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Forcing God's Hand
Pat Robertson

Actually working to immanentize the eschaton is supposed to be unChristian, according to most denominations. But there is a significant Dispensationalist movement in the US that can hardly contain its glee when US or Israeli actions seem to fulfill one of their prophecies.

Muslims, you may not be aware, believe Jesus is the second most important prophet and also revere all the Old Testament fortune-tellers.

I also liked the MS keyboards. But I got a sore arm from reaching out to far to the right to reach my mouse.

I opted to get rid of the numeric keypad and after a long search I found the Fujitsu Siemens KBPC E.
It looks kinda wierd, but it has good keys and you can keep the mouse closer at hand.

http://uk.shopping.com/Fujitsu-Siemens-KBPC-E-S26381-K261-L165/info

They could benefit from a flash to floppy adapter:
  http://www4.shopping.com/xPO-JVC-FlashPath-CUVFM40U

While you can still buy them, I don't know if JVC is still making them.

Sugar is $75 per kilogram in the US? Better tell my local grocery store because I can buy over 2 kilograms (5 pound bag) for about seven dollars.

One thing that Americans on their first visit to the UK are amazed at is the fact that electric kettles can boil water in about half the time as their American counterparts. The penalty for this convenience of course is that their sockets are huge and their cords are heavy duty, thick and heavy.

There is only partial truth to what you say. Yes, the reason it takes longer to use a tea kettle in the US is a voltage issue. You see, they are not popular items in the US. Chinese import tea pots for the US are using the same coils as their UK counterparts, which can easily be verified by an ohm meter. Thus they operate at lower wattage producing less heat.

Your average kettle burns about 1500 watts. Your average US kitchen is wired for 20 amp ciruits thus a 1920 watt (80% max) unit is perfectly acceptable, well, so long as you're not running much else on that circuit. You can get 2400 watt kettles, but they are quite spendy.

To be fair, there are 3000 watt kettles in the UK, which would exceed the 15A or 20A household wiring limitation of about 1800/2400 watts. But simply put, electric kettles are not popular in the US.

If you actually drink tea in the US, one viable option is a inline hot water dispenser attached to the sink.

Now we do have 230, but these are typically non accessible outlets limited to stoves and washers, maybe a dryer.

You can always use a splitter. It has one male and two female ends.

Can't find one? Then splice some Cat wire together

1996 called. It wants its HP NetBeamIR Infrared Ethernet Access Point back.

IR access points have been around for years, and they work OK. They can even be made to work through diffuse reflections, so you don't have to have a clear line of sight. But you need a lot of access points to cover a space.

This pinch?

I have used an old Logitech Trackman Marble (link) but mine didn't have the scroll wheel. I love them so much I bought a few extra. Out of the 5 I purchased, I still have 4 of them which I use regularly. Once I got used to it I never considered going back. I still use the traditional mouse and have no problem with those at work, etc.. but when it comes to gaming or other high precision controls, trackballs are the way to go. You can ask my friends, I used to kick their asses in quake and halflife everytime :)

Just get a jar of Sanka http://www.shopping.com/xDN-food_and_drinks-sanka_ coffee and make it medium weak. Then, grind up two No-Doz http://www.novartis.com/consumerhealth/OTC/NoDoz.s html and a Commit Nicotine lozenge http://www.commitlozenge.com/ and put them in the coffee. Chase it with some Tequila, and that's all you need every morning to get you ready to take on the world. The ENTIRE world.

Not to be pedantic, but there were actually four sega genesis systems :P

http://www.computercloset.org/SegaGenesis1.jpg
http://akamai.edeal.com/images/catalog3091/folder2 0963/img2422571.jpg
http://www.emulationgalaxy.co.yu/images/systems/MD 2_Genesis3.jpg
http://di1.shopping.com/images/di/47/74/30/3339453 66e5f6349324f7a4b50395932735241-150x188-0-0.jpg

(ok ok, that last one is not a console exactly, as it doesn't come with the ability to swap carts, but it does use the exact same chip as the 3rd real console, same manufacturer even - you can rewire it to accept controllers and games!)

