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That's great ...
...but I'm more likely to be swayed by the first company to offer me a break on a display that can even view this high-def content
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As far as I can tell in a cursory glance over the net, the cheapest "TV-sized" display that will do 1080P with HDMI is the Westinghouse for $1100 shipped, and the cheapest panel is $800 for some 24" display ...
That means I'm spending around $1500 for this "experience" they're peddling, all told. Sell me the display for $400 and we can talk. :-)
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Wireless monitor?
I don't have much use for a wireless monitor either, but they sure are popular. This site has dozens of them, all at different price points.
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Re:Why not tape with Windows Backup?
For goodness sakes, Home PCs are getting SIMPLER because the market demanded it! Why the hell mess that up by adding something as confusing as SCSI?
Because SCSI is confusing: SATA tape drives.
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Re:State of Sony's PS3
True 1080p does exist without needing to go to a super high end store. Westinghouse has a 37" 1080p LCD panel that takes 1080p input -- the LVM-37w3. It's not under $1k, but it's pretty close: $1299 from Crutchfield. I bought mine from BestBuy after having them match the price at my local store.
Too bad it won't take a 1080p signal. You've fallen for one of the great wonders of the video world, advertising scalled inputs resolutions while actual native input resolution being something different hidden amongst the fine print.After checking bestbuy.ca and futureshop.ca I found 1 1080P HDTV and it was not 1000 bucks, it wasn't even close.. I've only seen a 1080p TV in a super high end audio/video store.
One 1080p TV from Outpost.com (Fry's Electronics) for under $1000 right here.http://shop3.outpost.com/product/4860630?site=sr:
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Re:SBS made me quit my job...
You know, instead of doubting and refusing to believe, you should really try to google for yourself. Its actually cheaper now.. http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/ma
s terid=1185293/qlty=o/sort_type=bottomline.
Why on earth do I have to back up a claim which is pretty easily researched for yourself is beyond me.. and I'm not the only one telling you. -
Re:$1500-$2000?
Pricegrabber lists some up in the range of several thousand dollars
... like this Itanium, for just over $5k and this Dual Core Xeon for $3,700. -
Re:$1500-$2000?
Pricegrabber lists some up in the range of several thousand dollars
... like this Itanium, for just over $5k and this Dual Core Xeon for $3,700. -
Re:Skewed results?
A $350 monitor will display 1600x1200. So if you can afford a $300 video card, I don't see why your monitor won't give you 1600x1200 resolution.
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Shelves.
http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_attrib.php/pag
e _id=1497/ What you do is simple... you take the books, line them up on these things called shelves and you put them in order according to the name of the person who wrote the book. Or you could put them in order according to size and color for a better decorative effect. -
You can still buy the players, new and refurbished
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Re:Express Editions?
Hmm... A basic version of Office, with Word, Excel, and maybe outlook thrown in???
Dunno - maybe they could call it Office Basic?
http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/mas terid=2268217/
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Re:1/8th inch stereo jack?
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Re:what about pricewatch
Although I use Pricewatch all the time, I am not sure why it does not have the popularity that pricegrabber got.
It's because Pricewatch sucks. Their menu sucks, their search sucks, their display sucks, their categorization sucks, and their filtering sucks.
Have you ever tried Pricegrabber? It has a very intuitive interface and search as well as a good layout for finding either an exact product, or browsing a category trying to decide what you want.
Let's compare a search, something common and easy like 'WRT54G'. Pricewatch vs. Pricegrabber.
Both display a list of matches, but with the model I'm looking for at the top in PG and not in PW. Not a big deal. The real nice part of PG is the way you can do a filter based on a search or category. That sidebar on the left lets you do a ton of filtering to get exactly what you want. Don't see much like that on PW.
PW gives each seller an individual entry in the results. Talk about a pain in the butt. With PG it's sorted by product so I can click a product and see all the sellers for it, as well as their prices before and after shipping. There are user and commercial reviews and ratings as well as detailed specs, more features missing on PW.
