Can't say that it's a problem anymore. At least I haven't noticed any problem while gaming with my Logitech set (MX900? Can't remember atm, at the office). Always moving and aiming without any real skipping problem and I don't have their software installed on my system.
As a side note, very sturdy set of equipment. Mouse has survived many accidental and not-so-accidental drops and the batteries in the keyboard are still good after well over a years worth of use.
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I use it instead of a normal long distance carrier. From what I can figure they route their calls over VOIP (they even offer a service to connect a normal phone to your broadband router and call anywhere for a flat monthly fee). If you just use the calling plan, there's only a certain maximum fee you pay. I know for the one I'm on, I talk as long as I like and it's a max of $1 for the New England area and $2 for the rest of the US. The international max rates are pretty nice as well.
All depends. Joe Sixpack is going to go "Them there sisckoes are pretty durn good." Nerd says "But they got hacked!!" Who is Joe going to believe? Nerd or TV?
But if they route the firewall and hack the proxy.....god I can't type that.....I feel dirty than that one time in Thailand....oh the stories I could tell...
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They have to listen to their investors. If they tell their investors "We have to let our market share slide, and we're dropping a bunch of stuff just so we can stay in the game." the investors aren't going to feel very confident in Microsoft because they're used to Microsoft being the market dominators.
Time to put your heart through a real stress test. Santa Clause and Easter Bunny are also fictional. That'll mean that (going by previous news) that Linux really doesn't exist.
Hard part is deciding if the Linux that people think they are using is a version of GNU released by the shadow government to get through the tinfoil hats or if it's just BSD from Bizarro world.
While running the MS Antispyware scan, it picked up that my host file may have have been tampered with. That's great stuff! Only problem is that I set up my hosts file to send most ad producing sites to 127.0.0.0. Only redirection they complained about was that ads.msn.com was being sent to 127.0.0.0 instead of the holy land of banner ad goodness.
And to give fair credit, I get my hosts file from http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html
Lets have Microsoft patent asteriod collisons and then we'll send all the lawyers after the asteriod to deliver a cease and desist order.
Worst case scenario is that we're out a few lawyers.
While the above posts mentioned the images used in the articles, there's also formatting for a searchable dvd. There would probably be some sort of formatting of the data for an easily searchable archive.
Maybe because they're starting small and simple before ramping up the complexity?
When the first airplanes were being designed, they didn't go straight for the jumbo jet.
I love it that sites such as 3dgamers.com have started to have a BitTorrent option for downloading game demos, patches, movies, whatnot. It's especially nice when a popular website says "Hey look! Trailer/Demo for *upcoming widely anticipated game* is coming out!" It sure beats the hell out of waiting in line or paying $X a month just to be able to download a free demo quickly.
Maybe it's not so much that it's GPL'd, but that it can be hosted on sites like sourceforge. I'm not familiar with the terms of sourceforge, but I know of at least a few projects on sourceforge that are used to host botting programs for various online games.
Why pay for a host when you can just have SF host it for you?
I can't find the link offhand, but my company (which does support work for other local businesses) was able to find a filter for OpenOffice that allowed you to open Corel documents and save them into other formats. The filter wouldn't allow you to save back into the Corel format, but if you're wanting to convert, then you can save the old documents to MS or OOo formatting.
For the most part, 90% of post-install Linux (this is an important distinction) is nearly identical to Windows. Point and click interfaces, office programs, web browsing and email aren't too much different when switching from Linux to Windows. The "hardest" part of most Linux distributions is installation and knowing which software packages to install (KOffice or OpenOffice or Abiword as an example, if the user even knows what they're looking for).
The key point to using Linux in this situation is saving money on deployment. If Microsoft is donating copies of Windows to be used in these labs then I can see going with Windows. If using Linux would save money for the charity, then Linux all the way.
Granted they said they'd sent out free cds, but isn't asking them to send 100 cds to Mexico a little much? Why not just download Ubuntu, spend $20 on a spool of cds and print off some labels for the copies of the main cd.
Maybe something like this wouldn't be so bad. Imagine if Joe User went to order something online and was told "You must download IE7/FireFox2/(other browsers) in order to properly view our page". Joe User would then go get the latest browser.
Recently at the ISP I work for people that have been running IE4 for 2 or 3 years have been calling saying "I need to install IE6 because this website I always go to told me that it's about time I upgrade" and then I point them to the right place and remind them that running Windows Update often is a good idea anyways.
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...But does it go to 5 GPUs?
Until your good friend goes "I thinks I saws something in der, better double check" and feels you up anyways.
