What makes RPI the number one wired school? Number of students with laptops? Quinnipiac University mandated freshman usage of laptops a few years ago. When I attended Clarkson back in 1985 all freshman were required to purchase $1600 Zeniths. We were the real deal back then - the sophomores has only *one* 5 1/2" disk drive, and we got *two*. Nah nah, we didn't have to switch disks to make copyies of Hack.:-)
My point is that lots of schools were wired for ethernet or general computer usage a long time ago. I am curious what makes RPI number one.
My company must have cybersitter or something similar on the firewall. The first site posted gave me an advisory message. I was able to visit a few more sites, though, plus we have most of the text posted again anyway.
you need to legalize guns then. At least I have a fighting chance against muggers.
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Um, so how do you get started in the right direction if the solar wind is blowing in the wrong direction?
My guesses are that you use gravity to slingshot you in the right direction - perhaps I want to go to Mercury which is towards the sun, I first have to sail towards Jupiter, slingshot around it and use the built up speed to drift to Mercury. Sound plausible? Maybe not for humans because it would take too many years, but possible for robots perhaps.
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I guess you forgot to check the No Score + 1 Bonus box again, eh?:-)
I do not agree with this. I thought exactly the same thing a year and a half ago and built a Dual PII 400mhz system on a Gigabit 6bxd motherboard. When running Linux the system *rocks* compared to similarly priced single processor system at the time.
However, it sucks as a game machine. Unless you run Win2000, then all windows games are just on a single processor. While 400mhz is fairly fast for my needs on a gaming system, having it dual processor enabled would make flight simulator, Quake or Reader Rabbit's Kindergarten way faster.:-)
For the average user using Win98, spending money on a single processor system is the way to go. For the average geek running Win2000 or Linux, then I agree that a dual setup is ideal. I really like mine, but it is not for everyone.
p.s. I have been spending more time in Windows since I can't find an email client that supports SMTP Auth with mailandnews.com. Otherwise Linux would be almost exclusive.
Right, trickle down economics don't work. When the rich get more money, they don't invest it, which is the assumption that that economic theory is based upon. They spend it on cars, and houses, and so on, and that doesn't trickle down.
For those that need explanation, the construction of cars, houses and so on is what drives our economy. And this is where many of our middle and lower class citizens are employed. Therefore, tax cuts *do* work.
Whereas if you give the money to the middle class or lower classes, they'll spend and invest the money in places where the economic is stimulated.
Exactly. Give a poor person a tax break and they'll spend it on McDonald's dinners twice a week instead of once a week. Very good for the economy also. See, with a tax cut you get a win-win situation.
ALso, is it me, or did Bush never condone a flat tax while saying throughout the debates that giving most of the money back to the richest 2% is what should be done because they pat the highest percentages?
Well, simple math says 2% of $100 is a $2 tax break, and 2% of $1,000,000 is a $2,000 tax break. You see, a flat tax and a flat tax break are two separate and distinct issues. I would wager that all you rich stock owners would benefit greatly under George Bush's tax plan.
Um, 6 figures doesn't go very far these days. That is just $100,000. So do you want to spend 3/4 of a years salary just for a car? I don't think so. Besides, if you live in Manhattan or Silicon Valley that salary basically affords a one room apartment and cool places to eat.
Myself, I earn far less than that, but if I had that kind of money I'd still probably pick the Prelude (actually, I just bought a very cool VW Golf Turbo) over one of those big heavy gas guzzling beasts. A penny saved is a penny earned, and while you are spending your stock options on cars, I'll be saving my options so my kids can be rich.
I homebuilt a dual processor 400mhz PII a year ago in August for a personal programming/development machine. I can say I should have saved the money on the extra processor and gotten a nice video card instead.
You see, if you run Windows (except NT and 2000) you can only use one processor, and since most games run on Win95/98 you are stuck using one processor. Linux games support is dismal, plus there are no games in the $10 bin at the BestBuy checkout yet.
On the other hand, Make bzImage is lightning fast!
There was a radio article on NPR last week that described how much money the various police departments in Florida get from the war on drugs. Apparently it is a self-fulfilling cycle - drug money = more money for law enforcement = more drug users and dealers busted = more drug money. The problem is, there is very little due process when seizing and auctioning assets so the Sheriff/local constabulary get to sell the asset without any sort of trial.