The first genesis lacked some of the output options that the second one had. So this is nothing new!

Because the 360 has heat problems. The heat problem is so bad that 3rd parties make these fan units to attach to the 360 fans

b)Depends on the publisher. Sony movies says for their initial blu-ray movie release they'll turn off the secured output requirement. Other publishers may not be as nice. Also all upscaling dvd players require HDCP out.

c) All depends if ps3 has unified video/sound port like the 360. My guess they'll probably have one but you never know its sony were talking about. They've been acting pretty irrational lately.

Any way I could careless what sony does, i'm getting a wii in november. I sure as hell not blowing $500 on a console. HD optical disks isn't on my plate till someone wins format war or a combo hddvd/bluray player is released at a reasonable price.

so does that $2,700+ price tag

think i'll stick with my sub-$50 500w power supplies thank u very much

so does that $2,700+ price tag

think i'll stick with my sub-$50 500w power supplies thank u very much

1KW? Pfffft, and you think thats Ub3r 133t? Check out my super-duper(tm) Cisco Systems 4200 WACV 4.2KW powerhouse. This baby whoups any powersupply anyday, anywheres, anytime.

That's funny, epinions.com seems to disagree. Everything single review is very negative:
http://www99.shopping.com/xMR-~MRD-306792

In college I had a 22" IBM T221 Sure it was an unbelievable display, but try writing code at 3840x2400 ;)

also it needed atleast a nvidia quadro 980 to be worth a damn.

I mean other recent acquistions such as Shopping.com have made sense. Ebay is not a teleco. It doesn't fit with any other business lines. Ebay is about getting the best price on goods as Shopping.com, Half have proved. Why Skype?

I mean other recent acquistions such as Shopping.com have made sense. Ebay is not a teleco. It doesn't fit with any other business lines. Ebay is about getting the best price on goods as Shopping.com, Half have proved. Why Skype?

http://shopping.com/ has the tax and shipping for lots of stores right up front. It uses IP address lookup to guess your location for the calculation.

disclaimer: I built that feature.

If you take a first tier manufacturer case and try to fit a generic motherboard into it later - well, you get what you paid for. ... They're not designed to be upgradeable - they're designed to be cheap to make.

Who said I paid for it?

This is true for the most part. Once and a while you can find some nice gems from the pre-made market. Gateway at one point for example used all screws and no rivits which means you can attach and detach just about everything inside without a problem including the slot cage and drive bays. Every aftermarket case I have met uses rivits.

I've had better luck with first tier than aftermarket $20.00 v1.0 atx cases in terms case quality. My last $20.00 case got dented when my cat sat on it.

Your case is non-spec and you're complaining because current motherboards won't fit. Get angry at HP, or drop $20 on a whitebox case.

You find me a whitebox desktop (not a tower) for $20.00 and chances are i'd buy it, power supply or not. The desktop style is pretty limited to "multimedia centers" and at my local indy shop or even newegg start at $90.00 taxed/shipped. Even whitebox desktops are $50 if you're lucky, $70 to $100 mail normaly.

BTW, I put an A7V333 inside that ATX 1.0 case, so I know what you're talking about - your backplate hole is way too short

It is, I agree. I can either dremmel it, plop down $90.00 for a new one, or buy a motherboard with the Intel Caymen layout. I did go with the Intel Caymen solution but that board wasn't stable at 166mhz fbs so I had to swap it out. But needless to say that was rather my point, there are cases (pardon the pun) where a standard layout is desired.

While this is a nice device, it's still bottlenecked by the PCI bus. Notice the speed on the specifications page - a true SATA drive can achieve this, and Ultra320 SCSI can shame it as long as you get a 64-bit PCI or PCI-X controller (like http://www1.shopping.com/xPF-IBM_ULTRA320_SCSI_CTR LR_2, although I suggest Adaptec instead of IBM). See http://www.scsita.org/aboutscsi/ultra320/faq.html for info on Ultra320. You get a lot more storage for the buck here. It's not solid-state, but a 73GB drive (15k RPM) -- see http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200209/20020 901ST373453LW_1.html -- can be had for under a grand.

