I used to get dententions for not covering my books (i kow, very lame of me). What the hell kind of punishment are these kids gonna get for not properly treating their ThinkPads? In School suspension for not going to windowsupdate weekly? A day with the principal for installing malware? Writing on the chalkboard 100 times "I will defrag weekly"? I think they are putting a little bit too much faith, trust, and responsibility into these fifth and sixth graders.
This is the equivilant of movie producers removing blood, titties and cursing after they get a NC-17, trying to at least sneak in an R. It just so happens that the Euros are censoring this when the US isn't. I don't see anything that big a deal about this, except for the fact that this might be the first major time this has happened.
I know they could review only so many devices, but I'm disappointed they didn't review any Archos products at all. I've had my Jukebox Studio 20 for 2 years and it still works great. It might be a little heavier than most, but battery life has never been an issue for me. This thing rules. Why did they review 9 Memory players, and only 3 HD ones? What gives?
Who else had their favorite player ignored in this?
Dude, that was so appropriate. After reading that Onion piece when it came out, I realized I was that guy. But who cares. Instead of bragging out how I don't own a t.v., t.v. people are chatting about the performance of some seventeen year old hack singer, or who has the best chance of winning a contest of not eating or seeing their family the longest on an island. I consider my time more well spent, and they probably consider theirs better as well.
That's a fantastic idea. See, I'm glad I asked. You could program your playlist for your drive to work in the morning from your house, and then possibly the drive home at night from your desk at work. Ingenius.
Because it's not productive or constructive. We (as in/. geeks) aren't saying all television is bad, or even certain shows. We're saying there is so much else to do with your life than sit on the couch. I don't own a tv, simply because I'm never home, between work and school. But I do watch tv. My friends and I will watch South Park and Chapelle's Show, and do it as a social activity. Then those shows are over, we'll generally then go do other things, like play music or sports or anything else really. TV as an activity is OK. TV as a lifestyle is horrible.
I want to say how refreshing it is in this day and age that a man can admit that he possibly made a mistake, or that even better, he doesn't really know. Taking some responsibility is nice to see nowadays. I know this scientist doesn't hold a publicly elected position, so he can say things off the cuff. I've probably just been watching too much c-span lately.
Why do you need a wireless connection? I'm not being snarky or anything, I'm actually interested. Does you head uint have a wireless connection that your mp3 box could talk with? Or perhaps some kid of remote control situation?
We haven't gone over Principal Ideal Domains, and if we have, then my notes are missing it. We don't have a textbook in the class, because our professor is teaching "backwards", Rings and Fields before Groups, not after. And I think if I were to ask him about Principle Ideal Domains, he would probably know I went to an outside source for the homework, which is a no-no in this course. But thanks anyways.
I always thought Godel boiled down to that fact that you can't prove "This statement is false". I mean, his landmark paper is called "On Formally Undecidable Propositions...". By saying that "There is no proof for this statement" must be true, you are saying it's formally decidable, by saying it's true. If you can tell me whether my statement was true or false, then you are a better man than I am, but I postulate that it is formally undecidable, i.e., Godel in a nutshell.
What's with the sensatioanlistic headlines this morning? KAZAA'ers PAY TO USE VPN TO BYPASS RIAA on a story about a company who offers public vpn for $6, with no implicit mention of Kazaa or FileSharing. And now WE'VE CLONED A HUMAN about a korean company who has cloned only an embryo to only a very early stage to generate stem cells, not making Steve 2.0 from Steve. Let's not go overboard, or am I talking out of turn? This is Slashdot, of course. Overboard is the story d'jour.
You, sir, a few other people, are insinuating that my brosef and I didn't purchase games, or enough games, to make the system last, or perhaps that we weren't happy with out system purchases by my original post. Quite the contrary. I think we had at least half of the games for the TurboGFX, meaning at least 20 or so. We still have a closet full of genesis games, which admittedly wasn't a bad system by any stretch, I just included it to make my list longer and complete. I think we played Sega Saturn more than any other game system we owned, simply because of some excellent games, namely, Panzer Dragoon Saga. And I still play my Dreamcast, quite often. As for the NGPC, we only COULD by a few games for that. I think when it came out, there might have been 10-20 games, most of which were bunk. So, if you're looking for a scapegoat for the demise of those machines, don't point the finger my way. I loved all of those systems.
Since we're on the topic of spyware and spyware removal, I'm currently using Ad-Aware as my mal-ware removal program of choice, but I don't want to keep all of my eggs in one basket. Who can recommend some other good ones?
