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My question is this, do RoadRunner customers get treated as if they were idiots, or do they get service?

Despite all the promise of pollution-free vehicles, a transportation system based on hydrogen fuel cells is anything but a sure bet, members of a National Academy of Sciences panel concluded last week. Even if the most optimistic predictions prove true, and the first hydrogen fuel cell vehicles reach commercial showrooms by 2015, it would take at least another quarter-century before they have a major impact on the market, the panel concluded. "This is a tremendously important, transforming opportunity we are talking about, but it's not going to happen with current technology and current knowledge," said Dan Sperling, a panel member...

Prescott Arrives : Intel debuts their new Prescott core today by launching 4 new CPUs while also scaling legacy architectures. We benchmark them all. Introduction Intel has been promising their new core for a while now and on this Super Bowl Sunday they finally deliver. Intel teases us with four new Prescott cores, a newly clocked Gallatin core, and the final chapter of the Northwood core. We put the 3.2GHz CPUs head to head to head and of course throw in Athlon64s and an AthlonFX-51 in order to find out who is king of the silicon. Officially, Prescotts in 2.8GHz,...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — That computer on your desk is just your helper. But soon it may become a very close friend. Now it sends your e-mails, links you to the Web, does your computations, and pays your bills. Soon it could warn you when you’re talking too much at a meeting, if scientists at Sandia National Laboratories’ Advanced Concepts Group have their way. Or it could alert others in your group to be attentive when you have something important to say. Aided by tiny sensors and transmitters called a PAL (Personal Assistance Link) your machine (with your permission) will become...

Nanotech Spy Eyes Life Inside The Cell In Prey, Michael Crichton's tale of nanotech gone awry, a swarm of light-sensitive nanoparticles swim through a human body, creating the ultimate medical imaging system. In the real world, biochemists are hoping to go one step further, deploying viruses as "nano-cameras" to get a unique picture of what goes on inside living cells and a greater understanding of how viruses themselves work. A team led by Bogdan Dragnea at Indiana University in Bloomington is exploiting the ability of viruses laden with gold to break into cells, along with the viral shell's own telltale...

ANN ARBOR---Imagine your roof covered with a thin film of organic molecules busily converting sunlight into electricity. Visualize tiny molecular flashlights illuminating the DNA of living cells. Picture microscopic optical sensors that change color when exposed to trace amounts of chemicals. Science fiction? Scientists at the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign don't think so. They have developed a new class of large dendrimer supermolecules which, they say, could one day be used for all these applications and more. "Normally, light energy disperses randomly throughout a molecule," said Raoul Kopelman, the U-M's Kasimir Fajans Professor of...

Kill Clippy! - The Microsoft Office Assistant AdministrationMicrosoft Office Product Producer : Microsoft / Internet : http://www.microsoft.comArticle C9P54A3220 / Language ENGIn this article… Begin of this article…What Is Clippy?Clippy is our name for that little paperclip that appears in Microsoft Office 97 — the official name is the Office Assistant. It can also appear as a dog, cat, robot, even Shakespeare or Einstein! Whatever you call it, Clippy is meant to help you with suggestions and tips while you work. But like many ideas from the Microsoft marketing department, this one is considered by many to be a persistent nuisance....

Intel plans to demonstrate a 64-bit revamp of its Xeon and Pentium processors in mid-February--an endorsement of a major rival's strategy and a troubling development for Intel's Itanium chip. The demo, which follows the AMD64 approach of Intel foe Advanced Micro Devices, is expected at the Intel developer conference, Feb. 17 through 19 in San Francisco, said sources familiar with the plan. Intel had code-named the technology Yamhill but now calls it CT, sources said. Adding 64-bit features would let "x86" chips such as Intel's Xeon and Pentium overcome today's 4GB memory limit but would undermine the hope that Intel's...

I found a computer that looks nice. I am going to have to upgrade to XP pro. I will need to buy a new screen. But I cannot tell if this is a good buy and a good computer. It costs about $900. Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition AMD Athlon™ 64-bit Processor 3200+ Hypertransport™ Technology (1600MHz Bus) 512MB PC2700 DDR Memory 80GB† 7200RPM Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive CD-RW / DVD-RW Drive w/ Ulead VideoStudio 6 Realtek® Integrated Audio 128MB ATI® RADEON 9200 SE AGP 8x Video Card 56K v.92 Send/Receive Fax Modem Realtek Integrated 10/100 Ethernet Controller 7 in 1...

