Actualy Nextel phones aren't that big any more. They have been small for quite sometime. iDen is a Digital network as well. In fact, they also have a color one available and also introduced a RIM Blackberry unit complete with Cell Phone and Direct Connect features. I live in Columbus, OH and was able to talk back to Columbus from Lexington, KY. Direct Connect will soon be (if it is not already) Nation wide. A walkie talkie that lets me talk from one coast to the next...nice. Although I have a Verizon phone and I did notice that in between the big cities on my trip like between Knoxville and Lexington and Lexington and Cincy have no Digital coverage....jus AMPS but the Verizon phone worked. Web Browser did not as it needs the digital network but I could make ad recieve calls. AMPS will be around a while longer.
Graphite not only works better, but is the only lube usually allowed in pinewood racing.
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We found at a hobby shop some weights that were made for pine woods. Had different shapes and weights. They had a hole in the middle and you could just screw it down or I think we used tape or funtack then covered the weights with Black Electrical tape. Puttying the weight in is a stupid idea unless your for sure your car is not going to need a tweak. Remember, just cuz it's 5 oz on your scale does not mean that it is on THEIR scale.
According to what I found on the web, that would not be allows either. Heck the Cubs can't even put the car on the track (I didn't when I was a kind but it was still a blast). Rules can also vary by Pack or Council. Your Council may have rules that the packs must follow. In our Council, we always had a Council level race after the Pack races were over and I think only the top three (may have been top ten) cars went to the Council Races. The best oen I was to was held in the dinly mall where I used to live. Great because you could putter around the mall when different heats were running.
Personally, I would like to see a Unlimited Class of pinewoods for Webelos. Still keep some of the rules, but allow them to do things like get craxy with the wheels. You have not seen anything til you had your dad grind the polish our wheels down until they come to a point...low friction then!:) We had thos eset aside and they allowed the cubs to play aroudn with the track after the official races were done. We'd GET CRAZY! Tape all kind of weights in and get funky!
1. The car must have been made this current scouting year.
2. The car should meet all racing specifications:
Car must be made from official kit provided. Width cannot exceed 2-3/4 inches. Width between wheels must be 1-3/4 inches. Length cannot exceed 7 inches. Bottom clearance between the car and the track must be at least 3/8 inch. Weight cannot exceed 5 ounces. Scales vary slightly -- be prepared to make adjustments. No loose materials, no taping weight down to car.
Wheel bearings, washers, & bushings not allowed
Wheels and axles may not be modified in any way.
No springs allowed.
Detailing is allowed as long as it fits dimensions and other above rules.
Car must be free-wheeling, with no starting devices.
The only lubricant to be used will be dry graphite. It must be applied before weigh-in.
Car must pass inspection committee. If you fail to follow the rules, your car could be disqualified. 3. No test runs before the event.
4. Once a car has been through weight inspection and passed, it will go to the holding area and must not be touched.
5. Only members of the race committee will be able to handle the cars during racing.
6. Each heat will be announced. Viewing must be done from behind taped areas. Let the den whose heat it is get up front.
GM OWNS AM General. The new H2 from Hummer is based on a combo of the Suburban and Tahoe Chassis. Much more behaved on the road, but not much. The specs on the H2 for ground clearance are also not exactly correct. Most of them are underrated and it can do more then advertised. It also starts out at around 49,000 versus 100,000 for the H1 which is still being made. I may be able to attain a H2 some point in my life. The H1 costs more then my house!
Traveling tonight (instead of yesterday) with my wife and kid halfway to where we are going to end up tomorrow. I am going to visit my family in the Knoxville area. I intend maybe Saturday or Sunday to go see Dollywood in Pidgeon Forge. Really nice time you can have there. The total drive is only 6 hours, but I am going to take my time getting there. I will probably be there earlier then if I waited to leave tomorrow. I have a laptop and GPS in tow (no DC to AC convertor so no laptop on way down, maybe on way up). Also have PDA and digicam. Have a Merry Christmas! (wishing Happy Holidays is just SO not like me....I want to profess who's birthday I am celebrating....sorry if offend the vocal minority.)