Can't say that it's a problem anymore. At least I haven't noticed any problem while gaming with my Logitech set (MX900? Can't remember atm, at the office). Always moving and aiming without any real skipping problem and I don't have their software installed on my system. As a side note, very sturdy set of equipment. Mouse has survived many accidental and not-so-accidental drops and the batteries in the keyboard are still good after well over a years worth of use.
http://usadatanet.com/ I use it instead of a normal long distance carrier. From what I can figure they route their calls over VOIP (they even offer a service to connect a normal phone to your broadband router and call anywhere for a flat monthly fee). If you just use the calling plan, there's only a certain maximum fee you pay. I know for the one I'm on, I talk as long as I like and it's a max of $1 for the New England area and $2 for the rest of the US. The international max rates are pretty nice as well.
All depends. Joe Sixpack is going to go "Them there sisckoes are pretty durn good." Nerd says "But they got hacked!!" Who is Joe going to believe? Nerd or TV?
But if they route the firewall and hack the proxy.....god I can't type that.....I feel dirty than that one time in Thailand....oh the stories I could tell...
They have to listen to their investors. If they tell their investors "We have to let our market share slide, and we're dropping a bunch of stuff just so we can stay in the game." the investors aren't going to feel very confident in Microsoft because they're used to Microsoft being the market dominators.
Time to put your heart through a real stress test. Santa Clause and Easter Bunny are also fictional. That'll mean that (going by previous news) that Linux really doesn't exist. Hard part is deciding if the Linux that people think they are using is a version of GNU released by the shadow government to get through the tinfoil hats or if it's just BSD from Bizarro world.
Oh, you missed the memo. According to Microsoft sometimes Open Source is good. Linux is always bad.
While running the MS Antispyware scan, it picked up that my host file may have have been tampered with. That's great stuff! Only problem is that I set up my hosts file to send most ad producing sites to 127.0.0.0. Only redirection they complained about was that ads.msn.com was being sent to 127.0.0.0 instead of the holy land of banner ad goodness. And to give fair credit, I get my hosts file from http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html
"Pop and erectino yet?" No. It's broken. -Bob Dole
Lets have Microsoft patent asteriod collisons and then we'll send all the lawyers after the asteriod to deliver a cease and desist order. Worst case scenario is that we're out a few lawyers.
While the above posts mentioned the images used in the articles, there's also formatting for a searchable dvd. There would probably be some sort of formatting of the data for an easily searchable archive.
Which was covered by the first sentance of the summary....... "Depending on your point of view, Jon Lech Johansen is either your hero or adversary."
But they can see your spacesuit puffing out.
Stupid! If he takes off the hat "they" will get him! The hats protect you from "them".
Maybe because they're starting small and simple before ramping up the complexity? When the first airplanes were being designed, they didn't go straight for the jumbo jet.
I love it that sites such as 3dgamers.com have started to have a BitTorrent option for downloading game demos, patches, movies, whatnot. It's especially nice when a popular website says "Hey look! Trailer/Demo for *upcoming widely anticipated game* is coming out!" It sure beats the hell out of waiting in line or paying $X a month just to be able to download a free demo quickly.
Maybe it's not so much that it's GPL'd, but that it can be hosted on sites like sourceforge. I'm not familiar with the terms of sourceforge, but I know of at least a few projects on sourceforge that are used to host botting programs for various online games.
Why pay for a host when you can just have SF host it for you?
When I updated my home copy of Firefox I finally saw the Slahdot rendering mess up. I just cleared by cache and the problem seemed to disappear.
I can't find the link offhand, but my company (which does support work for other local businesses) was able to find a filter for OpenOffice that allowed you to open Corel documents and save them into other formats. The filter wouldn't allow you to save back into the Corel format, but if you're wanting to convert, then you can save the old documents to MS or OOo formatting.
For the most part, 90% of post-install Linux (this is an important distinction) is nearly identical to Windows. Point and click interfaces, office programs, web browsing and email aren't too much different when switching from Linux to Windows. The "hardest" part of most Linux distributions is installation and knowing which software packages to install (KOffice or OpenOffice or Abiword as an example, if the user even knows what they're looking for). The key point to using Linux in this situation is saving money on deployment. If Microsoft is donating copies of Windows to be used in these labs then I can see going with Windows. If using Linux would save money for the charity, then Linux all the way.
Granted they said they'd sent out free cds, but isn't asking them to send 100 cds to Mexico a little much? Why not just download Ubuntu, spend $20 on a spool of cds and print off some labels for the copies of the main cd.
Maybe something like this wouldn't be so bad. Imagine if Joe User went to order something online and was told "You must download IE7/FireFox2/(other browsers) in order to properly view our page". Joe User would then go get the latest browser. Recently at the ISP I work for people that have been running IE4 for 2 or 3 years have been calling saying "I need to install IE6 because this website I always go to told me that it's about time I upgrade" and then I point them to the right place and remind them that running Windows Update often is a good idea anyways.
It begs the question, what do Slashdot editors read when they're slacking off at work? MSN?