People have lost businesses by having their Accounts Payable seized without cause, and being unable to make payroll.
The self-fulfilling prophecy has a downside: the police get most of their funding from drugs, so if there is a downturn in drug/cash seizures then effectively their funding is cut. So the politicians are constantly applying pressure to keep up the raids.
Wow, what a police state South Florida has turned into.
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I know for myself, guilt is driving my voting over the past few elections, and this one to vote for a third party candidate. At least when the elected president screws up I can honestly say "I didn't vote him in, but *you* did".
Furthermore, there are issues that I agree with on both democrats or republicans. So I cannot assuage my guilt over giving up one principle to get another. For example, I believe in the individual rights written in the 2nd amendment (Well formed militia = individual rights), but I also agree with Al Gore's more liberal social policies and probably Supreme Court nominations. Hence, neither candidate fits my bill, no of the issues is primary, so either a) I don't vote (and feel guilty for not doing so) or b) vote, but choose a third party candidate.
There is rarely anything the president does that I wish to stand up for and acknowledge that I voted for that man.
Don't vote for the lesser evil. Find a candidate you do believe in and vote for that one.
That's what they said 8 years ago w/ Ross Perot. Well, you know what good my voting for him did? It gave Bill Clinton the advantage that he needed to get into office. Now I might have preferred Clinton at the time, or not, I can't remember, but voting my conscience, along with a rather large percentage of the rest of the US population gave us Slick Willy.
Back to your point - where did it get us, who are interested in a third party? This election probably has the most coverage of the various third party candidates, including surprising coverage of Browne. However neither of them has a snowballs chance...
Anyway, I think it'll likely be *forever* before a third party candidate gets into office unless the two existing parties screw up royally and some amazingly good centrist third party candidate suddenly comes on the scene.
I got Total Annihilation for $9 from the bargain bin, and so far it has been great, if a little bit hard. I also got MotoRacer2, Road Rash and SuperBike in a combo pack for $15. Call me cheap, but without a great video card I guess I do ok.
Thanks for the recommendations - I'll check the others out, esp. Half-Life if I can find it.
So, with all these memories I am seeing lots of references to Half-life, Quake, Doom etc. etc. Here is a question:
If you had $50, which games would you get from the $10 rack at Comp-USA (Best Buy, Walmart etc), or would you just spend the $50 on one recent game?
I ask because I really would like to play some games on my computer, but don't have a lot of money and would hate to waste what I do have. Also, my video card is just an 8mb ATI RageIIc on a Dual Pentium II 400.
Not everyone can make that decision. Every day life takes funding. Families take funding. Changing careers takes funding. Startup businesses take funding. So how do you propose to get all this money while you figure out what it is what you/we/I would like to do?
Personally I was thinking about switching to an programming/IT career from 12 years in Marketing, but after seeing the upcoming glut of fresh college grads I think I'll stay where I am until the next big thing comes along.
It would seem that you are as much a victim of the (Israeli) media as we are here in the U.S. There have been conflicting reports from both sides as to who "started" each days violence, one side saying that Arabs started throwing rocks at "Innocent" Jews, and the other side saying that the Jews were attacking Arab enclaves with guns only to be repelled by rock attacks.
Either way, I'd the whole mideast thing just go away - damn those "forward thinkers" for setting up a Jewish state to begin with - they should have left the region alone. I'd rather just watch murders in my own backyard than some towelheads squaring off - slingshot vs. gun w/ rubber bullets.
LOL! This is so funny. Actually while testing my smoke detector batteries last night I did the ole' battery to the tongue test... I can't imagine what these new batteries would have done, so I guess the warning label should be for adult children as well.:-)
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What makes RPI the number one wired school? Number of students with laptops? Quinnipiac University mandated freshman usage of laptops a few years ago. When I attended Clarkson back in 1985 all freshman were required to purchase $1600 Zeniths. We were the real deal back then - the sophomores has only *one* 5 1/2" disk drive, and we got *two*. Nah nah, we didn't have to switch disks to make copyies of Hack. :-)
My point is that lots of schools were wired for ethernet or general computer usage a long time ago. I am curious what makes RPI number one.
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My company must have cybersitter or something similar on the firewall. The first site posted gave me an advisory message. I was able to visit a few more sites, though, plus we have most of the text posted again anyway.