Server Room or Computer Room. SHEESH! I do like neat names and stuff but what does a name have to do with how it works? Why do you have to come up with a neat name for it? Why can't you just call it what it is?
Most folks I know of here in Columbus who have more than one computer use NAT. Mostly Roadrunner. A tech was out and seen my setup and they said nothing. Only thing they said was t would be slower (BS). In facet I think they support you doing things like NAT. Saves them equipment and IP adresses.
Check this page out. The have both drivers for mass storage, for floppies, for serial cables too. He also has a link to the site that sells the dongle (in case you don't need/want the VGA port on it) and the USB-Serial cable complete with driver and of lengths great for hooking a GPS up to it.
Add the expansion pack for the USB and you can us a IBM Microdrive to caoture yoru data. If you can't afford the 99 bucks, there is a 40 dollar solution to add a USB dongle.
I agree with RAM. The Gateway's have a DVD-RAM that also does DVD-R and -RW. In fact I just used mine tonight to burn off a copy of my MP3's. 4 GB pf MP3 burnt in about 30 minutes. DVD-RAM is SLOW! STILL! Lastnight I formatted a DVD-RAM (Free one that came with system) and that took about 20 min/ Copied 600 MB of data to it and it took nearly 30 minutes to write that! DVD-RAM is 1x. Period. It will die unless the speeds come up. Mine also seemed to say that it will(DVD-RAM Discs) work in some DVD-ROMS and players. Only way I will use it is for backup media. BTW, the drive that comes in the gateways seems to have done away with the tray thingy. If you went the route I did and order a new machine, get a CD-RW with it for normal stuff. From all reports, DVD-R is the best for compatability. DVD+R will eventually work in possibly, but I don't know why DVD+R is better. One review I saw said that the DVD-R worked in nearly everything while the + ones did not. YMMV!
There's your key. Most of the place I see will say oh you can get a PC for 1000. What happens if you need a monitor too? Also your experience will suck on those machines because you probably cheaped out on something. Maybe you are still using that three year old monitor and things like that. So maybe if you had a decent monitor and had some parts laying around, maybe you could build a decent PC for 1,000 that will run that game acceptably at a good resolution (640x480 just looks horrid to me.....). Then you get on the net and half the guys on there have the latest P4 with a ATI 9700 Pro, a highspeed connection, tons of ram and lots of drive space (not relavant, but I am sure they do have alot) will kick your ass! My point is to have "fun" and play with zero problems you have to spend alot. To play single player, yeah you can have fun but isn't it more satisfying to play a networked game.
Not if you play games man. You need a Beefy PC to play the latest games like Neverwinter Nights. Just TRY to play that game on a 1000 dollar pc. Oh it will run, but your frame rates would suck. I think even a 2000 dollar PC would be not as good although you may be able to get it smooth.
Here's why: On a console, I don't have to spend 3500 dollars on a PC to gain and advantage on the other players. All of the other players have the SAME hardware, and most of the time, the same controller. Oh sure you can buy a different controller then the stock one, but most I know stick with the one that came with it. Also, I don't have to worry about OS crashes, game crashes (usually), what res I need to run, what my network settings are......it's nuts. With a console, I push button, stick disk in and play. Period.
Why would you get fired for saying you work at Walmart? Sounds pretty obvious to me anyway!:) At least that would be my first guess....next guess would be Electronic Boutique.
You can't make a Star Trek movie that you guys will like. Nothing will ever live up to the stuff you saw as a kid. I bet if Star Trek II: TWOK would come out today you guys would pan it. First, most of us have not seen the movie yet. Most of the "real" reviews have not come out yet. It has not even had the chance to speak for itself and you guys are panning it and that's not being very fair. Personally, I rather believe/hope that this will be another rock em sock em trek movie like First Contact was. I rather liked that one. Insurrection was bad also. Also, saying that one is not a true Sci-Fi fan because they have not read Asimov, Heinlein, Bear, Benford, Brin, Adams, Niven, Pournelle and others is not fair either. I am also tired of seeing Sci Fi be over ridden by the fantasy stuff. Fantasy may have come from Sci-Fi or Sci-Fi from Fantasy but Fantasy type books are different, to me, to not be Sci-Fi. I like seing shows that take place on starships and I like Star Wars. Just because it does not stand up to the image you have built up from Star War over the years does not mean that other folks with better expectations won't like it. It's just like the Linux zealots who don't care about making their programs easy to use for others because they think that their way is better. If they made a trek movie that sounded like it was wrote by these supposed better writers, noone else would go see it!
