You do realize that the reason one would use of a BlackBerry is to be hooked in to a corporate LAN yes? A BlackBerry not on a BES basically castrating the whole device.
This one again involves someone willfully installing this hypothetical software...
Just like the last attempt I saw to create a 3rd party BlackBerry security market by saying hey you can write a proxy to use a blackberry as a bridge to a company LAN via MDS... Of course you can (if i install your software)... Now if you can install this software without me letting you, then I'll worry... Until then, it's just FUD to create a market for a 3rd party security product.
You can disable window composition via a nice little check box under the properties for any executable. When you run that app, it will turn off the 3d desktop (if it isn't already since most full screen apps will shut it off without the check box due to the calls they make via d3d forcing it off).
The Quadro FX 2500M sitting in this system doesn't even speed throttle until 102C. It runs between 50-75C happily all day long.
Re:light stopped? Or destroyed and re-emitted...
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in saying it's a snapshot, i mean, information of the light is stored and new light is emitted from that information. The article states that the light exitting the device does not have the exact same characteristics of the light entering. So, it is changed.
light stopped? Or destroyed and re-emitted...
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From reading the article, it sounds to me like the light is being destroyed and then new *nearly* (from the article it says it's not the same) identical light is emitted. While interesting, this phenomena is no where near as much of a breakthrough as if they had actually stopped light.
Correct me if I am wrong, but are they not, in essense, just taking a snapshot of a photon and then recreating it?
I would go in to some of the implications of actually stopping light (instantaneous communications, etc), but it is too early in the morning for my mind to work that deeply:)
For these old games? For a service that isn't costing them near that much? Umm, no thank you. It would be cheaper in the long run if you like these *old* (therefore cheap if you can find them) games to buy an old system and the games. Old consoles go for practically nothing.
Proud mother or father snaps a picture of their son or daughter on the instant they turn 13 to commemorate the event. That's what I think when I hear "youngest teen ever".
It is downloaded by the mother of a college student who, upon seeing Gnutella, sets it up at his home. Either for his mom, or for himself. She starts messing with it (once it is set up, it's a snap to use, configuring throws people off). And she's a soccer mom type and wants to get pleasure off looking at someone else's proud moment for their child.
You missed the point completely as well. In something such as this, all it takes is a tiny chance for error and the people running this become extremely irresponsible for doing so.
Number one, these people never even downloaded actual porn. The pictures are those that show up on the main linked page. Of course, I read through the file lists and a large number of the files do not seem to suggest illegal pornography anyway. "youngest teen ever" What in that suggests porn? The word youngest? The word teen? The word ever? None of those seem extremely pornographic either. Maybe someone accustomed to downloading porn might think it's porn, but I think they're gonnna "Catch" alot of innocents with this. Others that don't suggest porn that I see on their lists are "veryyoung" (very young what? asparagus?), "nohairteen" (so we have a bald-headed child, so what?), etc. Then there's the problem of all these "teen" ones. 18 is a number, 19 is a number... Hmm, if those denoted ages, I don't see anything illegal here. I'm not a huge porn freak, but I have seen enough to know that "teen" attached to a website denotes >=18 but not too many years greater. It doesn't mean 13-17. I'm betting that very few of the people downloading most of these were truly looking for kiddieporn. Next are the ones that say "preteen" so what? Anyone not net savvy and not understanding that if it's ambiguous like that, it's probably porn, might download that confused. Then bam, they're posted onto this site. The should take all this stuff down immediately, it's poorly done. Most of the names look like they'll fool people. People looking for child-porn would download them, but so could someone not looking for that. If they want to keep this up, they need to do two things. First, they need to delete all current content to protect those that they're falsely accused, and I'm sure there are many. (Mostly on the ones that just say "teen" probably). Second, they must change all filenames to include XXX (who's gonna get confused then?) and also give them such depraved names that no one would for one second consider the file to be porn of the more legal type.
(Should I go into their sharing of the iggy pop song as well?) Nah, I didn't think so, I'm assuming that's a copyrighted work....