I see a lot of people here saying they'd sacrifice backwards compatibility for a better/cheaper system, and that "no on they know" plays ps1 games on ps2. Well, I know someone who does. Me, specifically. I bought my PS2 so I could play GTA when it came out, but I also never got around to playing all the FInal Fantasy's that were on PS1, so I thought it was neat that I could. But I'm not even the big target.
I remember for years mom griping about how all these games she had already bought for us were useless on our new system. And guess who was paying for the new systems? You guess right, Mom and her purse. You might say, she did keep buying them, right? Didn't your mom love you? Yeah, mom loved me, but not enough to line nintendo's pockets with cash for the SUPER! Nintendo. The nintendo was the last system she bought for me and my bro. Afterwards, we saved up dearly to get the Super Grafx, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, and Sega Dreamcast. Obviously, me and my brother were bad gamblers as systems go. We he left for the Navy, I bought him a Neo Get Pocket color to bring with him on the ship. That sealed my title as worst video game purchaser ever. If you want to know which system is going to last, don't ask me. The only caveat is that I bought a PS2, but that wasn't until 3 years after it came out.
Are you implying that your file sharing habits are infrgining on your ability to SSH? I mean, I like porn and mp3's as much as the next geek, but like Chris Rock said, put the dick down.
So you're telling me Hubble was a household name before that big lens in the sky got there? Hell, call them Tycho and Brahe. Leonardo and Michaelangelo. SOMETHING. Bill and Ted comes to mind as the perfect example.
I'm a telescopic layman, and I admit I only know peripherally about telescope design, but doesn't having an open telescope like this allow light to bleed onto the mirror? Doesn't he need to cover it up with a tube from the lens to the mirror, or at least wrap a tarp around this? How can this thing work if the street light down the road is blurring my view of Jupiter?
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I used to get dententions for not covering my books (i kow, very lame of me). What the hell kind of punishment are these kids gonna get for not properly treating their ThinkPads? In School suspension for not going to windowsupdate weekly? A day with the principal for installing malware? Writing on the chalkboard 100 times "I will defrag weekly"? I think they are putting a little bit too much faith, trust, and responsibility into these fifth and sixth graders.
This is the equivilant of movie producers removing blood, titties and cursing after they get a NC-17, trying to at least sneak in an R. It just so happens that the Euros are censoring this when the US isn't. I don't see anything that big a deal about this, except for the fact that this might be the first major time this has happened.
I know they could review only so many devices, but I'm disappointed they didn't review any Archos products at all. I've had my Jukebox Studio 20 for 2 years and it still works great. It might be a little heavier than most, but battery life has never been an issue for me. This thing rules. Why did they review 9 Memory players, and only 3 HD ones? What gives?
Who else had their favorite player ignored in this?
Dude, that was so appropriate. After reading that Onion piece when it came out, I realized I was that guy. But who cares. Instead of bragging out how I don't own a t.v., t.v. people are chatting about the performance of some seventeen year old hack singer, or who has the best chance of winning a contest of not eating or seeing their family the longest on an island. I consider my time more well spent, and they probably consider theirs better as well.
Quite the opposite. I read drudge almost everyday. Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. He's the political version of a gossip column.
for the most part, the web is pull content. I am not having content forced down my throat.
You haven't read Drudge lately.
That's a fantastic idea. See, I'm glad I asked. You could program your playlist for your drive to work in the morning from your house, and then possibly the drive home at night from your desk at work. Ingenius.
Because it's not productive or constructive. We (as in /. geeks) aren't saying all television is bad, or even certain shows. We're saying there is so much else to do with your life than sit on the couch. I don't own a tv, simply because I'm never home, between work and school. But I do watch tv. My friends and I will watch South Park and Chapelle's Show, and do it as a social activity. Then those shows are over, we'll generally then go do other things, like play music or sports or anything else really. TV as an activity is OK. TV as a lifestyle is horrible.
I want to say how refreshing it is in this day and age that a man can admit that he possibly made a mistake, or that even better, he doesn't really know. Taking some responsibility is nice to see nowadays. I know this scientist doesn't hold a publicly elected position, so he can say things off the cuff. I've probably just been watching too much c-span lately.
Why do you need a wireless connection? I'm not being snarky or anything, I'm actually interested. Does you head uint have a wireless connection that your mp3 box could talk with? Or perhaps some kid of remote control situation?