Last I checked, the current theory is RF doesn't cause cancer. If it does, give me facts!
In any case, I hope Aeerie does it right and blows the doors off of the 3G cell providers. Every one of them charge out the ass for a crappy connection and the base MB per month they give you is only enough if you just use the wap browser without paying megabucks to get more. In any case, the Richochet modem is the best idea and I think can be very successful. If they use the 900 MHz band though they should look into trying to license another band although alot of the cordless phones and WiFi stuff is up stream now. You can still buy 900 MHz cordless phones (that's what I use so it doesn't mess with my WiFi), but most who get new cordless phone see higher MHz and think better (I know, about as much sense as CPU MHz).
Unbiased opinion is not possible on this subject. I will give my opinion on the matter. First, go ahead. Take the guns. May I remind you the folks who commit murders do not usually lawfully own the guns in the first place. They are obtained from that bald guy on the corner or that hayseed looking guy in the back ally or the gangster in a business suit from the back of a cadillac. They can even be stolen from their last victim. They don't go to the local gun shows and they don't go to Vance's Gun Shop. They don't get background checks and they certainly don't practice gun safety. Just reminds me they had the gun control thing on the halloween special on the simpsons. Funny as hell but true! The criminals are not going to turn their guns in no matter how much you give them. Every citizen has a right enumerated in the constitution. As far as I am concerned, every gun law that is made is against the consitution and the only way they can get rid of guns is if there is and amendment and that will never happen. Guns are there. Deal with it.
Really. I mean Annabelle was kind of funny on Dinner and Movie, but be honest, we did not really tune into see the dinner being cooked. We tuned in to SEE THE MOVIE!! Dinner and a Movie has just turned into an extra ad now with the hosts holding up a bottle of Dasani Nutri-Water or the "product" of the week. It's not even so much about the dish. Although they did come up with some fun dish names like Hail to the Chef State of the Onion Frittata for the movie The American President, or Obi-Wan Cannelloni for Star Wars. Now it seems like they either advertise an ingredient or a beverage in addition to the commercials they show also. Also the Man Made Movie thing sucks too. Granted the movies are ok, but I would rather see a Geek Made Movie where the show would show you how to build a geek friendly, yet wife friendly house with cat 5 in every room bewteen breaks of movies like Hackers and The Matrix.
Not entirely true. If this was, we'd have to had flip a switch to double our processor like we just did. No we BOUGHT a part (mainframe CPU is a HUGE (small compared to past, huge compared to average PCI card) card that sldies right in. After a little configuration type stuff to do on the hardware management console, you start to IML and you have the cpu's installed, but still configged like it was the old one. You have to re config VM to divvy up the extra CPU to the other virtual machines. Otherwise the new CPU runs like the OLD one. Most shops will run for a week or so on the new proc running like it was the old proc before upping the amount of the proc is available to each VM guest. Most shops use all of the CPU's installed on the card and not just part of it. Also, it's no longer called the s/390, it's called the zSeries (with the pSeries being RS/6000 machines and the iSeries the AS/400 and the xSeries for the Intel based Netfinity servers.).
First, 802.11b has some problems with security. That's number one. Second, there are some real problems with what they are going to have to do to make it work. If they make no changes to hardware, they are just begging to be hacked. My guess is they won't run encryption and they will have some sort of webpage that automagically loads when you hit the AP asking for a web page (this is what Wayport does). Second, free AP's setup by home users and others are all over the place and already occupying a channel (probably channel 6 as that's a common default). There is not enough channels to make this work on 802.11b. It will almost have to be a bastardized version of it or maybe 802.11g (running in 5 GHz). In either of these, because of the frequencies used, the range will suck unless you exceed the power limit set by the standard. I just don't see this being used as cell phones are used today. It would be nice and I SURE AS HELL WOULD PAY for it because I love wireless. Being able to browse on my PDA on the bus or train would be wonderful. Is it feasible? Well, if you have as deep of pockets as AT&T the answer would be maybe but my answer would be no.