Do you know about United States Patent No. 6,671,714? You should. The patent, recently granted to one Frank Weyer of Beverly Hills, California, grants the patent holder full rights to:A method for assigning URL's and e-mail addresses to members of a group comprising the steps of: assigning each member of said group a URL of the form "name.subdomain.domain"; and assigning each member of said group an e-mail address of the form "name@subdomain.domain;" Sound familiar? Well, it should, because the patent describes what is essentially one of the most basic, most crucial underlying structures of the World Wide Web, namely the...

i just scanned my computer for viruses and i came across the WORM SPYBOT.X with trendmircro's house call and it told me its non cleanable and after going to a few sites to see whether or not i can get rid of it,i came up short (i checked a few virus sites and norton's site as well) any help is appreciated thanks, Regards from a very ice cold michigan Dan

I would like to learn more about firewalls. I would appreciate any input that knowledgeable freepers can contribute. First off I am using theWindows XP Firewall. It says in that link that the firewall blocks all incoming "packets".First off what is a "packet" and what does it do? I have checked here but I don't quite get all the lingo yet. One thing it says in there is: Before installing personal firewall software on a Windows XP computer, be sure that the firewall built into Windows XP is turned off. Never use two software firewalls at the same time. Why...

Hi all; After reading/hearing various opinions on the reliability of various CD-R recording materials ("the blue cyanine-coated CD-Rs are the least reliable, while the silver- and gold-colored CD-Rs are most reliable"), I wanted to hear whether any FReepers were knowledgeable about this. I'm archiving family photos and music onto CD-R and want to use the most durable medium, if any difference exists.

Can anyone with a better grasp on the process explain how the process of selling a domain name works? Has anyone here ever sold a domain name and transferred it to another person? I see all of these domain names for sale on the internet and am curious just how would one go about buying or selling a domain name (not registering a new one)?

  Home | Alexander Order | Coats-of-Arms | Articles | Latest News | Art Gallery | Spiritual Corner WHY EXPLORE SPACE? By Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger Member of the Alexander Order   The "Kegeldüsse," the rocket motor designed and tested by Prof. Hermann Oberth, a colleague and friend of Ernst Stuhlinger. Hermann Oberth, the "father of space flight" was a teacher and mentor of the legendary Wernher von Braun. Ernst Stuhlinger, as the "director of advanced space travel research," was the third member of this trio of space travel pioneers OBERTH-von BRAUN-STUHLINGER.   Some of the reasons for exploring space, when...

Internet Epistemology: How the Internet is changing the way we live and think. by Michael Francisco If it's not on the internet, does it really exist? Probably not. If you can't find the answer to a question using Google, then perhaps it's not worth knowing. Three in the morning, you want to buy an out of print book? No problem. The internet has everything, or so it seems.… The medium of the internet is fundamentally changing the way we view the world. Stealing a page from the playbook of Neal Postman, I contend that the internet is changing our epistemology...

The first use of the tools on the arm of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit reveals puzzles about the soil it examined and raises anticipation about what the tool will find during its studies of a martian rock. Today and overnight tonight, Spirit is using its microscope and two up-close spectrometers on a football-sized rock called Adirondack, said Jennifer Trosper, mission manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "We're really happy with the way the spacecraft continues to work for us," Trosper said. The large amount of data -- nearly 100 megabits -- transmitted from Spirit in a single...

Chip war ratches up several notches By Charlie Demerjian: Monday 19 January 2004, 12:45 OH HOW time flies. With people still gasping over A64 3400+ reviews, and Intel about to introduce the 3.4GHz models, some Prescott, some not, are we ready for the next round from AMD? Ready or not, they are coming at the end of March. Birds singing in our ears have told us that when the S939 boards are launched in about two months, they will be accompanied by A64 3700+ chips. If AMD keeps to the schedule, they will beat their own roadmaps, even if it...

'Like showing up on the day of the final exam and saying you didn't have time to read the book yet' In SCO's response to a court order that it provide evidence to IBM on which it can build its defence, it asked for a further 90 days to fully comply - a request that may meet with a cool reception when the two parties meet in court later this month. The order to compel discovery granted to IBM 12 December last year meant SCO had to provide the documentation IBM requested within 30 days and to the court's satisfaction....

OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 13 — At least three advanced diagnostic tests suggest that an experiment at the Brookhaven National Laboratory has cracked open protons and neutrons like subatomic eggs to create a primordial form of matter that last existed when the universe was roughly one-millionth of a second old, scientists said here on Tuesday. The hot, dense substance, called a quark-gluon plasma, has managed to generate intense disputes in the 15 years or so in which scientists have pursued it. In 2000, a major European laboratory claimed that it had, for the first time, liberated particles called quarks from where...