There's other issues, but I don't want to write a book. The fact of the matter is that Pricegrabber is significantly better resource than Pricewatch. This acquisition may change that, but until it does I will continue to use Pricegrabber because it is simply superior. Don't take my word for it, go look for yourself. -
Re:what about pricewatch
Although I use Pricewatch all the time, I am not sure why it does not have the popularity that pricegrabber got.
It's because Pricewatch sucks. Their menu sucks, their search sucks, their display sucks, their categorization sucks, and their filtering sucks.
Have you ever tried Pricegrabber? It has a very intuitive interface and search as well as a good layout for finding either an exact product, or browsing a category trying to decide what you want.
Let's compare a search, something common and easy like 'WRT54G'. Pricewatch vs. Pricegrabber.
Both display a list of matches, but with the model I'm looking for at the top in PG and not in PW. Not a big deal. The real nice part of PG is the way you can do a filter based on a search or category. That sidebar on the left lets you do a ton of filtering to get exactly what you want. Don't see much like that on PW.
PW gives each seller an individual entry in the results. Talk about a pain in the butt. With PG it's sorted by product so I can click a product and see all the sellers for it, as well as their prices before and after shipping. There are user and commercial reviews and ratings as well as detailed specs, more features missing on PW.
There's other issues, but I don't want to write a book. The fact of the matter is that Pricegrabber is significantly better resource than Pricewatch. This acquisition may change that, but until it does I will continue to use Pricegrabber because it is simply superior. Don't take my word for it, go look for yourself. -
Re:Hint for building a music box from crappy partsHere's a better solution for hooking up to your stereo: a Linux-compatible (so maybe FreeBSD too?) sound card with SPDIF optical outputs to your receiver, for less than $30 shipped.
Be careful to get the "AW850 Deluxe" and not the confusingly similar "AW850 D" - they're different! It wasn't easy to find a cheap, OSS-supported digital sound card that can handle various sample rates, but this one works.
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Re:article doesn't explain networkRunning with your numbers, look at this. Quoting you:
With 500GB drives, it would take 7340.032 drives to attain 3.5PB... with NO redundancy.
For the Deskstar7k500 [Please note that this isn't the "DeathStar" anymore, it was just when they put five instead of the industry-standard four platters into the DeskStar that they started dropping like flies, and I suppose the DeathStar reputation no longer stands. I've never owned one.]
The specifications [see footnote for a few other sites] stateHeight (mm) 25.4
146 mm) x (101.6 mm) x (25.4 mm) x 7 340 = 2.76551705 m^3,
Width (mm) 101.6
Depth (mm) 146
and, running with the article's numbers, let's see how much of 20 feet cubed that is... (article: the most storage, memory and power support into a 20...foot box -- note that a BOX of course is less cubic area than a 20-foot cube)....
((146 mm) x (101.6 mm) x (25.4 mm) x 7 340) / (20 (feet^3)) = 4.88316565...
WHAT? it's not a fraction, but larger by a factor of 4+??? Just for the hard-drives? Even when we assumed a CUBE???
Man, I want some of the shit that guy's smoking. I was expecting to debunk with just the hard-drives taking an impossibly large percentage of the proposed 20-foot "box". But....man. Cringely must not have done even a basic sanity check. (And remember, I'm pretty sure he didn't have a 20 foot high, 20 foot wide box in mind, or he would have said cube. To a writer, a "20-foot box" sounds like an elongated storage container, e.g. 8x8x20 feet.... BTW that's the first hit for 20 foot storage container, I can only assume a writer would have such a thing in mind...)
English and math, people, English AND math.
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Here is the best thing for 3d gaming
http://ostg.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/m
a sterid=394941/search=playstation+2
Yes, Playstation 2 is $99, All games run very fast and it plays DVD too. With Progressive Scan and hardware decoding. -
If anyone cares...
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Re:allow me to save you all the trouble.
Nice.
