I'm getting 349 Mbps - (using Vista RC1) and I have d/led 29% of the file in about 20 minutes. Open BSD? Hmm...maybe there's a chair with a label on the canvas - "I'm going to kill f**king Open BSD!" stuck in the internet tubes.
With the new information economy you can get answers in seconds on the net instead of hours in a book. The people who are successful are the ones who build apon the ideas of others while having enough sense to use their bullshit meter. Students are making a logical shortcut if they build apon one persons ideas from a peer reviewed site like Wikipedia.
What did you build your ideas apon? I guess the dictionary was not one of your sources.
If someone writes a paper with stolen passages from the internet from multiple sources they have to at least understand the topic and if they attempt to conceal it they have an even better understanding of the material.
The dark side growing in you, I sense. Why not simply properly attribute all of of your Internet sources, instead of trying to pawn them off as your own? Research does build upon the ideas of others, but for research to actually add the base of knowledge, there needs to be someting original contributed by the researcher.
Who cares. As long as they have enough information to make the leap to more complicated subjects then they can fill in the blanks with the internet for all the things they dont quite grasp.
As the anesthesia mask is placed over your face for a serious operation, thinking that your surgeon "filled in the blanks" in her grasp of anatomy with information gleaned from the Internet is a comforting thought for you?
This is yet another reason why this country is so misguided. The 46% percent of Americans who still believe there is a connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda get their "news" exclusively from right-wing media channels like CNN, Fox (Faux) news, Rush (druggie) Limbaugh, Ann (those 9/11 bitches) Coulter, and a host of other parroting local news stations and papers who cut and paste from the above sources and call it news.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that your life is not enhanced by trying to always sell crap to everyone all the time?
The best Web 2.0 for me would be a throwback to a time when advetisers had not yet discovered the net. Now there's a concept - an advertising free backbone! Call it Web -2!
Struck a nerve, have we? By your sig, I can tell you're a gun-totin' NRA dude that only wishes he could stand a post in Iraq - that place where Saddam was hidin' all them terrorists -
This country has been hijacked by right-wing neo-cons, who care nothing about the Constitution, or anything else that makes you want to be proud to be an American.
I'm doing my best to get it back, in November 2006 and November 2008.
Don't mind beng modded down - must be a Right-Winger or an extermely uninformed Mod who modded up the parent as Insightful. So all the reports of widespread voting irregularites and voter suppression in a state governed by the GW's brother were all just a teensy-weeensy co-ink-a-dince?
The election was stolen - the Diebold machines are a plot to steal yet another election.
The 2004 Ohio election results have recently been ordered to be held and not destroyed, since they might record yet another reversal of GW's fortunes.
when I ordered my Mac Book Pro earlier this year. It was upgraded to the faster processor before it shipped. I like the way Apple does business.
B-)
Since then, I've purchased a Mac Mini for my son who's entering high school, and brought my sister to the local Apple store. She got a Mac Mini too!
My point exactly - older but still quite respectable systems run XP SP2 well, but bog down bigtime on the publicly released VB2.
I understand systems get old - I'd like to build a new system with specs similar to yours, but the moolah is missing from the equation.
All this as Unbuntu gets better and better on much more modest hardware....maybe Bill's leaving has a bit to do with the woes that Vista will bring?
I put Vista beta 2 on two systems - one at work and my home system. It's gone from both now.
I know it was a beta release, yadda yadda, but I can't even consider using at work since I need a Novell Client - Novell said they would release a client for Vista about 90 days after the official release to OEM's - sorry - need to work. ZAP! Back to XP SP2.
At home, an obviously aging P4 2.26 Ghz with 1 gig of Ram rates a 1, according to Vista. Can yous say makes a zippy system slow? ZAP! Back to XP SP2.
I checked the lotto, I didn't win, and so can't afford to buy what MS considers to be minimum HW just to run Aero.
So Joe Cool in accounting considers himself a regular geekster - loads a few OS's on his 16 gig USB stick and boots at work! No prob!
Lets' listen in on Joe Cool, shall we?
Hey! WTF - I'm crashing! Let me call the Help Desk! Hey - Help Desk - my system is crashing - what OS? I got Unbuntu, Fedora, Vista and XP loaded on my 16 gig USB stick - cool huh! Waddya mean you don't support OS's on USB sticks? Wassamatta wid youse guys - you in the frickin' stone age or sumpin?
Click! Dial tooooooone.....
Joe Cool - I cannot BELIEVE they hung up on me!!!!! WTF!!!!
Please file this for future reference - category - non-supported boot-devices.