Now... about large memory systems... what is the purpose of such a large device? Databases? Image manipulation? Analysis? If the PHB just told you to go out and buy something with more buzzwords, I'm sorry, but that's probably not going to solve whatever problem you have. What would the benefit be of having a single machine, as opposed to an expandable cluster of machines? Besides the cooling and electrical, anyway. If you have a legitimate need for such a large amount of memory in a SINGLE computer, you should definitely consider a Sun workstation or (more appropriately) a brand new Sun server.

I can't bear this! I have to wait before I'll be able to play Halo 2 while shuffling the iPod playlist and watching some great movie on DVD and, of course, having a critical business conversation while driving down the freeway. So unfair!

File and delete (don't leave anything in the inbox)

That would be me. My more social friends have lots of mail they "peck" at, though.

Most interesting in the second link:

We release everything in beta, because we're not arrogant enough to say that it's "right" when it's released. Often, missing important features (Froogle didn't have sort-by-price at first?!)

The one feature I use the most there. I'm glad no one else has jumped on the "Sort by Price" bandw--wait, nevermind...

MindStor went out of business about a year ago. There isn't much of a market for external hard drives for cameras. Now, the MindStor is just about obsolete, because several companies offer portable DVR for around $700. The pDVR not only stores photos, it will display them, too, and store and display video and audio files. They can hold and play several movies on battery power.

It's nice that Alpha-Data is offering this $60 hard drive case, but it isn't that large a technological step ahead of where we were 2 years ago.

Exactly. If TV was the only application for this, why not just put a TV antenna and tuner on the phone. The technology is out there, and it's cheap.

I think it might have something to do with the fact that the reviewers are selling this product.

How wild! They link to a comparitive shopping search engine. An obvious conflict of interests. Typing in a different product name shows that it is truly comparative shopping aid and not a referall program that benefits designtechnica.

I think it might have something to do with the fact that the reviewers are selling this product.

How wild! They link to a comparitive shopping search engine. An obvious conflict of interests. Typing in a different product name shows that it is truly comparative shopping aid and not a referall program that benefits designtechnica.

For example, you can't create playlists or autoplaylists (playlists based on rules.)

While I sympathize, as playlists should be a feature in any player... Because you explained the autoplaylist feature, you should not expect it as a standard feature. The rest of what you're saying makes perfect sense to me and begs the question: why was this posted at Slashdot if the On3 networked multimedia system appears so lacking? Also, calling something The On3 (The One, ie: Neo), certainly appears to be a misnomer if the system is so utterly lacking.

Also, I must take issue with that review because it lacks any definative bottom line summary. They don't come out and say : this rocks, or, this is a bad buy. I think it might have something to do with the fact that the reviewers are selling this product. I won't cry "Slash-ad!" (because of the insight in this /. post) but I will point out that this appears to be a sneaky advertising trick to try and sell units. "Here we'll just publish an ad and call it a review."

even cheaper at overstock and walmart via shopping.com

Another camera we tested that is "plug and play" for recent 2.4 and all all 2.6 kernels are camera based on the se401 module. In our next release of LavaRnd, we will be adding support for Kensington VideoCAM PC Camera model 67014. This camera is already supported as a normal webcam ... we are just getting around to making it a reference LavaRnd entropy source because someone donated one to the project. These cameras seem to sell from $25 to $41 US. Specs suggest that models 67015 thru 67017 should work as well as model 67014; although we have only tested the 67014 model.

When properly "mis-tuned" and lens capped, these webcams make good entropy sources. And of course, they take reasonable pictures when they are used as they were originally intended to be used. :-)

Our list is by no means complete. There are others we are sure. If anyone has another other well supported webcams, please chime in ...

Wireless Trackball

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They specifically mentioned they are good for presentations. Do I get an A, Prof?