Interestingly, this is the same processor I told my brother to get for his new computer. He asked me to help him to buy a new computer to make Audio/Video processing. (From Video capturing to DVD writing). Of course the main constraint is the money, as the compuer should be around $1000.00
I am not very savy on hardware but for what I know I could give him what I think is a good deal:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Processor
Mobo:Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
memory: Corsair 1GB PC3200 DDR DIMM Memo
HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 200GB Hard Drive
Video: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro All-In-Wonder Video Card
As you can see almost all of the components are "best minus one[or two] - generation". And it is AMD based.
I had to spend some time convincing him that the Atlhon 64 2.0 GHZ was better than a Peintum 4 2.5 Ghz. (I may be stating a fallacy but I do not tend to fall into the "megaherz wars").
One of the main things to note is that from what I saw, the motherboards for Intel Based processors (at least the Asus ones) are better than the AMD based. This pisses me off, because I like Asus mobos a lot but I think Intel processors are overpriced.
I think the Motherboard is something that a lot of people underestimate. I tend to think that although the "common" computer today usually uses a P4 2.0Ghz, the "common" motherboard has a 400mhz bus (or even a 133mhz bus). As I wrote before, I do not know a lot of hardware architecture but I think that 5:1 (2000 to 400) ratio must be a bottleneck in some way. -
Re:allow me to save you all the trouble.
Nice.
Interestingly, this is the same processor I told my brother to get for his new computer. He asked me to help him to buy a new computer to make Audio/Video processing. (From Video capturing to DVD writing). Of course the main constraint is the money, as the compuer should be around $1000.00
I am not very savy on hardware but for what I know I could give him what I think is a good deal:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Processor
Mobo:Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
memory: Corsair 1GB PC3200 DDR DIMM Memo
HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 200GB Hard Drive
Video: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro All-In-Wonder Video Card
As you can see almost all of the components are "best minus one[or two] - generation". And it is AMD based.
I had to spend some time convincing him that the Atlhon 64 2.0 GHZ was better than a Peintum 4 2.5 Ghz. (I may be stating a fallacy but I do not tend to fall into the "megaherz wars").
One of the main things to note is that from what I saw, the motherboards for Intel Based processors (at least the Asus ones) are better than the AMD based. This pisses me off, because I like Asus mobos a lot but I think Intel processors are overpriced.
I think the Motherboard is something that a lot of people underestimate. I tend to think that although the "common" computer today usually uses a P4 2.0Ghz, the "common" motherboard has a 400mhz bus (or even a 133mhz bus). As I wrote before, I do not know a lot of hardware architecture but I think that 5:1 (2000 to 400) ratio must be a bottleneck in some way. -
Re:allow me to save you all the trouble.
Nice.
Interestingly, this is the same processor I told my brother to get for his new computer. He asked me to help him to buy a new computer to make Audio/Video processing. (From Video capturing to DVD writing). Of course the main constraint is the money, as the compuer should be around $1000.00
I am not very savy on hardware but for what I know I could give him what I think is a good deal:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Processor
Mobo:Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
memory: Corsair 1GB PC3200 DDR DIMM Memo
HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 200GB Hard Drive
Video: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro All-In-Wonder Video Card
As you can see almost all of the components are "best minus one[or two] - generation". And it is AMD based.
I had to spend some time convincing him that the Atlhon 64 2.0 GHZ was better than a Peintum 4 2.5 Ghz. (I may be stating a fallacy but I do not tend to fall into the "megaherz wars").
One of the main things to note is that from what I saw, the motherboards for Intel Based processors (at least the Asus ones) are better than the AMD based. This pisses me off, because I like Asus mobos a lot but I think Intel processors are overpriced.
I think the Motherboard is something that a lot of people underestimate. I tend to think that although the "common" computer today usually uses a P4 2.0Ghz, the "common" motherboard has a 400mhz bus (or even a 133mhz bus). As I wrote before, I do not know a lot of hardware architecture but I think that 5:1 (2000 to 400) ratio must be a bottleneck in some way. -
Re:allow me to save you all the trouble.
Nice.