I wrote a while back about concern's with Google's Desktop search, as it relates to HIPAA regulations, but never thought much about my own right to privacy when using Google's searches. I guess there could be a future version of a Joe McCarthy witch hunt, where the government could supoena Google and force them to release search data.
I bookmarked his site and will implement the methods at my workplace, since Google's responce was less than satisfactory, IMHO. It was along the line of "no patient information would EVER leave our servers!"
I had the same idea a while back - though I'm sure it's been said elsewhere.
I think the only way this would work was if Apple worked out some basic HW requirements from Dell, HP, etc, to limit possible configurations. Alternatively, each PC OEM could be held resposible for any HW driver issues, so that Apple would not be fielding a gazillion questions about why video card XYZ isn't running the latest game.
I still believe that Apple would get an enormous windfall from the sale of OSX on PC's, and it could use the cash to drop the prices of its' hardware to become really competitive with PC's on every level.
I'm from here alright. I'd like to impeach the current President, and am working to elect candidates who will vote to impeach in 2006. What are you doing? Besides posting smarmy putdowns, that is.
And how did you come to come to this mistaken conclusion, anyway? Sheesh...
Nice idea. Clicked on the link and sent Ted Stevens a piece of my mind. BTW, Common Cause has a nice template which you can use to send your letter to Ted 'Wacky Tie" Stevens and other representatives.
And I quote -
I demand that Congress protect freedom and openness on the Internet by passing legislation to protect network neutrality.
The Internet is our most democratic medium. It has grown exponentially, fueled innovation and altered how we communicate. Network neutrality is the guiding principle that has allowed for these advancements.
Now, for-profit interests want to violate the principle of network neutrality in order to increase their own profit margins. They must not be allowed to destroy the free and open culture of the web.
I strongly urge you and your colleagues in Congress to support robust net neutrality legislation that prohibits network operators from blocking, impeding or interfering with any lawful Internet traffic or prioritizing any content or services.
My Prius is a looker! So far, an average of 45.3 MPG on a 140 mile per day round trip commute. I suspect my mileage would be higher, but I live in the Pocono mountains, and my commute goes through some other steep hills in New Jersey. I have been impressed with the car's mileage for another reason, since most people average around 80 miles per hour on the aptly named Route 80, I am forced to drive likewise or be run over by a typical humungous GM/Ford/Chrysler "World Destroyer" SUV.
The Prius and other hybrids are also unoficially the geeks dream vehicle, with LCD displays, GPS mapping which can be updated with a DVD - the list goes on and on and I haven't even RTFM, which explains even more features I have yet to try out.
Great comment and definitely correctly moderated as Insightful! (OK - does this qualify me as fulfilling my meta-moderating for the day? lol)It reminds me of a great page I saw on a friend's web site.
It was so on target I asked his permission to publish it on another blog I write for.
BTW, my friend is also an amazing photographer as well - check out his photography site if you have a chance.
Just for kicks, I used my Mac Book (booted to XP PRO) to d/l the ISO, booted to OS X, burned the IS0 using disk utility (BTW - the file was on the FAT32 Windows partition - created by Boot-Camp), then ran the install as an upgrade from within XP Pro on a Dell Optiplex - also using a DVD-drive - not a conbo burner. Aside from a long install time - it was close to two hours - whenI finally booted to Vista, I had Aero, network worked, and all apps that I currently use seemed to work fine. I do have a 256 meg ATI Radeon in the system, so I was expecting to see Aero.
I left the system on over the weekend and was out sick today - wonder if it's still up or will I face a BSOD upon return?
I don't mind a few commercials - and since I have twelve preset FM stations, I can easily switch to another station when a commercial comes on, or to one of the six CD's, each loaded with 700 megs of MP3's. 4.2 gigs of music gives me a lot of choices.
My goal is to reduce, not increase the recurring bills arriving each month.
It's more like, "so I'm on the train now, and it's taking soooooo long, and I need to get my nails and hair done, that is sooooo bizarre, like I really think that, OMG - PONIES!
I want a fully functional flash/php/pearl/java/css knock my socks off site in 24 hours or bad things will happen to you - especially if you eat at McDonalds!
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I'm getting 349 Mbps - (using Vista RC1) and I have d/led 29% of the file in about 20 minutes. Open BSD? Hmm...maybe there's a chair with a label on the canvas - "I'm going to kill f**king Open BSD!" stuck in the internet tubes.
With the new information economy you can get answers in seconds on the net instead of hours in a book. The people who are successful are the ones who build apon the ideas of others while having enough sense to use their bullshit meter. Students are making a logical shortcut if they build apon one persons ideas from a peer reviewed site like Wikipedia.