Um so? That's THEIR perogative. Do you expect their decendents to start giving money and land to you? My advice to you is stop being jealous about what others have and start working towards that goal yourself. The JD Rockefeller's decendents are a RARITY. There's alot of people in this country. Milton Hershey went bankrupt 6 times before his chocolate company hit it big. This country is built on making your own way and being proud of it. According to the 2000 Census, more people make 50,000 to 74,000 then any other amount. There are only about 2 million that make over 200,000 a year. If the economy was stratified as you say, then the amount of people would be the same or close for each income level. It looks more like lumpy layers to me. If you make 50,000 or more, then you are in the top 25 percent of wage earners in this country. Congrats. You can be considered rich. The amount of people born into money in this country is very low. The amount of folks who make alot of money on their own are more. Michael Dell started Dell out of his garage and was not rich. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple out of a garage and definitely were not rich. If I remember right, HP was also started by Hewlitt and Packard out of their garage too. Ray Kroc had enough money to buy a McDonalds, perfect it buy them outright and now there are over 30,000 stores. He did not need much to buy that restaurant. Hendrick Meijer started his chain in 1934 in Greenville, Michigan (now call Meijer). Now there's a Meijer in 5 states and the company will be 100 in 2034. Oh and I forgot...the company is still family owned. These are but a few of the great americans who started poor and got rich. That's something you deem impossible.
Folks like us are buying these with "maybe" a few clueless newbies. I kind of look at the newbies buying it as a good thing as that's who they are targetting this at. But the bulk of the folks buying these are most likely geeks that realize high GHz CPUs aren't everything and these would work great as a MP3 server, firewall, router, or whatever when they open it and tweak it by throwing in a bigger HD or a couple network cards. Why buy a old machine to do this when these are only 200 bucks.
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Actualy Nextel phones aren't that big any more. They have been small for quite sometime. iDen is a Digital network as well. In fact, they also have a color one available and also introduced a RIM Blackberry unit complete with Cell Phone and Direct Connect features. I live in Columbus, OH and was able to talk back to Columbus from Lexington, KY. Direct Connect will soon be (if it is not already) Nation wide. A walkie talkie that lets me talk from one coast to the next...nice. Although I have a Verizon phone and I did notice that in between the big cities on my trip like between Knoxville and Lexington and Lexington and Cincy have no Digital coverage....jus AMPS but the Verizon phone worked. Web Browser did not as it needs the digital network but I could make ad recieve calls. AMPS will be around a while longer.
I am not sure about HP, but Epson DEFINITELY already does this.
Graphite not only works better, but is the only lube usually allowed in pinewood racing.
We found at a hobby shop some weights that were made for pine woods. Had different shapes and weights. They had a hole in the middle and you could just screw it down or I think we used tape or funtack then covered the weights with Black Electrical tape. Puttying the weight in is a stupid idea unless your for sure your car is not going to need a tweak. Remember, just cuz it's 5 oz on your scale does not mean that it is on THEIR scale.
According to what I found on the web, that would not be allows either. Heck the Cubs can't even put the car on the track (I didn't when I was a kind but it was still a blast). Rules can also vary by Pack or Council. Your Council may have rules that the packs must follow. In our Council, we always had a Council level race after the Pack races were over and I think only the top three (may have been top ten) cars went to the Council Races. The best oen I was to was held in the dinly mall where I used to live. Great because you could putter around the mall when different heats were running.
:) We had thos eset aside and they allowed the cubs to play aroudn with the track after the official races were done. We'd GET CRAZY! Tape all kind of weights in and get funky!
Personally, I would like to see a Unlimited Class of pinewoods for Webelos. Still keep some of the rules, but allow them to do things like get craxy with the wheels. You have not seen anything til you had your dad grind the polish our wheels down until they come to a point...low friction then!
1. The car must have been made this current scouting year.
2. The car should meet all racing specifications:
Car must be made from official kit provided.