Interestingly, this is the same processor I told my brother to get for his new computer. He asked me to help him to buy a new computer to make Audio/Video processing. (From Video capturing to DVD writing). Of course the main constraint is the money, as the compuer should be around $1000.00
I am not very savy on hardware but for what I know I could give him what I think is a good deal:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Processor
Mobo:Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
memory: Corsair 1GB PC3200 DDR DIMM Memo
HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 200GB Hard Drive
Video: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro All-In-Wonder Video Card
As you can see almost all of the components are "best minus one[or two] - generation". And it is AMD based.
I had to spend some time convincing him that the Atlhon 64 2.0 GHZ was better than a Peintum 4 2.5 Ghz. (I may be stating a fallacy but I do not tend to fall into the "megaherz wars").
One of the main things to note is that from what I saw, the motherboards for Intel Based processors (at least the Asus ones) are better than the AMD based. This pisses me off, because I like Asus mobos a lot but I think Intel processors are overpriced.
I think the Motherboard is something that a lot of people underestimate. I tend to think that although the "common" computer today usually uses a P4 2.0Ghz, the "common" motherboard has a 400mhz bus (or even a 133mhz bus). As I wrote before, I do not know a lot of hardware architecture but I think that 5:1 (2000 to 400) ratio must be a bottleneck in some way. -
Re:allow me to save you all the trouble.
Nice.
Interestingly, this is the same processor I told my brother to get for his new computer. He asked me to help him to buy a new computer to make Audio/Video processing. (From Video capturing to DVD writing). Of course the main constraint is the money, as the compuer should be around $1000.00
I am not very savy on hardware but for what I know I could give him what I think is a good deal:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Processor
Mobo:Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
memory: Corsair 1GB PC3200 DDR DIMM Memo
HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 200GB Hard Drive
Video: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro All-In-Wonder Video Card
As you can see almost all of the components are "best minus one[or two] - generation". And it is AMD based.
I had to spend some time convincing him that the Atlhon 64 2.0 GHZ was better than a Peintum 4 2.5 Ghz. (I may be stating a fallacy but I do not tend to fall into the "megaherz wars").
One of the main things to note is that from what I saw, the motherboards for Intel Based processors (at least the Asus ones) are better than the AMD based. This pisses me off, because I like Asus mobos a lot but I think Intel processors are overpriced.
I think the Motherboard is something that a lot of people underestimate. I tend to think that although the "common" computer today usually uses a P4 2.0Ghz, the "common" motherboard has a 400mhz bus (or even a 133mhz bus). As I wrote before, I do not know a lot of hardware architecture but I think that 5:1 (2000 to 400) ratio must be a bottleneck in some way. -
Re:$300 DVR
Here's two starting points, the first weighs in at just over $300 and is a standard PC with moderate performance and good expandability, could support 3 tuners, possibly 4. The second is a very low performance but FANLESS option, and weighs in at ~$350 but restricts you to a single tuner (external USB tuners are still an option). Both assume that you can scrounge a CD/DVD rom (or add ~$25 to the price) and also scrounge a case (or add ~$30 to the price for a cheapie). Since you are a slashdot reader, i assume you can probably get your hands on memory and probably a hard drive or two to help reduce the cost even further.
motherboard
video card with tv out
tv tuner/pvr
processor
memory
80G drive
alternatively:
all in one fanless mobo+processor tv tuner/pvr
memory
80G drive
now, the easiest option of all is to just add the PVR150 card to your current PC, and thats cheap!
my HTPC system:
AtlhonXP2400+
EPoX Nforce2Ultra400 motherboard with CMedia 7.1 sound
Nvidia 5200le with TV out video card
1GB RAM (2x512)
2 hauppauge PVR150 non-MCE tuners
2x160GB hard drives
1x300GB hard drives
1NEC 2510 DVD+/-RW (DL enabled)
SageTV3.0.11 PR
Windows XPpro
I should probably mention the iTunes and 34GB of music, one of the main reasons i did this!I tried Snapstream's BeyondTV didnt like because it had no predictive recording
I tried MythTV on Knoppix, im just not great with Linux yet, had driver problems
I tried MyHTPC (now Meedio) then free, now costs$, it was ok, but finicky.