What did you build your ideas apon? I guess the dictionary was not one of your sources.
If someone writes a paper with stolen passages from the internet from multiple sources they have to at least understand the topic and if they attempt to conceal it they have an even better understanding of the material.
The dark side growing in you, I sense. Why not simply properly attribute all of of your Internet sources, instead of trying to pawn them off as your own? Research does build upon the ideas of others, but for research to actually add the base of knowledge, there needs to be someting original contributed by the researcher.
Who cares. As long as they have enough information to make the leap to more complicated subjects then they can fill in the blanks with the internet for all the things they dont quite grasp.
As the anesthesia mask is placed over your face for a serious operation, thinking that your surgeon "filled in the blanks" in her grasp of anatomy with information gleaned from the Internet is a comforting thought for you?
This is yet another reason why this country is so misguided. The 46% percent of Americans who still believe there is a connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda get their "news" exclusively from right-wing media channels like CNN, Fox (Faux) news, Rush (druggie) Limbaugh, Ann (those 9/11 bitches) Coulter, and a host of other parroting local news stations and papers who cut and paste from the above sources and call it news.
You won't see a single ad on my blog.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that your life is not enhanced by trying to always sell crap to everyone all the time?
The best Web 2.0 for me would be a throwback to a time when advetisers had not yet discovered the net. Now there's a concept - an advertising free backbone! Call it Web -2!
Struck a nerve, have we? By your sig, I can tell you're a gun-totin' NRA dude that only wishes he could stand a post in Iraq - that place where Saddam was hidin' all them terrorists -
NOT!
This country has been hijacked by right-wing neo-cons, who care nothing about the Constitution, or anything else that makes you want to be proud to be an American.
I'm doing my best to get it back, in November 2006 and November 2008.
This dog can hunt.
Don't mind beng modded down - must be a Right-Winger or an extermely uninformed Mod who modded up the parent as Insightful. So all the reports of widespread voting irregularites and voter suppression in a state governed by the GW's brother were all just a teensy-weeensy co-ink-a-dince?
The election was stolen - the Diebold machines are a plot to steal yet another election.
The 2004 Ohio election results have recently been ordered to be held and not destroyed, since they might record yet another reversal of GW's fortunes.
Wiki has a nice summary of what passed for Democracy in "Kent State Ohio".
when I ordered my Mac Book Pro earlier this year. It was upgraded to the faster processor before it shipped. I like the way Apple does business. B-) Since then, I've purchased a Mac Mini for my son who's entering high school, and brought my sister to the local Apple store. She got a Mac Mini too!
My point exactly - older but still quite respectable systems run XP SP2 well, but bog down bigtime on the publicly released VB2. I understand systems get old - I'd like to build a new system with specs similar to yours, but the moolah is missing from the equation. All this as Unbuntu gets better and better on much more modest hardware....maybe Bill's leaving has a bit to do with the woes that Vista will bring?
I put Vista beta 2 on two systems - one at work and my home system. It's gone from both now.
I know it was a beta release, yadda yadda, but I can't even consider using at work since I need a Novell Client - Novell said they would release a client for Vista about 90 days after the official release to OEM's - sorry - need to work. ZAP! Back to XP SP2.
At home, an obviously aging P4 2.26 Ghz with 1 gig of Ram rates a 1, according to Vista. Can yous say makes a zippy system slow? ZAP! Back to XP SP2.
I checked the lotto, I didn't win, and so can't afford to buy what MS considers to be minimum HW just to run Aero.
So Joe Cool in accounting considers himself a regular geekster - loads a few OS's on his 16 gig USB stick and boots at work! No prob!
Lets' listen in on Joe Cool, shall we?
Hey! WTF - I'm crashing! Let me call the Help Desk! Hey - Help Desk - my system is crashing - what OS? I got Unbuntu, Fedora, Vista and XP loaded on my 16 gig USB stick - cool huh! Waddya mean you don't support OS's on USB sticks? Wassamatta wid youse guys - you in the frickin' stone age or sumpin?
Click! Dial tooooooone.....
Joe Cool - I cannot BELIEVE they hung up on me!!!!! WTF!!!!
Please file this for future reference - category - non-supported boot-devices.
I have owned two Rio's - these were not made by Creative, but by a now defunct company called Sonic Blue. Just my 2 centavos.
I wrote a while back about concern's with Google's Desktop search, as it relates to HIPAA regulations, but never thought much about my own right to privacy when using Google's searches. I guess there could be a future version of a Joe McCarthy witch hunt, where the government could supoena Google and force them to release search data.