Width cannot exceed 2-3/4 inches. Width between wheels must be 1-3/4 inches.
Length cannot exceed 7 inches.
Bottom clearance between the car and the track must be at least 3/8 inch.
Weight cannot exceed 5 ounces. Scales vary slightly -- be prepared to make adjustments.
No loose materials, no taping weight down to car.
Wheel bearings, washers, & bushings not allowed
Wheels and axles may not be modified in any way.
No springs allowed.
Detailing is allowed as long as it fits dimensions and other above rules.
Car must be free-wheeling, with no starting devices.
The only lubricant to be used will be dry graphite. It must be applied before weigh-in.
Car must pass inspection committee. If you fail to follow the rules, your car could be disqualified.
3. No test runs before the event.
4. Once a car has been through weight inspection and passed, it will go to the holding area and must not be touched.
5. Only members of the race committee will be able to handle the cars during racing.
6. Each heat will be announced. Viewing must be done from behind taped areas. Let the den whose heat it is get up front.
GM OWNS AM General. The new H2 from Hummer is based on a combo of the Suburban and Tahoe Chassis. Much more behaved on the road, but not much. The specs on the H2 for ground clearance are also not exactly correct. Most of them are underrated and it can do more then advertised. It also starts out at around 49,000 versus 100,000 for the H1 which is still being made. I may be able to attain a H2 some point in my life. The H1 costs more then my house!
Traveling tonight (instead of yesterday) with my wife and kid halfway to where we are going to end up tomorrow. I am going to visit my family in the Knoxville area. I intend maybe Saturday or Sunday to go see Dollywood in Pidgeon Forge. Really nice time you can have there. The total drive is only 6 hours, but I am going to take my time getting there. I will probably be there earlier then if I waited to leave tomorrow. I have a laptop and GPS in tow (no DC to AC convertor so no laptop on way down, maybe on way up). Also have PDA and digicam. Have a Merry Christmas! (wishing Happy Holidays is just SO not like me....I want to profess who's birthday I am celebrating....sorry if offend the vocal minority.)
Server Room or Computer Room. SHEESH! I do like neat names and stuff but what does a name have to do with how it works? Why do you have to come up with a neat name for it? Why can't you just call it what it is?
Most folks I know of here in Columbus who have more than one computer use NAT. Mostly Roadrunner. A tech was out and seen my setup and they said nothing. Only thing they said was t would be slower (BS). In facet I think they support you doing things like NAT. Saves them equipment and IP adresses.
Check this page out. The have both drivers for mass storage, for floppies, for serial cables too. He also has a link to the site that sells the dongle (in case you don't need/want the VGA port on it) and the USB-Serial cable complete with driver and of lengths great for hooking a GPS up to it.
Add the expansion pack for the USB and you can us a IBM Microdrive to caoture yoru data. If you can't afford the 99 bucks, there is a 40 dollar solution to add a USB dongle.
I agree with RAM. The Gateway's have a DVD-RAM that also does DVD-R and -RW. In fact I just used mine tonight to burn off a copy of my MP3's. 4 GB pf MP3 burnt in about 30 minutes. DVD-RAM is SLOW! STILL! Lastnight I formatted a DVD-RAM (Free one that came with system) and that took about 20 min/ Copied 600 MB of data to it and it took nearly 30 minutes to write that! DVD-RAM is 1x. Period. It will die unless the speeds come up. Mine also seemed to say that it will(DVD-RAM Discs) work in some DVD-ROMS and players. Only way I will use it is for backup media. BTW, the drive that comes in the gateways seems to have done away with the tray thingy. If you went the route I did and order a new machine, get a CD-RW with it for normal stuff. From all reports, DVD-R is the best for compatability. DVD+R will eventually work in possibly, but I don't know why DVD+R is better. One review I saw said that the DVD-R worked in nearly everything while the + ones did not. YMMV!
