.
Reading the desciption of OpenDoc in TFA, I am reminded of Douglas Adams's article "Frank the Vandal" in MacUser in 1989. (Well, OK, I don't have 15 year old back issues of MacUser lying arround, but I do have "The Salmon of Doubt," which also has the article, the first on in "The Universe" section.) He pretty much describes the same thing, in between moaning about his electrician and talking about his Mac Portable, though he is talking about Hypercard, another canidate for this list.
The only exception is the processor suffix (G4 or G5), which doesn't really indicate the product generation anyway. This applies to iPods as well.
Execept thst the G stands for generation, though of the CPU rather then the machine. G3 (which had a three in the name) was the third major generation of PPC chips that Apple used. At this point, I wish Apple would number things more. Though for a while they played arround with "DV" and "SE," there have been various machines in three different form factors all basically going by the name iMac for almost six years now. There have been PowerBook G4's on the market since January 2001, and I doubt that Apple's latest refresh have much in common with the 400 MHz model of yore. Same thing with the iBooks and iPods. Really, all I am asking is for some simple way to figure out what hardware revision someone is talking about without haveing to go look up processor speeds, drive capacities, and development code names.It's a relatively unremarkable space rock, orbiting 224 million miles (358 million kilometers) from the sun in the main asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter.
In Adams terms, "It's a relatively unremarkable space rock, orbiting 224 million miles from an unregarded yellow sun far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy."
And, of course, WinFoo 2005 for Windows.
"For sites like no-ip.com it could be annoying, but financial sites would instantly be known to have something wrong going on." Problem, though: big sites tend to have web server clusters, with a different IP address for each mirroring box. Really big sites use some sort of geographic load balancing scheme, like akamai where you never know quite what you will get back from the DNS server. Do an nslookup on google some time to see.
Its not the comic itself thats influential. Yeah, its entertaining, but what I really check the website for are the newsposts. Basically blog entries, yes, but they come from a (sorta) regular gamer, telling about the new cool game. Yeah, Gabe and Tycho have contacts "on the inside" and get to play with all sorts of neat stuff before we do, and they seem to have way more time to devote to gaming then I can ever seem to arrange, and they can bring webservers to their knees almost as easily as slashdot just by posting a link, but they are still, to me at least, just regular guys, telling me what games they are playing, and who's server are taking all the fun out of it.
Is the slot for the WiFi\Bluetooth card any sort of standard connector? Apple carges $75 for 802.11* ($125 for 802 and Bluetooth), which seems sorta pricy, unless, of course, you need to get an Apple specifc part, at which point it is just a ripoff.
Yeah, you probably could just hook up a USB 802 adapter, but then you loose some "look how small it is" points.