Oh, btw, I'm perfectly aware that I sound like I must be on there list, lol. But I saw this, and it just screamed at me as wrong.
"Intel knows that they can't beat AMD on performance, so they will flood the market with variations of the same chip"
Have you looked at any benchmarks for the high speed chips (where the athlons are running at 1/3 speed cache)? What will you see? The coppermines soundly thrashing (well, by a noticeable, but not very large, margin)
Oh wait, I forgot, AMD is the underdog. Therefore, since a while back their chips were faster (the lower speeds with the 1/2 speed cache) Mhz by Mhz, we're still going to say they're faster even though it's no longer true.
Really though, read up on the performance of the Athlons with the 1/3 speed cache vs. the performance of the Coppermines... Yup, the Coppermines have edged by the Athlons.
Voice recognition? Do you honestly speak faster than you type? I mean, think about it for a moment. Find a passage,time yourself reading it in a normal voice that a very sophisticated speech-to-text program could interpret, and then time yourself typing it. You might be surprised. Then again, you may not. Depends on how fast you type I guess. Then you have to take the time to correct any errors, etc with the speech-to-text.
Then there's the mouse thing, I remember the dilbert cartoon: Pointy Haired Guy: Higher, higher, higher, ok click there. Now! No! Not There! Dilbert:::shakes his head::
I mean, for certain things voice is all well and good. "open/etc/fstab with vi. delete line 2." Good for someone who types slowly I guess.
Now consider this: the gimp explain voice control in that? "draw the mona lisa"?
Until (IF) our thoughts can be interpreted, I'm gonna support my old keyboard and mouse. I have ten fingers, but I can only make one sound come out of my mouth at once. And well, despite its dopiness, the mouse works great. Oh, and I'm convinced that m$ should have been a hardware company, not a software one. Look at the intellimouse explorer. Working optical mouse, great accuracy, you never need to clean the ball and rollers, and it never looses tracking unless on a mirror or very smooth white surface. I have no complaints with mine. Actually, I've never owned any m$ *hardware* that I really ever had complaints with.
LOL, this thread kills me. Ok, you are forgetting a *huge* thing. If you are dropping it, that is allowing the rock to fall on its own it will only reach falling speeds. Now, what's the terminal velocity for something like a big rock? Do I know? Know... But I do know it is nothing at all like 5 miles a second... Asteroids cause problems because they are travelling at *immense* speeds. They go so fast that the slow down that the atmosphere causes is insignificant. But dropping something from an initial speed of 0? Of even shooting it as fast as we can? Umm...... NO. It's not the size of these things, it's the obscene speed relative to the Earth. Perhaps next time before suggesting something like this, actually consider the physics. 5 miles a second..... From dropping? That far out in space relying on the Earth's wimpy gravity at that distance? No. Someone out there more motivated than I do the math, and account for air resistance... Hmm, quick calculation shows that to attain 5 Mps from falling *using the acceleration at the surface of the earth* would require falling 462.5 miles. Yeah, this is a useless calculation b/c it is done only on the surface, but still it gives an idea....
Heh, well there are games now, but the performance doesn't really compare to windows counterparts. 3dfx drivers come close, but who wants to only have 1 choice (and that being a company who just continues to rest on its laurels and doesn't make anything really new). At least now we will have two choices. Actually, in truth, were it not for games, I would likely have scrapped windows a long time ago.
[rant] Oh, and btw: if you have everything configured properly, have good hardware, and do not run buggy software, windows is alot more stable for a desktop user than many here give it credit for. Crashes? What are those? Seriously though, my system stays up generally until I leave on the weekend, or get angry at having to listen to it one night. Linux, well, linux crashes too. For the same reasons. Buggy drivers, bad software, etc. It's all about how you configure and maintain your system.