Sage was the most polished, and full featured option, and $70 one time fee versus TiVo's 10$/month... no brainer.if that helps you, then you are welcome, if it does not, please dont flame me
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Re:Google Conquers all
Since Office 2000 Standard runs 300+ (full install)
It runs, but it can't hide - Office XP full version for $145 shipped today
Whereas with MS Office you're forced to shell out
Did you ever consider *not* buying the next version? You might be surprised with the results. It's not like they will send the goons to your house to force ya. -
Re:Used VW Diesel Rabbit or TDI JettaWow! If your Prius ran on vitriol, you'd never pay for fuel.
While biodiesel production uses some fuel, it could be fueled by...biodiesel. And besides, are you telling me that no fuel is used in production and delivery of dino fuels?
French fry grease is not necessary. Plain, unused vegetable oil can be made into biodiesel, and with a little less effort than used oil. Considering that the US government currently pays farmers not to farm their land, I can imagine some sources of additional vegetable oil.where are you going to fill-up your bio-diesel vehicle if you are on an out-of-town trip?
I imagine he plans to fill up at any old ubiquitous diesel station when biodiesel is unavailable.I'll just poke a couple extra batteries in the trunk of my Prius, put a solar charger on it, and drive for free with ZERO emissions.
Somehow I doubt that Toyota would have stopped where they are if they could have kept going with so little effort and produced the holy grail, a reasonable solar car.
I agree about product lifespan -- everybody I know (myself included) loses patience when the cost of keeping a car up exceeds the cost of replacing it (or sooner), which is not usually due to engine failure.
I looked up the torque spec on your Prius. You're right with that impressive number, but you don't mention the important fact about electric motor torque -- it's at it's highest at 0 rpm. The amount of time I cared to spend googling did not yield a torque curve chart, but I'd be interested to see how much torque you get as it spools up and the car's speed increases.
Toyota claims that Prius is good for 0-60 in 10 seconds. Coincidentally, the same is claimed of the Jetta TDI.
http://www.pricegrabber.com/show_car_specs.php?vid =100928&search=prius 10.4 seconds
http://www.pricegrabber.com/show_car_specs.php/vid =101952/search=jetta+tdi 10.0 seconds
Seeing as how we have limited supplies of dinosaur juice, and reasonable replacements for almost every use other than gasoline, I personally think we ought to use alternatives everywhere, and save the dinosaur juice for existing gas cars. New vehicles can, AFAIK, be built for ethanol easily enough. -
Re:Used VW Diesel Rabbit or TDI JettaWow! If your Prius ran on vitriol, you'd never pay for fuel.
While biodiesel production uses some fuel, it could be fueled by...biodiesel. And besides, are you telling me that no fuel is used in production and delivery of dino fuels?
French fry grease is not necessary. Plain, unused vegetable oil can be made into biodiesel, and with a little less effort than used oil. Considering that the US government currently pays farmers not to farm their land, I can imagine some sources of additional vegetable oil.where are you going to fill-up your bio-diesel vehicle if you are on an out-of-town trip?
I imagine he plans to fill up at any old ubiquitous diesel station when biodiesel is unavailable.I'll just poke a couple extra batteries in the trunk of my Prius, put a solar charger on it, and drive for free with ZERO emissions.
Somehow I doubt that Toyota would have stopped where they are if they could have kept going with so little effort and produced the holy grail, a reasonable solar car.
I agree about product lifespan -- everybody I know (myself included) loses patience when the cost of keeping a car up exceeds the cost of replacing it (or sooner), which is not usually due to engine failure.
I looked up the torque spec on your Prius. You're right with that impressive number, but you don't mention the important fact about electric motor torque -- it's at it's highest at 0 rpm. The amount of time I cared to spend googling did not yield a torque curve chart, but I'd be interested to see how much torque you get as it spools up and the car's speed increases.
