There is another twist to this I'd like to point out. At work, when people want a laptop, we buy one with Vista on it, but I make sure it's compatible with XP. We have Corporate XP with a volume licensing key, so I just put my current XP image on the laptop and away I go. If you asked the manufacturer, they sold me a Vista install. This kind of scenario won't show up in surveys. Definitely skewed stats. FWIW, I have been steering people to HP and Dell recently, since I can still get decently-priced laptops that can run XP from them.
That's my strategy too. I find they are good for novelties, projects, and showing off to my friends. A couple times a year, I get a call from someone I know who needs a powerful small magnet for some projects. Good data security path, too: drive electronics broken and in one trash can? Check. Chassis in the aluminum recycling bin? Check. Platters hung in my cubicle for a cheap rear-view mirror OR platters lightly sanded on all surfaces with a grinder for that extra data-gone goodness? Check.
Easy. Just go talk to the Nildoror. They go back and forth from Nildoror to Sulidoror indefinitely, and the Nildoror is the Über-elephant. Just stay away from their bug juice.
It sounds like you're saying WaveLAN was FHSS and 802.11b is DSSS. Am I misinterpreting what you're saying? If so, that seems not quite right.
I've always had the understanding that WaveLAN Classic, both in its 915 MHz and non-802.11 2.4GHz incarnations, was DSSS. The manual I have says that it is DSSS/DQPSK.
The same holds true for ARLAN, which operated in the same ranges: ARLAN 902-928 MHz and 2.4 GHz non-802.11 were DSSS/DQPSK, and ARLAN early 802.11 was FHSS, since the first 802.11 (1997) proposal allowed for infrared, FHSS, or DSSS operation.
The current 802.11b (2007) standard is only DSSS/CCK, if I recall correctly. 802.11g can interoperate with that but natively uses other methods, like OFDM, I'm pretty sure. Same for 802.11a, 'n', and 'y' - they're OFDM only.
My old 915MHz WaveLAN network I still have set up at home hasn't been bothered at all by the baby monitors. Last I checked, 902 to 928 MHz is still open for unlicensed ISM use in Region 2.
> Because those are all licensed bands, with only the selected > providers allowed to operate their (your cell phone can use > it only to connect to a licensed provider) equipment in your area.
Established: 1983 Gathering of the tribes: Brainshare Major deity: Ray Noorda Minor deities: Drew Major, Dale Neibaur, Kyle Powell, Mark Hurst The Antichrist: Bill Gates Tool of the downfall: TCP/IP? What's that? Holy Relics: IPX/SPX Most arcane incantation: dsrepair
Just saying, it should have been on the list at least.
That dovetails with my experience that some of the best technologists I know have strong interests in fields that are only tangentially related to computers. One I know is a long time member of Toastmasters. Strangely enough, this skill makes him a better consultant, since he can get up in front of a boardroom and make a convincing case for why a consultant is needed, and why it should be him.
"Don't goto parties, on dates, or to sporting events. You must be so focused on your obsession that it is a detriment to everything else in your life."
Yes, indeedy. Don't goto is a pretty good idea. A purist geek would call a party, date, or sports subroutine.
I dunno about the idea that All of the Intel Overdrives were flops. The Pentium II Overdrive for the Pentium Pro boards was a neat chip. Kinda like the best of the PII and PII Xeon all in one. PII core and full-speed cache on board. It was limited by its circumstances, of course -- 440FX mobos only went up to 60MHz FSB, but put one on a slocket in a 440BX mobo, and the Pentium II Overdrive was a great, if pricey, cpu.
Stay away from this link. It redirects you to a gag Rick Astley video that resizes your browser window and moves it away from your mouse. Bad behaviour...
Reminds me of what the Fremen used to coat their underwater water stores.
I wonder what new and strange water behavior could be observed in a container lined in this. Would there be a meniscus -- either convex or concave -- when water was put into it? Or would the water huddle nervously in the middle, unsure of what do with itself?
The Intel Core is derived from the P6 architecture, which debuted with the Pentium Pro, not the Pentium. Its history goes: Pentium Pro, Pentium II/Pentium II Celeron/P2 Xeon, Pentium III/Pentium III Celeron/P3 Xeon, skip the Pentium 4 (Netburst architecture), Pentium M, Intel Core. So, this is still interesting news.
The competition sent you an email with some of their so-so customers' names in the hopes that you would make complete idiots of yourselves trying to poach them, spamming included.
That's why consumer Internet connections are so much cheaper than business-grade internet connections riding on T1's and the like -- cable modems, DSL, EVDO connections, etc are almost always sold as "up to xxxbits/second". On the other hand, true T1's, T3's, etc, are sold as a guaranteed speed and very often with an SLA and penalties for non-performance of the speed. Of course, even T1's with guaranteed speed only guarantee the speed for the ISP's portion of the journey into the Internet "cloud".
Well, yeah. Windows can be classified as a DOS, or Denial Of Service, in many different ways. Never thought about it that way, but I guess it is. Good catch.
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*'D' means dictionary
There is another twist to this I'd like to point out. At work, when people want a laptop, we buy one with Vista on it, but I make sure it's compatible with XP. We have Corporate XP with a volume licensing key, so I just put my current XP image on the laptop and away I go. If you asked the manufacturer, they sold me a Vista install. This kind of scenario won't show up in surveys. Definitely skewed stats. FWIW, I have been steering people to HP and Dell recently, since I can still get decently-priced laptops that can run XP from them.
