That's true, but what they're talking about is comfort noise generation. There's always static on the line (background noise in the room for example and electronic noise) and as part of the compression, if the sound power is too low, no audio is sent. That's called silence suppression, and prevents the consumption of bandwidth when no one's talking (which is more than 50% of the time... normally people aren't talking both at once).
Well, on the other end, during a silence period, nothing at all would be played, so it would sound like a dead line. Comfort noise generation does a bunch of math on the background noise at the transmitting end to pick up key frequencies in the background noise, and then these are recreated at the other end. They don't match (not even close -- you could consider it extremely lossy compression) but it's close enough to our ears so it sounds continuous.
One of the screens mentioned it was running on an emulator... that's what threw me off. (I didn't see that he actually had the hardware done, but I missed the page)
Yep... see it now, just missed that section. It's a fixed-sync VGA-monitor-compatible signal. Pretty much the best you could expect given his desire to limit the technology used...
I lived in Germany from the 87 to 92. At that time, (seems to be the same case now) there were two parts of a phone number, an 'exchange', like 02451 or 02456, and the number which was from 3 to 5 digits long (normally). If you were in the same exchange you could leave it out.
So, chances are if you dialed fewer digits you were just getting the person with that number. It made pulse dialing less painful though... my phone number was 718, and that of a friend was 781.
Well, of course that's a problem, but what they'll probably base it on is where you're connecting from. This information can be pulled out of the ARIN database.
There are quite a few large stations outside of the US already, and a very simple move for any of the stations would be to move everything to Canada. There, you can still connect to the US backbones but escape the tax (kind of ironic, that).
Of course, there's been talk of similar royalties in Canada, but I don't think it's gone anywhere yet, as they're waiting to see how the mess in the States sorts itself out...
If you had read anything about it, you would know that this only applies to US-based stations, and then even only for their listeners in the US.
It's just like stations on the borders -- they don't count listeners on the other side in the royalty calculations.
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Conservation of energy -- if the power isn't dissipated into heat, what is it dissipated into?
Unless it's a light-emitting processor (which would be negligible) or you include RF radiation (which is also negligible) power dissipated = heat produced.
Really? What kind of problems do you have? I've used both the All-in-Wonder Radeon and the AIW Radeon 7500 under Windows 98 and 2000 and never had any problems with it.
And the software isn't the same as the TV-Wonder, either.
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According from the dictionary.com page, the word was directly adopted from Greek. It said 'exegesis' (in Greek) was derived from exegeisthai. So, it's not really a Greek word that's used as-is... check the pronounciation. In English, it's not as you described, as the g has an English sound.
It's the same thing with many other words. For example, the word tort (as in Law) comes pretty much directly from French, but it's not pronounced the same.
Actually, way back then, memory mapped I/Os and ROMs weren't remappable in memory. So, the 640k barrier _was_ a hardware decision. The address decoding logic was implemented in a hardwired fashion...
2. Try to avoid setting up a bank account on Paypal or giving them your checking account number for any reason. They do everything in their power to convince/force you to set up a bank account, which should give you cause for suspicion. If you give them your checking account number, they can (and will) withdraw the money from your bank account at any time without permissions.
Another alternative to this would be to get an extra basic no-fee bank account that you use only for Paypal stuff. When you transfer the money from Paypal, you can just transfer it out of the extra account to another account you have. That way, they can't grab the money out of the account.
How is it not always on? You can have it auto-connect when you turn on your computer, or if you're like me, you can leave it running on a firewall box forever. I've been using PPPoE for a couple of years now, and I've had it stay connected for up to 6 months!
Also, the main reason they used it up here (in Canada) is so that competing ISPs can resell DSL service. You can even have multiple accounts on one line. For example, you can be user@isp1.com, user@isp2.com and even connect to your work network at user@workplace.com (even at the same time). At least this is the reason they give.
What would be nice is if people would just calm down a little about the PPPoE thing, and give a valid reason why it's bad.
Actually, according to my logs, the old worm gave the error "Client sent malformed Host header"
That would indicate (to me at least) that in the old version, the Host: www.x.com parameter in the header (for virtual hosting) was incorrect in the old version.
Most e-mail servers will always put who the message is being sent to when it's being processed. Look in the headers at the 'Received:' lines. At the end, you'll likely see 'for: ' bits. Sendmail, at least, does this.
Whether or not a lens is visible has nothing to do with its focussing capacity... it's all about its refractive index, or what the speed of light is in the substance. This only has to do with the physical composition.
Nah, it's just some people now think that using
the masculin forms of pronouns when the gender's
unknown is sexist. So they mix it up. It's rather
foolish if you ask me. Anyone who would take
offense to something as unimportant as that really
should concentrate their energies somewhere else.
At least it's not as bad as those people who
won't spell women with 'men' but choose another
vowel, or people who talk about herstory as opposed to history...
All I can say is, it works fine for me (on the AOpen board I mentioned). It can only do 2x AGP, and the Riva TNT that I have in it works great. Of course, I'm not using EDO DRAM or anything, there's SDRAM in it.
I bought mine (K6-2/300) originally instead of upgrading to a PII, and it's worked great for me. I have three computers, and only one Intel processor (one's a P5/233, other's a AMD 486DX4/120) and I've had great experiences with AMD's processors and have lost any loyalty I might have had for Intel...
That's true, and I missed that part. However, I guess anyone who would be planning on upgrading from a standard Socket 7 would either have done it long ago (those are 3+ years old) or can afford the hundred bucks for a new motherboard, too. It's still cheaper than making the jump to PII/III or Athlon.