Yeah, windows sucks, but not nearly so much as a linux zealot would have you believe. Linux sucks too. They both suck in their own ways. That's why I use both. Use each in what it doesn't suck at! [/rant]
Hmm, weird. At our school, I2 seems to just work for anything on the schoolwide lan. I can ftp off metalab (sunsite) at 2.4 mbps. Somewhat close to lan speeds. There is a total os something like 12 mbps available for regular internet, so this has to be going over I2. I've had a few of these going before. So unless I have godlike power over the incoming bandwidth, I assume I'm using it
Actually, if working properly, they don't get full. They aren't a real tank, they have openings, they just contain the crap until it is broken down into less crappy crap by bacteria and stuff.
"Nature" apparently allows us to do this too. If it defied physical law, the "laws of nature," well, it just wouldn't work now would it? I've never understood why anything we do is not "natural," but anything any other species does is. People who think like this tend to also say that we are no better than any other thing on earth. If we are no better, then wouldn't whatever we do be "natural" as well??? If what we do is unnatural, you are admitting that there is something that sets us apart from nature. Setting us apart in a dominant way. If that is the case, then we are in fact better. So either way, we should do whatever we want as a species.
If we wanna save the environment, well, that is for us. Not for the spotted owls. If we think it's actually for some dumb birds, we're deluding ourselves.
How did you get a triple word score on a seven letter word that used all your pieces? The only time a seven letter word can use them all is the first word, and the first word has to be put right in the middle of the board, no triple word there. Then of course quixtar is a name not a word, but anyway..... So, nope, it can't work:)
(that's the problem about geek humor, it not only must be funny, but *correct* as well...)
Re:Katzdot..(orThe World Demands Interactive Kids)
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Voices From The Online Internet War War The World Demands Interactive Kids The Movie Line Demands The Music Industry Spiritual Sexbots, The Post-Columbine Website and Pain
and my favorite.... Can Interactive Dying Babies Stop The Spiritual Movie Line?
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You do realize that the reason one would use of a BlackBerry is to be hooked in to a corporate LAN yes? A BlackBerry not on a BES basically castrating the whole device.
This one again involves someone willfully installing this hypothetical software...
Just like the last attempt I saw to create a 3rd party BlackBerry security market by saying hey you can write a proxy to use a blackberry as a bridge to a company LAN via MDS... Of course you can (if i install your software)... Now if you can install this software without me letting you, then I'll worry... Until then, it's just FUD to create a market for a 3rd party security product.
FUD alert!!!
You can disable window composition via a nice little check box under the properties for any executable. When you run that app, it will turn off the 3d desktop (if it isn't already since most full screen apps will shut it off without the check box due to the calls they make via d3d forcing it off).
This is flat out incorrect.
There's a nice little check box to disable window composition while any particular app is running.
The Quadro FX 2500M sitting in this system doesn't even speed throttle until 102C. It runs between 50-75C happily all day long.
in saying it's a snapshot, i mean, information of the light is stored and new light is emitted from that information. The article states that the light exitting the device does not have the exact same characteristics of the light entering. So, it is changed.
From reading the article, it sounds to me like the light is being destroyed and then new *nearly* (from the article it says it's not the same) identical light is emitted. While interesting, this phenomena is no where near as much of a breakthrough as if they had actually stopped light.
:)
Correct me if I am wrong, but are they not, in essense, just taking a snapshot of a photon and then recreating it?
I would go in to some of the implications of actually stopping light (instantaneous communications, etc), but it is too early in the morning for my mind to work that deeply
the convenience of paying $1.50 *every single day you wish to play it...*
For these old games? For a service that isn't costing them near that much? Umm, no thank you. It would be cheaper in the long run if you like these *old* (therefore cheap if you can find them) games to buy an old system and the games. Old consoles go for practically nothing.
Proud mother or father snaps a picture of their son or daughter on the instant they turn 13 to commemorate the event. That's what I think when I hear "youngest teen ever".
It is downloaded by the mother of a college student who, upon seeing Gnutella, sets it up at his home. Either for his mom, or for himself. She starts messing with it (once it is set up, it's a snap to use, configuring throws people off). And she's a soccer mom type and wants to get pleasure off looking at someone else's proud moment for their child.
