If it was a little quieter and had an AGP slot, I'd be all over it. Otherwise, your stuck with a GeForce 2 MX400 PCI version if you want anything like gaming video.
The point of building this particular antenna was to create a unidirectional unit for building point-to-point wireless networks. Making it unidirectional also cuts down on the noise.
but also, admittedly, part of it is greed - the companies don't want you playing old games and getting enjoyment out of those for free, they want you buying new games.
Software companies are deathly afraid that someone is going to download Balance of Power or Karateka or some other such game, then expect the original publisher to support that game, even though it's been abandoned for years, and even though site operators write 'this is completely unsupported and you are on your own if there's a problem' in big, bold, capital letters all over the web site.
Yes, lawyers do some greedy, nasty things to defend the extremely wealthy (yes, that's you RIAA), but they also spend a lot of their time defending their clients against really stupid people.
Around here, in Seattle, we have the Olympic mountains to the west of us. A few years back, the IOC was running around here threatening to sue anyone who used the work Olympic in their business. I don't know if they ever pressured the Olympic National Park to change their name, but nothing much came of it that I heard of - still plenty of businesses with Olympic in their name around here.
They're reviving their AT&T PocketNet plan, only this time it looks more like the Sprint offering. It has WAP-only options, or you can go full-bore for $15/month to access any web site.
They have a $100 Ericsson and $200 Mitsubishi phone (the Mits is pretty nice, with the bigger display), but you do have to sign up for AT&T wireless voice service.
Couple of BITS? Try dozens of e-mails a week. Have you ever set up a brand new AOL or Hotmail account, and just let it sit there, without using that e-mail address or publishing it anywhere? You can end up with dozens, if not hundreds of pieces of mail a month in those accounts, and all you ever have to do is open your inbox and check it once in a while.
Also, if you ever take a laptop on the road, even with a good modem, you're going to start getting pretty annoyed with those 'couple of bits' of junk e-mail when you dial in through a hotel PBX and get, at best, a 30K connection, then have to pull all that crap through along with the two or three pieces of real e-mail that you want to read.
And yes, junk mail in real life is annoying, because 1) I have to sort through all of it to make sure I want it, and 2) it's a waste of natural resources.
Now, did you really mean that, or was that the kind of reaction you were trolling for?
Problem is, you can't screw up the record companies without screwing up the artists, too.
There is a HUGE assumption in all this free downloading; that is, the record companies will eventually go out of business and all the recording artists will sit at home with their digital recording eqipment, record great songs and upload them for free to the 'net. Problem? YES! These artists are only, really, going to be able to turn out good stuff if they can work on it full time; that's the goal of just about any artist in any medium I've ever known/heard of. They can only do it full time if they've got money coming in from someplace else - record royalties, advances, etc.
All that goes away as soon as the record companies get out of business. Sure, Napster will still be there, but the content will start getting a little stale.
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If it was a little quieter and had an AGP slot, I'd be all over it. Otherwise, your stuck with a GeForce 2 MX400 PCI version if you want anything like gaming video.
Color only. I guess I'll have to wait until I get something to replace my old Palm VII.
I know this is totally off-topic, and I know this probably wasn't anyone's choice at /., but I just came to the main page here and saw an ad for . . .
.NET.
Visual Studio
Suddenly, my feet are very cold.
He has a very understanding wife. :)
The point of building this particular antenna was to create a unidirectional unit for building point-to-point wireless networks. Making it unidirectional also cuts down on the noise.
The link again. Click that for the picture.
A link to our local paper with the picture of the thing:
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/WebObj
Is this the one?
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/space/2000/1
but also, admittedly, part of it is greed - the companies don't want you playing old games and getting enjoyment out of those for free, they want you buying new games.
Software companies are deathly afraid that someone is going to download Balance of Power or Karateka or some other such game, then expect the original publisher to support that game, even though it's been abandoned for years, and even though site operators write 'this is completely unsupported and you are on your own if there's a problem' in big, bold, capital letters all over the web site.
Yes, lawyers do some greedy, nasty things to defend the extremely wealthy (yes, that's you RIAA), but they also spend a lot of their time defending their clients against really stupid people.
The article has a bad link in it - nasty little parenthesis and period at the end!
I'll try it at home tonight.
Around here, in Seattle, we have the Olympic mountains to the west of us. A few years back, the IOC was running around here threatening to sue anyone who used the work Olympic in their business. I don't know if they ever pressured the Olympic National Park to change their name, but nothing much came of it that I heard of - still plenty of businesses with Olympic in their name around here.
They're reviving their AT&T PocketNet plan, only this time it looks more like the Sprint offering. It has WAP-only options, or you can go full-bore for $15/month to access any web site.
They have a $100 Ericsson and $200 Mitsubishi phone (the Mits is pretty nice, with the bigger display), but you do have to sign up for AT&T wireless voice service.
See AT&T's Web site on the topic. There's also a story over at the SJ Mercury.
Couple of BITS? Try dozens of e-mails a week. Have you ever set up a brand new AOL or Hotmail account, and just let it sit there, without using that e-mail address or publishing it anywhere? You can end up with dozens, if not hundreds of pieces of mail a month in those accounts, and all you ever have to do is open your inbox and check it once in a while.
Also, if you ever take a laptop on the road, even with a good modem, you're going to start getting pretty annoyed with those 'couple of bits' of junk e-mail when you dial in through a hotel PBX and get, at best, a 30K connection, then have to pull all that crap through along with the two or three pieces of real e-mail that you want to read.
And yes, junk mail in real life is annoying, because 1) I have to sort through all of it to make sure I want it, and 2) it's a waste of natural resources.
Now, did you really mean that, or was that the kind of reaction you were trolling for?
'Screw the record companies, man!'
Problem is, you can't screw up the record companies without screwing up the artists, too.
There is a HUGE assumption in all this free downloading; that is, the record companies will eventually go out of business and all the recording artists will sit at home with their digital recording eqipment, record great songs and upload them for free to the 'net. Problem? YES! These artists are only, really, going to be able to turn out good stuff if they can work on it full time; that's the goal of just about any artist in any medium I've ever known/heard of. They can only do it full time if they've got money coming in from someplace else - record royalties, advances, etc.
All that goes away as soon as the record companies get out of business. Sure, Napster will still be there, but the content will start getting a little stale.