How many of these adult websites actually pay for their content? Or are they just scanned pictures from paper-copy magazines?
Also, provide some links to these advertising sponsored adult websites. It seems they all require a membership.
Um, actually the original poster is correct.
5x5 pixel area = 25 elements
10x10 pixel area = 100 elements
you need to legalize guns then. At least I have a fighting chance against muggers.
Um, so how do you get started in the right direction if the solar wind is blowing in the wrong direction?
My guesses are that you use gravity to slingshot you in the right direction - perhaps I want to go to Mercury which is towards the sun, I first have to sail towards Jupiter, slingshot around it and use the built up speed to drift to Mercury. Sound plausible? Maybe not for humans because it would take too many years, but possible for robots perhaps.
I guess you forgot to check the No Score + 1 Bonus box again, eh? :-)
You still can't play any cool games from the $10 bin at Bestbuy/CompUSA though.
I do not agree with this. I thought exactly the same thing a year and a half ago and built a Dual PII 400mhz system on a Gigabit 6bxd motherboard. When running Linux the system *rocks* compared to similarly priced single processor system at the time.
:-)
However, it sucks as a game machine. Unless you run Win2000, then all windows games are just on a single processor. While 400mhz is fairly fast for my needs on a gaming system, having it dual processor enabled would make flight simulator, Quake or Reader Rabbit's Kindergarten way faster.
For the average user using Win98, spending money on a single processor system is the way to go. For the average geek running Win2000 or Linux, then I agree that a dual setup is ideal. I really like mine, but it is not for everyone.
p.s. I have been spending more time in Windows since I can't find an email client that supports SMTP Auth with mailandnews.com. Otherwise Linux would be almost exclusive.
Call me the English police, but since when is "growed" a word? I would have used "grown" in this context.
Total tax is 38%? Did you forget about the social security taxes you are paying? More than likely, since you probably never even see it.
My tax here in CT is 40% and I am a home owner with lots of tax deductions but living in a ritzy, underdeveloped (business wise) community.
I don't know but it's been said, but Air Force Wings are made of lead.
I don't know but I've been told that Navy wings are made of gold!
Besides, who wants to wear pansie-boy blue uniforms when you can wear cool white or black?!?!
:-)
Right, trickle down economics don't work. When the rich get more money, they don't invest it, which is the assumption that that economic theory is based upon. They spend it on cars, and houses, and so on, and that doesn't trickle down.
For those that need explanation, the construction of cars, houses and so on is what drives our economy. And this is where many of our middle and lower class citizens are employed. Therefore, tax cuts *do* work.
Whereas if you give the money to the middle class or lower classes, they'll spend and invest the money in places where the economic is stimulated.
Exactly. Give a poor person a tax break and they'll spend it on McDonald's dinners twice a week instead of once a week. Very good for the economy also. See, with a tax cut you get a win-win situation.
ALso, is it me, or did Bush never condone a flat tax while saying throughout the debates that giving most of the money back to the richest 2% is what should be done because they pat the highest percentages?
Well, simple math says 2% of $100 is a $2 tax break, and 2% of $1,000,000 is a $2,000 tax break. You see, a flat tax and a flat tax break are two separate and distinct issues. I would wager that all you rich stock owners would benefit greatly under George Bush's tax plan.
Um, 6 figures doesn't go very far these days. That is just $100,000. So do you want to spend 3/4 of a years salary just for a car? I don't think so. Besides, if you live in Manhattan or Silicon Valley that salary basically affords a one room apartment and cool places to eat.
Myself, I earn far less than that, but if I had that kind of money I'd still probably pick the Prelude (actually, I just bought a very cool VW Golf Turbo) over one of those big heavy gas guzzling beasts. A penny saved is a penny earned, and while you are spending your stock options on cars, I'll be saving my options so my kids can be rich.
sound suspiciously like the Judicial branch of the U.S. government?
I homebuilt a dual processor 400mhz PII a year ago in August for a personal programming/development machine. I can say I should have saved the money on the extra processor and gotten a nice video card instead.
You see, if you run Windows (except NT and 2000) you can only use one processor, and since most games run on Win95/98 you are stuck using one processor. Linux games support is dismal, plus there are no games in the $10 bin at the BestBuy checkout yet.