You missed the point completely as well. In something such as this, all it takes is a tiny chance for error and the people running this become extremely irresponsible for doing so.
Number one, these people never even downloaded actual porn. The pictures are those that show up on the main linked page. Of course, I read through the file lists and a large number of the files do not seem to suggest illegal pornography anyway.
"youngest teen ever" What in that suggests porn? The word youngest? The word teen? The word ever? None of those seem extremely pornographic either. Maybe someone accustomed to downloading porn might think it's porn, but I think they're gonnna "Catch" alot of innocents with this. Others that don't suggest porn that I see on their lists are "veryyoung" (very young what? asparagus?), "nohairteen" (so we have a bald-headed child, so what?), etc.
Then there's the problem of all these "teen" ones. 18 is a number, 19 is a number... Hmm, if those denoted ages, I don't see anything illegal here. I'm not a huge porn freak, but I have seen enough to know that "teen" attached to a website denotes >=18 but not too many years greater. It doesn't mean 13-17. I'm betting that very few of the people downloading most of these were truly looking for kiddieporn.
Next are the ones that say "preteen" so what? Anyone not net savvy and not understanding that if it's ambiguous like that, it's probably porn, might download that confused. Then bam, they're posted onto this site.
The should take all this stuff down immediately, it's poorly done. Most of the names look like they'll fool people. People looking for child-porn would download them, but so could someone not looking for that.
If they want to keep this up, they need to do two things. First, they need to delete all current content to protect those that they're falsely accused, and I'm sure there are many. (Mostly on the ones that just say "teen" probably). Second, they must change all filenames to include XXX (who's gonna get confused then?) and also give them such depraved names that no one would for one second consider the file to be porn of the more legal type.
(Should I go into their sharing of the iggy pop song as well?) Nah, I didn't think so, I'm assuming that's a copyrighted work....
Oh, btw, I'm perfectly aware that I sound like I must be on there list, lol. But I saw this, and it just screamed at me as wrong.
"Intel knows that they can't beat AMD on performance, so they will flood the market with variations of the same chip"
Have you looked at any benchmarks for the high speed chips (where the athlons are running at 1/3 speed cache)? What will you see? The coppermines soundly thrashing (well, by a noticeable, but not very large, margin)
Oh wait, I forgot, AMD is the underdog. Therefore, since a while back their chips were faster (the lower speeds with the 1/2 speed cache) Mhz by Mhz, we're still going to say they're faster even though it's no longer true.
Really though, read up on the performance of the Athlons with the 1/3 speed cache vs. the performance of the Coppermines... Yup, the Coppermines have edged by the Athlons.
Voice recognition? Do you honestly speak faster than you type? I mean, think about it for a moment. Find a passage,time yourself reading it in a normal voice that a very sophisticated speech-to-text program could interpret, and then time yourself typing it. You might be surprised. Then again, you may not. Depends on how fast you type I guess. Then you have to take the time to correct any errors, etc with the speech-to-text.
::shakes his head::
/etc/fstab with vi. delete line 2." Good for someone who types slowly I guess.
Then there's the mouse thing, I remember the dilbert cartoon:
Pointy Haired Guy: Higher, higher, higher, ok click there. Now! No! Not There!
Dilbert:
I mean, for certain things voice is all well and good. "open
Now consider this: the gimp
explain voice control in that? "draw the mona lisa"?
Until (IF) our thoughts can be interpreted, I'm gonna support my old keyboard and mouse. I have ten fingers, but I can only make one sound come out of my mouth at once. And well, despite its dopiness, the mouse works great. Oh, and I'm convinced that m$ should have been a hardware company, not a software one. Look at the intellimouse explorer. Working optical mouse, great accuracy, you never need to clean the ball and rollers, and it never looses tracking unless on a mirror or very smooth white surface. I have no complaints with mine. Actually, I've never owned any m$ *hardware* that I really ever had complaints with.
Well, if we are getting technical here then.
"Dropping" it would just put it into Earth orbit as well....