There's your key. Most of the place I see will say oh you can get a PC for 1000. What happens if you need a monitor too? Also your experience will suck on those machines because you probably cheaped out on something. Maybe you are still using that three year old monitor and things like that. So maybe if you had a decent monitor and had some parts laying around, maybe you could build a decent PC for 1,000 that will run that game acceptably at a good resolution (640x480 just looks horrid to me.....). Then you get on the net and half the guys on there have the latest P4 with a ATI 9700 Pro, a highspeed connection, tons of ram and lots of drive space (not relavant, but I am sure they do have alot) will kick your ass! My point is to have "fun" and play with zero problems you have to spend alot. To play single player, yeah you can have fun but isn't it more satisfying to play a networked game.
Not if you play games man. You need a Beefy PC to play the latest games like Neverwinter Nights. Just TRY to play that game on a 1000 dollar pc. Oh it will run, but your frame rates would suck. I think even a 2000 dollar PC would be not as good although you may be able to get it smooth.
Here's why: On a console, I don't have to spend 3500 dollars on a PC to gain and advantage on the other players. All of the other players have the SAME hardware, and most of the time, the same controller. Oh sure you can buy a different controller then the stock one, but most I know stick with the one that came with it. Also, I don't have to worry about OS crashes, game crashes (usually), what res I need to run, what my network settings are......it's nuts. With a console, I push button, stick disk in and play. Period.
Why would you get fired for saying you work at Walmart? Sounds pretty obvious to me anyway!:) At least that would be my first guess....next guess would be Electronic Boutique.
No he isn't associating MP3's with theviery. He's associating having MP3's from cd's he does not own with thievery. Big difference.
You can't make a Star Trek movie that you guys will like. Nothing will ever live up to the stuff you saw as a kid. I bet if Star Trek II: TWOK would come out today you guys would pan it. First, most of us have not seen the movie yet. Most of the "real" reviews have not come out yet. It has not even had the chance to speak for itself and you guys are panning it and that's not being very fair. Personally, I rather believe/hope that this will be another rock em sock em trek movie like First Contact was. I rather liked that one. Insurrection was bad also. Also, saying that one is not a true Sci-Fi fan because they have not read Asimov, Heinlein, Bear, Benford, Brin, Adams, Niven, Pournelle and others is not fair either. I am also tired of seeing Sci Fi be over ridden by the fantasy stuff. Fantasy may have come from Sci-Fi or Sci-Fi from Fantasy but Fantasy type books are different, to me, to not be Sci-Fi. I like seing shows that take place on starships and I like Star Wars. Just because it does not stand up to the image you have built up from Star War over the years does not mean that other folks with better expectations won't like it. It's just like the Linux zealots who don't care about making their programs easy to use for others because they think that their way is better. If they made a trek movie that sounded like it was wrote by these supposed better writers, noone else would go see it!
cancer-causing RF signal
Last I checked, the current theory is RF doesn't cause cancer. If it does, give me facts!
In any case, I hope Aeerie does it right and blows the doors off of the 3G cell providers. Every one of them charge out the ass for a crappy connection and the base MB per month they give you is only enough if you just use the wap browser without paying megabucks to get more. In any case, the Richochet modem is the best idea and I think can be very successful. If they use the 900 MHz band though they should look into trying to license another band although alot of the cordless phones and WiFi stuff is up stream now. You can still buy 900 MHz cordless phones (that's what I use so it doesn't mess with my WiFi), but most who get new cordless phone see higher MHz and think better (I know, about as much sense as CPU MHz).
Unbiased opinion is not possible on this subject. I will give my opinion on the matter. First, go ahead. Take the guns. May I remind you the folks who commit murders do not usually lawfully own the guns in the first place. They are obtained from that bald guy on the corner or that hayseed looking guy in the back ally or the gangster in a business suit from the back of a cadillac. They can even be stolen from their last victim. They don't go to the local gun shows and they don't go to Vance's Gun Shop. They don't get background checks and they certainly don't practice gun safety. Just reminds me they had the gun control thing on the halloween special on the simpsons. Funny as hell but true! The criminals are not going to turn their guns in no matter how much you give them. Every citizen has a right enumerated in the constitution. As far as I am concerned, every gun law that is made is against the consitution and the only way they can get rid of guns is if there is and amendment and that will never happen. Guns are there. Deal with it.