Toyota claims that Prius is good for 0-60 in 10 seconds. Coincidentally, the same is claimed of the Jetta TDI.
http://www.pricegrabber.com/show_car_specs.php?vid =100928&search=prius 10.4 seconds
http://www.pricegrabber.com/show_car_specs.php/vid =101952/search=jetta+tdi 10.0 seconds
Seeing as how we have limited supplies of dinosaur juice, and reasonable replacements for almost every use other than gasoline, I personally think we ought to use alternatives everywhere, and save the dinosaur juice for existing gas cars. New vehicles can, AFAIK, be built for ethanol easily enough. -
Re:Yet more magic pixie dust...
Because you can get better performance and MUCH better drivers from an nVidia/ATI card for the same $20.
See pricegrabber: Cards for $20-$30
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Re:Got to suck to be Microsoft sometimes.
Who has the real 'advantage', someone who buys a product at artificially inflated prices
You mean, like Red Hat Linux for servers at $2,499.00? Let me guess: it costs something to support products, so it's OK to charge when you're Red Hat, just not when you're Microsoft, right?
artificially inflated prices
Mac OS X v10.4 = $129.00 (at Apple)
Windows XP Pro = $108.99 (shop around).
stealing it
What the hell are you talking about? People buy it because they want it. They've got plenty of other choices if they don't. You can't read slashdot for a week without seeing five stories about how schools, businesses, etc., are choosing to spend $500 each for Linux machines, or cheap Macs, whatever. I know you were just hoping to rant to the MS-hating crowd and assumed they'd just nod their heads and say "amen," but there are at least a few people out here who bother with the bigger picture. If MS are thieves, than so are Sun, IBM, Apple, Novell, Red Hat, and everyone else that charges for the products they sell. Let me guess: money is evil, people who run businesses are thieves, blah blah. Have a nice day. -
$25 USB cables
Recently, I needed a USB cable. I was aghast to discover pricing of $25 to $40 for a simple cable!!!! UG. Best Buy, Circuit City, even Sears had these prices. I know from my cable-making days (Good 'old RS-232 hand-soldered connections!) this was wrong.
Turned out http://hp.com/ had the cheapest ones, at about $3 each. http://pricegrabber.com/ did that for me. Don't get fooled.
Best as I can figure, the chain stores know you need a cable and can gouge you because usually you need it right now, and lots of people don't know how to shop online (yeah, sad, ain't it?). -
JVCs are junk!
JVCs are junk. At least this is my experience. I have a JVC DVL-505u, and it has given me nothing but troule -- I should have spent the extra $200 and got a canon. Granted, this was a while ago.
I'm into digital video. I used to work with ancient Macintosh computers, back in the days of MJPEG analog capture cards, about the time Premiere 2 came out. Ad nauseum, I'm into portable video, especially as gagetty as I am.
I'm looking for a digital camcorder which does 720x480, or x486 -- I think the extra 6 aren't needed if you are not capturing from an analog source. I'm also looking for MPEG2 or better. Compact Flash formats have disks of -- what, 4 gigs? I'll settle for SD or MMC.
There are a couple units like the Canon S2, this thing, and others. I didn't find a link to this ultra generic model. They're all 640x480, which bothers me.
Here, have a bunch of opinionated spooge. -
This is not a storyIs it just me, or does this 'story' from 'a reader' reak of being an advertisement? Note that half of the links have referrer information in them, obviously to rake up some $ for OSTG:
First http://ostg.pricegrabber.com/ (ostg sub-domain), then http://www.tigerdirect.com/indexus.asp?SRCCODE=SL
A SHX, then a blatant plug for thinkgeek (a major source of revenue for LNUX). Should slashdot not disclose if they are affiliated in any way with all links? What is the purpose of the pricegrabber.com sub-domain, and the SRCCODE in the tigerdirect link? -
Re:I never thought I'd see the day...
If you're going to get a $350 computer, you might want to pick up one of these mice, instead.