That's my strategy too. I find they are good for novelties, projects, and showing off to my friends. A couple times a year, I get a call from someone I know who needs a powerful small magnet for some projects. Good data security path, too: drive electronics broken and in one trash can? Check. Chassis in the aluminum recycling bin? Check. Platters hung in my cubicle for a cheap rear-view mirror OR platters lightly sanded on all surfaces with a grinder for that extra data-gone goodness? Check.
Easy. Just go talk to the Nildoror. They go back and forth from Nildoror to Sulidoror indefinitely, and the Nildoror is the Über-elephant. Just stay away from their bug juice.
I snarfed programming fluid upon reading this misinformation. It stings.
It sounds like you're saying WaveLAN was FHSS and 802.11b is DSSS. Am I misinterpreting what you're saying? If so, that seems not quite right.
I've always had the understanding that WaveLAN Classic, both in its 915 MHz and non-802.11 2.4GHz incarnations, was DSSS. The manual I have says that it is DSSS/DQPSK.
The same holds true for ARLAN, which operated in the same ranges: ARLAN 902-928 MHz and 2.4 GHz non-802.11 were DSSS/DQPSK, and ARLAN early 802.11 was FHSS, since the first 802.11 (1997) proposal allowed for infrared, FHSS, or DSSS operation.
The current 802.11b (2007) standard is only DSSS/CCK, if I recall correctly. 802.11g can interoperate with that but natively uses other methods, like OFDM, I'm pretty sure. Same for 802.11a, 'n', and 'y' - they're OFDM only.
My old 915MHz WaveLAN network I still have set up at home hasn't been bothered at all by the baby monitors. Last I checked, 902 to 928 MHz is still open for unlicensed ISM use in Region 2.
> Because those are all licensed bands, with only the selected
> providers allowed to operate their (your cell phone can use
> it only to connect to a licensed provider) equipment in your area.
Established: 1983
Gathering of the tribes: Brainshare
Major deity: Ray Noorda
Minor deities: Drew Major, Dale Neibaur, Kyle Powell, Mark Hurst
The Antichrist: Bill Gates
Tool of the downfall: TCP/IP? What's that?
Holy Relics: IPX/SPX
Most arcane incantation: dsrepair
Just saying, it should have been on the list at least.
That dovetails with my experience that some of the best technologists I know have strong interests in fields that are only tangentially related to computers. One I know is a long time member of Toastmasters. Strangely enough, this skill makes him a better consultant, since he can get up in front of a boardroom and make a convincing case for why a consultant is needed, and why it should be him.
"Don't goto parties, on dates, or to sporting events. You must be so focused on your obsession that it is a detriment to everything else in your life."
Yes, indeedy. Don't goto is a pretty good idea. A purist geek would call a party, date, or sports subroutine.
I dunno about the idea that All of the Intel Overdrives were flops. The Pentium II Overdrive for the Pentium Pro boards was a neat chip. Kinda like the best of the PII and PII Xeon all in one. PII core and full-speed cache on board. It was limited by its circumstances, of course -- 440FX mobos only went up to 60MHz FSB, but put one on a slocket in a 440BX mobo, and the Pentium II Overdrive was a great, if pricey, cpu.
You could try replicating the tea, but, alas, that just results in something that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
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You should see what it looks like from over HERE.
"All theories are wrong, but some are useful."
That one's a keeper. I like it; it may just go up on my wall of quotes.
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I drank what?
Stay away from this link. It redirects you to a gag Rick Astley video that resizes your browser window and moves it away from your mouse. Bad behaviour...
Or, at the very least, if he tripped and fell towards the ground, he would miss it and end up flying.
Thank you. And yet I was modded "redundant". How odd. Somehow, it seems both immoral AND unethical.
Always, no, no...NEVER, forget to check your references
Isn't it "curiouser and curiouser"?
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I think the young people enjoy it when I "get down" verbally, don't you?
Reminds me of what the Fremen used to coat their underwater water stores.
I wonder what new and strange water behavior could be observed in a container lined in this. Would there be a meniscus -- either convex or concave -- when water was put into it? Or would the water huddle nervously in the middle, unsure of what do with itself?
The original Dread Pirate Roberts might have a thing or two to say about something like that happening to his retirement home.
The Intel Core is derived from the P6 architecture, which debuted with the Pentium Pro, not the Pentium. Its history goes: Pentium Pro, Pentium II/Pentium II Celeron/P2 Xeon, Pentium III/Pentium III Celeron/P3 Xeon, skip the Pentium 4 (Netburst architecture), Pentium M, Intel Core. So, this is still interesting news.
The competition sent you an email with some of their so-so customers' names in the hopes that you would make complete idiots of yourselves trying to poach them, spamming included.
That's why consumer Internet connections are so much cheaper than business-grade internet connections riding on T1's and the like -- cable modems, DSL, EVDO connections, etc are almost always sold as "up to xxxbits/second". On the other hand, true T1's, T3's, etc, are sold as a guaranteed speed and very often with an SLA and penalties for non-performance of the speed. Of course, even T1's with guaranteed speed only guarantee the speed for the ISP's portion of the journey into the Internet "cloud".
Well, yeah. Windows can be classified as a DOS, or Denial Of Service, in many different ways. Never thought about it that way, but I guess it is. Good catch.
His shirt is a nice superintelligent shade of blue, too.
Wrong, Zem, you see? Don't gup at me like that.