I don't suppose you've ever heard of Super-Socket 7 motherboards, which have 100 MHz+ buses, and often things like AGP. They've been the only Socket 7 boards that you can get for a fairly long time, and the came out with the first K6-2's (I believe) when they started getting past 233 MHz.
An example of one of these boards is the A-Open AX59-Pro, which is one I've been using for quite some time. It's supposed to support processors up to 800 MHz (984 MHz, if you overclock the bus).
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That's true, but what they're talking about is comfort noise generation. There's always static on the line (background noise in the room for example and electronic noise) and as part of the compression, if the sound power is too low, no audio is sent. That's called silence suppression, and prevents the consumption of bandwidth when no one's talking (which is more than 50% of the time ... normally people aren't talking both at once).
Well, on the other end, during a silence period, nothing at all would be played, so it would sound like a dead line. Comfort noise generation does a bunch of math on the background noise at the transmitting end to pick up key frequencies in the background noise, and then these are recreated at the other end. They don't match (not even close -- you could consider it extremely lossy compression) but it's close enough to our ears so it sounds continuous.
One of the screens mentioned it was running on an emulator ... that's what threw me off. (I didn't see that he actually had the hardware done, but I missed the page)
Yep ... see it now, just missed that section. It's a fixed-sync VGA-monitor-compatible signal. Pretty much the best you could expect given his desire to limit the technology used ...
Maybe I'm missing something here ... but I don't see anything at all about a VGA card here. Looks like it only has serial and LCD interfaces.
I'd have a hard time believing someone could make a complete VGA card out of discrete logic... No way you could get the necessary speed.
I lived in Germany from the 87 to 92. At that time, (seems to be the same case now) there were two parts of a phone number, an 'exchange', like 02451 or 02456, and the number which was from 3 to 5 digits long (normally). If you were in the same exchange you could leave it out.
... my phone number was 718, and that of a friend was 781.
So, chances are if you dialed fewer digits you were just getting the person with that number. It made pulse dialing less painful though
Yeah, so is through-hole...
Good mechanical connection is not needed for PCB work, only for connecting wires and connectors together.
Well, of course that's a problem, but what they'll probably base it on is where you're connecting from. This information can be pulled out of the ARIN database.
There are quite a few large stations outside of the US already, and a very simple move for any of the stations would be to move everything to Canada. There, you can still connect to the US backbones but escape the tax (kind of ironic, that).
Of course, there's been talk of similar royalties in Canada, but I don't think it's gone anywhere yet, as they're waiting to see how the mess in the States sorts itself out...
That's just it ... they don't.
If you had read anything about it, you would know that this only applies to US-based stations, and then even only for their listeners in the US.
It's just like stations on the borders -- they don't count listeners on the other side in the royalty calculations.
Conservation of energy -- if the power isn't dissipated into heat, what is it dissipated into?
Unless it's a light-emitting processor (which would be negligible) or you include RF radiation (which is also negligible) power dissipated = heat produced.
Just pointing out the obvious...
And the software isn't the same as the TV-Wonder, either.
It's the same thing with many other words. For example, the word tort (as in Law) comes pretty much directly from French, but it's not pronounced the same.
But this is pretty off topic, now...
Actually, way back then, memory mapped I/Os and ROMs weren't remappable in memory. So, the 640k barrier _was_ a hardware decision. The address decoding logic was implemented in a hardwired fashion...
At least that's what my ISP does. I have to set up my sendmail to smarthost through my ISP's mail server, and it works fine.
And then suppose you notice that PPPoE is available for OpenBSD.
And then you notice that you can do everything you could before your got PPPoE.
Then you realise that even knowledgeable "power users" have to do their homework before they start calling people jackasses.
By the way, even though I have dynamic PPPoE, I still run ssh/pop/imap/smtp/VNC/http/etc. With static, you could even do DNS.
Also, the main reason they used it up here (in Canada) is so that competing ISPs can resell DSL service. You can even have multiple accounts on one line. For example, you can be user@isp1.com, user@isp2.com and even connect to your work network at user@workplace.com (even at the same time). At least this is the reason they give.
What would be nice is if people would just calm down a little about the PPPoE thing, and give a valid reason why it's bad.
That would indicate (to me at least) that in the old version, the Host: www.x.com parameter in the header (for virtual hosting) was incorrect in the old version.
It installed just fine on mine ... maybe you mean it doesn't support 486SX / 386 (no FPU emulation) by default?
Most e-mail servers will always put who the message is being sent to when it's being processed. Look in the headers at the 'Received:' lines. At the end, you'll likely see 'for: ' bits. Sendmail, at least, does this.
Whether or not a lens is visible has nothing to do with its focussing capacity ... it's all about its refractive index, or what the speed of light is in the substance. This only has to do with the physical composition.
Nah, it's just some people now think that using the masculin forms of pronouns when the gender's unknown is sexist. So they mix it up. It's rather foolish if you ask me. Anyone who would take offense to something as unimportant as that really should concentrate their energies somewhere else. At least it's not as bad as those people who won't spell women with 'men' but choose another vowel, or people who talk about herstory as opposed to history...
I bought mine (K6-2/300) originally instead of upgrading to a PII, and it's worked great for me. I have three computers, and only one Intel processor (one's a P5/233, other's a AMD 486DX4/120) and I've had great experiences with AMD's processors and have lost any loyalty I might have had for Intel...
That's true, and I missed that part. However, I guess anyone who would be planning on upgrading from a standard Socket 7 would either have done it long ago (those are 3+ years old) or can afford the hundred bucks for a new motherboard, too. It's still cheaper than making the jump to PII/III or Athlon.
An example of one of these boards is the A-Open AX59-Pro, which is one I've been using for quite some time. It's supposed to support processors up to 800 MHz (984 MHz, if you overclock the bus).