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Re:Music player vs music collection different mark
The whole "no display flash MP3 player" crap was tried before and was panned. The iPod Shuffle is nothing more than a brand extension for people who want to say they own an iPod but can't afford a real iPod.
Even my $20 Discman has a more useful display than the iPod Shuffle does. It's not like it's difficult to put a screen and a kickass battery in the same form factor as a Shuffle, but Apple doesn't want you spending your money on such frivolities when you could be buying a higher-end player. -
Re:not surprisingYou mean like this 60GB 7200RPM 2.5 inch drive with an 8 MB cache?
Become aware.
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Re:Interesting pricing
Or get it even cheaper at Bookpool for $25.50
Well, that's without shipping and tax. At Bookpool, with the cheapest shipping option it's $28.31 for my zip code and I'm not sure if they have a tax. Via PriceGrabber.com, it looks like Overstock.com is the cheapest - $27.34 including tax and shipping. Serioulsy folks, PriceGrabber.com is great for comparison shopping - at least on books! -
Re:Interesting pricing
Or get it even cheaper at Bookpool for $25.50
Well, that's without shipping and tax. At Bookpool, with the cheapest shipping option it's $28.31 for my zip code and I'm not sure if they have a tax. Via PriceGrabber.com, it looks like Overstock.com is the cheapest - $27.34 including tax and shipping. Serioulsy folks, PriceGrabber.com is great for comparison shopping - at least on books! -
Buy it from OverStock
For those of you thinking about buying the book, you'll save substantially if you buy from overstock.com as opposed to B&N. That's including tax (if applicable) and shipping. Even Amazon is way cheaper than B&N. Somewhat offtopic, but use PriceGrabber for comparison shopping.
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Re:Useful [Somewhat Offtopic]
sheesh
7ft 350MHz CAT5e Patch Cable 4PR Molded Snagless Blue
http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/mas terid=228354/search=cat5%20blue%20snagless
Price range: $1.36 - $11.99 from 19 Sellers -
That's why they _should_ ..
You make an excellent point. If I were the head of IRS, I'd use this very point as an argument to Congress allow IRS to propose a normalized (consistent) ruleset, and adopt the changes. Once they accomplish that (yeah, right!!), then whenever a proposed new law would violate consistency, then IRS could inform Congress so they could revise it prior to adoption. There are reasonable ways to deal with objections by taxpayers and filers who like the existing ambiguity, which I own't go into here.
Of course, this raises the question of whether the tax code is not just complex and inconsistent, but a complete axiomatic system per Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem. If so, then it is literally impossible to "fix it". Nevertheless, a reference application would be a great tool to study the problem.
(Godel's theorem says, informally, that any consistent axiomatic system has undecidable propositions. For example, "This sentence is false.") (For a good read, try Hofstader's book Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.)
PS - My ex also worked for H&R Block for a few years. According to her, H&R Block returns tend not to get audited as often, because they tend to be correct more often. I know that shortly after we met, she found almost $10,000 in errors by my expensive tax accountant over the previous three years! -
Re:Reinvent
Here are two keyboards with touchpads built into them, PLUS countours, so you can have MORE than the basic ergonomic feature of the RollerMouse.
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I prefer touchpads too, EXCEPT for their so-called feature that causes mouse-clicks whenever you touch them too hard. I suspect the non-popularity of touchpads is directly related to how many people don't know that that "feature" can be disabled in the driver/property settings. Too bad this "feature" is enabled by default. If it was disabled by default, then I bet the popularity of touchpads would soar. -
Smart commuting and exercising.
You at least have at least 3 non-work days. Although it's probably better for you to exercise every other day, my med school teacher said that exercising three days straight is better than no exercise during the week at all. So find the discipline to do that.