Really. I mean Annabelle was kind of funny on Dinner and Movie, but be honest, we did not really tune into see the dinner being cooked. We tuned in to SEE THE MOVIE!! Dinner and a Movie has just turned into an extra ad now with the hosts holding up a bottle of Dasani Nutri-Water or the "product" of the week. It's not even so much about the dish. Although they did come up with some fun dish names like Hail to the Chef State of the Onion Frittata for the movie The American President, or Obi-Wan Cannelloni for Star Wars. Now it seems like they either advertise an ingredient or a beverage in addition to the commercials they show also. Also the Man Made Movie thing sucks too. Granted the movies are ok, but I would rather see a Geek Made Movie where the show would show you how to build a geek friendly, yet wife friendly house with cat 5 in every room bewteen breaks of movies like Hackers and The Matrix.
Not entirely true. If this was, we'd have to had flip a switch to double our processor like we just did. No we BOUGHT a part (mainframe CPU is a HUGE (small compared to past, huge compared to average PCI card) card that sldies right in. After a little configuration type stuff to do on the hardware management console, you start to IML and you have the cpu's installed, but still configged like it was the old one. You have to re config VM to divvy up the extra CPU to the other virtual machines. Otherwise the new CPU runs like the OLD one. Most shops will run for a week or so on the new proc running like it was the old proc before upping the amount of the proc is available to each VM guest. Most shops use all of the CPU's installed on the card and not just part of it. Also, it's no longer called the s/390, it's called the zSeries (with the pSeries being RS/6000 machines and the iSeries the AS/400 and the xSeries for the Intel based Netfinity servers.).
First, 802.11b has some problems with security. That's number one. Second, there are some real problems with what they are going to have to do to make it work. If they make no changes to hardware, they are just begging to be hacked. My guess is they won't run encryption and they will have some sort of webpage that automagically loads when you hit the AP asking for a web page (this is what Wayport does). Second, free AP's setup by home users and others are all over the place and already occupying a channel (probably channel 6 as that's a common default). There is not enough channels to make this work on 802.11b. It will almost have to be a bastardized version of it or maybe 802.11g (running in 5 GHz). In either of these, because of the frequencies used, the range will suck unless you exceed the power limit set by the standard. I just don't see this being used as cell phones are used today. It would be nice and I SURE AS HELL WOULD PAY for it because I love wireless. Being able to browse on my PDA on the bus or train would be wonderful. Is it feasible? Well, if you have as deep of pockets as AT&T the answer would be maybe but my answer would be no.
Um so? That's THEIR perogative. Do you expect their decendents to start giving money and land to you? My advice to you is stop being jealous about what others have and start working towards that goal yourself. The JD Rockefeller's decendents are a RARITY. There's alot of people in this country. Milton Hershey went bankrupt 6 times before his chocolate company hit it big. This country is built on making your own way and being proud of it. According to the 2000 Census, more people make 50,000 to 74,000 then any other amount. There are only about 2 million that make over 200,000 a year. If the economy was stratified as you say, then the amount of people would be the same or close for each income level. It looks more like lumpy layers to me. If you make 50,000 or more, then you are in the top 25 percent of wage earners in this country. Congrats. You can be considered rich. The amount of people born into money in this country is very low. The amount of folks who make alot of money on their own are more. Michael Dell started Dell out of his garage and was not rich. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple out of a garage and definitely were not rich. If I remember right, HP was also started by Hewlitt and Packard out of their garage too. Ray Kroc had enough money to buy a McDonalds, perfect it buy them outright and now there are over 30,000 stores. He did not need much to buy that restaurant. Hendrick Meijer started his chain in 1934 in Greenville, Michigan (now call Meijer). Now there's a Meijer in 5 states and the company will be 100 in 2034. Oh and I forgot...the company is still family owned. These are but a few of the great americans who started poor and got rich. That's something you deem impossible.
Folks like us are buying these with "maybe" a few clueless newbies. I kind of look at the newbies buying it as a good thing as that's who they are targetting this at. But the bulk of the folks buying these are most likely geeks that realize high GHz CPUs aren't everything and these would work great as a MP3 server, firewall, router, or whatever when they open it and tweak it by throwing in a bigger HD or a couple network cards. Why buy a old machine to do this when these are only 200 bucks.