On the other hand, Make bzImage is lightning fast!
There was a radio article on NPR last week that described how much money the various police departments in Florida get from the war on drugs. Apparently it is a self-fulfilling cycle - drug money = more money for law enforcement = more drug users and dealers busted = more drug money. The problem is, there is very little due process when seizing and auctioning assets so the Sheriff/local constabulary get to sell the asset without any sort of trial.
People have lost businesses by having their Accounts Payable seized without cause, and being unable to make payroll.
The self-fulfilling prophecy has a downside: the police get most of their funding from drugs, so if there is a downturn in drug/cash seizures then effectively their funding is cut. So the politicians are constantly applying pressure to keep up the raids.
Wow, what a police state South Florida has turned into.
I know for myself, guilt is driving my voting over the past few elections, and this one to vote for a third party candidate. At least when the elected president screws up I can honestly say "I didn't vote him in, but *you* did".
Furthermore, there are issues that I agree with on both democrats or republicans. So I cannot assuage my guilt over giving up one principle to get another. For example, I believe in the individual rights written in the 2nd amendment (Well formed militia = individual rights), but I also agree with Al Gore's more liberal social policies and probably Supreme Court nominations. Hence, neither candidate fits my bill, no of the issues is primary, so either a) I don't vote (and feel guilty for not doing so) or b) vote, but choose a third party candidate.
There is rarely anything the president does that I wish to stand up for and acknowledge that I voted for that man.
Great, so windows 2000 is that good! I want a copy, so can you point me to the nearest mirror so I can download it?
What? You have to pay for it? No thanks. It can't be that much better than *nix.
Don't vote for the lesser evil. Find a candidate you do believe in and vote for that one.
That's what they said 8 years ago w/ Ross Perot. Well, you know what good my voting for him did? It gave Bill Clinton the advantage that he needed to get into office. Now I might have preferred Clinton at the time, or not, I can't remember, but voting my conscience, along with a rather large percentage of the rest of the US population gave us Slick Willy.
Back to your point - where did it get us, who are interested in a third party? This election probably has the most coverage of the various third party candidates, including surprising coverage of Browne. However neither of them has a snowballs chance...
Anyway, I think it'll likely be *forever* before a third party candidate gets into office unless the two existing parties screw up royally and some amazingly good centrist third party candidate suddenly comes on the scene.
That said, go vote!
I got Total Annihilation for $9 from the bargain bin, and so far it has been great, if a little bit hard. I also got MotoRacer2, Road Rash and SuperBike in a combo pack for $15. Call me cheap, but without a great video card I guess I do ok.
Thanks for the recommendations - I'll check the others out, esp. Half-Life if I can find it.
So, with all these memories I am seeing lots of references to Half-life, Quake, Doom etc. etc. Here is a question:
If you had $50, which games would you get from the $10 rack at Comp-USA (Best Buy, Walmart etc), or would you just spend the $50 on one recent game?
I ask because I really would like to play some games on my computer, but don't have a lot of money and would hate to waste what I do have. Also, my video card is just an 8mb ATI RageIIc on a Dual Pentium II 400.
thanks for the recommendations,
Stuart
Not everyone can make that decision. Every day life takes funding. Families take funding. Changing careers takes funding. Startup businesses take funding. So how do you propose to get all this money while you figure out what it is what you/we/I would like to do?
Personally I was thinking about switching to an programming/IT career from 12 years in Marketing, but after seeing the upcoming glut of fresh college grads I think I'll stay where I am until the next big thing comes along.
It would seem that you are as much a victim of the (Israeli) media as we are here in the U.S. There have been conflicting reports from both sides as to who "started" each days violence, one side saying that Arabs started throwing rocks at "Innocent" Jews, and the other side saying that the Jews were attacking Arab enclaves with guns only to be repelled by rock attacks.
Either way, I'd the whole mideast thing just go away - damn those "forward thinkers" for setting up a Jewish state to begin with - they should have left the region alone. I'd rather just watch murders in my own backyard than some towelheads squaring off - slingshot vs. gun w/ rubber bullets.
LOL! This is so funny. Actually while testing my smoke detector batteries last night I did the ole' battery to the tongue test... I can't imagine what these new batteries would have done, so I guess the warning label should be for adult children as well. :-)