LOL, this thread kills me. Ok, you are forgetting a *huge* thing. If you are dropping it, that is allowing the rock to fall on its own it will only reach falling speeds. Now, what's the terminal velocity for something like a big rock? Do I know? Know... But I do know it is nothing at all like 5 miles a second... Asteroids cause problems because they are travelling at *immense* speeds. They go so fast that the slow down that the atmosphere causes is insignificant. But dropping something from an initial speed of 0? Of even shooting it as fast as we can? Umm...... NO. It's not the size of these things, it's the obscene speed relative to the Earth. Perhaps next time before suggesting something like this, actually consider the physics. 5 miles a second..... From dropping? That far out in space relying on the Earth's wimpy gravity at that distance? No. Someone out there more motivated than I do the math, and account for air resistance... Hmm, quick calculation shows that to attain 5 Mps from falling *using the acceleration at the surface of the earth* would require falling 462.5 miles. Yeah, this is a useless calculation b/c it is done only on the surface, but still it gives an idea....
The 2.5 Mhz is the only frequency area that we really know the background noise well enough to do this.
Heh, well there are games now, but the performance doesn't really compare to windows counterparts. 3dfx drivers come close, but who wants to only have 1 choice (and that being a company who just continues to rest on its laurels and doesn't make anything really new). At least now we will have two choices. Actually, in truth, were it not for games, I would likely have scrapped windows a long time ago.
[rant] Oh, and btw: if you have everything configured properly, have good hardware, and do not run buggy software, windows is alot more stable for a desktop user than many here give it credit for. Crashes? What are those? Seriously though, my system stays up generally until I leave on the weekend, or get angry at having to listen to it one night. Linux, well, linux crashes too. For the same reasons. Buggy drivers, bad software, etc. It's all about how you configure and maintain your system.
Yeah, windows sucks, but not nearly so much as a linux zealot would have you believe. Linux sucks too. They both suck in their own ways. That's why I use both. Use each in what it doesn't suck at! [/rant]
SGI and Nvidia have partnered on some projects after that. I think they just decided to work together instead of fight it out in court.
Hmm, weird. At our school, I2 seems to just work for anything on the schoolwide lan. I can ftp off metalab (sunsite) at 2.4 mbps. Somewhat close to lan speeds. There is a total os something like 12 mbps available for regular internet, so this has to be going over I2. I've had a few of these going before. So unless I have godlike power over the incoming bandwidth, I assume I'm using it
(Well, there is that and my boss told me I was )
Well, that's why I said the crap is broken down.
=)
Actually, if working properly, they don't get full. They aren't a real tank, they have openings, they just contain the crap until it is broken down into less crappy crap by bacteria and stuff.
"Nature" apparently allows us to do this too. If it defied physical law, the "laws of nature," well, it just wouldn't work now would it? I've never understood why anything we do is not "natural," but anything any other species does is. People who think like this tend to also say that we are no better than any other thing on earth. If we are no better, then wouldn't whatever we do be "natural" as well??? If what we do is unnatural, you are admitting that there is something that sets us apart from nature. Setting us apart in a dominant way. If that is the case, then we are in fact better. So either way, we should do whatever we want as a species.
If we wanna save the environment, well, that is for us. Not for the spotted owls. If we think it's actually for some dumb birds, we're deluding ourselves.
well, in that case, the original poster should have mentioned the extra points for new word "lancer"
nope
:)
How did you get a triple word score on a seven letter word that used all your pieces? The only time a seven letter word can use them all is the first word, and the first word has to be put right in the middle of the board, no triple word there. Then of course quixtar is a name not a word, but anyway..... So, nope, it can't work
(that's the problem about geek humor, it not only must be funny, but *correct* as well...)
Voices From The Online Internet War War
The World Demands Interactive Kids
The Movie Line Demands The Music Industry
Spiritual Sexbots, The Post-Columbine Website and Pain
and my favorite....
Can Interactive Dying Babies Stop The Spiritual Movie Line?