Secondly, find out how to commute smarter. Those 3 hours involve only you behind the wheel, then it's going to take a toll on you -- mentally and physically. Be creative on how to commute. For example, in the DC metro area, there's a growing phenomenon called slug lines, which are "unofficial meeting places where commuters catch free rides with drivers who need additonal riders to use high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes." If you don't have to drive, you can at least use that time for personal enrichment, like reading the paper, book, or listening to music or audiobooks, or you can do some work if you have a laptop, etc. That's 3 hours that you can have to yourself. If you buy an Archos AV340 and have a ReplayTV (or a networked TiVo) at home, you can even catch up on your favorite shows during the commute -- it makes the workday more bearable. -
Re:I use KnoppMyth
Searching Google's Froogle for usb vga converter returns the one I bought as the first hit: the "GrandTec Gez-1000 PC-To-Video Cable," for around $35. Pricegrabber also lists one that's similar, but without the attached cords, for around $45.
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Re:FUD Biased Article with Inaccuracies
You are turning this into an ATI v NVIDIA issue.
The reality is that ATI cards work showcase on HL2, whereas NVIDIA cards showcase on Doom3.
#1) Price. $525 for an X850XT PE? I think not...
#2) Same article shows the X850XT PE with HALF the PERFORMANCE of 2 6800GTs in an SLI
Based upon today's numbers, it looks like spending $750 on 2 6800 GT's and getting twice the performance of an available X850XT PE is pretty good. That is, if you base your decision purely upon a single set of benchmarks from a single game...
The reality of the situation is that SLI does work, and works pretty darned well most of the time.
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LaCie F800
LaCie recently announced their F800 desktop RAID solution. 1.0, 1.6 and 2.0 terabyte models are available. The array connects to a host computer via IEEE1394 (Firewire) or USB 2.0. The array can be configured as RAID levels 0, 0+1, 5, and RAID 5+hot spare. PriceGrabber lists the 1.0TB version for just under US$1500 and the 1.6TB for US$2700.
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LaCie F800
LaCie recently announced their F800 desktop RAID solution. 1.0, 1.6 and 2.0 terabyte models are available. The array connects to a host computer via IEEE1394 (Firewire) or USB 2.0. The array can be configured as RAID levels 0, 0+1, 5, and RAID 5+hot spare. PriceGrabber lists the 1.0TB version for just under US$1500 and the 1.6TB for US$2700.
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Price
The high price is only for the current version of Dreamweaver. If you go to PriceWatch or PriceGrabber you can find older versions (I bought version 3.0 for around $60.00) for far less than the $400.00 price quoted in the article.
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ATX X800 Pro
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Re:Finally - make it an impulse purchase
At $500, though, I would pick one up along with a $50 keyboard/monitor switch and start playing around with it.
I don't want to discourage anyone from doing what you describe, but you might want to avoid the $50 KVM switch.
Sure, back in the old days I used a $30 physical A/B/C/D switch for VGA connections which worked fine with my Amiga (15kHz) and VGA (31kHz), but as soon as you crank the resolutions and frequencies up, the cheap KVMs don't hold up.
If you want to do it right, you need a good KVM. Specifically, you need to look at the specs of the device, and how high a bus rate it can handle; this makes all the difference in your display quality. Personally, I use a Belkin OmniView 4-port PS/2 & USB device (vendor page here) which has worked great for me. You can get it cheaper, and despite what I found on pricegrabber about the device (reviews), I have had no problems. Unfortunately, it doesn't QUITE end there, though. You still need cables, and you can't get away with cheap cables; you should really go with the ones that Belkin sells, since they're up to spec. I tried the $15 cables, and your screen ghosts pretty bad.
In the end, total cost for the 4-port KVM I bought? With 2 sets of high quality cables and another set of cheap cables, I ran nearly $190, though I probably could have done better by going online. YMMV.
(note: I don't work for Belkin and have no particular love for the company, its just that I did a little research and found this to be the best product circa early 2002)
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Re:yeah.. anyone else..
Well actually i did find a better choice than a telephone cord... http://ostg.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/m
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AC because someone wanted to mod me down, just for being off-topic, despite being interesting! The extention saves you 2 parts, you just need to strip one end of it, and wire those in where the headphone cord is normally wired into...