Wireless Trackball

Here is Another

They specifically mentioned they are good for presentations. Do I get an A, Prof?

Check out Shopping.com. Lots of journalists and other professional writers use them. They have the additional ability to capture commentaries from tour guides, unusual sounds, etc.

I am a cheap college student, so I haven't bought books in over two years. However, when I did buy books, I found bestbookbuys.com to be an excellent place to get books since it searches other sites online and finds the best deals. I buy my $150 engineering books there for $50 in excellent condition. You can also buy non-school books there as well.

For my computer accessories, I use Tiger Direct, and subscribe so I get the email deals. I bought my Logitech wireless mouse for $5 there.

My family buys their desktop computers at ibuypower.com, although I prefer to buy my laptops on Tigerdirect. Ibuypower has some awesome desktop deals.

Occasionally, I like to check Dealtime, although I have never purchased anything there. It occasionally gives me an idea of the going market price for things.

True, there are no other DRM AAC players, but the original list of music players all play AAC

Instead of downloading songs with propietary DRM, now we can encode our songs with a new proprietary DRM--songs that won't play on anything else? I think I'll stick with FLAC.

Are you refering to Apple Lossless encoding? This is not a DRMed encoding. It is lossless and creates large files (8-10 times as large as an AAC or MP3) but is not copy protected.

You also ripped on iTunes not working with other music players. This is just FUD. It most certainly works with a large list of 3rd party players.

Finally, I noticed how many links ot other applications, little addons, etc you listed. I ask you, is it worth all the trouble of locating these other applications and getting them to work with something other than iTunes? Why not just use the complete package. Nothing is going to satisfay everyone, but are your complaints against iTunes loading slowly or not being able to download songs off an iPod as easily as you want really worth the hastle?

Me thinks you wish you had an iTunes/iPod music solution but are trying to justify why you haven't spent the money.

Fujitsu has a series called the Lifebook ($1.5K)and a bunch of others all the way down to the ST1000 ($0.32k)

and, the sale of horse carriages absolutely plumited (sp?) after the adoption of the car. I wanted to buy one and searched on google and only found these links.

But more seriously. Enclyclopeias were never much of a reference to begin with. I don't think they were accepted in my schooling past 3rd or 5th grade as a citable source. They had generic information, little current information except for the update's that you could buy each year.

Granted I did look at them when I was a kid, but if I had a kid today, I would supervise him/her on the internet instead.

Good bye encyclopedias and horse carriages! Next topic.

My development group at Shopping.com uses an Ambient Orb to reflect the status of the hourly build/test cycle. Even though the continuous build process sends out email and has a web page to indicate what the status is, it's still nice to have a physical artifact of the system, and certainly hammers home that The Build Must Keep Working. When you look at it and it's green, you feel just a little bit OK, and when it's red, you get a little anxious, and really want to make sure it gets fixed.

I only wish that the Orb was more responsive to the data we send it; occasionally it can take 20 minutes for it to update. But overall, we like it. Do not anger the Orb!

mahlen

And just what the hell do you plan on doing with that AAC, anyways?

Um... play it on the many AAC players that don't support Protected AACs?

Did anyone notice the advertiser links at the bottom of the page for Latest Stem Cell Therapy and Dwarf Rabbit?

Talk about keyword advertising gone awry!

Gamma rays will kill RAM contents... anyone know how resilient HDs are to these? Various error correction schemes/circuits can be used to limit these effects (as others have discussed). You're restricted to 4Gig with a 32bit bus... the 64bit variety for > 4G... and big RAMs aren't that cheap! The memory management/corruption problem could be avoided if the RAM were put on a separate data bus and controlled explicitly by some sort of a SQL controller with exclusive access to the RAM. Perhaps a chip with a processor for codeable memory indexing algorithms and a shmit load of RAM might be useful in the future.

Comparison shop for +"Brent Spar" +Shell

shopping.com. If the link breaks, search on Palm III.

Free shipping. I'm happy.