We haven't gone over Principal Ideal Domains, and if we have, then my notes are missing it. We don't have a textbook in the class, because our professor is teaching "backwards", Rings and Fields before Groups, not after. And I think if I were to ask him about Principle Ideal Domains, he would probably know I went to an outside source for the homework, which is a no-no in this course. But thanks anyways.
Yes. But only if you have pics, of course, which I assume you do, so, post away!
Dude, thanks for the insight. One of the problems on our last abstract algebra homework is to prove any ideal in Z is a principal idea. EUREKA!
I always thought Godel boiled down to that fact that you can't prove "This statement is false". I mean, his landmark paper is called "On Formally Undecidable Propositions...". By saying that "There is no proof for this statement" must be true, you are saying it's formally decidable, by saying it's true. If you can tell me whether my statement was true or false, then you are a better man than I am, but I postulate that it is formally undecidable, i.e., Godel in a nutshell.
Try getting something like this pushed past the trade unions. You might wake up with a horse head under your sheets.
Why not, when our country is being guarded by a LUNATIC
That is all. GO home now, nothing to see here. If Tetris doesn't win, it's a travesty.
What's with the sensatioanlistic headlines this morning? KAZAA'ers PAY TO USE VPN TO BYPASS RIAA on a story about a company who offers public vpn for $6, with no implicit mention of Kazaa or FileSharing. And now WE'VE CLONED A HUMAN about a korean company who has cloned only an embryo to only a very early stage to generate stem cells, not making Steve 2.0 from Steve. Let's not go overboard, or am I talking out of turn? This is Slashdot, of course. Overboard is the story d'jour.
You, sir, a few other people, are insinuating that my brosef and I didn't purchase games, or enough games, to make the system last, or perhaps that we weren't happy with out system purchases by my original post. Quite the contrary. I think we had at least half of the games for the TurboGFX, meaning at least 20 or so. We still have a closet full of genesis games, which admittedly wasn't a bad system by any stretch, I just included it to make my list longer and complete. I think we played Sega Saturn more than any other game system we owned, simply because of some excellent games, namely, Panzer Dragoon Saga. And I still play my Dreamcast, quite often. As for the NGPC, we only COULD by a few games for that. I think when it came out, there might have been 10-20 games, most of which were bunk. So, if you're looking for a scapegoat for the demise of those machines, don't point the finger my way. I loved all of those systems.
Since we're on the topic of spyware and spyware removal, I'm currently using Ad-Aware as my mal-ware removal program of choice, but I don't want to keep all of my eggs in one basket. Who can recommend some other good ones?
I see a lot of people here saying they'd sacrifice backwards compatibility for a better/cheaper system, and that "no on they know" plays ps1 games on ps2. Well, I know someone who does. Me, specifically. I bought my PS2 so I could play GTA when it came out, but I also never got around to playing all the FInal Fantasy's that were on PS1, so I thought it was neat that I could. But I'm not even the big target.
I remember for years mom griping about how all these games she had already bought for us were useless on our new system. And guess who was paying for the new systems? You guess right, Mom and her purse. You might say, she did keep buying them, right? Didn't your mom love you? Yeah, mom loved me, but not enough to line nintendo's pockets with cash for the SUPER! Nintendo. The nintendo was the last system she bought for me and my bro. Afterwards, we saved up dearly to get the Super Grafx, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, and Sega Dreamcast. Obviously, me and my brother were bad gamblers as systems go. We he left for the Navy, I bought him a Neo Get Pocket color to bring with him on the ship. That sealed my title as worst video game purchaser ever. If you want to know which system is going to last, don't ask me. The only caveat is that I bought a PS2, but that wasn't until 3 years after it came out.
Are you implying that your file sharing habits are infrgining on your ability to SSH? I mean, I like porn and mp3's as much as the next geek, but like Chris Rock said, put the dick down.
So you're telling me Hubble was a household name before that big lens in the sky got there? Hell, call them Tycho and Brahe. Leonardo and Michaelangelo. SOMETHING. Bill and Ted comes to mind as the perfect example.
You just fulfilled your own self fulfilling prophecy, young man. Excellent work.
I'm a telescopic layman, and I admit I only know peripherally about telescope design, but doesn't having an open telescope like this allow light to bleed onto the mirror? Doesn't he need to cover it up with a tube from the lens to the mirror, or at least wrap a tarp around this? How can this thing work if the street light down the road is blurring my view of Jupiter?