I bookmarked his site and will implement the methods at my workplace, since Google's responce was less than satisfactory, IMHO. It was along the line of "no patient information would EVER leave our servers!"
Yeah...right
Plagiarize detection mode on - this sounds a bit familiar
, but maybe you forgot to mention that you read it the the New York Times?Confession is good for the soul!
.Nothing special, just a routine monthly security update like the ones we have come to expect.
Hmmm...like the monthly and now routine and also now quite supicious Windows Genuine Advantage updates?
Say it ain't so, Billy boy, say it ain't so!
Mod me off topic - but your sig - care to explain? From the South and never got over the Civil War? What's up?
Oops - the link to my brainstorm did not work.
I had the same idea a while back - though I'm sure it's been said elsewhere.
I think the only way this would work was if Apple worked out some basic HW requirements from Dell, HP, etc, to limit possible configurations. Alternatively, each PC OEM could be held resposible for any HW driver issues, so that Apple would not be fielding a gazillion questions about why video card XYZ isn't running the latest game.
I still believe that Apple would get an enormous windfall from the sale of OSX on PC's, and it could use the cash to drop the prices of its' hardware to become really competitive with PC's on every level.
Go to the light, Steve - go to the light!
I'm from here alright. I'd like to impeach the current President, and am working to elect candidates who will vote to impeach in 2006. What are you doing? Besides posting smarmy putdowns, that is.
And how did you come to come to this mistaken conclusion, anyway? Sheesh...
Nice idea. Clicked on the link and sent Ted Stevens a piece of my mind. BTW, Common Cause has a nice template which you can use to send your letter to Ted 'Wacky Tie" Stevens and other representatives.
And I quote -I demand that Congress protect freedom and openness on the Internet by passing legislation to protect network neutrality.
The Internet is our most democratic medium. It has grown exponentially, fueled innovation and altered how we communicate. Network neutrality is the guiding principle that has allowed for these advancements.
Now, for-profit interests want to violate the principle of network neutrality in order to increase their own profit margins. They must not be allowed to destroy the free and open culture of the web.
I strongly urge you and your colleagues in Congress to support robust net neutrality legislation that prohibits network operators from blocking, impeding or interfering with any lawful Internet traffic or prioritizing any content or services.
My Prius is a looker! So far, an average of 45.3 MPG on a 140 mile per day round trip commute. I suspect my mileage would be higher, but I live in the Pocono mountains, and my commute goes through some other steep hills in New Jersey. I have been impressed with the car's mileage for another reason, since most people average around 80 miles per hour on the aptly named Route 80, I am forced to drive likewise or be run over by a typical humungous GM/Ford/Chrysler "World Destroyer" SUV.
The Prius and other hybrids are also unoficially the geeks dream vehicle, with LCD displays, GPS mapping which can be updated with a DVD - the list goes on and on and I haven't even RTFM, which explains even more features I have yet to try out.
Evangelist mode off.Great comment and definitely correctly moderated as Insightful! (OK - does this qualify me as fulfilling my meta-moderating for the day? lol)It reminds me of a great page I saw on a friend's web site.
It was so on target I asked his permission to publish it on another blog I write for.
BTW, my friend is also an amazing photographer as well - check out his photography site if you have a chance.Just for kicks, I used my Mac Book (booted to XP PRO) to d/l the ISO, booted to OS X, burned the IS0 using disk utility (BTW - the file was on the FAT32 Windows partition - created by Boot-Camp), then ran the install as an upgrade from within XP Pro on a Dell Optiplex - also using a DVD-drive - not a conbo burner. Aside from a long install time - it was close to two hours - whenI finally booted to Vista, I had Aero, network worked, and all apps that I currently use seemed to work fine. I do have a 256 meg ATI Radeon in the system, so I was expecting to see Aero.
I left the system on over the weekend and was out sick today - wonder if it's still up or will I face a BSOD upon return?
I don't mind a few commercials - and since I have twelve preset FM stations, I can easily switch to another station when a commercial comes on, or to one of the six CD's, each loaded with 700 megs of MP3's. 4.2 gigs of music gives me a lot of choices.
My goal is to reduce, not increase the recurring bills arriving each month.
I have yet to hear anyone say - "I'll put you though to Starfleet, Captain." Or, "All Hailing frequencies are open."
It's more like, "so I'm on the train now, and it's taking soooooo long, and I need to get my nails and hair done, that is sooooo bizarre, like I really think that, OMG - PONIES!
I want a fully functional flash/php/pearl/java/css knock my socks off site in 24 hours or bad things will happen to you - especially if you eat at McDonalds!
Keep the date thingie - that works for me.